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Hi folks, I thought I'd share something that captivated me on this rainy Easter day and that was
Visual Studio Asynchronous Programming - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/vstudio/async(you'll need VS2010 + SP1 before you grab the CTP)There's a new improved compiler + an extended library for us.
Hands up who's done async programming in either VB.NET or C#??? It's a pain! Thread management, Main UI threads can only update certain objects, passing values between main + background threads, determining whether a thread has completed its tasks… and so on…
Basically all these 'issues' keep us from delving further into the world of asynchronous programming cause it very rapidly becomes complex just managing the two worlds – sync + async.
Today I was pleasantly surprised!!!
About a year ago I saw a great presentation on F# and I was amazed at how if they wanted to run a bit of code async it was simple an extra character as in:
set results = ….. <-sync
set results! = …. <- run this async
(don't quote me on the above, but it's something like that – let's call it pseudo code)
Why are we interested in this? – that's always the first question to ask when investigating. Too many times we here 'this is really cool' and 'check this cool software out' etc… but the real reason of WHY do we want to go down this road is never answered.
On a 'developers machine' looking at 5 items, running a single test client – you'd have to say "works on my machine" and you'd have no need to async anything. True. Let's move beyond our beloved developer box and think about UAT/PROD environments and what your code is doing.What happens if 4 concurrent requests come along – how is your code going to perform? (As developers we'd be thinking …'it's in the hands of IIS, not my issue' :) )(I recently was presented with a solution that ran across 20 odd servers, the answer to everything was get more hardware to make the app more performant, scalable etc – couldnt be the code.)
So as the requests start to build (don't know an exact number but let's say 100/sec), what is happening to your code? how often do we sit down with profiling tools on our code in this space? must be the disks..slow…and as always we have definitive proof works on my machine says the developer!
It's not until we see our code running under load that we get an appreciation for where things could be improved and are causing grief for not only IIS but other systems as well.
Scalability, performance and scalability – single threaded app/service vs multi-threaded. Multi-threaded tend to win all the time.
Let me give you a couple of suggestions where this stuff is great:
Anyway enough jabbering from me and let's see some of the hidden gems…
Async Programming Framework
Let me show you a couple of examples (from my set):
1. Fetching a webpage
Here I go off to twitter and search for all the BizTalk items.
Couple of things to notice - …Async is added to the end of routines for convention, indicating that these are Async callable routines.- not a single IAsyncResult to be seen, no StateObject and no Callback routines!– line 104 the async keyword indicating that this routine itself can be called async if desired (more for the compiler)- line 108 the await keyword is used in the Async framework to 'wait for the async task to complete' then move onto the next line.- line 108 WebRequest.Create(…).GetResponseAsync – it's the GetResponseAsync that is the async method, no …Begin or ..OnEnd calls! Just write it as you read it.- line 109 We get a reference to the response stream (I should check for the existence of data etc – demo code, demo code :))- line 112 …await stm.ReadAsync(…) – reads the response stream into a buffer on a background thread and we wait there until this completes (await keyword). By all means there's many other ways to program this, as in we don't need to wait, we could run this guy in the background quite happy and then check on him periodically.That's it! Not too tough at all, multi-threaded goodness right there. You can have blocking and non-blocking calls etc.
2. What about a Chunk of CPU based code
NO Async Example – as per normal, doing some cpu things.
Written in Async….
Points to notice:- line 63 async Task<int[]> … to the Async framework the async methods are wrapped within a Task class. We must 'wrap' anything we return from our routines within a Task<..> – here I'm returning an int[]-line 66 … = TaskEx.Run(…something to run in a background thread…). As we're dealing with a block of code, there's a Task Extension class that allows us to run that bit of code Async.-line 79 await matrix – this line ensures that our async routine has indeed completed (or errored) before we move onto the next line.
Too easy if you've lived in the other world.
As always remember this is CTP so I wouldn't go rolling out into Prod just yet. The perf numbers I get are pretty much identical to rolling all of this by hand with ThreadPool.QueueWorkItem(…) and IAsyncResult etc.
Well done MS!
Enjoy and here's my VS.NET Sample Solutions – I had great fun! Oh – this is also applicable to Silverlight + WP7 apps :)
Samples (114KB)
Keeping the raging iCant do a thing; iCant fwd a txt msg or voice mail iPhone debate… the new Windows Phone 7 Tools are in here all its Silverlight glory.
Imagine being able to play a FLASH movie on the phone! shock horror.
So grab the next big thing and look out phone world….the way phones were meant to be ;)
Windows Phone Developer Tools
I got an email from David Marsh telling me about this new world from MS. Let me share a little…Way back when…LOGO was one of the first languages I learnt as a kid.
Moving a turtle around on a page with commands such as PenUp, PenDown, RightTurn etc etc – pretty cool as a kid and then you could draw things (there was a big version of the Turtle that interfaced into an Apple II via a ribbon cable as wide as a 4 lane highway)
MS Dev Labs have released a great SmallBasic environment that is very simple to pickup (great for kids).It's got a very simple set of commands AND it outputs straight to Silverlight.Pretty quick ways of building silverlight apps….nice!Check out http://smallbasic.com –only if you have some free time
From time to time I check out on what's happening in my favourite 'moon lighting' area – Silverlight.
Love the Silverlight potential – I'm a big fan.
So from http://silverlight.net – I found a Z-80 EMULATOR!!! (like what's next an Apple II)
You hit the 'Run' button and far too many years has passed between me and my Computer Engineering Degree of Demorgans Theorem and Fast Fourier Transforms.
Great effort! (by someone whom had SOOO much time on their hands)
Recently at the SharePoint Conference (SPC2010) delegates were given a beautiful book with all sorts of developers bits.
The book stars 123 pages of great information, and improvements to many areas that we previously had pain with (lists, queries, and just CAML in general)
There's also 6 walkthroughs (sort of like HOLs) with code etc. to give you a feel for customising SharePoint.
Grab the PDF version HERE
Some snippets which I found interesting from the book are:
Enjoy…I'm off to enjoy the sun.
Hi guys,
If you're looking to get into how to host WCF Services on Azure, showing some cool graphics, then these samples are for you.
Silverlight v3.0 (beta), and important samples showing how to take your existing WCF Services and hosting/housing them in Auze (there's a few gotchas - and these samples have work arounds :) )
Grab them here -
At Remix09 there's been news at the station.
Silverlight v3.0 is hitting the scene…I wonder whether the Adobe Flash support made it in… will dig through the details.
Hi folks - over the last week or so I've had many requests about what's happening around privacy and what does it mean to get a "Tag" this year.Breeze Event System
Reasons for Building the System1. Breeze designed, built and owns the 'Breeze Event' System. I am talking first hand (and am happy to share details with you). A variant of the idea originated years back when myself and David McGhee worked on a very cut down alpha variation - together we cut the code and got about 5 mins of RFID activity from the devices we were using before our battery died.
Stepping forward to the current system, once we presented MS with the concepts of what we wanted to do - many folks gave some sensational support (such as Marcy Larsen & Rahul Garg) in integrating this new piece with 'TechEd proper'. We got there in the end and for me - it's a real eye opener to see how big TechEd is and how much planning goes into it.
2. As a speaker/delegate/MVP at many TechEds and other conferences my motivation was all about giving you the Delegate (& myself as a Speaker) a better TechEd experience. Taking the pain out of a lot of things. For example:
As you can see, we've designed the system with us (delegates & speakers) in mind.
I digress.....Ok onto the main items......
Privacy Concerns - yours and mine
I wanted to fill you in as much as possible about the system (this is eating into my sleeping time :) so there is a clear understanding about the what is going on.
Some Details on How the System Works
1. Your tag - holds a number e.g. 1234 (we printed it on the plastic surface of your tag) end of story. Nothing else. These tags are 'EPC Gen II' UHF Tags and operate between 920-926MHz.
