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Coffee - Yes or No??
Hi, Am a coffee addict and am reducing the intake. Is it a complete no no to coffee or can it be consumed moderately.. like 2 cups a day.?? I read many articles but they are so confusing.... not really answering my query...
Posted: 08/29/2011 by sanjuna
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My doctor says 2-3 cups a day is totally fine. I am not a coffee drinker but I like to have a can of pop in the mornings. She said it is safe to drink 200-300 mg of caffeine a day and a regular cup of coffee is about 100. A can of soda is about 35-75 mg of caffeine so, pretty much like everything else, in moderation it is ok.posted 08/29/2011 by Shannon158
all the articles I have read say about one cup of coffee should be the limit on caffeine or 200mg. But I think my midwife said 400mg should be ok. I used to drink 1 or 2 cups a day, when I found out I was pregnant I split one cup early in the day and then had the other half later. Now I just have one cup of black tea, 2 cups of green tea, or diet coke, when I need it. It sucks because I'm so tired.posted 07/07/2012 by abbs12113
I was told it is perfectly safe to have one cup of regular coffee a day. On the upside you can drink as much decaf as you want! I gave up my coffee habit before I got pregnant because I knew it would be so hard for me to quit. Now that I am 15 weeks I barely crave a cup.....though I admit when my hubby has a nice fresh cup and I catch a whiff, it is hard to resist. I usually just get a decaf or a nice hot cup of cocoa. Good luck!!!!!posted 08/30/2011 by diane51679
Thank you all for your answer..!!posted 08/30/2011 by sanjuna
Thank you Shannon for your helpful answer :) will go right now for my today's cup of coffee.. :)posted 08/29/2011 by sanjuna
I'm a mother to 4 kiddos and I drank coffee throughout all of my pregnancies (maybe 3 cups per day). I wouldn't have been able to function w/o it...guess I'm a coffee addict, too. I still drink coffee daily and I breastfeed for probably 95% of his diet still at 9 1/2 months old. He is not affected in any way by it. I wouldn't go overboard (like drink a whole pot) with it, but you can definitely have your coffee while pregnant/nursing. I do mix half of my regular coffee grounds with decaf before I brew...I don't notice a difference.posted 08/29/2011 by jesskahn
Women who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant consume no more than 200 mg of caffeine per day. This is the amount of caffeine in about one 12-ounce cup of coffee. (A 16-oz Starbucks contains 250-400 mg). Some studies suggest that larger amounts of caffeine may contribute to fertility problems or miscarriage. Caffeine is a stimulant, it increases your blood pressure and heart rate, both of which are not recommended during pregnancy. Caffeine also increases the frequency of urination. This causes reduction in your body fluid levels and can lead to dehydration. Caffeine crosses the placenta to your baby. Although you may be able to handle the amounts of caffeine you feed your body, your baby cannot. Your baby's metabolism is still maturing and cannot fully metabolize the caffeine. Any amount of caffeine can also cause changes in your baby's sleep pattern or normal movement pattern in the later stages of pregnancy. The less caffeine you consume, the better.posted 08/29/2011 by sugar&spiceX3
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Project Icarus Workshop Winner Announced: Andreas Hein's "Ghost" + Future Plans
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In January 2013 the Project Team were discussing the challenges of designing the Project Icarus spacecraft with a large, dispersed volunteer group. We had a large back catalogue of research and trade studies but no proper engineering designs to speak of. In fact we couldn't even agree the main propulsion system or other major systems for our first concept designs. So we instigated the internal competition to create concept designs by splitting the project team in to self selected sub-teams based around what was felt some of the top fusion propulsion options. The outline parameters were based on the project ToRs (Terms of Reference) for a mainly fusion spacecraft, on a 100 year mission with up to 150 tonnes payload (given the unavoidable size of your typical fusion spacecraft).
