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Do you love obsessively sifting through headlines and doing all sorts of random stuff? Do you dream of fourth-floor walkups and a tidal wave of email? Most importantly, do you want to work your ass off and be schooled in the art of whatever it is we do? If so, you're in luck: Jezebel is now hiring Editorial Fellows for our New York office.
Editorial Fellows are entry-level editorial positions at the good ship Jezebel. The ideal candidate is very self-motivated and an excellent writer with a strong voice, rock-solid news judgment and a keen understanding of Jezebel's content and style. You also need to be within daily commuting distance of Manhattan and love yogurt.*
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• Should want to be a journalist or reporter or writer or something of the sort when you grow up. Prior experience in media is a plus.
• Have basic experience with HTML, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr — all the stuff the kids are doing these days.
• Have cable, internet access (not stolen from your neighbors), and a laptop at home.
• Exhibit a cheerful willingness to do whatever weird stuff we may ask of you.
• Are over 18 with the legal ability to work in the United States.
• Are ready to learn. We don't expect you to know everything when you get here, but you should be willing to put in the work to figure it out.
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A University of California IT employee whose job is being outsourced to India recently wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for help.
Feinstein's office sent back a letter addressing manufacturing job losses, not IT, and offered the worker no assistance.
The employee is part of a group of 50 IT workers and another 30 contractors facing layoffs after the university hired an offshore outsourcing firm. The firm, India-based HCL, won a contract to manage infrastructure services.
That contract is worth about $50 million over five years and can be leveraged by other university campuses -- meaning they could also bring in HCL if they so choose.
The affected IT employees, who work at the school's San Francisco (UCSF) campus, are slated to lose their jobs in February and say they will be training foreign replacements.
Since the layoffs became public, the school has posted Labor Condition Applications (LCA) notices -- as required by federal law when H-1B workers are being placed. UCSF employees have seen these notices and made some available to Computerworld. They show that the jobs posted are for programmer analyst II and network administrator IV.
For the existing UCSF employees, the notices were disheartening.
"Many of us can easily fill the job. We are training them to replace us," said one employee who requested anonymity because he is still employed by the university.
The letter to Feinstein said, in part:
"The decision to move the University of California San Francisco datacenters from California to Washington was difficult to grasp. I saw several of my long time co-workers terminated, and my California tax dollars that go into the UC system being diverted to the state of Washington.
"The recent decision to outsource 17% of Information Technology to India based Company HCL has literally hit home. I am being asked to do knowledge transfer to a foreigner so they can take over my job in February of 2017.
"I am asking for your support in requesting an oversight with the Department of Labor in regards to the contract between HCL of India and University of California San Francisco. This contract will more than likely not save the University money, but it will definitely wipe out what is now a somewhat diverse workplace."
In response, Feinstein's office replied with what sounds like a form letter that cites tax code issues as an incentive to moving jobs overseas. But tax code changes do not help IT jobs that don't involve physical relocations of equipment and plants. It's the type of letter that might be more appropriate for someone in manufacturing and makes no mention of the use of the H-1B visa in IT job offshoring.
Specifically, Feinstein's office wrote back:
"Thank you for your letter expressing your concern with the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas. I appreciate hearing from you and welcome the opportunity to respond as this issue is of particular importance to me.
"I have received many heartfelt letters from Californians who have either lost their jobs when their company moved jobs overseas, or know people who have. It is very troubling to me that the downsizing of companies and the outsourcing of jobs appears to be becoming a trend not only in California, but nationwide. The striking loss of good jobs in California certainly indicates that both the downsizing of companies and the outsourcing of jobs are playing an increasingly prevalent role in our economy.
"As such, I believe that instead of excusing the loss of high paying jobs as inevitable, we should be taking reasonable and sensible measures to stop encouraging U.S. companies to move their employees overseas. For example, our tax code frequently rewards companies for moving jobs offshore by allowing the companies to bring foreign earned profits back into the U.S. at a rate well below what you or I pay on our income taxes.
"We also need to invest in our future. We must continue to fund and strengthen our domestic education system, which has made Americans the most productive and skilled workforce in the world. Furthermore, we must invest in appropriate safety nets for those who are temporarily displaced by shifts in domestic industry. Such safety nets would include the extension of temporary unemployment benefits, more affordable healthcare for those between jobs, and more robust job training and placement services for people displaced by outsourcing.
"I am very troubled by the loss of American jobs and will continue to investigate the roots of this problem to arrive at an appropriate and effective solution. Please know that I will continue to work hard to keep good jobs in the U.S. and to keep Americans employed.
"Again, thank you for writing. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact my Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3841."
On Tuesday, Feinstein's office was contacted by Computerworld about the communication. An aide to the senator who didn't want to be identified said via email that the Feinstein reply "was not the appropriate response. The Senator's office receives more than 100,000 pieces of correspondence each month and on occasion they aren't directed correctly."
The aide also said Feinstein's office "reached out" to the IT worker "to express our apologies and see if the Senator can be of assistance."
As a U.S. senator, Feinstein could have asked the U.S. Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to review the situation. She could have also asked California's governor to take a look at the IT outsourcing or contact the University of California directly -- a public institution that also receives federal dollars -- to ask why a partially taxpayer-supported university is moving jobs to India.