Here is the actual Tag itself (it will be stuck onto a card to make it look beautiful :)
Some facts: The tag is known as a Dog Bone by the way the metal aerial is shaped. Just above the barcode, there's the number and above that there is an indent the size of a 'pin head' in the middle - this is the chip. The tag is a passive tag (as opposed to active - such as your E-Tags in cars) which means radio waves need to be sent to it, to excite the tag and so the tag can transmit its number. This distance in our case is around 2-3m. If there's no waves, then nothing is transmitted. What this generally means is that you should be able to walk straight through into sessions, rather than people scanning your individual barcodes as was in previous years. The Barcode is there so we can integrate with your established Registration process. We printed the barcode there as a fall back mechanism. The barcode number is the only piece of information written onto your tag. (Printing the barcode + printing to the Tag at the same time doing around 5000 tags took a bit of development and H/W)In other Systems, things like temperature readings are frequently written to the tag, so that when the fish is delivered to the restaurant, they know the freshness and quality of it.Generally speaking in RFID based solutions there will be no sensitive information written to the tag (if it gets lost, crushed, drowned etc etc)Tidbit - the amount of data you can write to these tags is in bytes (like 96 bits), but other tags can store around 64KB!!!! (that was the total sum size of my Apple II as a kid!!)
Some facts:
2. Readers - come in many shapes and sizes for different purposes. Our Readers have a read range of 2m. There will be white pizza shaped 'boxes' mounted and these are the antennae. The reader is connected to local pcs that drive the system.
There will be 56 Readers and 118 antennae mounted around Session/Breakout rooms doorways and as I mentioned they have a range of 2m. This is designed to reduce the queues (with reading a barcode) getting into rooms as you should be able to just stroll through.(there have been some ski resorts in Europe implementing RFID ski passes - ski straight on/off)
Shot of the Antennae
3. Local PC - each room with have one a PC where all the Readers are connected to. We designed our system so that if we have a network meltdown, each room will (hopefully still be running. In fact each Local PC runs our solution on top of BizTalk RFID Server to drive the walk-in and chart displays.
4. Network - there will be a dedicated network for the RFID component @ Teched where these Local PCs and us will be connected to in isolation to the rest of the network.
5. The Information captured - the information that your tag number associates with in the back end is essentially the Conference profile information you entered as part of the Registration process.This enables things like 60% of people like Jazz in this session.....ideally we're really interested in aggregates of information to help improve your experience.(I'm hoping to get MS and MVP information as well - so you as a Delegate may be notified when a Windows2008 MVP is in the house)
Just quickly - we're using SQL Replication to frequently replicate the information from each Room back to our servers centrally.
Sneak peak....
Cause you read to the bottom of this post....here's a reward.....Now according to my team - this information is available on All Rooms, or by Individual Room.(my current challenge is how to expose these screens to you guys (approx 500-700 concurrent connections) without causing grief to our system.....nothing like a challenge a week out from TechEd......)Looking fwd to a very different TechEd....see you there....nighty night.
Register - hereFolks I hope you're heading to TechEd this year - it's a brand new breed! Why....????
Because myself and my team are covering the entire event with RFID tags, we'll give you tags - enabling you the delegate to 'live' the technology!!! (seen Tron lately) we'll set up some great RFID interactive capabilities.
Sample card TechEd tag
It all started when... I went to MS and said..."I've got an idea...." and the teched committee(s) saw the plan and loved it (there were some sleepless nights there as well :).
I've been to over 10+ yrs of TechEd (sometimes 3 a yr, US, Oz + NZ) and I figured it should be a chance to play with the technology! Hands on - get dirty. Build, break, play + learn...all that stuff.
As a MS Ptr Readiness trainer/Regular teched speaker - I appreciate the value of sessions but as a delegate I would be looking for the show me/talk to me/let *me* see how it's done.... a bit like plasticine to mould and meld the way that I (as a delegate) would need it!!!!!
So in light of this - Breeze is providing a (huge) BizTalk RFID based RFID Event System that you guys can interact with/we'll walk you through the making of, setup & how the system is put together. We're getting some posters made up and myself as a trainer, would want to share the knowledge around this system.
Let's see what the system does.....(as of 5pm today...nothing like moving targets... :)
The vision we have is:
ON ANOTHER NOTE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT - my workflow session I'm delivering - you've got rare oppty....
Once you understand the basics of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and can put together a workflow using the built-in activities, you will need to know how to get that workflow running in a variety of hosting environments and communicate between the workflow and the host application or the outside world. This session gives you a solid foundation to get started with these techniques. Gain a better understanding of how workflows exist in a hosting process and how to control the hosting services. Learn about the various forms of communication that can exist between a running workflow and the hosting application as well as with outside Web and WCF Services. Also, learn about the persistence and tracking features of WF.
- I've got a technical session on Workflow Foundation.- Of course you're planning on seeing my session :) - WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO COVER? WHAT DO *YOU* WANT TO KNOW ABOUT?
(You've got the opportunity to provide feedback and while I'm still 'building' the session - hopefully I can incorporate your needs!)
More later and I'd love to hear your thoughts on above with a comment or two.....be great to see you at TechEd!!!!Over and out
After the more than normal pain in getting this done for my previous post, I decided to post the fruits of my labour (not labor that my wife tells me about watermellons and men wouldn't know the first thing about birth....I'm not about to do the pepsi challenge on that :))
- this is a stock standard Web.Config for a MOSS install NOT a plain WSS install (there's about 3 lines different from a plain WSS install to a MOSS install - mainly anything that references SharePoint.Publishing....)
Grab this and these are the changes that WORK!
"Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Silverlight, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies."
You're starting to Roll your sleeves up and get dirty with Silverlight 2 Beta 2, load up some of the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint Samples, run the installer (it's great that most of these examples have an installer) and Boom! you get the above error!!!
Here's a list I've compiled to get Silverlight working - I'm currently running this on Win2008 IIS7
(1) Install WSS SP1/MOSS SP1 on your SharePoint box if you haven't already. You need the SP1 to support .NET 3.5 calls through SharePoint - my guess is that these tell SharePoint not to intercept the calls and let them go to their rightful owners.
(2) Create a 'dummy' site collection on a test Web Application - e.g. http://localhost:81 - This is so you can see all the changes to the web.config that are made through the installation process, in isolation. By keeping this separate to your usual web.config, you'll be able to merge changes at a later date.
(3) Install the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 runtime and other developer bits - From http://Silverlight.net - VS2008 Developer Bits and just the runtime if you want from here
(4) Do one installation of a Silverlight for BluePrint Sample - the installer creates a 'virtual directory' under your Web Site called ClientBin where the various Silverlight 2 files go (*.js, *.XAP). This is a handy install so you can see what the directory execution settings are required to make this work through SharePoint. i.e. Execute permissions only. Take note of this directory.
(5) Add a IIS MIME type - With Silverlight 2 beta 2 - there is a new file type added which is a *.XAP file type. IIS by default doesn't know how to encode/translate or send these files down over the wire.Add a mime type of: Extention: xap Mime Type: application/x-silverlight-app to your IIS Test Web Site
(6) Make Web.Config changes - there's a whole series of Web.Config changes to be made to your SharePoint Web Application to support AJAX/.NET 3.5 and now Silverlight.... fortunately other hard working folks have done this for you!!!! :) Bless their cotton socks! - grab the Feature that makes the modifications from here (** NB: you want the 3.5 config feature)
You're almost done........ :)
(7) EXCEPT for the error above!!! After much inspection of your system, you'll realise that you *don't* have that DLL (on a clean install). The Silverlight Ninja will know that this is from Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and not found in the Beta 2 kits!! Yay team!
The System.Web.Silverlight.dll is found in the Silverlight 2 beta 1 SDK - so download that puppy, extract out the DLL and either GAC it, or add it to your BIN directory on your SharePoint site. (I added it to my BIN directory - as I reckon when SL2 is released, this problem would have been resolved)(**UPDATED: Due to how painful that was, I decided to package up the DLL for you - HERE**)
Here are the Compiled Files - FOR SL2 BETA 2 - they WORK!!
