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FAYETTEVILLE — Catcher Jake Wise needed some time to let reality sink in last summer, when it became clear he was coming back to Arkansas for 2014.
He wasn't planning to return. The draft-eligible junior expected to begin his professional career after the 2013 season. But he suffered an elbow injury in the Manhattan (Kan.) Regional that would require Tommy John surgery and then, a few days later, Wise wasn't selected in the Major League Baseball Draft.
"It took me about two days," Wise said. "Then you realize you get to come back here. Maybe if I didn't go to such a great school, it would have been a little harder."
It may not have been planned, but Wise enters 2014 as a key piece of an Arkansas team trying to redefine itself after the massive departures from its record-setting pitching staff. The Razorbacks will count on more offense this season, while Wise also works with a young staff learning the ropes when the season opens Feb. 14.
He was selected as one of three team captains in the offseason and is the most experienced player on Arkansas' roster. So while Wise may not have expected to be back this season, it's a sign the Razorbacks view it as a blessing in disguise.
"He's our engine," said Arkansas outfielder Tyler Spoon, who also was elected as a team captain. "When he goes, we go. He's our captain. He's the man. He keeps everyone in line. He just keeps everything going. It's good to have him back."
Wise hit .212 with 3 home runs and 23 RBIs last season. He also had a .991 fielding percentage and threw out 20 of 52 runners attempting to steal bases last season.
Defense was expected to give Wise an opportunity to play pro baseball after the season. But those plans changed quickly, when Wise felt something wrong with his elbow during the NCAA Tournament. He was examined after the season ended and needed surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right elbow.
"It is tough seeing your whole class that you came in with, everybody that you spent three years and a lot of blood, sweat and tears with, leave (after being drafted)," Wise said. "But now I've got a bunch of new teammates and a new goal."
Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said Wise has been positive despite the disappointment and his leadership was evident in the offseason.
Wise has given Arkansas much-needed experience at a position that also includes redshirt freshman Blake Baxendale and true freshmen Alex Gosser and Carson Shaddy. He has worked with the young players to prepare them for the season, while also getting a feel for the pitchers who will take the mound for the Hogs.
"His attitude has been good," Van Horn said. "Probably the most verbal he's ever been, because he's kind of a quiet kid. He's really taken a leadership role on this team."
Wise is still working his way back from Tommy John surgery, but was able to swing the bat during the fall. He worked hard with new hitting coach Tony Vitello to shorten his swing and Van Horn said he "looks good." Wise should continue to man a spot in the bottom half of Arkansas' lineup when he's ready to return.
Van Horn hopes it will be in time for the opener. Progress was delayed in December when Arkansas discovered Wise needed double hernia surgery. He wasn't able to go through the full practice when Arkansas opened drills late last week, but said the Razorbacks are being cautious as he recovers.
"It's hard getting old," Wise said about his approach to an offseason filled with rehabilitation. "I've actually tried to take a positive outlook on it and take some mental time away from the game because people don't realize how long the college season is. You go from the regular season to the postseason, summer, back to fall. We don't really have an offseason. So I kind of just took it as an offseason.
"I had some stuff I couldn't do because of the Tommy John or the hernia. But I just tried to get away from the game a little bit and recover fully."
Wise is confident he'll be ready for the season to begin on Feb. 14, though.
He's eager for his senior year, too, after coming to grips with his return to the Hogs.
"You've got nothing to lose," Wise said. "I'm a senior, it's my last year, and it's pretty much a whole new team. So I'm just looking to have fun."


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Every once in a while you run across a vehicle that's not quite what you expect. Such is the case with Charlie Vacha's Suzuki Sidekick Sport. These four-door Suzukis were sold in the U.S. for three years, starting in 1996, and it was in 1998 that Charlie bought this one new. We hit the trail with him and were impressed with what it could do.
Charlie didn't spend a big pile of money to build up this wheeler, which he uses to explore backcountry trails near his home in Apache Junction, Arizona. He added 3 to 4 inches of lift with taller coil springs front and rear, and installed quality shocks on all four corners. This gave him room to fit some bigger mud treads and gain useful ground clearance.
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The relatively light rig in the hands of a proficient driver was fun to watch, and we found it could tackle some fairly good-sized obstacles. It's a sleeper built to play, but without breaking the bank.
Wheelbase is right at 98 inches, and overall track width is 66 inches, shod with LT235/85R16 Dunlop mud tires. The IFS works surprisingly well on this lightweight rig with locked differentials at both ends. The relatively tall, narrow tires help moderate the strain on the steering and front suspension components, while adding ground clearance.
The front suspension gets a boost with longer coil springs from Rocky Road Outfitters, and the damping chores are handled by Old Man Emu gas shocks. Charlie has found that the IFS components and steering parts have held up surprisingly well to the abuse he's subjected the Sidekick to.
The rear lift is simple, but effective. Salvaged Jeep XJ front coil springs provide lift and a bit stiffer spring rate for trail running. The shocks were upgraded to longer Doetsch Tech ones. The factory 5.29:1 gears spin added Lock-Right lockers to increase traction at both ends of the rig.
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Tires & Wheels: LT235/85R16 Dunlop Mud Rover Radials on 16-inch Suzuki alloy wheels
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Least likely to seek re-election: One-term City Councilor Kendra Hamilton announces she won't run again and will instead focus on her writing career– she published a book of poetry in September– and working on her Ph.D, Seth Rosen reports in the Daily Progress.
Best news for Crozet pedestrians: Years after citizens worked on the vaunted Crozet Master Plan touting walkability, work finally begins March 1 on a streetscape project. During the three-month construction, walking along Crozet Avenue could be hazardous.
Pettiest slight to same-sex partners of UVA staff: They aren't allowed university gym access, although Virginia Tech offers that benefit to all of its current and retired employees, according to an Aaron Kessler story in the Progress.
