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IEEE Spectrum Puts the Spotlight on Multiphysics
Bernt Nilsson April 29, 2013
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is doing some really cool things for its members. Chances are that you have attended their top rated conferences, downloaded papers from IEEE Xplore, or participated in one of many local chapter events. For electrical engineers like me, IEEE certainly is a rock to lean on for continued education and to connect with colleagues from around the world. Even if you are not a member you can tap into IEEE resources such as newsletters, websites, and their flagship publication — IEEE Spectrum. With over 400,000 subscribers and sharp editorial it is with great expectations I pick up the magazine from my mailbox (you can get it as a PDF too) each month.
Multiphysics Simulation – an IEEE Spectrum Insert
Here comes the May issue. For the second year in a row the publishers of IEEE Spectrum are devoting a 32-page insert, sponsored by us at COMSOL, entirely to simulation. The simulation engineering industry is, as we know by now, all about multiphysics, and electrical engineering is no exception. This becomes obvious from flipping through the Multiphysics Simulation insert with 12 stories about how physics-based modeling tools are put to work for product development and research.
Cover of the IEEE Spectrum Multiphysics Simulation insert, May 2013.
When we were researching stories to be featured in the insert we reached out to users of COMSOL Multiphysics and its add-on products used for electrical product design. I didn't know what to expect; would users be interested in sharing their work in IEEE Spectrum? Yes, indeed, the response was tremendous. Soon enough we ended up with a well-rounded mix of applications from high-tech organizations to report on.
Top Tech Companies Showcase Electrical Applications
I had the pleasure of working on the article from ABB in Alamo. They are designing the world's fastest tap changer, VRLTC™, using COMSOL Multiphysics. This high-voltage device connects to power transformers and helps regulate the voltage in power distribution systems. Inside the tap changer sits cutting-edge mechatronic components adjusting the voltage blazingly fast. The designers tell the story on how simulation and experiments are used for the high-voltage electrostatic design of components that are constantly stressed by thousands of volts. This is an amazing device and we couldn't resist making it the cover story!
The breakthrough of LEDs doesn't come without design challenges. Thermal management is crucial for their operation. UK-based Sharp Laboratories of Europe brings up examples on how they are importing ECAD circuits into COMSOL for co-simulation of electrical and thermal aspects to optimize LED designs. In fact, this is just one of many areas where multiphysics simulation plays an important role at Sharp, where use of COMSOL ranges from early design stage research to product development. Other examples in the insert include LCD displays, labs-on-a-chip, and energy systems.
These are just two of the many topics covered in the IEEE Spectrum insert. Other topics include sensors and wireless power, biomedical electromagnetics, single coil actuators, Li-ion batteries, bus bars, imaging systems, and semiconductors — you pick your favorite story. I'm looking forward to reading your comments on this year's IEEE Spectrum insert on multiphysics simulation.

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An annoying Twitter-based Mafia game is getting under the skin of users of the micro-blogging service, many of who would sooner it slept with the fishes.
Mobster World is the Twitter equivalent of the Zombies application that used to be popular on Facebook. Most users come across the service via unsolicited direct messages inviting them to become wiseguys and join a mafia family (as below).
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The invite includes a link to a site called playmobsterworld.com. Would-be Tony Sopranos who accept the invite allow the game to access their Twitter feed while simultaneously sending out a new set of invitations to "friends of theirs" (ie any followers with direct message ties), The Guardian reports.
Subscribers aren't explicitly informed that the spamming behaviour will happen (information on how you might avoid this is buried in the small print of the game's website). It's also far from straightforward to opt-out of the game once you've signed up.
The game involves doing "jobs" to earn cash and respect as well as attempting to find fresh recruits for a user's fledgling crew. Reports of this activity are sent to contacts, leading to a potential barrage of update Tweets. Users had allowed the application to access their feed via OAuth so this can happen without a user's further involvement.
Mobster World has been around on Facebook for some time, where it has around 1,200 regular users, but it's over on Twitter that it's causing the most grief. The game is doing nothing malicious as such. However a decision by the owners to hide their identities behind Domainsbyproxy hardly inspires confidence, as The Guardian notes. Users who wish to opt-out of the game can best revoke access via the Twitter connections page here. Opting out directly via the playmobsterworld.com website is reportedly difficult, if not impossible.
We sent a message to the developer of Mobster World via Facebook but are yet to hear back at the time of going to press. We'll update this story as and when we hear more.
The mafia-themed game is similar to a previous Twitter-based game called Spymaster, which was pwned after one wag figured out a way to crash the in-game economy. Like Mobster World, the gameplay of Spymaster was restricted to interactive texts or, to innocent bystanders, spammy updates.
Rik Ferguson, a security researcher at Trend Micro, said that Mobster World is arguably the most spammy of a range of similar games on Facebook and Twitter.
"I have confirmed through test accounts that the game [Mobster World] will make tweets and send DMs on an ongoing basis, even when you haven't performed an in game action. It's not an avalanche of tweets, but it does happen. If you are actually playing the game it does cause an absolute avalanche of tweets, though."
Similar games on Facebook include Mob World, Mob Wars and Mafia Wars. There's also Spymaster, on both Twitter and Facebook, and 140 Mafia on Twitter, Ferguson explained.
"They all vary in notification intensity and willingness to use your account without advance warning, none are overtly malicious or deceptive. Mobster World though at least was certainly deliberately obscure about what would happen when you signed up because its site features 'faded out' text warnings," he added. ®


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Thirty-two students from local public schools have been selected as 2011 Kentucky Governor's Scholars.
Established in 1983, the scholars program offers a summer residential experience, liberal arts programming and co-curricular activities at three different Kentucky university campuses for rising high school seniors.
Thomas Seibold, a student from South Oldham High, has been selected to attend the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science.
Students earn college credits and finish their high school requirements while staying on Western Kentucky University's campus.
Students at St. Francis School in Goshen were rewarded for their good deeds with a celebration and concert Friday.
Students gathered in the school auditorium and watched as their schoolmates gave presentations about their class service projects.
"Oh what would we do, what would we do if there were no trees?"
The question comes from a children's song about tree preservation, something students at Harmony Elementary know all about. They had a special Arbor Day program to celebrate trees and the environment last week.
The East Oldham Middle School site-based decision-making council has selected a new principal.
Associate principal Jim Ross will serve as principal effective July 1. Ross will replace Lynda Redmon who plans to retire after seven years as EOMS principal.
Ross has served as associate principal and athletic director at East Oldham Middle School since it opened in 2005.
Justin Kantor has been promoted to Cadet Airman in Civil Air Patrol and received the Major General John F. Curry Achievement Award.
The award is named in honor of Civil Air Patrol's first national commander during the early days of World War II.
The ceremony took place recently at the U.S. Army Reserve Center, located at Bowman Field.
Sixth-grade students at St. Francis School in Goshen are spreading their wings, and some paper, to reach out to Japan in the country's time of need.
This past fall, students read two books, "Hiroshima" and "One Thousand Paper Cranes," as part of a study about the atomic bombings of Japan by the United States.
