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Marlins' offense searching for consistency
MIAMI -- After matching a season high for runs scored and setting a team high for hits on Tuesday night at Minnesota, Marlins manager Mike Redmond was hopeful his club's offense was waking up.
After all, the Marlins beat the Twins, 8-5, in Game 2 of a doubleheader on Tuesday at Target Field, collecting 16 hits in the process.
Off on Wednesday, the Marlins responded quickly on Thursday, scoring three runs in the first two innings against the Cubs at Marlins Park. But a two-run lead slipped away, and Miami lost, 4-3.
A lack of consistent run production remains an issue for the slumping Marlins.
They've scored 57 runs total in their first 22 games. It's the fewest runs by a Marlins team in the month of April.
Actually, Miami has struggled to score in April for the past two years. Previously, the franchise low for runs in the month is 73, established last year.
"We're looking for guys to step up and get big hits," Redmond said. "That's really what we need, all around, confidence-wise, and for everybody."


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The Cooloola Coast Fraser Island Tourist Drive will take you on a journey from one aquatic playground to another through the UNESCO recognised Great Sandy Biosphere and a unique eco coastal system known as the Great Sandy Straits.
Meandering between the seaside towns of Tin Can Bay and Rainbow Beach and acting as the southern gateway to World Heritage listed Fraser Island, the Cooloola Coast Fraser Island Tourist drive is a great nature based drive.
|54 Kilometres
Start your drive at the Tin Can Bay Marina, which is home to the local Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins that visit every morning around 7.30am. Take the rare chance to hand feed these wonderful animals before breakfast. After breakfast take a walk around the water front and along the Tin Can Bay Wildflower Walk to the wetlands and view the many unique and rare bird species that live in this special eco system called the Great Sandy Strait. The sheltered waters around Tin Can Bay are a perfect place to hire a house boat for a night, or simply spend some time kayaking around the area. The village is also home to fishing fleets and several seafood outlets, or throw in a line in at one of the great fishing spots and catch one of your own.
Once you have looked around Tin Can Bay drive along the Ghost Gumtree lined road for approximately 10 kilometres to the turn off to Rainbow Beach.
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|Suggested Stops
Cooloola Berries
Silky Oak Tea Gardens
Tin Can Bay Dolphin Feeding
You have now entered the Cooloola Great Sandy National Park. Wild and beautiful, the park offers some of the best four-wheel drive trails in Queensland. These trails will take you deep into the Pine plantations and rugged coastal bush. Staying on the road to Rainbow Beach you will pass a variety of bush systems and species as the road winds and rolls along towards the coastal playground of Rainbow Beach.
Stop and explore Searys Creek (eight kilometres before Rainbow Beach) and swim in the clear water. The flat boardwalk and accessible shallow water at Seary's Creek makes this site wheelchair friendly and a popular swimming spot for young families. For those who want more adventure, a couple of kilometres before Rainbow Beach is Freshwater Track. The track is gravel but two wheel drive accessible to Lake Poona picnic area before becoming a four wheel drive only track that will take you through rainforest and coastal dunes to Teewah Beach south of Double Island Point.
Staying on the bitumen you will reach the seaside paradise of Rainbow Beach.
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Rainbow Beach is a true coastal gem that retains its character from the 1980's with a few more modern additions. Along the main street stop and enjoy a coffee and snack at one of the cafes, before strolling down to the beach for the view around to Double Island Point.
One of the must visits of Rainbow Beach are the towering cliffs of coloured sands. The coloured sands in the cliff face gave Rainbow Beach its name; they can be accessed by driving (it is an actual road) or walking along the beach. Rainbow Beach is a great adventure destination, where you have your choice of skydiving, surfing, kayaking with dolphins and sometimes whales, scuba diving with Grey Nurse sharks or horse riding along the beach front. Double Island Point is a magnet for marine life and makes a great day trip for scenic walks and camping out under the stars; all this is accessible at low tide via four wheel drive vehicles only. To continue on the tourist drive follow the signs in Rainbow Beach to Inskip Point.
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Leaving Rainbow Beach and heading out Inskip Point comes with coastal scenery.
Inskip is a popular beach camping area that is just across from the famous World Heritage listed Fraser Island- another great holiday camping location. Inskip Point recreation area is a popular destination as it offers both open ocean surf and the sheltered estuary waters of Tin Can Bay and the Great Sandy Strait.
Just north of the recreation area the Cooloola Coast Fraser Island drive ends, from here you can catch the Mantaray Barge across to Fraser Island for more fun and adventure. – four wheel drive permits apply.
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Obsessed Golfer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 244 diseños de 45 diseñadores freelance.
This will be the name of a blog to appear on a major market radio station's website ... and will cross-promote with my own complementary website, aQuick9.com. The title comes from what golfers will call a round of golf if they're pressed for time...or already played 18 and want a little more. Let's play "a quick nine."
This blog will feature nine items... including deals at area courses, swing tips, and the centerpiece will be a weekly video "Quick9" tour of a local golf course.
Golfers. Need I say more?
I want this logo to be clean and classy. I would like the plain version of aQuick9 to be easily adaptable to aQuick9.com .
I don't want you to force it to be too golfy. Just a good looking font and two colors would be ok... I don't want any golf balls in this artwork. Maybe a flag with a number 9 on it could be included... but the flag would need to be simple, almost along the lines of the 99designs logo... no old stereotyped golf flags.
Golfers know the language of "a quick nine" ... so I don't need to make the golf tie-in too obvious. Non-golfers won't care and I don't need to attract them.
I'd like the winner to provide the logo with a clear background... and a second version with a .com attached that I can use as a link on another site. The .com version does not need to be a part of your contest entry.
Did I mention clean and classy???!!!!!
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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There is a huge difference between regular BMW Angel Eyes and LED BMW Angel Eyes. The first thing any driver will notice is the unique blue color. Regular stock Angel Eyes perform well and look nice but LED possesses a distinctive character that regular bulbs can't match.
My friend sent me pictures of his X5 after installing our BMW Angel Eyes. I guess he got too lazy and stopped half way. Just kidding. The difference of the two Angel Eyes is quite dramatic. The pure Xenon White color stands out brightly.
Lights, camera, action! That's what your BMW will say the moment you turn on the engine. BMW Angel Eyes are a nice touch up for the X5. LED Angel Eyes sport a classy and a sleek appearance all together. Okay so we get that the color is unique, but what else is so unique about these BMW X5 Angel Eyes?
As some of you may know, LED consumes less energy from your car battery and it can last longer than regular bulbs. In most cases, LED Angel Eyes will last as long as your car! Brighter and energy efficient, that's a pretty good deal. Of course owning a pair of Angel Eyes isn't exactly free, but it's one of the best investments for a BMW.
If you want to improve your BMW, upgrading your Angel Eyes is an effortless and reliable method. Other investments such as a new paint job or upgrading the seats can cost a bundle. In this economy everyone is looking for the best deals. BMW X5 Angel Eyes is just another good deal any driver can invest upon. If you're looking for a new change yet money is tight or you just want to save a couple bucks, then consider the LED BMW X5 Angel Eyes.
Brought to you by www.iJDMTOY.com, the one and only one automotive accessories store for all your Car LED Lights. Follow us on Facebook for special discount and product upgrade information.


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As we all know, there is a lot of misinformation related to EVs out there. One Chevy Volt fire in a NHTSA test and the EV haters come out of the woodwork with bogus claims that EVs are 'fire hazards'. Apologies if this is a duplicate (Tesla forum search is broken), but as I sometimes suffer from XKCD386 syndrome ( http://xkcd.com/386/ ), I ran across this statistic:
In 2010, there were 184,500 highway vehicle fires which resulted in 285 deaths, 1,440 injuries, and $1 billion dollars in direct property damage. We all know gas is flammable, but I found the size of this number staggering. If anything else contributed to this much damage and death annually, I'm sure there would be many taking up arms trying to get it banned!
The next time someone tries to spin a yarn to you about EVs having any issue whatsoever with fires, feel free to educate them on the Molotov cocktail they're driving around.
How true, I have educated many a person that I would much rather drive my safer, less fire prone electric any day.


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Hi,Fifo wrote:KDE CE 7 doesn't work at all for me. (the gnome works perfect)
i installed and could not enter the system settings manager, it would always crash on me. and some additional crashes from time to time. so i installed all updates. no change.
actually i couldn't do the updates with mintupdate, because it crashed my computer as well. doing upgrades through apt-get and aptitude worked though.
well no change with those updates so enabled more and more repos installed more and more updates. it got a little better, i can open the settings manager now. but i still get a lot of crashes all the time. it is not usable at all.
i'm sorry but i can't detect any pattern in the crashes. one time i will try to launch amarok for example - computer freezes. next time i try it starts normally. i have no idea what is causing this, but it really sucks. my computer freezes all the time - completely i can't kill X or shutdown. have to throw the hard power switch all the time.
i didn't have those freezes in KDE CE 6
don't think i'm much of a help here, because i can't tell you at all what's wrong. but i still wanted to report
No offence but i think you should try a good Mint KDE CE 7 RC1 Gloria install DVD for installing the system on hard drive. Yours is a bad one.