Least likely to win parents of the year: Augusta residents Steve and Heather Tomlin face felony cruelty charges for keeping their two teen daughters locked in their rooms with portable toilets, NBC29 reports.
Most unreliable eyewitnesses: Older adults, who are more prone to make errors in remembering details and are more adamant in asserting their alleged accuracy, according to UVA assistant psychology prof Chad Dodson.
Best merger of two groups we kinda thought were the same anyway: The Virginia Piedmont Technology Council and the Charlottesville Venture Group announce they'll join forces as VPTC+CVG until they can come up with a better name.
Best federal largesse: The Department of Housing and Urban Development awards $21 million to support homeless programs in Virginia. Of Charlottesville's $215K piece of the pie, Region Ten gets $144,000; the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission get $71,000.
Least supportive of agricultural efforts: A federal grand jury in Charlottesville indicts Geoffrey Allan Cummings, 53, for growing more than 300 pot plants on his property in Louisa. If convicted, he could get a life sentence, a $2.5 million fine, and forfeit his farm to the U.S. government.
Bust least worthy of a press release: Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force– JADE– touts an undercover operation on West Main February 22 that nets 10 grams of crack cocaine with a street value of $2,000. Larry Jermaine Jones, 24, of Palmyra is charged.
Best get: UVA students cruising around on the spring Semester at Sea program get to hang with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who is the Distinguished Lecturer in Residence. The itinerary includes six days in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Of course, only one of the maps is specific to the game's gruesome zombie mode. Four of the maps included in the set are for the game's popular competitive multiplayer component.
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Today's Subject: Predicates
Don't worry, I haven't suddenly switched the topic of this blog to English grammar, but if you want to learn more about Predicates as they apply to sentence constriction you can start with this article on WikipediA. Rather, today's topic is about predicates in Extended Events. You can find a brief description of predicates in Using SQL Server 2008 Extended Events (by Jonathan Kehayias) so I'll try to extend your knowledge a bit beyond what that says.
Pre versus Post processing
There is usually more than one way to accomplish almost everything so it's worth taking a moment to consider two different ways to process and event log. Post-processing describes the case where you allow the tracing system to collect every event and then you worry about reducing your data set after you've collected the data. Support for this doesn't really depend on the diagnostic system you use since you can post-process any log that you can get into a tool that supports filtering, for example Excel. Some diagnostic systems have built in tools to do this as well. Pre-processing is when the filtering of events happens as part of the event generation code and therefore can "short-circuit" the event from firing. Extended Events support this type of pre-processing and that is what a Predicate if for.
Pre-processing has some cost associated with evaluating the predicate which is why some diagnostic systems choose not to offer this functionality, ETW is an example of a diagnostic system that does not support pre-processing of events.
|Aside: Some ETW gurus (I don't claim to be one) may argue that ETW does support pre-processing because you have the ability to define which events are collected based on Channel, Keyword and Level. For our purposes I'm defining pre-processing as requiring a finer level of control than that; you can decide if this is a semantic point or not.
The obvious question is: why would you want to use predicates if there is a potential cost? There are a couple of reasons for using a predicate, and as always, whether it is worth it for you to use is going to depend on your situation. The first common reason you might want to use predicates is when the performance hit of collection is higher than the performance hit of evaluating the predicate. Extended Events supports the ability to collect additional data such as call stacks or memory dumps and these can be expensive operations. In order to reduce the performance impact of these expensive operations you can use a predicate to increase the specificity of your event collection. Another common reason to use a predicate is to reduce the volume of events being collected. Many events can occur at extremely high volume, particularly those in the Analytic and Debug channels, and result in "log flooding", or the behavior of putting many thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of events into the log that are not related to the problem you're actually troubleshooting. All this extra data makes it hard to analyze the real issue and can cause the log files to be large enough to cause a disk space problem. Again, the solution is to increase the specificity of your event collection which will reduce the number of events you are looking at. Here are a few ways that you might use a predicate to increase specificity of your event collection:
- Only collect events that occur within a specific database or session_id.
- Only collect a sampling of events from your system. (I've described sampling in this post.)
So, how much do I save?
So now you're wondering what you're getting for your trouble and for that we need to take a look at what is actually going on inside Extended Events when an event is fired. For our purposes you can think of firing an event as requiring five steps as shown below.
The predicate evaluation happens at step three, but don't let the fact that this is the "middle step" fool you, the amount of work required to generate an event is not equally distributed across these steps. Take the earlier example of collecting a memory dump, this is an expensive operation that happens in step 4 and when combined with publishing the event to a target is easily more costly than collecting the event data itself. The ability to evaluate a predicate right after the minimum amount of event data is collected can significantly reduce the cost of event collection in the cases where you are looking for a specific set of data.
|Aside: SQL Trace/SQL Profiler also support pre-processing through the use of a filter (sp_trace_setfilter) but the filter is not applied until the entire Event Class and associated data has been collected resulting in relatively little performance savings.
OK, so how do predicates work
We're finally to the actual topic of this post – thanks for sticking with me through all the preliminary stuff…
Predicates in Extended Events are very similar to the WHERE clauses that you've probably used in T-SQL; they're Boolean expressions that can be evaluated against two types of data:
- Local event data (Now you understand why we need to collect EventData first.)
- Global state
Local event data is any of the fields that are automatically collect when an event fires. You can examine the list of local data fields for any given event by running a query against one of the DMVs for Extended Events; for example this query shows the fields for the wait_info event.
Global state represents data that is available in thread local storage (TLS) at all points in time in the SQL Server instances, or at least at most points in time. Examples of global state are things such as the session ID or the name of the client application. We call these predicate sources (pred_source for short) and you can query the list of predicate sources using a DMV.
