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Pigeon Spike Composite is a low cost deterrent for pigeons and seagulls. This spike is an affordable combination of stainless steel wires and a flexible, UV stabilized plastic base. It can be installed quickly on all types of surfaces. Designed to deter pigeons and seagulls only, not recommended for other birds or for controlling heavy ...
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Pigeon Spike Plastic is the lowest cost deterrent for pigeons and seagulls available. This all UV stabilized, clear plastic spike can be installed quickly on all types of surfaces. The all plastic (polycarbonate resin) construction means it is non-conductive and will not interfere with electronic communications. Designed to deter pigeons and ...
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Rawlinson eyes promotion
Wednesday 9th March 09:36
Worcester's Greg Rawlinson has set his sights on going out on a high after confirming he will leave at the end of the season.
Rawlinson signs new deal
Tuesday 9th February 14:08
Worcester Warriors have renewed the contract of powerful lock Greg Rawlinson after the 31-year-old signed a new one-year deal.
Northampton v Worcester: Teams
Friday 5th September 15:22
Greg Rawlinson has been named captain as Worcester kick-off their 2008-09 Guinness Premiership campaign against Northampton.
Warriors off the mark
Saturday 26th January 17:44
Worcester Warriors turned over Bristol 25-5 to claim their first Guinness Premiership win of the season.
Rupert Cox's Off Load: Clermont, England Sevens and Jean Deysel come under scrutiny
Rupert Cox shares his highlights from the week's rugby action in his round-up blog.
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Rupert Cox's Off Load: Hurricanes, Toulouse and Nick Williams all come under scrutiny
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Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the death of an Annandale man. 22-year-old Gray David Soltis of St. Cloud was arrested for 2nd-degree murder Wednesday. Authorities say that a 21-year-old St. Cloud man and a 19-year-old Albertville man were also arrested that day, the 21-year-old for 2nd-degree murder, and the 19-year-old for aiding and abetting aggravated robbery. 42-year-old Kyle Greene was found dead inside his home last Saturday. Nineteen-year-old Tyler Fisher of Annandale and 19-year-old Samara Juhl of Otsego have already been charged in Greene's death. Prosecutors say that they admitted to knowing about the robbery and murder of Greene, but told investigators three other suspects robbed and shot the victim while Fisher served as getaway driver.
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Foreign Judgments in Israel
Recognition and Enforcement
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moreA judgment in a civil matter rendered in a foreign country is not automatically recognized in Israel. Before a judgment will be recognized or enforced, it must first undergo a domestic integration process. A declaration that a foreign judgment is enforceable in Israel is dependent upon its meeting certain conditions specified by statute, irrespective of whether recognition of the foreign judgment is indirect or direct. These conditions serve as the main route for giving validity to foreign in rem judgments and to personal status judgments, which cannot otherwise be enforced; recognition of a judgment as enforceable, however, enables it to be executed.The book integrates lucid, theoretical analysis of the issues of enforcement and recognition of foreign judgments with practical instructions. It thus serves as a valuable guide for anyone seeking answers to the questions examined in the book, whether in the context of international commerce or to resolve transnational legal disputes. Despite the complexity of the questions addressed in the book, they are given accurate and easily understandable answers. Haggai Carmons book grapples with the range of issues arising from the recognition of foreign judgments and their enforcement, i.e., the declaration that they are enforceable judgments. The book thoroughly and methodically examines these issues Haggai Carmon has outstanding expertise in international law. He has a breadth of legal knowledge and extensive experience in both the theoretical and practical aspects of both private and public international law. He serves as legal counsel to commercial entities as well as foreign governmental agencies; amongst others, he is an outside legal counsel to the government of the United States. As this text reflects, Haggai Carmon is also a first-rate scholar and he shares his knowledge in a style that is suitable to every reader.-Eliezer Rivlin, Deputy Chief Justice, the Israel Supreme Court less
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Ásmundur Sveinsson – The architect, Ásmundarsafn Sunday 7 April 2 p.m.
Held in relation to the 120th birthdate of Icelandic artist Ásmundur Sveinsson, Reykjavík Art Museum - Ásmundarsafn will offer a series of events related to different aspects of the artist´s life and work.
Next Sunday 7 April at 2 p.m. Pétur Ármannsson architect discusses the Ásmundur Sveinsson´s buildings both at Freyjugata and at Sigtún. Ásmundur constructed the houses mostly himself and they can be considered as an important element in his art. Moderator is Þorgrímur Gestsson writer.
The event will take place in Icelandic.
Master at work program:
The woman in the works of Ásmundur Sveinsson
Sunday 5 May 2 p.m.
Artist Guðrún Erla Geirsdóttir (GERLA) discusses Ásmundur´s aspect and thought towards women in relation to his works.
Works by Ásmundur Sveinsson in Public Space
Sunday 2 June 2 p.m.
Art historian Þorbjörg Gunnarsdóttir discusses the work of Ásmundur Sveinsson in public space. The tour will lead from the sculpture garden in Sigtún to various locations throughout the city.
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Press release from Marketwire
AlarmForce Announces a Special Cash Dividend of $0.60 Per Share
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
AlarmForce Announces a Special Cash Dividend of $0.60 Per Share17:33 EDT Tuesday, March 25, 2014
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 25, 2014) - AlarmForce Industries Inc. (TSX:AF) announces today that its Board of Directors have declared a special dividend of $0.60 per share payable on May 20, 2014 to all shareholders of record at the close of business on April 30, 2014.
Anthony Pizzonia, interim President and Chief Executive Officer said, "We believe this special dividend is the best utilization of the company's strong cash position. Along with our regular dividend, this return of cash to shareholders reinforces the strength of our performance, our healthy cash balances, and our ability to grow the company through cash flows from operations."
