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This is Galaxy Explorer LL928 calling your Childhood.Jul 26
A while ago i was reading through an interesting post over at gizmodo about his visit to the fabolous Lego Vaults in Scandinavia. This magical place is a priceless museum of all Lego kits ever created. From the very first up to the very latest, all lego play sets that have ever left the factory, are stored in that magical vault. To my surprise, the author had a certain weakness for a particular line of Lego toys that spanned the late seventies early eighties. The "Lego Space" line encompassed, among others, several "kits" A lunar base 'The Space Command Center" (box 483)The Alpha Rocket Base (box 483) The Space Cruiser (Box 487) a smaller space cruiser and .. the majestic box 497 "The galaxy explorer". A fairly large and expensive box for the time. Featuring a small ground command station and a space cruiser with a pilot of one and a cargo bay for one little lunar jeep.
immediately i was taken over by a wash of childhood nostalgia. I remember the three spaceship models very well, since I owned the smallest one and had spent many many hours playing with it. I also remember the pang of envy I felt when I watched the kid across the street play with HIS Lego spaceship. THe larger and more powerful version of my little one-man patrol-ship. The "Galaxy Explorer". In comparison this was a massive ship with its own landing facility AND a "massive" hangar bay capable of transporting the little Jeep that came with it. This envy stuck, for I have never had a chance to own that kit, nor did my requests to "borrow" the instruction plans from my neighbor, so i could build my own version of the ship with the parts i had lying around. But the answer was no .. so the Galaxy explorer sailed of into the folds of the past.
30 years after the box was originally launched, that request for the "instruction plans" of the Galactic explorer seems to find an answer after all. A wonderful site called "The Brickfactory" houses every single instruction booklet to every single Lego set ever built. Now since I have obeyed my golden childhood rule " Never give your Lego's away" I was wondering if I could put two and two together. So I have started my attempt to "rebuild" the Galaxy Explorer for my own, using the parts that I have from all the years i played with Lego.
Now, Since i was a Lego kid from lets say the late seventies tot midway the eighties, the type of blocks required for the set were not out of my reach. (there were no super modern blocks needed) so i started my attempts this afternoon. Rustling between my blocks while reading through the instructions, was like a trip down memory lane. I remembered peering at those instructions as a kid , counting the little knobs on top of the blocks to know the size i required. Spending hours looking for the right part and being frustrated when you didn"t find it. And the greatest joy : Watching your construction take form are you follow along the different steps in the instruction. No wonder we are an Ikea generation ! THe Scandinavians had us following their "instructions" since we where kids.
However I was met by a problem that has set back the "speed" of my construction of the Galaxy Explorer. The thing with using parts from a set from 1979 is not that you don't OWN the parts , its that you have probably lost some of those parts over the span of the years. Several "classic" bricks ( engine mounts for one) proved to be a little hard to find so my own "Galaxy explorer" isn't quite ready to come to life just yet.
But some surfing on the web did give me a chance to take a peek at the work some of the Lego enthusiasts have been doing over the years. Since our own imagination is the boundary to what we can do with lego .. you should check out just SOME of the variations that were inspired by the Galaxy Explore. So never mind I didn't get to build my OWN galaxy explorer. Now I can drool over what others did with it too. I heart the Interwebs !
The BrickFactory : The Original Galaxy Explorer plans (among others of the Space line of 1979)
And a 'reimagined' version of the ll497
Assembly of the Galaxy Eplorer (as it should be done 😉 )
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Pirating is the new Masturbation. Evolve and find the free stuff legallyJul 23
Why you don't need to download music…
" Where do you download your music ? " The question, mostly posed by a newbie, floats in a pregnant silence for just a second. My shoulders slump slightly and I feel like some kid of Movie Celebrity being asked the same dumb question by journalist nr 4004. I turn around and face the Newbie, sighing to have to "explain" everything all over again. Knowing that every bit of information I divulge will only reward me with MORE questions. All of it resulting in an endless crossfire of questions and answers ending in the solemn conclusion that "that's not what they are looking for". In the nightmare-on-newb-street version of this conversation, "el newbo" will proudly declare he is using mall-ware infested software like Kazaa, Lime-Wire or E-donkey. As I wince and (half-sighing to keep oxygen flowing to my brain) explain that such programs are the computer-equivalent of licking the underside of the toilet seat in the restroom of the local train station, I can see the look of disappointment on their face. Not because of the fact that I have just pointed out that the dangers of peer-to-peer file sharing for your computer equals having a full-blown condomn-less orgy with 15 die-hard crackwhores on a bed of second-hand injection needles. Nono, they take issue with the fact that I have just somehow 'insulted' their only means of getting the latest Britney Spears album for free. (Never mind the fact that 23 Trojan Horses piggy-backed along for the ride). " Then what do YOU use ?? " they ask me outraged. Now this is a bit of a trick question. One would think that this question is an invitation to further point out why its not a very good idea to use peer-to-peer filesharing. But it is infact an invitation to 'reveal' some kind of superprogram you as a supergeek use, to get your music for free. That way, our newbie presumes, he might 'learn from the master' and do even more illegal downloading (and get all the porn flicks he's been dreaming off).
So the correct answer to this question is " I don't download music of the internet " Whether or not this is a lie is entirely up to you. Pirating of music is the new "masturbation" everybody does it , nobody admits it .. and its not very polite to ask. So perhaps you DO have ways of getting your content for free, but they are somehow too advanced for mr newbie to comprehend ( Rapidshare, Newsgroups, Bittorent). Its not a good idea to share this information, because quite soon you're going to have to SUPPORT him in pirating content .. And that is a line I will not cross. If he REALLY wants to he'll be able to figure it out for himself. Lame as it may be, its not a bad thing to say that you 'buy all your cd's in the store " It might get you a funny look .. but hey, at least the issue is of the table.
Its like I say all the time : there are Three levels of gathering content. Newbie extreme : The people who BUY EVERYTHING (BUY Office 2007 Retail to open a word document) Newbie-Standard : Pirate the content. (Download some version of Emule, spend hours finding a crack and ending up with and infected system) and GEEK: Find a free alternative for the contant ( Download OPenoffice for free and get to work). With music its the same deal. If you know where to look there are PLENTY of ways out there to get your content. As a personal example I'll share the following. Using a free application, I am able to get more then 7 hours of FREE AND LEGAL content downloaded to my harddrive (DRM FREE) from some of my favorite artists and Genres. This is the equivalent of buying 7 cd's a week (One CD a day) getting my content fresh and free without ever hurting the artist (or his money hungry record label) in the process. Its just that I KNOW where to look.
My secret ? Itunes ! Artists these days are more then happy to do a one hour podcast to promote their stuff. Sure there might be a little 'promotional tainting' going on in the episode ( 'check out my new album etc etc') but it works for me. One hour episodes of our favorite DJ Tiesto ever week ? no problem, Trance music mix from "above and beyond ? " its out there. Ministry of sound mixes ? Paul Oakenfold ? White Sensation ? Or do I want to mellow out with some Chill tunes on "Spacemusic" Its all out there right in the Itunes music store and it does not cost me a dime. (and I'm not even masturbating .. erm .. pirating ! ) So what are you waiting for … Stop mucking about in the cesspool of peer to peer file sharing and pick the free tree ! If Pirating is the new Masturbation then getting your music legaly and for free must be the next step to that .. So get it on people ! Hit the Itunes podcast directory and start looking for the music you like best.
Tiesto's Clublife Podcast. Armin Only Podcast Paul Oakenfold Podcast White Senation Podcas t Trance Above and Beyond Podcast Spacemusic Podcast .
