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The ultra-compact DSC-T200 has an elegant look all its own -- in shining silver, matte black or deep red, with vertical styling and a huge 3.5"1 Widescreen touch-panel LCD that fills up the entire back of the camera and replaces function buttons with elegant on-screen icons.
With Super SteadyShot® optical image stabilization and high sensitivity (ISO 3200), the DSC-T200 compensates for shaky hands, minimizes blur and allows flash-free shooting to preserve the mood -- and Sony Clear RAW™ Noise Reduction reduces the picture noise that can ruin low-light shots.
To the left and right of the image area on your widescreen display, simple icons allow quick touch-screen operation of essential camera functions. The icons can be switched off to provide a full 16:9 widescreen view of your photos -- and the on-screen Function Guide display helps you learn camera setup operations.
Direct HD output2 to your Sony Bravia® HDVT or other compatible HDTV screen lets you view DSC-T200 still photos in spectacular clarity and detail. Optional HD solutions include a Cyber-shot® cradle/charger with component cable output, or component cable directly to your HDTV.
It's the high-definition viewing experience that makes photos more entertaining to watch, accompanied by your choice of visual effects and any of four preset musical selections stored in memory or your favorite music downloaded from PC to your camera for use as background music4.
The DSC-T200 lets you add 8 creative effects to photos after you shoot -- including new "radial blur" effect, "retro" color tint and trimming function along with soft edge filter to soften backgrounds, cross filter to place starry "dazzles" at highlight points, partial color filter to
The DSC-T200 allows you to capture a limited number of shots in-camera for later transfer to a PC or Memory Stick Pro DUO™ media -- so even if you forget your flash memory card, you can always get the shot.
Captures VGA (640 x 480) audio/video clips at high frame rate (up to 30 frames per second6), with length limited only by the capacity of your media.
5X Optical zoom brings you even closer to the action, for great action shots, distant landscape views and dramatic portraits. An ingenious Carl Zeiss® lens design uses internal zooming, so even at full zoom the lens doesn't project beyond the ultra-slim camera body.
The DSC-T200's Widescreen touch-panel LCD replaces small buttons with simple on-screen icons and a user-friendly interface that make camera operation faster and simpler. In shooting mode, you can touch any point on screen to focus on the person or object you've selected -- and touch and zoom in playback mode to concentrate on your subject.
In Smile Shutter Mode, the DSC-T200 helps you capture more smiles by shooting automatically when your subject laughs, smiles, even grins - only when focus is fixed. You select the person to watch and the expression to catch -- your Cyber-shot® camera's Face Detection system and intelligent Smile Shutter algorithm do the rest!
To use the entire image area of your DSC-T200 Widescreen LCD and compatible HDTV2 screens, Wide Zoom automatically expands standard 4:3 images to 16:9.
Powered by the exclusive Sony Bionz™ high-speed processing engine, D-Range Optimization preserves image data in bright highlights and reveals more detail in shadows or backlit areas -- for great results even in difficult lighting conditions.
In-camera retouching continues with the ability to "paint" decorative borders, graphic stamps like hearts, stars, arrows and hand drawn words or symbols to add charm and fun to photos you save, print or send via e-mail (internet connection required).
The Sony Smart Zoom® feature lets the DSC-T200 crop in close on the central portion of interest in your photo while avoiding the image degradation of other digital zooms.
Supplied Picture Motion Browser software makes it easier to, burn photos to CD or DVD, add dates to JPEG images, trim photos for transfer to Memory Stick® media, and organize images in a convenient calendar view on your PC. In combination with an optional GPS Unit7 (sold separately), Map View function can display a map showing their origin on a world map by using an optional GPS unit.
More megapixels give you more detail and definition when you make big prints or crop in tight on your subject. The advanced Sony® Super HAD™ (Hole Accumulated Diode) CCD design allows more light to pass to each pixel, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise.
The DSC-T200 puts a huge 3.5"1 Widescreen LCD in the palm of your hand, with Clear Photo LCD Plus™ design that displays photos in superb clarity and natural color -- with AR (anti-reflective) coating for excellent visibility even in bright sunlight.
Because the face makes the photo, Sony has created Face Detection technology that recognizes up to 8 faces in a photo and automatically controls focus, exposure, color and flash to bring out the best in everyone. Unlike some competitive systems, Sony Face Detection makes skin tones look more natural and reduces red-eye with pre-strobe flash.
The in-camera feature that resizes your photos for any purpose! Standard 4:3 can be resized to widescreen 16:9 and 2 MP for giant-screen HDTV display2 -- and images at 16:9 and larger than VGA resolution can be resized to 4:3 VGA for sharing with friends and family via e-mail (internet connection required). A simple 4-direction touch-screen control also makes it easy to trim photos.
Because an off-center subject can make your shot more interesting, the DSC-T200 can measure auto-focus precision at 9 points on your screen -- giving you greater creative freedom to compose your image.
Irritating "glowing eyes" can ruin even the most creative photos -- so the DSC-T200 provides in-camera correction at the touch of a button to reduce lingering red-eye effect that other systems might miss.
