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A range of integrated monitoring systems intended for near-field studio monitoring applications. All available in calibrated 2.1 and 5.1 configurations, Blue Sky systems range from compact configurations suitable for desktop audio mixing and mastering to larger systems with bi-amplified satellite monitor speakers and THX pm3 approval, useful for video/film post-production work.
Blue Sky's entry-level system is intended for desktop, computer-driven audio recording, mixing and mastering work. It comprises of one sub-bass unit, housing the system's I/O connections, along with a three-channel integrated amplifier which drives both the Sub 8 MkII sub-bass driver itself as well as the two two-way Sat 4.0 MkIII satellite speakers. Rated at 60W, each Sat 4.0 MkIII satellite has a 100mm, neodymium, LF driver and a 25mm, neodymium, HF driver, flush-mounted in the lacquer-finished baffle. They can be mounted either on the manufacturer's stand (with the Universal Adaptor Kit - see Floor Stand below), on a microphone stand by the 5/8-inch threaded insert (standard 3/8-inch stands require an appropriate adaptor), or wall-mounting is possible with various third-party brackets. In addition, all drivers in the system are electromagnetically shielded and so may be used near CRT monitors without image distortion.
On the rear of the Sub 8 MkII sub-bass unit there are balanced 3-pin XLR connectors, switchable between 14dBu and 24dBu input level, and unbalanced RCA (phono) audio inputs, intended for -10dBV sources. A gain trim control is included for the whole system which is then tracked by a gain control for the sub-bass level relative to the overall system output. Speaker outputs are gold-plated binding posts, as are the inputs on the rear of the speakers. Also on the rear is the IEC power inlet and master power switch. Usable response from the whole system is from 20Hz to 20kHz. Power source: 115/230V AC 50/60Hz, switchable. Dimensions: 159 x 241 x 162mm, satellites; 356 x 356 x 400mm sub unit. Weight: 2.3kg per satellite, 20.4kg, sub unit.
In the 5.1 surround configuration, the system includes five satellites rather than two, and the MediaDesk 5.1 Remote; this provides a remote control for overall system level but also +/-6dB of level adjustment for each of the 5.1 output channels by means of flush-mounted trim pots.
Included accessories: Handbook, AC power cordset with plug, sub unit isolation feet, satellite angle adjustment feet, 3m length of copper cable for each speaker
Optional accessories: Floor stands, see below, adapter kit required.
Larger than the Mediadesk, with a higher power output and the same spectral performance as the Sky System One, the ProDesk system is suited for more demanding applications including video post-production. As with MediaDesk, the sub-bass unit has an integrated amplifier and houses the system's I/O connections. However, the ProDesk features the Sub 8 MkII, a larger, 200mm, high-excursion LF unit and bi-amplified Sat 5 MkIII satellite speakers with power supplies and amplifiers integrated into each speaker unit, each with a 130mm LF driver and an integrated 20mm HF unit with integral wave guide for improved off-axis response. The 2.1 system has two 3-pin female XLR audio inputs each with a maximum input level of +24dBu. The output signals from the sub unit connect to each satellite speaker, on the rear of which are mounted a 3-pin balanced XLR input, a 12dB input attenuator switch, IEC power inlet and a power indicator LED. Usable response from the whole system is from 20Hz to 20kHz. Power source: 115/230V AC 50/60Hz (switchable). Dimensions: 203 x 311 x 302mm (satellites), 406 x 330 x 400mm (sub unit). Weight: 10.9kg (per satellite), 22kg (sub unit).
The 5.1 configuration of the ProDesk system includes three extra bi-amplified satellite speakers and also the Bass Management Controller, consisting of a remote control which connects with the included 25metre, 6-way, RJ-11 cable, to the 1U, 19-inch, rack-mounted processing unit, allowing control of bass management, system calibration and volume control of the whole system and of individual channels. In this configuration, the five audio inputs for the system (plus optional LFE input channel) are found in the rear of the rack-mounted unit in the form of 3-pin XLR sockets, each with a maximum input level of 24dBu. Outputs are also 3-pin XLR sockets, delivering signals to each satellite speaker input and then the sum total of both the optional LFE signal and the bass-managed sub signal to the sub unit, by means of the included cables.
Included accessories: Handbook, AC power cordset with plug, sub unit isolation feet, satellite angle adjustment feet. Note that XLR connecting cables for use between the sub unit and satellites are not included.
Optional accessories: Connecting cables, see Cables, XLR3 to XLR3, HST, floor stands, see below. The Sat 5 MkIII satellites have threaded inserts in the base compatible with Omnimount type 30 brackets. See Index: Omnimount Universal Mounting Systems.
The Sky System One shares many design features with the ProDesk and the same spectral performance but is larger in size and delivers a greater output. Each of the two (or five) Sat 6.5 MkII satellite speakers employs a 165mm high-excursion LF driver and an integrated Vifa XT-25 HF, 25mm driver, with integral wave guide and ferrite motor structure, and is powered by two integrated 100W amplifiers with electronic crossover. In the 2.1 configuration, as is the case with the ProDesk system, the sub unit contains the bass management system, but in Sky System One, the included Sub 12 unit has a 300mm forward-firing driver with 50mm voice coil, powered by an integrated 200W amplifier. Rear-panel controls on both satellites and sub-bass are the same as the ProDesk system. Power source: 115/230V AC 50/60Hz (switchable). Dimensions: 203 x 311 x 302mm (satellites), 406 x 457 x 560mm (sub unit). Weight: 12.2kg (per satellite), 28.1kg (sub unit).
In the 5.1 configuration, signal distribution and bass management is handled with the Bass Management Controller in the same manner as the ProDesk (see above). However, a feature unique in this range to the Sky System One, in either the 2.1 or 5.1 configuration, is that of THX pm3 certification, allowing it to be used in THX pm3 Certified Studios. Blue Sky state: "Sky System One has been chosen by film professionals such as Skywalker Sound, a Lucas film Ltd., company, because of the system's full range audio and exceptionally smooth frequency response".
Included accessories: Handbook, AC power cordset with plug, sub-unit isolation feet, satellite angle adjustment feet.
Optional accessories: Floor stands, see below. The Sat 6.5 MkII satellites have threaded inserts in the base compatible with Omnimount type 60 brackets. See Index: Omnimount Universal Mounting Systems.
Adjustable stands are available, compatible as standard with the manufacturer's Sat 6.5 MkII and Sat 5 MkIII monitor speakers (which are part of the Sky System One and ProDesk systems). The speaker is attached to a mounting plate with included screws matching the thread in the bottom of the speaker cabinet and can be directed in the vertical plane by up to +/- 20 degrees. In addition, the mounting bracket allows complete horizontal rotation of the mounted speaker. The height of the stand (from the mounting plate to the ground) can be adjusted without tools from 851mm to 1156mm in 19mm increments. The stand weighs 11.3kg, its support consisting of a flat, cast iron base of four legs with a diameter of 762mm.
Whilst the stand has a mounting pattern compatible with the manufacturer's monitor speakers included in the ProDesk and Sky System One systems, the optional Universal Accessory Kit is offered, consisting of an adaptor for the mounting plate and a security strap, enabling the stand to be used with the manufacturer's own MediaDesk satellite speakers and, in addition, virtually all nearfield monitors of other manufacturers, with a maximum load bearing of 36kg.
Included accessories: Screws for mounting satellite speakers from either the ProDesk or Sky System One systems.
Optional accessories: Universal adapter kit containing mounting plate adaptor and security wire.
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Sobekhotep wrote:I highly recommend that you learn the IPA. It's very useful & not that difficult to learn.
It is not the issue of difficulties. I only learn what I need and/or what I want of which, I do not have any desires as of yet to acquire a valid understanding of the IPA.
Sobekhotep wrote:I'll describe what I transcribed. The 1st syllable is a voiceless palato-alveolar affricate followed by a long close-mid back rounded vowel. The 2nd syllable is a voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative followed by an open central unrounded vowel & a dental nasal.
I must apologise that, I still fail to understand the sounds you try to explain. Basically, the word 【ᠴᠣᠣᠰᡳᠶᠠᠨ】coosiyan sounds similar to the chinese mandarin words of "超鮮".

