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who told you that you need Windows to update that BIOS? I just grabbed the bios update from http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers...k/as_3610.html (first link in a google search), and the BIOS updating script, although needlessly overcomplicated, claims to work in DOS. That said, there is not much in the updates - 1.08 changed the logo and the way the logo was shown, 1.09 rolls back 1.08 and just changed the logo.
As for acpi juggling: I'll leave that for someone else. I have never done much of that myself.
The only dumb question is a question not asked.
The only dumb answer is an answer not given.
You could try the FreeBSD 7.1BETA2 from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/re...SO-IMAGES/7.1/
If you still get those ACPI errors with that 7.1 BETA, you could post the complete dmesg to the freebsd-acpi mailing list and ask for advice.
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
ACPI Exception (evregion-0529): AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20070320] ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method parse/execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_.BAT0._STA] (Node 0xc3ff4cc0), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE ACPI Error (uteval-0309): Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_.BAT0._STA] (Node 0xc3ff4cc0), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE acpi_ec0: EcRead: failed waiting to get data
This messages can be ignored if they do not cause any other problems.
You could dump acpi tables and ASL with acpidump(8) and explore what are on lines that kernel is reporting. Also it is explained in Handbook.
In my similar (but more nasty) problem I got every now and then various bogus messages that _CRT on tz2 is absurd(256C) and because it is absurd ignored. I fixed it modifing ACPI ASL - the source of problem was that value was wrong, meanwhile I also found one typo (but this one did not cause any problem - it was related to current LCD brightness).
You could also found than various BIOS think that world is full of various Windows versions ...
There was problem when one BIOS vendor did check for Linux - but instaed to providing correct information it was giving wrong one, causing laptop malfunction when powered by Linux.
thanks ! & some more questions...
Hi and thanks to all of you for helpful and quick answers !
So, I also checked the log change of the BIOS from acer website and indeed, flashing the BIOS doesn't seem to bring anything better since they only changed the logo between 7 and 8 and again between 8 and 9. So I think I can forget this solution. (But I still don't understand how I can bring a batch file or *.exe files to work under FreeBSD - do you mean using wine or anything alike ?? Anyway it's not really important now).
I also tried acpiconf and I am *totally confused* :
[nico@tezcatlipoca /usr/home/nico]$ acpiconf -i 0 Design capacity: 2000 mAh Last full capacity: 1758 mAh Technology: secondary (rechargeable) Design voltage: 14800 mV Capacity (warn): 85 mAh Capacity (low): 51 mAh Low/warn granularity: 34 mAh Warn/full granularity: 1673 mAh Model number: Bat 4Cell Serial number: 4878 Type: LION OEM info: Acer State: discharging Remaining capacity: 83% Remaining time: 1:09 Present rate: 18662 mA Voltage: 15489 mV [nico@tezcatlipoca /usr/home/nico]$
So it seems to work although I was sure from the contrary.
I don't know where I have seen that the temperature given by acpi was 0 C, in my own previous post it's written :
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 49,0C
So now I have to find where I can let the current temperature display (and remaining time) but that are window-manager related things so it should be OK.
I think I'll try to test the 7.1 beta from a virtual box to check if these error messages are away or not.
There's something else I don't understand : shutdown/reboot the computer is only possible when logged in as root in a terminal for instance and typing the command (shutdown -h now). There are no choices in the graphic menus, which could be practical. Do you have any hint on where to find a solution for that ?
And a last question : I found how to set a French keyboard with accents in rc.conf (keymap knob). But there's one kind of keyboard which is not the available keyboards listed in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps
I would like to edit a kbd file to add some keys but I don't know if it is possible in such a simple way (to add a new keyboard layout). I would like to have the "ß" symbol when striking altgr and b together, for instance, instead of getting it with altgr and s. Also liked to have some maths symbols I use quite often (divide, multiply etc.).
What's the link between the rc.conf keymap knob and the setxkbmap command ? This last one uses rules that can be found here : /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/. What's the relation between these files and the /usr/share/syscons/keymaps ones ?
I also modified the /etc/login.conf (and did the cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf) and attributed the login class "french" to my user "nico". This class is defined this way :
# ## French users # french:\ :charset=fr_FR.UTF-8:\ :lang=fr_FR.UTF-8:\ :tc=default:
But when using this login class, eg modifying the charset, modifies the keyboard layout. If I don't use this login class along with the right keymap in rc.conf, I don't get the same result. For instance, the € symbol works with these two settings (using altgr and e), not without the charset set to fr_FR.UTF-8
So questions are :
1°) If anyone can tell me more about these different keyboard settings that seem to interact with each other ?
2°) If it is possible to create a new kbd file (modifying an existing kbd file to add some things) ? And where is it possible to find documentation about the way it should be written, because everything is not clear in a kbd file ! (I especially don't find the altgr version of the keys ; there's a column for base, shift, cntrl, shift cntrl, alt cntrl etc. but nothing for altgr)
very weird problem
I finally installed FreeBSD as main OS but still have lots of problems to solve.
A really really strange thing happened that I must report : the account of my user disappeared suddenly although I was logged in... I'm sure I did not delete it myself !! And then the root account had no password ! It was empty ! It's just... like, is it possible that my computer has already been hacked ??? Before I just have time enough to upgrade properly ?
Cheers !
EDIT: That looks normal, doesn't it ?
xochipilli# sockstat -4 USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS root Xorg 957 3 tcp4 *:6000 *:* root sendmail 829 3 tcp4 127.0.0.1:25 *:* root lpd 759 7 tcp4 *:515 *:* root syslogd 680 7 udp4 *:514 *:* xochipilli#
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mount problem
PROBLEM number 2 :
Something else : some ext2fs partitions don't mount. Only one does.
The FAT32 partition on my external disk drive mounts perfectly well. All /media subdirectories do exist (studio, disk-0, disk-1, disk-2).
Here are the shell commands for the experiences :
1°) trying to mount a linux partition of the hard disk drive (this one works but is not interesting, it's only the / ; the /home folder is on another slice). I don't understand why during my first try of FreeBSD, it did mount well. No clue.
2°) trying to mount another linux partition of the hard disk drive
3°) fdisk result on ad0
4°) trying to mount the two partitions of the external disk drive
I think the answer for the linux partition on the hard disk drive is here :
So when I have time I'll try it.
For the external disk drive, I don't know. I've found this :
& read throughout but I can't test this solution (page 3) since there's no MAKEDEV script in /dev and I don't know where to find one. In Google, everything about MAKEDEV & FreeBSD seems related to previous releases.
