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Mod: please change this title to "How are authors doing 1-click demo install?"
I'm wondering about this cool "1-click demo install" I keep seeing on the newer themes. I provide a .xml and .sql file for each of my themes, but it would be even better if I could provide a very simple one-click install of the demo content that imports not only the content from the demo but all of the settings, menus, and other peripheral data that wordpress cannot export in a .xml file.
Just curious if you're one of the authors offering this how you generally go about doing this? Did you build a custom script that handles this, are you using a plugin, or is it just the .xml demo content (or a mix all all three)?
Thanks! Brian
I know the thread is quite old but I'm just wondering the same thing. Do you guys have any advice on how to implement "1-click installation"?
I use custom install.php script you simply just install it like regular WordPress and you get demo content, all settings and all menus basically the whole demo.
Can you share your technique with us, other authors @webthemer ???
Thank you!
The script was developed by YOOTheme i use there Warp Framework for developing Joomla and WordPress Themes.
Simply download the WordPress Master Theme Demo
Unzip it and in wp-content there is a install.php this is basically MYSQL database installer.
When you open it you will need to add your SQL here from your demo see what tables are in there i believe that user table is missing this you don't need to add because the installer will add user automatically on install.
Now replace table prefixes with
@TABLE_PREFIX@ and your site url with
and you demo is done put the script in the wp-content folder and erase the wp-config and you have wordpress installer with everything.
I would recommend that URL for images in Text Widgets starts with wp-content/... and not with http://sitename... because of the database serialization it will break the widgets.
Hope this helps
The way I did it was (very roughly):
1)Use the WordPress importer plugin, this is the easy bit. Download the plugin, rename the classes / functions etc so you don't get clashes.. add to your theme code in the usual way. Then place an xml export in a folder and slightly modify the installer code to use this rather than a user uploaded version.
2)Where it gets a bit fiddly.. you need to manually place certain things in the database that the installer doesn't. I am not sure off the top of my head what is missing, but (pre 3.5 at least) any widgets will need placing in manually, perhaps menus.
You could skip 2) and just have a rudimentary installer, though its nice to replicate your demo site almost exactly.
I can say tho, its worth spending a day getting it done just because it cuts down on a lot of support issues and makes the buyer's life much easier – Whether it increases sales or not, the installer pays for itself just from cutting support requests .
Thank you for your advices @Webthemer and @ThemeShaper!
Perhaps I will start off by trying to integrate WordPress Importer plugin into the theme. Sounds fun!
write php code , anything else?

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I am a research scientist with broad interests in practical and theoretical machine learning. My work on large scale learning and stochastic gradient algorithms has received attention in the recent years. I am also known for the DjVu document compression system. I joined Facebook AI Research in March 2015.
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From machine learning to machine reasoning
Over the last couple of years, I progressively formulated an unusual idea about the connection between machine learning and machine reasoning. I have discussed this idea with many friends and I even gave a seminar in Montreal in 2008. It is described in this technical report.
On the Vapnik-Chevonenkis-Sauer lemma
Many machine learning authors write that a certain fundamental combinatorial result was independently established by Vapnik and Chervonenkis (1971), Sauer (1972), Shelah (1972), and sometimes Perles and Shelah (reference unknown). Vapnik and Chervonenkis published a version of their results in the Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences four years earlier in 1968. It also appears that Sauer and Shelah pursued this result for very different purposes.
Patrice Simard and I have been friends since the old AT&T Bell Labs times. He eventually convinced me to work for him at Microsoft. He told me to expect "interesting times".
I can see several reasons for these interesting times.
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Rob Schapire and David Blei gave me the opportunity to teach the cos424 course at Princeton University for the spring 2010 semester. In fact Rob is on sabbatical leave at Yahoo! and David is parenting. Running the orphan course was a useful experience. One thousand slides later, I am really eager to see the student projects…


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The Slammer worm, whose attack over the weekend represented the most serious online assault in 18 months, demonstrates the Internet is still highly vulnerable. The worm infected defenseless machines, reproduced itself, and sent out large volumes of data traffic that disrupted many systems, including Bank of America ATMs, high-tech manufacturing, mortgage and credit card companies' Web sites, and police dispatch operations. More than 200,000 North American computers and between 400,000 and 700,000 global computers were affected by the worm, according to the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Asian businesses received some of the worst disruption, and both American and South Korean authorities are seeking out the worm's inventor, a task complicated by the hacker's unknown location. Slammer exploited an established security hole in Microsoft's SQL Server database software, for which a patch had been issued several times last year; the havoc caused by the worm proved that the patch was not installed by many users. Ensuring Internet security and keeping abreast of security patches as well as vulnerabilities is an almost impossible challenge, says Computer Security Institute director Patrice Rapalus. "If individuals or organizations are determined to exploit whatever kinds of flaws there are in the millions of lines of code for different applications, you have no real defense," she explains. The SQL flaw was one of several recent security embarrassments for Microsoft, including other vulnerabilities that were exploited by the Code Red and Nimda worms in 2001.
SBC Communications sent out letters last week claiming it holds the patent on a widely used Web navigation method; it asserts that any Web site that has a menu that stays on the screen while a user looks through other pages may have to pay royalties--a claim that "would affect hundreds of thousands of sites," according to WebCreators CEO David VanderVeer. SBC's Jason Hellery says his company has outlined licensing terms of $527 to $16.6 million annually, with the cost dictated by licensees' yearly revenue. In response, Web developers have provided examples indicating that the Web navigation technology may have been in use prior to SBC's 1996 patent. Some have said that the method was introduced with the premiere of the Netscape 2.0 browser one year earlier. In recent years, companies such as SBC have tried to enforce patents on highly popular software operations, to the point where computer industry veterans contend that the patents do not adhere to the Patent and Trademark Office's rules that only "nonobvious" inventions can receive patents. "The thing that's disturbing to me is that all of a sudden so many groups seem to be going out and doing this," notes Marilynne Eichinger, founder of the Museum Tours site, which received one of SBC's letters. Certain economists are concerned that innovation could be stifled because of legal disputes over licensing. Others, however, claim that inventors are encouraged to innovate precisely because of the enormous profit potential of inventions that are widely accepted.
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This past weekend's outbreak of the Sapphire worm demonstrates that the increasing linkage of computer systems to the Internet is creating unexpected vulnerabilities. The worm, which proliferated with remarkable efficiency using a well-known flaw in Microsoft server software, inundated computers with data and clogged network connections, causing, among other things, the shutdown of approximately 13,000 Bank of America ATMs, the blackout of a Seattle-based emergency call center, and the severing of Internet access for most South Korean computer users. This was in spite of the fact that a patch for the Microsoft security hole was issued last year. Even Microsoft suffered slowdowns thanks to the worm, because it failed to patch some of its own computers. "[The attack is] showing us the cutting edge of where people or organizations are becoming prematurely reliant on the Internet," says SecurityFocus' Kevin Poulsen. "It's showing us interdependencies we didn't know existed." The upcoming National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace is supposed to cover the study of such interdependencies, according to a person who has read the report. The Sapphire incident also highlights companies' failure to deploy security patches, although security specialists such as Roman Danyliw of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) note that keeping up to date with new security flaws and network connections, as well as maintaining those connections, can be expensive and time-consuming for many companies.
