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There are six crewmembers:
Romain Charles
Age: 33
Country: France
Resides in: Saint Malo, France
Current employment: Engineer
Education: obtained a Master's degree in Engineering from the French Institute of Advanced Mechanics in Clermont Ferrand, France, which he attended from 1999 to 2004.
Experience: Romain Charles has been working for Sotira (part of the SORA group of companies) since 2005. He is currently a Quality Manager for the company, which produces composite panels and has undertaken Quality Engineer roles within the company for the likes of Mclaren, Aston Martin and Tesla Motors. This followed a spell as a Quality Engineer for the automotive components company Mann+Hummel following graduation in 2004. This included working on projects for Nissan.
Interests/hobbies: books and cinema, Internet, swimming, running and scuba diving. He is also an active member of Junior Chamber International.
Sukhrob Rustamovich Kamolov
Age: 39
Permanent residence: Russia, Moscow
Profession: surgeon
Education: in 1996 graduated from Russian Military-medical academy named after S.M.Kirov (Saint-Petersburg), faculty of preparation of physicians of foreign armies. In 1997 finished internship in specialty surgery. Candidate of medical sciences, in 2009 defended thesis on the theme: "Immediate and postponed results of prosthesis of aortal valve with frame xenopericardial prosthesis of "BioLAB" series".
Experience: from 1990 to 1994 studied in the treatment faculty of Tadzhikistan medical university. In 1994 he transferred to Military-medical academy named after S.M. Kirov. From 1998 he operated in the Central military hospital in Dushanbe city. He worked in border regions of Tadzhikistan with Afganistan, he has experience of work with bullet and knife wounds. Since 2001 he worked in the department of oral surgery. From 2004 to 2006 he had residency training in cardio-vascular surgery in Scientific research centre of cardio-vascular surgery named after Bakulev (Moscow). In 2006 he began post-graduate courses, finished them successfully and defended thesis in 2009. He worked in SRCCVS named after Bakulev and participated in operations on heart as the first assistant.
Scientific interests: physiology and pathophysiology of blood circulation, medical support and prophylaxis of diseases in conditions of long-term isolation
Interests/hobbies: cinema, theatre, sports
Alexey Sergevich Sitev
Age: 40
Permanent residence: Russia, Moscow region, Star City
Profession: Engineer-shipbuilder
Education: In 1996 graduated from Higher Military-naval engineering of Lenin's order college named after F.E. Dzerhzhinskiy on specialty search-rescue and diving works, building of rescue and ship-raising means and ships (Saint-Petersburg).
Experience: from 1996 he served as the teacher-commander of platoon on the Black Sea fleet (Sevastopol), where he learnt to work with all the types of diving equipment. He performed educational diving deep-water descending from the rescue ship "Epron", he trained more than 250 junior specialists of Military-naval fleet on the qualification "deep water diver". In 2004 he was transferred to MCC named after Y.A. Gagarin on the position of the leading engineer-investigator (senior diving specialist). He participated in training of ISS spacewalk astronauts in simulated weightlessness in hydro-environment. He was the head of diving training of candidates for cosmonauts and members of the testing brigade.
Scientific interests: improvement of life support systems and space operations
Interests/hobbies: tourism, photo, diving.
Alexandr Egorovich Smoleevskiy
Age: 34
Permanent residence: Russia, Moscow
Profession: military physician, physician of general practice, physiologist
Education: in 2005 graduated with honour from Military-medical Academy named after S.K. Kirov, faculty of training of physicians for Military-Air Forces and Space forces. In 2006 finished internship on specialty "physician of general practice".
Experience: from 2006 he was a researcher of scientific-research testing department of scientific-research testing centre of aviation, space medicine and military ergonomics (SRTC ASM and ME). He is a specialist in medical support of tests of aviation sets and items of military technics, medical devices, apparatus and facilities. He dealt with the issues of increase of tolerance of human organism to unfavourable factors of environment and conditions of activity. Since 2009 he has been the head of laboratory of psycho-physiological investigations. He investigated the problem of information interaction human-technical means.
Scientific interests: biochemistry, pharmacology, physiology.
Interests/hobbies: sports, fishing.
Diego Urbina
Age: 29
Country: Italy
Current employment: Engineer
Education: Urbina has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electronics Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, in Turin, Italy and a Master's degree in Space Studies from the International Space University, in Strasbourg, France.
Experience: Diego Urbina was a crewmember at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA in January 2010, researching the growth of tropical plants and spacesuit constraints. He was an Attitude and Orbit Control Systems researcher for the Aramis nanosatellite at the Politecnico di Torino in 2008. Following graduation, Urbina spent time as an outreach and educational activity organiser in the developing world. Prior to this he was an operations and astronaut training intern at the Neutral Buoyancy Facility of ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany from May to August 2009. Urbina participated in the 'Image Reversal In Space' (IRIS) experiment for the ISS, supporting numerous measurements for baseline data collection and testing the experiment during ESA's 50th Parabolic Flight Campaign in 2009.
Interests/hobbies: scuba diving, graphic design, drawing, fitness training and football.
Yue Wang
Age: 29
Nationality: Chinese
Resides in: Beijing, People's Republic of China
Current employment: assistant for astronauts' teacher, working on environment adaptability training and selection.
2000-05. Nanjing Medical College. Preventative Medicine.
2005-08. Astronaut Centre of China. Physiology.
2008 - now. A.C.C. SZ-7 mission (astronaut training and selection). The second batch of Chinese preliminary astronaut selection.
Interests/hobbies: basketball, football, swimming, reading.


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[Hook: Aloe Blacc]
Well I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar that's what I need
Said I need a dollar, dollar, a dollar that's what I need
And I need dollar dollar, a dollar that's what I need
And if I share with you my story would you share your dollar with me
[Verse 1]
You know what it is
Bitch it's still none other than the King
Need green just to occupy my rubberbands
Hundred grand at a time, keep it coming
When I started I was trapping
Woke up ballin like "what happened?"
It's gonna be up to the captain
Let's just smoke up in this city
Let me get 100 milli and focus on a billi
What's the muthafuckin dilly nigga? You already know
Profits at a steady flow, cheddar, paper, fetti, dough
Stay a step ahead of whatever when niggas say he go
We never should've let him go to movies, television shows
And who we foolin? He ain't stupid
His bankroll just feed his ego
No less than 7 zeroes, stimulate bitches libido
Flow crazy just like Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo
From a kilo to a yacht in Cabo
Chillin like December in Toledo
He's so hungry for the money like he's still selling dimes
Got a mil on his mind, dollar bill at a time
[Verse 2]
Ain't no vacation, working like a Jamaican, mixed with a Hatian
Several different occupations - no exaggeration
18-20 hour days while you sleeping, my money making money
Patient I ain't chasin money, 'less the conversation money
And what you saying dunny? Why you talking to me?
Hundred bound a verse, a quarter mil a show, a mil a movie
PRPS, Gucci, Louis got my head as big as Stewie's
20 mil's the answer if you ask me how Akoo is doing
Pay me now or keep it moving, no exception, no confusion
If we racing to the top, no competition, I'm a shoe-in
And you in my way, don't ruin my date
Fore I pay 100K for them to boo you off stage
I'm way up front, stop playing, don't front
Used to want dough like JAY-Z but now I'm thinking Donald Trump
Bob Johnson, Warren Buffett, fuck it, it ain't that tough
Hundred mil stacked up, dollar bills add up..