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Knightwise, Where are all your Boxes ?Jul 21
A few days ago we had a friend over who made quite a astute observation. " Yo Knightwise, where are all your boxes ? " With "Boxes" he of course referred to "where are all your computers". The last time we had this friend over was at our old house in Hasselt, quite a long time ago. As I gave him the "tour" of the house, with the "lab/office" as piece-de-resistance offering up a nice line of monitors, keyboards, cpu-towers and humming servers. When I think back of moving INTO our old house, I remember packing up about 8 screens and 12 computers (laptops included) and dragging the lot into the new casa (and generously donating a slipped disk to the persons who had to haul it all upstairs). Today it is of course a whole different story and that surprises even me. Our entire "visible" computer infrastructure consists of a 24 inch Imac on the kitchen table ( our main interface to the digital highway ). If you are ever so fortunate to get the whole tour of the house you'll only notice one little desk in our room upstairs (which doubles as a dresser and a study) with a microphone boom, a laptop stand, keyboard and mouse and a large Tft screen. The rest of our infrastructure is .. Invisible. Is it not there ? Has it gone away ? Have I "toned down" ? Not, not by an inch, if ever I have "more" computing power at my fingertips today then I had back in our old house. But it's just organized a little differently. How ? .. and .. Why ?
A question of estethics.
If I wanted to I could setup a nice office with large screens and multiple machines if I wanted to, but I haven't. As I explained in the podcast episode "A geeks Palace" there are several approaches to "The geek Palace" . There is the "nuclear" approach, where you office is one mess of cables and screens that look like the collision between a spaceship and a blender. But for reasons of estethics I am not going to to there. On the other hand you can go for the multi-monitor super productive (and quite massive) setup I displayed in one of the KWTV episodes where my 24 inch Imac made the heart of the system, flanked by two 19 inch monitors AND a 15.7 Macbook Pro jammed on one big table. Or I could go for the current setup. A stark table with the 'facilities' to house a system but not a "permanent setup" of a system. I choose the latter.. Why ? First of al : Less is more. Going for a quite "stark" setup (keyboard, mouse, display) and all the rest hidden away, makes for a workspace where you can realy focus on what you "came" to do. It offers a low-impact, versitile workspace to facilitate whatever system you land on it. Second : As i said "what you CAME to do". With the 24 Imac on our Kitchen Table there is no longer a real "computer room" in the house. So instead of "going up" to the computer-room and working on the computer .. you "bring" your computer to hook it up to a more "productive enviroment" ( Larger keyboard / mouse / extra pheripherals like printer / mixer etc ). But the key of the matter here is that you "bring" your computer.
The power of the laptop.
With 2 Macbook pro's in the house each powerful enough to do 99 percent of our "productive work" the "desktop computer" becomes obsolete. Our laptops have become our "portable cpu's" giving us the computer power we need when and where we need it. Sitting downstairs in the couch, Hanging out of the porch or blogging from the bedroom. Not only is the Wifi network coverage ubiquitous, we also have constant access to all our data on the server and in the cloud. With " hardware Independence" achieved, it no longer matters WHAT machine we work on (we pickup eachothers laptops whenever they are around) for the concept of "local data" does not exist anymore. Only when we need to "enlarge" the interface with a full keyboard or an extra screen do we "hook up" the laptops to the setup in our office. There the little "portable solutions" become the equivalent of a full desktop PC. Only then does the "interface table" turn the room into a "computer room".
The hidden server.
"Discretion is the better part of Valor" So our server remains a discrete although prominent part of our daily digital life. being the central hub for data storage, incoming SSH connection, running scripts and applications, AND doubling as a media center one would think to spot a massive 19 inch server rack in the corner of our living room. However aesthetics is not the main motivation not to do this. First of all the average "home" does not need the same equipment as a corporate environment needs. And although shoving 19 inch switches and NAS drives into your home might seem c
ool at first, the resulting power bill will quite quickly change your mind. The server in our house is a small Intell ATOM desktop. (an Intel motherboard WITH the processor on board, 2 gigs of ram and a terabyte harddrive. Packed in a small form factor casing it looks like a vcr and is mounted underneath our TV (doubling up as a media center). Relatively quiet and online most of the day its the central hub of our indoor and outdoor computing lifestyle.
The ones we don't pay for.
But the question remains.. Where DID all the boxes go ? Well , to be honest I still have a few, but these are running as virtual machines on remote systems (read : different computers I've setup elsewhere). Having the ability to hook up to them using logmein, ssh or the VM-ware web-interface , it does not realy matter if these systems are IN our house or not. It does not even matter if they are Physical machines. As long as we can connect to them, fire them up and shut them down whenever we feel like it .. There is no need .. for all the "boxes" in our house.
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KWTV : The Multimonitor Imac Setup.
Knightcast Podcast : A geeks Palace.
Knightcast Podcast : Laptop Luxury.
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Kc224 "Kilroy 2.0 is everywhere."Jul 15
Let go of the terms "my computer" "my applications" and "my connection" and transcend beyond your digital boundaries to become a true omnipresent citizen of the web. We give you tips tricks and pointers how to slide from location to location, computer to computer, application to application and connection to connection without losing your foothold in your digital lifestyle. Transcend your own 1.0 cyber-citizen status and become Kilroy 2.0
- Intro
- JC Hutchings Seventh Son Podcast.
- Become Hardware Independent.
- Become Software Independent.
- Become Location Independent.
- Become Connection Independent.
- Becoming Independent of Linear Time.
- Signoff.
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Unraid Freenas or Drobo : Big Storage Solutions.Jul 14
One of the things I take a lot of pride in, is that I have a fairly digital lifestyle. I'm not talking about the while internet thing and stuff , that too of course. But when I say Digital , i mean Digital as in digiTIZED. Over the last few years I've embraced most technologies that allowed me convert whatever I had lying around to a digital medium. Pictures: Since 1997 I've owned a digital Camera. I slid that 128 Mb flash card into the slot, clicked the big button and have never ever taken an analogue picture since. All the pictures we have taken in all these years have been safely stored (and backed up) to either our local hard drives (mostly on our servers/nas drives) and over the past few years, in the Cloud (Flickr). I've seldom to never had a picture "printed" to hardcopy cause I quite frankly never saw the need for it.
My entire CD collection was digitised a few years ago and has also existed only as a collection of digital bits and bytes. The actual cd's that i owned (and I had quite a few) are stored in "archive mode" down in our basement. Most video material I had shot using my Video camera have been digitised and burned to cd's or stored on our local harddrives. Whatever we still had lying around as important documents got converted to PDF's years ago. And with the coming of our Ebook reader I have effeciently rendered most of my book collection obsolete and have moved from letters to bits when getting new books or material.
The only 'phisical' medium that i have left is our DVD collection, that, somehow is in dire need of digitalisation. We haven't purchased a lot of new dvd's (save for collectors boxes like Battlestar Galactica and what have you) so the only thing that most of our dvd's do is collect dust. It would be great to have one central place to store all those media. Sure, our fileserver with its 1 terrabyte of disk storage (and additional one terrabyte of backup storage) does not do a bad job in serving up the files we need. But it has its limitations. One terrabyte is only one terrabyte. And after several years of "collecting digital data" it might not prove enough.
On one hand you need a "compact form" of storage so you can access all of your data in one place, hopefully pretty fast. A built in drive into your fileserver or an external usb drive is fine. It doesn't pay off to have several drives in several places (constantly having to reconnect and disconnect external storage) and its not very energy efficient to have all of your storage media plugged in at once. My solution has been to divide the data I have into two pieces. On one side I have data that is "fresh" and that i need to access every day. This data (like our music, pictures, projects) is stored on our server (a one terabyte disk) and backed up every day. On the other side there is also data that I don't need every day, but that I would like to have for archiving purposes. I can either burn them to a cd (but that makes indexing the archives pretty hard) or I put them on another external hard drive that only gets plugged in when i need the data. Sounds like a plan ? Maybe, lets face it : One external drive is only ONE external drive. You can add ANOTHER one but then you would go like .. hmm where did i put this and that .. etc. If only you had ONE BIG PLACE to store everything, that "grows
along" with you as you go along.
