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Verizon Business has joined with China Telecom and China Netcom to build a next-generation fibre optic link between China and the US.
The Trans-Pacific Express will feature over 11,000 miles of cable and boast 60 times the capacity of the existing connection: initially carrying 1.23 Tb/sec (terabits per second) then ramping up to 5.12 Tb/sec over time.
More importantly it is indicative of the increased importance attributed to the Chinese digital economy.
"This state-of-the-art cable ... further recognizes the emergence of China as a diverse communications hub for Asia, and reflects our company's commitment to help U.S. and other global companies compete worldwide." said Fred Briggs, Verizon Business executive vice president of operations and technology.
Other investors in the $500m project are China Unicom, Korea Telecom and Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan), who share the belief that faster Pacific links will be vital to both sides in the coming years.
The cable will land on the US West Coast at Nedonna Beach, Oregon, and on the China mainland at Qingdao and Chongming, when it is completed around the end of 2008.®


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Northern Vermont is a great place to live. If you are considering a move to the North Country, you are not alone. In the past 10 years, the region, defined as the northern half of the state, has become a favorite spot for people looking for a great place to live and work, while surrounded by one of the world's most spectacular landscapes. Whether your preference is to live near the water in the Lake Champlain Valley, the city of Burlington, the mountains of Stowe or the wide open spaces of the Northeast Kingdom, none will disappoint.
Don't just take our word on how livable the region is. With the beautiful and outdoors-action-packed backdrop of the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain, Northern Vermont tops many "Bests" lists and is frequently recognized for its livability and overall quality of life. The state's relatively small population and land area make for easy community immersion as well as a postcard-worthy commute. Small town friendliness is met with a bustling college city vibe complete with a thriving arts and culture scene. (Northern Vermont boasts 8 colleges and universities) But far more than just a beautiful place to live, there are plenty of opportunities to find an even more peaceful pace in the surrounding forests, farm valleys, mountain towns and lakeside villages.
Love where you work. Employers include the University of Vermont, UVM Medical Center, Global Foundries, Keurig, Dealer.com to name just a few. The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well within the ever growing Locavore movement and microbrew industry with more than a few local products gaining national acclaim.
If you love skiing, there are numerous options for you in Northern Vermont. Stowe, Smuggler's Notch, Jay Peak & Q Burke Mountain Resort are among the best places in the Northeast to go. There are also great trails for cross-country skiing and snowmobiling. Vermont's Northeast Kingdom has one of the best trail systems in the world, known as Kingdom Trails, an impressive multi-use network of miles of scenic recreational trails.
Is water your thing? Northern Vermont is home to many freshwater lakes and ponds and are among its most treasured resources. The largest lakes are Lake Champlain and Lake Memphremagog, which were gouged out of the rock by glaciers and are known for great boating, swimming, camping and excellent cold water fishing. And for those hardy souls, there are plenty of locations to ice fish and plenty of rinks to skate.
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Michael Hanel has provided us with a book name file that includes most of, if not all the book names used in the resources available at the unofficial BibleWorks blog.
I have translated parts of this file into Danish. You are welcome to download it from my blog at
Of course, it would be nice if all book names were translated. If you translate more book names in this file, I would be happy to update the file for download.
I will add one or two files later that can be used for localizing the Outline Heading at the top of the Browse window.


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Size is approx 11cm x 5cm wide and fitted with a crocodile clip.
Please note we keep a wide range of jewellery & accessories for immediate dispatch.
If we need to order your item in, this is still shipped to you within 5 days.
Please feel free to order online for free UK delivery, we have a wide range of accessories also available which we have not yet uploaded onto Etsy, so please contact us if you are looking for something specific
All our jewellery & accessories come beautifully presented in tissue paper & gift box
All our jewellery & accessories come beautifully presented in tissue paper
Due to the current crisis, deliveries can take up to 3 weeks to arrive, this does not apply to any items we have in stock, we will update each order individually as to delivery times within 24 hrs.
All items are now sent 1st Class Signed for
Due to the large volume of orders for jewellery & accessories we have opened another Etsy store dedicated to Bridal Jewellery & Accessories, and will slowly be moving the relevant items over to the new store as well as adding a wider range.
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Codelocks CL4510 smart lock makes access control easier, offering flexibility and convenience by providing a range of entry methods including the use of pushbutton code, smart card or smartphone, enabling users to choose the most suitable access method.
Program locks via a smartphone, generate and send entry codes for easy access and issue smart cards for alternative entry...read more.
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My, how you've grown. You were only this tall *gestures randomly somewhere around my knees* last time I saw you.
Okay, so maybe it's only been a few days. But! But, my lovelies, it has been a whole twenty-two thousand, six hundred and three words since we last spoke. I will win NaNo and finish a novel this month, even if it kills me--and means I have to repeat tenth grade from beyond the grave.
22,603. Nearly halfway there.
My novel this month is feeling a little silly. It's about a girl named Cassie who reads tarot cards in her spare time; a boy named Jude who's parents are addicts; an evil organization (because every good novel needs one!) called the VI who capture people with magical energy and bind their souls into rings that give the wearer "unspeakable powers."
*Deep breath* aaaand I've barely even touched on the plot. So far, I have a lot of drawn out dialogue, and unnecessary descriptions. I never really understood what people meant by saying, "Oh, well, the story doesn't really get going till page thirty..."
NaNo this year has meant a whole lot of missed homework, sleep deprivation, and rambling conversations with my support group (AKA other kids at school crazy--I mean, determined--enough to attempt NaNoWriMo this year) about my unoriginal ideas.
I have a funny feeling that this is like, the calm before the storm. That, even if I do finish NaNo and (oh my gosh I hope so) finish a novel, I'll have strained myself to the point that I will suffer a complete and utter mental breakdown in the days leading up to Christmas.
Did I mention I'm playing trumpet in the pit band for our town's musical (On the Town) this year?
Did I mention our annual sale is coming up at "the bookstore" meaning mucho hours and little sleep?
DID I MENTION HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (part one) IS COMING OUR NOVEMBER 19th?!
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Chaotic212_MS - Friday 06/08/2010, 12:18
Titan - 144 Magnolia Screet
Hey, ive been playing UR for a very long time, and i still fail to understand how, ten minutes into a tournament, i see someone with 100 points.... even when i play well i only manage like 150... i could use some basic tips.. im already using some low level cards, trying to have more life and pills at the end... it seems like even if i do the things that increase your points during tourney hours i cant keep up.. what is it?
Rage - Friday 06/08/2010, 14:40
Titan - Limit Break
You've got the basics down, but in DT the one thing you need to keep in mind is the amount of matches your squeezing into the hour. If your only getting around 10-15 matches in, your taking too long for your matches. Most of the DT players are going for quick games/2hko and are ideally trying to squeeze in around 26-32 matches in the hour.
Yes, even if you are playing non-random, you still need a little luck and quick opponents to get to that range of games played.
When I first started playing DTs' seriously I set 350 points as my goal. So your looking at around 87-89 points every 15 minutes. 350 got me into the top 10 consistently. Once your comfortable with that, reset your goal to 100 points every 15 minutes. That should net you around 400 points by the end of the hour.
Nothing is guarenteed in DT, and with your opponents also having this general knowledge means that if you really want to win a dt, you have to play play play! The more you play, the more consistent you'll get.
Good luck.
Coldberg - Monday 09/08/2010, 23:32
Titan - URBAN MADNESS
So much wrongness i nthe second post in this thread. During a DT bonus points are limited to a maximum of 2 per fight.
You gain bonus points for winning with over 12 life points, winning by KO & 2 for every pill you have left.
In a DT you could win 14-0 & have 14 pills but you would still only get 2 bonus points.
In short, read the rules about daily tournaments.


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DUBLIN, Ohio, May 16, 2013—Skip Prichard, an experienced senior executive in the information services market, has been named the next OCLC President and CEO.
Mr. Prichard has led multi-national organizations that serve libraries across the full spectrum of library services and content needs. Most recently, he was President and CEO of Ingram Content Group Inc., which provides a broad range of physical and digital services to the book industry. Prior to his service at Ingram, he was President and CEO of ProQuest Information and Learning, a respected global publisher and information provider serving library, education, government and corporate markets with offices around the world.
Mr. Prichard will succeed Jay Jordan, who will retire June 30 after 15 years as OCLC President and CEO. Mr. Prichard will serve as OCLC President-elect, effective June 3, and will officially become President and CEO on July 1.
"Skip Prichard is a proven leader with an outstanding record of accomplishment," said Sandy Yee, Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees, and Dean, Wayne State University Libraries and School of Library and Information Science. "He has guided leading library services organizations through eras of significant change, from print to electronic and from local to global. His experience and commitment to libraries will help us continue our work to move library services and cooperation forward—in the cloud, on mobile devices and through the collaborative work of libraries and partners around the world."
"OCLC has a long tradition of strong leadership and vision, and I consider myself fortunate to have the opportunity to lead the cooperative into what promises to be an exciting and challenging future," said Mr. Prichard. "OCLC and member libraries are using the newest technologies available to move library services to the cloud where they continue to collaboratively build resources and infrastructure to share. I look forward to working with the talented OCLC staff and membership to ensure that we build on that momentum, and provide the resources necessary for libraries and librarians around the world to meet and exceed the increasing expectations of their users."
Mr. Prichard joined Ingram in 2007 as Chief Operating Officer. He was named President and CEO of Ingram Content Group in January 2008, and served through June 2012. Ingram Content Group is a $1.5 billion global group of companies with more than 3,000 employees that provide physical and digital books, music and media to over 35,000 retailers, libraries, schools and distribution partners around the world. Ingram Content Group includes Ingram Book Group, Lightning Source, VitalSource, Ingram Periodicals, Spring Arbor, Ingram Publisher Services, Ingram Transportation, Ingram Library Services, Tennessee Book Company and Coutts Information Services.
From October 2005 to April 2007, he was President and CEO of ProQuest Information and Learning (PQIL), an organization with 1,200 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He also held posts at PQIL as General Manager and Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing from April 2003 to October 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Prichard held a number of executive positions with LexisNexis, where as Vice President he provided business information and risk management solutions to global corporations, libraries and other organizations.
Mr. Prichard received his Bachelor of Science degree from Towson State University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. More than 74,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.


