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by Anne Bilodeau
The Computer News Daily site was packing 'em in, drawing 60,000 hits a day. A 2,000-publication mother lode of technical information and columns, including regular writings by proto-hacker Bill Gates, New York Times-backed CND was one of the year's hottest launches on the Web. The site gave visitors lots of interactive options. Users could search the site's rich database, jump to other computer pages, or exchange views in the site's chat area.
Then some Unix hacker with spleen to vent decided to take the publishing giant down a peg. First, the site's server began to slow. Then it crawled. Then the system gummed up like an engine whose oil hadn't been changed for years, and just about stood still. Within a day, the rueful Webmasters running the site had to bring the server off-line, scrub it clean, and put in a new firewall.
The faceless bomber simply clogged the server with millions of copies of a mundane chat message, probably by attaching Unix commands to the chat area's overflow buffer, security experts say. This trick was a decade old when Morris brought the Net to a crawl with his infamous worm, but it still worked.
"This isn't genius hacking, just a simple program that was designed to fill up a server," said William Adler, a spokesman for the Information Services Group, which runs the site. Maybe so, but it had an impact. As of this writing, the chat area still isn't running, though Computer News Daily was back up in days.
Any network site can be hacked, security experts concede. But interactivity brings new risks. The chat areas, electronic commerce, and automatic e-mail response forms that make a site sizzle can also make it vulnerable, experts say. The easier it is for outsiders to talk directly to your server--to search for an order, review a membership list, or even fill out a form--the more you open the door to the bored, malicious, or criminally minded.
As Web sites transform simple cyberspace print ads to interactive feature-packed mini-online services, they become more attractive to outsiders: both the teenager on an idle vandalistic joyride, and the corporate criminal after the customer list on your Oracle database.
Expect hackers to try everything old Unix crackers did, plus a whole new range of hair-raising pranks, attacks, and old-fashioned theft. Invaders can yank your graphics and replace them with lurid cartoons, remove your password file, and dig into your internal databases. Hackers will try to slide into your internal network and post your financials on the Internet--and if they succeed, it will only be the most recent in a string of similar incidents.
"Why not singe the hairs of Net newcomers?", hackers ask. Old-timers haven't forgotten who used to be the boss of the electronic underground, and they aren't exactly fond of seeing corporate messages strewn across their once-private preserve. "Commercialism and pop culture threaten the structure and status quo of the Net," said one hacker via anonymous e-mail. "Moreover, hackers have never been treated well by the private sector and have a few axes to grind."
There's no magic bullet that will protect your site from every possible hack, of course. It's just that there has never been a better time to get your house in order, and what's more, defend yourself against the inevitable problems that will almost certainly occur. You may not even know when you've been invaded, and the break-in may be simply a once-over walkthrough by some bored college sophomore, but you should expect to be hacked, experts insist.
You can't afford to slam the interactive door shut; there's no question that Web users want sites to be a magic window into the company, not just a floating print ad. But if you open the door a bit, the malicious few will squeeze in. Like the eternal return of crabgrass to suburban lawns, pranksters, crashers, and the occasional serious criminal will inevitably keep scanning your site for weaknesses. In this article, we offer a few strategies to protect your site from the crackers' latest caprices.
Ask around a hacker chat room, and they'll swear that cracking Web sites is mundane, a deadly bore. Sometimes it seems that half the folks who consider themselves "hackers"--clever meddlers with the intricacies of living code, not the antisocial destructors referred to as "crackers"--have gotten jobs as Webmasters or Internet developers themselves. Kind of like a bunch of Vietnam vets getting jobs coaching Oliver Stone movies.
But there's still resentment in the #hack channel in Internet Relay Chat, and a few angry people who'd love to show the corporate powers on the Net the door.
After the fall from grace of Phiber Optik, Kevin Mitnick, and other hacker demigods, it seems that many who might have the skills to conduct major break-ins expend their energy on pettier--but for a Web storefront owner more worrisome--experiments with their Unix skills.
There should be about 500,000 new Web sites up by the end of this year alone, according to projections by Seattle, Wash.-based Internet Solutions Inc. That figure should double to about 1 million by mid-1996, ISI said. Folks who might have put all of their energy into finding a back door into the Department of Defense now have their pick of visible, sometimes amateurishly set-up Web servers to rifle. Even if the files on the server for East Waukegan Shoe Sellers aren't too sexy, they're relatively easy to reach, and a ready opportunity for newer crackers to count coup in front of their peers.
"Mom and Pop's hardware store is just as interesting as Super-Mega-Corp if you just want to know how Unix works," said Chris Goggans, an Austin, Texas-based Internet security consultant and editor of "Phrack," an underground hacker magazine based on the Web.
"[Commercial] sites are easy targets, because many are small businesses who hear 'infobahn' and decide they want a Web site," agreed "Anonymous." "So they pull in a consultant and get him to set up a Solaris box and put pretty graphics on there. Unfortunately, they leave the box in a corner or perhaps add a dial-up so that their employees can write proposals out of it . . . ," leaving them nearly wide-open.
Of course, if the hacking community thinks your site is insulting, they'll be all over it. Witness the site that MGM/UA has set up to promote the recent movie Hackers whose movie-poster graphics were yanked, scribbled over with wiry hair and demon-neon eyes, and jammed back onto the server by members of the Internet Liberation Front. The site's developers tried reloading the original art, but the invaders kept replacing the front page, which included a few sentence promoting the movie, with grotesquely funny artwork and text lambasting the movie. The mutilated poster served as the convention poster for this year's DefCon, the ultimate hacker convention, whose bust-and-seizure-weary slogan is "Can you spot the Fed?"
Not all break-ins are catastrophic. In fact, a site administrator may not even know that an unauthorized presence passed through if they don't knock over the virtual chairs. Goggans, himself a high-profile Unix hacker known online as "Erik Bloodaxe," says that most server prowlers are likely to be relatively harmless, teenagers who wouldn't recognize hot business information if it bit them.
That's because many of the methods for breaking into Web servers are relatively simple, standard Unix hacks that have been around for nearly as long as there's been an Internet. The security holes can be head-slappingly obvious, but overlooked in a new business's eagerness to get started. One glaring example: Crackers may gain access because a site administrator didn't change the manufacturer's default passwords for the server. Anyone who uses the same machine will automatically know how to become superuser. User ID root and password root work far too often, note many experts. In other words, sites often haven't taken care of even the most obvious precautions, and that's what leaves them open to uninvited guests, not some elaborate scheme.
"By and large, you get into someone's system because they didn't lock the door," said Richard Ford of NCSA. "It's like coming up to a car and finding the door open, keys inside, and it's gassed up too." As a site become more interactive, more subtle but nonetheless well-known hacks are possible. Protocols like telnet, finger, and FTP have always opened up a server--and the networks attached to that server--to attack from outside. Forms have given unwelcome visitors yet more windows to pry and locks to pick. The increasing chatter between Web servers and browers like Netscape and Mosaic allows invaders to slide in unwelcome gifts like the New York Times' chat bug.
Typical firewalls don't always help, noted David Dalva of Glenwood, Maryland-based Trusted Information Systems in a paper last year. Some developers are considering writing the newer FTP server implementations and other protocols to include a HTTP server in the distributed code, allowing more efficient (and safe) access, but these projects are not finished yet, according to information on the W3 Consortium's site.
For the moment, most URLs support several resource types, including file, FTP, HTTP, gopher, WAIS, NNTP, mailto, telnet, and rlogin, while protective firewalls may permit only a subset of these resources to pass through the barrier. "Since Web servers provide these services independent of their normal mechanisms [independently of the normal FTP channels, for example], it is possible to bypass a firewall's security policy by using Web services," Dalva warned.
Client software from godknowswhere zaps in. The user is talking to the root level on the Web server. It has to--a Web server has to run on port 80, and only root can attach to port 80. For a split second, at least, the user is the superuser, manipulating your machine. Yes, basic stuff--everybody who configures servers knows this.
What's often forgotten, experts say, is that if the attaching process isn't handled properly, a cracker can take control in nothing flat. Sysadmins or developers can write a routine that will switch the client immediately from root access to "nobody" with few permissions, but they don't typically do it.
A user who wants to break in can use this root access to get control of the machine, and perhaps gain access to the corporate network attached to the server. That can lead to splashy public relations disasters, as happened to General Electric. The electronics giant's face is still pink from last year, when crackers broke in through its Internet server and made data from its internal network public.
Once a user is inside the server, conducting standard activities such as entering data into forms, there is another world of harms that are at least possible. Invaders can do huge amounts of damage just by pushing the capability of forms or other protocols that provide a fixed buffer. Fill up the buffer in a form or chat area, add some assembly-level commands to the space after the buffer, and you can sometimes command the machine.
"The buffer overflow problem is the cause of 90 percent of all bugs in Internet software," said Dave Zuhn, an applications engineer with Roseville, Minnesota based Secure Computing Corp. "Once you overrun a fixed boundary, all bets are off. If you know what you're doing, you can get into the computer." Crackers can often exploit CGI scripts by overflowing a buffer. If they do gain access to the data channeled by the CGI script, they often end up with particularly sensitive proprietary information.
Imagine a form that collects customer data, and shunts the data to an Oracle database using a relatively simple script. The invading cracker will watch gleefully as the script taps into the database, and then gains access to the Oracle server as well.
The problem with CGI scripts, Zuhn said, is that they tend to be seen as a quick task to be run informally for the convenience of the programmer. "Most people who write CGI aren't defensive enough about their programming style to cope with all of the different ways information is handled."
In sum, Web servers typically aren't very secure, experts say. But that's just because the people who configured the server haven't methodically worked through the obvious problems.
Consider each of the following issues when configuring your Web server, or conducting a security review, consultants and hackers advise. Some may seem insultingly obvious, but "it's amazing how often people haven't done the easy stuff," said one hacker.
Encrypting a password into a URL does have one downside: If a user bookmarks that URL, and the bookmark file is stolen, the thief gains access to the protected site. Nonetheless, he says, encrypted URLs are still an improvement over ordinary named paths. "Encrypted URLs are another way to make things more difficult for hackers to get to, as they don't really know where they are going," Domengeaux says.
During a session, all programs will be automatically restricted by DTE. Client programs can only read or modify file types appropriate to the domain, rather than the free-for-all that a cracked site has often yielded before. Even if a cracker logs on and unleashes malicious code, viruses, or programming bugs, he or she can only affect files at the given access level. Automatic processes that run in the background are also restricted, making it even harder for crackers to slide through the cracks.
For the moment, most hackers agree, there are far more challenging things to do than crack your Web site. An America Online break-in could bring a cracker long-lived fame, while a prowl through a florist's Unix box may evoke a yawn. But don't wait for the fashion to change, or the flow of electronic commerce to attract the attention of prowlers. You may not notice a problem until it's too late.


