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40 best dishes in Abu Dhabi2 Comments 18 September 2012
1 Grilled lobster at Finz
Sometimes only lobster will do. At Finz you can choose to have it steamed, grilled, wok fried or in a butter sauce with mushrooms. We normally go for the grilled option and our fine specimen is always cooked perfectly. You get a very generous portion plus and we've had an extra half tail before. It comes served with an understated lemon butter sauce and fried baby potatoes. In our opinion having it grilled is ideal for the natural flavour of the lobster to be retained.
Finz, Beach Rotana (02 697 9000).
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Posted by: abdul samadh on 23 May ' 13 at 08:31
its very nice . actually lobster very big and good one
Posted by: LM on 09 Jan ' 13 at 08:04
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- Handmade Antique Style Fanggu Yixing Zisha Teapot
- Teapot: Antique Style Fanggu Yixing Teapot 仿古紫砂壶
- Maker: Sun Wen
- Material: Vermilion clay
- Origin Place: Yixing (宜兴), Jiangsu Province.
- Sintering Temperature: 1080℃
- Dimensions of 130ml teapot :11.5 cm * 6 cm * 7.5 cm
- Dimensions of 200ml teapot :13 cm * 7 cm * 9 cm
Fanggu, written in Chinese as 仿古 (fǎng gǔ), is originally know as another phrase: 仿鼓 (fǎng gǔ). 仿鼓 means the teapot is modeled after the appearance of drum. This style started since Qing Dynasty. Till now people still make this teapot by imitating its old crafting style. So it is renamed as 仿古, meaning making the teapot in an antique style. This Antique Style Fanggu Yixing Teapot is small, short and plump. Inner wall is smooth and flat. Lid and pot perfectly fit with each other. The spout and handle are shaped in symmetrical position. This exquisite Yixing Teapot is an excellent choice for tasting good teas.
Feature: The body looks like a drum. So it is also called 仿鼓.
Bottom: smooth and neat, carved with the maker's name.
Shoulder: Fanggu Yixing Teapot must have high shoulder in order to keep a powerful appearance as drums.
Mouth: the mouth of the teapot is even.
Lid button: lid button of this Fanggu Yixing Teapot is made not tightly stick to the lid. It is also shaped into drum-like appearance.
The Potter: Sun Wen, female potter, is born in the hometown of Zisha Ceramic, Dingshu Town in Yixing, Jiangsu, whose parents are both skillful potters of old Yixing manufactures. She learnt abundant knowledge of traditional method of making Yixing tea wares. Her works are simple, elegant, looks plain yet exquisite.
Yixing tea wares made of vermilion clay have vermilion color after produced. That's the reason the clay is called vermilion clay. This material originates in Yixing. It is tough, containing high amount of iron. Thus vermilion clay has high shrinking rate. The sinter temperature of vermilion clay is around 1080℃. The end production has fine and smooth surface and high air permeability.
Note: because vermilion clay has high shrinking rate, the teapot will be easy to crack under instant temperature change. It's better to warm up the teapot with warm water before pouring boiling water into the pot. Vermilion clay is a kind of tender material which needs your careful maintenance.
Manual Making of Yixing Teapot
This is the normal manual process of Yixing teapot, not specificly refers to the making of Antique Style Fanggu Yixing Zisha Teapot
1. Crafted clay.
2. Use a wooden mallet to beat the clay into three pieces of slice.
3. Make three different slices for teapot body, mouth and bottom.
4. Cut the clay into standard size with a measure.
5. Bend the piece of body over the mold into tube shape.
6. Adjust the tube.
7. Use left hand finger to prop up the clay, and then pat the upper part of the tube with a wooden mallet.
8. Pat the tube.
9. Pat the tube.
10. Pat the tube.
11. Stop patting. Close up the upper part the tube into the shape of teapot bottom.
12. Install the bottom piece.
13. Turn over the tube.
14. Pat another side, till the mouth's size meets requirement.
15. Install the mouth piece.
16. Adjust the body by patting it with a wooden board.
17. Adjust the body. Modify the outline.
18. Finish adjusting. Let the clay dry till it's ready for the next step.
19. Glue mud, the only binder used for making Yixing teapot, is also the diluent of the material clay.
20. Make the lid. Use a measure to draw the outline of the lid on the top the body.
21. Install the spout. Measure the height of the spout and mouth to ensure they are at same level.
22. Punch the holes for the spout.
23. Punch the holes for the spout.
24. Finish the holes.
25. Measure the height of the spout, handle and mouth to ensure they are at same level.
26. Final adjustment.
27. The making of this Yixing teapot is finished.
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- By tperez on 6/14/16
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A cute little pot! The pour is nice and lid fit fairly good (maybe a drop or two leaking per pour). It is a nice size for personal use or 2-3 people. There is no off smell to the clay and it seems very dense. I am not convinced however that it makes tea any better than a simple gaiwan or porcelain pot, perhaps it will be better with time.
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Commonly asked questions
- Q: What teas are best brewed in this vermillion clay teapot? Posted on 10/16/16 by John Blackwell
Reply: Thanks for your question.
Due to the good heat-preservation and aroma-preservation abilities of zisha teapot, it is best brewing for teas which need high temperature, such as pu-erh and oolong tea.
Hope it helps.
- Q: Hi, is this fully handmade or part handmade (with mould)? Posted on 11/23/15 by Qian
Reply: Hi Qian,
Thank you for your question.
This Handmade Antique Style Fanggu Yixing Zisha Teapot is fully handmade.
Hope this is helpful to your concern.
- Q: Is it possible to also order cups in the same type of clay?
Kind regards,
Monique Posted on 12/12/13 by Monique Leegwater
Reply: We don't have this kind of cups for the moment. But we can find it for you.
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Casting begins for Festival's 60th season
September 14, 2011… The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has begun to confirm casting for its 60th season and is pleased to announce the return of the following actors: Kyle Blair, James Blendick, Ben Carlson, Juan Chioran, Cynthia Dale, Deborah Hay, Tom McCamus, Seana McKenna, Lucy Peacock, Tom Rooney and Mike Shara.
"I am delighted to welcome all these superbly talented performers back to our stages," says Artistic Director Des McAnuff. "A theatre is defined by its artists, above all else, and I take great pride in knowing that we will be embarking on our milestone 60th season with an acting ensemble to rival any in the world."
"This casting announcement is just a taste of what is to come for the Festival in 2012," says General Director Antoni Cimolino. "With key players like these leading our ensemble, the 60th will be a season to remember."
|Kyle Blair
Kyle Blair will play the leading roles of Billy Lawlor in the tap spectacular 42nd Street and Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance. Mr. Blair was last seen at the Festival in 2007, playing Will Parker in Oklahoma! and Achmed in My One and Only. In seven seasons at Stratford, Mr. Blair's memorable musical credits include Jack in Into the Woods, Professor Hamilton Steeves in South Pacific, Ambrose Kemper in Hello, Dolly! and Noah Claypole in Oliver!
