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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 PC players can seemingly pre-load the game without a code
PC players hoping to start playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 the moment it goes live may have found a way to pre-load the game without owning it.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Battle.net exclusivity does nothing to help the struggling franchise on PC
Treyarch is paying extra special attention to the PC version this year with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.
Battle.net now supports user avatars, groups, appear offline and much more
Blizzard has rolled out a big upgrade to the Battle.net app that brought a tonne of new features.
Diablo 3 launcher to be upgraded to Battle.net desktop client
Diablo 3's launcher will soon be redundant, integrated fully into Blizzard's ever-improving Battle.net desktop client upon release of first expansion Reaper of Souls. A Battle.net announcement offers you the chance to get in early by downloading the client now, ahead of what is likely to be serious demand on launch day. Otherwise, the upgrade will […]
Battle.net parental controls to disable in-game purchases by default
Blizzard is introducing changes to its parental controls to help prevent guardians receiving unexpected bills.
Battle.net & League of Legends services down, following DDoS attacks
Battle.net and League of Legends services have been taken down by DDoS attacks, following a similar assault on Steam and EA's Origin store.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft major update detailed
Blizzard has detailed the contents of its upcoming major update to the closed beta build of Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.
Battle.net Authenticator may reset with iOS 7 update
If you haven't yet updated your iDevice to iOS 7, hold off a minute: there's a chance it could stuff up your Battle.net authenticator. To avoid any issues, follow these simple preventative steps recommended by Blizzard. I probably should have mentioned this to Pat an hour ago. We all know how he feels about his […]
Battle.net universal launcher enters open beta
That battle.net launcher we've heard so much about, the one that makes it possible to log in to all your Bnet games at once and then not do it again for a month, has entered open beta today. What that means is that it works but they aren't going to force it on everyone just […]
Blizzard updates Battle.Net desktop client page, new images surface
Blizzard seems to be making progress with its scarcely-discussed Battle.Net desktop client, as the studio has updated the app's support page, along with a big batch of debut UI and feature images.
Who the devil..? Diablo III one-year anniversary infographic
An infographic depicting many statistics from Diablo III in the last year has been posted on the Battle.net site in celebration of the first anniversary of the game.
Blizzard working on a new Battle.net client for OS-X
A new job ad suggests Blizzard is planning a "next generation Battle.net Desktop Client on OS X". That's probably only of interest to those of you with powerful enough office Macs to sneak in a few quick World of Warcraft quests between meetings, but it's interesting that it's described as a "next-gen" client. To enter […]
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Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo has told Diablo 3 players to stop blaming Jay Wilson for the game's troubles. This comes after the former game director saw his farewell post overrun with disgruntled comments.
Diablo 3 1.07 patch is live on PTR
Blizzard has announced that Diablo 3's much-anticipated 1.07 patch is now available on the Public Test Realm. Players can take part in the preliminary update by checking out this post on Battle.net.
Blizzard calls authenticator suit "without merit", "frivolous"
Blizzard has stoutly denied any wrongdoing in response to a class-action lawsuit over Battle.net security and authenticators.
Blizzard being sued over Battle.net security, "forceful" Authenticator purchases
Blizzard is being sued in a class action suit, filed last week, over "deceptively and unfairly" charging customers for Battle.net Authenticators to protect their private information from hackers.
US Treasury: Games not "the focus of our sanctions"
World of Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft are not the kinds of goods the US is hoping to keep out of Iran, a Treasury spokesperson has said in the wake of Battle.net's sudden unavailability.
WoW and Battle.net service pulled from Iran due to US sanctions - Blizzard
Blizzard issued a response regarding the inability to access Battle.net or World of Warcraft servers from Iran. According to the post, the issue stems from applied US sanctions instead of government bans on specific content – although the latter is still true as well.
World of Warcraft, Guild Wars among MMOs inaccessible from Iran - report
A number of MMOs have become inaccessible from inside Iran, apparently due to government bans on specific content.
Diablo 3 Starter Edition now free-to-play for all
Diablo 3's Starter Edition, a limited version of the action RPG which goes up to level 13 and the Skeleton King boss in Act I, is now available to everyone. The taster edition was previously restricted to those who were waiting for credit card purchases to be processed, or had received a guest pass from […]
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BlackBerry will cut 4,500 jobs, lose almost $1 billion in Q2
In line with yesterdays WSJ report, BlackBerry announced that it will cut 4,500 jobs as part of a plan to reduce its operating expenditures over the next year. Furthermore, the struggling Canadian company is expected to post a loss of almost $1 billion in the fiscal Q2 of 2014.
The eye-watering loss is a result of lackluster sales of the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone. The company will take a hit against inventory and supply commitments involving the failed smartphone. Going forward the device will be priced to appeal to entry-level audience, thus leaving the freshly announced BlackBerry Z30 as the companys flagship.
In order to make its way out of the woods, BlackBerry will reduce its portfolio to four devices two high-end and two entry-level ones. Future products will be focused away from the mainstream consumers, back to the companys former stronghold the enterprise and prosumer user base.
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if the news offers is true.. then Lenovo should buy BB quickly..
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sad sad sad to hear this, is someone forget when they are on the top or they missed something to anticipate android attack, they are late to change their style or feels to high to change till to late, feel sorry to their employee hope the best
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This is a sad news. It's a good news as well. Z10 will be priced cheaper and maybe it will get the spotlight and then boom.. BlackBerry on top of the mountain again!
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Mark Rein may not think episodic gaming is the wave of the future, but Valve's Gabe Newell certainly has big plans for it. Hot on the heels of the success of Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Mr. Newell has made some big announcements about what we can expect from the Half-Life franchise in the next year. How big? Let's just get it all out there: Episode 2 will include Team Fortress 2 as the built-in multiplayer, and it will arrive on the PC and 360 simultaneously. Even better? The 360 version will include all the Half-Life 2 content. So if you missed out on the PC version and weren't satisfied with the XBox port, you have something to brighten your day.
