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1.) Sign up for Google Webmaster Tools, add and verify your site, and then, in the Settings section, you can adjust the "Crawl rate." (The adjacent "Learn more" link contains specific info about default and custom rate settings.)
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sometimes that switches over to be yahoo or other search engines that I haven't gotten ticked off at and blocked.
I have my site isn't new but is also huge and I add new content regularly.
I didn't sign up for google panel as above but I do have page speed limits in robots.txt at 10 seconds and google seems to never go faster than one page every 20 seconds.
I have leech protect on in control panel and google image regulary stupidly tries and fails to grab my images without coming from my pages. They don't therefore show up in google image search which is no problem for me.
Other bots sometimes come in and try real fast grabs and I of course block them.
Some do obey robots.txt, some don't. Eventually you'll gain intuitive knowledge from experience and reading these forums.
Personally, if new bots don't show immediate malice and if they have a bot info page, I'll try robots.txt first and keep an eye on them. If they screw that up, they get banned via mod_rewrite in htaccess either by UA or IP range. Better yet is at the server level if you have admin status.
Thanks, that's what I figured but it's good to get that part confirmed. But you mention blocking at the server level? how is this done compared to doing it via .htaccess? found this thread [webmasterworld.com...] about blocking bots at the server level but it references this thread [webmasterworld.com...] and that is all about writing in .htaccess...
will both act as firewalls. Both act server-side as well, config apparently offers more options because you control the entire server, as opposed to a portion of the server which a paid host assigns to your website.
that first link mentions the cpanel, which has an ip deny manager. that's all I use as I don't seem to have access to .htaccess file maybe as I'm on a shared server and the host co doesn't want to give me access as I might crash sherver? I even telneted in to look for it. I think the cpanel is only for non-m$ web servers, as I have a m$ based site also and no cpanel.


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Get an overview of this hotelRomantic hotel with 24-hour fitness center and coffee shop/café
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Located in the heart of Beaufort, this romantic hotel is steps from Thomas Hepworth House, Beaufort Museum, and John Mark Verdier House. Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park and University of South Carolina-Beaufort are also within 10 minutes.
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A 24-hour fitness center, a coffee shop/café, and free use of bicycles are available at this hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, concierge services, dry cleaning, and a 24-hour front desk are onsite.
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All 23 individually decorated rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and memory foam beds. For entertainment, flat-screen TVs come with digital channels, and guests can also appreciate comforts like premium bedding and down comforters.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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The hotel offers a coffee shop/café. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. City Loft Hotel features a 24-hour fitness center and complimentary bicycles. Event facilities measure 300 square feet (28 square meters). This romantic hotel also offers a terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 23
- Coffee shop or café
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Number of floors - 2
- Terrace
- Free self parking
- Conference space size (meters) - 28
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1960
- Conference space size (feet) - 300
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in common areas
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free self parking
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- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Room service (limited hours)
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Bathrobes
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- Hair dryer
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- Minibar
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- In-room massage available
- Memory foam mattress
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Digital TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free wired Internet
- Down comforter
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
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City Java and News - This coffee shop specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast and lunch.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a 24-hour fitness center and complimentary bicycles.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Free bicycles on site
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 20.00 per pet, per night
- Dogs and cats only
- 1 per room (up to 40 lb)
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 21 years old.
Optional extras
- Pet fee: USD 20.00 per pet, per night
- Late check-out fee: USD 50.00
Hotel Name
- City Loft
- City Loft Beaufort
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- City Loft Hotel Beaufort
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.

