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There is a lot of confusion for most people as to what they should look for when buying a TV. With the plethora of acronyms, abbreviations, nomenclatures, technologies, and other multisyllabic synonyms for "huh?" this is hardly surprising. While we feel, as you would expect, that prodigious study of Home Theater magazine would educate you to make an informed decision, we also appreciate the need for a boiled-down version for those new to the home theater world—the Cliffs Notes version, if you will. Well, let us oblige.
After a rocky start with the flawed-out-of-the-box Samsung BD-P1000 player, Blu-ray finally hit the stores for real at the turn of the year with several new players. These range from the top-of-the-line Pioneer BDP-HD1 ($1,500), to Philips' the more sedate BDP9000 ($1,000), to the Sony PlayStation 3 ($499 or $599).
Despite my, and others', repeated assurances that you don't need 1080p on a 42-inch display, that seems to be what people keep concentrating on. Such resolution is wasted on a small screen (unless you're sitting on it). But, in this "mine has more resolution than yours" world, I guess such competitive behavior is inevitable. So, what about the displays that can take advantage of 1080p? Sure, depending on where you're sitting, an RPTV can do so. But, with all the concessions to price, brightness, and market competition, you still won't be getting everything out of the signal. There are a few flat panels that would work. In a size that would let you see 1080p from any distance, though, you'd be looking at the price of a good Mercedes. So, that leaves front projection.
To test your display's performance, you'll need not only specialized test generators and measurement devices, but also actual video material. After all, just because a display measures well doesn't mean it's anything you want to look at. For that matter, there are no objective measurements for things like scaling and deinterlacing. For consistency, we try to use the same or similar test DVDs (and now HD DVDs) for our testing in each display review and in our video Face Offs. If you want to see how your TV stacks up—or you wonder what we're talking about every month—here are most of the test discs we use and why we use them.
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Fernie Council ConnectionPosted: August 17, 2012
Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research
City of Fernie council August 13 received a letter of request form Ms. Jennifer Parker this year's organizer for the Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research, and agreed to offer any in-kind support for the event that can be reasonably provided.
The run is to be held Sunday, September 9; time to be announced soon.
Anyone looking to take part in the run or volunteer with the event please contact Jennifer at [email protected]
Fernie RCMP Detachment
Council has made a request with the Ministry of Justice to meet with an "E" Division representative at the upcoming UBCM Conference to discuss cell retrofit for the Fernie detachment as the existing cells have been decommissioned, as well a time line for the Rural Policing Study
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Council for the City of Fernie have contacted the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure requesting the ministry to remove the pedestrian crosswalk paint and the crossing signage at the intersection of Highway #3 and 5th Street.
This transportation corridor is a very busy stretch of highway and there have been several witnessed incidents with both vehicles and pedestrians at this intersection.
Council would like to direct the pedestrian traffic to use the signal controlled crossings at 4th Street and 7th Street to ensure the safety of our citizens and visitors alike.
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Council will investigate the creation of a task force to look into the impediments, barriers and opportunities for development in Fernie as well recommend process improvements resulting from its findings.
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Council allocated a budget of $1500 dollars for contracted services to deal with skunk complaints on private property, subject to confirmation of the city's lawful authority to do so.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011 | Categories: Episodes
The case of the disappearing case: In Bahrain, the family of a jailed human rights activist shows up for his court appearance only to find out authorities have no record of him.
A step backwards for women's rights in Pakistan. Five of the six men originally convicted of raping social activist, Mukhtar Mai, have now been set free.
Law and ardour. The Koran-burning Pastor Terry Jones wants to protest in a city he believes is under the reign of Shari'a law. That town: Dearborn, Michigan.
Treading carefully.The European Union proposes creating a "save haven" in Misrata, Libya. But sending in troops is an idea that been tried -- and has failed -- in conflicts elsewhere.
You've heard of a Denver omelette. But probably not a Denver scramble. Now, the scramble --- which has nothing to do with eggs or chickens but does have a lot to do with crossing the road -- is being scrapped.
Trophy strife. The Stanley Cup endures a road-trip from hell while soccer's Copa del Rey hits the road only to be run over by a double-decker bus.
As It Happens, the Thursday Edition, Radio whose cup sometimes gets runneth over.


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GOP-Backed Plan Would Let LAUSD, Other School Districts Opt Out Of Healthy Lunches
House Republicans are proposing to let some schools opt out of healthier school lunch and breakfast programs if they are losing money.
LA Religious Leaders Call On Mayor To Reject Proposed Metro Fare Hikes
A Southland coalition of multi-ethnic religious leaders Monday called on city officials to reject proposed fare increases over claims the move would harm the region's poorest residents.
Deadline Looms For LA County Voters To Register
Time is running out for Los Angeles County residents to register to vote in the upcoming primary election.
Toxic Plan For Vernon Battery Plant Approved
The South Coast Air Quality Management District says it approved the plan for Exide Technologies on Wednesday.
UCLA Student Council Narrowly Defeats Israeli Divestment Effort
Student leaders rejected a resolution urging University of California officials to divest from any companies that profit from what they call the Israeli "occupation" of Gaza and the West Bank, according to reports.
Anaheim To Vote On Electoral Changes After Lawsuit
Anaheim Tuesday approved a settlement in a voting rights lawsuit that challenged its citywide elections as unfair to the city's Hispanic majority.
City Council Votes To Crack Down On 'Swatting' Suspects
The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday will meet to vote on a proposal that would crack down on individuals who make false 911 calls to high-profile residences.