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We went to Hartsdale Garden, on Rt. 100 just north of the four corners, for dim sum this past weekend. Since the last time we'd been there for dim sum, they completely changed their menu. The new selection is about four times as large, and they're now bringing round choices on carts. Pretty much everything we tried was good. Not great, but good. I was particularly pleased by the rice noodle rolls filled with beef, bitter melon stuffed with shrimp, a sort of seafood pancake coated with crispy shreds of taro, and fried seafood dumplings. My father-in-law loved the chicken feet. With four people, we were able to try about half of their offerings, so we're planning to go back to try the other half.
A generous meal ran about $15 per person.

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In yesterday's front-page piece on Rolf Harris's new portrait of the Queen (Rolf's secret: the Mona Lisa effect) we referred to the sitter as HRH. As the stylebook notes, "If it is necessary to say so, she is Her Majesty or HM, never HRH."
Our analysis of the Crisis Christmas pudding, Food, G2, page 20, December 16, said that Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas pudding in 1664. Cromwell did ban Christmas festivities, but not in 1664. The ban was first imposed in 1647. Cromwell died in 1658.
The Doonesbury strip, page 29, G2, December 19, was accidentally repeated on December 20. There is a double dose of Doonesbury in today's G2, making good the deficit.
The reference to "a fibbing Fettes alumni", a column, page 7, G2, yesterday, mistakenly used the masculine plural instead of the singular, alumnus (masc); alumna (fem), alumnae (fem pl), something which readers (plural) were quick to point out.
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Six months after he was exposed for having an affair with his biographer, former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus is moving on to what is slowly becoming the first step in rehabbing a disgraced public image. Like Eliot Spitzer before him, Petraeus will teach a course on public policy at City University of New York. CUNY took on Spitzer as a political-science professor in 2009, one year after he resigned from his post as New York governor when his patronage of prostitutes was publicized.


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So when I first read about template metaprogramming I said. "Humm, this is interesting!" But the more I read about it, the more it seems a that most of its functionallity could be replaced with a iterative for loop and a command to the compiler"unroll loops". Beyond that, its uses seem pretty trivial.
Am I missing something here? Is this like Bayes theorem where you REALLY have to get it before you see the uses for it?


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I'm posting looking for anybody who has been through this and might have, and be willing to share, a due diligence checklist customized for buying a web-based business?
I've started creating one but it feels like I'm recreating the wheel.


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The grumpiest old man
September 26, 2012
At 82, Clint Eastwood is taking advantage of his dotage to fill the curmudgeon vacancy left by Walter Matthau. As Gus, an old-school baseball scout, his character has good reason to be aggravated. Gus's vision is deteriorating, he disdains the computer stats touted as today's wisdom and the Atlanta Braves aren't likely to renew the contract, due to expire in three months, that provides his only pleasure and purpose in life. Like him, Gus's daughter Mickey is swallowed up by her career, coming by only to check on Gus's health and to offer unwanted advice.
Gus's relationship with Mickey changes when he goes on what may be his last scouting trip to Ohio where he's checking out Bo Gentry (Joe Massingill), an arrogant high school slugger and possible first-round pick, already charging $35 per autograph. Following a candid discussion about her dad with Braves' scouting manager Pete Klein (John Goodman), Mickey (Amy Adams) decides to join Dad. Gus protests until deciding to take advantage of her sharp eyesight.
The film, featuring little baseball play, but loaded with baseball talk and philosophy, is about loving the game and hating those determined to replace guts, instinct and observation with numbers spit out by computers. Surprisingly, some of these points are made best by Mickey, and her love interest (a generic character played by Justin Timberlake).
Other than "go away" and "don't," Gus is a man of few words, leaving Mickey feeling she has never earned his love and approval. Late in the film, Gus admits his neglect of Mickey, along with his reason for leaving her with relatives. This admission, as well as several revelations, intended to tie the story up in a feel-good bow, are unconvincing. Rather, the pleasures in "Trouble With the Curve," abound in its small moments and in Eastwood's expressive performance.
Anyone over the age of 40 will harken back to an era when much information was gathered from newspapers and face-to-face contact. True, we've gained a wealth of instant knowledge from our omnipresent 4G connections, but let's take a moment to also consider what we've lost.


