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Together with our global network, we as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines offer flights to Xiamen, serving Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport (XMN). Flying to Xiamen on a long-haul KLM flight? Then your China holiday will begin the minute you step on board. With several Chinese films and newspapers available and a delicious Chinese menu on offer next to our Western meals, your flight to Xiamen will be over before you know it.
Top Xiamen attractions
- Gulangyu Island: a small, pedestrian-only island, and pending UNESCO World Heritage Site, famous for its beaches, winding lanes, and varied architecture.
- Nanputuo Temple: a publicly-accessible, world-renown Buddhist temple built over 1000 years ago, situated just south of the Buddhist holy site Mount Putuo in Zhejiang Province.
- Xiamen University: a picturesque university campus situated at the foothills of mountains, facing the ocean and surrounded by Xiamen's bay, featuring beautiful scenery and parks.
- Zhongshan Road Walking Street: a vibrant pedestrian street lined with over 200 chain store outlets, trinket shops, food stalls and other activities.
- Xiamen Botanical Garden: a 5-square km tranquil botanical garden which contains more than 6.300 kinds of tropical and subtropical ornamental plants and comprises 10-plus unique smaller dedicated gardens.
With so much to see and do in Xiamen, it can be easy to feel like you're missing out on all of the best attractions. That's where we can help. We've compiled a detailed travel guide full of all of the best hot spots to visit, as well as some practical information to make planning your trip that much easier. Take a look today!
What's the best way to get around Xiamen?
It's a good idea to rent a bicycle or motorbike to explore the island as it gives you the freedom to move at your own pace. There are a few buses you can use to get around, but the signs and stops are written in Chinese so you will need someone to translate for you. Look for BRT buses, which are express buses that are modern and comfortable. Your other option is to use taxis to get from A to B. Taxis are fair and affordable.
What's the weather in Xiamen?
Xiamen has very mild winters, averaging 13°C (55°F) in the coldest month of February. Summers are very hot, with averages of 29°C (83°F) in July. July is a good month to visit because there is also a very low chance of rain. The rainfall is Xiamen is sporadic throughout the year so it is always a good idea to take an umbrella rather than get caught out in an unexpected downpour!
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A belated Merry Christmas to all and wishing you and your family a very Happy New Year. We're almost ready to leave to our Aunt's house to spend New Years Eve together there.
It's ages ago since I last blogged. But things were pretty busy here and not everything was nice. Let's hope the upcoming year will be less stressful and sad. My husband and I decided that we will take a huge step back from what we were doing and concentrate more on us and our well being. We will taking up our hiking and will go more often away. We love to do short trips for hiking and abandoned that way too long. Time to take it up again....time to bring happiness back into our life. I still feel quite down, but things will be better. It can only go up from here.
Let's talk about nicer things....Christmas Day was a success. We had a group of 20 here and it was much fun. Thank god it wasn't as hot that day, which made it even more enjoyable. I uploaded a bunch of pictures to my webshots album and whoever wants to have a look in my house and under my pergola....just click here
And may I proudly present my self made place mats and napkins , which I made because I SLIGHTLY miscalculated the time this would take. On the bright side....lol....I learned quite a lot.
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North Carolina's governor is this week's speaker in the weekly Republican address opposite President Barack Obama.
GOP Gov. Pat McCrory said Saturday that governors need Washington to grant states more flexibility, independence and accountability.
McCrory says Washington has shown weak leadership, while the country's 30 Republican governors are innovating to improve the lives of their citizens. He says he's concentrating on improving the state's economy, education system, and government efficiency.
But McCrory needs permission from the Obama administration to revamp North Carolina's Medicaid program in his vision of bringing together physical health with mental health, substance abuse and other social service needs.
McCrory also says the president should grant governors the ability to develop energy resources by allowing offshore oil and gas drilling.


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Outside the Market on the Fareway, the rumbling and clanking of construction work mark the progress of a major project: the complete remodeling of the Chestnut Hill Farmer's Market behind the Chestnut Hill Hotel, 8229 Germantown Ave.
For several months, patrons have had to maneuver around yellow construction tape and increasingly large dirt patches to enter the market. But, according to Eileen Reilly, a marketing and recruitment consultant for the market, "the price that we're paying for the month of June" will all be in the name of a "fantastic" final product.
By the end of this year, shoppers will be able to peruse literature while eyeing delectable, fresh cupcakes from the Brunettes' Bookshop Bakery, watch experts from Bacio Italian Restaurante make pasta by hand, and choose from artisan cheeses and charcuterie at The Cheese Trap to create the perfect appetizer board. An influx of new vendors, along with an entirely new look, will breathe fresh life into the Chestnut Hill staple.
The Market on the Fareway – formerly the Chestnut Hill Farmer's Market – began to undergo major changes in June 2012. The first six months of the project were focused on design and branding, including the name change, a new, modern website and plans for construction and redesign. Since the Fall of 2012, Reilly and her colleagues have concentrated on recruiting new vendors and construction – both inside and outside the market.
"The name change and the website came first in the changes to the market," Reilly said, "but the real core of the change is the market itself and the outside fairway."
The market is currently two-thirds of the way finished with the recruiting of new vendors to fill stalls that have been intermittently vacant over the last four years.
"As of September, the market will be about 80 percent filled," Reilly said.
Along with the recruitment of fresh vendors comes a dynamic new space in which to operate. The alley, which leads from Germantown Avenue back to the market "was always hard to comfortably walk through,"Reilly said, with tables and umbrellas from the Chestnut Grill's outdoor seating creating a visual and physical barrier. Soon, those umbrellas will be replaced by sailcloth awnings that attach to the buildings on both sides of the alleyway, "creating shade, but also opening up the pathway" back to the market, Reilly said.
The market will also have a completely new look. Thanks to the creative team at CWP Design Studio, a Philadelphia graphic design firm, all shops will be unified with a cohesive design scheme.
"Each stall is similar in aesthetic but still reflects the branding of their business," Reilly explained. "Existing vendors will go through the same remodeling as the new ones."
"The whole focus," she added, "is what will lure the community to this space – what the community would want to see."
The mission of the market's makeover is to make it a community destination, where locals might "pull up chairs and hunker down on a Friday night, whether you bring food from one of the restaurants or just come with your dog," Reilly said.
The entrance to the market will be vastly expanded: Its two small entrance doors will be replaced by a wall of rolling doors (either garage-style or fold-back) that will open onto an extensive new seating area.
Moving inside the market, Reilly said, customers will find a smooth transition from the completely remodeled outdoor seating area to the fresh-faced vendors.
Three new vendors have taken up residence immediately inside the Market's entrance: Florum Flowers, Poppy Seed Café and The Brunettes' Bookshop Bakery.
Florum Flowers, which opened in May, is run by Glenside native Melissa Palmer. Palmer owns and operates her own farm in Titusville, N.J., outside of Princeton. She says it is worth the 40-minute drive to Chestnut Hill to be a part of the community experience that is alive at the market.
Using sustainable practices, including a solar-powered, spring-fed irrigation system, Palmer brings seasonal blooms to the market, along with a wealth of knowledge to share with fellow flower enthusiasts. Palmer cited an instance where a man came to her with a problem: black spots on roses in his home garden.
"We sat down and figured out a good way to alleviate that organically, and he was very thankful for that," Palmer said. "That's the relationship I want to have with people. I don't want to be that florist that doesn't know anybody – I want to have that one-on-one, mom-and-pop relationship with customers."
The Brunettes' Bookshop Bakery will open in July and features the "marrying of two passions," according to Reilly: baking and books. Customers will be able to enjoy freshly baked cupcakes as they peruse bookshelves stacked with contemporary and classic fiction. "B3," as it is monikered, will also spearhead a market book club.
Two stores have signed to move into the market, and a third is still in the negotiation process.
"With each new addition to the market and the visual stories unfolding, people are starting to call me rather than me going out to recruit," Reilly said.
The Cheese Trap, originally part of the Flourtown Farmer's Market, will open a second location at the the Market on the Fareway, providing artisan cheeses and charcuterie.
The Mt. Airy Italian restaurant Bacio will bring an express version of its full restaurant to the Market, making handcrafted, fresh pasta on site.


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At least 3 Mich. counties set to marry gay couples
DETROIT -- At least three Michigan counties plan to issue marriage licenses on Saturday to accommodate gay couples one day after U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman struck down Michigan's ban on same-sex marriages.
The Washtenaw County Clerk's Office will issue 60 licenses on Saturday, Clerk Lawrence Kestenbaum confirmed.
