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Kevin McHale: The 'Glee' actor never disappoints, rocking up to the 2013 Young Hollywood Awards dressed in all black with an eye-catching printed blazer.
Jason Sudeikis: A clean-shaven Jason's look was a bit more formal while attending the 'We're The Millers' New York premiere with co-star Jennifer Aniston and with his fiancée Olivia Wilde on his arm; he wore a Dior Homme charcoal wool-serge micro-check two-button narrow-lapel suit with a white shirt and a blue tie, with a stylish silver tie pin providing the finishing touch.
Ian Somerhalder: To the Young Hollywood Awards, Ian wore a Simon Spurr three-piece striped suit sans tie, which would've been perfect had his shirt not peeked out under his vest.
Lance Bass: Also taking to the red carpet at the Young Hollywood Awards, Lance wore a two-button blue suit styled with a gingham shirt and polka-dot tie. Should he have opted for a solid shirt here? Or do you love the double pattern play?
Matthew Morrison: Yesterday Matthew attended the 2013 MDA Show Of Strength event. Usually the master of snazzy suits, the blue plaid-print suit styled with a striped shirt and ink-blue tie are a great combo; however, the whole look feels a size or two too large for the actor. He is swimming in this suit.
Miguel: Joining several stars on the red carpet at the Young Hollywood Awards, Miguel opted for a rocker look, incorporating distressed jeans, a leather vest and a white t-shirt. The twist was the tropical-print shirt tied around his waist.
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Objects not Strings - transparent serialization over key/value pairs with proxies
I had an interesting thought the other day for a project I'm helping a friend with. Many things we deal with come in key/value pairs (URL parameters for instance). Why not immediately work with objects instead? There's a simple way...Probably someone is already doing this - there are certainly enough serialization libraries out there. But here's the thought - I was thinking of URL parameters when doing this: Say you have some parameters and you are expecting something like "id=128,name=foo,showDetails=true" - in some format like a Preferences object, a Wicket PageParameters or anything else that parses or aggregates key/value pairs. The InvocationHandler for the proxy transparently reads and writes the values based on the name of the method called (i.e. getFoo() means return the value for "foo" for whatever the storage is. It's much nicer to work with objects than this sort of thing directly. So what if you could do something like this:
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public int getId();
public boolean isShowDetails();
public String getName();
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Params params = new MySerializationStrategy().read (params);
Behind the scenes, you use dynamic proxies. MySerializationStrategy will simply look at the getters and setters, find the property names from them, and return an implementation that will implement the interface you passed in (you will never implement it yourself). You could even go nuts and serialize and, say, encode serialized objects as strings (not sure that's such a hot idea, but you could). Poof - a bunch of ugly code becomes a nice friendly object. It has a few caveats (for example, an integer returning method with no key in the data needs to return something like -1).
PageParameters to do this.
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by timboudreau - 2009-09-26 10:14
I got the following note this morning:
which is a patch to Wicket's PageParameters class has been integrated into Wicket's source code. Woo hoo!
by raykrueger - 2008-08-18 07:30I do something very similar in this project here... http://code.google.com/p/xpathproxy/ I also wrote some interesting code in a private project that persisted interface-based proxy objects to name-value tuple tables in a database. interface ProfileProperties { Integer getMaxSearchResults(); void setMaxSearchResults(Integer max); } Using a dynamic proxy this would be persisted to a table like... PROFILE_ID | PROP_NAME | PROP_VALUE 6 | "maxSearchResults" | 100 It wasn't too difficult to write by leveraging the built-in PropertyEditors that Spring has available.
by mrmorris - 2008-08-17 07:36Keep in mind, I said potentially ;) "As a rule, objects should not be accessed reflectively in normal applications at runtime. There are a few sophisticated applications that require reflection. Examples include class browsers, object inspectors, code analysis tools and interpretive embedded systems.". However, he also mentions that reflection is appropriate for use in RPC systems to eliminate the need for stub compilers. This is, effectively, what you are doing albeit to a different effect.
by timboudreau - 2008-08-16 09:22> it violates the established norms of the static Java language I don't follow... If you're going to pass the result around, it's probably being parsed into a Java object anyway. What does doing it in one place, behind the scenes violate? (Although I'll be the first to agree you don't want your code full of this stuff - it definitely makes debugging harder [e.g., exception in Proxy6 unknown source]). I only have the original version of Effective Java (not to mention I'm in Seattle and the book is in Massachusetts), so I don't know what you're citing there.
by mrmorris - 2008-08-16 07:47You can do seemingly magical things with a dynamic proxy, but this is not one I've heard of before. Very KISS, I like it although potentially it violates the established norms of the static Java language (Effective Java SE, item 53).


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Editorial: Stop refinery expansions while air studies go on
As Utah scientists and researchers look more closely at the problem of air pollution in Utah, especially during winter inversions, what they are discovering is how much remains unknown.
They are adjusting theories about what chemicals are most abundant in the pollution known as PM2.5 and where it comes from. They have found that some sources, such as wood-burning stoves and fireplaces, create a bigger proportion of the pollution than they had believed.
