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Okay, so my daughter and I got our tamagotchis to, uh, *connect* Thursday night. The fireworks and everything was really cool! The babies came - not eggs, but already hatched babies. Both girls. So we figured Friday about 8 o'clock, we'd see mom and dad sprout wings and rise heavenward.
Friday 8 o'clock: nothing happened
Friday 8:15: nothing
Friday 8:30: my daughter's Tama went to sleep (Really cute with the 2 beds and everything.)
Friday 8:45: nothing new
Friday 9:00: my Tama goes to sleep (same thing with the 2 beds)
So I figure when they wake up in the morning, the parents would leave.
Well, had to go, um, visit nature during the night. Checked my Tama, and there was only 1 'Z' on the screen. I rudely turned the light on, and my little baby was asleep all by herself. The space was still there where Chloe's bed was, but no Chloe. I went and checked my daughter's Tama - same thing.
Major bummer.
So, when we woke up Saturday, we each had crying little girls on our screens.
We're now on our second generations, healthy and happy. Hers is named Jamie (after the Tama dad, James.) Mine is named Thori (silent 'h'). But we miss our generation 1's, and missed being able to watch them leave.
Jamie and Thori are twins, both going todler about an hour after we named them, both now Young Mimitchis.
I'll keep you posted.
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They usually go off at 12 midnite. The parent will actually stare at their child for a min or so, den open their mouths 3 times and close their eyes, flying off. I actually waited for that moment to take down the photos...
Posted 14 September 2004 - 08:01 AM ( #3 )
Congrats on your new additions! Mine left some time after 3:30 am (that was the last time I checked him).


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Goran Visnjic: Toy Shopping with Tin!
Goran Visnjic heads out with his son Tinas they go toy shopping together on Monday (December 24) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 40-year-old ER actor and his two little ones were joined by mom and wife Ivana, as well as another little one, for the shopping spree. Earlier in the day, the family stopped for some hot beverages together!
Goran reportedly recently bought a house on the Croatian island of Hvar, but due to some zoning issues, is having trouble getting the house remodeled!
10+ pictures inside of Goran Visnjic and his family shopping on Christmas Eve…

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When can I study globally?
Students can study globally during their junior year, or during the first semester of their senior year. If you want to study globally at a different point in your Gettysburg career, you must petition for special permission through the Center for Global Education. Please note: All students must spend the semester prior to global study, on campus at Gettysburg College and have spent a minimum of one year in residence.
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The pattern in consumer attitudes and spending is often the foremost influence on stock and bond markets. For stocks, strong economic growth translates to healthy corporate profits and higher stock prices. For bonds, the focus is whether economic growth goes overboard and leads to inflation. Ideally, the economy walks that fine line between strong growth and excessive (inflationary) growth. This balance was achieved through much of the nineties. For this reason alone, investors in the stock and bond markets enjoyed huge gains during the bull market of the 1990s. Consumer confidence did shift down in tandem with the equity market between 2000 and 2002 and then recovered in 2003 and 2004. More recently, the credit crunch and surge in gasoline prices led confidence downward in 2007. Despite a drop in gasoline prices, 2008 saw sentiment near record lows due to recession, a precipitous fall in stock prices, and fragile credit markets. However, consumer sentiment helped to confirm the easing of recession during 2009 as this index slowly rose from earlier lows. One should be aware that this report is released to private subscribers several minutes prior to release to the media. This may account for occasional market activity just prior to public release.Consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of the economy, so the markets are always dying to know what consumers are up to and how they might behave in the near future. The more confident consumers are about the economy and their own personal finances, the more likely they are to spend. With this in mind, it's easy to see how this index of consumer attitudes gives insight to the direction of the economy. Just note that changes in consumer confidence and retail sales don't move in tandem month by month.
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"He has proven that he is willing and capable of carrying the team on his shoulders, which is a good thing. I'm not in the least bit surprised," Schuster told Marca.
"Cristiano Ronaldo's hunger, which he shows in every match, and his desire to score goals and win stand out most for me."
Schuster, who wore the Madrid jersey from 1988 until 1990, then went on to stress that Jose Mourinho has done a good job to prepare the team for the most important stage of the season.
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DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) adoption faces several barriers including consistent and predictable performance, availability and reliability, and cost. For cloud-based services that rely on NoSQL or transaction processing, CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSD is specifically optimized to eliminate barriers to make DBaaS flourish as part of your cloud offerings.
There are numerous reasons DBaaS has yet to reach its full potential. One that is often cited is that current application code may be a bit burdensome to port to the DBaaS underlying SQL or NoSQL database. As every database administrator (DBA) knows, there are assorted incompatible differences between different types of SQL databases. NoSQL databases have their compatibility issues as well. Fixing those issues isn't hard, just time consuming. And because it's a one-time task most DBAs will not typically shy away from it.
Other reasons cited such as lack of database compression or table partitions are relatively easy to rectify by the DBaaS provider.
The most crucial reasons DBAs shy away from DBaaS are their loss of ability to control database:
Consistent Performance
Consistent performance is always an issue for any database. It tends to be more of an issue for transactional applications running on SQL than business intelligence (BI) or analytical applications running on NoSQL; however, it is always a key issue for both. Inconsistent performance rankles users and devastates user productivity. When that performance inconsistency occurs in a private data center or private cloud then the DBA is inundated with complaints. An unhappy DBaaS end user can lead to unchecked out shopping carts (E-Commerce), tarnished reputation, lost customers, lost revenue, and long-term lost business. For the DBaaS provider, inconsistent database performance will ultimately lead to a declining DBaaS business.
DBAs are used to manipulating databases, storage, and storage-related infrastructure to tune and squeeze as much consistent and predictable high performance as possible to meet the needs of the application at all times including escalating loads of writes and reads. DBAs have several database techniques in their arsenal of performance management tools. These tools range from sharding tables, running master-slaves, multi-masters, or clustering to control database read and write performance for the applications. Utilization of a specific technique will depend on the service provider's DBaaS and the underlying SQL or NoSQL database. Most of these database performance-tuning techniques are database dependent. Some providers offer a plethora of DBaaS to enable a broader potential range of SQL and NoSQL applications.
Storage is another DBA manipulation to provide database consistent performance. DBAs will utilize server-side DRAM, server-side flash storage (a.k.a. "software-defined storage"), or shared (SAN or NAS) all flash array (AFA) or hybrid flash storage to accelerate reads and writes. DBAs in the past (although some still do it today) squeezed higher hard disk drive (HDD) performance from short stroking1.
DBaaS providers, as part of a public cloud offering, cannot economically or securely provide the direct access to their storage that DBAs are used to having. However, they are endeavoring to provide similar DBA storage performance controls through other means. For example, providers may provide different DBaaS tiers of storage performance that can be rented. That performance is based on IOPS or throughput with contractual SLAs. But commonly the performance guarantees are bracketed in a range. That range is quite broad because the storage performance is frequently delivered in a broad range. Overcoming the DBA performance objections and delivering the consistently high performance they require is a steep challenge. This is because delivering DBaaS read and write performance considered to be predictable high performance requires predictable low latency storage. Low latency storage performance today typically is measured in microseconds (noted by the Greek letter μ). Achieving that predictably consistent high performance requires predictably consistent low latency under load. The way that is measured is by the number of nines guaranteed to deliver that performance and latency. The number of nines equates into a percentage. Two nines equal 99% of the time, three nines equal 99.9%, etc. This combination of very low latency storage at a high level of nines is called a high level of Quality of Services (QoS). Achieving that high QoS level is definitely a non-trivial task.
Meeting that task has previously meant a very high cost in storage and storage infrastructure. That might make sense in a private data center or even a private cloud. But in the exceedingly competitive public cloud based DBaaS market excessive cost is a non-starter. Cloud services in general and DBaaS cannot be high cost or they will not be rented. As previously discussed, cost is one of the primary objections to DBA DBaaS adoption. Adding a lot of cost to overcome the performance objection is simply counter-productive.
DBaaS providers as a result are demanding new storage standards in predictable consistent low latency, high IOPS, high throughput, and lower cost from the industry. When those demands come from cloud industry giants Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others, they cannot be ignored.