Feinstein also has another close connection to UCSF. Her husband, Richard Blum, is on the Board of Regents overseeing the University of California system.

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A 2,500-sow corporation in west central Minnesota has spent more than $200,000 on environmental controls. So the last thing general manager Jeff Vosika expected was a call from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) reporting an odor complaint.
Vosika met with MPCA officials and learned an odor complaint on a nursery-finishing site triggered a hydrogen sulfide test. Unofficial test results showed the farm bordered on violating the state's hydrogen sulfide emission levels.
Vosika, who works for Churchill Co-op, Hector, MN, and the MPCA officials together worked out a plan to lower the hydrogen sulfide emissions.
Executing the plans, Vosika reports hydrogen sulfide emissions dropped to safer levels at the production site.
Vosika and Churchill Co-op's experience in Minnesota represents a new trend in the state and possibly country. A rule about hydrogen sulfide emissions drives the push to control odors from livestock. The state has a hydrogen sulfide emission standard of 30 ppb (parts per billion).
Complaint-Driven Tests People can call MPCA and file a complaint about a farm's odor. The regulatory agency must respond. They send out an employee to screen the site for potential hydrogen sulfide problems. A Jerome meter is used to test for hydrogen sulfide only. Readings from the meter are not official and are only used by MPCA to screen possible trouble.
If readings are near or above 30 ppb at the property line, the farm is notified. At this point, MPCA and the farmer work out a plan to lower the gas levels without taking the complaint further.
The success rate for this process is very high. Jim Sullivan with MPCA reports the agency has checked on 360 odor complaints in 11/2 years. Virtually all odor complaints with high hydrogen sulfide readings have been resolved.
In the case of Churchill Co-op, the offending site already had a polypropylene cover on the lagoon. However, the cover was not working correctly and bubbled. Voiska, acting on the advice of MPCA, added straw around the edge of the lagoon cover. This lowered the gas levels to legal limits.
On sites in violation, MPCA places a continuous hydrogen sulfide monitor. The monitor, measuring gases 24 hours/day, will produce an official hydrogen sulfide reading. Violations of the hydrogen sulfide rule can only be charged with measurements taken by this type of monitor. The agency uses three monitors in the program.
"This is a new program," Sullivan says. "Hydrogen sulfide is the way Minnesota addresses the odor issue. While hydrogen sulfide is a component of odor, it doesn't correlate very well. You can have odor and not hydrogen sulfide."
If a farm has an odor complaint but tests low for hydrogen sulfide, the MPCA does not need to get involved.
Many of the state's hog farms already are working to keep potential hydrogen sulfide problems and odor low. Churchill Co-op, for example, had invested $85,000 for the lagoon cover. Therefore, they wanted to make it work. The additional straw did just that.
Churchill Co-op has other production sites, including a 1,200-sow facility with a two-stage lagoon. On this facility, they've incorporated a different odor-control system involving a two-step biological process. It uses low-level aeration in lagoons to keep solids in suspension.
This site was tested and reported a low level of hydrogen sulfide. Vosika says this is their second year using this system and it does the job.
Some 2.5 million gal. of manure from the lagoons is injected into cropland for Churchill Co-op. A commercial applicator with a drag-line hose system does the job.
Finding What Works Minnesota's program of testing for hydrogen sulfide has created a need to find quick ways to reduce odors and emissions.
Officials at the University of Minnesota and other commercial companies have come up with several they recommend to producers.
Here is a brief description of some of the newer methods being used to cut emissions from manure storage:
Biofilter - The university has experimented with biofilters for removing gases from hog buildings. This method has proven to be a low-cost option for holding down odors and hydrogen sulfide gases from buildings with deep pits. Cost runs 50-80 cents/finishing pig.
In a biofilter, air from a building is exhausted by a ventilating fan into a biofilter plenum. The plenum distributes the air across a biofilter media, which is usually shredded wood and compost. A supporting screen holds the media above the plenum.
The air goes through the biofilter media before entering the atmosphere. As the air passes through the media, it is filtered of gases, contaminants and odors. The media bed must be changed every three years. The bed also must be kept moist in the summer, which Nicolai accomplished by hooking up a lawn sprinkler and running it one hour every evening.
This biofiltration process is widely used in areas like septic fields to treat odors. Microorganisms in the media oxidize the gases and vapors, making them less odorous.
Nicolai says the initial cost of biofilter for a 750-sow, farrow-wean facility was $9,225. Additional electrical cost is about $400/year.
A disadvantage of the system is weed and rodent control on the bed. A design procedure for the biofilter is available on the university's website for the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering: www.bae.umn.edu
BioSun - Churchill Co-op uses a two-step biological process that targets hydrogen sulfide in manure. The patent-pending process also lowers other manure odors and gases. Unofficial hydrogen sulfide tests showed the unit in compliance with the state's hydrogen sulfide levels.
BioSun is a commercial system that uses a biological process to enhance the digestion of solid waste and organic matter. Diffusers, powered with small compressors, then keep the solids in the lagoon in suspension. The diffusers also provide oxygen for the digestion process.
The diffusers use only 0.6 kilowatts/hour at a monthly cost of $30. According to BioSun's Greg Patterson, a 1- to 2-acre lagoon will require 6-8 diffusers. Cost of the system is 40-50 cents/hog marketed.