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POLICE are using the humble lawnmower as their latest weapon for a blitz on the borough's burglars.
Mowers, hedge trimmers and power cleaners are just some of the tools detectives from Dudley police have fitted with tracking devices to stop criminals in their tracks.
Officers set up shop at the Ryemarket, Stourbridge, today (Thursday) to showcase the kit, which uses tiny CCTV cameras and satellite data to track stolen goods.
Visitors were given live demonstrations and a sneak preview of footage captured by the state-of-the-art technology ,which can be fitted inside sheds, garages and out buildings.
Several so-called capture sheds will be set up across the borough, in areas where there has been a spate of burglaries, in a bid to catch the crooks.
Detective Sergeant Matt Morgan said: "We have been using capture technology across the borough since 2012 and have had numerous successes in identifying and tracking down offenders.
"We're now seeing record lows in burglary across Dudley with such crimes being driven down from highs of 2,371 in 2002/13 to 837 in 2013/14.
"While much of this is down to good old fashioned police work and more secure homes, we also know that capture technology is one of the things criminals fear most."
He continued: "With this knowledge, we're now rolling the same kit out to keep sheds secure. We're happy to tell people we're using this equipment and we'll even be showing them how it works. But what we won't be revealing is where and when this will be installed."
Shed security advice can be found online at www.safer-homes.org and property can be registered online at www.immobilise.com.


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I've always escaped numerical values in MySQL using real_escape_string but have just read that this could still lead to a SQL injection—and of course as the function name suggests it is for strings only, stupid me. I don't think any of my sites are vulnerable though as I'm pretty sure I cast ints when validating, for example, a page number on the front end. Example:
$page = (int) $_GET["page"];
My questions are:
How could not casting per above result in a SQL injection? Would the worst case scenario be they add =0 to the end and return all results?
Is there any better way to escape numerical values in PHP (for int and floats respectively) or is casting sufficient?
Probably the best way to prevent SQL injection is Prepared Statements?
Thanks but I'd be interested in knowing without using prepared statements.
Casting to integer or float removing everything but an integer or number. SQL injection is not possible from it.
Using prepare/bind is the only guaranteed way to prevent injection as the alternative has the data and sql jumbled together. No matter how well you validate the data and escape it if necessary before jumbling it with the sql there is always the potential for someone to figure a way to bypass the validation and escaping.
If your numbers have been validated using is_numeric() prior to inserting into the sql then they are as safe from injection as possible without using prepare.
Thanks, logic_earth.
Thanks, I've heard that before but am confused as to how it can happen. Do you have an example?
Are both PDO and MySQLi prepared statements completely impervious to injections?
Yes. Prepare Statements, send the SQL query and the data separately. The data never touches the SQL, so mater what the data contains it cannot cause the SQL to be malformed. However, be aware, if you take any part of user data to build the SQL query you will fall back into a potential for an injection.
Thanks, by that do you mean something like:
$tablename = $_POST["tablename"];
$query = "SELECT * FROM $tablename";
Exactly like that. There is still that potential for injection like normal even with prepared statements.
Thanks, I would always treat that sort of user input with suspicion anyway.
Can you elaborate more on that? How can sql injection happen if all data is escaped properly?
I think I disagree with felgall on that also. The only way real_escape_string fails is if you use it on a numeric value (which it is not meant for). Apparently, if you don't set the charset properly there are a couple of charsets that have holes in them but they don't include utf8 or any of the latin ones.
If you use prepare/bind your SQL and data are completely separate and injection is impossible.
If you jumble them together and rely on real_escape_string to prevent injection then there is a possibility that injection could occur since the data and sql are still jumbled together. The vulnerability allowing the injection need not involve real_escape_string at all and would probably make use of a security hole elsewhere in your code.
Well, but still you haven't explained how injection is going to happen when we rely on real_escape_string. I've never heard of that so I'd like to know, perhaps not only me!
Well, if you say the injection need not involve real_escape_string then the same security hole can happen if you use prepared statements. We all know that if we are not careful security holes can appear anywhere in the code but that's not what we are talking about here.
No it can't with prepare/bind the sql is kept in one room and the data in a completely different room so there is no possibility of the data being interpreted as sql. To have injection the data needs to be in the same room as the sql in order for there to be a possibility of it being interpreted as sql instead of as data. Keeping the two completely separate completely eliminates the possibility of the data being interpreted as sql. No matter what security holes might exist in your code the data is still in the data room and not the sql room and so will be processed as data. The worst that can happen is that you end up with the injected sql saved in the database as junk data.
Using real_escape_string the sql and data are still in the same room - therefore there is still a possibility of injection if there is a security hole somewhere in your code. Provided that you are validating all of the fields properly when they are first input and escaping anything that has the potential to be misinterpreted as sql then injection can't happen but that doesn't mean that the next time you apply a patch to the code to fix some error that you will not accidentally remove part of the security that is currently preventing injection. It is quite common that a quick patch to fix one security hole introduces one or two others elsewhere in the code. With real_escape_string you can never be 100% certain that there isn't a security hole that will allow injection - with prepare/bind injection is impossible and so you could remove all the validation and escaping of the data and injection still couldn't occur because prepare/bind doesn't rely on any other measures to 100% guarantee that injection is impossible.
Now it seems to me you are saying something different than a few posts earlier, or at least that's how I understood it. You first said that even if all data is escaped properly then there is possibility of sql injection and now you are basically saying that escaping can be the cause of sql injection because a programmer can forget to escape when changing code at some later point. Then it's not that real_escape_string is insecure itself but it may not be used properly or not used at all due to sloppy programming. But does preparing a statement really change the scenario so much? The programmer still needs to remember to bind values and may potentially forget to. This is more or less the same amount of work as having to remember to escape values.
And I wouldn't be so sure that binding values prevent from injections due to security holes. A security hole can be anything - even forgetting to bind a value or inserting a variable directly to sql.
Besides, when we use some database abstraction layer like active record, data mapper, etc. then the escaping or binding mechanism is hidden somewhere deep withing the library and we don't really need to remember about it so there's no possibility of forgetting it. Then there's really no security difference between prepared statements and real_escape_string.
No - what I have been saying (or at least attempting to say) all along is that prepare/bind is 100% secure by itself - it doesn't depend on you applying any security anywhere else in your code. Not using prepare/bind means that you are relying on all the security measures applied to the actual data to prevent it being misinterpreted as sql. Any security hole has the possibility of allowing sql injection.
Using real_escape_string correctly might be 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999% secure depending on you actually using it correctly - less secure if you somehow don't apply it completely correctly in all cases. Using prepare/bind is always 100% secure regardless of the rest of the code used - no matter what changes you make to the code outside of the prepare/bind there will never be a possibility of sql injection.
If you use real_escape_string and make a mistake in your code the result might be to allow injection. You can make as many mistakes as you like in code using prepare/bind and as long as you don't include any data fields in the prepare statement there will never be any possibility whatsoever of injection.
All right, so at least I got part of your message right in that I also believe than prepare/bind is 100% secure and I don't doubt it. But I don't see how real_escape_string when used properly is less secure. You can say the same thing about real_escape_string - that you don't have to apply any security anywhere else in your code. In both cases you have to apply the security: in case 1 you have to do prepare/bind, in case 2 you have to do real_escape_string - both in more of less the same place and with the same amount of work.
Haha, this sounds really funny if I try to take these percentages literally :). If you say real_escape_string is that secure then I think it is secure enough for all cases and the 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001% uncertainty is not worth worrying about. It's like saying that storing passwords as hashes is insecure because there are collisions or someone could guess someone else's strong password.
I wouldn't worry so much about data being jumbled with sql as databases are designed to accept this kind of sql statements and be reliable at that - take for example sql backup dumps - they are nothing but jumbled sql with data and they work very well even with all kinds of binary junk that is stored in BLOB fields. Sure, theoretically a bug can happen in a database driver so that real_escape_string can be buggy but I think such cases are too rare to be worried about. So far, I don't see a reason why I would have to distrust a native escaping function.
Okay, so I've read over this thread and since the specific question is about numerical values, I see a few possibilities (in no particular order)
1) PDO/MySQLi using prepared statements, is indeed secure.2) Casting $number = (int)$_GET['myvalue'];3) $number = $mysqli->real_escape_string($_GET['myvalue']);4) $number = filter_var($GET['myvalue'], FILTERSANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
There are probably more (including mysql_real_escape_string that could be utilized too, however, I believe it safe to say given any of the above methods, if you appended $number to your query, it could not be open to a SQL Injection.
I would add one more to this list, simply validating the number:
// 5)
if (!is_numeric($number)) {
$number = 0;
This has the advantage in some edge cases where the number to be passed to SQL is outside of possible storage range in PHP: - INT, BIGINT and DECIMAL numbers that exceed 32/64-bit - large DOUBLE numbers - even INT UNSIGNED may be too much for 64-bit PHP since PHP only supports signed integers, which makes the range 2x smaller for positive numbers


