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Bart Terkelberger? Seriously. His name fits his image – but what if it didn't?
What if Tom Brady were named…
3 Responses to "What if Tom Brady were named…"
Dave in Tucson Says:
August 30, 2011 at 1:53 pm |
One of my favorite aphorisms comes from a line in an old "Law & Order" episode: "If things were different, they wouldn't be the same" (meaning that if you change something important, you can't expect everything that follows to unfold as it did before).
Apropos of nothing, but your made-up name put me in the mind of the 70s-era Packers' RB Eric Torkelson.
Doug in Sandpoint Says:
August 30, 2011 at 2:30 pm |
Gisel Terkelberger? I think not.
TGinGB Says:
August 30, 2011 at 4:51 pm |
This discussion sounds way too much like the "What if Michael Vick was White?" discussions…


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April 29, 2013, 10:55 am
Interior of Denver's historic Daniels & Fisher department store
The historic Daniels & Fisher (D&F) department store on 16th and Arapahoe in downtown Denver had their own greenhouses to supply their floral department. In the fall, D&F would fill their five-story building with chrysanthemums. This undated photo (circa 1900 – 1910?) of the interior shows chrysanthemums cascading from the balconies in a "wisteria shower effect."
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ARKER'S house in Monkton stands in the woods on a hummock, off a narrow road next to a state park. It is an anonymous structure, somewhat like others scattered nearby, and according to Parker, it's just about right. When I went to see him, he told me that he does not like to stand out, that he's glad for his fame but relieved that it is contained within the tight circles of wine. He said he is reluctant to appear on television or the radio, because he has learned how bad it can be. Once, after an hour of waiting, he had an interview that consisted entirely of this: "Welcome to the show, Bruce, we don't have a lot of time, but, real quick here, what's your favorite white zinfandel?" Monkton is a shelter from all that. After Parker was written up in the Baltimore Sun, one of his neighbors said, "Hey, Bob, I didn't know you were some sort of wine expert." Parker answered "Yeah" with a shrug, because he wants to be a regular guy.
But of course he's not a regular guy -- not anymore. Parker's success has taken him around the world and widened his view. It has taught him to believe in the idea of live and let live -- except for anyone making bad wine. Simultaneously it has narrowed him, encouraging a peculiar single-mindedness that sustains his work but seems to have closed him off to topics beyond his immediate concerns. He can mingle with his neighbors at the post office and talk about politics and the weather, but even then what he's really thinking about, according to his wife, is food or wine. Given the chance, he becomes hard to follow, talking excitedly about obscure vintages and elaborate dishes with piled-up names -- but he also runs on about plain old Maryland crab. He is a professional critic with strong opinions, and also simply a glutton. His enthusiasm permeates his work. He loves to eat. He loves to drink. And he can't stand moralists who say this is wrong.
He means the temperance crusaders and righteous nutritionists who are given so much attention in the United States -- people he calls the Pleasure Police. When he was with me, he lacked the nerve to take on Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Instead he went after their natural allies at the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, which he described as being in the business of "the taboo of the week."
He said, "Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health. Kung pao chicken will destroy your life. Holy shit, the first week it's one of the classics of Italian cooking, the next week it's one of the staples of Chinese cooking! These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat.... I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?"
I asked him whether in a world so full of hunger it didn't seem self-indulgent to worry over the choices on a menu. This was a backhanded way of getting at a question that still concerns me: how anyone could dedicate his life to something as superfluous as the taste of wine. Ultimately it was not an answerable question -- and Parker didn't pursue my line of thought. Later he told me about losing his temper at a reporter who had asked him how he could possibly spend so much time tasting wine: "I said, 'Look, I don't have an argument for you. I'm a common-sense kind of guy. I wouldn't sit here unless I could do it. I know you can't do it, and don't want to do it. But I can do it, and I want to do it.'"
He was in a more reflective, less defensive mood with me. He said, "Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing." He meant, of course, pleasure as defined by dining. I realized I couldn't blame him for this orientation after all: he was born with such strong taste buds that it seemed to be a biological thing.
He kept calling himself a hedonist. That's a philosophical thing. He gave me a book called Between Meals, a profound little memoir by the late A. J. Liebling, the celebrated New Yorker writer, who died in 1963, at the age of fifty-nine. Liebling, too, was a glutton, and a famously defiant one. Between Meals was his argument for the uncomplicated pleasures of neighborhood bistros in France. He began it with what must have seemed to Parker like words meant for him:
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. Each day brings only two opportunities for field work, and they are not to be wasted minimizing the intake of cholesterol.
Liebling believed that it was equally important to research the subject of wine. He grew fat without flinching, and although he suffered a difficult last few years, disfigured by gout, he continued working until the end without expressing regret. He wrote, "No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Beer Hall they should have known he was not to be trusted."
Parker gave me Liebling's book because he would like someday to write such a memoir. But the two men are very different. Liebling was a literary acrobat, a sophisticate, and ultimately a nihilist of the boozy kind. Parker is none of that. He is a technical writer faced with tight deadlines. Nonetheless he shares with Liebling an unabashed enthusiasm for dining. He said to me, "I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively."
He sees the consequences in the mirror. He was a good runner once, but is too heavy for it now. He rides a mountain bike for exercise, and tries furiously to overtake younger bikers on the trails, and only sometimes succeeds. People in the wine business like to talk about his health. In California recently I heard that he has cancer of the mouth, which he does not. In Bordeaux people told me that he has a bad heart. This stems from an episode three years ago, at a French restaurant in New York, when during a ten-course meal Parker grew gray, sweaty, and weak, heard a high-pitched whine in his ears, and even lost his appetite. A cardiologist who was there thought he was having a heart attack. Parker somehow knew that he was not. His friends waited anxiously while an ambulance rushed to the scene. The rescue team laid Parker on a stretcher and carried him outside. At that point a man identified to him as the governor of New York, George Pataki, arrived for a meal, and Parker, looking up from the edge of death, gave his last good advice. He said, "Don't eat the scallops!" It would have made a nice epitaph, but at the hospital the doctors discovered that he had a bleeding ulcer, and they easily patched him up.
Otherwise Parker shows no signs of slowing down. Not only does he taste 10,000 wines a year, but he stores the sensation of each one into a permanent gustatory memory. When I asked him about the mechanical aspects of his work, he told me in a matter-of-fact way that he remembers every wine he has tasted over the past thirty-two years and, within a few points, every score he has given as well. That amounts to several hundred thousand relevant memories, which apparently he can summon up at will. He said he has no idea how he does this, except perhaps through intense concentration while tasting wine. He said, "A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavors. The smells. They just jump out at me. I can taste with a hundred screaming kids in a room. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine." Afterward he can't help it -- he just remembers.
As a result, he has a breadth of knowledge beyond that of any other critic alive: he remembers not only every French wine he has tasted but also every wine from Germany, Spain, Italy, Chile, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, among other countries. As a single judge awarding scores across the board, he implicitly compares all these wines with one another -- just as a consumer might in a store. That is where his experience gives him an intellectual advantage: many of the other critics also issue scores, but they are hemmed in by the narrowness of their experience or neutered by the consensus of committees. They make bitter puns about Parker's "critical mass," because, it's true, he is a force running wild in their midst, one man dominating their field. It's easy to see why they would distrust him. But when they accuse him of despotism, that's a harder fit.
