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Four keyword research tools a PPC specialist would use and other keyword tips.
Traditionally, the worlds of online display advertising and search marketing have mainly operated in silos. The two tactics may both be part of the bigger online strategy, but the people involved with search generally do not really work in or understand display and vice-versa. Lately however, it feels like there's a greater interest in fusing the two worlds together, maybe fueled by the diversion of traffic away from search and into social media and/or Google's rebranding of its Content Network into Display Network. Regardless, when the search and display professionals come together, a lot can be gained from the sharing of information. Today, let me give my media planning brethren some tips from the search side.
Keywords Tell a Lot
For the online media strategist, an existing PPC campaign can be a goldmine of information. Keyword performance can help sculpt various directions of the campaign from its creative concepts, messaging and copywriting to identifying sites to target for placements or new niche opportunities. Don't have an existing PPC campaign to turn to? Consider a bit of keyword research in the vein of a start-up PPC campaign for all the same insights mentioned previously.
Begin by using the same keyword research tools a PPC specialist would:
Useful Information From Competitive Search
In addition to datamining existing advertiser and generic public assets, it can be useful to apply the same techniques as above to some of the free and paid competitive search tools. Google AdWords' Analyze Competition feature, SEMRush, and SpyFu are all free or quasi-free tools. The Search Monitor, a for-fee platform, gives all kinds of juicy information about competitors as well as trademark infringements and affiliate miscreants. AdGooroo, also a for-fee platform, has some similar elements as The Search Monitor along with a "Display Insight" feature which can definitely be exploited by a media planner/buyer.
Another Thing You Can Do With Keywords
I'm a big fan of contextual advertising, much of which is based on keywords, so your campaign may only perform as well as you've compiled a sound list of proven keywords to provide to your vendors. Your contextual network representative can tell you not only how many impressions they estimate, but also what related keywords you might have missed and other opportunities to exploit your list.
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|Jul 25, 2008, 12:17 PM
I carry mine nude, if you can tell by the scratches on the chrome in the photo I posted(which scratches when you breath near it or touch it).
|Jul 25, 2008, 12:29 PM
This is weird. I am sure apple knows about this but they still probably launched the Phone. You cannot possibly tell me that within 2 weeks of stress testing they didn't see the phone starting to crack.
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|Jul 25, 2008, 12:38 PM
It is very disheartening to see all these photos of cracks in the brand new 3G iPhones. Apple is really using crap materials to build these iPhones. Yes, that is right... CRAP MATERIALS to build the 3G iPhone.
I've been using a model 8700 BlackBerry for a couple of years and I have abused this thing to no end. I can't tell you how many times I've dropped it on the asphalt while getting out of my car or from my shoulder onto concrete while talking on it and although there are some scratches on it, there are no cracks, the glass face is still pristine and it has never given me any operational issues.
I really want to purchase the 3G iPhone and will probably do so soon, but good grief Apple, would it kill you to use a slightly more resilient plastic on the 3G iPhone???
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|Jul 25, 2008, 12:46 PM
Regardless of whether or not they put their phone in a case, the iPhone has been out a little over two weeks - it is NOT acceptable for something to crack that quickly. I've had some phones that cost me $20 that have been through hell and the plastic isn't even scuffed.
|Jul 25, 2008, 12:49 PM
Im waiting for my white iphone to arrive but now im scared it will happen to me. I went to the Apple store to check out the white one they have in display and it has A LOT of cracks at the bottom where you connect your you USB cable. Its full of cracks, this is at the Oakgridge mall in San Jose. I wonder if Apple will replace your phone right away if they see that.
|Jul 25, 2008, 12:58 PM
WOW! This is going to be a MAJOR problem. I foresee a class action lawsuit on behalf of owners of white iPhones...
|Jul 25, 2008, 01:06 PM
Meanwhile the ones who have smudged black iPhones can't see cracks under the surface if they wanted to!
|Jul 25, 2008, 05:01 PM
Apple replaced this unit today!
|Jul 25, 2008, 05:07 PM
|Jul 25, 2008, 05:14 PM
I did not use a case and I carried it in my jeans pocket (like normal). I first noticed a small hairline which got bigger over about a week and more noticeable from the dirt. I have to say that I took good care when handling it and never dropped it. So, the fact that this happened within 2 weeks is not a great sign.
I'm sure the black ones are no different, just harder to see them. The plastic is better than the Aluminum for reception, but definitely not durability.
We'll see what happens over time. Maybe just have to cover it up with a case to hide the cracks..??
|Jul 25, 2008, 05:17 PM
I dig the cracks on the white, combined with the color looks almost crackly - very vintage, very hip. As long as they remained "under" the top layer of material, and the unit's housing does not become physically / noticeably cracked.
Only issue I have is when the crack separates the plastic between the metal trim and the headphone jack - that's a serious issue. I'll sit back and see how this plays out before upgrading to 3G.
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|Jul 25, 2008, 05:30 PM
Maybe it's intentional. Sure we associate cracks with failing products but this may just be Apple's bleeding edge frame of mind. First transparent hardware, then white hardware, now, cracking hardware: the epitome of style. Look for this to be the new trend everywhere within the next few months.
|Jul 25, 2008, 06:30 PM
just got mine replaced for a hairline scratch. what a b*tch to restore/sync/backup. hopefully this one will last longer than a week.
|Jul 25, 2008, 09:25 PM
Mine too!
hey i just got my white iphone on Monday the 21st. and i just took it in too apple because my headphone jack wouldn't let my apple headphones go in all the way it stuck out about 1/8". turns out i wasn't pushing hard enough then i felt stupid.
but heres my point i walked out directly after and i looked at the head phone jack again and guess what i saw, a tiny tiny crack that started to form right at the top of the headphone jack.(i haven't dropped it yet or anything rough with it at all) I knew there was a reason why i wasn't forcing my headphones any harder....Stupid apple guy! i think this might be a common thing! and this is only 5 days having the phone imagine 2 years! i don't think apple was thinking hard enough when they put cheap plastic on this thing they should of found a sturdier polymer or something. I'm way disappointed because i love this thing sooooo much!
|Jul 26, 2008, 05:21 AM
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When I first read this thread I thought for sure people must have dropped them, but it's happened to my day 1 White iPhone too. I've got a 1.5mm hairline crack coming from about 2 o'clock of the camera lens. It's not noticeable unless you look, but it's there. I don't intend to get anything done about it as it's not bothering me in the slightest. I don't keep my iPhone is a case, just in my pants pocket or on my desk. I've treated it with kid gloves too. After the long wait for an iPhone, I'm in Australia, I am a bit disappointed, it's taken off the sheen of my iPhone a bit.
|Jul 26, 2008, 05:51 AM
It will certainly be interesting to see what happens this winter. If this material has a tendency to spontaneously crack even during consistent temperatures, it should be even worse during shifting temperatures.
|Jul 26, 2008, 08:16 AM
I've had my white one since mid-afternoon on the 11th. I can't see any cracks, just one 0.25cm scratch.
Right now mine's a nudist that admittedly wears a wool sweater when it's cold (in other words, I stick it in a sock when I toss it in my purse because there's too much junk in there and no separate pockets, and I don't like the idea of a loose sweaty stick of gum sticking to my phone...!). Otherwise I stick it in my pocket or jam it in my wallet with some loose change (when I don't have a sock handy)...
I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for anything that might show up.