For Canadian resident shareholders, this dividend is designated as an "eligible dividend" for purposes of the enhanced dividend tax credit rules contained in the Income Tax Act (Canada), and any corresponding provincial and territorial tax legislation.
About AlarmForce
AlarmForce provides security alarm monitoring, personal emergency response monitoring, video surveillance and related services to residential and commercial subscribers throughout Canada and the United States. More information about the Company's products and services can be found at www.alarmforce.com.
EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest expenses, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBITDA is a key measure used in the security industry to assist in understanding and comparing operating results and is often referred to by our competitors. Management views EBITDA as a measure to assess the operating performance of the Company. Yet, since it does not have any standardized meaning defined by IFRS, it may not be considered in isolation of IFRS measures such as net income/loss or cash flows, as a measure of liquidity. The Company, however, utilizes these measures in making operating decisions and assessing its performance. Management believes that it allows the Company to assess its ongoing business without the impact of depreciation or amortization expenses. Since EBITDA is not a defined term under IFRS, it is unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers.
Contact Information:
AlarmForce Industries Inc.
Chetna Kapadia
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Yaesu FT-817 Portable QRP Transceiver
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So much of what exists in our society and in our culture is prevalent in the comics we read. While comics are fictional, and superheroes aren't real, sometimes we take from reality and what exists in it and use it as inspiration for the fictional world we want to create. The idea of patriotism is one of those very things. There are countless symbols of patriotism in comics, and there are likely too many to count. So, to celebrate Memorial Day, I thought I would list five symbols of patriotism that I have found in comics that are most obvious to me. Maybe you guys can help me name a few?
Captain AmericaThis is the obvious one, I mean, just look at his name! Captain America was first introduced in 1941, a full year into World War II and was given his very own comic book, Captain America #1. He has since appeared in over 3,400 comic books and has been a staple of Marvel comics as one of their most prominent characters. While his costume has changed over the years, and has been modified by different artists, the red white and blue stars and stripes that have made him so iconic have remained.
Wonder WomanOf course, if you know me then you know I would throw her into the mix. For obvious reasons, Wonder Woman has always been symbolic of patriotism to me, not simply because of her costume. After first donning red white and blue to embark on her journey to deliver Steve Trevor back to the American goverment after he accidentally landed on Paradise Island, Diana has retained the costume and continued to wear it as a symbol of respect for America. Not only that, but she loved the U.S. so much, that she decided to stay and fight alongside members of the Justice League.
SupermanTo me, Superman epitomizes what it means to be a patriot. Beyond the fact that he bears the colors of the American flag as his uniform, he represents what made this country what it is. Superman is an immigrant from another planet that has settled in America and fallen in love with the people and their culture. He is, to me, what it means to be American and one of my absolute favorite superheroes.
Now, for two of the more obscure examples...
Reagan's RaidersOne of the strangest examples I have come across, was a series that was first released in 1986 during the Reagan Administration. Published by Gary Brodsky under Solson Comics, Reagan's Raiders only lasted for about three issues. The release of the first issue came in October of 1986, shortly following the height of the Iran-Contra during Reagan's term. Not only did the team hold Reagan's name in their title, but one of the team members even had his likeness.
The ShieldBefore Captain America and the great Steve Rogers, there was The Shield, published by DC Comics. Created in 1940 by Harry Shorten and Irv Novick for Archie Comics, The Shield saw success for about a year, that is until Archie trumped him. Archie Comics made several attempts to bring the character back into the limelight unsuccessfully, that is until 2009 when they teamed up with DC Comics. DC took the Shield and used the character as a part of their Red Circle series. The Shield saw some more time in the spotlight in his very own self titled ongoing from DC, but the lack of sales inevitably doomed the series and it was quickly canceled. However, something tells me this is not the last that we have seen The Shield!
What other patriotic comic book characters can you name that you have found in comic books?


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Thank you for giving my students an opportunity to participate in the Challenge. You have no idea what it means to them. I have another excited bunch this year! They already chosen their projects and began working on their proposals. I hope that it will be another year full of fun, success and exciting stories to tell. Zeynep, teacher, Aspen Elementary
Team: 3
School: Albuquerque Academy
Area of Science: Nuclear Physics
Interim: Team #3
Che Olavarria-Gallegos & Jorge Antonio Perez
Mr. Mims
Supercomputing Challenge Proposal
10 December 2014
Supercomputing Challenge 2015: Interim Report
Problem Statement:
Producing the conditions necessary for nuclear fusion in current reactor designs requires using more energy than the process of fusion releases. This is due to the level of energy required to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between nuclei when bringing them sufficiently close together to fuse.
Overcoming this obstacle, thereby allowing power production through fusion, will provide humanity with a near-limitless source of clean energy. Current costs of building reactors large enough to create fusion using current designs make the technology prohibitively expensive, however as demonstrated by Lockheed Martin's recent, but as-of-yet incomplete, breakthrough, finding more efficient, more "optimal" designs for fusion reactors could eliminate this problem.
Problem solution:
The first step to solving the problem is to develop a program to simulate the behavior of protons (and possibly electrons) under the influence of electric and magnetic fields. To make the simulator it looks like we will need six different tasks to be accomplished. The first two that need to be done are to calculate the magnetic and electric fields created by the reactor at a given point. The third thing that we need to create is a Barnes-Hut tree for the particles in the algorithm. The fourth function we need is one that will approximate the electric fields exerted by the plasma itself using the Barnes-Hut tree. Fifthly we need to calculate the new position and velocity of the particle based on the force exerted on the particle and the mass of the particle. For this we will assume that the force remains constant over a small time interval. The last five steps will be looped until the simulation is finished. The last function we need is one to calculate the efficiency of the reactor. If we can write all these functions then we should have our simulator.
