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By Bertram de Souza (Contact)
Published March 8, 2009
It was a story that didn't get much play, but it certainly should be of interest to all workers in the private sector — those whose pensions have been frozen or even ended, and whose 401K plans have lost more than 30 percent of their value in the past year.
The piece appeared last week on the website Bloomberg.com and was written by reporter David Evans. It carried the headline, "Hidden Pension Fiasco May Foment Another $1 Trillion Bailout."
The following paragraphs sum up what's going on:
"With stock market losses this year, public pensions in the U.S. are now underfunded by more than $1 trillion.
"That lack of funds explains why dozens of retirement plans in the U.S. have issued more than $50 billion in pension obligation bonds during the past 25 years — more than half of them since 1997 — public records show.
"The quick fix for pension funds becomes a future albatross for taxpayers."
Here's a question that every private sector taxpayer should ask: Why should I, whose pensions and retirement plans and even Social Security earnings are in jeopardy, baliout out the pension plans for public employees?
Until the federal government steps forward and agrees to make every private sector pension and retirement plan whole, the public employees can go pound salt. Let them settle for less than they anticipated. That's the nature of today's economy.
And, given that most of the retirement benefits paid to public retirees are unjustified considering the service they have rendered while on the job, these folks have been living high off the hog for too long.
It's time they faced reality.
It's inevitable that a joke system like the public sector has that rapes the taxpayers will eventually need to be fixed. Rolling it into the SS should be the fix. But the public employees will make a fuss about losing that golden trough benefit. Boardman's employees will most likely complain the loudest!
Public employees can retire early, receive their pension and go to work elsewhere without any penalties. Meanwhile, if you are on S.S., and you retire early, you are limited on the amount you can earn if you take another job.
Beware of a man with a gleam in his eye. It may just be the sun shining through the hole in his head.
"And, given that most of the retirement benefits paid to public retirees are unjustified considering the service they have rendered while on the job, these folks have been living high off the hog for too long."
Wow, generalize much Bert? Were you denied a public service job somewhere along the line?
The Bloomberg article on public pensions falls into some of the same traps as many other pension-related critiques: ignoring important countervailing evidence; failing to place the size and scope of public pension issues into their proper context; and mistakenly applying a few bad examples to the entire public pension community.
No, Bert, it's time YOU faced reality. Why don't you give back your pay, and give back your benefits? You're very vocal in your complaints against public employees, yet you're remarkably quiet about your own wages, perks and benefits. The Vindy is a union shop, no? It's well known that you're a scab, and crossed the picket lines during the Vindy's last strike. So rather than be exposed as a hypocrite, you do routinely refuse any and all raises the bad old union generates, and you refuse to take any benefits negotiated by the union, don't you?
The Vindy is losing money, because the print media in general is dying, and here in the Mahoning Valley it's almost dead. Here's your chance to practice what you preach. If anyone's wages, benefits, and retirement are unjustified, it's yours. What good do you do? What service do you provide, or how do you better the world around you?
Yes, let's face reality. You dislike public employees, and despise their unions. Everyone gets that. Yet when your own union negotiates a raise, you step up and take yours, don't you?
I suggest Robert you go to Google and type in PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM and click on the NEWS tab and then come back and tell us how great of shape public retirement systems are in!
Robert, the tsunami coming to the various government pension plans is only starting. You can't allow people to retire in their 50's and expect the taxpayers to fund their ridiculous pensions and health care for 30-40 years. Sometimes funding it for more time than they actually worked! The taxpayers simply will not fund it.


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Um, but isn't this the weekend that a certain pumpkin king takes over Christmas in 3-D?
darn. choices, choices.
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One of the most popular programs at the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, the SUPER 8 project is a guarantee that youll see clever, sexy, and very unique local films. Hostess with the mostest Rebecca M. Davis returns to keep the films rolling and the free prizes flowing. This year, ten new filmmakers have accepted our challenge to make a three-minute short film in three weeks, with no editing equipment, only one roll of film, and a randomly assigned theme. Since this is our twelfth festival (which opens on the 12th of the month), we thought it appropriate to have the word Dozen as their theme. For inspiration, perhaps the filmmakers will look to things that come in twelves: eggs, hours, zodiac signs or, hmm, inches? Come see who measures up and youll be sure to get a dozen good times.
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You guys are both nuts.
Will--Nightmare doesn't open until tomorrow! (If you're that excited, you can see it in the suburbs at 11:59 pm, but you could still make it to Parting Glances beforehand.)
Oh, cool. But I might be drunk after Bill Sherman's party, and I wouldn't want that to happen. You know how we whites get pulled over for DWW (Driving While White) ...
