Sample stability can be influenced by many different factors; evaporation and leakage from residual cells are the most relevant factors for electrolytes. During the analytical phase, samples are usually kept uncapped at room temperature. Once samples are processed, they are usually stored sealed and refrigerated. Long turnaround time and the possibility of "add-on test" need consideration for electrolyte stability. The aim of our study is to examine short-term electrolyte stability in this two-common laboratory working conditions in two different lithium heparin plasma tubes (Barricor and PST II, Becton Dickinson).
In 39 plasma samples from voluntary subjects we measured sodium (Na+), potassium (K+) and chloride (Cl–) at 6 time points since centrifugation (0h, 3h, 6h, 9h, 12h and 15h). Maximum allowable bias (clinically significant change) was based in SEQC (Sociedad Espańola de Química Clínica) recommendations; 1% for Cl–, 0.6% for Na+ and 4% for K+.
In open room temperature tubes, clinically significant changes appeared in Na+ and Cl– after 3 hours and in K+ after 9 hours in both types of tubes. In refrigerated sealed tubes, all the analytes were clinically stable up to 12 hours in both kinds of plasma tubes. We observed a statistically significant progressive increase in K+ levels, which was less pronounced in Barricor tubes.
Stability of electrolytes is compromised after 3 hours in open tubes and after 12 hours in sealed tubes.
Many factors are known to influence stability. Evaporation is a well-known cause of variation in analyte concentration, especially in automated environments (1), influenced by sample volume, tube type, storage conditions and surface area (2). Storage temperature is also recognized as a significant factor in sample stability, particularly for potassium (K+); at low temperatures, the Na+/K+ ATPase is inhibited and K+ tends to leave the cells (3).
Plasma samples are used in many emergency laboratories because of the shorter turn-around times when compared to serum. However, it is traditionally acknowledged that serum is more stable for some analytes probably due to the presence of less residual blood cells (4). In serum tubes, gel flows upwards easily and smoothly during centrifugation and thus traps cells below. In plasma tubes with gel separator, more residual cells are found in the upper layer affecting stability of electrolytes or glucose.
BD® Barricor is a new tube designed to obtain stable plasma that contains a barrel-shaped polymer as mechanical separator. During the whole centrifugation time cells flow downwards between the separator and the tube walls, obtaining plasma with less residual cells (5). After centrifugation, the polymer due to its properties, returns to its original shape and is positioned tightly separating plasma from the erythrocytes and the buffy-coat. This is meant to increase plasma stability with respect to gel based tubes.
The aim of this study was to examine sodium (Na+), potassium (K+) and chloride (Cl-) stability in PST™ II lithium heparin tubes and Barricor lithium heparin tubes in different storage conditions and time periods.
This prospective study was conducted over three different days of the same month in the ISO:15189 certified Emergency Laboratory of our tertiary care centre (Hospital Universitario la Paz, Madrid). Analysis was performed in a Siemens Dimension Vista® 1500 analyser (Siemens Healthineers, Erlang, Germany) as per manufacturer specifications with an indirect ion selective electrode (V-LYTE® Integrated Multisensor Technology, Siemens Healthineers, Erlang, Germany, REF K800A) for measuring the three ions. Quality control material was run for electrolytes every 12 hours (Liquid Assayed Multiqual, Bio-Rad, Hercules, California), following our quality assurance procedures, and remained in range during the study.
Two storage conditions were chosen as they are the most commonly used in laboratory routine during processing (open and room temperature (rt)) and storage (sealed and refrigerated). Only healthy volunteers participated in this study and they were subdivided in 4 groups, which were not intended to be compared specifically among each other; Barricor open - rt, Barricor sealed - 4 şC, PST II open - rt and PST II sealed - 4 şC.
We defined a priori exclusion criteria consisting of lack of proper consent, current treatment for malignancy, terminal illness or receiving a blood transfusion in the previous month; and posteriori (after sample extraction) exclusion criteria based on serum index (haemolysis, icterus and lipemia), presence of fibrin, inadequate barrier formation and insufficient sample.
In 20 healthy volunteers, we collected blood in 5.5 mL BD Barricor™ tubes (Vacutainer®, Becton Dickinson, Plymouth, UK; REF 365039). In 22 different volunteers, we collected blood in a lithium heparin LH PST™ II 3 mL tube (Vacutainer®, Becton Dickinson Plymouth, UK; REF 367374). All the participants were adults randomly chosen from our clinical chemistry department and gave appropriate informed consent. All the samples were obtained in our centre early in the morning (between 8 and 9 am) and centrifuged upon arrival at our emergency laboratory (no longer than 30 minutes after collection) for 10 minutes at 3000 g. We excluded two Barricor samples and one PST tube due to insufficient sample. Table 1 shows groups characteristics.
rt – room temperature. Basal concentrations of Na+, K+ and Cl- are presented as mean (standard deviation). CVa - average of analytical coefficients of variation between pairs of repetitions.
Duplicate electrolytes measurements were carried out in the samples almost immediately after centrifugation (0 hours) and after 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 hours. Between this time points half of the tubes of each type (PST II and Barricor) were stored open and at room temperature (23-27 şC controlled temperature) and the other half were sealed with Parafilm® and refrigerated (4-6 şC controlled temperature).
The average of each pair of duplicate measurements was calculated and used in statistical analysis. For each group, a paired two-tailed t-test was performed using the values at 0h as initial paired values (C0) versus the values (Ct) at different time points (3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 hours), using software R v 3.3.1. Statistically significant change was considered to occur when P value was less than 0.05.
We also calculated the bias ((Ct - C0) / C0 x 100) with respect to the average initial value (C0) for each group and calculated the confidence intervals (CI) for small samples (calculated with the standard mean error and the two-tailed T-distribution with α = 0.05). We used SPSS v. 20 (IBM Corp., Armonk, USA) in this case.
There are several specifications of clinical significance to be used in stability studies (3, 4). We followed the Spanish Society for Clinical Chemistry (Sociedad Espańola de Química Clínica, SEQC) criteria of maximum allowable bias (MAB) obtained from reference change value formula based on the principle that the same sample has no biological variation: MAB = 1.65 x CVa, where CVa is the analytical coefficient of variation which should be half the known CVi (intraindividual biological coefficient of variation) or less (6). In laboratories where the CVa approximates the desirable one (this is our situation) the tabulated MAB limits are Na+: 0.6%, K+: 4.0% and Cl-: 1.0%. Clinically significant deterioration was considered to happen in each group and time when the 95% CI lied completely outside these specifications.
We also calculated the analytical CVa of each group, defined as the average of all the coefficients of variation between pairs of duplicate measurements and compared it to the CVa obtained from our internal quality control in the three previous months (Na+: 0.45%, K+: 2.0%, Cl-: 0.7%).
All the analytical CVa (Table 1) were smaller than the laboratory CVa, (Na+ 0.2% vs. 0.45%, K+ 0.20% vs. 2%, Cl- 0.25% vs. 0.7%, and similar between groups (different analytical series).
Figure 1 and Table 2 show the average bias (%) and CIs for the results of different time points, analytes and group. In open tubes kept at room temperature all the analytes exhibited statistically significant differences since the first study time (3 hours) both for Barricor and PST II tubes. The main deterioration effect in these tubes is evaporation, which causes approximately a 0.5-1% increase per hour, similar across all the electrolytes.
Stability curves in different groups.
Relative bias is presented as mean with 95% confidence intervals. rt – room temperature. MAB - maximum allowable bias. 3 h, 6 h, 9 h, 12 h, 15 h – 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 hours sample storage, respectivelly. P - value of paired two-tailed t-test between the time value and the basal value (0 hours). P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