The total number of approved H-1B visas in 2002 was 79,100, compared to 163,000 visas the year before. Bob Cohen of the Information Technology Association of America says this drop-off clearly proves that the market "is self-regulating--that companies are using the program in a the way that it was intended to be used." There is also a dip in the number of extensions the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) granted to H-1B holders as well as people who work for organizations exempt from the 195,000 visa cap: Last year they numbered 215,000, while in 2001 they numbered 342,000. The current visa cap is expected to be lowered to 65,000 in the 2004 fiscal year, even though technology groups will likely lobby Congress for an increase. In the meantime, a grass-roots movement of unemployed IT workers opposed to a cap increase is growing. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 94,000 computer scientists are currently jobless, and George F. McClure of the IEEE's Career and Workforce Policy Committee pegs the unemployment rate in that field at 5.1 percent. Foreign workers with H-1B visas "are all competing for the same small pot of jobs, and we don't think that is a good thing," he explains.
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Four years after it was proposed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the wireless-sensor network concept has reached the prototype phase and is being tested by over 100 groups worldwide, according to David Culler of the University of California at Berkeley. The university and Intel collaborated on the development of smart sensors, or "Motes," that can self-organize into networks via TinyOS (operating system) and TinyDB (database). The impetus behind the original DARPA proposal was to create a "smart-dust" network in which thousands of wireless sensors are distributed over a battlefield, where they could collate and filter raw data, then transmit the most relevant information to central command; such sensors would enable soldiers to "see around corners" and detect chemical and biological weaponry long before they have to encounter them. The decision to release the Mote hardware and software as open source allows researchers around the world to build their own smart-sensor networks for military and civilian uses. Examples of the latter include environmental monitors as well as keeping track of elderly people's health without infringing on their freedom. Culler explains that a reliance on local rules is key to forming self-organizing networks, and the Motes can run these rules simultaneously, creating a hierarchical network. The Motes feature a modular configuration, allowing the separation and specialization of the sensor, the energy source, and the physical packaging; TinyDB, which is modular as well, handles data aggregation.
The Trilogy project, an attempt to upgrade the FBI's antiquated computer systems, has run into trouble since it was launched with the blessing of Congress. A source close to the matter says the project's original projected budget of $458 million will increase by 30 percent, which bureau officials claim is necessary in order to improve records management and information sharing, as well as guarantee security. Critics such as Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) see Trilogy as "a large disaster" typical of FBI technology projects plagued by delays and cost overruns. Despite skepticism, many FBI offices have been equipped with desktop computers, while FBI CIO Darwin John recently sent a letter to the inspector general in which he asserted that the bureau is on track to fix many of the management problems cited in a recent report. The report indicates that the project has been hampered by poor planning and an underestimation of how deficient existing structures really are--for example, the delivery of many desktop computers was delayed because fiber-optic cable had yet to be installed in certain field offices. Additional points of criticism from the inspector general include the FBI's failure to complete a system-wide installation of hardware and other equipment by its promised deadline of July 2002; the new target date is March 31, while the deployment of user-application software has been pushed back to June 2004. The inspector general's report finds that "The Trilogy project provides an example of how the nonimplementation of fundamental [information technology] investment management practices can put a project at risk of not delivering what was promised, within cost and schedule requirements." A bill passed by the Senate last week to cut the FBI's funding for high-tech projects by about $100 million could be another blow to the beleaguered Trilogy project.
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Technical complications arising from smaller chip sizes may short-circuit Moore's Law, according to electrical engineering professor Laszlo Kish, who teaches at Texas A&M University. He says thermal noise and a lower noise-tolerance threshold work against Moore's Law, which was proposed by Intel founder Gordon Moore in 1966. Since that time, semiconductor sizes have increased in density while decreasing in size so that today they are regularly manufactured at the 100-nanometer scale. Kish explains that as chip sizes decrease, less capacitance, or the ability to concentrate an electrical charge, leads to increasing thermal noise. That in turn puts pressure on designers who need to keep bit-error rates at a minimum. They can do so by increasing power, but that creates dissipation. On top of all this, Nancy Hantman of the IEEE says smaller wire sizes do not carry signals as well as larger ones. Kish says the combination of these factors will limit chip components to the 40-nanometer scale, which Moore's Law predicts will be reached in six to 10 years. Semiconductor companies are not oblivious to these problems and are devising work-arounds. Hantman notes that Dow Chemical, for example, is developing a "spin-on polymer deposition technique" to help signal transmission on small chips. IEEE Spectrum associate editor Harry Goldstein also points out that engineers have found ways to continually create ever-smaller chip sizes, and that with similar ingenuity it is possible to deal with resulting complications.
Company networks and servers run the risk of being attacked randomly by hackers from the very day their Internet connections are established, while companies have not deployed the appropriate safeguards to shield their IT assets, according to a recent study from PSINet Europe. The study's findings were based upon the attacks that an exposed, defenseless "dummy test" server set up by PSINet Europe suffered over the holiday season. In all, the server was assaulted 626 times over the three-week testing period, and 460 intrusions took place within 24 hours of its installation. The PSINet study lists Western Europe and the United States as the most common points of origin for the attacks, which goes against the traditional belief that Eastern Bloc countries usually serve as "hacker hotspots." This suggests that companies should redirect their security initiatives to those areas. The study also finds that broadband or cable ISPs were the source of a significant number of attacks, indicating that rising capacity is widening the scope of hacker targets, techniques, and tools. The most popular European locations for hacker originators were Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Britain, while Russia, Bulgaria, and Romania barely registered. "The issue here is not just that firms aren't doing enough to protect themselves, but also that they are not spending enough time analyzing exactly what the threat is to their online presence, and what security measures would best serve to protect them," notes PSINet's Stephen Scott.
The evolution of the Internet will be marked by diversity, and by developments that will serve business users and consumers alike, or offer advantages to one sector while negatively impacting the online experience of the other. Some 200 U.S. universities and industries support Internet2, a collaborative environment chiefly concerned with promoting Internet technologies that further America's dominion over the communications sector; these groups are focusing on real-time network collaboration, better videoconferencing, more predictable networks, etc. Future developments will require programmers to be solidly grounded in XML, even though end users take it for granted, while the value of XML-based standards such as Web Services Description Language will increase. Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer currently dominates the browser market, its reign could end with the advent of interfaces that respond to more basic user cues, such as speech. Concern is growing over the issue of Internet access and content being affected by political factors, as demonstrated by online censorship in China; meanwhile, a debate is brewing in the United States over whether content providers such as the entertainment industry should have the final say on the disposition of their digital works in order to curb online piracy, or whether that decision should be left to consumers--an argument that is likely to continue as broadband services become more affordable. Haptics technology, which allows people to interact with virtual environments via touch, is already finding use in the medical sector and could be employed in many training applications. Wireless Internet access is emerging in two forms: Local wireless access to fixed line networks via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi standards, and broadband services through 3G mobile phone spectrum; the rollout of the latter lags behind that of the former because lucrative 3G corporate applications are scarce, while security issues may be hindering the deployment of Wi-Fi services. Finally, LG Technologies' prediction that an Internet-enabled refrigerator will be the locus of all digital household activities may come to pass, if the appropriate infrastructure is set up.