[root@xochipilli ~]# cd /dev [root@xochipilli /dev]# ls ad* ad0 ad0s1 ad0s2 ad0s3 ad0s4 ad0s4a ad0s4b ad0s4c ad0s4d ad0s4e ad0s4f [root@xochipilli /dev]# mount -t ext2fs ad0s1 /media/studio [root@xochipilli /dev]# ls /media/studio/ .rnd cdrom home lib mnt root sys var bin dev initrd lost+found opt sbin tmp vmlinuz boot etc initrd.img media proc srv usr [root@xochipilli /dev]# umount /media/studio [root@xochipilli /dev]# mount -t ext2fs ad0s3 /media/studio/ mount: ad0s3 : Operation not permitted [root@xochipilli /dev]# fdisk ad0 ******* Working on device ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=116280 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=116280 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native) start 63, size 11711322 (5718 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 728/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 130 (0x82),(Linux swap or Solaris x86) start 11711385, size 1959930 (956 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 729/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 850/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native) start 13671315, size 19535040 (9538 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 851/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 33206355, size 84003885 (41017 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 [root@xochipilli /dev]# ls da* da0 da0s1 da0s2 [root@xochipilli /dev]# fdisk da0 ******* Working on device da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native) start 63, size 512007552 (250003 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 11 (0x0b),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) start 512007615, size 113129730 (55239 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> [root@xochipilli /dev]# mount -t ext2fs da0s1 /media/disk-1/ mount: da0s1 : Invalid argument [root@xochipilli /dev]# mount -t msdosfs da0s2 /media/disk-2/ [root@xochipilli /dev]# ls /media/disk-2/ .Trash-nico andere Studien schlaganfall anfall innere stage backup_partiel radio.rtf aktuelledaten hanhbefragungtest.sav radioneu [root@xochipilli /dev]#
mount_ext2fs(8) doesn't work?
# mount_ext2fs -o ro /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/ad0s1
From MAKEDEV(8):
MAKEDEV -- old script for creating device nodes DESCRIPTION The MAKEDEV script was deprecated by devfs(5) and removed from FreeBSD after devfs(5) became mandatory.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
well it's a shame again, I finally fixed the problem (apparently) 2 minutes after posting (and I'm on it since monday...)
I finally started the linux OS to test the solution from big scary daemons. And linux complained about unclean shutdown and repaired exactly the hard disk drive partition that I couldn't mount.
So the problem didn't come from FreeBSD.
PS mount_ext2fs isn't installed, but ext2fs seem to mount well (from the console at least)
PPS thanks about MAKEDEV, i just didn't think to man !
but if anyone has any clue about the root disappearing password, then let me know !
Can you set a new root password with passwd(1)?
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
i did it at once, it was possible. i just wonder how is it possible that the user account could have disappeared (while logged in !) and the root account could have lost his password. the only operation i was doing was portupgrade -a... => ?
i do have another question : when portupgrading (-a), there's a port that doesn't upgrade and the reason is that it is marked as broken (doesn't compile). this is xf86-video-i810-1.7.4_1 . on freshports, i checked that this was indicated as well, so it doesn't come from my installation. but this prevents FreeBSD from upgrading some other ports (like xorg related ones). is there any fix, or should I just wait till the port isn't broken anymore ?
Another port has problem, this is totem. when i try to make install clean it, it ends with :
checking for EXTRA_GNOME... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.13.4 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.12.6 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.3.3 gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.16.0 gnome-vfs-module-2.0 >= 2.16.0 libgnome-2.0 >= 2.14.0 gnome-icon-theme >= 2.15.90 gmodule-2.0 totem-plparser >= 2.21.90 iso-codes gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.12 gstreamer-base-0.10 >= 0.10.12 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 >= 0.10.12 gconf-2.0) were not met: Requested 'totem-plparser >= 2.21.90' but version of totem-plparser is 2.20.1
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Five Things Cruise Lines Won't Tell You
MarketWatch's Ian Salisbury looks at some of the things cruise lines won't tell you as you sail the ocean blue. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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In celebration of their fourth wedding anniversary, Beyonce has decided to release over 150 personal photos of herself and rap superstar Jay Z on her new Tumblr blog.
The photos will detail the ten year relationship of music's power couple and will include numerous trips, loving moments and a few personal shots.
Given that both have kept their relationship pretty private over the years, the fact that this is their fourth anniversary and Beyonce "loves" the number 4 could play a role into this decision.
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One Quick Handwriting Transcription Challenge Every Day-for the genealogist in you
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Who Got Hitched and By Whom?
Posted by Bubba at 10:25 AM
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Thos. J or I Ivry or as Jane writes Ivey. Then Sally Boycourt or Boycount. The I believe it is an "S" rather than a "P" because in the first sentence the S in September looks like S for Sally.Delete
Not sure, but possibly an Rezin Hammond? TLzin does not make sense. That is all of my guesses :-)
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Therzin Hammond - Minister
groom = Thos. J Ivey, bride = Polly Boycourt, officiant = Rezin HammondReplyDelete
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Pezin Hammona married Thomas J. Ivey & Polly BoycourtReplyDelete
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All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
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Carol of the Bells (Christmas Bell Carol)
Chestnuts Roasting (The Christmas Song)
Do You Hear What I Hear
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Frosty The Snowman
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
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Guardiola hails "big step" towards Bundesliga title
Pep Guardiola felt Bayern Munich took a "big step" towards defending the Bundesliga title with a 2-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach.
Goals from Mario Gotze and Thomas Muller secured victory for the leaders, who became the first side to win 15 of their opening 17 games in the Bundesliga.
Friday's victory moved Bayern on to 47 points, another record at the halfway stage of the season, and 10 clear of second-placed Bayer Leverkusen.
Guardiola was pleased with the way his side coped against Monchengladbach, who sit third.
"I am pleased for the team," he said. "I believe we took a big step forward towards defending our title.
"We played well against an incredible opponent. It is not easy to win here. We controlled the game.
"On Wednesday (at Stuttgart) we have a great opportunity to extend our lead with another three points."
One player not involved in Bayern's win was forward Mario Mandzukic, and sporting director Matthias Sammer revealed the Croatia international had been left out by Guardiola after poor displays in training.
Sammer denied rumours that the 27-year-old could leave the club before the end of the month, insisting he remains a vital part of Bayern's plans.
"Mario has not trained hard enough," Sammer told Sky Sport Deutschland. "The coach decided not to put him in the squad.
"He is precious to us, because he works like an animal. But he has not been doing it this time, so his absence is the consequence.
"It has nothing to do with (the future arrival of Robert) Lewandowski. He (Mandzukic) is absolutely not leaving in January."


