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NEW YORK, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Buoyed by business from Pottery Barn, Toyota and other clients, award-winning digital innovation firm Zemoga today announced the opening of its first West Coast office in suburban San Francisco. The office, which officially opened September 1, will be headed by Zemoga President and co-founder Alejandro Gomez, who moves from the company's main office and development hub in Bogota, Colombia, to manage day-to-day operations.
DJ Edgerton, CEO and co-founder of Zemoga, will continue to maintain the digital design and marketing company's East Coast presence from its U.S. headquarters in New York City. Taking over management duties for Gomez in Bogota will be Managing Director Andres Navarro.
"There's not a better candidate to spread 'Bogota love' for us in the Western U.S. than Alejandro," said Edgerton. "He has the vision and the commitment to serve both existing and prospective clients on the West Coast. Very early on in the life of Zemoga, Alejandro was our first business development guru and he is more than qualified to make things happen for us in the Bay area."
Zemoga's new office is located in Walnut Creek, strategically positioned between Silicon Valley and downtown San Francisco. From the outpost, Zemoga staffers will service recently-acquired client Pottery Barn as well as Toyota and the Mozilla Foundation.
"It's been a dream of ours from the beginning to build a West Coast presence for Zemoga," stated Gomez. "As a digital innovation firm, we want to be at the epicenter of global technology development. This office is a true strategic investment for us."
Founded in 2001, Zemoga employs over 140 people across its various offices. The firm has produced award-winning digital work for companies including A&E, HBO, Sears Holdings, Continental Airlines, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Rodale and many others.
The full-service office will offer the complete suite of capabilities from Zemoga's Strategic Services Group (SSG) including Research, Innovation, Training and Knowledge Management.
New Bogota office chief Andres Navarro joined Zemoga last March. Navarro is a seasoned digital marketing professional, having gained experience as Chief Digital Officer of Latin America for IPG Mediabrands and digital head for Latin America for IPG's Universal McCann. He also was Digital Regional Director for Omnicom Media Group.
"In Colombia people are very much 'huggers,' which may be a culture shift for me. Otherwise I expect the transition from Latin America to the West Coast to be an easy one, as I already have family here," Gomez commented. "Unfortunately, DJ is a better surfer than I am."
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Zemoga is an award-winning digital innovation firm that specializes in the creation of meaningful and engaging interactive experiences and applications. With offices in the U.S. and Colombia, Zemoga empowers customers with groundbreaking solutions through a model that provides efficiencies at every level. Zemoga's clients include Sears Holdings, HBO, Pfizer, Yahoo, Viacom, A&E Television Networks, Toyota, Continental Airlines, and Rodale. Learn more at www.zemoga.com.
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JEFFERSON, La. -- Neighbors along Deckbar Avenue in Old Jefferson encountered a strange situation late Wednesday one that left homes damaged and one person dead.
According to investigators, it all began when a man drove erratically back and forth in a driveway behind several homes.
They said the man was intentionally running into the buildings and, eventually, crashed into a shed, sparking a huge fire.
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'What we believe happened, preliminarily, is that the gas tank of the truck may have been pierced,' said Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand. 'The fire was very intense, melted pretty much everything in that back structure back there. The vehicle was towed, pursuant to the investigation, and the scene was cleared.'
It seemed it was a hit and run, because there was no sign of the driver, officials said.
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ESPN: Scott Skiles was fined $7,500 by the NBA on Wednesday for criticizing referee Jess Kersey.
Kersey was a referee for the Bulls' 106-97 loss in Seattle on Monday and Skiles complained afterward that he was being ignored throughout the game.
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Mainly, however, Leone created a totally distinctive placevoluptuous, even elegiac, in its rabble-rousing cynicism. ("To me, cinema is adventure, legend," was his suitably kitsch credo). Frontier towns with the look of decaying movie sets nestle in landscapes of Martian desolation. Everyone needs a bath and drinks their whiskey from the bottle. Biblical plaguesdust, flies, thirstunderscore an ethos of universal sadism. You know you're in Leone country the moment a huge, unshaven face lolls across the wide, wide screen and one of Ennio Morricone's twanging, banshee-shriek themes rises on the soundtrack like a vamp for the Last Judgment.
These movies can never work on TV; their use of space is tonic. Epic vistas are joltingly juxtaposed with mega-close-ups. The three-way shoot-out that ends The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1967), amid corrida fanfares and tolling bells in a graveyard half the size of Texas, is one of the great set pieces in Western history. The outrageously prolonged Once Upon a Time in the West credit sequence exemplifies the whole Leone aesthetic of exaggerated spectacle and revisionist grunge. Three gruesome pug-uglies wait in a dilapidated station for the train that will bring their intended victim. Framed so tightly that each drop of sweat becomes a visual event, the sequence is less a parody of High Noon than of Mount Rushmore.