The obvious answer is the flash SSD. However, not every flash SSD delivers the same performance or predictable consistency. In fact, contrary to conventional wisdom, flash SSDs hugely vary by vendor and model. DBaaS workloads require flash SSDs optimized for database reads and writes (generally 4K blocks with 70% reads and 30% writes) with predictably consistent extremely low latencies (ranging from dozens to hundreds of microseconds depending on queue depth). There are significant differences in write IOPS, read IOPS, throughput, latency, and most important that predictable consistency under load. The QoS for every SSD is not the same. Selecting the flash SSDs best optimized for DBaaS will eliminate the DBA consistent performance adoption objection. Selecting flash SSDs not optimized well for DBaaS without an acceptable QoS will not eliminate the DBA adoption objection.
Something to always keep in mind is the difference in bits per cell utilized in the flash NAND of every flash SSD. SLC (single level cell) is one bit per cell. MLC (multi-level cell) is 2 bits per cell. TLC (triple level cell) is 3 bits per cell. As the number of bits increases so do the number of states that can be captured and represented in a NAND cell. One bit per cell has two states (0,1); two bits per cell has four states (00, 01, 10, 11); and three bits per cell has eight states (000, 001, 010, 011, 111, 100, 110, 101). Fewer bits per cell require less electricity to write and read providing lower latency, higher performance, and longer wear life. More bits per cell are just the opposite. Cost is inversed to the number of bits per cell with fewer bits per cell costing more.
SLC is the lowest latency, highest performing, longest wear life, and highest cost. TLC is by far the worst latency, slowest performing, worst wear life, and lowest cost. That may change in the future when performance, availability, and reliability are improved. But for today, TLC flash SSDs are not an optimum choice for DBaaS. MLC is in-between and has been consistently improved to the point where it is considered Enterprise grade and an excellent choice for DBaaS because of the balance between performance, reliability, availability, and cost. More details on this will be discussed in the next two sections.
Availability and Reliability
No matter how consistent and predictable the performance, if it is not available and reliable it is useless. Database reliability in DBaaS is table stakes. That requires the DBaaS storage to be equally reliable. From a hardware perspective, that means being up and always available. Outages hurt cloud service reputations, revenues, and customer adoption of those services, even though they occur at a lower frequency than outages in private data centers or private clouds.
Just as DBaaS optimized flash SSDs should eliminate the DBA consistent performance objection, so can they mitigate the availability and reliability objections. Flash SSDs have a field record that's shown them to be far more reliable than HDDs as described in table below.
|What it Means
|MLC flash SSD failures tend to be limited to program erase (P/E) blocks. When a P/E block fails, it is removed from the blocks available for writes. No capacity is lost because of MLC flash SSD overprovisioning. Overprovisioning is the amount of capacity not included in the rated usable capacity. MLC SSD overprovisioning is utilized to ensure write blocks are always available and do not have to wait for blocks with outdated data to be erased before they can write. Overprovisioning also enables the flash SSD to replace failed P/E blocks. Write optimized flash SSDs typically have ~20% or more overprovisioning, whereas read optimized flash SSDs are overprovisioned at less than 10%. (Reads create no wear on P/E blocks.)
|Superior UBER Measurement
|Error correcting code (ECC) in MLC flash SSDs has become quite extensive and keeps getting better. The best MLC flash SSDs today have an UBER range (depending on vendor and model) of 10-17 to 10-18; UBER is the abbreviation for Uncorrectable Bit-Error Rate, a metric for the data corruption rate equal to the number of data errors per bit read after applying any specified error correction (ECC) method. The best HDD UBER available today is 10-16; meaning MLC flash SSDs have a 100x (2 orders of magnitude) better UBER than the best HDDs. The way MLC flash SSDs treat an unrecoverable bit error (UBER) is very different as well. HDDs treat an UBER as a drive failure. MLC flash SSDs treat an UBER as a P/E block failure. Failed HDDs must be rebuilt. Failed P/E blocks are simply replaced from the overprovisioned pool.
|No Parity RAID Required
|RAID parity is a standard requirement on HDDs. This is to protect the data. As HDD capacity has grown, the time to rebuild drives has lengthened increasing the risk of additional HDD failures and data loss. Today standard RAID is now RAID 6 (dual parity) to protect against two concurrent HDD failures in a RAID group. RAID 6 consumes approximately 25% of a drive's raw capacity. If MLC SSDs are placed in the parity RAID group, when an UBER does occur or a write block fails, the RAID controller will take the SSD out of the group, require the drive be replaced, and start an unnecessary rebuild. It is simpler, faster, and just as reliable to copy any lost data, which would be minimal, from a zero capacity snapshot or mirror. Parity RAID is necessity for HDDs, unnecessary for MLC flash SSDs and a hindrance to today's cloud architectures.
|Extensive Wear Life
|Trade press has made much noise about MLC flash SSDs wear life and when they "wear out". It is called P/E cycles or the number of times a flash write block can be written and erased before it fails. MLC flash SSD manufacturers have gotten quite good at spreading that wear over every P/E block to make them last for quite a long time. Flash SSD wear life is rated as the number of drive writes per day (DWPD) over a guaranteed period of time. For example: a 1.6TB MLC flash drive rated at 1.8 DWPD warrantied or guaranteed for 5 years would have to write 3.24TBs per day, every day, to that SSD for 5 years straight before it wears out. That's 5.9 petabytes written to that 1.6TB drive. And even then it probably would not be worn out. Additionally, the SSD performance will maintain a steady state until it is worn out. That is not the case for HDDs. Ongoing HDD studies from BackBlaze and others, clearly demonstrates that HDD failure rates increase significantly after 3 years and performance declines.
Table 1: Why MLC flash SSDs are more reliable and available than HDDs
Most flash SSDs optimized for DBaaS reads and write are more reliable than HDDs. There are exceptions. If the flash SSD is not optimized for DBaaS reads and writes or if the flash SSD is TLC (triple level cell.) TLC flash SSDs, even 3D TLC flash SSDs have a much shorter wear life when it comes to writes and tend to be read optimized. TLC flash SSDs also have a much higher UBER (Uncorrectable Bit-Error Rate), typically up to 1,000 times higher than the best MLC flash SSDs.
There is a pervasive perception that flash SSD costs are much higher than HDDs when compared on a price-per-gigabyte basis. The first flash SSDs were SLC based and were in fact pretty expensive. Times have changed. Today, MLC flash SSDs have a total cost per gigabyte that is equivalent or better than HDDs and their cost per IOPS is approximately two orders of magnitude (~100 times) lower than HDDs. Perceptions have not kept up. DBaaS optimized MLC flash SSDs are far more cost effective than ever before.
Take the example of a 1.6TB DBaaS-optimized MLC flash SSD. In raw capacity alone, it has 267% more than a 15K or 10K RPM HDD. When parity RAID 6 is used on the HDDs (mandatory requirement today) and no parity RAID is utilized on the SSDs, when deemed unnecessary in a RAID 0 configuration, SSDs have 356% more raw capacity. In some public cloud instances, RAID 0 is utilized in conjunction with snapshots and Availability Zone replication to address costs savings along with industry practices to protect data.
That difference in raw capacity translates into fewer drawers, rack space, and floor space. Space in a cloud data center is always at a premium and has a well-defined cost. SATA MLC flash SSDs deployed in a standard 2-socket x86 server, for example, requires less server or storage system infrastructure than SAS HDDs (SAS is a mandatory DBaaS requirement of HDDs). DBaaS-optimized MLC flash SSDs utilize much less power per gigabyte or IOPS than HDDs at less than 10% on average. These are real costs especially for cloud data centers.
Finally, flash SSDs dedupe and compress two to four times more than HDDs increasing the usable capacity at a much greater extent than HDDs and with far less additional latencies. Lower cost, higher performance, and greater capacities equal a better solution. Once again, not all flash SSDs are equivalent. Some cost more, overprovision less, deliver less performance, have a lower UBER, and don't offer SATA interconnect, etc.
CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSD is the first MLC flash SSD highly optimized for DBaaS requirements. It delivers incredibly predictable high performance (up to 32,000 4K random write IOPS), at very low latency (see table 2 below) with a very high level of predictable consistency QoS (Table 2), in an extremely dense write optimized (20% overprovisioned) high capacity package specifically aimed at the DBaaS very common 30% random writes and 70% random reads (400GB, 800GB or 1.6TB raw2), for a very inexpensive cost (check with your local SanDisk representative).
|< μ = Lower latency
|99.9% QoS Random Write Latency 4K Queue depth 1
|80μ (microseconds)
|99.9% QoS Random Write Latency 4K Queue depth 32
|3850μ (microseconds)
|99.9% QoS Random Read Latency 4K Queue depth 1
|130μ (microseconds)
|99.9% QoS Random Read Latency 4K Queue depth 32
|319μ (microseconds)
Table 2: SanDisk CloudSpeed Ultra™ Gen. II SATA SSD QoS
CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSD QoS is not found in consumer-grade SSDs and is 6 times better than its next closest competitor. Cost per IOPS comes in at approximately 1.2% of SATA or SAS HDDs. In other words the cost per IOPS is approximately 99% less than HDDs.
Reliability and availability are second to none. CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSD UBER rate is projected at 10-18 and measured at 10-17 according to the JEDEC 64.8 specification. It is also warrantied for 1.8 DWPD for five years. That fits the example previously discussed. It allows 3.24TB written to the drive every single day for five years meaning the drive has approximately 5.9 PBs of writes in its wear life warranty.
CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSD costs are highly competitive, but for DBaaS providers there are other cost considerations. And SanDisk CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSD is designed to reduce those costs as well. Rackspace density is a good example. High IOPS in a small package means a 2-socket, 24 bay server can deliver up to 768,000 random write IOPS in 2U.
This means fewer servers are required to deliver the performance required by the DBaaS databases; reducing rack and floor space; reducing the number of database instances required to meet customer application performance requirements resulting in fewer licenses and/or support agreements; which in turn reduces cloud provider administrative costs; and much lower power, heat, and cooling costs.
DBaaS adoption by DBAs faces several barriers including consistent and predictable performance, availability and reliability, and cost. CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSD is specifically optimized to eliminate or at least mitigate each of these barriers making DBaaS far more palatable to the reluctant DBA.
1. HDDs are electro-mechanical devices with spinning platters and a head that writes and reads the data on the platters. By limiting all writes and reads only to the outer HDD platter performance latencies decrease by up to 50% because the head only has to move a very short distance. Short stroking requires wasting 67-90% of the HDD capacity. Hence, many more HDDs are required to make up for capacity requirements in short-stroking configurations which result in high costs (as much as 10x).
2. The raw capacities increase by 20% (480GB, 960GB, and 1.92TB) when CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSDs are optimized for reads with 10% random writes and 90% random reads.
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Resource-guarding: Are veterinarians lost in interspecies translation?
So, the way we view food is not absolute, and an animal's behavior must be both defined and interpreted in the context of other events. Unfortunately, most people rarely use this approach when discussing aggressive reactions in dogs, and we know little about the range of any canine responses, whether "normal" or "abnormal."1-3
Can we define "resource-guarding"?In the past few years, I have increasingly heard a term that could benefit from this approach: resource-guarding. Few terms are as blurry and inconsistent as this one. I have heard trainers and clients say, "The dog is fine; he just resource-guards," meaning no other dog in the house can approach him when he has a toy. (The implication here is that resource-guarding is "normal," but this dog is not fine.)
I have heard people label the dog that growls and trembles, spilling food from its mouth because someone has instructed its owners to constantly move their hands around in the food as the dog eats (no one should subject any dog to such threats), as one that's "dangerous resource-guarding." In these examples and many more, the term resource-guarding provides no helpful information, and the assumption that it does can be dangerous.
How did we get to the place where everything and everyone is a resource and resource-guarding can apparently be applied to any situation?
I spend endless hours asking clients, trainers, dog breeders, veterinarians, students—even my resident—to elaborate on and clarify the terms they use. In veterinary behavioral medicine we have no protected terminology, so the process of sifting through layers of meaning and possible misdirection is an essential skill.
Diagnostic terminology in this field generally takes one of three approaches:
1. It's named for the recipient of the inappropriate, undesirable or problematic behaviors (e.g. owner-directed aggression, stranger-directed aggression, dog-directed aggression),
2. It's named for the putative driver of the behavior (e.g. offensive aggression, defensive aggression, affective aggression), or
3. It's named phenotypically using criteria that unite the observed behaviors with a pattern or context of concern (e.g. food-related aggression, fear aggression, panic disorder, separation anxiety).
The first approach is largely driven by risk to the recipients of the behaviors and is a human-centric approach. The other two approaches primarily focus on the dog. I personally favor the third, the phenotypic approach, for simple, logical reasons:
> If you can understand a behavior by identifying the circumstances under which it occurs, you can avoid those circumstances (and a good diagnostic description, definition or set of criteria allows you to do this).
> By understanding the overarching rule (i.e. the diagnosis) for the suite of behaviors exhibited by the dog in a certain context, you can recognize patterns of response that might help with anticipating other concerns. You can also ask if those patterns share mechanisms or respond to the same interventions and medications.
> The phenotypic approach allows the clinician to interpret rare nonspecific signs within a context in which the dog can be helped. For example, a dog whose video reveals that, when left alone, he spends all day frantically rearranging fruit bowls is more likely to have an odd form of separation anxiety than he is to have a fruit fetish.
Although it sounds like one, the term resource-guarding not a good phenotypic diagnosis, and a bit of thought reveals why.
> The resources are not defined. In common usage, resources have become everything from toys to dinner to treats to a specific lap or a certain part of the yard. A definition that includes every subject is no definition at all.
> No distinction is made between normal and abnormal behaviors. Clients can find normal behaviors problematic and may like abnormal behaviors; the client's opinion is not what defines "normal."
> In some patients, aberrant behaviors may have been adaptive in another context, a point almost never considered when abnormal behaviors are discussed.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Dec 2013 20:47 UTC
Apple today announced the all-new Mac Pro will be available to order starting Thursday, December 19. Redesigned from the inside out, the all-new Mac Pro features the latest Intel Xeon processors, dual workstation-class GPUs, PCIe-based flash storage and ultra-fast ECC memory.
This thing is so damn awesome. I don't need it, but I still want one.


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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Botswana and Canada on Street View
Chobe National Park
Botswana has today become only the second African country to get Street View coverage on Google Maps. There has also been lots of new Street View imagery added in Canada.
Now Google Maps users around the world can explore Botswana's unique scenery and world-renowned game reserves, like Chobe National Park.
Monkey and deer. Pan the Street View around and there is an elephant as well.
There is also new Street View imagery available in Canada. The new imagery includes panoramas captured in the isolated Nunavut hamlet of Cambridge Bay in Canada's Arctic far north.
Via: Google Africa Blog and Google Canada Blog
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DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Pentagon officials say the U.S. airlift of French forces to Bamako could continue for another two weeks.
It's expected to take about 30 C-17 flights to get everything there.
The U.S. Air Force is keeping between eight and 10 people at the airport to help with the incoming and outgoing flights.
These are the U.S. Air Force personnel who will stay only until the airlift is completed.
The U.S. Air Force already has flown five C-17 flights into Bamako, delivering more than 80 French troops and 124 tons of equipment.
The U.S. is not providing direct aid to the Malian military because the democratically elected government was overthrown last March in a coup.
The French-led operation to oust Islamic extremists from northern Mali began Jan. 11.


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When Busy Philipps arrives at the SAG Awards on Sunday, it won't be her first stroll down a red carpet while pregnant — but she does hope it works out better than the last time.
Five years ago, while expecting her daughter Birdie Leigh, the actress searched high and low for that perfect something to wear to a movie premiere.
"I ended up getting an amazing dress," she tells PEOPLE Friday, "and then much to my chagrin, five weeks later, pregnant Angelina Jolie wore it, which is devastating. Really? You want to be wearing the same dress as the sexiest woman alive? It's terrible."
