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Smash IPO May Be a Hard Act for Twitter to Follow November 07, 2013 After setting its IPO stock price at $26 per share, Twitter on Thursday made a strong public debut in which trading opened at $45.10 per share -- 73 percent above the IPO price. That opening price valued the social media company at more than $31 billion based on its outstanding stock, options and restricted stock that will be available after the IPO. |
Dish Swings Blockbuster Wrecking Ball November 07, 2013 Dish Network on Wednesday announced that it will close its 300 remaining Blockbuster stores by early January and will end its Blockbuster By Mail service by mid-December. The company cited increased competition from digital and on-demand entertainment. Dish acquired Blockbuster in April 2011 for $320 million. At the time, it announced that it would keep 90 percent of the stores in operation. |
Tesco Goes TSA on Shoppers to Grab Marketing Data November 05, 2013 Tesco, a UK-based supermarket giant, is installing hundreds of screens that will scan shoppers' faces while they wait in line at its gas stations. The information gathered from the shoppers will then be dished to advertisers. Tesco struck a deal with Amscreen, which makes OptimEyes, a system that works by using a camera and TV-style screen. |
Twitter's Got High IPO Hopes November 04, 2013 Twitter on Monday gave would-be investors in its initial public offering more food for thought in a new Securities and Exchange filing. On one hand, it is clearly feeling confident about its valuation: The company raised the price range for its IPO to $23 to $25 per share, up from the $17 to $20 per unit it had established earlier. Twitter still intends to sell 70 million shares in the offering. |
BlackBerry Loses Its CEO, Gets $1B and Yet Another Shot November 04, 2013 BlackBerry shares fell 13 percent Monday morning on news that the company has abandoned its plan to sell itself to its largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings. Instead, it has entered into an agreement whereby Fairfax and other institutional investors will invest $1 billion in the company. That transaction is expected to be completed within the next two weeks. |
Twitter Charts Conservative IPO Course October 25, 2013 Twitter has set the price range for its highly anticipated initial public offering at between $17 and $20 per share, according to a document filed on Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company plans to raise as much as $1.61 billion by selling between 70 million and 80.5 million shares. This puts the value of the company at $10.08 billion based on an $18.50 average price. |
Microsoft Gets a Lift From the Cloud October 25, 2013 Microsoft on Thursday announced revenue of $18.53 billion and net income of $5.24 billion for its first quarter of 2014. The earnings, which outperformed what analysts had been expecting, were driven in large part by strong sales of Office and the company's server software. They came in spite of the company's search for a new CEO and its larger push to reinvent itself. |
Mutiny at Microsoft Over Gates' Future Role October 03, 2013 Three major Microsoft shareholders are reportedly pushing the board of directors to have the company's founder, Bill Gates, step down from his role as chairman. The push comes at an inopportune time for Microsoft, as it is currently searching for a CEO to take over for newly retired CEO Steve Ballmer. |
Pink Slips on the Way for Thousands of BlackBerry Workers September 19, 2013 BlackBerry is preparing to lay off 40 percent of its workforce in an effort to slash costs, according to a Wednesday report. The news came on the same day that BlackBerry launched its Z30 smartphone, a 5-inch, all-touch smartphone. BlackBerry also confirmed Wednesday it will start offering BlackBerry Messenger, its proprietary messaging service, to Android on Saturday and iOS on Sunday. |
Google's Next Search: The Fountain of Youth September 19, 2013 Google on Wednesday launched Calico, a company that will focus on health and well-being, with a particular emphasis on aging and associated diseases. At the helm of this new endeavor will sit founding investor Arthur Levinson, chairman and former CEO of Genentech, chairman of Apple, director of Hoffmann-La Roche and now Calico's CEO. |
Netflix Gives Itself a Personality Makeover September 17, 2013 Netflix on Monday updated its "long-term view" of the industry to include a far wider range of competitive factors than it has ever had in the past. The company also adjusted its competitive focus accordingly, taking into account a number of players that it had previously ignored. In a nutshell, the company said it expects that Internet TV will replace linear TV over the coming decades. |
Investors All Atwitter Over IPO News September 13, 2013 Twitter is moving forward with its long-awaited initial public offering, and it announced the news in a particularly fitting manner: "We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO," it said in a tweet sent on Thursday. For more details, stay tuned. Normally that's not quite the way it works in securities filings, but Twitter qualifies as an "emerging growth company." |
Michael Dell Gets the Green Light at Last September 12, 2013 Dell shareholders on Thursday approved founder Michael Dell's $25 billion bid to buy back the firm and take it private, ending a seven-month battle with a group of investors led by corporate raider Carl Icahn. This is reportedly the largest leveraged buyout since the Blackstone Group took hotel chain Hilton Worldwide private in 2007. |
Icahn Concedes Defeat to Dell 'Dictators' September 09, 2013 Activist investor Carl Icahn has given up his fierce struggle to prevent Michael Dell from buying his namesake company and taking it private. In a letter to shareholders, filed with the SEC on Monday morning, Icahn said Dell would be paying a price approximately 70 percent below its 10-year high of $42.38, and accepting the bid would undermine "Dell's great potential." |
Google's Barra Gets the Heck Out of Dodge August 29, 2013 Google executive Hugo Barra, one of the leading public faces for Android, has left for up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi. "In a few weeks, I'll be joining the Xiaomi team in China to help them expand their incredible product portfolio and business globally -- as Vice President, Xiaomi Global," Barra announced. "I'm really looking forward to this new challenge." |
