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The 40 Year Old Virgin
- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Release Date: Aug 19, 2005
- Starring: Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell
- Summary: A comedic take on a sweet-natured but middle-aged virgin who, through the well-meaning but misguided efforts of his co-workers, begins an unforgettable educational journey toward the goal of finally 'doing it.' (Universal)
- Director: Judd Apatow
- Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
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Mixed: 9 out of 35
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A love story that gets the single male culture down so honestly and unapologetically that it can't help but push the boundaries of political correctness.
Apatow's film succeeds in having its virginity and losing it, too. Like "Wedding Crashers," it purges its cynicism with romanticism.
Isn't quite a home run: The visually flat film leans on a pop culture crutch that probably won't age very well, and the finale – while terrifically funny – feels piped in from another, far sillier movie.
Judd Apatow brings no cleverness or wit to his one-joke situation, and he can't give it the kernel of credibility that even a low comedy needs to sustain itself for a feature length.
Score distribution:
Positive: 125 out of 170
Mixed: 23 out of 170
Negative: 22 out of 170
Rev.RikardOct 8, 2005The funniest movie in two years! Steve Carell is the new Steve Martin. He can just stand in place and cause one to chuckle. Though the male The funniest movie in two years! Steve Carell is the new Steve Martin. He can just stand in place and cause one to chuckle. Though the male friends in this movie appear as adult adolescents, there is enough truth in their characters to reveal the sorry socialization process through which American men must pass. Sex is the most important issue in our lives because many, if not most of us were raised to believe this falllacy. As an American male I easily identified with Carell's character, If we were all gut-level honest we would admit that we desire genuine love more than anything. However, his male friends/counselors allow us to see the ridiculous perceptiions that would make being a forty year old virgin the most dispicable state in which a man can find himself. My spouse laughed as heartily as myself because she recognized that very truth pulsating from these exaggerated characters. This film is more than a comedy about a man finally trying "to get some." It is a disarming film that allows American males to laugh at our sad condition.… Expand
RobAug 22, 2005Laughed my ass off. Cant remember laughing so much and so hard in a theater.
MartynH.Sep 11, 2005Absolutely hilariously side splitting! Can't remember the last time I laughed as much during a movie! go see it NOW!!!!!
ScottY.Aug 22, 2005It's funnier than Anchorman. I haven't seen Wedding Crashers, so I cannot rate it against that movie. My cheeks hurt at the end of It's funnier than Anchorman. I haven't seen Wedding Crashers, so I cannot rate it against that movie. My cheeks hurt at the end of watching this movie due to laughing so much. While it starts off with the expected co-workers making jokes of the main character when they find out he is a virgin, they then each offer their own dating advice and help in order to get the character to eventually have sex. There are a couple of really memorable scenes such as Steve Carrell getting his chest waxed (for real) and a scene whereby his date's daughter walks in .....… Expand
robuglyDec 28, 2005I thought it was a really funny movie.
ZackL.Jan 20, 2006This movie is ridiculous. But it is so funny and shows a tad bit of charm, that you cant help but feel a certain emotion for this film.
LenB.Dec 16, 2005What a disgusting movie! If this is what our young adults enjoy and think is funny, our country is in more trouble than I thought.
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They'd better get a move on.
China has told the 64th International Astronautical Congress in Beijing that it plans to have a space station in orbit within the next decade, saying it will be used to study space medicine and study the effects on humans of spending long periods away from Earth's gravity. The Nyu Wa space station, named after the Chinese …
They'd better get a move on.
The moon isn't very far away (compared to everything else in the universe), transit time from Earth to the Moon is less than a week. They could launch on December 10th and still arrive there before the Queens Speech.
Back in the days of Space Station Alpha, research was touted as the number one benefit. Then it, over time, morphed into ISS and, after construction had begun, all mention was quietly dropped.
The reason? Extremely high cost per seat and a strict lack of seats overall. Right now, it's all NASA can do to keep ISS crew levels up, there're just no seats and certainly no budget to get researchers up there.
China wants a multi-module space station in orbit? Great, good for them!
It's going to be a research centre? Not until the PRC can get seat prices way, way down & seat availability way, way up...
>> It's going to be a research centre? Not until the PRC can get seat prices way, way down & seat availability way, way up...
This isn't the 60's - aside an abundance of existing research and experimental results and the average first world citizen carrying a full scale NASA supercomputer in his/her pocket, there are now even commercial operators in this market; http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/
Just take a look at the cost of computing over time; http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2010/04/computers-just-keep-getting-cheaper-and-better-and-we-should-eagerly-await-the-days-ahead/
Virgin Galactic lol
A fairground ride is not a suitable way to get astronauts and supplies to a space station.
>>there are now even commercial operators in this market; http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/
I might agree with your general point that research in orbit becomes more and more affordable every decade, but you undermine your own argument when you put forward Virgin's little trips. I mean they're impressive and they technically get to Space, but anyone who knows about this stuff knows it's not at all like docking with the ISS or a shuttle launch.
There is a slight difference between getting to space and getting to orbit.
The small matter of accelerating 21,000MPH and then slowing again.
Why do we even need people in orbit?
The subhead is a bit incongruous, innit? The Middle Kingdom has long had its human rights issues at home, but since when has it ever showed particular interest in weapons proliferation? The USA and Russia are (by far) the big weapons manufacturers for the world. OTOH, China seems to be more interested in leapfrogging the West on emerging technologies, so space medicine seems perfectly reasonable.
The Chinese are HUGE world wide weapons dealers and they are spending crazy stupid money improving their military along with radically changing its strategic and tactical philosophy.
I mean besides providing Arms for, North Korea, the Khmer rouge, Cuba and possibly doing nuclear deals with Pakistan when have the Chinese ever exported weapons, also possibly Iran, Zimbabwe and Sudan and maybe a few other states but this is China we are talking about here.
Well, there was that time they used an ICBM to shoot a defunct satelitte out of orbit, causing a right old mess in the process.
I'm assuming that you've never heard of Norinco then? They're the biggest Small Arms manufacturer in Asia. They're also owned by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. As a general, rule countries with alot of money also tend to be big weapons manufacturers.
"humanity's fourth attempt to build an orbital facility for humans." - I'm guessing that the first three are Skylab, Mir, and ISS, and for some reason the Salyuts and Tiangong-1 are ignored. On what basis, I do not know.
Not to mention Almaz - the military version of Salyut (launched under the names of Salyut-2, 3 and 5 for secrecy)
... it WILL have a circumfluous shark ring, equipped with MEELION watt laser pointers bought off ebay really cheap?
Upvote for the use of 'circumfluous'. Will be using that.
