text: Holey moley - this is GREAT news!! A couple questions. Will this module work with 2.6.16 and upcoming newer kernels? And - this is a biggie - the documentation says all I need to do is SNAT TCP 1720 for outbound calls and DNAT TCP 1720 for inbound calls. No more tinkering by hand with zillions of TCP/UDP ports - no more trying to figure out if Polycom or Tandberg or whatever is on which end. Is this really true??? Will this patch really figure out and track the dynamic ports these devices use by default? If so, then HOT DOGGIES!!!! Also - will it work with proxy ARP? Let's say I proxy ARP an H.323 device behind the firewall. Will this patch still handle connection tracking, even though there is no NAT? The idea is, I would put a rule in the FORWARD table for TCP 1720 and the patch would "know" it's an H.323 device and also track and forward the appropriate TCP and UDP ports. But it would be to a public IP Address proxy ARP'd behind the firewall instead of a NAT'd device. thanks - Greg Scott -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-devel-bounces at lists.netfilter.org [mailto:netfilter-devel-bounces at lists.netfilter.org] On Behalf Of Jing Min Zhao Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:57 PM To: netfilter-devel at lists.netfilter.org Subject: New H.323 conntrack & NAT helper module Hi, all, I've written a new H.323 conntrack & NAT helper module for Netfilter. I have five years experience in H.323 development and many years in Linux development, so I know many people out there need Linux firewall to support H.323 as IP phones are becoming more and more popular. I also know Jozsef Kadlecsik and Max Kellermann have written such Netfilter modules, but they don't support RAS, Fast-Start and H.245 tunnelling. However, these features are essential for most modern H.323 devices. Many carriers even don't support slow-start at all. This is a almost full featured H.323 module. Since it is based on H.225 version 4, H.235 version 2 and H.245 version 7, it should support most of the H.323 products in the market. I've spent a lot of time on this module and my friends helped me test it a lot too. Now I believe it is ready to go into kernel tree. I'm wondering if anybody can tell me what I should do to adding it to Netfilter. Anybody interested in this can download the patch for kernel 2.6.15 in http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=158936. The document is at http://nath323.sourceforge.net. Thanks a lot! Jing Min Zhao


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New Instagram Video Capability Takes Aim at Vine
filed in E-Business on Jun.20, 2013
Watch out Twitter. Facebook aims to clip your Vine. Facebook on Thursday made a highly anticipated move with its Instagram property — adding a video component to the digital photo mix.
Competing with Twitter's established Vine video micro-blogging service, Instagram has ingrained itself into the social media matrix with still photos and cool filters that let you add your own creative flare. Indeed, Instagram has built a strong community of folks who engage in ThrowBackThursdays and other hashtag-marked captions that drive user engagement.
Now Instagram is bringing all that to video with Video on Instagram. The company is positioning it as another way to share your stories. It lets you add more life to your special moments with moving pictures in living color.
13 Cool Filters
"When you go to take a photo on Instagram, you'll now see a movie camera icon," said Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram. "Tap it to enter video mode, where you can take up to 15 seconds of video through the Instagram camera."
Vine, by comparison, only offers six seconds, which can feel a little cramped. Instagram also differentiates itself from its popular competitor by offering 13 filters created specifically for video.
"When you post a video, you'll also be able to select your favorite scene from what you've recorded as your cover image so your videos are beautiful even when they're not playing," Systrom said, such as videos from the local cafe showing your latte art, or an Instagramer on the other side of the world taking you on a tour of their city, or a mother sharing her joys in parenting.
"So what does this mean for your content? Nothing's different from photos. We're still committed to making sure you have control over all of your content," Systrom said. "Only the people who you let see your photos will…

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All about Async/Await, System.Threading.Tasks, System.Collections.Concurrent, System.Linq, and more…
ConcurrentDictionary<TKey,TValue> is a new type in the .NET Framework 4, living in the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace. As noted in the MSDN documentation, ConcurrentDictionary "represents a thread-safe collection of key-value pairs that can be accessed by multiple threads concurrently."
While ConcurrentDictionary implements IDictionary<TKey, TValue> just as does Dictionary<TKey,TValue>, it also has several unique mechanisms for adding / updating key/value pairs in the dictionary, mechanisms specific to its concurrent focus. Here is a summary of when to use which mechanism.
All of these operations are atomic and are thread-safe with regards to all other operations on the ConcurrentDictionary. The only caveat to the atomicity of each operation is for those which accept a delegate, namely AddOrUpdate and GetOrAdd. For modifications / writes to the dictionary, ConcurrentDictionary employs fine-grained locking to ensure thread-safety (reads on the dictionary are performed in a lock-free manner); however, these delegates are invoked outside of the locks in order to avoid the myriad of problems that can arise from executing unknown code under a lock. As such, the code executed by these delegates is not subject to the atomicity of the operation.
It is such an awesome type. I found it a pleasure to use in a recent project. GetOrAdd is particularly useful - nice work.
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for the informative overview post on ConcurrentDictionary. I can see that there are a lot of niceties coming out of ConcurrentDictionary; some arising from the need of atomicity, but others are just, well, nice.
For example, AddOrUpdate() sounds like a wonderful addition which would greatly ease the typical dance of "is this item in the dictionary? if not add a default and then modify it, if so take out the value and modify it..."
I've been missing this ever since I used Python's setdefault() method for the built-in dictionary type. (http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#dict.setdefault)
So, ramblings aside, I have a question: Will conveniences like AddOrUpdate() be back-ported to plain old Dictionary (through extension methods, for instance) so that people aren't tempted to use ConcurrentDictionary just for the conveniences even where they don't need concurrency? (I'd certainly be tempted!)
Matt G, I'm glad to hear you've found the type so useful! If you wouldn't mind sharing the details of how you used the type and what kind of project you used it in, we'd be very interested. Feel free to post here or to email me personally at stoub at microsoft dot com.
Daniel, you're very welcome, and I'm also glad you like the design of the type. I've forwarded your comment/request to members of the base class libraries team, as they'll be best able to respond about whether these methods will ever find their way into the non-concurrent counterpart. In the meantime, as you suggest, you can certainly implement such functionality for the non-concurrent Dictionary<TKey,TValue> as extension methods. For example:
public static TValue GetOrAdd<TKey,TValue>(
this Dictionary<TKey,TValue> dictionary,
TKey key,
Func<TKey, TValue> valueFactory)
TValue value;
if (!dictionary.TryGetValue(key, out value))
value = valueFactory(key);
dictionary.Add(key, value);
return value;
public static TValue AddOrUpdate<TKey,TValue>(
this Dictionary<TKey,TValue> dictionary,
Func<TKey, TValue> addValueFactory,
Func<TKey, TValue, TValue> updateValueFactory)
if (dictionary.TryGetValue(key, out value))
value = updateValueFactory(key, value);
value = addValueFactory(key);
dictionary[key] = value;
Daniel, as a follow-up, the recommendation from the base class libraries team is to file a Connect suggestion at https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=14631.