The Project Icarus workshop on the 21st/22nd October in London was held at the British Interplanetary Society headquarters in Vauxhall. Organised as the culmination of the competition period intended to find the best Icarus Concept design it forced team members to start putting earlier trade studies and research in to use in actually designing spacecraft. In earlier blogs you will have read about the four teams that made it to the workshop which were the Munich Ghost Team headed up by Andreas Hein, the Icarus Firefly design by Robert Freeland II, the Ultra Dense Deuterium (UDD) concept design by Milos Stanic and the Starship Resolution team headed up by Kelvin Long.
The workshop itself commenced with a Project update by the project leader Rob Swinney, followed by Stephen Baxter giving an overview of the main issues with Daedalus that needed to be resolved (which had been prepared from earlier work by Jim French). Each of the sub-teams then took turns to present their designs to the workshop.
Finally after 2 and a bit days there was a unanimous decision that the Ghost team had created the overall best design. Congratulations to Andreas Hein and his budding team of interstellar spacecraft designers! A hearty well done's for the endeavours of the other participants whose efforts went beyond the call of duty, particularly the team leaders Robert Freeland II, Milos Stanic and Kelvin Long.
A further outcome of the workshop was to down select options for future design work. Now, although it was a agreed that the Ghost design was the best overall design because of its breadth and excellent analysis that still left plenty to debate. Foremost was which propulsion scheme, fuel and ignition system should be further developed. But we did come to decisions on such things as Helium 3 mining and the use of Magnetic sails. In the end the workshop identified that two propulsion schemes should be taken forward, ICF (with a detailed look at the D/D reaction) and z-Pinch and using a common spacecraft bus based on the ghost design such that, if at all possible, either propulsion option could be 'plugged' in.
The next stage of the work is a preliminary design and further detailed systems design work to be completed by the end of 2014.
A big thank you to everyone who supported the workshop in any way!
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Congratulations to the Ghost team!
If I'm right, the Ghost spaceship was the fastest. Congratulation!
If Icarus is built in Earth orbit and is fueled with deuterium from Earth's oceans, would we start the main fusion propulsion engine in Earth orbit, or would we use another propulsion system for leaving Earth orbit and start the fusion engine out in interplanetary space, well away from the Earth-Moon System? If we use another propulsion system for departure from the Earth-Moon System, what wculd it be? Would it be chemical, nuclear-electric, solar-electric, or something else altogether?
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Every year I eagerly anticipate the new gardeners world calendar but this year I have been very disappointed.So sad.
I loved the glossy beautiful pictures of gardens, wildlife and flowers.
But this year not only has the calendar gone from a pleasing large rectangular format to a smaller square format,the photoes have a matt finish and even the pictures have no depth and mainly consist of small flat looking, uninspiring single flowers and on top of that printing has been squeezed into the already smaller area taking all the joy away.
Any words would be better of with the date section.
So now i 'm having to find myself a new calendar for next year somewhere else.
Your calendar just looks cheap this year.So disappointing.
Some others have the same sentiments
I really like the smaller size. Oh dear, We can't all be pleased can we!
The photo's are from GW readers, so maybe you could put your nominations forward for next year, at least there will be one photo you like.
This is my first one and I like it, There would never be enough roon for me to write in all my garden notes, seeds etc,on a calendar, so I use an A4 ring binder book.. The calendar does what it says, tells you the day and date.
Just to add my feedback. My wife and I were very dissapointed with the smaller size. It is perhaps due to the BBC selling the magazine, so the object now is profit, profit, profit.
Kind regards
I looked to see if there was any GW editors response to the comments re the awful smaller GW calendar, hopefully to say that it will be going back to the larger size of previous years
.In its present state it is neither use nor ornament, with not enough space to put more than one job to be done never mind that the job has then been done.
I for one will look at the size of it before buying this years.Poor show GW.
~I have yet to see it. though i think we should get one in next months mag.
I shan't bother with it this year.
I have so many wonderful phptps from my garden and have them set to keep appearing randomly as screen savers, reminding me of past treasures. What dothink of this one? I grew it from seed and very proud to see its first flowers this year. Sadly the scorching sun may have killed it off, but what memories in this picture!
I can get the 2013 calendar half price ....bargain
Lovely pic GG. You could make your own 2014 calendar. Lots photo places make them up. Lovely way to remember your garden and make great presents.
