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*[http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-January/012357.html January 2, 2008 Community Update]
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*[http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-January/012499.html January 10, 2008 Community Update]
*[http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-January/012499.html January 10, 2008 Community Update]
Revision as of 17:16, 30 January 2008
Even though OpenMoko strives to keep the community informed of the development progress, OpenMoko does not provide delivery dates. Instead, OpenMoko reports the project status here and on the openmoko-community mailing list.
The status is usually updated at least twice a month, usually by Michael Shiloh. Updates are also mailed to the community mailing list (see below for previous updates), and major updates are also sent to the announce list.
You are invited to add questions or topics you think should be included in the Community Updates.
The latest Community Update was posted to the community mailing list on January 10.
Discussion of current issues
GTA01 Advanced Kit price reduction
12/20/2007 - We have dropped the price of the GTA01 Advanced Kit from $450 to $399. I'm pretty sure that's effective immediately and should be reflected at our web store right now.
The price of Base Kit remains the same.
GTA02 hardware design and test
The information below has been collected from various sources, feel free to add questions and comments here.
While writing a device driver for the new battery which provides an accurate counter of the charge state of the GTA02, the driver developer discovered that the device driver does not get a reading of the charge state due to a very long response time with only one I/O signal when trying to read the charge state. To be able to read the battery status properly, it has been written that it will be necessary to re-design that part of the GTA02 for hardware version GTA02A5 to use two I/O signals to reduce the response time (one for transmitting commands, one for receiving data?). Bug 957 may have more information.
12/06/2007 - GTA02a5 is a minor variation from GTA02a4, so it shouldn't take very long. We are waiting for confirmation of Wifi and a few other parts of the GTA02a4 hardware before we manufacture even a small test run of GTA02a5.
gllin GPS driver for GTA01
11/29/2007 - Thanks to a tremendous amount of hard work by many people, we have ready a release of gllin, the GPS driver. Instructions at [1] or grab the ipk directly from [2].
850 MHz band not supported in USA+Canada (e.g. comment 24 on bug #256)
The GSM chip set is capable of quad band operation but the circuit implemented in GTA02 only supports 3 bands. Currently GTA02 supports only 900/1800/1900MHz.
11/29/2007 - We would like to offer an 850/1800/1900MHz version of GTA02 for areas that need it. We are looking into whether this is feasible or not. This requires a number of changes (components, firwmare, calibration, etc.) and so is uncertain until we test it.
12/09/2007 - Since the GSM section is essentially the same between GTA01 and GTA02, we thought a good experiment would be to modify a couple GTA01 handsets for 850MHz and to test them out here in the USA.
12/20/2007 - Due to the enthusiastic response I received to my request for testing volunteers I've asked our hardware group to modify a few more phones. I don't know when, or even if, they will be able to do this. Meanwhile, I'll be sending out the units I have to the testers, along with a simple test plan.
We have no intention of manufacturing 850MHz GTA01s, nor can we modify user's phones this way. We modified a couple of units ONLY so that we could test the circuit that we might use in GTA02. When the experiment is done, these modified units must be returned to OpenMoko.
Conversion of GTA02 to quad band would require major changes and so will not happen.
Delivery of a GSM firmware update for the 3G SIM bug (#666)
A bug in the GSM firmware prevents some USA 3G SIM cards from working properly. The bug has been fixed, but since the GSM module is under extremely tight legal protection, it is not clear whether or how we can allow customers to perform this upgrade themselves.
12/09/2007 - We've been informed that everything legal has been agreed upon by all parties regarding the process that would allow you to upgrade your own GSM firmware. All that remains is to get everything signed. Apparently the process of getting things signed takes a few weeks!
12/20/2007 - Meanwhile, we have resolved the difficulties I was having performing the upgrade, and I am now able to upgrade your handsets. Anyone interested in having me do this should contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Questions or Topics you think are missing
SMedia 3362 Documentation & OpenGL ES Drivers
There is an open source kdrive driver being written for the GTA02 which will use hardware to accelerate the XRender extension. While the chip is capable of 3D graphics, no OpenGL ES driver/library is avaliable and OpenMoko developers will not be writing one in the near future (although they have not ruled it out in the long-term).
Documentation for the SMedia 3362 has been promised (see this post). However, this refers to documentation OpenMoko developers will be writing themselves, not the technical documentation SMedia have provided OpenMoko with. The OpenMoko developers had to sign an NDA with SMedia to obtain this documentation and are therefore unable to pass this information on to community developers. (See this post for details)
Power Management on the Neo1973
It is still not clear if it will be possible to have "reasonable" battery life on the Neo1973 (GTA1) hardware or if there are hardware problems that make this impossible.(see this post). Can this be officially clarified.
A couple of things I have noticed via the various mailing lists - no inside info at all - JW
Written by JW 28 jan 08 - not official Michael Shilloh update! - will go out of date soon!
Think of it as the Openmoko weather forecast :-)
- Feel free to change this michael/others
- The kernel guys seem to have been quite pleased about the ease of merging Openmoko with its new parent which is the brand new Linux kernel 2.6.24 which was only released formally by Linus this week. This was done first for GTA02 and then when it looked OK for GTA01 as well. This brings some good things of which a new wireless stack for the former (improved wireless performance) and tickless kernel for both GTA01 and GTA02 are the most important probably (many power saving features can be enabled by using this in due course). Boot from SD card may have been broken for GTA01 during this change (used by people to dual boot from Qtopia and Openmoko on the same phone for ex) but will be brought back for both machines in due course (not top priority). Suspend/resume which was working for GTA01 (?) has been broken (possibly) by this change.
- Several (non openmoko) people report that the daily image from 27 Jan 08 is quite stable for use on GTA01 and that with it you can both SMS and make and receive voice calls with good stability although (understandably) tweaks to the UI are far from complete. However, SeanC reported that under pressure testing of the GSM daemon (ie cycling it through hundreds of commands) there are still failures so some way to go yet until the GSM side is sorted.
- Kernel developers are deciding on bootloader and filesystem options in the next few days. These issues are crucial to bringing the boot time down from 2 minutes to 30 secs (design target). As always there are compromises to be made.
- GPS for GTA02 - this uses a different chipset from the GTA01 so needs some work - not sure what stage this is at but they will need to be able to test this before ordering a production run of GTA02
- Wifi driver is being developed just now and again is a priority task (presumably on the back of the new 2.6.24 stack)
- Power management is a lower priority than all of the above for obvious reasons. However, I suspect suspend/resume will get some attention before GTA02 ships
- External developers contributing patches. There have been at least 5 patches submitted by external developers to the kernel team (make a bug report and then cc to the kernel mailing list) in recent days - much appreciated by the openmoko team. They are all in Andy Green's testing branch and will be merged soon.
- Timing for GTA02 - pure speculation on my part but there seems still a lot to do for March! There is some mention in some (unguarded emails) of a 1 Feb decision date - I guess this the date they HAVE to decide if the current hardware is OK or they have to make another revision.