Thanks for the follow-up Stephen.
I've filed the following Connect sugggestion:
You're right that it's trivial to implement these extension methods yourself... I'm just greedy and want all the convenience right out of the box :-)
(Another added benefit is that it would make for a more consistent API between the ConcurrentDictionary and existing Dictionary types.)
First word typo: ConcurrentyDictionary :)
Thanks, Mark! Fixed :)
In a previous comment on this class I alluded to a very similar class I wrote with many internal buckets to lower lock contention.
I extracted the important thread safe members from the class to form:
public interface ISafeKeyedCollection<K, T>
IDictionary<K, T> AsSnapshot { get; }
void Clear();
void ForceAddValue(K key, T value);
bool Remove(K key);
bool Remove(KeyValuePair<K, T> item);
bool TryAddValue(K key, T value, out T contains);
bool TryGetValue(K key, out T value);
Will you be doing a similar thing?
Hi Luke-
ConcurrentDictionary does use fine-grained locking internally, i.e. multiple locks rather than a single lock in order to minimize lock contention. The number of locks employed is actually controllable as well through the concurrencyLevel parameter available on several of the dictionary's constructors. Note, however, that this locking is done only for writes; reads on the dictionary are implemented in a lock-free manner.
Thanks and sorry, I've clearly confused you (either that or you're politely telling me it's a rubbish idea ;)) but...
I meant about the interface to allow methods to use polymorphism rather than the specific type, and to allow for future as-yet-un-dreamt-of keyed collections with the same behaviour.
In my app I pass my cache around using its ISafeKeyedCollection interface so I can switch it out for a more optimal collection or one that uses an alternative backing store or perhaps even a wrapper that uses your cool collections.
Thanks, Luke
Ah, I did misunderstand what you were suggesting. It would certainly be technically possible to implement such an interface on ConcurrentDictionary, though that would of course mean such an interface would need to ship in the Framework, and we're typically skittish about doing such a thing when we don't already have multiple types that would be able to implement the interface, e.g. those "future as-yet-un-dreamt-of keyed collections with the same behaviour" ;)
You can of course create a wrapper for ConcurrentDictionary that implements your own ISafeKeyedCollection interface, delegating to the wrapped dictionary, and then still get the benefits of it.
Hope that helps.
Hi Stephen:
Awesome class. Question on GetOrAdd(TKey key, Func<TKey, TValue> valueFactory), which seems to be an obvious choice for a cache implementation. Ideally, I'd like it to behave like this:
1. I ask for data for IBM. The data isn't in the cache, so I go and retrieve it, then cache it.
2. I ask for data for MSFT. The data isn't in the cache, so I begin retrieving it.
3. While still getting data for MSFT, I ask for data for IBM, and immediately receive it from the cache.
4. While still getting data for MSFT, I ask for data for GOOG. The data isn't in the cache, so I begin retrieving it.
5. While still getting data for MSFT, I ask for data for MSFT again, and, since that key's data is already currently being retrieved, I don't begin a new retrieval but wait for the first one to complete and then return the data from the first MSFT retrieval.
From reading the description, it sounds like GetOrAdd(TKey key, Func<TKey, TValue> valueFactory) supports steps 1, 2, 3, and 4. It's not clear to me whether it supports 5. Any insight here?
Thanks much,
Hi Daniel-
ConcurrentDictionary itself doesn't provide the functionality for #5, but it's easily layered in. In fact, in our Beta 2 samples, there's a type called AsyncCache that provides the functionality you're looking for (and more). Basically, it's a very thin wrapper around a ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, Lazy<Task<TValue>>>. The Lazy<> ensures that one and only one Task instance is generated per key, and the Task enables multiple things, including synchronously waiting for the data to be returned or asynchronously getting callbacks when the data has arrived. Since Task can be used to represent asynchronous I/O operations without blocking threads, you can get some great scalability out of this approach.
Look for the type in \ParallelExtensionsExtras\CoordinationDataStructures\AsyncCoordination\AsyncCache.cs.
And for reference the samples are posted at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples.
Stephen - perfect, thanks! Using a Lazy<Task> makes perfect sense.


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Show Your Manners and Respect Everyone
We heard from our parents how important it is to "mind your manners." Those manners are not just for your betters. You need to show respect to everyone you meet—even those you may not meet, who are behind the scenes. Aretha Franklin was right: Everyone wants R-E-S-P-E-C-T. To defuse negativity and lubricate organizational wheels, be sure to show that you feel everyone matters—along with what they do.
I'm always surprised when people don't have time for manners, especially with support staff. In fact, the lower someone's job grade, the more gracious and polite you should be to that person. Your kindness will be appreciated and returned in unexpected ways. In contrast, individuals who see themselves as slighted can react by causing trouble in more subtle ways, acting as "antibodies" in your working life as they try to get back at you or the company. Resentful people may try to put obstacles in your way or refuse to do more than the bare minimum for you. So be polite to everyone, no matter how you personally feel about them. It never pays to make enemy "antibodies" at work.
With small gestures, you can become known as someone who considers others and values their contributions. This doesn't mean memorizing a big book of etiquette. It does mean being consistently polite and patient. When you use your manners consistently, you show that you're capable of assuming a higher-level position and moving ahead in your career.


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|Legislators should start now to repair five years of state cuts
|Written by Margie Adams, Great Education Colorado board chair, Cherry Creek School District community volunteer and business consultant and Wendy Rimel, parent, president of Education Foundation of Eagle County
It's spring, and for Colorado's students that means state testing. This year, the same is true at the State Capitol where legislators, too, are facing a particularly high-stakes test.
The key question for them: when is the right time to start repairing the damage caused by the five years of state cuts?
Three answers to that question are circulating in the Capitol:
A) Never. The current level of education spending—$1 billion below inflation and growth—is the "new normal."
B) Not yet. If we increase spending significantly now, a future economic downturn could require us to cut again in the future.
C) Now. Revenues are recovering, and the future well-being of our students, families, communities and economy all depend on investing well and wisely in education.
Which bubble should the legislature fill in? Let's take the options one by one, starting with the first response: that schools and students should get used to the way things are now, because it's the best we can do.
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Art Notes: July 14, 2013
Art Store display
The Art Store is displaying an assortment of new and recent works called "Out in the Open" through Aug. 9.
The selected works include paintings, prints, photographs, handmade pottery items, mixed media works, drawings and sculpture by local and national artists.
The Art Store, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 1013 Bridge Road, Charleston; www.theartstorewv.com or 304-345-1038.
Two exhibits at Carnegie Hall
LEWISBURG -- Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg is presenting two art exhibits through August.