Patterson has conducted wet chemistry tests on the Churchill Co-op lagoons as well as the Jerome meter. Jerome meter readings around the lagoon in September found hydrogen sulfide levels at 7 ppb, well below the 30 ppb state standard.
Vosika says the cost to maintain the system is $5,000-7,000/year. Lagoon effluent is used to recharge pits in the sow unit. He adds that the air seems fresher now in the unit.
Floating Clay Balls - University researchers have tested a floating cover of small, clay balls. The balls are similar to leca or macrolite balls used in Europe. The balls float and promote a natural crust. The layer of balls should be 6-8 in. thick. Cost for the product is $2-5/sq. ft.
Nicolai says the layer of clay balls should last several years. Pumping from the storage unit should be done with care, however.
Geotextile Mat - Dick Nicolai, an agricultural engineer from the University of Minnesota, reports a geotextile mat can work to hold gas emissions from manure storage units.
The geotextile mat is a thick material used in construction under roadbeds. It floats on top of the manure storage unit with 4 in. of straw blown on top. Nicolai says it is a dry material and rain goes through it.
The mat lasts longer than a thick layer of straw, which deteriorates after a couple of months. "The geotextile and other inorganic material may offer a longer-term solution," Nicolai says.
He estimates the cost of the geotextile mat at 20-25 cents/sq. ft., including installation and straw.
Land Application - Producers who want to apply their manure to cropland should inject the manure into the soil to keep odors low, according to Nicolai. This technique may not be new, but it dramatically lowers odors during land application.
Manure Additives - The university has tested a number of manure additives, including those added to the manure or fed to the hogs.
"Additives work good in reducing solids, but are poor to fair for odor reduction," Nicolai reports. Costs run from $0.50-1.00/pig.
Straw Cover - Straw is being used to hold down odors from many manure storage units in the Midwest. Large straw bales are chopped and blown onto the manure.
Nicolai estimates the cost of these covers at 10-15 cents/sq. ft. A straw cover lasts about three months and and serves as a good, short-term solution.
Jerry Shurson, swine nutritionist at the University of Minnesota, is investigating how to reduce hydrogen sulfide emissions by manipulating pig diets.
"Our studies have shown by carefully selecting low sulfur feed ingredients and using them to formulate nutritionally adequate, low sulfur starter diets, total sulfur and sulfate excretion can be reduced by approximately 30% without compromising energy and nitrogen digestibility or pig performance," Shurson explains. "Furthermore, our studies show reduction in total sulfur consumption and excretion may lead to a reduction in hydrogen sulfide gas and odor, but appears not to affect ammonia levels in nursery facilities."
Meeting Sulfur Requirements Sulfur is an essential element for the pig. The pig's sulfur requirement is met by providing adequate levels of the sulfur-containing amino acids methionine, cystine and cysteine, and the water soluble vitamins biotin and thiamin.
Organic forms of sulfur are readily absorbed relative to all sulfur compounds. Absorption of inorganic sulfate from the gastrointestinal tract is inefficient, Shurson explains. Unabsorbed sulfur is likely reduced in the lower gastrointestinal tract and excreted as sulfate, researchers speculate. Inorganic sulfur is excreted via feces and urine.
Proteins are present in every cell of the body, explains Shurson. Sulfur-containing amino acids are components of almost all proteins, which means sulfur is widely distributed throughout the body and is found in every cell.
Because the bulk of body sulfur is present in amino acids, it is not surprising that urinary sulfur excretion tends to parallel urinary nitrogen excretion. High protein diets are associated with large amounts of urinary sulfur and nitrogen.
Shurson says it appears most of the production of hydrogen sulfide and other volatile sulfur-containing gases occurs as a result of microbial fermentation during manure storage.
Sulfur is found in a variety of chemical forms and changes forms depending on chemical conditions in manure storage systems.
Shurson concludes that sulfate levels in drinking water and feed appear to be significant contributors to hydrogen sulfide levels on commercial hog farms. However, he says other poorly identified factors are also involved in hydrogen sulfide levels. Sulfates excreted in urine and feces are easily converted to hydrogen sulfide under anaerobic microbial fermentation processes in the manure storage structure.
Shurson says preliminary data suggests if high sulfate drinking water and high dietary levels of sulfur are found in on-farm production conditions, hydrogen sulfide levels may be increased on some farms compared to farms with low sulfur feed and water.
Analyzing Ingredients Having an accurate analysis of the sulfur levels of swine feed ingredients can make a difference when attempting to reduce manure sulfur levels.
Shurson says sulfur content of common swine feed ingredients ranges from 0.02% in dried bakery product to 1.59% in low lactose dried whey, according to National Research Council (NRC) figures from 1998. The Minnesota researchers chose to analyze the total sulfur content for all ingredients used in complex starter diets. The results were compared to values published by NRC.
Shurson reports the values he and his colleagues analyzed were very similar to NRC values except for a much lower sulfur value for spray dried whey (edible grade) and a somewhat higher value for spray dried blood meal.
Nutrient Levels Vary "The discrepancy for dried whey is likely due to potential differences in nutrient levels of various sources and grades, coupled with natural analytical variability," Shurson says. "The discrepancy for spray dried blood meal is likely due to variability in product quality among sources."
