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Friday, August 2, 2013
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Seeing and smelling lavender always makes me feel relaxed :) Happy Friday!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I do agree flowers are pure feast for the soul! :)ReplyDelete
Absolutely beautifulk Rosa, my favorite is the door and the windowReplyDelete
J'ai adore !!
Superbe lavande... Son odeur, sa couleur et son goût... <3ReplyDelete
So beautiful, I am in love with the door.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous shots!!ReplyDelete
You have such a great eye that I'm always interested in seeing what you photograph. More, more! ;-) Thanks for this.ReplyDelete
It is a feast indeed Rosa.ReplyDelete
I adore that Tiger Lily! They are my favorite. Ours are all orange.ReplyDelete
J'habiterais avec joie dans un tel décor!ReplyDelete
Beautiful lavender click!ReplyDelete
Absolutely stunning Rosa.ReplyDelete
You really know how to convey poetic messages through pictures. Gorgeous shots!ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend friend!
Stunning! especially that Hemerocallis which I adore.ReplyDelete
Oh the lavender! Lovely.ReplyDelete
How beautiful and peaceful! A very inviting placeReplyDelete
OMG Rosa es un regalo para los ojos adoro la lavanda y todas las flores,fotos fantásticas,hugs,hugs.ReplyDelete
Amazing pics,dear!Have a lovely weekend!ReplyDelete
Utterly beautiful!! I love all the macro details :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful, Rosa! Both of the photos make me want to sit and stare!ReplyDelete
C'est donc beau chez vous!ReplyDelete
J'adore les fleurs comme tu sais..alors ce billet est un coup de coeur.
I love the lavender shot!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:47 PM, August 02, 2013
These are so pretty! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Amazing, you're a great photographer Rosa! I love lavender, thanks for sharing! Have a nice weekend!ReplyDelete
Bises xx
A Floral Feast indeed, Rosa. Your "clicks" are stunning. I love each and every one of them. I too especially like the image of the door and the lovely "Dancing Ladies" (Mullein Pinks) standing tall along the pathway.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing...
My idea of heaven. <3ReplyDelete
G'day and Beautiful! True!ReplyDelete
Your photos are a great way for me to start my day too!
Cheers! Joanne
- Anonymous3:36 AM, August 03, 2013
Lovely photos!ReplyDelete
always enjoy your flower pics makes us all smileReplyDelete
You say more in a few photographs than I can say in 1000 words. Lovely, Rosa, just lovely.ReplyDelete
Beautifully captured floral pictures.ReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures. Makes me want to go places. Exquisite.ReplyDelete
superbes!...et superbement mises en valeur!...merci pour ce moment fleuri...ReplyDelete
You make the most simple things look heavenly!ReplyDelete
Je ne me lasserai jamais de voir d'aussi belles fleurs!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Summer photos! Pinned!ReplyDelete
Loving the lavender shot!!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful shots. So much of this we otherwise take for granted. You remind us of their beauty through your lens!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:59 AM, August 04, 2013
ohhh all those snaps are so darn good, the first one with swaying lavender flowers is adorable...ReplyDelete
waiting for more floral snaps... :-)
Beautiful splash of colours!ReplyDelete
Stunning colorful feast!ReplyDelete
Just lovely! We have lavender growing in my parent's yard. Loved that first shot.ReplyDelete
Oh wow... your photos are so beautiful, Rosa! I love all three pictures. I wish I know how to take pictures and edit. I really need to study photography seriously more.ReplyDelete
I never seem to get enough of your photography Rosa. The clicks are gorgeous and spell summer.ReplyDelete
such graceful shots, Rosa !!! loved it..truly. belated Friendship Day greetings :)ReplyDelete
beautiful lavendar, great shot of the dayReplyDelete
Rosa, beautiful shots! I so enjoy that your share the beauty of your part of the world. xo EReplyDelete
Absolute beauty indeed!ReplyDelete
So beautiful!!!!!ReplyDelete
beautiful cliks..awesum..ReplyDelete
C'est vraiment beau la campagne !ReplyDelete
Bonne semaine
Flowers are beauties to our eyes! Love the dark lily!ReplyDelete
you have such a knack for picking out the most beautiful subjects to photograph! :)ReplyDelete
I think I just landed in Paradise :) Is paradise more beautiful than what Rosa's eyes and camera portray?ReplyDelete
You're too awesome and a tremendous genius!
Gorgeous photos Rosa...indeed a feast for my eyes.ReplyDelete
Have a lovely week my dear :D
Such a delicious feast for the eyes Rosa! Love the second photo it reminds us of the lovely Swiss country homes.ReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures!ReplyDelete
Shashi @ http://runninsrilankan.com
Beautiful photos. You captivate the true colors of the flowers, I love it.ReplyDelete
Such beautiful photographs, Rosa!ReplyDelete
C'est si fin...si fragile, si beau !ReplyDelete
belle soirée
I am really enjoying your photographic essays. Thanks for sharing the beauty of the countryside.ReplyDelete
Flowers always cheer me up :DReplyDelete
Have a great week ahead Rosa and you are a GEM, you are always the first to 'visit' me....MUACK!!! :D
Absolutely gorgeous colours and textures Rosa! :DReplyDelete
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Gorgeous shoots dearest Rosa! It's always a pleasure to come here and look at your work :)ReplyDelete
Hugs <3
Tes photos sont superbes !ReplyDelete
J'aime particulièrement la troisième.
Très bonne journée en ce mercredi,
Bisous, Doria
Rosa, though I may not comment often, know that your work continues to be a great source of inspiration and comfort for me. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Perfect title as it was a feast for the eyes.ReplyDelete
Très jolies fleurs surtout le lis à la fin, quelles couleurs originales! :)ReplyDelete
I especially love the lavender. I was reading just today that there's been a bumper crop of lavender this year!ReplyDelete
Je sens la lavande jusqu'à mon ordinateur...si...si je te jure!ReplyDelete
Oh I love those lilies - such unusual and striking colours! beautiful clicks as always :)ReplyDelete
I feel kike seeing your photos in the plush New York museum. Well done and I love to visit place like this.ReplyDelete