Microsoft's Post-Ballmer Comeback August 29, 2013 Windows 8 is the torpedo that sunk Steve Ballmer, the headlines have been screaming. The news we were all expecting finally arrived last Friday with the announcement that Steve Ballmer would step down as Microsoft's CEO. Now the question is who will replace Ballmer -- and will that person be the right choice? If the company gets this right, it can return to a successful growth track. |
BBM May Leave the Nest August 28, 2013 BlackBerry is looking to spin off its BlackBerry Messenger service into a separate business to compete with other instant messaging apps. The company announced in May that it would make BBM, once available only on BlackBerry devices, available to devices running on iOS and Android. BlackBerry announced two weeks ago that it was looking into ways of revitalizing the company. |
Microsoft's Next CEO Will Have a Tough Row to Hoe August 26, 2013 By now the shock is wearing off and the steely-eyed calculations have begun following Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's announcement on Friday that he will step down from his post some time within the next 12 months. "This is a time of important transformation for Microsoft," Ballmer said in an internal email. "Microsoft has all its best days ahead." |
Amazon Dips Its Toe Into the Brisk WiFi Waters August 26, 2013 Amazon has run tests on WiFi technology that could give Kindle users direct Internet connectivity, according to a recent report. The technology uses spectrum controlled by satellite communications company Globalstar, which is perhaps best known as a global satellite phone service provider. It is possible that the tests were part of a series conducted jointly by Globalstar and Jarvinian. |
Former Windows Boss Sinofsky Resurfaces in VC World August 24, 2013 Former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky, who shocked the high-tech industry when he abruptly parted ways with the company shortly after Windows 8 was launched, has joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner. Sinofsky, a 23-year veteran at Redmond, led the creation of Windows 7 and 8 and six versions of Microsoft Office. |
Microsoft Stock Surges on News of Ballmer's Retirement August 23, 2013 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on Friday that he will step down from his post some time within the next 12 months, depending on when a successor is chosen. Stocks in the company surged 7 percent in early trading following the news. "This is a time of important transformation for Microsoft," Ballmer said in an internal email that was posted on the Microsoft news center on Friday. |
HP Rearranges Chairs in Hopes of Propelling Turnaround August 23, 2013 Hewlett-Packard announced some changes to its executive lineup on Wednesday -- the same day it posted a quarterly earnings report that fell short of analyst expectations. Revenue for HP's third fiscal quarter was $27.2 billion, the company reported, down 8 percent from the $29.7 billion it posted a year earlier. HP earned about 86 cents per share on non-GAAP earnings. |
All Eyes on Mayer as Yahoo Hits Traffic Milestone August 22, 2013 Yahoo topped Google as the most-visited website in the United States in July, Web analytics firm comScore reported on Wednesday. Specifically, Yahoo received 196.6 million unique visitors during the month, compared with 192.3 million for Google. This is the first time Yahoo has found itself in the top spot for U.S. Web traffic since May 2011. Moreover, this report does not include data from Tumblr. |
Icahn vs. Apple: When Did Extortion Become Legal? August 19, 2013 What Carl Icahn has been doing with Dell -- and now with Apple -- is kind of like a protection racket. These were popular in the 1920s -- you paid the crime syndicate a fee if you wanted to say in business. I'm wondering if Icahn has found a legal way to extort money from companies in trouble. Icahn not only doesn't provide value for the "help" he gives -- he actually drains the firm's resources. |
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This past week President Obama was interviewed by a report from the Spanish network, Univision.
During the interview, the president slammed standardized testings. The president said it made education boring. And too many times the curriculum of a school was just teaching what might be on a standardized test.
And on this matter- the president is exactly right.
In my opinion, the education in this state has gone down dramatically since someone dreamed up a TAKS test, or what some egghead may be calling it this week.
I have close relatives in the school business and I can tell you all the educators I know hate the idea.
And teachers, just like kids, always manage to get a copy of the test. And then then take the entire year making sure they are teaching what's on the test.
I have always thought standardized testing was stupid. It's like fashion. When it comes to education we are at the whimsy of what some pencil-necked geek in Princeton, New Jersey thinks, or what some fashion designer in Paris wants.
Only the Texas legislature could have been stupid to approve this idea years ago.
The SAT and ACT and other tests to get into law school or med school. Yeah, you really don't have a choice on that.
But to get out of high school?
Why don't we trust our teachers to make out a curriculum that adds up to homework and test what they come up with?
To me that's the smart idea.
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I agree on it's use to measure progress but we need to allow teachers their right to be creative in creating their own curriculum. http://typobounty.com/Funny/obamadunkwithnoyoucant.htm
If all teachers do is to teach to the TAKs test, then he who controls the test questions, controls what the kids are taught. Do you not see this is just one more surreptitious, behind the scenes tactic of the progressive socialists to control the agenda and your children's minds? Progressives are soooooo,, clever in the ways they attempt to take power over our minds and our children. Defund the department of education and give the control of the schools back to the local communities.
