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For iPhone fans, it really was too good to be true. A pair of Apple executives had just described the latest model of the iPhone — the 3GS — onstage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2009. The audience loved it. The 3GS was twice as fast as its predecessor, it included a camera that shot video, and the updated iPhone operating system enabled multimedia messaging and tethering — the ability to use the phone as a modem. Just one problem: While many customers in Europe and Asia could enjoy all those features, AT&T, the iPhone's sole US carrier, wouldn't allow video messaging or tethering at launch. In other words, the most advanced features wouldn't be available to AT&T customers. What's more, some current iPhone users who wanted to upgrade wouldn't get the subsidies that new customers enjoyed. Incensed iPhone fanatics vented their fury on Twitter. "AT&T has been one disappointment after another." "Is AT&T trying to squeeze more money from us poor suckers?" And they punctuated their complaints with a hashtag — the Twitter convention for grouping conversations — that became an eight-character protest slogan: #attfail.
About a week later, AT&T backed down and agreed to extend the subsidy to some existing iPhone users, but that didn't appease its many critics. In the following months, the #attfail tag would serve as a kind of primal-scream therapy, a chance to rage against every perceived indignity that AT&T had forced upon them. Dropped call? #attfail. Data service unavailable? #attfail. Bad customer service? #attfail. The hashtag popped up on Twitter more than 5,000 times over the next six months, according to research firm Trendrr. In an attempt to assuage its critics, AT&T produced a video featuring its online spokesperson, Seth the Blogger Guy, to explain that the company was facing "an astounding amount of data demand" and to detail the "time-consuming process" involved in enabling video messaging. But Seth didn't seem to win many converts. "AT&T LIES to consumers! Seth is not a REAL Blogger Guy!" one tweeter wrote in response. "#AT&T #FAIL miserably."
AT&T had seen something like this coming. Almost as soon as the first iPhone was introduced in 2007, the carrier realized it might run short of bandwidth. Within just a few months, the first wave of iPhone customers was already sucking down about 15 times more data than the average smartphone customer and 50 percent more than AT&T had itself projected. In a bid to avert the looming problem, a team headed by senior vice president Kris Rinne met with Apple to ask for help. Of course AT&T was planning to upgrade its network to handle the increased demand, Rinne's team told Apple executives, but that was going to take years. In the meantime, would Apple take measures to help throttle back the traffic? Perhaps Apple could restrict its YouTube app to run only over Wi-Fi. Maybe the iPhone could feature a smaller, lower-resolution videostream or cut off YouTube videos after one minute. Rinne, who had already met with Apple's iPhone team at least half a dozen times, fully expected the company to play along. After all, manufacturers agreed to such restrictions all the time. It didn't make sense to build phones and offer features that carriers couldn't support.
But in meetings with Apple engineers and marketers over the subsequent year, Rinne and other AT&T executives discovered that Apple wasn't playing by traditional wireless rules. It wasn't interested in cooperating, especially if it meant hobbling what had quickly become its marquee product. For Apple, the idea of restricting the iPhone was akin to asking Steve Jobs to ditch the black turtleneck. "They tried to have that conversation with us a number of times," says someone from Apple who was in the meetings. "We consistently said 'No, we are not going to mess up the consumer experience on the iPhone to make your network tenable.' They'd always end up saying, 'We're going to have to escalate this to senior AT&T executives,' and we always said, 'Fine, we'll escalate it to Steve and see who wins.' I think history has demonstrated how that turned out."
Indeed it has. Just as Rinne and her colleagues predicted, AT&T's network proved unable to cope with the deluge of data traffic generated by the iPhone, particularly in cities like San Francisco and New York. Even as the #attfail meme burned up Twitter, AT&T accelerated its network upgrades — it has spent nearly $37 billion on new equipment and capacity since the iPhone launch and expects to invest around $13.5 billion in 2010. The effort may have already boosted performance, with at least some independent studies showing that the carrier's network has improved. And yet AT&T's image remains deeply damaged, and the body slams keep coming — including insults from mischievous blogger Fake Steve Jobs, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
Meanwhile, the groundbreaking alliance has deteriorated into a loveless celebrity marriage. Each company has publicly described the other as the ideal partner (and neither would comment for this story beyond reiterating that talking point), but behind the scenes both have jockeyed for position while consumers have lashed out, looking for someone to blame.


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The de Clare family of Norman lords were associated with the Welsh Marches, Suffolk, Surrey, Kent (especially Tonbridge) and Ireland. They were descended from Richard fitz Gilbert, who accompanied William the Conqueror into England during the Norman conquest of England.In the paternal line they were illegitimate descendants of the House of Normandy, through one of Richard I, Duke of Normandy's sons[a] Geoffrey, Count of Eu.
The Clare family descends from Gilbert Crispin, Count of Brionne and Eu, whose father Godfrey was the eldest of the illegitimate sons of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. Gilbert was one of the guardians of William II, who became Duke of Normandy as a child in 1035. When Gilbert was assassinated in 1039 or 1040, his young sons Baldwin de Meules et du Sap and Richard de Bienfaite et d'Orbec fled with their guardians to Baldwin V, Count of Flanders; they returned to Normandy when William married Baldwin's daughter in 1053, and William took them into high favour.
After the conquest of England Richard received huge estates including Clare and Tonbridge, the estate whose name was normally coupled with his. According to Richard Mortimer, he was "the founder of the English, Welsh, and Irish baronial family which historians usually call 'of Clare'."[4]
Historical sources are vague and sometimes contradictory about when the name de Clare came into common usage, but Richard fitz Gilbert (of Tonbridge) is once referred to as Richard of Clare in the Suffolk return of the Domesday Survey.[5] Baldwin de Meules was left in charge of Exeter on its submission (1068) and made sheriff of Devonshire. Large estates in Devonshire and Somersetshire are entered to him in Domesday as "Baldwin of Exeter" or "Baldwin the Sheriff". [6]
On his death, Richard's English estates passed to his son Gilbert Fitz Richard (died 1114/7). Gilbert's eldest son Richard (died ca. 1136) was the ancestor of the earls of Hertford and Gloucester. Gilbert's younger son Gilbert, establishing himself in Wales, acquired the earldom of Pembroke or of Striguil. The elder line obtained (probably from King Stephen)[7] the earldom of Hertford, and were thenceforth known as earls of Hertford or of Clare.
John Horace Round suggested that it was probably because
[Gilbert] and the Clares had no interests in Hertfordshire that they were loosely and usually styled the earls of (de) Clare.[6]
In the Dictionary of National Biography he stated that investigation showed that the claim that they were "styled earls of Clare" before they were earls of Hertford was not true; they were alternately called Hertford or of Clare.[8] On the other hand, Frank Barlow places Gilbert de Clare as Earl of Hertford in the group of barons given earldoms between 1138 and 1142, and states that they all had "substantial local interests".[9] Ralph Henry Carless Davis states that Gilbert was a witness as Earl of Hertford at Christmas 1141, and it is generally believed that he had been Earl since 1138; but that there is no prospect of clarifying the matter because of the others of the same name. He notes also that "In a military capacity earls figure largely in the capacity of defenders of their counties in the chronicles of Stephen's reign." He therefore argues against the title as a personal dignity at that period.[10] The general scholarly view is now that the title earl of Clare was self-assumed.
In 1217–20 Gilbert de Clare, earl of Hertford or Clare (died 1230), inherited the estates of William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (died 1183), including the earldom and honour of Gloucester and the lordship of Glamorgan. Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (died 1176), known as Strongbow, had no sons and with his death this line came to an end, his many Irish and Welsh possessions passing to his daughter Isabel, who married William Marshal, (c. 1146 – 14 May 1219) who then became known as William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.[8]
The coat and shield with the three chevrons was probably first used at the end of the 12th century.[11] The stained glass window above is not earlier than Gilbert I (died 1230), the first de Clare lord to be buried in the chancel of Tewkesbury Abbey. The three chevrons can be seen in the shield of the old county of Glamorgan and in those of many in modern-day Welsh local authorities and bodies such as Cardiff University and Pontypridd Rugby Football Club, and also in one half of the shield of Clare College, Cambridge.
Origins and family ties with notable members of Clare.
