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Notes and comments hand-written by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of the books in his personal library are now available online for the first time, enabling new insights into the great naturalist's thought processes and the development of the theory of evolution.
Darwin's scientific library comprised 1480 books, of which 730 contain abundant research notes in their margins. All the annotated books are in the process of being digitized, resulting in high-resolution images of each book's pages showing Darwin's handwriting along with a transcription of the notes in a companion panel. (See image at bottom of page.)
The first phase of the project has just been completed, with 330 of the most heavily annotated books now accessible online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library for all to read. The page images can be manipulated and magnified, and the view can be adjusted to show a single page or two adjacent pages. Direct links are provided to related annotations, and the site enables users to search all the annotations in the books by word or phrase.
"When completed, the collection will enable people to retrace Darwin's intellectual footsteps, which isn't possible through reading his own writings alone," said Joel Wurl, Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation & Access, which co-funded the project. "Having access to his entire scientific library, with his annotations, means that someone can understand much more fully which ideas shaped his thinking and why. And it is being made available for anyone to use freely."
Digitizing the volumes, the majority of which are held at Cambridge University Library, is a collaborative effort involving Cambridge, the Darwin Manuscripts Project at the American Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It is supported jointly by NEH and the Joint Information Systems Committee in England.
Cambridge University Librarian Anne Jarvis said: "The Darwin collections are among the most important and popular held within Cambridge University Library. While there has been much focus on his manuscripts and correspondence, his library hasn't always received the attention it deserves — for it is as he engaged with the ideas and theories of others that his own thinking evolved."
"I do not believe it is appreciated, not even by contemporary biologists, how much of Darwin's theorizing depended, not on immediate experience, but on books," said Robert J. Richards, Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science at the University of Chicago. "These books provide [an] Ariadne's thread by which scholars might move from the dark and deep recesses of his theory to the light of understanding how he did it."
Because Darwin's evolutionary theory covered so many aspects of nature, reading served him as a primary source of evidence and ideas. Darwin once complained that he had become a "machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts." The pages of Darwin's Library give readers a direct view of the great Darwinian intellectual machine in action.
Most of Darwin's personal library rests at Cambridge University Library and at Down House, Darwin's home in Kent. Although the majority of the books are scientific, some are humanities texts on subjects that Darwin transformed into scientific topics.
The images of the annotations and the series of transcriptions accompanying each page allow everyone to see which passages Darwin found relevant to his work, stimulated his thinking, or just annoyed him as he read the work of others.
For example, his friend Charles Lyell wrote in his famous Principles of Geology that there were definite limits to the variation of species — an idea at odds with Darwin's concept of evolution. Darwin wrote alongside this: "If this were true adios theory."
The project to record the online transcribed marginalia relies on the work of two scholars, Mario A. Di Gregorio and Nick Gill, published in the 1990s and now greatly enhanced by Gill. (Mario A. Di Gregorio, Charles Darwin's Marginalia, Volume 1, with the assistance of N. W. Gill, New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. Pp. lxi + 448 + 275. ISBN 0-8240-6639-1. $95.00.)


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I am considering selling my Mac to get money towards a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 because what I really want to do is to be running an Ubuntu system all the time.
Is this machine completely supported in Ubuntu, with no tiny little feature missing just because I am "going Linux"?
Optional user story section, skip to the question below if you don't have time:
I have a friend who bought a "works on Ubuntu" system a year ago and has hated the fact ever since: battery lasts less than if he boots in Windows (which he despises) and he ascribes that to "no good OS/harware integration and support for advanced chipset power management features", odd behaviour on suspend/resume/hibernate (says: "when it works 90% of the time and the other 10% it makes you lose your work is as good as broken -> 90% is the same as 0% he says), some occasional graphics card glitches he can perfectly well live with and has almost grown affectionate to, and finally, and that is what would make him undo his choice if he could, bad "input device drivers". He says: trackpoint and trackpad just "feel different", "so much better" on Windows and that was impossible to know from the website brochure.
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Here's a directly answerable phrasing of my question:
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- Which hardware features are not supported? Provide a list
- Optionally: sort the list in descending order of frustration from your experience
- Optionally: mention if there are acceptable workarounds to the "out-of-the-box" condition described in the earlier points and whether this ameliorates frustration at least to "tolerable" levels
Comment: the Ubuntu hardware certification page is so not-for-end-users it's unreal. Whoa. What would make it end-user friendly is:
Link to "buy here and you'll be just fine, this is the right configuration for you, it'll work as long as you press BUY on that page and don't browse further"
Remove mentions of may and might not work. Just tell it straight: press buy here and you will get a working system with the exception of A, B, C (so that I can decide whether the philosophical "freedom pleasure" I get from escaping an Apple world is enough to off-balance the loss, for instance, of Bluetooth capabilities (something that I of course use on my Mac) but "could" lose to use free (as in freedom) software
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TED, the non-profit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading," announced the winners of its 2011-2012 "Ads Worth Spreading" challenge on Tuesday. The 10 winners were revealed at the TED2012 conference in Long Beach, Calif.