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What's taking Brink so long? Why won't this ambitious, complex first-person shooter come out already? We've already seen and enjoyed its "SMART" approach to speeding through levels and over obstacles. We've been impressed by the detail of the futuristic Ark and Brink's teamwork-focused gameplay.
Recently, we got a deeper look at what else Splash Damage's shooter Brink has to offer, this time from a more posh perspective, where we were rich with guns and fighting in finer conditions.
Now, I've played through its previously featured mission before, one set in an area called Container City. That level, a makeshift environment built from corrugated metal, shipping containers and refuse, sees players escort an engineering robot through a winding path. Guard that 'bot, eliminate opposing Security forces and recover a bioweapon, all while enjoying a constant stream of experience points doled out while shooting bad guys and performing key and secondary objectives.
Kotaku's own Stephen Totilo has seen that level twice, played by Brink's developers, then by himself.
We dug in a little differently this time. We had full access to the game's suite guns and character options. Poring over the in-game arsenal, I flicked through a dizzying array of rifles, shotguns, pistols, stocks, sights and clips, as well as some cosmetic tweaks to each. Everything was unlocked and it was too much to take in at once—but I suppose that's hopeful news for the game's longevity, if unlockable content interests you.
We played through Container City again, just to warm up. I played as an Engineer, dropping auto-firing turrets to help my comrades, repairing the broken escort robot once or twice. I played it as a Medic and Soldier, as well, swapping my classes at one of the game's terminals. I deployed health upgrades and raised fallen comrades as a Medic, passed out ammunition to my struggling teammates as a Soldier. We won. I walked out of there with the bioweapon in hand, speeding toward the exit with my lighter, faster Agile-sized medic.
There's always something to occupy one's time with in Brink, whether it's completing a mission or supporting your team with health and weapon boosts. Bring up the mission wheel with the controller's d-pad and find someone to help, something to do.
After playing as the game's Resistance side once more, we switched to an all-new level, a gleaming, sleek office complex that looked distinct from the chaos of Container City.
This time, instead of winding through the hidden alleyways of Brink's war torn ghettos, we were moving through carefully planned architecture, up stairs and occasionally through blown out holes in the floor. We moved from brightly lit offices to open, airy hallways, map design that lent the level a very different feel from what we'd played previously.
Our mission was to extract and protect a prisoner—another escort mission, only this time the bounty was flesh and blood. Our team of eight fought against waves of Security forces as we guided our prisoner, armed feebly with a pistol, to an elevator. He went down numerous times, with our team's medics coming to his aid as he limped along—so slowly—to his escape route.
As we fought wave after wave, respawning again and again, some of Brink's more unique characteristics started to show themselves. Where other team-based first-person shooters sometimes feel singularly focused in their objectives, Brink is always throwing new optional ones at you. Those objectives can be easily managed with a pop-up wheel menu, which adds to the visual complexity of its interface. Where other video games go for HUD-less display, Brink's sometimes feels like looking at an airplane's instrumental panel. There's a great deal to take in, making Brink feel like a game for first-person experts.
It's also flooding you with a constant stream of XP, sometimes feeling like points are rewarded at a per bullet level. You may find yourself (or your teammates) easily distracted from your main objective.
Finally, I'd played a version of Brink at Gamescom in Germany last year on the PC, an experience I recall being visually rich, noticeably smooth. This version (played on a PlayStation 3) was far less impressive, with a less sturdy frame rate and lower visual detail.
Brink is coming to the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on May 17 in North America. Hopefully, all three versions will impress visually when they arrive.


text: USL First Division Playoff Round-Up September 17, 200712:00AM PDT Previous Next Seattle Sounders joined Portland Timbers, Atlanta Silverbacks, and Puerto Rico Islanders in the USL First Division playoff semifinals. An intriguing weekend of quarterfinal action saw some surprising results, with Canada's two USL-1 clubs in Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps seeing their seasons come to a premature end on Sunday. Seattle took a step closer towards the championship after disposing of the expansion Carolina RailHawks in their two-leg tie. Brian Schmetzer's side effectively sealed their passage through in the first game on Friday, as goals by Zach Scott and Andre Schmid gave the Sounders a 2-0 win in Cary, North Carolina. A late Leighton O'Brien penalty in the second leg at Seattle's Qwest Field sealed a 3-0 aggregate win for the Sounders, as the Railhawks finished Sunday's game with nine men after David Stokes and Joey Worthen were sent off in The Emerald City. Montreal also had designs on claiming their first league title since 2004, but their season came to an abrupt end after Puerto Rico overturned a one-goal deficit to reach the semis. The Impact's decision to play the first leg at home on Friday backfired, as they could only claim a slim 3-2 victory over Colin Clarke's side. It proved to be the last game at the Claude Robillard Sports Complex for Montreal, as Nick De Santis' squad succumbed to a surprise 3-0 defeat in Puerto Rico on Sunday, with the Islanders advancing 5-3 on aggregate. Like Puerto Rico, Atlanta have been another dark horse side in USL-1 this season. Despite facing last year's championship finalists in Rochester Raging Rhinos, Jason Smith's side made the last four with a 3-2 aggregate success. The clinching game was Friday's first leg in Georgia, as Warren Ukah and Anthony Wolfe helped the Silverbacks to a 2-1 win over the Rhinos. It was Atlanta's first win in the postseason as a USL-1 club. With the second leg at PAETEC Park on Sunday, Laurie Calloway's side needed a performance to turn the tie around. Instead, Atlanta earned a 1-1 draw in Upstate New York to secure their place in the semis. The last semifinal spot went to Portland, who dispatched of Pacific Northwest rivals Vancouver with a 3-1 aggregate success. Despite Jason Jordan giving the 2006 USL-1 champions a one-goal lead after scoring the winner in the first game at Swangard Stadium, goals by former Whitecaps defender Justin Thompson, Timbers captain Andrew Gregor, and substitute Jaime Ambriz gave Portland a 3-0 win at PGE Park on Sunday and their place in the next round. USL-1 playoff action returns on Friday, as Seattle take on Puerto Rico, while Portland face Atlanta. The Sounders will travel to the Caribbean to face the Islanders in the first leg before hosting Clarke's side at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, Washington for Sunday's second leg. Qwest Field will not be available to the Sounders, as the NFL's Seattle Seahawks play host to Cincinnati Bengals that same day. Portland travel to Atlanta for their first game with the Silverbacks on Friday night before both clubs return to The City of Roses for the second leg on Sunday afternoon. "Atlanta are a strong team going forward," Timbers head coach Gavin Wilkinson told whitecapsfc.com last Sunday. "We'll take each game as it comes, as every game is a final now. We've got to earn the right to go to the next round, so we'll keep our fingers crossed." Previous Next