He seems to vacillate between regret and arrogance about the position he is in. In principle he does not believe in imposing his will on others, but in practice he often does so. He told me that he is aware of the contradiction, and agrees with the people who question whether any one man should hold such power. His commentaries have become complicated by the certainty that they will be read as more than frank opinions. When he writes that a wine is "an insider's secret," it instantly becomes just the opposite. A positive review and a score over 90, especially for a wine that is produced in small quantities, can ignite speculation that sends the price rocketing and clears the wine out of the stores -- just the sort of thing that Parker, as a consumer advocate, would like to fight. Worse, a critical comment or a poor score can also be blown out of proportion, and may be financially devastating to the producer. That's the unhappy side of Parker's achievement. Either way, Parker seems to wish that the world wouldn't take him quite so seriously. But, of course, he won't just back down and go away.
Technically, he would not be the world's greatest taster, if such a person could exist. There are other tasters with palates just as good, who are better trained in viticulture or enology, or who have read more history. But wine is a subject so large that expertise within it has to be defined by boundaries: there are specialists in regions who can identify wines more precisely than Parker, and specialists in subregions who can do even better. Parker is the practical one. Ten thousand is a small number of wines in an industry that produces 12,000 wines in Bordeaux alone: the ones he concentrates on are the sort of fine wines -- usually costing more than $20 a bottle -- that Americans can buy and might want to drink. It is only within that category that Parker is one of the best tasters alive.
That's still a big claim. In recognition of his special talent, Parker has managed to add a clause to his disability insurance -- a paragraph that insures his olfactory sense, his "nose," for a million dollars. He told me he had taken out the policy after meeting a European critic who had lost his ability to smell and therefore to taste. I mentioned that given the scale of Parker's career, a million dollars seemed like a small sum. He agreed and said he had been unable to get the underwriter to agree to a higher amount. He laughed and said, "I'm sure if I put in a claim saying I couldn't taste anymore, they'd give me some pretty smelly tests." The kind of tests, he said, that would curl a man's nose.
For now, his senses are healthy. Given a choice, he prefers to taste tannic or complex red wines in the morning, when he is at his best, and to finish the day with relatively simple white wines. He stands, in order to be alert. He checks the cleanliness of the glass. If he has doubts, he breathes moisture into it and sniffs for any residual odors -- soap, chlorine, wood, or cardboard. He calls this "the Parker exhale test," as if he had copyrighted the term. If the glass is not clean, he rinses it with bottled water and dries it. He pours the wine. Then, with his hand on his hip, he lifts the glass, looks at the wine, smells the wine, swirls the wine, puts the wine in his mouth, curls his tongue around it, sucks in air noisily to agitate it, distributes the wine throughout his mouth, and forces the vapors into the back of his nose. He hesitates for just an instant and then spits the wine out and concentrates on its residual tastes. He jots a few notes, or mumbles his comments into a tape recorder, and then repeats the process to verify his impressions.
Even his detractors admit that he is phenomenally consistent -- that after describing a wine once he will describe it in nearly the same way if he retastes it "blind" (without reference to the label), and that these descriptions fit among others he makes in the constellation of wines. In theory such steadiness allows experienced readers to calibrate their palates against his, and to make informed choices even when they disagree with him. In reality most readers probably just look at the scores. Parker has become so confident in his judgments that he likes to point out his mistakes -- in part because he doesn't make many. Stories about his natural abilities abound. I was told, for instance, that at an informal get-together in Bordeaux recently, someone handed Parker a glass of Sauternes, and he casually remarked after taking a sip that it reminded him of a certain wine he had tasted ten years before -- or at least of how that wine might have evolved. The point of the story, of course, was that he got it right, and that this was an ordinary occurrence for him. The Bordelais would like to believe that his talent is disconnected from his knowledge or intelligence. They would like to believe that Parker is an idiot savant.
The characterization annoys Parker, who points out that he was once an attorney for the Farm Credit Banks of Baltimore -- a notably weak defense, undermined by his admission that the job was a bore. It seems likely that the Bordelais are at least partly right -- that Parker does have a freakish genius for smell and taste, which by luck he discovered about himself. He calls it a "privileged ability," but as a true American, he wants to be very clear that he has exploited it too. That's fair enough, because he's a hard worker. For about a fourth of the year he travels to the world's important wine areas, where he shrugs off the impulse to socialize or sight-see and gets down to intensive wine tasting all day, every day. He visits the vineyards and also has the wines brought to a central point -- a hotel, for instance -- where he can go through more than a hundred in a day without wasting time on the road traveling to vineyards.
There is a machine-like quality to what he does. When at home in Maryland, he continues to work at least six days a week, tasting, grading, and writing notes at a furious pace. This is out of necessity. Having set himself up as a watchdog, and having committed himself to the rigors of a regular publishing schedule, Parker has been trapped by the math of expanding expectations: not only must he taste the ever-greater number of wines in each new vintage, but, because wines in the bottle endure and evolve, he must also retaste a growing number of old wines. Of course, he does drop some wines along the way, but still the obligations build. Moreover, for the sake of valid comparisons -- the across-the-board scoring that is so useful to his readers -- he is condemned to work largely on his own. His publisher in Paris told me that he sometimes thinks of Parker as a tragic figure, like a character in a classic play. When I asked Parker about this later, he said that his publisher was wrong. Indeed, one of the keys to his success is his sustained and almost childlike enthusiasm for his job. But it's true that he faces quandaries.
The math that traps him helps him too. Parker's output is huge as a result of it. Beyond the nearly 350 pages of new material required annually for The Wine Advocate, he compiles and expands on his notes to create bulky wine-buying guidebooks, of which eleven have so far been published in various editions, on various regions. These books have been translated into five languages and have hit the best-seller lists in several countries, including France. For Parker they have been a windfall -- generating more income than The Wine Advocate does, at little extra expense, and making him a rich man by his own measure. He is frank about his good fortune: he was poor before, and he is glad that he no longer is. Nonetheless, what's unusual about Parker -- this American at work in the world -- is that for him money remains intrinsically uninteresting.
(The online version of this article appears in four parts. Click here to go to part one, part three, or part four.)
Photographs by Christopher Barker.
Copyright © 2000 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.


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Anatomy of Polk LSi M Speakers
A look inside Polk Audio's best home speakers
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
The Anatomy of an amazing tower speaker
What makes a great floor-standing speaker sound so effortless and realistic? For Polk Audio and their LSi M series speakers, it's the ability to easily recreate concert hall volume levels while maintaining accuracy, and to naturally reproduce complex low-frequency instruments and special effects. In other words, it has got to be able to play loud, clear, and deep.
To find out how Polk achieves these goals, we took a closer look inside one of their best floor-standing towers, the LSi M 705. What we found was a strong combination of cutting-edge technology and good old-fashioned engineering that makes this speaker an excellent choice for both music and home theater enthusiasts.
The Dynamic Sonic Engine
The heart of Polk's LSi M speaker sound. This molded enclosure-within-an-enclosure houses the midrange and tweeter in precise alignment for crystalline highs and accurate mids across a wide listening area.
Sparkling clear highs: the key to life
A great tweeter is crucial to the overall clarity and accuracy of a speaker — adding a sense of space and openness around each individual instrument and sound. That's why Polk spent so much time developing their new ring radiator tweeter design. It boasts high power handling, enhanced dynamic range, wide dispersion, and extended top-end response. You'll experience astonishing detail and delicacy, even at sofa-moving volume levels.
Polk's most advanced crossover ever
Think of a crossover network as the traffic cop of the audio world, directing highs to a speaker's tweeter and lows to the woofers. The best crossovers, such as Polk's exclusive Orth design in their LSi M series models, are painstakingly engineered to take full advantage of each speaker component's strengths. The result is transparent and dynamic sound, with a smooth, accurate response across a wide listening area.