The next step to solving this problem is to make a genetic algorithm to test different parameters of the reactor. The genetic algorithm will initially have to test hundreds of simulations using random parameters in a range we provide. The most efficient of these will "live," becoming the starting point for the next generation. As generations progress, the range of values that parameters can take narrows, eventually converging on a design for a reactor with near-optimal fitness. If the range in which the computer is searching for new values falls below the expected level of precision with which a reactor could be constructed (such as when the computer starts to compare models differing in size on less than the scale of a millimeter), or if varying the parameters ceases to make a significant improvement to the efficiency of the reactor, then the search is "complete".
The last step to benchmark test our reactor and genetic algorithm combination. We have to make sure that the simulation good. The simulator does not necessarily have to be accurate as long as it captures the trends. We can use the benchmark testing software to get a pretty accurate estimate of the efficiency of the reactor with the final parameters. For the benchmark tests we plan to enlist the help of professionals and high quality software.
Progress to date:
The genetic algorithm: we have completed a genetic algorithm which will find the set of floating-point values which optimizes the output of any function which takes the set of floating-point values as an input. To put it simply, the genetic algorithm will find n values in a given range which maximize the output of a given function.
The Barnes-Hut algorithm: we have completed an implementation of the Barnes-Hut algorithm that is capable of handling plasmas. Unlike the conventional Barnes-Hut algorithm, this modified version has two trees: one for positively charged particles and one for negatively charged particles. Particles then calculate the electric field produced by particles in each tree separately at their current location, and then sum the results to find the actual electric field exerted by the plasma. Our implementation attempts to ensure a great degree of efficiency; as a result, it avoids the use of recursive functions which call themselves. Currently, the slowest component is the method calculating the force on a particle: the construction AND calculation of mass distribution of a 3-dimensional tree is approximately 5-10 times faster. Memory allocation is not a slowdown, as the program stores unused nodes in a "node buffer".
Calculation of position and velocity: we have been able to complete methods capable of calculating the new location and velocity of a particle using a time-step model. This part is not a significant concern.
Calculation of the electric field of a uniformly charged cylinder: this part needs to be made more efficient. We are currently treating the cylinder as a collection of charged points in space; calculations of this type could be vastly improved by various methods of integration. Integrating by adding together the areas of thin trapezoids seems most promising.
Calculation of the magnetic field of a wire: we have yet to implement this.
We still need to implement an algorithm that determines "fitness" or "efficiency" of a reactor, and an algorithm that calculates the charge distribution over a charged surface.
Concern: if we simulate a charged plasma, electrons would be moving ~40 times faster than the protons in the plasma, thus approaching relativistic speeds. The simulation does not currently account for special relativity.
Expected Results:
This project can run into two ruts. The first is highly inaccurate simulations: if the simulated plasma doesn't behave accurately, then the behavior of a simulated reactor could vary greatly from the behavior of an actual reactor and any designs evaluated and discovered by the genetic algorithm are essentially worthless. The second is that the design doesn't matter much, so the genetic algorithm is not much of a benefit because the most efficient reactor it discovers still isn't efficient enough to be useful.
If the genetic algorithm provides useful designs, then even if the simulations lack accuracy, we will have demonstrated the potential for methods such as genetic algorithms to be used to solve this sort of problem.
We hope, however, that the simulations are also accurate: in such a case, if the genetic algorithm proves to be useful, then it is possible we could come close to solving the problem of fusion power, provided the energy from fusion can be extracted in a useful way. However, there are a number of issues: special relativity could have a significant effect (and one which we fail to account for). Even if the simulations themselves accurately model the behavior of the plasma, the calculated efficiency for a design could be inaccurate or imprecise. As a result, any designs discovered by the genetic algorithm may not even be close to optimal.
"Energy for Future Centuries", retrieved December 10, 2014 http://www.agci.org/dB/PDFs/03S2_MMauel_SafeFusion%3F.pdf
"Fission and Fusion can Yield Energy", retrieved December 10, 2014
"The Sixth Framework programme in brief", retrieved December 10, 2014
"The Importance of European Fusion Energy Research"
"Fusion power could happen sooner than you think", retrieved December 10th, 2014 http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/fusion-power-could-happen-sooner-you-think
Team Members:
Jorge Perez Che Olavarria Gallegos
Sponsoring Teacher: Jim Mims
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I like pretty windows with 3D icons. I don't like this new "flat" look at all. It's boring and ugly. What's next gray scale? Maybe ACSII graphics!
Can someone
I like pretty windows with 3D icons. I don't like this new "flat" look at all. It's boring and ugly. What's next gray scale? Maybe ACSII graphics!
None of this matters to me. Windows is fundamentally broken on so many levels. They used the universal escape character for the path separator. You cannot assess an open file, even to read it, so you have to shut things down to do ANYTHING. The logs can only be accessed using an API, and unless you register all kinds of crazy garbage, the EventLog has a bunch of empty columns. Creating a Service is the most complicated process imaginable three layers deep.
Even the Help system has been rewritten so may times, it never works right. The shell is broken and stupid unless you use the PowerShell... and again. It's 10 pounds of technology for a 1 pound problem. PowerShell is a complete pain to deal with. The Registry is a mess. All kinds of system files are just dumped into system32.
Almost everything In Windows is a mess. I don't want anything to do with it.
My niece came to me crying because her Windows 7 PC was reinstalling its video driver every other day, the sound didn't work half the time. It wouldn't boot sometimes. One day it just died. Wouldn't boot. I did not have a Windows 7 license around, and she couldn't do her homework. To allow her to do her homework, I put Linux Mint on it. Installed Libre Office, Skype, and a handful of teen related things she might want. I figured after a few days we would have to sort her out. and find a Windows to install.
