Items lost or found on planes arriving at Oslo Airport, in the airport terminal, or on the trains to the airport will be handed over to the lost and found office. This also applies to items forgotten in the security check.
The lost and found office is located in the arrivals hall (opposite of the Airport Express Train terminal). Follow the signs to Lost and Found and Baggage Service.
Lost and found items can also be sent to your home address. Contact us for further information.
We use MissingX to record all items that are missing and found.
We will contact you as soon as we can if your item is found and delivered to us. You must expect 24 hours before an item is delivered to us and registered in the system.
If you have lost checked baggage or taken the wrong bag off the belt, Lost and Found cannot help you.
You must then contact the handling agent for your airline. For more information go to your airline's website.
SAS, Aeroflot, Air Cairo, Air France, Blue1, Correndon, Estonian Air, FreeBird airlines, Icelandair, Jet Time, KLM, Lufthansa, Novair, PIA, Primera Air, Qatar airways, SunExpress, Tailwind, Thomas Cook, Thomson, Tuifly, Turkish airlines, Vueling, Widerøe, DAT/DOT.
Norwegian, Air Baltic, Air Berlin, Austrian, British Airways, Brussels airlines, Emirates, Finnair, Ryanair, Swiss, TAP Portugal, Thai airways, United Airlines.


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this.VelhaMania.module('Entities', function (Entities, App, Backbone, Marionette, $, _) {
    var API,
        users = void 0;

    Entities.User = Backbone.Model.extend({
        defaults: {
            itsMe: false,
            isPlaying: false,
            turn: false,
            shape: null
        },

        mutators: {
            username: function () {
                return _.first(this.get('email').split('@'));
            },

            avatar: function () {
                return 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' + md5(this.get('email'));
            }
        },

        logout: function () {
            socket.emit('users/delete', { email: this.get('email') });
            this.destroy();
            return this;
        },

        itsMe: function () {
            return this && this.get('itsMe');
        },

        hasLogged: function () {
            return this.itsMe();
        },

        isPlaying: function () {
            return this.get('isPlaying');
        }
    });

    Entities.Users = Backbone.Collection.extend({
        model: Entities.User,
        localStorage: new Backbone.LocalStorage('velha-mania-user'),

        initialize: function () {
            socket.emit('users');
        },

        addOrUpdateUser: function (user) {
            var userOnCollection = this.findWhere({ email: user.email }),
                attributes = _.pick(user, 'email', 'isPlaying', 'shape', 'turn');

            if (_.isEmpty(userOnCollection)) {
                this.add([attributes]);
            } else {
                userOnCollection.set(attributes);
            }
        },

        addUsers: function (users) {
            $.each(users, function (i, user) {
                this.addOrUpdateUser(user);
            }.bind(this));
        },

        byEmail: function (email) {
            var user = this.where({ email: email });
            return _.first(user);
        },

        removeUser: function (user) {
            this.findWhere({ email: user.email }).destroy();
        },

        getCurrentUser: function () {
            var user = _.first(this.filter(function (user) {
                return user.get('itsMe');
            })),
                records = _.noops;

            if (_.isEmpty(user)) {
                records = this.localStorage.findAll();

                if (records.length === 1) {
                    this.add(records);
                    socket.emit('users/new', { email: _.first(records).email });
                    user = this.getCurrentUser();
                }
            }

            return user;
        },

        create: function (email) {
            var data = {
                email: email,
                itsMe: true
            };

            if (_.isEmpty(this.getCurrentUser())) {
                socket.emit('users/new', { email: email });
                Entities.Users.__super__.create.call(this, data);
            }

            return this.getCurrentUser();
        },

        isEmpty: function () {
            var users = this.where({ isPlaying: false }),
                isEmpty = _.isEmpty(this.models);

            if (users.length === 1) {
                isEmpty = this.getCurrentUser() === _.first(users);
            }

            return isEmpty;
        }
    });

    API = {
        getUsers: function () {
            if (_.isUndefined(users)) {
                users = new Entities.Users();
            }

            return users;
        },

        getCurrentUser: function () {
            return this.getUsers().getCurrentUser();
        },

        getUserByEmail: function (email) {
            return this.getUsers().byEmail(email);
        },

        newUser: function (email) {
            return this.getUsers().create(email);
        },

        logout: function () {
            return this.getCurrentUser().logout();
        },

        addUsers: function (users) {
            this.getUsers().addUsers(users);
        },

        addUser: function (user) {
            this.getUsers().addOrUpdateUser(user);
        },

        removeUser: function (user) {
            this.getUsers().removeUser(user);
        }
    };