An Oldham County High School student must have eaten his Wheaties the morning of the American College Testing exam.
Cory Smith, son of Tommy and Angela Smith of La Grange, earned a perfect score on the ACT, which has not been accomplished at his school in at least eight years, his guidance counselor said.
A Crestwood native is taking one small step toward a career as an astronaut.
Jake Gamsky, 23, a physics major at the University of Kentucky and 2006 graduate of South Oldham High School, was recently admitted to the International Space University space studies program.
A town hall meeting April 14 at North Oldham High School attracted 25 residents interested in a discussion with members of the Oldham County Board of Education.
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It is with sadness that those of us in the SIG-III community learn of the passing of Sue O'Neil Johnson, one of our members who inspired all of us with her dedication to the field of international information and her commitment to information professionals around the world. A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at 1:00 pm on Friday, October 5th at St Luke's Episcopal Church, Bethesda, Maryland.
ASIS&T has posted a touching account of her life. Two passages in particular offer thoughtful glimpses of her life:
Sue was also active in the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She was twice Chair of the International Information Issues SIG, which received SIG of the Year honors three years in a row, and she won the SIG Member of the Year Award in 2003. She also co-founded the ASIST international paper competition which brought travel grants, ASIST memberships, and publishing opportunities to dozens of information professionals in developing nations.
Besides her children, music, and tennis and golf, Sue's other great interest was in traveling and seeing the world. Beginning with a memorable trip to Yugoslavia and France as a college freshman, Sue had visited some 33 countries (many more than once) and was on her fifth passport. Perhaps her favorite trips were to Provence in 1994, Paraiba, Brazil in 2004, and the old capitals of Japan in 2005, but, in truth, she really loved meeting and talking with different people just about anywhere.
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Notebook: Short week for rare local qualifiers
Notebook: Short week for rare local qualifiers
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Gain Hall, 18, clearly had a great time despite missing the U.S. Open cut.(Getty Images)
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By Doug Ferguson, Associated Press
ARDMORE, Pa. -- Among those who had the shortest week at the U.S. Open took the longest road to even get to Merion.
For the first time since at least 1997, none of the 20 players who endured 18 holes of local qualifying and 36 holes of sectional qualify for the U.S. Open made the cut.
That doesn't mean the experience was a total waste of time.
Take 18-year-old Gavin Hall, who birdied his last four holes to make it through sectional qualifying in New York. Hall went to bed Thursday night with his name on the leaderboard because he was 1 under par when the opening round was suspended. He ran off a string of bogeys Friday morning, though he also holed out from the eighth fairway for an eagle to open with a 74.
The second round was tougher -- a 40 on the front nine, and then a triple bogey on the 10th hole, the shortest par 4 at Merion. He shot 77, but that included back-to-back birdies on Nos. 15 and 16, and an experience he wouldn't trade.
"That's a special place, a special tournament to play in, and for me to play in this at such a young age is a great learning experience, and it's just a great tournament to kick off the summer," said Hall, who clearly had a great time despite missing the cut.
"I've gotten exposed to a lot of things and I have a lot to work on," he said. "But I still feel like if I clean up some things in my game, I belong out here."
Harold Varner III made it through local qualifying, and he was an alternate from sectional qualifying to play in his first U.S. Open. He went 76-79, so it was never really close when it came to staying for the weekend.
Varner was one of two players who competed in The First Tee event at Pebble Beach -- Scott Langley was the other -- only the 22-year-old who played at East Carolina was more disappointed with his results.
The biggest surprise was the size of the crowd.
"When I played in the Wal-Mart First Tee, there was a lot of people, and then I played in the one Web.com in Charlotte, seeing that many people," Varner said. "But this week was obviously like a circus. It was unbelievable."
WEIBRING'S STRUGGLES: Matt Weibring made the cut in his first U.S. Open, though it becomes an even greater achievement considering that Merion was only his second form of competition in the last two months.
Weibring, a Web.com Tour player and the son of former PGA Tour player D.A. Weibring, has been coping with Bell's palsy, a form of facial paralysis.
"I was happy just to be here, just to be back playing," he said. "And I hung in there, and I did what I had to do. It's hard out there."
Weibring, who qualified out of Dallas, had to return Saturday morning to complete his round and slipped over the cut line with two holes to play. But he made a birdie on the par-3 ninth hole, hung on for par and a 73 and earned two more days at Merion.
The 33-year-old Weibring said he couldn't even practice the last two months.
"Your face gets paralyzed so you can't close or blink your eye or anything," he said. "It's hard being outside because if the wind blows, you feel disoriented. I practiced a couple of weeks leading up to the qualifier. Sometimes you go out after you've been sick and shoot good, and I tied for medalist, and here I am. So I'm excited."
BIG NAMES MISS THE CUT: Former Masters champion Zach Johnson was among 12 major champions who failed to make the cut, and he wasn't happy -- not about his game, not about the way Merion was set up, and certainly not with the USGA.
"I would describe the whole golf course as manipulated," Johnson said after rounds of 74-77, his first weekend off at a U.S. Open since 2009 at Bethpage Black. "It just enhances my disdain for the USGA and how it manipulates golf courses."
As another example of how predicting winners is mostly guesswork in golf, three of the players who some thought would contend at Merion were Johnson, Graeme McDowell and Jim Furyk. All of them missed the cut by at least three shots. For McDowell, it was his second straight cut in a major -- in a year when he already has won twice.
Furyk had his worst U.S. Open, and it hurt coming in his home state.
The most painful cut belonged to Stewart Cink, who played his last four holes in 4 over -- including a double bogey at No. 18 -- to miss by two shots.
DIVOTS: Kevin Sutherland, who turns 49 on July 4, was the oldest player remaining at Merion. Jay Don Blake, now on the Champions Tour, said he only recognized a dozen or so players in the locker room. "I have seen some of the kids walking in there," the 54-year-old Blake said. "Even seeing the name, I didn't even know some of the names, either. It's pretty interesting. It's kind of neat, though." Blake missed the cut with 74-80. ... For the second straight year, only two players were under par through 36 holes. The winning score at Olympic Club turned out to be 1-over 281. ... Thirty players were separated by five shots going into the third round.
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John Gross is chief engineer and Jeremy Orme chief architect at Connective Logic Systems. They can be contacted at [email protected] and [email protected], respectively.
This multi-part article introduces Blueprint, a technology developed Connective Logic Systems (where we work) that provides an alternative approach to multi-core development. The Blueprint toolset is built on the premise that we actually have no problem understanding complex concurrency -- until we project it into the one-dimensional world of text. For this reason, a visual representation is much easier to work with than its textual equivalent. There are some cases where text is obviously more intuitive -- such as parallelizing data-parallel loops. In these cases, technologies such as Microsoft's Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Intel's Threaded Building Blocks, can be intuitive and productive. In this installment, we consider an "infrastructural" class equivalent that rectifies the problems just decribed by transparently distributing its processing load across the available hardware and communicating asynchronously with adjacent infrastructural classes through strongly prototyped connections. Blueprint requires Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition (or greater), Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 for Vista (if using Windows Vista), and/or Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (or greater), and is available in beta for download here.
