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Most events showcased in Pulse come from community members who take the initiative to let us know what's going on in the community. For instance, all the items in our breakout event section, Your Weekend+, is a testament to those working hard in the community to bring unique and wonderful events — many to help organizations in need.
It's important to promote such events to outlets, such as Pulse, and get the word out. Not only does it help promote your event, but it helps us put a spotlight on fun and worthwhile things to do in the area. This includes all of the Mesilla Valley, Silver City, Deming, Hatch and the surrounding areas.
The nuts and bolts of submitting events can be found at the end of our Things To Do listings. Event information should be turned in at least 10 days before the date of the event. Information for our publication is planned a week in advance, so be sure to send us your information (following the format outlined on Page 19); and high resolution photos to accompany the information are always welcome. These steps help ensure that your information gets to us with enough time to include it in our publication, or even feature it. And we're always looking for suggestions on features — Out'n'About, Tunes, Inside Comedy, Open Mic, Curtain Call.
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Not commonly listed in the annals of great European ski locales, Polands Zakopane begs to differ.
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|Pretty in White: Poland's Tatra Mountains hold a secret stash well within reach of most major Euro hubs. (courtesy, Polish National Tourist Office)
A word of warning about Zakopane: Beware of the booze.
While the skiing is great, the hospitality excellent, and the scenery stunning, the local grog could leave you with more than just a sore head. Having been invited to sip a traditional shooter ("mad dog") by a guy I met en route to this sleepy ski town in the Tatra Mountains, I duly acceptedonly to discover it was 95 percent alcohol. With one of the key ingredients being Tabasco sauce, it felt like someone was trying to strip the roof of my mouth with a potato peeler.
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It was now George's turn to digest what Adam had just told him. He drove in silence as if unsure of what to say. As they neared the university, the older man finally broke the silence. "I know that many people believe in intuition", he said slowly, "and that would explain the feeling that you had about calling us, but what about the dream or whatever it was, is it possible that I was somehow seeing the future"? Adam looked thoughtful, "when did you have this dream"? "It was the morning that Ralph drowned", George answered, "I'd just awoke and I don't know if I went back to sleep or not". Adam thought for a moment, "than it was probably the present you were seeing, not the future, Ralph's last thoughts may have been of you". They'd stopped by the university residence now, yet Adam made no move to get out, but rather waited for George, who seemed lost in thought, to speak again. "I gave up on the churches a long time ago" he said at last, looking once again at Adam, "and I'd almost given up on God – but now I'm not so sure, we'll talk again later" Adam nodded, knowing that this was a conversation that had really just begun.
December, as it usually does, brought colder temperatures and snow, making walking more difficult throughout the city. It made little difference to Adam however, as with the gusto of youth, he easily navigated his way. He called the Foxs every day and visited twice every week. They had few visitors now and always welcomed Adam, and Mona too, when she was able to come along with him. As he watched Isabella and George slowly getting back into their old routine, the young man marvelled at the strength of the human spirit. The couple now had a standing invitation to Sunday dinner, though Mona couldn't always make it. In December too, Isabella returned to the Sunday evening services at Wesley United Church giving Adam and George some time to talk privately. It was the second day of December, and at first they talked of Adam's impending trip home for the Christmas holidays. Adam was a little surprised that his friend still insisted on talking to Dr. Templeton about his father's possible eye surgery, in fact would do so that very week. He also stated that the offer for Adam's parents to stay with him and Isabella while in the city remained the same.
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Something weird, that's what. We are not prepared to declare associate layoffs (because we try to be cautious about making such calls). But odd things are afoot at OMM, and the environment is one of Kremlin-esque anxiety and paranoia.
We contacted O'Melveny & Myers last week, to see if they had any comment on rumors of associate layoffs. They never got back to us. So this report does not reflect any information provided by the firm itself.
(Other firms that have been the subject of layoff rumors have been more cooperative, opening their kimonos and persuading us of the falsity of the layoff rumors about them. OMM did not avail itself of this opportunity.)
Although O'Melveny had no official comment, we did hear from people who are at OMM or who know people over there. The (admittedly unhelpful) upshot: nobody seems to know what's going on; the firm is keeping people in the dark.
Read the full report, after the jump.
The rumors started surfacing in comments on this site. Here's one representative comment, which appeared in one of the Cadwalader layoff threads:
OMM had layoffs which was not only hush hush to the outside world but inside the firm as well. NO ONE in the firm has acknowledged that layoffs took place and an inordinate amount of associates didn't get bonuses and/or got bad reviews.
