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1 June 2013
Portoferraio, Italy - With Saturday's racing complete, the stage is officially set for a final showdown in Portoferraio on Sunday. Another unpredictable day of competition that included more of the same light and tricky breeze, and three races has delivered Lanfranco Cirillo's Fantastica in first, and overnight leader Roberto Tomasini Grinover on Robertissima in second, both with an equal 27 points each. Vincenzo Onorato's Mascalzone Latino stands firm six points back in third. This event is clearly still up for grabs.
The brutally light air conditions on day two in Portoferraio offered up more tough racing conditions. Andrea Ferrari and his bow-to-stern, all-amatuer crew aboard Spirit of Nerina advanced to an early lead in the first race of the day, followed by Japan's Keisuke Suzuki on Swing and Edoardo Lupi's Torpyone in third. Ferrari lead the fleet through the gate with a change of course being implemented. Soon after, the course was shortened to finish at what was to be the second weather mark with Ferrari winning his first race ever in the Melges 32 class.
With the breeze holding steady, the second race got underway with Edoardo Pavesio's Fra Martina in charge at the top, chased aggressively by Onorato. Pavesio went on to win, ultimately holding off second place finisher Onorato, Cirillo finished third.
A hard-fought victory in Race Five was celebrated by Cirillo, a win that would take him from eighth to first overall. Playing the right side for best pressure, he took control at the first windward mark, Deneen Demourkas on Groovederci followed in second, while Ferrari got back into the action rounding third. Demourkas won the gate, but speed was on Cirillo's side. Back upwind, Cirillo regained the lead at the final weathermark of the race, Naofumi Kamei's Mamma Aiuto! moved up for second while Demourkas slid backwards to third. Cirillo won, Kamei had a great race to finish second. Andrea Pozzi's Bombarda found a podium spot to take third.
Competition in Portoferraio continues on Sunday with the final three races of the scheduled eight set to complete.
Portoferraio is organized by BPSE B.Plan Sports & Events in full coordination with the IM32CA and Melges Europe. The next Audi Sailing Series event takes place in Torbole (Event No. 4 on 12-14 July). The final event will be the 2013 Melges 32 World Championship on 18-22 September in Porto Rotondo, Italy.
TOP TEN RESULTS (After Five Races)
1.) Lanfranco Cirillo/Michele Paoletti, Fantastica; 16-3-4-3-1 = 27
2.) Roberto Tomasini Grinover/Vasco Vascotto, Robertissima; 2-4-9-6-6 = 27
3.) Vincenzo Onorato/Gabriele Benussi, Mascalzone Latino; 5-5-2-2-19 = 33
4.) Andrea Pozzi/Lorenzo Bressani, Bombarda; 17-2-3-10-3 = 35
5.) Naofumi Kamei/Manuel Weiller, Mamma Aiuto!; 6-16-6-7-2 = 37
6.) Mauro Mocchegiani/Branko Brcin, Audi Ultra Giacomel; 3-13-13-5-5 = 39
7.) Jason Carroll/Cameron Appleton, Argo; 1-8-10-11-10 = 40
8.) Andrea Ferrari/Mirko Bargolini, Spirit of Nerina; 7-18-1-9-7 = 42
9.) Malcolm Gefter/Sam Rogers, Celeritas; 11-6-12-8-12 = 49
10.) Edoardo Lupi/Pietro Sibello, Torpyone; 13-1-7-13-16 = 50
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How to have no Save file on frugal HD install? [Postponed]
Edit. I am not sure what to do. I am back using a savefile
instead of setting it up manuall each time. 22 click each time
is just too much. So now I test to do very frequent updates
of the backup of the savefile so it can be repaired easily
if something happens.
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I am a noob so I fail to do remaster.
I have now tested so many times
to just accept the limitations and it is okay.
I moved the .mozilla to mnt.sda1 or mnt/home and that
way I can use Slacko with Firefox and that allow me to
drage the .mozilla back and drop a relative link to it
adn that way I get both bookmarks and utf8 and all the
extensions and such going again. Super very good solution.
Sad it took me so long time to figure out this one.
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To do remasters each time one make a minor change seems over kill.
I used the link google search in my signature for to find threads about it
those I've found was way over my noob
Remaster vs sfs vs savefile; how best to reduce Puppy?
How to convert a savefile to sfs?
Empowering the Zdrv
SFS-Exec by seaside
knowing how verbose i tend to be I rather start a new thread
instead of filling these other threads with my endless questions on details
that I fail to get.
My current solution still use a save file and for to not fill it up
I have moved .mozilla to mnt/home and then symlinked back
and done same with other such files that fill very fast.
that did help a bit but the save file still fills up with things
I have no ideas where they come from so I would prefer to boot
without a save-file.
So hope many of you share how you do this and on a noob level
so I get how to duplicate it.
At the moment I use Lupu 528-005 with Firefox browser
seaside gave this example in the linked thread above
Here's how I do it.
* Boot, customize, adding preferences pet's, etc..
save to small pup-save file. Then boot with PFIX=ram,
mount the pup_save file and make and save it
(dir2sfs) as an SFS file.
Then rename the file to the matching Zpxxxxx.sfs name,
depending on what pup version.
Rename or delete the former pup_save so puppy doesn't
try to load it. Now when you next boot, the zpxxxxx.sfs file
will automatically load with your preferences and additions
Edit need to add this one too
He describe in bold there how to do it .I've done it once but now
fail to get how one do it.
I have followed that advice once and then forgot
how one do it and now reading it again I get very
unsure what it really means. Can somebody explain? )
If you like what seaside has suggested also take a look at
and SFSdirload-standalone-0.3
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Why not run Puppy from a multisession CD or DVD? That would easily do what you want.
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Flash I worked at a Radio Repair Shop when I where
teen for two years and that gave me the experience
that mechanical things like DVD drives have a tendency
to fail sooner or later. and I am a fanatic anti noise weirdo.
I hate the sound of the whirr of the DVD spinning up to speed
and then going down and then searching and so on. I hate it
And none of my three netbooks have a drive.
them are two small to have such drives in them.
Okay I have a Packard Bell that have a drive
but that one have only 500MB RAM And no HD
to talk about so the compromise would be to use USB
instead. and pretend the USB to be a DVD do you remeber
how one set up such things to mimic a DVD multisession?
(What I remember from using DVD some years ago is that
I did not like the DVD. So if you know how to do same with USB?
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Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013, 13:20
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nooby wrote:
Wants more suggestions on this one
1 . > Live with the problems
2 . > Hack the code and submit patches
«Give me GUI or Death» -- I give you [[Xx]term[inal]] [[Cc]on[s][ole]] .
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I am testing now Puppy without savefile to find out how it feels
I open a Geany file with a HTML files and add bookmarks manually
Maybe an alternative would be to instead save all bookmarks
and export to a html file each day one shut down and then merge these
into a huge file that way one get all the bookmarks with writign them down
I get Swedish åäö keyboard layout by opening Terminal and do setxkbmap se
what I miss is the addon in Firefox for downloading youtube files?
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I am almost there. I am testing which Puppy version
that is easiest to use without save file and for the moment
Slacko 5.4 seems to be a winner but that could change tomorrow
I will also try to compare Slacko with other Linuxes to see
how them compare to be used always freshly booted the
cool thing about Puppy is that one can do frugal boot
on NTFS partitions and very few of the others linux do.
