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How long, exactly, do SSDs last? It's a difficult question to answer because estimating an SSD's life requires taking a whole lot of factors into consideration—type and amount of NAND used in the drive, overall write amplification, read/write cycle, and more. When we did our in-depth examination of how SSDs work a couple of years back, we looked a bit at how those factors affect drive life, but TechReport is going even further than that and has been subjecting six drives to a long-term torture test to actually measure, rather than estimate, the drives' service life.
The results are impressive: the consumer-grade SSDs tested all made it to at least 700TB of writes before failing. Three of the drives have written 1PB (that's a thousand terabytes, by TechReport's decimal reckoning, not 1024TB). That's a hell of a lot more writes than the manufacturers' stated drive lifetimes, and that's good news for SSD-buying consumers.
Performing that many writes takes time—in fact, TechReport has been torturing the drives to death since last August. The six drives chosen to die for science are Corsair's 240GB Neutron GTX (with 19nm MLC NAND), Intel's 240GB 335 (with 20nm MLC NAND), two of Kingston's 240GB HyperX 3K drives (with older 25nm MLC NAND), and two Samsung drives—one 256GB 840 Pro (with 21nm MLC NAND) and one 250GB 840 (with 21nm TLC NAND). The Intel and Kingston drives use SandForce controllers, the two Samsung drives use Samsung's own controllers, and the Corsair drive uses a controller from Link_A_Media Devices.
The tests to which the drives are being subjected are broad in scope, but they involve blasting the drives with incompressible writes (so that their controllers are limited in the advanced compression and de-duplication techniques they can apply to the incoming data). The two identical Kingston drives are also being used to test the difference in drive life brought about by an incompressible workload versus a workload that does allow for compression and deduplication.
In an update posted yesterday morning, TechReport listed the first casualties: the Intel 335, the incompressible workload Kingston HyperX 3K, and the triple-level cell Samsung 840. Intel's 335 died at around 700TB of writes, while the Kingston drive lasted to a bit over 725TB; the TLC NAND-equipped Samsung 840 gamely soldiered on to past 900TB before dying.
The failure modes of each drive were different as well. The Intel drive entered a self-destruct mode to prevent it from being used after it was no longer able to guarantee its ability to reliably write, while the Kingston HyperX 3K threw SMART errors and vanished after a reboot. The Samsung 840 simply died without warning. However, it's worth repeating that the failures didn't occur until the drives had passed the manufacturer's stated lifetime write limits many times over—it took almost a year of solid torture-test writes to get them to failure.
The other three SSDs are still working and have made it past 1PB of writes, and TechReport's torture test remains ongoing. However long the drives do end up lasting, it's definitely long enough to put to rest a lot of fears about current-generation SSD lifetime limits.


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Zoey Deutch Enrolls in 'Vampire Academy'
Zoey Deutch has just landed the lead in Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters (via Deadline).
Based on Richelle Mead's popular book series, the novels tell the tale of Rose Hathaway, a seventeen year old girl who has a mental and spiritual bond with her vampire best friend Lissa. The two girls attend a special school for Vampires who struggle to retain some humanity while other Vampires become more feral.
The flick, which will be shot this summer, will be directed by Mark Waters, while his brother Daniel wrote the screenplay.
Producer Deepak Nayer shared, "On a creative level we love the story and the creative team. We also love the potential to do a series of six strong movies based on this beloved series of novels" he said. There could even be more as Mead has spun off characters from her Vampire Academy books into a second series, Bloodlines, two of which have already been released."
Lucy Fry will star as Lissa and Danila Kozlovski will play the role of Dimitri.
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South African Hope Spots are inclusive, encouraging everyone who uses the sea, whether recreationally, for commercial purposes or because their survival depends upon the sea to be part of the Hope Spot. In planning and developing Hope Spots the inclusiveness draws in everyone so that each stakeholder is given an opportunity to play a positive role in their space. Wisdom and understanding are necessary to ensure sustainability and these need to be based on top quality research.
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Did you know that sex can be ecstatic, delicious, and spiritually awakening all at the same time? That men can be multi-orgasmic? And that you can experience an orgasm in your whole body? While most of us only know a fraction of what sexual energy can do, for centuries the Taoist sages have explored and mastered this powerful force. Now on Taoist Sexual Secrets, Lee Holden and Dr.Rachel Carlton Abrams unveil these once-guarded teachings to help us learn how to work with our jing qi, or sexual energy, for a deeper, more intimate connection to ourselves, our partners, and the universe.
Practices to Infuse Your Life with Passion, Ecstasy, and Bliss
The practices and insights on this program are drawn from a branch of Taoism called the "Arts of the Bedchamber"—a series of methods for boosting pleasure both alone or with a partner. To begin, we start with the basics: a combination of conscious breathing and attention-focusing exercises that cultivate life-force energy. Then, using the Orgasmic Upward Draw, we elevate ourselves and our intimate relationships to a whole new level of desire, healing, and spiritual connection.
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- Review for Taoist Sexual Secrets Review by ehlala
thank you
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- Review for Taoist Sexual Secrets Review by J.M.
Superb!! What a *great* tag team the two are. The exercises are informative and transformative. Their voices carry such a great energy too, projecting their knowledge and sincere love of the subject, as well as enthusiasm in sharing out to others, and solid expert knowledge.
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- Review for Taoist Sexual Secrets Review by Wendy M
Everything Lee Holden teaches is superb!! He and Dr. Rachel Abrams did a wonderful job explaining the spiritual side of Sex and the study of the great TAO connected with it! I certainly was not brought up to believe these ideas in our society. I do believe the time is coming when mankind will respect the spiritual side of life as this study shows. Thank you!
(Posted on 4/7/2014)
- Review for Taoist Sexual Secrets Review by David N
Very informative and interesting!
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- Review for Taoist Sexual Secrets Review by Eric Arteche
This was a beautiful collection of meditations and it was great to work on it as a couple. An continue working towards a deeper connectedness.
Thank you for offering such a great, informative class.
(Posted on 7/24/2012)
- Review for Taoist Sexual Secrets Review by ken westenhaver
fantastic service and excellent cd's.
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- Review for Taoist Sexual Secrets Review by karin bode
wow, there is a lot of wonderful information about attaining ultimate joy and bliss when making love. I look forward to try out and practise soon when together with my partner. It will surely take time to reach what is promised!
Thank you.
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- Review for Taoist Sexual Secrets Review by Kelvin A.
Taoist Sex Secrets by Lee Holden and Rachel Abrams.
This CD series is an excellent guide to Taoist Lovemaking (sex!) in all its aspects.
It is based on the work of Mantak Chia. The topics range from: personal health; to male and female health and sexual practices; to sexual methods for couples.
The authors specialities complement each other's beautifully. Lee Holden is an expert in Taoism and Rachel Abrams is a medical doctor. Thus they provide two distinct and equally important views and knowledge of sexuality that combine to give an expanded picture of what sexuality can be.
They present the whole gamut of Mantak Chia's Taoist sexual teachings. They do this in a way that is informative, concise and completely, immediately practicable! I've read Mantak Chia's books and because he wants to present the information in its entirety without any
misunderstandings, his books are loaded with every possible aspect and detail on the subject
imaginable. This is great as a reference but in the midst of passion you don't want to be
staring at the palm of your hand readings your notes and when caught, blurting out: "It's
a very complicated manoeuver!"
