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ZMOOSwrote a review of Arc'teryx Alpha LT Jacket - Men's on November 4, 2010
I just wanted to warn anyone out there that is about to buy the lichen. I realized that color doesn't matter much to most people, but when you're buying such an expensive jacket, i would let it carry a little bit of weight.
The lichen appears to be an almost lemon yellow on my screen, but when I saw it in a store in real life i realized why they call it lichen. In reality it's a really pale yellow almost green color and exactly the same shade of much of the lichen i've seen in the mountains. Just trying to prevent a mishap.


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Hi Chowhound friends,
Am working on my itinerary for Kyoto.
I had considered a half day trip down to Uji to visit the green tea shops and specialist cafes/ restaurants but am not sure whether this will be worthwhile for us. I'd love your input.
-- Although I read a plot synopsis, The Tale of Genji connection doesn't really interest me.
-- As our visit is in the second half of October, it's very unlikely that cormorant fishing will still be occuring.
-- We have only a few days in total for Kyoto and so much I want to see/ visit.
Are the green tea food/ drink specialities available in Uji really much different to what I can find in Kyoto, if I look around? I'm not a green tea fanatic, though I certainly enjoy it. I would be unlikely to be able to distinguish top grade teas from middle of the road decent ones.
Are green tea prices much the same in Kyoto as they would be in Uji?
And lastly, if we skip Uji, do you have any favourite green tea shops to recommend and / or any particularly lovely stores at which I could buy?
Thank you

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text: Took my car to the dyno on Thursday. I'm running big time lean so I only did one pull. Also, because of the MSD box the RPMs were jumping all over so I couldn't get a very accurate torque number. Had I done another pull they said they could have changed the hookup for the RPM reading but since it was so lean I didn't want to take a chance. Anyways, I had 300 corrected, rear wheel horsepower at 5,000 RPM. We shut it down early because it was so lean. How lean you ask - how about almost 16:1 and according to the computer 19:1 at its worst! The strange thing was 3 of us didn't hear any detonation but when we pulled a plug it looked like it just came out of the box it was so white. I had checked the same plug last Saturday and it looked normal then. The only change since then was I replaced the old h-pipe that had rusted out where it met the tubes before the mufflers with a new x-pipe. My timing was set at a conservative 12*. The consensus was that with a 13.5:1 air/fuel or less, 15* timing, and going to 6,000 RPMs I should be near 375 HP. Fuel pressure was 40 the entire pull which should be plenty with 30lb injectors, right? I am running the stock computer so maybe I need some custom tuning??? If anyone has some input I would greatly appreciate it. Kevin


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Revolution and art have always gone hand in hand, from the Bolshevik-era propaganda of the Soviets to the freak-out frescoes of the psychedelic 60s. Thats why, for Zach Alexander, the best way to bring a bunch of disparate social-change groups together is under one big artistic umbrella.
The thing we noticed is that all these groups arent really working together, and we wanted to do something about that, Alexander explains. We decided that art is a really great unifying movement for a lot of these things.
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Goran Dragic isn't just building an identity of success with the Suns. He's also building a house.
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How Did Ayn Rand Become Ayn Rand?
At SOLO HQ, Phil Coates has raised a few issues about Ayn Rand's intellectual development. I replied to some of his questions here and here, and reproduce my comments here:
Hi Phil,
I certainly don't want to make this thread a debate over Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, and I do appreciate the fact that you were honest in admitting that you'd not finished my book---going so far as to recommend horse-whipping for this crime (with which I obviously agree). But I figured I'd answer your one comment here (with thanks also to Steve Shmurak here):
But just as reducing Ayn Rand to a thinker in the Aristotelian tradition is too glib, not a full and thorough exploration of her uniqueness and doesn't begin to address all the questions I list, reducing Ayn Rand to a dialectical thinker in the Russian tradition [if that is what CS does] would have analogous shortcomings.
I can see how you might come to that conclusion in a less-than-full reading of my book. I realize too that you "found the academic style and lack of brevity unpalatable so I simply set it aside..sorry Chris."
But the book was written as part of a larger trilogy on the history of dialectical thinking, and it was also written with an eye toward presenting Rand's philosophy not only within that context, but also to a scholarly audience. (I'm actually in the process of writing several essays for various publications, and sitting for several interviews for various periodicals, all on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Russian Radical and Marx, Hayek, and Utopia, the first two books of my "Dialectics and Liberty" trilogy, which Total Freedom completes.)
Given this context, I can only say, briefly, that while I situate Rand in a larger Russian dialectical tradition, I situate her more generally in a larger Aristotelian dialectical tradition, since I consider Aristotle the father of dialectical inquiry. That is made even clearer in Total Freedom (chapter one is called: "Aristotle: The Fountainhead"). And I also state, quite self-consciously, that my take on Rand is a "one-sided" take; in other words, I admit the shortcomings of putting forth a particular view of Rand's corpus from a particular vantage point. But sometimes it is important to focus selectively on various aspects of a thinker's work in order to make apparent something significant that is often obscured by other interpretive takes.
As to your formal questions in this thread... I don't know how Rand became Rand precisely, but the first four chapters of Russian Radical, at the very least, provide us with a much more detailed context for understanding the conditions in which she began her intellectual adventures. I think she learned a lot from her Russian surroundings, both positively (methodologically) and negatively (in terms of rejecting the miseries of collectivism), having been raised in the grand Russian Silver Age, and having been educated by the last gasp of Old World professors before they were exiled, imprisoned, or murdered by the Soviets. And now, with the release of her journals and letters, we can begin to trace the influence on her thought of everything from Hollywood to Isabel Paterson. There is an inordinate amount of work yet to be done, but I think that scholars have taken the necessary first steps in this project.
Comments welcome.
Update: In response to various issues raised by posters at SOLO HQ, I discussed the importance of studying intellectual history. Here's what I said on that forum:
Hey, Rick, I really like "Man in the Mirror"! :)
When we get to the "bottom line," I actually agree with you: We all adhere to that famous Spanish proverb that Rand and Branden were fond of quoting: "Take what you want and pay for it." Which means, in this context: Take what you want from Rand's ideas, and take the responsibility for making them your own, integrating them with your own context of knowledge and experience... and move on. And, in reality, that is what we all do.
But there is legitimacy to the study of intellectual history. And it's quite apart from needing to make "a personal connection to the author," as you suggest. It's certainly not about what Rand ate for breakfast! :)
Everything that exists has a past, a present, and many future implications. It's like that whether we are talking about the computer that I'm typing on, the social system in which we live, or something as abstract as an intellectual system of thought. For example, it's a bit more obvious (to me at least) why a historical study of our current social system would have relevance: Understanding how the current social system became what it is and understanding how it functions today are both helpful if our aim is changing that social system.