- If you want an easy way to browse / keep up with how the project developers are getting on without subscribing to all the lists i recommend gmane e.g for the kernel list - http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openmoko.kernel you can find the full list here http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.comp.handhelds.openmoko
Previous Community Updates
- September 28, 2007 Community Update
- October 12, 2007 Community Update
- October 13, 2007 Community Update
- October 15, 2007 Community Update
- October 16, 2007 Community Update
- October 25, 2007 Community Update
- October 31, 2007 Community Update
- November 6, 2007 Community Update
- November 13, 2007 Community Update
- November 26, 2007 Community Update
- November 29, 2007 Community Update
- December 09, 2007 Community Update
- December 20, 2007 Community Update
- January 2, 2008 Community Update
- January 10, 2008 Community Update
- January 24, 2008 Community Update


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BFenix's adventures on Hellius
Currently under the supreme command of MAOX, nominated Leader of the Metal Warriors and Protector of the Metal Realms, he seeks for more BrikVerse worshipers to wage war with and against so he will never let his inner child escape again.
BFenix hasn't got a religion in the BrikVerse, since he considers himself both worshiper of the Metal and Zordor, God of War. What he enjoys most is wumin, beer, metal, friends and war, often making illustrations of it. He greatly despises internet trolling, swearing to find a way to beat it for good. Once in a while, when he consumes enough Warhale (also created by him), he shows signs of awesome that end up has amazing ABS constructions and other... Recently, BFenix earned the place of God/Moderator of The Metal sub forum, granted to him by The Overlord.
BFenix proudly wielding RAGE
Yet, after the Fall of FICO, something changed. The Metal Powers were calling... Since then, BFenix stepped down from the ongoing war and went on a great quest to find a planet called Hellius. The events that took place there altered not just BFenix's, but many others lives completely, and soon, the whole BrikVerse would feel the change as Ragnablok draws closer with every passing second...
Warhead's Warriors, Entry 8:
Armed with a highly accurate Bowcaster Energy Weapon, BFenix can prove deadly over distance. Strapped to his back, BFenix carries an assortment of close combat weapons such as the Broadsword and the Power Maul - not as deadly as the BanHammer, but you still wouldn't want to get in its way.

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NEW ORLEANS — — The San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens are fairly evenly matched — capable quarterbacks, strong running games, stout defenses — so Super Bowl XLVII could well be decided by a field goal.
That has to have the 49ers concerned, because field goals have been an unpredictable adventure for kicker David Akers this season.
A season after he set an NFL season record with 44 field goals, Akers has missed a league-high 14 tries this season, including an indoor 38-yard try in the NFC title game at Atlanta.
Had the 49ers reached the Super Bowl last season — and they were at the doorstep before losing in overtime to the New York Giants — a story line would have been about the reliable Akers, a six-time Pro Bowl kicker, going for the ring he didn't win when he played for Philadelphia.


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Tutorial: Setting Python Path
Whenever your Python source depends on PYTHONPATH, either set externally or by altering sys.path at runtime, you will also need to tell Wing about your path.
This value can be entered in Python Path in the Project Properties dialog, which is accessible from the Project menu and the toolbar:
For this tutorial, you need to add the subdir sub-directory of your tutorials directory to Python Path, as shown above. This directory contains a module used as part of the first coding example.
Note that the full path to the directory subdir is used. This is strongly recommended because it avoids potential problems finding source code when the starting directory is ambiguous or changes over time. If relative paths are needed to make a project work on different machines, use an environment variable like ${WING:PROJECT_DIR}/subdir. This is described in more detail in Environment Variable Expansion.
The configuration used here is for illustrative purposes only. You could run the example code without altering PYTHONPATH by moving the path_example.py file to the same location as the example scripts, or by placing it into your Python installation's site-packages directory, which is in the default PYTHONPATH.
Python Path Hints
If your main entry point is Python code that alters sys.path, and the file is set as the Main Entry Point in Project Properties then Wing can often determine the correct PYTHONPATH to use without any changes to Python Path in Project Properties.
When in doubt, compare value of sys.path at runtime in your code with the value reported by Show Python Environment in the Source menu.


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Our beautiful bride Megan and her handsome groom Vincent wanted to really personalize their day and what better way then to have a Parisian travel themed wedding. They carefully chose the details of their day to reflect the things they loved the most with a plum, teal and gold color scheme. The passport invitations were perfect and the vintage broach bouquet and cake topper and boutonniere made by Megan were breath taking! The wedding ceremony took place at the Mission Inn Hotel and Spa's Oriental Courtyard and the reception was held in the hotel's famous Spanish Art Gallery. Megan and Vincent's sweet puppies made a cameo appearance for the ceremony and almost stole the show. A special thank you to Cean One Photography for the beautiful images!
Photographer: Cean One Photography // Videographer: Jeffrey Hard of Go Channel Online // Wedding Dress: Allure Romance Style 2404 // Venue: Mission Inn Hotel and Spa Wedding Cake: Simply Cakes // Florist: Riverside Mission Florist // DJ:Soundskilz Entertainment // Wedding Planner: Annette Hoegner of Classic Touch Events // Invitations: J'dore Papier


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UPLAND – Council members will get back into routine Monday with the their first meeting of the year.
"2013 will be a good year, but we still have a few issues to get behind us," Councilwoman Debbie Stone said.
"It sounds like everyone understands that we are all in this together. I certainly hope that the spirit of cooperation will continue as we work toward getting the city back on track."
Council members will discuss labor negotiations during closed session on Monday.
All seven of the city's employee groups offered contract concessions last month.
Stone said the council has not been given any details, but she is happy to hear that communication lines are open and employee groups are on the same page.
"This is not easy for anyone, but at least it seems that the ship has finally turned," she said.
"I am looking forward to the council meeting on Monday and getting back to business."
Councilman Gino Filippi said he is most interested in learning more about what employees have offered to concede.
"The last I heard, both groups were satisfied and the city manager (Stephen Dunn) was satisfied, but I don't know if anything has changed," Filippi said. "I'm hoping we can put this all behind us and move on."
Dunn said he also plans to update the public on Monday about city operations.
In November, council members gave Dunn approval to look into several ways to reduce costs to the city, such as asking employee groups to make concessions.
Dunn recommendations also included looking into outsourcing public safety services as well as contracting out other city services with the goal of freeing up at least $2 million annually in the budget.
If all city employees agree to pay their share of pensions, Dunn estimated a savings of $1.3 million to the city's general fund.
Also on the agenda is a recommendation for the council to approve the creation of a finance manager position to oversee day-to-day operations in the city.
The council meeting starts at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 460 N. Euclid Ave.
Reach Sandra via email, call her at 909-483-8555, or find her on Twitter @UplandNow.


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9) Easy Check-in (Our offices are near apart building entrance door and we are here every day)
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We trust our working discipline, and guarantee you the clauses below:
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KEY DELIVERY (Check-in & Check-out):
* Our offices (My office and Reception office) are near the apart building entrance door. Key delivery will be made in the same address, in our office (Reception).
* Regular Check-in (9am-20pm): Check-in hour is 14pm. If you come earlier and if the flat is ready, you can check-in earlier without any charge (If the flat is not ready, you can leave your luggage in our office until check-in hour). Since the office is open until 9am to 8pm every day, we don't need to arrange a specific time for the key delivery. No rush :)
* Late Check-in (20pm+): My home is just 15 seconds close. After 20pm, please call or text me when you are close, and I will come here within seconds and wait for you.