This is a lot to dump on us, and according to Gamespot Team Fortress 2 is sporting an unorthodox art style that brings to mind games like No One Lives Forever. This was all announced at EA's annual summer press event, and while I was hoping for some Spore news, I'll gladly accept all this Valve news. It looks like EA is really pushing Valve properties; they have to be excited about the possibility of all that Half-Life 2 content on the 360, which should be a sure thing at retail. According to Gamespot it will even include CS: Source. Very, very cool.
Valve certainly seems to be keeping busy. At the event, they talked about a game they called Portal, which uses the portal idea from Prey in the form of the gun. I'm not exactly getting how that's going to work, but it sounds like another intriguing title coming to us via Steam. We'll keep you posted as more details on any and all of these announcements becomes available.


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Exemplars math material includes standards-based rubrics that define what work meets a standard, and allows teachers (and students) to distinguish between different levels of performance. Exemplars rubrics have four levels of performance: Novice, Apprentice, Practitioner (meets the standard) and Expert.
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By By Mike Redmon | December 1, 2010
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It is common in EMS for lift times to be documented by dispatch. It is also a common requirement for pilots to document any lift times over five minutes and send this information to the lead pilot and/or base manager. In business, there is a saying "you are what you measure."
It may seem natural for managers to want to know why a lift-off took longer than a pre-determined amount of time. Personally, I feel that using lift times as a metric isn't worth the paper they are written on because of the many variables involved in launching a flight. Was the aircraft inside the hangar or outside? Was the aircraft already on standby? Did the pilot need the time to actually evaluate the weather? Was the medcrew "slow" in getting out to the aircraft? The arbitrary time of five minutes is not a number borne of science. My main issue is with the paperwork required to be turned in by the pilot. Some pilots, especially new EMS pilots, will inadvertently sacrifice safety to avoid explaining why they didn't meet their employer's expectations.
How long does it take a helicopter to lift for a flight? It takes whatever it takes. Once again, it takes whatever it takes. It is a task-oriented procedure, not a time-oriented procedure. In the past, I have found myself wanting to skip using the checklist, doing a poor walk-around, and generally trying to speed things up because I felt "behind" in the launch time. Good judgment generally evolves from poor judgment and I eventually wised up due to the errors I found myself making. I easily could have been a statistic with the items I missed during my rushed pre-launch preparations.
Hurrying to get off the ground can cause mistakes and increase the likelihood for errors. You always hear about the pilot who forgot to unplug the shoreline cord, remove an inlet cover, or hot started an engine.
For example, I know a guy who took off with less than 20 minutes of fuel and didn't realize it until he got the low-fuel lights shortly after lift-off. The checklist specifically said to check fuel amount, but as an EMS check airman once told me, "who has time to read the checklist?" So again we come back to the reality of saving a minute, but crashing or damaging the aircraft. The irony of the whole thing occurs when you rush to the hospital only to discover it will be another 30 minutes until the patient can be transported.
Professionalism demands that the pilot be prepared for any flight by having your jacket and other gear already in the aircraft, keeping your bladder empty, seat and pedal positions correct, and radios set up.
Additionally, don't be lazy and leave the aircraft in the hangar when it should be outside. The less you do at work, the less you want to do, so I understand how hard it can be to haul the aircraft out of the hangar at five in the morning.
Other than that, there is nothing else you can do to speed up the process. Weather-related crashes are the number one killer in EMS so it is crucial to check the weather for as long as it takes. You have to do an effective, deliberate, and hands-on walk-around. The FAR's state you must use the checklist to start. Your passengers rely on you to not cut corners. All aircraft passengers are more concerned with safety than on-time performance.
Once you are ready to lift you still should take your time. There have been many episodes of pilots taking off with one engine at idle, with SAS systems turned off, and engines quitting at 40 feet because the fuel transfer pumps weren't switched on.
A final check of critical items prior to pulling pitch is essential when flying EMS. It is amazing what can be missed when you go from a deep sleep to lifting a helicopter off an elevated helipad five minutes later.
Lastly, you should always do an engine instruments check at an IGE hover prior to departing. This will give you a chance to reconfirm that the engines are working properly prior to pulling into an OGE takeoff. Let that No. 2 engine quit during a three-foot hover over the helipad instead of at 50 feet over the hospital parking lot with no place to go. I always shake my head when I see a helicopter snatched off the ground and straight into the air without a hover pause.
Always remember that if something goes wrong it will be the pilot who answers to the FAA, not anyone else.


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RSCIT Udiapur Exam Admit Card 2019 Notice: Rajasthan State Certificate Course in Information Technology (RSCIT) Udiapur Permission Letter cum admit card for 30 June exam are available online officially. The written exam of Rscit udaipur is going to held on 30.06.19 and students appearing in this exam from Udaipur district can download admit card from rkcl.in. Further information of RSCIT Udaipur Admit Card 2019 regarding duplicate roll no., exam centre, timings and download process etc is mentioned below………………
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For week three of the Guide To Recognizing series of unsolicited MiLB team mascot information we jump back across the continental United States to the Northwest League of Professional Baseball, a Short-Season A classification minor league. The league is a descendant of the old Western International League, with memorable teams such as the Victoria Athletics, the Lewiston Black Chinese Indians and the Oregon Trail Dysentery Havers. You don't want to know about their mascot, trust me.
If you've read the rundown of the Pioneer and Appalachian Leagues, you won't need my disclaimer about how I'm a normal person who just happens to think mascots are stupid and fun. But in the interest of filling up these introductory paragraphs, here goes: I am a lecherous creep, but I try to keep that separated from my love of baseball. Think of it like refusing to cheer for a WWE Diva. I love pro wrestling and I love strippers, but I don't want to have to look at them at the same time, you know?