Given that there is much we don't know, it would be prudent for the Utah Legislature to set stricter standards for polluting industries to lessen emissions known to be hazardous and delay issuing permits for refineries, mines and other pollution sources to expand. And it should revoke an expansion permit for Holly refinery.
Such expansions that increase volatile compounds simply make no sense in smoggy Salt Lake Valley. Let's determine more precisely what the danger is and its sources before we allow even more chemicals of unknown risk into the air we all breathe.
The latest in an ongoing series of Tribune stories on pollution explains that PM2.5 is a catchall category of pollutants, defined as particles and droplets less than 2.5 microns in diameter. The tiny particles only 1/20th the width of a human hair can lodge deep in lung tissue. PM2.5 is linked to many diseases, from cancer to asthma and possibly even to autism. Some doctors advise pregnant patients to leave the Salt Lake Valley during inversions.
Vehicles, industrial smoke stacks and wood stoves spew particulates directly into the air. But most of the PM2.5 is emitted in the form of "precursor" gases, such as nitrous oxides and volatile organic compounds, which react in the atmosphere to form particles. In granting a permit for Holly to expand, the State Department of Air Quality is allowing more of these precursor compounds to be emitted.
That's asking for trouble for the thousands of Utahns whose health is already affected by bad air.
In what must be considered just a first step, Gov. Gary Herbert is rightly proposing to invest state money in research as part of a proposed $18 million package of new spending next year targeting air quality.
It is irresponsible for the Legislature to refuse to give the DAQ the regulatory ammunition it needs to restrict increases in these compounds. For everyone's sake, let's take a breather from industrial expansion until we know how to reduce the danger.
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The purpose of the Empire Zone Program was to increase economic activity in high unemployment and high poverty areas. This legislation supports this objective by preserving contractual agreements entered into by a QEZE in reliance upon promises by the state that equipment, purchased and then used at an Empire Zone location, would qualify for the Empire Zone sales tax exemption. Preserving these contracts will protect the value of New York businesses' property and investments, and provide clarity to these businesses in their work to comply with the Tax Law.
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Worried about the future of Social Security? You're far from alone. The Social Security Administration itself has said that unless something is done to reform the system, it will burn through its funds within the next few decades. Less talked about, perhaps, is the concern about the present: the program is having a hard time paying its bills. In 2010, the Social Security Administration collected less revenue in taxes than it needed to cover its benefit payments -- the first time expenditures have exceeded income since 1983. As a result, the program had to tap its $2.5 trillion trust fund, sooner than some had expected. The same is expected to happen this year. "The depth of the recession has slowed down revenues to the system," say Eugene Steuerle, an economist with the Urban Institute, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
A Social Security spokeswoman points out that interest income from the Treasury bonds held in the trust fund will allow it to keep growing until 2022 -- even if the agency has to siphon off some money to offset any shortages in tax revenue -- and won't be exhausted until 2036, when the first Gen Xers begin retiring. But that's already one year earlier than previous projections. After that, the agency says tax income under the current system will only cover about 75% of benefit payments through 2085.
2. "The more you make, the less you get back."
It's common to think of Social Security as an individual account of sorts -- what you pay in, you get back, more or less. That's far from accurate. By design, the Social Security Administration says, the system is tilted in favor of lower-income workers who have fewer resources to save for retirement. In practice, that means that the more money you make, the less you get back, at least as a percentage of your salary. For example, a single, 66-year-old man who earned $50,000 per year on average and retired in 2011 would get an annual benefit payment of about $22,800, or about 45% of his annual salary. If he had earned $150,000 per year, he would get annual benefits of about $30,670 -- just 20% of his annual salary. "People act like the percentage of benefits of your salary you get is the same for everyone and it really isn't," says Jo Anne Barnhart, former Social Security Commissioner.
That's particularly true for the highest earners. Benefits are calculated on a maximum average salary of $106,800, which means anyone who made that much or more -- whether by a few dollars or by a few hundred thousand dollars -- gets the same annual Social Security payment. To be fair, earnings over that threshold aren't taxed, either, and the agency spokeswoman says benefits are meant as supplemental retirement income, not full freight.
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3. "This used to be a much better deal."
Today's workers -- boomers, Gens X and Y -- like to carp about Social Security, but it's not all sour grapes or skepticism about paying into a system with an uncertain future. Employees today pay more in Social Security taxes than previous generations did. They're also likely to get smaller benefits when it's their turn to retire.
Over the years, as the Social Security Administration has come to grips with the cost of its benefit program -- and the ranks of eligible beneficiaries has swollen -- taxes to fund the program have gone up and up, a trend that experts say is likely to continue over the coming years. As a result, workers now pay 6.2% in payroll taxes (reduced to 4.2% in 2011) -- nearly double the 3.6% tax rate workers paid in 1965. Over the same time period, the maximum earnings eligible for taxation have also increased from $4,800 (equivalent to about $34,500 in 2011 dollars) to $106,800.