Some files in it (DVD) are corrupted. Everything you wrote here is not true. It`s my opinion.
I think all the bugs in Mint KDE CE 7 Gloria have been already tracked by the community. These reported bugs here are not to be considered as major ones.
Again i would say i am Very Optmistic with this version of Mint KDE CE 4.2.4. Towards the final version (Stable). It`s gonna be a great release.
Boo, Great Job.
Edited - Boo , please, let PPA repo open on sources.list (upgrade to KDE 4.3 and Amarok)


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Demi Moore's Issues Are Not The Reason Scout Willis Is Drinking
A Willis family friend tells HollywoodLife.com that Scout Willis' arrest is not a reflection of her mother's problems.
Scout Willis was arrested on June 4 after being caught drinking underage with a fake ID. But a source close to the Willis family tells us this does not at all have anything to do with Demi Moore and her recent troubles.
"Her parents are great parents and even though Demi had her issues a few months ago, those are her issues and they don't affect Scout in any way nor is Scout influenced by her mom's behavior .Even though Scout is only twenty, she's a grown woman and she makes her own decisions," explains our insider.
"It's just a single stupid incident," our source continues. "I mean, really? She got in trouble for a) drinking in public and b) having a fake ID. I'm so irritated by this because she's my friend and it's being blown out of proportion in the news. How many people who are twenty-years-old drink? So many. And OK, she was wrong for showing a fake ID but there are so many people who do that. I'm not saying it's right — I'm just saying if she wasn't who she was no one would care."
So will Scout be a repeat offender? Her friend definitely doesn't think so. "This is an isolated incident and I'm sure Scout has learned her lesson and she's pass this. She'll go to court and do what she has to do to get this pesky incident taken care of and behind her."


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Apple Announces New "Safari" Browser
In kicking off the Macworld Expo
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
After a little research I am happy to report that someone has taken up the initiative to port to Windows, See:
By DP at Fri, 2003/01/24 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
Well gosh, thanks to your insightful yet subtle post I can now see the error of my ways. Your mispelling of my name, Microsoft's, and the subsequent reference to "lamers" have unquestionably put me in my place. It certainly gets right to the heart of my argument by referring to me as an "f***ing IDIOT". It is literally all I can do to suppress a "same to you, but more of it, nah, nah, nah" reply in kind, but I digress.
I have now grown up to where I realize just how right you are. If every key piece of software from Unix line were available on Windows, then of course the populace of computer users would flock to Linux by the millions. It's all so clear now. They'd all leave Windows so they can... ummm, errr, gimme just a second here. No wait, I'm sure it's something to do with... umm. I know, they could install a FREE Linux on top of the copy of Windows... that came pre-installed on their PC. No, that can't be it.
Well darn it, I guess I'm back to being a lamer, idiot, geek again. And here I was, so very close to being all growned up.
By Metrol at Fri, 2003/01/24 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
Raeding from your story, it has become quite clear to me that you have never taken the trouble to go beyond rather narrow boundaries as far as self education is concerned, which is of course good for Microsoft Windows sales as they focus on exactly this type of cattle, and yes, Linux lovers are usually of a superior intelligence and broad-mindedness, so the wheat is separated from the chaff, so what you call Geek is in fact a compliment, however, you are in no position to give a compliment because of your relative low scientific level compared to Geeks. Enjoy MicroCrap !
By Gill Bates at Sat, 2003/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
Actually, if you look beyond all the swearing and immature ranting, Mr. Pagliarulo has a very, very, very good point. I think that the whole linux community, already knowing a lot about computers, forget what it is like to not understand something about computers.
Then, once you had a beginner freindly linux distro going(knoppix would be the one i would choose), you do what he said and port linux programs to windows to give people exposure to linux, but being careful not to make people think that they should just keep using ported versions and never switch to linux.
My Idea would be to figure out how to get it set up with computer retailers like Fry's Electronics and Circuit City(Although you would start with little stores first) to have live cd's up by the candy and the cash register and ideally give them away free like AOL discs although since linux is free there is no war chest to pay for all this.
By Steve Wood at Fri, 2005/07/15 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
I couldn't agree more. Think about this. I'm just about ready to make the transition TO LINUX because I'm finally almost exclusively using free software on windows.
List of cross compatible apps I use daily:
Now that all my productivity software is cross platform, it will take very little effort to just change the underlying Operating System from Windows to Linux. Believe me, the WGA tool microsoft is using really pisses me off as a legitimate owner & user of their genuine software. It took me 3 days and some support from their forums to figure out how to make it work. Too much trouble for a piece of software I paid for, but I digress.
Nothing would make me happier than to see more cross platform apps where the users on Windows could become reliant on those apps and then it will make the transition to linux painless.
By Fred at Fri, 2006/06/09 - 5:00am
friendly penguin
Rock, Rock on. the WGA sucks considerably, word is, Vista hit hard with their 'big brother'.
when the day finally comes when the built in "windows downgrade" (accessible through the control panel) doesn't LET you run XP, i'm making the jump to something worthwhile. this would preferably be done sooner, but as stated before, its not as user friendly as it could be, the only exception i could find would be Ubuntu, an exilent idea. i already use OOo all of the time, but prefer the Gimp over photoshop, Firefox is a given, and love you guys for the link to win32 Konqueror.
Gnome is great and all, but if there was as simple an install for Knoppix or what have you, i know many people that would jump in an instant.
PS: i got this invite for a "customer satisfaction" survey in an email, try to be polite, but have fun!
By Link at Wed, 2007/03/21 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
I couldn't agree more. There is absolutely no way people will be convinced to switch to Linux without a taste of the best. Sure, vmware and stuff helps, but it just isn't as good as full throttle. I myself find life in Windows happy enough, but with a bit more linux without cygwin, just native compatibility, we will definitely have more switchers.
By anger2headshot at Wed, 2006/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
I'm a newbi on Linux and I can say that I would love to switch once for all to linux, but this is not easy.
By Marco at Sat, 2007/02/03 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
Upon searching for a port of Konqueror for Win, my first impression at the start of this flame is, "Domenico is not someone I would like to either collaborate with nor take very seriously."
It doesn't take too many decades in the business to realize that there are many dimensions to software, and any given expert is lacking in one or more of them. Of course, we know some of Domenico's lacking expertise, notably professionalism, social networking, and emotional maturity; however, he is also not understanding the clear difference between commercial software and open-source software.
I hope some metaphorical light bulbs start popping.
Commercial software is created to be sold and updated and patched and supported, at cost. Quality here is sacrificial if your market is strong enough. That is business.
Open-source is geared to creating better products, of course, better in the minds of those creating them. It is a clear-hearted desire to make a strong, positive mark in the world.
In the end, one becomes better financed and marketed and the other continues seeking to improve yet remains hidden.
So while Mr. Pagliarulo enjoys getting his rant on, he effectively is accomplishing very little. If his experience is marketing, then he should perhaps consider applying his trade to aid those whose lives are dedicated to making better software products than propaganda techniques. Because as 'most of us' know, open-source is a story of collaboration that is epic. Nationality, religion, sex, philosophy are ignored in the quest for better software.
I hope in some small way Mr. Pagliarulo reviews this with an open mind and considers who he really is ( as perceived ) compared to what he perceives himself to be. I hope his next jaunt into cyber-wars displays an evolved perspective.
Pass it on.
By SeekerOfWisdom ... at Thu, 2007/02/15 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
Who gives a hoot about which operating system is better. I personally use both, and it's all user preference. Please quit arguing and settle on "everyone is different". It bothers me to no end when people don't understand this. On a more related note, I got Konqueror working on my Windows via Cygwin. There's nothing wrong with trying to use Konqueror on a different operating system than Linux.
By Abe at Fri, 2008/08/22 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
It is correct nobody take effort to make available best linux application to MS Windows. KDE guys should rethink abt it.
By Vij83 at Tue, 2008/09/16 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
I use Konqueror under Linux 8.1 SuSE on all my machines. No Windows anymore. No Internet Explorer anymore. No NetScape Anymore. The Web world looks wonderful.
By Past Present Future at Sun, 2003/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
There is another reason why some of us on Windows want a Windows version of Konqueror. We want our web sites to be usable for Konqueror users. If we don't have a Windows version, then many web sites will be frustrating for people using Konqueror on the UNIX desktop. That will slow acceptance of the UNIX desktop.
By Tom Klem at Thu, 2003/05/29 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
There were times I had Linux installed just for testing some of my stuff in Konqueror-like browsers, still back in the time of NN4.x "bugward compatibility" coding that ruined 90% of W3C's ideas on web accessibility. I tried to make my friends think how great Linux was, but ended up buying Win-based applications, while there was nothing really challenging among KDE tools. Hipocrisy? No. Sole survival.
You Linux geeks wouldn't have to provide all the tools within the Win Konqueror version. I don't mind, after switching to Opera7 I'll never get back to IE or something, because finally I see the light at the end of the dark tunnel of xml-based content that was supposed to provide web content to all people and different browsers.
See, either you make a browser that's at least 99% W3C-specs compliant OR please, please gimme a chance to CARE for Linux users and check my pages before launching, BUT on Windows, while I'm never 100% sure on my xhtml/css layout. Do I really have to check them? Here in Poland i get 0.4% of Linux-user hits during the week...
btw I found this page looking for a chance to download Konqueror for Win. regards.
