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First things first: Open Emu v1.0.0b2 is now available, featuring a massively refactored architecture, refined user interface, several new emulator cores (GBA, Genesis and SNES), and the first public release of the Quartz Composer plugins. Go get it at openemu.sf.net. 😀 Let us know how you like it and please do send us video, screenshots, bug reports, and tag your stuff on other sites with "openemu" so we can find it.
Open Video Conference
Although I missed most of the conference, what I did experience at OVC on Saturday and Sunday was great: met many interesting people, ingested tasty ideas and saw some great demos. More on this soon. 🙂
Here's a rough demo video of Open Emu I whipped up for the conference despite intense sleep deprivation.
Open Emu demo from Dan Winckler on Vimeo.

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SD Doctors Required to Disclose Suicide Risks for Abortions
South Dakota doctors will now be required to advise women on their increased risk of suicide after receiving an abortion, a federal court of appeals ruled this week.
Tuesday's 7-4 ruling reversed a Sept. 2011 decision made by a three-judge panel, which ruled that the suicide advisory found in South Dakota's 2005 law was unconstitutional as research in the area was incomplete.
The 2005 law includes a list of precautionary measures doctors must take with a female patient 24 hours before performing an abortion, including disclosing necessary medical information.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard, and Attorney General Marty Jackley, along with two pregnancy crisis centers, appealed the ruling.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that there is sufficient medical research to show that those women who receive abortions are at greater suicide risks than those who do not.
It also ruled that the suicide advisory is "relevant to the patient's decision to have an abortion" and "non-misleading."
"The statute does not require the physician to disclose that a causal link between abortion and suicide has been proved. The disclosure is truthful, as evidenced by a multitude of studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals that found an increased risk of suicide for women who had received abortions compared to women who gave birth, miscarried, or never became pregnant," Judge Raymond Gruender wrote in a 27-page opinion of the ruling, as reported by NBC News.
"Various studies found this correlation to hold even when controlling for the effects of other potential causal factors for suicide, including pre-existing depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, child neuroticism, and low self-esteem," it added.
The Alpha Center, a pregnancy-crisis counseling center found in Sioux Falls, S.D., told The Sacramento Bee that they are "thrilled" by Tuesday's ruling.
"We are thrilled. This has been a long time working from 2005. It's a long, long haul. We are so excited for the women of South Dakota that they have this victory," Leslee Unruh, the founder of the Alpha Center, told the newspaper.
A spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, which is the only provider of abortions in South Dakota, told Reuters that the organization was "extremely disappointed" by Tuesday's ruling.
"This ruling by the 8th Circuit Court represents the greatest intrusion by the government into the patient-doctor relationship to date," Sarah Stoesz, president of Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, told Reuters.
"The bottom line is that women don't turn to politicians for advice about mammograms, prenatal care, or cancer treatments. Politicians should not be involved in a woman's personal medical decisions about her pregnancy," she added.
South Dakota has recently been the site of several court debates regarding the legality of abortion. Ongoing court cases in the state include involved a 2011 law regarding the 72 hour waiting period for abortions and the requirements of pregnancy help centers.


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Pentax K-z/K-s/K-300 - What Should It Be?
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The K-z has a maximum of 120 millions of colour combinations whilst the K-s has 480. But then the K-s has 20 body colours while the K-z has only 12. The K-z, if it is true, is obviously re-using the K-r body, as what can be seen.
On the other hand, some people from Europe told me that this camera would be called K-300 instead of K-z, which is no good for German, AFAIK.
Unless this is a hoax, everything should be true but yet (previously) undecided, IMHO.


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In theory, government stockpiles might be able to smooth price fluctuations. But this depends on how stockpiles are administered. The historical record is not encouraging.
29 June 2011.
Rising food prices affect everybody, though obviously certain demographic groups – usually the poor – are affected more than the rest. As food prices continue to retain high levels of volatility, Jeffrey Frankel questions whether food prices can be stabilized and asserts that speculators could potentially act as "detectors of change" or as a "stabilizing force".
CAMBRIDGE – Under French President Nicolas Sarkozy's leadership, the G-20 has made addressing food-price volatility a top priority this year, with member states' agriculture ministers meeting recently in Paris to come up with solutions. Small wonder: world food prices reached a record high earlier in the year, recalling a similar price spike in 2008.
Consumers are hurting worldwide, especially the poor, for whom food takes a major bite out of household budgets. Popular discontent over food prices has fueled political instability in some countries, most notably in Egypt and Tunisia. Even agricultural producers would prefer some price stability over the wild ups and downs of the last five years.
The G-20's efforts will culminate in the Cannes Summit in November. But, when it comes to specific policies, caution will be very much in order, for there is a long history of measures aimed at reducing commodity-price volatility that have ended up doing more harm than good.
Related: Rising Food Prices – Threat to Global Economic Development
Related: Who's Hungry? Outrageous Food Prices Screw Everyone Except…
For example, some inflation-targeting central banks have reacted to increases in prices of imported commodities by tightening monetary policy and thereby increasing the value of the currency. But adverse movements in the terms of trade must be accommodated; they cannot be fought with monetary policy.
Producing countries have also tried to contain price volatility by forming international cartels. But these have seldom worked.
Producing countries have also tried to contain price volatility by forming international cartels. But these have seldom worked.
In rich countries, where the primary producing sector usually has political power, stockpiles of food products are used as a means of keeping prices high rather than low. The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy is a classic example – and is disastrous for EU budgets, economic efficiency, and consumer pocketbooks.
In many developing countries, on the other hand, farmers lack political power.
African countries adopted commodity boards for coffee and cocoa. Although the original rationale was to buy the crop in years of excess supply and sell in years of excess demand, thereby stabilizing prices, in practice the price paid to cocoa and coffee farmers, who were politically weak, was always below the world price in the early decades of independence. As a result, production fell.
Politicians often seek to shield consumers through price controls on staple foods and energy. But artificially suppressing prices usually requires rationing to domestic households. (Shortages and long lines can fuel political rage just as surely as higher prices can.) Otherwise, the policy satisfies the excess demand via imports, and so raises the world price even more.
If the country is a producer of the commodity in question, it may use export controls to insulate domestic consumers from increases in the world price. In 2008, India capped rice exports, and Argentina did the same for wheat exports, as did Russia in 2010.
Export restrictions in producing countries and price controls in importing countries both serve to exacerbate the magnitude of the world price upswing, owing to the artificially reduced quantity that is still internationally traded. If producing and consuming countries in grain markets could cooperatively agree to refrain from such government intervention – probably by working through the World Trade Organization – world price volatility might be lower.


