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Bing will soon debut a big search results redesign. Rather than forcing social results into the main organic results, Bing will unveil a three-column design with organic results as the main pane, "entities" in the middle, and social on the right.
"People are using the Web to do things in the real world, and that's a big change from where things were a decade ago," Bing Senior Director Stefan Weitz said in a statement. "And so the 10 blue links that search has been predicated on for the last decade no longer makes sense. Simply put, that's not how you get things done."
Decluttered Organic Results
Bing, recognizing that not all people want to have their search results filled up with social "clutter" will put its focus on simplified, traditional, relevant organic results, rather than jamming social signals into search results. Bing has found that those results aren't that relevant to users, with 75 percent of searches not providing users the right answer.
So Bing will remove "unnecessary links" to core information users want, divorcing most of the noisy social network results from the organic results, in the hopes of providing more relevant results more quickly.
This revamp was foreshadowed by Bing's simpler user interface rolled out just last week, which removed the left sidebar and minimized the top navigation.
The "middle" Snapshot column aims to show users useful information about specific places or topics – specifically, restaurants, hotels, businesses, and movies. It will be filled with such things as events, hours, phone number, maps, restaurant reservations, and reviews, in part aided by partnerships and integration with companies like Yelp, Open Table, and Fansnap.
In Bing's example screenshot, a specific hotel search returns such info as rates, check-in and check-out dates, a map, reviews, and pictures. More generic searches (e.g., "chicago seafood restaurant") might just provide a map in this column because there isn't clear intent.
This is similar to Google's "Sources" feature experiment from November. It will be a more "selective" interactive experience, so certain search queries may not trigger this column.
"Up until now, people would have to visit different sites, read reviews about that hotel, and cobble them all together to form an opinion," Weitz said. "With snapshot, we do the heavy lifting by assembling the most useful information in a way that allows people to quickly consume it and make it valuable." Bing plans to further expand this feature in the future to add places, things, and people.
Social Sidebar
The Sidebar is where all of Bing's social activity will live. Bing will pull in information from social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Quora, LinkedIn, Google+, Skype, and Blogger. It will consist of four features:
- Ask Friends
- Friends Who Might Know
- People Who Know
- Activity
Taking advantage of the Bing-Facebook partnership, with Ask Friends, Bing will allow users to ask their Facebook friends questions from the Bing sidebar related to Bing's search suggestions, such as whether a Facebook friend would agree with Bing's top restaurant recommendation. Questions will appear as notifications on Facebook, and can be answered from within Facebook or by returning to the Bing results.
Insode the Friends Who Might Know area, when you conduct a search, the Bing Sidebar will show searchers a list of friends who might be able to help answer your question or solve your problem.
"So if you query 'Hawaii,' user models in the network look at public information in your profile such as where your friends live or have lived, what they've liked on Facebook, and photos [they have shared] — and turn up a list of people who likely have information relevant to your query," says Sandy Wong, principal development lead for Bing.
In People Who Know, the social Sidebar will show the names of experts, enthusiasts, and influentials who have blogged or tweeted about topics related to a user's search. From the Sidebar, Bing will allow users to click on a person's name to read their blog or follow them on Twitter.
Finally, in Activity, you'll be able to see real-time posts and queries, answer friends' questions, and Like posts. Bing said these activities will show up on Bing as well as Facebook, allowing you to comment from either place. Users will have to be signed into Facebook when on Bing for all this Bing-Facebook integration to work.
The new results will roll out of the "coming weeks". You can sign up here to be notified when it's available. You can also a check out a couple videos of the new search layout in Bing's official announcement.
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More Gruel, More Gruel
From Mark Grant, author of Out of the Box
It is really rather pathetic. The Prime Minister of Spain today called for a deposit guarantee fund, pleaded for the EU to take over the budget of Spain and said Spain would cede its sovereignty over its banks. This is all just one thing; a cry for money and money at any cost. The poor fellow has obviously lost whatever self-respect that he had and is behaving no differently than some street urchin begging for alms. What can be seen from this kind of behavior is the desperate state that Spain is in and it is reflected in his desperate pleas for help. I would speculate that so much has been hidden and so many balance sheets falsified that Spain has suddenly found itself in a sea of their own making which could be termed, "Dire Straits." When Rajoy termed the bailout for Spain as a "Victory for Europe" I knew that he had left "sense and sensibility" behind and headed into the land of Don Quixote where windmills were imagined to be giants and fantasy had replaced reality. The problem is, unlike the creation of Miguel Cervantes, this guy is the Prime Minister of Spain and not some aged senior chasing after the Knights Templar in his later years.
More Gruel Please Sir
I am reminded of that famous scene in Oliver where a second serving is asked for and the commotion that it causes. The European Union can now be viewed as three distinct groups. The bailed-out countries that are trying to renegotiate their agreements, pleading for more money, and asking for more integration in the hopes of getting more gruel. This is all characterized by some grand plan of course so that they can con the wealthier nations out of their money under the banner of the Three Musketeers, "All for one and one for all" which really just means; "give me your money so I can live just like you do and thank you so much." Then the second group is the Brussels Sprouts which want to take over power from all of the national governments and run Europe out of Belgium and wave flags, have parades and dine on Beluga caviar accompanied by splits of champagne. They believe their own rhetoric and think that Europe is going to be some commonality where the people in Berlin and the people in Lisbon have the exact same standard of living and I think there will be a revolution in Germany before that is allowed to happen. Then the final category is Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and Austria which everyone else wants to pay for this enterprise as Germany passes out just enough to maintain control and makes certain well defined noises to keep everyone begging for more while they refuse to partake in any of the nonsense bandied about by the poorer nations as they are not going to destroy their own economy for the sake of some grand scheme that would raise their cost of funding to an average of Europe while lowering their standard of living to a mean of Madrid and Athens; it is just not going to happen and no delusions should be maintained.
