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Word's spreading fast, though.
"I love his compete," said the goaltending coach on the day Team Canada trimmed its roster to the required 23 players. "I love that he's been a winner growing up. He took over a Saginaw team last year that sold off all their veteran players to go with youth. They were well out of a playoff spot and the next thing you know they're in the playoffs, because of him, and then they knock off a heavily-favoured team, because of him.
"He's got a great pedigree. And as he showed this week, he's not intimidated by anybody. He came in with an attitude that he belonged. That sure came out in the way he competed."
Right now, the most important position as well as the most critiqued appears to a three-way dead heat between Paterson, pre-camp favourite Malcolm Subban and Jordan Binnington.
Of the three, Subban, the most hyped, had arguably the weakest week here; Paterson, the strongest.
"Yeah, I'd say it's wide open," reckoned Paterson, a third-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings. "Coming into camp Malcolm looked like the No. 1. But the three guys here are pretty equal. I'm hoping to have a good start overseas and see what happens from there.
"I guess I had a pretty solid camp. I think that was enough to put me on the team. I was fortunate that pucks were hitting me this week.
"This is just the first chapter in the book. We don't know how it's going to end."
The big surprise of Cutdown Thursday was the release of Edmonton Oil Kings' star Laurent Brossoit, a Calgary Flames' pick. Subban's season and status, though, offset his erratic play here to land him one of the spots.
"As we said, this week was not the final deciding moment," re-emphasized head coach Steve Spott. "For me it was the final piece of the puzzle. But it wasn't a final decision. Saying that, we'd probably still have four goaltenders here."
Tugnutt insists he'd be comfortable with any of the surviving group to open against the Germans on Boxing Day.
"The three of them are as good as any goaltenders out there. And that's nice to be able to say, with all the backlash we've had of late over our goaltenders. The guys that are playing in these tournaments are first-round NHL picks and people are still dissatisfied with them.
"I've been happy with all four guys we had here. There's a lot that goes into it: The season they had, the history they have, shootouts ... so many things we take into consideration. We believe these are the three guys that best give us a chance to win. Taking nothing away from Laurent Brossoit, who I think is an outstanding young goaltender. He's become a good friend of mine because I've got to see him more during the year and keep in contact.
"It (cutting him) was very difficult to do. But I know his future's bright, as are the futures of the guys we're taking to this tournament."
The next order of netminding business is not to name a No. 1 but to delegate a third-stringer, to allow the top two to mentally begin preparing for a short, expectation-packed two weeks in Russia.
"Ultimately," explained Spott, "we do have to name a guy that's going to be a healthy scratch to start the torumament. We had that conversation two days ago with every goaltender that's here. Whoever that guy is, he has to be ready in case we have a situation where somebody's hurt or we don't like something we're seeing. He's got to be ready to go.
"We haven't made that decision yet. I wanted tonight to be special for the guys. I wanted all three of the goaltenders who are here today to feel good about themselves. But obviously we are going to have that conversation. When it'll be, I can't say for sure. But it's coming, sooner than later. Because it's also not fair to the two other guys. They need to be prepared for what they have to do, as well."
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Donating your genome and health data to science is a great way to enable advances in understanding human genetics, biology, and health. We seek volunteers willing to donate diverse personal information to become a public resource.
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Hugh Jackman on Conan and Clooney
Hugh Jackman was on Conan this week. He entered the studio by imitating Conan. Perfectly. The one-two hip check? Amazing. Needless to say he was brilliant, and funny, and charming, and wore his suit beautifully, and continues to prove that he really is the nicest man in the business even when he's supposed to nice, because everyone is nice on talk shows, you can tell he's genuinely nice. And, as he says to Conan, this is a choice. The ones who are dickheads are actively making a choice to be that way. Which is not his way. Oh and he also delivers a pretty good imitation of George Clooney and fondles Conan's breast. In other words, this is 8 minutes you will very much enjoy.
As for that George Clooney interpretation, I have to say, Dylan does it better, only because Hugh respectfully doesn't include the smarm, and the next time I'm with Dylan, I will put this on video. Clooney and Brad Pitt work the same play...with slight variations. George takes a rather presidential approach. Brad's is more ... Vegas high roller. Dylan has it mastered, even down to the feet. Brad does this thing with the feet - it's fascinating.
Also attached - Hugh with his family yesterday in New York. If you are there, I'm telling you, sell whatever you can to get to his show. There is no other entertainer who can do what he's doing. Promise.
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What is this page?
This is a collection guide. It is a description of archival material held in the Special Collections Division,
J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. The materials described here are physically available in our
reading room. To see what's been digitized in this collection, click on the thumbnail at the top right of this page
or look for hyperlinks in the container list and/or the preliminary inventory.
Stuart Wright Collection: Robert Penn Warren Papers (#1169-014) document the life and literary career of Robert Penn Warren, 1885-2008, undated [Bulk: 1940-1989]. The Warren Papers consist of 21 archival boxes and 11 oversized folders of manuscript and other materials. It contains approximately 10.88 cubic feet of materials. The collection is arranged in its original order, except as noted below, in 10 series, including an initial acquisition of 8 series plus Cary Addition #1, and Ludlow Addition #2. The collection contains correspondence, typescripts and holographic materials, literary essays and notes, poems, uncorrected and edited proofs, loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection, audio recordings, oversized materials. Almost a third of the collection (6 boxes) consists of typescripts and holographic materials of Warren's published and unpublished works, including 19 versions of Portrait of a Father, his biography of his father written during 1988.
Series 1: Correspondence consists of Robert Penn Warren's correspondence, 1946-1986, with Louis Daniel Brodsky, Fred Chappell, John Ciardi, George Garrett, Bernard Malamud, David Sladen, and George White. It consists primarily of autograph and typed letters signed. Series 1 is held in Box 1.a – 1.k
Series 2: Typescripts and Holograph Materials consists of edited speeches and manuscripts, 1930-1988. It consists primarily of holographs, typescripts and edited typescripts. Most notably it contains 19 versions of Portrait of a Father, Warren's biography of his father written during 1988. Series 2 is held in Box 1.l - 6.t.