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… is too long …
… won't fit within the number of rows you have available.
Sometimes all you need is … ThreeDots! (a jQuery plugin)
For example —
|When restricted to 2 lines by ThreeDots, can become:
|There was once a brown fox
that liked to eat chocolate
|There was once a brown fox
that liked to eat …
|There was once a brown fox
that liked to eat chocolate
|There was once a brown fox
that liked to (click for more)
… and most any other permutation you desire.
To Ellipsize
There are many scenarios in the display of online text where shortened, truncated representations are best used. For these scenarios, many products opt for the implementation of ellipses.
el·lip·sis (ĭ-lĭp'sĭs)
n., pl., -ses (-sēz).
- The omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding.
- An example of such omission.
- A mark or series of marks ( . . . or * * * , for example) used in writing or printing to indicate an omission, especially of letters or words.
[Latin ellīpsis, from Greek elleipsis, from elleipein, to fall short. See ellipse.]
from <http://www.answers.com/topic/ellipsis>
Many online products employ ellipses within their products to improve various aspects of the User Experience, such as:
allowing for easy summary scanning of page content, and
fitting more diversity of content into a smaller space.
Most often people truncate the text by character count, on both the client- and server-sides, which does not take into account the variable dimensions of the text being truncated. There are also a few CSS hacks out there, albeit with future standardized support currently being called into question, and custom, per-browser efforts required for successful implementation.
I too, on so many projects, have encountered the challenge of wanting to limit text to only a few lines or make sure that, no matter what, the text always fits within the space provided. People, myself included, on similar product feature missions have been forced to make compromises of design and experience, without the existence of a simple script/tool to carry out the task, to accommodate the time constraints and complexity of coding the ideal solution.
So, finally, I sat down, put the time in, and created the ThreeDots jQuery plugin for…
… when text is too long…
… when text doesn't fit within the available space …
… when you want to employ highly configurable and flexible ellipses within your web product…
… so that never again, would I, or anyone else have to compromise their vision where that vision bumps up against the need for the smart implementation of ellipses in your web product.
ThreeDots is a customizable jQuery plugin for the smart truncation of text. It shortens identified text to fit specified dimensions and appends the desired ellipsis style if/when truncation occurs.
Sample 1:

  TEXT

$('.text_here').ThreeDots(); // USE DEFAULTS $('.text_here2').ThreeDots({ max_rows:3 });
Sample 2:

  TEXT

threedots_object = $('.text_here').ThreeDots(); threedots_object.update();
Sample 3:

  TEXT

threedots_object2 = $('.text_here').ThreeDots( {text_span_class: 'something'} ); threedots_object2.update( {text_span_class: 'something'} );
As a Method
When initialized, the ThreeDots plugin creates and assigns the full set of identified text to each container element, class='text_here', as a publicly accessible attribute, 'threedots'. The method implementation supports chaining and returns the jQuery object.

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Note, to implement the text that you wish to ellipsize, it must be wrapped in a span assigned either the default class 'ellipsis_text' or other custom class of your preference — customizable via the options/settings.
If the text becomes truncated to fit within the constrained space as defined by the container element that holds the 'ellipsis_text' span, then an additional span is appended within the container object, and after the 'ellipsis_text' span.

  original text   ...