A built-in slot accepts optional Memory Stick Duo™ media or Memory Stick PRO Duo™ media -- the compact, high-capacity storage media that make it easily to upload photos to your computer or make lab-quality prints at home on your Sony Picture Station™ digital printer (sold separately).
The DSC-T200 provides up to 250 shots3 with a fully charged NP-BD1 Lithium Ion battery -- enough shooting capacity to cover a long weekend or a whole vacation.
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The OSCE's Job is not Done: Interview With Lamberto Zannier
The OSCE's Job is not Done: Interview With Lamberto Zannier
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Gregor Konzack interviewed Lamberto Zannier, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), at the Munich Security Conference. Mr. Zannier speaks about the need for organisations like the OSCE, NATO-Russia relations and what needs to be done to solve protracting conflicts in the world.
Q - Can the OSCE have a positive impact on NATO-Russia relations? You as Secretary General of the OSCE will definitely have a response to this comment by Natalia Burlinova.
A - The Munich Security Conference is pointing to the need for the kind of activities the OSCE is doing. It is pointing to the fact that there is a need for building trust and fostering reconciliation between countries.
The OSCE works in a mode that is very comprehensive in terms of the agenda: we put together security issues, confidence building measures, disarmament issues, economic cooperation, issues relating to human rights and assistance to the democratisation processes. We work at different levels. Firstly, with individuals to promote human rights and the dignity of the individual within society. Secondly, at the level of states, interstate relations and at the regional level.
The OSCE has developed a concept that is very much present at this conference today. This is the concept of a security community that looks at the transatlantic, the Eurasian and at the Mediterranean perspective. What is important, is working with a society; preventing conflicts, possibly solving protracting conflicts or keeping them under control. We do this relatively low key, so there is an issue of visibility. In that sense I can understand the assumption that the OSCE is dead.
Nevertheless, my argument is that the importance of our role remains. This refers back to a comment by the German Foreign Minister: we do not need new institutions, but we need to use the ones we have best. The OSCE has developed the concept of a security community, but we need to articulate it better, perhaps refine it and add new tools.
The conference points to a number of challenges that need tackling. Cyber security, to mention one, is emerging and we are equipping ourselves better to deal with global trends. The OSCE is doing it in a way that is a pretty sharp change from the past. We still have a culture inherited from the Cold War Era, of viewing security as a zero-sum game. Now, security can be a win-win game for everybody, as we join forces to combat the same challenges that face all of us.
Q – Do you think new threats like cyber criminality and terrorism create more commonalities between Russia and NATO?
A - This is another reason why we need a complex institutional set-up. NATO is always developing its own policies in a mode that is like-minded among its members. When NATO deals with Russia it is a negotiation and they try to find a common ground. In the OSCE we have a different approach. We are by definition a community of countries (including some NATO countries, Russia, and a number of others) that have different objectives and their own conflicts. So you have a multiplicity of sensitivities and political objectives. We also operate in a different way to try to find the common denominators and priorities and try to develop policies that affect everybody the same way.
So, in a way we are broader than NATO-Russia. The OSCE can support the progress and dialogue between Russia and NATO by building confidence in the area, for instance. There are obviously issues on that agenda though, that will have to remain in the context.
Q – So you are suggesting the OSCE can take on a mediating role to find common ground and common denominators because of its past experience?
A - We do that already in certain respects, in relation to the protracting conflicts, whether it is Nagorno-Karabakh or Moldova. We also intervene in early warning mode like we did in Kyrgyzstan last year. We are now looking at a more strategic way of positioning ourselves in Central Asia to address security challenges stemming from Afghanistan, in order to preserve stability in Central Asia and export that stability into Afghanistan.
All the Central Asian states are part of the OSCE and we are present in all those countries. Therefore, we can work with them in a different way than the European Union or NATO can because they are not members of one or the other, whereas they are members of the OSCE. So the OSCE has an advantage in certain areas, we have a different profile and we do not have a political agenda that is perceived as potentially interfering with the objectives of the countries themselves. Each country takes part in designing the agenda of the OSCE.
Q - There will be more engagement of China in Central Asia, be it through pipelines or population migration. As China is not part of the OSCE, how can an early warning system for conflict prevention be embedded?
A - There are many actors in Central Asia. We are the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian organization and when it comes to conflicts stemming from Afghanistan it is not only China, it is also India, Pakistan and Iran. The neighbourhood is very composite and complex. So we will work from our angle, but we are also in contact with organizations like the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation based in Beijing, which is working on programs in Central Asia.
I think when you address complex problems such as the long-term stability of Afghanistan, you really need the international community to cooperate because there is no single actor, neither national nor international, who can make a difference. We need a convergence and a sense of an agreed strategy.
Q - Yes, it is necessary for the international community to stand together in times of crisis. The more it comes as a surprise that NATO is pushing forward the project for the missile shield, which is perceived as a threat in Russia. So when you are aiming at a common security architecture, this must be a major obstacle for your work in the OSCE. What do you think NATO could offer Russia to join this security architecture?
A - Well, I do not see the two things depending on each other. There is a dialogue between NATO and Russia on missile defence. It is my hope that this dialogue will continue positively and will contribute to create this climate of trust that we want to establish.