It is not that hard to figure out, this dis-jointed Europe, just watch what the Germans actually do and don't pay too much attention to what they say; that is the trick of it. The whole thing is a double con game but the people with the money, as in the rest of life, are who is in control and not the beggars with outstretched hands hanging about on the corner. Spain has fallen, Italy is under siege and France wants to join the have-nots in the hope that Germany will pay for all of the promises made by Hollande to the French people during their election. As Italy falters France may be the next nation to come under closer inspection especially if Hollande proceeds to implement more government spending and the lowering of the retirement age along with his other Socialist programs. Again I remind you to pay little attention to the rhetoric but watch what Germany does and that will set the program for the future. They can vote all they want in Brussels and draw up all kinds of grand plans they desire but if Germany does not want to accept them then it is little more than semi-polite conversation over well-dressed cucumber sandwiches in various capital of Europe.
June 17
This is the day of the elections in Greece as Democracy rears its ungainly head. One way or another; the outcome is likely to be unsettling. If the leftist party wins then a game of chicken will ensue with Germany doing a down and dirty calculation on how much it will cost them and offering just that much and no more. Then the young leader of the new Greek government will probably overplay his hand and Germany will turn off the monetary spigot. This will then lead to a second game of chicken where Germany tries to get Greece to leave as Greece dares them to throw them out. The rhetoric will get quite testy and we will all watch to see who blinks first. Greece will regain the spotlight but the cost of the performance will be high. There is $1.3 trillion riding on this bet which is the total amount of Greece's unpaid bills and a default will cause havoc past what I think the Germans will calculate. Europe seems to believe its own jargon these days and I fully expect any EU offers to miss the mark by a wide margin and then the demons will leap from the Trojan horse.
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"When Rajoy termed the bailout for Spain as a "Victory for Europe" I knew that he had left "sense and sensibility" behind and headed into the land of Don Quixote where windmills were imagined to be giants and fantasy had replaced reality. The problem is, unlike the creation of Miguel Cervantes, this guy is the Prime Minister of Spain and not some aged senior chasing after the Knights Templar in his later years."
Rajoy may be the PM of Spain, but in reality he is a clerk sent to deliver the butchers bills to the spanish people by the banksters, nothing more.
Spanish miners couldn't agree more, it seems this time they'll be the ones to start the revolution.
If there's anyone ballsy enough to stand up, I'd put my money on the Spaniards (or the French, depending on what's on the menu for them).
Revolution in Germany? What you're seeing is more than the usual angst, but the common people are way too confused and divided (and disarmed for that matter) that I don't see it happen anytime soon. I see a lot of anger all across the comments pages, currently the focus is on the islamists who are seen as a more direct and tangible threat. One pot that could boil over in the near future IMO.
More likely is some sort of revolt against the "energy revolution" (or Merkel's "Great Transformation", sounds very Mao-esque, doesn't it?) by both the energy and heavy industries sector. That the government isn't backing away from its plans makes me think me Merkel is shitting in her pantsuit, hoping she can keep at least this one lie afloat until the elections.
It always looks different (even sensible?) from the outside, but everything's on full retard over here.
More likely is some sort of revolt against the "energy revolution" (or Merkel's "Great Transformation", sounds very Mao-esque, doesn't it?) by both the energy and heavy industries sector. That the government isn't backing away from its plans makes me think me Merkel is shitting in her pantsuit, hoping she can keep at least this one lie afloat until the elections.
German government is shitting its pants because of that report made by their military on peak oil.
There are two things the Germans fear: running out of fuel (they lost WW2 because of this) and lack of democracy.
a month ago Rajoy stated they hadno need for any money
Yesterday Monti of Italy stated the same exact thing.
The Author is not following the script. It will be 4 weeks before the italian's need their 100, 200. 300, 500 ....whatever billion
To call your "analysis" superficial, would be to give you too much credit.
Spain went "big Green" (windmills, solar, "green" jobs which overpaid).....during the last PM regime...
This doofus is pulling a "reverse Obama" by blaming them (in this case, justified).
Nonetheless, ceding over sovereignty to the EU is a watershed.
Chasing after the Knights Templar might not be so far off.
Bailout with "Templar Bonds" based upon yet unfounded Templar gold. ( Library research already underway with the very best people. Expedition ship keel going to be laid in Greek shipyard with rugged Irish design and recruiting Portuguese crew and very experienced Italian cruise ship captain. )
Mariano Rajoy letter to Barroso:"a centralized finance manager, in addition to being the manager of European debt"
Definitely the Spanish prime minister has entered panic.
goal achieved: human society irreversibly addicted to money.
Really...? I'm certainly not addicted to debt. I have been conditioned to lust for money as if it were a drug and the corresponding come-down is an extra balance on the credit card, but I don't wake up every day hurting to increase my debt (maybe I'm old-fashioned/too responsible?)
I'm actually weaning off the gear - deleveraging.