Series 3: Literary Essays and Notes consists of essays and notes written by Robert Penn Warren on literary subjects and the works of notable American and British authors, 1942-1986. It contains holograph, typescript, and photocopied materials. Series 3 is held in Box 7.a – 10.y
Series 4: Poems consists of typescripts, photocopies, and clippings of poems by Robert Penn Warren. 1940-1989. Series 4 also contains one uncorrected proof of a broadside of the poem The Flower: A Poem (1981). Series 4 is held in Box 11.a – 12.u
Series 5: Uncorrected and Edited Proofs consists of manuscripts of essays written by Robert Penn Warren and others that publishers sent to him for his comments, 1950-1987. A number of these were transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection. These items are linked to the book of origin by their Stuart Wright Book Collection Number (e.g. Stuart Wright Book Collection #38.04). Series 5 is held in Box 12.y – 16.c
Series 6: Loose Manuscripts Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection consists of loose letters, contracts, and annotated poems by, to, or about Robert Penn Warren, 1885-1986, transferred from books in the Stuart Wright Book Collection. The loose manuscripts are linked to the book of origin by their Stuart Wright Book Collection Number (e.g. Stuart Wright Book Collection #38.04). Series 6 is held in Box 16.d – 17.zzk
Series 7: Audio Recordings consists of three, reel-to-reel, audio recordings by or about Robert Penn Warren, ca. 1961, including Conversations on the Craft of Poetry with Cleanth Brooks, Robert Frost, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke; it also contains a recording by Yale University of Warren reading his poetry. Also available in each folder are digital copies of each audio recording on compact disc made by J. Y. Joyner Library, 3/28/2012. Series 7 is held in Box 18.a – 18.c
Series 8: Oversized Materials consists of three oversized folders. The first contains the photocopied edited proof of New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985 by Robert Penn Warren; the second contains a broadside of Warren's unpublished poem Whip-Poor-Will (2011) Number 41 of 150 "printed with permission of the literary estate of Robert Penn Warren at Somnambulist Tango Press for the opening of 'Stuart Wright: A Life in Collecting,' the inaugural exhibit from the Stuart Wright Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, September 7, 2011." See also: #1169-014.11.h; the third folder contains three black & white photographic portraits of Robert Penn Warren. Folder 11.h.os.1 – 17.q.os.2.
Note to Researchers: Series 6: Loose Manuscripts Transferred from Stuart Wright Book Collection are an heterogeneous mix of items found in the pages of Warren-related books collected by Stuart Wright from various sources. These items include correspondence, clippings, ephemera, photographic prints, printed materials, among a wide variety of other materials. Among the items are letters, contracts, and annotated poems by, to, or about Robert Penn Warren, 1885-1986. The loose manuscripts are linked to the book of origin by their Stuart Wright Book Collection Number (e.g. Stuart Wright Book Collection #38.04).
Robert Penn Warren was born in 1905 in Guthrie, Kentucky. He attended Vanderbilt, Oxford, Yale, and the University of California Berkeley. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for poetry, and one for the novel
All The King's Men. He was the first Poet Laureate of the United States and was awarded the Presidential Medal of freedom. In the summer of 1929, he secretly married Emma Brescia. The marriage ended in divorce in 1951. On 7 December 1952, he married again to the travel writer Eleanor Clark Warren (6 July 1913 – 16 February 1996) (#1169-070). The couple had two children, Rosanna Phelps Warren (#1169-079) and Gabriel Penn Warren. The collection includes numerous references to Warren's second family and includes copies of Mrs. Warren's works.
Warren was an unusually versatile writer who was successful in numerous forms of literature, including poetry, drama, short stories, novels and literary criticism. Writing about his native South, Warren achieved international recognition and distinction in each of these forms but it is as a poet, critic, and novelist that he was most widely known.
Warren produced 10 novels and a collection of short stories,
The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories (1948). By far the most successful of his novels was
All The King's Men (1946), the story of a southern politician and demagogue named Willie Stark, who was loosely modeled on Huey Long of Louisiana. Warren was one of the most influential of the New Critics, who significantly influenced teaching of literature in American colleges during the late 1940s and 1950s.
All The King's Men exemplified New Critical literary ambition -- it had a complicated but highly readable plot reflecting both irony and ambiguity that became a popular pedagogical tool. It won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Southern Authors Award in 1947.
In later years, Warren wrote about dramatic and romantic subjects, such as the interracial relationships in
Band of Angels (1955) or the natural disasters of
The Cave (1959) and
Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964). Warren's poetry was intellectual, filled with powerful images, and rooted in the pre-Civil War South. He continued to write impressive poetry almost until the time of his death, in 1989.
"Biographical Notes on Robert Penn Warren" [Biographical Note] (undated) Typescripts. 1 item. 1 p. #1169-014.11.t
"Brothers to Dragons," by Robert Penn Warren [Books] (1953) Printed. 3 item. 3 p. #1169.014.16.e
"Robert Penn Warren." [Biographical Sketch]
Author: Jonathan Dembo, 3/29/2012, revised 11/1/2016, 11/11/2016.
Stuart Wright. The Robert Penn Warren Papers were collected and compiled by Stuart T. Wright. Wright was born on 30 March 1948 in Roxboro, North Carolina. He was the son of Frances Critcher Wright (1919-2010) and Wallace Lyndon Wright (1921-1965). An avid reader as a boy, Wright developed a strong interest in the American Civil War and with his father toured many of the war's battlefields searching for artifacts and studying the history of the era. At the age of 12, he won a statewide "Johnny Reb" essay contest and by the age of 15 had visited every major battlefield of the Civil War. Wright attended Roxboro High School, from which he graduated in 1966. It was during these years that he developed an interest in collecting historical books and manuscripts and began relationships with a number of local collectors and dealers.
In the fall of 1966, Wright enrolled at Wake Forest University as a pre-med, history, German and music student. Wright earned a B.A. in German and music in 1970. As a graduate student at Wake Forest University, Wright focused his studies on Southern history and literature, his ambition being to build an authoritative Southern Studies collection for the university. He received a master's degree in Southern Studies in 1973 and a second master's degree in U.S. History in 1980. Additionally Wright holds a professional degree from England in a medically related field. It was while studying there that he became interested in Thomas Wolfe, the noted North Carolina native and novelist.
Following his graduation from Wake Forest, Wright began to develop his collections more systematically, acquiring many first editions of Southern writers. In 1976 he began teaching at Reynolda House, a Wake Forest University affiliate dedicated to the arts and arts education. Wright taught classes in American music as well as human anatomy for art students. In 1978 Wright became Lecturer in Education at Wake Forest University. During his 10 years teaching at Wake Forest University, Wright authored numerous works of Civil War and North Carolina history, and dozens of articles, bibliographies, essays and reviews on Southern literature and the writers whose papers he collected. In addition, he developed a strong interest in the writings of the English poet Donald Davie and the Minnesota-born poet Richard Eberhart, whose works he also collected.
At the same time, Wright also began a career as a publisher by starting Palaemon Press in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. By 1984, Palaemon Press had produced 316 titles, consisting mainly of broadsides and limited editions, of the poetry and essays of such Southern writers as A. R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James Dickey, William Goyen, George Garrett, and Eudora Welty. He also built comprehensive collections and compiled book-length descriptive bibliographies of A.R. Ammons, Andrew Lytle, Reynolds Price, James Dickey, William Goyen, Walker Percy, Randall Jarrell, Peter Taylor, George Garrett, Richard Eberhart, and Donald Davie. As well as serving as editor of the contemporary literature section of the Bulletin of Bibliography throughout the 1980s, Wright also contributed pioneering checklists of the writings of Southern poets Henry Taylor, Charles Wright, and Robert Morgan. For Meckler Publishing he served as series editor for a number of book-length bibliographies and checklists. In recognition of these accomplishments, when he was just 32, Wright was elected to membership in New York's prestigious Grolier Club.