For example, a single man who retired in 1980 at age 65 after earning an average wage of $43,500 would have paid about $96,000 in Social Security taxes, and probably received $203,000 in lifetime benefits, according to a study by the Urban Institute, a non-partisan policy think tank in Washington D.C. By contrast, a single man making the same average wage today and retiring in 2030 will likely pay $398,000 in lifetime taxes but receive just $336,000 in lifetime benefits -- about 16% less than he paid in. "People who were first in the system got a great rate of return," says Alan Gustman, chair of the economics department at Dartmouth College. "It's the younger generation that is going to be in the most difficult position."
The agency spokeswoman says the imbalance is partly due to the fact that the earliest beneficiaries only paid taxes in the later stages of their careers.
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NORCROSS - Investigators released a sketch Wednesday of a black man suspected of shooting a man in Norcross early Monday morning during a robbery attempt turned deadly.Police describe the shooter as a dark-skinned black man, wearing a light-colored, possibly white baseball cap and shirt and black, baggy pants. The "chubby" man is believed to be approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall and between 160 and 170 pounds. The victim, who is still unidentified, died of a gunshot wound to the chest. Authorities are trying to notify the victim's relatives before releasing his name, said Gwinnett County Police spokeswoman Cpl. Illana Spellman. While walking to her home inside the Steeple Chase apartment complex on Singleton Road shortly after 1 a.m. Monday, Sixta Ciriaco Clase and the unidentified man were robbed at gunpoint, according Spellman. Preliminary investigations indicate Clase was being escorted home from her shift at the Santo Domingo restaurant by a man when the two were approached by a black man brandishing a gun, Spellman said. Police said the pair noticed the man following them and when they turned to face the man he demanded Clase's purse, keys and cell phone. Clase ran away as the man demanded money from Clase's unidentified escort. Spellman said Clase heard gunshots as she fled. Spellman said authorities pronounced the man dead at the scene. It is unclear what the victim's relationship was to Clase, she said. The public is urged to contact the Gwinnett County Police Criminal Investigations Division at 770-513-5300 with information in this case.
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(b) The clerk of each district court is authorized to obtain the information required by sections 3166 (b) and 3166 (c) from all relevant sources including the United States Attorney, Federal Public Defender, private defense counsel appearing in criminal cases in the district, United States district court judges, and the chief Federal Probation Officer for the district. This subsection shall not be construed to require the release of any confidential or privileged information.
Source(Added Pub. L. 93–619, title I, § 101,Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2084; amended Pub. L. 96–43, § 9(f),Aug. 2, 1979, 93 Stat. 331; Pub. L. 101–647, title XXXV, § 3579,Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4929.)
1990—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 101–647substituted "sections 3166 (b) and 3166 (c)" for "sections 3166 (b) and (c)".
1979—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–43inserted "continuous and permanent compliance with the" and substituted "described in" for "required by".
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Neighborhood Partners, nonprofit humanitarian, educational, or faith-based groups committed to empowering the children, youth, and adults in their community through the learning of English, contact IWLE to express their interest in hosting an IWLE Lab. These groups apply to be evaluated as hosts of an IWLE Language Lab and are then interviewed and evaluated according to strict selection criteria. Requirements include participating fully as a partner in the lab by donating time, space, materials, and/or labor; guaranteeing accessibility, and working toward sustainability within two years.
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Steve Jobs' authorized biography by Walter Isaacson drops next week, and there is already a buzz around some of the revelations in it, including how very long and difficult his health battles actually were. In another tidbit from the book, it has emerged that Jobs wanted to "destroy" the Android mobile operating system. As GigaOM notes, Jobs wasn't interested in money in opposing Android.
Jobs reportedly told then Google CEO Eric Schmidt: "I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want." While Jobs' competive stance is admirable, Apple itself has a long history of copying technology and reaping lucrative rewards.
In this OStatic post from March of last year, I commented on a post from Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems. In that post, Schwartz noted that Steve Jobs threatened to sue Sun at one point:
"In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were 'stepping all over Apple's IP.' (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, [Jobs said] 'I'll just sue you.' My response was simple. 'Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?' Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I'd help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996…And last I checked, MacOS is now built on Unix. I think Sun has a few OS patents, too."
Schwartz reported that Steve was "silent" after the rebuttal. The title of Schwartz's post was "Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal."
The takeaway here isn't any criticism of Steve Jobs. He was a fierce competitor and understood that intellectual property matters in technology. His own sense of how much damage copied technology can cause was probably honed by his long history at Apple watching his own company build on other technologies, including many open platforms and applications.
Jobs was right to fear Android. At the time he expressed his concerns to Schmidt, Android wasn't yet a significant mobile platform. Now, his premonition that it would become one has come true.
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and this is off topic but i now know that my computer goes to a screensaver in 5 minutes. i wasnt moving the mouse and about 5 minutyes into the movie it went to a screen saver :(
Sorry, wasn't impressed. Takes NO talent to copy someone elses' dance moves. I know 50 people who could do that better than him. Glad you're all impressed by stiff-backed copycats.
HELLO! It was the History of Dancing! What was he suppost to do? Make up his own dances and say thats the history of dancing?! Yes other people can do it but it's cool how he puts it together..anywho
Does anyone know the name of the song after Mr. Roboto?
