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IPv6 address? How did they get there? How do I find them and change them?
There's no IPv6 interfaces on this host. Our DNS doesn't serve IPv6 and the host file doesn't have any IPv6 addresses in it. Where would they have come from?
I have cranked up my pre-upgrade 6.0.6 environment running in another VM and when I run the same commands on it I get no IPv6 indicators:
Why on earth would the upgrade add the IPv6 values if Zimbra cant handle IPv6? I just did an upgrade of another test host from 6.0.5 and the same thing happened. After the upgrade to 7.2.0.P1, suddenly there are IPv6 entries in the database/config files.postconf mynetworks
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Renowned environmental journalist to present lecture on Rachel Carson
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Award-winning environmental journalist William Souder, author of biographies of Rachel Carson and John James Audubon, will speak at the University of Florida Oct. 24.
Souder will give UF's 2013 Burns Lecture. His talk, "From Conservation to Environmentalism," will discuss Carson, her monumental 1962 book "Silent Spring," and the origins of America's troubled relationship with the natural world.
Souder's book "On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson," was published by Crown last year on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Carson's classic "Silent Spring." He is also author of "Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and "Plague of Frogs: Unraveling an Environmental Mystery."
A reception with refreshments and food starts at 6:30 in Smathers Library (East) Room 1A. The lecture is free and open to the public. It is hosted by the department of history and co-sponsored by the Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at UF, the Tropical Conservation and Development Program of the Center for Latin American Studies at UF, and Smathers Library.
A book sale and signing will follow the lecture.

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Lightweight and Breathable
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: Runs large
These shorts are perfect for summer biking and I do not have any complaints at this time. They are lightweight, breathable, durable, and comfortable. I am 5?7 and 135 lbs and the small fits perfectly. I would say that the sizing does run on the large side, as I started out with a medium and had to exchange for the smaller size, but the chart should get you fairly close.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
I love the shorts, but I'm not so fond of the chamois that came with these. The chamois seem to be a bit on the large side, but the shorts fit perfect. I bought a size large, I'm 5'7 and 160lbs. I have been wearing my Dakine chamois under these shorts, and it's a great combo!
Love them now
- Fit: Runs large
You know, I should have heeded the various warnings about these shorts being too large. I ordered a pair for my wife as a surprise, and I guess she felt flattered when the size large that she normally wears, having to upsize most bike apparel, virtually fell to the floor when she tried them on. Backcountry, as usual being easy to deal with, exchanged the shorts for size effortlessly, and now she absolutely loves them. She says it's definitely the best chamois she has, and she has quite a few. Great summer shorts.
Flattering&Comfy! Ditch the chamois
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: Runs large
I was on a mission to find a good pair of mtb riding shorts that had quality material, fit comfortably AND looked stylish. DONE. Love these shorts. They run big. I'm 5ft, 120lbs, 26 waist/ size 2 waist. I bought an XS and they're perfect. Hated the chamois liner though. Total front to back wedgie, rode up in the all the wrong places.
Really cool photo Adoraeleven!
quality riding short
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
- Fit: Runs large
i bought these for my girlfriend in the hopes that with a comfortable chamois i could get her to ride more- mission accomplished! she likes the casual look of em, stretchy, but not overly stretchy. they are a little longer than most, and they indeed do size a little large.
overall a good buy.
Wierd fit, runs large...
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: Runs large
I love the material of these shorts-- very stretchy and nonbinding. I'm 5'4", longish legs, size 10 jeans, and ordered a size "L". I've got a 31" waist, and these are too big in the waist. I wear a belt and that seems to work, though the pockets kind of pucker in a strange way. I want to love these, but I think they will just be my back up mtn. biking shorts. The chamois is fine.
Great material! Just ok chamois
So happy with these shorts! Material was light and stretchy. They were super comfortable on the 14 mile ride in Tahoe with 80-90 degree weather. I am 5ft and 120 pounds. I ordered the XS and they were a fantastic fit. Flattering fit and length but not too tight. Lots of room to move and bend without being too bulky. Liked the pockets. I would wear my own liner next time though. Didn't like the padding in the chamois, seemed to ride up.
Super light and stretchy
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
These knee length shorts feel great! Slim fit without being restrictive anywhere even when squatting down. I don't like that the chamois is white but it has a good pad. The purple looks really sheer and almost two-tone in the pic and they aren't like that at all. Solid purple with white trim. My new fav pair of shorts to race MTB in!!
Awesome shorts
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I wore these shorts mtn biking in the Himalaya, they kept me warm, I received a ton of compliments and they protected my legs from scrapes/bruises. For warm evenings I could wear as shorts without the chammy and took them to the river for a dip. A must have all purpose touring short. I'm hooked and ordered a black pair.
Loved the shorts
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I really like the shorts, the liner padding felt different than my regular bike shorts, but was great when I actually riding. The style is very cool. They do run large.
Great Shorts/Mediocre Linner
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Good price, lite weight, durable ride.
These run large and rest right at the knee when riding.
The liner runs large as well. I didn't end up using the liner and rode with my own bibs underneath instead.
Comfortable with a GREAT chamois
I should point out first that the Amethyst is definitely more purple than the photo leads on. A nice royal purple, nothing crazy. The first thing you might notice when you put these on (if you bought the right size) is how comfortable the liner is. Sugoi uses a quality chamois that protects and doesn't feel like a piece of wool between your legs. The liner fabric also breathes really well and doesn't feel like an extra layer under the shorts. The cut of the shorts is flattering and not overly baggy. They have a relaxed cut to them without being overly generous. The bottom hem sits right above my knee, so I don't look I am wearing man shorts or too much like a puritan. I am 5'9", 135 lbs and the medium fits with just a touch of extra room (which I prefer). I love these shorts so much I might just buy a pair in black. Well worth the money and great for commuting or mountain biking in.
Could do better
The picture of these made them appear shiny and fast but when i got them they looked like old purple polyester. The inner thigh strip accents your privates in a weird way. No problems with the fit - I'm always a size small and the small fit perfectly. The gusset is supposed to be some fancy new design but feels like every other pair of bike shorts. The leg elastic is extremely sticky. If you make a pit stop and are a bit sweaty don't expect to get them back on any time soon.
Pear shape...
I ordered a (L) and they are WAY to big in the waist and loose in the thigh, so I'm hoping the step down to a (M) will fit MY pear shape! 160, 5'9"....the large per the measurements provided should have worked so giving it a three star at the moment.
Well, LV'd the color and the stretch of these but sadly the medium was just to small...they need an inbetween size or to fix the crotch/inseam length on the large I guess. DRATZ. Sombrio seems to be the only short that fits me.


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Thank you everyone for such nice comments!
I used a layer cake and a jelly roll for this one. Cut the layer cake in 4" and 6" pieces, inserted a 10" contrasting jelly roll strip, then attached another jelly roll strip horizontal on the top. Went together real quick and took me 3 hours to machine quilt.
I got the idea from a tutorial on here. I think Natalie did it but I am not sure I followed it exactly. Playing it by ear is my speciality!
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Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. This marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies.
