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Kicking off proceedings at IBC 2012
September 05, 2012
Over the next few days, we're in Amsterdam for this year's IBC Show, and we're excited to announce that we'll be showcasing some great new video technologies that are really helping the broadcast and video industries to evolve and meet the demands of today's viewing public!
One of the highlights for us will be the reveal of Adobe Anywhere for video – a modern, collaborative workflow platform that will give teams using our professional video tools – such as Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects – the ability to work together across virtually any network, using shared media. They're products that together with the rest of our Creative Suite Production Premium and Creative Cloud, are being using by a number of the leading broadcasters and global news agencies, including the Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN.
We're also announcing several new collaborations with broadcast solution partners at the show who will support integrated workflows with our video tools. These include media asset management and graphics companies who are leading in the broadcast news and sports sectors – such as Chyron, Dalet, EVS and Vizr.
Not only that, but anyone with Final Cut Pro or Avid who fancies switching to Adobe CS6 Production Premium or Creative Cloud, can take advantage of a promotion we're currently running offering up to 40% off! You can find all the information on the Adobe website.
If you're at the show, be sure to pay us a visit. We'll be at the Adobe booth in Hall 7, Booth 7.G27 in the RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre. For anyone that didn't make it to Amsterdam, we'll be keeping everyone up to speed on the show from here.
Let us know what you think of this year's show and are most excited about seeing!


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Father Emil Kapaun
Doctors said Chase Kear's survival was impossible.
After he hit his head on the ground in a pole vaulting accident last year, they sawed off a third of his skull to relieve the pressure on his swelling brain.
They told his family that all hope was lost.
But Chase's family lives near Wichita, where a farm kid named Emil Kapaun was ordained a priest 69 years ago. The Kears prayed thousands of prayers to the soul of Father Kapaun, asking him to bend the ear of God. They chanted his name like a mantra.
And Chase woke up.
And he arose and walked.
His baffled doctors said his survival defied medical science. They told the Vatican later that it was a miracle.
So Chase became the latest chapter in the improbable story of Emil Kapaun, dead since 1951.
The story might become more improbable: The Army has recommended Kapaun for the Medal of Honor. The Vatican might make him a saint — if it decides he performed miracles.
Did he?
Mike Dowe and William Funchess starved and shivered with Kapaun in a North Korean prisoner of war camp. So did Herb Miller and Bob Wood and Robert McGreevy.
They say Kapaun sometimes swore like a soldier. They say he gave away his own food as he starved.
They say that when all hope seemed lost, he rallied hundreds of filthy and ragged men to embrace life and forgive their enemies.
They don't consider themselves experts on miracles.
But they know what they saw.
Nov. 1 is All Saints Day on the Catholic calendar.
On that day in North Korea in 1950, Father Emil Kapaun celebrated four Masses for soldiers in the 3rd Battalion of the 8th Cavalry Regiment and went to bed early in his pup tent south of the village of Unsan.
All around him, as his battalion bedded down in a cornfield, were clues that foretold the disaster about to overtake them. With the North Koreans on the run, they thought the war was as good as won. And the generals had insisted that the Chinese would not enter the war. The generals were wrong.
Lt. Bob Wood went into the hills on patrol and listened to enemy officers talking to one another on his radio. When he asked a South Korean what the enemy was saying, the Korean said, "Chinese."
Herb Miller, a tough little sergeant who had fought in World War II, had taken a patrol north and come back with a farmer who told 3rd Battalion intelligence officers that the surrounding mountains hid tens of thousands of Chinese. The intelligence officers scoffed.
Miller, disgusted, watched the farmer go home, then stuffed his pockets with grenades.
Early on Nov. 2, All Souls Day, Miller took out another patrol, to the top of a little rise and bedded down in the dark. By then, though he didn't know it, the 1st and 2nd Battalions were already being overrun; the 3rd Battalion was next.
After midnight, he heard a whistle downslope that sounded like a bird call. Miller punched the GI sleeping next to him. "That's no bird call!" he said. "We are in for it!"
They got out of there and headed back to the battalion. But then they saw hundreds of figures moving in the dark, and a bugle blew, and then another, accompanied by the ghostly calls of sheep horns blown by Chinese peasant soldiers. Then machine guns sprayed pink tracer bullets, and mortars began thumping. Wild music broke out in the night, war songs from bugles and thousands of throats.
Kapaun jumped out of his tent.
GIs fired flares into the night sky and caught their breath: They saw thousands of Chinese soldiers coming at them. A 19-year-old corporal named Bob McGreevy, dropping mortar shells down a tube, saw a forward observer come running.
"Get the hell out of here!" he yelled.
Twenty thousand Chinese, who the generals said were not in North Korea, had rushed out of the hills at the 3,000 men of the 8th Cavalry; the 1st and 2nd Battalions withdrew south.
Kapaun and a private named Patrick Schuler drove toward the fighting, then ran into enemy soldiers blocking the road. Kapaun and Schuler loaded a few of the wounded and brought them south.
"Stay with the jeep and say your prayers," Kapaun told Schuler. "I'll be back."
He ran to find more wounded, but the Chinese attacked, and Schuler in desperation set the empty jeep on fire to destroy it. He never saw Kapaun again.
Most of the 1st Battalion would escape; some of the 2nd Battalion, too. But the 800 men of 3rd Battalion covered the withdrawal, and they were overrun.
Miller, running for cover, found GIs in a ditch quivering like puppies. "Get up!" Miller yelled, kicking them. "Get out of here!" They would not move.
All the GIs had to do to kill Chinese was point a rifle in any direction and shoot. Waves of Chinese reached the heart of the 3rd Battalion; men fought hand to hand. A machine gunner, Tibor Rubin, shot Chinese by the dozens but saw hundreds more keep coming.
GIs saw Kapaun running from foxhole to foxhole, dragging wounded out, saying prayers over the dying, hearing confessions amid gunfire, ripping open shirts to look at wounds. Men screamed at him to escape, but he ignored them.
Kapaun called McGreevy and others into a huddle.
"I'm going to give you guys the last rites," he said. "Because a lot of you guys are not going to make it home."
McGreevy noticed how calm Kapaun looked. The priest called out the sacred words in English, not Latin; the GIs were from all shades of belief.
On the Chinese came. GIs fired bazookas into their own trucks in their own camp and machine-gunned Chinese by the light of the fires. Warplanes dropped napalm, incinerating hundreds of Chinese.
For days, the 3rd Battalion fought off mass charges of Chinese. They ransacked bodies for weapons and bullets when they ran low.
Kapaun and Clarence Anderson, a doctor, set up an aid station in a sandbagged dugout.
The GI perimeter shrank to 50 yards end to end, but Lt. Walt Mayo saw Kapaun run 300 yards outside it to drag wounded inside.
During one of those runs to help the wounded, Kapaun was captured and led away at gunpoint. But Mayo, as he told author William Maher later, shouted a command and GIs rose up and fired, killing the captors.
McGreevy heard officers yell at Kapaun to leave the battlefield.
"No," Kapaun called back.
The officers yelled again.
"No," Kapaun said. "My place is with the wounded."
The priest looked as calm as he did at Mass.
By this time, Kapaun and Anderson had about 40 wounded in the dugout, which lay exposed far outside the GI perimeter. The Chinese were digging trenches while advancing, protecting themselves as they moved in. McGreevy could see dirt flying out of trenches.
Lt. William "Moose" McClain watched this and thought of Custer's Last Stand.
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The sergeant who had heard that first bird call now lay in a ditch not far from Kapaun's aid station. Miller's ankle had been shattered by a grenade. He had spent hours playing dead.
Once in a while, when a group of Chinese got close, he tossed a grenade, then played dead again. When he ran out of grenades, a nearby wounded GI threw him a few more and Miller tossed them at the Chinese.