Please move right along and click through to read about what people in Washington are doing when you aren't looking.
I find it extremely important to begin any discussion of the Northwest League with the Everett AquaSox and their mascot duo Frank and Webbly. Quick, guess which one is Frank. Did you guess the gangster frog?
I clicked the "about" link on the Everett AquaSox homepage in hopes of finding out what the hell an "AquaSock" was, but minor league baseball pages are the worst, and I mean sure, now I know where I can send all my Everett player fan mail, but I'm left ignorant and assuming the team is named after those little shoes I got made fun of for wearing at Cape Cod. I have very sensitive feet and little to no knowledge of what lurks at the bottom of a f**king terminal moraine, and frankly I don't appreciate this team drawing attention to my stupid shoes.
And speaking of franks, what's with the Mad Magazine-ass looking mouth on Frank? Uncomfortable smiles like that belong on Big Johnson t-shirts, not on food.


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Editor's Note: M. Sanjayan is a lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that seeks to preserve species by "protecting the land and waters they need to survive."
M. Sanjayan says environmental damage plays a role in causing conflicts such as Darfur.
(CNN) -- I am watching a 10-year-old boy carefully burn the fur off a dead monkey. And I'm learning again why nature is the ultimate safety net for the world's rural poor, about one sixth of the world's population.
I'm in a little village sunk into the rain forests of Sierra Leone, West Africa, amidst a landscape pitted with the scars of a horrific civil war. The monkey is a white-nosed guenon, a relatively common crop-raiding monkey in these parts.
It will soon be food. Every bit from nose to tail will be thrown into a pot, along with some meager vegetables and a few drops of palm oil, to create a stew yielding about two spoons of meat protein per person, gauging from the small crush watching the boy's delicate handiwork. It's a small monkey in a big pot.
And it's not an uncommon sight. Spend time observing the daily rituals of rural village life in a developing country, and you will be impressed by the magnitude and diversity of services people derive from their immediate surroundings -- otherwise known as nature.
From food to fresh water, fiber to wood for fuel, animal fodder to fruits and nuts, and even soil fertility -- all are given freely by nature, and all are nearly always taken for granted.
Nature is what gets desperately poor people through crisis and calamity. Its capacity to protect and provide for humanity far exceeds humanity's financial and logistical abilities. But now that safety net is fraying. And the consequences are often bloody.
Civil conflict has multiple causes, but many are rooted in or made worse by the scramble for increasingly scarce natural resources.
For instance, close to half of the Darfur region of Sudan was forested 50 years ago, but by the time the conflict erupted in earnest there, that forest cover was down to just 18 percent.
The United Nations office providing humanitarian relief in the region says that such environmental degradation is the root cause of the conflict, and that even if fighting stops now, that degradation will have to be dealt with.
The environmental tie to the violence in Darfur isn't unique. Entire civilizations have disappeared throughout history because of environmental collapse.
In his book "Collapse," Jared Diamond argues that even the 1990s genocide in Rwanda was the result of years of shrinking per capita agricultural productivity as forests were cut down, topsoil washed away and the remaining soil lost its fertility.
Unless the world provides aid and security not just to the rural poor but also to the natural safety net that protects them, these cycles of violence will continue.
The U.N. can monitor cease-fires and send peacekeepers to every hot spot of violence. But once the blue helmets of those peacekeepers are gone, the refugee camps demobilized and the West's attention distracted, people will still be scrabbling to live on an increasingly barren land, and the killings will begin anew.
We are at a point in science where we are finally able to appreciate and understand the interconnectedness of our global ecosystem, matching the globalized economy.
And economic analysts are responding to that science. We are beginning to incorporate the threats to nature (from climate change to deforestation) and the services it provides us (such as the importance of watersheds for freshwater production) into our economic models for development.
The time is ripe to broaden this connection. The recent turmoil in our financial markets has made people more receptive to new approaches.
The most surprising thing about the newest James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" is the premise: not a villain or a syndicate, but the loss of an environmental service in a poor, developing country. The loss of freshwater resources in Bolivia causes local hardship and destabilizes a sovereign government, setting the stage for 106 minutes of unadulterated action.
Farfetched as this premise might seem, something rather similar really did happen. Plans to manage Bolivia's fresh water through a private scheme did indeed spark a rural revolt and martial law was imposed in 2000; a second water crisis was resolved peacefully in 2005 under a new government.
Bond's celluloid fight is a sign of our times. We may finally be ready to outfit our providers and peacekeepers with not just blue helmets, but also green ones.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of M. Sanjayan.
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I attended a very interesting Westminster Media Forum seminar recently on the subject of journalism and public relations (PR). I thought I'd write about these issues in relation to integrity in blogging. It's an article that has been developing in my mind for some weeks now, and the seminar has helped me to put a few of my thoughts in order.
The questions are: how does one maintain one's integrity, and how does one prove that one has done so?
On the first question, you might think that it should not be difficult to have integrity. I think the difficulty lies not so much in the intention but in the practice. After all, without checking every item of news back to the original source, there comes a point where you have to assume that something you have heard about, and wish to write about, is true. Otherwise, you would forever be doing original research, which is untenable, especially when you have a day job.
So, bringing it to a personal level, how do I try and make sure that the ICT in Education website and its associated publications, and now this website, remain honest? I have a number of strategies which seem to have stood me in good stead so far. If you have others I should be interested in hearing them.
1. I try to verify facts. Although, like others, I may use Wikipedia for some information, I do try and triangulate it by checking other sources too. Yes, I know it's a form of political incorrectness to cast any doubt on Wikipedia's usefulness (on its own), but this cartoon strip from The London Daily Telegraph nicely sums up the issue for me. In a wider context, I am with Nick Davies, the first keynote speaker at the seminar, when he regrets what he calls "wikiality", or truth by consensus.