Like last time when NY had layoffs, some layoffs were blamed on performance but most negative performance reviews were decidedly trumped up. People who were stuck on doc review all year were castigated for not writing (this was chronicled on here the last time); people who spent a lot of hours on a particular case and did a good job overall were surprised to find some small assignment given major play on and negatively reviewed. Just awful treatment of associates.
Many were given to March 15th to leave. The total in NY is about 15 were told to leave and many other suffered "constructive" discharge: denied bonuses or promotion due to negative reviews that were purposely slanted to result in a bad review (in other words, don't let the door hit you in the butt).
The DC office suffered similar offenses but we can't find out the numbers.
Not only isn't anyone talking to ATL but no one in O'Melveny is telling US what is going on.
We had an ACAC meeting [on January 9] and the partners were told morale was bad. They're probably happy to hear that hoping we'll all leave.
Very poor form.
And here's a second, subsequent comment:
[Dismissals cast as performance-based are] happening at OMM — bar has gotten higher and you will get axed for performance if you aren't careful (even in lit, which is where my experience lies). I think you need to be established sub-par (6 months plus of poor hours + not so great performance). But be careful all… times they are a changin'.
The foregoing comments were posted anonymously, without confirmation that they actually come from O'Melveny associates. We reached out to our OMM sources. From a tipster in New York:
"We can't confirm anything because the firm has not put anything in writing or on the intranet or in voicemail. There is clearly an effort being made to keep associates in the dark. However, most associates believe that 15 people were given until March to find a job, a few were outright canned right before Christmas, and there was an unusual number of bad job performance reviews with most of the associates thinking that there was a BIG effort to skew performances in order to not give bonuses and promotions. Several associates who received bad reviews compared notes and the reasoning on the reviews was baffling. Many bad reviews simply made no sense but were just an excuse to not give bonuses and to not allow an associate to go forward in their career. Associates are calling it a constructive discharge."
"But the environment at OMM is so secretive and paranoid that NO ONE will talk out loud, even at the associates' meeting. [Last week] we had an associates' meeting which was a joke. Someone HAD TO ASK about the slowdown in work and only then were we told that the partners are aware that 'morale is low' and people don't have work. The useless associate/counsel committee was not offering that information if no one had asked. No one asked about layoffs but everyone talked about 'what do you know?' after the meeting. So even our associates' committee is not being forthcoming."
"The environment is really terrible and what was once a good place to work has become negative and no one knows who to trust or what to do. The firm's lack of candor is making everything worse."
"So I think that is what is going on but who ever knows. We have only rumor and innuendo. Sorry I can't tell you more."
From a second New York source:
"We've been trying to piece together a bunch of different rumors, but most of the info has come from ATL. If anything's happening, I think it might be on the litigation side."
From an O'Melveny associate on the West Coast:
"One of my better friends at OMM CA was let go. According to him, it was [cast as] a performance issue. He was a junior associate in litigation. Not sure if this constitutes a lay off, but if others report the same thing happening elsewhere in OMM CA, perhaps it is. Either way, people are very paranoid."
And from an ex-O'Melveny associate:
"[I used to work at OMM] and attempted to confirm this rumor through several friends that still work there. Each of them responded with a "no comment." I found this strange… these are pretty good friends. They must be fearful that their email is being screened (this was never really much of a concern when I worked there), or, they must've been explicitly instructed to keep quiet. Anyway, I think you should definitely seek input on this matter through your site."
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Putting these Dietary Guidelines in context of our genetics and the evolution of man, you'll notice we are very far removed from living and eating according to Nature's original plan.
The changing landscape
Our food options have changed through the centuries. About 72 percent of the calories consumed by people in the U.S. are from foods that never existed in Paleolithic diets: refined sugar, artificial sweeteners, white flour, high fructose corn syrup, shortening (trans fats).
Questions arise: Are humans designed to thrive on Krispy-Kreme donuts, Cocoa Crispies, Pringles, Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Big Macs, ketchup? Or is that one reason why we are now confronting the "diseases of civilization?" Almost 40 percent of all deaths are due to heart disease; 25 percent are due to cancer (of which, one-third are related to nutrition).
Our activity patterns have also changed; our daily lifestyle lacks physical activity. We no longer need muscles to roll down the car window, open the garage door, or change the TV station. We can just push a button ... and too easily be too sedentary for our own good. This includes children who sit in front of the TV.
Aging healthfully
Every one of us gets older every day. If your goal is to have the body and health of a 39-year-old when you are in your 80s, you need to consciously make that happen. Although, as high school and college athletes, you likely considered yourself bullet proof, by the time you reach mid-life, you may be starting to feel more vulnerable. You watch your parents die of heart attacks, your classmates succumb to cancer. You feel your joints ache.
