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Endeavour, Season 2
Before Inspector Morse, there was Constable Morse, a rookie with the Oxford police in the mid-60s who is fed up with policing and ready to nip his career in the bud by handing in his resignation. That is, until a murder turns up that only he can solve. Shaun Evans returns for a second season with WGBH's Masterpiece Mystery! as the young Endeavour Morse, before his signature red Jaguar but with his deductive powers already running in high gear.


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In November 1963 I had a gig at the Acey/Ducey Club on Nas Alemeda.
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Sin City: A Dame To Kill For update
Casting news for Robert Rodriguez's Sin City sequel, which has started filming...
With Machete Kills in the can, Robert Rodriguez is now moving his attention to his long awaited Sin City follow-up, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Production apparently started yesterday on the new film, and we already know that Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson and Michael Madsen are amongst the cast.
And with the news that cameras are finally rolling comes some more casting news. Jaime King, for starters, is returning. She played Goldie and Wendy in the first movie. Added to the cast, meanwhile, is Jamie Chung. She's set to take up the role of Miho, who was played by Devon Aoki in Sin City.
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Global Regulation Curbing Growth, World Bank Finds
Many emerging markets have dramatically improved their business climates in the last year, but a tangle of onerous regulations the world over is curbing much-needed growth from the private sector, the World Bank said in a new report published late Monday.
That's particularly important as pessimism on global growth widens amid deteriorating emerging market prospects.
"We're still paying the price associated with the existence with business regulations, procedures and laws that put a heavy burden on the business community," said Augusto Lopez-Claros, head of the World Bank's global indicators and analysis division.
Those bottlenecks are "a burden on economic growth, a burden on job creation and a burden on productivity and competitiveness," he said.
The bank's flagship report gauges the ease—and difficulty—of doing business in 189 countries around the world. Specifically, it assesses what it's like for small-to-medium sized firms to set up businesses, raise capital, pay taxes, enforce contracts, export their goods and a raft of other metrics.
Countries are ranked by their overall grade.
It's not without controversy. The bank's own in-house watchdog criticized the report for what it called a "deregulation bias." And earlier this year, U.S.-appointed World Bank President Jim Yong Kim successfully fended off an effort by China and other nations to jettison the rankings, if not the report.
Still, "Doing Business" is lauded by many economists as a good, if imperfect, barometer of business climates and a tool that helps to drive economic restructuring, competitiveness and ultimately, growth. Seeking to attract investment, authorities want to push their countries higher in the index.
Mr. Lopez-Claros cited the report as a factor in driving a major contraction in the gap between worst performers, such as the Philippines, Burundi and Russia, and the top ranked, such as Singapore, New Zealand and the U.S. For example, according to the 2012 report, it took an average of 113 days in the worst quartile of countries to establish a business, compared to 29 days for the rest. But in this year's review, the bank found that 84-day gap had been narrowed to 33 days.
He said similar improvements were seen across a range of measures, including for tax filing, registering properties and the amount of time it took to export products.
While countries such as Russia, Rwanda, Ukraine and the Ivory Coast notched some of the biggest upward moves in the ranks, one notable downgrade was China. Despite being the world's second largest economy, China fell to number 96 from 91 in the previous report, putting it well behind Greece, Kazakhstan, Botswana and Tonga.
Although Beijing has been able to fuel stellar growth in the past few decades through fundamental economic reforms, Mr. Lopez-Claros said authorities still have much to do.
"If China and other economies want to sustain their growth rates over the longer term, they will have to address institutional rigidities and other problems that are still constraining the ability of the private sector," he said.