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Upstart CIA drama "Homeland" took home four Emmys Sunday night including the coveted best drama award, a win that prevented "Mad Men" from earning that statue for what would have been a history-making fifth time in a row.
The night's other big winners were "Modern Family," which again dominated the comedy awards, and the Sarah Palin drama "Game Change," which ruled the miniseries/movies categories.
"Homeland," about a bipolar CIA agent who suspects an ex-POW Marine of being an Al Qaeda operative, won best drama; best writing for a drama honors for Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff; best actress for Claire Danes; and best actor for Damian Lewis.
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"I'm one of those pesky Brits, apologies," said "Homeland" star Damian Lewis in accepting the best actor in a drama prize. "I don't really believe in judging art, but I thought I'd show up just in case. Turned out all right."
And Claire Danes got a round of Internet buzz as she thanked her co-stars, calling out, "Mandy Patinkin, holla."
"Mad Men" had come into the night hoping to become the first series ever to win best drama five years in a row. The night was actually a shut-out for the fan and critical favorite. Jon Hamm lost in the best actor race for a fifth year in a row, and Elisabeth Moss also lost in the best supporting actress character.
But it was another good night for "Modern Family," the groundbreaking multi-generational look at the changing shape of the American family, which dominated the 2011 Emmys.
Eric Stonestreet of "Modern Family" took home the first prize of the night, winning best supporting actor in a comedy, followed shortly by co-star Julie Bowen in the parallel category and director Steve Levitan took the award for best direction of a comedy series and capped off the show with the win for best comedy series.
"I want to thank Jesse Tyler Ferguson, there's no Cam without Mitch," said Stonestreet in accepting his award. He'd previously won the same award in 2010. Co-star Ty Burrell won the award last year.
"Game Change," the HBO movie about John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate, won four awards, including best miniseries or movie, best writing for Danny Strong, best director for Jay Roach and best actress for Julianne Moore.
"I feel so validated because Sarah Palin gave me a big thumbs down," said Moore.
Louis CK, who came into the night with seven nominations, more than anyone, won best writing for a comedy series and another award -- outstanding writing for a variety special -- for his "Live at the Beacon Theater" special.
"Thank you, I wanted another of these, so that's nice," said CK as he held his second trophy aloft.
Jessica Lange of "American Horror Story: Asylum," who won best supporting actress in a miniseries or movie, thanked the show's creator, Ryan Murphy, who she said, "made me more promises, I have to admit, than any man I've ever met."
Oscar-winner Kevin Costner picked up his first Emmy, for best actor in a miniseries or movie, for his work in "Hatfields & McCoys," and co-star Tom Berenger won best supporting actor, in which he played a character he called "a cross between a raccoon with rabies, and a demented garden Gnome."
The awards show was faster-paced than in years past and host Jimmy Kimmel kept things light by having his parents kicked out of the theater; getting Tracy Morgan to pretend to pass out on stage and asking the audience to write about it on Facebook; and having old friend Josh Groban serenade him.
The show also featured a great bit that combined "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Breaking Bad," ending with Don Knotts going down in a hail of bullets.
Seth McFarlane suffered the most awkward moment of the night. He walked on stage to present the award for best host of a reality competition show, only to realize he had missed his mark and wasn't being picked up my a microphone.
"That's what happens when you don't show up for rehearsal," said McFarlane in the voice of Stewie from "Family Guy," once he found his mark.
Other highlights:
Melissa McCarthy, with help from Mindy Kaling, sexual harassed every nominee for best actor in a comedy before announcing that Jon Cryer of "Two and a Half Men" had won. It was Cryer's first time being nominated as a lead, after six consecutive supporting actor nods for playing second banana to Charlie Sheen.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the third Emmy of her legendary TV career, taking the award for best actress in a comedy, for her work on HBO's "Veep." She's now won Emmys as a regular on three different shows, also taking prizes for "Seinfeld" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine."
Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad" won for the second time won best supporting actor for his role as a meth dealer, thanking the writers for not killing off his character, as they had originally planned.
Maggie Smith won for best supporting actress in a drama for her role as the Dowager on "Downton Abbey," and Tom Van Patten took home best director for "Boardwalk Empire."
"The Daily Show" won the award for best Variety, Music or Comedy series, the 10th time in a row Jon Stewart's show won the prize.
Winners List
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Jon Cryer, "Two and a Half Men"
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Julie Bowen, "Modern Family"
Outstanding Reality Competition Program
"The Amazing Race"
Outstanding Directing, a Comedy Series
"Modern Family", Steven Levitan ("Baby on Board")
Outstanding Writing, a Comedy Series
"Louie", Louis C.K. ("Pregnant")
Outstanding Host, a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Tom Bergeron, "Dancing with the Stars"
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad"
Outstanding Writing, a Drama Series
"Homeland", Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff ("Pilot")
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"
Outstanding Directing, a Drama Series
"Boardwalk Empire", Timothy Van Patten ("To the Lost")
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Damian Lewis, "Homeland"
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special
Louis C.K., "Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theatre"
Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story: Asylum"
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Tom Berenger, "Hatfields & McCoys"
Outstanding Writing, a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
"Game Change," Danny Strong
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Julianne Moore, "Game Change"
Outstanding Directing, a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
"Game Change," Jay Roach
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Kevin Costner, "Hatfields & McCoys"
Outstanding Miniseries or Made, Television Movie
"Game Change"
Outstanding Drama Series


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After a looooooooot of time, I got my hands dirty with Visual Basic 6 and created this little but very useful software named Pak SMS Messenger. You can use this software to send SMS messages to just about any network of Pakistan absolutely free.
As far as I am concerned, I rarely use this software because I don't send SMS messages usually but this software is definitely going to be useful for those who send hundreds of messages on the regular basis like some of my friends wasting a lot of time, money and possibly energy in sending a host of messages to their girl friends on the daily basis.
Another more useful aspect of this is when there is somebody living abroad and wants to send messages. If they have a registered SIM here in Pakistan, they can send you messages through their registered SIMs by specifying their number in From field of the software.
The software actually sends the SMS messages through the service of sms4mobile.com. In fact, I did not take the permission from them (sorry for that) and used their service to create this software but in a way, I am sort of promoting their service because with each message that you send with this software, there is a text at the bottom of that message showing that this message was sent through sms4mobile.com. Anyways, thanks to very useful service of them.
So go ahead and have some FuN time 🙂
Note: This software seems to work currently. If sms4mobile.com changes something in their service, it might not work then.


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Gispen - Arper - Buzzispace - Peter van de Water
In 1994 Peter van de Water graduated in Architecture Design from St. Joost Art Academy in Breda. He opened his design studio Internal Affairs in 1999 and focuses on interior and furniture design.
His designs stand out by their intelligent simplicity.
De ontwerpen van Peter van de Water onderscheiden zich door hun intelligente eenvoud.


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UiPerformance Plugin Plugin Collection
compile "org.grails.plugins:ui-performance:1.2.2"
grails install-plugin ui-performance
UI Performance PluginThe UI Performance Plugin addresses some of the 14 rules from Steve Souders and the Yahoo performance team.
Starting with version 1.2 the plugin is enabled in all environments, including development. See the discussion below about the 'enabled' config attribute for how to disable it for development.
InstallationTo integrate the plugin into your application just run the 'install-plugin' Grails script, e.g.
grails install-plugin ui-performance
The plugin is tested primarily in 1.0.4 and 1.1 but does work in 1.0.3. Due to a change in the name of Events.groovy to _Events.groovy, it doesn't work in 1.0.3 without a small change. After you install the plugin, rename plugins/ui-performance-1.2/scripts/_Events.groovy to Events.groovy. This only needs to be done once, and only for 1.0.3.
- minifies and gzips .js and .css files
- configures .js, .css, and image files (including favicon.ico) for caching by renaming with an increasing build number and setting a far-future expires header
- provides taglibs that are version- and gzip-aware to allow developers to work without dealing with gzip or version details
- gzips dynamic text content (GSPs, JSON, XML, etc.)
- the bulk of the work is done during the build, and problems are caught during the build instead of after deployment. An _Events.groovy script hooks into the war building process and gzips/versions/minifies static resources before the war file is packaged
- rewrites inner urls in CSS files to point to versioned images
- supports Sprite images via a taglib
- helps move JavaScript to the end of the body via a taglib
- doesn't use a servlet - only a few taglibs and a Filter, letting the container (or an external web server) continue to serve static resources
- no temp files and very minimal runtime cost - everything is in the war - and less processing at the server - it only needs to check if client supports gzip when rendering <javascript>, <css>, and  tags in GSPs
- Grails-friendly - can be enabled per-environment so that in development mode it does nothing, and is only enabled in production (or 'qa', if you have a 'qa' environment for example) mode, so there's no need to check for modifications when enabled since Grails doesn't support modifications except in development mode
- lots of configuration options
to the HTTP <Connector> element in conf/server.xml. If you're using Apache to server static content, you'll want to use mod_deflate.You could configure your web server to compress .css and .js files but this is resource-intensive and wasteful if the files rarely change. The plugin instead compresses the files once at build time.
compression='on' compressableMimeType='text/html,text/xml,text/plain'
UsageThe plugin is enabled by default in all environments (including development) so configure whether it's enabled per-environment in Config.groovy, for example
to disable it in development but enable it for production or custom environments.
environments {
development {
uiperformance.enabled = false
You'll need to make changes in your GSPs to take advantage of these features.To render a
which will render

As with .js files the extension is obvious so it's omitted.To render an  tag for an image file, use
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='/appcontext/css/main__v123.gz.css' />
which will render

To render an <input type='image' ...> tag for an image-based form submit button, use

which will render

Note that each tag allows any number of extra attributes which are just passed through to the HTML (e.g. to specify the id, style, etc.)
<input type='image' src='/appcontext/images/edit.png' border='0' />
faviconsBy default your favicon.ico (or whatever you've named the file) will be processed like any other image. To disable this, remove the 'ico' image extension from the list of valid extensions:
To render a versioned favicon tag, use
uiperformance.imageExtensions = ['gif', 'png', 'jpg']
which will render
If you have a nonstandard name or location, specify that using the 'src' attribute (omit the extension):
<link rel='shortcut icon' href='/favicon.ico' type='image/x-icon'/>

<link rel='shortcut icon' href='images/myfavicon.ico' type='image/x-icon'/>
CSS imagesEmbedded image urls in CSS files are a problem using this versioning scheme, but since each file is processed during the build, we can rewrite the urls inside all CSS files with the version embedded, so they also agree with the names in the war, e.g.
background-image: url(/images/cluetip/wait.gif);
background-image: url(/images/cluetip/wait__v123.gif);
BundlingAnother provided optimization is to reduce the number of static files. Typically you'll partition .css and .js files for modularity and reuse but often send the same few files in several pages. So another step in the build process involves bundling JavaScript and CSS files into larger single files. These are minified and gzipped like the rest, and the net effect is fewer requests with a smaller total size.Bundles are configued as a list of maps:
- the 'type' property is either 'js' or 'css'
- the 'name' property determines the relative name of the combined file
- and the 'files' property specifies a list of relative filenames
would create js/jquery/jquery.all.js which would contain the contents of js/jquery/jquery-1.2.6.js and js/jquery/jquery.cluetip.js.It would also create css/bundled.css which would contain the contents of css/yui/reset-min.css, css/main.css, and css/plugins/custom_cluetip.css.You can create any number of bundles, which contain any number of source files.Bundles are "un-bundled" if the plugin isn't enabled (e.g. in dev mode). So you would declare
uiperformance.bundles = [ [type: 'js', name: 'jquery/jquery.all', files: ['jquery/jquery-1.2.6', 'jquery/jquery.cluetip']], [type: 'css', name: 'bundled', files: ['yui/reset-min', 'main', 'plugins/custom_cluetip']] ]
regardless of environment, and in prod mode it would resolve the single bundled file, and in dev mode would output multiple script or css tags for each original file that comprises the bundle.