SELECT name, description,
(SELECT name FROM sys.dm_xe_packages WHERE guid = o.package_guid) package
FROM sys.dm_xe_objects o
WHERE object_type = 'pred_source'
ORDER BY name
If you're familiar with Extended Events you'll notice that there is a strong correlation between predicate sources and actions. This correlation is on purpose so that you can write predicates against the same set of global data that you can collect using actions. But don't let the similarities in names trick you into believing these are the same thing; the difference is the timing. Think back to the steps involved in firing an event – the point where the predicate is analyzed is where we collect the pred_source if there is a predicate that uses it. It's not until after a predicate has evaluated as True that the system collects action data. This is the kind of technical detail that will make you sound cool at conferences when you overhear someone say "I used a predicate on the session_id action." and you can explain that the predicate does not, in fact, use the session_id action, but rather the session_id predicate source. You would then further explain how the predicate sources allow for the creation of predicates over global data that is similar to that in actions, but that it can be done without having to collect the actions, therefore improving performance by short circuiting the action collection on events that are not of interest.
Now that we have an understanding of where the data comes from, lets look at a few predicates; we'll use the wait_info event described above:
|Only collect the event if the duration is more than 500 milliseconds.
|ADD EVENT wait_info (WHERE duration > 500)
|Only collect the event for session 52.
|ADD EVENT wait_info (WHERE sqlserver.session_id = 52)
|Only collect the event for NETWORK_IO waits.
|ADD EVENT wait_info (WHERE wait_type = 99)
You can infer a couple rules from this list which I'll state explicitly:
- You only need to use the field name when building a predicate on local event data. (duration > 500)
- You need to use the package name when using a predicate source. (sqlserver.session_id = 52)
- You need to pay Mike to learn the secret translation of specific wait types to the number that represents them.
|The secret translation of wait types into numbers (Maps): OK, so I'm not going to make much money from this secret, oh well. In order to make collection of some data a bit more efficient we created something called maps which simply map an integer to a more friendly string value. You can recognize map fields as those with data types that don't seem to match with any type you've seen before, for example "wait_types". You can look up the integer to friendly name comparison in the dm_xe_map_values DMV and matching the field's type to the name column in the DMV. So to get a list of the numeric representation of the various waits, use the following query:
The final twist
Another long post but there is just one more thing to discuss before I bring it to a close and that is predicate comparators(pred_compare for short). As you've probably guessed from the name, predicate comparators are the operators in the Extended Events predicate system. We've done the work to map the standard mathematical operators (=, <, >, !=, <=, etc.) to the appropriate predicate comparators so that you don't have to see the gory details. Under normal circumstances you probably won't need to go beyond using these mapped operators and your predicates will look very similar to what you'd expect if you have a working knowledge of the WHERE clause in T-SQL. There may be an occasional need to walk on the wild side and do something out of the ordinary. For these times you have a whole list of interesting pred_comps to play with. You can see the list by querying a DMV:
SELECT name, description,
(SELECT name FROM sys.dm_xe_packages WHERE guid = o.package_guid) package
FROM sys.dm_xe_objects o
WHERE object_type = 'pred_compare'
ORDER BY name
As you scan down the list you'll see that most pred_compare operators have obvious mappings to a mathematical operator for a specific data type, for example, greater_than_int64 is mapped to > for 64 bit integers. If you look closely you will find a small number that don't have an obvious mathematical equivalent, such as greater_than_max_int64 or less_than_min_int64. These pred_compare operators are special in that they do more than a simple comparison, in fact, in the case of the two mentioned, they actually maintain state within the predicate and use that stat for the comparison. Let's consider greater_than_max_int64: this pred_compare will maintain the maximum value of the field passed to it and only fire when it encounters a value that is greater than the current maximum, at which point it sets a new max value and waits until the next time it is exceeded. You might find this useful if you have a statement that is degrading over time and you only want to capture the event data at the points that a degradation actually happens in order to examine what else is happening at those times. Sure, you could capture all the query events and draw a graph to find the points of degradation, but this pred_compare does it for you automatically.
Calling a pred_compare directly follows this syntax:
package_name.pred_compare(field/pred_source, value)
Lets look at the duration predicate described before, but this time collect only when the duration exceeds 500 and is larger than the last maximum duration:
ADD EVENT wait_info (WHERE package0.greater_than_max_int64(duration, 500)
Wrapping it all up
Despite my single criteria example, you can actually build a predicate statement with multiple criteria using the common AND/OR syntax. Order is important and you should put your most specific criteria first because the the event will short circuit as soon as it hits the first part of the predicate that makes it false. So lets pull the entire post together with a predicate that will only return events for the NETWORK_IO wait type when it occurs on sessions with an ID of 52 and only when the duration is larger than the max duration but never less than 500 milliseconds. (I bet you knew that would be the example.)
ADD EVENT wait_info
(WHERE wait_type = 99 AND sqlserver.session_id = 52 AND
package0.greater_than_max_int64(duration, 500))
Whew! Hopefully that gives you an idea how Predicates can help you create very specific event sessions and even do some interesting analysis directly in the session. Let me know if there is a topic you'd like to see covered in this blog and we'll add your request to the topic list.
- Mike


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You can hear the excitement in Paul Crosby's voice. The Saliva drummer and his band mates — who perform in Springfield on Sunday night — spent last week doing demo tracks for their upcoming album.
You can hear the excitement in Paul Crosby's voice.
The Saliva drummer and his band mates spent last week doing demo tracks for their upcoming album — the band's seventh, not including a greatest hits compilation.
"We are really charged up about getting back out there and doing the new record and keeping it going," Crosby said during a recent telephone interview. "Not a lot of rock bands have very much longevity these days. Some do, obviously, but we are very fortunate and very excited. We are just excited that we get to do another record."
Saliva: "Click Click Boom"
Five of the Memphis, Tenn., band's studio albums released since 1997 have reached the Billboard magazine charts, and Saliva will issue a greatest hits package ("Going Forward in Reverse") next month — a sign of a group that has done well in the fickle business of popular music.
