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1. Re: LDOM won't AI or JumpstartMarcel Hofstetter JomaSoft Feb 4, 2013 2:00 PM (in response to 921374)Hi John
Do you define VID for your ldom network interfaces?
If you removed them and only define a PVID it will work.
Best regards,
2. Re: LDOM won't AI or Jumpstart921374 Mar 4, 2013 12:27 PM (in response to Marcel Hofstetter JomaSoft)Hi Marcel, and thank you for taking time to reply.
I removed VID from my ldom net interface, so now I have this:
The machine I am attempting to jumpstart is called weaver.
NETWORK NAME SERVICE ID DEVICE MAC MODE PVID VID MTU LINKPROP net0 primary-vsw0@primary 0 network@0 00:14:4f:fb:9e:a6 260 250,852,701 9216 PEER MAC MODE PVID VID MTU LINKPROP primary-vsw0@primary 00:14:4f:f8:75:aa 260 9216 net0@weaver 00:14:4f:fb:15:ed 260 9216 NAME SERVICE ID DEVICE MAC MODE PVID VID MTU LINKPROP net1 primary-vsw1@primary 1 network@1 00:14:4f:f8:ef:57 260 250,852,701 9216 PEER MAC MODE PVID VID MTU LINKPROP primary-vsw1@primary 00:14:4f:fb:dc:19 260 9216 net1@weaver 00:14:4f:f8:20:15 260 9216
I now receive
But I suspect something is still incorrect, since the MAC address reported by the machine at bootup is
Timed out waiting for BOOTP/DHCP reply
Whereas the properties in the LOM console show
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:fb:d1:bd
If you or anyone else out there in internet land have any ideas or suggestions I would love to hear them!
{0} ok cd net {0} ok .properties local-mac-address 00 14 4f fb 15 ed
3. Re: LDOM won't AI or JumpstartMarcel Hofstetter JomaSoft Mar 5, 2013 7:33 PM (in response to 921374)Hi John
You solved the VID issue.
Now you have set the VLAN Tag 260 as PVID.
Do you need VLAN tagged traffic? To use untagged traffic you need to set PVID to 1.
Best regards,
4. Re: LDOM won't AI or Jumpstart995017 Mar 6, 2013 7:58 AM (in response to 921374)As to the MAC addresses, you've got multiple systems here, each with their own MAC address.
- The ILOM has its own OS and a MAC address for its own use.
- The primary domain (hardware owner) has its own MAC address, which is probably different from the one seen in the OBP banner.
- The weaver LDom, which has its own MAC address, in this case, from the range assigned automatically when the LDom is first bound. (You can also manually assign the MAC address if you don't want to use the built-in duplication avoidance routines.) A range of MAC addresses is set aside for both purposes.
Sun set aside a block of 524,288 (512K) MAC addresses for use by logical domains. The block is from address 00:14:4F:F8:00:00 to address 00:14:4F:FF:FF:FF. This block is divided into two halves. The lower half is assigned automatically to domains, virtual switches and virtual interfaces if another MAC address is not provided. The upper half is available for manual allocation. The lower half of the MAC address pool is addresses from 00:14:4F:F8:00:00 to 00:14:4F:FB:FF:FF. The upper half, 00:14:4F:FC:00:00 to 00:14:4F:FF:FF:FF, is only used if you manually specify them.
Remember, the MAC address is like the number on your house. You can have the same number (MAC address) on different street (physical network segments), but only one place to a number on an individual street, or things get real confused. If you want apartments, we have IP port numbers for that, but you have to get to the building first. (Think of the IP address as identifying which street, and routing as your driving directions to get there.)
5. Re: LDOM won't AI or Jumpstart921374 Mar 8, 2013 1:56 PM (in response to 995017)Thanks to you both. I have it connecting to the jumpstart server now using the following configuration:
(I had to speak to our network guy to set our default vlan through, then I deleted weaver and recreated.)
VSW NAME MAC NET-DEV ID DEVICE LINKPROP DEFAULT-VLAN-ID PVID VID MTU MODE INTER-VNET-LINK primary-vsw0 00:14:4f:fb:dc:19 net0 0 switch@0 260 260 250,701,852 9216 on PEER MAC PVID VID MTU LINKPROP INTERVNETLINK vnet1@weaver 00:14:4f:fb:15:ed 260 9216 NAME MAC NET-DEV ID DEVICE LINKPROP DEFAULT-VLAN-ID PVID VID MTU MODE INTER-VNET-LINK primary-vsw1 00:14:4f:f8:75:aa net1 1 switch@1 260 260 250,701,852 9216 on
I have a further issue with the jumpstart process now but that can wait for another thread!
Thanks again.


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"You go home so you can be free; so you are not avoiding anything of who you are." ~Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
SOUL PROTECTOR, the second book in my Lost Worlds series, releases on May 1st. When I started writing this story, I knew the theme was about redemption for the hero and heroine of this story as well as the hero and heroine of the first book, SOUL SURVIVOR.
Nathan and Nila in SOUL PROTECTOR are both damaged souls – my favorite type of character to write. Nathan, an anthropologist trying to prove a mythical lost tribe is real, is trying to redeem himself and save his career by facing his past. Nila, a shaman who is two days away from taking the bar exam, is running from her past and trying to start over. What they have in common is the fact they're both searching for a way to redeem themselves from the mistakes they've made.
This is a romantic suspense, so of course, they need each other to complete their quests and they must come to understand that love in all its forms (not just romantic) is the path to redemption.
At the time I wrote the story, my family and I had moved to Florida, but things weren't working out. Since I'd lived in the same small town most of my life, I didn't want to move back *home*, even though doing so solved several major problems. Living in Florida, I felt free. No one knew me, no one cared what I did, no one watched my every move and reported back to my parents (yes, I'm an adult with kids of my own, but in this small town, I'm still a daughter too). If you've ever lived in a small town, you probably understand. Everyone knows everyone and gossip is the favorite pastime. I know a woman in town who has the funeral home's website Favorited on her computer so she knows the minute anyone dies. When I see commercials for "that's so forty seconds ago" I feel like they're using my hometown as an example. Moving away and starting over was a fresh start, a new adventure, and I love adventures.
So I was struggling with failure, guilt, anger and sadness about returning to my hometown. It felt like giving up on a dream and dreams die hard in my world. For hours a day while my husband packed up our Florida house, I poured all those heart-wrenching emotions into Nathan and Nila and their storyline.
A year later, we're back in our Illinois house, the boys are about to graduate from 8th grade and everyone's happy. I miss Florida, but I know moving back was the right thing to do for everyone. Nate and Nila found a happy ending too. We all went home in one way or another and found, just like Natalie claims in Writing Down the Bones, that doing so makes us free.
In case you're interested, here's the blurb for SOUL PROTECTOR. I'm giving away Advanced Reader Copies today to anyone who leaves a comment and asks for one (leave your email addy). And please tell me if you've ever journeyed back home – physically or emotionally – in order to free yourself or make amends. I'd like to know I'm not the only one!
The secret to redemption lies in their souls.
Dr. Nathan Hunter has forty-eight hours to save his job and find the missing Salt Coast Clan, a lost civilization locals believe is a myth. When ancient human remains turn up at the site of a new state water project along the Oregon Coast, he's sure the lost tribe is real. Before he can examine the bones, however, a pretty female lawyer gets an injunction to stop him.
Nila Willopah sees ghosts. After failing to help a young boy cross over to the afterlife seven years ago, she hung up her shaman's cape, left her family, and went to college to pursue a law degree. Three days before the bar exam, she's summoned home by her grandfather to defend a sacred burial ground from a billion dollar state water project.