Sample of Aloe Blacc's "I Need a Dollar"
This sample was also notably popularized as the intro to the How to Make It in America HBO series.


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Last year started out well enough. It looked like it was going to be a big one for Yang Qi Han (aka Isabella Yang). She was all over the place, even appearing at the Cannes Film Festival. Then things got bad, real bad.
Everything came to a head with Isabella hanging on the side of a Beijing hotel. Then, she slit her wrists. And that was only summer.
Back in 2010, Isabella made a big splash as a "soccer girl" during the FIFA World Cup, appearing in promotional pictures. Her look—big eyes and a sharp chin—were considered the ideal for men and females alike.
But Isabella had more to offer than just a simple smile. Trained at the China Conservatory in Beijing, she was an accomplished opera singer as well as an actress.
Isabella was a hit online, too, but not for her voice. She released cosplay pic after cosplay pic, dressing as fantasy and game characters (Mai Shiranui is a cosplay favorite of late for curvy models in China and Taiwan). There seemed to be no stopping her. Then a video of her making out with a female friend at a male bordello hit the internet and soon went viral.
By summer, the rumors about Isabella mounted, including vicious ones about her visiting male prostitutes. It apparently became all too much, because on August 11, she tried to jump out of downtown Beijing window. After police were able to get her back in the hotel, she slit her wrists and was rushed to the hospital. Footage of her dangling out of a window and right after she cut her wrists made the evening news.
Much of Isabella's image was built on sexuality. Yet, when that sexuality went viral, it proved too much for her.
Her suicide attempt, thankfully, was unsuccessful.
Things were relatively quiet until December, when she wrote on her online profile, "I'm back", heralding a return of sorts—or at least, some sort of stability. A new batch of photos followed, with Isabella in a bed or roses. She seemed like she was finding her way.
This January, Isabella was once again caught up in a scandal after another video—this time teaching a friend how to pleasure herself—went viral. Once again, she said she was set up by a jealous friend. In China, jaded rumors persisted that the viral videos—even the suicide attempt—were publicity stunts.
Isabella continues to release photos and gain new fans online. This spring a flutter of Japanese blogs discovered Isabella's Mai Shiranui photos, immediatley praising it as "high grade" cosplay.
Yet, behind these photos and behind Isabella, there's Yang Qi Han—a young woman with dreams of opera and acting. What thrust her into spotlight, however, was her sexuality. And sadly, it almost destroyed her.


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A few weeks ago, LA's KCRW set the gold standard for radio station apps: a streaming client with access to a huge back catalog of on-demand station content. Public Radio Player 2.0 does the same thing—for everyone.
Since the start, Public Radio Player has listed a sizable number of NPR stations across the country, all of which are listenable via live streaming. Given the countless other radio app available for the iPhone, the only real advantage to using version 1.0 was that, if you spent the time to look, you could find just about any NPR or PRI show you wanted playing somewhere.
Version 2.0 provides comprehensive station schedules to make program-hunting easier, but more importantly, provides access to the often generous back catalogs from various stations, meaning that you can get any public radio programming you want on demand, for free. It's a fairly incredible deal for NPR addicts, who'll now be able to fine-tune their daily feed of dulcet, strangely androgynous news and lifestyle coverage to perfection. [Ars]


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This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.
A private cloud enables enterprises to secure and control applications and data while providing the ability for development teams to deliver business value faster and in a frictionless manner. But while building a private cloud can transform IT, it can also be an expensive science experiment without careful planning and preparation. Here are ten considerations that will help ensure success.
1. Involve the stakeholders. Private clouds are not purely an IT project. The various business units that will be the actual users should be involved in figuring out the specifications and deliverables. A cloud changes the transactional relationship between IT and business. Both sides have to be engaged in figuring out and accepting how that relationship changes with a private cloud.
2. Consider the use cases. It goes without saying that you need to carefully consider the use cases for the private cloud. If the consumers of the cloud are not ready to exploit the self-service nature and still need IT to hold their hands in the provisioning and consumption, they are not ready for it. A good pre-condition for building a private cloud is usually a project that is signed up to use it as it is being built. However, make sure the requirements are not overly specialized for a single project so it will scale to support the rest of the enterprise.
3. Metrics are key. All of the stakeholders in the cloud project should agree on measurable metrics that will define the deliverables and the success of the project. It is often difficult to quantify the benefits of agility that companies achieve. However, establishing measurable objectives in terms of productivity gains or time -- even with the lack of dollars attached to them -- is useful when evaluating a private cloud project.
4. Avoid cloning a public cloud. Teams that set out to clone a public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCE, etc.) on premises will usually not succeed. The design, architecture and the implementation of the private cloud should be driven by the needs of the business units and their applications rather than the features available in public clouds. The public cloud is designed to serve a large number of clients and provides hundreds of services that might be useless for an enterprise. The goal should be to make sure that the necessities of the target projects are satisfied.
5. Focus on agility. Think about how the cloud can give your teams agility, and maximize this benefit when designing the cloud. The transactions between IT and the business units should be simplified and empower the users of the cloud. This empowerment should have tangible benefits in terms of the speed at which business units operate their development and/or deployment of applications.
6. Think applications and not workloads. Traditional IT projects are usually based on the requirements from the final phases of resources provisioning for a given application. In a private cloud, focusing upstream when the application is being designed and architected provides the best recipe for success in building the right cloud. The application can actually be architected to be cloud native, which can significantly improve the success probability of the private cloud project.
7. Avoid round holes and square pegs. A private cloud is a very flexible resource pool. However, not every application is a good fit. Focus on evaluating the needs of the application before migrating a traditional monolithic application to the private cloud. One rule of thumb is, if the application is running on a physical machine, it probably is not ready to be migrated to the cloud. The first applications to focus on should be able to scale on demand and handle occasional failures of random infrastructure or application components.
8. Cloud portability is essential. The future of clouds is hybrid. Every team has to consider whether they want application portability between the private cloud and the public cloud and even portability across multiple public clouds. Both the design of the private cloud and the design of the application influence whether portability can be achieved. A simple rule of thumb is that, if the application is portable across multiple public clouds, there's a high probability that it will be portable across private and public cloud.
9. Use application best practices. Development teams have to be cognizant of the best practices in developing cloud-native applications to increase the chances of success of the private cloud project. The 12-factor app guidelines are one such set of practices that help in making applications cloud-native.
10. Plan for onboarding and migration. Traditional development teams that are not used to the cloud will need assistance at various stages of development to use the private cloud. The planning and resource commitments needed for onboarding teams to the cloud should be included in the private cloud project. Migrating applications onto the private cloud is a significant effort on behalf of the development teams; it can only succeed if the development teams have factored it into their schedule.
Private cloud can be a transformative path for an enterprise. But like any transformative change, it requires significant thought, dedication and perseverance. By paying attention to the practices outlined above, enterprises can navigate the transformation to empower the business to become faster at delivering value and viewing IT as an accelerator of this transformation.
Bondalapati is responsible for driving ZeroStack's product innovation. Kiran was a founding engineer at Bromium where he architected Bromium's security solution based on radically new techniques with hardware virtualization. Earlier, at AMD, he developed fundamental underpinnings for virtualization and power management impacting a wide spectrum of computing, from data centers to laptops.
This story, "10 key considerations when building a private cloud" was originally published by Network World.
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"Are you insane?! Get out of Ms. Briggs' apartment! "
iSpy a Mean Teacher is the eighth episode of the first season of iCarly.