About the Author
Colson Whitehead was born and raised in New York City. His first novel, "The Intuitionist" (1999) was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway. His next work, "John Henry Days" (2001), was a "New York Times" Editor's Choice, won the Young Lions Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, "The Colossus of New York," was a N"ew York Times" Notable Book of a Year. Whitehead has also been the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and a MacArthur Grant. His writing has appeared in the "The New York Times," "The Village Voice," Salon, and "Newsday," He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Natasha and daughter Madeline.
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"The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye."
--Walter Kirn, Time
"Ingenious and starkly original...Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, bit if there's any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whitehead's should be heaing toward the upper floors."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Magical. . . . The Intuitionist ranks alongside Catch-22, V, The Bluest Eye and other groundbreaking first novels. . . . Whitehead shares Heller's sense of the absurd, Pynchon's operatic expansiveness and Morrison's deconstruction of race and racism." --San Francisco Chronicle
"The most engaging literary sleuthing you'll read this year. . . . What makes the novel so extraordinary is the ways in which Whitehead plays with notions of race."
"Whitehead's prose is graceful and often lyrical, and his elevator underworld is a complex, lovingly realized creation."
--The New Yorker
"The Intuitionist is the story of a love affair with the steel and stone, machinery and architecture of the city. It's not a pretty love, but a working-class passion for the stench of humanity that its heroine, Lila Mae Watson, has made her own. But as always with love there is betrayal. This extraordinary novel is the first voice in a powerful chorus to come."
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MACHINISTS, what are you going to do now?
The International Association of Machinists District 751 voted 2-1 to reject the contract that union negotiators reached with Boeing.
This isn't a usual labor negotiation, in which the "no" vote sends the ball into management's court under the threat of a strike. There can be no lawful strike until the old contract expires in 2016. And management has already hit the ball back to the union by saying it will offer the 777X work in a competition to Salt Lake City, Long Beach, Calif., and Huntsville, Ala., just for starters. And, sure, Everett can try for it.
Is Boeing bluffing? It wasn't in 2009, when it demanded a 10-year no-strike deal to keep the second 787 line at Everett. The company took its billion dollars of investment to a right-to-work state. Boeing is making 787s with nonunion workers in South Carolina.
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Is Boeing bluffing this time? The Machinists just voted to find out.
union members were sore at the suddenness of a vote. It was sudden.
Union President Tom Wroblewski was not helpful by standing with Gov. Jay Inslee to ask the Legislature to make big tax concessions, which it swiftly did in a special session. Then Wroblewski stood with "Fighting Machinists" in denouncing the contract offer as "crap," and issued a statement to members saying, "This is an opportunity we will never see again to secure thousands of good-paying jobs in the State of Washington."
If the Machinists want those jobs in Everett, send your negotiators back to management. Boeing officials said Thursday they'll be back in touch with the union in a couple of years to negotiate when the current contract expires. Meantime, they begin in earnest to find a place to build the 777X.
Union members need to understand where management is coming from. To Boeing, the decision about where to build the 777X is about how to price the airplane today for delivery in the early 2020s. The company has to figure out how much it can charge for a 777X and how much it must pay to get it built. Boeing's offer to the Machinists was aimed to fix a price.
By saying "no," the union has set a higher price for building the airplane in Washington.
Is all lost for building the 777X in Everett? That's unclear. But if District 751 wants to build that plane here, the union — leadership and rank and file together — should make the next overture to Boeing, and soon.


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During her freshman year, communications major Kelsey Leavitt kept a dangerous secret from everyone around her.
On Oct. 15 the junior candidly shared her personal testimony about suffering from an eating disorder that nobody knew about.
"I would go into the dining hall and fill my plate," she said. "But I would challenge myself to leave hungry because I wanted to fit an image that was manufactured by advertisers and the media."
Approximately 125 people attended "The Skeleton in the Closet, The Intersection of Art and Science Explore: Body Image, Eating Disorders, Obesity and Pregnancy" event, forum and opening reception for the Psalm Visual Arts Gallery exhibit by the same name. The forum included award-winning photographer Fritz Liedtke who discussed how his struggle to understand his own eating disorder led to the photo exhibit, now being displayed at Corban, but shown in galleries nationwide.
Additionally, Corban Associate Professor of Science Sarah Comstock, Ph.D., shared her groundbreaking research on unhealthy maternal eating patterns and their effects not only on children, but also on grandchildren.
The Skeleton in the Closet photography exhibit will be on display until Nov. 25 and is free and open to the public. Corban University is located at 5000 Deer Park Dr. SE in Salem. For more information, email Psalm Visual Arts Gallery Director Steve Hunt at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 503-375-7591.


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Murat Erdoğan
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Associate Professor and Director of the Hacettepe University Migration and Politics Research Centre, Vize Director of the European Union Research Center in Ankara (Turkey). Advisor to the Rector of Hacettepe University. M.A. degree from Ankara University. Mr. Erdoğan received his PhD degree from Ankara and Bonn University in political science with the dissertation "Turkey-EU Relationship after the Cold War: 1990-2005". He was scholar of Konrad Adenauer Foundation (1994-1998) and Junior Fellow at the Center for European Integration at University of Bonn in Germany from 1998-2000. He worked for the Press Department of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin (2001-2003). His fields of interest are EU-Turkey Relationship, Turkish Migrants in Europe, EU, Islam-Phobia, and political cartoon. He has published four books including "Turks Abroad: Migration and Integration in its 50th Year" (Edit.) and "50 Years 50 Cartoons: Turks in the German Cartoons".
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Mobility and Networking Research - Product Contributions
To invent & research technologies that make Microsoft's networks, services and devices indispensable to the world
We strive to find a balance between long term research and product impact. You may know about our research from the papers we publish and the talks we give, here we share with you a few examples of the broad impact we have had on Microsoft products.
Our Big Hits
- Microsoft's Wide Area Software Defined Network (implements a centralized traffic engineering system that has led to an improvement of the inter-DC WAN bandwidth utilization from 40% to 90%+, thus saving us millions of dollars annually)
- XBOX One Wireless Controller Protocol (a high throughput, low latency , energy efficient Microsoft propriety protocol between the XBOX One console and controllers. It has won accolades of mainstream press as the best controller in the gaming marker)
- Windows Azure Full-Bisection Bandwidth Datacenter Network (hailed as one of the most significant recent advances in computer science, our design led to an 80x improvement in dollars/Mbit/sec over previous designs. It is now the architecture of choice for all of Microsoft's Datacenters. It enabled technologies like the highly-scalable Windows Azure Flat Network Storage)
- Windows Azure Software Load Balancer (reduced cost by a factor of 15 [$60K versus $1M] by removing dependence on expensive hardware load balancers and improved cloud manageability. This fully configurable load balancer is used by both Azure and Bing)
- Windows Firmware TPM (enabled Microsoft to offer the widely used BitLocker and DirectAccess features and a new security feature, Virtual Smart Cards, in the Windows 8 RT and Windows 8 Phone)
- XBOX Live Service Graphs (reduced performance diagnostics in large-scale enterprise & Data Center networks from days to minutes helping meet customer SLAs. XBox Live is the first Microsoft cloud service to use use this network performance diagnosis technology)
- Windows Network Virtualzation (enabled Windows to provide seamless connectivity between Microsoft's Data Centers and customers'on-premise networks. Our design heavily influenced the Hyper V network virtualization feature that ships in Windows Server 2012)
- Windows Virtual Wi-Fi (enabled Windows features like range extension, concurrent corporate and guest access, and Internet gateway using a single Wi-Fi card. Before becoming a product, our prototype was downloaded several 100,000s times becoming the top three most popular MSR software download)
- TCP for Data Center Networking (improved performance of Data Centers networks without incurring cost for expensive hardware switches. It is implemented in our core networking stack and deployed in our Data Center properties)
Cloud and Enterprise Division (Azure, Servers, Visual Studio,...)