Richard I, Duke of Normandy († 996) │ └>Geoffrey, Count of Eu († 1015) │ └>Gilbert, Count of Brionne († 1040), Count of Eu │ ├─>Baldwin fitz Gilbert († 1090), Lord of Sap and Meules, │ feudal baron of Okehampton, Sheriff of Devon.
[ de Clare Family ]
│ └─>Richard fitz Gilbert († 1090), Lord of Bienfaite and of Orbec, │ also Lord of Clare and of Tonbridge, Joint Chief Justiciar of England │ ├─>Roger († 1131), Lord of Bienfaite and of Orbec │ ├─>Robert († 1134), Lord of Little Dunmow (Essex) │ ├─>Richard, Abbot of Ely │ ├─>Walter de Clare († 1138), Lord of Netherwent │ └─>Gilbert († 1117), Lord of Clare, Tonbridge and Cardigan (See Table 2) │ ├─>Richard († 1136), sometimes designated as Earl of Hertford │ ├─>Gilbert († 1148/49), 1st Earl of Pembroke, │ successor to his uncles Roger and Walter │ └─>Baldwin († 1154/1166), Lord of Bourne (see Baldwin of Clare)
Gilbert († 1117), Lord of Clare and of Tonbridge and Cardigan │ ├─>Richard († 1136), Lord of Clare, Tonbridge and Cardigan │ │ │ ├─>Gilbert († 1152), 1st Earl of Hertford │ │ │ ├─>Roger sometimes called the good Earl of Hertford († 1173), 2nd Earl of Hertford │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Richard († 1217), 3rd Earl of Hertford and 1st of Gloucester │ │ │ Amicie de Gloucester, countess de jure of Gloucester │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─> Table 3 │ │ │ │ │ └─>Aveline († 1164), married Geoffrey fitz Piers, 1st Earl of Essex │ │ │ ├─>Rohaise, married Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln │ │ │ ├─>Alice, married Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd │ │ │ └─>Lucy, married Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon │ ├─>Gilbert († 1148/49), 1st Earl of Pembroke (1138) │ │ x Isabelle de Beaumont, │ │ daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester │ │ │ └─>Richard also called Strongbow († 1176), 2nd Earl of Pembroke │ │ attempted to take control of Ireland │ │ │ ├─>Gilbert of Striguil (1173–1185), 3rd Earl of Pembroke │ │ │ └─>Isabelle († 1220) │ x William Marshal became the first Earl of Pembroke │ This branch of the family being extinguished. │ └─>Baldwin († 1154), Lord of Bourne (see Baldwin of Clare)
Richard († 1217), 3rd Earl of Hertford and Gloucester │ Amicie of Gloucester, Countess de jure of Gloucester │ ├─>Gilbert († 1230), 4th Hertford and 5th Earl of Gloucester │ │ x Isabelle, daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, │ │ heir of the younger branch of Clare (see table 2) │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Richard († 1262), 5th Earl of Hertford, 6th Earl of Gloucester │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Gilbert also known as the Red Earl († 1295), 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester │ │ │ │ Co-guardian of England in the death of King Henry III │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─>Gilbert († 1314), 7th Hertford and 8th Earl of Gloucester │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Bogo (1248–1294), member of the clergy │ │ │ │ │ └─>Thomas († 1287), Lord of Thomond, Chancellor of Ireland │ │ │ └─>Isabelle († 1264), married Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale │ │ │ └─> Kings of Scotland of the House of Bruce. │ └─>Mathilde, married Rhys ap Rhys († 1234), prince of Deheubarth


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A company subcontracted to build five police stations on Thursday filed a petition with the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) against PCC Development and Construction Co (PCC), accusing it of fraud.
The petition was filed on behalf of S.L. Development and Construction Co by Kornpat Paiboonsirikul, a construction engineer, with Pol Lt-Col Thawal Mangkhang, the DSI's special cases specialist.
Mr Kornpat said S.L. Development and Construction was subcontracted by PCC on July 8, 2011 to build one large police station and four small ones. The median price set for the large station was 19.2 million baht and for the small ones between 5.5 million and 5.8 million baht.
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People give to charity for many heartfelt, altruistic reasons. But as evident by the surge in online gifts flowing through our site on the last few days of the year (about 10% of annual giving), the tax benefits of giving do impact our decision to support charities. We shouldn't take issue with donors who are motivated by the tax benefits of giving. In fact, many worthy charities are funded by donors who are able to make larger gifts as a result of the tax deductions they later claim.
But before you prepare your tax return, you should know that the government continues to be concerned with taxpayers inflating the value of their gifts. In recent years, new laws have been passed to curb those who abuse the spirit of such tax breaks. And the IRS continues to scrutinize claims for charitable deductions to make sure taxpayers are entitled to such claims.
To help you maximize the tax benefits of your charitable endeavors and avoid making a false claim, Charity Navigator offers the following tips.
Document All Cash Donations
If you want to claim a charitable deduction for a cash gift, then you must be prepared to verify your claim. In other words, you can no longer deduct the spare change dropped in a charity's collection bucket without the proper documentation. If you are audited, the IRS will only accept one of the following to substantiate a monetary gift: a canceled check, credit card statement, bank statement or a written acknowledgement from the charity (showing the charity's name, the date of the donation and the amount given).
Donating online at Charity Navigator , through our partnership with Network for Good, helps you fulfill this requirement since all your giving records will be stored in one place enabling you to quickly obtain an annual record of your charitable giving for tax preparation. - Monetary Gifts of $250 or more Require Additional Documentation If you contribute $250 or more, then you must prove to the IRS that you (a) made the donation and (b) you didn't receive anything in return for that donation. Therefore you'll need a receipt from the charity that includes the following information: the charity's name, the value of your gift, the date you made your donation and a statement verifying that you did not receive any goods or services in return for your gift.
Be Careful When Valuing a Donated Vehicle
Although a new law implemented in 2005 attempted to crack down on taxpayers who were overvaluing donated vehicles, the government reports that many taxpayers still inflate the value of such donations. As a result, the IRS continues to take a close look at such deductions. If you donated a car worth more than $500, then you can only deduct the amount the charity received from the sale of your car. You can use the receipt from the charity to substantiate your claim. Do not attempt to use the fair market value unless one of the following conditions apply: (1) instead of selling the vehicle, the charity keeps and uses it, (2) the charity makes improvements to the car before selling it, (3) your car is sold at a discounted price to a person with a low income, (4) or if the car is worth less than $500. -
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Hopefully, all your donations of clothing and household items last year were in "good used condition or better." Not only do donations of junk (such as used socks) cost charities a lot of money each year to discard, but the IRS does not permit deductions for such items. The only exception here is for any single clothing or household item worth more than $500. For these items you can claim a deduction, regardless of its condition, so long as you submit a qualified appraisal with your tax return. And speaking of documentation, you'll want to maintain an itemized receipt from the charity for all gifts less than $500 to substantiate your claims in case of an audit.
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Fullerton, CA – Managing your money to make sure it lasts can be a daunting and often confusing task. Thanks to the Fullerton Community Center, help is on the horizon thanks to "It's Your Money," a free eight-week money management course starting Thursday, September 11.
The course, which will be held from 2:00 -3:30 p.m. Thursdays, will feature local financial experts who will answer questions and help participants gain confidence in controlling their finances. Topics to be discussed include annuities, mutual funds, financial planning, long-term care insurance, equity investing, and fixed-income investing.
The sole purpose of the course is education – there will be no professional services or products sold or charitable solicitations sought.
Registration is required for the course, which is being offered by the center in cooperation with FEEL, Inc. (Financial & Estate Empowerment and Literacy, Inc.). Course cosponsors are the American Heart Association, Chapman University, Laguna Canyon Foundation, Mission Hospital Foundation, Ocean Institute, Orange Coast Community College, Pacific Symphony, PBS SoCal, St. Joseph Hospital Foundation and St. Jude Memorial Foundation.
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Never mind the tireless question of what constitutes art. The real question concerns what makes a solid friendship; e.g., do friends let friends blow money on overpriced pieces of bad art? That's quite the conundrum indeed, and Yasmina Reza tackles it in her play Art, which runs Thursday through Sunday at the Mosaic Theatre (12200 W. Broward Blvd., Plantation). The story follows Serge, who forks over a small fortune on what looks like nothing more than a white canvas with a few scratches on the surface. The hefty price tag leads him to believe it's a work of fine art with an even greater resale value. Serge's buddies, Marc and Yvan, differ in their reactions; Marc is more upset by his friend's profligate spending, while Yvan would rather not get involved (he's got his own wedding plans to worry about, ya know). And just like any argument rooted in the absurd, the consequences are far-reaching and potentially lethal to their friendship. Hmmm... what would Rembrandt do? Tickets cost $15 to $27. Call 954-577-8243, or visit www.mosaictheatre.com.