Knoppix can and Porteus and Slitaz? but none else?
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I totally agree with Flash on going multisession, his recommendation a long time ago, is actually the reason I never use anything else! For a long time, I have used machines with max 512Mb RRAM, very often only 256Mb. When running live, the whole puppy is loaded into RAM and run from there with no delay. The machines usually have a HD with a swap artition for some other big Linux, and that partition will automatically be used by puppy when necessary. I believe there is some similar soulution when using a Windoze HD. I also regularly run without a HD, no problem! I usually run a remastered puppy. Having done it a few times, the whole remastering process is fairly quick. But the alternatives presented in the links nooby provides, are very interesting.
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I hate the sound of the whirr of the DVD spinning up to speed and then going down and then searching and so on. I hate it
Yeah, I can relate to that. In the bios on the Compaq mainboard I run right now, there is a 'performance' and 'quiet' setting for the CD/DVD, you could check if your bios have the possibility to toggle that setting. Besides, my puppy loads in less than a minute, I can live with that short burst of sound. Alternatively, fit your machine with a stone-age CD player, they have no speed, so they are very quiet! Afterwards, there is no need to keep the disk in the CD player/writer, until you eventually want to save some files at shutdown.
If you use a multisession DVD, the save can alternatively be done to a separate session that doesn't load at bootup, and consquently don't add to the puppy's size. It can be accessed by mounting it, whenever needed.
There are many posts in the forum related to trouble with the save-file, but not many - if any at all - related to multsession problems.
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
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nooby, I just posted my first HowTo -- inspired somewhat by this thread. It's a (mostly) simple alternative to hard drives and CDs, and it doesn't make noise.
It's also pretty inexpensive if you know where to get the parts.
Look here -->
The HowTo is pretty long, BUT the actual process is simple -- it took me four or five times longer to write it up than to do it one-handed while taking photos! (It actually takes 15-20 minutes to do, maybe a little longer if you want to go slow.)
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Thanks to both of you.
TallBoy Yes I have tested the CD/DVD route
many times startingwith Puppy 3.x and 4,0 and many others.
Starhawk ah I should read first and comment later.
will be interesting. I am using frugal on HD with no save file now
and I learned from Beem and another guy how to move .mozilla
over to the /mnt7home and then to relative symlink back to the
And that works very well. i get all the bookmarks and the passwords
intact. I should do some back up of that important .mozilla in case it
get corrupted in future.
I use Slacko 5.4 because it has a rather recent FF and
it is easy to set up while Lupu require me to download FF
Even the youtuve getflash and noscript and such extensions just works.
Swedish keyboard and local time are fast to set up.
So it looks very good so far. I will soon be able to write [Solved]
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starhawk interesting to read your description there.
I have 3 netbooks these have very small "caddies"
Not sure at all if they have same mechanical size
as the one for a real laptop.
then I have 1 bigger Laptop that may be as your Dell
mine is a Packard Bell Easy Note 6 something.
Unfortunate too little ram.
I am bad at reading texts so I don't want to mess up
your thread with my naive questions.
Do you mean that each time you want to change CF card
you have to take out the Caddy and take out the CF card
and put in another.
Crazy question. Why not just use a USB flash that already
is laying around instead of buying an adapter for CF card
and the CF card that are more expensive and may go out
of production soon? Them not used anymore? Just guessing?
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CF cards will be around for a while
There's a new version of CF --it's called CFast-- that I know very little about... but the two are not compatible. CFast is a SATA version of CF. (That will make more sense in a few paragraphs
CF cards are expensive because they are getting a little "old in the tooth" -- they are (compared to eg SD cards and the like) rather large and clumsy. They also tend to be slightly slower (because of the IDE bit) than an SD card or similar (that's my understanding, at least -- I've not tested it outright).
Yes, you have to remove the CF card to put it in another computer, but the idea is that you have a silent, solid state "hard drive" in your computer. Like an SSD but much cheaper. I'd be willing to bet that you don't take the hard drive out of any of your netbooks when you want to boot a different machine!
This is more a semi-permanent install sort of thing.
Also, something that the thread doesn't go into much detail about -- right now there are a few different ways of connecting hard drives to computers.
IDE is what the thread requires as it is. IDE-to-CF adapters are very simple things, because the protocol (the way the computer speaks to the drive) is the same -- it's just the pinout (arrangement of the wires) that's different.
SATA is a newer form of IDE that uses fewer wires because it's serial (one wire per signal, with several bits per wire) rather than parallel (one bit per each wire, down several wires). It's also a lot faster. Very new computers use SATA extensively.
SCSI is antique but still around, and there's a new version of it called SAS (Serial Attached SCSI). Most computers don't use SCSI or SAS at this time.
There *are* adapters that let you plug an (IDE) CF card into a SATA drive, but those have to translate protocol as well as pinout. I don't trust them to be even close to perfect, which they have to be to not lock up your computer. If you have a SATA hard drive in your system, chances are what you want is a SATA-to-CFast adapter and a CFast card.
Also... just to confuse you further
(OK, not really) there's one other very weird interface called mSATA (mobile SATA). It uses the form factor (shape, size, connector, etc.) of PCI Express Mini Card, like the newer WiFi cards do. These SSDs, rarely more than 16gb capacity and insanely expensive in ANY size, basically cannot be upgraded with CF or CFast cards, for a couple of reasons -- (1) there's no real good way right now to turn an mSATA port into a standard SATA port, and (2) even if there was, there isn't really space left over for the CFast adapter you'd need, let alone the card... besides, it's already an SSD so there's not much need. Just store everything on a flash drive or external HDD and be careful around doorframes
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Thanks starhawk
Enough of my testing. I think it is as good as it can be.
I would prefer to do a remaster or something but I fail to get how to
so I will try to adopt the zdrive way of seaside instead so will read through that thread again to get how one do that .
I this thread as solved
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A quick rewind, back to those desperate days after the first two games of the Grizzlies-Clippers series in Los Angeles. You remember those days, right? Grizzlies in a 0-2 hole and, in the first game, looking totally outclassed.
Don't know about in Las Vegas, but in Memphis there was fear and loathing. Fear about where this series was headed and loathing for Chris Paul & Co. (that last part still applies). Yet amid this tumult, there were calming words of wisdom before Game 3 at FedExForum.
• When asked if the team was concerned: "We have the same mind-set. Win. Take care of business."
Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph shoots as he is defended by Los Angeles Clippers' DeAndre Jordan, left, and Matt Barnes during the second half of Game 5, which the Grizzlies won 103-93.
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• When asked about making adjustments: "It starts with rebounding, pick and roll coverage, and trying to make somebody else beat us." Paul had won Game 2 with a last-second, contested, soft bank shot high off the glass.
• When asked where the series might go from here, the Grizzlies still without a win: "We expect this series to go as long as it's gonna go."
• And finally, when asked for the bottom line: "We take care of home, y'all be writing a different story."
The soothsayer? Your resident Grindfather, Tony Allen.
The Grizzlies, in fact, did have the same mind-set, and did take care of business – all the way through Game 5 at Staples Center to bring a 3-2 lead back to Memphis with the opportunity to clinch on their home court Friday, May 3.
Coach Lionel Hollins has downplayed the adjustments they've made along the way, saying, "We're just doing the things we do better," but they made a huge adjustment in their sustained effort and have pounded the boards. They made just as large a commitment to covering those Clippers pick and rolls, and although Paul went off for 35 points in Game 5, he did not beat them or even come close; the Grizzlies won by 10.