"The Nyu Wa space station, named after the Chinese goddess credited with creating humanity"
Am I the only one who finds it slightly ironic that the Chinese space section named their 'space station' after a goddess given the inherently god-free nature of communism? Seems an about-turn...
I'll admit to knowing nothing about Chinese Goddesses though.
Big brother because, well, it is China
"I'll admit to knowing nothing about Chinese Goddesses though."
Ziyi Zhang ?
Definitely has a heavenly body...
Not as ironic as the head of a hippie-Jesus church asking him to bless a nuke sub and all who sail in her!

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- In a big bowl, mix soda and cake mix. Stir on slow speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium for one minute. Split the combination between five bowls. Add a few drops of food coloring to each bowl; mix just until combined.
- Drop a spoonful of one color of batter into each of 18 paper-lined muffin cups. Layer with left-over colored mix until muffin cups are two-thirds full.
- Heat at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 18-20 minutes or until a pick inserted near the middle comes out spotless. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to chill completely.
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Statements by U.S. Officials
Ambassador Francis Ricciardone's Remarks at ABFT Gala
Conrad Hotel, Istanbul - September 26, 2013
"As delivered"
Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone
Promoting American-Turkish Trade and Investment
Değerli dostlar, iyi akşamlar.
What a great honor and pleasure to be with all of you this evening, thanks very much to the initiative of AmCham Turkey/the American Business Forum in Turkey, and the generous hospitality of our sponsors. To ABFT President Serra Akcaoglu, I congratulate you and your new Board of Directors on an extremely successful and ambitious first six months in office. Your growing membership, the presence this evening is a testament to the energy and the vision, and spirit of service to the membership that I've seen you all bring just in these few months your efforts together as a new team. I congratulate you and wish you further success.
I'd also like to thank and salute my friend and tireless advocate of Turkish-American trade and investment, Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan. Geldiğiniz icin çok teşekkür ederiz. Cok büyük şeref verdiniz. Thank you. And Mr. Minister, we are all very keen, I'm sure you are going to speak soon about the results of your most recent visit to Washington and your meeting with our new Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzger, and also with our Trade Representative Froman. Together we will redouble our efforts to exploit the opportunities that lie before us to grow trade and investment between our two countries, with each other and with our partners in Europe and well beyond.
We are especially lucky to have here my fellow Dartmouth College alumnus, Jeff Immelt, one of the great leaders of American industry who has kept General Electric at the forefront of global innovation, and all the advancements in human health and well-being and prosperity that go along with innovation and entrepreneurship. Jeff, you have seen how enthusiastically over these years the Turks have embraced your own keen personal interest, but General Electric's branding, contributions, interests in this country and your investments and how much they want more. They lap it up and want more, so we all look forward to your launching of the Innovation Center tomorrow and congratulations on the signing that many of us witnessed just a little while ago, the new partnership with TEI, TAI, SSM, and the others. We at the American Embassy really admire your team here and you know how good they are. Canan, it's been a pleasure partnering with you even if you did take one of our best employees away from us. We're all very proud of Aysem being your Head of Government Relations. We know how terrific she is and we're proud when our people do well.
And Chuck Hunter's already been introduced, our new Consul General here. For all of you in the room, please look upon him as "me" and "us" and the leader of the American team here in Istanbul, with Manoj and Jeff and the rest of us who are totally dedicated to boosting American-Turkish trade and investment. Chuck, thanks for joining us. Congratulations on the best assignment of your career.
Growing Role of Business in Our Relations
We're approaching the 90th anniversary of this great Republic of Turkey, so why don't I open with a quote from the founder of this wonderful republic: "Türk milleti Amerika milleti hakkında derin ve kuvvetli bir muhabbet hisseder." ["The Turkish people feel a deep and powerful affection for the American people," Ataturk said.] From the warmth Marie and I have felt from our Turkish friends over three decades now—more than that—I can assure you that those words of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk resonate and that feeling is as strong as ever in our experience. It's also deeply mutual, as Minister Caglayan and Prime Minister Erdogan felt when they were in Washington just this past May. (And of course, Mr. Caglayan was there just a few weeks ago.) I hope you felt that, Mr. Minister. Your Prime Minister felt the warmth, the interest—the intense interest—respect, and affection for your country. And it comes from events like this and activities that are represented around here. Contact between Turks and Americans always leads to a chemistry and a magic that brings us closer together. And this friendship is really what has built the multi-dimensional partnership that we are enjoying today.
Of course, our strategic shared interests also form a part of the enduring foundation of this partnership and our relations. To understand just how strongly our national interests coincide, I won't give you a great seminar this evening. Instead, I commend to you the speeches of my president and the president of Turkey in New York just in the past couple of days. If you lay them side-by-side, you will see how strongly, how honestly, each spoke: no white-washing, no sugar-coating the difficulties of our world, but just how much we share purposes, values, how close they are and how much scope there is for continuing our great alliance and partnership. And this is all very consistent with President Obama's words also directly to the Turkish people. In his very first trip outside the United States as President, he came to Turkey and he spoke with the Turkish people by addressing the Parliament. And he said that our purpose—he called on us to have as a purpose—to renew the friendship between our peoples, the alliance between our nations, the friendship between our peoples. In the first six years he's had in office, the President has demonstrated that he sees Turkish and American business as playing a fundamental role in that renewal of the friendship between our peoples.
And that's, ladies and gentlemen, the purpose that brought us all together here this evening under the aegis of the ABFT.
Since I returned to Turkey just a couple of years ago, I've seen more and more American businesses opening, coming here (new to market companies), and others, like Citi, like General Electric, expanding their operations here in ways you heard Jeff Immelt and Canan describe. It doesn't surprise me one bit; it delights me. Turks say, "Küçük suda büyük balık olmaz" [You won't find big fish in small ponds.] And it's no secret anymore, Mr. Minister, since your administration came to office 11 years ago, that everyone now sees Turkey as a big pond, a big player with big opportunities. Your government really has built on giants who came before. You and I have spoken of our shared admiration for the great President Marhum Turgut Ozal and his vision that Turkey could compete, his confidence that you could play in the world and that you could open up to the world. Your government has carried that forward, so I congratulate you on that. You've brought Turkey not just to be one of the top 20 economic players in the world, but a proud democracy as well.