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The son of a director and an actress, Leone was born into the faith. He was a teenage extra in The Bicycle Thief, worked on half the Hollywood movies made at Cinecitta during the '50s, and broke into direction with the cheesy Supertotalscope sword-and-sandal muscle-man flicks the French call peplumsthe 1959 remake of The Last Days of Pompeii and the surprisingly credible Colossus of Rhodes (1961). Perhaps something of a roguein 1961 Robert Aldrich fired him, for loafing, from the Sodom and Gomorrah second unitLeone had an epiphany when he saw the 1962 Akira Kurosawa samurai flick Yojimbo, shamelessly plagiarizing it in his first, enormously successful low-budget western, A Fistful of Dollars (1964).
There had been 25 Italian oat operas made before Leone's but he put the mode on the map. Like the Beatles and the Trinitron, his spaghetti westerns marked the internationalization of American pop culture. A Fistful of Dollars and its follow-ups, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1967), rehabilitated TV cowboy Clint Eastwood as the last western hero. Leone's sense of the quintessential American genre was at once more abstract and more violently naturalistic than Hollywood's. Bringing a taste for recurring flashbacks and a knack for peplum crowd shots, he raised the magnitude of the slaughter while eschewing the patriotic self-glorification that traditionally came with the territory.
Throughout the convoluted course of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Eastwood's scuzzy bounty hunter, Lee Van Cleef's reptilian hired killer, and Eli Wallach's blasphemous bandit (an infinitely sly, violent, opportunistic Everyman) form and dissolve various alliances, littering the screen with corpses as they search for an elusive box of gold coins. The plot keeps intersecting the fringes of the Civil War, consistently presented as a far larger and more meaningless bloodbath than anything in which the principals get mixed up.
Flush with the success of the Dollars trilogy, Leone journeyed to Hollywood to find backing for a gangster epic. But The Godfather was still several years in the future and instead, Paramount made him an offer he couldn't refuse: carte blanche to do another western with Henry Fonda as star. Thus, even as Sam Peckinpah embarked on The Wild Bunch, Leone conceived of Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) as his western to end all westerns"a ballet of the dead." There was nothing else quite like it. As coaxed and teased by Morricone's remark able scorea swelling, keening mélange of slowed-down Neapolitan street songs, yé-yé, choral requiems, and Ventures guitar licksthe film is constantly reading and readjusting its thermostat, from self-parody to nostalgia, from myth mongering to spectacle.
But this exercise in glacial pacing and rampant grandiloquencechosen to open AMMI's retroproved as dormant at the box office as its predecessors were successful. Leone was cast into darkness. He directed only two more moviesboth male love stories in the form of flawed, violent epics. Revisiting the lumpen leftism of the Dollars trilogyalthough the opening quote from Chairman Mao is missing from the studio print AMMI is screeningA Fistful of Dynamite (a/k/a Duck, You Sucker, 1972) has an exiled Irish terrorist (James Coburn) and a Mexican bandit (Rod Steiger in the Eli Wallach part) inadvertently swept into the revolutionary maelstrom of 1913 Mexico. Overtly Third Worldist (and at times almost Eisensteinian in its class-conscious agitprop), the movie dwells on the wreck of revolutionary dreams, Leone's not the least.
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We order here almost once a week! The green curry is the best I've had. The delivery is always fast and on time and the orders are always right. What more can one ask for.
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The food is mediocre at best and the service is AWFUL. I ordered my food in advance (12 noon) for a 2 pm delivery. The delivery arrived at 2:45 pm. I had to call at 2:15 to ask what happened only to get a rude person on the phone telling me "they ran out of rice." Ridiculous. This is not the first time this happens. My co-workers and I have ordered in the past and they mess up the order and one time they cancelled one order completely without notifying. We only found out when we called and they said there was an error and they had cancelled it. Dealing with such bad service is NOT worth the food you'll get here.
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Pad See Iew was delicious and good for me because I'm a vegetarian. I think they do a GREAT job with the seasoning! I also ordered the rice and it was very good too. My only advice or suggestion for Tep, is to remove the tomatoes from the fried rice. It's a bit odd so I wound up picking them out. Otherwise this place is a HIT! Thanks Tep Thai!!!
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My husband and I moved to Winchester, England in the summer of 2002 for an international assignment with his company. We encountered many adventures during our stay and also took the opportunity to travel all over England and the rest of Europe.
I did not get a job during our year in England, so I used that time to volunteer with the Winchester Cathedral as a tour guide and entrance steward. The cathedral is, without a doubt, the main attraction in the city. It is a must see!
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Hi thanks for your Winchester pages. We're going there for a short break and it's good to see it through someone else's eyes, not just the tourist board's view. Although we only live 100 miles away it's often those places close by that you overlook.
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Excellent page, with lots of insider info. I was in Winchester for half an hour or so and was only able to see the cathedral. Must go back to see the other places you describe.
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The structure dates back to the 16th century. Creeky floors. No privacy shades on windows. In the bathroom, the shower was a trickle; in the sink, you can either get v. hot water, or v. cold (can't mix them). Horrible service at breakfast. Stay away.