    App.reqres.setHandler('user:entities', function () {
        return API.getUsers();
    });

    App.reqres.setHandler('user:entity', function () {
        return API.getCurrentUser();
    });

    App.reqres.setHandler('new:user:entity', function (email) {
        return API.newUser(email);
    });

    App.reqres.setHandler('user:by:email:entity', function (email) {
        return API.getUserByEmail(email);
    });

    App.reqres.setHandler('logout:user:entity', function () {
        return API.logout();
    });

    socket.on('users', function (response) {
        API.addUsers(response.data);
    });

    socket.on('user', function (response) {
        API.addUser(response.data);
    });

    socket.on('users/delete', function (response) {
        API.removeUser(response.data);
    });
});

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LeEco Le Pro 3 Unveiled in China; Features a Snapdragon 821 SoC and 6GB of RAM
LeEco has made the much-rumored Le Pro 3 smartphone official at an event in China today. After Asus' Zenfone 3 Deluxe, Le Pro 3 is the second handset to feature Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 821 Quad-Core processor. Besides that, it comes with the all the right ingredients for a premium flagship, an affordable price tag and ditches the headphone jack in favor of CDLA technology alike its siblings.
Design wise, LeEco has kept everything similar to the Le 2 Max with a metal unibody and chamfered edges. In terms of raw specifications, there's a 5.5-inch Full HD 2.5D curved glass display up front and the device, as mentioned before, is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 SoC clocked at 2.35Ghz. Additionally, it comes with 4/6GB LPDDR4 RAM with 32/64GB (UFS 2.0) storage that is not expandable, Adreno 530 GPU, and 4070 mAh battery underneath with Quick Charge 3.0.
The camera arrangement includes a 16MP rear f/2.0 lens complicated by Sony's IMX298 sensor, dual-tone LED flash and an 8MP front-facing 76.5-degree wide-angle f/2.2 lens. Software wise, LeEco has included EUI 5.8 running on top of Android Marshmallow. Furthermore, Le Pro 3 offers a rear fingerprint scanner, an IR blaster, dual speakers, 4G VoLTE Dual-SIM, NFC, USB Type-C, and WiFi 802.11ac (2.4/5 GHz) MIMO.
LeEco Le Pro 3 Specifications
5.5-inch Full HD panel, 2.5D curved glass, 80% NTSC color gamut, 500 nits brightness
4/6GB LPDDR4 RAM with 32/64GB (UFS 2.0) storage
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Quad-Core processor clocked at 2.35GHz, Adreno 530 GPU
EUI 5.8 custom software, Android Marshmallow
16MP rear camera, Sony IMX298 sensor, dual-tone LED Flash, PDAF, f/2.0 aperture
8MP front-facing camera, 1.4um pixel size, f/2.2 aperture, 76.5-degree wide-angle lens
Fingerprint sensor, IR blaster
CDLA audio, Dolby Atmos, dual-speaker setup
Dual SIM, 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac (2.4/5 GHz) MIMO, NFC, Bluetooth 4.2, USB Type-C
4070mAh battery, Quick Charge 3.0
LeEco Le Pro 3 Price
The LeEco Le Pro 3 will be available from today in China starting from 1799 yuan (US$ 270 / Rs. 18,070 approx.) for the 32GB+4GB variant and 1999 yuan (US$ 299 / Rs. 20,080 approx.) if you want a whopping 6GB of RAM as well as 64GB internal storage. There's also an additional variant called Zhang Yimou edition that comes with 4GB of RAM+64GB internal storage costing 2499 yuan (US$ 374 / Rs. 25,100 approx.) and 2999 yuan (US$ 449 / Rs. 30,129 approx.) for 6GB RAM with 128GB storage. LeEco will begin shipping orders from this month's 28th.
Source:FoneArena
Last updated by Shubham Agarwal, on 22-Sep-16
Shubham Agarwal Author Shubham started as an intern with Technology Personalized and later graduated to be a full-time author. He dabs with both features and news posts. Currently based out of Ahmedabad, Shubham holds an engineering degree in Computer Science with a specialization in mobile applications.