*Clinically significant (lower confidence interval outside MAB).
†Statistically, but not clinically significant.
These changes were clinically significant at 3 hours in Na+ and Cl- (MABs of 0.6% and 1%, respectively) and at 9h in K+ (MAB of 4%).
For sealed refrigerated tubes, we observed a slight increase through time in Na+, statistically significant at many time points but only clinically significant in Barricor tubes after 12 hours. Instead, in Cl- we observed a slight initial decrease, followed by a statistically significant increase after 12 hours, not reaching clinical significance. In K+ we found a statistically significant increase after 3 hours in PST II tubes, with a lineal increase of approximately 0.4% per hour. However, in Barricor tubes no significant change was observed until 9 hours, when a statistically significant increase appeared. In neither tube, clinical significance (4%) was reached.
When applying, biological variation based specifications (6), we found that open tubes kept at room temperature showed significant losses of stability for electrolytes due to evaporation. Concentrations increased over time being clinically significant at 3 hours for Na+, and Cl- and at 9 hours for K+; this should be noted since these turnaround times are not unusual in many automated routine laboratories. In these laboratories, samples could wait uncapped for hours before finishing all their determinations and additional tests could be requested on these samples.
A recent study with open serum samples kept at room temperature for 16 hours found an 8.7 mmol/L mean variation for Na+, 0.24 mmol/L for K+ and 6.8 mmol/L for Cl- (1). Nauck et al. found serum Na+ concentration increased about 13% in 0.5 mL samples and 3% in 2 mL samples kept opened at 22 şC for 24 hours; the evaporation rate was smaller (5%) for 0.5 mL samples kept opened and refrigerated for 1 day (7). Our results are in agreement with these, although with slightly higher evaporation in our environment.
Previous studies also corroborate our findings that Na+ and Cl- are clinically stable up to more than 15 hours in capped and refrigerated plasma and serum samples (3, 8).
K+, a predominantly intracellular ion, is known to be very susceptible to interference from blood cells. Some authors observed variations of 13.8% after only 4 hours in capped whole blood samples kept at 4 şC (3). In our sealed-refrigerated group, the PST II tube showed significant K+ increase after 3 hours compared to Barricor tube, which remains statistically stable up to 12 hours. Our results are similar to those previously described: + 0.8% after 2 hours and + 1.4% after 4 hours at 4 şC in plasma samples (3). However, we did not find clinically significant loss of stability (4%) in any tube up to 15 hours. Likewise, Brandhorst found the limit of + 5.6% for K+ was reached, according to a generalized model, after 10-13 hours at 4 şC in plasma tubes from four different manufacturers (8).
These outcomes are in agreement with manufacturer's findings that K+ is slightly more stable in sealed Barricor tubes than in serum SST II tubes, both of them improving stability compared to PST II tubes (5). This could be explained by the improved plasma purification in Barricor tubes or in serum tubes; whereas in PST II tubes cells and platelets might be entrapped in plasma during the fast gel migration and barrier formation. In cell-free serum or plasma K+ can be stable at ambient temperature for at least 56 hours (4, 8).
Our study has some limitations. Repeated analysis on the same sample might decrease sample volume, which has been associated to greater sample evaporation (2); however, based on the Siemens Vista documentation, this volume should not exceed 600 µL after the 15 hours (9). We cannot exclude some degree of evaporation in sealed tubes since those were opened during analysis (approximately 5 minutes at each time point), even though we re-sealed them as soon as possible. This could explain the slight increase in Na+ and Cl- in those tubes; we expected to find a decrease in these analytes due to influx into erythrocytes in the context of Na+/K+ ATPase failure. In addition, initial volumes in tubes were slightly different (3.5 vs. 5 mL) between both types of tubes.
Additionally, since we applied the "safest criteria" (only considering clinically significant when the CI is greater than the specification) we might have overestimated stability times. Similar studies including more samples could find slightly inferior ones.
To conclude, evaporation is an important factor in electrolytes stability. In open tubes kept at room temperature we found clinically significant loss of stability at three hours for some analytes (Na+ and Cl-).
On usual storage conditions, sealed and refrigerated tubes did not show any clinically significant loss of stability in electrolytes up to 12 hours in Barricor tubes and up to 15 hours in PST tubes. We observed a progressive increase in K+ that was more pronounced in PST II tube, maybe related to the presence of more residual blood cells in this type of tube when compared to Barricor tubes.
The authors want to express their gratitude to Becton Dickinson for providing the tubes used in this study.
Burtis CA. Sample evaporation and its impact on the operating performance of an automated selective-access analytical system. Clin Chem. 1990;36:544–6.
Boyanton BL, Blick KE. Stability studies of twenty-four analytes in human plasma and serum. Clin Chem. 2002;48:2242–7.
Becton Dickinson. Within-Tube Stability of Selected Routine Chemistry Analytes and Immunoassays in BD Vacutainer® Barricor™ Tubes in Comparison with BD Vacutainer® PST™ II and SST™ II Advance Tubes at Multiple Time Points Post Centrifugation. BD White Paper VS9295-OUS-WP. NJ, USA. 2016.
Nauck M, Nauck M, Koetting J. A recapping system for automatic, semiautomatic, and manual use. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2008;132:690–3.
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A leaked image of a supposedly new iPhone has emerged. MacRumors picked up on a tweet by well-known iPhone leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer. He said that at least one version of the upcoming device will have three lenses arranged in a triangle. This backups up a number of other rumours and leaks we've heard, starting back in May 2018.
The shared picture depicts handset chassis schematics newly posted to Slashleaks alongside Hemmerstoffer's earlier CAD rendering of an iPhone, all with a large patch on the rear of the device that appears to house three lenses. Hemmerstoffer says the chassis leak supports his claim that at least one version of the next iPhone will feature a rear triple-lens camera system in a triangular configuration, based on information he has sourced previously.
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By Mitansha Chopra May 1, 2019
The Walking Dead season 10 will see several big changes. The fans will see an end to Danai Gurira's character Michonne. The show's boss has revealed about Michonne's story.
The Walking Dead season 10: What lies ahead for Michonne in the season
The Walking Dead season 10 will return later this year. The tragic loss of Michonne will be one of the biggest change this season. We are yet to get the details about the loss of the post-apocalyptic samurai. The bosses are already teasing the end of the incredible story. It is not likely that we will see her falling prey to the dead.
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Michonne is more likely to leave the communities of Alexandria and Hilltop. This is known to the fans at the moment. Showrunner Angela Kang said that the warrior will see some meaty stories before she takes an exit. The character will have an evolutionary change this year.
The showrunners want to see her impact on world leadership. It would be exciting to see the legacy that she would leave behind for her family and other leaders. Beginning from an isolated individual, Michonne had a huge impact on the other characters of the show's story.
The announcement of Michonne's announcement was already made earlier this year. She joined back the show in the third season after its first debut in 2012. She has seen a lot throughout the seven years on the show. She eventually found peace alongside Rick Grimes.
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Q: Autocomplete multiple fields with jquery in Rails 5 I am building an admin form where I am using Jquery's Autocomplete widget for one of the text fields.
In a field called customer_phone_number, when someone types the phone number, autocomplete checks the database to see if it exists and lists the existing options. Once a phone number is selected, I want it to fill out another field called customer_name. I've managed to autocomplete the first one but not the other. Here's what my code looks like right now:
This is the View:

    Customer's Phone Number
    <%= f.text_field :customer_phone_number, class: "form-control", data: { autocomplete_source: customers_path }  %>

    Customer's Name
    <%= f.text_field :customer_name, class: "form-control", data: { autocomplete_source: customers_path }  %>

The javascript file:
jQuery(function() {

  return $('#customer_phone_number').autocomplete({
    source: $('#customer_phone_number').data('autocomplete-source'),
    select: function(event, ui) {
      event.preventDefault(),
      $(this).val(ui.item.phone_number),
      $('#customer_name').val(ui.item.name);
    }
  });
});

And Controller:
  def index
    @customer = Customer.order(:phone_number).where("phone_number like ?", "%#{params[:term]}%").limit(5)
    render json: @customer.map{ |customer| { :phone_number => customer.phone_number, :name => customer.name } }
    # render json: @customer.pluck(:phone_number, :name)

  end

How can I pass the :name value to the customer_name field?

A: Probably you are fetching wrong query as in form field name is customer_phone_number and in query its phone_number
Assuming in Customer model field name is customer_phone_number then query should be
def index
    @customer = Customer.order(:customer_phone_number).where("customer_phone_number like ?", "%#{params[:term]}%").limit(5)
    render json: @customer.map{ |customer| { :phone_number => customer.customer_phone_number, :name => customer.name } }

end

A: I've managed to make it work using a different method with the rails-jquery-autocomplete gem:
https://github.com/risuiowa/rails-jquery-autocomplete/
Using the

autocomplete_field

turned out to be much easier to implement.
Example:
form_for @product do |f|
  f.autocomplete_field :brand_name, autocomplete_brand_name_products_path
end

