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sfcrazy (1542989) writes "Robert Ancell, a Canonical software engineer, wrote a blog titled 'Why the display server doesn't matter', arguing that: 'Display servers are the component in the display stack that seems to hog a lot of the limelight. I think this is a bit of a mistake, as it's actually probably the least important component, at least to a user.' KDE developers, who do have long experience with Qt (something Canonical is moving towards for its mobile ambitions), have refuted Bob's claims and said that display server does matter."
An anonymous reader writes "GitHub contains thousands of 'secret keys', which are stored in plain text and can be used by miscreants to access AWS accounts and either run up huge bills or even delete/damage the users files. Amazon is urging users of the coding community site to clean up their act."
An anonymous reader writes "My eastern European tech-support job will be outsourced in 6 months to a nearby country. I do not wish to move, having relationship and roots here, and as such I stand at a crossroads. I could take my current hobby more seriously and focus on Java development. I have no degree, no professional experience in the field, and as such, I do not hold much market value for an employer. However, I find joy in the creative problem solving that programming provides. Seeing the cogs finally turn after hours invested gives me pleasures my mundane work could never do. The second option is Linux system administration with a specialization in VMware virtualisation. I have no certificates, but I have been around enterprise environments (with limited support of VMware) for 21 months now, so at the end of my contract with 27 months under my belt, I could convince a company to hire me based on willingness to learn and improve. All the literature is freely available, and I've been playing with VDIs in Debian already.
My situation is as follows: all living expenses except food, luxuries and entertainment is covered by the wage of my girlfriend. That would leave me in a situation where we would be financially alright, but not well off, if I were to earn significantly less than I do now. I am convinced that I would be able to make it in system administration, however, that is not my passion. I am at an age where children are not a concern, and risks seem to be, at first sight, easier to take. I would like to hear the opinion and experience of fellow readers who might have been in a similar situation."
_xeno_ (155264) writes "You might not remember Final Fantasy XIV, the Square Enix MMORPG that flopped so badly that Square Enix fired the original developers. But Square Enix certainly does, and at a recent GDC panel, producer Naoki Yoshida explained his views on what caused its failure. One reason? The focus on graphical quality over game play, leading to flower pots that required the same rendering power as player characters, but without the same focus on making the game fun to play. Along with severe server instability and a world made up of maze-like maps, he also cited the game being stuck in past, trying to stick with a formula that worked with Square Enix's first MMO, Final Fantasy XI, without looking at newer MMOs to see what had worked there."
An anonymous reader writes "AMD privately shared with Phoronix during GDC2014 that they're developing a new Linux driver model. While there will still be an open (Gallium3D) and closed-source (Catalyst) driver, the Catalyst driver will be much smaller. AMD developers are trying to isolate the closed-source portion of the driver to just user-space while the kernel driver that's in the mainline Linux kernel would also be used by Catalyst. It's not clear if this will ultimately work but they hope it will for reducing code duplication, eliminating fragmentation with different kernels, and allowing open and closed-source driver developers to better collaborate over the AMD Radeon Linux kernel driver."
An anonymous reader writes "Earlier in my career, when I switched jobs every year or so, I was pretty good at interviewing. I got offers about 75% of the time if I got to a in person. But times have changed... my last 2 jobs have been, longer term gigs.. 5 and 3 years respectively, and I am way out of practice. My resume often gets me the phone interview and I am actually really good at the phone screen.. I am 12 for 12 in the last 6 months phone screen to in person interview. It is the in person interview where I am really having issues. I think I come off wrong or something.. I usually get most of the technical questions, but I am not doing something right because I don't come off very likeable or something. It is hard to get very much feedback to know exactly what I am doing wrong. I have always gotten very good performance reviews and I am well liked at work, but if there is one area for improvement on my reviews it has always been communication. So I ask, can anyone give out some advice, I have tried toastmasters a few times, but does anyone have other tips or ideas? Has anyone else had a similar experiences?"
An anonymous reader writes "Last Friday may turn out to have marked the beginning of Silicon Valley's organized labor movement--startup employees met in Palo Alto 'to share war stories and to start developing what organizers called a 'Startup Employee Equity Bill of Rights'.'" That probably should include the right to work late, for little pay, and to trade less certainty now for greater hoped-for benefits down the road. If you've been a startup employee, or started one of your own, what would you put on the wishlist?
alokmenghrajani (2602135) writes with news of Facebook's new Open Source language, Hack. Quoting: "Today we're releasing Hack, a programming language we developed for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages. ... Traditionally, dynamically typed languages allow for rapid development but sacrifice the ability to catch errors early and introspect code quickly, particularly on larger codebases. Conversely, statically typed languages provide more of a safety net, but often at the cost of quick iteration. We believed there had to be a sweet spot. ... Hack has deep roots in PHP. In fact, most PHP files are already valid Hack files. ... Our principal addition is static typing. We have developed a system to annotate function signatures and class members with type information; our type checking algorithm infers the rest. Type checking is incremental, such that even within a single file some code can be converted to Hack while the rest remains dynamically typed. ... If a function parameter or class member does not have an explicit type annotation, the type checker considers its type to be dynamic, and it does not check the type of that value." In addition to static typing, they've introduced proper closures that capture the lexical environment, generics, collections, and array shapes. The Hack website has more details. There's a fairly complete language manual, tools to infer types in PHP source and annotate the code, and source available under the PHP license.
Theseuss writes "Given the strong youth culture associated with the modern day Silicon Valley startup scene, many times it falls to the 40-year-old programmer to prove that he can still use the newest up-and-coming technology. Yet the rate at which the tech sector is growing suggests that in 20 years there will be a an order of magnitude more 'old-hat' programmers in the industry. As such, do you think the cultural bias towards young programmers will change in the near future?"
Nerval's Lobster writes "Google's Android Studio is a development tool for Android based on the IntelliJ IDEA platform, one that managed to attract a lot of hype when it rolled out in mid-2013. Roughly a year later, the platform is still in 'early access preview,' and work on it is ongoing. Eclipse, on the other hand, is the granddaddy of IDEs; although it doesn't offer native Android support, it does have some nice tools to help you build Android applications—one such tool is the Google Plugin for Eclipse, made by Google. Developer and editor Jeff Cogswell compares Eclipse and its Google-made Google Plugin with Google's own Android Studio, developed with the help of the people who make IntelliJ IDEA. His verdict? Eclipse is beginning to show its age, especially when it comes to Android development, while Android Studio offers some noted benefits. 'Android Studio is still in preview mode, without an official release, even if that preview is in pretty fine shape—its status certainly shouldn't prevent you from using it, at least in my opinion,' he writes. Do you agree?"
jones_supa writes "Today Epic launched Unreal Engine 4 for game developers. Supported platforms are Windows, OS X, iOS and Android, with desktop Linux coming later. The monetization scheme is unique: anyone can get access to literally everything for a $19/month fee. Epic wants to build a business model that succeeds when UE4 developers succeed. Therefore, part of the deal is that anyone can ship a commercial product with UE4 by paying 5% of their gross revenue resulting from sales to users. This gets them the Unreal Editor in ready-to-run form, and the engine's complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub for collaborative development."
itwbennett writes "Carolyn Lawson, the former CIO for Oregon's troubled health care insurance website, is alleging that state officials engaged in a 'substantial cover-up' meant to deflect blame away from themselves and onto herself and the project's contractor, Oracle. Lawson, who was forced to resign in December, this week filed a tort claim notice, which is a required precursor to filing a lawsuit against the state." Claims are made that the state was the typical bad client, refusing to articulate "business requirements" effectively and repeatedly increasing the scope of the project. But then again Oracle was involved.