The Chinese were all around him now, shooting at the shrinking perimeter. Miller pulled a dead enemy body on top of himself. Soon an enemy soldier sat down in the ditch, his boot touching Miller's arm.
By then, the Chinese had crept near the dugout where Kapaun and Anderson tended the wounded; they fired mortar rounds in there, killing some of the wounded.
Surrender seemed like suicide. The GIs had heard stories of atrocities in Korea. Kapaun had written a friend weeks before that "the Reds were not taking prisoners. So we resolved to fight them to the finish because we would not have a chance if we chose to surrender..."
But in the dugout now, Kapaun made a bold move: He approached a captured and wounded Chinese officer. He said he would surrender and appeal to Chinese humanity.
That officer yelled outside. The Chinese stopped shooting at the dugout. They took Kapaun and 15 or so of the wounded who could walk as prisoners. They also agreed not to shoot the rest of the wounded.
Anderson thought Kapaun's negotiations saved 40 lives in the dugout.
Kapaun, under guard, stepped out of the dugout, over dead men piled three high.
Down by the road, he saw an enemy rifleman take aim at a GI lying in a ditch.
That rifleman had found Miller hiding under a dead body. He put his rifle muzzle to Miller's head; Miller thought the muzzle looked big enough to crawl into. He would die now.
Then he heard footsteps.
So did the soldier about to kill him. The soldier, distracted, looked toward the dugout, his rifle still touching Miller's forehead.
Miller turned to look.
They saw an American officer walking toward them. He was tall, skinny and unarmed, and walked as calmly as a man about to pay his grocery bill.
Kapaun had walked away from his captors, in the middle of a battle, risking a bullet in the back. But his captors held their fire.
Kapaun walked to the rifleman and shoved him aside, brushing the rifle barrel away from Miller's head with his arm.
"Let me help you up," he said. His voice was calm. He got Miller up on one foot, then picked him up piggyback.
Miller turned around to look. The rifleman who had wanted to shoot him aimed his rifle but did not shoot. He looked puzzled.
Kapaun walked toward the Chinese soldiers who had taken him prisoner at the dugout. Miller waited for death. But his would-be executioner just watched them walk away.
"He didn't know what to do," Miller said. "Father Kapaun had that effect on those guys."
Miller, with his arms around Kapaun's skinny shoulders, wondered how far the priest could carry him.
"Men find it easy to follow one who has endeared himself to them." -Father Emil Kapaun
Father Emil Kapaun was considered an unusual man even before the 8th Cavalry's 3rd Battalion was overrun at Unsan. Many devout Christians believe, for example, that they must overtly preach Christianity, but Kapaun by all accounts never lectured, never forced it. What he did instead was scrounge food for soldiers, write letters to their families, pass his tobacco pipe around for a few puffs, and run through machine gun fire, rescuing wounded. If he brought up religion in foxholes, he asked permission first: "Would you care to say a prayer with me?" He treated Protestants, Jews and atheists the same way he treated Catholics — and he treated Catholics like loved ones. Some GIs did not like some chaplains. They loved this one.
Survivors at Unsan broke out and fought south through the hills. Most were captured. Chinese soldiers stole their watches, rings, helmets and boots. Some of them thought this was the end, that they'd be shot now. The enemy in Korea frequently murdered prisoners. Sgt. Herb Miller, his ankle shredded and bleeding, rode away from slaughter on Kapaun's back.
Lt. Walt Mayo, who had saved Kapaun the first time he was captured at Unsan, escaped from the perimeter with his friend Phil Peterson, running across a road covered with dead Chinese. They were captured three days later. Mayo, who spent four months in a German prisoner of war camp in World War II, would spend 34 months in a camp more deadly.
Bob McGreevy, who had watched Kapaun bless men with the last rites, briefly escaped over a carpet of hundreds of dead Chinese in a stream bed, their limbs burned and twisted from napalm.
Lt. Ralph Nardella, a toughtalking Italian from New Jersey, was captured before he got out of the perimeter. In six months, Nardella would risk his life to save Father Kapaun.
Kapaun carried Miller north, under guard with other prisoners. The Chinese let the priest keep his ciborium, the threeinch-wide gold container for communion hosts.
Miller got a good look at him: wide-set gray eyes, a sharp nose, a cleft chin and thinning, sandy hair. The priest said he was from Kansas; Miller told him he was a farm kid from western New York.
The guards yelled at them if they talked, so they couldn't say much more. The Chinese herded them along, mostly without food, mostly at night, in a three-week trek in the cold that survivors later called the Death March. At least, Kapaun told Miller, if they kept walking like this, they'd stay a little warmer.
Korean winters can be bitter cold, especially in the mountains; this would prove fatal to many. Along the way, shivering men who had not eaten in days began to refuse to carry wounded comrades, a move that meant death for the wounded.
Joe Ramirez, a soldier whom Kapaun had baptized literally on the invasion beach when the 8th Cavalry landed in Korea in July, was carrying wounded even though he had been hit five times himself.
He saw Kapaun begin to move up and down the line, "practically begging men to carry the wounded." Some did; others hid from officers and the priest.
Other streams of prisoners would join theirs; some of them, including Kapaun, would ride part of the way in captured trucks. But for part of the way, Miller rode on the priest's back, amazed that they were both still alive.
"You should put me down," Miller said. "You can't keep this up."
"We'll keep going," Kapaun said.
Sometimes Miller heard shots from the back of the column. He suddenly realized: The Chinese were shooting those who could not keep up.
On Nov. 4, 1950, while the 8th Cavalry was being overrun to the northeast, Lt. William Funchess of the 19th Infantry had one of those frustrating conversations that happened a lot at that time in Korea.
Funchess was staring from a hilltop at hundreds of soldiers stripping naked on the bank of the freezing Ch'ongch'on River. They carried clothes and rifles above their heads as they waded across. They marched four abreast in the direction of the battalion headquarters of Funchess' commanders.
Funchess had radioed a commander at headquarters to say the soldiers he saw were not dressed like North Koreans. "They are Chinese."
"You are mistaken," the commander said. "There are no Chinese in North Korea."
Not long afterward, Funchess heard gunfire coming from headquarters. A short time later, Funchess and Lt. Mike Dowe and the two platoons they commanded were fighting hundreds of Chinese.
In only a few weeks, they would become two of Kapaun's closest friends; they would try to save his life. But first they had to save each other.
Dowe and Funchess retreated at last, leading a dozen survivors, and saw soldiers in the distance. Dowe and Funchess told everybody to be quiet, but a GI cupped his hands.
"Don't shoot! We're GIs!"
But the soldiers were Chinese, and they sent bullets spattering against the rocks, knocking men down, tearing a hole through Funchess' right foot.
"You're not going to leave me here, Mike?" Funchess asked.
"No," Dowe said.
They tried to run up a small mountainside, with Dowe dragging and carrying Funchess along.
They came face to face with a Chinese soldier firing a submachine gun, shredding scrub pine needles all around them. They shot back and kept going.
They made their way to a ravine, where they looked up at dozens of Chinese aiming rifles at them, a vision Funchess would see for decades in nightmares. They were captured.
The Chinese, herding them along, came across half a dozen wounded GIs. When they saw the GIs were too hurt to stand up, the Chinese rolled them over and shot them in the back of the head, one at a time, as Funchess watched.
They tied them up, binding Dowe with a loop around his neck that choked him if he moved. Dowe watched a Chinese soldier try to remove a ring from the finger of a wounded GI. When the ring stuck, the Chinese cut the finger off with a knife.
Another soldier put a pistol to Dowe's head and pulled the trigger. The pistol was empty; the Chinese soldier laughed.