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As the fall semester soon draws to an end, graduation ceremonies and its stresses are found to be not too far off. Seniors may find their exit from studies at Grand Valley State University easier than expected with help of GradFest.NOV 13
Alternative Breaks gives new perspective to vacation
Alternative Breaks has been operating on the GVSU campus since 1991, and offers students an opportunity to spend a week-long break in winter, spring or summer volunteering for social and environmental causes around the country.NOV 6
GVSU celebrates second annual Founders Day
Campus organizations are ready to celebrate the founding of Grand Valley State University, which turns 54 this year.OCT 22
Career Fair to highlight employment opportunities
It may not be a stretch to say that the ultimate goal for university students is to secure employment, especially in the fields of their study.OCT 16
Undergraduate Research Fair highlights importance of academic research
An important first step for students looking to continue their education after receiving their bachelor's degree is learning to do research in their field of study and how it can be applied later on.OCT 9
GV family fun night
At Grand Valley State University, student parents balance more than just academics, with childcare and work taking up much of their time. Family Fun Night is geared toward these students.OCT 2
I Am Grand Valley 2014 kicks off
The Office of Student Life is readying to kick off "I am Grand Valley," an annual recognition program that distinguishes student leaders over the past academic year.SEP 24
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Earlier this month, the Padnos International Center held a ballot for photos students have taken while abroad in the 2013-2014 school year. The ballot closed Friday, Sept. 12 and winners will be announced as soon as the votes are counted, but in the meantime the office has seen increased interest in students wanting to study abroad.APR 14
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To help accommodate the onset of the dreary autumn weather, the Grand Valley Art Gallery has a number of events lined up to help students cope with the changing of seasons.The 2014 Fall Arts Celebration will supply Grand Valley students with a series of six monthly installments ranging from music, art, dance and poetry.SEP 10
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The author GK Chesteron once said that the traveler sees what he sees, and the tourist sees what the traveler has already seen. While many students on Grand Valley's campus may see what other travelers have already seen in Lake Ontario Hall, they may also be inspired to pave paths of their own.AUG 25
Challenging preconceived perceptions through artwork
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the latest installation on the Pew Campus may be worth more than that. "River Tattoo" is the latest artistic acquisition for Grand Valley State University, and now its most anticipated. The creation of University of Michigan Art Professor Jim Cogswell, the work is being hosted at the Eberhard Center and is an entry in this year's ArtPrize.AUG 17
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The sirens will call out this July to signal the start of the 10th annual Grand Valley International Trumpet Seminar. From July 20 – 27 some of the best trumpet players in the world will converge on the Grand Valley campus to take part in a weeklong exercise with high school and college-level musicians learning from the field's top performers. The event attracts students from around the country and around the world in order to participate in a dialogue that will help them cultivate their talents.JUL 7
One year and one-million down
The Mary Idema Pew Library and Information Commons is a colossus. Hidden beneath its glassy, post-modern exterior is a combined floor area of 150,000 square feet, and for every one of those feet there is an equal number of books available in its stacks, with additional space for 600,000 more in its automated retrieval system ASRS.
On June 24, the Mary Idema Pew Library hits its first-year milestone, and its staff is looking back on the year's lessons learned and successes earned and how they will be applied to years to come.
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RAF Kinloss traveled to Orkney on Saturday and came away with silverware having won the Brin Cup final against Orkney 2nds.
In an entertaining game the RAF team, whilst matched up front, had the advantage in a backline who shown some good, slick handling skills to lead the first half 20-0.
Orkney 2nds, who's lack of regular competitive matches showed, had plenty of commitment and determination throughout and managed to take the second half. But overall the better team won with a final score of 25-12.


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The thing about the Chrome laptop is that it will eventually (soon) be very cheap. The Chrome laptop is not a replacement for your MacBook Pro or your Windows 7 laptop. The Chrome laptop is a leapfrog tool, perfect for the people of the emerging world who are currently on mobile phones (having skipped landlines), and will soon be in the market for an affordable computer.
Over the next 40 years, the vast majority of the growth in higher ed will be concentrated in the emerging world - in the B.R.I.C.I.'s (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Indonesia) and their neighborhoods. It is in these countries where the important innovations in higher education will also emerge. These countries cannot afford to adopt the current Western rich country model of higher education, as this model is too expensive and will not scale fast enough.
Large campuses that bundle learning, living, and leisure cannot be built fast enough to satisfy the crushing demand for education, and would be too expensive to create anyway. Instead, the people of the emerging world will purchase higher ed as unbundled, distributed, and technologically mediated services. They will learn, and be credentialed, online.
The Chrome laptop and the Android powered mobile devices gives Google a platform in which education can be delivered. The content of YouTube, and the web's vast index of educational resources, provides the raw content. What is needed is an LMS platform and the determination to become, partner with, and purchase purchase education providers.