New submitter gadfium writes: "Python 3.4 has been released. It adds new library features, bug fixes, and security improvements. It includes: at standardized implementation of enumeration types, a statistics module, improvements to object finalization, a more secure and interchangeable hash algorithm for strings and binary data, asynchronous I/O support, and an installer for the pip package manager."
darthcamaro writes "Oracle today officially released Java 8, nearly two years after Java 7, and after much delay. The new release includes a number of critical new features, including Lambda expressions and the new Nashorn JavaScript engine. Java 8, however, is still missing at least one critical piece that Java developers have been asking for, for years. 'It's a pity that some of the features like Jigsaw were dropped as modularity, runtime dependencies and interoperability are still a huge problem in Java,' James Donelan, vice president of engineering at MuleSoft said. 'In fact this is the one area where I still think Java has a long way to go.'"
First time accepted submitter lars_doucet writes "I am a 15-year Flash veteran and nobody hates to say this more than me: Flash is dying, and the killer is Adobe. Where to now? HTML5 doesn't help me with native targets, and Unity is proprietary just like Flash was — 'don't worry, we'll be around forever! And so sorry about that neglected bug report — we're busy.' I'm putting my bets on OpenFL, a Haxe-based, fully open-source implementation of the Flash API that might just please both Flash refugees and longtime Flash haters alike. My article discusses my experiences with it and gives a brief overview for newcomers. In short: I can keep making Flash games if I want, but with the same codebase I can also natively target Win/Mac/Linux desktops, mobile, and more, without having to mess with Adobe AIR or other virtual machines."
An anonymous reader writes "I have been programming in some fashion, for the last 18 years. I got my first job programming 15 years ago and have advanced my career programming, leading programmers and bringing my technical skill sets into operations and other areas of the business where problems can be solved with logical solutions. I learned to program on the Internet in the 90s.. scouring information where ever I could and reading the code others wrote. I learned to program in a very simple fashion, write a script and work your way to the desired outcome in a straight forward logical way. If I needed to save or reuse code, I created include files with functions. I could program my way through any problem, with limited bugs, but I never learned to use a framework or write modular, DRY code. Flash forward to today, there are hundreds of frameworks and thousands of online tutorials, but I just can't seem to take the tutorials and grasp the concepts and utilize them in a practical manner. Am I just too old and too set in my ways to learn something new? Does anyone have any recommendations for tutorials or books that could help a 'hacker' like me? Also, I originally learned to program in Perl, but moved onto C and eventually PHP and Python."
jones_supa writes "In a new blog post, the Ubuntu main man Mark Shuttleworth calls for an end to proprietary firmwares such as ACPI. His reasoning is that running any firmware code on your phone, tablet, PC, TV, wifi router, washing machine, server, or the server running the cloud your SAAS app is running on, is a threat vector against you, and NSA's best friend. 'Arguing for ACPI on your next-generation device is arguing for a trojan horse of monumental proportions to be installed in your living room and in your data center. I've been to Troy, there is not much left.' As better solutions, Shuttleworth suggests delivering your innovative code directly to the upstream kernel, or using declarative firmware that describes hardware linkages and dependencies but doesn't include executable code."
First time accepted submitter PvtVoid writes in with the story of Julie Ann Horvath alleging a culture of sexism at GitHub. "The exit of engineer Julie Ann Horvath from programming network GitHub has sparked yet another conversation concerning women in technology and startups. Her claims that she faced a sexist internal culture at GitHub came as a surprise to some, given her former defense of the startup and her internal work at the company to promote women in technology."
itwbennett writes "Everybody lies to themselves now and again in both their personal lives ('my bathroom scale probably needs to be recalibrated') and professional lives ('this code doesn't need commenting'). ITworld has compiled some of the common lies programmers tell themselves. Here are a few examples: 'This bug won't take long to fix.' 'No one could possibly fail to understand my simple user interface.' 'Code is self documenting.' 'My homebrew framework will be nimble, lightweight, debugged, and easy to use.' 'I know this is dirty code, I will rewrite it later.' 'It's just one line... it won't break anything.' '"It works on my machine.' 'I don't need version control.' 'It's written in ____, so it'll be easy to ____.' What would you add to this list?"
itwbennett writes "Researchers at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy have found that happier programmers (or, more specifically, computer science students at the university) were significantly more likely to score higher on a problem solving assessment. The researchers first measured the emotional states of study participants using a measure devised by psychologists called the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience Affect Balance (SPANE-B) score. They then tested participants' creativity (ability to write creative photo captions) and problem-solving ability (playing the Tower of London game). The results: happiness didn't affect creativity, but did improve problem-solving ability."
rjmarvin writes "We've all seen the code displayed in hacking scenes from movies and TV, but now a new industry is growing around custom-building realistic software and dummy code. Twisted Media, a Chicago-based design team, started doing fake computer graphics back in 2007 for the TNT show Leverage, and is now working on three prime-time shows on top of films like Gravity and the upcoming Divergent. They design and create realistic interfaces and codebases for futuristic software. British computer scientist John Graham-Cumming has drawn attention to entertainment background code by explaining what the displayed code actually does on his blog, but now that the public is more aware, studios are paying for fake code that's actually convincing."
itwbennett writes "The MOOC (massive open online course) failure rate is notoriously high — only 1% of people who take the beginning computer science programming class, CS50, that Harvard offers over the EdX online platform complete it. A new effort in St. Louis called LaunchCode is changing that — and solving the city's programmer shortage. For the past several weeks, about 300 hardy souls have been gathering in a downtown St. Louis library to listen to the CS50 lectures and work together on the various programming problem sets. But the support offered by the all-volunteer run LaunchCode doesn't end with meet space. They're also doing an end-around on the traditional coder hiring process by pairing the students who complete the course with experienced programmers in one of more than a 100 tech companies who are looking for talent."
sfcrazy writes "Google's Chromium team is working on an alternative of Gtk+ for the browser, called Aura. Elliot Glaysher, a Google developer explains, 'We aim to launch the Aura graphics stack on Linux in M35. Aura is a cross-platform graphics system, and the Aura frontend will replace the current GTK+ frontend.' The Free Software community is debating: is Google trying to do Canonical? Couldn't Google just switch to Qt, which is becoming an industry standard?"
