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But to what extent has this history been preserved? Does the Million Dollar Homepage represent a robust digital artifact 12 years after its creation, or has it fallen prey to the ephemerality common to internet content? Have the forces of link rot and administrative neglect rendered it a shell of its former self?
I remember this quite well - and I can't believe it's already been 12 years. As the article notes, it serves as a great preserved microcosm of that era's web - good and bad.
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are, in my humble view, two of the greatest works of art of all times. From a very young age, I started reading children-friendly versions of the two stories, and later, during ancient Greek class in high school, we translated parts of the original works. Personally, I prefer the Odyssey, but I guess the Iliad is probably the greater, more popular epic.
Thanks to the blessings of modern computing, the internet, and technology, we can now make beautiful interactive maps of stories, and I've been thoroughly enjoying The Odyssey Map today. I've seen such maps before, but not as smooth and nicely illustrated as this one.
Add it to the list of awesome historical maps, such as the amazing 200-year topographical history of The Netherlands, or the countless interactive maps of the Roman Empire.
The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 9 (codename stretch). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.
This isn't actually a new version or anything like that; a Debian point release just means a number of packages have been updated.
Microsoft finally broke its silence on the status of devices built on the Intel Clover Trail CPU family.
Owners of those devices who had taken advantage of the free Windows 10 upgrade offer discovered recently that those PCs were unable to upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update, released in April 2017 and now rolling out widely to the installed base of Windows 10 PCs.
In an e-mailed statement, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed today that no software fix is on the way. But in a major shift in its "Windows as a Service" policy, Microsoft agreed to continue delivering security updates to those devices for another six years. Under the existing policy, those security updates would have ended in early 2018.
Support for hardware has to end at some point, but this seems rather crude.
It turns out we got played. The WSJ report that Google was funding research specifically to influence lawmakers for its own benefit seems to have been an Oracle-created hit job.
Google's director of public policy Leslie Miller said the CfA's report was "highly misleading" and accused it of inflating the numbers by attributing funding to Google when it actually came from associations to which Google belongs.
Miller also points out the non-profit's own transparency issues, given that the CfA's only known backer is Oracle.
I should've checked the source of the actual report - and specifically, its funding - and I did not. My apologies. While this certainly doesn't magically mean Google is a saint, it does cast this specific report in a very, very different light.
What they didn't know was that Alphabet was commissioning a small group to develop a version for the workplace. The team lives in Alphabet's X division, where Glass was first developed as a passion project of Google cofounder Sergey Brin. Now the focus was on making a practical workplace tool that saves time and money. Announced today, it is called Glass Enterprise Edition.
That's what Erickson wears every day. She works for AGCO, an agricultural equipment manufacturer that is an early adopter of Glass EE. For about two years, Glass EE has been quietly in use in dozens of workplaces, slipping under the radar of gadget bloggers, analysts, and self-appointed futurists. Yes, the population of those using the vaunted consumer version of Glass has dwindled, tired of being driven out of lounges by cocktail-fork-wielding patrons fearing unwelcome YouTube cameos. Meanwhile, Alphabet has been selling hundreds of units of EE, an improved version of the product that originally shipped in a so-called Explorer Edition in 2013. Companies testing EE - including giants like GE, Boeing, DHL, and Volkswagen - have measured huge gains in productivity and noticeable improvements in quality. What started as pilot projects are now morphing into plans for widespread adoption in these corporations. Other businesses, like medical practices, are introducing Enterprise Edition in their workplaces to transform previously cumbersome tasks.
They obviously followed my advice from way back in 2014, well before the Enterprise Edition was announced. Totally.
In all seriousness, this is the perfect market for devices like Glass. I don't feel like these kinds of devices have much of a place in our personal lives, but in our professional lives it can improve safety quite a bit by giving people access to information that would otherwise require them to look away from what they are doing.
You may not know the Model F by name, but you know it by sound - the musical thwacking of flippers slapping away. The sound of the '80s office. The IBM Model F greeting the world in 1981 with a good ten pounds of die-cast zinc and keys that crash down on buckling metal springs as they descend. It's a sensation today's clickiest keyboards chase, but will never catch. And now it's coming back.
I used several of these growing up, and I've come to understand I'm the only one who didn't - and doesn't - like mechanical keyboards one bit - I find them tiring and way too loud. I want the thinnest possible keyboard with the shortest possible travel while still having a decent, satisfying, but very quiet click. I find Apple's Magic Keyboard is the exact right keyboard for me, but I also know I'll be one of the very few, especially on a site like OSNews.
A much faster, bare metal approach to deleting large and complex folders in Windows is via the command line. Of course, repeatedly having to navigate directories while executing commands via a terminal quickly becomes a tedious experience. In this post, I will walk through the process of creating a simple batch file and wiring it up to a handy right-click context menu from Windows Explorer to delete sophisticated directories in a hurry and without interruption.
Small tip (from 2015, so I'm a tad late), explained very well, that a lot of people could benefit from.
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So while Microsoft didn't do itself any favors, I'd argue strongly that all these machinations and flailings weren't a response (or weren't only a response) to the iPhone. The real enemy was the company that had set its sights on Microsoft's phone ambitions since before the iPhone was released.
That company was Google, of course, and it only tangentially wanted to take on the iPhone. Google's real target was always Microsoft, and it hit the bullseye.
This article looks at the past, so let me take this opportunity to posit something that might come as a surprise to some.
Android is a dead end.
I really want to write a far more detailed and in-depth article explaining why I think Android is a dead end, but I can't yet fully articulate my thoughts or pinpoint why, exactly, I've felt like this for months now. All this doesn't mean Google is going to get out of mobile operating systems, and it doesn't even mean that the name "Android" is going away. All it means is that what we think of today as "Android" - a Linux kernel with libraries, the Android Runtime, and so on on top - has served its hackjob, we-need-to-compete purpose and is going to go away.
Android in its current form suffers from several key architectural problems - it's not nearly as resource-efficient as, say, iOS, has consistent update problems, and despite hefty hardware, still suffers from the occasional performance problems, among other things - that Google clearly hasn't been able to solve. It feels like Android is in limbo, waiting for something, as if Google is working on something else that will eventually succeed Android.
Is that something Fuchsia? Is Project Treble part of the plan, to make it easier for Google to eventually replace Android's Linux base with something else? If Android as it exists today was salvageable, why are some of the world's greatest operating systems engineers employed by Google not working on Android, but on Fuchsia? If Fuchsia is just a research operating system, why did its developers recently add actual wallpapers to the repository? Why does every design choice for Fuchsia seem specifically designed for and targeted at solving Android's core problems?
I don't like making broad predictions based on gut feelings and spidey senses, since they can be incredibly misleading and hard to read, but I'm still pretty confident on this one: over the coming two to three years, Android will undergo a radical transformation. This transformation will be mostly transparent to users - their next Android phone won't actually be "Android" anymore, but still run the same applications, and they literally won't care - but it won't be a Linux device, and it won't suffer from Android's core problems.