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The new iPad went on sale on Friday.As usual, Apple zealots waited in lines at Apple Stores for days to get one, even though Apple now distributes gadgets through lots of other retailers (some of which had no lines at all for the iPad).
And, as usual, Apple carefully and wisely sent free iPads in advance of Friday to a handful of friendly gadget reviewers, all of whom were presumably eager to preserve their royalty status with Apple.
(In a strange inversion of journalistic principles, this sort of bribe is not just tolerated in the gadget-review industry–it bestows status points on the bribe-recipient. So we certainly don't blame Apple for spreading around bribes.)
But all this means that the world has now been treated to a raft of iPad reviews from a contingent of folks who have a strong incentive to view the iPad in a favourable light.
(If you had waited in line for 7 hours for an object you could walk into a store and buy today in 7 minutes, wouldn't you want to persuade yourself that your time hadn't been wasted?)
But now, finally, we'll get more objective views of the new iPad.
For example, on Friday, our gadget guru, Steve Kovach, held two iPads in front of me–the iPad 2 and the new iPad–to show off the new "retina screen" that Apple-approved iPad reviewers are hyperventilating about.
I glanced at the two iPads for a second or two, and, frankly, I couldn't tell the difference. They both looked great. Maybe there is, in fact, a mind-blowing difference that will eventually cause me, too, to hyperventilate, but I couldn't see it a glance. (Of course, I'm still happy with my iPhone 3GS).
The "dictation" feature on the new iPad certainly looks cool, but the downfall of speech-recognition software like this is usually long, complex paragraphs, not simple sentences. So the jury's still out on that.
In a side-by-side comparison of videos shot with the iPad 2 and new iPad, I couldn't tell the difference between the two, at least on a small screen.
So, at least at first glance, some of the most ballyhooed features of the new iPad seemed pretty ho-hum in reality.
Now, if I were in the market for an iPad, I'd certainly spend the extra $100 to get these features. But I'm not in the market for a new iPad, because we already have one (an iPad 1, which still does everything we ask it to do very well).
So, anyway, what do normal folks think of the new iPad?
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Sylvia's Special Seeds
Written onSeptember 01 , 2008
I'd heard rumors of what might be growing in Sylvia Davatz's greenhouse. Wheat from an alpine village. Greens throughout the winter. A tomato that lasts until December. Even peanuts! I wondered: What might be going on at Sylvia's? Plants like these aren't normally grown in Vermont.
To satisfy my curiosity, I called Sylvia and asked to learn more about her work with seed saving and her trials of unusual varieties. I'd met her when she volunteered in my produce department at the Upper Valley Food Co-op a couple of winters ago. Happily, I was invited over for a visit to her home and garden in Hartland.
Sylvia's is not your ordinary home garden. Yes, it is laid out neatly in beds and paths. Like some gardens, hers has stone walls, these terraced up the hill on two sides. And yes, she grows some common vegetables, such as lettuces, beets, and tomatoes. But she recently built a passive solar greenhouse that allows her to extend her food production into colder months, create a frost-free environment for starting seedlings, and expand her seed saving capacity by housing biennials that require overwintering.
The purpose of seed saving is to preserve heirloom seeds that have been passed down through families and communities for generations, but that are at risk of disappearing because of the dominance of industrial agriculture, which has eliminated much of the genetic diversity present in world agriculture. Seed savers around the globe plant heirloom seeds each year to make sure the seed will remain vital and usable into the future.
Sylvia is a member of the Seed Savers Exchange (www.seedsavers.org), a nonprofit founded more than 25 years ago. Seed Savers preserves more than 25,000 varieties of open-pollinated (non-hybrid) heirloom and rare vegetable seeds by growing them out on their farm in Decorah, Iowa, and by publishing the Seed Savers Yearbook, through which members can offer heirloom seeds grown in their own gardens to other members. Sylvia offers seed of more than 50 vegetable varieties in the Seed Savers Yearbook and maintains an additional 50 or so varieties for her own use and for trades with friends.
Additionally, as a dual American/Swiss citizen, she is involved with the Swiss seed saving organization Pro Specie Rara, for which she grows and saves seed from three to six varieties of rare or endangered vegetables each year. This year's varieties include a dwarf barley, wheat from an alpine village, and an old and rare lettuce.
Last year, Sylvia and a friend conducted trials of chickpeas and lentils, and found they didn't work terribly well, ours not being the Mediterranean environment in which they thrive. But grains are another story. She's got Globe Wheat from India that's round and good for bread, Blue Tinge Ethiopian wheat, Kamut, and several hull-less barleys. And then there are peanuts. Yes, peanuts! A black skinned variety, and Thai peanuts too. Who'd have thought?
Sylvia is also working with varieties that naturally extend the season. Have you ever heard of a long-keeping tomato? Store them on your shelf and enjoy them through December. And Valencia winter melons, still juicy and tasty two months after fall harvest—she expects they could last up to four months. Imagine fresh melon out of your root cellar in January!
Dartmouth College's Organic Farm manager, Scott Stokoe, is helping her with another remarkable project: dehybridizing Sun Gold cherry tomatoes. Hybrids are the result of crossing two varieties to obtain a new one with specific characteristics. Seed from hybrids cannot be saved, since it will either be sterile or not grow true to type. Dehybridizing is the process of growing successive generations and selecting for the desired traits, hoping to get the qualities of the hybrid, but with the ability to save the seed and have them grow true to type.
I'd never heard of such a thing, but Sylvia and Scott are in their seventh year of growing the Sun Golds out and selecting for the best characteristics, hoping the variety will be stable by the 10th year. Several Seed Saver members are helping with this effort by growing her seed in different parts of the country. Additionally, she's working on a plum-shaped Sungold that doesn't crack—named, you guessed it, Plum Gold.
And this is only scratching the surface of her endeavors. In keeping with her desire to spread knowledge about seed saving, Sylvia has started doing workshops at Cobb Hill Co-housing's Cedar Mountain Farm in Hartland. Folks are hungry for this know-how, and it seems a natural extension of the growing interest in home gardening. In fact, part of Sylvia's vision is to create a regional seed bank in which all the varieties that form our traditional New England diet are represented.
"Seed saving is a critically important skill that hasn't yet received the wide recognition that growing heirloom vegetables has," Sylvia said at a recent workshop. "But without it, we wouldn't have those [heirloom] varieties."
She also said that we, as a society, will need to understand and practice seed saving "as oil supplies deplete, as we re-localize economies, and as the seed industry continues to consolidate, often removing treasured varieties and their invaluable genetic diversity from circulation. Additionally, we will need locally adapted seed supplies to meet the demands of our climate, geography, seasons, and markets."
Sylvia feels that her work honors the hundreds of generations of farmers whose efforts, skill, attention, and caring have given us the thousands of varieties of food we're able to grow today. In turn, I feel that Sylvia's efforts and vision are a vital link to the more abundant future many of us are working toward.
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"Crayola has called Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, its home since the turn of the century. Today, the company's world headquarters and major manufacturing facilities are located there. Downtown Easton is the home of The Crayola EXPERIENCE®, our interactive brand experience where families can enjoy a day of creative fun and see how we make our iconic Crayola crayons and markers."


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Ultimate Ranks #9 on FORTUNE's 2013 List of the "100 Best Companies to Work For"
Date: January 16, 2013 4:28 PM EDT
WESTON, Fla.--Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, announced today that Ultimate has again been named to FORTUNE magazine's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For." Ultimate is the only human capital management provider on this prestigious list and the highest ranked cloud technology provider.
FORTUNE chooses the 100 Best Companies to Work For by partnering with the Great Place to Work Institute each year to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America. More than 277,000 employees from participating companies responded to a survey created by the institute, a global research and consulting firm operating in 45 countries around the world. Two-thirds of a company's score is based on the results of the institute's Trust Index survey, which is sent to a random sample of employees from each company. The survey asks questions related to their attitudes about management's credibility, job satisfaction, and camaraderie. The other third is based on company responses to the institute's Culture Audit. Some of the other companies on the 2013 list along with Ultimate are: Google, Dreamworks, Mercedes-Benz, Whole Foods, Microsoft, Capital One, American Express, Goldman Sachs, Starbucks, and Federal Express.
"Ultimate began as a small team of people who had full trust in the initial vision. They were hard working and talented, and we wanted to take care of them. Twenty-three years later, our strong commitment to our employees is still the same. We thank our more than 1,600 employees today for making this recognition and many other successes happen for us," said Scott Scherr, CEO, president, and founder of Ultimate.
"Putting employees first is the keystone of Ultimate's foundational values, and we believe this guiding principle sets us apart from other providers in the human capital management (HCM) market. We are very honored to be the only HCM provider on the list," added Scherr.
All of us at Ultimate want to extend our congratulations to our customers that also made FORTUNE's 2013 Best Companies to Work For list. Some are: Baker Donelson, Camden Property Trust, The Container Store, Google, JM Family Enterprises, NuStar Energy, Perkins Coie, and Quicken Loans—with a special congratulations to Google for ranking #1 for the last two years.
Ultimate develops, supports, and distributes cloud technology solutions for human resources, payroll, and talent management to companies of nearly all sizes in diverse industries. Ultimate helps organizations manage their workforces strategically and cost-effectively by providing business intelligence analytics and administrative functionality in such areas as talent acquisition and onboarding, human resources management and compliance, benefits management and online enrollment, payroll, performance management, salary planning and budgeting for compensation management, succession management, career development, and time and attendance management.
Previous to our current ranking of #9 on FORTUNE's 2013 list, Ultimate was ranked #25 on the 2012 FORTUNE list and #1 on the medium-size company list of "Best Places to Work" in both 2008 and 2009 by The Great Place to Work Institute, the same organization that evaluates companies for the FORTUNE list.
The full 2013 list is available today exclusively on FORTUNE's iPad App. The 2013 list and related stories will appear on FORTUNE'S Web site tomorrow morning, January 17, at www.Fortune.com/BestCompanies and in the February 4 issue of FORTUNE magazine, which will be at newsstands on Monday, January 21.
About Ultimate Software
Ultimate is a leading cloud-based provider of people management solutions, with more than 10 million people records in the cloud. Built on the belief that people are the most important ingredient of any business, Ultimate's award-winning UltiPro delivers HR, payroll, and talent management solutions that seamlessly connect people with the information and resources they need to work more effectively. Founded in 1990, the company is headquartered in Weston, Florida, and has more than 1,600 professionals focused on developing the highest quality solutions and services. In 2013, Ultimate was ranked #9 on FORTUNE'S "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. Ultimate has more than 2,500 customers with employees in 115 countries, including Adobe Systems Incorporated, Culligan International, Major League Baseball, The New York Yankees Baseball Team, Pep Boys, and Texas Roadhouse. More information on Ultimate's products and services for people management can be found at www.ultimatesoftware.com.
UltiPro is a registered trademark of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners.
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Chrysler bought what was left of AMC in 1987, it's a little sad to see this woodgrain-bedecked Pre Cupholder Era SUV from 1986- back when SUVs were honest about their truckness- about to be crushed.
Yes, they were still putting on that 60s-style SimuWood™ plastic siding on Jeeps as late as Reagan's second term; note the plastic "dowels" and decal inserts. Enough time has passed that this stuff is now cool! This truck is also notable for its AMC 360 V8, an engine that Chrysler kept in production all the way until 1991.
I found this truck at one of the now-defunct East Bay Pick Your Part yards, so we can assume that any parts that you see here have now been digested and dumped into a Guangzhou-bound container ship.