Oval drivers for deep bass and a slimmer profile
The unique shape of Polk's Cassini oval woofers increases the overall radiating surface area for deeper, more musical low-frequency response, while allowing for a narrower cabinet with a smaller footprint.
The cone of each driver is made from Super Cell Aerated Polypropylene, a mineral-filled plastic that's been "puffed up" with injected air to form a honey-comb structure. This advanced material offers an unbeatable combination of stiffness for less flex and lower distortion, low mass for faster, more efficient movement, and high internal damping to prevent unwanted cone vibration from coloring the sound. All you'll hear is deep, clean bass.
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OAKLAND -- The Indians have entered uncharted waters by asking Carlos Santana to work as a backup catcher, third baseman and cleanup hitter to start this season. Under the circumstances, depth behind the plate is important right now for Cleveland.
Manager Terry Francona confirmed Monday that the club signed longtime backup catcher George Kottaras to a Minor League contract to help in that regard. Kottaras will head to Triple-A Columbus, but he is in a position to help Cleveland at some point.
"I don't know that we'd ever comment on potentially seeing a guy come up," said Francona, who managed Kottaras with the Red Sox in 2008-09. "That doesn't make any sense, but I have some history with George. He has kind of a potent left-handed bat and he's got some veteran experience. He's great in the clubhouse.
"Having George's experience was something we thought could help us. We wouldn't sign George to keep him in Triple-A all year. We don't know what's going to happen here, but, and he knows it, we didn't sign him to help Columbus win."
Kottaras has played in 295 games for four teams -- Boston, Milwaukee, Oakland and Kansas City -- in six Major League seasons, serving mostly in a reserve role. He has posted a .214/.324/.406 slash line in his big league career, but hit just .180/.349/.370 with five homers and 12 RBIs in 46 games for the Royals last season.
Francona also confirmed that right-handed reliever Mark Lowe has signed a Minor League contract with Cleveland and will join the Columbus roster, too. The 30-year-old Lowe has a 4.17 ERA in 264 games between stints with the Mariners, Rangers and Angels. This spring, Lowe allowed just one earned run with 12 strikeouts and one walk in 10 1/3 Grapefruit League innings with the Rays.
"He didn't make Tampa's team, but he had a really good spring," Francona said. "He looks healthy. He's a pretty good reliever. So, we'll let him go down there and pitch and you know we're going to need depth. We don't know who it'll be, but it's nice to have another arm."


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Megaupload Details Raise Significant Concerns About What DOJ Considers Evidence Of Criminal Behavior
from the bad-cases-and-bad-law deptYesterday I wrote up a first reaction to the Megaupload case. Having spent some more time going through the indictment in much greater detail, I have some more thoughts and concerns.
First, it's important to acknowledge that the founder of Megaupload, who goes by Kim Dotcom, has a long history of
Where my concerns come in is in some of the "evidence" that's used to add to the overall indictment. To be clear, in a case like this, the issue is the evidence as a whole, combined to show intent and a general pattern to actions. So the allegations in the indictment don't necessarily mean that any individual action is, by itself, illegal. But, I still worry that some of the specific actions used to paint this picture are (1) potentially taken out of context, (2) are presented in a way that likely misrepresents the actual situation and (3) could come back to haunt other online services who are providing perfectly legitimate services.
- For example, the indictment points out that Megaupload did not have a site search, by which users could find material. That's interesting, but it seems like an odd piece of information in making the case. Other copyright cases have specifically found that having a search engine is part of an inducement claim -- so there's an argument that the idea not to have a search engine wasn't so much "conspiracy," as it was an attempt to follow the guidance of the court and to stay legal. To use the lack of a feature, that previously was shown to be a problem, as evidence of a conspiracy is crazy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
- Separately, the indictment lists various feature choices as part of making its case. There is, for example, the fact that if certain files aren't downloaded in a certain amount of time, then they are deleted. The indictment presents this as evidence that the service is mainly for infringement, because it potentially precludes the idea that the site is used for long-term backup. Of course, that falsely assumes that long-term backup is the only legitimate use of a cyberlocker. But that might not be the case at all. The service could (and is) used to just distribute large files in a directed, short-term effort. If anything, the fact that files are deleted after they're done being shared highlights a key legal function of the site: it was used by people to exchange large files once or twice, since they're too big to share via email attachment.
On top of that, other, legitimate, sites have similar policies. The popular image hosting site Imgur does the same thing: if people don't access an image for an extended period of time, Imgur may delete it. That's not because it's encouraging infringement, but because it knows that the service is being used for short-term distribution.
- There is also the question of paying certain uploaders. However, there does seem to be a bit of a stretch in assuming that because some uploaders get lots of downloads by posting infringing content, all such "paid" users must be putting up infringing works. There are plenty of viral videos that are quite popular not because of infringement. In fact, much of this seems to be based on the simple assumption that encouraging more usage means they must be encouraging infringement. It's entirely possible that Dotcom did encourage infringement, but it feels like there should be more actual evidence of that, rather than pasting together a bunch of claims that could be interpreted in legitimate ways. Paying users for popularity is not, and should not, be evidence of criminality, or even infringement.
- There is also the claim that, while the company did remove some works upon takedown notice, it merely removed one link to the work, but left up other links. The issue here, as noted elsewhere in the indictment, is that Megaupload has a system for de-duplication -- so that if multiple people uploaded the same file, it only kept one version, but made it available at a different link for each person. This is the same sort of thing that lots of legitimate sites do, including Dropbox. The question, then, is if you do something like that with a locker service, and keep a single file, accessible through multiple locker links, what do you do if you get a takedown? This is still somewhat of an open question -- and was one of the points raised (in a civil copyright infringement context, which is very different) in the EMI vs. MP3tunes case. In that case, the company was told that it did, in fact, have to delete the actual file. But that raises other questions. Let's present a hypothetical: what if infringer A and authorized distributor B both upload the same file. The system de-dupes and uses a single file for each to access. Now, the copyright holder discovers A's version, and issues a takedown. It will automatically take down B's authorized work as well -- even though that copy was not infringing. Or... what if someone uploads a copy, but for their own personal use to access remotely, but never shares the link? In that case, no infringement is occurring... but DOJ seems to claim that the site would have to delete the file anyway, or there may be criminal risk. That's crazy.
- The complaint argues that because Megaupload's "top 100" list does not actually list the top 100 downloads on the site, this is more evidence of conspiracy. The issue here is that the list apparently removes files that are likely infringing. But... again, in other cases (like the IsoHunt case) such lists were also seen as proof of inducement. So, again it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. If Megaupload's list showed infringing works, then they'd be charged with inducement... but removing them from the list makes them guilty of conspiracy?
- In addition, the indictment shows that, despite the company not being a US company, it did set up a DMCA agent, a tool to make removing files easier, and did take down works on request. There are some reasonable questions about if it ignored some takedown messages (likely) and the fact that it put limits on how many takedowns could be done per day with its tool. Those certainly work against the company in terms of retaining any DMCA safe harbors. Similarly, there is some evidence that the owners of the site may have uploaded infringing files themselves -- which, again, has no DMCA protections.
- The indictment points out that Megaupload used its hashing system to maintain a list of known child porn and block those files from being re-uploaded. The problem here is that copyright is different than child porn. Child porn is a strict liability issue: it is always illegal. There are no extenuating circumstances. But copyrighted content is different. It could be authorized. It could be fair use. And that depends on the specific use, not the file. So using a hash system there doesn't make sense, whereas it can make sense for child porn.
