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In early January, on the type of sun-splashed day that draws northerners to Florida each winter, some of the nation's best collegiate soccer players gathered in Fort Lauderdale for a shot at the pros. They ran through a series of scrimmages as part of Major League Soccer's pre-draft combine, standout players trying to justify their position atop various teams' boards, and those with something to prove hoping to cash in on a good showing.
It was like any sport's amateur selection process, save for one prominent detail: A handful of the 52 college seniors on the pitch wore Adidas miCoach data trackers. The gadget, about the size of your thumb, offers real-time performance metrics like heart rate, top speed and distance run via biometric readings and GPS. It's far flashier than such antiquities as a timed 40, but not much different in that the athletic attributes it measures have little to do with sport-specific skills like, say, passing the ball.
Still, proper dribbling technique is more easily taught than absurd acceleration through a defensive alignment, which is why University of Connecticut defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste started turning so many heads.
Jean-Baptiste was among those participating in the miCoach trial ahead of a league-wide rollout next season. As four Adidas reps roamed the sideline holding iPads displaying real-time readings from the field, coaches and team officials filtered by with raised eyebrows and the occasional question. Everything was proceeding as expected until Jean-Baptiste took off on a sprint across the pitch and his measurements exploded.
"Ten to 12 teams' staff people crowded around me at once," said Jan Mueller, a manager for the miCoach line. "They were watching intently, and then began asking a lot of questions."
"You could see by looking at him that Jean-Baptiste was a physical specimen, but the numbers on miCoach showed that this guy was a freak of nature as far as the physical stuff was concerned," said Sean Rubio, video coordinator for the San Jose Earthquakes, who handles much of the team's statistical analysis. "Eyes up and down the sideline were popping at those numbers."
This is the kind of thing miCoach is made for. It will provide coaches with data to improve performance, the league with accessible stats to spark new levels of interest, and fans with a degree of access never before known. The question is whether it will work as envisioned, because this is soccer, after all — a sport that has forever been more about nuance than numbers.
From a training standpoint, miCoach will allow teams to closely monitor a player's precise physical exertion during practice or games. Coaches will be able to identify who needs extra rest, or extra work. Fluctuating readings well below a player's baseline can allow for easy identification of injury, perhaps even before the player knows something is wrong. The device also will allow coaches to track their players simultaneously, and analyze on-the-fly which of them physically offers the best chance at victory.
"Say we're involved in an intense game, a dogfight, and you're trying to figure out who still has something left in the tank to make it through extra time," said John Hackworth, interim manager of the Philadelphia Union. "That becomes an invaluable tool. Rather than coaches estimating that a guy looks a little fatigued, this gives you a metric to actually measure it."
Everything to this point may be revolutionary, but there is nonetheless a significantly bigger fish to be caught in this particular pond. Improvements in training methods are nice, but we're talking about soccer — and not just soccer, but American soccer — the sport that 40 years ago was said to be on the cusp of taking over the domestic sporting landscape and in some ways has regressed from there.
One reason for this is its numbers. Reading a baseball box score has been an American pastime for 100 years. Football's statistics have been key in building the juggernaut fantasy sports industry. Basketball's per-game stats can explain precisely what happened during the course of a game.
Soccer is not made that way. Much of the sport's vitality happens in the spaces between statistics. Due to the sport's reliance on flow and nuance, the bulk of what takes place is difficult to classify, let alone quantify.
"Dribble, tackle, pass — aside from shots, those are the main components of a game," Rubio said. "But even there, you'll have 10 different people with 10 different opinions about what counts as a dribble, what counts as pass or what counts as a tackle."
Not that the MLS isn't trying. The league has enlisted stat-keepers Opta Sports in an aggressive pursuit of a statistical set that rivals anything offered by its big-three competitors. Having stats, however, doesn't make them easily navigable.
For an example, look no further than the wondrous online feature MLS rolled out last year to help fans deconstruct a game. Searchable by player and area of the field, users can track shots, passes, set pieces (things like free kicks and corner kicks) and defensive sets. If this sounds simple, it's not.
Just the act of distributing the ball is divided into 11 sub-categories: successful and unsuccessful passes, flick ons and crosses; key passes (which lead to scoring opportunities); through balls; headers; assists; and lay offs. Eight more categories comprise defense; set pieces have seven; shots, six; ball possession, five; and there are four each for fouls and goalkeeping.
Add to all this a player's heat index — a graphical representation of where on the field he was when participating in stat-worthy action — and you have an abundance of numbers that, while voluminous, still don't fully explain what happened on a soccer pitch.
Enter miCoach. Argue if you will over what constitutes a pass or a chance, but miCoach readings are irrefutable — precise measurements of speed, power and endurance.
"The information we've been working with before now is more qualitative than quantitative, because we just didn't have enough data to analyze," said Earthquakes President David Kaval. "Well, we're about to move into an area where we're going to have almost too much data. The problem's going to become how to effectively analyze it and come up with algorithms that can predict performance."
Wherein likes the downside of miCoach: None of its readings have to do with ball control. Many players don't have much in the way of speed or power, yet are still successful based on any combination of factors — intuition, vision, technical and tactical skills — that miCoach (let alone any other soccer statistics) cannot touch. That leaves it up to the league's brightest minds to find causative correlations between old stats and new. For an example of soccer's struggles to make sense of its statistics, note that even the game's simplest measure — time of possession — means little in terms of predicting victory; the same can be said for shots on goal.
"There isn't a determinant variable or algorithm to predict the performance of players — yet," said Kaval. "That might be because there's not enough goals scored, or that we don't really don't know what we're solving for. That's the biggest challenge of soccer, compared to other sports like baseball, which has more data, and specific variables like on-base percentage that are statistically significant and directional, and actually show how to make better decisions. That hasn't really happened in soccer yet, but maybe the traditional data and this new technology will help ferret that out."
That possibility makes this an appealing, if complex, problem to solve, but it's not the only reason for the MLS to be excited. After all, if soccer's popularity trails that of the big three in part because of less-accessible stats, what might happen once fans are able to grab hold of something genuinely meaty? And make no mistake — from a fan perspective, miCoach readings are about the meatiest thing soccer has seen.
Take the "power" metric. While measurements of things like top speed and distance run are relatively straightforward, Adidas is trumpeting its power reading as especially worthy. It's a proprietary compendium of heart rate, acceleration, speed and distance that factors in subtleties like changes in direction.
"When you combine them all together and our scientists work their magic, it gives us an estimation of the effort the player needs, as well as their body's response to it," said Simon Drabble, director of the miCoach business unit for adidas. "It gives a simplified view of how hard a player is working, and what kind of effort he has to put in to get the results he's getting."
Now imagine fans getting their hands on these numbers. Athletic leagues worldwide are desperately seeking ways to maximize the "second-screen," capitalizing on the increasing numbers of viewers who augment a game's broadcast or in-stadium experience with one or more devices — tracking stats, communicating with friends, keeping tabs on the rest of the league. If fans could use that supplementary screen to literally watch a player's exertion levels rise and fall as he sprints across the pitch, it would take the viewing experience to a level never before seen in any sport.
The MLS, of course, is treading carefully here. Coaches aren't eager to see this kind of information made publicly available, for reasons having to do both with competitive advantage and public scrutiny. As such, MLS brass, while proclaiming big plans for the fan engagement potential of miCoach, have largely kept mum about what that ultimately will look like. It will very likely involve post-match (as opposed to real-time) analytics, a sample of which can be found on the league's Facebook page that reflects data from the miCoach test run held at this year's All-Star Game.
What it will likely not include is a stunningly realistic game-tracker, despite the GPS system within each miCoach unit providing the capability for exactly that.
"We're not focused on making dots move around the page," said Chris Schosser, the general manager of MLS Digital, harkening back to the second screen. "We're working on what we feel like is a game-changer in the digital match experience — a whole new way for consumers to experience the game. It's less about recreating a broadcast than augmenting the game you're already watching."
Ultimately, that might be the truest use for a device like this. Even discounting the slow adopters for a technology so new that its final format has yet to be unveiled, there's still a solid faction of MLS coaching and front-office personnel that, while intrigued, remains less than convinced that miCoach is the cure for what ails it.
"We've always had lies, damned lies and statistics," said Timbers assistant coach Amos Magee. "For example, just because a guy is covering a lot of ground, that doesn't necessarily mean it's smart running or that he's in the right place at the right time. That's a statistic that needs to come with experience. So some of these measurements are going to be useful, but some aren't. We'll just have to see which ones fill a void."
In that capacity, miCoach readings will fit right in with the rest of soccer's statistics. There's another school of thought, however, that presents an even warier eye.
"Soccer is so much art, and art is impossible to measure, like music or dance or paintings," said Hackworth. "The beauty of our sport is that there are so many creative, imaginative and skillful moments, and you'll never be able to truly quantify that."
For a point of reference, turn back to January's combine. As coaches crowded around the sideline iPads, marveling at the numbers put up by Andrew Jean-Baptiste, at least one faction paid not a lick of attention. Magee and the rest of the Timbers coaching staff were too busy watching the games. Portland brass had done its due diligence on players the old-fashioned way — scouting their college games, measuring their results in fitness and agility drills, and now, gauging their performance in scrimmages. Nobody saw a miCoach reading. Nobody knew the statistical side of what Jean-Baptiste had just done.
The Timbers selected him with the eighth pick overall, and didn't look back.