Image SpritesThe plugin recognizes CSS files that are marked up using SmartSprites comments. These are discussed in detail in the library's site documentation but I'll show some examples here. Everything is defined as a comment, so these changes have no impact on development mode. Any positioning tweaks that are required are also defined in comments (sprite-margin-bottom, sprite-margin-left, etc.).In a CSS file that contains one or more style rules that define a background image, add a comment defining an image sprite, e.g.
You can choose whatever name you want for the sprite and its file name. The sprite name (@[email protected] in this example) is used as a key to link individual CSS classes with a sprite file since you can declare multiple sprite files per CSS file (although this shouldn't be necessary) or even split CSS files and refer to one sprite image from all of them.Then you can instruct SmartSprites to merge some or all of the individual images into the sprite and replace the CSS with a reference to the sub-image within the sprite. As an example I've replaced several if the images in the standard Grails
/** sprite: mysprite; sprite-image: url('../images/mysprite.png'); sprite-layout: vertical */
main.css with sprites. Some changes are necessary though - you can't define the
background attribute as a combined attribute. Instead you must split it into background-image, background-repeat, background-position, etc. So you would need to redefine
as the equivalent but more verbose
.menuButton a.home { background: url(../images/skin/house.png) center left no-repeat; … }
(I've omitted the non-background attributes since they're fine as they are)and to include the image in the sprite you add a comment to the
.menuButton a.home { background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center left; background-image: url('../images/skin/house.png'); … }
background-image attribute referencing the sprite file declared at the top (link the
sprite-ref name to the declaration's
sprite attribute, along with any extra attributes that are necessary for fine-tuning:
Images that repeat as backgrounds aren't good candidates for inclusion in sprites, so I didn't rework those but the remaining classes are as follows:
.menuButton a.home { background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center left; background-image: url('../images/skin/house.png'); /** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 5px; sprite-margin-top: 3px; */ … }
.menuButton a.list { background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center left; background-image: url('../images/skin/database_table.png'); /** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 5px; sprite-margin-top: 3px; */ }.menuButton a.create { background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center left; background-image: url('../images/skin/database_add.png'); /** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 5px; sprite-margin-top: 3px; */ }.message { background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 8px 50%; background-image: url('../images/skin/information.png'); /** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 4px; sprite-margin-top: 4px; sprite-margin-left: 8px; */ background-color: #f3f8fc; }div.errors li { background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 8px 0%; background-image: url('../images/skin/exclamation.png'); /** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 8px; sprite-margin-left: 8px; */ }th.asc a { background-image: url('../images/skin/sorted_asc.gif'); ** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 5px; sprite-margin-top: 3px; * }th.desc a { background-image: url('../images/skin/sorted_desc.gif'); ** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 5px; sprite-margin-top: 3px; * }.buttons input.delete { background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 5px 50%; background-image: url('../images/skin/database_delete.png'); /** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 6px; sprite-margin-top: 2px; sprite-margin-left: 5px; */ }.buttons input.edit { background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 5px 50%; background-image: url('../images/skin/database_edit.png'); /** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 6px; sprite-margin-top: 2px; sprite-margin-left: 5px; */ }.buttons input.save { background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 5px 50%; background-image: url('../images/skin/database_save.png'); /** sprite-ref: mysprite; sprite-margin-bottom: 6px; sprite-margin-top: 2px; sprite-margin-left: 5px; */ }
which cache the content inside the tag. Then render the cached content using the p:renderDependantJavascript tag (typically in a template after the body), e.g.:
click here
...

Note that you can use as many
 tags as you want in the main gsp, any included templates, and the main template and all of the the combined scripts will be rendered by the single renderDependantJavascript tag.A new feature allows you to specify a short block of javascript as a parameter to the tag, e.g.
<g:layoutBody/>

This feature can also be used when calling the taglib from another, e.g.

 is another tag that generates the
which will render

CustomizationThe default process for determining the version is to look at the version of the root project folder in the Subversion metadata files. If you're not using Subversion or you want to use some other version incrementing logic, you can define a closure in Config.groovy:
Also, if there are files or groups of files that you want to exclude from processing, you can define a list of Ant-style matcher patterns, e.g.
uiperformance.determineVersion = { -> /* calculate version here */ }
Other properties:
uiperformance.exclusions = [ "**/grails_logo.jpg", "**/dojo/**" ]
|Default Value
|set to false to disable processing
|set to false to disable processing for all images
|set to false to disable processing for all .css files
|set to false to disable processing for all .js
|'gif', 'png', 'jpg', 'ico' (+)
|specify different values to change image types that are processed
|set to false to disable minification for all .js
|set to true to minify .js files in-memory for error checking but discard
|set to true to only warn about .js minification problems rather than failing the build
|set to false to disable minification for all .css
|set to true to minify .css files in-memory for error checking but discard
|set to true to only warn about .css minification problems rather than failing the build
|set to true to keep the original uncompressed and unversioned files in the war along with the compressed/versioned files
|set to true to enable gzip for dynamic text content
|set to restrict dynamic text url patterns that should be processed
|set to true to enable PJL filter debug logging
|set to true to enable PJL filter stats tracking
|sets the minimum content length for compression
|set the category of the commons/log4j logger to debug to
AuthorBurt Beckwith [email protected]Please report any issues to the Grails User mailing list and/or write up an issue in JIRA at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS under the Grails-UI-Performance component.
- December 22, 2009
- released version 1.2.2
- July 28, 2009
- released version 1.2.1
- July 23, 2009
- released version 1.2
- May 20, 2009
- released version 1.1.1
- March 13, 2009
- released version 1.1
- December 19, 2008
- released version 1.0
- December 10, 2008
- released version 0.2 in the Grails repository
- August 26, 2008
- released initial version 0.1