Not even the healthiest marathoner or the strongest triathlete among us is bullet proof. Hence, the time to make dietary changes is now -- before you have the heart attack, hear the words "you have cancer," or break a bone due to osteoporosis.
The purpose of this article is to encourage you to stay active and fuel your body by eating closer to the earth, closer to the food choices of our long-ago ancestors, closer to the Dietary Guidelines, and farther away from refined sugar, trans fats and sodium-filled processed foods.
Refined sugar
Pop-tarts, Cap'n Crunch, Pepsi, Gatorade and gels are just a few examples of refined sugar. In the year 2000, the average American consumed 152 pounds of sugar; that's about 400 calories of sugar per day! In contrast, early man consumed no refined sugar. Some athletes drink sports drinks non-stop -- 200 sugar-calories per quart. Suggestions:
Trans fats
Industrialization is responsible for the creation of trans fats -- the processed, partially hydrogenated fats that are in commercially baked and fried foods. Trans fats offer a pleasing texture to baked goods and prolong their freshness. But trans fats rarely, if ever, are found in natural foods and our bodies don't like them. Trans fats create an inflammatory response that contributes to heart disease and cancer. They are health-eroding. Suggestions:
The typical American diet offers 1.5 teaspoons of salt per day; that's about 3,750 mg sodium (and more than the recommended 2,300 mg). This includes the salt in processed foods, cooking and what's added at the table. Most of our sodium intake comes from processed foods: Spaghettios (1,980 mg/can), ramen noodles (1,700 mg/packet), American cheese (360 mg/slice), commercial salad dressing (300 mg/ 2 tablespoons). Only 10 percent of our salt intake comes from the sodium in natural foods (65 mg per egg; 125 mg per eight ounces of milk).
In the Stone Age (2.6 million years ago), hunter-gathers survived with little or no salt added to their food. Questions arise: Were our bodies designed for today's high salt intake? Or is this a reason why we are plagued with hypertension, strokes and cancer?
For athletes who exercise for more than four hours straight (as one might during a triathlon), sodium is deemed necessary to replace that lost in sweat. Athletes who experience muscle cramps are told to increase their sodium intake to alleviate the problem. But if these athletes never consumed lots of salt in the first place, would they be better off? Some health professionals believe so.
Costs and benefits of dietary changes
The "typical American diet" is tasty, convenient and comforting amidst the stresses and strains of our too-busy lives. But the costs are mounting: Escalating health insurance premiums; obese people who crowd the hospitals; children who never get to meet their grandparents.
Today is the time to start making a few dietary changes that bring you closer to the earth. For example, drink more orange juice, less orange soda. (Better yet, eat more oranges.) Each day, you can make a few choices that reduce your intake of refined sugar, trans fats and sodium-laden processed food. You'll enhance your likelihood for better health when you are 80. Even fit athletes can succumb to the diseases of civilization.
Much of the information in this article is from Cordain L.: "Origins and evolution of the Western Diet: health implications for the 21st century". Am J Clin Nutr 81:341-54. Feb 2005
Copyright Nancy Clark, M.S., R.D., March 2005
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Fiction of Marjah as City Was US Misinformation
For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built up in February that Marjah was a major strategic objective, more important than other district centers in Helmand.
It turns out, however, that the picture of Marjah presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war, apparently aimed at hyping the offensive as a historic turning point in the conflict.
Marjah is not a city or even a real town, but either a few clusters of farmers' homes or a large agricultural area covering much of the southern Helmand River Valley.
"It's not urban at all," an official of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), who asked not to be identified, admitted to IPS Sunday. He called Marjah a "rural community."
"It's a collection of village farms, with typical family compounds," said the official, adding that the homes are reasonably prosperous by Afghan standards.
Richard B. Scott, who worked in Marjah as an adviser on irrigation for the U.S. Agency for International Development as recently as 2005, agrees that Marjah has nothing that could be mistaken as being urban. It is an "agricultural district" with a "scattered series of farmers' markets," Scott told IPS in a telephone interview.
The ISAF official said the only population numbering tens of thousands associated with Marjah is spread across many villages and almost 200 square kilometers, or about 125 square miles.
Marjah has never even been incorporated, according to the official, but there are now plans to formalize its status as an actual "district" of Helmand province.
The official admitted that the confusion about Marjah's population was facilitated by the fact that the name has been used both for the relatively large agricultural area and for a specific location where farmers have gathered for markets.
However, the name Marjah "was most closely associated" with the more specific location, where there are also a mosque and a few shops.
That very limited area was the apparent objective of "Operation Moshtarak," to which 7,500 U.S., NATO, and Afghan troops were committed amid the most intense publicity given any battle since the beginning of the war.
So how did the fiction that Marjah is a city of 80,000 people get started?