This time, unless Jolie is holding onto some big news, Philipps, 33, should have nothing to worry about.
The expectant Cougar Town star, who'll serve as the official "social media ambassador" for the SAG Awards — Tweeting behind-the-scenes dish for fans on her @busyphilipps25 handle (#SAGawards) — has already picked out a dress with a backup just in case.
She's keeping it a surprise, but does share her fashion strategy.
"You want it to be comfortable. I think it's important that it's sort of classic in design when you're pregnant, keep it simple in some way," Philipps, who wears Isabella Oliver's Everyday Maternity Blazer in the photo above, says. "Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom."
So far, "I've had one fitting, I have another fitting. You have to keep fitting it because you grow every day. That's the secret. You just have to have an amazing seamstress."
And one other thing is certain. "I just have to make sure my shoes are going to be comfortable and big enough so that they my feet don't start swelling," notes Philipps. "That's not an attractive thought."
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Panel discusses Medicaid expansion optionsBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
September 18. 2013 9:39PM
CONCORD — The committee studying whether the state would expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act began to talk about some of the options before it on Wednesday.
Several committee members pushed to use all of the federal money available to pay for expansion rather than wait and see how other states fair under expansion.
Under Medicaid expansion, the federal government would pay 100 percent of the cost for new recipients for the first three years then gradually reduce its share to 90 percent by 2014 and thereafter. However, many Republicans doubt the federal government can live up to its promises.
"We are under time pressure to start Medicaid expansion because the highest benefit occurs in the first three years," said doctor and Rep. Thomas Sherman, D-Rye. "I would encourage us to move forward to maximize the federal money available to us."
But Sen. Andy Sanborn, R-Bedford, disagreed.
"Frankly I think it is reckless of us to leap off a cliff without understanding the effect on taxpayers," Sanborn said. "Before we go along a path, we need to take the time and fully analyze the costs."
Sanborn and Sen. Nancy Stiles, R-Hampton, pushed the commission to hire a financial analyst to help the committee sift through the options. "Our time is getting very short," she said.
The commission developed a list of options although no vote was taken. Among the options are expanding the state's Health Insurance Premium Payment program, which pays the private insurance premium provided. In general the majority of the committee favors taking the federal money to expand eligibility, but has not settled on a specific plan to recommend.
Expansion is supported by Gov. Maggie Hassan and the Democratically-controlled House, while the Republican-controlled Senate said it needs far more information and time before deciding.
When the two sides could not agree at the end of the session in June, budget negotiators agreed to form the commission with a deadline of Oct. 15 to make recommendations.
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OAKHAM — The driver of a 1997 Toyota Camry was killed and his passenger seriously injured when their car struck a tree on New Braintree Road just after 3 p.m. Sunday.
Shamus O'Toole, 21, of Marshfield, was taken by ambulance to UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus in Worcester, where he succumbed to injuries, Oakham Police Sgt. Kevin R. Tucker said.
The passenger, Andrew Kane, 23, of Marshfield, was flown from Rutland to the same hospital, where he was listed in stable condition Sunday night, police said.
The car was headed southeast on the rural, winding road and was rounding a curve when the accident occurred. The road was closed for several hours during the investigation, which involved state troopers from the collision analysis and reconstruction section who were working to determine what caused the accident and whether the victims were wearing seat belts.
Police said Sunday night they do not believe the men were buckled up.
Neighbors, along with police and fire officials, said the road is not one where accidents often occur. It is a residential area and the road is not heavily traveled, being used mostly by residents, they said.
The fatality is the second on Oakham roads this year.
In March, a senior from Quabbin Regional High School in Barre died in a single-vehicle crash on Old Turnpike Road. Jeremy Kauppila of Hubbardston was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Aaron Witkos, 17, of Oakham. Mr. Kauppila died when the car left the road and struck a tree March 16.
The two had attended a formal Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps ball in Gardner earlier in the evening with other Quabbin students, police said.
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Steve Calhoun needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Technical Visionaries
I am a small company that will be installing Home Theater Systems and Home Control Systems. I will also be installing Internet Wireless systems in clients home's if they require that service as well. I also program very advanced remote controls to control the Home Theater or be able to control every aspect of someone's home from the Window Shades to the Lights to the Heat & Air Conditioning.
My main focus is on the Home Theater and Home Audio clients that want a kick butt home theater that costs anywhere from $5,000 to $100,000. My clientele tend to have a lot of money and want the best of the best so I want them to be impressed with this Logo. The Logo should be catered towards accomplished professionals.
http://www.electronichouse.com/ is a good trade magazine for the priority of the work that I do in my business. They also have pages of sample home theaters installed in homes, etc.
Since the name of the company is Technical Visionaries, I was hoping to incorporate the initials of the company, TV, into the logo as I will be working primarily with Televisions and Audio. Please feel free to be creative on this aspect, but please don't forget that I will have Professionals judging what my Logo looks like. :-) Logo should be able to fit on part or the whole size of a business card or pasted into a computer document if necessary. I would like something bold and cool, but not something that is too large in size.
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Last Season: 13-3, 3-3 division Playoffs: Lost to San Francisco in third round Stat Leaders: QB Matt Ryan (4,719 YDS, 32 TDS, 14 INTS); RB Michael Turner (800 YDS, 10 TDS); WR Roddy White (1,351 YDS, 7 TDS); LB Stephen Nicholas (97 TACKLES, 2.0 SACKS) The Buzz: Franchise quarterback Matt Ryan, the team's biggest star, continues to improve each season. He is eager to finally break through and reach the Super Bowl, matching the feat accomplished last season by contemporary Joe Flacco. The team parted ways with top running back Michael Turner, but Atlanta boasts a variety of other rushing threats who should help Ryan continue to move the ball steadily on offense. Atlanta needs draft pick Desmond Trufant to make a quick transition to his role at cornerback opposite former UCF star Asante Samuel. The position is critical with the Falcons regularly facing quarterbacks who put up big passing numbers. Atlanta also is hoping to get steady play from defensive end Osi Umenyiora. Luck Factor: Ryan and the Falcons are close to being a championship team, but it takes a bit of luck to take the final step.
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The Best of Both Worlds: Bunaken to Lembeh, May 20 - June 1st, 2013
Coral and Fish-Rich Reefs to the Best Macro Diving in the World!
Travel with Optical Ocean Sales on an all-inclusive photo expedition to dive the heart of the "Coral Triangle" of North Sulawesi, which contains more marine species than any other area on the planet!
Begin with 4 days of 3-4* tank dives photographing the incredible reefs and vistas of Bunaken National Park. This region is home to over 390 species of coral and a myriad of tropical fish. Its beautiful walls are teaming with life! Bunaken is simply one of the best places to hone your wide-angle photography skills.
Then on to what is considered by many the "greatest macro diving in the world!" Lembeh Straits. Enjoy at least 3 dives a day with the small and bizarre creatures that make Lembeh's black sands their home. Residents include; pygmy seahorses, flamboyant cuttlefish, psychedelic mandarin fish, walking sharks, plus just about every type of frogfish, octopus, squid and nudibranch imaginable! The number of incredible creatures to photograph can be overwhelming.
There will be daily seminars ranging from "Buoyancy for Photogs" to "Shooting Super Macro." Even a little friendly competition thrown in. Experiment with backlighting, snoots and "close focus, wide angle." In the evenings there will be a chance to review the day's photos with the goal of everyone taking their skills to the next level. Take part in the daily activities as much or little as you like.
Trip includes round trip air fare from Seattle to Singapore and onto Manado on Singapore Airlines! Resorts include 5 nights at the ever popular Tasik Ria Resort in Poolview Rooms, including up to 14 dives and a free night dive. Next, 5 nights at the at the luxurious Kasawari Resort, in Deluxe Villa accommodations. Included are 13 dives and a free night dive. Rooms in Singapore, transfers, meals, tanks, weights and nitrox are all included!