Pit Bulls Required To Be Sterilized In Unincorporated Areas Of Riverside County
Riverside County supervisors Tuesday approved an ordinance requiring all pit bull dogs older than four months in unincorporated areas of the county to be sterilized.
City Council Mulls Moratorium On Fracking
Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion Wednesday calling for a moratorium on a controversial natural gas extraction process.
City Council Rescinds Ban On Parking At Broken Meters
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to rescind a policy that allows the city to ticket people for parking at broken parking meters.
County Supervisors To Vote On Child Protection Commission
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday whether or not to create a child protection commission in the wake of the beating death of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy.
LA City Council Approves Plastic Bag Ban
The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday voted 11-1 to ban single-use plastic bags.
California Legislature Nears Budget Vote
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Fate Of LA Pot Shops Left To Voters
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Love this. It smells exactly like raw natural honey. Probably my favorite flavor out of all their lip balms.
My go to lip balm.I love this!!
Delicious honey scent,love the waxy almost matte consistency as I hate greasy lip balms that are more of a lip gloss and are rubbed off as soon as you apply(messy and never seem to hydrate the lips),but not this baby it lasts and lasts,and is non greasy enough to be worn under lipstick.
It plumps the lips and is fine for my sensitive skin.Also I like the cute yellow honeycomb style tube packaging,great for popping in the handbag with no mess,lasts a long time too.
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Burt's Bees is the best lip balm you will ever use... HANDS DOWN!!! It is has all the moisturizing properties you want in a lip balm...moisturizing, non-greasy, non-sticky, ect...with a variety of flavors that you will love. It has the qualities I always wished Bonnie Bell Lipsmackers would have had besides just the flavors. I have been using Burt's for about thirteen years now and swear by it. I have only ever had chapped lips when I ran out of it and did not repurchase after a few days. I have used Carmex, Blistex, and Chapstick in between just to try out a tasty flavor they have...I always end up tossing it and going back to Burt's because that stuff ended up making my lips dry and crack. This Flavor is another gem to that line. It has all the good qualities mentioned above. This has an interesting taste/smell to it. I was expecting a huge sweet honey scent to it, but it smells like an herbal tea that has a lot of honey in it. It is still good and works like a charm, so I would still say to give it a chance and try it.
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Rating this product simply on its delivery of moisturizing and softening the lips, 4 stars. It does have a tough grainy texture, however it softened my dry chapped lips and made them pump. It is a very waxy lip balm indeed, no slip or oily texture in this one (I prefer the waxy texture as it clings to your lips). Now, the smell...yes I too was taken aback by it. I was honestly expecting something borderline fragrance-free with a tinge of sweet honey? Nah. Too me this has a sharp almost floral kick alongside a baby powder/slight honey note. The floral note in this one closely resembles lilac IMO. Anyways, good lip balm with an odd scent, and the scent being the only reason I wouldn't buy again.
I love most Burt's Bees products, but this is garbage. The texture is not smooth and it has this foul, sour smell (like vinegar or sweaty feet). It's not good at all.
Warning: EWW DISGUSTING! I consider myself pretty picky when it comes to lip balms and for a good reason... Another lip product I'll never use. My sister took it. I can't stand this lip balm. The smell, the taste, the texture. The original Burts Bees is the Bee's Knees... But this, just NO. Don't waste your money this ish nasty.
I've got very very sensitive lips. The smell is blah and my lips got all red and itchy. It took me two weeks to heal them. But I'm VERY sensitive..
I absolutely love this! A few weeks ago, my lips started getting unusually dry to the point where it would crack every time I smiled. It looked a lot like eczema, but on my lips. (Note: this has never happened to me before). I tried a few different lip balms, from EOS to a balm I got from a samsung booth, but nothing was working for me. I suffered with this condition for about two months before I decided to try this product of desperation and within just 3 days, my eczema-like lips were completely healed! I don't think I'm going back to those other balms for a while. I totally recommend this product!
I picked this up on a whim when my last lip balm ran out, and I'm not too crazy about it. The balm has a very waxy fragrance and texture when I put it on, and the feeling lingers for quite a while afterwards.
So it's not the most comfortable lip balm i've ever tried, but it does do the trick in keeping my lips from drying out, which is a good thing in the winter.
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Flash arrays hit $11.3 billion in revenue, says IDC
Flash arrays are gaining momentum in the data center and technology buyers need to ponder a storage system swap when older gear is retired.
Flash arrays are gaining momentum in the data center and technology buyers need to ponder a storage system swap when older gear is retired.
ARM and TSMC have inked a new agreement to deliver ARMv8-A processor IP optimized for TSMC 10FinFET process technology.
GoDaddy plans to replace its Easy Email Marketing tool with the platform and technology from Mad Mimi.
Since adopting flash technology from Fusion-io, Future Ticketing is now able sell Big Day Out tickets without crashing the website, or it could, if the festival still existed.
The encrypted email provider and phone maker said it would not be following suit with other technology firms — at least for now.
Toshiba and SanDisk have accused SK Hynix of illegally obtaining data relating to NAND flash memory technology.
ARM plans to accelerate their energy-use advantage over Intel by licensing two innovative non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) technologies last month. ARM puts sizable financial and technical muscle behind the search for a flash replacement.
Consumer NAND flash technology has serious problems in enterprise applications, leading the industry to look for better non-volatile semiconductor storage. Researchers at IBM have been characterizing just such a new drive from Micron.
Technology arm of Hong Kong property developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties, says construction of its data center is going ahead as planned, despite Google's decision last week to abandon its own facility in the Chinese territory.