Microsoft's Wide Area Network - Architecture & Management Software (2013-14)
Increases the inter-DC WAN utilization from 40% to 90%+
AutoPilot's Network-state Management Service (2014)
Dramatically simplifies network management app development and operations while maintaining network-wide SLA
- DC network management applications are complex and sophisticated, usually requiring years to design, develop and deploy. Running multiple such applications is challenging as they may conflict with one another and their collective actions can impair network operation. The Autopilot Statesman service that we developed, simplifies application development by shielding apps from low-level interactions with devices. By offering a novel network state model, Statesman enables apps to operate independently while maintaining network-wide safety. Our technology has been deployed in all Autopilot managed datacenters.
A multi-tenant coordination cloud service that uses open source Zookeeper
- We worked closely with the AutoPilot team to build a multi-tenant layer on top of ZooKeeper that can be deployed and monitored by their software. The coordination service underneath runs multiple ensembles which can execute arbitrary requests from authenticated tenants. Although the ensembles are shared, to the user it seems as if they are running a dedicated ensemble. In future releases tenants will receive concrete compute resources tokens with full performance isolation.
End-to-end measurement and analysis tools that run automatically and vastly improve the accuracy of WAN fault localization.
- Localizing performance faults on WAN is difficult due to the plethora of routers and paths between DCs. We developed a system that accurately localizes faults to a specific router interface among thousands of candidate routers and paths. Compared to the state-of-the-art SNMP-based system, our system, called NetInsight, reduces the number of false positives by two orders of magnitude.
Network Virtualization for Hybrid Clouds (2010-12)
Enabled Windows to provide seamless connectivity between Microsoft's Data Centers and customers'on-premise networks
Visual Studio Energy Modeler & Profiler (2012)
- Poorly written apps are one of the primary reasons for high energy drain on mobile devices. One reason for energy-inefficient apps is that app developers do not have sufficient tools to determine the energy impact of their apps. As part of a Wattson research project we designed a Visual Studio plug-in that provides visibility to the application developer of their application's energy consumption. Our paper Empowering Developers to Estimate App Energy Consumption, published in ACM MobiSys 2012 describes the details of the system. This work formed the basis for the Energy Profiler that is part of the Visual Studio SDK for Windows Phone 8.
Delivers significant power and monetary savings for enterprise customers by enabling seamless remote access to sleeping desktop machines
- Enterprise can save significant amounts of power by letting idle desktop machines go to sleep (S3). This behavior has been the default setting in Windows desktop for many years. However, users and system administrators often override this because they may need to access the machines remotely. Current wake-on-Lan technique are cumbersome, and do not always work on complex networks. We designed and built a wakeup service ("GreenUp") that works transparently – any time the user tries to remotely access a sleeping machine, it seamlessly wakes it up. This encourages users to save power. GreenUp scales up to large, complex corporate networks, by using a novel distributed leader election algorithm.
Fully Configurable Windows Azure Software Load Balancer (2011)
Reduced costs by a factor of 15 by removing dependence on hardware load balancers and improved cloud manageability as well
Full-Bisection Bandwidth Datacenter Networks (2009-10)
Servers in a datacenter are no longer limited by the network that connects them
TCP Analyzer (2010)
Enabled Microsoft Network Monitor to provide deeper insights into the working of Internet's Transport Control Protocol
- We designed and built a plugin (called an "expert") for Microsoft Network Monitor (NetMon) that helps analyze TCP traces. It uses several sophisticated heuristics to answer the key question "what limited the throughput of this TCP connection". Apart from answering this question, the plugin also allows the user to visualize the connection in a number of different ways. Our plugin has been downloaded thousands of time, and is one of the most popular NetMon "experts".
Operating Systems Engineering (Windows, Phone, Windows Embedded)
Data Sense Bandwidth Attribution Technology (2012)
- We built a technology that tracks cellular and Wi-Fi data consumption for individual apps and OS components, and displays it in an intuitive UI. A challenge we had to overcome was to accurately attribute data consumption across the numerous APIs and OS services that mobile apps use, and to do so in a lightweight manner. See the original technology demo video (Aug. 2011).
- Typing intelligence: We enabled Windows Phone to scale their typing intelligence solutions (hit-target resizing, spell correction, candidates-on-demand, etc.) to over 50+ languages, including new languages such as Latin Hindi.
- WordFlow Keyboard User Adaptation: We helped with a feature that allows Windows Phone keyboard to adapt to the users' language and offer their words as completions and next word predictions.
- Keyboard Input Architecture: We helped revise the input architecture and created a new edit buffer to facilitate new features such as user adaptation, multilingual editing within the same message, and seamless multi-modal integration.
- We delivered the TPM driver and firmware TPM simulator. The development team used our simulator to develop & test important security features even before the vendors provided them the actual devices. A better description of our contribution is provided under "Windows".
- We delivered a customized version of our application analytics tool for performance testing and failure analysis of the top WP marketplace applications on various hardware and software SKUs. The development team run this tool routinely on third-party apps and they estimate to have reduced the time spent on app. failure analysis by a factor of 2 to 4. The first paper (AppInsight: Mobile App Performance that describes our system appeared in OSDI 2012.
Increases battery lifetime in Windows 8 Tablets and Surface computers.
- Compared to laptops the new class of mobile devices, such as tablets and Surface computers, need to stay connected even when the screen is turned off. Keeping the Wi-Fi always on consumes significant energy. We designed a set of techniques that allows the Wi-Fi device to not lose its connection even when the screen is turned off and the processor (and SoC) is in a low power state. We accomplished this by reducing the Wi-Fi power consumption to a few mW in standby state. Our techniques shipped in Windows 8.
Enabled Windows 8 to provide predictable networking to high-value cloud services
- We helped design and evaluate a mechanism to adaptively control the network usage of a Virtual Machine (VM), analogous to equivalent controls that existed for CPU and memory. Our design includes a feedback loop that ensures VMs receive network bandwidth that is proportional to their share and that spare bandwidth is allocated among VMs that need it. Our VM Rate Shaper shipped in Windows 8.