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Here are some of our favorite tips to stress-free holidays
How does Yuletide cheer turn into holiday stress? The long weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day are made up of activity-filled days that seem to get shorter as we get into the holiday season. This time of year serves up so many things to do, so many people to please, so many obligations to fulfill.
It is easy to lose sight of the meaning of the season.
A host of authorities on decreasing our stress and increasing our enjoyment of the holidays annually offer advice on how to accomplish that balancing act. Here are some of our favorite tips.
1. Childproof your decorations.
"Young children are naturally fascinated by all of the exciting new items in their homes during the holiday season," notes Louie Delaware, author of "The Home Safety Guru's Definitive Guide on How to Childproof Your Home."
So, says Delaware, tether Christmas trees, put light strands out of reach, be careful with electrical cords, keep sharp objects off table tops, don't leave wrapping items laying around, insist that fireplaces are off limits and watch holiday films on television sets that are stable.
2. Prevent packing on pounds.
"I used to be the master of holiday-buffet excuses," says Gary Marino, the producer and star of the film "Million Calorie March: The Movie." "For me, the holidays provided a perfect excuse to wave the white flag and roll the dice."
Keeping off unwanted weight during the days between Thanksgiving and New Year's requires us to watch out for rationalizations about why we eat too much and exercise too little. Among the most common, according to Marino, are: "I can't be rude," "I can hide it," "Winter is coming," "I'll wait until the New Year," "I'm too busy right now," and "I'll be cooking."
3. Beat the holiday blues.
"The holidays are very stressful because people want this time of year to be perfect," says Jay Zimmerman, staff psychologist with Ball State's Counseling Center. "Many people have images of perfect family gatherings based on hopes or what they see on television."
Guess what? The turkey isn't always great-tasting, Christmas isn't always white, the house often isn't decorated perfectly and the family gathering often isn't as warm-hearted as we want it.
Zimmerman says that to stop ourselves from being sad on the holidays, we should avoid or reduce alcohol consumption, embrace new family traditions, include exercise in our daily routine and change expectations by realizing that no holiday is as perfect as the pictures we take of it.
4. Avoid conflict with relatives
"We make two errors when we react to irritating people at the holidays," says Geoffrey Tumlin, author of "Stop Talking, Start Communicating." "First, we escalate a frustrating or awkward moment into a damaging one. And, second, we erroneously magnify the influence of people who really aren't much of a factor in our daily lives."
Tumlin recommends refraining from jabbing back at the "constant critic," answering quickly and blandly to the "graceless questioner," listening to but not bickering with the "relentless arguer," ignoring the "unsolicited adviser," and expressing no interest in the revelations of the "shameless discloser."
5. Keep it all in perspective
To truly be happy during the holidays, we must "cultivate a spirit of gratitude" and "re-focus on the things that are most meaningful," says Jane Schwartzberg, co-author of the life-embracing book "Naked Jane Bares All."
Realize we are here only briefly. We need to love and live ... and sometimes, as Schwartzberg suggests, simply "show up."
"I am determined to find joy in every single day. It may come from the simplest things: a view from my window, a great conversation, or a hot cup of coffee. But, I know I need to be always present and available, with an open mind and heart, to experience any of it."
The holidays, she concludes, are not "a table full of food or gadgets you can't afford."
"Approach this holiday season as if it could be your last, and you'll probably find much more to revel in than to stress about."


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RTC NBA Draft Profiles: Marcus MorrisPosted by nvr1983 on June 17th, 2011
Player Name: Marcus Morris
School: Kansas
Height/Weight: 6'9/230 lbs.
NBA Position: Power Forward
Projected Draft Range: Mid- to Late Lottery
Overview: On a roster full of potential first round draft picks, Marcus Morris established himself as the team's top player. Although the team did not live up to expectations as it fell in the Elite 8 to a hot VCU team, anybody following Marcus had to consider this year a major step for him individually as he was named Big 12 Player of the Year and 2nd team All-American while averaging 17.2 PPG on 57% FG and 7.6 RPG. In doing so, he exhibited an ability to not only play inside, but also an ability shoot from outside. Although he will never be a major threat from the perimeter (and he is not as good of a shooter as his twin brother Markieff–34.2% versus 42.4%) his shooting has progressed to the point where a NBA team would have to at least respect his outside shot and bring a forward outside to put a hand in his face. The big question for Marcus will be whether he is big enough to battle inside with NBA power forwards or if he will fall into the dreaded "tweener" category. If he does fall into that group he may lack the perimeter skills necessary to compete against NBA small forwards, but he may be able to make up for it because of his "motor" and willingness to battle all over the court.
Will Translate to the NBA: Marcus will probably end up being one of those versatile all-court power forwards in the NBA, which traditionally has been a warning sign for NBA executives, but in recent years has become in vogue with several solid NBA players adopting such styles. At times Marcus could play at either the 3 or 4 position, which could be a blessing or a curse in that he could fill either position depending on the situation, but it could also expose him to mismatches in certain situations. He probably will never be a superstar and might not even become a perennial All-Star, but he should be a solid rotation player even if his physical limitations (height and explosiveness) limit his ability to become a major impact player.


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Lushe necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 251 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
Lushe (http://www.lushe.com.au)
Lushe - Urban Greening.
Currently (http://www.vertical-garden.net.au)
Originally one guy looking build his own DIY vertical garden but could not find any information, so he started his own blog - to find that information and share it. He met Josh (see lushe website) who started building his own vertical gardens. The two of us have come together to form a company. In a very short time, the blog has taken off and we now have supply arrangements, people wanting product and an R&D pipeline. We are now ready to create a brand called Lushe. We like the tag line "Urban Greening" . The company may sell more than just vertical garden products.
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Our focus is on inner city dwellers who want more garden in their backyard. My property is only 5m wide and I have plenty of walls so the only garden I can have is up. There are also people who want to grow vegetables, fruits and herbs. So the products we will produce will serve productive and aesthetic demands.
Vertical gardens have been around for a few years now but are only really available to corporates and rich people because they cost about $AUD 3,000 m2, we want to sell it as a DIY products online and in hardware stores.
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Silicondust HDHomeRun Dual
The HDHomeRun, by Silicondust USA (a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicondust Engineering, New Zealand), is an external HDTV tuner for personal computers. It actually has two independent tuners, and interfaces to the computer via ethernet. The device is supported by MythTV (since v0.20), as well as many other PVR software packages.
Since it tunes only digital signals (OTA HDTV as well as "Clear" QAM digital cable), which are already MPEG2 encoded, it has no MPEG encoding hardware.
- 1 More Information
- 2 Overview
- 3 Instructions (from HDHomeRun Forum)
- 4 North America Digital Antenna
- 5 North America Digital Cable
- 6 What to do if you get no channels
- 7 Can't Connect to HDHR?
- 8 Fixing HDHomeRun Channel Scanning in MythTV .20
- 9 Network Connection
- 10 Truncated Recordings
More Information
- Silicondust HDHomeRun (also lists sellers)
- Silicondust Channel Search (lets you see what channels are available for your zip code)
- Official HDHomeRun Forum (hosted by silicondust.com) Official HDHomeRun Forum
- HDHomeRun Forum (hosted by 9thtee.com) HDHomeRun Forum
- Ubuntu Wiki's instructions (includes screen shots) [1]
- HDHomeRun Development Guide.
- HDHomeRun® CableCARD™ [2]
Watch over-the-air digital & unencrypted digital cable TV from all computers in your home network
Single or dual tuners, depending on model - record/watch multiple channels at once
IR Receiver - use most standard remotes to signal your PC
Gets IP address via DHCP
Compatible With
- Windows Media Center:
- MCE 2005 (beta).
- Vista MCE 32-bit (beta).
- Vista MCE 64-bit (beta).
- SnapStream BeyondTV (beta)
- SageTV - DVR for Windows.
- MediaPortal - DVR for Windows (beta).
- GB-PVR - DVR for Windows (beta).
- MythTV - DVR for Linux.
- Pluto - Home automation & media system.
- VLC - Multi-platform media viewer.