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WHEN Shauna Muamba made food for husband Fabrice to take to away games, it soon caught the attention of his Bolton Wanderers team-mates.
The 29-year-old found herself with requests from the players to make traditional Caribbean food and even catered a party for former Whites captain Kevin Davies.
Now, from the beginnings of packed lunches rustled up in her Cheshire kitchen, the mother-of-two has launched a range of authentic Caribbean cooking sauces.
She said: "If he was running late when they had an away game, I would do a lunch for him as Fab is really particular and I know what he likes.
"I love cooking. All the other lads enquired as to where Fab was getting all this food from.
"I got a lot of requests for jerk chicken and barbecue chicken. It was almost like packed lunches for the boys at Bolton.
"I thought, okay, there's clearly a gap in the market.
"I've done a party for Kevin Davies, they had a Caribbean night, I think it was a birthday or anniversary. This was going back two or three years.
"It's been lovely to see how many people enjoy my food. For me, it's been a huge confidence boost.
"I don't pretend to be a chef, I haven't studied at any fancy school.
"I don't know how they chop veg really quickly like on the television — I can't do that. But I can cook wholesome, family meals."
The Mrs Muamba's range consists of five sauces — Barbecue, Sweet and Spicy, Caribbean Curry, Brown Stew and Jerk — a selection of which are due to be stocked at Asda, Middlebrook.
Mrs Muamba, who married Fabrice in October 2012, said: "When I see them on the shelves, I will probably cry just because of the way I am.
"I will probably cry first and then I will get Fab to take a picture of me doing a cheesy grin with a bottle.
"Then I might do a little jig in the aisle and see if anyone comes and buys them."
She has pledged to make a small donation from the sale of each jar to Arrhythmia Alliance, to help make defibrillators publicly accessible to all, following her husband's on-pitch cardiac arrest in March 2012.
Looking to the future, Mrs Muamba said she would like to open a restaurant but her husband and two young sons — Joshua, five, and Matthew, 11 months — are her priority.
She said: "I considered opening a restaurant. It was a case of how can I have something viable, there's a good cause attached to it and is authentic Caribbean food.
"I think eventually, that's something I'd like to do but, for me, I'm a mum and my family is my priority."
Mrs Muamba's Caribbean Sauces are also available in all Booths supermarkets and Asda stores in Farnworth, Wigan, Clayton Green and Fleetwood.


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Prior to sustaining a spinal cord injury in 1998, Jennifer French was, among other sports, an active snowboarder and skier, sailor, fly fisher, and scuba diver. Today, thanks to her neurostimulation implants, she still is. In 1999 French became the first woman to receive the Stand and Transfer implant system created by the Cleveland Functional Electronic Stimulation (FES [3]) Center. The implant uses a series of muscle- and nerve-based electrodes to stimulate muscles in the lower body. By pressing a button on an external control unit, French is able to activate her implants and restore limited movement to her body. In 2010 she underwent surgery that upgraded her 8-channel electrode implant into a 24-channel one. She was even able to walk down the aisle at her wedding.
Since her injury French also won a silver medal for sailing at the 2012 Paralympic Games. She has also founded Neurotech Network [4], a non-profit group that advocates for education on the potential of neurotechnology.
This technology has had a huge impact on my life. Not only does it allow me to stand for functional use, like reaching high objects or going thru narrow doorways, it has also allowed me to stay healthy. What we need to understand is that you may see someone who is paralyzed but that is only one component. Perhaps they can not walk or stand, but we also have daily battled against medical or secondary complications that can be life threatening like infections from pressure ulcers or kidney failure. This technology allows me to easily combat those medical complications. Finally, the technology give a social aspect. I can stand at the 7th inning stretch of a baseball game, at a standing ovation at a concert and even walk down the isle at our wedding. Those are aspects that we don't always think about when developing technology.
I tend to still have dreams as an able-bodied person. Many times, I wake up and think I an just get out of bed like a non-paralyzed person, but then reality kicks in. When I was first injured, my first functional goal was to get some arms movement back to propel a manual wheelchair, then I worked on hands to be able to type and do basic ADLs.
Since I am an incomplete spinal cord injury, I only bruised by spinal cord. I do not have voluntary movement below my point of injury but I do have some restored sensation. Yes, my husband can tickle my feet but I can't move them. There are implants today that address bladder/bowel function. For instance there is the implanted sacral nerve stimulation for bladder and fecal incontinence. There is also an implanted bladder stimulation system called Vocare that is commercially available in Europe. An external system called the tibial nerve stimulation is another device commercially available. There are also active clinical trials using stimulation of various mechanisms for bladder and bowel control such as the pudendal nerve or sphincter stimulation. I think you will see more progress in this area very soon.
Learn about "Designing Next-Gen Medical Devices" at the MD&M East Conference [6] June 9, 2014.
...As you know in the medical field, nothing is risk free. Let's address 'simple to use' first. When we address the user interface, the current system is pretty simple. The UECU has a few buttons with an LCD screen with the commands. I have 2 coils that I tape to my skin and wear all day and a control box that I can put in a backpack and take with me. But there is definitely room for improvement. I believe the most complicated part of the system is on the 'deployment side'. The surgery is complex and the programming is challenging.I tend to think the biggest obstacles are societal. Commercialization of the technology is the biggest challenge. Particularly for devices that address problems in orphan populations like spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy.
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About the Book
"Another Look" is a selection of poems by Irene Gyulnazaian. Irene was a young and beautiful person, who lived her life with love and enthusiasm for everything she did, and in doing so enriched the lives of many others. An honor student and talented poet, Irene was majoring in psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A tragic car accident claimed her young life at the age of twenty-two, but her intense love for life as well as her compassion for others has inspired her friends and family to seek a means to continue her legacy.
Time passes, life runs with ever faster pace, but the spirit of Irene lives not only in her poetry, but also in the deeds of the organization that carries her name.
This book is sponsored by IGEFA.
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An 81-year-old man has been charged with first degree murder in the killing of his wife in their Monkton home yesterday.
Glen Henry Treslar, of the 16500 block of Garfield Avenue, is held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
Police responded at 3:07 p.m. yesterday to a "check on subject" call at the Garfield Avenue home. A friend of the Treslars called 911, concerned that something might be wrong.
At the scene, Treslar told officers that he had just shot his wife, Yvonne Treslar, 78. Police found Yvonne Treslar lying on the floor of a bedroom, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene by BCoFD medical personnel.
Treslar told police that he and his wife had had an argument earlier in the day, but did not elaborate on the nature of the argument. He did not explain why he also shot and killed the family dog, which police found in the kitchen.


