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The Dell Center for Entrepreneurs has announced its first-ever Founders Club 50, an exclusive group of emerging companies that have technology as a critical backbone and are poised for rapid growth.
"The Founders Club 50 is a great opportunity for these start-ups, all of whom are on the verge of reaching the next level of innovation."
Dell has identified the group as the 50 start-ups and founders to watch in spring 2014 and is putting its power behind them to help them reach their objectives. Dell will provide the companies – all on the verge of becoming leaders in their industries – access to an exclusive marketing effort and associated resources designed to grow their businesses.
A new Founders Club 50 class will be announced bi-annually, and Dell is currently accepting applications for the Fall 2014 class. Each participating company will take part in the Founders Club 50 for a two-year term, with programming designed to accelerate their growth, focusing on technology, sales enablement, networking and capital. Member companies also will receive marketing support via inclusion in Dell's social media, marketing materials and public relations efforts.
"The Founders Club 50 is a great opportunity for these start-ups, all of whom are on the verge of reaching the next level of innovation," said Ingrid Vanderveldt, Dell Entrepreneur in Residence. "The program creates a win-win; by serving as a trusted advisor to these companies at this crucial early stage, we hope they will continue to grow with Dell in the future. Dell has always seen the value in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, and the Founders Club 50 is the natural next step in continuing to help high-growth start-ups expand their networks, find valuable resources and use technology to transform their businesses."
As some of the Founders Club 50 companies are currently operating in stealth mode, a few of the member companies have not been listed.
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Aberdeen's mainstream equity process dates from the early 1990s, and we believe its advantages lie in the consistency of its approach, irrespective of market conditions. From the company visits and analysis carried out regionally, through to portfolio construction decisions, we adopt a team approach. Cross-coverage of securities locally ensures objectivity; we avoid cultivating 'star' managers.
Diversification at the stock level is our main control of risk. We aim to add value by capitalizing on original research. We see equity risk in terms of investing in a poor quality company, or overpaying for a good one.
Diversification does not ensure a profit or protect against a loss in a declining market.
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Long-term focus: Strategies are simple: buy-and-hold; add on the dips; take profits on price run-ups. This reduces transaction costs and keeps portfolios focused. We rarely focus on short-term returns.
Team approach: We employ over 90 equity investment professionals based globally. Portfolio decisions are made collectively, and we avoid cultivating 'star' managers.
Cross-coverage securities also increases objectivity and lessens reliance on individuals.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Part of the Magic
Posted by Michael at 3:56 PM
3 comments:
- Mostrok said...
jajajja... goog one... I remember once a kid saw into a "Barney" mouth and saw the guy inside and started yelling... Barney ate a guy!!! Barney ate a guy!!!...
- April 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM
- Ace said...
lol good one. I hate that mouse. Assuming it's the same mouse, but i have a feeling it is.
- April 10, 2009 at 10:09 AM
When I was little someone told me to go and hug a 'teletubby' at a party. They were very sweaty and absolutely reeked. They were not teletubbies and I was rather disgusted.
- October 15, 2010 at 3:28 PM
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Everyone has at least heard of the Trucha Bug at one point or another. You may even know that it's because of the Trucha Bug Wii hacking is possible however, most have no idea what this means, how it works, or why it works. I've done a lot of research and testing to help myself understand all of this and wanted to share what I've learned. I think it's important to share this information in order to help newcomers and existing members understand the basics of Wiihacking and hopefully help them realize what it means to hack their Wii. Feel free to add comments, questions, or even disagree with me if you think any of this information is incorrect.
Wii Security (summary)
The Wii has very sophisticated security measures that it uses on all data to ensure it's authentically issued by Nintendo. This data includes: boot information, system menu files (IOS), channels, game saves, Wiiware, and games on disc. All data is encrypted with AES 128-bit symmetric encryption to prevent unauthorized viewing and signed with an asymmetric crypto to prevent modification.
Common Key
AES symmetric encryption means the data is encrypted with the same key that's used to decrypt it. This means that the Wii has this key stored somewhere as it needs to use it to decrypt data. Since the same key is used to both encrypt and decrypt data all Wiis must know it so it's considered to be a common key. Team Twiizers are the group credited with extracting the common key by bridging areas of the Hollywood processor with tweezers thus the name Team Twiizers. This is the same key that's used by programs like Wiiscrubber and Trucha Signer to decrypt and open game partitions.
Data Signature
The second component of Wii security is called the signature and this is much more complex than simple data encryption. All data has a unique digital signature that can't be duplicated or reproduced. For example, if you have two data files that are exactly the same then the signature will also be the same however, if you change just one byte in one of the files, the signature will change completely and at random. The Wii uses this type of digital signature to verify data has not been altered. An SHA1 hash (which is simply a randomly calculated code) is calculated from each 0x400 bytes of data and the total of all the hashes combined make up the signature which is stored in a certificate binary file called a TMD. The actual signature of the data (compiled from all the hashes) is checked against the TMD for verification. If everything matches up then the data passes the security check and is allowed to run. Anything except for an exact signature match with the TMD causes the system to crash and it needs to be rebooted.
Private Key
As if public key encryption and signature verification wasn't enough security (and it's not), Nintendo also signs the TMD certificate and data hashes with their own private key. This is the big cheese in Wii security because it means the data inside the TMD can't be modified without resigning with Nintendo's own private key. Unlike the public key, the private key is unknown by the Wii so a tweezers attack won't provide us with this information. The only way to obtain the private key would be through a leak from Nintendo or via a brute force attack. A brute force attack is usually conducted by a computer program which basically throws every possible combination at a signature or hash until it's cracked. Brute forcing a key of this size (32 bytes or more) would take a very long time to complete making it an infeasible option.
Wii Disc Security
I'm going to attempt to keep this part as simple as possible for the sake of keeping this thread an easy read for everyone. If anyone is interested in more detailed info on this just ask or PM me.
First and foremost, you have to think of a Wii disc as separate data put into one media. The separate data is called a partition and each partition (usually an update partition and game partition) has it's own security. Each partition's security consists of AES symmetric key encryption in addition to a data signature which is protected by the private key. The most prominent difference with disc security is that the partitions are encrypted (not signed) with a unique symmetric key called a titlekey. This key is disc specific and is only used to encrypt/decrypt the partitions of the disc it belongs to. After each partition is encrypted with the titlekey and signed, the entire disc is then encrypted with the public key. This means that in order to view the data of a disc, you must first decrypt with the public key and then the titlekey can be extracted from the partition header and used to decrypt the partitions. This is all done automatically when opening an iso with Wiiscrubber or Trucha Signer.
SD Key/ECC Private Key
The final chapter in Wii security is the built-in local security which consists of two components, the SD Key and the ECC Private Key. Because the Wii is capable of saving data such as game saves and Wiiware to an external source via the SD slot, Nintendo added the ability for the Wii itself to encrypt and sign data so it can't be viewed or modified.
The SD Key is used to encrypt/decrypt data and is known by all Wiis kind of like the public key except it's limited to data from the SD slot. The ECC Private Key is unique to one console only and each console has its own. The purpose of the ECC key is to sign the data being exported from the Wii to an SD card so the data can only be used with that specific console. This type of security is not as concrete as Nintendo's private key since the ECC key is known by your console and can easily be extracted. The problem with extracting the ECC key is that the average person can't conduct a tweezers type attack to extract it. The easier way to get this key is to run software which reads the keys such as with an app called xyzzy by Bushing. The reason the ECC key can't be used to hack a system menu is because you need to be able to run Homebrew before you can run the xyzzy application to extract the keys.
Don't worry If you can't follow all of this exactly. You only need to know that it's nearly impossible to crack this type of security with all these security measures. Since cracking through the Wii's security wasn't a feasible option, hackers started looking for a way to bypass the security through a flaw in the software. This type of flaw is known as an exploit and we all know an exploit was indeed found.