Hours later, they crowded the Americans into a schoolhouse to rest. In the building were wounded from the 8th Cavalry. They told Dowe a heroic 8th Cavalry chaplain had saved many lives.
Riding Kapaun's back, Miller felt guilty. He had never attended the priest's Masses in camp or on the battlefield, though he knew the guy was well liked. Miller had never met him until the priest stopped his execution.
Sometimes other people helped carry Miller, and the priest carried others, or urged men to carry stretchers, which they made from tree branches and rice sacks scrounged from nearby farms.
The branches would dig into the men's shoulders. Sometimes, when carriers would set the stretcher down to change positions, the Chinese would yell to move along, and the wounded soldier was left to die.
Kapaun one night rode in a captured American truck, buried under wounded GIs. He didn't move for fear he would hurt the wounded atop him. When the truck stopped and Kapaun got out, he collapsed, his legs stiff with cold. When he checked his feet he saw frostbite. He limped after that.
But when he found men refusing to pick up the wounded, he picked up stretcher poles himself. Men who had refused to do this for their officers did it when he asked.
At the schoolhouse where Funchess and Dowe spent their first night as prisoners, Funchess shoved his compass and his pocket-sized copy of the New Testament into the sock of his undamaged left foot.
Dowe heard prisoners from the 8th Cavalry say that the reason so many of them were alive was that they'd been saved by a doctor named Anderson and a recklessly brave chaplain. Dowe heard the 8th Cavalry men say the priest's name. "KuhPAWN."
"Father KuhPAWN."
Funchess, Dowe and other prisoners from the 19th Infantry joined the long line of POWs that included Kapaun, Miller and the 8th Cavalry. Other streams of prisoners joined theirs; they were given little or no food, ate snow for water.
Funchess stumbled forward, the bones of his right foot mangled. Dowe had saved his life, but now, with men being carried in the rice-bag stretchers, Funchess rode that way for a while. After soldiers dropped him several times, he walked.
During the days that followed, Chinese soldiers noticed Funchess stumbling and motioned him to sit down. Funchess thought they wanted to shoot him, so he pretended not to understand.
Kapaun kept moving up and down the line, limping, carrying stretchers, comforting men. Sometimes he would carry Miller.
When he got tired he would let Miller slide down his back, and Miller would hop on one foot with one of the priest's arms around him. Miller did not want to wear out the priest, but hopping made his ankle bleed badly, so Kapaun or somebody else would carry him some more.
Miller had parachuted into Normandy on D-Day six years before; he had fought many battles, but he had never seen anybody like this priest.
Miller could feel Kapaun's skinny back. There did not appear to be a lot of muscle there, but the guy seemed to be made of iron. He kept going hour after hour, living on nothing but the little ball of millet they got once a day from the guards.
"Father," Miller said. "You need to put me down."
Kapaun shook his head.
"If I put you down, Herb, they will shoot you."


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Did you know?
South Africa is a world leader in rock art recording and research.
If you've ever experienced the Northern Cape capital of Kimberley in mid-summer, you may have also been caught in a sudden, drenching Karoo thunderstorm.
That's the way rain happens up here in the heartland, and out at the Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre you'll see that the ancient shamans have been communing with the rain spirits for millennia.
It is believed that some of the 400-odd rock engravings at the site were inspired by shamans accessing the spirit world through altered states of consciousness. In trance, they could heal disease, control wild animals and bring rain. The etchings are thought to be an expression of their visions.
Wildebeest Kuil, a farm lying between Kimberley and Barkly West (a 15 minutes' drive from Kimberley) also has a long history of occupation recorded on the ancient rocks scattered about. From the older hairline engravings to the more recent pecked-out shapes and relatively modern middens, Later Stone Age groups (ancestors of the San), the KhoeKhoe and various waves of colonists left their marks here.
A qualified guide meets you at the interpretation centre after you've watched a short introductory film. You then take the 800-metre walkway tour that weaves up and over a hill via a number of information boards. At the entrance is a well-stocked craft shop selling books on rock art and handicrafts made by the local !Xun and Khwe.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre
Tel: +27 (0)53 833 7069
Cell: +27 (0)82 222 4777
How to get here
The centre lies 15km outside Kimberley on the Barkly West road. It is an easy drive on tar.
Best time to visit
The centre is open between 9am and 4pm on week days, and by appointment on weekends.
Around the area
Kimberley has a well-developed tourism infrastructure, centred around its legendary diamond mining history.
Tours to do
A community guide is available to take you on an informative tour of the site - just ask at reception.
Get around
Just follow the pathway around the rock art centre outdoors section.
What will it cost
Approximately R25 for adults and R12 for children.
Length of stay
Plan a full morning or afternoon if you can - it is worth spending a few hours at Wildebeest Kuil.
What to pack
Make sure you have the right camera to shoot images of the engravings. A standard lens (18-55mm) will be perfect. Do not pour water on the engravings to make them stand out in your photograph. Rather work on it later in Photoshop by pushing the contrast.
Where to stay
There are many accommodation options in Kimberley.
What to eat
There are many restaurants in Kimberley.
Best buys
The San crafts on sale at the Centre shop are of good quality and support the local creative effort.


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… There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is on a Straight Path. (Surat Hud, 56)
Animals get prepared for the coming seasons; this state takes place independent from unexpected seasonal developments such as snow in November or sunshine in March. How do these unconscious living beings accomplish this perfect order?
This mechanism must work so delicately that even in cases of seasonal changes, it must not give different reactions. Besides, this mechanism has to enable animals' body to anticipate the changes in the outside world and prepare biologically for them rather than adapting to them when they come into existence. For example before winter comes they grow a thick coat in preparation for winter.
The only element that always remains constant in a specific time of a year is day light. Animals use day and night length to understand in which period of the year they are in. An internal clock calculates the time of the light and the darkness. This is a perfect clock that counts minutes and even seconds and thus is crucial for the survival of animals. It is surely impossible for living beings to make these critical arrangements in their bodies. Allah grants all these features to them.
The key that ensures the tuning of seasonal changes according to daylight and darkness cycles is hormone secretion. The key chemical signal that transmits seasonal behaviours and physiological changes to the brain is thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH).
The mechanism, linking the daily 'circadian clock' to the yearly seasonal clock, triggers the production of high levels of TSH in the spring and a decline in the autumn. Also melatonin, which is another hormone, generates a system that measures night length. Long duration melatonin signals promote a winter physiology and short duration signals promote a summer physiology. The effects of photoperiod/melatonin on diverse aspects of seasonal physiology are believed to be mediated by melatonin receptors expressed in a range of different neural, pituitary, and possibly peripheral target cells. Seasonal changes in day length are used by animals to synchronize major life-history events such as migration, molting, and reproduction.
Surely all these structures and functions are only causes our Lord creates in this world. Allah continuously creates flawlessness and glory, regulates an order for it and creates causes in compliance with the trial in this world. No doubt Allah is able to create also without causes. Every detail including the causes is a manifestation of Allah's glorious creation. This is the flawless and unique creation of Allah.
In the Qur'an our Lord reveals:
Have they not seen how We created for them, by Our own handiwork, livestock which are under their control? (Surat al-Yasin 71)
And there is certainly a lesson for you in your livestock…. (Surat Al-Muminun 21)
…He created everything and determined it most exactly. (Surat Al-Furqan 2)


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Micromax Bolt A69 smartphone was launched in May 2014. The phone comes with a 4.50-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 480 pixels by 854 pixels.
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More than road repairs needed for innovative economy
Published: Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 12:15 a.m.
In his book "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't," author James C. Collins lists two necessary steps for forward progress:
Get the right people on the bus. And then make sure they are in the right seats.