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The arm will be crucial for putting samples of soil or powdered rock into analytical instruments inside the rover. A camera and spectrometer to be installed at the end of the arm will also examine rocks and soils in place.
The Mars Science Laboratory will launch from Florida in November or December 2011 and land in August 2012 at one of the most intriguing sites on Mars. The landing site is still to be chosen from four finalists. Once on Mars, Curiosity will study whether the landing region has ever had environmental conditions favorable for life and favorable for preserving evidence of life if it existed.
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The JB community has had facetime on their phone pretty much since it was released. and apple knows what they are doing- I have tried numerous locations and facetime on 3g= the network is not fast enough. Apple released it for wifi only because facetime requires quite a bit of data and they new that the 3g network could not handle it. Truthfully skype for the iphone works much better. I used to use mywi to tether to my comp because I live in the middle of nowhere, I used it before att knew what the heck it was and now I can't use it. Apple knows that the JB community uses it, so now they will allow it so that att and apple can reap the benefits from it.
Nice choice of pictures. Seriously, how apropro.
And of course they are not going to announce any price increases before it's time. If they announce it at the time of the new iPhone release more people will remain mentally commited to still buying from AT&T. If you give people time to acclimate to new pricing structures and time to do their homework (comparison shop pricing, customer service, etc) they would loose a (greater) percentage of customers.
If you ask me apple should just do away with all these carriers and spend money investing in an icarrier...
So he basically confirmed that there will be a price, he just says that it's too early to talk about what that price will end up being...
Starting with my self I can't believe, we as top of the food chain creatures stoop down to all of this recent smart phone price increase and plan changes. I just cant believe the amount of people (including my self!) that pay these pricks for a service that on individual level cost just a fraction of what your're charge by the carrier. This smart phone disease is getting crazy.
My contract expires by the end of this month... I am planning on just getting a simple phone and turning my iPhone into more or less ipod on steroids.
People really need to wake up and realize that the reason they are shoving it up our ars so hard is because we apparently love it.
Sprint has already announced that there will be no charge, I am not sure why the At&T is taking so much time in deciding, i think they may be waiting and taking time to judge the competitors. Because if Sprint is giving the facetime usage for free that would mean that all of the face time people will just try to shift to sprint then, so seems like they are waiting for competitors to play their trick before they make their decision!


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PRINCETON — The Princeton Tigers became the hunted Friday night at Bryant Field.
Monmouth-Roseville's Martel Hunter rushed for 221 yards on just nine carries and scored five touchdowns to lead to a 42-0 win over the Tigers in West Central Conference play.
Hunter romped 67 and 53 yards to paydirt on back-to-back plays to start the second quarter after the Titans recovered an onside kick. The Titans junior back added scores of 31 and 11 before the half was out to give the Titans a 35-0 halftime lead and tacked on a 45-yard run early in the third quarter.
"Yeah, he does a great job. That's all great coaching by the way," M-R coach Jeremy Adolphson said in jest. "We got just enough going around him that allows him to do the things we does. I thought we had seams. But once he gets in the open field, he's just so good at making that extra cut, using somebody that's downfield to shield off another defender and getting into the end zone, and I'm glad we have him."
Area basketball fans will remember Hunter for his play for the Titans' basketball team that lost in overtime to Fieldcrest in the sectional finals at Princeton. He was also a state track qualifier in four events before pulling a hamstring in the prelims.
"He's a super quiet kid, the quietest we have out there. easy to coach because he does what you tell him to do and does it very well and does better than any one of us can do it," Adolphson said.
Before Hunter roamed Bryant Field, the Titans struck with the passing game early with Will Myers catching a 38-yard TD pass from Dillon Frieden. Adolphson said that play helped set the Titans up for the rest of the night.
"Princeton's defense is very athletic, they do have some size. We thought maybe there was some big-play opportunities in the passing game," he said. "We got one early on that helped us, maybe backed them off a little bit and we were able to get the ball outside. They were really jamming up the inside where most of our success has been recently and the kids were able to execute some plays to the outside we haven't ran as well the past couple weeks."
PHS coach Jesse Snyder said the big plays certainly hurt the Tigers.
"We were right there with them a little bit. Couple big plays happened and we've got to continue winning that sudden change. When something bad happens, we've got to pick ourselves up and continue to play the game," he said.
"The kids played hard just like they have all year. We're going to continue to fight, we're going to continue work hard every week.
• Tiger tales: PHS junior C.J. Hilliard sustained a neck injury on a hard hit on a kickoff in the third quarter and was taken off the field by stretcher and to Perry Memorial Hospital by hospital. Team trainer Rich Everett said Hilliard was alert and moving his extremities, but complaining of neck pain and a real bad headache. Everything checked out OK on the CT scan, Everett said, and Hilliard was released.


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There was a strained, unreal air today hanging over Silicon Valley's Rosewood Hotel, the newest addition to the local venture capital enclave on Sand Hill Road.
This was the setting for Tony Perkins' annual Venture Summit – always one of the best places to check up on the mood of the Valley's start-up financiers.
What made it unreal was an odd blend of gallows humour and expectant anticipation. Even in the worst of times, these professional optimists can still find something to look forward to: it's spelled I-P-O. Read more


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
Public relations is well recognized as a broad and ever-changing field of promotion, one that offers huge potential for advancing causes, business, and political action. There are lots of ways of doing it right…as well as some clear pitfalls.

 This list is intended for public relations pros, their management and clients, and anyone else in the game. With so many paths to success, there are also lots of ways to go down in flames in the PR arena. Applying the PR corollary to the carpenters' mantra, "Measure twice, cut once," let's coin a new saying: "Think twice, speak once."

 1. Lying to your market or network. This cardinal sin comes out way ahead of any others, since it's a guaranteed way of destroying your credibility with whoever you want to connect with. Public relations is certainly about storytelling but it ought to be non-fiction.

 Amplification is tolerated, but crossing the line into fabrication will get you or your organization burned sooner or later. More likely it will be sooner, given the wisdom of the masses multiplied by the power of the Web.

 2. Being unable to clearly or convincingly explain PR's value to management or your client. If you can't provide a clear ROI or benefit story, you're going to lose sponsorship—and perhaps your job. There's ample evidence to support how, when, and why PR makes good financial and business sense.

 3. Failure to hire (or contract with) senior experts who will take communications programs to the next level, and instead hiring newbies, is a false economy. This isn't a game for the uninitiated, and most organizations don't have the opportunity, time, or resources for a do-over.

 4 Under-investing in comprehension of the overall communications challenge and creating an effective campaign strategy. Typical errors are just plunging into implementing tactics without clear differentiation. This may sound like a marketing problem, but it really hurts when attempting a PR program.

 5. Slow or unresponsive to media requests. PR pros occasionally receive praise from writers/editors/reporters/journalists because they get back to them right away with the desired info. Being fast (and accurate) is truly valuable. The media reporting about your business sector hasn't got time to wait. Get your info together for immediate application.

 6. Substituting a lower-echelon person or a PR spokesperson (mouthpiece) when the media wants (and deserves) to talk to a specific top exec. Like the CEO.

 7. Not hiring PR staff with an understanding of or respect for journalism and the ability to write well. Add to that not hiring staffers who read the newspapers and publications important to their business sector. Allowing people to work in PR who are clueless of the overall business world and how their company or client fits into it. Not encouraging or allowing staff time for this essential training activity.

 Here are a few more no-no's aimed primarily at the PR service sector. In too many places, there's a long way to go in improving how public relations services can be more effectively provided. These are a few of the sins most often committed:

 • Pushing the vital elements of writing and media pitching to lower-level staffers who haven't been well trained, coached or well briefed in campaign strategy. (See number four above.)

 • Not investing in effective staff development, relying instead on learning by doing. On-the-job training only goes so far. Newer pros want and need help to become proficient and effective. This is an investment in lowering staff turnover.

 • Piling too much work on staffers so they can only do a superficial job for clients, even when they spend 10 or more hours a day in the office. Not to mention, expecting them to then also be available remotely 24/7. Can you say "sweat shop?"

 • Setting unreal client expectations. "Sure, we can get you the cover of BusinessWeek in three months. We did it for client X—we can do it for you." Give me a break! Or better yet, give the account team that's going to work on this new client's business, a break. Over-promising is sure path to rapid client turnover.