Blendick, Carlson, Chioran return for a season of Shakespeare
|James Blendick
James Blendick will mark his 29th season at the Festival, playing the principal role of Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing and the Archbishop of Canterbury in Henry V. Mr. Blendick delighted audiences this season as Master Robert Shallow in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Mr. Blendick has been a stalwart of the Festival stage, playing significant roles in both Shakespearean and modern classics, including Doctor Chebutykin in Three Sisters, Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1, Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Boyet in Love's Labour's Lost, Claudius in Hamlet and Matthew Brady in Inherit the Wind.
|Ben Carlson
Ben Carlson, currently playing Feste in Twelfth Night and Alceste in The Misanthrope, will celebrate his fifth season at Stratford playing Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing and Fluellen in Henry V. Among the Festival's finest young classical actors, Mr. Carlson has taken on an impressive list of key roles, including Touchstone in As You Like It, Leontes in The Winter's Tale, John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Brutus in Julius Caesar and the title role in Hamlet.
|Juan Chioran
Cynthia Dale returns in 42nd Street; Deborah Hay returns to play Beatrice
|Cynthia Dale in Anything Goes
|Deborah Hay
Deborah Hay, most recently seen in leading roles at the Shaw Festival, will return for her fourth season at Stratford to play Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Alice in Henry V. A member of the Birmingham Conservatory in 1999, Ms Hay played such roles as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew and Katharine in Love's Labour's Lost in Stratford. This season at Shaw, Ms Hay is playing Eliza Doolittle in their hit production of My Fair Lady, as well as Hesione Hushabye in Heartbreak House. Her portrayal of Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday was proclaimed as a standout at the Shaw in 2010.
Seana McKenna and Tom McCamus join forces in a lighter love affair
|Tom McCamus
After his moving portrayal of Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath and his masterful turn as Master Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tom McCamus will play the leading roles of Horace Vandergelder in The Matchmaker and Iachimo in Cymbeline. Last season, Mr. McCamus delighted audiences in the deliciously evil roles of Captain Hook in Peter Pan and Le Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons. In 11 seasons at Stratford, he has played a vast number of leading roles in such productions as Three Sisters, Bartholomew Fair, An Ideal Husband, The Threepenny Opera, Camelot, Waiting for Godot and Long Day's Journey Into Night.
|Seana McKenna
Tom Rooney and Lucy Peacock together again in Wanderlust.
|Lucy Peacock
Celebrating her 25th season and 60th production with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Lucy Peacock will play the Hostess in Henry V and Mrs. Munsch in the new musical Wanderlust. Ms Peacock combined musical theatre and Shakespeare this season as well, playing Morgan le Fey in Camelot and the delightfully scheming Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, with Tom Rooney as her jealous husband. Last season the two actors appeared together in the moving production of For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again and in As You Like It, in which Ms Peacock played a memorable Audrey. In 2012 Ms Peacock and Mr. Rooney will again appear together.
|Tom Rooney
Tom Rooney will take on the leading role of Robert Service in Wanderlust, the new musical commissioned from Morris Panych and composer Marek Norman. He will also play Pistol in Henry V. Since joining the company in 2008, Mr. Rooney has fast become a favourite on the Festival stage, most recently with his richly drawn portrayals of Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Master Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He gave standout performances in 2009 as the Porter in Macbeth, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cassius in Julius Caesar. In addition to playing the Narrator in 2010's For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Mr. Rooney played Duke Frederick and Duke Senior in As You Like It and Autolycus in The Winter's Tale.
Mike Shara to play Cornelius in The Matchmaker
|Mike Shara
After making an impressive Shakespearean debut in 2010 as Oliver in As You Like It and the Young Shepherd in The Winter's Tale, Mike Shara portrayed Orsino in this season's Twelfth Night, and will return in 2012 to play Cloten in Cymbeline. Mr. Shara will also play the leading role of Cornelius in The Matchmaker. His Stratford credits also include an insightful portrayal of Teddy in this season's acclaimed production of The Homecoming and the deliciously daft Algernon Moncrieff in the 2008 production of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Casting continues for the 2012 season.
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2011 season runs until November 6, featuring The Merry Wives of Windsor, Camelot, Twelfth Night, The Misanthrope, The Grapes of Wrath, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Homecoming, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, The Little Years and Hosanna.


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Anaheim Ducks defenceman Francois Beauchemin played through a debilitating injury during the first-round playoff series with the Detroit Red Wings.
Ducks general manager Bob Murray told reporters Tuesday that Beauchemin played with a torn ACL in his knee and will need surgery to fix the problem.
"He promises me he'll be ready by the start of the year, and I don't argue with Beauch," Murray said. "If he says he'll be ready, he'll be ready."
Despite the injury, Beauchemin averaged more than 25 minutes of ice time against Detroit, two minutes more than his regular-season average, and had two goals and four assists.


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Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well. The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin' They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, …. " Back with my wife in Tennessee
And one day she said to me,
"Virgil, Quick! Come see!
There goes Robert E. Lee." Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Just take what you need and leave the rest. But they should never have taken the very best. The night they drove old Dixie down…
"there goes Robert E. Lee" is now "there goes the Robert E. Lee,".
and that's about the difference between "Ich bin ein Berliner…" and "Ich bin Berliner…"
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LF FA 5 years ago
Michael Cuddyer blasted a two-run homer Thursday in the Rockies' 5-3 victory over the Marlins.
It was Cuddyer's first game back from the disabled list and he showed no rust. The 33-year-old is now batting .260/.316/.492 with 16 dingers and 58 RBI in 99 games since signing a three-year free agent contract with the Rockies this past offseason. He'll serve as Colorado's everyday first baseman down the stretch.


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Game 17: Red Sox at Athletics
Here are the lineups:
Drew RF
Pedroia 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Youkilis DH
Lowrie 3B
Scutaro SS
Crawford LF
Varitek C
Ellsbury CF
Pitching: RHP Clay Buchholz (0-2, 6.60).
Crisp CF
Barton 1B
DeJesus RF
Matsui DH
Sweeney LF
Ellis 2B
Powell C
Kouzmanoff 3B
Pennington SS
Pitching: LHP Gio Gonzalez (2-0, 0.47)
Game time: 3:35 p.m.
TV/Radio: NESN / WEEI
Notes: Gonzalez is the ninth lefty starter the Sox have faced in 17 games. They were 3-5 in the first eight games. … Gonzalez has allowed one earned run in 19 innings this season, none in the last 17. He is 1-0, 5.51 in three career starts against the Red Sox. … Buchholz has been shaky in three starts, allowing 16 hits (5 homers) and 10 walks in 15 innings. He is 0-2, 10.13 in two career starts against the Athletics. … The Sox are winless in seven road games this season, getting outscored 43-16. They are winless in their last 10 road games dating back to last season, getting outscored 61-24. The Sox have not scored in their last 20 innings on the road, managing only nine hits. … Youkilis is 2 for 17 with runners in scoring position with six strikeouts. … Sox starters in the last four games: 26 IP, 14 H, 3 ER, 7 BB, 20 K
Stat of the day: The Sox are 28-30 against Oakland the last seven years, 10-20 at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum.