Oh, have you ever seen the trombone guy dance? I think it was on Steve Harvey. Now THAT guy was a 10.
Oh, wait, I can do thategyptian dance and that lose yourself thing... And the rocker..
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We had Version 11.0.6200 and we just purchased an upgrade to 12.1 RU1 MP1 and I have been through the upgrade paths and this is what I have to ask.
I have already upgraded our production server to the 12.1 RU1 but I have not upgraded any clients yet. The server is still running on the trial. Do I need to go ahead and activate/install the upgrade license now before I do any clients, or do I go ahead and deploy the clients and then wait until I upgrade the 2nd time to 12.1 RU1MP1 to activate/install the license? I am not too clear on how that works.
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The upgrade will make note of it and carry it over. I just upgraded to RU2 and everything was carried over, licenses included.
Just as an fyi, you can few all licensing here:
There are a bunch of links inside that should help as well.
Please click the "Mark as solution" link at bottom left on the post that best answers your question. This will benefit admins looking for a solution to the same problem.
You can evaluate the product and then apply the license.
why not activate the licenses if you have and then upgrade the SEPM to 12.1 ru1 mp1 and clients to the same version.
By the way SEP 12 Ru2 will be available in next couple of days .
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Once you input the license file, the trial piece of it should go away. At least that is how it worked for me on our initial 12.1 upgrade. License has carried over with each upgrade and no "trial" message.
Please click the "Mark as solution" link at bottom left on the post that best answers your question. This will benefit admins looking for a solution to the same problem.
Q. The license for our 11.x server was not expired yet but when I upgraded to 12.1 RU1 it says that I am using a trial.
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In SEP 12.1 you will have to install trial product first then activate the license.Even in upgrade process it will upgrade to the trial version first then after entering license file it would become license product.
I didn't know if it would do that again when I did the final upgrade.
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Asked, "Where do you think the liturgical development is heading?" Cardinal Pell responded, "I don't know. I'm not a professional liturgist. I am keen that we strengthen the vertical dimension of the liturgy, if we can, in the popular understanding, so that it's very obviously not just community-centred, it's God-centred, it's an act of worship. I'm very sympathetic to that. I'm even sympathetic for the Canon of the Mass that the priest has his back to the people." Asked, "As something obligatory?" he replied, "Yes. Now there's nothing like a consensus in favour of that at the moment. I think I would be in favour of it because it makes it patently clear that the priest is not the centre of the show, that this an act of worship of the one true God, and the people are joining with the priest for that."
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Gas station flash survey – A Method for interviewing drivers.
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Interviews and questionnaires are very important techniques to acquire information from the potential user. Surveys are one tool to understand users' needs which is in particular helpful in the early phases of user interface design processes. To get meaningful information interface designers typically determine the target user group for an application. Most commonly, when designing in-car interfaces, the car drivers are the prime target group. In this paper we suggest a method to involve this group for a quick survey and we report our experience. The distinct features of this method are the location where the survey takes place (the gas station) and the length of the interview (2 to 5 minutes). This place ensures that the people actually use cars and have driven for sometime before the interview. The time is determined due to the task (filling the car) and people typically do not have plans how to spend this time and are happy to use this spare time to answer questions.


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Mercurial on OpenSolaris and GlassFish
I am working on rewriting a set of labs for our intermediate students at SJSU. Version control is something that everyone with a CS degree is pretty much expected to know these days, so I thought of digging up an old Subversion lab from my open source programming class.
But distributed version control systems such as Mercurial and Git are getting all the love these days. Some people said that it is actually easier to teach Mercurial than Subversion. This seemed unintuitive--wouldn't it be harder to deal with a bunch of repositories instead of having just one centralized one?
Actually, I now see the point. It is really easy to get going with Mercurial as a single user. The student has an instant benefit: The repository is a "time machine".
The instructor, if so inclined, has an instant benefit too: The repository makes it harder to cheat. How so? I'll require my students to commit before every test run, and have them submit the zipped repository. It is really easy to tell who made and fixed lots of errors over a period of time, and who mysteriously got their code working perfectly in one try.
Of course, for team work, we need a server. I installed Mercurial and the splendid mercurial-server onto a donated Sun server running OpenSolaris and GlassFish. Installation was a bit off the beaten track, so here are the directions.
Mercurial was easy enough—it's in the standard repos. But mercurial-server is only in
pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib contrib
pfexec pkg install mercurial-server
That doesn't run the standard install script, so here is what I did by hand:
pfexec /usr/sbin/useradd -m -d /export/home/hg hg
pfexec passwd hg
(Give some password; it doesn't seem to work without one.)
pfexec mkdir /etc/mercurial-server/keys/root/cay
ssh-add -L > my-key
pfexec mv my-key /etc/mercurial-server/keys/root/cay/thinkpad
pfexec su hg
cd /usr/share/mercurial-server/init/
./hginit /usr/share/mercurial-server
chmod 700 /export/home/hg/.ssh
chmod 600 /export/home/hg/.ssh/authorized_keys
Then you can go on in the usual way, installing keys and adding repos remotely (with Mercurial, of course).
