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A Canoeist’s Amazing Race

Rod Price prepares for a 1,200-mile test.

Rod Price has won more than 200 canoe races in 30 years.

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The Ultimate Florida Challenge is still 10 months away, but Rod Price is pumped. The prospect of a 1,200-mile canoe race will do that to you.

Actually he’s always in a state of readiness: The Orlando racer trains by competing—next month he’ll be tackling the circuitous 370-mile Cross Florida Challenge (Fernandina Beach to Cedar Key). Price practices on Lake Virginia in Winter Park twice a week with other canoeists, and works out on cardio and strength machines at a health club.  Soon he’ll start stockpiling 5-Hour Energy drink.

He’ll need every bit of stamina for the race next March—a circumnavigation of our state beginning and ending near St. Petersburg. The race includes a 40-mile overland hike in North Florida with canoe in tow. He and other racers have 30 days to complete the journey (the record is 19 days).

Racers are on their own for food and shelter, but there will be little time to eat and sleep. “You definitely want to average 18 to 20 hours a day paddling,” Price says. There also will be tides, alligators, sharks and sunburn to contend with.

He has won more than 200 races in 30 years. But asked why, at age 51, he continually pushes the limits of his endurance, Price, who owns an office supply business, talks about a different kind of victory. “If you can arrange your life to be in position to do great adventures,’’ he says, “you’ve already won.’’

Price will race with a yet-to-be-chosen partner. He is trying to raise money for Give Kids the World Village through per-mile pledges.

—Barry Glenn

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Eigg is the most easterly of a group of islands lying between Ardnamurchan and the Isle of Skye in the Scottish Hebrides. Early in the seventh century it was ruled by a pagan Pictish queen. One day she was told that Abbot Donnan, an Irishman, had founded a monastery on the island in a place where she kept her sheep.

"Let them all be killed," she said.

"That would not be a religious act," said her people.

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When the pirates burst into the monastery, on the bright night of Pascha, April 17, 617 (or 616 or 618), the Divine Liturgy was being served.

"Let us have a respite until the Liturgy is ended," said Donnan.

"Thou shalt have it," they said.

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Holy Hieromartyr Donan, pray to God for us!

By Vladimir Moss. Posted with permission.

(Sources: Calendar of Marianus Gorman; Tighernach; Martyrology of Tamhlacht; Angus the Culdee; Donald Attwater, The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, Penguin books, 1965, p. 106; David Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, p. 109; Lucy Menzies, Saint Columba of Iona, Felinfach: J.M.F. Books, 1920, p. 139; Alexander Forbes, Calendars of Scottish Saints, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1872, p. 325)

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General Development You thought Tcl/Tk stands for 'obsolete GUI'? You define the looks of Tk as 'prehistoric'? Or do you visualize ugly interfaces when reading this? I certainly do. Mats Bengtsson writes: "Tcl's windowing toolkit, Tk, has been 'known' to be ugly and outdated. With the 8.5 release last December the tile package, now named ttk (Themed Tk), is included in the core which brings true native widgets on Windows (yes, Vista too) and Mac." But what about Linux? Mats points at tileqt and the new tilegtk and notes: "Imagine that you can switch theme, and toolkits, on the fly without any program restart." Finally, he mentions progresses in both tkpath and support for WebKit. He concludes: "When all this comes together it will make Tk a very competitive toolkit."
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Beautification of amsn
by Quake on Wed 13th Aug 2008 04:53 UTC
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I always thought amsn was a great program but ugly as hell. I hope it's going to change.

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Linux Linux project lead Linus Torvalds has said it is not easy to become a major contributor to the Linux kernel. In an email interview with sister site last week, Torvalds said that, while it was relatively easy for coders and organisations to contribute small patches, the contribution of large patches, developed in isolation, could lead to both new and established contributors becoming frustrated. "The kernel is about pretty harsh technical issues, and mistakes are really frowned upon," wrote Torvalds. "In an OS kernel, there are simply more security and stability requirements, and the bar is really higher in some respects. That will inevitably also reflect in the response to patches."
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RE: What would happen....
by alucinor on Tue 19th Aug 2008 17:26 UTC in reply to "What would happen...."
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I don't think Linux would die, but I think Red Hat and Google would gain more clout as Andrew Morton works for Google, and Red Hat employs a lot of devs.

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Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y During the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Richard M. Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (and the Superfluous Introduction Award goes to...) gave a keynote speech. Said keynote speech raised a few eyebrows in the Free software community because of a number of questionable remarks regarding women in technology. David "Lefty" Schlesinger, member of the GNOME Advisory Board and active in the mobile open source community, took issue with RMS' remarks and decided to call him out on it. The response he got was... Less than satisfying.
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What's wrong with sexism?
by PrimalDK on Thu 9th Jul 2009 19:32 UTC
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This might be a somewhat controversial question to ask, but for those who haven't already reached for their flamethrowers...

By using the term "sexist", you're assuming that there is *really* no difference between men and women, an assumption which (more or less) any statistical evidence, collected within any context, at any point in time or within any period of time, will contradict.

For those who disagree, I challenge you to come up with evidence to the contrary.

So, assuming the above (no pun intended), why can RMS not crack jokes about a specific gender and tech, when

1. women can be virgins
2. you seldom hear, e.g., "Virgin John"
3. making sexual and sexist remarks is funny
4. women are under-represented in tech

Now, you may disagree with the above, but please note that it's *entirely* politically correct to joke about the male gender, at all times, in all contexts, as the mentioned George Carlin has done on numerous occasions.

It's as if women - and the men that have succumbed to the simplistic and dogmatic views of the feminists - refuse to acknowledge the fact that the rules of their dogma tend to be self-contradictory in nature:

1. women should be treated equally to men
2. you CANNOT make jokes about women and virginity
3. you CAN make jokes about men and virginity
4. you CANNOT make jokes about women and intelligence
5. you CAN make jokes about men and intelligence
6. etc. ad nausseum...

Get a grip, women of either gender. If you want equality, learn self-irony and let go of your self-importance.

Accept - as do the gays and handicapped - that joking about any subset of the human race is supposed to make you laugh, not enrage you.

Oh, and if you find someone or something offensive, get a mirror before you exercise your moral judgement.