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Last year, Pinellas County residents were able to haul 2,400 pounds of junk from Cross Bayou and Joes Creek when the Pinellas County Department of Environment and Infrastructure and Keep Pinellas Beautifuls partnered for cleanup.
Pinellas County residents will once again have the chance to assist in keeping area waterways looking cleaner on Saturday, March 22. The meeting point is the Pinellas County property located at the intersection of 70th Avenue North and 78th Street North in Pinellas Park.
Check-in begins at 8 a.m., with trash collection taking place from 8:30 to 11 a.m. After the refuse has been disposed of and the recyclables sorted, there will be lunch and a free raffle drawing. Registration is required.
The cleanup of Cross Bayou and Joes Creek is a decade-long tradition of helping keep Pinellas waterways beautiful and heightening public awareness of the importance of the environment in Pinellas County.
Volunteers are needed to clean up the land around the waterways or to participate on the water from a canoe or kayak. Volunteers wanting to help on the water should bring their own watercraft, or borrow a canoe or kayak (provided on a first-come, first-served basis). Participants working on the water will be required to wear life jackets. Those borrowing a canoe or kayak will be provided life jackets.
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Blumberg Advisory Group To Launch Subscriber Based Aftermarket & Reverse Logistics Research Portal
Blumberg Advisory Group will be presenting at the International CES show in Las Vegas from January 8-11,2013. Blumberg Advisory group will be providing a gift at the Booth LVH 61009.
Dec. 21, 2012 - PRLog -- Fort Washington, Pennsylvania -- Blumberg Advisory Group, an over 30 year old Pennsylvania based market research and strategic business consulting company, with a highly regarded history and breadth of knowledge and experience in Aftermarket and Reverse Logistics, will be presenting its new subscriber-based Aftermarket and Reverse Logistics Market Research Portal at CES 2013, in Las Vegas Nevada January 8-11, 2013. In addition, to providing trials for the portal the Company will also be announcing its roundtable event schedule for 2013. Blumberg Advisory Group will be co-exhibiting at the Reverse Logistics Association Booth (LVH 61009). For an advanced view or to schedule an appointment with Blumberg Advisory Group and receive your free trial offer please contact info@blumberg-
Michael Blumberg, an expert in the field of Aftermarket and Reverse Logistics has assembled a team of highly trained researchers and strategists who have been able to discern the market and pin-point opportunities and weaknesses for its current clients' overall business strategy and help to elevate them to new profit centers.
The launch of the new Aftermarket and Reverse Logistics portal is the next stage in research and consulting for Blumberg Advisory Group. The portal allows for more real-time actionable data for its users. The subscription service comes in a number of packages, depending on the level of service based on frequency of information and depth of desired information. Customers will be able to access Aftermarket and Reverse Logistics Current Market Outlooks, Market sizing. Key trends, Potential Third Party Market Opportunities, Reverse Logistics vs 3rd Party data, among other information on a regular more real time basis. This provides clients actionable market and competitive data to help to create, alter, initiate new service offerings across multiple verticals.
Market research in the manufacturing space is quite plentiful, but Blumberg Advisory Group has found that the Aftermarket and Reverse Logistics research space has a lack of specialists and even greater lack of available research. Reasons include the highly fragmented space, the lack of knowledge and focus of current research providers. But, the current worldwide Aftermarket and Reverse Logistics space continues to grow, expected to reach $953.2 Billion by 2015
Some of the factors that make the acquisition of this data so unique to the market research space include, the need to acquire and determine the:
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By considering these factors, a company can accurately arrive at the size and forecast of the available, relevant, and addressable market, which in turn will provide the data needed to establish a more refined offering and potentially a new profit center for the organization. To obtain the information listed above requires an extensive knowledge of the market and access to multiple databases that track this information as well as a working knowledge of the relationship of each of the factors listed above with respect to how they impact/influence market demand and revenue potential, which is what Blumberg Advisory Group can provide for you.
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JOHANNESBURG — FIFA is defending itself for questioning more than 30 young, blonde women who showed up for a World Cup match in orange mini-dresses that are the symbol of a beer advertising campaign in the Netherlands.
Soccer's governing body says the outfits, which the women wore to the Netherlands-Denmark game Monday at Soccer City, were an ambush marketing campaign by the Dutch brewery Bavaria NV.
Reports on Tuesday said the women were detained but FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot denied that.
"There were no arrests," Maingot said. "No one was detained."
"The only thing that we have done is actually asking some details (from) these women who have been involved. What seems to have happened is that there was a clear ambush marketing activity by a Dutch brewery company."
Maingot said FIFA was looking into "all available legal remedies" against Bavaria NV.
FIFA strictly enforces its commercial rules, which allow only its official partners to use the World Cup for advertising and promotion campaigns.
The United States brand Budweiser is the official World Cup beer, and the only one sold at World Cup stadiums and official fan viewing sites. Brewer Anheuser-Busch Inbev is one of FIFA's eight second-tier World Cup sponsors, giving it exclusive sales rights.
This is the second straight World Cup that Bavaria has upset FIFA with its marketing tactics. Four years ago, the dispute centered on men trying to watch games wearing orange lederhosen, with a distinctive black tail, which displayed the company's name.
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Stem cell researchers in Singapore can anticipate a comprehensive set of local bioethical guidelines and a regulated research and development framework soon. Last week, Singapore's Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) came out with 11 key recommendations involving the licensing, control, and monitoring of all human stem cell research in the city-state. BAC's recommendations (see sidebar), which include establishing a statutory authority with multidisciplinary membership including members of the public, were made after extensive consultations with a panel of international experts, local community and religious groups, and the general public.
BAC, an independent entity that comprises government officials, community leaders, media representatives, and medical experts, was set up in 2000 to study the ethical, legal, and social issues brought about by the rapid development in biomedical research in Singapore. In February 2001, BAC formed its Human Stem Cell Research (HSR) subcommittee to deal specifically with issues arising from human stem cell research and to consider related issues of reproductive and therapeutic cloning.
The Bioethics Advisory Committee's Recommendations
1. Research involving the derivation and use of stem cells from adult tissues is permissible, subject to the informed consent of the tissue donor.
2. Research involving the derivation and use of stem cells from cadaveric foetal tissues is permissible, subject to the informed consent of the tissue donor. The decision to donate the cadaveric foetal tissue must be made independently of the decision to abort.
3. Research involving the derivation and use of embryonic stem (ES) cells is permissible only where there is strong scientific merit in, and potential medical benefit from, such research.
4. Where permitted, ES cells should be drawn from sources in the following order: (1) existing ES cell lines, originating from ES cells derived from embryos less than 14 days old; and (2) surplus human embryos less than 14 days old that were created for fertility treatment.
5. The creation of human embryos specifically for research can only be justified where (1) there is strong scientific merit in, and potential medical benefit from, such research, (2) no acceptable alternative exists, and (3) on a highly selective, case-by-case basis, with specific approval from the proposed statutory body.
6. For the derivation and use of ES cells, there must be informed consent from the donors of surplus human embryos, gametes, or cells.
7. There should be a complete ban on the implantation of a human embryo created by the application of cloning technology into a womb, or any treatment of such a human embryo intended to result in its development into a viable infant.
8. There should be a statutory body to license, control, and monitor all human stem cell research conducted in Singapore, together with a comprehensive legislative framework and guidelines.
9. In obtaining consent from donors of cells, gametes, tissues, foetal materials, and embryos, the information provided to the donors must be comprehensive, and there must not be any inducements, coercion, or undue influence.
10. The legislative and regulatory framework should prohibit the commerce and sale of donated materials, especially surplus embryos. Researchers should not be prohibited from gaining commercially from the products of research, as well as treatments and therapies developed from the donated materials.
11. The legislative framework should provide that no one shall be under a duty to participate in any manner of research on human stem cells, which would be authorized or permitted by the law, to which he has a conscientious objection.
Stem cell scientists in Singapore--most notably, the group at ES Cell International, one of the world's top stem cell suppliers--have adopted the internationally recognized National Institutes of Health Guidelines. Nevertheless, a comprehensive local legislative and regulatory framework is generally deemed essential to ensure proper research conduct and increase confidence in local biomedical research and development. "If we aspire to be a biomedical hub, we need to do it in a way that is morally responsible," says Lim Pin, who chairs BAC.
BAC's recommendations with respect to human stem cell research are comprehensive. "Our approach was to balance two key ethical commitments: to protect human life and the rights and welfare of the individual, and to advance human life by curing disease," explains Lim. "Two key elements central to our recommendations are strict regulation of research and provision of conscientious objection," he emphasizes.
"We believe we have taken into account all points of view and concerns to create a framework that allows important medical research to continue while maintaining respect for the embryo," says Lim. Stressing the point further, Senior District Judge Richard Magnus, the head of BAC's HSR subcommittee, notes that embryos would be accorded "a special status." For that very reason, Magnus says, "various constraints and strict rules have been built in to provide a very measured way of dealing with stem cell research."
BAC recommends that research on human embryonic stem cells should be allowed only where there is strong scientific merit in, and potential medical benefit from, such research. In these instances, the committee says, the use of existing embryonic cell lines derived from embryos fewer than 14 days old should be considered before resorting to the use of cells taken from surplus in vitro fertilization embryos fewer than 14 days old. The committee says the 14-day mark is an appropriate limit as the cells of the embryo are not yet differentiated into tissues, in that there is no organized development.
The creation of embryos specifically for research might be allowed on a "highly selective case-by-case basis where no acceptable alternative exists," a standard that will be subjected to "approval from the proposed statutory board." BAC, however, calls for an outright ban on human reproductive cloning and affirms that scientists caught doing so would face the full force of the law, although final details of penalties for offenders have not been spelled out.
In addition, BAC also recommends that informed consent be sought from all cell and tissue donors and that the buying and selling of donated materials, such as surplus embryos, be prohibited. With respect to the latter, it states, "no one shall be under a duty to participate in any manner of research on human stem cells to which he has a conscientious objection." Similarly, tissue or surplus embryos from fertility treatment donated for research must be an "absolute gift," and anyone caught selling or buying donated materials, or coercing or inducing others to donate, would face tough legal sanctions.
However, BAC maintains that "researchers should not be prohibited from gaining commercially from the products of research, as well as treatments and therapies developed from the donated materials." Explaining this recommendation in more detail, Lim adds, "Scientists put time, work, money, [and] commitment into developing the cures and therapies from the basic material. So there must be a reward system in place for these scientists, or else it would be difficult to participate in this kind of work."
The committee believes that its recommendations are both "just" and "sustainable." They are just in the sense that they allow research with potential therapeutic benefit to proceed, and sustainable in that the proposed ban on reproductive cloning will ensure that such research has little biological or genetic impact on future generations.
If the recommendations are implemented, as appears likely, scientists seeking to carry out human stem cell research in Singapore will have to go through a stringent procedure to obtain appropriate licenses for their work. They will also have to adhere to strict regulatory guidelines and expect their research to be subjected to close scrutiny by the authorities.
Onerous though it might be, the added effort will likely contribute to greater good. The BAC guidelines should reassure the public and ensure that scientists work within the confines of ethically acceptable limits. The guidelines "will enhance our image internationally and make research work done here more acceptable," says Tan Chorh Chuan, director of medical services at the Ministry of Health.