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Sinead O'Connor's hopeless advice for Miley Cyrus
We take a look at Cyrus' career highlights or lowlights throughout the years. (Matt Sayles / AP)
Cyrus, along with R&B singer-songwriter Robin Thicke, gave a raunchy, lascivious, provocative, you name it, performance designed to fuel the media at MTV's most recent Video Music Awards.(Neilson Barnard / Getty Images for MTV / Courtesy)
God bless Sinead O'Connor, the prickly Irish rock singer who once ripped a photograph of the pope on live TV to protest the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandal, for trying to school Miley Cyrus on the pitfalls of female sexual exploitation in the music business.
It's not going to work.
After Cyrus told Rolling Stone that O'Connor's hit video of "Nothing Compares 2 U" was an inspiration for her most recent music video "Wrecking Ball" -- in which she straddles a huge wrecking ball wearing nothing but red lipstick and a sad expression -- O'Connor, 46, posted an open letter to Cyrus on her website Wednesday, full of barely concealed angst and bitterness:
Dear Miley,
I wasn't going to write this letter, but today I've been dodging phone calls from various newspapers who wished me to remark upon your having said in Rolling Stone your Wrecking Ball video was designed to be similar to the one for Nothing Compares … So this is what I need to say … And it is said in the spirit of motherliness and with love.
I am extremely concerned for you that those around you have led you to believe, or encouraged you in your own belief, that it is in any way 'cool' to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos. It is in fact the case that you will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether its the music business or yourself doing the pimping.
Nothing but harm will come in the long run, from allowing yourself to be exploited, and it is absolutely NOT in ANY way an empowerment of yourself or any other young women, for you to send across the message that you are to be valued (even by you) more for your sexual appeal than your obvious talent ….
Yes, I'm suggesting you don't care for yourself. That has to change. You ought be protected as a precious young lady by anyone in your employ and anyone around you, including you. This is a dangerous world. We don't encourage our daughters to walk around naked in it because it makes them prey for animals and less than animals, a distressing majority of whom work in the music industry and it's associated media ....
The letter goes on, O'Connor drops many f-bombs, more in sadness than in anger, and the whole well-meaning but tone-deaf message undoubtedly landed with a buzz-killing thud at Cyrus' feet.
Cyrus may be sexually overcompensating as she sheds her squeaky-clean Hannah Montana skin, but having been in the spotlight since she was a child, she certainly understands the dynamics of celebrity exploitation. She is smart enough to know what works, and probably too young to be embittered. Also, as it turns out, she is immature enough to be cruel.
On Thursday, in what seemed like a response, Cyrus tweeted a photo of O'Connor ripping the pope's photograph during her famous 1992 performance on "Saturday Night Live." She also tweeted the words "Before there was Amanda Bynes, there was …" with a screen grab consisting of tweets from 2012 that appeared to be O'Connor pleading for psychiatric help. Bynes is the former Disney star whose out-of-control behavior over the last year and a half culminated in a mental breakdown and subsequent hospitalization.
PHOTOS: Miley Cyrus, before and after Disney
O'Connor is far from the only critic to whom Cyrus has proved immune.
She was ripped in August, when her appearance with Robin Thicke on the MTV Video Music Awards, which included half-naked twerking and lascivious dance moves with a giant foam finger, led some to think she'd lost her mind.
But guess who didn't criticize her? People whose opinions she undoubtedly values more than those of the critics -- her peers. She shared with Rolling Stone a few of their texts:
Pharrell: "You're not a train wreck. You're the train pulling everyone else along."
Kanye West: "I still can't quit thinking about your performance."
And Lil' Kim: "My little pumpkin, I just had to tell you you're so … smart." Getting right to the point, Lil' Kim added: "I love you and all the press you are getting."
Meanwhile, Cyrus, who may be young and given to flaunting her body in ways that make some feminists uncomfortable, is on the cover of the latest Rolling Stone, licking her shoulder as she climbs naked out of a pool.
Her foam finger, with its painted red nails, is expected to be a popular Halloween costume this year.
And this weekend, she is slated to host and be the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live."
I expect she'll keep her clothes on for that one.
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Despite show of support, chief's departure seems inevitable
Supporter: Lack of appreciation could send Craig back to Detroit
The push to keep Cincinnati's police chief from taking his talents to Detroit or elsewhere comes squarely in front of City Council.
Although there are those who consider the effort borderline interference with the role of the city manager, others speak of appreciation about the motion being advanced by several members of City Council.
Ennis Tait is one of them.
As pastor of the Church of the Living God in Avondale, he is on the front lines of street-level intervention with troubled and marginal youth in the community.
"Chief (James) Craig has not just been an asset, but he has been an inspiration to Cincinnati," Tait said. "I would hate to see us have to shift gears now. We're really on a momentum now that I think we all would like (to continue)."
Former police officer Cecil Thomas, who stepped down City Council a week ago, said he believes Craig wants to stay in Cincinnati.
"Nothing has been etched in stone", Thomas said.
Thomas is among those who question Council's involvement in the matter.
"We all want him to stay," Thomas said, "but it's like wanting Marvin Lewis to stay (as coach of the Bengals)."
City Council has no direct control over the outcome, and Thomas wonders about the wisdom of elected officials imposing on the turf of City Manager Milton Dohoney.
"(Dohoney) is doing all he can," Thomas said. "Bottom line, it is up to the chief. (City Council) should have no influence on it."
Craig has been the head of Cincinnati's police department since August 2011.
He has expressed interest in the Detroit position, although it is not clear where that city's search and selection process stands at the moment.
Detroit is Craig's hometown, and Tait said if the chief were to return there, it would be viewed as "heroic."
Tait said Cincinnati as a whole has not shown its appreciation for Craig as much as it should have by now.
The pastor believes that lack of citywide affirmation could be a factor in any decision Craig would make about staying put.
Craig said he was touched by City Council's gesture.
"First and foremost, I'm humbled by it," he said.
But he admits that he's considering a move back to Detroit.
"The draw is simple," Craig said. "I love the city of Detroit. I was born there. I started my policing career there."
Although Detroit hasn't made a formal offer to him, Craig's departure seems almost inevitable.
"Not a day goes by, I could be in a restaurant, people come up, line up, some take pictures and say, 'Look, you're going to be gone, we know you're going, but can we take a picture?'" Craig said.
But his supporters say there are many reasons why Cincinnati should try to keep Craig, citing a drop in neighborhood crime and a boost in officer morale.
"You know, the boots on the ground, the police officers, really like him, and I tell you that's a very telling and encouraging thing," said Pete Witte, a West Price Hill community leader.
Craig said the possible move isn't about money.
"It has always been about my passion to serve this city, and down the road if that becomes Detroit, I'm giving back to a place I call home," Craig said.


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Hospital mix-up leads mom to breast-feed wrong baby
A Minnesota mom is livid at a local hospital for giving her newborn boy to another mother for breast-feeding.
Tammy, who did not disclose her last name, gave birth to baby boy Cody Monday at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, CBS Minnesota reports. Two days later a nurse mistakenly gave her child to a different mother who had given birth to twins.
Tammy, who had been asleep at the time, told the station that the other mom realized something was amiss and notified the nurse.
"Then she called the nurse and got my son from her, and then her son was missing for 20 minutes -- he was in my son's bassinet," she said.
While the mix-up may frustrate any parent, it also carries a major risk for the newborn. Serious infections including HIV and hepatitis B and C can be transmitted through breast milk, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The American Academy of Pediatrics adds that certain illicit and prescription drugs can transmit through breast milk. The society says that amphetamine, cocaine and heroin can have negative effects on babies if passed along through breast milk and several prescriptions including lithium and phenobarbitol are also on the list.
Thankfully for Cody, the mother tested negative, according to Tammy.
"I'm just glad he's OK," Tammy said. "And that the mother tested OK."
Abbott acknowledged the mistake and said it was covering all costs for the baby's blood testing.
Dr. Penny Wheeler, chief clinical officer of Allina Health -- which owns Abbott Northwestern - apologized for the incident in a statement to CBS Minnesota, saying proper procedure was not followed. Typically the nurses match bracelets the mother and newborn are wearing to prevent a mix-up.
"As an obstetrician, I have personally seen verification of the infant's identifying name band matched correctly with the mother's on hundreds of occasions. It is extremely unfortunate that was not the case this time," said Wheeler. "We sincerely apologize to the involved families and will make certain we understand why our procedures were not appropriately followed in this case."


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A Smithsonian Institution scientist shrugged off claustrophobic working conditions Monday to recover the remains of a late-1600s skeleton buried under the floor of America's oldest standing English church.
Scuttling into a shallow cavity under an ancient ledger stone, Brittney Tatchell of the National Museum of Natural History had to lie on her back as she passed dozens of bone fragments to a team of archaeologists and forensic anthropologists waiting inside historic St. Luke's Church.
But the discomfort she endured over a few hours' work could provide a crucial missing link in a landmark study about the physical lives of the early Chesapeake Bay colonists.
"There are a lot of things that you can't get at any other way besides looking at bones," said renowned Smithsonian forensic anthropologist Douglas Owsley, whose team has studied some 500 sets of skeletal remains over the past decade.
"We do have a few gentry from Jamestown. But most of what we have from Virginia are unidentified indentured servants -- and that's where Joseph Bridger comes in. He was one of the 10 wealthiest men in the colony. He was the richest landholder south of the James. And it looks like he's going to provide us with a lot of information."
Born in England in 1628, Bridger came to Isle of Wight just before turning 30 years old. He quickly became a man of unusual political and military importance as well as great property and wealth.
Pious as well as prosperous, Bridger paid for St. Luke's well-appointed interior woodwork and the third floor of its distinctive bell tower. His generosity is still remembered by a late Victorian stained-glass window installed above the altar space of the church.
But it wasn't until more than 60 of his descendants began talking about organizing an archaeological study of Whitemarsh -- the old family property located about two miles from the church -- that Williamsburg-based archaeologist Merry Outlaw saw the potential for adding her prominent ancestor to Owsley's study.
She arranged a February 2006 meeting between her kin and the scientist, with whom she has been working for nearly two years. Then she helped obtain their near-unanimous decision to exhume Bridger's remains.
"There's one family member who thinks that we're unleashing the devil. But all the rest of us are on board," she says. "We were hoping that we would recover enough to do a facial reconstruction -- and then we'd get to see him face to face."
Not long afterward, Historic St. Luke's Restoration Inc. gave its permission for the work to proceed. But when Outlaw's husband, Alain, began excavating in the floor of the church this past week, he quickly ran into problems. Heating pipes and concrete slabs blocked the path of the excavation beside Bridger's 1686 ledger stone, greatly reducing the team's working space while increasing the difficulty of its labors.
"We knew less about what was below the floor than we would have known doing an outside excavation," he said. "That was part of the challenge."
Still more problems cropped up when Tatchell finally slipped down under the mammoth black basalt tablet and began probing the small brick crypt Monday morning.
"The first bone that she handed up was an animal bone -- not a human bone -- and it shook me up a bit," Owsley admitted. "But it's clearly a chicken bone -- and it probably represents some workman's lunch from many years ago."
Cranial bones, parts of a femur, pelvic bones and numerous other fragments followed, enabling Owsley and assistant Kari Bruwelheide to quickly determine that Bridger was "a big robust man" with a moderately protruding brow and a square, unusually prominent jaw. But because of the losses inflicted when the remains were moved to the church in 1894, it may be impossible to complete a full facial reconstruction.
"You can see the breaks in the bones from when they moved him here," Owsley said. "And it's clear that when they did it, they did it with a shovel."
Despite the damage, the surviving remains could contribute significantly to the data that Owsley and his colleagues have assembled from such historic 17th-century settlement sites as Jamestown and its Maryland counterpart, St. Mary's City.
Assessing the bones through a list of more than 1,500 variables, the scientist hopes to establish Bridger's height and stature as well as numerous elements of his diet and his medical history. He also believes he can determine the cause of the colonist's death and make some estimates about his facial features.
Bridger's identity and high social status will give those findings extra importance, Owsley said, because most 17th-century remains are those of anonymous working-class people. Incorporated in a massive National Museum of Natural History exhibit planned for 2008, they'll help illuminate the physical lives of the early colonists across a wider social spectrum.
"There's a lot written about him as a landholder. But there's not a lot written about him as a physical person," Owsley said. "Now we'll be able to get at that through the legacy written in his bones."
A Smithsonian Institution scientist shrugged off claustrophobic working conditions Monday to recover the remains of a late-1600s skeleton buried under the floor of America's oldest standing English church.