Song of the day: "Nowhere Road" by Steve Earle.


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Baby Rhino Taunts Us With His Tongue Out!
For those of you who've never had the privilege of getting taunted by a rhino — OK, me neither — lemme tell you: that's his tongue! This sassy baby was born on April 20 in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo and he's already quite the character, even though he seems to be lacking ear hair.
There are less than 5,000 black rhinoceroses (one of several species) surviving in the world, but breeding programs help give these creatures a fighting chance. Are those fighting words? Maybe that's why he's sticking his tongue out — see for yourself below.
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One makeup line that everyone should have at least one item from Bobbi Brown. I started out years ago by dabbing with their foundation. They have a huge advantage with their foundations because they have a range of shades from ivory to ebony.
This summer I will be trying my best to use the least amount of makeup I can. Let's be honest! The nights are really hot and the last thing you want is your makeup slipping off! I've seen it and it's not pretty.
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Lips- Bobbi Brown Creamy Matte Lip Colour in "Red Carpet."
Eyes- Cream shadow like Bobbi Brown Longwear Cream Shadow in "Steel."
Highlight- Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick in Bronze.
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Twisting south from Interstate 90 west of Billings, Bridger Creek Road cuts through sand-rock foothills studded with ponderosa pines as it follows a creek laced by cottonwoods...
BILLINGS, Mont. Twisting south from Interstate 90 west of Billings, Bridger Creek Road cuts through sand-rock foothills studded with ponderosa pines as it follows a creek laced by cottonwoods and chokecherry bushes.
Compared with the postcard perfection of the nearby Boulder and Stillwater drainages, Bridger Creek is a plain-Jane stepsister. The area's small-scale, family-run tourist operations seem to share some common threads.
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Two were forged by ranch families looking to supplement their income and remain on the land. Two grew from families that chose to settle along Bridger and West Bridger creeks and turned to tourism to make ends meet.
Each operation started on a shoestring with a build-it-yourself attitude. Each relies on family members to do what needs to be done from wrangling dudes to cleaning cabins or cooking home-style meals.
Two miles off I-90, Bridger Creek Road rises beside a hay field. Cottonwoods curl along the creek bank, hugging a pair of ranch houses. One house, a tidy two-story, was built by Terry Terland's grandfather, who homesteaded along the creek in 1907.
Four generations of Terlands have lived on the 11,000-acre Range Riders Ranch. Terry's father, Telmar, who is 81, lives in the house in which he was born. Terry's house sits a few yards away.
Squeezed in around Terry and Wyoma Terland's breakfast table are Steve Churchill, a government employee from New Jersey, and his horse-loving 12-year-old daughter, who lives in Maryland. The working ranch kitchen sits just off a mud-room entryway, filled with dusty boots, hats and chaps.
"We can ride horses where we live, but I wanted an adventure," Churchill said.
'Blessed to live here'
Guests savor the Terlands' horseback rides for what they can and cannot see a wide-open view of three mountain ranges, a chunk of scenery undiminished by telephone poles or cars.
"We are blessed to live here," Wyoma Terland said. "We feel like this is a gift God has given us, that we manage for a while."
She started doing the rides at the Range Riders Ranch nearly a decade ago to supplement their income. She also saw it as a way to educate city folk about the realities of ranch life. After each ride, she sits guests down for lemonade, home-baked cookies and a chance to talk.
"Pretty soon, they're asking us all kinds of questions," she said. Frequently the conversation turns to stewardship of the land and the work involved in raising cattle.
"It's a chance for them to see it from our perspective," she said.
During her first summer, in 1994, she took 67 guests on rides. This summer, more than 300 riders will see a portion of the ranch from the back of a horse. Nearly two-thirds of them will come back again. This summer, the Terlands added a weeklong cattle drive. They're planning two drives next year.
Crunch time often hits during haying season.
"The hard part is taking the time to give them what they want, which is sometimes the conversation, when sometimes you've got things to do on the ranch," Terry said.
His wife has a knack for socializing and putting people at ease. The couple, married since 1979, started dating with the help of matchmaking neighbors. When she came to the ranch as a newlywed, the area seemed more remote.
"If a vehicle went down the road, you stopped to see who it was," she said. "Traffic has gone from a few cars a day to a few cars an hour."
Do-it-herself dude decor
About a mile from the Terlands sits the hand-hewn log house built by Janis and Rod Maclean. Although it was finished in 1990, it looks as if it might have been on the place for several generations. Their property, less than 50 acres, was a small chunk of a larger ranch sold by Rod's parents.
Since they never intended to do a bed and breakfast, the Macleans' one-room, log guest cabin was originally built as a storage cabin. Rod works as a woodworker for a custom stair company in Big Timber. Janis was working as waitress in Big Timber when an accident made them re-examine their lifestyle.
"There was not one day of the week we had time together as a family," said Janis, a talkative woman who possesses a seemingly inexhaustible supply of energy and good humor.
By 1995, the family had put together the Bunkhouse Bed and Breakfast as a full-time seasonal business, turning the storage cabin a few yards from their home into a bunkhouse. Janis pampers guests with a gourmet breakfast in the sun room of her home, a place where guests are apt to see deer browsing near the creek or spot black bears when the chokecherries ripen in the fall.
The furnishings in the cabin and in their own home emulate the dude ranch-style leather and stick furniture of Thomas Molesworth. Much of it was built by Janis.
"I liked a style of Western furnishing that I was unable to afford," Janis said. "If I hoped to have my home decorated in the dude-ranch Western furniture that appealed to me, then I had to do it myself."
She is already working on a sofa for the unfinished cabin, which is tucked in the trees less than 100 yards from their house. The cabin will sleep six and have a screened porch overlooking the creek and an outdoor hot tub. They have done nearly all the work themselves and plan to have the roof on by the end of this fall.
The Holler
Along West Bridger Creek Road, Pat and Craig Whitlock opened a cluster of year-round cabins in 1999. They named their place The Holler, harking back to the tradition of Southern hospitality. Pat Whitlock is constantly amazed by how often she has to explain the name's roots.
"Don't they listen to country music?" she asked rhetorically. Country singer Loretta Lynn's backwoods birthplace, Butcher Holler, was immortalized in the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter."
Their operation includes seven furnished cabins, all with running water, but some with outhouses.
"It's a mountain cabin retreat that's a cut above a Forest Service cabin," she said.
The Whitlocks' three teens take folks out on trail rides and help clean cabins. About three-quarters of their business is in summer, but the Whitlocks also offer winter activities, including ice skating on their pond.
At the Stoney Lonesome Ranch, 15 miles south of the interstate, the busy season stretches through the fall hunting season. Corky Hedrick became an outfitter 30 years ago to help supplement the ranch income. In 1992, he and his wife, Clarice, started offering working ranch vacations and horseback rides.