We are laying off good teachers and support staff because of a state budget shortfall. Then we are spending billions of dollars to give the TAKS (about to be STARR) test. REALLY?
We are laying off good teachers and support staff because of a state budget shortfall. Then we are spending billions of dollars to give the TAKS (about to be STARR) test. REALLY?
We are laying off good teachers and support personel because of the state budget deficit, and still we spend billions of dollars to give the TAKS (soon to be STAAR) test. REALLY?
Lets not sound redundant, but maybe our good teachers and support personnel are getting laid off because they failed to teach their former students who are now real world politicians a real world view of how to run an economy and a government. Perhaps the stew they find themselves in was brewed in the halls of scholastic opportunity,,,an obviously wasted opportunity of promulgating the failed brainwashing mantra of the failed liberal progressive socialist entitlement philosphy. Reap what you sow
Using it as a tool to figure out where your students are in the scheme of things, yeah, that's okay. Basing critical FUNDING on it is RETARDED.
Standardized testing was adopted not as a measure to improve academics, but as a means to disqualify substandard teachers. The tests have yet to live-up to expectations. Affirmative action continues.
I support standardized testing in that we need a way to measure progress. However, you're right in that the way it has been used and how it's changed over the last 20 years has only served to do damaged.


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In testimony before the House Judiciary subcommittee this morning, Marybeth Peters, U.S. Register of Copyrights, in her first detailed comments on the subject, blasted the Google Book Search Settlement as "fundamentally at odds with the law." In a blistering assessment of the deal, Peters told lawmakers that the settlement is in essence a compulsory license that would give Google the ability to engage in activities, such as text display and sale of downloads, that are "indisputable acts of copyright infringement."
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The Utah State University OpenCourseWare project has shut down because it ran out of money, making it perhaps the biggest venture to close in the burgeoning movement to freely publish course materials online. The project's director was laid off on June 30th and while the Web site remains up for now, it no longer has any dedicated staff and is no longer adding new courses.http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Utah-State-Us-OpenCourseWare/7913/
In a break with tradition, The Associated Press plans to prevent members and customers from publishing some AP content on their websites. Instead, those news organizations would link to the content on a central AP website — a move that could upend the consortium's traditional notions of syndication.
That's one revelation from a document we obtained (labeled "AP CONFIDENTIAL — NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION") that offers new insight into how the AP is planning to reinvent itself on the Internet according to Neiman Lab, Harvard University.
The seven-page briefing, entitled "Protect, Point, Pay — An Associated Press Plan for Reclaiming News Content Online," was distributed to AP members late last month. It provides greater detail about the tracking device that will be attached to AP content and describes their plans to create topic pages around news stories to rival Wikipedia and major aggregation sites. And in an hour-long interview last night, the AP's general counsel, Srinandan Kasi, also shed light on how the consortium views reuse of its material across the Internet.
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The Associated Press -- which thinks you owe it a license fee if you quote more than four words from one of its articles -- doesn't even care if the words actually came from its article. They'll charge you anyway, even if you're quoting from the public domain. I picked a random AP article and went to their "reuse options" site. Then, when they asked what I wanted to quote, I punched in Thomas Jefferson's famous argument against copyright. Their license fee: $12 for an educational 26-word quote. FROM THE PUBLIC FREAKING DOMAIN, and obviously, obviously not from the AP article. But the AP is too busy trying to squeeze the last few cents out of a dying business model to care about little things like free speech or the law.
The Associated Press -- which thinks you owe it a license fee if you quote more than four words from one of its articles -- doesn't even care if the words actually came from its article. They'll charge you anyway, even if you're quoting from the public domain.
I picked a random AP article and went to their "reuse options" site. Then, when they asked what I wanted to quote, I punched in Thomas Jefferson's famous argument against copyright. Their license fee: $12 for an educational 26-word quote. FROM THE PUBLIC FREAKING DOMAIN, and obviously, obviously not from the AP article. But the AP is too busy trying to squeeze the last few cents out of a dying business model to care about little things like free speech or the law.
Thanks to Bill Drew & Michael Sauers for the tip.
Full Paper [PDF]: The conventional rationale for copyright of written works, that copyright is needed to foster their creation, is seemingly of limited applicability to the academic domain. For in a world without copyright of academic writing, academics would still benefit from publishing in the major way that they do now, namely, from gaining scholarly esteem. Yet publishers would presumably have to impose fees on authors, because publishers would not be able to profit from reader charges. If these publication fees would be borne by academics, their incentives to publish would be reduced. But if the publication fees would usually be paid by universities or grantors, the motive of academics to publish would be unlikely to decrease (and could actually increase) – suggesting that ending academic copyright would be socially desirable in view of the broad benefits of a copyright-free world. If so, the demise of academic copyright should be achieved by a change in law, for the 'open access' movement that effectively seeks this objective without modification of the law faces fundamental difficulties.