Whether or not Google seizes this opportunity, (declares that education is the next great industry and that they will be part of this change), is mostly beside the point. The real story is that we are on the verge of the next big shift in high ed, and that this shift will be happen outside of the wealthy world. The Chrome laptop is but a clue, an indication and a data point to what this shift will look like.
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MUMBAI: After muted performance by IT bellwether Infosys, the country's largest software firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has cheered market observers by posting 30 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 2,369.83 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2010.
"The results are better than market expectation, which was around 22 per cent. The growth is driven by the banking, finance, services and insurance (BFSI) segment, and signs of revival in the US economy," CNI Research MD Kishor P Ostwal told.


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Sikeston quarterback Colton Lambert runs for yardage against New Madrid County Central Tuesday evening at Sikeston Public Schools Stadium. David Jenkins, Staff
The Sikeston Bulldog ninth graders were held to a standstill with the Eagles in the first half of their contest on Tuesday, as the score was 0-0 at the half.
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TV host, Padma Lakshmi celebrates a basket during the game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New York Knicks on February 4, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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NEW DELHI: Indian shares are expected to trade in a range with a negative bias on Monday tracking muted Asian markets Monday as investors turning cautious after slew of macro economic data last week showed that the growth is indeed slowing down in the global economy.
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AT&T expands candidates for its ultra high speed fiber service
While offering no new details about the timing of the launch of its ultra high speed fiber in the Dallas area — still expected this summer — AT&T Inc. said Monday that it plans to begin talks with officials in about 20 new major metro areas about bringing the service to their communities.
Those areas include Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio. AT&T already offers the service, called U-verse with GigaPower, in some areas of Austin.
Nationally, about 100 communities in those metro areas are now potential candidates, AT&T said. That includes Farmer's Branch, Frisco, Grand Prairie, Highland Park, Irving, Mesquite, Plano, Richardson, University Park, Arlington, Euless, and Haltom City,as well as Dallas and Fort Worth.
In a release, Dallas-based AT&T said it will work with local officials to discuss ways to accelerate deployment and expand availability of fiber broadband in their communities.
"The communities with suitable infrastructure and that show the strongest investment cases, based on anticipated demand and the most receptive policies, will influence these future selections and coverage maps within selected areas," AT&T said.
The company said it is already in advanced talks with officials in several North Carolina communities. The fiber service offers broadband speeds up to one Gigabit per second.
Possible metro areas include: Atlanta, Augusta, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Fort Lauderdale, Greensboro, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, Oakland, Orlando, San Diego, St. Louis, San Francisco, and San Jose.


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Travolta and Newton-John get Greasy for creepy video clip
Bizarre facial hair, bad dancing and matching lounge suits combine in the oddest video clip of the year
JOHN TRAVOLTA and Olivia Newton-John have reprised their roles in the 1970s musical Grease to make a charity Christmas record and accompanying video that commentators have described as "creepy and odd".
The song, I Think You Might Like It, is a kind of sequel to You're the One That I Want, the famous duet between Grease's Danny Zuko (Travolta) and Sandy Olsen (Newton-John).
The chirpy country music song has not made much of an impact, but the video clip accompanying it has gone viral, drawing comments that are mostly uncomplimentary.
Guardian columnist Sali Hughes said on Twitter: "This has blown my mind. Oddest video ever."
In the video, Travolta, 58, arrives home for Christmas at the controls of his private jet to be met by 64-year-old Newton-John driving a turquoise convertible. The pair perform some awkward dance steps on the runway before heading home and settling down in front of the television in matching red "lounge outfits" to watch the classic Christmas movie, It's A Wonderful Life.
America's ]Today calls the video "bizarre" and suggests "A cup of curdled egg nog might go down easier than this".
The Sun thinks that even diehard /Grease/ fans "will be struggling to know whether to cover their ears or their eyes when they watch this, as the video is painfully hammy".
The US website Vulture is so disturbed by the video it has compiled a list called Ten things that creep us out about John Travolta and Olivia Newton-Johns's new 'music video. Top of the list is Travolta's "chin hair" - a tiny "jet-black" goatee that is exactly the same colour and texture as the actor's hair – and the fact that Newton-John drives her car at walking pace.
Vulture also criticises the inclusion in the video of Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, their daughter Ella Bleu and baby Benjamin, which the website says is a deliberate "distraction" from "pesky" rumours the Hollywood actor is gay.