I know we don't want to see these cracks, but the images posted in the thread kinda remind me of antique porcelain (jewelry, collectibles, bathroom fixtures...).
|Jul 28, 2008, 04:38 PM
White Iphone cracks
Already have a case with apple regrading it and the engineers are "looking into it"
Id rather they first acknowledge the issue (perhaps a problem with some of the case cast's) I don't just want a new phone that does the same thing in 2 weeks!
Attached are some of the pics of mine. Not first crack i noticed the next day after owning the phone (near the ringer switch) after the phone was charging a week later 3 more cracks were visable (heat issues, vibrate and headphone jack realted?)
Anyway i sent the apple engineers links to other threads that show people haveing the same problem, so they cant say its an isolated issue.
I baby this phone, and it sleeps on its cleaning cloth at night an on my desk when its not in use.
(BTW im on Rogers in BC, Canada)
Noticed one starting from the headphone jack as well. GREAT!!
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|Jul 28, 2008, 05:09 PM
Kinda makes me glad I stuck with my 1st gen iPhone...
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|Jul 28, 2008, 07:29 PM
and steve jobs is...
rich and doesn't care. he is the just like bill gates with windows releases now.
steve jobs just needs to come out and say, "yeah, there is a problem" but nope, he doesn't.
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|Jul 28, 2008, 11:27 PM
No Cracks Yet
I was 5th in line for the new iPhone and have had it in a case since then. I suffered and put my brand new white iPhone in a black Agent 18 case. I waited patiently until Agent 18 released the clear case and then transferred it over to that one. I use it constantly and have no cracks in it at all. I am thinking that this issue may be caused by either carrying the iPhone nude, or handling it like the first gen iPhone. We were all spoiled by that metal case. I watched the PC World video and it looks like the 3G is fairly sturdy and robust. You can't treat this new iPhone as roughly as the original. I use the headphones and the usb cable and have had no cracking issues. I will keep an eye out now though.
Final thought is that it is either a handling issue or maybe just a bad batch. Hope you all have a great iPhone too.
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While Valentine's Day is widely celebrated in some Muslim countries like the United Arab Emirates, in other areas it's been met with opposition:
-In Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, government officials and clerics in Jakarta called for young people to skip Valentine's Day, saying it was an excuse for couples to have forbidden sex.
-In the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the government opposes Valentine's Day, but tolerates it. It has not banned people or shops from celebrating the holiday. Some gift shops, toy stores and flower stores were selling special Valentine's Day items, but the celebrations are not widespread, mostly are observed by university students or newlyweds.
-Iranian officials in January banned the import of Valentine's Day gifts, but people in the capital, Tehran, were still out purchasing such gifts and making plans for meeting boyfriends or girlfriends for romantic dinners.
Despite the opposition in Pakistan, Valentine's Day romanticism - or at least the marketing sentiment - wasn't dampened much in the capital, Islamabad. Peddlers approached cars at stop signs hawking heart-shaped balloons, and the prices at flower stalls nearly doubled.
Eid Muhammed, a salesman at a gift shop in Peshawar, said gift card sales had dropped in recent years as people preferred to send text messages to their loved ones instead. But he said more people were buying gifts for their sweethearts. He estimated that about 90 percent of the customers were young people, and most were men.
One of the few exceptions was Amina Mahmood, a female college student, who was buying flowers for a special someone she chose not to describe.
"Some days are so special that we should not miss them," she said shyly.
Associated Press writers Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Adil Jawad in Karachi, Asif Shahzad and Munir Asif in Islamabad, Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, and Nasser Karimi in Tehran contributed to this report.
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->''So there I was...''
This series is not written by Creator/BrandonSanderson. I know, that's what it says on the cover, but CoversAlwaysLie. I'm Alcatraz Smedry, and I'm the real author of this series. I always tell the truth. Except when I lie. The reason it says "Brandon Sanderson" on the cover is because otherwise the Librarians would never allow it to be published. Brandon Sanderson has agreed to use his name as a cover for these series. He also writes a lot of his own books, but they are mostly a bunch of made-up fantasy stories about [[Franchise/{{Mistborn}} mist]], [[Literature/TheStormlightArchive storms]], [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime wheels]] and other such [[Literature/{{Elantris}} silly]] [[Literature/{{Warbreaker}} stuff]]. I've taken a look at some of his books, and most of them are really long, really big, and would make for a good {{Doorstopper}}, or maybe a blunt weapon.
The books I write are not overly long, and they are not fantasy, though we have to hide them in the fantasy section of bookstores and libraries. Neither are they, despite what others may have told you, light-hearted comedic fantasy books for children and young adults that can also be enjoyed by adults with a good sense of humor. Instead, they are serious, completely true books about politics, economics, history and my adventures fighting the Evil Librarian Cult that rules most of the world (The Hushlands) and is trying to take over the rest of the world (The Free Kingdoms).
What, you mean you don't believe that the Hushlands are controlled by an Evil Librarian Cult that uses its monopoly on information to manipulate the world into believing a bunch of lies? Well, just look at what they call themselves. ''Lie''-brarians. Kind of obvious, isn't it?
Anyway, about me: I look like a normal, ordinary American kid, but I'm not normal. I'm a Smedry. (I know, the last name kind of gives it away.) The Smedries are a highly respected family in The Free Kingdoms; so respected that knights and such tend to call us lords and do what we say, even if we tell them to hop on one foot. One of the reasons we are respected is that we all have special Talents. For example, my grandfather is always late, one of my relatives is good at talking nonsense, I have an uncle that is really good at getting lost, and a cousin of mine is really ugly when she gets up in the morning.
My Talent is breaking things. Doorknobs are my specialty, but I can break everything from a chicken to an airplane. I'll probably break this Web site a few times, so if you see something broken, there isn't much point in trying to fix it because I'll probably break it again. I know that doesn't sound like much of a talent, but consider what would happen if someone tries to shoot a gun at me. The gun would break before it could even shoot.
Anyway, I'd tell you more, but if I tell you too much, you won't need to buy my books. Make sure you buy my books. For every one you buy, we donate money to the Alcatraz Smedry Wildlife Fund For Buying Alcatraz Smedry Cool Stuff. You can even use it as a coaster.
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# ''Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians'' (2007)
# ''Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones'' (2008)
# ''Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia'' (2009)
# ''Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens'' (2010)
Also, I would really like it if you don't confuse this with TheAlcatraz. Or ''Series/{{Alcatraz}}'', for that matter
!!This series provides examples of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: A lot of the Smedries are intelligent academics while at the same time being eccentric, absent minded or just plain strange.
* ActionGirl: Bastille is a perfect example of this, though I'm not sure I would use this term to her face. She is a 13-year-old knight and an expert fighter.
** Specifically, she's of the LittleMissBadass variety, though I doubt she'd like that much more.
* AffablyEvil: She Who Cannot Be Named actually makes great chocolate chip cookies when she's not plotting the downfall of her enemies.
* AuthorFilibuster: More like narrator filibuster. I frequently break the action to say various random things that may or may not relate to the story. For example: "Blah, blah, sacrifice, altars, daggers, sharks. Blah, blah, something pretentious. Blah, blah, rutabaga. Blah, blah, something that makes no sense whatsoever. Now, back to the story."
* AwesomeMcCoolname: The name Smedry actually means "Oculator". [[note]]from Old Nalhallan ''smead-dary'', meaning ''Lens-wielder''[[/note]]
* BetterThanABareBulb: I frequently play with tropes and [[LampshadeHanging lampshade them left and right.]]
* BlatantLies: Just about everything Librarians tell you. Physics, for example. And Napoleon. And, well... okay. Some of my narration isn't entirely accurate. Admit it, though. You totally thought I was a fish.