By bigMac at Wed, 2003/06/11 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
I agree with the above posts, especially now that the default Mac Browser uses the same rendering engine. It would save a heck of a lot of time and effort, I mean I could dual boot in to Linux or I could buy a Mac or VMware (yeah on my salary). But I'd rather just click on an Icon and test away.
Thanks for your time
By Jimus at Fri, 2003/10/31 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
I completly agree with the idea of a Konqueror for Windows. When I create my websites using XHTML+CSS, I always test them in Firefox, Opera and IE. Why not Konqueror, too?
By Júlio Santos Mo... at Sun, 2005/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
I've done exactly the same as others - I've tested most of this particular site ( http://www.pompey-pics.com ) in opera, IE7 Firefox 2 and 3 and Safari, but cannot test on Konqueror at the moment.
Oh, if anyone can test this site on Konqueror, please let me know!
By www.pompey-pics.com at Sat, 2008/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
Why not just run kde cygwin and install that. That should give you exactly what you want. Here's a link to another artcile: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Unix-Linux-OS-1064/install-Konqueror-Windows-...
By Kerratos at Tue, 2008/09/23 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror for Windows?
Well, I was one of the computer users reluctant to "migrate" from Win32 to GNU/Linux, mostly because of specific applications used at the time. I must outline that most of the Win32 software I use to have on was not legit.
Four years ago, I upgraded my PC, and installed XP. My scanner was no longer recognised, and my printer and digital camera worked so-so, because of drivers. One year ago, I got a big nhard disk crash. I decided to give GNU/Linux a try, using the Red Hat 7 distro and the Gnome desktop. My scanner still was not recognised, but that was no worse than Win XP.
I had grown accustomed to the Open/Star Office, GIMP, Mozilla and Opera on Win32, so "migrating" to GNU/Linux wasn't that hard. I actually discovered that using binary RPMs was no harder that looking after a crack and applying it on an trial installation. Over time, I upgraded to Red Hat 8 and Red Hat 9. On the latter install, I decides to give a try to KDE, and was wery pleased by the quality and detail of the interface, which comes very close to a Win XP desktop in terms of ease of use.
According to me, GNU/Linux is very close to being ready for the desktop. I agree that it would be a mistake to try to make Linux more like Windows. Yet by porting native GNU/Linux applications to Apple or Windows, programmers actually broaden the user base and offer the convenience of having the same interface whatever the OS. Applications such as Blender, Sodipodi, Open Office, Opera, Gaim, GIMP or Mozilla could become universal, platform-free standard UI's.
By Fejack at Mon, 2003/08/25 - 5:00am
There are some bugs in Konq 3.0 that prevent me from using it as default browser instead of mozilla.
By chris at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: Safari
3.1 is already a big improvement over 3.0, so you may not be waiting long.
By Hamish Rodda at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Jaguar goes global with Safari!
It still hasn't sunk in yet! The notion of using an Apple-branded browser seemed like a 'pipe dream' only a few days ago! However, here I am using Safari and looking forward to a brighter future-in-surfing courtesy of Apple and KDE. Kudos to everyone involved.
If anyone wants to contact me and discuss Apple/Open Source-related matters. Please visit:
By John Hood at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
When will this merge with KDE?
When will the changes merge with the "official" KDE?
By Stof at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: When will this merge with KDE?
it's already happening. there have been a dozen or two commits merging the safari changes in already...
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platform
Hello all,
I don't know if all of you really grasp what "Safari" means for Konqueror.
Think of it: all future Macs will ship with a KHTML-based web browser *as the default browser*.
Apple has a total market share of somewhere around 5 % (approximately the same as Linux) in the Desktop market. So first of all, KHTML's market penetration will double.
Secondly, while Linux users can usually decide on installation time whether to use KDE or Gnome, Mac users have to stick to "Aqua" (not a loss, Aqua is great!), so while about 2/3 Linux users (optimistic guess) use KDE, 100% Apple users will end up with a KHTML-browser in their Dock.
Thirdly, a number of (Linux) KDE-users will install Mozilla or Opera as default browser. Well, it's just how these tech-geeks are: more toys with more options are more fun. At least you guys need some kind of email client and Mozilla's is just great.
Mac users don't need another email client. Apple's "Mail" is professional grade and beats most costly professional mail-clients. And while there are still a number of other great web browsers for MacOS X (my favourites being "Chimera", "iCab" and "Mozilla" - in this order), very few will see a reason to change the default web browser.
So my estimation is that less than one quarter of Linux users is using Konqueror, but in a while, approx. 80 % Mac Users will use Safari. Or in other words, KHTML's market share will quadruple.
But wait, there is more to it: over 2/3 of Web designers and creatives is using Macs - while their usage on Desktop Linux should be somewhere below 1 %.
This means that KHTML's penetration on Web designer's workstations will increate by some 5000 % (in words: over five thousand percent!). In the future, almost every serious web designer will have a KHTML-based browser on (or under) his/her desk.
Web pages will be adopted to look good with KHTML - not the other way around.
This is the good and the bad news: Konqueror is out of the niche and starts to play in the major league.
All thumbs up for you guys.
(Admin, Mac-Programmer and Web Designer)
By Sascha Leib at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platform
Now, is that good news or bad news?
By Watchdog at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platform
Apple's marketshare is currently 2.25% worldwide. That's obviously a far different number then their percentage of the total installed base of PCs but it's been down in the 1.8-3% range for many years so it's probably pretty close.
Not nearly half of all Macs out there are even running OS X yet so we're looking at a fraction of a fraction. It's still a pretty significant addition of KHTML end users though.
By Jordan Fisk at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platf
> Not nearly half of all Macs out there are even running OS X yet
If Quark would get out of their vaporware mode I would imagine the OSX numbers to jump in a significant way. There's a lot of publishing folks holding at OS9 for purely this reason.
If another year goes by without an OSX version of QuarkExpress, I rather expect that Adobe will simply eat that market segment as the industry won't wait forever no matter how in love they are with Quark.
However it plays, the OSX conversion will happen this year. Plus the fact that all new Macs sold are OSX by default. That's a lot of boxes out there. Especially in the notebook realm.
By Michael Collette at Fri, 2003/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platform
Something almost everyone forgets in these market share estimates is the education market in which Apple has lead for generations though lately Dell is about tied with and Linux has barely begun to be a presence - and Apple is almost universal in k-6.
Now the k12 market is still running Mac OSes 7,8,9.... Mostly they are probably still running Netscape 4.08 - 4.8 though many are now in IE 5.1.x. But the migration to X has begun. Enterprise management for X has just begun with X Server 10.2 and will push ahead.
One of the biggest things pushing back is the State Budget crises - these force the buying cycle in k12 to slow (as that is where almost all k12 tech money comes from.) But there is a compensating influence. Up until recently all other departments tended to make requests of the tech dept to fulfill their own needs for hardware and software. Since the tech dept has generally run very low on money everyone is now putting up *their* money and asking the tech dept to buy the right thing. And X is what they are going to have to wrestle with!
Just something to think about.
By Steven Kolins at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platf
>Secondly, while Linux users can usually decide on installation time whether to use KDE or Gnome, Mac users have to stick to "Aqua" (not a loss, Aqua is great!), so while about 2/3 Linux users (optimistic guess) use KDE, 100% Apple users will end up with a KHTML-browser in their Dock.
you mix up the desktop and the window manager (or the toolkit layout). what apple users have to stick to is the used toolkit, which is the aqua-design. you can theme this a little bit like you can theme kde, but it's still the same toolkit.
like running konqueror in a gnome-environment you can run a different desktop and replace the finder, which is what you mean. this is document by apple. then run safari (or any other application) on top of this different desktop like konqueror in gnome.
so you seem to mix up aqua and finder.
By Oliver Kurlvink at Thu, 2003/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platf
Until a khtml based browser comes out for Windows it will be statistically insignificant for web designers.
As soon as one does, I will ensure that my pages work correctly in it.
By bobbob at Thu, 2003/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platf
By Anonymous at Thu, 2003/01/09 - 6:00am
Comment on desktop market share
I think the best estimate of desktop market share is Google usage, e.g.
That shows Mac users to be about 4% of web users and Linux users about 1% of web users. I'm sure there are millions of Linux machines doing a bang-up job as servers (including Google's own machines) but there are more Macs used a personal machines. However, many of those Macs are old and not running OS X.
By Rob Calhoun at Wed, 2003/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platf
[over 2/3 of Web designers and creatives is using Macs]
Do you have any proof of this statement, or did you just pull it out of thin air like all the others? I choose this one as it seemed the largest claim.
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
By extended at Fri, 2003/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platf
I highly doubt 2/3 or web designers use Macs.
I'll bet more than 40% are on windoze (FrontPage, Dreamweaver (I know mac version exists, but im willing to bet more people use PC version) plus I garantee you that 99.99% of people who program ASP pages use windoze)
After the 40% on windoze, ill bet roughly 30+% use *nix on iX86. This is b/c it is easiest to test on (save files directly and test locally), it is stable, all the nerds, who are after all the ones making the web pages like *nix, and its open source, just like PHP/MySQL etc... So I'm sure they use it just cause.