- The indictment also lists all sorts of emails, some of which are more damaging than others, but some of which may be taken out of context. All of them seem to assume that Megaupload employees can easily tell, often just by file name, what's infringing and what's not. I think this is an assumption that many people who don't understand copyright law make. And while you can guess... it's not always so easy. The recording industry, for example, regularly uses cyberlockers as a legitimate way to distribute promo copies. How would Megaupload know if certain files were legit or not, without further details? Yes, there's obvious infringement happening on the site, but will Megaupload always know which specific files are infringing?
- The indictment discusses demands from Universal Music that Megaupload would need to meet before UMG would even discuss a potential license. This included: "proactive fingerprint filtering to ensure that there is no infringing music content hosted on its service; proactive text filtering for pre-release titles that may not appear in fingerprint databases at an early stage; terminate the accounts of users that repeatedly infringe copyright; limit the number of possible downloads from each file; process right holder take down notices faster and more efficiently." While the DMCA does require action against repeat infringers, there are no legal requirements for the other issues. It's not clear why that should be evidence here. The fact that Megaupload didn't go above and beyond what the law requires shouldn't be seen as evidence of wrongdoing...
- Many of the emails discuss the fact that, in general, there are infringing works on the site. Yeah, but that's the same issue in the YouTube case and other cases. General knowledge that your tool is used for infringement is kind of meaningless, because you can't take works down if you don't know what's actually infringing.
- Money laundering claims are tricky and perhaps there was some "money laundering" going on here, but this indictment seems to include basic payments to Megaupload's hosting companies. Using payments to companies for hosting as evidence of money laundering seems pretty extreme, and suggests the possibility that this is just a "lumping in" situation, just to pile on more things that look bad, but aren't illegal by themselves.
But the bigger overall issue is why this action and why now? Companies in the US have filed civil cases against Megaupload in the US and the company was willing to come to the US and deal in US courts. Taking it up to a criminal "conspiracy" and racketeering charge seems like overkill, with tremendous collateral damage and chilling effects.
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In Unova, after the player has obtained the eight Gym Badges of the Unova region, he or she will be able to travel to the Pokémon League to take on four of the most powerful trainers in the game. These trainers are collectively known as the Elite Four. These trainers are:
Pokémon Black and White
In Pokémon Black and White, the first time the player defeats the Elite Four, there will be no champion, as N has defeated Alder. This means he or she cannot enter the Hall of Fame, until the second time they battle them and finally defeat Alder to become the champion.
Pokémon Black and White Versions 2
In Pokémon Black and White Versions 2, the Elite Four remain the same. Like Pokémon Black and White, the player may battle the Elite Four in any order. After defeating the Elite Four, the player may challenge the new champion, formerly Opelucid City's Gym Leader Iris, without interruption.
- A section of the Hoenn Elite Four music is played in the Unova Elite Four's music.
- Marshal doesn't have any Dual-Type Pokémon the first time you battle him.
- Shauntal and Caitlin both only have female Pokémon.
- Grimsley only has one male on his team- Scrafty.
- This is the first Elite Four not to have a specific battle order.
- Caitlin would win against Marshal, but lose to Grimsley and Shauntal.
- Grimsley would win against Caitlin and Shauntal, but lose to Marshal.
- Marshal would win against Grimsley, but lose to Caitlin and Shauntal.
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LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A funeral is set this week for a former sheriff's deputy who was piloting a medical helicopter when it crashed in eastern Kentucky.
JEMS: Air Evac Lifeteam Helicopter Crashes in Kentucky Killing Three
Eddie Sizemore and two crew members on the helicopter died in the crash on Thursday night in the parking lot of an elementary school in Clay County.
Funeral services for Sizemore will be Tuesday at First Baptist Church of London.
Sizemore had retired as a deputy in the Laurel County sheriff's office before becoming a pilot for Air Evac Lifeteam.
Along with Sizemore, flight paramedic Herman "Lee" Dobbs and flight nurse Jesse Jones were killed the crash. The team was on their way back to base after transporting a patient to a London hospital.
Federal officials are investigating the crash.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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In the second part of a two-part article, we review Veritas SANPoint Control and compare it with EMC ControlCenter.
- Darryl Brooks, SANology Inc.
Last month, we looked at EMC Enterprise Control Center (ECC) Open Edition (see "EMC raises the bar for SAN management") with the intention of comparing its abilities to Veritas SANPoint Control 3.5.1. Although heterogeneous support didn't amount to full control of non-EMC products, the engineering groundwork has been laid and marketing positions taken for ECC to evolve into a useful and nondiscriminatory storage area network (SAN) management offering.
Veritas has engineered and built on another storage management offering in SANPoint Control 3.5.1. SANPoint Control centralizes the management of storage resources into one console by exploring your SAN fabric and discovering its supported hardware and software components. In addition to discovery and zoning, real-time event reporting--along with policy-based end-to-end management and provisioning--ensures that it can be considered next-generation and capable of sparring with EMC's ECC.
|How SANPoint Control works
A key requirement of business continuity is that there's sufficient distance between data storage locations so that a disaster that wipes out one site is unlikely to wipe out another site.
In fact, the architectural designs of these two product offerings are similar--so similar that one would think these two industry giants are losing software engineers to each other. It's like having the prototype of an NBA center in Shaquille O'Neal: Why would you want to change that basic design? So, each product's value will be determined by its ability to expand on this sound design by developing intuitive interfaces, engineering interoperability across vendor offerings and streamlining administrative efforts across the SAN. But isn't this how it should be?
SANPoint Control is based on a distributed client-server architecture and is represented by three components: the SANPoint control console, server and agent (see "How SANPoint Control works" on this page). These components are supported on the latest versions of Solaris, HP-UX, Windows 2000 and NT platforms. Communication between the console(s) and the SANPoint Control server happen over a TCP/IP socket on port 2802 for the SAN access layer (SAL) or port 5431 for policy management. If there's a conflict with another application, you can redirect this communication traffic to other ports. By default, the simple network management protocol (SNMP) is facilitated by the server listening and polling on ports 162 and 161 respectively. However, the server and configured agents communicate via XML over an HTTP connection on port 2802, which can't be changed.
SANPoint Control's console
The console is a browser-based XML recipient that presents data retrieved from the SANPoint server, or more specifically, the SAL. The data seen in the console is an aggregation of the hardware and software components discovered during exploration. Through this interface, the user is able to engage the API functions of a supported device and thus manage that particular piece of hardware with the same level of control possible with a management application that is native to that piece of hardware. In addition, there are also a few storage, server and database management software solutions that can be discovered and managed. For instance, Veritas Volume Manager and Cluster Server--as well as NetBackup--can all be discovered and launched from the accommodating server. Although the list of applications that can be discovered are mostly Veritas products, the list also includes Oracle and MS Exchange.
Like ECC, the console is divided into three parts that are properly titled the tree view, the display table and the details view. The tree view is on the left side of the interface and contains a directory tree for each SAN resource. From there, you can filter out the presentation of devices by their type or association. Within the tree view frame, the fabric, storage, hosts and group views give the user the ability to display only the devices they're interested for that particular operation.
If you're only interested in fabric networking devices, you can limit the displayed data to only those devices. The storage and hosts views are more comprehensive and detailed than the fabric view in that they display connected and unconnected (no fabric login), zoned and unzoned devices and hosts wired into your SAN. In addition to managing the zones of the devices and hosts in these views, the hosts view also lists the discovered applications currently supported under SANPoint Control. And with group views, users can define views of a specified group of SAN resources associated with a particular department or application. This streamlines operations in a few ways, including letting the user to present accounts payable storage resources to the IT administrative staff responsible for financial applications.
The display table shows the next level of objects under the highlighted parent object. You can customize the table display by selecting the columns of information you've determined to be most important to you and only include those columns in the table.