After watching Ms. Briggs shouting at several students that are passing by in the hallway (ending in her throwing down and stomping on an orange offered to her by one well-meaning classmate), Carly becomes inspired to do an iCarly feature on "What Mean Teachers Do When They Aren't In School."
Freddie buys a pie-shaped spy camera, with an obvious lens on the side, much to Carly and Sam's amusement. They tease him a lot about it and what's even more hilarious to them is that it came with an oversized fork. Freddie tries it out on Spencer and his new girlfriend, but they notice the lens.
Carly and Freddie sneak off to Ms. Briggs' house with the pie-cam to shoot a video of what she is doing in her free time. When a bee appears, and apparently is interested in the fake pie, Freddie panics because he is allergic to bees, and runs inside Ms. Briggs' house. Carly follows him, and they have to hide in a closet that turns out to be a shrine dedicated to Randy Jackson. They spend hours in the room and eat Randeos to pass the time. They call Sam for help and before they get ready to leave Freddie snags a bit of Randy Jackson cologne. The trio are then caught by Ms. Briggs. After Freddie trips on her bagpipes and accidentally breaks them, she scolds them and wants to suspend them and call the police. She offers to let them off the hook if she may appear on iCarly and play her bagpipes. Carly, Sam, and Freddie reluctantly agree.
When Ms. Briggs appears on iCarly, the show starts losing viewers. Even worse is that it was their biggest audience yet by far (over 500,000 viewers), but Freddie manages to save it by playing funny videos on the green screen behind her back. The next day at school, students applaud Ms. Briggs and she thinks she's getting credit for her "true musical artistry." She notices Freddie has a nice cologne on him, which turns out to be some Randy Jackson cologne he 'stole' from the room Carly and he were stuck in. This ends the episode.
- As noted in this episode, American Idol exists in the iCarly universe even though in iRocked The Vote, American Idol is parodied as America Sings.
- The green screen (a special effects mechanism) is introduced in this episode.
- This is the last time Ms. Briggs appears on-screen (but she is still mentioned a few times throughout the episodes) until the future episode, iHave My Principals, in season three.
- Freddie is said to be extremely allergic to bees in this episode.
- A few products in Ms. Briggs's shrine to Randy Jackson include a talking cut-out, Randy Jackson cologne, and Randy-Yo's cereal.
- Randy Jackson from American Idol is mentioned.
- Freddie steals Ms. Briggs' Randy Jackson cologne in this episode.
- Some of the Randy Jackson memorabilia is seen behind the Principal's desk in iHave My Principals.
- In this episode, iCarly gets more than 500,000 viewers prior to Briggs' performance. This means this episode has to take place iPromote Techfoots, which has iCarly scores more than 300,000 viewers, which is said to be a record. Although it is possible that the viewers in this episode never reached 500,000 again when they were getting their audience back.
- When Ms. Briggs stomps on the orange that the student kindly offered, we don't see any stain on Mrs. Briggs or the boy caused by it or the juice that popped out, despite the proximity.
- Ms. Briggs says she composed the bagpipes song herself but it is actually Scotland the Brave.
- In this episode, iCarly gets more than 500,000 viewers prior to Briggs' performance. This means this episode has to take place iPromote Techfoots, which has iCarly scores more than 300,000 viewers, which is said to be a record. Although it is possible that the viewers in this episode never reached 500,000 again when they were getting their audience back.
- Sam calls Ms. Briggs on her cell phone from outside the apartment, but there is no way Sam could know her phone number without first looking it up in the phone directory or online - she would not have a teacher's number in her contact list or memorized.
- Carly and Freddie could've just waited until Ms. Briggs went to sleep to escape from her house.
Freddie: Must you always attack me with words?
Sam: You want me to use rocks?
Sam: That Ms. Briggs is a joy, isn't she?<br\ \/> Carly: I wonder what she does when she's not in school.<br\ \/> Freddie: She probably spits on puppies!<br\ \/>
Freddie: Now, I'm going to show you the latest piece of technological equipment that's going to blow you guys
Carly: What is it?
Sam: You buy yourself a robot girlfriend?
Freddie: I don't need a robot girlfriend. Because in 20 years, I guarantee you, I will be Carly's second husband.
Carly: What happened to my first husband?
Freddie: Nothing you can prove.
Freddie: There is nothing boring about being able to tape Ms. Briggs with no chance of here finding out.
Carly: What did you get?
Freddie: It's a teeny video camera disguised as a piece of pie! [takes out a giant plastic piece of pie with a very conspicuous camera lens on it. Carly and Sam laugh]
Sam: Yeah, who couldn't that fool?
Freddie: It looks real.
Carly: Yeah. Like a real piece of plastic pie with a camera lens on the side!
Sam: Look, it comes with a giant fork! [holds up the fork]
Freddie: Give me that! [snatches fork back] This a quality piece of spy equipment!
Sam: My Aunt Maggie's boobs look more real than that. And they're ridiculous.
[Spencer persuades his date Connie to juggle, who starts to do so just as Freddie catches his attention with the fake pie]
Freddie: Don't mind me, I'm just a guy having some pie!
Spencer: Hey, is that one of those pie-spy video cameras?
Freddie: No it is not.
Connie: Oh yeah, they were talking about those on the Food Channel... Or was it the Spy Channel?
Spencer: You know, I think it was the Spy Channel.
Freddie: I don't know what you guys are talking about! This is just a normal piece of pie that doesn't record anything!
Spencer: But there's a big lens on the side.
Freddie: [frustrated] Oh, just forget it! [goes back upstairs]
[Carly and Freddie are spying on Ms. Briggs with the fake pie in tow at her house and decide that she is boring, so they decide to leave, but just as they turn to walk away, a bee flies around them]
Freddie: [waving his arms to shoo the bee away] Hey, go away! Get out of here!
Carly: It's just a bee.
Freddie: You don't understand; I am extremely allergic to bees! Get out of here, you stupid bee! I think he wants my pie!
Carly: That is a stupid bee.
[Freddie hands Carly the fake pie, runs, falls over, gets up and runs for the entrance to Ms. Briggs' house to flee from the bee]
Carly: Where are you going?
Freddie: I can't get stung! [he goes inside]
Carly: Are you insane?! Get out of Ms. Briggs' apartment! You can't just... [the bee continues to fly all around her as she waves her arms to get the bee to fly away] Get away! It's a fake pie! Can't you see the big lens on the side?! [she drops the pie and runs inside] IT'S A FAKE PIE!
Randy Jackson cut-out: That was hot, yo!
Carly: Oh, please be quiet, Randy Jackson.
Sam [to Spencer]: I thought you were sculpting me for the past 3 hours!<br\ \/> Spencer: Well I started off sculpting you, but then I started thinking about aquariums and...he happened! [motions to the fish sculpture]<br\ \/> Sam: Then why am I still here?<br\ \/> Spencer: I get lonely.
Sam: [sees spy pie] Aw Freddie, you're so stupid.
Ms. Briggs: Ah, your web show. iCarly. I've seen it. Nothing more than mucus in the nose of the digital age! <br\ \/> Carly: [to Sam] Did she just call our show a booger?<br\ \/>
Sam: Uh, dont go near your patio door! There's a dairy monster on the loose and you don't wanna see what... Ms. Briggs: (walks over to patio door and opens door) Busted! Now get inside! Sam: I can explain! Ms. Briggs: (sarcastically) I'm sure you can. Sam: I can!