The idea was passed on to the news media by the U.S. Marines in southern Helmand. The earliest references in news stories to Marjah as a city with a large population have a common origin in a briefing given Feb. 2 by officials at Camp Leatherneck, the U.S. Marine base there.
The Associated Press published an article the same day quoting "Marine commanders" as saying that they expected 400 to 1,000 insurgents to be "holed up" in the "southern Afghan town of 80,000 people." That language evoked an image of house-to-house urban street fighting.
The same story said Marjah was "the biggest town under Taliban control" and called it the "linchpin of the militants' logistical and opium-smuggling network." It gave the figure of 125,000 for the population living in "the town and surrounding villages." ABC News followed with a story the next day referring to the "city of Marjah" and claiming that the city and the surrounding area "are more heavily populated, urban, and dense than other places the Marines have so far been able to clear and hold."
The rest of the news media fell into line with that image of the bustling, urbanized Marjah in subsequent stories, often using "town" and "city" interchangeably. Time magazine wrote about the "town of 80,000" Feb. 9, and the Washington Post did the same Feb. 11.
As "Operation Moshtarak" began, U.S. military spokesmen were portraying Marjah as an urbanized population center. On Feb. 14, on the second day of the offensive, Marine spokesman Lt. Josh Diddams said the Marines were "in the majority of the city at this point."
He also used language that conjured images of urban fighting, referring to the insurgents holding some "neighborhoods."
A few days into the offensive, some reporters began to refer to a "region," but only created confusion rather than clearing the matter up. CNN managed to refer to Marjah twice as a "region" and once as "the city" in the same Feb. 15 article, without any explanation for the apparent contradiction.
The Associated Press further confused the issue in a Feb. 21 story, referring to "three markets in town which covers 80 square miles."
A "town" with an area of 80 square miles would be bigger than such U.S. cities as Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. But AP failed to notice that something was seriously wrong with that reference.
Long after other media had stopped characterizing Marjah as a city, the New York Times was still referring to Marjah as "a city of 80,000," in a Feb. 26 dispatch with a Marjah dateline.
The decision to hype up Marjah as the objective of "Operation Moshtarak" by planting the false impression that it is a good-sized city would not have been made independently by the Marines at Camp Leatherneck.
A central task of "information operations" in counterinsurgency wars is "establishing the COIN [counterinsurgency] narrative," according to the Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual as revised under Gen. David Petraeus in 2006.
That task is usually done by "higher headquarters" rather than in the field, as the manual notes.
The COIN manual asserts that news media "directly influence the attitude of key audiences toward counterinsurgents, their operations and the opposing insurgency." The manual refers to "a war of perceptions conducted continuously using the news media."
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of ISAF, was clearly preparing to wage such a war in advance of the Marjah operation. In remarks made just before the offensive began, McChrystal invoked the language of the counterinsurgency manual, saying, "This is all a war of perceptions."
The Washington Post reported Feb. 22 that the decision to launch the offensive against Marjah was intended largely to impress U.S. public opinion with the effectiveness of the U.S. military in Afghanistan by showing that it could achieve a "large and loud victory."
The false impression that Marjah was a significant city was an essential part of that message.
(Inter Press Service)
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The FCM is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the government. I haven't read a newspaper or had my TV tuned to any of the major news networks in years because, thanks to internet sites like this, I know they report only what they are told to report and most times it has nothing to do with reality. I laugh when I visit my 86 year old mom who keeps the TV glued to CNN and Fox News. Not at her, but at what I see reported by these propaganda outlets.
"The New York Times". Frankly, when I see that phrase attached to a story of any sort I ignore it and move to the next piece of data. The New York Times has to me utterly ceased to be a reliable source of any kind of information. I'm sure they have ads and such in the New York Times but would I see them I would assume them to be lies, all lies.
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Ask any Canadian soldier where the city of Marjah is and they say that it doesn't exist. The Canadians have been stationed in Hellmand proviince from the beginning and have taken the brunt of it"s violence with too many deaths. They have very good knowledge of that part of the country. Why do the USA military have to fabricate facts and cities to make themselves look good to the average American. In this case, they made themselves look good to even the astute press (New York Times, CNN, AP, Fox News) that is egging on their military machine for the sake of what. Did Obama even know what Marjah really was?
Type in Marjeh, (The in bed with the military so called reporters need to learn to spell), Afghanistan. The pointer will move to a cluster of farms about 16 miles southwest of Lashkar Gah (31 35' 13.26" N 64 09' 48.02E). Guess that is the place they are taking about.. Wow, 8000 (or was it 12000) heavily armed marines made about 20 miles on fairly good roads to a village defended by a hand full of, no doubt, about 2 to 400 people from outer space, and it took ONLY 3 weeks to do it. What a victory …. and the shit is flowing… and I thought McArthur (did I spell his name right?) was bad.