There are many other examples of difficulties that we are facing. I was in Kosovo heading the UN operation there and it is an issue that remains on the agenda of many organizations like the UN, the European Union and the OSCE. Obviously there is a challenge in front of us and that is also what motivates us to engage and to reform, in order to be more effective.
Q - Do you think the new military strategy of the US refocusing on the Pacific improves the level of trust between Europe and Russia - because there is less American involvement in Europe?
Something we do in the OSCE is every now and then seminars on military operations. So there is change, there is transparency at the strategic level between the countries. We need to make sure that everybody understands what the plans of everybody else are and shifting attention from one theatre to another in itself is not destabilizing as long as it is public and well explained. So I don't think this will have necessarily an impact of any kind.
Q - One of the two tenets of Russian foreign policy is to establish a stronger position in its near abroad. For example, the establishment of an own Court of Human Rights next to the European Court of Human Rights. Do you think the push back of the European Convention on Human Rights is detrimental for human rights promotion in the Russian sphere of influence?
A - The issue of ECHR influence is for every country to develop. What matters for us is the commitment the members of the OSCE family have made - which is the Helsinki commitments and a whole set of norms that have been developed over time. So certainly the engagement of the organisation will continue, regardless of alliances or development of powerful nations or groups, what matters for us will be the development in the specific areas. The standards that the countries set for themselves are the ones they will continue to be judged by.
Q - Do you think the OSCE will have a more prominent role in a few years, let's say by 2020?
A- In fact, I hope we will have a less prominent role because that would imply that we managed to solve some issues. I would like to believe that we will see progress in solving these protracted conflicts in the next few years and that more trust and reconciliation will be visible. I would like to believe that issues like the regional instability in Afghanistan and the Mediterranean will have evaporated and that human rights standards and democratization will have improved. If this is what we will see in 2020, there will be less need for an organisation like the OSCE. Unfortunately we are not there yet and the international community still has a lot of work to do between now and 2020.


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The Samsung GALAXY Note is getting an update to the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and it's quite a huge update with lots of improvements to the Samsung GALAXY Note calling it the "Premium Suite".
Here's a run through of the improvements:
- S Note – Create your own notebook through various productivity tools
- 7 templates – Note, Meeting Note, Idea Note, Magazine, Travel, Diary, Recipe
- Record and play back step-by-step details of your drawings
- Quick access to productivity tools with the floating tool bar
- Automatic shape correction
- Predefined shapes with editable size and colour
- Find answers to complicated formulas using Wolfram Alpha
- Knowledge Search with Wolfram Alpha by writing
- Various notebook covers, and paper backgrounds
- Quickly scan through contents of notebooks
- Annotate and save PDF documents
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- Instantly capture any idea directly from the homescreen
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- Write a letter or card and make multimedia albums to share
- Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade - a more intuitive user interface, faster performance, Face Unlock, Snapshot, Photo Editor and other features
- Multi-task and visually manage tasks with simple swipe gestures
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Megatron Wolf wrote:Doesnt surprise me in the least, Im still surprised that he even took the job in the first place. He didnt do a bad job but thats not really saying much since this Megatron is one of the wost ever made & he had very little screen time. And when he was on screen he was either bitching or getting his ass kicked. I dont even think Welker or Kaye couldve helped this version of Megatron. Either way that seems like a really shitty way to do something. Just more proof that these movies are a joke and need to be snuffed out of existence.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Personally, I don't want them to bring back Megatron for TF4. They've already killed him once, revived him once, and then killed him again. Reviving him again would be too much like the Unicron Trilogy Syndrome minus the Galvatron upgrade.
There are other villains they could use for this movie that they haven't used already. Thunderwing, Bludgeon, a non-Megs Galvatron, Overlord, Deathsaurus, Straxus, Jhiaxus, even the DJD could pull it off.
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What is woody biomass and where does it come from?
Woody biomass is composed of trees including wood from the bole (trunk) of the tree, limbs, tops, roots and even the foliage. Woody biomass can include shrubs and other woody plants.
The principal sources of woody biomass for energy production have historically been: 1) trees killed or damaged by fire, insects, disease, drought or that have no other use; 2) trees grown specifically for energy production; and 3) trees removed to reduce hazardous fuel accumulations or improve forest health.
Woody biomass also includes wood wastes from urban areas (e.g., construction wood, tree trimmings) and products derived from trees such as lumber, paper and byproducts of wood manufacturing (e.g., sawdust and bark).
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What is renewable biomass energy? Why is it renewable?
A renewable resource is one that naturally replenishes itself after it has been used or which is never depleted by use. Examples of renewable resources that are used to produce electricity include water, sunlight, wind, geothermal, and biomass.
Renewable energy technologies harness the energy in renewable energy resources. In the cases of solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, use does not deplete the resource. Biomass resources can be replenished as trees can be propagated naturally or with the help of foresters.
There are three ways in which biomass resources can be utilized for electricity: 1) conversion of materials such as urban wood wastes and mill wastes, 2) dedicated energy crops (trees, shrubs and other plants grown specifically for energy production), and 3) as a byproduct of forest management activities. For example, biomass can be produced from thinning forest stands to reduce hazardous fuel loads or improve forest health. Generally, the biomass consists of small trees that are not usable for lumber or other purposes. Energy production from such sources is sustainable as long as there continues to be forest management activities producing and replenishing the biomass.