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What happens to a book published posthumously? It seems a life can be written, edited, rewritten and reedited long after the author's death.
This is what's transpiring with Hemingway's posthumous memoir of his early days in Paris, "A Moveable Feast." Along with portraits of other famous ex-pats (F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein), it provides a heart-wrenching depiction of marital betrayal.
Much married, Hemingway's fourth and final wife Mary was the one who edited the first edition of "A Moveable Feast," published by Scribner in 1964 (she became his widow upon the authors death in July 1961). She created a final chapter that dealt with the dissolution of Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley and the beginning of his relationship with his second wife, Pauline, building some of it from parts of the book he had indicated he did not want included.
Early next month, Scribner, now an imprint of Simon & Schuster, is publishing a new edition of the book, what it is calling "the restored edition," and this time it is edited by Seán Hemingway, a grandson of Hemingway and Pauline. Among the changes he has made is removing part of that final chapter from the main body of the book and placing it in an appendix, adding back passages from Hemingway's manuscript that Seán believes paint his grandmother in a more sympathetic light.
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After sweeping the Grammys with her heartbreaking album 21, Adele says she is done with breakup music.
With songs like "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You," Adele has put a voice to many hearts in the process of healing from a split. But she doesn't want people to think that's all she has to offer the music world.
Keeping that in mind, she's decided that a little time off to revamp her musical image might be in order.
"I am f*cking off for four or five years," she said in the March 2012 issue of Vogue. "If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record and be in love and be happy … I won't come out with new music until it's better than 21."
The British diva has recently revealed that she has found love, but she also acknowledged that her hit album may have intimidated some guys—if not for her six Grammy wins, then certainly by her subject matter.
"Come on! I'm wifey material! I'm great. No one's got to be brave," she joked. "It's not like, 'You f*ck me over and I'm going to write a record and make you the most hated man in the world.' I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch"
As proof, Adele insists that she no longer has any hard feelings toward the ex-beau that inspired 21. She admits that her stance on giving him any credit for the album has softened a bit.
"You know, he was amazing. He was great. But it was never going to work," Adele said. "And for ages I was like, as if he deserves any f*cking kudos for inspiring my record. But now, after some time, it only seems right that the person who so far has had the biggest impact on me—has now changed my life for f*cking ever with this album—deserves a little credit."
Not only is she giving her former flame a little credit, she's thanking him for the lasting benefits their relationship had on her life, both personally and professionally.
"I can do things that I never dreamed I'd be able to do," Adele explained. "If I hadn't met him, I think I'd still be that little girl I was when I was 18. And the best thing is, I now know what I want for myself and from someone else. I didn't know what I wanted before."
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Working on the online dating service exactodate.com, I had to tackle the problem of permitting users to upload image files during the registration and user-management processes. Having worked with existing content of this nature in the past, I was surprised how much work is involved in something as simple as uploading, saving, and showing images in Web applications.
It involves many issues: permitting file uploads, saving or rendering the image, storing the image in a database, retrieving and re-binding an image at a later time, cleaning up images written to disk, and ensuring that an image contains something you'd actually permit to be on your Web site without human intervention. In truth, I haven't found a satisfactory answer for all of these problems. However, this article covers the mechanics of permitting image uploads, saving images, and rendering images, and it discusses problems with this whole process that don't seem to have solutions. Finally, it wraps up with a call to action.
Some of you may be experts on this subject and may know solutions that don't seem readily available. The call to action is your chance to show the rest of us how much you know. If you have a solution to the difficult challenges mentioned at the end of the article, send me an email. I will post that information in a follow-up article.
I found references to the Opera browser reporting an error when uploading files with the default encoding, but using the default encoding seemed to work okay with .jpg files in IE and Mozilla FireFox.
Figure 1: The Input Field (or HtmlInputFile) Control Shown in an HTML Table
Listing 1: Check the File Size and Type, and Save the File to Disk The checks are shown as assertions, and you would want to combine design time assertions with runtime conditional checks, generally performing identical checks. (Remember: Assertions are design-time checks and are for developers only.)
You can derive a file name anyway you'd like. One technique I used was to use the Request.ApplicationPath concatenated to a fixed sub-path, the SessionID for a unique folder, and a GUID to try to ensure uniqueness between users.
In Listing 1, if the file is larger than approximately 15k or is not a .jpeg file, then the image will not be uploaded and the assertion failure will be displayed in the Output window.
Listing 2: Rendering All of the Images Stored in a Known Location In this example, the path is static. But you could use any scheme you'd like for managing images, including the ApplicationPath//SessionID/GUID technique described previously. The rest of the code simply sets the useful properties of the image. If you have a style sheet defined, set the CssClass property, and you can use <div> tags or an HTML table to manage layout. Figure 2 shows my smiling face loaded three times on the present Registration page for exactodate.com using an HTML table to manage layout.
Figure 2: Uploaded Images Using the HtmlInputFile Control and an HTML Table to Easily Manage Layout I haven't found a way to clean up all of these images. They are necessary for display, so it's not easy to delete the files when they are stored in a database. One could delete them when the session times out, but this can happen after the user has closed the browser and doesn't seem to be a wholly reliable means of cleaning up the saved files.