Muskegon County Clerk Nancy Waters also confirmed she plans to issue marriage licenses Saturday morning.
Oakland County Clerk Lisa Brown announced via Twitter her office will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday.
"As far as we're concerned, we're abiding by the federal court appellates," Kestenbaum said Friday. "We're not typically open, but basically the Board of Commissioners strongly urged me to be open tomorrow."
Waters said she's been prepared to issue licenses since last October but was waiting for an official decision from U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman.
The Rev. Bill Freeman from the Harbor Unitarian-Universalist Congregation church will officiate the weddings, Waters said.
Michigan is the 18th state in the nation to allow gay marriage. Friedman did not stay his ruling, prompting Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette to file an emergency stay request to prevent gay couples from marrying right away.
"I wasn't expecting the ruling would go into effect immediately and I know there's going to be attempts to get a stay, but I'm assuming there won't be one by tomorrow," Kestenbaum said. "If there is, then I'll stop."
Kestenbaum will waive the three-day waiting period and the fee. The license costs $20. He said at least one of the individuals must be a Washtenaw County resident in order for the license to be issued.
Ed Golembiewski, Washtenaw County director of elections, said preference will be given to couples who attempted to get married at the clerk's office last October. Golembiewski said couples were given numbers indicating their place in line at the time and they will be allowed to use them on Saturday.
Macomb County's clerk said licenses would be issued beginning Monday if no stay is issued. The Wayne County Clerk's Office has not said whether it will issue licenses.
"We don't ask someone's orientation on a concealed pistol license, birth certificate, death certificate, or voter registration," Macomb County Clerk/Register of Deeds Carmella Sabaugh said in a news release. "Today's court ruling means we won't ask that question for marriage licenses either, unless a stay is granted or the decision is overturned on appeal. We will follow the law."
Sabaugh said couples can apply for marriage licenses online at www.macombcountymi.gov/clerksoffice/MarriageRecords.htm, but applicants must appear in person at the office and show photo ID. Applicants can avoid waiting in line Monday morning by making a Macomb County Clerk FastPass appointment at http://fastpass.macombgov.org.
Livingston County Clerk Margaret M. Dunleavy has confirmed she will accept marriage-license applications from same-sex couples. She said the license applications will be treated like traditional marriage applications with the same three-day "cooling off period" required under state law. The clerk in Ingham County will also be issuing licenses if there is no stay.
In Calhoun County, the clerk's office says it will have an issue with the current license forms provided by the state that refer to "bride" and "groom."
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Melanoma — the deadliest skin cancer — has become one of the fastest-growing forms of cancer in Canada, with only thyroid cases increasing more rapidly, according to 2014 Canadian cancer statistics being released today.
About 6,500 cases of melanoma will be identified this year. But when less lethal, non-melanoma skin cancers — such as basal and squamous cell — are included, 82,600 Canadians are expected to be diagnosed with skin cancer in 2014, making it the most common cancer in Canada.
Over the past several years, the annual percentage change in melanoma incidence rate nationally has been 2.4 per cent — a "cause for concern" according to cancer experts, considering most other types of cancer are either decreasing in incidence or remaining flat.
Indeed, on a list of 23 of the most common cancers, only thyroid cancer (5.2 per cent annual increase) and liver cancer (2.3 per cent) are growing as fast.
Because of the increase, the Canadian Cancer Society, which publishes the annual report along with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Statistics Canada, has chosen to focus on melanoma. Just over 1,000 Canadians are expected to die from melanoma this year, 140 of them in B.C.
Sarah Merrill, 23, is grateful she was spared from such a fate. When she moved to Vancouver from Calgary in 2010 to attend Simon Fraser University, Merrill had just learned that the mole she had biopsied in her hometown of North Battleford, Saskatchewan, was actually Stage 3 melanoma. Her family doctor in the small Saskatchewan town had initially dismissed it as nothing more than a minor cosmetic issue. But when the surgery to remove the melanoma was done at Vancouver General Hospital, the excised volume of tissue from her right knee was the size of an apple.
Merrill said she's pretty sure her periodic visits to indoor tanning salons for special occasions like her Grade 12 prom probably led to the cancer. As a fair-skinned blond with many moles, she is at a much higher risk for developing skin cancer as well.
"There's so much pressure to attain this image of beauty but we have to learn to embrace our natural skin tone," she said, referring to the fact that 90 per cent of melanoma cases are thought to be triggered by ultraviolet radiation.
"We can use bronzers and get spray tans instead. The most important thing to know is that skin cancer is preventable. We just have to do things like use sunscreen, wear a hat and sunglasses."
About half of provinces have passed laws preventing minors from using tanning salons, but the effects of such regulations won't be felt for decades. Kathryn Seely, director of public issues for the society's B.C. and Yukon division, said the last survey she knows of — done in 2006 — showed that 27 per cent of 16- to 24-year olds frequented tanning salons.
While melanoma grabs much of the attention in the annual report, B.C. is once again projected to have the lowest number of new cancer cases this year — 12,000 in men and 11,400 women. Lower smoking and obesity rates and higher physical activity levels are thought to be the factors contributing to the province's better statistics, which are typical.
The number of B.C. deaths from cancer is also expected to be the lowest in the country, at 9,900.
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• As of 2009, 810,045 Canadians were survivors of cancer after being diagnosed in the previous decade.
• Two out of every five Canadians will get cancer in their lifetime; one in four will die from it.
• 191,300 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer in 2014; 76,600 will die from it.
• Cancer is the leading cause of death, responsible for 30 per cent of lives lost.
• The cancer mortality rate peaked in 1988; increases in incidence are largely due to population growth and aging.
• Prostate cancer is the most common type diagnosed in men (24 per cent) while breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed in women (26 per cent). But since 2004, breast cancer incidence rates have stabilized.
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Roman Polanski, imprisoned in Switzerland on a 31-year-old U.S. charge of child rape, filed a motion requesting to be released, Swiss authorities said Tuesday.
The Swiss Criminal Court said in a statement Tuesday that it will make a decision "in the next weeks." Polanski, 76, was detained Saturday as he arrived in Zurich to receive an award from a film festival. He has been living as a fugitive in France since bolting the U.S. while awaiting sentencing for raping a 13-year-old girl after giving her drugs and alcohol. Polanski pleaded guilty to the attack.
"He is in fighting mood and determined to defend himself," Herve Temime, Polanski's lawyer, told France Info radio, adding that the movie director, who has French and Polish citizenship, was stunned by the arrest because he was a regular visitor to Switzerland.
Polanski's victim, now 43, has settled with Polanski for an undisclosed amount and says she does not want to see him jailed. International film stars have denounced the arrest, which came when Polanski went to Switzerland to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival.
"It is based on a three-decade-old case that is all but dead but for minor technicalities," said jury president Debra Winger. Italian actress Monica Bellucci, France's Fanny Ardant, president of the Cannes film festival Gilles Jacob and Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai issued a petition demanding Polanski's immediate release.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has authority to grant clemency in some cases but has not been approached over the Polanski matter, according to his office.
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Lisarna Wynyard, runs Mini Manager, a consultancy where she works alongside business owners who are struggling with the day to day running of their companies. Wynyard, who worked for 18 years in telcos, set up her new business after her son, Kyle Heath, died in a car crash at the age of 20, two and a half years ago.
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Kyle was a delight with a wicked sense of humour. After he died, I hunkered down for a while but it was a turning point for me. I was a member of Mike Ashby's The Breakthrough Company and was in the midst of selling my two Vodafone digital dealerships when Kyle died. I was the only woman in a buddy group of fellow entrepreneurs at the time the accident happened and these guys just rallied around.
They said: "You have your family and friends to support you through your grief. Let us help you and support your new business plans." I went on to sell my East Tamaki dealership, and then thought: "Gosh it would be so helpful to have someone like me, not a General Manager, but someone more hands on who could come in and help a business owner with their systems."
I know what it can be like when you go to see a business mentor. You leave with a huge list of "to-dos" - then get back to the office and the phone still rings and the list gets moved aside.
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I was influenced by the death of my son in setting up this new business, in that he was the one who would take control, he was a "take life by the horns" sort of guy. He was a real motivator. Now he's not here, it's my job, I need to make things happen. I thought Kyle would do it, I will do it. I will fulfil these dreams. The first year was slow but the last six months have been really busy.
The more of us that are involved in making small business healthy, the healthier our economy will be. I see employees who think because you own a business you are wealthy. They don't understand, so many people are risking everything for their small businesses.