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* We will send you a "Tourist friendly" address description document (powerpoint) with maps. This document includes best arrival options with costs and durations. Our location is so easy to find even first time visitors of Istanbul.
a) Taxi: In the address description, you will find "Turkish Description" to be given to the taxi driver. He will find us easily. Or you can tell the driver to call me, and I can explain him how to arrive.
b) Havatas (Airport) Buses: If you come to Taksim Square with Havatas airport buses, you can walk to our apart for 12 mins or if you have heavy luggage you can catch a taxi.
c) Metro: You can use metro from Atatürk Airport to Taksim Square (Transfer to other line Yenikapi metro station). You can walk to our apart for 12 mins or if you have heavy luggage you can catch a taxi.
d) Airport taxi pickup (With holding a sign with your name)
* Bedroom: Real double bed, wardrobe, ventilator, iron, iron board, cloth dryer.
* Living room: Can be convertible to bedroom by setting up double sofa beds. Also includes a small wardrobe, table & chairs, TV and A/C.
* Kitchen: Full kitchen with washing machine, dishwasher, refrigerator, microwave, stove, kettle, toaster.
* Bathroom: With shower. Also hairdryer.
* Electricity, using water and heating fees.
* High speed strong connection wireless internet. (24 hours)
* Free first day food and beverage package (Spring water, coffee, snacks, instant soup, pasta, chocolate etc.)* Free back-up assistant. (24 hours)
* Warm shower. (24 hours)
* Before check-in cleaning. (Also free weekly cleaning)
* Towels and bed sheets. (Also free weekly change)
* Liquid soap, shampoo, shower gel, equipment for washing the dishes (Cleanser and sponge).
* Trash Bags, toilet paper and paper towels.
* Free luggage storage.
* For the families with babies, free baby equipments (Baby bed, chair, bath and stroller)
* Free parking in the street
* Smile on our faces :)
* Outside Wifi: 10% discount for renting "Portable unlimited WIFI & 3G device" to be used anywhere in Istanbul. You don't need to buy simcard for 3G.
* Gifts: 5€ discount per piece for our "Nes-Shui Handmade Gifts". They are all prepared by my mother Nesrin:) And all of them are one in the world. No copy.
* Hammam: 5% Discount in Galatasaray Hammam
* Traditional "Berry Life Breakfast" in 15 seconds distance restaurant (6€)
* Late Check-in Service (10€ after 20pm, 15€ after 24pm. Any currency is ok)
* Airport taxi pickup (Atatürk Airport: 110 Lira – Sabiha Gökçen Airport: 200 Lira)
* One shot dishwasher detergent (1€)
* One shot washing machine detergent (1€)
* Rent a netbook (50€ deposit, 5€ per day)
* Additional "Cleaning" and "Changing bed sheets & towels" demands (Free: Weekly. 10€: If you demand again until completion of one week)
* Everyday Housekeeping: 3€ per day
* Laundry (Cleaning, drying and ironing): 15€ per load
Public Bus (Ömer Hayyam Stop): 30 seconds.
Tram (Galata Stop): 3 mins.
Metro (Taksim Stop): 10 mins.
Havatas Airport Buses (Taksim Stop): 12 mins.
* Our Offices: In the entrance
* Bakery: 5 seconds
* Small Market: 10 seconds
* Carrefour Discount Market: 15 seconds
* My Home: 15 seconds
* 7/24 Market: 15 seconds
* Pide (Turkish Pizza) Restaurant: 15 seconds
* 7/24 Restaurant: 30 seconds
* Pharmacy: 1 minute
* Change Office: 3 minutes
* Mobile Operators: 3-5 minutes
* Traditional Bazaar (Each Sunday, side street): 15 seconds (walk)
* Hardrock Cafe: 3 mins (walk)
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* Night Life: 3-5 mins (walk)
* Demiroren Shopping Mall (Biggest Mall of Taksim): 6 mins (walk)
* Taksim square: 10 mins (walk)
* Galata Tower: 12 mins (walk)
* Old Town (Sultanahmet): 10 mins (taxi)
* Bosporus: 15 mins (taxi)
* Asian Side: 20 mins (taxi)
* Although it is so close to most of attractions, we are separated from the laud voice music and noisy crowd. It makes our location better for light sleepers and families with babies.
* Blue Flag cleaning award: 3 years in row, 10/10 rated after unannounced inspection.
* Creativity award: 1st apart hotel in Istanbul which has different concepts in each apart.
* Rising star award 2012: For our improvement in our first year.
BABY FRIENDLY (Free):
* Big and comfortable baby bed
* Secure baby chair with seat belt (With small table)
* Baby bath for a good baby shower
* Baby stroller
(We have 3 set of baby equipments, please ask for the availablity)
(These equipments are cleaned twice (After and before the guest) for your baby's health.)
We are in the secure district of Taksim (Main connection to Istiklal Street). But we are more secure with;
* Alarm system
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* Fire detectors and extinguisher
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You, your family (or friends) and your personal valuable belongings will be secure.
By booking our apart, you are also helping street cats & dogs. We use 5% of our revenue to feed and aid them.
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- Air conditioning
- Dishwasher
- First Day food & beverage
- Liquid Soap
- Luggage Storage
- Paper Towel
- Shampoo & Shower Gel
- Stroller
- Toilet Paper
- Towels and Bedsheets
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- Cleanliness 5.0
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- Location 5.0
- Value for money 4.0
- Accuracy of description 5.0
Miriam 5.0 11/17/2013
The host made us feel very welcome, and the flat was exactly what we wanted. I will definitely book with this host next time I come to Istanbul.
Horst 4.0 10/05/2013
famose Sauberkeit
interessante Lage
gute Aufteilung der Räumlichkeit, alle Zimmer gehen vom Flur ab
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Aldo 5.0 07/30/2018
Nice accommodation nice hsts great location
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They are really welcoming and hospitable.It would be my next choice if i go to Istanbul.I will recommend this house to my friends as well.


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Dear Pyramix Users,
Please be aware that Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Vista Service Pack 1 are not compatible with Pyramix running MassCore.
Since V6.0 MassCore has been validated with Windowx XP SP2 and/or Vista with no service Pack, and Microsoft has the habit of changing the way their code operates with background functions, we hereby would like to draw your attention to not installing any subsequent Service Packs before Merging releases a new version of Pyramix MassCore.
All Merging custom AV Chassis' will continue to be supplied with Windows XP Service Pack 2 only, for the time being.
If you order only Pyramix software and cards and you configure yourself the PC then, until you receive official notification from Merging that this issue has been resolved, please ensure you only install Pyramix with XP SP2 or Vista with no service Pack.
The Merging Team


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We'll have a full review of the show in a few hours, but for now here are five thoughts on America's most famous young musician and her touring extravaganza.
1. Strategically, the opening gig of Swift's Los Angeles run was timed perfectly: At the tail end of summer vacation, after camp's done but just before school starts. Staples for many was the final mother-daughter event of the season (with a few random dads looking like lost boats floating at sea), and the girls were abuzz. Few things are more joyous, after all, than a first concert, and for many in the crowd this was a moment they'll recall forever.
2. You know you're in for a musical spectacle when sparks start shooting from the ceiling during the first song, as happened during "State of Grace." Such grand gestures, usually the stuff of finales, occurred often. Every song was a new event: she danced with music box figurines come to life. She floated on the shoulders of her dancers through the crowd and to the opposite end of the arena, where she performed songs close to the cheaper seats. She was lifted over the crowd on a platform -- to the sound of wails below.