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Bell Labs will team up with DuPont and Sarnoff to develop thin and flexible displays that use organic light-emitting diodes, in a project funded through the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program. Bell Labs researchers will create organic compounds from which they will build thin-film transistors (TFTs) that can be printed out on plastic panels from DuPont using design printing processes also developed by Bell Labs. Meanwhile, Sarnoff will develop the technology to enable full-color moving images on the displays. The ultimate goal of the collaborative effort is the creation of bright high-contrast display panels that can be refreshed rapidly, can be viewed from multiple angles, and even rolled up; their production costs should be lower than those for displays made from silicon and glass--some researchers believe they could be manufactured through cheap methods such as ink-jet printing--and there will be no need for backlighting. The flexible displays could be used in a wide array of products, including cell phones, video games, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and large-scale screens. Bell Labs' director of Materials Research Elsa Reichmanis says the convergence of multiple disciplines is key to the project's success. Director of Nanotechnology Research at Bell Labs, John Rogers, says the center's leadership position in the display arena was cemented by a joint venture between Lucent and E Ink that led to the development of flexible displays dubbed "electronic paper." Lucent products could also feature technology yielded from the current flexible display project.
Less than two weeks after U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson ruled that American music labels can sue Sharman Networks, distributor of the software used by the popular Kazaa file-sharing service, for copyright infringement, Sharman has alleged that the entertainment industry is misusing copyrights for the purpose of monopolizing the digital content market. The Kazaa owner has asked Wilson to grant an injunction to block copyright enforcement until such abuse has been halted. Spokespersons from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America dismiss Sharman's claims as an excuse to move the spotlight away from Kazaa's piratical operations; one RIAA spokesman describes it as "akin to an arsonist burning down his home and then seeking sympathy for being homeless." Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Fred von Lohmann is skeptical that allegations of copyright misuse will ever be thoroughly examined in court--for one thing, claims are difficult to prove, and there are doubts that companies such as Sharman can afford the expense of finding and gathering evidence. Central to Sharman's claim is the entertainment industry's dealings with Altnet, a company that established a secure distribution network within Kazaa that promotes the downloading of sanctioned, copy-protected content. Prior to Sharman's launch in 2002, company founder Nicola Hemming became privy to Altnet's intentions, the counterclaim asserts; her plan was to distribute authorized, copy-protected works on Kazaa via Altnet technology as an alternative to piracy. Sharman attorney Roderick G. Dorman alleges that the copyright owners jointly refused to license Altnet, which violates antitrust laws. He further insinuates that the entertainment companies misused their copyright by supplying content to their own online ventures while shutting out Sharman and Altnet.
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Last year, a number of large IT vendors lined up behind Linux, which analysts say portends tough times for Microsoft in the enterprise-level of business. LinuxWorld 2002 featured large showings from the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems, and Advanced Micro Devices, along with the usual crowd of small Linux developers and service companies. Mike Petitjean operates a small software firm that provides services to local governments, and says he switched to the Linux platform because of its cost, reliability, and open nature. A number of organizations in government, academia, and financial institutions have also switched from Unix to Linux; Linux International executive director Jon "Maddog" Hall says groups began to seriously evaluate the business value of Linux in 2002. Goldman Sachs analyst Tom Berquist says Linux is taking market share from Unix in large data centers and in process-intensive applications, but that Microsoft dominates at the day-to-day operational level. However, he notes that Microsoft will come into increasing conflict with Linux as it moves into the higher regions of corporate computing, and as Linux gains acceptance and comes out with better department-level usability. International Data (IDC) currently pegs Linux as having 26 percent of the new server market in 2002, compared to about 42 percent for Microsoft and roughly 12 percent for Unix.
NASA is using the space shuttle Columbia's orbital mission between Jan. 16 and Feb. 1 to test a mobile Internet protocol in space, notes Operating Missions as a Node on the Internet (OMNI) program leader Jim Rash. The shuttle's onboard Linux-based computer is maintaining a live connection to the Goddard facility in Greenbelt, Md., and will relay signals to NASA satellites or ground stations. Aboard the shuttle is an embedded PC module equipped with a 233 MHz processor that features 128 MB of RAM and a solid-state 144 MB hard drive disk. In the course of the mission, the Goddard crew will have the opportunity to contact the shuttle computer via the IP protocol approximately 140 times. Once the shuttle establishes contact with the satellites or ground stations, the crew will use the computer to upload or download files, and perform administrative tasks remotely. The success of the test may allow the IP protocol to extend its scope to more of NASA's core communications, while NASA could save money by maximizing the use of commercial gear and software. The IP test is a component of a larger initiative to test a global positioning system-based transceiver, which is being conducted under the aegis of the Fast Reaction Experiments Enabling Science, Technology, Applications, and Research program.
Yale University computer scientist and veteran developer David Gelernter says he is now focusing on creating tools that make it easier for users to find "stuff" on their computers and otherwise improve the end user's computer experience. Gelernter says the mouse, icon, and windows metaphors are no longer able to manage the flood of information on most people's PCs. He says, "As email and the Web became a big thing, it was clear that the hierarchical file systems and tools we've inherited from the 70s would not work." To solve this problem, his company, Mirror Worlds Technologies, has released a beta version of Scopeware, software that runs atop normal desktop operating systems. Scopeware, available free via download, allows users to search for standard documents on their PC by keyword, but presents the results as a visual, time-sequenced narrative. Gelernter says the user should determine the presentation of information, not the machine. "I want my information management software to have the same shape as my life, which is a series of events in time," he says. "I want the flow to determine the shape of the picture I see on the screen." Gelernter says that future iterations of Scopeware could allow a community of users to share documents pertinent to them through peer-to-peer systems. Gelernter was instrumental in devising the parallel programming techniques that allowed for the Linda language; his work also laid the foundation for Java and distributed memory architectures. He says it's now time to create software "for the user as an everyday tool," not to meet the needs of code developers.
Security experts warn that computer viruses are becoming more subtle and sophisticated, as well as more numerous. Polymorphic programs are one emerging threat, an example being megaworms, which target multiple vulnerabilities and can propagate using multiple techniques. "Today, the line between worms and viruses is blurred as successful designs take on characteristics of both and spread over the Internet," explains Dan Ingevaldson of Internet Security Systems' X-Force Group. "The most successful worms act like a Swiss Army Knife, because they can spread by using many different proven methods, such as mass email, Web server vulnerabilities or peer-to-peer technologies." Sophos technology consultant Chris Wraight notes that such "combined cocktail threats" will be much harder to fight than previous worms and viruses. Virus writers will focus on exploiting new weaknesses, such as adding viruses to Windows New Technology File System (NTFS) files as linked, Alternate Data Stream (ADS) files. There are also signs that the goal of malicious code writers is shifting from data destruction to data theft. Furthermore, researchers such as Symantec's Vincent Weafer caution that Linux and Unix systems are not invulnerable, as demonstrated by the Linux Slapper worm epidemic last September. In addition, there are indications that virus and worm writers are studying Microsoft's .Net Framework and developing malicious programs that take advantage of vulnerabilities in the framework and associated executable files. Weafer says the best defense against these looming threats is to keep security up-to-date and eliminate redundant services.