So instead of putting my backups and my 'old data' on "passed down" drives that I have taken out of my system, i'm going to try something else. Lets face it. Since 1 terrabyte drives have become dirt cheap, I found I had several older drives just "lying around" A 500 gig, a couple of 250's, A 320 .. a couple of 160's.. you name it. Putting them all in several enclosures just is not very practical (again : the data is 'fragmented' that way) and it would be nicer to 'accumulate' all of that storage into one big place.
So there are two solutions you can go for. Freenas is one of them : Take an old beige box you have lying around, chuck ALL of your drives inside. Install Freenas on a usb stick, boot from such usb stick and presto : you have a fileserver. (mind you, its a fileserver that is capable of automated backups, connecting to windows, mac and Linux machines, even SSH access (yes yes, we LOVE our SSH) and more.
Dirtcheap, easy and it gives all of your 'older drives' a new lease on life. You can either use it as your "primary" storage solution (mind you : lotsa drives make lotsa heat and eat lotsa power) Or you can use it as your "archive solution". A system you power up every now and then to write and access some data that you have "stored away" in the bigg-arse drivecluster you setup with freenas.
Freenas DOES support raid solutions, but you have to make shure the drives are the same type/size/brand in order for your software raid to be effective.But since you have a "collection" of heterogenous drives you would like to merge into one storage blob and STILL need raid .. Freenas is not going to be able to help you.
How about a system thatlets you pop in whatever drive you have, add drives along the way, REMOVE drives along the way and STILL be able to keep all of your data. I know .. I can just hear you screaming ' DROBO DROBO 'and yes .. you might be correct. Sure enough, the wonderfull Cali Lewis has pimped the Drobo to us geeks using her sweet southern tongue (she is such a sweetheart) so why don't we go for the drobo ? 2 reasons : Its proprietary techonoly AND its DAMN EXPENSIVE. (and its limited to some 5 drives).
Enter "UNRAID" : Having the same basic setup as Freenas (Beige box, lotsa drives, usb stick) Unraid offers you the functionality of the Drobo at the price of the Freenas. You can add up to some 36 hard drives (hello !) because this solution is geared toward fast redundant media storage (where Freenas is more of a simple file server/archive solution). With Unraid (just like with the Drobo) you can swap out drives replacing the smallest drives with bigger drives as you go along.
Unraid takes care of the Raid array (making sure you don't lose any data) and looks the other way when you mix up drives with different sizes, speeds and brands.. its just works. But the catch is that in order to do this, Unraid needs to keep a "master catalogue" of all your drives stored on the biggest harddrive in the collection. So lets say you have a 500, and four 250 gig drives : then you're gonna have one gig of storage because the largest drive is your 'insurance drive' that makes sure that everything is going to be a-ok when one of the drives goes south.
Sure : if you pop in a One Terrabyte drive for this, you can add 750 or 500 gig drives as much as you want. And as long as you keep adding 'more and more' drives, your storage is going to increase .. as long as they don't go any larger in size then your 'insurance drive' there is no problem. But thats not always how it works. If I would like to use then UNRAID with the harddrives I lay off along the way .. the drives are going to get BIGGER everytime. Adding up to 36 drives is cool and will give you MASSIVE (and secure) storage. But the resulting machine would need quite a bit of juice to keep it going AND could easily heat up a small greenhouse (global warming anyone ?). Add to that that the FREE version of UNRAID only supports 3 drives and you have to pay (allbeit not that much) for the pro version.. I'll probably stick to freenas.
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Friday, 26 April 2013
Teach the web, Postetmooc and other activities
Postetmooc is turning out to be a great extension of ETMOOC and I am so glad. I was missing my Wednesday twitterchat, and the Google + coffee group meeting every second Tuesday has been great for sparking new ideas and discussing topics that we were introduced to in ETMOOC. I am particularly interested in our current topic, branding and digital identities. Will Richardson and others have written recently on this topic so it should be a great discussion. Primarily though, we're going to be reading the blogs of Seth Godin over the next week or so simply because we find references to his ideas in everyone's blog. Why not just go to the source!
I've also been lucky enough to join a few other communities with similar interests such as OOE (open online education) and Open Spokes (vlogging). I am so glad I am making the effort of maintaining my PLN!
One of the things I love about the web is that I can find out what other people are thinking and talking about. In the last six months I've taken the bold leap (at least for me) of being on Twitter and blogging/vlogging. However, like many newbies to the social media verse I was afraid of what this might do to my sense of privacy/identity. In looking for information about branding/digital identities I found this gem of a video that reflects my justifiable fears of big data and the companies that use our data to generate wealth. This has nothing to do with education and everything to do with becoming a continuous target for advertisers.
Lo and behold, I hadn't realised I had given up all rights to privacy when I signed up for Facebook which is how I keep up with friends and family spread all over the world. So, I am going to consider giving Facebook the boot. I may have to resort to more traditional forms of communication. Ah well, at least I will end up supporting Canada Post!
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Hi Karen, I cannot keep up with the new etmooc; I think I missed the chat, but I hope to keep in touch. I joined the Mozilla project also, and have my students coding using the Thimble tools. They love it, just love it!ReplyDelete
I check FB on my phone for family updates; otherwise, I use Google Plus for my PLN, family, and friend circles. More and more are joining Google Plus. Google is making changes from its advertising focus, so that may ease your mind there.
I so enjoy learning with you -- you push my thinking. Thank you.
Sheri you push my thinking too! I am so glad we'll be in Teach the Web together and that we're continuing to share in the Open Spokes forum.ReplyDelete
The post etmooc group has the same format as etmooc, in that when you can participate you are always welcome. This weeks twitterchat on #etmchat is on curricular transformation led by Rhonda Jessen and next week I'll be discussing branding (I hate that word!)


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David Cameron agrees to Newton Aycliffe wind farm talks
Credit: BBC News, www.bbc.co.uk 27 April 2011 ~~
The Prime Minister has agreed to arrange a meeting between a planning minister and residents opposed to a new wind farm.
Energy firm E.ON wants to build one of England's largest wind farms at a site in County Durham.
The farm would involve up to 45 turbines near Newton Aycliffe.
David Cameron made the remarks during Prime Minister's Questions in response to Phil Wilson, the Labour MP for Sedgefield.
Mr Wilson asked Mr Cameron to agree to a meeting between a delegation of constituents and the relevant planning minister to discuss the plans.
Mr Cameron agreed and said: "It is important that local people have a greater say in planning decisions."
'Early stages'
And added: "Where wind farms do go ahead local people should see a greater benefit in terms of the finance that goes into the local area."
Mr Wilson, whose constituency includes Newton Aycliffe, believes the area has enough turbines.
A five-turbine wind farm is already operating at Haswell Moor, near Peterlee and a further 17 are at Butterwick Moor near Sedgefield.
E.ON has said it is at the "early stages of conducting surveys and other research work to establish the potential for a commercial wind farm in the area of Newton Aycliffe."
No planning application has yet been lodged with Durham County Council.
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Univision's "Premios Juventud" Delivers High-Impact Visuals with Support from d3
It was all fun and games at Univision's live "Premios Juventud 2015," which had a video games theme and a set packed with LED and projection screens. Once again, d3's creative software suite played a critical role in delivering high-impact visuals for the annual youth awards telecast honoring achievements in film, music, sports, fashion and pop culture. The show was broadcast from BankUnited Center in Miami.