(I grabbed the Blueprint Hello World Web Part and updated to work)
1. Silverlight Web Part DLL
2. Silverlight *.XAP updated for Beta 2, copy straight to the *sub-directory* under your client BIN
3. Sample SharePoint Web.Config with all the changes!
There's a great line up this month that are too good to keep secret.
Some fellow CSD experts are lining up for some great topics to give all around Workflow and WCF!!!
Does it get better? Get on and register.
For more, check out the Live Calendar
MSDN Webcast: Transactional Windows Communication Foundation Services with Juval Lowy (Level 200)
Monday, July 7, 2008
10:00 A.M.–11:15 A.M. Pacific Time
MSDN Webcast: Using Windows Workflow Foundation to Build Services with Jon Flanders (Level 300)
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
10:00 A.M.–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
MSDN Webcast: WCF Extensibility Deep Dive with Jesus Rodriguez (Level 400)
Friday, July 11, 2008
MSDN Webcast: Bringing Enterprise Data to Life with SharePoint Server and Windows Communication Foundation (Level 300)
Friday, July 18, 2008
You might be wondering what do all these guys have in common....good question....
We're currently building an RFID enabled System where complex processes are handled by BizTalk Server, and data being pushed down to Silverlight V2.0 clients via a WCF Silverlight 'Eventing System' (which really is polling under the hood, but to us in developer land - it's cool and it's Events)
Scotty has the full write up of some of his learning experiences through this - well done Scotty, he's been in that place where there are no manuals, no documentation, no previous code, just a gut feel and a compass to sail the seas.
We demo-ed the system at our last user group (or more over used them a guinea pigs :)
Token Screen shot: (we've associated tags with people information and this is what is displayed when TagReadEvents are captured. We need a little work to avoid being underneath or on top of a previous animation)
Some pretty cool features as I've previously posted
From my perspective I'm particularly interested in the supported 'WCF Dual HTTP Binding'.......more on that later :)
SILVERLIGHT 2.0 BETA 2 SDK is now available!!!!
Grab it here from the Getting Started section
Also get the videos, hands on labs, training material from HERE
Jesse has written a great little article on creating a popup control in Silverlight 2.0.
Nice way of doing it - I was also thinking, that quite simply you could also set the ZIndex of the element to a positive value.
At TechEd 2008 in Orlando, an announcement Silverlight 2 Beta 2 will be publicly available later this week.
Improvement areas are:
Thanks Scotty for the reference to this.
Check it out from the Silverlight Horse's Mouth
I was cracking into getting my machine setup for a Silverlight project that I'm working on and came up with the above error.Now....I admit....running x64 Windows 2008 on my Fijitsu Laptop mighten be the best combination given the huge support for my laptop drivers that I have.
I installed all the new(er) Silverlight 2.0 Beta bits from http://silverlight.net (VS2008 Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 Bits) and opened up my VS2008 seeing all the new Silverlight project types - cool! (I thought)
Each time I either created or opened an existing project - boom! up came the error.
So I figured the installation didn't complete properly.........after running/re-running/uninstalling/installing countless times the error was still there!!!!
My one solace and saving grace was running the following command line:
devenv /setup
......"I'm on my way, on my way to happiness today.....ah huh ah huh ah huh"........
If you're thinking about cracking on with Silverlight - then here's the place to start.This was covered earlier today(yesterday) in MIX08http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/03/05/download-links-for-mix08-announcements.aspx
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Just like before the Great War, dogs are animals commonly found all over the world.
Through the 200 years since the War, dogs have stayed generally unaltered by radiation. Dogs are a favored pet for traveling merchants, as they provide both companionship and protection.
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Normal dogs seen in towns like Carbon. A friendly animal living with townsfolk. If the Brotherhood of Steel Initiate has a perk Man's Best Friend, he gets a dog companion, who will attack his enemies.
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NoisyNinja wrote:Thank you Tsu! That means a lot. I know I told you this in person, but I loved "50 Ways for your Partner to Die". My favorite scene was when Ashley got run over by the wagon and then later carried off by Los Iluminados while Leon just stood by and watched. In my opinion, it was the funniest video in the Fun/Humor category.
Hehe! Thank you! It's great to hear that because by the time I filmed Ashley being carried away I forgot to use my 1st person mod so Leon wouldn't be visible and I was kicking myself for it (I pulled a 35-hour filming/editing last run on this particular video) so I'm thrilled to hear that it was actually appealing to have him staring blankly at her doing nothing to help. XD
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Woman Tracks Her Stolen Pup
When Mary Wolfe, 24, was traveling from Alaska to Colorado in September with her dog, Nahla, she stopped in Seattle to visit friends. They brought her out to a pub, where Wolfe reluctantly tied Nahla up outside. (She was accustomed to bringing the dog into restaurants in Alaska.) Wolfe went out to check on Nahla every 10 to 15 minutes, often with a group of smokers who were at the bar. But a few minutes after the smokers left for the night, Wolfe went out and found that Nahla was gone. Wolfe spent the next 8 months trying to find her Husky-Australian Shepherd mix, often getting leads on her Help Find Nahla Facebook page, and says she ran into strong opposition whenever she tried to investigate the group of smokers. She says she was harassed via email, Facebook and Craigslist — until an investigator discovered that the harassing posts and false tips were coming from the same IP address.Finally, Wolfe flew back to Washington to track her leads to the home of a woman who she says was with the smokers — and saw Nahla in the backyard of the woman's home. Wolfe called the police. The women inside emphatically denied taking the dog from the pub, but the officer removed Nahla from the home to return her to Wolfe on June 3. Nahla barked and yelped as she was happily reunited with her owner in the police car. According to a police report, Wolfe said she just wanted to return to Colorado with her dog, and didn't want to press for further action from law enforcement. — Read it at the Examiner
Spotted: Rare Pink Grasshoppers
National Geographic Explorer Victoria Hillman explains how she found six unusual pink grasshoppers in the European wilderness. They were all in the early nymph stages, with wings that had not yet developed. Hillman and her team believe they are a rare form of the common meadow grasshopper with a genetic mutation caused by a recessive gene similar to the one that affects albino animals. They rarely make it to adulthood because they are so easily spotted by predators. — See photos at National Geographic
Cat Robot Could Be Future for Search-and-Rescue
What has four legs, is nimble and quick on its feet, but doesn't meow? The "cheetah-cub robot," a new machine invented by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Biorob). Scientists have taken the agility of a housecat and applied it to a robot that could go on search-and-rescue missions. It has the same proportions as a housecat, and legs with three segments each, along with springs and small motors to imitate the cat's tendons and muscles. Moving at 3.1 mph, the robotic cat couldn't keep up with a real feline (much less a cheetah) but it's the fastest robot of its size. "The long-term goal of the cheetah-cub robot is to be able to develop fast,agile, ground-hugging machines for use in exploration, for example for search and rescue in natural disaster situations," said Biorob director Auke Ijspeert. — Read it at the Christian Science Monitor
Kitten Rescued From Car Engine
A 3-week-old gray kitten thought that the engine of a Honda Fit was a good place to find warmth in Oregon — until the car's owner drove it for two days on a 1,000-mile trip south to Santa Barbara, Calif. Late last week, the owner heard meowing and stopped several times, even calling animal control along the way to try to find a kitten under the car's hood, but no one could find anything. Julia Di Sieno, executive director and co-founder of Animal Rescue Team, Inc., arrived at the scene and called a tow truck so she'd be able to see under the car. Chuck Love of Love's Towing came to the rescue, assisting Di Sieno in locating the little male kitten. "It took a half an hour, at least, to get it out, and after getting it out it was so cute and so small," said Love. The cat was frail and dehydrated, and had an eye infection, but is expected to make a full recovery. And Di Sieno has named the kitten after Love, who wouldn't take any money for his help at the rescue scene. — Watch it ABC News
SeaWorld Team Saves Stranded Dolphin
A bottlenose dolphin who was suffering from severe sun exposure was rescued by a team from SeaWorld Orlando after a kayaker saw it stranded in seagrass at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The 350-pound dolphin was transported to SeaWorld Orlando and is now in stable condition. The team has responded to at least 47 dolphins stranded near the Indian River Lagoon this year. — Read it at Paw Nation


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Space tourism comes closer to liftoff
For years, when John Spencer talked about tourists taking forays into space, he often was met with giggles or a blank stare.