 Ford Kanzler is managing partner of Marketing/PR Savvy in El Granada, CA. He can be reached via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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House of Lavande, one of our favorite purveyors of covetable vintage jewels, brought the party down to Palm Beach last weekend. In celebration of the town's Centennial Anniversary and of House of Lavande's founder, Tracy Smith, ELLE Accessories hopped a flight down to sunny South Florida for House of Lavande's Centennial fête. After the festivities we got a closer look at the story behind a jewelry house that is changing out perceptions of costume jewelry and reigniting our love for designs of the past.
ELLE Accessories talks to House of Lavande founder, Tracy Smith, about the unique style and point of view that makes House of Lavande the go-to destination for the best in vintage jewelry.
House of Lavande's treasure trove of vintage gems carrying pieces from 1920's Machine Age Bakelite to Studio 54-era Lucite and Gold and beyond
Why did you start House of Lavande?
It really started as a love of vintage and creating my own personal collection but it quickly started to take over my closet. I found a small space and started as -by appointment only- so that I could figure out the direction I wanted to go with as a business.
What is it about vintage jewelry in particular that you love?
I have always loved vintage and I think it's because of the sense of history and that each piece has a story. I may not know that particular story, but the idea that it has one is very intriguing.
House of Lavande founder and vintage jewelry connoisseur, Tracy Smith
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The Los Osos High School football team picked the perfect moment to reach its lowest point of the season.
One week before the games start to matter.
Los Osos' demoralizing 52-7 loss to Covina Charter Oak on Sept. 28 was followed a week later by another lopsided score. But the Grizzlies' 44-7 victory over Etiwanda on Friday was the first game of the season with playoff implications. Los Osos is 1-0 in the Baseline League.
"That game against Charter Oak really left us feeling bad," Los Osos coach Tom Martinez said. "I think it really had the team wondering where we would go from there. Getting that win over Etiwanda really got our psyche back where we need it to be. I think we almost needed that win considering all the things that had gone wrong."
The 45-point loss, Los Osos' third consecutive defeat after beginning the season with two wins, wasn't entirely as it appeared. Grizzlies quarterback Stephen Johnson was suspended for the game because of an ejection the previous week for something he said to an official that was misunderstood, according to Martinez.
"There was a play on the sideline where the official thought (Johnson) said something that he didn't," Martinez said. "The guys knew it was going to be different without Stephen, but I don't think that really registered once they got out there. We didn't expect things to go the way they did, even without him."
With receiver Victor Bolden at quarterback, Los Osos was forced to run its wildcat offense most of the game but finished with less than 90 yards of offense.
Johnson's numbers Friday - he finished 10-of-17 passing for 86 yards and a pair of touchdowns - would indicate he wasn't an overwhelming factor against Etiwanda. His mere presence, however, created a significantly different atmosphere in the locker room, according to Martinez.
Bolden had 106 yards of offense one week after his 90-yard kickoff return was the only touchdown for Los Osos against a Charter Oak team that only enhanced its standing with a 41-13 victory over Chino Hills on Friday in its league opener.
The player responsible for the most points on Friday was running back Iszaia Cordero, who scored three touchdowns after three weeks of limitations with an ankle injury. The junior was 100 percent for the first time since a Sept. 6 loss to Redlands.
The Grizzlies' 14-10 loss on a late touchdown to a Redlands team ranked No. 9 in the CIF-SS Inland Division that has won five in a row didn't exactly raise red flags at the time.
But a close game until the fourth quarter turned into a 54-33 loss to Norco prior to the Charter Oak debacle. Los Osos was reeling heading into a league matchup that decided the final playoff spot each of the last two seasons.
"With the bye mixed in there, it had been four weeks since we had won a football game," Martinez said. "That's a long time to go without getting to feel what it's like to win. We needed this one."


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Game Warden Lt. Col. Craig Hunter Gets Lifetime Achievement Award
AUSTIN — Lt. Col. Craig Hunter, a 36-year law enforcement veteran, has been named recipient of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award of the 100 Club of Central Texas.
Hunter, second-in-command of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Law Enforcement Division, which includes 532 game wardens and 127 non-commissioned personnel, received the award April 9 at the 100 Club's 27th annual awards banquet at the Texas Disposal System Exotic Game Ranch near Buda.
The 100 Club's mission is to lead community efforts in providing financial assistance and support for the families of first responders seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance the safety and welfare of first responders.
Currently overseeing all law enforcement field operations for the department, Hunter had been in charge of the Internal Affairs Unit and Executive Protection Team until his promotion to lieutenant colonel in 2006. He joined the department as a game warden in 1984 and steadily moved up in rank.
Prior to beginning his state service, Hunter served as a patrol officer with the Temple Police Department from 1974-1979 and with the Irving Police Department from 1979-1980. After a short stint with the Lampasas County Sheriff's Office, Hunter went to work as an investigator with the Bell County Sheriff's Office until 1983.
While getting on-the-job experience as a peace officer, Hunter furthered his education in the classroom. In 1976, he got an associate degree in law enforcement from Temple Junior College. Three years later he went back to school, earning a bachelor of science in criminal justice from Texas A&M Central Texas. In 1981, he received a master's degree in criminal justice.
As a city, county and state officer, Hunter has been involved in hundreds of criminal investigations ranging from homicides and narcotics cases to state and federal game law violations.
One of the first Texas game wardens to use a decoy deer to catch illegal night hunters, Hunter made more than 100 cases in Montgomery County on the first night of the operation and had a 100 per cent conviction rate. Later, he was the lead investigator in an 18-month case in which a Dallas businessman was indicted on three felony counts for claiming a trophy set of antlers taken from a buck in Kansas were from a Texas-harvested deer.
Along with his state law enforcement commission, Hunter also holds a commission as an agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Hunter had opportunity to use his dual commission during a complicated undercover operation ranging from Houston to Boston after which 18 persons were arrested for illegally killing bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer, antelope and white-tail deer in Alaska, Alabama, Colorado, Texas and Wyoming.
In 2005, Hunter headed a team of 111 Texas game wardens sent to New Orleans to assist with search and rescue efforts following the devastating Hurricane Katrina. During the operation, the Texans were credited with more than 5,000 rescues.
Hunter and his wife Bernadette have a son, Craig Jr., who is a freshman at Texas A&M and a member of the Corps of Cadets.
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Knock Knock Knock Joke
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A Knock Knock Knock Joke is a form of comedic expression thats appeal draws from the repetitious knocking on a door multiple times. The joke involves one person vocally simulating knocking on a door three times, and then patiently waiting for a reaction from his or her peers. The Knock Knock Knock Joke is often seen as the evolution of the Knock Knock Joke, and literary critic and joke analyst Harold Bloom has often compared the Knock Knock Knock Joke to "winning the lottery after just saving a group of orphans from a burning wreck."
edit History and Origin
The history of the Knock Knock Knock joke can be traced back as far as ancient times. The earliest example of the joke can be found in the Bible, spoken by the Lord in Exodus 9:22-25:
- Now the Lord said to Moses, "Knock Knock Knock," and Moses laughed, for it was good, and replied unto the Lord, "That was a good one."
The Knock Knock Knock joke has been used throughout history as a form of comedic icebreaker. Immediately prior to former United States President Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address, for example, Lincoln surprised the crowd by initiating a ground-shaking Knock Knock Knock Joke. People present at the address stated that the joke was a "real knee-slapper" and was "wholly unexpected."
More recently, the Knock Knock Knock joke was featured in former Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's farewell address. Putin's final words in the speech were "Knock Knock Knock, bitch. It's my dick!" Although Putin's attempt to draw a parallel between himself and the popular world leader, Lincoln was apparant, many Russian citizens did not understand the reference. As a result, many viewers of the speech described this line as "tasteless" and commented that they "found it unnecessary for Putin to whip out his penis at the end of the speech."
edit Execution of the Knock Knock Knock Joke
A properly executed Knock Knock Knock Joke contains three stages: the initial knock, the follow up knock, and the final closing knock.
The first knock that must be performed is the intial knock. The initial knock establishes the joke as a joke of the knock knock variety. "[The initial knock] is essentially the catalyst of funny," stated Harold Bloom in his 2004 comedy study, I Like Big Knockers. "The intial knock informs a listener that they are about to have hilarity shoved into their faces and down their throats."
The initial knock establishes the base of the joke, but it does not differentiate between the joke being a Knock Knock Joke or the funnier Knock Knock Knock Joke. The follow up knock continues to play into this misconception, leading the listener to prepare a joyful "Who's there!" that he can exclaim once the follow up knock is completed.
However, at this moment the closing knock must be promptly executed to make the transition from a Knock Knock joke to a Knock Knock Knock joke. As Harold Bloom once again states in his study, this final knock is done to "fuck shit up" and will "bring down da roof."
At this point the Knock Knock Knock Joke has been faithfully executed. Any additional phrases added to the joke may detract from the comedy and make you look like a little bit of an asshole.
edit In Popular Culture
Although many entertainers have been wary of using a Knock Knock Knock Joke due to its intense comedic merit, some popular entertainers have emplyed its uage over time:
- In Chris Rock's famous Why I Don't Like Them Honkey Ass White People comedy routine, Rock changes the format of his act midway, integrating a Knock Knock Knock joke: "White people, they be knock knock knocking on a door, black people be knock knock knockin' on doors too."
- During his State of the Union Address in 2007, Former US President George W. Bush attempted to bring levity to the speech by adding in a Knock Knock Knock Joke. Unfortunately, he mistakenly said "Sock Sock Sock," leading many people to believe that he simply didn't get the joke. Of course, this may have been due to his heavy usage of narcotics.