It also would be nice to simply upload the image right into the page. This can be done with code like image.Save(Response.OutputStream, image.RawFormat) where image is an object like a Bitmap. Unfortunately, this is a destructive statement and replaces all of your other content. You would think it would be possible to insert the image non-destructively. You also can write the image to a .ascx control dynamically and then load the control dynamically as well, but this approach seems like even more overhead than just saving the image.
Finally, I'd like to bind an image field directly to a control without an URLwhich implies saving the file to disk againbut this also seems impossible at present. The assumption seems to be that images are always files persisted to disk. One can set the text property of a TextBox right from code, so why not the value of an image?
It seems like something as fundamental as image management is based on an older static-content mode. This makes image management clunky at best.
This article demonstrated how to get the basic job done. Now I unabashedly am asking for your feedback to help all of us find a solution whose time has come. If you have solutions to the questions posed in the Frustrations section, send them to me, and I will try to get that data updated into this article as a set of workable, if not best, practices.
Paul Kimmel has written several books on object-oriented programming and .NET. Check out his upcoming book UML DeMystified from McGraw-Hill/Osborne (Fall 2005). Paul is also the founder and chief architect for Software Conceptions, Inc., founded in 1990. He is available to help design and build software worldwide. You may contact him for consulting opportunities or technology questions at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you are interested in joining, sponsoring a meeting, or posting a job, check out www.glugnet.org, the Web page of the Greater Lansing area Users Group for .NET. Copyright © 2005 by Paul T. Kimmel. All Rights Reserved.
Uploading Images to a Web Site Is Harder Than You Think
August 22, 2005
Creating the User Interface
Creating the user interface for uploading images is comparatively straightforward. It requires the following three steps:
1. Modifying the Form Tag
According to RFC (Request For Comment) 2388, the default encoding type is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded." This encoding type is inefficient for non-ASCII characters and large quantities of binary data. However, I have successfully uploaded images to Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) with the default encoding type. To be safe, modify the <form> tag for the .aspx page to look something like this: <form id="Form1" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" runat="server">
2. Adding the Input Control
A basic HTML input control with type=file will add a textbox and button pair that are pre-defined to display the Open Dialog and load the file when the button is clicked. The easiest way to add this control is to add the File Field control from the HTML tab of Visual Studio's toolbox (see Figure 1).
3. Changing the Accept Attribute
To make sure this control is accessible from the code-behind, ensure that the runat="server" attribute is present, provide an IDin the example to follow, "File1"and set the accept attribute to accept images only. For example, "image/*" changes the file type default and is designed to permit uploading image files only. To be sure, you will add some code-behind checks to verify the file type and size.
Saving the Uploaded Image
Clicking Browse displays the open file dialog (or some equivalent), and selecting a file and clicking Open stores that data in a temporary cache on the client. The image will be posted back to the server along with the form's data. The posted file is accessible through the HtmlInputFile control's PostedFile property. However, before you save, render, or store the uploaded file, you may want to perform some sanity checking on it. Listing 1 demonstrates how to check the file size and content type using assertions, and how to save the uploaded file.
Debug.Assert(File1.PostedFile != null);
Debug.Assert(File1.PostedFile.ContentType == "image/pjpeg");
Debug.Assert(File1.PostedFile.ContentLength < 15000,
"file is too big");
Rendering the Uploaded Image
An easy way to render the image is to dynamically create a Web control Image and insert it somewhere in the page. You control the attributes and style in advance (or dynamically), and the URL is the same path you used to store the image. Knowing the scheme used to write the image files, you can use System.IO capabilities to re-read the image filebypassing storing the filenames in Session information, or you could use the Session cacheand create an image for each of the files. Listing 2 shows a hypothetical image-rendering method based on the known-path technique.
private void DrawImages()
const string path = "c:\\temp";
if( !Directory.Exists(path)) return;
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path);
for( int i=0; i<files.Length; i++)
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image img = new System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image();
img.ImageUrl = files[i];
img.EnableViewState = true;
img.CssClass = "MyClass"; //optional
img.AlternateText = "photo " + (i+1).ToString();
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The steps demonstrated in this article are easy, but some loose ends bug me. The first is that I didn't show how to load this image in a database using ADO.NET, but the article would be too long if I opened that can of worms. Try using the image data type and converting the image to a byte array (in SQL Server) to persist the image, but you could leave the image on the file system and simply store the path to each file. But there are more problematic issues than these.
A Call to Arms
By using the HtmlInputFile control and the HttpPostedFile property, you can upload and display user-added content relatively easily. What isn't so clear is how to store and render that content without creating external file-management problems.