Conceptually at least, standard object-oriented models let objects invoke adjacent objects by sending messages to their member functions; and so at its highest level of abstraction OO has an inherently concurrent view of the world that is divorced from its eventual mapping to processes and hence CPU cores. Unfortunately the potential parallelism of OO's model is difficult to realize from this high level view alone because there is insufficient information to precisely describe the communication and synchronization which is required to ensure correct scheduling. Applications that do assume particular memory models (distributed or shared), network topologies, core counts, operating systems, and other such details will almost inevitably be tied to them and so all of these issues have to be abstracted out.
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Traditionally, OO has thrived where it has been possible to assume a single core, single machine environment. In such environments, synchronous function calling can replace the asynchronous invocation idealized in the original OO model and the stack takes care of data lifetimes:
However, the advent of multi-core has led programmers to demand OO to work in an environment where synchronous invocation is no longer viable because it would stall threads and waste time and/or resources.
Blueprint was designed to let developers work at the highest levels of OO abstraction and be able to make optimal use of multi-core hardware without needing to consider low level details like threading, message-passing and arbitration (semaphores and locks).
To achieve this, it has to enable developers to describe synchronization and communication at a very high level of abstraction using a visual metaphor. The "heavy lifting" required to implement the lower level synchronization is performed by the diagram translator which can generate C++ and/or C# as required.
This means that the notion of a "class" needs to be extended to include the additional information required by the translator. Blueprint's concurrent equivalents of classes are referred to as "circuits".
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Most developers will be familiar with the concept of a "class" in an OO sense, and the intention of Blueprint circuitry is to provide a concurrent (infrastructural) equivalent. Their purpose is therefore to localize, encapsulate, archive and re-use program logic (algorithmic and infrastructural).
A C++ class consists of a declaration where its members are specified and a definition where the code within those class members resides. Similarly, a circuit has a prototype that describes its public interface and it has a definition that contains the executable concurrent code.
Circuits may contain any of the following items:
- Blueprint's intrinsic primitives
- Instantiations of other circuit definitions
- References to other circuit definitions.
The primitive symbols provide the fundamental language for defining the concurrent behavior of the circuitry. Instantiations and references allow encapsulated circuitry to be re-used by creating a new instance of the circuitry or connecting to an instance that was created elsewhere.
When a new instance of a class is created, it is allocated memory for its data members. This means that any number of classes can be instantiated and they all work on their own area of memory. Similarly, circuits have a concept of definitive state so there is no limit to the number of named circuit instances that can be created.
Circuit instances can be joined together in any way, provided that the prototypes at each end are compatible. This means that the complex array output of an FFT for example, can be directly connected to the input of a complex array filter, an RSS feed adaptor component could be connected to any number of business processes, and so on.
Classes are used for both modeling data (e.g., data collected from a sensor) and for defining active behavioral components (e.g., a sonar beam-former). Circuits can be freely interchanged with the classes but data classes are typically left as classes and exchanged between circuits that implement the active behavior. Due to this interchangeability, migration from legacy application classes to their circuit-equivalents can be performed incrementally. Conventional classes can invoke circuits; and vice-versa.
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Everything about Dior is 'chic', whether it's a dress for the evening or an everyday jacket for the casual days. To clarify even further, have you seen the latest Dior Fusion Sneakers, yes they even make sneakers that look classy.
Dior's latest Fall Winter 2014 Ad Campaign convinced us that its absolutely normal to combine a blazer with a dress, holding a Dior bag and still wearing a pair of pumps embellished with sneakers soles. It's also the first campaign that features the first Lady Dior Totes with pockets.
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Customers of Research in Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry, can brag to their Mac-slinging brethren that their gadget was affectionately colloquialized after a hardcore drug of choice. But when it comes to a CrackBerry and a Mac actually making sweet digital music together, neither camp has had much to say, thanks to lackluster—and for a time, nonexistent—support from RIM. Thankfully, if all goes well that may change come the first half of 2009.
According to CIO, an anonymous source says that RIM will release a new set of tools to harmonize the BlackBerry with a Mac sometime in the first half of 2009. The tools will "address a number of longstanding complaints from Mac users," though details of the exact capabilities that RIM will bring to the table with its own software were not disclosed. "We know that we don't have an ideal solution for Mac users," the RIM source said. "It's something that's been on our radar since 2004, at least."
Since the BlackBerry was originally an enterprise and business player, the only way Mac users have been able to scrounge up some basic syncing features is via third-party apps from PocketMac and Mark/Space. Even then, these utilities have never matched many of the other crucial features of RIM's official Windows client, such as being able to wipe the BlackBerry OS or perform a backup/restore of device data. To its credit, RIM did try to make things a little easier on customers in 2006, especially its burgeoning consumer base, by licensing PocketMac's client and making it a free download for BlackBerry owners.
Clearly, though, PocketMac's client doesn't quite cut it, and the (admittedly unofficial) news of RIM working on native software makes the Mac-and-business wedding bells sound not so far off. We'll let you figure out who's wearing the pants in that relationship, but the point is that Macs are more open for business than ever. Native Mac OS X software from RIM—once it officially moves from rumor to a 1.0 release—is no small nod to the platform.


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Arsenal beat Newcastle 7-3 with Theo Walcott scoring a hat-trick in thriller
Arsenal had to take the lead four times to beat Newcastle 7-3 in a thrilling clash at the Emirates Stadium.
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Theo Walcott scored a hat-trick - including the opener, the winner and the final goal of the game to claim the points for the Gunners but there was plenty of drama in between in an astonishing match.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lukas Podolski also put Arsenal ahead but the Magpies found three equalisers through Sylvain Marveaux and Demba Ba twice to make for a cracking contest.
Substitute Olivier Giroud then added gloss to the display with a late brace before Walcott capped an impressive display to lift Arsene Wenger's side to fifth in the Premier League table.
Despite conceding seven, Newcastle kept their defensive shape well in the early stages and even had the first chance of the game when Ba headed Marveaux's corner over the crossbar.
But the good work was undone when Davide Santon dropped too deep, allowing Walcott to latch onto Podolski's threaded pass and finish neatly past Tim Krul.
Walcott, playing in his favoured striker role, had opportunities to add to the lead on the break but squandered them and it proved costly as Newcastle found a first-half equaliser.
With the visitors continuing to dominate possession, Magpies winger Gabriel Obertan was fouled by Bacary Sagna and Ba saw his free-kick deflect off Jack Wilshere and past Wojciech Szczesny.
It was no more than Newcastle deserved at the break and when Marveaux and Ba had further chances just before the interval it could have been better for Alan Pardew's men.
Instead they were behind early in the second half as Oxlade-Chamberlain was given too much space by Santon and Krul could not keep his low effort from distance out despite getting a touch to the ball.
If that was supposed to kill off the visitors, they had other ideas. Obertan waltzed past Sagna and found Marveaux at the far post via a deflection off Laurent Koscielny to stun the home crowd.