All of these works are represented in the Stuart Wright Collection. In his dealings with these various authors Wright made consistent efforts to acquire personal papers, letters and documents, photographs, manuscripts, drafts, proofs, and published materials to supplement his continuing activities as a purchaser of their works. In this way, Wright acquired perhaps a majority of his overall collection. Over the years a number of biographers used Wright's collection to aid their research. For example, James A. Grimshaw, Jr. used the collection extensively for his Robert Penn Warren: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1922-1979 published by the University Press of Virginia, in 1981 and Craig S. Abbott did so as well for John Crowe Ransom: A Descriptive Bibliography, published by Whitston Publishing Company, Inc. in 1999. Joseph Blotner also used the Wright collection in researching Robert Penn Warren: A Biography, published by Random House in 1997.
Nevertheless, from the mid- to late 1980s, Wright began to look for a permanent home for his collection, which he felt had grown too large and yet had been too little used. Unable to find a repository willing to accept the entire collection under suitable conditions, he sold a number of individual author collections to Vanderbilt University, Duke University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Emory University. It was not until 2010 that he reached agreement to house the remaining, and largest part of his collection at East Carolina University. The Stuart Wright Collection in the East Carolina Manuscript Collection of J.Y. Joyner Library includes 22 sub-collections of the papers of Southern American writers. The related Stuart Wright Book Collection holds several thousand volumes by or about many of the same writers. Many of these volumes contain annotations, inscriptions, and insertions that reveal much about the authors in the collection and their relationships with one another. In 1998 Wright moved to England, and since 2001 he has resided in the medieval market town of Ludlow, in Shropshire.
Guide to the Robert Penn Warren Papers (YCAL MSS 51) Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University Library, New Haven, CT USA
Guide to the Robert Penn Warren Papers (YCAL MSS 51) Robert Penn Warren papers, 1916-1967, 1M78M1, Special Collections, University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY USA
The Robert Penn Warren Photographic Collection, 81PA104, Special Collections, University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY USA
Reid and Susan Overcash Literary Collection - A. R. Ammons Papers (#1096-001) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA
Stuart Wright Collection – Madison Smartt Bell Papers (#1169-001) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA
Stuart Wright Collection – Fred Chappell Papers (#1169-017) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA
Stuart Wright Collection – Richard Ghormley Eberhart Papers (#1169-004) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA
Stuart Wright Collection – Randall Jarrell Papers (#1169-005) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA
Stuart Wright Collection – Katherine Anne Porter Papers (#1169-009) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA
Stuart Wright Collection – John Crowe Ransom Papers (#1169-010) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA
Stuart Wright Collection – Peter Hillsman Taylor Papers (#1169-013) Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC USA
21 June 2010, 8.55 cubic feet; 18 archival boxes & 3 oversized folders; 727 items; 11,790 p. Papers (1885-1990, undated [Bulk: 1940-1989]) documenting the life and literary career of Robert Penn Warren, the noted American poet, novelist, playwright, biographer, and educator, including correspondence; manuscripts, photographic prints, proofs of published materials, printed material, loose manuscripts from the Stuart Wright Book Collection, audio recordings and oversized materials, by or about Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, John Ciardi, Annie Dillard, Fred Chappell, Richard Ghormley Eberhart, Robert Frost, George Garrett, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Bernard Malamud, Albert J. Montesi, John Crowe Ransom, Theodore Roethke, William Carlos Williams, and others, in English, Dutch, & Latin languages. Vendor: Stuart Wright.
Purchased from Stuart Wright, 6/21/2010
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Stuart Wright Collection: Robert Penn Warren Papers (#1169-014) East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Processing, Preliminary inventory & Container List, by Jonathan Dembo, with the assistance of Krystal Cook, Nathaniel King, rev. 10/27/2015 & Jay Colin Menees, Saundra Pinkham, & Dick Wolfe, 7/12/2010, 4/22/2016; 12/13/2016; revised 11/19/2010; Final inventory by Krystal Cook, revised 2/16/2011; revised by Douglas Tuers, 4/27/2011; Finding aid by Jonathan Dembo, 3/29/2012, revised 2/21/2018; Encoded by Jonathan Dembo, 7/9/2012; Encoding revised by Jonathan Dembo, 7/18/2012, 6/4/2013, 10/11/2013, 2/21/2018.
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I'm looking for a solution that starts a timer whenever I sign in to my office wifi and stops it when I've left. It should essentially log the hours I've spent at the office. I'm aware that there's iOS software for this, but I like my battery time as it is.
Extra bonus would be if the solution could log the hours in iCal automatically.


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ELIOT, Maine — Sunday was a good news — good news day in Eliot, Maine as the Piscataqua Chapter of the American Culinary Federation held its annual Great Chefs Tasting Party.
One set of good news was all the delicious food that was available to Seacoast residents in attendance, the second set of good news was for the benefactors of the $10 per person entry fee.
Proceeds from the event benefit the Common Table in Portsmouth, Seacoast School of Technology culinary program, Portsmouth High School Culinary Arts program and the Chef's Association varied recipient.
The Regatta Banquet and Conference Center was the venue, with more than 225 people attending.
Said Perrin Long, Chapter contact, "this is an annual event and always well attended, today is very busy, we are bringing out more table and chairs. We expect to collect around $8,000 to be given to our beneficiaries."
More than 15 food stations awaited the members the public, the majority of whom were local residents. The food offerings ran the gamut, from oysters to Beef Wellington and almost everything in between. South Berwick's Ted Mauger was touting the oysters and went back for a second helping, while the Portsmouth High School Culinary Arts table had a waiting line for the Wellington.
Three juniors at PHS, Zach Peete, Ian MacDonald and Carly Wile were busy explaining the delicacy of Beef Wellington with bernaise sauce and a demi-glace to those waiting. "We all are planning on careers in the food service industry," said Wile. "So this is good training," seconded MacDonald.
Visiting Chefs Bryant Alden of The Chef's Market of North Conway and Lisa Somerville of Vintage Baking of Glen were serving up saut�ed wild mushrooms on homemade brioche toast, much to the delight of diners. Alden and Somerville are members of the White Mountain branch of the ACF.
One of the benefactors, the Common Table in Portsmouth has a long relationship with local chefs. The Common Table takes place at St. John's Episcopal Church in Portsmouth every Thursday at noon.
Stratham's Judy Roberts, one of the church's team leaders for the Common Table explained, "we started in 2000 as a good thing to do for people in the community. We serve homeless, low income, elderly and pretty much anyone. We started with about 60 guests and now we serve approximately 160 each week." Local professional chefs assist as well as more than 50 volunteers from around the Seacoast.
Judy's husband Lew described it as "reaching out to the Seacoast. We even have Easter Seal kids come in the day before and make cookies for the next day."
"I've been involved since day one," said the other team leader, Suzie Raeside of Eliot. "Our pastor at the time thought it would be a great idea, but stipulated that all should sit at a common table. It has worked out really well, it brings people from all stages of life together. We hope that other churches will follow suit and do the same thing on another day of the week."