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Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D? Where should I look for more info? Thanks and sorry I'm lazy
Parting Glances is one of my favorite gay films of all time, and I've seen many of them, good and bad. One of the original cute young stars, now 20 years older, will be doing a Q&A after the show tonight, which should be interesting.
@5: Why, on this very website! Here are tomorrow's times.
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I've been following the latest developments with server-side JavaScript - especially Node.js - and wondering if there is any possibility of using such an approach to develop a Google App Engine web application - either separately from or in combination with Python or Java?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
Is it possible to develop a Google App Engine web app using Node.js or some other server side JavaScript approach?
node.js uses an event-loop model which is not really a good fit with the current App Engine design.
However, there are several projects that bring JavaScript to App Engine. Check out App Engine issue 35 to read about some of the solutions. The highlights are: Rhino, Rhino For Webapps, if you like Python check out AppengineJS. I have also heard that RingoJS might be worth looking into.
Also you might want to check out ApeJS. A little framework I wrote similar to AppengineJS but more minimalist.
Tornado can run on app engine and is similar to node.js but using python, and has a nice yield approach too. But there are limitations with tornado's use on app engine that might defeat the object of using it for your project. See tornado on github for more info I use both but node.js with connect middelware and express.js to make node easier to use for simple web apps.
Now the best option is to use Google Compute Engine and Datastore > link here
You can use Google Compute Engine to host your node.js app and use google-api-nodejs-client to connect to the datastore:
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While not the same as pure app engine (eg. manual scaling and currently in alpha status), this is now possible using Appengine Managed VMs.
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The Exterminating Angels
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- Release Date: Mar 7, 2007
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Like "Secret Things," the film is ultimately infuriating, subtle, self-indulgent, astute and disingenuous, which makes for great -- if divisive -- conversation.
The problem with Exterminating Angels is that its explanatory side overwhelms its playfully perverse side.
A luminous picture, beautifully made, loaded with symbolism and mystical-religious imagery, about an artist's self-destructive quest for an unreachable grail. It's also a deliberately prurient spectacle designed to be arousing and troubling -- most viewers, I imagine, will have both reactions at various times (and maybe at the same time).
Brisseau trains his deft camera on the crescendo of female sexual pleasure and how women can heighten the intensity of already blissful sensations via transgressive flourishes. If exiting viewers could all be asked "Was it good for you?" the likely answer is "Yes."
One of Mr. Brisseau's subjects is the volatility of desire, the way the path of erotic curiosity can swerve from satisfaction into recrimination and confusion. A porno-philosopher in the venerable French tradition, he blends a frank appeal to the audience's nether regions with some teasing attention to its mind.
Alternately provocative and highly silly, the film overcomes its more ludicrous aspects through its glossy visual style, its frequent doses of humor and the obvious associations it evokes to its creator's real-life experiences.
Brisseau obviously aims to shock - and he does. Now shocking is A-OK with me - but only if it's part of a something bigger. Exterminating Angels is beautifully lensed and acted, but it lacks substance.
The new movie, for all its huffing and puffing, explores very little, even if some of it is sexy in a Howard Stern-meets-"9 1?2Weeks" way.
Leave it to the French to take the joy back out of sex. The high-minded erotic drama Exterminating Angels has heat but little light; it speaks of pleasure while treating it as a dirty word. The cast huffs and puffs but the exercise, sadly, remains academic.
The film -- buoyed by its cast of excellent actors -- loses its momentum in the final half-hour when it starts to take itself too seriously.
As ambitious as this alleged art film may appear - the Bunuelian title proves to be more of a starting point than a true allusion - it lacks any introspection to illuminate the erotic subject matter. (Think Michael Bay attempting to remake "Y Tu Mama Tambien.")
Exterminating Angels is meant as an autocritique--and yet the director can't get past his notion of himself as a fearlessly transgressive artist-hero, a martyr to the limitations of male gaze.
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I played around with it and here is what I came up with, I have not coded this, this is just a simple sketch done in Netscape's Composer: http://www.infolaunch.com/mod_status_demo2.html I tried to make it a compact, and get the important information to the top and the details twards the bottom. This is just another idea, if you have any ideas let me know. Chris Jie Gao wrote: > > Chris Ewert wrote: > > > > > > Thats a really good idea. I am not 100% finished, I have to clean up the code > > > before I would do that unless someone else would do that... I also wrote the > > > code for 1.3.3's version, so I have to make sure it will work well with 1.3.4, > > > but I figured I would wait until I heard what you though. I have a demo page > > > at: > > > > > > http://www.infolaunch.com/mod_status_demo.html > > As a user, I must say I'd prefer to see a more compact display (like > the old one). The proposed new one requires more scrolling (if you have > a long list, this would be the last thing you would want to add), and > doesn't really give you more information; the display font is also > one-size smaller than the setting of the user's browser. > > Would be nice to see the grey background go. > > Thanks, > > Jie -- .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. Chris Ewert email@example.com Web Page: http://www.geocities.com/~radio_1/ Need Web Space? Visit InfoLaunch (my ISP): http://www.infolaunch.com .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:.