In a few years, Google's Pixel phone will have a fully custom, Google-designed SoC, and run an operating system that is Android in brand name only.
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No. Mr Astley did not rework his song. An artist called Mario Klingemann did, using clever software. The video is a particularly obvious example of generated media, which uses quick and basic techniques. More sophisticated technology is on the verge of being able to generate credible video and audio of anyone saying anything. This is down to progress in an artificial intelligence (AI) technique called machine learning, which allows for the generation of imagery and audio. One particular set-up, known as a generative adversarial network (GAN), works by setting a piece of software (the generative network) to make repeated attempts to create images that look real, while a separate piece of software (the adversarial network) is set up in opposition. The adversary looks at the generated images and judges whether they are "real", which is measured by similarity to those in the generative software's training database. In trying to fool the adversary, the generative software learns from its errors. Generated images currently require vast computing power, and only work at low resolution. For now.
People aren't even intelligent enough to spot obviously fake nonsense written stories, and those were enough to have an impact on the US elections. The current US president managed to "win" the elections by spouting an endless barrage of obvious lies, and the entire Brexit campaign was built on a web of obvious deceit and dishonesty.
Now imagine adding fake video into the mix where anyone can be made to say anything.
Two days ago, the Day of Action to defend net neutrality took place. With the new US administration came a new chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, who is working hard to try and undo the strict net neutrality rules put in place by his predecessor Tom Wheeler. Pai and the US Congress are under pressure from and enticed by millions of dollars worth of "donations" from the telecommunications industry to gut net neutrality.
The 2017 Day of Action feels a lot like a retreat of 2014, when net neutrality was at stake as well. The 2014 campaign contributed to Tom Wheeler's decision to enact strict net neutrality rules, and was supported by a large number of technology companies. This year, too, the Day of Action was supported by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, Facebook, and so on.
One company is conspicuously absent from the net neutrality debate: Apple. The Cupertino giant is usually all too eager to ride the waves of what in American political parlance are called "liberal" causes, so its absence from the fight for net neutrality may seem surprising. In reality, though, Apple's absence makes a lot of sense: Apple does not benefit from net neutrality.
Apple has never openly supported net neutrality. Back in 2014, Apple was not among the 100 companies that signed the open letter in support of net neutrality, and it's not a member of the Internet Association, the industry group behind the Day of Action which lobbies for net neutrality. In addition, in 2009, Apple was caught red-handed blocking VOIP solutions on the iPhone; the company had a secret agreement with AT&T to that effect.
Tim Cook didn't so much as tweet about the Day of Action.
The only instance of Apple saying anything about net neutrality was in February 2017, in response to a question during a shareholders meeting.
Finally, Tim Cook responded to a question about the Trump administration's position against Net Neutrality, which seemed to catch the executive off guard.
While Apple has been vocal about a number of policies from the new president's office, Cook downplayed his response here: "We stay out of politics but stay in policy. If Net Neutrality became a top thing, we would definitely engage in it."
Cook also added that Apple is not a major lobbying company in comparison to others, but it believes all content should be treated the same.
This is a rather weak statement, especially since unless you've been living under a rock, net neutrality has been a "top thing" for several years now. The time to "engage in it" was 2014 and this year, and on both crucial occasions, Apple's utter silence is deafening. And in what some may find surprising, net neutrality is an entirely safe bet to support - both sides of the political isle in the US overwhelmingly support net neutrality. So why is Apple silent?
We can only guess, of course, but with a bit of common sense it's not hard to formulate a likely answer. While Apple's iOS and Mac businesses are doing really well, the company is also trying to break into the streaming market for both music and video. Apple's foray into streaming music has really only just begun, and with just 3% (20 million people) of Apple's installed base subscribed to Apple Music, it's clear Apple has a lot of room to grow. However, it's also facing a lot of competition: without the benefit of coming preinstalled on the most popular smartphone in the world, Spotify managed to add 20 million subscribers last year alone, now sitting at a total of 50 million subscribers. Apple's foray into streaming video, meanwhile, faces far stronger competition from the likes of Netflix and Amazon Video.
With this in mind, the answer as to why Apple remains silent on net neutrality should be easy to answer: if net neutrality rules were to be gutted, Apple could leap at the opportunity to pay carriers and ISPs to favour its streaming services over the competition. Apple could easily outspend a company like Spotify, making sure Apple Music users would get preferential treatment from carriers/ISPs over Spotify users. As mentioned above - Apple did it before with VOIP, so it's not like this would be an unprecedented or uncharacteristic move for the Cupertino giant.
Unless Apple breaks its silence and finally openly, unequivocally, and determinedly supports net neutrality, the safe, capitalist, and historically informed assumption is that Apple does not want net neutrality, because it would limit their ability to buy preferential treatment from carriers and ISPs.
And it would be nice if the technology press stopped tip-toeing around Apple's silence on this crucially important matter - but Apple's preferential treatment in the technology press is a matter for another time.
Last night out of the blue, we received an email from AMD, sharing some of the specifications for the forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper CPUs to be announced today. Up until this point, we knew a few things - Threadripper would consist of two Zeppelin dies featuring AMD's latest Zen core and microarchitecture, and would essentially double up on the HEDT Ryzen launch. Double dies means double pretty much everything: Threadripper would support up to 16 cores, up to 32 MB of L3 cache, quad-channel memory support, and would require a new socket/motherboard platform called X399, sporting a massive socket with 4094-pins (and also marking an LGA socket for AMD). By virtue of being sixteen cores, AMD is seemingly carving a new consumer category above HEDT/High-End Desktop, which we've coined the 'Super High-End Desktop', or SHED for short.
AMD is listing the top of the line Threadripper 1950X for 999 dollars, which gives you 16 cores and 32 threads, with a base frequency of 3.4Ghz (and a turbo frequency of 4.0Ghz) at a TDP of 180W (nothing to sneeze at). These are two quite amazing processors, and later next year, the pricing should definitely come down a bit so it's a bit more affordable for regular computer use as well.
Well done, AMD. Sure, we need to await the benchmarks for more information, but this is looking real good. I'm hoping this will finally start forcing developers - specifically of games - to start making more and better use of multicore.
From version to version, I always love to play around with the kernel. And it has always been a great lack in guides and documentation on how to build Mac OSX's kernel, XNU. For those of you that already have tried compiling XNU for Mac OSX 10.12 (Sierra), you probably noticed that earlier build guides like ssen's blog - Building xnu for OS X 10.11 El Capitan don't work anymore. However, many thanks to ssen to put in time to write a guide.
The problem is that Apple introduced something named Circular dependency with the libdispatch library and the kernel headers. So the order of the build process just got really important.
It's time to announce the upcoming new "Ultimate-64" board!
In order to sustain the love for the Commodore 64, with failing machines, power supplies and flaky old connectors, I proudly present a new main board for your beloved C64 case:
What is it?! This board is a hardware implementation (FPGA) of the entire C64, and it includes the Ultimate-II+ as well. An ALL IN ONE solution!