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I love Caesar salad. I am not sure what it is exactly, maybe the
crisp, cold romaine lettuce, or the freshly shaved parmesean cheese,
or the toasty homemade croutons, or maybe the dressing, bold with a
hint of anchovy but just a hint so one may not even be able to
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2 large heads Romaine lettuce
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 cups chunky croutons (homemade are the best)
For the Dressing
1 extra large egg yolk at room temperature
2 tsp Dijon mustard
2 large garlic cloves, chopped
5 -8 anchovy fillets (optional)
½ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (3 lemons)
2 tsp kosher salt
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 ½ cups good mild olive oil
½ cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
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Mariam Tabbassaum
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|Emily Butler
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|Philip Campbell
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|Nicole Canon
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|Ryan Cheung
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|Truc Do
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|Catherine Eckert
|Zeolite imidazolate framework mixed matrix membranes
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|Barry Feigenbaum
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|Francisco Garcia
|Abnormal adrenergic modulation of GABAergic synaptic transmission in a valproic acid animal model of autism
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|Carter Haines
|Inherent Doppler acoustic sources from carbon nanotube speakers
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|Ravi Hanumara
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|Stuart Harrell
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|Ryan Hayes
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|Luequan Huang
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|Visal Im
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|Nistha Jajal
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|Tanushree Jhunjhunwala
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|Lisa Keylon
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|Arthur Klattenhoff
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|Luminescent gold nanoparticles for imaging brain cancer cells
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|Duc Le
|Classifying emotion from spoken dialogues
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|Alfonso Lopez
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|Jenna Mattingly
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|Fatemeh Hassanipour
|Jeremy Miller
|Description of Noachian-Hesperian geologic contact at NE Syrtis Major Planum, Mars
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|Tharun Paruchuri
|Investigation of the binding properties of a mutant DNA-binding protein
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Disney CEO Iger sees 2012 pay rise to $37.1M
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Disney CEO Bob Iger's pay package got an 18 percent boost last year to $37.1 million as the company posted record revenue, net income and earnings per share.
The Walt Disney Co. also cited Iger's leadership in the $4.06 billion acquisition of "Star Wars" creator Lucasfilm, along with the launch of theme park additions, cruise ships and the expansion of the Disney Channel overseas.
Iger, 61, saw the biggest jump in pay from the value of new stock option awards, which hit $7.8 million in 2012, up from $4.8 million in 2011, according to a regulatory filing Friday. Stock award grants valued at $9.5 million were above the $8.1 million he received a year earlier.
He also received incentive pay of $16.5 million, up from $15.5 million, while his salary rose to $2.5 million from $2 million. Other compensation for security and personal air travel came to $800,700, down from $962,932 a year earlier.
The company as a whole grew revenue 3 percent to $42.3 billion for the fiscal year through September. Net income rose 18 percent to $5.7 billion, while earnings per share grew 24 percent to $3.13.
Among other ways of tracking the company's success, Disney said Iger helped deliver outstanding total shareholder return, which measures both stock-price gains and dividends. On that measure, the company provided a 76 percent gain to shareholders, compared to a 67 percent gain by its media industry peers and a 30 percent return for companies in the S&P 500.
In the fiscal year through Sept. 29, shares of The Walt Disney Co. rose 73 percent.
Iger's contract runs through the end of June 2016, although he'll transition out of the CEO role in March 2015. He also has sat on the board of Apple Inc. since November 2011.
The AP formula considers salary, bonuses, perks, stock and options awarded to the executive during the year, but not changes in the present value of pension benefits.
That makes the AP total slightly different in most cases from the total reported by companies to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The value that a company assigned to an executive's stock and option awards for 2012 was the present value of what the company expected the awards to be worth to the executive over time. Companies use one of several formulas to calculate that value.
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It's not staffed entirely by robots, mind you. There are earthlings on duty, too!
Recently, a "space-themed" capsule hotel has opened in Shenzhen, China, reports website The Nanfang Insider. The hotel has a groovy 2001 vibe going on:
There's a robot doorman, it seems, and a waiter bot to bring you the drinks you order from a touch screen tablet. Pretty neat! There seems to be a person working the front desk—among, most likely, many other jobs.
Here are the capsules where guests sleep as well as the bathrooms and the laundry.
These computers are available to use.
The laundry room.
And the bathroom.
This photo, with the tablet and the girly pic, is from the hotel's official site. Hey, space exploration is a lonely business!
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Ford Crown Victoria, Porsche 911, Dodge Viper probed by NHTSA
Older model Ford Crown Victoria police cars, Porsche 911 and Dodge Viper sports cars are the focus of three separate defect investigations by U.S. safety regulators, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday.
Defect investigations by NHTSA are not recalls, but sometimes lead to them.
NHTSA has opened an investigation into model year 2005 to 2008 Ford Motor Co Crown Victoria police models for a potential steering issue. A connection between upper and lower shafts of the steering column may have failed, causing separation of the shafts, NHTSA said.
There are 195,000 vehicles involved, many of them in fleets of police vehicles around the United States.
There have been 15 warranty claims or reports to the federal agency, for an incident rate of about eight per 100,000 vehicles, according to papers filed by NHTSA.
There are about 10,000 Porsche 911 models equipped with GTI engines from model years 2001 to 2007 involved in an investigation by NHTSA on possible failure of a cooling hose fitting.
A loose hose can cause rapid loss of coolant without warning, which could disable the vehicle and cause a slick on the road that could affect following traffic.
There were 10 complaints by Porsche owners with the federal agency. One of the complaints claims that spilled coolant caused loss of rear tire traction, leading to a spin-out by the Porsche 911 that ended up off the road it was traveling on.
No injuries were reported in the incidents reported to NHTSA.
Porsche is part of Volkswagen AG.
Model year 2005 and 2006 Dodge Vipers made by Chrysler are being investigated for possible failure of the rear suspension knuckle after two complaints were filed with the federal agency that resulted in crashes.
An estimated 2,500 of the sports cars in the United States are involved in the investigation.
One of the crashes resulted in an injury, NHTSA said.