Podolski then headed in after a fine run from Wilshere but even better work by Marveaux gave Ba the chance to make it three goals apiece with a sidefooted volley at the far post.
But Walcott took advantage of indecision in the Newcastle area to make it 4-3 and then turned provider to set up Giroud twice before jinking in from the left and lifting the ball over Krul to cap a remarkable match.


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Saw Kashmir Ki Kali (1964) this past weekend, and absolutely loved it! It was my first Shammi Kapoor film (shame on me for taking so long, but better late than never, right?), and I know there shall be plenty more (and of Sharmila Tagore too!). Saving my thoughts for the movie review in a few days. Couldn't have seen it at a more relevant time, because I know that the person saying this probably has a point:
"Often it's said that he's India's answer to Elvis Presley. But I disagree I feel Elvis is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor."
These were Aamir Khan's words at the recent Osian Cinefan Film Festival, where Mr. Kapoor was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. This video really is a must-see!
What I liked about Shammi Kapoor's presentation was that he came across as not only very grateful, but also very humble. And after having seen Kashmir Ki Kali, I can at least begin to appreciate the magnitude of the statement in which he says he is incomplete without Mohammad Rafi. And Aamir's piece on a true actor's being an Aashiq (versus a Mashooq) is righteous. Well said! Here is a related piece and some more footage.


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Her voice is soft and plaintive, her words a slurry of apologies. For I Know My Weakness shows what happens when a woman who has been a homeless alcoholic for many years returns to the children she had abandoned. Unable to hide from her past, she is forced to contemplate her wounded life and its wake of wreckage. For I Know My Weakness explores uncharted territories that lie in the margins around us in a documentary where the filmmaker himself is caught in the vortex of other people's nightmares.
Read John Dentino's article "Ethics in the Immersive Documentary" in the Features section of the Senses of Cinema film journal's 2013 year-end edition. Visit the IDFA festival website to read about the world premiere of the film in Amsterdam November 2012 and visit our Facebook page for information on the U.S. premiere in New Orleans and the Asian continental premiere in Mumbai, both of which took place in October 2013. Read a film review and a profile from the IDFA premiere. Also, read Dentino's "The Loving and Terrible Mother" with more about Patty and the audience's relationship to the archetypal.
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Leah Martens and Brent Keene, both of Hartley, announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.
Parents of the couple are Mike and Phyllis Martens of Estherville and Dave and Kris Keene of Hartley.
The bride is a 2007 graduate of Estherville Lincoln Central High School and a 2010 graduate of South Dakota State University with a B.S. in animal science and a business minor. She is currently working for Cooperative Elevator Association.
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The groom is a 2006 graduate of Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn High School and a 2010 graduate of South Dakota State University with a B.S. in agronomy and an animal science minor. He is currently working for Northwest Ag Supply, LLC.
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I have here a Windows Workstation and use CCL 64bit, version 1.11., and I use emacs with slime to develop with it.
Lets assume I have the following simple helloworld.lisp:
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The result is an helloworld.exe, that prints "hello world."
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At least two people are dead after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital, according to a police official and reported by The Associated Press.
Sky News reports that the bomb appeared to have exploded inside the security checkpoint at a side entrance, killing the bomber and a security guard.
"There was a huge bang which really shook everywhere," journalist Ilnur Cevik, who was in a car down the street, told Sky News.
A Reuters witness saw one wounded person being lifted into an ambulance as police cordoned off the area.
The US embassy building is heavily protected while the German and French embassies are nearby.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but Kurdish rebels and Islamic militants are active in Turkey.
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By Kathryn Kopchik
LEWISBURG, Pa. — The Janet Weis Cabaret Series at Bucknell University resumes for the spring semester on Wednesday, Feb. 8, with a performance by the Randy Napoleon Quartet at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Weis Center at Bucknell.
This series, which is free and open to the public, is made possible by funding from the Weis family.
Jazz guitarist
A jazz guitarist, composer and arranger, Napoleon is a member of the Freddy Cole Quartet and a leader of his own trio and his own quartet.
He has toured with Benny Green, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and with Michael Bublé for three years; Bublé called him "the most exciting guitarist of our generation."
He has appeared on TV in Japan with CHJO and throughout Europe and the United States with Bublé, including "David Letterman," "Jay Leno," "Dancing with the Stars" and "Entertainment Tonight" as well as the PBS special, "Caught in the Act."
He also has performed with jazz artists including The Bill Charlap Trio and with cabaret artists including Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano in venues across the United States, including Lincoln Center, The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center, Radio City Music Hall and throughout the world in London and Sydney.
For more information or to hear music samples, visit http://www.randynapoleon.com/
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Other performances in the spring series include two concerts in the Campus Theatre.
The Jane Monheit Quartet will perform on Wednesday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. Starting her career at the age of 20 and awarded with the first prize at Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute's vocal competition, Jane Monheit became an extraordinarily gifted jazz vocalist whose sincere and romantic interpretations of exceptional songs has made her a favorite in both the jazz and cabaret worlds and garnered numerous accolades in the past decade.
The Wycliffe Gordon Quartet will perform on Wednesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. A former veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Gordon has been honored as the Jazz Journalists Association's Trombonist of the Year six times, including 2011, and as the Jazz Journalists Association's Critics' Choice award for best trombone. For more information or to hear music samples, visit http://www.wycliffegordon.com/about/
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Check out this really great website containing games to improve reading at the primary age level. It can be found on the Earobics Foundation website, a foundation aiming to tackle difficulties in reading at Kinder, Early and Junior levels.
"With Earobics, educators have the tools and resources they need to provide flexible classroom instruction for students of all abilities, and help their at-risk learners close the achievement gap before it's too late." http://www.earobics.com/solutions/programs.php
The fun, educational games on GameGoo are split in 3 levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced, with characters, such as Squanky and Fearless Frieda which will appeal to the children.
How to integrate GameGoo into our teaching:
GameGoo games may be used in the classroom to reinforce literacy and reading. They compliment any language lesson throughout all the Primary Years. Moreover, such a website works great on an Interactive Whiteboard.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Comedian Stephen Colbert said Thursday he has "talked it over with my money" and decided to explore entering the South Carolina presidential primary.
"I am proud to announce that I am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for president of the United States of America of South Carolina," Colbert Thursday during the taping of his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report," Politico reported.
"This is a difficult decision," he said. "I've talked it over with my money. I've talked it over with my spiritual adviser."
The announcement builds on Colbert's long-running lampoon of federal election finance laws allowing unlimited contributions to so-called super PACs.
Colbert, a South Carolina native, started a super PAC -- Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow -- in 2010 to make fun of the federal rule. He has a tax-exempt 501(c)4 organization, called the Colbert Super PAC SHH [as in "shh"] Institute, Politico said.
Former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter, appearing as a guest on Thursday's show, told Colbert he would not legally be able to retain control of the super PAC if he becomes a candidate.
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The X Factor: Second Screen Experience
How Producer/Director Marc Scarpa guided a participatory fan experience for The X Factor's online pre-show.