Collins was writing for the business world, but his advice holds true for the public sphere as well.
Which brings me to the great road tax debacle of 2012.
What should have been a serious debate about how best to pay for the community's long-term transportation needs was allowed to degenerate into a silly, and false, choice between potholes and bus rapid transit.
In truth, the decisive defeat of last year's sales tax vote was preordained by petty politics, nonexistent leadership and the utter lack of a broad coalition in support of a common vision for Alachua County's transportation future.
And that was just the latest in a string of transportation tax defeats that have stretched out over the past three decades.
Heck, it's not as though we are anti-tax around here. In past elections we've approved a courthouse tax, a health care tax, and a couple of land conservation and parks taxes.
Either voters in this county simply aren't interested in spending money for roads, transit and other ways to get around, or those unsuccessful initiatives were so poorly planned, badly led and thinly supported as to be doomed to failure.
So who's driving this bus, anyway?
On Wednesday the Alachua County Commission will host a much anticipated transportation summit from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., at the Gainesville/Alachua County Senior Recreation Center at 5701 N.W. 34th Street.
"The summit is an opportunity for the County to receive public input on the future of the County's transportation system, what that system will look like, and the steps needed to achieve an effective and efficient system," says the county's website.
Much of that input is going to sound very familiar.
Some folks will stand up and say pretty much what they said before the last election: "Just fix the roads and stop wasting our money on buses, bike lanes, road narrowing and sidewalks."
We already know where that line of reasoning leads. To a dead end.
Still others will come to the podium with more thoughtful contributions:
Of course we need to fix our roads. But if Innovation Gainesville is going to be anything more than an economic development mirage, equally innovative leaps in transit, bikeways and pedestrian amenities will be needed to support it.
Those are the people that commissioners should be listening to. And after the summit is over, those are the folks who will have to keep the conversation going; in board rooms and public meeting halls, on the pages of this newspaper and in gatherings both casual and formal throughout the community.
Simply put, this university community's ambition to build a sustainable, knowledge-based economy won't get very far on the traditional suburban-based transportation system that has come to define much of AutoAmerica.
The truth is that both Alachua County and Gainesville already have some very progressive (dare I say "innovative"?) plans for making it easier to get from one place to another using a variety of transportation choices. What's missing is the money — serious money, long-term money — to make those plans a reality.
And absent a broad coalition of organizations, community leaders and individuals climbing on the bus in support of whatever transportation initiative is destined to appear on the next ballot, that one too will be doomed to failure.
"Most people assume that great bus drivers (read: business leaders) immediately start the journey by announcing to the people on the bus where they're going," Collins writes. "In fact ... they start by getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats."
After the transportation summit is over, the real work of selling a cogent vision for Alachua County's transportation future will begin.
If the right people aren't on that bus, and in the right seats, it will very likely break down, once again, come the next election.
Ron Cunningham is former editorial page editor of The Sun.
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Pub Chips or thin circular cuts of red potatoes are popular in Chicago restaurants. Several years ago I downloaded a recipe used to presoak these chips but has lost it and its URL!
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I've written several columns this year about nonperforming loans (NPL) in the residential mortgage area this year, so let's look now at where the money centers are with respect to Troubled Debt Restructuring (TDR).
The Obama administration has implemented 12 different loan modifications programs in the past four years. They have all failed in multiple ways. The biggest single issue with their failure is that a large percentage of modified loans become nonperforming again after they are restructured, which makes the money centers reluctant to pursue the process.
The majority of the NPL and TDR are concentrated at Wells Fargo (WFC), Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Citigroup (C). Each has pursued the restructuring process with different strategies and different time frames over the past four years. Citigroup was the first to aggressively pursue the restructuring route, followed by JPMorgan, Bank of America and, finally, Wells Fargo.
One of the most interesting aspects of the process was that BAC did not really begin to restructure aggressively until this year. Its strategy was to pursue the traditional foreclosure and recovery route, which it pursued more aggressively than the other money centers. The issue BAC ran into last year was that its recovery rate on first trust mortgages sent through foreclosure and recovery fell to a shocking low 5% of the residual loan balance. This was one of the major reasons for the plunge in BAC's stock price last year.
Prior to the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the housing bubble, the normal recovery rate on first trust mortgages was in the range of 75%. The plunge in BAC's recovery rate was the primary reason for all of the money centers halting foreclosures and allowing their nonperforming loan portfolios to rise instead. It also made loan modifications a more preferable route for the money centers than was the case since the crisis began.
In the past 12 months, the value of TDR at BAC and WFC has increased by 50%. It's remained relatively constant at C because it pursued TDR more aggressively than the others. JPM's TDR portfolio has actually decreased by about 30% in the past year. The percentage of restructured loans that become nonperforming again following restructuring is very high at all four banks, though. At WFC, the percentage of loans that re-default is 32%, it's almost 50% at JPM, 35% at BAC, and it's 19% at C.
The banks are essentially caught between taking losses now by way of foreclosure and recovery or taking losses over time by repeatedly restructuring the same mortgages for the same borrowers. Recovery rates are currently still low, so until housing demand is strong enough to absorb more foreclosure inventory coming to market, the banks will probably choose to continue the current restructuring trend.


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I am the author of http://www.russki-mat.net, a dictionary of Russian slang, colloquialisms and obscene vocabulary. It started on a beer mat in Saint-Petersburg in 1997 and grew over time to include pragmatic explanations in the languages I know (French, German, English), and a fair number of those I don't (Breton, Latin, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Aragonese, Greek and Hungarian).
Now I believe that I have annoyed most of the persons I know that are kind and qualified enough to provide me with a good translation in their language - but still I feel I could have more.
Are there any enthusiasts on the forum that would give me a hand with Chinese, Japanese, Welsh, Suaheli, Hebrew or some other language?
The translation in new languages concerns only a small but crucial part of the dictionary (20 terms out of 1500), and represents 4 pages in word (half of it being in Russian and requires no translation). I can provide a Russian-French, Russian-German or Russian-English version for translation (as well as Latin, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Aragonese, Greek and Hungarian).
The whole thing is rather pointless, I agree, it's mostly l'art pour l'art. Collector's impulse... no commercial use is intended.
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Developers wanting to build homes in Malmesbury are appealing over decisions made against them last year.
Gleeson Strategic Land's application for 180 homes was approved in March 2013, but permission was withdrawn less than 24 hours later by the Planning Inspectorate, which said the decision had been issued in error.
Gleeson fought the decision but a judge at Bristol's Administrative Court rejected the claim. Despite this, Gleeson will challenge the judicial review in March.
White Lion Land's appeal to build 77 homes off Park Road will be heard at a public enquiry in April after its application was twice refused by the North Wiltshire Planning Committee after numerous objections.
Wiltshire Council said the plan is premature to the progression of its core strategy document and Malmesbury Neighbourhood Plan.
Simon Killane, a Malmesbury town and Wiltshire councillor, said: "We, as a community, have a neighbourhood plan that we think delivers the best outcomes for the town and we are being challenged, understandably."
The neighbourhood plan has been approved by Wiltshire Council and will go to consultation before it is decided whether it will go to a referendum later this year.
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County frets over proposed communications tax
Published: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 7:11 p.m.
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County officials on Tuesday expressed concern that a measure in Tallahassee could lower the amount of money Alachua County collects from cellphone, Internet and cable television usage.
County and city governments now set their own communications service tax rates, and collect the levy on top of the state's communications tax. That means there are hundreds of rates throughout the state.
HB 303, introduced by state Rep. James W. Grant, R-Tampa, would repeal local governments' authority and raise the state's tax from 6.65 percent to 10.65 percent. After deducting money for funding education, the state then would distribute 45 percent of the revenue to the counties and cities.