Crosby remembers seeing bands put out greatest hits collections when he was a kid and thinking it would be cool to someday be able to do it himself.
"And then when we got a (record) deal — that's an accomplishment in itself ... and I would never even have imagined that we would have a greatest hits record," Crosby said. "It's like a lifelong dream accomplishment that's coming true. It's almost an indescribable feeling."
Saliva isn't done yet, however. When not touring, the band is working in a Memphis studio doing demo tracks for the next album of original music.
The music is "good ol' Saliva," Crosby said, adding it is also "fresh and new and modern."
"We are not going to retrace the same footsteps we have been doing on the past few records," he said.
Over the past couple albums, including 2008's "Cinco Diablo," the band would write songs in the studio with a producer present.
Not this time.
The band members are going back to the way they did their first two albums "Every Six Seconds" and "Back Into Your System" — albums that produced the hard rock hits "Click Click Boom," "Your Disease," "Always" and "Rest in Pieces." The band will write without a producer's input.
"We are going back to square one on this one," Crosby said.
With a greatest hits collection and an album of new music, Saliva plans to be all over the rock music racks at retailers in 2010.
"Have two records come out in the same year, that's pretty cool," Crosby said.
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- ↑ "Yearbook 2004". Yearbook. Government Information Office of the Republic of China. 2004.
Taipei is the capital of the ROC
- ↑ "Taiwan (self-governing island, Asia)". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. 1975-04-05. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
- ↑ "The Republic of China Yearbook 2009. Chapter 2 – People and Language". Government Information Office. 2009. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ↑ "The Republic of China Yearbook 2009 / Chapter 2: People and Language". Gio.gov.tw. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
- ↑ Àdàkọ:CIA World Factbook link
- ↑ Waishengren usually refers to people who moved from mainland China to Taiwan after 1949 when the KMT retreated to Taiwan due to the Chinese Civil War, and to their descendants born in Taiwan. It usually does not include citizens of the People's Republic of China who more recently moved to Taiwan.
- ↑ Taiwanese Aborigines are officially categorised into 14 separate ethnic groups by the Republic of China. They have all been grouped into one group here for simplicity. For the entire list of groups, see List of ethnic groups in Taiwan
- ↑ "The ROC's Humanitarian Relief Program for Afghan Refugees". Gio.gov.tw. 2001-12-11. Archived from the original on December 15, 2004. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
- ↑ "Taiwanese health official invited to observe bird-flu conference". Gio.gov.tw. 2005-11-11. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
- ↑ "Demonyms – Names of Nationalities". Geography.about.com. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
- ↑ Although the territories controlled by the ROC imply that the demonym is "Taiwanese", some consider that it is "Chinese" due to the claims of the ROC over all of China. Taiwanese people have various opinions regarding their own national identity.
- ↑ "MOI Statistical Information Service". Retrieved 2010-10-24.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "Republic of China (Taiwan)". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
- ↑ Regularly check CIA factbook or Household Income distribution of major countries. http://eng.stat.gov.tw/public/data/dgbas03/bs4/ninews_e/9808/t14e.xls.
- ↑ Due to its political status, the UN has not calculated an HDI for the ROC. The ROC government calculated its HDI for 2007 to be 0.943, [1] and would rank 25th among countries.
- ↑ "ICANN Board Meeting Minutes". ICANN. 25 June 2010.


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Here is proof that John Keats is a classical humanist Republican who supported the American Revolution: He wrote a poem to Thaddeus Kosciusko who was a General in the American Revolution (He actually used his knowledge in engineering to defeat the Brits) and this is what he says.
To Kosciusko
GOOD Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres - an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
It tells me too, that on a happy day,
When some good spirit walks upon the earth,
Thy name with Alfred's, and the great of yore
Gently commingling, gives tremendous birth
To a loud hymn, that sounds far, far away
To where the great God lives for evermore.


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I love the slightly smoky, butterscotch taste the maple syrup brings to this. I prefer fudge to be creamy, but if youare of the grainy persuasion, you may need to work a little harder when it comes to beating the cooled fudge to achieve the desired texture. Annie Rigg
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Sunflower oil for greasing 150g caster sugar
300g maple syrup
2 tablespoons golden syrup
150ml double cream
75ml full-cream milk
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon sea salt
25g unsalted butter
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1. Grease the base and sides of the loaf tin with sunflower oil and line with non-stick baking parchment. Half fill the sink with cold water.
2. Combine all the ingredients apart from the butter and pecans in a large (2½ litre), heavy-based saucepan. Cook gently over a medium heat to dissolve the sugar, stirring frequently.
3. Pop the sugar thermometer into the pan, bring to the boil and continue to steadily cook the syrup at a gentle boil until it reaches 114°C/236°F. You will need to stir the mixture frequently to prevent it catching on the bottom of the pan. (The syrup will take about 15 minutes to reach the correct temperature, but do not be tempted to walk away from the task in hand – the moment you turn your back to do something else the syrup will go above the correct temperature and you'll end up with toffee rather than fudge.)
4. Take the pan off the heat, remove the sugar thermometer and plunge the bottom of the pan into the sink of cold water to stop the mixture cooking any further. Add the butter, give the fudge a gentle stir and scoop it into a large mixing bowl. Leave undisturbed to cool to room temperature for about 15–20 minutes, without being tempted to stir or taste the cooling fudge.
5. Using a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, beat the fudge for 3–4 minutes until the mixture thickens, starts to lose its shine and begins to turn slightly grainy. Add three quarters of the chopped pecans and spoon the fudge into the prepared tin, spreading it into an even layer with a palette knife. Scatter the remaining pecans over the top, pressing them into the fudge.
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CHICAGO - Maybe it was the extra rest, or another raucous crowd at the United Center. Maybe it was just the resumption of one of the NHL's biggest rivalries.