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Are you finding it easy to get the brand information and/or training you need to help you grow your brand?
I've signed up for a few webinars and online lectures only to have them deliver generalities. I leave with more questions than answers. You come to realize that the webinar is really just a come-on in a complicated sales funnel. This can happen in a paid webinar as well. I set my sights low in many things that I attend. I am usually just looking for a nugget or two that can help me more effectively deliver my products. When I deliver to my clients, I often ask myself if this is how I would like to be treated? Is this price point something I would consider paying?
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I'm curious to know what platforms you find advantageous and are you and your audience having an enjoyable experience working together? I've seen just having a book out there draws people to you and your brand experience. When you have a strong brand, you'll find yourself in demand for your opinion. How many people offer to buy you a coffee to get your opinion on something? These questions are exacting the reason I found that the platform of my website was sorely lacking to allow me to quickly adjust to new revenue streams. I like to react immediately not six months or more down the road. My brand expects me to jump while the iron is hot. Who better to invest in than myself? A few thousand well-directed dollars can make a HUGE difference in how your brand develops.
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JPA is designed to allow easy deployment into a JavaEE container. The JavaEE container takes care of integration of the JPA implementation (DataNucleus), so there is no JCA connector required.
Key points to remember when deploying your JPA application to use DataNucleus under JavaEE
Individual guides for specific JavaEE servers are listed below. If you have a guide for some other server, please notify us via the DataNucleus forum and it will be added to this list.
This guide was provided by Nicolas Seyvet. It is linked to from the JBoss docs.
JBoss AS7 is the latest JavaEE server from JBoss. Despite searching in multiple locations, I could not find a comprehensive guide on how to switch from the default JBoss Hibernate JPA provider to Datanucleus 3. If you try this guide, please PM the author (or add a comment) and let me know how it worked out. Your feedback will be used to improve this guide. This guide is cross-referenced as part of the JBoss JPA Reference Guide.
Install JBoss AS 7 by unzipping the downloaded JBoss zip file in the wanted folder to be used as the JBoss home root folder (example: /local/jboss). From this point, the path where JBoss is unzipped will be referred to as *$JBOSS_HOME*.
Note: JBoss AS 7 configuration is controlled by either standalone.xml ($JBOSS_HOME/standalone/configuration) or domain.xml ($JBOSS_HOME/domain/configuration) depending on the operation mode (standalone or domain) of the application server. The domain mode is typically used for cases where the AS is deployed in a cluster environment. In this tutorial, a single AS instance is used, as such, the standalone mode is selected and all configuration changes will be applied to the "standalone.xlm" file.
To start the server, use:
On Linux: $ cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin/ $ ./standalone.sh On Windows: $ cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin/ $ standalone.bat
After a few seconds, a message should indicate the server is started.
17:23:00,251 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015874: JBoss AS 7.2.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT "Steropes" started in 3717ms - Started 198 of 257 services (56 services are passive or on-demand)
To verify, access the administration GUI located at http://localhost:9990/, and expect to see a "Welcome to AS 7" banner. On the first start up, a console will show that an admin user must first be created in order to be able to access the management UI. Follow the steps and create a user.
On Linux: $JBOSS_HOME/bin$ add-user.sh On Windows: $JBOSS_HOME/bin$ add-user.bat
This step is only necessary if an RDBMS solution is used as a data store, or if external drivers are required. This tutorial will use MySQL as the RDBMS storage, and the required drivers and data source will be added. For more information, about data sources under JBoss AS 7, refer to the JBoss docs
For MySQL, it is recommended to use Connector/J, which can be found here. Note that this tutorial uses version 5.1.20. Note: JBoss uses OSGI to define a set of modules, further info about class loading in JBoss. In short, the configuration files binds the services and the modules, defining what is available in the class loader for a specific service or application.
While dropping the drivers in the $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments directory works, this approach is not recommended. The proper approach is to add the drivers by defining a new module containing the required libraries. The full instructions are available under here.
Short walk through for MySQL:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.0" name="com.mysql"> <resources> <resource-root path="mysql-connector-java-5.1.20-bin.jar"/> </resources> <dependencies> <module name="javax.api"/> </dependencies> </module>
The name is important as it defines the module name and is used in the "standalone.xml" configuration file. Now, let's say the URL to the MySQL database to be used is "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/simple", there are three ways to add that to the server, either through the management console at localhost or, by modifying the "standalone.xml" configuration file, or by using the Command Line Interface (CLI).
Let's modify the "standalone.xml" file. Verify the AS is stopped. Open "standalone.xml" for editing. Search for "subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:datasources:1.1", the section defines data sources and driver references. Let's add our data source and drivers. Add the following in the datasources section:
<datasource jndi-name="java:/jdbc/simple" pool-name="MySQL-DS" enabled="true"> <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/simple</connection-url> <driver>com.mysql</driver> <transaction-isolation>TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED</transaction-isolation> <pool> <min-pool-size>10</min-pool-size> <max-pool-size>100</max-pool-size> <prefill>true</prefill> </pool> <security> <user-name>[A valid DB user name]</user-name> <password>[A valid DB password]</password> </security> <statement> <prepared-statement-cache-size>32</prepared-statement-cache-size> <share-prepared-statements>true</share-prepared-statements> </statement> </datasource> <datasource jta="false" jndi-name="java:/jdbc/simple-nonjta" pool-name="MySQL-DS-NonJTA" enabled="true"> <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/simple</connection-url> <driver>com.mysql</driver> <transaction-isolation>TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED</transaction-isolation> <security> <user-name>[A valid DB user name]</user-name> <password>[A valid DB password]</password> </security> <statement> <share-prepared-statements>false</share-prepared-statements> </statement> </datasource>
The above defines two data sources (MySQL-DS and MySQL-DS-NonJTA) referring to the same database. The difference between the two is that MySQL-DS has JTA enabled while MySQL-DS-NonJTA does not. This is useful to separate operations during the database automated schema generation phase. Any change to a schema should be made outside the scope of JTA. Many JDBC drivers (for example) will fall apart (assorted type of SQLException) if you try to commit a connection with DDL and SQL mixed, or SQL first then DDL after. Consequently it is recommended to have a separate data source for such operations, hence using the non-jta-data-source.
In the drivers section, add:
<driver name="com.mysql" module="com.mysql"> <xa-datasource-class>com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource</xa-datasource-class> </driver>
The above defines which drivers to use for the data sources MySQL-DS and MySQL-DS-NonJTA. More info is available as part of the JBoss documentation, refer to the section describing how to setup a new data source.
This step adds the DataNucleus libraries as a JBoss module.
<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.1" name="org.datanucleus"> <dependencies> <module name="javax.api"/> <module name="javax.persistence.api"/> <module name="javax.transaction.api"/> <module name="javax.validation.api"/> </dependencies> <resources> <resource-root path="datanucleus-api-jpa-4.0.5.jar"/> <resource-root path="datanucleus-core-4.0.4.jar"/> <resource-root path="datanucleus-rdbms-4.0.6.jar"/> <resource-root path="datanucleus-jpa-query-4.0.4.jar"/> </resources> </module>
At this point, all the JPA dependencies are resolved.
Now you simply need to define persistence.xml and use JPA as you normally would. In order to use DataNucleus as a persistence provider, the "persistence.xml" file must contain the "jboss.as.jpa.providerModule" property. Using the datasources defined above, an example of a "persistence.xml" file could be:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" version="1.0"> <persistence-unit name="[Persistence Unit Name]" transaction-type="JTA"> <provider>org.datanucleus.api.jpa.PersistenceProviderImpl</provider> <!-- MySQL DS --> <jta-data-source>java:/jdbc/simple</jta-data-source> <non-jta-data-source>java:/jdbc/simple-nonjta</non-jta-data-source> <class>[Entities must be listed here]</class> <properties> <!-- Magic JBoss property for specifying the persistence provider --> <property name="jboss.as.jpa.providerModule" value="org.datanucleus"/> <!-- following is probably not useful... but it ensures we bind to the JTA transaction manager...--> <property name="datanucleus.jtaLocator" value="custom_jndi"/> <property name="datanucleus.jtaJndiLocation" value="java:/TransactionManager"/> <property name="datanucleus.autoCreateSchema" value="true"/> <property name="datanucleus.metadata.validate" value="false"/> <property name="datanucleus.validateTables" value="false"/> <property name="datanucleus.validateConstraints" value="false"/> </properties> </persistence-unit> </persistence>