* BlackMagic: Dark Oculary is an evil form of Ocularlry comprable to
* BlessedWithSuck or CursedWithAwesome: All the Smedry Talents contain elements of both, to one degree or another. They take what seems like a major disadvantage and turn it into something that can be useful. For example, Grandpa Smedry is always late, which is usually a real pain, but it has also saved is life on multiple occassions because he keeps showing up too late for his own death.
* BrickJoke
* CatsAreMean: [[CuteKitten Kittens are cute]] so that they can draw you in, then pounce on you for the kill. Seriously. Stay away from kittens.
* ChangelingFantasy: I start out seeming like an ordinary boy, but it turns out that I'm from a family of practicaly artistocratic magic wielders.
* ChekhovsGun: Not only is the trope played straight a number of times, I explicitly mention the trope by name, it in the second book, and reference it again in the fourth (although that time I was talking about Chekhov's Blue Teddy Bear).
* CheerfulChild: Aydee Smedry is always perky, happy and outgoing.
* CoolAirship, or maybe CoolPlane: The Dragonaut isn't technically an airplane that uses jet engines or an airship that uses oversize balloons to fly, but it is cool and it flies, and there isn't a trope for "Cool Silimatic Flying Glass Dragon" so I had to put this somewhere.
* DeathByNewberyMedal: This trope isn't used, so much as it's repeatedly mocked. I always go on about how authors must hate mothers and dogs because they are always trying to write meaningful books that kill off one or the other, or sometimes even both.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: My child services worker was always telling me how useless I was. [[spoiler: Turns out she was my mother. I know, great parents I have, right.]]
* DestructiveSaviour plus NiceJobBreakingItHero plus PersonOfMassDestruction: Hey, I did say I was good at breaking things. [[spoiler: This comes into sharp focus at the end of the fourth book, when my defeat of an invading army also manages to do a lot of damage to the city I'm defending, as well as breaking the Smedry Talents.]]
* DiscussedTrope: Sometimes the characters will discuss a trope, but more often I explicitly describe what tropes or {{Narrative Device}}s I'm using in my capacity as narrator.
* TheDitz: Australia Smedry isn't dim-witted. She just has trouble remembering that she is smart.
* DungeonCrawling: Every time we infiltrate a library, ranging from a typical American local library to the Library of Alexandria. Complete with traps, monsters and villains.
* EccentricMentor: Grandpa Smedry is about as eccentric as they get.
* ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge: The [[CoolSword crystal swords]] used by the Knights of Crystallia.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Er, actually, dinosaurs are a bit annoying. They ''can'' be useful if you want to cause a distraction in a library, though.
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: Especially chain-saw wielding sharks.
* EyeBeams: Any Oculatory lens with "-bringer's" in the name (e.g. [[FrickinLaserBeams Firebringer's Lenses]], [[AnIcePerson Frostbringer's Lenses]], etc).
* KidHero: Alcatraz Smedry, though I'm not nearly as heroic as people think I am.
* FirstPersonSmartass: You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: You'll notice that I often mention ideas I'm going to explain later in the book. Sometimes I do this because it makes nice foreshadowing. Other times, I'm just trying to annoy you. I'll let you decide which is which.
* ForegoneConclusion: Will Alcatraz Smedry be sacrificed by Evil Librarians? Will he be killed by a Dark Oculator? Will he die when he breaks his own flying dragon ship? Will he be killed in the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them? Of course not, because I'm still alive to tell the story. The suspense comes from finding out out I overcome obstacles and whether or not anyone else dies. [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies Of course, Bastille totally dies at the end of book 2.]]]]
* FunctionalMagic: Even when the Free Kingdomers call it Silimatic Technology.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: I quote Kaz using "Rocky Mountain oysters" as an expletive. While this doesn't seem to go with his use of nuts as curses throughout the rest of the book, some people may know that Rocky Mountain oysters refer to an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters entirely different type of nut]].
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Oculators use lenses that have a variety of powers. Each type of lens has its own function. These include tracking lenses, lenses that shoot laser beams, lenses that generate whirlwinds, etc.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The Library of Alexandria is a massive dungeon like place with almost every book in the world, however it is run by undead librarians that try to steal your soul.
* GunsAreWorthless: Seriously, you've got better luck with a knife if you're going up against the Smedry Talents.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Bastille dies at the end of book two, which you probably didn't want to know, so that's why I'm putting it behind a spoiler tag.[[note]]Fooled you, haha! Of course she doesn't die, she's standing right over my shoulder as I type this. But that's what you get for reading spoilers!]][[/note]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Not even the other Librarians seem sure what Ms. Fletcher is up to. But I usually assume it's nothing good. [[spoiler: Finding out she's my mother, Shasta Smedry just makes her mysterious motives ''harder'' to deal with.]]
* HumongousMecha: The Evil Librarians have giant robots (and ro''bats''. Yes. Really.) as part of their arsenal. Bastille claims they are AwesomeButImpractical, but they still pose a real threat in ''Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens''
* HumanSacrifice: So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians...
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Inverted. The Librarian minions can generally shoot just fine. It's just that Smedry Talents can make them almost [[ImmuneToBullets impossible to hit.]] For example, Grandpa Smedry is always late to where the bullets are going to be, and guns tend to break when fired at me.
* InMediasRes, or maybe an ActionPrologue: The opening of the first book start with me about to get sacrificed on an alter of outdated encyclopedias, but then I skip to a story of my childhood growing up, and leave the reader hanging.
* InsistentTerminology: there are most definitely no libraries in the Free Kingdoms. Those big buildings full of books are ''archives'', all right? The Royal Archive in my home city even has a sign over the door saying "The Royal Archives (not a library!)".
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Of course, OurDragonsAreDifferent. For example, the Dragonaut is a dragon shaped flying ship, with six wings, and six legs. Oh, and it's made of glass, of course.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: "A family full of eccentric, weird and sometimes insane relatives..." Yeah, that sounds like mine. We're especially noted for our recklessness, which annoys Bastille no end.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Because I do all my narration in first person, and I'm the main character in the book, there's no fourth wall for me. Sometimes, even within the dialogue, I'll makes a reference to how the events of the story would appear if I wrote them as my memoirs.
* LemonyNarrator: though I really prefer macaroni and cheese.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Literally ''everyone'' with a Smedry Talent. For instance, Grandpa Leavenworth has a Talent for being late, and makes himself virtually invincible by doing things like arriving late to a spot where bullets are going to be, and my cousin Australia can be a MasterOfDisguise using her Talent for waking up ugly.
* [[LukeIAmYourFather Alcatraz, she is your mother.]]: [[spoiler: My emotionally abusive case-worker turns out to be an Evil Librarian cultist. Then it turns out that she's my mother.]]
* MagicalLibrary
* {{Magitek}}: Silimatic technology might be considered either this or MagicFromTechnology. Just don't let a Free Kingdomer hear you call it "magic."
* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: Sometimes it seems like the cooler a Lens is, the more ''un''cool it ''looks''.
* TheMasquerade: The Hushlands are controlled by Evil Librarians who use their control of information to teach all sorts of lies about history, economics, geography, physics, etc. The Free Kingdoms are continents that have not yet been conquered by the Evil Librarians, so they don't even appear on Librarian-approved maps. For example, one of the Free Kingdoms is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You didn't really think there was nothing but water and tiny islands in all that space, did you?
* MediumAwareness: Not so much in the first few books, but MediumAwareness starts showing up a lot in the ''Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens''. For example, characters would refer to the "last chapter" or say that a trip took several chapters to complete. Of course, the fourth book is bizarre even by the standards of this series and this could be in large part because of [[UnreliableNarrator my sterling narration]].