Romney Shelton Collins's "Nothing but Joy" exhibit is in the Old Stone Room. Collins, who lives in Greenbrier County and in Port St. Lucie, Fla., teaches art in both locations.
Her oil paintings are in the permanent collection of the University of Charleston, and she is a juried member of Tamarack.
In the auditorium gallery is Pamela Gatens' "Colorful Cats and Flowers" exhibit.
Pamela Gatens of Pocahontas County is an artist in the impressionist style who finds her inspiration in colorful cats and flowers. Her work is in The Colony Gallery at The Greenbrier Hotel and at Tamarack.
A reception for the Gatens exhibit will be from 5 to 8 p.m. July 25 in conjunction with the evening's free Ivy Terrace Concert.
The galleries at Carnegie Hall are open and free to the public from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Many of the works are available for purchase, which benefits the artist and the Hall.
For more information about the exhibits, call 304-645-7917 or visit www.carnegiehallwv.org.
Met Opera Encore
An encore presentation of Verdi's "La Traviata" performed by the Metropolitan Opera will be shown from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Regal theater in Nitro and at Cinemark in the Huntington Mall at Barboursville.
Tickets are $12.50 at Regal; $11.50 adults, $10.50 seniors and students, $9.50 children at Cinemark.
For free passes for Cinemark, call Phil at 304- 634-3931; for free passes at Regal, call Julie at 304-776-5999.
Comment of historic program
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History's proposed Annual Work Program for its 2013-2014 Historic Preservation Program is now available for public review and comment. The work program describes the activities and programs the State Historic Preservation Office will undertake to assist communities and residents in preserving the physical evidence of the state's history.
Copies of the proposed work program have been given to public libraries in all counties. The plan also may be reviewed at the preservation office at the Culture Center, state Capitol Complex, and online at www.wvculture.org/shpo.
Comments may be submitted by completing a "Work Program Comment Form," available at public libraries and the website, and return it to: Susan M. Pierce, SHPO director, at the Culture Center, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E., Charleston, W.Va., 25305-0300 or by email to firstname.lastname@example.com. The deadline for public comment is Aug. 15.
Wild and Whimsical @ Art Emporium Presents
"Wild and Whimsical," works by JP Owens of Charleston will be on exhibit Tuesday through Aug. 10 at Art Emporium.
An artist reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday during Artwalk.
Owens, 35, received a degree in fine art, printmaking, from West Virginia State University after studying printmaking at Marshall University.
According to a news release, Owens is incorporating acrylic and digital imagery to create work that reflects his rural surroundings but often includes an abstracted sense of surrealism. "This twist of reality provides the viewer with a distorted, sometimes humorous glimpse of a typically ordinary scene," the release said.
Art Emporium, 823 Quarrier St., is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.
To have your announcement included in Arts Notes, email email@example.com or send it to Arts Notes, The Charleston Gazette, 1001 Virginia St. E., Charleston, WV 25301. Artwork can be submitted electronically or by mail. Deadline for inclusion in the Sunday Gazette-Mail is the Tuesday before Sunday publication.


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Jessica DeWall Canfield
Online Modality Instructor ~ Adjunct Instructor: Arts & Sciences ~ Life-Long Learner
About Me
Hello everyone! My name is Jessica Canfield and this is my very first ePortfolio. As a self-proclaimed "technology geek", I was very excited to start this project!
So a little bit about me….Currently I survive mostly on Chipotle and Starbucks. I wear (and enjoy wearing) multiple hats. I am a mother, wife, teacher, helper, problem solver, idea developer and life-long learner. By day I work as an Online Modality Instructor, by night (and weekends!) I am an Adjunct Instructor in the Arts and Sciences. I am employed by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide, which gives me the opportunity to explore my many interests in an educational setting. I also have an amazing (and very supportive) family (pictured below)!
I'm passionate about education. I feel the most comfortable in an academic setting, either teaching or learning. My interest in teaching was a natural progression for me. I have a love of learning that has translated into being a "career student", (In fact, I was just accepted into my second Master's degree program in Leadership Development!) and I have a desire to share that love with others.
In the two positions I hold with ERAU-Worldwide, I am able to promote learning and generate excitement of the topics that I feel so passionate about. I think instructing students in Sociology/Psychology and providing faculty development are very similar. Both require the "student" to delve deep within the psyche and reflect on their own experiences. In addition, teaching at an Aeronautical University, often students are taking my courses because it is mandatory for them to complete an upper level elective. I feel the same is often true for the faculty in my Faculty Development courses. Bringing in my enthusiasm for teaching and my excitement for technology allows me to share my passion and knowledge regarding these topics, and hopefully
my students to buy into them as well! There is nothing better than being able to spark a student's interest and get them excited about something they did not think they needed to know! I guess you could say that I am always up for a challenge.
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It's been a while since I was here last.
Last year I got an overuse injury while training for a marathon and maintaing my regular group rides, this year I committed to doing a Triathlon but March saw things differently. I had a slip and fall on the ice and hurt my back and SI joint. I rode a couple of times with the tri-club but found my back could not take it.
I started spinning over the last few weeks and cut back on my running. To play it safe for next spring I would be happy enough to do a durathon.
Is the training for a durathon the same for a Tri except without the wet suit.


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Modern humans may have evolved 200,000 years earlier than we thought
For early hominid hunters, there was no greater prize than an elephant. Kill just one of those, and a tribe could eat well for days. But when the elephants suddenly disappeared, something remarkable happened: Our hominid ancestors became more intelligent.


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Choose from a variety of frame styles, colors and sizes to compliment your favorite Society6 gallery, or fine art print - made ready to hang. Fine-crafted from solid woods, premium shatterproof acrylic protects the face of the art print, while an acid free dust cover on the back provides a custom finish. All framed art prints include wall hanging hardware.
still life, flower, vase, daisy, white, minimal, elegant, nature
So beautiful!
Thank you so much Lisa and Gréta for your very kind comments xx
beautiful work
Thank you very much Sylvia xx
Love the light and the background is so beautiful!
Thank you so much Isabelle....hope that you have a lovely weekend xx
Absolutely fantastic inspired work! Beautiful
beautiful. adore the light
Gorgeous... What a great vase... I like the greys in it...
Oh my goodness.... I love this image SO much! The shape of the vase... the lack of any color all around gives such a feeling of airiness and calm and then that bright, dainty flower that catches our eye. It's just wonderful, Ingrid! Happy Weekend to you, dear!
Beautiful! Love the vase and all the white!
Wow, so beautiful Ingrid!! Absolutely gorgeous!!
Simplistic and very beautiful!
Wow, this is excellent!