3. The equivalent of a touring Cirque du Soleil production, Swift's tour is too massive to offer much true spontaneity, and as such the set list was nearly identical to most stops on the tour: She focused on her most recent album, "Red," and offered the hits. That makes sense, of course. Swift was never a busker, and she carried herself through the many choreographed demands with effortless grace.
4. Still, she left some room for surprises -- which arrived courtesy of two special guests. British singer Cher Lloyd dueted with Swift on Lloyd's hit "Want U Back." And near the end, songwriter Sara Bareilles arrived to work out "Brave" with Swift by her side.
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Artopia: June 2007 Archives
Richard Serra, Sequence, 2006. Weatherproof steel. Overall: 12'9" x 40' 8 3/8" x 65' 2 3/16" (3.9 x 12.4 x 19.9 m). Collection the artist © 2007 Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Lorenz Kienzle
Sculpture Returns
The highly focused Richard Serra survey now at the Museum of Modern Art (to September 10) is at last the justification for that institution's cold and unpopular expansion. There's only 27 works, and the whole deal is outweighed -- if you will excuse the pun -- by three recent pieces: Band, Sequence, and Torqued Torus Inversion (all '06). They are massive.
Apparently the late Kirk Varnedoe had Serra in mind when, as head of painting and sculpture, he ordered a great girding up of the second floor. And it shows. As much as I like them, MoMA-owned Circuit II ('72-'86) and Intersection II ('92 '93), on view outdoors, do not have the drama of the mighty torqued prows and their inner hallways displayed in opposition to the straight-walled galleries.
All other sculptures should have been removed from the garden... and the trees put in storage. The sculpture garden, in any case, is now totally dwarfed by surrounding glass towers. Someday perhaps Serra could make a sculpture specifically for this site and rescue it for art again, the way he has rescued the second-floor rooms.
One hopes that the Serra survey will mark the long-awaited return of sculpture, after too many years of the easy stuff -- i.e., paintings. You know: Easy to display, easy to move, easy to store. And easy to display in auction houses. I find a great deal to like in the sarcasm of Jeff Koons' flower puppy and Damien Hirst's shark and his recent headline-grabbing, diamond-studded skull. But in both camps the mixed messages outweigh the forms. It is not that abstract sculpture must exclude entertainment values; Serra's don't. It is just that there remains a lot to be said about and with abstract sculpture per se. Serra proves this.
But when did Serra enter the picture?
Richard Serra, Sequence, 2006. Weatherproof steel. Overall: 12'9" x 40' 8 3/8" x 65' 2 3/16" (3.9 x 12.4 x 19.9 m). Collection the artist © 2007 Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Lorenz Kienzle
Catching Up
Behind Clement Greenberg's back in the early '60s, Simple-Minded Formalism became or was replaced by Minimalism. Greenberg was stuck in a rut, preferring painter Jules Olitski and, in sculpture, Anthony Caro -- whom he saw as David Smith's proper heir. Pop for him was beyond the pale and almost as bad as Dada and Surrealism. And although Greenberg did promote the grand zip paintings of Barnett Newman, he did not really get Ad Reinhardt, who, like Newman, was beloved of the Minimalists and their spawn. Was it that Newman's take on the Kabbalah was O.K., but Reinhardt's Buddhism not so hot? Most now would rank Newman higher than Reinhardt, but perhaps we should see them as healthy oppositions, the way we see Pollock and de Kooning. Or for that matter Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg.
Minimalism generated Anti-Form and then Earth Art too and, let us not forget, the influence upon Conceptual Art and Performances. This proliferation of art tags was a multiplication of art dialects rather than languages and a way of keeping tabs on what some talented artists were up to. It was not, strictly speaking, an orderly march from material over form to idea over material. Some artists dabbled in all formats, but not always in succession, not necessarily in a linear way. Robert Morris went from Neo-Dada to Geo-Minimal (with memorable dances and performances thrown in) to Informal Minimal (Anti-Form) and even some Earth Art Minimalism. And then out the door.
Serra skipped cold Geo-Minimalism, but leapt in with remarkable contributions to Anti-Form Minimalism. Some of these early works are on display on MoMA's sixth floor in the form of hung, strewn, propped pieces that still hold their own in the continued world of the hung, the strewn and the propped. Curiously, his famous splashed lead piece is not in sight, which is a shame because it would reestablish a certain continuity with Pollock.
And, although he helped his buddy Robert Smithson execute the Earth Art's iconic Spiral Jetty, as far as I know, Serra never delved into Earth Art Minimalism in any significant way. To my mind, slabs stuck into the ground don't quite count.
What I am doing here, by the way, is recasting Minimalism as a larger category than Geo-Minimalism. This is not a tweak or a weak rewrite, but an effort to subvert Post-Minimalism as an entrenched category.
The Post-Minimalism trope looks like it was invented to take advantage of the critical, historical construct that has Impressionism followed by and, it is implied, improved by what Roger Fry called Post-Impressionism. Impressionism was formless and gushy, whereas Cézanne, van Gogh, and Gauguin could pave the way for Picasso and Matisse. Oh, the logic of it.
Was Post-Impressionism really better than Impressionism? Was Post-Minimalism better than Minimalism? Evolution has polluted our brains, from Darwin and Marx to Madame Blavatsky, particularly when it is transferred to inappropriate realms like art and history. And religion. The latest religion is not necessarily the best. Also the Post-Minimalism formula implies that up until 1967 or so there was nothing but Minimalism. Happenings and Pop Art? Fluxus? Realisms? They don't count.
Richard Serra, Band, 2006. Weatherproof steel. Overall: 12' 9" x 36' 5" x 71' 9 1/2" (3.9 x 11.1 x 21.9 m), plate: 2" (5.1 cm) thick. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Gift of Eli and Edythe Broad © 2007 Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Lorenz Kienzle.
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The sculpture of Richard Serra, I maintain, cannot be fully understood without citing the context of Anti-Form Minimalism. Unlike Geo-Minimalism, Anti-Form was about materials and their properties. This context includes works of the period by Keith Sonnier, Eva Hesse, Allan Saret, Morris, Rafael Ferrer and others. Artists, even great ones like Serra, do not come out of nowhere.
This foregrounding of materiality -- and in many instances, place and placement -- is never the case if we look at, let's say, the elegant work of Donald Judd. When he gained fame and more resources, painted wood was replaced by galvanized steel, but the forms were not significantly different. You don't look at a Judd and say, gee whiz, it's made out of plastic and galvanized steel. You say, oh my gosh, it's just a line of five-sided, empty boxes, in a row or a stack.
Anti-Form Minimalism with its drooping forms, out of Claes Oldenburg's drum set and other relaxed sculptures, and its use of chance out of Duchamp and Cage, let gravity do the work. The informal groupings highlighted the actual materials: felt, rubber, glass, wood, metal, plastic -- whatever. The artist were still in control, but once removed like a Cagian composer. Serra married Geo-Minimal's hard-edge, "industrial" forms with Anti-Form's attention to gravity.