Alachua County has one of the highest communications service taxes, or CST, in the state. It was unclear on Tuesday how much revenue it generates, but any reduction in the amount would impact the 2013-14 budget being developed.
The county agrees with simplifying the tax, said Mark Sexton, communications coordinator for Alachua County, with one major condition.
"The county will support it as long as the revenue sharing gives the county as much as it is currently collecting," he said. "Alachua County supports a revenue-neutral compromise," he said.
At their regular policy meeting Tuesday, county commissioners discussed the difficulties of planning a budget without knowing how much revenue they will receive.
Commissioner Charles "Chuck'' Chestnut said the legislation seemed to have been the idea of communications giants like Verizon and AT&T.
The county seemingly has reason to be concerned.
In an interview, Grant said that counties like Alachua whose communication services taxes are higher than the proposed 4 percent increase in the state tax will likely see a cut in revenue.
Grant said this is fair because services like the Internet were never intended to be taxed as they are, adding that the tax cut in counties like Alachua will help residents.
He said the notion that the bill was drafted to please telecom companies is not true.
"It was drafted with families and consumers in mind,'' he said.
The tax, originally intended for landline phones, has evolved over the last decade to cover Internet use, cable television and mobile phones, said Cragin Mosteller, communications director for the Florida Association of Counties.
The FAC is closely watching this bill, she said, adding that it is one of its top three priorities this year.
"It's a $250 million issue," Mosteller said.
The FAC hasn't taken a stance on it yet, since the details are still being developed. One critical factor will be whether it will affect the revenue Florida's counties collect, she said.
The Florida League of Cities opposes the bill, citing similar concerns about the lack of a distribution formula, according to Amber Hughes, a legislative advocate for the League of Cities.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Saint Leo (15-6) won its fifth straight on Monday afternoon, topping Kentucky Wesleyan (5-5) by a final score of 9-2. The Lions strung together five consecutive scoring innings in the middle of the contest to put away the Panthers.
Chris Williams started the game on the hill for the Lions and tossed seven complete innings to earn his second win for the Green and Gold. Williams allowed just one earned run and struck out five while surrendering just one walk.
Taed Moses led the Lions' offensive effort—tallying three hits including a towering solo homerun over the centerfield wall in the bottom of the fourth. Moses came up just a double short of the cycle. Collecting two hits on the afternoon was Ryan Brnovich, Frank Rawdow and Chris Newcomb. Rawdow also plated three runs for the Lions.
The Lions got their offense going in the bottom of the second when Moses led off the inning with a triple and eventually came across home on a wild pitch from the Panthers' starter Alex Simpson.
An inning later Brnovich ripped the Lions' second triple of the game to get the inning going and later was brought home on a double from Rawdow. The next inning, Moses torched a mammoth homerun to centerfield to extend the Lions' lead to 4-0.
Kentucky Wesleyan pushed a run across the board in the top of the fifth, but the Lions came right back and responded with two more in the bottom half of the inning when Rawdow doubled to right field and came all the way home after a throwing error on the Panthers. Newcomb followed up with a single and proceeded to steal second and third to set up Moses' RBI single.
After the Panthers scored another run in the top of the sixth the Lions put up a three-spot in the bottom of the inning. The inning was started with a walk from Perez and a base hit from Brnovich. After a walk from Rawdow, Twitty sent a ball into the right-center gap for a double to bring home Perez and Brnovich. With the hit, Twitty extended his hit streak to 17 games. The next play Newcomb singled to the shortstop to bring home Rawdow to make the lead 9-2.
Relieving Williams on the mound in the eighth was Matthew Hewitt who tossed an inning of work and allowed just one hit. Adam Albers took the ball in the ninth and got three up, three down to finish the game out.
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As usual, the Patriots are pushing for the AFC's best record. With a win they would become the first team in NFL history with eight consecutive division titles.
"We just gotta keep it rolling," Patriots safety Devin McCourty said. "That's whether you want to call it a playoff game, must-win, or any of that stuff. Once you get into December and toward the end of December, every game is important. There's really no rebounding and trying to fix things. You want to try and play your best ball every time you go out there and play."
While they can't clinch home-field advantage throughout the playoffs this weekend, they could grab the East simply by Miami not beating the Jets. A first-round bye comes with a Patriots win, too.
Denver has not been one of Tom Brady's favorite places. The Broncos are the only team Brady has a losing record against: 6-9, 2-7 in Denver, including two losses last season, the second for the AFC championship. And the Broncos still have that strong defense.
But Denver's offense has sputtered badly and can't afford a shootout with New England.
For the Broncos to have a chance to repeat as champs, they must negotiate the toughest closing trio of opponents: New England, Kansas City and Oakland.


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Hi all,
For reasons I won't go into I'm currently looking at getting a new website host.My budget is around £10 a month for Windows Hosting since current projects and future developments are going to involve ASP and ASP.Net, MYSQL etc, I require a set of included MYSQL databases if possible (my current host charges around £25 per annum for each database!) and ideally I'm looking for unlimited bandwidth and unlimited webspace.
I've come across a few deals on various sites which offer a few MYSQL databases within the price which is ideal, as well as unlimited bandwidth and webspace but I have the following predicament....
My main question is how I go about hosting multiple sites so that I have files and folders related to each? In the past I have had to store my folders under one domain and then point another domain to that folder if I want to separate projects, but the folder path isn't masked so that it appears to be under the new domain.
For example, I could have the folder mrbloggs under my main domain www.shoxt3r.com. However, when I have registered the domain www.joebloggs.co.uk with my current package I have no option but to point it to www.shoxt3r.com/joebloggs instead of having www.joebloggs.co.uk/joebloggs. So, when a user types in "www.joebloggs.co.uk" it gets redirected to www.shoxt3r.com/joebloggs. How do I get around this without having to have separate hosting packages for each project? I'm sorry if this isn't explained very well or it is just a "noobish" question but I'm not quite sure how else to put it! :lol:
Thanks for the help guys! Ideally I'm looking to upgrade in the next few days as renewal time is looming so sooner the better!
Windows Azure Web sites? http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/web-sites/
Can use MySQL or MS SQL or both. Azure sites also work form a single storage pool thus no need for masking.
When you add an "AddOn" domain, it does go to a subdirectory of the master account BUT you can address the subdirectory/subdomain in its own right. The following are synonymous:
If you don't want the main domain to "capture" your subdirectory links, simply use some mod_rewrite code to force the URL to change to whichever version you want visitors to see (the last one listed above, I believe).
Cool! Thanks for clarifying dklynn! Do you know which hosts are more flexible with using mod_rewrite code as I have had problems in the past with hosts not allowing this modification?
You won't have mod_rewite, you will need the equivalent for IIS. That can vary depending on the version, IIS 6 and below, lots of third-parties out there. IIS 7 and above: http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite
Getting a Windows Server running 2008+ and IIS 7+ is ideal.
Ah I see. So really my only option if I want to configure domains is to go down the server-space route? Hmm £10 a month for Windows server hosting this doesn't seem very possible at the moment :lol: The alternative being to make new accounts for each project....
$10/month for any hosting is bottom of the barrel. Optimistic stuff. But the Windows Azure Websites is around $15/m depending on what you use. With the ability to run 10+ individual sites (aka., domains).
I see you're using MySQL. The only reason you'd be tied to Windows servers is the ASP.netWhen I see people on Windows servers they are usually using MS-SQL with ASP and perhaps IIS.
The only reason I ask is that if you could change from using ASP.net you could move into linux. Which has a much lower overhead. However if you are locked into using ASP.net then going with Azure would be your safest choice by far.
Check out lunarpages.com if you're using up to .Net 4.0. I'm not sure if they support 4.5. I had a good windows hosting experience with them and they include MS SQL and MYSQL in their price.