For anyone who's a long-time regular of Respectable Street Café (518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach), the past 17 years have been a series of lost weekends (a bad pun, we know) and back-and-forth ventures into oblivion. But the powers that be at RSC realize your memory's not so sharp anymore, and this weekend's 17 Years of Oblivion anniversary bash is a good time to recall what you can from the club's past. Sure, there are free drinks, drink specials, T-shirts, and DJs (Ultra Vivid, KloV, Bitchwax, Morrissey Mike, and more). But it's also a good time to catch up with that old friend you always see in the corner booth but never acknowledge. Now you've got an ice-breaker -- neither of you can remember the other's name! Ain't that always the case? The party takes place 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Call 561-832-9999.
Why, you wonder year after year, doesn't the Nutcracker just get the Mouse King in a headlock, stick his whiskery face in the slot where the walnut usually goes, and crack that sucker's skull in two? Well, if he did, the fight would be over in Act I, and there would be no room for twinkle-toeing and fancy-prancing around the stage for three more hours. As it happens, the Nutcracker gets whooped by a frickin' mouse and is spared only when Clara comes along and throws her slipper at the rodent. If we were her, we'd go for the hunky Mouse King, but instead, she chooses the kitchen utensil who's into dancing snowflakes and sugar plum fairies. Weird. Join Clara, Fritz, and leagues of dancing mouse soldiers when the Miami City Ballet presents The Nutcracker at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale) today and Sunday. Fun fact: An estimated 725 pairs of toe shoes will be used by the company this Nutcracker season (one pair per performance for the lead roles, and one pair per three shows for the corps dancers), for an estimated toe shoe expense of $41,000. That's why tickets cost $19.50 to $49.50. Call 954-462-0222, or visit www.browardcenter.org.
Chunky peanut butter or creamy? Windows or Linux? Imports or low-riders? OK, so those last two aren't exactly opposites -- couldn't you buy an imported car and drop it down? We admit we're not up on the latest episodes of Pimp My Ride. But the crafty folks at www.carshowking.com probably are, and they're having an import vs. low-rider showdown as part of their First Annual Car Show/Concert/Paintball & PC/Xbox Tournament. That means there will be a car show (with prizes in tons of categories), a concert (Pitbull, Lil Jon, et al are "invited guests"), a paintball tournament (with prizes), and a PC/Xbox gaming tournament (again, prizes). Head over to Paintballerz Indoor Paintball (7905 W. 20th Ave., Hialeah) from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call 305-364-1100.
History buffs, political junkies, rhetoricians, and Anglophiles -- come hither to the Society of the Four Arts (2 Four Arts Plz., Palm Beach) for a lesson in -- yep -- history, politics, and rhetoric as told by one Winston Churchill III. The grandson of Britain's wartime prime minister discusses "The Power of Oratory," covering gramps' best-known speeches in a single lecture. As an author, journalist, and former member of British Parliament, this guy carries far more clout than your average namesake-sucking progeny. So what if he's a bloody Tory; he's still one hell of a scholar with lots of wisdom to impart. Oh, and for all you college students, this is the perfect excuse to get out of class for an afternoon. Churchill lectures today at 3 p.m. Call 561-655-7226.
Bedroom DJs, listen up! Before you get your pair of Technics in a bunch over the fact that Tech Tuesdays are no longer at Club Xit -- rejoice! The weekly sessions have just been moved to Sonar (2006 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood). These are warm, communal, idea-sharing workshops for aspiring turntablists and breaks and electro lovers, set to a thump of 150 beats per minute. Here, you can jibber-jabber about what kind of needles you use or what kind of sampler is best. For homework, you can read the free issue of Remix magazine that you receive at the door. It's kind of like night school... except with beer specials! Call 954-464-6931, or visit www.onesceneunited.com.


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C-TAC convened a meeting on June 1, 2011, to review what is known—and not yet known—about what consumers think and do prior to their "unexpected, inevitable" health events and how they make in-the-moment decisions about advanced illness care. Click here to read our Consumer Research Brief.
Gaps in Our Understanding
Much consumer research is designed to look at a particular issue, such as advanced planning, advanced directives, palliative care, end-of-life care, the culture of death in America or hospice. But research that begins with the consumer's own frame of reference is more likely to provide unbiased responses about his/her values, attitudes and decision-making, based on his/her life experience.
Some groups are in fact conducting studies that are more consumer-oriented. The methodology of the SCAN Foundation, the Center to Advance Palliative Care, AARP Services Inc. and the National Journal are designed so that the consumer provides the starting point. Their studies use an array of research techniques (qualitative, ethnographic, survey) to understand the events, questions and decision making that occur in relation to advanced illness care.
From such research, it appears that more information is needed on:
• the decision-making process that patients, their families, caregivers and medical teams undertake;
• how the public thinks about the costs of care, in regard to both the health care system and to their personal finances; and
• the effectiveness of communication between patients and clinicians and how to improve it.
C-TAC will revise and update this brief as more research is done, and we welcome comments about this paper as well as findings from new and existing research. Please contact: email@example.com
Click on the following link to read the brief.
Selected Literature Review – April 18, 2011
We have been reviewing and selecting representative literature to update and keep abreast of current trends and research in a number of topic areas including: Advance Care Planning, the POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Paradigm, Hospice, Long-term care, Non-Hospice Palliative Care, End-of-Life Care, Race & Cultural Issues, and Popular Recent Media.
Select findings include:
- Wider adoption of palliative care teams and hospice care in hospitals.
- Reform of financing of care has been stimulated by studies establishing that palliative care increases survival, including the provision of concurrent hospice care for children in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
- There are pockets of progress, in nursing homes and community efforts to increase understanding of decision-making.
- Studies show that having the conversations improves physical and psychosocial symptoms; family caregiver well-being; and patient, family and physician satisfaction.
The literature demonstrates a continuing interest in the needs of people with advanced illness and that a public discussion is essential to develop a better understanding of how best to meet those needs.
For more details and references see our C-TAC Selected Literature Review.


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Kick-Off Rallye
Sunday, July 5 11:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Car enthusiasts test their driving and navigation skills on a "mystery course" through the streets of Pittsburgh. This is a fun, casual event that starts in Oakland and ends at the Spaghetti Warehouse in the Strip District. There will be a special award category for Marque participants.
$60.00 per car entry includes meal for driver and navigator, $15 for each additional guest.
Blacktie & Tailpipes Gala
Friday, July 10 7:00 – 11:00 PM
Our annual black-tie celebrates automobiles at South Hills Country Club in Whitehall.
$200 per person until June 1, then tickets are $250 each (tickets not available at the door)
PVGP Historic Races at Pitt-Race Complex
July 10-12 Weekend 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Come out to watch an exciting variety of vintage (pre 1959) and historic (post 1960) racing.. Reserved parking for Marque participants will be available at the Car Corral tent on the hill overlooking the final turn of the race circuit. The Wilson Karting Track at PIRC will be open to the public during our race weekend so spectators can take part in some racing of your own. $20 for 10 minutes (approximately 10 laps). On Saturday night bring out your car and drag race on the front straight of the track with the Flashlight Drags!
$20 per person for lunch each day, plus $15 daily entry into racetrack.
Walnut Street Invitational Car Show
Monday, July 13 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Nestled on Shadyside's charming Walnut Street you'll find over 125 rare, classic and exotic cars, including a special display of our Marque of the Year cars. The Car Show is free and open to the public, show cars by invitation only.
No cost to attend this event.
Car Cruise at the Waterfront
Tuesday, July 14 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Join 750 car owners at the Waterfront in Historic Homestead and see even more cars of all marques. All Marque owners are invited and welcome – a special parking area will be reserved.
$5 donation per car requested at the entrance
Downtown Parade & Car Display
Wednesday, July 15 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
100 race and show cars will parade through Pittsburgh to car displays at the U.S. Steel Plaza, PPG Place and Market Square from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm. There will be a special all day car show at the Fort Pitt Museum at Point State Park. There will be space for over two dozen Marque cars within our 4 shows.