ARM has acquired a company that specializes in graphics technology for games as the race to produce better mobile device chips for entertainment purposes continues.
Seriously, does anyone actually find email to be usable?
ARM has signed a definitive agreement for the sale and transfer of Cadence PANTA display controller cores to ARM.
The cloud storage provider attracts investment from the investment arm of the U.S. flash memory giant.
Investment arm of chip giant has funded two Indian and one Singapore e-commerce sites: Bright Lifecare, Snapdeal, and Reebonz. It will provide business development support and technology expertise.
The technology arm of Walmart's global e-commerce unit has gone on a software startup shopping spree.
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Mobile technology is transforming business—way beyond company email on our smartphones. Mobile's next phase promises new and exciting business opportunities that challenge our notions of what's possible.
The drive maker claims its SSHD technology is five times faster than a 5,400rpm notebook hard drive, while its desktop SSHD includes 8GB of flash memory in addition to 1TB or 2TB of hard drive capacity.
British chip designer ARM reported a hike in profits, due to the growth of chip shipments containing ARM technology and royalties. The firm's outlook continues to look strong.
Google has announced an update to its Native Client programming technology to allow it to run apps on ARM-based devices.
Centerton is the key technology behind Intel's effort to bring its x86 architecture chips into low-power microservers, in an attempt to nip ARM in the bud before it establishes marketshare.


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iwerkz Folding Bluetooth Keyboard ($30)
4 out of 5 stars
The iwerkz Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard is ultra-portable and works nicely with iPhones and iPads. When folded, it slides into an included hard case. The case also functions as a stand to position your iPhone or iPad while you're typing. When folded the keyboard is less than one-inch thick.


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Just got home from the range, breaking in some new hardware. Got 150 rounds thru her , before they ran me off, to make room for paying customers LOL..... She is very sexy, and runs smooth as silk. Just like her older sister, the P90.
The Founders DID anticipate that arms technology would advance, that's why the 2nd amendment doesn't say "the right to keep and bear a musket".......
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The p95 was my first pistol and I still got it. Definitely a great shooter, congrats.
"Regardless of whether justified of not, you will feel sad about killing another human being. It is better to be sad than to be room temperature." - Joe B Fricks. Member: 01 FFL, GOFFA, NRA, GOA, IAVA, VFW, ABATE of Iowa D15.
I had a Ruger 45, I didn't really like it so traded for a couple times and ended up with a para p12, which I like a lot. I do miss the p85 9mm, I put rubber finger groove grips on it. It's almost becoming a collectable now.
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I have a Ruger P345. It shoots straight, is user-friendly, and is perfectly dependable. I live in a warm climate, and it is a little difficult to conceal under light (that's lightweight, not light as opposed to dark ) clothing. But in cool weather it conceals well under a light jacket. I also have a bunch of Ruger revolvers. Sturdy, accurate, safe to load all 6 chambers. I have been looking at SR40's, but my wife hasn't let me have the money yet.
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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has said that throwing money at the Premier League title is no guarantee of landing it, ESPN has reported.
The Reds are in contention for the title this season, having not won the league since 1990. Rodgers' team are now second in the table, four points behind leaders Chelsea with a game in hand.
"Teams spend a billion quid and it does not guarantee anything," Rodgers said. "Once you put your ideas in place and the players start to crack it, we will have success. Money can't buy that.
"It is about coaching and man management and dealing with people, having a great staff, finding a cause for the players to fight for," the former Swansea City boss added. "All of that comes into it and that is something we have done in the period I have been here. Of course we will be in the market for good and top players but there is more to it than that."
Liverpool have in recent transfer windows spent around half the amount of Chelsea and Manchester City, the latter of whom are in fourth place, six points behind Chelsea, but with three games in hand.
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First woman chosen to lead Mass. State Police
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BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday tapped veteran trooper Marian McGovern to be the first female leader of the Massachusetts State Police, promoting a 30-year veteran who was among only a dozen women in the agency when she began her career.
"She has done just about every job in the state police," Patrick said of his pick yesterday. "She is very well-prepared and very well-regarded."
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Happy Birthday, thyme2go!!
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Think of the haters in your life as sandpaper; theyll scratch you up time and time again but in the end youre polished, smooth, and spotless..while they end up useless
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
My tolerance for stupid shit is getting less and less.
Happy birthday, dorky pants!!!
Married 25 years DD 23 DS 21 Reconciled
SO-5 years together-he decided to end it by cheating too
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On March 14, Icahn notified Dell that it had filed a notification under the HSR Act with the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission relating to Icahn Enterprises' potential acquisition of up to 25 percent of the company's outstanding shares.
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:35:46 -0400 Matthew Mondor <mm_lists@...> wrote: > I think that this is different, for the stream now works fine, and an > error is signalled properly when fdopen(2) fails... So here fdopen(2) > succeeded, the stream was created and I could read-char and read-line > from it, but the functions which now crash are the ones to query the > underlaying file descriptor afterwards (si:file-stream-fd, > gray:stream-file-descriptor). When I tested si:file-stream-fd the intention was to verify if it works so that I could possibly implement an alternative function which instead of using fileno(3) on the file handle could possibly report the fh error/eof state. Because unfortunately, FORCE-OUTPUT will not report at all why it stopped flushing if an error occurred, so I should either be able to use fflush(3) from C and/or ferror(3)/feof(3), but for that I need the pointer to the underlaying stdio FILE stream. Thanks, -- Matt |


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- The Programming Error That Cost Mt Gox 2609 Bitcoins — in the unforgiving world of crypto-currency, it's easy to miscode and vanish your money.