How long do the Grizzlies expect the series to go now? They won't say it quite this directly, but they expect to win Game 6 and again "take care of home," which they could not do last season in losing Game 7 of that opening-round playoff series at FedExForum.
Perhaps most telling is that the reactions from the two teams have been so different. The Grizzlies were not panicked after losing the first two games. They were upset with themselves for giving a poor showing in Game 1 and coming up just short despite a good effort in Game 2. But they were resolute about what they still believed they could accomplish.
The Clippers, meanwhile, limped away from Memphis still not sure how their 2-0 lead disappeared amid the waves of gold growl towels. It was almost as though even though they knew how powerful the 1-2 inside punch of Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol could be, they still didn't believe it had hit them that hard. In fact, they seemed scared that upon returning to Memphis they would face the same fate. So Paul described Game 5 as must-win. The Grizzlies, too, knew how important Game 5 was but they did not take the approach of emotionally backing themselves into a corner.
So while all the recent numbers vouch for the Grizzlies' superior physical toughness – Memphis out-rebounded the Clippers 90-61 in Games 3 and 4, and 45-28 in Game 5 in L.A. – they also are clearly the tougher team mentally. Matt Barnes spoke of the Clippers being "punked" in Game 4 and then took out his frustration on a trashcan.
"We've got to be desperate," Paul said after Game 5. "That's how it is."
The desperation is made worse by the high ankle sprain that ended Blake Griffin's night early in Game 5; he may or not be a factor in Game 6. Paul is said to have some sort of thumb injury (make your own joke on that one), and coach Vinny Del Negro seems not to have the slightest idea how to slow down Gasol (18.8 points, 7.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists in the series) and Randolph (20.4 points and 8.6 rebounds).
So just as Tony Allen predicted, we are now writing a different story about this series. All that's missing is the happy ending.
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For once in the past 20 years I have decided to have a few New Year's resolutions. It counts if they come on Jan. 2 since it is still a holiday.
The four resolutions are:
1. Lose 24 pounds.
2. Read one book a month for pleasure.
3. Slow down.
4. Pray. Can't do enough of that.
Three of the four resolutions revolve around the word "wisdom." Anyone can argue that the first resolution to lose 24 pounds is wise. However, it is not wisdom that dictates it. I simply have gotten more sedentary and less active. The end result is weight gain. I've had enough. Two pounds a month might be the wisdom. Any more than that I will quit. History does repeat itself.
The other three resolutions come from a sense of needing "wisdom" instead of "knowledge." This is the knowledge age. We have knowledge at our fingertips. I commend my professors at Loyola College. In their Master's program they did not want a regurgitation of information. They recognized as early as the mid 80's (wow, that is starting to sound old) that information rules but…does anybody know how to use the information. They taught the "how" and "why" not the "what." I thank them even if I did have to write about 12 30-page dissertations.
As 2012 has swept down upon us, we need wisdom. In today's world the manipulation of knowledge rules the day, week and month. Who is telling the truth? How would we know? What are logical and practical conclusions from all the knowledge sent our way?
Wisdom cannot be taught. It has to be learned.
In reading one book a month (I read mostly for work) wisdom can be gained by seeing different perspectives, theme creation and plot articulation. Reading is valuable. Our education system and our country as a whole have lost the art of reading. Reading to read has minimal value. Reading to dissect, critique and learn keeps the mind fresh.
Slowing down has to happen and not just to avoid speeding tickets. Slowing down allows us to observe the world around us. There is much to be gained from looking at creation. When God wanted to make a point he often pointed to his creation. Creation reminds us of the creator. By looking at the Creator we may than be able to say "no." Much wisdom is to be gained.
The greatest wisdom gain is to practice what we preach. Christians will claim that prayer is an integral part of the Christian's relationship with Jesus. However, it usually takes a backseat to just about anything we can conjure up. As we wander through the Scriptures, prayer sticks out like Tony Romo's hand (sorry, I'm a disappointed Cowboys fan). It's huge. Paul, the apostle, was constantly giving advice to readers of the epistles. He is always imploring the reader to pray. Maybe with prayer I can get out of the way, learn to shut my mouth and allow others to grow and discover God's grace and love. Now, that is wisdom. Anybody in?


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Summit Midstream Partners, LP to Attend UBS MLP One-On-One Conference
Jan 09, 2014, 06:45 ET
DALLAS, Jan. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) announced today that Steve Newby, President and Chief Executive Officer, will meet with investors at the UBS MLP One-On-One Conference on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 and Wednesday, January 15, 2014 in Park City, Utah. The presentation materials associated with this event will be accessible through the Investors section of SMLP's website at www.summitmidstream.com beginning on January 14, 2014.
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About Summit Midstream Partners, LP
SMLP is a growth-oriented limited partnership focused on owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets that are strategically located in the core producing areas of unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in North America. SMLP currently provides primarily fee-based natural gas gathering and compression services in four unconventional resource basins: (i) the Piceance Basin, which includes the Mesaverde formation as well as the Mancos and Niobrara shale formations in western Colorado; (ii) the Fort Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett Shale formation in north-central Texas; (iii) the Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations in northwestern North Dakota; and (iv) the Appalachian Basin, which includes the Marcellus Shale formation in northern West Virginia. SMLP owns and operates 790 miles of pipeline and 181,860 horsepower of compression. SMLP is headquartered in Dallas, TX with offices in Houston, TX, Denver, CO and Atlanta, GA.
About Summit Midstream Partners, LLC
Summit Midstream Partners, LLC ("Summit Investments") owns a 71.6% limited partner interest in SMLP and owns and controls the general partner of SMLP, Summit Midstream GP, LLC, which has sole responsibility for conducting the business and managing the operations of SMLP. Summit Investments also owns, operates and is developing various crude oil, natural gas, and water-related midstream energy infrastructure assets in the Bakken Shale Play in North Dakota, the DJ Niobrara Shale Play in Colorado, the Uinta Basin in Utah, and the Piceance Basin in western Colorado. In December 2013, Summit Investments announced that it had signed definitive documentation to acquire an equity interest in two entities which are developing natural gas gathering and condensate stabilization infrastructure in the Utica Shale in southeastern Ohio; this acquisition is expected to close in January 2014. Summit Investments is a privately held company owned by members of management, funds controlled by Energy Capital Partners II, LLC, and GE Energy Financial Services, Inc. and certain of its affiliates.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes certain statements concerning expectations for the future that are forward-looking within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements contain known and unknown risks and uncertainties (many of which are difficult to predict and beyond management's control) that may cause our actual results in future periods to differ materially from anticipated or projected results. An extensive list of specific material risks and uncertainties affecting us is contained in our 2012 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2013 and as amended and updated from time to time. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and SMLP undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or events.
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ivoboom needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 101 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
Are you the grapic designer that thinks outside the box? Make things nobody has done before? Then you are our man! We are looking for our clothing line a print for a t-shirt.
Our company is selling everything regarding basketball. Our company is called Basketball Totaal and translated it means Totally Basketball. We have our own custom made clothing line called Slamdunkz. We want to make prints on the t-shirts like and1, K1x does.
This is our logo:
- Item 1...Print of a basketballer/woman with a text. It can be anything basically. It is for streetwear or streetballers so trash talk is allowed. It can be a print or text or both in one design.
