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|Jul 28th, 2009 11:29 PM
Yeah, the ramps look like they're made out of pretty cheap plastic. You need something to hold them down.
Just call in a couple of friends to keep 'em steady. Then you can proudly say that you made homocidal shark jumping a group activity.
And Street Sharks rocked!
|Apr 13th, 2009 08:36 PM
|Mar 1st, 2009 11:32 PM
hahaha that was amazing. You totally jump a biker mice from mars over that sucker. Those sweet ripcord style ones, ohhhh so gnarly.
deepest, bluest, my heart is like a shark's fin...
|Feb 27th, 2009 09:18 PM
|almot creepier with out the shark on it!!!
|Feb 22nd, 2009 05:14 PM
|WOW roger...nice.........that was awesome!!!!!!! good job
|Feb 2nd, 2009 04:38 PM
|Captain PirateFace
I work for the school district in Las Vegas as Campus Security at a Behavioral School (Kids sent for drugs, weapons and violence) and I am sitting in my office and then watch the video that is included with the article and started laughing my ass off like a madman... so damn funny. My boss (the Principle) came over and asked me if I was alright.. I told him no.
2nd, while watching the end of this video I was thinking to myself.. you know some sick bastard is going to try and have sex with this toy at some point. I know F'd up but what can I say it just popped into my head.
|Jan 26th, 2009 02:40 AM
|Oh yeah - can someone get the latest Indiana Jones movie on DVD and shoot some footage of it attempting the perilous stunt. Maybe posting that will give them the hint.
|Jan 26th, 2009 02:33 AM
So does anyone else here think the last bit missing the sharks head looked like Domo-Kun from "Domo-Kun's Angry Smashfest!" doing jumping jacks in a pit? No? Just me then...
|Jan 23rd, 2009 07:50 AM
|"Om nom nom nom"
|Jan 23rd, 2009 05:28 AM
Manmade terrorAnd that, my friend, is why the music was included in the shark jump video.
|Jan 22nd, 2009 10:33 PM
|Jesse S.
|Kinda does make a person wonder just what the hell the manufacturers of this one were smoking.
|Jan 22nd, 2009 10:01 PM
|Lol, he's been hanging out too close to Compton.
|Jan 22nd, 2009 09:47 PM
Haha, nice video. What a piece of shit toy!
What was that music you were listening to? It didn't sound like your kind of thing, so that struck me kind of weird.
|Jan 22nd, 2009 11:43 AM
|Kilgore Cod
|Its like its saying "feed meeee"
|Jan 22nd, 2009 10:27 AM
i had one of those...damn i probably still have it actually...
I collect plush sharks myself at the moment,try to pick one up when ever i go somewhere (latest one is a 20inch chomper from Barcelona)
|Jan 20th, 2009 11:09 AM
That video made my day, especially when you threw the motorcycle guy in the shark's mouth. OHM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM.
Great article.
|Jan 20th, 2009 11:05 AM
Hey Rog, where you wearing yout AWESOME shirt with the Shark for this perilous demonstration? (Thanks to you and your article on "Over the Top" everytime I see that part of the film I want a shirt like that).
And on the subject of toys jumping the shark, on this side of the border retailers got their hands on about a million containers of this foul toy:
http://z.about.com/d/toys/1/0/f/O/OperationHulk_001.jpg (Interesting, I can neither add links nor images.)
Why would Hulk be happy? Why would he need an operation? Since when Spider Man and Iron Man are qualified surgeons?
Everytime I see this toy I rage so hard...
|Jan 20th, 2009 04:36 AM
Oh wow, the video was damn hilarious. I want to get one of those and make a Jaws mini feature.
Or hey, maybe recreate that incredible moment on Happy Days except that Fonz gets eaten by the shark. On film, of course with body parts and fake blood oozing everywhere.
|Jan 20th, 2009 02:57 AM
|Jan 20th, 2009 02:47 AM
|Maybe if you take the motorcycle guy and give it an "Evil Knievel" paint job...
|Jan 20th, 2009 02:23 AM
|Was that Domokun under the shark? Damn Target is milking that campaign for everything its worth! Oh and i'm glad to see in these tough economic times that RoG can find low cost entertainment to provide us with. That is "Change" i can believe in!!!
|Jan 20th, 2009 12:13 AM
|Jan 19th, 2009 11:34 PM
|Tetsu Deinonychus
At least it was worth buying for the shark.
You ought to try putting it on the floor and jumping over it, yourself.
|Jan 19th, 2009 10:45 PM
|Feeding your chomping shark a miniature rifle might emulate the effect... Turn them into scrap!
|Jan 19th, 2009 08:53 PM
|I remember those Street Sharks. They were pretty awesome.
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I filled the crust with the chilled pastry cream, sliced strawberries in half-- and glazed them with apricot jelly that was melted with a little water. It's not fancy, but it was good!
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weed fin for isonic 135
Just looking for advise for a weed fin for the isonic 135, 2006.
I'm 205 pounds, sail on inland lakes in the US, and will probably use the fin mostly with an 8.5 race sail.
- thanks in advance for any input.
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|17th September 2007, 09:15 PM
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Hi Paul B,
There are a number of choices you could go with.
I depends a little on what type of weeds you need to have the fin shed, and how much weed there is overall.
The newer progressive rake weed fins work really well in light weed conditions with most types of weeds.
Examples of these new style "progressive rake" weed fins would be the True Ames Shallow Water Weed fins, and the Tangent Dynamics "Reaper" Weed fins.
The more swept back traditional (more than 45 deg. LE) weed fins will pretty much shed all weeds, but do't go upwind quite as well as the progressive rake fins.
Examples of this would be the True Ames Blade Weed, Gorge Fin Co. weed fins, and the
Lessacher Design Duo weed fins.
The Lessacher Design fins have the added "advantage"of being Asymmetrical which helps shake off weeds more quickly.
At your weight, I would suggest at least a 36 cm weed fin (they have a lot more area than normal vertical fins), but probably a weed fin in the 40-50 cm range would be better.
Hope this helps,
|11th October 2007, 01:16 PM
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Hallo! The rake 45° Weedfins are diagonal longer, but how long?????? You remember?
1,414........... 24 cm is 34cm long
28 cm is 39cm long
32cm is 45cm long
36cm is 50cm long Wolfgang
|24th October 2007, 09:47 AM
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Are the stated length of weed fins the diagonal lentgh or depth the fin would be in the water? Do all manufacturers measure the same?
|24th October 2007, 09:21 PM
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Hi Geoff,
The "stated length" is the depth below the bottom surface of your board.
As Wolfgang has described above the "diagonal length" is 1.414 x the depth of the fin
(for a 45 deg. Leading Edge angle).
This is the secant of 45 deg. (1.4142).
I believe that most fin producers classify their weed fins by the "stated length".
Hope this helps,
|25th October 2007, 08:05 AM
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Thanks Roger.
My next question is I notice there is some difference in recommendations in weed fin length, for example with a 6.5m sail wolfgang recommends a 28cm fin whereas other brands tend to sit at about the 32 to 34 cm range. If i'm correct there is a big area difference as well. At present I'm after a weed fin for an S Type 104 with a 6.6 sail with not to heavy sea grass type weed. I weigh 70kg, any recommendations from experience as I have never used one in the past but have got sick of trying to dodge the floating bands of weed I encounter.
|25th October 2007, 10:33 AM
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Hi Geoff,
Unless you are really powered up and interested only in top speed, my experience with Wolfgang's Duo Weed fins (I have the 28/32/36/and 40 cm) suggests that you might be happier with the 32 cm as it works in a wider variety of conditions with both larger 7.8 m2 and smaller 5.6 m2 rigs).
Also, since you have very light weed conditions, consider one of the progressive rake weed fins from True Ames (the Shallow Water Weed 39) or Tangent Dynamics Reaper Weed fin (from Sailworld) in the 32 or 35 cm sizes.
The progressive rake fins have a little less area and go upwind very well, but tend to collect a few weeds if the weeds are heavy.
The Lessacher Duo concept uses concave/convex surfaces on the same foil to cause all weeds that land symmetrically on the leading edge (LE) of the fin to "flap" in the concaves and they slide right off.
If you ever come down to Hatteras, look me up and you can try all 3 and see what works for you.
Hope this helps,
|25th October 2007, 12:11 PM
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Yes that helps a lot, and thanks for the quick response. I would love to take advantage of your offer but America is a little far for the weekend, as I live in Australia, but one of these days you never know.
Thanking you
|25th October 2007, 08:49 PM
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Hi Geoff,
Sorry, got you confused with "pdbaker" (who started this thread), aand he lives somewhere inland in the USA and sails on lakes.
Not sure what the weed fin options are down in Australia.
Lessacher Design, True Ames, and Tangent Dynamics can all ship worldwide, I think.
|29th October 2007, 08:17 PM
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Hallo Geoff! The most of us use for 105l- 115l 24cm weedfins for 6,5m². 28cm for
115l-120l boards and sails to 7,6m². 24 and 28cm is vertical. Duo Weed or Chamäleon.
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Additional critical components of customer service automation include computer-telephony integration (CTI), which consists of automated systems that help bring up customer account information automatically based on a caller-ID. This information helps CSRs become familiar with the caller even before the phone is picked up.
CTI should provide users with the ability to transfer screen information if the call needs to be transferred, the capability to log call history against the call record for future reference, and skill-based routing to transfer customers to the most suitable CSR. For example, high-value customers would most likely be assigned to a more experienced CSR.
Rounding out the list of customer service automation technological wizardry, in fax, e-mail and Web chat communication technology you should look for:
Fax-on-Demand--Callers use their touch-tone phones to select any number of documents and then specify a fax machine where they would like the information delivered.
E-mail Response Management System (ERMS)--Routes, prioritizes and tracks inbound and outbound e-mail based on content.
Web Chat--Collaborative chat facilitates integration between organizations and their customers via the Web. It also maintains a running transcript/record of vendor-client interaction.
Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP)--still in its infancy, VoIP allows the human voice to travel over a single packet network line with both fax information and modem data.
In Interactive Voice Response (IVR), you should look for:
Voice Prompt Menus--Customers respond by using a touch-tone phone or voice activated input.
Audio/Text--Provides recorded answers to commonly asked questions.
Serve Yourself
Given these advances in technology, organizations are pushing their customers--especially unprofitable ones--toward self-service. This was certainly the case with the now infamous $3 teller fee that Bank One (formerly First Chicago Bank) had implemented back in 1994 for certain types of accounts that were deemed unprofitable. Although considered a financial success--transaction costs were dramatically reduced as unprofitable customers either changed their banking behavior or fled to competitors--it was a public relations nightmare, from which the bank has yet to recover.
Despite experiences like that of Bank One, organizations continue to drive customers toward self-service, increasingly by installing response-enabled knowledge management software. These sophisticated programs maintain a corporate knowledge base consisting of information in the form of scripts, canned documents for response and HTML pages. By dynamically publishing and classifying solutions, it is estimated that response automation can handle anywhere between 20 to 60 percent of incoming calls.
Organizations that successfully employ the proper tools and processes are likely to experience increased levels of overall customer satisfaction, greater market share and increased profitability. Perhaps when companies achieve these heights they will differentiate themselves from the competition and put an end to service nightmares.


