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The enforce behavior idea is not my argument, but another's reasoning for why we shouldn't have edit. The idea being it will make people more careful. I think the lived experience of the board, sans edit, has shown that not having edit has not removed the need or desire for it.No one has suggested forcing people to edit their posts, so volition is really not an issue here. No-edit doesn't actively "enforce behavior" as you're cleverly trying to suggest, it just prohibits one behavior, namely editing.
I have never made that argument, and several well-spoken posters who use the preview feature have come out and said they *still* wish they had edit as preview doesn't get the job done completely. I agree that we need sound reasoning to back up our philosophies, but I have yet to read much of this from the anti-edit side. You have provided reasons, but I disagree with them as I have outlined below.No, but we do have to provide sound reasoning or other justification for those philosophies if we care about anyone else taking them seriously. "I don't wanna use Preview because it's boring and sometimes I forget" is, to put it mildly, less than persuasive.
By that definition, so do boogeymen exist because kidnappers and other human monsters exist. The point wasn't that revisionism hasn't or won't occur, -it is that the impact of it has been overstated and overreacted to."Boogeymen" are perceived threats that do not actually exist; historical revisionism, since it does exist (I've seen it myself) is not a boogeyman.
Why in the world wouldn't I edit my post to say, "This fuckwit edited his original post in an effort to make me look like the homophobic racist he is..."? If they can edit their posts, then so can I edit my responses.Poster1: I'm sick of all the fags and niggers at the event.
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His "diseased invective" should not be cause to limit the experience of everybody in ways that are unpopular. You'll note his diseased invective was placed here in a no-edit environment, so I am not sure how not being able to edit is saving us from such.If you're thinking that only an insignificant number of people would be so hateful, you need look no further than Captain Fuckwit's diseased invective just upthread. And relatively benign pranksters are probably in far greater abundance around here.
I disagree. There is a collective memory at work here even in an unlimited edit environment. Even if I don't catch it, others will unless it is buried deep in the history of the thread.Having no edit lays the minor burden of clicking Preview on each poster, and only at the time the post is actually being made. Allowing edit places on everyone the burden of having to re-read the entire thread...I'd call that burden considerable -- suffocating, even.
So, the worst case is that somebody goes way back in thread time to put isolated cases of your statements out of context. This is pretty difficult to do without the malefactor putting his/her own out of context except in a-historical examples concocted in policy discussion threads and without before and after conversational context. I am willing to take that risk, as the weight of all my posts make up who I am online, -not one thing in far history.
It seems to me that people don't read the back pages anyway as the number is overwhelming. Old posters know you from your accumulated cotemporal context, and new posters get to know you similarly on a going-forward basis, -not by rereading the tens of thousands of historical posts laying around here.
Limited edit is better than no edit, but I still contend that the arguments marshalled against unlimited edit amount to little in terms of community impact. Your worst case scenarios aren't nearly as bad as the cruft added to the board by people bitching about not having edit or editing in subsequent posts. This is my opinion, but I think that it is shared by quite a few.Granted, a 15 minute time limit on edits would significantly alleviate the Poster1 scenario, but once that's available people will bitch that fifteen minutes isn't nearly long enough to reformulate their thoughts, or to go back and remove their drunken ramblings from Saturday at 3AM. And they'll be right; fifteen minutes is about long enough to spot typos and make minor corrections and not much more. So if the purpose of Edit is simply to fix typos before committing one's words to posterity, what's Preview for??
To answer your question: "Preview" is a shoddy half-measure replacement for Edit.
More importantly, edit allows posters to do much more than "simply fix typos." The quoted examples on page 3 of this discussion show how edit has been used to: remove personal information about 3rd parties that should not have been put there in the first place, remove graphic information that might upset friends and relatives of somebody killed on the road home from BM, to clarify posts, to add useful and pertinent information to posts, and to satisfy the poster with what they have posted in the spirit of "you own your own words".
Could you please clarify this statement? I don't understand what you mean.Unlimited edit is a total mess, and we already have the equivalent functionality of a 15-minute edit window.


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Hack: Parallel MSBuilds from within the Visual Studio IDE
There were a number of interesting comments from my post on Faster Builds with MSBuild using Parallel Builds and Multicore CPUs.
Here's a few good ones, and some answers. First,
Is the developer that sits inside of VS all day debugging able to take advantage of the same build performance improvements?
Yes, I think. This post is about my own hack to make it work.
@Scott, there are still people using VS2005 and .Net 2.0 (our employers are either too cheap to upgrade or we work in non-profit[my case]) So it would be nice for posts like this to clearly denote that these are things only available in the 3.0/3.5+ world. Or should I just assume that .Net 2.0 is dead?
Certainly 2.0 is not dead, considering that 3.5 is still built on the the 2.0 CLR. Additionally, if you're a 2.0 shop, there's really no reason not to upgrade to VS2008 and get all the IDE improvements while still building for .NET 2.0SP1 as MSBUild supports multitargeting.
However, the underlying question here is, "why are you teasing me?" as this gentleman clearly wants faster builds on .NET 2.0. Well, this trick under VS2008 still works when building 2.0 stuff.