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Just a 20-minute walk from pretty Oia (up and down a few hills), Katharos beach lies hidden away between rugged cliffs and rocks. A total escape from the brasher aspects of the island, it remains blissfully undiscovered (no sun beds, no umbrellas), and its fine black volcanic sand, moody sea and stunning sunsets give it an other-worldly vibe. Along a path and up some steps, above the beach, the boho-chic Katharos Lounge (Tel: 6970 966 754; daily 11 am-2 am) serves freshly-squeezed juices and light snacks, and stages live music most evenings.


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New Delhi: The National Textile Corporation Limited (NTC) has announced the hunt for the country`s 10 most promising designers. The 'NTC Young Designer Hunt' will be monitored by ace designer Raghavendra Rathore, who will not only supervise the talent hunt but will also train the participating designers too.
Rathore, who recently made the wedding achkan of Saif Ali Khan, feels that the efforts that have been put into this talent hunt will definitely help create a future of India on global map.
"I am actually looking for local players, in fact I believe that the next big trend is regionalisation because globalisation has happened already. I believe that next big thing that is going to happen now is to celebrate what is close to you and make it available to people, who don`t know that it exists," Rathore told reporters.
"With this hunt we are looking for someone who is creatively clear with their thoughts. They are not designing what is already there but they need to design for the future. I think that is the key. It is not about runway or retail stores, it is about how do you get an enticing in the Indian market. It is very important for people to visualise packaging when you create the product because the biggest weakness today is packaging," he added.
NTC, a central public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Textiles, made the announcement Wednesday night about the Young Designer Hunt. The press conference in this regard was addressed by union Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles Anand Sharma, who also inaugurated the project.
"This designer hunt will not only help the young designers in showcasing their creativity but will also help NTC in fulfilling its commitment of transforming itself into a world class, eco-friendly and integrated textile corporation," Sharma said.
The budding designers can download the entry form and mini-portfolios with the details of selection process from the NTC website.


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UK hospital: Pakistani girl shot by Taliban in stable condition after 2 successful surgeries
LONDON – A Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban is in stable condition after undergoing two successful operations to reconstruct her skull and restore her hearing, the British hospital treating her said Sunday.
Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital said doctors for 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was targeted for advocating girls' education, were "very pleased" with her progress after five hours of skull reconstruction and ear surgery on Saturday.
"She is awake and talking to staff and members of her family," the hospital said in a statement, adding that she would continue to recover in the hospital until she is well enough to be discharged.
The teenager drew the world's attention by being shot and critically wounded by Taliban militants on Oct. 9, as she walked home from school in northwestern Pakistan. The Islamist group said they targeted her because she promoted girls' education and "Western thinking" and criticized the militant group's behavior when it took over the scenic Swat Valley where she lived.
At age 11, Malala began to write a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC about life under the Taliban in the Swat Valley. After Pakistan's military ousted the militants in 2009, she began publicly speaking out about the need for girls' education. She appeared frequently in the media and was given one of the country's highest civilian honors for her bravery.
Her story has captured global attention for the struggle for women's rights in Pakistan, and in a sign of her reach the teen made the shortlist for Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2012.
Malala was airlifted to Britain from Pakistan in October to receive specialized medical care and protection against further Taliban threats. She is expected to remain in the U.K. for some time after her father, Ziauddin, was given a diplomatic post based in the English city of Birmingham.
So far, doctors say she has made very good progress. She was able to stand, write and return home, and doctors said they have seen minimum signs of brain damage.


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László Csordás is a Hungarian comic book illustrator, born in Szikszó on 17 January 1960. A self-taught artist, he was encouraged by comic book scriptwriter Ferenc Kiss to pursue a career in comics. He began working for Füles magazine and its sister publications in 1995.
The jests of King Mathias
Csordás follows the path of the traditions of Zórád and has a great sense of adapting classic Hungarian literary works to comics. These include Ernö Szép's 'Mátyás király tréfái' ('The jests of King Mathias', 1995–2001), H.G. Wells' 'Kökori história' ('A Story of the Stone Age', 1996), Mihály Fazekas' 'Lúdas Matyi' (1999), Antal Gyurits' 'Menekvés Debreczenbe' ('Escape to Debreczen', 1999), Frigyes Karinthy's 'A cirkusz' ('The circus', 2004), Zsigmond Móricz's 'Tragédia' (2005).
He also made an adaptation of H.G. Wells' 'A story of the Stone Age' in 1996, and has worked with Ferenc Kiss on the 'Razor' series in 2010. In 1999 he won third place in the comic book competition Menekvés Debreczenbe (Escape to Debreczen) announced by the Museum of Transport.


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Somebody is not telling the truth.
At issue is whether deliberate actions by state officials are letting Texas gas industry robber barons do more damage to the environment than was done by coal industry robber barons in the last century, and are endangering people's health in the process.
This past week, there was an opportunity for opposing sides in that debate to meet face-to-face and put their cards on the table. Gov. Tom Corbett's oddly named Department of Environmental Protection, it seems, contemplated the lyrics of "The Gambler" and reacted in a disturbingly revealing way.