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The C4 Surprise Trailer of Battlefield 4.
These "only in battlefield" commercials are stupid. I've done way more exciting things in BF3. I thing with the share button on the PS4, I'm going to capture some real intense action and make "the real only in battlefield" videos to share.
And by the way for those who don't follow battlefield, they originally took c4 away from support class, but decided to give it back so yeah, support will have it. The beta was an older version of the game, don't know why people still don't know that.


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When Princess Sharlin hears her parents talking about the evil sorceress Rodeka, she knows that she must do something before she is sent away to save her kingdom. But Rodeka is so powerful that only a dragongod such as Turiana, who is long dead, can defeat her. Following the directions of her faithful gryphon, Sharlin sets out to try and find the dragon's graveyard so that she can defeat Rodeka. However, Rodeka finds her and hurls her out of her own time...


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("Didn't you listen in the meeting, Woogy? You don't say 'pyramid scheme,' you call it a 'real estate development opportunity.'"
Just three days into 2011 and the year is already turning out to be much worse than the last for Chael Sonnen.
The suspended UFC middleweight who is also a licensed realtor in West Linn, Oregon pled guilty of money laundering Monday in federal court.
According to the Lake Oswego Review, a U.S. Department of Justice press release sent out today states that that Sonnen "conducted a financial transaction designed to hide or disguise the ownership and control of proceeds of mortgage fraud."
You might recall that Sonnen bowed out of the race for Oregon senate house seat in June because of "a legal matter that demanded attention," — the same legal matter that Chael told HDNet's Mike Straka that he was too busy with to deal with preparations for his CSAC hearing in December himself. Now we can understand why it took precedence over having his fighting license reinstated.
Money laundering in the U.S. carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison as well as a $500,000 fine.
His sentencing is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. March 28, which explains why he stated during his MMA Live appearance last week that he wants to fight as soon as he can when his suspension is up on March 1. He'll likely need the money.


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Robert O. Trestan, a leader in the passage of the state's landmark antibullying legislation, has pledged to crack down on hate crime on the streets and in cyberspace as he becomes the new director of the Anti-Defamation League's New England regional office.
The ADL announced Wednesday that the longtime attorney and civil rights advocate will lead the Boston-based office as the national organization enters its 100th year.
"I am so proud of the work the ADL has done over the last one hundred years, and I'm honored to lead the New England office into the next century," Trestan said. "We have never been afraid to speak out when it was unpopular."
Established to fight anti-Semitism, the ADL lobbies Congress, develops educational programs, and counsels law enforcement to fight all forms of hate crime, extremist activity, and church-state conflicts.
Trestan, who has served as the ADL's Eastern States civil rights counsel since 2005, succeeds Derrek Shulman as director of the regional office.
"Trestan has a very sophisticated understanding of civil rights issues, which is the ADL's bread and butter," said Jeffrey Robbins, New England regional chairman of the ADL, who will work with Trestan on league activities. "Whether it be litigation strategy or working with schools and government officials, he knows these issues cold."
Trestan, 48, said his first priority will be to bolster the ADL's historic relationship with the Jewish community and build coalitions with the African-American, Latino, and Asian-American communities. He said he hopes to galvanize the ADL's fight for immigration reform, an issue he said "affects every ethnic and faith community and provides an arena where we can all work together to ensure justice and equality."
Trestan noted the New England office will continue advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights and marriage equality.
In his work as Eastern states counsel, Trestan led the group's cyberhate reponse team, working with Internet industry executives at Facebook, Google, and Twitter to find better ways to report Internet hate crime and teach digital literacy.
"Hate manifests itself in different ways now than when the ADL was founded a century ago," he said. "People are harrassing and bullying each other on the Internet, and we will fight this crime in new ways."
Trestan also spearheaded a broad coalition of advocates including physicians, school officials, police, and district attorneys that helped spur the passage of the Massachusetts antibullying bill in 2010.
"The antibullying law was successful because everybody realized it affected them," he said. "It's a model for all of our work in building coalitions against bigotry and hatred."
Robbins said that while that legislation was being signed, "Trestan was already thinking about the actual impact it would have and how to ensure compliance. That really makes him somebody special."
Trestan said his office will work closely with law enforcement to provide counterterrorism training and education about extremist groups. Many first responders on April 15, Trestan said, had counterterrorism training with the ADL and the Israeli national police.
"The Anti-Defamation League does great work in making sure everyone in Boston, and the nation, has a voice," said Mayor Thomas M. Menino. "We know [Trestan will] continue to build on his proven track record as a passionate defender of civil rights."