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Virtual private networks (VPNs) can be clumsy and arduous to set up and use, especially for IT managers; in response, vendors are offering alternative access tools based on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology such as "instant virtual networks." Deployment of SSL VPNs is cheaper than that of IPsec VPNs, notes Aberdeen Group analyst Eric Hemmendinger, while Meta Group's David Thompson says SSL offers greater stability. However, employees that have to link to non-Web-enabled applications will need a client/server VPN version, and SSL systems may lack security. Catholic Health System (CHS) is using an SSL VPN so that clinicians can access medical records through Web browsers, while a similar connection was developed for the lawyers of Sonnenschein, Nath, and Rosenthal; CIO Andrew Jurczyk says the SSL system costs approximately 50 percent of an earlier, traditional VPN deployment. Other companies are outsourcing their remote access systems through providers, while screen-sharing technology is another option. Meta Group expects 80 percent of companies to access the Web via SSL by 2006. It is also expected that many companies will opt to integrate VPNs and VPN alternative technologies in the coming years.
Companies that rushed to implement packaged enterprise applications in an effort to avoid expensive internal system development are feeling the pinch of hidden costs. There are five outlined layers of potential hidden costs for packaged apps and project planning, that extend from within the project to outside it. The most obvious, most highly predictable costs are budgeted costs such as those for staff, software, hardware and operating system upgrades, testing, and consultants; the next layer includes implementation costs that a knowledgeable project manager should consider in scheduling, such as customization and tech support. The third layer covers tangential costs, including integration, software/hardware upgrades, and post-deployment training. The fourth layer contains external costs that still impact departments, such as a decline in effectiveness early on in the learning curve, and required changes to other systems. The fifth and final layer of cost, which is especially difficult to account for, involves the organization structure and superstructure, and can include costs derived from internal and external politics, missed opportunities, and responses to unmet project goals. Atlantic Guild Systems principal Tom DeMarco also points to an unavoidable hidden cost of packaged apps that will hit companies hard: Latent turnover, in which many developers, disenchanted by doing mundane maintenance chores because of an immense backlog of packaged application development that dates back to the late 1990s, will defect to other employers once the economy bounces back. Meanwhile, American Management Systems principal Dave Perkins foresees a defection of strategists fed up with an "idea backlog" stemming from the emphasis on packaged applications.
In the same way previous technological breakthroughs such as the railroad and automobile produced economic bubbles and then rapid societal change, we can expect computer and Internet technologies to vastly change our world in the coming years. Economist legal affairs editor David Manasian says the rapid growth of the Internet resulted in many unrealistic expectations, but the technology that powered it continues to advance unabated. Molecular electronics developed by companies such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM promise to extend Moore's Law for another 50 years, while Intel predicts current silicon-based technology will improve processing power for another 15 years. MIT computer science laboratory director Victor Zue expects broadband Internet connections to be nearly free in developed countries within five years. He is also working on some applications of these advances, especially MIT's Project Oxygen, which aims to enable computing to seamlessly integrate with our natural home and office environments. Tim Berners-Lee, Zue's colleague at MIT and a founder of the World Wide Web, is also pushing for a next-generation, intelligent Web called the Semantic Web. Microsoft researchers are working on technology that would let people digitally archive their entire lives' phone conversations, email, and pictures. As the current economy eventually pulls out of its depression, we can expect another wave of rapid change as society latches onto new applications afforded by the Internet and related technology. At that time government and business will be even more urgently pressed to deal with the resulting political and legal complications.
The information system development (ISD) process could benefit from a conceptual model that outlines the relationship between the concepts of information systems' (IS) roles and responsibilities. The definition of IS relevant to the model is a set of reciprocally connected elements that gather or retrieve, process, store, and disseminate information critical to decision-making, coordination, control, and analysis in an organization; how the user of such a system is categorized can be important to the IS' "technical" and "psychological" success, as well as the concept of IS roles and responsibilities. An IS is considered user friendly if the user--anyone directly or indirectly affected by the system--spends more time doing actual work than struggling to operate the system, with a minimum of error. There are different ISes for the three general management levels: Transaction Process Systems (TPS) and Office Automation (OA) systems support the lowest level, operational management; Management Information Systems (MIS) support the middle management level; Decision Support Systems (DSS) support the middle and senior management levels; Expert Systems (ES) serve all three levels; and Executive Support Systems (ESS) support senior management. Also essential is determining whether the IS is defined as a user's subordinate, controller, or colleague--this definition can help people better understand the impetus behind ISD and successful IS deployments. Organizational factors influencing--and influenced by--IS roles and responsibilities include size, culture, politics, environment, operating procedures, and management decisions. Introducing an IS can wreak profound changes in an organization, leading to either centralization or decentralization. From the conceptual model, it may be concluded that there is a reciprocity between the concepts of organization, the IS, and IS type; the organizational concept influences the concept of the role of the IS; the concept of IS role impacts IS responsibility; the IS responsibility concept stems from the concept of IS role; and the concept of IS responsibility can help successfully implement an IS project.
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DasBoot 1.0.1: make an iPod, flash drive, etc. a bootable device to run diagnostics or alike. Allows you to take any third party boot CD (such as those shipped by SubRosaSoft.com Inc, Prosoft Engineering Inc, Alsoft Inc, or Micromat Inc) and quickly create a bootable diagnostic device that contains any of your own utilities you may wish to install.
Intuit Quicken 2006 R6: financial management software. In this release, stability improvements were made to prevent Quicken from quitting unexpectedly when editing a payee name (while the split is displayed) after editing the category and amount for a split line and to prevent Quicken from quitting unexpectedly when launching or during data file conversion on systems running Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Secure Remote Disk 0.3.2: connect to remote servers with SSH thru the Finder. The new release resolves hangs on PPC and Intel based Macs.
A Better Finder Rename 7.6.5: file, photo, MP3 batch renamer. The new release adds multiple selection and drag and drop removal.
GlowWorm FW Lite 1.5.2b9: network security and monitoring app. The new release fixes an issue where the state of the Remember switches was causing internal inconsistencies.
Address Book phone plugins 1.1.5: mobile phone support for Address Book. The new release has improvements for the Nokia N80.
Camouflage 1.11: shows the desktop by hiding the icons. In this release, the update process has been improved: when changing the display settings, the icons don't appear for a short time.


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Mercedes to introduce electric hatchback concept?
The star of the Mercedes-Benz stand at this fall's Frankfurt Auto Show will be an all-electric hatchback concept, according to Green Car Reports. Like many of its rivals, the Stuttgart-based company is planning on launching a full lineup of battery-powered models in the coming years.
Hyundai wants to sell 3,600 FCVs
Hyundai believes it can sell 3,600 examples of its next hydrogen-powered car, according to Business Korea. That ambitious figure represents a 15-percent increase over the Tucson FCEV.
Ricciardo wins Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Red Bull Racing pilot Daniel Ricciardo took first place in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix by steering clear of the Vettel-Hamilton rivalry. "After all the chaos and the red flag I felt that a podium was in reach, but then once Lewis had to pit and Seb had the penalty I knew the win was possible," he said. Second place went to Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas, while third went to Williams' Lance Stroll.