If you're using a Solution File (SLN) it's automatic, and if you're using custom MSBuild files, you can build .NET 2.0 stuff with the 3.5 MSBuild by putting
under a <PropertyGroup> in your C# project. Then you can use /m and get multiproc builds. Not much changes though, because either way your build output is running on CLR2.0. (.NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 use CLR2.0 underneath.) You will get some warnings if you try to use v3.0/v3.5 types.
It's true that parallel managed code compilation lags behind unmanaged.
Welcome, msbuild, to the 21st century. ;-) GNU make has the -j switch (the equivalent to /m here) _at least_ since the early-to-mid 1990's. We use its mingw port to drive Visual Studio 2003's commandline interface to build vcproj files and to handle dependencies, and since we got multi-core build machines, our build times have improved tremendously (we're talking about roughly 2,5 million SLOCs).
There's a number of reasons for that. For example, Visual Basic is compiling in the background all the time while you're typing in VS using a non-reentrant in-proc compiler. The in-proc C# compiler is the same way.
The Multicore MSBuild with VS Hack
This trick is unsupported because it hasn't been tested. Off the top of our collective head, I can't think of why it wouldn't work OK, at least if your solution is all VB/C#. Having VC projects in your solution, especially if there are project references with the VB/C# projects, would probably not work so well. That's because VC projects are not native MSBuild format in VS2008.
To start with, this is a totally obvious hack. We'll add an External Tool to Visual Studio to call MSBuild, then add some Toolbar buttons.
First, Tools | External Tools. We'll add MSBuild, pointing it to the v3.5 .NET Framework folder. Then, we'll add /m to the arguments for multi-proc and /v:m (where the v is verbosity and the m is minimal) to tone down MSBuild's chattiness. Finally, we'll check the Use Output Window box and set the initial directory to the current Solution's Directory.
Next, we'll right click on the Toolbar, and hit Customize.
Then, from the Commands tab, drag the number of the newly added External Tool (mine is #3) to the Toolbar. I also added a little Lode Runner icon to the button. Additionally, I added a Clean Solution option, just because I like it handy.
You can also re-map Ctrl-Shift-B if it makes you happy, but I used Ctrl-Shift-M, mapping it to the Tools.ExternalCommand, again, in my case it is #3.
At this point, I can now run MSBuild out-of-proc from inside Visual Studio.
What DOESN'T Work
The only thing that doesn't work for me so far is that the errors reported by MSBuild don't appear neatly parsed in the Error List. For some, this may be a deal breaker. However, the good news is that if you double click on the errors in the Output Window you WILL get taken automatically to the right file and line number which is all I personally care about. Still, sucks.
Gotchas for this Hack
If you're building against a SLN file you can use Project References or manually specified project dependencies otherwise MSBuild has no way to figure out the dependencies and you might get "file locked" or other weird concurrency errors.
Also, even if Project to Project references are set up, sometimes project authors are a bit sloppy (I've done this) and inadvertently access the same file in multiple projects, which can cause spurious file locking/access errors. If you see this behavior, turn off multiproc.
Note also that while you can do builds with MSBuild like this, if you get F5 and start a debug session the VS in-process compilers will do a quick build. It WILL figure out that it doesn't need to do anything, but it will check.
Hey, it's NOT faster for me?
If you have a small solution (<10 projects) and/or your solution is designed such that each project "lines up" in a dependency chain rather than a dependency tree, then there will be less parallelism possible.
If you're using a small number of projects, or you're using Visual Basic on small projects, which is compiling in the background anyway, you might not get big changes. Additionally, remember that we're shelling out n new instances of MSBuild, while VS compiles using the in-process versions of the languages compilers. With a small number of projects, in-proc single-core might be faster.
I've got 900 Projects and Visual Studio is Slow, what's the deal?
"Doctor, doctor, it's hurts what I do that!"
"Then don't do that"
Seriously, yes, there are limits. Personally, if you have more than 50 or so projects, it's time to break them out into sub-system SLN files, and keep the über-solution just for the build server.
The team is aware that if you have hundreds of projects in a solution VS totally breaks down. I, and many others, have made suggestions of things like a "tree of projects" where you could build from one point down, and there's ways you can simulate this with multiple-configurations, but it's kinda lame right now if you have a buttload of projects.
Here's a post I did three years ago called How do you organize your code? and I think it still mostly works today. I was using NAnt at the time, but the same concepts apply to MSBuild. Forgive me now, as I quote myself:
Every 'subsystem' has a folder, and usually (not always) a Subsystem is a bigger namespace. In this picture there's "Common" and it might have 5 projects under it. There's a peer Common.Test. Under CodeGeneration, for example, there's 14 projects. Seven are sub-projects within the CodeGeneration subsystem, and seven are the NUnit tests for each. The reason that you see Common and Common.Test at this stuff is that they are the 'highest." But the pattern follows as you traverse the depths. Each subsystem has it's own NAnt build file, and these are used by the primary default.build.
This is not only a nicer way to lay things out for the project, but also for the people on the project, most of whom are not making cross-subsystem changes.
Action Item for you, Dear Reader
If you have feedback then email the MSBuild team at msbuild@ (you know the company name) and they will listen. I warned them you might be emailing, so be nice. If you DEEPLY want multi-proc builds in the next version of Visual Studio, flood them with your (kind) requests. They are aware of ALL these issues and really want to make things better.