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Didn't see it posted anywhere but may have missed it.
Its not a huge deal but we lost the tie breaker for draft position yet again
RT @SmithRaps NBA breaks ties for draft pick order, Raps lose to Chicago and will have the 20th pick.RT @chadfordinsider: Chicago (48-34) won tiebreaker w/Toronto. Portland (54-28) won a tiebreaker w/ Miami & Houston; Houston then won a tie-breaker w/ Miami


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Nats Fall in Philly
The Washington Nationals offense was kept in check Tuesday night, losing to the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1. Cole Hamels pitched a complete game, scattering 5 hits and striking out 6 for his 4th win of the season. Livan Hernandez (3-3) took the loss for Washington after allowing 4 runs on 10 hits in 6 1/3 innings.
Jayson Werth was held hitless, 0-3, in his first game in Philadelphia since signing a seven-year, $126 million contract with the Nationals in the offseason.
Washington's lone run came courtesy of Mike Morse's 2nd home run of the season.
Philadelphia shortstop Jimmy Rollins and first baseman Ryan Howard were a combined 4-8, with 2 RBI and 2 runs scored.


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There's a new boy in Elizabeth's class. He's sulky and grumpy. and he'll do anything to show Elizabeth up. She means to keep her temper, but it's not so easy for someone who was once the naughtiest girl in the school.
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Applications of the plant growth regulator (PGR) trinexapac-ethyl [4-(cyclopropyl-α-hydroxymethylene)-3,5-dioxocyclohexane carboxylic acid ethylester] (TE) can delay winter dormancy in 'Tifway' bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon), which suggests a response to TE when temperatures are suboptimum for bermudagrass growth. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interactive role of temperature and TE in bermudagrass growth responses, dormancy, and freezing tolerance. Trinexapac-ethyl (0.11 kg a.i. ha−1) was applied in two growth chamber experiments, and across a 2-yr period in the field. Results indicated that TE reduced vertical shoot growth and increased stolon production, turf density, and quality when applied at high temperatures (35–36°C). While TE effectively reduced vertical shoot growth at low (20–22°C) temperatures, little impact on stolon development was observed under these conditions. Autumn applications of TE when temperatures were cool (≈25°C) at the time of application led to decreased turfgrass density and quality. These responses may explain the effectiveness of using TE to aid in bermudagrass transition to overseeded cool-season grasses and were probably due to the limited ability of bermudagrass to recover from initial post-application growth reduction and observed leaf chlorosis. Observed delayed autumn dormancy due to summer applications of TE and accelerated dormancy due to late-season applications did not conclusively relate to the freezing tolerance of bermudagrass.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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Year of the Map
- Posted: December 31, 2012 at 3:55:17 PM
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Tell the story. That's what I keep repeating, in my head, to my co-workers, and every time I tap on the keyboard of my computer. For the last 365 days I've been thinking of ways to tell the tales of trails everywhere. No matter what the end result has been, the story always begins with people. While launching a new project for IMBA, I got to spend time with some really awesome folks who helped me put a few places on the map.
In early spring I headed south to ride with Mark from Birmingham who showed me the trails at Oak Mountain State Park. From there I chased Andy from Fayetteville, WV around the loops in New River Gorge.
On my next foray, Frank Maguire, IMBA's Mid-Atlantic Regional director, started following me. He appeared first in Lykens, PA on the Rattling Creek Epic and then later outside Harrisonburg, VA on the Southern Traverse.
Summer provided two 'epic' adventures. After a TCC reunion of sorts on the Maah Daah Hey in North Dakota, I jumped at the chance to ride the North Umpqua in Oregon where I made new friends in Tippi and Barb (who hail from Little Rock, AR).
Not wanting to miss fall colors anywhere, I made quick trips to the Wasatch Front and the Middle South. In Ogden I arrived just in time to see Trail Solutions adding to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. Soon after, I reconnected with Randy and Matt from Knoxville on a spectacular ride at Big South Fork National Recreation Area.
Year-end took me to Southern California. For a week I mapped trails in the San Bernardino National Forest with the help of Wayne, the uber-fit singlespeeder from Idyllwild. From there, I experienced one of my coolest rides ever with the San Diego Mountain Bike Association crew on Noble Canyon. And finally, I checked in on Chris Orr and the Santa Barbara Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers who continue to do important and effective work for trails and mountain bike advocacy.
So as 2012 closes, I think we're off to a great start. But there's no rest for the weary, and as 2013 lies ahead, we'll do our best to get more stories on the map.