It will be produced in small batches, and the creator hopes to be able to sell it for around 200 dollars. That's a pretty great price to give a C64 a lease on life.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai is fond of saying that "the internet was not broken in 2015" when he argues for repeal of our nation's net neutrality rules. This is particularly funny to me, because in 2014 I literally wrote an article called "The internet is fucked".
Why was it fucked? Because the free and open internet was in danger of becoming tightly controlled by giant telecom corporations that were already doing things like blocking apps and services from phones and excusing their own services from data caps. Because the lack of competition in the internet access market let these companies act like predatory monopolies. And because our government lacked the will or clarity to just say what everyone already knows: internet access is a utility.
Most of these things are still true, even after the Obama-era FCC under Chairman Tom Wheeler reclassified internet access as a Title II telecommunications service and imposed strict net neutrality rules on wired and wireless internet providers. And most of these things will get even worse when Pai pushes through his plan to rescind Title II and those rules, despite widespread public outcry.
Hey look, another case of corporations actively working to undermine society by bribing politicians with huge amounts of money that individuals would never (or only rarely) have access to. As long as politicians' power is derived not from the people, but from money, shit like this will continue to happen. Trying to stop Pai's obviously horrible and destructive anti-consumer plans is a noble goal, but these plans are only a symptom, not a cause. We're playing whack-a-mole, while they are playing Jenga.
These corporate criminals and their political lapdogs will keep throwing money at the wall until it breaks - and they have more money than we have bricks and mortar.
If you're still rocking a handset running Windows Phone 8.1, it is important to note that mainstream support for the operating system is ending tomorrow, as Microsoft previously announced. Prior to the availability of Windows 10 Mobile for select handsets, the last major update to Windows Phone 8.1 was Lumia Denim, which started rolling out way back in December 2014.
A select number of handsets can get Windows 10 Mobile, but the vast majority of users (about 80%) are running Windows Phone 8.1.
So, headlines that state Windows Phone died yesterday are clickbait - but only because Windows Phone died years ago.
Now this is a real treat - over the past few years, Christopher Masto has been building (and where possible, selling) a PDP-8 replica called the PiDP-8/I. As you may have guessed from the name, the core of the PiDP-8/I is a Raspberry Pi, complemented by a replica PDP-8 front panel and case.
From a hardware perspective, the PiDP is just a frontpanel for a Raspberry PI. In the hardware section below, the technical details of the front panel are explained. In fact, the front panel could just as easily be driven by any microcontroller, it only lights the leds and scans the switch positions.
From a software perspective, the PiDP is just a Raspberry Pi, running Raspbian, which automatically logs in to the SimH emulator. SimH is modified to drive the front panel - meaning it has instructions added to reflect the state of the PDP-8 CPU registers through the leds, and responds to the switch settings.
The PiDP is fully open source, so you can download the schematics, design files, and software and build it yourself from scratch. You can also order a kit from Christopher Masto for $145, or pay an additional $170 for an assembled version (but isn't building half the fun?).
He has a few great videos of the PiDP up on his YouTube channel, including a 90 minute build video and a tour and demo video.
The Multics CPU simulator created by Harry Reed and Charles Anthony is available for public download. A complete QuickStart installation package is available that provides software, compilers, system source, install scripts, and several initial projects (SysDaemon, SysAdmin, Daemon, etc.) and users.
This is Multics, the complete multi-user operating system, running on a simulated Honeywell DPS8M processor. The simulator is available for Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows, both 32bit and 64bit versions, and also supports the Raspberry Pi.


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This was found in a PLCB "Taste" magazine as one of the featured recipes. It sounds fabulous and I can't wait to try it this summer!
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- 4 lbs prince edward island mussels
- 2 cups dry white wine
- 4 -6 shallots, peeled and finely diced
- 1 bunch fresh parsley, finely chopped
- 1 cup unsalted butter, cut into chunks
- ground black pepper, to taste
- salt, to taste
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- Wash mussels several times.
- Place in a large pot with wine, shallots, 3/4 of the parsley, butter, pepper and salt (if using).
- Cook on high, preferably covered, about 4-6 minutes or until mussels have opened, stirring occasionally with a slotted spoon. Discard any mussels that didn't open during cooking.
- Arrange mussels in serving bowls and taste the broth for seasoning.
- Stir in the remaining parsley and spoon sauce over the mussels. The mussels may release sand during cooking, so avoid spooning sauce from the very bottom of the pot.
- The recipe in the magazine suggested serving with grilled croutons and Saffron aioli, but did not give the recipes to make them.

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The NDP could get more bang for its buck on a PST-hike referendum by adding two more questions, Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister said today.
Besides asking whether the majority of Manitobans supported a one per cent increase of the provincial sales tax to eight per cent, Pallsiter said voters should also be asked whether they supported the scrapping of the Taxpayer Protection Act and Manitoba Hydro being expanded by the NDP to export more electricity to customers in the United States.
"These are major issues that matter greatly to the future of our province," Pallister said. "I think there's a lot of merit in letting the people of Manitoba make decisions on issues of this nature."
Pallister said the additional two questions would make a referendum more cost-effective. A ballpark cost of such a referendum is about $10 million.
Pallister said Manitobans should have a say on all three issues instead of being left out of the debate by the NDP.
"I trust the judgment of Manitobans and fundamentally don't think it's right to create a false sense of urgency and emergency based on the government's own lack of preparedness," Pallister said. "Now they're telling you they have to raise PST and other taxes for things they ignored for 13 years."
But the chances of a such a multi-question referendum being held are nil.
The Selinger New Democrats say they need the new tax hike to put about $300 million in full-year revenue into their coffers and they need to have it effective July 1 and without a referendum. The NDP has introduced Bill 20 to do away with a Tory-inspired provision in the Taxpayer Protection Act to hold a referendum on major tax increases.
The NDP says they plan to use the money to boost infrastructure spending at a time when Canada's economy is starting to slow and to build new flood protection projects in western Manitoba. The NDP has also said it wants to erase its half-billion dollar deficit by 2016-17.
The NDP also supports increasing the generating capacity of Manitoba Hydro over the next decade to increase export sales to the northern U.S. The roughly $20-billion plan includes building the Keeyask and Conawapa dams in northern Manitoba and the Bipole III transmission line down the west side of the province.


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History shows us that we humans have struggled with the problem of transmitting message over space. Getting a signal to cross space is easy, attaching meaning to the signal has been much harder and insuring the veracity of the meaning is really tough. None of that insures that meaning has been understood. However we have studied this phenomenon and found that increasing the modes of message transmitted improves the understanding of the received message. That is; as we move along the modal continuum of written, verbal, visual, video messages we increase the chance for higher fidelity message understanding.