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Dust continued blowing off the Sudanese coast and over the Red Sea on July 4, 2008. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite took this picture of the storm at 11:00 UTC (2:00 p.m. local time), a little more than three hours after MODIS on the Terra satellite observed the storm. In this image, the plume has progressed eastward toward the west coast of Saudi Arabia. Dust is also thicker in the southern portion of the Red Sea, and dust begins to obscure the satellite's view of Jaza ir Farasan. As the plume has moved eastward, clouds have moved in, dotting the skies over Saudi Arabia.
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A computer BIOS stores a value indicative of which of several hardware components has caused the computer to return to an active state. The OS is configured, as part of a system boot or other return to an active state, to retrieve the value stored by the BIOS. The OS compares the value stored by the BIOS with multiple values, each of the multiple values corresponding to a separate hardware component. When the OS identifies a value corresponding to the value stored by the BIOS, one or more programs associated with the identified value are launched.
1. A method for performing an action in response to a signal from a hardware component in a computer having a Basic Input Output System (BIOS), the method comprising the steps of:
(a) automatically accessing a first memory location upon return of the computer to a fully active state, and wherein
(i) the memory location contains an identifying data value, and
(ii) the identifying data value was stored in response to instructions of the BIOS initiated by a signal from a hardware component of a plurality of hardware components, and
(iii) the signal was issued by the hardware component prior to return of the computer to the fully active state;
(b) comparing the identifying data value with a collection of identifying data values, each value of the collection corresponding to a different one of the plurality of hardware components; and
(c) performing an action, based on the comparison of step (b), corresponding to the hardware component.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. The method of
5. The method of
the identifying data value comprises a series of bits, and
step (b) comprises comparing the identifying data value with one or more bit masks.
6. The method of
7. The method of
8. The method of
9. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon data representing sequences of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform steps of a method for performing an action in response to a signal from a hardware component in a computer having a Basic Input Output System (BIOS), the method comprising the steps of:
(a) automatically accessing a first memory location upon return of the computer to a fully active state, and wherein
(i) the memory location contains an identifying data value, and
(ii) the identifying data value was stored in response to instructions of the BIOS initiated by a signal from a hardware component of a plurality of hardware components, and
(iii) the signal was issued by the hardware component prior to return of the computer to the fully active state;
(b) comparing the identifying data value with a collection of identifying data values, each value of the collection corresponding to a different one of the plurality of hardware components; and
(c) performing an action, based on the comparison of step (b), corresponding to the hardware component.
10. The computer-readable medium of
11. The computer-readable medium of
12. The computer-readable medium of
13. The computer-readable medium of
the identifying data value comprises a series of bits, and
step (b) comprises comparing the identifying data value with one or more bit masks.
14. The computer-readable medium of
15. The computer-readable medium of
16. The computer-readable medium of
17. An apparatus comprising:
a processor;
a plurality of hardware components, each of the hardware components configured to issue a signal causing the apparatus to return to a fully-powered, active state;
a first memory having stored thereon a Basic Input Output System (BIOS), the BIOS including instructions for storing one of a plurality of identifying data values upon return of the apparatus to the fully-powered, active state in response to a signal from one of the plural hardware components, each of the identifying data values corresponding to a different one of the plural hardware components; and
a second memory, the second memory having stored thereon data representing sequences of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform steps of a method, the method including
automatically retrieving a stored identifying data value,
comparing the retrieved data value with a collection of data values, each data value of the collection corresponding to a different one of the plural hardware components, each data value of the collection having one or more associated actions,
performing the one or more actions associated with a data value of the collection corresponding to a hardware component of the plurality causing return of the apparatus to the fully-powered, active state.
18. The apparatus of
19. The apparatus of
receive as an input a value for an activation time,
transmit at the wake-up time a signal causing the apparatus to return to the fully-powered, active state.
20. The apparatus of
receiving a designation of an action to be performed in response to return of the apparatus to the fully-powered, active state in response to a signal from a specified one of the plural hardware components, and
associating the designated action with a data value of the collection corresponding to the specified hardware component.
Aspects of the invention generally relate to systems and methods for activating a computer or other electronic device.
Many conventional computers have a similar process for reaching a fully active state from a fully powered down state, also known as "booting." Typically, booting is initiated by a computer's basic input output system (BIOS) when a user presses an ON/OFF switch. Generically, BIOS refers to software (or firmware) which interacts with a computer's hardware and with the computer's operating system (OS). BIOS is generally stored in ROM or some other type of nonvolatile memory, and a computer may have several different types of BIOS. For example, a computer may have a video adapter BIOS, a drive control BIOS, etc. The boot process is usually controlled by a system (or motherboard) BIOS. As part of the boot process, the system BIOS performs a number of low level tasks such as initializing the microprocessor, initializing various hardware, and performing various tests. The BIOS will then search for and begin loading the OS.