No cost to participate in show or parade or to attend.
PVGP Tune-Up Party at Atria's
Wednesday, July 15 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
A Happy Hour/Nightime Car Show downtown at Atria's at PNC Park. A display of two dozen race cars will be parked out front on Federal Street. The Roberto Clemente Bridge will be closed for our event and we hope to fill it with MINI's. $40 Entry includes one complimentary drink and appetizers. For an additional $20 you can park your Marque of the Year car on the bridge during the event.
Countryside Tour
Thursday, July 16 10:00 AM- 6:00 PM
The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix will host a Countryside Tour as part of its race week events and you're invited. This tour will start at a location-to-be-determined in Pittsburgh. The tour will take you along the back roads of Pennsylvania with a lunch time destination at the English style Coventry Inn in downtown Indiana. After lunch the tour will continue along the back roads and return to Pittsburgh
The cost of the tour is $60.00 and will include your car entry and two people. Lunch for two people at the Coventry Inn is included. If you elect to have one car and lunch for one person, the cost is only $45.00. Space is limited to 30 cars or 60 lunches, so please register early.
$60.00 for two people, $45 for single entries. Includes lunch.
Marque Show at Schenley Park
Saturday July 18 and Sunday July 19. 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
All Marque owners are invited to take part in the weekend festivities at Schenley Park. Participants will be treated to lunch and refreshments. A Race Program and dash plaque, are included with registration. There are plans for a display of new, vintage and race significant Marque's. During the weekend 2,000 cars from all parts of the world are displayed on the golf course.
Vintage Race Practice & Qualifying Heats
Saturday, July 19 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
175 Vintage racers practice in seven morning groups and qualify for Sunday's featured races in the afternoon.
Races are free to spectators
Vintage Lap Experience
Saturday, July 20 noon – 12:45 PM
Take this rare opportunity to experience a lap of the Schenley race circuit as a passenger in an actual vintage racecar. Feel the wind as your experienced driver navigates the 2.3 mile track at speeds that will surprise and invigorate you.
$40 Donation per lap – no advance sales
Opening Ceremonies/Parade Lap
Sunday, July 19 10:45 – 11:45 am
Marque of the Year cars take a parade lap of the track, joined by Patron Parkers, our Grand Marshal, and local government officials. Afterward MOY participants drive back to the tent to enjoy the afternoon's car shows and races.
Vintage Racing at Schenley Park
Sunday, July 19 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Watch seven vintage race groups on the track participating in 8-lap practice races in the morning then sit back and enjoy our main event; the Winner's Circle vintage races in the afternoon.


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Submitted on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 5:09pm
Delegation Delivers Petitions to Whole Foods Management as Supporters Rally Outside San Fran Whole Foods
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - This afternoon a delegation of 20 cashiers, stockers, and cooks at Whole Foods Market initiated a temporary work stoppage to deliver a petition to Whole Foods management demanding a $5 an hour wage increase for all employees and no retaliation against workers for organizing a union. After the delegation presented the petition to management, workers and supporters held a rally outside the store, located at 4th and Harrison Streets in San Francisco's South-of-Market district.
A worker must earn $29.83 an hour to afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, according to a 2014 report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Workers at the store currently earn from $11.25 to $19.25 per hour. The new minimum wage ordinance just approved by San Francisco voters will raise the City's minimum to $12.25 an hour next year, less than half of what is needed to rent an apartment.
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Former IWW General Executive Board chair Frederic Lee died Oct. 23. A member of the IWW for 29 years, FW Lee was also a leading economist, founder of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter, and at the time of his death president-elect of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. His rigorous scholarship, international reputation, and commitment to organizing networks of solidarity helped open a space for alternative approaches in a field long dominated by worshippers of markets and wealth.
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The IWW is calling on all artists and graphic designers to come up with new designs for our Union Shop Cards that are issued to workers who decide to organize and affiliate with the IWW (IWW shops, Sole-Proprietors, and Co-ops).
When the IWW recognizes shops they may use the union label on their products and they are issued an IWW Union Shop Card to publicly display. Since the union is beginning to run low on previous, older Shop Cards, the General Executive Board and the General Secretary Treasurer decided it would be in good form to update the Shop Cards and get fresh designs.
Submitted on Mon, 11/03/2014 - 12:50pm
Check out this newly-revised guide on how to effectively write for the Industrial Worker, official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Best and Worst of the S.S. Coachella
Photo by Ian Witlen |
Three days, 400 meals, 30 cocktails, 15 clothing changes, and probably like 50 concerts later, arriving back on U.S. soil was a relief but also left us wanting more. Meals, that is. Oh, and concerts.
After a day of reflection, it's clear that there were absolutely awesome things about the trip and some other things that were not so great. Here's the best and worst of the S.S. Coachella.
See also:
-S.S. Coachella: Goin' to Nail Master Class with Sleigh Bells' Alexis Krauss
-S.S. Coachella Cruise, Day One: Father John Misty, Yeasayer, !!!, Pulp
-S.S. Coachella, Day Two: Stalking Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Plus Gaslamp Killer, Black Lips
-S.S. Coachella: Drinking Wine With James Murphy on the High Seas
-S.S. Coachella: Top Ten Fashion Moments!
The Worst
Ian Witlen |
She's not posing. She's trying to keep her balance. |
If you love the high seas, then you might not even have noticed your carrots rolling into your mashed potatoes as the ship lurched side to side. Who knows? Maybe the movement helped get some people laid, falling all over each other on the dance floor.
It wasn't that it was too choppy, but being out there on the Atlantic, the feeling of vertigo and movement makes ya sleepy, as did the Bonine. So basically, it was hard to stay up for late shows even though late shows are the doggone best.
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Served as a lead agency of the Blue Line Transit Taskforce that fought a successful 7-year battle to restore night and weekend rail service on the Douglas Branch of the Blue Line. The Line serves the communities of Pilsen, Little Village, and North Lawndale - all predominately low-income communities of color.
Government Transparency
Helped pass the first Public Advisory Referenda in Chicago's 25th Ward, which called for open community hearings on all zoning changes. They are meant to provide the community with a means of voicing their concerns over the growing number of high-end loft and condo conversions. The Referenda passed with 95% of the vote.
Children's Health and Education
Won state ordered lead and asbestos abatement at Whittier Elementary School, summer of 2003. After several public actions, members of Lideres (Whittier Parent Committee) pressured the Chicago Public School administration and Alderman Danny Solis, 25th Ward, to abate contaminants.
Community Education
Pilsen Alliance has served as lead partner at Whittier Community School since 2004. The partnership has serviced over 500 youth and adults and currently offers more than 20 innovative enrichment programs.
Property Tax workshops
Pilsen Alliance has worked with Cook County Assessor Houlihan's office to provide free Property Tax Homeowner Exemption & Property Tax Appeal workshops to the Greater Pilsen community! We have helped dozens of families receive thousands of dollars in property tax reimbursements as well as successfully appeal increased property tax assessments-helping Pilsen families hold on to their homes!
Women's Economic Justice Program
In the summer of 2008 Pilsen Alliance kicked off the Women's Economic Justice Program, the only program of its kind in Pilsen. It provides hands-on business skills with artisan workshops to create economic opportunities and self-sufficiency to Pilsen's women and their families.
Special Bulletin
New Shredder Community Meeting / Junta Comunitaria Nueva Trituradora
Thursday December 12, 2013 06:00 AM
While Children lose schools, teachers and programs, bankers fill their pockets off of public schools. Join us, and help us bring more money into the classrooms.
Wednesday June 26, 2013 08:00 AM
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Rust, gold and chocolate layers of fabric with frayed edges are overlapped to create this highly textured throw pillow set of two.
This throw pillow set of two features a warm palette of rust, gold, mahogany and neutrals. Embellishment techniques include applique and laser cutting to create rich textures. This collection adds beauty anywhere in the home and especially complements leather sofas and tweed upholstery.
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Sunday, March 28 2004
Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin: Nine Hundred Nights [DVD]
Big Brother, good or bad, were caught in some remarkable crosswinds, and the tension of occupying their position makes compelling drama.