The Trucha Bug Exploit
The Trucha bug was a software flaw found in the first generation Wii's boot data and firmware files (IOS). The flaw would cause the Wii to bypass the security verification process on the data in question if a null byte was found in the TMD signature. These meant that in order to bypass the security check we only had to brute force the first character of Nintendo's private key and use it to sign the TMD signature with a null (0) first byte. The security check would then see the null byte and automatically pass the TMD cert without even checking it. This flaw was soon fixed by Nintendo however the damage has already been done. Today we simply use a memory exploit to overload the buffer such as with Bannerbomb, Indiana PWNS, or Smash Stack. Once this buffer overload occurs we are free to run any custom code we want (Homebrew Installer, Dop-Mii, TruchaBug Restorer, MMM, etc.) since the overload causes the Wii to look to the SD slot for more space. The memory exploit then allows us to be able to reinstall the trucha bug into our system IOS via Homebrew. Without the Trucha Bug we wouldn't be able to run games from usb, use emulators to play backwards compatible roms, install custom IOS or even have any of the self recovery options that we have today.
Here's an example of the exploit: (sample IOS code taken from the Hackmii website)
struct rsa_cert {
u32 key_id;
char rsa_signature[1024];
char metadata[32];
char content_hash[20];
int verify_cert (struct rsa_cert cert) {
char *cert_hash=SHA1(cert.metadata + cert.content_hash);
char *sig_hash=rsa_decrypt(cert.rsa_signature, cert.key_id);
if (strncmp(cert_hash, sig_hash, SHA1_LENGTH) == 0) {
return CERT_OK;
} else {
return CERT_BAD;
int is_a_valid_disc(struct rsa_cert cert, char *disc_hash) {
if(memcmp(disc_hash, cert.content_hash, SHA1_LENGTH) != 0) {
return DISC_BAD;
if(verify_cert (cert) == CERT_BAD) {
return DISC_BAD;
} else {
return DISC_OK;
Fakesign/Trucha Signature
The process of resigning/rehashing the TMD signature with a new signature containing a first null byte was referred to as creating a fake signature AKA "Fakesigning". This method of fakesigning data would in turn "open the doors" for us to be able to run custom code in boot2 such as Bootmii and even run an altered game image without crashing our systems.
If you wish to post this guide elsewhere a link back to this page as the source is required!


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A 24-year-old man was hit by a southbound CTA Red Line subway train on the Near North Side Sunday evening, forcing the closing of the southbound subway for three hours as fire officials responded.
The man was found on the tracks near the Grand Avenue stop, unresponsive, about 6:32 p.m., said Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala.
Sheffy Abraham was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:30 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Officials did not release his home address.
His injuries were consistent with his having been struck by a train, said CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski, citing preliminary information.
The man was found on the tracks about 100 feet north of the Grand Avenue stop, she said.
An autopsy is scheduled for today.
Dozens of firefighters and police officers entered and exited the subway at Grand Avenue while crowds gathered behind orange biohazard tape. Grand and State Street were both blocked off around the station, with lines of emergency vehicles parked in each direction.
Emergency workers arrived under sunny skies, and stayed until darkness fell and storms moved through. Shortly after 9 p.m., fire personnel cleared the scene and police confirmed that the body had been removed.
Trains bound for the Ashland/63rd terminal rerouted onto the elevated tracks between Fullerton Avenue and the Roosevelt elevated stop Grand Avenue station, said Hosinski. Trains were resuming their normal routes about 9:30 p.m.
One man who said he was riding the train involved said that after the train stopped, a CTA official came through and told riders the train had hit someone, and that the train would be delayed 1 or 2 hours.
For Red Line service updates, check the CTA's web site.
Tribune reporter Adam Sege contributed.
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Our daughter was a "Who's Jesus?" kid.
that's awesome!!
Good advice John D. Sometimes the biggest pressure is to fit in or simply fly under the radar. I have a very outspoken child who doesn't quite understand that not everyone is as OK with her atheism as she is.
I'm glad the teacher in your daughter's case didn't penalize her for being who she is. Of course, the teacher did the right thing, but I think it could have easily been much worse.
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The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the LBJ Presidential Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.
Through the fundraising efforts of its Board of Trustees, the Foundation provides support to the Library that enhances quality programming, expands educational outreach and exhibits, and administers grants for researchers and scholars. The Foundation also raises money for the LBJ School for the outstanding education that it provides its graduate students in public policy and governmental affairs, community outreach, and the exploration of global initiatives.
These two institutions, one looking to the past and the other to the future, provide an ongoing legacy for President Johnson's accomplishments and his vision for our nation.
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The gently rolling hills of Washington County, Texas may well be the most beautiful land in Stephen F. Austin's realm.
In the western part of the County lies the small, historic village of Burton on U.S. 290 about half way between Houston and Austin.
Just two and a half miles southwest of Burton, TX
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an unforgettable setting in which to relax and unwind. These guest cottages
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Access to the Inn at Indian Creek is by a paved road from Burton. All driving
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Wanna play some trivia? Follow us on Twitter @HondaPowersprts and look for a Gold Wing question to be posted each Wednesday for five weeks. First one to answer each week's question will receive a promotional code for a Honda hat of his or her choosing! Thanks to our friends at http://www.powertexhondastore.com/ for participating!
"Lighter, faster, cheaper." That's what customers said they wanted in a Gold Wing variant. And that's what Honda delivered in the 2013 Gold Wing F6B. Big Red also delivered a better-handling motorcycle, one that is lighter, easier to drop into corners, and more sporty, spirited, and engaging all around.
In taking its premier super-tourer and stripping it down to the essentials, throwing in a darker spirit without losing any of its original prowess, Honda has re-molded the classic Gold Wing to produce a motorcycle that will appeal to the more aggressive rider – aggressive in style as well as in performance.
But the F6B was designed with a new rider in mind. It's the Gold Wing for Gen X and it looks the part. Lower, sleeker and lighter - and without the big trunk that Gold Wings are known for - this Wing is like none of the 550,000 sold before it. This one is blacked out - wheels, frame, engine - with a gunfighter seat and a short windshield. It's much more bagger that Gold Wing. In fact, it may just be the ultimate touring cruiser.
What better place to enjoy the performance and long-distance luxury and technology of the 2012 Gold Wing than the Blue Ridge Parkway? Watch this great ride and plan your own trip.
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Electromach employees will keep on running....!
The good health of your employees is very important. Electromach is constantly busy arranging training and events and besides courses to prevent RSI-related complaints and a 'stop smoking' course, all employees can benefit from a discount with their gym membership.
This year, Electromach has sponsored multiple sportive activities, including the Enschede City RUN and the first Westermaat Soccer tournament, in which Electromach employees participated. Both events were a great success!
In 2013...
In 2013 Electromach will continue to motivate the employees to participate in sportive activities. All cyclists and mountain bikers were able to purchase special Electromach sports clothing and accessories to enable them to ride in style!
In 2013 the Enschede City RUN is back on the calendar again. The 10km City RUN is a yearly running event which will take place during the Enschede marathon weekend in April. A group of Electromach runners will participate in this 10km race.
What about you? Will you join us on Sunday on the 21st April?
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Globular Star Cluster M14
This pair of images of a region in the globular star cluster M14, (located 70,000 light-years away) clearly demonstrate the high spatial resolution of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, as compared to the view from a ground-based telescope.
The image on the left, taken with the 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, has a resolution of 1.5 arc seconds. The image on the right, taken with European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC) aboard HST, yields stellar diameters of 0.08 arc second.
The FOC picture reveals literally hundreds of separate stars in a tiny region of the cluster where only dozens are distinguishable on the ground-based image. Numerous faint stars, apparently single objects in the ground-based CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image, are clearly resolved into multiple objects in the FOC image. The field of view is 22 x 22 arcseconds. (The diagonal strips at the upper left and lower right comers are occulting "fingers" designed to block the light from bright sources).