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nForce4 Ultra Roundup: Charting the Mainstreamby Wesley Fink on July 5, 2005 10:28 PM EST
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Processor ArchitectureAnother concern has surfaced in the last few months that should be a consideration for anyone shopping for an Athlon 64 motherboard - the processor factor. When we tested the nForce4 SLI boards, we used the 4000+ Clawhammer chip as our standard CPU. We also had done some testing with the early Winchester and Newcastle chips, which were based on the 90nm production process instead of the 130nm process used for Clawhammer. Overall, these early 90nm chips were mainly a die-shrink, and performance - and compatability - were much the same whether it be the Clawhammer, Winchester, or Newcastle.
Recently, however, we have some new choices from AMD in Revision E chips and dual-core. These new Revision E parts support SSE3, are based on the 90nm process, and they do not always behave as earlier chips did in the same motherboard. We saw this for ourselves in our Gold Editor's Choice MSI K8N Neo4/SLI. While we experienced outstanding overclocking with a Clawhammer chip, users with Venice/San Diego chips were experiencing perfectly miserable overclocking results. It has taken MSI some time to find a solution to this problem, but we are happy to report that a new BIOS has just been released that claims to fix the Venice issues on the MSI.
The point of this is that the newest Athlon 64 Revision E chips do behave differently than earlier Athlon 64 chips in some boards. This is likely a temporary concern as the market adjusts to the newest CPU architectures, but it is a factor that should be considered.
This becomes an even larger issue with the new Manchester/Toledo dual-core chipsets. The Athlon 64 X2 joins two Venice or San Diego cores on a single CPU. These Revision E X2 dual-core CPUs (the 4200+, 4400+. 4600+, and 4800+) generally will work in any Socket 939 board. However, you will certainly need at least a BIOS upgrade. Most of the major manufacturers have quickly brought the needed BIOS upgrades to market, but if you plan to run a dual-core chip, you need to check before you buy.
We approached these issues in this roundup by continuing our benchmarks with the Clawhammer-based 4000+ processor - to allow the greatest comparison to earlier motherboard reviews. However, we also checked each board with a Manchester 90nm 4200+ CPU. This required finding the latest BIOS for x2 support, which we have also listed in the Motherboard Features chart for each board. This tells you the earliest BIOS revision that has been said by the manufacturer to support the X2 dual core chips.
It should also be mentioned that AMD has implemented a hidden feature in Revision E processors, namely additional memory ratios that can be implemented in BIOS. As we had seen on the Abit motherboard in this roundup, a Revision E chip adds 433, 466, and 500 options to the available memory ratios. This has to be coded in the BIOS to be available, but the new asynchronous ratios are a feature of the Revision E Memory Controller. We identified 2 boards, the Abit and DFI, that correctly implemented this function with the Rev. E chips and included that information in the feature table.
The good news is that just about any Socket 939 motherboard can run dual-core, and every motherboard in this roundup had a BIOS very recently available to support AMD x2 processors. But you will more than likely need a BIOS update.
How to Update BIOS for Dual-Core if You Have Dual-Core OnlyThis brings up the nagging question that is always asked when BIOS upgrades are required for certain CPUs. What do you do if you have a board that needs a BIOS upgrade for dual-core and you only have a dual-core chip? We asked AMD this question and was given the following reply:
"If the BIOS you are working with (original BIOS in the board) supports a rev E single core (AKA... 90nm as most new boards should), it will allow you to flash the BIOS to a BIOS that supports rev E dual core. In my experience, a DC processor with single core rev E support will run fine, but only as a single core. If the BIOS doesn't support rev E (In other words, you may have a good board, but the BIOS is pretty old), you will likely need to install a pre-rev E (AKA-130nm) AMD processor to flash the BIOS.
I'm told that if a customer can't flash their BIOS, many mobo vendors will mail out the BIOS chip to them (if it's not soldered down, obviously)."
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arfan - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - link"So ECS, Foxconn, Biostar - we can only suggest that you need to add features and performance that will make an AMD user want to buy your boards. "
Why u think's ECS is bad ???
From your benchmark, ECS is not too bad, their ranking in the middle until top1.
Sorry, if myenglish is so bad. Reply
smn198 - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - linkPage 1: "There are no performance differences in the SLI and Ultra chipsets, or even the base nForce4 for that matter. These chipsets differ only in which features are available to the buyer - but they beat with the same heart."
I thought the base nForce4 had a 800MHz HT where as the Ultra and SLI have 1GHz. Is that not correct? Reply
Frallan - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - linkFor PSU requirements read the mfg websites. Especially the DFI comes with explicit requirements.
480W 24pin ATX 2.0+ PSU and from experiance Id have to say that U want a 1st tier PSU on top of that. Anecdotal advices that its possible to run a DFI SLI set up overclocked from a 350W PSU exists but fact remains that a good solid 500W+ ATX 2.0+ PSU will help U with stability. Reply
Calin - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - linkWhat I want to ask: does the processor works with four DS DIMMS at 1T command rate at lower frequency? By what you say (that 2T command rate is much slower than 1T command rate), then 1T command rate at 333MHz would be faster than 2T command rate at 400MHz. Reply
Vesperan - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - linkI love the look of that Epox board. Pity noone imports Epox products into New Zealand any more. Reply
GhostlyGhost - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - linkErmm.. It's "Marvell". With two l's. Reply
Heidfirst - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - linkI think that you must have a bad example of the ABIT. A no. of other sites (HardOCP, Hexus etc.) have all been over 300 ref. clock with it.
Not to mention that there is also now the non-Fatality AN8 Ultra which is cheaper & yet has better sound & 3.55Vdimm instead of 2.8V on the Fatality ... Reply
DLeRium - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - linkI think the Neo4 should've been included even though it was in the SLI test. Same with the Asus board. Those are really important boards. I'm sure if you add up the Asus and MSI users they would outnumber Biostar + Foxconn + Chaintech + ECS. Iono. just my 2 cents. I dont want to go look at the SLI review and then compare it to this review to see other boards and do a mental benchmark merge to get hte relative performance.
You know what we should make? We should make the uber super chart system. Kinda like THG's CPU charts. Just make the interactive system comparation machine. Choose a CPU, a mobo, a gfx card etc. If you bench every component (not every combo), but just CPUs vs CPUs, mobos vs mobos, you can get the relative score and construct a relative table for combinations..... hmm just a thought. Reply
Palek - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - linkA few mistakes made it into the final article...
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1. The following bit does not belong in this review. Cut and paste?
"There are absolutely no PCIe slots at all on the Neo4/SLI except for the pair of x16 slots for SLI video. MSI tells us that the 2nd PCIe can function as a PCIe x1 slot if you're not using it for video, but that is it for PCIe. Does this really matter? Right now, it really isn't important, since we had a very hard time even finding a PCIe x1 LAN card for the new PCI Express. It may matter in the future, but by that time, you will likely have moved on to a newer version of whatever chipset is the latest wonder. This is particularly clear when you look at the feature set of the MSI, since it is definitely a cut above the other boards in this roundup."
2. "SPDIG" should be SPDIF, or S/PDIF if you want to be really accurate.
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1. The title row of the table is incorrect. The motherboard name should read:
"DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra"
2. Link to next page is also incorrect, same as above.
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1. Title of the page is incorrect, same as above.
2. Title row of the table is incorrect, same as above.
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1. "SPDIG" round two.
Also, do guys have any idea why placing the codec on a daughter card reduces CPU overhead? Obviously there is something more going on than just the physical relocation of the chips. Any theories or explanations? Reply
Xenoterranos - Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - linkJust a word about the soundblaster Live on the MSI board...
"That price tag [200$] may be a bit high for the average gamer who just spent most of his/her savings on a Pentium II / Voodoo2 setup, however if you're going to swallow the cost of an expensive sound card it might as well be the Creative Labs SB Live!"
That was Anandtech back in '99. And you're getting this for free! (well, almost) Reply