The span class of 'threedots_ellipsis' can also be customized via the options/settings and have it's own CSS/jQuery styles/actions/etc. applied to it as desired. Put another way, the ellipsis is NOT constrained to '…', but can be any text or HTML you desire.
If any of the specified settings are invalid or the 'ellipsis_text' span is missing, ThreeDots will abort its processing and the initial text will be left untouched.
IMPORTANT: The horizontal constraints placed upon each row are controlled by the container object. The container object is the object specified in the primary selector.
When using ThreeDots, the following additional methods can be used…
Refreshes the text within the target object inline with the options provided. Note that the current implementation of options/settings are destructive. This means that whenever settings are specified, they are merged with the DEFAULT settings and applied to the current object(s), and destroy/override any previously specified options/settings.
var obj = $('.text_here').ThreeDots(); // uses DEFAULT: max_rows = 2 obj.update({max_rows:3}); // update the text with max_rows = 3
By default, the three dots ellipsis ("…") is used, as shown in the prior examples, and limits text to a maximum of 2 lines. These and many other characteristics are fully customizable, and fully itemized and explained below.
To change these settings, they can either be accessed directly…
$.fn.ThreeDots.settings.max_rows = 4;
… or at the time of initialization or update …
// configuring the initial settings to use var obj3 = $('.text_here').ThreeDots({ max_rows: 4 }); // changing the applied settings via an update call to the same text region(s) obj3.ThreeDots.update({ max_rows: 2 });
The default settings data structure is…
$.fn.ThreeDots.settings = { valid_delimiters: [' ', ',', '.'], // what defines the bounds of a word to you? ellipsis_string: '...', max_rows: 2, text_span_class: 'ellipsis_text', e_span_class: 'threedots_ellipsis', whole_word: true, allow_dangle: false, alt_text_e: false, // if true, mouse over of ellipsis displays the full text alt_text_t: false // if true & if ellipsis displayed, mouse over of text displays the full text };
The parameters are defined (and all can be overridden) thus…
- a character array of special characters upon which the text string may be broken up
- defines what characters can be used to express the bounds of a word
- all elements in this array must be 1 character in length
- any delimiter less than or greater than 1 character will be ignored
- if valid_delimiters contains no valid content, then nothing will be processed
- defines what to display at the tail end of the text provided if the text becomes truncated to fit within the space defined by the container object
- ellipsis_string can be text or HTML (e.g. 'click for more')
- specifies the upper limit for the number of rows that the object's text can use
- if the displayed text is determined to use less than max_rows, then no operations will be performed upon the provided text and no ellipsis displayed
- max_rows must be greater than 0 (ZERO)
- by default ThreeDots will look within the specified object(s) for a span of the class 'ellipsis_text'
- if the class specified by text_span_class is not found within the selected objects, then no actions will be taken against the incompletely defined objects
- if a different class name is desired for stylistic or programmatic reasons, a new, valid string can be specified
- if an ellipsis_string is displayed at the tail end of the selected object's text due to truncation of that text, then it will be displayed wrapped within a span associated with the class defined by e_span_class and immediately following the text_span_class' span
- just like text_span_class, a different, valid class name can be specified
- when ThreeDots is fitting the provided text to the max_rows within the container object, this boolean setting defines whether or not the last word can be truncated to maximize the fit of the text within max_rows
- if true, then don't truncate any words and the ellipsis can ONLY be placed after the last whole word that fits within the provided space
one time a duck flew
a frog shaped kite
…could become…
one time a duck flew
a (click for more)
- if false, then maximize the text within the provided space, allowing the PARTIAL display of words before the ellipsis
(continuing from the prior example)
one time a duck flew
a fr (click for more)
- a dangling ellipsis is an ellipsis that typically occurs due to words that are longer than a single row of text, resulting, upon text truncation, in the ellipsis being displayed on a row all by itself
one time a duck flew floopydoopydoppydoodoodoodoo
… could become with allow_dangle:true …
one time a duck flew
- if allow_dangle is set to false, whole_words is overridden ONLY in the circumstances where a dangling ellipsis occurs and the displayed text is adjusted to minimize the occurrence of such dangling of the ellipsis
(continuing from the prior example)
one time a duck flew
- alt_text_e is a shortcut to enabling the user of the product that made use of ThreeDots to see the full text, prior to truncation, on mouse-over of the ellipsis
- if the value is set to true, then the ellipsis span's title property is set to the full, original text (pre-truncation) allowing the text to be seen by mousing over the ellipsis, if present
- if the value is set to false, then the title value is left unaffected
- this feature can be used in place of, or in conjunction with, additional styles or desired behaviors associated with mouse interactions of the selected object(s)
- alt_text_e usage is not required to define your own custom interactions
- alt_text_t is a shortcut to enabling the user of the product that made use of ThreeDots to see the full text, prior to truncation, on mouse-over of the ellipsized text
- if the value is set to true AND the ellipsis is displayed, then the text span's title property is set to the full, original text (pre-truncation) and the text can be seen by mousing over the truncated text, if the ellipsis is present
- if the value is set to false, then the title value is left unaffected
- this feature can be used in place of, or in conjunction with, additional styles or desired behaviors associated with mouse interactions of the selected object(s)
- alt_text_t usage is not required to define your own custom interactions
Get It
You can download ThreeDots, dual licensed under GPL and MIT, from…
jQuery Repository
Public Clone URL: git://github.com/theproductguy/ThreeDots.git
GitHub: http://github.com/theproductguy/ThreeDots
Status updates can be found here, jQuery ThreeDots.
If you find this useful, or have any questions, ideas, or issues, leave a comment.
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Apple had already warned developers in early last year that it would begin deprecating the UDID, and it had been rejecting apps that make use of it as early as May 2012. That didn't stop every developer from using the UDID, though, and a high-profile leak in September (originally suspected to have come from the FBI but ultimately revealed to have come from an iOS app publisher) highlighted the need for a more privacy-conscious system to track users and offer targeted advertising.
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SANTA CLARITA, CALIF.—A roller coaster hit a tree branch at the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park Monday, dislodging the front car, leaving four people slightly injured and keeping nearly two dozen summer fun-seekers hanging 6 to 10 metres in the air for hours as day turned to night.
Two of the four people hurt on the Ninja coaster were taken to a hospital as a precaution, but all the injuries were minor, fire and park officials said.
"We were going across one turn and all of a sudden a loud noise happened," Jeremy Ead, one of the injured riders, told KCAL-TV. "I ducked down just in time. A hard branch hit me in the head. I was there bleeding from my head, which was a little worse than this," he said, pointing to a gash in his forehead.
The coaster hit the branch about 5:30 p.m. and stopped, said Michael Pittman, a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatch supervisor. It was nearly three hours later before all 22 of the riders were rescued.
Televised news reports showed at least one of the cars that normally are suspended beneath the track dangling at an angle, derailed at the front.
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All were alert and communicated with park staff during the evacuation process, Six Flags said in a statement.
The park's website advertises that Ninja swoops through the trees to give riders a thrill.
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The ride would remain shut down while the accident was investigated, park spokeswoman Sue Carpenter said in a statement.
Six Flags Magic Mountain is in the Valencia area of Santa Clarita, about 40 km north of Los Angeles.
The accident comes nearly a year after a woman was ejected from a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington and died. The death was ruled an accident, but her family has sued both Six Flags and the German company that built the coaster's trains, both of whom denied any wrongdoing.
In September 2012 at another Southern California amusement park, Knott's Berry Farm, riders were left dangling at 90 metres for more than three hours when its Windseeker ride broke down. No one was injured in that breakdown.