Ms. Briggs: I might even call the police!<br\ \/> Sam: Or you could just let us run away, while you angrily shake your fist in the air and scream, "You rotten kids!"
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This volume documents the history of the press, founded in Paris in 1947; the genesis of its extraordinary facsimile productions of William Blake's illuminated works, and its wide range of fine press volumes. Julie Fawcus, the widow of Trianon's founder, Arnold Fawcus, discusses the details of the collotype and pochoir techniques which were used by French artisans to produce the facsimiles.
Fawcus's commentary includes chapters on Arnold Fawcus as "buccaneer publisher," and recollections of collaborations with Robert Graves, Marcel Duchamp, Aldous Huxley, and Ben Shahn. For students and researchers feasting their eyes on a Blake volume produced by Trianon, and who might wonder who these exquisite books came to be, Fawcus gives an insider's view of the struggles and enormous technical difficulties involved in their creation.


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Q. I'm starting a new paraprofessional reference position. While I have taken a reference course in my library science program, I'm specifically concerned about doing reference work with chat and instant messaging, which I haven't done before. I'm not a stranger to chat in any way, but I'm new to it in a professional capacity. Do you have any pointers?
A. There are several resources regarding virtual reference work, including handling reference transactions via chat and instant messaging, on our ALA Library Fact Sheet 21, Automating Libraries and Virtual Reference: A Selected Annotated Bibliography.
Newer resources on the subject include The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-Mail Environment by Diane K. Kovacs -- who will be teaching a series of Virtual Reference Competencies seminars later this year -- and the forthcoming Virtual Reference Best Practices: Tailoring Services to Your Library by M. Kathleen Kern.
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O'Shea wary of German talent
Republic of Ireland defender John O'Shea has warned his team-mates they will need to stop more than just Mesut Ozil if they are to take anything from Friday night's World Cup qualifier against Germany.
Much of the debate in Ireland this week has surrounded manager Giovanni Trapattoni's plan to deal with the mercurial Ozil, with the Italian having hinted he may consider asking one of his midfielders to take on the "impossible" task of man-marking him.
However, O'Shea knows how dangerous it could be to concentrate on one man, and said: "He is a fantastic player, but if we focus our attention too much on one of Germany's players, they have plenty of others with the quality to punish you."
He went on: "I played against [Lukas] Podolski in the first game of the [Barclays Premier League] season, so I am well aware of his qualities.
"But if I was to go through the whole team, I would be here for quite a while talking about their quality and ability. We have to be on guard for all the German players."
The Germans arrived in Dublin hot favourites to maintain their 100 per cent start to the campaign and secure automatic qualification from Group C.
Ireland's hopes of halting that procession have been dealt a succession of blows to an injury crisis which has robbed Trapattoni of defenders Richard Dunne and Sean St Ledger, midfielders Glenn Whelan and James McClean and strikers Kevin Doyle and Robbie Keane.
However, O'Shea insists a much-changed side - Seamus Coleman will make his first competitive start at right-back and there are rare opportunities in midfield for James McCarthy and Keith Fahey - can still upset the odds.
Asked if he would settle for a draw, the Sunderland defender said: "If we are going into a home game against anybody, we are confident we can win. But they are the second-ranked team in the world and we will see how the game goes.
"Sometimes when you get a draw, you are delighted, like when you score the equaliser in the last minute. On the other hand, if you score the first goal and concede in the last minute, then you are not very happy. We will wait and see, but obviously we want to win and we know how tough that will be."


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NEW YORK (AP) — Melding 2014 needs with 2016 hopes, President Barack Obama teamed up Tuesday with an ally and fundraiser of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to help the Democratic Party erase a worrisome debt.
Obama was in New York Tuesday to raise money for the Democratic National Committee at a high-dollar fundraiser at the home of Alan Patricof, the founder of a New York venture capital fund. Patricof is a longtime Clinton friend and fundraiser for her Senate and presidential campaigns, and the event aligns the Obama and Clinton orbits as the former first lady considers a White House bid in 2016.
It also illustrates the overlapping fundraising draw that Obama and Clinton represent at a crucial time for the cash-strapped DNC. And it helps bridge some internal party tensions between donors who are merely interested in presidential politics and the Democrats' needs during this year's midterm elections.
Obama also raised money for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser at the home of Hamilton "Tony" James, an Obama fundraiser and president of Blackstone, the multinational private equity firm.
Obama told donors he could accomplish much more with a cooperative Congress and complained that Washington is hindered by an "atmosphere that puts a premium on saying no."
Obama has been making the case that he will sidestep Congress and act on his own if needed. But in remarks to more than 30 donors and supporters, including New York's Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, Obama said, "man, it would be a lot easier if I had a Congress that was serious about America's future."
Obama's remarks came around the same time that Republican David Jolly won a Florida congressional seat in a race deemed a test for November's mid-term elections.
Obama conceded that Democrats also have flaws. "We have our blind spots, we have our dogmas, we have our crazy folks," he said.
"But as a whole,"he added, "this is a party that is serious about making sure that America is growing and offering opportunity to everybody."
In re-entering the Democratic fundraising scene, Patricof wrote in a February email to contributors that he and his wife, Susan, had been "relatively quiet on the political front" following Clinton's loss to Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary.
"The most effective way that we all can be helpful to Hillary, and the Democratic Party in general, is to make sure that the Democratic National Committee is as strong as possible if Hillary should decide to run in 2016 and, for that matter, if any other good candidate appears on the scene if she decides not to be in the race," Patricof wrote in the email, first reported by Politico.
About 25 people paid up to $32,400 per person — the same as for the senatorial event — for a private session with Obama. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama's talk, unlike his remarks before the senatorial campaign donors, was not public because he did not make formal remarks.
The DNC has been trying to pare millions of dollars in debt accumulated during Obama's re-election campaign; through the end of January the DNC owed more than $15 million.
Obama also made a brief stop to browse the sweaters at a midtown Gap store to show support for the chain's decision to increase wages for U.S. employees to a minimum of $10 an hour by next year. Obama wants Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10, but lawmakers have resisted.
The president's cash-raising comes amid tensions with Russia over Ukraine and a fast-approaching health care sign-up deadline that have been preoccupying the White House. It also comes as Obama is struggling with tepid approval ratings. Recent Gallup and CNN/Opinion Research polls place his job approval at 45 percent and 43 percent respectively. Over the past year, Obama's approval ratings as measured by Gallup have fluctuated between a high of 51 percent last April and 39 percent in January.
If Clinton runs and wins the party's nomination in 2016, the DNC would serve as a platform of continuity between the Obama White House and a future Clinton campaign. The DNC already has plenty of Clinton connections. Committee members include Harold Ickes and Minyon Moore, both longtime advisers to Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. One of its top fundraisers is Michael Kempner, a New Jersey public relations executive who served as co-chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 national finance committee and was a top fundraiser for Obama in 2012.
For many Clinton backers, the DNC is a natural place to offer help while the former New York senator and Cabinet member mulls her future.
"It's a clear signal that the Clinton faction of the party is seeking to help the president any way possible," said Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic strategist who advised Bill Clinton's campaigns. "Money is still the mother's milk of American politics."
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The adage is tired at this point — the tech industry is shifting to mobile, and everyone knows it.
Thing is, that still doesn't change the harsh truth for companies braving the huge, often uncomfortable transition to the mobile world after years of building a business on the Web.