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*CPUIDLE code from 36.1 (by Imoseyon)
*CPUIDLE code from 3.0rc6 kernel
*Make cpuidle_enable_device() call poll_idle_init()
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*Delete float charge after 90%
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*Tweaked BFS
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*ADD: I2C driver backported from 18.104.22.168 kernel (by Imoseyon)
*lib/sha1 use the git implementation of SHA-1
*arm remove optimized SHA1 routines
*tweaks lazy govenor
*Add compile optimizations
*Update BFS to V413 for kernel 3.0 – modified for DHD by LorD ClockaN
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*Lower the batt power limit for disabling flashlightflash from 15 to 10% – leedroid
*Tuning the conservative governor to behave a bit better for performance – netarchy
*Decrease maximum transition latency of smartassV2 when Scorpion CPU is detected – intersectRaven
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*posix-timers RCU conversio
*ext4 add cleancache support
*init/calibrate.c backport from 3.0
*Fixed ext4 disk write performance regression
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*USB: f_mass_storage: Disable write cache support
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*document TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU tracing
*Added usleep_range timer as it's needed for JRCU to compile, added #if defind so only used when compiling with JRCU
*cpufreq and omap transition latency tweaks
*delay going tickless when CPU is loaded
*bfs: Added support for custom rr_interval value
*Improve the performance of memcpy and memmove of the general version
*CFS Scheduler tweaks brought over
*EXPORT nr_running for modules such as smartass governor
*Use a realtime priority thread for AVS
*mm: vmap area cache
*Ondemand governor tweaking
*rcutorture add random preemption
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*The Brain **** Scheduler v0.404 by Con Kolivas
*Update to linux upstream 126.96.36.199
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*ADD float charge after 90%
*mm Avoid livelocking of WB_SYNC_ALL writeback
*Fix a race during freezing of TASK_STOPPED tasks
* Add JRCU by Joe Korty(not enable)
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Za'atar is a Middle Eastern seasoning mixture that usually contains thyme, oregano, basil, sumac, and sesame seeds. It's delicious sprinkled over this soft, pillowy flatbread from the chef-owner of Oleana in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
What to buy: Za'atar can be purchased at Middle Eastern grocers or online.
- 1In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, mix the yeast into the warm water and let the mixture stand until a gentle foam blooms across the surface, about 10 minutes. The water must be under 120°F or it will kill the yeast.
- 2Whisk in 1/4 cup of the oil and add the flour and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt.
- 3Using the dough hook, stir on low speed until the flour is combined and it forms a dough. Increase the speed to medium and knead the dough for 7 to 8 minutes, until the dough is still sticky to the touch but stays on the dough hook in one piece.
- 4Lightly oil a large stainless or glass bowl and scoop the dough into it. Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for a minimum of 2 hours or overnight; the dough should double in volume.
- 5About 2 hours before baking, brush 2 tablespoons of the oil on a heavy baking sheet, place the dough on the sheet, and cover with plastic wrap. Let the dough rise again for 1 1/2 hours at room temperature.
- 6Heat the oven to 375°F and arrange a rack in the middle.
- 7Press the dough onto the baking sheet, using your hands to stretch and pull it into the corners, forming a flat 10-by-12-inch rectangle. Make dimples in the dough with your fingertips (this creates little pockets for the oil and za'atar to collect in) and brush the dough with the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
- 8Sprinkle the za'atar evenly over the dough and then sprinkle the whole bread with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- 9Let the dough rest for at least 20 to 30 minutes more, uncovered and at room temperature.
- 10Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until golden brown on the edges and cooked all the way through in the center. Serve warm.


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Starting a new company can be a daunting task. There are many things to consider before opening for business, and it's crucial that all business owners know what bonds are needed to operate legally and protect their business. We will review what it means to be bonded, the process of getting bonded, the benefits of bonding and what you should know before purchasing a bond.
What Does It Mean To Be "Bonded"?
When a company or individual is "bonded" it likely means they either have a surety bond or a fidelity bond in place. Surety bonds are required and protect the public, while fidelity bonds generally aren't required and can protect you or your clients from employee dishonesty such as theft. This topic deserves an entire post to itself, which is why we published a separate article that goes into great detail about what it means to be bonded.
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When someone wants to bond their business, they are referring to obtaining surety bonds or fidelity bonds. Although these bonds may seem interchangeable, they serve very different purposes.
The Process of Getting Surety Bonds
Let's begin with the process of getting a surety bond. First, you only need a surety bond if it's required of you to legally operate your business. A surety bond guarantees you'll follow all laws and regulations that apply to your business. If you already know you need a surety bond, the process is as easy as applying to get an instant bond approval. Once you're approved, you need to provide payment, sign the indemnity agreement and we will ship the surety bond to you.
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The disturbing thing about The Penis' Responses to the Vagina Monologues is not that it's a combination of bad theater and poor acting. It's that thinking adults, both men and women, believed this display of sexism and bad taste actually possesses enough sociocultural, artistic, or political merit to put it on-stage for other adults to witness. If it were even remotely believable, its underlying misogyny and insensitivity toward both sexes would be deplorable. Instead one can only take a couple of Tylenol and recognize our First Amendment rights. Not tonight, Dr. Dauw. I really have a headache.


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quote:lol...I mean if you want to compare audiences I am reasonable sure I can find just as many people in the high iq types and low iq types who watch just about any television program.
quote:I'm not sure low iq types watch a show like Mad Men
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Spider mite help...