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Sanaa: Yemeni security officials say a suspected al Qaeda suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint manned by pro-government tribesmen in the country`s south, killing three militiamen.
The officials say the attacker walked up to the checkpoint in the city of Zinjibar and detonated his explosives-laden vest today. The city was under al Qaeda control for months until a military offensive reclaimed the territory earlier this year.
The Yemeni officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
Local tribesmen formed militias and fought both alongside the military in the government`s offensive against al Qaeda and also alone in efforts to uproot the militants from villages and towns in the south.
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DUMBO-based Situ Studio's Times Square installation has found a new home at the Pearl Street Triangle. The installation made from Sandy-salvaged planks, brings cheer to the community which was affected by the natural disaster.
The DUMBO Improvement District and Situ Studio, in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), are responsible for the installation of Heartwalk. The massive 30ft art installation which was made from Sandy-salvaged wood, will be relocated from its original home in Times Square to Pearl Street Triangle in Brooklyn.
"We're so thrilled to host Heartwalk," said Alexandria Sica, Executive Director of the DUMBO Improvement District. "As DUMBO continues to get back on its feet from Sandy, Heartwalk is a beautiful reminder of all of the support and love that embodied this community in the aftermath of the storm. I'm calling it a DUMBO Trifecta!"
Situ Studio, a 20 Jay Street-based design studio, was originally commissioned to create the piece for Times Square, where it greeted thousands of visitors last month. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the piece and stand in the centre of the heart.
Wes Rozen of Situ Studio said: "It's exciting to see Heartwalk set in another dynamic public space and the center of a neighborhood we've proudly called home for the past 10 years. Since Sandy we've closely watched our community rebuild and hope the installation will complement the spirited recovery."
DUMBO is home to the designers and a community that continues to heal following significant devastation from Superstorm Sandy. Heartwalk will be on view in the Pearl Street Triangle (Water Street at Pearl Street) through 30 April, and can be seen from the Manhattan Bridge bicycle lane.
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is a big fan of the project, declaring: "Brooklynites have enormous heart, and that was never more true than following Hurricane Sandy, when thousands of our residents came to the aid of fellow Brooklynites and New Yorkers. So DUMBO-and all of Brooklyn-is thrilled to open our hearts to the art installation Heartwalk, crafted from boardwalk wood salvaged from Sandy's aftermath and created by DUMBO's own Situ Studio."
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Issuer Delisting; Notice of Application of NL Industries, Inc. to Withdraw its Common Stock, $.125 par value, from Listing and Registration on the Pacific Exchange, Inc. File No. 1-00640
July 20, 2005
On June 22, 2005, NL Industries, Inc., a New Jersey corporation, ("Issuer"), filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission"), pursuant to Section 12(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act")1 and Rule 12d2-2(d) thereunder,2 to withdraw its common stock, $.125 par value ("Security"), from listing and registration on the Pacific Exchange, Inc. ("PCX").
On May 19, 2005, the Board of Directors ("Board") of the Issuer approved resolutions to withdraw the Security from listing and registration on PCX. The Board determined that the compliance burdens on the Issuer to maintain the listing of the Security on PCX exceeded the benefits of such listing. The Issuer stated that the Security is currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. ("NYSE") and will continue to trade on NYSE after the Security is withdrawn from PCX.
The Issuer stated in its application that it has complied with applicable rules of PCX by providing PCX with the required documents governing the withdrawal of securities from listing and registration on PCX. The Issuer's application relates solely to the withdrawal of the Security from listing on PCX, and shall not affect its continued listing on NYSE or its obligation to be registered under Section 12(b) of the Act.3
Any interested person may, on or before August 12, 2005, comment on the facts bearing upon whether the application has been made in accordance with the rules of PCX, and what terms, if any, should be imposed by the Commission for the protection of investors. All comment letters may be submitted by either of the following methods:
Electronic comments:
Paper comments:
All submissions should refer to File Number 1-00640. This file number should be included on the subject line if e-mail is used. To help us process and review your comments more efficiently, please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on the Commission's Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/rules/delist.shtml). Comments are also available for public inspection and copying in the Commission's Public Reference Room. All comments received will be posted without change; we do not edit personal identifying information from submissions. You should submit only information that you wish to make available publicly.
The Commission, based on the information submitted to it, will issue an order granting the application after the date mentioned above, unless the Commission determines to order a hearing on the matter.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (December 7, 2005) - The Lady Bucs basketball team downed College of Charleston, 59-55, Wednesday night in John Kresse Arena. Senior Candace Gibson (Warner Robins, Ga.) tallied 19 points, including nine-straight in the second half, to help the Lady Bucs to the win. The senior posted a double-double, grabbing 11 rebounds.
The Lady Bucs improve to 5-1 on the year, while C of C drops to 3-3.
Senior B.J. Banjo (Baltimore, Md.) drained a basket and a free throw in the waning minutes of the contest and also picked off a Cougar pass, icing the Lady Bucs' four-point victory. Michele DeVault (Columbus, Ohio) also hit a free throw in the final minute. Both Banjo and DeVault posted 10 points on the night. Melissa Chambers led C of C with 12 points.
ETSU would get up by as many as 13 in the first period, but an 8-0 Cougar run to end the half, brought the Lady Buc lead to just three, at 26-23. C of C held ETSU scoreless for the last 5:39 of the frame. Gibson led the way early with eight first-half points, including a perfect 4-for-4 performance at the charity stripe. The senior also posted six rebounds in the opening period. Sophomores Jenny Norman (Peachtree City, Ga.) and DeVault added six each. Tiffany Green paced the Cougars with half a dozen.
The Cougars picked up where they left off in the second half, taking the 27-26 lead behind scores by Marketta Tally and Melissa Chambers. The C of C lead was short lived, however, as a layup by Gibson put the Lady Bucs back on top at 28-27. Back-to-back buckets by Adaeze Azubuike (Lexington, Ky.) brought the lead back to five at 32-27. The rookie had eight points on the night, all in the second half.
C of C would tie the game at 46 with just five minutes to play in the game, but ETSU quickly went back up by five, behind a three by DeVault and a basket by Azubuike. But the Cougars wouldn't go away, tying the game once again at 1:23. The Cougars drained four-straight free throws to knot the score.
The Lady Bucs got out to a quick 4-0 lead with barely over a minute gone by the in first half with a bucket by Norman and a pair of free throws by Gibson. Another Norman score, with a Banjo assist, extended the early lead to 6-0.
ETSU kept the pressure on, taking an eight-point lead on a short jumper by Nichelle Akers (Sumter, S.C.). Gibson brought the lead to double digits, sinking another pair of free throws with 15:54 left in the period.
The Cougars finally got on the board at the 15:18 mark, as Erica Irick drained two from the charity stripe. C of C wouldn't get its first field goal until 13:14, when Cougar Tiffany Green made a jumper in the lane. But the Cougars couldn't get anything going early, as the Lady Bucs led 17-4
with just under 12 minutes left in the half.
The Cougars chipped the lead down to single digits midway through the first half, but a pair of threes by DeVault brought the Lady Buc lead back to 13. C of C would fight back to get within seven late in the opening period with a three-point play by Nikki Williams, cutting the ETSU lead to 26-19. The Cougars continued to surge with buckets by Melissa Chambers and Williams before heading to the locker room.
The Lady Bucs continue play on the road this weekend, as they head to Bowling Green, Ky., to take on Western Kentucky. The game is slated for Sunday, Dec. 11, at 2:30 p.m. CST.


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Mon, 26 October 2009
Jaime Vendera, voice coach to a bunch of rockers, actually CAN bust wine glasses with his voice...they guy on Mythbusters. Advice for anyone who does voice work. Then, outsourcing jobs to Mexico while Iowa's political class imports workers from Mexico... a win-win? AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGG!
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How Payola Works Today... Or Why You Only Hear Major Label Songs On The Radio
from the who-listens-to-radio-any-more? dept
Getting a song "added" to a station's playlist to get a certain number of plays per week involves a rather byzantine process that brings in various parties, called independent promoters ("indies"). These "indies" are first paid by the label. It's important to note that the money the indies receive isn't necessarily compensation paid directly to them for getting Program Directors to get a song played. Rather, they work more like an intermediary to pass the label's money to the radio station. These indies, with the money paid to them from the labels, pay the radio station money for various listener give-aways, bumper stickers and so on. To top it off, these very same indies are often also paid a second time by the stations themselves as a consultant to advise the stations on what songs they should play.Because of this, the major labels absolutely dominate radio airplay. Independent labels could try to hire the same indie promoters, but won't get the same attention anyway:
Here's why: You've come to these indies, and they've gone to the labels, and they've taken your money, and they know that you're probably not coming back any time soon. On the other hand, the majors are coming every week with money and new artists. Who would you prioritize if you were in the indie/radio station's shoes?Now, as Howard notes, and many of you probably have already realized, this is not a sustainable system. Because if radio keeps playing crappy songs based on bribes rather than quality, in an age where there are greater and greater alteranatives, the system won't hold. More and more people will go elsewhere, where there's more choice and fewer guys with briefcases full of cash making the decisions.
If you're wondering exactly why the labels have been trying to shut down popular hip hop blogs recently, look no further than this story. Such blogs have really become "the new radio" for creating hits for the younger generation. But, unlike the old radio, the major labels don't "control" these blogs in the way they control radio. While some of it may just be the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, there are at least some who see this as an opportunity to "regain control." Forcing blogs offline and/or trying to significantly limit them is a pure power play by the labels against hip hop blogs. It's got nothing to do with copyright or being worried about someone's songs leaking. It's why the RIAA is out there sending takedowns on music that a Universal Music employee purposely put online for free.
Now I've said before that I'm not convinced that payola for radio play is necessarily wrong or bad. A play on radio is effectively a commercial for that music/musicians. And paying for commercials is (obviously) fairly common. Is it really so crazy that some in the industry want to "buy" spots? I get the argument concerning the lack of transparency. And, in fact, as technology becomes more widespread, and as the next generation of services launches, radio stations are going to be forced to move away from payola not because they don't like the practice... but because people won't be relying on radio so much for leaning about new songs. For the time being, it's likely that these kinds of situations will last. But consumers just aren't going to stand for it that much longer.