For this thread, however, let's focus just on the notion of intellectual history: studying the genesis and evolution of a system of thought---its past, present, and possible future implications. It's of interest to trace the origins of an idea or a system of thought for several reasons:
1. It allows us to situate the ideas in an historical context, which might help us to understand both the relevance and application of those ideas to the specific circumstances in which they were conceived (thus suggesting its possible limitations) as well as the current circumstances to which such ideas might still have relevance. Take Rand's anti-communism: It's of historical interest to relate Rand's anti-communism to the circumstances in which that anti-communism took root---not only as a response to the horrors of Soviet communism, which Rand witnessed and experienced, but also as something much more universally relevant. As Rand said about We the Living: it wasn't just about the strangling, "airtight" environment of communism, but a testament against all forms of collectivism and statism. And it carried more universal implications about the sanctity of the individual.
2. It allows us to trace the cross-fertilization of ideas, which might help us to understand why certain ideas in certain contexts may have meant one (valid) thing, and something quite different when transposed to another context. Take Karl Marx: We know that he was influenced by Feuerbach and Hegel. Surprisingly, however, he accepts a lot of Aristotelian realism and "social ontology." He accepts quite a few "evolutionist" ideas from the Scottish Enlightenment figures (such as Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, David Hume) as well as quite a few ideas about the power of reason from the French Enlightenment (which was actually far more rationalist, in the bad "constructivist" sense that both Hayek and Rand repudiate). Each of these ideas taken in isolation has very different implications than their attempted integration. It's not enough to condemn Marx outright: Trying to unravel the mess that is Marx's framework helps us to identify precisely where Marx went wrong, what specific threads in the tapestry of his thought are lethal.
3. Thus, the study of intellectual history allows us to learn from the traditions we study: to identify what's right, discard what's wrong, and move on. In other words, it allows us to "take what we want" from the various traditions we study, "and to pay for it," in precisely the way described above.
Just a few things to consider, I think, in justifying the study of ideas and their historical evolution over time: how they were born, what they meant, what they mean, and where they might lead us---logically and empirically.
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Wow! Lots of PMs and tweets regarding yesterday's article on what would happen with the collapse of the grid.
Let me first say that I make no claims to be an expert on EMP. There are a lot of people who are convinced that a reasonably strong EMP would disable modern cars. I don't happen to agree with that view. Hopefully we'll never find out. I'm going to assume that the most likely doomsday scenario people will likely face will be a long-term power grid outage that leaves cars functional.
And by doomsday scenario, I mean one where civil society breaks down and electrical power is our Achilles heel.
Food is the link that becomes the limiting factor first. I don't think that an American population of >300 million can be fed without a reliable power grid. I think state, local and federal authorities could hold things together sufficiently for a month without power. I think beyond that, things would begin to fall apart because simply put, we just wouldn't have enough food to go around. And that's when things get really bad.
Each person has his or her own opinion on what would be ideal for surviving in the event that civil society breaks down. Below are a few basics requirements.
1. It needs to be armored against small arms.
2. It needs to be all terrain.
3. It needs to be able to handle lots of different fuel sources (if it requires gasoline, it won't be viable).
In my mind, those are the 3 minimum requirements.
For me, the purpose of a survival vehicle would be to transport goods and people around safely and securely. That's because I think people will need to work together in groups (call them tribes/micro-societies/villages/whatever) until order can be restored. And being able to provide a survival vehicle to a group would be invaluable.
Here are some candidates for that vehicle and why.
Candidate #1: The Knight XV
I've seen a lot of "prepper" folks talk about this vehicle. It's basically a suped-up Ford F550. It's heavily armored and designed to take a lot of punishment. The interior is somewhat lavishly made.
I don't find this vehicle terribly practical as-is because it's too focused on combining luxury with armor. It has relatively little storage capacity, is immensely expensive >$600k. But damn, it's cool looking.
Candidate #2: Terradyne RPV
I'm actually surprised I haven't seen people talk about this vehicle. I had to do a lot of digging to find it.
It is similar to the Knight XV in many ways. It isn't clear how easy it would be to obtain for civilian use (though I suspect you can get it, these tend to be modified Ford F550 trucks).
It's a turbo diesel, definitely off road, and can take 40 gallons fuel. Like the Knight XV, it's armored. What I like about this one is that it's also a pickup which makes it bit more practical for moving cargo (like food and supplies).
Candidate #3: Oshosh Tactical Protector Vehicle
The Tactical Protector vehicle targets law enforcement and homeland security. I've seen it mentioned elswhere and like the others, it's a modified Ford F550 with a V8 diesel engine. I am not certain how well it would perform off road (I suppose as well as the others).
It comes with a number of interior options so it could be made to support a lot of storage.
Candidate #4: Custom F450/F550/Chevy/Jeep
If you're mechanical (I'm not) you can probably build your own ideal survival vehicle.
This guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpxvSVg0vT4&list=TLRGgVRIE_DVM has done that.
He purposely made his vehicle look inconspicuous and he has a point. The other vehicles I talk about draw a lot of attention. One could argue that the best bug out vehicle is one that meets the 3 criteria I mentioned earlier but doesn't look like it.
Candidate #5: Unicat UL 15-DK-HD
Technically I'm cheating on this one as it's not armored and it already weights so much (over 32,000 pounds) that adding armor to it would be ludicrous. But it has one advantage than none of the others have: It's a portable, self-contained shelter.
When I first saw this, I thought "Wow, I bet the Walking Dead people wished they had had this and not that crappy camper!"
Besides being reasonably well equipped to go off-road, it has showers, stoves, electrical generation, vast water supplies, a real toilet. In short, a true bug-out vehicle.
Candidate #6: Oshkosh S-ATV
I'm really surprised I haven't found any sites discussing the Oshkosh S-ATV. Ignoring the picture (highly unlikely you're going to get it configured with a gun turret, especially for the civilian market) it's most definitely off-road friendly. It supports Diesel, JP-8 and Jet-A and I suspect it would be able to be modified to handle additional types. JP-8 fuel is nasty stuff (think kerosene) but it makes me think that the engine can probably handle some pretty scary stuff in a pinch.
It's also a lot lighter than the other trucks weighing in at "only" 10,000lbs. What makes this vehicle exciting is that it has a ton (4 tons actually) of payload capability and is truly off road capable.
I'll admit that this one is my favorite. That's because it can haul a lot of stuff and doesn't have to rely on roads to get around but would still do well against small arms fire.
It really depends on what the point of your vehicle is.
Nearly every "prepper" blog I've read seems to focus on one of two plans:
(1) Bug out. They take their vehicle and go to a secure, remote, well prepared location. The vehicle is there to get to the bug out location.
(2) Bug in. Their stuff is in their home and they work on making it defensible. The vehicle is there to safely get supplies and people and bring them back.
I don't think either of these plans is viable on its own for most people. In my opinion, the only viable plan is one that helps create a group of a couple dozen adults with you providing skills or physical assets that justify you being part of that group.
Hence, the ideal bug out vehicle is ultimately going to be something that can safely and reliably (and securely) obtain and deliver supplies and people to different locations. That means a vehicle that can withstand small arms fire and can avoid the inevitable road blocks that gangs will put up on roads.