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September 15, 2013
Marijuana and Eyes
I had a patient come in for an exam awhile back. No, I don't think this guy had been smoking marijuana (but you never know). He worked in a marijuana dispensary. Yep, we've got these little businesses all around Denver and Colorado that sell medical marijuana. And soon, there will be legal retail marijuana sales here starting January 1st, 2014. If you want to start a business selling some bud you better get here quickly!
Anyway, the patient said he sees a lot of prescriptions for marijuana used to treat glaucoma. Yeah, right. The National Institutes of Health studied the effects of eye pressure and marijuana use (tetrahydracannibinol, THC) and found that marijuana only provides a few hours of eye pressure reduction. If you want to keep your eye pressure down you have to smoke (or take the equivalent of) 6 or more joints a day. And that pretty much ruins your day I'd say.
But there's more to marijuana and the eyes than trying to treat glaucoma (by the way, see a doctor that doesn't sell marijuana if you have glaucoma). There's the pupil thing. Meaning, people are suspected of being high (on THC) if their pupils are dilated. It may be because they were smoking marijuana but it's possible it wasn't the marijuana that made their pupils dilate. Marijuana users can have different responses and even pupil constriction. It might be something that was added to the marijuana either before they bought it or after. I'll call it an adjuvant. But in reality, the additive might be some other drug or ingredient added for extra effect. And just to say, marijuana is also not necessarily all that organic depending on who grew it but neither are a lot of fruits and vegetables we might buy at the store.
There is an eye/ocular side-effect that is pretty common though and that's conjunctival injection, aka, red eyes. THC is a vasodilator which means it makes blood vessels larger and that can make things redder looking in the eye. Bigger blood vessels, redder eyes. But red eyes could occur just from smoke getting into the eyes or a lot of other things (maybe one of those adjuvants). The over-the-counter drops for getting the red out are called vasoconstrictors. The chemicals in those eye drops constrict blood vessels and make them smaller. Thus, a marijuana user might also be a "get the red out" Visine user (or similar product).
You guys stay tuned to what happens starting next year in Colorado. This will be interesting.


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Fans of Vitamin Water may be disappointed to learn that vitamins may lose potency if stored in water for extended periods of time.
Enter Activate – the only brand of bottled water on the market that has vitamins, antioxidants and other supplements in powder form hidden in the cap, which are released with just one twist, just before drinking. How did this concept come to be?
"Friends Anders Eisner and Burke Eiteljorg were sitting in the Denver airport four years ago. Anders was trying to pour Airborne, a supposed cold-fighting dietary supplement, into a bottle of water. Burke was doing the same with Emergen-C, another vitamin drink mix. Both were making a mess. There had to be a tidier way, they decided."
Activate comes in eight flavors. Some emphasize health and immunity boosters, while others are workout drinks with electrolytes. The drinks contain Stevia, a much healthier alternative to the sugar used in Vitamin Water and other similar beverages. While we applaud the company's innovation and drive to be healthier than most, we still have the problem of plastic bottle waste on our hands. Perhaps Eisner and Eiteljorg wouldn't have made such a mess if they had a wide-mouthed reusable bottle like this Klean Kanteen instead. Moreover, the beverage sells for $1.79 to $2.29 per bottle:
"Some balk at the price, but Holland [the company's president] says, 'If you bought a bottle of water and Emergen-C it would cost you $2.'"
Precisely why we shouldn't be buying bottles of water in the first place! We've said it many times and we'll say it again. Save money with your own supplement packets and/or pills, and fill up your reusable water bottle with filtered tap water instead.


