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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler promise that when they host the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 13, the evening will be "splendid," "wondrous," "drunken" and "a little ghetto."
Like the first spot featuring the former "SNL" alums (released the same day the nominations were announced), the tone of the new promo is definitely tongue-in-cheek, with declarations that the evening will be "filled with surprises" and that viewers will experience "extreme pageantry."
"And that's just the red carpet y'all," quips Fey.
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While the pair will share the hosting duties,"Parks and Recreation's" Poehler and "30 Rock's" Fey will also be competing for the best actress in a comedy series award.
So with the nominations announced, attention now turns to voting (ballots from eligible voters must be received by Jan. 9) and choosing that perfect ensemble to rock the red carpet.
The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, will be broadcast live on NBC Jan. 13.

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Each procedure script that installs a package object not in the pkgmap file must use the installf command to notify the package database that it is adding or modifying a path name. After all additions or modifications are complete, this command should be invoked with the -f option. Only postinstall and postremove scripts may install package objects in this way. See installf(1M) and Chapter 5, Package Creation Case Studies for more information.
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Knowing capitalism
SAGE Publications, 2005 - Business & Economics - 256 pages
`This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices' - Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents
`Nigel Thrift offers us the sort of cultural analysis of global capitalism that has long been needed - one that emphasizes the innovative energy of global capitalism. The book avoids stale denouncements and offers instead a view of capitalism as a form of practice' - Karin Knorr Cetina, Professor of Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Capitalism is well known for producing a form of existence where `everything solid melts into air'. But what happens when capitalism develops theories about itself? Are we moving into a condition in which capitalism can be said to possess a brain?
These questions are pursued in this sparkling and thought-provoking book. Thrift looks at what he calls "the cultural circuit of capitalism," the mechanism for generating new theories of capitalism. The book traces the rise of this circuit back to the 1960s when a series of institutions locked together to interrogate capitalism, to the present day, when these institutions are moving out to the Pacific basin and beyond. What have these theories produced? How have they been implicated in the speculative bubbles that characterized the late twentieth century? What part have they played in developing our understanding of human relations?
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We will be rolling out some new features as we get closer to 5.0 (mid Aug).
I've added one such feature now: Zimbra/OS Version & Zimbra Components. This will help us to troubleshoot your issues better without asking the inevitable "Which Zimbra version are you using?"
To update your information, please edit your profile (it's at the bottom).
On the zmcontrol -v ; be sure to paste the whole string, as this will make it easier to track down bugs within a specific build.
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Yesterday morning Steve snapped a couple shots of Finley and I. She was being a little grumpy and wanted to sit on my lap. I was trying to finish up some Christmas gifts (more on those soon), so she sat with me for a little while. She is at just the right age to do that- sturdy enough to sit comfortably and not grabby. I am glad that he caught this moment, and I look forward to when we can really sew together someday.
And last, I'll leave you with a picture of Steve and Finley. She is looking a little goofy in the earlier pictures (you can tell she just woke up, and I am still in my pajamas), so I thought I'd include this really cute one.


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This spring was all about the early harbingers. The abnormally warm weather, the insects, and the March 20 cherry blossoms all came early to remind us the world was getting warmer, especially the Northeast. One welcome early arrival, at least for foodies, were ramps, which came two to three weeks early this year. Now at the height of the season there are absolutely tons of these beloved greens, and some people couldn't be happier.
"I had ramps the first day of spring," Aldea chef George Mendes told The Atlantic Wire (that's his pig ear and ramp salad, at left). Normally ramps—a slightly sweet, garlicky green that's member of the leek family—start hitting the markets in early to mid April, but this year, they started appearing in late March. "Ramps are all over the kitchen, all over the menu," said Dan Barber, whose Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns helped start the trend of seasonal, localized dining. "We don't have them in desserts but we're making a ramp and mushroom burger, we grill a ton of ramps that go into a ton of dishes all over the menu. We're making a ramp marmalade for toast, we make a ramp vinaigrette, we pickle the ramps."
One reason for all this ramp fanfare is simply because they're the first green thing that comes out of the ground after winter. But lately they've attained something of a cult status among diners and chefs alike, Eater editor Greg Morabito said. "Chefs are pretty competitive people and especially right now with social media, it's almost like bragging rights to be able to say I have the first morels or the first ramps of the season. We certainly perpetuate that on Eater."
Morabito said ramps' popularity started approaching its zenith about three years ago, but earlier this week Smithsonian's Peter Smith suggested it's been much longer in coming, pointing out Martha Stewart's been publishing recipes using them since the 1990s. And last year The New York Times' Inrani Sen noted that "In the South, ramp festivals have been held for generations."