It's interesting as I've been at MSFT about 7 months now to realize that for something like multi-proc builds to work it involves (all) the Compiler Teams, the VS Tooling Teams, and the MSBuild folks. Each has to agree it's important and work towards the goal. Sometimes this is obvious and easy, and other times, less so.
Thanks for Dan Moseley, Cliff Hudson and Cullen Waters for their help!
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2014 Super Bowl: Seahawks extinguish Broncos' firepower, dominate in 43-8 victory
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It only took 12 seconds for the Seattle Seahawks to grab the lead with a safety in Super Bowl XLVIII. Their defense made it seem like 2-0 was insurmountable enough.
From the moment the Denver Broncos' first snap of the game flew over Peyton Manning's head, their record-setting passing and scoring offense was out of sync. Then the Seahawks' pass rushers, linebackers and all-star secondary took over to keep it that way in a dominant 43-8 victory.
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Consider the Broncos had produced the most points in NFL history (606) and Manning, the league MVP, broke the marks for both passing touchdowns (55) and yardage (5,477) during the regular season.
That didn't matter one bit to the Seahawks, who were No. 1 in scoring defense, No. 1 in total defense and No. 1 in passing defense, and played every bit like it.
Seattle came in loaded with a nasty physical identity, backed up by justified swagger. But what was on display was its superb speed, as the Seahawks flew to Manning and all around the field thwarting his talented targets.
The Seahawks built a 36-0 lead before Manning and the Broncos managed their first points of game, a touchdown followed up by a two-point conversion, at the end of the third quarter.
The Broncos were already doomed at halftime, after the second of Manning's two interceptions was returned for a field-flipping 69-yard touchdown by linebacker Malcolm Smith. Although Manning was sacked only once, the Seahawks' consistent pressure forced several "ducks," with safety Kam Chancellor picking off one, too.
With terrific coverage to back up the pass rush, they kept Manning from seeing any deep shots open up for his receivers. The Seahawks' fast and strong tackling as a team also obliterated another Broncos' strength, big plays after the catch. Denver's running game was a non-factor even before the game got out of hand.
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Even the one Broncos offensive player who had a big game, wide receiver Demaryius Thomas (a Super Bowl-record 13 catches), wasn't spared from making a big blunder in the face of Seattle's swarm. Smith came up with that takeaway, too, a lost fumble that was more gravy than anything else. There were four turnovers in all.
Given the depth of the Seahawks' defense, their excellence carried over to special teams.
Percy Harvin had the big play there, a kick return touchdown to start the second half. Quarterback Russell Wilson, with little burden to win the game in his first Super Bowl, also was super-efficient.
It was a complete victory for the Seahawks in MetLife Stadium, but it was still fueled by their endless quiver of playmakers on one side of the ball.
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Truffle popcorn
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Actualidad nacional e internacionalJul. 21, 2014
EE.UU: pérdidas por sequía en California podrían superar US$ 800 millones
(UPDATED COVERAGE, July 17) Groundwater supplies pumped from wells will make up most of the shortfall in agricultural water supplies caused by the California drought, but a new study said the drought will still cause $810 million in lost crop revenues this year.
With alarm rising, industry sources said growers in some regions are chasing water and on lengthy waiting lists for new wells.
Published by the University of California at Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, the study — "Economic Analysis of the 2014 Drought for California Agriculture," — estimated the total statewide economic costs of the drought at $2.2 billion, including the loss of 17,100 seasonal and part time jobs. Crop values of the state's fruit and nut trees will decline by $277 million because of the drought, while losses to vegetables and non-tree fruit are estimated at $47 million in 2014, according to the report.
The UC Davis study said drought is expected to decrease cropland in California by 428,000 acres in 2014. Of that total, fruit and nut trees account for 41,000 acres of the total reduction, with vegetables and non tree fruit representing 10,000 acres of idled ground. The Tulare Basin lot 24,000 acres of cropland because of the drought, the study said.
Sean Stockton, president of Sundale Vineyards & Cold Storage, Tulare, Calif., said both large growers and small growers have been hurt by the drought.
"Having no district water, we are chasing all the well water trying to make sure we have enough water to take care of our existing crops," he said July 17. Water levels of existing wells are dropping with heavy use.
Stockton said the company has been on a waiting list to get seven wells dug and many other growers are also seeking new wells, he said.
Some surface water is selling for $1,400 to $1,600 per acre-foot, compared to pre-crisis level of $40 to $60 per acre-foot.
"That's one day of watering for grapes. You divide that over what you are watering and that is scary," he said.
The surface water reduction caused by the drought, according to the report, is estimated at 6.6 million acre-feet. The increase in groundwater pumping of water was estimated 5.1 million acre-feet, leaving the net water shortage of 1.6 million acre-feet, according to the study.
Dave Puglia, senior vice president at Western Growers, Irvine, Calif., said that part of the solution to the drought is to capture more water for agriculture that is available.
"Congress has an opportunity to change the way the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta is being managed so there is better balance to flows that are required for environmental purposes on one hand and on the other hand those who rely on water exported from the Delta, farmers in the San Joaquin Valley especially and cities in the south," he said.
Hundreds of thousands of acre feet of water are lost every year that could have been stored for times of crisis , he said. Puglia said Congress is considering a measure that has the potential to restore balance in the way the Delta is managed and offer growers a more reliable water supply.