Although her soul is in danger from the unbound spirits unearthed at the site, Nila is the one person who can stop the project and protect her ancestors' last resting place from Dr. Hunter. She's also the only one who can help the angry spirits cross over.
Nila suspects the sexy anthropologist is hiding a dark secret behind his clear blue eyes and skilled hands. A secret she wants nothing to do with. But when one of the ghosts latches onto his soul, Nila must set aside her fears and suspicions and once again enter the world of spirit communication to protect him.
Even if saving his soul means sacrificing her own.

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With Guns Banned on Big Marketplaces, a New Site Steps UpBy
Type the word "guns" into Google Shopping and hundreds of so-called airsoft guns pop up. These replica firearms only resemble the real thing: Hobbyists typically use them in mock battles to shoot soft plastic pellets at each other. For people in the market for a real gun, Google Shopping doesn't work.
That's because the search giant "doesn't allow the promotion of weapons or devices designed to cause serious harm or injury" in its paid listings, as its weapons policy explains. Other big online marketplaces, including Amazon, Craigslist, and EBay impose similar prohibitions.
Until fairly recently, Google did not, which meant shoppers could compare weapons prices with Google Product Search. This fall, Google finished replacing Product Search with Google Shopping, which limits products to merchants who pay for placement and must adhere to its policies. The ban incensed weapons sellers, who complained that Google was interfering with their Second Amendment rights and who circulated a petition on Change.org, urging the company to restore their wares. "We are adults and do not need you to babysit us," the petition reads.
Cory Brown, a sporting goods retailer in Rockville, Md., estimates that Google had helped drive 80 percent of his roughly $5 million in annual sales of ammunition, shooting accessories, and gear at one of his sites. (Because Brown owns multiple ventures, he said he was able to offset some of the losses.) Rather than just complain to Google, he launched a new site, FreeGunShow.com, in December. Part free classifieds, part "unrestricted marketplace," the site doesn't sell guns but matches buyers and sellers.
"I was like, 'Look, I'm tired of these companies, whatever [their] motivations, prohibiting the sale of things that are legal," Brown says. "When Google pulled the plug on this kind of stuff, I knew something bad was happening."
Gun shows and online matchmaking for gun buyers and sellers has angered gun-control advocates because of a longtime loophole in federal law: Sales by unlicensed "private collectors" are exempt from background checks. FreeGunShow and more established online counterparts such as Armslist and GunBroker.com put the onus for federal and state compliance on the seller. "Technically a private seller-to-buyer transaction could take place and it would be legal under current laws in some states," Brown wrote in an e-mail. "However, most sellers we talk to regardless [of type] will ship a gun (if the buyer is out of state) to a [federally licensed firearms] dealer."
Two days before the Dec. 14 Newtown, Conn., school massacre, Armslist was sued by relatives of a woman who was murdered in April 2011 in suburban Chicago by a man who shot her with a weapon advertised on the site. The lawsuit by Jitka Vesel's family seeks wrongful death damages from Armslist. The Oklahoma-based company didn't respond to a request for comment sent via its website, and a telephone number wasn't available.
Brown says the lawsuit lacks merit. "Private sellers follow their state laws. [Federally licensed firearms] dealers follow federal and state laws. Criminals don't follow any laws," he wrote in an e-mail. "This lawsuit will die. You cannot sue a third-party in this case. Been proven over and over in case law."
Brown says FreeGunShow, which charges sellers 1 percent of the sale amount, once the transaction is completed, has hosted roughly 3,000 auctions so far. The site has about 1,000 users, and more than 7,600 "likes" on Facebook. Brown says that growth would be even better if more guns would materialize. "A lot of our sellers own stores and inventory right now is real hard to get. Anytime we see an in-demand gun come up, it doesn't last long," he wrote in an e-mail. "Ammo also sells very fast in all sizes. We get contacted often by buyers asking where can they buy "X" … because everywhere they go it is sold out."


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Hi, I have a 2002 ZX3 with a Volant cold air intake (bought after reading these forums). I was wondering if exhaust tips were purely for looks, or had any effect on performance. If they're purely for looks, what would you recommend to buy for a cheap-ish, quiet exhaust? And are they easy to install?
Welcome to FF, good call on the intake and no an exhaust tip will do Nothing for performance, their just for looks. And as far as cheap exhausts, i know of a site where i bought my exhaust, as far as quiet...generally after you change anything, its no longer becomes quiet. Mandrelexhaustsystems.com os where i got mine, hope this helps
exhaust tips are just for looks, they add no performance. cut off the lunchbox and add in some flex pipe for a little extra added sound. heres the How To ------> http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/duratec-performance-2008-2011/161654-simplified-lunchbox-removal-instructions.html
if your looking for something with a nice mellow, yet somewhat quiet tone, check out my bst thread. the stealth is a great option
Thanks for the replies, that clears it up! However, beyond replacing the exhaust and intake, are there are other things that you'd recommend changing? I mean, what stock parts do most people usually swap out first when they want to gain a little performance, for not much buck?
tbh it's one of those things that it takes $$$ to play..
popular mods, are svt header, orp, flex, exhaust, intake, and tune.. the latter being the most expensive but makes a difference. also throttle body will give you a better throttle response. best way to save money is to keep an eye out on our forum here at the BST section.. a lot of good deals have been popping up.
fswerks, cfm, massive, focus-power, topspeed, and rps make parts for our cars and most of em are vendors here.
He's right about taking money to play. Just be patient and try not to be too eager for everything you want. It takes time too.
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I am glad that I read the reviews before purchasing so I knew to size up. When I received they fit me perfectly, but when I was lacing them up apparently I pulled too hard because I snapped the lace in two! I took the shoe to my local cobbler and he some how sewed it back together for me. Just a warning that they are delicate and to be extra gentle!
Hi trudyyyy, We're sorry to hear about your Maelyn Cradle Flats. Someone from our team will reach out shortly. - Free People
Disappointed, But Love the Style
I've had my eye on these shoes for quite some time. When they went on sale, I quickly snatched them up. I read many reviews saying that they fit very small so I ordered a size up. Unfortunately when they came they were much too large on both feet, although one shoe seemed to be even larger then the other. Curious because they both said 39 on the bottom but were clearly different sizes. Also, the laces were entirely too short, which was a problem I had seen others comment on. I phoned Free People to tell them my predicament and ask if they could kindly send me another pair and make sure the laces were longer. I quickly received them in the correct size with the same problem of extremely short laces. I also discovered when I wore them out that the bottoms are quite slippery. I've decided to keep them because they're super adorable and comfy, but I'm going to look into buying some laces elsewhere to replace the current ones (they keep coming untied when I wear them), and potentially sand paper the bottom of the shoe to prevent slipping.
cutest summer sandals
with most of the FP website, the product styling is amazing, but it can differ from the true colour of the products. i purchased the colour 'cognac' and found their colour to be slightly darker and brighter than the images - but this was OK as its what i prefer! i'm a UK size 5, so i chose EU 38 and they fit perfectly. I have wide feet and found the leather very forgiving - they still look as good on my feet as they do on the skinny models! the leather lace takes some loosening at first to fit into but that's completely adjustable. the sole is really slippery up to around the first 10 wears, which is dangerous but you could always sand the soles to wear them in. the only bad thing I have to say about these is the leather lace doesn't come in the length photographed. I can only wrap it around my ankle once and make a tiny knot. I would love a longer piece so I can wrap it up my leg a few times - not sure why I was supplied with a short one?! I had a look at other peoples FPme images and they all got long leather laces. a little disappointed as this is one of the main selling points.