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This data set contains laser altimetry return energy waveform measurements taken from NASA's Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) over areas including Greenland. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded campaigns.
Operation IceBridge products may include test flight data that are not useful for research and scientific analysis. Test flights usually occur at the beginning of campaigns. Users should read flight reports for the flights that collected any of the data they intend to use. Check IceBridge campaign Flight Reports for dates and information about test flights.
As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set using the following citation. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.
Blair, Bryan, and Michelle Hofton. 2014, updated 2016. IceBridge LVIS L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms, Version 2, [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/RDT1MZVS0VG9. [Date accessed].
Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS)
Nominally 20 meters
Periodic, ongoing, from 30 October 2013 to the present.
Geolocated return energy waveforms
Metadata Access
See the Version History section of this document for previous version information.
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Bryan Blair
Laser Remote Sensing Laboratory, Code 694
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Michelle Hofton
Department of Geography
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University of Maryland
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This work was supported by NASA Grant Number NNX11AH69G, LVIS: A Topographic Mapping Capability for IceBridge.
The Version 2 LVIS Level-1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms data files are in HDF5 format.
Note: Currently ILVIS1B data for 2009 through 2012 are in binary format stored separately as ILVIS1B Version 1. Beginning with the 2013 Arctic campaign, all data are provided in HDF5 format. In the near future, data from all campaigns prior to 2013 will be replaced with HDF5 data and added to Version 2. For details on the Version 1 data, see the V1 documentation.
The Version 2 files are organized on the FTP site, ftp://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/SAN2/ICEBRIDGE/ILVIS1B.002/, organized in folders by date, such as /2015.10.31/.
2014 ARISE campaign data are included in dates from 02 September 2014 through 02 October 2014, that is, folder names 2014.09.06 through 2014.10.02.
LVIS Version 2 Level-1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms data fles are named according to the following conventions and as described in Table 1:
|Short name for IceBridge LVIS L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms data
|Campaign identifier. LO = location, where GL = Greenland and AQ = Antarctica. YYYY= four-digit year of campaign
|Two digit month, two-digit day of campaign
|Date (YY year/ MM month) of the data release
|Number of seconds since UTC midnight of the day the data collection started
|Indicates file type: .h5 (HDF5), or .xml
HDF5 data files range from approximately 61 MB to 913 MB.
XML files range from approximately 10 KB to 159 KB.
Data volume for the Version 2 data is approximately 248 GB.
Spatial coverage for the IceBridge LVIS campaigns includes the Arctic, Greenland, Antarctica, and surrounding ocean areas. In effect, this represents the coverage noted below. Current coverage for the Version 2 data is Greenland.
Arctic / Greenland:
Southernmost Latitude: 60° N
Northernmost Latitude: 90° N
Westernmost Longitude: 180° W
Easternmost Longitude: 180° E
Southernmost Latitude: 90°S
Northernmost Latitude: 53°S
Westernmost Longitude: 180° W
Easternmost Longitude: 180° E
Spatial resolution is nominally 20 meters, but varies with aircraft altitude. Laser spot size is a function of beam divergence and altitude. Nominal spot spacing is a function of scan rate and pulse repetition rate.
International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF 2000), WGS-84 Ellipsoid.
These data were collected from 30 October 2013 to the present as part of Operation IceBridge funded campaigns.
IceBridge campaigns are conducted on an annual repeating basis. Arctic and Greenland campaigns are conducted during March, April, and May, and Antarctic campaigns are conducted during October and November.
The LVIS Level-1B files include geolocated return energy waveforms, transmitted waveform, and ancillary data.
The LVIS Level-1B HDF5 files are described in Table 2.
|Azimuth angle of laser beam
|Off-nadir incident angle of laser beam
|Latitude of the highest sample of the return waveform (degrees north)
|Latitude of the lowest sample of the return waveform (degrees north)
|LVIS file identification. Together with SHOTNUMBER these are a unique identifier for every LVIS laser shot. Format is XXYYYYYZZZ where XX identifies instrument version, YYYYY is the Modified Julian Date of the flight departure day, ZZZ represents file number.
|Longitude of the highest sample of the return waveform (degrees east)
|Longitude of the lowest sample of the return waveform (degrees east)
|Distance along laser path from the instrument to the ground
|Returned waveform (528 samples long)
|Laser shot number assigned during collection. Together with LFID provides a unique identifier to every LVIS laser shot.
|Signal mean noise level, calculated in-flight
|UTC decimal seconds of the day
|Transmitted waveform (120 samples long)
|Elevation of the highest sample of the waveform with respect to the reference ellipsoid
|Elevation of the lowest sample of the waveform with respect to the reference ellipsoid
|HDF5 Version
|HDF5 version number based on IDL version
|Maximum Latitude
|Maximum value of latitude to be found in this file
|Maximum Longitude
|Maximum value of longitude to be found in this file
Minimum Latitude
Manimum value of latitude to be found in this file
Minimum Longitude
Minimum value of longitude to be found in this file
|Ancillary information relevant to data collection and processing
|Reference frame for LVIS data products, derived from
reference frame for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) orbits.
Using International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF 2008).
Below is an illustration of RXWAVE, LAT0, and LAT527 values from a sample of the ILVIS1B_GL2013_1114_R1405_063767.h5 data file as displayed in the HDFView tool.
Version 2 HDF5 data beginning with the 2013 Arctic campaign: FTP
IceBridge Portal: Tool to visualize, search, and download IceBridge data.
Reverb: NASA search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data.
Version 1 Data for 2012 and earlier campaigns: FTP
The following external links provide access to software for reading and viewing HDF5 data files. Please be sure to review instructions on installing and running the programs.
HDFView: Visual tool for browsing and editing HDF4 and HDF5 files.
Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer: Cross-platform application. Plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF, HDF and GRIB datasets.
For additional tools, see the HDF-EOS Tools and Information Center.
Also available: an IDL program that reads the LVIS Level-1B data into an IDL structure: read_ilvis1b.pro.
As described on the NASA LVIS Web site, a laser altimeter is an instrument that measures range from the instrument to a target object or surface. The device sends a laser beam toward the target, and measures the time it takes for the signal to reflect back from the surface. Knowing the precise round-trip time it takes for the reflection to return yields the range to the target.
Figure 1 shows two examples of return energy waveforms. A simple waveform occurs where the ice surface is relatively smooth within the footprint of the laser pulse (approximately 20 meters in diameter). Mean noise level, provided with the Level-1B data product, provides the threshold relative to which the centroid and all modes are later computed for the Level-2 data product. A complex waveform might be returned from a rougher ice surface and could contain more than one mode, originating from different reflecting surfaces within the laser footprint such as crevasse sides and bottom, open water, large snowdrifts, and other steep or multiple slopes. A complex waveform would be more typically returned from multilevel vegetation landcover such as a forest.
Figure 1. Sample Level-1B product waveforms illustrating some possible distributions of reflected light.
LVIS employs a signal digitizer, disciplined with a very precise oscillator, to measure both the transmitted and reflected laser pulse energies versus time. These digitized and captured photon histories are known as waveforms. For the outgoing pulse, it represents the profile of the individual laser shot, and for the return pulse it records the interaction of that transmitted pulse with the target surface.
Processing of these waveforms yields many products, but the primary is range from the instrument to the Earth's surface and the distribution of reflecting surfaces within the area of the laser footprint. For vegetated terrain these surfaces are tree canopies, branches, other forms of vegetation, and open ground. For cryospheric data these surfaces are snow, ice, crevasses, snowdrifts, sea ice possibly interspersed with open ocean, exposed rock, and water.
LVIS uses a waveform-based measurement technique to collect data instead of just timing detected returns of the laser pulse. The return signal is sampled rapidly, and stored completely for each laser shot. Retaining all waveform information allows post processing of the data to extract many different products. With the entire vertical extent of surface features recorded, metrics can be extracted about the sampled area. An advantage of saving all of the waveform data is that new techniques can be applied to these data long after collection to extract even more information. See the NASA LVIS Web site.
The LVIS Level-1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms Product is generated from the raw instrument data as described under Processing Steps. More details can be found in (Hofton et al. 2000).
The following processing steps are performed by the data provider to produce the Level-1B data.
On November 20 2012, the 2011 Antarctica LVIS Level 1B data were replaced with V01.1. The LVIS transmit laser waveform is improved in the 2011 Antarctica data.
Version 2.0 of the ILVIS1B data: beginning with the 2013 Arctic campaign, all data are provided in HDF5 format. In the near future, data from all campaigns prior to 2013 will be replaced with HDF5 data.
For details on the Version 1 data, see the V1 documentation.
As described on the NASA LVIS Web site the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) is an airborne LIDAR scanning laser altimeter used by NASA for collecting surface topography and vegetation coverage data. LVIS uses a signal digitizer with oscillator to measure transmitted and reflected laser pulse energies versus time capturing photon histories as waveforms. The laser beam and telescope field of view scan a raster pattern along the surface perpendicular to aircraft heading as the aircraft travels over a target area. LVIS has a scan angle of approximately 12 degrees, and can cover 2 km swaths from an altitude of 10 km. Typical collection size is 10 to 25 meter spots. In addition to waveform data, GPS satellite data is recorded at ground tie locations and on the airborne platform to precisely reference aircraft position. An Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) is attached directly to the LVIS instrument and provides information required for coordinate determination.
Blair, J. B., D. L. Rabine., and M. A. Hofton. 1999. The Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor: A Medium-Altitude, Digitisation-Only, Airborne Laser Altimeter for Mapping Vegetation and Topography, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 54: 115-122.
Hofton, M. A., J. B. Blair, J. B. Minster., J. R. Ridgway, N. P. Williams, J. L Bufton, and D. L. Rabine. 2000. An Airborne Scanning Laser Altimetry Survey of Long Valley, California, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21(12): 2413-2437.
Hofton, M. A., J. B. Blair, S. B. Luthcke, and D. L. Rabine. 2008. Assessing the Performance of 20-25 m Footprint Waveform Lidar Data Collected in ICESat Data Corridors in Greenland, Geophysical Research Letters, 35: L24501, doi:10.1029/2008GL035774.
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Grave Danger is one of the 17 canceled mini-games, which can only be accessed in the Limbo Page by using Cheat Engine. In this mini-game, graves can appear at any time in the level. During the first flag, zombies will emerge from some graves.
Unlocking method
- Main article: Limbo Page
In order to play this level and other canceled mini-games, the player must gain access to Limbo Page.
This level will be difficult to beat if the player did not purchase the Imitater because the graves spawn so often that the player has to constantly use Grave Busters. Bringing its Imitater version will make the level much easier. Also, if the player survives the two flags with many graves remaining, it will be difficult to kill all the spawned zombies, so it is recommended to get rid of the graves fast. The player should remember to watch his or her sun, but it may be easier if he or she were using Sunflowers or Sun-shrooms. The player can use Twin Sunflowers, but he or she does have to upgrade them. The player can use the Doom-shroom if there are too many zombies. When zombies appear from the graves, Ice-shroom can be particularly useful.
†: That mini-game is not shown in Limbo page.
*: That mini-game is playable without needing to access the Limbo Page.