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You know... that "handy" keyword that eliminates duplicates from your result set. Yeah, that DISTINCT. I Hate it! My team thought I was crazy (maybe I am, but this is not proof of it). I am frequently railing against the use of DISTINCT by any of my developers. "It's a sign of weakness!", I would say. Or, "It just shows you don't know how to write SQL!"
Okay, maybe hate is too strong of a word. But I certainly dislike its use within my applications. Actually, today I slowed down long enough to put into coherent terms what my issue is with the DISTINCT keyword. The truth is that I really dislike its over-use. Really, DISTINCT is not evil by itself. It's just a tool. Like a gun. Or money. The tool is not evil in and of itself, but in the wrong hands, it can be used for evil. And in the right hands, it can be used for good.
The Good
If I need a quick list of the states where we currently have business, I might issue a statement like this
SELECT DISTINCT OH.State
FROM OrderHeader OH
Great! It gives me the list. No muss, no fuss. I have no problem with the rapid, ad-hoc usage of DISTINCT like this. But I find that 9 times out of 10, I am more likely to use a GROUP BY because I also want to know something about those states such as which are most active (i.e. how many orders are in each state) or which generate the most revenue, so it is far more likely that I will use a statement like
SELECT OH.State, COUNT(*)
FROM OrderHeader OH
GROUP BY OH.State
The Bad
Where things start to go sour in my opinion is when a developer is building substantial query, joining tables together, and all of a sudden he realizes that it looks like he is getting duplicate (or even more) rows and his immediate response...his "solution" to this "problem" is to throw on the DISTINCT keyword and POOF all his troubles go away. I hope that to you, the reader, this sounds ridiculous, but unfortunately I have been in many a session where I hear this "solution" offered up.
Here's my concern...this is what is really behind me lashing out verbally at the poor, helpless developer...He does not know why there are duplicates, only that he wants to get rid of them in order to move on to the next development task. But I want to know why. Is a table ill-defined and we actually have duplicate data? Is a JOIN ill-defined and the developer really needs more fields in the ON statement or other additional criteria in the JOIN clause? Are there other columns that really should be included in the result set in order to distinguish between two similar-looking rows?
I find the additional fields in the ON statement a common error. Too often developers want to just join two tables together based on one field in each table (FK to PK) but many times you need more. Perhaps the table has a multi-part Primary Key. Or perhaps your one column is just not distinct enough on its own (pardon the reuse of the word). For example if you are talking geographically, you cannot just join two tables on City, or you may end up with records for Portland, Oregon joined to records from Portland, Maine. Not a pretty sight. In this case you need to JOIN ON both City and State.
The Summary
So here's my tip to you. Whenever you have the urge to use the DISTINCT keyword, stop for a couple of minutes and ask yourself, "WHY do we have duplicates in the results"? And more importantly, "HOW can I fix my query without resorting to the DISTINCT hack?"
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Over the years, this on-the-ground experiment that made selected branches into community poetry laboratories has yielded "a best-of-practice training" that can be effectively presented at professional library in-service trainings. Through the many iterations of Poetry in The Branches, Poets House has trained hundreds of librarians nationally, reached thousands of new poetry readers, and changed the way branch libraries participating in the program provide poetry services and develop poetry audiences and collections. Philip Levine, now U.S. Poet Laureate, presented the first PITB event on June 5 in 1995, at the 96th Street Branch in the New York Public Library (NYPL).
Poetry in The Branches makes this model available nationwide through:
- The Poetry in The Branches National Institute — a weekend-long intensive training in the PITB model held at Poets House. Immersed in the rich world of poetry, librarians connect personally with guest poets, learn how to empower their visitors through poetry and develop a practical plan for integrating poetry into their libraries.
Click here to listen to the 2005 National Institute Keynote Address by former Poet Laureate Robert Hass
- The Poetry in The Branches Sourcebook — a step-by-step guide to the PiTB model for librarians, supplemented with bibliographies for collection development, tip sheets to help integrate poetry into every aspect of a library and resource lists to help find the resources. The Sourcebook is available for $35 ($28 plus $7 shipping and handling to anywhere in the U.S. Contact us regarding overseas shipping.)
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- One City, Many Poems, an initiative developed during Immigrant Heritage Week which trains librarians in leading poetry-based discussion groups based on our curriculum of poems about diversity and immigration.
- Special events to inspire and support librarians such as a reading and talk with recent Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin.
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As required by state law, Placer County has formed an Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee (LCBC) to distribute funds from a special distribution fund in the form of grants to local government agencies within the county affected by tribal gaming. The grants are to help fund local government agency projects to offset the impacts associated with tribal gaming.
Text of Law
(Calif Govt Code Sec 12710)
LCBC Bylaws
2014 Local Community Benefit Committee Roster
The State of California did not allocate funding in the FY 2014-15 budget for the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund. As a result, the Placer County Local Community Benefit Committee will not meet this year to award grant funds for FY 2014-15.
The 2014 LCBC Grant Application period is now closed. The LCBC met on Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 9:00am to discuss and award the grants for 2014. Click the link below to view a summary of the grants awarded, as well as information and forms related to the grants.
FY 2013-14 Grant Awards, Information, and Forms
2014 Grant Awards Summary
Letter of Award to Grant Recipients
Press Release Regarding Award of Grant Funds
Summary of Major Grantee Statutory Requirements
2013-14 Annual Report Form (Due September 8, 2014)
Closing Report Form (Due March 26, 2015)
2013 LCBC Member Roster
2013 Grant Award Information
2012 LCBC Member Roster
2012 Grant Award Information
2011 LCBC Member Roster
2011 Grant Award Information
Contact Placer County Executive Office at (530) 889-4030 for past LCBC grant information not provided above.
Allison Carlos, Principal Management Analyst, Placer County Executive Office, 530-889-4030


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So you've set up your social media empire using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and you're blogging too.
But how do you make it all work together? You want to reach potential clients and establish your authority online, but what's your plan?
This article delivers five foolproof steps to get you on your way to finding, formulating and distributing content that will get you noticed. Content could include your own blog posts or links to others people's work posted on your social networks.
#1: Find Your Target Audience.
The first step in social media planning is largely the first step in identifying your brand—determine who you are and who your customers are.
What unique aspect of your product or service attracts your target population?