Besides crop revenue losses of $810 million, other costs include additional water pumping expenses of $454 million and $203 million in livestock and dairy revenue loss. That totals $1.5 billion in direct costs, according to the report.
About 70% of California's crop revenue losses and most of the dairy losses are expected to occur in the San Joaquin Valley, most linked to lower-value irrigated pasture and annual crops such as corn and dry beans. Coastal regions and Southern California are less affected by the 2014 drought, with the 19,000 acres expected to be fallowed and a projection of $10.1 million in lost revenue.
The report said 2015 is likely to be another dry year in California, even if the El Nino weather pattern returns.
"Additional dry years in 2015 and 2016 would cost Central Valley crop farming an estimated total of $1 billion per year," report authors Richard Howitt, Josue Medellin-Azuara, Duncan MacEwan, Jay Lund and Daniel Sumner said in the paper.
With groundwater pumped from wells expected to increase from a 31% share of agricultural water supplies last year to 53% this year, the report said failure to replenish groundwater in wet years will reduce the groundwater needed to sustain profitable permanent crops like grapes, tree fruit and nuts during California's future droughts.
Better understating of groundwater management and water markets are needed to more efficiently cope with drought conditions, according to the report.
Les Wright, Fresno County Agriculture Commissioner, said there has been a huge influx of well permits.
"What I'm hearing from industry is that the well-drillers are about eight to 10 months behind, " he said. "Even if you run out of water today, it is going to be a while before you get a well driller out there." Declining water tables are a concern. "The main concern right now is that one grower has water and he is at 100 feet but his neighbor drops his down to 300 feet; how long is his going to last?"
Wright said most growers are hoping for heavy rains this winter and that conditions will return to normal, but it takes time for aquifers to recharge.
Production of grapes this year may be hurt by the drought in terms of berry size, Stockton said. Using predominantly well water, growers have to deal more with salt and alkaline water than surface water from typical snowpack and runoff.
The big worry is for next season, he said.
"If we don't get rain in this offseason, it is going to be catastrophic for 2015," Stockton said. "There's no way around it."
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LAKEWOOD RANCH — In just one day last week, Ryan Heise's office fielded four phone calls about sprinklers running off-hours at the intersection of The Masters Avenue and Legacy Boulevard.
The Lakewood Ranch residents who called were concerned — some angry — that water would be running in the middle of the day and for no apparent reason.
But the issue is far more complex than it appears on the surface.
"It's a common complaint," said Heise, director of operations for Lakewood Ranch Town Hall. "(Residents) are seeing water, but they have to understand a number of things as to why (they are seeing water)."
Ultimately, the Southwest Florida Water Management District regulates how frequently yards in the Lakewood Ranch can be watered. And using those guidelines, Braden River Utilities has dictated the watering schedule for the residential properties and common areas in Lakewood Ranch, Heise said.
Homeowners in each neighborhood are assigned one day each week — sometime between midnight and 10 a.m. — to water their yards. The district must water specified areas between 4 p.m. and midnight on their respective days.
"Not everybody can water at once," Heise said. "They break it up so the pressure is there when it's their watering turn. We've had a lot of issues with the pressure not being there.
"We have to play by the same rules as everybody else," he said. "It's a challenge, but we try."
Complying with the schedule helps ensure each home has the appropriate amount of water pressure. Failing to do so can result in a fine for residents.
Test time
So if Lakewood Ranch's watering schedule starts after 4 p.m., then why would residents ever see sprinklers running during the middle of the day?
Simply put, if water is running off-schedule, then some sort of maintenance is occurring, Heise said.
Lakewood Ranch's district irrigation areas alone include 1,558 watering zones with an average of 25 sprinkler heads in each. That's more than 38,000 water delivery points in operation.
The landscaping contractors are responsible for ensuring each sprinkler head is operating correctly. To do so, they are allowed to test them once a week during the day after the area has been mowed.
Contractors are supposed to be on-site for the duration of testing, but sometimes they aren't. As in the scenario at The Masters Avenue and Legacy Boulevard, for example, contractors had applied a fungicide that needed to be watered in. However, the contractor had not informed Town Hall of the treatment and did not have a worker present as prescribed by its contract.
Heise said he has been working to improve communication between contractors and the district so residents aren't left wondering why water is running. But if residents do see sprinklers going off without a worker present, they should contact his office.
"There needs to be a fact-based reason for watering," Heise said.
Contractors are required to monitor watering and face financial penalties for failing to comply with requirements.
Heise also said Swiftmud has an open invitation to come and check Lakewood Ranch's controls on its irrigation system.
When it pours …
When it rains, it doesn't always pour. Heise knows the scenario well.
Having sprinklers going go off during a rain shower does raise eyebrows throughout the community and even earns a few snickers.
But, Heise said he has one shot each week to make sure the common lawn areas in Lakewood Ranch get three-fourths of an inch of water. If the plants don't get at least that much, they will die and have to be replaced — a scenario that uses more water and ultimately costs residents more money.
"The summer rains are really unpredictable," Heise said. "If you miss your watering opportunity because of a light rain event, then you are in trouble."