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My next company, Micro Manager, is in development at The Icehouse, who I found through the Breakthrough Company. My idea for Micro Manager, a productivity app, came when I was frustrated with accounting for time. There are many productivity programmes but nothing that did what I needed it to as a freelancer. I wished someone would do it for me, but I thought, I'm going to do it for others.
It is very exciting for me, something that I never would have done. I never dreamt I would take a challenge like this on but with the support of The Icehouse I now have the ability and tools to do it. As part of their process I may decide not to go ahead, but that's an important part of the process.
If I had not lost Kyle, I would not have had done this, working with the Icehouse, setting up Mini Manager and now Micro Manager. The last couple of months have seen me so excited about the possibilities. There's definitely a market for my work and my app. I now have the courage to say, I've got nothing to lose. When you've faced the level of pain I have, nothing else scares you.
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Ali Weaver is cruising. She's got the windows rolled down, the radio turned up and she's steering her 1989 Dodge Dynasty around town like any 19-year-old might do on an afternoon off. But it's not every day people see an old jalopy covered from stem to stern in psychedelic graffiti.
Ali Weaver is cruising.
She's got the windows rolled down, the radio turned up and she's steering her 1989 Dodge Dynasty around town like any 19-year-old might do on an afternoon off. But when Weaver comes down the street, heads turn and people stare and give her the thumbs-up sign. One woman stopped beside her at a traffic light leans out the window and yells, "What color did you write on your registration?"
It's not every day people see an old jalopy covered from stem to stern in psychedelic graffiti.
"Either they love it or they hate it," Weaver says. "Families with little children, either they say, 'honey, look at that colorful car' or they just pick up their child and run across the street."
Police, especially, have been known to react badly. In the year Weaver's been driving the car, she's had two memorable run-ins with local officers. A few months ago she exited a gas station to find two police officers circling her car taking photos. They bombarded her with questions implying the graffiti was gang-related.
"Do you know who did this? Do you know who did that? What's your name; where do you go to school?" she recalls, eyes blazing at the memory.
"I have no [criminal] record," she points out. "I've never even been pulled over and for some reason they find it OK to bother me."
Weaver's second police encounter was on Dodge Street when she was returning to her car after being at a friend's house. Two policemen questioned her in much the same fashion, though this time they searched her car, looking for drugs.
"They said 'we've been getting calls about suspicion of distribution of drugs and you're the only car on this street,'" she says. Was it because of the graffiti? Probably, Weaver says.
For her the car is merely a fun way to get to classes at North Shore Community College, or to her part-time job at Fuel Coffee & Juice Bar on Essex Street. Though she is an artist — she paints murals and oil paintings — she has never done graffiti. Most of her car's markings, she points out, came preinstalled; the Dynasty in its former life was an art project for a group of Phillips Academy students.
Weaver's mother, a graphic designer at the prep school, thought the car would make a great first car for her daughter. She bought the car for a mere $200 from a teacher who had adopted it.
At first sight, Weaver thought the car was a "riot." Driving it was a whole other experience.
"At first I got a lot of looks," she says. "But, you know, I've always grown up being my own unique self so it hasn't really bothered me. I enjoy giving people a laugh during the day, whether it's at me or my car."Moving pictures
Good-looking cars universally attract attention. Men crowd around a parked Ferrari, admiring its lines the same way they might ogle a beautiful woman. In its own artsy way, the Dynasty attracts just as many stares. Like the brainy punk-rock girl at the party, what it lacks in flash and sultry curves, it makes up for in personality. In circling the car, pink, green and blue polka dots and zigzagging lines tumble out at the viewer like confetti. Words and phrases jump out from the chaos, some added by friends, others by complete strangers.
"I wake up and stuff's there," Weaver says of the graffiti. "I don't mind it. There's no way I'm gonna file a complaint about somebody writing on my car. That's the whole point ... I encourage people to paint on my car. I keep spray paint in my trunk."
Weaver — who declares Salvador Dali one of her personal heroes — admits she enjoys graffiti as an art form. "I enjoy the freeness of it …" she reflects. "In some cases, you know, people don't really respect you painting on peoples' property, but I think that what it stands for, the history behind it, is beautiful."
Some of the graffiti spray-painted on the Dynasty, she admits, is cryptic. The phrase Pork Roll appears at least four times painted in bright gold. Weaver shrugs when questioned about it, saying of the friend who wrote it, "He's Irish. It's Chinese food. I don't ask questions."
Weaver herself painted two colorful stencils on the car's passenger side, one of a small tree, another of a tiny crab. Her favorite graffiti is the phrase Soul Control, painted on the rear bumper. Other found phrases are Boo Yakasha — a reference to "Da Ali G Show" — and Dream Weaver is my hero, a tribute to Ali's last name. One friend, when invited to leave her mark, chose simply to write her name, Kaitlyn, all over the car in blue pen the way she might sign a yearbook. There are no real restrictions in signing, Weaver says, because after all, that would defeat the purpose.
"When you're being as bold as to spray paint in general, you can't really say one way or the other [what goes on the car]," she says. "If you're going to do it, you might as well go all out …There's only one golden rule: windows are off limits … As long as I can see I don't mind."Runnin' down a dream
Weaver's wheels are a colorful reflection of her own quirky personality. The car's bold exterior parallels her nonconformist streak while the inside whispers clues about her habits and interests. Strewn across the backseat are a "Best of Neil Young" CD, a bottle of suntan lotion, a sketchbook and a history textbook. On the floor in the front seat, beneath the steering wheel, is a pile of crushed cigarette butts. "They're to remind me not to smoke," Weaver says, noting she recently quit. "It's a reminder that it's disgusting."
Over the past year, Weaver has gotten to know the Dynasty's quirks, but they don't seem to bother her a bit. "The car doesn't go in reverse," she declares while feeding quarters into a Front Street meter. No big deal, she says, just another great excuse to give up parallel parking.
Also, while cruising city streets the car sometimes bucks like a wild mustang. "It slows down, then pulls back and gives me a little jolt when it's ready to go again," she says, adding a moment later. "I have AAA."
To play it safe, Weaver and her wheels stay close to home. Road trips, she says, are best left for other peoples' cars.
Soon Weaver and the Dynasty will go their separate ways. The artist is planning to move to California in coming months, where she hopes to study environmental science. She is putting the car up for sale. When speaking of their pending separation, Weaver speaks in the Zen-like tone of someone ready to move on. Her friends, she points out, seem more upset about the loss than she is.
"They're already mad at me that I'm giving it up," she says. "I'm kind of like their entertaining taxi to parties ..."
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One of the eternal concerns for any data center is cooling the mass of metal that makes a room a data center. Over the years we've seen a significant decrease in the power consumption and heat generation of a general-purpose server, as well as an order-of-magnitude decrease in those variables from a per-server-instance standpoint. Where once stood 2U servers with several 3.5-inch disks running a single server instance, you'll now find two 1U servers with 2.5-inch drives or no disk at all, running maybe 30 server instances.
But the fact remains that we're also seeing a proliferation of logical server instances. A server-by-server comparison of a data center five years ago and the same infrastructure today should show a decrease in the number of physical servers, but that's not a guarantee.
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In the meantime, costs for power and cooling have not been stagnant. Power consumption is still and likely always will be a source of pain in the data center budget. I can recall a time in the engineering labs at Compaq where the monthly power bills for the data center-sized labs would run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that was many moons ago.
Data center power draw comes from two main sources: the hardware (servers, storage, and networking) and the cooling systems. The larger and hotter the metal, the more power needed to cool it, to exhaust the hot air, and to maintain suitable humidity. There are many ways to combat the laws of physics and maintain reasonable intake temperatures. There are water-cooled racks and in-row cooling units that serve to bring the cold air where it's most necessary -- at the server inlet.
These methods aren't for general use, however. They generally require careful hot- and cold-aisle designs, and while they can reduce overall power and heating bills, they can also cost more initially. Perhaps surprisingly, these designs are also very effective in smaller builds, where a prospective eight racks can be cooled by only two units.
These units can be water-cooled with a chill-water unit mounted to the roof or behave like normal air conditioners, using plenum space for exhaust and intake. Generally speaking, the water-cooled units will be a better long-term bet. Building construction considerations and potential plenum blockages can make it a challenge to run the air units. Your mileage may vary depending on rack density and the actual equipment present, but in-row cooling definitely has a place in the data center.