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Binaries for the StackExpress web framework.
Visit http://www.servicestack.net/ServiceStack.Hello/
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Tesla needs a contract driver to shake down models for new customers in Britain. Assuming he knows Excel, we hear Ben Collins has some spare time.
Here's the job description for those in reach of Wymondham, Norfolk:
Based at the Pre Delivery Inspection location, this position will be responsible for assisting in the evaluation of vehicle performance and readiness as part of the vehicle checks before delivery to the customer. This will include assisting technicians in the review of the performance and the role is best suited to either an individual with experience of professionally driving performance vehicles or alternatively the technical maintenance of vehicles at the luxury end of the market.
· Performs an expanded validation test
· Performs actions / drives as part of quality process
· Reports and records data within specified systems
· Must have excellent attention to detail
· Must have excellent driving record
· Experience using Excel and other database systems.
· Excellent written / verbal communication skills
· Team player / Collaborator
This role is for an initial 3 month fixed term contract. However, it is highly likely to continue from there.
The successful candidate must have a full, clean UK driving license and never previously had their license suspended.
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Named after the Concorde supersonic passenger airliner, which entered service in 1976 (four years after Randolph Engineering was founded), the Concorde is built to meet the same military standards as our classic Aviator. Featuring the iconic large teardrop shape worn by pilots during World War II, this style is loved for its fashion as well as for its sun protection.
- 23k gold and other premium-quality finishes for durability & scratch resistance
- Lifetime warranty on all frames
- 100% UVA/UVB protection
- Handcrafted in the USA in 200+ steps
- Available in signature bayonet or standard temples
- Military-issued since 1978
- Self-adjusting cushioned nose pads
- Includes leather case and cleaning cloth pouch
Concorde in Bright Chrome with Gray Lenses
Built To Military Standards
We wanted to make a difference. Leave a mark. Be proud of something. So in 1978, we joined forces with the U.S. military to produce the HGU-4/P Aviator for fighter pilots. Each Aviator is built to strict guidelines of MIL-S-25948 standards, a 20-page document detailing the most complex manufacturing specs around.
Guaranteed for a lifetime. Or two.
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It takes our craftspeople over 6 weeks to build a single pair of Randolph glasses.
More than 200 steps go into making each frame – and most of these steps? – done by hand.
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Our Iconic Bayonet temples were designed to slide easily under pilot headsets, helmets and other headgear. Which means pure comfort and ease. We also calculate the exact angle of the bend on the Skull temple to prevent headaches that may sometimes occur from undue temple pressure.
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Brooklyn, NY, United States
It started with messenger bags designed with recycled billboard material in a Williamsburg warehouse anddeveloped into a visionary brand dedicated to environmental preservation and a commitment to sustainable design. Although officially co-founded in 1998 by artist Lexy Funk and her partner, the authentic roots of Brooklyn Industries date back to 1991, in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Connecticut's Wesleyan University in 1991, Funk began searching for a way to make a living through her creative endeavors, and ultimately paused in New York where she met her partner who was fervently pursuing the same. The idea was to LIVE, WORK, CREATE, and develop a workplace culture of creativity and independence.
Finding inspiration from a vinyl billboard found in a dumpster, Funk and her partner began making recycled billboard messenger bags in an effort to design something unique, practical and innovative for the community. They moved into a one-story 3,000 sq ft factory in Williamsburg with a roof big enough to clean and cut billboards. It was then that they sketched the view of Greenpoint and Manhattan from the factory rooftop that would become the iconic Brooklyn Industries skyline logo.
Throughout the years, bags, t-shirts and the lifestyle clothing that Brooklyn industries offers, has been made in factories with environmentally friendly practices. Select clothing is made with organic materials and t-shirt design collaborations with organizations such as Prospect Park, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Recycle-a-Bicycle and Friends of the High Line support organizations with a mission to conserve.
Brooklyn Industries has helped to reduce the world's carbon footprint by powering stores with 100% National Wind Power through Con Edison Solutions. Only 3% of the United States is powered by wind energy from wind farms making Brooklyn Industries one of Con Edison Solutions' "Green Power Pioneers."
Brooklyn Industries stores are also designed with sustainable materials such as wood from certified sustainable forests. Each store is furnished with vintage furniture and has window displays often using recycled materials such as handbags and clothing from previous seasons. Brooklyn Industries has also designed stores with the concept of "upcycling," the act of creating useful products from waste materials. For example, Brooklyn Industries in Greenpoint has store fixtures made from repurposed wooden pallets which were originally used to transport shipping boxes.
Our reusable shopping totes offered at check-out can be reused and seen in neighborhoods throughout the U.S., and the world.
Sustainability plays a key role in Brooklyn Industries' social responsibility. For more information on Brooklyn Industries' socially responsible initiatives, please visit our Sustainability page.


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August 13, 2012
Gammons on Pesky's passing00:06:39
MLB Network analyst Peter Gammons talks about the passing of legendary Red Sox shortstop Johnny Pesky
A visitor to Fenway Park last summer asked, "What are the numbers up there on the right-field roof?"
He was told that they were the retired numbers of Red Sox Hall of Famers Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Carlton Fisk, Joe Cronin, Carl Yastrzemski ...
"And No. 6 was Johnny Pesky."
"Is he in Cooperstown?"
"No. He was a good player ... .307 lifetime hitter ... 1,455 hits. But with the possible exception of Ted Williams, he is the most popular player in the 100-year history of the franchise. He is certainly the mostbeloved.
"Then why is his number retired?"
"Because of who he is, not what he was."
I have never met a Red Sox fan who did not love Pesky. He always was nice to people because he was the essence of a good person. He went to rubber chicken banquets and Jimmy Fund events and loved his Red Sox as much as any fan out there. He played a year before going into World War II for three years, then when he came back played on those Red Sox teams that won one pennant in 1946 and probably should have won two more, losing the playoff to the Indians in 1948 and blowing a one-game lead with two to play to the Yankees in The Stadium in 1949.
He managed the Sox for two seasons in the '60s when the club was run like something out of "The Sound and the Fury," then returned as a broadcaster, a coach and the ambassador of everything Red Sox.
I always thought that one reason people liked him so much was that he never forgot from whence he came. Pesky didn't big league anyone. Yes, he played on some very good teams and was one of Ted Williams' best friends, but he never forgot that he started in baseball as a clubhouse kid in Portland, Ore. He shined Pacific Coast League shoes and washed uniforms and never forgot what that entailed, so if you worked the clubhouse or were an usher in the stands or were just somebody/anybody, he treated you with respect, enthusiasm and kindness.
Oh, there were times when he'd get a little piqued. Bernie Carbo once asked him if there were any pitchers "back in your time" who threw hard. Pesky shot back, "You couldn't have put a ball in play against Virgil Trucks or Dizzy Trout or Bob Feller."
And there was always the "Pesky held the ball" mark from the 1946 World Series. Enos Slaughter dashed around the bases from first base on a single and without television replays of today, the myth was that Pesky held the ball, allowing Slaughter to score.
What actually happened was that Dominic DiMaggio had been hurt and replaced in center by Leon Culberson, who was slow to the ball and getting the throw in.
"Lotta good that does me now," Pesky once said. "I was at an Oregon State football game, and some back for State fumbled a couple of times. Some loudmouth stood up and shouted, 'Give the ball to Pesky, he'll hold onto it."
He laughed. He told that story as a side dish at every rubber chicken event.
John and Ruth Pesky remained in Boston until each passed away, and were part of the landscape. Players loved having him in the clubhouse, and Jim Rice, who was exceptionally close to Pesky, told everyone that Johnny was the best hitting coach he ever had. He'd come to the clubhouse, dress at the locker right inside the door, and swap stories.
For many years covering the Red Sox for the Boston Globe, I'd go to road parks early, dress and work out. When players weren't hitting early, Pesky would work out what he called "Pesky's Silver Seven," comprised of broadcaster Ned Martin and three writers, Bob Finnigan, Chaz Scoggins and me. Oh, he loved to make us run after fly balls and play pepper so he could try to nail our ankles with line drives.
He always called me "My Captain of My Silver Seven." The last time I saw Johnny, this spring, he said "You're still my captain." Nice final words.
If you are out there across the country and do not understand why Pesky's funeral will be one of the largest of this century, first read David Halberstam's "The Teamates," the brilliant portrait of Williams, Dominic DiMaggio, Doerr and Pesky, who were first Red Sox teamates in 1942 and remained the closest of friends for the next 60 years, until Williams passed away in 2002.
"That doesn't happen in almost any walk of life," Pesky once told me, "especially our business of baseball. But Dominic, Ted and Bobby are three of the greatest men and greatest friends that ever walked the earth."
Seventy years ago, Pesky was a 22-year-old rookie with the Red Sox. Ted was 23, Doerr 24, DiMaggio 25. Hall of Famers Joe Cronin and Jimmie Foxx were on that team, in their mid-30's.
Sixty-three years later, when they held the Opening Day ceremony to hoist the World Series pennant above Fenway Park symbolizing the end of the 86-year drought, it wasn't David Ortiz or Pedro Martinez that pulled the rope to raise the flag, it was Pesky. On the day they celebrated their first World Series championship since World War I, it was a World War II hero who got the loudest ovation, who raised the symbolic end of the curse.
On the top steps of the visitors' dugout, Joe Torre, Derek Jeter, Don Zimmer and several Yankees stood and applauded Pesky.
"He's Johnny Pesky," Jeter said when asked about it in an ESPN pregame interview. "Of course you applaud, honor and respect Johnny Pesky. That's who he is to baseball."