Tried quitting cold turkey, couldn't. Had to enter into a rehab programme
It's going well - I aim to be clean by end of 2012.
I think the Greek govt. acted more gracefully in their begging than the Spanish.
"Victory for Europe"...that makes me sick..is this what it really comes too...
Better them than us (USA).
Did you see the Yahoo poll?
About 98% of the voters said the USA should help EU financially...."under NO circumstances."
I was basking in the glorious glow of Victory........then my sparkler went out.
Oh well......it was fun while it lasted.
I am looking forward to seeing what the German auditors find when they audit the books.
LOL ... "Brussels Sprouts"
One wonders what would have become of Belgium if they hadn't created the EU .. in Brussels.
I remember the early 80's where 76% was the top tax rate in Belium .. while the country was effectively BK.
.... do they now have a Govt. BTW ?
Sort of curious as to what would happen to Belgium if the EU disappeared !
In just a few years from now, this will read: "The United States was crying (to China) for 'money at any cost, like some street urchin begging for alms. So much was hidden, so many balance sheets falsified, that the United States found itself in a sea of it's own making, which could be termed, Dire Straits."
touche and plus 100.
Well Spain needs to raise Money how to do this? Well we must turn to FATHER TED!
Father Dougal: I know! Well lure them into a giant bingo game!
Father Ted: And how are we going to do that?
Father Dougal: We'll print up some bingo cards on our printing press and... oh.
Father Ted: Yes, it's the lack of a printing press that lets us down there. Or bingo balls. Or a PA system. Or in fact, any bingo paraphernalia at all.
Father Dougal: Damn. So near, yet so far.
Sounds very similar to the Spanish and EU solutions
what i don't understand is that this whole issue can cost germany up to 1 trillion when all goes wrong. Just paying off the PIGS will add up to 500 billion. So why would they let this all go wrong?
If Germany stays in this no matter what, they too will just default on the debt. We are all broke. Now if they were smart they will just leave the Euro as they are a producer/ manufacturer based economy. Sure they will be screwed for a while but they are producers and can sell to other places.
Germans do make fine products.
I'm quite sure Herman Von Rompoy could run Spain better. He should be installed as Prime Bank Clerk
So Deutsche bank etc. gets Spains gold and choice real estate and Spaniards get sardines in rancid olive oil. The plan is working perfectly.
Except we're supposed to feel sorry for Oliver Twist, but I don't feel sorry for Spain. Stay strong, Germany.
Is it the demons or the chickens coming home to roost who will leap from the Trojan horse?
The Prime Minister of Spain is a tool of the Globalist Kleptos.
This can all work out.
If Krugmans aliens show up looking for overpriced condos on Costa del Sol and little ugly Fiats.
This is exactly how it is supposed to work out, that's why Rajoy and Monti were put there. They are there to make sure that Spain and Italy lose their independence completely, this is true for all members f the EU - this is the end game. If Greece is lucky they exit as fast as they can...
This was obvious and predictable.

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Standup spotlight: Who the F is Tommy Ryman?
Anybody who knows anything about standup comedy knows that the Twin Cities are kinda hot. This week, City Pages is giving some play to one of the many, many talented and hard-working comics: Tommy Ryman.
A theater major at the University of Minnesota, Ryman first gave standup a shot at the Acme Comedy Co.'s open mic night back in January of 2005 at the urging of his sister. "I was listening to a lot of Mitch Hedburg and Nick Swardson at the time, and I thought it would be fun to try," he says. "My first time actually went pretty well--in my opinion, at least--and I just kept going." About a year-and-a-half later, he was offered an MC spot at Acme and moved on from there.
Who the F cares about Tommy Ryman?
Over the past six years, Ryman has gotten the attention of some pretty legit names on the comedy scene. "Maria Bamford requested that I open for her; that was pretty awesome. I also got to MC for Louis CK when he came to town," he says. Then, in May of last year, he had what may have been his biggest break to date when Louie Anderson asked him to open his show in Las Vegas at the Excalibur.
"He comes to a lot of local stuff, and he saw me perform, which got us to talking," he says. "Finally, he asked me to come open for him in Vegas, which was pretty awesome."
Where the F is Tommy Ryman going?
In between auditioning for big name festivals Ryman has been on the road with Rob Little, perfecting his craft in front of audiences all across the Midwest and beyond. That's not to say his career hasn't had its setbacks, however, as he's had some trying shows, including playing to an empty casino in Michigan. "It was weird, but it was still a lot of fun," he says.
What the F would Tommy Ryman be doing if he wasn't a comic?
While his career is on the rise, Tommy has clearly given some thought as to where he'd be if he hadn't made it in the comedy biz.
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Where the F can you see Tommy Ryman next?
Ryman will be appearing at the Acme Comedy Company March 8 through 12 alongside Drew Hastings. For more info, check out www.acmecomedycompany.com. For more Tommy Ryman action in your life, check out his website at www.tommyryman.com.
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As expected, the UFC has announced that the upcoming middleweight title fight between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen has been moved to Las Vegas and will headline UFC 148
The fight was originally pencilled in for a stadium show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but a scheduling clash with a United Nations convention made the logistics difficult.
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"It was a huge, global event. If we couldn't pull it off in a soccer stadium the only choice was Vegas," said White. "This is where we wanted it to happen, Anderson obviously wanted it, Chael was okay with it."