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Truck drivers out there have a reason to be worried. It is expected that robots will soon take over their jobs as part of an effort to improve operations. Fleet companies that manage trucks are evolving quickly by embracing technology that is making human drivers redundant over time.
Big truck manufacturers like Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, and Renault among others have already released excellent driver assistance technologies that are almost engaging in half the tasks carried out by human drivers. Their main aim is to increase the productivity and safety of both the drivers and cargo on these trucks.
As we speak, big truck manufacturers have already rolled out driver assistance technology for off-road driving. The driver can step out of the truck and steer it using a remote control to evade obstacles and sharp corners. Needless to say, automation and robotics in the trucking industry are expected to grow very rapidly in the near future.
Recently, there has been a lot of news explaining how vehicle technology experts and manufacturers have been working together to develop automated solutions. Recently, Uber conducted a test of fully automated truck delivery across a whole 500 kilometers in Arizona. Although there was a backup driver on board, the driver's task was just to monitor the driving situation and take over in case the test failed. This is one of the greatest steps in the technology of robotics in the trucking industry.
Starsky Robotics, a small startup in the field of tracking technology, is already conducting tests on the full automation of trucks through the use of GPS. They have successfully completed a 7-mile journey on a test basis and are looking forward to stabilizing this technology. Suppliers of fleet solutions devices like EyeRideOnline are ready to be part of the future by supplying sophisticated devices like GPS trackers and smart dashboard cameras.
As the dream of having robotics take full control of delivery trucks on the road is becoming clearer, it is good to mention the important technology that is being used together to offer these solutions. Here are the main ones.
GPS – its role is to offer navigation. A few decades ago when GPS was just a dream, drivers had to use a map to navigate along new delivery routes. Today, they do not have to master the routes because they can follow the digital routes on the GPS navigation screens. A further application of this technology in self-driving trucks is to integrate the GPS navigation into the truck's computer that handles driving.
Smart cameras – their main purpose is to record and feed the information to the control centers where human beings are on standby to assist in navigation through congested streets. According to recent reports, the experts in control centers can assist more than one truck per hour using the remote sensors and the video recording feed sent by the trucks to the experts' screens.
Multi-sensors – even today, vehicles have started using multi-sensors to assist drivers in navigation. Trucks that are planning to roll out robotic driving are heavily relying on multi-sensors to navigate through obstacles and automatically stop when they detect pedestrians and wild animals. They are integrated with a sophisticated computer that gives commands to different functionalities of the truck like the steering wheel, accelerator and the brakes among other things. Probably, sensors are the most sophisticated technology that is part of the success of robotic and automated truck driving.
Self-diagnosis – as robotics takes control of the trucks, the innovators must create a way to deal with small problems on the road. Tire punctures, brake failures, collisions and other issues must be solved quickly to avoid delays in the deliveries. Simply, automated self-remedies are the only solution to minimize such challenges.
The truck industry has made important steps in securing robotic services. From what is already available, the manufacturers are headed in the right direction towards success. Also, the conducted and ongoing tests are evidence that self-driving trucks are no longer a dream but almost a reality. Robotic innovation will indeed change the trucking industry for good. Unfortunately, current truck drivers will have to look for a different job.
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NBN Co's fragile supply chain reflects rising geopolitical and trade tensions between the US and China. It could also point to a tectonic shift in global tech leadership.
Dec 22, 2020 – 12.00am
Global supply chains will never be the same thanks to the combination of COVID-19 and the United States' trade and technology war with China.
Companies using inputs from third parties can no longer rely on the just-in-time supply of manufactured goods. This means holding higher levels of inventory to ensure security of supply to customers.
This clearly means high working capital costs which will have to be borne by the purchasers of the goods.
In electronics and telecommunications, the trade and tech war between the US and China has added a layer of complexity to the sourcing of components and rising levels of paranoia in Western countries of the location of manufacturing plants.
Xi Jinping's Made in China 2025 plan could steal a significant slice of the semiconductor market from the United States. David Rowe
This is causing further disruption to supplies, pushing up costs and leading to new board level assessments of the geopolitical risks inherent in supply chains.
Of longer-term concern to foreign policy and trade experts is the potential for the US fight with China to end the US dominance and leadership in the manufacture of semiconductors.
Trade sanctions and bans on supply of US parts to Chinese companies are driving an acceleration in China's move to self sufficiency, which was already part of central planning through the Made in China 2025 Plan.
In Australia, there is no better place to see these disparate forces at work than in the recent disruptions to the global supply chain of the government-owned wholesale broadband supplier NBN Co.
Its supply chain problems started early this year when the COVID-19 infection started spreading through the Chinese city of Wuhan. It so happened, a factory near Wuhan was supplying NBN a specialist engineering product.
NBN's response to this problem was well described by NBN's chief financial officer Philip Knox in an interview with Chanticleer at The Australian Financial Review CFO Live conference in October.
"Most of our components come from overseas, particularly China and particularly Wuhan," he said.
"I used to complain about the level of our inventories being way too high but then I went quiet on that recently because we did have a lot of inventory for good reason."
Knox said the pace of the NBN roll-out of its broadband network meant the company was wise to hold high levels of inventory to enable it to modify and resource in other areas, and find solutions quickly.
"But I still remember our head of supply ringing me up saying there's a small component that is made in Wuhan that we cannot get anywhere else and it's specifically made for us," he said
"It cost about $2.50 and it was one of the most important key components in a particular part of the network, which was news to all of us."
Knox said it meant NBN couldn't continue building its network unless it could get supplies of a Chinese part stuck in the supply chain, because COVID-19 had shut down the usual shipping lines.
"Really, the only way I could get it was to have it air-freighted - if you could get it at all," he said.
"And so it was a bit of a white knuckle exercise there for a little while but we found solutions. The other good thing that came out was how creative people get by letting management get on and find solutions. We're very good at managing crisis situations."
The second prominent NBN supply chain problem can be directly attributed to the US government's bungled move to limit Chinese access to US semiconductor chipsets.
Instead of cutting off chipset supplies instantly, the US provided ample warning for the Chinese to build their inventories and have an impact on the global supply chain.
When the US Commerce Department announced in May that from September 14 no US chipset technology could be shipped to Huawei, it was a buy signal for the Chinese telecoms equipment supplier.
That gave Huawei about three or four months to order as many chipsets as possible from its Western suppliers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Mediatek, which is also a Taiwanese company, and South Korea's Samsung.
Chipset demand was already strong as seen by the numerous buy recommendations for semiconductor stocks. But the short window allowed Huawei and others in China to build inventory.
The US ban was designed to stop Huawei from using chipsets which utilise software supplied by US companies. But it resulted in a huge pull forward of production which affected the entire supply chain, right down to the core silicon.
It is believed Huawei is now sourcing new chipsets from Asian and European suppliers that either utilise US software or sourcing solely from the Chinese domestic market. The biggest supplier of chipsets in China is Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.
SMIC was one of 60 companies blacklisted by the US Commerce Department on Friday for its efforts to allegedly help the Chinese military build leadership in technology.
In one of his last anti-China trade restrictions before the end of the Trump administration, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Friday: "We will not allow advanced US technology to help build the military of an increasingly belligerent adversary.
"Between SMIC's relationships of concern with the military-industrial complex, China's aggressive application of military-civil fusion mandates and state-directed subsidies, SMIC perfectly illustrates the risks of China's leverage of US technology to support its military modernisation."
Ross said the Entity List designation would limit SMIC's ability to acquire certain US technology by requiring US exporters to apply for a licence to sell to the company.
Caught in a geopolitical storm
NBN got caught in the middle of this US-China tech war about a month ago when its US supplier of network termination devices for its hybrid coaxial cable (HFC) said it could not supply products in a timely manner.
NBN Co has advised customers that the average time to connect new customers to the NBN via HFC technology is expected to increase from about 14 days to around 42-48 days from mid-May to mid-June 2021.
The NASDAQ-listed CommScope said the delays were because of a shortage of supply of silicon used in Broadcom semiconductor chips installed in its HFC termination devices, which are installed in households to connect to the external NBN cable.
In a statement issued to Chanticleer, NBN Co said: "NBN Co has been working on continuity plans to manage the impact of reduced HFC modem supplies resulting from a global demand surge for silicon chips during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We're working closely with our technology supplier to further reduce impacts."
Chanticleer understands NBN is using the same solution Knox used to solve the Wuhan engineering widget problem - air freight.
As well as boosting imports of CommScope termination devices through air freight, NBN Co is reducing equipment held in-field by technicians and retail service providers, paused self-install connections, is investigating refurbishing of returned devices, and placing large orders to improve priority in supply queues.
There is a larger geopolitical issue that arises from America's aggressive move against Chinese tech companies, and they were elucidated well by Boston Consulting Group in a document produced in March called How Trade Restrictions with China could end US Leadership in Semiconductors.
The passage of time has not diminished the compelling warnings contained in the document. If anything, the escalation of US actions against Chinese tech companies has made it even more likely that the report's grim predictions will become reality.
BCG says that "broad unilateral restrictions on Chinese access to US technology could significantly deepen and accelerate the share erosion for US companies".
In essence, it says that over the next three to five years, "US companies could lose 37 per cent of their revenues if the US completely bans semiconductor companies from selling to Chinese customers, effectively causing a technology decoupling from China."
The decline in revenue "would inevitably lead to severe cuts in R&D and capital expenditures, and the loss of 15,000 to 40,000 highly skilled direct jobs in the US semiconductor industry".
BCG says this would result in South Korea overtaking the US as world semiconductor leader in a few years and China could attain leadership in the long term.
"As experience in communications network equipment and other tech sectors has shown, once the US loses its global leadership position, this dynamic effectively reverses the industry's virtuous innovation cycle and throws US companies into a downward spiral of rapidly declining competitiveness and shrinking market share and margins," BCG said.
"Lower R&D investment would inhibit the US semiconductor industry's ability to deliver the breakthroughs that US technology and defence sectors rely on to maintain global leadership, and ultimately could force them to depend on foreign semiconductor suppliers."
Tony Boyd is the Chanticleer columnist. He has more than 35 years' experience as a finance journalist. Connect with Tony on Twitter. Email Tony at tony.boyd@afr.com
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There's always plenty to do during December. Holiday parties, lunches, and get-togethers fill our calendars, festive lights beckon us outdoors, and there's a happy cheer in the air that gets people smiling. To keep the momentum going, be sure to visit the below celebrations during this merry month.
Heritage Christmas at Burnaby Village: Go back in time and celebrate the holiday like our ancestors did, with heritage baking and sing-alongs.
Christmas in the Village of Fort Langley: Another heritage-themed celebration happens at Fort Langley every year. Crafts for kids, blacksmithing demonstrations, and chestnuts over an open fire are just a few of the highlights.
Glow Gardens: A winter oasis has been created at Milner Village Garden Centre in Langley. Interactive light displays, a Christmas market, and Santa are all waiting for you. Be sure to tell him what's on your wish list.
21st Annual Winter Ice Palace: Head over to Cloverdale Ice Arena for a seasonal skate in a winter wonderland. Fun for the whole family, date night, or friends.
Gingerbread Village: Your mouth will water at downtown Surrey's charming Gingerbread Village, featuring Surrey-inspired creations. Don't forget to vote for your favourite house!
Timberline Country Christmas: In the heart of Maple Ridge, you'll step back in time on a 73-acre horse ranch. Discover how the holidays used to be celebrated with wagon rides, a hay maze, and activities for the whole family.
Lights at Lafarge Lake: Walk the 1.2 km pathway around Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam and absorb the artful display of Christmas lights twinkling through the trees.
Aurora Winter Festival: The biggest winter festival Vancouver has ever seen takes place from November 23rd to December 30th. The hidden village features an ice rink, a tube park, food trucks, a Christmas market, and lots more.
Polar Express: A little farther out of town, you'll find the Polar Express in Squamish. It's well worth the drive to experience this magical journey into a favourite children's story.
With all these events keeping you busy, it's a wonder if you get any holiday shopping done.


