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Illumina Introduces Low-Cost Bovine BeadChip for Genotyping of Dairy Cattle

 Optimized Content and Price to Enable Wider Use of Genomic Selection

Thursday, September 29, 2011
Illumina Introduces Low-Cost Bovine BeadChip for Genotyping of Dairy Cattle06:00 EDT Thursday, September 29, 2011 SAN DIEGO (Business Wire) -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the launch of the Infinium BovineLD (low density) BeadChip. With approximately 7,000 SNPs and a 24-sample format, this BeadChip supports a broad range of applications including genomic selection, parentage and traceability. Using this product, customers can compare data to that generated with Illumina's higher-density bovine arrays, extending the application of genomic information to more animals than ever before. The BovineLD BeadChip complements the Infinium BovineHD, BovineSNP50, and custom iSelect® BeadChips, further extending the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of products for measuring bovine genomics. "Illumina is excited to continue our collaboration with leaders in the agricultural genomics industry to develop optimized tools for improved food production," said Tristan Orpin, Senior Vice-President and Chief Commercial Officer at Illumina. "The BovineLD BeadChip extends the genomic revolution further down the value-chain in the dairy industry. The result will be a beneficial impact through the use of genomically-driven breeding programs related to milk production, animal reproduction, and animal health." Illumina developed the BovineLD BeadChip in collaboration with global bovine thought leaders from leading institutions, including the Department of Primary Industries Victoria (DPIVic) in Australia, the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the National Association of Livestock & Artificial Insemination Cooperatives (UNCEIA) in France, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS). "Especially designed for high imputation efficiency for the whole genome across a large variety of breeds, this BeadChip will answer a broad range of needs and boost development of genomic selection of both dairy and beef females," said Didier Boichard, Ph.D., Research Director at INRA and President of Labogena. Possessing SNPs of demonstrated reliability, the BovineLD BeadChip supports the cost-effective genotyping of more animals than previously possible by providing a robust solution for high-accuracy imputation to the BovineSNP50 BeadChip. In silico estimates suggest >98% of SNPs can be imputed from the BovineLD to the BovineSNP50. "The SNPs on this new array were chosen specifically for imputation to higher density arrays," said Ben Hayes, Ph.D., Associate Professor at DPIVic and the Dairy Futures Cooperative Research Centre. "In the Bos taurus breeds we have tested, the imputation accuracies have been excellent." Other collaborators including Xavier David, Coordinator of Eurogenomics and Maurice Barbezant, Director of UNCEIA agree. Barbezant states, "This new tool is a good opportunity to increase the implementation and genomic selection in European cattle farming by providing farmers reliable tools to achieve both selection and management goals." As with all of Illumina's Infinium Agricultural commercial products, the BovineLD BeadChip can be customized by adding up to 80,000 custom markers for ultimate flexibility in content design. Its high-throughput, 24-sample format enables faster data generation with lower processing costs using the proven BeadArray™ Reader, iScan, or HiScan® systems. The BovineLD BeadChip is available in 48, 288, and 1,152 sample kits. For more information, please visit www.illumina.com/BovineLD. 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In a move to reduce public safety layoffs next year, the City Council at its July 23 meeting approved offering a $25,000 retirement incentive to at least 20 employees from the fire and police departments.
The city calculated that the cost of a layoff is roughly $25,000. Encouraging some higher paid longtime employees to retire could help the police and fire departments retain newer, less costly officers and firefighters.
"The thinking behind the incentive was that, number one, there would likely be layoffs in 2011 of sworn members," said Tim Giles, director of employee services for Minneapolis. "And two, if someone were eligible to retire and chose to retire, the city would be willing to provide the same level of support to that retiring person as they would provide to a layoff, thereby saving the job of a much less senior individual."
This isn't the first time the city has offered a retirement incentive and Giles said they haven't been popular in the past. He said he's hoping this plan will attract officers and firefighters who are "on the fence" about whether to retire. Retirees would have to be out by the end of December and would not be allowed to return to any city department.
Police officers who accept the incentive will get it added to their healthcare account. Firefighters will get it as cash, since most senior employees have accumulated ample medical funds through a pension plan.
Mark Lakosky, president of Minneapolis Firefighters Local 82, said some firefighters are already "crunching numbers" to see if they're a good fit.
"I'm getting a lot of interest with the budgets coming in," he said. "I think it might be a great thing."
If the incentive proves popular, the department chiefs can assess their budget and staffing situations and decide whether to offer it to an additional 10 employees each. They have to report their staffing decisions by Sept. 16. The money for the incentives would come from the city's $2.1 million contingency fund.
Mayor R.T. Rybak first alluded to the plan in his supplemental budget presentation back in April as one of several "innovative" efforts to save jobs, maintain services and improve long-term budgeting. Council Member Betsy Hodges (13th Ward) led the ordinance development.
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Developers of unfinished projects could get tagged with a $6,550 annual fee if their buildings turn into problems for the city, based on an amendment the City Council approved at its last regular meeting.
The decision amends an ordinance that already applies to vacant and boarded properties and is meant to recoup the cost of sending inspections staff to deal with litter, graffiti, safety issues and other problems at building sites. Council Member Sandy Colvin Roy (12th Ward) introduced the amendment in response to problem properties that regularly generated complaints from residents.
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Yes, the PCM270# series is a bit old and dates back to 2009, and before. However, I still think that for basic listening, they still perform well. They are a proven product. While the newer ESS Sabre flavors do offer the possibility of an improvement in areas, it still comes with a cost. I think when one factors in cost / performance, the Muse DAC for $30 is quite a good performer and for most people, spending upwards of $200, or greater on a better DAC, their ears might not be able to tell the difference when using compressed music as most people tend to do nowadays. Plus, we all know that the "better" options do provide some improvements, but usually those improvements tend to be a bit more costly and the gain to be only single-digit percentage increases. To me, I've tried far too many upgrades to realize that many were never upgrades at all, and each of them took a bite out of my wallet at the same time.