- Ford Invites Open-Source Community to Tinker Away — One example: Nelson has re-tasked the motor from a Microsoft Xbox 360 game controller to create an OpenXC shift knob that vibrates to signal gear shifts in a standard-transmission Mustang. The 3D-printed prototype shift knob uses Ford's OpenXC research platform to link devices to the car via Bluetooth, and shares vehicle data from the on-board diagnostics port. Nelson has tested his prototype in a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 that vibrates at the optimal time to shift.
- Making Sense of Data — Google online course on data literacy.
- Cost-Efficient Continuous Integration at Mozilla — CI on a big project can imply hundreds if not thousands of VMs on Amazon spinning up to handle compiles and tests. This blog post talks about Mozilla's efforts to reduce its CI-induced spend without reducing the effectiveness of its CI practices.
"education" entries
Four short links: 3 March 2014
Vanishing Money, Car Hackery, Data Literacy Course, and Cheaper CI
Four short links: 28 February 2014
Minecraft+Pi+Python, Science Torrents, Web App Performance Measurement, and Streaming Data
- Programming Minecraft Pi with Python — an early draft, but shows promise for kids. (via Raspberry Pi)
- Terasaur — BitTorrent for mad-large files, making it easy for datasets to be saved and exchanged.
- Bucky — Open-source tool to measure the performance of your web app directly from your users' browsers. Nifty graph.
- Zoe Keating's Streaming Payouts — actual data on a real musician's distribution and revenues through various channels. Hint: streaming is tragicomically low-paying. (via Andy Baio)
Four short links: 21 February 2014
Twitter Clusters, Web Assembly, Modern Web Practices, and Social Network Algorithms
- Mapping Twitter Topic Networks (Pew Internet) — Conversations on Twitter create networks with identifiable contours as people reply to and mention one another in their tweets. These conversational structures differ, depending on the subject and the people driving the conversation. Six structures are regularly observed: divided, unified, fragmented, clustered, and inward and outward hub and spoke structures. These are created as individuals choose whom to reply to or mention in their Twitter messages and the structures tell a story about the nature of the conversation. (via Washington Post)
- yasp — a fully functional web-based assembler development environment, including a real assembler, emulator and debugger. The assembler dialect is a custom which is held very simple so as to keep the learning curve as shallow as possible.
- The 12-Factor App — twelve habits of highly successful web developers, essentially.
- Fast Approximation of Betweenness Centrality through Sampling (PDF) — Betweenness centrality is a fundamental measure in social network analysis, expressing the importance or influence of individual vertices in a network in terms of the fraction of shortest paths that pass through them. Exact computation in large networks is prohibitively expensive and fast approximation algorithms are required in these cases. We present two efficient randomized algorithms for betweenness estimation.
Four short links: 18 February 2014
Offensive Security, Sage-Quitting, Ethics Risks, and War Stories
- Offensive Computer Security — 2014 class notes, lectures, etc. from FSU. All CC-licensed.
- Twitter I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (Quinn Norton) — The net doesn't make social problems. It amplifies them until they can't be ignored. And many other words of wisdom. When you eruditely stop using a service, that's called sage-quitting.
- Inside Google's Mysterious Ethics Board (Forbes) — nails the three risk to Google's AI ethics board: (a) compliance-focus, (b) internally-staffed, and (c) only for show.
- 10 Things We Forgot to Monitor — devops war stories explaining ten things that bitly now monitors.
Four short links: 3 February 2014
Ouroborosification, Kid Curricula, Geeky Furniture, and Data Leakage
- How In-App Purchases Has Destroyed the Games Industry — fantastic before-and-after of a game, showing how it's hollowed out for in-app-purchase upsell. the problem is that all the future generations of gamers are going to experience this as the default. They are going to grow up in a world, in which people actually think this is what gaming is like. That social engineering and scamming people is an acceptable way of doing business.
- Making Makers — kid-tested curricula for kids learning to code, to 3D print, stop motion animation, and more. (via BoingBoing)
- 555 Footstool in the Wild — awesome furniture in the shape of the ever-popular timing chip.
- What a Brand Knows About You When You Log In With Facebook (Twitter) — good lord. (via BoingBoing)
Four short links: 30 January 2014
In-Game Economy, AI Ethics, Data Repository, and Regulated Disruption
- $200k of Spaceships Destroyed (The Verge) — More than 2,200 of the game's players, members of EVE's largest alliances, came together to shoot each other out of the sky. The resultant damage was valued at more than $200,000 of real-world money. […] Already, the battle has had an impact on the economics and politics of EVE's universe: as both side scramble to rearm and rebuild, the price of in-game resource tritanium is starting to rise. "This sort of conflict," Coker said, "is what science fiction warned us about."
- Google Now Has an AI Ethics Committee (HufPo) — sorry for the HufPo link. One of the requirements of the DeepMind acquisition was that Google agreed to create an AI safety and ethics review board to ensure this technology is developed safely. Page's First Law of Robotics: A robot may not block an advertisement, nor through inaction, allow an advertisement to come to harm.
- Academic Torrents — a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds built on BitTorrent.
- Hack Schools Meet California Regulators (Venturebeat) — turns out vocational training is a regulated profession. Regulation meets disruption, annihilate in burst of press releases.
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The hard way or pay to play?
Aspiring software developers have more avenues than ever to learn to code without going back to school. From free, self-paced online learning environments to not-so-free, structured, immersive experiences, a number of services have cropped up within the past few years offering to help total newbies become full-fledged coders (or maybe just pick up a new hobby). As someone with an interest in both the coding side and the instructional side of this phenomenon, I've spent some time reflecting on how these services compare to my own experience as a developer whose career choice and schooling diverged.