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Women earn less than men in Nebraska, in part because the types of jobs women gravitate toward tend to have lower salaries. Two high-paying careers in particular have garnered a lot of attention for their gender disparities, but only one for the reasons you might think.
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Peggy Aycinena is a freelance journalist and Editor of EDA Confidential at www.aycinena.com. She can be reached at peggy at aycinena dot com.
Apocalypse soon: RISC-V channels mammals after the Asteroid
January 19th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Pretty dramatic stuff.
Hence it should not have been surprising, at the end of the 75-minute discussion on stage between Jim Hogan and Microsemi's Ted Speers and SiFive's Yunsup Lee, that I raised my hand and asked why Simon Segars was not in the room. After all, Simon Segars is both CEO of ARM and a key member of the Board of the Alliance that organized the Hogan-Speers-Lee program – a program where the emerging RISC-V movement was described as poised to upend the primacy of ARM etc.
Hogan responded to my question without answering: "Look, ARM is challenging by serving the low-cost processor market. License fees, royalty fees – that is what ARM wants for their low-power edge-based device. I think it was Simon, for example, who started talking to The Street about his economic strategy. It's not really about what the best technology is, but about the economics. This is what gets the traction, and ARM will respond in an economic way."
"Yes," Ted Speers added, "and Intel and Imagination will also respond."
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RISC-V: ESD Alliance to showcase Situational Irony on Jan 18th
January 5th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
In a nod to the best in situational irony, the Alliance is hosting an evening event in Silicon Valley on January 18th specifically to discuss this open source processor architecture, which per some has the potential to turn ARM's market dominance on its ear.
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IP Design Challenge: efabless & X-FAB promote Ingenuity, February deadline
December 7th, 2016 by Peggy Aycinena
What they're looking for are IP designs applicable to an ultra-low power voltage reference, and the companies are willing to make it worth your while.
If your design is one of the top three selected, you'll receive a monetary award and your IP will be made available to a global customer base through both X-FAB's IP web portal and efabless' online marketplace.
Best of all – you'll hold onto all rights for your submission.
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REUSE 2016: Addressing the Four Freedoms
November 24th, 2016 by Peggy Aycinena
There are four major issues that haunt the IP industry, four freedoms demanded by the diverse, global customer base that buys from the IP industry. If REUSE 2016 wants to become the forum for those who provide IP to those customers, all four of these issues need to be addressed on December 1st in one way or another.
Ridgetop Group & BaySand: Whole greater than Sum of Parts
November 17th, 2016 by Peggy Aycinena
Together the companies say they will "work cooperatively to develop a series of new applications to increase their existing mixed-signal IP portfolios."
Considering the growing emphasis on IP in the semiconductor supply chain, this news is of particular interest. The implication being IP companies need to provide design services to succeed. Ridgetop Group is an IP company, BaySand a design company. Together they provide what the market needs, good IP and design services tailored exactly to the system integration profile of a particular class of IP.
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DAC 2017: Deadlines for IP Submissions start November 15th
November 10th, 2016 by Peggy Aycinena
[NOTE: The December 14th date listed above is for invited Design Track & IP Track proposals. All other proposals for DAC 2017 Design Track & IP Track content can be submitted for review up until January 14, 2017. Thank you to DAC Press Chair Michelle Clancy for this important clarification.]
In other words, if you want to present within the IP Track at the 54th Design Automation Conference, you need to get going now.
The committee that will be overseeing review of these proposals is being headed up by Lattice Semiconductor's Claude Moughanni – his group taking seriously their role in assembling an IP program that's both informative and cutting edge.
Moughanni's committee members include IPnest's Eric Esteve, Synopsys' Marc Greenberg, ARM's Simon Rance, Freescale's Henning Spruth, Mentor's Farzad Zarrinfar, Intel's Ty Garibay, Samsung's Kelvin Low, Silvaco's Warren Savage, and Cadence's Karamveer Yadav – an impressive group who are indeed subject experts.
So, why should you go to all the effort to submit something for review by this group? Is there really any benefit in taking the time to participate at DAC, next year or ever?
Read the rest of DAC 2017: Deadlines for IP Submissions start November 15th
REUSE 2016: Glamor Touches IP, at last
November 3rd, 2016 by Peggy Aycinena
"REUSE 2016 is the first of an annual conference and trade show to bring together the semiconductor IP supply chain and its customers for a full day of everything to do with semiconductor IP. Hosted in the heart of Silicon Valley at the world-famous Computer History Museum, there could not be a more appropriate venue for a day focused on the hottest segment of the semiconductor industry."
EDA Death Spiral: Qualcomm/NXP last nail in coffin
October 27th, 2016 by Peggy Aycinena
Yes, happy for investors that Qualcomm is buying NXP, but the end result will be a nasty one for technical innovators in EDA. Yet another reduction in the number of customers for EDA tools. Not necessarily a reduction in the number of seats, but a reduction in the number of actual separate corporate entities looking for tools for chip design.
Of course, for those who love large, lumbering organizations with almost as many people in the typing pool as in the engineering pool – more consolidation is great news for the semiconductor business and for the electronic design automation business, as well.
However, for those who still remember when EDA was a Wild West full of crazy startups, wacky business ideas, and loads of shifting sands between a constantly morphing/re-morphing population of EDA startups and an also-always morphing/re-morphing population of chip-design customers – take note: Those days are gone. Forever.
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DVCon Munich: IP Integration, Automotive, Smart Cities, System Design
October 13th, 2016 by Peggy Aycinena
It's a tiring trip from Silicon Valley to Bavaria, but the quality of these presentations, combined with the rest of the content at DVCon Europe, will make the trip well worth the effort. Hope you're going.
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Music News: April 29, 2014
April 29, 2014
Generosity Honors Memory of Instrument Maker
April 29, 2014
It's very difficult to find well-made period instruments and impossible to get them for a low price or — to qualified 501c3 nonprofit organizations — for free, but that's just what a generous reader in San Francisco is offering. Monique Skruzny writes:
My late father, Vaclav Skruzny, was a passionate musician and instrument maker. Early in life he played classical guitar, took a hiatus as a mechanical engineer working with Bechtel, and then followed his true passion of playing, woodworking and instrument-making, focusing on violas da gamba.
He experimented with various forms of the viola da gamba and we have trebles, tenors, bases, and a Violoni that he built along with their hard cases.
The instruments are located in San Francisco and anyone with an interest can email me at [email protected] for photos, more details or to view the instruments.
We are making about 15 instruments available that we would like to sell at an attainable amount or donate to qualified 501c3 organizations. I do have some detailed notes on each as provided by a Bay Area player and instrument maker, who has made these general observations:
* All of the instruments are well set up with excellent sizing on the finger boards
* Some instruments have movable, others permanent frets
* Some combine the shape of a viola and cello
She also called my dad "a magician."
From the Pit: A Paragon of Parallèle Orchestral Performance
April 29, 2014
On Sunday afternoon, as a semi-exhausted cast and crew performed wonders on the stage of Lam Research Theater (when will I get used to that name?), the Opera Parallèle Orchestra, squeezed into a shallow, narrow pit, reminding me of some of my best experiences with the music of Kurt Weill and, especially, Francis Poulenc.
When I was impressed and moved by the rehearsal of the Weill/Poulenc double bill of Mahagonny Songspiel and Les mamelles de Tirésias, the accompaniment came from Keisuke Nakagoshi's piano, filling in spectacularly for the orchestra. Once the production moved into Yerba Buena — three backbreaking performances in about 40 hours, taxing the singers to their utmost — the orchestra gave the work a whole new, even deeper and brilliant dimension.
Poulenc's unique sound, with those Straussian stretched-out deceptive faux-dissonances, was thrilling in this performance. The only description possible is from Ned Rorem's Setting the Tone:
Take Chopin's dominant sevenths, Ravel's major sevenths, Fauré's plain triads, Debussy's minor ninths, Mussorgsky's augmented fourths. Filter these through Satie by way of the added sixth chords of vaudeville (which the French call Le Music Hall), blend in a pint of Couperin to a quart of Stravinsky, and you get the harmony of Poulenc.
Of course, top acknowledgment goes to Music Director and Conductor Nicole Paiement. But SFCV has been featuring her so prominently of late that I thought she might want to speak about her musicians, rather than herself, and she agreed readily:
The orchestra had to be extremely nimble in the Poulenc to play such a cubistic score, where texture, tempo, and color change rapidly. Also, combining the Weill and the Poulenc added a demand to the orchestra since they each had a very specific sound world: Weill darker and heavier, Poulenc much lighter, even if the orchestra was twice the size for this piece and the brass doubled.
The concertmaster was Roy Malan, about whom there is a separate item below, paired with Stephanie Bibbo; add the viola of Evan Buttemer, Adaiha MacAdam-Somer on cello, Stan Poplin on contrabass, and there you have the string section of five, which sounded so big and sumptuous.
Nakagoshi was on board once again, along with Nicholas Matthiesen's percussion and Carla Fabris' harp. Woodwinds were relatively numerous: Carmen Lemoine (flute/piccolo), Laura Reynolds (oboe/English horn), Paul Miller and Lara Mitofsky (clarinet), Cory Wright (alto saxophone), and Erin Irvine (bassoon).
The brass acquitted themselves wonderfully, kudos to Alex Rosenfeld (French horn), John Freeman and Kai Takaara (trumpet), Hall Goff (trombone), and Tiffany Bayly (tuba).
Bravi per tutti!
Malan: Hanging Up His Symbolic Pointe Shoes
April 29, 2014
Violinist Roy Malan continues as concertmaster of the California Symphony and Opera Parallèle (above), remains with the S.F. Contemporary Music Players, and on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz, but he is retiring as concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet.
Malan is the Ballet Orchestra's first and only concertmaster, coming on board 39 years ago when the permanent orchestra was formed, after years of employing musicians temporarily. When Davies Symphony Hall opened in 1980, separating orchestras for the symphony and opera, the autonomy of the Ballet Orchestra became even more delineated, sharing some musicians with the Opera Orchestra (whose season is in a different period from the Ballet), but none with San Francisco Symphony.
Through it all, Malan was concertmaster, playing hundreds of solo parts ballet scores specify for the first violin: "During my years with the S.F. Ballet I have seen plenty of memorable moments on stage and have collaborated with some wonderful colleagues in the pit, but for me the time has come to enjoy music making for its own sake, unencumbered by the often capricious fancies of our dear choreographers."
In addition to his remaining orchestral work, Malan says, "To fill in the gaps, I have a string quartet, a piano trio, and several music festivals, concertos and recording dates. I am also building an art gallery on my property in the Santa Cruz Mountains."
From SFB Orchestra Music Director Martin West:
"Roy's tenure as concert master is unlikely to be surpassed not only in the SFB Orchestra but in the entire musical world. He played an integral part in bringing me to the Ballet and I've enjoyed working with him for the past 10 years. I want to thank him for everything he's contributed to SFB and wish him a very well deserved rest."
One of Malan's longest-serving colleagues, double bassist Shinji Eshima, said:
Roy was a student and protege of Efrem Zimbalist and also the fine author of his biography. Roy is among the last of the Romantic Era violinists, those whose sound alone could identify the performer. He was also the former roommate of another member of the ballet orchestra, former principal cellist David Kadarauch, while they were students at Curtis.
Uniquely qualified to meet the special demands of a ballet concertmaster, Roy would be asked to perform several different concertos and orchestra solos within any given week. He managed this while maintaining a full teaching load, performing chamber music constantly, founder of the Telluride Chamber Music series.
Always a gentleman and stylish, true violinist, his is a life of music to be celebrated and remembered.
S.F. Ballet's Farewell to Martín, Smith
April 29, 2014
Two outstanding stars of the San Francisco Ballet are retiring, and the company will bid farewell with a special program at the War Memorial where Rubén Martín Cintas and Damian Smith will give their final performances here.
The one night only event begins at 7 p.m. on May 11. Tickets are now available for purchase.
"Rubén and Damian have each made wonderful contributions to the company and I wanted to pay tribute to their great artistry with a special farewell performance," says Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson. "I am grateful to both of them for giving so much of themselves to San Francisco Ballet and to our audiences — they will be missed."
Martín, whose career at S.F. Ballet spans 14 years, studied ballet in his native Spain and performed with the English National Ballet, before joining S.F. Ballet as a corps de ballet member in 2000. Three years later, he was promoted to soloist and in 2006, he became a principal dancer.
During his tenure, he has performed many lead roles such as Albrecht in Tomasson's Giselle, Prince Siegfried in Tomasson's Swan Lake, and the title role in John Cranko's Onegin. Beginning with the next school year, he will join the S.F. Ballet School faculty.
Smith, originally from Australia, trained at the School of American Ballet before joining S.F. Ballet as a corps de ballet member in 1996. He was promoted to soloist two years later and in 2001, became a principal dancer. Over his 18-year tenure, Smith has performed lead roles in numerous ballets by choreographers including George Balanchine, Val Caniparoli, William Forsythe, Mark Morris, John Neumeier, Yuri Possokhov, Alexei Ratmansky, Jerome Robbins, and Christopher Wheeldon, to name a few.
In addition to having a number of works created on him, he has performed a diverse array of character roles such as Drosselmeyer in Tomasson's Nutcracker, Iago in Lar Lubovitch's Othello, Tybalt in Tomasson's Romeo & Juliet, the Poet in Neumeier's The Little Mermaid.
The farewell program will include excerpts from Tomasson's The Fifth Season, Hans van Manen's Variations for Two Couples, "The Man I Love" an excerpt from Balanchine's Who Cares?, a pas de deux from Wheeldon's After the Rain, special video tributes to both artists, and Robbins' In the Night.
Pene Pati: The Tenor Who Could Be King
April 29, 2014
In the long, illustrious history of the San Francisco Opera's Adler Fellowships, Pene Pati is probably among the handful of singers with the greatest promise ... and the biggest need for the discipline and training the program provides, but we'll never know how that would have worked out.
Pati turned down the fellowship because his SOL3 MIO operatic/pop trio is sensationally successful in his native New Zealand, so this not-ready-for-prime-time tenor is already in a prime time hit parade.
Following the big impression he made in the Merola Program last year, Pati was awarded the Adler and a Schwabacher Debut Recital. Even while not taking the fellowship, he returned to San Francisco on April 28 to give the recital in Temple Emanu-El's Martin Meyer Sanctuary — an event both exhilarating and disconcerting with thoughts of what the future may or may not bring.
Pati's voice is amazing, with shades of Pavarotti's ping and Bergonzi's lyricism. He has a winning personality (a single tune-up chord on his guitar, followed by "that's close enough"), and an obvious talent for languages: He sang the recital in French (Fauré and Liszt), English (Roger Quilter), German (R. Strauss), Italian (Tosti), Basque/Spanish (Sorozábal), Samoan, and Maori.
Accompanied with her usual splendid pianism by Sun Ha Yoon, Pati sang beautifully and with intelligent musicality, but small signs of the need for further coaching kept popping up. Just because he has a big voice, there was no need to go fortissimo in Liszt's "Oh! quand je dors" where a solid forte is needed. In the same song and also elsewhere, Pati's attempt to hold a semi-falsetto note at the end faltered — a strange problem when he has both the full voice and can hold the highest notes seemingly forever (listen to the end of his Lucia duet).
Needlessly high volume, especially at the end of songs ("Toujours," "Heimliche Aufforderung") and the middle of "Allerseelen," had its impact on Yoon, who launched into "Toujours" and even "Ruhe, meine seele" with the kind of bang I've never heard her use in the years of her important presence here.
I wasn't looking for chances to nitpick; the lack of maturity and finish just came up repeatedly. With this great voice and limitless potential, Pati should serve his time honing his artistry, instead of cashing in immediately.
The singer who could perform so impressively in school three long years ago, may do better than spend all his time on a Three Tenors shtick. But even so, that outsized personality comes through, as in (go to 5:30) and today in the hilarious delivery of Strauss' "Ach weh mir ungluckhaftem Mann" that had everyone in stitches. I admire Pati and I worry about him.
West Edge Opera Returns to Berkeley (for Now)
April 29, 2014
Homeless but enduring West Edge Opera will compact its 35th season into a summer festival of three productions, performed July 26 through Aug. 10 at the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley.
Artistic Director Mark Streshinsky and Music Director Jonathan Khuner will head what they call an "immersive" version of Puccini's La bohème (with the action taking place all around and among the audience), followed by Philip Glass's Hydrogen Jukebox, and the Bay Area premiere of Jake Heggie's The End of the Affair.
Mounting a new season as we continue to search for a permanent home has presented many challenges," says Streshinsky, "which in turn means many opportunities. Our new mobility plays into my long desire for three things: to come back to Berkeley, to do opera in an alternative venue, and to do it in a festival format.
We found an exciting partnership with the Ed Roberts Campus, an internationally recognized facility dedicated to services for persons with disabilities. The building is a model of the new movement of universal architecture and is just an elevator ride from the Ashby BART Station beneath. We will present our entire festival of three operas in ERC's spacious and beautiful atrium."
Streshinsky will direct La bohème; Jonathan Khuner will conduct. Singers are sopranos Alexandra Sessler (Mimi) and Christine Capsuto (Musetta), tenor James Callon (Rodolfo), Jordan Eldredge (Schaunard), and bass Brandon Keith Biggs (Colline).
Hydrogen Jukebox, set to the poems of Allen Ginsberg, will be directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer and conducted by David Möschler. The cast includes tenor Jonathan Blalock, baritone Efraín Solís, bass Kenneth Kellogg, sopranos Sara Duchovnay and Molly Mahoney, and mezzo-soprano Nicole Takesono.
The End of the Affair is based on Graham Greene's eponymous novel. Streshinsky and Khuner will lead a cast headed by soprano Carrie Hennessey, baritone Philip Cutlip, mezzo-soprano Donna Olson, and baritone Philip Skinner.
Festival subscriptions are now on sale, priced from $120 for seniors and youth, to $135 for general admission. Single tickets will go on sale June 1.
Zoufonoun to Lead Oakland Youth Orchestra
April 29, 2014
Oakland East Bay Symphony Music Director and Oakland Youth Orchestra Artistic Director Michael Morgan has announced the appointment of conductor, composer, and educator Omid Zoufonoun as new principal conductor of the Oakland Youth Orchestra. Zoufonoun takes the podium after Morgan and Bryan Nies have shared conducting duties for the orchestra's just concluded 50th anniversary season.
"Omid Zoufonoun has long been a treasured member of the Oakland East Bay Symphony family," Morgan said. "His gifts as composer are already known to our audience. What they have not seen is his great rapport with the youth orchestra students and the extraordinary musicianship that is on display when he conducts them. His imagination, humor, and gift for communication will serve the entire organization extremely well and I very much look forward to working with him in this new capacity."
Omid Zoufonoun is a conductor, guitarist, educator, and award-winning composer. His compositions blend his Persian musical heritage, which he learned under the guidance of his father Ostad Mahmoud Zoufonoun, with western practices of counterpoint, harmony, and orchestration. Recent commissions include a Cello Sonata for the duet Martha & Monica, a guitar octet for the Guitar Foundation of America, a choral setting of four Rumi poems for the Pacific Mozart Ensemble, and a four-movement orchestral work for the Oakland Youth Orchestra.
The Youth Orchestra's 2014-2015 season will be announced mid-summer, and auditions will be held in early June.
Edwin Outwater to Direct SFS Summer Concerts
April 29, 2014
Edwin Outwater, San Francisco Symphony Resident Conductor from 2001-2006 and former Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, is returning to the SFS, this time in the newly created position of director of summer concerts. For the next two years, he will curate and lead classical concerts in the summer, Music for Families concerts, and conduct the orchestra in the New Year's Eve Masquerade Ball concert featuring soprano Measha Brueggergosman. Next March, he collaborates with Bay Area composer Nathaniel Stookey to curate and perform two events in SFS's new alternative performance space, SoundBox.
Michael Tilson Thomas welcomed Outwater by saying that "he is one of the most innovative conductors on the scene today. The musicians of our orchestra always enjoy working with Edwin and I look forward to a new level of creativity in our summer programming."
Outwater says of his new role: "I am so honored to further my activities with the San Francisco Symphony in this new creative role. I hope that my conducting and programming here will add to the inspiring and visionary work that MTT and the orchestra have produced over the years."
Outwater is currently in his seventh season as Music Director of Ontario's Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and regularly conducts the Chicago and New World Symphonies.
Osmo Vänskä Returns to Lead Minnesota Orchestra
April 29, 2014
After more than a year of turmoil in and around the Minnesota Orchestra, last week the board of directors re-appointed Osmo Vänskä as music director. Vänskä resigned last October, after a decade-long tenure, when the orchestra's lockout continued against his demands to settle the contract dispute.
The new board chair, Gordon Sprenger, said: "Osmo Vänskä led the Minnesota Orchestra to great heights during his previous tenure as music director, and we are happy to be able to reunite Osmo and the orchestra to deliver outstanding musical performances for our community and to extend their celebrated musical partnership. We are delighted he is back."
Vänskä replied" "I am very pleased to have this chance to rebuild the Vänskä/Minnesota Orchestra partnership, and I look forward to getting back to music-making with the players and together re-establishing our worldwide reputation for artistic excellence."
Under the terms of the new two-year agreement, Vänskä will lead the orchestra for a minimum of 10 weeks in both the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 seasons, and will accept the same reduction in compensation as agreed to by musicians.
The musicians welcomed the appointment as "a major step in rebuilding the trust and collaborative spirit within our organization as well as with our community. We very much look forward to further collaboration with Osmo, our Board, and our community to continue to build upon the Minnesota Orchestra's 110-year legacy of artistic excellence."
San Diego Opera Turmoil Continues
April 29, 2014
Minnesota might have settled a long, destructive crisis (above), but another great calamity in the music world, the San Diego Opera facing extinction, is far from resolution, with stakes raised, as reported by The Los Angeles Times:
San Diego Opera has placed its longtime general and artistic director Ian Campbell on paid leave after a three-decade tenure that has been rocked in recent weeks by public and internal criticism over his role in the decision to close the company. The opera said in a news release Friday that Campbell and his ex-wife, Ann Spira-Campbell, who is a high-ranking administrator in the company, have both been placed on leave.
A company spokesman said in an interview that the Campbells will no longer be involved in the day-to-day operations of the organization, but they are still being paid and are technically still part of the company. Friday's announcement comes a week after an exodus of 13 company board members, including president Karen Cohn. The opera's board has been divided over the March decision to close, with a contingent of members working to raise money to save the company.
Neither Ian Campbell nor Ann Spira-Campbell responded immediately to a request for comment. The opera said that Keith Fisher has been named chief operating officer and that he will manage the staff and resources of the company at this time. Fisher has been with the company since 2002 and recently served as executive director.
S.F. Bach Choir to Select New Director
April 29, 2014
The San Francisco Bach Choir is near the selection of its fourth artistic director in a 78-year history, to succeed Corey Jamason, who stepped down from the position last month after a seven-year run.
The organization's search committee selected four final candidates: Katherine McKee, William Sauerland, Magen Solomon, and Robert Worth. The audition process is expected to conclude soon and the announcement made in May.
Jamason conducted his final concert on March 16, the last performance of SFBC's season.
World Pianist Invitational Application Deadline This Week
April 29, 2014
The World Pianist Invitational Foundation, with headquarters in Annapolis, Maryland, will have its next competition for classically trained pianists, ages 6 through 29, this summer. The finals will take place on July 12 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
Application deadline is May 2, see the organization's website for information and the application form. Information is also available by e-mail from Ann Stahmer at [email protected]