Porsche cracking down on speculators
Porsche has re-affirmed its commitment to cracking down on speculators who see the brand's cars as an investment. "[Customers] drive the car and if they want to sell the car after five or 10 years, good on them. But to turn them around quickly while the paint's still wet on the car, that's not how we go about our thinking and why we build our cars," said Paul Ellis, the spokesperson for Porsche's Australian division.
Robby Gordon banned from competing in Australia
American pilot Robby Gordon has been banned from ever competing in Australia again. Local authorities say he performed burnouts on a public road in one of his race trucks after the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He was also fined $3,100 after the incident. http://bit.ly/2tc4oTv
Chevrolet recalls SS over rusty power steering part
Chevrolet is recalling about 6,200 examples of the SS over a power steering issue. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration explains the connector between the power steering modular and the torque converter is prone to rust, which could cause the system to fail.
Takata files for banktupcty
Takata's U.S. division has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Delaware court, according to Reuters. Its Japanese parent company is expected to file for bankruptcy protection in Japan later today. Its liabilities could reach $50 billion in the U.S. alone.
Aston Martin Valkyrie getting 1,130 horsepower?
Aston Martin's upcoming Valkyrie will offer 1,130 horsepower, according to Road & Track. It will weigh 1,030 kilos (2,270 pounds), meaning it will boast a 1.1:1 power-to-weight ratio.
Updated Toyota Land Cruiser 150 leaked
Toyota's updated Land Cruiser 150 has surfaced online a few weeks before its official debut. Known as the Lexus GX in America, the Land Cruiser 150 gets a more squared-off look with angular headlights and a smaller grille. U.S. sales still aren't planned. http://bit.ly/2tITZvK


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hi all, for some upcoming comic conventions and halloween, i decided to be catman from the secret six and i was going to buy this batman mask, but catman's mask is brown/orange-ish and his ears are sunken-in and not so curvy, is there some way i could just push in the "ears" and reshape them, maybe by heating up? also how do i paint latex masks? i have tried using liquid latex, ink, and ammonia but it doesn't last for more than a month and ends up pealing off. i could just rub in some acrylic paint or something, who knows :shrug:
also, i was thinking about picking up a mr. incredible muscle suit, i heard alot of good things about it at the hunter's lair but it is kinda pricey...any muscle suits as good or better for cheaper?
anyway, any help would be much appreciated! look out for catman and ragdoll at the next Dallas scifi comicon!


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The most successful websites all have one thing in common, they all started with a well thought-out plan. The creators of these websites took the time to fully understand what they wanted to accomplish and their extra effort was rewarded with loads of traffic, high ranking in search engines, and transactions that drove the bottom line. It doesn't matter if your project is a 100 page complex website or just 5 simple pages, putting together the right information into a project plan can help success come knocking on your digital door.Let's take a look at the 6 essentials of a successful website project plan:
1. Have identified goals as to what is to be accomplished
This one should be obvious, but the years of people hearing "You just have to have a website" have taken their toll. Many websites do not have any more purpose than to merely state the same message that can be found in their other marketing literature. This is a horrible approach. You have so much more power in what you can do through the web that to do nothing more than state who you are and what you do is like a salesman walking up to a prospect and saying, "Hi, my name is Rick and I'm a salesman." and then walk away. Defining what you want your website to accomplish in the form of goals is what should control every aspect of how the website is constructed and those goals require something to be done. What are they?
To help identify the goals for your website, simply answer questions like these:
- What do I want the website to do? Why?
- What do I want visitors to be able to do on my website? Why?
- What do I want my customers to be able to do on my website? Why?
- What do I want media outlets to be able to on my website? Why?
- What do I want my partners to be able to do on my website? Why?
2. Outline a targeted audience instead of just being a blanket website
Again, this would seem obvious as it's simply marketing basics, however, many websites are built without a specific audience in mind. They end up so generic that a visitor only gets enough information to know you exist and that you do something, but often times not how to engage you and why they should. Learn about your audience. Discover how they use the web to research products and services like yours. What words or phrases do they look for? Are there visuals they would expect to see on your website? Do they need more in-depth explanations of how things work or would they prefer simple answers? What do they need to know to make a decision? With all the answers, create a "customer profile" to include in your project plan. A good web development firm can translate that data into a layout and structure that would present strongly to that profile.
3. Include conversion processes that are simple to follow and easy to implement
A conversion process is a series of steps a person would follow on your website to complete some form of transaction. This transaction could be purchasing a product or service, signing up for a demonstration or appointment, registering for an event, or subscribing to your newsletter. Each of these require something to be given for something to be received, thus a transaction. When a person completes the transaction, they've now converted from merely a visitor looking at your information to a true prospect who has now engaged your business in some fashion. You need to think about how a prospect would complete this transaction by thinking about where they would begin and what they would have to do to reach the end. These transactions will be key in bringing more opportunities for business and must be strategically planned.
4. Include a list of supporting projects or initiatives to market the website
The days of "Build it and they will come" are long since over. Today, you need to always be promoting your website in order to keep driving traffic to it. Think about what other projects or initiatives could aid in accomplishing this. For instance, will you use social media to help push the press releases on your website? Will you include your website address on all your physical advertisements and collateral? Do you have a radio ad that drives people to your website? What can you do to tell people how to find you on the web? Submitting your website to be listed in search engines alone is no longer enough.
5. Define metrics to track in order to monitor the performance of your website
If you have established goals that you want your website to accomplish, then you also need to think about what has to be tracked and measured in order to determine if you're successful in reaching those goals. Web statistics software can give you the basics and can even be configured to track more advanced actions, but it needs to know what it is supposed to capture. Without knowing what your metrics are, it will be difficult to know what needs improvement. Without improving your website, it could take longer and thus more expensive to reach your goals. Determine your pathways to success through your website and define metrics from those pathways to monitor.
6. Define your review and improvement process
Once you know what goals you want to accomplish and the metrics that will tell you if you're reaching them or not, you now need to plan how you will review, analyze, and improve your website. Think about a time line of when you should review your data, how it should be analyzed, and the process that identified opportunities will follow to develop and implement a solution. Never stop analyzing the performance of your website. Just like your product or service, you get more out of them when they're improved!
What else would you include?
While these six items are what we think are essential to creating a successful website project plan, we know they're not the end all be all. We'd love to hear if you think anything should be added. Post your additions in the comments below!


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Venice Beach Eco Cottages, Venice, CA
The super-cute and cozy Venice Beach Eco Cottages have a sweet spot on a leafy street between Venice's famous beach and the shops and restaurants along Abbot Kinney Boulevard. You'll feel right at home basking in front of the Victorian fireplace, sipping coffee at the sunlit breakfast banquette, and soaking in the red claw-foot tub. From $215; 3-night minimum;
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This has rendered me nearly speechless. How would one go about finding – and punishing – the people responsible for this?
Truly, I cannot begin to adequately express how visceral my reaction to this is. I am ashamed, yet again, to be an American.
And we wonder why the world hates us….