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Federal authorities are investigating why a company owned by the son of U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah was paid $450,000 by an education firm that has received millions in contracts from the Philadelphia School District, according to sources familiar with the probe.
Agents from the FBI and U.S. Treasury Department served two search warrants early Wednesday for Chaka Fattah Jr.'s records, the first at his apartment at the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton.
They also seized Fattah's records and a computer from the Logan Square law office of David T. Shulick. He is president of Delaware Valley High School, a for-profit company that contracts with school districts to educate students with discipline problems.
The younger Fattah, 29, known as "Chip," is owner of a consulting company called 259 Strategies L.L.C. that works as a subcontractor for Shulick's companies. Fattah Jr. has working space at the law office.
The $450,000 payment from Shulick's company is more than 10 percent of the approximately $4 million that Delaware Valley will receive from the School District this year.
"We are cooperating with the investigation," said attorney Ronald A. Sarachan, who jointly is representing Fattah with Gregory P. Miller. "We've been in communication with the government."
Sarachan said he was "hopeful" that the investigation would be quickly resolved.
Shulick, who was interviewed Wednesday morning by agents at his home, said he was told that neither he nor Delaware Valley were the focus of the investigation.
"It doesn't have anything to do with the school," Shulick said. "We have nothing to hide, and we let them in and let them search [Fattah Jr.'s] office unfettered."
In a later e-mailed statement, Shulick said Fattah Jr. "is being victimized merely because his last name is 'Fattah.' "
" . . . He is dealing with issues that nobody without the last name 'Fattah' would have to deal with," Shulick wrote.
The FBI has been asking questions about Fattah Jr.'s business operations for at least a year.
In January 2011, agents went to the South Florida home of Mikel Jones, a lawyer and childhood friend of Fattah Sr., as part of an investigation into Jones' finances.
During a daylong conversation, they also asked Jones why he had paid more than $90,000 to 259 Strategies and to American Royalty, another Fattah Jr. firm that provided luxury services to well-heeled clients, according to an FBI document that summarized the conversation.
It surfaced last year in a federal fraud case against Jones. He was convicted and is appealing.
Jones, who ran a personal injury law firm, told the agents that he hired the younger Fattah to help expand his business – and because Fattah had "access," the document said.
The FBI said Jones told them Fattah "had some good ideas, but he could not remember any of them offhand."
"I know what this looks like, but there was no quid pro quo," Jones told the agents, the document said.
"Did I overpay him? Was it a good investment, strictly speaking? No, but I was desperate and he had access," Jones said. The nature of that access was not described.
In an interview with The Inquirer last year, Fattah Jr. said his work for Jones had nothing to do with providing access to his father or anyone else.
"I came up with a lot of ideas," he said. "Mr. Jones was a client of my concierge service, and I also acted as a management consultant in terms of finding new clients for his personal injury firm, period."
Fattah declined to go into detail on his work for Jones, but said that many of the payments from clients were used to purchase goods or services for them. American Royalty charged membership fees.
"We might get a call at 3 a.m. saying a client needs a jet in the morning," he said in a 2007 interview with the Philadelphia Business Journal. "We have access to one of the top private jet companies in the country, so we're able to make that happen."
In 2007, the Capital Grille restaurant in Philadelphia filed a police report alleging that American Royalty had failed to pay a $15,000 bill. Fattah settled the tab, saying it was run up by a client.
Federal agents arrived about 6:40 a.m. Wednesday outside Fattah's home, and at Shulick's office shortly after 10 a.m. They left the law office about 50 minutes later, carrying a Dell desktop computer and boxes of records.
Sources with knowledge of the investigation said that while some agents were serving search warrants and collecting documents at Fattah Jr.'s residence and the law office, other agents were conducting interviews with other people, including Shulick.
Shulick said he believes that the inquiry is focused on the younger Fattah, who has been doing work for Shulick since 2009, according to documents and interviews. Shulick said Fattah Jr. works as "a contracted employee" for the law firm, the school, and his charity, the Judith B. Shulick Memorial Foundation, named for his mother.
Last May, when Shulick threw out the first pitch at a Phillies game, Fattah Jr. posted a video on YouTube.
Earlier this month, Fattah Jr. appeared before the York City school board pitching a $1.5 million contract for Delaware Valley and describing himself as the company's director of business development, according to a published report.
Rep. Fattah has been a supporter of Shulick's schools as well.
He sought a $375,000 federal transportation grant to replace the school's fleet with "green clean fuel burning vehicles," according to his website. The grant was not approved.
Rep. Fattah, whose district covers parts of Philadelphia and Montgomery County, is the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee and has long pushed for education funding.
"I stand by my son," he said in a statement. "Nothing came of the request for funds, and my son had nothing to do with any request for funds." He said he would "await the results of the investigation before making further comment."
His spokesman, Ron Goldwyn, said the investigation does not involve Fattah Sr. or the congressional office.