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Good code needs tests.
A project like django CMS simply can't afford to incorporate new code that doesn't come with its own tests.
Tests provide some necessary minimum confidence: they can show the code will behave as it expected, and help identify what's going wrong if something breaks it.
Not insisting on good tests when code is committed is like letting a gang of teenagers without a driving licence borrow your car on a Friday night, even if you think they are very nice teenagers and they really promise to be careful.
We certainly do want your contributions and fixes, but we need your tests with them too. Otherwise, we'd be compromising our codebase.
So, you are going to have to include tests if you want to contribute. However, writing tests is not particularly difficult, and there are plenty of examples to crib from in the code to help you.
There's more than one way to do this, but here's one to help you get started:
# create a virtual environment
virtualenv test-django-cms
# activate it
cd test-django-cms/
source bin/activate
# get django CMS from GitHub
git clone firstname.lastname@example.com:divio/django-cms.git
# install the dependencies for testing
# note that requirements files for other Django versions are also provided
pip install -r django-cms/test_requirements/django-1.4.txt
# run the test suite
It can take a few minutes to run.
When you run tests against your own new code, don't forget that it's useful to repeat them for different versions of Python and Django.
Contributing tests is widely regarded as a very prestigious contribution (you're making everybody's future work much easier by doing so). Good karma for you. Cookie points. Maybe even a beer if we meet in person :)
We have a wide and comprehensive library of unit-tests and integration tests with good coverage.
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Red, the fourth studio album from six-time Grammy Award winner Taylor Swift, was released worldwide just yesterday (October 22nd), and the disc is already notching striking sales numbers and widespread critical acclaim.
Red topped the all-genre Top Albums chart at iTunes within 36 minutes of release, and first day sales at iTunes alone topped 262,000 albums. Taylor scored 13 of the Top 20 songs on iTunes, with the song "Everything Has Changed" taking the #1 position on the all-genre Top Songs chart. Thus far, Red has sold 4.5 million song downloads at iTunes in the U.S. alone. At Target, Taylor's Speak Now album had the highest one-week sales in the retailer's history. Red has now set their record for Day One sales and is on pace to exceed Speak Now's one week results.
Worldwide, Red reached #1 at iTunes on the first day of release in 32 countries, including the UK, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Denmark, Venezuela, Thailand, and Ireland.
With Red, Taylor has set a new Billboard record -- for the most rapid accumulation of 50 Hot 100 hits in history, reaching the milestone just six years and one month after her 2006 chart debut. Aretha Franklin previously held the record, with a stretch of just over 14 years and six months, and Taylor is one of only five women in the 54-year history of the chart to reach this milestone (joining Franklin, Madonna, Connie Francis and Dionne Warwick).
Taylor Swift's Red is also impressive in its widespread critical acclaim, garnering stellar praise from top critics around the globe.
"Taylor Swift is a turbine of artistic ambition and superstar drama, and Red is a 16-song geyser of willful eclecticism. Her self-discovery project is one of the best stories in pop. When she's really on, her songs are like tattoos." – Rolling Stone
"The writer James Dickey once described a poet as 'someone who stands outside in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning.' He could've been talking about Taylor Swift. Sublime…Red should be required listening…'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' is the snarkiest pop kiss-off, like, ever." --Entertainment Weekly
"Taylor Swift's Red burns with confidence. [She] seems to have crossed some sort of emotional threshold [to] the assured words and music of a star. There are no bumps on Red. Only clean, perfectly rendered American popular music." – Los Angeles Times
"Taylor Swift's Red is another winner. What Swift does better than anyone [is] she connects with clear, concise, relatable love songs that are thrown like punches and steeped in everyday details." – The Washington Post
"Red puts Swift the artist front and center with big, beefy hooks that transcend her country roots for a genre-spanning record that reaches heights unseen. Red is her most interesting full-length to date, but it probably won't be when all is said and done in her career." – Billboard
"Fantastic. This is an album she's spent her entire career building toward. Red is, in every conceivable way, her bid for artistic freedom, not only her most mature and accomplished album, but also her most unapologetic. In short, this is her album, on her terms….the album of her (still young) life. Red may be the beginning of her golden age, but really, it only sets the stage for things to come. And I'm willing to bet we'll be amazed by what's next." --MTV News
"It's clear that Red is another chapter in one of the finest fantasies pop music has ever constructed." – The Guardian (UK)
"Swift seems to know just the right phrase to pull you inside her narratives." – The Observer (UK)
"Swift has grown into one of the sharpest songwriters of her generation. Red is all the proof you need. All in all, colour me impressed." – The Sun (Canada)
Taylor is making multiple television appearances this week in support of Red. Her Times Square Concert this morning was the largest in the history of "Good Morning America," and tonight she appears on "The Late Show with David Letterman" (CBS). Tomorrow (10/24) she will be live on ABC's "The View," and on Thursday she will make a special concert appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." On Friday, she will be a guest on ABC's "Katie" with Katie Couric, and on Friday night she will be featured on ABC's "All Access Nashville with Katie Couric – A Special Edition of 20/20." Next week, Taylor will perform on ABC's "Dancing With The Stars" (Tuesday, October 30th) and also on the "41st Annual CMA Awards" (November 1st on ABC).


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This programme is based on one-year two-semesters of orientation and basic courses (core courses), followed by two semesters of specialisation. The last two semesters are devoted to particular streams of specialisations in geography. In addition, the MA/MSc students are required to undertake two field study programmes, one pertaining to a general understanding of the nature of development taking place in the country, the other is an intensive study based on field surveys on different aspects of rural and urban life in the region, on which they write a full paper of project. The evaluation of the students is made at two levels: (a) sessional evaluation (25%) consists of tests, writing of term papers and long essays and semester seminar presentation during the course work of the semester. (b) The external evaluation is made to assess the performance of the students in the final examination, at the end of the semester.


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Scholars tell us that "chesed v'emet" in this passage and others like it is a hendiadys or "a word pair [used] to express a single concept" (Nahum Sarna; JPS Torah commentary). In this view the phrase means "covenant faithfulness," "true kindness," or, as the NJPS translates it, "kindness and faithfulness." Sarna comments, "The combination of terms expresses God's absolute and eternal dependability in dispensing His benefactions."
Accordingly, Yochanan is saying that the Torah comes through Moses, but the character that Torah seeks to develop, the character that reflects God's own character, comes through Yeshua the Messiah. Chesed v'emet—grace and truth—doesn't replace Torah, of course, but describes a consistent character of active kindness that Torah is to form in us. This character is embodied fully in Messiah Yeshua, the living Torah.
In this reading, the two terms reinforce each other, but we can also think of them as contrasting with each other. Usually a hendiadys takes two opposite terms to express a single broad concept. Thus "day and night" means "all the time" (or 24/7 as we'd say nowadays), and "good and evil," as in the story of Garden of Eden, means "everything." The two terms of a hendiadys remain opposites, however, and there's something important to learn from that in the case of chesed and emet.
In real life some folks may be very truthful, but not very kind or loving. Others might be so kind and loving that they're not always truthful. After all, it's hard to be kind and truthful at the same time; to tell someone the truth, or to stand firm for an unpopular truth, in a kind way. As the old saying goes, "the truth hurts," and because of this it can seem unkind. How do you tell people in a kind way that their efforts are misdirected, that their work isn't up to par, or that their judgment in some important matter is questionable? But mussar recognizes that all the middot can be overdone. Chesed v'emet, opposite though they might be, need each other to reach fulfillment.
And that might be just the point—that God is able to combine ultimate chesed and ultimate truth without compromising either. Those who emulate God through mussar will work on combining both, on "speaking the truth in love," as Rav Shaul directs us (Eph. 4:15). Either chesed or truth alone can become imbalanced. Yeshua embodies the balance, and mussar directs us to work on that balance too if we want to follow him.


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Young computer programmer fatally shot during Denver witching hour
Murders in Colorado often have one thing in common: the time of death is within minutes of 2 a.m.
It's not a fluke and it's not surprising to police. It's when bars close up (for now, at least) for the night and intoxicated people must filter out to their cars in the parking lot.
It's when rising Denver Broncos star Darrent Williams was murdered and many other people with no public name recognition like Jason Auguillard were killed. They are often murdered because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
For many years I've worked on Saturdays. I'm the first reporter to arrive in the newsroom and it's usually very quiet here. I scramble to find out if something newsworthy happened overnight so that I can post a story online.
It's never startling to learn, once I hear that there was a murder Friday night, that it happened around 2 a.m. These incidents happen both in rough-and-tumble bars where fights frequently break out, and in exclusive clubs where name recognition is necessary to get you through the front door.
On Jan. 1, 2007, I was in the newsroom when the biggest story I ever covered on a Saturday morning happened.
A promising young Denver Broncos player had been shot and killed overnight near a downtown Denver club called Safari.
Darrent Williams and a group of Broncos players had finished their final game of the 2006 season against the San Francisco 49ers less than 12 hours earlier.
Brandon Marshall, who now plays for the Chicago Bears, was there. The occasion was not only New Year's Eve. It was also a birthday party for Denver Nuggets player Kenyon Martin.
An eclectic group of revelers packed the Safari that night. They included young gangbangers – members of a volatile branch of the Crips street gang called the Tre Tre Crips.
There were angry words exchanged.
A big group of professional athletes and their entourage exited the nightclub and climbed into a rented Hummer limousine.