What flower is this one gg?
Verdun.........2012 calandar is buy one get two free,great offer
Well, the way David K's Camera Corner thread is going maybe they'll commission some photos for next year


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The Graduate School of Business Administration (GBA) and the Bloomberg Institute announced on Jan. 31 a partnership that will take advantage of a new online assessment tool that the company has made available to students for free.
The Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT) is a three-hour test taken in a proctored environment at a Bloomberg office or university. Developed in collaboration with financial professionals, recruiters, and academics, the BAT measures skills and knowledge that matter to employers, said Gerald Walker, director of business development at Bloomberg.
"This is not a philanthropic business we're in; we're doing this because we believe there's money to be made. But it does appeal to our philanthropic nature of, 'Can we make markets more efficient? Can we expose people who haven't been exposed to recruiters around the world?'" Walker said.
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The signing ceremony, which took place at the Lincoln Center campus, was attended by David Gautschi, Ph.D., dean of GBA; business faculty members and students.
The test, which features 150 questions in 11 categories, will be given to incoming students to see how much they know about subjects such as corporate valuation, economics, financial markets, financial statements analysis, investment banking, investment management, and analytical reasoning, as well as their situational judgment and math, modeling, and verbal skills, Gautschi said.
They will be encouraged to take it again before graduation.
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The BAT is meant to be more than a gauge of talent. Although it is taken anonymously, students can request that their scores be entered into a database. If they appeal to a company that subscribes to the database, a recruiter may contact the student for a job interview.
Before taking questions from the participants, Walker demonstrated how an employer would search for someone who, for example, wants to work in New Zealand and speaks Mandarin.
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As a woman of color, I wholeheartedly agree. But are charters-- a legacy of the school choice movement born in the post-integration South, where white parents sent their children to private, state-funded "segregation academies"--the right vehicle?
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Yet with charters proliferating, I reflected that they might, after all, enable parents, educators, community-based organizations and others to shape the education of their children.
Then I learned about the many charter "chains" run by Education Management Organizations (EMOs), whose managers typically are neither from economically disadvantaged backgrounds nor of color. Now I'm researching how white-run EMOs arrive at their vision for charters whose student bodies are entirely black and/or Latino; how the community can better influence school governance; and why, given all the question marks, blacks and Latinos aren't more skeptical about charters. A parent seeking to enroll her child at a new charter school gave me one answer to that question: "If my child can't get into this school," she said, "where else can he get a good education?"
Janine Rudder is a master's degree candidate in Sociology and Education (with a policy concentration) at Teachers College.
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I've seen a few people, over the years, compare knitting to programming. It usually goes something like this:
Wow, have you ever looked at a knitting pattern? It looks kind of like source code! Those knitters must be real geeks!
And it's often accompanied by a snippet of a set of actual knitting instructions that look like incomprehensible gibberish to the uninitiated, but which your grandma could probably read and turn into a jumper or a scarf or an attractive toilet-paper-roll cover (my Nanna actually knitted these!)
In case you haven't seen this kind of knitting pattern before, here's an example:
There was even a post a little while ago entitled Knitters and coders: separated at birth? that talked about knitting patterns as code, and worked through some examples using regular expressions. It was a good post, but I don't think it went far enough, so I want to riff on it a bit.
Here's the thing. Let's say you have a pattern that says:
row 10: k2 p3 *(c6f p6) rpt from * 8 times c6f p3 k2
(Or as the aforementioned article would put it would put it, (c6f p6){9}.)
You read those instructions and do what they say, producing a row of knitting that incorporates a number of cable twists against a purl background.
Is what you're doing programming? Of course not! It's the reverse of programming: you're reading a series of low-level instructions and doing what they say. It would be more accurate to say you're an interpreter, or possibly a compiler, since it'll usually save you time and trouble to read a pattern right through before you begin. (Ask me how I know. Ugh.) You might even be called a human computer.
But let's be clear: even though what you're doing when you read a pattern is a complex technical skill, and involves code, it's not programming.