The remaining % is prolly mac web designers. (30%-) Macs have no real pros for web disigners unless they are also doing the graphics, which i would say rarely happens unless they are freelancing on thier own.
However... I still do agree that the fact that Safari using KDE code is a good thing. It cant hurt. Down with MicroCrap
By Eric Kincl at Sat, 2003/07/19 - 5:00am
Re: Safari Means Konqueror Becomes Reference Platf
> The remaining % is prolly mac web designers. (30%-) Macs have no real pros for web disigners unless they are also
Uh, wtf????? I think you're really talking out of your ass here, because a great deal of the web designing masters, such as Mark Pilgrim, use Macs. This is why a great deal of web designers were stirred when Safari came out. It was something they started using on a daily basis.
> I'll bet more than 40% are on windoze (FrontPage, Dreamweaver (I know mac version exists, but im willing to bet more people use PC version)
I'll be around 55-60% use Windows in fact.
> After the 40% on windoze, ill bet roughly 30+% use *nix on iX86. This is b/c it is easiest to test on (save files directly and test locally), it is stable, all the nerds, who are after all the ones making the web pages like *nix, and its open source, just like PHP/MySQL etc... So I'm sure they use it just cause.
Working on web development and administration as my day job, I've noticed very few using some sort of UNIX. Of course, a lot of the time, they are using UNIX servers for hosting, but more often than not, the UNIX servers are colocated and thus must be remotely accessed (and not through graphical means like X11)
I'd have to say less than 5% of web developers use *NIX as their workstation. Perhaps 60% use it for their servers though.
By anon at Sat, 2003/07/19 - 5:00am
one for apple!(?)
I'm just impressed that Apple's front page for Safari explicitly acknowledges Konqueror, i.e. one does not have to search through a hierarchy of links before Konqueror is mentioned. (This is impressive! Where did you, if ever, learn about BSD code used in MS-WIN-NT/2000?) Could this be the start of sg. big?
Well, maybe ... I hope that cooperation between Apple and KDE developers continues, and that Apple will be kind enough to return the favour and, besides mentioning Konqueror in connection with Safari, include link to the Konqueror and/or KDE on the Safari home page.
By Steven Hoomolya at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: one for apple!(?)
(This is impressive! Where did you, if ever, learn about BSD code used in MS-WIN-NT/2000?)
Isn't the TCP/IP stack based on BSD code?
By Jaq at Fri, 2003/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: one for apple!(?)
> Isn't the TCP/IP stack based on BSD code?
Ummm, everyone's TCP/IP stack is based on BSD code. Some of the earliest development on the protocol was worked on under BSD. Mind you, I believe this predates the BSD's we know today by quite a while. Back when BSD really truly meant Berkley University was working on it.
By Metrol at Fri, 2003/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: one for apple!(?)
> Where did you, if ever, learn about BSD code used
This goes right to the heart of the BSD vs GPL license. Apple couldn't release Safari without also releasing the source code, and thus the true source of where it came from. It was going to be pretty darn obvious whether they mentioned it or not. Might as well get OSS developers on their side.
Microsoft was under no obligation to mention BSD licensed code in their marketing, so they didn't. Nothing at all wrong with this, as they complied with all the terms of the license.
As to why Apple mentioned FreeBSD code within OSX right from the start? Couple of possible reasons for this, but none really to do with licensing. First off, Apple wanted to tap into some of the community support that comes with being a contributing member of the Free community. More importantly, it let the world know that the bug ridden infrastructure of OS9 had been removed and replaced with the impressive stability of FreeBSD. A definite marketing plus as they wanted to put the Mac platform under the Unix flag.
> that Apple will be kind enough to return the favour
I can't see where this is really needed. Apple has complied with the GPL by releasing their changes to the community. In so doing, both Apple and the *nix world at large benefit. Asking Apple to also provide free marketing is simply too much. Also, there's no real benefit to the Linux community directly at this point. Apple's web site is talking to Apple computer users making use of their hardware and OS. This isn't a segment that Linux is going to benefit from for quite a while yet. Even if it were, it'd be like RedHat linking to Suse's site. Just doesn't make sense.
By Michael Collette at Fri, 2003/01/10 - 6:00am
> Apple has complied with the GPL
Just to note, khtml and kjs are both licensed under the LGPL.
By Jiffy at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: one for apple!(?)
I clicked on Safari at http://www.apple.com
By some konqueror user at Sat, 2003/01/11 - 6:00am
How positive can you be!!
First of all, don't get me wrong. I'm an os X user, and i don't think there's anything like it. I hopefully look at the GNUstep project, but then that's the same technology.
Anyway, Apple could have made this browser completely open source?? why didn't they. Of cource this browser means recognition for the open source community, but it is also an easy way for apple to come with a new OS X browser.
soowe being an 'MacHead' I'm surprised that there are only positive reactions..
By jack at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: How positive can you be!!
Are you sure on that. Can somebody verify whether or not the whole thing is open source or not? I've heard both that it is and isn't. Either way, this is a great thing for Konqueror and OSS in general (bugfixes and improvements to KHTML and kjs, and punting IE from the Mac desktop).
By Anonymous Monkey at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: How positive can you be!!
The KWQ part is a KDE-QT/Quartz compatibility layer. It's the part that makes sure that khtml can talk to OSX. I don't see why it is such a big deal that they didn't open source that.
By Brandon at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: How positive can you be!!
At least some of it is open-sourced - it's part of the WebCore tarball. The license header looks like the BSD license to me, too.
By Sad Eagle at Wed, 2003/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: How positive can you be!!
KWQ is release with the WebCore packages which I have already checked out and nosed around in, as previously stated it seems to be just a cut down version of QT and KParts just to get things to run, It is not and should not be considered a QT replacement and on another note please understand it is just used to get Safari to run.
By Roberto J Dohnert at Thu, 2003/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: How positive can you be!!
I understand what KWQ is, and i agree that i's not such a big deal. It's good to hear that it's released with the Web-Core packages though.
By jack at Thu, 2003/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: How positive can you be!!
Every person or company who's contributing to the OSS is a good member of
By Tim Gollnik at Fri, 2003/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: How positive can you be!!
That is all they are required to do, that is all anyone who uses LGPL code is required to do. If the code was under GPL, it would be a different story and safari would never have seen the light of day. I don't see how what they did was in anyway not being a good OSS citizen. They contributed back code in the components they used from the KDE project and kept the code they wrote to interface with said code to themselves which is perfectly fine.
By Ari Ukkonen at Sun, 2003/01/12 - 6:00am


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Virginia-centric: Sandra Bullock yes, Ebert no
Sandra Bullock burst onto the American screen in 1994 with Speed, so it seems a natural fit she'd appear at this year's speed-themed Virginia Film Festival.
Bullock gets the main stage at Culbreth Saturday night, October 30, not only because she can drive a fast bus, but also because she's a Virginian– an emerging trend in this ever-more-Virginia Film Festival. The Arlington native will receive the festival's Virginia Film Award and bring along a clip of her newest film, Miss Congeniality 2.
The October 12 announcement of Bullock's attendance provides the star power some fans have come to expect at an event that in the past has hosted Anthony Hopkins, Sigourney Weaver, and in 2002, Nicolas Cage (who brought along Lisa Marie Presley during their momentary marriage).
Of course, for festival director Richard Herskowitz, finding a star is a distraction from the real business of programming a film festival, which he says is becoming more of a "director's" festival.
One missing luminary this year is film critic Roger Ebert, whose biannual shot-by-shot sessions are festival favorites. This year, writer/director Paul Schrader is filling the shot-by-shot slot, discussing Robert Bresson's 1959 classic, Pickpocket.
So where's Ebert?
He'll be at the Savannah Film Festival receiving a lifetime achievement award, but Herskowitz assures us that isn't a deliberate snub to the Virginia Fest.
"The person who asked him is an old, close friend," says Herskowitz. "He said he'd maintain his commitment if we insisted, but, 'I really want to do this.' He's been so generous with his time." Herskowitz promises that Ebert will come next year.
Even as the festival downplays star appearances, it's being offered so many major premieres that it has added a special premieres section to the October 28-31 program. Nicole Kidman's new film, Birth, and Liam Neeson and Laura Linney in Kinsey– about the sex study pioneer– will fill in two of the TBA spots. Another addition Herskowitz touts is the critically acclaimed Tarnation, a Jonathan Caouette documentary about growing up with a schizophrenic mother.
Already on the list of premieres is Chrystal, starring Billy Bob Thornton and directed by Ray McKinnon, the latter of whom will be on hand, as will David Gordon Green for the screening of his Undertow.
And the festival has become more homegrown, with Virginia filmmakers in general and Charlottesville in particular dominating the screenings. Academy Award-winner Paul Wagner offers a sneak preview of his work in progress, Angels; a UVA neurosurgeon's daughter, Sundance-acclaimed director Nicole Kassell screens The Woodsman, starring Kevin Bacon; and Jeff "Mother's Maiden Name is Couric" Wadlow heads the Adrenaline Film Project, in which a group of locals will make and screen a film in three days.