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Girl Scouts of Rhode Island and the Pawtucket Red Sox in Providence, R.I. are hosting a Girl Scout sleepover for July 18.
The PawSox are playing Indianapolis at 6 p.m.
The Girl Scout Sleepover is a great event for scouts of all ages.
At a price of $25 per camper (scout & chaperone), this event includes an on-field clinic with members of the PawSox team, ticket to the game, and a food voucher for a hotdog, bag of chips and a sports drink.
The highlight of the evening is the opportunity to pitch your tent in the outfield of McCoy Stadium and the showing of a movie on the right field video board.
For additional information or to order tickets visit, http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/promotions/index.jsp?sid=t533
This is a very popular event and typically sells out quickly.


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Mark your calendar and plan to attend our Epic Summer Kick-off Party
Saturday, May 28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Visit animals from the Akron Zoo
Enjoy free Milk and Honey ice cream
Be entertained by Mr. Puppet
Learn about the StarkFresh Veggie Mobile
What makes an Epic Summer?
Summer Reading Clubs for all ages
Registration begins May 27
Family Film Fridays Under the Stars
in Witwer Park
June 10 – Disney's Inside Out
July 8 – Minions
August 12 – Zootopia
Summer Patio Parties
Live music on the Little Art Gallery patio
at lunch July 22, July 29, August 5
Veggie Mobile
Visit the StarkFresh mobile veggie market at the library each Tuesday from 3:30 – 5 p.m. this summer!
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I could hardly believe my eyes.
And it was Valentine's Day. Seriously.
It's a sign.
ps. love the 'quiet' too.
And how about that Scout as cameragirl? What a wonderful memory for me.
I will treasure this always.
Thanks, Scoutie.
This bread recipe is from one of my favorite cookbooks...
Arthur Schwartz's New York City Food.
Run, don't walk, to your library and check it out. We've started traditions with some of these recipes and the book is only a few years new. If you love New York City, history and food, you need to see this book. Trust me.
And please come back and tell me what you think. I would love to know.
I made these using ginger ale and just a few other add ins.
Scout's comment: The most delicious meat I've ever eaten in my life.
I'm not sure I can argue.
One of my 2009 goals {the list is coming soon. Stay tuned.} is to return to our weekly menu plan. This meal is a definite inspiration toward that end.
Bon Appetite to all my friends.
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Post Chavez Election Puts Focuses Back on Opposition Leader Henrique Capriles
CARACAS, Venezuela – With the date set to pick the replacement for Hugo Chávez, all eyes in Venezuela are on Election Day.
And since Chávez's hand-picked successor Nicolas Maduro is already the official party candidate, just one big question remains: Who will be his opponent?
On late Sunday opposition leader Henrique Capriles will announce his intentions in what could be the most important decision of his political life. He faces a stark choice: run in the April 14 vote many believe he is sure to lose amid a frenzy of sympathy and mourning for the dead president, or stay on the sidelines and risk his leadership of the opposition.
Some say a second defeat for the 40-year-old state governor just six months after he lost last year's presidential vote to Chávez could derail his political career. If he waits, a Chavista government led by Nicolas Maduro, the acting president, might prove inept and give him a better shot down the road.
On a personal Twitter page that bore all the rah-rah adornments of a campaign site, Capriles wrote Saturday afternoon: "I am analyzing the declaration of the (electoral commission setting the date) and in the next hours I will talk to the country about my decision." A spokesman said Capriles would make an announcement in the early evening.
Whoever the opposition runs, analysts predict the next five weeks will increase the nasty, heated rhetoric that began even before Chávez's death Tuesday after a nearly two-year fight with cancer.
Maduro, who was named Chávez's vice president after the October election, was sworn in as this oil-rich country's acting leader Friday night and has made clear he will be the ruling party candidate. He is expected to file election papers on Monday.
Really what this campaign would be about is allowing the opposition to put themselves in position for the future, to show that they have some ideas for the country.
Opposition critics have called Maduro's ascension unconstitutional, noting the charter designates the National Assembly president as acting leader if a president-elect cannot be sworn in.
Angel Alvarez, a political science professor at the Central University of Venezuela, said Capriles is well aware that "the dice are loaded in favor of the government's candidate."
That means sitting out the race would make sense for Capriles, said David Smilde, an analyst with the U.S.-based think tank the Washington Office on Latin America.
"If he says he doesn't want to run I could totally understand that," Smilde said. "He is likely going to lose and if he loses this election he's probably going to be done."
On the streets of Caracas on Sunday, opinion was as divided as always in a country that became dramatically more polarized during Chávez's 14-year rule.
"It's not fair," said Jose Mendez, a 54-year-old businessman of the choice the opposition leader faces. "(Maduro) has an advantage, because of everything they have done since Chávez's death, all the sentiment they've created ... But the guy has nothing. He can't hold a candle to Chávez."
But Ramon Romero said the opposition was just making excuses, and had no chance of victory in any case.
"Now their odds are even worse," said the 64-year-old waiter and staunch Chávez supporter. "They don't care about anyone, and we (the voters) have been lifted out of darkness."
There was no indication that the opposition would sit out the vote altogether. A boycott of 2005 legislative elections was widely seen as disastrous for the opposition. In possession of every single seat, Chávez's camp was able to extend its hold on government, including stacking the Supreme Court with loyalists.
If Capriles does stay out, analysts say, the opposition would be wise to run fresher faces such as Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledesma or Henry Falcone, governor of Lara state and one of just three opposition governors. That would give them the opportunity to clearly articulate a platform and vision without damaging its top star. Capriles garnered 44 percent of October's votes, which was the most anyone had won against Chávez since he took office.
"Really what this campaign would be about is allowing the opposition to put themselves in position for the future, to show that they have some ideas for the country," Smilde said.
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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Major League Soccer has officially put the 2012 season to bed. In a rematch of last year's finals, the Los Angeles Galaxy beat the Houston Dynamos 3-1 after scoring all three of their goals in the second half, two of which were penalty kicks.
The game, of course, was a fitting cap to David Beckham's career, which is all anyone can talk about when it comes to soccer. In America, we're still waiting for a transcendent star to break the glass ceiling of soccer's appeal to the masses. Many thought it would be Beckham, but while plenty are finding reason to celebrate in his going out on top, there have been rough patches in his MLS career as well.
The simple truth is that soccer, even at its post-Beckham level, is nowhere near the popularity of the four major sports in America. Football is king. There are a myriad basketball and baseball purists. Even hockey, a virtually unheralded sport in New Mexico, has regional swells of popularity. By pure television rankings of championship events, the Super Bowl crushes all the sports combined. An estimated 111 million Americans tuned in to the big game last February. The last baseball championship, where the San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers, managed 15.5 million viewers for Game 4. The Miami Heat's triumph over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 nabbed 18.4 million viewers. When the Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Devils in Game 6, the NHL only wrangled five million viewers. This year's MLS Cup meanwhile, backtracking on the progress they'd made last year, managed only a 0.7 Nielsen rating. This translates to just over one million viewers.
Experts have offered suggestions about how to improve the ratings, but it still remains that soccer is averaging significantly fewer viewers for its championship game than the NCAA women's college basketball championship game, which is dismissed outright by many sports fans. It seems to be a chicken or egg problem: sponsors aren't going to spend money supporting a game that isn't bringing sets of eyes to the tube, but without that money and hype, how will people be attracted?
David Beckham was going to be that answer. For now, the question remains unsolved. But don't feel bad for Beckham. He's going to play for another year somewhere before returning to MLS with some sort of managerial or ownership role. And don't pity the Los Angeles Galaxy. Joining the NHL Kings, they're now the reigning champs of a sport that few might be tuning in for, but which still allows plenty of room for growth.