Awesome lace Up flats!
After reading some of the negative reviews I thought I might be taking a risk in ordering these babies. Well, I was over the moon when they came in the mail! I sized up from my usual 39 to a 40 which is always the case for me in Free People shoes. The shoes are comfortable and well made. The blue color is beautiful! The laces are long enough & the shoes look amazing when on. I am actually wearing these for my upcoming wedding!
I'm usually 8.5 or 9, with narrow feet, and the 40 fits perfectly. (I usually am 39 so I agree they run small.) I got the blue color and I adore them, however the fading doesn't match on the two shoes and the left is much darker than the right which is really annoying. I've decided they are worth it, though. They are so flexible and soft that they are super comfortable. The soles are very very slippery but hopefully wearing them outside will solve that. Another fun thing I discovered is that you can re-lace them to change how they cross over your foot. compared to the model, I took out top cross on the foot and added a cross above it at the ankle, and I like them even more that way. I'll post photos to show the discoloration and the way I laced them.
Favorite shoes, bad construction
I absolutely love the look and feel of these shoes. They look good with everything and I get compliments on them constantly. But I can't get over how many times I've had to superglue something on them and I've only had them for about three weeks. The only thing stopping me from buying another pair is the worry that they will won't last long enough to outweigh the price.
Straps are way too short!
When I saw this flats online I knew I needed them! However, after reading the reviews about the straps being too short, I doubted about wether to buy them or not. After much pondering I decided to buy them and after I made my purchase I emailed customer service and kindly ask them to make sure the straps were not too short. They said that it was too late to do a quality check but then shipped the package 2 days later. Anyway, once they arrived I just knew the straps where too short without even trying the shoes on. Overall it is a lovely shoe but the strap issue kind of ruins it.
Hi lauralizramos, We're sorry to hear about this. Someone from our team will reach out to you shortly. - Free People
straps are way too short
I ordered a pair in black in January. They are a cool looking but fairly flimsy shoe - I wouldn't wear them on a day that requires walking more than a block. Normally I wear a 39, but ordered a 40 and the fit is fine. The biggest issue is that the straps/laces are way to short. I contacted customer service and they sent out another pair, and the straps are exactly the same length on the replacement pair. In the photo of the model, the straps wrap around her ankle three times. Both pairs of shoes i received wrap barely once - with an excruciatingly tiny tie that probably wouldn't stay fastened during actual wear. I don't have large ankles (they aren't super slim either, they're very average) - I'm 5'7" and weigh 140lbs. The measurement of the laces on the shoes i received are 46" long. To wrap three times they need to be at least 110" long. This really does impact the way the shoe looks and I wish there was a solution or that FP hadn't skimped during production.
Cute look, worried about wearing them
Beautiful shoe but very impractical. The sole of the shoe has no tread at all and I find myself slipping on the tiles in my house when I wear them! I am scared of wearing them because I feel like they may wear out very easily. Paying NZ$111.17 for this I thought they might have some sort tread! I also had the same problem as a few other people and that was that my straps were too short!! I read the reviews before buying and thought maybe this wouldn't happen to me - and it did! Disappointed because I love the shoe design but it wasn't the same as pictured. Was after the lace up around my leg look not a one time around the ankle look!
If I could only find the right one...
I LOVE these shoes. I'm in between a size 8.5 and 9 and the 40 fit great. I got the cognac color and it's it's a little darker in person but i don't mind. The leather is nice and very soft, however I feel that the straps used to hold the shoe together may break after a while. Since I live in Miami, I'm also not sure how it would fair during rainy weather. I'm sooo frustrated because although I love the shoes, I had the same problem as the other two reviewers. The straps to tie the shoe up were way too short!! I decided to re-order them and I got the same problem AGAIN. The straps are so short that I can't tie them twice or else they come undone so I am only able to tie them once which totally defeats the purpose of the lace up design. I love the uniqueness of the shoe but the short straps make it difficult to wear.
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We've been learning about Australia, and I am going to tell you about The Outback. The Outback is in Australia, it is a desert. It is in the middle of the country, but it is so BIG! It is most likely you will die if you get lost there! Australia is huge too! Most of the people are Aborigines but some of them are white! The jobs are mainly sheep farming, cattle stations, mining and tour guides. It would be really hard, it can be 500 miles to a petrol station or a shop!  The roads are just like muddy dusty sand roads.  Australian cities are mostly near to the coast however the Outback isnt! There are more sheep in Australia than people! People who are miners dig for metals and underground valuables. School of the air is a school over the radio because people who live in the outback would have to travel 100s of miles everday to get to school, but now it is over the internet.
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Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge. The harbour, and the nearby Sydney Opera House, is an iconic image of Sydney, and Australia. The bridge is nicknamed "The Coathanger" because of its arch-based design.
Under the directions of Dr J.J.C. Bradfield of the NSW Department of Public Works, the bridge was designed and built by British firm Dorman Long and Co Ltd of Middlesbrough and opened in 1932. The bridge's design was influenced by the Hell Gate Bridge in New York. It is also the sixth longest spanning-arch bridge in the world, and it is the tallest steel arch bridge, measuring 134 m (440 ft) from top to water level. It was also the world's widest long-span bridge, at 48.8 m (160 ft) wide.
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The first fleet
The First Fleet happened in Australia after Captain Cook discovered Australia, then the island was used for people of crimes. The fleet was 11 ships led by HMS Sirius and captain Philips. They landed near where Sydney is now. The convicts had to build a town and look after them selves and were guarded by soldiers.
This week we have been doing some facts about the Great Barrier Reef .
Coral is a hard stony substance secreted by marine coelenteries as an exleranald skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas.
About 630 species have been recorded along the great barrier reef, including starfish.
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There are at least 40 species of funnel web spiders and they are currently in two general types: Hadronyche and Atrax. They are medium to large, varying from 1 cm to 5 cm body length. Body colour can vary from black to brown, but the hard carapace covering the front part of the body is sparsely haired and glossy. The Sydney funnel web spider is probably responsible for all recorded deaths (13) and many medically-serious bites.
We are learning about Australia for our topic. It is a very fascinating country, Australia, we have learned about Aborigines, what they eat and what they do. Captain Cook was the first person to discover Australia. His ship was called the Endeavor. Endeavor means never giving up and trying hard and being tough.
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Internal Revenue Bulletin: 2014-16
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This notice provides guidance on circumstances in which a victim of domestic abuse who is married within the meaning of § 7703 of the Internal Revenue Code and is unable to file a joint tax return may claim a premium tax credit under § 36B.
Beginning in 2014, eligible individuals who purchase coverage under a qualified health plan through an Affordable Insurance Exchange are allowed a premium tax credit under § 36B. To be eligible for a premium tax credit, an individual must be an applicable taxpayer. Section 36B(c)(1) provides that an applicable taxpayer is a taxpayer (1) with household income for the taxable year between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty line for the taxpayer's family size, (2) who may not be claimed as a dependent by another taxpayer, and (3) who files a joint tax return if married (within the meaning of § 7703).