Another politician's progeny, director John Warner Jr., shows his "Speed"-appropriate films, The Golden Era of NASCAR and The Wendell Scott Story, with his U.S. senator dad on hand for the October 30 screening of the former.
Charlottesville producer Rick Preve contributes two documentaries to the festival– Tango: A Strange Turn, and Mondovino, a movie about wine production that will be followed by a Slow Food brunch with wine expert Neal Rosenthal picking the wine.
"We're expanding our interests and going beyond film, using film as a springboard," says Herskowitz. "It makes us different from other festivals, and this sort of thing gives it a big kick for me after 11 years. It's not getting boring."
A special treat for sexploitation fans, the festival pays tribute to the late Russ Meyer, the "King of Leer," on October 29, with a rare screening of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
The festival also honors the Great Escape and Bullittmeister himself, Steve McQueen, whose stunt double, Loren Janes, will be on hand for the October 30 showing of Bullitt.
"The theme is still a major component of the festival," says Herskowitz, "but we're reinventing ourselves all the time."
Festival guides will be out October 19, and look for the Hook's Guide-o-rama October 28.
Take a deep breath and try to keep up.
CHRIS, if this publicity shot of Sandra Bullock doesn't come through, there's one of Paul Schrader on the festival website.
Sandra Bullock won't be here in time for the Speed screening, but the consolation prize is a clip from Miss Congeniality 2 .
Taxi screenwriter Paul Schrader is manning the shot-by-shot session for Roger Ebert this year. Schrader also will discuss his 1992 flick, Light Sleeper, which stars Susan Sarandon and Willem Dafoe as drug dealers.


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Hey there!
I am trying to catch a swarm to start beekeeping, but i have almost no budget. So this is my first documented swarmtrap construction:
First of course, and it is not pictured here, i got me a hive, some wooden frames and some beeswax foundations.
As i am using the German standard frames (Deutsch Normalmass DNM), i looked for a container, that could hold frames (a colony on frames is easier to transfer into the hive).
I found this awesome fitting cardbord box:
So i started cutting two strips of wood, so that they could be used to mount the frames onto:
I marked inside the box where they would go best, glued and clamped them into place:
Like this, they are holding the frames:
I cut out a second floor out of cardboard, and glued it to reinforce the bottom:
Then i cut a foldable entrance hole into the front, that is big enough for a queen to enter and small enough to be easily defended:
I sprinkled a little lemon grass oil into it, and filled it half with frames, which have only starter strips of foundation in them. Should give the bees an impression of a big hollow:
The box measures 40cm x 24cm x 29cm = 27840 cubic centimeters, or 27,8 liters, except in the US, where it measures 15.7" x 9.4" x 11.4" = 7.4 gallons.
A decent size:
Finally, i improvised a roof from a piece of space blanket, to protect the cardboard from heavy rain:
The sticker above the entrance has my contact information on it.
I am not too concerned with bee space, because it is supposed to be only a temporary housing, until the swarm can be moved into its future home.
A wooden box would probably be better... And where and how should i position the swarmtrap? Please let me know what you think!


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Lost: Life, Death, And Everything In Between (My "Review" Of The Lost Finale)
And it's over.
Blink, blink.
Whoa. Wow. Huh.
That just happened.
Oh — just in case, this post needs a big honking SPOILER WARNING all over it, which at this point I feel should go largely unsaid. If you still need a spoiler warning about the Lost finale, you might want to… well, avoid the Internet today. And maybe tomorrow. Actually, just come back next week. Ironically, you'd do well to find yourself a distant island.
If you want to review my "thoughts of the moment," you're free to time travel backwards and check out my semi-drunken (read: semi-coherent) live-blog of the finale.
To be clear, it's not like I've had a lot of time to process this thing. I'm not hungover or anything, but I am damn tired, and this coffee hasn't kicked in yet (read: hasn't kicked my teeth in yet). So, my thoughts on this finale are likely to evolve and change. My thoughts on the Sopranos ending ping-ponged wildly, and I ended up liking it a lot less once David Chase opened his mouth about it.
It's possible I'll end up really disliking this finale.
I know a lot of you probably do dislike it. I don't necessarily blame you. It's a different ending. It's heavier. Meatier. Cheesier. Those who watched the show for the geek side, for the mysteries only, will be more disappointed than fulfilled — the finale failed to really address any of the little mysteries, instead choosing to focus on the big mysteries (by which I mean the Big Mysteries we all as people deal with). Y'know, it's not like we had a finale that ended up, "Holy shit! Eloise Hawking is actually Claire! And this is Victorian England! It's been aliens this whole time!" And the people who were looking for that kind of finale, well, you're going to be disappointed.
I get it.
Alternately, I'll be a bit of a dick and ask: what show did you think you were watching?
Anyway, what I'm saying is, this finale was really all about the characters, and for me, that's as it should be. My very initial reaction to Christian Shepherd telling his son that they're all dead was a burst of anger and incredulity, but that was a really short sharp shock that quickly faded. And as the episode went on and I thought about what it all means for the show, for these characters, and for me as the viewer, well, dang. I started to get this kind of warm glow about the whole thing. My reaction, in the evolution of one-word bursts would be: "Hey! Huh? Oh. Oh! Ohhhhh. Yes."
Five stages of grief. Really, really fast.
At present, I loved it.
I reserve the right to change my mind. This isn't an election. I'm allowed to flip-flop.
But right now, I feel this was the right ending to that show. Brave, bold, a bit maudlin, and answered the biggest mysteries while leaving the little mysteries as naught but crumbs to be swept under the rug.
You want more specific thoughts? Well, here they are — though, again, these are basically uncooked blobs of cookie dough. They're not done in the oven, but here they are, regardless.
• I'm a bit surprised that some people think they all died in the plane crash. Like, the original pilot episode plane crash. Are people saying that? What's your evidence? I don't buy it. If that's the case, then this entire show didn't make sense, because… how'd these people all find one another? Why is the ending, in which they lurk in purgatory, about them all coming together and once more realizing their connections? If they all died in the pilot episode, then those connections were meaningless. And thus, the entire show is meaningless, and it might as well be a retarded kid dicking around with a snowglobe. Unless there exists some evidence that I missed (which is where my view of the finale could turn surly)? To me, Christian Shepherd made it clear that Jack's life happened — all that stuff with the island was real. It's just… y'know. Well…
• Everybody dies. You can say that about this finale. "Oh? The Lost finale? Yeah, everybody dies." Except, that's only because this takes it to a very long view. The Sideways world was never really sideways (told you!). It is, in its own weird way, a very, very, very forward flash-forward. You could make a reasonable guestimate and say that Hugo served the island for a long period of time — a lifetime or two at least considering how long Jacob did the job. And if Ben lived as his second in a way like Richard did, well. So, they all die, but they all die eventually, and when they do, they're here. In this place that is both later and between.
• Differently put, in the finale, everybody lives until they die.
• And that's kind of the message, isn't it? We all live until we die. It's about the choices we make. It's about the journey. It's about the life. It's about what we do with it. The choices we make for good or ill.
• I saw that Cuse and Lindelof a few days back had said that the final images of the show are meant to be a head-scratcher. At the time I thought we'd catch a glimpse of like, another island or something, but this time, we were treated to images of the — or a — plane crash. Not sure what that means. Did Lapidus crash the plane? (Lapidus! Noooooo!) Are we just getting one last look at the wreckage? Is this a hint that another plane crashed on the island? I dunno. Oh, and the first person who says, "It's proof that they all died in the pilot because there's the plane in pieces and nobody's walking around" gets a boot to the trachea. Except, I just said it, didn't I? Damn. It's really hard to kick myself in the throat.
• What was with the shoe in the bamboo when Jack was walking? That was weird. Wasn't there something about his Dad and shoes?
• That ending — the very ending, Vincent, the eye closing, the plane overhead, that's a great ending. That's some full-circle shiznit, right there. Equal parts "gut punch" and "unclenched sphincter."
• Obviously we're still treated to quite a few unanswered mysteries. I'm okay with that. We can intuit answers, or we can make up our own. In a weird way, the bold stroke of "everyone lives until they die" (or, put differently, live together, die alone, except then die together again) obviates the need to answers in a grand sense. It's like, "Why did Walt have powers? Does it matter?"
• Even still, I do wonder if those 20-30 minutes on the DVD will answer some of the more niggling mysteries. What's up with Walt? What's up with Eloise Hawking? Is she actually forestalling her son's journey forward? Lots of little outstanding mysteries. Any questions that bother you?
• One of the questions or memes going around is, "Well, I guess so-and-so [Walt, Michael, Mikhail, Mr Eko, etc.] didn't deserve to move on and is in Hell." I don't know that this is it, exactly. I did like Harold Perrineau's answer that Michael is still on the island, trapped there — but even still, we could assume that one day he's going to make it to this Sideways purgatory. On the fiction side, all those people maybe just haven't finished their journey yet, haven't reconciled their sins and successes, haven't scoped their life in light of death. On the reality side, hey, it's a TV show. They juggled a helluva lot of people in that situation. I'm sure it wasn't easy making that all happen, so, let's remember that making a television show is like juggling cats. Cats that are on fire. And shoot bees out of their mouths and kitty buttholes.