Most of the Ranch's district irrigation devices have rain sensors that automatically turn sprinklers off after the ground gets one-half inch of water. Until then, the sprinklers keep running. And although thousands of watering devices are controlled by a central control that allows the district staff to stop watering, about 60 are battery operated and must be turned off manually during rain showers.
Although lawn watering is restricted to one day a week, the district and homeowners are allowed to use micro-irrigation to water mulched landscaped areas at least two to three times a week at specific times, Heise said.
Because long stretches of roadway such as Lakewood Ranch Boulevard have so many different watering areas, it can appear that certain locations are watered more frequently than they actually are.
Exceptions to watering restrictions also exist for the district and homeowners. For example, when new turf is planted, watering is allowed daily for the first 15 days.
Sometimes the watering issue doesn't even involve Lakewood Ranch's operations. For example, some properties in the community — Lakewood Ranch Main Street, landscapes at commercial shopping centers and a tract outside Country Club West, to name a few — are not maintained by Lakewood Ranch's operations.
Central command
Starting in October, Lakewood Ranch signed contracts with two landscaping companies — Mainscapes and Garden Leaders — and contractually charged them for maintaining the vigor and appearance of the district's landscapes as well as tending to its roughly 38,000 water delivery points.
The change hasn't fixed every communication problem between contractors and Lakewood Ranch, but it has yielded significant improvement, especially considering each community development district used to have up to eight landscaping contractors, Heise said.
Heise also said the district is moving toward developing a central command for irrigation in which all controllers would be interfaced using the Internet. Doing so would allow operations staff to see electrical problems or failures in the irrigation system remotely.
Lakewood Ranch also is making a move toward using soil moisture sensor technology, he said.
Contact Pam McTeer at [email protected].
LAKEWOOD RANCH — In just one day last week, Ryan Heise's office fielded four phone calls about sprinklers running off-hours at the intersection of The Masters Avenue and Legacy Boulevard.


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The display allows you to see the comparison of test results between various student groups. You may select from the filters listed on the right (Grade, Subject) to refine the display. After making any selection, click "Go!" to see the information, and select student groups to compare with the checkboxes. If a subgroup has fewer than 10 students, no comparison data will be shown. This is done to protect student privacy.
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Android manufacturers, led by Samsung, held the number one spot for smartphone sales during the holidays across the world, except two key markets: the U.S. and Japan, where Apple is on top.
The latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel Comtech for the 12 weeks to December 23, 2012, show that Android maintained a stronghold in Britain, Germany, France, most European countries and Australia, with more than 50 per cent of the market share, and up to 86 per cent in spaces such as Spain. Android also has a 72.5 per cent majority in the urban Chinese market.
However, in the US and in Japan, it's Apple's iPhone that has more than 50 per cent of the market, according to the study. In the US, Android's share declined slightly to 44.2 per cent, while iOS jumped year-on-year to 51.2 per cent, a 6.3 per cent increase. In Japan iOS has even more of the market at 66.2 per cent, while Android has just over a third.
Kantar estimates that a third of all handsets bought in December were given as Christmas gifts, with the majority of recipients under 18 years old, half of whom were women. The BlackBerry 9320 was the most popular gifted handset in December, followed by the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 and Apple iPhone 4S.
Android growth slowing down
Dominic Sunnebo, global consumer insight director at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, said Android's rate of growth in the past year is beginning to slow down, as the number of first-time smartphone buyers is on the decline. "Among the handset manufacturers, Samsung has held on to the number one spot in Britain, claiming 35 per cent of smartphone sales, although Apple is now biting at its heels with 32 per cent," Sunnebo added. Overall, Samsung accounted for 43 per cent of phone sales in Europe and 27 per cent in the US.
The other players in the mobile market, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion and Microsoft, are still at the bottom of the charts, but one of them is making progress. Windows Phone is growing in Europe, particularly in Britain and Italy, with shares hitting 5.9 per cent and 13.9 per cent, respectively, up from just 2.2 per cent and 2.8 per cent a year ago.
Sunnebo explained: "It has been far slower than Microsoft would have liked, but Windows Phone is now starting to gain respectable shares in a number of key European countries. However, its performance in the Chinese and US markets remains underwhelming. As the two largest smartphone markets in the world, these remain key challenges for Microsoft to overcome during 2013."


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Thursday, October 10, 2013
PriceSmart Inc., the San Diego operator of warehouse club stores in Central America and the Caribbean region, said its sales in September increased 11 percent from the same month last year to $185.3 million.
Sales at the company's 29 outlets that have been open at least 13.5 months increased 9.1 percent compared with sales from that group in the year-ago period, the company said. There are 31 warehouse clubs now in operation.
Shares of PriceSmart, traded under the ticker PSMT on the Nasdaq exchange, closed at $95.09 at Oct. 9, down $1.65. That gave it a market capitalization of more than $2.8 billion. In the past year, the stock is up 24 percent.
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EPHRATA, Wash — After a nationwide frenzy for a life-changing chance to win a $380 million Mega Millions jackpot, the two winning tickets were sold in small Pacific Northwest towns just 125 miles apart.
Shoppers at a Safeway supermarket in Ephrata spent Wednesday wondering who bought one of the winners at the store 130 miles east of Seattle, in the middle of Washington's potato country. A stream of people were checking their tickets at the video department where lottery tickets are sold, then turning away disappointed.