Four short links: 21 January 2014
Mature Engineering, Control Theory, Open Access USA, and UK Health Data Too-Open?
- On Being a Senior Engineer (Etsy) — Mature engineers know that no matter how complete, elegant, or superior their designs are, it won't matter if no one wants to work alongside them because they are assholes.
- Control Theory (Coursera) — Learn about how to make mobile robots move in effective, safe, predictable, and collaborative ways using modern control theory. (via DIY Drones)
- US Moves Towards Open Access (WaPo) — Congress passed a budget that will make about half of taxpayer-funded research available to the public.
- NHS Patient Data Available for Companies to Buy (The Guardian) — Once live, organisations such as university research departments – but also insurers and drug companies – will be able to apply to the new Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) to gain access to the database, called care.data. If an application is approved then firms will have to pay to extract this information, which will be scrubbed of some personal identifiers but not enough to make the information completely anonymous – a process known as "pseudonymisation". Recipe for disaster as it has been repeatedly shown that it's easy to identify individuals, given enough scrubbed data. Can't see why the NHS just doesn't make it an app in Facebook. "Nat's Prostate status: it's complicated."
Four short links: 8 January 2014
Cognition as a Service, Levy on NSA, SD-Sized Computer, and Learning Research
- Launching the Wolfram Connected Devices Project — Wolfram Alpha is cognition-as-a-service, which they hope to embed in devices. This data-powered Brain-in-the-Cloud play will pit them against Google, but G wants to own the devices and the apps and the eyeballs that watch them … interesting times ahead!
- How the USA Almost Killed the Internet (Wired) — "At first we were in an arms race with sophisticated criminals," says Eric Grosse, Google's head of security. "Then we found ourselves in an arms race with certain nation-state actors [with a reputation for cyberattacks]. And now we're in an arms race with the best nation-state actors."
- Intel Edison — SD-card sized, with low-power 22nm 400MHz Intel Quark processor with two cores, integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
- N00b 2 L33t, Now With Graphs (Tom Stafford) — open science research validating many of the findings on learning, tested experimentally via games. In the present study, we analyzed data from a very large sample (N = 854,064) of players of an online game involving rapid perception, decision making, and motor responding. Use of game data allowed us to connect, for the first time, rich details of training history with measures of performance from participants engaged for a sustained amount of time in effortful practice. We showed that lawful relations exist between practice amount and subsequent performance, and between practice spacing and subsequent performance. Our methodology allowed an in situ confirmation of results long established in the experimental literature on skill acquisition. Additionally, we showed that greater initial variation in performance is linked to higher subsequent performance, a result we link to the exploration/exploitation trade-off from the computational framework of reinforcement learning.
Four short links: 17 December 2013
Graph Compression, Learning Minecraft Coding, Performance Enhancing, and Explained Shell
- WebGraph — a framework for graph compression aimed at studying web graphs. It provides simple ways to manage very large graphs, exploiting modern compression techniques. (via Ben Lorica)
- Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins — You'll need to add features to the game itself: learn how to build plugins for your own Minecraft server using the Java programming language. You don't need to know anything about programming to get started—-this book will teach you everything you need to know! Shameless Christmas stocking bait! (via Greg Borenstein)
- In Search of Perfection, Young Adults Turn to Adderall at Work (Al Jazeera) — "Adderall is just the tip of the iceberg," Essig said. "There are lots more drugs coming down the pike. The way we set up our cultural model for dealing with psychologically performance-enhancing drugs is a real serious question."
- Explain Shell — uses parsed manpages to explain a shell commandline. (via Tracy K Teal)


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The Loews is a very nice, modern place amidst the hotspots of Hollywood. The hotel itself is quiet and perfectly located. We had a wonderful room with a great view towards the Hollywood sign and downtown. The bed was so comfy! The only downturn is the bathroom. Compared to the modern stylish hotel it is rather old and very basic.
The staff are friendly and helpful with bookings, luggage and recommendations.
The hotel is excellently linked with the shopping mall and dining courses. We had delicious crepes and ice-cream.
We enjoyed the breakfast buffet. Their pancakes made to order with fresh berries was yummy! In the lobby there is a Starbucks.
You can easily walk from the hotel into the mall and feel safe. After sunset I wouldn't walk too far from the hotel and Highland center as the area is a bit shabby. During the day there is plenty of action. but be careful...everybody wants to sell and make money from you. All in all Hollywood is rather disappointing but a perfect starting point for sightseeing tours in and around LA.
I would go back to Loews whenever in Hollywood!
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- The Hollywood sign. The Hills. The Academy Awards. Jimmy Kimmel Live. The Hollywood Walk of Fame. The city's major movie studios. This is the stuff a classic visit to Hollywood is made of-and a stay at Loews Hollywood Hotel puts you right in the middle of all the action. Whether it's sightseeing, business or relaxation that brings you here, our 632 guestrooms and suites are the perfect place to unwind after a day in L.A. Just outside our doors is the expansive Hollywood & Highland Center-a hive of activity where you can shop, eat, hang out or host an event at the Dolby Theatre, home of the Academy Awards, with catering by Wolfgang Puck. We count Jimmy Kimmel's studio as our neighbor and we're close to the Hollywood Hills and the Hollywood Bowl. Our recently refreshed rooms have some of the best views in the city-choose from postcard-perfect views of the Hollywood sign, the Capitol Records building or the L.A. City skyline. When you're ready for a little me time, head to our hotel's rooftop pool and deck, or to the Exhale Spa for a spa treatment or yoga class. ... more less
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It's become tradition that KDE fans and developers meet twice a year to hold a sizable conference. This year's Camp KDE in San Diego begins in 10 days.