That's the perfect way to describe Zynga — which reports earnings today after the bell — the social gaming company smack in the middle of a long, slow trudge toward creating a "mobile first" business. (Sound familiar? Just ask our friends over at Facebook, and the many PC makers whose market is drying up in front of their eyes as tablets and smartphones eat their lunch.)
For Zynga, the reality is that even if the company can pull it off in the long run, it's not going to be so pretty in the short term. As of Wednesday morning, the Street's consensus expects Zynga to post a loss of four cents per share on revenue of $209.8 million.
Still, some analysts remain optimistic — if not today, then for the future. "While Zynga faces a challenging transition as it looks to diversify from Facebook to Zynga.com and mobile, we think trends in core Web franchises such as FarmVille and Zynga Poker are stabilizing and the advertising segment improves from the shift toward mobile games," said J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth in a research note.
The company hinted at some strides made last quarter in the mobile space, breaking out for the first time its number of monthly active users on mobile devices. As of the last earnings report, nearly one-quarter of Zynga's roughly 300 million monthly active users play Zynga's games on mobile devices. That's about 72 million people, and not bad for a company in transition.
One other bullish area for analysts is something Zynga has pushed hard into recently: Real-money gaming. The company launched two of its titles in the United Kingdom on the first of this month, and plans to push out more in the coming year. Zynga is pretty much stuck overseas with real-money gaming for now, as current U.S. law keeps the company from letting stateside users gamble online.
Again, while that may prove another promising revenue stream eventually, it's still off in the future.
"For Zynga, any hope for real, sustainable top-line growth likely rests primarily on opportunities in on-line gambling — opportunities that are at least a year away," Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia wrote in a research note.
We'll be on the call this afternoon to see how Zynga's mobile efforts are going — perhaps the company is doing better in the short term than analysts expect. Or perhaps not.


text: Now we know what happens when the Earth slows below 55 mph and stands still: Keanu Reeves appears as an alien, politicians get trigger-happy, mankind panics and swarms of bugs appear to cleanse the planet of that ultimate parasite - humanity.The Day the Earth Stood Still has far more action and special effects than the original 1951 Robert Wise version, and its cautionary theme has been updated from the Cold War to the war on the environment. But in many ways, it's a lot like the old movie.That's good in one way: It has some old-fashioned earnestness to it, in between the effects. There's an efficiency to the storytelling. And there's a complete lack of cussing and anything at all resembling sex.If you like black-and-white sci-fi from the '50s - I'm a sucker for it - this would fit in nicely, with its scientists and politicians and military men befuddled by the alien threat.But that resemblance is also its weakness, as it indulges in the era's worst habits: clunky speechifying, moralizing and enough exposition for three movies.The film doesn't waste any time, though. After a prologue in 1928, we meet Jennifer Connelly, holding forth in a college lab. We quickly learn she's an astrobiologist (yes, she theorizes on extra-terrestrial life) and that she has a moody young stepson (Jaden Smith, Will Smith's son).Without much muss or fuss, she's pulled from her house by a convoy of black SUVs and motorcycles, then rushed to Central Park, where a huge glowing ball from outer space has landed.It's carrying an alien emissary, Klaatu, along with his giant robotic protector, Gort (who gets a military acronym that, being the funniest line in the movie, won't be spoiled here)."I'm a friend to the Earth," says Klaatu, who, after emerging from a membrane-like spacesuit, looks just like Keanu Reeves.One is not breaking new ground if one points out that, as an expressionless space alien, Reeves is perfectly cast.Klaatu is here to save the Earth, but that may or may not include that pest known as humanity. Perhaps the attractive astrobiologist and her troubled stepson can help steer him in the right direction?But those bumbling warmongers in the government - Kathy Bates is their representative - aren't going to make it easy for the human race. They'd rather shoot first than listen to what the expressionless alien has to say.There are numerous angles to the potential end of the earth, but director Scott Derrickson seems intent on ignoring most of them in favor of his cozy threesome of alien, scientist and little boy.Looking at the bright side, the movie does move briskly and is rarely boring.As far as other alien-invasion stories go, it's not as entertaining as Independence Day, as creepy as Signs or as destructive as War of the Worlds. Think of it as a mildly entertaining also-ran.We'll note, though, that it's probably best seen on Imax: Worldwide destruction looks impressive and nastier on that big screen. And the aliens here are capable of emitting a piercing scream that can bring burly commandos to their knees; you'll probably want to hear that on the superior sound system.1 hour, 43 minutes. PG-13. Sci-fi destruction.


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Citrix has added several features to its mobility management software to make it easier for mobile users to authenticate and jump into online meetings, and easier for IT groups to set up large-scale device deployments.
In XenMobile 8.6, Citrix is exploiting its integration with companion products like GoToMeeting, Citrix ShareFile, and GoToAssist, to make it easier for mobile users to work and work together.
A good example, recounted by Ahmed Datoo, vice president of Citrix's mobile platforms group, is that of another Citrix executive dialing into an online meeting while in a car. To complete the meeting connection, he had fallen back to the common shortcut of writing out the participant code number on a yellow sticky note and pasted it to his tablet. When prompted by the meeting software, he entered that number manually.
The new XenMobile release now does this for you, for both GoToMeeting and for Cisco's rival WebEx software. You launch the meeting from your calendar by pressing the "Join Meeting" button, and your device dials the number and then auto-enters the participant code. "It's a small but crucially important user experience detail," Datoo says. "Instead of remembering and doing yet one more thing, your device takes care of it for you."
A similar idea is behind XenMobile's introduction of a simple PIN, instead of a more complex traditional password, to connect to work applications or even to make a phone call. At first, the new option seems almost counter-intuitive: four or five digits instead of a hard-to-guess jumble of letters, numbers and characters, with the corporate Active Directory as the basis for authentication.
But the ATM-like PIN is used in conjunction with a digital certificate installed on the device, based on identity information from Active Directory. The certificate provides the basis of authentication; the simple PIN becomes, in effect, a second factor to confirm it, and allow access to corporate data and services. If the device is lost or stolen, XenMobile lets an IT administrator delete the certificate, either manually or via an enforced policy. Even if someone guesses the PIN, the absence of the certificate will be detected and access blocked, says Datoo.
As mobile deployments grow larger, there is a growing demand for simplifying configuration, setup and rollout. XenMobile 8.6 includes changes so that both end users and IT groups can make the enrollment and configuration process easier, and do so for several locations at once. The new release creates a "one-step" enrollment process for users, and lets them auto-configure their email settings. A new set of wizards guides them through various setup steps. At the same time, changes to the console user interface let IT groups both aggregate and segment mobile users and devices at far-flung offices.
The new release also supports a new crop of APIs in the latest platform releases from Amazon, Apple (iOS 7) and in Samsung's KNOX Android security software.
Other "enterprise mobility management" vendors include AirWatch, BoxTone, Fiberlink, Good Technology, MobileIron, SAP (its Sybase Afaria software), Sophos, SOTI, and Symantec.
XenMobile 8.6 will be available for download in November, with a choice of subscription license or permanent license on a per-user or per-device basis.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Thermoelectric devices, which can harness temperature differences to produce electricity, might be made more efficient thanks to new research on heat propagation through structures called superlattices. The new findings show, unexpectedly, that heat can travel like waves, rather than particles, through these nanostructures: materials made up of layers only a few billionths of a meter in thickness.