Lessons to be learned - use the highest bandwidth medium possible.
|1983 Map of the early internet (ARPAnet)
But in the year 2010, I still find our technology lacking. Dick Tracy had a great system in the 1960s, his wrist watch TV always worked never had glitches or dropped calls. I believe FaceTime to be in keeping with that vision. It is simple to use, but requires I stand in selected areas (wi-fi enabled zones of my environment). It also is a proprietary system that like the first telephone system require pairing the two end points with the same device. This was a problem with early systems in Greece (clepsydra - water clock). Solving this requires standardization upon open protocols - it is a known solution and responsible for the success of the internet/web that you are now using.
The telephone networks in the USA were largely successful because of the monopoly that was granted to Ma Bell. That had it's down-side also - stagnation of the industry. If we were to pick a company today to be that monopoly holder with the hopes of unifying the industry and making all system work together (like the POTS - Plain Old Telephone System), who would it be? I select Apple. One of the largest 10 companies in the world (market capital) and one of the most innovative. After we get our ubiquitous video phone on our wrist watches (ala Dick Tracy) and we are happy with the service we can break up Apple (like we did AT&T & Microsoft, etc).
Signal Fire - think prearranged and agreed message indicated by the lighting of a fire at the top of a mountain. The fall of Troy was signaled by King Agamemnon to Queen Clytemnestra in Greece using this method.
490 BC the Expendable Runner-Messenger - think Pheidippides from a battlefield at Marathon, runs 26.2 miles to Athens to deliver the news "Niki!" ("victory"), then collapsed and died. Before this innovation people just walked, but news traveled much slower.
Signal Flags - think ships at see with the Jolly Roger set in the mast. Early use of this was shown to include mis-communication of the highest order. On the Argonautic Expedition Theseus used colored sails to send messages to the fleet. Forgetting to lower the black sail (signal of battle and of death) after the battle, his father Zgeus saw the black sail and interrupted the signal as the death of Theseus. Grieving he jumped overboard to drown. Opps - Theseus should have raised the red sail - a signal of victory.
So way back then we were challenged with low bandwidth and poor signal quality.
A clepsydra is a water clock which if paired with a similar device could be used to sends prearranged signals via light signals. Yes this is the beginning of optic communication systems. Image that the device, a container was inscribed with messages at varying heights of water, the container had a hole & plug in the bottom. Upon signaling the two water clocks would be unplugged at the same time (synchronized by the light signal) when the light was extinguished the hole would be plugged. Given the same flow rates the water level would be identical and the height would indicate the message at that level. Pure genius, but quite a lot of preparation work to send a signal of prearranged messages. And the cycle time was quite high - one had to refill the two containers with water.
This is not much different than current signaling technology. The prearranged messages are now 1 or 0, on or off. However the signaling rate is much higher (mega hertz) not to mention multiple channels of concurrent signals.
Compressing the timeline a bit - because the state of messages transmitted over distance didn't change much for thousands of years.
1790s Optical Telegraph - Napoleon used one innovated by the use of semaphore networks, he was able to communicate over much greater distances than his foes, and gained great advantage.
1830s Electromagnetic Telegraph - it took quite some time for innovation to make these devices useful. Invented in 1804, and put into commercial use on Britain's Great Western Railway in 1839. Morse developed his telegraph and the famous code in 1837 and drove the Pony Express out of business with a trans-continental telegraph line by 1861.
1843 Alexander Bain invented a device that could be considered the first facsimile machine - a recording telegraph.
1855 Giovanni Caselli created a telegraph that could transmit images. The "Pantelegraph" was successfully tested on a telegraph line between Paris and Lyon. Note how long it will take to make this commercially available - why? See 1934 below for a hint.
1860 Pony Express - a fast mail courier service from St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento, CA it is well known for a failed business - it lasted just over one year (April 1860 - October 1861). Messages required just 10 days from Atlantic to Pacific coast.
1876 Bell patents the Telephone - an innovation to the telegraph that allowed clear speech to be heard on the receiving end. "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." Bell didn't invent the phone.
1885 - Edison patents wireless radio. Ten years later in 1895, Marconi builds a wireless system capable 1.5 mile distance.
1891 Alexander Graham Bell envisions the videophone "...the day would come when the man at the telephone would be able to see the distant person to whom he was speaking."
1893 - Nikola Tesla demonstrates the fundamentals of radio.
1906 - AM radio - Oh Holy Night is broadcast in Massachusetts by Reginald Fessenden.
1920 - Radio News Broadcast - Detroit, Michigan. First sports broadcast
1920s First Video Phones - technological precursor to the videophone was the teleostereograph machine developed by AT&T's Bell Labs. By 1927 AT&T had created its earliest electromechanical videophone, called an ikonophone.
1934 - Answering Machine - How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years "In early 1934, Clarence Hickman, a Bell Labs engineer, had a secret machine, about six feet tall, standing in his office. It was a device without equal in the world, decades ahead of its time. If you called and there was no answer on the phone line to which Hickman's invention was connected, the machine would beep and a recording device would come on allowing the caller to leave a message."
1930s Dialing Phone network - the consumer could now self select the party to call (dial a number) and the network was powered by a central office rather than individuals local battery.
1943 - US Supreme Court awards Tesla patents on radio invalidating the fundamental Marconi patents. Tesla intended to use wireless to transmit electrical power - which has just now 2010, become commercialized.
1960s AT&T introduce Touch-Tone dialing.
1960s Cordless Phone - "The Carterphone, a crude device for interconnecting a two-way radio with the telephone, led to the reversal of the Federal Communications Commission ban on direct coupling of consumer equipment to phone lines (known as the 1968 landmark Carterphone decision) on June 26, 1968. The original cordless phones, like the Carterphone, were acoustically (not electrically) connected to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)." Not until the 1980s will this become a successful commercial product.
1964 New York World's Fair
1964 Dick Tracy's wrist TV.
1979 Cellular Telephone - first cell network in Tokyo. Five years later the NTT network covered the whole population of Japan.
1980s Cordless Phone commercial success.
1983 First Cell Phones in Chicago, US
1990s Satellite Phone - using low earth orbit (LEO) satellites it is possible to have global coverage - however both companies (Globalstar & Iridium) have gone bankrupt with this business plan's high cost of a constellation of many satellites (44 & 66).
1991 2G Cell Networks - "modern" digital 2G (second generation GSM standard) cellular technology was launched in Finland.
1996 US telecommunication companies petition the US Congress to ban Internet phone technology.
2000s VoIP - Internet Protocol for voice transmission becomes widespread.
2004 Commercial VoIP service providers.
FaceTime - Apple's video phone technology for iPhone 4.
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Spaghetti Squash With Balsamic Beans
Recipe by Berts Kitchen Witch
This vegetarian dish uses one of my favorite kinds of squash, spaghetti squash. It is delicious topped with the tasty sweet-tart beans.