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One of the earliest forms of frozen dessert, this traditional Persian treat is a refreshing blend of rose water and — believe it or not — vermicelli noodles, which results in a smooth texture similar to sorbet.
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Combine water and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Simmer until sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat and stir in rose water and lemon or lime juice. Let cool completely.
Soak noodles in hot water until pliable, according to package directions. Drain and rinse under cold water. Cut or tear noodles into 1-inch pieces.
Combine noodles, syrup and diced nectarines in a shallow glass baking dish. Place in the freezer. After 1 hour, stir mixture with a fork. Return to the freezer and chill until the desired consistency is reached, 1 to 2 hours more.
To serve, scrap ice with a fork and scoop into bowls. Garnish with pistachios and lemon or lime wedges.
Each serving: 280 cal, 0g fat (0g sat), 0mg chol, 25mg sodium, 70g carb, 1g fiber, 56g sugar, 1g protein
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This classic American favorite becomes an extraordinary dessert when flavored with aromatic cardamom and pure vanilla.
2 cups flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
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For the Cookies, preheat oven to 350°F. Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and cardamom in medium bowl; set aside. Mix buttermilk and vanilla in small bowl.
Beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Add egg; mix well. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beating on low speed after each addition until smooth and scraping down sides of bowl occasionally. Spoon 1 tablespoon of batter, 2 inches apart, onto parchment paper-lined large baking sheets. (Cookies will spread so avoid crowding them on baking sheet.
Bake 8 minutes or until cookies are puffed and spring back when touched, turning baking sheets halfway through baking. Cool on baking sheets 1 minute. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
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The filling is quite sweet. Cake/cookie is delicious. The cardamom flavor is not overwhelming, just adds some extra richness. Be sure to let them cool in the pan til they are set up and parchment or silpat is BIG help, the first pan I didn't do this with came out a bit mishapen but still perfectly edible. Would make the cookie again to experiment with less sweet filling treatments
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Nothing's been green-lighted. Too soon. But Orci and others are at least throwing around ideas for a story right now, aren't they?
I hope they are. And I also hope we get something more original this time.
Not so sure about that. The formula seems to work fine the way it is. Not that I'm complaining, but even though I like both Abramsverse films a lot, I would personally welcome some more depth for the next one. But just look at scifi / fantasy / superhero flicks that do really well at the box office, such as The Avengers. It is entertaining and cool, but the plot is ridiculous and it has zero originality, as well as the creative depth of a petri dish.
Eh, originality is overrated. Avenger's was brilliantly done.
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Cano's hustle pays off for Carroll
HARLINGEN - A little bit of hustle paid big dividends for Carroll's baseball team.
It was a play where Chris Cano gets thrown out the vast majority of the time, but his extra effort proved to be the spark the Tigers needed on Friday night.
Carroll's two-out infield hit keyed a game-turning fourth inning as the Tigers romped to a 12-2 victory over La Joya in the opener of their Region IV-5A semifinal series at Harlingen Field.
Carroll (32-7) can advance to the IV-5A final with a victory Saturday. Game 2 is at noon at Robstown's Fairgrounds Field.
"We tell our guys that Game 2 is the most important game," Carroll coach Lee Yeager said. "They'll have their best guy throwing against us, so we'll have to play well so we can take that second game and not go any further. The short turnaround helps, but that Game 2 is critical."
The Coyotes led 2-0 entering the fourth Friday, with potential Tigers rallies fizzling the previous two innings. But Carroll finally was able to string something together in the fourth, aided by three La Joya errors.
Josh Cruz reached on a throwing error by third baseman Gabriel Barrera to start the inning, and Oshea Dumes singled to left, with both runners moving up a base on a fielding error.
La Joya starter Adrian Garza then struck out Courtney Hawkins for the first out, and celebrated with a couple of fist pumps in the direction of home plate.
Things then promptly unraveled for Garza.
Jason Franco's fielder's choice grounder made it 2-1. Cano then hit what appeared to be a routine inning-ending grounder to second, but made a late lunge to beat Lee Ramirez's throw for a run-scoring infield single that tied the score.
"Always play hard and run hard all the time," Cano said. "I was just hustling the whole way. That kept our rally going, but it was a team effort."
After Malcolm Cepeda walked, Adam Hinojosa doubled into the left-field corner to give Carroll its first lead. Trey Rodriguez then reached on another Barrera throwing error as Cepeda came in to score for a 4-2 bulge.
Yeager called Cano's effort the game's turning point.
"Definitely," Yeager said. "We knew if we played hard, we could beat them. We started swinging a little better there (in the middle innings)."
Hawkins made it 5-2 Carroll with an RBI ground-rule double in the fifth that plated Cruz, who had doubled to lead off the inning.
The Tigers blew things open with a six-run sixth inning, with La Joya committing three more errors. Rodriguez, Cruz and Dumes had RBI singles, and Franco capped the uprising with a two-run double.
That was more than enough for starter Mark Blackmar. He overcame a shaky first inning, when he gave up two runs, and then retired nine of the next 10 hitters to seize control. He didn't allow a run over his final five innings.
"After an inning like that, you've got to come out and shut them down," Blackmar said. "I was leaving some pitches up and they hit them. I was really working on hitting my spots after that.
"I had a lot of good defense behind me and we just tried to get ahead of the batters and work from there."
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Highlights C, Cruz 2-4, 3 R; Oshea Dunes 3-4, 2 R, RBI; Hawkins, 2-3, RBI, R; Franco, 1-4, 3 RBI.
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It's a travesty that a bowler reported for chucking is sent to the NCA, gets cleared and returns, only to be reported again, writes Makarand Waingankar
No matter what the BCCI does to streamline the process of weeding out the bowlers with suspect actions, it will not succeed without the state associations' backing. There have been more than a dozen bowlers reported for suspect action and though one of them, Mohnish Parmar, is an off-spinner from Gujarat, he has been picked for the Duleep Trophy final in place of classical offie Ramesh Powar.