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Kauai is among the most beautiful and remote islands in the world. Here you will find some of the most popular natural wonders in all Hawaii. Kauai Attractions and places to explore give you a brief summary, photos and directions to places to see on Kauai.
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A historic landmark, Kilohana Plantation offers guests a glimpse into Kauai's past combined with assorted island-style activities, dining and shopping.
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The Na Pali Coast, Waimea Canyon, Wailua Falls, Wailua River, Fern Grotto, Sleeping Giant and Hanalei Valley are just a few of the places waiting to be explored. Kauai is a nature lovers paradise with dozens of hiking trails to explore and countless beaches to discover.


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Federer's Very Crooked Straight-Sets Loss
It will come as little consolation to Roger Federer after his straight-sets loss to Tommy Robredo on Monday at the U.S. Open, but the stats say that Federer in one important way outplayed Robredo. That he did so, yet couldn't take even a set in their best-of-five encounter, makes for an even rarer result than a Federer loss at a Grand Slam tournament.
Robredo won 37% of his return points in his 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-4 win. Federer won 38% of his return points. The player who wins a higher percentage of return points almost always wins matches, for a simple reason. Winning a completed match requires winning more sets than your opponent. To do so, it helps to win more games, which requires breaking your opponent's serve more than he breaks yours. And that usually requires winning a greater percentage of return points, to have more chances to break. Since 1991, when first match-by-match stats became available, just one of every 15 men's matches at the U.S. Open have been won by the man who won a lower percentage of return points, according to stats at usopen.org and tennisabstract.com.
Usually the exceptions to this rule in the men's singles draw at Grand Slam tournaments are hard-fought five-set matches, where a few points separate the two players. Sometimes the winner of a four-set match will drop one set by a lopsided, 6-0 or 6-1 score — that's been the case in about a quarter of the U.S. Open matches over the years that have defied the rule. Only very rarely does the winner of a match manage to take all three sets while winning a lower share of return points than the loser (excluding matches where the ratio between the winner's return points won and the loser's is so close to 1 that it rounds to 1 to two decimal places). Robredo's win Monday is just the eighth time it's happened at the U.S. Open since 1991 and the 23rd at the four Grand Slams. It's roughly a one-in-450 match oddity. (Meanwhile Federer has lost about one in every seven Grand Slam matches in his career — more lately, since his level of play has declined over the past 12 months.)
Scanning the list of these misleading straight-set matches reveals many big servers, which makes sense. Players who win a very high percentage of their service points while losing a very high percentage of return points are playing a dangerous game, one they are likely to lose even if the first percentage is slightly higher than the second. That's because they are unlikely to generate many opportunities, or face many threats — so playing the big points badly could cost them a match quickly. Ivo Karlovic, the 6'10″ Croatian, has won one of the 23 matches and lost another. So has Tim Henman, the excellent serve-and-volleyer who wasn't a great returner. And 1996 Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek lost three such matches in the 1990s.
Not all the matches were contested by big-serve-weak-return types. Robredo, oddly, has won two of the last three such straight-set matches at the U.S. Open, including Monday's over Federer and a 2001 first-round match over the 5'5″ Olivier Rochus. Rochus's previous Grand Slam loss in 2001 also was a straight-set match in which he won a higher percentage of return points than did his opponent, Hicham Arazi.
Monday's loss was the first of Federer's career at a Grand Slam in which he failed to win a set while winning the returning-stats battle. But it was his eighth Grand Slam loss, out of 41 in all, in which he won a higher share of return points. (That compares to just three combined such losses for today's top three players, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray.) And it was his second in a row: Federer won a higher percentage of return points than Sergiy Stakhovsky in their second-round match at Wimbledon in June. Two of the other losses were in finals to Nadal, at Wimbledon in 2008 and at the 2009 Australian Open.
The common theme in these and several other close Federer losses at Grand Slam tournaments over the years: failing to convert break-point chances. He had 16 break-point chances against Robredo on Monday. He converted just two. Federer failed to convert all 12 break-point opportunities in the last two sets. That follows prior Grand Slam losses in which his break-point rates were dismal 0/9, 1/8, 1/8 (against Stakhovsky), 5/22, 1/13 and 1/17.
"I missed so many opportunities," Federer said after the match. And that was the story of the loss, his latest in which he played better on the majority of points that weren't the most important points.