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Looking for a place to stay that's off-the-beaten track in the countryside or near to the coast? Then visit Wales, home to stunning scenery from top to bottom and a great choice of log cabins in Wales and lodges to rent in Wales.
Explore all of Wales from your Log Cabin or Lodge...
If you've chosen a Welsh wooden chalet for your holiday, there's a good chance you're looking for fun and adventure. You may be with the family or with friends. You may be staying on a park with fellow cabin residents for neighbours, or staying in private grounds and after total seclusion. Either way, expect to be dazzled by what you'll find when you open your door.
There are three magnificent National Parks - Snowdonia, the Brecon Beacons and Pembrokeshire Coast, as well as amazing Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty like the Clwydian Range. Simply don a pair of sturdy boots and explore! Or saddle up on mountain bikes or horses. Paddle along fast-flowing rivers in kayaks and white water rafts. Cast your rod and linger along a lakeside. Hit the beach and organise a sand sculpting contest. Or chug along by steam on one of the 'Great Little Trains of Wales'. Add male voice choirs, rugby, mine tours, castles, unique national emblems (the red dragon, daffodil and leek) and more.
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The Purse SnatcherMystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
"I was standing outside the store waiting for my husband to bring the car around, when all of a sudden a man, I didn't see anything but his back, snatched my purse!" The woman was furiously telling the police officers the story of her purse snatching.
A supposed witness, who claimed he had been sitting on a nearby bench, told what he had seen. "This woman was standing about 4 feet in front of me, holding a few shopping bags, plus her purse. A large man dressed in jeans, a black shirt, and leather coat snatched her purse and hurried into the fire escape door on the side of the building."
A few hours later the purse was found in the witness' car and he was arrested. How did the police know he was the purse snatcher?
HintThere was something fishy about the witness' story.
AnswerThe witness said he saw the snatcher hurry into the store through the fire escape door. Fire escape doors only open from the inside. Catching this bluff, the police obtained a search warrant and searched his car, finding the purse. He confessed.
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Between Two Worlds (1944), directed by Edward A. Blatt, follows a group of people who find themselves on a mysterious ocean liner, bound for who knows where, in the midst of a perpetual fog. Although they don't know it yet, they're all dead; failed pianist Henry Bergner (Paul Henreid) and wife Ann (Eleanor Parker) realize this first, because they have committed suicide together in their small London flat. The others – tough guy reporter Tom Prior (John Garfield), Lingley, a brutal industrialist (George Coulouris), grasping socialite Genevieve Cliveden-Banks (Isobel Elsom) and her docile husband Benjamin Cliveden-Banks (Gilbert Emory), the meek Reverend William Duke (Dennis King), merchant seaman Pete Musick (George Tobias), would-be actress Maxine Russell (Faye Emerson), along with other passengers, have all been killed by a Nazi Blitz bomb in a taxi, and have yet to discover the truth of their current situation. One by one, they realize that they're now in limbo, attended to by the servile Scrubby (Edmund Gwenn), as they wait for judgment from the Examiner, the now deceased Reverend Frank Thompson (Sydney Greenstreet), who is one of many heavenly judges who rule on each person's final destination – heaven or hell, in a very literal sense.
Based on the 1924 novel by Sutton Vane, Outward Bound, which was filmed in 1930 under director Robert Milton, starring Leslie Howard, Helen Chandler, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Between Two Worlds is an odd wartime project to say the least, even if in the end, it has a somewhat positive narrative conclusion. Many have remarked on Blatt's curiously flat staging of the project, and indeed, he only directed two more films after this, before returning to his regular job of dialogue director, but when I caught the last 50 minutes of the film this morning on TCM – I've seen it many times before – I was struck by the simplicity and sincerity of Blatt's work on the project, which seems deeply felt, even impassioned. The movie's main interest seems to reside in offering moral instruction for the audience, of a very direct kind, rather than escapist entertainment – something that Warner Bros. didn't usually engage in. It's an odd, moody film, one that has unexpected power that gathers over the film's running time, and exerts a hold on one's imagination, even as it seems still and unhurried – but then again, the characters are in limbo, and so, for the duration of the film, are we.


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Topic: Intrasurgical spacer and proton therapy
My husband has been on chemo since June and was doing better than anyone expected. Then suddenly the chemo quit working and the mass was the same size or a little larger than when we began. It is a 14x13 cm mass. Doctor discontinued chemo until we could see the radiologist. They have scheduled him for an Alloderm spacer to be surgically placed between the stomach/small bowel and the liver in order to protect that tissue while giving the equivalent of 10 weeks of radiation in 3 weeks through proton therapy directly into the liver. They say they are doing this with curative intent. Now I do know that he is 1 cm over the protocal for this treatment. But, they are doing it anyway. They said at this point, that is his best option. Has anyone else out there had this done. We were told this was part of an ongoing trial begun several years ago. but, the spacer being implanted has only been done at MD Anderson we are told 5 times with tumors this large. They said it has proven very successful.