NRC does not list sulfur values for spray dried porcine plasma, for many grades and sources of fish meal, tricalcium phosphate, DL methionine, or copper sulfate. Therefore, the researchers calculated sulfur values based either on sulfur amino acid content listed on ingredient specification sheets for spray dried porcine plasma; or, in the case of the fish meal source used and the tricalcium phosphate source, the values were taken directly from product specification sheets. "These results suggest NRC sulfur values are accurate and can be used for most commonly used ingredients in starter diets," Shurson explains. However, he suggests spray dried plasma, spray dried blood meal, fish meal, and spray dried whey should be analyzed to establish reliable sulfur content values if producers are selecting ingredient sources to minimize sulfur content of starter diets.


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German administrators have given up in their efforts to find a buyer for the cellphone maker BenQ Mobile, which went bankrupt at the tail end of last year. Almost all jobs will go at the former Siemens outfit, which Taiwanese electronics group BenQ picked up in 2005.
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CICG, Geneva, July 13 and 14, 2009
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is organizing a Conference on Intellectual Property and Public Policy Issues to be held on July 13 and 14, 2009, at the International Conference Center Geneva (CICG), following a proposal by the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) at its 12th session held in Geneva from June 23 to 27, 2008 in the context of discussing a work program for the SCP. The Conference will address issues relating to the interface of intellectual property with other areas of public policy, notably health, the environment, climate change and food security and serve as a global forum to discuss issues and solutions to some of the major challenges in relation to intellectual property the world faces today.
The event is open to the general public.
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The Conference will be held at Room I, International Conference Center Geneva (CICG), 17, rue de Varembé, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Further information about the Conference Center.
The program, including the speakers and their presentations, is available.
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Registration fee: Swiss francs 200 per participant
- representatives of the Member States of WIPO, Paris Union and/or Berne Union, as well as Member States of the United Nations and its specialized agencies;
- up to two (2) representatives of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations with observer status in WIPO;
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Creating the Component Tag Handler
Now that you've created your component and renderer classes, you're ready to define how a tag handler processes the tag representing the component and renderer combination. If you've created your own JSP custom tags before, creating a component tag handler should be easy for you.
In JavaServer Faces applications, the tag handler class associated with a component drives the render response phase of the JavaServer Faces life cycle. For more information on the JavaServer Faces life cycle, see The Life Cycle of a JavaServer Faces Page.
The first thing that the tag handler does is to retrieve the type of the component associated with the tag. Next, it sets the component's attributes to the values given in the page. It then returns the type of the renderer (if there is one) to the JavaServer Faces implementation so that the component's encoding can be performed when the tag is processed. Finally, it releases resources used during the processing of the tag.
The image map custom component includes two tag handlers: AreaTag and MapTag. To see how the operations on a JavaServer Faces tag handler are implemented, let's take a look at MapTag.
The MapTag class extends UIComponentELTag, which supports jsp.tagext.Tag functionality as well as JavaServer Faces-specific functionality. UIComponentELTag is the base class for all JavaServer Faces tags that correspond to a component. Tags that need to process their tag bodies should instead subclass UIComponentBodyELTag.
Retrieving the Component Type
As explained earlier, the first thing MapTag does is to retrieve the type of the component. It does this by using the getComponentType operation:
public String getComponentType() { return ("DemoMap"); }
The value returned from getComponentType must match the value configured for the component with the component-type element of the application's application configuration resource file. Registering a Custom Component explains how to configure a component.
Setting Component Property Values
After retrieving the type of the component, the tag handler sets the component's property values to those supplied as tag attributes values in the page. This section assumes that your component properties are enabled to accept expressions, as explained in Enabling Component Properties to Accept Expressions.
Getting the Attribute Values
Before setting the values in the component class, the MapTag handler first gets the attribute values from the page by means of JavaBeans component properties that correspond to the attributes. The following code shows the property used to access the value of the immediate attribute.
private javax.el.ValueExpression immediate = null; public void setImmediate(javax.el.ValueExpression immediate) { this.immediate = immediate; }
As this code shows, the setImmediate method takes a ValueExpression object. This means that the immediate attribute of the map tag accepts value expressions.
Similarly, the setActionListener and setAction methods take MethodExpression objects, which means that these attributes accept method expressions. The following code shows the properties used to access the values of the actionListener and the action attributes
private javax.el.MethodExpression actionListener = null; public void setActionListener( javax.el.MethodExpression actionListener) { this.actionListener = actionListener; } private javax.el.MethodExpression action = null; public void setAction(javax.el.MethodExpression action) { this.action = action; }
Setting the Component Property Values
To pass the value of the tag attributes to MapComponent, the tag handler implements the setProperties method. The way setProperties passes the attribute values to the component class depends on whether the values are value expressions or method expressions.
Setting Value Expressions on Component Properties
When the attribute value is a value expression, setProperties first checks if it is not a literal expression. If the expression is not a literal, setProperties stores the expression into a collection, from which the component class can retrieve it and resolve it at the appropriate time. If the expression is a literal, setProperties performs any required type conversion and then does one of the following:
If the attribute is renderer-independent, meaning that it is defined by the component class, then setProperties calls the corresponding setter method of the component class.