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Just minutes into the performance of her son's unintelligible symbolist play, her withering comments begin. "He didn't choose any kind of ordinary play," she complains to whoever will listen, "but filled our ears with this decadent drivel." Ouch.
Combining a do-nothing naturalism with trenchant psychological observation, The Seagull has all the potential in the world to lapse onstage into tedious yammering about rubles and valerian drops. In the script, it's a uniquely Chekhovian knack that elevates so much griping among characters to such profound truths about art and life, but the significance could all be lost on a director or performer who doesn't understand how to unpack the material.
A week before opening night, Sobel sat down with me to discuss The Seagull. "In Chekhov's play, every character seems wanting to be understood, or to do something," she explains, "rather than to take in the other characters' needs. It's very human." This, she believes, is the reason Chekhov thought of the play as a comedy. "People actually tell each other in The Seagull who they are and what they want, and they just don't listen, you know?"
Among many appropriate choices in this play, The Seagull isn't staged in period costume. It works because, without those odd old clothes, the audience can build a closer rapport with the characters. Sobel's direction seems clearly focused on substance.
With certain roles, she says, "When you work in that playwright's work you feel like, Oh, I'm home, this is where I live. And Chekhov is that way to me. He makes so much sense to me." In Sobel's hands, The Seagull retains its complexity. It's a troubling examination of how both art and love can tangle the human heart, but one that—somehow—makes a kind of sense.


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Jim Marnoch and his team provided SKF ProActive Reliability Maintenance services. After thorough analysis of the vibration signatures and the damaged bearings, they found a long term solution. SKF NoWear® bearings along with a new sealing arrangement made all the difference, allowing the compressors to run six times longer than previous, and they're still running today. At today's high oil prices, for every breakdown that can be avoided, the platform operator saves tens of million dollars. On top of that, these improvements also reduce health, safety and environmental risks.
It's another great example of knowledge engineering at work.


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So here's a fun end-of-day game from The 700 Level: See how many "celebrities" you can spot in the stands of the NBA All-Star Game over the weekend. No bonus points, sadly, for recently conceived fetuses, just the night before, being mainlined Red Bull through umbilical cords.
(For those already found, try this Flickr page.)
OK, now see if you can find the strippers that were bitten and the bouncers shot. There should be plenty of those too.
How Many Celebs Can You Spot? [The 700 Level]


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Ktoznayet necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 33 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
USME.com - "Its us, its me, use me" (initially http://www.usme.com.au)
Its "Use-me" or "Usme" but either way its a call to action for "us" and "me" to "usme".
SME stands for "Small - Medium - Enterprise" and we're building a new site that offers some great online services for this hard working and dedicated backbone to our economy starting with travel information. To begin, we need a Wordpress based blog or community web site as the essential first step.
I know you've heard it before.... but all being well, the sucessfull designer will see his or her creation as the core to a happy and fresh portal that encourages people who have a small business (or want one to start one) to interact, possibly transact and even hang-out with like minded people..... in fact, people like you.
Unlike the corporate world, our site and identity is about you, people like you who create these great designs as a business. Come and share some knowledge, listen, watch and read about others and their travel experience. Tell others about it.
We start with the consumer or one that is thinking of starting a business or "Joe the plumber" and his hard working office assistant (wife and or partner) that do the work or look after what needs doing. You connect with http://www.usme.com.au, we "know" & support you because we know what you're going through & what you might need.
You're interested in sharing knowledge and information about travel to start with but also anything about small business and the issues. Feel free to tell us what you like or don't like, unload, take a weight off your mind and see if we can help.
Business grows & now you employ a few people, have an office & need to get more support but we're still there with you helping out in a fresh and happy way. Our site is available for you but we're not corporate & still a part of you.. we like to think we've been there ourselves. Some of your staff have now registered as well, we're giving you what you need as simple or as sophisticated as you need it.
We need a Wordpress compatible web page theme supporting community, blogs and social networking for consumers and small business owners.
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- Use logo art attached for branding.
- We like "mimosa yellow" as a wash or background but we're open to other variants. See other attachment for example of usme.com on yellow background.
- Soft red/charcoal or blue accents or highlights are the preferred partners.
- Excessive corporate or cyan blue is no-go and so is overwhelming red.
- Needs to work with current contemporary best practice design, soft, white space, clean, simple.
- Needs to be elegant and lasting rather than cutting edge and hip, with allowance for ongoing evolution.
- Open to suggested accompanying supporting devices like housing the "m" people in a plane.
- Suggest 940x wide, left 2/3 and right 1/3 vertical split with banner, then top menu and possible community strip below that. Feature rolling blog format but also have integrated Twitter, Facebook live feed's, possible YouTube channel. Also RSS, Add This and a ongoing poll function somewhere.
- Key starting menu items are About Us | We Say | Your Say | Contests | Services. Banner should have (preferably in top right) link to site search, register/sign in, your account
Ultimately, it must be inviting, welcoming and happy without being frivolous or too hip.


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|Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
I'm on a flight enroute to Salt Lake City and am thinking about the first time I went to the Family History Library, not all that long ago. I was so happy I thought I'd pop. I felt like a five-year old on Christmas Eve. I was very excited about what I might find, but also a little nervous that it would be so overwhelming that it would take me days to get up to speed. Instead, I read up on it ahead of time and followed what so many sage authors told me to do. I'm not going to reinvent the wheel and go through everything you need to know, but I can point you to others who have already done so.
The old FamilySearch.org has a FAQ page which might answer some of your questions as well.
But let's look first to the bar at the top of that page.
While researching you will be concerned with the first two on the left. Click on FamilySearch to get back to the home page from wherever you are on the site.
If you click on Learn it will bring you to the FamilySearch Wiki. A wiki is like an encyclopedia, with the entries constantly being updated. This is where you go when you have a question and wish you had a live person to ask. It's the next best thing! For instance, I'll be doing some research in the Philippines, so I immediately went to the FamilySearch wiki page on the Philippines to find out what records have been created (and by whom), which ones have been filmed by the FHL, and which ones are available on familysearch.org. This is a tremendous asset to the researcher! So, of course I went to the wiki to learn tips and techniques for researching at the FHL.
Back at the home page you see this:
But what does it feel like to research at the Family History Library?
Like the website, the library itself is deceptively simply in its layout. Upon entering you are greeted by friendly missionaries who are happy to direct you to the correct floor. Do not be concerned that the missionaries will try and convert you on the spot. On the whole I have found them to be extremely courteous and helpful in non-complex genealogical questions, and I think they understand that people are there to work. No one has ever discussed religion with me there. For more complicated questions you can ask someone at the central help desks.
They do have an actual orientation, which can give you a better feel for the layout. Unlike most research facilities, there is no sign-in, no ID required, no research fee. It feels very open and free. So I usually wheel in my briefcase quite early (it opens at 8:00am) and find a good cubicle on the floor I want that day (3-US and Canada books, 2-US and Canada microfilm, 1-Family History books, B1-International and B2-British Isles). The only floor I don't use much is the first floor. My ideal cubicle is dark, has a fine microfilm reader, and enough room for my laptop and a notebook. I lock my computer to the furniture and off I go. You need to buy a copy card if you want to make photocopies, or even better, bring a flash drive and you can download your images directly to that!
|Researchers at the Family History Library's microfilm readers
|Cabinets full of microfilm documents from all over the world
The Thrill
The vast quantity of information contained under that one roof never ceases to amaze me. I frequently think to myself, "Well, I got more Massachusetts research done in Salt Lake City today than I could have in Massachusetts in three days." Why? Because there is no driving time. No waiting while clerks retrieve registers, or order volumes from an off-site location. It makes me feel so efficient! And then, not only can I research in Massachusetts and New England records, but I can go across the world. It's truly amazing. When doing Irish research, the mantra is always, "Do the bulk of your research here in the US, then cross the ocean." When you're in SLC you can do both! You feel like a world traveler. It's a great feeling!