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I've been meaning to start one of these threads for a while. I'm hoping this will give me some motivation to draw more.
this is an environment concept i did for a friend over on gameartisans for the unearthly challenge.
if you only do 2d stuff for the unearthly challenge you can do more then one, so i did this environment concept for another friend.
this is my comicon challenge entry, for that contest you had to take an action hero and put him in a different time period. so i chose to do an old west version of the Punisher, good fun it was.
this is just a quick redesign sketch of Lord Raptor from Dark Stalkers
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Our food drive for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina's "Stop Summer Hunger" program ends today. Each week throughout our FM Stops Hunger collection, we have highlighted an office that delivered the most in donations for the previous week.
This week, we tip are hats to our Fonville Morisey Croasdaile office in Durham for their delivery of 474lbs of donations to the Food Bank's Durham Branch. That's just about 400 summer meals provided to the children in our communities who don't otherwise get at least one or two hot nutritious meals a day thanks to the fact that school is still out (for many on the traditional school calendar).
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Nearly all medical schools require applicants to take a standardized test called the Medical College Aptitude Test. The structure of the test has just changed; it now has four components examining: biology/biochemistry, chemistry/physics, verbal reasoning, and the psychological, social and biological basis of behavior. The new test was given for the first time in spring of 2015 we have little experience with it. Although our courses are not specifically designed with the MCAT in mind our students have performed well in the past and we expect this to continue in the future. Because the test is rigorous it is important that students are challenged in their coursework and we feel that our courses are challenging and demand that students work hard to develop understanding. It is important that pre-medical students not try to choose the easiest line through college; challenging courses, not just in the obvious areas tested on the MCATs, are important in developing the skills needed to perform well on the exam.
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Grand Theft Auto V Trailer 1 Breakdown
I have just finished my extensive breakdown of Trailer 1, I have taken shots of each and every scene in the game, and tried to pick out as much as I can, there are a total of 49 images split across 5 pages (don't worry, most of the room is taken up by the screen shots, I haven't wrote that much)
I thought it would be nice to try to consolidate everything in to one easy to read thing, but it turned out it would be too massive so I had to split it up, unfortunately I have nowhere to host this paginated, so I will just post the 5 image links below.
Each image is approximately 5MB (you were warned)
If there is anything significant missing, let me know and i'll try to add to it.
Click here for Page 1
Click here for Page 2
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Click here for Page 5
Hope you like it, constructive criticism is welcome.
Hey, you did a pretty alright job man. I've only looked at the first one so far but I'll be sure check the others out now.
Edit: Just got done checking them all out, you noticed/mentioned/hinted at quite a few good things. Very nice analysis.
Excellent work my man! This helps me out a lot. I have tough time trying to watch the trailer over here with the internet being unreliable.
Great job, good detail. Thanks a lot for this.
You've pointed out quite a few things I missed myself. Even after watching it a few times.
This is pretty cool, man. Great job. :)
EDIT: Also. Important note is that you're very reasonable with your speculations and not over-the-top.
I can never seem to catch all the small details in GTA trailers, so thanks for sharing :D
Love the breakdown.
as far as the "gangasta"
I'm saying drug dealer, and that he's ready to sell the guy who appears straight drugs, and he give him a subtle hand gesutre saying, not now, or indicating that he is not going to be buying drugs right then.
see: http://www.enquirer.com/editions/200...oc1ashirt.html
drug dealers wear plain white t-shirts.
Very good job man
Very nice analysis. There are several spelling errors, but other than that, excellent work.
I never knew that hanging the shoes in the wires was a symbol of respect. I know in the suburbs kids used to do it when they got new shoes. Great job on pointing out the little details on this trailer, I really enjoyed that.
Great work.
The bridge in Part 1 is likely the Vincent Thomas Bridge.
It also should be noted that Venice Beach is roughly 30 minutes from downtown LA.
Many other places like the Tehachapi wind farms (with the turbines) is 1-2 hours outside.
So point being, this isn't "just LA". They're doing any and all surrounding areas + countryside.