For victims of domestic abuse, contacting a spouse for purposes of filing a joint return may pose a risk of injury or trauma or, if the spouse is subject to a restraining order, may be legally prohibited. Section 7703(b) allows certain married individuals to be considered not married for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code. Under § 7703(b), a married taxpayer who lives apart from the taxpayer's spouse for the last six months of the taxable year is considered unmarried if he or she files a separate return, maintains as the taxpayer's home a household that is also the principal place of abode of a dependent child for more than half the year, and furnishes over half the cost of the household during the taxable year. However, § 7703(b) does not apply to many individuals who are victims of domestic abuse. For example, the abuse may have occurred in the last six months of the taxable year, the victim may not have the financial means to furnish over half the cost of a household, or the victim may not have a dependent child. Consequently, the preamble to final regulations under § 36B, issued in June of 2012, provided that Treasury and the IRS would propose regulations addressing domestic abuse and similar circumstances that create obstacles to filing a joint return. The regulations also requested comments on how to structure a rule to address such situations, including the types of documentation a taxpayer might provide to establish eligibility for the rule and the need for appropriate safeguards. The Treasury Department and IRS have received numerous comments on this subject and intend to release proposed regulations addressing this issue.
For calendar year 2014, a married taxpayer will satisfy the joint filing requirement of § 36B(c)(1)(C) if the taxpayer files a 2014 tax return using a filing status of married filing separately and the taxpayer (i) is living apart from the individual's spouse at the time the taxpayer files his or her tax return, (ii) is unable to file a joint return because the taxpayer is a victim of domestic abuse, and (iii) indicates on his or her 2014 income tax return in accordance with the relevant instructions that the taxpayer meets the criteria under (i) and (ii). The proposed regulations will incorporate this rule for 2014.
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The black Compact Courier 80 Shoulder Bag from Lowepro is a light and flexible way to go out for the day with one camera, simple zoom lens and one smaller lens. The water-resistant exterior offers you excellent protection from the elements while you're on that rainy walk through the park.
This bag can be worn either over the shoulder or across your body packed with your camera, 18-55 lens and 16 pancake in the included accessory lens pouch. As a creative design bonus, you can even remove the Mini Quick Case and walk around with just the camera and 16mm lens. This not only gives you a minimalistic approach to your photography but significantly lightens your load as well. The built-in leash tethers to your camera strap, securing the Mini Quick Case to the camera while wearing and shooting.
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UPDATE 1-Norway best, Zimbabwe worst places to live - U.N.
* Rating combines prosperity, health, education
* Over 40 years, most countries better off, U.N. says (Adds comment by UNDP chief, paragraph 13)
By Patrick Worsnip
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Oil-rich Norway remains the best country in the world to live in, while Zimbabwe, afflicted by economic crisis and AIDS, is the least desirable, according to an annual U.N. rating released on Thursday.
The assessment came in a so-called human development index, a measure of well-being published by the U.N. Development Program for the past 20 years that combines individual economic prosperity with education levels and life expectancy.
The UNDP placed Norway, Australia and New Zealand at the top and Niger -- last year's back-marker -- the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe at the bottom, as Western countries again led the list while sub-Saharan African nations trailed.
Japan headed the field in life expectancy, at 83.6 years, with Afghanistan last at little more than half of that -- 44.6 years. The tiny Alpine state of Liechtenstein had by far the highest per capita annual income -- $81,011, 460 times higher than last-placed Zimbabwe on $176.
Overall, the index contained some significant changes near the top compared with last year, with the United States rising to fourth from 13th and Iceland -- hard hit by the global financial crisis -- plummeting to 17th from third.
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The Wright State baseball team defeated Valparaiso 4-2 in the Horizon League series finale between the two teams Sunday at Emory G. Bauer Field.
WSU picked up a run in the second on a Jeff Limbaugh sacrifice fly and extended the lead to 3-0 in the fifth on a Brad Macciocchi sacrifice fly and a Sean Murphy RBI single.
Valpo cut the deficit to 3-1 with a run in the fifth, but the Raiders got that run back in the seventh as Kieston Greene singled in Jason DeFevers.
The Crusaders scored a run in their half of the seventh, but would get no closer as they stranded two runners in the eighth and one more in the ninth.
Taylor Braun (3-1) picked up the win after starter Darion Nunn pitched four shutout innings. Andrew Elliott earned his sixth save by going the final 1.1 innings, striking out three.
Offensively, Michael Timm went four for five while Murphy and Joe Ford each had two hits.
Wright State (15-14, 9-2 Horizon) will take part in the sixth annual Joe Nuxhall Classic Tuesday and Wednesday at McKie Field at Hayden Park on the Miami campus. The Raiders open the tournament by taking on Cincinnati Tuesday at 3:00.


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Re: Re: Mathematica & MS Word
On 3/31/02 4:09 AM, "Bob Jones" <bob_jones96 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote in <9rb74v$5jv$1
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>> the FrontEnd offer better word processing
>> capabilities than MS Word, why do you
>> want this ?
> Is it so he can submit it to a journal? I would like to know how to use it
> with Word better also. Either that or how to use it to submit journal
> articles. One problem I see is that most of the people you would be sending
> reports to internally will not have Mathematica or LaTeX, just MS Word.
You're right. This often stops people trying to use the full power of the
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UPDATE 1-Sun Life says on track to look at dividend payout this year
(Adds comment from CEO interview on acquisitions, growth, adds stock price)
By Andrea Hopkins
TORONTO Feb 12 (Reuters) - Sun Life Financial Inc, Canada's third-largest insurer, said on Thursday it was on track to consider a dividend increase in 2015 even though it reported a lower-than-expected fourth-quarter profit.
"We will look at where we are relative to the 40 to 50 percent dividend ratio payout range we've previously communicated," Chief Executive Dean Connor told analysts on a conference call.
"We finished 2014 at the higher end of that range, and as we look through 2015, we expect to move down in that range and so we are still on track to revisit the dividend this year."
Unlike many of its peers, Sun Life did not cut its dividend during the financial crisis. Investors have been hungry to know when the life insurer will increase the payout. The last increase was in 2008.
Sun Life's larger rival Manulife Financial halved its payout in 2009, then increased its dividend in August 2014.
On Wednesday, Sun Life reported weaker-than-expected results but said it was on track to exceed its 2015 earnings target. Its stock was down 6.8 percent at C$39.10 in Toronto on Thursday afternoon.
In an interview, Connor said Sun Life is also considering other capital allocation plans, including its active share buyback program, paying down debt, organic growth and acquisitions. Continued...


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Eric the lollypop man
February 22, 2013 , 1:11 PM by Jeremy Lee
Every Monday and Friday morning, Eric Gilbert joins us on breakfast to go through the weekend's sport, and now, after he's finished at the studio, he'll be heading off to a school crossing somewhere around Warrnambool to take up his new duties as a lollypop man. At the moment Eric's only working as a fill in lollypop man, but he's got his own stop sign and this morning he brought it in to help direct the traffic in the studio. Keep an eye out for him if you're driving around school crossings in the mornings and afternoons, and make sure you give him a toot if you see him!
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Tbi chevy 350 hesitation.
Ive been dealing with a rough running TBI project. Was backfiring and bogging really bad. Finally after a lot of work and help from all of you, Ive got her running good. Starts good, idles good, very snappy throttle. The only thing now is a hesitation when in gear with aggressive throttle. Still seams like a vacuum leak but I cant find any. Could it be a problem with the torque converter. Im running a TH 400. Don't know a ton about Torque Converters but was wondering if a bad one or one with the wrong stall could be causing this.
Checked your throttle position sensor volts? It may need adjusted (some are slotted) to give a quicker squirt of fuel (like an accelerator pump).
What should the volt reading be?
what vehicle and engine are you asking about?