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So, Orphan's Week. I do holiday achievements on my mage Invariant. It's sort of an apology to her for not being my main any more, plus Analogue has flight form and doesn't need a proto drake. So there.
I've gotten to needing Flame Warden (accidentally did that one on Analogue), two Hallow's End achievements, and Children's Week, which is the one I've been dreading. Saturday I spent farming up the Lovely Cakes and such that we'd need (they had gone to 100g on the AH when I checked) so that we could concentrate on School of Hard Knocks.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy PvP. In BC when Invariant was my only max level character, PvP was my end game. Heck I got her all decked out in purple shinies including the staff that looked like it might have questionable alternative uses (the pink glowing rotating… whatever… at the top. What was that anyway?). All from battlegrounds because I am not and never will be any good at arenas.
But you see, I have a really great mage pvp strategy. I spec into fire. I hate frost, just don't like the playstyle at all. Then I run at a bunch of enemies and do as much damage as possible in the ten seconds before I die. This strategy works great when I get in a bg mood, which hasn't happened lately honestly. Unfortunately it doesn't work well for the School of Hard Knocks achievement, which requires me to accomplish goals with my orphan out.
Still. Ok, activate pvp spec. Check what I've got for pvp gear… ouch, not much, I did some pvp at the start of Wrath but I have very little. Still what I've got gives me 250 resilience which is better than nothing. I queue up and get started.
Arathi Basin has always been my favorite BG. It feels like the right size of battle, I can usually contribute and I know the strategies. In this case, I headed right for the Gold Mine – the Stables was the noob "click on the flag with the orphan out" honeypot – and get it done. Ten seconds in, we're good, now I can enjoy this bg. Well I stay at the mine with a few other orphan tenders and when a horde guy comes by, we let him cap and then they recap a few times, and then the guy wanders away…. by this time every point has exchanged hands a dozen time and I realize this could be a long battle.
I look around for action. For a while there's a bit of a fight at the Lumber Mill, but then the Horde take it pretty solidly and the Alliance doesn't want to press there. So I go the the Blacksmith. It's currently ours and Horde keep coming by to try to cap. I hang out by the flag and every time a group shows up – Tab, Living Bomb, Tab, Living Bomb, Tab, Living Bomb PYROBLAST TO THE FACE! How'd you like that? MWAHAHA. We held that flag against all comers for the next ten minutes; it ended up being the only place in the BG that actual pvp was taking place.
Lost the battle, got the objective.
WG next – I come into a battle that's already started and a Tauren immediately tries to stomp in my head. I manage to finish him off and notice that there's a Troll picking up and dropping our flag, so I get that achievement too. The game stretches on… and on…. and on… There were about two players on each side actually trying to run the flag. They got nowhere until five minutes from the end when the Horde decided to go on offense and we had to really fight to defend the flag. It ended up as a 0-0 tie. And frankly the most boring battleground I've ever been in. I had thought the AB was bad until I got to the Blacksmith for the battle there; that was nothing compared to dancing in our flagroom waiting for something to happen. (Go run the enemy flag yourself? I hear someone ask. Dude. Fire mage wearing non-pvp gear. That's just not happening.)
Alterac Valley – fun BG usually. My first two tries dumped me into mostly complete battles where the Horde set up a gauntlet halfway down the map ganking anyone who tried to get to the end. No chance to try a tower. The third one, Reversion brought his hunter Approximate along. Approx is his pvp and holiday achievement character, and has a motorcycle and pvp gear. He got me into a tower in time to cap it. Yay! And then we puttered around killing things until someone managed to zerg rush the enemy boss. I mostly died a lot. I need better gear.
Eye of the Storm. Never a fan of this place. And right now, it's a nightmare. The objective for the achievement is to cap a flag. I'm not sure I've ever capped a flag there. I'll find out when I get it done as there's an achievement for the first time you cap a flag. The first one I went to, we got three capped and the Horde kept the flag. Miserable failure. The second one, I ended up rousing the troops, running a solid defense of the Mage Tower and Draeni ruins, pushing hard at the Horde; we had the flag the whole time and won convincingly. I never got near the flag. Clearly I'm doing this wrong. I envision a lot of EotS this week to get the achievement.
On the positive side, I'm gaining honor. Got to check a list for PVP gear for Invariant and maybe respec… I took Dragon's Breath out and a knockout is great for pvp… she's got a few arcane points she doesn't actually need.
On the whole, Blizzard succeeded in making me want to pvp again with this achievement. They also succeeded in making pvp kind of boring. There were battlegrounds where I only died once or twice. That… doesn't happen, not with my gear like this. Hopefully I'll stay in a pvp mood next week when it's fun again. Right now – well sorry hardcore pvp folks, I'm in UR BGs being a N00b. And sorry achievement mongers – I'm just good enough at the bg to mess up things for you. Don't hate me – hate the shiny shiny protodrake-shaped carrot on a stick Blizzard is dangling at you…