The details view is composed of a set of panes or tabs. Each pane provides information in a different format, depending on what SAN object or group has been selected in the tree view. The topology, attribute, policy, alert connectivity, OS handles, host bus adapter (HBA), security and collectors panes collectively present topology and tabular data concerning the selected SAN resources' attributes, relationships, policies and statistical counters. Without a doubt, you'll be focusing most of your attention to this frame of SANPoint's console.
The server
The SANPoint Control server is at the heart of this SAN resource management solution. The SANPoint Control Server interacts with the SAL layer to discover SAN resources, provision storage and maintain a real-time data store, as well as provide for access control (e.g., zoning, LUN Security), policy management and reporting.
Discovery is made possible with several explorer modules within the SAL process (sald). Each explorer module is only interested in the SAN components it was coded to discover. There are HBA explorers and array, zoning and tape explorers, as well as a management server explorer. Veritas made the SAN access layer more flexible and extensive by allowing additional modules to be added to the SAL in future releases. This means that with each added module, you need to upgrade the sald process--possibly taking other working modules out of commission should there be a problem with the upgrade. Test each new release of the sald process in an isolated area with the newly added hardware or software that SANPoint Control is managing.
There are two methods of discovery: in-band and out-of-band. In-band discovery takes place over Fibre Channel (FC), using the protocol's common transport (CT) as a communication medium. Out-of-band discovery can take place over TCP or SNMP using IP as the communication medium. Applications requiring the highest levels of availability will want their storage assets being managed and monitored over both transports for redundancy reasons. For direct-attached storage (DAS), the SAL will use a form of SCSI pass-through or other proprietary method for discovering LUNs.
Provisioning, or storage access control, is brought about through zoning and LUN security. Zoning is accomplished by SANPoint Control interacting with the switch vendor's API. Discovered zones can be changed and new zones created either through the zoning wizard or the command line interface. Vendor cooperation isn't equal in this area of management. For example, switch port hard zoning is only available with Brocade switches. All other levels of management functionality appear to be even.
|SANPoint Control's strengths
LUN security is the collective term used to describe the tasks involved in binding a storage unit to a storage port on an array and masking that storage unit to a particular host. Veritas includes a LUN security wizard to streamline the tasks of provisioning storage into one operation. This feature is a must-have in all SAN resource management applications if they are to plug the leak that's letting money flood out of IT budgets.
The real-time data being collected by the explorers is staged into the SAL data store. From there, the SAN access layer agent translates information in the data store into XML-formatted files that are to be passed on to client consoles for field population. The SAL agent is also responsible for user authentication when commands are passed to the server, and it facilitates communication between the server and other hosts running the agent.
SANPoint Control database server
SANPoint Control also requires a second database structure in the database server. The database server of choice is Sybase's Adaptive Server Anywhere, which is an ODBC-compliant relational database. The database is installed when you install the SANPoint Control server and is used to log alarm data coming from the alarm service in your server. By default, the database stores data over a 30-day period. However, hourly updated data starts to be aged out of the database after 15 days, with less frequent updates aged out after 30 days. Using a compliant relational database gives the administrator the ability to export alarm data to various graphical applications for executive review or to track changes.
Alarm data can be logged on a user-configurable frequency of time, varying the space requirements of the database as the element of time is reduced. Another variable in the database space requirements is the number of device ports that are in your SAN. Device ports are the variable, not simply the entire device because, while an FC-attached tape drive may have only one port, a SAN switch will have more than one port, with each port having its own statistical alarms.
You can perform a hot backup of the database server with the dbbackup utility in Sybase ASA. This utility copies the database file visdb.db and its log file from its installation directory to your specified directory. You can't use OS commands to copy these files while the database server is active--you must use the utility to ensure data integrity is maintained.
However, the restoration of the database server must take place while the SANPoint Control or Sybase ASA server is stopped. Once stopped, the administrator needs to preserve the existing database and log files before copying the backup copy of these files to the production directory. Before restarting the database, synchronization between the backed-up database and the current log file may be desirable. This is accomplished with the dbeng7 utility, whose syntax is documented in the admin guide. After synchronization and copying the files to the installation directory, simply start SANPoint Control as you would normally.
Policy management is implemented through SANPoint Control's policy service. The policy service is responsible for managing the relationships between SAN resources and the statistical thresholds being monitored by the administrator. A policy then is defined by the monitoring of statistical thresholds, the raising of an alarm, and the appropriate action to take when a condition has been met. The supported actions include e-mail, invoking scripts and trap notification to the console or other management framework (e.g., Hewlett-Packard OpenView).
SANPoint Control 3.5.1 comes bundled with user-configurable policies. This helps make the solution usable in a shorter time than expected. The policies shipped are reliant on the monitored device's management information base for access to its management properties.
The alarm service complements the policy service by employing collectors to gather statistical and performance metrics from the SNMP and SAL layers. The alarm service then feeds this information to the policy service that acts upon the received data according to policy. Collected information consists of SAN traffic, error and status changes, as well as environmental data. All of this can be included in defining additional policies for the purpose of tracking service level agreements between your vendors and application support team. You may have a particular switch port with an increasing number of CRC errors over a period of days. If you're administering a SAN at a brokerage firm, wouldn't it be nice to have this alarm raised before the failure and remove a possibly failing GBIC as a controlled event instead of at 9:30 on a Monday morning?
SANPoint Control ships with approximately 40 out-of-the box reports that can be modified and executed against the database server. Reports include data relating to inventory and capacity, as well as performance. By using these reports, I was able to see exactly how much total storage was available in my SAN, how much storage was allocated to each host and even each application, depending on SANPoint Control's ability to support that layered application. For example, with the Oracle Overview feature, you can report on the instance name, version and tablespace characteristics in a glance. The firmware and device driver versions of SAN resources can also be tracked using the reporting feature. This information--along with reports detailing how devices are connected--can be invaluable during certain disaster recovery scenarios.
And like ECC, you can define performance reports that give you some idea of port utilization over some defined period of time, giving you eyes into the data center during overnight processing. Capacity planning is obviously the greatest beneficiary of this feature.
Almost equivalent in functionality to ECC's storage-specific agents, the agent extends the view of the server by exploring SAN objects that may not be available to the server (e.g., SAN islands). The agent is made up of several explorers that are called upon by the server to "walk" the connected SAN to discover and report on its resources. Because SAN islands are so prevalent in today's data centers, agents are necessary to aggregate status and statistical information into the data store. Before SANPoint Control 3.5.1, the server and agent couldn't reside on the same computer, thereby making the overall solution more expensive. Therefore, if you have an older version installed, apply the appropriate patch to gain this and other new features related to the patch.
SPC 3.5.1 pricing starts at $20,000.00 for to manage 32 ports and starts to climb as application-specific agents (e.g., Oracle, MS Exchange) are added.
The solution addresses many of the pain points experienced while managing SAN resources. The provisioning and grouping of SAN resources, monitoring and policy creation, as well as reporting can all be found in SANPoint Control 3.5.1. The scalability can be seen at the agent level, where control agents can be deployed as the number of SAN ports increase. Heterogeneous support of OS platforms, SAN switches and the storage resources that connect them are vast enough to include most IT applications, with the exception of the mainframe.
A support area where SANPoint Control is lacking is in storage resource management (SRM). It mostly addresses the management of SAN resources from the aspect of physical and logical availability to the application. What SANPoint Control is missing is an SRM module that allows the administrator to set policies on who, what, where and why data is stored on these SAN resources. But with the recent purchase of Precise Software Inc., Veritas gains W. Quinn, which is a sound SRM product and stands on its own merit.