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- Empire of the Stars
- Houghton Mifflin, 320 pp.
The fault, dear Brutus…
Why does it continue to surprise us that scientists can be petty, jealous, and stingy? Adversarial nastiness is all but a given in the fields of politics, law, even invention, but the majesty of cool fact and precise measurement implies a level of fair play that should—we tell ourselves—override human pettiness.
Such is all too often not the case, however.
In Empire of the Stars, Arthur I. Miller, professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London and author of Insights of Genius and Einstein, Picasso, relates an unpleasant event in the early days of astrophysics, and the personalities and science that surrounded it.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar—known by all as "Chandra"—was a 24-year-old graduate student at Cambridge on January 30, 1935 when he gave a 30-minute lecture, ostensibly on white dwarf stars, at the Royal Astronomical Society. His talk included the suggestion that stars of a certain mass, when they burned out, might collapse forever—their gravitation so great that not even light could escape it. The notion had first occurred to him at the age of 19, when he mused on the implications of Einstein's special theory of relativity aboard the ship that took him from his homeland of India to graduate study in England.
When Chandrasekhar finished his talk, the leading figure in British astrophysics rose and demolished the notion. "I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!" Sir Arthur Eddington told the gathering. In other words, Miller writes, the founder of modern astrophysics, and the man best situated to grasp Chandra's theory, declared that if physics could posit such an incredible notion, then physics was wrong.
The concept of what we now call black holes was not utterly new; English natural philosopher John Michell first raised the idea of "dark stars" so powerful that their light could not escape in 1784, and French mathematician and scientist Pierre Simon de Laplace also raised the possibility independently in 1796.
The Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge since 1913, and the director the Cambridge Observatory, Eddington had explained Einstein's relativity to the English scientific community and to the public in general texts still read today. In 1920 he guessed correctly that stars give off light energy because they burn hydrogen, and he first proposed the balance theory of stellar size: that stars stabilize at their given size for most of their lifetimes at the point where the inward pressure of gravity balances the outward pressure of gases and radiation. He also headed the team that observed light bending around the Sun during an eclipse—the first experimental proof of Einstein's theory.
Eddington himself posed the notion of something akin to a black hole in 1926, in his book The Internal Constitution of Stars. A giant such as Betelgeuse, he wrote, twice the size of Earth's orbit around the Sun, might generate a "force of gravitation . . . so great that light would be unable to escape from it, the rays falling back to the star like a stone to the Earth" when it collapsed. "The mass would produce so much curvature of [space] that space would close up around the star, leaving us outside (i.e. nowhere)…."
So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to his own work? The answer seems to have been a little of all these and more, but not one clearly more than the rest.
A problem Miller faces in telling this story, unfortunately, is that Eddington assiduously destroyed all his personal papers almost as soon as he finished with them. Apparently no one took detailed minutes of the meeting, so the event comes down to us through the partial memories of various participants. Then too, Miller (or his publisher) tries to make Eddington's humiliation of a bright young Indian colleague the fulcrum of the story, so that, for one thing, the "climax" of the tale is over with the first chapter, and for another, it strikes one as something of an anticlimax.
True, for the next nine years Eddington took further opportunities to ridicule Chandra and the concept of singularities (where all the matter in a giant collapsed star concentrates at an infinitely shrinking point), and it would be nearly 50 years before Chandrasekhar won the Nobel his work deserved. However, the two men remained professionally cordial: Chandra wrote to his older colleague regularly, and Eddington supported the Indian astrophysicist's nomination to the Royal Society in 1944.
More important, Eddington's ridicule did not utterly destroy Chandra's career: not a few of Chandra's peers, especially in other countries, acknowledged and even accepted his theories within a few years of the debacle at the Royal Astronomical Society, although almost none of them in England was willing to stand up to Eddington on the matter. (This is a tale of herd politics and cowardice among scientists as much as of bullying.) Miller acknowledges that Chandra himself is not above reproach. He held grudges, never forgot a slight, and tended to minimize in memory the quiet support he had received from peers.
Miller notes the ironies of the two men's backgrounds—the "humble Indian" scientist came from a family of highly-educated men and women of science and letters (his mother translated Ibsen into Tamil; an uncle won the Nobel in 1930), while the haughty Cambridge don was born a Quaker and raised by a single mother following his father's death when the boy was only two—but no one really comes alive in his hands. Chandrasekhar's wife, Lalitha, a physics graduate herself who married Chandra for love and devoted her life to his career, was apparently still alive to give Miller background but remains largely a shadowy figure in this drama.
In sum, as Miller himself writes, "This book is the biography of an idea rather than of a man." That is its strength, for non-scientific readers who have not fully grasped the basics of stellar evolution (or enjoy being reminded of them periodically), and how they relate to the structure of nuclear bombs, whose "necessity" in World War II and the Cold War thereafter were partly responsible for bringing Chandra's theories the wider attention they should have enjoyed long before.
Miller takes the reader through the breakthroughs and wrong turns made by various scientists as they developed particle physics and cosmology in the first half of the twentieth century: the discovery of atomic neutrons, electron spin, and the development of a bomb that mimics that machinery of stars. We briefly meet many of the colorful celebrities and spear handlers of that voyage: Ralph Fowler, Henry Norris Russell, Edward Milne, Niels Bohr, Sir James Jeans, George Gamow, Lev Landau, Fermi, Oppenheimer, and Teller. There's also a helpful listing of the cast of characters and a ten-page glossary of physics and astronomy terms in the back.
Perhaps the saddest aspect of the story is not Chandra's humiliation in 1935 and subsequent lonely career, but Eddington's pathetically comical search, after so many milestone discoveries, for a "fundamental theory" of everything that led to an obsession with the "seven primitive constants of physics," the number 137 and its connections to Kabbalah, and an attempt to calculate the total number of electrons and protons in the universe! In this pursuit, he fudged equations, introduced false figures, and fooled with Einstein's theory to get the results he wanted. Eddington became increasingly isolated from his colleagues (which included Chandra, still corresponding respectfully), and died in 1944 of a large stomach tumor that went too long undetected because of his preoccupations and a delay in medical examination due to war casualties being given first priority.
Chandra, on the other hand, found academic refuge in the U.S. at the Yerkes Observatory and Chicago University, eventually received his Nobel, and lived until 1995. So who was ultimately worse off after that weakly fateful 1935 collision between the two men? If anything, Eddington betrayed himself more than he did Chandra.
Empire of the Stars is a solid, if perhaps not stellar, piece of work.