• Interesting irony that all along, the creators have been saying, "The island isn't purgatory." And they're right. But that was a good distraction, a clever magic trick, because while the island isn't about purgatory, the entire sixth season damn sure is, and the Sideways world is exactly that. They juked us. They juked the stats. Nice work, dudes.
• Long show, but never felt it. By the time the end came, I was like, "It's over?"
• So, was the Sideways world about the characters reconciling guilt and such? My wife points out that Locke's scenario about his father actually mirrors what happened to Boone in some ways — must Locke first work through that before he can "let go?" Jack's journey in this regard is clear: he's a man with Daddy issues, and so he becomes the Daddy and gains a son with those same issues, and he must work through them. If you look hard enough, will you see this journey for all of them? Maybe not. Hurley's isn't clear — then again, Hurley isn't a guy with a lot of guilt, and maybe it's not just about working through guilt but working through your own failings and frailties. Kate's is a bit more clear — she ends up incarcerated, and also must reconcile with Claire and Aaron.
• And yet, what's Desmond's role in all of this? He's an active participant. He's actively going around and trying to get them to all move on and let go together. It's more than just, "These characters need to come together and undergo the revelation of life to pass through this place of death." Desmond is actively trying to force it. That's interesting. There's something there. I don't yet know what it is.
• I do have a few disappointments: Ben as a character still pinballed around the place. I wanted to see more of his con against Smokey — or, was he even playing a con? Was he really suckered in by Smokey's promises? He was obviously hiding that walkie, so it feels like he was maybe trying to get one over. He so swiftly goes from, "I'm with Smokey!" to, "I'm Hurley's number two!" that it felt like he didn't earn that pivot.
• We missed out on the Desmond and Penny reunion, and that stings a little bit. The other awakenings were so sweet, I really wanted to see the one where Desmond undertakes that most personal of awakenings, the one where he goes to Penny. I hope this is a deleted scene. Because as it stands it's like, "Boop! Hey, look, they're together in the church. Okay, it's over!" These two were the romantic rock of the show. Kind of wanted more there.
• Smokey was a bit easy to dispatch. Not that I necessarily wanted that slasher, "Oh holy crap he's not really dead!" moment, but the "grand battle" was given a bit of short shrift. It's okay, I guess — it ends up not being the point of the episode, really, but even still. You want a little meat on those bones.
• I do like that, in a way, I can imagine how the show goes on. In a way, the time between Jack dying and the actual Sideways world could be equivalent to years, decades, even centuries. We still could imagine a world where Lapidus' plane makes it off the island, where Hurley and Ben have wacky island adventures, where Eloise Hawking and Desmond are still active vibrant forces in the island culture and the mysteries surrounding it. I don't know that we need to see these addressed; I just like that the end is a long con but the short game is still being played.
Anyway. Them's my thoughts for now. A very successful finale, suited to the show. It's always been a show about life and death, hasn't it? At its core? The journeys of these characters mattered, and here we see why.
Sound off in the comments. What did you think? Now that we've all had a (little) time to process, how's the finale look in your head? How's it feel?


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Meet Joel Weber.
The onetime NLC student has become an internet and TV show sensation, thanks to his creation of an affordable dorm replacement for UT students.
Weber, 26, credits NLC's "Sustainable Campus" culture with planting the first seeds of his eco-friendly mobile cabin. He also cites two NLC professors as vital mentors.
It's no surprise that the green-intensive designer was born on Earth Day, April 22.
Weber began his time at NLC while he was in high school during his junior year as a dual credit student. NLC was the perfect fit for him not only because of its convenience of location, but also because of its "Sustainable Campus" culture.
While laying the foundation for his degree, he fell in love with the idea of ecological sustainability, which involves finding the simplest route to coexisting with nature without interrupting its natural process. This was initially what he wanted to pursue, so because of the absence of the particular program of study, he ended up committing to an associate of arts.
"I became a design major because I want to leave the world in a better place than I found it," said Weber.
He fulfilled this at the NLC North Campus by designing an original, student-constructed garden located at the center of the campus. He truly lives by the phrase, "never say never," because that is only true until it is done. After completing his associate of arts degree, he took a few gap years to refocus himself, further discovering his true purpose. Then, he began his road to internet stardom.
Weber went on to University of Texas at Austin where his cost of tuition nearly quadrupled, leaving him stuck between a rock and a hard place. Still determined to complete his educational goals, he cut costs everywhere, which meant picking up a few odd jobs along the way, including "manny," lifeguard, landscape designer and substitute teacher.
Even with the additional income, he still felt there was more that he could do. This prompted him to bring one of the ideas he had brewing in his mind to life in form of a 145-square-foot dorm replacement.
He put his skills to work and invested a mere $15,000 to take the average cost of living for UT students and turn it upside down. He and his tiny house on wheels are now famous and have been featured across various avenues, such as HGTV, Yahoo and Target.
"Pursue yourself in life as much if not more than academically, because after that happens, your academics will thrive," said Weber.
This has proven true for this UT Design major nearing the end of his junior year. He advises students to chase their passions because while doing so, they'll find the best degree plan.
Joel, being the humble guy that he is, cannot credit his journey solely to himself. He continually witnesses the impact that NLC and its faculty have made on his life on a daily basis. People, such as ceramics professor Marty Ray and former mathematics professor Lee Stover, gave life to many of Weber's fantasies. Both mentors gave him the push to propel forward in his one-of-a-kind, post-NLC education and in his life. He went on to return the favor by taking on landscaping design projects.
Chris Fulmer's house was one of those Weber landscaped. The NLC art instructor, who is now retired and lives in Florida, taught Weber in her drawing class about six years ago.
"Joel was full of personality," said Fulmer. "Often I had to remind him that, for safety reasons, he could not come to class barefoot. But this made him memorable and lovable.
"He was happy with a positive attitude and felt connected to the earth and the environment. His drawings of abstracted birds in flight reflected hthis interest."
Fulmer said that Weber researched environmental friendly solvents and like it best when she chose organic vegetables for still lifes.
"Life is about the betterment of self and constantly defining a new better," said Weber. "Don't let where you think you are supposed to go keep you from where you are supposed to be."
Weber would have never thought to his 18-year-old self that he would be in the place he is now, with the nationwide social media platform he has now.
Sometimes detours evolve into even better destinations.


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GASTONIA � South Atlantic Conference football gets a rare national television appearance Thursday when Wingate visits Carson-Newman at 8 p.m. on the CBS Sports Network.
GASTONIA � South Atlantic Conference football gets a rare national television appearance Thursday when Wingate visits Carson-Newman at 8 p.m. on the CBS Sports Network.
For Wingate (2-2, 1-0), Josh Clawson (Clover Class of 2009) has caught five passes for 29 yards and a touchdown in four games, Hamilton Bradley (Ashbrook 2007) has eight tackles and one quarterback in four games, Nortavius Otis (Ashbrook 2012) has three tackles in two games, Brandon Carpenter (Lincolnton 2011) has two tackles and one fumble recovery in four games and Dillon Tucker (North Lincoln 2011) has one tackle in three games.
For Carson-Newman (2-1, 1-1), Tyron Douglas (Clover 2010) has 174 yards rushing and one touchdown and four catches for 46 yards in three games.
Pro football
Brandon Spikes (Crest 2006) and the New England Patriots visit the Buffalo Bills Sunday at 1 p.m. Spikes has 12 tackles and a forced fumble in three games for the Patriots (1-2).
Lamar Holmes (Hunter Huss 2008) and the Atlanta Falcons host the Carolina Panthers Sunday at 1 p.m. Holmes has been inactive in all three games for the Falcons (3-0).
More college football
North Carolina A&T hosts Morgan State at 7:30 p.m. tonight in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game on ESPNU. For the Aggies (2-1), Larry Raper (Shelby 2009) has four catches for 144 yards and one touchdown and 182 all-purpose yards and Major Kay (North Lincoln 2012) has played in one game as an offensive lineman.
For N.C. State (3-1), C.J. Wilson (Lincolnton 2008) plays in his first game after missing the first four games serving a NCAA suspension. The Wolfpack visits Miami, Fla., Saturday at noon.
For Louisburg (4-0), Bubba McDowell (East Lincoln 2012) has 235 all-purpose yards, including four catches for 27 yards, in three games for the Hurricanes, who host Dean College Saturday at 11 a.m.
And at Charlotte, Jonathan Gidney (Lincolnton 2012) is a freshman wide receiver as the 49ers go through their first-ever practice drills as a new program under coach Brad Lambert.
Pro baseball
Kevin Millwood (Bessemer City 1993) is 6-12 with a 4.25 ERA in 28 starts for the Seattle Mariners.
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accurate 2500 up to almost 10,000. That is, of course, unless we
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Brazil's Michael Rodrigues and Australia's Philippa Anderson win Gold with dominant performances
Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay International Surfing Festival
January 25 to 30, 2013
Wanning, Hainan, China
Wanning, Hainan, China, January 27, 2013- The International Surfing Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 ISA China Cup.
With a powerhouse team in both the Men and Women's draw, Australia won the Team Gold Medal for the second consecutive year in the ISA China Cup. Brazil placed a close second, earning the Silver Medal, Hawaii won the Bronze Medal, and France took the Copper Medal to complete the team results.