Cold and gorgeous :)
love the simplicity of this... very beautiful
This is beautiful!!! Cold and comforting at the same time ♥ I love this.
love it ♥
the wintery scene, bare trees in the background make this so interesting :)
Very nice!
Amazing work. Love it.
love this! crispness!
Beautiful work!
Simply beautiful..very delicate, yet powerful.
Love this, such a simple thriving piece.
wow, I love your work. beautiful.
So pretty!!
The beautiful solitude to this flower and the subtle light , with that magic twist of the water uneven gives a wonderful composition ... Stylish work Ingz
simple and elegant
Wow! Gorgeous, I'm sensing the message of hope in this illustration. There are so many good messages in this piece- I don't know where to start- Great piece : )
love it
Wow! So beautiful & magical.... love the simplicity!
This has a beautiful "feel" to it.
Ingrid, this is so beautiful!! love the minimalist style ... everything about this! xxx L
That means alot Lena...thank you so much my friend xxx
Thank you sll so much for your very kind comments....I truly appreciate them xxx
Beautiful composition!
love this image.
Elegant and emotive image
Such a beautiful and delicate looking image on your iphone..love ti!!!
Gorgeous! Carpe Diem
beautiful work
Adore this ingz xx
love this! great spot of color!
You really know how to set a table - and an atmosphere ~ xx
Stunning :D So pretty!
This is my absolute favourite ♥
You have so many flavors ~ each one so beautiful. x
Always loved this one :)
I just think this is completely spectacular! : ) xxxxx
Simply beautiful!
This is so lovely, Ingrid!
Absolutely lovely!
gorgeous piece!
Thank you all so much for all of your very kind comments and support xxx
Thank you so much MadiS xx
very lovely work . i like the red colour in the white .
Beautiful and so moody!! xx
lovely ---ari
Beautiful, love the calm mood
wow! Fabulous on shower curtains!! love it :)
Promoted and followed with pleasure!
Soooooooooooooooo beautiful Ingrid
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Bob, it looks like No Grip's PR team and a willing english media has done one over you. They have convinced you he is a "nice guy". Anyway, you criticise everyone else about our "inside knowledge" of F1 and then make a ridiculous statement like that. Just cos you haven't heard something, can't possibly be true. You need to talk to more people.


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The Life-changing Interventions for the Ultra Poor (LiftUP) Project is a 24-36 month accelerator program that provides early-stage entrepreneurs with business development support and financial resources to launch and scale their businesses.
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Members of the firm at all levels are involved in voluntary activity for social and charitable initiatives. These include youth, housing, homeless and disabled projects, in which many of us participate as trustees, board members or hands-on helpers. We regularly come alongside our friends from other local firms at charity events such as Dragon Boat racing at Baltic Wharf.
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1. A compound or complex of lipid and carbohydrate.
2. The lipopolysaccharide (endotoxin) released from the cell walls of gram-negative organisms that produces septic shock.
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As you may have gleaned from the pages of our magazine, we love tackling the occasional home decor project. Whether it's a vertical wall garden or a comfy upholstered headboard, we relish the chance to roll up our sleeves, especially if the end results is something beautiful for a very reasonable price.
I have a tendency to take on elaborate projects, ones where I can learn how to use a new tool or get my hands on lots of new materials. I chalk it up to professional curiosity. But every so often, I just want a quickie project—something fast and easy, with minimal prep or mess and great results. I was delighted to stumble across this doormat tutorial by photographer and blogger Kinsey Mhire; it's my new favorite project on the quick-and-easy list.
The sign of a successful simple tutorial is when you don't even need written instructions. Just follow the visual cues below, and in less than hour (plus drying time of course) you'll have yourself an artful way to welcome all visitors. This project is great for beginners as well; the uneven type and eyeballed chevron design only adds more charm.
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Few coaches have ever won a national championship, had a team ranked number one in the country, or coached swimmers to Olympic gold. Randy Reese might be the first and only coach to do so at every level.
* High School…Mythical National High School Champions
* College…NCAA National Champions-men and women
* USA Swimming Age Group… number one ranked Age Group Team in the country
* USA Swimming Senior… National Champions-men and women
* Internationally…USA Olympic Coach with 41 Olympians winning 35 Olympic medals (9 gold) along with 16 world records
In addition to the above accomplishments, Coach Reese is one of the most innovative and progressive coaches ever to step on a pool deck.
These are a few of the many reasons why Dolfin Swim (Jade Swimwear, LP) welcomes Coach Reese as a senior member of Dolfin's Advisory Board. Randy is currently the Director of Aquatics and Head Coach of the Clearwater Aquatic Team. Prior to this he served as head coach at the Bolles School, J.E.T.S., Episcopal Academy, Randy Reese Swim Team, the University of Florida, Florida Aquatic Swim Team, Holmes Lumber Aquatic Swim Team, Circle C Ranch Swim Team, and Texas Aquatics.
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Why use one over the other?
== is the identity test. It will return true if the two objects being tested are in fact the same object.
Identity testing is faster, so you can use it when there's no need for more expensive equality tests. For example, comparing against
It's possible to overload either of these to provide different behavior -- like identity testing for
Pointed out below: some types like
See also:
To elaborate:
DateTime is implemented as a struct. All structs are children of System.ValueType.
Since System.ValueType's children live on the stack, there is no reference pointer to the heap, and thus no way to do a reference check, you must compare objects by value only.
System.ValueType overrides .Equals() and == to use a reflection based equality check, it uses reflection to compare each fields value.
Because reflection is somewhat slow, if you implement your own struct, it is important to override .Equals() and add your own value checking code, as this will be much faster. Don't just call base.Equals();
Everyone else pretty much has you covered, but I have one more word of advice. Every now and again, you will get someone who swears on his life (and those of his loved ones) that .Equals is more efficient/better/best-practice or some other dogmatic line. I can't speak to efficiency (well, OK, in certain circumstances I can), but I can speak to a big issue which will crop up: .Equals requires an object to exist. (Sounds stupid, but it throws people off.)
You can't do the following:
It seems obvious to me, and perhaps most people, that you will get a NullReferenceException. However, proponents of .Equals forget about that little factoid. Some are even "thrown" off (sorry, couldn't resist) when they see the NullRefs start to pop up.
(And years before the DailyWTF posting, I did actually work with someone who mandated that all equality checks be .Equals instead of ==. Even proving his inaccuracy didn't help. We just made damn sure to break all his other rules so that no reference returned from a method nor property was ever null, and it worked out in the end.)
== is generally the "identity" equals meaning "object a is in fact the exact same object in memory as object b".
equals() means that the objects logically equal (say, from a business point of view). So if you are comparing instances of a user-defined class, you would generally need to use and define equals() if you want things like a Hashtable to work properly.
If you had the proverbial Person class with properties "Name" and "Address" and you wanted to use this Person as a key into a Hashtable containing more information about them, you would need to implement equals() (and hash) so that you could create an instance of a Person and use it as a key into the Hashtable to get the information.