That was a year and a half ago. You would have to pry that machine out of her cold dead hands. No viruses, no crashes, battery lasts longer than it EVER did running Windows. Her Videos work, her music works, Libre Office works. She wants nothing at all to do with Windows. She says Mint is perfect. everything works, it's responsive and nothing she needs to do is missing. She can find a tool in Linux to do anything she needs, and most of it is as good as the Windows version. I asked her the other day if she misses windows... She said she misses Windows at least as much as cancer.
If Apple was in trouble (and they weren't) it has been saved by Microsoft. Thanks to Windows 8, my father bought a Mac when his XP system died. He went to Best-Buy, and the Apple store, and even though it cost more, he liked the Mac better; said Windows 8 looked like a phone to him. Indiana now issues Macs to the students. Of all my friends and family who bought computers recently, 5 of them bought Macs, and only one bought a Windows 8 system... and he HATES IT!
As a side note, my niece had a cheap Windows 7 Laptop that kept dying. She brought it to me, and I couldn't fix it. I even re-installed Windows 7, and it lasted 3 weeks before it started crashing again. she couldn't afford a new PC, and she was crying because she couldn't do her homework. I put Linux Mint on it to tide her over until she could get a new laptop. That was a year ago. She LOVES Mint, and says she never want's to use Windows ever again.
... and the security guards have a target logo right over their heart.
Gee and just after Microsoft decided to adopt the silly flat tile User Interface paradigm too. You would think its popularity would surge.
Unintuitive interface... check.
Nothing works quite right... check.
Square confusing tiles in a grid... check.
It should be the Windows 8 standard!
It occurs to me that HP has seen Windows 8... Has seen consumer reaction to it. Has seen M$ trying to build their own hardware, and has seen the success of Android and iPad.
Basically M$ had the world by the balls because of the Windows infrastructure. Now they are:
o Building an OS that is fundamentally incompatible with that infrastructure.
o Screwing their business partners by building their own hardware.
HP (and everyone with a clue) knows M$ ALWAYS screws up everything they touch. (We have already seen this
Of course... I don't much like the "new" (can something two years old still be called new?) Ubuntu desktop either, but I think it beats Windows 8.
I've just about had it. Slashdot used to be news for Nerds. Now it's almost entirely mindless bullshit, and the last straw is when spammers are permitted to confiscate the site, and Slashdot management allows it. As if it's my job to waste my mod points to mark this crap as Troll.
I am logging off, and deleting Slashdot from my home page. Have at it trolls. All yours now.
A 'Cloud-Based' world? WTF??? The real question should be simply
After this fails and Microsoft can no longer give their versions names because of 'Vista', and cannot give them numbers because of Windows 8
What??? 7-Eleven is few and far between? What part of the US do you live in? I spend a great deal of time both in southern California and southern Florida, and I have a 7-Eleven on every corner.
It is not that I am set in my ways. It is that I don't want my PC to be a tablet. I have a programs folder that is three columns long, and I don't want all that stuff as 7 pages of huge ugly square boxes. My Mac does not have a start button, but it does not fill my desktop with ugly garbage either. Windows 8 looks like a DOS machine running Lotus Notes, and works the same too. Actually it's uglier! Notes Icons were more colorful.
Tablets are for airports and living room couches. Computers are for serious stuff. I am not going to do my taxes on my iPad, and I am not going to carry my Desktop with me when I go to the airport. Microsoft is trying to turn the desktop into a Tablet because their revenue is slipping and they are desparate. Their revenue is slipping because everyone has a PC and they are in a stable, not an expanding market, and because Windows Vista and Window 7 are less capable than XP was. People are switching to Mac in droves, and the rest are just buying replacements.
I call B.S. on Windows being any useful comparison at all. That is a complete historical rewrite. When Windows won, there was no Windows and there was no Mac OS - in the same sense there is today. Windows won over Mac OS because Bill Gates is a marketing genius and Steve Jobs had not yet learned that skill. Steve Jobs was still a hippie, and Windows was DOS. At the time when the choice was being made, Neither Mac OS nor "Windows" (Which was little more than a vaporware App for DOS) was the best of breed. Best of breed at the time was the Commodore Amiga. 32 bit multi-tasking, 4096 colors, NTSC (PAL in Europe) video output, quadrophonic Sound (with stereo outputs), and real-time animation against DOS's 'beep' and 16 colors 'Ascii Art' and Mac OS's 64 shades of grey and monophonic MIDI 'sounds'. The best software of the day was being written for it. Electronic Arts was born and started selling games. Disney Animator begat "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", and "Max Headroom" (who was messed up on purpose to emphasize the fact that he was computer generated) and nobody had anything to compare with that. The business world did not really use these things yet. A few forward looking business gave them to secretaries, but there were Macintoshes and PC's both at this time. High end business (like law offices) tended to use Apple because it supported Postscript, and good looking printed output was possible, and low end businesses tended towards PC's running DOS because they were cheaper, and descent printed out was achieved with daisy wheel printers because laser printers needed Postscript, and DOS didn't support it (plus the laser printer cost more than the PC did). Bill Gates was able to manipulate the market to his advantage and nobody else saw it coming until it was too late. To his advantage was indeed an open hardware spec, but none of the companies involved at the time made anything to really compete with the Amiga. Adding peripherals to even try was very expensive, and nobody really tried very hard. Commodore lost by refusing to sell their machines through the toy stores for fear they would not be taken seriously where the Commodore 64 had a virtual lock on the market at the time (The Commodore 64 still holds the record for outselling any single model of computer ever), and insisting on SELLING their demo units to computer retailers, which were all independents at the time and refused to pay for them. So customers had a photograph of a better system in a corner of the store (Amiga), a better, but more expensive, piece of hardware with little software to take advantage of it (Apple), and cheaper hardware with little software to take advantage of it (DOS). "Windows" was useless at this point. There was also Atari, but they were somewhere between Apple and Commodore, and got squeezed out by being a bit too expensive with not quite enough hardware goodies to attract attention. If Commodore had had any marketing sense at all they could have killed everyone at this point, but they missed the boat. Then Apple kicked Steve Jobs out and replaced him with John Scully who made a complete mess of the company, and started losing market share faster than Nokia in the phone market. Steve finally woke up from his LSD infested dream and realized he screwed up. Steve Jobs created NeXT and wrote what is essentially the Mac OS of today, and got Apple back when it was almost completely bankrupt. By this time, Bill Gates had done some very underhanded, illegal, and anti-competitive things in the marketplace, mostly fixed Windows to look like a useful GUI OS, bought the components for Office (all of which were Mac based!), released Mac Office to generate interest in the business world that computers could actually be useful after all, and started porting Office to Windows. Steve Jobs came back to a marketplace John Scully had already lost. Microsoft owned the OS, and was able to write little bugs into Windows to break or slow down things like DR-DOS, Word Perfect, and Lotus 123... and add hooks to their advantage for Office. They finally finished Office, dropped Office on the Mac and checkmate!