Linda McVay of Portsmouth, a new member of St. John's congregation, finds the concept "exciting and I love seeing the Portsmouth High Culinary students involved."
As the foodstuffs were being sampled, the guest were circulating and buzzing around the piece de resistance of the evening, an opportunity to bid on dinners. Not the usual gift certificate type of dinner, but seven dinners-cooked-in-your home offers by local chefs. One even including a wine treatise.
Friends Marge Achilles and Patti Morash were poring over the offerings finally selecting one and exclaiming "we got it" referring to the dinner offering. They wrote down their bid and were keeping their fingers crossed that they win.
Some offerings needed a little describing. Amy Linnehan of Hampton Falls was overheard getting an explanation for suppli which is a form of rice ball stuffed with cheese.
Other offerings were more simple. While Neil MacLeod, Food and Beverage Director and Clubhouse Manager, and Robert Martin Executive Chef of The Oaks in Somersworth were teasing the palates of the guests with the likes of Chicken Gallantine, MacLeod's 12-year-old son Ayden went for the more familiar from one of the other presenters: the sliders.
Something for everyone was the watch word of the day.


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At an 18th Century coffeehouse in London, ship captains, merchants, bankers and politicians -- the power brokers of their time -- gathered to sip caffeine-fueled coffee and tea, discuss their challenges, and come up with innovative ways to solve them.
Some 200 years later, Silicon Valley tech companies are spending wads of cash to lease pricey office space in order to create the equivalent of the coffeehouse, called open collaborative spaces.
But are these efforts paying off?
"I haven't heard the stories of innovation coming out of it -- yet," says Steven Johnson, best-selling author of "Where Good Ideas Come From" and keynote speaker at this week's CITE Conference and Expo in San Francisco.
Playing the Hunches
Johnson is quick to point out, though, that open collaborative spaces are vital to allowing hunches to mature and have a breakthrough moment. "Silicon Valley is the most innovative part of the country by a wide margin and most likely to have the most crazy, open spaces," he says. "It's not an accident."
Silicon Valley, the cradle of innovation, has spawned some of the most powerful companies in the world. Many of these companies, as well as startups, have jumped on the latest fad: wacky workspaces. Part of the reason is to appeal to millennial workers who don't want to dwell in lonely cubicles. Another reason is to spark innovation and beat the competition in the race to fresh ideas.
[ Silicon Valley's 19 Coolest Places to Work ]
The thinking goes that an innovative idea doesn't happen in a vacuum nor in a spontaneous moment of clarity, says Johnson. Rather, the process is a "slow hunch" that evolves over years, and the world has to be ready for the resulting product or service when it finally emerges. The big breakthrough -- when an idea takes real shape -- often needs a "liquid network" like the 18th Century coffeehouse.
"Every idea is fundamentally a network of ideas," Johnson says. "When you create an environment that allows the kinds of serendipitous connections to form, [innovative ideas] are more likely to happen."
How to Create a 'Liquid Network'
Creating a collaborative coffeehouse isn't easy, especially for tech companies. A critical characteristic of the liquid network is having a diversity of disciplines, and it's ideas bouncing between different expertise that so often triggers the big breakthrough. Case-in-point: Steve Jobs combining computer design with a college course on calligraphy.
"What oftentimes turns the hunch into something bigger than a hunch is when your hunch collides with someone else's hunch," Johnson says.
Anti-social techies, however, are notorious for not mixing well with others and don't often venture outside their technical comfort zone. Nevertheless, tech companies are embracing the mobile, collaborative work environment -- and some are indeed seeing a payoff.
AT&T executives, for instance, have given up their offices in favor of open spaces and a backpack. More importantly, AT&T has seen both hard and soft benefits, in the form of higher productivity and happier employees.
"Our objectives start getting met," says Faraz Hoodbhoy, director of outreach, ecosystem and innovation at AT&T, speaking at CITE Conference's breakout session on the next-generation work environment. "We see more projects getting done."
Tom Kaneshige covers Apple, BYOD and Consumerization of IT for CIO.com. Follow Tom on Twitter @kaneshige. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn. Email Tom at firstname.lastname@example.com
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|Winter Reading Challenge 2019
Event Type: FAMILY/ALL AGES PROGRAM
Date: 1/26/2019
Start Time: All Day
Can we read 2,000 books during the month of January? Last year we blew our goal of 300 books out of the water by reading 1,577! Let�s read even more this year!
If we help reach the nationwide goal of 75,000 books, Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban will donate $35,000 to literacy programs and the top performing libraries (maybe even ours!).
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(CBS News) There is new focus in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation on the widow of suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Investigators have identified female DNA on a fragment of one of the bombs used in Boston. It's not clear what that means -- the DNA could have come from an injured spectator, or perhaps from a clerk who sold the materials used in the bombs, according to law enforcement sources. But, there's also a chance, it could lead the FBI to a female accomplice.
U.S. officials tell CBS News' Bob Orr that FBI agents on Monday visited the Rhode Island family home of Katherine Russell, the widow of accused bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
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Sources: Female DNA found on Boston bomb fragment
Sources say agents were there to collect a DNA sample from Russell to compare it against the female DNA found on a bomb fragment at the blast scene. Investigators say a lab test could help them determine if Russell ever had contact with the device.
Investigators say Russell is not a suspect and hasn't been charged in the plot. Her attorney has said she is fully cooperating with the investigation.
If the female DNA found on the bomb was Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow's, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant FBI director, said on "CBS This Morning," it becomes "a critical moment" in the investigation. "(Law enforcement's) relationship with her may change," Miller said. "And the question is what do you do with that? She's already represented by a lawyer. It certainly becomes a circumstantial that says she may have handled the device or parts of the device and that opens the door she may have known."
Of particular interest to investigators may also be where the bombs were tested. Miller explained, "What they found in the apartment was black powder and parts, but not the work bench you would need to have to make these bombs. They are still looking for that another place. One way is they recovered a GPS device belonging to these guys after the big shootout in the carjacked vehicle. That could tell them some things, depending on what they saved and what they got rid of. It may have trips way outside of the city where you could have tested the bomb or take you to a location where they could have made that bomb. And even if they wiped everything out, they're still going back through the systems of his cell phone carrier, 60 days, 30 days, 90 days, is there a trip to the Berkshires, to the woods, to some remote area because, even if you follow the instructions perfectly, you don't put those two devices down on the marathon without having taken them somewhere first and tested them out to make sure, 'Does my main charge function with this initiator,' and 'does my remote control make it go?'"
Watch John Miller's full analysis in the video below.
At the same time, FBI investigators are in Russia and Dagestan, trying to find out if Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his younger brother Dhzokhar Tsarnaev, had any foreign terror connections, U.S. officials tell CBS News' Bob Orr.
Of particular interest, a Russian-born, Canadian militant named William Plotnikov, according to law enforcement sources. Like Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Plotnikov was a boxer, and both men were in Dagestan last summer. Plotnikov was killed there in a shootout between Muslim radicals and police in July 2012, just days before Tsarnaev returned to the United States.