This FOC picture was taken in an attempt to identify the location of a rare stellar outburst; or nova, which occured in the year 1938. The FOC resolves five separate stars in the nova's suspected location, which previously appeared as only one object in ground-based images. Presumably only one of these five stars is the old nova; though it is also possible that the nova is too faint to be seen.
These images will be used to support follow-on observations which are planned by the HST's Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS).
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI
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Blacows in Tokyo, the Greatest Burger Joint in the World?
"In my mind, there is no doubt... at this moment, Blacows in Tokyo indeed makes the best burger on the planet," says C. B. Cebulski of Eataku. What's so special about this place? As Cebulski explains in his post, the restaurant is owned by a butcher and they only use Japanese Black Wagyu beef, hence the name Bla(ck)cows. A chalkboard at the restaurant's entrance lists info for the cuts of beef they're using that day: the beef's origin, the number of the cow the cut is from, and the beef's grade. Inside you get a full view of a full-time butcher cutting meat in the section of the kitchen dubbed the Patty Factory. This is some hardcore burger-making.
Blacows' website features a diagram of their bacon cheese avocado burger that illustrates the different components: original BBQ sauce, original tartar sauce, marinated onions, buns from Maison Kayser, and more. Burger prices range from ¥1300 (about $17) to ¥1700 (about $22) at dinner; lunch prices are a bit lower.
Have any AHT-ers tried Blacows?
About the author: Robyn Lee is the editor of A Hamburger Today and takes many of the photos for Serious Eats. She'll also doodle cute stuff when necessary. Read more from Robyn at her personal food blog, The Girl Who Ate Everything.Tags: Blacows, Japan, TokyBlacows in Tokyo, the Greatest Burger Joint in the World? | A Hamburger Today


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Syrian chemicals incinerated in UK
Almost 200 tonnes of Syrian chemicals have been destroyed in a UK incinerator, Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood has announced.
The chemicals - an entire stockpile of one type known as "B precursors" and 44 tonnes of hydrochloric acid - arrived in Britain three weeks ago as part of international efforts to remove chemical weapons from the regime of president Bashar Assad.
Mr Ellwood said the work was an important step but warned there continued to be "credible reports" industrial chemicals such as chlorine were still being used in the Syrian civil war.
The UK has destroyed chemicals taken from the regime of president Bashar Assad in Syria
The destroyed chemicals were part of Syria's weapons programme and could have been used to manufacture nerve agent.
The UK committed to handling the destruction of 15% of Syria's stockpiles. Work has now been completed at Ellesmere Port, in a high-temperature incinerator operated by Veolio.
Mr Ellwood said: "By destroying these chemicals, the United Kingdom has played its part in the international effort to ensure that Assad's chemical weapons can never again be used against the Syrian people.
"The removal, and now the destruction in four countries, of the declared Syrian chemical stockpile show what can be achieved when the international community, including Russia, agrees to work together for the common good.
"The challenge remains to bring that same unity to bear in securing a political settlement to end this appalling conflict. Such a settlement is all the more urgent as the conflict continues to claim hundreds of lives each month, despite the efforts of the moderate opposition to protect the Syrian people from both Assad and extremists."
Mr Ellwood said there were still "gaps and inconsistencies" in Syria's declarations on chemical weapons and warned these must be resolved.
He said there were credible reports that some chemical attacks were still taking place and that the interim conclusions of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' fact finding mission suggested these were being "systematically orchestrated".
Mr Ellwood said: "The mission must leave no stone unturned in its investigation, and the perpetrators of such barbaric acts must be held accountable."
Chemicals have also been destroyed in the United States, Germany and Finland.
A further six tonnes of hydrogen fluoride will be destroyed by a second UK company later this year.
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You can learn a lot by watching other people perform kata.
On a very superficial level, you might notice when he makes an error such as leaving out a movement, turning in the wrong direction, making the kiai at the wrong point, or performing individual techniques incorrectly.
On a deeper level, you might notice the way that he generates power. Does he simply "muscle" the movements or is he using a more sophisticated method, such as "whole body" koshi?
How is his timing? How does he enter? How does he shift his body? These are all excellent questions.
But on a deeper level, you might ask what he is thinking and feeling. Is he angry, conceited, afraid, composed, trembling...?
Does his kata have a certain "floweriness" or flair? Is he performing the kata to make an impression? Does this reflect arrogance or insecurity?
It is one thing to be able to read the kata. It is another to be able to read the person. You might try to do both.
You might try to be aware of these things when you perform kata yourself.
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Watching Others Perform Kata
You can learn a lot by watching other people perform kata.
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Now that you have seen the theorem prover in action you might be curious as to how you guide it.
The idea is that the user submits conjectures and advice and reads the proof attempts as they are produced.
Most of the time, the conjectures submitted are lemmas to be used in the proofs of other theorems.


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I don't really like to eat pure chocolate. But every easter and every christmas, there is a bunch of bunnies or Santas lying around. So, I love to bake this yummy and extremely moist chocolate cake.
It's really chocolatey, not too sweet and simply good. Let's kill some chocolate bunnies! (Deutsche Version.) More


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Improved ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) supportV8 4.6 adds support for several ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) features.
Spread operatorThe spread operator makes it much more convenient to work with arrays. For example it makes imperative code obsolete when you simply want to merge arrays.
Another good use of the spread operator to replace apply().
// Merging arrays
// Code without spread operator
let inner = [3, 4];
let merged = [0, 1, 2].concat(inner, [5]);
// Code with spread operator
let inner = [3, 4];
let merged = [0, 1, 2, ...inner, 5];
// Function parameters stored in an array
// Code without spread operator
function myFunction(a, b, c) {
let argsInArray = ["Hi ", "Spread ", "operator!"];
myFunction.apply(null, argsInArray);
// Code with spread operator
function myFunction (a,b,c) {
let argsInArray = ["Hi ", "Spread ", "operator!"];
new.targetnew.target is one of ES6's features designed to improve working with classes. Under the hood it's actually an implicit parameter to every function. If a function is called with the keyword new, then the parameter holds a reference to the called function. If new is not used the parameter is undefined.
In practice, this means that you can use new.target to figure out whether a function was called normally or constructor-called via the new keyword.
When ES6 classes and inheritance are used, new.target inside the constructor of a super-class is bound to the derived constructor that was invoked with new. In particular, this gives super-classes access to the prototype of the derived class during construction.
function myFunction() {
if (new.target === undefined) {
throw "Try out calling it with new.";
// Will break
// Will work
let a = new myFunction();
Reduce the jankJank can be a pain, especially when playing a game. Often, it's even worse when the game features multiple players. oortonline.gl is a WebGL benchmark that tests the limits of current browsers by rendering a complex 3D scene with particle effects and modern shader rendering. The V8 team set off in a quest to push the limits of Chrome's performance in these environments. We're not done yet, but the fruits of our efforts are already paying off. Chrome 46 shows incredible advances in oortonline.gl performance which you can see yourself below.
Some of the optimizations include:
- TypedArray performance improvements
- TypedArrays are heavily used in rendering engines such as Turbulenz (the engine behind oortonline.gl). For example, engines often create typed arrays (such as Float32Array) in JavaScript and pass them to WebGL after applying transformations.
- The key point was optimizing the interaction between the embedder (Blink) and V8.
- Performance improvements when passing TypedArrays and other memory from V8 to Blink
- There's no need to create additional handles (that are also tracked by V8) for typed arrays when they are passed to WebGL as part of a one-way communication.
- On hitting external (Blink) allocated memory limits we now start an incremental garbage collection instead of a full one.
- Idle garbage collection scheduling
- Garbage collection operations are scheduled during idle times on the main thread which unblocks the compositor and results in smoother rendering.
- Concurrent sweeping enabled for the whole old generation of the garbage collected heap
- Freeing of unused memory chunks is performed on additional threads concurrent to the main thread which significantly reduces the main garbage collection pause time.