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World Naked Bike Ride – The Documentary
'Bare As You Dare', the motto for the World Naked Bike Ride: The world's most widespread and most unusual environmental protest. This behind the scenes documentary… a playful and informative introduction to this global phenomenon.
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SAS surpasses $3 billion in 2013 revenue, growing 5.2% over 2012 results
Strong growth logged in data visualization, business solutions, hosting, and business intelligence
Business analytics leader SAS in 2013 achieved its 38th straight year of record revenue – US$3.02 billion – as organizations embraced a range of SAS® solutions. Business intelligence revenue spiked on the popularity of SAS® Visual Analytics, new data visualization software that brings business threats and opportunities into sharp focus. Revenue growth was double-digit for cloud solutions that fight fraud and financial crimes, manage risk, improve customer relationships and help develop safe, effective new drugs. SAS solutions crunch big data to reveal to organizations what's working, what isn't, and profitable ways to do business.
SAS continues to execute on its vision to turn data – wherever it's from, in whatever form – into priority-shifting insights. "Data is an asset of growing importance to organizations," said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. "The amount of data pouring in is so vast, it's impossible to analyze quickly enough to make a difference in day-to-day decisions without a high-performance analytics infrastructure. Over the last two years we've delivered ground-breaking analytics technology that unlocks the value in all this data."
Revenue Grows Across Regions, All Major Categories
Organizations looking to stop fraud fueled a 44 percent jump in sales of fraud prevention and security intelligence solutions. Revenue from cloud-based offerings, SAS® Solutions On Demand, jumped 20 percent as pharmaceutical companies prepared for an onslaught of new regulations, businesses sought to understand customer preferences and state and local governments worked to stamp out fraud. Revenue from all industries grew, including an 18 percent increase in the energy and utilities sector, 17 percent in health care and 16 percent in capital markets.
2014 Outlook
SAS leads in analytics (per IDC and Forrester) and intends to stay out front, providing market-leading high-performance analytics and other solutions that help organizations of all sizes – from global enterprises to SMBs (small to medium businesses) – conduct analyses with ease.
SAS also anticipates continued growth this year in:
- Data Management , as companies with huge amounts of data struggle to prepare it for analysis. More and more companies are adopting the open-source Hadoop framework for data storage and processing. SAS works closely with partners and customers to help data scientists, business analysts and executives transform big data into knowledge and bottom-line results.
- Data Visualization , which allows everyday users to explore data by simply pointing and clicking. SAS® Visual Analytics licensed by more than 1,400 sites worldwide, will gain new functionality in the months ahead.
- Industry-Specific Solutions , which address the unique needs of banks, insurers, retailers, government agencies, manufacturers, energy companies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, telcos, hotels and more. In 2014, SAS will roll out new and improved solutions to address crucial business needs, from forecasting power demand, optimizing retail channels and managing risk to detecting and preventing fraud, retaining customers, and addressing customer omnichannels and digital marketing needs.
- SAS Solutions On Demand , as more companies look to cloud-based solutions to unlock the benefits of complex analyses. SAS offers 25 products in a cloud-based delivery model. These include solutions for drug development, education, anti-money laundering, fraud detection, marketing optimization, customer intelligence, social media analytics and more.
"The ability to inform intelligent actions via analytics is not a new idea," said Henry Morris, IDC's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Software and Services Research. "Forward-thinking organizations have recognized this, and SAS, with its analytic applications and predictive technologies, has been a key enabler.
"Now that data volumes have reached or exceeded predicted levels, the opportunity, as well as the complexity, has increased. With 25 percent of 2013 revenue reinvested in research and development and leaders with a track record of anticipating what's next, SAS is equipped to help organizations across geographies scour big data for fresh perspectives."
SAS Senior Vice President Jim Davis said that while not every business has big data, opportunities to grow business can hinge on how well it explores huge, publicly available data. "Data is everywhere," Davis said. "It's coming from sources like financial systems, sensors, Web traffic, wearable devices, social media platforms and open government databases. Low-cost storage and in-memory computing have converged to help organizations make proactive choices on many things, from marketing to product design."
"Organizations that are first to incorporate some of these open data sources into an existing analytical framework will have an edge over their competitors," added Davis. "More and more, SAS is the lens through which business leaders look at data so they can see what's coming and adjust course."
SAS Addresses Skills Shortage Fueled by Demand for Analytics
The need to solve complex business problems through analytics is intensifying demand for software and services. It has also created a vacuum of talent. A McKinsey Global Institute study projects up to 190,000 unfilled analytics positions in the US by 2018 and a shortage of 1.5 million managers and analysts skilled in big data. Research by Accenture projected that six major industries in seven countries would add 117,600 analytics jobs by 2015. Only China is expected to have a talent surplus. The biggest shortfalls are anticipated in the US, Brazil and the UK.
SAS is focused on education to equip the 21st century workforce. SAS supports education through innovative products and services that improve teaching, learning and administration. In the U.S. alone, SAS supports 15 master's degree and more than 50 certificate programs in analytics and related fields. New SAS education initiatives in 2014 will augment those programs to multiply talent. "We're committed to building the next generation of data-savvy professionals," Goodnight said. "Anyone who wants a good-paying, recession-proof skill set should consider a career in analytics."
SAS è leader negli analytics. Attraverso software innovativi e servizi, SAS aiuta e ispira i clienti in tutto il mondo a trasformare i dati in conoscenza. SAS fornisce THE POWER TO KNOW®. In Italia dal 1987, ha oggi una struttura di oltre 330 persone operative nelle sedi di Milano, Roma, Venezia Mestre e Torino.
Editorial contacts:
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Apple made a slew of announcements today as it revamped its iBooks presence on the iPad to make it more friendly to educators. There's iBooks 2, which adds textbooks from big names; iBooks Author lets anyone create periodicals for iDevices; and iTunes U, a learning center full of free video and more. Pretty exciting stuff, but not the most exciting announcement of the bunch.
With iBooks 2, Apple is making a hard push to drag textbooks kicking and screaming into the digital age, making them interactive, searchable and media rich. It makes a lot of sense, and the iPad is definitely the tablet to do it on. According to MSNBC's Rosa Golijan, there's 20,000 education apps on the platform, and 1.5 million iPads being used for educational purposes.
That's probably why Apple could secure the biggest names in the textbook industry — Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "make 90 percent of the textbooks available," according to Apple VP of global marketing Phil Schiller, who spoke at the announcement event — and why Apple was able to make this very impressive announcement: cheap text books. Like, under $15 cheap.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
Textbooks represent an enormous investment for schools, educators and students. They can drive up student loans. They loose a lot of value right after you buy them. Heck, while we're piling on, they're also pretty damn heavy. The advantages of a digital solution aside, the ability to keep them cheap — and only time will tell if Apple is able to do that — is definitely what's impressing me most about Apple's iBooks 2 announcement.
It'll also be interesting to see what users do with iBooks Author, as now anyone essentially has the tools to package a multimedia "book" and sell it on iBooks.
You can read more about iBooks Textbooks here, as well as iBooks Author here and iTunes U here.