By Claudia Kienzle
In recent years, primetime television has embraced a new trend—singing competitions that combine live musical entertainment, riveting personal dramas and highly charged theatrical spectacles. This was the case with season one of The X Factor, another Simon Cowell invention that proved itself on British television and in 41 worldwide markets before joining the Fox lineup for its U.S. debut last fall.
Stemming from Cowell's passion for social media, The X Factor (U.S.) capitalized on another significant media trend — weaving social media feedback into the fabric of the live television broadcast in real-time. Among its many social media and online initiatives, X Factor Digital — a production unit associated with the show — produced the one-hour X Factor Pepsi Pre-Show Live — a novel cyber event designed to drum up excitement prior to the show's Wednesday 8 p.m. telecast.
The pre-show capitalized on yet another television industry trend — the use of integrated production systems (IPS) to reduce the capital investment, budget and manpower needed to produce innovative live telecasts, especially targeting online audiences. X Factor Digital chose to use TriCaster 850 EXTREME, the industry's premier IPS by NewTek, a broadcast technology innovator in San Antonio, Texas.
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Situated within a Sweetwater JOECO custom control room adjacent to CBS studios, TriCaster served as the powerful, integrated central hub of a bustling streaming media workflow. Priced at less than $50,000, TriCaster 850 EXTREME provides firepower comparable to a hi-def truck for a tiny fraction of the cost. And by integrating all of the key functionality of live television production — including switching up to eight HD camera signals, adding animated transitional effects and text, as well as video encoding — a single operator can man the entire show.
For a webcast, the X Factor Pepsi Pre-Show Live was fast-paced and intense with high production values. Prior to each of season one's 26 episodes (airing from Sept. 22 through Dec. 22, 2011), X Factor fans could tap into this innovative programming format using their smart phones, tablets or browsers.
Once online via the xfactorusa.com portal, fans became an integral part of the pre-show's unique format. They could tweet or post Facebook comments about behind-the-scenes interviews with contestants and judges, commentary by co-hosts Dan Levy and Taryn Southern and roving correspondent Jim Cantiello, or any of the activities caught by special contestant cameras placed on the legendary CBS Television City lot in Hollywood, Calif., where The X Factor is produced. Real-time social media feedback, Skype calls with fans, and on-camera interviews with special fans and other guests were kneaded into the live content in a dynamic way.
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"Our goal was to create a compelling 'participatory' fan experience that complemented the main show by conveying that night's key storylines to viewers in the digital media space," said Marc Scarpa, producer/director of X Factor Digital's X Factor Pepsi Pre-Show Live. SYCOtv — a partnership between the show's creator Simon Cowell, Fox Networks, Freemantle and Sony Music — produced The X Factorusa.com experience. Scarpa was hired by Sony Music, which was responsible for producing all of X Factor Digital's online efforts, including the pre-show.
"As fans responded to what they were seeing, their feedback — contributed via social media, mobile devices, Skype and other platforms — actually impacted and shaped the creative direction of the show," said Scarpa. "Feedback from our fans would actually change the trajectory of topics or people we focused on, making them true participants in this engaging, live multimedia event."
Perhaps the most pivotal participant of all was NewTek's TriCaster, which absorbed all of the incoming video, audio and social media data to produce and output a polished webcast. With TriCaster's integrated functionality, Scarpa only needed to interact with a single operator, his Technical Director Victor Borachuk, to craft the live presentation.
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While TriCaster contains all of the tools needed for high-quality live television, in this particular instance it was configured to interface with a wide array of high-end, third-party video and audio gear, including an audio mixing board, large multiview display and a video/audio patch bay.
Four of TriCaster's eight video inputs were dedicated to Sony PDW-F800 XDCAM HD 4:2:2 camcorders that operators were using to capture live video from the set inside the press tent adjacent to the studio facility and X Factor Digital's trailer. Other video sources included pre-produced video packages that were stored on TriCaster and rolled-out live or as "look lives." There were also program opens, closes, bumpers and other graphics assets created using After Effects and input into TriCaster as .mov files for live play-out.
Rather than renting an expensive, high-end HDTV mobile production truck, (where one day's rental fee would equal or exceed the fully outfitted cost of a TriCaster 850 EXTREME), X Factor Digital chose to base its remote production of the pre-show on a TriCaster. TriCaster was stationed inside a large trailer retrofitted with equipment racks to hold broadcast gear and sufficient console space for several work areas.
While one TriCaster operator could manage the switching and graphics of the show, Scarpa had a wide array of crew people — including an engineer-in-charge, audio mixer, two encoding engineers, assistant director, several utilities, a teleprompter op, a social media producer as well as writers and executive producers — within the digital control room.
In total, roughly 45 people contributed to X Factor Digital's content creation efforts, several of which were directly or indirectly associated with the pre-show itself. The custom control room also used CBS Studios' blazing fast 450Mb/s fiber infrastructure, as well as Bright Cove and Akamai's content delivery network services. According to Scarpa, CBS Studios' phenomenally fast data connection and technical expertise were critical to this production because of X Factor Digital's demanding multi-device-streaming media challenges.
Social Media Integration
"Since we were getting over 2,000 tweets per minute, our social media producer used a software-based social media curation solution called Mass Relevance to filter out those incoming tweets that were particularly relevant to what was being said at that moment in the pre-show," said Scarpa. They would filter tweets based on keywords such as the judges' names — including Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger, or L.A. Reid — as well as the names of competing singers or singing groups, and any other key topics for that night's storyline.
"We used TriCaster's Text Overlay feature to place the social media elements right onto the screen in appealing displays, such as transparent boxes, lower-third supers, and other non-disruptive graphics that popped in and out," said Scarpa. "So if our host was asking Simon Cowell about Melanie Amarro, (the contestant who ultimately won season one), we might have had an overlay of a tweet, such as 'Good choice, Simon,' or any other select tweet about his thoughts on that performer."
TriCaster supports the input of social media data, including tweets, Facebook posts, pictures and videos, from any iOS (iPhone operating system) device, such as an iPhone, iPad or MacBook Pro. The user interface also offers one-button Internet streaming that allows use of Adobe Flash or Microsoft Windows Media to deliver a full HD live stream directly to the Web.
Ideal for Non-Traditional Fare
Since it is equally at home in the Web streaming and traditional broadcast worlds, TriCaster includes other helpful streaming features, such as the ability to simultaneously archive the webcast for later viewing and support for multi-bitrate streaming profiles. TriCaster's Streaming Profile Manager also has an integrated browser that makes configuration, importing and previewing of Web streams quicker and easier. Users can save and manage all of their preferred settings for instant access at a later date.
All of TriCaster's functions are readily available to the operator via an intuitive interface and the ability to display all of the necessary video signals, buttons and control panels on a widescreen multiview display. The operator can monitor all of the video associated with each camera, as well as the preview and program signals.
There's also a live production switcher control panel on the interface giving the operator control over all 24 available channels, including eight external video sources, eight virtual mix/effects channels, five internal digital media players, two external network inputs, frame buffer and black. The interface also displays a full digital audio mixer and tools for creating digital video effects and transitions, as well as a virtual set system. All of the sources on the display can be named to avoid confusion.