The good thing is that all changes related to oortonline.gl are general improvements that potentially affect all users of applications that make heavy use of WebGL.
V8 APIPlease check out our summary of API changes. This document gets regularly updated a few weeks after each major release.
Developers with an active V8 checkout can use 'git checkout -b 4.6 -t branch-heads/4.6' to experiment with the new features in V8 4.6. Alternatively you can subscribe to Chrome's Beta channel and try the new features out yourself soon.
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In the past 12 hours, the news flow in the Petraeus sex scandal has taken a turn toward the bizarre.
Let's recap:
- The center of gravity in the scandal has shifted to a mysterious woman in Tampa Bay whom many of our top military and law-enforcement brass appear to be obsessed with.
- This woman, Jill Kelley, is the wife of a surgeon and an " unpaid liaison" between the public and a nearby Air Force base. This "job" seems mainly to include hosting and attending parties and emailing with generals and FBI agents.
- Paula Broadwell, General Petraeus's mistress, lost her mind and sent anonymous harassing emails to this woman.
- Kelley got freaked out by the harassing emails and called the FBI, thus triggering the investigation that, so far, has sucked in the head of the CIA, a top general, and an FBI agent.
- The FBI agent assigned to investigate the case lost his mind and emailed "shirtless photos" to the woman.
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After reading a few Blogs this morning one struck me with talk of rioting and if Barack Obama doesn't win blacks will undoubtedly start rioting in the streets. Now I personally don't feel that this is anywhere near correct. Also, there have been fingers pointed at the Kenyan riots as showing rioting just may be a characteristic related only to blacks. Blacks albeit will lash out when the stress of life's circumstances are too much to bear and things explode like a powder keg in a Bar B Q pit. The talk of blacks and our supposedly rioting as some sort of black trait or some kind of example of the lawless nature of blacks then we must look at the act of rioting as it applies to whites.
As riots go white riots have been around since they came to America. Black riots got a running start in the 60's and have been on the radar ever since. As I did some research on riots it seems that white people in race related riots destroy the property of blacks etc. Yet, the majority of white riots destroy their own things since they usually happen around schools or major sports events. Blacks started off destroying the white owned businesses but then degraded into destroying their own homes, stores and general community. This is a direct result of having the police come down far harder on blacks than whites during a given riot. Since the black community felt so helpless and forgotten that when rioting breaks out the looting begins.
While doing a bit of research on riots and those that have been white or predominantly so I have come across a lot of riots where the idea of the riot was just to terrorize blacks and destroy what little they had. The riots were always after the gossip of some black man or men after their white woman whether it is for rape or just any type of relationship. The next reason was the fact that blacks had a nerve to actually get jobs to support their families. For people to make statements that rioting shows that blacks can't control their angry violent nature and are prone to mass violent outbursts is totally irresponsible and an outright lie. Following is stories of a few violent white riots followed by a list of others, as H. Rap Brown said, violence is as American as apple pie.
The Springfield Race Riot of 1908 was a mass civil disturbance in Springfield, Illinois, USA sparked by the transfer of two African American prisoners out of the city jail by the county sheriff. This act enraged many white citizens, who responded by burning black-owned homes and businesses and killing black citizens. By the end of the riot, there were at least seven deaths and US$200,000 in property damage. The riot led to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization.
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia, USA which began the evening of September 22nd and lasted until September 25th. At least 27 people died and over seventy were injured. Atlanta newspapers reported that black men were assaulting white women. The charges were not true, but the reports set off the Atlanta race riot of 1906. The official death count was 12 black and two white, but it has been claimed the real death toll was much higher as Atlanta authorities did not want to further damage the reputation of the city. The riot was reported in newspapers around the world but has not been taught in schools in the United States, and those who died have not been officially commemorated.
East St. Louis, in 1917, the United States had a strong economy boosted by World War I. Because many workers were being recruited for the war, firms also had jobs for African Americans, who began to migrate in great number from the South to St. Louis, among other northern and midwestern cities. Three thousand white men gathered downtown, and started to attack African Americans. They destroyed buildings and beat people. On July 1, a black teen that shot his attackers was fired on by a white mob. The boy then shot and killed two cops.
The next morning, thousands of white spectators who saw the bloodstained automobile marched to the black section of town and started rioting. After cutting the hoses of the fire department, the rioters burned entire sections of the city and shot inhabitants as they escaped the flames. Claiming that "Southern niggers deserve a genuine lynching," they lynched several blacks. Guardsmen were called in, but several accounts reported that they joined in the rioting rather than stopping it. Others joined in, including allegedly "ten or fifteen young girls about 18 years old, who chased a black woman at the Relay Depot at about 5 o'clock. The girls were brandishing clubs and calling upon the men to kill the woman." The renowned journalist Ida B. Wells reported in The Chicago Defender that 150 black people were killed during July in the rioting in East St. Louis.
Red Summer which included riots against blacks: 1919 – Charleston Race Riot, May 10, Charleston, South Carolina, – Washington, D.C. Race Riot, July 19, Washington, D.C., – Chicago Race Riot, July 27 – Aug. 2, Chicago, Illinois, – Knoxville Race riot, Aug. 30, Knoxville, Tennessee, Longview Race Riot, Longview, Texas, Omaha Race Riot, Sept. 28, Omaha, Nebraska, Elaine Race Riot, Oct. 1, Elaine, Arkansas. Was called the red summer for all the blood of blacks that was spilled during this massive onslaught of race motivated riots that happened to take place in 1919 over one summer.
The Tulsa Race Riot, also known as the 1921 Race Riot, The Night That Tulsa Died, the Tulsa Race War, or the Greenwood Riot, was a large-scale civil disorder confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA in 1921. During the 16 hours of rioting, over 800 people were admitted to local hospitals with injuries, an estimated 10,000 were left homeless, 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire, and $1.8 million (nearly $17 million after adjustment for inflation) in property damage. Officially, thirty-nine people were reported killed in the riot, of which 10 were white.
The actual number of black citizens killed as a result of the riot was estimated in the Red Cross report at around 300; making the Tulsa Race Riot the worst in US history. Other estimates range as high as 3,000, based on the number of grave diggers and other circumstances, although the archaeological and forensic work needed to confirm the number of dead has not been performed.
Rosewood was a small community of 25 to 30 mostly black families in Levy County in central Florida, USA. Today, it is best known for the racially driven attack on African Americans by whites in January 1923, known as the Rosewood massacre. The town was abandoned during the massacre. It had been a "whistle stop" on the Seaboard Air Line Railway, located on the north side of State Road 24 half a mile east of the intersection with Levy County Road 345.
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My colleagues have actually been pretty great. They've said, "Look, you've always been an independent voice," and those who were with me held with me. I have [heard] a fair amount of disappointment from people who said, "Hey, I think you're the future of the party and it's kind of sad to see you go." You never want to disappoint someone, but no one's really questioned why I did it.
What about former governor and San Diego mayor Pete Wilson? You once worked for him and he has supported you for mayor.
His public comment reflected his private comment, which is he wished I hadn't done it. He would have preferred me to stay in the party and try to change it from within. But he respects the decision and still supports me.
The San Diego mayor's race isn't partisan.
But this race unfortunately has become increasingly partisan, and that helped precipitate [my decision]. I was watching what is supposed to be a nonpartisan race get hijacked by the extremists in each party.
You didn't get the GOP endorsements. Would you have switched your registration if you had?
Who knows? We could play a never-ending game of hypotheticals. This is something I've struggled with for a long time. You can only be told so many times that to have successful politics you have to learn how to play the game before it suddenly clicks: My goal in life is not successful partisan politics. My goal is to do good things.
Sacramento wasn't always like that.
Yes, I've talked to some of the old legislators.
There are always [partisan] differences, and there should be differences. But there also has to be a recognition that we actually have to put teachers in the classroom and we actually have to build bridges. The level of personal vitriol is [now] so much higher. The notion that we may disagree but we still respect each other's positions appears to have eroded.