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What's New
Jezebel Font Family by Canada Type
Jezebel is all dressed up for you. And if she can't make your mouth water and eyes light up with love, nobody else can!
The Jezebel design was extrapolated from two early 70s film ideas called Hampshire and Harper's Bazaar. Both were uncredited, somewhat badly drawn and almost impossible to typeset satisfactorily. It was necessary to go back to the drawing book to explore a better balance and easier setting potential. The subsequent character set expansion took Jezebel to a much superior level of functionality, with the addition of multiple alternates and swashes to fit a perfectionist's eye.
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Casual Script, Font, Fun, Groovy, Wacky


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Happy Independence Day. It's time to celebrate the good old red, white and blue.
I hope everyone gets to enjoy the holiday in a fun and safe manner. I want to give a big "thank you" to all the firefighters across our great land who have been and will be working tirelessly this summer. We greatly appreciate your efforts.
Last week, La Plata County 4-H hosted the San Juan Basin 4-H Natural Resources Camp along Pine River in Bayfield. This three-day camp is for our junior and intermediate level 4-H members. It was a great success with more than 35 4-H members attending the camp from Archuleta and La Plata counties. La Plata County 4-H leader Raejean Riegel did a fantastic job as camp cook. All meals were delicious and made with a whole lot of love.
The camp also received great help from some stellar senior level 4-H members. Mesa Lynch, Keegan and Oakley Felker, Stephenie Riegel, Antonio Pena-Riess, Wyatt Griego and Brando Little acted as youth leaders. These older 4-H members helped with team-building exercises and organizing camp skits, songs and performances.
And, they just showed off how older 4-H members assist younger members in building life skills. One morning at the camp washing station, we overheard Griego say: "This is a camp where everyone helps everyone else out." This soon became our camp motto.
We also were very grateful to have Barbara Shaw, Western Region 4-H STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) specialist, join us for camp. Shaw engaged our youths in some very exciting STEM-related activities. We learned about botany by making our own handmade journals, which incorporated pressing native plants on the covers. We explored astronomy through an evening storytelling session about the night sky's constellations. We investigated Pine River through a hands-on class about water quality. And, finally, we had a blast learning about macro-invertebrates and staying cool finding neat creatures in the river.
Shaw always does an amazing job at making STEM fun and letting the campers develop their inner scientist.
At the end of camp, youths were dirty, tired and full of stories. Even better, kids left camp saying that they can't wait until next year. I would agree. There is something really special about just camping out with others and having a good time without the distractions of TVs and other social media.
This week, La Plata County 4-H is excited to be hosting Pipestone County, Minn., 4-H members as part of our Interstate Exchange Program. Last year, we had a terrific time in the Great Plains and look forward this year sharing our neck of the woods. We have wonderful activities planned to show off our rich Native, Hispanic and Western cultures – and the beautiful scenery.
The Interstate Exchange Program is made possible through the gracious support of Aline Randle. We are extremely grateful to offer such a great experience to our 4-H members. It truly makes me proud to be an American.
email@example.com or 382-6463. Greg Felsen is La Plata County 4-H youth development agent.


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How do you use Windows True Type fonts in Linux or how do you install Windows TrueType fonts in Linux? - A typical newbie question.
Fonts are very important. When you migrate from Windows XP to Linux you may miss Truetype font. TrueType is a font standard developed by Apple Computer. By 1991 Microsoft had built TrueType into the Windows 3.1 operating system. The FreeType project provides TrueType under Linux. So let us see how to backup your Windows TrueType fonts and install them in Linux.
It is quite easy to add Windows True Type fonts in Linux. First make sure you copy Windows fonts on USB pen (usually located in C:\Windows\Fonts directory) or just mount windows NTFS/FAT partition. You can copy selected or all fonts from C:\Windows\Fonts directory.
Linux Gnome desktop
=> Open your default file manger or double click Computer icon on Gnome desktop
=> Type url:
Alternatively, select Open Location? from file menu and type
=> Once window open, just drag and drop fonts into this new windows from USB pen or mounted partition. Don't forget to restart application or just logout and login again.
Novell Suse Linux
- Novell Suse Linux has Font installer.
- Open Font installer from System administration option located on gecko menu > Personal settings
- Provide root password when prompted
- Click on Add fonts button
- Now install fonts from USB pen or mounted Windows Partition
- Save changes
- Don't forget to restart your desktop (just logout and login again)


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Bill Targeting Tax Loopholes Could Leave Companies Exposed
Multinational corporations started the year with a tax gift when a deal to avert the fiscal cliff extended several corporate incentives, but higher taxes could be in the offing if a bill introduced this week by Senate Democrats to cut corporate tax loopholes gains traction.
President Barack Obama expressed support for cutting some corporate tax loopholes in his State of the Union on Tuesday. But while the president was light on specifics, Sen. Carl Levin's (D., Mich.) "Cut Unjustified Tax Loopholes Act," introduced with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) in the Senate this week, takes aim at specific offshore tax structures as well as deductions enjoyed by both corporations and some of their executives.


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Where Socialists Kibitzed Yuppies May Follow
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
Published: August 8, 2004
The building at 173-175 East Broadway that once housed The Forward newspaper is for sale for $22 million, and the broker handling the property says it is likely to be turned into luxury apartments.
Karl Marx, whose bearded face appears in bas relief above the building's entrance, wrote that all the most significant events in history occur twice the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce. If Marx were still around he might feel vindicated to know that, where socialists once roamed the halls, yuppies may soon act out a materialism of a very different sort than the one contemplated by their predecessors.
The Forward, which was printed in Yiddish and once had a daily circulation as high as 220,000 (it is now a much smaller weekly), occupied the building from 1912, when it was built, until 1974. At that time, the newspaper and the radical Jewish groups that once traveled with it decamped to East 33rd Street. The newspaper sold the 10-story building for $99,000 to the Chinese Alliance Church.
Three years later, the church sold the 11-story building for $316,000 to a businessman named Mui Hin Lau, whose family has owned it ever since.
The family's broker, Adelaide Polsinelli of Besen & Associates, said the building has remained vacant since the church moved out, in the late 1970's or early 1980's.
In the late 1990's, the family spent about $10 million on a gut renovation that created 39 apartments. Finally, in September 2001, the Laus were ready to market the new units as condos, but then abandoned their plans after the terror attack on the World Trade Center. Now, with downtown real estate booming, the Laus have decided to sell, and Ms. Polsinelli said she expects the building will be acquired by a developer and marketed as high-end apartments.
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company


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Nautilus was decommissioned on May 1, 2015. For more information, see Nautilus Decommission FAQs.
Nautilus is a robust multicore shared memory system that is primarily used for serial and parallel visualization and analysis of data from simulations, sensors, or experiments. It allows for both utilization of a large number of processors for distributed processing and the execution of legacy serial analysis algorithms for very large data processing by large numbers of users simultaneously. It has a peak performance of 8.2 Teraflops.
Nautilus Architecture
- SGI Altix UV 1000
- 1024 cores
- Intel Nehalem EX processors (128 8-core)
- 4 UV10s (Harpoon nodes with 32 cores, 128 GB, and 2 GPUs each)
- 4 TB of global shared memory
- 4 NVIDIA Tesla (Fermi) GPUs
- 1.3 PB Lustre Medusa Filesystem
Access and Login
In order to use ssh to access Nautilus, you must use a one-time password (OTP) token. For more information on obtaining a token, see the Access and Login page.
To connect to Nautilus, type the following at a shell prompt:
ssh firstname.lastname@example.com
or access via GSI by first accessing the "Single Sign-On Hub":
ssh email@example.com
and then typing the following command:
gsissh gsissh.nautilus.nics.xsede.org
Nautilus has 3 login nodes named: Arronax, Conseil, and Nedland (GSI)
Currently, gridftp, gsissh, ftp, sftp, scp, bbcp, and hsi are available on Nautilus. See the Data Transfer page for more information.
How to get your code compiled?
The easiest way to get your code compiled on Nautilus can be achieved by using the default Intel compilers. See the following examples to get an idea about how it works:
Serial code
icc serialcode.c -o serialprogram
MPI and C program
icc myprogram.c -o myprogram -lmpi
MPI and C++ program
icc myprogram.cxx -o myprogram -lmpi++ -lmpi
MPI and Fortran program
ifort hello_mpi.f90 -o hello_mpi -lmpi
For more information about other available compilers and options, please go to Compiling on Nautilus page.
Running Jobs
To submit a job to PBS, use the
qsub command. The most common way to use
qsub is to simply pass it the name of a 'batch script' that contains all of the information about running your job:
> qsub myscript.pbs
The following is an example of how to write a batch script.
#PBS -S /bin/bash #PBS -A UT-NTNL0121 #PBS -j oe #PBS -l ncpus=96, mem=128GB, walltime=01:35:00 cd /lustre/medusa/$USER mpiexec -np 96 ./a.out
OpenMP programs must also be run as batch/interactive jobs. The number of threads spawned by an OpenMP program is controlled by the environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS. For programs that use pthreads, use the OMP_NUM_THREADS environment variable in the same way to control the number of threads. See the Batch Scripts page for more information on batch jobs.
You can also use
qsub to start an interactive session on Nautilus by including the
-I option:
> qsub -I -A XXXYYY -l ncpus=16,walltime=1:00:00,mem=64GB
By default, jobs with 32 cores or less will be placed on a Harpoon node if available.
To guarantee job placement on Nautilus use:
#PBS -l feature=nautilus
To guarantee placement on a Harpoon node (with 32 cores or less) use:
#PBS -l feature=uv10
Note: For job submission, the only required option is -l ncpus=
In addition to running traditional parallel MPI and/or OpenMP applications, Nautilus can also run many concurrent instances of serial applications using Eden.
For even more advanced options, see the Nautilus Running jobs page.
Nautilus has access to two file systems:
- $HOME points to /nics/[a-d]/home/$USER, the Network File System (NFS home space, quota enforced)
- Lustre Medusa File System is located at /lustre/medusa/$USER (Lustre scratch space, no quota and 30 day purge policy)
Network File System (NFS)
The Network File Service (NFS) server contains user's home directories, project directories, and software directories. Home and project directories can be used to store frequently used items such as source code, binaries, and scripts. Both are accessible from all interactive NICS resources. See the File systems page for more information.
Lustre Medusa File System
This space is intended for production work and not long term storage. This space is temporary and is subject to frequent purging to ensure the stability of the system for all users.
Optimizing your IO performance will not only lessen the load on Lustre, it will save you compute time as well. Please consider reading the Lustre Striping Guide which we believe will help you make the best use of the parallel Lustre filesystem and improve your application's I/O performance.
module avail
Lists all available installed packages/software.
module list
Lists all currently loaded modules in your environment.
module avail {package}
Lists all currently installed versions of the specified package. Notice the "default" version of the package. If you want a different version, you will have to use the module load {package/version#} command.
module load {package/version#}
Loads package.
module unload {package}
Removes package from environment.
module swap {A} {B}
Swaps loaded {A} package with {B} package.
module show {package}
Shows the modified paths of the compiler/software, in case you would like to see libraries or the executables.
module avail PE
Lists all installed compilers.
To compile OpenMP code with PGI, you need to use the -mp flag, whereas with GNU, you would use -fopenmp. There are no parallel compiler executables on Nautilus, so in order to compile MPI codes, provide the -lmpi flag. For details on the flags accepted by each compiler, see the man pages for each executable name.


