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helping you choose those products that you have to include on your "A" list for evaluation. From our conversations with storage managers, we knew that innovation, while certainly the hallmark of great new products, wasn't sufficient to single out such products.
Given tight budgets, short staffs and ever-increasing data volumes, we decided on the following criteria as being most critical:
- Innovation
- Performance
- Ease of integration into environment
- Ease of use and manageability
- Functionality
- Value
And so we solicited nominations from vendors, scoured the market for our own nominations and recruited a panel of judges composed of independent industry experts, storage managers and editors. They reviewed a total of 39 products in five major categories. The results are presented within.
You'll see products that are simply the best at what you're doing now, that next step in the evolution of current technology. You'll see products that are just the opposite - they break the mold and let you go where you've been unable to go. None are a panacea - all have to be evaluated as part of your overall storage infrastructure. But we think you'll agree they all have a mix of valuable attributes that when matched to the right task in the right environment, advance the state of the art in storage.
Networking Equipment
Backup Hardware
Backup & Disaster Recovery Software
Storage Management Software
Disk & Disk Subsystems
2002 was a tough year for storage managers who were charged with running their departments on flat - or even shrinking - budgets in the face of ever-increasing data storage demands. So it's only fitting that as winner of the disk subsystem category, our judges chose a product characterized by monstrous capacity for such a low price: Nexsan's InfiniSAN ATAboy2.
Based on up-and-coming ATA drives, the current generation of the ATAboy is the ATABeast, which comes with 13.4TB of capacity in a 4U enclosure, with a list price of about $40,000. That's under $3/GB, or under a third of a cent per megabyte.
Nexsan's ATAboy family is primarily marketed as a target for disk-based backup, but it's also being used by organizations that store large quantities of so-called fixed content. For example, the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City uses Nexsan's ATAboy to archive digitized television and radio shows. As one judge put it, "This is the one for the up-and-comer. It has the value small shops low on capital need."
Judges weren't only impressed by the ATAboy's low price point, but also its relatively high performance. Unlike some ATA-based arrays, all 42 drives in the ATABeast can be active simultaneously, for 25,000 IOPS and sustained data transfer rates of 180MB/s.
Judges also seemed to appreciate ATAboy for the ease with which it integrates into end-user environments. Unlike some ATA-based arrays targeted at backup or fixed content, you don't need to write to any special APIs, nor are you limited to using it as a target for a backup application. It can be used in conjunction with Nexsan's InfiniSAN D2D data management application, which provides timed online replication with multiversion control so that files are stored and accessed in native file format, for immediate restores. This is in contrast to tape backup applications, which store data in their own proprietary format.
Other vendors also launched ATA-based products targeted at fixed content this year - for example, EMC with its Centera array. And while judges scored it highly for its innovative architecture, it ultimately lost points on cost and integration concerns.
Among judges, Network Appliance's FAS900 - the company's first attempt at a storage area network (SAN) - got major brownie points for innovation. In the past, storage managers looking for both file and block capabilities could either install two separate systems, or put a network-attached storage (NAS) head in front of a SAN. The FAS900's operating and file systems, however, can natively serve up either file or block from the same physical disks, while maintaining a single point of management and a single set of software tools.
To be sure, converged file and block services are a nice technological feat, but the real reason judges rated the FAS900 so highly is because like its filer cousins before it, it's easy to implement, easy to manage and comes with a complete set of software functionality. In a world where companies spend up to $7 to manage every $1 of physical storage, that's a compelling recommendation.
3PAR's utility storage server isn't the everyman's disk subsystem. With capacity that can scale to 375TB in a single S800 system (using 2,560 147GB drives) and 47,001 SPC-1 IOPS performance, 3PAR has delivered on what is commonly known as utility storage - storage suited for the most demanding data center environments.
It's not only that 3PAR's Utility Storage Server is fast and gigantic that appealed to our judges. It's also the system's ability to serve up that performance and capacity as needed to a variety of different hosts and applications. Equipped with between two and eight clustered controller nodes, these data movement engines can handle mixed workloads simultaneously, while providing fault tolerance and single system image for simplified management.
For storage managers that want to consolidate their storage, 3PAR's Utility Storage Server presents them the opportunity to efficiently house all their diverse applications on a single system, without fear of wasting expensive storage resources.
| Brocade SilkWorm 3200
The brocade silkworm 3200 got the gold because it's an excellent switch for companies starting to move from direct-attached storage (DAS) to entry-level SANs. The eight-port SilkWorm 3200 is priced right (around $1,000 a port) and offers the performance (2Gb/s) that meets the requirements of a small SAN.
The 3200 supports Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Unix server clustering applications. It replaces legacy hub or loop switch devices, provides a highly scalable backend for NAS devices and serves as a stepping stone to enterprise-wide SAN deployment. It's the right-sized switch for implementing departmental and workgroup SANs. As one industry analyst put it, "Products such as the SilkWorm 3200 move the [SAN] entry price point toward the equivalent points of Ethernet networks."
The SilkWorm 3200's low port count doesn't mean cut-rate features, either. Quite the contrary, it includes:
There are other eight-port, 2Gb/s SAN switches on the market. But none, in our opinion, offer all the management functionality that comes with the 3200. Brocade has raised the bar for entry-level SAN switches.
| McData Intrepid 6140 Director
Storage needs are growing at alarming rates, along with the requirement to meet business continuance goals, match SLAs and adapt to changing business needs. The McData Intrepid 6140 Director can handle almost any task thrown its way. Simply put, it's an immense, capable switch built for quickly growing large Fibre Channel (FC) SAN fabrics and mainframe FICON environments. Because the Intrepid 6140 extends the scalability to 140 ports, it provides less complicated connectivity for large SANs. The Intrepid 6140can scale up from 64 to 140 ports in four-port increments and with its protocol-independent architecture, 60 buffer credits per port, low switch latency and 2Gb/s speed, is designed to support many emerging technologies, such as 10Gb/s, iSCSI, FC over IP, and InfiniBand.
It's nice to see a large port-count switch that can grow with a company's storage requirements - and grow in a way that protects prior investments. McData's hot code load and activation technology (HotCat) allows new firmware and software to be deployed without network disruption. And because of its high number of ports, cabling and inter-switch connections are simplified, which reduces costs. The judges liked the McData Intrepid 6140 director because it was designed to meet a company's storage needs today, and most importantly, can scale to tomorrow's needs as well.
Emulex has upped the host bus adapter (HBA) ante by stuffing a lot of neat features into its 133MHz LightPulse LP9802 PCI-X Fibre Channel (FC)HBA. For example, there's end-to-end parity protection for data integrity, multiple protocol support (SCSI and IP), data buffering for up to 100 km of cabling supporting high bandwidth over long distances and full duplex 2Gb/s FC speed that's backward compatible with 1Gb/s SANs.
But here's the really cool stuff: In contrast to previous methods - which require HBAs to be managed on a server-by-server basis - Emulex's HBAnyware driver technology provides the ability to upgrade HBA firmware anywhere in a FC or iSCSI SAN from a single console. Additionally, Emulex's MultiPulse provides failover and automatic load balancing capabilities that intelligently manage multiple I/O streams.
We also like the fact that Emulex is forging agreements with other SAN vendors - such as Brocade and TrueSAN, for example - to further extend its HBAs' capabilities and make SAN management even easier.
The words "tape" and "innovative" usually don't occupy space in the same sentence. But in the eyes of the editors and judges, the Overland Neo Series 4000 tape library couldn't seem to shake the words. The Neo sparked attention with its superior scalability and failover capabilities.
To get some of the specs out of the way - the Neo LXN4000 series libraries scale from one drive and 52 cartridges to 16 drives and 240 cartridges. The Neo LXN4000 series accommodates DLT8000, SDLT, SDLT320, LTO-1 and recently added support for LTO-2 drives. Clearly, this library option can accommodate enterprises forecasting widespread growth. The Neo also supports 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s FC technology.
So where does the innovation come in? In a couple of areas, the Neo has features not readily available on tape libraries. For instance, the Neo is able to be remotely repaired on the fly. This allows administrators to find an error and fix it without bringing systems down and without tinkering with cabling.