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Custom designed sails for multihull, samples, monohull racers, bluewater cruisers.
Scotland - St Combs Light Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway) - A history, description of a railway long closed.
Custom built stairs, joinery, including kitchens, computer workstations, garden furniture. Includes product descriptions with contact details.
Discusses the paradoxes of Zeno of Elea, e. g. , Achilles, the Tortoise; by Nick Huggett.
Supplies specialist 4X4 automotive accessories to OEM's within the UK.
The main duty is singing the daily services in the College Chapel during the University Term.
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The ideal thickness for SC 1 screeds is 5÷6 cm, but a whole thickness range can be obtained.
SC 1 is used to obtain in a short time, when it is required, a subsoil ready to receive the subsequent installation of waterproofing coats like BETONGUAINA, floor resins or any type of tiles.
In fact, SC 1 allows the installation of BETONGUAINA, water-based epoxy resins, ceramic and cotto tiles after only 24 hours from casting, while allows the installation of rubber flooring, carpet and wood after only 10 days.
SC 1 is the perfect subsoil for any heated floors to be subsequently coated with any kind of finishing coat.
SC 1 is not chemically aggressive towards the most common type of pipes (made of polypropylene, etc.) used in the heating system.
In this case, after the screed is laid, it is advisable to start heating slowly and then switch to cooling, before proceeding with the coatings laying.
First it must be clear whether the to be made screed should adhere to the existing substrate (structural screed) or be separated from it (floating).
A waterproof sheet (minimum thickness of 200 micron) shall be applied to the installation area, with overlapped by at least 20 cm.
Position a 4÷5 mm thick foam strip along the perimeter and around pillars (if any).
Check the substrate moisture content and, if it exceeds 2.5% (carbide measured), apply one or two layers of NORPHEN SW SOLID to the bottom until a continuous film has formed, then broadcast the surface, wet on wet, with a layer of quartz sand, grain size ranging from 0.7 to 1.2 mm.
If the substrate is dry, apply a foamed strip all around the perimeter (as above) and prepare a liquid mortar consisting of 1 part of undiluted GROVE PRIMER and 3 parts of SC 1.
Apply the grout on the installation surface with a scrubber.
Cast the SC 1 screed within a few minutes.
Clean tools with clean water until the product is fresh, once it has hardened remove it by mechanical means.
To obtain 1 cm thickness of dry product approx. 18-20 kg of product each 1 m² are required.
(*): the determination was carried out using a physical model compatible with the one of the reference standard UNI EN 12664:2002.
Strictly abide to the exact mixing time and water amounts as instructed in the section "How to use".
During the hardening phase, do not add any water to regenerate the product if it has started to set.
The introduction, at one third from the bottom, of a reinforcing welded mesh (wire 5 mm, opening 20x20mm) will certainly improve the screed performance and help eliminate any crack due to shrinking.
In case of a cold shut a piece of welded mesh should be inserted between the cast ends, to avoid any joint formation.
12 months in its original packaging, in a covered and dry place. At temperatures between +5 ° C and +35 ° C. The product is moisture sensitive.


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package sgdk.rescomp.resource;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import sgdk.rescomp.Resource;
import sgdk.rescomp.resource.internal.SpriteAnimation;
import sgdk.rescomp.tool.Util;
import sgdk.rescomp.type.Basics.CollisionType;
import sgdk.rescomp.type.Basics.Compression;
import sgdk.rescomp.type.SpriteCell.OptimizationType;
import sgdk.tool.ArrayMath;
import sgdk.tool.ImageUtil;
import sgdk.tool.ImageUtil.BasicImageInfo;

public class Sprite extends Resource
{
    public final int wf; // width of frame cell in tile
    public final int hf; // height of frame cell in tile
    public final List<SpriteAnimation> animations;
    public int maxNumTile;
    public int maxNumSprite;

    final int hc;

    public final Palette palette;

    public Sprite(String id, String imgFile, int wf, int hf, Compression compression, int time, CollisionType collision, OptimizationType opt,
            long optIteration) throws Exception
    {
        super(id);

        // init
        maxNumTile = 0;
        maxNumSprite = 0;
        animations = new ArrayList<>();