If the attribute is renderer-dependent, setProperties stores the converted value into the component's map of generic renderer attributes.
The following piece of the MapTag handler's setProperties method sets the renderer-dependent property, styleClass, and the renderer-independent property, immediate:
if (styleClass != null) { if (!styleClass.isLiteralText()) { map.setValueExpression("styleClass", styleClass); } else { map.getAttributes().put("styleClass", styleClass.getExpressionString()); } } ... if (immediate != null) { if (!immediate.isLiteralText()) { map.setValueExpression("immediate", immediate); } else { map.setImmediate(new Boolean(immediate.getExpressionString()). booleanValue()); } }
Setting Method Expressions on Component Properties
The process of setting the properties that accept method expressions is done differently depending on the purpose of the method. The actionListener attribute uses a method expression to reference a method that handles action events. The action attribute uses a method expression to either specify a logical outcome or to reference a method that returns a logical outcome, which is used for navigation purposes.
To handle the method expression referenced by actionListener, the setProperties method must wrap the expression in a special action listener object called MethodExpressionActionListener. This listener executes the method referenced by the expression when it receives the action event. The setProperties method then adds this MethodExpressionActionListener object to the list of listeners to be notified when the event of a user clicking on the map occurs. The following piece of setProperties does all of this:
if (actionListener != null) { map.addActionListener( new MethodExpressionActionListener(actionListener)); }
If your component fires value change events, your tag handler's setProperties method does a similar thing, except it wraps the expression in a MethodExpressionValueChangeListener object and adds the listener using the addValueChangeListener method.
In the case of the method expression referenced by the action attribute, the setProperties method uses the setActionExpression method of ActionSource2 to set the corresponding property on MapComponent:
if (action != null) { map.setActionExpression(action); }
Providing the Renderer Type
After setting the component properties, the tag handler provides a renderer type (if there is a renderer associated with the component) to the JavaServer Faces implementation. It does this using the getRendererType method:
public String getRendererType() {return "DemoMap";}
The renderer type that is returned is the name under which the renderer is registered with the application. See Delegating Rendering to a Renderer for more information.
If your component does not have a renderer associated with it, getRendererType should return null. In this case, the renderer-type element in the application configuration file should also be set to null.
Releasing Resources
It's recommended practice that all tag handlers implement a release method, which releases resources allocated during the execution of the tag handler. The release method of MapTag as follows:
public void release() { super.release(); current = null; styleClass = null; actionListener = null; immediate = null; action = null; }
This method first calls the UIComponentTag.release method to release resources associated with UIComponentTag. Next, the method sets all attribute values to null.


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When we came to Brick Marketing initially, we had a small subset of challenges we didn't have the bandwidth to tackle in house. Our idea was simply to send out the work and be done with it. A one-shot deal. What we found mid way into the first project, was that Nick Stamoulis and Brick Marketing had a depth of understanding and approach to solving our Search Engine Marketing problems that we had not considered; solutions that dramatically improved our search engine ranking position on terms and improved the overall size of our index listing (by more than 25% in the first two months). In short order we expanded our horizons and enlisted his talents to take on refining and improving ROI on our rather expensive Pay Per Click campaigns, as well as having him consult on microsite projects and blogs. Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing helped us understand what works and why, and helping us maintain our dominant position in the SERPs, despite the markets constant resetting and ever-changing drama. I could not have gotten through this year without Brick Marketing's assistance and advice. I couldn't give a stronger recommendation; they are simply great!
– Connie Childrey, DataDirect Technologies/Progress Software
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– Jodi Murphy Director of Marketing, SportsSignup
Brick Marketing is "solid" when it comes to support for SEO marketing advice.
I had been impressed for a long time with the content that Brick Marketing was sharing in their informative blog posts and articles. I chatted with Nick Stamoulis a couple times and decided that he was the expert I wanted to work with. I have worked with Brick Marketing for about six months and they have helped us resolve several SEO related issues pertaining to our website. Our account rep, is always just an email away with answers to any questions I have and suggestions for how we can improve what we're doing. Brick Marketing is "solid" when it comes to support for SEO marketing advice. I definitely recommend them if you want to feel more secure about how your website is performing in searches and have the confidence that everything being done to improve your rank is white hat and legit.
– Paul Rarick, debbiegrattan.com


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About 9.2 million years ago, a teenage two-horned rhinoceros was literally cooked to death when a Mt. Vesuvius-like eruption enveloped it in lava reaching more than 750 degrees Fahrenheit (400 degrees Celsius), scientists say.
The perhaps fortunate result: a well-preserved skull of the Rhinocerotid, with a tale to tell.
An analysis of the volcanic rock-preserved skull suggests the animal's grisly death was near instantaneous. "[T]he body was baked under a temperature approximating 400°C, then dismembered within the pyroclastic flow, and the skull separated from body," the researchers wrote online Nov. 21 in the journal PLoS ONE. The flow of volcanic ash carried the detached skull about 19 miles (30 kilometers) north of the eruption site and to the site where it was discovered in Cappadocia in Central Turkey.