"Everybody wants to be a Montana cowboy for just a little bit," Clarice said.
Corky, who is 70, still leads summer rides, while Clarice doesn't flinch at the thought of fixing supper for a passing wagon train carrying more than a hundred guests and wranglers.


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The Fedora Project is a community-run Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat.
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Release Notes: Most prominently, the new default desktop is GNOME 3. Systemd now replaces SysVinit for increased boot speed and maintainability. A new, more deterministic network device naming scheme was introduced. A new /run directory was introduced as a tmpfs, and /var/run and /var/lock are bind mounted to it. An optional dynamic firewall daemon was added. setroubleshoot was redesigned to make it easier to diagnose SELinux problems. Many other improvements were made. Software updates include KDE 4.6, Xfce 4.8, X.org 1.10, GTK+ 3.0, Libreoffice 3.3.2, Firefox 4, GCC 4.6, GDB 7.3, Python 3.2, and Boost 1.46.
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Release Notes: New features include automatic print driver installation, automatic language pack installation, a redesigned user account tool, color management to calibrate monitors and scanners, and experimental 3D support for NVIDIA video cards. Further new features include support for installation over the Internet, SSSD authentication for users, updates to NFS, system rollback for the Btrfs file system, better SystemTap probes, a Python 3 stack that can be installed parallel to an existing Python stack, and support for the entire Java EE 6 spec in Netbeans 6.8. Many other enhancements were made.
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This version has a paperbag bug
The x86_64 version has a bug where initrd does not get created correctly.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206453 describes the problem. To fix it you have to create an initrd by hand and edit /etc/grub.conf to point to the file.
Shouldn't FC1_AMD64 have been announced as a branch, not as a version? This will confuse anyone looking for info about the state of this distribution...
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Raymond Ford picked up his fifth offer from UCLA recently and the Bruins could be one of the favorites but the Gardena (Calif.) Serra cornerback could still take his time - and maybe go on some official visits - before making his decision.
UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and SMU have now offered Ford, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound prospect who finished with 45 tackles and five interceptions in his junior season.
He has shined at multiple camps this off-season including the UCLA camp, the Los Angeles NIKE Camp and the Asante Trenchmen Academy.
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"Recruiting is going well," Ford said at the Big Man on Campus Under the Lights 7-on-7 Tournament last week prior to getting that UCLA offer. "I'm just waiting for the right team, just weighing my options and looking for the right environment for me.
"No one is sticking out. Everyone is the same right now. I need to look more into the schools and everything before I make my decision or who my top three schools are going to be."
Ford said no matter what he plans to take some official visits during the season but wasn't sure of any destinations yet. Staying in California or venturing out a little bit are both options that he's considering especially since he has offers from schools in four different states.
"I'd like to see outside of California but if the schools here are offering good things or they're looking for me to play early I'm going to stay here," Ford said.
"It doesn't really matter. I'm not scared to go out or anything."
His UCLA camp experience went well and Ford is definitely considering the Bruins moving forward. The Serra standout told Rivals.com he has to talk over his newest offer with his family before making any decisions.
One thing to consider is that Ford and Serra teammate Patrick Wooten definitely want to play together in college. The team that offers Wooten could have a serious edge in the recruitment of both prospects.


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The best octopus fisherman in town
Japan, July 6, 2011
He could be a fisherman from almost any country — the tanned face, the weathered clothes, the rubber boots, and the sense of being at home at the sea. We caught up with Isami Hoshi on the oceanfront in Minamisanriku, just as he was heading home for the day. Peace Winds staff Sachie Saijo explained that Hoshi was the best octopus fisherman around. Prior the earthquake and tsunami, he and his crew would bring in a ton of octopus a year.
Now, just a little over three months after the earthquake, he was anxious to get back to it. Hoshi had owned several boats, some of which had been lost in the disaster. He and his brand-new boat — which had just arrived on March 5, six days before the tsunami — had been spared because he had been out at sea when the earthquake hit. He returned four days later to find a totally changed world.
The port is still barely functional. A pickup truck with two barrels serves as a gas station. The steel beams that once supported the ice facility are all that is left of that structure. But the boats that survived or were not totally damaged are there, under repair or ready to resume their trade. And the fishermen are anxious to get back to work.
All along Japan's tsunami-affected coast, Mercy Corps and partner Peace Winds are working with local fishermen, fishing associations and markets to return the time-honored — and economically critical — fishing industry to full health.
The market in Minamisanriku was set to reopen the morning of July 4. So he set his traps on July 1, hoping to get a good catch in time for the market. He would be back on July 3 at midnight to see what was there. He hoped for a good catch, but who knew what he would find?
As it turned out, the market opening on July 4 was a big event, complete with television and media attention. And what about Hoshi and his octopus? He showed up with a good catch of robust octopus to sell. He is back at work again, and likely still the best octopus fisherman in town.


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The saying, "I'd rather be lucky than good," chooses one of two desirable options, but what if you could have both?
The duo known as the Pro Letarians were fortunate enough to be just doors apart at Indiana university, a school of over 40,000 students. That's pretty lucky. With JO on production and Jupiter Jim emceeing, The Pro Letarians have created plenty of well-rounded tracks that often uniquely sample familiar songs such as The Beatles' "Let It Be" and the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back". Their tracks possess an infectious enthusiasm that makes it hard not to nod along. That's pretty good.
The Pro Letarians have already come out with three mixtapes despite having met each other just a year ago and being in school for a large portion of that time. Their first tape, The Pregame, may have been a little rough around the edges in some spots, but the sampler showcased the duo's potential and received positive reviews in the blogosphere. They followed this up with the March 2012 release of Hello Forever, which made the duo's sonic evolution apparent. Hello, Forever was a longer, more diverse tape, which, like their debut mixtape, had no features. That fact kept the spotlight, and the pressure, on them throughout. December 2012's follow up, Not All of Me Shall Die, showcased an even more refined sound, proving that The Pro Letarians are here to stay.
It seems like the young duo is heading in the right direction and it will be interesting to see where The Pro Letarians end up. The maturation seen in such a short time is encouraging and further proof that these kids out of Indiana are good enough to make their own luck.
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Small linux box as a wireless router/home network ideas
Anyone running this way? I'm cleaning up and replacing some old gear on my home network. Currently have a Cisco 340 AP, 8 port switch and separate router upstairs and a wired drop in the living room where we have the printer by the TV. I want to get rid of all the separate boxes and just buy one of the wireless routers so everything is combined. Also I want to get rid of the HP Jetdirect that my printer is hanging off of because it doesn't have big enough of a buffer for large print jobs so I plan to build a small print/file server also. So I thought why not just buy a PCI cardbus adapter and pop in a wireless card and use that Linux file/print server as a router/firewall? Linux firewalls should be secure enough for that right?