Once the boot process has been completed and the OS has been loaded, application programs may be started (or "launched") by entering commands through the OS. In a computer having one of various versions of the WINDOWS OS (available from Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash.), for example, a user can often instruct the OS to launch an application by selecting a screen icon corresponding to that application. In some limited circumstances, one or more applications may be automatically launched when the boot process completes. For example, a computer may boot to the last state occupied by the computer when previously shut down. In such a case, one or more applications that were running at shut-down might be automatically restarted by the OS. As another example, the OS may be configured to automatically launch one or more applications every time the computer is started. An example is the "startup list" of various versions of the WINDOWS OS. In none of these cases, however, is the user able to specify an application to be launched based on how the computer is started. Stated differently, the computer is not able to know the user's intent at the time the user turns on the computer. Instead, and assuming user wishes to launch some application not on a preconfigured startup list (or that was not running when the computer last shut down), the user must wait for the computer to complete the boot process and then indicate what is desired.
This can be significant. For example, many computers include hardware and software that permit a user to play back a previously recorded DVD, CD or other type of media. By inclusion of an appropriate tuner and other electronic components, many computers are also able to receive radio and/or television transmissions. As computers, and particularly laptop computers, become more advanced and more compact, and as the number of people owning and using computers continues to grow, these (and other) media playback functions become increasingly important. It is frequently desirable to make the media playback functionality of a computer more similar to that of consumer electronic devices that are dedicated to media playback (e.g., dedicated DVD players, televisions, radios, etc.). Instead of a user having to boot a computer and then select a media playback application, a user wishing to watch a DVD on that computer would often find it more convenient to simply put the DVD in the computer's DVD player and begin watching.
There have been some efforts in this regard to make computers more like dedicated media playback devices. One technique is to configure a computer for dual booting. More specifically, two separate OSs are installed on the computer in separate partitions of the hard drive (or one operating system may be installed in the hard drive and another OS may reside in firmware). One OS, which may be smaller and/or more specialized (e.g., Linux, or the WINDOWS CE OS available from Microsoft Corporation) is booted when the user only wishes to perform media playback. When the user wishes to use the computer for other purposes, the other OS (e.g. the WINDOWS XP OS) is booted.
A dual-boot solution presents several problems, however. Even though a first (or "primary") OS and a second OS intended for media playback may operate in separate partitions, the media-playback OS may still have access to the file structure of the primary OS. This can have serious security and privacy implications, especially if the second OS is allowed to read and/or write data to the partition managed by the first OS. In such a case, any access control or other security mechanisms of the first OS can be bypassed by the second OS. On the other hand, disallowing cross-partition access also presents problems. If there is no cross-partition access, a user would not have full access to media files stored on another partition.
A dual-boot system can also pose significant burdens upon a computer manufacturer. For example, the primary OS (i.e., the OS used for conventional purposes and not limited to media playback) could be manufactured by one company, and the OS used for media playback may be manufactured by a second company or be an open-source product. If the two OSs are provided by separate companies, the computer manufacturer may be forced to pay two separate license fees. Even if one OS is open source, the computer manufacturer would usually bear the financial burden of any required modifications to the open source OS. The manufacturer would also be required to create duplicate media hardware drivers for each OS. Providing technical support, product updates and patches for two OSs could also be significantly more complex than is the case with a single OS.
Aside from the financial and security implications of installing and supporting two different OSs, a dual boot system is often unsatisfactory from a user perspective. In a dual-boot environment, a user must reboot or power down if he or she wishes to switch from a media-playback mode to a normal operating mode. This results in a transition from one OS to another which is abrupt and undesirable from a usability point of view. For example, pausing a movie to read a document, check e-mail or perform some other task would be cumbersome.
Several solutions to the above described challenges are described in commonly-owned, co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/044,713 (filed Jan. 28, 2005 and titled "Direct Access to Media Playback), incorporated by reference herein (no admission is made herein regarding whether said application is prior art to the present invention). Among the solutions described in application Ser. No. 11/044,713 is the creation of a Human Interface Device (HID) event report in connection with a user actuation of a dedicated media playback button. Embodiments of the present invention offer a useful alternative to the solution in the Ser. No. 11/044,713 application. In some circumstances, for example, the software components needed for generation and processing of a HID report may not be present.
In at least some embodiments of the invention, a BIOS stores a value indicative of which of several hardware components has caused a computer to return to an active state. Such controls could include, but are not limited to, a power ON/OFF button, a dedicated media playback button, a DVD drive, and a timer for automatically activating the computer at a predesignated time. The OS is configured, as part of a system boot or other return of the computer to an active state, to retrieve the value stored by the BIOS. The OS then compares that value with a collection of possible values. When the OS identifies a value in the collection corresponding to the value stored by the BIOS, one or more programs associated with the identified value are launched.
The foregoing summary of the invention, as well as the following detailed description of preferred embodiments, is better understood when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, which are included by way of example, and not by way of limitation with regard to the claimed invention.
The invention is operational with numerous other general purpose or special purpose computing system environments or configurations. Examples of well known computing systems, environments and/or configurations that may be suitable for use with the invention include, but are not limited to, personal computers, hand-held or laptop devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems, minicomputers, and the like. The invention is described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Generally, program modules include routines, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types.