* MetaFiction: By the bucketful. For example, I constantly comment on my own NarrativeDevices, usually as a way to convince you all how ''un''heroic I am.
* MilkmanConspiracy: The aforementioned cult of evil librarians that control the world.
* MinovskyPhysics: The various types of glass. And brightsand.
* {{Muggles}}: Hushlanders.
* MuggleFosterParents: I went through dozens of sets of MuggleFosterParents. None of them would keep me for long because of my unfortunate tendency to break their most valued possessions.
* MyLittlePanzer: Teddy bears that [[spoiler: double as hand grenades.]]
* NoodleIncident: There is a story I could tell you about that, but as it involves [[NoodleImplements egg beaters]], it is not appropriate for young people.
* TheNounWhoVerbed: Alcatraz shrewdly guesses that "She Who Cannot Be Named" must be so fearsome her name is taboo. Turns out people just can't pronounce it.
* OtherStockPhrases: "So, there I was..." is the opening for every book in the series.
* OutOfTheFryingPan:
-->It seems that no matter what I did, I ended up in even more danger than I was before. One might even say I was "out of the frying pan and into the fire"... Personally I say "Out of the frying pan and into the the [[PitTrap deadly pit]] filled with [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks sharks]] who are wielding [[ChainsawGood chainsaws]] with [[CatsAreMean killer kittens]] stapled to them." However that one's having a rough time catching on.
* PaintingTheMedium: I sometimes use some unconventional text formatting to communicate things.
* ParentalAbandonment: I grew up thinking I was an orphan, only to eventually find out that [[spoiler: both my parents are WellIntentionedExtremist types: one of them fighting for my enemies, and the other one pursuing a plan that might inadvertently destroy the world. Also, neither have much in the way of parental skills.]]
* PinkIsForSissies: While the dragon shaped flying glass ship was awesome, I was not very happy about having to travel in the pink butterfly shaped glass ship. You'd think they could have found something more masculine.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: As everyone knows, all British are refined, calm, and well mannered, even if they are a bunch of dinosaurs.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The Smedry family, although we're technically not royal, just highly-ranked nobility.
* RuleOfFunny: My books aren't written to be funny. The reason they include all sorts of seemingly bizarre things is because that is what the world is really like. It is only because of Librarian Lies that you find dinosaurs with British accents funny instead of normal (if extremely annoying).
* ScaryLibrarian: Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
* SemanticSuperpower: The Smedry family Talents.
* ShoutOut
** "I hadn't forgotten how [[spoiler: my mother]]'d given Himalaya up to be executed, nor how she'd sold me [[spoiler: her own son]] to Blackburn, the one-eyed Oculator. [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime Or how she killed Asmodean"]].
** Quentin's nonsense phrases include [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy "Wasing not of wasing is"]] and [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Churches, lead, very small rocks, and ducks."]]
** [[Literature/ToKillAMockingBird "At this rate, it wont be long before this story departs speaking of evil Librarians, and instead turns into a terribly boring tale about a lawyer who defends unjustly accused field hands. What do mockingbirds have to do with that, anyway?"]]
** I use Creator/{{Plato}} and the PlatonicCave concept to explain why Hushlanders never realize that they are being kept ignorant. I also use Plato to proof that somewhere, there must be a perfect slice of cheese cake.
** I quote a dinosaur saying "Honestly, claiming that [[Film/JurassicPark velociraptors were the smartest dinosaurs]]. I knew a velociraptor in college, and he failed chemistry!"
** [[Film/ThePrincessBride "Never get involved in a land war in Asia."]]
** I also reference ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', and countless others. You could say that this is a ReferenceOverdosed series.
* SingleUseShield: Bastille wears a jacket made from spun fibers of Defender's Glass. It can take one blow that by rights should kill her, but then it's ruined and she has to get another.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Subverted with She Who Cannot Be Named. She isn't called that because [[TheScottishTrope it summons her or because her name has become a curse upon the world]], but because [[TheUnpronounceable few people can pronounce her real name]].
* StockYuck: Fish sticks are the most disgusting thing in the world. I had to [[{{Neologism}} invent a word]] (crapaflapnasti) to describe something that disgusting. This, of course, means that crapaflapnasti can only be used to describe fish sticks.
* StunGuns: Both the Librarians and the Free Kingdoms have weapons that can put their targets into a coma for an indefinite amount of time. The cure for each is a secret that is not known to the opposing side, meaning, for example those that are put into a coma by Librarian weapons can only be revived by one of the few Librarians entrusted with the cure. While these weapons do reduce the death rates for warfare between Librarians and the Free Kingdoms, they don't result in complete NonLethalWarfare, as a lot of other weapons, like swords, don't have a non-lethal setting.
* SupernaturallyMarkedGrave: Allekatrase the First exists in a state of perfect stasis, owing to Allekatrase using his [[WalkingWasteland Breaking Talent]] on ''time itself'' there.
* TakeThat: The first book ends with Grandpa Smedry delivering a bit of a rant about how silly it would be [[Literature/HarryPotter to leave Alcatraz for a whole summer at a boring place he hates to live at, with people who aren't his real family and don't know anything about the magical world he's become a part of.]]
* TalkativeLoon: Quentin, one of my cousins, has the power to say utter nonsense. It makes him an excellent spy, since he can arrange to be literally unable to reveal information no matter the torture without actually having to kill himself.
* ThemeNaming: Inverted. The Librarians aren't named after mountains, and their enemies aren't named after prisons. The mountains and prisons are named after the people.
* TheNudifier: Stuff-eater teddy bear grenades are weapons being used against the Librarians. Guess, who gets hit out of the main characters? [[spoiler: Alcatraz.]]
* ThisIsReality: When people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.
* TranslatorMicrobes: [[spoiler: The Translator's Lens allows the user to translate any written or spoken language - even the Forgotten Language.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: IResembleThatRemark!
* UnusualEuphemism: Shattering Glass!
** Grandpa Smedry tends to use alliterative exclamations like "Clustering Campbells," and Kaz will use various words likes curses. Even the often uttered "gak!" is occasional used almost like a swear.
* VillainHasAPoint: The librarians are ''usually'' wrong about the dangers of letting silimatic technology be commonly used. However, they are unfortunately right about how [[spoiler: giving everyone in the world Smedry talents, like my dad wants to do,]] would be the worst idea ever.
* WalkingTechBane: Not just technology but pretty much everything. I even broke a chicken once. It's not just me; Smedry Talents in general tend to be particularly effective against Hushlander technology.


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Motor Racing: McNish prepares to tan the hides of Grand Prix big boys.
FORMULA One newcomer Allan McNish has spent longer on the French Riviera than any millionaire playboy - and there's not the slightest trace of a tan.
That's because the pale-faced Scot has been chasing his dreams crammed into the cockpit of his 210mph Toyota grinding out top-secret testing miles at the Paul Ricard circuit near Marseilles.
And with less than a month until his Grand Prix debut in Australia the 32-year-old knows F1's newest pounds 250million team is already playing catch-up with the front runners.
But he has put a decade of waiting in his wake and he told me yesterday: "Getting stuck into the big boys doesn't worry me one bit.
"It seems I've waited a lifetime for this chance. I know I'm driving better than I have ever done.
"I am quicker and more experienced in testing, developing and racing the cars. I feel like the complete all-rounder.
"I know this car inside out. I know how good it can be and what it's potential is. And I know my own capabilities. We are a good match."