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Stephen Graham Jones and a Ton of Other Best-selling Authors Are Writing Unioverse Stories
Perhaps the best way to kick off this blog post is to hand it over to Mr. Stephen King himself:
Why am I referring to a nearly-year-old tweet from the master of horror? Well, because the guy who wrote that "Thrilling, literate, scary, immersive" novel, Stephen Graham Jones, is putting his talent to work for the Unioverse.
Jones, along with 27 other writers such as Linda D. Addison (Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda) and Kevin J. Anderson (Dune: The Butlerian Jihad) are contributing to Stories of the Reconvergence, a forthcoming anthology of short stories and poetry set in the Unioverse. Each story will also feature original art by Stuart Jennett (Star Citizen) with cover art by Aaron Lovett (Monster Train). Stories of the Reconvergence will be edited by Colorado Book Award winner Joshua Viola and Angie Hodapp, Director of Literary Development at Nelson Literary Agency and published in the Summer of 2023, and you can check out the full list of authors below.
And if that wasn't exciting enough, we're also launching a comic book series. The six-issue story arc will introduce the initial five Unioverse heroes that people will be able to play in Unioverse games. The series is written by Viola and Hodapp, with interior art by Ben Matsuya (Cryowulf), cover art by AJ Nazzaro (Overwatch) and a variant cover by Tyler Kirkham (DC, Marvel). The first comic, titled Unioverse: Reyu, will be available digitally in Spring of 2023.
Both Stories of the Reconvergence and Unioverse: Reyu are being done in partnership with Hex Publishers, an independent publishing house owned and operated by Viola that specializes in genre fiction: horror, science fiction, crime, dark fantasy and more.
We are thrilled to have all of these talented people on-board to help expand the Unioverse into the entertaining and enthralling franchise that you (and Stephen King) are going to love.
You can read the full press announcement here.
Complete list of Stories of the Reconvergence writers:
Mario Acevedo • National bestseller, Colorado Book Award winner
Killing the Cobra, The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, X-Rated Blood Suckers, University of Doom
Linda D. Addison • Bram Stoker Award winner, Horror Writers Association (HWA) Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, Classic Monsters Unleashed, Predator: Eyes of the Demon, The Place of Broken Things
Kevin J. Anderson • National and international bestseller
Dune, Spine of the Dragon, Star Wars, X-Files, Zombie P.I.
Andy Baker
The 7th Portal, The Accuser, The Backstreet Project, House of the Dead
Carina Bissett • Colorado Book Award winner
HWA Poetry Showcase, Shadow Atlas, Upon a Twice Time
Kenneth W. Cain • Splatterpunk Award finalist
Darker Days, Embers, A Season in Hell, Tales from the Lake
Kevin Dilmore • Amazing Stories, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Rainbow Bright, Star Trek, The Village Voice
Sean Eads • Colorado Book Award finalist, Lambda Literary Award finalist, Shirley Jackson Award finalist
Classic Monsters Unleashed, It Came from the Multiplex, Lord Byron's Prophecy, Nightmares Unhinged, Shadow Atlas
Brent Friedman • Call of Duty, Halo 4, League of Legends, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Walking Dead
Maxwell I. Gold • Rhysling Award nominee
Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums, Oblivion in Flux, Shadow Atlas
Warren Hammond • Colorado Book Award winner
Denver Moon, It Came from the Multiplex, KOP, Nightmares Unhinged, Shadow Atlas, Tides of Maritinia
Angie Hodapp • Colorado Book Award finalist
Cyber World, False Faces, It Came from the Multiplex, Shadow Atlas, Tooth & Claw
Jamal Hodge • Vanguard Award winner
Chiral Mad 5, Penumbric Magazine, Space and Time Magazine
Akua Lezli Hope • Elgin Award winner, Writer's Digest Award winner
NOMBONO, Otherwheres, Them Gone
Gabino Iglesias • Bram Stoker Award nominee, Locus Award nominee, Wonderland Book Award winner
Zero Saints, Coyote Songs
Stephen Graham Jones • New York Times bestseller, Bram Stoker Award winner, Ray Bradbury Prize
Earthdivers, My Heart is a Chainsaw, The Only Good Indians
Matthew Kressel • Nebula Award finalist, World Fantasy Award finalist
King of Shards, Queen of Static
Lee Murray • Bram Stoker Award winner
Grotesque: Monster Stories, The Path of Ra, The Taine McKenna Adventures
Wyeth Ridgway • Game Developer
Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, South Park, Terminator
Jeanne C. Stein • bestselling author of the Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles
Joshua Viola • Denver Post bestseller, Colorado Book Award winner, Splatterpunk Award nominee
The Bane of Yoto, Blackstar, Classic Monsters Unleashed, Cyber World, Denver Moon, It Came from the Multiplex, Nightmares Unhinged, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shadow Atlas, Target: Terror
Tim Waggoner • Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson Award finalist
Alien, Halloween Kills, Resident Evil, Supernatural
Dayton Ward • New York Times bestseller
24, Mars Attacks, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek
Carter Wilson • USA Today bestseller, Colorado Book Award winner
The Comfort of Black, The Dead Girl in 2A, The Dead Husband, Mister Tender's Girl
Jezzy Wolfe
Insidious Assassins, Monstrum Poetica, Shallow Waters, Zippered Flesh
Jane Yolen • Nebula Award winner, World Fantasy Award winner
The Devil's Arithmetic, Lost Girls, Owl Moon, Sister Emily's Lightship
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro • Hugo Award finalist, Locus Award finalist
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Fed opens door to smaller interest rate rises
Following the fourth consecutive increase of 75 basis points US central bank signalled it may moderate the pace of future rate increases, while also warning the ultimate level of rates could be higher than it previously expected.
Keith Wade
Chief Economist & Strategist
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) raised rates by 75 basis points (bps) for the fourth meeting in a row and said it would continue to reduce its balance sheet, in the process known as "Quantitative Tightening". However, the statement accompanying the latest meeting of its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) rate setting committee signalled it is thinking about slowing the pace of future rate increases.
The accompanying statement read: "the Committee will take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, the lags with which monetary policy affects economic activity and inflation, and economic and financial developments".
This is new and in noting that the Fed had now raised rates by 3.75% this year, Chair Powell reiterated in the press conference following the statement that at some point it will be appropriate to slow the pace of tightening. However, so that no one could become too excited about an impending pivot in monetary policy he said they have some way to go and that the ultimate level of rates could be higher than previously expected.
In the Q&A session Powell added that the recent strength of the CPI and employment releases had led him to that view. This opens the door to a smaller rate rise in December, say 50 bps, but the tone of the press conference means it will require softer readings on inflation and the labour market. There will be two prints of each of these variables before the next Fed decision on 14 December. It would seem that the Fed has turned off the autopilot, but remains to be convinced that it has reached its destination.
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If Fibre Channel storage devices do not display correctly in the vSphere Client or the vSphere Web Client, perform troubleshooting tasks.
If you do not see a port, the problem could be cable connectivity. Check the cables first. Ensure that cables are connected to the ports and a link light indicates that the connection is good. If each end of the cable does not show a good link light, replace the cable.
Zoning limits access to specific storage devices, increases security, and decreases traffic over the network. Some storage vendors allow only single-initiator zones. In that case, an HBA can be in multiple zones to only one target. Other vendors allow multiple-initiator zones. See your storage vendor's documentation for zoning requirements. Use the SAN switch software to configure and manage zoning.
The MASK_PATH plug-in allows you to prevent your host from accessing a specific storage array or specific LUNs on a storage array. If your host is detecting devices and paths that you do not want the host to access, path masking could have been set up incorrectly.
For booting from a SAN, ensure that each host sees only required LUNs. Do not allow any host to see any boot LUN other than its own. Use storage system software to make sure that the host can see only the LUNs that it is supposed to see.
Ensure that the Disk.MaxLUN parameter allows you to view the LUN you expect to see. For information on the parameter, see the vSphere Storage documentation.
If a disk array has more than one storage processor (SP), make sure that the SAN switch has a connection to the SP that owns the LUNs you want to access. On some disk arrays, only one SP is active and the other SP is passive until there is a failure. If you are connected to the wrong SP (the one with the passive path), you might see the LUNs but get errors when trying to access them.
Create new LUNs on a SAN.
Change the path masking configuration on the host.
Make a change to a host in a cluster.
For information, see the vSphere Storage documentation.