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Download uTorrent
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- It downloads and starts the torrents that I have selected through filters
- I have set a label for each filter so that torrents that match my Bones-filter gets a "TV-shows/Bones"-label
- It downloads the files to d:\incoming
- When it has completed the download it moves the files to d:\ and appends the label to the path as well. so if it is a bones episode it will put it in d:\TV-shows\Bones
- After completion it also calls the above vbs-file with Update.vbs "%L". The %L passes the label of the completed torrent.
- XBMC executes the command and checks if there are any new files in the specified folder.


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That was more than the City had expected, and helped keep the group in the black for the first time since it was spun out of Prudential. First-half pre-tax profits were £1.2m against losses of £63.4m in the first half of 2001.
Chief executive Paul Gratton said: 'We are winning customers from all the High Street banks with our 'double zero' policy of charging nothing on transferred balances and new spending really proving a winner.'
The quality of customers remained high, he said. Provisions for bad or doubtful debts rose from £18.6m in the first quarter to £20.6m in the second, in line with the rise in operating income which doubled to £154m year-on-year.
Brand and marketing spending jumped to £12.9m in the second quarter from £7.8m in the first and from £6m a year ago. Gratton said this was within the group's plans and should smooth out in the second half to produce about £35m of such spend for the year.
The core UK business made pre-tax profits of £8.7m in the six months compared with losses of £61.7m in the first half of 2001. After winning 157,000 new customers in the first quarter, the net gain for the half year was 362,000.
New money from savers hit £2bn, back at the levels the group achieved when it launched in 1998. Existing customers had increased the amount of money they saved with the bank.
Gratton said the bank was 'not being complacent' about the quality of its customers and was 'watching it like a hawk'. But indicators such as the level of insurance claims for unemployment or long-term illness had not risen and, he said, the overall credit quality of the portfolio had risen with more upmarket customers joining.
Following the £5m takeover of Zebank, Egg is preparing to launch in France in the final quarter of the year. Gratton would reveal little detail but said the proposition it planned for the French had received an even greater welcome than the original Egg offer had in Britain.
The shares fell 3p to 140p.
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Water is found in many places beyond stream channels throughout the watershed. Streamwater, groundwater, soil water, and water in sediments below the channel contain a rich array of organic carbon molecules important as food for microorganisms and as resources for other living things. This laboratory works on identifying the presence of these molecules and determining their role in the stream ecosystem.
Healthy streams often support 200 - 300+ species of aquatic insects, crustaceans and other invertebrates, forming a rich and complex biological community. This laboratory studies factors that affect the distribution and abundance of aquatic invertebrates, the functional role of invertebrates in stream and river ecosystems, and how these invertebrate communities respond to human activities in temperate and tropical watersheds.
Fish Molecular Ecology
This laboratory works to determine why fish in streams have the distributions they do. Our research includes field studies of fish movement, species composition and productivity; genetic studies of population structure; laboratory studies of tolerance limits to chemical, physical and biological factors; as well as mathematical modeling of population dynamics.
Fluvial Geomorphology
Water and sediment interact to create river channel habitats, floodplains and other elements of the physical riverscape that form the basis of river ecosystems. Our lab studies the movement of water, sediment, organic matter, nutrients and other molecules through watersheds to better understand watershed hydrology, geomorphology and biogeochemistry. We also investigate how watershed land use and river channel restoration practices influence hydrologically mediated processes such as surface-groundwater interaction, sediment transport, and channel evolution.
Microbial life such as bacteria, fungi, and algae are integral to a naturally functioning aquatic ecosystem. By applying comprehensive molecular approaches, this laboratory is focused on characterizing the composition and distribution of microbial communities, and determining the functional roles as well as their interactions with environments.
Organic and Isotope Geochemistry
The complex mixture of organic molecules in streams and rivers holds clues about a wide variety of natural and human processes occurring within watersheds. By determining the identity and origin of these molecules, the scientists in this laboratory can both expand scientific understanding of natural cycles of energy (carbon) and nutrients within the ecosystem and inform decision-makers about the sources and impact of human contamination on water quality.


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Milla Jovovich's Tokyo Premiere, Summit Attack
Heading overseas in hopes of higher earnings that its dismal $2.9 million opening day in the States, Milla Jovovich took center stage at the premiere of "The Three Musketeers" in Tokyo, Japan on Saturday night (October 22).
Held as part of the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival at Roppongi Hills, the 35-year-old actress joined alongside the film's director (who happens to be her husband) Paul W.S. Anderson and co-star Logan Lerman for the opening ceremony showcase.
The red carpet appearance comes on the heels of a surprising move by Miss Jovovich - as she took to Twitter to speak out against the film's U.S. distributor Summit Entertainment by criticizing their lack of promotional efforts for "The Three Musketeers".
Of the company, which is gearing up for the release of their top-earner "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn," Milla tweeted, "Are 'summit' promoting it as a family adventure movie? Or are they resting on their laurels from 'twilight' n making no effort? Let me know!"
She added a short while later, "I think 'summit' hve swept '3 Musketeers', a grt family adventure film, under the rug in the US. Shame on them. SHAME ON YOU 'SUMMIT'."
Meanwhile, a Summit executive was asked by Deadline about Jovovich's harsh words, of which the staffer noted that Milla has been busy filming the next "Resident Evil" in Canada "and working 15-hour days and probably didn't see the campaign. She doesn't know what she's talking about and we don't know where she's coming from."
The exec added, "Wouldn't you think she would call us first about this? It's frustrating. it's not the right way to behave. If she has a problem then come to the studio and talk about it."
Enjoy the pictures of Milla Jovovich premiering "The Three Musketeers" in Tokyo (October 22).
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The Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra will perform its first concert of 2010, "Music in Nature," on Saturday evening in the Blue Ridge Conference Hall at Blue Ridge Community College.
The Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra will perform its first concert of 2010, "Music in Nature," on Saturday evening in the Blue Ridge Conference Hall at Blue Ridge Community College.
Part of the 7:30 p.m. concert will be the annual presentation of the winners of the HSO Young Artist Competition, which took place at the Patton Auditorium at Blue Ridge Community College on Feb. 7.
The contest, now in its 15th year, is open to area high school students. The top three winners earn scholarship awards, sponsored by Thos. Shepherd and Son, and the top winner earns the opportunity to perform with the symphony.
This year's first-place winner is pianist Kyle Decker, a Hendersonville High School junior, who will perform Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the symphony.
Decker began playing piano at age 6 under the instruction of Rae Cotner in Cape Coral, Fla. In 2006, when he moved with his family to Henderson County, Decker began studying with piano teacher and solo pianist Jesslynn Kitts of Flat Rock. Under her guidance, Decker has received superior ratings at the district and state levels of the North Carolina Music Teachers Association's Contest Festival for the past three years.
Decker, who lives in Horse Shoe, is the son of John and Meg Decker. He plays percussion in the HHS Symphonic Band and keyboards in the HHS Jazz Band, was named second-chair mallet percussionist for the 2009 North Carolina All-State Honors Band and first-chair mallet percussionist for the 2009 and 2010 All-District Bands. He is a member of the National Honor Society and the HHS Student Council.