Bob Abraham, President of Ojai, CA-based analyst firm Freeman Reports, says that the Overland series has some upscale features for a midrange product. Freeman points out that the Neo Series is attractive to midsized companies that have their eyes on growth. The Neo Series can accommodate this by economizing floor space with its rack design. This rack-and-stack feature allows anywhere from 4TB to 66TB and can write 115GB/hour to 1,840GB/hour.
Additionally, the Neo has a partitioning option that allows for virtual sublibraries. These sublibraries allow for a centralized point of management. Included in the ease of manageability is a touch-screen GUI. Software companies participating in the certification of Overland's Neo tape libraries range from Computer Associates, Legato, Veritas, Tivoli, BakBone, CommVault, Syncsort, Atempo, everStor, and LiveVault.
One of the only setbacks we could find with the Series 4000 was its lack of support for AIT. But for the price, anywhere from $22,500 for the low end and about $115,000 for the full boat, and the features you get, it's tough to top Overland's Neo Series 4000 for backup hardware needs.
One of our judges summed up the ADIC Scalar 24 in one concise statement: "Using proven technology and the value of tape, this one is a ringer." If you're looking for value and performance, going with ADIC's Scalar 24 is a solid choice.
Scalar 24 allows small and midsized companies to get enterprise-level performance. IDC's Senior Research Analyst Robert Amatruda says the Scalar 24 addresses the needs of companies that want a high-density, low-cost library at an aggressive price.
ADIC offers this with one or two drives, with multiple tape technologies and the ability to integrate into a large SAN.
The Scalar 24 supports one or two LTO-1 or SDLT320 drives, and up to 24 tape cartridges for up to 64MB/s throughput and 6.8TB of capacity. At a starting price of about $12,500, this is value that's tough to beat.
| Quantum DX30
One of our judges didn't call the Quantum DX30 Enhanced Backup Solution "dead sexy" for nothing. You may want disk for backups and tape for restores, but how do you combine these technologies for the least disruption to your current backup procedures? Enter the DX30.
The disk-based DX30 emulates a tape library, making it easy to implement without changing your infrastructure or backup policies. Because it doesn't use an operating system, it backs up large blocks of data and achieve transfer speeds beyond 216Gb/hour, increasing the likelihood of successful backups and reducing restore time to less than 10 seconds. If floor space is a concern, no worries here. It packs 3TB capacity into two rack units.
The DX30 is the first of a family of products based on Quantum's Adaptive Disk Array Management Technology platform (ADAM), which enables high density and large data transfers without a lot of power consumption. One downside to the DX30: The list price for a fully configured DX30 is about $55,000, or about $16/GB - to which one of the judges exclaimed, "Gimme a break."
| CommVault Galaxy 4.1
When we looked at the entries in this category, we expected our winner to go beyond the hype in its marketing brochures and deliver the goods: namely, drastic reductions in backup/recovery time. CommVault Galaxy didn't disappoint, rising quickly to the top of our judges' list of favorites.
The Galaxy received high praise from judges for its innovation, ease of use, ease of integration into existing IT environments and its inherent value.
Galaxy is one of the first serverless backup/recovery solutions for Microsoft Windows and Unix environments. But it goes beyond that. Commvault Galaxy takes an application-centric and logical view of a company's mixed media storage resources. This top-down approach allows for faster, volume-level backup with minimal impact on either the production host or application performance.
CommVault Galaxy 4.1 also claims faster restores than its competitors. By writing backups to disk via random access, Galaxy exploits disk's inherent strengths. According to CommVault, most competing products write to disk sequentially, requiring a sequential and lengthier restore process.
This approach requires fewer manual steps for an administrator to follow in order to restore data rapidly at the application level, such as a rapid restore of an Oracle database.
Offering block-level incremental backup of Oracle databases, the product provides what the company claims is a "consistent, recoverable image of the data to be protected." The product also has built-in support for third-party snapshot and third-party copy applications, giving administrators a single browser-based interface for scheduling, managing or cataloguing snapshots and for viewing their global storage resources.
CommVault Galaxy shines in heterogeneous, mixed storage media environments (disk, tape or optical media). The product views all backup media from an abstract, logical layer as universal storage resources, as opposed to viewing it from just the physical storage or device layer, as does many of its competitors.
The CommVault Galaxy 4.1 has policy-based management features that allow administrators centrally manage and apply policies to each media resource. This also lets them manage data movement for each resource in a similar way, regardless of the media type.
CommVault Galaxy 4.1 supports heterogeneous operating systems, applications and storage platforms, including Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft .NET, Novell, Oracle, several other Microsoft products, Lotus Notes/Domino and some EMC and Network Appliance products. Of special note to our judges was the fact that it also supports all network storage environments - whether DAS, SAN, LAN or WAN. Base pricing for CommVault Galaxy 4.1 starts at $2,000 per server.
| This tool by Bellevue, WA-based Bocada, Inc., won a special place in our judge's hearts. After checking out Bocada's BackupReport, it became clear why this product received more glowing accolades from analysts, reviewers and customers than virtually any other storage software we've seen.
One judge even proclaimed, "Products such as these are desperately needed in the field." BackupReport does just what its name implies: It reports on the relative success or failure of your organization's backup processes. Using an intuitive GUI, it offers visual cues to identify how well your backups succeeded, often within moments of initial install. Surprisingly to most administrators, the final reports can quickly identify up to several hundred gigabytes that haven't been backed up successfully.
The product uses an agentless architecture that supports multiple operating systems and all major backup software products, including Veritas, Legato, IBM Tivoli, products by HP, Computer Associates, and Microsoft.
Pricing starts at $4,300 for a perpetual license to a single backup server in a homogeneous network environment.
| Veritas NetBackup 4.5
It should come as no surprise that Veritas NetBackup 4.5, released in April 2002, also made our list as a solid contender across all areas, including innovation, ease of use, functionality, value and performance.
After all, Veritas NetBackup has had a history of innovation in the market. This includes being one of the first to support serverless backup, via its E-Copy functionality. With its latest product version, Veritas has added some much-needed backup functionality, such as calendar-based scheduling. Customers will also see more robust backup and disaster recovery features, such as Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) and integrated vaulting with Veritas NetBackup Vault, which enables automated rotation of tapes to an off-site backup facility.
Perhaps more important to data managers who handle Oracle database backups are the automated backup/recovery wizards that now mask the complexity of Oracle's underlying RMAN commands. Now following a few simple steps in plain English, DBAs or administrators can be trained quickly to back up their Oracle databases.
Pricing starts at $5,000 for Windows and $10,000 for Unix. Pricing for NetBackup BusinessServer 4.5 starts at $1,995 for Windows and $3,995 for Unix.
| Fujitsu Softek Storage Manager
Users have had it with vendor promises of heterogeneous management. While software makers have been racing to bring the best management tools to market this year, one product has emerged from the pack to answer the call for automated storage provisioning, archiving, security and overall SAN management.
Fujitsu Softek's Storage Manager not only centralizes and automates storage management in multivendor environments, but it goes the extra mile by allowing users to pool management of disparate data and storage hardware types, including both open and mainframe systems, through the use of virtualization, replication, migration and storage resource management technology.
Our judges took special notice of Storage Manager's wide platform support. Softek Storage Manager software works with Windows NT/2000, Sun Solaris, HP/UX, AIX and mainframe platforms OS/390 and Z/OS.
Fujitsu - which was one of the first software vendors to integrate features through a policy engine - doesn't overlook the fundamental functions of storage management. The software links storage directly to application requirements and warns when storage servers are near or reach maximum capacity, runs reports, delete files and automatically provisions storage in virtualized SAN environments.
Storage Manager is reverent of the past. Legacy storage also falls under the software's reign, letting users view not only networked NAS and SAN systems, but DAS as well. The software monitors and automates actions such as archiving, deleting files and provisioning storage resources using set storage policies across servers or groups of servers.
Fujitsu's victory over the runners-up for Storage Management Product of the Year was indeed slim, but the experts believe Storage Manager gives users the most management for their IT buck.
| FalconStor IPStor
IPStor nearly captured the gold, but our panel of judges frowned on the fact that the software only runs on the Unix and Linux operating platforms.
FalconStor's IPStor software centers around storage virtualization, and according to our panel, its modular architecture better serves storage environments that need to scale.
FalconStor's IPStor facilitates consolidation of heterogeneous storage environments along with provisioning of both SAN and NAS resources for file sharing from the same storage pool all while laboring from the middle of the data path. The software supports any SCSI or FC-attached disk and tape storage devices.