Either way, ramps embody a lot of what modern dining has come to value: They're foraged, not farmed, and you have to know where to look for them in the woods, at the greenmarkets, and at restaurants. Cooking with them is all about using local produce and being in the know, and that kind of fast-moving information lends itself to sharing on Twitter and hyping on blogs like Eater.
Finding ramps at greenmarkets can take on a competitive winner-take-all aspect since the greens come in limited supply. Their season is short -- about four to eight weeks over the early spring -- and while they're a hearty plant, they're fickle about growing in just the right amount of shade. Plus, they have a big root system that stays in the ground all year, all of which combine to make them extremely difficult to farm—and extremely desirable when found.
As competition among shoppers heats up in the early weeks of ramp season, New York's greenmarket vendors usually limit the quantity chefs can buy. This year, that limit is looser. "The competitiveness is still there, but they're growing a substantial amount. Various farmers in the market put a cap on how much they would give the restaurants. About 10 pounds per restaurant during the first week," Mendes said. Previous years have seen those caps last two to three weeks.
But the supply has not kept up with the demand, even in this year of plenty.
Ramps grow all over the country ("the plant proliferates in woodlands from Canada to Georgia and probably gave the city of Chicago its name; chicagoua appears to be a native Illinois name for what French explorers calledail sauvage, or 'wild garlic,' " Smithsonian's Peter Smith wrote), but they don't usually get shipped far. New York gets most of its ramps from patches in the Catskills, Mendes said. Though that's changing. "Its turned into this crazy ridiculous competition for who can have ramps first. Which means people are buying them from Virginia for the New York market long before they come up locally," Porsena chef Sara Jenkins said in an email. In late march she complained on Twitter: "Ramps are at $16.75 a pound this year, I remember when they were $7 a pound."
While this year's early warm weather has made for something of a ramp windfall, it also suggests future problems, said Frank Lowenstein, a climate scientist with the Nature Conservancy and an avid harvester of wild ramps. Since they're hearty, drought- and cold-resistant, and spend most of their year in the ground, a dry year will not hurt them, Lowenstein explained. "That's their historical strategy: Get some leaves up and get their sunshine now." But a permanent change to weather patterns could spell disaster.
"The temperatures are warming more at night and more in the winter than they are in the summer and the daytime. So will that mean that more insects survive and you'll see more insect damage," he asked. "Will trees move their phenology up so they open up their leaves sooner and shade the ramps too much? The forest right now is a very intricate web of interactions and competition that's pretty well balanced. I think the shifts we're seeing are going to change those balances, and the effects will be difficult to predict ahead of time."
The more immediate threat facing wild ramps is over-harvesting. In 2011, The Times pointed out that their sale has been outlawed in Quebec since 1995, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park banned harvesting in 2004. Lowenstein said you can harvest responsibly if you're careful: "I harvest one or two leaves from each plant, and I don't disturb the roots. I think for wild populations, looking for signs of stress, stopping if you see signs they've had a lot of harvesters, and only harvesting a few leaves, are the key points." But not everybody does that. New York, The Times found, doesn't restrict ramp harvesting.
One effect of ramps' skyrocketing popularity and price is that they may become a viable farm product after all, thus relieving a lot of the strain from the wild populations. The G-N Ramp Farm in West Virginia sells seeds, bulbs, and books about ramps. They'll also mail you a pound of the fresh ones for $22.05. North Carolina State University has a specialty crops program where it's researching techniques to make ramp farming viable.
Meanwhile, in New York, the unseasonably warm weather may also turn out to be something of a break for ramps. "People are asking for asparagus and tomatoes right now," Barber said. "It doesn't really fit with the ecological cycle, it fits with the psychological cycle. They want to eat more in keeping with warm weather, whether that's summer or spring."
[Photos, top to bottom, via George Mendes, Flickr user Heidi Bakk-Hansen, and Flickr user dano272]
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The WULGURU GROUP is a privately owned Townsville based company specialising in the delivery of individual project components as well as delivering complete turn-key projects both nationally and internationally for 40 years. The group consists of four brands servicing our customers in Design, Engineering, Drafting, Project Management, Procurement, Fabrication and Supply, Material handling solutions, Abattoir design, Pipe welding, Painting, Transport, Site installation and commissioning, and Skilled labour hire. Each brand has its own specialisation with the ability to call upon the strength of the group to undertake the largest of projects. With unrivalled technology, capacity and infrastructure the WULGURU GROUP has become one of the largest steel fabrication companies in Northern Australia with a 170 personal work force.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Kansas want their voices to be heard.
"Putting people in prison and trying to legislate your particular brand of morality is not what Kansans have asked for and not what we're going to stand for," said Esau Freeman, president and co-founder of Kansas for Change, Inc.
The group Kansas for Change, Inc. sponsored a rally at the Statehouse Friday. They want to add Kansas to the list of 21 states that allow legal access to marijuana with a doctors recommendation. They say studies show it helps conditions such as post-traumatic stress and multiple sclerosis.