And of course, we have the massive AC units bolted to the walls of the room or on the roof, pumping out 68-degree Fahrenheit air nonstop either through dedicated ducting or through a raised floor, while pulling in hot air from the room. This is the traditional method. However, the larger issue today may be not what kind of cooling system should be used, but at what temperature should the data center operate.
We've all been in data centers that run at 68 degrees ambient. It might have been 100 degrees outside, but you still wore a sweater or a coat to do server maintenance. Hot servers mean angry servers, after all. But 68 degrees may no longer be necessary. If you take a look at the recommended operating temps of many servers and network devices, they say those boxes should not be operated at temps higher than 90 to 95 degrees. That's a long way away from 68.
That right there is also part of the problem. If we run at 68 and have a cooling problem that causes temperatures to rise, they will take longer to reach critical levels than if we're running at 85, say. In a big room, a sizable cooling outage can throw the room into critical temps in minutes. Once at that level, the cooling systems have to work much harder to return the space to normal operating temps. This is generally known as A Really Bad Day. It is to be avoided at all costs.
I'm not saying we should turn up the heat in our rooms or blithely ignore hot servers, but the fact of the matter is that modern servers may do just fine with an ambient or intake temperature around 80, depending on the cooling coverage and redundancy. It might be a good idea to take a look at the hardware you're running and what it can handle, then maybe tap the thermostat up a few degrees, especially when the weather outside is frightful.
This story, "Your data center is too cool," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Paul Venezia's The Deep End blog at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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A system that I'm working on has a pane with a chart displayed under a table. The user can choose to resize the pane to see more of the table. However, when this happens, the chart gets squeezed including titles, legends, etc. (See image below).
- Would you display the chart upfront?
- Would you resize the chart while resizing the pane that holds it, or would you create a pop up screen with the chart?
- What other controls would you add make the experience of displaying the chart, better? I'm thinking about a "Full screen button" or "Export chart". It currently has none.


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Everyone has their favorite games that they have played over the years. Many of these games have sequels. A consistent comment about these games is that it isn't as good as a previous iteration. Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing but it does present what I consider a unfair viewing of new games. Since it is a new release, I'll use the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy as my example.
If you go to your favorite gaming site and look at comments you'll see some a handful of people that love it, some that think its good, others that think its okay, and then those that think it's bad. Take a look at those that think its bad. There is a high chance that those some people will say that it's not as good as FF6, FF9, FF10, FF7, or some other FF that they love. Now I'm not saying that this is the case in all instances but rarely are games viewed on their own merit unless they are a new IP. You can complain about the 25 hour tutorial of FFXIII. You can can complain about the somewhat confusing story of FFXIII-2. When your opinion of a game is based on your opinion of a previous iteration of game, you are looking through rose tinted glasses of the past. The same occurs with other type of media as well such as music and movies.
This happens with a lot of games of the current generation. From Final Fantasy, to Assassin's Creed, to Mass Effect, to Dragon Age, to whatever games have had a consistent presence of the past decade or so of games. Based on my short memory the only series that I can say that doesn't seem to hit this is Zelda. (Disclaimer: I haven't played a Zelda game since Zelda 2 and I'm basing my previous statement on comment sections I've read and participated in)
So my personal challenge to everyone is to give games a fair chance. We all like to be given an honest look without something in our past tainting someone's view.


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How will Nashville's Deacon Claybourne bond with the daughter he just found out he had? Through music, naturally.
At the end of the show's first season, Deacon (Charles Esten) learned that Rayna's daughter Maddie (Lennon Stella) was actually his biological child. The information sent Deacon to the bottle and a downward spiral that caused a near-fatal car wreck with Rayna (Connie Britton) and landed him in jail. Since the , Deacon has shied away from getting close to Maddie, but the two will finally get their defining moment during a duet in an upcoming episode.
Nashville's Connie Britton: Rayna and Deacon will be thrown together a lot
"The music is such a great way to bond, and you see it through all the different characters on the show that the music takes whatever relationship you have to another place and another level because you can say things behind a guitar that maybe you can't say without it," Esten told TVGuide.com during our recent visit to the Music City set. "This is a major step forward for the two of us to be standing there while she plays the guitar and voices in harmony. It's just a father and daughter and it takes us a long way. So, there's no discounting how much it means to do that music together."
Check out our favorite Nashville performances
While that relationship is moving more slowly, Deacon is going full steam ahead with the new woman in his life, Megan (Christina Chang). And from the sounds of it, she's not going anywhere anytime soon.
"I don't know what it is that she finds in Deacon, but I know what it is that he finds in Megan. .. She's very clear eyed," Esten said. "She offered him a new way to look at himself during that tough time when he was at his lowest, and she looked at him and said, 'You don't need to beat yourself up over this.' That was a real lifeline in that moment."
Watch our full interview with Esten below:
For more of our video interviews from the set of Nashville, head here.
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Financial issues are just a part of life these days. Thankfully I'm in the clear for the time being. My serve is a little better. A few more mph's and a few more rpm's. Hopefully it'll be on point when the time comes! If not I have a little bit of a "plan b". I'm sure Jake's been improving lately too though. I can't wait to see what he's got up his sleeve lol
Glad to hear that you are back in action. Looking forward to the video coverage of your re-match by V.
If you Guys Play again you must Put up your Trophy plates, if Bryan Loses he keeps Second place if he wins he Exchanges with First Place, the second match will be on Hard Court.
I'm up for it.
I don't really like the idea of putting up the plate.. but I'm all for playing on a hard court instead of clay. The plate was a good source of motivation to improve, so i really don't wanna get rid of it lol
That's right Bryan - tell V how it is. No plate, but he would be happy to put up his car's pink slip.
I think we'd switch plates is what he's saying.
That's correct.
Means you'd come home with the plate if you lose, and go home with my plate if you win.
Plenty of motivation right there.
Thats Right! Switching plates. but i guess i can make a new label of champ also...
Ok. We're gonna need a new runner up label too lol I peeled it off and lied to my girlfriend about the outcome of the match so she wouldn't beat me XD
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OpenStack is an open-source project that provides software to build and manage public and private clouds. Its community includes more than 130 companies and 1,350 developers, who use OpenStack as a universal front end to Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) resources. The overarching mission of OpenStack is to make clouds simple to implement and massively scalable. This article provides hands-on information to guide you through setting up and managing your cloud, whether public or private, using the Open Stack front end.
OpenStack comprises several community-maintained projects, which I'll discuss in further detail later in the article.
- OpenStack Compute (Nova) is a controller that starts up instances of virtual machines for either a user or a group. It's also used to configure networking for each instance that contains multiple instances for a particular project. OpenStack Compute could be compared with either Amazon EC2, when offered through a public cloud, or with VMware, when run as a private cloud offering. In a public cloud, the cloud administrator offers pre-made images or offers storage for user-created images that users can launch as virtual machines.
- OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) is a system to store objects in a massively scalable system with built-in redundancy and failover. These objects can be retrieved through a REST API or through a client that understands the Object Storage API, such as Cyberduck.
- OpenStack Image Service (Glance) is a lookup and retrieval system for virtual machine images. It can be configured in three ways: using OpenStack Object Storage to store images; using Amazon's Simple Storage Solution (S3) for storage directly; or using S3 storage with Object Storage as the connector for S3 access. The OpenStack Image Service supports several virtual machine image formats including disk formats supported by VMware (VMDK), Amazon images (AKI, ARI, AMI), and VirtualBox such as VDI. The container formats for metadata about the image include Amazon's AKI, ARI, and AMI information, the standard OVF format and blob data.
Projects that were recently voted into the "core" group of projects are an identity service, code-named "Keystone," and a Django-based dashboard interface with a project name of "Horizon" that provides the dashboard shown in this article.
Getting Started
The best place to get started with OpenStack Compute is the DevStack site at devstack.org with a scripted installation for a development or proof-of-concept installation. The OpenStack Starter Guide on docs.openstack.org also offers step-by-step instructions for setting up OpenStack Compute, an Image Service, and an all-in-one Object Storage installation on Ubuntu 11.10. If you have a server lying around that you want to use for a proof of concept, OpenStack also works with the StackOps bare metal distribution available here for a CD or USB stick installation.
You can also set up a production-level OpenStack Object Storage cluster or OpenStack Compute cloud by using the installation instructions on docs.openstack.org in the Object Storage Administration Guide or OpenStack Compute Administration Guide.