"d3 was chosen because it has proven to work best for the show and the production," says Rodrigo Proal, CEO/Creative Director at Darmah, a nine-year old d3 Studio based in Mexico and Miami. "This year we got the opportunity to program more than half of the show's musical performances taking advantage of all the amazing timeline features that d3 offers. We got to show how d3 can save unnecessary content renderings, make quick changes, compose and sequence, and give the client a preview of the acts on the 3D visualizer days before going live."
Minneapolis-based Luminous FX partnered with Darmah on the show "taking advantage of d3's SockPuppet to operate the show with a grandMA2 lighting console as well as testing the new merging timelines feature," Proal says.
Darmah provided four d3 4x4pro systems, two of them running as slaves, plus two d3 4U v2.5 editors. The set design featured numerous screens. "Every surface was a screen," says Luminous FX principal and screens programmer Laura Frank. An arched central screen served as the stage entrance; there were LED columns and angled display planes, an LED backdrop upstage, projection surfaces stage left and stage right and an LED runway built into the audience. Six performers added their own unique screens to the mix.
"There was so much video content to be delivered, and the surface area was massive and had unusual shapes," says Frank. "I collaborated with Darmah and the other designers to deliver content with the 3D visualizer and timeline tools in d3, which made everything very efficient. I combined the result with SockPuppet controls to play back the show for the best of both worlds: timeline programming and lighting desk playback. Thanks to that unique and successful workflow, we were was able to program 25 acts in three days, and the results were stunning."
Darmah's Video Content Director, Bianca Moncada emphasizes the key role d3 played in the pre-pro process for "Premios Juventud" this year. "Being able to pre-program content for the performances and take advantage of the 3D visualizer felt almost like you were at the venue watching the content," he says. "For producers it's important to see how their performance is going to look, even get a closer look to the actual camera shots and plan ahead specific shots, and thanks to d3 we were able to make renders from the visualizer. We also had time to make last minute changes on site through the d3 editor, in extreme cases, create something from scratch."
"Premios Juventud 2015" marked the first time that d3's merging timelines feature was used on a live show, notes Proal. "20 out of 25 acts were programmed and sequenced on different d3 machines was merged in the master project. This new feature, part of d3's software release 12, is definitely a new window for content workflow and collaboration," he declares.
In addition, d3's pixel perfect feature "gave us the ability to create amazing moments programmed on specific LED fixtures and accents on the stage," says Darmah's d3 specialist and programmer Chema Menendez. "The track sequence for the programmed performances made a huge difference when the song was beat-to-beat synched with all the hits and moments."
Darmah used d3's QuickCal function to adjust six different projectors accomplishing the feat in just 15 minutes. Another time saver: fast content transfer. "Thanks to d3's 10Gb ports, 100GB of content was in all the machines in one minute," Proal reports. "The ability to transfer large amounts of content quickly, use layers to compose the show, and have stability while running the show were just a few of the many advantages d3 provided over other products."
During the live broadcast Frank sat FOH with the d3 master and editors; the slaves were located backstage. A 10GB Ethernet connection facilitated d3 net and Art-Net protocols.
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"This is not ordinary litigation, but rather a negotiated resolution of a broad program of social remediation and rehabilitation. The object is not simply the compensation of plaintiffs, but the economic and social rehabilitation of the Gulf Coast areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster." – John C. Coffee, Jr., Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Consultant to BP and Class Counsel when asked to analyze the settlement on behalf of both BP and the class in 2012.
BP Misstates the Facts & Record
On behalf of the businesses and families of the Gulf Coast, we would like to correct some of the misinformation surrounding BP's current court challenge and media campaign. The following is part of the undisputed factual record.
Judge Barbier was Selected by a Panel of Respected Judges
Judge Carl Barbier, who oversees the Court-Supervised Settlement Program, was selected by a panel of respected trial and appellate court judges from across the country to preside over the BP Oil Spill Litigation, one of the largest, if not the largest, consolidated cases in history. He has been universally praised by BP and others for his ingenuity, commitment and dedication to the efficient and effective management of this vast and complex litigation.
Judge Barbier has served on the Federal Bench for well over a decade, and his integrity and judicial excellence have never been called into question.
BP Selected the Claims Administrator
BP selected and proposed Patrick Juneau to be appointed by the Court as Claims Administrator for the Court-Supervised Settlement Program.
Mr. Juneau is a long-time corporate defense attorney who is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel as well as the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. Mr. Juneau is universally respected by both sides of the Bar, and has been appointed by courts all across the country to serve as special master or mediator in high stakes litigation.
Mr. Juneau was BP's selection. Now BP is suing him.
BP Selected the Accounting Firms
BP selected and proposed PriceWaterhouse (PwC) as a Program Vendor for the Court-Supervised Settlement Program. PwC, one of the largest accounting firms in the world, had been previously hired by BP to assist the company in analyzing claims immediately following the spill. PwC was therefore not only trusted by BP but also familiar with oil spill related claims.
BP selected and proposed Postlewaite & Netterville (P&N) as a Program Vendor. This independent accounting firm had not done any previous work for either plaintiffs or BP.
P&N and PwC, the accounting firms that BP selected, have always implemented the Settlement Agreement exactly the same way that Mr. Juneau, supervising Federal Judge Carl Barbier, and plaintiff counsel has. In fact, until recently, BP interpreted the agreement in an identical manner.
Now the company says we are all wrong.
BP's Own Experts Disagree with the Company
BP's expert, Holly Sharp, studied the Settlement Agreement and submitted a sworn declaration to the Court in August 2012 confirming that:
"Once a business meets the causation requirements, for purposes of quantifying compensation, all revenue and variable profit declines during the claimant-selected compensation period are presumed to be caused by the spill, with no analysis required to determine whether the declines might have been due, at least in part, to other causes."
Now BP calls these "fictitious" claims, even though its own expert declared, under oath, that this is exactly how one qualifies under the company's program.
BP's Own Lawyers Disagree with the Company
BP's counsel, in a letter to the Claims Administrator in September 2012, reiterated that:
"One of the cornerstones of the Settlement Agreement is the use of transparent, objective, data-driven methodologies designed to apply clearly-defined standards to a claimant's contemporaneously-maintained financial data submitted in compliance with documentation requirements. These methodologies and requirements were carefully negotiated by the parties and are set forth in the Settlement Agreement as mandatory requirements. Among other reasons, these methodologies and requirements were negotiated in response to concerns voiced by some that the prior GCCF process was too dependent on accounting judgments that were not transparent…. The Settlement Agreement does not allow for the use of professional judgment or discretion as a substitute for expressly articulated standards or requirements…."
Now BP wants to substitute its judgment for the Court's.
A Hypothetical Confirms the Correct View
Around the same time, attorney Michael Juneau, on behalf of the Claims Administrator, posed the following inquiry to BP in an attempt to understand the intent of the settling parties:
"As to BEL claims [Business Economic Loss], once a claimant's financial records satisfy the causation standards set out in Exhibit 4B, does the Settlement Agreement mandate and/or allow the Claims Administrator to separate out losses attributable to the oil spill vs. those that are not? Stated another way, once a claimant passes the causation threshold, is the claimant entitled to recovery of all losses as per the formula set out in Exhibit 4C, or is some consideration to be given so as to exclude those losses clearly unrelated to the spill? I will give a hypothetical situation to try to illustrate the question we are asking:
Hypo: A small accounting corporation / firm is located in Zone B. They meet the 'V-shaped curve' causation test. The explanation for the drop in revenue is that one of the three partners went out on medical leave right around the time of the spill. Their work output, and corresponding income, thus went down by about a third. The income went back up 6 months later when the missing partner returned from medical leave. Applying the compensation formula under Exhibit 4C of the Settlement Agreement, the accounting firm can calculate a fairly substantial loss. Is that full loss recoverable?"