Despite that, I very firmly believe that knitting is like programming. I just think that the common analogy drawn — of printed knitting patterns as source code — is not a very good one for describing the intellectual process of knitting as it is practiced by the current generation of geeky crafters.
To explain this I'm going to have to take a detour, so please bear with me. What follows is based on conversations I had years ago with my friend Rose White, aka @yarnivore, who studies hacker culture and presented at CCC (a hacker conference in Germany) on the subject of guerilla knitting. Watch Rose's guerilla knitting talk on Youtube. I'm going to proceed to paraphrase Rose for the next few paragraphs here, so credit goes to her, and all blame for any errors to me.
In her presentation, Rose talks about knitting patterns as intellectual property through history. When knitting was first developed in the middle ages, it was a secret skill known only to the members of exclusive knitting guilds, who didn't share it with anyone else. However, as Rose points out, knitting is easy to reverse engineer, so it didn't take long for non-guild people to figure it out and start doing it. As one of the great knitters once wrote:
"Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course, superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage." — Elizabeth Zimmerman
And so, from about the 16th or 17th century onward, you start to see more people knitting for themselves and their families, or as a cottage industry. Throughout this period, a number of traditional knitting styles and patterns were developed, but the fundamental thing about them was that, for the most part, they were the sort of patterns you could pass from person to person without writing them down.
Take a sock as an example. The simplest sock is a tube of fabric knitted until it's long enough, then closed up at one end. Of course, it'll fit better if you find a way to make it bend at an angle around the heel, and there are a number of techniques you can use for that. Ribbing at the cuff will help it stay up better. If you want a long, shapely sock you can add more stitches around the calf and reduce them at the ankle. You'll save yourself some discomfort and possible blisters if you find a way to graft the toe end instead of sewing a lumpy seam. And of course you'll probably want to embellish your sock according to the local fashion: perhaps a fancy coloured band around the top, or twisted cables down the side, or a repeating texture all over.
This is just the icing on the cake, though: socks are all just tubes, when you get down to it. Fundamentally, there's nothing about knitting a sock that needs a pattern; for hundreds of years, all anyone needed was a "slightly below-average intelligence", an already-knitted one to look at every so often for reference, and perhaps a few pointers from someone who'd done it before. Gloves, jumpers, and other knitted garments are much the same. For the most part, like the Internet, they're just a series of tubes. Ba-dum-tish!
Fast forward to that point in the industrial revolution when most textile production has become mass production, most working class people are pulling long hours in factories and mills, and it's cheaper to just buy a pair of socks than to knit your own. At this point, knitting becomes a bit of a luxury activity, and you start to see this in the proliferation of Victorian-era knitting books for ladies, specialising in delicate items like lace doilies and silk purses. No longer were people knitting practical items based on traditional patterns you could figure out with "below-average intelligence"; it became hip to show off your accomplishments by knitting increasingly complex and fiddly items, the patterns for which you could find in the finest publications for the discerning gentlewoman.
And then, in the 20th century, something truly awful happened. You see, the yarn companies realised that if they started publishing patterns themselves, they could use them to sell more yarn. But they didn't want people using just any yarn. The idea was that you'd buy, say, a Patons pattern and then buy the Patons yarn to knit it with. To make sure that consumers were locked into the Patons brand, they'd make sure that the patterns were obfuscated so you wouldn't be able to figure out how to substitute another company's yarn.
This is fundamentally bullshit, and it's amazing that they ever got away with it, but by this stage people had lost touch with a lot of the traditional methods, and so they didn't have much choice. Just so the non-knitters understand how diabolical this is, let's pause for a moment to talk a bit more about how knitting works. If you already knit and know about gauge and yarn substitution, you can skip down to below the next image.
Knitting is basically formed by repeating a single stitch (the knit stitch), which loops a length of yarn through itself in such a way as to form a stretchy fabric. To create a piece of knitting, you "cast on" a certain number of stitches, then knit, either back and forth, or round and round in circles. Each stitch looks like a "V" on one side and a sort of nubbly or wavy effect on the other side. If you want to see this, take a close look at your socks, which probably have Vs on the outside, nubbles on the inside, and alternating Vs/nubbles in the rib around the top. (A "purl" stitch is just a backwards knit stitch, with the V and nubbly sides reversed.)