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Omar Thornton (Man Who Shot 10 White Co-Workes For Alleged Racial Discrimination) Makes 911 Call After Killing 8 People! "This Is A Racist Place. They Treat All The Black Employees Bad. Wish I Killed More!" [Audio]
"For two days, employees at a beer distribution company puzzled over why an easy-going co-worker with no history of violence would go on a rampage, fatally shooting eight men and wounding two others before killing himself. Then, the shooter himself told them why. In a chilling, 4-minute 911 call, Omar Thornton told a police dispatcher how he sought to avenge racial discrimination through the shootings Tuesday at Hartford Distributors Inc. in Manchester. "You probably want to know the reason why I shot this place up," Thornton said in a recording released Thursday. "This place is a racist place. They're treating me bad over here. And treat all other black employees bad over here, too. So I took it to my own hands and handled the problem. I wish I could have got more of the people." Thornton, 34, went on his killing spree moments after he was forced to resign when confronted with video evidence that he had been stealing and reselling beer." - AP
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Raj Lab:Internal
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Getting started in the lab: Penn bureaucracy
Here's a little help with some of the basics of getting started at Penn.
- The first step is to get a PennKey. This is required for a lot of Penn-related services, including getting your PennCard.
- The next step is to get a PennCard. This is required to get access to various facilities and services at Penn, including the lab itself. The easiest way to get the card is to go to card services, 150 Franklin Building on Walnut street.
- Once you have a PennCard, e-mail the card number to me and I will activate the card for access to the lab.
- Your PennCard will give you gym access, but only if you purchase a membership. I think the health insurance people will give you some sort of a discount if you go regularly, though.
- Your PennKey will also enable you to access journals off campus through the library proxy service. One easy way to read a paper is to just type https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?url=%@, where %@ is the URL of the paper you are trying to access.
Getting started in the lab: Lab safety
This section is still in preparation...
Getting started in the lab: Computing
Setting up accounts and software:
- We use Google for a lot of internal lab stuff, like sharing documents and protocols, etc., so a good first step is to create a Google account (if you already use Gmail, then no need to do anything, your Gmail account is sufficient). I use Gmail as my primary e-mail and set my Penn SEAS e-mail to forward to it.
- Send me your e-mail address and I will add you to the Google mailing list for the lab. We use this list for all lab-related announcements, events, discussion, etc. We also post information on there about the group meeting schedule. Here is the website.
- Once I have your Google account, I will share the lab calendars with you. These calendars contain useful information about lab events, microscope schedules and seminars.
- Zotero is an extremely useful reference management tool that lives in your browser as a FireFox extension. If you set up an account, I can share selected reference lists with you related to various projects in the lab.
- We use MATLAB for much of our data analysis. I am currently looking into the most cost effective way to obtain licenses--more soon.
- I use a piece of software called Remember the Milk for task management. It has really helped me stay organized, might be useful for you...
- I encourage everyone to set up a website for themselves. Website options include OpenWetWare or hosting on SEAS. Let me know once your site is up and I will link to it from the main lab website.
- Your PennKey will enable you to access journals off campus through the library proxy service. One easy way to read a paper is to just type https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?url=%@, where %@ is the URL of the paper you are trying to access.
Electronic organization of lab resources:
- Many organizational aspects of the lab are stored in a master Google account, including the calendar. I am not posting the account information here in the interest of security, but you can ask me or someone else in the lab and they will let you know the username and password.
- All primers and probe sets should be recorded within the appropriate Google document.
- All cell lines stored in the liquid nitrogen dewar should be recorded within the appropriate Google document as soon as they are placed in there (very hard to keep track of it afterwards!).
- Check the "Reagents and Chemicals" Google document before ordering new reagents and minor items to see what we ordered last time and how long ago we ordered it.
Life in the lab: Science
- One book I highly recommend is "At the Bench", which contains several nuggets of wisdom about working in a lab. We have a copy in the lab.
- Check out the Raj:Links for information about seminars at Penn.
Life in the lab: Students
More coming soon...
Life in the lab: Postdocs
- SEAS has a nice website for postdocs.
- For continuing down the academic track, I highly recommend reading Making the Right Moves from HHMI and BWF.


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You may have seen some whining and bitching when this video of Brock Lesnar taking out prairie dogs with what appears to be the BFG 9000 from Doom hit the web. We don't really want to get into moral equivalency arguments about hunting and dogfighting and wanton slaughter of semi-sentient beings. But we will say that only the order Carnivora have souls, so Lesnar's safe on that count.
And, oh yes: one thing's illegal; the other isn't.
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Here it is folks, simply magic. Do the 3 minute video.
'Every reflecting mind must acknowledge that there is no proof of the existence of a Deity'
'If ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, knowledge of nature destroys them'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I always suspected Shermer has magic fingers!
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"..stroke, stroke, stroke…."
"Every war is a war against children."
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Announcing hwloc: portable hardware locality open source software
(this blog entry co-written by Brice Goglin and Samuel Thibault from the INRIA Runtime Team)
We're pleased to announce a new open source software project: Hardware Locality (or "hwloc", for short). The hwloc software discovers and maps the NUMA nodes, shared caches, and processor sockets, cores, and threads of Linux/Unix and Windows servers. The resulting topological information can be displayed graphically or conveyed programatically though a C language API. Applications (and middleware) that use this information can optimize their performance in a variety of ways, including tuning computational cores to fit cache sizes and utilizing data locality-aware algorithms.
hwloc actually represents the merger of two prior open source software projects:
- libtopology, a package for discovering and reporting the internal processor and cache topology in Unix and Windows servers.
- Portable Linux Processor Affinity (PLPA), a package for solving Linux topological processor binding compatibility issues
These two projects had a certain amount of functional overlap; both had elements from the other on their short- and long-term roadmaps. The maintainers of these projects felt it would be easier to combine forces to produce a new, unified code base representing the best ideas from both prior projects. The first release of hwloc is expected in the not-distant future, and mainly represents a "re-branding" of libtopology (but will include a small number of bug fixes and improvements inspired from PLPA). Future releases will further merge the code bases and ideas from the two project, and progress down both libtopology's and PLPA's roadmaps in terms of new features and optimizations.
hwloc supports the following operating systems:
- Linux
- Solaris
- OS X / Darwin
- OSF/1 (Tru64)
- Windows
hwloc is an open source project; we encourage interested parties to join in the development process and/or provide feedback on our efforts.
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- Announcement mailing list a low-frequently mailing list for announcing new releases of hwloc.
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Tutorial 3b: Materials Simulation by First-Principles Density Functional Theory II
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This lecture is part of the 2010 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up.
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tiva wrote:I'll try to think of a good behavior to shape and reward closer to the position I'm ultimately aiming for. Hardly a scientific experiment, but fun all the same.
Sorry I to double post but I missed this and thought I would offer you up a behavior to try A while back I was trying to work on some rear end awareness with Kayden and someone suggested I work on perch work. I basically had to teach him to put his front paws on an elevated surface (I used a large book) and to keep his hind legs on the floor. Once they understand that behavior you start clicking them for moving their hind legs so they are rotating around the book with their front legs still stationary. Working with Vanya on having her front paws on an object like that would be a good game to try for treating in position. When I shaped it all treats were put ON the book