In response to the question and hypothetical, BP confirmed that:
"If proper application of the methodology with accurate financial data yields a determination that causation is satisfied, BP agrees with Class Counsel that all losses calculated in accordance with … Exhibits 4C … of the Settlement Agreement are presumed to be attributable to the Oil Spill…. If the accurate financial data establish that the claimant satisfies the BEL causation requirement, then all losses calculated in accord with Exhibit 4C are presumed to be attributable to the Oil Spill. Nothing in the BEL Causation Framework (Ex. 4B) or Compensation Framework (Ex. 4C) provides for an offset where the claimant firm's revenue decline (and recovery, if applicable) satisfies the causation test but extraneous non-fictional data indicate that the decline was attributable to a factor wholly unrelated to the Oil Spill. Such "false positives" are an inevitable concomitant of an objective quantitative, data-based test."
In the Joint Proposed Findings submitted to the Court by BP in support of approval of the Settlement in November 2012, BP again confirmed that:
"Once the causation tests are satisfied, all revenue and variable profit declines during the Compensation Period are presumed to be caused entirely by the spill, with no analysis of whether such declines were also traceable to other factors unrelated to the spill."
Finally, on December 12, 2012, the Parties appeared before the Court, and BP's Counsel, Richard Godfrey, again confirmed, to the Claims Administrator, to the PwC and P&N accountants who were present, to Class Counsel, and to the Court, that BP:
"agreed with the Claims Administrator's objective analysis of causation with respect to his evaluation of economic damage claims, as previously set forth by Mr. Juneau."
This is the factual record. It is clear. It is documented. And it cannot be disputed.
Such are the rules that the parties negotiated and claimants are required to abide by. For well over one year, our clients have relied on BP's representations as stated above.
It is preposterous for BP to now attempt to change those rules well into the game, and it is shameful for the company to vilify those who played by the rules as they were originally written, interpreted and implemented.
Why did BP Change its Tune?
The company grossly underestimated the financial damage its spill inflicted on the entire Gulf Region. With an annual tourism economy that exceeds $19 billion, BP's estimate of a $7.8 billion settlement bill was based in fantasy, not reality. With the projections of that bill coming due in excess of what BP erroneously predicted, the company needed an out. It needed a scapegoat.
So BP blamed the Judge. BP blamed the Claims Administrator. BP blamed the accountants. BP blamed the lawyers. The only party BP did not blame was itself.
Worse, it blamed the people and businesses of the Gulf who did nothing but play by BP's rules.
We cover the uncapped nature of the settlement agreement here, explaining why BP was negligent in assigning a $7.8 billion figure to its settlement liability.
As a plaintiff attorney, Tom Young has been at the forefront of some of the Nation's worst disasters. In 2015, he was judicially appointed to represent over 200,000 plaintiffs in an allocation proceeding involving a $1.24 billion settlement with Deepwater Horizon contractor Halliburton and rig owner Transocean. Currently, he's focused on representing numerous communities across the country that have been ravaged by the opioid epidemic and are now seeking damages from drug manufacturers and distributors.


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- APSA-9715 Deprovisioning of "LyncOrganization" fails
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Jose Mourinho stunned as Man United open talks with shock Premier League manager
MANCHESTER UNITED have opened talks with Mauricio Pochettino's representatives about him taking over from Louis van Gaal.
The Sun claim the Tottenham manager is in the frame to replace the Dutchman, as well as former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.
United see Pochettino as a long-term fit for the Red Devils and the man who can bring prolonged success back to Old Trafford.
The 43-year-old has impressed at Southampton and now at Spurs in the Premier League bringing young players through the ranks.
Harry Kane and Dele Alli are examples of Pochettino's approach as both men could fire Tottenham to an unlikely Premier League title win.
With Sir Alex Ferguson's tradition of bringing youth players through to the first-team, United are keen to install a new boss with a similar mentality.
Talks are still ongoing with Mourinho but the news that Pochettino is also in the frame will be a cause for concern for the Special One.
Current United manager Van Gaal is expected to leave Old Trafford at the end of the season, a year before his contract expires, due to poor performances this campaign.
If Pochettino was to join the Red Devils, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy would demand huge compensation, somewhere in the region of £20m, according to the reports.
Mourinho remains favourite to take over at United ahead of Ryan Giggs and Pochettino.


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At U learn Conference this year, I have been very inspired by the 6 C's.
Here is a brief description of what 6 C's stand for and how they are so important in education. This write up is also a reflection on how I will be developing my plans so that I create a space for all the C's into my lessons.
Thinking Critically- This is done the best when students have a variety of media to inform themselves about the topic. It allows students to analyse and filter the information and eventually form their own opinion based on the facts and information received. They weigh the positive and negative affects of the information. It also allows students to think if the information is valid or is it biased. They make connections with their experiences and understand the topic deeply.
How can I plan to make this happen in my class?
Working Collaboratively - When students work collaboratively, they communicate to make an optimum outcome. In the process, everyone's ideas are valued.
How can I maximise the success by making communication effective in my class? What are the most effective means of communication when working collaboratively?
Communicating Clearly - This means that students and Teachers need to communicate meaningfully. This will happen if communication is effective and engaging to the classroom audience.
How can I make communication purposeful and effective for my students? How can I encourage engagement within the students? Do my students need to develop their communication skills?
Embrace Culture - Students become more engaged in their learning if teachers encourage and appreciate the cultures of their students.
How can I become more responsive to the culture of the community I teach? How can I include the members of the community to become a part of my classroom culture?
Develop Creativity - Creativity allows students to express their learning and share it with others. Just learning would not be of any value if students are not able to apply their new learning in a purposeful way. When students apply their knowledge to create something, they gain deeper understanding, their knowledge expands, possibilities of innovations arise, imagination happens and their is a sense of completeness to the learning.
How can I bring more creativity into the topics I teach?
Utilise Connectivity - This allows students to share their learning with the wider community. It is important because it allows students to have authentic audience to get constructive feedback.
How can I use Technology to connect at the local and global platform about my learning?
Reflection - On reflection I feel the need to plan my lessons very carefully keeping in mind the 6 Cs. Though I already plan under the umbrella of 'Learn, Create, share', but sometimes the essence and richness of the learning experiences can get lost if emphasis and care is not devoted to the 6 C's. For this to happens effectively, I need to set up norms in the beginning of the year where students will learn how to communicate and collaborate so that we get more engagement through richer discussions. I will need them to learn to embrace each others cultures and value each other's ideas and communicate respectfully so that the outcome of each lesson is acceptable and workable for the community.


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Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who sat on opposite sides of the political fence during May's city election, have not only forgotten their former political rivalry, they're making a date to meet over ice cream this weekend.
Fulop announced in an email to supporters today that he and Booker will take a short jog with residents and then meet at Downtown ice cream parlor Torico, where the two will "discuss issues facing our city, state and country."
And, perhaps, gobble up some of Torico's homemade avocado or lychee ice cream.
Booker sided with former Mayor Jerramiah Healy in the May municipal election that saw Fulop denying Healy a third full term. But soon after Fulop's victory, Booker called him a "very impressive leader" on Twitter.
Fulop subsequently endorsed Booker's bid to succeed the late Frank Lautenberg in the U.S. Senate, and the two appeared together in Jersey City to meet with voters two weeks ago.
Booker faces Rep. Rush Holt, Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver and Rep. Frank Pallone in the Aug. 13 primary. The special election is Wednesday, Oct. 16. Polls show Booker leading in both races.