Detailed Specifications
- 8-VSB (ATSC over-the-air digital HDTV)
- QAM64/256 (unencrypted digital cable TV)
- Single or dual HDTV tuners, depending on model
- IR Receiver (38kHz)
- 100baseTX high speed network
Package Includes
- Networked Digital HDTV Tuner
- Power supply
- 7' RJ45 Patch Cable
Instructions (from HDHomeRun Forum)
If you are running an older version of MythTV you will need to upgrade to 0.20 (or later).
If you are using the MythTV 0.20 Ubuntu/Debian package then you will need to update /usr/lib/libmythtv-0.20.so.0.20.0 once mythtv has been installed. http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/libmythtv-0.20.so.tgz
mythtv-setup - Capture device Add a new capture card with the following configuration: Card type: HDHomeRun DTV tuner box Device ID: <number from back of HDHomeRun> Tuner: 0 Finish: <enter>
Shortcut - if there is only one HDHomeRun on the local network you can use the wildcard FFFFFFFF device ID.
Repeat adding a second capture card for tuner 1: Card type: HDHomeRun DTV tuner box Device ID: <number from back of HDHomeRun> Tuner: 1 Finish: <enter>
Setting up IR Forwarding
The HDHomeRun (HDHR) is capable of forwarding IR commands via your LAN to LIRC. This can save you some money on purchasing an additional IR receiver for your frontend. However, the IR receiver is very directional and may require you to aim the remote directly at the HDHR. These instructions come from the Silicondust website.
If you don't have them installed already, you need the hdhomerun_config tools installed. If you're using Ubuntu or one of its derivatives, you can install this by entering the following within a terminal:
sudo apt-get install hdhomerun-config
Now that you have the HDHR software installed, you need to figure out what the <device id> of your box is. Do this by entering the following command:
hdhomerun-config discover
You should get a result that follows this format:
hdhomerun device <device id> found at <device IP address>
Now you need to tell the HDHR to send IR commands to your frontend's IP via a specific port. Port 5000 is used below, but it can be set to any unused port. Just make sure you remember what you set it to because we'll be using that when setting up LIRC.
hdhomerun_config <device id> set /ir/target "<frontend IP address>:5000 no_clear"
NOTE: Silicondust's website says that you can save the IR target to the HDHR's flash memory using the following command. I've had difficulty getting this to work, but here's the command. If this doesn't work either, you'll just need to issue the above command whenever your HDHR is unplugged and sometimes if your router gets reset.
hdhomerun_config <device id> set /ir/target "<frontend IP address>:5000 store"
The last thing to do is to get LIRC listening for IR commands being sent from your HDHR. We'll kill any lircd processes first, just to be sure. Then we'll get LIRC listening on the proper port. We're using port 5000 again here, because that's what we told the HDHR to use. If you used another port, you'll need to specify that same port here.
sudo killall lircd sudo lircd -H udp -d 5000
That's it. If mythfrontend is already running on your machine, you'll need to exit out of it and restart the frontend (just the application, not the computer) for it to work.
North America Digital Antenna
mythtv-setup - Video sources Add a new video source with the following configuration: Video source name: Antenna Listings grabber: No grabber (will come back and change this later) Channel frequency table: us-bcast mythtv-setup - Input connections Configure HDHomeRun Port 0 as follows: Video source: Antenna External channel change command: <blank> Preset tuner to channel: <blank> Scan for channels: <enter> Scan for channels page: Scan type: Full scan Frequency table: Broadcast ATSC modulation: Terrestrial (8-VSB) Channel seperator: Period Existing channel treatment: Minimal updates Next: <enter> Back on "Connect source to input page": Starting channel: <choose a valid channel> Finish <enter> Repeat for HDHomeRun Port 1. mythtv-setup - Channel Editor Note list of channels for source "Antenna" Schedules Direct Create an account here. The price is 20$/year with first 7 days free. http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ Create a channel lineup and enable/disable channels based on channels listed in the Channel Editor in mythtv-setup. mythtv-setup - Video sources Change the configuration for antenna as follows: Listings grabber: North America (Schedules Direct) (Internal) User id: <login name for schedulesdirect> Password: <password for schedulesdirect> Retrieve lineups: <enter> Data direct lineup: <select correct listing> Finish <enter>
North America Digital Cable
Note: you may find Scte65scan to be an alternative option that may more easily align channel numbers.
mythtv-setup - Video sources Add a new video source with the following configuration: Video source name: Digital Cable Listings grabber: No grabber (will come back and change this later) Channel frequency table: us-cable mythtv-setup - Input connections Configure HDHomeRun Port 0 as follows: Video source: Digital Cable External channel change command: <blank> Preset tuner to channel: <blank> Select "Scan for channels" <enter> Scan for channels page: Scan type: Full scan Frequency table: Cable ATSC modulation: Cable (QAM-256) Channel seperator: Period Existing channel treatment: Minimal updates Next: <enter> Back on "Connect source to input page": Select "Scan for channels" <enter> Scan for channels page: Scan type: Full scan Frequency table: Cable ATSC modulation: Cable (QAM-64) Channel seperator: Period Existing channel treatment: Minimal updates Next: <enter> Back on "Connect source to input page": Starting channel: <choose a valid channel> Finish <enter> Repeat for HDHomeRun Port 1. mythtv-setup - Channel Editor Note list of channels for source "Digital Cable" Schedules Direct Create an account here: http://schedulesdirect.org/ Create a channel lineup and enable/disable channels based on channels listed in the Channel Editor in mythtv-setup. Make sure the channel name and number in Schedules Direct matches the display channel name and number in the Channel Editor in MythTV. Note that MythTV uses the ATSC channel numbering as specified in the transport stream, not the remapped cable channel numbering so you will need to select OTA/Antenna as the source in Schedules Direct. However a mapping must be made to ensure that the listings correspond to the correct channels. mythtv-setup - Video sources Change the configuration for digital cable as follows: Listings grabber: North America (Schedules Direct) (Internal) User id: <login name for Schedules Direct> Password: <password for Schedules Direct> Retrieve lineups: <enter> Schedules Direct lineup: <select correct listing> Finish <enter>
What to do if you get no channels
If you know you for a fact that you should be getting some channels, but mythtv's scanning isn't working - you can try to fix it by doing these two things:
- Install the hdhomerun-config utility ( For recent distributions of Ubuntu it's as simple as
sudo apt-get install hdhomerun-config)
- Run
hdhomerun-config discoverand make note of the actual device ID, use this instead of FFFFFFF
- delete the HDHR tuners and re-add them
For at least one user, the above set of steps solved the problem of getting 0 channels reported. The hdhomerun-config may be required for the scanner to work properly?
Can't Connect to HDHR?
You may have a firewall in the middle blocking traffic. If so, an easy solution is adding a firewall rule that permits all traffic to and from the HDHR.
The following example uses the HDHR's mac address to avoid any hassles with IP changes:
-A INPUT -m mac --mac-source HDHR:MAC:ADDRESS -j ACCEPT
It is convenient (or maybe required for your OS flavor when using a GUI to edit the rules) to store this rule in an external file. For example, on Fedora, /etc/sysconfig/iptables-hdhomerun, and add a custom rule that refers to that file.
Fixing HDHomeRun Channel Scanning in MythTV .20
Note these instructions are seemingly obsolete, and have nothing to do with channel scanning not getting a channel because the signal was not strong enough. (mythfrontend, but surprisingly not mythtv-setup, has a configuration setting for minimum signal level to offer the channel. Default is 65%)
In order to get channel scan working correctly in MythTV .20, you need to get the RPM's that Jarod Wilson patched with the .20-fixes including the fix for HDHR. Update the following packages:
http://dl.atrpms.net/mythdora/4.0/i386/os/MythDora/libmyth-0.20.1-156.3.md4.i386.rpm http://dl.atrpms.net/mythdora/4.0/i386/os/MythDora/mythtv-setup-0.20.1-156.3.md4.i386.rpm http://dl.atrpms.net/mythdora/4.0/i386/os/MythDora/mythtv-backend-0.20.1-156.3.md4.i386.rpm
or the Easy Way:
cat << EOF >> /etc/yum.repos.d/mythdora.repo [mythdora] name=MythDora 4 - i386 baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/mythdora/4.0/i386/os/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=0 EOF yum --enablerepo=mythdora upgrade \*myth\*
You should be able to scan channels using mythtv-setup now. If you have any problems (missing tables and such) try deleting all the channels first and then rescanning. I ended up getting a clean start by deleting all channels and capture cards then starting fresh with these packages.