Whatever it was, the Chicago Blackhawks finally found that extra gear they talked about for days.
Johnny Oduya and Marcus Kruger scored in the third period, Corey Crawford made 20 saves and the Blackhawks beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 in the opener of their second-round playoff series Wednesday night.
"Much better from our prior series," coach Joel Quenneville said. "I thought what we're talking about in our team game was in place. Had some pace, had some speed, zone time, and I thought everybody contributed."
In the wake of Chicago's five-game victory over Minnesota in the first round, Quenneville talked about a higher level of intensity, and each of his biggest stars echoed his comments. The response was a dominant final two periods in the Blackhawks' first game in the Western Conference semifinals since they won the Stanley Cup in 2010.
Marian Hossa had the opening goal in the first, and Patrick Sharp finished with an empty-netter and two assists to give him nine points in the postseason.
"I thought it was our best game of the playoffs, no question," Sharp said.
Jimmy Howard had 38 stops in a terrific performance, but Detroit still lost to rival Chicago for the eighth straight time dating to last season.
"I think in the first it was pretty even, but then I think in the second and third they looked like they had a little more energy than we did," Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg said. "It's going to be nice to have a day off tomorrow and practice and then looking forward to Game 2."
The series resumes on Saturday afternoon at the United Center.
The 75th all-time playoff game between the Blackhawks and Red Wings was tied at 1 after two periods, and Howard made a great stop on a breakaway by Dave Bolland 4� minutes into the third.
Chicago kept working and went in front to stay on a heady play by Oduya. He drifted in from the point and sent Sharp's pass past Howard on the glove side with 12 minutes left.
"Getting the win is the only thing that actually matters," Oduya said. "Like I said, anyone could have scored that goal at that point. We had a lot of chances and I'm lucky I got it in there."
Kruger then jumped on a loose puck and sent a backhander into the upper right corner to make it 3-1. That was more than enough for Crawford, who caught a break when Damien Brunner's rebound attempt went off the crossbar and straight down before Brent Seabrook swept it away with about three minutes left.
The opener of the 16th playoff series between the Original Six teams was the first game for Chicago since it eliminated Minnesota last Thursday. Detroit closed out Anaheim with a 3-2 win in Game 7 on Sunday night, taking the final two games of the series against the second-seeded Ducks.
Despite the long break, there was no sign of rust for the Blackhawks. The Red Wings skated right with Chicago at the start, but they couldn't keep up at the end of the game and coach Mike Babcock said they were looking forward to a day off.
"We're not trying to take anything away from them," he said. "They were better than us. The score tonight was more than fair as far as I'm concerned. They were better."
The Blackhawks struck first in the first playoff game between the teams since Detroit won the 2009 Western Conference final. With Gustav Nyquist in the box for hooking, Sharp forced a turnover along the boards and Jonathan Toews sent the puck to Hossa, who one-timed it past Howard at 9:03.


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John Smedley's unisex range, 'Singular' is a capsule collection designed to flatter both the male and female form. Shop the collection below.
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Our gender-neutral Singular collection is designed to fit and flatter every body. The singular garments have an exclusive body shape. On men, the garments in this capsule provide a flattering and timeless slim fit whilst women will find that the collection delivers the popular oversized "stolen from the boys" look.
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The Singular collection has caught the attention of a new, younger audience, due to their contemporary design and easiness to style . Singular's contemporary designs partnered with John Smedley's quality materials make for a perfect match, establishing a finish that is as easy on the skin as it is on the eye.
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Facebook has updated its native app for Android, bringing a couple of new features and improvements to the photo viewing experience.
The social network claims that photos will load faster in the new version of the app, launched on Friday, so depending on your device and connection speed, you should see a boost.
The Facebook 2.1 update, available from the Google Play store now, will also allow Android users to send voice messages, a feature previously limited to the Facebook Messenger app.
Finally, the update expands options for sharing content. As well as posting updates to their own Timeline, users can now share to Groups, friends' Timelines and to Pages they have Liked.
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Mumbai moments….
While I try to untangle the mess my work is in from three weeks of absence, here are some photos from Mumbai taken during the trip (click for full image).
(Previous nostalgia about Mumbai here)
A microcosm of Mumbai ? High-rises next to old buildings, monsoon rains, the sea……the choked traffic:
A man with a Mission (Keep the Queen's Necklace clean):
Marine Drive from the Nariman Point end:
Gateway (there was quite a bit of construction going on by ASI to restore the structure):
Taj Mahal Hotel:
Won't find the next three on any tourist route, purely personal:
Juhu Chowpatty – the cow was going beserk (something the eminent Varma-sahib said ?):
Chowpatty again, against the sun-set (such as is visible now-a-days):
The Main Attractions in Juhu 🙂 :
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CES 2012: Stick a Fork In It
If you've ever ridden the Tokyo subway during rush hour, stood in line to buy Nike Air Jordans, or been pepper-sprayed at a Walmart on Black Friday, you may have a sense of what CES is like. The only difference is that CES is a lot more crowded, dangerous, and painful. The shuttle busses from hell, the taxi lines from hell, the lines to the next press conference from hell, and especially the lines to the men's room from hell all take a toll. And let's not even mention the women shoving at you so they can get ½ foot closer to Justin Bieber (who is standing about ¼ mile way), and the men shoving at you so they can get ½ foot closer to any of the tens of thousands of show booth girls in tight black leather skirts.
On the other hand, if your body can take the punishment, CES does have a lot to offer. Consider, for example, the tens of thousands of show booth girls in tight black leather skirts. And I'm sure that CES has a lot of other things to offer as well.