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AT THE FRONT IN ETHIOPIA (Jan, 1936)
Really interesting piece about reporters covering the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1936. It's interesting to contrast with the current reports coming out of Iraq. I wonder if they still suffer from mutton fatigue.
by Arthur T. Robb
Managing Editor of "Editor & Publisher"
THERE'S a war on in East Africa. Since early summer, when it became certain that II Duce intended to capture for Italy the last vestige of Africa not already under European rule, scores of young and old men in journalism, American and European, have turned their faces to the Red Sea, hoped or planned that their next assignment would be in Ethiopia. To youth it offered opportunity for fame and adventure denied them by the routine of police court or city hall. To the veterans of a score of big and little wars like Karl Von Wiegand and Floyd Gibbons, the din and dust of battle preparations were as the bell for the old fire horse. They had to be on their way.
So August, September and early October found the writing and camera-laden hosts concentrating at Addis Ababa, Asmara, Djibouti, Diredawa, in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. Some, like Linton Wells, von Wiegand, Gibbons, Captain Ariel Varges, Laurence Stallings, and Hudson Hawley, were old stagers, veterans of arms or press in France, Germany, Morocco, Syria, and China. Others were—to themselves—potential Richard Harding Davises or Rudyard Kiplings, some of them paying their own expenses and learning at first hand what it costs to run a war from the newspaper side.
For flea-ridden nooks in the Imperial Hotel at Addis Ababa, they pay rents that would buy a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. For a stock of aging fruits and vegetables, abandoned by a thrifty and discreet Greek in the face of Italy's advance, they paid more than the value of the store. And for radio and cable messages to the newspapers at home, they paid 32 cents a word and raged at an Ethiopian censorship which limited their daily file to 100 words from Addis Ababa after the first wild week of assorted rumors. This war, to date, has but slightly resembled in conveniences for war correspondents the commodious struggles of the Western Front, or the chummy scraps around Shanghai, where the writers visited back and forth between the hostile armies. For most of those in Ethiopia, front line reporting has so far been by remote control and under a censorship that has learned all the tricks of its trade since 1918.
The first advance of the Italian armies against Aduwa from Eritrea was announced to the United States by Webb Miller of the United Press, who arrived in Asmara by airplane from Khartum. His dispatch was filed from Asmara, field headquarters of the Italians, censored there, flashed to Rome, again censored, relayed to London and then to New York, where it arrived at 4:27 a.m., October 3.
Floyd Gibbons flew from Rome to Eritrea and gave the Hearst newspaper readers an overhead view of the bloodless advance that avenged Italy's defeat of 40 years ago. These two, and later a few others representing the Associated Press and some metropolitan newspapers, were the only correspondents on the unexpected scene of Italy's first move. The corps of 100 stationed at Addis Ababa had nothing but the brief and practically newsless Ethiopian communiques for the first ten days.
The startling headlines of the opening days of the war arose from the scarcity of fact and abundance of rumor in the Ethiopian capital. Correspondents wanted to make some showing at home for the tremendous outlay their presence required—probably about $500 per week per man—and sought to develop exclusive news sources by bribing government servants for news tips. It was soon a pronounced seller's market. The price of tips went skyward and some enterprising Ethiopians, it is said, invented news on demand and at the best price obtainable. The Ethiopian "press bureau," headed by a bright young soldier with a knowledge of French and English, limited its output to official communiques. Short announcements were posted on the official bulletin board, round which 100 correspondents thronged, usually turning away disappointed. Long communiques were read in French to the assembled correspondents, who squeezed them dry for news droplets, translated them into every language of the civilized world, and trusted to Heaven that they would get on the air during the few daily hours of the Addis Ababa radio station's operation. The operators know only their own Amharic language. One to four hours was good transmission time for press messages from Addis Ababa to London. To send by land line from Addis Ababa to the French port of Djibouti, thence by wireless or cable to London or Paris, took from 20 to 40 hours and cost 30 per cent more than the radio. The latter, a government monopoly, is said to be netting Haile Selassie's domain more than $100,000 a month.
None of the newspaper group at the capital had been permitted to go to the actual front as this is written. The stated reason is that Ethiopians are likely to regard all white men as Italians—a situation not conducive to long life or continued happiness for the white men. With home offices demanding hourly fresh news of the clash of arms—and these incoming messages consuming from 24 to 48 hours in transit—the Addis Ababa corps made frantic arrangements for relays of couriers and mule teams between the capital and Khartum and Djibouti. At Khartum, connection can be had with the regular Imperial Airways service. Several correspondents made early contacts with the headquarters of the Ethiopian forces on the southern front, defending the railway and the river approaches to the capital against the Italian advance from Somaliland, and managed to get long and circumstantial stories of the Ethiopian dispositions transmitted via the government shortwave set. Naturally, these accounts did not minimize either the dangers confronting the defenders nor the courage with which they were being met.
Improvement of the communication bottleneck is hoped for when the American naval experts set up a portable short wave station which is expected to reach the United States, either direct or by relay through American naval vessels. The doubtful element in this is whether Haile Selassie will permit any competition with his profitable monopoly.
There is little likelihood that any correspondents will be permitted to travel with advance or outpost troops, as Floyd Gibbons did when he lost his eye near Chauteau Thierry or Edward Marshall when he dictated his story over a bullet-shattered leg in Cuba. The present generation of front line writers will be chaperoned at all times by the staffs of both armies, and taken on generous tours of inspection in the later stages of a successful action. Apparently they have little to fear from the Ethiopian air force, and the Italian aviators have so far confined their attentions to mud and straw villages far from the correspondents' locale.
Casualties due to bombing by planes have been greatly exaggerated, there is little doubt. No German raid over London or Paris ever killed a fraction of the civilians claimed by the Ethiopians to have been slaughtered in their hamlets by the Italian planes, and most of these stories can be credited to censorship's big brother—propaganda. But, in the lack of confirmatory data, the news has to be transmitted or the correspondent risks being scooped on a major story.
Fever is More Deadly than Bullets
If artillery, aviation and infantry fire promise to hold little peril for the newspaper men, the country itself has plenty of compensatory dangers. A Chicago Tribune correspondent, Wilfred Courtenay Barber, the first to reach Ethiopia, died of malaria October 6. He had penetrated the Ogaden desert in June to tell the story of how Ethiopia would defend its most dangerous frontier, and predicted on his return that the fever would be deadly to the whites who fought across that region. He was the first to fulfill his own prediction. Overcrowding in stuffy, dirty, verminous hotels— a far cry from the chateaux of the He de France and the Cote d'Or—is certain to take its toll in sickness and death toll. Adventurous souls who go forth on their own to get the story behind the terse unrevealing lines of the communique will probably be well treated by the Ethiopian chiefs, but their journeys will be beset by guerilla tribesmen and the insects, reptiles, and large fauna of the Abyssian wilds. And around them at all times will be the fevers.
Pictures are already a larger part of the news of this war than ever before. To date, most of the shots published in the United States have come from the Italian military photographers—flown to Rome, and thence transmitted by radio to London and the United States. The trans-oceanic radio transmission of pictures has not yet approached the perfection attained-by the Wirephoto and other processes for telegraphic transmission in this country, but the original prints which followed the radio pictures within 10 days proved the latter to be remarkably faithful reproductions.
News Reel Crews Go to Battle
The news reel crews of all the great American and European services have had their equipment cleared for action ever since hostilities threatened. Their assignment will be difficult and perilous, for your present-day audience wants his battle pictures hot with action. He wants to hear the whee-e-e of bullets and to see the impact of a 250-pound bomb, and there is little doubt that he will get his wish. It is a new trick in war to have generator trucks loaded with sound apparatus rolling along at the heels of an advance battalion, but that the news reel men expect to do just that is evidenced by the story that they have painted the roofs of their trucks with huge American flags, hoping that the bombers and ground-strafers of Il Duce will give them a personally wide berth.
They will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for hardy native runners, for camel and mule relays, for cable and radio tolls—a minimum of 32 cents a word from Addis Abba to New York. They will buy clothing suitable for life on a plateau two miles above sea level and also for work in miasmic lowlands sweltering under an Equatorial sun. They will hire white and native assistants. They will charter airplanes at exorbitant rates to fly a single reel of pictures to a rail or plane station.
There won't be much glory for all of their achievements, for today's scoop is soon forgotten, especially if tomorrow brings victory for a rival. But there isn't a man on the story who would willingly accept a transfer to Paris, London, or New York at this stage of the game. Hot and dirty, harried by employees and hamstrung by censors, daily tortured by sun and at night by insects, tired to distraction of the eternal diet of mutton, crazy for a drinkable cup of coffee—they'll stick with their great adventure and do a job of it. Wars and journalists are like that.