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Plies Cancels Performance at VH1's 'Hip Hop Honors'
Plies was scheduled to perform at VH1's 2010 'Hip Hop Honors' — which was filmed in NYC on Thursday night (June 3) — but the Florida rapper decided to bail in favor of a meet-and-greet with his fans. Enthusiasm for the televised event has been lukewarm at best. Several artists and potential honorees — including Scarface, Uncle Luke and Tony Draper — have opted out of attendance at the annual show, explaining that they were offended by this year's 'Dirty South' theme.
Plies told AllHipHop that the show wasn't his priority. "I had to make a choice between personally meeting with my fans during my album promo tour or performing at the VH1 'Hip Hop Honors' and the choice was easy — fans come first," Plies said.
The rapper broke no sweat about canceling his performance, promising that he would make up for it with the launch of his U.S. tour later this summer, following the June 8 release of his album 'Goon Affiliated.'
VH1's 'Hip Hop Honors' will air on Monday, June 7 at 9PM.


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Getting your Masters Degree will hopefully set you on the path to a successful and lucrative career, but actually getting the qualifications and your earning potential at the outset means that you are likely to have a few lean years.
Thinking on your feet is what you should be good at and earning enough money to go most of the way towards funding your degree is entirely possible with a little creative thinking.
Get Paid to be On-Line
There are many ways to earn money on the internet and a popular method is taking part in surveys which you get paid for. You can register for a number of different sites and get paid a small amount for each questionnaire that you fill in. The big problem with this scheme is that you probably need to fill in about 10,000 surveys to earn enough money, so this could be self defeating exercise as you may find there is not enough time left for studying let alone seeing the outside world!
Become a Barista
Consider working in rather than hanging out in a coffee shop. Regular work and pay will be yours for the taking and you might even enjoy it! Just bear in mind that you will have to make over 100,000 Lattes and serve thousands of weird and wonderful brews such as Kopi Luwak to earn enough money for your degree.
Use Your Body
No we are not suggesting anything illegal or immoral here, but there are several options for using your natural resources for making some spare cash. The main money earner that you could consider if you are not too squeamish is to give blood. You can donate plasma about twice a week if you are up to it and at a rough calculation that will take about 900 visits to fund your degree. You could consider the ingenious idea of sponsoring a space on your arm, like one enterprising student who managed to secure enough advertising to easily pay her way through college. The only downside is the pain of the needle and the small matter of a lasting testament to how you paid your way engraved on your skin.
Create an iPhone App
If you have the next Angry Birds phenomenon floating around in your head then a successful launch of your app could set you on your way to a small fortune. Of course the app market is littered with failures but if you get it right, about 38,000 downloads will get you the amount you need.
More Sensible Money Raising Ideas
If you really are unable to face the slightly left field ideas already mentioned there is always the prospect of getting a bursary or even potentially finding a company that would be interested in employing you after you qualify and getting them to sponsor your degree as part of the welcome deal, as they say if you don't ask you don't get, so get working on raining that money and avoiding the prospect of starting out with a debt if at all possible.
Guest post contributed by Sarah Rawson. Sarah is an online tutor for an online MBA program and is a freelance writer. Her articles appear on various higher education blogs.


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Sobran seems to be unaware that lists of parallels such as he provides have long been looked at very skeptically in attribution studies, since writers in any era consciously or unconsciously influence each other and draw on common sources. This is especially true of Elizabethan poetry, where writers freely borrowed from each other and drew upon a large stock of common themes and images; and among Elizabethan poets, it is particularly easy to find parallels in Shakespeare, simply because his canon is so enormous and varied. Sobran acknowledges that one can find parallels between any two authors, but wildly underestimates the number, and he has apparently made no effort to compare any other writers with Shakespeare. Instead, he arbitrarily decides (on the basis of no evidence) that we could expect to find "a dozen or so" parallels between Oxford and Shakespeare, with an upper limit of "three dozen," and when he finds more than this arbitrary limit plucked out of thin air, he considers it "evidence," even "proof." But the huge majority of the parallels Sobran lists are Elizabethan commonplaces, and given his generous standards as to what constitutes a "parallel," a similar list could be compiled for any Elizabethan poet with a canon the size of Oxford's.
As an illustration, I chose one of Oxford's fellow court poets, Sir Edward Dyer, picked one of his poems from the edition in Stephen May's 1991 book, Elizabethan Courtier Poets, and started looking for parallels (of the type listed by Sobran) using a Shakespeare concordance. The poem in question is 80 lines long, but I stopped after 12 lines because I was finding so many parallels. Below are the first 12 lines of Dyer's poem, followed by more than a dozen parallels to the work of Shakespeare. (Line numbers are from the Riverside edition.) This list only includes parallels which share at least one word; if I had more time (and patience), I could undoubtedly add to the list with less exact correspondences.
He that his mirthe hathe lost, whose comfort is dismayed, Whose hope is vayne, whose faith is skornd, whose trust is all betrayed, Yf he have held them dear and can not ceasse to moan, Com let him take his place by me, he shall not rew alone. But yf the smallest sweete be mixt with all his sower, Yf in the day, the monethe, the year he feele one lighning hower, Then rest he with himself, he is no mate for me, Whose feare is fallen, whose succor voyd, whose help his death must be. Yet not the wished deathe which hath no playnt nor lacke, Which making free the better part is only nature's wracke; Oh noe! that were to well, my death is of the mynd, Which alwayes yeldes extremest pangues but keepes the worst behind.
I hold my life as dear as you do yours (R3 3.2.78)
I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear (LLL 4.3.272)
Madame, he swore that he did hold me dear (LLL 5.2.444)
My ring I hold dear as my finger (Cym. 1.4.133)
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour (R2 1.3.236)
(plus many more juxtapositions of "sweet" and "sour")
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack (Son. 126.5)
Sobran finds great significance in similarities which are yawningly commonplace to anyone with a passing familarity with Elizabethan poetry. For example, he writes that "[a] notable habit Oxford and Shakespeare share is the use of 'contraries': paradox, antithesis, contrast for effect." But such use of contrasts was one of the most common devices in English poetry, and can be found in the work of any poet. Just to take the Dyer poem quoted above, line 5 contrasts "sweet" and "sour," and later in the same poem Dyer contrasts "best" and "worst" (31), "sweet" and "accurst" (32), "yea" and "noe" (34), "man" and "woman" (47-8), "prince" and "poore" (52), "young" and "old" (52), "farre" and "neere" (56), "trothe" and "ficklenes" (58).
Elsewhere, Sobran finds it significant that "Shakespeare often refers to Cupid; so does Oxford, and in the same terms." Well, of course he does -- they were both writing love poems, and reference to Cupid was almost obligatory in such poems, with the standard accompanying imagery and cliches. (Actually, Cupid is only mentioned twice in Oxford's sixteen undisputed poems, plus twice more in the four poems possibly by Oxford.) Sobran finds it remarkable that both Oxford and Shakespeare employ such commonplace images as the morning sun melting the dew, the lark as herald of the morning, worms feeding on the dead, eyes "feeding" on beauty, the wounded deer, the fleeing hare, and many more, images which can be found in the work of any Elizabethan poet with a sufficient body of work. Sobran is also impressed by "the classical myths both Oxford and Shakespeare refer to in similar phrases," seemingly unaware that these classical myths were intimately familiar to any educated Elizabethan, and that conventions and cliches abounded for referring to these myths in poetry. And so on and so forth.
In fact, I found Sobran's triumphant pronouncements about the amazing parallels between Oxford and Shakespeare eerily familiar, because I had read almost the same words before --- in the writings of those who claim that Francis Bacon or Christopher Marlowe wrote Shakespeare's plays. Among Baconians, Ignatius Donnelly devoted nearly 200 pages of his 1888 work The Great Cryptogram to "Identical Expressions, Metaphors, Opinions, Quotations, Studies, Errors, Unusual Words, Characters, and Styles" between the works of Bacon and Shakespeare. Robert Theobald's 500-page Shakespeare Studies in Baconian Light was largely devoted to listing such parallelisms, and many other Baconian works over the years contributed to such lists. Calvin Hoffman spent years compiling a list of parallels between Marlowe and Shakespeare, and in 1956 he finally published thirty pages of such parallels in his book The Murder of the Man Who Was Shakespeare. Accompanying them are such statements as these: "From the almost unlimited parallelisms that I have drawn from the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare, the verdict must be that the plays and poems of these two authors were written by the same author"; "There is only one reason for this literary twinning. One mind conceived the plays and poems of William Shakespeare and those of Christopher Marlowe."
The wary reader might conclude from the above that unsystematic lists of parallels should only be used with extreme caution in attribution studies, and that wary reader would be right. Samuel Schoenbaum's Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship provides an excellent overview of the use and abuse of evidence from parallelisms, which have been used over the last few centuries to "prove" all sorts of contradictory conclusions about the authorship of Elizabethan works. Yet Sobran seems blissfully unaware of such cautionary tales, confidently declaring that "such parallels are the best possible evidence of Oxford's authorship of the Shakespeare works... They are the literary equivalent of fingerprints or DNA evidence which may connect a suspect with a crime beyond any reasonable doubt." This confidence is misplaced, as I have shown above; while verbal parallels are not completely without value if they are used judiciously and with a knowledge of the conventions of Elizabethan writing (qualities generally lacking in Sobran's article), even then their primary value is as a supplement to more systematic and sophisticated methods of investigating authorship.
In fact, whenever scholars have used such systematic methods to compare Oxford's writings to Shakespeare's, they have found no significant similarities but many very significant differences. Ward Elliott and Robert Valenza compared the work of several dozen Elizabethan poets (including Oxford) to Shakespeare, using both conventional poetic tests and a computer-aided method of comparing vocabulary patterns called "modal analysis." Elliot and Valenza found that none of the poets they tested matched Shakespeare very well, and that Oxford was particularly distant, ranking 22nd out of the 26 poets tested by modal analysis. More recently, Donald Foster has gathered a huge database of Elizabethan English texts by dozens of different authors, which can be used to systematically compare the vocabularies of Shakespeare and other writers. Oxford's vocabulary, it turns out, is a distinctly poor match for Shakespeare's when compared with other writers of the era. And finally, Alan Nelson has examined and transcribed all of Oxford's surviving letters and memoranda, and he has found that Oxford's idiosyncrasies of spelling and usage bear no resemblance to the idiosyncrasies which can be tentatively reconstructed from the earliest texts of Shakespeare's works. (In contrast, both the Funeral Elegy and Hand D of Sir Thomas More -- neither of which could have been written by Oxford -- consistently show all of Shakespeare's idiosyncrasies.)
Sobran provocatively writes, "I challenge anyone to find so many close parallels of phrase, image, rhythm, and thought between two poets in all literature." As I have noted above, the types of parallels to Shakespeare which Sobran puts forth can be found in similar quantity for virtually any poet of the time (even such a relatively minor poet as Dyer). But there are some writers who exhibit more similarities to Shakespeare than usual, either because they influenced Shakespeare or were influenced by him. Samuel Daniel has been recognized for the last 200 years as one of the most pervasive influences on Shakespeare's writing, particularly in the Sonnets but extending throughout the canon. Shakespeare repeatedly appropriated Daniel's vocabulary, images, themes (compare Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-18 with sonnets 33-40 of Daniel's Delia), and even unusual grammatical constructions (such as the pattern "so [verb or adjective] as [adverbial modifier]," which is uncommon outside Shakespeare and Daniel). The parallels between Daniel and Shakespeare are much more extensive than those Sobran notes between Oxford and Shakespeare, and extend far deeper than superficial verbal parallels. On the other hand, John Ford is a contemporary poet who borrowed extensively from Shakespeare: Ford's work, especially his nondramatic poetry, contains persistent thematic and verbal echoes of Shakespeare (particularly the Sonnets), much more extensive than those Sobran notes for Oxford.
All in all, Sobran's attempt to use verbal parallels to "prove" that Oxford was Shakespeare is an ill-conceived failure, one which reveals more about Sobran's ignorance of Elizabethan poetry and attribution methods than it does about Oxford or Shakespeare. Sobran's seriously defective methodology could be used to "prove" that virtually any Elizabethan poet wrote Shakespeare's work, and the hubris with which he trumpets his results is embarrassing to anyone with a basic knowledge of the poetry of Shakespeare's contemporaries. Oxfordians in search of evidence to support their claims will have to look somewhere other than Oxford's poetry.
David Kathman