What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments area.
You forgot the Aussie 'Bushmaster'....
No-one's ever died in one...even after hitting an IED eg this one in Tarin Kowt...
I'll take 3 of Candidate #2 if you're buying. One to be on mission, one to be constantly ready to go, and a third to rotate through to keep wear and tear down and to allow for greater overall "Get the f*** out of dodge" capacity. If you're feeling generous I'd also take a few of #6 for convoy and/or area scouting duty.
Armored Mercedes Benz G-Class or Ener-G-Force 2013 sure it has no mounted weapon but good enough to get away... it also looks quite badass
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I'll settle for one lighter, faster and capable of getting airborne. Society may go to shit here but not everywhere. Find a spot remote enough, away from all urbanized areas with good hunting and fishing and done. Tell no one where you're going and especially don't tell whomever you wish to take with you where you're going as they might let it slip. Once there get rid of the vehicle in case it can be traced and just sit back, chill out while the rest of the world goes to pot. Then you wake up and smell the coffee and realize...wow!...it was so real. lol
I'm looking for one of these...
Those vehicles in the OP look intimidating- but the also look like HUGE targets. My concern is someone either bigger and badder or more notorious would decide they want your vehicle.
If I were generally preparing I would buy, use and maintain something like a diesel SUV.
An older SUV with a simple diesel setup would probably be smart and start learning everything you can about the engine.
Depending on how obsessed you are with a doomsday scenario you could even get several upgrades on the car now without making it to conspicuous.
It might also be wise to buy an identical model of your doomsday survival car. learn how to tear it down and rebuild it in your spare time. Learn which parts may be hard to find scavenging and what you should have as backup. As part of this process you'll also learn which tools are necessary to work on your car!
Maybe also invest in a welder and have sheet metal on hand for the really bad scenario might be good too if you can't afford the bulletproof option.
It's not clear whether you can get the RPV or not on the civilian market. Of course, it's a totally insane vehicle to try to get.
All great vehicles...as long as you have "fuel" to power them. Otherwise I'd get a horse.
At least the emissions are bio degradable, good fertilizer and it won't blow up on you.
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Got mine yesterday! What about u?
Can not find any around west palm :-(
A dealer still looking a Gen4 G23 for me
Shooters Jax (Jacksonville) had a ton of them if you are willing to drive. Saw a LGS in Plant City, FL had some listed on Florida Gun Trader, but he jacked up the price of course.
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649!!!! I find this alittle Pricy. Why do they want soo much more for colored frames? Im about ready to just get mine duracoated instead.
I paid $520 for a gen 3 G19 in FDE...I know gen 4's might cost a bit more, good grief..
I want one but not that bad--I can wait or not have one honestly. for an almost 33% increase what I can buy gen 3 G19 black in.
I don't understand why glock is not selling them mainstream though, they are the ones actually making them right?
Glock was making the OD as well--I would think there is still a market for them.
I was looking all over for a FDE Gen4 G21. Could not find it online. I got lucky and found one at Cabela's in PA. Since I am in NY, I had to ship it to my FFL. Best part was that since NY doesnt have a Cabela's, they did not charge me sales tax.
But good to know that there are more out there.
Been looking for a gen4 G 17 for over a month. Everyone is sold out!
Check your local Cabela's. The one in Hamburg PA had the G21 and all the other ones as well. Gunbroker has like 5-6 of them.
I just picked up a G23 in FDE. The FDE in Gen 4 is the same as standard Gen4. Should be the same everywhere. THE MSRP is the same for both. As for Gen 4 costing more than a Gen 3, I believe it is because Gen 4 comes standard with 3 Magazines as opposed to only 2 for Gen 3. Now I realize that just because he MSRP's are the same sellers won't try and sell the FDE for more. Was at gun show a few weeks back and several seller's were doing just that. Have patience and look around and you should be able to locate FDE same price as a standard color.
I can get the Gen 4 FDE at Cabellas for $647 or the Standard Gen 4 G17 for $539. I'm not willing to pay Cabella's price just for the FDE frame.
My point was that you should be paying same price for either standard color or FDE. My FDE G23 also cost me 539+tax, same as a standard black at the same shop. Once again though I am not saying a seller won't try to charge a premium if they do look elsewhere.
I paid $549.00 plus tax for my FDE Gen4 G19 a few weeks back. Local FunShop had 3 in stock but no other FDE's at all.
I got my gen 4 g19 on a trade for a gen 4 g17, I think I came out ahead!
I got my FDE Gen 4 17 today for 549. They have gen 3s and 4s in 6 different models. GT Distributors has them and they will ship to your local gun store if you are looking for one.
just got a gen3 23 FDE off gunbroker for 499


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With spring football practices in the books for both U.Va. and Tech, it's time for the late spring and early summer recruiting push to begin. Both programs are already hard at work adding talent for the recruiting classes of 2012.
Desmond Frye, a 6-foot-2, 170-pound wide receiver from Thomas Dale High in Chester, committed Monday to Tech. He also had scholarship offers from U.Va., Maryland, South Florida and Duke.
Last season, Frye had 510 yards receiving and scored six touchdowns. He also had 50 tackles and three interceptions while playing safety, which could be where he winds up at the college level.
He's the eighth commitment for Tech's '12 recruiting class, which includes four players from the state of Virginia (three of which have committed in the last three days - on Saturday, Tech got pledges from running back J.C. Coleman of Oscar Smith High in Chesapeake and wide receiver Der'Woun Greene of Wilson High in Portsmouth). Frye is the first player recruited by new Tech assistant coach Shane Beamer to commit to the Hokies. Beamer, who is Frank's son, joined the staff in February as the running backs coach. Feb. 1 will be the first day recruits can sign a letter of intent.
U.Va. has brought in Demeitre Brim, a 6-3, 206-pound safety from Victory Christian Academy in Lakeland Fla. U.Va. was the first program from a Bowl Championship Series automatic-qualifying conference to offer him, but he also has an offer from Western Kentucky.
He played quarterback last season, accounting for more 1,300 yards passing and about 1,300 yards rushing. He tossed 17 touchdowns with just two interceptions and added 16 rushing touchdowns.
Though college programs have been looking at him as a safety, there's a chance his size could precipitate a move to outside linebacker. He's the second commitment for U.Va.'s '12 class.
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She was preceded in death by her parents, Charley W. and Jessie (Berry) Burgess; infant son, Robert Leavell; and brother, Bud Burgess.
Survivors include her husband, Gerald Leon Leavell of the home; daughters, Brenda Kendrick of Springdale, Debbie (Jimmy) Wyers of Ozark and Peggy (Robert) Williams of Clarksville; sisters, Marcella Turner of Seal Beach, Calif. and Gelletta Crutchfield of Lamar; six grandchildren, Lori (Marty) Hannon, Paula (Dwain) Ober, Amber (Jason) Faughn, Amy (Toby) Willems, Jaime (Brad) Ellison and Brian Williams; and 13 great-grandchildren.