On a personal note: I get ridiculously nerded out about about the reactive AI and dynamic particle effects. The wind effect on the tarps when the dude puts the top down on the convertible is sick...
It also bears pointing out that screens 7/8 from Part 2 are the same location as the last screen from Part 4, from the opposite direction, as you can see the Tequi La La sign just above and to the right of the man in colorful clothes at 0:35.
Thanks guys, i'm glad you like it, and it was useful.
Excellent work on this, kudos to you for this =)
This analyse is the best. Thanks alot for this.
It was a real interesting read.
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On June 25, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court decided American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, Inc., No. 13-461, holding that Aereo violates the Copyright Act by streaming near-live copyrighted television programming to subscribers over the Internet.
Aereo offers its subscribers access to antennas and servers that record live broadcast TV and stream it to subscribers over the Internet. The subscriber chooses the show he or she wishes to view, and when the broadcast of that show begins, Aereo's system assigns an antenna to record it exclusively for that subscriber. As it records, the system saves a digital copy of the show exclusively for that subscriber and streams the show to the subscriber from that copy, with a delay of at most a few minutes from the live broadcast. This process is duplicated for other subscribers who wish to view the same show.
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The Supreme Court reversed by a 6-3 vote and held that Aereo does violate the copyright holders' exclusive transmission rights. The Court noted that in the 1970s Congress amended the Copyright Act to "make clear that an entity that acts like a [cable TV] system itself performs" the programming it transmits. Although Aereo does not record or transmit a program except at the specific request of a subscriber, the Court held that "this sole technological difference between Aereo and traditional cable companies does not make a critical difference here," in light of "the many similarities between Aereo and cable companies." The Court further held that Aereo's transmissions are "to the public" because "an entity may transmit a performance through one or several transmissions," and so "when Aereo streams the same television program to multiple subscribers, it 'transmits a performance' to all of them." The Court noted that its holding does not extend to the transmission of performances to "owners or possessors of the underlying works," and it stated that "questions involving cloud computing, remote storage DVRs and other novel issues…should await a case in which they are squarely presented."
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Its residents want more Dunedin households to get decorating.
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Okay, so normally I can quickly determine what the issue is when items "drop" or some such thing in a layout. Positioning is something I'm usually great with.
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Due to lack of snow all Mary Jane and many WP lifts and trails were closed. That was disappointing. Main black diamond trails around Zephyr Express area had multiple icy areas despite of very few skiers and snowboarders that day (Monday).
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We have been guests at the Leonardo Plaza Hotel for many years during Yom Kippur and Succoth holidays with our grandchildren. Needless to say we had a wonderful and enjoyable time and would like to compliment the staff, especially Ilan Ben Hakoon (Hotel Manager), Yosef (Maitre d), Roberta (Reservations Manager), Rogers (Controller), Osman and Chodesh (Chef).
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Team to face Manure?
I'm really surprised by how quiet it is on here today. Have not had a chance to get on until now, but see very little has been posted.
It would be hard to know that we have a game against the mancs in less than 24 hours. Normally the board would be swarmed with some trying to have a little banter and others just trying weakly to wind us up. But all we've had is a bit of clucking from someone talking about men in white sheets.
Has the City result shut them up, or is there a real fear that Utd are about to fall out of yet another cup? I did take a look at the Utd board, but that seems dead also, with just a few of them staring at their navels worried about who is fit and who is not.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
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We want Kuyt and Gerrard featured prominently , and despite opinions to the otherwise we want Bellamy to play most of this match. I'd start him and give him as much of the ninety minutes as he desires. Just this fan's opinion.
I suspect that both side's supporters are just a touch nervously apprehensive. Isn't football grand. I love it. ( Thus the lack of comments , I'm guessing ).
As with 99% of true Liverpool supporters I hope that no fans take verbal pot shots at the wee hypocrite evra , but I reckon time will tell. All the FA did with their heavy-handed-to-the-point-of-being-owned-by-SAF ridiculous eight match suspension is to make themselves look rather one-sided and foolish. And now , given that they can view a tape of evra saying the same exact words that he got Luis Suarez suspended for........one hopes that the FA are rightly embarrassed. So they should be.
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A collections cabinet in the shape of the periodic table.
Every chemist (and arguably every scientist, and arguably everyone else in the world), whether amateur or professional, should have an elements collection. Theodore Gray has written eloquently about the hows and wherefores of collecting the chemical elements, so I won't belabor the point here other than to say: chemistry has been called the central science, and arguably, chemistry's greatest achievement has been the discovery of the chemical elements, the realization of the periodicity of their properties and its implications for atomic structure, and the isolation of each of those elements in its pure or "standard" state. Collecting the individual elements lets you participate in that incredible story in a way that no amount of book-learnin' ever will.