"The laugh factor on this was really intense," says Spencer, founder of the Space Tourism Society, an advocacy group based in West Los Angeles. But with corporate visionaries pouring millions of dollars into the building blocks of such an industry, Spencer says, few people are laughing now.
"It's happening," he says. "There's a market. There's a waiting line. … Our ultimate goal is: Tens of thousands of space tourists actually leave Earth, go to orbital cruise ships, lunar ships, lunar resorts, and have a great time."
The notion of an ordinary person taking a trip beyond Earth's atmosphere is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Several already have gone, and hundreds more have paid for trips that could begin as soon as next year. Even as NASA's shuttle program is drawing to a close — its next-to-last launch is scheduled for Friday, when the shuttle Endeavour is to begin a two-week mission to the International Space Station— private companies are soliciting passengers for commercial trips to space.
STORY: British tycoon Branson tackles space, ocean with 'a smile'
VIDEO: Richard Branson on space tourism
PHOTO: Gallery: Virgin Galactic's space program
Ten years ago Thursday, businessman Dennis Tito became the first private person to pay to fly in space on April 28, 2001, doling out $20 million to travel on the Soyuz, a Russian rocket, to the International Space Station. Now, space travel is beginning to mirror the airline industry, with its own travel agents, carriers and hubs.
Companies such as Virgin Galactic, founded by billionaire and aviation enthusiast Richard Branson, and XCOR Aerospace in Mojave, Calif., are building spacecraft and selling tickets for suborbital flights that will allow passengers to see the Earth's curvature and experience weightlessness.
Commercial spaceports are sprouting from Upham, N.M., to Kodiak, Alaska. And Space Adventures, the Virginia-based company that since 2001 has arranged eight private trips to the Space Station, has booked one passenger for an excursion around the far side of the moon and has a passenger seat to fill on the first private lunar mission, which could happen as soon as 2014.
The moon-bound passengers also would fly on the Soyuz. Other space aviation companies, some solely with private dollars and others with the help of some government funding, are spending tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to create vehicles that could ferry tourists into space.
A ticket to ride doesn't come cheap, costing at least $95,000, but space entrepreneurs believe that they can facilitate travel to near space more affordably than NASA and fulfill the desire by some non-astronauts to go beyond Earth.
Stephen Attenborough, Virgin Galactic's commercial director, sees similarities between the growing space travel industry and notions of commercial aviation a century ago, when few people would have believed that plane rides would be commonplace.
"My sense is we're on a very similar path here," he says. "At the moment, most people would assume they'd never go to space. I think they're going to be wrong. … My view of the future is that, maybe in 30 to 40 years, most people who want to go to space will have the opportunity to do it, and that it will be affordable."
Dreaming of space
Branson has made his mark on flight, from starting the Virgin Atlantic airline to being the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a hot-air balloon. But he's long set his sights higher.
"I've dreamed of going into space ever since the moon landing when I was a teenager," says Branson. "I assumed that once man had gone to the moon that ordinary people like myself would have that opportunity years ago."
When that didn't happen, Branson took matters into his own hands and registered the name Virgin Galactic in 1991.
The company eventually connected with engineer Burt Rutan, creator of the first privately developed manned space vehicle, dubbed SpaceShipOne. SpaceShipTwo, being created for Virgin Galactic, will be able to carry six passengers 68 miles into the air. Currently conducting test flights in Mojave, the company is considered by some to be the leading contender for becoming the first commercial spaceline in the world. Commercial flights could start by the end of next year.
George Whitesides, Virgin Galactic's CEO, is quick to say, however, that this isn't a new space race. "I'm more focused on building a vehicle that is as safe as possible than I am in flying first," he says.
For the fledgling space tourism industry, perfecting the technology has been only one piece of the puzzle. Pioneers in the field also have had to make sure there's a pool of passengers willing, and financially able, to fly.
A trip to the International Space Station on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, for example, costs roughly $50 million, according to Space Adventures. A seat on the Lynx Mark II, a suborbital vehicle being developed by XCOR, is a relative bargain in comparison, costing $95,000. Spots on Virgin Galactic's craft go for $200,000 each.
"This is not just about starting a business. It's about hopefully starting a whole new industry, and in order to do that as the leader in the field, we need to do it well, and we need to make money," says Attenborough. When the business started, "There was a lot we didn't know at that point, and one (question) was … whether anybody would really want to take a trip at the sort of prices that we knew we'd need to start the business with."
Plenty did: 425 people have signed up for the journey, putting down roughly $60 million in deposits. "It's the democratization of space, and to put poets in space and artists as well as scientists and movie stars and business people, the results of that I think will be huge and shouldn't be underestimated.'
Producer Dallas Austin has booked his trip and was among a few in early April to fly alongside the Virgin Galactic mothership, WhiteKnightTwo, which landed at San Francisco International Airport— its first time touching down at such a hub.
He's had friends question how safe such a journey would be, and his reply is simple: "There's no way I'm not going into space." Austin says that, for an ordinary person, a trip to space can be life-changing. "You'll really see how insignificant our problems are, to see (the world) from a different perspective.
Test flights next year
XCOR expects by the end of next year to begin test-flying the Lynx Mark I, a two-seat craft, to be followed by the more advanced Mark II, which could start commercial flights in 2013, says spokesman Mike Massee. More space vehicles could follow, he says, "depending on the demand."
Massee wouldn't give a specific figure but says the number of passengers who have paid for the roughly 35-minute trip is in the double digits. It will take a little more than four minutes to travel about 60 miles up in the air, to the edge of space. Then the vehicle begins to re-enter the atmosphere, gliding back home. "What you see at those altitudes is the sky turns dark in daytime," he says. "You can see stars and easily the curvature of Earth. And aside from the visual experience … it's also the ultimate roller-coaster ride."
Boeing, one of the biggest aircraft manufacturers in the world, has a keen eye on space as well. "Part of (our) vision is to become the Boeing commercial airplane of space travel," says John Elbon, vice president and program manager of Boeing's commercial crew program, which is developing a seven-seat commercial space capsule. "We hope to … either operate those vehicles or provide them to other operators to enable commercial access to space."
Private space ventures are looking to take more than tourists into space. Their goal is to carry scientists and cargo beyond Earth as well.
As the shuttle program comes to an end, private companies are looking to fill a new niche. Fifty years after the first human went into space, private companies would take over the task of building and providing transportation for NASA astronauts and others into low Earth orbit, freeing the government to focus its resources on the deeper reaches of space.
Last week, NASA awarded $270 million to four companies, including Boeing and Blue Origin, an aerospace research and development company started by Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, to continue developing or creating designs for vehicles that could take over where the space shuttle leaves off, carrying NASA astronauts into near space.
"At this time … we believe we can hand over more of that to a commercial entity with some good oversight and insight from the NASA community," says Ed Mango, program manager for NASA's commercial crew program. "And NASA can focus on even harder stuff, which is going beyond low Earth orbit."
NASA envisions the vehicles being used to transport non-astronauts as well, such as scientists, engineers and perhaps space tourists, though Mango says tourism is not NASA's priority.
NASA "should be trying to find ways by which we can do things in space for a less-expensive price so it helps life back on Earth," says Mango, noting how medical scientists could possibly do research at the International Space Station or another lab.
Spaceports across the USA
But spaceports are springing up around the country. The FAA has approved eight, and Spaceport America in New Mexico, where Virgin Galactic is the anchor tenant, dedicated its runway in October.
Still under construction, but with its first phase nearly complete, Spaceport America will resemble its airport peers with newsstands, gift shops and restaurants, but also have innovative installations, such as, say, a booth where visitors can experience weightlessness.