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Pallbearers will be Dillon Burgess, Wesley Kendrick, Tray Hargraves, Calvin Warren, Levi Willis and Alan Thacker. Honorary pallbearers will be Jane Burgess, Dr. Sarah Woodruff, Allen Pitts and the adult Sunday school class of First Assembly of God Church in Clarksville.
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TUCSON (Reuters) - Police in Arizona have arrested 25 suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel, significantly hampering the group's ability to smuggle drugs and illegal immigrants from Mexico, authorities said on Thursday.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said the suspects -- believed to be members of the Jesus Valencia-Rodgriguez cell of the powerful Sinaloa cartel -- smuggled drugs and undocumented immigrants through the remote Tohono O'odham Indian Nation on the Arizona-Mexico border.
The suspects, who were arrested in Phoenix, Tucson and on the Tohono O'odham nation, face state charges including drug and human smuggling, money laundering, conspiracy and participation in a criminal syndicate. No federal charges were filed.
Arizona straddles a major trafficking corridor for smugglers hauling drugs and illegal immigrants into the United States from Mexico.
The sweep followed an 18-month investigation, said Doug Coleman, the DEA's special agent in charge for Arizona.
"This organization is going to have to reconstitute itself, and when they do we'll be ready," Coleman said.
Valencia-Rodriguez is believed to be at large in Mexico, and U.S. officials plan to ask Mexican authorities for help in capturing him. The cartel will require months or years to recover, Coleman said.
Most of the suspects are U.S. citizens and the rest Mexican, said Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, who announced the arrests at a Tucson news conference.
The smuggling operation used sophisticated methods, including spotters hidden in the Arizona desert with solar-powered radios and night-vision equipment to alert smugglers when law enforcement was near, Horne said.
"This criminal enterprise was a well-organized operation that constantly worked against law-enforcement interdiction efforts," he said.
Valencia-Rodriguez is responsible for bringing illegal aliens and tons of marijuana across the border, often using a gate that allows tribe members to cross the border unrestricted, Horne said.
Authorities also seized more than 10,000 pounds of marijuana and shut down stash and safe houses in Tucson and Phoenix during the investigation. More arrests are expected, Horne said.
Coleman could not say how significant the arrests are for the cartel, because authorities do not know how many such cells exist.
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Lessons in Cloud Integration: The More Things Change…on Jul 10th, 2013 in IBM, | Comments Off on Lessons in Cloud Integration: The More Things Change…
…the more they stay the same. That's what it feels like to me these days, watching the evolution of enterprise computing.
I had the chance to describe today's hybrid headaches and cloud complexities caused by the computing evolution in a recent webinar called "Breakthrough Thinking in Cloud Integration". In our on-demand webinar, my colleague Bryan Flanagan describes the speed and simplicity of the IBM Cast Iron Cloud Integration solution – the time-savings (in days and weeks) realized by clients across industries are significant.
But allow me to step back and explain a bit further.
A decade ago, ERP software was considered revolutionary. There were these packages out there that promised to break down walls and link disparate systems so that everyone in the organization had access to the same information. So no matter where you sat — in HR, in procurement, in sales — you could see the same data as your colleagues. This promised great things: simpler workflows, less data entry (and fewer associated data entry errors), greater productivity and increased organizational efficiency. Best of all, it actually worked.
Then something else revolutionary came along: cloud computing. It promised great things too, like anywhere/everywhere computing capabilities, a pay-as-you-go model and more strategic use of in-house IT resources. Because of these benefits, companies started flocking to the cloud.
The problem? This move to the cloud, if not handled properly, has negated the strides made with ERP software. That's because most companies now have their feet in two different worlds, with IT assets spread across on-premise and cloud infrastructures. They've created hybrid IT environments where information no longer flows from one system to the next. Instead, that information stays in silos — just like we saw before the advent of ERP.
That's where a cloud integration solution comes in. It's designed to knit together these disparate systems companies have inadvertently created by moving to the cloud. And the right solution can help you get it done quickly and cost-effectively.
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When you proposed a new rule on the effects of communications towers on migratory birds, you allowed for a 90 day comment period. How could you decide to allow 90 days for a migratory bird rule and then shortchange the public on the media ownership rule? You claim that you have given the public adequate opportunity by holding hearings across the country on media ownership issues and allowing a 120 day comment period. But no one attending those hearings or submitting comments could have been prepared to assess a proposed rule that didn't exist.
You announced the rule in a press release on November 13, 2007 with a comment period of just 28 days ending on December 11, 2007. You announced you would take final action on the rule just one week later on December 18, 2007. That simply is not justifiable. We know you are aware that the Senate Commerce Committee has unanimously passed a piece of legislation asking you to defer action on December 18th. We believe you have shortchanged the comment process and because you have not completed a full review of localism prior to forcing a vote on a rule change dealing with media ownership limits.
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The actions you plan to take on December 18th will short circuit the American public's involvement in these decisions. We request and expect that you will postpone the action scheduled for December 18, 2007.
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Deep-sea hydrothermal vents look like alien worlds, their landscapes and fauna unlike any on Earth. Now a new study suggests that life works differently there too.
While studying the viruses that inhabit the scalding waters surrounding a vent in the Western Pacific, Eric Wommack noticed that a large proportion turned out to be docile tenants that lurk inside their bacterial hosts without causing much trouble. Marine phages - the viruses that parasitise bacteria and archaea in the sea - tend to infect their hosts, divide and burst them like balloons.
"We've never see that before anywhere else we've looked in the ocean," says Wommack, a microbiologist at the University of Delaware in Newark, who built a device that sinks to the ocean floor and, with the help of a remote submarine, ferries 120-litre samples of water to a waiting boat.
Instead of hijacking bacteria to spawn offspring, these cell-splitting - or lysogenic - viruses insert their short genomes into the bacteria's own, endowing it with potentially useful genes.
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Hotel Guest Rating: 8.3/10
Juarez St No 106 Col Lindavista
Villahermosa 86050
Welcome to the Hyatt Regency Villahermosa
Cool, contemporary style, free internet and choice amenities up the appeal of the non-smoking Hyatt Regency Villahermosa, set in a hot spot for shopping, dining and getting down to work.
Hotel Features
This nine-story modern hotel wows from the start with a lobby-lounge space dazzling with cutting-edge light fixtures and a kaleidoscope of electric colors. The 207 rooms are more subdued with simply chic furnishings and upscale granite bathrooms. Free internet is available in public areas. Spa-like amenities include not one but two outdoor swimming pools and a top-of-the-line fitness room open 24 hours to suit flexible schedules. Along with an open-air restaurant dishing out authentic Mexican cuisine, the hotel lounge serves lighter bites, coffee and cocktails. Connoisseurs might tickle their taste buds at the wine bar, too. Services including a car rental desk, business center and children's nursery come to the rescue. Parking is free.
Hotel Location
The hotel puts guests in the heart of Villahermosa's commercial district, with everything from big-box retailers and the world's most recognizable restaurant chains within a one-block range. Government offices are branched out within a quarter-mile radius. The lure of La Venta Museum-Park, abutting Lagoon of the Illusions, is equally close. Villahermosa International Airport is 12 miles.