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Abu Dhabi International Book Fair opens
Abu Dhabi: Hundreds of residents, including dozens of excited schoolchildren, flocked to the opening of the 23rd Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) in the capital on Wednesday.
The first day of the popular event found exhibitors selling titles within an hour of the start, and author discussions and panel sessions saw packed audiences.
Held under the patronage of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, the fair was inaugurated by Shaikh Sultan Bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (TCA).
"The ADIBF attracts publishers and internationally renowned authors every year. We are confident that this year's edition will see record-breaking numbers as the event continues to strengthen its reputation as a regional and international cultural centre for literature and publishing," said Juma Abdullah Al Qubaisi, ADIBF director.
According to organisers, nearly 200,000 people are expected to visit the six-day event until it concludes on April 29 (Monday). About 500,000 titles are on offer in 30 different languages.
Rise in exhibitors
The number of exhibitors has also increased to 1,025 this year, representing a 13 per cent increase on the nearly 900 exhibitors in 2012. As a result, the ADIBF spans 23 per cent more exhibition space and features many more activities.
Compared to previous years, this year's event was filled with schoolchildren, many of whom said they were able to attend because their school exams had finished last month.
"I have not been able to visit the ADIBF in previous years, because it was usually held before my school exams. This year, it is being organised at the end of April after my exams, so I am excited to be here. I am looking for interesting novels within the adventure genre," Nouf Shamsi, a Grade 11 pupil from Al Ain, told Gulf News.
Nouf said she loved reading and spent more than two to three hours a week to read for pleasure.
"My older sister also loves books, so I am looking for things to buy for her," Nouf added.
Al Tayyeb Al Hadi, 20, a university student from Sudan, said he had heard about the book fair and had come by to look for titles in fiction.
"I have been to the ADIBF many times before, and generally find that it is easier to find specific things because there are so many publishers in the same place. Last year, I ended up purchasing seven books on nature and Islamic culture. This year, in addition to novels, I am looking for good books on photography," he said.
Al Hadi added that he was likely to return to the fair with his friends over the next few days.
Hopeful exhibitors
Exhibitors also appeared more hopeful about this year's event.
"We have been participating in the fair for 10 years, and this year, we have about 10,000 titles for sale at our stall. Sales were slow in previous years, but the crowds this year could indicate more interest," said Noorul Huq, manager at UAE-based Al Mutanabbi Bookshop LLC.
He said that in general, educational and children's books appeared to be most in demand at the ADIBF.
One of the most popular attractions this year is a Discussion Sofa with authors, poets, researchers, journalists and essayists talking about their work. Wednesday's sessions already saw dozens of people and visitors in attendance. Winners of international and regional prizes for books will also participate in the Discussion Sofa over the coming days.
There is also an area known as The Tent, which will feature storytelling, poetry reading and literary debates.
A new section, known as the GCC Stage, is dedicated to writers, poets and intellectuals from the GCC countries. The Show Kitchen is another addition to the fair, wherein chefs from the region are preparing and sharing recipes for healthy cuisine.
A host of workshops are also being organised for young attendees, and music and dance performances will also be staged for the first time as part of the ADIBF. In addition, a set of professional panel discussions has been introduced to aid publishers and writers, and explore reading trends.