The authors present the information in a light-hearted, emphathetic manner that clearly
comes from their own personal experience.
I'd like to that Lee Holden and Rachel Abrams for presenting Mantak Chia's Taoist Sexual
knowledge in a manner that is understandable and practicable for everyone!
(Posted on 9/20/2010)
- Review for Taoist Sexual Secrets Review by Angele Ortega
Greaaaaat listening...good quality instruction... not complex.
Good work
(Posted on 6/15/2010)
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. RYGHIN', The Two-Gun Killer
On August 30, 1948, Ryghin' was cornered by the police inside the Carib Hotel. Naked, he shot his way out, killing two. While on the run, he posed in front of a photographer, and the picture ended up on the front cover of The Gleaner. One blond kid from the high society followed his exploits, unaware that he would one day turn him into a legend through his movie The Harder They Come (1972) - with Jimmy Cliff playing his part. This is the true story of Vincent Ryghin' Martin, the most notorious Public Enemy N°1 of Jamaica.
. EDWARD SEAGA, The Blind Man With A Pistol
Like a blind man, Eddie fired his gun at random – when he heard ouch!, he knew he had hit his target; and that justified the stray bullets. Guns and obeah was his political agenda. His dream? The community of Tivoli Gardens, the nightmare of everyone else; a garrison sheltering the most powerful Jamaican gang ever, Eddie's home. In the 1970s, he did all he could to destabilize the government of Michael Manley, playing it fool but hardly catching the wise, and bringing the island on the brink of civil war. But in 1980, the enemy shouted ouch!, and he became Prime Minister.
. BOB MARLEY, The Skipper
Reggae music has never been a peace & love music, or Bob Marley a hippie singer. Peace, in a reggae song, meant that the youths shouldn't fight the so-called tribal wars but live in peace; Love, meant that they should live in harmony, and not hate their brothers from across the street. Bob Marley's message was deeply rooted in local politics; it spread all over the world but it remained the voice of the ghetto of Trench Town, his musical obsession. Growing up in Kingston 12 was no bed of roses and in the middle of chaos and madness Rastafari stands alone.
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Yabby You was born strange, but free; living in the street, he melted iron to earn a living. He felt very sick and the doctors made it clear: to melt iron again meant death. But Yabby You had a song to record. He melted iron again, and collapsed – but he survived, and had enough money by then. Needless to say that he didn't enter the studio to sing a regular love song. Yabby You was the voice of the " I ", the everlasting essence of all living thing, the God within. His music was not meant for entertainment, it was his missal.
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Maroon 5, 'One More Night' – Song Review
'One More Night,' the second single from Maroon 5's 'Overexposed' (out June 26) is just dropping, while the first single 'Payphone' remains in the Top 5 of the radio chart leaderboad. It's certainly the familiar pop-rock sound that we've come to experience and expect from Adam Levine and his bandmates. But there's a bit of a reggae style infused into the percussion, giving the song a more dancey feel.
The song is erected on a thumped out (and looped) beat, in addition to Levine's signature falsetto, where he tosses off lyrics about not getting along with (or being able to untangle himself from) his lady love. Levine is hoping he only stays with her just "one more night." Ouch. Was this song penned when things started going south with his ex, model Anne V?
The song is built upon the idea of the quintessential push and pull between what the heart, mind and body want, which are usually opposing things. Levine and his cohorts did an effective job of encapsulating that sentiment and that emotion in a booty bounceable song, complete with lots of "Ooh" parts. It's quite a seamless blend of pop, rock and reggae, while remaining uniquely Maroon 5. That's not easy to do, but Levine and co. make it seem that way.
Levine croons, "You and I go hard at each other like we're going to war" and then tempers that statement by saying, "Try to tell you 'no' / But my body keeps on telling you 'yes.'" We've all been there, but it's M5 who put the feeling in a song for pretty much the entire population of the planet to relate to. While this is not a dance floor anthem, it's certainly a windows-down, summer-ready song. Crank it while soaking up some rays at the beach.
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Lily Maxwell decided to get more serious about gardening 10 years ago, when she won Canadian Gardening magazine's Best Garden in Canada contest and was rewarded with a 16-day cruise down the Danube worth $7,000.
She tells me this and it made me think how good her garden must have been back then to win such a prize, so what must it be like today?
Well, it is truly an outstanding showpiece that would not fail to inspire and entertain all gardeners, regardless of their level of interest or expertise.
Located in south Oak Bay on threequarters of an acre with glimpse views of the ocean, the garden surrounds a 1930s stucco house that is typical of the neighbourhood, but converted inside to a classy, super-sleek modern interior.
Maxwell has lived there for 21 years and gardened in her spare time when she worked as an elementary school teacher.
But since she retired in 2004, she has been able garden full time, and also develop a garden-design business.
Her front garden slopes down gently from the house to the road and features a large lawn that has been broken up by lushly planted borders either side and a wide J-shaped flower bed that sweeps down and curves around into the centre of the lawn to further break down space and add interest.
"I don't want the whole garden to look the same. With a big garden like this, it is important to make sure each area has its own unique identity," she says.
Immediately after you step into the garden, you become aware that this is the work of a plant connoisseur.
The tissue-paper white flowers of Romneya coulteri flop at the entrance. A coveted wedding cake dogwood (Cornus controversa variegata) anchors the centre of a border. And the giant fleece flower (Persicari polymorpha) pushes out from under a yellow-flowered Magnolia 'Elizabeth.'
Ask other gardeners who know Lily what they think her major strength is as a gardener, and they will say she is a great colourist. And it is true; she certainly has a knack for putting great combinations together to create plantings that not only have high-impact but a touch of class, too.
A neighbour's London plane tree delivers shade to an area filled with rare and unusual hellebores. They get all the light they need in spring before the tree has fully leafed and shade for summer once it has.
Ground covers don't hold much interest for this gardener, but there is one that she is partial to - the Himalayan maidenhair fern (Adiatum venustum) which she likes for its lacy foliage with comes up bronze in spring. She uses it lavishly in a few spots.
But in the sunny curving border, she concentrates on featuring more heat-loving plants like euphorbia and eryngium, salvia and veronica, Verbena 'Homstead Purple', asters and alliums, campanula and daphne.
She gets excellent results from three 'Julia Child' roses, grown as standards while the border nearest the house gets its key definition from a dwarf birch tree clipped into a stylish umbrella shape.
Being a full-time garden designer today, she is always hunting for exceptional plants. This is the other talent her gardening pals would say she has - the ability to find amazing specimens for great prices.
She found one, a beautiful Acer palmatum 'Chiba,' that she selected because it fit perfectly up against the wall of her house. To accommodate it, she had a stonemason come in to rework the pavers to curve appropriately around the trunk of the tree, thus protecting the root ball. It is this attention to detail that can be found throughout the garden.
Steps up to the house are lined with pots filled with succulents, mainly aeoniums and echeveria. On the east side of the house, she has created a blue-and-white garden, using such plants as the pearlbush, Exocorda 'The Bride', Star Gazer and Casa Blanca lilies, Hydrangea 'Limelight,' the shrub rose 'White Out' and thick clumps of agapanthus. This area also features a rarity - a variegated lily, but the exocorda is probably more of a treasure.