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The Blind Camera is perfect for those people bored by the mass-produced point and shoot cameras. There's no viewfinder, no lens, or flash. All it has on the outside is an LCD screen and a shutter button.
Inside is a Sony Ericsson cellphone that pulls down images from Flickr. Whenever you click the shutter button, the cellphone pings Flickr and downloads an image that has the same timestamp as your shutter press. It's not an instant camera as it takes a few minutes for an image to appear, but it sure is a clever use of modern technology. Wish I had thought of it first. [Blinks and Buttons via LikeCool]
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Heading toward Burnaby, around Willingdon Avenue where it intersects Hwy. 1, if you time it right, you could drive into one of the creepiest scenes in Metro Vancouver — Halloween or not.
Stopped at a light at dusk, you may notice the hydro poles have eyes, all staring at you, and the power lines are beaded with black menacing shapes, daring you with symphonic cawing to open your car door.
Throw in a string of pearls, a cute skirt suit and a blond wig, and you've got the set of Hitchcock's The Birds, made 50 years ago but still spooky today — especially the scene where the sinister crows chase Tippi Hedren's character along with townspeople and schoolchildren of Bodega Bay, Calif., pecking out the eyes of screaming victims with their sharp black beaks.
The crow's reputation as a marauding mischief-maker or worse is unwarranted, insists Derek Matthews, a local bird fancier/saviour and one of the species's biggest boosters.
"Crows get a bad rap because they're big, black, noisy birds," said Matthews, who founded the Vancouver Avian Research Centre to band birds and lobby for increased habitat to help preserve songbirds and other species.
"In photos, whenever there's a tombstone, there's always a crow sitting on it. Everything bad that happens, it's [seen as] the crows' fault," said Matthews.
Even their collective noun, a "murder" of crows, suggests you shouldn't turn your back on them. Theories about the term's origin trace back to crows as scavengers of carcasses and their supposed practice of mobbing to death an interloper crow (which happens, experts say, as a way to protect territory — but it is rare).
Matthews point out that "murder" is only used by poets; scientists call them flocks.
No matter the name, the greater their number, the scarier the crows, as suggested by an old English rhyme: "One means anger; two is mirth; three a wedding; four a birth; five is heaven; six is hell; seven is the devil himself."
The Greeks believed a crow perching on a roof was a sign that someone was about to die.
Their reputation is undeserved, said Matthews.
"They're not evil harbingers of death," he said. "And they'll only attack people if you've done something to them."
Research at the University of Washington in Seattle has shown crows can identify humans. They can correctly pick out from a pair the person who has fed them in the past and will return to that person for more treats, said Matthews. By the same token, they can recognize someone who's done them or their family members harm.
"We were banding one morning and caught a crow in one of our mist nets," he recalled.
"The rest of the family group immediately descended on us as we were extracting the bird from the net and surrounded us in the adjacent trees and started mobbing us as they would a predator — the noise was deafening. (They were calling) to rally other crows, which started appearing from nowhere."
Crows incubating or raising young in their nests have been known to attack humans that pass close by.
"The way I see it, they're just being good parents because they see you as a threat," said Rob Butler, a retired Simon Fraser University professor who lectures on crows on behalf of the Pacific Wildlife Foundation.
"I don't think we should be calling them evil. That (reputation) originated in medieval times, when they pecked out the eyes of fallen soldiers."
Judging from the attendees at his talks, who he admitted may be biased, "Everybody seems to like crows. The rooms are just packed. The majority of people say they like crows. I was quite surprised."
Birdwatchers are fascinated by the Burnaby roost, the dusk-to-dawn home during the fall and winter for an estimated 3,000 to 6,000 crows that covers about a block-and-a-half area around Still Creek. Butler said they've been congregating there since the 1970s.
On a recent evening while awaiting the crows, Matthews sang their praises: They're far more human-like than any other birds. They mate for life. They tend to live in loose family groups in complex social structures. Their offspring help to raise younger siblings before they're ready to mate on their own."
They can fashion rudimentary tools to help them get at a food source. And it's believed they can communicate with one another — but not much is known about how.
"I try to explain to people who complain about them that they're just like us," said Matthews. "They're not a gang. They're a family, raising their children, just like you."
As the sun set, the birds' distinctive caws were heard before the crows were seen. Within minutes, large flocks blackened the sky and eventually settled down on branches and almost every inch of the power lines stretched out for blocks. They stood guard like black gargoyles in orderly rows along every available fence and rooftop. Some roamed along the ground, pecking hopefully for a bedtime snack.
They'd been continuously flapping their wings — one of the ways to tell the difference from their larger, more rural, raven cousins, which flap and soar — to fly from sites all over Metro Vancouver, where they'd been foraging since dawn.
They "commute" 30 to 40 minutes each way to get to the roost, said Butler. "That's quite a long haul."
Before making their way to their resting place for the night, the birds will settle in pre-roosting areas, the location of which is anybody's guess. "They're unpredictable," said Matthews.
One recent night, hundreds of crows chose a BCIT parking lot for the pit stop, perching in trees, on power lines and on the ground as wave after black undulating wave from the sky in the east joined them, getting louder and louder and causing bystanders and passersby to stop in their tracks, look up and stare.
Within a few minutes, they left without fanfare, heading west toward Willingdon Avenue.
"It is spooky, especially with Halloween coming up," said BCIT computer systems student Ankit Malhotra, who lives in residence and stopped to watch the show.
"We can always see them from our window. They keep changing places. Sometimes they're here and sometimes they're in the sports field.
"Why do they keep coming here? There has to be something."
Experts guess crows prefer urban areas for warmth and protection in numbers from hawk-eyed predators like their No. 1 nemesis, the great horned owl. Artificial lighting also is thought to help the crows — whose eyesight is not as good — spot those predators, which is why it's thought they prefer cities to rural locations, where they'd be sitting ducks.
The Burnaby roost is just one in Metro Vancouver, with several more along the Fraser Valley, said George Clulow of the B.C. Field Ornithologists. Similar urban roosts are common in North American cities, with some home to as many as two million birds.
Clulow said the annual Christmas bird count estimated 6,000 crows at the Burnaby roost last year. Matthews estimated between 3,000 and 5,000 birds.
Clulow said the roost is getting smaller over the years because development has cut the number of trees and businesses have increased efforts to keep the birds and their droppings from their properties by employing falconers and security guards with bright lights.
He speculated crows' bad reputation is caused by their predation of the nests of songbirds.
Matthews said while the birds are opportunistic feeders and will eat fledglings and eggs, they mostly feed on spilled grain in the winter and earthworms and other invertebrates.
Butler said it's the Steller's jay, B.C.'s provincial bird, that is more likely to raid nests.
They all agree crows are an important part of the ecosystem and their habitat should be preserved.
The City of Burnaby doesn't discourage the roost or attempt to lure crows away to other areas the city has set aside for wildlife habitat.
"Crows are highly adaptable and prefer urban settings to more pristine ones," said city ecosystem planner Lise Townsend.
The city educates residents about the crows, including informing homeowners who complain about crows tearing up their lawns that the birds are actually ridding the lawn of the destructive European chafer beetle by digging for the tasty grubs.
But the city has no plans to celebrate the bird or promote the roost as a Burnaby must-see attraction.
"We're happy to let them do their thing," she said.
Clulow recognizes not everyone shares his love of the birds, known to loudly interrupt sleep at daybreak, to fling around household garbage and to coat buildings, vehicles and roads near the roost with their messy droppings. Farmers, particularly blueberry growers in the Fraser Valley, are constantly devising ways to keep them from helping themselves to their crops.
"There are some people who think that crows are not nice and other people, like myself, who think they're wonderful," Clulow said. "There's a real divide."
Matthews, gazing at a close-up photo on his tablet of a crow in profile, highlighting its beady black eye and pointy black beak, leaves no doubt about the side he's on: "I think it's beautiful."
The Burnaby roost hasn't inspired many art works over the years, although local artist Sara Ross last February organized the Crow Roost Twilight Bike Ride along the Central Valley Greenway that drew 160 cyclists, and she plans to do it again in the new year.
Clulow said he'd love to see someone organize a crow festival and said it was "marvellous" that there's at least one anonymous artist who waxed poetic about the birds.
Clulow blogged about the poem last year after he discovered it stencilled on eight SkyTrain pillars lining the Greenway east of Boundary Road, two or four words at a time:
Each Morning/
We Fly/
To Work/
Steady Steps/
Spinning Wheels/
Till Like The Crows/
We Return/
To Roost.
Species: In B.C., it's the northwest crow (Corvus caurinus), a subspecies of the slightly larger American crow that lives across North America.
Size: Adults weigh 340-440 grams and are 33-41 centimetres long. Males are slightly larger.
Breeding: From March to July.
Incubation: The female incubates the eggs for about 18 days and mom and dad become protective and territorial and may attack humans who pass by.
Life expectancy: Up to 12 years in the wild. (The longest recorded life of a crow was 30 years.)
West Nile disease: Crows are considered a "sentinel species" for West Nile because they're among the first birds to die from the disease, which is carried by mosquitoes and already found in other ?provinces. SFU researcher Carl Lowenberger said mosquitoes near the Burnaby roost have been tested over the past three or four years and no signs of the potentially deadly disease have been found.
Diet: Grains, seeds, garbage, carrion, worms, grubs, mice, fish, mussels and clams. "They are opportunistic so they'll eat anything," said Derek Matthews. "That includes eggs and nestlings of other birds."
Predators: Owls, hawks and eagles, particularly the great horned owl. Crows will "mob" raptors by diving at them when the larger birds enter their territory.
Hunting and captivity: There are no provincial laws against killing crows. As a wild species, they can't be kept as pets.