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Editor's note: Throughout the summer we're featuring national park friends groups from around the country to highlight the value they bring to the National Park System. Friends of Big Bend National Park constantly is involved with its namesake park, whether landing funds to improve interpretive exhibits or to help maintain trails. This is their story.
The foremost mission of the National Park Service is to preserve the units of the park system, but providing for public enjoyment and education through interpretation is never overlooked. Helping drive both those missions at Big Bend is Friends of Big Bend National Park, a group that one day could be sponsoring a road or trail run and the next day spending the proceeds from that race on maintaining trails in the park.
"With the ever-increasing squeeze on park budgets, we have been talking about long-term planning," says Courtney Lyons-Garcia, executive director of the friends group. "We hope to grow this Trails Fund into an endowment that will eventually pay the park's annual trail maintenance costs. We have just started it, but we feel confident that we can put $10,000 a year into this fund from the Ultra Run, which was just named Best Trail Run in a national park by Runner's World magazine."
Enhancing interpretation and the visitor's experience of Big Bend is a primary goal of the friends group, which is bootstrapping a $1.1 million campaign for a Fossil Discovery Trail. This initiative is the most significant addition to Big Bend's interpretive facilities in decades.
It will create an interpretive timeline that will traverse the various ancient environments— volcanic savannah, inland floodplain, coastal floodplain, and marine environment—that gripped this landscape down through the ages. Visitors will learn about these geologic periods and the park's fossilized past as they stop at pavilions along the loop trail proposed for Tornillo Creek.
Through a combination of fossil replicas, interpretive text, artwork, geologic diagrams and viewing scopes set up in the pavilions, visitors will be able to make the connection between the fossilized remains from four eras and the geologic formations that exist in Big Bend today.
In the past, Friends of Big Bend also has provided more than $200,000 for an interpretive video at the park's Panther Junction Visitor Center, and used income from sales of the friends group's custom state license plates to fund wetlands restoration, and teacher education programs.
The non-profit organization also played a major role in protecting Big Bend's night skies by helping to underwrite improved lighting systems at Panther Junction and in the Chisos Basin.
Representative of the crossboundary wonders Big Bend National Park shares with Mexico, the friends group also supports efforts to increase cross-border cooperation for the protection of the Chihuahuan Desert. In line with that, the friends group recently helped fund signage and staffing of the new Boquillas Border Crossing Station.
Through it all—running races, orientation films, fossil trails—Friends of Big Bend thrives on the passion of its supporters.
"The best thing about the Friends of Big Bend is that so many members are sincerely dedicated to the park," says Ms. Lyons-Garcia. "In addition to funds, they provide donated images, in-kind services, and countless volunteer hours. The enthusiasm of those volunteers and contributors is what makes our events and publications a success and permits us to provide funds and services to the park."


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Lynne Powell shot a red-hot net 50 to win the Twice Around club's ace of aces tournament for 2013 at Green Tree on Tuesday.
First-flight leaders were Pat Moffett (60), Carol Hiltman (60) and Betty Almstrom (61).
Liz Dykstra (54) took the second flight by six shots over Rene' Romiski (60) and Nancy Gaver (60).
In the third flight, Jan Nollar (54) bested Alma Schultz (59).
Also recently, Nollar and Carol Babington both shot scores of 110 to tie for the title in the two-day Vivian Bower tournament.
First-flight leaders were Hiltman (113), Sammie Reid (113) and Karla Brown (118).
Garver (115) took the second flight, with Almstrom (118) second and Lynne Powell (119) third.
Laura Carlson (119) finished in front of Shcultz (121) in the third flight.
Leisure Town men
Bob Gale carded a net 64 and won king of the month honors for October during Leisure Town men's club action on Wednesday at Green Tree. Gale won the first flight over Andy Wedaman (68) and Jerry Horan (74).
Cliff Hamilton (62) had the day's top net score and won the second flight, with Tony Baldo (66) second and Frank Vigil (72) third.
Bob Staib (66) captured the third flight, finishing ahead of Manny Galvan (68) and John Hoglund (75).
SIRs No. 99
Bill Lopez's sizzling 62 was the best net round by SIRs No. 99 club players recently.
Ken Stockton (64) won a hot first flight, with Duke Jones (65) second, Jerry Horan (67) third and Richard Horn (68) fourth.
Second-flight leaders were Joey Plain (67), Ralph Hamilton (67), Ron Templeton (72) and Ros Weber (73).
Danny Powell (64) claimed the third flight, finishing ahead of Richard Castanias (66), Frank Vigil (72) and Hal Mudgett (73).
Lopez took the fourth flight over Jerry Whitt (66), Jeff Horton (69) and Curt Newland (71).
Green Tree Niners
Liz Dykstra fired a net 25 to pace Green Tree Niners competitors in a sweeps game recently.
In the first flight, Kitty Lockwood (30) outshot Barb Jacobson (31) and Marge Tye (33).
Dykstra edged Kay Hadwin (26) and Helen Riggert (27) for the second-flight crown.
Pat Alvestad (26) won the third flight, with Dorothy Stoudt (27) second, Rosemarie Chonzena (30) third and Rosemary Baldo (31) fourth.
Peggy Burns (27) took the fourth flight over Joan Harrison (28) and Joan Haglund (29).
Green Valley women
The teams of Pam Angen-Gretchen Kjose-Dana Cello-Irene Gotta, and Carolyn Congdon-Sandy Smith-Kathryn Houk-Chris Moore won their respective flights as the Green Valley women's club held its fall classic mini invitational recently.
Angen, Kjose, Cello and Gotta won the first flight. Second place went to the team of Jamille Lee, Shinae Wegener, Nemi Warren and Min Ryoo. In third were Patti Williams, Karen Stanovich, Mary Graff and Aimee Roldan.
The second-flight title went to Congdon, Smith, Houk and Moore. They finished ahead of Anne Ridens, Sue Softy, Stella Aldredge and Dian Bechter. Third place went to Sandy Thornton, Linda Grace, Kathy Paschal and Karen Moore.
Paradise Valley women
Suzanne Pincombe's net 71 was the top round of the day by Paradise Valley women's club members recently.
Sua Annala (73) took second, Marie Droish (76) third, Ilene Pliler (77) fourth and Chris Moore (78) fifth.
Matt Garcia Foundation
The fourth annual event is Oct. 14 and the Yocha-De-he Golf Club at Cache Creek in Brooks.
Cost is $175 per player, including breakfast, post-tournament banquet, a gambling voucher, a golf shirt and tee prizes.
Send an email request to email@example.com, or call 452-9676 for more information.
Jim Capoot Memorial
The inaugural event to benefit the Vacaville Police Activities League and local youth sports will be held Nov. 1 at Chardonnay Golf Club in Napa. The four-player scramble has an 11:30 a.m. shotgun start. Cost is $125 per player.
Entry deadline is Oct. 11. Call 483-6407 to play, sponsor a hole or volunteer.
Bill and Mark's Classic
The event to benefit Mark's Growing Center and Bill's Kids Foundation, both aiding clients with special needs, will be held Nov. 8 at Chardonnay in Napa. Registration for the four-player scramble begins at 10:30 a.m., with a noon shotgun start. Cost is $99 per player, including awards dinner. Call 678-1411 for information.


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You saw this coming. First United raised its U.S. domestic change fee from $150 to $200, quickly followed by US Airways. Now others have joined in raising what airfare analyst Rick Seaney has called, "the worst fee ever."
Hear Rick explain what the heck they're doing:
American, Delta Raise Change Fees
As of yesterday (April 30), Delta also raised its change fee to $200 and now FareCompare has confirmed that American has done it as well. American notes it offers travel options that include benefits such as no change fee, which will cost its customers – a fee. Why did all these airlines raise this fee? Simple. Change fees make money. Big money.
Change Fees Bring in Billions
In 2011 – the most recent year there are complete figures for – airline change fees brought in $2.38 billion dollars. Leading the pack was Delta, with $766 million in change fees followed by American ($494 million), United ($324 million) and US Airways ($275 million).
Look for more in 2012. In the third quarter of last year alone, change fees for all airlines were pegged at almost a billion dollars ($924 million).
What are your rights for canceled flights
Most Travelers Pay Change Fees for Cancelations
Most travelers – especially the so-called leisure passengers who mostly fly for vacations or personal reasons – will pay the change fee if they voluntarily cancel a flight (and know your rights when the airlines cancel on you).
Options on avoiding this fee are few. You can fly the one airline that doesn't charge a change fee (not yet anyway), which is Southwest – or buy a non-refundable ticket but that can cost as much as four times more than non-refundable airfare. Suggestion: when booking a flight, be as certain of your travel dates as humanly possible.