Depending on the thickness of your yarn and needles, your stitches might be tight or loose. Big needles give looser stitches, and small needles give tighter ones with the same yarn. The measurement of this tightness or looseness — how many little V shapes you have per unit of distance — is called gauge or sometimes tension. For instance, worsted weight yarn on 4.5mm needles normally knits up at a gauge of 5 stitches per 2.5cm/1″, while finer yarn knit on smaller needles will have more stitches in the same distance.
As long as you know the gauge of your project and the yardage it requires, it's fairly simple to substitute one yarn for another. However, 20th century yarn companies didn't want you to know this, and they went out of their way to make sure you were locked in to their proprietary system.
So, this is the system that created knitting patterns like the one I linked at the top of this article, where yarn companies write the patterns and knitters interpret the code and execute it, without much input into the process, not even a choice of what yarn to use.
If being an instruction-executing machine doesn't sound too appealling to you, you'll be pleased to hear that there is an alternative. Modern knitters, especially those online, are increasingly returning to traditional techniques, making their own patterns, and adapting existing patterns to their own needs. One of the great leaders in this trend was the late, great Elizabeth Zimmermann, quoted above. EZ, as she is known, helped popularise, or perhaps re-popularise, traditional forms of knitwear in the United States, and along the way taught knitters to throw off the shackles of mid 20th century commercial knitting patterns and think for themselves again.
One of EZ's best known patterns is for a sweater knitted to what she calls the Elizabeth Percentage System, or EPS. It's so simple that almost anyone can understand it, and I often use it as an example when explaining the technical side of knitting to non-knitting geeks. It goes something like this:
- Knit a gauge swatch and measure how many stitches per inch you have. Now measure your torso around your widest point, or your favourite existing sweater. Multiply the number of stitches by the number of inches. This is your key number (K).
- Using a circular needle, cast on K stitches. This will be the hem around the bottom of your sweater. Knit until you get to the armpits (measure yourself or a favourite sweater to figure out how far that is).
- For each sleeve, cast on 20% of K, then increase gently (2 stitches every 6 rows should about do it) til you get to 33% of K, then knit straight until your sleeves are long enough.
- Join the sleeves to the body, and knit the yoke area (i.e. upper chest and back), decreasing — in one of several possible ways, all of which can be derived arithmetically — until you get to 40% of K, which is the neck opening, and cast off.
Of course, you can elaborate in various ways: ribbing at hem, cuffs and collar; textured stitches across part or all of the garment; coloured designs in the yoke area; leave a gap at the front and knit back and forth to make a cardigan. The options are endless, but the fundamental design is the same.
Now, people will possibly point out that EZ's EPS pattern is copyright, but there's a lot of bullshit about copyright in the knitting community, so let's be clear right now: ideas cannot be copyrighted, though the expression of them (the specific words EZ wrote in her books and newsletters) can be. The idea of EZ's EPS sweater is simple, based on traditional techniques, easy to reverse-engineer, and in fact could be done by anyone with "below-average intelligence" as she herself points out. There's nothing tricky about it, it's just simple craft.
But taking this simple kind of design and elaborating on it is where knitting really becomes like programming. When I knit a sweater this way, I'm not executing instructions written by someone else. I'm creating my own code, designing and implementing my own project from the ground up.
I start out by considering my requirements: What sort of garment do I want: pullover, cardigan, long coat? What design elements do I want to incorporate: pockets, a hood, shaping to make it more fitted at the waist, a warm shawl collar, those awesome thumb-holes in the sleeves that let you pull them down and wear them as fingerless mittens? What materials and tools do I have at my disposal? Can I take the opportunity to try out a new technique or refine my skills?
I prototype my design by knitting a swatch or something small like a hat, using the same stitches and yarn as I'm thinking of using for my finished project. From this, I figure out my gauge, and using one of the many tools available I can calculate the yardage I'll need, without ever relying on a yarn company to tell me how much of their product I ought to buy. Modern yarn sellers list the yardage of their yarn on the label, or failing that, websites like Ravelry have all the information I could need.