Bills have been introduced in the House and Senate, but, so far, no hearings are scheduled.
Freeman says not allowing hearings on the measure is against the spirit of the legislative process. He says lawmakers have a duty to allow debate on all topics, even those with which they do not agree.
Freeman says he understands that opponents may be concerned about drug abuse, but criminalizing use of marijuana for what he says is a legitimate purpose and putting violators in prison is a huge cost to taxpayers.
"If you're concerned about drug use, deal with it like you deal with smoking. Put out campaigns to reduce use and make people responsible," Freeman said.
The Kansas Silver Haired Legislature is among groups supporting legalizing medical marijuana.


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The figures below show the total demand in hours from each partner, host institution and staff, as well as the summed demand. The UK ceased to be a partner in 2013A. Requests for Exchange time are not included. The ratio of the total demand to the time available is given in the Over-Subscription page. Note that the requested time does not include time required for calibrations, unless the calibrations are non-standard. The Observing Overheads page summarises all overheads associated with Gemini observations. The standard, baseline, calibrations are described on the GMOS Baseline Calibrations webpage, the NIR Baseline Calibrations webpage, and the Mid-IR Baseline Calibrations webpage. Telescope time used in program calibration varies by instrument. For GMOS, calibrations add about 5% to the program time, for NIRI 10%, for GNIRS and NIFS 23%. For the typical instrument distribution across the sites, the additional overhead due to calibrations is 9% for Gemini North, and 5% for Gemini South.
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22-Nov-2006 -- I think we have set a record today... it took us only 1 hour and half to visit this Confluence successfully, although the idea of actually visiting this Confluence had been around for quite a while.
Kent Smith is the one who caught our attention to this Confluence, well, he caught our attention to the whole Project, which I didn't know of before I met Kent. I knew that there was one unsuccessful visit to the site due to the fence around the area that has the Confluence.
There is something I should explain about this Confluence: this Confluence is located in the centre of the Burqān oilfield - 4 km east of Wāra Hill. We were not able to take a photo of the general area due to security reasons, but we managed to snap a few photos of the reading and ourselves. As the Confluence is surrounded by intense oilfield facilities, taking photos of the four directions is extremely risky. Although we believe this Project is one of the most important things in our lives, yet it was not worth getting jailed for.
But WE MADE IT!
I need to mention that we were wishing to have our friends with us on this visit and they are Werner Neuhoff, Ramesh Nair, and Kent Smith.
Coordinator's Note: Although we understand the difficulties connected with taking photos at this Confluence, this visit can nevertheless only become registered as "incomplete", because it does not comply with the DCP Photo Requirements. See also note at the end of this page.


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Last time you went to a clinic, chances were good that your primary doctor was of South Asian descent -- unless you happened to check into a TV hospital.
Fox's "The Mindy Project," a new sitcom about a lovesick ob/gyn, is the first series on broadcast television to feature an Indian-American in the lead role, a milestone that writer/star Mindy Kaling does her best to downplay.
"There's a saying that I really believe in when it comes to my 'Indianness,'" said "The Office" veteran. "I try not to rely on it nor deny it."
What Kaling and the rest of Hollywood can't deny is that the industry has made little progress in putting minority actors in leading roles.
While there's a steady stream of great minority character actors playing diner owners, community-college students and even physicists, they rarely get to be the star. The only returning broadcast shows with that distinction are ABC's "Scandal," featuring Kerry Washington, and CW's low-rated "Nikita," with Maggie Q.
That lack of diversity was glaring at TV's Emmy Awards two weeks ago. Of the 25 performers nominated for leading roles in a drama or comedy, only one was a minority actor, Don Cheadle, for "House of Lies."
Lance Reddick, a supporting player on Fox's "Fringe," said he isn't optimistic about the future, especially after his experience as a cast member of "The Wire." That HBO series is now considered a masterpiece, but during its 2002-08 run it failed to attract a significant audience or a single Emmy nomination for its largely black cast.
"I'm not holding my breath for acknowledgment of African-American talent," he said.
Reddick and many of his peers thought the landscape would change when Andre Braugher took home a leading-actor Emmy in 1998 for his work on "Homicide: Life on the Street," becoming only the third black actor to win in that category (Bill Cosby and James Earl Jones got there first). But in the 14 years since, it's seen only one minority nominee: Braugher again, for the swiftly canceled medical drama "Gideon's Crossing."
It's even worse for women. No actress of color ever has won for a dramatic lead role. And the last nomination? Way back in 1994, when Cicely Tyson got one for the short-lived drama "Sweet Justice."
As for comedy, only two people of color have been nominated for lead roles in the past 20 years: Tony Shalhoub, who won three times for "Monk," and America Ferrera, a winner for "Ugly Betty."