Using OpenStack
Once you have it installed, let's walk through launching instances with OpenStack Compute either through the Dashboard interface or on the command line using some of the security features for images. I'll also demonstrate an interface to Object Storage for backing up images or videos with block storage.
Logging into the Dashboard Interface
An OpenStack dashboard is installed on the node that is running the Nova API service. To use the Dashboard, you should know the URL of the Nova API instance as well as the credentials of a valid Dashboard user including the username and password.
You can undertake many practical actions with the OpenStack Dashboard with just a user name and password. First, log on to the Dashboard with the username and password your cloud admin set up for you.
Once you're logged in, you see an overview of your server usage and the status of each server, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1.
You can also click to see which servers are in a terminated state. Not that uptime is displayed for each server as well.
The menus on the left of the User Dashboard offer all the actions you can complete using the Dashboard, which sends commands via an API to the back-end. The System Panel (topmost menu on page) is another view from which administrators can monitor usage, check the services running the cloud, and manage users and project quotas.
How to Launch an Instance in the Dashboard
Now that you are familiar with the general layout of the Dashboard, you probably want to get started using your cloud by launching a new virtual machine, known as an instance of an image. Generally, your cloud admin will have uploaded starter images for you. If not, I'll cover creating custom images later in the article. To get a taste for launching an image, go to Images in the Dashboard and click Launch next to the type of image you want to start. Figure 2 shows that some Ubuntu server images and a Windows image are available.
Figure 2.
If you launch an instance of an image by clicking Launch, you'll see the Launch Instance window, as in Figure 3.
Figure 3.
This window includes the ability to name the server, insert some user data at launch, choose the number of CPUs, disk space, and amount of RAM, and then click "Launch Instance." You now have a new virtual server that you can SSH into and use just like a normal server without stacking, racking, and cabling a real server or going through provisioning channels.
How to Work with Virtual-Machine Instances
Instances are virtual machines with particular specifications for memory, disk space, and CPUs. With OpenStack Compute you are orchestrating your cloud and enabling cloud users to start instances, reboot them, and take a snapshot of an instance for later reuse.
If you go to Instances in the User Dashboard you see the instance you just launched. For each instance, you can do several actions such as terminate instances, reboot them, snapshot themand all these actions are performed using the OpenStack Compute API 1.1. You can also open a console window or see logs for an instance from within the Dashboard.
Add Security Key Pairs to Images
As a security feature so you can control access to your virtual machines, OpenStack expects the client tools to use two kinds of credentials. One set of credentials is the username and password for the Dashboard itself. Another set of credentials is "keypairs," which provides secure authentication to a user's instances. When users can provide both credentials, they have access to the instances in their OpenStack cloud. Key pairs (a public key/private key pair) are useful parameters that you can use when starting an instance. For example, to launch an instance and access it with SSH you want to create a keypair so that you can identify users accessing instances via SSH.
The OpenStack Dashboard lets you manage those keypairs by going to Keypairs and clicking Create New Keypair. In the screen that follows, enter a name for your Keypair and click Create Keypair. Creating a new keypair registers the public key and downloads the private key (a .pem file). It's created for your use, so protect it as you would any other SSH private key, see Figure 4.
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North Korean Prison Camp Survivors Describe Horrors Inside The Camps
North Korean Prison Camps Are 'Like Hitler's Auschwitz'
North Korea's prison camps are a closed-off world of death, torture and forced labour where babies are born slaves, according to two survivors who liken the horrors of the camps to a Holocaust in progress.
"People think the Holocaust is in the past, but it is still very much a reality. It is still going on in North Korea," Shin Dong-hyuk told AFP through an interpreter on the sidelines of a human rights summit in Geneva.
Shin himself spent his first 23 years in a prison camp in the secretive country, where he says he was tortured and subjected to forced labour before making a spectacular escape seven years ago — and giving the outside world a rare first-hand account of life inside the camps.
The 30-year-old is the only person known to have been born in such a camp to flee and live to tell the tale, and was portrayed in a book by journalist Blaine Harden published last year called "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West."
Camp 14 — a massive slave labour camp comprising a number of "villages", factories, farms and mines — is one of five known prison camps in North Korea believed to house as many as 200,000 people.
While Shin's comparison with Nazi concentration camps — where the majority of the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust were murdered — may seem extreme, another North Korean prison camp survivor, Chol-Hwan Kang, agreed with the analogy.
"Fundamentally, it is the same as Hitler's Auschwitz," Kang told AFP, also through an interpreter, referring to one of the Nazi era's most notorious death camps.
With whole families in North Korea thrown into camps together and starving to death, he said the "methods may be different, but the effect is the same… It's outrageous!"
Kang, now 43, was sent to Camp 15 with his whole family when he was nine years old to repent for the suspected disloyalties of his grandfather.
He spent 10 years there before his family was released and later managed to flee to China and on to South Korea — the same route taken by Shin.
Both men say the international community must do more to help North Koreans, with Kang insisting the world should take advantage of growing feelings of opposition within the communist state.
He suggested that Pyongyang's recent nuclear test was meant not only as a message of strength to the outside world but also to potential opponents to the regime within the country.
"It is the international community's duty to help them light the fire of resistance," he said.
Shin, who at the age of 13 was forced to watch the executions of his mother and brother, also said "I want to push the United Nations and the international community to take action."
After meeting Shin and hearing his harrowing account in December, UN right chief Navi Pillay called for an in-depth international inquiry into "one of the worst, but least understood and reported, human rights situations in the world."
Shin, who says his father and grandfather were sent to the camp because two of his uncles apparently defected to the South, said he was expected to spend his entire life there under North Korea's "guilt-by-association" system that calls for up to three generations of family members of an accused to also be punished.
"The birth of a baby is a blessed thing in the outside world, but inside the camp, babies are born to be slaves like their parents. It's an absolute scandal," Shin said.
Both Shin and Kang described life in the camp as defined by hunger and violence.
"Daily I saw torture, and every day in the camp I saw people dying of malnutrition and starvation. I saw lots of friends die and I almost died myself of malnutrition," Kang recalled.
Shin still carries the scars of his experience on his body. Resting his right hand on the table in front of him, he revealed the missing tip of his middle finger, which was chopped off by a prison guard as punishment after he dropped a piece of machinery in a factory.
Overstepping prison rules was enough to get you killed, including not informing the guards of other prisoners' misdeeds.


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One september day in 2001, Teresa Castellano, Lisa Mullineaux, Jeffrey Shaw and Lisen Axell were having lunch in Denver. Genetic counselors from nearby hospitals and specialists in inherited cancers, the four would get together periodically to talk shop. That day they surprised one another: they'd each documented a case or two of Hispanic women with aggressive breast cancer linked to a particular genetic mutation. The women had roots in southern Colorado, near the New Mexico border. "I said, 'I have a patient with the mutation, and she's only in her 40s,'" Castellano recalls. "Then Lisa said that she had seen a couple of cases like that. And Jeff and Lisen had one or two also. We realized that this could be something really interesting."
Curiously, the genetic mutation that caused the virulent breast cancer had previously been found primarily in Jewish people whose ancestral home was Central or Eastern Europe. Yet all of these new patients were Hispanic Catholics.
Mullineaux contacted Ruth Oratz, a New York City-based oncologist then working in Denver. "Those people are Jewish," Oratz told her. "I'm sure of it."
Pooling their information, the counselors published a report in a medical journal about finding the gene mutation in six "non-Jewish Americans of Spanish ancestry." The researchers were cautious about some of the implications because the breast cancer patients themselves, as the paper put it, "denied Jewish ancestry."
The finding raised some awkward questions. What did the presence of the genetic mutation say about the Catholics who carried it? How did they happen to inherit it? Would they have to rethink who they were—their very identity—because of a tiny change in the three billion "letters" of their DNA? More important, how would it affect their health, and their children's health, in the future?
Some people in the valley were reluctant to confront such questions, at least initially, and a handful even rejected the overtures of physicians, scientists and historians who were suddenly interested in their family histories. But rumors of secret Spanish Jewry had floated around northern New Mexico and the San Luis Valley for years, and now the cold hard facts of DNA appeared to support them. As a result, families in this remote high-desert community have had to come to grips with a kind of knowledge that more and more of us are likely to face. For the story of this wayward gene is the story of modern genetics, a science that increasingly has the power both to predict the future and to illuminate the past in unsettling ways.