Heat -- the vibration of atoms and molecules in a material -- usually travels in a "random walk," which is difficult to control. The new observations show a very different pattern, called coherent flow, which is more like ripples that move across a pond in an orderly way.
This opens the possibility of new materials in which the flow of heat could be precisely tailored -- materials that could have important applications. For example, such research might lead to new ways of shedding the heat generated by electronic devices and semiconductor lasers, which hampers performance and can even destroy the devices.
The new work, by graduate student Maria Luckyanova, postdoc Jivtesh Garg and professor Gang Chen, all of MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering -- along with other students and professors at MIT, Boston University, the California Institute of Technology and Boston College -- is reported this week in the journal Science.
The study involves a nanostructured material called a superlattice: in this case, a stack of alternating thin layers of gallium arsenide and aluminum arsenide, each deposited in turn through a process called metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. Chemicals containing these elements are vaporized in a vacuum, and then deposited on a surface, their thicknesses precisely controlled through the duration of the deposition process. The resulting layers were just 12 nanometers thick -- about the thickness of a DNA molecule -- and the entire structures ranged in thickness from 24 to 216 nanometers.
Researchers had previously believed that even though such layers could be atomically perfect, there would still be enough roughness at the interfaces between the layers to scatter heat-transporting quasi-particles, called phonons, as they moved through the superlattice. In a material with many layers, such scattering effects would accumulate, it was thought, and "destroy the wave effect" of the phonons, says Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering. But this assumption had never been proved, so he and his colleagues decided to re-examine the process, he says.
Indeed, experiments by Luckyanova and computer simulations by Garg showed that while such phase-randomizing scattering takes place among high-frequency phonons, wave effects were preserved among low-frequency phonons. Chen says he was very surprised when Luckyanova came back with the first experimental data to show "that coherent conduction of heat is really happening."
Understanding the factors that control this coherence could, in turn, lead to better ways of breaking that coherence and reducing the conduction of heat, Chen says. This would be desirable in thermoelectric devices to harness unused heat energy in everything from powerplants to electronics. Such applications require materials that conduct electricity very well but conduct heat very poorly.
The work could also improve the shedding of heat, such as for the cooling of computer chips. The ability to focus and direct heat flow could lead to better thermal management for such devices. Chen says researchers don't yet know how to exert such precise control, but the new understanding could help. Understanding this wave-based mechanism "gives you more ways to manipulate the transport" of heat, he says.
The two materials used in this experiment have very similar properties, Luckyanova says, and conduct electricity very well. But by controlling the thickness and spacing of the layers, she says, "we believe we can manipulate the thermal transport," producing the kind of insulating effect needed for thermoelectric devices.
The role of interfaces between the layers of a material "is something that was not really understood," Garg says. Previous simulations had failed to include the effects of variation in surface texture on the process, he says, but "I realized there was a way to simulate the role of roughness" on the way phonons moved through the stack of layers.
The new work not only provides the possibility of controlling the flow of heat (mostly carried by phonons with short wavelengths) but also for controlling the movement of sound waves (primarily carried by longer-wavelength phonons). "It's really a sort of fundamental understanding," Chen says.
The insights that made the work possible arose in large part through interactions between researchers in different disciplines, facilitated through the Solid State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, an Energy Frontier Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, which holds regular cross-disciplinary meetings at MIT. "Those meetings provided long, fruitful discussions that really strengthened the paper," Luckyanova says. The variety of people in the group "really encouraged us to attack this problem from all sides."
The paper's co-authors include Mildred Dresselhaus, Institute Professor Emerita; Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; and several others.
Luckyanova was supported by funding from a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship.
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One of the closest races in Olympic speedskating history came down to a final lunge of the skate -- then a few more agonizing seconds to figure out who won.
Zbigniew Brodka knocked off all the favorites in the 1,500 meters Saturday, capturing Poland's first gold medal in Olympic speedskating by a mere three-thousandths of a second over Koen Verweij of the Netherlands.
Shani Davis? He wasn't even close.
Verweij skated in the final pair and powered toward the line, trying desperately to knock off Brodka's time in a race that requires both endurance and a sprinter's speed.
At first, Brodka and Verweij were shown with the same time, broken down to hundredths of a second. But the scoring system in speedskating can take times to the thousandths if necessary, and that proved to be the difference.
Brodka finished in 1 minute, 45.006 seconds. Verweij settled for silver in 1:45.009.
It was the closest 1,500 since a dead heat in 1960, but that was when times only were broken down to tenths of a second.
"I said to myself, 'These are the Olympics and I have to push right up to the line,'" the winner said. "Every thousands of a second will be counted."
Brodka, who had skated in the 17th of 20 pairs, watched anxiously from the infield as the times were calculated. He thrust his arms in the air when he saw the "1" stay beside his name -- the first major victory of his career.
When the "1" next to Verweij's name switched to a "2," he appeared to scream an expletive and shook his head in disbelief, his long blond hair flowing behind him as he glided around the track. Even during the flower ceremony, he found it hard to muster a smile, despite giving the Dutch their record-tying 13th medal of these games.
The Netherlands has five more events to blow by the mark set by East Germany's speedskating team at the 1988 Calgary Games.
Not that it made Verweij feel any better.
"Silver is losing," he said. "It is in very small things that I could have made the difference. It happened. I cannot get those thousands back."
On the podium, Brodka exchanged a few words with the silver medalist.
"I told Koen I am sorry, but this is sports," Brodka said. "There should only be one Olympic champion. Even if I would have lost, there should only be one winner."
The bronze went to Canada's Denny Morrison, his second medal in Sochi.
The 29-year-old Brodka is a firefighter and former short track skater who placed 27th in the 1,500 at the Vancouver Games four years ago. Though he had put up solid World Cup results in recent months, he had never won a major international event and there was little to indicate he would break through in Sochi.
Now, he's got the biggest prize of all.
"When I conquered Shani Davis, I realized that I might step up on the podium," Brodka said.
The 31-year-old Davis, runner-up in the 1,500 at the last two Olympics, faded badly over the final lap. The Chicago native wound up 11th in what could be the final individual event of his brilliant Olympic career.
If this was the end, it was a dismal way to go out.
Davis and the Americans were caught up in a debate over the high-tech suits they had never worn in competition, finally leading the team to hastily switch back to the suits they had worn before at the country's Olympic trials and on the World Cup circuit.
The change didn't help. Davis was 11th, nearly a full second off the winner's time. Brian Hansen of Glenview, Ill., was the top-finishing American in seventh -- matching the best performance by a U.S. speedskater at these hugely disappointing games.
"We have no medals, man. We have none," Davis said. "And the way things are looking, we might not get any. It's sad, because we've had a lot of potential, a lot of talent. It's terrible, a big, big, big disappointment."
Davis said the debate over the suits drained him mentally before he ever raced. He was essentially done after a poor showing in the 1,000, an event he had won in both Turin and Vancouver.
"I did as much as I could to get myself ready," Davis said, "but I felt defeated."
Defending Olympic champion Mark Tuitert of the Netherlands briefly claimed the top spot on the scoreboard before sinking to fifth. Russia's Denis Yuskov just missed a medal, winding up 0.15 behind Morrison's time of 1:45.22.
The other Americans also fared poorly. Joey Mantia of Ocala, finished 22nd and Jonathan Kuck of Champaign, Ill., was 37th out of 40 skaters.