- Item 1...Only a basketball. It has to be outside the box. We are making it a clothing line, so the winner can see more work coming and maybe a longtime relationship.


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Don't Say YUUUP! Or You Might Get Sued
from the ownership-society dept
But, really, that's getting way too far down into the legal weeds. Let's remember what we're talking about here: two people fighting over who can say "YUUUP!" Can we just agree that that's insane, and there should be nothing wrong with multiple people saying YUUUP? I say YUUUP!


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|(c)Dr. Robert T. Bakker
Our paleontology team – led by Dr. Robert Bakker – is back in Seymour, TX this week, digging for Dimetrodon at a site they've now been working for several years. (You can read more of what's been found already in our daily blog from the field in 2007).
Chris Flis sent us another update today – on a huge possible find. The team thinks they may have found the pelvis – and possibly a full skeleton – of a Secodontosaurus. The fox-faced finback – so called because of its slender muzzle – could easily be confused for a Dimetrodon – but they are actually quite different.
If they have in fact found a Seco – it will be the first that has been uncovered since 1936 (with the exception of HMNS' Nancy Bowen's discovery of an isolated scapula from this species on one of the team's earlier digs). With today's more complete digging methods, this find would give us the opportunity to learn much more about this rare species from the contextual information being preserved around the fossil.
Click the podcast below for more updates from yesterday's dig:
More from the field tomorrow! Until then, you can also check out earlier updates from this dig trip:
Day One: Live from the Fossil Field
Day Two: The Smoking Gun
Day Three: New Discoveries


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$14.6m deal: Nene to join Al-Gharafa
, January 13, 2013
Forward Nene is set to leave French club Paris St Germain for Qatari club Al-Gharafa, the Brazilian said on Sunday.
The 31-year-old, who was the league's joint top-scorer last season with 21 goals and helped PSG finish second, has been at odds with coach Carlo Ancelotti for weeks and has not played competitively for more than a month.
"I found an agreement with Al-Gharafa," Nene told French channel TF1.
"It has been difficult because I was still dreaming to play for Brazil and meet up with my family," added Nene, who was close to signing for Brazilian side Santos last week.
According to media reports Nene will sign an 11 million euro ($14.68 million) 18-month deal.
"Things like that only happen once in a lifetime. I don't know if people will understand ... I just thought about my future and secured it for my family," he said.
Nene has played 79 league games and scored 36 goals for PSG but only featured in nine league matches this season.
Ancelotti dropped him out of the squad after the player struck the roof of the dugout with his hand and argued with coaching staff during the Champions League home win against Porto last month.
Since then, the Brazilian has only taken part in a friendly against a local club during the winter training camp in Qatar. - Reuters


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10. City University London – £23,674
These figures – published on the Which? University site – were disclosed after universities and colleges were ordered by ministers to provide data on everything from where their students end up working and how much they earn, to the amount of contact undergraduates can expect with professors and how much it costs to live in halls of residence.
Institutions are ranked by average yearly salary six months after graduation.


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Microsoft Buying Nokia Reminds Us That Dominant Tech Companies Can Disappear Quickly
from the bye-bye dept
But here's the thing that I find most fascinating about this: it's a reminder of just how quickly and completely a "dominant" tech firm can almost disappear off the face of the earth. Go back to 2007 (also known as The Time Before The iPhone) and Nokia absolutely and totally dominated the mobile phone market. In fact, I remember making a joke around 2005 or so mocking another company for suggesting that it could pass Nokia in the market (I can't remember which company, but it may have been Samsung) and a telco analyst much wiser than myself scolded me, reminding me how quickly the market can change -- and he was totally correct. Two quick images tell the story. The first, put together by the Guardian using Gartner data, shows how Nokia (via Symbian) basically owned the smartphone market for quite some time. And then its lead disappeared:
In fact, it could be argued that its own success was part of the problem. Nokia was heavily invested in Symbian and had committed to following that path. This is actually something that's not uncommon with dominant players. In some ways, they're a victim of being there first. When a disruptive innovation comes along, they can't shift on a dime, and the innovations effectively leapfrog right over them. Yes, you can ride out cash cows for a long time -- and Nokia has done so (as, it appears, has Microsoft...) but eventually the music stops.
I bring this up because we seem to go through this quite often -- with people fretting about certain "dominant" tech firms, and how something has to be done to stop them or they'll have too much power. But, as we see time and time again, it often seems that "something" is done in the form of regular competition and innovation from others, who can come out of nowhere and completely take down a giant in a very, very short period of time.


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Chris Young, 'Neon' – Lyrics Uncovered
The lyrics to Chris Young's new hit on the rise, 'Neon,' might appear to be tricky, as only so many words rhyme with "neon." But the song's three writers — Trevor Rosen, Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally — crafted it in such a way that it works. Young snagged the tune for his third studio album, which he named after the song.
"Josh, Shane and I were writing in my living room one day," Rosen tells Taste of Country, speaking of the day the trio wrote the tune. "Shane was going through some titles and song ideas he had, like he often does when we get ready to write. We paused when he said 'Neon' and we talked about what that title might be about for a couple minutes. Then he kept going with some more titles. At one point, Josh and I said, 'You know … there's something to that 'Neon' idea,' and we started singing all these different rhymes for the word 'neon,' which ended up being the main structure of the chorus."
"Neon, the light they always leave on / A weekend on the rocks / And an old school jukebox / With a little Johnny Lee on / The buzz I love to be on / You put a double on your troubles / The light at this end of the tunnel is Neon," they wrote as the lyrics for the 'Neon' chorus.
"I don't remember who came up with it, but when we got the rhyme 'with a little Johnny Lee on,' we knew we were all in and off to the races," Rosen adds with a smile. "I remember starting to chunk on the verse melody, and the line, 'The sky in Cheyenne, Wyoming is just about as blue as it gets,' kind of fell right out. We immediately jumped on board and started painting scenes about other colors, too."
"The sky in Cheyenne, Wyoming / Is just about as blue as it gets / And if you ain't seen a Santa Fe sunset / You ain't seen red / Texas sunflower yellow / Can take your breath away / I've seen it all / From the orange of the fall / To the green of the summer," they wrote in the song's opening lyrics.
"It's funny because I remember writing the song as clear as day, but at the time it's happening you could never predict in a million years that the ideas and melodies you're throwing out to your friends in your living room on any given day are eventually going to turn into a song that gets cut by a major artist and gets played on the radio," he says, beaming. "I guess that's part of what keeps us so excited to do it every day — you just never know. We love finding those ideas to write about that aren't your typical ideas, be it a love song or heartbreak song, etc. I think that's why a song about being drawn to the neon — a love song to a bar — really intrigued us."
"When we finished it, of course we were like, 'We gotta get this to George Strait right away!'" Rosen continues. "Celia at Black River, Josh's publishing company, actually pitched the work tape we made that day to Chris Young, and he put it on hold just from hearing the work tape. Chris did such an amazing job on the song, we look back now and are so thankful he got to hear it before George or anybody else, because we can't imagine the song being in better hands! It's funny how one little word idea that Shane casually jotted down on his phone could lead to what it has."
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(CNN) -- Farrah Fawcett, the actress known worldwide for her beauty and her role on "Charlie's Angels," is reportedly seriously ill and may be close to death after a long battle with cancer.