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Gnome As most of you will know, the GNOME team is hard at work on GNOME 3.0, the first major overhaul of the platform since 2002. The release of GNOME 3.0 was originally planned for March 2010, but it has now been pushed back for six months to September 2010.
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by cypress on Wed 11th Nov 2009 13:26 UTC
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It should be 2010 not 2009.

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Legal Well, this is unexpected. The iPhone 4G saga just got a whole lot crazier - dare I say it, a whole lot more ridiculous. Have you ever reported anything like a phone or something similarly small stolen to the police? What was their reaction? Did you ever get the device back? Did they send an army of officers to get your device back? No? Odd. They raided Jason Chen's house, and took four computers and two servers. Update: And thus our true colours reveal. "The raid that San Mateo area cops conducted last week on the house of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen came at the behest of a special multi-agency task force that was commissioned to work with the computer industry to tackle high-tech crimes. And Apple Inc. sits on the task force's steering committee." Update II: According to TechCrunch, the investigation has been put on hold while the DA ponders Gizmodo's shield defence. Update III: Some legal insight from a constitutional law and first amendment expert and a law professor. The gist? The DA has said no one has been charged with anything here, making this just an investigation - however, this makes the search and seizing of material worse. "If the police are literally just gathering information, with no suspect targeted yet, then a subpoena against a journalist would have probably been smarter than a search warranted that resulted in the front door of Chen's home being bashed in."
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RE[3]: A crime is a crime
by BallmerKnowsBest on Wed 28th Apr 2010 01:29 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: A crime is a crime"
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I think the point is that the real value of the phone is that it is a secret industrial prototype.

If they don't already, trade secret protections ought to have a "stupidity exemption." If you're stupid enough to take a secret prototype to a BAR (much less leave it there), then you don't deserve an ounce of sympathy.

If it had just disappeared then Apple would have been concerned but not much more - the blogging (ie revealing the stolen industrial secret) was the bit that pushed a nuisance event into something more serious.

Except for the reports that there WERE attempts to return the phone to Apple and Apple refused to accept it (probably because they didn't want to acknowledge its authenticity).

Apple is basically acting out the "that's not my Swedish-made penis enlarging pump" gag... well, except Austin Powers didn't turn around and claim theft afterwards.

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Linux Via LWN: "Lennart Poettering has put up a lengthy post describing the 'systemd' project, which is creating a new init system. The whole thing is an interesting discussion of how system initialization should work. Upstart maintainer Scott James Remnant has posted a response to the announcement."
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RE[3]: Poedring
by obi_oni on Wed 5th May 2010 23:58 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Poedring"
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OSS4? So... you're advocating doing floating point in kernel space? Because that's what's implied with in-kernel mixing and floating point audio formats.

ALSA might have a difficult API - but from what I understand it's just good at exposing the hardware (features) that are there.

And how does OSS4 deal with user-space audio drivers like for Firewire Audio, or Bluetooth A2DP? How should it do in-kernel mixing for those?

Pulseaudio pushes the stack more - it deals with dynamic latency requests and power management and lots of other things. Things up and down the stack often made wrong assumptions, and got away with it because no software ever pushed it hard. If anything, pulseaudio forced them to confront this, and improve the quality across the board (similar to how NetworkManager forced the wireless network drivers to improve).

What you're advocating is ripping out ALSA and pushing OSS4 in the kernel upstream, right? And then you'd hope to adapt the layers above it so they have similar features than what we have now. All the while hoping that when OSS4 is pushed harder, no evolution or redesign is needed to support certain features.

You don't think this process would cause at least as much or - more likely - even more pain as what we've been through with Pulseaudio?

I don't believe so.

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Windows The rumours about Windows possibly being ported to ARM has left a lot of people bewildered; why would you port Windows NT when Windows CE 6.0 is a perfectly capable operating system? Putting all the pieces together, it's actually quite clear why you would want Windows NT on ARM: servers.
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I wouldn't be so sure about adobe, they can be a bit slow on the use of new platforms.

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Intel Apple has just updated its line of MacBook Pros. Usually, this isn't anything to get particularly excited about, but this time around, they've got a genuine treat: Thunderbolt. Apple is the first to use this new connection technology, developed at Intel and believed to be the copper version of Lightpeak. It's pretty impressive.
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RE[2]: Thunderbold licensing?
by kragil on Fri 25th Feb 2011 04:09 UTC in reply to "RE: Thunderbold licensing?"
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I don't have the time to investigate, but if mainboard manufactures have to pay Intel just a few cents for thunderbott then it will go the way of the firewire, which was a little bit more expensive than USB and so never got any real traction besides circles where 400mbit were really needed.

USB3 is cheap for manufactures and well known by the public and let's face it suffiently fast.

Bottom line: This is probably not the future.
But it is a clever replacement for the mini display port and will give iFans a thing to bragg about.

Edited 2011-02-25 04:20 UTC

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Legal Earlier this week, we were introduced to a new concept in intellectual property law: the European 'Community Design'. The Community Design is a sort of trademark on design, and sits halfway between a trademark and a patent. I decided to investigate what, exactly, the laws and regulations around Community Designs are, and what I found was shocking. Think the USPTO is bad? Wait until you learn about the Community Design.
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RE: Well that's it.
by pysiak on Thu 11th Aug 2011 11:39 UTC in reply to "Well that's it."
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Infinitesimal if you do it. A bit bigger if you discourage others. I mean bad news fly fast, don't they?

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Windows So, Microsoft developer evangelist Nuno Silva, who stated in an interview with a Portuguese website that current Windows Phone devices would be upgraded to Windows Phone 8, has officially retracted his statements about upgradeability. More fuel for the current-devices-will-not-get-WP8 fire.
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RE[2]: What happened to MS?
by sukru on Sat 21st Apr 2012 19:15 UTC in reply to "RE: What happened to MS?"
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Sorry, I need to choose my words better. I'm not saying those programs will suddenly stop working, or the devices will fall apart. But, what I mean is there are different levels of support, and "it's continue to work" is not a good enough level of support for a platform to invest in.

It's about the ecosystem. There is no single Microsoft ecosystem that will run on current systems, and will continue be supported as first class in the future.

Today, if I were to develop an Obj-C application, I can publish it on iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Macs with little modification. If I develop an android application, I can access to a market that has a great variety of phones, tablets, pmps, etc. If I develop a C++ application, the core (only the core) can go anywhere. You see the pattern, similar things can be said for Java, Python, etc.