Top Review by Josiah Luscher
I love this recipe, I first saw it in a better homes and gardens booklet titled easy vegetarian meals. I notice some difference between your take on the dish and theirs; and I'd like to share my own variation/notes. I use frozen baby lima beans; but only about 6-7 oz. Because they are frozen I have to cook them on the stove per the package directions then I just add the rinsed red beans, chopped but not rinsed jar of roasted red peppers, and salt after the lima beans are cooked, or nearly there, until everything is nice and hot. I've never tried adding onion into the mix, but I think that might be really good, I'll try it sometime. I don't use a dutch oven to cook the squash, I just put them face down in a cookie sheet with water in the oven at 375 degrees for 45-60 minutes. Last but not least I strongly recommend making extra vinaigrette dressing to serve with the squash at the table; double what the recipe calls for usually works for me. I came to food.com looking to add this recipe so that I wouldn't have to keep typing it up and e-mailing it to people! Everyone I've made it for loves it; and it's one of my wife's favorite dinners. Good luck to all of you!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon honey mustard
- 3 garlic cloves (minced fine)
- 1 medium spaghetti squash (2-1/2 to 3 lbs)
- 1 (15 ounce) can baby lima beans (well-drained)
- 1 (15 ounce) can red kidney beans (well-drained)
- 1 small white onion (diced)
- 1⁄2 cup roasted sweet red pepper (cut into short strips)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
Directions See How It's Made
- Cut the spaghetti squash in half, and remove the seeds.
- For the vinaigrette, combine vinegar, oil, honey mustard, and garlic in a screw-top jar.
- Place the cap on, well secured, and shake well to blend.
- Place the squash halves in a large Dutch oven with about 2" of water.
- Bring to boiling.
- Cook, covered for 15-20 minutes,until tender.
- Meanwhile, place the well-drained lima beans, the well-drained kidney beans and the diced onion in a saucepan.
- Add in the roasted red sweet-pepper strips, the salt and the black pepper.
- Cook on a med-low heat.
- When the squash is done, use a fork to scrape the pulp from the shell, in strands, into a large serving bowl.
- Pour the vinaigrette over the beans, and toss to coat well.
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Hi all.
I have a device that scans successfully, and yet does not show up in inventory. I had trouble with the data record before and could not resolve it, so I deleted the device record and started over. After a successful scan (see attached PDF) the device does not show up in inventory. It feels like a corrupt database index problem to me.
Jun 4, 2009 at 2:02 UTC
As a workaround, I followed these steps:
1. I deleted the device record that had the wrong IP address.
2. I disabled the virtual host adapters that Parallels created.
3. I made a single entry for the problem device in the Scan Settings.
4. I scanned the device.
Now it shows up correctly. Even after re-enabling the Parallels adapters, subsequent scans correctly identify and use the primary adapters IP address.
I think this may have been something OS related, where the actual SSH query was returning bad information about what the primary adapter was.
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Jun 4, 2009 at 11:59 UTC
Does the device have a host name that is different in DNS than the ip address?
:^) Harold
Jun 4, 2009 at 12:18 UTC
Hi Harold.
It is a Macintosh, so DNS should not be an issue. Besides, other Apple devices have scanned successfully in the past, INCLUDING this one. I had noticed that certain information was not updating, and that the device was NOT part of the workstations group, EVEN THOUGH the device type was laptop (one of the criteria for the Workstations group).
When I compared the SQL device data with another device that WAS scanning correctly, I noticed quite a number of fields were different, so I first tried changing the data of the bad record to match the good one where things were different and shouldn't have been, but that still didn't work.
Finally, I gave up trying to fix the old record and deleted it in the Spiceworks interface, added a new scan entry with just that one device, scanned it, and got bug squat. That is where I am now.
It would help if I knew every SQL table that got touched when a device was added/deleted so I can go do all that manually, and then try again. Apparently Spiceworks is acting like the record already exists.
Jun 4, 2009 at 12:21 UTC
I found the record by name! Spiceworks apparently picked up on one of my Parallels Virtual Adapter IP addresses that Parallels adds to do it's networking. Odd, because those are not the primary adapters! The primary adapter is Ethernet.
I am going to look into this further.
Jun 4, 2009 at 12:57 UTC
Thanks for the update.
Jun 4, 2009 at 1:06 UTC
Hi Harold.
The problem persists. After deleting the device record, it recreates it upon the next scan, but it is using one of the Parallels virtual adapters IP addresses instead of the default adapters address.
It may be an issue with my SSH, I don't know. Can you tell me what SSH query you are using to determine the primary adapter's IP address?
Terminal response to NSLOOKUP is:
[LGOS-MP-Bobsneidar:~] robertsn% nslookup lgos-mp-bobsneidar
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 172.16.0.5, trying next server
Server: 220.127.116.11
Address: 126.96.36.199#53
** server can't find lgos-mp-bobsneidar: NXDOMAIN
[LGOS-MP-Bobsneidar:~] robertsn%
This is not a DNS failure it's something with the way the scanner is determining the primary IP address. This just started with BETA II but that could be coincidental.
I am going to try restarting my Apple and rescanning to see if anything changes.
Jun 4, 2009 at 1:27 UTC
You will need valid forward and reverse DNS entries for the device or Spiceworks will have problems discovering and classifying it correctly.
Jun 4, 2009 at 1:47 UTC
Hi Harold.
With all due respect, I do not think that is true. Spiceworks has not had problems scanning and rescanning our Apple OS X computers in the past, save for a new bug that had to do with the recent OS X update, which changed the timing on SSH queries. This of course had nothing to do with Spiceworks, it was an OS update that caused it. That has recently been addressed in BETA II.
But NEVER in the past has a scan used a secondary adapter IP address as the primary. This is quite new. And as far as DNS goes, if the Spiceworks scanner is hyper dependent on pristine DNS (as I have stated in prior posts) then it is a total bust for me. Very few people with large mixed networks have, or even CAN have an entry for every device on the network.
As I stated to Greg, I COULD round up all the names and IP addresses of every device on the network and manually type them into my Microsoft DNS, and afterwards I could poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick. I have over 600 devices and 4 domains that are not part of the same forest BY SPECIFIC REQUEST of the department admins, and not all of them were deployed by me. I fight a daily war to catch up with it all, and that is why I need Spiceworks.
Whatever the scanner ends up doing it CANNOT be critically dependent on DNS. Successful SSH queries into a UNIX device is ALL you need to determine everything you want to know about a device.
Jun 4, 2009 at 2:02 UTC
As a workaround, I followed these steps:
1. I deleted the device record that had the wrong IP address.
2. I disabled the virtual host adapters that Parallels created.
3. I made a single entry for the problem device in the Scan Settings.
4. I scanned the device.
Now it shows up correctly. Even after re-enabling the Parallels adapters, subsequent scans correctly identify and use the primary adapters IP address.
I think this may have been something OS related, where the actual SSH query was returning bad information about what the primary adapter was.
Jun 4, 2009 at 2:24 UTC
After hitting Rescan on the affected device and then reviewing the finder_re log, it appears that indeed, Spiceworks is failing to find the device in DNS, although it tries really, really hard.