2. I tend not to accept newspaper reports at face value, which is one reason that when I do report on a news item, it is often several days or even longer after the item first appeared. I was horrified to learn in the seminar that some news items are simply made up. I know that sounds naive, and I did already know that to be the case on some level. But it is still a shock when you hear it baldly stated like that.
In the field of educational technology, I have to verify the information given in news items for the simple reason that in some cases the newspapers get it wrong, whether because they are in search of a soundbite or because they don't understand the issue. A classic example of this was press reporting of the introduction of 5-minute lessons into the UK curriculum. I scrutinised the official documentation, and in the end I emailed the QCA about it:
TF: I can't find any official reference to the 5 minute lesson
QCA: Neither can we.
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3. I receive an average of three or four press releases each week, and I almost never use them. If it's a product or service that looks like it may be of interest to my readers I suggest to the company that they let me have a review copy. If I do decide to use the press release, or parts of it, I try out the product first (see point 5 for the reason why). In this context it is worth bearing in mind, as Nick Davies pointed out, that PR agencies serve the interests of their clients, not readers, viewers or listeners. An obvious point, but one worth making I think.
4. I like to check out Government press releases too. It has been known for a press release to announce funding for educational ICT in such a way that it sounds like new funding when, in fact, it is funding that was announced two months ago! I have to say, though, that the government press releases are usually comprehensible and accurate. Even so, I like to try and see if there are hidden gems, like the possibility of extra funding on the horizon or connections to other bits of news. Where there are I report these in my Leading & Managing Educational ICT Briefings.
5. I won't accept advertising or publish news from organisations, or about products, I have my doubts about. The reason is obvious: if you find something through my website and it turns out to be dreadful, you might think that reflects badly on me. Now, obviously I can't be held responsible for the quality of 3rd party goods and services, but what I'm saying is that I won't publicise anything willy-nilly.
6. I think it's important that either the bulk of one's income does not come from advertising revenue, or that one has the integrity to maintain editorial standards if it does. Let me explain what I mean. A couple of years ago I was approached by an educational computing magazine because they were looking for a new editor. They asked me what sort of articles I would run or write and I mentioned a few.
For example, I wanted to run an article looking at alternatives to interactive whiteboards. The magazine publishers said they couldn't run that because it might prevent interactive whiteboard suppliers from advertising in the magazine's pages. They even told me that the income from subscriptions was such a small proportion of their total income, which mostly came from advertising, that they could not really take subscribers' interests into account.
I think that is an example of a complete absence of integrity. To not even broach a subject for fear of upsetting advertisers is, to my mind, unforgiveable.
7. I think appearance is important too. I experimented with Google Ads for a bit, but seemed to end up spending half my time tweaking it so that it didn't display advertisements for mortgage brokers every time I wrote an article which included the word "interest". In the end, I decided it made the website look amateurish and cheap. Basically, it didn't reflect the sort of values I try to promote.
Now, that is not an indictment of Google Ads as such, or even of other websites that use them. If you can make some money out of effortless advertising, then I say good luck to you. I even put up with the advertising on a couple of Ning sites I had. But for this website and my newsletters, which are the most important of my online publishing activities, I am much more particular.
I have started gingerly dipping my toe in the Google Ads water again. So far I have placed them in an area other than the front page, and so far they seem to be "behaving themselves" as far as relevance is concerned. If this continues I may yet put them on the front pages of my websites. At least with Google Ads one cannot be accused of partisanship in favour of particular products or their suppliers, because you don't have any direct control over the ads that appear.
I have to say, too, that as a visitor to websites, when I come across a website festooned with automatically-generated ads that seem to have nothing to do with the subject matter of the website, it makes me doubt the seriousness of the website. Is that fair? Perhaps not.
8. There is also something to be said for trust. For example, there is no need for bloggers (or anyone else) to think they have to be constantly declaring an interest, or lack of an interest. It could lead to incredibly banal writing:
I should like to declare that I have nothing to disclose,
or ridiculous writing:
I should like to declare that this book was sent to me free of charge by the publishers for the purpose of this review. Therefore if I say anything positive about it, you must take that information into account.
Although we each have a responsibility to be as honest as we can, I don't think we need to try to convince people that we are doing so. When all is said and done, the onus is on the reader to check out the veracity or otherwise of the stuff they are reading. To borrow from the world of commerce, it is a case of caveat emptor: let the buyer beware. That leads me nicely onto my final point.
9. In the web world, and even in the offline world, integrity or lack of it soon gets found out. In his story And then there were none, Eric Frank Russell describes a society in which people use "obs", or obligations, as their currency rather than money. The way it works is that I give you a room for the night, which plants an ob on you. You can repay that debt by giving a friend of mine, who planted an ob on me, some food. The question is asked: what happens if someone doesn't repay their obs? The answer is that eventually nobody will do business with them, and they will starve.
That is exactly the situation that pertains in consultancy, and especially educational ICT, and especially in the UK, which is a relatively small and close-knit community. If I, say, were to lie or cheat, as opposed to make a genuine mistake, in the long run my work would dry up. The same is true for other people. This leads me to this conclusion:
Having integrity is not simply a luxury, it is an economic necessity.
This is true not only in educational consulting or blogging. Car repair businesses that replace exhausts that don't need replacing end up losing out on two counts. They have to battle for an ever-increasing supply of new customers in order to stay afloat. And they have to do so against bad word-of-mouth publicity, which means they have to pay for advertising.
Presumably in the educational blogging world this sort of thing would manifest itself in frantic attempts to find new readers and subscribers, to compensate for the ones dropping by the wayside. Again, it's a costly exercise, in time if nothing else.
I'd be interested to hear from people about two things in particular: how do you judge the integrity of what you read, and how do you ensure the integrity of what you write. And also, of course, what you think about the points I've raised here.