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SSH tips connect to PC behind firewall
This is a nice working fix. However, I want direct access to my desktop behind firewall via nx. This is on the top list of TODO.
Server Configuration
Login to the computer behind the firewall.
- Generate a new ssh private key that is to be used as the authentication for the tunnel. It will have no password to enable automatic login.
ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/tunnel-id -t rsa -N ""
- Create a new entry in your ~/.ssh/config that will be used to initiate the tunnel. Set the Host entry to an uncommon name so that you will also be able to login to the relay computer normally. It will establish a connection from port 11111 on the loopback interface on the relay computer to the ssh port on the loopback interface on the server.
Host relay HostName relay.hostname.com RemoteForward 11111 localhost:22 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/tunnel-id
- Copy the public key to the relay server:
ssh-copy-id -i .ssh/tunnel-id relay.hostname.com
- To make it easy to start the tunnel, create a script in ~/bin/setup-tunnel.sh:
while true; do /usr/bin/ssh relay sleep 1 done < /dev/null & disown
Relay Configuration
Login to the relay computer.
- The ssh-copy-id appended the public key to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. Because we want to limit the havoc that can be caused by the key, change the entry that was just created
ssh-rsa AAAAB3...= firstname.lastname@example.com
command="sleep 604800" ssh-rsa AAAAB3...= firstname.lastname@example.com
This will give the tunnel a livetime of a week, make it work without a local terminal on the server side (we used < /dev/null) and limit the commands that can be executed with this key.
Client Configuration
Login to the client computer.
- To make it possible to transparently connect to the server through the tunnel, we use netcat on the relay computer and a ProxyCommand in the ~/.ssh/config file on the client. Add a new entry with
Host server HostName server.hostname.com ProxyCommand ssh relay.hostname.com bin/nc localhost 11111
Whenever you want to have the tunnel enabled, start ~/bin/setup-tunnel.sh on the server. Afterwards you will be able to connect from the client with ssh server. You will be asked for a password two times, once for the relay and once for the server.
The following diagram shows the general idea of the created tunnel:
+--------+ ( ) +----------------------+ | Client |------( Internet )---->| relay.hostname.com | +--------+ ( ) +----------------------+ : /|\ : | : [ X ] : | : Forwarded ssh connection +-------------------+ :..............................>| server.domain.com | over "server" ssh alias +-------------------+ --- real connection ... virtual connection [X] switch


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Recently I was sent a link to an article about JayCut.com. Because I work for a publicly traded company that develops non-linear editors of both the executable and cloud-based kind, I don't think it's appropriate for me to get into the specifics of any vendor's software design or business model. Anyone who saw Avid's web-based editing demo at NAB or last May's Editors Lounge has seen Avid's vision of what editing in the cloud can be.
Long before taking up NLE design as a vocation I was enamored with the idea true "online" editing. Years ago I was a fan of JumpCut — the online editor eventually bought, then shuttered by Yahoo!
If Yahoo! couldn't jump start JumpCut, what would make a someone attempt a consumer-facing web-based NLE again? The world has changed a lot since 2006 when I first encountered JumpCut. Here are just a few of the shifts that might make a consumer-facing NLE viable.
- Smart phones are the new camcorder. Nearly everyone under 35 has a phone capable of recording video. Assuming an unlimited data plan, sending even large files to the cloud is a lot easier than waiting to get home and tethering the phone to a PC to download videos. (JayCut can only do this from Android phones currently.)
- Facebook and YouTube are the de facto publishing platforms of the Millennials. They don't make DVDs. They don't even do email. If they want to edit their video, they will want to do it where their video lives.
- Cisco with its Flip cameras and other online players are interested in consumer video to drive traffic and revenue. Linksys + Flip = Lots of Cisco hardware being sold to ISPs.
Unlike JumpCut, JayCut is not a pure consumer play. It offering includes video distribution software and services for business, differentiating itself from Brightcove somewhat as a tool for online collaboration. (Mashups with a more adult-sounding name.)
Also entering this space is Kaltura.com/.org — an open source online video editing and distribution platform with a nifty WordPress plug-in to boot. Kaltura will host your applications and content, and also allows for DIY on your own server. The Kaltura player also allows for collaboration. Blog admins can set permissions for user to add, comment, and edit videos embedded in a blog post.
Perhaps these tools are still ahead of their time. But if not 2010, when?