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Presented by The Badlands Theater Co. at the Blue Heron Arts Center, 123 E. 24 St., NYC, Oct. 29-Nov. 23.
"Like a Springsteen Song" tells a story of friendship and rekindled love. Two thirtysomethings, once high-school sweethearts, unexpectedly meet again on the streets of New York. Playwright Scott Brooks neatly weaves flashbacks of the pair's high-school relationship with scenes of their present-day disillusionment, interspersing short verses of Bruce Springsteen classics, to create a winning romantic drama.
What is memorable about this play is the depth of the contrasting characters. Sondra Wymar added layers to the role of Sara, a cynical wife and former artist who has settled for a comfortable marriage. Joe Hickey rose above sentimentality to portray the recently widowed George as an optimist who has kept warm a flame in his heart for her.
The narrator (Mark Ransom) sings and renders parts of Springsteen's songs on his acoustic guitar between scenes that relive Sara and George's teenage years as best friends, and ones that render their current lives, where they tentatively begin to build a new relationship in spite of the scars inflicted by an unfaithful husband and the pain of losing a wife.
The music lends a lyrical, wistful quality that permeates their developing love story—inevitable, but wonderful to watch.
The direction by Cat Proper played up the differences between youthful playfulness and the wary reality of disillusioned lives. Playwright Brooks builds just enough romantic tension between these two characters to keep one hoping for the final scene where they decide to leave the city and build a new life together.
Set designer Jeremy Chernik provided the upscale living room. Marisa DiTeresa added appropriate costume detail for flashbacks to the late 1980s.