So far, investigators do not know if Plotnikov and Tsarnaev ever met. And there is no evidence to date that the Tsarnaev brothers had any connections to any wider conspiracy.
Meanwhile, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in a federal medical center lockup outside of Boston. He has not answered any questions since being read his rights a week ago.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense team has added veteran death penalty opponent in Judy Clarke. She has represented several high profile defendants, including the unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Jared Loughner, the gunman who shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson. Both of those defendants avoided the death penalty. Legal sources tell CBS News it would be no surprise if DkzhokarTsarnaev seeks some kind of cooperation deal to do the same.
Watch Bob Orr's full report in the video above.


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Reflecting the severity of economic turmoil, a whopping 17 million people are without a job for more than a year in the developed world, according to the latest data available with Paris-based think tank OECD.
The estimates, based on numbers available till three months ended June this year, are for a grouping of 33 nations including the United States and Spain.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an umbrella entity of 34 countries. The latest estimates exclude Chile.
According to data compiled by OECD, one in three of the unemployed people in the member nations have been out of work for more than 12 months at the end of June quarter.
"At 35.3 per cent of total unemployed, this is the highest level since the crisis began (Q4 2007) when long-term unemployment stood at 27 per cent.
"That represents nearly 17 million people, nearly double the number of long-term unemployed in Q4 2007, then around 8.6 million," the grouping has said.
Since the start of global financial crisis, which worsened in 2008, unemployment numbers have been on the rise as corporates trimmed workforce to save costs. Also, the pace of generation of new jobs has come down.
Among the member nations, Iceland and the United States have seen the biggest rise in long-term unemployment.
"Iceland has seen the biggest rise in long-term unemployment, up by 238 per cent to affect around one in five of the unemployed (18.2 per cent), and the United States, up 167 per cent to one in four (26.5 per cent)," OECD said.
Long term unemployment refers to being out of work for over 12 months.
Other countries with high levels of long-term unemployment include Slovak Republic (70.7 per cent), Greece (65.5 per cent), Ireland (59 per cent), Italy (56.4 per cent), Portugal (56.1 per cent), Slovenia (49.6 per cent), Spain (49.3 per cent) and Estonia (48.5 per cent).


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January Rudalgo "Jan" Adams is an American cosmetic surgeon. He practices in Beverly Hills, California.
Adams was born in Middletown, Ohio and graduated from Harvard University and Ohio State University as a physician. He is the author of Everything Women of Color Should Know About Cosmetic Surgery, published by St Martin's Press in 2000. He has also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In 2004, Adams was co-host of Cosmetic Surgery Live, a British television program and Plastic Surgery Before & After on the Discovery Health Channel, and was a co-host on The Other Half, a male-centric syndicated clone of The View during the 2001-02 season.


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The merry Southern elves are set to travel north at the end of the month (please insert Game of Thrones jokes here) for the incredible Fat Out Fest. Hosted by the excellent Manchester promoters Fat Out Til You Pass Out and taking place at the Islington Millover in Salford they've allowed a minor takeover from the Southern team as we set up shop to peddle our wares.
Taking place over two days on the 25-26 August and featuring no less than Lydia Lunch, Jarboe and Mister Alexander Tucker who has now twice graced our Latitudes series as well as a whole host of local bands we are ecstatic to be invited to run our stall whilst listening to an incredible bunch of artists. We'll be bringing along a range of goodies for you to buy and quite possibly coming up with some wonderful deals as well.... what they are, well, you'll just have to turn up to find out!
Tickets are on sale now - just £15 for a day pass or £25 for the weekend. For over 30 bands that's a silly price, but don't complain- just get your ticket whilst you can!
Tickets are available onlineat the Fat Out shop and through wegottickets or from Manchester venues The Bay Horse, Common and the Mill.
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On marijuana legalization, Andrew Sullivan thinks my softly opposed position is "perfectly sane and balanced," even though he doesn't share it, but he's startled that I don't get how mainstream marijuana use is. He quotes Wikipedia:
A World Health Organization survey found that the United States is the world's leading per capita marijuana consumer.[8] The 2007 National Survey on Drug Use & Health prepared by the U.S. Department of Human Health and Services indicates that over 100 million U.S. citizens over the age of 12 have used marijuana.[9] The 2008 survey found that 35 million Americans[10] were willing to tell government representatives[11] that they had used marijuana in the past year.[10]
About one-third of all Americans say they've tried pot? Count me as one of them. When I was in college, I ate pot brownies twice. Was pleasant. Had space cake in Amsterdam, too. Never smoked the stuff, though I had plenty of opportunities, not because it was illegal, but because I hate smoking. As the father of a teenager, I would like to see the legal penalties for pot possession lowered, because I don't think a kid should have his life ruined or even all that adversely affected if he gets busted, but I'm glad that society still maintains a line, however thin and weak, against marijuana's mainstreaming.
Anyway, I want to talk about how mainstream pot use is. When we talked about this before on the blog, a number of you said I'm living in a bubble, that pot use is everywhere. I'm not so sure about that. I mean, we're all living in bubbles. You may live in a bubble in which everybody accepts and partakes of pot use. That's not my bubble. I think I know which of my good friends uses marijuana, though perhaps I would be surprised. I don't really care, frankly. If they did in in front of me, I would say, "No thanks," but that would be the end of it. For the most part, though, none of my friends do, and I would say that most of my friends don't know anyone who does, or at least who admits to it. Again, I'm not saying that this is true for all of America, but I am suspicious of claims that us non-users of marijuana are out of the mainstream.
In fact, the Wikipedia entry Andrew uses to bolster his case makes the claim that just over 10 percent of Americans say they have used pot in the last year. That's mainstream? Really? If one-third of all Americans say they've ever used pot — a number that includes brownie-munching undergraduate me — what does that really prove? Lots of people experiment with drugs of some sort or another in high school and college, but leave it behind.
I have no doubt marijuana use is far more ubiquitous in cultural-liberal circles (which includes libertarians) than it is among cultural conservatives, and I also would point out that the kind of people who work in media (news and entertainment) are far more likely to be cultural liberals. This stands to distort their view of what's mainstream and normative, as we've seen on other issues (e.g., religion and politics). I'm skeptical that marijuana is as accepted by the mainstream as legalization proponents say it is. I could be wrong, but this seems to me along the lines of the apocryphal epistemic-closure statement attributed to Pauline Kael, which could be restated: "I don't know why marijuana remains illegal; I don't know a single person who doesn't smoke pot."


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Regardless of the connections to the Alien universe, Ridley Scott's Prometheus is a welcome return to form for the director.
For months cinephiles and die-hard Alien fans have been trying to work out the connections between Prometheus and Ridley Scott's original Alien film. Meanwhile, the filmmakers have spent just as long attempting to put distance between the movie and the notion that it's nothing more than an Alien prequel, so as not to limit Prometheus' potential appeal. Given the state of the Alien franchise (after the underwhelming Alien vs. Predator installments, as well as Alien: Resurrection), it's no wonder that 20th Century Fox is interested in attracting both the casual moviegoer as well as the die-hard xenomorph faithful.