What is a biomass power generation facility? How is power currently generated from wood?
A biomass power plant utilizes woody biomass for the production of electricity and/or heat. The wood is combusted in boiler systems and fitted with air emissions controls which create steam used to spin a turbine that produces electricity. Or, in cogeneration, the wood is used to generate both electricity and heat. Once steam is used to spin the turbine, it is extracted to provide heat for other processes (e.g., drying, heating). Finally, wood can be used in combination with other fuels such as coal, oil or natural gas to fire boilers and create electricity (also known as co-firing).
How big is a biomass power plant? How big is the proposed eastern Placer County biomass facility?
The intended end use of the energy and the availability of fuel/feedstock determine the capacity of a biomass power plant to generate electricity. In the U.S., most biomass power plants are associated with forest industries such as sawmills. These produce electricity and heat or steam using biomass wastes (e.g., sawdust and bark) from the sawmill operations. Electricity and heat or steam generated can be utilized for the sawmill. Excess electricity can be sold to the electrical grid. Generally, biomass power plants are larger than 15 megawatts (one megawatt is enough to service about 1,000 households for a year), but can range from less than 1 MW to over 50 MW. It takes about 8,000 bone dry tons (2 big trucks a day) of woody biomass to produce one MW of electricity on an annual basis.
The eastern Placer County biomass facility is proposed to generate between 1 and 3 MW of renewable electricity.
What waste products does the plant produce?
Biomass power plants produce ash (about 3 to 5% of the fuel input by weight). Depending on the source of biomass and the combustion process, power plant ash can be used as a soil amendment or in masonry and cement products. Water used to create steam for electricity production can be recycled.
What air pollution issues does biomass power present?
Biomass power plants are designed with air pollution controls for minimizing discharges of regulated air pollutants. Biomass power plants are subject to regulation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, and local air quality management districts. Biomass power plants can eliminate 95-99 percent of pollutants that would otherwise be produced by open burning of that same biomass.
How would biomass power impact wildfire catastrophes? Will biomass power endanger our forests?
Throughout the western U.S., a large potential source of biomass for power production is fire hazard reduction projects. Removing biomass from the forest during the course of fuel reduction treatments will reduce the threat of wildfire and decrease the area burned in catastrophic fires. Properly executed fire hazard reduction projects can also improve forest health and make the forest less susceptible to drought, insect attacks and disease. Utilizing biomass for energy production will make fuel treatments more economically feasible by creating a market for such biomass material that currently has little or no value.
Biomass power plants therefore pose little or no risk to forests from over-cutting and actually can contribute to improvements in forest health and reduced fire hazard.
How is it renewable energy if it emits greenhouse gases?
A biomass power plant does produce carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas. However, if the fuel supply is obtained as a byproduct of reducing fire hazard in natural forests, the plant emissions may be offset by the reduced emissions that would have occurred if the forest burned. Wildfires are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions. For example, it has been estimated that the 2007 Angora fire in the Lake Tahoe Basin released 141,000 metric tons of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere within a period of a few days. This is equivalent to the emissions from over 28,000 cars in one year.
By utilizing fuels derived from forest management that reduces the probability of wildfire and considering the natural growth patterns of biomass, a biomass power plant can be considered "carbon neutral." Biomass is a unique fuel in that it is derived from a resource that is naturally replenishing by taking in carbon from the atmosphere. Also, using biomass for electricity production may offset the use of fossil fuels, further reducing greenhouse gas production.
Will there be an increased cost of lumber products or food produce? Will any food crops be impacted (like corn due to ethanol production)?
As previously discussed, sources of wood for biomass power generation do not have "higher and better" uses such as conversion to lumber. They mainly consist of materials that would not be used otherwise, such as residues (e.g., small stems, brush) from fire hazard reduction. Consequently, there would be no impact on lumber prices.
Unlike activities such as biofuels production (e.g., ethanol) that currently consume biomass usable for food (such as corn), production of electricity from woody biomass would not have an impact on food supply or prices.
Is biomass power more expensive than other power generation?
When compared to the direct monetary costs of power production from fossil fuels and hydroelectric power, biomass power is currently more expensive. Biomass power requires fuel that has considerable collection, processing and handling costs. However, rising coal and natural gas costs, which in turn drive up the price of electricity, are allowing biomass energy production to become much more competitive. In addition, when the currently non-monetized societal benefits of biomass use, such as reduced catastrophic wildfire, improved air quality, forest health, reduction of greenhouse gases, and renewed rural community development are factored in, biomass-based electricity provides significant benefits over fossil fuel-based electricity.
Can biomass be used to make liquid or gas fuels? What about transportation fuels?
Scientific and technical processes are being developed in order to convert the cellulosic material of woody biomass into usable fuels. Significant research and development is currently underway to make such conversion processes technically and economically viable. However, conversion technologies are not yet considered economical and are not used on an industrial scale (e.g., corn to ethanol). Synthetic gas fuels (syngas – similar to natural gas) and liquid fuels (ethanol and synthetic diesel) have been created in pilot-scale facilities in Europe and in limited quantities in the United States. The primary challenge of developing liquid or gas fuels from woody biomass is breaking down the complex cellulosic structure of wood into simple hydrocarbons and sugars that can be converted into liquid fuels. Because of the promise that biofuels may have for reducing America's dependence on foreign oil, significant private and public sector resources are being devoted to support research, development and commercial deployment of biomass to fuels conversion technologies.