Farrah Fawcett, seen here in 2004, is featured in a documentary about her fight with cancer.
A documentary, which airs Friday night on NBC, will feature an intimate look at her life since being diagnosed with the disease.
On Thursday, Larry King talked with Candy Spelling, a close friend of Fawcett. Her husband, the late Aaron Spelling, produced "Charlie's Angels." Spelling talks about her relationship with Fawcett and why she believes she did the documentary.
The following is an edited version of the interview.
Larry King: Did you first meet Farrah in connection with getting that part?
Candy Spelling: Yes. Actually, she did a lot of small, little parts in the movies for Aaron starting around 1973. So it's been, my God, 36, 37 years since I, you know, first met her. Watch Candy Spelling talk about her friendship with Farrah Fawcett »
King: So you knew her well during all that time?
Spelling: Yes.
King: Did you know about her getting picked to be on "Charlie's Angels?"
Spelling: I remember. She did some small roles. I think the one that Aaron really decided he was really going to use her was this American beauty pageant and, also, it was like "Murder on Flight 502." He did the 90-minute versions.
King: Movie of the week?
Spelling: Right. Movie of the weeks.
King: When did you know she had cancer?
Spelling: I found out about a year -- when I first heard, I don't know if it was a year or two years ago when we first heard, and I contacted her. I hadn't talked to her in a while. She said, "I'm going to be all right, Candy. Everything is going to be all right."
King: Why do you think, Candy, she did the documentary?
Spelling: I think that she wanted to give other people courage that, you know, are fighting this kind of thing. I know how, you know, devastating the press, you know, was with Aaron when he had cancer. And it's just so difficult. And I mean, you know, it's hard to have a private life at that point.
King: Why do the tabloids get so tough on someone in such pain?
Spelling: It's news. It's kind of a sad thing. I'm always so sorry to see it. But, you know, people believe what they see, and a lot of times, we don't know how true it really is.
All About Farrah Fawcett • Cancer • Candy Spelling


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Press release
Latest monthly hospital activity events (up to and including December 2012)
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:** Latest monthly hospital activity events (up to and including December…
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:**
Latest monthly hospital activity events (up to and including December 2012)
The main findings compare the year to date (YTD) to December 2012/13 to the same period in 2011/12. Year to date is a cumulative count of activity from the start of the financial year (ie we are comparing activity from April to December 2012/13 to activity in the period April to December 2011/12).
The figures for a single month of data can be affected by factors such as the number of working days in the month so figures adjusted for the number of working days have been provided for comparison. April to December 2011 had 188 working days (including the royal wedding as a bank holiday) and April to December 2012 also had 188 working days so figures are the same on both an adjusted and an unadjusted basis.
The key points from the latest release are:
GP referrals made this year, on a year to date (YTD) basis, show a 3.7% increase, compared to the same period last year.
GP referrals seen this year, on a YTD basis, are currently showing a 2.2% increase compared to the same period last year.
The volume of first outpatient attendances, on a YTD basis, is showing a 2.4% increase compared to the same period last year.
Elective growth this year, on a YTD basis, is currently 2.2%.
The day case rate (the proportion of total elective admissions that were day cases) on a YTD basis is currently 79.6%.
Non-elective admissions, on a YTD basis, have increased by 3.0% compared to the same period last year.
Full tables are available here
Notes to Editors
This dataset covers some key aspects of inpatient and outpatient activity in the NHS.
Monthly actuals
This is a count of activity for a given month.
Provider and Commissioner based data
Commissioner based returns reflect data on a responsible population basis, which is defined as:
all those patients resident within the PCT boundary; plus
all patients registered with GPs who are members of the PCT but are resident in another PCT; minus
All patients resident in the PCT but registered with a GP who is a member of another PCT
Commissioner based returns also include data for specialised commissioning. These are separate from the PCTs as there are different arrangements for commissioning specialised services.
Provider based returns cover patients who were treated in hospitals inEngland.
Year to Date
This is a CUMULATIVE count of activity from the start of the year to the end of a given month. Usually analysis is on a financial year basis. Looking at data on a year to date basis "smoothes" the data and aids analysis.
GP referrals made (general & acute)
This is a count of the referrals made by GPs to hospital consultants for a first outpatient appointment in general & acute specialties.
GP referrals seen (general & acute)
This is a count of the GP referrals seen by hospital consultants as a first attendance appointment in general & acute specialties. There is a time lag between GP referrals made and seen so that not all the referrals made in a given month are seen in the same month. Not all "GP referrals made" result in a "GP referral seen" as some referrals will be seen as inappropriate and do not require a consultant outpatient appointment. In these instances the referral will be returned to the GP. In addition some patients do not attend (DNA) appointments. Inappropriate referrals and DNAs contribute to the difference in volumes between GP referrals "made" and "seen".
First Outpatient attendances (general & acute)
This is the number of first outpatient attendances in general and acute specialties where the patient was seen by a consultant (or a doctor acting for the consultant). This count of attendances is for all sources of referral and is not restricted to just those as a result of a GP referral.
Elective ordinary admissions (general & acute)
This is a count of ordinary elective admissions made to general & acute specialties in a given month. An ordinary admission is a hospital admission requiring an overnight stay.
Elective day case admissions (general & acute)
This is a count of the day case admissions made to general & acute specialties in a given month. A day case admission is where a patient is admitted to hospital but an overnight stay is not required. The day case rate is calculated by expressing the volume of day case admissions as a proportion of all elective admissions ie. elective ordinary admissions and elective day case admissions combined.
Elective admissions (general & acute)
This is the count of elective ordinary admissions and elective day case admissions to general & acute specialties in a given month. There are three different admission methods for elective patients - waiting list, booked and planned. These categories are technical in nature and potentially misleading as both waiting listANDbooked patients are, in lay terms, "admitted from a waiting list". Planned patients - again this is a technical term as to the lay person all elective patients might be considered to be "planned". In this more technical context, planned patients are a subset of elective patients and are those patients for whom the wait for admission was determined by clinical constraints rather than resource constraints. For example, a cancer patient will be required to wait a clinically appropriate period between doses of chemotherapy and these admissions will be classified as planned.
Elective ordinary admissions planned (general & acute)
This is the count of planned patients admitted as elective ordinary admissions in general & acute specialties.
**Elective day case admission planned (general & acute) **
This is the count of planned patients admitted as elective day case admissions in general & acute specialties. The proportion of elective admissions which are planned can be calculated by adding the planned ordinary admissions and planned day case admissions. Data is not collected separately on waiting list & booked admissions but the proportion of such admissions can be deduced by subtracting the proportion of planned electives from the total. So, for example, if 25% of elective admissions are planned the remainder (75%) by deduction are, in lay terms, "waiting list" (in technical terms "waiting list & booked") admissions.
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Full details of activity data for individual organisations is available here:
Press enquiries:
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The Government Statistical Service (GSS) statistician responsible for producing these data is:
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'The Hangover 3,' '300: Battle of Artemisia' and 'Pacific Rim' Schedule Release Dates
Someone (we believe it was @ercboxoffice) just joked on Twitter that apparently drinking and driving do mix now that The Hangover 3 is scheduled to go up against The Fast and the Furious 6 on the weekend of May 24th, 2013. The third Hangover installment just reserved its date with destiny, opting to go with the late-May weekend that's been so kind to it in the past, even though it'll be fighting for the same audience as Universal's Fast and the Furious sequel. Will one of them bail? If so, our money is on Fast and the Furious 6 switching to a new date, though after a disappointing part two, The Hangover 3 will have to reinvent itself in a big way in order to bring in the type of business expected -- and going toe to toe against a surging Fast and the Furious franchise won't help.