Android has not really 'beaten' iOS. It is on more physical devices, but iPhone is still considered the Mercedes and the Android is considered a Ford in the marketplace. Android is on more devices because it is indeed open source, and companies who want a piece of this lucrative market MUST use Android because Apple owns iOS. I have an Android and my wife has an iPhone. The iPhone is more integrated and more consistent, but I wanted 4G and Google Navigator. Still today, it is iPhone, not Android that is eating Blackberry's lunch, because IT Departments are "officially"supporting the iPhone because the CEO bought one. Android is making inroads in the corporate world, but there is no victory to be claimed here.
... is not that Ford is updating software in cars; it is that USB sticks and US mail to million of owners is now cheaper than paying the mechanic to plug-in the car and flash the radio.
Eye Candy is fine. Unity turns my PC into a tablet. There is just a ton of stuff you can no longer do. It is about dumbing down the interface until morons can work it. Then intelligent people can't get their work done.
Tablets are fine, but they are not PCs. I don't want a 5 pound wrist watch that can watch movies, and I don't was a PC that can ONLY surf the web.
I am not sure that is quite true. Bill Gates is the one that was 'really good at PR'. Not to belittle Steve. He was good too (indeed he may have learned from Bill because he got better as he went along), but Steve actually had a better idea. M$ has never had ANYTHING that wasn't stolen. Windows only exists because they copied the Mac (or tried to), and yet Gates seemingly had the ability to sell eyeglasses to a blind man. As for Dennis. Indeed, he is the one who deserves the praise, but were it not for Steve, only the people on this blog would know what a computer was, because my father would never have an MS-DOS or a UNIX machine. The Commodore Amiga deserved the crown, but Commodore couldn't market eyesight to a blind man. M$ would not have built Windows without the Mac, because M$ has no vision at all. It is possible that without Steve, Commodore might have stumbled into the spotlight by accident, but I doubt they could have marketed their way to success because from a marketing point of view they did absolutely everything wrong. These guys tried to SELL their demo units to the reviewers!!
Anyway.. Happy Dennis Ritchie Day. He deserves the praise. Without him I might be a Cab driver.
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By Danx-Oracle on Apr 16, 2006
Before: Hotel San Diego, Northeast corner, May 2002
Yesterday, the historic Hotel San Diego was demolished. The seven-story hotel lived on 339 W. Broadway in downtown San Diego, California. The hotel was built in 1914 by John D. Spreckels, who made his riches from Spreckels Sugar and shipping. Spreckels moved out of San Francisco after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (100 years ago today) to someplace safer and nicer.
The hotel was built by architect Harrison Albright and is one of only three that remain (now zero of two). In recent years, before the Hotel was closed in 2002 Hotel San Diego became a ran-down, dirty residential hotel, occupied mainly by elderly and low-income residents on a weekly or monthly basis.
The hotel was demolished for a Federal Courthouse annex. The Federal Courthouse is on overload to take care of all the drug smugglers and illegal immigrant smugglers being hauled into court—we are on the Mexican border after all.
After: Hotel San Diego after demolition, Northeast corner, April 15, 2006
Historic preservationists wanted the hotel exterior preserved. The interior could have been gutted, earthquake retrofitted, and renovated for courthouse space. That way, we would have kept an historic and attractive building, yet still be functional. However, Federal rules require a large setback from the street to keep terrorists (both domestic and foreign) from blowing up the building. The new courthouse annex will be a 22-story (and probably sterile) building. I see their thinking about a setback, but isn't it ironic that we're blowing up a building in the name of homeland security?
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- Hotel San Diego memorial
- San Diego Hotel reservations for hotels still standing
- Story from San Diego Union-Tribune: "Hotel San Diego checks out". Includes video of implosion.
- "Bringing down the house", San Diego Union-Tribune covers plans for the implosion, including a maps and diagrams
- Save Our Heritage Organization (SOHO)'s viewpoint about destroying Hotel San Diego
- Video from channel 7/39 News
- Video from channel 10 News
- Video from KUSI News
- Another video (homemade). The date is wrong--it occurred April 15, not April 16.
- Another homemade video
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Another fake photo by Howard Kaloogian?