Chrysler Group LLC is a unit of Italy's Fiat SpA.
In all three cases, the investigations were opened to discover the scope, frequency and safety-related consequence of the alleged defects, NHTSA said.


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The U.S. House of Representatives Feb. 4 voted 264-158 to move the digital television transition from Feb. 17 to June 12, joining the U.S. Senate in approving a 115-day delay for television stations to begin exclusively broadcasting in digital.
Democrats cast 241 votes for the digital TV transition delay while House Republicans voted solidly against the delay with 148 casting negative votes. The legislation now heads to the White House, where President Obama is expected to sign the delay into law.
"This delay is absolutely necessary and will be for one time only," said Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), chairman of the House Telecom Subcommittee. "We are now less than two weeks from the Feb. 17 digital television transition date, and millions of households remain unprepared."
Boucher said the most recent Nielsen survey showed 5.7 percent of the viewing public, or 6.5 million households, are "totally unprepared" for the digital transition. In order for consumers to receive digital television signals, consumers who solely depend on over-the-air signals for television reception must buy a digital television set or a digital converter box for their analog sets. Consumers who use cable or satellite service are not affected by the change.
Prompted by a Jan. 5 announcement by the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) that funds for the $1.34 billion subsidy digital converter box program were exhausted, Obama and Democrats in the House and Senate immediately began clamoring for a delay, insisting that sticking to the Feb. 17 deadline would create consumer confusion.
"If almost 6 percent of the nation's households lose all TV service, I think most people would declare the digital TV transition to be a failure," Boucher said. "It's clear that the only way to avoid a massive disruption affecting 5.7 percent of the TV viewing public is to delay the transition and provide the funding to assure that, when it occurs, it occurs smoothly."
The DTV delay bill does not include any funds for additional digital converter boxes, but the House stimulus package passed Jan. 28 includes $650 million for more coupons. Democrats also said the Federal Communications Commission's call centers to handle the digital TV transition question were woefully ill-prepared.


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As with their user forum last year, EMC's Forum Boston 2012 on Friday emphasized cloud infrastructure technology, big data and business intelligence products.
This year, however, EMC made it clear to its customers that there should be a sense of urgency about deploying IT as a service via a cloud infrastructure, a sentiment not supported by everyone at the conference.
During a keynote speech, EMC CIO Sanjay Mirchandani said cloud computing and big data is experiencing uptake faster than any past technology.
Mirchandani cited a recent Gartner survey that showed 78% of companies plan to pursue a private cloud strategy by 2014, while another 17% indicated they might pursue a cloud strategy and 5% said they would not.
"And cloud computing transforms us -- IT," Mirchandani said. "We become more consultative as opposed to classic IT management."
David St. Laurent, director of technical services at Fallon Community Health Plan, was in EMC's user audience during Mirchandani's speech. While St. Laurent's infrastructure is 80% virtualized, he said IT as a service is still only a concept, and migrating legacy applications to a private cloud is no small task.
He said vendors have a bad habit of deploying technology and then expecting users to just adopt it whether they're ready or not because it's the next greatest thing.
"That's how I feel about virtual environments and Citrix. They're moving faster than companies can keep up with," St. Laurent said. "They should take a step back and see what end users' needs are, what their legacy apps are and work with the provider to bring everything up on one platform."
Over the past eight years, EMC has been deploying its own internal cloud infrastructure, which started in 2004 with a four-year server virtualization and consolidation project that standardized on x86 hardware. Mirchandani said that, like most IT shops, prior to the virtualization effort , EMC's internal business units appeared to be using 100% of their IT resources all the time. However, the actual utilization rates were far worse than they appeared.
"We also eliminated 100 million pounds of CO2 emissions," he added.
The second phase of the cloud project took place from 2009 to 2011. This phase involved updating applications, specifically taking business apps, such as those used in sales and marketing, and hosting them on a single platform via VMware's vSphere cloud computing OS and EMC's own vBlock converged infrastructure platform. Today, the company is hosting 75% of its business apps in the private cloud, he said.
Additionally, EMC's 8,000 servers are 90% virtualized, and 95% of its mission critical apps run partially or fully on virtual machines, he said.
The project saved EMC $112 million on capital expenditures and an additional $66 million on operational expenses, Mirchandani said.
"Performance is blazing," Mirchandini said, adding that the private cloud has five times more scalability over the previous architecture. As a result, the company retired 65 legacy applications, moving from 450 point-to-point interfaces down to 125.
The third and last phase of the cloud project, currently underway, is to deploy IT as a service, meaning new services are automated and placed into a catalog from which business units can choose.
Critical to rolling out IT as a service is creating a baseline and then benchmarking advancements as the project moves forward. This step helps the IT group know what progress it has made and to understand the savings that result from those advancements.
While EMC hasn't completed its IT-as-a-service project, Mirchandani can already see how it will reduce costs and management overhead. If a business unit wants a new app, an additional server or more storage capacity, it simply chooses it from the service catalog.
"IT almost plays a passive role rather than an active role in this," Mirchandani said. "The moment you expose the cost of services, the business will ask what's the most cost efficient. IT becomes a broker of services, not necessarily the author of all services. This phase allows business to build the widgets they want off that factory floor [the cloud service]."
There are three requirements for an IT-as-a-service model to be successful, he said. Companies need:
- A petabyte-scalable storage infrastructure that is also compatible with MapReduce technology, for processing huge volumes of data, such as Hadoop;
- A unified analytics platform that functions as a data warehouse and where data scientists can collaborate;
- And a staff of data scientists in each business unit to measure progress and provide analytics information.