The engine is out of A 1990 chevy p/u. its a TBI 350.
tbi bogging
sorry to jump in on your thread but how did you get it to run better? mine is doing the same thing.
thanx! :(
I changed almost everything. Tried different throttle bodies, different injectors, ERG valve, new plug wires, new fuel pump, cap, rotor,and distributor. Most of these were extra parts that I had. sure couldnt afford to replace all of that stuff with new. Checked numerous times for vaccum leaks. Every time I changed something it seemed to run a little bit better. I finally found a bad plug even though the plugs were all new. that helped the most but still a little hesitation. You might know this but I put a timing light on each plug wire and point it at my hand and watch for a little bit. you can see if you have a miss in a cylinder this way. It helped me find the bad plug. Anyway hope this helps. Good luck, I feel your pain.You will know the TBI stuff inside and out when your done. Let me know how it turns out.
bogging tbi, egr, cat conv, code 32, etc.
yeah, im getting there. actually replaced the regulator diaphram in the TB this weekend. no different, so i got ticked and took off my catalytic converter, reamed it out, and put it back on. didn't fix the prob, of course, but at least now its got some more pep so i can merge or get out of my dangerous driveway. throwin egr codes now though?! anybody have any ideas about this. i was told obd I systems won't throw codes without a cat. guess that wasn't true. :confused:
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Spotlight Groups on your LinkedIn Company Page
Quietly amongst the new Google+ Communities and #PhotoWars this week, LinkedIn has added a new feature to its Company Pages called Group Spotlight. With it, you can feature a group that you own or are a member of right on your Company Page.
To spotlight a group, log into LinkedIn and go to your Company Page. Once there, click on the blue Edit button and go down to the Featured Groups section. You can then start typing in the name of the group you want to feature and select it when it comes up, just like when you're posting an update. Once you've selected all that you wish to feature, scroll back up and click the Publish button.
You can see what it looks like below. We've featured a local networking group that we're active in, and one of our favorite social media groups.
If you maintain your own group, this is a great way to encourage visitors to your Company Page to view and join your group. Many companies create and maintain groups so that they can not only faciliate discussions on topics that are relevant to their industry, but also have a more active role in those discussions.
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It sounds very promising -- a box that lets you make free, unlimited calls to anywhere in U.S. – along with an iOS and Android app to take the calling to go.
The product is called Ooma Telo and the app, Ooma Mobile. Does it work? Yes, and very well at that.
But there is a cost to get going -- $199.99 for the home unit, to be exact -- along with $9.99 for the app. After that, however, Ooma will likely pay for itself after a few months -- especially for those who make a lot of long-distance calls to friends and family to other parts of the U.S.
Ooma Telo is a small, black device that plugs into your high-speed modem or router via an Ethernet cable (included). Then you plug a landline into the Ooma Telo, be it a wired phone or cordless one. That's all there is to the set-up, other than registering the device on a website with a code you get in the box and choosing from one of the available 10-digit phone numbers.
The Ooma uses VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology, which means it relies on your Internet connection to place or accept calls. Surprising, the audio quality of the calls is virtually indistinguishable from a regular landline. Ooma says its second-generation VoIP service employs five technologies collectivity referred to as PureVoice HD, to help ensure a high level of clarity. The service also has a nice sound effect when you first pick up the receiver, before it kicks into the dial tone.
This service also includes a few basic features, such as voice mail, caller ID, call waiting and of course, 911 service, which requires you to register your address, just like other VoIP solution. The Ooma box has glowing blue touch-sensitive buttons on top to access most of these features.
After the initial outlay of $200, it's free to make calls anywhere in the U.S. But you do have to pay just under $4 a month for a regulatory compliance fee, 911 service fee and taxes. And all calls made between Ooma devices anywhere in the world are always free.
There is an optional Ooma Premier home service that costs $9.99/month (or $119.99 a year), which lets you also call anywhere in the Canada and talk for as long as you like. It also has a second line option, call screening, three-way conferencing, call forwarding, blacklisting, distinctive ringtones (for different people) and a multi-ring option, where both home and cellphones ring at once. Another optional, one-time charge is if you want to port your existing phone number for $39.99.
If you have an Ooma account and spend time out of the house, you might want to buy the Ooma Mobile app for iOS and Android devices. With it, you can talk for up to 1,000 minutes for $4.99 per month or you can opt to pay 1.6 cents per minute for U.S. calls or a little more for international calls. Ooma Premier customers automatically receive 250 minutes of U.S. calling for free every month. As with the home phone service, calls to other Ooma users is free.
The app works over Wi-Fi or 3G. With the latter, it doesn't count towards minutes from a cellular voice plan but will use up data -- therefore, Wi-Fi is recommended, if it's available. Call quality is also excellent.
While I don't love the cost of the home unit at $200, Ooma says users can save up to $870 over two years based on the average monthly home phone costs. And those who spend a lot of money on long distance will save even more. Ooma also offers inexpensive international calling to 61 countries for about a penny per minute -- I called someone's mobile phone in the U.K. and it cost me all of 12 cents.
A potential issue, though, is if you want your home phone base to be in, say, a kitchen, so you can easily pick up voice mail while cooking dinner, but your modem or router is in a home office. You can opt for an Ooma wireless adapter for $49.99, but that will add even more to the initial cost. There are other add-ons, too, like an Ooma Bluetooth adapter ($29.99) that allows you to answer mobile phone calls on your landline.
Despite the initial outlay, Ooma Telo and the Ooma Mobile app are great-quality, money-saving products that live up to its lofty promise.
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Mobile Camera Will Turn Detailed Shots Into 3D-Printed Figures [Video]
Pelican Imaging showcases the capabilities of it's 16-lens mobile array camera, which can capture depth information of the scene it is photographing.
Pelican Imaging's revolutionary 16-lens array camera for mobile devices features all-in-focus image capture, linear measurement, and 3D video capture. The company has released a video showcasing the groundbreaking capabilities of the array camera.
It's applications include refocusing after capturing still images and video footage with depth information, selecting multiple objects of focus, measuring the distance between any two points, or creating a depth map/3D model of any scene.
The video shows off the array camera's whole-scene focusing and depth mapping being used at a wedding. A guest captures detailed shots of the big day and also creates 3D-printed figures of the bride and groom on the spot. Pelican Imaging CEO and President Christopher Pickett said:
In our video pieces, we are illustrating creative examples of our vision for depth-enabled features. The applications for this technology are endless. We're looking forward to working with our customers, strategic partners, and third party application developers to bring Pelican's mobile array camera to market in late 2014.
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recently purchased a "new" 2008 wrx and i love it! I'm up in chilly old northern ontario, canada and am looking into lifting the car a touch to avoid the winter snow banks. just curious, what are a few ways i can do this and what type of costs am i looking at?


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These creamy, truffle-like goodies are on my cookie tray every Christmas. If you like, prepare them up to three days ahead of time--just store them in the refrigerator.
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- 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
- 1/4 cup dark rum, warmed
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup ground almonds
- 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
- 8 Oreo cookies, finely crushed
- Dissolve coffee granules in warm rum. Beat cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, almonds and rum mixture until blended. Stir in melted chocolate. Refrigerate until firm enough to roll, about 1 hour.
- Shape mixture into 1-in. balls; roll in crushed cookies. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator, separating layers with waxed paper. Yield: about 3 dozen.
TO MAKE AHEAD: Rum balls can be made three days in advance. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
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Scotland's new poet laureate still unnamed, undefined
The Guardian reports on Scotland's difficulties in naming its new poet laureate nearly three months after the death of Edwin Morgan. Morgan was the first ever poet laureate of Scotland and while he was appointed with no debate because he was considered to "be the obvious choice amongst all those who would've expressed an opinion at the time," the challenge isn't just about coming up with someone to fill his particularly large shoes.