Unsurprisingly, the movie does offer plenty of tie-ins to the 1979 franchise starter - but does Prometheus find the right balance between loving nods to Alien while also working as an intelligent and captivating standalone sci-fi drama?
Fortunately, the answer is yes - most of the time. While Prometheus delivers a sci-fi experience and story that is nearly unmatched in a modern movie theater experience, its connection to the Alien films is, from time to time, a bit heavy-handed or awkwardly handled - and worst of all, far less compelling than the new storyline unfolding in this film. As a result, Prometheus is going to offer a different experience depending on who is watching it. Both casual audiences and Alien fans should enjoy the core narrative (and breathtaking visuals); however regular moviegoers will likely be confused by some of the time spent addressing Alien universe mythos, and conversely, hardcore fans may be at times equally befuddled by some of the answers provided.
Ignoring any pre-conceived notions about xenomorphs, the Prometheus story follows a pair of archaeologists, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her partner Dr. Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), who discover a series of ancient cave drawings (from different cultures, separated by thousands of years) that point to a single location in space: a distant moon, LV-223. Shaw and Holloway believe that LV-223 is home to an ancient truth about humanity's origins - a belief that is also championed by billionaire Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), CEO of the Weyland Corporation. After hearing their findings, Weyland agrees to send the pair - along with a fifteen-person crew - to LV-223 aboard the spacecraft Prometheus. However, when the team arrives on LV-223, it quickly becomes clear that Shaw and Holloway underestimated the implications of their expedition, as age-old questions are answered and new horrors are brought to light - horrors with Earth-shattering consequences for humanity.
Moviegoers who have been underwhelmed by Ridley Scott's non-sci-fi efforts (most recently Robin Hood, Body of Lies, and A Good Year) will be glad to know that the director slips effortlessly back into the genre that he helped define over thirty years ago. Not only does Prometheus feature one of the most captivating and carefully-paced opening acts in recent memory, it also offers a masterful visual aesthetic that easily raises the bar for onscreen sci-fi imagery in modern cinema. In a time when sci-fi/action films snag astronomical box office money (Transformers: Dark of the Moon), it's easy for studios to rely on a recognizable brand, or visual spectacle, over core filmmaking components - such as competent world building (not just "cool" CGI characters) as well as intelligent scene composition (in favor of non-stop explosions). No doubt some moviegoers don't want to think about the actual process of filmmaking, but for those who do care, Prometheus should serve as a breath of fresh air (and a welcome reminder) that inspired directing can make a real difference in the onscreen experience.
Similarly, co-writer Damon Lindelof (along with Jon Spaihts) succeeds at delivering a prequel movie that isn't undermined by later installments and, instead, tells an all-new sci-fi story that (as mentioned before) is much larger and significantly more interesting than its core "source" material. Prometheus provides answers that many Alien fans will certainly appreciate, but at the same time raises much larger (and significantly more relatable) questions about the wonders - and horrors - of creation, and humanity's place in the cosmos. As a result, the actual connections to the Alien universe are unnecessary to the success of the new story - and could, for less-interested moviegoers, come across as tacked-on.
All of the major players (Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green) deliver enjoyable, or at the very least believable, performances. However, despite solid work from everyone involved, both Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender offer especially memorable turns as Dr. Shaw and David, respectively. Fassbender's David is easily one of the most fascinating (and disturbing) characters of 2012 - and Rapace holds nothing back in a number of especially challenging scenes (not to mention one especially brutal one). As an ensemble fueled by heavy-hitting talent, there is a definite purpose for each of the characters' screen time, and few of the players are wasted. That said, a couple of them are short-changed by the end - which doesn't detract from the overall success of the film, but in a few cases can be somewhat underwhelming in the moment.
Prometheus was shot entirely using 3D cameras, and much like Avatar and Hugo before it, the film once again proves that in the hands of a smart filmmaker, the format can enhance the moviegoing experience. Plenty of detractors will surely assert that seeing any movie in 3D is a waste of money - and plays into the hands of greedy studio executives. However, Prometheus is well-worth the upgraded ticket. The format isn't distracting and successfully highlights details in the alien landscape as well as internal (yet massive) environments - not "pop out of the screen" jump scares. Scott's use of the added dimension throws fuel on the argument that instead of decrying every 3D film, we should be sending studios a message about what type of 3D experiences we'll support, boycotting tacked-on 3D (Men in Black 3) and poorly implemented post-conversions (Clash of the Titans). To make the experience even more potent, go the full distance with a 3D IMAX viewing.
Regardless of the connections to the Alien universe, Ridley Scott's Prometheus is a welcome return to form for the director - delivering a fascinating sci-fi storyline, gorgeous 3D visuals, and competent filmmaking choices that - especially for summer blockbuster fare - are sorely missing at the box office these days. While less-informed moviegoers might be a little confused about some of the Alien tie-ins, Prometheus finds a healthy fan-service balance that doesn't detract from Lindelof's rich (and horrifying) new franchise storyline. In space no one can hear you scream, but 20th Century Fox is going to have no trouble finding moviegoers who, after seeing Prometheus, are eager to scream for more Scott-helmed projects in the Alien universe.
If you've seen the movie and want to discuss details about the film without worrying about spoiling it for those who haven't seen it, please head over to our Prometheus Spoilers Discussion!
Still wondering about how - exactly - Prometheus connects to Alien? Read our 'Prometheus - Alien Connection Explained' Article.
For an in-depth discussion of the film by the Screen Rant team check out our Prometheus episode of the SR Underground podcast.
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a golf game to get excited about. by
Cole Smith
20, 2006 -
It's been a long tough road for the golfing genre.
The control issue has long been a concern of developers
and player alike. Do we go with a roller ball? Is
the analog stick the way to go? Should the power meter
system (ala Tiger Woods PGA Tour) continue to be refined?
Real World Golf decided to take the sensible solution
and develop a controller that all golfers could relate
to - a #$%&ing golf club! How's that for ingenuity?
Who would have ever thought of that?
first glance it may appear to be a novelty. After
all, the club is plastic and you have to wear wired
gloves that track your movement. And you have to learn
to swing at an imaginary ball located in the center
of an expensive peripheral device that has to be purchased
in order to play this game.
a few swings I was convinced that this is the way
to go. The control is incredibly responsive and the
physics involved, from the trajectory of the ball
to the way it bounces, is so close to perfect that
Real World Golf could be used as a training tool for
golfers of all levels. As a videogame, it's a lot
of fun, closing in on the gap between virtually reality
and reality. Videogame golf has been given a new lease
on life. There's a new tiger in town.