Kay Nakazawa, a freshman at T.C. Roberson High School in Asheville, placed second in the competition with her performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. She has studied the violin for 12 years and has been a member of the Asheville-Buncombe Youth Orchestra since 2005. This is her third season as the concertmaster of the ABYO, and she studies with Mary Byrd Daniels.
Vashti Baluch took third place playing a Mozart piano concerto. She was born in Kenya and grew up in Dubai. She began playing piano at age 5 and has played for 12 years. She added flute studies at age 6.
Baluch studies piano with Frank Iogha and also studied with the late Peggy Hannan of Hendersonville.
"Music in Nature" aims to showcase music that brings to mind the harmonies found in the world around us. The concert will begin with Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, known as the "Pastoral Symphony," completed in 1808.
This symphony is unusual because it is one of Beethoven's few works of program music or image-evoking music. The symphony was labeled at its first performance with the title "Pastoral Symphony, or Recollections of Country Life," and the individual movements were given specific titles reflecting the image Beethoven hoped to create with the music.
The concert will proceed with a work from Ottorino Respighi, an Italian composer, musicologist and violinist. His work, "The Birds," is a suite of movements that reflect individual species of birds. A prelude is followed by four birdlike representations, beginning with "La Colomba" (the Dove) with an oboe solo creating the appropriate illusion. "La Gallina" (the Hen) follows with chirping woodwinds over a background created by strings. "L'Usignuolo" (the Nightingale) follows with a dark background penetrated by the flute. Finally, "Il Cucu" (the Cuckoo) allows the woodwinds to create the impression against a background swell of string music.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets are available at the Visitors Information Center, the Opportunity House, Hand in Hand Gallery, Wickwire Art Gallery, the Laurel Park Wine Market, or call the HSO office at 697-5884. Visit the HSO Web site at www. hendersonvillesymphony.org.


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Gold Slumps to Seven-Month Low as Economic Concern Ease
Gold futures slumped to a seven- month low as signs of economic optimism eroded demand for the precious metal as a haven. Silver also declined.
German business confidence increased to a 10-month high in February, a report showed today. Gold dropped for the third straight week on speculation the Federal Reserve will wind down U.S. monetary stimulus.
"The world is not falling apart, and gold is no longer indispensable," Adam Klopfenstein, a senior market strategist at Archer Financial Services Inc. in Chicago, said in a telephone interview. "The fact that the U.S. is talking about ending the stimulus program tells us that the economy is doing relatively better."
Gold futures for April delivery fell 0.4 percent to close at $1,572.80 an ounce at 1:50 p.m. on the Comex in New York, the lowest settlement since July 18. The metal, down 2.3 percent this week, has dropped 11 percent in the past 12 months.
Silver futures for May delivery declined 0.8 percent to $28.52 an ounce, the lowest closing price since Aug. 17. This week, the price dropped 4.5 percent, the third straight decline. The metal has slumped 17 percent in the past 12 months.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, platinum futures for April delivery declined 0.8 percent to $1,607.40 an ounce. This week, the metal dropped 4.2 percent, the most since mid- December.
Palladium futures for March delivery gained 0.2 percent to $735.30 an ounce. This week, the price dropped 2.4 percent.
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A meeting of European network operators last week (covered in this press release), concluded with a strong set of messages from industry ahead of the forthcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). The meeting, convened by ITU and the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) drew a positive focus on the possibility of the new treaty strengthening ICT sector development. Concluding, Malcolm Johnson, Director of ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, noted the following points had been made:
At its most recent meeting, 11-19 April, ITU-T Study Group 5 – ITU's lead Study Group on electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and electromagnetic effects – consented Recommendation ITU-T K.91: Guidance for assessment, evaluation and monitoring of the human exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF).
Recognizing that a significant part of the infrastructure needed to bridge the digital divide involves wireless technologies, the K.91 guide was created in response to developing nation concerns with the risks of human exposure to RF EMF and local communities' growing resistance to the deployment of radio installations in their surrounds.
The new Recommendation responds to Resolution 72 of the 2008 World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly in Johannesburg (WTSA-08) which called upon ITU-T, and in particular Study Group 5, to expand and accelerate its work in this domain.
Specifically, SG 5 was urged to regularly update its guides on the use of ITU-T publications to achieve EMC and safety, with particular emphasis on those relating to measurement methodologies.
Recommendation ITU-T K.91 acknowledges that a variety of methods exist to assess human exposure to RF EMF, that each carry different advantages and disadvantages, and that the choice of a method depends on the needs and circumstances of its user. K.91 therefore provides guidance on methods to assess and monitor human exposure to RF EMF in areas with surrounding radiocommunication installations; based on existing exposure and compliance standards in the frequency range of 9 kHz to 300 GHz. This includes procedures to evaluate exposure levels and to demonstrate compliance with exposure limits.
Building Sustainable Communities, the fifth ITU Kaleidoscope conference, will be hosted by the University of Kyoto, Japan, 22-24 April 2013. Kaleidoscope-13 is being organized by ITU with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE ComSoc and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan, with financial support from Telkom SA, and in partnership with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) of Japan, Waseda University, the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan (I.I.E.E.J.), and the European Academy for Standardization (EURAS).
Kaleidoscope events are peer-reviewed academic conferences with the aim of increasing dialogue between academics and experts working on the standardization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
A call for papers has been issued and invites submissions by 10 September 2012. A prize fund totaling $10,000 will be awarded to the three best papers, which will also be featured in a special edition of IEEE Communications Magazine. Additionally, young authors presenting their papers at Kaleidoscope-13 will receive Young Author Recognition certificates and all the papers presented will be archived in the IEEE Xplore online catalogue.
Kaleidoscope-13 aims to identify emerging ICT developments able to effect the socio-economic change needed for communities to meet the challenges posed by the new millennium. Sustainable communities will be those that prepare as well as they can for future challenges, and this will require a careful balance of human-centric technology and sound ethical values.
ICT standards will be key to enabling the co-evolution of technology and sustainable communities. Developing these standards will require concerted global efforts by stakeholders across industry sectors. Kaleidoscope-13 therefore promotes collaboration in this regard and will highlight the multidisciplinary nature of future ICTs.
In addition to an exhibition of local universities' curricula, the presence of high-level keynote speakers, and the presentation of invited papers, Kaleidoscope-13 will host the third Jules Verne's Corner, a space giving air to the ideas of futurists and science fiction writers.
Following Kaleidoscope-13, a one-day Workshop on ITU and Academia, 25 April 2013, will provide information on ITU's Academia membership category and will present and discuss the standards-focused activities of ITU's academic members.
For sponsorship opportunities, please contact the ITU-T Kaleidoscope secretariat at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For additional information, see the event's webpage at: http://itu-kaleidoscope.org/2013.