By Danx-Oracle on Mar 31, 2006
In my Congressional District we're having a special election to replace disgraced Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. One of the 18 candidates running is former Republican State Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian. He recently got caught for posting a scene of a street picture his group took showing how peaceful Baghdad is, that turned out to be suburban Istanbul, Turkey. (This was originally discoverd by anthonyLA and jem6x of Daily Kos.)Kaloogian also was caught for claiming false endorsements from the California Pro-Life Council, Center for Reclaiming America, and State Senators Tom McClintock and Bill Morrow.
Anyway, here's another fake photo. On Kaloogian's campaign website is a photo of him posing with President George Bush, in a rotating "Flash" slideshow. (Here's a screenshot in case it's taken down or you don't have Flash). Why is it fake? Well, both Kaloogian and Bush's shoulder's merge into each other. This is more evident from a fuller-length photo on Gabrielle Reilly's website. (Here's a copy in case it's taken down). Here's another version of the short Kaloogian photo. Observe how Kaloogian and Bush merge into each other: Kaloogian's left shoulder appears to be behind Bush, and Bush's right arm appears to be behind Kaloogian! Also Kaloogian is shorter in the Gabrielle photo than his campaign photo.
By itself, not a biggie, but with two fake photos and at least four fake endorsements, what can you believe?
Update: Problem solved. a reader found a comment from Republican political strategist Matt Rexroad who was at the photoshoot. He says the photoshoot was real, although at least one photo is obviously doctored for height and taken when Bush was governor. He has some unkind words to say about Kaloogian, such as a false endorsement and Kaloogian endorsing Bush and Bauer in 2000 at the same time.
Update 2: Yet another fake photo: A reader points out yet another fake Iraq photo was actually taken at MacDill AFB, Florida.
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By Danx-Oracle on Mar 31, 2006
In my Congressional District we're having a special election to replace disgraced Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. One of the 18 candidates running is former Republican State Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian. He recently got caught for posting a scene of a street picture his group took showing how peaceful Baghdad is, that turned out to be suburban Istanbul, Turkey. (This was originally discovered by anthonyLA and jem6x of Daily Kos.)Kaloogian also was caught for claiming false endorsements from the California Pro-Life Council and State Senator Tom McClintock.
Anyway, here's another fake photo. On Kaloogian's campaign website is a photo of him posing with President George Bush, in a rotating "Flash" slideshow. (Here's a screenshot in case it's taken down or you don't have Flash). Why is it fake? Well, both Kaloogian and Bush's shoulder's merge into each other. This is more evident from a fuller-length photo on Gabriell Reilly's website. (Here's a copy in case it's taken down). Observe how Kaloogian and Bush merge into each other: Kaloogian's left shoulder appears to be behind Bush, and Bush's right arm appears to be behind Kaloogian! By itself, not a biggie, but with two fake photos and two fake endorsements, what can you believe?
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Monday Mar 06, 2006
Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham in prison
By Danx-Oracle on Mar 06, 2006
Cunningham prosecutors: US Assistant Attorneys Phil L. B. Halpern,
Jason Forge, Sanjahy Bharali after Cunningham sentencing 3/3/2006
I went to Cunningham's sentencing Friday (March 3, 2006) at the U.S. Courthouse in Downtown San Diego. There were lots of news camera and vans around all day. For those who don't know he was my Representative to the U.S. Congress from San Diego, before he was imprisoned for $2.4 million in bribes.
I listened to Judge Burns deal with a counterfeiting case and drug user parole violation case in the morning. Burns seemed even-handed and careful in his rulings.
I then went upstairs to wait in line for the sentencing in a bigger courtroom. I talked to Union-Tribune columnist Logan Jenkins who happened to be nearby in line. Most of the people were press. I knew the names, but didn't know what they looked like. I saw Seth Hettena of the AP, who has written several Cunningham articles.
Then we were led in. The seats were split between the press, public, and family (includes Cunningham friends). The friends I recognized were Congressman Duncan Hunter, Father Joe Carroll, Dan McKinnon (son of a former congressman; Dan is boarding Cunningham), and Cunningham's RIO in Vietnam, Willie Driscoll. Former Congressman Clair Burgener, who has Alzheimers, sat directly in front of me. The children were not present, at the request of Cunningham (and his wife was not present).
The defense and prosecution plead their cases, rehashing what were in their previously-filed briefs. Cunningham made a statement. He seemed emotionally and physically weak and sad, and much thinner. I couldn't hear all his statement, as his voice was shallow, but it seems some of the press did (with better seats). He expressed regret for what he did. The one sentence I wrote down was: "I think I'll trust my friends less, your honor, so I won't make those same wrong U-turns [criminal acts]". Burns listened carefully through it all.
Here's an outline of Judge Burns' ruling:
Sentencing guidelines:
- $2.4 million bribe earns 16 sentencing "points"
- 4 points for being an elected official
- 0 points for orchestrating the bribes (not clear either way if he did nor not)
- 0 points for public statements denying the crimes (Burns says that's common with public officials)
- 2 points for obstruction of justice (prompting rug vendors to lie).
- -3 points subtracted because Cunningham accepted responsibility
- -2 points for assistance to Department of Justice (more reduction may be coming for future assistance, but it's too early in the investigation).
- Total of 33 points, giving 135-168 months to sentencing guidelines.
Here's some comments made by Burns:
- Bribes spread over 5 years, 2000-2005 is aggravating. It wasn't just one "U turn".
- The $2.4 in bribes "emasculates" all other bribes.
- "Bid rigging" affected many defense contractors, who thought the system was honest
- Hugely affected confidence in government.
- Burns was bothered by Cunningham's bullying. It was reprehensible, beyond pale. Defense officials were trying to do their jobs.