POLAND'S BRODKA STUNS BIG NAMES MEN'S SPEEDSKATING: He knocks off favorites to win gold; American Shani Davis in disappointing 11th place finish
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Uh-oh! Juliette looks worried (again) on Grimm.
NBC renews Grimm, Parenthood and more!
When NBC's monster-filled crime drama moves to its new timeslot Tuesday at 10/9c, Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) is struggling with the memories of Nick (David Giuntoli) that are slowly returning to her. What's a girl who's been scratched by a poisoned cat and suffering from selective amnesia to do? Go to reliable Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), of course!
Check out this exclusive sneak peek below and see what special request Juliette has for our Blutbad friend:
Poor Monroe! Why does he always get put in the middle? Meanwhile, Nick is investigating peculiar cow mutilations and reports of strange, glowing creatures. Both mysteries seem far easier to solve than his romantic troubles with Juliette.
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With the Colts securing the first big win of the post-Peyton era, owner Jim Irsay has a special delivery to make.
Per multiple reports, Irsay is taking the game ball to coach Chuck Pagano in his hospital room.
It's a fitting ending to a memorable day in Indianapolis. Digging out of a 21-3 hole against a team that went 15-1 in 2011, the Colts pulled out a 30-27 win, moving Indy to 2-2 and giving them the kind of boost that could carry them much farther in 2012 than anyone ever imagined.


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Hainan Island Separated from Leizhou Peninsula, China20.0N 110.3E
This wide-swath ASAR image shows Hainan (below, right), the smallest province of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The name "Hainan" also refers to Hainan Island, the main island of the province. Hainan is located in the South China Sea, separated from Guangdong's Leizhou Peninsula to the north by the shallow and narrow Qiongzhou Strait. The size of Hainan Island (32,900 km2 (12,700 sq mi) constitutes 97% of the entire province. To the west of Hainan Island is the Gulf of Tonkin. Wuzhi Mountain (1,840 m) is the highest mountain on the island.


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I never thought of Matthew McConaughey as a joke, but a few years ago a lot of critics did, and he didn't do much to dissuade any of them. He was becoming a guy who appeared in movies (really bad movies) like FOOL'S GOLD. He was becoming someone whose career consisted of taking off his shirt. GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIEND'S PAST, etc.
And then, all of a sudden, he began to take himself seriously. It began quietly enough with THE LINCOLN LAWYER. Then came BERNIE, KILLER JOE, THE PAPERBOY (bad movie, but he was good in it), MAGIC MIKE and now MUD. He has, by choosing to make good movies — by going for the projects that will NOT make the most money — become a respectable actor. In fact, he is practically at the Jessica Chastain stage where, if he's in a movie, you have to give it the benefit of the doubt.
No, he's not there YET, but he's getting there.
I like this career trajectory. And you can, by the way, read my review of MUD here.
McConaughey's is rather the opposite of the career trajectory of Robert De Niro, who was a genius for about ten years, and now stars in movies like THE BIG WEDDING. You can read my review of that piece of, uh, quality entertainment here.
Here's something about THE BIG WEDDING I don't mention in my review. De Niro has a voiceover that starts the movie. If you watch the movie — and why oh why oh why oh why would you do such a thing? — notice how that voiceover sounds, for all the world, like De Niro is in a booth reciting words he is reading for the very first time.
(You can also find reviews of other fine reviews of films this week, such as PAIN AND GAIN, ARTHUR NEWMAN and IN THE HOUSE, here.)
Finally — I might as well address it — for the last few weeks, people have been coming up to me commiserating, or wanting to commiserate, about my reviews and my column appearing appearing on SFChronicle.com Folks, I have to tell you. I love the premium site. If the Chronicle thinks it can make money off my reviews and help keep my colleagues employed, I'm not only willing for that to happen. That's a privilege and an honor.
Here's the deal. If you subscribe to SFChronicle.com for $12 a month, the Sunday paper is included with your subscription. (If you actually cut coupons, that's zero dollars a month.) But $12 is three lattes, and that's assuming you're a deadbeat, like me, and don't leave a dollar tip. For $12 a month, you get the Sunday paper — which is great — AND you get access to SFChronicle.com.
The notion that all information should be free is an early 21st century notion that's going to die in the early 21st century. If you think free journalism is great, contrast the reporting that real reporters did coming out of Boston and Watertown with the garbage-in-garbage-out coming off the Internet. Reporting is a learned skill, a profession, a serious enterprise that is essential to the community and is worthy of a community's support.
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Two rhinos, a mother and a female calf, were translocated on 29 December from the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary to Manas wildlife sanctuary in western Assam, India under the Indian Rhino Vision (IRV) 2020 programme, along with WWF-India and the Assam Forest Department.
With this, the rhino population in Manas, a site inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1985, has gone up to seven. The rhino population in this national park was wiped out during a decade-long insurgency, the victim of poaching between 1989 and 1992. Uncertainty over the status of the rhino and other species led to the World Heritage Committee's decision to inscribe this site on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1992.
As wildlife knows no boundaries, these two contiguous parks have already started working on transboundary conservation. For this translocation, both rhinos were transported in truck from Pobitora under security. The rhinos have been released by a specially trained team and will be observed very closely for the next few hours. The animals have been fitted with radio collars and will be monitored continuously for the next year by the staff of Manas National Park with support from members of WWF India. They will provide regular updates and a monitoring report will be submitted in six months to the translocation core committee.
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Define R4 Midi Tower Case - White Window
- The Fractal Design Define R4 is the midi tower in the Define Series of computer cases offering minimalistic and stunning Scandinavian design.
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Define R4 Midi Tower Case - White Window
The Fractal Design Define R4 is the midi tower in the Define Series of computer cases offering minimalistic and stunning Scandinavian design fused with maximum sound reduction, configurability and functionality.
Now featuring the option to have your Define R4 case with a large fully transparent window allowing you to display your setup in style.
The acrylic window side panel features the same clean, Scandinavian design as the case itself, and has a completely flat outer surface without any plastic bezel or rivets.