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In the photo I'm wearing a "Momma Donna" outfit. She got me the shirt from Target (Liz Lange maternity), and we bought the cropped khaki's at Gordman's together for a steal. They are Motherhood brand but I think they were only like $15 or something. I was glad to find another cheaper place to find maternity wear–their selection is pretty good!
I really can't wear regular pants any more, at least not in the sizes I own, and while some of my shirts still fit, I just look pot-bellied in them rather than pregnant. I love wearing maternity clothes because they accent my belly and make it look round, not just fat. LOL!
I added a pregnancy countdown ticker to the top of my sidebar and you can see our baby is now the size of a mango, my favorite fruit! So unreal how fast a baby grows. The miracle of conception to birth is just way too amazing to wrap my head around.
I don't have much to report, but did get a question last week about my blood sugar numbers so I thought I'd address that. I'm doing fabulous with my diabetes, peeps! I've been really pleased with it for the most part because before I got pregnant I averaged about 150 and I'm now averaging 113 (there's the 13 again!). I purposely kept my blood sugar a little high pre-pregnancy to avoid low blood sugar like the plague (hates it), but my focus changed to making sure I'm as normal as possible at all times (doctor set my goals at 90 pre-meals and 120 post-meals) for the sake of the baby's health. I now will take 1 more unit than I think I need with meals just to be on the lower side. This means I do often get low, but I always have a "fix" (candy/juice/etc) with me to take care of it if necessary.
I went through some really, really bad low mornings that were so severe I was only semi-conscious upon waking, not even aware of what I was doing (thankfully I would always eat something and come out of it). I wouldn't really "get" what was wrong with me at first and would try to check my email but couldn't read anything, and I would be hitting walls and stumbling around, then I'd "come to" with a sack of chips in my lap and peanut butter smears on my nose and cheek or some such other nastiness. I still can't eat chips after that morning I had like half a bag of baked potato chips while I was out of it – major aversion now! Not a bad thing. :)
Being so out of control of my own body and mind really sucked, not going to lie. It's really scary because I might have lost consciousness if I hadn't finally eaten something, and Dennis wouldn't have found me until many hours later (he goes into work 3 hours before me). Dennis helped me on some mornings when he was aware I was low before he left, but I had to get a handle on the situation because it's usually on me to be able to get out of bed and be a self-reliant individual since sleep is now precious and I sleep right through him leaving. I've finally worked out the dosage on my Lantus (long-lasting insulin) to where my morning lows are about 75, which is a manageable number that does not render me brain-dead. So that's very good!
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Never say "never." I recently blogged about Thomas Jefferson's Library, a reprint of our third President's library catalogue as recreated by his secretary, Nicholas P. Trist. I've always been intrigued by Trist's subsequent checkered diplomatic career, so I added, "Trist later had a controversial career as a diplomat – if I ever find a Government publication concerning him, you'll hear all about it," assuming that the chances of finding a book like that were practically nil. Meanwhile, I had requested copies of a number of publications from the Center for Cryptologic History at the National Security Agency to blog about. After they arrived, I began thumbing through Masked Dispatches: Cryptograms and Cryptology in American History, 1775-1900. Of course, the title of Chapter 15 is "Nicholas Trist Code." That's why I decided to discuss this book first.
Masked Dispatches presents some of the Founding fathers as active participants in spycraft. America's first espionage code was devised by Benjamin Tallmadge, General George Washington's director of secret service, for use by a spy ring set up in New York in 1778. Another chapter discusses Washington's supplying of invisible ink to Tallmadge. What would Parson Weems have thought?
Not surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson's contribution to the world of codes and ciphers was a mechanical device – a wheel cylinder. Although not much came of this invention, which was developed some time before 1802, in 1922 the Army adopted a similar device, bearing out President John F. Kennedy's White House remarks to a roomful of Nobel Prize winners: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
Even less surprisingly, Aaron Burr, that brilliant and ever-controversial character, appears in Masked Dispatches, as does John Quincy Adams in his role as America's representative at the Prussian court. While in Berlin, he developed a sliding strip cipher – apparently not the easiest device to use, but another tribute to early American ingenuity and aptitude for secrecy.
The book includes much more – a chapter on Civil War ciphers, the use of codes during the 1876 Tilden-Hayes Presidential election scandal, and several descriptions of State Department codes. Particularly intriguing are the many reproductions of the various codes and ciphers, so puzzle lovers and would-be spies can spend hours encoding and decoding.
Masked Dispatches and other publications on the history of cryptology can be ordered from the Center for Cryptologic History area of the National Security Agency's web site, or you can find it in a library. I'll be blogging about some more of these excellent books in the near future.
Oh, wait, Nicholas Trist! According to Masked Dispatches, when he was Chief Clerk of the State Department, President James K. Polk sent him to Mexico as a secret agent in an effort to end the Mexican War. From Mexico, Trist wrote to Secretary of State James Buchanan and explained his design for a code. It was a book code, but the title of the particular book he used was a mystery until the 1980's, when shrewd scholarly detective work revealed that it was an obscure book on the Spanish language (Verdaderos principios de la lengua castellana by Joseph Borras). Trist successfully negotiated the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo, which ended the war, but only after ignoring his recall by Polk. The President accepted the treaty but fired his emissary – and Trist didn't even get paid for his time in Mexico!