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Defendants Found Guilty in General Re Fraud Scheme
1,080 years. It may wind up being a meaningless number, but that's the combined jail time faced by the four former executives of General Re Corp. and the one former executive of AIG who were found guilty today by a Connecticut jury in a fraud scheme. In 2000 and 2001, they allegedly used reinsurance deals to inflate AIG's reserves by $500 million, thereby artificially boosting its stock price. Here's the early WSJ report. Click here, here and here for past LB coverage.
The defendants were former General Re CEO Ronald Ferguson, represented by Clifford Schoenberg; former General Re CFO Elizabeth Monrad, represented by Reid Weingarten; former assistant general counsel Robert Graham, who was represented by Alan Vinegrad; and former General Re Senior Vice President Christopher Garand. Also charged was Christian Milton, AIG's former vice president of reinsurance.
Ferguson, Monrad, Milton and Graham each face up to 230 years in prison and a fine of up to $46 million. Garand faces up to 160 years in prison and a fine of up to $29.5 million.
"This is a very sad day, not only for Ron Ferguson, but for our criminal justice system," Clifford Schoenberg, Mr. Ferguson's personal attorney, said in a statement distributed at U.S. District Court in Hartford. "I and the rest of Ron's legal team will not rest until we see him — and justice — vindicated."


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I was asked this morning about the Button component in MX2004 / F8 as a friend of mine wanted to do some tooltip popups on rolling over the component – Unfortunately the Button component only dispatches a few events by default – I'm excluding all the UIObject class ones like load, hide, draw etc from this train of thought.
So for interacting with the Button component we have these:
So back to this issue of rollOver events. There is a class in the mx.events called LowLevelEvents, but this doesn't really apply in this instance as that is more 'useable' when actually applied inside a component / presentation orientated class – So that leaves extending the Button class…Or does it.
Now extending it is an obvious process to take, but seems a bit overkill for the sake of a few low level events to be broadcast, let me explain why – In SimpleButton.as, from which the Button component is extended, are all the onPress, onRelease etc handlers that we are all aware of from Flash of old. However through oversight these have been commented up as private methods, but are in actual fact public. So if I or any other developer wished to short cut the Button component to add a rollOver to the actual Button component instance they could, see below.
// myBtn being a Button component. myBtn.onRollOver = function() { dispatchEvent({type:'rollOver'}); }
OK so it's not elegant, but the real issue here is that it breaks the Button component as this method is 'defined' as a private method in the Simple Button class from which it inherits – by defined I mean there is a comment that says it's private :P. So how does it break the Button component? Well the onXXX methods are used to update the skins and refresh the component so it changes visually for the user. If you use the above code it will dispatch a 'rollOver' event but it's overridden the SimpleButton method so the skin isn't updated nor refreshed.
If the method was ACTUALLY private then you wouldn't be able to access it as is illustrated by the above example because it would throw a compile time error, let alone override it to boot.
Now if you REALLY REALLY have to do it like the above example you can fix it by adding the super() to the method like this:
// myBtn being a Button component. myBtn.onRollOver = function() { super.onRollOver(); dispatchEvent({type:'rollOver'}); }
But if you came across that in an FLA I'm sure you'd have to ask yourself why – let alone developers that may not be upto speed and think there is nothing wrong doing it this way.
Far simpler would be to extend the Button component and be done with it (see below) – but it can appear as overkill for just a few extra lines for functionality that in my mind should have been there to begin with in – though not necessarily via the methods that are in place currently.
import mx.controls.Button; class com.flashgen.components.FGButton extends Button { private static var symbolName:String = "FGButton"; private static var symbolOwner = FGButton; private var className:String = "FGButton"; public function FGButton() { super(); } function onRollOver() { super.onRollOver(); disptachEvent({type:'rollOver'}); } }
Obviously this is cleaner, but still doesn't fix the fact that this should be private, but as the parents method isn't then neither can this – unless you want the compiler to squeak and grunt as you try and export it :P
As a side note both the SimpleButton class in AS3 and the Button component in Flex2 both support all the mouse based events so it wouldn't require any extension / hacking to get the same results. Flex 1.5 had it also, as well as a built in tooltip property…but thats a different topic :P
Note this was first posted to the FlashComponent-L mailing list 11/26/2005
Great – thanks very much for this. Was fiddling around for ages trying to get a hover-over effect from a standard Flash button. Really annoying that they'd missed out the rollover function. Great to see that they didn't really miss it out. Thanks!