Expanding the DNA analysis, Sharon Graw, a University of Denver geneticist, confirmed that the mutation in the Hispanic patients from San Luis Valley exactly matched one previously found in Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. The mutation, 185delAG, is a variant of a gene called BRCA1. When normal and healthy, BRCA1 helps to protect breast and ovarian cells from cancer. An extremely long gene, it has thousands of DNA letters, each corresponding to one of four chemical compounds that make up the genetic code and run down either strand of the DNA double helix; a "misspelling"—a mutation—can occur at virtually any letter. Some are of no consequence, but the deletion of the chemicals adenine (A) and guanine (G) at a site 185 rungs into the DNA ladder—hence the name 185delAG—will prevent the gene from functioning. Then the cell becomes vulnerable to a malignancy. To be sure, most breast and ovarian cancers do not run in families. The cases owing to BRCA1 and a similar gene, BRCA2, make up less than 10 percent of cases overall.
By comparing DNA samples from Jews around the world, scientists have pieced together the origins of the 185delAG mutation. It is ancient. More than 2,000 years ago, among the Hebrew tribes of Palestine, someone's DNA dropped the AG letters at the 185 site. The glitch spread and multiplied in succeeding generations, even as Jews migrated from Palestine to Europe. Ethnic groups tend to have their own distinctive genetic disorders, such as harmful variations of the BRCA1 gene, but because Jews throughout history have often married within their religion, the 185delAG mutation gained a strong foothold in that population. Today, roughly one in 100 Jews carries the harmful form of the gene variant.
Meanwhile, some of the Colorado patients began to look into their own heritage. With the zeal of an investigative reporter, Beatrice Wright searched for both cancer and Jewish ancestry in her family tree. Her maiden name is Martinez. She lives in a town north of Denver and has dozens of Martinez relatives in the San Luis Valley and northern New Mexico. In fact, her mother's maiden name was Martinez also. Wright had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, when she was 45. Her right breast was removed and she was treated with chemotherapy. Later, her left breast, uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries were removed as a precaution. She had vaguely known that the women on her father's side were susceptible to the disease. "With so much cancer on Dad's side of the family," she said, "my cancer doctor thought it might be hereditary." Advised by Lisa Mullineaux about BRCA testing, she provided a blood sample that came back positive for 185delAG.
When Wright was told that the mutation was characteristic of Jewish people, she recalled a magazine article about the secret Jews of New Mexico. It was well known that during the late Middle Ages the Jews of Spain were forced to convert to Catholicism. According to a considerable body of scholarship, some of the conversos maintained their faith in secret. After Judaism was outlawed in Spain in 1492 and Jews were expelled, some of those who stayed took their beliefs further underground. The exiles went as far as the New World. [...]


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Rapper Drake's new album, "Nothing Was the Same," isn't due until Tuesday. But, surprise, it leaked. And one of the early standouts includes a tribute to Houston.
"Too Much" is a soulful, stirring track featuring London musician Sampha. Drake pays major love to our city in the first verse:
Don't run from it, like Htown in the summertime, I keep it 100
Met a lotta girls in my times there, word to Paul Wall, not one fronted
I was birthed there in my first year, man I know that place like I come from it
Backstage at Warehouse in '09 like 'Is Bun coming?'
Drake debuted the song Monday night on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
Drake brings his Would You Like a Tour? featuring Miguel and Future Nov. 13 to Toyota Center.


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Versions- und Konfigurationsmanagement sind zentrale Instrumente zur intellektuellen Beherrschung komplexer Softwareentwicklungen. In stark wiederverwendungsorientierten Softwareentwicklungsansätzen -wie vom SFB bereitgestellt- muß der Begriff der Konfiguration von traditionell produktorientierten Artefakten auf Prozesse und sonstige Entwicklungserfahrungen erweitert werden. In dieser Veröffentlichung wird ein derartig erweitertes Konfigurationsmodell vorgestellt. Darüberhinau wird eine Ergänzung traditioneller Projektplanungsinformationen diskutiert, die die Ableitung maßgeschneiderter Versions- und Konfigurationsmanagementmechanismen vor Projektbeginn ermöglichen.
An Integrating Approach for Developing Distributed Software Systems -Combining Formal Methods, Software Reuse, and the Experience Base- (1999)
The development of complex software systems is driven by many diverse and sometimes contradictory requirements such as correctness and maintainability of resulting products, development costs, and time-to-market. To alleviate these difficulties, we propose a development method for distributed systems that integrates different basic approaches. First, it combines the use of the formal description technique SDL with software reuse concepts. This results in the definition of a use-case driven, incremental development method with SDL-patterns as the main reusable artifacts. Experience with this approach has shown that there are several other factors of influence, such as the quality of reuse artifacts or the experience of the development team. Therefore, we further combined our SDL-pattern approach with an improvement methodology known from the area of experimental software engineering. In order to demonstrate the validity of this integrating approach, we sketch some representative outcomings of a case study.
The paper studies quantum states of a Bloch particle in presence of external ac and dc fields. Provided the period of the ac field and the Bloch period are commensurate, an effective scattering matrix is introduced, the complex poles of which are the system quasienergy spectrum. The statistics of the resonance width and the Wigner delay time shows a close relation of the problem to random matrix theory of chaotic scattering.
A novel method is presented which allows a fast computation of complex energy resonance states in Stark systems, i.e. systems in a homogeneous field. The technique is based on the truncation of a shift-operator in momentum space. Numerical results for space periodic and non-periodic systems illustrate the extreme simplicity of the method.
The paper studies metastable states of a Bloch electron in the presence of external ac and dc fields. Provided resonance condition between period of the driving frequency and the Bloch period, the complex quasienergies are numerically calculated for two qualitatively different regimes (quasiregular and chaotic) of the system dynamics. For the chaotic regime an effect of quantum stabilization, which suppresses the classical decay mechanism, is found. This effect is demonstrated to be a kind of quantum interference phenomenon sensitive to the resonance condition.
A new method for calculating Stark resonances is presented and applied for illustration to the simple case of a one-particle, one-dimensional model Hamiltonian. The method is applicable for weak and strong dc fields. The only need, also for the case of many particles in multi-dimensional space, are either the short time evolution matrix elements or the eigenvalues and Fourier components of the eigenfunctions of the field-free Hamiltonian.
We present an entropy concept measuring quantum localization in dynamical systems based on time averaged probability densities. The suggested entropy concept is a generalization of a recently introduced [PRL 75, 326 (1995)] phase-space entropy to any representation chosen according to the system and the physical question under consideration. In this paper we inspect the main characteristics of the entropy and the relation to other measures of localization. In particular the classical correspondence is discussed and the statistical properties are evaluated within the framework of random vector theory. In this way we show that the suggested entropy is a suitable method to detect quantum localization phenomena in dynamical systems.
Selective Quasienergies from Short Time Cross-Correlation Probability Amplitudes by the Filter-Diagonalization Method (1999)
The Filter-Diagonalization Method is applied to time periodic Hamiltonians and used to find selectively the regular and chaotic quasienergies of a driven 2D rotor. The use of N cross-correlation probability amplitudes enables a selective calculation of the quasienergies from short time propagation to the time T (N). Compared to the propagation time T (1) which is required for resolving the quasienergy spectrum with the same accuracy from auto-correlation calculations, the cross-correlation time T (N) is shorter by the factor N , that is T (1) = N T (N).
Phase space entropies and global quantum phase space organisation: A two-dimensional anharmonic system (1999)
The global dynamical properties of a quantum system can be conveniently visualized in phase space by means of a quantum phase space entropy in analogy to a Poincare section in classical dynamics for two-dimensional time independent systems. Numerical results for the Pullen Edmonds systems demonstrate the properties of the method for systems with mixed chaotic and regular dynamics.
Using an experience factory is one possible concept for supporting and improving reuse in software development. (i.e., reuse of products, processes, quality models, ...). In the context of the Sonderforschungsbereich 501: "Development of Large Systems with Generic methods" (SFB501), the Software Engineering Laboratory (SE Lab) runs such an experience factory as part of the infrastructure services it offers. The SE Lab also provides several tools to support the planning, developing, measuring, and analyzing activities of software development processes. Among these tools, the SE Lab runs and maintains an experience base, the SFB-EB. When an experience factory is utilized, support for experience base maintenance is an important issue. Furthermore, it might be interesting to evaluate experience base usage with regard to the number of accesses to certain experience elements stored in the database. The same holds for the usage of the tools provided by the SE LAB. This report presents a set of supporting tools that were designed to aid in these tasks. These supporting tools check the experience base's consistency and gather information on the usage of SFB-EB and the tools installed in the SE Lab. The results are processed periodically and displayed as HTML result reports (consistency checking) or bar charts (usage profiles).