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ORLANDO, Fla. - Local 6 Sports Director David Pingalore has learned that a leading candidate has emerged in the Orlando Magic's search for a new general manager, and that an announcement could be made as soon as Wednesday.
According to sources, Rob Hennigan, 30, is the leading candidate for the Magic's GM position.
Hennigan is currently the assistant general manager and is in charge of player personnel for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
According to Pingalore's sources, the hiring of Hennigan is nearing but terms of the deal have yet to be finalized.
"It would make complete sense to hire Henningan. He's fresh, young and will bring new ideas to the Magic," an NBA executive told Pingalore.
Hennigan, a native of Worcester, MA was quoted in GoLocalWorcester.com last week that he would like to be a NBA general manager one day.
"I think in a perfect world, I would love to have the chance to manage a team," Hennigan told GoLocalWorcester.com. "But I'm in such a special place here with the Thunder. I really love it here, and just feel so blessed to work with the people I work with. So, it doesn't have to happen right now."
Hennigan would be replacing Otis Smith, who was fired last month.
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United Airlines (NYSE:UAL) grounded certain flights across the U.S. Thursday morning due to a glitch in the computer system that controls the airline's ground operations.
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Just before 11 a.m. ET, a United spokesperson told FOX Business that the internal system was "up and running," adding that the airline is "getting back to normal."
The glitch caused "some but not all mainline flights" to be delayed, though United Express was not impacted, the spokesman said.
The problem seems to have affected passengers across the country, from New York's LaGuardia to San Francisco. The airline had been telling passengers to rebook on other airlines.
The system outage was related to United's Unimatic, the software used by United ground operations. United said some computer activity had resumed as of around 10:30 a.m. ET, though it was not clear how long it would take to completely resolve all of the issues.
The Chicago-based company began boarding passengers at LaGuardia for all United flights around 10:30 but gave no timeline on when those flights would take off. In San Francisco, Simon Marks, president of Feature Story News, said his flight to Washington D.C. had boarded after a 20 minute delay.
"Pilot says computers [are] back up," Simon said in an email to FOX Business. "Ground staff now playing catch-up."
The No. 1 U.S. carrier has been plagued by a number of computer outages since its merger with Continental. Since combining their computer systems in March, outages have been reported in March, May and August of this year alone.
"United has been bedeviled with these computer glitches," said Mary Schiavo, former inspector general at the U.S. Department of Transportation. "They've already had four this year and it's only gotten worse since their merger with Continental."
Shares of United dipped 1.25% Thursday morning.


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D-backs fall on walk-off single in extra innings
SAN DIEGO -- For D-backs center fielder A.J. Pollock, it was a helpless feeling.
When the ball left Jesus Guzman's bat in the 11th inning, Pollock saw the ball as it climbed through the air. Then it was gone in the twilight sky, and by the time he saw it again, the ball was bouncing over the wall for a ground-rule double.View Full Game Coverage
SAN DIEGO -- For D-backs center fielder A.J. Pollock, it was a helpless feeling.
When the ball left Jesus Guzman's bat in the 11th inning, Pollock saw the ball as it climbed through the air. Then it was gone in the twilight sky, and by the time he saw it again, the ball was bouncing over the wall for a ground-rule double.View Full Game Coverage
The play helped lead the Padres past the D-backs, 3-2, in 11 innings Thursday afternoon at Petco Park.
"It just disappeared," Pollock said. "It was like going into a room and them shutting the lights off when someone throws a ball at you. I feel bad, because I'm out there trying to make a play for [pitcher Josh] Collmenter. It's pretty frustrating. But looking back on it I don't know what else I could have done.
"It's tough. I hate losing. I hate giving up runs for my team. But I wish there was something I could have done."
Tommy Medica led off the 11th by beating out a dribbler to the left of the mound, and he went to third on the ball that Pollock lost. After an intentional walk to Nick Hundley, Alexi Amarista ended the game with a single up the middle.
"I was waiting on the changeup and I got good contact," Amarista said.
Pollock's play will get most of the attention, as well another outing of poor command by D-backs right-hander Trevor Cahill, but Pollock has been one of the best center fielders in the league this year -- according to advanced metrics -- and Cahill gave up just two runs.
No, the blame for this one falls squarely on the offense.
After seemingly scoring at will in Colorado at the beginning of this road trip, the bats went into a deep freeze in San Diego as the D-backs scored just seven runs in the four-game series with the Padres.
"Nine of 11 innings were three-and-out, so they weren't very good at-bats," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said.
In fact, after Martin Prado smacked a two-run homer to tie the game at 2 in the fourth, the D-backs did not get another baserunner the rest of the game as the Padres set down 24 batters in a row.
"I don't know what to tell you," Gibson said of the offensive struggles. "You have to ask them what the story was. We didn't swing the bats well."
So, what say you, Willie Bloomquist?
"If we could fix it, we would," Bloomquist said. "Obviously we're not swinging the bat real good right now and it's easy to sit there, point fingers and say we're having too many 1-2-3 innings; yeah, we know. But it's not like we're up there trying to go 1-2-3 every inning. It's a combination of we've seen some pretty good pitching, we've hit some balls hard and the ball just doesn't really go anywhere here.
"There's every excuse in the book you can think of, but we as hitters try not to use those. It's just one of those things; we're in a little bit of a funk swinging and we're [hoping to] get our way out of it."
Command, as is usually the case, was the biggest issue for Cahill. The right-hander managed to keep the Padres off the board other than two runs in the third, but he was not able to pitch deep into the game thanks to four walks and five hits, which helped to run up his pitch count.
Gibson pulled Cahill with two outs and a runner on third in the sixth, and lefty specialist Joe Thatcher retired Amarista.
"I didn't feel real great," Cahill said. "My command wasn't there. I tried my best to get through it. It was the story of the season, I guess. I walked too many guys, fell behind too much. I was able to kind of minimize. It's not really where I want to be, but it's kind of been the story the whole year."
The lack of output from the offense left the D-backs little margin for error in the 11th.
"In Colorado, we swung the bats great and we came here and they just shut us down," Gibson said. "It makes it real tough. You open yourself up to things like what happened in the last inning today."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB.