Meanwhile, the 300 prequel -- tentatively titled 300: Battle of Artemisia -- will hit theaters on August 2, 2013, with Guillermo del Toro's epic monsters vs. robots blockbuster, Pacific Rim, moving from May 10, 2013 to July 12, 2013. Other big films already scheduled to hit in 2013 include Elysium (3/1), Iron Man 3 (5/3) Star Trek sequel (5/17), The Lone Ranger (5/31), After Earth (6/7), Man of Steel (6/14), Robopocalypse (7/3), The Wolverine (7/26) and Robocop (8/9).
Which summer 2013 movie are you looking forward to the most?
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The following information on Letter Type V,
Letter Type V:
Mr. Jonathan G. Katz Secretary
Re: File No. S7-19-03
Dear Mr. Katz:
As a corporate director at Pfizer Inc., I appreciate this opportunity to provide my comments on the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") proposal to require companies to include shareholder nominees for director in company proxy materials under certain circumstances.
I agree with Congress, the SEC and the securities markets that corporate boards and management must hold themselves to the highest standards of corporate governance. However, I am concerned that complicating the director election process by requiring companies to include shareholder nominees in their proxy materials is not good corporate governance and, in fact, will enhance special interest groups' access to boardrooms. In addition, the election of shareholder-nominated candidates could create factions on the board, leading to dissension and delay and jeopardizing the board's ability to function effectively.
I also am concerned that permitting shareholders to place nominees in company proxy materials would undercut the role of the board and its nominating committee in the important process of nominating director candidates. This is inconsistent with New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") listing standards, which strengthen the role and independence of boards of directors and board nominating committees. Moreover, bypassing the nominating committee, which must be composed solely of independent directors under the NYSE listing standards, would diminish board accountability to shareholders. Finally, the proposed rules could turn director elections into proxy contests, substantially disrupting corporate affairs, causing significant costs to the company and all of its shareholders, and dissuading from board service well-qualified individuals who do not want to routinely stand for election in a contested situation.
If the inclusion of shareholder nominees in company proxy materials is to be required, I agree with the SEC's goal of limiting it to a small number of companies who have not been responsive to their shareholders. However, I believe the SEC should allow the corporate governance reforms adopted by Congress, the SEC and the securities markets to be fully implemented before proceeding with additional regulation. With the increased independence of boards of directors, the strengthened role and independence of nominating committees and the enhancement of shareholder-director communications, I believe that the issues that led to calls for shareholder access will be addressed.
Thank you for considering my concerns about the proposed rules.


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Here's a portion of an e-mail that I was forwarded by a friend. I'm cutting out the personal parts so as not to embarrass the sender or original recipient of the e-mail. It confirms that Rob and Amber will be part of TAR7 and it also sounds like the show will include some safari adventures in Botswana.Subject: hilarious travel storyDate: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:35:12 +0000I just joined the contestants and crew of The Amazing Race on the flight from Johannesburg, South Africa to Mumbai, India. I am now an extra on Reality TV!As I checked in for my transfer flight from Botswana there, standing at the ticket counter were two Beautiful People Americans with backpacks, film crews and stressed out looks on their faces. Itcould only be one thing - REALITY TV! I spoke with a sound guy who told me with a wink and a smile that it was a "travel documentary" and when I got into the terminal, there were the rest of the teams with their sound guys and cameramen, waiting for our flight. And among the contestants are Rob andAmber fromSurvivor All-Stars. And here's the inside scoop: EVERYONE HATES THEM!As you may imagine, I became quite friendly with one of the teams (in fact I met the woman while buying a cool bracelet for my nephew in a gift shop - we bonded over the beading! and I sat in front of her husband on the 10 hour flight). Suffice it to say that reality tv is quite hilarious. I don't knowhow they can be as natural as they are with these entourages of cameramen and producers following all over. I actually caught them at a very relaxed phase, after they had spent three days on SAFARI IN BOTSWANA! They are headed up north to a temple near the Himalayas.The people I feel worst for are the film crews who also have to keep all of their stuff in a backpack that they carry with them along with all their equipment while they schlepp after the teams. I got some inside scoop but was sworn to secrecy. Suffice it to say, though, that they were all having a great time and it sounds like they've done some very cool stuff.
tortfeasorette 12 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Got Milk? Spokesperson" 12-24-04, 01:42 AM (EST) "TAR Spotted Filming Last Week" My friends were in Jamaica on vacation last week and spotted TAR filming at a resort there. They saw three teams (at least one was a male/female couple -- not Rob & Amber) do either a roadblock or a detour (involving hitting golf balls to a specified area). They said the third team was far behind the other two (like five hours).
--------------------------------TAR7 finished filming on Friday December 17 in New York according to an acquaintance of mine that saw, talked to, and helped one of the three remaining teams in TAR7.The following email was written Sunday December 19:-------------------------HI AllI know a lot of us are big fans of the Amazing Race, well on Friday I was in New York for a work lunch outing and had an Amazing Race siting! I was by the tree in Rockafeller Center looked to my left and saw 2 guys with the Amazing Race route marker cards and yelled to them. They were 2 younger guys and they had their camera man and everything. While they were running off I was cheering for them and then all of a sudden they came back to me and asked me to help themwith their clue. So I read it with them they had to go to Washington Square Park. I helped them with cab money and they were off. It was the coolest thing ever!! I talked with them a second and they were one of the final 3 teams headed for the last stop.....I called everyone I knew who loves the show and I figured a lot of you love the show too and would appreciate it. Keep an eye out for next seasons lastepisode, I may be on it!!Happy Holidays!-------------------------BTW. There's a spoiler on 11/20 that shows a male/male team at LAX.That seems to be one of the lead teams spotted in Jamaica.
Here is some potential TAR 7 info. I got this email from a friend of mine today. He gave me this info based on an email that he received from friend.On a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami Florida on December 18, 2004. Onboard in coach: a couple dressed in nearly identical light blue outfits with backpacks, videographer (broadcast quality Beta cam), soundman with baffled fishpole mike and separate audio tape machine. In the forward cabin, about a half-dozen production staff types. Upon arrival the couple dashed down the aisle, through the jetway and toward the terminal building, shooting all the time. (The cameraman collided with an oncoming catering cart as they rounded a blind corner)This was the only couple being filmed on this flight, but that makes some sense since, per the published shooting schedule, they would have possibly been down to the final three at that point.