At its recent meeting at ITU Headquarters in Geneva, 11-19 April, ITU-T Study Group 5 – ITU's Study Group on environment and climate change – consented two new ITU-T standards (Recommendations) targeting increased energy efficiency of ICT equipment. The first Recommendation provides a specification of the direct current (DC) interface between power-feeding systems and connected ICT equipment, and the second defines energy efficiency metrics and measurement methods to assess the energy efficiency of telecommunication equipment.Recommendation ITU-T L.1200 specifies a DC current interface able to operate using a power source of up to 400 Volts, which allows higher energy efficiency and reliability than can be achieved using lower-voltage power feeding solutions. The Recommendation standardizes a power feeding system applicable to all ICT equipment defined in a location using these power sources such as: telecommunication centres; radio base stations; data centres; and customer premises. Additionally, the DC interface will simplify the use of renewable energy sources producing DC output such as photovoltaic generators and fuel cell systems. Recommendation ITU-T L.1310 defines energy efficiency metrics and measurement methods for telecommunication equipment including: wired as well as wireless broadband access; optical transport technologies; routers; switches; mobile core network equipment; and small networking equipment used in homes and small enterprises. L.1310 defines metrics which evaluate ICT equipment's energy efficiency through a comparison between its technical performance and its energy consumption. The Recommendation also details measurement methodologies to verify energy efficiency figures produced in accordance with L.1300. For more on the work of SG 5, please see the group's webpage here.
The latest ITU-T Technology Watch report discusses the privacy concerns associated with cloud computing, the role privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) could play in alleviating them and the standardization activities currently engaged with the topic. Cloud computing represents a major change in the way information is managed, especially as it relates to personal data. Cloud is expected to positively impact users' IT budgets and costs of ownership, but could also threaten the relevance of traditional security, trust and privacy mechanisms. The rollout of cloud services has introduced a number of questions related to information privacy and security:
The adoption of privacy-enhancing technologies will depend on the existence of uniform ways to handle personal data, which must be agreed at the international level. Developing technical standards in this regard is a means to achieve international consensus on such issues, and compliance with these standards will aid in demonstrating countries' and businesses' adherence to the associated legal and regulatory frameworks. Authored by Stéphane Guilloteau, France Télécom Orange, France and Venkatesen Mauree of ITU, the report, as well as additional information on cloud-computing privacy, is available at http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/techwatch/Pages/cloud-computing-privacy.aspx. Experts from industry, academia and research communities are invited to submit topic proposals and abstracts for future reports in the Technology Watch series. For more details, please contact the Technology Watch team at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The first meeting of ITU-T's new Focus Group on M2M service layer (FG M2M), 17-18 April, attracted a large number of experts from the healthcare and ICT fields to discuss the M2M standardization requirements of vertical healthcare markets. The open meeting was well-attended in Geneva and via remote participation, receiving 57 delegates from 17 countries; representing members and non-members of ITU, and composed of four government representatives, twenty-six from the private sector and nine from academic and research institutions. Among the delegates were seven representatives of healthcare organizations including World Health Organization (WHO) and Continua Health Alliance. The Focus Group's structure and working methods were central topics in this foundational meeting, as was its work plan laying out the group's objectives and deliverables. The FG will focus on M2M in the healthcare context and was divided into three Working Groups; the first looking at M2M use cases and service models, and the second at determining the requirements and architectural framework of the M2M service layer. The third deals with M2M Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and protocols and will begin its work when sufficient progress has been made by the first two Working Groups. Also of note was the appointment of the group's Chairman and Vice-Chairmen: Chairman: Heyuan Xu, CATR (China) Vice-Chairmen:Marc Berrebi, eDevice (France)Marco Carugi, ZTE (China)Robert Istepanian, Kingston University (UK)Hyoung Jun Kim, ETRI (Korea)Monique Morrow, Cisco Systems (USA) The next meeting of FG M2M will take place in Beijing, 26-28 June 2012, hosted by CCSA/CATR. The deadline for contributions to this meeting is 18 June. Provisional dates for the third meeting in Geneva are 29-31 August, and the fourth will take place in November, in the USA (TBC). To follow the activities of FG M2M, see the group's webpage here.
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DEL RIO, Texas — The 8 a.m. take-off time went as planned Friday, unlike Thursday, when a weather forecast of high winds forced cancellation of opening day for the Bassmaster Elite Series Battle on the Border, presented by Mahindra Tractors.
As it turned out, the high winds never materialized at Lake Amistad, although there were reports that railroad lines 100 miles north of Del Rio were forced to shut down due to wind. Mike McClelland, for one, wasn't complaining about the unexpected day of rest.
"I enjoyed my day off, I'm not going to deny it," said the three-time Elite Series tournament champion. "I got a massage, laid around and chilled out a little bit, got some routine maintenance on my boat that needed to be done, so it actually was a good day to have a day off."
Three-day tournaments used to be common on the BASS circuit. But the Elite Series, which started in 2006, has always had a four-day plan, including a cut to the top 50 after two days and Saturday competition to determine the top 12 for Sunday's finale.
Thursday marked only the third time weather forced cancellation of an Elite Series competition day.
"It was kind of disheartening to see what the weather did," said McClelland in reference to the light wind Thursday. "But that's the way it is. I'd rather see them make a safe call and know everybody is alright, than let us go out, something bad happen and things be bad for the day.
"You've kind of got a two-day shootout here to see if you can get to the top 12."
In essence then, the Battle on the Border is a three-day shootout. McClelland thinks he could benefit from the shortened tournament.
"It probably makes me feel a little bit better," he said. "I have a couple of areas that maybe have a group of fish on them that might last for a day or two. This eliminates any thoughts about whether those fish will hold out for four days."
There has been lots of talk this week about Lake Amistad not containing the abundant amount of big bass seen in the last two years here. The 2006 and 2007 Elite Series schedules had Amistad as the season-opener. It took a four-day total over 100 pounds to win both years — Ish Monroe won in '06 with 104 pounds, 8 ounces, and Derek Remitz took first with 111-7 last year.
Fred Roumbanis, who finished second in '06 and 19th last year, isn't buying all the bad-mouthing.
"I think people are underestimating this fishery, by far," said the former Californian who now resides in Bixby, Okla. "There's still going to be people catching them here. I think there's going to be some really impressive bags."
The weight to make the top 50 and earn a check here might be less than the two previous years because even Roumbanis agrees the 3-, 4- and 5-pound bass in Amistad are less abundant than in years past. But he thinks it still would have taken around 100 pounds to win in a four-day format.
"I think there's enough 7- to 10-pounders still in here to make up for it," Roumbanis said. "There are definitely a lot more 2-pounders (than before). But I think maybe a big wave (of spawning fish) already came through, and the big ones went back down deep. I've always noticed the bigger fish seem to spawn first."
The previous two Elite Series tournaments at Lake Amistad were held in March. The pros are here almost a month later this year, plus it has been an unusual year weather-wise, with a pattern of warm fronts followed by cold fronts.
There are still active spawning beds throughout the 67,000-acre clear-water lake. But most anglers think some kind of swimbait will be a bigger factor in winning than dropping lures into spawning beds.
Roumbanis will definitely spend a considerable amount of his time throwing a swimbait.
"It's a lot different than the first year," Roumbanis said. "I think I was the only one throwing it then. Fish were real easy to catch. Now you're getting a lot of follow-ups and a lot of taps, where they're not quite taking it.
"I've had to change the style I'm fishing it. When I made that change to something different than what everybody else is doing, it really paid off."
So it's a well-rested group of 109 pros and their co-anglers who are exploring Lake Amistad with some different tactics and in a different three-day format beginning today. The proof of whether this lake can still produce those heavy five-bass limits begins at the 5 p.m. weigh-in.


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