Mainly, CES is a good place to get thumb drives. Companies give them out like candy. Similarly, they give out candy like they are thumb drives. In any case, the thumb drives are a good way to infect our computers with product information. Old timers like me remember when the drives were small; we thought it was cool to get a drive holding 64kB. Today, we sneer at 1GB drives, display an obviously fake smile at 2GB, and wearily accept 4GB drives. A drive of 8GB on up might actually encourage us to do the company a huge favor and write up one of their dopey products. Or maybe not. Anything less than 1GB is simply tossed into the nearest garbage can, hopefully while the company representative is still watching. It is vitally important to punish these < 1GB offenders.
All in all, this was a pretty good CES. I shook hands (firm handshake) with a very famous hip hop megastar whose name slips my mind (some permutation of Cool, Flex, Master, Mix, and Z), and I touched a napkin that Kelly Clarkson had thrown away. I won't ever wash my hands again. I hope I don't get sick. I get sick a lot after CES. There's something in those thumb drives. Or maybe it's the show booth girls.


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Are you planning a baptism or christening? If so, I've got some great affordable ideas for favors.
For some yummy DIY baptism favors, check out this post on how to make chocolate covered pretzels. Read through the entire post for great instructions on how to make these. And to jazz up the presentation of your pretzels, we have free Baptism favor tags right below
We've designed a couple of FREE Baptism printables for you, in case you'd like to make something similar. These are set up in PDF format, with 20 of them per sheet. You can simply print, punch out with a round punch (or cut out with scissors), and make favor tags!
You can download the PINK version HERE. You can download the BLUE version HERE.
Baptisms and Christenings are a time to celebrate new life, so why not give away LIVE plants? You can purchase them inexpensively at supermarkets or nurseries. Check out this post from 2 Sisters, 2 Cities, on how to personalize terra cotta planters with mini plant favors. I LOVE how they painted the terra cotta planters in a metallic color!:
I found a very fun and unique baptism gallery on the Hostess blog. Sort of vintage, old-school decor… with lots of fun touches. Click HERE to check out the gallery for inspiration. I think my favorite photo? The "AWsome" cans:
And in the Diva Entertains shop, you can find lots of great baptism favors including our Baptism Rosary Favors and Baptism Remembrance Cards with Rosaries.
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In its press material, Asus says that the Transformer Pad 300 series is aimed at the "young and trendy, tech-savvy set". Sadly, for Asus, that "set" all lives in Shoreditch, and you'll never get anything in to their hands apart from a copy of "Wallpaper" magazine and an iPad. Still, it's a valiant effort to interest the hipsters of our world.
The specs of the 300 series are reasonable enough. A 10.1-inch screen adorns the front, with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels, and it's an IPS panel, so expect some pretty impressive viewing angles too. It also supports multi-touch from up to 10 fingers - quite a lot of fingers, considering humans only have eight each, plus a couple of thumbs.
The 300 series is powered by a quad-core (with added Ninja-core) Nvidia Tegra 3 and 1GB of RAM. There's 16GB of internal storage too, and Asus also throws in 8GB of cloud backup capacity, so your important files should stay safe, even if something happens to the tablet. There are 4G, 3G and Wi-Fi-only models available and each has microSD and micro HDMI sockets. The optional keyboard dock adds full-sized SD and a proper USB port.
The camera has an 8-megapixel camera on the rear with an f/2.2 lens and can record video at 1080p. The front-facing camera has 1.2-megapixels, and will happily provide pictures of your face to anyone who wishes to video conference with you.
The 300 series is available in blue, white or red. They all have a depth of 9.9mm and weight 635g. Battery life is claimed to be around 10 hours, from the lithium polymer cell or 15 hours if you use the optional keyboard dock. We hope it goes without saying that Android 4.0 is pre-installed too, so you're bang up-to-date right out of the box.
Are you too cool for school or will you give up the iPad for one of these sexy little machines?


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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
DRACULA!!! Ah-ah-aaahh.
Bram Stoker's original text in a hardcover book with over 50 full color illustrations, published by Harper Design!
I'll end this blog entry with a particular favorite quote of mine, from the good Dr. Seward:
"How I miss my phonograph! To write diary with a pen is irksome to me; but Van Helsing says I must."
Certainly a man ahead of his time! Hah, irksome. I love it so much. I've read this book 12 times!!!
15 comments:
- Danielle Case said...
This is gorgeous and amazing!! What was the medium?
- April 3, 2012 at 3:29 PM
- becky said...
Brush and ink, with lots of photoshop-- This book could actually be called DRACULA: Revenge of the color holds!
- April 3, 2012 at 3:30 PM
- Lynn said...
Ohmigosh, so gorgeous! I was actually about to get a copy of Dracula, but now I'm gonna wait until I can get my hands on this one!
- April 3, 2012 at 3:42 PM
- Rod McKie said...
It looks stunning; it really does. I'll buy this.
- April 3, 2012 at 4:25 PM
- spleenal said...
This looks brilliant! Frankenstine next?
- April 3, 2012 at 4:41 PM
- GrayPumpkin said...
Stunning work, you win, just ordered it on Amazon
- April 3, 2012 at 7:40 PM
- Ilia said...
is there a signed copy available or will you do a bookplate for us? this looks fantastic.
- April 3, 2012 at 9:33 PM
- Angilram said...
I'll definitely buy this book. It'll go well with my jae Lee and Ben Cadwell' Draculas. ^^
I wonder what the contracts are like for this kind of project, is this a co-author with royalties on actual sales or is the book a flat fee commission?
- April 4, 2012 at 12:48 PM
- Brian said...
Definitely need to get this before the Boston show.
- April 6, 2012 at 10:35 PM
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- Clarence Dass said...
Very awesome. I'm ordering this book next week, can't wait to get my hands on it.
The only copy of Dracula I have is this one that I got when I was like 10. This would be a sweet upgrade :D
- April 17, 2012 at 3:19 PM
- Charles R. Rutledge said...
Picked mine up at my local comic shop. Looks great.
- April 21, 2012 at 6:36 PM
- biteCONCEPTS said...