With reference to
Computer 1 typically includes a variety of computer readable media. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by computer 1 and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. By way of example, and not limitation, computer readable media may include computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes volatile and nonvolatile, and removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can accessed by computer 1. Communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media. The term "modulated data signal" means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared and other wireless media. Combinations of the any of the above should also be included within the scope of computer readable media.
System memory 4 includes computer storage media in the form of volatile and/or nonvolatile memory such as read only memory (ROM) 8 and random access memory (RAM) 10. Basic input/output system 12 (BIOS), containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within computer 1, such as during start-up, is typically stored in ROM 8. RAM 10 typically contains data and/or program modules that are immediately accessible to and/or presently being operated on by CPU 2. By way of example, and not limitation,
Computer 1 may also include other removable/non-removable, volatile/nonvolatile computer storage media. By way of example only,
The drives and their associated computer storage media, discussed above and illustrated in
Computer 1 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as remote computer 56. Remote computer 56 may be a personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to computer 1, although only memory storage device 58 has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, computer 1 is connected to LAN 60 through network interface or adapter 64. When used in a WAN networking environment, computer 1 may include modem 66 or other means for establishing communications over WAN 62, such as the Internet. Computer 1 may also access WAN 62 and/or the Internet via network interface 64. Modem 66, which may be internal or external, may be connected to system bus 6 via user input interface 50 or other appropriate mechanism. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to computer 1, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. By way of example, and not limitation,
When any of hardware devices 103 through n is manipulated by a user, power is supplied to computer 1 and the booting process begins. As part of the booting process, the identity of the hardware component initiating the boot is made available to BIOS 12. This can be accomplished in various manners. For example, each hardware control capable of starting computer 1 may be connected to separate pin of one or more integrated circuits (ICs) 101. When IC 101 receives a signal at one of the pins connected to devices 103 through n, IC 101 causes computer 101 to apply power to various system components and begin booting (shown as "power up" in
The booting process continues in
In at least some embodiments, and as shown in
Option 3 could result in computer 1 booting and downloading a data file (e.g., a daily stock update). Interface 123 is merely intended as one example of an interface for configuring wake-up timer 108, and a user would not necessarily be limited to three options. Similarly, a user could also configure computer 1 to perform multiple actions (e.g., launch multiple applications) upon completing a boot initiated by wake-up timer 108.
In step H of
In block 204, the system BIOS (e.g., BIOS 12 in
After populating the predefined memory location in block 208, the operation proceeds to step 210, where the system BIOS boots the OS. At block 212, the OS reads the data stored in the predefined memory location by the system BIOS. This corresponds to step D in
At step P, a user places DVD 30 in drive 28 while computer 1 is shut down. As a result, a signal is applied to one of the pins of IC 101 and causes computer 1 to begin booting. As part of the boot process, BIOS 12 accesses IC 101 and retrieves an indicator of the IC 101 pin on which the start up signal was received. BIOS 12 compares that pin identity to a look-up table (not shown), and at step Q stores a code (00110110) for the appropriate hardware component in memory location 111. As the boot continues, OS 14′ is loaded at step R. Unlike OS 14 in
Instead, OS 14′ is configured to automatically launch an application 16 c at the conclusion of every boot (regardless of the hardware control initiating the boot). Application 16 c may be, e.g., an application included in a startup list (as discussed above). Accordingly, application 16 c is launched at step S. Application 16 c is configured to retrieve the value stored in memory location 111. Application 16 c retrieves that value at step T by issuing appropriate commands to OS 14′, which then reads memory location 111 and returns the stored value to application 16 c. As but one possible example for computers using various versions of the WINDOWS OS, the "debug" command can be used to retrieve the value of a specified memory location.
Upon retrieving the BIOS-stored value from memory location 111, application 16 c compares the retrieved value to one or more bit masks stored in file 113 (step U). Application 16 c identifies the "00110110" value as matching the value in memory location 111, and determines that application 16 a (a DVD player application) is to be launched. Application 16 c then launches application 16 a (e.g., by issuing the appropriate commands to OS 14′) at step V.
In the examples thus far, computer 1 has been returned to an active state by being booted from an OFF state. However, the invention is not limited in this regard. For example, computer 1 may not be completely OFF when a signal from a hardware component is received. Instead, computer 1 may be in one or more intermediate reduced power (or "sleeping") states. Instead of completely shutting down a computer so as to require a full OS reboot when returning the computer to a working state, various intermediate power-down states can be invoked. Returning a computer to a fully active state from one of these intermediate states is generally faster than a reboot. Various system states are defined in the Advanced Configuration Power Interface Specification (revision 3.0) ("ACPI specification"), available from <http://www.acpi.info/>, incorporated by reference herein for purposes of illustrating the state of the art. In a G0 (or working) state, the computer is executing user-made application threads and is responding to external events in real time. State S3 is defined as a low-latency sleeping state. Power is removed from the CPU, cache and chipset in an S3 state, but is maintained to system memory (RAM). Returning the computer to a G0 state (or "waking" the computer) is relatively fast, as previous programming context is still in RAM. State S4 is defined as a lower-power, longer wake-latency sleep state. When entering an S4 state, current platform context (e.g., system and programming settings) is saved from RAM to the hard drive, and power is then removed from the RAM, CPU, cache and chipset. When the system is returned to G0 from S4, platform context is restored from the hard drive without rebooting the OS. Waking from S4 requires more time than waking from an S3 state, but less time than an OS reboot. State S5 is defined as a "soft" off state. Context is not saved from RAM to the hard drive, and a complete OS reboot is necessary for returning to a G0 state.