However, today there is no good Windows ecosystem. If I were to develop in C++, i have to choose between Win32, and Metro. Win32 apps will run on older systems, including WM6.5 phones ;) , and desktop Win 8, but Metro apps will run on Windows 8 PCs, tablets, and newer phones - but not on current WP7.

If I develop in C#, I have to choose between Windows.Forms, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, and Metro. This is even worse, if you include the dependencies to 3rd party vendors for common controls - you do not want to reinvent the TreeView. Then I would be able to target a subset of, current, and/or future Windows versions, Mac, Linux, Xbox, Media Center, current WP7, or future WP8. But only a few at a time, definitely not all of them, not even a majority.

If I were to develop in HTML5/JavaScript I could have my app on Metro, and some mobile phones, but nothing else.

Why should I, as a software developer, invest any more in Microsoft technologies, if they will not support my code in future versions?

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Legal Yesterday, we were treated to another preliminary injunction on a product due to patent trolling. Over the past few years, some companies have resorted to patent trolling instead of competing on merit, using frivolous and obvious software and design patents to block competitors - even though this obviously shouldn't be legal. The fact that this is, in fact, legal, is baffling, and up until a few months ago, a regular topic here on OSNews. At some point - I stopped reporting on the matter. The reason for this is simple: I realised that intellectual property law exists outside of regular democratic processes and is, in fact, wholly and utterly totalitarian. What's the point in reporting on something we can't change via legal means?
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RE: A questions for Thom
by sydbarrett74 on Mon 2nd Jul 2012 04:51 UTC in reply to "A questions for Thom"
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If you would read the entire article, it would be evident to you that he lays out the historical evolution very nicely. Or are you merely trolling?

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Google This. This is what we need. These are the kind of steps from which we all benefit. Google has just announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge: the company promises not to sue any users, distributors, or developers of open source products based on the patents it owns (unless first attacked).
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Bad guys - Google
by ano69 on Fri 29th Mar 2013 09:39 UTC
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I'm a small company owner (we're three partners and one employee), developing a software for Android (and iOS, soon WP8 too) which has small market, but enough to be important for our company. We're not getting enough money to be rich, but we sustain a almost normal living standard. Yesterday, Google announced a feature of a competing product (the offline translation in Google Translate) which directly hits our sales. No Evil? By using their sheer market size and subsidizing (offering) a free product directly competing with (not only) ours, we're going to take a huge hit.

The problem is that Google is already big enough to threaten almost any software company in the world... And when there is no more competition, all will suffer from high prices, limited choice and stalled development. Monopoly is bad.

And on top of that, they (Google) try to present themselves as a nice guys... I can't see them as nice guys, they are destroying business with alarmingly high rate. I hope that regulators (esp. in EU) will soon take a measures to regulate their shady business practices.

I'm not fen of either Apple or Microsoft, but they are much more mature companies which (somewhat) respect more the other people's business.

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PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless

Jolla, the Finnish smartphone and Sailfish OS developer, today announced that Jolla's mobile operating system Sailfish OS has reached release 1.0 and is now ready for global distribution. Jolla is also introducing availability of the Sailfish OS experience as downloadable software to devices running Android OS.

A major milestone for the young company. The fourth big update to Sailfish OS will be released early March, at which point the operating system leaves beta and hits 1.0. This fourth update will further improve landscape supports, include visual changes, new camera functionality, and more.

On top of that, Sailfish will be made available for popular Android devices as well, so that you no longer need to buy a Jolla phone in order to use the operating system. Furthermore - and I did not see this one coming - they will release a Sailfish launcher for Android that brings some of the operating system's unique features to Android.

These men and women are on a roll.

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Best way to gain traction...
by Arawn on Fri 21st Feb 2014 14:27 UTC
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... is to release builds for Nexus devices, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 and 5. It would be a big hit if it could dual boot.

Would like to try the O.S. in my Nexus 5.

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SCO, Caldera, Unixware A declaration by SCO's backer, BayStar has revealed that the software Giant Microsoft had more links to the anti-Linux bad-boy. The declaration made by from BayStar general partner Larry Goldfarb has turned up as part of IBM's evidence to the court. Goldfarb says that Baystar had been chucking USD 50 million at SCO despite concerns that it had a high cash burn rate. He also claims that former Microsoft senior VP for corporate development and strategy Richard Emerson discussed "a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would 'backstop', or guarantee in some way, BayStar's investment". Thanks to The Inq for the summary.
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RE[3]: Groklaw?
by Milo_Hoffman on Mon 9th Oct 2006 19:40 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Groklaw?"
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translation: I am a microsoft hack and can't handle the truth

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Intel Intel demoed the world's first 32-nanometer processor today, showing it off in several test desktop and laptop configurations. There aren't any hard-set specifications or benchmarks just yet, but here's the scoop on the upcoming processors, according to Intel: The 45nm desktop and laptop processors (the Clarksfield and Lynnfield) with four cores will transitionally be replaced by dual core alternative 32nm processors (the Clarkdale and Arrandale) that also have an integrated graphics processor all with the same form factor as the 45nm chips. Two exciting side-notes: The first, Intel will be investing over $8 billion into the 32nm era (alright, so not immensely exciting, but definitely interesting, especially in this economy where money isn't shouldn't be thrown around without a mighty good cause). The second bit, according to one of Intel's charts, apparently there will be a 32nm high-end desktop processor (the Gulftown) that will have six cores. The good news? Parts of the platform will be going into production in 2009 for sure. The bad news? They said "parts." Be warned: that Core i7 you have your eye on will be a thing of the past come the newer and higher-end quad-core 32nm beauties.
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RE[3]: Comment by El_Exigente
by flanque on Wed 11th Feb 2009 21:25 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Comment by El_Exigente"
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I wasn't trying to enlighten you.

If you took that line of thought then my AMD Athlon64 3200+ wouldn't be considered obsolete, but at least to me it is.

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Google Google has just unveiled its Chrome OS operating system during a press event at the company's headquarters, and it's pretty much exactly what we expected it to be: a streamlined Linux kernel booting straight into the Chrome web browser. The code is available starting today.
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Is that going to be a sales pitch for Chrome?
by nt_jerkface on Mon 23rd Nov 2009 21:52 UTC in reply to "RE: I wonder"
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What do you have that's so important anyways? No one cares about your family photos.