"The articulated skull and mandible were found alone, and there were no other rhino bones in the surroundings, except for some rib fragments, potentially of rhino affinities," said study researcher Pierre-Olivier Antoine of the University of Montpellier in France. [See Photos of the Volcano-Preserved Rhino Fossils]
When alive, the rhino (Ceratotherium neumayri) would have weighed between 3,300 and 4,400 pounds (1,500 and 2,000 kilograms), about the size of a young white rhino, though sporting a shorter head, Antoine said. The animal was 10 to 15 years old, a young adult, when it died in a Pompeii-style eruption.
Antoine has excavated dozens of fossil skulls in the past 19 years, and he said the external surfaces of this one were "quite unusual." For instance, "the bony surface was rough and corrugated all around the skull and mandible, and the dentine (the internal component of the teeth) was incredibly brittle, and even kind of 'corroded' [in] places," Antoine told LiveScience in an email.
When they looked at the remains under a microscope the researchers found structural changes that suggested the animal had been heated to the high temperatures of volcanic flows.
"There was not a real volcano, but a caldera which spread huge amounts of volcanic ash over Cappacocia, during millions of years, throughout the late Miocene-Pliocene interval," which lasted from about 9.5 million to 3 million years ago, Antoine said. Examples of similar calderas, albeit much smaller ones, are Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and Krakatoa, a volcanic island west of Jakarta, Indonesia.
The so-called Çardak caldera is inactive today. Even so, thick layers of volcanic ash have accumulated over millions of years. "Then, erosion generated there among the most magnificent landscapes I've ever seen," Antoine wrote.
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There are some tools which allow to get information from your computer without using the monitor:
bl : Blink Keyboard LEDs
blinkd : "Blinks keyboard LEDs for an answering machine or fax machine. Blinkd is a client/server pair, that lets the keyboard LEDs blink, indicating things like the number of incoming voice calls in the voice box or incoming faxes in the spool."
mailleds : Shows new mails with the keyboard LEDs, mailleds is a quiet, unobtrusive way to signify that you have new mail: a user daemon to blink LEDs when there is new mail.
tleds : Blinks keyboard LEDs indicating TX and RX network packets. They blink Scroll-Lock LED when a network packet leaves the machine, and Num-Lock LED when one is received.
ledcontrol: is a program that allows you to show different information on the normally-unused LEDs on your keyboard. You can configure it to show virtually any true/false condition accessible or indicate an arbitrary number. The monitoring is by default done by shell scripts to allow for maximal configurability.


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Priceline Group Inc. agreed to buy restaurant booking service OpenTable Inc. for $2.6 billion in cash, broadening the online travel giant's offering into a new field at a time when some of its more established brands mature.
Priceline offered $103 a share in cash for the company, a 46% premium over its closing price Thursday. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. OpenTable charges restaurants monthly fees to seat diners who book their seats online.
"The kind of work that we do day-to-day is very similar," Priceline US:PCLN Chief Executive Darren Huston said in an interview. "It's just a different marketplace."
As with hotel booking services, OpenTable's main strength lies in its inventory of more than 31,000 establishments. The service "still has plenty of room to expand," Mr. Huston said, particularly outside the U.S. and on mobile devices.
Priceline, which has grown over the last decade largely by acquiring travel websites like Booking.com and Kayak.com, is looking for new ways to keep profits growing after a decade of quadruple-digit growth. The merger extends Priceline's customer base to include the 15 million people that book restaurants through OpenTable each month.


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Mobile World Congress takes place later this month but LG is already gearing up after revealing (PDF) details of three much-speculated (and leaked) devices that will launch there. The Barcelona-based show will see LG unveil its Optimus L Series II set of smartphones, which includes the 3.2-inch L3II, 4.0-inch L5II and 4.3-inch L7II.
The company sold more than 10 million Optimus L Series phones in 10 months of launch, and it says that the new range of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean-powered devices will "continue this momentum with its sophisticated style and differentiated features." Each device will be available as single SIM or dual SIM, and will feature LG's usual bundle of software — such as QSlide, QuickTranslator, QuickMemo. That will include Quick Button, a new tool to let users personalize a hotkey to launch any app from the device quickly.
LG has confirmed that the first device to launch from the series will be a dual SIM version of the Optimus L7 II which arrives in Russia this week. Details for the other two will come "at a later date."
The Optimus L7 II sports a 4.1-inch WVGA IPS screen, with a 8-megapixel camera on the back and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean powering it. It is runs from a 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8225 processor, and includes 4GB of memory and 768MB of RAM. The device comes in at 121.5mm by 66.6mm and is 9.7 mm thick — the dual SIM version is slightly larger — and includes a 2,460 mAh battery.
A statement from Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company, emphasizes LG's focus on design with the follow-up Optimus L Series range:
LG has a history of pushing the envelope when it comes to style and Optimus L Series II builds on this heritage of design innovation. By evolving the sophisticated style and premium features of the original Optimus L Series, its sequel is expected to continue the popularity of the L Series around the world.
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Democrats test Blagojevich talking points at Illinois State Fair
Impeachment. Recall. Ethics reform.
Democrats spent their day at the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday rehashing the talking points they'll be using in the fall election campaigns in the wake of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich's unresolved federal corruption charges.