Which product is right for you?
If you had the opportunity to read last month's article on EMC ECC, you have now witnessed that these storage resource management solutions are not far apart in terms of design and product offering. Both have central servers that call upon distributed agents to gather protocol data and populate some form of central data store. And from this central data store, reports and policies can be created. Both products take advantage of the volumes of statistical data available via the FC protocol. This adds value to these competing products, but doesn't in and of itself make either product superior.
The features I feel separated these products are ease of management and heterogeneous support. SANPoint Control requires a separate Sybase database to house alarms coming from the alarm service. I didn't find this to be an overtaxing administrative effort; however, it's another point of possible failure or corruption and needs to be protected. As far as heterogeneous support, both products have their respective hurdles to jump in order to gain API access into competing vendor's products. However, I found MVS support in EMC's ECC to be an advantageous point for applications being serviced by mainframes.
Where Veritas' SANPoint Control surpasses ECC is that it can discover and launch Veritas and non-Veritas software products from a single console, streamlining management. This advantage could be significant, considering the number of Volume Manager, NetBackup and Cluster Server installations there are to date and the time you are spending administering these products.
So which one should you buy? Both. The more dependent you are on EMC hardware, the more value you will get out of Enterprise Control Center. If you have EMC arrays and Veritas storage management software sprinkled throughout your enterprise, you have to ask yourself the question: "Is it more costly to manage the EMC or perhaps HP StorageWorks arrays and SAN switches or manage Veritas' Volume Manager, NetBackup and Cluster Server?"
If you don't have any EMC arrays, but have an abundance of Veritas software supporting your storage infrastructure, you may pick SANPoint Control. Whichever you choose, make sure you choose the solution that reduces your greatest financial management burden you're contending with now or will be in the near future.
Are we there yet? No, not yet, but with these product offerings, we're considerably closer to seeing a useful solution that really reduces the management efforts of the organization, thereby making corporations leaner, more flexible and able to sustain growth.
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Veteran British supermodel Kate Moss has scored a Spring-Summer 2013 coup, appearing in adverts for Parisian label Givenchy.
Kate Moss has appeared for the first time ever in advertising visuals for famous French brand Givenchy.
With her hair down around her shoulders, and her eyes covered with large metallic clip-on sunglasses, Kate Moss wears clothes from Riccardo Tisci's Spring-Summer 2013 prêt-à-porter collection for Givenchy in new images released by the brand.
While Kate shows off the brand's new ruffled look, the menswear is worn by Spanish matador Jose Maria Manzanares and New York City-based artist Jared Buckhiester, famed for his grotesque yet understated pencil drawings and black-and-white photography.
The shoot, produced and shot by Mert & Marcus and Riccardo Tisco was styled by another creative dream team: ex-Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld and superstylist Katy England.
Tisci, Givenchy's energetic creative director, explained the ideas behind the campaign in a statement: "They are people I love and who love me. It's about family. Something that is difficult to find in today's world. It's about real people, only taking the best of their personalities, with no effort."
Keeping up the family spirit, Italian model Mariacarla Boscono also features in the shoot with her four-month-old daughter, Marialucas. "[There is] something very strong that embraces the love I feel for my daughter, so special and overwhelming that words would not be enough...and the concept of family that ties my soul with that of Riccardo, which stands in my life as something very, very special," she told Style.com.
Showing no sign of slowing down, 38-year-old Moss has recently appeared in new campaigns for shoe designer Stuart Weitzman and the Italian fashion powerhouse Versace. In June 2012, Forbes Magazine estimated Moss's yearly earnings to have hit $9.2 million between May 2011 and May 2012, a figure topped only by Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen.
Givenchy has also released a 'making-of' video exploring the shoot available on their YouTube channel at http://youtu.be/CCnQ5GHcaSo.


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Years ago I discovered meditation as a method to reduce stress. I always thought there was some secret to it involving Far Eastern chants and pretzel poses. I actually fell into a method of meditation that worked for me and now describe it as a place in your mind to retreat to for peace and calm. It started by realizing that I needed to get away but didn't have the means or resources to do that. So I took a few moments one morning to imagine a place that would provide complete calm away from my world. See, it doesn't sound eerie or bizarre in any way! The place that came to me was a room overlooking the ocean with two balcony doors wide open to the outside with gauze curtain panels blowing in the breeze. The best part about my envisioned room was that the only furniture in the room was a bed off to the side of one door dressed only in clean, crisp, cool, white sheets. When things get too hectic, I take a moment to imagine my room and crawl between those exquisite sheets to rest.
Imagining my room helped me settle into the hours of infusion during my chemotherapy appointments. Eventually I would wonder out onto the balcony and overlook the ocean, close my eyes and let the salty wind bathe me; I could really feel it. These sessions would only take a few moments, but they helped me to relax and aided me in not feeling sick or overwhelmed by the ongoing assault on my body from chemotherapy. I have also used moments visiting my room to help me get calm before surgery.
I once had a discussion about finding a place to de-stress in your mind with a young man at a meeting for entrepreneurs. He was struggling to build a business so he was a little skeptical at first when I told him about this technique, but after I described my secret place he looked at me wistfully and asked if I minded if he used the same place for himself. Perhaps your place is on a mountain top, or beside a stream.
Another method I like to use is to sit calmly, close my eyes and repeat a precious scripture from the bible a couple of times until I sense God's peace. The bible tells us that Jesus meditated. Meditating is different for everyone. Yes, some people chant and some listen to their breathing. The idea is to find a way to detach from the stress and your surroundings to allow your body to be calm and relax. People actually control their blood pressure this way. So as mental or spiritual as it sounds, meditating is a method to minister a need for peace to your body.
Now that summer is upon us I actually just get away to my backyard under a tree or with my face to the sun. I don't have to worry though; my place by the ocean will always be there for me.


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EVERYONE'S ELVIS: We've probably all had a similar dream. We show up, somewhere, say our local grocery store, and we walk inside, but wait: Everyone but everyone, from the shoppers to the employees stocking the shelves, is actually Elvis Presley. Jumpsuit-wearing Elvis Presley, from the early '70s. What? No? That's just our reoccurring dream? Too bad. It's a pretty good one, we think. And were extra excited because that dream could become something of a reality on Thursday, Oct. 31 when the Elvis Presley Honeymoon Hideaway in Palm Springs throws a Halloween Bash.
YEP... you are indeed invited to arrive dressed as Elvis. In fact, we'd be disappointed if people showed up and at least didn't have something Elvis-y about their costumes. A pair of over-sized sunglasses? Pinky rings? A pompadour? Find a way to work that in. But we recommend you go "Full King" if you want to compete for the Best Elvis Costume prize. Please, if you win that you'll never need to win anything else ever again.
THERE SHALL BE TOURS... Walking around the mid-century abode is a pleasure, and Halloween will not be an exception. There are, in fact, a number of tours planned for Halloween. Also, the house will be decorated for the holiday and there shall be candy (meaning kids are welcome, and for half the admission price, too). Seriously, how cool to say you went trick-or-treating at The King's hangout. That's got major cred.
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Google+ has beaten out Twitter to become the world's second-largest social network, according to a report.
Trendstream's Global Web Index, a U.K. market research team, reported that Google's social network grew 27 percent and surpassed Twitter to be the globe's second-largest social network with 343 million active users in the last quarter of 2012. Now only Facebook, with close to a billion users, has a larger reach.
Active users means users that have used or contributed to the social network in the last month, according to Trendstream. The numbers may also have been goosed by Google's new policy of entwining its services with the social network, such as when a person signs up for a Gmail account he or she is also given a Google+ profile.