On MoMA's sixth floor the prop pieces underline Serra's interest in gravity and weight. Geometric slabs of metal are held up against the wall by rolled metal props; and in the center of the room slabs are propped against each other, held up by their own considerable weight like various houses of cards. For safety reasons and I assume insurance purposes, the props are fenced off. I remember once I had to show Ana Mendieta's floor pieces on aesthetically inappropriate platforms because in a previous exhibition at the New Museum some idiot had crawled under a glass table and broken the glass. That no one has yet jumped off of or been pushed from MoMA's vertiginous fifth-floor "air-bridge," looking down on the second-floor atrium, amazes me. But then too it is amazing that no one has done themselves damage on a Giacometti or a Brancusi or become poisoned by licking a Monet.
Scary stuff? Fear was part of Serra's sculpture vocabulary. But when he moved from propping and balancing to weight, fear was transformed into questions of logistics. How did they indeed manage to get the great torqued works into the building?
Unlike Judd (or the Morris of the plywood boxes), Serra persistently forces you to become conscious of matter and weight. How the damned things stand up is really what you are looking for and looking at and to a large extent the cause of what you are feeling -- along with some degree of claustrophobia once you are inside one of the curving, leaning things.
A considerable part of understanding of sculpture is the perception one may have of how it has been made, what it is made of, how it stands -- and, we shouldn't forget, what it took to get it here. These are sculpture's primary subjects. Is this true too of painting? Less so, since every line, shape, color is an illusion waiting to be denied.
Intended use may be a factor too, but you cannot separate the statues of Easter Island from their quarries, their apparently miraculous transport across hill-and-dale and their uprighting. These facts may be more important than the knowledge that they once had eyes and their backs were to the sea.
You cannot separate a Picasso or David Smith sculpture from the welding torch. You cannot separate the Spiral Jetty from the bulldozer used to move those rocks into place.
This is why Serra, unlike the Geo-Minimalists he came in on, is more like Smith and Caro. Here, however, the radically reduced forms foreground materiality at the expense -- thank goodness -- of the kinds of fussy composing that sculptors used to feel they had to perpetuate. That's all over. Serra is a Minimalist, not a Cubist.
And then there is the sheer poetry of the tonnage.
In an artist's statement written for the catalogue of his 1989 Pace Gallery exhibition, Serra recalls visiting a ship-launching (on his birthday in 1944 at the age of four) with his father, who was a pipefitter:
....the shoring props, beams, planks, poles, bars, keel blocks, all the dunnage, was removed, the cables released, shackles dismantled, the come-alongs unlocked. ...Freed from its stays, the logs rolling, the ship slid off its cradle with an ever increasing motion. ...(and then) transformation from an enormous obdurate weight to a buoyant structure, free, afloat and adrift. My awe and wonder of that moment remains. All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory which has become a recurring dream.
The language, as specific as Melville's best, is charged. But more important to understanding is Serra's subsequent paean to weight:
Weight is a value for me, not that it is any more compelling than lightness, but I simply know more about weight than lightness and therefore have more to say about it, more to say about the balancing of weight, the diminishing of weight, the addition and subtraction of weight, the concentration of weight, the rigging of weight, the propping of weight, the placement of weight, the locking of weight, the psychological effect of weight, the disorientation of weight, the disequilibrium of weight, the rotation of weight, the movement of weight, the directionality of weight, the shape of weight...
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Our inteprid reporter David, from our marketing team here at the home office, has been on the ground in France following the 2010 Tour de France and riding some of the iconic climbs. In this dispatch he rides up the mighty Tourmalet, one of the most famous mountain passes in the Pyrenees.
Day 4 of my sojourn in France, and it was time to tackle the Tourmalet.
This was a rest day for the Tour riders, so our group would have the roads all to ourselves (and probably 20,000 of our closest friends). Yes, the grey and drizzly weather didn't stop many people from hitting the road for an epic bike adventure. Our route for the day was a 70 mile loop that was a classic Europeds tour: start from our base in Argeles-Gazost, tackle some rolling French countryside on the way to Bagneres-de-Bigorre, then start climbing at Campan and cruise up the "easier" eastern side of the Tourmalet, then dive down the other side to Luz-Saint-Saveur and back home. Sounds so easy, right?
The early part of our route was truly beautiful, just what you dream French country roads should look like. We passed through quaint villages, pastoral fields, and roads carved through forested hillsides. It was the kind of scenery that you see the riders of the Tour de France roll through and wonder if it truly exists, or if it is just a trick of the camera. Well, it's out there, and it's a ton of fun to ride through!
Of course all of this countryside cruising works up quite a hunger, so it was soon time for a pit stop at a cafe in the quaint village of Bagneres-de-Bigorre:
Fueled up and ready to go, it was time to get back on the road. Just outside of Campan, the road starts heading up, and never lets up until you make it to the summit of the Tourmalet. But we were definitely on the right path, judging by the elaborate road chalk left by the fans during Stage 16 of the Tour (which passed the Tourmalet just the previous day, in the same direction we were riding today):
These handy roadside signs let you know the suffering that was in store ahead (the totals for the Tourmalet in this direction are about 16km with an average gradient of 8%):
Up and up and up we climbed (although at this point I was basically alone, struggling along in my 34-26 gearing).
I'd show you some pictures of the scenery, but the fog was so dense that I could only see about 30 feet in front of me. I just kept turning the pedals over, churning out the kilometers at a steady pace of about 6 miles an hour (I'm not kidding). Oh wait, I did have one picture of scenery to share; well, more specifically, it's a picture of livestock:
Finally I straggled in to the ski resort of La Mongie, which serves as a last respite before the final ascent to the summit of the Tourmalet. Whereas on the lower slopes the climb seemed kind of deserted, with only small groups of cyclists passing me in either direction (plus leftover campers on the side of the road), once up to La Mongie it was plein du monde, as they say here in France.
As you can see on this map, after La Mongie the real classic climbing starts, with wide open vistas and switchbacks galore:
And better yet, the skies opened up for us as we neared the top, revealing some fantastic vistas (as well as a clear view of the summit, oh so far away!)
I found myself stopping for photos every kilometer or so, just because the view was too amazing to pass up (that and because my legs were about to fall off):
Only 1 km to go, but it's a long one!
I made it to the top, eventually, to be greeted by quite the scene of exhausted but happy cyclists and hikers:
The obligatory summit sign photo was definitely in order on the Tourmalet (while rocking my cool Tyler's team kit):
There's even a nifty little cafe at the top, to give you that extra sustenance for the way down the other side:
And when I say down, I mean it! The eastern side of the Tourmalet looks like you are dropping right off the side of a cliff (and incidentally, is the side where Contador and Schleck battled it out, mano a mano, in the final climb of Stage 17).
This may be the highest point of the Tour, but you go down in a hurry from either side.
But speaking of Schleck and Contador, I'll bet they never climbed the Tourmalet on a tandem… with panniers… while wearing flip-flops and boat shoes. What can I say, other than I told you that people will ride anything up these climbs over here!
The summit achieved, it was time to get headed home. As I said, the eastern side of the Tourmalet is generally regarded as the tougher ascent, but it was certainly a slippery and gnarly descent as well. You can see the twisty-turny madness in this map view:
And it didn't help that the fog rolled back in as we started our descent. Combined with the other hikers, bikers and campers filling the roads (going both directions), along with the fact that the outside of the road was generally a sheer cliff face with no guardrail, we definitely kept our speed dialed back to a reasonable rate (unlike many other people, including the brash rider who flew past me only to hit a bump and go straight over his bars at about 40 miles an hour–not a pretty sight).