Just when you think you have seen it all, you step into the back yard and find even more - more of everything; shrubs, trees, long borders, packed with perennials.
Maxwell's favourite plant at the moment seems to be Berberis thunbergii 'Concorde'. "It is wonderfully compact, hardy and has beautiful yellow flowers in spring." She has used it repeatedly at the front, but more extensively with yellowleafed berberis to create a little knot-garden based on something she saw at Villa Fiesole in Florence.
From a charming wooden deck with wicker chairs, you look past a vigorously blooming 'Royal Sunset' rose to borders bustling with bright yellow 'Bishop of York' dahlias and billowing Rosa moyesii to giant clumps of Crocosmia solfatare, loved for its long-blooming apricot flowers.
There are all sorts of special trees here, too - Cornus kousa, stewartia, aralia, ginkgo and a 40-foot eucalyptus that Maxwell planted as a one-gallon specimen.
Stone and ceramic pots have been inserted into the border to provide places for the eyes "to rest" as they gallop excitedly over the sumptuous plant-packed borders.
The west side of the garden is shaded by a second giant plane tree, which has given Maxwell the opportunity to create a soothing woodland-like walk with winding gravel paths and borders filled with shadetolerant perennials, such as hostas, ferns and brunnera.
"I like to work with blocks of colour and I am also very conscious of colour harmonies, such as blues and purples with touches of yellow to lighten things up," says Maxwell.
"People who come here are usually overwhelmed by the size of the garden. They never quite expect it to be this big."
Maxwell's company is Garden Artistry. Her email is email@example.com.


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With the news now out that Watch Dogs will be delayed to Spring 2014 on every system, some people are wondering what happened to make such a big delay happen so close to the originally planned release date (one month from now). - PSLS
Shouldn't have made it for CURRENT GEN :@. They need to SHUT UP about this game being NEXT GEN, Yes it's on Next gen hardware BUT it's on what will be 9 year old hardware as well. If you're making the first truly next gen game, you do it on those consoles only (and PC if you wish).
Mmmmmmm 5 year development time *drools*
Keep it cookin' Ubisoft, i can wait a little longer.
Also, LOL at the article picture!
5 years in development? You shouldn't need to delay a game after that long. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. We're talking about GTA. A series that has been around for so long and has built up such a huge fanbase. You're releasing a new IP. Which one do you think is gonna get more hype?
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I would like to thank the rescue members who have been out responding to these emergency calls and checking on our neighbors who have medical conditions. These men and women have left their families to go check on others and helped us make sure that no one got hurt during last week's storm. It is hard to leave your family at home during these large storms, not knowing if they are safe at home. Dozens of families throughout every corner of the town of Lebanon was checked on. The responders helped bring water to people who were out of drinking water and helped check on people running generators to make sure they were safe. Other rescue members sat at the Emergency Operations Center and ran the communications center during the storm and following days of clean-up.
Once again, we used our Facebook site and email to keep residents aware of the dangerous situations going on during the storm, and with hourly updates following the storm. During the three days that followed the storm, we averaged over 2,000 hits to our sites. Residents seemed to really appreciate the updates and knew that they could keep up to date while watching our site.
These storms show us how well we have become accustomed to working together to make sure the residents are safe. Lebanon Emergency Management Director Tom Cravens and his staff did a wonderful job leading the operation. Lebanon Road Commissioner Larry Torno and the road crews spent all day Monday preparing drains and ditches for the rain and then all night and overnight responding to down trees. They have spent the past few days picking up debris and clearing the roads of fallen trees.
All three selectmen kept making sure the responders had what they needed and were there to support the responders. Lebanon fire crews responded to live wires down and secured the area until CMP crews could get there to mitigate the situations. Lebanon Rescue crews also assisted with this, responded to medical emergencies and did the well-being checks on dozens of families.
The utility workers from CMP, Metrocast, tree companies and more have been amazing. We watched the number of power outages in town go from about 75-percent of homes without power to nearly 50 at this time. It was great to have them stop at the station and rest a little in between large shifts of restoring utilities. Trooper Fenderson, of the State Police, stopped by during the height of the storm to check on the responders at the EOC and offered to assist in any way. It was a great effort by all.
These storms have become more and more common. We are having large-scale deployments, but due to planning and training, we have come through these storms very well.
On behalf of all the volunteers with Lebanon Rescue, we want to thank the residents for their support during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, stopping in to check on responders or dropping off warm food for the responders. We would also like to thank Lebanon House of Pizza, which came out during the height of the storm to bring delicious pizza to all the responders at the Emergency Operations Center.
Job well done to everyone, and I am proud to lead such a dedicated group of volunteers who truly display our departments motto, "Neighbors Helping Neighbors."
Chief Samantha J. Cole
Lebanon Rescue Department
Thousands need your help this Thanksgiving
To the editor:
The fall breeze sent yellow and orange leaves scuttling across the lawn and driveway to swirl about the line of people outside our food pantry. Most were unaware of that soft seasonal beauty because it reminded them that soon they would be cold, as well as hungry. There is little romance in being poor.
Two years ago, over 16,000 families made their way up to the top of Shaker Ridge here in Alfred, to stare at their shoes while admitting they did not have enough food to feed their family. The fact that people are brave enough to do that is reason enough to believe we have an obligation to help, and we do. We continue to seek out the resources needed to get enough food to feed as many people as possible, but it is getting harder. The problem is, last year that number grew to over 24,000 families, at the very time donations to the food pantry fell to an all-time low.
Thanksgiving is soon, and we know the number of Turkey Box requests will increase over the 1,652 we gave out last year. That's 1,652 turkeys in a box with potatoes, vegetables, canned fruit, bread and dessert to feed a family of four, or about ten tons of turkey, four tons of potatoes, and several pallets full of canned goods.
During the summer and early fall, we begin the collection and hoarding of foods needed for the Turkey Boxes. At this point, we have so little food available that hundreds of families will not have much for Thanksgiving, or beyond. It's the "beyond" that's the real problem, since most everybody can get through another day, as many often do on Thanksgiving Day. It's the other 364 days that hurt the most.
You know these people; they all have real faces, names, kids, moms and dads, and classmates. They were at the football game on Friday night, raking leaves on Saturday afternoon, and going to church on Sunday morning, and not one of them had a sign that said, "I don't have enough food."
Please help by sending cash donations, putting together food drives, dropping off food, and taking the time to notice the folks who don't have those signs.
Donations can be sent to: York County Shelter Programs, P.O. Box 820, Alfred, Maine, 04002. Or, just call Joan Sylvester at 324-1137, and she'll be happy to help.
Thank you, and have a great holiday Season!
Donald H. Gean
Executive Director
York County Shelter Programs
Letters to the Editor Nov. 8, 2012
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Compromise is common place in design. We never have enough time or resources to do everything we want. This has very much been the case with the ASIC prototyping marketplace. The more you want to trace, the more visibility you want, the more it will cost you in terms of the FPGA resources it consumes, pins on the device used, or the degree to which you slow the system down. Take that to the extreme and you go from a prototype capable of running at 50MHz and you are down to 1MHz, about the most you can expect from an emulator that provides full visibility. If you limit the number of signals that you look at, you have to face long iteration times as the FPGAs have to be recompiled and loaded. Even with incremental compile it can be time for lunch.