Let's see if I'm getting this straight. Does this mean that in this "rural" enclave the almighty US juggernaut misfired some missles on this imaginary city and they landed nearly a mile away and took out a house? The lies just don't stop coming.
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Aha, i tried to find Marjah on Google Earth at the beginning of the offensive but it couldn;t find it. Nice to got an anwer to that. And ofcourse curious to find out how the media fails to do basic researchwork that even an interrested newsfollower would do.
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The night before the Marjah onslot,FOX/CNN were showing the NATO troops (USA) high fiving and backslapping-go get'um boys.Sad part was to see Afghans soldiers dressed to killl as GIs–
GUNG-hoo was the command–kill'um.practicing the kick down door routine.
Has the media ever questioned why NATO(other than USA) is invading this country? I can understand Europe needs a reliable cheap oil supply but Canada??? Notice Greece refuses to send troops and is now paying for it– If you owe money tothe Rothchilds–you better produce or your toast :^/
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City or rural, it doesn't matter. Getting caught in stone cold lies has little, if any, effect on the stupidity continuing.
the US military and the media are forever lying to the ignorant public. this doesnt in the least surprise me, but it is distressing that no one seemed to catch onto it, or even attempt to find out if such a "city of 80,000" EXISTED, never mind if it was an actual threat.
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Look at the Afghanistan Map.. Google it.., and then look for where the Marjah is.., the location of the scattered villages are not far from where the Iranian Sunnis main region, Baluchestan, is located. Now that we know more about the Army and its fabricated stories about this tiny location, then there must be another reason for them to get themselves closer to the Iranian border.., the area as a militarily base and a geopolitical area is a very important location for NATO to be present for the feature wars with Iran and isolation of the Iranians regime, beside that the area is closer for NATO helping the Sunnis in the region. Divide and conquer.. Is the idea.
Whether it is an elected politician, bureaucrat, or a military officer who is speaking; always assume that the government is lying, unless there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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Because the news media flatout lies to serve the New World Order's agenda.
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"If you set up a school and it becomes a good school …"
Taking a break from playing cliché bingo with Barack Obama's speech (I was going to add "inextricably linked" to the new version of The Banned List, which I am compiling, only to discover that I had added it already), I must find time to record a new study of academy schools (pdf).
The research, by Stephen Machin and James Vernoit at the LSE, finds three important things:
1. Academy status tends to raise pupil performance;
2. It also tends to raise pupil performance in neighbouring schools;
3. And it tends to raise the socio-economic "quality" of the academy's intake.
The first confirms other evidence, but the second really begins to make the case for competition rather than simply diversity in schools provision. There has been a tendency for supporters of academies to concede the arguments of their opponents, that academies will have a damaging effect on morale and performance of other local schools, but to say that there is no other way except to work school by school to raise standards.
That is true, but the case for academies is even stronger. It turns out that raising the performance of one school encourages teachers and head teachers at other schools to try harder, just as the more confident advocates of academies hoped.
Julian Astle, to whom I am grateful for directing my attention to the study, seems to think that the third point counts against the academies policy. This is, I am afraid, a bad case of Prescottism. It was the Deputy Prime Minister, you will remember, who said:
If you set up a school and it becomes a good school, the great danger is that's the place they want to go to.
Of course, if an academy obtains better results for its pupils than the predecessor school, middle-class parents will be more likely to want to send their children there. This is success, not failure.
Benedict Brogan reports some encouraging figures today, of what he calls the secret revolution of Michael Gove. I prefer to think of it as the revolution started by Tony Blair and Andrew Adonis, which achieved critical mass in 2008 (when Adonis left the education department) and which is really gaining momentum now.
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Recent new (beta) technology from Microsoft called Microsoft Tag is a new way of using colorized barcodes to imprint information anywhere and can be read by any device that has a camera. In the future, you will probably see these Tags everywhere. Please read on to hear about my concerns and why Microsoft has to make this open and free to be successful.
Update: After further investigation and thinking, it seems that it's important to distinguish between Microsoft Tag and HCCB (High Capacity Color Barcodes). HCCB is the specification used by Microsoft Tag to encode an identifier, which is then used to query Microsoft for the real content. Problem with character sets is probably related to the server implementation at Microsoft and not the HCCP specification.
What is it?
It's simply a way of storing information in a visual barcode. We are all familiar with the normal barcode that has lines in it; almost all products you buy in stores today are marked with one or multiple codes. These are identifiers for the stores to more easily register the products while checking-out.