Classic case of faith over fear - Man buys $325,000 worth of Bitcoin in anticipation of $10,000 Bitcoin Price.
In a very interesting development, a man identified by his handle in an online community had on the 11th of May 2017 made a very remarkable move by purchasing $325,000 worth of Bitcoin with hopes that the price will hit the $10,000 price mark predicted by cryptocurrency market experts.
The man, who goes by the online alias gingerbreadfutters and said to have terminal disease, recently purchased the flagship digital currency as it achieved an all-time high of $1700.
Bitcoin price has increased significantly since then, reaching $1,866 as global average across major markets on May 11. However, users in the online community wherein gingerbreadfutters made his announcement harshly criticized his decision to all in on Bitcoin after they discovered that he obtained the capital through a loan.
An equity loan is a type of loan in which the equity of the borrower's home is used as collateral. In other words, gingerbreadfutters is gambling on his life savings that is his real estate and betting yet another $325,000 obtained by using his life savings on collateral to make a mid-term profit on Bitcoin.
More to that, gingerbreadfutters told his online community that he plans to sell all of his Bitcoins once Bitcoin price hits $10,000 and purchase a new real estate on the West coast.
However, the online community criticized gingerbreadfutters' extreme risky and frankly foolish investment strategy. Investors should always prevent from initiating risky investments for short term and mid-term profit because there are potential situations wherein investors may be in urgent need of capital but their assets or money are locked up.
So what are thoughts guys? Will you go all in for Bitcoin this year? Let's hear them in the comments.
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Sequencing the Weed Genome
Posted by News Fetcher on August 20 '11 at 07:45 PM
By Soulskill from Slashdot's department-of..-wait-no..-i'm-hungry department:
GNUman writes "Maybe soon we'll be able to genetically modify humans so that a specific action (e.g., tapping your nose, pinching your ear) triggers the release of THC directly from your own cells. From the Nature blog post: 'At last, the field of genomics has something to offer Cheech and Chong. DNA sequencing hit a new high last night with the midnight release of the Cannabis sativa genome. The raw sequence was posted on Amazon's EC2 public cloud computing service by a young company called Medicinal Genomics, which aims to explore the genomes of therapeutic plants.'"
New RIM Streaming Music: $5 For 50 Songs?
By Soulskill from Slashdot's opinions-are-like-music-services department:
jfruhlinger writes with news that Research In Motion will soon jump into the music service market. The service will be available through BlackBerry Messenger, and will offer users 50 songs for $5/month, which they can then share with other people who own BlackBerries.
"So why would anyone pay $5 a month to get 50 songs on their phone, when they can pay $10 a month and get an unlimited number of songs, that work on lots of different devices, from services like Rdio and Rhapsody? Reasonable question! But RIM seems to be assuming that its subscribers won't ask. Instead it is playing up the notion that BBM Music will be about 'personalizing' your phone, in the same way that ringtones supposedly did a decade ago. Ringtones, as you'll recall, let buyers play a few seconds of a song, and sold for a couple bucks, while full songs from Apple's iTunes went for 99 cents. And for a few years, the music companies and the wireless carriers sold lots and lots of ringtones."
PS Vita Specs Announced
By Soulskill from Slashdot's hamsters-with-crash-helmets department:
An anonymous reader writes "Sony has announced the hardware specs for the PS Vita and the details have confirmed most fans' hopes instead of their fears. The heart of the system is an ARM-developed Cortex A9 chip with four cores and a PowerVR SGX GPU. The screen is a 5-inch OLED capacitive touch-screen (with multi-touch) and a resolution of 960 x 544. The system will include 512MB of RAM and an additional 128MB of discrete VRAM. There will be front and rear cameras capable of 60fps at VGA resolution (640 x 480)."
Argentina Censors Over a Million Blogs
By Soulskill from Slashdot's don't-cry-for-them department:
In his first accepted submission, bs0d3 writes "A judge in Argentina ordered ISPs to block two websites — leakymails.com and leakymails.blogspot.com. According to Google, many ISPs have simply blocked the IP 216.239.32.2 instead of using a targeted DNS filter. Over a million blogs are hosted by Blogger at this IP. Freedom of speech advocate Jillian York wrote, 'IP blocking is a blunt method of filtering content that can erase from view large swaths of innocuous sites by virtue of the fact that they are hosted on the same IP address as the site that was intended to be censored. One such example of overblocking by IP address can be found in India, where the IP blocking of a Hindu Unity website (blocked by an order from Mumbai police) resulted in the blocking of several other, unrelated sites."
Genome Researchers Wants Your Genes
By Soulskill from Slashdot's you-say-intelligence-genes-i-say-smarty-pants department:
An anonymous reader writes "The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) is looking for smart volunteers to donate their genes for analysis. They are seeking subjects with high intelligence; you can only qualify if you got a high score in SAT/ACT/GRE or got awards in competitions like Math/Physics Olympiads or TopCoder. They're also launching a drive to recruit US participants. Their first stop (PDF) appears to have been Google, which has run into trouble with the Chinese government. Also worth noting: BGI is registered in China as an 'Institutional Organization,' which by law requires it to report to a supervising governmental office or agency."
Jailbroken Devices Compromised By Charging Stations
By Soulskill from Slashdot's charged-with-computer-fraud department:
mask.of.sanity writes "Data can be stolen from Windows, Android and Apple devices by unassuming power charging towers. In an attack demonstrated at the Defcon hacking conference, mobile phone charging units were rigged to pull data from phones plugged into them. Researchers found many jailbroken and modified devices activated USB functions when they were plugged in, or simply rebooted."
Bookstores May Boycott New Amazon-Published Books
Posted by News Fetcher on August 20 '11 at 11:15 AM
By Soulskill from Slashdot's not-embracing-the-future department:
destinyland writes "Amazon has begun signing their own authors and then publishing the books themselves, leaving booksellers 'wary' as Amazon 'tries to have it all,' according to a Boston newspaper. The co-owner of an independent bookstore near Cambridge considered boycotting Amazon's new line of books, complaining, 'They are a huge competitor, and they don't collect sales tax, giving them an unfair advantage.' A children's bookstore noted that 'the pie is getting cut into fewer pieces. I'd be nervous if I were an adult book publisher.' Borders bookstore has already declared bankruptcy, leaving The Daily Show to joke that bookstores should simply become 'digital downloading' stations — or a 'living history' museum where future generations can learn what a 'magazine rack' was."
HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices
By Soulskill from Slashdot's impulse-windfall department:
Hugh Pickens writes "According to an article by Tony Bradley, news is spreading quickly online that HP is going to clear out its vast TouchPad inventory by dropping the price to an offer you can't refuse. Rumor has it that beginning Saturday the 16Gb TouchPad will be $99, and the 32Gb TouchPad will be a measly $149. 'It is actually a fairly capable tablet. It's just not an iPad 2,' writes Bradley. 'For $500 it was a joke. For $300 it was still a shady deal. For $99 it's a steal.' HP has learned the hard way, and quickly pulled the plug on its tablet, proving that HP never had a solid tablet or mobile strategy and that it was really just looking for an excuse to get out. 'The reality is that my Best Buy is swimming in unsold HP TouchPad inventory,' adds Bradley. 'I went out tonight and picked mine up at the regular $400 price to beat the rush. Situations like this are why they invented price matching. I can just go back with my receipt once the fire sale starts and get the price adjusted and the difference refunded.'"
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Ask Slashdot: Best Wi-Fi Solution For a Hotel?
By Soulskill from Slashdot's we'll-keep-a-flickering-led-on-for-you department:
dynamo52 writes "I have been tasked with replacing a managed Wi-Fi system for a mid-sized hotel. They have already selected Comcast to provide a 100mbps connection, which unfortunately must come in at one corner of the ~5-acre property. The hotel plans to provide this service for free, so there is no need for any type of billing management system, though it should be secured enough that the parking lot does not become a free Wi-Fi hotspot. Additionally, there is no ethernet infrastructure in place. The existing APs (hidden away in proprietary encasements) seem to be connected via telephone lines and the owners have strongly indicated they would prefer that no new wiring be installed. Have any Slashdotters implemented similar systems? Specifically, what hardware did you use and what special considerations should I take in designing this system?"
Why Software Is Eating the World
By Soulskill from Slashdot's om-nom-nom department:
An anonymous reader writes "Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen writes in the Wall Street Journal that software is 'eating the world.' He argues that software's importance to the economy is being underestimated, and will become much more evident in the near future. Quoting: 'But too much of the debate is still around financial valuation, as opposed to the underlying intrinsic value of the best of Silicon Valley's new companies. My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.'"
Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism
By Soulskill from Slashdot's let-there-be-rights department:
gzipped_tar writes "A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a public high school teacher in Mission Viejo, California may not be sued for making hostile remarks about religion in his classroom. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed by a student charging that the teacher's hostile remarks about creationism and religious faith violated a First Amendment mandate that the government remain neutral in matters of religion. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the lawsuit must be thrown out of court because the teacher was entitled to immunity."
Sluggish Android Tablet Growth May Give Microsoft an Opening
By Soulskill from Slashdot's don't-call-it-a-comeback-or-a-slate department:
theodp writes "In NASCAR, you can finish a race in the Top 3 by leading the whole way or by having spectacular crashes take out those ahead of you. The same may hold true for the tablet race, where Apple has led the whole way, but Microsoft could advance into 2nd or 3rd place as those once ahead of it crash and burn. 'Microsoft tablets based on Windows 8 won't be ready until next year,' notes SplatF's Dan Frommer. 'Unexpectedly, that might not be too late to matter.' Far-fetched as it may seem, Ars Technica's Peter Bright explains why the Windows 8 tablet invasion might work."
Microsoft Drops Use of 'Supercookies' On MSN
By timothy from Slashdot's but-kinect-knows-your-every-move department:
Trailrunner7 writes "In response to work by Stanford University researchers who found that Microsoft and several other high-profile companies were using a controversial technique to keep persistent cookies on users' PCs to track their movements, Microsoft says it has discontinued the practice of using so-called 'supercookies.' In July, Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford, revealed that some companies were still employing techniques that enabled browser history sniffing, which give the companies information on what sites users have visited and what links they've clicked on. The research also found that some companies were using cookies that re-spawn even after users have deleted them. Microsoft was using this technique on one of its sites, MSN.com, and now the company said that it is no longer doing so."
Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F
By timothy from Slashdot's only-surprising-because-it's-true department:
Hugh Pickens writes "Google search anthropologist Dan Russell says that 90 percent of people in his studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page. 'I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for,' says Russell, who has studied thousands of people on how they search for stuff. 'At the end I'll say to them, "Let me show one little trick here," and very often people will say, "I can't believe I've been wasting my life!"' Just like we learn to skim tables of content or look through an index or just skim chapter titles to find what we're looking for, we need to teach people about this CTRL+F thing, says Alexis Madrigal. 'I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all,' writes Madrigal. 'We're talking about the future of almost all knowledge acquisition and yet schools don't spend nearly as much time on this skill as they do on other equally important areas.'"
A Decade of Haiku OS
By timothy from Slashdot's syllables-fail-even-5-7-5-to-capture-such-a-triumph department:
CharlyFoxtrot writes "Haiku OS, the open source reimplementation of BeOS celebrated its tenth birthday this week. 'Ten years ago today, the first post appeared on the mailing list of our project — then still called "OpenBeOS" — officially marking the start of our endeavor. Back then, with the imminent demise of Be Inc., there was an excitement and creative motivation in the air, that lead many to think a first release was only a matter of a few years. As it turns out, this estimation was a bit too optimistic ...' The project is currently on the third alpha of its Haiku Release 1."
New Mexico Spaceport Nearly Ready For Business
By timothy from Slashdot's if-no-pun-why-mention department:
Cutting_Crew writes "I am sure many of us have heard about this story, but it looks like Spaceport America is finally ready to take off (no pun intended). The latest construction pictures [Note: database might be slightly flakey] are up to view. Want to be one of the first to take a ride? It will set you back $200,000. I don't know how many people will be able to afford such a trip, outside of Las Vegas, Hollywood, Cupertino, Redmond, and few retirees, but I suppose they are thinking that they can make their money back with this project in the long term. Touring the space frontier seems a little steep. A lot of people are just trying to make living in a home a reality without being foreclosed on."
More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung
By timothy from Slashdot's artist's-conception department:
jfruhlinger writes "It seems that Apple can't stop Photoshopping evidence in its EU lawsuit against Samsung. We already saw that the company used trickery in its side-by-side comparison of the iPad and Galaxy Tab; now it appears that it's fudging the comparison between the iPhone and Galaxy S as well."
Linux Journal Goes — Surprise! — Digital
By timothy from Slashdot's you-can-print-it-out-like-my-dad-would department:
Mr_Perl writes "Linux Journal sent out an email to subscribers today announcing that they are going 100% digital. Subscribers signed on for a paper version of the journal, and now have been switched to an electronic version, apparently at the exact same subscription rate. No news yet on why they did it, and no sign of any offers to reimburse unused subscriptions for subscribers who are disappointed."
Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost
By timothy from Slashdot's economics-have-consequences department:
MojoKid writes "Multiple manufacturers in the IT industry have been keeping a wary eye on China's decision to cut back on rare earth exports and the impact it may have on component prices. There have been reports that suggest we'll see that decision hit the hard drive industry this year, with HDD prices trending upwards an estimated 5-10 percent depending on capacity. Although rare earth magnets are only a small part of a hard drive's total cost, China cut exports last year by 40 percent, which drove pricing for these particular components up an estimated 20-30x. China currently controls 97 percent of the rare earth elements market for popular metals like neodymium, cerium, yttrium and ytterbium."
HP's Shift On PCs Could Boost Acer, Dell and Lenovo
By Soulskill from Slashdot's nobody-knows-you-when-you're-down-and-out department:
CWmike writes "With HP spinning off its PC business, rivals will be looking for a way to get a bigger piece of the hardware pie. HP's PC unit news, among other industry-rattling announcements, including pulling out of the tablet market and shuttering webOS, rocked the hardware industry since HP is by far the dominant maker in the world. So while HP decides what to do, rivals should be plotting their next move, say industry analysts. Who could benefit the most from any change-up in PC sales? The obvious suspects: Dell, which passed Acer in the second quarter of this year; and Acer is looking to make up some lost ground and could see HP's shake up as an opportunity. And don't forget Lenovo, which holds the third-largest market share. Despite the general downshift for PCs, Lenovo is riding some great momentum right now, reports Gartner. In the second quarter of 2011, the company saw 22.5% growth in its PC shipments."
A related article ponders the fate of webOS, looking at a number of potential buyers as well as the unlikely possibility that HP will open source it.