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The International Swaps & Derivatives Association said it hired consulting firm Oliver Wyman to make recommendations on how to modify an interest-rate swap pricing process that is under investigation by a U.S. regulator.
The hiring comes as Bloomberg News reported April 8 that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission subpoenaed ICAP Plc and as many as 15 dealers related to potential manipulation of benchmark rate-swap measures, including the so-called ISDAfix rates. The rates were created in 1998 by ISDA with the predecessors of Thomson Reuters Corp. and ICAP.
Oliver Wyman, which is a unit of New York-based insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Cos., advised the British Bankers' Association in its review of how the London interbank offered rate was being set amid a probe into allegations that the benchmark was being manipulated. UBS AG, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Barclays Plc have paid $2.6 billion in fines for rigging Libor rates.
"As part of that process some best practices were articulated," Steve Kennedy, a spokesman for ISDA, which is the main industry and lobbying group for the privately negotiated swaps market and participated in the Libor study, said in a telephone interview. "We anticipated during that review that we'd want to do the same thing for ISDAfix."
Funding Benchmark
The ISDAfix prices and intraday trading levels that ICAP displays on an electronic screen known as 19901 are used by everyone from corporate treasurers to money managers to gauge wholesale funding costs. The Federal Reserve includes the rates in a daily report on money markets, and they're used to set daily values for much of the global rate-swaps market.
About 6,000 companies and financial firms subscribe to the pricing service, according to ICAP. Values published by it are accepted as a legal price by which swaps traders can terminate contracts or to mark the value of positions, according to ISDA.
A representative for Oliver Wyman didn't return telephone calls seeking comment. Marsh & McLennan is the largest insurance broker by market value.
The CFTC is probing swaps trading as it works with European counterparts in the rate-rigging scandal surrounding Libor. ICAP brokers in London have passed on requests from dealers asking rate-setters at rival banks to make favorable submissions, e- mails released as part of the European probe show.
Libor Manipulation
The BBA hired Oliver Wyman to provide technical assistance for part of its review of how Libor rates are set, the group said in a March 28, 2012, statement.
"It's obviously reminiscent of the Libor manipulation issue," Darrell Duffie, a finance professor at Stanford University, said in a telephone interview. "People may have been naïve that simply reporting these rates was enough to avoid manipulation."
Like Libor, which is the rate at which banks say they would lend to each other, ISDAfix is derived from a process where 15 banks submit bids and offers for swaps in various currencies and denominations, according to ISDA's website. The rates are distributed by Thomson Reuters, Telekurs and Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, according to the ISDA website.
"What the regulators are realizing is to maintain credibility in the financial markets you are going to have to almost run a continuous audit of these things," Brad Hintz, a brokerage-firm analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York and a former chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., said in a telephone interview.
'Treasure Island'
The CFTC is investigating whether ICAP brokers colluded with dealers who stand to profit from inaccurate quotes, including failing to update published prices after trades occur, one of the people familiar with the probe said. ICAP said in a statement yesterday it maintains policies prohibiting the alleged behavior and is cooperating with the CFTC's wider inquiry.
The CFTC has issued subpoenas to about a dozen current and former employees at ICAP's Jersey City, New Jersey, swaps- brokering group, nicknamed "Treasure Island" because of the size of the commissions it earns, said three people familiar with the investigation. Dealers including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG that contribute prices used to set the daily swap rates also have been subpoenaed, two people familiar with the matter said.
'Good Regulation'
Along with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, the ISDAfix contributors are: Bank of America Corp., Barclays, BNP Paribas SA, Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Nomura Holdings Inc., Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS and Wells Fargo & Co., according to ISDA.
Hintz said the CFTC investigation was an example of "good regulation" because it's coming ahead of any crisis or scandal in the rate-swaps market. It may be relatively easy for investigators to determine if prices were manipulated, similar to how they conducted the Libor case, he said.
"The Libor analysis was a relatively straightforward analysis," he said. "All you had to do was look at the trading. All the trading floors these days are being taped," which will allow investigators to uncover any manipulation, he said.
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hey guys /gurlz, plz take some time to read the artical and tell me frankly has our beloved google lost the reac for 1gb of free storage space race to rediff.com i collected some news articals as evidence
Confusion surrounds Googles GMail project ...General
Posted on Thursday, April 01, 2004 at 15:10 by Andy Barker
There is a growing amount of confusion surrounding Google's announcement that it is going to introduce a new service called gmail. It's seemingly outlandish claims of providing 1GB of storage space for each user for free, as well as the fact that it has introduced this service on April 1st, have split Journalists who are struggling to decide if it's one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of April Fool's day or simply that Google picked a terrible date to announce a radical new departure from it's current business.
The move will be seen (even if it's not true) as a direct response to Yahoo!'s recent move into search engine technology, although questions may be asked about the the effect of such a hoax on its competitors if this turns out to be an April Fools joke.
I'm afraid we at IT Vibe can shed no light on the announcement other than to say if we were planning to announce a new service, which was so radically different to our current business, we wouldn't have picked today to do it.
Gmail terabyte increase was down to 'bug' ...General
Posted on Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 15:31 by Andy Holliday
We reported earlier that some users of Google's Gmail service discovered that their capacity had been increased from a huge 1 gigabyte to an unfeasibly large 1 TERABYTE.
It has since transpired that this was due to a "bug" and Google are actively working to resolve this.
This will come as a huge relief to their rivals as they were no doubt struggling to cope with 100mb for everyone, let alone a gigabyte or even a terabyte
Indian portal offers 1GB mail storage
By Staff writers, TechWeb News
Monday, June 21, 2004
The space race by free email providers continued last week as an Indian web portal upped its storage allowance to 1GB.
Rediff.com, headquartered in Mumbai, India, increased the storage capacity of its free Rediffmail service to a full gigabyte, matching the magic number extolled by Google, which began the race for bigger mailboxes when it announced it's not-yet-released Gmail in April. Other changes to Rediffmail include the ability to send attached files as large as 10MB.
"Rediffmail 1GB is a reality and available today, ahead of any other email service available in the world," said Ajit Balakrishnan, the chairman and chief executive officer of Rediff.com. "Users no longer have to worry about deleting mail to stay within the storage limit. They can instead keep all the mails they want, for as long as they like."
Portals providing web based email have raced to respond to the upcoming Gmail by boosting storage space for their users. This week, Yahoo began allotting free users 100MB and giving its US$20-per-year premium customers 2GB of space. In May, the European edition of Lycos raised its storage allowance to 1GB.
Also last week, the BetaNews site reported that Microsoft is considering increasing the storage space for its Hotmail service. According to insider information acquired by BetaNews, Blake Irving, vice president of MSN's group, told employees that MSN will boost storage space for Hotmail as early as July.
"We are going to respond in a big way and will eliminate email storage as an issue for our users," BetaNews quotes Irving as saying.
His comments were directed primarily against Yahoo, leading users of BetaNews' message forums to theorise that Hotmail will match Yahoo's 100MB storage capacity. Others wondered if the space race might be unnecessary in the end.
One user wrote, "It would be funny if Gmail never took off, and everybody increased their mailbox size fearing that 1GB that would never arrive."
Currently, the free version of Hotmail offers only 2MB of storage space; the service sells larger quantities at annual prices that range from US$30 for 25MB to US$60 for 100MB.
Microsoft would neither confirm nor deny that it was about to up storage space of Hotmail. "We have nothing specific to announce at this time," said a Microsoft spokesperson.
The most Microsoft would admit was that it "recognises the marketplace is changing and we're exploring additional product changes. For instance, we are evaluating and will trial storage options with customers to understand what works best for them and the overall Hotmail community," added the spokesperson.
Copyright © 2004 CMP Media LLC
so does this mean that rediff has won the 1 gb storage space race ..and google is still far behinde with its gmail still in beta and test version , where as rediff is active!!
plz lemme know your comments on the topic


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By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge has ordered taped conversations from 1969 between Manson Family killer Charles "Tex" Watson and his now-dead lawyer turned over to Los Angeles police, who are investigating the cult's possible involvement in unsolved murders.
The written order by U.S. District Judge Richard Schell in Texas, made public on Tuesday, upholds a ruling last year by a federal bankruptcy judge. Watson had appealed the bankruptcy judge's order from the California prison where he is serving a life term, claiming that the tapes were protected under attorney-client privilege.
Some eight hours of discussions between Watson and his defense attorney Bill Boyd were recorded in 1969 after Watson was arrested in the Manson family murder of actress Sharon Tate and others in Los Angeles. The tapes surfaced years later, during federal bankruptcy proceedings in involving Boyd's now-defunct law firm in Texas.
"We're very pleased the judge ruled in our favor. We're looking forward to getting those tapes and thoroughly analyzing the contents," Los Angeles Police spokesman Andrew Smith said.
"This Manson Family crime spree is one of most notorious and heinous in Southern California history and we, the LAPD, believe we owe it to the victims and their families to ensure that every facet of this case is thoroughly and completely investigated, and we plan to do exactly that," Smith said.
If Watson does not appeal the ruling within 30 days, Los Angeles police detectives will travel to Texas to pick up the recordings which had been held pending the outcome of the bankruptcy case, Smith said.
"We've got many unsolved homicide cases from that era here in Southern California and we're hoping maybe something on these tapes may tie the Manson Family or any of these individuals to one of those homicides," he said.
A Fort Worth, Texas-based attorney representing Watson in the case could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.
Charles Manson, a charismatic ex-convict, assembled a group of runaways and outcasts, including Watson. In the summer of 1969, he directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people in what prosecutors said was part of a plan to incite a race war.
Members of the cult stabbed pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate 16 times in the early-morning hours of August 9, 1969. Four other people were stabbed or shot to death at Tate's home by the Manson followers.
The following night, Manson's group entered the nearby home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, stabbed the couple to death and used their blood to write "Rise," "Death to Pigs," and "Healter Skelter," a misplaced reference to a Beatles song, on the walls and refrigerator door.
Manson and Watson were originally sentenced to death but were spared execution after the California Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional.
Manson, now 78, is serving a life sentence at Corcoran State Prison in California for the seven Manson Family killings and the murder of an acquaintance, Gary Hinman, who was stabbed to death in July 1969.
Watson waived his attorney-client privilege so Boyd's firm could sell them to a book author to satisfy unpaid legal fees after Boyd died in 2009. But in his appeal of the bankruptcy judge's ruling, he claimed the waiver was limited to the author, and that he did not okay their release to the LAPD.
The federal judge rejected that claim when he ordered the tapes released to the LAPD.
Smith said that LAPD detectives did not yet know if the tapes contain evidence of other killings.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb, editing by Scott Malone; editing by Andrew Hay and David Gregorio)