To implement my design, I draw on a variety of design patterns — yeah, knitting's had them far longer than OO programming has — that I've learned through classic books like EZ's or Barbara Walker's, and through blogs like TechKnitting: short row shaping for better fit, twisted rib for extra stretch in the cuffs and collar, underarm grafting to make a seamless join, endless options for buttonholes, cast-off techniques for all occasions. Some knitting techniques even follow agile principles, like EZ's "thumb trick" for mittens or her "afterthought pockets", which are inserted when and where needed without requiring Big Design Up Front.
When it comes to this kind of knitting, an experienced knitter is one who takes a modular approach, mixing and matching existing patterns and individual techniques, to build a finished product. It's someone who can look at a pattern and figure out how to knit it in a different yarn, a different gauge, and a different size, without breaking a sweat over the calculations. It's someone who geeks out on the knot topology, the 3D spatial reasoning, and the materials science of it all… and knows how to put them to practical use. It's the difference between being a code monkey and being an engineer.
So when we talking about how "knitting is like programming", let's take a minute to go beyond reading and executing code and think about how much further knitters' technical skills really extend.
Epilogue: Since I suspect a bunch of geeky knitters will read this, I'm going to lay out my current technical challenge and see if anyone has any thoughts.
I'm knitting a triangular shawl beginning at one of the tips, started by casting on 3st and increasing at the start of every second row. It has integral i-cord borders, which I'm doing by yf, sl 3 at the end of each row, then on the next row I k3 then continue as usual.
On the straight side of the shawl this makes a nice border, firm but stretchy. But on the diagonal side (i.e. the side with the increases) the i-cord, which after all only has half as many rows as there are in the main part of the knitting, is stretched really tight. I'm worried that it's going to limit my ability to block the shawl as vigorously as I'd like to.
My current best idea is that every second time I do the i-cord on the tightly-stretched diagonal side, I insert an extra row. That is, I would go yf sl3 at the end of the previous row, turn, k3, slip them back on the original needle, then knit the three stitches again and continue. I figure this gives me 3 i-cord rows for every 2 I had previously, which is not far from the sqrt(2):1 ratio of the side lengths. Anyone done this before?


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Was The HP Leak A Publicity Stunt?
"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
– Andy Warhol (1928-1987), legendary American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker.
In 1968, Andy Warhol famously declared the universality, and temporary nature of fame that would, in his opinion, soon engulf the world. Now, it seems HP vice president and chief technologist of cloud services Scott McClellan seems to have achieved exactly that through his LinkedIn profile that "leaked" confidential details about the company's cloud strategy.
To jog your memory, around two months back HP declared its intention to get on the cloud computing bandwagon, and in a big way; however, there weren't many details forthcoming (See: HP Declares Ambitious Plans in Cloud Computing Space). Until Tuesday, May 3, that is.
On that day, McClellan, a HP veteran of over 25 years, decided to reveal a little more than the usual on his public LinkedIn page. Although this information was revealed as part of McClellan's own responsibilities at HP, it ended up revealing a lot about the company's plans in the cloud computing space. Although this information was removed as soon as news of this "leak" became public, the media had already captured it for posterity.
Here's a lowdown on some of the information that was "leaked" out on LinkedIn as part of McClellan's suite of responsibilities:
* HP "object storage service": built from scratch, distributed system, designed to solve for cost, scale, and reliability without compromise.
* HP "compute", "networking" and "block storage" service: an innovative and highly differentiated approach to cloud computing – a declarative/model-based approach where users often provide a specification and the system automates deployment and management.
* Common/shared service: User management, key management, identity management & federation, authentication (including multi-factor), authorization and auditing (AAA), billing/metering, alerting/logging, analytics.
* Website and User/Developer Experience. Future HP "cloud" website including public content and authenticated user content. APIs and language bindings for Java, Ruby and other open source languages. Fully-functional GUI and CLI (both Linux/UNIX and Windows).