By offloading tasks such as backup, restore, volume management, mirroring, snapshot and replication from the application servers and the storage devices and putting them right into the SAN, IPStor chops administrative overhead. Everything is managed from a single point including diagnostics and reporting.
Another feather in IPStor's management cap is its protocol support. The software connects anything that moves data including FC, IP, iSCSI, SCSI, CIFS, NFS and more.
| Veritas SANPoint Control 3.5
What would a software category be without the V word? No, we don't mean virtualization, we mean software juggernaut Veritas. Like our Gold and Silver winners, Veritas SANPoint offers a centralized storage management interface to deploy, monitor and manage multivendor networked storage environments.
SANPoint Control manages everything from the application to the storage array and tackles tasks such as performance and policy management, storage provisioning and zoning while actively managing storage resources and service level agreements.
Judges pointed out that SANPoint Control 3.5 currently supports HP-UX, Solaris and Windows 2000, features such as Install Wizard and automatic discovery of storage resources, which help ease the need for highly skilled IT staff. The one drawback to Veritas' software, according to the judges, is a lack of options for some operations. One judge thinks that the SANPoint Control 3.5 "should support discovery of other backup packages."
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BRENTWOOD -- Realizing his lifelong dream has been a long road for Gus Guardado, one that's demanded perseverance and involved risks.
But the 34-year-old Heritage High School teacher finally has finished what he started, and on Saturday he's displaying his accomplishment for all to see.
A feature-length movie that Guardado wrote, directed and produced will appear on the big screen in Concord for one night.
Although the project took seven years from concept to premiere, Guardado recalls the process as if in a time warp.
"It doesn't feel like I announced in '09 that I was going to be doing this," he said. "The making of it just flew by. Any filmmaker will tell you that a production feels like a hurricane."
Guardado describes "Love, Concord" as a "coming-of-age teen romance a la John Hughes," referring to the late director known for his string of 1980s adolescent comedies that included "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club."
The 90-minute film is semi-autobiographical, featuring a high school senior who's the class clown and strikes out with girls. When a studious young woman presents him with another chance at love, Gerry -- aka Guardado -- must decide whether his campus antics or the relationship is more important.
"You don't forget your high school romance -- I had lots of material," he said.
Shot over three weeks, the movie depicts a handful of locations around Concord, including Concord High School, where Guardado graduated in 1997.
Other scenes were filmed at Diablo Valley College, in Martinez, and on the Heritage High campus in Brentwood.
The cast of 121 includes 95 extras, including two former Heritage High School students who were in Guardado's video production classes.
Humble beginnings
Guardado's earliest memory of working behind a camera is shooting a mock news report for an eighth-grade history project, and by the time he graduated from high school, he knew he wanted to be a filmmaker.
After earning a Master of Fine Arts in film production, he worked as a gofer for a studio and later dubbed commercials and appeared in video game trailers before becoming a teacher.
The jobs didn't satisfy his creative urges, however, and when a friend suggested he make a film that was relevant to him, Guardado decided to pursue that avenue.
He wrote the screenplay for "Love, Concord" in 2005 -- the first of nine drafts -- brought in a former college instructor as a co-producer, and in the summer of 2009, he began an interactive blog to promote the project and marshal help.
Guardado called in favors and asked for volunteers as well as suggestions: Was there anyone who could round up costumes? Who wanted a bit part?
What should he name the film? Where are some good spots to shoot?
By year's end he was ready to start assembling a cast, drawing on his network of contacts in academia as well as using an industry website and Craigslist to find actors.
After that, Guardado put a film crew together; there was a production sound recordist to find as well as an associate producer and assistant director.
He began filming in June of 2010 on a budget he had cobbled together from personal savings, a handful of fundraisers and outright donations from friends and family.
After several weeks of 12-hour days, the movie was a wrap.
Three weekslong picture editing sessions followed, after which it was time to refine the soundtrack by adding background effects and music and ensuring the dialogue was at a consistent volume.
And then Guardado faced the biggest challenge of all up to that point: going public.
He began submitting the final cut to film festivals in the hope of not only showing it to audiences but getting a distributor to buy it so his work could enjoy a wider release.
But Sundance Film Festival turned him down. So did the next event and the one after that. Guardado received four rejections before the New York International Latino Film Festival gave him the nod for a one-day run in August.
Since then he's had two verbal offers from distributors, and on Wednesday,
"Love, Concord" was accepted to the Miami International Film Festival.
Guardado's now waiting to hear whether he'll be showing his movie at a couple of other festivals he's applied to.
Guardado also plans to pitch his movie as a TV or Web series and predicts there will be more films in his future.
But one thing Guardado won't be doing is quitting his day job.
"(Teaching) gives me the avenue to share my passion," he said.
And Guardado believes that passion keeps him on top of his game in the classroom.
"If I stop making films, I'll eventually become a poor teacher because you're not honing your craft," he said. "It's like an athlete not training. You'll eventually become fat and flabby. The day I become that teacher is the day I quit."
Contact Rowena Coetsee at 925-779-7141. Follow her at Twitter.com/rowenacoetsee.
What: "Love, Concord"
When: 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Saturday
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OAKLAND -- While coaches Mark Jackson and George Karl continued firing shots Wednesday regarding alleged dirty tactics against Stephen Curry, Curry was ready to move on to new business.
Curry said undue focus on the mounting physicality in the opening-round playoff series can only do a disservice to himself and his Warriors teammates as they try to finish off the favored Denver Nuggets at Oracle Arena on Thursday night.
"Nobody's really talking about it in the locker room," said Curry. "We're just approaching Game 6 like normal. You can't get distracted by that. We have a chance to close out the series at home. It's a big opportunity we have to take advantage of."
Jackson, however, continued to zero in on the Nuggets' rough treatment of Curry, specifically what he viewed as an intentional kick by forward Kenneth Faried to Curry's ankle.
"I can live with physical basketball. Taking a stab at Steph Curry's ankle is not physical basketball," Jackson said. "If you attempt to kick him with your foot on his foot, that's not a basketball play. That's a cheap shot."
Karl responded to Jackson's assertions at Denver's Wednesday practice.
"My basic reaction is he's watching a different movie than I'm watching," Karl said. "If there's a scorecard and we're in a boxing fight right now, they're winning the fight. We won a round (here and there), but I'm going to tell you, I'll go to any arbiter now and show the dirty shots -- they're winning."
For Curry's part, while claiming after the game that he may have been the target of Nuggets "hit men," he softened that stance and wasn't even sure that Faried's act was intentional.
"When I looked at the film afterward, we did kind of get our feet tangled up a little bit," Curry said. "I don't know what (Faried's) intentions were, but I'm not worried about it. I'm just going to try to play my game."
So why was Jackson continuing to belabor it?
"Coach is just doing his job as a coach to bring attention to what he feels should be looked at," Curry said. "But as players, we're not going to get caught up in that mini-game of letting a foul hard here or a foul hard there take away from the way we've been playing in this series."
Faried said couldn't understand what all the fuss was about.
"I thought they were mad about the shoulder, honestly," he said. "I wasn't going for his ankle at all. I wasn't trying to. I wasn't even thinking about his ankle, honestly. I forgot it was injured."
"Bogut's our starting center," said Jackson. "He's played a huge part in this series and will continue to. We just put a run together (without him)."
"We just have to match their physicality and exceed it, we can easily do that at Oracle," he said.
The Denver Post contributed to this report.


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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has taken a second look at Apple's (AAPL) pinch-to-zoom technology and this time found it wanting.
In a letter sent to Apple's lawyers on Wednesday, the office said it has completed a re-examination of the iPhone maker's patent on its zooming technology and has rejected all of Apple's claims. Citing older patents and published documents, the patent office found that Apple's claimed innovations were "unpatentable."
The determination is preliminary. The patent remains in force, and Apple will have a chance to appeal the ruling.
An Apple representative declined to comment on the rejection or on how the company will respond. But patent owners typically appeal such determinations and frequently have the decisions reversed, legal experts said.
"The No. 1 thing to keep in mind is this is not over with," said Brian Love, an assistant professor of law at Santa Clara University. "This is just a step in a long process."
The pinch-to-zoom patent was among the key patents at issue in Apple's recent lawsuit against Samsung. In finding that Samsung infringed on that patent and others, a jury awarded apple $1 billion in damages in August.