Then along comes someone who says now hold on a minute, it doesnt have to be that way. That someone is Tektronix who has just released version 2.0 of their Certus tool. I got to sit down with Brad Quinton, the creator of this technology who wanted to persuade me that they could provide full visibility, time correlated across multiple FPGAs and multiple clocks, with only 15% overhead and no slowdown. That seemed to break all of the tradeoffs, so I eagerly listened. At the end of two hours I will say that I give him a 95% on the truth meter but I do dock him 5% because of some real subtleties. More on those later.
Now of course, there is still a compromise here, but it is done very differently. When you are preparing the design to go onto the prototyping board you can indeed select all signals or all flip flops to be instrumented. All of the necessary circuitry is built, and the logic is pipelined such that it is unlikely to limit the performance of the prototype. But that does not mean that on every run you can see every signal. That is limited but dynamic. Every time you perform a run you can examine different signals, different flip flops without doing any recompilation or reloading of the bit files. They select and route the instrumentation dynamically and Brad assures me that there are no restrictions in which signals are selected for any run. The depth and width of the memories assigned to each of the trace groups determines how much can be captured, but when the run is completed, the data is fed out for analysis through the JTAG port. So this is not real time debugging, but the iteration loop from selecting the signals to seeing the results is only seconds and not hours. They demonstrated a single FPGA solution to me based on a SPARC system running Linux and performing debug on the Ethernet packet stream. Iteration time for the whole thing was under a minute, from signal selection to result analysis.
OK, so where do I dock the 5%? Simply because the design will likely have to be spread over an increased number of FPGAs because the trace logic does take some resources. That means more signals that must go off chip and that could create a new critical path that slows the design down.
One of their users is none other than the Dini group, the largest supplier of ASIC prototyping boards in the industry. Mike Dini, founder and president of the Dini Group has glowing words to say about the software product Proactive debug capability for ASIC prototypes has been a missing ingredient within the FPGA ecosystem. With Certus 2.0 we can instrument the design up front, enabling us to quickly view the full operation of the design during a single debug session and resolve issues in a fraction of the time it takes with traditional tools. Whats more it works with all of our existing boards no need to wait in order to take advantage of all these critical features.
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Geoff Barker, a former HSBC Holdings Plc economist, plans to start a new Asian macro hedge fund in March after lead managing an earlier pool to a 10.4 percent annualized gain since 2006.
Counterpoint Asian Macro Fund will be managed by a venture he set up with City Financial Investment Co., making him the first Asia-based manager backed by the London-headquartered company, which is led by two former executives of Invesco Ltd.'s Perpetual asset management unit, he said.
Barker is the latest hedge-fund manager in the region to join what are known as "platforms" that provide non-investment services to help them cut startup costs and attract institutional investors. Hedge-fund startups are turning to the platforms, such as the one offered by City Financial, after funds-of-funds that rely on wealthy individuals lost assets following the global financial crisis in 2008, hampering smaller hedge funds' ability to raise capital.
"It's better to be part of a business that we know is capable of passing due diligence of major investors," Barker said in an interview on Nov. 14 in Hong Kong. "In the post- Global-Financial-Crisis world, scale is more important."
Managers already overseeing $5 billion or more attracted $127.5 billion of new capital since 2009, while smaller funds experienced net outflows, according to Chicago-based data provider Hedge Fund Research Inc.
City Financial
The tie-up with City Financial will allow Barker to avoid having to hire a larger team and rent greater office space in an uncertain fundraising environment, he said. City Financial, which has backed other hedge funds such as energy futures and weather derivatives trader Cumulus Asset Management LLP, also adds credibility to a new business, he added.
"The most important thing is you should have a business as well as a fund," Barker said. "We can do it ourselves but it's probably easier, quicker, less risky, more credible if we do it with a partner that's already got that."
City Financial will provide services such as accounting, information technology, legal and compliance in exchange for a share of Counterpoint's fee revenue, Barker said. It can also help managers it backs raise money, he said.
City Financial-backed managers oversee a combined $1.3 billion of assets. It was acquired in 2006 by a partnership formed by Rob Hain, a former chief executive officer of Invesco Perpetual, and Andrew Williams, according to its website.
Among its backers is David Beatty, chairman of Temasek Holdings Pte-invested Inmet Mining Corp., owner of the second- largest copper project under construction.
Track Record
Barker was the manager of the BIA Pacific Macro Fund, whose assets peaked at about $400 million in 2009 after starting in March 2006, for Hong Kong-based Ballingal Investment Advisors Ltd. The fund was co-managed by the company's chief investment officer, Andrew Ballingal.
The BIA fund returned 43 percent in 2008, betting against equities and commodities while buying bonds, Barker said. Asian hedge-fund peers lost an average of 20 percent that year, their worst annual loss, according to an index of Singapore-based data provider Eurekahedge Pte.
The BIA fund gained 20 percent in 2011 and lost 17 percent in 2009, its worst year, he added. It returned 22 percent this year before Barker's departure, making money from China's liquidity squeeze in June, he said.
The Counterpoint fund, which Barker named to indicate his contrarian approach and ability to outperform in market downturns, will trade equity index futures, currencies, government bonds and commodities, Barker said.
Rates, Currencies
Barker is starting his new fund as the low-interest rate, low-inflation environment, driven partly by goods made by cheap labor in China and India, is coming to an end.
"The opportunities are going to be in interest rates and currencies," Barker said. "It's only a matter of time and degree how much interest rates are going to go up. It also re- introduces some two-way flows into the currency markets because some countries will do it more quickly than others."
Rising interest rates could further create swings in other risky assets such as stocks and properties, he added.
Barker moved to Japan almost 24 years ago as the Japan economist and head of research for Baring Securities in Tokyo, according to an official biography. He went on to become HSBC's Hong Kong-based chief economist and head of research in Asia before the Ballingal stint, it said.
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(Reuters) - Proto Labs Inc, which supplies custom-made prototypes to the medical and aerospace sectors, is planning to make its first acquisition in 14 years of existence to add manufacturing knowhow but does not intend to invest in 3D printing technology.
3D printing has been gaining popularity and while some investors and analysts believe the technology can dramatically change the way things are manufactured, Chief Executive Bradley Cleveland said it was slow and unsuitable for commercial needs.
An association with companies such as 3D Systems Corp and Stratasys Ltd has arguably helped Proto Labs' shares to follow the upward trajectory of the current Wall Street favorites.
Shares of Proto Labs have risen more than 90 percent since the company went public in February 2012.
Cleveland, however, drew a distinction between 3D printing and the prototypes that his company makes for customers such as Xerox Corp and Danaher Corp.
"We don't want to get into the world of selling printers," Cleveland said in an interview with Reuters.
3D printing creates solid objects from a digital model by laying down successive thin layers of material. Proto Labs' method involves chipping away at large blocks of material until the desired object is formed.
Some analysts have said the growing popularity of 3D printing and the availability of cheap 3D printers could hurt small-volume manufacturers, like Proto Labs, which specialize in making prototypes.
U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned the technology in his State of the Union address last month, terming it as having "the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything".(http://link.reuters.com/fuw85t)
But Cleveland said 3D printing was unsuitable for commercial needs.
"It is dramatically slower, and the choices of material you have are very few in number," he said. "They are not approved for any kind of production, the vast majority of them at least."