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"We know as much as anyone else does," said Nathan Arlantico, 21, the video department manager. He said the store was busy with lines of potential millionaires all day Tuesday.
"It's possible I sold the winning lottery ticket," Arlantico said.
Idaho officials said someone bought the other winning ticket in the town of Post Falls, across the state line from Spokane, Wash.
"The Pacific Northwest is green today, more so than usual," said Jeff Anderson, executive director of the Idaho Lottery.
The winners have not yet stepped forward, and officials declined to identify the store where Idaho's winning ticket was sold, citing that state's security procedures.
Because of feverish sales right up to Tuesday night's drawing, the winners will share a $380 million jackpot, an increase over the previous $355 million estimate, said Scott Kinney, Washington's Lottery spokesman.
It's the second largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. Two winners, in Georgia and New Jersey, shared a $390 million Mega Millions jackpot in March 2007 that remains the nation's richest on record.
Tuesday's winning tickets are each worth $190 million paid in 26 annual installments. Each lucky winner also has the option of taking an $81 million lump sum payment, Idaho Lottery spokesman David Workman said.
The jackpot winners had to match five regular numbers plus the "Mega ball." The winning numbers were 4, 8, 15, 25 and 47, with the Mega ball number of 42.
Kevin Anderson, of Melba, Idaho, said he was among another 67 people nationwide who each won $250,000 by matching five numbers without the Mega ball. More than 5.5 million others won prizes ranging from $10,000 to $2.
"It made going to work so much easier today," Anderson told the Spokesman-Review newspaper. "I told my boss, if it'd been one more number, you would've gotten my resignation."Video: Why lottery winners can be losers (on this page)
The large jackpot fascinated people across the country, and thousands lined up to buy tickets in the 41 states and Washington, D.C., where Mega Millions is available.
In a strange twist, NBC News reported that four of the six winning numbers featured in the plot of the ABC television TV show "Lost".
Four of the six winning numbers matched those that character Hugo "Hurley" Reyes used to win a lottery on the show, only to suffer a series of spectacular misfortunes. Hurley's numbers — 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 — popped up throughout the show.
Mega Millions said 25,587 tickets matched three of the winning numbers, plus the bonus number — so anyone who played the "Lost" numbers won $150 per ticket.
Bonner reported from Boise, Idaho. Associated Press writers Phuong Le in Seattle and Oskar Garcia in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
The Associated Press and NBC News contributed to this report.


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Last night, SNL head writer and Weekend Update host Seth Meyers was a guest on Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live and received a call from a woman named Soko from New Hampshire who wanted to know what Seth's favorite part of working with Amy Poehler was.
"Amy has an incredible energy about her," Seth responded in earnest. "She's the funniest person on earth, but she makes everyone feel really funny."
After Soko responded with "Thank you so much" in an all too familiar sounding voice, Andy became suspicious. "Can I ask you a question?" he said. "Is this Amy Poehler?" And it was!
Andy and fellow guest Gayle King then went on to ask Amy whether or not she'd ever be willing to host the Oscars, to which she kept responding, tongue firmly implanted in cheek, that she "didn't want to take anything away" from Seth or Gayle by answering.
When asked what the best part of working with Seth was, she delivered the best joke of the night: "Every once in a while when I would squint, it felt like I was sitting next to Eddie Redmayne."
Love ya, girl. Prank call me any time.
Amy Poehler Prank Calls Seth Meyers' During His Guest Spot On Watch What Happens Live [Crushable]


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Some clients have a fondness for tech stocks. Others like real estate. Still others prefer to devote a considerable portion of their net worth to more personal investments: fine art, classic cars, rare vintages or jewelry. Diamond firm DeBeers reported that sales were up 26% last year—despite the fact that the company raised prices 29% in 2011.
Escalating, if sometimes volatile, prices for gold, platinum and precious stones have resulted in many collections being underinsured—or perhaps not insured at all—and you, as an advisor, need to be wary on behalf of your clients.
Even if clients haven't padded their portfolios with precious metals or investment-grade stones—the latter of which is something Janece White, vice president of Chubb Personal Insurance, says they "must be very wary of" and "willing to sit on for the long term"—heirloom pieces, or even jewelry they bought before the run-up in precious metals, could make up a significant portion of their net worth.
Making sure that such significant assets are adequately protected is more of a challenge than it used to be, as pieces that were formerly uninsured because of relatively low value may have seen substantial increases in replacement costs. With the price of gold outpacing the price of platinum, advisors should consider discussing with clients whether they have both up-to-date appraisals and adequate coverage in place.
Precious metals are not the only factor that should concern you. The prices for investment-grade stones have seen steady increases over the past several years as well. For example, a three-carat flawless diamond of D color selling in 2006 for $42,000 per carat would now fetch $99,800 per carat—an increase of 135% in six years. Says White, "One-carat diamonds are up 19%; two carats are up 15%; three are up 18% and five carats—it's a seller's market."
Even if your client isn't systematically investing in jewelry, she may be sitting on a large and underprotected cache of wealth. White points out that advisors who neglect to protect such hoards could be leaving themselves open to E&O claims in case of loss—or at least the loss of the client to a more attentive advisor. "Depending on the client," says White, "there could be a considerable amount of their net worth tied into these collections." She adds that while advisors always worry about conventional assets such as a client's home and car, they may overlook collections, which—particularly if they happen to sparkle—can turn out to be worth more than a client's home.