Unlike other countries, Scotland has yet to make any distinctions about what the post would officially entail, which would effect both the choice of poet, and whether the poet would choose to accept the honor.
There had been no public discussion about whether it would be a "working" role or purely honorary. [Robyn] Marsack said some poets would relish a time-limited appointment; others would be ideal if it involved visiting schools and promoting poetry to new audiences; while some very popular poets could be great ambassadors even if they were not technically the best.
The UK's poet laureate, now Carol Ann Duffy, also a Scot, is appointed for 10 years and receives an honorarium of £5,750 a year. In New Zealand, the laureate produces a book of work at the end of his or her tenure.
Marsack, the director of the Scottish Poetry Library and chair of the Literature Forum for Scotland, feels strongly that in order to do justice to the process, it must be transparent for the public as well as for the poets themselves. Her belief that no one should be throwing around names until Scotland decides what exactly is being named hasn't slowed the speculation any.
Duking it out at the top of the list to succeed him as makar are Don Paterson and Robin Robertson… But this is by no means a two-horse race. John Burnside's darkly shadowed poems blend nature and philosophy across sinuously musical lines; Jackie Kay's expansive, compassionate voice runs through all her writing; Kathleen Jamie's superb book of essays, Findings, proves her credentials as Scotland's foremost landscape writer. Last but not least are the reigning mother and father of Scottish poetry, Douglas Dunn – whose work encompasses both the political and, in 1985's Elegies, the deeply personal – and Liz Lochhead, who has spent nearly half a century investigating politics, gender and place in lubricious, lyrical verse.
Tags: Don Paterson, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Morgan, Jackie Kay, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Robin Robertson, Robyn Marsack, Scotland
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English Teacher, Bahrain
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Start Date: Arrival date in Bahrain 22 August 2017
Contract type: Full Time (2-year)
St Christopher's School, a not-for-profit, British-International School in Bahrain, rated "Outstanding" by British Schools Overseas and British Schools in the Middle East with HMC status.
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding, passionate and motivated English Teacher (this position is suitable for an NQT) to join our successful department in August 2017. You will become a member of a large dynamic team who are creative, energetic and determined to give our students the best possible opportunity to benefit from an outstanding education. The successful candidate will be able to deliver English (Language and Literature) at Key Stage 3 and GCSE, and English Literature at A-level and/or IB Diploma.
- Do you want to teach wonderful, highly motivated, high achieving students?
- Do you want to benefit from on-site, world-class CPD training?
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- Do you like sunshine, a high standard of living and a lifestyle that offers a wide range of opportunities?
- Would you like a good tax free salary, free furnished housing, medical insurance, annual travel allowances, baggage allowance and free high-quality education for any children of your own?
- Are you a dedicated and high quality qualified, graduate teacher?
Sound like you? Then apply now to join our excellent and dedicated team at St Christopher's.
For further information please visit our website www.hays.co.uk/jobs/st-christophers-school
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INFANT & JUNIOR SCHOOLS (3-11 years) NOR 1200 / 6 form entry
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Bahrain is consistently in the top six of the best countries in the world for expats and families with children.
We are able to offer a leading package with a highly-competitive tax free salary. In most cases over £40,000 tax free for experienced teachers as well as free furnished housing, medical insurance, annual travel allowance, baggage allowance and free high-quality education for any children of your own.
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We welcome applications from strong Newly Qualified Teachers (in association with Buckinghamshire Learning Trust, St Christopher's School can recruit NQTs and support them through their induction year).
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SMPS for Mixing Console
Hello everybody,
i am the proud owner of an old and faithful Behringer MX8000 mixing console. Unfortunately there's one thing that bothered me since ever: the very heavy power supply burning lots of energy in linear regulators and large heat sinks.
Therefore I'd like to build a SMPS for the mixing console. The following voltages are needed:
+/- 18V 3.5A -- Opamp Supply
48 V 450mA -- Phantom Supply
5V 3A -- LED Drives etc.
12V 1.5A -- Desk Lamps etc.
All of them sum up to about 180 watts. The original power supply draws about 400 watts, so 220 watts are wasted in heat.
Do you think modifying a computer power supply would be possible? Or is it necessary to use a flyback mode power supply?
I thought about modifying the PC PSU to output +/- 18V and to generate the other voltages using sperate step-up and step-down converters.
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Un. Stoppable.
That seems to be the underlying theme at Google right now as the company posted yet more record results despite the economic gloom and then announced its plans to take over the eBook sector.
On the financial side highlights were a $1.6bn (£1bn) profit for its third quarter (up 27 per cent on Q3 2008) while revenue over the three month period was a monstrous $5.94bn. That a 27 per cent profit margin and cash reserves now total over $22bn!
"The worst of the recession is clearly behind us," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "Because of what we have seen, we now have the confidence to be optimistic about our future." With remarkable quarter after remarkable quarter 'confident' would seem something of an understatement.
On top of this Google has announced it will storm into the paid eBook space next year with 'Google Editions' - an online book store counterpart to free Google books project. Google Editions titles will be sold in an open format to both mobile phones and dedicated eBook readers and given this is Google there are no half measures with between 400,000 and 600,000 titles expected to be ready at launch. This compares to 330,000 currently at Amazon (for the Kindle) and just over 100,000 on Sony's eBook store.
"It will be a browser-based access," said Tom Turvey, head of Google Book Search's publisher partnership program, surprising no one. "The way the ebook market will evolve is by accessing the book from anywhere, from an access point of view and also from a geographical point of view. Google Editions allows retail partners to sell their books, especially those who haven't invested in a digital platform. We expect the majority {of customers} will go to retail partners not to Google. We are a wholesaler, a book distributor."
Google will take a 55 per cent cut on store profits giving the "vast majority" of this to retailers with the rest going to the publisher. Of course the big question in all this is how will Google price its books? After all, the company isn't known to charge for - well - anything!
Before any proposed launch Google also still has a number of international copyright battles to fight, but given its current run of success it would be a brave man to bet against it being stopped by anyone or anything right now...
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The procedure wasn't 'painful' but definitely uncomfortable. I had below my bellybutton done - the post-pregnancy pooch I cannot seem to lose by 4 days a week at the gym and a relatively healthy diet. (although I need to lose a few pounds all over if that makes a difference). A few days after, I started getting prickling and shooting pain in the treated area. The skin was very... READ MORE
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LOCAL schools in the Prestatyn area have recently raised money for the families who lost their relatives in the house fire before Christmas.
The schools, led by Bodnant Community School, raised £565 towards the fund by holding a raffle for which Hallmark Thorntons Store donated a giant Forever Friends Teddy Bear.
It was taken around Prestatyn primary schools, where tickets were sold during school fairs.
The winner was Jo Anne Barker of Gronant.
Neil Allum, co-owner of the Hallmark store, said: "The whole of our town were deeply shocked when news of the fire tragedy emerged, the victims and their families are well known to many people in the town.
"We wanted to do something to try and raise funds for the families while remembering those who were taken away by the tragedy, we are delighted that the bear raised so much, the schools should be praised for their efforts.
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UTEP Set to Play East Carolina in Sun City
March 28, 2013
EL PASO, Texas - The UTEP softball team will continue its home stand when they face East Carolina at the Helen of Troy Softball Complex on Easter weekend. The Miners (12-16, 1-4 C-USA) and Pirates (10-21, 1-5 C-USA) will play a Friday doubleheader - game one is slated for a 2 p.m. MT first pitch.