"If you've done the first two phases right, building the factory floor [per se], this is the natural transition of how your customers want to go," Mirchandani said.
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With the help of Pinterest (still addicted!), I've been collecting tons of creative and beautiful gift wrap ideas for this holiday season. I'm assuming many of you still have gifts to purchase, but wanted to share some of inspirational ideas with you now. Enjoy!
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Robert W. Gladden Jr. "expected to be killed" on the day he allegedly shot a fellow student at Perry Hall High School, according to his lawyers, who said the teen remains on suicide watch in jail.
The comments came on the day of the 15-year-old Gladden's first court appearance since the incident; his morning bail hearing was postponed after his attorneys requested more time to secure and examine recent mental health evaluations.
Gladden did not speak in court, but kept his head down, letting his long dark hair hang in his face. He wore what appeared to be his own clothes, a dark baggy T-shirt and long pants.
Attorney Clarke F. Ahlers said later that, having spoken with the defendant several times, he believes the boy is remorseful, but it's not clear what Gladden's motivation was when he brought a gun to school. He said Gladden was acting in a state of anxiety and the teen did not clearly remember what happened that day.
Ahlers said he believed Gladden was aware that his actions could result in his own death, possibly by law enforcement responding to the attack.
"I think he expected to be killed," Ahlers said. He added that Gladden had no prior contact with law enforcement.
The day of the shooting, Gladden's Facebook page had made reference to his death. A post on the page at 6:27 a.m. read, "First day of school, last day of my life."
Fears of school violence have escalated since the Perry Hall incident Aug. 27, the first day of classes. This week, a student allegedly threatened a teacher and other students at Stemmers Run Middle School in Essex. No one was injured; the student was charged as a juvenile.
And on Thursday, Baltimore County schools dealt with a bomb scare on one campus and rumored threats on two others, as officials worked to quash misinformation and assure parents their children are safe.
The schools were not placed on lockdown and no students were in danger, officials said.
"It appears at this point that a flurry of rumors is circulating on social media," said Charles Herndon, a county schools spokesman. "People are understandably on edge because of recent events, and these threats are really playing on people's nerves. We have investigated each incident quickly and thoroughly, and there is no truth to any of them."
Rumors traced to Facebook Thursday involved reports of a gun at Dundalk and Kenwood high schools. Police also followed up on a bomb threat left on a voice message at Lansdowne Middle School, Herndon said.
"Everybody is on edge," said Abby Beytin, president of the Teachers Association of Baltimore County. As a teacher, "one of the things you don't expect is that you might actually have to put your life on the line."
Beytin said many children may not understand the gravity of making threats.
"The nature of kids is to want to be accepted by peer groups, and so they don't have the maturity to understand the importance of what's going on," she said. "You threaten somebody, you're not back in school tomorrow. … They don't understand the permanence."
Since the Perry Hall shooting, school officials have announced reforms in security, including increased police presence, metal-detecting wands and a new administrative security officer.
Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance said Thursday that all principals will lead schools in observance of a "Day of Awareness" on Friday, where students will be able to report their concerns on a tip line and learn about the resources that are available to help them through issues they, or their classmates, may be facing.
Gladden, a Kingsville resident, has been charged as an adult on 29 counts, including attempted first-degree murder. He is accused of bringing his father's disassembled shotgun to school and opening fire in the school cafeteria, injuring 17-year-old Daniel Borowy.
Borowy, who was struck in the lower back, was recently released from the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Ahlers said after the hearing that the teen "has expressed deep sorrow" for Borowy, adding that Gladden has asked about Borowy's well-being and expressed interest in meeting him some day.
The teen "expressed regret for his behavior," Ahlers said.
He said Gladden has a right to a bail hearing, but at this point, he said he and fellow attorney George Psoras Jr. don't have enough information.
"There's no reason to rush this," Ahlers said of the bail hearing, adding that his lawyers want what's best for Gladden and the community.
Suspects normally have a bail hearing within 24 hours of their arrest, but Gladden's bail hearing had been delayed while he remained at Spring Grove State Hospital. He is now being held at the Baltimore County detention center.
Ahlers said the Gladden family continues to keep their thoughts and prayers with Borowy's family for his full recovery. Several family members attended the hearing.
Baltimore Sun reporters Mary Gail Hare, Alison Knezevich and Erica L. Green contributed to this article.
A previous version of this article misspelled the name of George Psoras Jr., one of Gladden's attorneys.


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Syberia II (PC) review
"The game, as a whole, stutters and limps along, seemingly existing only to tie up to loose ends of the first game. When an impossible chasm separates Kate from her clockwork train, a character from the last game literally drops out of the sky and offers her a steaming hot cup of deus ex machina. Though its prettied up with the stellar graphics and adequate writing, Syberia II is a game lacking in total ambition. "
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I should probably start by introducing myself – I'm Joe Williams, and I'm a PhD student. I started my research about three months ago, at the University of Kent. My PhD is part of a larger project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, run by Drs Luke Lavan and Ellen Swift. This project is The Visualisation of the Late Antique City, and my contribution will be study of everyday urban artefact assemblages. If this project interests you, keep an eye on its website – at the moment all you'll see is an "under construction" notice, but I'm gradually putting pages together in breaks from research so there should be more on there in the coming weeks.