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What if a $79/year subscription to Amazon Prime didn't just buy you faster shipping for hardcovers and small appliances, and free streaming for old movies and TV shows? What if it also let you read entire books from a similarly curated back catalog?
Several executives speaking anonymously to the Wall Street Journal report that Amazon has approached book publishers about doing exactly that.
Amazon has told publishers it is considering creating a digital-book library featuring older titles… Amazon would offer book publishers a substantial fee for participating in the program, people familiar with the proposal said. Some of these people said that Amazon would limit the amount of books that Amazon Prime customers could read for free every month.
Before Prime members (disclosure: that's me) start gleefully rubbing their hands together, note that the publishers haven't signed on. In fact, their executives are deeply skeptical. (Amazon wouldn't comment on the story, for either the Journal or Wired)
"What it would do is downgrade the value of the book business," said one publishing executive.
Let me translate that for you: We have no idea how to price this, and that makes us afraid.
Now much of the time, book publishers, like most other well-established media companies, are afraid to experiment with digital delivery for no real reason, for boring reasons, or out of simple inertia. Here, though, skepticism and even fear is totally understandable. Arguably, it even demonstrates good business sense.
The Journal called Amazon's proposal "a Netflix Inc.-like service for digital books." Now, "Netflix for ____" has become a cliché, but if we take the metaphor seriously, we can understand why no book publisher wants to be Starz.
Let's assume that Amazon convinced one or more major publishers, or a handful of mid-level ones, to sign on with this plan. One of two things could happen:
- The service doesn't get traction with customers, for whatever reason — bad implementation, the catalog is too small/big or poor-quality, readers would rather own than rent — and it crashes and burns. The publisher just went through a ton of work to pore over its giant catalogs, digitize more back content, figure out author compensation for this weird new thing. And now they look like idiots.
- The service is a smash hit. A big free catalog of books helps Amazon sell its next generation of tablets and e-readers faster than Foxconn can make them. Book clubs are binging on your back catalog and your content has more visibility and relevance than ever.A year into the deal, Random House CEO Markus Dohle (or whoever) is on stage with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. They clasp hands, and raise them over their heads to thunderous applause. As Dohle's smile widens and flashbulbs pop, only one thought is on his mind, which he fights to keep off his lips: "I should have asked for a lot more money."
To this, let's add the following complications:
- Amazon already has more power over every aspect of the book publishing business than Apple ever had with music or Netflix has now with anyone. Publishers are naturally wary of doing anything that ties their business more closely to Amazon's and further alienates or marginalizes their competitors.
- Book publishing is infinitely more fragmented and conflicted than any other media industry. It's bigger than you probably think – in 2010, 1,963 publishers generated net revenue of $27.9 billion — and it's growing, both in revenue and number of books sold.But it's all over the map. Textbooks and genre fiction don't have a whole lot to do with each other. Neither do giant megacorporations and vital little indies. Within each of these markets, authors, editors, agents, publishers, boards, large purchasers like libraries and school districts, retailers and reviewers all have substantial power, creating layers of competing but intricately connected interests that each need to be satisfied. This creates are all sorts of coordination and marketing problems that tend to thwart omnibus solutions.
- Books don't have the same kind of problems with shelf life (har har har) that plague movies, music and television. A substantial chunk of the book business is and has always been in classics and "steady sellers." These in turn are periodically refreshed with new editions and translations.
- Partly because of this, apart from used bookstores, with which publishers have never really dealt directly, an aftermarket for older books comparable to TV syndication or movie sales to premium or basic cable has never really developed. It was comparatively easy for Netflix's (or Amazon's) TV and movie partners to sign a deal, because it wasn't much different from an agreement they might sign with someone else. Book publishers don't have a comparable comparable.
Continue reading to see why Amazon's proposal may be a good idea after all...
But both publishers and retailers would prefer that their back catalogs would develop a viable aftermarket. Digital delivery seems like the best route — no more storing books that aren't selling, no more assets that go out of print — and Netflix among others have proven that a subscription model can be a very compelling discovery and revenue-creating tool for this class of content.
Amazon has the added benefit of using its Prime service to create extremely compelling pricing for consumers: free. If you're already a Prime subscriber, you don't have to decide between subscriptions and purchases, or Amazon's catalog versus your local library's, weighing the relative value of each. It's an asset you have, whether you like it or not, like free basic on-demand with your digital cable subscription.
Once you have it, you will use it; once you use it, you will wonder how you lived without it. And if you subscribe to Prime expressly for the digital book catalog, you may find yourself buying more e-books for your Kindle/tablet and even availing yourself of two-day delivery to pick up a few more hardcovers and small appliances — from Amazon, of course.
It would also give publishers big and small a clear incentive to digitize their full back catalogs. Just today, Duke University Press announced that it was partnering with Google to make its backlist available for free through HathiTrust's digital repository. As Jen Howard writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required), "[Duke's] press, like many others, hasn't had spare resources to digitize and archive all those books itself."
This, of course, is why Google, not university presses or publishers or libraries alone, has invested in digitizing older content. Without a clear market strategy for those books, it isn't worthwhile for anyone else to transform them from print to digital. And so far, only Google has really had one. The print book market may live on the long tail; for e-books, that tail is a lot thinner, and the curve is much more steep.
Amazon, though, knows how to grow that tail. It knows exactly how many customers search for an older, obscure book and click "I would like to read this book on Kindle." It knows how many of those customers in turn are sent off to affiliates selling used copies. It knows how many cheap self-published books or repackaged public-domain classics are downloaded onto its devices. It knows how much more value publishers' back catalogs could offer than any of those sources.
In order to capture that value, it's willing to put a lot on the table; a fat up-front fee to participating publishers, capping or throttling the total number of book downloads (to prevent piracy, I guess, or to randomly irritate its most high-volume customers into buying more books outright), plus whatever else book publishers need to feel assured that this won't burn their existing business models down.
Also, as e-book blogger Mike Cane writes, by floating a subscription plan, Amazon is offering publishers a clear alternative to Google Books for their back content:
The timing of this is no accident.
September 15th is the date Judge Chin has decreed there must be a Google Book Search settlement.
So Amazon probably went to publishers and said, "You already agreed to letting Google steal your backlist, why not at least let us give you a few pennies for it?"
I foresee three things coming from this:
- Whether they buy into Amazon's proposal or not, publishers will be spurred to take a harder look at their existing catalogs and figure out how they can make them available digitally. This could be through sales or subscription, through Amazon or some other portal.
- Whether it can convince major publishers on the right price or not, Amazon will find some way to make inexpensive, high-quality reading content available for free to every Amazon Prime subscriber and everyone who buys one of its new tablets. This, plus the video catalog, will become one of the major selling points of the device and differentiate it from Apple, Google or Barnes & Noble.
- We will all be forced to endure so many hackneyed "Netflix for books? I thought that was called the library!" jokes that it will make our brains melt and our eyes bleed.
Here's just one, from The Net Delusion author Evgeny Morozov, who made one of the more clever (but sadly all-too-typical) versions of this joke on Twitter:
I've been using a "Netflix for books" - aka the library - since grade school. They had a cool recommendation system - with human interface!
Just after the WSJ published their story last night, I'd already seen enough variations on this theme that I wrote: "Yes, libraries also let you subscribe to books. All hundred thousand of you are each clever in your own way, like snowflakes… Or like unhappy families. What do I really know about your inner lives?"
So far, though, neither libraries nor Google nor anyone else have managed to pull off 24/7 delivery of a gigantic category of digital books to nearly every device the way that Amazon has for e-book purchase or Netflix has for subscription video. If they could, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Neither would Amazon and book publishers be having theirs.
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- How the Starz-Netflix Divorce Will Remake Video
- Sidestepping Apple: From Amazon to Condé Nast, Companies Rethink App Strategies
- Amazon's New(ish) Social Network — Now Lifting Even More Info From Facebook, Twitter
- Amazon's Cloud Reader Still Doesn't Take the Web Seriously
- From HP to Amazon, the Tablet Dilemma: Go Big or Go Home
- Summer Semester: A Quick Guide To Kindle Rentals and the World of Digital Textbooks
- E-Books Are Still Waiting for Their Avant-Garde


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Half way through May I unceremoniously kicked out of my house the narcissistic parasite that I had allowed to attach to my heart.