alphadogg writes "A sneak peek at the annual Computing Research Association's (CRA) report on computer science enrollments at colleges shows that strong demand for technically-savvy workers is luring students in a big way. The full 2013 Taulbee Report will be published in May, but the CRA revealed a few tidbits this week in its Computer Research News publication. Among the findings: Among 123 departments responding last year and the year before, there was a 22% increase in enrollment for computer science bachelor's degree programs at U.S. schools. Degrees awarded increased 0.9% and new enrollments rose 13.7%"
First time accepted submitter Geste writes "Diane McWhorter pleads in this NYT Op-Ed piece that it's time to stop glorifying hackers. Among other things she rails against providers' tendencies to 'blame the victim' with advice on improved password discipline. Interesting, but what lesson are we to learn from someone who emails lists of passwords to herself?"
kc123 writes "Earlier this week, The Linux Foundation announced that it would be working with edX, a non-profit online learning site governed by Harvard and MIT, to make its "Introduction to Linux" course free and open to all. The Linux Foundation has long offered a wide variety of training courses through its website, but those can generally cost upwards of $2,000. This introductory class, which usually costs $2,400, will be the first from the Linux Foundation to run as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)."
First time accepted submitter liquiddark writes "I was listening to a younger coworker talk to someone the other day about legacy technologies, and he mentioned .NET as a specific example. It got me thinking — what technologies are passing from the upstart and/or mainstream phases into the world of legacy technology? What tech are you working with now that you hope to retire in the next few years? What will you replace it with?"
McGruber writes "Austin ranks number one in the nation when it comes to offering the largest tech salaries that have been adjusted for cost of living expenses, such as housing, groceries, utilities and other necessities. This is according to a study by TriNet, a company I had never heard off, that provides (buzzword alert!) cloud-based human resources services. The seven major tech hubs, ranked by cost of living adjusted average salaries: 1. Austin: $105,000; 2. Atlanta: $103,000; 3. Denver-Boulder: $98,000; 4. Boston: $79,000; 5. Silicon Valley: $78,000; 6. Los Angeles: $70,000; 7. New York: $56,000." It's true that Austin has cheaper real estate than Silicon Valley, or London, but what this kind of analysis can't capture well is the worth for an individual of living in a particular place. Some jobs are easier to do from Texas (or Timbuktu) than others, and opinions vary wildly about the importance of climate, culture, alternative job options, and other factors. New York living is expensive, Yes, but it comes with a free bonus if New York is where you want to be. Some people even like Los Angeles. Is there a place you'd rather be but forgo because of the cost of living, or a place you'd consider simply because it would amplify your salary?
jones_supa writes "Valve has recently released Portal 2 on Steam for Linux and opened a GitHub entry to gather all the bugs from the community. When one of the Valve developers closed a bug related to Portal 2 recommending that the users disable a security feature, the Linux community reacted. A crash is caused by the game's interaction with SELinux, the Linux kernel subsystem that deals with access control security policies. Portal 2 uses the third-party Miles Sound System MP3 decoder which, in turn, uses execheap, a feature that is normally disabled by SELinux. Like its name suggests, execheap allows a program to map a part of the memory so that it is both writable and executable. This could be a problem if someone chose to use that particular memory section for buffer overflow attacks; that would eventually permit the hacker to gain access to the system by running code. In the end, Valve developer David W. took responsibility of the problem: 'I apologize for the mis-communication: Some underlying infrastructure our games rely on is incompatible with SELinux. We are hoping to correct this. Of course closing this bug isn't appropriate and I am re-opening it.' This is more of an upstream problem for Valve. It's not something that they can fix directly, and most likely they will have to talk with the Miles developers and try to repair the problem from that direction."
An anonymous reader writes "The Fedora Project is now going to enforce a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for contributors. What the project's engineering committee is asking their members to conceal is a contributor's nationality, country of origin, or area of residence. There's growing concern about software development contributions coming from export restricted countries by the US (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) with Red Hat being based out of North Carolina, but should these governmental restrictions apply to an open-source software project?"
Carcass666 writes "It is usually good to use existing libraries, rather than reinventing the wheel, especially with open source. Unfortunately, sometimes we have to work with closed source implementations. Recently, we were diagnosing a .NET assembly and, after getting nowhere with the vendor, ran it through a decompiler. The code was a morass of SQL concatenation, sloppy type conversions, and various things that are generally thought of as insecure.
My question is: What are Slashdot readers' preferred tools for analyzing .NET and Java compiled libraries (not source code) for potential security vulnerabilities? Ideally, I would like to know if a library is a security liability before I code against it. For example, Microsoft used to have something called FxCop, but it hasn't been updated for current versions of the .NET framework."
itwbennett writes "Oregon is holding back $25.6 million in payments from Oracle (out of some $69.5 million Oracle claims it is owed) over work the vendor did on the state's troubled health care exchange website. The site was supposed to go live on Oct. 1 but its launch has been marred by a slew of bugs and it is not yet fully functional. This week, Cover Oregon said it had reached an agreement with Oracle laying out 'an orderly transition of technology development services, and protects current and future Cover Oregon enrollees,' according to a statement. Oregon officials reached the deal with Oracle after the company reportedly threatened to pull all of its workers off the project and essentially walk away."
An anonymous reader writes "Months after Intel ported the Chromium open-source web browser to Wayland, Chromium is now running on Ubuntu's Mir. The Mir display server port ended up being based on Wayland's Chromium code for interfacing with Google's Ozone abstraction framework. The Ubuntu developer responsible for this work makes claims that they will be trying to better collaborate with Wayland developers over this code." Grab the code hot off the press.
An anonymous reader writes "The Principal Graphics Programmer for BioShock Infinite has put up a post about how the game's lighting was developed. We don't usually get this kind of look into the creation of AAA game releases, but the studio shut down recently, so ex-employees are more willing to explain. The game uses a hybrid lighting system: direct lighting is dynamic, indirect uses lightmaps, shadows are a mix. 'Dynamic lighting was handled primarily with a deferred lighting/light-pre pass renderer. This met our goals of high contrast/high saturation — direct lighting baked into lightmaps tends to be flat, mostly because the specular approximations available were fairly limited.' It's interesting how much detail goes into something you don't really think about when you're playing through the game. 'We came up with a system that supported baked shadows but put a fixed upper bound on the storage required for baked shadows. The key observation was that if two lights do not overlap in 3D space, they will never overlap in texture space. We made a graph of lights and their overlaps. Lights were the vertices in the graph and the edges were present if two lights' falloff shapes overlapped in 3D space. We could then use this graph to do a vertex coloring to assign one of four shadow channels (R,G,B,A) to each light. Overlapping lights would be placed in different channels, but lights which did not overlap could reuse the same channel. This allowed us to pack a theoretically infinite number of lights in a single baked shadow texture as long as the graph was 4-colorable.'"