Silva stayed on-message for the conference - "It makes no difference to me. My first championship was in Japan. A fight is a fight" - but sources say he was not happy with the switch initially and has been financially incentivised to ease his misgivings.
He certainly got no solace from Sonnen, who was sitting a few feet away on the same podium and was in ful flow for the benefit of Silva's countrymen. When Silva said Sonnen had "disrespected my family and my country and above all he disrespected the UFC audience," Sonnen pretended to fall asleep and made loud snoring noises.
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MONTREAL, Aug. 12, 2013 /CNW/ - The Canadian Tire Family of Companies and Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities welcomed Benoit Huot to its team today with an announcement and swimming clinic for children in Montreal, Quebec. Benoit, winner of nine Paralympic Games gold medals for Canada in swimming, is an inspiration to people in his home province of Quebec and across Canada. The two-year partnership will deepen Canadian Tire's connection to community sport. Benoit will serve as an ambassador for Jumpstart, which helps children in financial need participate in sports and recreational activities."Benoit and the Canadian Paralympic team inspire us with their passion and their relentless focus on achieving their dreams and improving their lives through sport," said Jean Parisien, Canadian Tire Vice-President, Quebec Region. "We all wish Benoit the best of luck as he competes in the International Paralympic Committee Swimming Championships in Montreal this week," he added. "Canadian Tire is one of the strongest brands in the country and I am happy to join the Family of Companies," said Benoit Huot. "Canadian Tire supports athletes of all skill levels, whether they are starting out on the playground, or competing at an international level. They recognize that sport has the power to unite families, communities and the entire nation." The announcement is an extension of the sport partnership announcement made earlier this year that positioned Canadian Tire, Sport Chek and Sports Experts as premier partners of the Canadian Olympic Committee and confirmed partnership agreements with the Canadian Paralympic Committee. The partnership announcement was made today during a swim clinic hosted by Benoit and sponsored by Canadian Tire at the Jean-Claude Malépart Centre on Ontario Street in Montreal. Carole Poirier, MNA for Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and first Vice-President of the Quebec National Assembly, was on hand for the announcement. Sport enriches family life and helps build communities. The Company supports amateur athletes and active families from playground to podium because it knows what it takes to succeed in whatever sporting activity Canadians choose and because it believes in the power of sport.
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Europe is already missing the online boat: a streaming music provider like Spotify had trouble rolling out its service in Europe, and its competitor Pandora is not active on the European market at all, because of royalty issues... It is time that Europe opens its borders to innovation. There is no way back, the only way is app.
I often wonder why I don't come across more female entrepreneurs in the technology industry; while the general gender bias in the IT industry still exists, it's getting more attention and scrutiny now - but the female entrepreneurs are still few and far between.
Robots already exist; indeed, they are playing an increasing role in society. It's likely that in 30 years there will be billions upon billions of robots, particularly for manual labour, but also for use in environments in which it would be dangerous for humans to operate safely.
3D printers allow the owner to print a copy of any object they see fit. If they print an object that is entirely of their own creation there's no issue. However, there are - of course - objects that are subject to copyright and design right, and this is where issues arise.
The truth is that email actually constitutes a very poor medium for modern communication. The intensity, frequency and sheer number of conversations required these days means that email cannot cope with providing the context required for effective conversation.
I've previously heard some people refer to the Skoll World Forum in Oxford as the 'Oscars of Social Enterprise' - an annual glitzy affair with celebrities and influential figures coming from across the globe to celebrate themselves and drink champagne...
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Gambling on Family Fun
By JANE GORDON
Published: October 5, 2003
APROPOSAL to build a theme park near the casinos has caused quite a stir in a region once famed for Mystic Seaport and the Mystic Aquarium. It sounds logical to place family entertainment near the casinos, the state's top tourist draw, but it may not be the slam dunk that some towns surrounding Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun hope. Las Vegas tried the same strategy about 10 years ago and the jury is still out on whether it was a good idea.
Utopia Studios, a New York investment group led by Joseph Gentile, his wife, the actress Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, and Francesca Hilton, the daughter of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Conrad Hilton, has proposed building a theme park similar to Universal Studios in California on the former site of Norwich State Hospital, which is less than 15 miles from the casinos. It is just the latest proposal to build an entertainment park near the casinos to take advantage of the almost 25 million people who go there a year.
''I believe for our casinos to continue to be successful in the future, southeastern Connecticut has to become a destination, especially as other states build casinos," said Bob Congdon, the first selectman of Preston. ''The proposal for the Norwich State Hospital site would do that. It would give people a reason to come to southeastern Connecticut, maybe for the casinos, maybe for this. We definitely need to diversify our area.''
But the question still stands. Do gambling and a family vacation mix? Should the towns who fought the casinos and their continued expansion now open their arms to developers who promise jobs and new property tax revenue? A closer look at Las Vegas shows that the same strategy there ended up with what gaming analysts said were mixed results.
In the 1990's, Las Vegas tried to promote a family-friendly image by building lavish theme parks, spending millions on entertainment to attract families. Although Las Vegas had long seen its share of children, brought by parents who wouldn't, or couldn't, leave them at home, the move worked. The percentage of families visiting Las Vegas rose, from 7 percent in 1992 to 12 percent by 1996.