Actually, it was fairly dramatic to be honest. After telling him that if he didn't have his stuff removed from my residence by 5.30pm that evening, I would start putting it out on the street. As he felt omnipotent, as narcissists do, he didn't heed my threat. Trouble was, I had reached my breaking point, and proceeded to carry out my threat.
On one trip to the gutter Nathan said to me "I feel like I'm living in an episode of Shameless." I replied, "So do I. For the last three years!" and continued putting stuff in the gutter. (Not proud of this. Just an example of how perfectly imperfect I am as well.)
I took a photo of what I had already put out there and sent it to him. Funnily enough, he arrived within 5 minutes of the photo being sent. Extremely intoxicated. Did I mention that he's also an alcoholic and addict? I know. Winning Vicky - I sure can pick 'em! Send your wounded, damaged, addicted souls to me.
When he arrived, he confronted Nathan, "Think you're a big man now do you?" and shoved him. My son is now taller then him, and the same size. But Nathan's a lover, not a fighter, and walked away from him.
The lioness within me had been poked into roaring, and the removal of his belongings amped up a notch. I no longer carefully placed his belongings out of my home. It took all my self control not to attack him. How dare he lay his hands on my son!! I fueled my fury into removing his stuff out of my home faster. He pushed me. I pushed back, walked away and called the police to come and supervise. To come and supervise ME, so that I didn't get pulled into his jungle of deceit and instability. I wasn't afraid of him. I was afraid of me, and what may erupt if I didn't take some control.
Over the previous several months, I had started to become increasingly aware that the thief I had given to my heart to was not who he pretended to be, and had been reading more and more about Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Naively, or arrogantly (the jury's still out on that one), I believed that I could help him see that he was unwell, and get the help he needs, and live happily ever after. Trouble is happily ever after only exists in fairy tales.
After I evicted him from my home, I thought I had successfully evicted him from my life as well. I did. For a while. About 5 weeks to be honest. I tried to get on with my life, with reestablishing some sense of order, and reclaiming of my self. Work. Kids. Self. Friends. Life. All the things that had be relegated far down the chain of attention ...easier enough to do when the person you're involved with demands your undivided attention like the succubus they are.
I was in the shower when I first felt a lump near my lumpectomy scar. It wasn't very big, and so close to the scar that I couldn't determine whether it was a lump or an extension of scar tissue. An alarm bell went off in my psyche. Which I promptly shut the fuck down. Yeah... no. Nobody got time for dealing with that shit again thank you very much...
Over the next couple of weeks I would find that my fingers had subconsciously found their way to the lump...was it real? maybe it was my rib I was feeling? no, it's part of the scar...It's nothing... I had a scan in February and it was all clear.... Over and over, as my fingers read my breast like braille, seeking the words of confirmation that it was nothing.
It's ok. I have an appointment with the radiation oncologist mid June. I'll get him to check it. It's ok.


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The Sunday that lets you know you know summer is about to kickoff is this weekend as XIV Summer Sessions LA returns to The Colony on May 19th. This party takes you from west coast sunshine to the sunset on Sunset before finally taking the party for the rest of the night to HYDE Lounge on Sunset Boulevard.
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The re-launch of the widely celebrated XIV Summer Sessions is going to bring out Hollywood elite in an intimate setting that captures and transports the vigor and vibe of St. Tropez to the heart of Hollywood. Each week The Colony's patio transforms into a high energy dance floor from 5:00PM to 10:00PM with beats by internationally known DJ talent. The XIV brand continues to grow nationally with the original XIV Summer Sessions in Los Angeles expanding to include XIV Desert Sessions at Coachella, XIV Vegas Sessions at Hyde Bellagio and XIV Miami Sessions at the SLS Hotel's Hyde Beach.
For opening weekend, EDM's hottest DJ Duo the EC Twins will lay down the tracks while partygoers are transported to the French Riviera with visually stimulating décor and copious amounts of champagne. Gareth Emery, EDX and DJ Vice are all slated to spin at XIV Summer Sessions in the weeks to follow.
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Encompassing the energy of the quintessential summer party, The Colony boasts a seamless indoor-outdoor experience, a large patio, white linen from floor to ceiling, an expansive and meticulously landscaped outdoor environment, oversized sliding doors, a spacious dance floor, comfy couches and hanging hammocks.
The party doesn't stop there, however. XIV Summer Sessions continues at HYDE Lounge on Sunset Boulevard, the official after party spot every Sunday from 10:00PM to 2:00AM, where resident DJ Connor Cruise will spin beats throughout the night. A double-decker bus will transport guests from The Colony to the chic ultra lounge. With its sexy ambiance and pulsating energy, HYDE Lounge is the perfect place to keep the festivities going in the early morning hours.
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Spanish meatballs with clams, chorizo & squid
Smoky pork meatballs go perfectly with the salty seafood. Enjoy with a large hunk of bread
Nutrition and extra info
- kcal795
- fat57g
- saturates17g
- carbs18g
- sugars6g
- fibre2g
- protein49g
- salt3.47g
- 25g butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 3 small shallots, diced
Related to the onion (as opposed to being a younger version of it), shallots grow in clusters at…
- 1 heaped tsp smoked Spanish paprika (we used the sweet, or dulce type)
A spice that's central to Hungarian cuisine, paprika is made by drying a particular type of…
- 3 garlic cloves, 2 crushed and 1 sliced
- 2 tbsp dry sherry
- 50g fresh breadcrumbs
- 300g pork mince
One of the most versatile types of meat, pork is economical, tender if cooked correctly, and…
- 1 egg yolk
- 50ml olive oil, for frying
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 300g chorizo, either mini whole ones or a large sausage, cut into bite-size pieces
A coarsely textured, spiced pork sausage widely used in Spanish and Mexican cooking. It is made…
- 300g cleaned squid, cut into rings
From the same family as the octopus and cuttlefish, squid may look jellyish and unappetising but…
- 100ml white wine
- 300g chopped and squashed tomatoes (squeeze to a pulp using your fingers)
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 400g clams
- handful flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
- extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
Melt the butter in a heavy-based casserole, then soften the shallots for 5 mins. Add the paprika and crushed garlic and cook for 1 min until the paprika becomes fragrant. Splash in the sherry, then pour the whole lot into a bowl with the breadcrumbs. Season and cool.
Add the pork mince and the egg yolk to the bowl, then beat well. Shape into 18 small meatballs. Wipe the pan, put on a medium-high heat, then add the oil. Fry the meatballs for 5 mins, just to colour, then lift onto a plate, but keep the oil in the pan. Sizzle the chorizo with the sliced garlic. Add the squid and fry to give a little colour. Now tip in the white wine and bring to the boil, scraping the bottom. Stir in the pulped tomatoes, bring to the boil, then add the meatballs and the clams. Cover and cook for 5 mins until the clam shells open. Discard any that stay shut. Sprinkle with the chopped parsley, drizzle with the extra virgin oil, then serve with crusty bread.


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Dewhurst's campaign Tweeted the phrase "To all the non-Texans trying to save teDCruz's campaign, welcome to TX. Learn something," with an accompanying link to a new ad Friday. The ad follows in the wake of final fury support for Ted Cruz from out-of-state senators and tea party figures, and features a positive tone listing Dewhurst's accomplishments as lieutenant governor.
Cruz's FreePAC event in Dallas on Wednesday featured tea party organization Freedomworks heads and conservative radio personality Glenn Beck. Prior to the event, Senators Mike Lee of Utah, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, and Rand Paul of Kentucky attended a fundraiser with Cruz.
Early Friday, former 2012 presidential nominee Rick Santorum made a guest appearance on WBAP-AM Dallas' Mark Davis show and confimed his non-profit group, Patriot Voices, will phone bank for Cruz through Tuesday.
"Ted is in an excellent position to pull this off," Santorum said. "We've got our political grassroots organizations from across the country helping a conviction conservative like Ted get elected in the state of Texas."
Cruz's spokesman James Bernsen said non-Texan phone bankers are still, approximately, outnumbered 10-1 by Texas volunteers.
Former vice presidential nominee and tea party darling Sarah Palin joins Cruz for an event in The Woodlands Friday evening, and Santorum is slated to appear with Cruz Saturday morning in the Dallas area.
"Ted has relied on out-of-state support for his entire campaign, so it's not surprising that in the finals days they're coming out and rallying for him," Dewhurst spokesman Matt Hirsch said.
Hirsch said while Dewhurst doesn't denounce big tea party affiliates who've come out in support of Cruz, he "has put Texans first and will keep them first in Washington and the issues that matter to them."


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