Proto Labs makes custom prototypes out of plastic and metal, among other materials, using a proprietary software that automates tasks such as analyzing designs and simulating the manufacturing process, helping it achieve quick turnaround time.
"Proto Labs can make you thousands of parts in a few days," said Brian Drab, analyst at William Blair & Co. "Good luck doing that from a 3D printer in a couple of days."
Cleveland declined to say how much the company would be willing to pay for an acquisition, or which assets it would be targeting.
But the chief executive, who co-founded laser 3D printing company AeroMet before joining Proto Labs, said he expected Proto Labs to be "significantly larger" within a couple of years.
"We plan to maintain at least 25 percent top-line growth," said Cleveland, who has been chief executive of the Maple Plain, Minnesota-based company since 2001.
Annual revenue at Proto Labs, founded as Protomold Company Inc, has grown almost threefold in the past five years. It has a market value of about $1.15 billion.
Revenue is estimated to grow by an average of 23.6 percent over the next two years, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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Lang, Laux (d. 1528)
Laux Lang was a citizen of Goggingen near Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. Eitelhans Langenmantel stayed in his home after being banished from Augsburg in October 1527. He was visited here by many well-known Anabaptists. It was here also that the baptism occurred of the wife of his servant Hermann Anwald, who always accompanied him on his journeys, and who had also joined the brotherhood in the autumn of 1527. All three of them, together with two other Anabaptists of Goggingen, Bernhard Zirgkendorffer and Hans Pfefferlein, fell into the hands of Diepold von Stein, the captain of the Swabian League on 24 April 1528, and were put to death at Leitheim on 11 May 1528 by the executioner of Memmingen. Laux Lang, at whose house Langenmantel moved so freely, was the brother of the Archbishop of Salzburg and Cardinal Matthaus Lang, who had large numbers of Anabaptists in his bishopric put to death, and also communicated with Augsburg in November 1527 on the matter of prosecuting the Anabaptists.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 615.
Roth, Friedrich. Zur Geschichte der Wiedertäufer in Oberschwaben: III. Der Hööhepunkt der wiedertääuferischen Bewegung in Augsburg und ihr Niedergang im Jahre 1528. Augsburg: In Kommission der J.A. Schlosserschen Buchh. (F. Schott.), 1900 f.
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Chamaeleo dilepis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Chamaeleo dilepis Leach, 1819
Common Name(s):
Chamaeleo angusticoronatus Barbour 1903
Chamaeleo bilobus Kuhl, 1820
Chamaeleo capellii Bocage, 1866
Chamaeleo planiceps Merrem, 1820
Chamaeleo roperi (Boulenger, 1890)
Chamaeleo ruspolii (Boettger, 1893)
|Taxonomic Notes:
|The taxonomy of Chamaelo dilepis, which may instead be a species complex, is uncertain and problematic (Largen and Spawls 2006). Pending resolution of this situation, Chamaeleo quilensis from Central and East Africa are here treated as "sporadic variants of Ch. dilepis" following Tilbury (2010). The name Chamaeleo ruspolii has historically been applied to a morphologically uniform population from Somalia and northern Ethiopia, however broader geographical sampling within the range of C. dilepis indicates that C. ruspolii is likely to fall within the range of natural variation in C. dilepis, and moreover that it appears to represent the northern end of a spectrum of intergradation, with southern Ethiopian populations exhibiting characters intermediate between "C. ruspolii" to the north and East African C. dilepis (Largen and Spawls 2006).
Although some authors still recognise the form C. d. quilensis as well as subspecies (C.d. roperi Boulenger 1890, C. d. idjwiensis Loveridge, 1942, C. d. isabellinus Günther 1893, C. d. martensi Mertens, 1964 and C. d. petersi Gray, 1865), these should be treated with extreme caution pending a full taxonomic review of this species. Considerable confusion in identifications as well as complete overlap for sub-species records exist. Recognition of these sub-species at this time over-inflates the taxonomic quotient and unnecessarily complicates the situation (Tilbury 2010).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
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|Tolley, K.
|Bowles, P.
|Anderson, C.V., De Silva, R., Lewis, S., Lintott, P., Milligan, H.T., Powney, G., Sears, J., Spawls, S., Tilbury, C., Trape, J.-F., Wearn, O.R., Wilson, P., Wren, S. & Zamin, T.
|Tolley, K. & Jenkins, R.K.B.
Chamaeleo dilepis has been assessed as Least Concern owing to its wide distribution, relatively high local abundance, and its tolerance of an anthropogenic environment. Although collected for the pet trade, there are currently no known or observed effects of removal for the pet trade on natural populations. Careful attention should be paid to detect early warning signs for declines in the population. There are gaps in our knowledge on the population biology and taxonomy of this species and refinement of this knowledge would assist in future assessments.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is widely distributed throughout southern and eastern Africa. It has been described as ranging from as far west as Cameroon (Welch 1982), east to Kenya, southern Ethiopia and Somalia, and south through Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola into Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa (Tilbury 2010). Possible records of this species from West Africa (as C. quilensis) may be referable to the recently-described C. necasi (J-F. Trape pers. comm. 2012). There are limited records of the species occurring in Rwanda and Burundi (Spawls et al. 2002), however, this could be attributed to low recorder effort rather than genuine scarcity of the species in the area. The species has recently been confirmed on Lolui island in Uganda (S. Spawls pers. comm. 2010).
It occurs through most of southern Somalia, and in the Toghdeer region of the north as well as adjacent Ogaden in Ethiopia (Lanza 1990). There is a record of this species from Djibouti (Schätti 1989), but this author did not specify the basis for this (Ineich 2001) and its occurrence in this country is consequently in need of confirmation.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Angola; Botswana; Burundi; Cameroon; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Equatorial Guinea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Rwanda; Somalia; South Africa (Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape Province, North-West Province); Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
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|Although this species appears to be abundant locally, there is no quantitative information on population abundances or trends, and no population studies have been conducted. It is widespread and somewhat adaptable and as such is probably not undergoing any population declines at present.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species inhabits coastal forest, both moist and dry savannah, woodland and bushy grasslands, it has also been found in rural and suburban areas (Patterson 1987, Spawls et al. 2002, Largen and Spawls 2010, Tolley and Burger 2007). The species is arboreal, however it can often be observed crossing the ground (Tilbury 2010). The bulk of the diet consists of grasshoppers, beetles and other edible invertebrates; large individuals may eat vertebrate prey, such as geckos and other chameleons (Tilbury 2010). This species is commonly preyed upon by the boomslang (Dispholidus typus) and the twig snake (Thelotornis kirtlandi; Tilbury 2010) as well as a variety of birds and mammals. In southern Africa, mating usually takes place in November/December and gestation lasts about four months (Tilbury 2010). Females lay between 10-40 oval eggs, which take about 10-12 months to hatch (Tilbury 2010). Growth is rapid and sexual maturity is reached within one year of hatching (Tilbury 2010).