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Wowing with contemporary flair and soothing the senses with wining, dining and pool-side fun, the amenity-rich Hyatt Regency Villahermosa also keeps it practical with free internet and complimentary parking.
Hyatt Regency Villahermosa Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- 24-hour room service
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- Air conditioning individually controlled in room
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- Transportation services - local office
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Hotel Guest Reviews of the Hyatt Regency VillahermosaOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
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Suppose to be a 5 star as you described.
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Good location, not far from many of the locations I went to be near too. None of the staff had very much English, so go prepared with a bilingual friend, or a very good Spanish/English Dictionary. High speed Internet was available, but cost 150 Pesos for 24 hours of connection. Like the power, no instructions on use were available, I had to figure it out myself (Plug in, get DHCP lease, start Web Browser, attempt to go to any web site, then follow instructions). The electrical power arrangement was so unusual I had to go back to the front desk to get instructions (put your key card into the slot in lighted box on the wall to turn on electrical power for the room). When I got the power on, I really disliked the lighting and how it was controlled in my room. Some of the lamps I never did figure out. Don't forget to retrieve your key card when you leave the room! Final note: if you depend on the clock/radio in your room for time and morning alarms, buy a fresh nine volt battery to put into the clock so you don't have to reset it every time you turn the power back on. ...
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This may be Cowtown, but that wasn't Moooo! the Coors Field multitudes started yelling at the top of the third inning Monday afternoon. An eminently catchable fly ball had just dropped for a hit between outgoing shortstop Juan Uribe and incoming left-fielder Todd Hollandsworth, scoring Houston's Craig Biggio, and 50,392 fans were suddenly fed up. With 155 2/3 games left to play, they'd had it with losing, and the boos and catcalls poured down on the field like sleet.
"Will this awful season never end?" a press-box wiseguy wailed.
To be sure, Opening Day at Coors Field -- the 2002 edition -- had the look, feel and smell of Rockies campaigns past. The afternoon came up as chill and cloudy as the team's World Series prospects. Again, the club's acid-dropping exterior decorator had draped the ballyard with bad-dream bunting -- not the red, white and blue ruffles dictated by tradition, but green, white and purple stuff that made the whole place look like a clunky old TV screen with screwed-up color control. When the game was over (Astros 8, Rockies 4), Colorado found itself deposited in the all-too-familiar National League West cellar, with a 2-5 record, 4 1/2 games back. Afterward, in the Rockies' funereal clubhouse, the loudest thing going was the guy banging dirt off the players' cleats. NL batting champion Larry Walker sat silently before his locker, nose studiously buried in business mail. Slugger Todd Helton, in the grip of a mysterious April slump (3 for 24), admitted he had been "baffled" by Houston starter Roy Oswalt. "My body's doing things I don't understand right now," Helton said. His voice was quiet, his brown eyes full of hurt.
Hollandsworth judged that the Rockies, just back from a 2-4 opening road trip to St. Louis and Los Angeles, were "tight" and "pressing" to get the job done. "It's a collective thing," he opined. "We just have to relax, and we'll play better. There's no panic."
Not yet. But any baseball team that gets exactly one sniff of the playoffs in nine years tends to be on edge. When a club that has finished dead last in two of the past three seasons has to cut payroll by more than twenty million bucks, there are worries. A team that changes personalities more often than Laurence Olivier may have trouble finding itself. A ballclub that eats up pitchers like a fat man assaulting the buffet table has to be concerned when its multi-millionaire ace -- lefty Mike Hampton -- opens the season with a pair of ugly road losses and an earned-run average that looks like a football score. Not to worry. The only thing Hampton has to do at Coors Field Friday to earn a "W" is beat world-champion Arizona's Curt Schilling, who's won his first two games (striking out seventeen Milwaukee Brewers in the second one) and limited his ERA to, let's see here, zero-point-zero-zero.
Maybe the Diamondbacks will come down with bubonic plague. Or big Randy Johnson (2-0, 0.56 ERA) will quit baseball to join a monastery. Otherwise, the Rockies appear to be in for a tough time. They get seven full servings of snarling Diamondback and three more meetings with the Dodgers (who swept them in Los Angeles) in the next two weeks, then more rough stuff with Philadelphia and surprising Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, the division-leading San Francisco Giants have declined to lose any games thus far, while home-run king Barry Bonds continues to make Mark McGwire look like a banjo hitter. The Giants come calling in May, and when June rolls around, Colorado gets to play inter-league series against Boston, Cleveland, the New York Yankees and Seattle.
Sad to say, the Rox may not wait until mid-season this year to vanish from the radar.
What to do? At the home opener Monday, the team press notes touted a pitching prospect for one of the club's Single A affiliates, the Asheville Tourists, who had just thrown six perfect innings against South Georgia. His name is Justin Hampson and, as early-season despair sets in, you have to wonder if the big club shouldn't bring him up right now. They'd only have to change one letter on the back of the uniform for him to replace Hampton, who started strong but finished the last half of the season 5-11 and has taken up exactly where he left off -- despite a $9.5 million salary this year.
On Monday, Rockies manager Buddy Bell blamed the team's slow start in part on "some pretty good pitching" by the opposition. Like all veteran baseball men, Bell takes the long view even when the short one will do, and in the post-game autopsy, he patiently explained that the veterans on his club understand full well that there are 155 games left to play, that baseball's six-month grind is full of surprises, and that, while frustrating, the team's grim start wasn't the end of the world.
Little matter that Houston's Biggio had, for the first time in his career, just hit for "the cycle" (a single, double, triple and home run in the same game) against Colorado, or that Bell's second starter, ex-Brave and ex-Yankee Denny Neagle, had just given up six runs in six innings (including three homers), or that poor Helton, ordinarily one of the game's finest hitters, had for seven games looked like Ray Charles at the plate.
"Helt's the least of our concerns right now," Bell said.
Maybe so. The guy Bell sees in the mirror every morning could turn out to be a bigger concern -- at least in the eyes of his employers. The 2002 season is barely a week old, and already the Detroit Tigers, winless in six games, have fired their manager, Phil "Scrap Iron" Garner, and their general manager. The brain trusts in poorly playing Baltimore and Texas could be next on the guillotine, but the talking seamheads on ESPN's Baseball Tonight wasted no time Monday speculating about Bell's cloudy future at 5,280 feet. Eventually, Helton will hit. But if this stuff keeps up, the Rockies' embattled owners could very well say: "Hey, Buddy, take a walk."
"Will this awful season never end?"
Hey, things could be worse. This could be Montreal, where the unloved Expos are playing their 34th, and probably last, futile season in a milieu where the Molson vendors outnumber the spectators. (On the other hand, Montreal is a respectable 4-3). This could be Texas, where human-affairs specialist John Rocker and juvenile delinquent Carl Everett have been added to a team with a $26 million shortstop and ten-dollar pitching.