When I first started collecting elements six years ago, as an undergraduate chemist, I stuffed them into vials in a shoebox on the top shelf of my closet. As my collection grew, I began to consider the problem of properly storing and displaying them. It's an ongoing problem for any element collector. Many elements, in their standard states, are rare, reactive, radioactive, or some combination of the three. I don't claim to have solved all the problems associated with collecting the elements, and would be the first to admit that there are some elements my collection will almost certainly never contain. But what I have learned is this: generally speaking, smaller is better. Smaller element samples are cheaper, and in the case of reactive or radioactive elements, less hazardous. I very much admire Theo Gray's Periodic Table Table, but for my purposes, it's much too big to be practical.
About two years ago, it first occurred to me that what I wanted to display my elements was something like a spice rack, but in the shape of the periodic table. I looked around online for a suitable commercial product and couldn't find one at a reasonable price that met my expectations. So I decided to build my own. This article is about how I did it. The finished cabinet measures 24×9.5×1.1″, but I think when I do it again, I'll make it only 3/4″ thick (see below).
Now, some of you may protest that this project amounts to "1. Have a bunch of parts laser cut. 2. Glue them together." A fair criticism. But this is just a prototype really, and there are lots of ways to skin a cat. If you don't have access to and/or don't want to pay for laser-cutting services, there are other ways to make these parts, and I've provided the plans and critical dimensions. If you have the tools and the skills, for instance, it would be straightforward to make the pieces from wood, and I've included some thoughts on how it might be done below. And, as always, if you have suggestions about how to do this cheaper or better, by all means leave me a comment.
My laser-cut acrylic came with the protective covering still applied. This needs to be removed before gluing. It is not difficult to peel off with the fingers.
As I said, there was a bit of wiggle in my pieces when they slot together, which creates the possibility of "rack" in the finished cabinet. So after dry assembly, take a moment to check one corner of the cabinet against a square. It only has to be "eyeball" square, so I used the nearest handy 90-degree corner. A real carpenter's or machinist's square is naturally a better choice.
The openings in the finished cabinet are 1.0625" square, which is the perfect size to accept the small lucite magnifying boxes, shown above, commonly used to display insect and mineral specimens. These are pricey--you're doing well if you can pay less than $1 apiece--but look absolutely great. They can be sealed with acrylic cement or, as I prefer, with a loop of scotch tape around the edge. If you want to go this route, I recommend making the 3/4" deep cabinet instead of the 1.1" deep cabinet shown here. The bug boxes are only about 7/8" deep and they can be difficult to remove from the deeper cabinet.
This cabinet only includes s, p, and d-blocks. Eventually I'm going to design a separate f-block cabinet for the lanthanides and actinides, which I will post on Thingiverse. Unless somebody else beats me to it!


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1. Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg were spotted filming The End of the Tour, the forthcoming biopic based on David Lipsky's Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, at The Mall of America.
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We have a fancy new smartphone to show you guys this afternoon. This weekend we're getting our first look at a brand new prototype smartphone from LG that has our interest piqued. As usual, the always excellent leakster @evleaks has just revealed the device you see below, and there are signs this could be an Optimus G2, or even an LG Nexus 5.
At first we weren't sure what to think, but now we've had a few moments to toss around ideas our guess would be an Optimus G2. The follow-up to their popular device last year which we've thoroughly reviewed. Then we can't forget that they've already released the Optimus G Pro. So why would they also release an Optimus G2, it just doesn't fully make sense, even though we've seen multiple leaks suggesting an Optimus G2 is in the works.
LG's latest devices have joined Samsung with the idea of having a dedicated hardware home button, something we're not fans of. However, this new device being seen today seems to be taking Google's approach and there's no buttons at all. No hardware, and certainly no capacitive touch buttons of old. Could this have all on-screen navigation? Just like a Nexus or recent Motorola phones? Looks to be that way.
The display is quite large, and @evleaks later updated and said a few believe it to be a 5.5-inch display, just like the Optimus G Pro. If this is indeed a Nexus I'm hoping for something a little smaller, as 5.5-inches is just too big for the mass public if you ask us. Speaking of the display. It appears to curve or wrap slightly around the edges, just like the Nexus 4 and Optimus G, which also has us a bit curious. Oh, and the Optimus G from last year was the base design behind the Nexus 4, so this could either or, we're not sure.