I get to sounding all gushy about this game let me
add that Real World Golf, despite the controller,
is just an average golf game as far as the gameplay
is concerned. The graphics look like they are from
the last millenium with low res textures and aliasing
which gives object the jaggies. There are 10 different
courses inspired by real world European courses and
while they aren't exactly a sight for sore eyes, they
are functional. After you become engrossed by the
challenge of the game you'll only be looking at the
scenery to gauge your next shot. I would expect things
to look a lot better in the sequel which I'm sure
there will be considering the potential for a long-lasting
series of RWG games based on this great control system.
There is also a four-player mode but no online modes.
I would also expect to see an online multi-player
mode next time around.
are three difficulty levels. The easiest is the amateur
mode which is the best way to start things off. It
will give you confidence because it's more forgiving
but it also will help teach you the correct stance
and how to hit the ball dead-on to avoid slicing and
hooking. You'll also notice that it's easier to make
long putts in this mode. Once you find that you're
score is getting into the realm of the professionals,
it's time to increase the difficulty. The Pro setting
is the most difficult and even though I did good in
the easy mode, it seemed that I couldn't do anything
right in the Pro setting - at first anyway. It seemed
that the ball went everywhere but where I intended
it to go. I was beginning to wonder if I accidentally
set the game to Punked mode. I was looking around
for hidden cameras. As it turns out, I just naturally
suck. Thankfully the game gives you feedback after
each shot to help you out, although it seems like
it's done to belittle you. The announcer will give
you pointers and after enough practice I was able
to hit the ball at the proper angle and at least keep
it on the green instead of in the lake.
World Golf features a practice mode, driving range,
putting green, chipping green, single-match and tournament
modes. There is a four-player multi-player mode and
to speed things up each player completes his or her
hole before having to take off the gloves and change
positions with the other players. It's just way more
convenient that way. There are also some mini-games
which are just thrown in for novelty more than anything
else. You can attempt to smash out the windows of
the clubhouse or try your hand at hitting other targets.
long as I played the game I was still aware of the
wires attached to the glove and at times, after having
broken so many controllers in my gaming career, I
believe I was subconsciously holding back on my swing.
Wireless is definitely the way to go with these gloves
but you can't have everything. As you grasp or raise
your club, your onscreen character will follow your
actions perfectly and without delay. It can take your
mind a while to adjust having to shoot a ball into
a TV set. You might have to change your position slightly
until you get comfortable. While I'm dreaming, not
only would wireless gloves be great but imagine playing
in full 360-degree virtual reality. I would cancel
my membership at Bob's Burgers and Miniature Golf
I've mentioned, the graphics aren't great and neither
is the audio. The sound effects of the audience as
well as the swish of the ball are too exaggerated
and feel as though they are an added topping as opposed
to a marinade. The background music is a bit too subdued.
If I close my eyes I can imagine that I'm hitting
a ball up the stationary isle of Wal Mart.
just under seventy bucks this is not an inexpensive
game. This is going to require some serious thought.
The Mad Catz controller is of very high quality and
is very accurate. It's certainly worth the money,
and you'll be able to use it for other games in the
future. If you have only a passing interest in golf
you might want to pass on this one but if you can't
get enough of this popular pastime then you'll definitely
want to join the club.
Cole Smith
Senior Writer
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The Science of Spin: How Does Spin Affect the Trajectory of a Kicked Soccer Ball? *
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AbstractImagine a symmetrical grid of nine points superimposed over the ball. Kicking the ball squarely on the center point imparts no spin, but kicking on any of the other points will impart spin on the ball. How will the resulting spin affect the trajectory of the ball for each of the 8 outer grid points? Kicking the ball with a sliding motion of the foot is another way to impart spin. Once you've made your predictions, you can set up to test them with a soccer ball, video camera and a tape measure. As you make each kick, estimate how close you came to the kick angle and point of impact you wanted and note it down; also, note the path of the ball and point of impact. You may find it handy to make a sketch of the ball path on a small scale drawing of the field. Put several fields on a page, and make yourself a small stack of blank copies to work with. Afterwards, you can also analyze the kick angle and point of impact on the video recording. (Wesson, 2002, is a good reference for this project.)
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BibliographyWesson, J., 2002. The Science of Soccer. Bristol, UK: Institute of Physics Publishing.
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Hi forum,
I already feared my beloved iGesture Pad was starting to die since it had developed spurious keystrokes quite heavily. Sometimes even the Backspace key gesture would get stuck and delete everyting in it's path until I managed to unplug the Pad. Cleaning the Pad didn't really help also.
Now I have changed to another iGesture Pad that had been sitting on the shelf. However, this one behaves exactly the same (and is in mint condition). Which means I get about the same frequency of spurious keystrokes with the new Pad as with the old.
Thus I suppose this is a phenomenon of static electricity in both cases (with both iGesture Pads).
Is there already any successful solutions like anti-static mats or the like? I suppose I would have to ground my body somehow since the pad itself surely must be grounded via the USB connection already.
Cheers David.P


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The Ubuntu story
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Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.
Where did it all begin?
Linux was already established as an enterprise server platform in 2004, but free software was not a part of everyday life for most computer users. That's why Mark Shuttleworth gathered a small team of developers from one of the most established Linux projects – Debian – and set out to create an easy-to-use Linux desktop: Ubuntu.
The vision for Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available to everybody on the same terms, and funded through a portfolio of services provided by Canonical.
Ubuntu releases
The Ubuntu team broke new ground in committing to a programme of scheduled releases on a predictable six-month basis. It was decided that every fourth release, issued on a two-year basis, would receive long-term support (LTS). LTS releases are typically used for large-scale deployments.
Ubuntu is different from the commercial Linux offerings that preceded it because it doesn't divide its efforts between a high-quality commercial version and a free 'community' version. The commercial and community teams collaborate to produce a single, high-quality release, which receives ongoing maintenance for a defined period. Both the release and ongoing updates are freely available to all users.
The first official Ubuntu release — Version 4.10, codenamed the 'Warty Warthog' — was launched in October 2004, and sparked dramatic global interest as thousands of free software enthusiasts and experts joined the Ubuntu community.
The governance of Ubuntu is somewhat independent of Canonical, with volunteer leaders from around the world taking responsibility for many critical elements of the project. It remains a key tenet of the Ubuntu Project that Ubuntu is a shared work between Canonical, other companies, and the thousands of volunteers who bring their expertise to bear on making it a world-class platform for anyone to use.
Ubuntu today
Ubuntu today has eight flavours and dozens of localised and specialised derivatives. There are also special editions for servers, OpenStack clouds, and mobile devices. All editions share common infrastructure and software, making Ubuntu a unique single platform that scales from consumer electronics to the desktop and up into the cloud for enterprise computing.
The Ubuntu OS and the innovative Ubuntu for Android convergence solution make it an exciting time for Ubuntu on mobile devices. In the cloud, Ubuntu is the reference operating system for the OpenStack project, it's a hugely popular guest OS on Amazon's EC2 and Rackspace's Cloud, and it's pre-installed on computers from Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo and other global vendors. And thanks to that shared infrastructure, developers can work on the desktop, and smoothly deliver code to cloud servers running the stripped-down Ubuntu Server Edition.