Modest rankings in the public dress rehearsals for Melbourne have not fazed McNish or the team and he says: "Give us time and we'll do the job."
His back-to-back secret sessions, in between the official test programme's workload, have honed his fitness and boosted his confidence sky high.
"I'm like a kid," he said last night, "I can't wait to get to Australia and get on with the job.
"I know it's going to be tough and we could take a big hit. But I'm ready for whatever ups and downs we have to face. I know I can cope mentally with the demands good or bad."
McNish will be the same age as Damon Hill when he first raced a decade ago.
"Being 32 and a starter in Formula One makes no difference to me - blimey, Nigel Mansell was about six years older when he won his first championship," said McNish.
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Skinny Miley Cyrus has posed for perhaps the sexiest photo-shoot we have ever seen, flaunting pretty much all of her half-naked body including her boobs, flat stomach and even her bum in a pictures for V Magazine.
In the first the slim star shows off her toned back and pulls down her trousers to give us the slightest peek of her bum.
As if that wasn't enough flesh-flashing, Miley then poses in leather trousers and a jacket teamed with a crop top with her name on it (natch).
The top was SO small, though, that it exposed her impossibly flat stomach AND didn't cover her boobs either.
And in a clip from a behind the scenes video of the shoot, Miley is seen in a bra and pants, showing off her stomach and legs.
OK, we get it Miley. You have an insane body.
[Related article: Miley Cyrus says she IS still engaged to Chris Hemsworth]
[Related article: Miley Cyrus: 'Sex does sell']
We're not entirely sure what prompted the massive display of semi-nudity, but she recently revealed that she DIDN'T want to be known for just getting her body out.
She said: "Sex does sell, but you have to find a way that's not just showing your t*ts. I don't want to be a glorified model. They just walk on stage and it's all about their clothes - or lack of clothes."
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How many raw fooders do you know?
raw_mama - is that Nova Scotia? I have often thought that it'd be really difficult (or expensive) to be raw in colder or desert-type climates. Someone earlier mentioned Alaska.
Shout out to Nova Scotia if that's where you are (raw_mama). An shout out to Birmingham too - I used to live in Sheffield (England) before moving go Toronto, and (if had had been raw-minded at the time), I would have found it quite difficult, I think.
I live near Washington DC (in the suburbs) and I know only one vegan person that also happens to be raw. People usually look at me as I were the most crazy person they've ever seen...
i live in new zealand and i know NONE too
I'm near Santa Barbara and just joined a raw meetup there so I met about 8 raw foodies. There will be a Raw Spirit Festival in June so then more raw foodies will come out of their closets and maybe I'll meet someone closer to me.
I'm finding it tough being normally social and raw. Like at the potluck events at my community. I get tempted to eat what they are eating.
Four including myself. I live in Utah.
I know my best friend and her friend who live in Oxford. I,m in Essex and are not able to call myself raw YET !! but will be on my way soon, just getting into the raw chocolate side of it initially and starting small. As I have a small family to prepare nourish and provide for, its a big leap and I dont want to push anyone away. As I have learnt that raw is a scary word to a lot of people.
I woofed at a farm in Spain with 2 rawfoodist. Other than that..all of you people :)
Seattle - Me (1), 4 raw paleo, 1 raw vegan, 4 raw vegan I don't know but have seen on this site - so 10
We're in L.A. and know lots of people (a dozen? more?) here and in San Diego who are like us - enjoy eating raw, but don't adhere to it 100% slavishly. Even one of the raw chefs we know is sometimes seen at cooked vegan restaurants around town. Actually a few of the people I know in what I'd call the "raw world" will eat things that I wouldn't - like they'll go out for ice cream or eat popcorn with loads of butter at the movies. Huh?!?
Point being, we're lucky to live here and lucky that we aren't always the strangest people in the room. On the other hand, no one in our families is even vegetarian, nor are the people we see most often, like our coworkers or most of our long-term friends.
Hi Suasoria, Yep, I've got at least a couple of your creations in my favs. I'm sure I'm not alone on that. Unfortunately, I dont know any raw eaters around here. I have a feeling that will change soon ;) and yea getting to know a few of you gonerawers should count. Worried about my S. Cal friends with the fires last month. Hope you and yours came out ok. m
none! in Anacortes.....angela33 are you in langley on whidbey island???
i just had a party and served all raw vegan food to my loving friends....they call it art but they think it is weird!
we have winter saunas usually every sunday evening if you ever want to comeup and "cook", Ellen
I'm in Eugene OR and I am the only attempting raw foodist I know.
I'm so excited, my daughter and I went to the first meeting of a new Raw Foods group that formed from meetup.org yesterday. We met at a restaurant in Berkeley, CA, and there is a Raw Foods Chef who does pick-up and deliveries who came to our meeting, and he's invited us over for dinner on Monday for our next meeting.
We are planning to find some community gardening space so that we can meet there, garden, harvest, and share our raw food experiences from start to finish.
If you wish to find more raw foodists in your area, do a search on meetup.org for your area, and see if anyone else is also interested, you might be surprised who you find near you.
Oh you're so lucky littlegems! My son attends Cal and I just love going out there! My pic is from the Botanical gardens. He had to work on Thanksgiving day so we picked him up the day after and the town was so quiet. We went to the Gratitude Cafe for lunch, my pick, hee hee. They are both sad eaters for sure but we all had a great time and they ended up being really happy with what they picked (see!).
Its amazing how interest is growing and now it's really not so weird. Just another choice. Thanks for the meetup idea, maybe there are some locals after all. We have several health food stores in town but I've been too chicken to ask.
Take care neighbor =)
Gratefultobe - do you live in the East Bay Area too? If so, and wish to join our Raw Food Group, you are welcome to join. We are actually meeting again tomorrow night (although I might not make it, but we're going to try) at 6:30pm at Reggie's Raw Food To Go. They are in Emeryville, and run a Raw Food To Go restaurant from their home. This group is brand new, and the more the merrier, so if you live nearby and wish to join, come on over.
the meetup info is here: http://www.meetup.com/The-Oakland-Raw-Food-Meetup-Group/calendar...
Also, if you can't join the meetup, I'd love to meet you some other time. my email is: firstname.lastname@example.com
Thanks for the kindness littlegems! Lots of creative people on your web/group. I'm in the central valley, about an hour & a half away. So if I'm in the area on the right day..I'm sure it would be fun. I'll check the link and shoot you an email too. I still need to check to see if there is a group closer to my home & I'll be sure you get an invite (just in case). Very cool that you and your daughter go together! Here's me- email@example.com
really any gone rawers feel free to say hi
Hi Sabriya. I've settled down in Columbia and have finally found the time to try and locate others into raw here in the area. Hope you see this post!
If so, send me an email at your convenience: firstname.lastname@example.com
Wow, I guess I'm lucky!
I'm in Chicago, and we have three stricly raw vegan restaurants, one veg restaurant that serves raw vegan dishes, a cafe that serves raw vegan dishes in addition to cooked, and Charlie Trotter's, a restaurant I have not been to because they do not put the prices on the menu. That scares me.
Anyway, we have a raw meetup in my part of suburban Chicago with over 300 members; it's crazy how big the community is out here! My mom is the one that got me into it, which is helpful; having family on your side makes it easier!
My friend is a raw coach and a certified raw chef, I've met Sacred Steve (weirdo...no offense if you're on here Steve but you have to admit, that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory getup qualifies you as a weirdo, lovingkindness and all lol!), I know this one guy who's been raw for like 15 years and eats the same thing every day, there's like a core group of about 20 people in my area who we regularly meet with for potlucks and stuff, and there are new 'converts' all the time.