Jeff and Canan, Serra and Bill Mills, just let me briefly touch on your companies as examples of what I'm talking about, how forward-looking American companies have found success here and contributed to Turkey's success. Each of your companies recognized Turkey's potential long before it was fashionable, long before anybody thought—I won't say "anybody"—"others" thought that Turkey could even aspire one day to make to the G-20. You had that foresight, your companies did, some other American companies did, a few Turkish companies did. General Electric was one of the first foreign industrial ventures in Turkey, speaking about the great plans you've done now, you didn't mention that you started with a light bulb factory in 1948. That's the cave era compared to where Turkey is now, where General Electric's investments are now, and where they are going. You diversified into so many sectors of technology, services, finance all around the world and in this country. Citi started financing infrastructure development projects here in 1975 when Turkey was a developing country, when the Turkish economy was a small fraction of the size it is now, not even a reflection of its complexity now, nothing like the investor-friendly climate that the government of Turkey today has made it into, nothing like the dynamic free market that we see it becoming now. As Turkey looks to build hospital campuses, a third Bosphorus bridge, and one of the largest airports in the world, American investors and providers of the world's most competitive and sophisticated technologies and services, like General Electric, like Citi, like the other members of AmCham Turkey/ American Business Forum in Turkey, are all perfectly positioned to exploit those opportunities to come.
Our two governments, too, if I may put in a word for the Minister and myself and the institutions we represent, have worked hard to remove the obstacles to trade and investment. And we've got much more work to do. We both know it. We've had a fair amount of success: we're really delighted to see many Turkish firms opening offices in the United States, and to see Turkish brands becoming available to Americans. We want to welcome, Mr. Minister, even more Turkish exporters and investors and brands to our country. And I assure you of that. I'm sure you heard that from Mike Froman. I'm sure you heard that from Penny Pritzger. We believe that more exports of Turkey to the US will bring more investment, and vice versa. More Turkish investment will bring more exports. We hope a good many Turks will participate in Invest USA, coming up very soon. Thanks for your own personal efforts, your visits to the United States, and your conversations with us. In 2011, my first year here, we witnessed a record-breaking year for American exports to Turkey and we were all delighted. And the next year, 2012, we saw Turkey break records for exports to the United States. Overall, in these past four years, Turkish-American overall trade has grown by 75%. Nonetheless, Zafer Bey, we share your ambition to see much more growth in our business relationship. And we share your confidence that the future of our business partnership is bright.
Looking Forward
Whether we are businesspeople or government officials, we all here are keenly attuned to what's going on around us, whether here in Turkey or in the region. We all know that Turkey and its region have witnessed intense and stressful developments in the past several months alone, but a critical requirement for successful, long-term investors is the ability to see current events in their strategic perspective. For example, the protests here this past summer attracted international headlines as great numbers of Turkish people on all sides of the political spectrum peacefully and lawfully exercised their rights of assembly and freedoms of speech and expression. Longtime American observers of Turkey, like the companies represented here, most of them like myself, know that the excesses and violations of a few did not and cannot shake the strength of the rule of law and the steady advancement of Turkish democracy. Nor have the violent conflicts beyond Turkey's borders threatened Turkey's stability and prosperity. Indeed the tragic, painful civil war and suffering in Syria have only underlined the value and strength of the Turkish-American defense alliance. For over six decades, the NATO alliance has constituted one of Turkey's gilt-edged assets, offering confidence to Turkish and foreign investors alike.
So despite the short-term volatility—maybe it's going to be constant volatility in the world; let's get used to it—despite that, that we've seen in Turkey, in this market, and in the region, I share the confidence of Turkish and American business partners that Turkey's long-term fundamentals remain solid and full of promise—challenges, but promising. In business, however, there can be no room for complacency, nor in democratic politics. Tonight it would be especially appropriate, I think, to quote one of General Electric's founders, one of the Americans who most inspires young people today, Thomas Edison, who said, "Discontent is the first necessity of progress." So, let's all take due pride in what we are accomplishing, what we have accomplished as Turkish and American business partners, as two governments, but let us never be content. Much remains for us to do if we are to realize our shared ambitions and potential. Our Embassy team, which spans from Ankara to Istanbul, but also Izmir and Adana, where we have a presence—a trade promotion, a business promotion presence—we will continue consulting, collaborating, and cooperating intimately with AmCham/ABFT, with the American and Turkish companies represented here, those you wish to attract here still, and with all of you, Mr. Minister, and your colleagues in your Government. In particular, Zafer Bey, as you heard in Washington, you have our very strong commitment to work in the closest cooperation with you, with Turkey, as the United States and Europe negotiate the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. This is a very exciting prospect that promises greatly to boost prosperity both in Europe and in the Americas. And I know Turkey is going to be a beneficiary of that as well.
So let me close by repeating my appreciation: Serra and the board, to all of you for bringing us together this evening. Thank you to the generosity of our sponsors. I offer you my warmest congratulations on your ninth anniversary and looking ahead to your tenth year beginning in January. I hope all the business representatives here, if you're not already a member of AmCham/ABFT, that you join this great and growing and renewing institution in becoming a powerful voice for American business in Turkey, and with Turkey, for the highest global standards of business practices, for the friendship and cooperation and shared prosperity between Turkey and the United States of America. Başarılarınızın devamını dilerim. [I wish you continued success.] Thank you very much.


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Curator, Metafor and CMIP5 at AR5 Science Workshop at GISS. Covers short-term prospects to use Curator/Metafor metadata organization work for CMIP5.
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AR5 Science Workshop: Curator, Metafor and CMIP5
Curator, Metafor and CMIP5 at AR5 Science Workshop at GISS. Covers short-term prospects to use Curator/Metafor metadata organization work for CMIP5.
Tue, 4 Nov 2008
WGNE-24 - NOAA Climate Modeling Overview
An overview of NOAA Climate Modeling at WGNE-24 in Montreal, Canada.
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CF Conventions
Talk solicited from the CF Conventions Committee by NASA for the NASA Earth Science Data System Working Group.
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GO-ESSP 2008 Gridspec
Gridspec talk mostly focused on the tools.
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The CHiMES project
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World Modeling Summit: Making the heroic routine
A description of where Curator could go.
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South Africa Science and Technology Delegation
Matt and I are on our way to Cape Town to teach a course similar to the one we taught at C-MMACS in 2004. I present a plan for collaborative work between GFDL and "centres of excellence" on regional climates.
Wed, 13 Feb 2008
METAFOR Launch meeting: Curator Review
Review of current status of ESC: given at opening meeting of the EU counterpart of ESC, called METAFOR. The talk covers recent developments in the ESC project, ands lays the foundation for Curator-Metafor collaboration.
Tue, 12 Jun 2007
GOESSP 2007: AR5 use cases
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Wed, 30 May 2007
Curator talk to ESMF community
Curators as a natural outgrowth of frameworks: presentation to 2007 ESMF Community meeting. (Done in latex-beamer!)