Both squads are coming off non-conference games on Wednesday. The Miners split with Siena, winning game one, 11-1, in five innings and losing game two, 5-4. The Pirates split with North Carolina State, winning game one, 5-2, and losing game two, 5-3.
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Game one of the Wednesday doubleheader saw a few Miners have career days. Freshman Jade Rodriguez picked up her first win, in her first complete game, as a Miner. Rodriguez threw five innings and fanned six Saints in the win. Sophomore Tahla Wade had a two-run triple down the right line in the second inning and drove in another run with a stolen base in the third inning. Wade's three RBI tied a career high. Sophomore Ariel Armendariz crushed her first-career home run - a solo shot to right center.
UTEP split with Southern Miss in its previous conference series (one game was cancelled due to rain), while Houston swept East Carolina in three games. UTEP and East Carolina will play the third game of the series on Saturday at 12 p.m. MT.
First Pitch
UTEP ranks second in C-USA team batting (.287).
Freshman Kawehiokalani Netane (.357), junior Erika Arcuri (.349) and senior Kayla Oranger (.330) all rank in the top 15 individual batting.
Junior Alanna Leasau is tied for first in RBI (28).
Miners' 30 stolen bases have almost doubled last season's stolen base total (16).
Double-digit RBI - senior Kayleigh Walts (15), senior Ashley Collazo (12), Netane (10).
UTEP is 4-18 all-time versus East Carolina; Miners have lost their last nine to the Pirates.
The Miners last beat the Pirates on May 7, 2009 (4-3), in a C-USA Tournament game.
Pirates' Kristi Oshiro (.380) ranks second in C-USA batting average, while Jordan Lewis (.350) ranks eighth.
Oshiro ranks first in triples (5) and tied for first in doubles (10).
Oshiro (58) and Alex Fieldhouse (55) are ranked in the top five in total bases.
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China Said to Prepare Import Duties on Polysilicon
China, the world's biggest maker of solar panels, is preparing to set anti-dumping duties on imports of the raw material used to make the equipment after determining it was sold below cost, said two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
The Ministry of Commerce has completed probes that determined the U.S. and European Union are subsidizing producers of polysilicon and that imports of the commodity harmed domestic companies, said the people, who asked not to be identified as they weren't authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The ministry is holding off on setting duties until the EU issues its ruling on anti-dumping tariffs against Chinese-made solar equipment, which will be a factor in China's decision, the people said.
The EU plans to levy tariffs of as much as 67.9 percent on solar panels from China, with the measures to be announced by June 6, a commerce official from the bloc, who asked not to be identified, said this month. The U.S. began a probe against Chinese manufacturers in 2011 and the EU in September 2012 after falling solar equipment prices led to the collapse of companies including Fremont, California-based Solyndra LLC.
Shares Jump
China's import tax could be high as "the EU situation that we face is not positive," Lian Rui, a Beijing-based analyst at research company NPD Solarbuzz, said by phone today. Chinese producers of polysilicon including GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. (3800) and Daqo New Energy Corp. (DQ) will benefit, he said.
Shares of GCL-Poly jumped as much as 3.2 percent to HK$1.93, the highest intraday price since March 13, and traded at HK$1.91 in Hong Kong as of 11:53 a.m. local time. Daqo rose 16 percent to close at $6.44 in New York yesterday.
China responded by starting probes against the U.S. in July last year and the EU in November to determine if producers of polysilicon from those regions such as Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. of the U.S. and Germany's Wacker Chemie AG (WCH) were dumping the material.
"If there are no loopholes, Chinese duties would boost polysilicon prices to about $20 a kilogram," said Lian. The average spot price of the commodity fell to $17.26 a kilogram as of May 6, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
China imported 83,000 metric tons of polysilicon last year, 32 percent more than domestic production output, Liu Jing, an analyst from the China Nonferrous Metals Industrial Association, a trade group that advises the government, said in an April 28 report.
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Language Intelligence – Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga: A Review
Any book that manages to link together the lessons of the Bible, Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, and Lady Gaga (not to mention Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Seinfeld), can't be all bad. With Joe Romm's new book Language Intelligence, it is, in fact, ALL good. There are lessons galore for the scientists among us who value public outreach and communication. The book is a de facto field guide for recognizing and assimilating many of the key tools of persuasive language and speech, something that is ever more important to science communicators who face the daunting challenge of having to communicate technical and nuanced material to an audience largely unfamiliar with the lexicon of science, sometimes agnostic or even unreceptive to its message, and—in the case of contentious areas like climate change and evolution—already subject to a concerted campaign to misinform and confuse them.
Unfortunately, as Romm notes, "Scientists are not known for being great communicators". And so you will forgive me, I hope, if I fail to convince you to read his book. But you really should read his book! You should definitely read his book! In fact, you need to read this book! Have I mentioned that you ought to read Romm's book?
Repetition is in fact one of the key tools of effective communication that Romm emphasizes. Channeling the late Johnny Cochran, Romm tell us "If you don't repeat, you can't compete". That is hardly the only lesson in this book for would-be communicators. The book is packed with great examples from history, ancient and modern, of how rhetoric (defined by Churchill, as Romm informs us, as "The subtle art of combining the various elements that separately mean nothing and collectively mean so much in an harmonious proportion") serves as the scaffolding of effective communication. The materials filling that scaffolding are the 'figures of speech', many of which are familiar to us, even if we don't use them as frequently or effectively as we could. They include the use of hyberbole (extravagant exaggeration, and antithesis (the pairing of contrasting words or ideas), puns, and irony in its various forms. They include the use of wit and aphorisms, and metaphors (especially, where appropriate, extended metaphors) and devices such as alliteration and chiasmus (the repetition of words in reverse order). Romm provides numerous illustrative examples. In the case of chiasmus my favorite is from the James Bond Movie "Die Another Day". [This is, incidentally enough, the only Bond flick to talk about climate change, via an ironic comment from the main villain: "Global Warming. Its a terrible thing"]. In one scene, Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan) tells the curmudgeonly "Q" (played by John Cleese; I preferred Desmond Llewelyn. So call me old school) "You're smarter than you look". Q, in reply, quips "Better than looking smarter than you are". It is the figures of speech, used in proper measure and appropriate context, that comprise not only a memorable line from a movie, but the key tools to effective writing and oratory.
Romm's key lessons to would-be communicators, in short, are:
1. Use short, simple words.
2. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Repetition is the essential element of all persuasion.
3. Master irony and foreshadowing. They are central elements of popular culture, modern politics, and mass media for a reason—they help us make sense of the stories of our lives and other people's lives.
4. Use metaphors to paint a picture, to connect what your listeners already know to what you want them to know. Metaphors may be the most important figure as well as the most underused and misused.
5. Create an extended metaphor when you have a big task at hand, like framing a picture-perfect speech or launching a major campaign.
6. If you want to avoid being seduced, learn the figures of seduction. If you want to debunk a myth, do not repeat that myth.
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This is an advanced topic describing how to create a pop up window.
An example of a pop up window is when a visitor clicks on a link, and then a new window "pops" open. You might want to use a pop open window to allow a visitor to click on a linked word, and then pop up a new window with a definition of that linked word.
Before undertaking this advanced topic, first consider if you really want to create a pop up window at all. To combat annoying advertisements, many visitors have installed "pop up blocker" software by organizations such as Google. This software prevents all pop ups, including any pop ups that you will build using the information in this help article.