Unfortunately for anyone who chooses to read this, the Day of Archaeology happens to correspond with my own "Day of Filing", so there won't be any news of fascinating ritual deposits, or any nice pictures (unless anyone really wants to look at a photo of a messy desk, in which case I'll take one and send it to them). Earlier in the week I was helping out with organising and putting together an inventory of all the equipment stored in university buildings that belongs to the Late Antique Ostia field project, now in its fourth season; today I'm working at home doing a similar thing with the journal articles and other resources that I have on my computer (and as paper copies in folders, laptop bag, rucksacks, left in the printer and anywhere else you care to look). The main task of these first few months has been the literature review, so the hulking mass of things to read constantly threatens to overwhelm me! I've built up an extensive bibliography, organised thematically, but now I need to split most of it into two in order to keep works that present data and those that analyse data in separate parts of the essay – which will involve hundreds of quick checks, hence the filing.
The Institute of Classical Studies Library and the internet have been invaluable resources. So far it's been a case of reading hundreds of abstracts, skim-reading tens of articles, and reading a select few articles in full, in order to have an overview of the relevant scholarship available. A lot of this has already been covered in the bibliographic essays included in Late Antique Archaeology volumes 3.2 and 5, so most of the work I've been looking at has been published since 2007. It's incredible how much of this there is -if I could give one piece of advice to anyone about to start a research degree in September, it would be to pick a logical filing system as early as possible and stick to it! Endnote helps, but it has a few quirks so I find it helpful to arrange everything in such a way that I can find it without having to think up search terms that may or may not lead me to the right thing. Ideally this would be something I do on a daily basis, but of course it isn't, so I need days like this once in a while to recover articles from the hiding places that seemed perfectly logical when I put them there. Speaking of which, I must get back to doing that.


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- Nowomics tracks new papers and many types of data in online repositories. You 'follow' the genes and processes you work on to see a Twitter-like news feed of new papers, annotation, interactions, curated comments and more.
- For each gene you can also include information from orthologues and related genes directly in your news feed.
- Data are currently included for human, mouse, rat, fly and plant.
- This short workshop will show you how to use the Beta version of Nowomics to find the latest information for genes & keywords, how to set up your personalised news feed and configure email alerts. We'll also demonstrate new portals to help researchers working on Drosophila or Arabidopsis find the latest and most popular papers.
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IFCA has been awarded by FT for recording a 45% revenue growth from 2013-2016. Our innovation and growth has been recognised as one of the driving force of Asian-Pacific economies in the 21st century.
IFCA has been in the property business for 30 years and we are in a good position to help businesses succeed in this industry. IFCA Academy offers capability-building programmes curated to preserve business knowledge in industries where we are specialised in. Sign up at academy.ifca.asia Click here to go to IFCA Academy
IFCA continues its geographic expansion strategy, by establishing presence in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The region has good potential as it is a developing economic zone within the greater ASEAN region.
The grand event was held at JW Marriott, and approximately 400 clients, business associates and colleagues attended! We presented cheques to Kiwanis Job Training Centre (KJTC), National Stroke Association of Malaysia (NASAM) and Beautiful Gate - caps for Long-Service Award There were also awards for Long-Term Business Partnership Award, IFCA Integrated Solutions Award and IFCA Long-Service Award. Click here to view the photos.
We launched IAP in Google Singapore. IAP is a collaboration with Google Cloud, and we aim to nurture and develop local prop-tech companies by providing fundraising, business networking and mentorship. If you have a prop-tech start-up, submit your application to email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
IFCA posted 9M17 net profit of RM5.9mil vs.RM4.4mil loss in 9M16, and has been in the black the previous five quarters. For 3Q17, the revenue was up 11.7% on-quarter.
The 30th Anniversary celebration started with a roadshow – KL, Penang, JB and Kuching. Many keywords were shared - AI, BI, Machine Learning, Data-Driven Marketing, Programmatic Ads, Cloud - and if you are keen on finding out more about them, get in touch with us. Anish Malhotra and Dennis Ser from Google Cloud also spoke at our event.
We generated leads that exceeded the projected numbers for a project with balance units in Penang. Previously, we generated more than 4,417 leads within 4.5 months for a project in KL. Get in touch with us if you are interested in a data-driven campaign for your project.
IFCA MSC Berhad embarked on a transformational programme known as IFCA 2.0, which aims to strengthen positive growth rates for the next few years. Find out more about it here.


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Churches in village 122, Philippinesa object
Philippines, 122, village
Denomination: iglesia ni cristo
Are you planning to attend services, book a wedding ceremony, christen a child and reserve a church for this ceremony in in village 122, Philippines? We have created and systematized a huge database of addresses and detailed information about tens of thousands of active churches especially for you.
Our directory contains information that will allow you to find the right venue in minutes anywhere in the world. For the convenience of users, we have programmed the ability to search across such parameters as: schedule of services as well as the language in which they are conducted, opening hours, the number of parishioners, a list of sacred relicts belonging to the church, the exact location of the church, and on-site parking.
Don't waste time: use our convenient service. This will allow you to quickly find a facility that matches all of your desired parameters.


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Changing employment regulation will have little effect on the UK labour market, according to a report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and The Work Foundation.
The UK labour market performs well in comparison to other economically developed OECD countries according to the research, and neither deregulation nor more regulation is likely to improve it.
The report finds that the UK has a higher quality of employment compared to other developed economies:
- 79% of UK employees are in permanent employment, compared to 77% in Germany and 65% in Italy
- 65% of UK jobs are rated as high-quality, compared to 50% in France and 49% in Germany
- 84% of UK workers say they are happy with their working hours, compared to 80% in the EU
- 77% say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, compared to 74% in the EU.