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Use and Trade:
|Annual CITES export quotas for C. dilepis between 2000 and 2013 ranged from 4,000-16,000 (12,000 average) wild -collected individuals and 100-953 (272 average) captive bred, captive born, or ranched individuals per year across the native range (CITES 2013). Between 1977 and 2011 (2012 and 2013 trade data are incomplete or unavailable) a total of 111,734 live individuals were exported from across the native range of this species for the pet trade (total of all undeclared, captive breeding, personal and commercial exports), of which 1,010 were reported as either captive bred, captive born, or ranched (UNEP-WCMC 2013). All 1,010 individuals exported during this period as either captive bred, captive born, or ranched were exported from 1999 to 2008, with a peak of 381 individuals exported in 2001 (UNEP-WCMC 2013). Annual exports of this species peaked in 2001 with 9,103 individuals exported and have shown a gradual decline in exports (although with fluctuations between years) to 3,443 individuals in 2011 (UNEP-WCMC 2013). Most of these exports stemmed from Tanzania (84,444 total individuals from 1977 through 2011) and Mozambique (14,751 total individuals from 1977 through 2011; UNEP-WCMC 2013).
|Major Threat(s):
|This species is collected for the international pet trade, with the greatest demand coming from the USA. Between 1977 and 2011, more than 111,000 individuals were exported for the pet trade. To date, there are no known or observed effects of removal for the pet trade on natural populations. However, because population sizes are not known, there are no estimates of survival or rates of population increase, and the taxonomy regarding the status of sub-species is uncertain, careful attention should be paid for any warning signs of declines. It is the third most heavily exported chameleon species on the globe. Careful attention should be paid to country exports to ensure that these are not detrimental to local populations.
|Conservation Actions:
|This species is listed under Appendix II of CITES (CITES 2007). There are no other species-specific conservation measures in place for this species, however, in places its distribution coincides with protected areas. No further conservation measures are required at this time. There is uncertainty about the status of subspecies, so that research is needed to clarify the taxonomy of the species.
|Tolley, K. 2014. Chamaeleo dilepis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T176308A1438077. . Downloaded on 26 September 2018.
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Bruce Rauner has won the Republican primary to challenge Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) in his reelection race this fall, the Associated Press reports.
Four Republicans vied for the nomination during Tuesday's primary.
Quinn, who became governor in 2009 after Rod Blagojevich's impeachment, was reelected to a full term in 2010.
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Businessman Bruce Rauner (ROW'-nur) has defeated three veteran lawmakers to win the Republican nomination for Illinois governor.
In his first bid for public office, Rauner on Tuesday topped state Sens. Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard and Treasurer Dan Rutherford (ROOTH'-ur-furd).
The wealthy venture capitalist from Winnetka in November will face Democratic governor Pat Quinn, who had a lesser-known primary challenger.
Rauner ran on a promise to "shake up" Springfield and the "career politicians" and special interests he says helped create Illinois' financial problems.
A virtual unknown when he got in the race, Rauner spent more than $14 million, including about $6 million of his own money.
Much of the money went toward TV ads that helped him increase his name recognition and fight back against attacks from organized labor.


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It's that time of year when the kids are heading back to school, and many will face their first writing assignment of the school year — "How I spent my summer vacation."
It's that time of year when the kids are heading back to school, and many will face their first writing assignment of the school year — "How I spent my summer vacation."
So, I thought it would be appropriate to reprise that assignment I was given many, many years ago, and share one of the highlights of my summer as a runner.
My background as a runner has given me the courage to expand my field of competition into a few more exotic events, and this summer I experienced a doozey. My daughter, Amy, found the GORUCK Challenge, and suggested that this Special Forces-inspired event would be right up my alley. Easily influenced, my obstacle racing friends, Chuck and Mark, agreed to join me for the June Challenge in Manchester, N.H.
Amy attained her "GRT" (GORUCK Tough) status on St. Patrick's Day in Boston, so she was able to give us a preview of what we might expect. Amy is a very tough cookie, so I was surprised to hear her say, "that was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I'll never do another one, and Dad, you should seriously reconsider doing it." That, of course, sealed the deal for Chuck, Mark and me. We were in.
First, we needed to acquire the mandatory equipment, starting with the GORUCK backpack (ruck) used by Special Forces. Then, we needed to load our rucks with bricks, four for those of us weighing under 150 pounds, or six for bigger guys like Chuck and Mark. Additionally, we needed to pack at least three liters of replacement fluids and any additional nutrition and clothing we might need for our adventure that would last between 8 to 12 hours.
At 9 p.m. on June 28, Cadre Logan, a young man with a long resume, greeted the 19 members of Class 670 at Victory Park in Manchester, N.H.
Logan, our leader who would guide us through the night, began by introducing himself to us. He served a tour of duty in Iraq, and two tours in Afghanistan as a sniper with the Special Forces legendary 101st Unit.
A resident of Cambridge, he is studying at Harvard University, and is running for City Council. It didn't take long for him to earn our respect, and frankly a bit of fear. It would be his job to mold a group of 19 type-A personalities into a cohesive, well-oiled hardcore team.
First came the two-hour welcoming party, a euphemism for the toughest PT (physical training) I've ever endured.
Rule No. 1 was that our rucks were never allowed to touch the ground, and so all through PT we would be toting our brick-filled backpacks. That made doing push-ups a whole lot harder, as did holding our rucks on our front, while doing flutter kicks. How many flutter kicks did we do? Here's a hint: Cadre Logan served in the 101st.
Chuck, Mark and I have a long running background, so we presumed that the running challenges would be the easy part of our welcoming party. Wrong.
Our first set of running intervals required a team sprint to the far end of Victory Park, and back while carrying 15 jerry cans filled with water (about 50 pounds each). Each succeeding sprint that matched or lowered our first time meant we could eliminate one can. Our team goal was to eliminate all 15 cans.
Our second and third sprints were slower, and we began to panic, presuming fatigue would only make the goal more impossible. Cadre Logan, the ex-sniper, then quietly, but firmly said, "Figure it out." We'd hear that numerous times that evening as we were faced with seemingly impossible tasks.
We began to think like a team, and created a strategy that employed our strengths more effectively. Each successive sprint hit the goal, and the jerry can count dropped until they were gone. I can attest that this was the hardest run I've ever done. It didn't cover 26.2 miles, it wasn't an Ultra Marathon, but I haven't been more spent than at the end of that task. And that was just the start of our night.
After enduring a long evening of physical tasks designed to break the strongest within our class, so that we were all on the same level, we learned our Class 670 assignment.
Each GORUCK Challenge class is assigned a task that will test the limits of its physical and mental capabilities, and its ability to work as a team. Ours didn't seem so bad; all we had to do is move an eight-foot log about a mile. We had 19 hardcore athletes now working as that well-oiled team Logan had forged.
A previous class deposited the target log on the front lawn of a private residence, and it was Class 670's responsibility to retrieve and dispose the offending lawn ornament. As 2 a.m. approached and our objective was in a very affluent section of Manchester, we would be operating under a strict code of silence as our unit made its way to the target location.
Simply running with our rucks would have been a challenge, but Logan had more in mind. Simulating combat conditions, we needed to periodically transport casualties. Our casualties were the biggest team members that we "buddy carried," along with our own rucks, their rucks, the 15 jerry cans, an American flag, Logan's team flag and our team designed mandatory 25-pound weight, a 30-pack of Budweiser.
When we reached our objective, the full weight of our task became apparent. This was no typical eight-foot log. This was a massive tree trunk with an estimated weight of 1,500 pounds. We silently mouthed to Logan, "There is no way this thing can be moved!"
He said: "Figure it out."
Over the next 3.5 hours, our team devised a method of employing brute strength and a well thought out plan to accomplish the impossible and successfully disposed of the offending log in the woods that was a mile from its start point.