Using == alone, your new instance would not be the same.
According to MSDN:
In C#, there are two different kinds of equality: reference equality (also known as identity) and value equality. Value equality is the generally understood meaning of equality: it means that two objects contain the same values. For example, two integers with the value of 2 have value equality. Reference equality means that there are not two objects to compare. Instead, there are two object references and both of them refer to the same object.
By default, the operator == tests for reference equality by determining whether two references indicate the same object.
The example is because the class DateTime implements the IEquatable interface, which implements a "type-specific method for determining equality of instances." according to MSDN.
Another thing to take into consideration: the == operator may not be callable or may have different meaning if you access the object from another language. Usually, it's better to have an alternative that can be called by name.
For instance
Also note that the semantics of both can be complex.
Best practice is to implement equality like this example. Note that you can simplify or exclude all of this depending on how you plan on using you class, and that
use equals if you want to express the contents of the objects compared should be equal. use == for primitive values or if you want to check that the objects being compared is one and the same object. For objects == checks whether the address pointer of the objects is the same.
I have seen Object.ReferenceEquals() used in cases where one wants to know if two references refer to the same object
If you do disassemble (by dotPeek for example) of Object, so
described as:
So, is depend on type. For example:
First time b is true (equal performed on value types), second time b is true (equal performed on value types), third time b is false (equal performed on reference types).
I think the fundamental confusion is caused by virtual method Equals in System.Object has been implemented 'wrong'! It was meant to check equality but what it does is checking identity. In c# framework class library (FCL) Equals in Object class is implemented like this
So this is doomed to fail on inheritance hierarchy because it simply checks identity rather than equality which is what it should do. Also if you don't override Equals in your own type, there is no difference between calling


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The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority announced Monday that it has dismantled dozens of charities run by the rival Hamas group and frozen their accounts, pressing forward with a crackdown on the Islamic militant group.
The move deepened the bitter rivalry between the Palestinian rivals since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June. President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah has systematically targeted Hamas power bases in his West Bank stronghold since the Gaza takeover.
Government spokesman Riad Malki described the 92 charity committees as a financial empire for Hamas. He said the committees were quietly shuttered two weeks ago. There was no explanation for the delay in announcing the move.
The committees are formed by prominent local and religious leaders under the supervision of the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The committees collect money and distribute it to the poor, usually during religious holidays. Muslims will celebrate their holy day of Eid al-Adha in late December.
Malki said the committees were infiltrated by Hamas activists in previous years of Fatah rule. "They transformed the charity committees into financial empires to serve their political ends and activities," Malki said.
However, Malki declined to say how much cash it froze. The cash will now be passed on to 11 new committees formed by the government.
Following the Gaza takeover, Abbas expelled Hamas from the Palestinian government and installed a new pro-Western Cabinet in the West Bank. Abbas agreed last week to re-launch peace talks with Israel, while the violently anti-Israel Hamas remains entrenched in Gaza.
Abbas' government has arrested dozens of Hamas activists throughout the West Bank and three months ago closed more than 100 charity groups run by Hamas activists.
Abbas is under pressure to crush challenges by Hamas in the West Bank to secure his party's rule, and to show Israel and the West that he is able to implement any peace deal agreed to with Israel.
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According to court documents, 44-year-old Douglas Pennock of Pittsfield, Illinois was the owner and operator of JDL Longhorn Inc., which provided services to construct animal confinement systems.
Between 2006 and June 2008, Pennock and JDL Longhorn obtained substantial financing from small town banks totaling more than $10 million. The indictment alleges Pennock provided false information to one of those banks in order to secure the line of credit, which included providing fake reports regarding his company's financial status.
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Lost a close 3rd round with doubles partner Lucic-Baroni...... wish they made QF but still much better than singles hope they stick together as a team for Wimbledon
|May 24th, 2016 03:53 AM
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she takes great pics, even when losing! <3
|May 18th, 2016 03:51 AM
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|May 18th, 2016 12:30 AM
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This is clearly not going anywhere. Perhaps she should consider being a doubles specialist.
Focus only on clay court doubles. lol
|May 17th, 2016 05:53 PM
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Tragic. only 6 games won. She's over before she started.
|May 17th, 2016 03:31 PM
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This is clearly not going anywhere. Perhaps she should consider being a doubles specialist.
|May 16th, 2016 03:31 PM
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If she doesn't qualify with draw like that one...
|May 16th, 2016 02:25 PM
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|May 7th, 2016 07:14 PM
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|May 4th, 2016 01:24 AM
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looks like her Singles ranking is at 116.
I'm not really sure what to expect this year, but I'm hoping she can get near to where she was at around USO'14.
|May 3rd, 2016 10:53 AM
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Cagnes 100k
first round def. (Q) Saez Larra 3-6 6-2 6-2. Shouldn't be struggling this much against scrubs me thinks.
Next up Linette or Van Cauter. GL
|May 1st, 2016 02:28 PM
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at least she won doubles
|Apr 29th, 2016 01:51 PM
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After watching Marina beat Kiki Bertens in the semis I take some of my criticism of Aleks back. Clearly Marina has rediscovered some of her form, she has always had a very good modern forehand (somewhat similar to the more advanced male ATP style forehand which allows for higher levels of spin production combined with power, like Stosur and Justine Henin) and this surface theoretically suits her, but of late she just hasn't been winning anything (she isn't very athletic or fast and her defence on the backhand is rather lacking, so she really needs her serve and forehand and volleys etc to work well to cover her lack of footspeed).
Still, I think this tournament was a big opportunity for Aleks and I doubt Marina was as good against her as she was against Kiki- I presume Marina's confidence has been growing throughout the tournament.
|Apr 28th, 2016 03:46 PM
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Marina Erakovic has hardly been winning anything of late so these last two wins have been critical for her and I'm pleased for her as a fellow kiwi.
Still, Aleks should be disappointed with this. Marina was one of the better second round opponents after Lesia had to pull out.
Looking at that clip, I still feel that Aleks tends to get too defensive and passive. But it's because somehow her groundies, especially forehand, are not trustworthy enough to keep going for her shots consistently. She loses confidence in them and then just keeps the ball in play. In that point she didn't really go for either of the last two forehands, the first allowed Marina to approach the net and the pass was not hit aggressively enough. A pity because her movement is world class, almost above world class really. But if she can't improve her shot precision she won't be able to progress further, apart from displaying amazing court coverage against top players. Beating the mid range players is a very different skill to challenging the top ones, and Aleks struggles against those slightly lower level players.
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She lost 4-6 4-6 to Erakovic.