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September 14, 2009
Regular Board Meeting
September 14, 2009 - 7:00 PM
Tentative Agenda
Call to order
Approval of agenda
Approval of minutes
Citizens speak
Committee reports
Librarian's report – including approval of bills
Old Business:
Discussion and possible action concerning the building expansion/remodeling options.
Discussion and possible action regarding the policy which will provide guidelines on solicitation in the library.
Discussion of the upcoming joint meeting with Solon Library Friends and Foundation.
New Business:
The annual job evaluation of the library director and library board will be completed. Recommendations will be made for the coming year.
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ByLizette Chapman
Venture-capital investors in car-sharing service Zipcar Inc. will likely make a profit from Avis Budget Group Inc.'s buyout for about $500 million. But the returns are hardly what these firms hoped for when they invested years ago.
In the dozen years before Zipcar went public in April 2011, it raised nearly $70 million from venture investors who looked for the company to upend the car-rental market and turn itself into a multibillion-dollar business.
Everything looked promising on IPO day when Zipcar's shares rose by more than half to $28 a share, giving the Cambridge, Mass., company a market value of more than $1 billion. Three of Zipcar's largest investors, Revolution, Benchmark Capital and Greylock Partners, didn't sell shares in the offering—a show of faith that proved a misstep in hindsight. Smedvig Capital did avoid the later crunch by immediately selling some 900,000 shares for $16.4 million.
While Zipcar arguably redefined the way urban dwellers commute, it is far from prosperous. The company never proved it could build a profitable business, and its shares languished at under $10 in recent months as a result. At the same time, a number of new car-sharing challengers have emerged with venture backing, such as RelayRides, Wheelz and Getaround.
Now the venture investors are left to reap what they can. Avis's $12.25-a-share offer is a 49% premium on Monday's closing stock price, delivering a cash-on-cash profit to venture investors. But the offer is also a 32% discount to the IPO price.
Revolution, the firm started by AOL Inc. founder Steve Case, became the largest shareholder when Zipcar acquired its portfolio company Mobility Inc. for just under $45 million in stock in 2007. Revolution's 19.6% stake is now worth about $96 million, after purchasing about one million more shares in August at prices under $8. That can't be gratifying for Mr. Case, who serves on the board, given that Revolution's stake on IPO day was valued at $192 million at market close. Mr. Case wasn't available to comment.
For Benchmark Capital—an investor in on-demand car service Uber Inc. and a big believer in upending the transportation industry—the deal comes seven years after it first invested $10 million in Zipcar. The next year, it invested in a $25 million financing round. Today, it has a 6.4% stake worth about $31 million after distributing to its limited partners in 2011 shares that would be valued at about $15 million in Monday's deal.
Greylock Partners stayed put with its holdings, a 5.3% stake that amounts to about $26 million. The venture firm led the $25 million round in 2006.
These firms' exact returns aren't clear. None of them could be reached for comment on Monday after the Avis deal was announced.
Going forward, a big question in venture capital is whether any new transportation models like ride-sharing companies Zimride Inc. or on-demand car services such as Uber will thrive.
The startups certainly have enough fuel in their tank with deep-pocketed venture capital firms, including Mayfield Fund, Menlo Ventures and investment bank Goldman Sachs Group bankrolling them.
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Use this page to discuss script 3475 Vim Blog: post to Wordpress from Vim
- Add constructive comments, bug reports, or discuss improvements (see the guideline).
- Do not document the script here (the author should do that on vim.org).
- This page may be out of date: check the script's vim.org page above, and its release notes.
- Josh Kenzer March 10, 2011 - Just uploaded a new version.
- It should be mentioned that Python is required for this script to work. (I added this note to the description: jkenzer)
- Does not work on Windows (At least I couldn't make it work after installing Python32)
Keith Pickett 13:35, March 2, 2011 (UTC)
- It cannot fetch the content after More Tag. For example, my new blog post HTML source code is
content1 content2, and after insert More Tag in it, it becomes
content1 <!--more--> content 2. Using ":BlogOpen id " command can fetch the entire content in first situation, and only fetch "content1" in second situation.
- JKenzer - I don't use the more tag when blogging. I will look in to this though and see if I can get it working for you.
Configuring Vim Blog to Work With win32Edit
As it turns out, this works great on win32! Here is what I did to make it work:
- Download Python 2.6 for Windows from here: Python 2.6.6 for Windows
- Download http://www.gooli.org/blog/gvim-72-with-python-2526-support-windows-binaries/ Gvim 7.2 with Python 2.5/2.6 support Windows binaries (unknown website: see note below)
- Follow the instructions for installing the Gvim with Python2.5/2.6. It is assumed you already have the original Vim 7.2 installed. All this does is replace the vim.exe and gvim.exe files.
- Modify your PATH Environmental variable to add the Python 2.6 install directory. The default install for Python (2.6.6 in our example) is c:\Python26. Append this to the end of the directory stack.
You should now be able to use the script.
As a separate note, I noticed my version of Gvim has support for Python 2.4 compiled in. So, you may be able to use the default install of Gvim as it is provided you can find and install Python 2.4 and set up your PATH environment variable to reflect the setup. Keith Pickett 22:14, March 4, 2011 (UTC)
- We should not recommend that people download executables from unknown websites, particularly when the executable is something as complex and important as Vim. See Download for a range of options that are well known to the Vim community. The Vim without Cream option has lots of old versions of Vim for Windows, many of which will support Python 2.6. Unfortunately, Sourceforge has fubared their website again, and I'm finding it difficult to read the release notes associated with each download. Nevertheless, if we are going to recommend a download, it should be from there.
- I just worked out how to view the release notes for Vim 7.3.135 (has both Vim and gvim for Windows), and it supports Python 2.6. Therefore, there is no need to install an obsolete version of Vim (7.2 is obsolete) just to run Vim with Python 2.6. Is there a reason to not use the latest version of Vim? JohnBeckett 03:53, March 5, 2011 (UTC)
- I use Vim 7.2 on Windows with lots of customized scripts and I don't won't to upgrade. I'm tired of fighting release compatibility problems. I also do not have the time to test various scenarios and configurations involving release versions. My version has Py 2.4 support compiled in, hence my need to seek alternative versions with higher Py revision support. I will post my solutions on my blog in the future and leave it to Google for anyone looking for a solution. Your suggestions are noted and i'm done with this. Keith Pickett 06:38, March 5, 2011 (UTC)
- It's easy to compile your own Python-enabled gvim.exe and vim.exe on Windows, see my tip: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Build_Python-enabled_Vim_on_Windows_with_MinGW . As a user, not a developer by profession, I sympathize with you when you say you are tired of fighting release compatibility problems. However, Vim's development is quite conservative. There are no compatibility problems between 7.3 and 7.2 whatsoever. And there are a lot of bugs fixed, e.g., some serious folding-related bugs. Vlad.irnov 21:21, March 5, 2011 (UTC)
- I use Vim 7.2 on Windows with lots of customized scripts and I don't won't to upgrade. I'm tired of fighting release compatibility problems. I also do not have the time to test various scenarios and configurations involving release versions. My version has Py 2.4 support compiled in, hence my need to seek alternative versions with higher Py revision support. I will post my solutions on my blog in the future and leave it to Google for anyone looking for a solution. Your suggestions are noted and i'm done with this. Keith Pickett 06:38, March 5, 2011 (UTC)
- The gooli.org page has been around for a while, it can be trusted. There is no need to ban it, just warn users that these are not official Vim binaries, use them at our own risk. Vlad.irnov 21:21, March 5, 2011 (UTC)
- I accept what you say, but I do not recall hearing about that site at any of the Vim mailing lists. Further, the gooli page is static and is unlikely to be updated, whereas the Vim without Cream site is updated regularly and has a large number of old versions (so if someone has a need to operate an old version of Vim, they can). I could not see any mention of what patch level is contained in the Vim 7.2 download at gooli. The semi-official Vim without Cream page has close-to-current Vim (7.3.135 2011-02-25) as well as 7.2 versions from 7.2.2 2008-08-22 to 7.2.446 2010-07-15.
- 7.2.2 means Vim version 7.2 with patches 1-2 included. That is from August 2008, a long time ago in terms of software updates: 7.2.446 includes patches 1-446. I checked that the 7.3.135 version supports Python 2.6, so it is likely that most earlier versions also do that, back to a couple of months after when Python 2.6 was released. JohnBeckett 07:35, March 6, 2011 (UTC)