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From Dr. No (1962) to Quantum Of Solace (2008)
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This version of the song is longer then the one heard in the movie.
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più footage for Skyfall, Daniel Craig's 3rd outing as James Bond. In theaters October 26, 2012.
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Step into the dangerous world of James Bond and other secret agents as we visit the great spy movie locations of Londra and beyond.
On these two separate bus tours (half and full day) you'll visit over 30 James Bond film locations plus sites linked with other British spy characters such as Harry Palmer and Johnny English. We'll also see places familiar to Bond autore Ian Fleming. See where fiction becomes reality as we take te to spots associated with the real world of espionage.
Learn how the films were made, watch the DVD clips as we pass the actual locations, discuss some of the the novels and get trivia about the actors behind them. Along the way you'll have the chance to get off the bus, take pictures and see the locations up close.
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We oppose Islam, not Muslims. We are against hate, not faith
IF you believe in something so hard and so much on a daily basis, the universe gives it you, even after death.
Idesigner wrote:Dear A.W.
Very good post.
Islam survived because it was marketed as OT religion. All other evil philosphies like Marxism , Nazism etc were ptolitical philosophies.Western world is pretty reluctant to tackle Islam because they themselves believed in lots of OT mumbo jumbo and all kind of absurd religious philosophy.
Mo was a genius. He conquered universe just by his will power. He deviced a system which cant be overthrown by military means only. His folks cant be even ruled or desciplined by non muslims. Their population is increasing and they may rule the world and ultimately self destruct.
Islam now enjoy lots of support from West because of PC mentality . PC correctness is pretty useful tool for barberians.
Ofcourse Internet had made difference. I hated Islam before internet but knowledge from site like this had made me very articulate when arguing with PC correct crowd. With muslims I could not make any progress.
alemcodon wrote:hi chaps
you guys areally are living in some fantasy world arent you?
islam hasnt tried to hijack your way of life, you only have to obverse the world around and look
The three elements that make for a successful meme are fecundity, fidelity, and longevity. In other words, if a meme makes lots of copies of itself, copies itself accurately, and lasts long enough to make copies into other minds, it is a successful meme. All else being equal, the meme that makes more copies, or copies with more fidelity, or lasts longer in the mind, will always out-compete a meme that does any of these less effectively.
Now, with that understanding, here's my point: If you were going to deliberately design a combination of memes with the purpose of making a memeplex that could eventually dominate the world — one that would eventually out-compete every other memeplex — you would be hard-pressed to do better than Islam.
Let's look at some of the individual memes within the Islamic memeplex:
1. A standardized version of the memeplex is written down, which makes for perfect replication fidelity. This is something basic to several religions and isn't an Islamic invention, but it is an important factor in the success of Islam.
Something only transmitted orally can change over time, but something written will be identical a thousand years from now, and with modern printing presses, can be reproduced in the millions, giving it enormous fecundity and fidelity.
2. The Koran includes instructions for its own spread. It tells believers they must spread Islam. It is their holy duty to bring Mohammad's warnings and Islamic law to every corner of the world.
3. The memeplex includes instructions for its own preservation, protection, and replication fidelity. The Koran, the most important of the Islamic holy books, directly tells its followers that they can never change or modify or "modernize" any of the teachings within the memeplex. It is a capital sin to try to do so. The memeplex ensures its own preservation this way.
These first three memes are pretty standard for several successful religions. But now it gets interesting...
4. Islam commands its followers to create a government that supports it. This may be one of the most brilliant innovations in Islam. Islam is the only religion that uses it. Other groups of religious people have had political aspirations, but no other major religious group orders its followers — as a religious duty — to create a government that follows its own system of law.
Islam has a system of law, called Shari'a, and all Muslims are obligated to continually work toward making their government — wherever they are — follow it. Because of some of the other memes added to Islam, you will see that this political addition to the memeplex has significant consequences. I think this is Islam's most brilliant innovation, and also the most terrifying to non-Muslims.
5. Permission to spread the memeplex by war. This is another brilliant innovation. Although some other religions have spread themselves using force, they had very little justification from their own religious doctrines.
Not so with Islam. Expanding by conquest is very much accepted and encouraged by the memeplex. The poor non-Muslims not living in an Islamic state need to be saved from the sin of following laws other than Allah's. If they won't voluntarily change their laws to Shari'a, then it is the duty of Muslim warriors to insist. The world cannot be at peace until every government on earth follows the laws of Allah.
Mohammad's own experience showed the example — an example, says the Koran, that every Muslim should follow. For ten years Mohammad tried to spread Islam by peaceful means. After ten years he had a paltry 150 converts. But he changed tactics and started using warfare, slaughter, executions, and assassination, and in a relatively short time, he converted tens of thousands, and after his followers died, they used the same tactics and converted millions.
The use of warfare combines powerfully with the instruction to create an Islamic state. So Islam spread quickly as their armies got bigger. They conquered and set up Islamic states, most of which have lasted to this day, and as you'll see, the laws within an Islamic state make it very advantageous to convert to Islam.
This is one of the most effective methods ever invented for getting a memeplex into huge numbers of minds. It's a method of control and indoctrination similar to those used successfully in communist and totalitarian states. But as you discover below, Islam makes unique use of the power of the law to enforce complete conversion to the memeplex.
6. Lands must be conquered. Lands that Islam has lost must be reconquered, like Spain and Israel, for example. The Islamic empire must continually expand. Contraction is bad, expansion is good. So if a land was once Islamic and now it is not, that is contraction, and must be remedied.
According to this meme, the earth is Allah's. If there are parts of the earth not following Islamic law, it is the duty of the faithful to gain control of that land and establish Shari'a. It is a sin to let it be.
7. The memeplex provides for new soldiers by allowing polygamy. A Muslim man can marry up to four wives, and he can have sex with as many slave girls as he wishes.
The Koran especially encourages men to marry widows. This is an important meme to add if you are going to be losing a lot of soldiers in war. You need some way of replenishing your army. You don't want the memeplex to die out from a lack of offspring.
8. It is a punishable offense to criticize Islam. You can see why this one is a good supporting meme for the memeplex. It helps curb any memes that would reduce the authority of Islamic memes. This one, like many of the others, is good for the memeplex, but bad for people. This one limits freedom of speech.
9. You can't leave Islam once you're in. This is an interesting one. It is actually illegal in Islamic states to convert out of Islam. This is a critical part of Shari'a law. Someone who has rejected Islam who was once a Muslim is an "apostate." This is a crime and a sin, and the punishment for it is death (and eternal damnation in hell thereafter).
Obviously, you can see why this meme has been included in the memeplex, but this one has actually caused Islam a problem because those who are following Islam to the letter consider more "moderate" Muslims (those who want to ignore or alter the more violent passages of the Koran) to be apostates. Since the punishment for apostates is death, fundamentalist Muslims are fighting modernizing Muslims all over the world, and keeping many rebellious, modernizing Muslims from speaking up for fear of death.
Every time a group of Muslims decides that maybe Islam should be updated for the 21st century and maybe women should have some rights or maybe the government should be more democratic, the devout Muslims call them apostates and try to kill them.
The memeplex is protecting its own fidelity (the original memeplex cannot be altered). This is not good for the organisms (the Muslim human beings), but it's great for the memeplex.
Another meme in Shari'a law says it's against the law for anyone to try to convert a Muslim to another religion. Again, this is a meme to help protect the fidelity of the memeplex.
10. Islam must be your first allegiance. This is a great meme to add if the goal is world domination. You are a Muslim first, before any allegiance you give to your family, your tribe, or your country.
This does two things: It causes a unity of people across borders, and it allows the group to grow bigger than any other entity. In other words, the "Nation of Islam" can grow bigger than any country, no matter how large (which gives the group a massive numerical advantage).
Gauge123 wrote:Why did the belief that the sun revolved around the earth survive for yonks? Since civilisation...at least 7000 years...and so primitive man...
It eventually was exposed as ignorance.
So be it with everything else, and all you hold on to with utter stupidity.
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okay guys so i just started my first java class to become a programmer. im 16. i have no idea how to do any of this stuff. my teacher gave us an assignment in java and told us to do as much as we could and that he would show us how to do it next week.. heres the program
"for this assignment you will write an application that plays a "guess my number" game using GUI elements. the game requirements are:
--The program should select a random number 1 to 1000. The program should then ask the user to guess a number from 1 to 1000. A JtextField can be used for the guesses.
--After each guess is input, the background color of the box should change to either blue(for cold) or red(for hot) along with a label that tells the user if they were too high or too low. When the user finally guesses the right answer, the color should be green and the box should change to uneditable. The game should ask the user if they want to play again.
At the end of each round of play, the number of guesses it took to get the number correct should be recorded, along with the time it took. When the user indicates that they would like to stop playing the game, the relent statistics should be displayed in a dialog box before the program ends..so the user knows for each round played, how many guesses it took and the time it took to get the right answer the should hit OK on this box to end the program and the game entirely ."
so theres the program could any one help me?? help me write the code along with explaining the lines of code?