Samsung filed a copy of the patent office's decision with the court today, calling it relevant to its request for a new trial and to Apple's request for a permanent injunction against Samsung's products.
Despite the filing, it's unclear whether the patent office's decision will have any effect on the Apple-Samsung case, legal experts said. Assuming that Apple decides to contest the decision, it could take months or even years for the patent's validity to be decided and Apple has several layers of appeals open to it, they said.
Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has wide discretion on whether or not to delay further proceedings in the Samsung case, they said.
"It's more likely than not that the court would be inclined to proceed on the current pace," because the patent office's findings are "so preliminary at this point," said Andrei Iancu, a patent attorney and managing partner at the Los Angeles office of Irell & Manella.
But he added that Koh could decide to push the pause button, "because this is such a high-profile case, and there's so much money at issue."
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Jim Rich, Assistant Superintendent of the Camdenton R-III was recently honored for his 25 years or more of service in educational administration by the Missouri Association of School Administrators (MASA).
Rich was recognized for his service of four years as a principal or assistant and twenty-one years as an assistant superintendent or superintendent. This special recognition of his dedication to education was made during the awards banquet at the MASA Spring Conference on March 20 at The Lodge of Four Seasons at Lake Ozark.
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Is it just us, or does this Getty photo of Pope Benedict XVI giving communion to celebrants in Germany seem somehow reminiscent of another famous European scene?
We wonder if the Holy Father is any good at chess.
Pope Assails Secularism, Adding Footnote on Jihad [NYT]
The Seventh Seal [Criterion]


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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
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Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi - Force War #1
The ancient Je'daii order returns and welcomes new and old readers alike in "Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi – Force War" #1, as do John Ostrander and Jan Duursema, who again prove that they're the best when it comes to "Star Wars&q
|November 20th, 2013
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
"The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story" by Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson and Kyle Baker is a captivating, emotional and flawless life story, brilliantly written and drawn that will engage both Beatles and non-Beatles fans alike.
|November 20th, 2013
Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde #3
"Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde" #3 brings Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse's second mini-series to a close, wrapping up a murder mystery but also setting up future storylines in a good way.
|November 15th, 2013
Star Wars #11
"Star Wars" #11 from Brian Wood and Carlos D'Anda includes a dogfight, a defection and more than a few declarations of war as hostilities escalate and the Rebellion tries to notch another victory.
|November 15th, 2013
Bloodhound: Crowbar Medicine #2
"Bloodhound: Crowbar Medicine" #2 is loud and violent, confident, smart and funny, showcasing the talents of Dan Jolley and Leonard Kirk quite nicely as they produce new adventures for Travis Clevenger.
|November 13th, 2013
The Star Wars #3
"The Star Wars" #3 by J.W. Rinzler and Mike Mayhew doesn't quite work as a story based on an in-progress idea, but is much more interesting as a showcase for George Lucas' early vision, despite some artistic inconsistencies.
|November 11th, 2013
Astounding Villain House
This collection of Shannon Wheeler's "Villain House" stories will hopefully get a larger audience for Wheeler's feature, because these are too cute and funny and dark to be ignored.
|November 1st, 2013
Bloodhound: Crowbar Medicine #1
Don't worry if you never read Dan Jolley, Leonard Kirk, and Robin Riggs's original series; "Bloodhound: Crowbar Medicine" #1 instantly pulls you in to a world with an ex-cop who's paroled to help on superhuman cases.
|October 16th, 2013
S.H.O.O.T. First #1
"S.H.O.O.T. First" #1's secular task force fighting other-dimensional monsters posing as angels and devils is a hysterical idea, but Justin Aclin and Nicolas Daniel Selma's comic feels more like a video game transcript than a story.
|October 16th, 2013
Abe Sapien #6
Mike Mignola and Scott Allie story in "Abe Sapien" #6 is a little slow and drawn out, but the gorgeous art by Sebastian Fiumara drawing Mayan legends is easily worth the cover price.
|October 14th, 2013
Elfquest: The Final Quest
Wendy and Richard Pini begin the final "Elfquest" tale by bringing back just about every character from the last 35 years.
|October 14th, 2013
"X" #6 kicks off a storyline introducing the Dogs of War, as Duane Swierczynski and Eric Nguyen's crime drama serve up its strongest installment to date.
|October 9th, 2013
Shaolin Cowboy #1
Don't worry if you never read the original 7-issue run; the new "Shaolin Cowboy" #1 is loony and beautiful, and honestly that's all you need to know with Geof Darrow's long-awaited return to the character.
|October 9th, 2013
Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight #1
Alex de Campi and Chris Peterson deliver the first part of "Bee Vixens from Mars" in "Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight" #1.
|October 4th, 2013
The Occultist #1
Tim Seeley and Mike Norton bring back their college-age magician in "The Occultist" #1, starting a mini-series that feels anything but magical.
|October 4th, 2013
Matt Kindt shows us the repeated brainwashing of Meru through Henry Lyme's eyes, and as the cycle continues, "MIND MGMT" #15 gets that much more entertaining.
|September 26th, 2013
Criminal Macabre: The Eyes of Frankenstein #1
"Criminal Macabre: The Eyes of Frankenstein" #1 provides an irreverent look at the supernatural underbelly of Los Angeles and brings Frankenstein's monster to town for more irreverence.
|September 25th, 2013
Kiss Me Satan #1
Victor Gischler and Juan Ferreyra develop a vivid new world of werewolves, witches, vampires, and more for New Orlean's seedy underbelly in "Kiss Me, Satan!" #1.
|September 23rd, 2013
Buzzkill #1
Kicking off their new alcoholic-superhero miniseries, newcomers Donny Cates, Mark Reznicek and Geoff Shaw surprise with a master class in what a #1 issue should look like.
|September 23rd, 2013
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth #111
"B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth" #111 has John Arcudi, Mike Mignola, and Tyler Crook continue to bring the scattered characters closer together, but it's up for debate on if Liz Sherman or Fenix is in more trouble right now.
|September 19th, 2013
"X" #5 lets Duane Swierczynski and guest artist Tony Parker serve up an epilogue to the first storyline, even as readers start to see where X and Leigh Ferguson's relationship is heading.
|September 13th, 2013
Brain Boy #1
"Brain Boy" #1 feels like a fresh concept from Fred Van Lente and R.B. Silva, but in reality, this title is a revival of a Dell title that is over fifty years old.
|September 11th, 2013
The Star Wars #1
New writer J.W. Rinzler is a bit shaky at the helm of this major release, but Mike Mayhew's generally gorgeous art carries a jumpy story to make a comic that's worth checking out by fans of sci-fi in general, not just "Star Wars."
|September 5th, 2013
Itty Bitty Hellboy #1
Art Baltazar and Franco's "Itty Bitty Hellboy" is enjoyable enough as a kids' comic, but it doesn't spend nearly enough effort finding humorous opportunities from 20 years of rich Hellboy mythology and ultimately misses the parody
|August 30th, 2013
Angel & Faith #25
With "Angel & Faith" #25, Christos Gage and Rebekah Isaacs stick the landing in the conclusion of this series, putting a cap on the most successful "Buffyverse" comic series to date.
|August 29th, 2013
Star Wars: Legacy #6
"Star Wars: Legacy" #6 by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman is fun overall, starting off quickly but then slowing way down as it sets up the next story. Brian Theis is a capable but inconsistent artist, who darkens things up a bit too much at t
|August 28th, 2013
Lobster Johnson: A Scent of Lotus #2
The conclusion of "A Scent of Lotus" sees Mike Mignola and John Arcudi's story wrapped up a bit too quickly, but Sebastian Fiumara's art takes all the time it needs.
|August 23rd, 2013
Dark Horse Presents #27
"Dark Horse Presents" #27 has far more hits than misses, especially since to David Lapham, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Steve Lieber, Jane Espenson, Karl Moline, Steve Niles, and Menton3.
|August 21st, 2013
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth #110
Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Tyler Crook invite readers in to a new arc with "B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth" #110, but you might need a program if you're choosing this issue to start reading the series.
|August 21st, 2013
Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde
"Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde" #0 brings back Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse's extraterrestrial posing as a small-town doctor, and this lead-in to the new mini-series is just as fun as the first outing.