The obvious need is insurance, but less obvious is the need to make sure the client has the pieces inspected and repaired, if necessary. While White cites FBI statistics that in 2011, a total of $1.5 billion in jewelry and precious metals was stolen from stores and private individuals, she adds that for consumers, "most things aren't stolen, but kind of lost. One minute there was a stone in the ring, and the next minute there's not."
She says, "If [clients haven't gotten jewelry] reappraised either to get a better idea of their value and also to make sure clasps and prongs" are in good repair, advisors should prod them to do so lest pieces disappear because of broken fastenings.
The right type and amount of coverage is important. White says that a homeowner's policy or renter's insurance is inadequate for anyone who owns a good quality engagement ring. Most cover between $1,000 and $5,000 of loss, minus the deductible. "When the average cost of a diamond engagement ring last year was $5,000," she says, "if you have $5,000 in coverage and your ring was worth $6,000, you don't have enough." She adds that that's for an average one-carat engagement ring—without the wedding band. Add the band, a pair of diamond studs, Grandma's pearls or an expensive watch, and a jewelry loss will be costly.
Standalone policies and riders or floaters can cover jewelry, and items can be covered as a group with a blanket amount, or scheduled individually. The former is good for gold chains and bracelets that add up to a substantial amount, but by themselves are not very expensive. Scheduled pieces are more special.
Options are important. Says White, "Make sure that when there's a loss, you can go to your jeweler of choice" to replace the item.
Coverage that will take care of out-of-date appraisals is important, White says. And last but not least, she concludes, is choose a company for the ease of doing business. Clients will not appreciate hassles, whether the claim is for a ring that cost $5,000, $500,000, or even $1 million.


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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 27, 2013) - RSA® CONFERENCE 2013 - Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR, news, filings), the industry leader in network innovation, has been selected as the Reader Trust Award winner in the Best Cloud Computing Security and Best IPsec/SSL VPN categories of the 2013 SC Awards. Juniper Networks® vGW Virtual Gateway and Juniper Networks MAG Series Junos(R) Pulse Gateways have been chosen as two of the information security industry's most effective solutions, addressing the biggest security challenges facing organizations. The announcement was made on February 26, 2013 at the SC Awards Gala.
"We're honored to receive these awards from SC Magazine readers as further proof that our market-leading SSL VPN and cloud computing security solutions are serving our customers' needs," said Michael Callahan, vice president of product marketing, Security Business Unit, Juniper Networks.
Hundreds of vendors who offer a product for the commercial, government, educational, nonprofit or other industries entered the Reader Trust Award category. Juniper Networks vGW Virtual Gateway and Juniper Networks MAG Series Junos Pulse Gateways were selected by a panel representing a cross-section of SC Magazine readership, comprised of large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets, including financial services, health care, government, retail, education and other sectors.
"These are two of the most watched award categories, as winners have to demonstrate a combination of functionality, manageability, ease of-use and scalability, as well as exemplary customer service and support to secure the vote of our readers," said Illena Armstrong, vice president of editorial, SC Magazine. "Congratulations to Juniper Networks for representing industry leadership, not only to the SC Magazine editors but also to our readers."
The SC Awards, now in its 16th year, is the premier recognition for information-technology (IT) security professionals and products that fend off the myriad security threats in today's corporate world. The annual awards showcase the best solutions, services and professionals while recognizing achievement and technical excellence. SC Magazine distinguishes the achievements of the security professionals in the field, the innovations happening in the vendor and service provider communities and the fervent work of government, commercial and nonprofits. For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit www.scmagazineus.com/awards.
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(Pocket-lint) - Over in Vegas at CES 2012, Altec Lansing unveiled the Live 5000, a wireless speaker that builds on the success of the inAir 5000 that was unleashed back in September at IFA.
Whereas the inAir used AirPlay to wirelessly play back your tunes, the Altec Lansing Live 5000 simply uses your home's Wi-Fi connection to hook up to your audio playback devices. It is controllable from iOS, Android and desktop applications and delivers music from the web's "most popular content providers".
It uses AL's Live controller app to setup up a central playlist of your tunes. Rather than have your music sent to the cloud, it is streamed directly from each device's local library of music.
The tear-drop shape, we're told, is to provide a better sound with a more natural path for sound waves due to the non-parallel walls. There's also a tri-amp platform in place, along with neodymium tweeters, 3-inch kevlar mids and a long throw subwoofer.
"Now more than ever, there are so many different ways to experience the music we love, and it doesn't matter if it's from the cloud, from our individual libraries or even from our friends' phones," said Brendon Stead, co-president, Altec Lansing. "Whether it's for personal listening or for a party, the Live 5000 is the device that brings your music mosaic and lifestyle together in complete harmony."
The Live 5000 will cost $499.95 Stateside when it lands in the summer. We're told a UK release is coming too. You can also hook up multiple Live 5000s should you wish.
Check out our Altec Lansing inMotion Air iMW725 review
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HI All,
I've always wanted "The River Why" to be a part of Active Cinema. In this case, I hope our film inspires our audiences to take care of the rivers it so beautifully highlights.