Looks fantastic, i'm already convinced to buy this! Something new, refreshing and a sight better than those attempts to manga-fy or comic-fy the classics!
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- Cynthia said...
the illustrations are great, Barbie awesome!
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4-Foot-9 Walk-On From Rice Draws Thunderous Cheers With 1-Yard Run in Team's Romp
This is a modern-day 'Rudy.'
Jayson Carter is a 4-foot-9, 135-pound walk-on with the Rice Owls who got his first career carry this past weekend in the team's 45-7 victory over UTEP.
Carter walked on to the squad in 2011. Coach David Bailiff has been a big supporter of his, saying, "I think it's great we're helping him make one of his dreams to play college football come true."
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Four Ways to Optimize Your MySQL Database
From its inception, speed has been a strong point of the MySQL database server. In fact, its developers have long been cautious to add new features at the expense of performance even when faced by withering pressure from detractors. Yet over time MySQL's features caught up with its blazing speed, and today its used to power some of the highest traffic websites in the world, Yahoo! Finance, Craiglist, and TicketMaster among them. Accordingly, for most applications chances are MySQL is going to perform to your expectations.
However, with Web traffic exploding, and the complexity of applications increasing all the time, you should strive to optimize your database from its very inception, and continue to review and refine its structure and query activity over its lifetime. You can do so by following a process I refer to as NICM, or preferably, "Neglecting to Index Causes Misery" (those of you new to database optimization will soon get the joke). This process consists of five steps, including Normalize, Index, Cache, and Monitor. In this inaugural installment of my new MySQL series for Developer.com, I'll introduce these five steps, highlighting not only how they will ensure your database is running at full tilt, but also how they will actually help you to more effectively manage your data.
The relational database is aptly named because it promotes the strategy of managing data through well-defined relations. By creating and enforcing relations, its possible to greatly reduce the possibility inconsistencies could creep into the data. This strategy is known as database normalization, of which there are several well-defined states, also known as forms.
To illustrate both the concept and importance of normalization, consider a scenario in which you're tasked with creating a corporate human resources application capable of managing employee information. This application would allow the HR manager to easily insert, update, view and delete employee data. Each employee record would contain the usual information, including name, phone number, position, salary, and supervisor.
Note that in the opening sentence I stated that relational databases promote the strategy of managing data through well-defined relations—you're certainly not constrained to do so. Therefore there's nothing to prevent you from creating a single table that looks like this:
CREATE TABLE employees ( name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, telephone CHAR(10) NOT NULL, position VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, salary DECIMAL(8,2) NOT NULL, supervisor VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL )
Yet several problems with this approach should be evident. Because the data types used to define these columns are all indicative of an input method requiring the manager to manually enter each value. For example, the manager might type the following values into the web form when adding a new employee:
"Jason Gilmore", "614-999-9999", "Software Developer", "50000.00", "John Thompson"
But what if over time the manager begins to enter the "Software Developer" title as "Sft. Dev.", and occasionally forgets the periods, using just "Sft Dev"? These inconsistencies eliminate the possibility of using simple SELECT queries to retrieve the roster of software developers. The simple answer to the problem is to normalize the position data, creating a new table intended to contain the master list of all possible positions:
CREATE TABLE positions ( id TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL )Then you revise the employees table so that it refers to a position's primary key rather than the name (in the revised table, the _fk postfix is simply a naming convention to remind the database administrator that this column points to a foreign table key):
CREATE TABLE employees ( name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, telephone CHAR(10) NOT NULL, position_fk TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, salary DECIMAL(8,2) NOT NULL, supervisor VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL )
Now you can retrieve the positions from the positions table and use them to populate a drop-down list. This forces the manager to choose from a constrained set rather than haphazardly type in the titles.
A similar normalization improvement can be made to the supervisor column, although this is a case where an additional table isn't necessary. All you need to do is modify the employees table anew so it looks like this:
CREATE TABLE employees ( id SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, telephone CHAR(10) NOT NULL, position_fk TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, salary DECIMAL(8,2) NOT NULL, supervisor_pk SMALLINT UNSIGNED )
Can you figure out the origin of the data used to populate the supervisor_pk column? That's right, the very same employees table!
This is just a taste of how database normalization can greatly reduce the data inconsistencies that can arise over time. For a great summary of the concept and the various forms I alluded to earlier in the section, see the Wikipedia article on this topic.
I also suggest downloading MySQL's free MySQL Query Browser application, which can help you to visualize the data and its various relationships in a manner much more efficient than if you were using the command-line client.
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Has anyone attempted to delve into this world of 2d drawing an animation? I recently watched a pixel art movie (Kings of Power 4 billion%, (then subsequently 'Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006') which sort of got me interested into this drawing an animation style.. Unfortunately, I suck at it, very badly. Just wondering if anyone else has tried their hand at the art of the pen tool.
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Photo: Ariel Cohen's Venus de Meatloaf. Photo by Nir Arieli.
I grew up in the ballet world, where "dance" and "beauty" went hand in hand. Ugliness was a foreign concept, perhaps invoked only in the portrayal of a story ballet's villain.
So it was a challenge for me to wrap my mind around the theme of this year's Intimadance festival: ugliness. How would dances that explore ugliness look?
With this question in mind, I spent part of this weekend in Tel Aviv's Tmuna Theater. The works were diverse, but I couldn't help noticing that a few of the dances invoked a ballet vocabulary and aesthetic at times, perhaps as a reference to conventional standards of beauty within this art form.
To learn more about Intimadance and the choreographers' investigation of ugliness, check out my preview below, "Ugly Dance," which was first published in the Jerusalem Post. The festival continues tonight with two performances.
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Ugly Dance
Chances are, when you think about dance, the word "ugly" doesn't come to mind. But for the Intimadance festival at Tel Aviv's Tmuna Theater, choreographers were specifically asked to explore the concept of ugliness.