I really reccomend coyote linux (runs of a floppy) for your router/firewalling needs. All it needs is two network cards, a mother board, a processor, a floppy drive, a cheap VGA adapter, a keyboard a monitor and a mouse. really cheap- the linux is free and you can use anyold hardware.
checkout: http://www.coyotelinux.com/ and specifically http://www.coyotelinux.com/products.php?Product=coyote
I want to combine the router with the file/print sharing so I don't think the router specific distro will work. I have a little 500MHz via motherboard from another project that I can use.
Try IPCop!
I use IPCop as my firewall/router, and it works awesome!
IPCop is stand-alone linux box that you can access externally via web interface, or even with ssh/telnet.
It has a lot of great features like port-forwarding, transparent proxy... all KINDS of cool stuff.
I can't say enough good things about it... ;-)
Check it out: IPCop
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i uses smoothwall for awhile that was pretty slick. i had it on a compaq presario 425 486sx. Slapped a 20gig maxtor drive in it (that was fun!!) and off i went, was a bit slow as far as a router is concerned but it did the trick, print server and all.
it was a compaq...cant remember the model but it was one of those, moniter/cpu all in one jobs. clarkconnect is prett good to, i use it now, bas off redhat 9 i believe, using apt for updates, needs a little more horsepower though. i got it on a amd 600 mhz box now.
Ok, I should have made my question more clearer.
Anyone built a wireless router that does file and print sharing on the local network as well?
I think your problem is going to be with the wireless part. As the other posts point out there are lots of solutions for building a linux router, but I think you will need very specific hardware to set up a wireless access point. It is so much easier to just get a wireless router box, esp. if you have to buy a wifi card/2nd NIC for the VIA.
The Linksys wrt54g wireless router runs linux anyway. You can even install your own linux distro on it (http://openwrt.org). You can still use the VIA as a web proxy, mail server, print server and anything else you want.
Thats why I wanted to post here and see if anyone does run a wireless router/server combined. I'd like to consolidate down to as few boxes as possible as my family is growing and I'm running out of space, my "server room" is going away so everything has to fit somewhere else.
I have the mini ITX board already and its booting and running from a CF card, have a right angle pci adapter and power supply and small rack mount case. I thought about getting a cardbus adapter and one of these http://cgi.ebay.com/D-Link-DWL-G650-...QQcmdZViewItem
That certainly looks like a good price on a wifi card, but I wouldn't assume it would work with linux. Even if you find a compatible card, you will probably want to run it as an access point, and AFAIK there are even fewer cards with linux drivers which can do that.
It is hard to beat a dedicated wireless router to simplify your network. You can even get them with built in phone adapters for VoIP. But if you really want to use your Mini-ITX two links you might find interesting are
Well as I look as cards I search for the model number on this forum to see if they work or not or how much trouble it will be getting them to work.
I plan on building the miniitx server anyway for file/print so I thought about just combining the router/firewall.
I'd like to keep as low power as possible for those times when I'm running from UPS (seems too often)
"I'd like to consolidate down to as few boxes as possible..."
How about one box only?
Try having a look at www.openwrt.org.
Then combine their firmware offering - a complete linux-driven server (much resembling a debian-box) including onlinestorage, printerserver, firewall, router and a few funny gizmos of your choice (taken from a list of available add-on-packages) - with eg. an ASUS WL-500G Deluxe SOHO-router hardware.
You'll end up with no monitors, keyboards, mice, noisy fans and clumsy cabinets, and yet have your printerserver and all the other stuff you need to make a working home LAN - on very low power requirements.
Add an external USB-harddisk and suitable add-onn-packages, and you'll have all your personal data online via SSH/SFTP. Add an account on dyndns.org and put your website in the box. Add a webcam and get surveillance features.
And the list goes on...
The guys at openwrt have managed to put the fun back into computing! And i have regained silence - complete silence - in my livingroom. You never know how much noise that server cabinet over in the corner really makes until you turn it off!
I wanted to not buy anymore hardware but for now just grabbed a cheap linksys router and have the mini itx board as a server. I have it sharing file and print so far using samba so my wife can see them from her windoze laptop.
If you grabbed a Linksys WRT54G router you may be in luck - the older versions run OpenWRT out-of-the-box.
Of course - no disks, webcams etc. Unless you're able to solder, that is...
How much power does the ITX-board consume?
The linksys I got was a v5 so no running linux from it. I have been rsynch'ing my laptop to the miniitx for about a month now so that much it working. I'm thinking now with the tv out on the miniitx board I could hook it to my tv and use something like kphotoalbum to display pictures.
Its running from an old 12v 1.2A supply and thats with the internal and external hard disks, the little 12v in supply is a 60w max so its pretty low power.
v5 - that was a pity.
TV-out on the miniitx.. Hmmm. I've heard about people building multimedia-boxes much like the Windoze MediaCenter. Are you thinking of something like that? 'Cause i'd like to try something similar, and is currently looking (low-priority) for knowledge on the subject. Not a 24/7/365-online thing like the router, but more like a barebone tucked in somewhere near the TV/stereo, providing entertainment and storage for media.
AFAIK; all it takes is a quiet mobo with TVout and a TV/radio-tuner addin-card.
And appropriate software...
Any pointers you'd like to share?
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The Civilian Inferiority Complex
If only we could finally get a prime minister who would stand up and not feel inferior because he is a civilian.
With a crestfallen face as dry as a sack, and the slow speech of someone whose world has collapsed, "Mr. Terror" deigned to blurt out with scornful and bitter sourness that "one action against six terrorists does not change the fact that Olmert is going to give up all the territories to Hamas." In other words, this operation was petty for someone like the Bobby Fisher of the global terrorism chessboard, the liberator of Sheikh Yassin: What's six terrorists compared to the great sea of terrorists waiting to be dried up, one at a time?
Indeed, if there were a comic interlude in this election season, Netanyahu's campaign provides it, especially since the man who not long ago was referring to the healthy Ariel Sharon as a "tyrant," "dictator" and "head of a Mafioso family" now has the gall to wrap himself in the cloak of the ailing and silent prime minister and represent his "authentic policy": the one that has no concession of territory or unilateral withdrawals.
Moreover, in the Likud election broadcasts, the white-haired burly figure reappears in military battledress, popping out of a helicopter or pointing to a map while standing above the ridges known as "Sharon's porch." Only a second look clarifies that the round military figure is not Sharon, but actually Netanyahu. That goes to show us that in every election someone has to be Sharon - the question is, which Sharon and from what period?
Ehud Olmert, for example, tries to present the Sharon of the "Tantra Period," the one who said at the height of the terrorist attacks that "restraint is power." And indeed, a few hours after the Jericho operation, which was described in the media with ecstatic terminology like "the great blow" that guarantees Olmert's election, with comparisons to Entebbe and the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor, Olmert was walking around with the look of the cat who swallowed the cream on his face but had adopted the Sharonesque coolness. But by the evening of the same day he could no longer restrain himself and blurted out the Olmert that had piled up inside him. He spoke of "the people," which had "restored its honor" and avenged the blood of "Gandhi, may the Name avenge his blood."