I think part of it'll change with open primaries, which I fully supported [and] took tremendous grief from the party over. Redistricting, where you only had safe seats, combined with term limits, where people didn't build these relationships with each other — I think those factors all combined.
Tip O'Neill [said] all politics is local. I'd say all politics is personal. It's those relationships you build. If your kids have played together and you've gone to dinner together, you see them in a different light. You don't see them as the enemy. You have a willingness to sit down and say, how can we figure this out?
In the novel "Atlas Shrugged," someone asks a character whether he's the last of the advocates of reason, and he says, "Or the first of their return." Are you the last of the moderate Republicans, or the first of their return?
History will tell. I don't know. I'm not on a quest to create an independent party that's going to nominate a president. For San Diego, it's what's needed to move our city forward. I hope it has an impact on others who want to do what I did. If I have [electoral] success, they will feel more emboldened to follow their conscience, because right now there's a real fear and reluctance to ever break from the party, to ever have a negative score card.
San Diego County's GOP chairman excoriated you for political pandering, saying your running as an independent is about as credible as Rick Santorum running on the Green Party ticket.
On a number of [issues] I took tremendous grief, but I did what I thought was right. Take "don't ask, don't tell." I had fought in a war. I had been in combat. I didn't think that policy made sense. Part of being a Marine says "honor, courage and commitment." We're asking you to buy into a set of core values, including honor. But then we have a policy asking you not to admit who you are. They're incompatible. OK, that's going to get me in trouble with the party, with some socially conservative groups. I can't go against what I believe is right. Party loyalty often demands that, and I'm not willing to do that.
How did your time in service shape your politics?
If I hadn't gone to war and I'd just run for office, maybe I would feel more traditional. I just know my threshold for these kinds of silly things we do is pretty low. Someone says you can't do that because the party insider says so, and I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to lose any sleep over that. In the Marine Corps, you're given a mission, you just get it done. When you bring that into politics, like the tax reform Gov. Brown and I [tried], you just keep going and get it done.
Didn't you take the "no new taxes, ever" Republican pledge?
I did. I don't believe that you build a better economy by raising taxes, but I do believe we can have rational conversations like I did with Gov. Brown.
Will you stick to that pledge? I'm sure a lot of Democrats are thinking, hey, Nathan Fletcher's our new best friend.
I don't support the governor's [ballot initiative tax] plan. I don't think it solves the long-term problems. But as I demonstrated, I'm willing to work on bigger, broader issues [of] the tax code.
One GOP strategist said you've now essentially taken yourself off the list to run for Congress or Senate.
Probably. But a lot of people have ascribed a lot of ambitions on me I've never aspired to myself. I really want to be a mayor. I think it's a job I'm well suited for. San Diego — we have amazing potential. We've had an awful decade. We were cast as "Enron by the Sea." I believe we can enter a rebuilding phase.
You worked for a time for former Rep. Randy Cunningham, who went to prison for bribery.
I was in the office a few months before I went to Iraq and to Africa. It was a very short stint before any of his problems erupted. I didn't know him; I'd only been around him a handful of times.
Your wife, Mindy Tucker, worked for George W. Bush and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. She too became a decline-to-state voter. Was it a mutual epiphany?
We've lived through my time in the Legislature. She cites the tax deal with Gov. Brown: We were going to cut taxes on Californians in exchange for closing a loophole [the loophole benefited out-of-state corporations], taking that money to provide relief for small businesses, trying to keep middle-class jobs. When we got hit really hard on that, she was, "What have both parties come to?" We reflected on it a lot. We both kind of got there together.
When I told one colleague who I was interviewing, he said, "Oh, Nathan Fletcher, the famous surfer!" That's not you.
I am a surfer, but if you watch me surf, you'll realize I'm not him. I got invited to go surf with the Wounded Warriors program in San Diego. I show up and this guy with one leg — I think he was a Marine — said, "Who are you?" I said, "Nathan Fletcher," and he said, "I have a picture of Nathan Fletcher, and you're not him."
I said, "I'm the assemblyman running for mayor," and he said, "A politician? I climbed all the way out of my house on one freaking leg to surf with a politician?"
He was fine, but it was pretty funny.
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By Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com | March 25, 2008 6:00 AM
Six of the 10 make their living from the mound, with four of those entering their first full season in the Class A Advanced league. Throw in a few interesting bats and a managerial merry-go-round and we've got ourselves a pretty interesting list.
The list might be more notable for the bats not present. Matt LaPorta, the Brewers' first-round pick last June, will make his full-season debut with Huntsville and Travis Snider, the Blue Jays' top prospect, is jumping from the Midwest League up to the Double-A Eastern League to start the year.
1. Adrian Cardenas, 2B
Clearwater Threshers (Philadelphia)
All the supplemental first-round pick from the 2006 draft did in his first full season was hit close to .300, show some developing power with 41 extra-base hits, steal 20 bases and get named to both the South Atlantic League All-Star Game and Futures Game in San Francisco. What could he possibly do for an encore? We'll find out in Clearwater, at least for part of the year. The second baseman has a bat advanced enough that he could find himself up with Double-A Reading at age 20 before too long.
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Vero Beach Rays (Tampa Bay)
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6. Joe Savery, LHP
Clearwater Threshers (Philadelphia)
A two-way player at Rice who had a busy pro debut (New York-Penn League and Arizona Fall League), this will be his first full season as a pitcher-only. After spending an offseason concentrating on that -- and with even more time separating him from past shoulder surgery -- it should be interesting to see how quickly he moves through the system. If you're curious, head to Clearwater. If you can't do that, check out (warning, shameless plug coming) his journal exclusively here on MiLB.com.
7. Razor Shines, MGR
Clearwater Threshers (Philadelphia)
There are a number of new skippers in the FSL this year. Jim Morrison goes from the Columbus Catfish, who he piloted to the South Atlantic League crown last year, to the Vero Beach Rays. Jeff Smith is the new manager for the Fort Myers Miracle after two seasons in Beloit. Mike Guerrero moves up one notch in the Brewers system, from West Virginia to Brevard County. Andy Barkett makes the leap from short-season Oneonta to take over in Lakeland's dugout. Brandon Hyde comes down from Double-A Carolina to skipper Jupiter this season. Tim Teufel is back in St. Lucie after sitting in Savannah's dugout. He'd been St. Lucie's skipper in 2004 and '05.
But we thought it necessary to highlight Shines and not because his nomenclature adorns one of the brackets in our Minors Moniker Madness contest. He was the White Sox third-base coach last year and has had considerable success as a Minor League manager, winning a Carolina League title in 2003, a Southern League Manager of the Year award in 2005 and guiding his team to the International League playoffs in 2006. This guy knows how to win and to develop players, which should be good news to Phillies phans.
8. Drew Stubbs, OF
Sarasota Reds (Cincinnati)
Want to see a guy who really can go get 'em in center? Then Stubbs might be your guy. Even though he was banged up last year, he still managed to swipe 23 bases. When healthy, that should improve. He's got raw power to spare and even the larger parks in the FSL won't hold him if he starts to realize his potential in that area. He does swing and miss quite a bit, though he'll also draw some walks along the way. Even more encouraging for Sarasota fans is that he raised his batting average 33 points in the second half of last season and made some adjustments that enabled him to cut down that K rate quite a bit. If that's a springboard, Reds fans could be in for quite a treat.
9. Graham Taylor, LHP
Jupiter Hammerheads (Florida)
The Marlins get all this attention because of their gaggles of young uber-arms. There will be all these first-rounders in the Carolina rotation (Hammerheads fans got to experience that in 2007). A step behind those "big names," somewhat in the shadows, is the guy who won organization pitcher of the year honors last year while pitching in Greensboro. All he did was win the system's pitching Triple Crown (though he tied for the lead in wins). He was gassed by the time he got to Jupiter late last year and folks there didn't see him at his best. He won't light up a radar gun, but if you want to see a clinic on how to pitch -- Taylor walked 23 in 174 1/3 total innings last year -- then go see him on the bump.