Parmar was called for chucking in the last Under-19 World Cup and later has been warned on several occasions by umpires in India. In fact, this season, one of the umpires told the Match Referee that if Parmar bowled the doosra, he would stop him from bowling.
Despite this background, Vengsarkar's West Zone selection committee has picked Parmar for the Duleep Trophy final. Explaining the inclusion, Vengsarkar said, "Parmar went to NCA last week and got his action cleared. Having received a clearance letter from the NCA, I can't drop him."
Not aware of this development, the CAO of the BCCI, Prof. Ratnakar Shetty, after checking with the NCA, said, "Dav Whatmore, the Director of the NCA, cleared the bowler on a condition, that Parmar should not bowl the doosra. But the NCA ought not to have entertained the case when it's being handled by the Director of Umpires, Srinivas Venkatraghavan."
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As a part of the process of weeding out bowlers with suspect actions, the BCCI decided to record all the Ranji Trophy matches and these recordings have exposed the culprits. The Joint Secretary of the BCCI, M. P. Pandove, has informed the associations of such bowlers about the findings of the BCCI, but apparently Parmar's association, Gujarat, to get him in the West Zone team sidestepped the process and managed to get the clearance certificate.
Obviously the films of the matches that Parmar played in were not viewed by Whatmore who must have done video analysis independently.
All the reported actions were viewed by Venkatraghavan, and a list of the bowlers has been made. The films of bowlers will be sent to the NCA for reference as bowling in matches will be more authentic than bowling indoors. It's a systematic process that will afford no one any reason to complain.
Reported again
It's a travesty that a bowler reported for chucking is sent to the NCA, gets the clearance certificate and returns to first class cricket, only to be reported again by the umpires. There were two other bowlers who were also reported for chucking in the 2006-07 season and sent to the NCA which gave them clearance certificates. This season, they too were reported again.
By obtaining the certificate from the NCA without the knowledge of the BCCI secretariat, the Gujarat Cricket Association seems to have acted with the sole purpose of getting Parmar selected for the Duleep Trophy final.
Would Vengsarkar pick him for the national team if he wreaks havoc in the Duleep Trophy final? It does seem the selection committee prioritised winning more than the spirit of the game.
If the BCCI is really concerned about the increased number of bowlers with suspect action, it should enforce the MCC laws and jettison the farce of the NCA issuing a letter that counts on rule-breakers adhering to rules from then on. It's time Venkatraghavan cracked the whip.


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In its period utopianism, the typical Shaw movie is not terribly unlike the MGM musicals and melodramas of the day: widescreen compositions, stylized sets, provincial story lines. In fact, many of the films, including the perennially popular expressionist fable The Kingdom and the Beauty (1958), are huangmei musicals, sung as Chinese operas (including a variety of Greek choruses narrating the young-emperor-loves-peasant-girl action), but using modern orchestrations and dialogue. Li Han-hsiang, arguably the Shaws' Minnelli, took full advantage of the studio's massive and ornate Forbidden City set, as he did in The Empress Dowager (1975), a rather concisely written slab of historical intrigue in which the young turn-of-the-century emperor contends with his own mother and her scheming eunuchs for power. But his peak moment of pop synthesis may have been The Love Eterne (1962), a beloved and beguilingly performed huangmei version of the cross-dressing Chinese operetta The Butterfly Lovers, in which gender is substantially less crucial than love.
The wuxia pian ventures at the retro are only seminal gestures toward the torrential films of the 1980s-'90s HK explosion; the pleasantly rudimentary action of Chu Yuan's Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972), with an invincible princess-warrior at center stage, moves so fast you barely notice the spray of blood on the walls. Of course, moral objectivity is the mode's ruling guideline, so codes of loyalty are routinely violated in Zhang Che's zoom-amok Blood Brothers (1973), hinging on the personal desolation created by betrayal, and Chu's Killer Clans (1976), a maniacal epic whose story unfurls sequential conspiracies of bloodlust and revenge so deep-dish that the eponymous "societies" unknowingly harbor sleeper assassins "going back three generations!" Intensely melodramatic, Chu's crowning trope is the royal court face-off, in which multiple crosscurrents of eye contact gradually reveal secret alliances and missions.
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Ann: Absolutely it's easy to integrate, we have an API type of system, very simple integration it's patterned after credit cards and what we have heard from the merchants who have worked integration is it is very easy to implement.
Kiersten: What games can I bill to Bill2Phone right now?
Ann: We haven't done any press releases yet, we are working with a lot of game companies whose names I guarantee you'll recognize, they're very well known. Part of it has to do with development schedules, and getting things coordinated and rolled out, but keep watching as you'll see announcements in the near future of recognizable game sites that are going to roll out Bill2Phone.
Kiersten: Are you looking at some of the older games or the smaller games that maybe only have 400 subscribers?
Scott: Absolutely we're not only going after tier 1 customers, and the way I treat them all is just the same, especially in this space. I mean who would have thought that Second Life was going to happen? Who would have thought? We were talking about this last night and when it was released initially it was you in this big space. And now there's a banking institution that wants to do real life dollars banking within Second Life, it's out of control!
Ann: And here's the thing with that too, our core business is, what we built our business on for twenty years, was being an aggregator, and when being an aggregator, you have to have a mix of big customers but you don't want to hang all your eggs in a big customer basket, you want to have a diversified customer base where you have large medium and small customers to fill in.
We've done that very successfully with the traditional billing side, and we have the same business model in mind for Bill2Phone. We want those little guys to come to us. Our implementation is so simple it was designed so that they could do that and we are also hoping to work with some different types of payment service aggregators so they can access Bill2Phone through third parties as well.