Even if there is a contradiction between demanding of "the Name" that he avenge the blood, and the operation, which simply reimprisoned the assassins - that's the least of the questions that were shoved aside during that time of euphoria. These include: Did Israel ever show such resolve in capturing wanted men who killed "just ordinary" Israelis? Are there some whose blood is thicker than the hundreds and thousands of the other victims of terror?
True, there is a symbolic importance in the murder of a minister (even though he had resigned, and even though Israel is the one that started assassinating enemy leaders), but isn't there the aftertaste of a vendetta in the familial-governmental-IDF cheering about "closing accounts" when the victim is "one of us" - meaning a senior member of the political-military oligarchy ruling in Israel? And what about the price that might be paid by ordinary citizens as a result? And another, more fundamental question: Whence the axiom that it is possible to buy the Israeli voter's heart only with military operations?
True, there are a variety of ways to flatter the voter, like election economics. During some periods of time, which woefully have passed from the world, even "efforts to achieve peace" were promised. But it is agreed that nothing "delivers" the electoral swish into the basket like a juicy military operation: something with a missile, a jet, a bomb or at least a bulldozer, something that climaxes with Arabs in their underwear, or running away barefoot, or picking their way through the rubble. Less than that is considered the failure of a prime minister in his baptism of fire, just as the promise of peace and prosperity is nearly a guarantee of defeat at the polls.
The special power of Sharon derived from the fact he did not have to prove anything. With the force of his veteran mythological baptism, he could allow himself to speak about restraint and withdrawals without batting an eyelash. The other politicians, from Shimon Peres (Kafr Kana) and Netanyahu (the Hasmonean Tunnel) to Amir Peretz ("fighting terror") and Olmert - still feel the need to "play soldier" to get over the voter's threshold, or at least win their hearts with the shiny glass beads of a big military operation, even if the effectiveness fades fast or turns out to boomerang.
The Jericho operation was not a blank demonstration, and nonetheless it should be hoped that this won't be Olmert's only road to glory. If only we could finally get a prime minister who would stand up and not feel inferior because he is a civilian.
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PHILADELPHIA - Watching him dominate in open ice, in the trenches among the footsoldiers and in the dirty areas where only the greasiest of goals are scored, and one question immediately comes to mind.
Why would the Philadelphia Flyers even consider the possibility of trading away young James van Riemsdyk, brittle as he may be?
Midway through the 2011-12 regular season, rumours and reports flooded the talk shows and the Internet suggesting van Riemsdyk might be dangled as trade bait if the right deal came along. The scuttlebutt that left the most tongues wagging had the Flyers potentially shipping the 22-year-old forward to the Toronto Maple Leafs in a deal that would have seen defenceman Luke Schenn end up in Philly.
General manager Paul Holmgren probably made a shrewd decision by not pulling the trigger, opting to bring in Nicklas Grossman from Dallas and Pavel Kubina from Tampa Bay to augment the blueline instead. Having said that, there still are concerns within the Flyers organization about van Riemsdyk's injury history. And with good reason.
First came a one-game absence with a lower-body injury in November, followed by four more missed games with an upper-body injury in December.
Next came a concussion in mid-January that knocked him out for an additional 15 games. And the coup de grace came when he was clunked in the left skate by a Milan Jurcina blast March 1 against the New York Islanders, a block that left him with a broken foot.
Is it fair to say this kid is injury prone? A china doll? If critics were to make those claims, you couldn't logically argue with them.
Having said that, van Riemsdyk seems to be the type of player who raises his game come playoff time.
In just his third game back, van Riemsdyk scored a huge goal, then screened Martin Brodeur on Daniel Briere's game winner in the Flyers' 4-3 overtime victory over the New Jersey Devils in Game 1 of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal at the Wells Fargo Center Sunday.
Once again, the spring has become James van Riemsdyk's time to bloom.
A year ago, he scored seven goals in 11 playoff games. Not long afterward, the Flyers inked him to a six-year, $25.5 million extension.
Asked for the key to his post-season success, van Riemsdyk pointed to some tips given him by teammate Daniel Briere, a monster playoff performer who has 106 points in 104 post-season games.
"Danny told me about taking the game to the next level," van Riemsdyk said. "It's a totally different game out there this time of year.
"There are guys who have success during the regular season but, for some reason come playoff time, different guys seem to step up to that next level. (Briere) has done that time after time in the playoffs and I've definitely learned from some big-time playoff performers on our team.
"I still remember two years ago when he led our team to the final. I learned from that."
As for the trade rumours and injuries that have plagued him this past season, van Riemsdyk takes it all in stride.
"It's one of those things that happens," he said. "Injuries are part of the game, trade rumours are part of the game. I'm lucky I have kind of a support system now that lets me concentrate on what I have to do out on the ice and kind of blocks me out from the rest. I'm definitely thankful for that so I can just go out there and play hockey.
"Your job is never safe. I don't really look into it. (Rumours) happen. You just kind of roll with it and go from there."
Flyer fans only hope he's still in orange and black moving forward.


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25th Annual Symphony by the Lake at Chetola: Children's Ticket (under 12 yrs of age)
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Friday, Jul 27, 2012 5:30 PM EDT
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The Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce is pleased to present the 25th Annual Symphony by the Lake at Chetola! The Symphony by the Lake at Chetola has become a pinnacle event of the summer in Blowing Rock. Sit by the lake with a cool mountain breeze, watch the swans drift by and enjoy a tethered hot air balloon ride for spectacular views. Bring a picnic or sample delicious cuisine prepared by Chetola's chef, Michael Barbato. Immerse yourself in the delightful sounds of the Symphony of the Mountains from Kingsport, TN as the evening slips into night. The evening closes with a spectacular fireworks show often said to be one of best in the Southeast as the colorful fireworks explode and reflect in the waters of Chetola Lake. Put this on your "must do again and again" list. (No Refunds) - These tickets must be picked up at the Tanger Gate and are available only to children under 12 years of age.


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Every time I've ordered from B&H, I choose standard shipping (it's free) and it's ALWAYS UPS Ground. And every single time, it says it will arrive on a day (say it says it will arrive on the 18th of the month on UPS's website) it always arrives on the 17th, meaning a day earlier than the projected arrival date.
For reference, I live in Detroit, Michigan. B&H is in New York.
But if I'm getting the cheapest (free) shipping, there's no way I'm going to complain or post about my dissatisfaction of said free shipping. Why is padding needed anyways? Lenses are always very secure inside the manufacturer's box. Delivery trucks have harsh suspensions, and no amount of padding is going to shield it from the vibrations and jolts it will get just from the ride itself. If it's damaged, which it usually isn't, then just call B&H, they will take it back.
If you don't want to hassle with an out of state vendor like b&h and "need" a lens pronto, then help out your local camera stores, and buy locally.