"A lot of (the installations) will be aimed at motivating and inspiring students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics," says Chris Anderson, executive director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority. "Like back in the days when President Kennedy challenged us to go to the moon and inspired a generation of scientists and engineers. I'm hoping this will excite people again."
Branson sees his spacecraft as only the beginning. "I think in the very first year … Virgin Galactic will create more astronauts than have been created in the last 70 years," he says. "And then I think from small beginnings, from suborbital flights, (the industry) will grow into orbital flights. From orbital flights, that will grow into intercontinental flights at a fraction of the (time)…. We'll be able to put satellites into space at a much more affordable price than they have in the past. And so I think commercial spaceship companies will bring the cost down of every aspect of access to space."
Tom Shelley, president of Space Adventures, says his company started in 1998 with the intention of arranging trips on suborbital flights. But until that option became a reality, the business focused on simulated space experiences instead, such as a visit to the cosmonaut training facility in Russia, where you could experience the feeling of a moon walk through buoyancy.
But now the sky's the limit, for the public and for the businesses plowing the new frontier.
"It's just exciting," Shelley says. "Somebody may be first, but all these companies are going to win in the long run."
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A disproportionate drop in employment insurance recipients in Atlantic Canada suggests federal EI restrictions are having a negative impact that will only get worse as seasonal industries lay off staff, critics say.
"Those changes target seasonal workers," said Erin Weir, an economist with the United Steelworkers Canadian national office. "We've already seen in the data that the number of employment insurance recipients has been cut more sharply in the Atlantic provinces than nationally.
"We're not seeing a decline in unemployment, but we are seeing a decline in employment insurance," he said from Regina. "And that would seem to reflect federal policies that are kicking people off benefits."
Weir said the number of jobless workers has been stuck at around 1.4 million for at least the past year.
Yet, Statistics Canada reports that the number of those receiving EI benefits in July was down almost six per cent across Canada from the year before. That compares to a drop of 11 per cent over the same time period for Newfoundland and Labrador, 16 per cent in P.E.I., 12 per cent in Nova Scotia and nine per cent in New Brunswick.
'I do think we're seeing the consequences of federal cutbacks to EI.' - Erin Weir, United Steelworkers
In Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, the decline in EI benefits for each province was about three per cent.
B.C. had a drop of 11.5 per cent, Manitoba 12 per cent and Saskatchewan seven per cent.
The federal Conservative government says EI changes it implemented in January are a "modest and reasonable" effort to ensure the system is fair and flexible.
Those adjustments do not change eligibility requirements such as the number of insured hours to qualify, says an emailed response from Employment and Social Development Canada. Rather, they clarify long-standing job search requirements for all recipients – including repeat claimants, it said.
"Claimants are only expected to look for work within their communities, no greater than one hour's commute away. Moreover, personal circumstances are taken into account, such as the availability of public transportation and access to child care."
Weir said the statistics speak for themselves.
"I do think we're seeing the consequences of federal cutbacks to EI," he said.
Lana Payne, Atlantic director of the new Canadian amalgamated union Unifor, said the big question is the extent to which Ottawa will enforce its clarified job search rules this winter.
She said she believes there is an ulterior motive for the push to get seasonal workers off benefits and into often poorly paid, service-sector vacancies.
"These kinds of changes were really about trying to cater to low-wage dependent employers," she said. "They kind of missed the whole point that perhaps what we need to be doing to attract people to jobs in other communities means that we have to increase the wages to get them there."
Payne calls it a wrong-headed attempt to get tough on the unemployed.
"I'd rather they get tough on unemployment, quite frankly."
Call for further changes
Brian Lee Crowley, managing director of the non-partisan Macdonald-Laurier Institute think-tank in Ottawa, said recent EI changes don't go far enough.
The program is still "an incredibly unfair, unjust, exploitative system" that subsidizes seasonal employers, he said in an interview.
"And it's not the people in Atlantic Canada who are being exploited by it. It's the people in seasonal industries in Atlantic Canada who are exploiting other people who never draw on the system and who expect to work all year to keep themselves and their families in the conditions that they think are appropriate for them."
Crowley concedes that some industries such as tourism, fishing and agriculture are cyclical. But before EI, workers switched jobs with the seasons, he said.
The option to collect EI benefits rather than work creates a terrible incentive, he added.
"We've said to them: 'Okay, work for a short period of time in one industry and you're off the hook for the rest of the year.' And that in itself has created a vast amount of unemployment in Atlantic Canada."
Crowley said the federal government should charge higher EI premiums to employers who repeatedly lay off staff.
"We have a system in which the seasonality of the economy is not caused by the nature of the industry, but is driven by the incentives within the employment insurance system."
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PGCon2011 - Add 4 Video (2015.09.18)
PGCon 2011
The PostgreSQL Conference
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Lorenzo Alberton |
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Day | Tutorials - 2 - 2011-05-18 |
Room | DMS 1120 |
Start time | 13:00 |
Duration | 03:00 |
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Event type | Workshop |
Track | Advanced Features |
Language used for presentation | English |
Trees and Graphs in the database
RDBMS in the social networks age
Despite the NoSQL movement trying to flag traditional databases as a dying breed, the RDBMS keeps evolving and adding new powerful weapons to its arsenal. In this talk we'll explore Common Table Expressions (SQL-99) and how SQL handles recursion, breaking the bi-dimensional barriers and paving the way to more complex data structures like trees and graphs, and how we can replicate features from social networks and recommendation systems. We'll also have a look at window functions (SQL:2003) and the advanced reporting features they make finally possible.
The first part of this talk will cover several different techniques to model a tree data structure into a relational database: parent-child (adjacency list) model, materialized path, nested sets, nested intervals, hybrid models, Common Table Expressions. Then we'll move one step forward and see how we can model a more complex data structure, i.e. a graph, with concrete examples from today's websites. Starting from real-world examples of social networks' and recommendation systems' features, and with the help of some graph theory, this talk will explain how to represent and traverse a graph in the database. Finally, we will take a look at Window Functions and how they can be useful for data analytics and simple inline aggregations, among other things.
All the examples have been tested on PostgreSQL >= 8.4


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Drug commonly used to prevent gout, treat gout flares, and treat Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF)
SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today took action against companies that manufacture, distribute, and/or market unapproved single-ingredient oral colchicine, a medication commonly used for the daily prevention of gout, to treat acute gout flare-ups, and for the treatment of Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF).
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The companies are expected to stop manufacturing single-ingredient oral colchicine within 45 days and must stop shipping this unapproved product in interstate commerce within 90 days. A small amount of unapproved colchicine is expected to be available after these dates until supplies are exhausted.
Many single ingredient oral colchicine products have been used by the medical community for decades. These and a variety of other medications have not received the mandatory modern-day FDA-approval required of all prescription drugs.
Colcrys is the only FDA-approved single-ingredient oral colchicine product available on the U.S. market. Approved by the FDA in 2009, Colcrys' prescribing information contains important safety data and recommendations on drug interactions and dosing not available with unapproved products.
The manufacturer of Colcrys, Mutual Pharmaceutical/URL Pharma, has established a Patient Assistance Program (PAP) and a Co-Pay Assistance Program (CAP) to ensure that all patients will be able to continue affordable access to colchicine. The company also has informed FDA that it will maintain the programs at a minimum until there is FDA-approved generic competition for Colcrys. The PAP covers three groups of people: those with insurance; those without insurance; and Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Part D who do not want the cost of Colcrys to contribute toward their true out-of-pocket expenditures under Part D. The CAP helps eligible patients reduce their Colcrys prescription co-pay to no more than $25 per prescription. Specific information on these programs can be found at www.colcrys.com, www.needymeds.org, or by calling 1-888-811-8423.
Today's action is part of the FDA's broader initiative against marketed unapproved drugs, announced in a June 2006 Compliance Policy Guide describing the agency's risk-based enforcement approach for marketed unapproved drug products.