Monday, January 18 2010
Happy Birthday, Janis Joplin (videos)
Tuesday, January 19th marks the birthday of the late, great Janis Joplin. Born in 1943, Joplin rose to rock stardom in the mid-'60s with her
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It is our goal to assist veterans as they transition from soldier to student, supporting them as they reach for academic success at Oregon Tech. Here are some resources to help you along your way.
Note: You may only receive VA benefits for two terms without being fully-admitted to Oregon Tech i.e. a non-admit student.


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Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
Italy 00193
Tel: 39 06 681 9111
Concierge.com's insider take:
Remember the scene in Roman Holiday where Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn dance on a barge before jumping into the Tiber? The beautifully lit building in the background was Castel Sant'Angelo, originally built as a tomb for Emperor Hadrian but converted by beleaguered Renaissance popes into an impregnable fortress, complete with luxury living quarters, gloriously decorated by Renaissance greats. The Chapel in the Cortile d'Onore was designed for Leo X by Michelangelo; Clement VII's tiny personal bathroom was frescoed by Giulio Romano. The castle's dank prisons and display of torture implements will entertain the kids. There's also a rooftop café where you can enjoy lunch with a 360-degree view of the city.
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10 thoughts on "Celeb Moms"
You know, I could never stand when new celebrity moms went on shows and said how exhsusting everthing was. When I was a new mom, I could have never gotten away to have an adult converstion, let alone one that was scheduled and where I looked fabulous. I saw that Julia Roberts interview and it always stuck in my craw, too. Good list. I hope Snoop Dog is the dad he appears to be. Ellen
What an odd observation, but I think you're right. I can think of more "awesome celeb" dads than moms. I wonder what's up with that?
Great post. I'm wondering if the non attention whore parents don't try to shield ther children from the cameras. Didn't Woody Harelson punch out a photographer for trying to get pics of his kids?


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Iridium satellite constellation
Replica of an Iridium satellite
Manufacturer | Motorola |
Country of origin | USA |
Operator | Iridium Communications |
Applications | communications |
Specifications | |
Bus | LM-700 |
Launch mass | 689 kilograms (1,519 lb) |
Power | 2 deployable solar panels+batteries |
Regime | Low Earth Orbit |
Production | |
Status | In Service |
Built | 98 |
Launched | 95 |
Operational | 72 (66 in active service 6 spares) |
Failed | 2 |
First launch | Iridium 4,5,6,7,8 |
Last launch | Iridium 97, 98 |
The Iridium satellite constellation is a large group of satellites providing voice and data coverage to satellite phones, pagers and integrated transceivers over Earth's entire surface. Iridium Communications Inc. owns and operates the constellation and sells equipment and access to its services. It was originally conceived by Bary Bertiger, Dr. Ray Leopold and Ken Peterson in late 1987 (and protected by patents by Motorola in their names in 1988) and then developed by Motorola on a fixed-price contract from July 29, 1993 to November 1, 1998 when the system became operational and commercially available.
The constellation consists of 66 active satellites in orbit, and additional spare satellites to serve in case of failure.[1] Satellites are in low Earth orbit at a height of approximately 485 mi (781 km) and inclination of 86.4°. Orbital velocity of the satellites is approximately 17,000 mph (27,000 km/h). Satellites communicate with neighboring satellites via Ka band inter-satellite links. Each satellite can have four inter-satellite links: two to neighbors fore and aft in the same orbital plane, and two to satellites in neighboring planes to either side. The satellites orbit from pole to pole with an orbit of roughly 100 minutes. This design means that there is excellent satellite visibility and service coverage at the North and South poles, where there are few customers. The over-the-pole orbital design produces "seams" where satellites in counter-rotating planes next to one another are traveling in opposite directions. Cross-seam inter-satellite link hand-offs would have to happen very rapidly and cope with large Doppler shifts; therefore, Iridium supports inter-satellite links only between satellites orbiting in the same direction. The constellation of 66 active satellites has 6 orbital planes spaced 30 degrees apart, with 11 satellites in each plane (not counting spares). The original concept was to have 77 satellites, which is where the name Iridium came from, being the element with the atomic number 77 and the satellites evoking the Bohr model image of electrons orbiting around the Earth as its nucleus. This reduced set of 6 planes is sufficient to cover the entire Earth's surface at every moment.
Because of the shape of the Iridium satellites' reflective antennas, the satellites focus sunlight on a small area of the Earth's surface in an incidental manner. This results in an effect called Iridium flares, where the satellite momentarily appears as one of the brightest objects in the night sky and can even be seen during daylight.[2]
Gino Picasso is the CEO of Iridium LLC.[3]
The satellites each contain seven Motorola/Freescale PowerPC 603E processors running at roughly 200 MHz,[4] connected by a custom backplane network. One processor is dedicated to each cross-link antenna ("HVARC"), and two processors ("SVARC"s) are dedicated to satellite control, one being a spare. Late in the project an extra processor ("SAC") was added to perform resource management and phone call processing.
The cellular look down antenna has 48 spot beams arranged as 16 beams in three sectors.[5] The four inter-satellite cross links on each satellite operate at 10 Mbit/s. Although optical links could have supported a much greater bandwidth and a more aggressive growth path, microwave cross links were favored[by whom?] because the bandwidth was more than sufficient for the desired system. Nevertheless, a parallel optical cross link option was carried through a critical design review, and ended when the microwave cross links were shown to support the size, weight and power requirements allocated within the individual satellite's budget. Iridium Satellite LLC has stated that their second generation satellites would also use microwave, not optical, inter-satellite communications links. Such cross-links are unique in the satellite telephone industry, as other providers do not relay data between satellites; Globalstar and Inmarsat both use a bent-pipe architecture without cross-links.
The original design envisioned a completely static 1960s "dumb satellite" with a set of control messages and time-triggers for an entire orbit that would be uploaded as the satellite passed over the poles. It was found that this design did not have enough bandwidth in the space-based backhaul to upload each satellite quickly and reliably over the poles. Moreover, fixed, static scheduling would have left more than 90% of the satellite links idle at all times. Therefore, the design was scrapped in favor of a design that performed dynamic control of routing and channel selection late in the project, resulting in a one-year delay in system delivery.[citation needed]
Each satellite can support up to 1100 concurrent phone calls at 2400 bit/s[6] and weighs about 1,500 lb (680 kg).[7] The Iridium System presently operates within a 1618.85 to 1626.5 MHz band adjacent to the 1610.6–1613.8 MHz Radio Astronomy Service (RAS) band.
In-orbit spares[edit]
Spare satellites are usually held in a 414 mi (666 km) storage orbit.[1] These will be boosted to the correct altitude and put into service in case of a satellite failure. After the Iridium company emerged from bankruptcy the new owners decided to launch seven new spares, which would have ensured two spare satellites were available in each plane. As of 2009[update] not every plane has a spare satellite; however, the satellites can be moved to a different plane if required. A move can take several weeks and consumes fuel which will shorten the satellite's expected service life.