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Bleacher Creature has announced the roster for its 2012 NFL Player Plush Collection.
This year's lineup includes Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos quarterback; Jay Cutler, Chicago Bears quarterback; Andy Dalton, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback; Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver; Eli Manning, New York Giants quarterback (second edition); Rob Gronkowski, New England Patriots tight end; and Brett Keisel, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker.
Bleacher Creatures was founded by Matthew Hoffman, a sports licensing industry veteran who was formerly an executive with GSI Commerce and Majestic Athletic. When his young children turned out to be sports fans, Hoffman realized that there was an opportunity in the $20-plus billion dollar U.S. toy market to engage kids who love watching their favorite teams and players in action.
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OK. There are always plenty of Bard Maat help request, so I though that maybe doing one official would be great.
*This post will be updated when new informations will be given*
As a bard, you probably realized that our soloing capabilities are very weak: our power is to buff others, not ourselves, so Maat is not necessarly a walk in the park, especially for my fellow taru friends.
Please note that this is coming from my personal experience, also coming from multiple posts I have researched to know different methods, from multiple forums.
Always keep in mind that Maat often needs a bit of luck, you have a lot less chances to beat him if he gives you 2 Asuran fist in a row, than if he uses 1 back hand blow and 1 Combo 1 minute later.
Rare are the Bards that beats Maat with only AF, so here are a couple of combos of gears that can work.
Defense gear
Defense gear worked for me, not only I won it with this setup, but it was also the one that got me the most far in this battle.
Usual Defense Setup:
Carapace Gear:
Head, body and hands. This is a really nice set, since it has already good defense, it has a latent effect of the same base defense (so it's own defense x2) and some more attack.
Earth Mantle is quite good. I personally used af legs/feet, because when you check it, you realize the defense on it is quite adequate.
I also personally used the Minstrel Earring (I think it's this one?) with -30% damage taken.
Carapce latent effect kicks in at 50%, 25% and 15% health (thank you BadCubby) but this armor still have very high defense, even without the Latent effect.
Use Defense food:
I know of boiled/steamed crab being good, but I use Scalops Tropicale, which I've been told are better for defense. As tarutaru, with this setup (and all the best VIT/def I could find, that I didn't mention) I had a nice bunch of defense.
With this setup, try to keep your 2 Paeon on you, use high pots as soon as you can: you don't want him to blow you up at 50 hp, panic and use the wrong item, or eat a crit.
Evasion Gear
I have tried this setup twice, but it did not work for me. Don't take that in consideration though, I know a lot of bards that won it with this setup.
This is will work a lot better if your evasion is capped, obviously.
Try to get a Scorpion Harness (even +1 if you can)
Emperor Hairpin
Evasion Torque, maybe you can borrow all these from a NIN friend.
All the eva gear you can have.
Melody earrings (or +1) are great considering the 10 (or +12) Evasion SKILL they give you when you have songs up.
Use double mambos with this setup, and also use your high potions, same as with Defense setup.
You can also use double Paeon for this, this method did not work for me, so I am taking the advices of those who did :)
Ok, there is no *magical* way to win this fight, but a lot of tips can help
-be prepared; don't underestimate this old man, and RELAX
-having your weapon skill over 175 (200 if possible) of dag or sword will help you a lot considering that our melee skill is already weak
-get regen food, and REFRESH food, yeah I know we don't need mp, but think about this: the more things he CAN dispel, the less chances he has to dispel the important things
-my personal tip: go in, use sleep pots (with opo necklace) get tp to 100 (not higher, you won't have enough time), find a skillchain you can do with yourself, when you enter the battlefield, do your first WS, use an Icarus Wings, do your second one to sc, try to give him the right threnody before doing it.
-a lot of people seemed to sleep to 200tp, and use Icarus wing to 300; I never tried it myself, but you can still try.
-2 hour at the begining, you want to have the double effect of your songs as long as you can.
-Finale > Requiem > Elegy > Thenody. With 24 seconds recast, you want to recast it ASAP, and most likely, when you debuff him he will probably re-buff, so less damage done to you.
-Bring more high potions than you think you will need; better safe than sorry
-Always always always keep your hp as high as possible.
-Be sure to re-ssing all your songs before 2 hour goes down
-+1 instruments are a must
-make a macro bar only for this fight, having your normal macros can make you do a lot of mistakes, and you don't want to wait for your casting to be interrupted when your 2 hour is about to wear off ;)
-Don't forget to re-use Elegy and Requiem 2 hour wears off; Elegy slow him very much, especially with 2 hour, and Requiem 6 seems a little bit, but it is very important considering it's 12 hp/3 sec, which is a very good DoT for the time of the fight.
-Use a blink band before the fight, a couple of shadows can always help, IMO though, don't try to re-use it:
*first, you will probably get interrupted, since it is a long item to use
*second, I think that 3 shadows aren't worth that time where you could swing a couple of hits
-Sub BLM in case of loss, you will appreciate to be able to warp yourself
I would recommend you to use weapons with stats, I myself used Stun knife once and Tripple dagger (I think?) which has triple attack +1% and is not that expensive.
I would tell you though, to not use a silence dagger. Some people will say that it's good to Silence him, since he will not Finale you, but IMO, you are better to be smart and Finale him every 24 seconds (which he does not do to you) and let him rebuff each time (that's 2-4 hits). Plus, if you use tons of items, like I said earlier, the chances the good buffs gets Dispeled are lower. But that's all to your own discretion.
And ...
Keep in mind that it's not an easy fight, but it's doable. Don't abandon too fast, we almost all though about it, Good luck to our fellow Bards !
NOTE: please post your methods if I missed some, I will try to edit it later.
Multiple links concerning Maat:
Edited, Thu Dec 15 22:21:42 2005 by Kaolian
Edited, Tue Dec 20 15:08:29 2005 by JasmyneTaru
Edited, Thu Dec 22 09:14:00 2005 by JasmyneTaru


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Older News » New parent resource launchesLast updated 10:56 AM on 15 September 2011
Parents can support their child's learning with a new purpose-built resource that includes a website, mobile applications and social media channels.
The School A to Z online school community, developed by the education department, provides practical advice about homework, tips on learning, wellbeing, technology and resources to help parents and carers support their child's social, physical and mental development.
It includes a free mobile application for iPad and smartphones that features hundreds of definitions about maths and English terms, illustrated examples and instructional videos, information on common assignment topics, educational maths and spelling games.
School A to Z also includes:
- forums on Facebook and Twitter to allow parents to share experiences, tips and hints online
- printable homework help sheets
- A-Z lists of English, maths and technology definitions
- assignment starters on popular classroom topics.
The site offers information on technology and resources on how to keep kids safe online, along with nutritious lunch box recipes and a section on health and wellbeing.
The concept was developed in response to parent concerns about not being able to confidently support their child's learning at home.
The Federation of Parents and Citizens' Association NSW president, Helen Walton, said: "What I really like about School A to Z is that it supports parents getting involved in their child's education and it gives them tools to do just that."
Visit the School A to Z website.