Support for Security Features in Windows ARM (2011-12)
Enabled widely used security features (BitLocker, DirectAccess, Virtual SmartCards) on Windows RT and Windows Phone
Antenna Placement on Windows Tablet (2011-12)
Enabled best-in-class Wi-Fi network connectivity & performance
- We helped design the antenna placement on tablet devices. Since users hold tablets differently than laptops, existing antenna placement techniques (on the laptop's screen) are not the most optimal for tablets. The placement of a user's hand around the antenna might reduce the signal, and so can the orientation in which the tablet is held. We studied these phenomena in detail – in the wild and in antenna chambers – and made recommendations to the Windows 8 team, which were incorporated in the final design of Windows 8 tablets.
Improved network perfomance in Data Centers with inexpensive switches
- We designed a new variant of TCP, called Datacenter TCP (DCTCP) to address congestion control issues in datacenter networks. DCTCP leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) and a simple mOLti-bit feedback mechanism at the host to reduce application latencies by overcoming network impairments such as queue buildup, buffer pressure, and incast. DCTCP was designed in close collaboration with the Windows Networking Team and it ships in the Windows 8 networking stack. The initial paper ( Datacenter TCP) was published in SIGCOMM 2010.
Enabled Windows to connect to multiple WLANs simultatenously and offer range extension, concurrent corporate and guest connection, and Internet gateway features
- We designed a technique to virtualize wireless LAN (WLAN) cards. With it users can concurrently connect to multiple Wi-Fi networks using a single WLAN card, thus enabling several novel scenarios. The original paper. The original paper ( MultiNet: Connecting to Multiple IEEE 802.11 Networks Using a Single Wireless Card) was published in INFOCOM 2004. Our mini-port driver was downloaded by over hundred thousand developers and was one of Microsoft Research's most popular software downloads. Virtual Wi-Fi first shipped in Windows 7.
Enabled Windows to offer a better media streaming experience over Wi-Fi
- We developed a technique ("Probe-Gap") to estimate the capacity and the available bandwidth of network paths based on end-point measurements. The problem was particularly difficult for cable modems and Wi-Fi networks because they do not have point-to-point links. For example, they employ mechanisms such as token bucket rate regulation; non-FIFO scheduling, and multiple rate. The initial paper ( Bandwidth Estimation in Broadband Access Networks) describing the problem was published in IMC 2004. Probe-Gap first shipped in Windows XP.
Elevated Wireless LAN connectivity to a premier consumer networking technology in Windows
- We designed the (first set of) NDIS WLAN OID for Windows 200 and beyond. Prior to our contribution Windows exposed a wireless LAN network adapter as an Ethernet network adapter. We enhanced the programming interface exposed by the Network Device Interface Specification (NDIS) and WinSock which then enabled novel wireless-aware and mobility-aware applications.
Applications and Services Engineering (Bing, Skype, Office, Outlook,...)
NetPilot reduces the recovery time for the common Data Center network failures from a few hours to tens of minutes
- Handling network failures is one of the most challenging tasks for Data Center operators. Different from the conventional failure diagnosis and repair process which requires significant human intervention, Our NetPilot technology mitigates failures by deactivating or restarting the suspect network devices without the need for knowing the exact root causes. By enabling automatic failure mitigation, Netpilot dramatically reduces the recovery time for common network failures. Our initial paper (NetPilot: Automating Datacenter Network Failure Mitigation) describing this system was published in SIGCOMM 2012 and we shipped as part of the Bing Metallica Release in June 2012
Faster load times leads to better user experience
- We performed a comprehensive analysis of the page load time in Bing to help uncover and explain strange effects such as Page Load Time (PLT) increase during off-peak hours and the impact of browser population and query type. These insights were used to develop a more precise and detailed alerting tool for PLT degradation. We documented some of our learnings in a SIGCOMM 2013 paper (A provider-side view of Web Search Response Time).
Our congestion prediction technology enables mitigation strategies that lead to better application performance
- In distributed file systems, when one storage node is congested both read- and write- traffic can be steered to other replicas and other nodes with empty space. If the on-set of such congestion is detected quickly, one can avoid needless queuing lags and improve overall store throughput. We helped design a predictor that uses current load and historical performance to predict the congestion status of storage nodes in Cosmos early. As a side-benefit, this also serves as a measure of application-perceived capacity of the distributed storage layer and a monitor of current usage and hotspots. Our technology is shipping in Cosmos clusters in Bing since December 2011.
This technology significntly reduced the response times of large jobs in our Data Centers
- Performant execution of data-parallel jobs needs good execution plans. Certain properties of the code, the data, and the interaction between them are crucial to generate these plans. Yet, these properties are difficult to estimate due to the highly distributed nature of these frameworks. We built the first reoptimizer for data-parallel jobs. It collects certain code and data properties by piggybacking on job execution and adapts execution plans by feeding these properties to a query optimizer. Our technology shipped in Bing's Cosmos clusters in December 2011. and it has significantly improved the response times on production jobs.
- Laggard tasks signicantly prolong the completion time for data-parallel jobs. The causes for such outliers include run-time contention for processor, memory and other resources, disk failures, varying bandwidth and congestion along network paths and imbalance in task workload. We buit a system that monitors tasks and culls outliers by restarting tasks, network-aware placement of tasks and protecting outputs of valuable tasks. The result was a significant improvement of job completion time. Our technology is in production use across all of the Cosmos clusters in Bing since May 2010.
- To answer some of the basic questions about real workloads we built NetTrace, a network tracing service for large data center clusters. This service collects low level networking logs (socket-level) and uploads to COSMOS. Processing the data yields a much better understanding of the traffic patterns of operational workloads and also helps diagnose whether the network or the application is to blame for poor performance. NetTrace ships as an autopilot service in Bing since 2009. We also shipped an analysis suite and Bing continues to invest in NetTrace, in their June 2012 release, they expanded the types of data captured, lowered resource consumption of the logger and are in the process of rolling it out as an always-on service.
- We conducted a series of experiments to measure the DNS query resolution time for Bing. Based on these measurement we came up with a set of improvements to our DNS query chain. Worked closely with Bing we deployed these improvements and in the process reduced the median DNS query time by more than half of previous amount. More importantly, the 95th percentile was cut in half.
Enabled MSN web properties to better handle spikes in load (flash crowds)
- The MSN Publishing Platform serves billions of web pages a month. As they grew, scalability bottlenecks started to show up in their previous architecture. The Scalable and Consistent Caching (SCC) technology allowed them to solve these bottlenecks while maintaining the strict consistency semantics that content publishers expect, such as adding breaking news to a web page and all viewers seeing the updated content.
Enabled Live Mesh (now SkyDrive) backend cloud services to scale resiliently
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The technology behind Microsoft Forefront risk analysis and mitigation planning feature
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Apparently finished with voicing a donkey, which he did for four full-length Shrek features, Eddie Murphys moving on to brick-smashing, roundhouse-delivering, janitor dogs.
The comedian will voice Hong Kong Phooey for Alcon Entertainments upcoming production, a live-action/animation hybrid (much like The Smurfs or Garfield) that will take its cues from the Saturday morning cartoon of our childhoods. Variety reports Murphy will lend his voice to Penry, a mild-mannered dog who stumbles into a secret ceremony and is accidentally granted mystical powers, including the ability to walk, talk and do kung fu.