Scott: And it really works out well for the smaller merchants. The bigger guys are going to be slower to adopt this and seeing smaller companies do it, they're going to be more likely to do it. That's one strategy we're using, but at the same time if an early adopter smaller company decides to use Bill2Phone, it really gives them a competitive advantage because you're trying to no eliminate any of your potential customer base.
Kiersten: Speaking of which, what about x-rated sites?
Scott: Because we're dealing with the phone companies, they don't want an image of any kind of adult oriented materials associated with their brands.
Ann: So if we have someone who comes in with their site, we're an intermediary with the phone company and we say, 'here's what they've got, here's how they market it, here's the product' and we help them get that approved. We know from past history they don't want anything that's too graphic or hard core, so we do tell our merchants that in advance. But who knows what the future holds.
Kiersten: Thank you all for your time!
It would seem the future is Bill2Phone! To find out more about BSG Clearing Solutions or Bill2Phone, visit their website at http://www.bsgclearing.com or read their pdf file on Bill2Phone: Payment Solution.
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Spending a day boating on open water is supposed to be a relaxing event, not something that causes serious injury. All too often, what started out as a fun way to unwind with family and friends can turn into a disaster. According to the United States Coast Guard, the top five reasons for boating accidents are as follows:
Other possible causes of boating accidents include collision with another vessel, the driver of either boat being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, speeding, dangerous water conditions, and failure of the driver and passengers to wear a life jacket.
The most difficult thing to accept in a boating accident is that the majority of injuries and deaths are preventable. The United States Coast Guard recommends that all people who regularly spend time in a boat take an approved safety course. Since 70 percent of all boating accidents are caused by operator error, a preliminary investment in safety can help reduce this number.
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Next generation of carrier systems going virtual
The latest version of Nokia Siemens Networks software for running mobile carriers is virtualized, pointing toward a future of fully cloud-based systems that could help operators run even more efficiently and roll out new services more quickly.
Nokia buys out, renames Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia finished its buyout of Nokia Siemens Networks on Wednesday and renamed the company Nokia Solutions and Networks, or NSN.
Nokia to pay $2.2bn for Siemens' stake in Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia is to acquire Siemens' 50 percent stake in joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finnish company after the transaction is completed.
Siemens looking to unload share in networking venture with Nokia, report said
Siemens has started talks with private-equity firms about the sale of its share in Nokia Siemens Networks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Network builders tackling cell vs. Wi-Fi choices
Mobile users can probably look forward to being automatically transferred from cellular to Wi-Fi networks in the near future, but going back and forth for the best possible performance is another matter.
Are we ready for a mobile-first world?
Judging from the number of people poring over their smartphones on the sidewalk, in their cars and in public places, mobile seems to have stolen our attention away from the wired Internet and traditional TV.
Nokia Siemens unveils tools to boost mobile video performance
Mobile network builder Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled tools to optimize video performance on mobile devices on Monday, just in time for the CTIA Wireless trade show that begins Tuesday in Las Vegas.
Huawei signs memorandum of understanding for OSS interoperability initiative
ICT technology vendor, Huawei, has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an Operations Support System Interoperability Initiative (OSSii) alongside other major OSS vendors, Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks.
Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011
A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are preparing to compete with each other and carry video traffic in 3D and at higher resolutions, which is expected to happen in the coming year.


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For every Beatles or Stones, there are dozens of visionary rock groups who remain unsung heroes. From cult figures such as Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett (the most famous musician included here) to virtually undiscovered artists, this behind-the-scenes book with a fascinating CD of 12 rare songs celebrates the best rockers in everything from '50s rockabilly to '90s post-punk - the unknown greats who, for one reason or another, just never made it. Features lots of photos throughout.
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Analysis: Liberals prod Obama on their health bill
WASHINGTON Presidents quickly learn that legislative showdowns on tough issues, such as overhauling the nation's health care system, must be dealt with eventually. Some liberal Democrats worry that President Barack Obama may be waiting too long to face down Republicans on one of the issue's knottiest questions.
Obama says he supports a government-run health insurance program to compete with private insurers, a proposal that is popular with many Americans, especially Democrats. But he is standing by as a watered-down, bipartisan version appears likely to be included in a Senate package.
The president's allies hope it can be strengthened later, or at least accepted by liberals who want a tougher measure. Compromise is essential to every difficult political battle, they say, and Obama may prove wise by keeping his options open in a health care debate certain to last for months.
Frustrated liberal activists, however, point to polls showing strong public support for a government-run option that is more robust than the one apparently favored by the Senate Finance Committee. They ask why Democrats, who control the House, Senate and White House, are pushing a version backed by many Republicans.
White House aides say Obama wants to avoid issuing nonnegotiable demands early in the legislative process. He feels President Bill Clinton made such a mistake in a failed 1993 bid to revamp the health care system. Obama has made clear that he supports a bona fide public option for health insurance, which critics say is missing from the Senate Finance package, at least for now.
But Obama "wants comprehensive health reform even more," said former Sen. Tom Daschle, who has advised the administration on health care. "He will do all he can to get a public option," Daschle said, "but at the end of the day, the only thing nonnegotiable is success."
Some Democrats, however, feel Obama has over-learned the lessons of 1993 and is bending over too far to attract GOP support in the Senate. Unless he and congressional Democratic leaders agree to strengthen the public insurance provision later in the legislative process, they say, he may regret his hands-off approach.
"No one in this building wants health care reform as much as we do," California Democratic Rep. Lynn Woolsey, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters in the Capitol this week. However, she said, if a bill "does not include a real and robust public option that lives up to our criteria, then we will fight it with everything that we have."
The liberal group MoveOn.org said Friday it will run ads criticizing Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., in her home state because she "is not supporting the public health insurance option."
The legislative focus is on the 100-member Senate, where the rules make it difficult to pass contested bills without 60 votes; there are 57 Democrats, plus two independents who usually vote with Democrats. The House is moving a Democratic-crafted bill virtually certain to include a publicly run health insurance provider with the clout to compete with private insurers.