Having exhausted today's ration of creativity in creating this article, I could not for the life of me think of how to illustrate it. I posted a message in Twitter to ask what people thought. Ric Murray replied "aged couple for emotion. Building or bridge for strength". At more or less the same time, Jennifer D. Jones suggested "Ancient building still standing." On the basis of those great replies, I dug out the photo of the British Museum from my Flickr pages. I hope you like it and think that it illustrates the article well. I'd like to thank Jennifer and Ric for their responses, and hope you will enjoy reading their blogs.
An earlier version of this article was first published on 4th July 2008.


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Calling all AAA members, "The State of AAA's Publishing Program" is now available on the Anthropology News website. Find out what is going on in the AAA publishing portfolio, the evaluation of intended and unintended consequences in adopting new publishing models in the future and the measures AAA's Executive Board has taken to ensure financial sustainability in the publishing program.
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The good news: At this time, publishing sections are financially healthy…. The worrisome news: Scholarly publishing is undergoing enormous change.
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The AAA publishing program operates in an ever-changing technological and market environment. The Executive Board (EB), an elected membership body charged with making decisions that tries to best represent the interests of AAA's 38 sections (including 22 publishing sections) and its 11,000 members, takes seriously its charge to: (1) develop and maintain a diverse publishing portfolio; (2) make responsible, thoughtful decisions that support the long-term needs and interests of sections, members, and those who produce, access and reference anthropological knowledge and content; and (3) facilitate the adaptation of the publishing program to ongoing changes in publication conditions, promoting both sustainability of the publishing program and broadest possible dissemination of knowledge. At times, it is difficult to bring these multiple goals into agreement; our ideals don't always match up with the competitive economic environment within which we all operate. AAA decisions involve balancing compromise in the context of real life contingencies and weighing consequences for the collective good.
But we are anthropologists, capable of understanding complexity. The publishing program is complicated, involving various players, 24 publications and sections of different size that produce and distribute a rich array of anthropological content in a way that does not break the bank of individual member households, sections, and AAA as a whole…
The authors look to the options of the publishing future:
CFPEP is currently evaluating alternative publishing models in a consultative process with AAA section leaders, editors, members, association officers, the EB and the AAA publishing director to develop five- and ten-year plans for AAA publishing, including but not limited to open access models…
Unanswered questions remain about how open access publishing might work for AAA, which represents a discipline distinct from others in terms of how, what and how much it publishes. The consultative process takes time to think through the consequences—intended and unintended—of such a significant transformation.
And identify the progress the AAA publishing program has made to meet the needs in this ever-changing technological and market environment:
The association has taken several specific steps towards opening up access to its publications in a way that balances fairness and equitability at the same time it makes financially responsible decisions. These steps include income-based membership dues; free access to qualifying institutions and under-resourced countries; green open access author access, among other policies (see next section). In the meantime, CFPEP and ACC continue to engage the consultative process, exploring, examining, discussing, and considering the state of AAA publishing and its future. Despite the difficulties and the obstacles, we feel a path has been cleared for AAA leadership to act responsibly while confronting challenges with open-mindedness, enthusiasm and optimism.
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Alisse Waterston is chair of the AAA Anthropological Communication Committee and professor of anthropology, John Jay College, City University of New York. Edward B Liebow is AAA treasurer and director of the Seattle office at Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation.
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A new software trend is turning the painful chore of annual employee reviews into something fun.
Yes, really.
It's called social performance management—or, in a buzzword that's less redolent of "Office Space"'s TPS reports, "gamification."
Gamification means adding game-like features—challenges, levels, leaderboards, and badges—to work tasks.
Examples of companies offering this software, inspired by video games and Facebook apps, include Badgeville, Jam, Leaderboarded, NewsGator, Work.com.
Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser, even has a free, open-source project called Open Badges.
The idea is expected to storm the enterprise by next year. Some 70 percent of the 2,000 largest businesses around the world will be managing at least one "gamified" application or system by 2014, market research firm Gartner predicts.
"Gamification offers engagement and motivation techniques to rally opposing forces to work toward collaborative goals," writes Gartner analyst Elise Olding.
To be sure, gamification has been overhyped in Silicon Valley, and it can have a gimmicky quality that may turn off employees if done wrong. As a productivity enhancer, it usually flops. The game effect will wear off, management will quit watching the game, and people will go back to their usual work patterns and productivity levels.
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If the pat is immediate and visible to the whole company, like a badge on a leaderboard, it's even more effective than a private thank-you via email.
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"Games do not wait to reward you: buildings collapse and make noise, scores increase instantly, and virtual money may even change hands. In real-world scenarios, however, an individual's action may go totally unnoticed or unrewarded. Adding hyperfeedback to a process can provide the right reward at the right time," the Deloitte team wrote.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Have you ever tried golden raspberries?
They're just as pretty as the 'regular' red ones (I've mentioned yellow ones before). K. took these lovely close-ups for me. (And no, these are not salmonberries or cloudberries).
20 comments:
- DaviMack said...
I've never had the yellow ones - nor did I even know there was such a thing! I've had blue ones, though ... and they taste like grape-flavoured cough medicine (Dimetap, to be specific).
- 9:12 pm, July 27, 2008
- Laurie Constantino said...
Yes and they're very tasty, although I have a soft spot in my heart for the red ones. I used to make a tart with concentric circles of red and yellow raspberries over pastry cream - it was lovely.
- 10:31 pm, July 27, 2008
- Dagmar - A Cat in the Kitchen said...
Beautiful photos!
Last year I bought a yellow raspberry plant to plant in a container on the balcony, but it turned out that it was incorrectly marked in the store so during summer it had red berries instead of yellow :-)
- 10:31 pm, July 27, 2008
- Vicki said...