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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a bomb exploded at a Shiite religious procession in northwest Pakistan, killing at least two people and injuring some 35 others.
Police official Javed Khan says the bomb exploded Sunday in the city of Dera Ismail Khan. The city is located near the South Waziristan tribal region where a similar bombing Saturday killed seven and wounded 30.
Shiite Muslims are observing Ashoura, a feast that commemorates the seventh century death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. The Sunni-Shiite schism over the heir to Muhammad dates back to that time, and Sunni extremists often target Shiites mourners during the season.
Pakistan has suspended mobile phone service in major cities during Ashoura to prevent such bombings, which often use cellphones as detonators.


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Indiana: 10 judges should rule on gay marriage ban
Indiana: 10 judges should rule on gay marriage ban
Indiana's attorney general wants more than three appellate judges to decide the fate of the state's gay marriage ban.
The office says in a statement issued Saturday that it filed a motion late Friday asking the entire 10-judge 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear Indiana's appeal of a judge's order that struck down the ban.
Cases are ordinarily heard by a panel of three judges.
In a separate move Friday, the 7th Circuit combined Indiana and Wisconsin's gay marriage cases and put them on the fast track.
Wisconsin had filed a similar appeal earlier this week.
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says moving the case before the full court would speed the process even more.


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Paul Walker's Fast & Furious Character Won't Be Killed Off
He'll be "retired."
After Paul Walker's death last month, there was a question over what they'd do about Fast & Furious 7, which was in the middle of production. Soon after, it was announced that production would be put on hold indefinitely, as the previously planned July 11 release date would be impossible to hit. We knew that writer Chris Morgan was working on revising the script and now The Hollywood Reporter writes that they've decided that Walker's Brian O'Conner character will be "retired," not killed off. The script was altered so O'Conner could remain part of the story, but also be written out of the series. The film is now set for an April 10, 2015 release.


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From someone's profile...... "Dream ride
Oregon Backcountry Discovery Route"
 I think you should break the habit of a lifetime and join us Ken. I'm sure we could muster up enough kit between us so that you didn't have to sleep out around the fire (or bunk up with John). If you don't come we are all gonna dangle pickles from the back of our bikes for the whole journey. I read somewhere that is sure to tempt you to follow (and I don't even know what the whole pickle thing is all about....except I'm guessing you must really like them). An XR600 would do it. S1


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Asian buyers scoop up 'bargain' million-dollar California homes
San Jose Mercury News
The continuing influx of well-heeled homebuyers from Asia has San Francisco Bay Area real estate firms competing for a lucrative and growing slice of the region's residential market.
"It has gotten big enough to where people are starting to pay attention to it," said James Yang, an agent with the Sereno Group in Palo Alto,Calif. "If you read the Chinese newspapers or listen to Chinese radio, there are ads from Bay Areareal estate agents trying to reach out to that demographic."
One enterprising Palo Alto real estate broker, Ken de Leon, bought a Mercedes-Benz van that seats 14 and is using it for tours with a Mandarin-speaking agent. Passengers one recent Saturday included an older couple from China who have lived in San Jose, Calif., for a year, and a younger man shopping for a brother who works at Apple.
With its good schools and Silicon Valley address, Palo Alto has become a point of interest for many mainland Chinese shopping for a second home or planning to move to the area, de Leon said. Among them are people cashing in on gains from a run-up in real estate values in China in the past decade.
On a recent weekend, the van slowed as it passed the home of late Apple Inc. chief Steve Jobs and, later, the garage where David Packard and William Hewlett founded Hewlett-Packard Co. Each time the van passed a school, a second de Leon agent called out its Academic Performance Index score.
The tour ended at a home in Los Altos Hills, Calif., that was listed at $3.998 million. Less than a week later, it had drawn three offers.
De Leon said he has sold at least 20 homes to buyers from China in the past year, usually in the $1.5 million to $2.5 million range. Roughly half are buying as an investment, a third are buying because of the area's highly rated schools, and one-fifth are buying second homes, de Leon said.
The Asian interest in Silicon Valley real estate shows no signs of tapering off, de Leon said. "If anything, it's getting stronger."
And it was already quite large. A National Association of Realtors study reported that Chinese – including those from Hong Kong and Taiwan – were the second largest group of international homebuyers behind Canadians, paying a median price of $425,000 for U.S. residential real estate. The association said 53 percent of Chinese buyers who bought in the U.S. bought in California.
"Compared to Asian prices, Palo Alto is considered pretty dirt cheap," said Kenny Weng Kong Lo, general manager of Intero Real Estate Services' Hong Kong office. Intero also has an office in Shanghai.
Lo's team recently helped the head of a Chinese company expanding in the United States buy a second home in Los Altos Hills for more than $6 million. Another client, a professional relocating from China to the valley, just purchased a home in Palo Alto for $2 million, he said.
Mark Wong, an agent with Alain Pinel, said he's taking a team of agents to China in December. "We'll connect with people who want come to the U.S. and people who want to diversify their portfolio," Wong said.
"Chinese buyers are everywhere nowadays," said Ellen Osmundson, managing partner of MJ Real Estate International in Walnut Creek, Calif., and president-elect of the East Bay chapter of the Asian Real Estate Association of America. "It's not just the Bay Area; it's the entire country."
Osmundson helped organize a China-U.S. Real Estate Summit for Chinese and American agents in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Shenzhen last year. "You really have to step out there to understand what's happening," she said.
In the East Bay, buyers from China "are going after good schools and they come prepared," she said. "They even know the school district boundaries. They want a little bit of backyard and want two stories, if possible."
Coldwell Banker launched a pilot program this year with an immigration company to help affluent Chinese invest in key U.S. cities and possibly emigrate here to start businesses and buy houses. The company has "lots of Hong Kong and mainland China offices," said Rick Turley, president of Coldwell Banker Northern California Real Estate. "They're trained to do business in China but they're sending us people who are buying here."
Strong demand has sent prices in parts of Silicon Valley soaring above their previous bubble-era highs, Turley said.
Behind the price increases are a "combination of buyers coming predominately from China and just so many others from hundreds of communication and digital companies. There are the obvious big ones like Facebook, but for every Facebook there's got to be another 100 similar smaller companies that are being fueled by the tech and information blitz that's going on," Turley said.
Minhua Jin, an agent with Intero's Silicon Valley office, said she recently handled the sale of three houses in Saratoga, Calif., to buyers from China based on their floor plans alone – the houses haven't been built yet.
"On every listing from Palo Alto to Saratoga, we have a good portion of buyers whose money is coming from China," she said. "I hear from buyers that in China, the real estate market has gone up so much in the past 10 to 15 years that everyone who purchased property a long time ago has made a good fortune. In cities like Beijing they've seen up to 10 times in appreciation."
When they come to the U.S., she said, "they are comparing square footage cost here to Chinese living space and it's still quite low. They feel like for the money they are spending, they get much more here," Jin said.
The Chinese government may have motivated some of these buyers when it announced this year that it was going to enforce a 20 percent tax on real estate transactions. That set off a flurry of selling by people who had held real estate for a long time and had large gains.
"That's a reason they started moving money heavily," said Intero agent Jinny Ahn. "People are cashing out their property and moving money to the United States. Three (million) to $4 million is considered not that expensive."
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/10/03/5790466/asian-buyers-scoop-up-bargain.html#storylink=cpy