Then the new approach began to unravel. The MGM Grand Hotel's $100 million Grand Adventures theme park, opened in 1993, closed in 2000, citing poor attendance. Parents who were comforted by the sight of gleaming new theme parks were stunned when a 7-year-old California girl was raped and murdered at a Nevada casino in 1997 while her father was gambling. The city has not added any new major family attractions in years.
Bit by bit, the casinos backed away from the family-friendly focus. As the MGM Grand turned its back on its theme park, it opened La Femme, a revue featuring nude dancers. Other hotels were doing the same. Still, the family numbers did not diminish, fluctuating between 10 and 12 percent of total visitors to Las Vegas over the past four years, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
''I think there was a short-term approach to the family market and it has certainly changed,'' said Sandy Zanella, a spokeswoman for the MGM Grand. ''Las Vegas as a whole is an adult playground. Families still come here and they are certainly welcome, but we are geared toward adults.''
So are Connecticut's casinos, and both tribes acknowledge that. Although regional officials were enthusiastic about creating an even larger entertainment area in the region, Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods distanced themselves from promoting the idea of children at their casinos.
''We make a distinction on separating that here,'' said Mark Brown, the chairman of the Mohegan Tribe. ''The retail component, and the restaurants, the arena, the hotels, are not bringing people into gaming. With Las Vegas, you're walking your family past the slot machines to check into the hotel.''
Foxwoods has concentrated on its resort and casino business and was adamant about its adult orientation.
''We are an adult theme park,'' said Bruce MacDonald, a spokesman for Foxwoods. ''We market to adults and we specifically do not market to people under 21 because this is an adult activity. This is not a young person's destination.''
Analysts said whether a theme park would survive in Connecticut depends on several factors. The weather in New England has been a constant issue, said Steven Kent, a gaming and lodging analyst at Goldman Sachs. A theme park also needs to be self-supporting, he said, meaning it cannot rely solely on casino traffic to survive.
''Although a theme park could draw more traffic into that market and could be exceptionally successful, the history on combined family entertainment with casinos is mixed,'' Mr. Kent said, noting Las Vegas's attempts. Alternately, he said that Atlantis, a resort in the Bahamas, successfully mixed a water park with a casino to attract families.
''The Connecticut casinos have reached out to the community, with basketball and concerts and restaurants,'' he said. ''The strategy of reaching out to customers both for their entertainment and gaming dollars has been successful in other markets.''


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Police: Suspect Arrested, Charged in Connection with Church ArsonsEarly last Thursday morning, the rectory of St. Joseph's Shrine was set ablaze - the seventh church in the north St. Louis-area in two weeks.
7th Church in 2 Weeks Scorched in St. LouisJenkerson said the fire was "methodical" because the rectory front door does not have cameras, and the church does.
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I want to suppress the "The resource name 'X.Y' is not a valid identifier" warnings in Visual Studio 2008.
I cannot find the warning number to supress it in the project's properties. Is there another way of achieving this, or better still, does anyone know the warning number?
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I'm considering using ActiveMQ for an app that would transfer a large number of messages over the http transport (across firewalls/internet). I would want to use async messages (i.e. useAsyncSend=true) to boost performance.
Would it make sense to introduce a BufferedTransportFilter to boost performance even further? (considering the fact that these messages would be traveling over the internet). That is, the BufferedTransportFilter would wait a configurable amount of time before "batching together" all the messages it received so far (or after some configurable limit in terms of bytes and/or number of messages) and then pass this on to the next Transport. Ideally, the Transport API would have to be extended to allow for a onewayBatch(List<Object> messageBatch) method (and the default implementation would just iterate over the list and rely on the existing oneway(Object) method. HttpClientTransport could then be extended to allow for a single POST to send multiple messages over the internet.
Is this something that was considered? Or that exists in some other form that I missed while going through the sources?
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text: Rocket Grants Artist Creates 'Haven' For Honeybees By Laura Spencer • Aug 9, 2013 Julie Denesha / KCUR They're small insects, flitting from flower to flower, and most people don't give them a second look. But honeybees are vitally important to agriculture, pollinating seeds and crops, mostly fruits, vegetables and nuts. Artists Combat Gun Violence With Creativity By Matthew Long-Middleton, Ross Stinemetz & Sangeeta Shastry • Aug 1, 2013 The Light in the Other Room / Artists for Life/Rocket Grants This hour on Central Standard, we talked with Darryl Chamberlain, Martice Smith and George Mayfield of Artists for Life, a coalition of African American artists who hope to raise awareness about handgun violence with their work in Kansas City. A New Kind Of Wash, Dry, Fold: Art In The Laundromat By Laura Spencer • Feb 8, 2013 Sean Starowitz Over the next six months, a quiet Midtown laundromat will be transformed into the site for a series of arts events. It's an experiment - combining different genres including film, poetry, and even culinary arts - with a focus on public-oriented artwork. A Call For Arts Criticism In KC By Andrea Silenzi & Jabulani Leffall • Mar 6, 2012 On this Wednesday's Central Standard, a conversation about the importance of art criticism in the process of art-making and reception. We'll hear why a San Francisco arts publication called Art Practical devoted an entire issue to our local scene.


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Kristian Kristiansen, former EAA President, recently sent me an offprint of a paper on "Who own the past? Reflections on roles and responsibilities" which he published in the 2004 book Archaeologist: Detective and Thinker (pp. 79-86) compiled in honour of Lev Klejn (University of St. Petersburg. ISBN 5-288-03491-5).