I just received an email about Clean Water Act Protections from River Network and think it is important to share. I always figure if we don't take action, who will? Ya can't just sit around and wait for things to change. Here's an opportunity to do something that could make a difference:
Support Restoring Clean Water Act Protections for Neglected Waters
This spring, the U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers released the Draft Guidance on Identifying Waters Protected by the Clean Water Act. The draft guidance attempts to answer a very critical question — which streams, wetlands and other waters are protected under the Clean Water Act? The guidance attempts to clear up confusion and protection problems following two Supreme Court decisions which muddied the waters on the question of "jurisdiction" or which waters receive Clean Water Act protections from pollution, dredge and fill, and other harmful activities.
This is the first important step to enable the federal government to once again recognize what science and Mother Nature have known for a long time – the waters of the United States are connected. In their announcement, the Obama Administration recognized that all waters of the U.S. (including critical wetlands, small streams and streams that flow part of the year) must be protected if we are truly going to enforce the Clean Water Act.
This guidance is a very important first step but the American public and more specifically, the thousands of river and watershed groups from around the country who are working hard to protect and restore their home waters, must speak up forcefully in favor of a strong guidance document and strong rules to restore these essential protections.
Please take action today to speak out in support of the draft guidance. The guidance is out for public comment for 60 days, so it can still change for the better or for the worse! Please consider taking two actions:
1) Submit your own comments on the draft guidance.
2) If appropriate, ask the members of your organization to submit comments on the draft guidance – the more voices on this, the better!
The very best comments will include local information about how the issue of Clean Water Act coverage affects people, streams and wetlands in your watershed. More general talking points for your comments could include one or more of the following:
- Congress clearly intended to protect these critical water resources when they passed the Clean Water Act nearly 40 years ago.
- This action taken by the US. EPA and the Army Corps recognizes a simple fact – the waters of the U.S. are connected and therefore must be protected.
- Wrongheaded interpretations of two confusing U.S. Supreme Court in the last decade, have led to the loss of protections for 20 million acres of wetlands and 60% of the stream miles in the United States, effectively gutting much of the intent of the Clean Water Act.
- Wetlands act as nature's kidneys, filtering pollutants and also acting as a natural sponge to soak up excess waters during big precipitation events. Wetland losses make flood events worse, damaging property, endangering lives and impacting myriad business enterprises from agriculture to the recreational tourism industry.
- Protecting these wetlands and small stream corridors can help to reduce the impacts of floods like those that we are seeing along the Mississippi River (insert your own river/watershed if flooding is occurring in your area) this spring. Many communities have been able to reduce flooding by restoring wetlands and removing pavement along waterways and river banks. A single acre of wetland can store 1-1.5 million gallons of flood water.
- According to a report recently issued by the National Wildlife Federation, "The Upper Mississippi River Basin states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, and Missouri have each lost 85-90 percent of their wetlands and countless headwater streams." The report continues, "Just a 1 percent loss of a watershed's wetlands can increase total flood volume by almost 7 percent."
Comments are due July 1, 2011.
Submit your comments to firstname.lastname@example.com and place the Docket Number: Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– OW–2011–0409 in your subject line.
(Note: the email address in the Federal Register notice was wrong…this is the correct email! If you prefer to mail a hard copy, see the Federal Register notice at the first link below for the address and instructions.)
Read the proposed guidance and supporting material
Explore U.S. EPA's detailed repository of legal and technical information on the issue


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I got my 2 utvs and 1 spare upgraded to 3.8. I have winhex and some usb2 enclosures.
Does anyone know if you can pull the ide cable on an up and running system and use the ide cable from a usb enclosure to capture the image? I know winhex will work with ide drives, but I've never hooked up to something live.
Also, I understand there are 2 areas for the update. How can you tell which one is the one you want.
And do I need to put in an access card, and do I need to activate it (with refresh services) before the disk is unlocked, or is it unlocked with just the card?
I don't want to mess with an ide cable to a motherboard, but I'd try to get the 3.8 image if I knew this would work as I have an unused usb2 enclosure, and I'd also need the precise values to enter into winhex.


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Nick and Caroline Barlow established
Barlow Associates (now Barlow Associates Limited) in 1990 as an independent firm of Chartered Surveyors.
We are able to offer a personal, professional service for agricultural, leisure, commercial and residential work.
Building surveying services are also provided for plan drawing, particularly barn conversions and the assessment of insurance values.


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US Marine pleads to taking $150K in bribes in Iraq
Federal prosecutors in San Diego say a U.S. Marine has pleaded guilty to accepting $150,000 in bribes from contractors while stationed in Iraq.
The U.S. attorney's office says 36-year-old Staff Sgt. Gilbert Mendez pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to defraud the United States.
Mendez worked as a contracting officer at Camp Fallujah, Iraq, in 2006 and 2007.
Prosecutors say he abused the position, accepting at least $150,000 in bribes from three foreign-owned companies that subsequently received contracts worth millions of dollars.
The statement did not name the companies or say whether they would also face charges. The U.S. attorney's office did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.
Mendez is scheduled for sentencing March 1 and faces a maximum of 20 years in custody.


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Interesting facts about Hanoi
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