03-03-2005, 12:27 PM #201 vman Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001Location: Vienna, VAPosts: 324 Quote:Originally Posted by hefeTeam Kissy was a surprise to see them doing that. They looked like they might be, but maybe they are just that close, who knows? Actually I do know. I can assure everyone that Bianca and Debbie are NOT lesbians (well, at least Bianca). My wife and I have met Bianca several times (she is good friends with one of my wife's best friends), mostly at parties. Bianca broke up with her boyfriend not long before the race. She is extremely nice, and is a very affectionate person, who hugs everyone. I understand that Bianca was at the official premiere party this week, but next week our mutual friend is throwing a viewing party (Bianca will be there!) and my wife is going. This week, our mutual friend watched it with Bianca's mom, and her mom was aghast at how much they seemed to focus on the hugging and kissing -- which is just how Bianca is with everyone. My wife has offered to give Bianca the address here, knowing what a devoted bunch of Amazing Race fans are here. But you all have to promise to be nice to her -- while I don't know her well, she has always seemed like a really great person. I don't know the story behind some of what they showed last night (why they told the team the wrong pile, for instance.) but I was kind of surprised myself. Also, I have heard a few minor spoilers through this grapevine -- one of which was that she and Rob had a HUGE fight that she was certain would make it into the show, and it looks from the previews that she was right. She has not revealed anything about how she did or the outcome -- even her mother apparently was shocked that they came in first last night!A few other tidbits (spoilerized, just in case) -- Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She got along with all the teams except for Rob and Amber. Amber apparently never ate during the race, and the gay guys started calling her "amber-rexia". The military war
foghillcafe A little spoiler (not much of one, but it does tell us for sure that Puerto-Rico is in the final 2 episodes). This comes from another Brian & Greg interview; the cameramen who was in the crash filmed the LAST TWO EPISODES. That's what the brothers say. We actually saw him in the spoiler picture of Puerto-Rico, which confirms it.I wonder if they consider the last two legs as one of two episode. But, I've got a feeling they meant legs=episodes. They don't know for sure how the episodes will be shown on TV.
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The cloud would allow physicians to share patient data and coordinate care, Marketwired reported. And concerns around data security and patient privacy are dissipating, Marketwired quoted CoreMatrix cofounder Paul Nix as saying. Nix also noted that cloud benefits like on-demand computing and scalable storage are attractive to health care organizations whose existing IT resources can be quickly overwhelmed by industry demands.
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The Backyard Birds of America app contains 115 identification guides of birds found in America. It will help all nature lovers identify birds whilst out and about.
The app is a great reference guide for the novice bird watcher or experienced twitcher, giving detailed information on each bird and a gallery of high quality photos and some great bird sounds and calls. Birds can be marked as spotted, storing location data and date spotted automatically. You can save multiple notes to each spot along with your own photos, to create your own birding journal! These spots can then be shared with your friends on twitter.
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☆ 115 bird guides, listed by A to Z or by Family
☆ 477 photos to accompany these birds, assisting you with identification
☆ 68 songs/calls
☆ Mark birds as spotted
☆ Ability to Tweet your spottings directly from the app
☆ Automatically records all birds spotted including location data and date spotted
☆ Automatically plots all spots on a map, which can be edited
☆ Family screen where by the birds are split down into families
☆ Favorites screen where you can store your favorite birds
☆ Search screen where you can search by either common or latin name
☆ Detailed information on each bird listed
☆ Scroll through pictures with a simple swipe of the finger
☆ Fast, simple to use and regular updates
☆ Once downloaded, no internet connection needed
☆ Make notes for each bird spotted and upload your own photo, like a mini journal, with the ability to upload this to twitter
☆ Coming soon; Ability to backup all spotted information and upload to a new online bird community.
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In 1984 the MIT started X11.
In 1991, XFree86 started out of the X386 server based on the X11 platform.
In 2003, Xorg took over from XFree86 after a license dispute.
In 2008, Wayland was started to overhaul the entire system and keep only what's necessary for the desktop today, using only today's modern infrastructure in a leightweight architecture.
Over all this time, backwards compatibility has been a major issue. But after some decades you need to shed some of that compatibility if you want to remain an ideal solution for today's problems. That's what Linux does and that's what the 2.6 kernel was all about. That's the big advantage of open source.
As everything is open and adjustable, you can change even the underlying infrastructure. You can modify all software to run on top of the new infrastructure. But the nice thing is that usually there's not even need for that, as most software uses libraries which abstract the underlying infrastructure. This means all you need is to adjust a few libraries to make things run on the new infrastructure. The great thing about open source is that you can fix things where they are best fixed.
In this case all you need to do is adjust the GTK and Qt so that the KDE and GNOME desktops, among many other software, can run natively in Wayland. This means a 50 MB run time piece of software with I wish I knew how many millions of lines of code can be replaced by a few thousand lines of code (tiny!) application that really just does what you expect: Mediate between the libraries and the graphics driver.
Now that you know the facts, you do the thinking: If you strip away a layer of millions of lines of code between point A and B, do you think the way will become faster? Do you think there is less to carry? Is it likely that Wayland will use less memory and be faster? Will bugs be easier to fix if there are only a few thousand lines of code? Will it fit better on netbooks, on (Android) phones, on tablets etc?
If you think it's not more than an idea yet, let me tell you: It's already a working in basic steps. If you look at the videos and screenshots posted below, you can see it's already running in several configurations and if you read the mailing list you find out it doesn't seem to be that hard to adapt to other hardware, either. Also Phoronix writes there is already a patch implementing basic /dev/fb support, meaning it can then run on basically any hardware, just without hardware acceleration. This is confirmed in the mailing list.
But I know it's not all perfect and rosy. It will take time to get there. There will probably be a time when speed is lower, suspend less reliable, and above all it may take time for a suitable remote desktop solution to establish. But even that does not seem to be a major problem of the architecture.
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- Why X Is Not Our Ideal Window System
- Life beyond X.
- Why Wayland is good for the future of Ubuntu, Canonical, etc.
- Is Shuttleworth Crazy, Brave, or Smart?
- How Important Is The Wayland Display Server?
- Wayland: A New X Server For Linux
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- The ultimate source of information, the developer former and current mailing list and the git repository.
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Rochester Hills Public Library group hosts holiday home tour
Tickets are now on sale for the Rochester area Holiday Home Tour sponsored by the Friends of the Rochester Hills Public Library.
The home tour takes place from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11.
Watch a report on the historic home tour on today's News at Noon.
Tour participants can visit five homes decorated lavishly for the holidays. Included on the tour are an in-town bungalow, a French Country home, a Victorian, a traditional home and a historic inn. All of the homes are accessible easily by car and have plenty of convenient on-street parking.
As always, the Friends have selected homes that will be of interest to the public both because of their holiday decor and for their unique architectural and/or decorating style. For example, a notable feature in one of the homes is an estate sale roll-top desk converted to a bar; in another, custom woodwork and cabinetry abounds, making use of exotic woods and inlays; and in still another, a vintage hanging lamp and 1947 Gibson stove in red and white are accents for a 40s-style kitchen complete with tin ceiling tiles.
To enhance the holiday mood, entertainment is planned for each home. This includes violinists trained by Colleen King, Lauren Aiello on the harp, Carol Mason and the Classic Winds, a violin duet from the Rochester Symphony and a pianist from the Rochester Conservatory.
The November date gives attendees an opportunity to start their holiday activities before the frantic rush and freezing temperatures set in.
"We made the decision to move the date of the home tour up so that it is almost a month earlier than in past years," says Kathy Dorn, Friends president.
"The idea is to be less 'weather-dependent,' I guess you'd call it."
And, according to Dorn, the idea worked well last year. The group received a great deal of feedback from attendees who were happy to kick off their holiday season a little sooner and be able to enjoy the tour before their schedules became too hectic.
Homes may be visited in any sequence, but visitors are encouraged to plan their day by using the map printed on their ticket. Bringing slippers along is suggested, as all will be asked to remove footwear as a courtesy to homeowners.