It's going to feature heavy doses of "We did our job to get rid of Blagojevich and try to stop it from happening again," along with smatterings of legislative accomplishments like curbs on predatory lending, utility rate relief and public pension reforms.
But House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, who is also chairman of the state Democratic Party, bluntly outlined to Democratic party leaders at the Crowne Plaza Hotel the challenges ahead.
"We all know that there's a huge scandal hanging over our heads called the former governor," Madigan said. "We all know that. It's right and proper for us to ask how shall we go forward, because the opposition will not let us forget the former governor."
That means a heavy dose of reminding voters that it was the Democratic-controlled Illinois House that brought impeachment proceedings against Blagojevich and the Democratic-controlled Senate that convicted him and removed him from office.
"In terms of Mr. Blagojevich, the Democrats in Illinois did their jobs," Madigan told reporters before his speech.
Gov. Pat Quinn, twice elected lieutenant governor with Blagojevich, continued his argument that his push for a recall amendment to the state constitution is Exhibit A that voters should not hold Blagojevich against him.
"I think people know that we stand for honesty all of the time," Quinn said. "I've restored integrity to the governor's office. I think people know over my life that I've stood up for the right thing."
About his endorsement of Blagojevich's honesty during the 2006 campaign, Quinn said, "I was misled."
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said jobs and the economy will be the issues voters care most about this fall, not whether a candidate belongs to the same party as a convicted former governor.
"I think that fair-minded people will judge candidates as individuals," Durbin said.
Sen. John Sullivan, D-Rushville, said if Blagojevich is retried during the campaign, "it can't be a positive that a trial is going on for a former Democratic governor."
"At what level it will hurt the Democratic Party – I still go back that the Democratic controlled House and Democratic Senate impeached him and removed him from office," Sullivan said. "That's what we can hang our hat on."
Rep. Frank Mautino, D-Spring Valley, said Democrats can also use ethics reforms as a plus.
"We couldn't have done any of the ethics reforms without (Blagojevich) and (ex-Gov. George Ryan) forcing it to be taken to task," Mautino said. "If you can say, 'Here was the problem, we took care of it,' that's probably the best strategy."
Doug Finke can be reached at 217-788-1527.


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With the general-election campaign beginning to take shape, President Obama holds clear advantages over Mitt Romney on personal attributes and a number of key issues, but remains vulnerable to discontent with the pace of the economic recovery, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Obama has double-digit leads over the likely Republican presidential nominee on who would do a better job of protecting the middle class, addressing women's issues, handling international affairs and dealing with health care.
On personal traits, the president's edge is even bigger: He has a better than 2-to-1 advantage as the more friendly and likable of the two, and nearly that margin as "more inspiring."
Romney faces a huge deficit among female voters, one that more than negates his advantage among men and represents one of the biggest challenges he and his advisers face as they turn toward the November election. Obama's edge among women gives him a clear lead among all registered voters in a matchup with Romney.
But on the two most pressing issues of the campaign — the economy and jobs — the contest is considerably more competitive, with about as many trusting Romney on the issues as Obama. Despite positive economic indicators, Americans remain deeply pessimistic about the overall direction of the country and largely consider the economy still mired in a recession. The Romney campaign is hoping to take advantage by making the contest about Obama's performance on these key concerns.
Obama's overall approval rating stands at 50 percent, but he draws negative marks on how he has dealt with the economy and the recent increase in gasoline prices. Nearly half of all Americans say his handling of the economy is a major reason to oppose his reelection; far fewer see it as a big reason to support his bid.
Romney holds a double-digit lead over Obama on just one issue tested in the poll: who would better deal with the federal budget deficit.
In the Republican primary race, Romney holds a commanding lead over his rivals — former senator Rick Santorum (Pa.), former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.).
Conducted after Romney's wins last week in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, the poll shows 44 percent of Republican and GOP-leaning independent voters saying they would like Romney to be the nominee and 25 percent choosing Santorum, with the others well behind.
In what may be a sign that Republicans are accepting that Romney is likely to be the nominee, a majority of those backing one of his rivals prefer Romney to a late entrant into the race.
Nonetheless, a slim majority of all Republicans and GOP-leaning independents say Santorum, who has been the surprise challenger, should keep running. Much of that support comes from evangelical Christians, who have been his most significant backers through the primary contests. In contrast, sizable majorities say Gingrich and Paul should quit the race.
Most Republicans think Romney has been strengthened for the general election by the nomination contest, but pluralities of Democrats and independents say the opposite.
If a Romney-Obama matchup were held today, registered voters would divide 51 percent for the president to 44 percent for the former Massachusetts governor. That is similar to the edge Obama held in a Post-ABC poll in February; the two were more evenly matched in March.
A wide gender gap underlies the current state of the race. Romney is up eight percentage points among male voters but trails by 19 among women. Among independent voters, one of the most watched groups in the electorate, the two men are closely paired, with 48 percent supporting Romney and 46 percent backing Obama.
In addition to his big lead among women — Obama won that demographic by 13 points in 2008 — the president is moving to secure other key elements of his winning coalition. As he did four years ago, he has overwhelming support from African Americans — 90 percent back his reelection effort — and he has a big lead among those ages 18 to 29. As ever, one issue will be how many of these young adults register to vote and turn out.