In recent years there has come up many competing standards for barcodes and the latest update to the scene is High Capacity Color Barcodes (HCCB) which comes straight out of Microsoft Research.
To create your own tags, you can visit http://tag.microsoft.com/ and from there you can generate files as PDF, XPS and WMF. I seriously hope Microsoft will be quick to add GIF, JPG, PNG and possibly SVG support very soon.
There are four different types of tags you can make: URL, Text, vCard and Dialer. What's interesting about this is the way your mobile phone can intelligently react to the various types and information that is stored in the tag. If it's a website, you can easily launch the URL on your phone. If it's a vCard, which is an open specification for sharing contact information, your phone will ask if you'd like to add that person to your contact list. The dialer will allow you to quickly dial the company or person that is encoded on the tag.
So what does it look like? Have a look at my own contact tag, or visit my friend Lars Wilhelmsen:
I have a special interest in internationalization as I live in a country in Europe. I live in Norway, and here we have 3 additional characters to the alphabet: ØÆÅ. Additionally, I have worked with customers in countries like Saudi-Arabia which require the use of Unicode at all times to have proper storage and manipulation of information.
So here is the rub with the current implementation of HCCB on my mobile phone: It only supports the top 126 characters in the ANSI codepage. At the current stage I don't know if this is a flaw in the implementation or a flaw in the specification. That's impossible for me to know as there is no openness around the specification of the HCCB.
What does all of this mean? It means when you scan the tag I provided earlier, your phone will ask you if you want to add "Bjell?s, Sondre" to your contacts. It is unable to process the character å in my last name. It doesn't work much better with other characters that are outside the top 126 characters.
Why I even concern myself with these is anyone guess, as Microsoft have often had a tendency to first release their products and services in the US and later to roll out internationally if they have success. With the Xbox, Microsoft did pretty much a world wide release and it's been very successful. The Zune on the other hand, has not yet been released outside of USA and Canada.
This is what Microsoft states in the FAQ:
Q. Will the Tag beta be available outside of the U.S?
At this time Microsoft Tag will be available to commercial publishers and the general public in the U.S. We have not made any announcements about the availability of Microsoft Tag outside of the U.S., but we will explore the possibility of making the Beta available in other countries.
So I shouldn't really be blogging about this technology, as it's not something that's available to us. Something similar happened when Microsoft released Windows Live Mesh Technology Preview. It was only available to users in the US, though after massive pressure from the online users, they expanded their support to more countries.
With the birth of the Internet, we've seen how little country borders really matter. We are all living on the same planet and experiencing the same Internet. We watch the same news and can access the same services, from anywhere and from any computer (if we ignore the fact that certain countries filter, blocks, hide and alter content).
There is always government policies and regulations to blame on, when in fact you don't want a service to be used certain places; though a company as big as Microsoft, with all their international resources and experience; they do not have the luxury of such an excuse.
Privacy Concerns
Privacy is important and we're losing it more and more. As identity thefts have become more common (and very easy to do) we need to always concern ourselves with the information we give away.
One thing I discovered with Microsoft Tag is the following: if you name the tag within the creation website with international characters, the mobile phone software will be unable to recognize the tag. I must admit that I was baffled by the fact that it didn't even handle that. This got me thinking that the actual name of the tag on the website might possibly be imprinted on the tag itself. That's a major privacy issue and there is no mentioning of this on the Microsoft website.
Then we have the reporting. When you scan a tag, they are sent to Microsoft for analysis. It's not the mobile phone that does the recognition of the tag photo, it is Microsoft servers. This should be a privacy concern for the consumer that "reads" these tags on their mobile phones. The mobile software actually asks you if you want to publish location information to the tag owner as you scan the tags.
While this is very convenient for the companies that does advertisements, it will be a blocking issue for many other usages.
Costs and Open Standards
I would think there is a lot of money involved in these types of tags through barcodes. I tried to dig up some information on costs for producers that print barcodes on their books and groceries, but I couldn't find anything. Though from what I know of barcodes, they are very simple and basic protocols. In my current project at work, we're actually imprinting two tags on some automated document generation. We're relying on the Barcode 39 and Barcode 128 standards for our need.
Another alternative barcode is the Semacode, which uses Data Matrix specification and is an open ISO specification for encoding URLs in the tag. The Semacode website states that Semacode tags are an "open system" and that tag creation is "completely unrestricted," with the SDK software tools being free of charge for non-commercial use.
Data Matrix is in the public domain for many applications, which means it can be used free of any licensing or royalties. The widely use standard in Japan is QR Code, which is protected by a patent but its rights is not exercised.