Tue, 8 May 2007
Exchange grids
Short talk on exchange grids as requested by Phil Rasch at the NCAR-GFDL Atmospheric Model workshop.
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MI Team: FRE in components
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From FMS to FRE to Curator
Talk for visiting NOAA leadership.
Thu, 11 Jan 2007
Nalanda release
Preview of Nalanda release for MI Team.
Fri, 16 Feb 2007
FMS coupling architecture for NOAA
Talk presented to NOAA Unified Model Infrastructure Team.
Wed, 7 Feb 2007
FMS coupling architecture mapped to MAPL
Talk presented at Ocean Model Coupling Workshop: covers issues in coupling MOM4 to NASA's GEOS-5 model using the MAPL software layer.
Mon, 16 Oct 2006
Gridspec and unstructured grids
A detailed look at the draft grid metadata standard, for the Boulder workshop on unstructured grids.
Tue, 3 Oct 2006
First ESC Workshop: Introduction
Introductory slides to kick off the ESC Workshop. Lays the groundwork for ESC-ESG collaboration.
Thu, 28 Sep 2006
Frameworks and coastal modeling
Another talk later that month to a community interested in real-time response to coastal disasters, at the CRRC Fall Institute in Durham NH, September 2006.
Fri, 22 Sep 2006
Mosaic talk for CSDL visitors: develops the "model coupling, nesting, chaining" terminology.
Tue, 15 Aug 2006
Gridspec and FMS
A detailed look at the draft grid metadata standard, and its implications for FMS.
Tue, 20 Jun 2006
Gridspec at GO-ESSP
... a detailed look at the draft grid metadata standard.
Mon, 19 Jun 2006
GO-ESSP: AR5 and "convergence"
Talks at the GO-ESSP Meeting in Livermore CA, June 2005, covered the outlook for IPCC AR5 and beyond
Tue, 9 May 2006
ESMF-ESC metadata convergence with PRISM
Overview of ESMF-ESC metadata activities given to PRISM metadata meeting in Exeter, May 2006.
Wed, 5 Apr 2006
NSF Petascale panel
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Wed, 8 Mar 2006
Lunchtime seminar at GFDL on PSETs: implementation of the uniform memory model on SGI Altix.
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PRISM 2005 Meeting: Keynote address
A keynote address at the PRISM meeting intoduces the Curator use cases.
Tue, 15 Nov 2005
Curator to PRISM
Introducing Curator to PRISM at First PRISM Community Meeting, Toulouse, November 2005.
Mon, 23 May 2005
Rockin' in the FRE world
MI Team meeting talk promising changes in FRE...
Tue, 8 Mar 2005
Gollum, Global-Ocean Low-Level Utility Modules
Introduces ideas on kernelization at MI Team meeting... "protecting algorithms from frameworks".
Tue, 4 Jan 2005
First thoughts on gridspec?
Grid specification talk at ESMF Early Adopters meeting...
Mon, 1 Nov 2004
Domain decomposition on mosaics
First talk on mosaics at FV Core Workshop.
Thu, 23 Sep 2004
2004 State of the FMS talk.
Wed, 14 Sep 2005
ESC at CAS2K5
Curator introduced to modeling community at CAS Workshop in Annecy, September 2005.
Thu, 21 Jul 2005
ESC and grid metadata
First talk post-award, at ESMF Community Meeting in Cambridge, MA, July 2005. Also introduces the grid metadata.
Tue, 8 Nov 2005
2005 State of the FMS talk.
Wed, 9 Jun 2004
ESMF and Curator
First presented to GO-ESSP (then called ESP) community, at ESP meeting in Princeton, June 2004.
Thu, 29 Jan 2004
Curator at APAN
Talk given at APAN eScience Workshop, January 2004: describes how Curator flows naturally from current practice in climate modeling.
Tue, 13 May 2003
First presentation on Curator
The first talk I can remember giving on Curator is my first proposal that this would be a natural development from ESMF, at the 2nd ESMF Community Meeting in Princeton, May 2003.
Wed, 26 Mar 2003
PRISM Community Meeting, Brussels
Thu, 7 Nov 2002
ECMWF Teracomputing Workshop, Reading
Thu, 20 Jun 2002
Bruce Ross Symposium, GFDL, 20 June 2002
Thu, 30 May 2002
First ESMF Community Meeting, Washington DC
ESMF: Introduction to the Earth System Modeling Framework (not actually HTML, but a Microsoft pidgin that happens to resemble HTML).
Wed, 22 May 2002
First PRISM Project Meeting, Toulouse
ESMF: Introduction to the Earth System Modeling Framework. (not actually HTML, but a Microsoft pidgin that happens to resemble HTML).
Tue, 12 Mar 2002
Next-Generation Climate Models (RIST)
Wed, 24 Oct 2001
NOAATech 2002, Silver Spring MD
Fri, 6 Jul 2001
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Thu, 16 Nov 2000
ECMWF TeraComputing Workshop
Thu, 19 Oct 2000
OASIS Workshop, CERFACS, Toulouse
Tue, 22 Aug 2000
FMS Workshop, GFDL
Mon, 5 Jun 2000
Department of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Thu, 25 May 2000
CRP Seminar Series, Princeton University
Fri, 24 Mar 2000
Colloque à CINES, Montpellier
Tue, 14 Mar 2000
Thu, 7 Oct 1999
CUG T3E Workshop, Princeton
Thu, 9 Sep 1999
Poster at SGI/Cray MPP Workshop, CINECA Bologna
Thu, 9 Sep 1999
SGI/Cray MPP Workshop, CINECA Bologna
Thu, 9 Sep 1999
SGI/Cray MPP Workshop, CINECA Bologna
Thu, 19 Nov 1998
ECMWF TeraComputing Workshop
Tue, 6 Oct 1998
Thu, 27 Aug 1998
CRP Seminar Series, Princeton University
Wed, 29 Jul 1998
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Hello. I recently acquired a new desktop that is a quad core 64 bit system running Windows 7 Home. I have also recently acquired some new audio books on cd that I would like to listen to while riding long distance (travel out of state fairly often). I plan to mainly use my LG Optimus phone for playback, though I also have a Sansa m240 available as well. I used to use CDEx on my old 32 bit Win XP system, but I don't know if that software (last release early 2009) is going to be very reliable on my 64 bit Win 7 system.
Anyone have some experience ripping audiobook cds on 64 bit systems, what software do you use/recommend?
Since many audiobook cds have anywhere from 99 -300 tracks on them (in my past experience, at least) and separation may or may not have anything to do with chapters (many don't), I generally prefer to rip each cd onto a single track, preferably in mp3 format. In the past I never really found any of the audio databases to be very reliable for audiobook information and since my m240 doesn't display anything but text, I never really concerned myself with hunting down alternate sources for Book covers, track info, etc. I usually just use a separate folder for each book and use "D1 My Audio Book.mp3" format for naming the disc files. Any guidance would be appreciated.