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Robotics Industry Insights
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Robotic Press Loading Made Easy – Using Vision to Identify Blank Orientation
by Peter Stephen, Program Manager for Stamping and Sheet Metal
FANUC America Corporation Posted 09/01/2005
You know the expression: ''A picture is worth a thousand words.'' How about a new one: ''Vision systems have saved me thousands of dollars.'' Yes, thousands of dollars can be saved with the use of a tried and true press loading package that encompasses a robot, an integrated vision system and some basic part transfers and tooling.
All too often a stack of blanks is brought to the press in an orientation that will not allow it to be correctly loaded onto the die. The parts may be skewed right to left or in an angular orientation coming off the stacks. Often, parts are transferred through a lubricator and/or washed prior to loading, which also makes maintaining part orientation difficult. In the past, manufacturers wanted to use automation to load parts directly from a stack into the first die, but could not. A centering system was needed to accommodate part varieties.
Over the years, many types of systems have been used to orient blanks, including belt transfers, stops, back stops, and side pushers. The stops, back stops, and side pushers usually require setup for each part type, and to run smoothly, the parts must be correctly orientated. Many of the previous systems used manual labor for setup using ball screws, hand-wheels, and scales to reduce the overall cost of the centering system. Other more expensive types of systems use servo controls and motors to automatically set up the centering operation. Each of these systems involve many (and expensive) ''one of a kind'' steps to accommodate various blank sizes and the unique conditions of the production line.
Centering systems for large transfer or tandem line presses have been engineered to accommodate a wide variety of parts -- small and large pieces. However, the more comprehensive systems are very complex, and require a significant investment for the engineering and build.
Many operations require that the centering system be able to orient blanks for double, unattached parts. Running two parts on a larger capacity press line is very common today because it is more cost effective and quicker to process two parts at once. Using two robots to handle parts makes it easy to accommodate larger part capacities.
Vision systems have introduced ''intelligence'' into many manufacturing processes. Vision is popularly used to inspect, capture manufacturing conditions, and determine optimum part orientation for proper loading. Whether the product is gears, bottle labels, sacks or blanks, a vision system, along with the practical use of a robot are becoming very popular.
A typical two dimensional robotic vision system (for both large and small capacity robots) contains the following: Robot, robot control, camera mounted on or off the robot tool, the part handling tool, a PC, frame grabber, lighting on or off the tool, an interface, and some software. A complete system includes a belt transfer to take parts to the robot's work envelope. A robotic solution allows manufacturers to orient virtually every part run in the press, eliminating the cost and downtime associated with traditional centering systems used for part orientation.
When 2-D is not enough, ''intelligent'' robots with 3-D laser vision sensors are available. A 3-D system consists of a standard robot, and a 3-D laser vision sensor package (includes sensor assembly, lens, connection cables, PCI frame grabber, I/O board, safety unit, and software). The production system requires a customer-supplied PC running Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP operating system. A 3-D laser vision sensor system is engineered for 3-D robot guidance applications including racking and de-racking of flat panels, rails and beams, pick-up of discrete parts from a pile, tray or bin, and 3-D assembly. Single or dual overhead camera options are available for bin picking type applications.
The use of robots for press tending operations has helped numerous manufacturers remain viable and competitive. The benefits of a robotic blank loading system with vision include increased productivity, and reduced costs associated with traditional methods.
Peter H. Stephan is the Program Manager for Stamping and Sheet Metal for FANUC Robotics America, Inc., Rochester Hills, Michigan. Stephan has been involved with the application of robots for the metal forming industry that include de-stacking, press load and unload, and end of line material handling. FANUC Robotics America, Inc . is the world's leading supplier of robots and provides robotic based process solutions for many industries.
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Information courtesy of Seigmar Geiselberger shows that Scheiner was a glass designer of importance. In an article written by Dietrich Mauerhoff for Seigmar dated January, 2004, Scheiner is shown to have been the artist behind lovely items from Brockwitz such as the Fish handled bowl (I have a pink one) and the Parrot bowl and vase (I have an amber vase which I adore). He also designed the wonderful centrepieces made by August Walther such as the Neptune, Belvedere, Hollanderin and Mo(e)ve. I can't read or speak German, so if any of my comprehension (or spelling) is at fault, my apologies.
Perhaps you also still remember the article of D Mauerhoff to the designer Fritz Scheiner at August Walther & sons, Ottendorf Okrilla, which sketched a bowl with 2 handles from fish still in the service of Walther, which was offered very similarly briefly thereafter by Brockwitz. It cannot of course be cleared up today any longer whether and how the draft from Scheiner came to Brockwitz and whether the bowls with similar grasps from animals - squirrels and lions - were made also by Scheiner for Brockwitz. Perhaps the two vases belong to the drafts of Friedrich Scheiner.
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Libertarian VP Candidate... Patent Hoarder?
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However, don't tell that to the guy running on the Libertarian Party ticket for the Vice President slot, Wayne Root. Tim Lee points out that Root appears to be your garden variety patent hoarder who has been successfully forcing a bunch of online sports betting websites to pay up over a patent that seems to very broadly cover an online prediction market (a concept that has been both talked about and been around for quite some time). Not that the party has even the slightest chance of getting anywhere, but I guess it's safe to assume that the Libertarian Party's platform won't have much about patent system reform this year.


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Review: Mujjo iPad mini Sleeve
Company: Mujjo
Website: www.mujjo.com
Model: iPad mini Sleeve
Price: €45/~$59
Compatible: iPad mini
When it comes to iPad sleeves, we prefer options that are particularly well-made or very affordable -- preferably both. Mujjo's iPad mini Sleeve (€45/~$59) is beautiful, but it's somewhat expensive, especially for such a simple holder. However, if you're in the market for a premium sleeve, definitely read on, as you may just like what you see here.
Mujjo chose to use two quality materials in building its sleeve: wool felt and leather. The body is a straightforward piece of wool folded over on itself and sewn together along the edges; a third layer sandwiched between those two creates a small pocket for cables, headphones, and other small accessories. It all looks and feels great. Thankfully, the holder isn't restricted to bare iPad minis: there's enough room for a tablet with a Smart Cover, slim shell, or even both. The smooth leather is used to form the top flap, as well as a band that's riveted in place at either end. Despite the simplicity of the style, it stays closed when you want it to.
This sleeve is far from the most expensive we've ever seen, but it's still not a particularly affordable option given the spectrum of designs already out there for the iPad mini. Thankfully it does meet high expectations in terms of looks and feel; it certainly comes across as a premium accessory. Case compatibility and the extra pocket are extra checks in the positive column. Overall, Mujjo's iPad mini Sleeve is deserving of a general recommendation.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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'The Sabres will provide all scouts with an information packet that includes players' phone numbers and e-mail addresses, so if scouts like what they see they'll be able to get in touch. "It's a great way for these kids to play in front of college coaches and show what they can do," said Sabres Youth Hockey Manager Pat Fisher. "The other part is the Sabres organization has shown a lot more interest in local kids the last two years. It sends a great message to our local kids. And we're hoping to get as many youth hockey players down here who hopefully will aspire to play in this event."'
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The Houston Dynamo's Small Business Partner program enables small businesses in the greater Houston area to offer single-game group tickets for Houston Dynamo MLS home games and designated International soccer games in 2013.
If you are interested in becoming a Houston Dynamo Small Business Partner, please call a Dynamo staff member at (713) 276-7500.
Fans are encouraged to stop into these local neighborhood locations and support small businesses that support the Houston Dynamo. An outlet is sure to be in a community near you.
Additional Small Business Partners include:
Champion League Sport
Futbol Total
Guerrero Barber Shop
Harrisburg Eye Clinic and Optical
JC Western
La Tapatia
Magnolia SL
Republica Deportiva
Sellers Bros.
Total Soccer