Significant orbital plane changes are normally very fuel-intensive, but orbital perturbations aid the process. The Earth's equatorial bulge causes the orbital right ascension of the ascending node (RAAN) to precess at a rate that depends mainly on the period and inclination. Iridium satellites have an inclination of 86.4°, so like every satellite in a prograde (inclination < 90°) orbit, their equator crossings steadily precess westward.[citation needed]
A spare Iridium satellite in the lower storage orbit has a shorter period so its RAAN moves westward more quickly than the satellites in the standard orbit. Iridium simply waits until the desired RAAN (i.e., the desired orbital plane) is reached and then raises the spare satellite to the standard altitude, fixing its orbital plane with respect to the constellation. Although this saves substantial amounts of fuel, this can be a time-consuming process.[citation needed]
Next-generation constellation[edit]
Iridium is currently developing, and is expected to launch beginning in 2015, Iridium NEXT, a second-generation worldwide network of telecommunications satellites, consisting of 66 satellites, with six in-orbit and nine on-ground spares. These satellites will incorporate features such as data transmission which were not emphasized in the original design.[8] The original plan was to begin launching new satellites in 2014.[9] Satellites will incorporate additional payload for Aireon, Inc.[10] and perhaps cameras and sensors in collaboration with some customers and partners. Iridium can also be used to provide a data link to other satellites in space, enabling command and control of other space assets regardless of the position of ground stations and gateways.[8] The constellation will provide L-band data speeds of up to 1.5 Mbit/s and high-speed Ka-Band service of up to 8 Mbit/s.[11][12]
The existing constellation of satellites is expected to remain operational until Iridium NEXT is fully operational, with many satellites expected to remain in service until the 2020s. Iridium is planning for the next-generation of satellites to have improved bandwidth. This system will be backward compatible with the current system. In August 2008, Iridium selected two companies—Lockheed Martin and Thales Alenia Space—to participate in the final phase of the procurement of the next generation satellite constellation. On June 2, 2010 the winner of the contract was announced as Thales Alenia Space, in a $2.1 billion deal underwritten by Compagnie Française d'Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur.[13] Iridium additionally stated that it expected to spend about $800 million to launch the satellites and upgrade some ground facilities.[14]
In June 2010, Iridium signed the largest commercial rocket launch deal ever, a US$492 million contract with SpaceX to launch tens of Iridium NEXT satellites on multiple Falcon 9 launchers in 2015–2017 from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3.[15] The 66 operational satellites in the constellation, plus six on-orbit spares, 70 satellites will be put in orbit by seven launches of 10 satellites each on the Falcon 9, plus two of the 800 kilograms (1,800 lb) Iridium NEXT satellites on a single launch[16] of an ISC Kosmotras Dnepr rocket, beginning in 2015 and completing the refresh of the entire constellation by 2017, as of August 2012[update].[11]
Patents and manufacturing[edit]
The primary patent for the system[citation needed] is "Satellite cellular telephone and data communication system," United States Patent 5,410,728, and Motorola also generated hundreds of additional patents as they developed and built the Iridium system.
The main patents on the Iridium system, U.S. Patents 5,410,728 and 5,604,920, are in the field of satellite communications, and the manufacturer generated several hundred patents protecting the technology in the system. Satellite manufacturing initiatives were also instrumental in the technical success of the system. Motorola made a key hire of the engineer who set up the automated factory for Apple's Macintosh. He created the technology necessary to mass-produce satellites on a gimbal, taking weeks instead of months or years and at a record low construction cost of only US$5 million per satellite. At its peak during the launch campaign in 1997 and 1998, Motorola produced a new satellite every 4.3 days, with the lead-time of a single satellite being 21 days.[17][non-primary source needed]
Launch campaign[edit]
Motorola used launch vehicles from three companies from three different countries—the Delta II from McDonnell Douglas; the Proton K from Krunichev in Russia; and the Long March IIC from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.[citation needed]
Defunct satellites[edit]
Over the years several Iridium satellites have ceased to work and tumbled out of control, some have reentered the atmosphere while other partially functional satellites have remained in orbit. However these satellites are not in active service.[18]
Iridium 28[edit]
Iridium 28 failed in July 2008 and was replaced with the in-orbit spare Iridium 95.[19]
Iridium 33[edit]
Wikinews has news coverage of the 2009 satellite collision |
At 16:56 UTC on February 10, 2009 Iridium 33 collided with the defunct Russian satellite Kosmos 2251.[20] This was the first time two intact satellites collided.[21] Iridium 33 was in active service when the accident took place but was one of the oldest satellites in the constellation, having been launched in 1997. The satellites collided at roughly 35,000 km/h (22,000 miles per hour); roughly 32 times the speed of a bullet in flight.[22]
Iridium moved one of its in-orbit spares, Iridium 91 (formerly known as Iridium 90) to replace the destroyed satellite,[23] completing the move on March 4, 2009.
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- ^ "How the Iridium Network Works". Satphoneusa.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ Fossa, C. E.; Raines, R.A.; Gunsch, G.H.; Temple, M.A. (13–17 July 1998). "An overview of the IRIDIUM (R) low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite system". Proceedings of the IEEE 1998 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1998. NAECON 1998.: 152–159. doi:10.1109/NAECON.1998.710110.
- ^ a b Iridium NEXT, accessed 20100616.
- ^ Max Jarman (February 1, 2009). "Iridium Satellite Phones Second Life". The Arizona Republic.
- ^ "News Release". Aireon.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ a b Fitchard, Kevin (2012-08-27). "How Iridium took a chance on SpaceX and won". GigaOM. Retrieved 2012-08-28.
- ^ "Download Attachment". Iridium.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ Amos, Jonathan (2010-06-02). "Huge order for Iridium spacecraft". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
- ^ Pasztor, Andy; Michaels, Daniel (June 1, 2010). "Thales Team Beats Lockheed for Satellite Job". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ^ Largest Commercial Rocket Launch Deal Ever Signed by SpaceX , SPACE.com, 2010-06-16, accessed 2010-06-16.
- ^ de Selding, Peter B. (2011-06-22). "Iridium Signs Backup Launch Contract with ISC Kosmotras". Space News. Retrieved 2012-08-28.
- ^ "Iridium: a COTS technology success story". Mae.pennnet.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ "Iridium Constellation Status". Rod.sladen.org.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ Sladen, Rod (2009-03-09). "Iridium 28 replacement by Iridium 95". Iridium Constellation Status.
- ^ Harwood, Bill (2009-02-11). "U.S. And Russian Satellites Collide". CBS News. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
- ^ Broad, William J. (2009-02-12). "Debris Spews Into Space After Satellites Collide". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ^ "Colliding Satellites: Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251". Spaceweather.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ Iannotta, Becky (2009-02-11). "U.S. Satellite Destroyed in Space Collision". Space.com. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
External links[edit]
- Iridium Satellite LLC corporate web site
- Iridium satellite tracking
- Iridium satellite phone descriptions
- Sky Rocket


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As for a price tag on the system, Aussie gamers are going to be shelling out big time for the Wii. With a SRP of $399.95 AUD, the conversion works out to about $300.00 US, which is a full $50 US more than Americans will be paying for the console. The console will also come bundled with Wii Sports.
Aussie gamers, let your voice be heard! Reasonable price or unnecessary gouging?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]


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10 Basic Linux Security Tips to Implement |
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From Linuxhaxor.net, the top 3 tips: Are there any other tips you think should have been included or that you found to be true? The following is a list of rules and tips you might find useful in dealing with basic security concerns: 1. Avoid doing your regular jobs when you are logged in as root. This reduces the risk of getting a cuckoo egg or a virus and protects you from your own mistakes. 2. If possible, always try to use encrypted connections to work on a remote machine. Using SSH (secure shell) to replace telnet, ftp, rsh, and rlogin should be standard practice. 3. Avoid using authentic method based on ip address alone. Read this full article at http://www.linuxhaxor.net
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Know Your Lore: Lore summed up part 5 - Cataclysm Begins
We've covered the original game's story, gone to Outland to recap the Burning Crusade, and spent two weeks recapping the events of the Lich King's contumely. Now, we find ourselves facing the dragon that broke the world.
Deathwing's power came in equal measure from the Titans themselves and the Old Gods who opposed them. From the Titan Khaz'goroth Deathwing was granted the role of Aspect of Earth, lord over the land and all beneath it. From the Old Gods imprisoned within the deep earth, Deathwing gained the strength of a kind of madness, a mania with destroying that which he had been set to guard. Rejecting his nature as Aspect of Earth, he would in time dedicate himself to the death of all things living on the surface of Azeroth.
Even before the Lich King's return, Deathwing was taking steps. His prime consort, Sinestra, used the madness of Illidan to cover her own actions, convincing the Dragonmaw chieftain Mor'ghor to give into her keeping a clutch of Netherwing dragon eggs - essentially the eggs of her own descendents, as the Netherwing were born from black dragon eggs Deathwing left behind on Draenor before it was destroyed, exposing the eggs to the raw chaotic magic of the Twisting Nether. In turn, after Sinestra's experiments on the eggs in Grim Batol failed, Deathwing transported a clutch to the Obsidian Sanctim - these dragons were destroyed by the same adventurers who would ultimately kill Malygos. Yet these were hardly the only such eggs warped by Deathwing - a raid on the Ruby Sanctum would reveal that Twilight Dragons now served Deathwing, born from his experiments on the Nether eggs.
All of this was merely preamble. While the situation in Northrend died down following Arthas' death and the secret elevation of the new Lich King, the world had no time to rest. Deathwing had rested in Deepholm since his defeat by the other aspects. Now, he would rest no longer.