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I'd take a look at fre:ac. http://www.freac.org/index.php/en It comes with everything needed for ripping to mp3. It comes set to rip to V2 mp3 which I'm guessing would be much too high a quality/bitrate setting for audiobooks. You should find that simple to change in the settings. There's even a checkbox that lets you rip a CD to a single file.
Among the many things I like about fre:ac is there's no need to actually install it. The portable version works the same as full installation. There is a snapshot that's optimized for Win7 64 bit. I haven't tried that as the standard version I carry on my USB stick works well on the Win7 machines I've used it on.
I had the chance to try CDex on a Win7 64 bit machine and it worked fine. 32 bit software usually runs in a 64 bit environment. All my other music ripping software works on any Windows machine I tried it with.
If you have a long familiarity with CDex you may want to give it a shot on the new machine. fre:ac is super simple to setup but if what you know works reliably, why bother?
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Thanks for the tip on Fre:ac. I am using it presently, all seems to be going well. I am also using the zip version, as I also prefer to not install software if not needed.
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Friday at midnight marked the end of my 30 Campaigns in 30 Days Challenge. I didn't post an update last week because I did a total of like 3 campaigns for that week and just didn't do much work. It's tough getting back in the grove once you've achieved the goals you set out to and become complacent. The drive is coming back, slowly, but surely.
This past week I reached my goal of 7 campaigns in 7 days, but I fell just short of my 30 Campaigns in 30 Days goal. I made a total of 26 campaigns. Of those campaigns only about 3 are profitable and even those are really, really small volume. But when you don't have anything going, you'll take whatever comes your way.
Overall, this challenge was tough for me. I was counting unique offers as campaigns. I wasn't counting unique campaigns where I would test different ages, countries or genders. If I counted them this way, I definitely hit my goal.
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VW Jetta GLI vs. Honda Civic Si Sedan
Revamped for 2006, Volkswagen's Jetta has come a long way since its 1980 introduction, when it was essentially a Rabbit with a tacked-on trunk. The early cars spelled redemption for budget-minded sedan buyers who still appreciated a European look and feel over a Corolla or a K-car. Today's car, especially in base form, really gives drivers a low-dough taste of the good life at $16,490. For a more sporting experience to follow our theme, the test car is the GLI, complete with a noticeably swollen $24,110 base price.
The Civic name has been seen on U.S.-market Hondas even longer, since 1973. With a few exceptions, gas mileage and build quality weren't many cars' strong points in the '70s, so the Civic stood out from day one. A few decades on, it still stands out for its original virtues and appeals to kids, their parents and even their grandparents. There are models to please them all, starting at $14,810. Despite the hatchback not surviving the 2006 redesign (an Si vs. GTI showdown would have been sweet), 2007 does mark the debut of the Si sedan, offered at $21,290.
Time to decide which compact sports sedan has more street cred straight off the showroom floor. We'll rank each based on several fixed criteria, each carrying its own relative weight based on its class. In a perfect world, the winner could score a perfect 100. Can it happen? Will it happen? There's but a single way to find out…
Volkswagen Jetta GLIMSRP (Base): $24,110
Engine: 2.0-liter, DOHC turbocharged inline-4
Horsepower: 200 bhp @ 5,500 rpm
Torque: 207 lb-ft @ 1,800 rpm
MPG: City: 23; Highway: 32
Performance - 14/20
There just aren't many cars in this class that we can drive comfortably doing 128 mph. At the GLI's terminal velocity, however, it feels far better composed than other cars twice the price. From city corners to chicanes, the Jetta handles quite well for a front-driver and delivers reasonable feedback from its standard 17-inch tires (18-inch tires are optional). This substantial feel could be what works against the Jetta off the line. It's substantial on the scales, too. Despite 200 turbo-powered horses, it still takes 7.9 seconds of rowing the six-speed manual (or optional six-speed DSG automatic) to nudge the 3,290-pound car to 60 mph from nada. Bottom line: The Jetta's performance is best appreciated on the open road, not between stoplights.
Exterior design - 17/20
Some critics cut on the latest Jetta for its concession to Japanese design. We don't see it enough to grumble; it still looks mainstream European to us. Whichever continent you feel dominates the lines, this Jetta is blessed with good looks. Family resemblance to Audi does no disservice here. And the GLI trim is either underachieving or understated, depending on your point of view.
Interior design - 8/10
You'll have to squint a little harder to see Audi resemblance inside the cabin. It's more of a shared philosophy to outfit the interior with material that looks and feels like it came out of a less modest car. Fit and finish uphold VW's reputation, and the ergonomics invite you to play all day. Unlike the gauges, which are easily read day or night, the optional navigational screen is easily washed out when the sunlight is strong. Finally, we greatly appreciate the trunk's 16-cubic-foot capacity — admirable for this class.
Sound system/goodies - 6/10
Yes, the GLI package is almost $8,000 above the base price. But in addition to the turbo under the hood, the interior features are plentiful. This is highlighted by the 10-speaker/six-disc sound system with Sirius satellite radio capability, 60/40 rear seats with pass-through, eight-way adjustable front seats, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio, phone and cruise control functions (plus DSG shifting paddles if so equipped).
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Should I get an abortion after previous miscarriage?
Hello. I've recently had a miscarriage due to chlamydia. My miscarriage was one of the most horrific tragedies I have ever been through, and it caused me a lot of pain and I lost a lot of blood. After that happened, I had been treated free from chlamydia, but 2 months after the abortion I find myself pregnant again. I'm scared of having another miscarriage, and I'm not sure if this one may become one since it is so soon. So my question is, should I get an abortion? I know the question may seem too vague, but all I want are opinions. I'm unsure and scared of my pregnancy.
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I see why you could be scared. I had a miscarriage last year and then got pregnant again this year. This whole time i've been worried. I have nothing to worry about though. I wouldn't abort the baby just cause you are scared you'll lose it. Are you in a good position to have a baby? If so, I say go for it. Try not to worry, it'll just cause unwanted stress for yourself. You say you have been treated for the STD, then I would try to have it :) Good luck to youposted 10/30/2012 by angela012606
I have a question for you. If you think that your miscarriage was one of the most horrific tragedies you've been through then why would you have a planned abortion? Not all pregnancies end in miscarriage and I say this because this is my 3rd pregnancy. The first two I delivered early, 5 weeks and 4 weeks and now with this pregnancy I've experienced some bleeding and doctors say it's a threatened miscarriage. If I by chance lost this baby and could get pregnant again afterwards nothing would feel better. I would be scared for sure but to have another sweet baby in my arms eventually would outweigh the fears of another abortion. This pregnancy could be just fine so if you want this baby I would say DO NOT get an abortion.posted 10/30/2012 by pandabear_1801
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This year 2014 will announce news of the order as possible, likely to return to your existence, and for good number of them will be quite unusual. The influx of Uranus leaving your sign is strengthened because of the influence of Saturn in a friend sign. Your inspiration takes you into the unknown, new horizons, in all areas. This wind of change takes you to the diversity and qualifies your old conceptions of life, judgments of values, to admit more easily some of your needs too often turned away in the past.