In an action-packed heat, Brazil's Michael Rodrigues won the Men's Gold scoring the event's highest heat total of 17.00 points. Rodrigues defeated Mitch Crews (AUS, 14.64), Vincent Duvignac (FRA, 12.43), and Connor O'Leary (AUS, 9.10)
In a dramatic end to the Women's Final, Hawaii's Alessa Quizon was in the lead with the clock winding down and Gold in her sight, when she dropped in on her fellow surfer and was called for interference. This untimely move caused Quizon to drop to second place, allowing Australia's Phillipa Anderson to take the win. Anderson (15.26) got the Gold Medal, defeating Quizon (12.56), Nikki Van Dijk (AUS, 8.53) and Nage Melamed (HAW, 6.40).
"I'm very happy and satisfied about the hosting of the ISA China Cup for the second year in a row. While the waves were not as strong as last year's event, the athletes have provided a great show of surfing abilities," remarked ISA President Fernando Aguerre. "I'm totally excited about the potential for surfing in China, and certainly proud of our partnership with Womei, in the bringing of both ISA and ASP competitions for two years in a row. Congratulations to all and each member of the participating national surfing teams for coming to China and to all medalists for making history for surfing in China. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to the people and government of China, and to our partner Womei, and all the sponsors for joining us in this great event."
Michael Rodrigues, Men's Gold Medalist was speechless about his win. "I am so happy and I don't have words to explain what I am feeling," commented Rodrigues. "I have no sponsors, so I came here to win only representing my country. Just being here was already great and with the victory it is even greater, I am very happy, thank you!"
Women's Gold Medalist, Phillipa Anderson selflessly remarked, "We didn't really care about individuals we just wanted to get the gold for Australia so this helps a lot."
Australia's coach, Martin Dunn remarked about his winning team,"We brought a mixed bag of experienced WQS surfers and some young surfers who we think are going places in the sport," remarked Dunn. "We came here and we expected the waves to be similar to last year with the long left hander and unfortunately that didn't occur, but to be successful, you have to able to surf anything and its great that our surfers proved that."
Tomorrow, Monday, January 28, marks the start of the second part of the Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay International Surfing Festival, the Hainan Classic, 4-Star, Men's ASP. With a prize purse of $95,000 US, the competition will take place from Monday, January 28 to Wednesday, January 30, and will feature the best surfers in the world, including defending Champion and 2013 ASP World Tour surfer Glenn Hall (IRE), 2000 ASP World Tour Champion Sunny Garcia, plus 10 Chinese surfers, by far the most ever in the history of any international surfing competition. This is a testimony to the success the ISA is already having in the short term to fulfilling its mission to develop global surfing, and to developing surfing in China.
Official Forecaster, Surfline, has predicted for the ENE swell to pulses up a bit more with 2-3'+ faces, and larger sets in the 4' range over the afternoon, for a 7:30am call and likely start at 8am at the main break, the left point st Riyue Bay.
Women's Final
Gold- Philippa Anderson (AUS)- 15.26
Silver- Alessa Quizon (HAW)- 12.56
Bronze- Nikki Van Dijk (AUS)- 8.53
Copper- Nage Melamed (HAW)- 6.40
Men's Final
Gold- Michael Rodrigues (BRA)- 17.00
Silver- Mitch Crews (AUS)- 14.64
Bronze- Vincent Duvignac (FRA)- 12.43
Copper- Connor O'Leary (AUS)- 9.10
Final ISA China Cup Team Rankings
1. Australia- 13,000
2. Brazil- 11,718
3. Hawaii- 10,140
4. France- 9,836
5. Japan- 9,320
7. Peru- 8,270
8. Portugal- 8,242
The International Surfing Association (ISA) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the World Governing Authority for Surfing. It was originally founded as the International Surfing Federation in 1964 and has been running the Open Division World Championship since 1964, the World Junior Surfing Championship since 1980, the World Masters Surfing Championship since 2007, the World Bodyboard Championship since 2011, the Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay International Surfing Festival in China, and the World Standup Paddle (SUP) and Paddleboard Championship beginning in 2012. The ISA also sanctions the World Kneeboard Titles and the World Tandem Surfing Championship, and will launch the World Longboard Championship in 2013. ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies of 72 countries on five continents. Its headquarters are located in La Jolla, California. It is presided over by Fernando Aguerre (Argentina), first elected President in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro and re-elected seven times since. The ISA's four Vice-Presidents are Alan Atkins (AUS), Karín Sierralta (PER), Debbie Beacham (USA) and Layne Beachley (AUS).
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Steven Samuels <email@example.com>
Re: st: Conditional infile statements
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:40:21 -0500
Gordon, I missed that you have repeats on the record types for the same ID. But this causes no problems; just keep those records in separate record-type files and merge as required.
Oops, I didn't show the revised input file with the ID variable.
There's even less typing in this version. Also, the different record types are merged, not appended. We often design our questionnaires in sections so that we can do this. Each section is entered on a different data line with a unique record type as the first variable and is saved to its own data file. Eventually the separate files are merged. I imagine Gordon's questionnaire is of this type.
In practice, we write two or three do-files to process each section. For short sections, the first do file does edit checks, and the second does necessary corrections, recodes, and assigns variable and value labels. These do files are rerun until no further changes are needed. At the end all sections with the same ID are merged into one record. Editing the sections separately makes for shorter do files and also makes it easy to browse records.
/* Read record lines with different variables, controlled by a record type:
This uses the functionality of of SAS's "hold the line" @ */
/* myfile.txt is
1 100 John Smith
2 100 50
1 101 Bob Jones
2 101 45
local rt1 "rtype 1-1 id 3-5 str10 name 7-16"
local rt2 "rtype 1-1 id 3-5 age 7-8"
/* Create data sets for appending */
tempvar dum
gen dum =.
forvalues i = 1/2{
quietly save t`i', replace
forvalues i = 1/2{
quietly infix `rt`i'' using my.txt if rtype== `i', clear
append using t`i'
drop dum
sort id
quietly save t`i', replace
merge 1:1 id using t1
drop _merge rtype
On Nov 20, 2011, at 9:28 AM, David Kantor wrote:
At 07:40 AM 11/20/2011, Gordon Hughes wrote:
I would like to read a *very* large dataset using conditional infile statements. With some oversimplification the structure of the data is as follows:
Line 1: type1 id 1 2 3 4 5
Line 2: type1 id 3 4 5 6 7
Line 3: type2 id ABC DEF FGH
Line 4: type1 id 5 6 7 8 9
Line 5: type3 id IJK 3 4 XYZ
The format of the data on each line is fixed but the formatting varies according the value of the first variable on the line. For practical purposes the data may be treated as having one line per observation but with different variables recorded for the different line types. There is no consistent pattern of the occurrence of lines of different types.
In high level programming languages, SAS and some other languages it is possible to read such data using the following generic code:
read str ltype @
if ltype=="type1" {read id str type var1-var5}
if ltype=="type2" {read id str type str char1 str char2 str char3}
if ltype=="type3" {read id str char4 var6 var7 str char5}
where the @ character holds the current line for re-reading. As far as I can work out this is not possible, at least directly, in Stata.
In fact the problem is even worse than this description implies because many of the variables have the form "123*" where 123 is a value and "*" may or may not be present and indicates a flag or note.
There is a way of doing this but to my mind it is clumsy:
infix str sline 1-30 using ...
gen ltype=substr(sline, 1, 5)
gen var1=real(substr(sline, 6, 2)) if ltype=="type1"
The user-written routine -strparse- can also be deployed for free format data, but again it involves the use of sub-string manipulation. I cannot locate any other user-written routine which provides a better way of doing this, but my -net search- terms may not pick up the right keywords.
I would appreciate any suggestions as to a better way of doing this - or should I just resign myself to writing the code required to parse each line. (Incidentally, one reason for my reluctance to do this is that it increases the maximum memory size required to hold the initial pass through the data.)
Gordon Hughes
Your "clumsy" method might not be bad.
My own approach would be use -infile- with a dictionary, and to set up a dictionary to read all types of lines concurrently. This would include a variable that serves as the discriminant (ltype), plus all other possible variables. The fact that they would overlap in terms of position doesn't matter. The dictionary content might look like this:
_column(1) str5 ltype %5s
_column(10) byte var1 %1s
_column(12) byte var2 %1s
_column(10) str3 char1 %3s
_column(14) str3 char2 %3s
_column(18) str3 char3 %3s
[and so on for all the variables in all possible line types]
Then, in later processing, you would do:
replace var1 = . if ltype ~= "type1"
replace var2 = . if ltype ~= "type2"
replace char1 = "" if ltype ~= "type2"
replace char2 = "" if ltype ~= "type2"
replace char3 = "" if ltype ~= "type2"
Of course, some of that code could be compacted into -forvalues- commands, but that's another matter.