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The iPhone is a multimedia smartphone designed by Apple Inc; announced on January 9, 2007. And on June 19, 2009, the newest iPhone 3GS is available as well. Though lacking of a physical keyboard, iPhone has lots of functions, from universal text messaging, email, to visual voicemail, web browsing, Wi-Fi connectivity, etc, which can be operated via its virtual keyboard. And most important, it's a portable media player. It supports music, audiobook, podcast, application and video. Fun is always with you if an iPhone is in your hands.
So, most iPhone users like to watch movies on this beautiful handset. However, according to iPhone's official page, there are many technical specifications as follows for iPhone video file:
Video Format: MP4, MOV, M4V
Video Size: up to 640x480
Video Framerate: up to 30fps
Video Bitrate: up to 1.5Mbps for H.264, or 2.5Mbps for MPEG-4
Audio: AAC up to 160Kbps, 48kHz
For this reason , if you have an iPhone and want to play DVD movies on it, you need to rip the DVD into suitable video first. Follow below steps to get iPhone playable videos.
Step 1 : need a DVD converter
To convert video for iPhone, you need a DVD ripper. Download and install Any DVD Converter from this link.
Step 2 : select iPhone video format
Launch converter and in the program, select Apple iPhone MPEG-4 Movie from Profile drop down list.
Step 3 : rip DVD
Press Load DVD button to add DVD movie in the program and press Encoding button to convert:
For more configuration details, such as select chapters, choose audio language, set specific length for output file, etc, you can refer to this toolbar
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Step 4 : find output file
Once encoding is finished, click Library button, go to Apple iPhone label. And in the middle window, right click on the converted file and select Reveal In Finder, then you can check this video ready for iPhone in the output folder from the hard drive.
And you're able to set another directory to put converted videos in menu bar Any DVD Converter > Preferences...:
Step 5 : import video into iTunes
Launch iTunes, go to menubar iTunes > File > Add File to Library to import target movie from output folder into iTunes; or just drag and drop the movie into iTunes.
Step 6 : transfer video to iPhone
There are many ways to transfer converted video to iPhone through iTunes after it's connected with your computer via USB cable.
1) Press the Sync button under Summary tab. This will sync the videos as well as other items like music, TV shows, podcasts, audiobook, photos and applications;
2) Under Movies tab, select Sync movies > All movies, and press Sync button;
3) Under Movies tab, select Sync movies > Selected movies, choose the video in the pane, and press Sync button.
Or check this syncing tutorial page to know more on how to sync your devices with iTunes.
After a while, the sync will be complete. Now, check your iPhone:
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Myth Busting: Decanting Wine
Join Riedel Australia's Managing Director Mark Baulderstone and Porteno restaurant group's sommelier Joe Valore as they discuss wine decanting.
In this short video, Mark and Joe discuss:
- Should I decant wine?
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- Which Riedel decanter should I use?
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Open Spaces Plan
The citizens of Lake Oswego have expressed in a variety of formats a clear and strong interest in protecting and expanding those elements that contribute to the natural, cultural and aesthetic health of the community and their perception of Lake Oswego as a "village in a park," a place of physical beauty and respite from expanding regional urbanization.
The Open Space Plan, initiated in the Spring of 2000, represents an effort to consolidate the goals and recommendations expressed in these previous planning efforts, to make them even more comprehensive to suggest implementation strategies and long-term stewardship policies that are understandable and accessible to all citizens and that will guide the City over the next twenty years. The Plan focuses on Open Space issues, and was prepared in coordination with a concurrent Park and Recreation planning effort.
One of the goals outlined in the Open Space Plan: Prioritize and create master plans for each resource site. These plans are necessary to protect the resource while providing the appropriate level of development, and can help guide development, by discussing appropriate land uses, vegetation management and forest management and restoration. Not all resource lands should be actively used. These master plans should include a resource inventory, the delineation of the natural resource boundary and an analysis of impacts of the development to the resource areas. Master plans should also include scaled drawings showing proposed development, including the delineated natural resource boundary.
In 2000/2001 the City went through a Master Planning process for the Bryant Woods, Canal Acres and River Run Parks near the southern boundary of the City. The Master Plan Goals for this project are as follows:
- Protect the environmentally sensitive lands of Bryant Woods, Canal Acres and River Run Parks, consisting of wetlands, stream corridors, and tree groves.
- Improve pedestrian and bicycle routes along Childs Road between Sycamore Avenue and River Run Drive.
- Facilitate safe pedestrian access between all three parks: Bryant Woods, Canal Acres and River Run Park.
- Promote public appreciation of the beauty and ecological complexity of the parks.
- Create enhanced opportunities for wildlife movement in the area.
- Limit impacts of vehicle traffic and parking on surrounding neighborhoods.
- Encourage ease of access to the parks on foot.
- Reduce use of the parks for vandalism and illicit activities through improved security.
- Leave the east section of River Run Park unimproved until a later date.
- Minimize development of park facilities within Canal Acres Park.


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Friction mounts as Israel asks that U.S. give Iran an ultimatum; a tricky position for Obama, whose foreign policy has been lauded. NBC's Andrea Mitchell and CNBC's John Harwood report.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought Sunday to assume a more neutral posture toward the American presidential election, distancing himself from Mitt Romney's suggestion that President Barack Obama has thrown Israel "under the bus."
The Israeli prime minister, appearing Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," downplayed longstanding indications of pressure between himself and Obama and urged more bipartisanship from Americans in support of the Jewish state. Netanyahu told moderator David Gregory that his primary concern was preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, not influencing the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
To that end, Netanyahu said that Romney's accusation about Obama having essentially abandoned Israel on the world stage was "simply not the case and simply not my position."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discusses violence against Americans in the Middle East with NBC's David Gregory.
"There's no bus, and we're not going to get into that discussion," Netanyahu said of Romney's charge, which the GOP presidential nominee first made in May of 2011 following a speech by the president calling on Israel to return to pre-1967 border lines as part of peace negotiations with Palestinians.
Romney has used Israel to distinguish himself most sharply from Obama in the arena of foreign policy. The Republican nominee visited Israel during a stop on his trip abroad this summer, and is generally seen as more sympathetic to Israel's hawkish stance toward Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his press conference with the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Israel, on 02 February 2010.
Moreover, the relationship between Obama and Netanyahu is generally regarded as tense, a charge which the Israeli prime minister rejected.
"I'm always pleased and happy to have a conversation with President Obama," said Netanyahu, downplaying reports that Obama had allegedly sought to avoid meeting with the prime minister during the upcoming U.N. General Assembly in New York. "We've had our discussions; our schedules on this visit didn't work out … but we continue to be in close consultations."
David Gregory analyzes a special hour of Meet the Press featuring interviews with US Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice; and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
For all of Netanyahu's pleas, though, he has become a central figure in the U.S. presidential election. Romney seized upon the alleged snub during a fundraiser in New York on Friday.
"I thought the president's decision not to meet with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu was an extraordinary confusing and troubling decision," said Romney, whose relationship with Netanyahu dates back to their shared days at Boston Consulting Group. "I don't know what the president is trying to send to the world in terms of a message but it does send a message. It sends a message not just to Israel but to the other nations throughout the Middle East."
A Meet the Press roundtable discusses recent upheaval in the Middle East and how the United States intends to respond.
Netanyahu himself argued his agitations toward Iran weren't meant to coincide with the American election.
"What's guiding my statements is not the American political calendar but the Iranian nuclear calendar," he said. "It's really not a partisan political issue."
The political fighting over Israel plays out against a broader backdrop in which Iran is reportedly advancing in its development of a nuclear weapon; the U.S. also suffered four casualties — including Ambassador Christopher Stevens — this week in Libya after protesters stormed a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Other embassies suffered turmoil, and the State Department on Saturday ordered family and non-emergency personnel evacuated from posts in Sudan and Tunisia.
Those developments have injected foreign policy into the center of the U.S. presidential election as Obama tries to quell protests against American embassies related to an amateur video mocking Islam. After the attack in Benghazi, Romney controversially pounced and suggested the administration's condemnation of the video was tantamount to "an apology for America's values."
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, also appearing Sunday on "Meet the Press," termed that accusation a "vacuous charge of weakness."
"I think the American people welcome strong, steady unified leadership — bipartisan in times of challenge," she said.