The presence of Saturn in Trine to your Sun you inspired this year more than ever competing needs of social recognition, a certain form of power and at the same time a need to let go, which is not easily reconcilable in the same amount of time. You will need to make additional efforts in organization practice to both your needs and your requirements. The presence of Jupiter in Trine to your sign left include a few disagreements, if you work as a team. It will be less easy to find peace and serenity necessary in a collective work...
The astrological trends of this year 2014 you strongly aspire to new experiences. The universality of love becomes fascinating and gives you wings to go to the front of innovations in a broad sense. You will find yourself confronted to circumstances which will help better understand you yourself in your sensitivity and your emotional fashion. Your own reactions will be more revealing than ever to your aspirations. The influxes of Saturn in Trine to your sign reinforce the intake of Mercury. What gives you more daring to evolve your sentimental achievement? You feel more legitimacy to your personal desires, which strengthens your power of seduction. In fact, more natural and spontaneous, successful brother will be easy! If you are currently in a relationship, you will have facilities to fully expose your aspirations, in calm and serenity. And when even your partner is not quite your opinion, you can do without too much penalty to make you understand, without imposing... What is even more effective in the end! If you are in this single moment, the meetings that you will make during the first three months of the year will be high in emotions and sensuality. Do not toast the stages of commitment and everything will be fine.
Material money your will be linked mainly to your work, in the reality of the facts, as well as in your mind. You may lack of energy devote you to financial transactions, mainly during the months of June and July 2014. On the other hand everything that is related to research is promoted. If you are looking to buy a House, for example, you will have the best chance of making a positive investment at the beginning of the year. Jupiter inflows combined with Saturn and addition to the Sun and mercury will help having spectacular chance shots. You can bet on your creativity to enhance your property. Taking your time, at your own pace, your ideas will be carriers of eminently positive possibilities. Dosed boldness, creativity, external support, here is the ideal ground to make the point on the right foot.
The Trine of Saturn and Jupiter make you feel an intense need to set yourself apart from others and vote social environment, as tired of compromise, your absolutism makes you rebel you against any form of human injustice. It is the ideal time to demonstrate to the big day your creativity which may prove to be in the arts, as well as in your profession or your love... Your attachment to the past will no longer be an obstacle to progress in sight, your ambitions are freer, lucky supports you, and it's time to claim what is due to you. It will be necessary to measure your expression to those you love, because you may be too steep in your emotional expression and thus you surprised not to receive attention to which you aspire. Admit that it would be too much damage.
You will experience positive spikes especially between February and July. Indeed, Saturn inflows coupled with those of Venus in aspect to your natal Sun make you go through phases d' total recklessness followed by moments of discouragement and body fatigue. You will be able to stabilize these waves in more relaxing you through therapies related to water, and entertainment from the most simple steps and even basic. There is no shame to delve into a film even it is not distinguished by its subtlety! A few sensual excesses will paradoxically positively vitalize you and bring you amazing tone. Too much austerity of the senses worthless you, remember, to the wise...
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Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amarok : Depends: amarok-common (= 2:2.6.0-0ubuntu2) but 2:2.6.0-0ubuntu2.1 is to be installed
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Piedra de sol
by Octavio Paz
Stanzas 47-48 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 552-560
door of being: open your being
and wake, learn to be, form
your face, develop your features, have
a face I can see to see my face,
to see life until its death, a face
of the sea, bread, rocks and a fountain,
source where all our faces dissolve
in the nameless face,
the faceless being,
the unspeakable presence of presences…
- This stanza opens with repetition of the previous stanza's first words: "door of being." Before, we suggested that might be an image of birth. This time the speaker seems to be talking to the one who is being born.
- He tells it to "open your being / and wake, learn to be, form / your face, develop your features." In the prior stanza he asked for the door to "wake me, / allow me to see the face of this day."
- So before it is the speaker being born (in one possible interpretation) and here the speaker is speaking to the one being born. Transformation alert.
- But since we know that there is a big confusion among individuals in this poem—one is the other, and we are all one—he is probably talking to himself in both instances. Anything goes in this poem.
- He asks again for a face to see in order to see his own face, and we are back to natural elements (with some man-made ones thrown in too): "a face / of the sea, bread, rocks and a fountain."
- The poem is winding down with a desire to return to the source of life, where everyone is one. That source was described earlier as God ("the nameless face, the faceless being").
- Note the repetition of the word "face" again. Any ideas on why that word pops up so much?
Lines 561-580
I want to go on, to go further, and cannot:
as each moment was dropping into another
I dreamt the dreams of dreamless stones,
and there at the end of the years like stones
I heard my blood, singing in its prison,
and the sea sang with a murmur of light,
one by one the walls gave way,
all of the doors were broken down,
and the sun came bursting through my forehead,
it tore apart my closed lids
cut loose my being from its wrappers,
and pulled me out of myself to wake me
from this animal sleep and its centuries of stone,
and the sun's magic of mirrors revived
a crystal willow, a poplar of water,
a tall fountain the wind arches over,
a tree deep-rooted yet dancing still,
a course of a river that turns, moves on,
doubles back, and comes full circle,
forever arriving:
- This last stanza is super important for understanding the poem as a whole. Let's break it down.
- Lines 561-564 reflect the ugly parts of the poem that hated growing old, forgetting, and dying. "I want to go on, to go further, and cannot" and "I dreamt the dreams of dreamless stones" (whoa, repetition, anyone?) seem to refer to death.
- Then, though, the dead speaker wakes up and hears his blood singing, and the sea singing. This has to do with the cycle of reincarnation—the cycle of the calendar that always repeats itself and allows for the rebirth we just saw in the last few stanzas.
- What happens when death is conquered? Well, walls and doors break down; the sun comes through the forehead and wakes up the speaker from his stone sleep.
- Remember way back in Line 44, where the speaker says "you are a city the sea assaults"? Well, here we get a description of the sea conquering the city and reviving the dead.