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"What a disappointment to take something so joyful and degrade it with negativity," wrote Trisha Trudell. "Take the commercialism aside, Christmas is the most wonderful time of year to show love and equality and be giving and kind. What's so wrong with sharing in this early."
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SQL Server – New Analytical functions in SQL Server 2012 – Lead and Lag
10 Jan 2013
LAG: Using this function we can fetch the nth row before (Lag) the Current row without using self-join. It is useful when we need to compare the current row values with values in a previous row. Syntax: LAG (scalar_expression [,offset] [,default]) OVER ( [ partition_by_clause ] ...
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31 Dec 2012
Wish you a very Happy New Year 2013. Today is a special day for me to celebrate the New Year because today my blog post turned 1 year old. I can't believe that I have been blogging for a year now. This blog was just created with an intension to share what I learned during [...]
SQL Server – Order of Column and Impact of equality operator on Index operation
24 Dec 2012
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When "Downton Abbey" returned last month for its third season, it was only a matter of time before Jimmy Fallon revived his popular spoof, "Downton Sixbey," named for the studio at Rockefeller Center where "Late Night" is taped.
In the latest chapters of the saga, which aired in two parts on Tuesday and Wednesday night, Fallon -- much like his inspiration, Lord Grantham -- discovers that he's squandered the family's vast fortune on a lousy investment. (At the risk of revealing too much, let's just say it wasn't a railroad.)
Trying to cut costs, the master of the house starts rationing wine. This displeases the entire family but most especially his wife, played by Brooke Shields (who deserves a special award for her dead-on impression of Elizabeth McGovern's drowsy speech patterns).
But things perk up when the wealthy young bachelor Sir Questlove arrives with his mother, Lady Whoopi (played by, well, do we have to say?). To everyone's surprise, he takes a shine to Fred Armisen's homely Lady Hedith.
This being a "Downton Abbey" parody, there is of course much intrigue below stairs as well, where a scheming footman spreads a scurrilous rumor that Higgins, the Bates-like valet, poisoned his wife's tea. While that turns out to be untrue, Higgins reveals a secret that's far more devastating -- and disgusting. (Here's a hint: Al Roker.)
Enjoy both parts here, but be warned: There's enough potty humor here to send the Dowager Countess to her grave.
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The April 4th show at Voyeur looks pretty good. anyone seen those guys live?
The April 4th show at Voyeur looks pretty good. anyone seen those guys live?
Concert Schedule
5/7 Tom Odell - Troub
5/9 Dirty Projectors - Royce Hall
5/10 Rhye - El Rey
5/11 Rolling Stones - MGM Vegas
5/17 Digitialism Live - Troub
5/20 Holy Ghost - Troub
5/30 John Talabot - Echoplex
6/2 Bjork - Palladium
6/8 Tom Petty - Fonda
7/28 Jay Z/JT - Rose Bowl
10/16 Atoms for Peace - Hollywood Bowl
10/17 Atoms for Peace - SB Bowl
WTF is that?
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I just called them. They redirected me to the info line, which had info up until April 3rd. The show is scheduled for the 4th.
Can any of you buy tickets through the link? I can't.
They did a surprise appearence at belo back in 07, when mark farina was spinning.
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the Daft situation is definitely an april fools joke... on another note, here are some videos i shot of the AIR show last saturday
Anyone going to drop the lime tonight or classixx on saturday?
Nice work Lilia. Fucking April 1st is so confusing!
From Voyeur facebook Fucking Bitches!!!!!
Voyeur OK, so we went a bit too far with this one. Those of you who got pissed off at us, we TOTALLY relate! ...and if we were you, we would probably be even more upset - - we are the biggest hugest fans. We have to admit that this was a bit cruel. apologies. Let's lighten up now and let's turn up the music in our headphones and let's keep listening to the greatest electronic band in the universe! Happy April Fools!
Riddle the Roar at Belly Up, April 6th, this tuesday its goin down... should be amazing
"america is great, a ***** is free to make as much money as a hoe wants to work for him" Pimp
Broken Bells May 18, Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay
Anyone seeing Drop The Lime tonight? He's incredible, highly recommend you go.
hmmm i wonder what bonobo would be like live. anybody seen him live? new album was amazing
Anyone going to RJD2 & Busdriver at The Casbah tonight? I guess my friend is able to get us in so I'm probably gonna end up going.
Edit: Best free show ever last night. Busdriver performed some of my favorite songs of his and RJD2 was funky as hell. Captured some great vids and pics that I hope to upload later today.
wanted to go to that show last night... see neon indian dates at Casbah in June?
i'd never been to Voyeur before, but i had a GREAT time at the Vokab Kompany show on St. Patty's Day a couple weeks ago...
every day, every year
A-Trak, 12th Planet, and Hatiras are playing at the San Diego Sports Arena on Saturday, June 5. Any ideas as to who the headliner could be?