An anonymous reader writes "This article at O'Reilly Programming suggests that PHP, a language known as much for its weaknesses as its strengths, has made steady progress over the past few years in fixing its problems. From the article: 'A few years ago, PHP had several large frameworks (e.g. CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and so on). Each framework was an island and provided its own implementation of features commonly found in other frameworks. Unfortunately, these insular implementations were likely not compatible with each other and forced developers to lock themselves in with a specific framework for a given project. Today the story is different. The new PHP community uses package management and component libraries to mix and match the best available tools. ... There are also exciting things happening with PHP under the hood, too. The PHP Zend Engine recently introduced memory usage optimizations. The memory usage in PHP 5.5 is far less than earlier versions.'"
An anonymous reader writes "Synthia Tan writes that when you investigate the actual data, controlling for non-gender factors (like number of hours worked) the gender pay gap seems to disappear. 'A longitudinal study of female engineers in the 1980s showed a wage penalty of essentially zero.' In some cases women make more than men: women who work between 30 and 39 hours a week make 111% of what their male counterparts make." The researchers were studying more recent data, too; what are things like on this front where you work?
First time accepted submitter campingman777 writes "I am being asked by students to develop an associates of applied science in modern web development at my community college. I proposed the curriculum to some other web forums and they were absolutely against it. Their argument was that students would not learn enough higher math, algorithms, and data structures to be viable employees when their industry changes every five years. As part of our mission is to turn out employees immediately ready for the work force, is teaching knowledge-based careers as a vocation appropriate?"
theodp writes "The devil will be in the details, but if you were stoked about last November's announcement of the Wolfram programming language, you'll be pleased to know that a just-released dry-but-insanely-great demo delivered by Stephen Wolfram does not disappoint. Even if you're not in love with the syntax or are a FOSS devotee, you'll find it hard not to be impressed by Wolfram's 4-line solution to a traveling salesman tour of the capitals of Western Europe, 6-line camera-capture-to-image-manipulation demo, or 2-line web crawling and data visualization example. And that's just for starters. So, start your Raspberry Pi engines, kids!"
An anonymous reader writes "Following one of the best descriptions ever of a hacker I've ever seen, Pete Herzog, creator of the 'security testing' (professional hacking) manual OSSTMM outlines compelling reasons why the traits of the hacker should be taught in school to make better students and better people. It starts out with 'Whatever you may have heard about hackers, the truth is they do something really, really well: discover.' and it covers open education, teaching kids to think for themselves, and promoting hacking as a tool for progress." A good read, despite confusing hacker and hacker a bit. I remember getting to set up Debian on a scrap machine in high school, only to have county IT kill the project because of the horrible danger experimentation could have proven to the network...
Nerval's Lobster writes "Flappy Bird might be kaput, but its hilariously awkward hero is serving another useful purpose in its afterlife: teaching people how to code. Flappy Bird, a free mobile game for Android and iOS that asks the player to guide the titular avian through an obstacle course of vertical pipes, became a sensation earlier this year, seizing the top spots on the Apple and Google Play app stores. Its creator, Dong Nguyen, said the game earned him an average of $50,000 a day through in-app advertising — but that didn't stop him from yanking the game offline in early February. Now Code.org has resurrected Flappy Bird, Phoenix-style, from the smoking wreckage, with a free tutorial that allows anyone with a bit of time to code his or her very own version of the game. There's no actual code to learn, thanks to a visual interface that allows budding developers to drag 'blocks' of commands into place. 'Flappy Bird recently met its untimely death. We might've been tempted to cry all day and give up on spreading computer science (not really, but R.I.P Flappy Bird),' read a note on Code.org's blog. 'Instead, we built a new drag-and-drop tutorial that lets you build your own Flappy game — whether it's Flappy Bird, or Flappy Easter Bunny, Flappy Santa, Flappy Shark with Lasers, Flappy Fairy or Flappy Underwater Unicorn.' Childish? Maybe. But it could help draw people into coding for fun or profit."
theodp writes "The Mercury News' Mike Cassidy reports that women are missing out on lucrative careers in computer science. 'The dearth of women in computing,' writes Cassidy, 'has the potential to slow the U.S. economy, which needs more students in the pipeline to feed its need for more programmers. It harms women by excluding them from some of the best jobs in the country. And it damages U.S. companies, which studies show would benefit from more diverse teams.' The promise of better financial results, says Anita Borg Institute Director Denise Gammal, is making diversity a business imperative. It's 'the sort of imperative that cries out for a movement,' argues Cassidy, 'maybe this time one led not by Rosie the Riveter, but by Peggy the Programmer.' So, where will Peggy the Programmer come from? Well, Google is offering $100 to girls attending U.S. public high schools who complete a Codecademy JavaScript course. 'Currently only 12% of computer science graduates are women,' explains Codecademy, 'and great tech companies like Google want to see more smart girls like you enter this awesome profession!' Google joins tech giant-backed Code.org in incentivizing teachers to bring the next generation of girls to the CS table.
But Silicon Valley claims the talent crisis is now (although there are 19 billion reasons to question SV's hiring acumen). So, what about the women who are here now, asks Dr. AnnMaria De Mars. 'If you are overlooking the women who are here now,' De Mars writes, 'what does that tell the girls you are supposedly bringing up to be the next generation of women in tech that you can overlook 15 years from now? Why do we hear about 16-year-old interns far more than women like me? If it is true, as the New York Times says, that in 2001-2 28% of computer science degrees went to women compared to the 10% or so now — where are those women from 12 years ago? It seems to me that when people are looking at minorities or women to develop in their fields, they are much more interested in the hypothetical idea of that cute 11-year-old girl being a computer scientist someday than of that thirty-something competing with them for market share or jobs. If there are venture capitalists or conference organizers or others out there that are sincerely trying to promote women who code, not girls, I've never met any. That doesn't mean they don't exist, but it means that whoever they are seeking out, it isn't people like me.'"
An anonymous reader writes "I am currently working for a software company that rakes in a lot of money and has an EBIT that puts other companies to shame. The company is great: good benefits, lots of vacation time, very good salary. However the problem is that their architecture is already established, change is often slow moving, and most of the decisions are made by architects as oppose to developers. I find my job somewhat mundane and I am losing interest. I recently was offered another job, with a small company that doesn't have the capital/revenue stream to provide all the perks that my current employer has. Needless to say, this small company wants someone to take their system into the modern age, which means re-design/new architecture, implementation, maintenance, team lead, etc.... thus, more experience to add to my resume. These are things that I won't be able to do easily in my current job. My concern is that it appears this company has really high expectations, and since I had to take a small pay cut to get this position it leaves a but of uneasiness in my stomach for future promotions/advancements. However I believe in their product, their vision/goals, the people and the future of the company. I feel excited but also scared as its a bit of a gamble. Has anyone else experienced the same thing?"
itwbennett writes "Writing about his career decisions, programming language choices, and regrets, Rob Conery says that as a .NET developer he became more reliant on an IDE than he would have with PHP. Blogger, and .NET developer, Matthew Mombrea picks up the thread, coming to the defense of IDEs (Visual Studio in particular). Mombrea argues that 'being a good developer isn't about memorizing the language specific calls, it's about knowing the available ways to solve a problem and solving it using the best technique or tools as you can.' Does using an IDE make you lazy with the language? Would you be better off programming with Notepad?"