Behind the lens
Braugher hopes to get another crack at a lead-actor Emmy with his new ABC series, "Last Resort," in which he stars as a U.S. submarine captain who turns renegade after his government orders him to nuke Pakistan. Braugher, who won a second Emmy in 2007 for the miniseries "Thief," hopes his success is making a difference, but it's hard for him to gauge.
"The only thing I can suggest is that the wins weren't a blip, that it's part of a progression, but it runs at its own pace and I don't have control or the solution," he said.
Lack of control may be an understatement. Few non-whites have ever run a major network's entertainment division. Scott Sassa, an Asian-American executive, helmed NBC's programming in 1998-99; current CBS Entertainment President Nancy Tessler is half Puerto Rican.
It's no coincidence that three of TV's most diverse series -- "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal" and "Private Practice" -- are run by a black woman, Shonda Rhimes.
Why is the industry falling short? David Simon, who created "The Wire" and "Treme" for HBO, compares the situation to the urban phenomenon of "white flight."
"A black sidekick here and there, no problem," he said. "A couple less-than-central characters in an ensemble piece, OK. It makes us all feel better about ourselves. Anything beyond that and 'There goes the neighborhood.' The only difference is that the metric isn't home sales and housing values. It's ratings and advertising. Never forget: The entertainment industry is 96.9 percent about money."
Networks misread what audiences want, says John Cho, who plays a radio-station manager on Matthew Perry's latest sitcom, "Go On."
"Producers are naturally risk-averse," said Cho, best known as one-half of the munchies-craving movie duo Harold and Kumar. "But there's no actual risk, any more than there is hiring a white standup that nobody has heard of and giving him a sitcom."
That may be true when it comes to sitcoms, which have meant great success to Bill Cosby, George Lopez and Martin Lawrence, but only a few minority-led network dramas -- notably "The Unit," "Boston Public," "NCIS: LA" -- have come close to being a hit.
That the print publicity campaign for "Last Resort" features a young white actor, Scott Speedman, instead of Braugher may be merely an attempt to woo female viewers. Still, it comes across as a slight.
The influence on kids
The lack of diversity in leading parts is not only hurting minority actors; it may also affect the next generation of Americans. According to a recent study, black children in the Midwest come away with less self-esteem after being exposed to television; the opposite is true for white boys.
"Regardless of what show you're watching, if you're a white male, things in life are pretty good for you," Indiana University Prof. Nicole Martins said. "You tend to be in positions of power, you have prestigious occupations, high education, glamorous houses, a beautiful wife. ... Young black boys are getting the opposite message: There are not a lot of good things you can aspire to."
Louis Gossett Jr., an Emmy winner for 1977's "Roots," also worries about our children: "We have to remember that the medium is the message. If they get the proper message, they'll know that African-Americans are not just gangbangers, but they're doctors and lawyers and mothers and fathers. And presidents. This is a responsibility of ours."
"The Mindy Project" is a step in the right direction, but progressive producers such as Braugher's current boss, Shawn Ryan -- who also cast black actor Dennis Haysbert as lead for "The Unit" -- know that Kaling's "Indianness" will remain an issue until there are more diverse faces on TV.
"I actually do believe that Hollywood is the kind of place where merit is rewarded," said Ryan. "It will be nice when these questions don't get asked anymore and Andre can just be an actor getting praise for his performance."
Same song and dance we've been watching since the 70's, tbh. Can you really say 'The Mindy Project" is somehow a huge leap forward from when Margaret Cho helmed "American Girl" ~15 years ago? That any of this is an improvement from the state of affairs when 'The Jeffersons' or 'The Cosby Show' were actual shows? Or 'Roots' had a gazillionty viewers? Or anything in Nickelodeon's late-night lineup?
One step forward, two steps back.


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How Do I Secure Grub Boot Loader?last updated in Categories Debian Linux, Howto, Linux, Linux desktop, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Security, Sys admin, Tips, Ubuntu Linux
You can set a password for the GRUB bootloader. This prevents users from entering single user mode or changing settings at boot time.
When your system is rebooted, grub presents the boot option menu. From this menu one can easily login into a single user mode without the password which might result into compromise system security.
For example, anyone can access the data or change the settings. However you can setup a password for grub with password option. This option forces grub to ask for a password before making any changes or entering into single user mode. You need to type p followed by password.


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The classical Erdős-Szekeres theorem says that any sequence of $n^2+1$ real numbers contains a monotonic $(n+1)$-term subsequence. Suppose, however, that we want to find a subsequence which is not necessarily monotonic itself, but has the sequence of its first differences monotonic. How long has the original sequence to be to ensure that such an $(n+1)$-term subsequence can be found?