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Worse yet, this could be July, when outside events may threaten to put the Rockies out of their misery before they do it themselves. To wit: When baseball commissioner Bud Selig -- still Bud Lite to friend and foe -- announced before Opening Day that, even without a new collective-bargaining agreement, the owners would not lock out the players this year, he didn't eliminate labor strife from the baseball season. He did something more insidious: He shifted the burden from the owners to the players. There will be no lockout this year, but there may well be another strike. And if current baseball rumors deserve any credence, that strike could be called just before the All-Star Game on July 9. Why then? The big mid-season show is scheduled for Miller Field in Milwaukee, where Selig's Brewers play. The players' union has come to detest the Commish, and fouling off the All-Star Game in his hometown would give them special satisfaction, as it hurts all the owners.
As for the fans, still smarting from 1994's ruinous strike and cancellation of the World Series, they won't take kindly to another work stoppage, regardless of its source.
Those possible horrors lurk around the bend. For now, Hampty Dampty is trying to put himself back together again at Coors Field, and Todd Helton is struggling to regain his beautiful and powerful batting stroke. Will it take a three-for-four day, or a couple of homers? "I don't know," Helton answered Monday. "But it would be nice to find out." The Rockies' talented but uncertain youngsters in the middle of the diamond -- catcher Ben Petrick, shortstop Juan Uribe, second baseman Jose Ortiz and centerfielder Juan Pierre (current average as leadoff man: .148) -- must fight off the jitters. In the end, second starter Neagle said it best on Monday. The team has to relax, play its game, find its rhythm, he said. "The wins are going to come," he said. "Unfortunately, things just aren't clicking for us all around the board. We're coming out flat, and we need to kick it in gear."
As he said that, you couldn't help noticing the World Series ring Neagle won with the 2000 New York Yankees. A massive block of gem-encrusted gold, glinting in the light, it looked bigger than most Manhattan apartments and, amid the quiet of the losing Rockies' clubhouse, even more unattainable.


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Physically finding Manu Chao has never been easy. He's everywhere, and not. He's so proud of his ephemeral nature that he even sings about it. In "Desaparecido," one of the more popular songs he recorded in transit for his 1998 breakthrough album Clandestino, he lets us know, "I'm never there when you look for me/And I'll be leaving whenever you find me."
And so, while his music is blanketing the world today, along with a new live recording called Radio Bemba Sound System just hitting the airwaves, the man himself continues to slip in and out of reach. The best way to grab hold of Chao, former member of the influential French rock band Mano Negra and now solo alternative global star, is to look for clues. He did make some rounds to promote last year's unexpected blockbuster, Próxima Estación: Esperanza (Next Stop: Hope), for instance, so one can find some quotes here and there. And you can learn the basics, the pro-human rights, anti-racism philosophies plus plenty of history and old clips, on his own Website, www.manuchao.net. The temptation to do this story under his own terms, the same way he builds his music -- as a collage of quotes and memories collected along journeys through Europe, America, and Africa -- is too strong. So, the Manu Chao scrapbook:
In terms of philosophy, he's said what he has to say many times, over and over. The Internet is flooded with reviews and forums about his latest moves, his latest opinions, and some people are still waiting for him to speak about September 11 as if his was somehow the voice of a world leader -- which he is, to some degree. And that's exactly what he runs away from: the responsibilities of being deemed the founder of some revolutionary movement.
Who is this guy Rolling Stone calls "The New Bob Marley"?
Well, not one of Bob's sons, for sure. But one hell of a singer-songwriter-entertainer, born in France 40 years ago, who is leaving a mark across the globe not unlike his spiritual Jamaican musical father did after he was "discovered" by British rockers in the mid-Seventies. In real life Manuel Chao is one of the sons of Spanish author Ramon Chao; the other musician in the family is Antonio, who played trumpet with brother Manu in the garage rock bands Los Carayos and Hot Pants in 1980s France.
Who else is Manu Chao? Someone who has lived a charmed life. He's his own boss, has made good money, does what he wants most of the time, moves constantly, and refuses to be pinned down, including by his record label, the same Virgin France that begged Mano Negra to sign with it right after it heard the single "Mala Vida" in 1987. That hit is today one of the 29 songs you can hear on Chao's third album, a synthesis of his best musical efforts of the past fifteen years, a period of time over which he changed the face of alternative rock in France, failed to make any change on the face of British or U.S. rock, and then dropped in on Latin America, where he has become as famous as the Beatles or, well, Bob Marley.
"I am from where I am at the moment," says the electric five-foot-two gnome about his musical and physical globetrotting. "I don't see myself as being from anyplace in particular. I was born and grew up on the outskirts of Paris. I love Galicia, and I love Euskadi [the Basque area of Spain], and not just because they're my roots.... I'm rooted in Mexico too, in Río de Janeiro, and in Mali. I'm a citizen of the present."
A present that peaks, after three years on tour through three continents and more than 120 concerts, on the live album -- 70 minutes of ska, reggae, dub, and punk-rock spirit, recorded at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris in September 2001. Radio Bemba Sound System includes remixed titles from Manu Chao's two solo records, as well as a few unreleased titles and mutated covers from Mano Negra, such as a Caribbean-heated horn version of "Casa Babylon"; a 100 percent ska take on 1989's hit "King Kong Five"; and heavy reggae adaptations of the classic Mano Negra songs "Peligro" and "Machine Gun."
"Touring is totally full-on, it switches us into a kind of collective trance. It's really intense, a lifestyle all of its own," Chao says about his new experience with a nine-piece band, a huge lineup that took six years to get into shape after eight feverish years with his previous collective. "We all sleep on the bus, we all love doing that. It's our own small world, someplace to call our own," he describes. "When you're dead tired after a show, and you've had a couple of drinks and spliffs, then you get on the bus and it's like paradise. There are no mobiles on -- it's a world where we set the rules."
A DVD featuring the entire tour and unreleased films will come out toward the end of the year and, as of now, five out of six Mano Negra albums are being re-released in the U.S.: its first, seminal 1988 Patchanka (a word the group invented, playing off the Spanish word pachanga, used to describe cheesy music); the third and totally Anglo rocker-oriented King of the Bongo; the live recording In The Hell of Patchinko; the compilation Amerika Perdida; and the last Mano Negra album, 1994's Casa Babylon.
So in this present he is indeed everywhere, even here in the States, and especially in Latin America, where there are stories about him wherever you knock. He first traveled south on Cargo 92, a ship full of artists from France acting as cultural ambassadors to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Europe's first foray to the New World. Along with Mano Negra, the French theater troupe Royal de Luxe, Philippe Genty's mime company, and Philippe Decouflé's dance company also climbed aboard. They took four months to perform more than a hundred times in forty cities, from Santo Domingo to Buenos Aires.