After many years Ubuntu still is and always will be free to use, share and develop. We hope it will bring a touch of light to your computing — and we hope that you'll join us in helping to build the next version.


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Book Notice: The KGB Plays Chess
Boris Gulko, Vladimir Popov, Yuri Felshtinsky and Viktor Kortschnoi [sic], The KGB Plays Chess: The Soviet Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown (Russell Enterprises, 2010). 176 pp. $19.95.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. –Thoreau
Get busy living, or get busy dying. –The Shawshank Redemption
The KGB Plays Chess is a fascinating volume, focused primarily on the seven years GM Boris Gulko and his wife, WGM Anna Akhsharumova, spent as "Refuseniks" in the USSR. Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov both feature in the story in an integral way, and many other chess players show up in cameo roles. It's really the Gulko story that's at the heart of the book, however, so for those who weren't around when all of this was going on, I'll offer a brief recap.
Gulko was an extremely strong GM in the late 1970s, twice winning the Soviet Championship, and his wife was one of the strongest women in the country as well. In 1979 they, along with many other Soviet Jews, applied for permission to emigrate to Israel, and they were refused (thus "Refuseniks"). There may have been any number of reasons for the refusal, but among them was the fear that Gulko might help the defector Korchnoi to beat Karpov in a subsequent world championship match.
Korchnoi, who defected in 1976, was persona non grata to the Soviet establishment, while Karpov was the communist government's golden boy. Karpov's power and prestige were such that legendary players like Mikhail Tal, Lev Polugaevsky and Efim Geller had to work in his employ to ensure their good standing in the USSR. Worse yet, Korchnoi's son was basically held hostage in the USSR, and Gulko was trapped as well. Korchnoi himself stated in the Western press that Gulko would help train him, and this worrisome prospect only helped keep Gulko stuck in the USSR. (In fact, Gulko seems to think Korchnoi harmed his family by omission as well as commission. Korchnoi's failure to include the Gulkos' release as one a precondition for making up the Candidates match with Kasparov "prolonged our stay in the USSR for two and a half years".)
Korchnoi lost a tight match to Karpov in 1978, before Gulko tried to emigrate, and a one-sided match in 1981. Yet even then Gulko and his wife were not allowed to leave. It was only in 1986, after seven long years of trying, that they were finally allowed to leave. Along the way they underwent several hunger strikes, risked public demonstrations, and were helped by supportive acts in the West from both chessplayers and non-chessplayers. At the end of the Brezhnev era, they might have been making some small progress, but when he died and was replaced by first Andropov and then Chernenko, things got worse. It was only in the Gorbachev era that the cracks started to appear in the Soviet regime, and it was then that their long wait was over.
That, in a nutshell, is the story. The vast majority of the book is an elaboration of the story from two complementary perspectives: Gulko's and the KGB's. Gulko's is told by Gulko himself, while the KGB's point of view is depicted by Vladimir Popov and Yuri Felshtinsky (P&F). Popov worked for the KGB in various capacities from 1972 to 1991, while Felshtinsky is a Moscow-born American who has studied and researched in Russia over the past two decades. Gulko's story is fascinating and at times moving, while P&F's narrative fills in some details from the other side. Often those details match Gulko's, sometimes they add new information.
One thing confuses me about the P&F story, and it's their source material. There are many precise details, but as far as I can tell Popov wasn't one of the agents assigned to the Gulkos, while Felshtinsky was not an agent at all. Were the records on the Gulkos made publicly available? Even if Popov had access while he worked for the KGB, that information is 24 years old and it beggars belief that Popov would have memorized all those details, especially if he wasn't directly involved. Would he have walked out with the files? It's not as if he has access from Canada, where he has lived since 1996.
There were some remarks of Gulko that seemed curious too, and some clear factual errors as well. To note one especially nonsensical example, there is this passage: "Karpov tried to prove that he had still been capable of playing at the moment when the match [DM: the unlimited one against Kasparov in 1984/5] was stopped. A week after the memorable press conference, Karpov traveled to Sweden to play for the Soviet team in the European Team Chess Championship. Not winning a single game in the competition, Karpov proved nothing to anyone. In November 1985, in a new match, Karpov would lose the title of world champion" (pp. 126-7).
It's easy to understand Gulko's antipathy to Karpov, but the remark bears almost no resemblance to the truth. There was no European Team Championship in 1985. There was a World Team Championship, but it was in Switzerland, not Sweden; it took place after the second K-K match rather than the first; and Karpov didn't go winless but scored an undefeated 5-2 (including a win over Boris Spassky, no cream puff). Karpov did play in one event between the matches, a double round-robin in Amsterdam, but he won it comfortably enough to draw his last three games in 11, 15 and 16 moves, respectively. Of course, this event wasn't right after the first match either.
It's a minor point, but it does remind the reader that recollections of the past are fallible, especially for matters the person didn't experience himself. It's also a reminder to be doubly careful when making statements about people one dislikes (or worse) - who knows how many of his other remarks and judgments about Karpov and others might be more or less colored by his anger? All the same, it's a remarkable story whose broad outlines aren't in any doubt.
The book is recommended to those interested in the human beings in the chess world, those with an interest in the world of the Cold War, and to the countless university professors in the U.S. and elsewhere who think that the Soviet Union was really a nifty idea, if occasionally a touch imperfect in practice.


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Colin Kaepernick took Alex Smith's job as San Francisco 49ers quarterback after Smith went down with a concussion mid-way through the year.
Kaepernick has since become a breakout star, leading the Niners to the Super Bowl, while Smith has been riding the bench.
Smith has been a consummate professional throughout, so it's safe to say that this photo of him staring daggers at Kaepernick after today's game was just poorly timed. They're more than likely having a sincere conversation about how much Smith has selflessly helped Kaepernick learn the offense.
But still, it captures the general awkwardness of the situation between the two QBs:


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Two former RAF fighter jets are set to be sold at a public auction this weekend.
A 1976 Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR3 Jump Jet and a 1988 Panavia Tornado F3 will be going under the hammer at Silverstone racetrack in Northamptonshire.
Silverstone Auctions said both jets are going up for sale without a reserve.
The Harrier, which served during the Cold War, Belize and the Falklands, is described as being preserved "in almost time capsule condition".
Nick Whale, managing director at Silverstone Auctions, said: "We've never offered anything like this before and it's a privilege to be able to offer one of, it not the finest, Harrier in the world.
"The history and provenance of the plane, combined with the fact that the aircraft is so complete, means this really is an exciting opportunity."
Also going under the hammer is the only privately-owned Tornado F3 in the world.
Sold for display purposes, the jet has 3,000 hours of active service, including use as the personal mount of the Commanding Officer of 56 Squadron and visits to Malaysia and Alaska on exercise.
It is likely to be the only time a Tornado F3 is offered for auction as the fleet has either been sent to museums or scrapped, the auction house said.
The jets will go under the hammer this weekend as part of The Silverstone Classic Sale at the Silverstone racetrack in Northamptonshire.
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Pentagon to remove ban on women in combat
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