That along with Do you really need itunes? is going to make these things fly off the shelves.

And yes many of us do work with sensitive information, especially those of us in the proprietary software industry.

I also know quite a few people in the medical industry and they would never store their documents on Google servers for the simple reason that they don't have to. They operate on a need-to-know basis and Google doesn't need to know about a word document that details your venereal disease. It's better kept on the local intranet.

I also know someone who works for the feds and they don't even connect their computers to the internet. To get something like winzip installed requires going through a chain of command and filling out a form.

There will also be people that oppose the idea simply because they feel it is not respectful of their privacy. Google should have built a hybrid system, going web-only will make it instantly unappealing to large sections of the population.

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Intel An interesting article at Ars Technica takes a look at some compelling data (the longer-than-normal processor update cycles in Apple's personal computer lineup) and speculates that Apple's enthusiasm for its partnership with Intel might be cooling. Like Apple's soured relationship with once-BFF Google, this may be the result of Intel's increasing activities in the mobile computing space.
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The new Samsung Galaxy S has 2GB RAM. While I do not own one, it was a joy to use during a demo. It felt very fast while multitasking because backgrounded apps that would have been swapped out of memory on lesser phones reloaded quicker since their contents were still in memory. As other posters have mentioned, video apps that support 720p will likely take large chunks of memory. With the current progression of smartphones, I would have to agree with jgagnon and I would be surprised if we didn't see smartphones with 4GB within the next two years.

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erm.. no sPhone does not have 2Gb of ram. Maybe storage but not ram. It has 512Mb of LPDDR2 ram.

iPhone 4 for example has the same amount of slower LPDDR ram.

As for the dual core cpu's in phones... I'm pretty sure both nokia and HP had those. Actaully those were dual CPU's phones... but that counts too ;) It's nokia N96 I think... and that's an old phone.

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Multimedia, AV Every so often we publish here at OSNews articles about copyright, about the war of the "old media" establishment against everyone else. Many, myself included, have argued that the way to get out of this mess -- short of changing the law -- is to have more artists release their work under a Creative Commons license. However, after a few years it became obvious to me that CC would never be able to change the industry all by itself. Offering a Free license, and having 30,000 albums released under it, was still not enough. Until the Summer of 2009, that is. Update: Added audio samples.
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I wasn't ignoring the copyright points because I missed the point, but rather because I didn't disagree with the vision she was trying to express.

My problem was her point was massively diluted with misinformation and personal opinion of scenes she knows little about.

In fact, I notice she does this a lot. She often has an interesting and thought provoking idea but then loses her credibility as she digresses onto topics that are either on a tangent to her original point or just completely inaccurate. It's a real pity as she then loses her readers.

So yes, like yourself, I see myself siding with her ideologies on copyright laws and copyleft licenses; the problem was that didn't seem the main focus of this article and sadly I found the rest of the article to be incorrect.

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Microsoft Well, paint me red and call me a girl scout, I totally did not see this one coming at all. This is so utterly surprising it made my brain explode. Hold on to your panties, because this will rock your world. After pressuring several smaller Android vendors into submission (and yes, HTC is still relatively small compared to other players), Microsoft is now moving on to the big one: Redmond is demanding $15 for every Samsung Android device sold. Samsung's choices are simple: pay up, or face another epic lawsuit.
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RE: Google where are you?
by JAlexoid on Wed 6th Jul 2011 20:27 UTC in reply to "Google where are you?"
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Not even close. There is no threat from this patent trolling. Microsoft has sunk even lower for me and they have nothing to throw at Android at the moment.

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Apple It's one of those days again: Apple held a product announcement today, announcing several new products. The most important of which was rumoured about for a long time now: a smaller iPad. It's called the iPad mini, and has the potential to become the best-selling iPad - and thus, the best selling tablet.
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by wocowboy on Wed 24th Oct 2012 09:53 UTC in reply to "resolution variability"
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You are exactly right, but it was an opportunity for Thom to get in a dig at Apple in the article, pure and simple. The same thing applies to Android and the dozens of screen resolutions of all the various phones and tablets that exist. That's great for choice, but horrible for developers, who have to try and support all those resolutions. Sadly it doesn't happen, and some apps work on some phones and tablets and others don't. Combine that with the fact that most of the Android devices out there are running an OS that is 4-5 versions back from the latest one, and you have a true mess. Apple is avoiding this mess by making the iPad mini's screen resolution a complete non-issue for developers. Existing apps all WORK.

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It's still a trade-off. Apple's choices have made it more difficult to let iOS and its applications support multiple resolutions - but they did so to make it easier on developer. However, the downside is that resolution has become a constraining factor in designing iOS hardware.

Android made a different choice, with different tradeoffs. Pointing that out is not a dig at Apple - it's a simple and cold fact.

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Agree. Apple policy is actually much worse than the one MS got sued for.

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by bassbeast on Sun 20th Jan 2013 20:41 in reply to "RE[2]: ..."
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Nice to see somebody else notices the exact same crap MSFT got busted for Apple is doing WORSE and getting away with it. I mean imagine if MSFT had locked Windows to the hardware so it was impossible to install any other OS and made it so the ONLY way to install programs without actually having to hack the OS was to go through a site where they kept God-like control and refused to have any competition to their own products?

And I apologize to those in the EU if I don't understand what procedures one performs to get something taken up by the EU commission, we don't have anything like that in the USA anymore so there really is no basis of comparison. The DoJ was defanged by Bush II after the MSFT case and pretty much just rubber stamps anything a corp wants to do so you can be as anti-competitive as you want here as long as your lobbyists cuts checks to the right people. Kinda sad when the only hope Americans have of not being screwed by a monopolist is the EU taking up the case, but that is the only hope we have left, everything here is for sale like some banana republic.

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Apple is not doing worse than Microsoft because Apple is not a monopoly. Additional restrictions apply to monopolies, which affected Microsoft, but it does not affect Apple.

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Microsoft One of the major lacking features in the newest Office: no Metro applications. In fact, the only reason Windows RT has a desktop at all is because the Office team was unable to create Metro applications in time for the release of Windows RT. I often thought this was a classic case of two important divisions within Microsoft not getting along and not being aligned, but now that I have my own Surface RT, I'm starting to realise that there's a far simpler, and thus more likely, explanation: Metro is simply not ready for anything serious - or for anything at all, really.
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Hardware or software?
by Bobthearch on Sat 9th Mar 2013 17:21 UTC
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Can you elaborate on one thing: Is the unacceptably poor performance of Office due to Metro, or because of the miserable specs of the Surface RT?