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Canadá, Colombia y las Américas
El acercamiento de Canadá a las zonas latinoamericanas cada es más notorio. Su llegada a la OEA y su historia política de una democracia sin reparos la perfilan como líder. Es así que Colombia tiene en este país un apoyo sólido para ampliar su comercio y resolver sus problemas de narcotráfico.
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This up coming season of Dancing with the Stars should be a good one, mainly because Coop insists that Victor Ortiz is going to run away with this season and win the Mirror Ball trophy! Victor actually called in to talk about DWTS and he even answered a few quick fire questions. You WON'T believe what his favorite song is right now!
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George Clooney plays a kind of specialist. He fires people. Like in Michael Clayton, he cleans up situations which his bosses deem too messy, dealing with those employees who literally need to be escorted out of the building by police. As such, he travels a lot, and that distance would be enough to put him on the moon.
That's the concept behind Jason Reitman's latest film, Up in the Air, which is like his previous full length features, Thank You for Smoking and Juno, in that people who treat the world with casual indifference by looming just a little above the fray get too close to the heat and are mollified by the very thing they try to be indifferent to. In the hands of a lesser director, such stories might sound like routine Lifetime movies of the week (you know, like a doctor who fixes hearts, but the only heart he can't mend is his own), but Reitman has an incredibly sensitive eye for the actions of real people that translates well into his films. I don't expect Up in the Air to be any different.
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We are forever being bombarded with portentous statements about how our world is changing, how we live in a technological age and how those of us who do not adapt our philosophies and systems will be cast adrift.
The future involvement of technology in conveyancing is a certainty rather than a probability. But from my own experience taking part in the National Land Information Service (NLIS) pilot scheme, this is to be viewed with enthusiasm rather than trepidation.
The service allows any user to directly access all land searches needed in a conveyancing transaction, be it residential or commercial. A full range of searches is available including direct links to the Land Registry, Land Charges, Companies House, local authorities, the coal, water and mining authorities and the British Geological Survey.
Once a particular property has been identified on the computer, a search is instigated by clicking "submit" on the screen. The request for the search is acknowledged electronically and the user can walk away from the computer knowing that any searches are being processed.
The filling out of paper forms, the drawing of cheques and the reliance upon manual delivery and processes, have all been eliminated from the process. Searches are instigated in a matter of minutes and all from one visit to the computer.
The system was designed and organised by HM Land Registry but has crucially been set up with the ongoing and intensive involvement of solicitors. Alsters, along with two other Bristol firms, Cartwrights and Wards, has been involved in the setting up of the system over the past two years. Between them the firms identified 80 requirements for the system which have all been incorporated by the designers.
Because of the involvement of law firms in the design and implementation of the system, it is naturally solicitor-friendly and the computer seems to be speaking the profession's language.
The use of this electronic system has drastically cut the time taken to get search results. And the system has become steadily quicker as the pilot proceeds. Ultimately, the service should produce instant results at the time of the search.
I see a tremendous contrast between searches carried out for the Bristol pilot and those carried out for other areas under the conventional method. Compared to the new NLIS system, the old method feels laborious and unnecessarily time-consuming. Under the NLIS system, transactions which otherwise would be waiting on searches are significantly sped up.
A great deal of research is currently being carried out in order to find new ways of improving the conveyancing process, and electronic conveyancing could certainly make a key contribution to a better future.
The system of property transfer in England and Wales does have its benefits but there are considerable disadvantages which must be overcome. One of the greatest criticisms of the current conveyancing system is the delay factor. These delays can cause misunderstandings and frustrations, often putting the whole transaction in jeopardy.
The NLIS system is not, of course, the panacea for all the problems which might be encountered. Nevertheless, it does serve to show that one potential cause of delay, namely the receipt of searches, can be overcome electronically. Hopefully it will act as a catalyst to expedite other aspects of the conveyancing process.
The NLIS system enables deals to be struck earlier because of the speed of the search and the certainty this gives to a client involved in a transaction. The client can choose exactly when the searches are carried out and can even ask for a search before making an offer if there is some aspect of the deal about which the client has particular concerns.
The NLIS pilot scheme can be seen as a forerunner to the general acceptance and use of a system of electronic conveyancing. There are still, however, a number of additions and improvements which need to be made. There will be fine tuning and modifications. This is only the beginning, but it is, without doubt, a very important beginning.