As dawn approach, our gang of individuals had been tested with running, while carrying rucks, jerry cans and buddies. We endured torturous PT, and moved a tree. We were becoming a team. What more could Logan throw at us? Terrorball!
As the sun rose, our trek led us to a ball field, where we were told we could remove our rucks, and place them along the backstop. Remove our rucks? We knew that couldn't be a good sign. It was then that we learned the rules of Logan's favorite sport — Terrorball.
We broke into two teams that would compete in a relay race around the bases going in opposite direction.
First, we prepared the course by emptying five jerry cans of water along the first and third base lines, thereafter known as the "danger zones." It was there that each team would have an attacker, whose job was to keep the opposing team member for reaching the base. Each team would also post a defender to help protect their runner.
Did I say "runner?" This relay would be tougher.
The first base goal would be a low crawl through the mud, attempting to get past the attacker. The second base goal would be a bear crawl, the third base goal would be a crab walk and the final stretch would be another low crawl through the mud and an attacker.
Since the teams would be going in opposite directions, inevitably we would meet and attempt to stop our rival. Logan's final instruction, "There are no rules. Go hard, go ugly."
Did I mention that I'm 64 years old, and that the average age of our crew was 28, and many were combat veterans? My status offered no cover. It was a muddy schoolyard brawl, and as much fun as I've had in years.
Our journey back to Victory Park spanned several more hours of physical demands, but our class had been hardened over the previous 9.5 hours of challenges.
When Logan announced that we were done, and had earned our GORUCK Challenge badges, we all knew that we would leave with much more than that patch and the title of being GRT. We learned that the impossible isn't always impossible, and that thoughtful teamwork is more powerful than just brute strength.
When Logan handed me my GORUCK Tough patch, and shook my hand he announced that I was the oldest person to ever attain GRT status. I was proud of that, but I really didn't feel old at that moment. And yes, our team weight, the 30-pack of warm Budweiser, tasted great at 6:30 a.m.
I will admit that this event may be one of the craziest things I've done, but I am so thankful that I have had the background as an endurance runner that made it possible to consider.
I'll probably find other unusual ways to take advantage of those years of running, because in the long run sometimes you end up in really unexpected places.
Where will your running take you?
Tom Licciardello is a founding member of the Merrimack Valley Striders. Licciardello has participated in 35 Boston's and 88 marathons, and 2013 was his first year as a start line coordinator at the Boston Marathon. He has served on the BAA Boston Marathon organizing committee for the last 23 years.


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The clean and sharp art of eBoy graces three of our 1500 piece cityscape jigsaw puzzles by Heye. eBoy, a group consisting of Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr, started creating pixel art together in 1998 because of their shared affinity for making art "for the screen." Pixel art is a special type of digital illustration, meaning that the members of eBoy are working with their art down to the pixel— painstaking effort for maximum detail work. Now their art is used in a different context—often printed, and now richer and more complex than it was 15 years ago.
"Handling pixels is fun," they say. "You are forced to simplify and abstract things."
But even with the simplicity of pixels, eBoy is able to create grand views of popular cities, showing us something familiar in a new way. The choice for cityscapes comes from their love of the "liveliness, density, and variety of an urban environment."
If eBoy devotes itself solely to one project, with all 3 members working on it full time, it can take between 6 to 8 weeks to complete with all the detail and work. But eBoy often works on things in their spare time, meaning some projects take months—or even years.
Their work has paid off. They have worked for big name companies such as Coca-Cola, Honda, Nike, and the New York Times.
eBoy puzzles are fun because you're never stuck working on one portion of the puzzle for too long. There's always something new to look at and discover. In a review from pleased customer Jeremy, he said, "Easily the most fun puzzle I've encountered. Plenty of variety in the imagery, so the 1500 pieces stay fun the entire time. Felt like mini-puzzles within a giant puzzle. Leaves plenty of room to get the entire family around."


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Feb. 26: The Help At The Oscars
Feb. 26: The Help At The Oscars
It's Oscar season on CityLine!
Karen sits down with Academy Award nominee Octavia Spencer as well as screenwriter and director of The Help, Tate Taylor. Together they discuss why they both decided to take on such a monumental movie.
Then we head way down south where Taylor and Spencer sit down with the women who inspired Kathryn Stockett, the author of the novel, to write her book. These women give a glimpse of what it was like to be a "domestic" in Jim Crow Mississippi.
Then, we're joined by clinical professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, Cassandra Clay. Find out why she thinks The Help is not so helpful for people of color today.
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Robbert van Nouhuys is an Urban Designer/Landscape Architect by training with more than 30 years experience in planning and design of recreation, tourism and residential/commercial development projects in Asia and the Middle East. Robbert is currently Director for International Projects, presiding over selected strategic projects throughout the Asia region. As Project Director he has managed and co-ordinated large teams and successfully delivered international award winning, highly complex projects for private sector clients, local authorities and national governments.
Over the years Robbert has developed specialist skills and expertise to apply a strong sustainability approach and concept to all of his projects. His often innovative ideas as well as the attention to detail has lead to successful completion of a wide variety of projects, ranging from rejuvenation of urban areas, planning of new capital cities, residential and resort developments, to large scale tourism and recreation projects. Most of them are multi-disciplinary projects involving complex interfaces and recognized as international quality benchmark projects.


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TORONTO (October 24, 2012)—Catalyst, a global nonprofit organization expanding opportunities for women and business, has announced the appointment of Alex Johnston as Executive Director of Catalyst Canada Inc.
Ms. Johnston comes to Catalyst with more than a decade of leadership experience in the public and private sectors. In her new position, she will be charged with shaping a strategy for Catalyst's continued growth with its members that supports initiatives to advance gender equity in Canadian business.
"I first met Alex six years ago and was immediately impressed by her passion, solutions-oriented approach to making change, and personal integrity," said Deborah Gillis, Senior Vice President, Membership & Global Operations. "Her expertise in policy and track record on a wide range of issues impacting women will be much appreciated as we work with our 114 Canadian corporate members to advance women in Canadian business."
Ms. Johnston practiced corporate law with Goodmans LLP before joining the office of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty in 2003, where she served as Executive Director of Policy. In this role, she worked with senior members of government to develop, implement, and communicate the government's agenda and played a key part in advancing a progressive women's agenda, including initiatives to support women's economic independence and health.
A long-time advocate for women, Ms. Johnston was a founding member of the first student-run sexual assault center in Canada, served as a legal advisor in a shelter for women and children, and, after living in China for two years, began graduate studies on Chinese women's legal rights and experience with the justice system.
Ms. Johnston is fluent in English and French and holds a BA, LLB, and BCL from McGill University. Having spent her early years in Montreal, she now lives in Toronto with her husband and three children.
Founded in 1962, Catalyst is the leading nonprofit membership organization expanding opportunities for women and business. With offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, and India, and more than 500 preeminent corporations as members, Catalyst is the trusted resource for research, information, and advice about women at work. Catalyst annually honors exemplary organizational initiatives that promote women's advancement with the Catalyst Award.


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Acrobat has a great feature called Shared Reviews, which allows an Acrobat Pro user to send a PDF to one or more people for their comments while allowing each of the reviewers to see all of the comments that had been made by all of the other reviewers. While the default method in Acrobat 9 and X is to use Acrobat.com as the repository, it is possible to use another server, such as Adobe CQ5, as the repository.