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All too often, we see patients turn to the emergency department (ED) for medical conditions that would more appropriately be addressed through primary care services. Here in Milwaukee County, an estimated 48 percent of all ED visits are by patients without emergency needs. But the problem is certainly not localized--it's a nationwide issue that contributes significantly to the rising cost of healthcare.
For example, a 2010 study by RAND Corporation found as many as 17 percent, if not more, of all ED visits to be unnecessary, costing the United States about $4.4 billion in healthcare costs. While the RAND study points to the role retail health clinics and urgent care centers could play in reducing the ED burden, there are many patients for whom an appointment with a primary care provider would also be in order.
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Number of persons doing research and development in Scandivan countries is 7,000 per million of population and 4,700 per million of population in the US. In India, there are 156 researchers per million of population. This is a very big issue, he said. R&D spending as percentage of GDP in India is only 0.8% as compared to China's 1.23%. Developed countries have R&D expenditure of up to 3% of GDP.
Of the 0.8% expenditure in India, 80% is by public sector while the private sector share is only 20%. In China and the US, the public sector share is only 30% each while in Japan it is only 18%.
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Sibal said to increase number of researchers in the country, university system will have to be strengthened by expanding and upgrading infrastructure as presently R&D quality in university is negligible.
The 11th Plan allocations for scientific departments including departments of science and technology and atomic energy, has been increased three folds to Rs 75,304 crore during the 11th Plan (2007-2012) as compared to Rs 25,301.35 crore of 10th Plan Period, he said.
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An old woman is standing in the middle of the isle in your local supermarket. You don't see her and you bump into her. In Korea, you would apologize ten times and give her your business card, just in case she wants to contact you. In Hungary, you would apologize profusely. In Israel, you would scold her and ask why she is standing in the middle of the isle waiting for an accident to happen…What is the proper thing to do in a given culture? Why do non-native speakers visiting other cultures tend to offend the locals? These questions can all be answered by understanding the pragmatics of a culture. Pragmatics is the study of language as action and of the social contexts in which linguistic action takes place. Cross-cultural pragmatics is the study of linguistic action carried out by language users from different ethnolinguistic backgrounds. Pragmatics is based on speech acts such as apologies and requests and their acceptable use in different cultures. In this class, we will first discuss two theoretical approaches to pragmatics: speech act theory and politeness theory. Following this introduction, we will focus on case studies from Middle Eastern countries such as Israel, Iran and Egypt. We will examine detail research on the production and interpretation of speech acts across cultures.
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It started with a phone conversation he overheard last week - his mother's voice quivering as she whispered about his baseball coach.
Tears streaming down his face, 7-year-old Quinn Kelly continued to listen, hoping the word he heard had been a mistake.
But it wasn't.
Coach Ted Pietryka - the father of one his teammates on the Fox Ledge Spring Water Abington Little League baseball team - was diagnosed with Stage 3 lung and throat cancer in August.
On Saturday, in an effort to raise money in support of Mr. Pietryka's fight, Quinn and his teammates will sell customized bracelets from 9 to 11 a.m. at Stroney Field, Winola Road and South Grove Street in Clarks Summit.
Engraved on the bracelets are five words: "Team Ted. Brave. Strong. Heroic."
"I was really sad because he always makes us feel better. He was always smiling no matter what we did during the game," Quinn said.
"He taught us how to fight, and because of that we got better as a team."
Now the roles are reversed - it is Mr. Pietryka who is in a battle, and the children are the ones pushing him, urging him to fight.
"He got us through difficult times by remaining positive," Quinn said. "It's our turn now."
As of now, it remains up in the air whether Mr. Pietryka will be well enough to make an appearance.
"He had chemotherapy on Monday and he has been in bed all week," said his wife, Jen. "But I know how much he wants to make it there."
Either way, Mrs. Pietryka said what the kids are doing will be a "great boost to his morale."
"The kids are showing a great deal of gratitude to spend their Saturday out there supporting him," Mrs. Pietryka said. "He has been struggling lately and this will absolutely help."
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Roundup: Playoff-bound Power wins pair in Lexington
The West Virginia Power continued to steam toward the post season as it picked up two wins at Lexington on Sunday by the scores of 4-3 and 1-0.
Josh Bell homered in the first game and second baseman Jimmy Rider drove in three runs as West Virginia earned a 4-3 decision in a game that was suspended due to rain on Saturday. Jason Creasy (6-4) earned the win in relief after giving up two runs (one earned) on four hits and a walk while striking out five in five innings.
Luis Urena drove in Raul Fortunato with a second-inning single to account for all of the offense in the seven-inning second game.
Thomas Harlan (6-3) got the win in relieve after throwing two perfect innings and striking out three.
The teams will conclude the regular season at 12:05 today. Righty Luis Heredia will get the nod for the Power and Lexington will counter with Daniel Stumpf.
West Virginia will host Hagerstown in the first game of the playoffs at 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday.
WVU WOMEN WIN: The No. 10 West Virginia women's soccer team earned a 2-0 win over Morehead State on Sunday in Morgantown.
Kelsie Maloney and Frances Silva each scored a goal for the Mountaineers (3-0-1) and Sara Keane recorded three saves in the shutout.
MU WOMEN TIE: Sophomore Erin Simmons scored her third goal of the year to give Marshall an early 1-0 lead, but the Thundering Herd couldn't hold on as it settled for a 1-1 draw with Akron in Huntington on Sunday.
Lani Smith's goal in the 71st minute knotted things up for the Zips. Marshall moved to 2-1-1 on the year.
PREP FOOTBALL: Parkersburg tallied 27 points in the third quarter to pull away and defeat Warren Local (Ohio) 51-40 Saturday night at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. The game was delay about 35 minutes because of lightning.
Melvin Stubbs gained 124 yards on 15 carries for Parkersburg while Aaron Roberts completed just 5 of 6 passes for 193 yards. Dan Fox had two catches for 99 yards for the Big Reds, which rolled up 434 total yards.
Austin Klintworth threw for 260 yards and gained 114 yards rushing for Warren Local, which churned out 413 total yards. Andrew Henthorn hauled in nine passes for 119 catches and David Ryan added four receptions for 100 yards.


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So, I've gotten a ton of sledheads e-mailing me since that first video went out. Here's what people are already saying about it:
"Big deal? It's just a shot of a ski! I want more!"
"Your camerawork is for crap!"
"Carl, will you marry me, you dashing stud?"
Let me take these one at a time. To answer the first question, I'll say this: Just Wait! This next video's got it all. And by "all," I mean not quite all, but it's another piece to the 2012 snowmobile puzzle that you didn't have.
Okay, so my camera work is subpar. Sue me. I'm a welder, not some film school doofus.
And as for the third question: Sorry, sweetheart. I appreciate the compliment, but I'm happy with wife number three here, so no thanks.
Well, I hope you folks like this video. Looking back, I wish I hadn't followed every anonymous tip that came my way. But, ya know, live and learn.