Key features
- High density noise-reducing material lining acrylic window
- Patent pending ModuVent™ design allowing the user to choose between optimal silence or maximum airflow
- Top HDD cage (5 trays total) can be rotated 90 degrees or removed for additional airflow or to accommodate long graphic cards up to 430mm in length
- Three-speed fan controller is strategically integrated in the front panel and supports up to 3 fans
- Two Silent Series R2 fans included, featuring hydraulic bearings contributing to a longer life expectancy – Silent Series R2 retail fans will now come standard in all cases
- Wider case body that allows for improved cable routing behind the motherboard – now 26mm wide
- New tool-less front fan holder makes switching front fans a breeze
- Two SSDs can be mounted on the back of the motherboard plate in addition to the 8 slots in the HDD trays, for a total of 10 SSD positions available
- ATX, Micro ATX, Mini ITX motherboard compatibility
- 7 + 1 expansion slots
- 2 - 5.25" bays
- 8 - 3.5" HDD trays - all compatible with SSDs, 2 - 2.5" extra SSD positions
- 2 - ModuVent™ plates - two in the top and one in the side
- 6 - fan positions (2 Silent Series R2 fans included)
- Filtered fan slots in the front and bottom
- CPU coolers up to 170mm tall
- ATX PSUs up to 170mm deep when using the bottom fan location, when not using this fan location longer PSUs (up to 270mm deep) can be used
- Graphics cards up to 295mm in length with the top HDD cage installed
- With the top cage removed, graphics cards up to 430mm in length may be installed
- 26mm of space for cable routing behind the motherboard plate
- Thick rubber grommets on all holes on the motherboard plate
- Colour: White
- Case dimensions (WxHxD): 232 x 464 x 523mm
- Package dimensions (WxHxD): 320 x 535 x 610mm
- Net weight: 12.3 kg
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- Front: 1 - 120/140mm fan (included is a hydraulic bearing 140mm Silent Series R2 fan, 1000 RPM speed; 1 - 120/140mm fan (not included)
- Rear: 1 - 120/140mm fan (included is a hydraulic bearing 140mm Silent Series R2 fan, 1000 RPM speed)
- Top: 2 - 120/140mm fans (not included) - positions also support some models of 240mm radiators, depending on configuration
- Bottom: 1 - 120/140mm fan (not included)
- Fan controller: 1 - Integrated fan controller for up to 3 fans (included)
Front interface
- Audio I/O
- Power button with LED (blue)
- Reset button
- Fan controller (behind door)
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- Define R4 - Window computer case
- User manual
- Accessory box
Additional information
- Product code: FD-CA-DEF-R4-WH-W
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Serious Reads: My Berlin Kitchen, by Luisa Weiss
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Many readers of this blog might be familiar with The Wednesday Chef, a popular site run by Luisa Weiss. Started in 2005, the blog chronicles Weiss' experiments in the kitchen as well as important events in her life. In My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (With Recipes), Weiss introduces us to her complicated and worldly family, her struggle to find a place to call home, and a slew of delicious recipes that she made along the way.
Weiss is half-American and half-Italian, but grew up in Berlin. The central theme of this memoir is Weiss' split identities—she feels connected to her roots in all three countries. After her parents' divorce, she spent half her time in the States and half in Berlin, with occasional trips to Italy to see family. This might sound like a glamorous lifestyle—and she certainly doesn't diminish the opportunities and good fortune presented to her through such travels—but Weiss feels as though she is constantly forced to assume different personalities and roles as she travels across the world.
After attending college in Boston, Weiss tried to ease her foreigner's blues by moving to Paris. Such a romantic city would surely set her back on track, except that Paris can be a harsh city without a companion. But then she met Max. Max was a Berliner himself, studying in France. His soft eyes and high cheekbones wooed her, and they fell deeply in love. But after several months of courting, Weiss once again felt unsettled. Paris wasn't her home. She moved back to New York and left her love behind.
The years went on and Weiss built a life for herself in New York: a successful career in publishing, a growing blog, a huge appetite for trying new recipes, and a long-term boyfriend who seemed he might become her husband. She banked up vacation days to make trips to see her mother in Berlin, hoping that each flight home to New York would become easier. But they never did.
Despite the ups and downs, this story has a happy ending. Weiss' final move was back to Berlin, where she finally felt some peace enter her perpetually disheveled heart. And a brief reacquaintance with Max soon reignited their relationship.
Though My Berlin Kitchen's subtitle might suggest that Weiss' romance with her husband is the central love narrative of the book, I feel that her real infatuation is with Berlin. Despite settling temporarily in many places around the world, Weiss' only real lasting love is for her homeland. Her feelings of misplacement are honest and relatable. For anyone who's ever moved away from home, only to find that nowhere in the world is quite as special—this is a lovely (and delicious-recipe-filled) read.
About the Author: A student in Providence, Rhode Island, Leah Douglas loves learning about, talking about, reading about, and consuming food. Her work has also been featured in Rhode Island Monthly Magazine.
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With auto-show season in full swing, it's also go time for the perennial favorite method of gaining attendees' attention: the spokesmodel.
While automotive spokesmodels male and female remain as aesthetically gifted as ever, today they also tend to be well-trained, focused product specialists.
To shed some light on the subject, Autoweek's David Arnouts met up with Falken Tire spokesmodel Olivia Korte during one of her favorite stops of the year, the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas.
David Arnouts: So what's going on behind the scenes? Isn't this about more than just a pretty face?
Olivia Korte:I'm really glad you pointed that out. It's not just a pretty-face industry. That is a common misconception. There is a lot of training involved and testing to go through before we are cleared for work. Not just knowing what we sell; the girls here have a ton of information that we have to be familiar with. We know tread patterns, sizes, compounds, driver feedback and impressions, as well as knowing all the different types of motorsports our company is involved it.
We are preparing to launch a sister company of more affordable tires, so we are working on learning all that additional information as well.
On top of knowing the information we also help the marketing team by conducting market research about our customers, clients and their impression and feedback of our products.
One example is that most of the models can speak an additional language. I speak almost fluent Spanish and can also communicate in German, Italian, French and Japanese.
To be able to greet and welcome our customers in their native language is a big advantage for us and a gesture to them; it also helps get them to the right people faster.
For me, it's very rewarding to engage with people and the products. Since we have a training program on products, knowing all the information is a chance to show it off. Education is huge for us.
In light of that, as well as knowing the products, all of our girls at Falken are currently attending or have graduated from a four-year school with degrees.
I'm currently working on my bachelor's in business and marketing. And with everything I've learned in school, I can apply [it] to my job here and make [myself] a better spokesmodel.
It's a much more rewarding position compared to work like print or catalog modeling. I was doing that at 15, so transitioning to this is much better. It's essentially a marketing position, so I can use what I'm learning out here.
DA: Tell me what an average event is like?
OK:When we do an event, we travel from all over the country to go wherever needed. There are multiple teams of girls that have a yearly commitment to attend events and represent the brand at all sorts of motorsports. We are involved with off-road, drifting, motorcross, Le Mans racing.
Unlike other brands that hire local, we are brand ambassadors for the year across the board of activities.
The event is usually a three-day process. We'll fly in on a Friday and do a big team dinner that night. Then on Saturday, it's showtime.
If it's a Le Mans race, we'll get up early and spend all day handing out product promotional material, talking to customers and getting to know the people. Then we'll be supporting our team during the race.
In a drift event, we are on the podium quite a bit, so we're always up there for the champagne showers and celebrations of a win. We always celebrate with the team afterwards as well. We are all a close-knit team, much like a family. We spend so much time together, in a sense we are our own kind of family, and we support and rely on one another heavily at these events.
DA: So how did you get involved with automotive spokesmodeling?
OK:I've always loved cars, so a girlfriend of mine from high school that I worked quite a bit with was a part of Falken. And so I reached out to her and asked about the company. "Oh, I'm one of their spokesmodels; are you interested in joining the team?" she said. So I applied and came in for an interview, and the rest is history. I did a test run with them in the fall, and I've been part of the team since October 2010, this being my first full year.
DA: Since you love cars, how has working with Falken changed opinions or formed a new opinion of things automotive for you?
OK:Well, I pay a lot more attention to the details now than ever before. The fine details, like tires and tread patterns, but that's definitely from working for Falken. But I have learned so much more about racing and the sports we participate it; it's been wonderful.
DA: Do you have a favorite event when you are working?
OK:You know, for me, personally, I love drift. It's really exciting, and I love going in the cars and being on the track as part of the action with those umbrellas. But I've got to say the American Le Mans is my favorite. It's really a classy scene, and I love the racing style. It has so many different classes and the competition of the sport. Drifting is more style and performance, the ALMS is a race. I was really excited this year to see Falken take their first trophy in Ohio and then again in Baltimore. I look forward to seeing what we have in store for next year.