In a shared review, Acrobat needs two things: a PDF that has been prepared to receive comments and share them with other reviewers, and a network location that all of the reviewers can access for storing the comments. In a Shared Review, the comments are stored in a comment repository that is disconnected from the PDF itself. Acrobat uses this methodology so that it can always check with the repository to determine whether there are new comments that have been added to the PDF while you were away from it. It is very important that the repository be in a network location that is accessible to everyone, and that means using a WebDAV server. Why WebDAV? WebDAV shares use a path that looks the same on all operating systems, which is not the case for a SMB, AFP, or other operating system specific file system protocols. In addition, it is not necessary to mount the remote volume in order to communicate with it, since WebDAV has a number of file system access features that can be used through standard web calls. Acrobat knows this, so it does not need to mount the repository in order to use it for shared reviews.
To begin, we need to create a folder in CQ5 that will act as the repository for reviews. It is important that this repository be somewhat obfuscated to the casual user, so it is good to put it inside of a universal access folder that sits inside of an admin access folder. For instance, if I made a top level folder in the DAM called acrobat_reviews and inside of that another folder called repository, I would set the permissions on acrobat_reviews so that only the administrators can see it, and I would set the permissions on the repository folder so that everyone can read and write. You can also create a folder elsewhere in the repository that's not in /var/dam. This is handy because it prevents Adobe Drive users from seeing the repository at all when they mount CQ DAM through Adobe Drive. Of course, you will want to consult your CQ system administrator to ensure that your repository location and permissions abide by your corporate policies.
Let's create a folder outside of CQ DAM and use it as our repository for Acrobat shared reviews. You will need a CQ5 Author instance to which you have administrative access and Acrobat X or a version of Acrobat that supports shared reviews. First, open up CRXDE Lite. You can create a folder other ways, but using CRXDE Lite is quick and only requires a web browser.
Navigate to the root of your CQ system, right-click on the root, and choose Create>Create Folder.
Name that folder acrobat_reviews. Right click on "acrobat_reviews" and choose Create>Create Folder again, and then name this new folder "repository". The path bar should now show /acrobat_reviews/repository.
You're not done yet, though, because the changes to the repository haven't been written. You must click the "Save All" button to save the repository changes.
Now, let's set permissions for the folders. Recall that we want to forbid access to the acrobat_reviews folder but allow access to the repository folder. In this example, we will use the user known as anonymous. You might want to use your LDAP or Active Directory groups to govern access, for instance, assuming that you have connected your LDAP or Active Directory system to your CQ instance. To set permissions, we need to use the CQ User Manager, otherwise known as CQ Security. Return to your CQ author instance landing page and click the User Manger. Double click the Anonymous user and click the Permissions tab.
Click the plus sign to the left of acrobat_reviews to show its subfolders. Leave the permissions on the acrobat reviews alone, and set the permissions on the repository to Read, Modify, Create and Delete as shown.
Click the Save link above the Path column heading to save the permission changes.
Now, we're ready to use CQ as a repository for our Acrobat X Shared reviews.
In Acrobat X, open a PDF you want to send for Shared Review and click the Comment button to open the Comment Pane. Click the Send for Shared Review button, and then choose "Automatically collect comments on my own internal server" and click Next.
Choose the Web Server folder option. Enter the full URL to your repository. In my example, my repository is operating on my laptop and is running on port 4502. The URL to the repository is therefore http://localhost:4502/acrobat_reviews/repository. You will need to know your server URL and active port to the author instance in order to enter your own information, though. Click Next and Acrobat will prompt you for your credentials to access the repository. I used the Anonymous user, so I enter anonymous (lower case "a") for the user and leave the password blank. If you click Save this Information, then the userid and password will be saved in Acrobat's keychain. Each user who accesses the review will have to enter their own credentials. For groups, therefore, it makes sense to use groups to control access to the folder and therefore provide at least userid and password access to the reviews. Acrobat will create and delete a test file on the server, after which it will prompt you to choose how to send the review notification to reviewers.
You can choose to send the file with your default email application or send it later. If you are on a Mac, Acrobat looks for Microsoft Entourage, so if you aren't using Entourage, then you might have trouble sending email from Acrobat on your Mac. In that case, save the file to attach to email later. On Windows, Acrobat supports more email clients. In any case, test to ensure that Acrobat supports your email client. If you decide to allow Acrobat to create the email, there are two options. You can choose to send the PDF as an attachment or as a link in the email message. Pick one, click Next, and then enter a name for your Server Profile. This will allow you to reuse these settings when you start Shared Reviews later.
Once you send the file to someone for review, they will need to be able to access the server, so be sure that the server URL is accessible to all of the reviewers. When a reviewer opens the PDF, they will login to the server, add comments, and then post them to the repository for other reviewers to see.
Because of its built-in WebDAV and easy to configure security, CQ5 is a great technology for Shared Review and Forms Data Collection workflows.Share on Facebook


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SOURCE: Infor
January 28, 2013 09:00 ET
ERP Solution Provides More Accurate Quotes, Speeds Printing Process
ERP Solution Provides More Accurate Quotes, Speeds Printing Process
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Jan 28, 2013) - Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced the availability of Infor for Printing and Packaging. This new vertical suite is an integrated ERP system that includes specialized built-in capabilities to manage the printing and packaging lifecycle, providing faster deployments and fewer modifications. By combining the advantages of full visibility, process control, and financial management with the specialized needs of creating accurate printing quotes and estimating resource needs, Infor for Printing and Packaging can control day-to-day activities, plus enable long-term analysis, planning and strategic growth.
Available as either an on-premise solution or cloud-based deployment, the ERP solution is highly flexible and can scale to meet many business expansion needs like the addition of a warehouse, new plant, or new division relatively quickly, minimizing disruption to day-to-day business. And, due to the integration between the manufacturing and printing processes and business operations, Infor for Printing and Packaging provides one common source of truth, making data more reliable.
Specifically, this new application delivers:
"In order to remain competitive and simultaneously meet consumer demand, organizations need to streamline operations and increase their ability to access and analyze data," said Mark Humphlett, director of ERP marketing, Infor. "Infor understands the niche printing and packaging market, and developed this specialized application as a result of in-depth conversations and knowledge sharing with customers who wanted access to company-wide analytics and reporting tools in order to achieve the high efficiency necessary to successfully navigate the complexity and market pressures of the industry today."
For more information visit www.infor.com/industries/manufacturing/
About Infor
Infor is the third-largest provider of enterprise applications and services, helping 70,000 customers in 194 countries improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, using ground-breaking technology that delivers a rich user experience, and flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.
This announcement reflects the direction Infor may take with regard to the specific product(s) described herein, all of which is subject to change by Infor in its sole discretion, with or without notice to you. This announcement is not a commitment to you in any way and you should not rely on this document or any of its content in making any decision. Infor is not committing to develop or deliver any specified enhancement, upgrade, product or functionality, even if such is described in this announcement and even if such description is accompanied by words such as "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "project," "predict," "should," "will," and/or similar expressions. Many factors can affect Infor's product development plans and the nature, content and timing of future product releases, all of which remain in the sole discretion of Infor. This announcement, in whole or in part, may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Infor or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Infor expressly disclaims any liability with respect to this announcement.
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