Next, I wanted to serve up the repos with GlassFish v3. There are some outdated instructions for GlassFish v2 here and here that got me started.
Make a WAR file with the following structure
hgwebdir.fcgi from the Mercurial installation; to find its location, run
pkg contents SUNWmercurial | grep hgwebdir
On my Solaris machine, the Python package for FastCGI wasn't installed. I got it like this:
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python ez_setup.py
pfexec easy_install flup
Next, create two files,
hgweb.config (whose format is documented here):
/ = /export/home/hg/repos/*
baseurl = /mercurial/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.fcgi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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by hlavki - 2010-04-20 23:38Hi Cay, I am getting error (ssl required) when I am trying to push e.g. hg push https://glassfishv3_with_mercurial/hg/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.fcgi/repository
Https protocol works ok.
Any ideas? thanks
To boldly go...
by bvansomeren - 2010-03-30 01:30I've been working on switching from SVN to Mercurial for my own projects and was looking for a way to serve Mercurial for groups, this will do nicely! If you don't mind, I'll probably see if I can accomplish the same as you did using JFastCGI ;-) (fixing whatever is missing in the process)
And deduplication?
by vieiro - 2010-03-29 12:17Maybe you want to run an extra "pfexec zfs set dedup=on tank" to enable dedup support on zfs. That may reduce hard disk space!
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Bianchi have revealed the Oltre XR bike that World Tour team Vacansoleil-DCM will be riding next year, and here it is in all its finery.
Of course, we've already reviewed the bike, although we had it in a different build.
The Oltre XR is a monocoque carbon frame designed for all-out performance and developed with input from Vacansoleil-DCM. It combines UMS40 and CN60 ultra high modulus carbon fibers. Bianchi reckon it's 30g lighter than the previous generation Oltre and 20% stiffer. The official frame weight for a 55cm model is 895g (+/- 5%).
Team riders, including Belgium's Thomas de Gendt who finished third overall in the Giro d'Italia this year, will use a 2013 Campagnolo Super Record EPS groupset, combined with FSA K-Force chainset and new SL-K brakes.
Here's the full spec list for you to cut out and keep…
Frame Bianchi HoC Oltre XR Carbon, X-TeX technology, UTSS Ultra Thin Seat Stay, Internal cable routing, BB30 system
Fork Bianchi Oltre HoC Full Carbon 1 1/2in - 1 1/8in
Seatpost Bianchi Oltre Full Carbon Aero
Chainset FSA K-Force Light BB386 EVO Carbon 53/39
Bottom bracket FSA BB30
Brakes FSA SL-K, new
Headset FSA Orbit 1 1/8in – 1 1/2in
Stem FSA Plasma Compact Integrated
Handlebar FSA Plasma Compact Integrated
Handlebar tape Lizard Skins Celeste Bianchi colour
Saddle Selle San Marco Regale
Wheels Fast Forward F6r carbon
Tyres Vredestein Fortezza Pro TriComp
Shifters Campagnolo Super Record EPS 11-spd
Rear mech Campagnolo Super Record EPS 11-spd
Front mech Campagnolo Super Record EPS 11-spd
Cassette Campagnolo Super Record 11-spd
Chain KMC XL 11-spd
Bottle Elite Corsa Team
Bottle cage Elite Sior Mio carbon
Pedals Look Keo Blade
Powermeter Cycleops Powertap system
Get more details on the Oltre XR from www.bianchi.com.
Looking at that spec sheet definitely causes bike lust
posted by new-to-cycling [47 posts]
10th December 2012 - 14:50
posted by arrieredupeleton [587 posts]
10th December 2012 - 15:30
Pretty handy spec. Looks boss in those team colours too, I think we have an early front runner for smartest looking frame on the tour with Lampre taking a shocking nosedive from the awesome Zero.7's and Cento1's in their neon livery to those Merida things.
posted by Nick T [906 posts]
10th December 2012 - 20:21
Carbon fibre doesn't really turn me on, I normally reserve my lust for 80's steel.
I'll make an exception here.
posted by sunburnt [6 posts]
10th December 2012 - 22:54
Just a beautiful work of art, livery and bike in total harmony. Apparently the ride isn't too shabby either!
Just an all round marriage wrecking material - damn you Bianchi!!!
The bird is equal to or great than the word.
posted by ljblas [16 posts]
11th December 2012 - 17:04
Not usually a major Bianchi fan, but that bike is stunning. Just wish they'd done the bar tape in the dark blue colour (top of the down tube), rather than the greeny blue colour.
Still, an easy change for anyone who can afford to buy one.
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Travel on a Patagonia tour in the southern reaches of South America. Patagonia is a region that stands as the very definition of wildness: massive, granite horns thrust from the ground and painted by the sun; fields of ice and glaciers as old as time; and forests and lakes that dwarf those who visit this distant land. International Expeditions' Patagonia travel tour takes in this land's most stunning, landscapes, culture and wildlife. Shining as the crowning jewel in this glittering land is Torres del Paine National Park, internationally renowned as one of the most beautiful, unspoiled and remote places on the planet. This gem is like a separate country perched at the edge of a great continent — brimming with wildlife, dazzling landscapes and activities that are uniquely Torres del Paine.