- Burns was confounded by the choice you (Cunningham) made. Burns recalled reading an article about a lobbyist who made $2.5 million in 2003. Burns didn't name the lobbyist, but said Cunningham knows who he's talking about [my note: was this Bill Lowery, who earned $2 million in 2003? See http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051223-9999-lz1n23lewis.html ]. Burns said Cunningham with his stature in Congress should have earned at least twice as much in a year as a lobbyist if he wanted more money. Burns said you (Cunningham) weren't wet, cold, hungry, yet you did these things (took bribes).
- Burns said the real harm was loss of confidence in government works.
- Burns lamented that politics today is more shrill today. Opponents are now "enemies". Burns said he was an optimist, that your (Cunningham's) conduct was an abberation (among members of Congress).
- Burns took in account Cunningham's brave military service in an unpopular war.
- Burns was also impressed by two letters of Support:
- Ronald Ress -- Cunningham intervened with Vietnamese government to get Ress' wife out of custody and out of the country
- Charles Nesby -- Cunningham mentored Nesby at a time when Black pilots were rare.
Judge Burns then dished out the sentence:
- 100 months (8 years, 4 months). Count 1 60 months [Conspiracy to Bribe] and Count 2 40 months [Tax Evasion]
- 3 years suspended release.
- $1,804,031.50 tax liability to be paid at $1500/month while in prison and $1000/month after release.
- Forfeit $1.8 million in cash.
- Forfeit furniture (now in possession of the U.S. government)
- No upgraded sentencing score.
- Imprisoned immediately at MCC San Diego. Report Friday by next week for the permanent facility. Burns \*recommends\* a Level 2 institution. He recommended Taft [Central California] (ran by a contract agency, not the U.S. Bureau of Prisons)
- Good time can reduce sentence by 10%-15%
We all left the courtroom and there were a billion (or so) cameras and newspeople outside the courthouse. Outside, the prosecution gave a quick news conference, as did Rep. Duncan Hunter, Fr. Joe Carroll, and Dan McKinnon.
Cunningham was imprisoned immediately at MCC San Diego across the street (prisoner locator).
- Dan Anderson
Related news articles (more Cunningham scandal news articles and cartoons):
- Cunningham sentenced to 8 years, 4 months (first hand report, Dan Anderson, 3/3/2006)
- Cunningham's war heroics cited in reduced term (San Diego Union-Tribune, 3/4/2006)
- Anatomy of a bribe: ex-lawmaker's web of cash, contracts Comes with a good chart. (San Diego Union-Tribune, 3/4/2006)
- North County congressman avoids maximum sentence (North County Times, 3/4/2006)
- 'I Made the Wrong Turn' (Voice of San Diego, 3/4/2006)
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Article: Evaluation of the automated hematology analyzer Sysmex XT-2000iV (TM) compared to the ADVIA (R) 2120 for its use in dogs, cats, and horses. Part II: Accuracy of leukocyte differential and reticulocyte count, impact of anticoagulant and sample aging[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The automated laser-based hematology analyzer Sysmex XT-2000iV™ provides a 5-part differential count and specific cytograms that are of great interest for large veterinary laboratories. The aim of the study was to validate the Sysmex XT-2000iV compared to the laser-based hematology analyzer ADVIA® 2120 and manual differential in dogs, cats, and horses as well as the impact of anticoagulant (heparin, ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid [EDTA], and citrate) and storage at 22°C and 4°C. Consecutive fresh K(3)-EDTA blood samples from 216 cats, 314 dogs, and 174 horses were included. The impact of anticoagulant and sample storage was assessed in specimens obtained from an additional 9 cats, 10 dogs, and 10 horses. Agreement between both analyzers was excellent to good except for monocytes and canine reticulocytes. Spearman rank correlation coefficients (r (s)) between Sysmex XT-2000iV and manual differential were good to fair and ranged from 0.91 (cat lymphocytes) to 0.44 (cat monocytes). Hematocrit value (Hct), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), MCH concentration (MCHC; all: P < 0.001), and mean corpuscular volume (MCV; P < 0.01) were higher in canine citrated blood compared to heparin and EDTA. In cats, lymphocytes and monocytes were lower in heparinized blood compared to EDTA (P < 0.05), whereas in horses no significant effect was seen. Regarding storage time and temperature, white and red blood cell counts, hemoglobin, and MCH were stable. Hct, MCV, and MCHC were influenced by erythrocyte swelling. Differential count remained stable for 24 hr (22°C) and nearly 72 hr (4°C) except for monocytes. The overall performance of the Sysmex XT-2000iV was excellent and compared favorably with that of the ADVIA 2120. A special strength was the excellent detection of feline eosinophils.Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation: official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc 02/2012; 24(1):74-89. DOI:10.1177/1040638711436243 · 1.23 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: An automated impedance-based in-house hematology analyzer, the PocH-100iV Diff, which provides a 3-part leukocyte differential count that includes eosinophils, recently has been introduced. The aims of this study were to validate results from the PocH-100iV Diff for dogs and cats and evaluate the impact of the anticoagulant used and sample storage conditions. Blood samples collected in K(3) EDTA from 153 cats and 150 dogs were included in the comparison study. The reference analyzer was the ADVIA 2120 hematology analyzer, and manual differential leukocyte counts and PCV were the manual reference methods. Coefficients of variation were < 3% except for platelet counts and feline differential and eosinophil counts. Correlation between analyzers was good to excellent except for hemoglobin (HGB) concentration in dogs and RBC indices for both species. Biases were close to 0 except for MCHC and platelet counts. Correlation with manual counts was good for lymphocytes and OTHR cells (combined neutrophil and monocyte counts) and fair and poor for feline and canine eosinophil counts, respectively. Estimated sensitivity and specificity for detection of eosinophilia were, respectively, 50% and 98% for cats and 34% and 77% for dogs. A significant anticoagulant effect was seen for MCV in cats and for HCT, MCH, MCHC, and platelet, OTHR, and eosinophil counts in dogs. RBC and WBC counts, HGB concentration, and MCH were stable for 72 h. HCT, MCV, MCHC, and platelet counts were affected by sample storage (dogs > cats; 22°C > 4°C). The PocH-100iV Diff is a suitable in-house instrument. A strength is its specific, but moderately sensitive, detection of feline eosinophils.Veterinary Clinical Pathology 02/2012; 41(2):194-206. DOI:10.1111/j.1939-165X.2012.00405.x · 1.21 Impact Factor
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Tough to see on my crummy comp, but it looks to me that Arona is fighting to break Jackson's grip on his left hand with his right hand until he gets vertical. On the way down, it looks like he uses his right arm to break his fall, connecting mostly at the elbow instead of getting a full-armed slap on the floor. Arona could have started it earlier and rotated in the same direction like Bader did and could have ended up posting his arm as well, most certainly for a fracture. That's why I agree with those who are saying that the onus is primarily on Uke to safely fall. Unlike Judo where ippon is ipon and Aikido where it's mostly practice, these are fights and throws must be expected to have bad, fight-ending intentions. It's like blaming a submission artist if the other guy rotates against a heel hook; being able to fall correctly is a highly underrated ability. In Judo and Aikido, ukemi comes first for good reason.