Cool! Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Decided to go with 1&1 since they offer 2 MYSQL databases with £4.99 a month hosting with 50GB storage and Unlimited Bandwidth
Excellent. Please let us know how it goes. Learning customer experience is huge on these things and great for others in your boat.


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Owls Head Light was built in 1825. The short, brick light tower sits atop a steep rise near Rockland Harbor. The keeper's house is down a set of stairs from the light; the house is used by a Coast Guard family. The station is inside Owls Head State Park, which is open to the public. Tales swirl like fog around this famous light. In one story, a lightkeeper's dog saved a distressed mailboat by barking continuously when the fog bell was buried in snow. In another tale, two lovers were trapped in a wrecked schooner during a vicious storm. The lovers were frozen together in an icy embrace; the light keeper rescued and thawed them. The lovers were later married.


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|Cruising Computers
Part 3: Super Software
By Brad Dunn — December 2000
In a move that marks a first in the boating industry, Maptech began offering its entire range of charting software for free at its Web site, maptech.com. The company's new Mapserver program lets you log on, view, save, print, and e-mail any of its nautical charts and topographical maps.
"It's all about choice," according to Maptech president Ed Markham. "Boaters can instantly get a screen image of a chart for free, or they can purchase a Maptech CD-ROM that has up to 80 NOAA charts per CD." In addition, the company offers to e-mail weekly chart updates to its customers.
Furthermore, at the 2001 Miami International Boat Show, Maptech plans to start offering real-time weather reports in a partnership with satellite-imaging companies Echo Flight and Orbimage. The graphical weather reports will be delivered over the Internet by subscription and can be overlayed onto live radar screens or chartplotters. Report data will include sea-surface temperatures, wave-height data, and wind speed and direction.
Weather reports are also one of Raytheon's software specialties. In fact, when it comes to integrating all your electronics into a PC, this electronics giant is leading the way.
The RayTech Navigator is a software package that combines everything from chartplotting to depthsounding. For starters, the program's Weather Animation Forecast, based on an international standard format and available from RayTech's online weather center, animates evolving weather patterns in six-, 12-, or 24-hour intervals. Another handy feature is the Track Coloring chartplotting program, which lets you choose different colors to indicate different tracks on a course. You can even store routes and analyze courses during different weather conditions.
RayTech Navigator displays a customizable Databox, which can be configured (and placed anywhere on your computer screen) to show depth, wind, and speed data. The program, which is compatible with all Raytheon SeaTalk instruments or NMEA-approved systems, essentially lets you transfer your entire helm to a single computer screen. But probably the best part of the RayTech Navigator is that you can lay out a cruise at home. Before you head to the docks, you can use your home computer to plot courses, analyze routes, and research the weather. Then you can save all your data on a disk and take it to the marinized laptop on your boat.
Of course, wading through all this cutting-edge marine technology and deciding what makes sense for your boat may be daunting. But it's worth it when you consider the extent to which you can improve your boat and make your cruises safer and more enjoyable.
Keep this in mind: If you still doubt the power of PCs on your boat, you probably once doubted the power of PCs in your office or your home. Take another look. With hardware that's never been tougher and software that's never combined more critical features, computers can make great cruising companions.
Maptech Phone: (888) 839-5551. Fax: (978) 933-3030. www.maptech.com.
NetSea Phone: (508) 563-1177. Fax: (508) 563-2255. www.maxsea.com.
OceanPC Phone: (206) 706-9024. Fax: (206) 706-9065. www.oceanpc.com.
Raytheon Phone: (603) 881-5200. Fax: (603) 864-4756. www.raymarine.com.
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Auburn, Ala. - Calling all artists! The Auburn Arts Association and Auburn Parks and Recreation will host the 7th Annual Holiday Art Sale (HAS) on Saturday, Dec. 14 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center. This festive and unique shopping experience features local artists selling creative, handmade works. Works include pottery, paintings, stained glass, photography, cards, prints, jewelry, scarves, hats and much more! Admission is FREE and open to the public.
Interested in participating as an artist? Applications are now available for a limited number of booth spaces. Download an application at www.auburnalabama.org/parks or pick one up at the Dean Road Recreation Center, Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center, or Harris Center. Only 40 booth spaces are available. Participants are encouraged to apply early to secure their spot. Applications must be received by Friday, Dec. 6. In lieu of a vendor fee, 10% of all proceeds from the HAS will go to benefit the Auburn Arts Association's programs offered at the Arts Center.
New this year! The HAS will feature a preview exhibition in the gallery of the Arts Center. Artists participating in the HAS may submit one work for exhibition no later than Monday, Dec. 2 at noon. The exhibition will be open to the public weekdays from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Dec. 2 - 14.
For more information on the HAS, please visit www.auburnalabama.org/parks or contact Cari Philen, Art Education Specialist, at 501-2944 or email@example.com. For more information on the HAS Preview Exhibition, please contact the Arts Center at 501-2963.


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China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited (China Eastern), one of the three largest airliners in China by fleet size and the primary air carrier serving Shanghai, was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China. China Eastern, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the airline operations in China, and internationally. It provides domestic and international passenger, cargo, and mail airline services. The company is also involved in the logistics and property management operations and provision of air catering, pilot training, aircraft repair and maintenance, flight simulation, and airport ground services. China Eastern accounted for approximately 23.0% of the total commercial air traffic (as measured in tonne-kilometers) handled by Chinese airlines in 2006. China Eastern operates primarily from Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport and Pudong International Airport. As of December 31, 2006, China Eastern operated a fleet of 205 aircraft. China Eastern is a subsidiary of state-owned China Eastern Airlines Holding Company, which owns 59.67% of China Eastern.
China Eastern recorded a sharp profit increase in the third quarter mainly due to strong passenger demand and the Chinese currency appreciating versus the US dollar. Although volatile fuel prices and fewer operating efficiencies still hurt China Eastern's operating performance, China Eastern is well positioned to leverage the growth potential of aviation industry in China. Other factors including an appreciating Chinese currency, high discount of ADS price to A share price, and expected operating efficiencies brought by its strategic partners should also support its stock price. We think its current price fairly reflects most factors. Therefore, we are maintaining Hold recommendation for its stock.


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Bisons' Harvey bests Harper, Chiefs
Mets No. 2 prospect strikes out 10 en route to first Triple-A win
By Robert Emrich / Special to MLB.com | April 20, 2012 6:35 PM ET
The Mets' No. 2 prospect struck out 10, including Harper twice, over six innings for his first Triple-A win as the Buffalo Bisons defeated Syracuse, 6-4.
Harvey (1-1), gave up three runs on four hits and three walks and hit a batter. He made his 95th pitch of the night count, fanning Jeff Howell to end the sixth and strand a runner at second. The strikeouts matched the career high he established twice last season -- on May 27 with Class A Advanced St. Lucie and on July 28 with Double-A Binghamton.
"I was really keeping the fastball down, moving it well inside and outside," Harvey said. "I was able to throw the curve for strikes, which always helps. The biggest thing, I'd say, was getting ahead. Whether it was fastball or curveball, I was able to execute pretty well and I was able to expand as the at-bat went on."
Harvey picked up his first win in four starts for the Bisons. The Connecticut native entered the game with a 7.62 ERA and had allowed International League foes to hit .357 against him.
"I'm real happy," Harvey said. "It was good to get out there and help the team out and I was just trying to make my pitches and keep the game within winning distance. And I was able to do that."
Harvey held Harper, MLB.com's No. 2 prospect, hitless in three at-bats, fanning him twice. It was the second time the two have faced each other, with Harvey also besting Harper last July 28 in Harrisburg. For his part, the Mets' 2010 first-round pick has given little thought to facing the player drafted six spots ahead of him.