Yum! My mom had a yellow raspberry bush when I was a kid. I miss 'em!
- 10:47 pm, July 27, 2008
- Valentina said...
they are indeed beautiful i had some really juicy ones recently.
- 1:25 am, July 28, 2008
- K and S said...
beautiful! I don't think I've seen them here.
- 2:32 am, July 28, 2008
- Kate said...
I haven't had golden raspberries in literally over a decade- my mom had bushes back when I was a kid, but they didn't get enough light in the garden and eventually died. I've been wishing for them for years now- they're impossible to buy, so I've never even seen them in this whole time.
- 3:43 am, July 28, 2008
- Christine Tham said...
You are very lucky to have access to all sorts of berries. We who are from East Asia countries have to fork out big sum just to taste a tip of these fruits.
- 4:01 am, July 28, 2008
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
I'm so lucky -- I have a friend up the road who has golden raspberries in his garden! I do love them, and the photos make them look irresistible.
- 4:39 am, July 28, 2008
- lobstersquad said...
completely new to me. I thought they were cloudberries, at first
- 1:29 pm, July 28, 2008
They look really beautiful! I have tried then before and they are delicious.
- 4:03 pm, July 28, 2008
- Brilynn said...
No, but they're gorgeous!
- 4:31 am, July 29, 2008
- ChichaJo said...
I have never seen these before...absolutely gorgeous photo!
- 5:55 pm, July 29, 2008
- Annemarie said...
So luminescent, like a cloud berry lit from within. Lovely!
- 8:08 pm, July 29, 2008
Funny you mention salmon berries. I was just in Alaska a few weeks ago and tasted them for the first time.
I've had golden raspberries at Earthbound Farm in Carmel Valley. They've got about a bazzilion different varieties of raspberries growing there. Mmmmm.
- 2:02 am, July 30, 2008
I love raspberries in all their forms and would gobble those down in a minute...but am I the only one who finds the extreme closeup a bit scarifying as far as those "whiskers"??
- 1:59 pm, July 30, 2008
- Jeanne said...
I've never seen or tasted these but you are the second blogger to mention them recently. So do they taste any different? I love the photos - makes them look like some sort of delicate and exotic creatures ;-)
- 5:42 pm, July 31, 2008
- Pille said...
DaviMack - the blue ones weren't natural, were they?
Laurie - I love both of them for eating, but prefer red ones for cooking and making jam.
Dagmar - too bad it turned out to be a red raspberry plant instead!! Better luck next year :)
Kate - my mum has couple of golden raspberry plants, but I've also seen them at the market, so they're not too difficult to find.
Christine Tham - I know - the choice of (wild) berries is very good here in the North. But then look at the bright side - you've got excellent exotic fruits that I've never even heard of!!
Lobstersquad - oh nooo - they look nothing like each other!?! (Well, apart from the colour. And the shape :)
swirlingnotions - I've not tried salmonberries myself - hopefully one day..
Charlotte K - that's nature for you :)
Jeanne- I don't think I could tell one from another at a blind tasting :)
Vicki, Valentina, K&S, Lydia, Orchidea, Brilynn, ChicaJo, Annemarie - thank you!!
- 11:17 am, August 04, 2008
- Jeena said...
I have never tried golden raspberries, they look wonderful.
- 12:16 am, August 06, 2008
- lalear said...
I have a golden raspberry bush, actually, there are now babies, so I have several. The berries are delicate and sweeter than red raspberries. I bought mine at Western Sierra Nursery, Oakhurst CA.
- 1:52 am, June 11, 2009


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The power.conf file is used by the Power Management configuration program pmconfig(1M), to initialize the settings for Power Management. If you make changes to this file, you must run pmconfig(1M) manually for the changes to take effect.
The dtpower(1M) GUI allows the configuration of a subset of parameters allowed by this file. For ease-of-use, it is recommended that you use dtpower(1M) to configure the parameters.
Power Management addresses two specific management scenarios: management of individual devices and management of the whole system. An individual device is power managed if a device supports multiple power levels and if the device driver uses Power Management interfaces provided by the kernel to save device power when the device is idle. If the driver uses the original Power Management interfaces, the device is controlled by the entries described in the Device Power Management section of this manual page. If the device driver uses new automatic device Power Management interfaces, the device is controlled by the entries described in the Automatic Device Power Management section of this manual page.
To determine if the device driver supports original Power Management interfaces, contact the device vendor. To find out if the device driver supports the new automatic device Power Management interfaces, look for "pm-components" property (pm-components(9P)) under the device name from the output of prtconf -v command (prtconf(1M)).
The original Power Management interfaces and the corresponding device Power Management entries in power.conf file that were supported in Solaris 7 and earlier releases are now obsolete. Support for them will be removed in a future release.
All entries in the power.conf file are processed in the order displayed in the file.
Device Power Management entries are now obsolete and support for them will be removed in a future release. If a device supports original Power Management interfaces, it needs to be explicitly configured for Power Management using an entry of the form shown below. A device will not be power managed if there is no entry for the device. Be sure you fully understand the Power Management framework before you attempt to modify device Power Management entries.
Device Power Management entries consist of line-by-line listings of the devices to be configured. Each line is of the form:
device_name threshold...dependent_upon...
The fields must be in the order shown above. Each line must contain a device_name field and a threshold field; it may also contain a dependent_upon field. Fields and sub-fields are separated by white space (tabs or spaces). A line may be more than 80 characters. If a newline character is preceded by a backslash (\) it will be treated as white space. Comment lines must begin with a hash character (#).
The device_name field specifies the device to be configured. device_name is either a pathname specifying the device special file or a relative pathname containing the name of the device special file. For the latter format, you can avoid using the full pathname by omitting the pathname component that specifies the parent devices. This includes the leading '/'. Using the relative pathname format, the first device found with a full pathname containing device_name as its tail is matched. In either case, the leading /devices component of the pathname does not need to be specified.