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A wildlife-enthusiast's dream journey, IE's Patagonia cruise puts you in prime position to discover guanacos, foxes and maybe even pumas! Plus, our expert ornithologist guide will help you find intriguing birdlife – Andean condors, Magellanic penguins, Austral parakeets and torrent ducks.
In-Depth Exploration on Our Patagonia Cruise
IE's exclusive, custom-crafted Patagonia tour brings you the most in-depth and personal exploration of Torres del Paine. Puma searches, exploring glaciers by ship and by foot and daily hiking excursions are the perfect opportunities to spot wildlife, study the vibrant wildflowers and capture extraordinary photographs of the stunning Paine Horns.
Explore With Patagonia Tour Pioneers
Patagonia travel guide Claudio Vidal is a native Chilean who is one of the leading field naturalists and ornithologists in South America. An avid birder since the age of 12, Claudio is among the pioneers of natural history travel to Patagonia, leading Patagonia travel tours for more than 13 years. Claudio has co-authored many books, including Birds of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego & Antarctic Peninsula and Torres del Paine — Wildlife & Landscapes.
Days 1 & 2
U.S. / Santiago / Punta Arenas
Fly independently to Santiago. After arriving in Chile, connect with your flight to Punta Arenas, weather permitting, soaring over the Southern Patagonia Ice Field for great views of the mountains. Spend tonight at the Hotel Diedo de Almagro. (Day 1: Meals Aloft; Day 2: D)
Day 3
Punta Arenas / Eastern Torres del Paine National Park
To begin our Patagonia adventure, travel to Torres del Paine National Park, stopping to watch Andean condors at the Rio Verde condor roosts and visit the Milodon Cave, learning about the prehistoric giant sloths which once roamed the area. Torres del Paine National Park encompasses almost 600,000 acres of arid Patagonian steppe, pre-Andean shrubbery, Andean desert and deciduous forests. The eastern margin of the park receives the least rainfall, and is characterized by low hills and shrub-covered depressions. Spend the next two nights of our Patagonia expedition itinerary at the Hosteria Lago Grey. (B,L,D)
Day 4
Lago Grey / Grey Glacier
From the beaches of Nordenskjöld Lake, we enjoy a magnificent view of sunrise over the "Cuernos del Paine" (the Paine Horns). While dominated by the imposing Paine Massif, a surprising variety of more than 400 plant species dot the Patagonian steppe, forest and Andean desert found in Torres del Paine National Park. Each day of our Patagonia expedition itinerary brings new opportunities to be charmed by the Lady's slipper, Chilean fire bush, Magellanic raspberry or yellow ground orchid that grow in the Austral summer, and to examine the lichens and mosses that spread like a blanket across Eastern Torres del Paine. We take a ship along the 15-mile long lake, formed by the retreat of the glacier and surrounded by mountains including Paine Grande — at 10,006 feet the park's highest point. Grey Lake is full of icebergs calved from the Grey Glacier, the final tongue of the 300 mile long Southern Patagonia Ice Field and one of the 48 main basins of this ice field. Often, we see great icebergs floating in the lake and caught along the shores after calving from Grey Glacier. Explore the glacier on foot before enjoying drinks served with 20,000-year-old ice! In the afternoon, we'll walk to a beech forest and the Ice Beach, where the icebergs from the glacier end their journey. (B,L,D)
Day 5
Western Torres Del Paine National Park
Join our naturalist guide walking through the Nothofagus forest, where we scan for Magellanic woodpecker, Chilean flickers, Austral parakeets, foxes and unique flora. Continuing across the park, we visit the impressive Salto Grande and Salto Chico waterfalls. Both this evening and tomorrow on our Patagonia adventure we search for pumas, in an area that boasts the world's highest concentration. Spend the next two nights at Hosteria Las Torres. (B,L,D)
Day 6
Torres Del Paine National Park
Sunrise paints the park's renowned granite towers red — a great start to a day of nature hikes in this secluded area of Torres del Paine. The granite towers soar up to 9,350 feet. We may find torrent ducks swimming in the rapids, or Chilean flamingos and grebes on the lakes. Spend the morning hiking around breathtaking Blue Lake for a spectacular view of the Towers. This afternoon on our Patagonia expedition itinerary is at leisure at Hosteria Las Torres so that you may hike the many trails or even treat yourself to the spa. (B,L,D)
Day 7
Gaucho Farm / Otway Sound / Punta Arenas
Leave for Punta Arenas, stopping at a private gaucho farm to enjoy a traditional asado al palo barbecue lunch. It's a great chance to learn about the way of life of people who have lived in Patagonia for generations. The hardy people of Patagonia have etched out a life centered around the farms and pampas of this solitary region. Learn how our host Gerardo and other gauchos have fared for generations in the unforgiving landscape, still tending to sheep and cattle, and chasing off the occasional puma. Our afternoon will also include an opportunity to watch Gerardo's dogs demonstrate their herding abilities. We continue to the Otway Magellanic penguin colony, arriving when penguins typically return to the colony after a day of fishing. Spend the last full-night of our Patagonia tour itinerary at the Hotel Rey Don Felipe in Punta Arenas. (B,L,D)
Days 8 & 9
Punta Arenas / Santiago / U.S.