In his email, Fulop, an avid runner, said he tried to convince Booker, a former college football player, to an all-out run, but Booker responded with an ice-cream eating contest. The two settled on a short jog and a bite of ice cream, Fulop wrote.
The mayors' jog starts on Sat., Aug. 10 at noon behind City Hall, 280 Grove St. Torico is located at 20 Erie St., on the corner of Erie and 1st streets.


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P.C. Triathlon Club successful at Echo
The water level at Echo Reservoir in Coalville still isn't as high as it could be, but based on years past, competitors in Saturday morning's Echo Triathlon were thrilled.
After last year's event had barely enough water to complete the swimming portion of the triathlon, this year's levels were much easier to work with, according to several members of the Park City Triathlon Club.
"It was way better," Scott McClelland said. "The exit out of the water was much better. They really put on a good race."
"When it's all the way up, it's a lot easier to get out of the water right to the transition point," John O'Connell added. "You still have to run quite a ways now. It's not as good as it was [several years ago], but it's better."
O'Connell, who won the men's 45-49 Olympic distance age group with a time of 2 hours, 11 minutes and .8 seconds, said he's glad to see the water levels cooperate more at what is one of his favorite events.
"I've done [the Echo Triathlon] off and on for the last 10 years probably," he said. "It's kind of our home race because it's the closest race here and it's a good race."
Sarah Gott, who finished fourth overall in the women's contest, said that, in addition to the improving water levels, she also enjoys the running portion of the Echo Triathlon.
"The recovery is better [on dirt]," she said. "And they're a little bit more forgiving. They're maybe not as fast and you have to watch your step, but they're more forgiving."
McClelland said he performed better than expected, thanks to some cooperation from Mother Nature.
"The weather was great, so that really helped," he said. "I beat my estimated time by about 15 minutes, so I was pretty lucky it was cool."
Gott, who plans on competing in a couple half Ironman competitions later this summer, said she always likes coming to the Coalville event.
"I've done it a couple years in the past," she said. "I didn't do it last year, but I did it the two or three years before that. It's a great venue, a smaller crowd and the weather is usually perfect. The views are beautiful, too."
McClelland said he hopes to come back more often in the future to support the local race.
"I've lived in Park City for 18 years, but this is only the second time I've done it," he said. "I love that it helps North Summit schools. It's a local event and it's fun. We're all a part of Summit County and that makes it a fun, fun event."
The men's overall Olympic title was won by Connor Weaver of Highlands Ranch, Colorado. He finished with a time of 1:56:40.0. In second place was B.J. Christenson of North Salt Lake, crossing the line in 1:56:53.2. Rounding out the top three was Wesley Johnson of Sandy with a time of 1:58:25.3.
The top finisher from Park City was Brian Cadman, who finished sixth overall with a time of 2:01:43.7.
In the women's Olympic competition, Neilia Bliss of Austin, Texas, took first place in 2:14:56.7. Tracy Campbell of Holladay, Utah, finished second (2:19:2.6) and Amanda Meredith-Dunlop, also of Holladay, finished third (2:23:21.1).
Gott was the top finisher from the Park City Triathlon Club, crossing the finish line in fourth place overall with a time of 2:23:58.0.
Three Salt Lake City residents found themselves on the podium in the men's sprint competition, led by Andrew Hall (1:02:39.2). Griffin Conroy (1:03:25.6) finished second and Chris Williams (1:08:13.9) took third place.
Keith Baumgartner led all Park City competitors, crossing the finish line in 1:08:58.0, good for sixth place overall.
Lesley Rockwood of Park City won the women's overall sprint competition, completing the race in 1:12:22.2. She was followed by Leslie Howlett of Lehi (1:14:02.5) and Haley Tadler of North Salt Lake (1:15:13.9).
For full results from Saturday's sprint triathlon, please see the Scoreboard on page B-5. For the Olympic triathlon results, please check the Scoreboard in the Saturday, July 19, edition of The Park Record.
Park City Mountain to start some summer operations May 25
Park City Mountain Resort is scheduled to start limited summer operations on Saturday, including the operation of PayDay lift for hikers and bikers.


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Click on Image to Enlarge.OVERLAND PARK, Kansas - November 9, 2016 - Dependable and affordable; that's how Champion Traps & Targets designed the new Workhorse Electronic Trap to live up to its name, combining high-volume target-throwing capacity in a compact design. The Workhorse fits in the trunk of almost any vehicle, and can be unloaded and set up by one person. It runs off a single deep cycle battery, and the detachable magazine holds up to 50 clays. The trap is even adjustable, and can throw clays with three different launch angles up to 75 yards."Moving up to an electronic trap was once a major investment in space and money," said Eliza Graves, Brand Manager for Champion. "Not anymore. The Workhorse Electronic Trap helps you shoot better and have fun with ease and a minimum investment."The compact Workhorse has a MSRP of $359.95 and gives users multiple launch angles to hone their skills, and with a quick, 2.5-second reset, keeps the action fast and fun. The Champion Workhorse can keep throwing clays until you run out of daylight or ammunition - whatever comes first.Champion is a Vista Outdoor brand. For more information, visit www.championtarget.com.About Vista OutdoorVista Outdoor is a leading global designer, manufacturer and marketer of consumer products in the growing outdoor sports and recreation markets. The company operates in two segments, Shooting Sports and Outdoor Products, and has a portfolio of well-recognized brands that provides consumers with a wide range of performance-driven, high-quality and innovative products for individual outdoor recreational pursuits. Vista Outdoor products are sold at leading retailers and distributors across North America and worldwide. Vista Outdoor is headquartered in Utah and has manufacturing operations and facilities in 13 U.S. States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico along with international customer service, sales and sourcing operations in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe and New Zealand. For news and information, visit www.vistaoutdoor.com or follow us on Twitter @VistaOutdoorInc and Facebook at www.facebook.com/vistaoutdoor.
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Watch As Badminton Match in Canada Turns to Ugly Brawl
Who says that badminton isn't a contact sport? At the Canada Open for Badminton things got a bit out of hand when two former doubles partners get a little angry with each other, and it resulted in fist fight.
According to the Daily Mail Bodin Issara chased down his former partner Maneepong Jongjit and began attacking him. Issara and his new partner were disqualified in the final round, and the win was awarded to Maneepong Jongjit and his partner.


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This is a picture from Amanda Soule's blog. She was the first person I saw using Sheepskin for her baby. Not to long after that I started realizing that a lot of mamas use sheepskin. I've been wanting one for Scarlet and just didn't know where to go. Last week I found Nova Natural Toys and Crafts and there I found the perfect sheepskin comforter for babies. It will mostly be used for the new baby. But for right now Scarlet is really enjoying it. She lays on it and rubs it. It is the softest thing I think she's ever felt.
I have a list of things I want for this baby that I didn't know about for Scarlet. So many people look at me strange when they see the weird things that matter to me as a mother. I am one of those parents that people look at with their head tilted. But I love my life and the way my little family lives.
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Statement of Purpose BEd / Bachelor of Education
This has always been the guiding my life. Having walked the earth for 29 years, I feel life and God have been very kind. Providing me with all that I needed. I Think of myself as a simple, uncomplicated and a very humble human being. Thanks for the upbringing provided by my parents. I have always tried to have a simple and uncomplicated outlook towards the world and that is how I like it.
My father has been working as a registered Contractor with the Public Works Department at Nagpur and mother has always been a housewife. My younger brother is currently pursuing his BSc (Hons) Construction Mgmt, Northumbria University, UK. My other brother is assisting my father with his business. Religion has always had an important role in my upbringing. The various religious principles and values have been strictly inculcated in my life.