In the examples of
Although specific examples of carrying out the invention have been described, those skilled in the art will appreciate that there are numerous other variations and permutations of the above described systems and techniques that fall within the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims. These and other modifications are within the scope of the invention as defined by the attached claims. Various portions of the claims are prefaced with letter or number references for convenience. However, use of such references does not imply a temporal relationship not otherwise required by the language of the claims.
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I was staying at my sister's house when my niece Amy came home from school feeling special. The class had been shown how to split a whole number, T, into whole number parts in such a way that the product of the parts was the greatest, G, that could be obtained for that T. For instance, she explained, 10 could be split into ten ones, or 2 and 4 and 4, or 5 and 5, and so on, which would yield products of 1, 32, and 25 respectively. But, she warned, G exceeds 32 for T=10.
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New York, NY - Aug. 7, 2012 - Effective Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, all New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NYSE MKT securities as well as staff, operations and systems responsibility will return to the Designated Market Maker (DMM) unit of Knight Capital Americas LLC from GETCO LLC in light of the completion of Knight Capital's recapitalization plan.
In accordance with applicable rules, the NYSE and NYSE MKT temporarily assigned custodial responsibility for approximately 524 NYSE and 156 NYSE MKT listed securities from Knight's DMM unit to the GETCO DMM on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012.
"Knight and GETCO have demonstrated outstanding commitment and leadership in serving the best interests of investors, our listed issuers and market stability," said Larry Leibowitz, Chief Operating Officer, NYSE Euronext. "We applaud the teamwork and collaboration by all parties involved to ensure smooth, efficient and seamless transitions."
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NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets - the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE MKT, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca - represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.
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Knight Capital Group (NYSE Euronext: KCG) is a global financial services firm that provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including broker-dealers, institutions and corporations. Knight is headquartered in Jersey City, N.J. with a global presence across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions. For further information about Knight, please visit www.knight.com.


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It doesn't matter whether or not it says it on the calendar but last week was the last week of summer vacation for high school sports athletes.
No school doesn't start up for another few weeks or so, but with the start of high school sports seasons officially coming next week, that makes this one the dreaded week of serious conditioning.
At Madison-Plains High School the football program affectionately refers to it as "Hell Week" and coach Jason Hunt had a special treat waiting for the Golden Eagles when they showed up for what they thought was going to be another typical day of conditioning on Monday, July 28.
The coach had a group of local Marines waiting for his team to run through a day of military-type conditioning drills. The idea came to the coach earlier this summer and he was happy it was able to work out.
"The Marines had a booth set up at one of the clinics we went to this year so I talked to my coaches and we went ahead and signed up for it," Hunt said. "We wanted to take a day and see if we could make it work out and it just worked out that they could be here for the first day of conditioning. It's great way to start a Monday."
To help soften the shock of suddenly going through an unexpected extra-strenuous workout, Hunt and a couple of his coaches decided to go through it as well.
"There's a reason why you have to be under 35 to go to boot camp, " an-out-of-breath Hunt said between workout stations. "This can be something horrible or this can be something fun and they're out watching me do it and hopefully they're having fun."
The collection of Marines at the practice had the Golden Eagles players running 800-meters around the school's track, going through an agility course, flipping oversized tractor tires and routinely lifting 35-pound metal ammunition boxes over their heads non-stop for two minutes.
Hunt, who is beginning his second year at Plains, is determined to make the football program at his alma mater and interest in the Golden Eagles program as a whole.
"There's a different feel around our program now, it's exciting," Mason said. "In the last four days we've had 12 boys who haven't played in the last two, three, four years all call and want to be a part of this program. It's contagious, that's how I would describe it.
"The guys that are out here they're into it and having fun. Instead of coming out here and going through their regular drills, they're here getting in good shape, it's just a change of pace. Tomorrow night we'll get back to our normal conditioning."
Championships come through hard work, the Madison-Plains High School coaching staff knows this and is trying its best to show the Golden Eagles players this too. Not just by bringing in hard-working Marines to instill some mental toughness and push the players, but by working as hard as they possibly can as well.
"(The Marines) are great, what better role models to come out here and work with our guys and show us how to do it?" Mason said. "The boys are into it, the contagious part is the boys believe they're going to contend this year and they're going to work hard for it. If they come out and give their full effort, we can't ask for anything else. They've bought into Jason (Hunt) and see how hard he and his staff work, they're here every night putting in the time and effort and the boys want to do to the same thing."
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Add the onion, celery and bay leaf and cook, partially covered, over low heat for 30 minutes until the chicken is tender and no longer pink.