As always, Kristian has some interesting points. One of them comes near the end. I cite the relevant passage in full hoping that it might stimulate some discussion! Please send us a comment about your views…
In a world marked by the expansion of new Nationalism, new Nazism and racism, it becomes an essential task for a critical humanism to point out the complexity and discontinuity of history. There are fewer similarities between a Danish Iron Age farmer and a present day farmer than there are between a present day Danish farmer and a Pakistan immigrant. They are both strangers and they are both part of history. But while we gladly integrate Iron Age farmers into our cultural heritage, in spite of their otherness, we are less generous when it comes to the immigrants. However, European prehistory is also the history of our alienation. It is the history of recurring cultural shifts, a multitude of languages and ethnicities, of social and economic transformations that integrated and created new social and cultural entities out of this historical multiplicity.
Is he right? If yes, what are the consequences for the way we present the cultural heritage?


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At the top of the course, the snowmaking guns are already churning out a steady stream of snow flakes. Soon, the blowers will kick in on the lower portion, as well.
This is far from cheap, even given the short window of availability. The operational costs will run close to $350,000 annually.
"But it's one of those investments we've made that absolutely impacts directly on athletes and their preparation," Marolt explained.
And while the target date could fluctuate, there soon will be a skiable cover of snow on the ground. There's not much precipitation in the forecast over the next few weeks.
"Whether or not Mother Nature comes to the ball early, we'll still provide a great product," Rodgers said.
Working with the U.S. Forest Service, the resort removed 1½ acres of trees to make the course wider. It also navigated around three patches of moonwort, a small perennial fern that's environmentally protected.
The course begins on the upper part of a trail called "Andy's Encore," meanders through a section dubbed "Oh No" and winds up on "Rosi's Run," with the finish line situated almost on top of the first tee of Copper's golf course.
The cost of the endeavor will be split between the resort and the U.S. Ski Team, which will receive support from its sponsors.
For the team, the expenses mainly center around providing infrastructure, items such as the 20,000 feet of new fencing to protect the skiers, as well as the water lines and power cables to run the snowmaking guns, which one of the team's partners is helping provide.
In turn, the resort will produce the snow and maintain the course with two winch cats keeping the terrain in race-ready condition.
Eventually, the venue could be a revenue generator. The team plans to lease the course to other interested countries, possibly even using it as a bargaining chip. If another nation wants to use the slope for, say, three days of training, a deal might be brokered to use that country's facility later on in the World Cup season.
Those details are still being ironed out.
For now, the terrain will be open to the World Cup squad, along with USSA clubs and regional programs.
And no restricted access, either.
"With this, we can go out at a realistic time and have all day to train," Marolt said. "With this, we give our athletes more of an expanded opportunity than we've ever had in the past. It gives us an opportunity improve to our chances internationally and in the Olympic Games every year.
"That's why this is a game-changer."
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Intel STS 2016 awards top winners $150,000
Paige Brown, 17, of Bangor, Maine,won the First Place Medal of Distinction for Global Good, for studying the water quality of six environmentally impaired local streams with high E. coli and phosphate contamination levels.
Maya Varma, 17, of Cupertino, California, won the First Place Medal of Distinction for Innovation, for using $35 worth of hobbyist electronics and free computer-aided design tools to create a smartphone-based lung function analyzer that diagnoses lung disease.
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In October, Broadcom Foundation extended its sponsorship of the Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology, Engineering, and Rising Stars) for an additional six years. The Broadcom Foundation has been the title sponsor of the Broadcom MASTERS since 2011.
Broadcom MASTERS is a competition for sixth to eighth grade students designed to inspire and encourage young scientists, engineers and innovators to continue with STEM studies into high school. In the past five years, approximately 30,000 nominations to the program have been issued and more than $500,000 in awards has been distributed to finalists and schools throughout the United States.
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Iraq's Maverick
Threatened with prosecution and possible death, Iraqi lawmaker Mithal al-Alusi visits Israel, and warns on Iran.
Last month, Iraqi parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi contacted me by phone from Baghdad with an urgent warning that Iran could be a lot closer to attaining nuclear weapons than most analysts believe.
"Do they have an atom bomb? Not yet," he told me. "Can they build an atom bomb, a dirty bomb? Yes.... Americans believe humans can work 50 hours in a week, but [they] can work 24 hours in a day. They can build a bomb very soon."
Last week, al-Alusi, a secular Sunni, took this message on the road -- at extreme personal risk. He made a surprise visit to a counterterrorism conference at the Herzliya Institute for Policy and Strategy near Tel Aviv, Israel, where he decried Iran's meddling in Iraqi affairs and spoke of the vital importance of cooperation among democratic countries in gathering intelligence to fight terrorism.
"Partnership between Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey and the U.S. will ensure that we have the correct information and can respond fast," the Jerusalem Post quoted him as saying.
The first Iraqi politician to publicly visit Israel, al-Alusi could not have undertaken this visit lightly. After speaking at the same counterterrorism conference on his first visit to Israel in 2004, extremists murdered his two sons, Ayman 30, and Gamal, 22, apparently as payback for his violating the historic taboo in Iraq against advocating cooperation with Israel.
Minutes after his sons were murdered, al-Alusi told reporters: "Even if these terrorists try to kill me again, peace is the only solution. Peace with Israel is the only solution for Iraq. Peace with everybody, but no peace for the terrorists."