For positive integer $n$, what is the smallest integer $N=N(n)$ such that every $N$-element sequence of real numbers contains an $n$-element subsequence $(a_1,\ldots,a_n)$ with either $a_2-a_1\le\dotsb\le a_n-a_{n-1}$, or $a_2-a_1\ge\dotsb\ge a_n-a_{n-1}$?
Trivially, we have $N(1)=1$, $N(2)=2$, and $N(3)=3$. However, I do not know the value of $N(4)$.
The state of the art as of 05.03.12. The nice argument of Boris Bukh (below) shows that $N(n)$ is exponential in $n$. Still, this does not completely settle the problem.
Updated 16.03.12: the absolutely beautiful, must-upvote solution by Sergey Norin is posted below.


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Personal finances for Python
FINIC: Personal finances.
(local version)
Software can cipher information,
allow working different users,
with different rights access.
Can you provide a link to
Can you provide a link to the website?
I'm confused. I know it's a
I'm confused. I know it's a Python program, but I don't see anything that specifically mentions Linux and it comes with .exe files. Does FINIC run under Linux? Are you wanting it to be added to the application database or did you have another reason for your post?
If you have them, I'd also be interested to see any screenshots to get a better sense of the program.
it is true
it is true: exe for win32, but
a site has other version software
pyo files - multi platform (linux, mac, win32 and etc.)
I'll add it to my to do list
I'll add it to my to do list and include it in the database before long, assuming I get it to install and run fine. I'll let you know if I have any issues.
I downloaded the PYO only
I downloaded the PYO only version and tried to run it by using the following command.
python finic.pyo
That resulted in the following error.
RuntimeError: Bad magic number in .pyc file
Can you post some instructions for running it under Linux. Having a README file included with the software that gives some basic instructions would also be a good idea.
Such error talks that it is
Such error talks that it is better to do binary version for linux (also as exe for win32). Every version of Python (2.3, 2.4, 2.5) writes down the number in a pyo file. README will not help here. On a site after reference it is also indicated what additional packages a pyo version will work with. But the idea of README is indeed excellent and in a next version necessarily will be realized.
new version
FINIC: Personal finances 0.3
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Slim Devices Squeezebox WiFi D/A processor
To summarize, the Squeezebox is the size and shape of a digital alarm clock, finished in white or black, with a turquoise fluorescent 320x32-pixel display running its full width, and once networked to a server, allows music files to be played on a conventional audio system. The Ethernet version costs $249, the WiFi/Ethernet version $299. It offers both digital and analog outputs, and has a volume control, a headphone jack, and a coaxial digital as well as an optical digital output. Its audio circuitry is based on a 24-bit DAC (a Burr-Brown PCM1748), with regulated power supplies used for the DAC and output amplifier stages. Significantly, the S/PDIF output and DAC clocks are driven directly by two dedicated crystal oscillators running at fixed frequencies. An outboard D/A processor driven by the Squeezebox thus doesn't lose lock between songs, and should enjoy the benefit of lower clock jitter. Most important, the Squeezebox's remote control lets you select songs from your listening seat.
The Squeezebox owner needs to install the SlimServer software on the computer being used as a server. This open-source software is available in versions for Windows XP, Mac OSX, and Linux, and it recognizes the iTunes library. SlimServer handles a wide range of file formats, including MP3, AAC, AIF, WAV, ALC, Vorbis, Windows Media, and FLAC. However, it can't handle DRM-wrapped, AAC-encoded songs you've downloaded from iTunes. The Squeezebox also offers native Windows Media support, not only providing playback of WMA files but allowing many Internet radio stations to be decoded as well.
When SlimServer serves compressed audio files to the Squeezebox, it decodes them on the fly from whatever file format they're in and sends uncompressed PCM over the WiFi link. If the WiFi network has problems handling the data rate, SlimServer can be set to compress the audio on the fly before transmission, using the popular FLAC lossless format, which runs at half the broadcast bit rate as PCM—or even a lossy compression such as LAME MP3, which reduces the basic bit rate to around 128kbps. The Squeezebox's native FLAC and MP3 decoders reconvert compressed data to PCM before serving them to the SB's DAC and S/PDIF circuits.
Sound quality
I set up the WiFi version of the Squeezebox in my listening room, powered by its wall-wart supply. I connected its optical S/PDIF output with a 1.5m length of AudioQuest's OptiLink-5 quartz-fiber TosLink cable first to my Mark Levinson No.30.6 D/A processor, then to a Benchmark DAC 1. Sitting in my listening chair, I browsed my iTunes library on the distant Mac using the remote's Left, Right, Up, and Down buttons, found something I liked, and pressed Play. Music came from the speakers, and pressing the remote's Now Playing button displayed the song's metadata on the SB's screen.