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This week on the blog we're running a new mini-series from a few chosen photographers that will be explaining the "behind the scenes" experience of creating one of their images.
This image happens to be one of my favorite images I've ever taken. I like the strangeness, and I like the light and dark and moody quality. I shot this image as part of a personal series that I am currently working on called Treasures Found. The images in the series juxtaposes the rawness and character of the American South through garage sales, antique markets, and tag sales, with stylized shots of my two girls with some of the strange treasures that we pick up at the sales.
I found this fake chicken at a garage sale in my neighborhood. It was the only slightly "off" thing nestled among baby toys and old clothing. I snatched it up quickly (although I don't really think there were a lot of other takers though), paid my dollar, and was on my way.
We shot this particular image in my garage. Just me, my daughter, my Honda Pilot, and some great light….oh, and a stuffed chicken. My garage has the most amazing light. I use it all the time for a makeshift studio by closing all of the windows and letting the light in through one door. The shoot started with my seven year old negotiating her pay (3 tootsie rolls), and then parked her in the slash of light that was coming through the open door and went to shooting. I shot a few other images this same day with some vintage roller skates and some costumes that we also acquired and became part of the series.
My girls are not huge fans of me taking their pictures, but I shoot them daily. They deal with it, but I often get an eye roll and an "okay mom" (+ a sigh). I do pay them in different ways (i.e. the tootsie roll trade), and that seems to work. They do however think it is really cool when they see their image on the Internet or in a magazine. My daughters are some of my favorite subjects to shoot... they are always accessible to me and they are actually turning into really good models who take direction extremely well.
This image was shot with my Nikon D700 and 50mm F1.4 lens. The shots are edited in Lightroom. I used VSCO films black and white presets, but tweaked a bit to get rid of the grain. I love a saturated black and white, and wanted this image to be clear and clean.
Bio: Kate Parker is a mom, wife, photographer, and athlete. "I live and shoot in Georgia. I love the real, the honest, and the everyday, and aim to capture just that."