The top and bottom are curved like a Nexus, but that earpiece certainly doesn't look like anything we've seen before. We've heard multiple tips that the next Nexus will again be made by LG, so we'll have to wait and see. Tips regarding the Optimus G2 have stated a 1080p display, and it will be the first smartphone powered by Qualcomm's new 2.3 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 series CPU. Either way we'd like to know more, and will update the moment we get additional details.
Optimus G2, Nexus 5, or something else. What do you think?


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On 02/22/13 01:45, Eric Blake wrote:
On 02/21/2013 02:04 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:On 02/19/13 13:35, Jiri Denemark wrote:This flag may be used with migration APIs to request compression of migration data. --- include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in | 1 + tools/virsh-domain.c | 8 ++++++++ tools/virsh.pod | 6 ++++-- 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in index ad30cd0..eda9e12 100644 --- a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in +++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in @@ -1187,6 +1187,7 @@ typedef enum { * when supported */ VIR_MIGRATE_UNSAFE = (1 << 9), /* force migration even if it is considered unsafe */ VIR_MIGRATE_OFFLINE = (1 << 10), /* offline migrate */ + VIR_MIGRATE_COMPRESSED = (1 << 11), /* compress data during migration */I'm just wondering if this is enough future proof if somebody invents other migration compression methods. Well but that's something our future selves will need to worry about. ACK (unless somebody else speaks until I'm finished)I guess there are use cases where compression helps, and use cases where it costs more memory and actually slows things down to turn on, so requiring the user to pass the new option in order to use compression makes sense. However, I'm wondering if we need further control, such as the ability to control the side of the source's xbzrle cache. I haven't checked if later in the series you add a counterpart to migrate-setspeed that allows modifying compression cache size.
Patch 10/14 adds APIs that allow to control the xbzrle cache. If the cache is small enough, the xbzrle compression is effectively disabled.
As the compression is applied only on pages that became dirty during live migration and it doesn't use any CPU heavy algorithm, this shouldn't slow things down.


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Poem: Lateralis
This is the night. This is the end of one hope, the dawn of another . This is the beginning of all that may yet be. This is solitude. This is moonlight. This is the darkness. Once, when I was old enough to dream, but too young to stay upon the ground, I flew. Now, I am old enough to root myself in fear and doubt, and realism and logic, but too young to soar again.
My chance of paradise left me one cold February night, whereupon I chanced to make my dreams true. I held her in my arms, our embrace as timeless as forever. But it was not to last. For in my thoughts were those of love, ones I perchance had grown to show to my heart, and to her. But all too soon. Love left me that night, her kiss grew cold.
The distance, that grew between our once laughing hearts, hurt me. I ran. I ran far from the world and all i't's wretched beauty, until I could run no more. Awash in a haze of whiskey and broken dreams, I fell upon the shore one night, where all the stars could see me.
There I promised, as I do now, never to give up the hope, that one day, upon a dreaming star, She will return. Too seldom in life are there happy endings. I wish and pray, that my life will be granted one. To hold her in my arms again, safe in the knowledge that she will not leave, is perchance too much to dream. But when I dream, I dream for the stars.
Nought but two nights have passed, since I set in motion my everlasting dream. Now inside my heart burns a hope and desire, that I can reclaim a princess, an angel, a girl. I am but a man, but men will do all when needs must. So here, in the comfort of home, I write of all that shall be. In Dreams. In Darkness. And in the Hopes of all Time.
I have grown, past all pain, through endless nights and tears without consequence. Too close have I come before to what could end it all, to now slip beyond mortality. In the echoes of morning dew, I have wept. I have shed. I have loved. In timeless days, in unforgiving nights, I have prayed, I have hurt, I have grown.
Forever more shall I feel in love with being in love. A chance to render myself in stars and moonlight, a chance to let the world notice what it passes by. Simplicity founded in this grey facade of emotion. Complexity barren, through the ghosts and heroes that fall to love. Neither shall become me.
Memories of diary read forgiveness, fed upon to children's stories, are a tool left to me. Happiness. Embrace. Beginning. There is no end to remember, merely seperation. There are pains to render, better left forgotten. Time has reached its passing, and soon the memory will turn, from whereupon I hurt, to whereupon I learn, of all that she may be needing, for all she may yet feel.
I am a man. I am a nothing, floating through the night. I am a artist, working words in several shades of emotion. I am a dreamer. There is nothing I cannot fathom. In dreams, are all I may need. In life, is all that can be. Both are precious. Life and dream, forever more entwined in hope and promise, the rights of passage to the end of this growth, and the beginning of the evermore.
Thank you for reading.
Whoa, heavy. I think you and DE are going to get along real well. Oh, and welcome to the forums, BTW.