There was a cleanness to the sound that I didn't get from the Airport Express's digital output feeding the same D/A. Comparing the original CD on the Ayre C-5xe disc player, its digital output driving the Levinson DAC via a 1m DH Labs AES/EBU link, with SlimServer feeding an Apple Lossless–encoded file to the Squeezebox with its digital output feeding the Levinson via the AudioQuest OptiLink-5, I was hard-pressed to hear much of a difference. Perhaps there was an increased sense of authority to the sound of the CD played by the Ayre used as a transport, a better sense of extended low frequencies—but when I'm not listening seriously, the difference is irrelevant. Even when I am listening seriously, I have to strain to hear that difference (as long as I'm not listening to lossy-compressed files).
But it is the Squeezebox's performance via its analog outputs that will interest many readers. I hooked it up to the Levinson preamp with Di Marzio unbalanced interconnect and level-matched (to better than 0.05dB at 1kHz) the SB's output to that of the Benchmark DAC 1 fed by the SB's digital output using the preamp's Input Level Offset function.
Listening first to the Squeezebox in full D/A mode, with its volume control bypassed—the volume control operates in the digital domain, thus loses resolution at settings much below its maximum—the sound was impressively clean. It was only when I compared it directly to the Benchmark that I became aware of some slight shortfalls in its sound quality. Specifically, the low frequencies seemed both less weighty and less extended. Playing ALC files I'd ripped from Van Morrison's Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast (Mercury 422-818-336-2), for example, the bass guitar on "Haunts of Ancient Peace" sounded a little bloated compared with the Benchmark, which itself doesn't dig as deep into the Stygian depths as my reference Levinson DAC.
The midrange and treble also seemed a little more congested, the "silences between the notes" not having the clear definition I have come to appreciate from the Benchmark. On my own recording of Minnesotan choir Cantus performing Sir Charles Stanford's Songs of the Sea (from their forthcoming There Lies the Home CD), there seemed a little less spatial separation between the baritone soloist and the choir, spread out in an arc behind him. At the choral climaxes there was a bit more of an aggressive edge from the Squeezebox's analog outputs than there was from the Benchmark fed from the Squeezebox's digital output.
My final series of comparisons were with the Pioneer DV-578A SACD/CD player I bought a year or so back to use as a low-cost ($160) disc-player reference. Playing CDs on the Pioneer that I had also ripped to my iTunes library as ALC files, and comparing them with the Squeezebox's analog outputs, again with levels matched at 1kHz, I must say that there wasn't much of a difference between the two units. Both sounded more congested in the treble than my higher-cost references, and neither offered the ultimate in bass extension or definition—but neither offered sound that offended. Overall, their sins were of omission rather than commission.
Summing up
While the Slim Devices Squeezebox with stock power supply (footnote 1) offers generally good performance from its analog outputs, it was the sound it produced driving a high-end DAC from its digital output that persuaded me to purchase the review sample. While I still turn to a dedicated disc player for the highest sound quality, much of my listening to music is done while I'm doing something else—writing, editing, reading—and for that, the Squeezebox has become my primary source. As I wrote in the mid-April eNewsletter, "physical discs seem so 20th century!" Very highly recommended.
Footnote 1: A number of companies, such as Red Wine Audio and Bolder Cable, now offer modifications and upgraded power supplies for the Squeezebox. Red Wine also offers a battery supply for the Squeezebox.


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Seasonal care of trees & shrubs: Stem and branch protection
The stems of landscape trees and shrubs may need protection from animals or mechanical equipment, especially during the winter months. Animal damage (feeding or rubbing) can be avoided by placing wire mesh or hardware cloth at least 3" from the stem. Mechanical damage (e.g. lawn mower or weed whip abrasion) can be avoided when a mulch ring (see mulch) or a plastic guard is in place. The plastic guard should only encase the portion of the lower stem that is most likely to be damaged by lawn equipment. As the tree grows the plastic guard will need to be removed and replaced in order to prevent girdling or stem constriction.
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Seasonal care of trees & shrubs: Fertilizing
The recommendations in this chart refer only to nitrogen applications. Before fertilizing your landscape with a complete fertilizer (nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium), contact a soil testing laboratory for a basic soil test [For MN only: U of MN Soil Testing Labratory]. A basic soil test will provide you with readings on organic matter, pH, cation exchange capacity, macronutrients and micronutrients (Smiley, 2003). Soil testing laboratories may offer timing and quantity recommendations for complete fertilizers (N-P-K).
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Seasonal care of trees & shrubs: Pruning deciduous branches
How to prune trees is an excellent publication designed to illustrate the types of pruning that can be done, how pruning cuts are made, when to prune different plants, and more.
Waiting until the plant is dormant is the safest time to do any live-branch pruning. However, unless the tree or shrub is susceptible to infectious disease (e.g., oak wilt, fire blight), removal of weak, diseased, crossing, rubbing, or dead limbs can be done throughout the year if needed.