"The need for drugs to go through the FDA approval process is clearly demonstrated by our review of oral colchicine tablets," said Janet Woodcock, M.D., director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). "Without our safety review and proper drug labeling, the old standard of care would likely have continued, to the detriment of patients."
Unapproved versions of colchicine are not generic drugs. Generic drugs are approved by the FDA to assure that the approved generic drug products meet the same standards as the innovator drug. All single-ingredient oral colchicine products, other than Colcrys, that are currently being marketed are unapproved drugs and have never been evaluated by the agency.
"It is a priority for the FDA to get unapproved medications, such as older versions of single ingredient oral colchicine, either updated to conform to FDA's current approval standards or off the market," said Deborah M. Autor, director of CDER's Office of Compliance. "The FDA remains committed to ensuring that prescription drugs have the necessary FDA approval. We encourage companies to actively pursue approval or face the type of action announced today."
The FDA previously took action against unapproved colchicine for injection products on Feb. 6, 2008. This ongoing initiative is designed to bring all unapproved medications, including single-ingredient oral colchicine, up to modern-day safety, efficacy, labeling, and quality standards by ensuring that they comply with FDA approval requirements. The FDA is committed to working with companies to ensure that marketed drugs are safe and effective, and meet appropriate standards for manufacturing and labeling.
For more information:
Oral Colchicine Federal Register Notice
FDA's Unapproved Drugs Web site http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/EnforcementActivitiesbyFDA/SelectedEnforcementActionsonUnapprovedDrugs/default.htm
Media Inquiries: Elaine Gansz Bobo, 301.796.7567, email@example.com
Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
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Autumn on Monument
Fall colors as seen above Monument Ave - Richmond VA
Route 66 Riders
Route 66 Riders Route 66 motorcycle riders travel into the southern California desert sunset.
this city shines rva
City Twilight
Downtown RVA as seen from Libby Hill at sunset
Last Night Under the Milky Way
On a night in late May the weather cooperated but the meteors didn't. Lots of people turned out to view the Camelopardalids Meteor Shower, a handful of Richmond Astronomical Society members and perhaps 25 or so Richmond Photography Meetup Group Members. For several hours we had our own mini star party! While most everyone enjoyed the dark skies the meteor shower was a no show. Fortunately the stars were spectacular and much observing and photography ensued.
Colorful fall neighborhood street scene - #RVA Richmond VA
Nekoro Williams
Nekoro Williams - Dummer for PBR - People's Blues of Richmond, plays like a boss! Riverrock RVA
Waterside Color Miami
Miami Florida
Ritz Carlton, Orlando Florida
Cadillac Sedan De Ville 1956
Chloe Dygert Team USA
UCI World Road Championships 2015 - Richmond VA
Carillon Richmond and James River CSX A-Line Rail Bridge
Two classic Richmond landmarks.
RVA Afternoon
San Diego - Embarcadero Marina Park
Blue hour skyline from Marina Park
Color Run Style
SpaceX CRS-6 - up and away
Tattered Pier
Cape Hatteras fishing pier aka Frisco Pier - years of storm damage. #OBX
Bridge into the Blue
Bridge into the Blue - Early evening on the Cooper River Bridge public bridge walk. This bridge is beautifully designed, the public walk way offers some great views of the Charleston SC area.
Waiting for the launch
George Washington
Inside Virginia's historic capitol building, Richmond, VA
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Electronic scrap recycling facility being built in Sweden
ABB is working with Boliden to build a plant at the electronic scrap recycling facility Rönnskär copper smelter in northern Sweden with the intent of tripling its recycling capacity. Metal recovery from scrap takes 10-15% of the energy required to refine metal from raw ore, the company said.
ABB automation and power technologies are helping metals company Boliden create the world's largest electronic scrap recycling facility – recovering copper and precious metals from electronic scrap using only a fraction of the energy required to extract metals from ore.
Boliden is currently ramping up a new plant adjacent to its existing electronic scrap recycling facility at the Rönnskär copper smelter in northern Sweden - an expansion that will almost triple recycling capacity from 45,000 metric tons to 120,000 metric tons a year, making it the largest e-scrap recycling facility in the world.
Rönnskär is an integrated metallurgical complex, which smelts and refines metals from mined copper concentrates and from recyclable materials like metal shred and electronic scrap. E-scrap comes from computers, mobile phones, circuit boards and other electronic equipment and contains metals such as copper, gold and silver.
The pre-sorted and pre-shredded e-scrap is smelted at Rönnskär using Boliden's proprietary Kaldo furnace technology. After smelting, the molten metals are transferred to the adjoining production lines for processing into high-grade products.
In 2010, e-scrap accounted for 6 percent of Rönnskär's feed, with recyclable materials as a whole contributing 24 percent. When the new plant reaches full capacity in the second quarter of 2012, these figures will rise to 14 and 31 percent respectively, thus enabling Rönnskär to become less dependent on copper concentrates and more energy efficient.
Recovering metals from electronic scrap requires only 10-15 percent of the energy required to extract metals from ore. The process also supports the European Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, which requires 4 kg of e-scrap to be collected and sorted per head of population in the EU. This is expected to rise to 13-16 kg per person by 2016.
ABB has played a significant role in the Kaldo plant expansion and at the Rönnskär complex as a whole. For the new Kaldo plant, ABB has supplied a comprehensive range of process-critical automation and power technologies, including the process control system.
The entire e-scrap recycling process is controlled by ABB's 800xA Extended Automation System, and includes customized features such as remote operation of the process and an exact positioning system to prevent spilling of molten metal from the furnace.
The System 800xA solution for the Kaldo plant expansion is integrated with Rönnskär's existing System 800xA distributed control system, which controls the entire site and all its production processes. When ABB first installed the first ABB Advant automation system at Rönnskär in 1999, it was one of the largest plant control systems of all time, with more 50,000 input/output (I/O) points.
On the electrical side, the ABB solutions include low- and medium-voltage switchgear to ensure safe and reliable power distribution throughout the plant; low-voltage industrial drives to speed-control the motor applications and reduce energy consumption; and Resibloc dry-type distribution transformers, which are explosion-proof and environmentally friendly, and can withstand extreme loads and very high levels of mechanical stress and thermal shock.
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Ainsworth opera House Monthly Breakfast
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Title: Ainsworth opera House Monthly Breakfast
Description: The Ainsworth Opera House will hold their monthly breakfast buffet on Saturday July 7th from 7 to 9. Menu will consist of biscuits and gravy, bacon, scrambled eggs and more.
Date: 2012-07-07
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Following months of fevered speculation, dashing real life James Bond villain Elon Musk has just unveiled the details of his theoretical Hyperloop transportation system that would be able to transport passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a half-hour (which is just under 400 miles and nearly six hours by car).
In very lay terms, the project works like this: Aluminum "pods" would speed along at nearly 800 mph inside a steel tube that is raised up on pylons along (in the LA to SF scenario) along the I-5. The tube would maintain a low-pressure environment to reduce drag (rather than a complete vacuum tube as some had speculated and that--by Musk's calculations--would be completely impractical), while the passenger pods be fitted with solar-powered fans on their nose to create a low-friction cushion of air for the pods to ride on top of.
The whole thing would not be entirely dissimilar to the pneumatic tube systems of old. During an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Musk said the Hyperloop would feature pods traveling with about 5 miles between them that would be able to depart every 30 seconds.
According to Musk, the technology would be best for cities that are less than 900 miles apart and have a large amount of traffic between them. "Around that inflection point," Musk said via a press release "I suspect that supersonic air travel ends up being faster and cheaper." According to Musk's report, the I-5 Hyperloop could be built for only $10 billion, which Musk directly compares to California's San Diego-to-San Francisco high-speed rail that is projected to cost $70 billion.
Musk has stated that he has no current plans to develop the Hyperloop himself in the near future, but rather is putting the concept for others to run with while he concentrates on Tesla, his electric car company, and Space X, his space transport company.