Edit: nvm found it...
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I will DEFINITELY be in attendance at Neon Indian...
and i'm working on a show at San Diego Woman's Club beginning of summer...
3/13-3/17 - SXSW - Austin
4/11 - The Shouting Matches - Pappy & Harriets
4/12-4/14 - Coachella Music & Arts Festival - Empire Polo Grounds
4/16 - Sigur Ros - Fox Theater Oakland
4/19 - Sigur Ros - Santa Barbara Bowl
4/22 - The Gaslight Anthem - Belly Up Tavern
6-2 - CHVRCHES - Belly Up Tavern
6/7-6/9 - Governors Ball Music Festival w/ Kanye West - Governors Island NYC
Their set this past Friday at Avalon was ok. I lost interest during the latter half of the set and started to walk away. Just as I was about to leave the main room they broke out a cover version of Primal Scream's "Swastika Eyes" and I had to go back on the floor to get down.
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I'll be like everyone else and talk about the beautiful snow, Saturday. What a surprise!
We were going to go to Wal Mart when I got home from work Saturday, but by the time my daughter got ready and I opened the door it was about three inches deep. Now all this happened in the half hour that I was home.
One of my friends in Woodruff was showing me the snow on his phone and I heard thunder. Did it thunder here in Lockhart? I sure didn't hear it. But first he was showing me pellets of snow coming down, but it wasn't sleet, just tiny balls of hard snow. Maybe we had that too, but my door was closed and I might have missed it.
Well, after cleaning the car off we headed to town, but about River Road I turned around and came back home. Everyone was moving real slow, and Gina said she really didn't want to take eight hours to get there. I got worried that if it froze while we were in Wal Mart we might have trouble getting home. When I got out of the car and tried to get to my front door, she plowed me with snowballs, and never missed a one. Head to toe she got me. A couple of hours later the roads were clear and traffic was back to normal.
Winter In Michigan
When I was a kid, there was a golf course in the city of Flint, Michigan, with a steep hill; my cousin lived a few blocks from it, so in the winter time we would pull our sleds to it and join a lot of other sledders and have a wonderful, fun-filled, cold time. Then a few hours later, probably exhausted, we would drag our sleds back home.
We would also make two forts out of snow, on the opposite sides of the yard, and then make lots of snowballs and pick teams, then have snowball wars. And of course we made angels in the snow, that was always the first thing we would do.
Of course we had plenty of time to do these things since snow stayed with us for months and months. Then it went from beautiful white to sluggish brown snow as it started melting. Sometimes we would have so much snow that when it melted it might flood the Flint River which was in our downtown area.
Happy Birthday to Yvonne Rash, Juanita McCoy, Martha Parker, and Brad McCollum on the 26th. On the 27th, are Lynn Vaughn, Candi Houghton, Greg Garner, Thomas McLeod, Dennis Roark. On the 28th, Charles Montgomery, Mariah Boler.
Mortgage Burning
On Feb. 10, Wesley Chapel Church celebrated "The Burning of The Mortgage" and all joined afterwards for a luncheon.
At The Movies
Every time I've gone to the movies, I have seen the same preview at least 10 times in a row, and I got so tired of it that I joke about it and say "I sure hope I haven't missed it." Ha! Ha! I try to go to the lobby to do one thing or another, when I think it's coming on, but always seem to manage to come back at the end of it, and I say "Ohhh, I almost missed it."
Halle Berry stars in it and I think it's called "Call." She is a 911 operator, and this girl calls while hiding upstairs in a closet, that someone is in the house and wants to kill her. The phone goes dead, so what does Halle do, she calls her back, and so now the killer hears the phone and knows where she is.
What 911 operator would do such a thing? Ours would call the police and send them to her house.
Then she goes after the killer herself. Which one of our 911 operators would do such a thing? Ours stay and try to help with the situation on the phone and let the law handle the rest. Well, her character got on my nerves.
Gina keeps joking with me and tells me she will be sure to take me to see it. Yeah!
I did go and see Die Hard (the latest one). Lots and lots of action, and I enjoyed it. I kind-of screamed once, but it happened so fast that I asked Gina if I screamed. Bruce Willis was in Russia in this one.
The other day I saw "Identity Thief" with the gal that plays Molly in "Mike and Molly." It was a riot. Even Gina enjoyed it and she's more of the scary or action type movie goer. This was strictly comedy. She stole Jason Bateman's identity, and he went after her. It was a lot of physical comedy.
Call Back
Somebody named Lequeisa (or similar to that) called on my answering machine Wednesday wanting me to call her back about the house I have for rent, but when I called the number she gave me it belonged to someone else. So maybe she can call me back with another number. Anyone can reach me on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday. On Monday and Wednesday you will get my answering machine, but I always check it during the day and call you back.
Trying To Get Stamps
The post office closed at noon now, so if you need stamps you need to get there early, but not before 9 a.m.
Chuck is on third shift, and wanted to mail something Monday, so he struggled to stay awake to get his stamps and mail his letter. He got off work at 7 a.m. and was at the post office at 9 a.m. and waited and waited for Debbie.
When I walked out of my shop a little after 9 a.m. to go to a meeting he was in front of my shop looking very tired, and wanted to know where Debbie was. It was President's Day. Wow! He could have been in bed if only he's known.