But then it tries to PING the device by name. Now oddly, it pings it using a non-FQDN name. lgos-mp-bobsneidar will NEVER return a ping reply. I have also noticed that Windows does not recognize the mDNS local zone. Very odd.
I am going to try to add Bonjour for Windows to the Spiceworks server and see if that helps.
Jun 4, 2009 at 2:31 UTC
Allrighty then! It appears that after installing Bonjour for Windows (freely available from Apple) that I can ping mDNS names from the Spiceworks Server!
SOOO... That means you can install Bonjour for Windows as part of the Spiceworks install, and then update the scanner to try to ping devices using the local zone as a last resort when regular DNS fails.
I realize this is a feature request, but you might wanna run that by the scanner software developer and see what he thinks of it.
Jun 4, 2009 at 3:09 UTC
Thanks for all of your help and suggestions, I will pass them along to the developer.
:^) Harold


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If I stop eating refined sugar, and stop eating wheat, the cravings stop too!
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When M.A.S.K. was being aired in the Netherlands they started the series with this episode. With pride! It would be better if it was left on the shelf. If only they did some more research about the Netherlands. Now this episode is complete nonsense to every Dutch person who has seen it.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Given all the Emmy submission gamesmanship this season, it's worth checking in on which strategies were successful and which failed to deliver that golden nomination.
The most high-profile Emmy strategists this year were the "Modern Family" cast. The ensemble submitted solely in the supporting actor and actress comedy categories. That worked great: They earned five nominations.
Well, it worked great for everyone except Ed O'Neill, arguably the catalyst behind the mass movement. As the biggest star of the bunch, he could have submitted in the lead category without too much political fallout -- but he didn't and now he's out of the running altogether. Some may call it a "Married ... with Children" curse; neither O'Neill nor his former leading lady Katey Sagal ("Sons of Anarchy") got a nod this year, despite heavy tipping in their direction.
"Mad Men" employed a more successful strategy. January Jones was submitted as lead actress, leaving the road clear for Elisabeth Moss to vie for supporting. Both got what they wanted, and Christina Hendricks' addition in the supporting category is a red-headed cherry on top.
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After decades of work and millions of dollars invested by the international community, Haiti remains one of the most environmentally degraded countries on earth. With 98% of Haiti's forests already gone, the UN estimates that 30% of the nations remaining trees are being destroyed each year. The majority of Haiti's population uses charcoal as their primary cooking fuel, and charcoal production is a major cause of the continued deforestation of Haiti. This deforestation magnifies the effects of hurricanes and contributes to soil degradation which leaves people without anyway to farm their food.
The 2010 earthquake caused a major setback to Eden's work in Haiti, but we are starting again! We have established solid relationships with over 50 schools across Haiti and with Haiti Providence University. Implementation of our new plan for Haiti began in the summer of 2013 with the training of 500 Haitian elementary teachers in the skills needed to start a small nursery and grow seedlings at their schools. The teachers will incorporate their new skills into their curriculum through lessons in environmental science and by providing their students with hands on experience growing seedlings of their own. We were also joined by a team from Rochester, NY this summer to put up the fence that surrounds the area that will become a seedling nursery at Providence University.


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Operating with the mission to provide a forum wherein women may enter into an exchange of philosophies, with an enlarged and diverse circle of friends and acquaintances, for the purpose of attaining success in business and in life, The Women's Network Exchange of Arizona offers open membership to any women who considers herself a professional and is willing to give of her time and experience to further the growth of WNEA and the women of Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Relics & Rods of Lake Havasu actively supports the local community through contributions made possible via their annual Run to the Sun Car Show held the 3rd week of October. Host to weekly cruises, bowling teams, garage parties, cook offs and car shows, this group's success has enabled them to contribute well over $400,000 to our Local Charities, Organizations and Individuals in need of assistance.
Kiwanis clubs focus on changing the world by serving children, one child and one community at a time. To do this, many clubs also sponsor a Kiwanis family club—K-Kids for primary school children; Builders Clubs for adolescents; Key Clubs for teens; CKI clubs for university students and Aktion Clubs for adults living with disabilities—to reach more people and have a greater service impact on their communities.


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LG didn't get into the tablet business seriously until recently, when they unveiled the 8.3-inch G Pad. Well, that might have been enough for Google to choose LG for manufacturing the successor to the Nexus 10. A couple of images have been posted on Reddit by a user who claims to work at Spanish carrier Telefonica, showing off a mock-up of a Nexus 10 made by LG and with a design similar to the original Nexus 10.
The render reveals a front-facing speaker beneath the display, along with model number LG-V510. It's running Android 4.4 KitKat (as expected), along with the Google Experience Launcher – the new launcher is currently exclusive to the Nexus 5 only, and it would make sense to make it available as an exclusive on the newest Nexus tablet as well. Lastly, according to a separate image posted by another Reddit user, Google will be launching the new Nexus 10 on November 22nd in both Wi-Fi-only, 3G and LTE variants, with the pricing starting at £299.
An LG-V510 passed Bluetooth certification back in early October, and the similarity to the G Pad's model number suggests the tablet in the images is in fact the rumored 8-inch Nexus tablet. Of course, it could also mean that the LG-V510 is simply a G Pad variant, or it could even be the 2013 Nexus 10 with hardware similar to the G Pad, but at this point, it's best to take all this information with a pinch of salt.
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NFC Times Exclusive Insight – With contactless card payment growing more popular in Europe and high-profile NFC mobile-payments services such as Apple Pay starting to gain a foothold there, payment schemes are preparing to significantly raise or eliminate caps on transaction value to try to encourage even more growth in contactless and NFC payments.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Visa maintains that its offer to waive tokenization fees for the long term is designed to simplify the connections between thousands of card issuers and such wallet providers as Google and, perhaps later, Apple, thus driving widespread rollouts of mobile-payments services.
UPDATED: NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Relatively little noticed amid the widespread coverage of Google's unveiling of its new Android Pay platform last week are the continued tokenization plays by major payment networks, Visa and MasterCard Worldwide, including Visa's announcement of a new tokenization program and pricing policies, geared toward such platforms as Android Pay.
NFC Times Exclusive – MasterCard Worldwide has named James Anderson group executive for platforms, a key position inside the payment network, which is seeking to secure its role in the ecosystem as mobile payments start to gather steam, NFC Times has learned.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Following a lull in attention on host-card emulation with the announcement and launch of Apple Pay in the latter half of last year, the buzz appears to be back on HCE, and among the latest organizations promoting it is MasterCard Worldwide.
NFC Times Exclusive – MasterCard Worldwide and EMVCo are working on a "payment identifier" that could cover all tokens for a particular card account issued to consumers, according to the payment network.
Capital One Financial's vice president of digital commerce has spelled out publicly for the first time why the large U.S. credit card issuer dropped its support for the Isis Wallet and also revealed the bank's early role with MasterCard Worldwide in developing host-card emulation for payments.
Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, said it plans to launch NFC-mobile payments with host-card emulation this fall, the first major bank to disclose plans for an HCE launch.
The launch of a QR code-based mobile wallet by Hungary's largest bank, OTP Bank, and Hungary-based mobile-payments technology supplier Cellum, along with MasterCard Worldwide, is not expected to interfere with plans by the bank to launch NFC-mobile payments later in 2014.
BARCELONA, Spain– MasterCard Worldwide announced it has acquired U.S.-based mobile wallet vendor C-SAM, a company in which it had made a sizable investment in late 2012.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Alipay is expanding acceptance in another overseas market, Russia, seeking to capture business from Chinese tourists who travel to the country.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple Tuesday disclosed plans to launch its mobile payments service in four more small markets, including three countries in the Nordics, with the tech giant seeing higher usage of Apple Pay outside of the U.S., where NFC-enabled POS terminals are still not widely available.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Research firm eMarketer predicts that mobile peer-to-peer payments in the U.S. will grow by 55% to more than $120 billion in 2017, an amount that is expected to double by 2021.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Mastercard has launched an initiative to encourage retailers in New Zealand to adopt contactless payments, noting that nearly three-quarters of New Zealanders use contactless.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Although Bank of America announced that its customers would "soon" be able to use the PayPal Wallet to pay for purchases in stores using NFC, a bank spokeswoman has told NFC Times that the NFC-enabled wallet might not even be available next year.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – With the widespread use of Uber and launch of the Amazon Go experiment, some payments industry observers are predicting it might not be too long before invisible payments comes to brick-and-mortar stores.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – While such smartwatches as the Apple Watch are routinely provisioned with payments cards after they are in the hands of consumers, that hasn't been the case for low-tech analog watches. Swatch Pay could change that.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple, which is losing its battle badly for market share in China's huge mobile payments market, has launched one week of generous promotions in hopes it can begin to turn the tide.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – PayPal is believed to have cut its deal with Samsung to be part of the Samsung Pay wallet mainly to gain access to the device maker's MST technology, enabling consumers to pay in stores with their PayPal accounts without having to look for an NFC-enabled POS terminal.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – China's two large mobile payments services, Alipay and WeChat Pay, continue to roll out acceptance in Europe, North America and other parts of Asia, as they follow Chinese tourists to these destinations.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – Danske Bank's MobilePay service in Denmark is one of the few mobile-wallet success stories globally, though on a small scale. Now the bank is planning to expand to other Nordic countries and seeks to continue to use BLE technology, not NFC, to enable the in-store piece of its mobile payments service.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Visa says it plans to support QR code-based mobile payments late next year in Taiwan–a market where all three major "Pays" wallets have launched supporting Visa-branded cards with NFC.


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In the last episode of Kawach, we had seen the Pari getting back to the home and gets shocked to hear that Rajbeer is talking to take divorce from Pari. Pari gets shocked and thinks that what this all going on here. She goes inside and everyone gets shocked to see her there. Pari questions Rajbeer that what are you thinking about and what is going on in your mind. Rajbeer starts complaining Pari and ask that where she was from six months. Pari says that she didn't remember anything. Rajbeer tells her that how he kill Manjulika and Saudamini.
He starts dragging her out and Dadi stops him. Dadi says to Pari that you have to stay here with us. Later on, Kabir gets a call from Shreya and she tells him that she is unable to manage the situation in the house. Tipsa is finding her doll and the doll falls to the ground. Later in the night Pari is with Tipsa and finding her doll. They didn't find the doll and then Pari takes Tipsa to the room. Pari then goes to meet Rajbeer and then the doll come to Tipsa. The doll gets supernatural powers and it asks Tipsa to follow the rules of a shadow.
Later on, Shreya tells Pari that she is pregnant. All the family members get shocked by this. Rajbeer is taking Shreya out. Pari makes him understand and Pari asks to call Kabir. Next day Kabir come to the house and says that I can't marry Shreya before my sister will not get married. Tipsi is on terrace screams for help to Dadi. Dadi goes on the terrace and gets shocked to see the cycle moving automatically. She saves Tipsa and Tipsa takes the doll then.
Pari says to Kabir that you have to marry Shreya. Kabir then says that I made Shreya understand many times to abort the baby. He starts making excuses and he starts telling a story of her sister's marriage. They are then leaving from there but Rajbeer stops them and says that I will marry Kabir's sister. Pari looks on and Kabir smirks. Pari tries to make Rajbeer understand but he leaves and Pari cries.
In today's episode, we are going to see Tipsa's life is getting in danger. Now it will be interesting to see what will Pari do save the family and her love life. Stay tuned with us for more updates and gossips of Kawach like this.


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The WISCN was formed in 2012 and comprises representatives from CECA, British Water, BPF, CPSA, UKSTT, HBF, NSA, E&USkills, Pipe Jacking Association, Pipeline Industries Guild, Clay Pipes Association, Water Industry Forum . The aims of the group are to:
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The secretariat is provided by the Future Water Association and meetings are held at Network members' premises.
Chairman – Phill Mills, Policy Consulting Ltd
The formation of the Private Sewers Focus Group in 2011 had resulted from various meetings and discussions held within the sector following the Government announcement confirming the transfer of private sewers to the water companies. The Focus Group engaged closely with DEFRA and the water companies during that period and supported the Future Water Association 'Meet the Buyer' event for the supply chain to meet face to face with the water companies/Tier 1 contractors.
Since the Transfer (although with many issues still to be addressed) the Focus Group has extended its activities and was renamed the 'Drains, Sewers & SuDS Forum (DSSF)' in 2012. Representation on the Forum comes from UKSTT, NSA, British Water, HBF, Pipeline Industries Guild, CPSA, CCWater, EUSkills, Clay Pipes Association, BPF, UK Drainage Forum . The aims of the Forum are:
- To provide the opportunity for representatives to meet to discuss common issues/concerns and to formulate and agree actions to address these.
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Working Groups/Forums
The following is a list of current Working Groups/Forums established within the Society. Ad hoc groups are formed on particular topics and disbanded once objectives have been reached.
Chairman – Gordon Lyon, CSTS
The Future Water Association Health & Safety Group comprises member company representatives who are committed to promoting the improvement of H&S standards within all Future Water Association member companies. This is achieved by offering support, assistance and encouragement to those member companies who may not have the necessary H&S resource or expertise to carry out this function competitvely. The Group uses its strengths to shape and influence key decision makers within the HSE and industry organisations, to improve the reputation of the water industry.