To talk about my educational life, English has been the language of instruction throughout. I cleared my Senior Secondary Certificate examination in first division in the year1997 from the Nagpur Board of education. I passed my Higher Secondary School Certificate examination in first division (with distinction in the subject of Child Development) in the year 1992. I have complete my graduation (B Sc. Home science) in the year 1995 and then my post-graduation (M Sc. Home science) in the year 1997. I was successfully able to maintain the first division ranking throughout. I have also given my IELTS examination and scored 6.5 in my first attempt.
After completing my formal education, I was looking for a field in which I could contribute in positive way to the society and the country. Throughout my educational life I have had a great deal of admiration for my teachers and always aspired to be like them. Considering my nature and likes, I could not think of anything else but the field of education. I strongly felt that teaching would be a profession that will give me a good degree of work satisfaction.
So immediately after my formal education, I worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Lady Amritbai Daga College for Women in the department of Home Science. However, after that I was required to stay home due to some family issues. So I choose a middle path and started providing home tutions to the students who were weak in their academics. During my working experience as a tutor, I came across various students with altogether different level of intellect. I always wanted to help them in the best possible ways to help them overcome their academic constraints. This is the reason, why I want to do my B Ed.
The reason why I want to study B Ed at the University of Strathclyde is that with my experience of teaching so far I have a clear idea of the skills I want to acquire for myself. I did go through the various educational programs that are available in India. However, I found them very traditional whereas I was looking for something more practical. My thirst for the right course made me look for the courses that were available overseas. This was how I came across the B Ed course at the University of Strathclyde. I felt that this was the right choice! As the course is designed very practically.
I have been working as a tutor for the past four years. Before which I worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Lady Amritbai Daga College for Women in the department of Home Science for two years (from 1997 to 1999). I have successfully helped many students to overcome their academic constraints in all ways possible. My work experience is more on an entrepreneur base. However, I wish to take up teaching on a more professional basis and look forward to employ my self with a good educational institution in India.
I strongly believe that on successful completion of the course at the University of Strathclyde, UK. I will have a good opportunity to work as an educationist. I also feel that I would be able to help the future generation of my country in my own little way and make my contribution to make this world a better place for the generations to come.
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Microsoft, AOL Join the Fray
Microsoft Corp. and America Online Inc. entered the fight
for control of MediaOne Group Inc., possibly representing the additional clout that
Comcast Corp. needs to counter AT&T Corp.
Late last week, Microsoft and AOL said they had formed
confidentiality agreements with MediaOne, opening up negotiations between the companies.
That announcement came days after AT&T said it had a
similar confidentiality agreement with the Englewood, Colo.-based MSO to discuss the $62
billion acquisition offer that AT&T made April 22.
AT&T secured commitments last week for $42 billion in a
syndicated credit facility that will be used in part to help finance its MediaOne bid.
It wasn't clear at press time whether Microsoft and
AOL made specific offers for MediaOne, or whether Comcast -- which saw its March 22 offer
for MediaOne topped by AT&T's -- was involved with the group.
To top AT&T's offer, Comcast would probably need
to come up with a lot of cash to add to its previous all-stock bid. AT&T's offer
included up to about $20 billion in cash.
MediaOne would only confirm the confidentiality agreement,
and it made no further comment.
Microsoft's and AOL's entrance heightened the
drama that has surrounded MediaOne since it first accepted an offer to be purchased by
Comcast in March.
AT&T stunned the industry with its attempt to top
Comcast's offer for the MSO. Its bid was about 17 percent higher than Comcast's.
"This is going to get complicated," SG Cowen
Securities Corp. cable analyst Gary Farber said. "The more parties that show up, the
more complicated it gets, and the less clear it is how this is going to play out."
Many industry observers believe that Comcast will make a
competing bid. But first, they said, it is likely that MediaOne will announce -- maybe as
soon as last weekend, after press time -- that it considers AT&T's offer to be
This would trigger a series of events and open a five-day
window in which Comcast can make a counteroffer. After that, a 21-day extension period
kicks in, giving MediaOne until May 26 to pick a suitor.
"What happens from here is that at some point in the
next few days, you will hear from MediaOne that their board has considered the AT&T
offer and considers it superior," said a source close to the process, who requested
"There's no telling when that would happen -- it
has to happen before [May] 6 --but you also have to expect that it will happen
before then. If I were in [AT&T's] shoes, I would be pushing as hard as I can to
get a sign-off from MediaOne so that you could get it to the board ASAP [as soon as
possible] and minimize the time that Comcast has available."
AT&T chairman C. Michael Armstrong told analysts in a
conference call about AT&T's earnings last week that he was skeptical that a
better offer for MediaOne would come to the table.
"I really believe that we can bring more value to that
property [MediaOne] than any other company or combination of companies in the world,"
Armstrong said.
While the industry remained abuzz over the potential of an
AT&T/MediaOne combination, some Washington legislators were a bit leery.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said last week that he had concerns
about AT&T's offer to buy MediaOne, citing fears that AT&T was trying to
control the Internet-access market through cable-system acquisitions.
AT&T controls high-speed Internet company @Home
Network, which AOL has criticized as a closed system that denies subscribers the choice of
picking their Internet-service provider.
"I am going to look at this deal very carefully. I
think that there is a real risk that it will chill competition," Wyden said, after
addressing the annual meeting of the American Cable Association (formerly the Small Cable
Business Association).
Wyden said AT&T's control of MediaOne could give
the MSO too much market power. He added that he felt that AT&T was attempting to gain
a "toehold in a very key sector of the economy in a way that is going to reduce
competition and chill choice."
But Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio), vice chairman of the House
Telecommunications Subcommittee, said he was not troubled by the merger possibility.
"From what I get of their game plan, it makes a lot of
sense," Oxley said, adding that the merger would promote local phone competition and
position AT&T as a global telecommunications powerhouse.
When AT&T announced its bid to acquire
Tele-Communications Inc. last June, Federal Communications Commission chairman William
Kennard greeted the news by saying that the deal was "eminently thinkable."
But last week, Kennard was mute on the AT&T-MediaOne
deal. His spokeswoman, Joy Howell, declined to provide an explanation. "We're
just not commenting on it," she said.
Some top FCC aides said it was improper to comment while
various companies were considering counteroffers to AT&T's bid.
Were AT&T to win control of MediaOne, the merged entity
could be too large under FCC rules.
The FCC prohibits a cable company and its affiliates from
reaching more than 30 percent of U.S. homes. The commission is considering changing the
horizontal limit to a test based on a percentage of subscribers to multichannel-video
programming, including cable and direct-broadcast satellite services.
The FCC's current 30 percent rule (which can climb to
35 percent if minority groups are part-owners) has never been enforced because a federal
court declared that the provision in the 1992 Cable Act authorizing the cap was
During an April 23 conference call with analysts, Armstrong
said AT&T-MediaOne could adjust to almost any cable-system-ownership limits that the
FCC might eventually adopt.
He suggested that the various AT&T joint ventures and
partnerships that add to its subscriber count could be revamped to ensure compliance with
federal rules.
"Whatever the redefinition of attribution is, whatever
the bar is, we have significant flexibility in trading ownership levels to accommodate
that," Armstrong said.
Regulatory matters aside, a competing Comcast offer for
MediaOne might also have votes for MediaOne shareholders -- something that was excluded
from the first Comcast bid.
"It's the Amos Hostetter factor," Stephens
Inc. cable and media analyst John Corcoran said. "If you're not going to
overwhelm them with price, you have to overwhelm them with control, or maybe a mixture of
the two. That's the Hobson's choice [that Comcast president] Brian Roberts is
facing right now."