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The Naztech Ultra-thin Bluetooth Slideout Keyboard for iPhone 5 frees you from the pains of having to use an on-screen keyboard! It easily pairs over Bluetooth using wireless connectivity and features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard with LED back light that allows you to type when it's dark. It's powered by a Lithium rechargeable battery and is charged via its USB port. It's on/off switch lets you conserve its battery life, too! Simply snap in your iPhone 5, pair your device and you've got a fully functional QWERTY keyboard ready to slide out whenever you need it!
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LA people know their trends and their street culture, there is no doubt about that. And that is why it will be roadblock on La Brea on Friday night (17th Feb) as the All Gone 2011 World Tour finally hits LA, with an exclusive launch event at UNDFTD. In attendance and on hand to sign your copy will be the book's creator, Twelve Bar fam Michael Dupouy aka La MJC. But the night will also see the release to general sale of the exclusive La MJC x All Gone x Undefeated collab Five Strike tee, which premiered at the store's Vegas event earlier this week, and is already on high demand.
The collab features UNDFTD's classic tally logo in leopard print, the same design that adorns the cover of 2011's All Gone book and a nod to the huge amounts of animal print designs across the best of streetwear this past year. The tee will be on sale at Friday's event, along with copies of the All Gone book, and is released online on Monday 2th February, exclusive to www.undefeated.com
The street culture book of all street culture books features almost 200 products from 2011, lovingly shot by some of the world's leading photographers and containing astonishing detail on the items we've all coveted.
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Analysis of the fatal UPS Boeing 747-400 freighter fire has been unable to determine whether a diversion to Doha, rather than the longer turnback to Dubai, would have altered the outcome.
United Arab Emirates investigators looking into the on-board fire - caused by the combustion of lithium batteries - examined the captain's decision to pursue a return to Dubai, a track of 185nm (340km), having been informed that Doha was closer at 100nm.
Neither pilot survived the 3 September 2010 accident. The captain was incapacitated and the first officer's attempt to land the crippled aircraft single-handed at Dubai was unsuccessful, and it crashed just outside of the city.
Checklists for a main-deck fire instruct the crew to plan a landing at the nearest available airport.
At the point of the diversion decision the aircraft would have needed 20min to reach Doha runway 15, says the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority, which would have put a Doha landing some 6-7min ahead of the time of the crash.
But the inquiry points out that the crew was familiar with Dubai and did not have Doha's charts or instrument landing system frequency immediately available. The aircraft's flight-management computer also reprograms automatically to the departure airport in case of a turnback within 400nm.
"There is no direct information as to why the crew elected to choose Dubai verses Doha," says the inquiry. "However, it is likely that at the time of the initiation of the turnback, the crew was not yet aware of the full extent of the fire and its effects."
The analysis notes that a Doha diversion would not necessarily have been successful. It says that the progressive failure of systems on the 747 - including elevator, speed-brake and oxygen supply problems - would have generated a similar level of control difficulties for the crew.
Investigators also found that the landing-gear failed to extend when the first officer selected the undercarriage lever, and this would have complicated a Doha approach. The aircraft was still heavily fuelled, fully-laden, and "in all probability" would have made a gear-up landing, says the inquiry.
But the GCAA states that the turnback created a "major difficulty" by taking the aircraft out of VHF radio range with Bahrain area controllers. Smoke prevented the first officer from retuning the radio frequency and communications had to be relayed via other aircraft.
Diverting to Doha would have enabled the crew to maintain direct contact with Bahrain, while radar surveillance and co-ordination would have been simplified.
"Analysis of the diversion to Doha and the likely outcome is speculative as the crew incapacitation, and smoke and fumes in the cockpit, would have prevailed," says the inquiry, adding that the 747's control was "seriously compromised".
It says: "The likely outcome of the diversion to Doha is therefore inconclusive, although the communication and task saturation issues experienced by the remaining pilot would have been negated by a Doha diversion."
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This section describes how to interface a Simulink® block diagram to sensors in a virtual reality scene. It also describes how to programmatically input signals from the virtual world into a simulation model.
Virtual reality scenes can contain sensors, nodes able to generate events and output values depending on time, user navigation, and actions and distance changes in the scene. These nodes add interactivity to the virtual world. You can use Simulink 3D Animation™ functions to read sensor field values into simulation models and control simulation based on the user interaction with the virtual scene.
You can define the following VRML sensors in the scene:
|Maps pointer motion (for example, a mouse or wand) into a rotation on an invisible cylinder that is aligned with the y-axis of the local coordinate system.
|Maps pointing device motion into two-dimensional translation in a plane parallel to the z=0 plane of the local coordinate system.
|Generates events when the viewer enters, exits, and moves within a region in space (defined by a box).
|Maps pointing device motion into spherical rotation about the origin of the local coordinate system.
|Generates events as time passes.
|Tracks the location and state of the pointing device and detects when you point at geometry contained by the TouchSensor node parent group.
|Detects visibility changes of a rectangular box as you navigate the world.
Interactive mode allows clients to modify a remote virtual world via events from sensor nodes defined in the virtual world. Interactive mode is useful when a virtual world includes a sensor.
Interactive mode is disabled by default on clients. You can enable (or later disable) interactive mode on a client via context menu in the Web Viewer or by pressing the I key shortcut.
You can disable interactive mode for a particular virtual world
on the host computer. For details, see the
ClientUpdates property,
vrworld/get or vrworld/set.
To read a value of a readable VRML field (either
exposedField or
first synchronize that field with the
vrnode/sync method.
After synchronization, each time the field changes in the scene, the
field value updates on the host. You can then read the value of the
field with the
vrnode/getfield method
or directly access the field value using the dot notation.
The virtual scene for the Magnetic
Levitation ModelMagnetic
Levitation Model example,
maglev.wrl, contains
a PlaneSensor (with the
DEF name
The PlaneSensor is attached to the ball geometry to register your
attempts to move the ball up or down when grabbing it using the mouse.