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Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves: Macallan Masters of Photography Debut!
Matthew McConaughey and wife Camila Alves keep close as they attend the Macallan Masters of Photography Series event held at the Leica Gallery on Thursday (October 24) in Los Angeles.
The 43-year-old actor and Camila, 30, were joined by Amy Smart, her husband Carter Oosterhouse, Ben Feldman, and Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie at the event which debuted the 4th edition of the photography series.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Camila Alves
Matthew recently chatted about not knowing what Fifty Shades of Grey is about! "I have not read the book. I don't even know what the book is about," he told E! News.
FYI: Amy is wearing earrings by Joan Hornig and an Oroton clutch.
15+ pictures inside of Matthew McConaughey, Camila Alves, and others at the event…


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from the Koha list: "This will be the last release before we start adding MARC support... This release is mainly bug fixes. The new functionality is a script that when added to you apache config can
provide koha in different languages. Please read the scripts/translator/translator.readme file for more details."
from the Koha list: "This will be the last release before we start adding MARC support... This release is mainly bug fixes. The new functionality is a script that when added to you apache config can
Congrats to the folks over at Technology Resource Foundation for actually delivering a Technical Beta Preview of OpenBook roughly upon their promised date. It looks to be an already working system, guaranteed to wow (if the OSSIG session at ALA last month is an accurate gauge), if still at the to-be-expected not-fully-polished state of an 0.8 release.
OpenBook is a Koha-inspired, GPL-licensed system, apparently rewritten from scratch in more than 20k lines of php. [Update 2001-7-16: see this post on the Koha list for TRF's announcement and more explanation of the relationship between OpenBook and Koha. -dc]
Avanti: GUI and 0.4 pre-1 release
Peter writes: "Avanti version 0.4 pre-release 1 is complete and is available at the Avanti website. Included in this release is the first GUI search client (finally!). A running demo of this client is available at the web site. Give it a try! A more in depth explanation of the interface design is available here.
Version 0.4 represents a major step forward for Avanti. This version defines all the fundamental components of the system from back-end DBMS to GUI client. 0.4 also defines the overall client-server architecture of Avanti and the communications protocol used between client and server. The next release will be 0.4 proper, a much cleaner and better documented rendition of what is in this pre-release.
MARC 1.13 released
Gregg writes: "New addition of the wonderful marc-record manipulation tool marc.pm. This one has the added feature of being able to name the HTML fields when using marc2html. Thanks MR. Summers!" Complete docs and a line-by-line tutorial example are available at marcpm.sourceforge.net.
Peter writes to oss4lib-discuss: "Over the past couple of months I have done a complete rewite and and reorganization of Avanti. The results so far can be seen here. It includes its own integrated database management system, PicoDB; and ARMS, a sort of a hyperlinked object database that will eventually be a key component for the future OPAC module.
This pre-release is meant as a reference point for subsequent development towards version 0.4 and to make it available for anyone interested to look at and play with. Its rough, with still a lot of fleshing out to do and user interfaces to put in place but that will be coming very soon!"
Go, Peter, go!
Sebastian writes: "Index Data has just made its first release of a Z39.50 Server module for Perl. It provides a pretty simple API which hides most of the complexities of Z39.50 and network programming in general, so all you have to do is provide a bit of code to interface to your resource. You can draw on all the usual Perl tools to talk to back-end databases, create response records in XML, MARC, etc." Built using YAZ by the people who brought us YAZ to begin with... definitely worth a close look.
from perl4lib: "I have uploaded MARC-1.12 at download.sourceforge.net.
I also updated the docs referenced at the marcpm.sourceforge.net page. Have at it. Bug reports are especially welcome. [updates include] Fixed newline issues with input and output of marcmaker records (Ed's suggestions and my spelunking); added an option for less strict error checking (David Valentine's suggestion, Ed's architecture); added tests and removed test numbering."
from Derek over perl4lib: "Basically a bugfix and sanity checks after Elizabeth Shaw noticed that pack_008 left the 008 field empty. Also added a ship script to automate the creation of
the .tar.gz version. Please beat on this and let the list know of any problems..." Go get it at marcpm.sourceforge.net. [p.s. hey Liz, that you? how's that reference MOO doin'? ;)]
new in 0.5.2 are MARC downloads (thanks to jake2marc.pl), more reliable XML feeds, bug and schema fixes, data available from sourceforge, added html comments to simplify results parsing for local holdings matching. go get it at the main jake site.
Mark wrote to oss4lib-list: "jake2marc is a utility that can create simple USMARC records for the full-text journals in databases listed in the jake project.
jake2marc is incorporated into and distributed with the standard jake application, and currently appears as a "Download as MARC" option in the database list and in the record for each database. jake2marc can also be installed and used separately from the main jake application because it queries jake for data over the net. The Perl source code is available for people interested in installing jake2marc on their own web server and modifying it to suit their own library's needs. jake2marc is currently under development and is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
More information about jake2marc, including a detailed description of the records it creates, is available at www.lib.sfu.ca/kiosk/mjordan/jake/."


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This went up today and there is one great comment about possibly using snapshot isolation as an alternative to the techiques I described. It's the best part of SSC; reading the article plus the comments really gives you an interesting view of the subject at hand.
The article is at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Database+Design/61335/.


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Details about this Driver
|Download driver for: SONY VGN-CS190JSR
|Supported System
|Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows XP, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003
|File Size
|2111 kb
|Firmware Extension Parser Device Driver Update for SONYVGN-CS190JSR
This utility updates the Sony Firmware Extension Parser Devicedriver to version 220.127.116.1187 to resolve an issue where a bluescreen error or system crash may occur after upgrading to theMicrosoft® Windows® 7 operating system
Simple Way to Update Sony Drivers
There are numerous of common warnings as well as other messages which you might get in the driver upgrading process, several of which I've paraphrased and listed here together with guidance on what you can do:
QUESTION: We have a Vaio SVE14A1HFXB after i changed to windows 8.1 and later windows 10 We have lost the initial program's Vaio. In the course of each one of these transitions key pad backlight settings have changed. At the moment, it only glows when touched. How do I return the mode of constant brightness. I have to admit that my Vaio healing disks are dropped. Thanks.
ANSWER: The key-board backlight is one of the limitations of Windows 10 working on the machine because of lack of up-to-date drivers : http://esupport.sony.com/CA/p/model-home.pl?mdl=SVF15A190S&template_id=1®ion_id=3&tab=download#/downloadTab
For further help regarding your concern, remember to get in touch with the Sony offices/Sony rep office buildings nearest to your place of property in Parts of asia Pacific area http://www.sony-asia.com/countryselector.html?hpid=countryselector:AsiaPacific As a result of proximity, they may be inside a stronger position to respond to your questions or issues.
How to Update Drivers with Device Manager?
1. Click Start menu and right-click on Computer.
2. Click Manage.
3. Click Device Manager in left pane.
4. In Device Manager window, expand categories and locate the hardware that you want to update driver for. For instance, if you want to download a driver for USB of "SONY VGN-CS190JSR", find the related device. Then right-click on the device name and select Update Driver Software.
Fail to Update SONY VGN-CS190JSR Driver? Don't Worry! You can Try DriverTuner
1. Download Driver Updating Tool and double click it to install
2. Scan your computer for out-of-date drivers. Select the ones(here you should choose SONY VGN-CS190JSR) which need to be updated and click download. Or you can just check SELECT ALL.
3. When the drivers are downloaded, click SETUP to install them. That's it. Your driver for SONY VGN-CS190JSR has been updated. Sometimes you need to reboot your computer to let the drivers take effect.
|Fix Driver Problems
|Driver Update Tool
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