It's pretty cool to be surrounded by such support! But lemme tell ya, the biggest demons you'll ever face in raw are within yourself...the Lazy Demon who doesn't want to get up and make raw food for the week, the Social Butterfly Demon who wants to connect with friends and family over good food like its always done, the This is Too Hard Demon, the I Miss Pizza Demon...you get the idea lol!
Having a community definitely helps, I count my blessings on the daily!~
hi guys. i live in pittsburgh and i am the only raw foodist i know. it's quite sad. when i tell people about it, they look at me like i'm an alien!!!!
I have lots of vegan friends who eat some raw food and are trying to eat more. I know 3 people in town who consider themselves raw foodists. Sadly, they're busy folks - we don't get together much.
i live in gilroy, california- a dumb little suburb close to san jose and santa cruz and such. i know 1 vegetarian and the only other person who is eating vegan and raw besides myself is my mom because i converted her! i would love to know more raw foodies.
Im in cleveland. I know one lady who is a "raw food enthusiast". I went to a couple of her uncooking classes a long time ago when i was getting started but Im much further into this now than she is. I overheard her talking about picking up dinner at chipotle one time (ug!) The only other person I know who is into raw is my friend in Iowa but hes my little convert. We meet up in chicago on occasion and hit the raw restaurants there.
I met one once but......he smokes cigarettes and cheats often so I don't know.....
But I know myself! I've lived in Bronxville, NY (near Yonkers) looking for some Raw
Foodist friends for three years now. Does anyone live in NYC or near Yonkers/Bronxville?
If so, I'd love to get together just to say hi sometime!
I know 3 vegetarians. I've been a vegan for years and I'm thinking about going raw. So no raw foodists.
I think here in England it's seen as a very american thing to do, being raw.
I live/work in Columbia, SC and I spend most of my weekends visiting my boyfriend in Charleston, SC. I currently don't know any raw foodist. I would love to meet some like minded people in the SC area though!
I know at least five vegetarians but I can't think of any other vegans, let alone raw foodists, in the disgustingly cheese and brat-filled state of Wisconsin (yuck!). Of course I am not raw myself...just collecting information before I dive into it :)
In the flesh, NONE. Guess they all live in Portland OR and not on the wet coast.
Well I'm in the garbage...I mean GARDEN state NJ, and I know NO RAW FOODIST...know plenty of vegetarians and half dozen vegans. I have communicated with a few rawbies from NJ recently, so I'm hopeful we will meet up sometime in the near future. I would love to meet with like minded people and not have people dismiss me as if I'm a wackadooo because they don't understand or have never heard of such a lifestyle. Everyone gets so uptight whenever anyone strays from the mainstream. It's not like I'm asking them to join me at a remote location and drink grape juice LOL sheeesh RELAX already
Sabriya, I am from Columbia, but moved to NC two years ago. Youre right, that is a really hard place to be raw. Fortunatly you have 14 Carrots and
Earth Fare. Have treid the Meet Up website? That's how I found my support group up here. Raleigh is not much better than Columbia as far as
being acomodating to vegans much less Raw foodist. I have one friend who is a vegetarian and I am trying to pull her onto the Raw Food 'wagon'.
I have a potluck that I go to, and there is a raw food coach (Alissa Cohen certified) in my area, so that helps. You said that there is a place to buy Raw desserts? Where is that? My parents still live in Columbia, and we go home often. I would love to go by this place!
Good Luck finding supprt! I know that 14 Carrots does a class soemtimes on Raw preparation, that would be a great place to drag a non raw freind and
get them hooked!


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Europe's fastest supercomputer uses warm water cooling to conserve energy and heat buildings
June 26, 2012
An innovative cooling design for SuperMUC, Europe's most powerful supercomputer, will use warm water instead of air to keep tens of thousands of microprocessors at the optimal operating speed and increase peak performance. The system, which is said to cool components 4,000 times more efficiently, will also warm the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Campus that hosts it during the winter months, generating expected savings of up to US$1.25 million per year.
Cooling down a data center is an expensive task, as it can account for up to 50 percent of the total energy consumption of the center. The figure may be even more taxing considering that SuperMUC will be hosted in Germany, a country that, starting from this year, requires all the electricity consumed by state-funded institutions to come from 100 percent sustainable energy sources.
The innovative cooling technology developed by IBM will help address this problem. Using a design inspired by the circulatory system, it transports water as warm as 45 degrees Celsius (113° F) directly to processors and memory components. The system is 10 times as compact and consumes 40 percent less energy than a comparable air-cooled system.
According to the recently revised Top500 list, SuperMUC's impressive 18,000 energy-efficient Intel Xeon processors make it Europe's fastest supercomputer, clocking 3 petaflops (3 million billion floating point operations per second). That's a long way from the new number one on the list - the IBM Sequoia, which is seven times as fast - but with a performance comparable to that of 100,000 personal computers put together, SuperMUC isn't exactly slow, either.
This impressive number-crunching capacity will be used to aid a number of research projects across Europe, ranging from simulating the blood flow generated by an artificial heart valve to improving our understanding of earthquakes. The SuperMUC system is also connected to powerful visualization systems, including a large stereoscopic power wall and a five-sided immersive artificial virtual-reality environment for visualizing three-dimensional data sets.
The engineering team behind the project is targeting an aggressive reduction in size, saying they can reduce the volume tenfold every five years until, 30 years from now, the entire processing power of the data center will be contained in a form factor the size of a standard desktop computer, with a much higher energy efficiency than it has today.
The project is jointly funded by the German federal government and the state of Bavaria. SuperMUC will be officially inaugurated in July 2012 at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Germany. The video below explains more about the cooling mechanism.
Source: IBM
Have they considered the use of a fluid other than water? My first thought was, I hope it doesn't spring a leak! Water is the cheapest liquid, obviously, but maybe a refrigerant could work more efficiently, and would not short circuit in the event of a leak. I am intrigued by the need to use warm water. I thought that circuits work better when they cold. Interesting that the heat exchange is totally localised. Is it really the best way to remove excess heat?windykites1
Do you know what is an even better coolant than warm water? Non-warm water.Snake Oil Baron
re; windykites1
Deionized water does not conduct electricity, evaporates without leaving a residue, and carries a large amount of heat per volume.
The chips are cooled in a parallel to give all the chips equal cooling, and the central heat exchanger used to dump the heat into the buildings environmental system gives even water temperature to the chips and works well with the air handlers.Slowburn
I followed the link to a similar Gizmag story and the idea seems to be that warm water saves money because chilling it is expensive. But water usually does not come out of the ground or reservoirs at 60 degrees C so why warm it? If they mean that the water is going to warm up that much in the machines after a few passes so it will be continuously warm it would still be a simple thing to run it through some coiled pipes to cool it before recycling it. I just don't get the reason for using warm water.Snake Oil Baron
Rising energy costs along with increased focus on reducing the environmental impact of large scale datacenter deployments is allowing for some pretty interesting innovation on this front.
NextDC's M1 facility in Melbourne is showing similar ingenuity by having triple power sources (Utility A/C, Natural Gas Gen, Diesel Gen) configured in a N+1 scenario. This will ensure costs are controllable despite carbon taxes, etc.