As an alternative to pop up windows, you might consider implementing your idea using standard links (see the article titled "How to add a link to your page") or Links within a page / anchors (see the article titled "How to create links within a page (anchors)" ).
There are three steps to creating a pop up window:1 - Create JavaScript code that will create a function to pop open the new window2 - Create the code for the pop up window itself3 - Create a link to the pop up window (created in step 2) using the JavaScript code (created in step 1)
Here are the detailed instructions:
Step 1Create JavaScript code that will create a function to pop open the new window
Critical Tip - Save Programming Code Text Before Changing It:As part of the instructions below, you will be changing programming code in your site template. The programming code appears as text in boxes on the Web Builder Express pages you will use in this section.
It is easy to make mistakes when changing programming code. It is critical to save a copy of the programming code text before you change it. That way, if you do make a mistake, you can go back to the last version of the programming code that worked.
To save a copy of the programming code text:- Select all the text with your mouse. You may need to scroll up or down to make sure you get all the text.
To add JavaScript into your web pages, you need to modify your site template. To do this, you must be using a custom site template.
Navigate to the templates page by following this menu navigation: Summary > Advanced Features > Standard Templates
For your custom template, select the blue Tool icon, and then select Properties. You will see the programming code for the Template of your web site.
IMPORTANT - before you make changes to the programming code that defines the Template for your web site, but sure to back up the programming code using the instructions above.
Enter the following HTML / JavaScript code immediately beneath the tag in the site template, immediately before the indicator:
< SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">< !-- Beginfunction popUp(URL) {day = new Date();id = day.getTime();eval("page" + id + " = window.open(URL, '" + id + "', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=1,width=100,height=100');");}// End -->< /script>
NOTE: remove the space after each <
IMPORTANT - Make sure that when you paste this code, there are no unintended line breaks in the code, which will cause errors. Be especially careful that the line that starts with "eval" is a complete line, without line breaks.
This code creates a function called "popup", but you can name the function whatever you wish. You will use this function to pop open a new with with the attributes described in the function, such tool bar = no, scroll bar = no, resizable window = yes, a width and height = 100.
Save the change to your template. Republish all the pages in your web site.
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Wednesday Editorial: Guy Hasson on Writing for Two Cultures
By Guy Hasson
Having spent my childhood in both the U.S. and Israel, I am a man who belongs to both cultures and yet remains an outsider in both. I am an author of – and for – two cultures. When writing a story or a book, I consciously write stories that would easily fit the two different audiences I know. This allows for an interesting perspective, which I hope to explore here: Writing for Americans vs. Writing for Israelis (or, on a wider scale, 'foreign countries').
The American audience needs strong justification for the lead character not to be an American.
The American audience as a whole (not everyone) sees the U.S. as the center of the world in which, naturally, almost all important things happen. The archetypical protagonist is American.
Non-American characters are exotic to the American audience. It is harder to connect with them, it is harder to feel they are 'one of us', and in any case, an explanation is always necessary in the back of the reader's mind. The author needs to subtly-or-otherwise explain his choice of foreign protagonist within the story.
The foreign audience needs strong justification for the lead character to be of that country.
While the Americans subconsciously see themselves as an empire and in the center of the world, people in most other countries see their own countries as part of a greater whole, usually dependent on America's (or, in the past, the Soviet Union's) foreign aid, dependent on other countries' protection, and equipped with a regional bad blood (usually) that goes back thousands of years. People of most 'foreign' countries feel subconsciously that they are in a country that is but a cog in a greater complex.
Add to the mix the fact that more than 95% of the most influential and powerful literary and cinematic SF has historically come from the U.S. and the U.K. and you'll understand why the audiences of other countries are preconditioned to see the dwellers of the English-speaking world as the natural protagonists of most SF stories.
And so to write protagonists that are 'foreign' (meaning 'native to the country in which the books/stories are written') the author needs a strong justification why the story can only be moved forward using a non-traditional hero. The author needs to show the audience that no other character of any other country could possibly have been the main character.
Different cultures have different sexual, political, and moral taboos. Authors are sometimes interested in pushing the envelope on one or more of these taboos. In trying to write for two cultures simultaneously, the author has to find a way to bring both audiences to the moral starting point of his story.
The trick is for the author to realize that when he's stepping over a line, he's stepping over a line. As long as he is aware of it, he will treat it in a manner that befits it (gently or crudely, understanding the reader's difficulty or being 'in your face' about it; letting the characters join in on how hard it is to cross the line or in letting the characters step over the line and discover that they've done it and it's not so bad; etc.) There are many ways to help the readers along a new moral path.
The American audience, for example, comes from a more repressed sexual upbringing/morality, and yet American SF authors (like Silverberg, Heinlein, and Pohl, to name but a few) have brought in sexual content more extreme than their readers were ready for. These authors took their readers' existing morality, and helped them down new paths. In writing for at least two cultures, the author has to subtly do the work for two readerships, not one.
The American SF audience prefers reading about middle class woes.
Most of American SF fans have a pretty good life. They live in the richest country in the world, they are usually not homeless or in a position in which they must physically fight for their lives. Most SF literature (and cinema) comes from a point of view that describes the small woes of a life that is generally good. This is true even when describing SF conditions that are harsh. Since the audience doesn't 'connect' with the harshness, neither do the characters. Reading or seeing about the true harshness of homelessness, rape, war, etc. is not the cup of tea for most readers although there are, always, a few exceptions.
The foreign SF audience prefers reading about harsh woes and/or non-existent woes
Life in foreign countries is harder, and the potential readers are usually faced with harsher daily news and harsher events of the day. In addition, life (job, money, family) is usually a greater struggle. Many countries have been exposed to dictatorships, civil unrest, poverty, violence, war, or terrorism on a much grander scale than American citizens have. Life is harder, and therefore SF literature is usually about harsher subjects and certainly not about middle class woes. The opposite side of this is that sometimes an audience that lives in a harsh life prefers escapist literature.
My own solution for this dichotomy: in writing stories for both cultures I either write about middle class woes in a way that is seen as escapist in other cultures or about harsher woes while leading the audience there in a way described above in the morality section.
The future for the American audience is relatively stable.
The Americans live on a rather stable tectonic political plate. Even big events like the JFK assassination, the Vietnam War, the Cuba crisis, and 9/11 did little in the overall run to change the inertia of the American future. The American readers feel the present as a relatively stable one, and therefore writing about the future for the American audience is not a problem.
The future for the foreign audience is less stable.
This depends on the country. Since Israel is the 'foreign' country in question, writing about the long-term future for the Israeli audience is a big problem. Political and regional realities change every two years or so in major ways: Peace breaks out, war breaks out, terrorism breaks out, life-changing elections break out, nuclear war might break out in a couple of years, etc. These change the political landscape and with it the landscape of the future. What seems a reasonable assumption when you write a story becomes ridiculously outdated by the time the story is published.
This has been a small, short glimpse into the mind of an author with a dual perspective. Feel free to check out two of my stories, reprinted at Infinity Plus, and see the duality that exists in them: 'Her Destiny' and 'The Dark Side'.
I hope you enjoy your new dual perspective.
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I loved this article! I'm already writing another article, because a comment is not enough to elaborate on everything you just put here – but I couldn't agree more, especially on the first part. And I'm going to read your stories – I'm pretty curious now.
Comment by Fabio | January 27, 2010
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Is it now. 😉
Comment by Fabio | January 28, 2010
Thank you for writing that.
Comment by C R Bones | January 29, 2010
great insight
makes me want to read more of your articles and stories
Comment by orit | February 2, 2010
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