Or could it be simply that Office is now a bloated pig and totally inappropriate for portable computing? I wouldn't expect a tablet to run AutoCAD or SolidWorks either. I'd be curious to hear how OpenOffice or other MS Office alternatives run on the same hardware.

P.S. I'll stop using Office 2000 when they pry it from my cold dead hands. ;)

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OpenOffice/Libre Office is even more bloated than modern MS Office. It's claim to fame is availability on Linux (and other OSes) and being free of charge. The office PC runs MS Office 2000, with Libre Office 4.0 as back up for XML MS Office files. Fortunately we mostly get PDFs from our clients.

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by Bobthearch on Sun 10th Mar 2013 16:55 in reply to "RE: Hardware or software?"
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So what are the options, beef up the SurfaceRT so that it performs (and is priced) like a full-performance laptop? Develop a mini/mobile/tablet version of Office? Realize and accept the inherent limitations of tablet computing and forget about it? Or is it a problem that can be addressed by 'fixing' Metro?

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The liberation of uniformity

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At Melissa Park’s school, students don’t make fun of what a classmate is wearing, because they’re wearing it, too.

Park knows some people don’t like school uniforms because they don’t have the freedom to wear anything they want, but she doesn’t mind that. Nor does it bother her that the uniform is a hand-me-down from her sister.

"I get hand-me-downs from my sister all the time," laughs the 13-year-old, who is about to start Grade 8 at Edmonton Public’s Nellie McClung Girls’ Junior High. "I’m not into fashion. That’s not what I do."

That’s why wearing a uniform is actually freeing, says Lauren Smiley.

"Nobody can judge you by what you wear. They have to get to know who you are."

"When my mom first told me I was going to a uniformed school, I got really mad at her. I thought, ’I can’t express myself,’" says the fashion-conscious 15-year-old, who is starting Grade 9 at Jean Forest Leadership Academy (an Edmonton Catholic junior high for girls). "I’m sure everyone has heard teenagers say ’I express myself through my clothes,’ but then when I went there, I realized you don’t have to worry about that."

Sometimes, Smiley, who has been wearing a uniform since Grade 5 at St. Jerome Science Academy (elementary school), gets bored with wearing it, which makes her and other students appreciate more the non-uniform days that come around once every month or two.

But mostly it gives her a sense of community and keeps her focused on school as a place to learn and do well.

Niranjan Sasikumar’s uniform has the same effect on him. He’s been wearing one since he started Grade 2 at the Cogito Alternative Program at Stratford School. "Honestly, I hear other students who don’t like the uniforms, probably most of them," he says candidly, but the 11-year-old, who is entering Grade 7, likes wearing his. Niranjan’s father, Sasikumar Venu, who also wore a uniform as a schoolboy in India, says he didn’t like wearing a uniform all the time, but he knows the importance of doing so.

"People coming from different parts of the world see education from a different perspective: we treat education as a divine thing and we treat teachers with respect," says Venu. The discipline that comes from wearing a uniform reminds students of that, he says.

"It’s not like you’re going to the shopping mall or going for a picnic in tank tops or clothes with labels like Calvin Klein. When you wear a uniform, you’re going somewhere to learn. That’s what our parents taught us," and what he is teaching his son.

If there is a downside, it’s the hassle of having to order a uniform and hoping it arrives on time. It would be easier if students could wear generic pieces they could buy at a store. "But it’s not a big issue," Venu says. The pros of wearing a uniform outweigh the cons.

There are no statistics available for Canada, but, according to the National Center for Education Statistics in the United States, about 18 per cent of public schools in 2007-08 required students to wear uniforms, up from 12 per cent in 1999-2000. Also, in 2007-08, about 55 per cent of public schools enforced a strict dress code, an increase from 47 per cent in 1999-2000.

Anecdotally, most students who wear uniforms on this side of the border attend private or alternate school programs and there are no signs that’s changing.

Locally, students at the Vimy Ridge Academy no longer wear uniforms, but that’s a reflection of changing programs at the school, says a spokesperson for Edmonton Public Schools.

In schools where they are worn, students who like uniforms, like the way it makes everyone equal.

"Lauren says (wearing a uniform) removes all the competition around what to wear, who has the better clothes . . . which removes a ton of pressure," her mom, Carla Smiley, says. "You can focus on learning and being yourself and making friends. It’s just simpler."

It’s simpler in a lot of ways.

"Lauren gets up — she knows what she’s going to wear every day — she puts it on, then she can spend time on her hair and makeup and jewelry," her mom says, laughing. "That’s how girls who wear uniforms personalize it a bit."

There are no drama scenes between mother and daughter over what Lauren plans to wear to school and whether or not its appropriate. Not until summer, "when your kids turn up in their non-uniform outfits and you have to do some adjusting," Smiley says. "’No honey, you can’t leave the house in that.’"

Smiley spends about $250 each year replacing worn out parts of Lauren’s uniform pieces, which include a tan-coloured wraparound skirt, black skort or black dress pants, a v-necked pullover, white blouse, black knee socks or black tights and simple black dress shoes with closed toes and low heels.

"I just know that, before she was wearing a uniform, shopping was an ordeal every year," Smiley says. "And I remember in my youth, my poor mother taking four girls shopping for back-to-school clothes and how stressful that was for her."

All Smiley has to do is go online to the website of the company that supplies the academy’s uniform, pick out what Lauren needs, click, click, click and the order arrives in the mail.

"I’m so glad we don’t have to go out shopping for back-to-school clothes," agrees Melissa Park’s mom, Michele.

Although it initially cost $600 to outfit eldest daughter Brittany, now 16, when she started at McClung, Park figures she’ll spend about $100 on school clothes for Melissa this year for the odd pair of socks or to replace a worn out shirt.

"I bet you a lot of people spend $600 on back-to-school clothes every year," she says. "I spent that much once, four or five years ago, and I haven’t done it since.

"I wish I’d worn a uniform when I was in school, because my mother attempted to sew back then, and I had to wear cords (corduroy pants) from my brother. It would have been awesome not to have to worry about what to wear every day."