Remove the chicken from the pot with tongs and set it aside until it is cool enough to handle.
Spoon off as much of the fat from the surface of the soup as possible.
Add the thyme, poultry seasoning, noodles, peas and carrots, salt and pepper to the pot.
Cook gently, partially covered, for about 8 minutes.Meanwhile, remove the skin from the chicken, take the meat off the bones and cut it into 3/4-inch chunks.
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New to High School coaching - best practices/experiences
I will be a high school coach this year. I am a uspta pro, have been teaching kids for several years and have been an assistant at other schools before. Never coached full time before because of a full time job. My goal is to provide these kids with the best possible tennis experience I can. (we are not a very good team, we will win only a couple matches at best) I want them to improve as much as they can, be good sports and enjoy a lifetime sport.
What I am asking from you are best experiences/practices for the kids. Did you or your coach do something that you really enjoyed and thought was a great idea? What benefited you the most or what do you do that benefits the team. This can be from practice, challenge matches, match day experiences, player intro's, post match, etc.
I hope to get several ideas and mold my team around the best ones.
PS We will be practicing an a gym for the first couple weeks because of weather, I will be using the foam ball for that.
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Perhaps if you're inside because of weather you can show them some good video of tennis. Could be a video like this
or maybe instructional.
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I think the biggest gift you can give a group of kids like you're describing is the gift of teaching them how to play the game. Teach them proper strokes.
There's a guy on this board named Dave Smith. If he pops into this thread listen to everything he says. He's also written a book, Coaching Mastery, that you should pick up.
I'm going go out on a limb and offer a couple of thoughts, but listen to Dave if he says something different:
- Since you're starting practice in a gym teach them to volley. Don't worry about ground strokes, even though that's likely what they'll want to do. Get some of those foam practice balls and teach them to use a continental grip on fh and bh volleys. They should never need to regrip. Show them how the racquet face is almost always open on volleys and how the continental grip facilitates that. Try to insist on 1hbh volleys.
- Add overheads to this once they have the volleying down a bit (you're setting them up for serves later). Again, no regripping. Just glue their hands on the racquet in a continental grip at the beginning of practice (OK, just kidding but you get the idea).
- Make up some games were they can practice their new found volleying skills. They should be able to maintain a volley rally and also learn to angle the balls off for winners. I would think that with the foamy balls then should be able to keep a volley rally going for a good while.
- Once they have this down, including the overheads, then introduce the serve. Again, everyone is still in a continental grip. Show them how the serve is an overhead except you get to toss the ball. If you can get them serving with a continental grip you have given them a gift for life.
Maybe you can get them to some reasonable point here in a week of everyday practice?
Then the second week start with ground strokes. I'd start with the end of the strokes just as the racquet comes forward, and then later on add the set-up and take back. There's a whole progression of teaching ground strokes (another great poster and professional coach, Ash, has had some great thoughts on this), but with a week every day and the foamy balls you have some hope of getting them to develop a basic modern swing path.
So by the time you hit the courts hopefully you have some kids with some real-ish strokes that they can play with and build on. If even a couple of those kids practice those strokes that you've taught them over the summer you will start to build the foundation for a real tennis team in the coming years.
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I have no experience of High School coaching - we don't have that kind of system/set-up over here, but I have taught plenty of performance squads in my time!
How does it work coaching high-school in the US - are you coaching them technically? tactically? Do hey have their own individual coaches or are you responsible for the whole shebang?!
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While indoors, teach them proper mechanics: grip, swing, court movement (side shuffle, body turns, open/closed stance).
When they're on the court, they put it all together....
Have them drop feed to each other, and have them hit using proper mechanics, and proper court position (no high FH, low BH, etc. Strike zone only). Then have them hit to each other (and they'll likely be learning where to be in the court so the ball is always in their strike zone). The entire time, reinforce to them they can only hit so hard and keep the ball in....
misc, misc, misc....
Break it down into small objectives: using the proper grip, learning where to run to on the court (such that the ball is in your strike zone every time.), etc. Come up with drills and exercises to help them learn to execute.
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let the good players and the players who are learning and are decent mix, i hated it when my coach took me off from working with the kids who were decent and put with people who couldnt hit over the net. work with the ones who are bad give them your priority first and the the ones who are good will get better if they keep hitting... but getting mechanics right is a key in the game so if you could work one on one with each player for about 10 mins and you should be doing good if not decent. also if there is a wall available to you make the kids who are good hit against the wall that will help their game alot, it did help mine. and their sport psych is also important so you being a tennis player will know what they will be dealing with.
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In more affluent areas like San Diego, CA where I live the best players will be playing all year round and have personal coaches. These kids are playing juniors in SoCal and will probably play D1 or D2 in college. Some players have parents who can teach them and hit with them, though that gets harder as the kid gets older for several reasons. At the other end of the spectrum you have kids that have never played but show up at the beginning of the season.