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Yoga scholars Mark Singleton and James Mallinson have taken
their dream—publishing a single comprehensive resource of yogic literature—to
the next level by bringing it to Kickstarter,
the web-based company that facilitates funding for independent creative
projects. They've asked for $50,000 to fund The
Roots of Yoga, and with the clock ticking down toward their August 10th
deadline, they've raised nearly half that amount. A growing list of yoga
luminaries is rallying behind them: Georg Feuerstein, Richard Rosen, Judith
Lasater, Elena Brower, Kino McGregor, Danny Paradise, and Frank Jude Boccio.
What makes The
Roots of Yoga so extraordinary?
First of all, Singleton and Mallinson will bring serious
scholarship to the topic of yoga—welcome any time, but especially now when the
popular press is spotlighting events like John
Friend's fall from grace or Bikram
Choudhury's lawsuits. Mark Singleton earned a Ph.D. in South Asian Religion
from Cambridge University. He has written and edited several books, including Yoga
Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice. He is also a longtime hatha yoga practitioner. James Mallinson
is a linguist and ethnographer who's spent more than 10 years traveling and
studying in India. An Oxford Ph.D., he has published many scholarly works and
also translated two of the Yoga
Samhitas for a general audience.
Second, the book will feature all-original translations,
including many works that have never been translated before. The
Roots of Yoga has the potential to become a companion book, one that offers
fresh understandings over a lifetime of practice.
Perhaps most exciting of all, Singleton and Mallinson
promise that the book will be written not just for other scholars but also with
teachers and practitioners in mind. "Roots
of Yoga is the book I wish I'd had available to me when I started my
investigations into yoga," says Singleton.
It's also extraordinary (or maybe just plain cool) that this
project has made its way to Kickstarter,
which uses the power of social networking to support creative, independent
ideas. This is a revolutionary way of doing business, bypassing traditional
gatekeepers and allowing the community to get behind projects or products they
believe in. Kickstarter
projects require clear goals and a time limit—if pledged amounts don't add up
by a certain date, the project isn't funded. (While that may sound harsh, it's
actually less
risk for everyone involved.)
Several creative yogis have asked for Kickstarter funding
for projects from exotically designed yoga mats to a yoga bus for spreading
good vibes across the country. Almost half of all Kickstarter projects get
funded. Why do people contribute? In many cases, a donation gets you something
of equal or even greater value in return: a
cool yoga poster or a
handwritten poem. Backers of The
Roots of Yoga project can get a signed first edition … and even (for
$10,000) a trip to the Kumbha Mela.
Or how about the simple knowledge that you've supported
something of value for the yoga community? In other words, how about generating
some positive karma? Priceless!
What have you heard about the Roots of Yoga project? Would you support a project like this through Kickstarter?
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Scientists in Benin unveil enhanced malaria test
[COTONOU, BENIN] Researchers in Benin say they have developed an improved method for detecting malaria parasites in mosquito vectors that could help yield better estimates of malaria transmission intensity in different settings.
The new technique detects and identifies the four Plasmodium species in the principal mosquito vectors, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus. It is also enables scientists to detect 'mixed' malaria infections where more than one type of Plasmodium parasite is present.
- New malaria test is 98 per cent accurate, scientists claim
- Detects and identifies the four Plasmodium species, which could lead to better estimates of transmission intensity
- Tool could aid with development of malaria vaccine, say experts
The study, published in PLOS ONE last month (28 December), explains that the technique optimises polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology, a laboratory technique that amplifies and quantifies DNA molecules.
The researchers also say their method is more accurate than the traditional technique, which is based on the ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) test, a standard laboratory diagnostic test that uses antibodies and colour change to detect DNA molecules.
"This study presents an optimised method for detecting the four Plasmodium species in African malaria vectors," say the authors. They say it could be an "accurate molecular diagnostic tool for detecting malaria parasites in field mosquito populations".
Nicaise Tuikue Ndam, one of the authors of the study and a researcher at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, tells SciDev.Net that ELISA measures a specific antigen that detects a single parasite. This older technique can lead to the overestimation of the malaria burden as the antigen used is not very specific.
"The new technique for the detection of parasites in malaria vectors can ensure a better, faster estimation of transmission intensity in different malaria settings," Ndam explains. "[It] has demonstrated a high analytical sensitivity in detecting mixed infections with distinct malaria-causing Plasmodium in the two main malaria vectors in Benin."
Augustin Koukpoliyi, supervisor of parasitology at the Hubert K. MAGA National Teaching Hospital of Cotonou (CHNU-HKM), who was not involved in the study, tells SciDev.Net: "The [new] method is a very important tool for malaria vaccine research".
"It enables us to know the genetic material of the parasite responsible for malaria transmission. If we do not know in detail the genetic material of the parasite, we will not be able to find a vaccine," he adds.
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From 2010 to 2011: Walking the Cloud Talk
My colleague David Greschler wrote a blog post for David Marshall's blog, VM Blog. DavidGr's blog post is part of a series this month on VM Blog where vendor representatives write about 2011 predictions and looking ahead. See DavidGr's post here. Following is an excerpt: 2010 was the year of the cloud. We saw some massive changes across the… Read more


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The 34-year-old made the announcement on Twitter last night, ending a 16-year career in the game.
"1134 games 718.5 hotels 834 planes 57 teams 3 punch ups 1 proud career 5pm 18th Feb 2013 I'm pulling stumps. Thank you all x," he said on Twitter.
Vincent played 23 tests for New Zealand, scoring his first of three centuries on debut against Australia in Perth in 2001, finishing with an average of 34.15.
His test high of 224 against Sri Lanka saw him become just the 10th New Zealander to score a test double century. His last test was in 2007 against South Africa.
He also made 102 appearances in the one-day game, scoring three centuries, and played nine T20s for New Zealand.
His high score of 172 from 120 balls against Zimbabwe in 2005 broke Glenn Turner's 30-year-old record for the highest ODI score by a New Zealander.
After his last ODI against Australia in 2007 he moved to England to play for Lancashire, Northamptonshire and Sussex.
Vincent has admitted to battling with depression throughout his career and raises money for mental health through his website Where is Lou.


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Guides for Patients are designed to assist patients, their relatives and caregivers to better understand the nature of different types of cancer and evaluate the best available treatment choices.
What is melanoma?
Melanoma is a form of cancer that begins in melanocytes, cells that make the pigment melanin, which gives skin its colour. Melanin also protects the deeper layers of the skin from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays. Melanoma may begin in a mole (skin melanoma), but can also begin in other pigmented tissues, such as in the eye or in the intestines. Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer, and the information provided in this guide applies only to skin melanoma.
Beyond a definition of melanoma, in this guide for patients you will find answers to questions such as:
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14" Smooth Polycarbonate with CUSTOM Neckless Opening (14PCXX100014-) Available in Clear, White, Bronze, Smoke 14" Smooth Polycarbonate with Custom Neckless Opening, Smooth spheres are designed for commercial and residential post top and pendant applications and are available with fitter neck and neckless openings. PLEASE look at pictures to the left and identify what type of neck your existing globe/sphere is. Colors available: Clear, White, Bronze & Smoke. Material: Polycarbonate: UV stabilized with continuous temperature of 100 celsius to 125 degrees celsius and high impact resistance down to -40 degrees celsius, transmittance of 88% (application dependent). These are unbreakable polycarbonate and more expensive than standard acrylic spheres/globes. If you do not need unbreakable, please select an acrylic sphere/globe.