So to cover the costs aspect of Microsoft Tag, they state the following in the FAQ:
And in the event that Microsoft decides to charge publishers to use Tags, any Tags that were created and used during the beta, will continue to work, free of charge, for at least two years.
When it comes to the specification of the HCCB standard I was unable to find anything on the web. This is somewhat a concern for me, considering the fact that HCCB has the potential of becoming a mainstream protocol of data tags.
It's essential that technologies likes this is based around open principles that allows for a vibrant ecosystem to evolve around it, with services, products, gadgets and so forth all coming together.
Why might it fail?
I'm predicting that the Microsoft Tag technology might fail within a short time if it doesn't go through some drastic changes. These are my reasons:
- Lack of open specification.
- Lack of commitment to royalty free use.
- Requirement to acquire a license to use the technology.
- Dependent on centralize server technology.
- If the Microsoft servers are down, your phone won't be able to recognize tags.
- Lack of international support through Unicode.
It has to be decentralized and it has to work locally. The phone should analyze the tag and no communication should be sent to Microsoft, that way it will actually work deep inside a basement or at the cinema which might block mobile traffic.
Let's hope for a better tomorrow and I will continue to follow the progress of Microsoft Tag from its current beta stage and hope that it's use can be applicable for more than just publishers of books, DVDs, etc.


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That, like a few other of their search sites they have, is in beta.
Plus it searches articles.
Great if you are a scholar, a teacher, a student, looking for articles on a particular subject.
And from what I see, you had better have a damn good article to get this google beta engine to find you.
And it does not index sites, etc.
They do have others they have in beta, plus they pull some, add some, etc.
All tweaking to get it to where they can have a particular search engine for a particular niche, etc.
They had for a bit an image search engine in beta, but I can't find it.
Was neat because it eliminated so many useless images.


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I have lost the instructions that came with a 3 metre x 6 metre party tent that was been sold in Woodies DIY for €99 at the start of the summer (or the new rainy season)! I have called all local Woodies DIY but all party tents have been sold out! If anyone has one of these tents & still has the instructions could they by any chance let me have a copy of them????
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Under the auspices of the European Patent Office (EPO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Technische Universität München (TUM), 300 participants were drawn from many of those actively involved in creating markets from research results: major players like BMW, L'Oreal, Siemens and Philips; policy-makers and officials; as well as strong representation from those within academia who are building the bridges to take ideas and insights through the early commercial stages to the point when they can be adopted by the market.
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The Amerks annual "home" game in Buffalo was a flop from start to finish. They trailed 2-0 after 13 minutes, then gave up two quick goals midway through the second period to fall behind 4-1, and there was no recovering, not against the powerful Griffins. ...


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Q: A few Devils players at times this season have said they need a top scorer added to the roster. Obviously, it's easier said than done. Nobody is going to hand you Sidney Crosby, but is that something you really feel this team needs going forward?
Lamoriello: "Well, let me put it to you this way: I've love to have that player who said that to you tell me. He should never worry about what you don't have. He should make the most of what you have. And that to me is something I don't really like to hear, that a player would be worried about what we don't have. Their job is to perform within the abilities that we have. It's what you make out of what you have, not what you don't have."
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that is the most Lou quote I've ever heard
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Posted 14 April 2014 - 05:41 PM
true but honestly this is really the first time in his many years here where he really may deserve legitimate criticism (ie missing the playoffs 2 years in a row), so this is sort of uncharted territory for everyone involved (fans, players, management).
The interesting thing for me is seeing Lou speaking out this much. It just hows he's a bit stung by all of the criticism and wants to set the record straight where he can.
I'm just glad he came out and said that extending Cory is his #1 priority on July 1.
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Jagr needs to be re-signed.
Agreed 100%,,,,, No Doubt
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NBN may yet be trip-wire for the Liberals
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- February 23, 2014
WHEN considering the State Election campaign trail it is hard not to think of the old football cliche snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
The term refers to some teams' ability to lead all the way only to fall behind when the final siren nears.
North Melbourne was the perfect example last year – losing half of its games last season by less than 10 points and often after leading for much of the game.
Dominating the polls, the Tasmanian Liberals seem a strong bet for political glory on March 15.
But Tasmania's Hare-Clark voting system can put even the most seemingly concrete result in a cloud of uncertainty.
Some say the result of the 2010 election was more clear this far out from the polls – a hung Parliament was all but guaranteed, and it would just depend on who could form government.
With 20 days until Tasmanians go to the polls, the state election is the Liberals' to lose.
How they handle the blow torch on them and their policies during the next three weeks will say a lot about how they would handle themselves in government.
Leader Will Hodgman has made a point of telling Tasmanians Premier Lara Giddings has been "grandstanding for Tasmania" while he has been "standing up for Tasmania".