Saint Aardvark writes "If you're a Unix or Linux sysadmin, you know sudo: it's that command that lets you run single commands as root from your own account, rather than logging in as root. And if you're like me, here's what you know about configuring sudo:
1.) Run sudoedit and uncomment the line that says "%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL".
2.) Make sure you're in the wheel group.
3.) Profit!
If you're a sysadmin, you need to stop people from shooting themselves in the foot. There should be some way of restricting use, right? Just gotta check out the man page.... And that's where I stopped, every time. I've yet to truly understand Extended Backus-Naur Form, and my eyes would glaze over. And so I'd go back to putting some small number of people in the 'wheel' group, and letting them run sudo, and cleaning up the occasional mess afterward. Fortunately, Michael W. Lucas has written Sudo Mastery: User Access Control for Real People." Keep reading for the rest of Saint Aardvark's review.
New submitter angel115 points out this article on the widespread fraud committed in India against many thousands of those seeking visas to work in the U.S. Many Indian techies rely on the services of visa brokers (or people who claim to be), and end up burned by the transaction. From the article: "Some are lucky enough to get a visa — only to find that the promised job in the US doesn't materialize. Then the visa holders are forced to return to India after spending thousands of dollars just surviving. ... No official figures are available for the number of frauds in India, but an unclassified document released by Wikileaks showed that in 2009, US consular officials cited H-1B scams as one of the two most common fraud categories in India." Another interesting detail: As part of a U.S. government investigation, "Officers investigated 150 companies in the city and discovered that 77 percent 'turned out to be fraudulent or highly suspect.' ... Officials uncovered a scheme where Hyderabadis were claiming to work for made-up companies in Pune so the Mumbai consulate would be less suspicious about their applications. 'The Hyderabadis claimed that they had opened shell companies in Bangalore because "everyone knows Hyderabad has fraud and Bangalore is reputable," according to the internal communiqué [later published by Wikileaks]."
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Chris Parnin has an interesting read about an international team of scientists lead by Dr. Janet Siegmund using brain imaging with fMRI to understand the programmer's mind and to compare and contrast different cognitive tasks used in programming by analyzing differences in brain locations that are activated by different tasks. One recent debate illuminated by their studies is recent legislation that considers offering foreign-language credits for students learning programming languages. There have been many strong reactions across the software-developer community. Some developers consider the effort laudable but misguided and proclaim programming is not at all like human language and is much closer to mathematics. Siegmund observed 17 participants inside an fMRI scanner while they were comprehending short source-code snippets and found a clear, distinct activation pattern of five brain regions, which are related to language processing, working memory, and attention. The programmers in the study recruited parts of the brain typically associated with language processing and verbal oriented processing (ventral lateral prefrontal cortex). At least for the simple code snippets presented, programmers could use existing language regions of the brain to understand code without requiring more complex mental models to be constructed and manipulated." (Read on for more.)
An anonymous reader writes "On Friday, Chrome 33 was shipped out the everyone on the stable channel. Among other things, it removes the developer flag to disable the "Instant Extended API", which powers an updated New Tab page. The new New Tab page receieved a large amount of backlash from users, particularly due to strange behavior when Google wasn't set as the default search engine. It also moves the apps section to a separate page and puts the button to reopen recently closed tabs in the Chrome menu. With the option to disable this change removed, there has been tremendous backlash on Google Chrome's official forum. The official suggestion from Google as well as OMG! Chrome is to try some New Tab page changing extensions, such as Replace New Tab, Modern New Tab Page, or iChrome."
New submitter robertchin writes "Michael Barr recently testified in the Bookout v. Toyota Motor Corp lawsuit that the likely cause of unintentional acceleration in the Toyota Camry may have been caused by a stack overflow. Due to recursion overwriting critical data past the end of the stack and into the real time operating system memory area, the throttle was left in an open state and the process that controlled the throttle was terminated. How can users protect themselves from sometimes life endangering software bugs?"


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Valley of the Kings
The harsh, lunar landscape of the Valley of the Kings is the resting place of numerous New Kingdom pharaohs, whose remains were interred in tombs burrowed into rock. The 60-odd tombs which have ... Read more
Temple of Karnak
The largest of Luxor's temples, Karnak was one of the most sacred sites in ancient Egypt. It marked the ascendancy of Thebes (present day Luxor) as the capital of the New Kingdom, with ... Read more
Luxor Museum
While the size of its collection can't rival the treasures of Cairo, Luxor Museum is renowned as one of the thoughtfully assembled displays of antiquities in Egypt. Most of its exhibits come from ... Read more
Dendera (Dandarah)
The main lure at Dendera is the Temple of Hathor, one of the least ancient of ancient Egypt's glories, main construction being more or less contemporary with the life of Christ, although it was ... Read more
Temple of Hatshepsut (Deir el-Bahari)
The vast Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari rivals the Pyramids as one of the great funerary monuments of the ancient world. Built into the towering cliff face which shelter the Valley of the ... Read more
Luxor Temple
The enormous Luxor Temple was one of the great constructions of the New Kingdom (dating from the 14th century BC) dedicated to the god Amun. It was known as the "Southern Sanctuary" and was the ... Read more
Tombs of the Nobles (Valley of the Nobles)
The Tombs of the Nobles (or Valley of the Nobles) may lack the star power of the Valley of the Kings or other Luxor hotspots, but this neglected gem is well worth a visit. This is a cemetery on a ... Read more
Valley of the Artisans (Deir el-Medina)
Creating the Valley of the Kings was no simple undertaking: a small army of builders, engineers, engravers and other workers was required to carve the dozens of tombs out of sheer rock over the ... Read more
Avenue of Sphinxes
The Avenue of Sphinxes was the site of ceremonial processions and originally connected the temples of Luxor and Karnak, although it is considerably more recent than either of those sites, dating ... Read more
Ramesseum (Mortuary Temple of Ramses II)
While not as well preserved as nearby Medinet Habu, this mortuary temple dedicated to Ramses II, dating to 1258 BC, still has more than enough to interest the visitor. In the inner sanctuary, for ... Read more
Tomb of King Tutankhamun
The boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, who ruled the New Kingdom in the 14th century, enjoys fame disproportionate to his short reign and modest achievements. This is mostly due to the discovery of his ... Read more
Luxor Safaga Cruise Port
Located on Egypt's Red Sea coast, the port of Safaga has a small but lively tourism industry, primarily centered on scuba diving and surfing. For most cruise passengers, the port will serve as an ... Read more
Medinet Habu (Temple of Ramses III)
Where the fertile Nile floodplain meets the desert lies the Mortuary Temple of Ramses III, known locally by its Arabic name Medinet Habu. The whole compound forms a huge rectangle, with the temple ... Read more


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Brendan Gibbs is Aurecon's Chief Corporate Services officer. He is responsible for leading the development of company strategy to meet the needs of Aurecon's various stakeholder groups, and strategy implementation through leadership of Aurecon's investment and M&A programme. He is also responsible for the company's enterprise risk management programme. Prior to joining Aurecon in 2009, Brendan worked as a management consultant and held an executive general management position with a large multi-national organisation.