As for critics who say uniforms rob students of being able to express themselves fully, "personality still comes out in those girls," Park says. "They still can shine without having different clothes."

By the end of the year, you really want to burn your uniform because you’re sick of wearing it, Lauren Smiley says, "but all through the school year, it’s really good."

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Spring is the time of year when black bears emerge from their winter dens in search of lush, green vegetation. As the grasses die in late spring, bears become attracted to bugs, berries, salmon and nearly anything edible or smelly. Their quest for food takes up nearly every waking hour.

“People are the root of the problem and it’s their behavior that we need to change,” said Marc Kenyon, California DFG’s Bear Program Manager. “By taking just a few precautions to secure food and trash, area visitors and residents can save themselves thousands of dollars in property damage, can help protect their families from injury and can save the lives of bears. Bears that become habituated to humans or conditioned to eating our food and trash often have to be killed.”

Tips for Bear proofing Your Campsite:

No one wants to worry about housekeeping when on a camping trip, but keeping a clean campsite is the responsible and safe thing to do when visiting black bear country. Here are a few tips for bear proofing your campsite:

  • Use bear-proof garbage cans whenever possible or store your garbage in a secure location with your food.
  • Store food (including pet food) and toiletries in bear-proof containers or in an airtight container in the trunk of your vehicle.
  • Clean dishes and store food and garbage immediately after meals.
  • Clean the barbecue grill after each use.
  • Never keep food or toiletries in your tent.

Tips for Bear proofing Your Home, Rental or Timeshare:

Bears have keen noses and can smell an easy meal from miles away. They can easily tear a front door off its hinges if they smell fried chicken left out on the kitchen counter or bacon grease splattered on a stove. To protect your family and property from bear break-ins follow these simple tips:

  • Purchase and properly use a bear-proof garbage container.
  • Wait to put trash out until the morning of collection day.
  • Don’t leave trash, groceries, or animal feed in your car.
  • Keep garbage cans clean and deodorize them with bleach or ammonia.
  • Keep barbecue grills clean and stored in a garage or shed when not in use.
  • Only provide bird feeders during November through March and make them inaccessible to bears.
  • Don’t leave any scented products outside, even non-food items such as suntan lotion, insect repellent, soap or candles.
  • Keep doors and windows closed and locked.
  • Consider installing motion-detector alarms, electric fencing or motion-activated sprinklers.
  • Harvest fruit off trees as soon as it is ripe, and promptly collect fruit that falls.
  • Securely block access to potential hibernation sites such as crawl spaces under decks and buildings.

Facts about Black Bears:

  • Black bears range in color from blonde to black, with cinnamon brown being the most common color.
  • Black bears will seek to avoid confrontation with humans. If encountered, always leave them an escape route.
  • Males are much larger than females and can weigh over 500 pounds, although average weight is about 300 pounds.
  • Black bears can sprint up to 35 mph and they are strong swimmers and great tree climbers.
  • A typical wild bear diet consists of berries, plants, nuts, roots, honey, honeycomb, insects, larvae, carrion and small mammals.
  • As winter approaches, bears will forage for food up to 20 hours a day, storing enough fat to sustain them through hibernation. Bears often hibernate in large hollow trees 40 to 60 feet off the ground.
  • Bears that are accustomed to people can become too bold and lose their fear of humans.

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#525 – Dick Bernard: Congresswoman Betty McCollum pays a visit to Woodbury

Written by admin on February 27th, 2012

About 60 of us dropped by Woodbury’s indoor City Park Saturday morning to meet Congresswoman Betty McCollum, whose 4th Congressional District moves to the east in January, 2013. Of course, during this time of transition, my town remains in Cong. Bachmann’s district until January, but all candidates for all elective offices need to become acquainted with greatly changed district boundaries as a result of census mandated redistricting.

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Cong. Betty McCollum in Woodbury, February 21, 2012

In Congresswoman McCollums case, redistricting means that approximately one-fourth of her over 600,000 constituents (including the baby in the photo, below) will be new to her. Of course, the Congresswoman is in her sixth term in a district contiguous to ours, so she is not exactly a stranger in these parts.

In this case, redistricting makes for strange bedfellows. The current Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann, lives in the to-be new 4th District, and as of this writing intends to continue to reside in the 4th, while running for her old seat in the reconfigured 6th District. It’s all completely legal. Bachmann has her own needs to get acquainted with new potential constituents….

There is not much to report about a get-acquainted session. This one was billed for an hour, started on time, ended on time: a good omen. In other contexts, I’ve had occasion to meet as part of groups with Rep. McCollum’s staff in St. Paul, and have always been pleased with their willingness to engage with constituents with concerns. The Congressman did speak to a current dilemma of constituent service. The majority Republicans in the House have cut back on Congressional staff budgets, which makes it more difficult for every Congressperson to get to know and thus better serve their constituents. It is part of politics.

One visitor raised the question of the oft-discussed needs for a new Stillwater Bridge, an increasingly intense political football.

I thought Cong. McCollum handled the issue very well. First of all, the project is not in her district yet, and it would be poor form to lambaste a colleague.

She didn’t.

She does, however, have a position on transportation generally and the bridge specifically, and she simply directed us to her Congressional website. Her long-term position on the bridge issue is here. Succinctly, the issue is extraordinarily complex, tempting but dangerous to try to reduce into sound bites.

Of course, more than just Congressional Districts are affected by redistricting.

Our home address stays the same but we also are moved into new Minnesota House and Senate Districts. The incumbent House member for our new district is Nora Slawik, currently in our next door neighbor district. She and Ann Marie Metzger are likely candidates for the new House seats. Both Nora and Ann Marie were at the gathering. There is no Senate candidate for either party at this point in time.

Cong. McCollum pointed out the obvious: politics is a team sport.

We, the people, cannot delegate responsibility for who represents us: they’re not some vague “them”. If we despise Congress, and polling consistently shows that we do, it’s ourselves that we despise.

In a District with over 600,000 constituents, as all Congressional districts are, a candidate cannot do it alone, particularly when there are 150,000 new constituents. Running for office takes work, and lots and lots of help, time, financial and otherwise.

Cong. McCollums campaign site is here. Take a look.