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text: Running totally stock 4.0.4 and in the quest for better battery life I installed BetterBatteryStats. Nice app. It shows that my phone never goes into deep sleep. The lowest CPU frequency it goes to is 384 MHz, not 192 MHz which is deep sleep. BBS also shows that I have a constant Kernal Wakelocks of msm_otg, msm_otg_connection_kit and msm_hsusb_hose.0, All three of these wakelocks which I assume are related are on constantly and I think is why my phone does not deep sleep. I have googled these wakelocks and many have reported finding them but no where can I find what app or setting they are associated with or how to deal with them. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


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There's an exciting summer ahead in Leighton-Linslade with a number of free community events organised by the town council.
First up is this Sunday (June 1) when the town hosts its second National Big Lunch event in the High Street between 11am and 4pm.
Visitors will be welcomed to a Wild West experience with an array of country music, bronco and swing boats rides, fun casinos, photobooths and cowboy entertainment.
There will be lots to see and do with free activities to get involved in including the cowboy corner, arts and crafts, face painting, Wild West games stalls.
Have a go on the wild west ferret racing and the instructed barn and line dancing at the Market Cross. Pecan Pete will be joining in, with his famous lassoing show and a kids workshop.
When you fancy kicking the cowboy boots off you will enjoy many of the delightful food units available including the English Tea Ranch, Wokabout noodles, Paella, hogroast, fish and chips, BBQ Thai and Caribbean food and much more, all which will be available at the lower High Street. You won't be able to miss it with the giant megasol seating area available for 400 people.
If this sounds all very energetic don't worry, the following week you can sit on a deckchair and put your feet up and enjoy a day at the beach.
From June 7 to September 7, Parsons Close Recreation Ground will have a sandy feel to it (beside the Splash and Play).
The official opening of the beach takes place on June 7 from 11am to 4pm and it's then open daily thereafter from 10am to 5pm, seven days a week.
Come and meet the beach attendants at the beach party and enjoy the talent contest, punch and judy, aqua boats, giant games, soft play, face painting and all the other fun planned activities.
If you would like further information regarding either event contact the town council on 01525 631920.


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Why would anybody choose to play the tuba? It's the heaviest and most expensive piece of brass, it belches notes that could make buildings fall down, and the brightest career hope is to play the rom-pa-pom-pom of fat people walking in cartoons. Despite those failings, The Hot 8 Brass Band was put together by tubist Benny Pete, and his bulbous tones underpin their contemporary big-brass sound.
The group's debut album, "Rock with the Hot 8," has the instrument playing a bass role beneath everything from punchy trumpet harmonies to up-tempo Mardi Gras fun or action-movie funk. Although a studio product, the record may as well be a live recording. It's loose, barely produced and sounds as though the New Orleans natives are parading down Bourbon Street.
They really shouldn't sound this upbeat: Since forming in 1995, three members have been shot dead, another lost his legs in a motoring accident, and Hurricane Katrina decimated their hometown. But still, the 10-piece are in a party mood, taking their big-brass and swing heritage and mashing it with gospel, hip-hop and funk. The highlight is an inspired cover of "Sexual Healing," which swings from raging funk to sultry horns, and should be a staple at carnivals for years.


text: I ask this question somewhat in parody of the threads about fountain pens, but there is certainly a legitimate use for ball-points when one cannot always have a fine pen on hand. I am a fan of the Pilot Precise Rolling Ball V-5 in purple. The V-5 is what Pilot terms an Extra Fine point. The Precise is also available in the V-7, a Fine point. I naturally write in fairly small print so I much prefer the thinness provided by the V-5. The shape of the pen is slender, the weight light but not insubstantial. Contrast this with its primary competitor, the Sanford Uni-ball Vision, which I feel is needlessly fat. I also find the Precise easier to twirl though of course this varies with one's twirling style. Perhaps the only clear advantage of the Vision is its more durable cap -- the Precise's is prone to cracking. The purple color is very unique, allowing me to easily distinguish my writing from that of others from even a distance, while still being legible (as opposed to say, pink) and easily photocopied.


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Bassist Bruce Wallace is one of the most in-demand accompanists on the scene. He's at home with everything from sophisticated jazz to big band, having played for Jimmy Dorsey/Pied Pipers, Glen Miller/Buddy Morrow and others
Well-known Sarasota drummer, percussionist and bandleader Tom Carabasi has performed and recorded with Manfredo Fest, Kenny Drew Jr., Nathen Page, John Lamb, Dick Reynolds, Jeff Berlin, Michael Royal and others.
The South County Jazz Club is proud to have an artist of Drew's caliber perform for its second concert of the season. Admission is $10.00 per person for non-members and $5.00 for members. Membership in the club is only $25.00 for a full year.


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PROBABLY too late to call the secret service
Not even a former president is immune from thieves. Two bicycles belonging to former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosa- lynn, were snatched from inside the Carter Center near downtown Atlanta this month. The couple like to ride bicycles in nearby Freedom Park when they have free time. Peter Wicker, the owner of a local bike shop, donated the bicycles to the Carters in 2007 after seeing the poor condition of their old bikes, which had been brought in for repairs. Atlanta police say they have made no arrests. The Carters are currently in China.
bypassing the atm
An addiction to bank money
He apparently got hooked on robbing banks, even generating a following along the way. His face appeared on surveillance images that sparked chatter in the blogosphere. One eyewitness admitted he was impressed by the man's professionalism. In total, the FBI believes he hit 12 banks stretching from Erie, Pa., to Toledo, Ohio, in just two months. Now authorities think they know who he is. Kenneth L. Gibson, 33, was charged with robbing a National City Bank in Cleveland, and that robbery resembled the 11 others. The robber followed a similar pattern in each theft: He entered the bank and slipped a note to the bank teller, demanding money. Then he quickly left.
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A twin arrival of rare kangaroos
Nebraska zookeepers are seeing double and they're thrilled about it, with the birth of twins to a rare species of tree kangaroo. Twin joeys were born at the Lincoln Children's Zoo to Matschie's tree kangaroos Milla and her mate Noru. They were found in Milla's pouch last month and count as two of the four documented Matschie's tree kangaroo births last year. Kansas City Zoo zookeeper Jacque Blessington says only about 50 of the animals exist in North America. In the wild, they live in the rain forest in northeastern Papua New Guinea. She says the babies were likely the size of a lima bean at birth. They are expected to begin poking out their heads or feet as early as May.
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Moose drops in, then can't find exit
A family in Spokane, Wash., got an uninvited visitor when a moose calf fell through a basement window and into a bedroom. The Spokesman Review reports that the baby moose was apparently foraging in shallow snow near the house when it fell into a deep window well. As it tried to get out and join its mother and sibling, the moose became trapped in the bedroom. A state wildlife biologist managed to shoot a tranquilizer dart into the moose's rump. Then he and four others used a tarp to haul the 375-pound baby up a narrow stairway. Wildlife officers tracked down the calf's mother and sibling and trucked the reunited family to a spot near Mount Spokane and released them.
Compiled from Times wire services and other sources.


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Fundamental analysis is the method of analyzing companies based on factors that affect their intrinsic value. There are two sides to this method: the quantitative and the qualitative. The quantitative side involves looking at factors that can be measured numerically, such as the company's assets, liabilities, cash flow, revenue and price-to-earnings ratio. The limitation of quantitative analysis, however, is that it does not capture the company's aspects or risks unmeasurable by a number - things like the value of an executive or the risks a company faces with legal issues. The analysis of these things is the other side of fundamental analysis: the qualitative side or non-number side.
Although relatively more difficult to analyze, the qualitative factors are an important part of a company. Since they are not measured by a number, they more represent an either negative or positive force affecting the company. But some of these qualitative factors will have more of an effect, and determining the extent of these effects is what is so challenging. To start, identify a set of qualitative factors and then decide which of these factors add value to the company, and which of these factors decrease value. Then determine their relative importance. The qualities you analyze can be categorized as having a positive effect, negative effect or minimal effect.
The best way to incorporate qualitative analysis into your evaluation of a company is to do it once you have done the quantitative analysis. The conclusion you come to on the qualitative side can put your quantitative analysis into better perspective. If when looking at the company numbers you saw good reason to buy the company, but then found many negative qualities, you may want to think twice about buying. Negative qualities might include potential litigations, poor R and D prospects or a board full of insiders. The conclusions of your qualitative analysis either reconfirms or raise questions about the conclusions of your quantitative analysis.
Fundamental analysis is not as simple as looking at numbers and computing ratios; it is also important to look at influences and qualities that do not have a number value.
For further reading, see Guide To Stock Picking Strategies, Putting Management Under The Microscope and Competitive Advantage Counts.
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