After the success of the European meetings, under the name Akademy, the KDE association has for the second time organized a conference oversees. Last year it was Jamaica, this year it takes place in Californian San Diego and will last from January 15 to 21. The opening weekend will see 3 days of talks and lectures with the conference closing on Wednesday/Thursday with each of the KDE groups holding BoF sittings and hacking sessions.
The detailed schedule can be viewed online at the Camp KDE homepage. Alongside keynotes from Philip Bourne on the subject of open data access, and Frank Karlitschek on KDE and the Cloud, many other interesting lectures on the KDE desktop in general, including development, also for beginners from Justin Kirby: Getting Involved as a Non-Developer, and Documentation by David Wonderly can be found on the agenda.
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Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
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Level | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Organisational Unit | Italian Studies |
Offered | Australia (Other) Summer semester B 2013 (On-campus block of classes) |
Coordinator(s) | Prof Rita Wilson |
The strong worldwide impact of globalization of the last few decades has introduced new economic and cultural challenges in Italy. The aim of this unit is to analyse and understand how the late-twentieth century process of transformation in Italian society has been reflected in the literary production. Students will read and study a number of texts, both fiction and non-fiction, dealing with aspects of contemporary Italian life and society. Students will have the opportunity to learn more about Italy today, and about the way in which Italian writers use their craft to respond to important social issues. In particular, this subject intends to highlight the main traits of a 'new' literature that is gradually enriching the Italian cultural horizon: texts produced in Italian by writers who originally belong to other cultures and who have chosen Italy as destination of their migration, as well as texts exploring Italy's place in the world and its interaction with other cultures. The unit will be taught in intensive mode over three weeks by academics from both La Trobe University and Monash University, and will be offered to students from the two institutions. The language of instruction will be Italian and all assessment tasks will be in Italian.
Short preparatory task: 20%
Reviews of assigned reading: 35%
Participation and discussion of readings: 15%
Final essay: 30%
Seminars: 3 hours a day, Monday-Thurs for 3 weeks = total of 36 hours (equivalent to a 12-week semester).
Interactive 2-hour seminar plus 1-hour workshop (4 days per week for 3 weeks = total of 36 hours equivalent to 12 week semester)
Students must have achieved a level equivalent to Italian B2 + Italian Studies (Independent User). See http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/language-framework/italian-b2/


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Description:Former "That '70s Show" actress Lisa Robin Kelly has died at the age of 43, reports TMZ. According to the website, the actress passed away in her sleep on Wednesday night at a rehab facility in California. Kelly had voluntarily checked herself into rehab for treatment earlier this week, her agent told the website, explaining that she "had been fighting demons for a while and finally lost her battle." (0:33)
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- 2 lbs mild smoked pork sausage or 2 lbs any high-quality lean smoked pork sausage, sliced 1/4-inch thick
- 2 1/2 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1 1/2 lbs onions, diced
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh garlic
- 1 lb tasso, cubed
- 3/4 tablespoon whole fresh thyme leave
- 3/4 tablespoon chopped fresh sweet basil leaves
- 1/2 tablespoon fresh coarse ground black pepper
- 1/2 tablespoon white pepper
- 1/2 tablespoon red pepper flakes
- 1/3 gallon chicken stock
- 1 1/4 lbs long-grain rice
- 1 tablespoon freshly chopped curly fresh parsley leaves
- 1The most important thing is to use the right equipment so I would suggest to get the following; a 2 gallon cast iron Dutch Oven, a high BTU gas stove. and a large stainless steel Chef's spoon. Use high heat to preheat the Dutch Oven and add the sausage. Use the Chef's spoon, and constantly move the sausage from the bottom of the pot. Be careful not to burn the meat. Normally I use Manda's sausage because it has little fat, however at this point you may want to drain off all of the excess grease to reduce the fat content from the dish.
- 2Add the thigh meat and brown the chicken on all sides. Again use the spoon to scrape the meat from sticking and burning to the bottom of the pot. Browning the sausage and chicken meats should take 20 minutes. Be careful not to over cook the thigh meat to the point that it shreds.
- 3Lower the heat to medium and add the onions and garlic; saute for about 15 minutes or until the onions are very limp and "clear". Scrape the bottom of the pot to remove all the "graton". This is where the jambalaya gets its distinct brown color and taste.
- 4Add the tasso, thyme, basil and black and white pepper. Simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. This will give the seasonings time to release their oils and flavors.
- 5add the stock to the concentrate and bring to a rolling boil. Add the rice, reduce the heat to medium and gently break up the rice. Using the stainless steel paddle, continue to insure that the rice is not sticking to the bottom of the pot; this is very important!
- 6After about 5 minutes, fold in the parsley. Continue to scrape the pot to insure that no rice sticks to the bottom. When the jambalaya returns to a boil, reduce heat to the lowest possible setting and simmer, covered, for at least 25 minutes. Do not remove the cover while the rice is steaming.
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I think your OBGYN or his nurse is the one to ask for this one. I had an emergency c section with my twins and I asked my Doc if he hunted because I felt like I had been gutted like a deer. It made him lol
I would not bathe yet. I know they told me not to soak or swim for an extended time (I've had 5 c-sections) but can't for the life of me remember exactly how long it was...I'm thinking it was around a month for baths!? I'd call the Dr and see to be sure. You don't want to get an infection in there :(
I had stitches with my cesarean (I asked for them instead of staples) and I took a shower a few days later. I didn't take a bath until the incision had healed for awhile. I wasn't uncomfortable after the cesarean though, and didn't take any of the pain meds after they weaned me off of the stuff in the iv so I was okay with the showers.