With the addition of a third-party system for robotic camera control, a single operator could manage an entire multi-camera production with high-quality results using TriCaster. But it's also versatile enough to benefit a high-caliber, dynamic, primetime television show by streamlining the cost and technical complexity of the workflow.
Powerful Storytelling Tool
"TriCaster is a multi-faceted tool that allows me as a director to have one point of contact to execute multiple functions in the programming workflow. The compact nature of this unit frees up a seat or two in the control room so we can have a social media producer and others tasked with managing other non-traditional elements of the show," said Scarpa.
"And financially speaking, there's nothing on the market that comes even close to what TriCaster can do at that price point," he added. "HD trucks will not go away, but my guess is that you'll see more and more of them — especially smaller trucks and Sprinters — outfitted with TriCasters in the future."
The impact of TriCaster is "immeasurable" because it's empowering content creators to tell their stories and produce new kinds of programming quickly, inexpensively, and with high-quality — in many cases content that would otherwise never get produced, he said.
"This is especially true for younger producers just starting out who don't have million-dollar budgets to get their multi-camera shows done using conventional HD trucks and studios," said Scarpa. "In my opinion, TriCaster is ushering in a complete paradigm shift, helping people to tell their stories. It's got the 'X Factor.' "


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Drive-through lights to glitter at speedway
At the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the holiday season includes an expected 1 million lights shimmering during the annual Glittering Lights drive-through event Nov. 15 through Jan. 5.
Christmas is said to be the best time of the year. It is the time when family and friends can indulge in giving and sharing. At the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the tradition goes even farther, with an expected 1 million lights shimmering as people share in the joy of the holiday.
The speedway, 7000 Las Vegas Blvd. North, is scheduled to hold its annual Glittering Lights holiday drive-through event Nov. 15 through Jan. 5.
"This event has been a part of people's holiday traditions for years," said Shannon Bentham, co-producer of Glittering Lights. "It's the type of event where families can bring their kids and enjoy the holidays with beautiful light displays and holiday music."
The event is set from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 5:30 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Admission for vehicles is $15 Monday through Thursday and $20 Friday through Sunday, including holidays.
The event, in its 13th year, ran through Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Road, under the name Gift of Lights for the first 10 years. It moved to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2010.
Bentham added that the event plans to provide a prerecorded radio station with festive music for families to listen to as they drive down the 2.5-mile racetrack.
A new element set to debut Nov. 29 is the "Living Nativity," put on by the branches of the United Methodist Church. The exhibit will feature performers acting out the iconic scene.
Another added attraction is scheduled to be Princess Fairy World, and back for its second year will be the Avenue of Trees, with more than 80 Christmas trees on display.
"The event will also feature the world's largest light tunnel," Bentham added. "Last year, Japan launched a larger light tunnel, but this year, we're taking our title back."
Glittering Lights will feature more than 400 animated and sparkling displays. Bentham estimates that the event typically takes 40 minutes to finish. The first 15,000 vehicles to arrive to the event are to receive a gift bag filled with sponsor-donated items.
Goodwill of Southern Nevada is also offering a $2 discount admission with a donation of gently used items at any of its 40 sites throughout Southern Nevada.
Jessica Milazzo, manager of community affairs for Goodwill of Southern Nevada, said the organization accepts clothing, household items, home decor, electronics and furniture.
Goodwill will also have a drop box at the event's entrance, where families can receive a coupon for $2 off.
"Everything that people donate to us we resell," Milazzo said. "The donations help provide people with job training and job placements."
The event offers a $55 season pass that allows for multiple entrances and is good until Jan. 5.
A portion of the proceeds will also go to aid Speedway Children's Charities' efforts in funding children's nonprofits throughout Southern Nevada.
For those looking for something to snack on, the Boy Scouts of America plan to sell hot chocolate at the event for $2 and popcorn for $4.
The event is pet-friendly, and those with dogs can receive treats for their companions.
The drive-through is expected to draw about 150,000 visitors and 25,000 to 30,000 vehicles, according to glitteringlightslasvegas.com.
Tickets can be purchased on the website or at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Discount tickets are available at all area Walgreens.
"This is an affordable way to enjoy the holidays with your family. Everyone loves it. It crosses over to all age ranges," Bentham said. "It's just a fun event that's easy to do."
Contact Sunrise/Whitney View reporter Sandy Lopez at email@example.com or 702-383-4686.


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Barbara Crossette The Nation
The European Union, heading into a new year almost exclusively preoccupied with shaky economies in its midst and the fate of the euro, has effectively sidelined the already dwindling Turkish hopes of membership any time soon. The disconnect in the Brussels mindset is puzzling. If Europe's single most pressing social concern now is the integration—or not—of its growing Muslim populations, nothing would seem to be smarter or more timely than positive gestures towards Turkey, potentially the EU's first Muslim-majority member.
Turkey, with 77 million people, is also far from being an economic basket case, certainly compared with a few European nations now dragging the region down. It has largely weathered the global recession with periods of strong growth last year as it builds electronic and auto industries. (Think India without the astronomical Indian poverty rate or lagging health and education standards.) Constitutional amendments were approved last year by Turkish voters to strengthen democracy and subject the military to civilian justice. None of this seems to have caught Europe's attention enough to speed up full integration of Turkey.
Turkey is not alone in feeling a European chill. Among the Muslim Bosniaks, there are suspicions that Europe's reluctance to lean harder on the Bosnian Serbs who have carved out a virtually autonomous state-within-a-state from which they can hold up actions by the Bosniak-Croat-Serb tripartite presidency or legislature. That the nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina cannot yet function as a collective whole has a lot to do with animosity toward or fear of Islam, both by ethnic Serbs and members of the EU, which assign a "high representative" to Bosnia-Herzogovina, who has often worked hard to temper Serb opinion.
In Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina's weak national capital, critical government programs are languishing including on human rights and accountability for atrocities committed from 1992 to 1995, many if not most of them by ethnic Serbs, who maintained well documented rape camps where Bosniak women were abused and who massacred thousands of Bosniak men and boys. The Bosnian Serb republic (distinct from the neighboring nation of Serbia) created by the 1995 Dayton peace accords, which left a fault line between Bosnian Serb communities and the Bosniak-Croat federation. The result has been segregated education systems, mutually hostile media camps and competing truths about the war fought nearly two decades ago.
Muslim nations see a vacuum in Bosnia and are moving in to fill it, led by Turkey. Iran and Libya, among others, have also stepped up their presence with aid, the opening of cultural centers, support for mosques and links to the wider Islamic world.
The spread of Islamic militancy is not the major issue—at least not yet, despite what some northern Europeans and Americans fear, based on reports of Islamic religious schools springing up in the Bosnian countryside. Rather, the increased activity in Bosnia by Muslim-majority nations appears to be a reflection of the desire, particularly of Turkey, to expand its sphere of influence in one corner of Europe while also buttressing a small nation that was once part of the Ottoman Empire and has had a Muslim majority for centuries. Turkey has been following similar policies in Iraq and other Middle Eastern nations for some time, officially and unofficially.