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Ken asked about translating strength training
Ken asked:
"I'd like to know your comments on adjusting to the improvements and effects of training. I've been following a training program for about 4 years now, and I've noticed a repeating pattern: When I find that I've gotten myself into a new power zone following a training cycle, it seems like I have to relearn my body. Even though I'm foremost a technical climber, the added sense of power seems to take over and I often will actually climb poorer for a while, abandoning my technique and trying to brute force things. I won't even realize it at first until I've had a couple of bad sessions climbing and go about trying to figure out what's wrong. It's like having the engine tuned in your car and gunning it all the time until you remember you've still got to drive with finesse…
…I wonder if, through your career, you've encountered a similar experience as your training has made you stronger, and if there's any specific approach you've applied to adapt?"
That is a good question and something I have spent a fair time thinking about and experimenting with. It comes down to the most basic training principle of 'specificity' – what you do you become. If the training is significantly different from the activity being trained for, there will be a problem in translating those gains. Here are some solutions to the problem, which are not rocket science but the only options available:
· The problem most often arises when you train indoors a lot but ultimately want the fitness for outdoor climbs.
· Ideally you would dump the indoor climbing and just train outdoors! But often its not possible due to weather or work schedules. If so you can either plan to make sure you give yourself a period of integration where you do lots of volume of routes outdoors to get used to your new strength and offset the loss of 'outdoor specific' technical ability from the indoor work.
· Or, you can limit the strength work to basic strength exercises such as fingerboard/campus board, while still doing all your actual climbing on real rock (or whatever you are training for). This option only works if your schedule allows you not to drop the volume of moves climbed in a given time period.
· Try to maintain regular sessions on your goal rock surface even while you are doing hard training, so your body does not forget how to climb so much!
My solution to this has been to do all my climbing outdoors and never go to a climbing wall (all my climbing goals are on real rock). But I am lucky that my work schedule is often flexible enough to climb when its dry and work when it rains. I supplement my climbing with basic strength work on the fingerboard which does not have a negative impact on my technique.
The negative effect of too much strength work on overall climbing ability is not to be underestimated! You don't have to look very far to see climbers with fingers strong enough to climb several grades harder if they decided to pay attention to their technique an tactics training.


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The Mining Journal and WLUC-TV report that Sarah Reinfelder's two healthy babies were delivered seven weeks premature Thursday by cesarean section at Marquette General Hospital in the Upper Peninsula.
The 21-year-old Sault Ste. Marie woman has a condition known as uterus didelphys, and doctors say such twin births are rare. The uteri are different sizes, with the larger twin born from the larger uterus.
Dr. Connie Hedmark and Dr. Breanna Pond first delivered Kaylin Joy, then Valerie Marie, the larger twin by one pound. Kaylin Joy weighed 3 pounds, 15 ounces.
Neonatologist Julie Frei says she expects that the twins, who don't have fully developed lung function, likely will be hospitalized for three or four weeks.
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What on earth did the Banga brothers' mother feed them for breakfast? Whatever it was, it worked: Vindi Banga grew up to become a top executive at the food and personal-care giant Unilever, then a partner at the private-equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. His younger brother Ajay, after heading Citigroup's Asian operations, was last year named CEO of MasterCard all without a degree from a Western business school and without abandoning his Sikh turban. When Ajay took over at the credit-card company's suburban New York City headquarters, the Times of India crowed that he was the first "entirely India-minted executive" at a multinational's helm.
The brothers laugh when asked for their mother's breakfast menu, deflecting suggestions that they were raised by a Bengal-tiger mom. Instead, they cite an itinerant childhood as a key ingredient in their success. The sons of a lieutenant general in the Indian army, they moved to a new posting every couple of years perfect training, it turns out, for global executives facing new markets and uncertain conditions. "You had to adapt to new friends, new places," recalls Vindi. "You had to create your ecosystem wherever you went."
The Banga brothers are two of a growing roster of global Indian business leaders, a roster that includes CEOs such as Citigroup's Vikram Pandit and PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi as well as the deans of both Harvard Business School and INSEAD. Yes, ArcelorMittal's Lakshmi Mittal had the advantage of growing up in the family business, but now the family business has grown into a global powerhouse under his leadership.
What factors account for the rise and rise of India-trained business minds? "Our colleagues in our Asian offices are asking the same question," laughs Jill Ader, head of CEO succession at the executive-search firm Egon Zehnder International. "Their clients in China and Southeast Asia are saying, 'How come it's the Indians getting all the top jobs?'" It could be because today's generation of Indian managers grew up in a country that provided them with the experience so critical for today's global boss. Multiculturalism? Check. Complex competitive environment? Check. Resource-constrained developing economy? You got that right. And they grew up speaking English, the global business language.
It's risky to generalize about India, a subcontinent of 1.2 billion people, just as it's simplistic to stereotype the Western executive or the Chinese business leader. Motorola's Sanjay Jha or Berkshire Hathaway's Ajit Jain, one of those tipped as Warren Buffett's successor, succeed due to talent and drive, not because they're Indian. And bosses like Nooyi spend most of their formative career years outside the country. Is it that they may just happen to be Indian? As Ajay Banga notes, "You are who you are because of what you do, not the color of your skin."
The data suggest Indians are scaling corporate heights. In a study of S&P 500 companies, Egon Zehnder found more Indian CEOs than any other nationality except American. Indians lead seven companies; Canadians, four. Among the C-suite executives in the 2009 FORTUNE 500 were two mainland Chinese, two North American Chinese and 13 Indians, according to a study by two professors from Wharton and China Europe International Business School.
For multinationals, it makes good sense to have leaders experienced in working with expanding Asian markets. And India is already the location of many of their operations. "If you look at companies like Pepsi or Hewlett-Packard or IBM, a huge chunk of their global workforce is sitting out in India," says Anshuman Das, a co-founder of CareerNet, a Bangalore executive-search company. "India and China are also the countries of future profits for the multinationals, so they may want their global leaders to come out of them."
Competitive and complex, India has evolved from a poorly run, centrally controlled economy into the perfect petri dish in which to grow a 21st century CEO. "The Indians are the friendly and familiar faces of Asia," says Ader. "They think in English, they're used to multinationals in their country, they're very adaptive, and they're supremely confident." The subcontinent has been global for centuries, having endured, and absorbed, waves of foreign colonizers, from the Mughals to the British. Practiced traders and migrants, Indians have impressive transnational networks. "The earth is full of Indians," wrote Salman Rushdie. "We get everywhere." Unlike, say, a Swede or a German, an Indian executive is raised in a multiethnic, multifaith, multilingual society, one nearly as diverse as the modern global marketplace.
Unlike Americans, they're well versed in negotiating India's byzantine bureaucracy, a key skill to have in emerging markets. And unlike the Chinese, they can handle the messiness of a litigious democracy. "In China, you want something done, you talk to a bureaucrat and a politician it gets done," observes Ajay. "In India, if you talk to a bureaucrat or a politician, there are going to be 600 other people with their own points of view." There's an old saw about Asian business cultures: "The Chinese roll out the red carpet; Indians roll out the red tape."
Maybe that's why Indian managers are good at managing it. They have cut their teeth in a country ranked 134th by the World Bank for ease of doing business. To be fair, it's also the reason some of them left home. They're practiced in the exasperating culture of local, state and national permits. "To build a factory in China, a CEO will have to get two or three different permissions from various departments," observes Signe Spencer, a co-author of The Indian CEO, a 2007 study from the HayGroup consultancy. "An Indian CEO may have to get 80 different permissions from 80 different places." No wonder Indian executives spend much of their time networking and lobbying tasks Western CEOs leave to their corporate public-affairs departments.
India's economic liberalization, which began in 1991, was another blessing for this generation of executives. It gave them exposure to a young and fast-growing consumer market. "Liberalization unleashed a level of competition that makes you stand on your toes," recalls Vindi. "We had to learn to compete with international players but also with very good, extremely fast local ones." In 1987, when Vindi was CEO of Hindustan Unilever, the company's leading detergent, Surf, faced off against Nirma, a locally produced brand. "It didn't cost 5% less, or 10% less," says Vindi, shaking his head. "It cost a third of our product. We had to make a product that was better, for the same price." Within 12 months, they had.


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Multi-layer construction – more stability
Multi-layer construction provides more stability than solid flooring, even when temperatures and ambient humidity vary according to season. This is because crossed layers counteract the natural movement of the timber. By varying the direction of the fibers in the timber throughout the various layers, floors are less affected by changes in humidity in the indoor climate and are more durable.
Engineered flooring – better than solid wood floors
Kährs' engineered flooring is also more eco-friendly than solid wood flooring as we use fast-growing wood species such as Pine for our core material, thereby using less of the valuable hardwood surface layer compared to solid wood flooring. Kährs patented its parquet technology in 1941, and since then we have been using it in all our flooring. By applying different characteristics and a variety of thickness of layers in our different product ranges we have created a variety of floors to suit every application.
Kährs – sands like a solid
Kährs' multi-layer construction uses hardwood down to the joint only, with fast-growing timber below, which means it can be refurbished in exactly the same way as a solid floor.
The best climate stability
Since wood is a natural material, that is affected by climatic changes, a wood floor moves with the seasons, i.e. it swells in high humidity and shrinks in low humidity. Kährs' multi-layered construction minimizes this movement. It provides the correct balance between the layers – top, core and back – and ensures the floor remains stable in all conditions.