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From what we know so far, Edward Snowden appears to be the ultimate unmediated man. Though obviously terrifically bright, he could not successfully work his way through the institution of high school. Then he failed to navigate his way through community college.
According to The Washington Post, he has not been a regular presence around his mothers house for years. When a neighbor in Hawaii tried to introduce himself, Snowden cut him off and made it clear he wanted no neighborly relationships. He went to work for Booz Allen Hamilton and the CIA, but he has separated himself from them, too.
Though thoughtful, morally engaged and deeply committed to his beliefs, he appears to be a product of one of the more unfortunate trends of the age: the atomization of society, the loosening of social bonds, the apparently growing share of young men in their 20s who are living technological existences in the fuzzy land between their childhood institutions and adult family commitments.
If you live a life unshaped by the mediating institutions of civil society, perhaps it makes sense to see the world a certain way: Life is not embedded in a series of gently gradated authoritative structures: family, neighborhood, religious group, state, nation and world. Instead, its just the solitary naked individual and the gigantic and menacing state.
This lens makes you more likely to share the distinct strands of libertarianism that are blossoming in this fragmenting age: the deep suspicion of authority, the strong belief that hierarchies and organizations are suspect, the fervent devotion to transparency, the assumption that individual preference should be supreme. Youre more likely to donate to the Ron Paul for president campaign, as Snowden did.
Its logical, given this background and mindset, that Snowden would sacrifice his career to expose data mining procedures of the National Security Agency. Even if he has not been able to point to any specific abuses, he was bound to be horrified by the confidentiality endemic to military and intelligence activities. And, of course, hes right that the procedures hes unveiled could lend themselves to abuse in the future.
But Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism, the fraying of the social fabric and the rise of people who are so individualistic in their outlook that they have no real understanding of how to knit others together and look after the common good.
This is not a danger Snowden is addressing. In fact, he is making everything worse.
For society to function well, there have to be basic levels of trust and cooperation, a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures. By deciding to unilaterally leak secret NSA documents, Snowden has betrayed all of these things.
He betrayed honesty and integrity, the foundation of all cooperative activity. He made explicit and implicit oaths to respect the secrecy of the information with which he was entrusted. He betrayed his oaths.
He betrayed his friends. Anybody who worked with him will be suspect. Young people in positions like that will no longer be trusted with responsibility for fear that they will turn into another Snowden.
He betrayed his employers. Booz Allen and the CIA took a high school dropout and offered him positions with lavish salaries. He is violating the honor codes of all those who enabled him to rise.
He betrayed the cause of open government. Every time there is a leak like this, the powers that be close the circle of trust a little tighter. They limit debate a little more.
He betrayed the privacy of us all. If federal security agencies cant do vast data sweeps, they will inevitably revert to the older, more intrusive eavesdropping methods.
He betrayed the Constitution. The founders did not create the United States so that some solitary 29-year-old could make unilateral decisions about what should be exposed. Snowden self-indulgently short-circuited the democratic structures of accountability, putting his own preferences above everything else.
Snowden faced a moral dilemma. On the one hand, he had information about a program he thought was truly menacing. On the other hand, he had made certain commitments as a public servant, as a member of an organization, and a nation. Sometimes leakers have to leak. The information they possess is so grave that it demands they violate their oaths.
But before they do, you hope they will interrogate themselves closely and force themselves to confront various barriers of resistance. Is the information so grave that its worth betraying an oath, circumventing the established decision-making procedures, unilaterally exposing secrets that can never be reclassified.
Judging by his comments reported in the news media so far, Snowden was obsessed with the danger of data mining but completely oblivious to his betrayals and toward the damage he has done to social arrangements and the invisible bonds that hold them together.
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Ambient Corporation Enhances MicroNode Control Functionality And Communication Capabilities
NEWTON, Mass., July 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambient Corporation (NASDAQ: AMBT), provider of a secure, flexible, and scalable smart grid communications and applications platform, today announced the further development of the Ambient MicroNode™, a purpose-built, compact and cost-effective network device with advanced processing capability and memory, which has been enhanced with an additional serial interface, two digital inputs and outputs, and a USB host port, to connect Distribution Automation (DA) devices such as voltage regulators, automated feeder switches, sensors, reclosers and capacitor banks.
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Ambient's Chief Technology Officer, David Masters, said, "Our products provide the capability for data collection and control virtually anywhere on a distribution system. The additional interfaces on the MicroNode extend the communications and control capability to more devices to enable multiple applications. The choice of interfaces ensures flexibility to connect to a variety of smart grid and/or legacy devices. This product, like our other products, is managed by the Ambient Network Management System, providing the benefits of having a managed communications infrastructure."
John J. Joyce, President and CEO of Ambient Corporation, also commented, "Our investments in both hardware and software development enable our Company to bring products to our customers that are designed to fit today's needs and evolve to meet tomorrow's challenges. Ambient Smart Grid Nodes ™ offer utility customers a very effective solution for achieving their grid modernization objectives. Building single-use networks duplicates assets and increases cost. Conversely, our open standards-based IP platform, which enables utilities to deploy and manage multiple smart grid applications in parallel, provides undoubted financial and operational benefits."