[…] I spent a while fiddling around with an invisible button that would trigger the tooltip, but it was a really irritating and annoying solution.� It simply didn't seem the right way of doing it.� Then, by doing a bit more research on the internet, I came across a brilliant solution.� It appears that the fuction was left out of the components, but it is still hidden within Flash somewhere.� Thanks so much to Mike Jones and his FlashGen blog. His post about AS2 component kludging solved the issue. […]
nice nice nice. That helped me out loads, I have blogged this entry to spread the word! Thanks a million.
Sorry, but I need some implementation details. creating a FGButton instance with:
import mypackage.components.FGButton;
myButton = paneContent.createClassObject(FGButton, "myButton", paneContent.getNextHighestDepth());
doesn't show a button on the stage whereas createClassObject(Button, .. runs fine
Do I have to create a FGButton component?
Stefan, not sure if you're subscribed to this post. However I have sent you an MXP with the component, class file and a simple sample file. Hope that helps
[…] I realised last night (by 'realised' I mean someone pointed out – Stefan ). That I hadn't posted up an actual component based on my earlier post about adding rollOver and rollOut events to the Button component. […]
Hi – i found this a very useful post – thank you.
I was trying to apply this technique to the ComboBox, but I don't seem to be able to get it to work. Whatever I do to enable the onRollOver event dispatch seems to disable the ComboBox functionality. Any ideas? Thanks!
Appreciated because you share your ideas. But, you have mistaken in your article when you said, "If the method was ACTUALLY private then you wouldn't be able to access it as is illustrated by the above example because it would throw a compile time error, let alone override it to boot." You are not overriding onRollOver at all by using dispatch method within the body of the onRollOver callback function. All you did was implementing the callback function.
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Install KVM based Windows 2008 remotely over SSH on a headless, no graphics Ubuntu 10.04 server?
I have a Dell server at a remote data center with Ubuntu 10.04 as the host. It is a minimal install with the necessary virtulization packages. There is no X and the machine is headless.
I have the win2008 DVD in the machine and want to remotely install it. I tried:
virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n vmwin2k8 -r 1024 --disk path=server2k8.qcow2,size=50 --cdrom /dev/sr0 --vnc --noautoconsole --os-type windows --os-variant win2k8
- The qcow2 image gets created; however, I don't understand how to connect to see the install via VNC.
This is my first time doing it so it may be trivial or may not be possible.
Remotely I have a Win 7 machine with Putty and RealVNC viewer.
Where is the graphic output of VNC going? Do I have to have VNC server running on the host or some other machine and then connect to it from my VNC client?
Please let me know or point me to the right direction. I have been searching the web for several days to figure out how this is supposed to work.
I also have a headless server running in a remote datacenter as a KVM host. I quickly got annoyed when trying to keep track of the always changing VNC ports of the guests. My solution was to setup a vncserver with a desktop environment (Gnome in my case) and install virt-manager to handle the virtual machines. It's a much easier way to administrate the guests IMHO. I used this howto from the CentOS Wiki for setting up the VNC-server, the approach should be similar on Ubuntu.
If you don't want to do this and just want it to work with
virt-install, first you'll have to figure out on which port the guest VNC-server is running. nmap is a quick way of finding the port on your server:
$ nmap -p 5900-5910 localhost
You can also specificy the port as Joris said, but if you have other guests running, make sure you select a free port.
Once you know the portnumber, you can create a SSH-tunnel from your desktop system to the server with something like:
$ ssh -c blowfish-cbc -N -L 5905:localhost:5905 User@HostIP
You now have a tunnel which maps port 5905 on your desktop machine with port 5905 on your server. You should now be able to use any VNC client to connect to localhost:5 (or localhost:5905) on your desktop system and get access to the guest on :5 on the server.