|August 16th, 2013
Captain Midnight #1
"Captain Midnight" #1 has Joshua Williamson and Fernando kick off an ongoing series (after a "Dark Horse Presents" introduction), and this time-displaced hero's outing feels solid if average.
|July 31st, 2013
Star Wars: Legacy - Prisoner of the Floating World #5
Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman shift from world-building to action in "Star Wars: Legacy" #5 as Ania Solo takes some advice from one of her closest allies.
|July 29th, 2013
It's an unlucky day for three families in suburbia, courtesy Matt Kindt's "MIND MGMT" #13. What starts as a rash of missing objects turns into a mixture of mind games, some more powerful than others.
|July 29th, 2013
Lobster Johnson: A Scent of Lotus #1
Sebastian Fiumara defends his claim to the title of best non-Mike Mignola artist in the Hellboy universe in a moody, retro pulp tale written by Mignola and John Arcudi.
|July 24th, 2013
Blood Brothers #1
After a thousand or so years of friendship, vampires Nick and Tree have seen a fair share of history -- but they may not see what's coming for them in Mike Gagerman, Andrew Waller, Etan Cohen and Evan Shaner's "Blood Brothers" #1.
|July 22nd, 2013
Star Wars: Dark Times - A Spark Remains #1
Dass Jennir, Bomo Greenbark, Randy Stradley and Doug Wheatley return to that galaxy far, far away as Darth Vader comes looking for Jennir in "Star Wars: Dark Times - A Spark Remains" #1.
|July 21st, 2013
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #2
"The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys" #2 by Gerard Way, Shaun Simon and Becky Cloonan further defines the divide between the City and the Desert and the beliefs of the Ultra-Vs vs. those of the last remaining Killjoy.
|July 15th, 2013
"X" #3 has Duane Swierczynski and Eric Nguyen show the danger of spilling all of your secrets on a blog, and we're not just talking about identity theft here.
|July 10th, 2013
Catalyst Comix #1
"Catalyst Comix" #1 has a great story structure as it brings back the old Golden City characters, but Joe Casey, Dan McDaid, Paul Maybury and Ulises Farinas's comic feels a little overwritten.
|July 3rd, 2013
King Conan: The Hour of the Dragon #2
Tim Truman and Tomas Giorello are back in action in a faster-paced issue #2 that feels more like the original story it's based upon, and lets them both show their skills to the fullest.
|June 28th, 2013
The Massive #13
Writer Brian Wood alters the direction of the series for the better in "The Massive" #13, while keeping all of the dystopian elements that have made it great. Plus, the welcome return of regular series artist Garry Brown.
|June 26th, 2013
Dream Thief #2
"Dream Thief" #2 by Jai Nitz and Greg Smallwood follows John Lincoln as he involuntarily slips into murder victim Jimmy Oliver's memories and alternately plays detective and executioner.
|June 24th, 2013
Captain Midnight
One-time radio star Captain Midnight makes his way to Dark Horse's comic book stable in "Captain Midnight" #0 by writer Joshua Williamson and artists Victor Ibáñez, Pere Pérez.
|June 19th, 2013
Star Wars #6
"Star Wars" #6 is another fantastic installment in the series from writer Brian Wood and artist Carlos D'Anda.
|June 14th, 2013
Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem #1
Steve Niles, Matt Santoro and Dave Wachter drop readers into the early days of World War II in "Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem" #1, and while the story is a charmer, it's the amazing art that sets this issue apart.
|June 14th, 2013
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #1
Style is substance in Gerard Way and Becky Cloonan's latest, a flashy debut issue that hints at greatness on the level of "Umbrella Academy" but doesn't quite deliver.
|June 14th, 2013
The Black Beetle: No Way Out #4
Francesco Francavilla draws a close to "The Black Beetle: No Way Out" #4, giving readers a lot to soak in and enjoy.
|June 12th, 2013
The Last of Us: American Dreams #2
"The Last of Us: American Dreams" #2 by Neil Druckmann and Faith Erin Hicks follows Ellie as she leaves the quarantine zone and her military boarding school and into the decaying urban landscape of Boston, Massachusetts.
|June 4th, 2013
Angel & Faith #22
"Angel & Faith" #22 continues the end-run for the series, and even as Giles finally returns, Christos Gage and Rebekah Isaacs will make you wish that the series could get stretched out a bit longer.
|May 31st, 2013
King Conan: The Hour of the Dragon #1
Timothy Truman and Tomas Giorello's new "King Conan" miniseries that looks set to continue the team's standards of quality and reverence to the source material, but feels a bit formulaic after years of similar books.
|May 31st, 2013


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Definition of coronoid process in English:
coronoid process
1A flattened triangular projection above the angle of the jaw where the temporalis muscle is attached.
Example sentences
- The coronoid process is not elevated above the level of the dorsal spur of the dentary.
- Inferior to the trochlear notch is the coronoid process.
- The fenestra and the coronoid process provide additional surface area for muscle attachment at this critical site.
2A projection from the front of the ulna forming part of the articulation of the elbow.
Example sentences
- The ulnar or deep head (accessory head) arises by an aponeurotic band from the medial border of the coronoid process of the ulna, medial to the tendon of the brachialis muscle.
- It passes through the capitulum of the radius and the ulna and its coronoid process and radial notch.
- A single ulnar tunnel is made by placing two ulnar drill holes 3 to 4 mm distal to the articular surface of the coronoid process, separated by approximately 1 cm at the native attachment site of the ulnar collateral ligament.
Mid 18th century: coronoid from Greek korōnē (denoting something hooked) + -oid.
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QCAD 3.4.7 - I need help to understand this new various point display feature.
Ok - I'm able to set my Point display choice within the Drawing preferences dialog.
Question one: If I decide to use the Mode 0 with the size 50 - what means size 50? (it doesn't change the displayed size at all ... )
Question two: If I decide to use the Mode 65 with the size 50 it will actually display the point bigger but it isn't 50 pixel. It looks like always ~20% less than the chosen value.
What I'm doing wrong?


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Kudos to Ryan Hemphill and Best Buy
As a society, we have an obligation to secure a brighter future for individuals with autism spectrum disorders. By taking action now, we can ensure that adults with autism break free of the all-too-common status of "dependency" and become engaged, involved and ideally, tax-paying, members of their communities. It is time to develop and drive policies that provide for life-long living and learning with autism. Last year, in response to this urgent need, Autism Speaks assisted in the formation of Advancing Futures for Adults with Autism (AFAA), a national consortium seeking to create meaningful futures for adults with autism that include homes, jobs, recreation, friends and supportive communities.
We love to share success stories of adults who have autism and we also look to recognize socially responsible companies who help them on their path to independence. The video below highlights Ryan, an adult with Asperger Syndrome and his positive experience working at Best Buy.
We also would like to recognize Best Buy for its efforts in hiring adults with autism and developing their careers. Best Buy has a new program called FACE – Facing Autism in a Caring Environment. FACE is a Focused Involvement Network (FIN) at Best Buy. The mission of FACE is to build a community of Best Buy employees that will promote awareness of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and support their families through networking, the sharing of resources and providing encouragement. The campaign was launched this month at Best Buy, and Ryan was a big part of the launch at the Best Buy headquarters in Minneapolis.
Join us in congratulating Ryan on his success (and the new car he bought with his earnings!) and in thanking Best Buy for its efforts to employ adults with autism to promote their independence.
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20 December 2011
We, honourable citizens of Egypt — pioneers in every field, one hundred million nationalists and three great pyramids — declare our absolute support and inexhaustible gratitude for those valiant and chivalrous soldiers of our own flesh and blood who, with knightly dedication and redoubtable bravery, are making of their own unassailable selves the impregnable garrisons with which to protect not only us, their people, but also our most sacred, most xenophobic patrimony. Before we go on to demonstrate, with indubitable argument, the blindingly obvious fact that it is thanks to the wisdom and righteousness of our faithful Council of the Armed Forces (Sieg Heil!), of whose incorruptible grace the word "supreme" is but the humblest designation, that the people and their oil-smeared holy men of fragrant beards will be saved from a fetid galactic conspiracy to which this country has been subject.


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Philadelphia Firefighter Neil Calore's Voyage For Autism
Neil Calore's 'Voyage For Autism' is a brave and ambitious trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to raise awareness for children and families affected by autism spectrum disorders. With an overall distance of more than 425 miles, Neil's goal was to average 30 miles per 10 hour day. He set sail on April 16, with a wonderful sendoff from friends, family, and the autism community. In this video, Philadelphia's Mayor Michael Nutter sends his well-wishes.