Qualified as a mechanical engineer with an MBA, Brendan also worked as a project engineer for many years in Australia and the United Kingdom in the property and building sector.


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Visitation will be Monday, June 8, 2013 from 9:30-11 a.m. at Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church with the Mass Services immediately following beginning at 11 a.m. Interment will be North Cleveland Cemetery under the direction of Ray Funeral Home in Cleveland.
Mrs. Mosco was born January 31, 1939, to William Gordon Stubbs and Mary Louis Truitt. She married Henry Mosco on June 8, 1958.
She is survived by her husband of 55 years, Henry Mosco; two sons, Henry Gordon Mosco (Kerri) and James Anthony Mosco; daughter, Kim Mosco Buehring (Nathan); seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren; one brother, Hayden Stubbs; and a host of nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her parents, William Gordon Stubbs and Mary Louise Stubbs; daughter, Gina Michael; sister, Susan Stubbs Wade; and a brother, Jimmy Stubbs.
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This thread is for people who have beaten at least 40/42 of the official levels, and obviously I beat them all. Each level has a unique perspective, and so, each hard version will use the same perspective. If you would like to share yours for a level that hasn't gotten a hard version with the same perspective, feel free to share. I might add it to the list if it's a good update. I will add it if the level doesn't already have a hard version. Share your solutions too.
1:Stop the goal ball from rolling and get it in the goal.
2:Keep the goal square high as you move it.
3:Make a bridge.
4:Move over rough movable terrain.
5:Use force.
6:Don't roll away, stay high.
7:Use the big .
8:Go high.
9:Easy version of down under. Ignore number 9.
10:Handle Weights
11:Make way for the by using a balanced contraption.
12: #4 & 6 together: Beware the balls.
13:Get past enourmous s.
14:Handle Balls.
15:Swing it just right.
16:Go through a bath.
17:Beware the wall, and handle it all.
18: Climb a tube.
19:Retrieve the horizontally.
20:Boomerang motion.
21:U-turn a vehicle
22:Make a pendulum bridge swing.
23:Guide the horizontally carefully.
24:Guide the vertically carefully.
25:Balance a pole.
26:Small extender bridge test.
27:Forget it.
29:Retrieve vertically.
30:Perfect balce with a heavy weight.
31:Mini missions.
32: Time your shot.
33:Forget it.
34:Replace with .
35:Flip the .
36:Basic Extender test.
37:Flip a door.
38:Forget this too.
39:Be careful while doing a not so simple task.
40:Didn't you see the movie?
41:Underpult it.
42: Handle balls the hard way.
Hard Versions
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Savvy brides are breaking tradition.
Something old, something blue…so last year. Here are a few of my favorite trends for the season:
Ostrich Plume Bouquet
Great Gatsby glam is back! A stunning bouquet for your bridal party combines a mass of beautiful white ostrich plumes in a silver-plated 'tussie mussie.' Not only does this 'Hollywood Regency' bouquet look fabulous for the wedding, it's an everlasting memento that holds up long past the end-of-night bouquet toss.
Campy Cocktails
Tall Champagne flutes are old news. Bubbles taste even better served in vintage canning jars, with colorful candy cocktail stirrers to create DIY mixology madness. Pop-seccos, anyone? Simply pour Prosecco into glasses and garnish with an unwrapped Tootsie Pop in your wedding colors. For example, a red pop slowly melts into your bubbly for a pretty pastel pink wedding cocktail.
Couture Cloths
No more clinical, white-starched tablecloths. Wedding linens are now as elaborate as wedding dresses, reflective of couture beading, vintage lace, metallic thread embroidered netting and more. Stylist secret: BBJ Linen is my go-to source for all things linen and lace countrywide – they deliver right to your door.
Plain glass votive candles have no personality. We can't have that at your thoughtful, elegant wedding now can we? Instead turn everything old new again, using global glass teacups from Morocco in gilded color palettes to match your wedding décor.
Small Plates Tasting Bars
Sit down dining has nothing on the interactive, mix-and-mingle style of chef driven tasting bars. The menu should reflect both the bride and groom's favorite foods, farms, regions and travel destinations. Planning tip: Be sure to consider guest dietary needs and serve a mix of vegetarian, meat, seafood and gluten-free options.
Bakery Bar
A slice of cake for dessert? No thank you. I can't get enough of the beautiful, decadent, Marie Antoinette-inspired petite sweets Bakery Bar dessert display. Create a flavor profile like chocolates, cookies, cupcakes or an abundant combination of all of the above. Set small monogrammed take-home boxes in the display to double up your dessert and wedding favors.
Boozy Hot Chocolate Bar
Decaf, regular…it's just a bore. After dinner drinks go cute when, instead, a Boozy Hot Chocolate Bar is set. Fusion flavors like Chicago favorite Frango Mint Chocolate or Mexican Hot Chocolate are perfect when infused with the guests' choice of liquors. Frangelico, Baileys Irish Cream and Grand Marnier are just a few favorites. Topped with flavored whipped creams – from strawberry to caramel – and garnished with chopped candies or marshmallows, guests live out their innermost Willy Wonka fantasy.
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Johnny McDaniel, Bradley County schools director, quoted Alvin Toffler while discussing the ways county students are being prepared for their future. His comments came during Thursday's weekly luncheon of the Cleveland Kiwanis Club.
"We try to find ways to be innovative, to think outside of the box to help children be successful," McDaniel said. "You can be proud of what we do in Bradley County. You can be proud of your schools and the people who work with your children."
According to McDaniel, 66.5 percent of the 10,700 students in Bradley County are economically disadvantaged. These students are spread across 11 elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools, a virtual school and a hybrid high school.
The graduation rate for Bradley County schools is 93.5 percent. This is 3.5 percent higher than the No Child Left Behind national goal.
A part of student retention is giving all students, particularly high school freshmen, a place to belong.
"Eighty percent of the dropouts in high school failed the ninth grade. So if you want to do something about dropouts, then do something about ninth grade," McDaniel said.