10. Tony Thomas, 2B
Daytona Cubs (Chicago)
A good college hitter does not always a successful pro make, but when Thomas hit .430 in his final year at Florida State, you knew someone would give him a shot. That someone was the Cubs, who took him in the third-round last June. He rewarded the organization by hitting .308 and stealing 28 bases for short-season Boise. He's been working on his base-stealing even more this spring and could be quite a force as an exciting table-setter atop that Daytona lineup.
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Cubs announce 2013 Minor League managers and staff
CHICAGO – The Chicago Cubs today announced their minor league managers and coaching staffs for the 2013 season.
Marty Pevey will manage Triple-A Iowa while Dave Keller takes the helm of Single-A Daytona following a stint as Iowa's hitting coach in 2012.
CHICAGO – The Chicago Cubs today announced their minor league managers and coaching staffs for the 2013 season.
Marty Pevey will manage Triple-A Iowa while Dave Keller takes the helm of Single-A Daytona following a stint as Iowa's hitting coach in 2012.
Here's a look at the Cubs minor league coaching staffs. Managers/staff returning to the organization but assigned to new positions next year are listed below in bold, while managers/staff new to the organization are listed below in bold italics. More information on the returning members of the Cubs organization can be found on pages 191-209 of the Chicago Cubs 2012 Media Guide.
Iowa (AAA) Marty Pevey Mike Mason Brian Harper Nick Frangella Ed Kohl
Tennessee (AA) Buddy Bailey Jeff Fassero Desi Wilson Scott Barringer Ryan Clausen
Daytona (A) Dave Keller Storm Davis Mariano Duncan Peter Fagan
Kane County (A) Mark Johnson Ron Villone Tom Beyers Shane Nelson
Boise (Short A) Gary Van Tol David Rosario Bill Buckner Jonathan Fierro
Mesa (Rookie) Bobby Mitchell Anderson Tavares/ Ricardo Medina/ Steve Melendez Yi-Chiang Chang
Rick Tronerud Jimmy Gonzalez
Dominican (Rookie) Yudith Ozorio Leo Hernandez Oscar Bernard Wilkin Perez
Venezuelan Cubs Osmin Melendez Franklin Blanco
Marty Pevey will manage the Iowa Cubs in his fifth year with the Cubs organization after serving as Chicago's catching coordinator for the last three seasons. Pevey served as the Peoria Chiefs manager in 2009, his first season with the organization. Pevey has a combined 29 years of professional experience (13 years as player and 16 years as manager, coach or coordinator) and was named the 2009 Midwest League co-Manager of the Year after leading Peoria to the Western Division semifinals with an 81-57 record. Mike Mason returns for his sixth season as Iowa's pitching coach. Brian Harper will make his debut as Iowa's hitting coach after spending the last two campaigns managing Double-A Tennessee (in 2011) and Single-A Daytona (in 2012). In his first season with the Cubs organization, Harper led the Smokies to the 2011 Southern League Championship Series. Nick Frangella will begin his 10th season with the organization, and his second year as Iowa's athletic trainer, while Ed Kohl serves as the strength coach.
Buddy Bailey begins his second season as Tennessee's manager after guiding the Smokies to a 72-68 record last year. Bailey spent three years as Daytona's skipper prior to joining the Smokies, compiling a 215-196 (.523) record, including a 2011 Florida State League Championship. Next season will mark Bailey's 25th year as a manager and his eighth year with the organization. Jeff Fassero returns for his second season as Tennessee's pitching coach after handling the same duties with Single-A Peoria in 2011 and Single-A Boise in 2010. Fassero went 121-124 with a 4.11 ERA in 16 big league seasons (1991-2006). Desi Wilson, entering his sixth season with the organization, will serve as the hitting coach after handling the same duties last season at Single-A Daytona. Scott Barringer will make his Tennessee debut as the athletic trainer, while Ryan Clausen takes over strength coach duties.
Dave Keller takes over managerial duties at Daytona after serving as Iowa's hitting coach in 2012. Entering his 10th season with the organization, Keller was an assistant on the major league coaching staff in 2011. Joining Keller at Daytona will be newly hired pitching coach Storm Davis, who spent the last two seasons in the Texas organization as Single-A Hickory's pitching coach. Davis spent time as a coach for The Bolles Academy in Jacksonville, Fla., winning the Class 3A Florida State Championship in both 2009 and 2010. The former major league righthander went 113-96 with a 4.02 ERA during a 13-year major league career. Mariano Duncan begins his first season as Daytona's hitting coach after serving the last two campaigns as Tennessee's hitting coach. The 12-year major league veteran (1985-87, 1989-97) joined the Cubs in 2011 after spending the previous five seasons (2006-10) as the Los Angeles Dodgers major league first base coach. Peter Fagan returns to Daytona as the athletic trainer.
Mark Johnson will manage the Kane County Cougars after spending the past two seasons as Boise's skipper. Johnson led the Hawks to the playoffs in each of the last two seasons after enjoying a 17-year professional playing career that included 332 major league games with the White Sox (1998-2002), Athletics (2003), Brewers (2004) and Cardinals (2008). Ron Villone begins his second season with the organization and will handle pitching coach duties. Tom Beyers, who has been with the Cubs for 13 years, will take over as hitting coach. He previously served as the short-season hitting coordinator for Single-A Boise, Rookie-League Mesa and the Cubs Dominican clubs in 2012. Shane Nelson rounds out the staff as the team's athletic trainer after working with Peoria last season.
Gary Van Tol enters his first season as Boise's skipper, and brings 20 years of coaching experience. He assisted the Hawks as a volunteer coach the previous five seasons, and served as an associate scout for the organization. A veteran of the collegiate ranks, Van Tol was a coach for Gonzaga University (1991-93 and 2006-08) and the University of Portland (2003-05). He also managed at Centralia (Wash.) Community College in 1994 and at Treasure Valley Community College from 1997-2001. David Rosario returns as Boise's pitching coach for the third-straight season, as 2013 will mark his ninth-consecutive campaign as a minor league coach in the Cubs system. Bill Buckner remains the team's hitting coach after joining the club in the same position last season. Buckner enjoyed a 22-year major league playing career, playing for the Cubs from 1977-84. Jonathan Fierro begins his first season as Boise's athletic trainer.
Bobby Mitchell returns for his second season as Rookie-League Mesa's manager after spending nine seasons in the Angels organization, five as a minor league manager. Mitchell last year led the Mesa Cubs to the playoffs in his first season with the organization. Anderson Tavarez joins Mesa as its pitching coach after holding the same position with the Dominican Cubs the last six seasons. Rehab pitching coordinator duties will be handled by Rick Tronerud, in his 18th campaign with the Cubs and his 13th season with Mesa. The club will have two hitting coaches next season, Ricardo Medina and Jimmy Gonzalez. Medina has been a coach, manager or scout in the Cubs organization since 1999. Gonzalez is a former catcher who played 14 minor league seasons after he was selected in the first round by Houston in the 1991 draft. Steve Melendez, in his 28th season with the organization, returns as the club's athletic trainer for the sixth season. Melendez will be assisted by rehab strength coach Yi-Chiang Chang.
Yudith Ozorio will manage the Dominican squad, the same position he has held for the past three seasons. Leo Hernandez will serve as the pitching coach in his 18th year with the club while Oscar Bernard makes his organization debut as the club's hitting coach. Leo Perez begins his fifth season as a coach in Chicago's organization, assisting the club with catching coordinator duties. Wilkin Perez will continue as the club's athletic trainer in his third year with the organization. The Cubs will have only one Dominican team next season, and Juan Cabreja, who managed the second Dominican team last year, will serve as the Latin America Assistant Field Coordinator.