I cant recall the original Hanna-Barbera cartoon, which only ran for 16 episodes in 1974, addressing Hong Kong Phooeys origins. But I do remember Scatman Cruthers distinctly scratchy voice in the lead role, voicing the clueless crime fighter who changed in a filing cabinet (stealing a page from Supermans phone booth, no doubt) and received crucial back up from his feline sidekick. Im actually a little surprised the cartoon only ran for 16 episodes, because its impact on pop culture is pretty strong strong enough to justify a feature film 37 years later.
Alex Zamm, director of the Dr. Dolittle sequel Million Dollar Mutts, will helm Hong Kong, and Murphys Tower Heist director Brett Ratner is on board as a producer. And just when we were ready to lead the Eddie Murphys Back bandwagon, based on early looks at his performance in Heist, Im back to questioning his creative decisions. Granted, Phooey could end up being very funny, and casting Murphy in a role once occupied by Cruthers isnt exactly sacrilegious. It has to be much better than Smurfs, Yogi Bear or Garfield. Then again, how could it be worse?
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HONG KONG Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders.
The deal, announced Sunday in the U.S., calls for Alibaba Group to buy back half of the 40 percent stake that Yahoo owns in the Chinese company for $6.3 billion cash and up to $800 million of Alibaba preferred shares.
After paying taxes, Yahoo expects to pocket about $4.2 billion.
Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse told analysts in a Monday conference call that the company still hasn't determined how it will distribute the Alibaba proceeds after the deal closes within the next six months. For now, the company is stepping up its commitment to buy back its own slumping stock. Yahoo now intends to buy up to $5.5 billion of its shares over an unspecified period of time, up from $500 million previously.
The announcement comes after more than two years of talks held under four different CEOs as Yahoo tried to sell the Alibaba stake to raise money for its turnaround effort. Money from the sale will give Yahoo the financial firepower to return cash to disgruntled shareholders, many of whom are still upset after it squandered an opportunity to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. in May 2008 for $33 per share, or $47.5 billion. Yahoo's stock hasn't traded above $20 since September 2008.
The Alibaba agreement gives Yahoo the rare chance to crow about something that went right after years of management missteps and corporate disarray that has depressed its financial results and stock price. Yahoo's latest crisis cropped up earlier this month when it was revealed the official biography of recently hired CEO Scott Thompson included misinformation about his academic background. The discrepancy culminated in Thompson's abrupt departure last week.
Yahoo is reaping a huge return from the $1 billion investment that it made in Alibaba in 2005. Billions more in cash is expected to flow to Yahoo when it sells another 10 percent of its stake in Alibaba's IPO - an event likely to occur by the end of 2015 under the terms of the agreement between the two companies.
"This investment has been a home run to date and our objective is to maximize its value for Yahoo shareholders," Morse said during Monday's conference call.
Yahoo shares gained 18 cents to $15.60 in morning trading on Monday.
The deal, which closes in six months, is good for Yahoo because the company gets a "wad of cash" but still has exposure to fast-growing China, said Napoleon Biggs, head of digital integration at public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard Asia Pacific.
"China for them was like a sore tooth," said Biggs, who has worked in the China Internet and media industry since 1997.
Yahoo's interim CEO Ross Levinsohn said the stake sale provides clarity for Yahoo shareholders. Levinsohn stepped into the CEO role after Thompson stepped down.
Thompson and Morse had been working on a complex deal earlier this year that would have allowed Yahoo to escape taxes, but it fell apart.
Under the new deal, Alibaba Group will have to buy back another 10 percent of Yahoo's stake when it goes public or help Yahoo sell those shares in its IPO. Once Alibaba is public, Yahoo could then sell the rest of its stake in the open market.
The deal gives Alibaba an incentive to complete its IPO before 2016.
Alibaba Chairman and CEO Jack Ma said the deal establishes a "balanced ownership structure that enables Alibaba to take our business to the next level as a public company in the future."


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In "This Week in the DoD" for April 6: Army Maj. Gen. Daniel Allyn spoked with Soldiers' Radio and Television about the state of affairs in Afghanistan's Regional Command-East and the region's future. Pentagon Press Secretary and acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs George Little delivered his first press briefing in the role of assistant secretary. He fielded questions about a possible North Korean missile test and about operations in Afghanistan. April is the Month of the Military Child. Barbara Thompson, director of Military Community and Family Policy for Children and Youth, spoke with the Pentagon Channel about the month, and what it means to be a military child today. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visited troops aboard the USS Peleliu, commending them for their role in Afghanistan and outlining a defense strategy that will work well into the future. He said the crew of the Peleliu exemplifies the capabilities the future force will need. National Guard and civilian dentists, and one oncologist, visited Moldova to help teach dentists there and provide care for dozens of children in need. The visit was part of the North Carolina-Moldova state partnership, established in 1995.
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Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore appeared on MSNBC's "Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" a day after the midterm elections. After viewing a short clip of President Obama's White House Press Conference from earlier in the day, O'Donnell provided the set up by way of sarcasm: "[The president] finally understands what the voters want him to do." Moore smirked his response, "No," and explained that we all like Obama because he's a good guy, very well meaning, and generous of spirit. And then Michael Moore said something interesting about the president:
"Here's what he doesn't get: When your opponent states clearly that 'our number one job in the next two years is to make sure you don't have a second term, our number one job is to defeat you and embarrass you,' you don't respond with Kumbaya, let's hold hands. What part of what they are saying to him doesn't he get?"
O'Donnell quipped, "Do you know what your opponent sounds like when he says that? An enemy."
For Moore and O'Donnell, the idea that Obama fails to understand something so clear apparently applies only to domestic opponents across the aisle and not terrorist-supporting dictators. Iran supports terrorists across the globe; their nuclear program is but the latest bone of contention with the West. The recent classified documents obtained by WikiLeaks detail Hezbollah's destructive role in Iraq under the direct command of the Iranian regime. Iran's goal is to defeat and embarrass the U.S. in the Middle East. Which part of what Iran is saying and doing do they not get?
Syria has been playing a double-game with the U.S. since the 1990s. First the Clinton administration and now the Obama administration seems to believe it can pry Syria away from its durable relationship with Iran by hoping for change in Damascus in exchange for gestures from Washington. In February 2010 - the same month President Obama named a new ambassador to Syria - the Asad regime began importing sensitive nuclear-related military equipment from North Korea; exported Syrian-made Fateh-110 missiles to Hezbollah; began training the terrorist group in the use of SA-2 and SA-6 surface-to-surface missiles; mocked Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration with Ahmadinejad over dinner in Damascus; met with Hezbollah's leader during lunch; vowed to strengthen its relationship with Tehran; pledged to continue support for the resistance; and threatened missile attacks against Israeli cities. President Obama's response was the diplomatic equivalent of "Kumbaya, let's hold hands."
Indeed, Mr. O'Donnell and Mr. Moore: When countries such as Iran and Syria have repeatedly slapped President Obama's outstretched hand, do you know what they sound like? Our enemies. As the 112th Congress is set to convene in January, one can only hope that the lessons of the previous years will be learned and applied to those who are America's enemies abroad with the same crystal clarity you reserve for partisan adversaries at home.