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Is it purposeful?
One of my Tap4.0 components does not work correctly because of this...
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TAPESTRY-199 Addition of a simple way to get component CSS stylesheets into an overall page
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I propose changing interface ResponseBuilder and adding a new parameter (IMarkupWriter) to
methods: beginBodyScript, writeImageInitializations, writeBodyScript, endBodyScript, writeInitializationScript.
All calls to this interface are from PageRenderSupportImpl.writeBodyScript which already holds
a reference to the IMarkupWriter, so changes will be minimal.
Only DefaultResponseBuilder will make use of this writer.
This change fixes issues when one wraps @Body with a custom component and
renders it (the @Body) with a custom writer, i.e. a nested writer.
Please provide some more info on how it should be done.
If you do then I will modify the patch of
TAPESTRY-199 to work with 4.1 (and contribute it).
Yeah, not sure what to say. The "new" way of doing this would be to override the DefaultResponseContributor service to provide your own IMarkupWriter output manager. (contributor)
The problem is the following in details. I tried to implement a CSS style component named @Style, similar to the one in
It uses a nested writer in the Shell component to allow wrapped @Style components to contribute CSS files. The Shell and a wrapped Body are rendered in the following order:
1. a nested writer is created
2. the Shell's body (including the Body component) is rendered to the nested writer
3. <html>, <head>, </head> written
4. the nested writer is closed, so its content is committed to the "real" writer (the "real" writer is the one which was passed to Shell.renderComponent() when the Shell component has begun to render)
5. </hml> is written
At (2), in Body.java at line 187
is called, so PageRenderSupportImpl.writeInitializationScript(IMarkupWriter) is called. The problem is here because in PageRenderSupportImpl.java at line 252:
This means that the method PageRenderSupportImpl.writeInitializationScript() does not use its "writer" parameter, so the initialization scripts are written to the "real" writer instead of the nested one created at (1). This results in pages rendered incorrectly like
... some initialization scripts like Form registration...
I hope this helps.
Ohhhh...I get it now. You were manually circumventing something and using the Impl version directly.
You can just call cycle.getResponseBuilder() and do what you want with the initialization scripts in there now.
Is there anymore stack trace to this? I have to admit that I'm not familiar with any errors containing "does not use <x> parameter" .