Im jw... why do i get spider mites only during the winter when i bring my plants inside? is it because less harsh conditions than outside? should i just get a pesticide spray? i dont want to loose my plants like i did a few bananas and others last year...
Spider mites usually only become a problem when its dry, and since homes are usually dry, spider mites attack. Since the east coast is humid during the summer, they usualy vanish once the summer comes. The rain outdoors washes them away too.
My plumerias were attacked by them recently, so I forced them into dormat and am keepin them as humid as possible.
Good luck!
You might spray your plants every few weeks with an insecticidal soap. That seems to work fairly well, and typically better than other insecticides, from my experience. I grow a lot of indoor banana, hibiscus, palms, upright elephant ears, bird of paradise and plumeria. The bananas, elephant ears and plumeria seem to get hit the worst with spider mites. Aphids seem to attack the hibiscus worse than spider mites. The palms don't seem to get hit as hard as the other plants with insects for some reason.
I would add that when you first start treating your plants(insecticidal soap) you should do it twice a week for at least a few weeks since their egg cycle is like every 5 days,spray well mostly underneath.
Then you can switch to a lemon scented dish soap (tablespoon per gallon)one or twice a week after.
They can be a real pain to get rid of you can't miss any of the plant when you spray.
I learned- after dealing with these all last winter- to start spraying my plants (every other day with soap)for two weeks before I brought them inside.
Good luck-
Im having a hell of a time with those little buggers too on my bananas this year. IM not sure why they are proliferating like they have/ are this year. I keep the indoor humidity between 55 -75% at all times. It rarely ever gets down to 50-55% in my place. I would think that in the 60-70% range would be high enough.
All of this information is great! Thanks! My only question is this: When spraying with insecticidal soap, or the dishsoap/water dilute solution, should one cover the soil so as none of the soaps get into the soil and possibly into the root system when you actually water the plant?
Also, I have usually just hosed off plants outside and that did the trick, but this year it seems like that did not work as the mites are back in full force. so I think this time I will hose them off, and then do the insecticidal soap spray. So what brands of insecticidal soaps are best? Also, any particular brand of dish soap seem to work best?
Thanks for the info!
Thanks Jim! I also am wondering what brand of insecticidal soap works best too. I just hosed them off today, but im sure they will be back as there are still teensy weensy little white dots (eggs?) that dont wash off so easy.
I guess any of them would work fine.
I am at the mercy of Wal-wart here as far as what I can get.....so,prevention is the best plan.
I had problems(a lot)last year and lost a lot of plants from the spray/water getting/staying in the crowns of some of my palms.
I started spraying everything coming in the house 2 weeks before I brought them in.
Don't forget to spray twice a week!
Well, I have lemon scented dish soap, but no insecticidal soap. I guess ill start out with just that for now until I can get some insecticidal soap. The only thing I need to spray is my bananas. Nothing else as seemed to have gotten the mites.
Ill see what it does. Any other help is appreciated!
I have posted this before:
Antistress 2000 works brilliantly against mites (not mealies though).
It is not a pesticide. It is a polymer designed to protect plants from frost and dessication, and incidentally it wipes out spider mites. I don't know exactly how it works: perhaps it renders the leaves unpalatable, or maybe the polymer suffocates the mites, who knows? But it does work. 3 applications in 2 weeks and you're done. The only negative is that the stuff is only available in larger quantities, and it smells kind of like elmer's glue. But it is completely safe and biodegradable.
I had mites on a bunch of plants 2 summers ago, and have not had any since.
JH- Thanks! I did just that today. Hosed them off pretty hard, twice, then doused them with the dish soap/ water solution. I also flushed out the soil rather vigorously, twice as well. Heres hoping all that works!
Xerophyte, Thank! I may give that a try if I cant get this done any other way. Much appreicated!
I've had the very same good luck using Wiltpruf, which is available at pretty much any garden center in various sizes, including quart ready to use, with keeping mites at bay on most glossy or hard-leaved plants. The stuff isn't a pesticide per-se, but I think it probably suffocates the mites. Be sure to apply liberally to all surfaces, especially the undersides of the leaves and stems. As a side benefit, it makes the plants really shiny and attractive, and also makes them need less water for a while. It wears off in about two months.
I think you have the right idea there.
Probably would be a good way to help plants deal with dry air inside the house in winter.
One thing about Wilt-pruf etc,you DO NOT want to spray it inside as it will stain anything it gets on-
Definitely a outside/over 50(F)/the grass application product.
I too have begun to have the mite problem with my indoor bananas. I dug up my large bananas (just couldn't let them wilt and over-winter outside- they looked too good). I have one that is up to about 10 feet tall and another which is about 7 feet. Then the pups they produced all summer were potted and all are from 3 to 5 feet tall and producing their own pups now. These are all potted and residing in an (unnamed publically) retail store I own here in MN. They love the heat and florescent lighting. All of them took off fast in there and produce at least a leave or two a week. The 10-footer puts out 6-foot long leaves!
In the last 2 weeks I started getting yellowing leaves and leaves dying, mostly the lower/older leaves. It took me a while to discover it was indeed the spider mites. 2 of the bananas are severely infested, a few others are starting. I almost lost a 5-footer completely, it only has one leaf living now and I am desperately trying to save it. These are all musa basjoo by the way.