But as a bonus for descending at a mellow pace, we were able to spot Didi the Devil making his way up the road to the Tourmalet, and he obliged by posing for this sweet picture! What a perfect finish to the day!
OK, so we still had about 20 miles to go at this point, and it started raining, but it was still a fantastic 5 1/2 hours in the sadlle. When I watched the riders rocket up the Tourmalet during Stage 17, I could pick out the spots where I had just been, and be even more impressed by their abilities!
Speaking of Stage 17, you can check out my photos from the stage on our Facebook page, starting with this photo. I'll have a blog post up soon, but we're on the move tomorrow so my post may be delayed a bit. We're headed north from the Pyrenees, up to the wine country around Bordeaux, where we'll settle in to eat, drink, and watch the decisive time trial on Saturday afternoon!


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Raid Performance and Rebuild IssuesHarm Millaard Jan 17, 2012 3:55 AM
Rebuilding a Raid array
What happens when you have a Raid array and one (or more) disk(s) fail?
First let's consider the work-flow impact of using a Raid array or not. You may want to refresh your memory about Raids, by reading Adobe Forums: To RAID or not to RAID, that is the... again.
Sustained transfer rates are a major factor in determining how 'snappy' your editing experience will be when editing multiple tracks. For single track editing most modern disks are fast enough, but when editing complex codecs like AVCHD, DSLR, RED or EPIC, when using uncompressed or AVC-Intra 100 Mbps codecs, or using multi-cam or multiple tracks the sustained transfer speed can quickly become a bottleneck and limit the 'snappy' feeling during editing.
For that reason many use raid arrays to remove that bottleneck from their systems, but this also raises the question:
What happens when one of more of my disks fail?
Actually, it is simple. Single disks or single level striped arrays will lose all data. And that means that you have to replace the failed disk and then restore the lost data from a backup before you can continue your editing. This situation can become extremely bothersome if you consider the following scenario:
At 09:00 you start editing and you finish editing by 17:00 and have a planned backup scheduled at 21:00, like you do every day. At 18:30 one of your disks fails, before your backup has been made. All your work from that day is lost, including your auto-save files, so a complete day of editing is irretrievably lost. You only have the backup from the previous day to restore your data, but that can not be done before you have installed a new disk.
This kind of scenario is not unheard of and even worse, this usually happens at the most inconvenient time, like on Saturday afternoon before a long weekend and you can only buy a new disk on Tuesday...(sigh).
That is the reason many opt for a mirrored or parity array, despite the much higher cost (dedicated raid controller, extra disks and lower performance than a striped array). They buy safety, peace-of-mind and a more efficient work-flow.
Consider the same scenario as above and again one disk fails. No worry, be happy!! No data lost at all and you could continue editing, making the last changes of the day. Your planned backup will proceed as scheduled and the next morning you can continue editing, after having the failed disk replaced. All your auto-save files are intact as well.
The chances of two disks failing simultaneously are extremely slim, but if cost is no object and safety is everything, some consider using a raid6 array to cover that eventuality. See the article quoted at the top.
Rebuilding data after a disk failure
In the case of a single disk or striped arrays, you have to use your backup to rebuild your data. If the backup is not current, you lose everything you did after your last backup.
In the case of a mirrored array, the raid controller will write all data on the mirror to the newly installed disk. Consider it a disk copy from the mirror to the new disk. This is a fast way to get back to full speed. No need to get out your (possibly older) backup and restore the data. Since the controller does this in the background, you can continue working on your time-line.
In the case of parity raids (3/5/6) one has to make a distinction between distributed parity raids (5/6) and dedicated parity raid (3).
Dedicated parity, raid3
If a disk fails, the data can be rebuild by reading all remaining disks (all but the failed one) and writing the rebuilt data only to the newly replaced disk. So writing to a single disk is enough to rebuild the array. There are actually two possibilities that can impact the rebuild of a degraded array. If the dedicated parity drive failed, the rebuilding process is a matter of recalculating the parity info (relatively easy) by reading all remaining data and writing the parity to the new dedicated disk. If a data disk failed, then the data need to be rebuild, based on the remaining data and the parity and this is the most time-consuming part of rebuilding a degraded array.
Distributed parity, raid5 or raid6
If a disk fails, the data can be rebuild by reading all remaining disks (all but the failed one), rebuilding the data and recalculating the parity information and writing the data and parity information to the failed disk. This is always time-consuming.
The impact of 'hot-spares' and other considerations
When an array is protected by a hot spare, if a disk drive in that array fails the hot spare is automatically incorporated into the array and takes over for the failed drive. When an array is not protected by a hot spare, if a disk drive in that array fails, remove and replace the failed disk drive. The controller detects the new disk drive and begins to rebuild the array.
If you have hot-swappable drive bays, you do not need to shut down the PC, you can simply slide out the failed drive and replace it with a new disk. Remember, when a drive has failed and the raid is running in 'degraded' mode, there is no further protection against data loss, so it is imperative that you replace the failed disk at the earliest moment and rebuild the array to a 'healthy' state.
Rebuilding a 'degraded' array can be done automatically or manually, depending on the controller in use and often you can set the priority of the rebuilding process higher or lower, depending on the need to continue regular work versus the speed required to repair the array to its 'healthy' status.
What are the performance gains to be expected from a raid and how long will a rebuild take?
The most important column in the table below is the sustained transfer rate. It is indicative and no guarantee that your raid will achieve exactly the same results. That depends on the controller, the on-board cache and the disks in use. The more tracks you use in your editing, the higher the resolution you use, the more complex your codec, the more you will need a high sustained transfer rate and that means more disks in the array.
Sidebar: While testing a new time-line for the PPBM6 benchmark, using a large variety of source material, including RED and EPIC 4K, 4:2:2 MXF, XDCAM HD and the like, the required sustained transfer rate for simple playback of a pre-rendered time-line was already over 300 MB/s, even with 1/4 resolution playback, because of the 4 4 4 4 full quality deBayering of the 4K material.
Final thoughts
With the increasing popularity of file based formats, the importance of backups of your media can not be stressed enough. In the past one always had the original tape if disaster stroke, but no longer. You need regular backups of your media and projects. With single disks and (R)aid0 you take risks of complete data loss, because of the lack of redundancy. Backups cost extra disks and extra time to create and restore in case of disk failure.
The need for backups in case of mirrored raids is far less, since there is complete redundancy. Sure, mirrored raids require double the number of disks but you save on the number of backup disks and you save time to create and restore backups.
In the case of parity raids, the need for backups is more than with mirrored arrays, but less than with single disks or striped arrays and in the case of 'hot-spares' the need for backups is further reduced. Initially, a parity array may look like a costly endeavor. The raid controller and the number of disks make it expensive, but if you consider what you get, more speed, more storage space, easier administration, less backups required, less time for those backups, continued working in case of a drive failure, even though somewhat sluggish, the cost is often worth more with the peace-of-mind it brings, than continuing with single disks or striped arrays.