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More and more films premiere on Video on Demand -- if they don't simply bypass a theatrical release altogether. Because VOD reviews are often scarce and hard to find, Criticwire created VODetails, a recurring column to help you figure out whether a new VOD release is worth your hard-earned dollar. This time we're looking at "Starlet," a Spirit Award winner about the unlikely friendship between two women -- not a biopic about the life and career of Soleil Moon Frye.
Directors: Sean Baker
Cast: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, James Ransone
Criticwire Average: B (out of 26 critics)
Official Synopsis: "'Starlet' explores the unlikely friendship between 21 year-old Jane (Hemingway), and 85 year-old Sadie (Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates, Melissa and Mikey, while taking care of her Chihuahua, Starlet. Sadie, an elderly widow, passes her days alone, tending to her flower garden. After a confrontation between the two women at Sadie's yard sale, Jane uncovers a hidden stash of money inside a relic from Sadie's past. Jane attempts to befriend the caustic older woman in an effort to solve her dilemma and secrets emerge as their relationship grows."
"If you're in the mood for a movie that rewards an attentive, intelligent viewer, it's a joyous experience."
"An interesting effort from indie filmmaker Sean Baker (this is his fourth feature), and signals the arrival of Dree Hemingway as one to watch."
"It'll have you pretty convinced early on that you're watching yet another formulaic 'American indie,' but as director Sean Baker slowly shows his cards, it becomes increasingly intriguing and surprising."
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Bathroom Makeovers: Where to Start
Bathroom sinks come in a wide variety of styles and materials. The sink should be the focal point of your bathroom so it is a good idea to consider this first before choosing other bathroom fixtures. Here we will explore the most popular type of bathroom sink, the vessel sink.
Glass Vessel Sinks
This type of bathroom sink is the most common and most affordable option, so if you are on a smaller budget this may be worth considering. The styles of glass bathroom vessel sinks have expanded greatly in recent years. There are simple classic styles such as round clear sinks in almost any color and more unique styles such as frosted glass sinks, artistic hand painted glass sinks, square and various shaped sinks as well… glass sinks offer the most variety in choices in terms of styles.
Stone Vessel Sinks
The stone vessel sink offers the natural beauty and strength of nature colliding with the functionality of a bathroom sink. Stone as a material offers an array of natural choices for your new bathroom vessel sink. White marble is an excellent choice to create a immaculate environment or if you'd prefer a more classic look, black granite works well. There is a whole range of natural stones to choose from such as honey onyx with its light hews of golden yellow tones that is luminous in a well-lit bathroom. There are many other stone materials to choose from such as crema marfil marble to green onyx and many others to compliment your style.
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Porcelain has been used for centuries for its soft glossy clean look and is available in many styles to choose from making it an excellent material for bathroom sinks. Porcelain comes in several colors as well now making it a more versatile choice for your bathroom makeover.
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Metal is a newer choice on the bathroom sink market coming in copper and stainless steel. Stainless steel offers a bold and modern look that will last a lifetime; it is used in Fung-Shui to bring about a sense of clarity and mental strength. For an older feel you can use copper which are sealed so they will not oxidize.
Modern Faucets
There is a huge range of new modern faucet designs on the bathroom market. Waterfall faucets are a popular style with many bathroom sinks as well as bamboo style faucets as well. The type of bathroom sink you have chosen should be taken into consideration when choosing your bathroom faucet.
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No bathroom is complete without a bathroom vanity. Vanities come in several finishes, from light natural finish that shows the natural details of the wood; as well as dark wenge finishes and rich cherry wood finish. The styles of bathroom vanities come in traditional for a classic style as well have many modern vanities. Wall mount vanities are a popular choice, two wall mounts can be used to create double vanities for two people to use
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Bathroom pedestals made from stone are a great way to bring the natural beauty of nature indoors. The cobble stone pedestal is one such bathroom fixture that utilizes boulders in their creation process offering exceptional natural beauty. They are typically paired with a cobble stone bathroom sink to complete the cobble union of pedestal and sink. Other stone pedestals that are popular are stone pedestals hand carved from a solid block of many stones including marble, granite, cobble, and travertine.
With the appropriate modern lighting you can brighten things up in style. Popular lighting fixtures include pendant lighting in many different styles including art glass, modern, traditional and ceiling mount lighting. Accent lighting serves as a great way to highlight bathroom décor and art.
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Taekwondo tests new scoring system before Olympics
nepal Taekwondo may be known mostly for its flashy kicks and acrobatic jumping, but it was the sport's disputed scoring system that gained the spotlight at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
To avoid getting thrown out of the Olympics, the sport's governing body completely overhauled its antiquated system of scoring punches and kicks.
At this weekend's British Open, an international taekwondo competition in Manchester, officials will be fine-tuning the new electronic scoring and video replay systems. The event is one of the key warm-up events ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, where the new technology will be used at the games for the first time.
In addition to revamping how attacks are scored, taekwondo officials have also changed the rules to make fights more entertaining for fans: Players now score more points for fancy kicks to the head.
"That encourages fighters to do the high kicks and spinning kicks that make spectators say 'wow,'" said Tony Grisman, the defending British Open champion in the men's 68-kilogram division. "It's definitely changed my strategy because if you're thinking tactically of how to get the most points, you have to kick high."
That's something Grisman hopes to try on his opponents at the Manchester tournament, which has attracted more then 400 top fighters from about 50 countries, including Olympic medalists and world champions.
One of the British Open's biggest tests will be how well the new scoring system works.
"We're trying to mimic the Olympic Games as closely as we can," said Ian Leafe, who heads the group that organized the British Open. "The human eye is only so quick, so we needed a system that was more objective."
In Beijing, several countries complained about scoring discrepancies. A British protest even led officials to overturn the original results of a women's heavyweight bout. In 2008, scoring was done manually by four corner judges and points were only awarded if three of the four judges registered a blow simultaneously.
Critics said that left too much room for error, and taekwondo officials worried the Korean martial art might be replaced in the Olympics by karate or Chinese wu-shu.
The World Taekwondo Federation, the sport's governing body, decided to go electronic.
Taekwondo fighters now wear an electronic body protector that registers kicks and punches only if the athlete strikes his or her opponent with sufficient force. Kicks to the head are still scored manually by corner judges, but coaches now have the right to at least one video replay per match, much like the Hawkeye system in tennis.
Leafe said the new system should eliminate the potential for scoring disputes.
"It's now much more transparent and calls can be challenged instantly in the middle of a fight," he said.
In the case of a challenge, the fight immediately stops and the referee confers with the judges or consults a video replay.
Since its origins as Korea's oldest martial art - which was once only taught to elite warriors - taekwondo has transformed itself into the world's most popular martial art. According to the World Taekwondo Federation, there are more than 70 million practitioners in 191 countries.