A few years ago, on a visit to Istanbul and Ankara with a group from the Foreign Policy Association, I learned from business leaders and economists that Turkish truck drivers, construction workers and other civilians heavily involved in the risky business of gaining a foothold in the Iraqi economy were suffering casualties in the US war second only to those of the Americans. A high-ranking government official, explaining that Turkey had to look east, given European unwillingness to open its door, said that Turkey would not stand by and let its fate be decided "on the streets of Paris." President Nicolas Sarkozy is adamantly opposed to Turkish membership and would carry the country, wary of French Muslims, with him.
The EU does not have a great record in managing enlargement. It allowed Greece full membership in 1981 when economic warning signs were already in plain view. (Spain and Portugal, now also in economic trouble, were admitted five years later.) It should not have been surprising that Greece sooner or later would trigger a continent-wide financial crisis, which happened as the Greek government admitted it had falsified economic statistics over the years. That left the current socialist prime minister, George Papandreou, is a position not unlike that of Barack Obama, saddled with the legacy of an irresponsible, profligate right-wing predecessor administration.
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Liu Chuanzhi considers himself conservative by nature, but he was taking a big risk in 1984 when he started a tech company in China, a country that was in the midst of a big transition from a planned economy to a market economy.
Despite a number of setbacks, including getting scammed out of the bulk of his startup money early on, he and 10 other computer scientists prevailed. Today, that company, Lenovo, is the world's fourth biggest maker of personal computers.
Liu, who is regarded as one of China's top business leaders and has been described as that country's grandfather of the technology revolution (a title he told me he doesn't really like), was in San Francisco on Thursday. I had the opportunity for a one-on-one interview with him (surrounded by an entourage that included translators, marketing execs and PR folks).
Here is a brief excerpt of that interview (read the full version on Sunday in the business section).
Q: You were quoted as saying that tablet computers and smart phones will dominate the future market and that "anyone who loses this battle will be phased out from the history of this industry." In light of Apple's current success in China, and one analyst predicting that the company will more than triple sales in China this year, what is Lenovo doing to keep from being phased out?
A: In the past, if you were working with computers, your choice for operating systems was limited to Microsoft and your choice of processors was limited to Intel. That meant that the companies that make these products had very little room for innovation or too many variations.
But I think what we're going to see now is a situation where a hundred flowers can bloom, and you're going to see many systems in contention because we already see Google's Android and now we have this new alliance between Microsoft and Nokia. And there are going to be many possibilities.
Q: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce put out a report last year that was extremely critical of China's policy for "indigenous innovation," a plan that it pointed out involves "tweaking foreign technology" and transforming it into Chinese technology.
The report goes on to say that this plan is considered by many tech companies to be a "blueprint for technology theft on a scale the world has never seen before."
Is that a fair assessment?
A: The protection of intellectual property was and still is a serious problem in China. The Chinese government actually sharply criticizes lack of protections for intellectual property because this holds back innovation in China. We see this message in our media and also in the speeches given by our leaders.
But I also believe that there will probably be many cases where people aren't doing as much as they could or should. For instance, our company, Lenovo, was the first to preload Microsoft software into our computers, and I know before we did that, pretty much everybody who was using Microsoft software was using a pirated edition.
Since then, many other companies have started to do likewise, but I'm sure there's still extensive piracy going on.
Q: There are many tech companies that are trying to figure out how to expand their business in China. I wanted to get your thoughts on their prospects.
A: Well, Apple is already doing very well in China. But they're going to have to hold up against a very significant onslaught from a company called Lenovo. Dell had at one point been dominant not only in the U.S. but in Europe, and when they first came to China, they beat Lenovo for two years running. But during those two years, we finally figured them out, and ever since then, we've done better than Dell in China.
Q: Google?
A: They had a rather unhappy encounter with the Chinese government, so that's a problem they are going to have to solve before we can talk about what their prospects are. And actually, when I heard the news about that, I felt very bad because I felt it was a loss for both sides.
Q: Facebook?
A: They're going to encounter problems in China because there are already similar Chinese sites, for instance, Tencent. So it's possible they may find a good Chinese partner, and if that partnership works out well, then they still have room to grow. But it's very important to have a good partner in China.


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Sad, sad news today of Yash Chopra's passing, another in a series of recent deaths of some of Bollywood's most respected elders. Incredibly sad.
We all know about his movies. (Filmography at this IMDb link.) Deewaar (1975) and Naya Daur (1957), for which he served as director and assistant director respectively, are by far my favorites. From a higher-level view, just think about his influence in giving rise to the term 'Bollywood' and the perceptions attached to the term.
Also, can we go back to calling the upcoming Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012), A Yash Chopra Romance? Surely, his record in film was nothing short of a romance no matter how we look at it.


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I strung my Prestige Mid at 61 lbs., ALU Power on the mains, synthetic gut on the crosses (I had previously used these strings but in reverse -- ie, the synthetic gut was on the mains and the ALU Power was on the cross). At first, this new set up felt like I was hitting the ball with a brick. Despite exerting a tremendous amount of effort, my balls were barely going past the service box. It was rough getting used to. Eventually, after about maybe thirty minutes or so, the strings started to loosen up and it didn't take quite as much effort to hit the ball long. Still not much feel on the volleys, though. My friend did note that my balls seemed to arc more than they did before, but I'm not sure if the added topspin was a function of the strings or changing the shape of my forehand to generate more topspin. Anyway, I'm still getting used to this string job. My arm hurts, but I also played a lot of tennis today so that's not necessarily the string's fault. However, based on my experience, I recommend tensioning this hybrid lower than 61 lbs, especially on an 18 x 20 string bed like that of the Prestige Mid unless you don't have a problem feeling like you're hitting the ball with a brick for a bit. One good thing -- the strings didn't break at this tension. That was exciting because so many people complained about breakage with the ALU Power at high tensions. I was really wacking the ball, too, so maybe ALU Power just has a bad rap at high tensions. Well, I guess we'll see as the week wears on...
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Your 93 inch Mid requires a lower tension, unless you're a hard hitting serve and volleyer or slugger baseliner. I can see you huffing already. LOL!
Good to know, Tim. FYI... I forwarded the article you sent me to a friend who wants me to string his racquet. We'd initially planned on stringing it at 54 lbs. but after reading the article he now wants it at 50. I'm excited to see how that works out for him. I'll be wanting lots of feedback from him. As for me, I didn't play tennis today and my upper body is still REAL sore. I was playing with some older, more mature folks on Monday and I kept wondering why I was the only one who seemed to be working so hard to get the ball back, exhausted and out of breath after a few rallies. And then I realized...it must be my strings! LOL. Lesson learned. That is the point of my experiment.
55 lbs is just right for me because I need my string to last for a month. By then, it will have lost its tension to around 40 and I am still good to go. Alu Rough I strung at 52 and it has lasted a month. I string Solinco Tour Bite and Barb Wire at 56 because those strings trampoline more and I still want the control nearing the end of its lifespan.