Ben Willmott, head of public policy at the CIPD, urged political parties to avoid promising regulatory changes during the upcoming election campaign period:
"We don't need yet another employment bill or another zig-zag between more and less regulation. Instead, what we need is a fundamental review of the UK's skills policy to understand how we can generate more high-skilled jobs and better progression routes for those in low-skilled and low-paid jobs."
However, the UK labour market continues to perform poorly in a number of key areas:
- the UK productivity index reached 100.4 in Q3 2014, compared to 111.3 in France and 115.4 in Italy
- 21% of the UK workforce are in low wage jobs, compared with 18% in Germany and 19% in Italy
- the UK is in the bottom quarter of EU countries in terms of its youth unemployment rate.
Wilmott continued:
"It's clear that the UK struggles on productivity, low-pay and unemployment among young people, but the wider picture is much more positive.
"Rather than meddling with regulation, a renewed focus on enforcing and improving awareness of existing rights among employers and workers is needed to help curb any abuses of employment rights where they do occur, as well as a much more explicit policy focus on the workplace to improve practice and productivity."
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Remember Kameron Slade, the fifth grader who was banned from speaking about same-sex marriage at his New York public school because his principal said the topic was "inappropriate"?
That principal's hopefully feeling like an asshole right now, because Council speaker Christine C. Quinn, who heard about Kameron after local news outlets covered the incident — his NY1 segment now has more than 600,000 views on YouTube — invited him to deliver his eloquent speech in City Council chambers yesterday.
"President Barack Obama recently talked about same-sex marriage with his wife and two daughters. Some people are for same-gender marriage, while others are against it," Kameron said before launching into his case for why same-sex marriage should be discussed openly in classrooms. "Like President Obama, I believe that all people should have the right to marry whoever they want. Marriage is about love, support and commitment. So who are we to judge?"
Kameron told the New York Times that was bummed he couldn't deliver the speech at school but that he was happy he got a wider audience. "I felt very confident when I was doing it," he said. "I feel honored because not many people get to do this."
Council members thanked Kameron for coming to speak, including Quinn, who recently married her partner Kim Catullo, and Jimmy Van Bramer, who is marrying his own longtime male partner on Saturday. "When I saw you on TV, I thought you were the most courageous and wonderful young man I've ever seen," he told Kameron.
See, you guys? Not every young up-and-comer is famous for penning Millennial internet memes. There's some hope out there.
Once Blocked, Boy's Appeal for Gays to Wed Gets Council Audience [NYT]


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Southwestern Casserole
Note: This recipe is especially for kids who must avoid gluten, a type of protein found in many foods.
This dish takes a while to cook, but it's easy to put together.
Prep time: 80 minutes
- ½ onion, chopped
- ½ sweet pepper, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- ¾ pound lean ground turkey
- 8 ounces can tomato sauce
- 1 cup frozen corn, thawed
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup cornmeal
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- ¾ cup light cheddar cheese, shredded
- Preheat oven to 350°F (176°C).
- In a large skillet, sauté onion, pepper, and garlic in vegetable oil for approximately 3 minutes.
- Add turkey to skillet and cook until browned. Drain excess fat from turkey.
- Pour tomato sauce, corn, and milk into the skillet.
- Stir well and heat through.
- Stir in cornmeal and chili powder.
- Pour into well-greased 2-quart casserole pan and cover with aluminum foil.
- Bake for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake for 20 minutes more.
- For the last 5 minutes of baking, sprinkle cheese over the dish.
- It is ready when a knife inserted in center comes out clean.
Serves: 5
Serving size: 1 cup
Nutritional analysis (per serving):
291 calories
21 g protein
14 g fat
5 g sat fat
22 g carbohydrate
4 g fiber
73 mg cholesterol
464 mg sodium
213 mg calcium
2.5 mg iron
Note: Nutritional analysis may vary depending on ingredient brands used.
Variations and suggestions:
Serve with rice and steamed vegetables.
Date reviewed: July 2015


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What is bluesnarfer? It's a tool to steal informations from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection. The connection can be between mobile phones, PDAs or Laptops. You can access to a calendar, contact list, emails and text messages.
Who is the creator? It's Davide Del Vecchio (dante_at_alighieri.org) together with Roberto "boos" Martelloni. The they developed a Linux pof to bluesnarf (read/write/search/perform arbitrary command..). The tool was attached to an article (just Italian) published on the e-zine BFi.
For your information, Bluesnarfing (stealing information with bluesnarfer) is illegal in many countries. Try it with your own risk.
To install bluesnarfer you need two files:
bluesnarfer.tar.gz (program), available at www.alighieri.org/project.html
bluez-libs-3.36.tar.gz (library), available at www.bluez.org/download/


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Where's That Damn Helmet?
- The Chicago Bulls swept the defending NBA champion Miami Heat out of the playoffs, winning a postseason series for the first time since the Michael Jordan era.
Ben Gordon scored 24 points, Luol Deng had 22 points and 11 rebounds and Chicago beat Miami 92-79 Sunday in Game 4 to finish off their first-round Eastern Conference series. The Bulls, who will face Detroit in the second round, became the first team to oust a defending champion in the opening playoff series since Phoenix did it to San Antonio in 2000.
Someone better make sure the Gas Teams are prepped.