That trip changed everything for Manu Chao and for Mano Negra. They returned a year later to play in the deadly Colombian jungle. This time they took a train -- dubbed the Fire and Ice -- that crossed all the barriers imposed by the guerrillas. They did it for months, living as a crazy communal family, a traveling musical circus for the troubled countryside, playing for hundreds of people along the way. Everybody survived the experience except the band as such. The album Casa Babylon is a record of the trip, as well as a harbinger of the future for Chao. On his own he continued to travel along Latin America's roadways, recording jam sessions with street musicians, building up a musical photo album filled with sad pictures of the harsh world, incorporating reggae, cumbia, bossa nova, and singing it in easy, folk-song format.
As to why he's become so popular, he offers a man-on-the-street, or in-the-street-markets, theory. "I think initially it was those who work in the markets, playing Clandestino, who helped people hear it. The traveling people, the backpackers, they heard it this way and began playing it. So it's come about through people hearing it on places other than radio or TV." An album in transit, a travel soundtrack, as he put it back in 1998: "Clandestino was a process of internal cleansing. I settled my accounts with the past -- that record gives me a sense of rebirth," Chao repeated in as many languages as he speaks (French, Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Arabic). "Clandestino is a baby, and the mother to that baby is Casa Babylon."
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That baby became a huge adult. When first released it sold about 500,000 copies but has now quadrupled to 2 million, helped by the runaway success of his second effort, Próxima Estación: Esperanza. That album, where he notably repeats many of the recording tricks and pieces of songs of his first solo effort -- giving it a sense of lazy resolution but an undeniable swing and familiarity -- has sold several million.
Maybe the repetition comes, not from sitting still, but from moving too fast, an idea Manu Chao does not disagree with. "I've always seen haste as something positive. In our society haste means effectiveness. It allows you to do a lot of things in one day, and gives you a lot of things to talk about in a year." The problem, he says, is that "you never have time to tell anybody about those things."
So he would like to curtail haste in his life, but he may not be able to kick the habit. This is a man who can't stay in one place for even fifteen days; by that time he's desperate to hit the road, to try something different, preferably in a different city. Slowing it all down "would be a great way to say No! to the system. Sadly, not everybody can do it." Although, he concedes, he should be able to: "I have no excuse. I was lucky, and I made money, and the only thing that money should be good for is to free us from haste.... That really would be a luxury.
"I don't want my money to make more money. I just want it to make me happy. I just want it to give me time. Spare time. To dream without an alarm clock, to take a crap without the telephone ringing, to enjoy a meal, learn from my friends, teach my friends, and make progress in my search." And, his fans can only hope, continue to record the rhythms of the earth.


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South Korea: Plugging Into Batteries In A Big Way
Look out, Japan. Rechargeable batteries are following the memory chip and flat-panel display to Korea. Time was, Japan dominated both, but Korean companies found ways to market and manufacture their products more efficiently. Now batteries appear to be headed on the same westward course. Korean companies "will snatch leadership in the battery industry in five years," predicts Shin Chan Hoon, chief analyst at the state-funded Korea Electronics Technology Institute.
Since 1999, Korean companies have poured more than $1 billion into factories to make the cells that power mobile phones, laptops, MP3 players, and just about any other electronic gadget. Heading the pack are electronics component maker Samsung SDI, a unit of the Samsung chaebol, Korea's biggest conglomerate, and LG Chem, a unit of LG Group, the No. 2 chaebol. After spending more than $300 million each on facilities, the two companies today have nearly 20% of the $3 billion global market for such batteries, twice their share of last year. By 2005 they plan to more than double their capacity, and each expects to have at least a 20% share. "We are investing up to 10% of our battery revenues in R&D to leapfrog the Japanese," says Sheen Sung Kyun, a senior manager at LG Chem.
Part of the shift can be explained by Korea's rapid move into cell phones. A quarter of the world's mobile handsets are now produced in the country. Samsung and LG -- the world's third- and fifth-largest phone makers -- together sold 59 million phones in the first nine months of this year. About half of those locally produced phones are equipped with Korean-made batteries. In addition, SDI and LG Chem supply other major cell-phone manufacturers with batteries tailor-made to their designs.
Korea's government is helping, too. In August, Seoul picked batteries as one of 10 strategic products it hopes will drive the country's economic growth. Some $1.5 billion has been earmarked to develop these strategic industries, while import duties have been halved to 4% for materials and equipment needed for battery production. "If semiconductors and LCD screens are the brain and face of the mobile phone, the battery will be the heart, so they're a natural area for the Koreans to move into," says Song Myoung Ho, director of the Battery R&D Association of Korea.
Korea's success is also helped by the travails of Japan's electronics giants. Sanyo, the biggest battery maker, remains strong, but No. 2 Sony Corp. (SNE ) is overhauling its electronics operations, and analysts expect the company to focus its battery-making efforts on supplying its own products rather than selling to outsiders.
Korea's real challenge going forward may come from China. Even as SDI and LG Chem steal share from the Japanese, Chinese battery maker BYD Co. has taken a 15% share of the market. Other Chinese companies are sure to follow BYD as more electronic gadgets get made in China.
Another potential party-spoiler: All this competition is driving down prices. The cost of a lithium ion battery has been dropping by 10% to 20% a year since the mid-1990s. Still, everyone piling into the business is betting that, as consumers snap up ever more electronic gizmos to use on the go, they'll need more and better batteries. Survivors, then, will be those that keep investing in R&D and build the production facilities needed to achieve economies of scale. "This is the sort of game where the chaebol can play the best," says Choi Suk Po, technology analyst at Woori Securities Co. in Seoul. So expect the Koreans to keep charging ahead.
By Moon Ihlwan in Seoul


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UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Goal starved?
It's a wonder UNICEF isn't holding a telethon for these guys.
" ... For just 10 cents a day, you can make a difference by sponsoring an Oilers goal scorer so that he might have the same kind of basic hands that players all over the league take for granted."
We're not saying the Oilers are starved for offence, but rumour has it they've asked Mary-Kate Olsen to guest star on their power play.
In a stunning reversal of fortune, a team that scored in its sleep through the first nine games of this season is now putting up more zeroes than a Daryl Katz pay stub.
"Getting shut out three of four games is tough, that should never happen," said centre Gilbert Brule, who's trying, like every coach and player in that stone cold dressing room, to understand 2-0, 3-0 and 2-0 losses to Vancouver, Colorado and Boston in a span of seven days.
"You don't want to go through that, ever."
No, you don't. And they're not out of it, either, as tonight they take on a New York Islanders team that just pitched a shutout in its last game.
"We had a few chances last game that we wish we had back," said Sam Gagner, five games removed from his last goal.
"But the biggest thing is not getting negative because that will only add to the problem."
"You'll get the yips and that's something we can't have.
"If we focus on not scoring, it's never going to happen for us. If you look at the guys who are perennial goal scorers, they're always shooting the puck and they know they're going to score.
"That's how we have to think, then go out and do it."
Shooting the puck would be a pretty good place to start.
When you're only getting 19 shots a night, like the Oilers did in Boston, it probably shouldn't hit you like a bolt of lightning that goals are hard to come by.