* Quality assurance, code/design inspection processes, security and penetration testing.
Now, you may have noticed my use of quotation marks around the word "leak". That is because, personally, there's still some doubt about the belief that this was an unintentional release of information. After all, HP does not lose much of a strategic advantage by releasing this information (considering there are already multiple players using the same approaches); however, it does end up whipping up considerable interest in its new cloud-based services.
This doubt is reinforced by the rumor that HP was supposed to have announced this information at VMworld, the global technology conference organized by virtualization giant VMware and scheduled to be held in August. A span of three months is not much in terms of product development lifecycle, at least not enough to make long-term plans go awry. With this "leak" it is guaranteed that any HP event at VMworld will have a full house, and the full attention of the cloud computing industry.
Additionally, such a simple error from a veteran like McClellan is definitely unexpected. For someone who has been with the company since 1985 (as determined from his LinkedIn profile, still up but without the controversial information), this is behavior that goes completely against the grain. Of course, even veterans can make rookie mistakes, as Mark Hurd (of fudging expense accounts fame, and incidentally, also of HP) can attest.
Therefore, this "leak" may have been an actual leak, and not a publicity stunt. However, I guess we will have to wait years for the truth to emerge, perhaps in Scott McClellan's memoirs.
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A great game, with a dead community.bungalox | Nov. 14, 2013 | Review of Rooks Keep - PC
If you can find someone to play with you, this is a fun and good looking game of Chess. There is also a mode called Battle Chess which adds another layer of depth, allowing pieces to actually fight their opponent instead of just being taken. If Chess isn't really your thing, they have death matches and other fast paced arena matches. If the community was more active I would recommend this game to people, however playing solo against AI is not challenging (Spamming moves can get you an easy win in Battle Chess). If you can get this cheap, I recommend buying two and giving one to a friend for a good night of chess.


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Re: Damaged goods ?
- From: "Mac" <MCallanan@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Jan 2007 16:03:15 -0800
krongone wrote:
That's Theo and his great scouting system.
E. Renteria
Was Renteria a failure? I think one has to evaluate his time here, he
was a failure in the field no question. With the bat his numbers were
slightly off from his previous season which one would have to expect
when changing leagues although his OBP was higher. If I am correct, and
correct me if im not but Theo Epstein wasn't the general manager at the
time of his trade and deciding to eat the large majority of his
contract. Had Renteria stayed and put up the numbers he did in '06
people would be singing a different tune about this deal.
H. Ramirez
A. Sanchez
So far it looks like a bad trade however it is way too early to tell.
If Beckett can return to his old form then this deal could be
considered a wash.
F. Sanchez
This was a bad trade hands down. Freddy had 51 AB's in a Red Sox
uniform and never had a chance to prove himself and we have nothing but
bad past statistics from Sauerbeck and Suppan to show for it.
J. Damon
C. Crisp
Just like JB this is too early to tell. Coco had a disappointing first
season but was hampered by injury and is signed to a nice contract
given that he can return to his form of 2005.
J. Bard/ D. Mirabelli
C. Meredith
Bad deals, no question although if you look at Meredith and Bard's
statistics at the levels they were at at the time its understandable.
B. K. Kim
I disagree here. We were in dire need of a RP / SP at the time. People
forget that Byung-Hyun Kim did have a good first season here. He came
in and filled the whole of a starter here and then became our closer
and did a good job in 2003. People quickly forgot that Kim pitched
lights out for us as a closer in September (3-1, 5 saves, 0 era in 13
IP) which helped us get into the playoffs that season not to mention
his 0.95 era in July which helped us as well. Hillenbrand was
expendable because of Mueller and Millar and Kim did for us what he had
to do at the time.
B. Arroyo
Agreed although it may still be too early to tell.. If Wily Mo turns
into a stud and Arroyo pitches the way he did in the final months of
last season it will be a different story.
Theo's ego & incompetence is destroying our our beloved Sox. A true
defintion of an Idiot.
The book is still out.. If Pena, Beckett, Crisp, Lugo, et al turn into
busts then I will agree but we still have a lot to find out.
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