Key areas of activity include:
- recording and collating 'near miss' incidents and disseminating to members on a regular basis
- Lobbying industry organisations to raise awareness of Future Water Association member activities
- Being an influential participant on industry working groups and providing guidance and expertise to those industry organisations
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The aim of the Export Working Group is to advance the common interests of all members who are currently involved in exporting activities or who are researching the possibilities of moving into the export market. Its key objectives are to identify:
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- To share experiences of exporting in different countries
Chairman – Dene Marshallsay, Artesia Consulting
The Meter Manufacturers Group formed in 1998 and consisted at that time of the four main UK Meter Manufacturers; Actaris Metering Systems; Elster Metering; Severn Trent Metering Systems; and Sensus Metering Systems. Following widespread industry discussions regarding the role that upgraded metering technology could play in meeting industry and government objectives for the industry the Intelligent Metering Initiative (IMI) was established. The IMI's aims were to help the industry understand the potential value of intelligent metering, address the challenges of implementing a long term metering asset base which can take advantage of intelligent metering and in doing so help the industry gain the maximum value from its metering strategies.
Membership of the IMI was open to companies and organisations who were involved in the provision, use, or regulation of metering, AMR or intelligent metering. The IMI undertook a range of projects and produced a number of project reports, some of which were printed under the UKWIR banner. Following the formation of the Smart Metering Advisory Group by Ofwat and the Water UK Smart Metering Working Group, the IMI closed down. Since that time, the Future Water Association Metering Group has developed into a Member's Forum, encompassing the meter manufacturers and the wider supply chain involved in metering and leakage activity.
Its aims and objectives are to advance the common interests of all stakeholders in the UK water metering industry by:
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- Maintaining a presence in the energy smart metering arena and interaction with DECC
- Identifying the key challenges and opportunities now and in the future in the leakage and metering areas of the industry
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LEAKAGE WORKING GROUP (in conjunction with the Smart Metering Suppliers Forum)
Future Water Association members are in the main split between contractors and manufacturers, and as such are heavily involved in working with water companies in developing better ways to target the activity of leakage detection engineers and manage the network to minimise risk of bursts occurring. There is a substantial amount of experience of all aspects of leakage management within Future Water Association and the Society is recognised as a source of expertise and information.
The Group commenced its popular one-day annual seminars in 1999. These informative and thought-provoking seminars attract a wide spectrum of industry representatives seeking opportunities to broaden their knowledge as well as network with similar minded individuals.
Previously the Specialist Products & Services Group.
Chairman – Alastair Moseley, J Murphy & Sons - H20WEM
Smaller companies have always played an important part in maintaining the Water Companies within the United Kingdom. These companies offer high quality skills, have a vast working knowledge of the plant and systems in use and are dedicated to offering a high quality and responsive personal service. Together they employ a vast number of highly knowledgeable and greatly skilled people.
Future Water Association formed the Innovation & Development (I&D) Group primarily aimed at those smaller contracting companies to identify the issues they are facing and offer a self-help debating forum. A number of issues have been identified, covering working practices, conformity, payments, conditions, insurance and legislation. The I&D Group list the following as its aims:
- The promotion of group members within the Society of its specialist services and supplies and to other organisations outside of Future Water Association
- Offer specialist support and help to other members
- Build and develop relationships within the Society and outside organisations
- Develop a range of liaison/innovation meetings with the water companies/Tier 1 contractors
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Not every city will offer a raucous arena filled with giddy fans.
There were still plenty of No. 24 jerseys in the Target Center crowd but Wednesday marked the most muted stop in six road games since Kobe Bryant announced his end-of-season retirement.
There were pockets of empty seats and a brief, simple pregame video when he was introduced before the Lakers played the Minnesota Timberwolves.
It was kind of understandable. There wasn't much history between Bryant and the Timberwolves, other than the Lakers ending their dreams of an NBA Finals appearance with a 4-2 victory in the 2004 Western Conference finals.
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Marinated Steaks With Beer and 4 Peppers
Recipe by Boomette
This is a recipe I made a few years ago. This is from Jean-Francois Plante.
Top Review by Cook4_6
My family enjoyed this, but wasn't ecstatic about it like many of the marinated steak recipes I have made from recipezaar. I am sure it is just personal taste; it was definitely overly peppered for our tastes; next time I might cut that in half. Secondly, the sauce never thickened for me; so I might not have done something correct as well. I can definitely see how others might enjoy this more than I did. I served it with baked potato, salad, and sauteed mushrooms. I cooked the steak on the grill.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 (8 ounce) rump steak (or any steak you want)
- 1 (12 ounce) bottle beer
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1⁄2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 french shallots, minced
- 1 tablespoon whole grain mustard
- 2 tablespoons pepper, cracked (a blend of four pepper is requested)
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 10 ounces beef consomme
- 1⁄2 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon oil
Directions See How It's Made
- Place steaks in a shallow pan or in an hermetic bag. Set aside.
- In a bowl, mix all the ingredients of the marinade. Pour on the steaks, cover or close the bag. Let marinate in the fridge for 6 hours or overnight.
- Remove the steaks from the marinade (keep the marinade). Drain well and set aside.
- Pour the marinade in a saucepan and bring to boil. Add beef consomme and let simmer 5 minutes at medium heat. Add the cream and let simmer again 5 minutes or until the sauce has thicken and is creamy.
- Meanwhile, in a skillet, melt the butter with the oil. Brown the steaks 4 to 5 minutes each side for rare. (you can cook them on the barbecue I guess).
- Serve the steaks with sauce on top. These steaks are great with mashed potatoes.


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Charles Porter
Parish Administrator
Office: 202-363-8286
Charles is an experienced church administrator and a musician. He prepares all service bulletins, announcements and This Week @ St. Alban's. He oversees the maintenance of our buildings and grounds and reserves space for meetings and events. He also updates and oversees our website and our database.
Office hours: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Doug Dykstra
Director of Finance
Office: 202-363-8286 x209
Doug is the contact for questions about pledging and contributing to St. Alban's. Talk to Doug about matching gifts, foundation grants, gifts of securities, bequests, the Phoebe Nourse Legacy Society. In partnership with the treasurer, Doug keeps track of the church's finances, including the operating budget, endowment and reserve fund.
Justin Boyer
Interim Director of Music
Office: 202-363-8286 Ext. 205
Justin joined the staff in August 2016 as our part-time music director. A composer, professor, pianist, and organist, Justin is a member of the music faculty at Montgomery College in Rockville. He previously served as Director of Music at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baltimore.
Jo Turner
Lay Pastoral Care Coordinator
Office: 202-363-8286 Ext. 203
Jo has spent the last 35 years working in hospice, palliative care and grief support. As a volunteer, she has been a Stephen Ministry Leader here at St. Alban's. This new staff position integrates her faith journey and her passion for community caregiving. Jo coordinates care for the sick, the homebound, and those experiencing other needs.
Arrien Davison
Program Assistant
Office: 202-363-8286 Ext. 207
Armando Piñeda
Armando and his wife, Virginia, keep our buildings looking great. They help set up for parish events, from the weekly Sunday forums to special occasions like the annual Gala and Christmas Dinner.
David Johnson
Volunteer Coordinator
Office: 202-363-8286 Ext. 210
A long-time member of St. Alban's, David helps coordinate volunteers and assists with office duties.