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text: Idaho Dairymen's Association Speaks Out Against Animal Activists' Motives, Methods February 22, 2014 08:02 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MILK Editors Email State's dairy industry supports Senate Bill 1337, which aims to protect Idaho's farmers from groups intending to do harm to their businesses. Source: Idaho Dairymen's Association Twin Falls, Idaho – Over the past two weeks, supporters from various Idaho agricultural sectors explained the need for the agriculture security legislation to the Senate and House Agricultural Affairs Committees. Idaho farmers live and work spread out across the land where they are uniquely vulnerable to increasing threats to their safety and security. Idaho's dairy industry has a legacy of caring for their animals and the land and ensuring that the dairy products they produce are safe and nutritious. "Let me be clear: Dairy farmers do not condone abuse-- plain and simple," stated Idaho Dairymen's Association President (IDA) Tony VanderHulst. "The dairy farmer who fell victim to the activist group is well-known for his unquestioned compassion for his animals," VanderHulst added. "He is a true steward of his cows, his land and his community. To see him be persecuted in the public eye for an issue that everyone agrees has been corrected shows the true and clear motivation of these activist groups." Opponents of Senate Bill 1337 who participate in or condone this type of conduct call it an "Ag-gag" bill to mislead people into believing that the bill will enable Idaho farmers to hide animal cruelty. Testimony before the Senate and House Agricultural Affairs committees has clearly demonstrated that SB 1337 does not prohibit lawful reporting, investigation and prosecution of animal cruelty. There is a hotline at the Idaho State Department of Agriculture to immediately report any abuse or perceived abuse. This hotline can be anonymous if the caller chooses. Opponents of SB 1337 assert that their interest in exposing animal cruelty overrides farmers' constitutionally protected private property and privacy rights. They argue that anyone entering an agricultural facility should be allowed to enter and record the conduct of the facility's operations without the facility owner's consent. This position stands in stark contrast to the Idaho legislature's enactment of a law just last year that prohibits the use of aerial "drones" to record a person's activities without the person's written consent. Activist groups seeking to block SB1337 haven't told the whole story. Here are the facts: • An activist group's employee, masquerading as an investigator, infiltrated one of Idaho's dairies for 19 days. • The infiltrator took no action to report or prevent the mistreatment of the dairy owner's animals at any point during that entire time. • After the infiltrator left the dairy, the activist group sat on the evidence for four days before reporting the mistreatment to authorities for investigation. • Upon finally learning of the mistreatment, the dairy owner immediately terminated all employees associated with the unforgivable acts. • The dairy farmer cooperated fully and actively with authorities, and implemented procedures to ensure that no further mistreatment occurs at his facilities. After the investigation was complete and arrest warrants were issued, the activist group sat on its evidence for another 45 days before it began its media campaign to prosecute the innocent dairy owner in the court of public opinion. Despite their acknowledgement that the dairy owner was innocent of any wrongdoing and took appropriate corrective action, activist groups are waging yet another media campaign to attack the dairy owner and the dairy industry by misleading their supporters, and the public, into believing another incident of mistreatment has occurred. An agricultural Affairs Committee member who supports the bill appropriately summarized how the activist group has crossed the line, by stating the following in her weekly legislative update. "By releasing the footage to the Internet, with petitions calling for a boycott of products of any company that bought meat or milk from Bettencourt Dairy, the organizations involved then crossed the ethical line for me. The goal of changing behavior then became ruining a business." On Jan. 21 of this year, Idaho's Humane Society of the U.S. state director sent a letter to the dairy owner prior to SB1337 being introduced confirming the continuing objective of the media campaign to impugn the reputations of dairy farmers, this time as leverage against introduction of SB 1337: "I urge you to work with your fellow Idaho dairy operators (whose reputations could similarly be harmed if this footage were re-aired time and again)." To the Idaho dairy industry the message was clear, said Bob Naerebout Executive Director of IDA. "'Do as we demand or we will hurt you and your fellow producers'", Naerebout said. "SB 1337 was introduced because of very threats like this." Every one of the more than 500 dairy farm families in Idaho practices compassionate animal husbandry and does not condone any sort of abuse towards their animals. The farmers take immediate action when they learn of any mistreatment and do not want to hire anyone who doesn't have the animals' welfare always at the top of their mind. IDA was formed in 1944 and is based in Twin Falls, Idaho. The IDA works to protect and promote the interests of Idaho's dairy farm families through education, research, legal and legislative efforts. IDA gives voice to the farmers in Idaho by promoting their interests around the state, the region and the country. Back to news


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Singers Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus knew their controversial performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last month would cause a ruckus, and Thicke says that was their intention.
The odd couple hit headlines when they took to the stage together in Brooklyn, N.Y., to perform Thicke's smash summer hit and, Cyrus gyrated and twerked with the 36 year old father and husband.
But he insists he is unfazed by the shocked reaction that followed, claiming it's just what the pair was planning and hoping for.
In an interview with Star magazine, he says, "We were like, 'OK, if you touch me with your foam finger all over my crotch, obviously a few people are going to have something to say about this!'
"But that was the whole point, to excite and provoke and entertain. Shock and awe!"
Thicke is also happy with Cyrus' onstage antics: "I thought it was silly and funny and she was being humorous and naughty. That's who she is and how she likes to dance. We were just being ourselves."
Cyrus defended her performance earlier this month, explaining she set out "to make history" with her show-stopping racy routine, and insisting critics were "overthinking it."


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CHARLOTTESVILLE — After three dismal performances in as many games against Bowl Subdivision opponents, Virginia's offense has exhausted coach Mike London's patience.
Adjusting to new coordinator Steve Fairchild? Youth at quarterback, receiver and the interior line? London's not buying excuses, and the reason is the Cavaliers' defense.
That group also is learning new schemes from a new coordinator (Jon Tenuta). That group also includes several underclassmen. Most striking, the defense is performing as well as the offense is poorly.
"It's disappointing about where we are," London said Monday at his weekly news conference. "The facts and the statistics don't lie about (the offense). … We want to see improvement because you see it defensively."
Here's where the Cavaliers are entering Saturday's home date with Ball State of the Mid-American Conference: They have scored three touchdowns against FBS opponents, and two were gift-wrapped.
Virginia scored on drives of 16 and 13 yards in a 19-16 victory over Brigham Young thanks to a blocked punt and interception, leaving only one sustained touchdown march: 75 yards on seven plays in the first quarter of a 59-10 loss to Oregon, the final 45 on a burst by reserve tailback Khalek Shepherd.
For the Cavaliers' sake, the depths had better have been Saturday at Pittsburgh, where they wasted an outstanding defensive effort in a 14-3 defeat.
Virginia gained 188 yards, committed two turnovers — both set up Panthers' touchdowns — and went 4-of-22 on third and fourth downs.
"We have to get to their level," sophomore quarterback David Watford said of the offense matching the defense. "We can't depend on them all the time."
Toward that end, London is overhauling the offensive line and auditioning four reserve receivers for starting gigs.
Starting right tackle Jay Whitmire is moving to right guard, displacing the ineffective Cody Wallace, who was subbing for the injured Conner Davis (hamstring). True freshman Eric Smith takes over at right tackle, with fellow rookie Sadiq Olanrewaju his backup.
Also, center Ross Burbank is in danger of losing his job to Jackson Matteo — the depth chart lists Burbank "or" Matteo as the starter.
"We wanted to shore up the interior part to give us more girth, more strength and allow some protection for David," London said of moving Whitmire, a 6-foot-6, 300-pound sophomore who has not played guard at Virginia.