3/1/12 5:25 AM by BshMstr
what?!? where is that in the rules? you're required to be slammed to be fair?please say where you got that, because section 15, xxix covers fouls/spiking...
2/29/12 4:23 PM by dudefromisrael
Arona didn't breakfall, other than that, good post
2/29/12 3:15 PM by krept
Some may not know, but to correctly land you want to hit the mat with an arm or leg right before impact to help break the fall and absorb energy. You can see this with Arona's right arm in the first gif; although it didn't help much he did what he could. The problem Bader had is that he wasn't able to breakfall with his left hand since it was trapped (rotate in the opposite direction than he did) so this option was out. If he tucked and held on, there would have been little space between him, Rampage and the floor so his body would have absorbed the force very abruptly. He posted, probably hoping to lessen the force by using the arm like a pogo stick, but ended up collapsing. To me it looks like a brilliant slam from Rampage, allowing Bader to choose his own fate. He could have easily been KOd without the post, but ended up winning. OTOH, it could have ended very badly. Slams like Rampage's and Randleman's scare the shit out of me.
2/28/12 4:51 AM by fightharder
Second that. It is obviously ridiculous to blame Rampage for the ''weird'' landing when Bader obviously changed position (which a lot of fighters are bound to do which makes the whole rule in section fight more redundant in my eyes).It was a really strange landing though so i am pretty glad Bader brushed it of without major injuries.And the slam was cool though but i personally thought it lacked explosiveness and Rampage was kind of spend after achieving it.I still think Rampage can be relevant but he needs to join a serious team and get some new trainers (without baggage) to work with him as well.
2/27/12 10:38 PM by MMAxNate
The rule states "control of the opponent." That control was lost when Bader released the over-under body lock and changed position during the lift in order to brace the slam. Bader is the only one at fault for the outcome of the slam.Both fighters would have landed parallel to the mat had control been held throughout the entire duration of the maneuver, it was not.
2/27/12 10:32 PM by BshMstr
i'd say, according to the current rules, that it was illegal. i think it's like wrestling....you pick 'em up, then you have a responsibilty in how they land...btw, here are the ruls: http://www.ufc.com/discover/sport/rules-and-regulationssection 15 covers fouls.
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2/27/12 7:51 PM by chaplinshouse
had that slam ended in grotesque injury there'd have probably been a rule change. i think it'll happen one day, hope i'm wrong


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Carnival organisers in Essex were thrilled when Beyonce - the biggest R&B star on the planet - agreed to attend their event in the summer, though were left heartbroken after being told it would cost them £50,000.
Organisers of the Maldon Carnival Association in Essex had also approached Britney Spears and Rod Stewart, though the 31-year-old Super Bowl star was the only one to reply.
According to The Sun newspaper, the star's spokesman in New York emailed committee boss Rob Slight saying: "There is a possibility Beyonce will be available." Mr Slight no doubt fell off his chair at this point and began to put the booking into motion, only to be told by Bey's spokesman said: "It is apparent there is some miscommunication. Beyonce will require an appearance fee." That fee was £50,000, leaving organisers a tad hacked off. "We had wanted this year to be the best yet," said Mr Slight.
Are you thinking what we're thinking?
Sure £50,000 is a huge amount of money, but is REALLY that big considering you're attracting the world's biggest performer to a field in Essex? We suggest Mr Slight and his team rethink things, book Beyonce, and throw the biggest party of the year. They'd sell enough burgers and hot dogs to cover the cost of the next three festivals.
Think Of The Benefits! We Think Beyonce Represents A Bargain At £50,000


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Was that Dog the Bounty Hunter in the Biker one?
BTW these commercials are lame.
Its the same person......
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Bikers was the best.
Guess who the target buyers are?
Do you guys notice that in all the video, the driver is a chick?
You are correct....
I thought an advertisement is suppose to lure you to their product, not deter you from it.
I saw a few Scion IQ's on the road and they actually look really cool in person! They don't look so ridiculous like the Smart ForTwo which looks like a roller skate about to tip over. One car was painted this deep, deep, purple with sparkles in it, WOW!!! It looked so f*cking cool!
The second commercial makes me think that this is a car for douchebags? Is that right?
women drivers...
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