Necessity is the mother of invention and there's no necessity like keeping an eye on your hip pocket.Dave Hill
The idea is economy here. It does not pay to spend millions on chilling when the performance gain for that set-up would not be like a home system. This type of system needs far less cooling to maintain the "circulatory system" at the needed temperature. They gain more savings in the cold weather when they can use the waste heat to heat other buildings. It is a balance. Sure they could chill the system, as I said for millions, for a minimal performance gain and use the waste heat for heating other buildings, but the cost of chilling is not near to being offset by the money saved heating those buildings.FredExII
It has been my experience that refrigerating the computer case does not make the chips faster it just creates a larger temperature differential that speeds the heat transfer out of the chip allowing the chips to be overclocked without overheating. Water being a much better coolant than air does not need as large of a heat differential to provide the same level of heat removal so warm water can provide the same amount of cooling as chilled air.Slowburn
Maybe they should have made use of the term Optimal... Even cooling the Chips to 100 Degrees C, as long as they are maintained at a constant temperature all of the excess energy is removed.. therefore the is no risk of overheating... (Depending on the max design temperature)
(IBM states "the world's first commercially available hot-water cooled supercomputer", so the qualifiers are "Hot water", and "super computer", there are water cooled server farms already..
Not a lot New... (IBM have been using water cooling for several years... customers just need to catch on) Quote from 2007...."Water cooling is both more efficient than air cooling and can handle higher heat loads, simply because water is far more conductive of heat and has much higher thermal mass than air. It's been slow to catch on because administrators are paranoid about leaks (water and electronics certainly don't mix well), but systems are available now that have been proven reliable. IBM and HP have water-cooled server racks, and Knurr's even won a design award." http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1140/71/ )
They didn't say that the water is heated using external energy... a few passes through the system and the water will be hot. Thermostatically controlling the hot side (as in car radiators, only using liquid to liquid exchangers with a large thermal pool for sinking the heat) Using the waste heat to heat buildings is another logical step, (I hope no new patents have been granted for that..., even generating electricity from low-grade heat sources can be improved upon...)
People who know nothing about thermodynamics will just go "Wow"...
Its all about energy removal.... Even the turbulence of the coolant in the pipes affects the transfer rate... Pretty much the energy transport will usually be the "slowest part of the system", not the conductance through the walls of the heat sinking channels... Higher turbulence increases the convection to remove the heat.... Low turbulence gives a slower transfer rate, but longer pipe / channel life)
Probably take home, is that Hot water controls the temperature of the chips better than expensive cold air...MD
Notice the mention of massive further increases in efficiency as they shrink the whole design. As the channels (capillaries?) get smaller, the surface area increases, speeding heat transfer rates.Brian H


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Romeo and Juliet: Act 3, Scene 3
Enters FRIAR [LAURENCE].
1 Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:
2 Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,
3 And thou art wedded to calamity.
[Enter] ROMEO.
4 Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?
5 What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,
6 That I yet know not?
6 Too familiar
7 Is my dear son with such sour company:
8 I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.
9 What less than doomsday is the prince's doom?
10 A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,
11 Not body's death, but body's banishment.
12 Ha, banishment! be merciful, say "death";
13 For exile hath more terror in his look,
14 Much more than death: do not say "banishment."
15 Hence from Verona art thou banished:
16 Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
17 There is no world without Verona walls,
18 But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
19 Hence "banished" is banish'd from the world,
20 And world's exile is death: then "banished"
21 Is death mis-term'd: calling death "banished,"
22 Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,
23 And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.
24 O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
25 Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince,
26 Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,
27 And turn'd that black word "death" to "banishment."
28 This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.
29 'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here,
30 Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog
31 And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
32 Live here in heaven and may look on her;
33 But Romeo may not. More validity,
34 More honourable state, more courtship lives
35 In carrion-flies than Romeo: they may seize
36 On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
37 And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
38 Who even in pure and vestal modesty,
39 Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;
40 But Romeo may not; he is banished:
41 Flies may do this, but I from this must fly:
42 They are free men, but I am banished.
43 And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?
44 Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,
45 No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
46 But "banished" to kill me? "Banished"?
47 O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
48 Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,
49 Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
50 A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,
51 To mangle me with that word "banished"?
52 Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.
53 O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.
54 I'll give thee armour to keep off that word:
55 Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
56 To comfort thee, though thou art banished.
57 Yet "banished"? Hang up philosophy!
58 Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
59 Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,
60 It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more.
61 O, then I see that madmen have no ears.
62 How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?
63 Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.
64 Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:
65 Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
66 An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,
67 Doting like me and like me banished,
68 Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,
69 And fall upon the ground, as I do now,
70 Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
Enter Nurse [within] and knock.
71 Arise; one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself.
72 Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans,
73 Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes.
74 Hark, how they knock!Who's there?Romeo, arise;
75 Thou wilt be taken.Stay awhile!Stand up;
76 Run to my study.By and by!God's will,
77 What simpleness is this!I come, I come!
78 Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?
Nurse [Within.]
79 Let me come in, and you shall know my errand;
80 I come from Lady Juliet.
80 Welcome, then.
Enter NURSE.
81 O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar,
82 Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?
83 There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.
84 O, he is even in my mistress' case,
85 Just in her case! O woful sympathy!
86 Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,
87 Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.
88 Stand up, stand up; stand, an you be a man:
89 For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand;
90 Why should you fall into so deep an O?
91 Nurse!
92 Ah sir! ah sir! Death's the end of all.
93 Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?
94 Doth she not think me an old murderer,
95 Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy
96 With blood removed but little from her own?
97 Where is she? and how doth she? and what says
98 My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?
99 O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps;
100 And now falls on her bed; and then starts up,
101 And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries,
102 And then down falls again.
102 As if that name,
103 Shot from the deadly level of a gun,
104 Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand
105 Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,
106 In what vile part of this anatomy
107 Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack
108 The hateful mansion.
108 Hold thy desperate hand:
109 Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
110 Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
111 The unreasonable fury of a beast:
112 Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
113 Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both,
114 Thou hast amazed me! By my holy order,
115 I thought thy disposition better temper'd.
116 Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?
117 And slay thy lady that in thy life lives,
118 By doing damned hate upon thyself?
119 Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven and earth?
120 Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet
121 In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose.
122 Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;
123 Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,
124 And usest none in that true use indeed
125 Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit.
126 Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,
127 Digressing from the valour of a man;
128 Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,
129 Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish;
130 Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
131 Misshapen in the conduct of them both,
132 Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask,
133 Is set afire by thine own ignorance,
134 And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.
135 What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,
136 For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;
137 There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,
138 But thou slew'st Tybalt; there are thou happy too:
139 The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend
140 And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:
141 A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back;
142 Happiness courts thee in her best array;
143 But, like a mishaved and sullen wench,
144 Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love.
145 Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.
146 Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,
147 Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her.
148 But look thou stay not till the watch be set,
149 For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;
150 Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time
151 To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
152 Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back
153 With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
154 Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.
155 Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady;
156 And bid her hasten all the house to bed,
157 Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:
158 Romeo is coming.
159 O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night
160 To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!
161 My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.
162 Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.
163 Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:
164 Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.
[Exit Nurse.]
165 How well my comfort is revived by this!
166 Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state:
167 Either be gone before the watch be set,
168 Or by the break of day disguised from hence.
169 Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,
170 And he shall signify from time to time
171 Every good hap to you that chances here:
172 Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.
173 But that a joy past joy calls out on me,
174 It were a grief, so brief to part with thee.
175 Farewell.


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Joomla! Events - Come and meet us !
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- Created on Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:51
September will be a busy month for Joomla!. We will be attending the O'Reilly EuroOSCON open source convention in Brussels. Our German community has also informed us about their first Joomla! Day, this will be the third Joomla!Day organised this year following the NL and UK, and the Italian community is organising their first meetup.