What I've seen mostly through watching my kids is that the high school coaches just use the kids that show up, but don't really put much into it even if they know the game well themselves. Here in San Diego the top player or two on most varsity teams is playing open in SoCal juniors. The rest have played at some level before. Very few programs here have to deal with complete novice players. When I lived in WA state where tennis isn't as popular the level is much lower, and many kids play on teams who have never played before. The kids usually have some level of athletic ability, but lack proper coaching so there are lots of tortured strokes, fh grip serves, no volleys, etc. I personally haven't seen coaches anywhere but much effort in growing their players for the future. It's mostly about getting whoever has shown up to hack their way through the season as best as possible.
I think a guy like Dave Smith has shown that it's possible to do a lot more than that, but you have to care. In fairness to the coaches, the positions pay almost nothing and even in San Diego tennis is not a premier sport like football or basketball. If a couple of parents show up for a match that's about average.
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^^^Thanks for that insight - sounds like a tough gig if you have to run squad sessions with novices and some more experienced players and even more so if you only have a short season to work with the players.
I'd be looking to develop a group with solid first serves (high %), reliable second serves (can be protected at least) and a good first strike. With a short timeframe to work with and a group of players you're not going to make major technical corrections in the time you have available so i'd be looking for "quick wins" in a tech/tac sense, and these elements will make the biggest impact on the kids tennis as they grow and move on so you are setting them up well for the future.
OP I can send you some simple progressive technical teaching stuff if you like? I have posted it in various threads before if you care to search for it though.
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I coached high school tennis for 30 years.
It's a mistake to do serious technical work or change strokes during an actual competitive cycle. I was able to develop off season competitive development in which most of the varisty and also jv kids participated 2 or 3 days a week. This gives a framework that allows you to communicate technically during upcoming seasons. But anything besides small adjustments in your first cycle will be counterproductive.
Focus on tactics and the mental game. Teach them the Jim Loehr 4 stages.
Create a series of fast moving games that teach basic strategy. Cross court drop and hit points to 4, etc. Do 2 on 1 's to four points. Play tons of tiebreakers and constantly change up the teams. In my opinion every drill should be game based.
Start every practice with a dynamic warm up and a stretch. And end it with some form of conditioning--my kids loved the 10 ball run down the ball drill--you have to get 10 on the first bounce--and competed to out do each other with effort.
Start with a written set of rules about behavior, missing practices, bad and good attitude--make the kids sign it.
Be tough but positive. Sit the top player if you have to.
Most of all make it fun. Go out there to have fun yourself everyday. Accept the kids for who they are and let their quirks come out. Let the #6 player know his point counts as much as #1 and make sure the other kids know it to.
You are in it together. Be the team in your league with the best attitudes, work ethic, sportsmanship. That's what defines winning. The match wins will follow.
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Good points on the serve, if you can't get it in you can play a point. Nothing worse than double faulting 3 points a game.
I have no problem sitting a kid if the act up, we are not going to states any time soon.
I agree 100% on game based drills, more fun the better. They really focus so much better when you start keeping score, it really gets there attention.
I do like to have music going during practice, the more fun the better. I will have to have a rule though, no more that 2 Justin Bieber songs an hour!
This is great stuff! Anything else to add? Really appreciate all the great suggestions.
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when I was in High School we had access to a gym but there were no tennis lines on the floor. Our coach got athletic tape from the trainer and we put down lines. same coach also had temporary net poles made so we could put up a net. then team worked out in shifts.no rain outs. I was really lucky to have such a hard working coach.
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Personally, I wish my HS coached taught me how to play tennis. I had to figure out everything on my own, and it took years to learn the basics. It takes 30 minutes to teach them the flat forehand and flat backhand. Then let them practice it, such that they're hitting in their strike zone every time. That's the majority of high school tennis right there.
As he stated, they're not going to win matches, so maybe use the 4 years to develop a real tennis game, instead of 4 seasons of mental toughness. If I were the kid, I'd want to learn how to play AND learn basic tactics.
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As a High School player who has had 3 Coaches in my three years best tips I'd day are to work on conditioning and consistency.
Lots of 3 ball drill, spider drill (volleying at net) all very fast paced. Get their endurance up and work on proper footwork.
The jv players or new ones with little knowledge of the game teach them proper technique and encourage them to have a love for the game so they'll play during the off season and improve as they go through their high school years.
Contact coaches in the area with competitive teams at your level and try to get 2 matches or more with them and the ones who it will be a beatdown ask if theyll make it more competitive by subbing out their better players or running exhibition matches. You want the team to capture some wins and not just get trashed try to make it fun.
SERVING! Get that serve in it means everything. Teach them the importance of the toss.
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In my four years of high school tennis never once did we do actual footwork training. Most of our team had sound strokes but terrible footwork and preparation so consistency was a big problem. Please teach the team good footwork and preparation it will save them a lot of frustration lol
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I actually have some training ladders that I can use. I have seen where kids go through the ladder with their racket and once the finish the ladder they coach feeds a ball to them, looked like a good idea. Speed in quickness over endurance for this particular group just because of the lack of consistency. As we get better, I can add endurance stuff.
Seriously good call though.
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