Dec 18, 2012 at 08:35 PM
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You should be able to call UPS and ask them to hold your package at their facility if they won't let you change the delivery location. I've done it a few times when I knew I wouldn't be able to get to the house to sign for them. "My" hub is on the way home from work, so it works out well. Being 20 miles away is a bit different, but if they hold it for you, you can go get it whenever.
Dec 19, 2012 at 01:11 AM
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I heard back from B&H. Their response was "I hope you get your package in time".
Dec 19, 2012 at 01:18 AM
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p.2 #4
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ShadowWalker wrote
... "I hope you get your package in time".
Me too.
Dec 19, 2012 at 03:17 AM
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ShadowWalker wrote
Fastforward to this weekend. I sold off a bunch of our Nikon gear and wanted to get my wife an OM-D for Christmas with the funds from the sales. Went online to B&H on Sunday and ordered it with standard delivery (up to 4 business days). Got the receipt and everyhing looked fine. Got an email this morning saying it shipped, great. I would have it by the end of the week. PROBLEM: I check the tracking link this afternoon and it said UPS GROUND with delivery Monday the 24th.
I'm very sorry for your dissatisfaction. We record customer visits to our site and I located our recording of this transaction. During checkout we offered several shipping options including
STANDARD - Up to 4 Business Days = Free
UPS Ground - Estimated Delivery: Mon, Dec 24 = 13.90
UPS 3 Days - Estimated Delivery: Thu, Dec 20 = 18.80
UPS 2-Day Air - Estimated Delivery: Wed, Dec 19 = 24.70
UPS Next Day Air - Estimated Delivery: Tue, Dec 18 By 10:30 AM = 45.45
KibblesNbitz wrote
In the end, its not because BH tried to save a few bucks by shipping ground, it's because you tried to save a few bucks by not paying more for 2 day shipping or overnight delivery. If you really needed it that badly for Christmas, you should have taken the precaution of using some form of rush shipping.
I find their customer service in this situation to be perfectly acceptable, as it's really your fault, not theirs. You should be glad they're helping as much as they are. Regardless, I'm sure Henry will be along shortly to help you out.
Thank you. I too wish the shipping method chosen originally had been 3-day or 2-day under the circumstances.
ShadowWalker wrote
Actually I was asking if anyone else had experienced a problem. I've been a loyal customer for many years. But getting a lens shipped last month in a big box with no padding and then this ... I was curious if it was a fluke or if others were noticing a change in B&H.
A fluke and I wish you'd informed us at the time and included a couple of snapshots. That said, as another person noted camera bodies, lenses, etc are packed by the manufacturer with sufficient protection a shipper could simply wrap the manufacturer's box in kraft paper and ship with no concern for the product's condition upon arrival.
ShadowWalker wrote
I heard back from B&H. Their response was "I hope you get your package in time".
That's odd because our customer service log for your order indicates we immediately contacted UPS and requested an address change. In fact the UPS package track site for your package now says, "The shipper has requested a Delivery Intercept for this package. / Deliver to Another Address." The same customer service log says we emailed you to tell you we'd made this request and that UPS had accepted it.
I am sorry you're dissatisfied at all. We appreciate your business and we do hope UPS successfully reroutes this and delivers it in time to put under the tree.
Henry Posner
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Dec 19, 2012 at 03:13 PM
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p.2 #6
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Thank you Henry. This has been a big misunderstanding stemming from your website saying "Up to 4 business days" and me assuming that literally meant up to 4 business days. Especially since UPS ground, w/ Monday delivery, was a different option.
Yes, UPS has received the request to reroute it but when I called them, i was told the reroute would not happen until it got to the destination, next Monday. Meaning I will get it later in the week, after Christmas. And since I am going out of town on the 26th, I won't even be there.
Thanks for your posting.
UPDATE: Thanks again Henry for following thru and your posting.
I called customer service and they in turned called UPS who confirmed that the package won't be delivered until later in the week, after Christmas and when we will be out of town. We agreed that I should have my house/dog sitter just reject the package when it gets here and have it be returned to B&H.
Sorry things didn't work out. But given this is the busiest shipping time of the year, these things do happen. And a few lessons were learned which is always a good thing.
Wishing all of you on this forum and at B&H a wonderful holiday season and a healthy and happy new year.
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Csae wrote
I hope my recent experience isn't a foresight of whats to come considering your post...
They had the whole free shipping during the holidays bang, which i thought wouldn't apply to international orders anyways but when i was checking out they actually had discounted shipping for me.
So i accepted the order, and when i did i received the invoice which did not discount the shipping... Theres a term for that, bait n switch.
Thank you for your order and this feedback. We regret your dissatisfaction. Your order included five items. For three we made no mention of free or discounted shipping. For two we stated, "
Free Shipping (USA)
" This specifies, "This item qualifies for free shipping in the contiguous United States," and closes with a link to calculate shipping to other locations.
When you checked out our shipping calculator advised your s&h fee would be the exact same amount you were actually charged. There was no change from the information supplied during checkout before you committed the order and the actual s&h fee applied.
5 items, all in stock... shipped in 3 boxes, the last of which took a week to leave NY. Basically i placed my order on sunday i think, i was expecting all 3 things wednesday... i received one on tuesday, one on wednesday, and the last box... the next monday...
Thats annoying. All the items should of been in 1 box, if not possible, should of been kept together, and even then, theres no excuse for taking a week to drop off the last box...
We received your order 12/8 after 6:30pm NYC time. All three boxes were shipped 12/10. The delay in delivering one was due entirely to the shipper, Purolator, and not to B&H.
We shipped in multiple boxes because one item was a background paper counterweight too large to be packed with other items. Another was a core for background paper, also too large to ride with other items.
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Awful. Just awful. We didn't expect the Bruins to go undefeated obviously but damn that was awful. If the Maple Leafs scouts only saw that game, not even they would trade for any of the Bruins defense. That game was the worst thing I've watched since Pearl Harbor. By comparison, Pearl Harbor is one of the greatest films of our time. I am too mad at the Bruins defense to even do a decent intro. Bruins completely deserved to lose that game.
– Shawn "Wayne" Thornton. Buffalo fans can still pretend John Scott is awesome, but no one, NO ONE on the Sabres is even as close to as brave as Shawn Thornton. Going into the game Thornton knew he was going to have to fight Scott. He knew Scott wasn't brave enough to go after anyone his own size.
John Scott is 6'8", 258 pounds. Shawn Thornton is 6'2", 217 pounds. Still, Thornton knew what had to be down and went right after Scott the first chance he got. Sabres fans can celebrate the result all they want, but not a single player on the Sabres would go after Zdeno Chara. Not even "big, bad" John "Traffic Cone" Scott. You proved nothing Buffalo. You're still cowards.
– Brad Marchand UNDRESSING the entire Sabres defense and Ryan "Emo" Miller. What a fucking goal. And basically being a Sabre killer. THEN HE DID IT AGAIN!!!
– Rich Peeeeeeeeeeverley!!!
– The Bergeron, Seguin, Marchand line. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebus!!!