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Neil chose to fundraise and raise awareness for autism because of his friends who are affected. "I had built this boat, and was out on the water one day just realizing how good I have it," Calore said. "I need to do something with this. My friends are an inspiration to me and I wanted to give back."
This voyage will also support the Regional Autism Fire Safety Campaign in Philadelphia. The Fireman's Hall Museum describes the program stating, "Fires and Medical Emergencies are chaotic. For many affected by autism, those arriving to help can be perceived as a threat, adding to the chaos and causing a panic situation. The Campaign will addresss issues concerning Autism and how families affected can effectively prepare Fire Escape Plans, and prepare for the arrival of First Responders in emergency situations." Fore more information visit their page, here.
You can track the 'Voyage For Autism' live by visiting here.
Here are some photos of the Baltimore Fire Department and Autism Speaks volunteers supporting Neil!
Captain Calore will be arrived in New York City on the morning of May 2 at The Village Community Boathouse.
Donate to Neil's 'Voyage For Autism' here!


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Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat learned to paint on porcelain in Limoges, Bordeaux and Toulouse. He opened his own ceramic factory in Bourg-la-Reine in approximately 1889.
In 1892, he teamed up with the sculptor Voisin-Delacroix to produce "stoneware and all other varieties of ceramic". Voisin-Delacroix was responsible for modelling the shapes and Dalpayrat for the actual manufacture (firing, glazing, patinas). This artistic partnership came to an end in 1893 with the death of Voisin-Delacroix.
Dalpayrat is famous for stoneware in warm, sumptuous hues and a bull's blood red cover coat with jasper blue or green highlights. He designed vases in the shape of fruits such as marrows and colocynths, whose surface he sometimes brought to life with fantastical animals or human and organic shapes. He worked with goldsmiths including Cardeilhac to create one-off pieces mounted on metal and produced porcelain or earthenware tableware.
At the Universal Exhibition in 1900, he exhibited two vases which were almost two metres tall, demonstrating considerable technical and artistic skill.


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As the product of the largest fishery by weight on the East Coast, Atlantic menhaden is a vital species to a broad swath of hard-working communities, from Chesapeake watermen working in the reduction industry, to New England lobstermen using the fish for bait. With the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission poised to place new harvest caps on the fishery this December, the implications will be felt coastwide.
Environmental organizations, like the Pew Environment Group, have taken this opportunity to push for sharp catch reductions. Writing in a recent petition drive that "the best scientific information available shows that menhaden are in severe decline and that catch should immediately be reduced by half," Pew is pushing for the harshest of a suite of measures being considered by the ASMFC. However, the truth is much more nuanced than the environmental advocacy community has otherwise claimed.
In 2010, an ASMFC stock assessment found that menhaden were experiencing overfishing, meaning that, in 2008 (the last year of the assessment) fishing exceeded the ASMFC's designated mortality limit. This triggered the management process culminating in this December's prospective catch limits. But the recent history of the fishery has not been marked by a pattern of over-exploitation: In 2008 overfishing was slight (.4 percent over the limit), and was only the second time in the period from 1993-2008 where it had even occurred. The stock fared even better in measures of fecundity (the number of eggs produced). The assessment found the population was producing more than enough eggs to sustain itself, meaning it was not overfished.
Further complicating the management process is the 2012 assessment. While it concluded that overfishing was still occurring but that the population was not overfished, the assessment was regarded by the ASMFC's Menhaden Technical Committee as severely flawed, especially its pessimistic estimations of menhaden biomass and fishing mortality. The committee found that these flaws were so bad that the assessment was unfit for management advice. As a result, officials at the ASMFC are now expected to regulate a fishery whose exact status is uncertain, and where the last reliable data comes from 2008.
What is certain is that adopting the maximalist position put forth by some environmental groups, and cutting harvests by 50 percent, would have a devastating impact on the fishery. The Virginia-based reduction fishery is the lifeblood of Virginia's Northern Neck, directly employing 300 people, and indirectly employing hundreds more. It annually produces an estimated $80 million in economic output in a region where dependable, good-paying jobs are otherwise scarce. But menhaden's value extends far beyond the Chesapeake's waters: fisheries up and down the East Coast, including marquee New England fisheries like lobster, rely on menhaden for bait, which has the potential to become more scarce and more expensive in the face of draconian harvest cuts.
Conservation of our marine resources is essential. But good conservation is based on sound science and strikes a balance between the concerns of environmentalists and the needs of fishermen whose livelihoods are at stake. Taking drastic action on inconclusive evidence helps neither the fish nor the fishermen.
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AVON - Scott Rella does the best multi-task in our spiral arm of the universe.At this weekend's Fire & Ice he'll be lighting Colorado's first ice bonfire, which is exactly what it sounds like. They create a massive barrel made of ice, then they burn stuff in it. It's seriously cool and seriously hot, sort of the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie of ice sculpting.Rella runs Icesculpture.com. He's doing much of the heavy lifting to put Fire & Ice together - in all his spare time. He started the first ice sculpting company in the U.S. 25 years ago. It's also the biggest. He sold it and moved to the Vail Valley, but the man doesn't have a natural aptitude for leisure.He started Aspen/Vail Ice and at the same time Fear No Ice, a performance art ice sculpting company. They're a little like the Blue Man Group, but white with goggles and power tools."I sculpt ice all over the world," Rella said.This week he's been sticking close to home, sculpting massive blocks of ice into things like Thor, Captain America and anything else he can conceive. The man is busy, and busy is good.When we caught up with him he had America's Got Talent on the other line. They start shooting for the show in New York City in April.And he's the proud father of a baby girl.So in all his spare time last summer he launched icesculpture.com. It's a clearinghouse for some of the world's top ice sculptors. They're in 40 cities so far and will soon be in 20 more."We have the best ones in every city," Rella said. "It's world class."It helps that they know each other.So it wasn't complicated to put together this weekend's competitors. Some of the best will be in Avon's Nottingham Park and in Beaver Creek at this weekend's ice sculpting competition and exhibitions."These are all my friends," he said.Some friends felt a little left out and they let Rella know about it, as friends would."My phone's been ringing off the hook with friends asking, 'Why wasn't I invited?' I tell them, 'Next year.'"Which means he plans to make Fire & Ice an annual event, he said.
Richard Bubin's background is fairly typical for people in this business. He started as a bus boy, a fry cook, a waiter and a chef. He carved fruits veggies, cheese, and eventually a buddy wanted him to do an ice sculpture for a banquet. He started doing competitions and winning.He just passed his 30th year. In Avon look for lots of interactive things for the kids as they create ice souvenirs."The live shows and entertainment are what I really enjoy," Bubin said.He can fire a 360 degree stream of snow at the crowd."It's like a Gallagher show with a chainsaw," Bubin said.Ice is a fleeting medium. He did a piece in Vermont and they hit a couple 60 degree days and it was gone."That's the way it is with Mother Nature. But when Mother Nature does what she does, I can make another one," Bubin said.And it's job security."If all the thousands of ice sculptures I've done were still up, I'd be out of a job," Bubin said.
The weekend runs like this:Saturday afternoon all the ice sculptors will be in Beaver Creek for an exhibition as part of the Beav's Prezfest."Our original idea was to bring in six world class sculptors and have them create something live on Saturday at Beaver Creek," Rella said. "We took it a few steps further. Rich Purkiss and I have designed and pre-sculpted a lot of the ice. The result is simply a lot more ice then any individual could create in a four-hour period. We're giving Beaver Creek a lot more than what they asked for."Sunday afternoon is the Masters Ice Invitational Competition. Each sculptor will have three blocks of ice and three hours to complete their piece. Rella is doing Captain America. Rich Bubin is creating Elvis with a guitar.You get to pick the winners of the ice sculpting competition and the champ gets the Peoples' Choice Award. The bonfire follows at 6 p.m.A half hour after that the fireworks start and stuff blows up. It's a 10,000-shell fireworks show, the largest winter display in the Rockies.Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 or email@example.com.


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June: Films of Compassion and Connection
The Spiritual Cinema Circle film selections this month explore empathy in the lives of families, friends and strangers.