"This year the choice was to ask the question [about ugliness] in a discipline that is based on beauty – beauty of the body, beauty of the movement," says Nava Zuckeman, co-artistic director of the festival.
Examining ugliness in an art form typically concerned with beauty may be an intimidating challenge, but Intimadance provides a safe platform for choreographers to tackle this task without pressure to succeed or meet a particular ideal. Ariel Efraim-Ashbel, who has co-directed the festival since last year, explains that the agenda is to try and search rather than to win. "We're in a theater, not a war – we're not trying to conquer anything," he notes.


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Man Builds Himself A Steampunk Camera
Howard Boys (that's the guy's name, not like the Hardy Boys) went and made himself a functional steampunk camera. This is it. It looks old and takes pictures. Just like your grandparents on vacation!
Howard Boys took things old school with this camera that he created himself out of soldered brass. Howard purchased the lens and the shutter and built the rest.
Nice, Howard -- or should I call you Mr. Boys? Yeah, that's pretty creepy, I'm gonna stick with Howard. Well, Howard, not to
toot my own horn develop my own film or anything, but one time I made a camera out of a Quaker Oats canister. So, who's the master photographer now? Just sayin', I wasn't arrested during that Victoria's Secret catalog shoot for no reason.
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Cerro San Cristóbal ~ Santiago
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It's been 15 years since I've been to Chile and oh how I've missed it. We have family here so it was great to have the local treatment, catch up with everyone, including new additions to the fam & attend a crazy-fun wedding dancing till dawn! Above are a few highlights. We did so much more & you can find my happy snaps on instagram.
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4-21-12 PNC Park
Rain would wash out batting practice today, making it a struggle to get baseballs.
However, sometimes in the hobby of ballhawking, you'll have luck on your side. I had a lot of luck today. Upon entering, I went to the main seating bowl and found ball #1:
and #3:
They were likely overthrows from the Pirates warm up session before the gates opened.
The Cardinals came out soon after and I was able to get JC Romero to toss me ball #4 when he was done:
And Fernando Salas threw me ball #5:
I decided to get out of the way so that fellow ballhawk Zac Weiss should get a ball or two. I went halfway up into the empty seats to sit down and number my baseballs.
Just when I sat down, about 20 some rows back, I noticed Lance Lynn had finished throwing, so I stood up and help up my glove. He fired a perfect strike at me for ball #6.
Moments later, Mark Rczepzynski randomly fired his ball into the empty seats, so I just had to walk over and pick it up for ball #7.
When Kyle McClellan finished his warm ups, rather than give in to the polite request from the two Cardinals fans for a ball, he turned and fired his warm up ball into the right field seats, which were off limits until 5:30. Since I couldn't get over there, I went into the upper deck on a scouting mission so I could see down into the right field seats so that I could know exactly where the ball was in case someone else was also going for the same ball. Can you spot it?
At 5:30, I ran up to the exact spot where the ball was waiting for me and snapped a pic. It was ball #8:
At 5:35, I went into the upper deck and found a Mark Rzepczynski ball that he had randomly just thrown into the upper deck.
There was no BP, and yet after about an hour, I had already snagged 9 balls. There wasn't much action for the next 90 minutes, so I took a pic of the field:
Took a pic of this fan's Cardinals jersey:
And watched AJ Burnett warm up before his first Pirates start:
I sat for a few innings in right field, but couldn't snag another baseball. After a few innings, I went home to my family and watched the rest on TV.
By the way, today was fittingly umbrella night.
Here are today's baseballs:
2012 Stats:
Game: 9 balls
Season: 53 balls
Career: 1,597 balls


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Yesterday morning's Today Show featured the Wii U, the hot new Nintendo console that's like a tablet merged with a game console.
Should be great for live TV, right? Not quite, as you can see above.
At least no one has thrown a Wii U GamePad through a TV screen yet. Remember that stuff?
Let's take it back to 2006. Wii fails were a bit funnier.
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I've been in Vietnam for the last ten days or so, visiting our Lift9 team and taking in the beautiful beach at Hoi An. That's why I haven't posted in awhile – yeah right. I've posted a few photo albums on Posterous, one of the fabulous Thi Nhan restaurant in Hoi An that was featured on Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations and another one of a fantastic seafood dinner that the Lift9 team had in Ho Chi Minh City. I'll be posting another big one of Hoi An when I get home.
Anyhow, I figured out a few good travel tips on this trip, although they will probably go further in describing my ignorance rather than sharing anything that seasoned travelers don't know. Traveling overseas can be difficult on communications based on distance, time zones, and costs. I learned a few things about improving communications that I wanted to share.
Tip 1 – In my effort to avoid the usurious international data roaming rates that At&T charges ($20/MB), I typically keep my iPhone on airplane mode rather than than changing all of the push settings. Whenever I used the wifi, I would turn airplane mode off and go wifi. Of course, in the past this created a couple of mishaps when the wifi didn't really kick in, but the international data roaming did. Last trip to Vietnam was an expensive 2 minute charge on a layover in Tokyo, for example. So imagine my surprise when I tried the wifi with the phone still in airplane mode…and it worked! From now on, airplane mode is always on, with wi-fi.
Tip 2 – I use Skype to communicate back home, making PC to PC calls (or with the iPhone app). It's a great service and free. This trip I had to participate on a conference call, so figured I'd try Skype's paid VOIP service for calling land lines. Of course, the process of purchasing Skype credit was arduous with Skype's agent, Moneybookers. It seemed like they would throw up any security road blocks they could to inhibit my ability to purchase. After finally setting up my account, Skype worked like a charm. I called home and elsewhere for peanuts! And no more 30 minute setup times at home while my family would get things ready. I know my wife prefers it this way. I even got a Skype online number!
These tips have certainly made keeping in touch and communicating from overseas so much easier. What tools and tips do you use when you're traveling internationally to ease your communications?


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