Hostetter, the former Continental Cablevision Inc. chairman
and 9.3 percent shareholder in MediaOne, opposed the Comcast deal, partly because of the
nonvoting stock that was offered. He is now in the AT&T camp.


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Task List for the Prototype
From Filtered Push Wiki
Improve the demo
Here is a list of problems or inadequacies that we have identified with the demo, along with their currently proposed remedies.
- Filtered Push queries launched with the Specify client are too slow. They take a few seconds for each request to return results. Response time needs to be less than or about one second.
- We need to finalize a prototype design for the cache (H2 might be a suitable engine see: http://www.h2database.com for an implementation of the Knowledge:Local component see: Image:Components3_revised_components_2009Apr4.png).
- Zhimin will likely be implementing the design, but Maureen needs to know how the new design will affect the Specify client.
- We have only one type of node on the network: Specify databases with the same schema. We need to have at least one different data source.
- Paul has a data set from Brooklyn. It is a set of tab-delimited files representing their database. We should make this data set available to the prototype.
- The prototype currently requires a JDBC connection. Someone will have to make the data into a data source and open the necessary ports to access it. The data source will need to be able to respond to a very specific sql query, all fields must be present in a table named 'object'. Currently those fields are: id, barcode, collectorNumber, collector, taxon, locality, latitude, longitude). We need a non-trivial implementation of the Mapper and DataProvider components to generalize the schema specific and JDBC specific implementation.
- Each node in the demonstration network needs to have the configuration info for the new data source. Someone should put the new hadoop-site.xml into our Subversion repository, and the API jar also needs to be adjusted so that its hadoop-site.xml includes the new data source in its scope.
- Paul has a data set from Brooklyn. It is a set of tab-delimited files representing their database. We should make this data set available to the prototype.
- The Specify client GUI is a little rough around the edges and is "feature-poor." It needs to be cleaned up, and some features added. Maureen needs to fix the following:
- The results display is too wide for 600 x 800 screens.
- The results display contains empty space where a map icon used to be in a previous life.
- There is currently no way for the user to configure which fields should be searched.
- There is currently no way for the user to configure the mapping.
- We can only demonstrate one use case at the moment. We can only find duplicates, which demonstrates "filtered." We should add a demonstration for another use case, preferably one demonstrating "push."
- The Specify client needs a GUI to handle incoming annotations.
- The Specify client might also need a GUI for managing "subscriptions."
- Another client needs to implement injection of FP annotation messages into the message injection API. (Also need to free message injection API from Java class for message, and enable injection of XML message document, allowing non-java clients to API).
- Our "find duplicates" query is very rudimentary. It detects duplicates with exact matches on fields. We should add a fuzzy matching algorithm in order to return a larger and more inclusive result set.
- We need to give Zhimin specifications for the fuzzy matching algorithm.
- Zhimin needs to add the fuzzy matching to the API.
- We need to decide if any of the fuzziness needs client GUI display.
- Maureen needs to implement fuzzy results client GUI specifications, if any.
- It is difficult to install the demo on a new platform. We need a more streamlined build and installation process.
- We need to sort out the configuration issues (multiple hadoop-site.xml files).
- We need to tweak the ant build file for the API code to conform with the new configuration plan.
- Maureen should figure out how to do cross-project builds so that she can get the results of the above step into a Specify distribution.
- We should create a distributable hadoop.
- It is difficult to run the demo. The demo requires a large number of ports to be open, which requires an unusual amount of intervention and trust from sysadmins in order to run the demo from within their network.


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Last year, we made some rather foolhardy predictions about the NBA finals and ended up with a tattoo of Jason Terry indelibly inked on our pale white ass. So this year, we are avoiding any claims of clairvoyance and appealing to a baser emotion: pure, unbridled hatred.
Yes, the Miami Heat are the most despised sports team since the 1986 Hurricanes. And yes, the "Imperial March" song from Star Wars does follow Pat Reilly wherever he goes. But the truth is, the team America should really hate isn't the Heat. It's the Oklahoma City Thunder. Here are five damn good reasons why.
5. Remember Seattle?
Everybody keeps talking about how smart the Oklahoma City Thunder has been; how the club supposedly did things the hard way by drafting its superstars instead of buying them like the Miami Heat. But as sportswriter Dave Zirin points out, that's a load of crap. Because the Thunder didn't draft Kevin Durant or Russell Westbrook: the Seattle Supersonics did. And when The Big Grunge balked on paying for a new, totally unnecessary $300 million stadium, Supersonics owners Clay Bennett and Aubrey McClendon moved the team to the midwest (with a little help from NBA commissioner David Stern).
Claims that the team was "meticulously and honestly assembled" are only half right. Meticulously? Sure. Honestly? No way. For a year, Bennett and McClendon made promises to keep the team in Seattle. Then, in August of 2007, McClendon let the truth slip, telling reporters: "We didn't buy the team to keep it in Seattle." Bennett denied it but, three months later, the move was announced.
4. Lamb Testicles
Before moving the team, Bennett brought the Sonics management to Oklahoma for a dinner. The executives dug into heaping plates of fried appetizers. When one of them finally asked the waitress what they were devouring, she told them it was lamb testicles. As everyone at the table choked with disgust, Clay Bennett just laughed his ass off.
Say what you will of Heat owner Micky Arison, but not even he would feed livestock balls to his employees. That is some Hannibal Lector shit.
3. Anti-Gay Owners
If Bennett and McClendon were merely über-rich energy tycoons with a sick sense of humor and zero sense of loyalty, we might forgive them. But the fact is that they are über bigots, too.
First, McClendon gave $250,000 to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to suckerpunch John Kerry's bid for president in 2004. Then he donated more than half a million dollars to a group called Americans United to Preserve Marriage, which argues that gay couples "flout marriage by using it for their own political agenda (and) cheapen the institution."
With zombies, road-side masturbators, and mutant mosquitoes on the loose, South Floridians have plenty of things to be afraid of. But gay marriage isn't one of them. Join the 21st century, Oklahoma.
2. Oklahoma Is Trying to Kill Us
Oklahoma isn't just ignorant, it's dangerous. Well, maybe not all of Oklahoma, but its politicians. For the past week, Senator Jim Inhofe has been desperately trying to kill a regulation limiting the amount of mercury and other toxic chemicals that can be emitted from power plants. And you thought Rick Scott was dangerous.
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The state's other senator, Tom Coburn, once protested against the airing of Schindler's List. He accused NBC of dragging television "to an all-time low, with full-frontal nudity, violence and profanity." He also accused the network of "irresponsible sexual behavior," adding, "I cringe when I realize that there were children all across this nation watching this program."
Dude, it's about the Holocaust.
1. Russell Westbrook's Outfits Make Our Eyes Bleed
If all else fails to convince you to hate the Oklahoma City Thunder, consider this: Russell Westbrook's outfits are scientifically guaranteed to give you eyeball cancer. The same could be said about Dwayne Wade's pink pants, but we chalk that up to a one-off bad decision. Westbrook, however, has a whole wardrobe of hideous shirts. Now he's claiming that he invented the whole designer-glasses-without-lenses thing. Maybe the lenses committed suicide after seeing his outfit.
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The versatile Outdoor Fitness Power Tower is engineered to withstand the elements, yet its sleek design makes an attractive addition to any yard. Constructed with heavy-gauge steel and stainless hardware, the tower is designed for performance in outdoor environments. It features paint designed for excellent weatherability, providing chip and corrosion resistance as well as UV protection for excellent color retention in non-salt water environments. Assembly is easy, and the Stamina® Outdoor Fitness Power Tower's durable materials let you spend the vast majority of maintenance time on what really matters: your sculpted new body.
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