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KML Coils: Super-Duper Simple Method for Pulling Energy from Aether? - Young Delaware inventor, Chris W. Brown, thinks he has come up with a way of harnessing aetheric energy through an ultra simple coil arrangement. Yesterday he said he powered his TV for nearly 7 hours using a new arrangement comprising less than $100 in off-the-shelf parts. (PESWiki; April 15, 2009)
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Added: April 16, 2009 -- Battery is Exide - Cutting Edge, Lawn & Garden Battery. Specs on website suggest range within 165-300 CCA. --ImZane
Added: April 16, 2009 -- I'll bet your power inverter outputs a modified sine wave as do most inverters. You might do better to find a pure sine wave inverter like Wagan, Go Power, or AIMS. They are more expensive but you will get a much better quality wave form that might draw in more energy from the aether. The modified wave form (Square, jagged wave) probably is not giving you the smooth flow you need for sustainability. --Jamie
Added: April 18, 2009 i dont believe in aether, i think the kml coils are performing the same function as the coils beside the DeQing diode in tesla circuits. placing one between an inverter and a DC device such as a computer/laptop (crt monitors is AC) may lower power requirements, a core would increase a coils capacity (one rated for your frequency).
The exact parts are listed here but you can sue what ever you want :) and get the results your looking for. This was for testing
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This was used only for testing and to go for evolution beyond this Increasing the VOLTS will over come the amp load over all.
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Columbus NFTC All-Camp Team
Just about 250 of the Midwest's top high school players gathered for the 12th stop of the Nike Football Training Camp Tour held at the Woody Hayes Center on the campus of the Ohio State University.
Here is a look at the 26 standout performers that make up the Columbus NFTC All-Camp Team, including DL Da'Shawn Hand (pictured).
Note: Selections are based upon camp performance as evaluated by the NFTC staff as well as past and projected on-field performance. Athletes are in the Class of 2014 unless otherwise noted.
QB: Drew Barker, 6-3 ½, 210, Hebron (Kent.) Conner
Breakdown: The future Kentucky Wildcat finished off a strong weekend with an MVP award at the Nike Camp following a big showing at the previous day's Elite 11 Regional. For his efforts, Barker was awarded an invite to the Elite 11 Finals. He has all the tools to be very successful at Kentucky with complete dedication to the position.
QB: Sean White, 6-1, 199, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) University School
Breakdown: White continues to be one of the most well-rounded throwers over the past two years on the Nike Tour. He does everything so well that it becomes expected that he'll get the job done. Was a 3A All-State Selection last year leading to offers from USF, Wake Forest, Cincinnati and Purdue.
RB: Jalen Hurd, 6-4, 222, Hendersonville (Tenn.) Beech
Breakdown: Extremely well-built back with the physical abilities of smaller quicker backs. Most impressive was his receiving skills and how he was able to get hips turned after making the catch to get downfield. Was simply no match for any linebacker attempting to cover him out of the backfield. Had a huge junior season rushing for 3.357 yards and 43 touchdowns leading to a commitment to his home state Volunteers.
RB: Shai McKenzie, 5-11, 209, Washington (Pa.)
Breakdown: Built like a linebacker, McKenzie is a physical specimen with exceptional footwork. During pass blocking drills he made it look easy and did not have any problems stopping linebackers at the line of scrimmage. Was effective out of the backfield catching passes but is built to break tackles and wear down defenses.
WR: Justin Brent, 6-1, 189, Speedway (IN)
Breakdown: Was the most physically dominant wide-out of the group, finishing strong in one-on-ones where he won virtually every rep. He took advantage of smaller defenders and could easily handle bigger ones as well. He will surprise you with his quickness and ability to get to top speed in a few short steps. Caught 54 passes for 992 yards and 13 touchdowns as a junior leading to an early commitment to Notre Dame.
WR: Montae Nicholson, 6-2, 201, Monroeville (Pa.) Gateway
Breakdown: Nicholson brought home MVP honors after proving to be the top receiver from the very beginning. He used his strength and hand fighting techniques to be the aggressor against defenders to create space. His wide range of attributes, from finesse, to quickness, strength and patience allowed him to easily separate from DB's. Has a long list of offers after All-State honors last year.
WR: Thaddeus Snodgrass, 6-0, 175, Springfield (OH)
Breakdown: Coaches labeled the Kentucky commit the most consistent receiver throughout the day. Snodgrass has a great speed and size combination to go with natural pass catching skills. He ran advanced level routes with ease and did not telegraph double-moves, which is very rare at this stage for a receiver.
WR: Demarcus Wilson, 5-8 ½, 155, Trotwood (OH) Trotwood-Madison
Breakdown: Was one of the best route runners of the day and has the speed to run past any defender. Extremely disciplined in running intermediate routes; creating great timing with the quarterbacks. A perfect fit for a high tempo spread offense that looks to create mismatches with quicker receivers.
TE: Ian Bunting, 6-6, 213, Hinsdale (Ill.) Central
Breakdown: Bunting came in unsure of how much he would be able to do as a result of a nagging hamstring, but battled to the end. He is a talented receiver that is growing into being a top-level tight end. It's easy to see he has natural receiving skills that will be a huge benefit at his new position. He does a great job of using his big frame to create leverage against defenders and has the hands to catch anything in arms reach.
OL– J.C. Hassenauer 6-2 ½, 290, Woodbury (Minn.) East Ridge
Breakdown: Hassenauer was a man on a mission, looking to duplicate his OL MVP performance from the Memphis NFTC and lock down an invite to The Opening. While his performance wasn't strong enough to earn the MVP nod, Hassenauer did nothing to dispel the notion that he is one of the top centers in the class of 2014. Hassenauer is a brick wall, displaying perfect posture in pass pro, as well as quick feet and a solid punch. Hassenauer got caught over-setting a bit in Columbus, but when it came down to the Final 5, Hassenauer showed the type of dominance that earned him invite to The Opening
OL- Marteese Patterson, 6-3, 307, Columbus (Ohio) Marion-Franklin
Breakdown: The OL MVP opened some eyes in Columbus. Patterson is still raw, but is immensely strong and showed great feet. He has a tendency to bend at the waste and lunge, but Patterson showed the athleticism to make up for it and win his reps. Patterson plays with some nasty, and when you combine that with his huge upside, you have a potential steal in the class of 2014.
OL– Kyle Ritz, 6-4 ½, 272, Willoughby (Ohio) South
Breakdown: Ritz wasn't on anybody's radar coming into the camp, but beat out some big name OL for a spot on the All-Camp team. Ritz is simply put, a grinder, and took on all comers throughout one-on-ones. He doesn't have the prettiest set, but by taking to the coaching, Ritz was quick enough to take on speed-rushers, and strong enough to battle the bull-rush. With his size, Ritz should see his recruitment pick up heading into his senior season,
OL– Kyle Trout 6–5 ½, 301, Lancaster (Ohio)
Breakdown: The Ohio State commit got a chance to practice at his future home a year early and did not disappoint. Trout is an unbelievable athlete, and looks like he could find a future home as a right tackle for the Buckeyes. Trout had been labeled a bit of a project, but looked very natural out of his stance and getting into his set. He battled Opening invites Joe Henderson and Da'Shawn Hand and won his share of reps. Trout will get a chance to battle them again at Nike Headquarters during The Opening.