In the short film Of Teaching Killer Whales Compassion, a homeless young man adrift in society finds hope for change after a chance encounter. A behind-the-scenes written interview with the filmmakers is included in the DVD insert. Our other short films this month, Lucy and Far, also tell stories of people seeking connection in the world.


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One of the biggest selling points of 99.7's Triple Ho Show was the chance to enjoy, seemingly for the millionth time, two of the top songs of 2012 -- Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and Psy's "Gangnam Style." That seemed like more than enough to ensure that the holiday show would sell out, which it did.
It was certainly thrilling hear Jepsen and Psy perform those two ultimate earworms in a live setting on Friday at the San Jose State Event Center. I'm not sure which of the two was the definitive highlight of the nearly four-hour concert, which also featured performances by such young pop stars as Cher Lloyd, Austin Mahone and Owl City, but I do know they were both very revealing.
Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" was one of just five strong songs performed during her short set. Each of the tunes illustrated that the 27-year-old Canadian singer has what it takes to last well past "Call Me Maybe" mania has died out.
Then there was Psy, the 34-year-old Korean pop star who has seen his "Gangnam Style" video notch nearly 1 billion views on YouTube alone. Many believe the K-pop crooner is destined to be remembered (at least in this country) as one of the greatest one-hit wonders of all time. It's really hard to argue with that after watching Psy's set, which consisted of one song -- and I don't need to tell you which one.
Of course, oddsmakers have been wrong before about one-hit-wonders. Take, for instance, Owl City (aka, electronica-pop artist Adam Young), who seemed a shoo-in for the club after he hit it huge with 2009's "Fireflies" and then quickly slipped out of sight.
Yet, there he was at Triple Ho, with more to offer fans than just "Fireflies." He now has a second smash, "Good Time," which hit the U.S. Top 10 earlier this year. All he needed to climb the pop charts again was to enlist Jepsen, who delivered sensational guest vocals on the single. Not surprisingly, their duet during Owl City's set was the first big moment of the night.
It would take some time before there was a second big moment. Lloyd provided little of substance during her set. The 19-year-old British singer, who is part of Simon Cowell's music empire, sounded OK on the hit single "Jagger Swagger." Other than that, her set was simplistic and derivative in ways that would make early Britney Spears come across like Rachmaninoff.
Then came Jepsen, who benefitted from the rather weak competition and managed to exude massive amounts of star power. She was equally poised and powerful, fully able to make her studio gems sparkle in the live arena. Each of her five songs was superb. Of course, "Call Me Maybe" was the perfect exclamation point to the set.
Jepsen nicely set the stage for Psy's one-song set. Predictably, the audience went gaga over "Gangnam Style" and the accompanying dance moves, yet it was a hollow victory for Psy, aka Park Jae-sang. He should have used the opportunity to get fans excited about his other material. Instead, he only strengthened the notion that he is destined for one-hit immortality.
The closer was Austin Mahone, the 16-year-old Texan who rose to fame by posting YouTube videos. The pop singer showed a good deal of range and energy, but nothing really to convince me that he's anything more than a poor man's Justin Bieber.
Follow Jim Harrington at Twitter.com/jimthecritic, facebook.com/jim.bayareanews and blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/category/concerts.
To see a slideshow of Friday's concert, go to www.mercurynews.com/entertainment.


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I usually just use VLC for DVDs when DVD Player acts funny or for movies I have on my hard drive. But yeah, VLC is good for Windows files as well.
i hate windows media but i love this implementation. couldn't be done better.
also give VLC a try -- got some mpeg files created on XP which even flip4mac can't play...
Definitely in love with this app. Annoying .wmv files, be gone!
Works as well as one could hope for worthless .wmv files. I wish this wasn't necessary, but it is, sadly.
yes... the other listing should use the application name, like all other listings do on this site.
It's good to keep things uniform.
I'm using the Uni-Bin of this on my CoreDuo iMac and it works great.
Can't wait for the UNIVERSAL BINARY!!!!!
It's in closed beta now.
You still need Windows Media Player to play Windows-only DRM media.
Seems a bit glitchy sometimes, but otherwise a Godsend since WMP for Mac is basically just a big junk heap.
The "save as" function doesn't always seem to work, and the progress bar sometimes doesn't update properly while a movie is playing... but still works way better than WMP.
Will be nicer once they get the universal build working correctly or make the beta available for people to use again.
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Application launcher and much more.
Quicksilver is a unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.
Anyone using a computer (and the Macintosh is no exception) spends a lot of time locating files and applications, and then carrying out actions on those items. The Finder is a reasonably good tool for getting a visual overview of the contents of your disk, but it isn't ideal for quickly locating and manipulating files, especially if you have a deep and complicated folder structure, or if you prefer keyboard navigation to using the mouse.
Quicksilver allows you to find what you need quickly and easily, while keeping your hands on the keyboard. For example, if you want to launch an application hidden in the depths of your file system, simply activate Quicksilver with a keystroke, type a few letters of the application's name, then hit Return or Enter to launch it. When you don't need Quicksilver, it keeps out of your way, preserving precious screen real estate, and yet you can summon it instantly with a key stroke - just like Mercury the winged messenger. Actually, Roman mythological texts are remarkably silent on whether Mercury could be summoned with a key stroke, but it would have been great if he could. Quicksilver will certainly make you feel as if you have god-like powers.
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The homepage should be changed to http://www.blacktree.com/
After using this app for several weeks with the Constellaton plug-in, I truly am a believer in Quicksilver.
essential app.
Open Source Qucksilver. The glove has fallen. The wind has changed. This app will be around forever. Good call!
If you want to download plugins, you'll need the latest version, Ã53.
have you noticed the App site has changed it's structure ?
simply: http://blacktree.com/
Quicksilver is now open source: http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/
so no word yet on when they're going to be back up and running? i downloaded QS from a mirror, but without being able to install any plugins, it's not nearly as useful.
There's a post here, but no further information afaik at the moment: http://www.43folders.com/forum/2007/10/26/blacktree-account-suspendedanyone-know-about#comments
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Drought has led to fewer cattle, shuttered feedlots and closed meatpacking plants
Years of drought are reshaping the U.S. beef industry with feedlots and a major meatpacking plant closing because there are too few cattle left in the United States to support them.
Some feedlots in the nation's major cattle-producing states have already been dismantled, and others are sitting empty. Operators say they don't expect a recovery anytime soon, with high feed prices, much of the country still in drought and a long time needed to rebuild herds.
The closures are the latest ripple in the shock wave the drought sent through rural communities. Most cattle in the U.S. are sent to feedlots for final fattening before slaughter. The dwindling number of animals also is hurting meatpackers, with their much larger workforces. For consumers, the impact will be felt in grocery and restaurant bills as a smaller meat supply means higher prices.
Owner Bob Podzemny has been taking apart the 32,000-head Union County Feed Yard near Clayton, N.M. It closed in 2009 when a bank shut off its operating capital in the midst of the financial crisis, and Podzemny said he doesn't see reopening after struggling through Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
"There just are not that many cattle in this part of the country no more, and it is not profitable to bring them in and feed them, so it is shut down," Podzemny said.
He's now feeding a few cattle in another feedlot, buying them at about 450 pounds and growing them to 800 to 850 pounds. He then sells them to others who bring them to the typical 1,200- to 1,300-pound slaughter weight.
"It is making a little money now on just growing feeders and selling them as feeders rather than finishing them all the way out," Podzemny said. "We do what we got to do to survive, you know."
Cattle numbers have been falling for years as the price of corn used to feed animals in feedlots skyrocketed. The drought accelerated the process, but many feedlots were able to survive at first because ranchers whose pastures dried up weaned calves early and sent breeding cows to be fattened for slaughter.
But now far fewer livestock than normal remain on the farms. And, ironically, if it rains this spring and summer, even fewer animals will go into feedlots because ranchers will hold back cows to breed and rebuild their herds.
Texas, the largest beef-producing state, has been particularly hard hit with a historic drought in 2011 from which it still hasn't fully recovered.
"Most of the bad news is in Texas," said Dick Bretz, an Amarillo broker who specializes in selling feed yards and other agribusinesses. "That is where I see most of the empty yards, that is where I see most of the interest in selling yards and where I see the least interest in buying yards."