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In a quiet suite removed from the insanity of the Consumer Electronics Show expo floor, a company aiming to build the fastest Wi-Fi chips in the world demonstrated its vision of wireless technology's future.
On one desk, a laptop powered a two-monitor setup without any wires. At another, a tablet playing an accelerometer-based racing game mirrors its screen in high definition to another monitor. Across the room, a computer quickly transfers a 3GB file from a wireless router with built-in storage.
The suite was set up in the Las Vegas Hotel by Wilocity, a chip company specializing in wireless products using 60GHz transmissions, which are far faster than traditional Wi-Fi. Avoiding the show floor is a good idea if you're worried about Internet connectivity, because thousands of vendors are clogging the pipes. But that's not why Wilocity was here—they'd be able to perform the demo even in the busiest parts of CES without interference because they're not relying on the congested bands used by regular Wi-Fi.
"I don't think we'd have an issue with air congestion," said director of product marketing Teresa Liou. "We're just here because it's quieter and less hectic than being on the show floor."
Faster than a speeding bullet, too weak to pass through walls
Traditional Wi-Fi using the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands is crossing the gigabit per second mark with the 802.11ac standard. Wilocity is one of the main proponents of the even faster WiGig (or "wireless gigabit"), which can theoretically hit speeds of up to 7Gbps, with the downside of using frequencies that are easily blocked by walls. Even thin cubicle walls may block signals, Wilocity acknowledged. (See: 7Gbps wireless transfers and streaming, no router required.)
It's possible the next wireless router you buy will use the 60GHz frequency as well as the lower ones typically used in Wi-Fi, allowing for incredibly fast performance when you're within the same room as the router and normal performance when you're in a different room.
Wilocity's current chips hit a maximum throughput of 4.6Gbps, putting wireless speeds roughly on par with USB 3.0. Tri-band routers, wireless storage devices, and docking stations that facilitate wireless connections between mobile devices and monitors were all showcased in the Wilocity suite. These were just prototype devices, since shipping products have mostly not yet hit the market.
A Dell Latitude 6430u Ultrabook is thus far the only product using a Wilocity chip that you can buy. But WiGig isn't really a selling point for this laptop today, because there's no way to take advantage of it until there are companion products like docking stations or routers. Liou said Dell is planning a bundle to pair the Ultrabook with another WiGig-enabled product, but otherwise Wilocity couldn't say when further products will hit the market.
WiGig builds on top of the just-completed 802.11ad wireless standard. Wilocity's first-generation chip with 802.11ad can be used in computers and docking stations that connect devices to monitors, keyboards, and mice, but the chip can't be used in wireless routers. A second-generation chip with router support was announced by Wilocity and Qualcomm at CES this week. The chip combines 802.11ad with 802.11ac, the successor to 11n. That way, when WiGig products have to fall back to 2.4GHz or 5GHz transmissions, they'll at least be getting the best speeds that regular Wi-Fi offers. The chip will be sampled to vendors within a few months, and Wilocity is working with Marvell on tri-band chips as well, Liou noted.
Since no tablets with a WiGig chip are commercially available, Wilocity installed one of its chips into a Samsung Windows 8 tablet for purposes of the demo. The routers, wireless storage devices, and docking stations shown off by Wilocity were also prototypes made in conjunction with original design manufacturers like AzureWave.
Wilocity wanted to dispel any notion that WiGig requires users to keep devices stationary because of the limitations in 60GHz frequencies. To do that, they demonstrated streaming video from a laptop to a monitor while spinning the laptop around in circles. WiGig compensates for the movement with beamforming technology, which helps direct wireless signals.
"It finds the best path every time. It reflects off the walls," Wilocity hardware engineer Vineeth Alva said.
At the same time, walls are real obstacles to those 60GHz waves. When devices are in range, WiGig can enable every type of use case that regular Wi-Fi can, including connecting to the Internet, but falls back to slower 2.4GHz or 5GHz transmissions when the 60GHz connection is broken.
Wilocity had routers with network-attached storage placed strategically on the ceiling to allow a good path to WiGig-enabled devices. In one demo, a Wilocity engineer transferred a 3GB file from the NAS to a computer at rates of 1.2Gbps. That's slower than the theoretical peak of Wilocity chips—Alva blamed the application layer and perhaps hardware bottlenecks unrelated to the chip itself. Still, it's fast, and the file transfer zoomed ceaselessly toward completion when in range of the router. But when the engineer stepped around a corner, the transfer fell back to normal Wi-Fi and slowed to a crawl.
With wireless docking, tablets become PCs
Wilocity isn't alone in pitching WiGig. Back on the CES expo floor, Ars spoke with Ali Sadri, president and chairmen of the Wireless Gigabit Alliance industry group. Sadri's job there may soon come to an end, as the consortium is in the process of merging with the Wi-Fi Alliance, bringing WiGig into the same group that handles all the general Wi-Fi certification programs. The merger helps legitimize WiGig, so Sadri says if his role does come to an end he'll count it as a victory. In any case, he has a day job at Intel as director of millimeter wave standards (anything above 30GHz).
Sadri couldn't reveal anything about Intel's plans for WiGig chips, saying only "If Intel is behind something normally they are involved in some development as well." One of the top use cases for WiGig will be turning tablets into full-fledged PCs, Sadri argued. Touch-optimized devices can now run a full PC operating system (aka Windows 8) but are limited in both storage and the ability to dock with a mouse, keyboard, and monitor, he noted. WiGig-enabled storage devices and docking stations solve both of those problems. The tablet connects to a docking station, and the docking station is connected to a monitor and peripherals via HDMI.
"In a couple of years I don't think there will be a difference between a tablet and a PC with WiGig," he said.
WiGig can "replace practically any cable and connector," performing every type of Wi-Fi use case even while multiplying the speed of Wi-Fi, he said. "It's almost like a Switzerland that, you know, here's a technology and see what you can do. … I cannot imagine in two years what is going to be out there. I wish I could extrapolate."
WiGig is based on two specifications. The 802.11ad standard developed at the IEEE standards group forms the base of it, while the WiGig spec itself adds protocol adaptation layers (PALs) to interface with audio-visual and input/output systems. The Wireless Gigabit Alliance is finishing up version 1.2 of the WiGig spec, and then will hand over development to the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Success will depend on hardware makers, of course. USB adapters could extend WiGig capability to laptops or even tablets with a USB port, but to achieve the truly mobile use cases Sadri described the chips will need to be pre-installed in tablets by manufacturers.
Don't forget Miracast and 802.11ac
Even though WiGig isn't yet widely available, Wi-Fi is marching on with new capabilities. 802.11ac routers were introduced by several companies at CES, and a new streaming technology called Miracast was demoed by various companies including AMD, Broadcom, Cavium, Netgear, and Qualcomm.
Miracast, as we've written, lets phones, tablets, or laptops stream to monitors over the 5GHz band. Today it runs over 802.11n but is being adapted to run over 802.11ac as well. Miracast, which is much like Apple's AirPlay, is already built into such phones as the LG Optimus and Samsung Galaxy S3. At CES, Wi-Fi Alliance Marketing Director Kelly Davis-Felner showed me a demo of the LG phone streaming to a TV through a Netgear Push2TV adapter, which can bring Miracast capability even to TVs without built-in Wi-Fi. If you want to play Angry Birds on a large monitor, this is the way to do it:
The Wi-Fi Alliance has certified about 260 devices to run Miracast, 60 of which have been publicly announced. Nearly half of those are TVs, the rest split between phones, tablets, and adapters, Davis-Felner said.
802.11ac routers you can buy today have not yet been certified to ensure interoperability with other devices, because the Wi-Fi Alliance will only begin certifying 802.11ac devices around April. Still, the spec is stable and well-known enough that incompatibility between devices probably won't be a problem. Certification of 802.11ad products will probably start at the end of 2013, she said.
Miracast is definitely useful and has the advantage of actually being available to consumers today, but Sadri said it can't replace what WiGig is trying to do with the 60GHz band. "If I'm streaming a video if I have even a second delay, who cares," he said. "But when I'm in front of a computer and I'm typing a Word document or doing some drawings, any small artifact is going to show."
The Miracast demo Davis-Felner showed me worked fine on the crowded show floor. There's a small amount of lag that can be detected in the above Angry Birds photo, but I didn't notice it in real time. Sadri, though, scoffs at today's Wi-Fi technology, saying only WiGig will provide "cable-equivalent quality of service."
"Good luck getting any Wi-Fi network operating at CES," he said.