After a short tour of Punta Arenas, fly back to Santiago and connect with flights home. (Day 8: B, Meals Aloft; Day 9: Meals Aloft)
Pricing Information
All prices are in US dollars and do not include international airfare, unless otherwise noted.
Prices displayed are based on the lowest season base price and assume double occupancy. Prices are shown in U.S. dollars and may or may not include administrative fees, taxes, meals, airfare (where applicable) and Single Supplements. Cancellation penalties, blackout dates and other restrictions may apply.
Options and Extras
Tour Notes
What is included in the price of IE's Patagonia travel packages?
- Puma searches
- Lunch with a Patagonian gaucho
- Field study of wildflowers & flora
- Explore glaciers on foot & by ship
- Daily hiking excursions
- Excursion to Otway Magellanic Penguin colony
- Sunrise visits to photograph Paine Towers
- Tour Punta Arenas
- Daily birding, including Rio Verde condor roosts
- Nightly briefings & recap of wildlife sightings by experienced native expedition leader
- Accommodations in well-located lodges
- 17 meals
- All entrance fees
- Enjoy drinks made with glacial ice
- Transfers for group arrival & departure flights
Are visas required for travel to Patagonia? No visas are required for U.S. or Canadian citizens to enter Chile. A reciprocity tax must be paid for U.S. citizens to enter Chile, currently $131 USD to be paid in U.S. dollars or credit card at the airport in Santiago, Chile. A Tourist Card will be issued for a stay of up to 90 days upon payment of the reciprocity tax.
What vaccinations are required for Patagonia travel?
No immunizations are required for entry into Chile from the U.S. or for re-entry into the U.S.
How active is IE's Patagonia travel package?
While you should be in general good health and physical condition, the trails we hike on in Patagonia are well maintained and walks are leisurely paced.
What climate can you expect during your Patagonia expedition?
Our expedition takes place in the summer season, so we can expect long hours of light. Temperatures in Santiago generally range from the mid-70s to the upper 80s. Summer weather should be delightful, with sunny days and minimal chance of rain. As you proceed south, the climate becomes cooler, windier, and wetter. At Torres del Paine and on the optional extension you can expect to experience the capricious spirit of the local weather. Lows are in the low to mid-40s, and highs range from upper-50s to the upper-60s F. Conditions can change quickly and often from windy and cool to sunny and clear to overcast with rain.
How much luggage can you bring on the Patagonia expedition?
Lan Chile allows two pieces of checked luggage weighing no more than 50 lbs. on the international flight. However, the baggage allowance for the internal flights (Chilean domestic air) is restricted to 44 lbs. for the checked luggage (two pieces allowed) and 17 lbs. for your carry-on (one piece allowed). Excess baggage charges, which can be substantial, are your responsibility. Please limit your baggage to one medium-sized bag (large-sized if also going on extension) and one carry-on bag for a total of 50 pounds. Water-resistant luggage is recommended.


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There's a quake3 mod that's similar to what he is asking though. Problem is practically no one plays it and development is very, very slow; like QL but worse.
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The other possibility is he wants vq3 against pql.
If I understand OP correctly, then this wouldn't work gameplay-wise. Quakers strafejumping around the map with LGs against slow(in comparison) ET guys who have reloads and bullet dispersion? Its like keyboard+mouse vs controller.
Real life? Life is real?!
I once had an idea for a gamemode like this for CoD, sort of like Juggernaut or whatever.
Where the guy with Quake physics can still pick up items and stuff and there's just one of them (picked at random), and he has to fight off the CoD soldiers for as long as possible, and his killer becomes the next Quake Guy.
i also had the same idea for team fortress in quake movement/physics, but i couldnt programm it myself yet
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Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipelineby Lisa Margonelli
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Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry: the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.
Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelli's desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange's crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle.
In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit.
Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers.