Osmin Melendez serves as the Venezuelan Cubs manager, a newly created team. He will be joined by hitting coach Franklin Blanco, who begins his seventh year with the organization.


text: Sellinger School rises in Businessweek's "Best Undergrad B-Schools" ranking March 21, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business and Management ranks No. 53 in the nation in Bloomberg Businessweek's "Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2013," up nine spots from last year. Loyola is the only Maryland school on this year's list. The Sellinger School is also ranked No. 35 for academic quality, receiving an "A" for teaching quality and an "A+" for facilities and services, and its graduates boast a median starting salary of $47,000. Businessweek generates the rankings based on data from surveys of students and employers. "Recognition in Businessweek is especially meaningful because it's based largely and directly on what students say about the value of their educational experience at Loyola," said Karyl B. Leggio, Ph.D., dean of the Sellinger School. Recently, both the accounting and finance programs within the Sellinger School's MBA program were ranked in the top 30 nationally by U.S. News and World Report. In all, 145 undergraduate business programs participated in Businessweek's ranking this year, three more than last year. In total, 27,561 students and 218 employers responded to the surveys this year. Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business ranked No. 1 for the second year in a row. The full list of ranked schools is available at http://www.businessweek.com/.


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Groundbreaking Delayed at New Minnesota Vikings Stadium
The groundbreaking for the new Minnesota Vikings stadium will not happen next month as planned.
The timetable has been revised for a November groundbreaking date, but even that is uncertain as negotiations continue between the team and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Association on lease and development agreements.
According to the Pioneer Press, MSFA on chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen says the team said it wanted to wait until a review is completed on ownerships ability to finance its share of the stadium.
That's a reference to an audit the Authority has launched following a civil court ruling in New Jersey that the Wilfs -- owners of the Vikings -- defrauded a business partner in a previous development deal.
The audit hopes to ensure ensure the team's $477 million private financial pledge will be met. The rest of the cost is being picked up by the state and city of Minneapolis.
The MSFA says agreements need to be in place by September 15th for construction to stay on track.
The current timetable calls for construction to start in November in order for the team to move in for the 2016 season.


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A former staffer for the Iowa Senate Republican Caucus has filed a civil rights complaint alleging that she was fired after reporting sexual harassment.
Kirsten Anderson filed the complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission last week. She said she was fired several weeks ago from her job as communications director for the caucus, hours after complaining about harassment from lawmakers and staffers.
Anderson gave more detail to what things were allegedly like behind closed doors while working for Senate Minority Leader Bill Dix and members of the Republican staff.
In the complaint, Anderson said that she received pay increases for her work. But she said that the workplace was a hostile environment. Anderson said she first complained several months ago and then began getting poor performances reviews.
Dix is at the top of the list of people she complains about, along with his assistant Ed Failor Jr., senior analyst Jim Friedrich and staff director Eric Johansen.
Anderson called it a "male-dominated workplace that allowed sexism and frat house chatter to flourish".
"No mother, sister or daughter should have to hear inappropriate jokes or hear about other women's body parts," said Anderson on May 20 -- three days after she was fired.
The complaint also said one day as she was leaving for lunch with her husband, a male staffer asked if she was going to have a "little tickle pickle". She says one staffer had her look at a picture of a naked woman on his computer and repeatedly made derogatory remarks about women, including female lawmakers.
The report said Dix called a meeting on Jan. 10 to address the complaints and said then he had "zero tolerance for this kind of behavior." But Anderson said that didn't put an end to the comments. She said she got fired in May after continuing to speak up about the improper behavior.
"Hopefully those inappropriate comments about body parts, and the ridicule and the inappropriate jokes will not be an issue in the future," said Anderson.
Ed Failor Jr. declined to comment on the complaint.


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This time last weekend I was attending the FIRST EVER Blogcademy in NYC. A workshop put together by some of the best blogger personalities out there: Gala, Kat and Shauna. It is designed to boost your blog into something you want it to be. Nothing forced if you love what you do but that extra effort, lots of focus and a little hard work that can make it something special, really does go a long way. The weekend was informative, bold and fun. If you ever have the chance to attend one, you should. These ladies know their stuff and it was awesome {plus the yummy-filled goodie bag, macaroons for breakfast and bubbles after it all were enough to love it - actually learning was just a bonus}. I know they will be doing more. Above all though, I found the weekend inspiring. To me, it was more about the friendships that were made and a few that I know I will keep. They also arranged for photographer guest speaker, Lisa Devlin, to spend a couple hours sharing a few secrets of her own. If you don't know her work, check her out. She is amazing and totally my style. I leave you with a few pictures I took this weekend… not too many though, I was so focused on taking in as much goodness as I could!
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Angela - Charlotte - Maree - Hayley - Juanita
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STERLING — It's Colorado's sweetest time of the year: Girl Scout Cookie time. Approximately 25 local Girl Scouts gathered at the Pawnee Lodge at Pioneer Park on Saturday evening to get geared up for cookie sales, with a Cookie Rally.
Girl Scout Cookies go on sale across the state starting Sunday, Jan. 27, through March 3. Booth sales in front of retail locations start Feb. 8.
During this weekend's Cookie Rally girls of all ages took part in a number of activities to get them ready for selling, including learning safety tips.
"Doing all the fun activities," like those at the Cookie Rally, is what Samantha Matson, 14, and Vanessa Vitacco, 9, say they like most about being a Girl Scout.
Matson has been involved in the Girl Scouts for about eight years and looks forward to the cookie sales every year.
"I just have a bunch of fun when I do it," she said. "Everybody loves them."
Vitacco and Angel Trussell, 15, both agree they're looking forward to selling cookies.
"It's fun," Trussell said.
Cookie sales are very important for the troops.
"Without the money the cookie sales gives us, we couldn't really do anything," said troop leader Dana May.
Money raised from sales is used to pay for trips and activities, as well as badges.
May also points out the cookie sales are important because they help the girls learn business skills.
Ginger Bailey, another troop leader, says there's a progression as the girls get older; they learn how important the cookie sales are and their knowledge builds.
Among the skills the girls learn are budgeting and money counting, people skills and decision-making. They also learn about goal-setting — for example, one troop's goal this year is to sell enough cookies to earn a trip to Washington, D.C.
Girl Scout alumni are shining examples of the lifelong impact of the Girl Scout Cookie Program. Today, more than two-thirds of women business owners and CEOs, and United States senators and congresswomen, were Girl Scouts. Currently, Girl Scouts boasts a 59 million alumnae base, and many of these women say they learned their early business leadership skills through selling Girl Scout Cookies.
In 1917, Girl Scouts began selling cookies, and today the program has grown into a $790 million girl-led business. In fact, last year Colorado Girl Scouts earned $2.25 million for their activities, such as going to camp, traveling domestically or internationally, completing a take action project to benefit the community, taking a Girl Scout leadership journey and/or earning a Girl Scout badge on a topic or two of interest.
This year Girl Scouts in Colorado will sell the six most popular Girl Scout Cookie varieties, including Do-si-Dos, Samoas, Savannah Smiles, Tagalongs, Thin Mints and Trefoils. All Girl Scout Cookie varieties contain zero grams of trans fat per serving and the Do-si-Dos, Savannah Smiles and Trefoils have no hydrogenated oils. Further information about Girl Scout Cookie ingredients can be found at littlebrownie.com.
Girl Scout Cookies cost $3.50 per package, and all money raised supports girls in Girl Scouts of Colorado.
This year, for the first time since the 1990s, Girl Scout Cookie packages across the country will have a new look. During Saturday's Cookie Rally the girls got to make their own 3D glasses to use while watching a video showing the new cookie box designs for this year, which emphasize the financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills taught through the Girl Scout Cookie Program.
In Colorado, the new Girl Scout packaging will be rolled-out with a mix of old and new packaging. However, regardless of the packaging, all Girl Scout Cookies purchased in 2013 will be a freshly baked product.