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Blogger Outs Idaho Senator
by Robert Raketty - SGN Staff Writer
The sexual orientation of Idaho Senator Larry Craig was called into question on Tuesday, as an activist blogger told nationally syndicated radio host Ed Schultz that he had documented the stories of at least four men who say they have had sexual relations with the Senator.
Mike Rogers, the blogger behind BlogActive, made the announcement during the Ed Schultz show, which is broadcast in more than 100 cities and on Sirius Satellite Radio. "Without a doubt in my mind," he told Schultz of his certainty. "I am absolutely solid on the sources. ... On this case, I have been working for two and a half years."
According to a statement on his blog, Rogers claims to have taken trips to the Pacific Northwest to meet with men who have said they have had physical relations with the Senator and to having met with a man in Washington, D.C., who made a similar claim. He says the men reported comparable personal characteristics and that none of the men knew each other or that he was talking to others.
Rogers said he hoped to expose Craig's years of hypocrisy, because the Senator consistently voted against the interests of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community
. He also urged Idaho's social and conservative leaders to account for their support of Craig. "Senator Craig has consistently relied on the support of Idaho's " values voters,' but he has not been honest with them about his own conduct," wrote Rogers. "Conservatives and liberals are both standing up and recognizing the hypocrisy of elected officials like Senator Larry Craig. The time for treating Americans one way and behaving in another is over."
A spokesperson for the Idaho Republican, Sid Smith, said the Congressman denied the charge. "The senator says the story is completely ridiculous," Smith told the Spokesman-Review. "Mr. Rogers has no facts to back up his story. [The events] absolutely did not (occur); there is no basis in fact."
Rogers has outed prominent Republican figures in the past, including Republican Congressman Ed Schrock, former-RNC field director Dan Gurley, Representative David Dreier and Ken Mehlman, chair of the RNC. He promised to out another member of Congress