Put April 6 on your calender for our "Down By The River" festival. I told you all about it last week, so I will tell you more in the weeks to come.
Valentine Sale
Oh, did I tell you about Chuck going in Dollar General last Wednesday the 13th and asked the girls that work there if the valentine cards were on sale yet, and they said not until Friday. He told them that I would have to wait, then, to get my valentine so he could save some money. I think they really would like to beat him, they're always on my side. He doesn't go in there that he isn't teasing one of them.
An Unpleasant Future
When a lonely frog consults a fortuneteller, he's told not to worry.
"You are going to meet a beautiful young girl," she says, "and she will want to know everything about you."
"That's great!" says the excited frog. "When will I meet her?"
"Next semester," says the psychic, "in biology class."
Well, hope I didn't bore you. So now I'll say goodnight. 1-864-545-6652


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Would a Lower OWI Threshold Make Wisconsin Safer?
The National Transportation Safety Board wants another lowering of the blood-alcohol standard for drunk driving. It stands at .08; the NTSB wants it at .05.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants the blood-alcohol threshold for drunk driving to be lowered to .05 from .08. Wisconsin followed the rest of the country from a .10 to .08 standard in 2003, under the threat of losing federal highway funds. The state had almost 29,000 DUI arrests in 2011, almost 10,000 fewer than in 2000 but still the sixth-highest per-capita amount in the country. And police regularly arrest people for driving with concentrations two and three times the current legal limit, and/or for multiple convictions. Will a lower limit make Wisconsin citizens safer in any way? Or is it simply an unnecessary government intrusion? Vote in our poll and comment below. Related polls:
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Browns: Massaquoi, four others out for Broncos game
Injuries are beginning to mount for the Browns with two games left in the season.
Wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi (knee), tight end Jordan Cameron (concussion) and safety Tashaun Gipson (foot) were ruled out of the game Sunday in Denver by Browns coach Pat Shurmur after practice Friday.
On Monday, starting strong safety T.J. Ward and linebacker James-Michael Johnson were put on injured reserve with knee injuries.
Josh Cooper will fill Massaquoi's role, Brad Smelley will replace Cameron, and Eric Hagg will start at free safety in place of Gipson. Usama Young had been playing free safety, but he is taking Ward's spot.
"It's nice to get back out there," said Cooper, who spent the first five weeks on the practice squad. "I've been up and down all season. I really have to stay in the moment and study the playbook because you never know when you're going to get the call. It came my way, so I'm excited to get back out there and hopefully make a difference."
Cooper was on the inactive list the last four weeks because Massaquoi and the other receivers were healthy. Cooper, a rookie and former teammate of Brandon Weeden at Oklahoma State, has seven catches for 98 yards.
Tank Carder will start in place of Johnson at strong side linebacker when the Browns are in their base 4-3-4 defense. Shurmur expects to be in the nickel most of the time with four defensive linemen, D'Qwell Jackson plus Craig Robertson at linebacker and five defensive backs.
"It's bad for JMJ," Carder said. "It's never good when injuries occur. He was playing great ball. Hats off to him the way he's been playing, but that's the way it is. That's the nature of the beast. People are going to get hurt, and the next guy has to step up. It's an opportunity, and you've got to run with it.
"I'm going to be out there running around, giving 110 percent. Regardless [if I] mess up or not, I'm going to be going 110 percent. I'll bring effort."
Not many players make their first NFL start against Peyton Manning in late December. Continued...
"You're playing against arguably one of the best to play the game, smartest for sure," Carder said. "He's definitely going to be a Hall of Famer. And my first NFL start playing against a Hall of Famer, so that's definitely huge.
"But at the end of the day, he's just a football player, and we've got to prepare for him the same way. It's going to be awesome."
Carder was acquired on waivers from the Bills on Sept. 1. Not only did he not start any of the first 14 games; he has not made a tackle from scrimmage. He has played mostly special teams and has five tackles.
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With the arrival of Sammy D's Original New York Pizzeria, American Deli and Aldi, LaGrange residents will soon have a variety of new, reasonably priced, taste sensations and more discount grocery shopping choices available to them.
Sammy D's
Sammy D's Original New York Pizzeria, located at 1525 Vernon Road, is getting ready to open later this month. The restaurant is owned by partners Sammy Deusch and Jim Hunt, with Deusch serving as chef.
"My family is originally from Naples, Italy, and my grandfather, who was also a chef, started teaching me how to cook when I was 7 years-old," Deusch said. "I later graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York."
Sammy D's will be offering an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet and a large selection of menu items which include salads, calzones, appetizers, hot and cold subs, pasta and specialty pizzas. All of their food items will be made fresh daily and the pizzas cooked in stone ovens.
"Our aim is to feed folks with top quality food at a reasonable, fair price," Deusch said. "All of our breads, rolls, sauces, specials and desserts are made from scratch. Jim's kids, Max, Isabella and James, and my kids Anthony and my youngest, who we call 'Sammy the Bull' all have specialty pizza items named for them on our menu."
Sammy D's will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., on Friday and Saturday. They will be closed on Sundays. The restaurant is also licensed to sell beer and wine.