He continued to build his Iraqi Nation Party, which his fallen sons had helped establish, and was elected to Parliament as an independent.
But this past Sunday, the Iraqi Parliament suspended legal immunity for al-Alusi, and he now could face prosecution for the "crime" of traveling to Israel to participate in the conference.
Many of his fellow Iraqi Parliamentarians ganged up on him, but he would not back down. He even publicly called some of them out for cooperating with the Iranian government, which further inflamed them.
Ali al-Adeeb of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Party opened the session by saying al-Alusi's recent comments might be "part of an undisclosed plan to subdue our proud society to gradually accept what it rejects by principle," according to McClatchy News Service.
Ayad al-Samarrai, of the Iraqi Islamic Party, characterized al-Alusi's visit as a betrayal of his oath of office "as the Zionist Entity is described as an enemy of the State of Iraq in Iraqi law."
Over the weekend, I talked to Esther Kandel, a close friend of al-Alusi's and an anti-terrorism consultant. Kandel, who had just spoken with al-Alusi, says he thinks he could be facing imminent death.
"He believes he will be killed, but he will not stop working toward democracy," she told me. "[He] still goes to his party's office and bravely faces down his enemies in the streets and in Parliament. He desperately needs a voice; his will be silenced."
Clearly, al-Alusi undertook grave risk in traveling again to Israel with the message that international intelligence cooperation is vital to curbing Iran's assaults on democratic values and peoples. And the free world is running out of time to stop Iran from attaining nuclear capability.
In August, al-Alusi told me: "One day we will remember this talk -- maybe years, maybe [as soon as] three months, Iran could have an atom bomb -- a regime with no respect for human beings, even their own human beings."
Al-Alusi shares the most idealistic goals of the Iraq War. He's a proud Iraqi who has worked toward building a democratic nation that respects the rule of law and is an ally of the U.S. in fighting radical Islamic terrorism. And now, his life hangs in the balance.
For all of the renewed optimism about Iraq as a result of the successful surge strategy, al-Alusi's story is a reminder of how far the country still needs to go. His fate will be a litmus test of our commitment to supporting America's most vulnerable allies in the War on Terror.


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Does anyone have suggestions for good supportive running gear (either tops or bottoms, or both)?
I have a Gabrialla band but it doesn't stay in place for running, not to mention it gives me the most awful muffin top (I'm 5'4" and about 135 at 22 weeks... there's not a lot of fat on me but this thing found what I had and squished it all out the top). If I adjust it looser so I don't have that, I don't get the support I need.
I think part of the problem as that many of the support bands out there are for "under belly" and I just don't really have an "under" to my belly yet, but I still need something supportive. I'm starting to get really discouraged about my runs because it just hurts down where there should be and "under belly" - plus I feel like I need to pee every step I take, haha!
I found this:
And think it would be perfect, but the price is freaking me out for something I can't try on first, plus it could take several weeks to get here. I haven't been able to find any on ebay.
I did find a Champion "Shapewear" compression tank that due to the nature of it being compression may have the kind of support I need right now, but it's on eBay and again I can't try it on first :-(


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The Coen brothers: interview
The Coen brothers are back with 'No Country for Old Men', a violent adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel that stars Javier Bardem as a psycho with a strange 'do. Geoff Andrew talks hair styles and bloody socks with Hollywood's smartest siblings
'If it aint, it'll do till a mess gets here.'
Wendell (Garret Dillahunt) and Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) in the Coen Brothers' 'No Country for Old Men'.
The above exchange, between a sheriff and his deputy shortly after their discovery of the rotting carnage that's all that remains of a drug deal gone murderously wrong in the west Texan desert, could easily have been penned by Joel and Ethan Coen, writers, directors and co-producers of 'No Country for Old Men'. Like the movie as a whole, the dialogue exudes the droll, dark humour and vivid colloquial colour that have been their trademark since they made their debut with another Texan crime movie, 'Blood Simple'.
In fact, however, both the pointlessly obvious question and the stoically witty response are word for word the creation of Cormac McCarthy, whose novel was the source for the Coens' latest gem.
It's remarkable how well the preoccupations and stylistic tropes of the book fit with those of the brothers; so much so, indeed that when the film premiered in Cannes last year, many saw it as a cross between 'Blood Simple' and 'Fargo' – though this writer's recent revisiting of 'Raising Arizona' even found similarities between that latter-day screwball farce and the McCarthy adaptation. In short, 'No Country for Old Men' is Coens through and through – and, unsurprisingly, one of the finest American movies of the year.
Both novel and movie chronicle the nightmarish chaos that befalls one Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) when he finds, while out on a solo hunting expedition, a case containing $2 million at the scene of the aforementioned bloodbath. Rather than hand it in, this otherwise decent 'Nam vet hangs on to the haul, and sends his wife (Kelly Macdonald) north to stay with her mother, knowing their trailer-park home will be visited sooner or later by the law and, more worryingly, by the traffickers whose money he's filched. He's right, of course, except about the timing; by the time Sheriff Bell (Jones) turns up, the trailer has already been checked out by Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a psychotic hitman with an arsenal of weapons almost as strange and scary as his pageboy haircut (this is 1980). Moss, luckily for him, has recently flown the coop; not that Chigurh will let that, or anyone he meets, curtail his vengeful quest for the money.