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Allegations of management weaknesses, unsecured personal information, and employee dissatisfaction have been made against U.S. Coast Guard's Civil Rights Directorate (CRD). To address these allegations, the Director of CRD commissioned an external review of civil rights operations. In February 2009, the review made 53 recommendations to improve the civil rights operations. CRD developed action plans to address these recommendations. As requested, GAO reviewed (1) how Coast Guard's action plans align with EEOC's elements of a model equal employment opportunity program (2) how Coast Guard developed and reviewed its action plans, and (3) the extent to which Coast Guard's action plans align with generally accepted project management practices. To conduct this work GAO reviewed documentation from CRD, EEOC, internal control standards, and literature on project management. We also interviewed CRD officials.
Of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) six equal employment opportunity program model elements, CRD's action plans focus mainly on the first--agency leadership. Of the 29 action plans developed and implemented by CRD to address the 53 recommendations in the recent external review, almost half center on the leadership element. For example, one action plan involved scheduling training for headquarters and field staff. CRD took several steps to develop and review action plans to address recommendations from the external review, such as developing a functional review team, assigning project officers, meeting with the Commandant and agency leadership, and consulting the agency financial officer. However, CRD did not consistently document key decisions related to the development and review of the action plans as recommended in federal internal control standards. As a result, CRD lacks transparency and accountability to stakeholders. Lack of documentation also impedes the ability to track progress, make mid-course corrections, and illustrate to stakeholders that it is effectively solving these issues. According to CRD officials, their priority was to complete the action plans in a timely manner rather than ensure that development and review processes were documented. GAO reviewed four of CRD's action plans in relation to generally accepted project management practices to determine the extent to which recommended practices were followed. The recommended practices are: (1) identifying measurable performance goals, (2) defining specific tasks, (3)identifying the person(s) accountable, (4) identifying interim milestones and checkpoints, (5) identifying the needed resources, (6)consulting stakeholders, and (7) defining how to evaluate success. The selected action plans showed some elements of the project management practices, such as identifying accountable individuals, but fell short in relation to other elements. Specifically, performance goals were identified in the form of a product, such as development of a manual, rather than in relation to a desired outcome, such as demonstrating an increase in the number of staff who know how to properly safeguard personal information. All four action plans we reviewed lacked plans for evaluating their success. CDR officials stated that they were more focused on completing the plans rather than evaluating them, but early evaluation can identify and guide mid-course corrections to ensure positive change.
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Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In December 2012, in response to our recommendation, CRD submitted a dashboard that identifies how they are gathering and maintaining the documentation necessary to facilitate oversight. The Coast Guard benefits by its improved ability to track progress which is necessary for the management of the organization and making effective decisions. The dashboard satisfies our recommendation for maintaining documentation to facilitate oversight.
Recommendation: The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security should direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to, going forward, ensure internal controls are in place to maintain the documentation necessary to facilitate oversight and course corrections as plans are designed and implemented.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In January 2011, in response to our recommendation, CRD submitted a matrix that identifies measurable performance goals and associated measures they established for each of the twelve action plans they plan to implement. The Coast Guard benefits from having implemented a generally accepted project management practice that is associated with successful project planning and implementation. These measurable goals are now available to support management decisions regarding completion status of the action plans.
Recommendation: The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security should direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to establish measurable performance goals for the action plans to support the management decision as to the completion status of the action plans.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In January 2011, in response our recommendation, CRD submitted a matrix that identifies formulas for measuring the achievements of the action plans. In July 2011, CRD also provided attainment targets for performance measures which will be used to evaluate the success of the action plans. By establishing evaluation plans, the Coast Guard benefits from having implemented a generally accepted project management practice that is associated with successful project planning and implementation. These evaluation plans are now available to support management decisions regarding the degree to which the action plans yielded the intended outcome.
Recommendation: The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security should direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to define an evaluation plan for each action plan to assess the degree to which the plan yielded the intended outcomes.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security
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Monday, September 19, 2011
MOORESTOWN, N.J. (September 19, 2011) - SeaLife, the world-leader in underwater photographic equipment, has raised the bar yet again with introduction of the new DC1400, setting the stage to create your own personal undersea concerto of sight and sound. Five easy-to-use "Piano Keys" allow you to take either true high-definition 720p video or 14 megapixel high-resolution images of your adventures beneath the seas-and of your topside adventures, as well.
Depth tested to 200 feet (60 meters), the DC1400 incorporates a feature-packed, premium high-resolution underwater camera with a new design that redefines simplicity and ease of use. The DC1400's five large primary control keys eliminate the confusing button cluster of a traditional camera to provide simple one-handed operation in any environment-even with gloves on.