Ninth-grade academies gained popularity. Both Bradley Central and Walker Valley have the academies as part of their students' education.
"The ninth-grade academy provides extra support from teachers who are focused around the needs of the students. From there, you don't want to just lose them," McDaniel said.
"The academy model organizes the school around student interests so the academics support the focus of the academy."
McDaniel said Bradley County is ranked in the bottom of funding in Tennessee. Likewise, he said Tennessee is one of the lowest funded states in the country.
"With that said, I am proud of what we are doing with what we have. You can be proud of it, too," McDaniel said. "We have schools in the top 5 percent. Our system is one of the best academically in the state."
He mentioned several building projects and needs:
- The Walker Valley High School expansion through the hazard mitigation grant of $1.4 million will build an eight classroom addition and expand the cafeteria.
- Several roofing and HVAC repairs throughout the system.
- Lake Forest needs a new academic building to replace 13 out-pods.
Students are competing against more than their immediate peers.
"They compete with people across the state, across the country, across the world," McDaniel said.
He said the world is changing.
"The community has changed, the world has changed — and that is what Toffler is talking about. We have to have children who can learn, unlearn and relearn," McDaniel said.
"So today I am here to report I think you can be very proud of what we are doing in Bradley County schools. We take your dollars as a great investment."
Additional news shared by McDaniel included:
- County schools received more than $2.8 million in grants throughout last year.
- Hopewell Elementary was in the top 5 percentile in TCAP scores.
- Lake Forest Middle School, Bradley Central High School and Walker Valley were in the top 5 percent of Tennessee for the value added growth scores.
- Michigan Avenue Elementary is a Distinguished Title One school. It is the highest recognition a Title One school can receive from the state department, McDaniel said.


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LINDSAY, Calif. — Once the dust settled about how wide an area of Tulare County would be regulated for Asian citrus psyllid, California's citrus growers and packers say the new rules haven't been too disruptive.
But that's not to say that the new requirements haven't meant additional management, paperwork and costs.
Vicky BoydThe Tulare County agriculture commissioner's has increased the number of Asian citrus psyllid traps in the county to help detect the pest, which can carry huanglongbing, also known as citrus greening disease or HLB."It's just another routine that we have to go through," said Richard Sholander, director of field operations for LoBue Citrus. "It's just more coordination — that's all it boils down to."
The reason behind the new rules is Asian citrus psyllid can carry the bacteria responsible for citrus greening, also known as huanglongbing or HLB. Although the organism is harmless to humans, it can stunt and even kill citrus trees.
On Dec. 12, the California Department of Food and Agriculture designated two restricted zones radiating out 5 miles from where a total of three Asian citrus psyllids were trapped.
One zone encompasses Lindsay and Strathmore, where two pests were found; the other takes in Terra Bella, where one pest was detected.
The zones fall short of outright quarantines, which could have carried additional regulations and potentially involved more acreage, said Larry Hawkins, a U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman in Sacramento.
Under the Tulare County regulations, commercial citrus groves within 800 feet of a psyllid find are in an eradication zone, and growers must treat them with an approved insecticide.
California Department of Food and Agriculture representatives will spray all non-commercial citrus within the eradication zone.
Growers within the restricted zone but outside of the 800 feet have the option of removing all stems and leaves from citrus before loads leave the area or treating with an approved insecticide.
If they choose the latter option, they have seven days from the end of the insecticide's re-entry interval to pick the fruit. An exemption added in mid-February extends the picking period to 10 days if there's wet weather, said Gavin Iacono, Tulare County deputy agricultural commissioner.
As a result, growers typically designate a block or blocks they plan for upcoming picking and only treat those, said Bob Blakely, director of industry relations for Exeter-based California Citrus Mutual.
It also means more coordination between the grower and packer, he said.
"It's my understanding that most all of the growers opt to do the spray treatment, and that's going very well," Blakely said. "It's an easier way to facilitate movement of the fruit."


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Concerned Citizens for B.C. present a misleading image of themselves
Former corporate CEO Jim Shepard is fronting a shadowy group that's running attack ads on NDP Leader Adrian Dix.
I went to the website of Concerned Citizens for B.C. to find out more about a group that's spending $1 million to try to influence the next election.
Under the "about us" section, I found a group of absurdly happy people alongside these words:
We're a group of concerned citizens. Mothers, fathers, retirees, employers and employees.
We come from all parts of BC. We love this province and its hard-won prosperity, and considering what's going on in the rest of the world we're concerned about its future.
Then I went to one of the world's most popular image banks, iStock, and punched in the words "happy people". Lo and behold, the same photo popped up.
You would think with all that money, Shepard's group could have hired some local models and created jobs for B.C.
Why did Concerned Citizens of B.C. feel it was necessary to go to an image bank to identify themselves? Maybe because they have something to hide.
In case you're wondering, Shepard is a former adviser to Premier Christy Clark.
Here's what he looks like. Kinda corporate.
He was interviewed by Jas Johal on Global, and came across as only mindly coherent - he truly needs to be put out to pasture. I found what he said about Dix quite unsettling, and I believe it speaks more to his own character ( or lack thereof ) than Dix's.
Motive - NDP has guaranteed a public inquiry into the sale of BC Rail. Jim Shepard was a director of BC Rail when it was sold.
Opportunity - Three months before an election, time is right, but running out.
I would expect nothing less from you lying Liberals!
By giving grants to students that will be unable to get jobs? Please stop insulting our intelligence.
We're a group of people hired to pose for a picture that istockphoto.com (a company owned by the
infamous Carlyle Group) titles: "Large Group of Happy People Standing Together." The photographer
said we had to be touchy-feely and look very, very happy. Or, we wouldn't get paid.
We don't actually come from all parts of BC; nor do we love your province, or even know anything
about it. We're 23 people trying to make a buck from whoever licenses this photo. The same
picture can be used by insurance companies, toilet paper manufacturers or other advertisers
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Spring training cuts have begun! This is bittersweet for me. To some extent, I like the narrowing of the field and removing-players-who-I-never-knew-existed-in-the-first-place, but I also have a bit of a romantic view of Spring Training and seeing all the mini ballplayers (who, granted are not all that mini at all) getting cut is a little sad. It also reminds me that the season is coming, coming, coming. Soon. This is right about when I reach for my flatiron. I love the season but it makes me terribly jittery.
Anyway! I am feeling positively optimistic about the Giants at the moment and am I really alone? Pagan and Cabrera are making me feel like we should have snapped them up and made them play in orange and black a million years ago and you all know how partial I am to Conor Gillaspie. Starting with the name, ending with the way he plays. Spring Training is quite probably the only time I will get to see him rubbing shoulders with the big leaguers, so I am soaking it up. Along with all the rain that is soaking the windows right about now. To say I crave Arizona sunshine would be an understatement of potentially earth-shattering proportions. Then there's Brandon Belt, of course. Even since last year, I think we've all been murmuring conspiracy theories and considering possible terrible punishments for Sabes if he doesn't treat him better this year. We will soon know, we will soon know! Can you tell that I am loving this? Let's just say it's a pretty fabulous break from achy back/editing book/writing new book/working at job/doing this weird thing called school. Baseball rockz with a girl band z. Okay. Gooey rant finished.