– Seguin had an amazing game. Still no goals with a goalie in the net but he was on fire for most of the game.
– "Krejci just takes Miller and BEATS him down!"
– Almost everything. Almost.
– Poor Tuukka Rask.
– How does Rich Peverley get punched in the face and is the only one that gets a penalty? Peverley would've messed you up Hecht.
– Vanek is a Bruins killer. Absolute killer. Especially when he's left uncovered.
– Where was the Bruins defense tonight?
– Bruins defense. What were they doing? Was there some hot chick in the first row? A monkey juggling flaming chainsaws? Dolphin races? I don't care how awesome whatever it was. WATCH THE FUCKING OPPOSING PLAYERS AND THE PUCK. Hey Peverley, what do you think about this?
– That feeling in our stomachs when we thought Bergeron might be seriously injured.
– Thornton hurt. 😦 😦 😦
– Stafford elbowing Dougie. But the Bruins are the only dirty ones, right Sabres? And John Scott threw an elbow at Peverley. Sabres fans celebreated. If Lucic or Marchand had down it they'd be burning down Twitter.
– Rough night for Destroychuk. Jebus man, what were you doing?
– Ryan Miller still blows.
– Why did we even bother with a recap?
– It's been a few years. When will the Bruins FINALLY overhaul their shitty power play?
– What time is the Sabres parade tomorrow?
Bruins probably needed that. A loss like that sticks with you. Besides, Bruins still can't hear the Sabres all the way up here in the standings.


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Day 2 of PDC started off with another fantastic keynote address, thanks to Ray Ozzie, Steve Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie, and David Treadwell. They gave some additional details about Windows 7 as a platform for developers, and then passed the torch to Chris Anderson and Don Box for a live coding session. Of course this was very popular, as the pair demonstrated how a developer could build an application and deploy it to the cloud, using Azure Service Platform, including Windows Azure, SQL Services and .NET Services.
We've also continued the drumbeat of education on Oslo today. Doug Purdy and Vijaye Raji presented to a packed house their "Lap Around Oslo" session this afternoon. This was the first public demo of the Oslo components, including the "M" language, "Quadrant" visual toolset and repository. Judging from the enthusiastic response of the audience, the initial impression was great. Doug also talked about a few very important next steps for attendees and those interested in Oslo: learn more here at the show, download the CTPs or Oslo SDK and check out the new resources at the Dev Center and GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK. At this stage, we're proud to have delivered on our commitment to come to PDC with code, and it's all about refining it based on the needs and thoughts of developers.
Doug also officially announced some news today—we're proud to be including the "M" language under the Open Specification Promise. Placing "M" under the OSP makes it possible for third parties, including open source projects, to build implementations of "M" for other runtimes, services, applications and operating systems.
So once again, please check it out, and give us your feedback!


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April 10, 2007 - SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments), a collaborative project between MIT Libraries, David Karger, professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at CSAIL, and Eric Miller, CEO of Zepheira and formerly with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is breaking down limitations in software application interactions, making search functions more inclusive, and personalizing people's interactions with their computers.
The collaboration began in 2003 in response to limitations the MIT Libraries were encountering in using DSpace, a digital repository designed at MIT in 2000 for collecting information born in digital formats. It has since evolved into a much more ambitious undertaking, which the collaborators hope will provide the Libraries with more capable tools for organizing large amounts of information more efficiently and will eventually change how people use the web.
Most information on the web is currently in HTML format. This format makes it easy to search for documents based on the key words they contain, but it makes it difficult for a computer to make more sophisticated connections between information that isn't already linked by a set of key words, but is instead related by important concepts and ideas.
However, research coming out of the Semantic Web community is addressing this problem and will enable computers to make these more sophisticated connections between information sources through ontology, which allows the computer to understand that two words, although different, mean essentially the same thing, such as "CD" and "album".
In addition to creating more meaningful search engines, the SIMILE tools being developed will also allow the Libraries to make these connections automatically between vast stores of information making it easier to catalog. Eventually, these tools will conform to the needs and preferences of the Libraries´ users in how they want the information they are searching for to be presented.
The current HTML format also constrains a user´s options in how they view their information, and how that information interacts with data contained in other formats. Because HTML is locked in to a specific predetermined presentation it makes it hard for a user to reformat it in ways that were not anticipated by the site's designer.
In the same way HTML limits the ways information can be presented the Libraries have also been limited to cataloging their information according to specific predefined criteria such as author, title, year of publication, and name of the journal.
The Exhibit tool, currently in production and available for use as Open Source software, is one way SIMILE is breaking down some of these constraints. It allows a user to gather information about any topic and arrange it according to their personal preferences.
Karger has his own Exhibit of Israeli folk dances, organized according by the choreographer of each dance, the formations the dances are performed in, and the year each was performed. It gives him the ability to organize his data based on how he thinks about the information.
The Libraries take in information from a wide variety of sources that range from physical books and photographs to digital images, movies, and audio files. The Libraries are also unable to anticipate the characteristics of research being done at the Institute so they need an organizational tool that can adapt to their changing needs.
It is precisely these problems that define the Libraries´ role in the collaboration. Mackenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology at MIT Libraries, sees her role in the project as providing researchers with a connection to real world difficulties that the Libraries and their users are encountering, and keeping the project focused in those directions.
In addition to identifying research topics, Karger also believes the collaboration is an important mechanism in allowing his research to make an immediate impact by serving the Libraries, but also making it available to a broader spectrum of people who are able to access the simile tools through Open Source licensing.
Smith likens this result of the project to a pipeline that provides an outlet for research. "There´s a lot of research done by the students and faculty that never makes it out of the labs. We are taking some of the best research and employing it for our own uses, then we test it so it can be improved for people to use."
Many of these innovations are also being developed by the third member of the SIMILE collaboration, the World Wide Web Consortium. The W3C has been working in concert with the researchers in developing Semantic Web standards that will define this new technology.
Smith believes a project like this could only happen at a place like MIT and she is proud to be a part of it. "SIMILE is pointing toward the future of what we will be able to do and it can only happen at a place like MIT, in terms of the relationship with faculty and their research. There is such an openness to collaboration, and we have finally hit our groove and things are starting to come to fruition."
If you would like to learn more about SIMILE or would like to create your own Exhibit you can visit http://simile.mit.edu. You can also see an application of the software on this web site in our CSAIL News Exhibit.
-TIG Staff


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Kraft to launch limited edition commemorative chocolate bar
Kraft Foods will unveil a limited edition chocolate bar in May to mark the Queen of England's Diamond Jubilee.
The packaging of the limited edition Cadbury 400g Dairy Milk bar includes part of the design from a Dairy Milk bar that was used when the Queen was crowned in 1952.
Susan Nash, trade communications manager at Kraft Foods said: "This summer is set to be full of celebratory events, with the nation revelling in everything British and coming together to enjoy great events such as The Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
"For these occasions, consumers will be looking to buy sharing-size treats to enjoy with family and friends, as well as commemorative packs to mark the event."