A quick trip to Sydney was touted as a "standing up for Tasmania" mission to talk NBN with Malcolm Turnbull last week.
But the gloss was taken off the trip when it emerged Mr Hodgman was also attending a Bruce Springsteen concert in Sydney.
The sideshow of the concert attendance took away from the real issue on the line: What sway has Mr Hodgman got in Canberra?
Mr Turnbull's change of position on the NBN rollout in Tasmania is clearly nothing short of a backflip in the eyes of Tasmanian voters.
Mr Hodgman himself acknowledged the NBN backflip could cost his team the State Election.
But returning from Sydney it appeared the only real assurance Mr Hodgman got from Mr Turnbull was that the federal Communications Minister would turn Ms Giddings's NBN from power poles proposal into a trial, despite trials having already been done.
It certainly appears that nothing much has changed.
It could be argued Mr Hodgman has become a victim of his own success.
With a 48 per cent preferred premier rating (Ms Giddings is 21 per cent) and all polls pointing to a majority Hodgman-led government, maybe his mates in Canberra don't see the need to help Mr Hodgman out.
A recent ReachTEL poll commissioned by the Sunday Tasmanian and the Mercury threw up a variety of possible scenarios for March 15 including a Greens opposition, a Labor-Green-Palmer United Party government and Mr Hodgman falling one seat short of a majority.
Despite the Tasmanian Liberals being favourites, like football, nothing is guaranteed.
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Harry Aleander of Hobart Posted at 10:30 PM February 25, 2014
If Tasmanians are stupid enough to vote Giddings & Co or another hung parliament back again then they deserve what they get. History tells us that they are ... unfortunately for them. What a bunch of lemmings!
David Dobbin of Launceston Posted at 9:35 PM February 24, 2014
Dale - I have made one big miscalculation, which I am still surprised by..... two years ago I predicted that the Libs would dump Hodgman for a proper leader with energy, vision and ideas, long before this election. I could not imagine they would think he could lead them to victory. Surely there must be savvy political heads in the Liberal Party, I thought, pragmatic, heard-headed realists who could see Hodgman was all froth and bubbles? How wrong I was! Perhaps you might take note of my electoral analysis because it is based on real data, but clearly my political antenna are tuned to rational, pragmatic political decison-making which is clearly a scarce resource in the current Tasmanian Liberal Party.
David Dobbin of Launceston Posted at 2:14 PM February 24, 2014
Unfortunately Pat that article says absolutely nothing to negate my comments. I wish you would learn how to read statistics, and do some analysis of your own. First you misquote the Sydney Morning Herald, now you want the Mercury to do the work for you. Just go to the Australian Electoral Commission website and download the results from the 2010 election, including all the preference flows. You can also Google the opinion polls from 2010, and 2013-14. Have a good look Pat. You'll find confirmation of everything I have said. Libs polls peaked a year ago and are declining poll by poll, less than 50% now. The article you quote dismisses the 23% Undecideds, which in 2010 went mostly to Labor. Include the Undecideds in the EMRS poll and you have the Libs on 38%, Labor 23%. These aren't my opinions, Pat, just cold hard reporting of the facts.


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Cappella Paluzzi Albertoni
The death of Pope Alexander VII in 1667 marked the end of a period. His successors refrained from embarking on large and expensive renovations of churches. The activity of Bernini slowed down: he worked for many years on a statue of Louis XIV (now in Versailles). In 1675 he designed a chapel in the peripheral church of S. Francesco a Ripa for the family Paluzzi-Albertoni, where his pictorial approach is even more evident than in the other chapels.
The viewer is guided towards the end of the chapel by a sort of frame. There is no traditional altar, but a composition made by different materials and by different artists. A colored marble is shaped in the form of a drapery on which lies a statue of Beata Ludovica Albertoni (or perhaps St Anne) by Bernini. Above the statue a fine painting by Giovanni Battista Gaulli il Baciccio on a subject drawn by Bernini. Slightly above the statue, in a very unusual position, two series of stucco angels converge towards it. Finally the entire wall is covered by a gilded decoration.
Also in this chapel Bernini devised a hidden window to direct light on the face of Beata Ludovica Albertoni.
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Cappella Raimondi in S. Pietro in Montorio
Cappella Cornaro in S. Maria della Vittoria
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Monuments showing the dead in a medallion
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Mark Cilia Vincenti wrote: > I think it would be quite useful to have simple arithmetic to be allowed > in the width and height attributes. This does not necessarily give one > extra functionality, but results in cleaner, smaller code when trying to > achieve some specific designs. > > Some examples: > >
this is some text that's 10 pixels over half > of the allocated space
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