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21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. 22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king lay down with his fathers.
23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and reigned for forty-one years. 24 He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not abandon all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel. 25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which He spoke through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years. 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. 25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. 22 After Amaziah the king rested with his ancestors, Azariah rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah.
23 In the fifteenth year of Judah's King Amaziah son of Joash, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 24 He did what was evil in the Lord's sight. He did not turn away from all the sins Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
25 He restored Israel's border from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word the Lord, the God of Israel, had spoken through his servant, the prophet Jonah son of Amittai from Gath-hepher.
21 All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father, Amaziah. 22 After his father's death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.
23 Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash, began to rule over Israel in the fifteenth year of King Amaziah's reign in Judah. Jeroboam reigned in Samaria forty-one years. 24 He did what was evil in the LORD's sight. He refused to turn from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had led Israel to commit. 25 Jeroboam II recovered the territories of Israel between Lebo-hamath and the Dead Sea, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had promised through Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 24 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. 25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. 22 He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.
23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 24 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit. 25 He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.


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Earthquake in central Italy (updated)
A powerful earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck at 3:32 am (0132 GMT) near the medieval city of L'Aquila, in the mountainous region of Abruzzo, 60 miles (95 kilometers) north of Rome. At least 20 people, including five children, were killed and many buildings (3,000 to 10,000) in the city's historic center were severely damaged or destroyed. The quake was the latest in a series of jolts that struck the area over the past two days.
Massimo Cialente, mayor of L'Aquila, said around 100,000 people had left their homes as a result of the damage. Guido Bertolaso, the head of civil protection, said this is "the worst tragedy since the start of the millennium."
See also here, here and here.
And here is a CNN video report:
UPDATE - Monday, April 6, 2009, 7:30 pm
- OVER 100 DEAD, 1,500 INJURED
- 'HUGE' ARTISTIC DAMAGE
- Quake: predictions impossible
- Abruzzo Earthquake – 100 Die, Hundreds Injured and Thousands Evacuated
- (ANSA) - L'Aquila, April 6 - Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Monday that around 1,500 people were injured in the L'Aquila earthquake that killed at least 92.
''At the moment 4,000 rescuers are at work and concentrating on extracting people from the rubble,'' said Berlusconi, who cancelled a trip to Moscow to travel to L'Aquila where he surveyed the damage from a helicopter.
The premier said a camp with 2,000 tents, each capable of housing 8-10 people, was currently being set up in the city for those who had lost their homes in the disaster, while around 4,000 beds in hotels in the area had also been reserved for survivors.
''The camp should be ready be tonight,'' Berlusconi told journalists at a press conference, during which another small quake was felt.
''The fundamental thing I want to say is that nobody will be left alone,'' he said.
The premier appealed to survivors not to remain in damaged houses.
''Nobody can tell if there will be further quakes in the next few hours or days,'' he said.
- 100 dead in Italian quake
- Death toll in Italy quake hits 50
- Witnesses describe what happened
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Etichette: somewhere in italy


Condensation can occur in fuel tanks, leading to microbial growth that falls to the bottom of a tank, forming an acidic sludge. Some corrective steps are only partial solutions. Draining the tank removes most of the sludge, but not the entrained water. Biocides kill microbes but don't address the sludge issue. Adding fuel re-suspends sludge. This article offers a more complete solution.
The City of Ocala, Florida, had difficulty starting some generator sets, a major concern for a community with more than 60 standby units. The city's service supplier changed some parts, which resulted in a stockpile of parts in anticipation of future failures without a solution to the starting problem with generator sets. At the same time, the city experienced injector failures on some of its fleet vehicles. These problems eventually convinced the city to call its Cat® dealer, as 90 percent of the generator sets were Cat. Checks of fuel filters and tests of fuel storage tanks indicated the issue was not parts oriented at all but rather dirty fuel.
Cat dealer Ring Power cleaned the city's fuel in a procedure called fuel polishing. It is a process that removes entrained water and sludge, kills microbes and stabilizes stored fuel. Ring Power generator product support sales representative York Bridges reports the City of Ocala "has not had any more fuel related problems in its generator sets or on-highway vehicles" since the fuel treatment last spring.
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Der Viophonograph ist ein Musikinstrument, das um 1975 von der amerikanischen Performance-Künstlerin Laurie Anderson entwickelt wurde.

Es handelt sich dabei um eine Violine, auf deren Korpus eine 7″-Schallplatte montiert ist. Mit einem Violinbogen wird über diese Schallplatte gestrichen, und der Ton wird über einen elektrischen Verstärker hörbar gemacht.

Weblinks
 Laurie Anderson: The record of the time bei ICC online

Einzelnachweise

Streichinstrument
Idiophon
Elektrophon

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