Girl Scouts are encouraged to "ask" family and friends to buy Girl Scout Cookies online through email, social networking (such as Facebook or Twitter) or even text messaging; however, at this time, Girl Scouts cannot collect money online for cookie purchases.
In Colorado, Girl Scouts can participate in the online Cookie Club, where they set goals, track their progress and email their family and friends to ask them to make purchases.
Making the world a better place is central to the Girl Scout mission and during the Cookie Program, Girl Scouts honor the non-profit organizations, food banks, military and uniformed personnel who are so important to our community through Girl Scouts' Hometown Heroes/Gift of Caring program. Local troops have given to teachers, military, firefighters and nurses.
Through the Hometown Heroes program, customers have the opportunity to purchase a package of cookies to donate to Girl Scouts' heroes — a perfect solution for those who would like to pass on the tempting treats. Girls learn about the invaluable work of their recipients by taking tours, learning about careers in public service and helping with service projects.
All Hometown Heroes/Gift of Caring purchases may be eligible for a tax deduction. Last year's statewide program netted 114,565 packages for hundreds of organizations.
Customers looking for cookies can use the "Cookie Locator" online or the mobile app to search for Booth Sale locations where they can make a purchase. Once customers find a location that works for them, they can add it to their calendar and/or sign up to receive email reminders about sale locations.
Visit girlscoutsofcolorado.org to get started or learn more.
It's not too late for any girl in kindergarten through high school to join in on the fun of selling cookies. There are both troop and individual opportunities. Those interested in getting involved can contact Bailey at (970) 324-4191.
Callie Jones: (970) 526-9286; firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow @Cjones_JA on Twitter.


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Disneyland Paris is facing a pricing probe amid claims it charges British tourists more than its French customers, according to a report.
The Financial Times (FT) said the theme park could face action by the European Commission, which has ordered French authorities to look into its pricing policy for visitors from different nations.
An EU assessment found British customers could be paying up to 15% more for one-day tickets, the paper said.
The FT added that for premium packages UK visitors to the park could be paying 1,870 euros (£1,327), compared with 1,346 euros (£955) for French ticketholders and 2,447 euros (£1,736) for German tourists.
EU rules allow for price differences between member countries only in certain conditions such as seasonal demand, and not based on a person's country of residence.
Disneyland Paris said its promotions were based on school holiday periods in local markets and basic packages without promotional discounts were the same across all countries.
The EU assessed prices of other theme parks in Europe and did not find the same variation, according to the newspaper.
Elzbieta Bienkowska, EU commissioner for the single market, said there had been a number of complaints which were "very significant, particularly in one or two instances".
She told the FT: "It is time to get to the bottom of this. I am interested in answers and explanations, On the face of it, I struggle to see what objective justification there could be for these practices."


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Creating Custom Modules
HEADS UP! This article was written for an older version of node. More up-to-date information may be available elsewhere.
Node implements CommonJS Modules 1.0. Node's full API doc. explains their use thoroughly, but can be a bit tricky to get started.
This tutorial explains the why and how you can use Node's module system to help structure your application.
Creating a Module
A module is just a javascript file. Put some JS in a file and BAM! you have a module. Good show!
answer = 42; // What is the question?
Um, so why is there a tutorial?
Unfortunately, you won't be able to do anything with it just yet.
var simple = require('./simplest-module-ever');
// This will throw an error!
There's a good reason, and it has to do with playing well with others. One of the biggest problems in JavaScript is name collisions. Here's an example: You get one script that makes a cool date picker and another that does a day-by-day schedule and they both define a drawCalendar() function and now it all breaks and how the heck are you going to fix it? This happens because both names are declared in what's called the global name space.
If you can't add to the global name space, then how do you share your code?
Inside your javascript file, there is a special object. When Node creates the new context for your module, it sprinkles some objects in there like a little salt and pepper. The official Global Objects API hints at the answer, but seeing is much simpler.
exports.answer = 42; // What is the question?
And now this will work the way we want.
var simple = require('./simplest-module-ever-complete');
// This will output 42
Using Parts of Modules
The basic example on the Node.JS Home Page shows you how to import whole modules.
When you want to use a port of a Module you use the require function like usual, but only save a reference to a member of the returned exports object:
var inspect = require('sys').inspect;
This creates a local variable, 'inspect' and assigns it to the 'inspect' property of the sys module.
So now you can
which is like
sys.inspect({Hello:"World"}) without having to type
sys.inspect all the time.
Normal JavaScript function binding rules apply, so if you have any weirdness that you can't figure out, just import the whole module and use it like usual until you Learn more about JavaScript Binding
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KDE's file dialogs are implemented in the kfile library, which also contains other widgets.
The classes related to the file dialog are really a file dialog construction set, i.e. the API not only contain the class KFileDialog with its conveniently usable functions to obtain file names for saving or opening, but it also offers the various single widgets that constitute the dialog for separate use.
The main view of the file dialog is a KDirOperator. It is a general browser for files and directories. How these lists and trees are actually represented is configurable by the user. All widgets possible for this are derived from the class KFileView. These are the following:
This is a combo box for selecting from a number of files and directories. It runs in one of three modes. The KURLComboBox at the top of the file dialog is in "Directories" mode, the one at the bottom in "Files" mode. Items in the popup menu are shown as URLs together with their MIME type icon. Additionally, one can add a number of default items which are shown as clear text. For example:
KURL u(QDir::homeDirPath());
QString text = i18n("Home Directory");
QPixmap pixmap = KMimeType::pixmapForURL(u, 0, KIcon::Small);
combobox->addDefaultURL(u, pixmap, text);
This is a combo box for selecting from a number of file filters or MIME types. There are two ways to populate it with items:
First, you can give a linebreak-separated list of strings of the following form:
combo->setFilter("*.cpp|Implementation files\n*.h|Header files");
This displays the clear text strings in the popup in order to select the according patterns. The other method is to give a list of MIME types:
QStringList mimeTypes;
mimeTypes << "image/png";
mimeTypes << "text/html";
Apart from the widgets used in the file dialog, there is a number of related classes (partially contained in the ksycoca library):
This is a subclass of KCompletion and specifically designed to provide automatic completions for URLs. It can operate in one of two modes: ExeCompletion completes names of executables by searching them in $PATH (if they are not given as absolute file names). FileCompletion completes generic URLs. This works even for remote addresses.
Completion support can easily be added to line edits (derived from KLineEdit) or combo boxes (derived from KComboBox):
KCompletion *completion =
new KURLCompletion(KURLCompletion::ExeCompletion);
This is a subclass of KPixmapProvider which resolves pixmaps for URLs.
Support for URL icons in combo boxes (derived from KComboBox) can be easily added:
KPixmapProver *pixmapProvider = new KURLPixmapProvider();
This is a lineedit combined with a button that invokes a file dialog. It uses the KURLCompletion class described above.
A simple dialog for letting the user input a file name or URL. It is a very thin wrapper around the KURLRequester widget. For example, this is used when you choose "Location->Open Location" in Konqueror.
The dialog shown by Konqueror when you click on a file with unknown MIME type.
The properties dialog you get when you choose the "Properties" item from Konqueror's context menu or the context menu in the file dialog. The dialog can be extended with more tabs by inserting additional KPropsDlgPlugin) widgets.
A dialog for selecting icons.
Furthermore, a number of additional IO jobs:
This computes the sum of the file sizes in a directory.
A class for finding out the free disk space on a disk.
A job for creating thumbnails for a set of files.
Initial Author: Bernd Gehrmann


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Wow, time flies...doesn't seem possible that it was over FOUR years ago that I found the BigRoad. A hearty thanks to all of you who make this site what it is; I've started an operating expenses thread in the "Suggestions" forum, please take the time to read it.
Despite roughly 10 days of down time, when the board crashed and was moved to another server, the January trivia still clocked in at a healthy 6 pages of posts. Thanks to all who participated!
DC Blues is up first this month. Let 'er fly bro.