The Cavaliers' issues at center and guard are reflected not only in the pressure Watford sees when attempting to pass but also in the offense's meager rushing stats. Virginia's 3.7 yards-per-carry average ranks 12th among the ACC's 14 teams.
With the program's most experienced receivers — Tim Smith, Darius Jennings and Dominique Terrell — producing little, London is searching for help from the likes of Keeon Johnson, Adrian Gamble, Kyle Dockins and Miles Gooch.
A 6-3 true freshman, Johnson has created considerable internal buzz. But similar chatter has accompanied other Virginia receivers, none of whom has justified the optimism.
London said Johnson has made "remarkable catches in practice against our defense. So now we've just accelerated his timetable."
Evan Marcus, the Cavaliers' strength and conditioning coach, "says that Keeon is freakishly strong, gifted and talented," London added.
London counted 10 dropped passes during review of the Pittsburgh tape, and Gamble said "drops definitely can get contagious."
So can losing, and while Virginia (2-2, 0-1 ACC) should beat Ball State (4-1, 2-0 MAC) at home, Cavaliers fans know full well the threat mid-majors can pose.
Virginia lost to Western Michigan in 2006, Southern Mississippi in 2009 and '11, and Louisiana Tech last season. Plus, the Cavaliers were darn fortunate to escape Middle Tennessee State in 2007 and Idaho in 2011, games they won by a combined three points, the latter in overtime.
Ball State's Pete Lembo was the opposing head coach in 2008 when London made his big-whistle debut, guiding eventual national champion Richmond past Lembo's Elon Phoenix. This is Lembo's third season with the Cardinals, who last year went 9-4 with victories over the Big Ten's Indiana and Big East's South Florida. Ball State's most lopsided defeat last season was 52-27 at Clemson.
Led by quarterback Keith Wenning and receiver Willie Snead, the Cardinals rank 10th nationally in passing at 335.8 yards per game. Snead's father, also named Willie, was a receiver at Virginia and Florida in the 1980s.
But let's not overstate the case. Ball State's four victims — Illinois State, Army, Eastern Michigan and Toledo — are a combined 6-12, all with losing records, and the Cardinals lost on the road to 2-2 North Texas, a credible team that stayed close to Georgia for three quarters before fading.
Indeed, Saturday's game, the Cavaliers' final non-conference test, offers them an opportunity to improve before resuming ACC competition Oct. 12 at No. 25 Maryland.
"We have to expect it in practice," Watford said of progress on offense. "We have to demand it from each other."
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For the treatment, chemotherapy drugs are used to kill all of the patient's blood cells, including the immune cells that are believed to be attacking the body's own central nervous system. Bone marrow stem cells removed from the patient are purified and transplanted back into the body, which saves life by replacing the blood cells and also is proposed to 'reboot' the immune system.
The study followed 35 people for an average of 11 years after transplant. The study involved people with rapidly progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) who had tried a number of other treatments for MS with little or no effect. All were severely disabled by the disease, with an average score of six on a scale of disease activity that ranges from zero being a normal neurological examination to 10 meaning death due to MS. A score of six means able to walk with a cane or crutch; a seven is mainly in a wheelchair. All had worsened by at least one point on the scale in the year prior to the transplant.
After the transplants, the probability of participants having no worsening of their disease for 15 years was 25 percent. The probability was higher percent–for those who had active brain lesions, which are a sign of disease activity, at the time of the transplant.
For 16 people, symptoms improved by an average of one point on the scale after the transplant, and the improvements lasted for an average of two years. The participants also had a reduction in the number and size of lesions in their brains. Two people (six percent) died from complications related to the transplant at two months and 2-1/2 years post-transplant.
Study author Doctor Vasilios Kimiskidis, of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Medical School, Greece noted that more research is needed on this treatment, including studies that compare people receiving the treatment to a control group that does not receive the treatment.
"Keeping that in mind, our feeling is that stem cell transplants may benefit people with rapidly progressive MS," he said. "This is not a therapy for the general population of people with MS but should be reserved for aggressive cases that are still in the inflammatory phase of the disease."
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AP Scolds Reporters For Breaking News On Twitter
from the the-scarcity-mentality dept
The problem is that the AP is apparently dreadful at chess. It doesn't think beyond the single move ahead. So, yes, perhaps they don't get the "break" on the news that an AP reporter was arrested -- that goes on Twitter. But is it really that bad? Let's just play out the scenario. Assume the story goes viral on Twitter. Remember, this is 140 characters, not a full blown article. If the message goes viral, then tons more people are seeing that short message and are curious about the details -- the details that aren't going to show up on Twitter anyway. But having that tweet out there, so it can go viral, means building interest in the story, and from that, it seems like any story would end up receiving more traffic, because the Twitter messages "primed the pump." I honestly can't fathom a scenario in which people see the tweets and decide that it acts as a full replacement for the eventual news article.
Mathew Ingram makes a key point on all of this. If a single 140-character tweet is acting as a suitable replacement for your reporting... you've got bigger problems:
The other thing the Associated Press needs to think about is that if a 140-character post or two by one of your reporters on Twitter is a threat to your news service, then you have a problem that can't be fixed by simply enforcing your social-media policies more stringently. This argument feels very similar to the debates that newspapers used to have when they first put up websites — about whether to post breaking news to their site, or "save" it for the paper. This was fundamentally a lose-lose situation, as most newspapers discovered, since saving it often involved others breaking the news first on their websites.


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The registration process of companies in Singapore is relatively easy for most foreign enterprises and individuals, especially if they have a good reputation and track record, entrepreneurial skills and sound business plan.
Singapore company registration business AsiaBiz Services Company Law requires all foreign enterprises and individuals a professional company who rent their business applications in its process name.
"It is important to note the record, which is prohibited under the Singapore Companies Act, foreigners are owners of their companies. In this way we can avoid dealing with corporate policies and laws that can lead to sanctions," the company.
Currently, there are three divisions to adopt structures of foreign firms to operate in Singapore. This is the representation of the ideal starting point for studies and market research, establishment, is considered as an extension of its parent and subsidiary, is treated as a separate legal entity from its headquarters.
A representative office is ideal for companies wishing to explore business opportunities in the country and is prohibited in all income-generating activities to participate.
"While this office is only permitted for non-commercial activities such as market research, monitor the activities of the parent company of local distributors and agents and providing non-technical customer service, this configuration is very suitable for foreign companies seek to ensure that their business profitability before large investments, "said AsiaBiz.
For foreign companies involved in commercial revenue generating activities, and recommended the registration of a trade specialist to log on to a subsidiary or branch in Singapore.
However, these two business structures, advantages and disadvantages that should be considered strong.
A subsidiary, offers all the tax benefits and exemptions to all local authorities, although entirely by a foreign company or person possessed.
Meanwhile, a disadvantage that have a subsidiary to its management and control systems in Singapore.
Still, most foreign companies prefer this configuration as a limited liability enjoyed, especially, financial liabilities for losses and debts of their company based in Singapore.
Moreover, a branch is covered in the legislation as an extension of his father, and as a result, not eligible for incentives and exemptions from local taxes rather than a subsidiary.
In addition, foreign companies do not enjoy limited liability, which protects them from the economic losses are established.
However, one advantage of the solution that foreign firms enjoy greater control over its subsidiary in Singapore.
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