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A Simple Haircut Launched Her Career, and Her Minute Frame Lit the Fashion World On Fire. But There Is Nothing Frail About Twiggy, Who After Conquering the Modeling Industry Went On To Rule Hollywood, Broadway, and Eventually the Home Shopping Network
A Simple Haircut Launched Her Career, and Her Minute Frame Lit the Fashion World On Fire. But There Is Nothing Frail About Twiggy, Who After Conquering the Modeling Industry Went On To Rule Hollywood, Broadway, and Eventually the Home Shopping Network
Photography: Melvin Sokolsky
Text: Sarah Cristobal
Everyone knows Twiggy (née Lesley Lawson), the slight 16-year-old schoolgirl who set the fashion world ablaze with her avant-garde haircut, slender frame, and exaggerated eye makeup. Her four-year modeling stint during the swinging sixties paved the way for a career in which she netted two Golden Globes for her performance in The Boy Friend (1971); Broadway and West End theater roles; and a turn as a judge on America's Next Top Model. Eponymous collections for Marks & Spencer and HSN are her latest triumph. Calling from her home in London, the hardworking icon with a blue-collar background dishes on the keys to her success.
How did you get started? You were so young!
TWIGGY On paper it shouldn't have happened. It was one person, Leonard, who saw something and cut my hair. He hung my picture in his salon in Mayfair. I went back to school and a fashion journalist from a daily newspaper came in, saw the photograph, and said, "Who's the girl? I want to meet her." So they took some more photos of me and wrote a piece. My dear dad, bless him, used to go out every day to get the papers, but nothing appeared. Then, about three weeks later, it was a whole double-page spread! The headline was "Twiggy: The Face of '66," and that's the day my life changed forever.
And your phone did not stop ringing.
T No, but I was a schoolgirl, so they were ringing my mum [laughs]. Mad! The next major part of the story is Diana Vreeland and her bringing me to America. That's when it all just went global. I have a lot to thank Ms Vreeland for. She was an extraordinary woman.
What was her reaction when she saw you?
T I mean, she was quite scary! I arrived in their office and this woman walked in, completely dressed in black with just the bright red lips and that mad hair. We got on like a house on fire and I loved her. She changed my career, because when Diana Vreeland said, "This is it," you know the whole fashion industry listened.
She was influential in introducing you to new photographers…
T She immediately put me together with Richard Avedon, who in my eyes is the greatest fashion photographer of our century. He was also a really lovely guy. I was very young and shy and he looked after me. He would get me dancing on the set. He had quite a small build, a bit like Fred Astaire. One of my favorite pictures was taken by his assistant. It's Richard and me on set, and we're leaping in the air. It's just such a joyous photograph, and it says so much about Richard.
Were you shooting every day?
T During the week, yes. In those days if you were a photographic model you didn't do the catwalk shows. That didn't start until the '80s, really. It was hard work, we were traveling all the time. I think lots of people think the '60s were all drugs and rock and roll, which it probably was for some. I didn't drink then, I was so square. I didn't get into drugs and…well, that's probably why I'm still here!
Well you had a good head on your shoulders, obviously.
T I think so. Then I met this extraordinary man called Ken Russell who changed my life yet again. He cast me in The Boy Friend. I was world-famous as a model, but I'd never acted or danced. It was like entering a whole new world: it was magical. And of course when the film came out, I won two Golden Globe awards.
It's rare to have that your first time out of the gate.
T It was bonkers. Suddenly I'm getting off with a record deal, I'm getting off with a TV series, I'm getting off with another film. So I made the decision at the ripe old age of 20–21, that that's the path I wanted to follow. I didn't kind of wake up and think, Oh, I'm never going to model again.
And then you transitioned onto Broadway, right?
T Yes. Tommy Tune, who I became great friends with while we were doing The Boy Friend, became a huge director on Broadway in the late '70s, and he rang me one day. We had been trying to do a film project together, and he said, "I want to do it on Broadway." And I said, "You must be mad!" And he said to me, "There's no such word as 'can't.' Pack your bags and get up to New York." It was called My One and Only and it ran for 18 months.
And of course you had an album come out last year.
T I didn't do it because I wanted a hit or to top the charts. It's called Romantically Yours, so they're all old, romantic songs. I feel very blessed that I've had a career that I've done lots of different things, because I never get bored.
The best models seem to go on to create empires for themselves.
T Most models do start at a very young age—and obviously your life changes, because you can't be a young model forever. People are realizing you don't only have to always use teenage girls. Sometimes it's better, especially if you're selling an antique wrinkle cream, you're going to believe it more if you use an older woman. I just launched my range online for M&S. And I also go to Florida because I do a big clothing line for the Home Shopping Network.
Are you very instrumental with designing the line?
T Oh, totally! I'm a bit of a control freak. It's my passion. I learned to sew as a kid. I've got sewing and knitting machines. I've made most of the curtains and bedspreads in our houses. It's therapeutic.
Fashion is in your blood.
T I only get involved with things I feel passionate about. I launched my first perfume on HSN in July, which was really exciting. The packaging is a shocking pink Union Jack, and it's called Twiggy!
Do you have a great archive from back in the day?
T Probably not as much as I should. My daughter tells me off all the time, but when you're 16 you're not thinking like that. Bill Gibb made me some performing outfits, so I kept those and a couple of coats. Stella McCartney is a dear friend, since Paul is one of my best friends and Linda was one of my best friends. I've known her since she was born. My daughter is actually her print designer.
Keeping it all in the family!
T Yeah, Carly works at Stella. And Matthew Williamson is a great mate. I'm a very lucky girl! Chris Bailey [from Burberry] occasionally sends me a gorgeous new trench coat. So I've got things like that. From the '60s it's mainly the special things, since my day-to-day clothes are long gone. You can't live in the past. I did it, I've been there, I've got the T-shirt.


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Wot I Think: Digital: A Love Story
Attention-getting top line: right now, I can't think of a better love story in the western medium.