"I haven't really looked at it as a competition between me vs. him. It's baseball," Harvey said.
The University of North Carolina product credited bullpen sessions this week for the difference between his outing on Friday and his start on April 15, when he surrendered six runs on six hits over 3 2/3 innings against Pawtucket.
"The bullpen this week was about working both sides of the plate and keeping the fastball down," he said. "I was a little sporadic with it, I was leaving it up."
Harvey also contributed at the plate, going 2-for-3 with an RBI. Valentino Pascucci was 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs to extend his hitting streak to six games. Jordany Valdespin, the Mets' No. 9 prospect, also had two hits and scored a run.
Nationals No. 14 prospect Tyler Moore hit his sixth homer, a two-run shot, for the Chiefs, who have lost five straight.
Robert Emrich is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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He specializes in several research areas, including social media, e-commerce, online video, digital advertising and multi-platform marketing. He is frequently quoted by leading news organizations, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, AdAge, CNN, Fortune, BusinessWeek and Newsweek.
Andrew has also co-authored several well-known industry white papers, including The Power of Like 1 and 2, Marketing to the Multi-Platform Majority, The Impact of Cookie Deletion on the Accuracy of Site-Server and Ad-Server Metrics and comScore's annual Digital and Mobile Future in Focus series.
Andrew began his career at The NPD Group working with clients such as Kraft Foods and Johnson & Johnson. He earned his MBA at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management with concentrations in Marketing, Strategy and Entrepreneurship and a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University.


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Your old desktop PC gave you years of reliable service, but eventually it couldn't keep up with modern tasks and applications; so you went out and bought something newer and faster. Now you need to decide what to do with the old clunker.
You could e-recycle it--hand it off to a responsible company that will dismantle it and recycle the parts--but what do you gain from that aside from feeling good about being environmentally responsible? Allow us to suggest another solution: Repurpose the old hulk as a local server. You can use it as a repository for automatic PC backups, or set it up as a file server that you and your employees can access while you're on the road. Those are just two of the roles that an older PC can perform that are of far more benefit to your business than having the machine collect dust or head for the dump.
Best of all, the software--FreeNAS--that will power this machine is exactly what its name describes: a free operating system for network-attached storage. And side from being free, FreeNAS is easy to install, configure, and run. You'll find everything you need to know in this guide.
Installing FreeNAS
Before you begin your FreeNAS installation, obtain a USB thumb drive with a capacity of at least 2GB. You'll install FreeNAS to this drive and boot from it, because you can't run the OS on the same drive that you're using to share files from. Alternatively, you can buy a very small solid-state drive, install FreeNAS on that, and boot the server from it; but investing in such an SSD is an unnecessary expense (unless you're worried that someone might remove the USB drive without realizing the consequences).
Once you have the necessary thumb drive, download the latest version of FreeNAS from the operating system's official site, taking care to choose the right disc image (that is, .iso file): x86 if your machine is equipped with a 32-bit CPU, or x64 if it has a 64-bit processor. After downloading the .iso file, burn it to a blank CD and drop it into your server-to-be's optical drive.
Now, power up the computer, tap the key that calls up its BIOS boot menu, and choose the option to have the machine boot from its optical drive instead of from its hard drive. If no such menu exists, you'll have to enter the BIOS itself and change the boot order there.
Once all of FreeNAS's FreeBSD-based Linux commands have done their work, you'll see a simple installation screen that gives you four options to choose from. Select the first--the option to install or upgrade FreeNAS 8 to a hard drive or flash drive--and press Enter. Any storage media connected to your system will appear on the next screen. In that next screen, you'll eventually want to select your flash drive as a target for the installation (the OS will create two partitions on the drive: one for the OS itself and one for future FreeNAS upgrades)--but don't press anything yet.
Before choosing the installation destination, you need to be aware that FreeNAS will eradicate the data and partitions on the flash drive that you install it on. So this is your last chance to archive any files that your flash drive already contains, before they vanish forever. When you're ready, choose the thumb drive, select Yes, and press Enter. A prompt will appear when the FreeNAS installation process is complete. Press Enter and then select the option to reboot your system in the main menu.
While your system is rebooting, repeat the step where you chose which drive FreeNAS will boot from by default--but this time specify that you want it to boot from the thumb drive plugged into one of the system's USB ports.
Setting Up Your Storage
Once FreeNAS has finished loading, you'll see a console screen that lists all of the networking options you can set for FreeNAS. At this point, your server is up and running.
Assuming that your system works fine at the default settings--and it should, as long as it's connected to your network via ethernet cable--you'll receive an IP address that you can use to access FreeNAS's primary settings. Type this IP address into the Web browser's address bar on any system connected to your network and press Enter.
The first thing you'll want to do within this Web-based configuration screen is to change your user credentials. Look to the left side and click the My Account menu item to expand it. Now choose an admin user name and a password. Click the button to save your changes. Then click Change Password and do the same. Security first!
To set up your storage volumes, click the Storage button in the upper-left corner of the FreeNAS Web-based configuration screen. From there, click the Create Volume button that appears in the main window. Give your volume a name, select the number of drives you'll want to use to create the volume, and select ZFS as the file system type. You'll find that ZFS delivers a number of benefits that the Unix File System does not. If you're combining multiple drives, you'll have an opportunity at this point to select which RAID type you want to use.
Click the Add Volume button when you're ready. If you want your storage to be a shared resource in your office, so that you won't have any individual user account permissions to manage, click the Change Permissions icon and grant write access to both Group and Other users (be sure to select the Set Permissions Recursively option, too). Press the big Change button to cement your configuration.
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The homeless charity has taken a £1,000 delivery of pillows and bedding from Time4Sleep.co.uk, helping them to support more homeless people.
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I will say this on occasion, but I assure that I say it in an ironic way when doing it (I have the tendency to say it to pretty much everyone, in pretty much every situation). I will continue to say it, changing my way of speaking is waaaay to much of a hassle, but you can be sure that I'm not saying in a militaristic way. I'm much to silly for that.
(of course, if it really bothers someone: let me know via a tell or something, and I'll try to crush the desire to "sir" people)
Perhaps that was LaKroy! And okay, but you sounded very srs giraffe there
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No worries, si-, ehr, I mean "mate". And yeah, Lakroy is a bit weird. (Kidding, kidding, don't kill me LaKroy!!!)
Yes, I think I might have said "Yes sir" on some occasion (but I can't remember being told to stop). It was not meant in any overly serious or militaristic way, and if you find it "offensive" I can try to avoid it. I just want to try to apply a varied vocabulary.
And don't worry SirHoc, I will surely find an opportunity to send some burning plasma of enlightenment straight to your dome some day.
Over time I imagine it'll eventually get easier, as I'll have a head start on what the hell is going on beyond my own gun barrel, and I'll be able to hone in on what is being said and respond much more quickly. And as you've said, I'm also trying to push myself to speak a bit more when I'm unsure (or to just ask questions in general), but jumping on the mic in a group doesn't come naturally, and I hate feeling like I'm butting-in to a conversation or talking over other people (and sounding like the lost eejit I am to boot). I'll try to do better on that front, but I'd also appreciate any friendly kicks up the arse should anyone notice that I've drifted off or lagged behind.
As for comms, I like the sound of the 24 + 12 + 12, for what it's worth.
Even if that was a reference to me, I think it still was worth saying. Please don't ever feel like asking for a confirmation of order or direction is something you cannot do. This goes for anyone, by the way. Chances are when you ask, there may be someone else who is in a similar situation. There's also the chat which is noticed.
With regards to your personal situation, maybe the smaller squad comms would be better for you? At least until you get into the habit of talking more?