The threshold field is used to configure the power manageable components of a device. These components represent entities within a device that may be power-managed separately. This field may contain as many integer values as the device has components. Each threshold time specifies the idle time in seconds before the respective component may be powered down. If there are fewer component threshold times than device components, the remaining components are not power managed. Use a value of -1 to explicitly disable power-down for a component. At least one component threshold must be specified per device (in the file).
The dependent_upon field contains a list of devices that must be idle and powered-down before the dependent device in device_name field can be powered down. A device must previously have been configured before it can be used in dependent_upon list. This field should only list logical dependents for this device. A logical dependent is a device that is not physically connected to the power managed device, for example, the display and the keyboard. Physical dependents are automatically considered and do not need to be included.
A device Power Management entry is only effective if there is no user process controlling the device directly. For example, X Window systems directly control framebuffers and entries in this file are effective only when X Windows are not running.
Devices whose drivers use the new automatic device Power Management interfaces (as evident by existence of pm-components(9P) property) are automatically power managed if enabled by the autopm entry described below.
When a component has been idle at a given power level for its threshold time, the power level of the component will be reduced to the next lower power level of that component, if any. For devices which implement multiple components, each component is power-managed independently.
Default thresholds for components of automatically power managed devices are computed by the Power Management framework based on the system idleness threshold. By default, all components of the device are powered off if they have all been idle for the system's idleness threshold. The default system idleness threshold is determined by the applicable United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Energy Star Memorandum of Understanding. See the NOTES section of this manual page for more information.
To set the system idleness threshold, use one of the following entries:
system-threshold threshold
system-threshold always-on
where threshold is the value of the system idleness threshold in hours, minutes or seconds as indicated by a trailing h, m or s (defaulting to seconds if only a number is given). If always-on is specified, then by default, all devices will be left at full power.
To override the default device component thresholds assigned by the Power Management framework, a device-thresholds entry may be used. A device-thresholds entry sets thresholds for a specific automatically power-managed device or disables automatic Power Management for the specific device.
A device-thresholds entry has the form:
device-thresholds phys_path (threshold ...) ...
device-thresholds phys_path threshold
device-thresholds phys_path always-on
where phys_path specifies the physical path (libdevinfo(3)) of a specific device. For example, /pci@8,600000/scsi@4/ssd@w210000203700c3ee,0 specifies the physical path of a disk. A symbolic link into the /devices tree, for example /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0, is also accepted. The thresholds apply (or keeping the device always on applies) to the specific device only.
In the first form above, each threshold value represents the number of hours, minutes or seconds, depending on a trailing h, m or s with a default to seconds, to spend idle at the corresponding power level before power will be reduced to the next lower level of that component. Parentheses are used to group thresholds per component, with the first (leftmost) group being applied to component 0, the next to component 1, and the like. Within a group, the last (rightmost) number represents the time to be idle in the highest power level of the component before going to the next-to-highest level, while the first (leftmost) number represents the time to be idle in the next-to-lowest power level before going to the lowest power level.
If the number of groups does not match the number of components exported by the device (by means of pm-components(9P) property), or the number of thresholds in a group is not one less than the number of power levels the corresponding component supports, then an error message will be printed and the entry will be ignored.
For example, assume a device called xfb exports the components Frame Buffer and Monitor. Component Frame Buffer has two power levels: Off and On. Component Monitor has four power levels: Off, Suspend, Standby, and On.
The following device-thresholds entry:
device-thresholds /pci@f0000/xfb@0 (0) (3m 5m 15m)
would set the threshold time for the Monitor component of the specific xfb card to go from On to Standby in 15 minutes, the threshold for Monitor to go from Standby to Suspendin 5 minutes, and the threshold for Monitor to go from Suspend to Off in 3 minutes. The threshold for Frame Buffer to go from On to Off will be 0 seconds.
In the second form above, where a single threshold value is specified without parentheses, the threshold value represents a maximum overall time within which the entire device should be powered down if it is idle. Because the system does not know about any internal dependencies there may be among a device's components, the device may actually be powered down sooner than the specified threshold, but will not take longer than the specified threshold, provided that all device components are idle.
In the third form above, all components of the device are left at full power.
Device Power Management entries are only effective if there is no user process controlling the device directly. For example, X Window systems directly control frame buffers and the entries in this file are effective only when X Windows are not running.
Dependencies among devices may also be defined. A device depends upon another if none of its components may have their power levels reduced unless all components of the other device are powered off. A dependency may be indicated by an entry of the form:
device-dependency dependent_phys_path phys_path [ phys_path ... ]
where dependent_phys_path is the path name (as above) of the device that is kept up by the others, and the phys_path entries specify the devices that keep it up. A symbolic link into the /devices tree, such as /dev/fb, is also accepted. This entry is needed only for logical dependents for the device. A logical dependent is a device that is not physically connected to the power managed device (for example, the display and the keyboard). Physical dependents are automatically considered and need not be included.
In addition to listing dependents by physical path, an arbitrary group of devices can be made dependent upon another device by specifying a property dependency using the following syntax:
device-dependency-property property phys_path [phys_path ...]
where each device that exports the property property will be kept up by the devices named by phys_path(s). A symbolic link into the /devices tree (such as /dev/fb) is accepted as well as a pathname for phys_path.
For example, the following entry:
# This entry keeps removable media from being powered down unless the # console framebuffer and monitor are powered down # (See removable-media(9P)) # device-dependency-property removable-media /dev/fb
ensures that every device that exports the boolean property named removable-media will be kept up when the console framebuffer is up. See removable-media(9P).