ATH: Parris Campbell, 6-0, 178, Akron (Ohio) St. Vincent-St. Mary
Breakdown: The future Ohio State Buckeye worked out with the receivers as he prepares to make the transition from running back in college. Such a naturally gifted athlete, Campbell did not show any signs that he lacks experience at his future position. He has all the tools and size to be able to line up at any receiver spot and be a difference maker at the next level. Very smooth running routes and with time will become more confident with his receiving abilities.
DL: Kenny Finley, 6-2, 270, Muskegon (Mich.)
Breakdown: Finley gave the interior OL fits throughout the day. Finley didn't need to get fancy; he just got skinny through the hole with active hands. Showed good athleticism through SPARQ drills which carried over to the competition period. Will be interesting to see if Western Michigan can hold on to this potential gem.
DL: Hjalte Froholdt, 6-4, 285, Warren (Ohio) Harding
Breakdown: The young Denmark native may be one of the top defensive tackles in a loaded 2015 group. Froholdt is already 285 pounds of good weight and is more polished than you'd expect at his age. Froholdt showed off an ability to play with low pad level and could be as college-ready physically as any underclassmen we've seen.
DL: Da'Shawn Hand, 6-4, 262, Woodbridge (Virg.)
Breakdown: The No. 1 player in the country came out and did exactly what he has done for the past 18 months: dominate. The 2012 Opening selection isn't the beautiful edge rusher some other DE's are, but he's effective and efficient. He's plays with good balance and comes off the ball extremely low, allowing him to turn the corner on tackles with ease. Hand earned his second Golden Ticket, and will have a chance to further cement his case for the No. 1 spot at The Opening on June 30th.
DL: Joe Henderson, 6-3, 220, Cleveland (Ohio) Shaker Heights
Breakdown: Henderson came into the NFTC fresh off committing to Tennessee, and gave Volunteer fans something to be very excited about. Henderson had the fastest get-off of any DL we've seen this year. He was past the OL before they could even get into their set. Henderson has long limbs, and with a few years in a college weight room, should grow enough to stay at defensive end. Look for Henderson to open even more eyes at The Opening.
DL: Dylan Thompson, 6-4 ½, 265, Lombard (Ill.) Montini Catholic
Breakdown: This was the 2nd time the NFTC staff saw Thompson in action, and the improvement from Chicago to Columbus had the coaches talking. Thompson has always had the physical tools, but in Chicago he relied more on his power than his quickness, and got caught up by some of the bigger guards in attendance. In Columbus, however, Thompson showed off active hands to go with his always-high motor and quickness. Thompson went undefeated on the day and earned himself a ticket to The Opening.
LB: Kyle Berger, 6-1 ½, 220, Cleveland (Ohio) St. Ignatius
Breakdown: Arguably the fastest backer seen at an NFTC this year. His closing speed was shocking; both in tackling and in zone/man cover skills. As impressive as his physical prowess, was his body control and emotional maturity that are years beyond his peers. Was very smooth while playing in space and can change direction in an instant. Racked up 39 tackles for loss as a junior and has since committed to Ohio State.
LB: Dante Booker Jr., 6-3, 220, Akron (Ohio) St. Vincent-St. Mary
Breakdown: Booker is a fantastic athlete with an impressive combination of speed and agility. Already physically stands out and should be able to carry a bigger build without losing a step. Showed great cover skills that should allow him to be a three down player in college. Has committed to his home state Buckeyes.
LB: D'Marcus Moon, 5-11 ½, 219, Fort Wayne (Ind.) Bishop Dewenger
Breakdown: Moon might be the most intriguing player of the year. Earlier this year at the Chicago NFTC he had caught our eyes in a strong group. We were shocked to find out he did not play a down of defense last year; instead he was used at running back, where he rushed for 1,700 yards. He looks like a natural playing linebacker and once again proved that he has the talent to play at a high level in college.
DB: Kei Beckham (2015), 5-11, 156, Trotwood (Ohio) Trotwood-Madison
Breakdown: At a program that consistently produces highly recruited defensive backs, Beckham proved to be the next in line. Tall and lengthy at this point, he should have no problem getting bigger and stronger once he gets in a college weight room. He has advanced level instincts that are rarely seen in a younger player. Already has offers from Illinois and Western Michigan with more on the horizon.
DB: Craig James, 5-9 ½, 168, Edwardsville (Ill.)
Breakdown: James is very light on his feet, allowing for a quick change of direction and ability to stay at full speed out of breaks. Was very good during SPARQ drills that showcased his quick burst and footwork. Was a 2nd Team All State selection this past year after picking off nine passes.
DB: Damon Webb, 5-10, 174, Detroit (Mich.) Cass Tech
Breakdown: Webb was simply the most dominant player at his position from beginning to end, and some would argue maybe the best performer seen on the Nike Tour this year. He has next-level instincts, is able to recognize routes as they develop, and has the type of speed that makes you wonder how he was able to get from point A to point B so fast. Webb was named MVP and stamped his ticket to The Opening.
DB: Raymond Wingo, 5-11, 162, St. Louis (Mo.) University
Breakdown: Showed a great burst in and out of his breaks, and is very smooth changing directions. Stood out during the half skelly period with his ability to dissect plays as they develop and position himself in a place to make a play on the ball. A tremendous all-around athlete that has the skill set to play any position in college. Rushed for 1,600 yards with 30 total touchdowns and had 10 interceptions.


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At the same time, panelists warned that a recent decision by Gov. Mary Fallin to opt out of an Affordable Health Care Act program will cost the state billions and do nothing to combat a burgeoning poverty rate. They also agreed state lawmakers are misguided in trying to further reduce the state income tax rate and should instead focus on sales taxes.
Robert Dauffenbach, professor and director of the Center for Economic and Management Research at the University of Oklahoma, recalled that early in his career, Oklahoma City was overshadowed by Tulsa as "the real city with its act together."
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[EDITOR'S NOTE: Yung Chang's interview for his doc "Up the Yangtze" first appeared in indieWIRE as part of our profiles of first-time feature directors with films debuting at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Zeitgeist Films opens the film today (4/25) at IFC Center in New York.]
Premiering at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November and then Sundance in January, Yung Chang's "Up The Yangtze" examines the effects of the construction of the massive Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The dam is to become the largest hydroelectric power station in the world, but with this comes the displacement of millions of residents and the destruction of landmarks. Yang follows two young people effected by the project, and the result provides "a final snapshot of a rapidly disappearing cultural landscape," says Sundance's Rosie Wong. Wong notes that "juxtaposing the Yangtze's stunning panorama with the reality of Yu Shui's poignant story, Chang shows the tenuous balance between China's rich cultural past and its modernized future."
Please introduce yourself...
My name is Yung Chang. I am 30 years old. I have a film at Sundance in competition called "Up The Yangtze." I have lived and worked in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Montreal and China. I am currently based out of Montreal, Canada. I studied film at Concordia University in Montreal and the Meisner Technique at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.