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Fewer Cables means Reduced Complexity
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Happy New Year, everyone!
I hope everyone had a nice Winter break. For my birthday last month, my good friends at [StarTech.com] sent me a nice [double-headed USB combo cable] that has both Micro-USB and Mini-USB connectors. I am always looking to reduce the number of cables I take with me on trips, and this one is perfect, as I have a Samsung 4G smart phone that uses the Micro-USB connector, and a Canon PowerShot digital camera that uses the Mini-USB connector.
(FTC Disclosure: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission may consider this a "celebrity endorsement" for StarTech's product. I have used the cable and it works as expected. My review is based on my own experience using the cable, and information publicly available. IBM and StarTech are independent companies. Aside from giving me this nice cable at no cost, I have not received any payment from StarTech or any other third party to mention them or their product on this blog, I am not affiliated with StarTech in any way, nor do I have any financial interest in their company.)
When the [Universal Serial Bus] standard first came out in the mid-1990s, my colleagues and I were all excited that this will finally put an end to all the proprietary plugs and cables that each manufacturer seemed to waste their time re-inventing the wheel with yet another cable connector. For the most part, USB has simplified this, and the USB cable can be used for both data transfer and for power charging.
Today, there are many alternatives to using a cable for data transfer, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but people are finding that their smart phones and other devices run out of juice way too often. At various conferences, I have seen several people panic looking for an electrical outlet to charge their device, and a few brazen enough to ask other attendees, "Can I plug my phone into your laptop?"
(Caution: Be careful allowing strangers to plug their device into your USB port, as this can provide data transfer in addition to power charging, spreading viruses or other malicious intent. On my Lenovo Thinkpad T410, one of the USB ports is colored yellow and is always powered on, even when my laptop is in suspend or hibernation mode. This would be a safe way to allow someone to charge off your power without concern for data transfer in either direction.)
Recently, I have flown on airplanes where each seat had a USB charging port, ideal if you want to listen to music or watch a video on your device. I have also driven a rental carthat had USB charging ports in addition to the traditional cigarette lighter option, especially useful if you need to make an emergency phone call at the side of the road, or if you are using the GPS navigation feature to find your way. These are both a good step in the right direction!
Carrying one cable instead of two might not seem like much of a big deal, but if you think about it, complexity in the IT industry is all about the number of cables admins have to deal with. The push from 1GbE to 10GbE can help reduce the number of cables. Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) takes it one step further, allowing NFS, CIFS, iSCSI and FCoE to all flow over a single cable. This can greatly reduce complexity in your IT environment.
If you are interested in reducing the complexity in your IT environment, contact your local IBM Business Partner or sales representative.
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Last Year's Resolutions
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My how time flies! The month is almost over, and people are asking if I plan to discuss my [New Years' Resolutions]. For those readers new to my blog, you can review the [resolutions I made in prior years]. I started blogging about my New Year's resolutions back in 2007 because IBM has a "black-out" period before it announces its year-end financial results, and I can't talk about IBM itself during that time.
Two articles gave me some insight.
Derek Silvers writes in his blog post [Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.] Here is an excerpt:
The solution for this? Spread out your resolutions throughout the year. That is the advice from Jonah Lehrer in his Wall Street Journal article [Blame it on the Brain]. Here is an excerpt:
Based on those two articles, I focused last year on a single resolution, to lose weight. It worked, I lost some weight, not as much as I wanted, and certainly not for the usual eat-
First, I tried Tim Ferris' [Four Hour Body] diet, and I had every intention to post about my progress throughout the year, but that didn't happen. The diet involved eating a restricted diet for six days--including beans, green vegetables, and lean meats--then having one cheat day where you eat a whole bunch of the bad foods you weren't allowed the prior week. The problem I had was that I got so used to eating the same way six days a week, that I forgot to cheat! On this diet, cheating is not optional, it is mandatory. Mo, on the other hand, had no problem with the cheat days, and even extended this to cheat afternoons and cheat evenings!
Mid-year, I saw the movie [Forks Over Knives]. I consulted with my doctor, and switched over to a plant-based, whole-foods diet with his approval. This is basically [dietary veganism]: no eggs, no dairy, no meat, no fish, no poultry. What's left? Lots of slow carbs like beans, spinach and quinoa, that I had already learned to cook and eat earlier on Tim Ferriss' diet, without the stress of remembering to cheat on the weekend.
The nice thing about this diet is that you can eat a lot more than usual, so you are never hungry. The bad news is that I developed a vitamin deficiency, and so my doctor asked me to switch to a relaxed mostly-vegetarian diet, with some eggs, some fish, some meat, and lots of vitamin supplements.
I thought I would start 2012 with a bunch of funny resolutions, like the ones in [Chuck & Beans], but I decided to keep things on a serious level. If you've made resolutions, do not tell anyone what they are, and try focusing on a single one at a time.
For all of you who had a bad year in 2011, I hope you have a much better one in 2012!
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Like Animals in the Zoo
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Some job titles can be vague. Have you ever given your title to a person at a cocktail party, only to have to explain exactly what you do? With a title like "IBM Master Inventor and Senior Managing Consultant", this happens to me all the time. To help explain what we do at the Tucson Executive Briefing Center (EBC), I use the following analogy.
People who want to see or interact with animals have several options. One option is to go visit the animals in their natural habitat. A more convenient option, however, is to visit the animals in a zoo. Zoos bring together a wide variety of animals, making it convenient to visit all of them at one time.
I did not fully appreciate the advantage of zoos until I took a safari in Kenya, Africa a few years ago. The word safari means "long journey" in Swahili. For two weeks, we drove around in a Land Rover on bumpy roads across the country. The best time to see the animals was early in the morning and late in the afternoon. We would drive around for hours looking for a type animal we had not seen already. Most came to see the so-called "Big Five": Buffalo, Elephant, Leopard, Lion and Rhinoceros. After two weeks and hundreds of miles, we had seen the "Big Nine" which extends the Big Five to include the Cheetah, Zebra, Giraffe and Hippo, as well as seeing a variety of other, lesser known animals.
When it comes to zoos, there are two kinds.
Over the past 15 years, IBM has been consolidating storage development in Tucson, Arizona moving storage-related projects from San Jose, CA, from Rochester, MN, and from Raleigh, NC. Tucson has the largest collection of IBM storage hardware and software development in North America. I am one of the three local "docents", guiding the clients that come to Tucson to visit the developers.
(Note: I have seen other analogies to discuss groups of developers. There is an old adage: engineers are [like mushrooms: kept in the dark, covered with manure, and then canned when they are old enough]. In 2008, I had a popular blog post relating [Software Programmers as Bees]. In referring to developers as animals in the zoo in this post, I am treating them in high esteem as the star attractions of the zoo. This blog is not meant as commentary on their hygiene.)
Here are some of the types of developers that our clients ask to interact with:
On behalf of the rest of the Tucson EBC, I would like to thank all the developers who have helped us last year with client briefings. There are too many to mention, and most are too humble to let me put their names in this blog. Team, your assistance is very appreciated!
Many IBMers consider Tucson to be the headquarters for storage, and I have heard IBM executives refer to Tucson as the center of the universe for storage products. However, IBM is a global company. Just as zoos do not pretend to be complete collections of animals, IBM storage development is not entirely contained in Tucson. IBM Research for storage is also done in Almaden CA, Yorktown Heights NY, and Haifa, Israel. Hardware development is also done in Japan, Europe and Israel. Tivoli Storage has locations in Beaverton, Oregon, and Austin, Texas, to name a few. IBM is a big company, so if I left your favorite location off the list, let me know in the comments below.
Some clients, sales reps and business partners have complained that Tucson is not the most convenient location to get to. I get that. One rep asked why we don't have briefing centers somewhere more accessible, such as Chicago or Atlanta, both cities offer a major airline hub. As much as I personally enjoy cities like Chicago or Atlanta, people don't visit zoos just to see the docents, they come to see the animals. Having docents located in Chicago or Atlanta, standing sadly in front of empty cages with no animals to interact with, makes no sense at all.
With over 350 days of sunshine per year, Tucson is actually a well-kept secret. Clients who have never been to Tucson discover the wonders of the Sonoran desert. Coyotes chase roadrunners across our parking lot. Several clients who have come to visit us have ended up buying retirement homes here. If you haven't been to Tucson, or it has been a while since your last trip, I encourage you to [schedule a briefing]. The weather right now is ideal!
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Mark Your Calendars - IBM Pulse2012 and IBM Edge2012
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Mark your calendars! If you work in IT and have an interest in storage, then there are two upcoming conferences you might be interested in attending!
Join a network of your peers at [IBM Pulse2012] who are fundamentally and cost-effectively changing the economics of IT and speeding the delivery of innovative products and services. With four days of top-notch education, Pulse 2012 will help you react with agility in changing competitive landscapes, reduce vulnerability throughout the service lifecycle, and continuously improve the business impact of the technology.
I presented at the very first IBM Pulse back in May 2008, which was a combination event to cover Tivoli Storage, Maximo and Netcool. For a bit of nostalgia, read my 2008 blog posts:
In 2009, IBM decided to launch its "Dynamic Infrastructure" initiative at Pulse. Here were my blog posts:
In 2010, IBM announced [Tivoli Storage Manager v6.2].
In 2011, I was unable to attend, so I sent my colleague Tom Rauchut as my on-the-scene correspondent. At this event, IBM launched its Smarter Computing initiative.
The IBM Pulse conference has certainly evolved over the past few years! The agenda is not yet finalized, so I don't know if I will be there again this year.
The second event has a new name. [IBM Edge2012] is the premier storage event that brings together innovative IBM technologies, world class training, leading industry experts, and compelling client success stories and best practices. Edge2012 is dedicated to helping you design, build and implement efficient storage infrastructure solutions.
We started doing these back in the mid-90s, entitled the "IBM Storage Symposium", then later the "IBM System Storage and Storage Networking Symposium". In 2007, I was there in Las Vegas presenting on a variety of topics. See my blog post [Storage Symposium 2007 recap].
In 2008, we had a version of the Storage Symposium down in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Not only did I present, but it was also a "book signing" event for my first book [Inside System Storage: Volume I]. Here were my blog posts: [Introduction], and [Conclusion]. We also had an event in the United States, as well as Montpelier, France, but since I already went to the one in Mexico, I let my colleagues go to these other ones instead.
In 2009, IBM experimented with combining two conferences under one roof in Chicago, IL. The IBM System Storage and Storage Networking Conference was combined with the IBM System x and BladeCenter Technical Conference. The idea was that server people would probably also be interested in storage, and storage admins might also be interested in x86-based servers. See my blog post [Storage Symposium 2009 recap].
In 2010, System Storage and System x were once again combined, held in Washington DC, but the conferences were renamed to IBM System Storage Technical University and the IBM System x Technical University to give them a common look and feel. See my blog post [Storage University 2010 review].
In 2011, not satisfied that two data points was inconclusive, IBM continued the experiment, hosting both System Storage and System x conferences in Orlando, Florida. Here were my blog posts:
The results are now in. While I think it is admirable to run multiple conferences at the same time in the same place can help reduce costs and consolidate adminstration, it can have its drawbacks also. In the case of System Storage and System x, we learned a few things:
The solution - IBM Edge. This conference is focused 100 percent on storage. There will be "Executive Edge" for decision makers to network with their peers, and "Technical Edge" for the storage admins to get the technical education they are looking for on IBM System Storage and Networking products and solutions. Please note that this conference was held in July or August in previous years, but will be held in June this year.
I am very excited about this new direction, and plan to be there in June 4-8 for this event!
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Three Days on the Queen Mary
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This week I was aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California! This was a business event organized by [Key Info Systems], a valued IBM Business Partner. Key Info resells IBM servers, storage and switches.
The Queen Mary retired in 1967, and has been converted into a hotel and events venue. The locals just parked their car and walked on board, but I got to stay Tuesday through Thursday in one of the cabins. It was long and narrow, with round windows! There were four dials for the bathtub: Cold Salt, Hot Fresh, Cold Fresh, and Hot Salt.
Stepping on the boat was like walking back in time through history! If you decide to go see it, check out the [Art Deco bar at the front of the Promenade deck. The ship is still in the water, but is permanently docked. It is sectioned off to prevent the ocean waves from affecting it, so we did not have the nauseous moving back and forth normally associated with cruise ships.
(It is with a bit of irony that we are on the Queen Mary just days after the tragedy of the [Costa Concordia], the largest Italian cruise ship that ran aground near Isola de Giglio. The captain will have to explain how he [fell into a lifeboat] before he had a chance to wait for everyone else to get safely off the shipwreck. He was certainly no [Captain Sulley]! I am thankful that most of the 4,200 people survived the incident.)
Special thanks to Lief Morin for sponsoring this event, Raquel Hernandez from IBM for coordinating my travel, and Pete, Christina and Kendrell from Key Info Systems for organizing the activities!
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