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Workers are disposable too, according to the Wall Street/CEO/Republican crowd.
The argument could be made on both sides. There are hardworking, honest people who can't find jobs for many reasons (age discrimination, jobs being outsourced, companies not hiring but overpaying their CEOs, hundreds of people applying for the same position), but there are also a lot of lazy people who don't want to work. It's easy to use one example to make your point, so why not just stop pointing fingers and furthering the divide in this country? We used to all be respectful of each other, now everything is a fight.
Construction worker pays much better. But give him time, desperation will force him to.
When there is a Depression on and no good paying jobs to be had——yes. Shame on your for continually ignoring that fact.
Where did spiral eyes girl's spiral eyes go?
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I decided to sign up for the Breck 68 this year. I wasn't originally planning on doing this one and had planned on doing the Front Range 40 in the Fort; but that one was postponed to the fall due to the fires we've had.
Since I've done the Leadville 100 multiple times, one of the first questions people ask is, "How does it (Breck 68) compare to Leadville?" If you want some measureable sort of stats, Breck 68 (really 70 miles) has an altitude gain of 8514 feet or 121.6 feet per mile of racing. Leadville 100 (really 103 miles) has an altitude gain of 11,142 feet or 103.2 feet per mile of racing. So, mile-for-mile, Breck has more climbing.
Know that elevation gains are based on barometric pressure readings, so others may have slightly different amounts of elevation gains for the events. The measures previously mentioned were for Leadville 2011 and Breck 68 in 2012.
Breck is held at elevations between 9,600 feet and roughly 11,437. Leadville begins at 10,200 and climbs to roughly 12,600. Leadville has some flat and rolling sections, Breck is either climbing or descending – no flats or rollers.
Leadville has nearly zero singletrack and is mostly fire, forest service or jeep roads. Breck is loaded with singletrack. While Leadville does require a certain minimum of mountain bike skills to safely navigate the course and not hold other riders up, those with limited mountain bike skills would be very unhappy at Breck. Breck has tree-lined singletrack; rough, rocky climbs and descents; stream crossings, narrow trails that are open and have exposed mountain slopes to one side; steep, loose climbs; steep and rocky descents; smooth singletrack that winds through the forest; riding in an old mining flume drainage and on top of another one - plus more. Breck has the sort of stuff that makes mountain bike riders smile and giggle uncontrollably – that is when they aren't suffering.
There are any number of websites that attempt to quantify difficulty of courses by heart rate, power, suffer scores, etc. What none of them can easily quantify is the beating a body takes from navigating rocky, technical courses. My triceps were screaming for mercy on the last technical downhill.
In the simplest of words, the Breckenridge 68 course is more difficult than the Leadville 100 course and most certainly the Breckenridge 100 course is more difficult than the Leadville 100 course.
As I told someone yesterday, mountain bike courses are a matter of taste and preference – not a matter of "good" and "bad." It's similar to differing tastes in food. I love hot Mexican food and my friend doesn't like it at all. It doesn't mean either of us are good or bad, heroic or wimpy – just different preferences.
I enjoy both races and would not hesitate to either of them again.
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On a pre-ride adventure for Breck 68 I showed you bear claw marks in a previous post and below are a few more shots from the pre-ride. Exploring the mountains on a bike is such a joy ~
Sallie Barber mine shaft - or what's left of it.
I rang the bell and rode extra fast past the fireing range...
Mine shaft turned toilet at the Como general store.
Historic roundhouse at Como. From the informational board, "Hard-working D, SP&P locomotives could be serviced in either Denver or Como. Built in 1881 by Italian stonemasons, the Como Roundhouse originally housed six engine bays where engines could be locall be rebuilt and an iron turntable where engines could be turned around."
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Just wondering if there is a way to turn off or delete the "leave a comment section"?
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Just wondering if there is a way to turn off or delete the "leave a comment section"?
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Right now there is no such options to turn the comment section.
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I need to remove the "No Comments" and I looked in the simplecatch_functions.php as instructed above. I do not have the code you reference. I also do not have a content.php file at all. There are several posts elsewhere that reference editing the Index.php page, but I do not have one of those either. Please help. This is a business blog and we don't allow comments, but it looks terrible that there are "no comments"
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