Contact Sammy D's Original New York Pizzeria by calling 706.756.1096.
American Deli
American Deli, located at 217 New Franklin Road, opened for business on March 26. This LaGrange franchise is owned by the Adams family, Roosevelt, Carol and their son, Jermaine.
"We are the original owners of the KFC that was here, we have owned this building for the past 25 years," Jermaine Adams said. "KFC started to slow down so we wanted to put something in here that would fit with what LaGrange needed. The American Deli made sense. We now have wings, fish, shrimp, Philly-steaks, a variety of subs and sandwiches and even salads. We are a one-stop restaurant and all of our food items are cooked to the specific requests of our customers."
Adams said that he is still getting the restaurant ready for the grand opening.
American Deli is open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., on Friday and Saturday they are open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and are closed on Sundays.
Contact American Deli by calling 706-884-5429.
On the corner of Mooty Bridge and New Franklin Road, Morgan Construction Company is preparing for the arrival of the new Aldi grocery store. Morgan Construction Superintendent Terry Leavell supervises the ongoing construction work.
Morgan Construction is the project's general contractor and will be using labor from both the local and Atlanta areas.
"Aldi food store will be here, within the next two weeks there should be signs up advertising for it," Leavell said. "Right now we are looking to open around mid to late August."
Aldi is a food store that is known for selling items at discounted prices. They offer many products under their own name brand which they claim saves the consumer up to 50 percent over national brands. The new Aldi store will be on the property of the former Nissan dealership, which has moved to Commerce Avenue.


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New regulation and a cooler market for mergers and acquisitions means banks have extra heads on payroll they can't afford to keep. Bulge brackets including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley are getting ready to cut dozens of them, The Wall Street Journal reports, as banks reconfigure to reflect a new, more austere reality.
Advisory businesses are expected to be targeted as early as next month; underperformers and those close to retirement age are most at risk of losing their jobs.
The fuss stems from a decline in global M&A revenue to $3.8 billion in the first quarter, more than 17% lower than the year earlier period, and the lowest quarterly total since the first quarter of 2010.
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Viscous Layers problem
I'm having problems with applying the Viscous Layers hypothesis to my annular geometry and I would really appreciate some help.
Originally, I created the annular cylinder with R1=12.5, R2=25 and L=75, as I was under the (wrong) impression that Salome's units were mm. This caused me confusion when I set-up my case in Code_Saturne (which, as far as I understand, uses metres), so I re-created my geometry with R1=0.0125, R2=0.025 and L=0.075. However, when I proceed to mesh it, exactly as I had done for the previous model (see attached Screenshot), it succeeds in computing a mesh when I don't apply the Viscous Layers, but crashes when I enable it.
Is the problem due to the size of my model? I really need to practice a basic case before I increase the complexity, so I wanted to keep the domain small for faster simulations.
Thank you,
St. Michael,
Thank you very much for your reply. I did question whether the thickness of the viscous layers was too high, but even though I reduce it, I am not successful in obtaining a mesh. I don't understand where the problem is, since all I changed are the dimensions of the geometry and I don't know what else to do to avoid the crash.
I desperately need this mesh to work and I attach a python dump of my geometry and mesh setup. Any advice that would help me make some progress would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
If I change
Viscous_Layers_1.SetTotalThickness( 4 ) -> Viscous_Layers_1.SetTotalThickness( 0.001 )
in your script, the mesh is computed OK after replaying your script.
St. Michael
Of course, that makes perfect sense. I was making a very silly mistake.
Thank you for taking the time to help me,
Dear Salome users,
I am actually new to the forum since I recently started using Open Foam, with Salome to make the meshing. A colleague of mine gave me a tutorial for using Salome in combination with Open Foam. This makes a Submarine, which should be calculated. Now at a certain point I have to give the mesh itś viscous layers, but then it tells there is a "segmentation violation in address 0". I have tried practically everything I could think of with my little knowledge of Salome. I am using the the latest version 6.3.1. Is there someone who knows how to solve this problem?
On the Internet I was reading about segmentation violation, and there they say that for some reason my CPU can access a certain memory, or something. I have no idea of what is going on with it.
Please help, I can continue my learning process because of this error.
The viscous layer is set up as thickness 10, number of layers 8, stretch factor of 1.2.
Further I am using Netgen 1D-2D for meshing in 2D, and afterwards I am meshing with Tetrahedron (Netgen) in 3D. on the fourth step I am adding the viscous layers and then it gives an error. With the 2D meshing I am giving Hypothesis in Netgen 2D simple parameters, with number of segments set to 8 for the farfield, and local length of 25 for the body of the submarine, and local length of 5 for the small rounded edges.
I am unable to upload the model because it is about 10 MB.
Thanks a lot,
viscous layer algorithm
Read this:
You have to download the patch and rebuild the SMESH module.
Or you can wait a little for the next version (6.4.0) to come, in which the bug is fixed.
It should be a matter of days
Ohw thanks. In Salome 6.3.0 it isn't useable is it? Well I am not really sure how to rebuild the SMESH module. I actually don't have a lot of knowledge of programming, or Ubuntu. So I think I will have to wait a few days then.
Thanks for the quick replies.
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