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Good evening.
The previously posted poem is my manifest, for live, romance and the essence of being. As time is of the essence, I shall post here when I can, of my thoughts, musings and failings.
I look forward to knowing all of you.
The night is long, it is hard, and we walk the path alone. The end is the day, something I must see again, if only to bid all that was a final, wonderful goodbye.
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Chouest, Bollinger join lawsuit against drilling ban
Published: Friday, June 11, 2010 at 10:10 a.m.
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NEW ORLEANS — Two Louisiana companies have joined a lawsuit aimed at nullifying the six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
The suit, which names the federal government as defendant, was filed this week by Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc., a vessel service company that says it expects costly losses from the moratorium.
Hornbeck's suit claims the government illegally ordered the moratorium, which many in the petroleum industry expect to stifle deepwater drilling.
Late Wednesday, Bollinger Shipyards Inc. and several offshore services companies controlled by the family of Gary Chouest joined the suit.
Chouest is nearing completion of a deal to buy the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA.
A hearing is set July 28 in U.S. District Court in New Orleans.
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Hi Everett,
I am using your plugin as a solution for basic projects functionality.
I have create a custom post type called "my_projects" which will contain details about the individual projects.
Now I am trying to display the list of all the individual projects in a page (something like All Projects Directory). For which I have created another custom post type "List of Projects" and have made "my_projects" as a repeatable custom field attached to "List of Projects". While I can display the list , but I am not able to display some associated custom fields of "my_project" in the All Project Directory. I scanned the entire forum and used all possible versions of get_post function and other ideas as mentioned, without any success. Could you please advice?
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Penn State football coach Joe Paterno "in no way or shape or form ever suspected that Jerry Sandusky was a child predator," his son Jay Paterno said Thursday in an interview with CBS News.
The elder Paterno died this year shortly after allegations came to light that Sandusky, an assistant coach, had sexually abused dozens of young boys and that Penn State officials had concealed the allegations.
Speaking to Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, Jay Paterno noted that his father said late in life that -- with the benefit of hindsight -- he wished he had done more, but that he did not know what Sandusky had done and did not interfere with any investigations.


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The Pathogenesis, Epidemiology and Management of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis
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Oral glucocorticoids (GCs) are frequently used in the treatment of inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis or asthma. They have adverse skeletal effects, primarily through reductions in bone formation and osteocyte apoptosis. Several findings indicate that changes in the quality of bone may significantly contribute to the increased risk of fracture and that loss of BMD only partially explains the increased risk of fracture in oral GC users. Epidemiological studies have found that the increases in the risk of fracture in oral GC users are dose dependent and occur within three months of starting GC therapy. Daily doses of >2.5 mg prednisone equivalent have been associated with increases in the risk of fractures and randomised studies reported adverse skeletal effects with daily doses as low as 5 mg. After discontinuation of GC treatment, the risk of fracture may reduce towards baseline levels unless patients previously used high cumulative doses of oral GCs. Users of inhaled GCs have also an increased risk of fracture, especially at higher doses. But it is likely that this excess risk is related to the severity of the underlying respiratory disease, rather than to the inhaled GC therapy. It has been recommended that patients who start on oral GC therapy should receive calcium and vitamin D supplementation. Patients with a higher risk of fracture should also receive a bisphosphonate.
KeywordsGlucocorticoids Corticosteroids Osteoporosis Fracture Iatrogenic disease
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Another Kardashian Girl has taken a professional athlete off the market. On Wednesday, Kim Kardashian, 30, confirmed her engagement to basketball beau of six months Kris Humphries, 26. And TMZ.com […] Continue reading Kim Kardashian Engagement Ring Valued At $2 Million & Cost More Than Beverly Hills Home
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Executives from Google and Facebook are holding "low level talks" with Twitter about buying the messaging service for between $8 million and $10 million, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Though the talks are yet to yield any concrete results, the high valuation of the company was a point of surprise since Twitter lost money […] Continue reading Twitter valued at up to $10 bn: Report
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Seeking Set-Top Nirvana
Many companies see the television set top as the next battleground for delivering digital content. These vendors want to provide a variety of functions, including digital television, video on demand, program guides, program recording, web access, e-mail, shopping and games. However, there is no clear picture of which combination of functions will succeed. Today, Linux is a minor player in this market but could become more popular, depending on how the market develops.