I want to say this as a general comment for those who want to speak but are perhaps afraid of doing so for whatever reason, something personal; the first time I properly spoke online was in playing WoW a few years ago. It was...an interesting experience, but one not too taxed by the game because during non-group situations, it was hardly action all the time. It was hard to break into the group, in terms of feeling 'safe' to contribute and not feeling like I was stepping over any sort of mark. It was then ages before I communicated with anyone in an organised set-up who wasn't already a friend. So, coming onto the RPS set-up, regardless of game, was hard. Same problems, but a new community and different feel to it. Still, I had decided to involve myself so I had to talk and, quelle surprise, nothing bad happened.
After enough time you just get used to it, it becomes normal. It's a case of getting past that hurdle before the momentum of getting involved takes over. There will always be little things that might bother you, but the fact is is that most people will have a similar problem. Maybe you don't like the way your voice is heard (this is one of mine), or you're concerned that you'll say too much. Well, if it's the latter, you'll be politely informed to maybe cut back a little bit, but don't fret, it's part of the process of working out how the community communicates. And after a while you'll get used to talking and joining in this way. Maybe you can set yourself a challenge of, say, "Today I'll say hello to every person who joins and good night to every person who leaves" or "I'll tell this one story that's relevant/completely at odds but humorous and then not say any more".
So for those of you who want to get involved speaking, you honestly have nothing to worry about. We've all been there and the only reason some are confident is because they've had the time to settle in and find their groove. You'll find yours, but you'll need to start it up first. Take smaller steps, but take them regular. Or go in all guns blazing, whatever you feel comfortable with.Powered by Steam. And biscuits. I'm also a twit and dabble in creative writing.
I wish this game had raidwarnings or a clearer way to give orders.
10-04-2013, 08:22 AM #1088So for those of you who want to get involved speaking, you honestly have nothing to worry about. We've all been there and the only reason some are confident is because they've had the time to settle in and find their groove. You'll find yours, but you'll need to start it up first. Take smaller steps, but take them regular. Or go in all guns blazing, whatever you feel comfortable with."Time is a companion, travelling with us on the journey of life, to remind us to cherish each moment as it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived."
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Well, I've killed you more than you've killed me Lakroy. So I guess that's fair. :P
In regards to linguistic registers, I've been thinking a bit about a thing (as per usual ). When leading, I make abundant use of politeness. That is to say, instead of giving direct orders in the style of "Go there!" or "Pull magriders!" I give indirect orders. Stuff like "Let's do this." or "We're gonna move to this base, can someone pull a sunderer?" Because that's how I speak (I AM swedish after all, and I have to admit that I really like linguistic politeness as well). But I'm not sure if that's what's most effective when it comes to communicating orders.
Sinomatic brings up that it's hard to hear orders sometimes, which I, as someone who gets caught in the moment from time to time, can relate to. Singling out the current leaders voice and then separating orders from normal chatter can be difficult, even for experienced players. If you're new to this complex, massive and strange game, I think it might be a huge problem. You're confused enough as it is, and I don't think it's good if orders are unclear as well.
So, in order to make orders clearer, do you think it's better if they are formulated in imperatives? I especially want to know what any newer members think about this, since I gather most of the people who've been around for a while do thing on habit at this point (I know I do from time to time).
I think imperatives work the best, followed by some polite acknowledgement of the effort. Ie, "Cover the south wall!" followed by "Good job. Thank you, guys". Imperatives have an urgency and are, well, imperative, so people respond faster. I know that it is hard, at least for me, because I keep fearing that I sound like an overbearing twat. But they work.
Acknowledge what they do afterwards, because they're following the orders out of their own volition, they've put their trust and enjoyment of the game partly into your hands and they at least put some effort into it. Not because they have to obey you. There is a difference between following orders and obeying orders.
To give you some feedback on your leadership Sir Hoc, you need to be more assertive and speak up. Be less polite. Raise the volume. Speak louder and like you have decided were now doing this.
The way to give orders is to shout and give very simple objectives as well as a means to acheive them or to meet somewhere. I think it's every members responsibility to use the overlay and to recognize when the leader is speaking and giving orders, but it's also the leader's responsibility to be clear and give clear directions.
I personally can find it frustrating to repeat orders because I have such a hard time to relate to the "getting in the zone" and such. I never really miss anything and when leaders speak I automatically listen. Perhaps we should preface orders with something as simple as "new orders are.."? That should be a cue to listen, because I do know I am the exception here. I think it has to do with how much of the game you have played as well - you learn to filter out things.
Repeating orders a few times helps to make sure the message is received. It then becomes less about how it's said and is reinforced.
If you aren't certain of the order, do ask for it to be repeated. I'm terrible at not paying enough attention to the orders, so I ask a lot!
It also becomes harder to discern which orders relate to you if there's multi-squad tactics. This isn't the fault of anyone, it's just a fact of getting info across fast so we remain mobile. Repetition helps.
tr;dr: Repeat, repeat, repeat
I also find that, if the situation allows for it, it really helps to give a rough outline of why you gave that particular order. Eg "We're approaching from here because they have limited visibility, and then we can get there where we will hold a better firing position".
The above holds true in every tactical situation and is also applicable when organising movement and transport, although in the latter there is more time for repetition.
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Regarding multi squad tactics and orders, that is something I find to simply not work. Hence compromise comms. PLs should keep AB together and C/D are already split.
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Some PL/SLs just need a bit more... well oomph when they give orders. I know I do need to but many others need to do it as well. The PLs often lists all squads and their locations in a "normal conversation tone" which makes it very easy to miss or instantly forget what the PL said about Alpha as soon as Bravos orders come up.
If PLs would try to do it a bit more structured:
Alpha! "Yes?" RUST MESA!
Bravo! "Listening" Help Alpha!
etc. instead of the common "Well ummm alpha can you go to rust mesa and umm bravo can you try to help alpha there and well uuuuuhh charlie go to the north satellite?"
When discussing what to do talk about it when giving orders, short clipped orders where you wait for acknowledgement between each squad. Should make it easier to distinguish orders from discussion and make sure we have less confusion.
Yes, and raise your mic volume. Some leaders have it very low. Regarding the more low key leaders I reckon eso could help out since he is low key but still clear and decisive. You don't have to shout to be heard.
I don't presume to speak for everyone, but if any of this is about me I'd love to see my name being mentioned.
I hope it's clear that while I am quoting Ridebird's post I only do so to illustrate the general feeling I want to quote and that I'm not specifically talking to or about Ridebird.
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The same goes for me, about anything and everything. I believe I know most of my own issues though, but feel free to reiterate or pinpoint problems. Can't improve without knowing your weaknesses first.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Former Saint Leo volleyball player and West Georgia assistant coach Amanda Cook has joined the coaching ranks when she was named the head coach at Lake Minneola High School in Minneola, Florida earlier this summer.
In discussions with the Saint Leo Athletic Communications Office Cook said that she earned her MBA from the University of West Georgia last spring where she also served as the Graduate Assistant for the women's volleyball team. Despite her term in Carrolton, Ga. coming to an end, her desire to coach was stronger than ever.
"I'm originally from Florida and knew I wanted to move back and pursue a career in coaching," Cook said. "Lake Minneola High School is the perfect fit. It's a brand new school in a very up-and-coming area. A coach couldn't ask for a better opportunity!"
The native of Royal Palm Beach, Florida graduated in 2009 after a four-year career as a defensive staple for the Lions. Fighting for the starting libero spot her freshman year, Cook became a staple for the Lions' defense during her entire career. As a Lion, Cook played in 348 games, ending her playing career with 130 assists. She sits fourth all-time at Saint Leo with 1051 digs, averaging 3.02 digs per set.