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Pat Barry vs Jarell Miller Fight Video WCL New Jersey Tigers vs New York Clash
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TFIHY October 1, 2011
Hey Bruno, any way you could find and put up last nights Chebah vs ajose boxing match? If you didnt catch it, it was INSANE. Back and forth war, at times a brawl. Ajose tried to takes chebahs head off with nearly every punch. Incredible pace too.
Bruno: Here you go. Ajose Olusegun vs Ali Chebah Fight Video Boxing
Beast w/ 8 Limbs October 1, 2011
HAHAHA! I remember the WCL. Chuck Norris' league. Dudes like Berry and Njokuani fought there.
sticky October 1, 2011
I remember that most WCL guys were American. So, in other words most guys sucked. Surprisingly, I remember the best part of the show was usually when the girls went at it.
Enscribe October 1, 2011
At first I was thinking…is that brett rodgers? lol… the WCL had such BS rules. Barry won that match for sure. Swinging gorilla arms brought nothing but a punchers chance. They both got pretty tired though.
glassjoe October 1, 2011
Brett Rogers has some big titties in that video
ArmyOfNone October 1, 2011
Jarell Miller has bigger boobies than my girlfriend.
PitfighterZ October 1, 2011
WCL was actually a good idea. They had some serious problems with the flashy image and the way they showed the teams like the NBA style b.s. that made the whole thing go under really fast.
Nonetheless, there were a lot of good fights and many of the rules could be applied to MMA to make things a bit more competitive.
Take the good, trash the bad. -
Stoned Ninja October 1, 2011
Tamoxifen fail!
marvelous mad madam mim October 1, 2011
dude old school brett rogers
gunnyhighway99 October 1, 2011
Good action fight. Too bad about the gay striped pants.
drewblood October 1, 2011
Barry keeps getting caught with the right in the first 2mins… WCL had some sloppy ass fights.
….Tamoxifen fail… hahaha
Bellend Bisping October 1, 2011
I used to love WCL! I didn't know HD Barry scrapped there! Interesting
metallica fan October 1, 2011
Doyle Brunson October 1, 2011
WCL was nuts. Dudes would get knocked out stiff 50% of the fights
sheeptrucker October 1, 2011
I jacked off to those big black tities twice b4 I finished the video..that tramp is nasty hot fighter..she didnt deserve the win theough….slut
lemottes October 2, 2011
Did anyone notice if that was Lyman Good at 3:38?
kaution35 October 4, 2011
Barry should drop to 205…he's too small at HW.


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Mozilla Developers Remove Critical Bugs
The Mozilla Foundation has removed at least ten vulnerabilities from its browser, three of which were classified as critical by the developers.
The Mozilla developers discovered various bugs in the Mozilla Browser Engine; although they are not described in more detail it is understood that they were capable of crashing the browser and thus giving attackers the ability to inject and execute malicious code. The bug described in MFSA 2008-01 also affects the Thunderbird mail client. The next version of Thunderbird will include a fix.
Issue 173/2015
Buy this issue as a PDF
Old Vulnerabilities Are Kept Alive Through Bad Configuration
HP's annual Cyber Risk report offers a bleak look at the state of IT.
Linus Torvalds Announces Linux 4.0
But what do the big numbers really mean?
Microsoft Frees CoreCLR
.NET Core execution engine is the basis for cross-platform .NET implementations.
New Trojan Attacks Linux Servers
The Xnote trojan hides itself on the target system and will launch a variety of attacks on command.
Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.


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Twelve members of the Kamloops River City Racers took part in the New Gold November Chill short track speed skating competition at the McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre on Saturday.
The Racers were represented by nine young skaters in Division 1 with AJ Timewell leading the pack with two A final placings and three personal-best times. Alexander Willis also placed in an A final and had one PB. Finn Boggetti Smith had two PBs in this division.
Other racers in this division who set three PBs were Margaret Jean Willis, James Waterman, Sophia Pankratz,Oliver Stanton, Summer Boggetti Smith and Claire Riel.
In Division 2, Tim Mburu placed first in two A finals and second in his other A final. He had a PB in each distance he raced. Brett Riel, in this division for the first time, had PBs in all distances he entered.
In the Masters Division, the Racers were represented by Roman Hessel, who placed fourth in each of his finals, setting a PB at each distance.
Meanwhile, siblings Sara and Eric Spence took part in the Calgary series No. 4 short track competition.
Eric raced in the male B Division and placed fourth in the C final of the 1,000 metres with a new personal best. He was fifth in the A final of the 1,500m and fourth in the C final of the 500m.
Sara raced in the female A Division and set two PBs. She was first in the C final of the 500m with a personal best of 47.8 seconds, second in the B final of the 1,500m with a PB of two minutes 33.33 seconds, and second in the B final of the 1,000m. These times may qualify her for the Junior National short track trials in Toronto, Dec. 15 and 16.
Later this week in Calgary, Sara will join her sister Josie as a selected skater at the Regional Junior World Cup long track event. The top five junior female skaters in Canada in each distance qualified to take part in this event. Eric and Tori Spence will compete in the CANAM portion of the competition.
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Brook Mclean and Zach Morgan of the Kamloops Canoe and Kayak Club were saluted at the provincial awards banquet Monday afternoon as the female and male athletes of the year.
They were honoured mainly on the strength of their medal-winning performances at the Canadian championships.
They were in attendance over the weekend at a provincial training camp for sprint canoe and kayak racers at Burbaby Lake. The coaches at the camp were helped by three finalists from the sprint paddling events at the 2012 London Olympics - kayakers Brady Reardon and Hughes Fournel and canoeist Mark Oldershaw, who won a bronze in C1.
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Kala Stone of the Kamloops Track and Field Club has been named to the team that will represent B.C. at the Canadian cross-country championships at Jericho Beach Park in Vancouver on Nov. 24.
Teams will compete in junior, senior and masters championships.
Stone will compete in the junior women's division. She is coached by Bruno Mazzotta, KTFC's regional Interior coach.
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Lenovo IdeaCentre B540
- Category: Desktop Computers
April 15, 2013
Editor's Rating
- Good value
- Beautiful 23-inch 1080p HD display
- Touch screen responsiveness
- Solid performance
- Included keyboard could be better
- No HDMI-input
The stylish design of the Lenovo IdeaCentre B540 is one that catches our eye in tandem with its budget price tag. The 23-inch 1080p touch screen works well with Windows 8 and looks great for multimedia viewing. Performance is good, especially for the price, but it does make a slight compromise with a Core i3 CPU.
The all-in-one design has become increasingly popular among today's PC manufacturers. This has also become a more relevant design thanks to the touch-friendly Windows 8 interface, which works great in pair with a touch-enabled display. We really like an all-in-one that has a stylish design as well as a minimalist look, including one without wired peripherals. Lenovo accomplishes both with the B540 much to our delight.
The IdeaCentre's B540 design is definitely one of this PC's selling points. The front is a large black rectangle with an edge-to-edge glass that covers the 23-inch display and surrounding shiny black bezel. To support the body in the front, there are two smoked-plastic feet that give the screen a faux-floating feel. In the rear, the body is supported by a folding leg that adjusts to different angles. We found the hinge on the back rather stiff and took a good amount of force to adjust.
On the PC's backside, there are two plastic panels with a gray, brushed-finish that actually pull off the back to allow access to the internal components (hard drive, RAM, optical drive, etc). This was a great way to make the inside easy to access and upgrade, which is something most other all-in-ones lack.
We will start out with the beautiful 23-inch 1080p display. Our reviewers thought the screen looked crisp and clear with a good amount of backlighting. Viewing angles were fantastic and there was virtually no motion blur that we could see. The touch screen aspect of the display also worked well. It supports 10-simultaneous touch points and the responsiveness was very good, which made navigating the Windows 8 touch interface a breeze.
Lenovo includes a wireless keyboard and mouse combo with the IdeaCentre B540. Both connect to the PC via a wireless USB receiver that is stored in the mouse. The island-style keyboard had a bit of mushy-ness to it but overall it wasn't too horrible. The mouse is fairly standard with a scroll wheel and neural-handed design.