- Perhaps through death the speaker is revived, because he finally reunited with his drowned lover? Or perhaps there is some other explanation that you can't wait to tell us about—we're all ears.
- Finally the sun revives "a crystal willow, a poplar of water […]." Sound familiar?
- We're back to where we started, just like on New Year's Day, everything "comes full circle, forever arriving." Pretty cool, right?
- By the way, these lines don't count toward the magic number 584 in the original Spanish, since they are a repetition of the first lines of the poem. Just in case you were stressed about Paz's math.


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High School: William M. Raines
College: Florida A&M, Alabama (school history) (Chandler college stats)
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Sorry for length. I need to know if I can combine cases.
My 25+ year marriage is done 1/4/13. I'm taking him back to court to collect support he w/held from 1st support order over the 2 years our divorce dragged on. In 2/12 he filed for a protective order. I didn't answer due to he'd tried before and been turned down. He lied in court. He used a secretly recorded conversation between the 2 of us, from 12 months before. The conversation was w/in a month of us going through a devastating loss. Anyways, to my horror, he was granted one for 3 years. I never once put my hands on him. He came w/in seconds of killing me in May 2011. I have his arrest record as well as my medical records. I was left w/ a torn ACL and Mencius due to him kneeling on my leg while he was using his thumbs in an attempt to crush my windpipe. It took 6 months to recover. He's been using this r.o. as a control tool ever since. He's very angry re: the final settlement. Is there any basis at all in my getting this thrown out. I can't work. Child development. In CA that means fingerprint and background check. 20+ years training/experience I can't use. He's Narcissistic. I was the Plaintiff. He asked me multiple x to cancel. This stupid order was his only way to be in control. If he'd been the Plaintiff there never would have been an order. I need this off my head. He's paying the new permanent but, lower spousal support but, I'm having to go back into court for the major part of what I was granted in the final settlement.
Thank you for your time. We live in CA
Really need an answer...
Started by LynMCo , Feb 05 2013 01:41 PM
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Posted 05 February 2013 - 01:41 PM
Posted 05 February 2013 - 01:49 PM
How, exactly, is this protective order giving him control over you? Of course I don't know the details, but it seems to me the less you see of him, the better for you. However, you are free to seek to have it lifted. Consult local counsel.
Posted 05 February 2013 - 02:09 PM
The main reason I want it lifted is my livelihood. I love working with children. It's the one field where I can actually make a living. At my age making a comparable wage working another job isn't likely. Also, he's nice when he wants me to agree to something that benefits him. However, when I'm trying to get anything from the thousands that he owes me, boom the threat of the order comes out. You're right about not seeing him. I want nothing more than to see him in my rearview mirror. I wish I could see a lawyer. This 2 year journey has sucked! I searched for one who'd agree to be paid from what my ex owes me. That was a wild goose chase.
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Nokia's road to Feb.11th – the last 18 months. Part 2
This is part 2 of my look into the situation at Nokia during the last 18 months before February 11th 2011, when it made the dramatic strategy shift, abandoning Symbian and Meego platforms in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone.
In the first part I talked about how the top managers saw the company situation in September 2009, during its annual Nokia World conference, when they proudly announced a fresh offensive in the smartphone market. And how that offensive fizzled out in the next 6 months.
Today I take a closer look at what happened during the next year and what forced Nokia to abandon the strategy it has been pursuing before, drop its own smart device platforms, and switch to the unproven Windows Phone OS in February 2011.
If you are interested in the longer term view, check out my posts "How Nokia was disrupted".
February – September 2010. When Symbian/Meego/Qt became not good enough
During Q1 2010 earnings report in April, Nokia managers were forced to admit that they were not able to execute on the strategy outlined in September and December of 2009, and that they are delaying the release of the next generation Symbian OS and new devices, by months. Few weeks later, Nokia issued a profit warning and lowered profit expectations for the rest of the year.
By that time OPK's fate as Nokia CEO was, most likely, already decided. Nokia's board saw the precarious situation 4 years of OPK's leadership brought the company to, and understood that a major change of direction is necessary.
In May 2010 Nokia announced another of its restructurings, and brought Anssi Vanjoki back to the spotlight from the exile in Nokia's marketing arm, where he was banished after losing a fight for CEO spot back in 2006. Nokia's Board put Anssi in charge of the most important smartphone division, with a task of reforming Nokia ways and possible promise of the top position. The new CEO search started at about the same time, with Anssi Vanjoki as an obvious front runner. He had to come up with a viable plan for Nokia's turnaround, sell it to the board, and convince them that he can execute it.
As soon as Anssi started in his new job in July, he issued a very inspiring rallying cry "The fightback starts now". And got to work on changing things. From what we know now – those changes included:
- dropping incompatible Symbian^4 development in favor of a more evolutionary path we see today
- strongly refocusing all Nokia smart device efforts around Qt
- killing off competing UI projects
- restarting Meego development with the new Qt based Swipe UI
(Most of those changes were announced/came out when Stephen Elop was already in charge, but that was too soon for a man only 3 weeks into the new job, for it to have been purely his decision. After all – Elop himself said that he would spend his first month (October) listening, learning things from Nokia employees.)
Despite the big internal changes, Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia man to its core, was adamant that he will be able to turn Nokia around relying solely on Symbian/Meego/Qt trifecta. And refused to even consider external platform alternatives. Unfortunately, he failed to convince Nokia board to trust him on this.
We'll never know whether Anssi was right or wrong, or how Nokia boardroom politics played out, but we know the end result of it. Few weeks into the Anssi's new job as head of smartphone division, Nokia Board made a decision that his plan is not enough.
According to Board's thinking, Nokia may not be able to survive on its own, the viability of Symbian and current Nokia transition strategy would have to be evaluated afresh, and possibilities of joining other mobile platforms – either Android or Windows Phone – seriously looked into. And Anssi was not the man to do it – they started looking for an external CEO with strong software background to implement the changes.
And they found one in Stephen Elop in early September 2010.
September 2010 – February 2011. The end of Nokia as we know it and a fresh start
Nokia has announced that it has hired Stephen Elop as new CEO on Sept. 10th. His vision and Nokia turn-around plan so obviously rejected, Anssi Vanjoki announced his resignation from Nokia 3 days later. On Sept. 21st Elop started his new job.
The end of Q3 2010 was a very turbulent time at Nokia. The changes Anssi Vanjoki initiated in the smartphone division were starting to take shape. Meego team began working on the new Swipe interface, Nokia N8 – the first Symbian^3 device was about to ship and the plans to streamline Symbian development were in place. On the other hand, market realities were catching up and Nokia's smartphone market share started dropping too fast – it declined 6% in just one quarter.