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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Day Recipe Idea Under 200 Calories. Poached Egg With Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus Soldiers.
For me one of the first signs that Spring has well and truly arrived is the appearance of plump, emerald green spears of sweet and tender new season asparagus. I love nothing better than to swaddle them in salty prosciutto. … Continue reading
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Diet Recipe Idea Under 300 Calories. Kale and Bacon Frittata Dressed With a Fresh Kale and Fennel Salad.
One of the easiest and most satiating 5-2 fast day meal ideas has to be frittata. Whisk a few eggs and generously fill your skillet with any variety of seasonal produce and a little cheese. The possibilities are endless, bounded … Continue reading
Easter Long Weekend Brunch. Caramelised Apple Dutch Baby Pancakes.
This week has been a frantic whirlwind of activity. With Easter coinciding with the end of school term holidays, I'm looking forward to having all my family under one roof and getting away for a long weekend break. There will … Continue reading
Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Diet Recipe Idea Under 100 Calories. Soft Cauliflower Tortillas.
These appeared on my instagram account a few weeks ago topped with grilled halloumi and a kale tabbouleh. A fast day experiment in the kitchen using the contents of my fridge – a head of cauliflower and remnants of a … Continue reading
Posted in Baked, Small Bites, Vegetarian, What I Love to Cook Tagged 5:2 Diet, Autumn, Cauliflower, Eggs, Fast Diet, Gluten free, Healthy, Tortilla, Turmeric, Vegetarian, Wraps 9 Comments
Happy Hiking. Little Carrot Muffin Loaves With A Streusel Topping.
It's been way too hot and humid to contemplate turning on the oven and baking for quite some time now. Today I've only relented as my girls have an upcoming hike for their Duke Of Edinburgh award scheme. I feel … Continue reading
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Diet Recipe Idea Under 400 Calories. Sweet Potato And Green Bean Frittata With Smoked Salmon.
Happily I can report that Week One back on the 5-2 bandwagon was an overwhelming success, even after a long ten week hiatus. In the scheme of things, I've always found Mondays to be particularly easy; a welcome respite and … Continue reading
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Lovely And Light. Savoiardi. Italian Sponge Finger Biscuits.
Light and airy savoiardi have long been a personal favourite of mine. Dating way back to the fourteenth century, this Piedmontese speciality was invented when the Duke of Savoy, Amedeo VI, asked his pastry chef to create something delicate and … Continue reading
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On 5-2 fast days when I'm feeling hungry I invariably turn to eggs. Low in calories and a wonderful source of protein, they pack a powerful punch, helping keep me feeling fuller for longer. Easily taking care of any pesky, … Continue reading
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Eat, Fast and Live Longer. A 5-2 Fast Diet Recipe Idea Under 300 Calories. Egg Salad With Dijon Mustard Vinaigrette.
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From My Kitchen Pantry. Rich and Luscious Crème Pâtissière.
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A graduate of the Gdańsk Ballet High School. After graduating he worked at the Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz and in 1999 he moved to the Baltic Opera where he made his debut with the role of Mercutio in Profokiev's Romeo and Juliet.
Ever since 2006 he has been a soloist of the Baltic Dance Theatre. On the Baltic Opera Stage he play the Boy in …from heaven, Peter in Peter and the Wolf, Gamacheo in Don Quixote, Hilarion in Giselle, Tancerzyk Jerzyk in Abecadło and well as the Messenger in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva padrona.
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Storage space, hitches, and racks are a shortcoming of the Roadster.
On many occassions I've wished there were a rear deck rack where I could strap a suitcase to go to/from the airport or pick something up.
If fairness, the Roadster isn't built to carry cargo, it's a sports car. It's designed to go fast and look good doing it :)
This isn't my Tesla, but was webpage URL sent to me when asked the same question. Installing a receiver hitch on Tesla.
Dragged out my old 2004 Prius receiver hitch (made by Curt) and was looking at some options for mounting it to the Roadster. Unlike the hitch on forestmoon.com, I'm not too keen on using the stabilizer bar mounts. Or having the receiver inlet right next to the rear impact sensor. But there might be a way to put a couple heavy steel plates in the trunk and run some bolts down to tie things together. I'll be working on it. A bike rack is just the beginning - Ideally I'd like to be able to carry a stand-up paddleboard!
If anyone is planning to go to the mountains with your skis, driving your Tesla Roadster, be sure it isn't going to snow and carry chains just in case it does. Why the Tesla is not 4WD or AWD is probably due to the additional expense of equiping each wheel with a motor and computer control. The technology exists.
It's more because of limitations with the speed controllers & integrating them. It also drains the battery a little faster.
AWD and 4WD is for off-road, 2WD is more than enough for snow covered roads.
Just doing a quick Google search: 4WD/AWD seems to have appeared on most cars within the last 5 years, and then mostly on SUVs. I don't know of any sports type car (Corvette, BMW, Jaguar, smaller Mercedes, Maserati, Ferrari) that has it.
In my experience,I drove in 4-8 inches of snow in the Ozarks (Missouri small mountains) for years with front wheel drive and never (as in NEVER) got stuck. Spinning out from driving too fast, maybe.
For years and years and years, farmers got to town in winter, over unplowed gravel roads, in a pickup. Usually with an additional few hundred pounds of weight over the rear wheels
It was interesting to note that Jaguar, in its "Tech talks" says "4WD makes no difference above 15 mph".
And it seems that the main push behind 4WD is advertising, getting people to want the newest thing, and believing it will actually make them better drivers. Sort of like ads of soccer moms driving Hummers.
@ecam - 4wd is not needed on mainained roads period. It's mainly used for off-road situations. 4wd is basically a false sense of security on maintained snowy roads.
The Porsche Carrera has optional 4wd. Standard on Audi R8/RS6. There are definitely good sports cars that have it.
I can see how 4wd could be useful to get more traction for acceleration than 2wd, however, I can also see how it could be very difficult to develop controllers for it with Roadster that has smaller front wheels than rear wheels.
I'm glad Tesla went simple though, that enabled them to get cars on the road sooner.
Maybe some day, we can see independent motors on all 4 wheels with electronic differential, yaw, and traction control. That will sort of be the ultimate driving machine - sorry BMW.
Best solution would be some lightweight material hub-motors in all four wheels that work as brakes when braking and motors when accelerating. That removes need for any kind of axles, but unfortunately hub-motors tend to weight quite a bit which increases unsprung weight too high.
Heavy trucks and other vehicles like that unsprung weight doesn't matter that much and for military vehicles having freedom of movement on suspension & very easy way to do AWD for more than four-wheel vehicles would be priceless (as well as smaller heat signature and much less noise for detection). Also losing one engine still leaves seven working one for eight-wheeled vehicles.
It would be slick if Tesla could provide some easily concealed threaded hard points (like camera tripod mounts) for a proprietary roofrack fit. I have every intention to take the S to ski destinations. I would hate to sully the lines with an ugly black steel and plastic aftermarket rack...
These guys can put a class II hitch on a Roadster, but you have to drive the car to their Bellevue shop:
The people that make the "Kappasphere" rack for the Solstice say they will have a Tesla version at sector111.com in a couple of months: http://www.kappasphere.com/products/lifestyle/accessories/luggage_rack.cfm
The "boot bag" is available now: http://www.boot-bag.com. Some owners have ordered the "Elise, Vintage and Supercar" model and are happy with it.
Jack, did you get a hitch from Manns Hitch? Are you happy with the quality and how it's mounted? Do you mind giving a ballpark price? I don't imagine (?) it's really good for towing, but you can probably carry a bike rack or cargo pod...or paddle board.
Is it really class II? There's not a lot of mounting points under there, I would assume it's just class I.


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