The example uses the sensor fields
minPosition and
maxPosition to
restrict movement in other directions. You can use the output of the
sensor translation field as the new setpoint for the ball position
controller. You can read the sensor output value into a MATLAB® variable
setpoint with the following:
% create the vrworld object and open the world wh = vrworld('maglev.wrl'); open(wh); % get the node handle nh = vrnode(wh, 'Grab_Sensor'); % synchronize the translation field sync(nh, 'translation', 'on'); % 3 alternative ways to read the synchronized field value setpoint = getfield(nh, 'translation'); setpoint = nh.translation; setpoint = wh.Grab_Sensor.translation;
Right-click the VR Sensor Reader block of Magnetic Levitation ModelMagnetic Levitation Model (
model and select Mask > Look Under Mask.
The vrmaglev/VR Sensor Reader model displays. This model contains
the vrextin block, which is an S-function block. The vrextin S-function
synchronizes the sensor field in the
setup method
and periodically reads its value in the
mdlUpdate method.
To examine the S-function parameters, right-click vrextin and select S-Function Parameters.
The parameters defined in the mask supply the sample time, virtual world, and the node/field to read.
Note the following about the
vrextin S-function:
Instead of setting its own block outputs, the
vrextin S-function
sets the value of the adjacent Constant block
This setting makes the VR Sensor Reader block compatible with Simulink Coder™ code
generation so that the model can run on Simulink Coder targets.
The signal loop between user action (grabbing the
ball to a desired position using a mouse) closes through the associated Simulink model
As a result, grabbing the ball to a new position works only when the
model is running and when the model sets the blue selection method
switch to the virtual reality sensor signal path. To experience the
behavior of the PlaneSensor using the virtual scene only, save the
maglev.wrl file
under a new name and remove the comment symbol (#) to enable the last
line of this file. This action activates direct routing of sensor
output to a ball translation. You can then experiment with the newly
created scene instead of the original
maglev.wrl world.
ROUTE Grab_Sensor.translation_changed TO Ball.translation
You can use this method to input information from
all VRML node fields of the type
exposedField or
not only a Sensor
eventOut field. See VRML Data
Class Types for more information about VRML Data class types.
For fields of class
you can use an alternate name using the field name with the suffix,
For example,
translation and
translation_changed are
alternate names for requesting the translation field value of the
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Sorry for the late news here. Our personal lives prevented us from a timely update on the Rick Nash injury. In Friday night's 4-2 loss for HC Davos, the Ranger winger injured his shoulder in the first period. Ironically enough, the injury came from a collision with former Ranger Ilkka Heikkinen. Nash left the game in the first period as a precaution.
An MRI from yesterday showed no structural damage, and Nash is expected to be out for no longer than a week. Safe to say Nash and the Rangers dodged a bullet there.
Nash took some criticism from Ranger fans when he decided to head to Switzerland during the lockout. It's likely that he's still going to get some criticism from this injury. It's worth noting that injuries, especially injuries stemming from collisions, can happen in team practices as well.


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ClassicsOnline Home » FELDMAN: String Quartet
By Chistopher DeLaurenti
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
By Alan Artner
Chicago Tribune
Morton Feldman's String Quartet (1979) follows over a
decade of compositional activity where the composer
was constantly occupied with a new piece for orchestra.
In the eleven years before the Quartet he produced
fifteen orchestral works, beginning with On Time and
the Instrumental Factor (1969) up to Violin and
Orchestra (1979). In the following eight years only
three orchestral works were written, The Turfan
Fragments (1980), Coptic Light (1986) and For Samuel
Beckett (1987). With the String Quartet, Feldman's
attention turned almost exclusively to chamber music,
and particularly, to the long piece. This change,
however, was not made without a certain degree of
The String Quartet was first performed on 4th May,
1980, by the Columbia Quartet at the Drawing Center
in New York City. The performance lasted well over
one and a half hours, hence the nick-name of "100
minutes" by which this piece is known. A repeat
performance by the same group took place a month later
during June in the Buffalo Festival. At this point
Feldman seems to have hesitated, for when he returned
to composing he created three works of more or less
conventional length. It was not until after the first West
Coast performance of the Quartet, almost a year later,
that he returned to explore the long piece. The overseventy-
minute Untitled Composition for cello and
piano, was completed shortly thereafter, and finally,
the success of Triadic Memories for solo piano, dated
23rd July, 1981, committed him fully to this new
Keenly aware of the controversy surrounding the
length of the Quartet from its première the year before,
Feldman began his 1981 CalArts lecture by discussing
the length of a minute, the moral being that even a
minute can be a very long time. Although the topic that
afternoon was to be the use of the Twelve-Tone
Technique in Varèse's Déserts, Feldman used the
occasion to provide some insight to his own music. He
characterized the String Quartet as a natural result of his
work up to that time:
I would never let a student of mine put in a repeat
sign. I would say, "something's happening, what
if you wanted to change your mind?"
I copy like an idiot. Until finally I put a double
bar line in and I just write fifteen times, seven
times, nine times. But even that became a great
concession. It was really a concession to my
eyes, because I want to copy my own music...
So I don't call things a name, because I repeat
things for different reasons...
For example, if we asked the question, "isn't
there a certain type of material that you can
repeat and can't repeat?" "What's repeatable
material? "You can't just repeat..."
What I think of it now is that I'm watching
some bugs on a slide, and I'm just watching
how I feel .. .
So the String Quartet has a lot to do with that
kind of watching and letting it go. And the
reason the piece is so long is that I got into
dangerous territory. I let things go…"
A note about tempos: scores from Feldman's last period
usually carry the tempo mark 63 to 66 (to the quarter
note), indicating a slow tempo with a certain degree of
fluidity. In practice he was not generally critical if the
performer(s) took a slower tempo. He was equally happy,
for example, with a performance of Triadic Memories
which lasted over one hour as with another which lasted
closer to two. His tempo marks became, as it were, a
maximum limit for interpretation. This is not to suggest
that there are no boundaries as to how slow a Feldman
work can be performed. His interest was in creating a
gradually unfolding piece where the perception of time
becomes distorted. Too slow a tempo can have the
opposite effect, making each component of a musical
gesture seem like a major event.