The homeowners who have agreed to share their homes with the public for this year's tour include Bill Cotcher, Paul and Heather Crandall, Bill and Jean Kroger, Anne and Leon LaBrecque and Sue and Brad Upton.
Sponsors of the event who help to defray costs, enabling the Friends to donate all proceeds directly to the library, include Adams Cleaners Inc.; Balian Eye Center; Mr. Dick Bates; Dillman & Upton; Flagstar Bank; Fogler's Greenhouse; Gofrank & Mattina PC; the Golden Eagle; Krazy Greek Restaurant; Bill and Jean Kroger; Leader Dogs for the Blind; Lytle Pharmacy; Manny's Liquor & Wine Store; Ron & Theresa Meegan; Millman-Derr Center for Eye Care PC; Modern Art Jewelers; Modetz Funeral Homes; North Hill Marathon; Mark and Pat Pierce; Rochester Elevator; Rochester Hills Tire & Service; The ToffeeStore.com; Heather and George Tweed; Paul VanRaaphorst, DDS; and Yates Cider Mill.
Tickets for the Home Tour are $25 and might be purchased at the Friends Store in the library or at these additional locations: Dillman & Upton, Lytle Pharmacy and Sharon's Hallmark. The payment must be cash only. For additional information, contact the Friends at 248-650-7176.
The public library is located at 500 Olde Towne Road in Rochester.


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After 2 straight loses to start this season, there are two obvious issues with the Vancouver Canucks. They need to drastically improve both their defensive play and their discipline. They need to identifty the problem, address it and FIX IT!
The Canucks are already starting to make a habit out of taking bad penalties and are having a LOT of trouble killing too many penalties.
They are also playing very poor team defense. Not only are the defencemen themselves not up to speed yet, but the defensive efforts of the forwards needs to improve quickly. Poor backchecking and lackluster efforts have led to a few goals against already.
First and foremost, with all the depth that the Canucks have on defense, some of the players better start improving their play quickly. Shane O'Brien is the leading candidate to be replaced. He has been undisciplined (as usual) and has looked slow and out of place in these two games. Brad Lukowich would be a welcome steady hand to replace him.
Furthermore, it's time to start looking at Rick Bowness. He's the defensive coach and has failed miserably to lead his troops effectively. With the skill and depth that the Canucks have on defense, their sub-par play thus far simply should not be happening.
Somebody has to be culpable for a general failure on defense, and you need to start looking at the shepherd instead of blaming every sheep in the flock.
If this is how the Canucks road games are going to turn out, it's going to a long few months for Canucks when the team plays 14 in a row away from GM Place. There's no time to try to wait this out. They need to fix it now.


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Norbar Torque Tools has introduced its HandtorqueTM HT-92 and HandtorqueTM HT-119.
Ideal for bolt tightening in confined spaces such as wind turbine towers, both the HT-92 and the HT-119 feature new materials and better traceability, the company explains, adding that they are the newest additions to its new Compact Series of Handtorque Multipliers.
Key features of the multipliers include a stainless-steel body, a calibration certificate, compact dimensions, lower weight and higher torque output.
In comparison to the closest existing model from Norbar's current range, the HT-30, the HT-92 is smaller in diameter (92 mm vs. 108 mm), lighter (5.4 kg vs. 7 kg) and has a 1000 N.m higher torque output, at 4000 N.m. In addition, the HT-119 with fitted reaction plate is 3.2 kg lighter than the HT60, the closest model in the existing Norbar range, but has a 1000 N.m higher torque output, at 7000 N.m.


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People Leaving South Dakota Countryside for Urban Centers
RAPID CITY - New 2012 census estimates confirm that people are leaving the South Dakota countryside to live in the urban centers of Sioux Falls and Rapid City.
Gregory County Commission Chairman Dennis Vedralin tells the Rapid City Journal that it's an alarming trend that can lead to a shortage of retail options, limited access to professional services and the deterioration of roads.
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 22 of the state's 66 counties are shrinking in population. The data is consistent with the rest of rural America, where deaths now exceed births in one in three counties.
Vedralin says the city of Gregory used to have all the car dealerships, implement dealers and grocery stores, but it lost all of them.
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solvess wrote:because there special weapons if you had a rocket gun would you get infinite rockets? guns run on normal bullets if you wanted to change that it would need to be special ammo.
........Or if you were going by rules, you could just make the strength ridiculously high, which is much simpler and easier to keep track of.


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ESCONDIDO, Calif. — A north San Diego suburb's planning commission on Tuesday ratified its rejection of a proposed 96-bed shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children who are arrested by the Border Patrol, while the American Civil Liberties Union said it was mulling a legal challenge.
About 200 people packed into City Hall chambers, and a large, overflow crowd cheered and jeered below an outdoor speaker as Escondido commissioners heard impassioned pleas, mostly from people urging them to reconsider.
"Shame on you!" members of the crowd shouted after the panel voted 6-0 to uphold its decision from last month.
The proposal has sparked the latest controversy over immigration in Escondido, a city of 150,000 that has been rocked during the last decade by disagreement over how to treat people who are in the country illegally.
The audience largely supported the proposal, a contrast from last month's sharply divided crowd when the outcome was less certain. Shelter supporters waved signs that read, "Migrants' Lives Matter" and "Don't Be Afraid of the Children."
The commissioners held no discussion among themselves after nearly three hours of public comment. Anyone can appeal to the City Council, setting up another likely showdown in August.
David Loy, legal director of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, said at a news conference earlier Tuesday that Escondido may be violating state and federal fair-housing laws against discrimination. Southwest Key Programs, the nonprofit group that would operate the shelter, sent representatives to the news conference and said it was being advised by the ACLU.
Southwest Key contracts with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate child-immigrant shelters across the country, including a temporary facility at Naval Base Ventura County, north of Los Angeles.
Alexia Rodriguez, Southwest Key's vice president of immigrant children's services and legal counsel, said the San Antonio-based group was unaware of Escondido's fraught history with illegal immigration when it did a nationwide search for shelter space in response to a surge of illegal crossings by unaccompanied children from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The group identified several sites in Escondido before settling on a nursing home that closed last year.
The ACLU's Loy said traffic and other concerns raised about the proposed shelter didn't prevent the city from allowing the nursing home to operate.
Joyce Masterson, the city's director of economic development and community relations, said the ACLU has not told the city of any plans for legal action when asked to comment. The city complied with the ACLU's requests for information on the topic, Masterson said.
Escondido, whose population is 49 percent Latino, has repeatedly embroiled itself in immigration debates since 2006, when the City Council voted to require landlords to check tenants' immigration status. A federal judge blocked the ordinance, which never took effect.


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Charlize Theron: Cinema For Peace Gala!
Charlize Theron is pure elegance while attending the 2013 Cinema For Peace Gala during the 2013 Berlinale International Film Festival held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Saturday (February 9) in Berlin, Germany.
The 37-year-old actress was spotted chatting with reporters on the red carpet at the event, which "highlights a selection of cinematic work in order to create a platform for peace and tolerance, while also raising significant funds for charity."
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Charlize Theron
Cinema For Peace "aims to promote peace and international understanding through the medium of film."
FYI: Charlize is wearing a Gucci dress and clutch, Jimmy Choo shoes, and Tiffany & Co jewels.
15+ pictures inside of Charlize Theron attending the Cinema for Peace Gala…