Then there's the whole personal element. Even though the Giants are generally in my very own city of San Francisco, they feel closer and more homey when they're in Arizona. (Don't question my logic, I'm terribly sleepy over here.) I think it has something to do with all the sweet stories of nice autographs to little kids and meal money and Chipotle. Lots of Chipotle talk. Because apparently it's all baseball players eat ever. I swear, they could do a whole ad campaign based on hungry baseball players. They're already one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2012 (you can read that piece here – it's fascinating) but they only clocked in at #34. This could totally push them over the edge. Take 'em to #1. They also might make it onto Diamond Girl's Most Innovative Companies list. Which hasn't even been made yet, but there is a first time for everything.
Okay, time to write a pitch to Chipotle. I should get going. And smile in a misinformed way about the NBA news that Andrew Bogut was traded from the Milwaukee Bucks to my hometown Warriors. The one basketball game I've been to was Clippers vs. Bucks and I have been rather partial to Bogut ever since. So partial that I just found out last week that he fractured his ankle in, oh, January. Furious Warriors fans, no need to jump on me. Misinformed is an understatement. Still, maybe I'll run into him at a gelato place I frequent in Oakland or something. If we can get over the height difference, who knows, we might get along?
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Rhinestones, Clothing and Washing Instructions
As opposed to other trends which have come and gone, rhinestones shirts have come and conquered the fashion industry.
They are very popular all over the world and more people are liking the design, look and effect that rhinestones give regular shirts and hats. There is no question about what women really like when it comes to fashion. Sparkly stuff will definitely catch their eyes!
When it comes to buying a quality rhinestone t shirt, there is much to consider. The kind of stones used will affect the look, the price and how long they'll last just as much has how you wash and wear them.
You cannot at any point compare them to screen printed design which only last a few days before they start fading! Rhinestones never fade!
Before you commit to buying a t shirt that you think is right for you, maybe because of your budget and situation, there are certain things you have to know. One of them is the different types of rhinestones.
Types of rhinestones
- Swarovski Crystals
Swarovski rhinestones and crystals have the best reputation in the business. They are always created with a lot of professionalism using actual crytal. Strong and unique glue is also used to make sure that the stones tightly stick on to the t shirt. In fact, there are high chances that your shirt will wear out even before the stones loosen. The only thing that is worrying to the larger market, is the price. It is much more expensive than any other type.
- Korean rhinestones
These rhinestones are usually great quality and have good quality glue too. But since there are many Korean stone manufacturers and sellers you do have to take care.
Just like in any business, some makers create a better product than others. But when you make the right choice rival the Swarovski stones at a fraction of the cost!
If you are reading this because you're actually IN the custom rhinestone t shirt business, or are interested in starting one, you should shop rhinestone sellers in the US. Colman and Company, for example, has a great reputation for stone quality. Tough that business is tied to the makers of the CAMS Rhinestone Machine, they do sell the stones separately and they'll work with any machine.
If you take good care of your garment then you can be sure that the rhinestones will hold on to them for long no matter the type.
You should always gently wash them with your hands. It is not advisable to throw them in to the washing machine as the glue may get weak. After washing, lay them flat probably on grass so that they can dry.
If you want your shirts to always look new, avoid ironing them. If the shirt is so much creased and you need to iron it, then just iron around the design. This will ensure that the designs are not interfered with.
I guarantee that if you take good care of your rhinestone apparel, then it will definitely last longer. if you wish, you can avoid the expenses of taking your t shirt to a designer to put the rhinestones for you by simply buying and fixing for yourself.


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With Sigourney Weaver celebrating her 63rd birthday on Oct. 8, join us for a look back at the celebrated actress' life and career so far.
1979: Sigourney Weaver, born Susan Alexandra Weaver on Oct. 8, 1949, in New York City, first made waves as Ellen Ripley in director Ridley Scott's "Alien."
1984: Sigourney Weaver in "Ghostbusters"
1986: Sigourney Weaver in "Aliens." The film earned Weaver her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
1988: Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver in "Working Girl." The film earned Weaver an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
1988: Sigourney Weaver in "Gorillas in the Mist." The film earned Weaver her second Oscar nominations for Best Actress.
1992: Sigourney Weaver shaved her head to play Ripley for the third time in "Alien 3."
1993: Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline in "Dave."
1995: Sigourney Weaver arrives at the 67th annual Academy Awards on March 27 in Los Angeles.
1997: Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder in "Alien: Resurrection."
1997: Sigourney Weaver reteams with Kevin Kline for the drama "The Ice Storm."
1998: Weaver waves to the crowd as the Hasty Pudding 1998 Woman of the Year on Feb. 9 at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass.
1999: Sigourney Weaver in "Galaxy Quest."
1999: Sigourney Weaver poses with her newly unveiled star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Dec. 16.
2001: Sigourney Weaver in "Heartbreakers."
2001: Sigourney Weaver during "The One and Only Aretha Franklin" tribute at Radio City Music Hall in New York on April 10.
2003: Sigourney Weaver and New York Mets pitcher John Franco talk about baseball in Port Saint Lucie, Fla. Weaver visited the Mets during a spring training practice session before a special advance screening of her new film "The Guys."
2004: Sigourney Weaver and William Hurt in "The Village."
2004: Sigourney Weaver waves as she arrives for the annual Empire magazine film awards in London on Feb. 4. She won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ceremony.
2006: Sigourney Weaver waves to photographers as she arrives at the opening of the 56th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin on Feb. 9.
2008: Sigourney Weaver records dialogue as the ship's computer in "WALL-E."
2008: Oprah Winfrey and Sigourney Weaver pose at a Dec. 5 breakfast in Beverly Hills, Calif., honoring the selections for The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment: Power 100 list.
2009: Sigourney Weaver, Joel Moore, James Cameron and Sam Worthington in "Avatar."
2009: Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver in "Avatar."
2009: Sigourney Weaver in "Avatar."
2009: Sigourney Weaver at the 2009 Golden Globe awards.
2010: Sigourney Weaver in "You Again."
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The nomination of Mr. Jean-Marc Demers to Chair of the ITF Communications Committee was approved by the Board of Directors at their meeting in Italia last July.
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Trained as a lawyer, Mr. Demers has extensive experience in the field of communications. Since 1998, he has been a commissioner of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, a government body which regulates and supervises all aspects of the Canadian broadcasting system and service providers in Canadá. He had prevand telecommunications common carriersiously been a member of the Quebec Telecommunications Board for ten years, serving as Chair for five of those years.
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