For ports, the B540 offers two USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports (2 on side panel, 2 on back), HDMI-out, Ethernet, headphone and microphone jacks and a 6-in-1 memory card reader. We would've liked to see at least one of the USB 3.0 ports on the side as well as an HDMI-input, which would have allowed you to use the beautiful 23-inch display for a gaming console or a cable box. Wireless includes both 802.11 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and a tray-loading DVD+/-RW optical drive is on the right edge of the screen.
Our review unit included an Intel Core i3-3220 (3.3GHz) CPU, 6GB of RAM, a 1TB HD and integrated Intel HD 2500 graphics. There is a configuration available with a Core i5 CPU and a discrete Nvidia graphics setup which might be better for buyers looking for a gaming or high-perfomance machine. This Core i3 model delivers solid performance for 90% of today's consumers. In a PCMark 7 benchmark, it earned a score of 2891, which is only about 200 points less than the category average.
Real-world performance was good with no noticeable slow downs during our review duration. Most families will love this system and the performance that it offers, especially for the $800 price tag.
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Beignet is an open source implementation of the OpenCL specification - a generic
compute oriented API. This code base contains the code to run OpenCL programs on
Intel GPUs which basically defines and implements the OpenCL host functions
required to initialize the device, create the command queues, the kernels and
the programs and run them on the GPU. The code base also contains the compiler
part of the stack which is included in backend/
. For more specific information
about the compiler, please refer to backend/README.md
The project depends on the following external libaries:
- libdrm libraries (libdrm and libdrm_intel)
- Various LLVM components
- If run with X server, beignet needs XLib, Xfixes and Xext installed. Otherwise, no X11 dependency.
And if you want to work with the standard ICD libOpenCL.so, then you need two more packages (the following package name is for Ubuntu):
- ocl-icd-dev
- ocl-icd-libopencl1
If you don't want to enable ICD, or your system doesn't have ICD OpenCL support, you can still link to the beignet OpenCL library. You can find the beignet/libcl.so in your system's library installation directories.
Note that the compiler depends on LLVM (Low-Level Virtual Machine project). Right now, the code has been compiled with LLVM 3.3/3.4. It will not compile with anything older.
LLVM 3.3 , 3.4 and 3.5 are supported. Till now, the recommended LLVM/CLANG version is 3.5. There are some severe OpenCL related regression in clang 3.4 version.
Note about LLVM 3.4
- If you want to try Clang/LLVM 3.4, you need to disable terminfo: --disable-terminfo. It's a llvm 3.4 bug.
Please be noted that the code was compiled on GCC 4.6, GCC 4.7 and GCC 4.8. Since the code uses really recent C++11 features, you may expect problems with older compilers.
How to build and install
The project uses CMake with three profiles:
- Debug (-g)
- RelWithDebInfo (-g with optimizations)
- Release (only optimizations)
Basically, from the root directory of the project
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ../ # to configure
CMake will check the dependencies and will complain if it does not find them.
> make
The cmake will build the backend firstly. Please refer to: OpenCL Gen Backend to get more dependencies.
Once built, the run-time produces a shared object libcl.so which basically
directly implements the OpenCL API. A set of tests are also produced. They may
be found in utests/
Simply invoke:
> make install
It installs the following six files to the beignet/ directory relatively to your library installation directory. - libcl.so - libgbeinterp.so - libgbe.so - ocl_stdlib.h, ocl_stdlib.h.pch - beignet.bc
It installs the OCL icd vendor files to /etc/OpenCL/vendors, if the system support ICD. - intel-beignet.icd
How to run
After build and install of beignet, you may need to check whether it works on your platform. Beignet also produces various tests to ensure the compiler and the run-time consistency. This small test framework uses a simple c++ registration system to register all the unit tests.
You need to call setenv.sh in the utests/ directory to set some environment variables firstly as below:
> . setenv.sh
Then in utests/
> ./utest_run
will run all the unit tests one after the others
> ./utest_run some_unit_test0 some_unit_test1
will only run some_unit_test0
and some_unit_test1
On all supported target platform, the pass rate should be 100%. If it is not, you may
need to refer the "Known Issues" section. Please be noted, the . setenv.sh
is only
required to run unit test cases. For all other OpenCL applications, don't execute that
Normally, beignet needs to run under X server environment as normal user. If there isn't X server, beignet provides two alternative to run: * Run as root without X. * Enable the drm render nodes by passing drm.rnodes=1 to the kernel boot args, then you can run beignet with non-root and without X.
Supported Targets
- 3rd Generation Intel Core Processors
- Intel "Bay Trail" platforms with Intel HD Graphics
- 4th Generation Intel Core Processors, need kernel patch currently, see the "Known Issues" section.
- 5th Generation Intel Core Processors "Broadwell".
Known Issues
GPU hang issues. To check whether GPU hang, you could execute dmesg and check whether it has the following message:
[17909.175965] [drm:i915_hangcheck_hung] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed...
If it does, there was a GPU hang. Usually, this means something wrong in the kernel, as it indicates the OCL kernel hasn't finished for about 6 seconds or even more. If you think the OCL kernel does need to run that long and have confidence with the kernel, you could disable the linux kernel driver's hang check feature to fix this hang issue. Just invoke the following command on Ubuntu system:# echo -n 0 > /sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_hangcheck
But this command is a little bit dangerous, as if your kernel really hang, then the gpu will lock up forever until a reboot.
Almost all unit tests fail on Linux kernel 3.15/3.16. There is a known issue in some versions of linux kernel which enable register whitelist feature but miss some necessary registers which are required for beignet. The problematic version are around 3.15 and 3.16 which have commit f0a346b... but haven't commit c9224f... If it is the case, you can apply c9224f... manually and rebuild the kernel or just disable the parse command by invoke the following command (use Ubuntu as an example):
# echo 0 > /sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_cmd_parser
Some unit test cases, maybe 20 to 30, fail on 4th Generation (HSW) platform. The 4th Generation Intel Core Processors's support requires some Linux kernel modification. You need to apply the patch at:
https://01.org/zh/beignet/downloads/linux-kernel-patch-hsw-supportPrecision issue. Currently Gen does not provide native support of high precision math functions required by OpenCL. We provide a software version to achieve high precision, which you can turn on through
export OCL_STRICT_CONFORMANCE=1
. But be careful, this would make your CL kernel run a little longer.cl_khr_gl_sharing. This extension highly depends on mesa support. It seems that mesa would not provide such type of extensions, we may have to hack with mesa source code to support this extension. This feature used to work with a previous mesa git version. But now, it's simply broken.
In terms of the OpenCL 1.2 spec, beignet is quite complete now. We can pass almost all the piglit OpenCL test cases now. And the pass rate for the OpenCV test suite is also good which is about 99%. There are still some remains work items listed as below, most of them are extension support and performance related.
Performance tuning. There are some major optimizations need to be done, Peephole optimization, futher tuning the structurized BB transformation to support more pattern such as self loop/while loop. And optimize the slow software based sin/cos/... math functions due to the native math instruction lack of necessary precision. And all the code is inlined which will increase the icache miss rate significantly. And many other things which are specified partially in here.
Complete cl_khr_gl_sharing support. We lack of some APIs implementation such as clCreateFromGLBuffer,clCreateFromGLRenderbuffer,clGetGLObjectInfo... Currently, the working APIs are clCreateFromGLTexture,clCreateFromGLTexture2D. We may need to find a graceful way to co-work with mesa.
Check that NDRangeKernels can be pushed into different queues from several threads.
No state tracking at all. One batch buffer is created at each "draw call" (i.e. for each NDRangeKernels). This is really inefficient since some expensive pipe controls are issued for each batch buffer.
More generally, everything in the run-time that triggers the "FATAL" macro means that something that must be supported is not implemented properly (either it does not comply with the standard or it is just missing)
Project repository
Right now, we host our project on fdo at:
And the intel 01.org:
The team
Beignet project was created by Ben Segovia. Since 2013, Now Intel China OTC graphics
team continue to work on this project. The official contact for this project is:
Zou Nanhai (email@example.com).
How to contribute
You are always welcome to contribute to this project, just need to subscribe
to the beignet mail list and send patches to it for review.
The official mail list is as below:
The official bugzilla is at:
You are welcome to submit beignet bug. Please be noted, please specify the exact platform
information, such as BYT/IVB/HSW/BDW, and GT1/GT2/GT3. You can easily get this information
by running the beignet's unit test.
Documents for OpenCL application developers
The wiki URL is as below: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Beignet/