"We're passing up a lot of shooting opportunities," said Brule.
"We're a little passive, we have to shoot everything. Even if it's not going to be a goal, you just have to throw it at the net so there's some rebounds and opportunities for guys going to the net."
As long as there's, you know, guys going to the net, which is another point head coach Pat Quinn and the coaching staff have been wearing out felt pens trying to get across.
"When you're an offensive player you think about where can you go to get that offensive opportunity," said Quinn.
"Unfortunately it's never where the battle is -- it's always on the outside waiting for someone to win it for you and get it to you in a nice spot.
"We've got to convince our forwards they need to be much better at playing this game without the puck than they have been."
The message has to be sinking in by now, after three shutout losses in four games. Doesn't it?
"You like to think that it's just common sense," said Quinn.
"But I've been drawing on the board or showing film for a lot of years and it doesn't always register. Or, if it registers, it's not always that easy to change.
"First of all, it's necessary that you understand what the job is, and secondly, are you willing to do it?
"We're still in that phase where I'm not sure if we understand it."
The players are not simpletons, though, and after the last seven days they're starting to get a feeling that something needs to change.
"We have to focus getting pucks to the net and finding new ways to score goals," said Gagner.
"We just have to keep pushing and find them."


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Simmons day to day with right ankle sprain
Simmons day to day with right ankle sprain
While he protected his fingers, Simmons' awkward move resulted in a sprained right ankle. The injury kept Simmons out of the lineup against the Brewers on Wednesday, but the rookie shortstop said he felt well enough to go.
Paul Janish started in place of Simmons, who is not expected to miss more than a game or two.
"He came in today and it looks better than we suspected," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "We're just going to call it day to day. Hopefully, with some treatment today and the off-day tomorrow, he can play Friday."
Though Simmons stayed in for the remainder of Tuesday's loss, the Braves were worried at one point it might have been more of a serious high ankle injury.
Brewers starter Marco Estrada tried to get Simmons on back-to-back pickoff attempts. It appeared on the first that Simmons nearly dove back before switching to a bit of an unusual feet-first move. He returned standing up on the second attempt.
Simmons said his foot got stuck in the dirt and jammed against the bag on the first slide. So, will he be going headfirst next time?
"Yeah, definitely. I'm not thinking; Whatever comes to my head first, I'm going," Simmons said. "I talked to the trainers. They said it's OK to go headfirst. I was just being cautious with everything."


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By Nate Adcock on Thu, 01/14/2010
Imagination Technologies is one of those companies you may not have heard much about unless you are a serious techno-geek. They are the unsung heroes behind much of the amazing graphics technology we enjoy on our mobile devices (including the iPhone). Particularly in the area of 2-D and 3-D graphics rendering and acceleration for games, multimedia, and the slick interface animations we have come to expect on our devices. Their product line is integrated into a number of mobile device types, and I was able to get a preview of their latest and greatest technology at CES this year.
First, I should explain a little about graphics technology in general, so forgive me if you already know this. Your PC probably has a discrete graphics card (maybe you even purchased one and installed it yourself). If you bought a particularly pricy high-end model, you probably noted that your power and cooling requirements went up markedly (not to mention space in your PC case). If you do nothing about the heat/power, not only can it be damaging to your PC, but can cause lock-ups and unstable behavior. You will get better graphics processing to play high-res 3-D games, but that comes with the price of having to add more power and cooling. If you stick with on-board graphics (which is typically not very robust), you suffer from poor performance, but won't suffer a cooling or power problem. A conundrum if you now shrink the computer or technology in question--so, consider the same high-res processing of graphics data on a much smaller mobile device? You can see the problem, as adding discrete graphics eats up space and adds considerable power drain. This is where Imagination comes in with their System-on-Chip integrated design, essentially a processor core built into the main phone chip and dedicated to the task of rendering graphics, or pushing of bits to output. Their POWERVR line of graphics processing tech can do this kind of specialized data crunching in a very small physical footprint, and for very low-power requirements, which is some of the magic behind why the iPhone has superior graphics processing capability.
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The IT presenter for my CES demo started with some compact legacy and existing tech (see the first pix posted above). It's essentially a test board connected to a Samsung mobile display running a common gaming benchmark simulation. The important point here is the amazingly smooth frame rate achieved (see below video shots of IT graphics in action). The POWERVR graphics accelerator uses a very minimal amount of power and space, and can render high-res animations that include vector and 3-D graphics using pixel shading very effectively. All this capability can be packed into a small footprint and still drive animation and video playback at native screen resolutions (whatever the size of the display).
I was also shown a demonstration of a palmtop-sized Beagleboard running Angstrom Embedded Linux (from an SD card)--and another test animation. One of the stations included multiple high-res and HD program content (see above) all running in a matrix of small windows, and all rendered at normal playback speeds (this connected to a VGA converter out from a netbook). I saw no jitter, pixelation or stuttering in any of the display playback I witnessed. Of course I'm sure all the simluations were optimized for the purpose of the demo.


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A new director of the Clinton Y-W-C-A has been named. The Marketing Director at the 'Y' Shannon Sander-Welzien has been hired as the new director.
She replaces Lori Freudenberg who left to take another job in the community. Sander-Welzein has been involved with the Clinton Y-W since 2005 and has served as the Marketing Director for the past five years.
The board conducted a nationwide search in the process to find a new director.
Sander-Welzien received her undergraduate degree in Business AND Marketing from the University of Northern Iowa, with a minor in Women Studies


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Elevated block to catch the breezes5 Paddy Circuit, Ormeau
Great space, neutral tones and good sized rooms make this property a must to inspect!
The home comprises:
* 4 bedrooms (master with walk in robe)
* 2 bathrooms (master with ensuite)
* Second tiled lounge area
* Tiled kitchen combined with living area
* Gas stove top
* Separate internal laundry
* Air conditioning in the living area
* Ceiling fans throughout
* Undercover entertainment area
* Fully fenced good sized yard
* Pets on application
*** New Estate - Directions to Property ***
Located just off the Pacific Motorway, from the Gold Coast heading North, take exit 45, to Ormeau and Kingsholme. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Tillyroen Rd. At the next roundabout take the 4th exit onto Peachey Rd, over the motorway then take the 3 exit onto Creek St. Turn left onto Reedmans Road, then at the second roundabout turn right onto Pimpama Rivers Drive, go straight across the roundabout and Paddy Circuit is second on the left.
The Brooke is Situated in the suburb of Ormeau, just 40 kilometres south from the Brisbane CBD and 30 kilometres north from Surfers Paradise within the existing Pimpama Rivers Estate that features open reserve areas, parklands and sporting facilities. In addition to Livingstone College on-site, a number of education facilities are located in Ormeau, with more primary and secondary schools located in Upper Coomera, just a few minutes' drive away. When it comes to transport, The Brook is well serviced by a strong road network both north to Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast and south to the Gold Coast by the M1 Motorway. Additionally, the Brisbane to Gold Coast rail line services the area from Ormeau rail station.
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