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Comic Strip Festival 2019
13-15 September 2019
Hungarian comic book artists at the EUNIC Brussels stand
14-15/09 - ALL DAY Dedication & live drawing session
14:00 - Panel discussion: Making a living as a comic book professional - Anna Krztoń (Poland), H-P Lehkonen and Eelis Torvinen (Finland), János Mészáros (Hungary), Paulo Monteiro (Portugal)
Artists from all over Europe share their experiences on what it takes to make a living as in the comic book scene nowadays. Ranging topics from getting started as an independent artist to self-publishing your work will be discussed in this fascinating debate that will take you behind the scenes of the life of a comic book professional.
15:00 - Live drawing session: Attila Futaki and Lajos Farkas
17:00 - How to train your Viking warrior? - Workshop in English by Levente Németh
Levi will guide you in the age of dragons and warriors showing you how to draw your own Viking character. Muscles, armour and a fearless, scarred face – you will learn the skills to create your unique fighter. It is up to you how you train him…
Attila Futaki (1984) – comic book artist, illustrator
Futaki is internationally well-know Hungarian comic book artist. He was the first Hungarian comic book artist who had his own album published in France.
In 2009 Futaki signed with Walt Disney Entertainment to adapt Rick Riordan's novel The Lightning Thief to a comic book. It was published in the USA in 2010, followed by 2 other books of the series. All three graphic novels became New York Times bestsellers.
He also worked on other cultic comic books like Severed, written by Scott Snyder. He drew a Conan miniseries for Dark Horse and the first Hypnos BD for Le Lombard Publishing. His most recent works are Hypnos 2 published by Le Lombard, and L'ange de Budapest from Glénat Publishing. His illustrations have been published in New York Times, GQ and the Intercept magazine.
Levente Németh (Levi) – graphic designer, comic book artist
Levi runs his own graphic design company specialised in cultural and sport events marketing. As Creative Director he successfully managed the overall artistic tasks of the World Championships of Fencing, Kayak-Canoe, Gymnastics and Handball held in Hungary in 2018 and 2019. He graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, and worked for multinational advertising agencies as Art Director. He published his first graphic novel, Kings and Crosses: Voluntas Tua in 2017. The book was nominated for the prize of the best Hungarian graphic novel of the year 2017 in Hungary and was published in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands this year. Levi's next historical comic book, Canes et Lupi was recently introduced to the public.
His works:
Királyok és Keresztek: Voluntas Tua - Enter Studio 2017
János Mészáros (Sinonimo) – writer, translator
János Mészáros started his career in the film and video business. He worked for Hungarian film distribution companies and he was involved in the managements of cinemas. He worked as a copywriter, created film promotion materials and reviews. From 2003 he provided marketing services to private clients. János currently works as a freelance writer and translator. He translated books on finance and comics from English. In 2018 he published his first comics together with Levi under the name of Kings and crosses. He frequently writes short stories for blogs specialised in literature, and his novel about a famous Hungarian writer, Jenő Rejtő received the prize of Napút Publishing in 2018.
Books, novels and comics:
Lajos Farkas (1963) – comic book artist, illustrator
He was born in 1963. He graduated with a degree in sculpture from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1989. For years he mainly created caricature portraits. He designed and modelled characters for the Hungarian series Uborka, based on the English TV show Spitting Image. His caricature portraits of popular and lesser-known politicians and actors appeared in a variety of satirical papers. He later continued his work in the advertising and film industries where he was responsible for creating illustrations and storyboards. He worked in productions such as Underworld directed by Len Wiseman, or The Lion in Winter directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Comics have fascinated him since his childhood; however, the opportunity to work in this field only arose much later in his life. He first worked together with Attila Futaki on comics such as Percy Jackson and Severed. He later started working independently; so far, he has five comics published by the French Soleil and Delcourt Publishers. Rédemption I-II. were published in 2014 and 2015 respectively, while two of his works appeared in the Jour J series: La Ballade des pendus in 2016 and Le Dieu vert in 2018. His most recent piece, L'Homme de l'année 15. 1440 was published in 2019.
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|Hungarian comic book artists at the EUNIC Brussels stand.


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Analysis A few weeks ago, El Reg told you that IBM was getting ready to start talking about its future Power7+ and System zNext processors at the Hot Chips conference at the end of August. Like you, I am an impatient sort when it comes to getting some insight into future processors from any vendor, and I like to poke around and see what I can find out about these chips as soon as possible because it is interesting and useful to know as much as possible as soon as possible.
I like rummaging around the Internet for processor roadmaps and such as well, and occasionally I find stuff that at least assures us there is a future for any particular technology - in this case the Power processors and the IBM i, AIX, and Linux systems that depend upon them as their compute engines.
Here's a tidbit I found about investment in Power iron. In a presentation from February 2011 (PDF) by Peter Nimz, product manager for Power Systems at IBM Deutschland, Big Blue said that it had invested $3.2bn in Power7 systems over the past 3.5 years. That's an average of $915m a year for a product line that ranges from $3.5bn to $4.5bn a year in total sales, and that is a pretty substantial investment. It no doubt includes chip design, the Power Systems division's allocation for overhead for chip fabrication development, and the actual server engineering, too.
IBM could do a better job putting out a long-term public roadmap for its Power and mainframe processors, but as the dominant player in the Unix racket now, Big Blue doesn't feel it needs to do that: while Oracle, which bought former Unix leader Sun Microsystems, has to put out a roadmap to demonstrate its commitment to the Sparc architecture. Hewlett-Packard has left its Unix and proprietary systems future largely in the hands of Intel - which it has apparently been paying for years to continue Itanium development as well as manufacturing - and Oracle, which has put a serious damper on Itanium by not supporting its current or future software on future Itanium processors.
We know that Power7+ is coming sometime toward the end of this year, and that it will be implemented using 32 nanometer processes at IBM's East Fishkill, New York, chip fab.
As you can see from the roadmap, the move from Power7 to Power7+ involves a process shrink from 45 nanometers, which means IBM can cram a lot more transistors onto the same area or shrink the chip a bit and also boost the cycle time on the processor. As you can see from the roadmap above, IBM is promising faster clocks, a very large cache, and accelerators to boost the performance of certain workloads; but it is not promising more than the four, six, and eight core variants it already peddles with the Power7 chips. And with the move to Power8, sometime around the end of 2013 or early 2014, IBM will shift to 22 nanometer processes and add more cores, reliability enhancements (including perhaps spare cores is my guess) boosted accelerators, and its fourth generation of simultaneous multithreading. It is hard to imagine IBM would go from four to eight threads per core with the Power8 chips, but Sun and Oracle did it with the Sparc T series chips and got some benefits from the high thread count for parallel workloads.
As I have said before, I think IBM will probably boost the clock speed on the Power7+ chips by between 25 and 30 per cent, with the top bin parts spinning at above 5GHz and in the same range as the current z11 engines used in the System zEnterprise 114 and 196 machines - a quad-core chip that spins at 5.2GHz. That's just a guess on my part, but there are plenty of workloads where single-threaded performance is important and IBM cannot forget these customers if it wants to maintain an edge over its X86 and Sparc rivals.
I wasn't sure how much IBM would boost the on-chip embedded DRAM cache size, but as you can see in this performance document published on IBM's DeveloperWorks site (PDF), the L3 cache size will increase from 4MB for each local core segment on the Power7 chip (for a total of 32MB) to 10MB per core on the Power7+ chip (for a total of 80MB). If the core count on Power7+ remains the same at a maximum of eight per chip, then that will be 80MB of L3 cache, a truly huge amount and four times what Intel can put on its eight-core Xeon E5-2600 chip. (I know that the core count for Power7+ stays at eight, which I will show you in a second.)
The point is that the combination of cache and clocks could significantly increase the single-thread and multithread performance of the Power7+ chip compared to Power7. How much remains to be seen, but the performance boost moving from Power6 to Power7 was much larger than you would think, and largely thanks to the eDRAM cache moving on chip and being as almost as fat as the external L3 cache on the Power6 and Power6+ chips (it was 36MB). Of course with a larger cache there will be fewer cache misses and consequently potentially lower benefit of SMT because multithreading takes advantage of stall time in the CPU when it has a cache miss. This is a good tradeoff, boosting on-chip L3 cache, or chip makers would not be making it all the time.