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Marti Paradisis, the man with the name of a lounge bar cocktail is more commonly known by the nickname of The Moose. And here he is, on the loose, in his homeland of Tasmania.
Notice how much further up the point he is sitting than everyone else and his proximity to the rocks, needing to add that frisson of danger to your every day session is probably some kind of illness you catch out at his regular haunt of Shipstern Bluff. Shot on a wide angle lens, he could probably be stroking that lump which flashes past him in the tube mid session.


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Siemens PLM Software (Plano, TX) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS; Mumbai, India; http://www.tcs.com) announced Teamcenter for Medical Devices, a fully integrated PLM solution for the medical device industry.
The Teamcenter for Medical Devices solution leverages Teamcenter foundation elements to deliver a holistic and integrated solution for end-to-end management of the medical devices industry's product lifecycle. The PLM software solution enables companies to fully trace all activities from concept to retirement by automatically linking compliance requirements with engineering and specification data. It combines compliance management, traceability, and reporting capabilities to help medical devices manufacturers address strict quality and regulatory requirements, increasing competition, and demanding time-to-market pressures.
Teamcenter can track all product data that pertains to product development activities performed by a medical devices OEM and its suppliers. By integrating compliance management into a complete product lifecycle, Teamcenter can eliminate manual data entry, improve data accuracy, and reduce the costs of both compliance and non-compliance.
TCS' solution development experience coupled with its system integration capabilities and channel partner relationships make it an instrumental partner in development and implementation of Teamcenter for Medical Devices.
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Otters enthusiastically embrace fun
If ever there was a creature that seems to enjoy life more, relishes playtime and roughhousing as much, or takes more pleasure in spending time with family just lying around or goofing off, then I've never met the critter. Without a shred of doubt, river otters fit this bill wonderfully.
River otters belong to the largest family of mammalian carnivores in the world -Mustelidae, or weasel family. Both river and sea otters share a number of characteristics that are common to most members of the family.
For starters, all members of the weasel family have two anal scent glands located under the tail. These scent glands produce a strong odoriferous musk that mink, weasels, badgers, fishers, pine martens, wolverines and otters use for territorial marking, identification, and, to some degree, defense.
Additionally, as you've probably noticed, otters and most of their relatives have a tubular body design. Otters' rumps are typically higher than their shoulders and when they walk it is usually in a loping, undulating manner. Nearly everything encountered that's new or different, whether on land or in the water, is investigated thoroughly by these fun-loving, curious creatures.
The first time I encountered an otter it was a family group of four individuals. I was fishing on a small lake southwest of Bemidji in a shallow bay choked full of dense emergent vegetation and lily pads. I heard strange grunts coming from somewhere in the backwater bay, but I couldn't identify the source of the unusual sounds. Taking a break from fishing, I began to search for what was making the peculiar noises.
I soon saw the animals, long and sleek, swimming gracefully and purposely toward my boat in a zigzag kind of way. At first I didn't know what they were, though I suspected they were otters almost from the outset. And it wasn't until each of the otters began lifting its body halfway out of the water, like furry Jack-in-the-box toys - popping up and down - that I knew for sure.
The group came to within 50 feet of my boat, grunting, diving, and swimming erratically about, until they abruptly left me as quickly as they came. To tell you the truth, I think I was just as delighted as they were by our meeting.
Otters are well "suited" for their semi-aquatic lifestyle. They possess one of the densest fur coats in the animal kingdom. Their pelage is also oily, made possible by oil glands under their skin. The oil in the fur keeps water away from the skin, thus keeping them warm. And because of their special wet-dry coats, these amazing mammals can enter and re-enter the most frigid of waters, in the dead of winter, under the ice and never freeze.
If you've ever encountered otter tracks in the snow, you've probably noticed how the otter uses the snow to its full advantage and, I suppose, to the animals' complete and utter enjoyment. Like children sliding down snowy hillsides inside their toboggans, otters use their powerful back legs to propel themselves while using their bellies as sled-bottoms slithering along like furry snow-snakes atop the snow.
Once in the water, otters use their hind legs and webbed toes to thrust themselves swiftly both under and on top of the water. Their long bodies and flexible spines help otters maneuver especially well as they search for crayfish on the bottoms of lakes and rivers, and to pursue fishes, frogs, tadpoles, and salamanders. So adapted are otters to their watery world, even their ears and noses evolved for underwater living; they're "valvular" or, in other words, their ears and noses can be closed to keep water out.
Unexpectedly for such expert swimmers, baby otters have to be taught how to swim. Swimming lessons begin when the youngsters are around 7 or 8 weeks of age. The mother otter coaxes her young into the water by vocalizing to them. And if all her kind words don't do the trick, she sometimes grabs her youngsters forcibly by the scruffs of their necks with her mouth and either drops or tosses them into the water!
Those who study animal behavior believe that playfulness is a sure sign of intelligence. Indeed, otters are among the most playful creatures in the animal kingdom. Otters have been observed wrestling with one other, playing such games as (believe it or not), tag, hide-and-seek and sliding games, as well as playing with the objects they find such as stones, sticks and even other animals. Like cats, otters are known to play with the prey they catch.
River otters are very common throughout Minnesota's abundant lakes and rivers. Even so, most people never get a chance to observe them in the wild. Naturally wary of people, the nevertheless sociable otter will sometimes surprise you, as the family of otters did me years ago.
It's also entirely possible that a pair or family of otters is living in a wetland, lake, or river near you. They may even have taken up residence in an abandoned beaver lodge or muskrat hut. Wherever they are, you can rest assured that Minnesota's river otters are doing well - living, hunting, and playing - as we get out and enjoy the great outdoors.
Blane Klemek is the Bemidji area assistant wildlife manager, DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife. He can be reached at email@example.com


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