Obama continues to trail Romney by a big margin among white voters without college degrees, and he loses white men with college degrees by double digits, 57 to 39 percent. He counters with a big lead over Romney among white women who have a college degree or more education.
Obama has argued that the economy is recovering, if slowly, but pessimism remains pervasive nearly four years after the economic collapse. An overwhelming majority of Americans — 76 percent — say the economy is still in recession, an assessment that is shared across partisan, ideological, racial, income and gender lines.
Moreover, as many Americans say their local economy is not even starting to get better as say the situation is improving.
The cost of gas continues to sting: More than six in 10 call rising pump prices a financial hardship, with a similar proportion disapproving of how Obama is handling the matter. Although fewer blame the Obama administration for gas prices than single out U.S. oil companies or other oil-producing countries, the issue adds to Romney's opening to mount an economic challenge to Obama in the fall campaign.
So far, Romney has not convinced Americans that he better understands the economic problems they are facing; Obama has a 12-point lead on this question. As in January, more Americans consider unfairness in the economic system a bigger problem than over-regulation interfering with growth and prosperity.
This poll was conducted April 5 to 8 among a random national sample of 1,103 adults. Results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Polling manager Peyton M. Craighill and polling analyst Scott Clement contributed to this report.


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Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 27th April 2012 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £112 |
mATX motherboards have undergone a revolution in the past couple of years. From being a small board designed for HTPC applications they are now very close to their full-size counterparts in both performance and features.
We were big fans of the Z68 D3 motherboard here at OC3D. It provided a lot of capability at an absolute bargain price. So of course we're looking forwards to seeing what the Z77 version, the MX-D3H, has in store.
With the Z77 still fresh in the mind we shall keep the preamble brief and get on with the review.
Technical Specifications
As befits a small form factor motherboard, the feature set is like a leaner version of those you'd find on more enthusiast based boards. So we have SATA 6Gb/s, just two rather than four. Equally the D3H supports only Crossfire/SLI rather than triple-cards. The sound is provided by a VIA VT2021 rather than the Realtek ALC we're more used to finding. It has enough features that 'cut down' would be doing it a disservice, but it's very much a case of 'the same, only less'.
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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is an interesting game for a weekend rent with your friends, but there's not enough depth or replayability there to justify a $60 purchase. The one thing that everyone wants to see from a Mortal Kombat game is the fatalities, however, so if you just want the money shot without all the time wasted watching the mechanic try to fix the copier, here you go: every fatality, by every character.
Do your worst, Sonya! DC will protect me!
The video even includes the Joker fatality that was edited out of the US release. I have to say, after watching the video a time or two, there's not much inventive or impressive here. Having a Mortal Kombat machine crush your opponent is fun, and the Joker's executions are appropriately graphic, but the rest of them fall short. Picking up your enemy and throwing them back down isn't a fatality, it's a wrestling move.
Much of the blame has to be placed on the game's Teen rating; there simply isn't much you can do with graphic violence without getting the "M" put on your box, and graphic violence is pretty much what Mortal Kombat is all about.
It's somewhat sad to see Baraka slice at his opponent with his blades without doing much of anything, since he has a regular move in-game that does the same thing. I know you can't rip Superman's head off or make Batman explode, but that doesn't make any of these finishing moves any less disappointing.


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A broadband tiered-pricing trial by Time-Warner Cable has rankled many, particularly gamers, who fear sock-it-to-me overages incurred by online gaming. Sony, Microsoft and OnLive have now weighed in, and they're not too worried.
The three companies, who manage three of the leading online gaming services (PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, OnLive), had the following to say to MTV Multiplayer's Stephen Totilo. Again: These tiers have not been implemented yet. They will first be implemented in trials in August, in Rochester, N.Y. and Greensboro, N.C. Then they will go to San Antonio and Austin, Texas in October. No word on when it would take effect anywhere else.
Sony: "For most average users [Time-Warner's] 60GB plan is more than suitable for their PlayStation Network download needs," said Abigail Murphy, spokeswoman for Sony Computer Entertainment America. Murphy estimated that PSN multiplayers use anywhere from 25 to 55 MB per hour, and "significantly less" when they're in PlayStation Home. The 60GB "Turbo" plan will run $54.90 a month.
Microsoft: Straight boilerplate, which right now means little other than they're not too worried. ""We're watching these tiering proposals as they evolve. Microsoft supports an environment in which users can access the content, applications and services of their choice, provided their activities are lawful and fall within the scope of their user agreements." No estimates of what kind of throughput gamers incur for multiplayer or streaming Netflix.
OnLive: Its business is centered on a choice between standard-definition and high-def gaming, with no hardware necessary. Low-def gaming would need about 350MB per hour; high-def, around 950Mb. But founder Steve Perlman is not (yet?) troubled by Time-Warner's posture. "Bandwidth caps will be bumped into by conventional movie/TV viewing WAY before we start seeing OnLive users bumping into them," Perlman said. "It will be a very long time before OnLive comes anywhere near the broadband penetration of YouTube, Hulu, iTunes, Amazon, mtv, abc/nbc/cbs/fox/hbo.com, etc., if ever. So, we won't be the ones testing this issue."
Sony, MS, OnLive Weigh In On Tiered Internet Pricing [MTV Multiplayer]


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