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The more famous feuds involved the dueling of prominent pop stars, so chances are you felt torn at least once this year when it came down to the now infamous brawls. Regardless of the side you were on, you were at the very least entertained. So we at Idolator have compiled a list of 15 Shade-Fests-slash-Beefs from 2014. From sassy pop divas to hip-hop legends, there was a ton of erratic behavior going on. You know you loved it all, though (and so did we). Check out our shadiest picks below! More »


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TravelPod Member ReviewsPhoenix Hotel, a Joie de Vivre hotel San Francisco
On our arrival to the motel a drug deal was taking place in the driveway, and it doesn't get any better from there.
The motel itself is clean and done up in a rock music theme, but to me was a bit try hard, but the real problems were just outside the motel complex, homeless, alcoholic, drug addicts all over the place.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Phoenix Hotel, a Joie de Vivre hotel San Francisco
All the fun of a hostel without the fleas
This is a fun place to stay in San Fran. It has everything we love about staying in hostels - nice vibe and diversity of the guests - without the funk that usually comes with them. The hotel looks like a re-vamped 50's style hotel with retro touches everywhere.
The cons we can think of is the location (not the nicest), noise and lack of privacy (each room faces the court yard).
This is definitely not the spot to bring kids or for those seeking peace and quiet but it is really fun for a more laid back spirit. We will definitley stay here on our next trip to the city.
Not what seems to be!
The Phoenix hotel is not what it seems on the website. It is not a design hotel but more an old re-decorated one. Although we're young, we thought it was very noisy with the restaurant 'Bambuddha', you can't sleep. The area of the hotel is a bit unsecure. Finally, it is expensive for what it is, and the staff is not sympathic at all.
The Phoenix Rocks!!
The Phoenix Hotel is definitely not for everyone (especially Kids!). But if you are looking for a hotel where you can feel like you are touring rock star this is the place for you! (THEY RESERVE PART OF THE PARKING LOT FOR TOUR BUSES).
It is walking distance from the Bart Civic Center Stop so easy to get there from the airport. There is a bodega across the street for any snacks you may want. There is a great restaurant poolside Bambuddha Lounge where you can have drinks. If you are looking to sleep try it during the day as this place is not great for nighttime sleeping. From dusk til about an hour or so after last call there is a buzz thru out the hotel that does not die down to til everyone gets to sleep. Some may think at a hotel like this the staff would be rude. But in all the hotels I have stood at this one has top top customer service. w/i 15 mins of check in they called to check on us. The only minus is that neighorhood outside of the hotel can be sketchy so don't wonder after dark.
Great hotel in a gritty neighborhood
My husband and I stayed at the Phoenix Hotel for a couple days during the Christmas holidays. Our overall experience was excellent. Parking was free, hotel staff was friendly and helpful, room was clean and spacious, room rates were affordable. The worst part was the neighborhood, as the hotel is located at the edge of the somewhat sketchy Tenderloin district. However, the cleaner and more popular Nob Hill district is just down the street. And we were never concerned about our own safety or the safety of our rental car because the staff was alert and at the front desk (in plain view of the parking lot) 24 hours a day. Also, the hotel rooms can only be accessed through a gate that leads to the courtyard, and one must have a keycard in order to get into the gate. I would stay here again.
Party on
The review below is correct in as much as this is definitely not for the buisness traveller. However if you're looking for great value for money; a bar that's packed with great looking people and cool tunes and a tasty restaurant, then this is the place for you. Staff are very helpful. The rooms are what you'd expect for the price with no air con. All in all, it's not hard to see what a lot of bands on tour stay here as it's the coolest joint in town
While I agree that the staff was nice, it was hard to overlook the stained carpet, warped tile, black bathtub, broken window, cracked and paper thin walls. Definitely not a place for the business traveller; even early in the week people are up and at 'em fairly late and it is difficult to sleep. The website was misleading and I was surprised to see the place live. Where the site makes you believe you're in for a funky remodeled hotel, you should be prepared for an old, redecorated, rundown motel in a pretty frightening area. It would probably be a fun place if you're younger, looking to have a good time and have an adventure.
Best Hotel Ever!!!
We recently spent the weekend at the Phoenix and what a great weekend it was! The hotel is just great, the staff is so helpful and the general vibe is just great. It isn't in the best section of town - but we never wanted to leave the hotel!!! I will always stay at the Phoenix when in San Francisco.
An oasis!
We had a great stay at The Phoenix in September thanks to the friendly, helpful staff. It really is an oasis of calm (and cool) in a central if a little run-down area of San Francisco. The weather was unusually hot so we were glad of the pool. Our room was very comfortable with fantastic local artwork. We would recommend visitors take a cab back to the hotel late at night as the surrounding area was pretty unsavoury!
Breakfast by the pool was very relaxed and pleasant. The new Bambuddha Bar was a bonus after a long day on our feet - great food and atmosphere. We will return!
Phoenix can be a Nightclub w/ rooms
The Phoenix is a bargain with a catch. On weekends, speakers, bouncers, a DJ, and clubbers can be right outside your door until the wee hours.
The staff is great, the atmosphere is cool, but be prepared. Free parking, people watching, and transvestite hookers outside are added bonuses. It is easy to catch a cab.
Although the hotel lies on the edge of a dodgy district of San Francisco, we had no problems getting to and from the hotel during our stay. Even though we chose to avoid certain streets around the hotel, it was still easy walking distance to many parts of San Francisco, so the location was perfect for us.We found the Phoenix to be a bright, colourful, clean, cool place to stay, with a great newly-opened bar/restaurant, free parking (a bonus) and SUPER-friendly and helpful staff.
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