It was producer Scott Rudin who brought the novel to the Coens' attention, rightly surmising they'd find McCarthy's story simpatico. Though they'd famously reworked other books – from Hammett's 'Red Harvest' to Homer's 'Odyssey' – into their earlier films, this was the first time they'd attempted an adaptation of something by a living author. Did that make any difference to their approach? Did they feel a greater sense of responsibility towards the book or its creator?
Ethan, evidently a little mystified at my rather theoretical question, shakes his head, while Joel sensibly explains. 'The responsibility you feel, if you put it in those terms, is kind of of clarified when you take the job. We were asked to do this, so we said to Scott, "Here's how we see doing it; does that jibe with how you want it done?" – 'cos he's the employer. Once that was set, we felt we could do whatever we wanted, within the agreed terms. But we didn't feel any specific responsibility to the material or Cormac McCarthy. The thing for us was to preserve aspects of the book the studio or the producer might baulk at: so we said, "If we make this, you do know it's going to be very violent?" That's what the story's about.
'There was also the peculiar aspect of the book that a central character dies abruptly and, essentially, offscreen. That was also something we wanted to preserve. Not that we wanted to slavishly follow the novel or felt an obligation not to change anything; indeed, there were things we were puzzled by and we had no problem throwing them out the window. It was just that certain things made the story more interesting to us, so we kept them.'
Ethan nods. 'Yeah, if we did feel a responsibility, it was more like, "Okay, this could be good, let's not fuck it up." It's like people ask if we wanted to do this film because it had similarities to "Blood Simple" or "Fargo". But at the time, of course, we didn't think of it that way; it was just a question of us feeling we could make a good movie out of the material.
'We had no contact at all with Cormac while we were writing it; only when we were filming. As it happens we shot a lot of it in west Texas, where the novel takes place, but we also shot some of it in New Mexico, because it was cheaper. Cormac lives down there, so he visited the set a couple of times. But they really were just social visits.'
In many respects the film is unusually faithful to the letter of the book: whole stretches of dialogue are retained. Yet there are also telling alterations. Sheriff Bell's disenchanted ruminations on how the world has taken a turn for the worse have been trimmed, while some of the action sequences have been substantially changed or souped up. That might sound like the story has been brought closer to the generic conventions of the action movie – but in fact their film, while highly successful in providing suspense and excitement, repeatedly does things rarely found in Hollywood fare. An off-screen death has already been mentioned, while the film's ending, especially, feels very unlike the traditionally tidy cinematic closure. Did the brothers feel they were trying something a little different with their film?
'Yes,' responds Joel. 'There were things we found interesting in the novel which we felt could be even more interesting in a movie. You think: If it has that effect in the book, it could be magnified in a movie. So when we're told something won't work in a film, our response is, "We're not sure that's true; you're just not used to it."
'Though we did cut it back, the stuff about things getting worse is very interesting. How much of that perspective on things is old age talking, and how much of it is true? Cormac put in Bell's conversation with his uncle, which we always felt was the centre of the story; it suggests, "This is just the world, it's not anything new." But if you were living in Germany in 1939 and said things were getting worse, you'd be right. So it's not just old age. That's why this story's 1980 setting is important; it was a time when the cross-border drug wars were getting very, very violent.'
One of the film's subtly impressive achievements is the way McCarthy's somewhat challenging play with narrative point of view is translated into filmic terms. Often, for example, Chigurh's presence is established not by a shot of the character himself but by a through-the-windscreen shot of the diabolical ornament on his car bonnet as he drives hunting for his prey. Like the similarly repeated shots of blown-out door locks, these near-abstract scenes generate considerable unease as to what the killer will do next.
Ethan explains. 'The book specifies that he drives a Ramcharger, and we even found the little ornament, which even looks a bit like Chigurh's haircut, with its little curl. But generally, it's more perverse and unusual not to follow certain conventions in a movie, than it is to do that in a novel. The thing about not always showing Chigurh kind of comes from the book, and the idea of him being ghostlike – is he human or isn't he? – which Cormac plays with; that's more fun to play with in a movie. I remember us saying when we were doing the script, "It'll be successful if we can make it really scary, like a horror movie." It had to create a real sense of dread.'
So is that how Bardem's bizarre barnet came about? Ethan laughs. 'That came from the wardrobe department. They found a photo of a guy in west Texas in 1979 who was just odd-looking, with that haircut. We wanted Chigurh to be believable for that place and period, but not like everybody else. That's one reason we chose Javier Bardem. In the novel, it's strange the degree to which Chigurh is withheld; he's not described physically. Someone suggests he's not of the region, which we took as licence to make him not even of the United States. So he's kind of alien, an outsider.'
And finally, what's all the interest in socks? The film has an unusually strong fascination with them. Ethan: 'Footwear generally. There's something great about Chigurh peeling his bloodied socks off…' Joel concurs enthusiastically. 'It's in the book, but we play it up. One of the many interesting things Cormac does, which we also do, is this weird doubling of Moss and Chigurh: taking off their boots, walking around in their socks, buying shirts…'
I respond that the Coens have brought Bell into the equation as well, by showing first Chigurh then Bell reflected in Moss's television; in the latter case, that's not actually in the book. 'It's as if you're establishing,' I venture, 'a whole moral-relativity thing there between the three different men.'
'Right, yeah,' Joel smiles, patiently.
'No Country for Old Men' opens on January 18.
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