Characteristic of Feldman's sound world in his last
period are the over-all soft dynamic level and a preference
for instruments with simple overtone structures (such as
flute, celesta, vibraphone). In string writing he often uses
the mute as a way of making the complex overtone
structure these instruments have, less so. The String
Quartet calls for the use of mutes throughout, offering the
unique string quartet timbre heard on this recording.
Douglas Cohen
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NEW YORK With earnings season half over, it's not just the huge write-offs and plunging profits that have investors on edge. More and more companies are so uncertain about the future they're simply unwilling to commit to earnings forecasts at all.
That reluctance is making the market increasingly skittish, and in January the Dow Jones industrial average turned in the worst performance in its 113-year history.
"Every company that we talk to across every industry, and this includes healthy ones, have basically burrowed themselves as far as they can in the foxhole," said Marc Harris, co-head of global research at RBC Capital Markets.
Results from the first 227 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index to report results are worrisome. Sales fell 10.2 percent in the October-December period, according to S&P. The companies lost an average of $8.89 a share mainly because of huge write-offs. Corporations are recording the write-downs now partly so results can look better in future quarters.
"Companies are not only throwing in the kitchen sink, they're throwing in the refrigerator," said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at Standard & Poor's. "Kitchen sinking" is a Wall Street term for compressing charges and write-downs into a single earnings period.
Wall Street knew the fourth-quarter results would be awful after consumers and businesses curtailed their spending in the fall. But the increasing hesitation to predict what's next is adding to the market's already deepening sense of unease.
"The numbers are bad. So you've got the estimates coming down," said Quincy Krosby, chief investment strategist at The Hartford, referring to analysts' forecasts for the coming quarters. "The main thing is the lack of guidance. The companies are stymied by the macroeconomic conditions and the deterioration of those fundamentals."
Intel Corp. warned last month its sales for first quarter of 2009 would come in around $7 billion, short of what Wall Street expected. And the chip maker said it wouldn't offer a more-specific forecast because of "economic uncertainty and limited visibility."
Businesses are operating in a fog as they try to determine where the economy will head. They are laying off workers and otherwise cutting costs as they brace for a continued slide in the economy.
But even job cuts aren't drawing the same praise from investors they once did. Intel shares lost 3.3 percent on Jan. 22 after the company announced it would cut 6,000 manufacturing jobs.
In the sometimes perverse logic of Wall Street, cutting workers can be seen as a good thing because investors like to see companies reduce costs to drive up profits. But investors aren't as quick to reward companies these days.
"It's being perceived in the market as a sign of desperation," Krosby said of many of the job cuts. "The more they cut the more they contribute to this problem."
Consumers who have lost jobs – and even those simply worried that they might be next – are cutting back. The Commerce Department reported Monday that personal spending fell for a record sixth consecutive month in December. That's unnerving to Wall Street because consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.


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And therein lays the major problem with this football team. The defense is not great, but it's not awful. There isn't much of a pass rush and they give up some plays, but they managed to create four turnovers, two on picks by safety Eric Weddle.
This is not a good offense, and there's no reason why. Especially on the plus side of the field — past the 50 — and in the red zone. I mean it stinks.
Nine times they ventured inside the Chiefs' 35. They got four field goals from Nick Novak and didn't score a touchdown until backup tailback (Ryan Mathews is hurt again after losing yet another fumble) Curtis Brinkley ran it in from the two with 7:11 remaining. Brinkley's two-point catch from Rivers then tied it.
It's not a joke. There is something seriously wrong here. The Chargers gained 447 yards and had 22 first downs and struggled to score a touchdown. Receivers were open last night. But not when they got near the goal line.
When they did something well, when Rivers found tight end Antonio Gates for an apparent touchdown, Gates was flagged for offensive pass interference, a bogus call. The NFL needs to do something about this pass interference business, because the zebras have no idea how to call it.
And, of course, there were the penalties. The Chargers were whistled nine times for 85 yards in the first half (12 for 105 overall). I lost count of the number of times offensive tackle Marcus McNeill jumped. I know he had two holding calls. Right tackle Jeromey Clary wasn't much better.
Bad teams find ways to lose, so you must say this is a bad team now. I mean, a fumbled snap when you're trying to kill the clock? This is immature football, foolish football, coach-killing football. Norv Turner didn't coach that fumbled snap, although I'm sure he'll get blamed for it. But he didn't draw the Mona Lisa here, either.
So now what? The Green Bay Packers are merely the best team in the world (better than the Chiefs, we guess) and they come into Qualcomm Stadium on Sunday.
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When it comes to starting GNOME programming in C, a well written tutorial as GTK+ / Gnome Application Development is a good starting point. The author, Havoc Pennington, lists C source code (called GnomeHello) in the article as an example and readers are able to leverage it to construct their own GNOME applications.
When I started following the instruction — I'm thinking of developing my own 'toy application' —, what discouraged me is that Havoc's GnomeHello was based on GNOME 1.x, the old version of GNOME. Currently available GNOME is version 2, and its API has changed slightly, which caused compilation failure with verbatim copy of that GnomeHello source files. You need certainly modify some API function calls to fit the new GNOME2 API.
One more issue is that the build configuration Havoc illustrates is rather old style and it won't compile the GnomeHello application at all. And GNOME help system has changed from SGML to DocBook(XML) mechanism, which obsoletes the methodology of the instruction.
Moreover, internationalization (i18n) instruction is also incomplete. You want to consult other sources describing gettext/intltool to make translation of GnomeHello.