Network Connection
The HDHomeRun normally expects to obtain a DHCP lease. However, with the latest firmware it is also possible to configure it statically. This is particularly convenient if you want to connect the HDHomeRun directly to a NIC on your MythTV system, rather than through a switch on your network. To do this, configure your local interface with a static IP address in the range of 169.254.x.x (eg. 169.254.1.10) with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and no gateway.
The HDHomeRun uses UDP to communicate to the backend. Since UDP is connectionless, it does not retry if a packet is lost. This can cause a problem with hubs, especially with multiple HD video streams and other traffic. Any collision on the network generally results in part of the video stream being lost. This shows up as random blocks in the video being corrupt, generally with colors that stand out against the video. Switches resolve this problem since they break up the network into more collision domains, although this problem will still appear if then network becomes fully saturated with traffic.
Truncated Recordings
When connecting to the HDHomeRun, it is recommended that you use the Device ID and not the IP address to specify the HDHomeRun to MythTV-setup. There may be an issue with in addressing the second tuner of the HDHomeRun, which will result in existing recordings terminating aburptly when the other tuner is accessed by MythTV.
Ensure that the HDHomeRun device is properly detected on the network using the
hdhomerun-config discover command. If it is not, then resolve the connection issue before attempting to add the HDHomeRun in mythtv-setup. If things are configured correctly, the mythtv-setup program should automatically detect the device ID of the HDHomeRun when adding the tuner.
In one case, although the IP of the HDHomeRun could be pinged from the MythTV machine, different netmasks between the MythTV machine and the HDHomeRun caused mythtv-setup and hdhomerun_config not to autodetect the device. Other causes might include a firewall on the MythTV box blocking access.


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Panthers use 3-goal 2nd period to get another road victory, beating Sharks 5-3NHL.com @NHL
SAN JOSE, Calif. - After more than a decade without a playoff berth, the Florida Panthers are playing like a true contender early this season.
Tomas Fleischmann scored the tiebreaking goal and Jack Skille added a short-handed score in a three-goal second period that carried the Panthers to a 5-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night.
"I think there's really a lot of belief in our locker-room right now," coach Kevin Dineen said. "Two games now, we got down a goal in the first two minutes and we readjusted from there. It was a really solid all-around effort from our special teams to our goaltending. It was a good hockey game."
Stephen Weiss, former Shark Marco Sturm and Dmitry Kulikov also scored for the Panthers, who overcame an early deficit to beat the Sharks for the fourth straight time and matched Philadelphia for the most road wins in the NHL this season with nine.
It has been an impressive start to the season for the Southeast Division-leading Panthers, who have not made the playoffs or been in first place this late in the season since the 1999-00 campaign.
"The team's been this way the whole season," said backup goalie Scott Clemmensen, who improved to 2-0 this season. "We never feel like we're down. We never get down on ourselves or each other. We have a lot of confidence as a team. One-, two-, three- goal deficits, this team battles, all the way to the end. You never count us out."
Logan Couture had two goals and Jamie McGinn also scored, but the Sharks lost for the third time in four games.
San Jose was outshot 35-26 and committed far too many giveaways in front of backup goalie Thomas Greiss to earn a win despite taking a 2-1 lead in the first period.
"We were very sloppy," said coach Todd McLellan, who took away Sunday's planned off-day for his team. "That's probably as poorly I've seen our six D play in four years altogether as a group with turnovers. Forwards didn't create much of a forecheck. It was a full team game. If we didn't want to work tonight we'll find some time tomorrow to do it."
The Panthers dominated the second period with plenty of help from the Sharks and then held on for the win.
Colin White, playing his first game since Nov. 20, started things down the wrong path for San Jose when his clearing pass went right to Sturm, who skated in alone on Greiss and beat him with a backhander between the legs to tie it at 2.
Midway through the period, Fleischmann took a pass from Kris Versteeg alone in front of the net and stickhandled past Greiss for his 12th goal of the season. That was set up by a turnover from Brent Burns.
The Panthers then took control with their third short-handed goal of the season. Dan Boyle turned the puck over twice coming out of his own zone on the power play.
Skille took the second turnover near the blue line and got a shot off while being pulled down by Boyle. Greiss made the save but the puck hit teammate Jason Demers' skate and rolled back in off the post for Skille's second goal of the season.
"A little bit of puck luck helps sometimes," Skille said. "I'll take it, and I'm sure everybody else in this league would, too."
All three goals in the second came off San Jose turnovers.
"We gave them that game," Boyle said. "A couple of soft plays from us 'D,'" Boyle said. "Just bonehead stupid soft . soft stupid plays. We gave them a couple of goals. We gave the game away. Their third and fourth goals were both the result of stupid plays, soft plays, dumb plays."
Couture added his 10th goal on the power play with 6:39 remaining but the Panthers iced it on Kulikov's power-play goal with 1:35 remaining. Florida scored twice with the man advantage after having just two power-play goals in 27 chances over the previous six games.
The Sharks scored first for just the eighth time this season as Couture's shot from near the point deflected off Kulikov's glove and past Clemmensen just 1:16 into the game.
The Panthers tied it with a power-play goal midway through the period. Greiss made a strong pad stop on Fleischmann but then let in a soft rebound goal from Weiss that slid slowly along the ice underneath Greiss' glove and past Douglas Murray for the equalizer.
McGinn's second goal in as many games put San Jose back ahead.
Notes: The Sharks had been 5-0 when leading after the first period. ... San Jose D Burns took his first penalty of the season when he was called for roughing Skille on a hard hit midway through the second period. ... Sharks F Marty Havlat left briefly in the second period after taking a hard hit from Florida's Sean Bergenheim while falling to the ice.


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Amid drought, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday directed the Department of Public Works to maximize the collection of stormwater to augment the draining water supply. Supervisor Michael Antonovich said the county captures about 200,000 acre-feet of stormwater, which, along with 45,000 acre-feet of highly treated recycled water, goes into the ground aquifers each year.
This groundwater provides a third of the county's drinking water.
"The drought is a reminder that we must continue to do everything we can to conserve stormwater and make every drop count," he said in his motion. Antonovich also urged the county's lobbyists in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., to seek additional funding and streamlined regulatory processes for stormwater capture, flood control and groundwater recharge facilities and programs.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Judy Greer is the latest celebrity with some funny stories to tell.
Doubleday announced Tuesday that it would publish Greer's humorous essay collection "I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star." The book is scheduled to be released in 2014.
The 37-year-old Greer is known for her work on the television series "Arrested Development" and "Two and a Half Men" and on such films as "The Descendants" and "13 Going On 30."
News of her deal follows last week's announcement that Amy Poehler is working on a book with HarperCollins' It Books imprint.


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Commission welcomes today's decision of the Council to adopt a new Directive on clean vehicles used by public authorities
Today, the Council of Ministers adopted a new Directive promoting clean and energy efficient road transport vehicles that are in use by public authorities. The Directive aims to stimulate the market for clean and efficient vehicles and to prompt developments and investments by the industry. Increased sales will help reduce costs through economies of scale and will result in progressive improvement in the energy and environmental performance of the whole vehicle fleet. The new measures extend to all purchases of road transport vehicles by public authorities or by transport operators charged with public service obligations.
The Directive requires that energy and environmental impacts linked to the operation of vehicles over their whole lifetime are taken into account in purchase decisions. These lifetime impacts of vehicles shall include at least energy consumption, CO2 emissions and emissions of the regulated pollutants of NOx (nitrogen oxide), NMHC (non-methane hydrocarbons) and particulate matter. Purchasers may also consider other environmental impacts.
Taking into account these "external" costs in vehicle purchase decisions will contribute to the environment, climate and energy policies of the Community by reducing energy consumption, CO2 and pollutant emissions.