Incredibly informative. Please read the following comments if you are a stringer or really value the importance of strings in your tennis game (too few people do). A few nuggets: if using a poly or co-poly string -- 1. Select a tension in the upper 30's – 40′s and nothing over 52 lbs., 2. Set pull speed to lowest possible setting when using an electronic constant pull machine. If using drop weight, lower bar slowly. If using a crank machine (my method), once machine starts to resist crank very, very slowly until it locks, 3. Allow string to sit under tension at least 5 seconds before clamping so that it has sufficient time to properly stretch, and 4. No rush string jobs. I am absolutely amazed that you could string a racquet so low and not lose control or overhit the ball. I'm doing a string job for a friend this week and I'll try to convince him to string in the 30s or 40s (more like 40s, 30s sounds just too low) to see how it works. As for me, after Day 2 of playing with a tension of 61 lbs., my body hurts all over. UGH. I do not recommend this tension with the ALU Power. Tim, how's 55 lbs. working out for you???
I don't necessarily agree but something I found. I am at 55 lbs for myself.
The Definitive Guide to Stringing Polys and Co-polys
Posted on March 17, 2011 by GGTennis
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Okay students, time to take notes.
Qualitative analysis of tennis message boards, tennis twitter accounts, facebook pages, blogs and various discussions has convinced me that the vast majority of stringers are not well versed in the nature of poly and co-poly strings. As a result, many stringers, even those widely respected and much revered, do not install poly-based strings in a manner that optimizes their performance. In fact, it is not going out on much of a limb to estimate that 90% or more of stringers in the USA are UNINTENTIONALLY installing these strings in a manner which robs them of performance characteristics. I know because until late 2010 I was among this group of well-intentioned professional stringers who was unknowingly butchering these strings because I was not aware of how they needed to be handled.
First of all, and perhaps the biggest obstacle to overcome, is to realize that poly-based strings are designed to perform best at lower tensions. We are talking a tension range in the 30′s – 40′s. The absolute top end of that range would be 52 pounds. Once you go beyond 52, you are entering the point of quickly diminishing returns. I realize this may represent a HUGE shift in thinking for many readers. In fact a majority of you are probably thinking of mailing me a care package of colorful Sharpies so that I can decorate the walls of my padded room, but it is not really that crazy. The fear of low tensions is loss of control. I can assure you from personal experience as well as experience with many local customers, that quality poly-based offerings, PROPERLY INSTALLED, give ample control at these low tensions. I PROMISE this is a true statement. In fact, when all elements are working together (strings/racquet/player) it becomes almost impossible to hit a ball long.
Installing poly-based strings requires one critical element that many stringers may find challenging. P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E! It is not possible to provide to a quality stringjob with poly-based strings using a rushed sequence. The 15 minute stringjob that may be just fine for synthetics and natural gut, just is not going to cut it with poly-based strings. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO RUSH THE STRINGING PROCESS WITH POLY BASED STRINGS. Some professional stringers may take issue with this statement. They will claim their stringing method is fine-tuned, precise and consistent. We take no issues with these claims. However, those elements without additional care are NOT good enough to produce the best outcomes for poly-based strings. What they produce is consistently mediocre (at best) results. We must remember that the majority of recreational and league players need their strings to last much longer than the pros who get a fresh string job every 9 games. They need to last for weeks and sometimes months.
Poly-based strings are oft criticized for being stiff, rapidly losing tension, contributing to elbow pain and failing to hold playing properties. Each of these claims can be true, except there is a huge BUT here that dwarfs even that of Ms. Kardashian. These statements are only true when the strings have been overtensioned and OVERSTRETCHED. When not overtensioned or overstretched poly-based strings are EXTREMELY COMFORTABLE, LOSE LESS TENSION THAN MOST SYNTHETICS, and HOLD PLAYING PROPERTIES for an extended period of time. (The last varies according to makeup of string).
How can this be? The literature, testimonials and even the USRSA data show that poly-based strings loose tension rapidly. Clearly the statement made in the above paragraph is nothing more than an outpouring of a deranged mind, right? Well, not necessarily. We are suggesting that all this data is gathered from and observed by individuals and groups who have overtensioned the poly-based strings…including the USRSA who test at 62 pounds! (This might give representative results with other strings, but it just ain't gonna fly with poly-based offerings.)
Poly-based strings have a much lower level of resiliency than synthetics and natural gut. As such, when being installed, it must be handled with care. Even though it is a strong and durable string in the raquet, it takes a tender touch to install properly. The best analogy we have found comes from John Elliot. John compares poly-based strings to the spring that can be found in your average ball point pen. Just like the spring it offers resiliency and when properly used it will hold this resiliency for an extended period of time. However, just like the spring in the pen, it can be easily stretched out of shape if not handled properly. Once this stretching occurs, the spring is dead. It will continue to elongate, but will not retract back into it's original form and shape. The exact same principle applies to a poly-based string. It CAN NOT be OVERSTRETCHED or OVERTENSIONED without suffering consequences.
Unfortunately in order to keep it in perfect form, there are 2 CRITICAL STEPS that must be taken during installation which are not necessary with strings of different constructions. These steps will without question slow the stringing process. However, it is necessary in order for the poly-based strings to give optimal performance.
1. If using a constant pull electronic machine, the machine's pull speed needs to be set to the lowest possible speed. We use a Wilson Baiardo and the lowest pull speed is 30%. It is easily set to this level and this is where the Baiardo is most effective for stringing poly-based strings. The reason this step is necessary is because electronic machines overshoot tension and then back down to the desired level. The faster the pull speed the more dramatic and harsh the overshoot. Most machines will overshoot at least 10% – 18% over the set tension. (Remember we are trying not to exceed 52 pounds in order not to overstretch the string!)
2. Once tension is reached, the stringer needs to wait at least 5 seconds before clamping off. This allows the poly-based string to stretch PROPERLY. By failing to give poly-based strings this much time slack is not properly removed and the string will loose tension and the wonderous low-tension performance will never be realized.
By following this pulling procedure the end result will be a tighter stringbed that holds tension for a longer period of time than one with higher reference tensions not pulled with an eye toward end performance rather than speed. In the south we refer to this process as "Moseying." You gotta take your time, mosey along and enjoy yourself while stringing poly-based strings. It's really the only way to do it well.
At this point a summary is in order. To get the best possible performance from poly-based strings you need to make sure you or your stringer do the following:
1. Select a tension in the upper 30′s – 40′s. The tension will vary according to density of stringbed and head size. (Note: It can be easily adjusted through observational learning. We'll cover this in a future blog entry.)
2. Set pull speed to lowest possible setting when using an electronic constant pull machine. If using drop weight, lower bar slowly. If using a crank machine once machine starts to resist crank very, very slowly until it locks.
3. Allow string to sit under tension at least 5 seconds before clamping so that it has sufficient time to properly stretch.
Keep an open mind, give it a try and you will be AMAZED at the results.
61 lbs way to high. 45lbs good
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