O'Reilly EuroOSCON Convention, September 18-21, 2006
The Joomla! project will showcase the upcoming 1.5 beta at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention at the Le Plaza Hotel in Brussels, Belgium on September 20th, 2006. This convention is one of the largest Open Source conventions in Europe and expects over 800+ attendees from around the world.
Happy First Birthday, Joomla!
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The core team wants to take this opportunity to thank the many who have supported the project with their skills, support and donations.
"There is no doubt the project, born from difficult times with the Mambo split, has both matured and grown," said 'interim' project lead Johan Janssens. "The milestones we have created this year include a more robust set of systems; hosting supported by Rochen, the Simple Machines Forums, Developer support through VA Software and, of course the amazingly successful Extension site."
Johan said the momentum created by the team, developers and the community since Sept 01, 2005, had ensured Joomla! a bright and prosperous future. "We saw baby Joomla! born exactly 12-months ago and how 'he' has matured in what seems a blink. During this time of evolution, we have been working hard on the next generation Joomla! — to be called version 1.5 — which will be more powerful than anything before."
Upgrade immediately to Joomla! 1.0.11
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Joomla! 1.0.11 [ Sunbow ] is now available as of Monday 28th August 2006 24:00 UTC for download here. and is being designated a critical security Release.
All existing Joomla! users must upgrade to this version, due to several High Level vulnerabilities that affect all previous versions of Joomla!
We have always been fully committed to a security first principle and new intiatives have and will continue to be started to reinforce and continue this principle. Joomla! 1.0.11 highlights a redoubled effort to put security at the forefront of everyones lexicon.
Like any and all software, security is a continually evolving and constant battle between application developers and hackers. The increased security threats discovered in the Joomla!Universe indicate nothing more than an increasing usuage of Joomla! throughout the world and thus an increasing interest from hackers.
It does however serve to remind everyone, both application developers and application users that security is an eternal vigil and one cannot rest.
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For the show business to avoid cruelty to animals, all it must do is just follow simple guidelines
Show business can be awfully hard on animals. The on-screen footage represents only a fraction of their experience of being used in television commercials and movies. While there might not be any cruelty in the scene itself, there is risk of negligence or mistreatment before and after the shooting.
"When an animal is taken to the sets for film shooting, there is a possibility of cruelty in transport; the animal/s may be made to stand in the sun or rain on the sets; there may not be water, let alone food for the many hours or days it is kept there; it may be tethered with a short rope or chain; or be roughly brought down to the ground whereas the film may only show it sitting on the ground," says Chinny Krishna, vice-chairman of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI).
Regular monitoring
Every Thursday afternoon, Krishna and a committee of people, including representatives from the Central Board of Film Certification get together at the AWBI headquarters in Thiruvanmiyur to review video clips submitted by producers of commercials and films and tally what they see with the applications that the filmmakers send in, to check that animal abuse in the name of entertainment is avoided. The group (that includes members from the worlds of both animal welfare and entertainment) monitors the use of animals in Indian films and commercials using a simple set of guidelines.
Whether the animals are just in the background for a 'natural shot' or they are actively involved in the scene, a filmmaker must adhere to these rules. The first step is the filling up of a brief pre-shoot application form available on www.awbi.org and submitting it along with a veterinary fitness certificate, plus a permission letter from the animal's owner. This form is sent in along with registration fee of Rs. 500 and a synopsis of the animal's part in the scene. Some of the guidelines include not making the animal do anything unnatural and to have a vet available on the shooting spot, should an emergency arise.
Wild animals in the background require additional permission from the Wildlife Department, while some wild species are banned from being used in shooting according to the recent Performing Animal Rules — this list includes lions, tigers, panthers, bears, bulls and monkeys, although they can be shown in background shots or using stock shots of films. As for birds, Krishna reveals that the Supreme Court has held that they cannot be shown in cages. "While the AWBI did not frame the rules, we're in full agreement with the 'no birds in cages' rules," he says. And finally, a post-shoot fitness certificate from a veterinarian is required to show that the animal was not hurt during the shoot. If a filmmaker fails to follow the application process, the AWBI can issue a show cause notice to the production company.
While a solid set of rules is in place to protect animals' interests, there is further reason for cheer — modern production houses are increasingly choosing to do away with the use of real animals in film, opting for computer-generated ones instead. Movies such as Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, for example, used only computer-generated apes.
Closer home, Mumbai-based Triangle Film Company, makers of the successful television show Devon Ke Dev… Mahadev is an example of how creativity benefits from using visual effects. "When Mahadev got married to Parvati and was sitting on the Nandhi, he was actually seated on an animated bull," says Amish Vasani, project head. "We mostly use computer-generated imagery (CGI) of animals — animated elephants, bulls, crocodiles, ducks... We use only domesticated animals in shooting and adhere to the guidelines." Also CGI "saves a lot of time in shooting. And there are more realistic shots when we use visual effects". As a bonus, when a simulated animal is used, the filmmaker can sidestep the application process and apply post-shoot for a No Objection Certificate.
Keywords: cruelty to animals, show business, Animal Welfare Board of India, filmmaking guidelines, animals in cinema


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Odeon Marble Arch
Venue Details & Map
Odeon Marble Arch
- Address
Edgware Road
Marble ArchLondonW2 2EN
- Telephone:
- +44 871 224 4007
As with other Odeons, the layout of the actual venue is somewhat odd but I guess they just try to make do with the space they have.
The film range here leans towards popular, mass market fare. So if you're looking for the latest blockbuster movie, odds are good it will be showing here.more
I've been here twice. Two times to many! The first time was a while ago, but I remember less than friendly customer service at the ticket desk (the concept of assigned seats at the cinema was new to me, as an American. And btw, I like the idea, but "VIP" seating? COME ON!! Going to the movies is supposed to be a communal experience shared by ALL the masses) and horrible, extremely chewy candy....more
As far as cinemas go, this place needs some work. I'm with Amy S, get a refurb done asap! Or lower the bloody prices...
Placed around the corner from Marble Arch and just across the street from Hyde Park, it's got a great location but really that's about it. The whole place feels as if it was built 20 years ago and then abandoned as far as maintenance and refurbishment goes. The whole design...more
Avoid cinema 3. I just went there with a couple of friends and we haven't been able to choose our seats on the machine. The seats are not at all parallels with the screen and the seats themselves are all but comfortable. My first and last experience in this cinema.more
REFURB desperately needed!!!!
We did 2-4-1 Wednesdays and picked up tickets at the wall machine. We weren't able to pick the seat location on the machine and I had to wait in line at the box office to check where we were sitting. The decor inside the cinema is so old, the carpets are coming up and it smells very musty. The ladies toilets are ok, but again, is desperate for an update.
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Five Misconceptions About Men
Originally Posted: 10/15/2012 - 3:56pm | Type: Blog
Rather than dissecting the points of friction I found with author David Murrow (which were many), I thought I'd try to outline a few major distinctions between traditional "modern" male identity and what some ...
Muslims Launch Campaign to Explain Shariah
Originally Posted: 03/04/2012 - 11:46am | Type: Blog
Against a backdrop of heartland fears that U.S. Muslims seek to impose Islamic law on American courts, a leading Muslim group will launch a campaign Monday to dispel what it called misconceptions about Shariah ...
The Top Six Mistakes Reporters Make About Mormons
Originally Posted: 02/06/2012 - 4:13pm | Type: Blog
I spent the weekend in New York at a conference I co-organized on Mormonism and American politics. We had two days of stimulating papers and presentations, an overview of which you can read here. One of my fav ...