This story, "Elon Musk unveils details on Hyperloop and it's basically what you expected" was originally published by TechHive.


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Obama Sets Vast Regulatory Shift
Phil MintzBlaming much of the current economic downturn on "the unraveling of major financial institutions and the lack of adequate regulatory structures to prevent abuse and excess," President Barack Obama is proposing a vast expansion of federal regulatory power over financial institutions. The plan includes the creation of two new entities—a Financial Services Oversight Council and a Consumer Financial Protection Agency—as well as two new overseers of banks and insurance firms.
The proposed new regulatory scheme includes new supervisory powers for the Federal Reserve for all financial institutions whose problems could pose a threat to financial stability and a requirement for hedge funds and other pools of private capital to register with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The sweeping nature of the proposals—the widest-ranging changes to the financial regulatory system since the Great Depression—is generating pushback from business interests over some of the provisions.
Obama describes the changes as a balancing of the interests of business and the public. "With the reforms we are proposing today, we seek to put in place rules that will allow our markets to promote innovation while discouraging abuse. We seek to create a framework in which markets can function freely and fairly, without the fragility in which normal business cycles bring the risk of financial collapse; a system that works for businesses and consumers."
The proposed eight-member Financial Services Oversight Council is to be chaired by the Treasury Dept. and is designed to "help fill gaps in regulation, facilitate coordination of policy and resolution of disputes, and identify emerging risks in firms and market activities," according to fact sheets distributed by the White House. It will replace the President's Working Group on Financial Markets and have a permanent staff at Treasury.
Regulating Consumer Services
The new Consumer Financial Protection Agency will regulate providers' consumer financial products and services, including credit, savings, and payment services. It will set standards for promoting financial services to consumers and have regulatory powers to supervise institutions for compliance.
"This agency will have the power to set standards so that companies compete by offering innovative products that consumers actually want—and actually understand," Obama said. "Consumers will be provided information that is simple, transparent, and accurate. You'll be able to compare products and see what is best for you. The most unfair practices will be banned. Those ridiculous contracts—pages of fine print that no one can figure out—will be a thing of the past. And enforcement will be the rule, not the exception."
The plan would do away with the Office of Thrift Supervision, replacing it with a system aimed at closing gaps in coverage and keeping institutions from shopping for the most lenient bank regulator.
"The Appropriate Balance"
Christina Romer, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said the Administration proposal strikes "the appropriate balance" and that it was "not bulldozing the whole system."
Representative John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Republican leader in the House, countered by predicting "we'll have the federal government deciding what interest ought to be charged on credit cards, having the government decide what kind of financial products are available."
The Financial Services Roundtable—a trade group for the financial-services industry—said in a statement that it "applauds the Administration's announcement of a proposal for modernizing regulation of the financial-services industry. Our economic recovery depends on these reforms. The Roundtable has long advocated regulatory reform and believes reform must be comprehensive, creative, and bold."
However, the group said it is opposed to the Consumer Financial Protection Agency because it separates the regulation of the institution from the regulation of the products. "Each regulator will only have half the information," the group said, adding that the possibility of individual state regulation will promote a confusing patchwork of rules.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the plan adds regulation without dealing with the root dysfunction in the system. "While the Administration has made several positive recommendations, we're concerned that overall, the proposal simply adds to the layering of the system without addressing the underlying and fundamental problems. We can't simply insert new regulatory agencies and hope that we've covered our bases," David Hirschmann, president and CEO of the Chamber's Center for Capital Markets said in a statement.
Critics of the plan also argue that it imposes too many restrictions that will harm the ability of U.S. financial companies to compete in the global economy.


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F1's regulations already demand that teams must fit wheel retention devices - but there has been no stipulation on the exact design of these.
Article 14.7 of the technical regulations states simply: "All cars, whilst under their own power, must be fitted with devices which will retain the wheel fastener in the event of it coming loose."
The German GP incident, where a wheel came off Mark Webber's Red Bull car after it had not been attached properly at a stop, highlighted a weakness with the current retention systems.
Analysis: secrets of a two-second pitstop
The FIA, which completed a detailed investigation into wheel systems after the Nurburgring, concluded that the current single retention concept was only useful in incidents when the wheel came loose from a fully-fitted position.
In a bid to prevent wheels being able to fly off on occasions when they have not been fully fitted, the FIA has demanded that from the Singapore GP teams will have to fit dual stage wheel retention systems.
The first retention device will retain the wheel if it works loose from a fully fitted position.
A second device will now also retain the wheel in the event that it works loose having only just been engaged on the axle thread – as would happen if the nut is cross-threaded during a pitstop and the car accidentally released.
The rule will be enforced by the FIA interpreting that teams only comply with article 14.7 if there are dual retention systems in place.
Teams were informed of the changes during F1's summer break and several outfits trialed the new design during the Belgian GP weekend.
McLaren sporting director Sam Michael said: "We tried it on the car on Friday [in Belgium] and we will probably put it on the car for Friday at Monza as well.
"It is a little bit different and, when you are operating with pitstops around two seconds in length, the most marginal things can make a big difference.
"Just a tiny change to the design can really disturb the mechanics and their whole routine." Yahoo/Eurosport/Autosport
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Integrated flattening allows hole punching without sheet metal distortion
TRUMPF® has introduced a new integrated flattening concept, available on the TruPunch 5000 punching machine and the TruMatic 7000 punch/laser combination machine.
The process allows punching of a large number of holes in thin sheet metal without distorting the panel. Opposing stresses are introduced to keep the sheet metal panels flat, thereby eliminating an additional step to even out the material.
To help the sheet metal maintain its flatness, the convex die works in tandem with a stripper featuring a recess and special coating. The convex die presses the sheet metal against the stripper from underneath, which overbends the material. The concave stripper counteracts by pressing the material raised by the convex die back downward at the edge of the die. The overbending creates counterstresses that offset the compressive and tensile stresses caused by the punching process. In this way, the sheet metal is flat when it leaves the machine.


text: 70 Years Of Cars In Los Angeles: The UCLA Library Digital CollectionMurilee Martin11/03/08 10:00amFiled to: RetroLos AngelesPhotography1920s1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s1980SCalifornia51EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Because the 5,000 LA Times and LA Daily News photographs in UCLA's Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990 collection were all shot in Southern California- where the car has been king for 75 years- a bit of searching will unearth a lot of seriously cool car photos such as this 1980 shot. Make the jump to see a gallery with 50 of our favorites, then follow the link to the whole collection and kiss the rest of your day goodbye! [UCLA Library Digital Collection, via BoingBoing, via Save Vs Death]Reply51 repliesLeave a reply


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Dance Dance Karnov v1.0
The Storyline:
It was crisp, Autumn day when Karnov decides to visit local maltshop at BIG CITY, USA.
"Mummpheek," Karnov declared. "Mmmrrrm aglra brrplttd fffrprapna." Like usuals Karnov mouth was packed full of hams sandwiches and whisky, a delicacy of his liking.
"Oh Karnov," laughed from a kindly old man runs the maltshop. "You're a cracker up, large one!"
Suddenly Earthshaking became, and dishes rattle from ceiling! Karnov runs outside to investigate occurance! A enemy! Oh no!
"You'd receive a generous come-uppance!" shouted Karnov while flexing muscletone. "My powers increase from the dance, and soon I will dance your head until the ground!!! For your attempts to destroy my preferred maltshop!"
But the evil did not stop and continue to terrorize the BIG CITY, USA! First a Green Fish Guy With a Bag and Hand Down Pants explodes on city, then... well, the secret Boss! Hurry up and make Karnov dancing to defeat evil! It up to you! You can do it and save BIG CITY, USA!
Instructions: There are two levels in this game. In each level, you must DANCE YOUR FAT WHITE ASS AROUND FOR FREEDOM!