"In the last few years, just about everyone has had 'oil on the brain' at some point, as record gas prices and a disastrous war have called our dependency into question. But though the U.S. burns 10,000 gallons of gasoline a second, few of us know how oil is created and drilled, how gas stations compete or what actually goes on in a refinery — let alone what happens in the mysterious Strategic Petroleum Reserve, where the U.S. government stores roughly 700 million barrels of oil in underground salt caverns on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Margonelli answers these questions and more, before examining some of the key patches in the oil industry's geopolitical quilt: source countries like Chad, where promises of real local growth fall hopelessly short, or China, which, 'by 2025, perhaps, will import as much crude oil as the U.S. does now.' Writing in a witty, first-person voice, Margonelli criticizes corruption in places like Nigeria, while expressing her 'love of hydrocarbons' for the unlikeliness of their formation and the ingenuity required to extricate them. This is an original, open-minded look at a subject about which everyone has an opinion." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Before reading Lisa Margonelli's 'Oil on the Brain,' I never would have called the process of energy production 'fascinating.' But this thoroughly engrossing and entertaining book travels to the heart of Texas and across continents to show exactly how the gas in our tanks gets there — as well as its financial, social and environmental costs. Margonelli's dogged reporting, which includes pulling an... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) all-nighter at a drilling rig and writing a 'spicy' introduction letter to an Iranian government official to get access to his country's oil operations, exposes aspects of the oil industry that are not visible at your local pump. Much of what Margonelli chronicles is grim, especially when she investigates how oil production has distorted petro-states such as Venezuela, Chad and Nigeria. Many Americans are now familiar with how Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has used his country's oil wealth to assert its independence from the United States, but they may not realize how many of Venezuela's poor still live in slums as they wait for some of Chavez's largesse to trickle down. Chad and Nigeria are grimmer still, since their heads of state don't even claim that their countries' petrodollars might improve their citizens' lives. When an oil consortium led by Exxon-Mobil gave Chad's president, Idriss Diby, an advance of $25 million, Margonelli writes, he used the money to bolster his own political strength rather than to improve the lives of his citizens: 'He immediately spent $4.5 million of it on weapons to fight rebels within his own borders.' In the small Nigerian village of Oloibiri, village elders wonder why Shell and other companies have extracted oil from their land and left them with nothing but a nonfunctioning water system and a rotting hospital and school, neither of which the companies paid to staff. 'Millions and billions of dollars have left here,' one elder tells her. 'It's like a snail. They've taken the flesh and left the shell.' Margonelli paints only a slightly rosier picture of the U.S. oil industry, which she describes as on a steady path to decline. Seventy percent of American oil workers, she writes, have lost their jobs since 1981. Even the tanker truck dispatchers and gas station operators who make money off Americans' voracious gasoline consumption are under intense pressure to bet correctly on the constantly changing petroleum prices. 'Oil on the Brain' is at its best when the author manages to connect with the men and women she writes about, moving the energy debate beyond stereotypes. One of the most touching moments comes when Margonelli discovers that she and a fourth-generation oilman, C.D. Roper, both took care of sheep when they were younger. 'C.D. and I are both unreformed sheep-loving nerds,' she writes. 'His pet lamb was named Rainbow, and sometime around midnight he begins to cry at the thought of the cruel uncle who killed Rainbow and ate him.' Roper emerges as one of the book's most compelling characters, a man who has managed to make money in a tough, risky business and would consider quitting if he didn't get such an adrenaline rush from hitting pay dirt. Margonelli uses lively, vivid prose to tell her story, though she overwrites at times and inserts herself too frequently into the narrative. (My least favorite line: 'The hands are all young: Jeans, overalls, fresh pink cheeks, and carelessly spread dirt lend them the innocence of characters in a Norman Rockwell painting.') For the most part, however, she hits her mark by making wry observations, and she puts many of her stories in context with facts and figures that provide a broader sense of how the oil economy works. The one thing the book lacks is concrete suggestions for how Americans can extricate themselves from what President Bush has called an 'addiction to oil.' In the epilogue, Margonelli alludes vaguely to the idea that the next oil gusher 'may be in our brains,' but aside from a general call for energy conservation, her book does little to show how that gusher might emerge. Still, by the end, Margonelli has demonstrated the one lesson she says she has learned: 'There is no such thing as cheap gas.' Juliet Eilperin covers environmental issues for The Washington Post." Reviewed by Marc LeepsonJames M. LindsayRon CharlesColin McGinnMichael DirdaJonathan YardleyArt TaylorJuliet Eilperin, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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Starting at a local gas station, Margonelli sets off to meet the people behind the pump, who lead her deep into the economics, politics, chemistry, and culture of petroleum. Along the oil supply chain, through the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the NYMEX oil market, she finds unexpected delights and troubling contradictions.
About the Author
LISA MARGONELLI is currently an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Business 2.0, Discover, and Jane, and was the recipient of a Sundance Institute Fellowship and an excellence in journalism award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. She is based in Oakland, California.
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any specific reasons?
IIM kashipur or IIT Delhi...? pls help
i also had the same dillema....PM me for more info
bhaiyon on another note MDI pe wl #190 pe kuch umeed hai
bro i am inclined towards Marketing....but as i ve come to know tht having 3 years of experience would help me if i choose IT& systems.....so as of now i would go with a combination of these 2
bhai @ragil scene bahut complicated hai....har banda different opinion de rha hai.....and as i said XIMB mein no doubt thora sa chance zyda hai....but risk bhi utna hi zyda hai
aur ye hai IITD ki....
XIMB placement report-
boy....i am confussssssssssseeeddddddd.........it seems like a sophie's choice....both of them has its pro's and cons.....but as per my judgement IITD safe bet hai kinda low risk low gain....XIMB is high risk and high gain and also XIMB has increased its batch size to 240 ....to thora doubt ho jata hai