Nora Slawik, Betty McCollum, Ann Marie Metzger Feb 25, 2012

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Sacramento’s CBS affiliate ran a piece Thursday, May 17, casting light on a rising number of former white-collar employees turning to trucking for a job after losing their in-office employment. There’s no shortage of trucking puns, either.

“With our nation’s economic engine sputtering,” the article says, the “local white collar employees…decided to check under the hood to look for another way to get moving.”

Of course, the article says, “the found it by turning the key.”

The article quotes Bob Schauer, local driving school manager, as telling the TV station that fleets are “crying for drivers,” before quoting several of these former white-collar workers and why they decided to switch.

Brian Britt, former physician assistant, names the obvious: pay, free traveling and availability of work.

“This is one industry that cannot be outsourced to another country,” Schauer says in the article.

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31st Dec 2013

A survey commissioned by Oxfam found that 'supporting a charity' was the thing that lifted people's spirits most in 2013, more than national sporting victories, this year's fantastic summer weather and the birth of the royal baby. The research was commissioned to mark the launch of Oxfam's new fundraising campaign; 'Lift Lives for Good'.

Research Now who carried out the survey didn't tell respondents that the research was commissioned by a charity to avoid influencing the results. Nevertheless, 70% of the people surveyed said that supporting a charity was the thing that had boosted their spirits most in 2013, with the glorious summer coming in a close second (62%). Over half (60%) chose Andy Murray's triumph at Wimbledon as the uplifting moment of 2013 and 52% chose Mo Farah winning double gold at the Athletics World Championships.

The birth of the royal baby lifted the spirits of 46% of respondents, while Daft Punk's catchy "Get Lucky" was voted the most uplifting song of 2013. However charitable giving featured again when people were asked what their most uplifting TV programme of 2013 was, with the most popular choice being Children in Need, chosen by 35% of respondents. The Great British Bake Off and Strictly Come Dancing came a close second and third.

This research comes in support of Oxfam's new fundraising campaign, backed by an uplifting TV advert aiming to inspire viewers to engage with Oxfam's work. The charity is hoping this advert will help shine a light on the work it does with poor people around the world, showing how the organisation aims to sets a chain reaction in motion so that the benefits ripple out beyond individuals and families to wider communities and beyond.

Oxfam's Chief Executive Mark Goldring said: "This has been a big year for charitable giving especially with the unbelievable generosity of the British public in response to the recent typhoon in the Philippines. We are extremely heartened by the results of this survey; at a time when money is tight it's wonderful to see that people are getting a boost from helping others. We hope that our new fundraising campaign Lift Lives for Good with support of the adverts will show the public the far reaching effects which every donation to Oxfam can have.'

In terms of the New Year, a well-earned holiday is the thing that the greatest number of respondents (25%) thinks will give them a boost. And the most commonly chosen uplifting event for 2014 was the World Cup. Twenty one per cent of respondents are anticipating it being 2014's most uplifting event; though whether this will be borne out in reality will largely depend on England's success.

Oxfam is calling on UK public support - however small - to help it lift lives for good. To donate £4 text LIFT to 70064 or click here for more information: www.oxfam.org.uk/lift.

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1. The survey was carried out by Research Now on behalf of Oxfam GB. Total sample size was 1583 adults aged 16+. Fieldwork was undertaken between 9th December 2013 and 12th December 2013. The survey was carried out online.

2. Lift Lives for Good aims to inspire the UK public about what their support for Oxfam can achieve. A lift can empower people to make change, helping them to alter the course of their lives, so in turn they can lift others around them, setting in motion a process of change that spreads throughout their community. So by supporting Oxfam people are not just lifting one person, they're lifting the lives of entire communities - now and for good

3. The TV adverts are inspired by an Oxfam programme where people in Sri Lanka were provided with cows, training and support to establish a co-operative. This led to more cows, milk and co-operatives being set up by local groups to make ice-cream and ghee, creating more jobs, better incomes and opportunities for more people. The TV commercial shows how a mother receives a cow and then her six-year-old son is lifted off the ground as his dream of going to school becomes a reality. Others in his community are also lifted as their fortunes change for the better. Link to TV adverts, password Oxfam. https://vimeo.com/82082266

4. Oxfam is a global humanitarian, development and campaigning organisation working with others to overcome poverty and suffering - all of Oxfam's programmes have gender equality at their core.  Oxfam is now working in nearly 60 countries on a diverse range of projects, from providing emergency water sources to supporting community health projects. See: http://www.oxfam.org.uk


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Pronunciation: /dɛz ˈrɛz/

Definition of des res in English:

British informal
A desirable residence (used as a humorous allusion to the language used in housing advertisements): they are converting a Victorian schoolhouse into a des res
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  • Inspired by the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Dreams from a Summer House tells how the members of a dysfunctional family learn to love themselves and each other at midsummer in the gardens of their mock-Tudor des res in Leatherhead.
  • Milner Field was a fantastic mansion and it was definitely the des res of its time.

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Pronunciation: /ɛnˈteɪb(ə)lm(ə)nt/

Definition of entablement in English:

A platform supporting a statue, above the dado and base.

Mid 17th century (in the sense 'entablature'): from French, based on table 'table'.

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Definition of frictional unemployment in English:

[mass noun] Economics
The unemployment which exists in any economy due to people being in the process of moving from one job to another.
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  • With unemployment at 4.4% of the available workforce, the country is scarcely above what economists term ‘frictional unemployment’.
  • If unemployment was previously kept to zero by forcing everyone to keep a job even if they didn't want it, it should rise, even in a madly growing economy, as frictional unemployment is allowed to grow to its natural rate.
  • There is likely to be some frictional unemployment even when there is technically full employment, because most people change jobs from time to time.

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Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒlɪtətɪv/

Definition of qualitative in English:

1Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity: a qualitative change in the undergraduate curriculum Often contrasted with quantitative.
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  • Yet this is in many ways a quantitative rather than a qualitative distinction.
  • Such a sense is qualitative rather than quantitative, specific rather than general.
  • One way forward is to use qualitative measures of protection, a proposal that has been made previously.
1.1 Grammar (Of an adjective) describing the quality of something in size, appearance, value, etc. Such adjectives can be submodified by words such as very and have comparative and superlative forms. Contrasted with classifying.
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  • The first drawback of using a handful of qualitative descriptive adjectives instead of numbers is that we are limited to just that, a handful, perhaps 5 or so, before it becomes hard to manage..
  • Only qualitative adjectives may be compared because only this type of adjective refers to qualities of objects which may vary in degrees.
  • In this connection, the ability of an adjective to form degrees of comparison is usually taken as a formal sign of its qualitative character, in opposition to a relative adjective which is understood as incapable of forming degrees of comparison by definition.

Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒlɪtətɪvli/
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  • The proposition is that music ought to be qualitatively judged not by genre, but by where it stands within its genre.
  • Raising funds for long-term development differs qualitatively from raising funds to meet a state of emergency.
  • The results were qualitatively as well as quantitatively creditable.

Late Middle English: from late Latin qualitativus, from Latin qualitas (see quality).

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ambassador División en sílabas: am·bas·sa·dor
Pronunciación: /amˈbasədər/

Definición de ambassador en inglés:

1An accredited diplomat sent by a country as its official representative to a foreign country: the French ambassador to Portugal
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  • He also indicated that various foreign ambassadors and high commissioners had expressed similar sentiments.
  • Benjamin Franklin was the US ambassador to absolutist France after the American Revolution.
  • It was conducted by a diplomat who had served as an ambassador to three African countries.
1.1A person who acts as a representative or promoter of a specified activity: he is a good ambassador for the industry
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  • It is five months since the Duke of York visited Thrall as he began his new role as a special ambassador for trade and industry.
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campaigner, representative, promoter, champion, supporter, backer, booster

Pronunciación: /amˌbasəˈdôrēəl/
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  • He then embarked upon a year in Prague, where his mother's ambassadorial connections secured a year-long internship as a trainee diplomat with the European Commission.
  • A wooden fence around the ambassadorial residence gives it privacy and a suburban hominess.
  • It is a great honour to learn that I have been given my first ambassadorial appointment.

Pronunciación: /amˈbasədərˌSHip/
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  • We need to get our ambassadorship to the UN to help with reform.
  • He was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Italy - despite an astounding lack of diplomatic skills.

Late Middle English: from French ambassadeur, from Italian ambasciator, based on Latin ambactus 'servant'.

  • embassy from late 16th century:

    Originally this had the spelling variant ambassy, showing its relationship to Late Middle English ambassador (which is also found spelt embassador), and as well as being an official residence, it denoted the position of ambassador or the sending out of ambassadors. The source is Old French ambasse, based on Latin ambactus ‘servant’.

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British English: /əˈnakrəˌnɪz(ə)m/

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    • These groups would be at risk of becoming mere anecdotes; anachronisms of a bygone time and a lifestyle that is passing.
    • When a character in a novel set in the 15th century uses a word, ‘taboo,’ that did not enter any European language until the 18th century, the attentive reader begins to look for anachronisms.

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Pronunciation: /iˌro͞osik ˈasid/

Definition of erucic acid in English:

A solid compound present in mustard and rape seeds.
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  • The original rapeseed oil, used as both a lubricant and an edible oil, was harmful when ingested because of high levels of a chemical called erucic acid.
  • The seed oil has a much reduced content of erucic acid, which is a long-chain fatty acid that is toxic to humans.
  • For both identified QTL, the results showed that the alleles associated with high erucic acid levels are derived from the Sollux parent.

Mid 19th century: erucic from Latin eruca 'rocket' (denoting the plant) + -ic.

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El Otro Sitio Hotel & Restaurante

Avenida Paraiso 851, Sunampe, Chincha Alta, Peru
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El Otro Sitio is a country hotel with restaurant set in a comfortable rural farm house. The hotel boasts a view on the surrounding area and offers family accommodations.

The property stands in the heart of the countryside, dominating a typical Ica landscape around it. The freshly refurbished resort is perfect for relaxing short breaks in a sunny place.

A fully equipped children's play yard, a discotheque, a karaoke bar, a pool room, a restaurant, a pub and a green BBQ area are among its facilities. The outdoor pool is open all year long and is surrounded by gardens and a terrace.

El Otro Sitio Hotel boasts various-sized guest rooms from singles to quints, all fully furnished with all the amenities that are needed for comfort. The hotel's restaurant offers a choice of typical regional cuisine, featuring locally produced ingredients.

The resort of El Otro Sitio is tucked away in Sunampe, an attractive old village in the very heart of Peru's leading wine-growing and pisco-producing region.

Food & Beverage

Breakfast is not included in the price, but an American breakfast can be ordered between 8am - 11am and is served poolside.

The restaurant offers daytime and evening meals and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. The bar serves pisco sours and other cocktails, a selection of fine wines, beers, hard liquors and small snacks.

Amenities & Services

Ground-Floor Terrace, Cable/Satellite TV, Lounge Area, Outdoor Bar, Breakfast, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, On-Site Parking (free), Garden, 24-Hour Security, Discotheque, Pub, Gazebo, Restaurant, Family Friendly, Fountain, 24-Hour Front Desk, Patio.

Business Center, Photocopying, Computers with Internet Connection, Luggage Storage, Wi-Fi/Wireless LAN (free), Laundry Service, Taxi Service, Fax, Wake-Up Service.

On-Site Activities:

Outdoor Swimming Pool, Sun Deck, Karaoke, Billiards, Children's Pool, BBQ Facilities, Picnic Area, Children's Playground, Sun Loungers.

Nearby Attractions:

Archeological Site, Gastronomy, Hiking, Vineyards and Wineries, 4x4 Driving, Cycling, Factory Tour, Beach, Swimming, Fishing, Surfing.

Spanish, English.

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Check-in and Check-out Times

Check-in time: 1pm
Check-out time: 12am

The hotel operates a non-smoking policy, but smoking is permitted in designated smoking areas.

Guests are not allowed to bring pets onto the property.

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Children under 6 years of age can stay free of charge when using existing beds.

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    The Atlantic Division sucks, we all know that, it is obvious. The Knicks and Nets may be able to turn it around eventually, but I'm not holding my breath. One thing I did notice though, there has been a grand total of 4 inter-division games between the Atlantic division teams. The rest of the divisions have played 10 to 12 games of inter-division games. I found this interesting, but I think it does say something about how the current records of the Atlantic division are not likely to resemble their end records at all. Eventually these bad teams will have to start playing each other, and one or two will rise above the rest resulting in an undeserved winning record.

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