Two options are offered to meet the requirements: setting technical specifications for energy and environmental performance, or including energy and environmental impacts as award criteria in the purchasing procedure.
If the impacts are monetised for inclusion in the purchasing decision, common rules shall be followed, as defined in the Directive, for calculating the lifetime costs linked to the operation of vehicles.
To facilitate the implementation process, the Commission has launched today an internet site on clean and energy efficient vehicles. It includes a legislation guide, a lifetime calculator, information on joint procurement and references to Community funded projects in the field.
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Chocolate vases, squares of vanilla fudge, and sugar-free lemon drops—what better way to grow a business than appealing to the world's sweet tooth? Margaret McEntire, founder, president, and chief executive officer of Candy Bouquet International, thought so. Her firm is now the largest candy franchise in the world. But it wasn't always that way. Candy Bouquet started as a one-room operation in 1989, but by 1995, McEntire was looking to expand her business overseas.
McEntire says her biggest challenges have been learning more about business practices in different cultures, gaining key market information, and learning about channels of trade. Educating foreign businesspeople about American franchises is another challenge, and so is describing what a candy bouquet is. The company has had to explain the concept of rolling a candy store and a florist together and making a product that is really all candy.
Candy Is Dandy: Margaret McEntire
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In 1995, McEntire attended a trade show in Washington, D.C., where she met a trade specialist from the U.S. Commercial Service. That connection led to her participation in a Commercial Service mission to Eastern Europe and introduced her to doing business in foreign markets.
In the years that followed, Candy Bouquet expanded to dozens of foreign countries. The company's unique franchising system allows individuals to make a single purchase into the franchise and pay no continual overhead. The only requirement is that their supplies must come from the Candy Bouquet warehouse in Little Rock.
"One of the most helpful things I've found in doing foreign business is having a person we know in that country to help us out," says McEntire, referring to the Commercial Service's worldwide network of trade specialists. She credits much of her success to Dennis Millard, a trade specialist at the Little Rock Export Assistance Center. "When I know a foreign franchisee is coming, I call Dennis at our local U.S. Commercial Service office, and he provides me with solid information on the business practices of that culture."
Millard has also helped her take advantage of many Commercial Service programs. Candy Bouquet participates annually in the International Franchise Trade Show and has taken part in trade missions around the world. In 1999, McEntire participated in the Women in Business Matchmaker Trade Mission to South America and the Women's Economic Summit of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Argentina. McEntire is also a frequent participant in Commercial Service global video teleconferencing. She is a regular presenter at the international trade events sponsored by the Little Rock Export Assistance Center and shares her experiences with other businesses that are new to exporting. McEntire also advertises in Commercial News USA, a product catalog produced by the Commercial Service and distributed to more than 400,000 overseas buyers.
With assistance from the Commercial Service, Candy Bouquet has expanded from a single-room operation to more than 700 franchises in more than 40 countries. McEntire says, "Nobody likes to pay taxes but [the Commercial Service] is the best use of my tax dollars."
McEntire has several lessons to pass along to new exporters, said Doug Barry, editor of A Basic Guide to Exporting in which this case study appears.
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Charlie is a 5-year-old, neutered male. He weighs about 45 pounds. He's very pretty white and yellow mix with an amazing sense of humor. Charlie is house-trained and loves kids. Go to maranathafarm.org for details.
Guardian is a Shepherd/Rottweiler mix with an interesting story. Guardian spent the last year as a friendly stray. He stayed close to one particular neighborhood in GA and when animal control was going to take him the neighbors brought him to our shelter. He is very sweet and gentle and he is slowly getting use to a domesticated lifestyle. Children would just be too much for Guardian but a home with another confident dog would be a great fit. For more information on Guardian or any of the animals at the Hilton Head Humane Association please call 681-8686 or go to hhhumane.org.
This is Durham. He is available for adoption at Jasper Animal Rescue Mission in Ridgeland. He is a delightful fellow, a pitbull mix, around 1 year old. He is friendly and loves playing with other dogs. He has been with us for a number of months now, and is so ready to find his forever home. Call 843-726-7799 or go to JARMission.org.
Chelsea has a bubbly personality that is simply contagious. Seemingly a "Labbit Hound" (part Lab, part Basset), this endearing little dynamo takes everything in stride and wiggles all the while. Chelsea would make a great companion for an outdoor enthusiast who is looking to own a one-of-a-kind canine. For more information, call Brooke's Haven Animal Rescue at 757-7387, or visit the haven from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday and 2-4 p.m. Sunday at 25 Buck Island Road.
Meet Lucky. This 4-year-old girl needs some good luck again. She once had a home and adoring family but lost all when her owner suddenly died. This gal is super friendly with people and cats. She does not seem to mind cat-savvy dogs. She loves her window view here at the adoption center. She is current on all vaccines, spayed and chipped. You can meet Lucky from noon-7 p.m. Monday-Saturday at the Palmetto Animal League Adoption Center in Riverwalk Business Park. Call 645-1725 or go to palmettoanimalleague.org.
The following pets are part of the Noah's Arks Rescue family. They are house- and crate-trained, vaccinated, neutered and micro-chipped. Call 843-540-6755 for more info or go to noahs-arks.net.
Annie is a 4- to 5-month-old Boxer/Lab puppy who was found with a broken jaw after being attacked by another dog. We got a final medical check up this week and she is all healed. She arrived at the Rescue Ranch very shy and afraid of other dogs but now she is a all happy, healthy and well socialized. Annie is a playful young girl that would make a family with kids and other animals a perfect family member.
Sarge is a beautiful, sweet 2-year-old Staffordshire Terrier that was attacked by a pack of dogs that were left unattended in someone's yard. Sarge is a very submissive dog. It appears he was the one that was attacked. If the neighbor had not called Animal Control, he would not be alive today. Sarge is now a big, happy boy. He loves people and other dogs. Children should be older than 10.
Scooter is a 1-year-old black Lab. He was hit by a car and had bad injuries to his back legs. He is now healthy and can walk on all four legs but still needs to build some muscles with a lot of exercise. Scooter loves life, people, children and other dogs. He is the perfect new family member.
Lacey is a 5-year-old Rat Terrier Mix. It looked like she had some unfortunate injury that cost her one of her eyes. The eye was now small and deformed because of the injury and had to be removed. She is the sweetest little girl and loves other dogs, children and people.
Gypsy is a 2- to 3-year-old Golden Retriever/Chow mix. She was trapped by good Samaritans that were trying to catch another dog they had seen that needed medical care. She was found in an abandoned burned down restaurant. She is not aggressive at all, just scared and still a little shy in new situations and with new people. Every time we look into those big eyes of hers, we just want to wrap our arms around her and let her know that the worst is over and that she is safe now. She is healthy and would make some family a great new member. She loves people, kids and other dogs.
Bella is an adorable little 5-month-old Lab puppy that was picked up with her litter mates and her mom as a stray. She was half the size of the other puppies and all were adopted along with the mother but her. Her x-rays showed she had terrible hernias. She was rushed into surgery to repair the hernias and had tubes inserted to allow her abdomen to drain. This little bundle of energy is now healthy and ready for her new family. She is the sweetest little angel that loves everyone and will make an incredible dog for a family with children.
Trina is a 3-year-old Dachshund terrier mix. She was an owner turn-in. Her leg had been broken several times from a car accident the owner said and had never been treated. When she came in she was covered with fleas and had not received any medical care of any kind. Her leg was so mangled there was nothing we could do but remove the leg. She is doing great as a "tripod" and is now ready for her new home. She is a sweetheart and will make a wonderful addition to any family. She loves people, children and gets along with other animals.
Prime Time was a 6-month-old pup when he was hit by a car and taken to Greenville County Animal Shelter. He was set to be euthanized until we stepped in to save him. He had surgery to fix his fractured leg and some soft tissue damage. He has come a long way since those days. He is now 1 ½- 2 years old. He loves children, people and other dogs. Prime Time is ready for his own family who loves and spoils him. This beautiful boy had a rough start into this life and he only deserves the best.