When corn prices first spiked to $8 a bushel nearly four years ago, about 70 big feed yards went up for sale in the High Plains feeding area that includes Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska, Bretz said. Today, there are 10 and 15 feed yards for sale in the region, mostly in Texas. Bretz said he knows of 15 more that are empty, three recently dismantled and two others now being torn down.
Feed yards typically employ one worker per 1,000 head of cattle, so even big ones may not have more than a few dozen workers. But they supply meatpacking plants, which have much bigger workforces, and feedlot closures could herald greater unemployment to come.
Cargill Beef, one of the nation's biggest meatpackers, temporarily closed a slaughterhouse in Plainview, Texas, earlier this year, laying off 2,000 workers. The operation had been one of four meatpacking plants in the Texas Panhandle, and the annual economic loss to the region is estimated at $1.1 billion — a "major chunk of that economy," said Steve Amosson, an economist with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service in Amarillo.


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text: Building clusters is usually a fun time. Here's one of my setups at the Equinix LAX1 facility that is being used for VPN services, OpenVZ clustering, and general RADIUS and MySQL clustering integration. Once the clustering design is finalized, it's still in flux state while I try out different setups, I'll post some physical+logical architecture diagrams to show "How to Build a Fault Tolerant Infrastructure for Virtualized MySQL NDB Cluster + Python-based VPN systems." Stay tuned for more.


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10 Margarita Recipes You Need to Make
Serve this savory cocktail, garnished with the famed libido-boosting seafood, at brunch to spark a morning romp in the sack.
1½ oz. vodka
5 oz. bloody mary mix
½ c. cider vinegar
1 tsp. salt
2 blades of mace
10 cloves
10 peppercorns
10 allspice berries
a dash of cayenne pepper
Mix vodka and bloody mary mix. To pickle the oysters, cook one quart of oysters in their liquor until plump. Remove the oysters and add cider vinegar to the oyster liquor. Bring the liquid to a boil, add salt, mace, cloves, peppercorns, allspice berries, and a dash of cayenne pepper. Boil for five minutes, then pour the liquid over the oysters, seal in glass jars, and store in the fridge at least overnight. Garnish with oysters.
Almonds are an ancient symbol of fertility, plus their vitamin E keeps your skin glowing through a long, frisky night.
1¼ oz. black cherry vodka
3¼ oz. cognac
2 oz. unsweetened almond milk
3¼ oz agave nectar
Shake all ingredients vigorously in a cocktail shaker filled with ice, and strain into rocks glass filled with ice. Top with slivered almonds and nutmeg.
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In Touch: "Lady Gaga's boyfriend of six months, Taylor Kinney, has told her to check her alter ego at the door when she's with him… he has no desire to live with a stage act." Why can't she just be normal. God. It's like she wants to be an outcast. Freak.
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|Giovanni Trapattoni and Robbie Keane meet the press in Estonia last week.
This sounds like the scene setter for a love story, but it's not.
Instead it is a story of hope and glory, a story at last of happiness for a nation betrayed by its leaders in its most prosperous times.
We first met on Sunday morning, early on Sunday morning as it happened. We were neighbors in the security queue at Tallinn Airport and it was impossible not to hear what my new friend Brian, I think that's his name, was saying to his wife at home in Luxemburg.
He was hung over after three days and three nights in Estonia, the sort of thing that an infectious city like Tallinn and its wonderful Irish bar called Molly Malone's does to you.
He was tired. We were all tired. He was living in dreamland.
"When I woke up this morning, someone told me Ireland had won 4-0 but they couldn't be right," he explained to his better half.
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He was disorientated. "I have a ticket for the game in Dublin on Tuesday night and the flight home is booked but I don't think I'll go, the game is over now," added John, maybe in an attempt to appease the suffering spouse.
Then he declared his love for her and brought his call to a halt. It was time to make my move.
"You can't miss Tuesday," I said.
"But the game is over, there's no way they'll ever score four goals past Shay Given," replied my queue buddy.
"No," said I. "They won't. They won't get near qualification because we have an Italian manager and I doubt any Italian manager has ever blown a four-goal lead in a playoff match. Sure didn't Marco Tardelli laugh when someone asked Trap last night if he'd ever thrown away a four goal lead."
Brian still wasn't convinced.
"Yeah, but I've been away for three days now and she won't be happy if I disappear again."
It was time to play the trump card.
"Why are you living in Luxemburg?" I asked.
"I had to, no work at home," said Brian.
Time to move in for the kill.
"Exactly," says I. "You're living away from home because our politicians blew the Celtic Tiger and killed our country. Well this is our chance to put our country back on the map.
"We've had nothing to shout about for years. We've had nothing to celebrate since that b******s Bertie sold us down the river. So get your arse onto that plane, get to the Aviva and join the party on Tuesday night."
Game, set and match.
"You're right, I'll meet you for a pint at the Berkeley Court before the match," said John. And yes, he did.
An hour before kick-off on Tuesday, an hour before Lansdowne Road became Coronation Street, I met my mate Brian from Luxemburg. We had our beer in a hotel with its own Celtic Tiger story to tell.
When the bubble was booming, soccer fans weren't welcome in the Berkeley. They wanted the rugger buggers and had more bouncers than Copper Face Jacks whenever the soccer lot were in town.
Nowadays, like the song repeated over and over in Tallinn's strange Depeche Mode bar, they just can't get enough of us. They've even put an extra bar just inside the front door to keep us watered and a barbeque stall to keep us fed.
Brian and I had our pint in the Berkeley. Then we had our night together at the Aviva.
The boys were back in town and it felt good to be Irish, good to be alive. It's been a long time coming but Ireland Inc is on the march again. Thank you Trap.


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Researchers used online surveys to track more than a hundred college students for two months. The students recorded happenings like drinking, smoking and hangovers.
They found students who smoked on the same days they drank were more likely to suffer a hangover than those who only drank. While the design of the study didn't allow the team to pinpoint exactly how much worse the hangovers were or if smoking caused worse hangovers.
Study authors believe it may have something to do with the parts of the brain that process both tobacco and alcohol. Findings appear in the "journal of studies on alcohol and drugs."


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Definition of maximize in English:
verb[with object]
1Make as large or great as possible: the company was aiming to maximize profits
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- We also adopt the standard microeconomic assumption that the firm aims to maximize its profits.
- Your aim is to maximise the total profit, within the legal constraints that all tickets are treated equally.
- It doesn't take a genius to realise that, where possible, they will maximise that profit.
1.1Make the best use of: a rider can maximize a young horse's athletic potential
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- They would like to maximize the potential of their pace battery which is the engine which drives them on a cricket field.
- Consequently, she has put every other aspect of her life on hold to ensure that she maximises her true potential.
- If he's good enough, it's guaranteed they'll find him and he'll be directed in a way that maximises his potential.
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- In realist theory, the maximization of power is achieved by the nation-state in the international sphere, not the government.
- The maximization of value, profit and satisfaction are still the critical success factors in a commercial transaction.
- Through measured results, they show this maximization.
maximizer noun
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- This seems reasonable but I just don't think that it works in a world of human beings who are not perfectly rational value maximisers.
- But what it is useful for is adding more evidence to the growing pile that suggests that humans are not rational utility maximisers, as presupposed by economists; and pointing out that unfairness makes people unhappy.
- Rational choice theory views actors as rational insofar as they act instrumentally, are utility maximizers, possess stable and exogenous preferences, and are self-interested.
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The Bauer Supreme 180 Junior stick was designed and developed for the player seeking visible technologies, pro level feel and playability at a performance level price.
The Supreme line features a mid-kick flex profile, which means that it is easier to load through the middle due to its softer properties in that zone. It also features the Supreme power dual taper for a stiffer bottom portion of the shaft which in conjunction with the Pure Shot Blade profile, an expanded throat design as you transition from shaft to blade, provides torsional stiffness in such a way that reduces the likelihood of twisting and torquing of the blade. The 180 Junior was engineered to boost energy output and provide a healthy combination of strength, power, precision and control.
Just like the higher end Supreme 190 Junior stick, the Supreme 180 Junior uses a premium lightweight 12k woven carbon fiber in the shaft. 12k carbon is even better at managing stress than 3k woven carbon fiber, which has been used in high end composite sticks for years. The Supreme line of sticks have a square shaft shape with double-concave walls which is preferred among pros. Enhancing the nice secure grip provided from this shape is the MX3 Tac-Spiral ridges on the underside of the shaft.
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