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Seasonal care of trees & shrubs: Shearing evergreen shrubs
Evergreen shrub shearing is a practice that can be used to maintain a geometric and formal shape of the plant. It is important to note, however, that once a shape has been formed yearly maintenance is required to preserve the design.
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Seasonal care for trees & shrubs: pruning evergreens
Removal of weak, diseased, or broken branches, along with double leaders or dead evergreen branches can be done at any time with little consequence to tree health. "Conifers may be pruned any time of year, but pruning during the dormant season may minimize sap and resin flow from cut branches" (Bedker et al., 1996).
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Seasonal care for trees & shrubs: Mulching
Mulching with organic mulches (e.g. leaves, needles, hardwood and softwood bark and wood, grass, cocoa hulls, straw, etc.) helps to maintain tree health by aiding in water retention, inhibiting weed development, protecting from lawn mowing equipment, offering a layer of insulation during cold weather and adding organic matter into the soil (Carlson, 2003). At planting or transplanting time add a mulch layer 2-4″ deep around the tree as wide as you can tolerate but, to avoid stem damage, not against the trunk. Mature trees can be mulched at any time.
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Qualcomm ups smartphone speed with dual-CPU processor
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Pick any of the smartphones launched this year and chances are it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor in it. The Snapdragon chips, which can run at up to 1 GHz, have been at the core of devices such as Google's Nexus One, HTC's Incredible and the HTC Evo 4G.
Now Qualcomm is getting ready to introduce dual-CPU chipsets that boost the speed to 1.2 GHz and 1.5 GHz. The chipsets, called MSM826, MSM8660 and QSD8672, are likely to show up in stores by the end of the year. Handset manufacturers are currently designing products based on the processors, says Qualcomm.
The dual cores and higher processing speeds will allow for better multimedia performance. The chipsets also include a graphics processing unit with 3-D and 2-D acceleration engines for better rendering, 1080p video encoding and decoding capabilities, and integrated low-power GPS. They can support 24-bit 1280 x 800 resolution displays, says Qualcomm.
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Size Parameters for Free Tetrahedral Meshing in COMSOL Multiphysics
Meshing a geometry is an essential part of the simulation process, and can be crucial for obtaining the best results in the fastest manner. However, no one wants to be bogged down figuring out the exact specifications for their mesh. To help combat this problem, COMSOL Multiphysics has nine built-in size parameter sets when meshing. Here, we'll discuss size parameters for free tetrahedral meshing. Swept meshing with prismatic and hex elements, and other types, will be covered in future postings.
Introducing the Size Parameters
The built-in parameter sets range from Extremely fine to Extremely coarse with Normal sitting right in the middle. These parameter sets are determined for each geometry based on rules that are hard-coded into the COMSOL software for ease-of-use, and tested by us to produce high-quality meshes for most geometries and applications. Of course, as with everything in COMSOL Multiphysics, the parameters comprising the predefined sets can be modified when limited computer resources, the complexity of the geometry, or the physics application calls for it.
Let's take a look at the different size parameters and how to modify them for our specific needs, using a one-quarter piece of an engine piston as our geometry.
A one-quarter section of a piston geometry (left) and the same geometry after adding a Normal predefined mesh in COMSOL Multiphysics (right).
Working with Mesh Parameters
When creating a model in COMSOL Multiphysics, the mesh always defaults to a Physics-controlled mesh with a Normal element size. We can easily use this, or any of the other predefined parameter sets, as a starting point when modifying individual parameters. The predefined element sizes are simply sets of parameters, five parameters to be exact, that are available for modification:
- Maximum element size — limits how big each mesh element can be (lower value => finer mesh)
- Minimum element size — limits how small each mesh element can be (lower value => finer mesh)
- Maximum element growth rate — limits the size difference of two adjacent mesh elements (lower value => finer mesh)
- Curvature factor — limits how big a mesh element can be along a curved boundary (lower value => finer mesh)
- Resolution of narrow regions — controls the number of layers of mesh elements in narrow regions (higher value => finer mesh)
Adjusting one or more of these parameters lets you build a custom mesh, specific to your needs. In the case of the above geometry, the Normal element size parameter set is satisfactory for the bulk of the geometry, but results in too large elements for the fillets and the bevel around the hole.
Let's also assume that a Finer mesh is too computationally taxing. Therefore, starting from a Normal mesh, we modify a few of the parameters. Lowering the Minimum element size and Curvature factor, and raising the Resolution of narrow regions, allows for a better resolution of the fillets and the bevel around the hole. We can also increase the Maximum element growth rate to allow for larger elements in the bulk of the component.
But after all these changes how do we know that the quality of the mesh is still good enough for our needs?