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A THUG who blackmailed a pensioner after catching his girlfriend performing a sex act on him on Valentines Day has been jailed for two years and two months.
Christopher White repeatedly threatened the 67-year-old as he demanded money with menaces, even making him drive to the cash machine to get it.
And the 26-year-old, who was the first youngster to get an ASBO in town, also beat up girlfriend Nina Austin in front of his victim after catching them together.
Tessa Hingston, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court how the pensioner knew Austin and sometimes lent her money.
At about 10pm on Friday February 14 she went to his home in the Railway Village and asked if she could borrow £20.
"He said he wasn't prepared to lend her that and she offered to perform a sex act on him. He said fair enough," Miss Hingston said.
"Before that there had been nothing sexual, they were just friends. Nina Austin changed clothing and put on a negligee and performed oral sex on him. She produced the negligee from her bag."
Once they had finished she went to leave but White burst in saying he had filmed the whole thing on his mobile through a window in the door.
He turned on Miss Austin, kicking and punching her to the ground as she cried 'Don't hit me, don't hit me' to which he replied 'if you think I'm hitting you now wait until we get back'.
White then told the pensioner he knew he had given her £20 for the sex act saying 'Who do you think you are, that's my missus'.
He pushed the man on to a seat and when Miss Austin tried to intervene he punched her again.
White snarled 'If you think I am going away with £20 you've got another thing coming. You need to get me £100'.
If he didn't get the money he said he would take his phone, lap top and TV from him and assault him, so he handed over £80.
The following day Miss Austin came to the door in the evening to apologise, but White again burst in behind her.
He told him 'You thought last night was the finish of it,' adding 'it's finished when I say so' and demanded another £100 making him drive them to a cash machine to get it the day after he decided to call the police but noticed his phone had gone and again in the evening Miss Austin appeared at the door saying she was returning it.
After the previous night he wouldn't open the door and White then shouted there was child porn on the handset, which he said was untrue.
When the police caught up with White he tried to persuade Miss Austin to make a complaint that she had been sexually assaulted by the pensioner.
White, of Waggoner Close, Abbey Meads, admitted blackmail, actual bodily harm and the theft of £22.50 he snatched from a bus driver a couple of days before.
He has a long history of crime including robberies, criminal damage and weapons charges.
Tony Bignall, defending, said his client had a drug problem that was out of control at the time of the offences and called Miss Austin as a character witness.
She said they had been together for a year and she would stand by him when he is released as he was not normally violent saying both been using drugs and alcohol at the time.
Jailing him Recorder Ian Lawrie QC said: "Without a shadow of a doubt blackmail is a very, very, serious offence.
"The courts, when they approach sentencing in blackmail, always take the view there are few crimes more repugnant.
"It involves a threat against the integrity of a person, all against the background of a demand for money.
"You obviously thought this was an easy opportunity to draw some money from him. I have listened to Miss Austin, she is obviously a very forgiving woman.
"I have read the letter you have given the court. You must appreciate I have to treat some of its contents with an air of scepticism."


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Special Dishes for Eid al-Fitr
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On Thursday, August 8, Muslims mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan with the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. In many homes, a fabulous feast is prepared, celebrating the end of Ramadan's dawn-to-sunset fasting.
The First Whale: Pakicetus
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Odd as it may seem, a four-footed land mammal named Pakicetus, living some 50 million years ago in what we know as Pakistan today, bears the title of "first whale." Learn more in Whales: Giants of the Deep, now on view at the Museum.
Discovering the Golden Poison Frog
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Bright, tiny, and toxic, Central and South American dart-poison frogs, including the golden poison frog, anchor the exhibition Frogs: A Chorus of Colors, now open at the Museum.
Students Use 3D Printing to Reconstruct Dinosaurs
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Using the latest 3D printing technology and dinosaur fossils from the Museum's paleontology collections, a group of high school students recently spent two weeks producing models of dinosaurs—and learning to think like paleontologists—as part of the innovative program "Capturing Dinosaurs: Reconstructing Extinct Species Through Digital Fabrication."
Which Came First: The Bird or the Bird Brain?
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New research led by the American Museum of Natural History provides evidence that dinosaurs evolved the brainpower necessary for flight well before they actually took to the air as birds.


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Source: "Genealogy of the Shethar Family", Edition of 35 copies; New York, C.S. Williams, 1904.
The following is from the above source, pages 15-24:
John Shethar was born December 14, 1752 in Killingworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut. He enlisted in the army in 1776, at age 23. He was made a Sergeant in Captain Seymour's Company, November 20, 1776, of a regiment of Connecticut Light Horse Cavalry, and was on the march through New Jersey with Washington in 1776. He was made Lieutenant 2nd Continental Dragoons, December 31, 1776, and Captain on October 11, 1777. According to the above source, "he served from the beginning of the war and obtained promotion for his gallant bravery." At the battle of Brandywine (September 1777), he greatly distinguished himself, and this was reportedly personally witnessed by General Washington, who, immediately after the battle, presented Captain Shethar with a sword and highly commended him for his judicious acts.
This sword, with his chapeau and a portion of his military dress and many mementos of the War of the Revolution, were treasured in the family for many generations, and then were donated to the New York Historical Society by his great-great-grandson, Edwin H. Shethar, in the late 1920s.
Towards the close of the war, March 6, 1780, being so badly wounded as to preclude further active service for a long time, Captain Shethar felt constrained to resign his commission. His dress sword he presented to Ark Lodge, No. 33, F. & A.M., Geneva, New York. In an encounter with the Indians, he came near to being captured by the Mohawk Chief, Captain Joseph Brandt.
Narrated by Miss Elizabeth Hogarth now living in 1904, at 550 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, who had the facts direct from Captain Shethar, her grandfather (Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John, lived in Geneva, New York, and kept house for him. She never married; before this she lived with her brother James, who lived in Alexandria, District of Columbia, then went to Seneca and Geneva, New York):
During the Revolutionary War, Captain John Shethar was arrested as a spy, taken to New York at a time when the English held only New York. He was examinElizabeth, daughter of Captain John, lived in Geneva, New York, and kept house for him. She never married; before this she lived with her brother James, who lived in Alexandria, District of Columbia, then went to Seneca and Geneva, New York.ed before Admiral Digby who a short time previous had arrived with Prince William, Duke of Clarence, then 17 years of age, who was afterwards William IV, the King, who preceded Queen Victoria. Prince William was present at the examination before Admiral Digby. Captain Shethar when committed for trial said, "As a soldier I have no favors to ask, but as a gentleman, Sir, I have one!? Well, what is it? ?That my guardsmen be British officers, Sir, not American refugees who have fled from their country's altar." Then the young Prince said, "Well, young man, when this disgraceful affair is settled, I intend to make a tour of this continent and would like to have you for a traveling companion," to which Captain Shethar replied, "Well, Sir, if our circumference was no larger than yours, (referring to occupation of New York), we could soon make a tour of it." Then Admiral Digby said, "I guess your Highness has got it now," to which Captain Shethar replied, "We do not now in our country pay that deference to royalty that you do in yours."
Captain Shethar once had for a prisoner a Captain Williamson, of the British Army, who after he was released, returned to New York and told his wife of the good treatment he had received at the hands of Captain Shethar. So pleased was she, that while Captain Shethar was a prisoner, she arranged matters and gave him a grand dinner, and ever afterwards, he was, through this influence, treated well. He was visited every day by the young Prince William who admired his sturdy manhood. When released Captain Shethar called on the Prince.
John Shethar married Sarah Smith (born May 4, 1749) on January 27, 1773. They had four children, of whom one lived to adulthood. Sarah died in 1796, and John Shethar then married Nancy Nelson Drake, widow of Major Joshua Drak, on March 6, 1800. They had three daughters, two of whom lived to adulthood.
Captain Shethar was a member of St. Paul Lodge, F & A.M. of Litchfield, Connecticut, and afterwards of Ark Lodge of Geneva, New York. Demit and Apron of Captain Shethar were sent to Ark Lodge, by his granddaughter, Elizabeth Hogarth, quoted above.
Captain John Shethar was a pensioner in 1818 and was living at that time in Alexandria, Virginia. Shethar Street in Hammondsport, New York was named for him, he having been granted one-tenth of the original township.
John Shethar died on June 19, 1835, at age 82, in Geneva, Ontario County, New York. He was buried in one of the earliest cemeteries of that town, the Pulteney Street Cemetery. It is not known what date the plot was set apart for burials but the probability is that it was in 1797. In the summer of 1920 this cemetery was taken over by the school district of the City of Geneva for the purpose of building a new high school. The burials were removed and taken to a location in Glenwood Cemetery and is known as "Pulteney-in-Glenwood".


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" The IPC CP Committee has re-issued the 2013 Competition Rules and the version originally posted on the IPC/FAI website may be discarded as no longer being valid.
The IPC Bureau has approved one change: The Neutral Zone in Accuracy has been assigned a point value of -20 (negative value similar to Zones 7 and 8) rather than a point value of zero.
In addition, with assistance from Buzz Bennett, Chair of the IPC Rules and Regulations Committee, the Rules have been edited for clarity of grammar and phrasing without any impact on the technical intent and application of the Rules, previously approved by the IPC Plenary"
Dr. Rainer EXI Hoenle
Chair CP-Committee