I started with the dish soap method, it seems to have an effect. Cuts them down significantly but I can still see a few moving around each day when I check again. I was going to try to find neem oil but being pressed for time I could only find Ortho Volck Oil Spray concentrate at a nearby home Depot. I'm going to try it and hope for better results. I'll post my experience here for other's benefit (or warning).
I hope these little shi*'s don't spread to all my other plants residing inside the store this winter! I have 2 Xmas palms, large pygmy date palm, 4.5' washy, several trachys of varying sizes up to 5 feet, med. fan palm, sagos, BOP, hibiscus, persian lime, etc. in there.
They will spread if they have not already.
Might be a good idea to move the Bananas to a basement if you can.I am moving away from bringing in stuff that harbors wsm's.
Next year try spraying them every other day a few weeks before you bring them in,or try overwintering.
Good luck
I went through this last year and lost quite a few Trachys for related reasons.
Did you lose trachys to spider mites? I was wondering if they attack and hurt trachys. I was hoping not! This has me more worried now as I thought this might just be limited to the basjoos. That Volck oil stuff actually says on the label it is good for controlling all the bugs, spider mites included, on palm trees. Also says it controls scale which is good because my larger Xmas palm seems to have a minor case of it.
Here is a bad rookie mistake which led more of my potted bananas to get the damn mites. I had a habit of cutting up banana leaves that are pruned off as they start to look bad and put them in the pots as mulch thinking they might like to feed on their own. Stupid huh? I got into that habit when they were all living outside and kind of continued it indoors.
That Volck oil seems to be working though. Label says it does not need to be used more often than every 60 days to control these bugs. I kind of doubt that but am holding out hope. It is also listed on the label to be used as an indoor plant "leaf shine" product if used at about half dosage. It is definitely safe on the bananas as I have observed so far. It did kill more mites than the dish soap treatments did. After a good treatment with it in the morning, I checked late in the day and could not find a moving/living mite on any of the plants. What a bummer, just when my bananas were really starting to look great they get this crap!
how have you all been doin fighing your spider mites thoes who had them... how is i now. mine i thought were going away and out of no where since it has been so cold outside they were all over my elephant ears and bananas im pissed at theese little things i have so many plants under some lights clustered together and ima haveto go through all of them and try to clean them out again. i need to find a solution and fast before they kill some of my plants like last winter. cant wait for march! -Jusin in VB
They were on my plumerias so I forced them all into dormancy. Now some of my plumerias are coming out of dormancy and so far no spider mite (yay). My bougainvillea also had some spider mites and lost all its leaves. Now it is branching out with new leaves, but the spider mites still can come back on that one.
but other than those plants I haven't seen spider mites on any of my others. But my hibiscus are infested with aphids and white flies, but as long as I can keep them in control for another 3-4 more months (when it goes outside again) then the bug problems usually go away.
You should spray it with water and clean all the leaves. It was hard for me to do with my bougainvillea because it has fragile leaves, but with bananas it is a little easier. for your elephant ears you can cut it and store the bulb and that will be a guarantee fix to the spider mite problem.
Hope they hang on until the warm weather comes in, but it seems to me like its going to be a slow, cold start to spring too.
As a follow up to my two posts above, here is my update on my spider mite problems. Good news/bad news. These damn bugs attacked most of my bananas I brought indoors as mentioned above (about 10 total potted bananas, most with pups). I believe they got to my smallest potted trachy also, a 3-footer. Bad news is I lost a 5-foot banana to the bugs. Good news is the bugs seem to be totally gone. That Volck Oil spray worked very well on the bananas and small trachy. Absolutely no sign of the mites since my first couple treatments. I'm misting (with water) all the bananas and palms a couple times a week now. All good so far...
An interesting note on the mature banana I lost. When it was certain I had lost the banana and I was ready to cut it down, I noticed a small pup which was about an inch or two tall and green/healthy. Within days of cutting the mother at just about ground level, the pup had already grown a foot. A week after cutting mom, the pup is now two+ feet tall and making new leaves fast. Healthy as can be also. I've never seen them grow this fast! Especially indoors and in pots.
Bottom line, I believe that Volck Oil spray is a good product. Works well on tender musa basjoo bananas as well as palms (label says it works on palms but does not mention bananas) All of my bananas are now growing about 1/2 to 2/3 the speed they seem to grow in the mid summer. Under bright florescent lighting and constant 76 degree temps. 12 hours on lighting, 12 hours off, 6 days a week. Sundays they stay dark but don't seem to mind. My biggest banana is now over 12 feet and making a huge new leaf about once every 5-days to a week and has 4 growing pups. I'm still feeding them Milorganite about once a month also.


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They say Spring is a time of renewal. There's something about the warm weather, the sun shining and the flowers blooming that inspires us to get organized and give our homes a thorough cleaning.
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I've been focusing on the front of my house this spring. I've added some new flowers & want to add a little rock garden off of the driveway. Ours isn't big enough so dh drives on the grass a bit, this is my cheater way of expanding the driveway without HOA approval lol.
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