Comparing Mesh Statistics
After building a mesh, right-clicking on the Mesh 1 node and choosing Statistics brings up a detailed report of the mesh elements (three of which are shown below). While there are different applications that require different mesh qualities, the Minimum element quality statistic is a telling one. Usually, a value greater than 0.1 is all we need.
As you can see in the three images below, both the left and center mesh meet these requirements, while the right-most mesh does not. The left image is a Finer mesh; the center image is a Normal mesh with a custom Minimum element size, Curvature factor, and Resolution of narrow regions; and the right image is a mesh that is the same as the center mesh, but with a higher Maximum element growth rate added.
Depending on your model and computational limits, the center mesh would be a good choice that balances element quality and number of elements, while having an adequate resolution of the geometry.
A Finer mesh that is computationally taxing (left), a custom mesh with satisfactory quality (center), and a custom mesh with element quality that could be too low (right).
Further Reading
- The model you see here can be found in our Model Gallery
- To learn more about meshing in COMSOL Multiphysics, check out these related blog posts by my colleague Walter:
Comments (2)
Oscar DiazNovember 13, 2014
Dear Andrew,
Thanks for your interesting blog entrance, has been of a great help. Right now I'm struggling a lot with a simple stationary 3D electrostatics model that I have to run within an iterative loop commanded from Matlab. The problem that always kills my simulation after a few hours is the mesh creating point while the program has advanced a few steps.
After trying several different techniques, I came to realize that the detail I am using for certain edges is affecting drastically the way the free-tets are created next to this 'detail' edges or boundaries.
Could you tell us your experience while using free-tets meshing in combination with certain edge or free-triangular elements in a 3D meshing?
Andrew GriesmerNovember 13, 2014
Hi Oscar,
Thanks for commenting, I am glad this blog post has been helpful. For an answer to this specific question, submitting a support case is your best option: http://www.comsol.com/support.
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Illegal poaching and demand from Western zoos are fueling the extinction of the Asian elephant, animal welfare groups said on Thursday.
BANGKOK Illegal poaching and demand from Western zoos are fueling the extinction of the Asian elephant, animal welfare groups said on Thursday.
They lashed out at zoos in Australia and New Zealand, which have requested 37 of the endangered elephants from Thailand.
"Western zoos have always wanted elephants because they're big money spinners, but now there's a convenient excuse," said Vivek Menon, executive director of the Wildlife Trust of India. "They say that these elephants are being maltreated in Asia where they are used to pull logs, and that is a situation of great sadness and we are saving them by giving them air-conditioned stalls in zoos," Menon said.
Speaking before a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) gets underway in Bangkok on Saturday, Menon said fewer than 50,000 Asian elephants remained in the region.
The species is, by some estimates, about one-tenth of the population of its bigger cousin, the African elephant.
"Asian elephants desperately need to be conserved in their home range states, not shipped abroad under the guise of a 'conservation breeding program,' which will have no long-term benefits for the species," Aster Zhang, China director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said in a statement.
Poaching continues to be a major threat, with illegal ivory from Asian elephants especially prized in Japan where it can fetch up to US$400 a kg on the black market. With only the tusk-bearing male elephants targeted by hunters, the species is desperately short of breeding elephants.
Menon said despite the threat of exploitation and hunting in Asia, the often lonely conditions in western zoos presented a far worse fate for elephants.
"Solitary confinement or keeping elephants in small groups which are not their families is worse then death. These are highly social animals which are remarkably like humans," he said. "When you want to punish a human being, other than capital punishment, solitary confinement is considered the worst sort of punishment. I think a zoo in which you keep these animals either solitarily or in forced groups is the worst possible outcome."
Animal welfare groups said they expected Thailand to agree to the sale of 37 Asian elephants to Australian and New Zealand zoos, but they questioned the legality of the trade.
Asian elephants have been protected from trade since 1976 under CITES, but a loophole allows for second generation elephants bred in captivity to be exempt from the ban for noncommercial purposes.
However, animal activists believe some of the animals sold most likely come from the wild.
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When you delete photos and videos from your Apple device or on iCloud.com, they won't delete from your PC. And when you delete a photo or video on your PC, they won't delete in iCloud Photos.
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- Check the System Status page for issues affecting Photos.
- See if the number of comments is the same on your iOS device and your Mac or PC.
If you have an Internet connection and a photo or video has a different number of comments on your devices, try these steps:
- Open iCloud for Windows.
- Next to Photos, click Options, then deselect Shared Albums.
- Click OK > Apply.
- Wait about one minute, then click Options again.
- Select Shared Albums > OK > Apply.
- Open My Photo Stream.
- Double-click the shared album, then click Comments.
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iCloud Photos keeps all of your RAW photos with embedded JPEGs stored in their original formats. You can view thumbnail versions on your Mac, or download and edit them on your Mac or PC.


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