Coping with all the above issues, I managed to construct a buildable source tree of GnomeHello on Ubuntu 10.10(ja) and successfully made both help system and Japanese localization work. For everything to work, you have to 'make install' the source. You can donwload the tarball of this source tree at the end of this article. The rest of it addresses briefly the main points that I touched.
0) Development tools
I set up Ubuntu 10.10(ja) on ThinkPad R52 to start this work. Ubuntu installer doesn't put necessary development tools as default, so manual install is mandatory.
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf
$ sudo apt-get install automake
$ sudo apt-get install libtool
$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libgnome2-dev
$ sudo apt-get install autopoint
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-devel gnome-devel-docs
If you want Emacs23 as your preferable text editor like me, Put packages this way :
$ sudo apt-get install emacs-goodies-el
$ sudo apt-get install emacs23-el
Note : Emacs23 on Ubuntu 10.10 Japanese Edition has *broad* width which has ThinkPad R52 screen all to itself. Ubuntu10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)と幅広なEmacs23 describes how to configure X to use Emacs in its right size.
Installed versions on my machine are :
gcc 4.4.5 (This is installed by default)
libgtk2.0-dev 2.22.0
autoconf 2.67
automake 1.11.1
libtool 2.2.6b
libglib2.0-dev 2.26.0
libgnome2-dev 2.32.0
autopoint 0.18.1
gnome-devel 2.28
gnome-devel-docs 2.30.1
1) hello.c
This file defines the main() function which is an entry point of this program. Firstly, i18n is correctly initialized with 2 another lines, and PACKAGE is replaced with GETTEXT_PACKAGE which is defind in configure.ac.
GNOME initialization the original source employs is old style of gnome_init() (or its variant gnome_init_with_popt_table() to process command line arguments). This way works, of course, to some degree. But if we want to refer to some program specific paths in C source files, such as data directory to locate pixmap files, gnome_program_init() [1.1] must be used. This way of initialization requires new methodology of command line parsing other than popt, so I also modified this part.
Window geometry processing came here in the main() (from hello_app_new()) because gnome_parse_geometry() is missing in GNOME2 API and is not available. Instead, after gtk_widget_show_all(), the program calls gtk_window_parse_geometry() [1.2] to process X window specific geometry initialization.
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2) menus.c
Simple GNOMEUIINFO_HELP() macro the original GnomeHello specifies won't work at all. This is partly because help system can't identify correct path of the help file, and partly because GNOME2 help system uses new methodology (DocBook XML) rather than the old SGML-HTML transformation paradaigm.
I replaced GNOMEUIINFO_HELP() with GNOMEUIINFO_ITEM_NONE() macro and placed a callback function help_cb() in it. In the callback, gnome_help_display_with_doc_id() [2.1] is called with DocBook XML filename specified. Build configuration must also be modified later on.
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3) app.c
gnome_parse_geometry() is missing in GNOME2 for some reason which I don't know of. I replaced it with gtk_window_parse_geometry() [3.1] and moved it in the main() funcion in hello.c since it must be called after all widgets are shown.
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4) autogen.sh
autogen.sh is supposed to reconfigure according to autoconf/automake input file changes. To write this script from scratch is a laborsome work, so simple copy from some existing source is a good choice. I copied gnome-autogen.sh in the gnome-common source package, renamed it autogen.sh in the top source tree of the GnomeHello. It works fine. You can view [4.1] and download [4.2] GNU sources.
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[4.1]All Projects
[4.2]Getting the most out of Git in GNOME
5) configure.ac
The original Havoc's GnomeHello describes configure.in. While grappling with GnomeHello, refering to a site (which I forgot where it was) describing functional macro for GNOME2, I renamed it to configure.ac. What is difference? Probably just the file name extension is. The initial configure.ac template is created with autoscan as usual. I added to this template GNOME, i18n(gettext/intltool), and DocBook(help) related macros. You may need to modify version strings in macros to fit your own.
6) Makefile.am
Basically, based on Havoc's explanation. I replaced GNOME compilation flags, added some macro definitions (DATADIR/LIBDIR/SYSCONFDIR/PREFIX) which can be refered (and will be refered later on ) in the C source files. Specifically, DATADIR is refered in menus.c, resolving pixmap file path with gnome_program_locate_file() [6.1] function in about_cb() callback to locate my poorly designed pixmap file. :(
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7) DocBook help
Help system has totally changed from GNOME 1 to 2 [7.1]. In GNOME1, document is SGML written and HTML file is generated during the build time. In GNOME2, DocBook XML is the help source and build makes localized version of the XML help document. If you want your native language localization, add your locale to configure.ac and doc/Makefile.am. I already marked with 'ja' (Japanese). At some point of build process, doc/ja.po is automatically created. Put your localization string here and make/make install will copy your localized version of help xml file to show in your program. If you are new to DocBook documentation, refer to [7.2].
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[7.1] Migrating to GNOME Documentation Build Utilities>
[7.2] GNOME Handbook of Writing Software Documentation V1.0.2>
8) i18n issue
AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT macro in configure.ac is obsolete. It won't work right. Instead, use AM_GNU_GETTEXT/AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION [8.1]. In the beginning of main() function in hello.c, gettext initialization with several lines are done. But if you really want UTF-8 working, function call bind_textdomain_codeset() is mandatory [8.2].
As Havoc describes in the GnomeHello article, you need _() and N_() marking on all user-exposed strings. and to fetch all those i18n strings as a pot template, intltool is used in po/ directory [8.3]. Rename this generated template (.pot) to for example ja.po, and edit header. 'charset=UTF-8' line is important to make Emacs understand UTF-8 so as to begin string localization.
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[8.1]Use upstream gettext instead the glib one
[8.2]Internationalising GNOME applications
[8.3]Marking strings for translation
That's all there is to it. Why don't you set off your own GNOME application programming today?
GPL(GNU General Public License) v3 and the newest GFDL(GNU Free Documentation License)
C source tarball.
-Working Environment
Ubuntu 10.10