The key players on the set top are the cable and satellite TV providers. They are currently replacing their "dumb" decoder boxes with interactive set-top boxes (STBs) at a rate of one million units per month. Most of the initial deployment has been in Europe, but the United States is beginning to ramp as well. For example, Adelphia Communications plans to upgrade more than 25% of its 5.5 million subscribers by the end of 2001. These STBs provide shopping, e-mail, web access and other interactive services, along with standard TV programming. TV providers are eager to roll out these new units to reap an expected bonanza of new service revenues. Forrester Research estimates that interactive TV services will generate as much as nine billion dollars (US) in annual revenue by 2004.
To deliver these services, STBs rely on a variety of software customized to display video and web pages on a television set. Some use middleware, such as Liberate or OpenTV, running on top of a simple real-time operating system (RTOS). Others use complete STB operating systems like Microsoft TV (based on Windows CE) and PowerTV. Service providers can build their own applications on top of these (APIs) using Java or other popular languages.
With few exceptions, Linux is being passed over for use in these applications. Coollogic has developed a set-top box based on its Coollinux version of Linux, but this product has few adopters. Liberate and OpenTV could run on top of embedded Linux. However, many of Linux's key features—such as robust networking support and range of APIs—have already been duplicated in these middleware products, which have the bonus of being able to work around the shortcomings of a simpler RTOS. A generic Linux simply can't compete against the customized platforms available from companies targeting the rapidly growing STB market.
While not a prime choice for STBs, Linux does have a foothold in devices that might be called set-top companions. These are devices (such as digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet access devices) that connect to the TV but are typically downstream of the decoder box. The biggest win for Linux has been the Tivo DVR, widely praised as a groundbreaking device. But Tivo sales remain well below one million units, mainly because of its high price ($299 US plus $10 per month).
Video game makers are also fighting for a place on the set top. Led by Sony PlayStation, more than 20 million video consoles were sold last year. Few of these devices deliver any functions other than gaming, but this is rapidly changing, as the Sega Dreamcast now offers web access and Sony's PlayStation 2 adds DVD playback as well. Microsoft's X-Box, due next year, will offer both of these features.
Single-function devices, such as Tivo and WebTV, will be the first losers on the set top. Just about everything that connects to the TV will soon have web access, and DVR functions will be easily added to any STB with a hard drive, such as the X-Box or Phillips' AOL-TV unit. By integrating DVR and web functions into other devices, vendors can deliver these functions at a much lower cost than in stand-alone products and greatly increase deployment. Furthermore, adding these features to other products reduces the number of boxes and wires connected to the TV. User interfaces for these multifunction devices, however, must be carefully designed to provide simple access to all functions.
The fiercest battle will be between interactive decoder boxes and video consoles. As long as broadcast TV is the primary use of the television set, the decoder box will be difficult to displace, since the cable and satellite companies use proprietary digital formats to deliver their content. On the other hand, video consoles have highly desired content that is also available only in proprietary formats.
In the end, most homes will have an all-in-one decoder box that supplies a variety of interactive functions. With the possible exception of DVR, which requires an expensive hard drive, these functions will have no up-front cost, just a monthly fee. Other homes may have a simple decoder box and use the video game console for web access and other advanced functions. Unfortunately, this scenario leaves little room for Linux. Several major vendors are well ahead in delivering TV-optimized operating systems and middleware. Video consoles all use proprietary operating systems optimized for gaming performance. Linux is great for a company like Tivo that needs to put together a new product quickly. In the long run, though, the only chance for Linux to succeed in this market is if Coollogic, or a similar company, can convince major STB vendors to adopt the platform.
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Amazon EC2 outage downs Reddit, Quora and Foursquare
Datacentre is a don't-acentre
PROBLEMS at Amazon's North Virginia datacentre have knocked over services at Web 2.0 websites including Quora, Reddit and Foursquare.
Amazon's AWS health service dashboard shows a problem at the datacentre that has run on for a few hours. Currently it is showing a warning for latency and error rates, but the issues first arose some six hours ago at press time.
The most recent update at 7:40am PDT reports, "In addition to the EBS volume latencies, EBS-backed instances in the US-EAST-1 region are failing at a high rate. This is due to a high error rate for creating new volumes in this region."
Some customer websites, such as news sharing service Reddit, have published their own information about the problems.
"Amazon is currently experiencing a degredation", wrote Reddit. "We are still waiting for them to get to our volumes. Sorry".
"We're currently having an unexpected outage and are working to get the site back up as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience," said Quora.
Enter Foursquare, which added more kindly, "Hi all, Our usually-amazing datacenter hosts, Amazon EC2, are having a few hiccups this morning, which affected us and a bunch of other services that use them. Everything looks to be getting back to normal now. We'll update this when we have the all clear. Thanks for your patience."
Patience is a virtue, but it can become a challenge when required by online services. µ
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