The proviso on that statement is the "right now". I'm in a jetlagged state, so there's all sorts of things I'm missing – like full control of my limbs, and eyes which see an unblurred world – so I'm not going to give it a GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER WITH KISSES AND HUGS AND FLOWERS AND SPECIAL HOLDING award. But it's a game which I played a couple of weeks back, and has stuck with me ever since. I booted it up right now to take a few screenshots, and felt pangs.
Digital isn't perfect. But it's clever, direct and straight from – and to – the heart. You'll like it a lot.
It's the work of one Christine Love and set "five-minutes into the future of 1988" and is basically Uplink reimagined as an adventure rather than a strategy/Elite-esque game. An owner of the fictionalised-Amiga-analogue "Amie"computer – Amiga, of course, famously being Spanish for "Girl friend" – you get gifted a modem and start exploring the Internet of the pre-world-wide-web. You log onto the local bulletin board and find yourself rapidly embroiled in a conspiracy. And with a girl. Mainly, a girl.
Digital embraces the sort of storytelling mechanics that games are uniquely suited to – by roughly simulating a system that we're aware of, we gain information – and so create an internal narrative – in the same way we would do in real life. So, when logging onto a BBS, you can browse the various exchanges, download programs of questionable legality and mail people. The mailing people is where the game makes the greatest leap of imagination – you simply select "reply" to a mail, which prompts their next mail. Assuming they mail back. You're performing an act of closure. They respond a mail which you, most logically, would have responded with. For example, the opening contact with the lady in question – Emilia – is her posting some poetry on the BBS. You select reply, and she responds with a mail thanking you for the interest, noting no-one ever comments and demands HOT! HOT! CYBER. A/s/l? R u wearing a bra? I am taking off my pants.
There may be a reason why Christine Love wrote this game and I didn't.
The main flaws of the game are related to this system. In the hour-or-so of the game, you'll almost certainly find yourself stuck where you've failed to reply to a mail or a message-board which prompts the next critical step in the story – or, alternatively, failed to download an attachment. It's a system made more onerous by the fact you'll soon be logging into multiple BBSs, and possibly lose track of a key point. In such a situation, where the player is clearly stuck for a long time due to not activating a critical node, it'd perhaps be useful for one of your contacts mail you with a "Interesting post over on the Bruce Sterling's Sexy Armpit BBS!" style mail.
Where it actually succeeds, mechanistically speaking, is in its actual puzzles, which manage to actually evoke a wonderful sense of place. For example, early on you're introduced to toll-avoiding phreaking systems, with numbers being used to circumvent the long distance charges for dialing distant boards. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's use of codebreakers – but only in a very limited way, with the more awkward boards often being defeated with careful application of knowledge. Much like in the real world – and this is where its atmosphere shines – you'll find yourself scouring boards, looking for an idea of what to try. It simulates research brilliantly – a kind of one-player ARG in the prehistoric days of net-culture. Its totally delightful music and a fine eye for satirical period detail helps a lot too.
The presentation is what sells the prose, which is stripped down, well chosen and elevated by its sheer naturalism. Characters are clear. Even over twenty years on, we recognise these sorts of people. We recognise them from the RPS comments threads. We recognise them in the reflection on our monitor screens. Emilia starts a little idealised, but her iconic minimalism works well – simplify to magnify, simplify to universalise. We imprint on the shape of Emilia, and that imprinted affection is what gives the rest of the game its powerful direction and real mystery.
I'd rather not say any more about the plot's specifics, except you should play it. You can download it from here. It's Wargames about the only two wars that ever really mattered and Neuromancer with tears in the eyes beneath those mirrorshades.


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"It's not easy being first," says Ed Cherian, the project's director. The New England region -- including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine -- has decent wind resources, high energy prices, and an insatiable demand for more power. But the region's dependence on the tourist industry and its condensed population has made it notoriously difficult for wind projects to surmount local opposition, even when it is frequently minority opposition.
The Lempster project's approval is a sign of changing attitudes. "It's a long and difficult process to get projects approved in New England but what is driving this is a lot of popular support," says Cherian. "New England is heavily dependent on natural gas so there is an understanding that we have to diversify the fuel base."
A nearly exclusive reliance on natural gas in the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL), a regional transmission organisation, has led to high prices paid both to producers and charged to ratepayers, which in turn makes wind prices more competitive. But prices are not high enough that Community Wind is operating this as a merchant plant selling into the NEPOOL spot market. The project secured a 20-year power purchase agreement with utility Public Service of New Hampshire.
Improving attitudes
A recent state law calls for a rising proportion of renewable energy in power supplies (Windpower Monthly, June 2007), but it is not responsible for driving the project, says Cherian. The Lempster plant has been in the works for years, driven largely by market economics, he says. It was the first wind plant review for New Hampshire regulators, but they were supportive, he says. Twelve Gamesa 2 MW turbines where selected for the project, partly because Iberdrola owns a 22% stake in the Spanish manufacturer now producing turbines in Pennsylvania.
Attitudes to wind are improving in New England generally. In neighbouring Maine, UPC Wind, which brought its 42 MW Mars Hill project online at the beginning of the year, received conditional approval last month from Vermont state regulators on a 40 MW project -- although tax provisions at the state level still need to be clarified before it moves on. For Community Wind, Cherian says his firm has a further pipeline of potential projects in New Hampshire and Maine but none are as far along as the Lempster project. Community Wind's success has already prompted other followers in New Hampshire. Connecticut-based Noble Wind Power, which has seen considerable development success in the New York market, recently announced plans for a project up to 100 MW in New Hampshire's Coos County, its most northerly region.


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