Korean soldiers still study the martial art to develop their combat skills; taekwondo translates as "the art of the foot and fist."
But for Olympic purposes, taekwondo fighters focus on their feet. That's because punches are only allowed to the body and are worth only one point - and only if the punch is strong enough to push the opponent off balance.
However, kicks can score up to four points if they're aimed at the head and if they involve a turning or spinning technique.


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It was all smiles and hand shakes Monday night as legislators, lobbyists and other political officials celebrated the kick-off to the start of session.
"It's a tradition, It's a Tallahassee tradition."
Every year, the Associated Industries of Florida hosts a reception to honor Florida's lawmakers and welcome them to the Capital city. The party gives senators and representatives, republicans and democrats, the chance to put their differences aside to socialize and possibly makes some allies before the 60-day battle begins.
"I can at least say hi to them and get in a quick issue with them before we start on our sprint tomorrow," said Senator Chris Smith.
"It's one of those events that's non-partisan, you see your colleagues from across the aisle," said Representative Hazelle Rogers.
A number of issues are on the chopping block this year, but many legislators believe improving Florida's economy should be at the top of the list.
"I think the governor and his push to get jobs in Florida has really transcended throughout the legislature, so a lot of things we're going to be doing is how can we get more jobs in Florida? How can we build Florida's economy, and I think that is going to be the focus this year in the legislature," said Smith.
"We recognize unemployment compensation is going to be one of those major issues and the pension plan for various employees across the state, so we're ready to work," said Rogers.
Session runs for a consecutive 60 days in which time, the members of the legislature are expected to present, preview, discuss and vote on bills that impact the people of the sunshine state.
Will a few hefty topics on the table, we'll just have to wait and see how well they can all work together to accomplish their goals.


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Stoner should not be allowed to wildcard, this is ridiculous. If he wanted to race, he shouldn't have retired, and from what I hear he doesn't want to race, so why are they putting pressure on him?
We don't need him showing up as he pleases to race. We all know how good he is at PI meaning he will probably take points off of championship contenders-is that fair? Honda having an Extra factory rider against the Yamaha's?
If it's going to happen then Honda should be forced to withdraw either Marquez or Pedrosa for the round, but I will be dissapointed for the sport if he does race.


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Immigration has never been an easy issue for the United States despite its touting itself as a nation of immigrants.
There are so many facets to any discussion on immigration, so many different impacts on different places and different individuals and businesses and groups that whatever is said or done will get under someone's skin. Universal agreement may not be possible, but sensible balance is.
Last week, a bipartisan group of senators offered a plan that overlapped the plan President Obama put forth on a number of questions. All of that togetherness is so rare that I'm not sure what to make of it.
The thing they mostly agreed on is important to the Seattle area, and that is an increase in the number of H-1B visas, a change that would allow high-tech companies to hire more foreign workers. Raising the ceiling on the number of H-1B visas is something Microsoft in particular has championed.
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The argument is that there aren't nearly enough talented, homegrown applicants to meet the need for skilled workers with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) degrees.
I've known a few talented people with computer expertise who've suffered stretches of unemployment, so I have some empathy with people who say tech companies prefer hiring young talent from abroad to possibly more expensive, older workers here.
I'm certain that is sometimes the case, but it also seems true that there are more jobs than could be filled from within.
There have long been clogs in the pipeline to a STEM degree. I think most people would acknowledge that American K-12 schools don't have as many good science and math teachers as they need, and few have much in the way of computer-science courses.
Math curricula are subject to periodic warfare over teaching methods, disrupting learning. And it is still a struggle to make STEM education accessible to some groups of students, particularly girls and students who are black, Latino or Native American.
There are efforts to address that, including several at the University of Washington, but they aren't enough.
Ed Lazowska, Bill and Melinda Gates chair of computer science and engineering at the UW, told me that right now, our economy is creating great jobs and they are going to other people's kids.
The challenge here is for people to realize we've got to be preparing our citizens for these jobs. I'll have more from him about that challenge in a future column.
Microsoft, in asking for more visas, said it pays foreign workers the same as American employees, something more than $100,000 a year. The median wage in the United States as of 2010 was $26,364, and the average wage $47,046. In Washington the average wage for the same year was $49,354, according to the state Office of Financial Management.
Last year, farmers in Central and Eastern Washington bemoaned a shortage of labor, but they were talking about finding people to cut asparagus for $10 or $11 an hour and jobs that would last maybe three months.
Immigration is far from one issue requiring one approach.
There are plenty of Americans who'd like to earn $100,000 a year. In its proposal last year, Microsoft offered a sweetener, a fee of $10,000 that employers would pay for each immigrant hired with the money to be used for STEM education.
For some bizarre reason, the Senate bill would drop that fee to $1,000. That doesn't make sense.
Whatever the folks in Washington agree on should make it easier both to benefit from the value immigrants add and to develop the potential that already exists here.
Jerry Large's column appears Monday and Thursday. Reach him at 206-464-3346 or firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter @jerrylarge


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You guys will hate me but it's my birthday and I felt like telling you guys. AHHHHHHH!!!
R.I.P "Gibbons" 4/3/2012
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Happy 50th!
"There are five real good recruits in the state. We got three of them. One couldnt get into school, and the other went to (the University of) Iowa...which is about the same thing." - Coach Johnny Orr
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I expected this haha. I'm just all kinds of jazzed. The tournament is always God's gift to me every year. AHHHHHHHH!
Happy Birthday.
Why are you on this website instead of being out with the ladies?
I am working ...what is your excuse?
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I expected this haha. I'm just all kinds of jazzed. The tournament is always God's gift to me every year. AHHHHHHHH!
Let's not say that ever again on CF... Thanks.
but, happy birthday!
When Prepared, Fear No One.
Happy Bday..............i needed more credits because I lost all mine on the Mizzou game
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This Computer World article goes over installing Linux apps from source (compiling), from your distribution's package manager, and from an third party intall package. Master these 3 simple install methods and you're one step closer to being a Linux Jedi.
Sooner or later, we all end up installing new software on our computers. Whether it's a new version of Firefox, or a cool game, or a video editing package, there comes a time when you want to make your system do more than it can do now.
Under Linux, installing new applications isn't a particularly hard task, but installations do come in several different varieties, so it's worth understanding the differences and what you'll need to know to make them work.
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In light of what is happening in my families life at the moment I have though'blow it' and have bought the guidescope I have coveted for the last year - the whole extra setup cost another £300 but you know I was feeling like that didn't matter at the moment.
What it will mean if I can get it working ( no easy feat I am led to believe) is that I will be able to take exposures of up to 20 minutes or maybe more at a time rather than the 2 I am limited to at the moment. So if the skies ever clear I should really be in business