The end of the year was even worse. Symbian^1 sales have collapsed. In Q4 2010, during the Holiday Shopping Season, Nokia sold 3.2 million less of its Symbian^1 handsets, then it was able to sell just 3 months ago. Due to previous delays and pent up demand, Nokia's formidable sales organization was able to push 5 million next generation Symbian^3 devices to operators and wholesale partners. S^3 helped to show a some quarterly growth, and even increased average device price and overall Nokia profitability, but those gains were largely an illusion. Compared to available Android 2.2 devices, the new Symbian phones were uncompetitive and the end consumer demand was pretty low. Failing to sell the devices they already had, Nokia partners started slashing the orders for the next year. For more detailed analysis of Nokia Q4 2010 check here.
The fate of Symbian has already been decided during spring/summer 2010. Looking at an amount of time, efforts and resources S^3 update required, Nokia's management and the board have already made up their minds about the gradual phase out, in favor of Meego. But the rapid collapse of S^1 sales and a tepid Symbian^3 uptake must have caught them by surprise.
Since mid November 2010 Stephen Elop and Nokia management team were already talking to Google and Microsoft about adding their mobile OSes to Nokia's offerings. But as 2011 rolled in and Nokia saw the actual sales numbers and projections, the situation became much more urgent.
At the time, Nokia was less then 4 months into the development of the new Swipe interface for Meego, and no guaranties that they will be able to ship it by next September. Furthermore, according to Business Week, in early January 2011 management realized that at the current pace they will only be able to launch 3 Meego devices before 2014. This one device a year release cycle for Meego phones was the part of the original Nokia strategy/roadmap. And Meego team was following this roadmap even after the changes initiated by Anssi Vanjoki during the summer of 2010.
And it might have been a good plan – to have one top of the line champion device a year, to put all of Nokia's marketing strength behind. If Nokia had a refreshed and moderately competitive Symbian OS, to fill the portfolio beneath it. Alas, with Symbian sales collapsing, instead of orderly transition to Meego via Qt, Nokia was now facing a rapid collapse of its main smartphone platform with nothing to replace it for the next 10-20 months.
To make matters worse, they now had a hard deadline when the new Nokia strategy had to be unveiled to the world. The date for this – Nokia Capital Market days on February 11th, was already set and announced.
Coming to the realization that the platform you have been betting your future survival on is not ready to compete, and may not be ready for years, must have been a pretty big shock to Nokia team. In late 2010, Android or Windows Phone was just an attractive option to broaden Nokia product portfolio, help with U.S. market and smoothen the transition. So after first introductory meetings between CEOs, high level management teams were mostly looking into technological feasibility and negotiating technical details during the meetings in New York and Reykjavik. But in January of 2011 this suddenly became a huge "bet the whole future of the company" decision for Nokia.
Google, riding high on Android success, wasn't much interested in giving Nokia much leeway, or possibilities to customize the OS to Nokia's liking. To them Nokia was just another handset maker which will have to adhere to Android Compatibility Guidelines like the rest. And the way Google treated Samsung- stopping already shipping Galaxy S sales over the Skyhook matter last summer, shows what would have happened to Nokia, if it fully committed to Android.
That left only Microsoft's Windows Phone as a viable platform for Nokia. Using possible Android switch as a club, Elop was able to get the permission to modify Windows Phone OS to Nokia needs, got the commitment of huge marketing support payments from Redmond, made Navteq/Nokia maps the default in Microsoft ecosystem, and negotiated revenue share from the location based services built on Navteq technology. The deal was hammered out during Ballmer's visit to Helsinki and Jan. 16th Microsoft/Nokia management meeting in London, and finalized on February 10th by the approval of Nokia's Board. The rest, as they say, is history.
Will Nokia's bet on Windows Phone be able to turn the company around? We simply do not know yet. We'll see the first tangible results tomorrow, at Nokia World. But will probably have to wait until next summer to see if the strategy really works.
Wouldn't Nokia have been better off, if it had doubled down on Meego and made it work? We will never know. But a thing to remember here – is that this decision was not made just by Trojan Horse Elop secretly under Ballmer's command. Most of the top Nokia management, and Nokia's Board – with a much better insights into the real state of Meego and Nokia's business situation at the time, approved and fully supported Windows Phone switch.
Given the cards he was dealt, the Meego and Symbian situation at the time, Stephen Elop played the best game he could. Now we have to wait and see if that was enough.
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A while ago in one of my projects I came into this problem that I wanted to detect when a child window that is created with window.open method gets closed.
As you know it is possible to call a JavaScript function in parent page from a popup window using parent.[JavaScript-Method-Name]. But this didn't work for me because the page I was opening was from another domain and couldn't modify its content.
Unfortunately the popup window does not have any close event that you can listen to but there is a closed property that is true when window gets closed. So the solution I came up with was to start a timer and check the closed property of the child window every second and clear the timer when the window gets closed. Here is the code:
var win = window.open('http://www.google.com', 'google','width=800,height=600,status=0,toolbar=0');
var timer = setInterval(function() {
if(win.closed) {
}, 1000);
Hope this helps.
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Thanks, so many people answer the popup question with: "just put a callback in your popup to the parent" which sucks from a 'separation of concerns' standpoint. However, you didn't and it assured me of the approach.
Thanks Khaled!
thank you very much, I use it in a facebook application thanks.
A 2 days problem solved!
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Worked great. Thanks for saving me a bit of time. I kept trying to use the onunload event, which never fired.
Nice thinking outside the box.
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This does not work on Opera.
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Yes, these are my photos of my small landscape design.
I've stayed in my cabin many nights with the windows opened, listening to the sound of my frogs croaking throughout the night.
I'm hearing the water flowing off my waterfalls in my ponds and having a gentle breeze blowing in the fragrance of my lilacs. That gave me all the comfort I needed for a relaxing evening!
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I first tried on this dress when I was visiting New York and fell in love with it. I tried on many more dresses, but kept coming back to this one. I loved the romantic feel of it. I ended up purchasing the dress in Scottsdale and brought it back to Canada for my wedding last October.
- Alterations: Standard alterations: sewn in cups, and french bustle. I also had little round lace buttons applied to the back of the dress. The dress was taken in from the size 8 label. Measurements after alterations: Bust 34.5; Waist 26; Hips 38; Height 5'9" with shoes. Additional boning was also added to the corset.
- Preservation Method: Dress has been professionally dry cleaned.
- Terms of Sale: All Sales Final
- Original Owner: Yes
- Has Original Receipt: Yes
- Location: Edmonton, AB
- Will Ship to: Anywhere at Buyer Expense
- Payment Methods Accepted: Escrow.com
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