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Florida, which came into the game fourth in the nation in scoring defense at 52.7 points per game, held an opponent to under 50 points for the seventh time in 13 games this season. The Gators limited Georgia to just 38.9 percent shooting and held the Bulldogs to just 15 first-half points. Florida also scored 27 points off turnovers, many of which were forced from its press.
"Our defensive effort was very, very good," Florida coach Billy Donovan said. "But I'm somewhat cautioned in saying that because Georgia wasn't at full strength to be able to do what they normally do offensively."
Georgia (6-8, 0-1 SEC) played without starting forward Donte Williams and reserve guard Kenny Gaines, who did not make the trip due to violation of team rules. But the Gators had their own issues. Starting forward Erik Murphy entered Wednesday doubtful with a broken rib and his expected replacement, Will Yeguete, had missed UF's previous two practices with tendinitis in his right knee.
Both Murphy and Yeguete came off the bench. Junior forward Casey Prather, making his first start of the season, scored UF's first six points of the game. Prather finished with 10 points and 7 rebounds.
Murphy wore a protective pad under his jersey and provided a spark, scoring 8 of his 11 points in the first half. The 6-foot-10 senior forward gave credit to trainer Dave "Duke" Werner for getting him ready to play. Murphy went 3-of-6 from 3-point range.
"Duke is the best in the business," Murphy said. "I trusted him and did what he told me to do to get healthy for tonight."
Murphy was forced to sit out his homecoming game Sunday at Yale. But he showed no signs of avoiding contact throughout the game. Murphy dove on the floor for a loose ball to help force a steal and put his body into Georgia guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on a foul to stop a breakaway layup.
"They felt alright," Murphy said of his ribs. "They weren't too bad. Obviously, I didn't play in the Yale game that I would have liked to play in, but it was best to sit out and get ready for this game."
Donovan said Yeguete's tendinitis "has been an ongoing thing." The 6-foot-7 junior forward was less effective off the bench, finishing with no points, a rebound and two turnovers in 14 minutes. Donovan gave both Yeguete and Murphy credit for playing through pain.
"Both of those guys are pretty tough guys," Donovan said.
Florida delivered a quick first punch to Georgia, jumping to an 11-0 lead behind six points from Prather, a driving baseline layup by Rosario and a Murphy 3-pointer. The Gators held Georgia to just two points through the first seven minutes of the first half.
"That was important for us," Rosario said. "We just wanted to keep putting the pedal to the metal."
The Gators led 28-15 at halftime before breaking things open in the second half. Florida went inside early to Patric Young, who scored 9 of his 11 points in the second half.
After scoring its first 10 points in the second half inside, Florida went outside, hitting five straight 3-point attempts. Freshman Michael Frazier II made two of the 3-pointers during the flurry, which extended UF's lead to 53-26.
From there, the game became a laugher. Florida led by as many as 34 points late. Walk-on Jacob Kurtz got into the act, scoring five points in the closing minutes on a 3-pointer and driving layup.
"People don't realize he's one of the smartest guys on our team," Donovan said.
Offensively, Florida finished the game shooting 52.7 percent from the floor and 46.2 percent (12-of-26) from 3-point range. Donovan also was pleased with UF's 17-7 assist-to-turnover ratio. Starting point guard Scottie Wilbekin had six of UF's 17 assists.
"I thought we were relatively balanced and we are playing the game the right way," Donovan said.
Florida improved to 12-5 in SEC openers under Donovan and 7-0 in SEC openers at home. In the process, the Gators made a statement to the rest of the league that they will not let up on the defensive end of the floor.
"That's what we stress every day in practice," Rosario said. "We know as long as we keep working hard we have a chance to be a very good defensive team."
FREE THROWS: Florida had 3,200 students show up for the Georgia game, its highest student attendance since 2007. … After a 28-point performance against Yale, senior guard Kenny Boynton ended up with just 7 points and was 1-of-7 from 3-point range. … Young finished the game with four of UF's six blocked shots. … Florida held Georgia guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to a season-low 11 points.