An autopm entry may be used to enable or disable automatic device Power Management on a system-wide basis. The format of the autopm entry is:
Acceptable behavior values and their meanings are:
The behavior of the system will depend upon its model. Desktop models that fall under the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Memorandum of Understanding #3 will have automatic device Power Management enabled, and all others will not. See the NOTES section of this manual page for more information.
Automatic device Power Management will be started when this entry is encountered.
Automatic device Power Management will be stopped when this entry is encountered.
The system Power Management entries control power management of the entire system using the suspend-resume feature. When the system is suspended, the complete current state is saved on the disk before power is removed. On reboot, the system automatically starts a resume operation and the system is restored to the state it was in prior to suspend.
The system can be configured to do an automatic shutdown (autoshutdown) using the suspend-resume feature by an entry of the following form:
autoshutdown idle_time start_time finish_time behavior
idle_time specifies the time in minutes that system must have been idle before it will be automatically shutdown. System idleness is determined by the inactivity of the system and can be configured as discussed below.
start_time and finish_time (each in hh:mm) specify the time period during which the system may be automatically shutdown. These times are measured from the start of the day (12:00 a.m.). If the finish_time is less than or equal to the start_time, the period span from midnight to the finish_time and from the start_time to the following midnight. To specify continuous operation, the finish_time may be set equal to the start_time.
Acceptable behavior values and their meanings are:
The system will be shut down automatically when it has been idle for the number of minutes specified in the idle_time value and the time of day falls between the start_time and finish_time values.
The system is never shut down automatically.
If the hardware has the capability to do autowakeup, the system is shut down as if the value were shutdown and the system will be restarted automatically the next time the time of day equals finish_time.
The behavior of the system will depend upon its model. Desktop models that fall under the United States Enviromental Protection Agency's Energy Star Memorandum of Understanding #2 will have automatic shutdown enabled, as if behavior field were set to shutdown, and all others will not. See NOTES.
The system will not be shut down automatically. If the system has just been installed or upgraded, the value of this field will be changed upon the next reboot.
You can use the following format to configure the system's notion of idleness:
idleness_parameter value
Where idleness_parameter can be:
If the idleness_parameter is ttychars, the value field will be interpreted as the maximum number of tty characters that can pass through the ldterm module while still allowing the system to be considered idle. This value defaults to 0 if no entry is provided.
If the idleness_parameter is loadaverage, the (floating point) value field will be interpreted as the maximum load average that can be seen while still allowing the system to be considered idle. This value defaults to 0.04 if no entry is provided.
If the idleness_parameter is diskreads, the value field will be interpreted as the maximum number of disk reads that can be perform by the system while still allowing the system to be considered idle. This value defaults to 0 if no entry is provided.
If the idleness_parameter is nfsreqs, the value field will be interpreted as the maximum number of NFS requests that can be sent or received by the system while still allowing the system to be considered idle. Null requests, access requests, and getattr requests are excluded from this count. This value defaults to 0 if no entry is provided.
If the idleness_parameter is idlecheck, the value must be pathname of a program to be executed to determine if the system is idle. If autoshutdown is enabled and the console keyboard, mouse, tty, CPU (as indicated by load average), network (as measured by NFS requests) and disk (as measured by read activity) have been idle for the amount of time specified in the autoshutdown entry specified above, and the time of day falls between the start and finish times, then this program will be executed to check for other idleness criteria. The value of the idle time specified in the above autoshutdown entry will be passed to the program in the environment variable PM_IDLETIME. The process must terminate with an exit code that represents the number of minutes that the process considers the system to have been idle.
There is no default idlecheck entry.
When the system is suspended, the current system state is saved on the disk in a statefile. An entry of following form can be used to change the location of statefile:
statefile pathname
where pathname identifies a block special file,for example, /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2, or is the absolute pathname of a local ufs file. If the pathname specifies a block special file, it can be a symbolic link as long as it does not have a file system mounted on it. If pathname specifies a local ufs file, it cannot be a symbolic link. If the file does not exist, it will be created during the suspend operation. All the directory components of the path must already exist.
The actual size of statefile depends on a variety of factors, including the size of system memory, the number of loadable drivers/modules in use, the number and type of processes running, and the amount of user memory that has been locked down. It is recommended that statefile be placed on a file system with at least 10 Mbytes of free space. In case there is no statefile entry at boot time, an appropriate new entry is automatically created by the system.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
Interface stability
Evolving (Interfaces under DEVICE POWER MANAGEMENT are obsolete.)
pmconfig(1M), powerd(1M), sys-unconfig(1M), uadmin(2), attributes(5), cpr(7), ldterm(7M), pm(7D), pm-components(9P), removable-media(9P)
SPARC desktop models first shipped after October 1, 1995 and before July 1, 1999 comply with the United States Enviromental Protection Agency's Energy Star Memorandum of Understanding #2 guidelines and have autoshutdownenabled by default after 30 minutes of system idleness. This is achieved by default keyword of autoshutdown entry behave as shutdown for these machines. The user is prompted to confirm this default behavior at system installation reboot, or during the first reboot after the system is unconfigured by sys-unconfig(1M).
SPARC desktop models first shipped after July 1, 1999 comply with the United States Enviromental Protection Agency's Energy Star Memorandum of Understanding #3 guidelines and have autoshutdowndisabled by default, with autopm enabled after 30 minutes of idleness. This is achieved by interpreting default keyword of autopm entry behavior as enabled for these machines. User is not prompted to confirm this default behavior.
To determine the version of the EPA's Energy Star Memorandum applicable to your machine, use:
prtconf -pv | grep -i energystar
Absence of a property indicates no Energy Star guidelines are applicable to your machine.
System Power Management ( suspend-resume) is currently supported only on a limited set of hardware platforms. Please see the book Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guidefor a complete list of platforms that support system Power Management. See uname(2) to programatically determine if the machine supports suspend-resume.SunOS 5.9 Last Revised 12 Jun 2002