What led you to become a filmmaker?
I realized I wanted to become a filmmaker or have something to do with the arts, when I was in high school. I was too shy to join the theatre department and too afraid to tell my parents. Eventually I got into photography and joined the film club. I started making elaborate, ambitious documentaries and experimental films with analog video. An English teacher showed us early video art by Colin Campbell, Midi Onodera and General Idea. My first documentary was simply titled "Jazz" and had almost an 8 minute intro on black leader using the first track from Tony William's Live in Tokyo album. Pretty bad. Lesson learned: Never edit your own films.
Aside from making films, I like to play ping-pong and am looking forward to starting the first ping-pong club at Sundance. Bring your paddles.
Have you made other films?
I have made a short fiction film called "The Fish Market" and a medium-length documentary called "Earth to Mouth." Even though I attended film school, I am still learning about filmmaking - the process never ends. Case in point: The executive producer of my film, Daniel Cross, was also my first year professor at film school. I think filmmaking is very much a self-learning process. It's about being open to everything and not just watching movies. Reading, traveling, walking. Read "Herzog on Herzog"; Elia Kazan's "A Life"; Nicholas Ray's "I Was Interrupted"; and Tarkovsky's "Sculpting in Time."
What prompted the idea for "Up the Yangtze" and how did it evolve?
I first traveled to the Yangtze river in 2002 as a tourist with my parents and grandfather when I went on one of the Farewell cruises, a kind-of "disaster eco-tour" where the aim is to offer tourists the chance to visit the area before it is flooded by the Three Gorges Dam. The idea for "Up The Yangtze" was inspired by a surreal moment. We arrived to the southern Chinese city of Chongqing (Chungking), the largest municipality in the world. The city reminds me of a scene from "Blade Runner.
At the city's port, considered the Gateway to the Yangtze, we walk down a steep embankment to get to the waiting ship. Coolies grab our luggage and sling them on their bamboo poles. I arrived at night. Everything was in silhouette lit by neon lights. As we approached the gangway, a marching band began to play "You Are My Sunshine" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy." At that moment, I decided to make a film about this surreal journey: "The Love Boat meets "Apocalypse Now."
The film evolved from being about the culture of tourism and the tourism of culture into something much more than that. There are so many metaphors and symbols. The epic landscape of the Three Gorges, the Yangtze River and the dam were inspirational in discovering that to make this film, I had to get off the boat and onshore in order to capture the Chinese perspective. Tourists are easy targets so to get the full perspective, in order to amplify the commentary on the Westerners point-of-view, I had to tell the story through Chinese eyes.
Please elaborate a bit on your approach to making the film
I approach my filmmaking as if I was making fiction. I don't mean that I stage scenes but rather that I prepare a lot. I think about the story, the narrative, and where I want to go. In the initial research process, I was inspired by films like "The Bicycle Thief," "Gosford Park" and "Aguirre Wrath of God" - these were my influences funny enough. I was also deeply inspired by Hou Hsiao Hsien and his framing and use of atmosphere. Li Yang's "Blind Shaft" showed me how to make a neo-realist Chinese film. I really wanted to approach my film with an Altmanesque/Herzogian cinematic technique. I like using fiction films as reference points. There's also a natural irony and humor that often permeates through the observation of West and East cultures so it was important not to make an overly heavy doomsday film but to capture those humorous flashes that make a human story all the more real and three-dimensional.
Of course, the beauty of documentary is that you're literally improvising and being spontaneous. You let the environment, your subjects, and the given moment carry you along. There's no storyboarding. When you're making a documentary, you shoot a lot of footage in hopes of capturing a few emotional moments. When you have those moments your story takes shape and you can build your film around those key scenes. Because my film was also a personal journey, I was definitely open to those Herzogian moments. I felt like I was Conrad traveling into the "Heart of Darkness" and I allowed myself to be open to interpreting my encounters and capturing those "ecstatic truths" like the dancing chicken from "Stroszek." I have a dancing girl that I shot on a blackmarket cellphone.
What were some of the biggest challenges you faced in developing the project?
It took a long time to figure out the right way to tell the story. I had so many elements I wanted to explore that the film went through a long development process. Luckily I had great passionate producers from EyeSteelFilm who believed in the project. The National Film Board of Canada came on board as co-producers. It took 4 years to finance the film. I went on numerous research trips but after each trip I'd come back with a stronger demo and a better grasp of the film. Eventually through pitching forums like Hot Docs' TDF, we secured pre-sales to National Geographic, PBS POV, CBC, Radio Canada, and ZDF.
There were many challenges during the making of the movie. I had permission to shoot on a cruise ship but we were constantly dealing with concerns from the company that we were making much more than a "promotional video." In fact, majority of the film was shot in 2006 but because it was such a long research process that spanned over three years, it's no wonder that the cruise line started getting curious. It was a constant threat that the Chinese boss wanted to shut us down. Luckily though, the American bosses were very accommodating and understanding. I had to use ping-pong diplomacy.
The other major challenge was working with a Chinese crew. I look Chinese and understand aspects of the culture, but there are lots of things that I didn't immediately grasp and my language skills are not 100 percent. Because of the local dialect, often I would have to speak through my crew. And the logistics of shooting are very different there - you can't shoot with location permits, it just doesn't work that way, so having a Chinese crew helped to deal with those cultural adjustments. And they could also gauge what was safe to shoot in the Chinese environment. They were gutsy - willing to carry hidden cameras if necessary.
Working with them allowed me to see both the Chinese and Western perspectives of the story, and I was constantly negotiating the two. The question came up as to whether I was making an anti-China film. So I had to reassure them that this was not my aim, that I was trying to tell a complex human story. As open-minded filmmakers, they listened to my perspective and were helpful in executing my vision. And they had their own blind spots. My DP, for example, was initially reluctant to film a peasant family. It's a class thing there, where peasants are looked down upon as uncultured, and Yu's family are at the bottom of the social hierarchy. But by the end, he saw the value in telling the Yu family story. I later learned that he himself was from a poor family but had managed to get into the prestigious Beijing Film Academy.
Please share your thoughts on the state of independent film today.
Making independent film has always been difficult and challenging, full of hardship and risk. I think it has been this way since Cassavetes' "Shadows" and Burnett's "Killer of Sheep." In this day-and-age though, I see more-and-more filmmakers of color making movies, more-and-more marginalized filmmakers getting their voice out. The future of independent film rests in the hands of those who are not recognized in mainstream media. More-and-more, places like the Sundance Institute and production companies like EyeSteelFilm, are supporting independent filmmakers and helping to guide emerging filmmakers in getting their work made and seen.
How do you define success as a filmmaker, and what are your personal goals as a filmmaker going forward?
Success as a filmmaker is defined by experiencing failure. You should never feel successful. You have to make films that you are not happy with. In that way you will always keep busy, have a rigid work ethic and never stop creating in the constant craving to hone your craft. My personal goal as a filmmaker is to continue challenging myself by making difficult, controversial films.
What are your upcoming projects?
I am currently working on a documentary/fiction hybrid about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.


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