The computer will play a series of beats, with various arrows keys lighting up each beat. Once it plays the set of beats, you must emulate the series that you just saw (like the classic frustrating game "Simon Says"). If you hit 80% of the beats correctly, then your power will raise by one bar. Each time your power raises up two bars, you get a piece of the "Item" used to defeat the bad guy of that level. You need three pieces to beat him. In other words, your power bar must be up at least six notches by the end of the level, or else you will lose. BOO HOO!
You can get bonuses by playing the beats back perfectly, and you can also get bonuses by pressing the corresponding arrow key repeatedly (for example, if the current beat requires you to press the DOWN key, you'll get bonuses for each time you press it. Be careful not to hold down the arrow key, as that's CHEATING, YOU BASTARD). If you press the wrong arrow keys too many times during a series, your character will become "frozen" and unable to perform due to his intense embarrassment. Please don't embarrass Karnov.
Problems / errors:
Q: Help! I press the arrow keys on my keyboard, but Karnov doesn't dance!
A: Make sure the Flash window is currently active (click on the screen just to make sure). If that doesn't work, make sure your keyboard numberlock is OFF.
Q: The beats and the music don't sync correctly!
A: Flash is a CPU hog. On some low-end machines, it will not sync right. To counteract this, right click on the Flash screen and change the level of detail to either "medium" or "low".
Q: I can't get into the dumptruck in level 4.
A: You're playing the wrong game. There are only two levels in Dance Dance Karnov, and there are no dumptrucks.
Q: I think my wife is cheating on me.
A: More than likely.
Q: Where the hell did all these fucked up enemies come from? I mean, what the hell is that Dancing Green Fish Guy With a Bag and a Hand Down His Pants?
A: All enemies were taken directly from the classic Nintendo game, Karnov. In addition, the music is based off it as well. For screenshots from Karnov, check out Jeff K.'s "Quake 3 Arena vs. Karnov" game review, which provides screenshots that I based my animations of off.
Q: I want to play Karnov!
A: Sorry, you'll have to rephrase that in the form of a question.
Q: Where can I download Karnov? You shithead.
A: Download the ROM here, and the emulator here (Nintendo emulator).
Q: Why the hell is this game taking so long to load? I'm wasting valuable time sitting around, when I could be looking at Goatse.cx.
A: I apologize, but my server seems to made up primarily of taffy. One day when I get enough cash to buy a new server, this question will be rendered null and void. Until then, feel free to get some work done while it loads.
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Sales Executive/ Agency Manager
- Milpitas, CA
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Job Description
Why take any sales JOB, when you can opt for a sales CAREER with Farmers Insurance? As one of the largest and most respected insurance brands in the United States, Farmers Insurance can help offer consumers peace of mind when they need it most. We are currently looking for highly motivated team players to join our sales force as agents.
Farmers Insurance is a workplace that values a positive outlook and fosters a culture of goal setting and achievement. Our agents take the time to work with our current customers and potential clients to help them determine what kind of coverage they need and what fits into their budget. This is the kind of position that creates relationships with customers and clients, not just business transactions. As an Agent, the training and tools necessary for success as a business owner will be available to you.
Utilizing Farmers Marketing Systems, or those you may develop, to reach potential customers for our Insurance and Financial Services products
Providing excellent customer service to policyholders
Attending networking & sales events, trade shows & community events
Educating and assisting customers
Creating your own daily schedule, emailing and corresponding with customers
Obtaining insurance licenses(s) and staying aware of evolving industry and product changes
What We Offer:
Outstanding, uncapped earning potential
Career/Life Balance.
Health, Dental and Vision Insurance plans available
Retirement plan options
Career in a secure industry
Stability with a sound Company & Industry
Training and support of a family oriented business partner with over 80 years of experience
A top rated Training Program addressing in all facets of the business – sales, products, marketing and customer service
Financial support program in the first three years as you build your business
Bonuses, Awards/Recognition, Trips
Ability to pass your business down to family
The qualified Insurance Sales Representative candidate will have at least an Associate's Degree. The ideal Insurance Sales Representative should also have:
Sales and/or customer service experience
Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
Entrepreneurial spirit with a fearless and positive attitude
Self-motivation and goal-orientation
Strong organizational, time management and follow-through skills
Desire to continually learn new products and services
Desire to be active in the community
Basic computer skills
Good credit history – no bankruptcies within the last 12 months. A favorable criminal record – no Felonies
Control your own destiny. Work with an organization that is committed to serving the community and being there when it counts.
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Nexage increases Series B financing to $15m
Nexage, a Waltham-based mobile advertising exchange, said Monday that it closed an additional $5 million in funding from Hearst Interactive Media.
With that investment, Hearst joins SingTel Innov8, Relay Ventures, and GrandBanks Capital in Nexage's Series B round, and the round now totals $15 million, Nexage said in a press release.
According to industry statistics, the mobile advertising market is expected to grow to $20.6 billion by 2015, Nexage noted.
Nexage said its mobile advertising exchange helps advertisers to target and buy the audience best suited for their marketing needs.
One Nexage client is Rovio, a Finnish entertainment media company known for its Angry Birds game franchise. Rovio sells ads on some versions of Angry Birds, and Nexage helps ensure that those ads reach the relevant mobile audience.


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Today we're excited to announce the launch of our Super Buyers program on Flippa! We think this will be a great reward for our top and most trusted buyers on Flippa.
What Is a Super Buyer?
We have two tiers of Super Buyer status: silver and gold. To be eligible for the program you'll have near perfect feedback (95% to be exact), have verified your phone number, completed buyer certification and you've never lost a dispute or been banned or suspended.
To qualify for gold status, a user must have successfully completed 10 or more purchases on Flippa in the last 12 months. A user can attain silver status by completing 5 or more purchases on Flippa in the last 12 months.
How Do I Know I'm Dealing with a Super Buyer?
Sellers, we've made this easy for you. Every Super Buyer will have a prominent star next to their profile. The star will be colored to match their status level. We think this will make the transaction process smoother, knowing you can trust these experienced users on Flippa.
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EDIT: Sheesh! It appears that I was mistaken and the original post regarding these high-performance/low-cost power cords survived. So, sorry for what has essentially turned out to be a double post. Since the following is slightly different, I will leave it to posterity below.
Well... I just finished writing a long assessment of the above three cables, only to have Head-fi lose the message. I guess you can blame the new operating parameters for the snafu. So, while trying my very best to keep my cool, a brief summary:
I have been searching for a quality but affordable power cable option for my Gilmore Lite DPS and have narrowed it down to the above cables. It is my understanding that the Birth is the better of the two Zu's, as it is more flexible. markl's scathing review of the Bok aside, is it possible that it will both offer an improvement in sound quality over the Birth and be flexible enough not to displace the light Gilmore Lite DPS? This is paramount, given how small the amp unit is.
I have also been interested in the Pangea AC-14 (as the much bigger AC-9 is just too bulky for my purposes), but there is little info. on this new budget power cord here. The Signal Cable Magic Power Cord as well as the JellyFish and associated hospital-grade cryogenic SoniKLEER seem to be rather well-built, but offer no shielding to avoid interference. Also, the Signal Cable PC is said to be rather stiff.
So, any ideas on the above? I do not want to spend an arm and a leg here, but look forward to switching out my Volex for an noticeable - okay, marginal? - increase in performance.
Thanks in advance for the input.
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The Southern Kitchen is the perfect place to start every day at Kiawah. Located in the Straw Market at West beach, the Southern Kitchen is serving all of your favorite country breakfast classics. Enjoy classic country breakfast items such as specialty omelets, chicken and waffles, blueberry pancakes and praline French toast.
On the lighter side we also offer steel cut oatmeal with fruit, yogurt, and smoothies. Later in the day we offer salads and sandwiches for lunch, but we keep breakfast going all day for the not so early risers.
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Ask where's the North? At York 'tis on the Tweed;
In Scotland at the Orcades; and there
At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
[Pope, "Essay on Man"]
As a noun, c. 1200, from the adverb. North Pole attested from mid-15c. (earlier the Arctic pole, late 14c.). North American (n.) first used 1766, by Franklin; as an adjective, from 1770.