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DescriptionSketch Turner was a starving comic book artist, living with his pet rat Roadkill... that is until a lightning storm mysteriously brought his cartoon villain, Mortus, to life and imprisoned Sketch within the pages of his own comic book. Now trapped in the world that he himself created, but someone else is now drawing, Sketch must battle through the pages of his own comic book, and past his own creations, to a final battle with Mortus. Perhaps one of his own creations, General Alissa Cyan might be able to help...
Comix Zone is a side-scrolling fighting game with a difference, you're inside of a comic book and you yourself know it. Smash enemies into the sides of frames, rip through the paper to unleash a super move and otherwise wreck havoc throughout the limitations of the graphic novel. Sketch himself can jump, attack and use various items that he finds along the comic book, including his rat friend, Roadkill. Button combinations can be used to unleash powerful techniques.
The game progresses linearly through each page of the comic book, however secret paths and alternate routes through the story can be discovered. At the end of each level, Sketch receives a super hero rating for how well he's progressing.
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- "コミックスゾーン" -- Japanese spelling
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EndingsThere are two endings in the game, depending on whether you have saved the girl on the last stage or not.
ReferencesThe end of this game states patent pending. This refers to US Patent 6,010,405 "Videogame system for creating simulated comic book game", filed in December 1994 by Sega Enterprises Ltd, and approved in January 2000.
SoundtrackSome versions of the original release of the game include a bonus music CD - in the US, an American Recordings sampler (featuring The Jesus and Mary Chain, Julian Cope, Love and Rockets among others), while the European version (and also the PC version in the US) features an EP with the music of the game played by an actual rock band in an early 90s grunge style. It was later sold as a regular music EP.
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- Comix Zone Walkthrough (Game Boy Advance) (Game guide for the GBA version of the game)
- Comix Zone - Wikipedia (more information about the game on the open encyclopedia website, Wikipedia)
- X360A achievement guide (X36A's achievement guide for Comix Zone.)
Foxhack (29133) added Comix Zone (Linux) on May 29, 2018
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The Commotion 10/8 - Blue October "Hate Me"
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Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives on ENDA
October 23, 2007
Dear Representative:
On behalf of the National Education Association's (NEA) 3.2 million members, we urge you to support passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) (H.R. 3685), scheduled for floor debate this week. This bill represents an important step in addressing basic civil rights in the workplace.
NEA has a long-standing commitment to the elimination of discrimination in the workplace in all facets of society. We believe that all persons must have equal opportunity for employment, promotion, compensation, and leadership. Passage of ENDA will support the fundamental American ideal that individuals should be judged in the workplace by their ability to perform the required job rather than by prejudice and discrimination. Poll after poll of the American public demonstrates the overwhelming support, across party lines, for passage of such anti-employment discrimination legislation.
Some opponents of ENDA have argued that it may be inappropriate for Congress to extend protections to individuals in jobs that involve contact with children, such as teachers and other school personnel. We vigorously disagree. Diversity among educators is not a threat, but rather a great asset to the profession and the students they serve. Unfortunately, prejudice and harassment continue to plague many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender educators who educate our nation's children with great dignity and skill.
We also urge your support for an amendment to be offered by Representative Baldwin (D-WI) that would expand the important protections under ENDA to transgender Americans. The Baldwin amendment would help ensure that no one is left out or exempted from the most basic civil rights and employment protections.
NEA believes that America must take affirmative steps to end discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere. Therefore, we urge your support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act as well as the Baldwin amendment.
Diane Shust, Director of Government Relations
Randall Moody, Manager of Federal Advocacy


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St. Vladimirs Seminary Press Childrens Book Receives Gold Medal
St. Vladimirs Seminary Press (SVS Press) the publishing arm of St. Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, NYhas garnered a gold medal for its storybook, Saint George & the Dragon, written by Jim Forest and illustrated in iconographic style by Vladislav Andrejev. SVS Press & Bookstore Marketing Manager Dn. Gregory Hatrak was recently notified that the childrens book had received a 2012 Moonbeam Spirit Award.
Moonbeam Spirit Awards are given for dedication to childrens books and literacy and for inspired writing, illustrating and publishing, according to Jenkins Group, Inc., which bestows the awards. This year, five books in five different areas were chosen, all gold-medal winners:
Mentoring: Your Stories, Volume 1, selected and edited by Taylor S. Joseph (Four Star Publishing)
Peacemaking: The Sky of Afghanistan, by Ana A. de Eulate; illustrated by Sonja Wimmer (Cuento de Luz)
Imagination: Pirate & Hoopoe, by Diarmid Cammell; illustrated by Karima Cammell (Dromedary Press)
Preservation: Saint George & the Dragon, by Jim Forest; illustrated by Vladislav Andrejev (St. Vladimirs Seminary Press)
Compassion: Operation Marriage, by Cynthia Chin-Lee; illustrated by Lea Lyon (Reach and Teach)
St. Vladimirs Seminary Press is honored that the Moonbeam Spirit Award has been bestowed upon our childrens book St. George and the Dragon, said Theodore C. Bazil, senior advisor at SVS Press. Many countries have appropriated this universal story, tying it to their particular culture and belief system.
The wedding of words by Jim Forest, incredible images by Vladislav Andrejev, and beautiful design by Amber Schley Iragui, he continued, represents an effort to communicate Judeo-Christian moral and ethical teaching to children and youth. This book projectconceived of and led by St. Vladimirs Seminary Pressrequired the identification and blending of an appropriate author, artist, and designer to publish a unique book that would stir childrens imaginations and touch their hearts.
The Moonbeam Childrens Book Awards are presented by the publishing services company Jenkins Group, Inc., of Traverse City, Michigan. Jenkins Group has been involved in book packaging, marketing and distribution since 1988. The awards ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, November 10, 2012, in conjunction with the Traverse City Children's Book Festival. The festival is open to the public and runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the awards ceremony will run from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
According to Jim Barnes, awards director at Jenkins Group, Inc.: The Moonbeam Childrens Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary childrens books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading. The awards recognize and reward the best of these books and bring them to the attention of parents, booksellers, librariansand to children themselves."
Awards are given in 39 categories covering the full range of subjects, styles, and age groups that childrens books are written and published in today. Each year's entries are judged by expert panels of youth educators, librarians, booksellers, and book reviewers of all ages. Award recipients receive gold, silver, and bronze medals and stickers, depicting a mother and child reading and silhouetted by a full moon.
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Tots First Crayons flower shaped textured crayons, even the lightest touch will create a thick line of vivid color. For ages 18 months.
The first step in learning about color recognition, tactile sense and creativity begins with learning to hold the crayon. ALEX makes it easy for even the littlest hands to hold with these chunky crayons. Six vibrant colors for whatever a growing mind can imagine. Just give your toddler these first crayons, add paper and watch the magic begin.
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"Gov. John Hickenlooper, please hold"
Gov. John Hickenlooper, already buried with calls about three gun bills he plans to sign on Wednesday, now has another wave of calls headed his way, this time over civil unions.
Colorado Family Action sent an e-mail today urging folks to contact the governor and ask him to veto civil unions. The governor plans to sign Senate Bill 11 into law on Thursday.
"Please let the governor know that SB 11 not only undermines marriage by creating a parallel structure but further contradicts the will of the people who voted in 2006 to protect traditional marriage and reject an equivalent to civil unions as proposed in Referendum I," Colorado Family Action wrote.
"Additionally, tell the Governor that SB 11 combined with our states existing public accommodation non-discrimination law poses serious and direct threats to the religious liberties of all citizens of Colorado."
Hickenlooper's office yesterday was averaging 1 call per 18 second, per second, according to gubernatorial spokesman Eric Brown. ( I originally had 18 calls per second. WARNING: journalist doing math.)


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