        // frame size over limit (we need VDP sprite offset to fit into u8 type)
        if ((wf >= 32) || (hf >= 32))
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("SPRITE '" + id + "' has frame width or frame height >= 32 (not supported)");

        // set frame size
        this.wf = wf;
        this.hf = hf;

        // get 8bpp pixels and also check image dimension is aligned to tile
        final byte[] image = Util.getImage8bpp(imgFile, true, true);

        // happen when we couldn't retrieve palette data from RGB image
        if (image == null)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "RGB image '" + imgFile + "' does not contains palette data (see 'Important note about image format' in the rescomp.txt file");

        // find max color index
        final int maxIndex = ArrayMath.max(image, false);
        if (maxIndex >= 64)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("'" + imgFile
                    + "' uses color index >= 64, SPRITE resource requires image with a maximum of 64 colors, use 4bpp image instead if you are unsure.");

        // retrieve basic infos about the image
        final BasicImageInfo imgInfo = ImageUtil.getBasicInfo(imgFile);
        final int w = imgInfo.w;
        // we determine 'h' from data length and 'w' as we can crop image vertically to remove palette data
        final int h = image.length / w;

        final int palIndex;
        try
        {
            // get palette index used (only 1 palette allowed for sprite)
            palIndex = ImageUtil.getSpritePaletteIndex(image, w, h);
        }
        catch (IllegalArgumentException e)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "'" + imgFile + "' SPRITE resource use more than 1 palette (16 colors), use 4bpp image instead if you are unsure.", e);
        }
        // get size in tile
        final int wt = w / 8;
        final int ht = h / 8;

        // check image size is correct
        if ((wt % wf) != 0)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Error: '" + imgFile + "' width (" + w + ") is not a multiple of cell width (" + (wf * 8) + ").");
        if ((ht % hf) != 0)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Error: '" + imgFile + "' height (" + h + ") is not a multiple of cell height (" + (hf * 8) + ").");

        // build PALETTE
        palette = (Palette) addInternalResource(new Palette(id + "_palette", imgFile, palIndex * 16, 16, true));

        // get number of animation
        final int numAnim = ht / hf;

        for (int i = 0; i < numAnim; i++)
        {
            // build sprite animation
            SpriteAnimation animation = new SpriteAnimation(id + "_animation" + i, image, wt, ht, i, wf, hf, time, collision, compression, opt, optIteration);

            // check if empty
            if (!animation.isEmpty())
            {
                // add as internal resource (get duplicate if exist)
                animation = (SpriteAnimation) addInternalResource(animation);

                // update maximum number of tile and sprite
                maxNumTile = Math.max(maxNumTile, animation.getMaxNumTile());
                maxNumSprite = Math.max(maxNumSprite, animation.getMaxNumSprite());

                // add animation
                animations.add(animation);
            }
        }

        // compute hash code
        hc = (wf << 0) ^ (hf << 8) ^ (maxNumTile << 16) ^ (maxNumSprite << 24) ^ animations.hashCode() ^ palette.hashCode();
    }

    @Override
    public int internalHashCode()
    {
        return hc;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean internalEquals(Object obj)
    {
        if (obj instanceof Sprite)
        {
            final Sprite sprite = (Sprite) obj;
            return (wf == sprite.wf) && (hf == sprite.hf) && (maxNumTile == sprite.maxNumTile) && (maxNumSprite == sprite.maxNumSprite)
                    && animations.equals(sprite.animations) && palette.equals(sprite.palette);
        }

        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public List<Bin> getInternalBinResources()
    {
        return new ArrayList<>();
    }

    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return id + ": wf=" + wf + " hf=" + hf + " numAnim=" + animations.size() + " maxNumTile=" + maxNumSprite + " maxNumSprite=" + maxNumSprite;
    }

    @Override
    public int shallowSize()
    {
        return (animations.size() * 4) + 2 + 2 + 4 + 2 + 4 + 2 + 2;
    }

    @Override
    public int totalSize()
    {
        int result = 0;

        for (SpriteAnimation animation : animations)
            result += animation.totalSize();

        return result + palette.totalSize() + shallowSize();
    }

    @Override
    public void out(ByteArrayOutputStream outB, StringBuilder outS, StringBuilder outH) throws IOException
    {
        // can't store pointer so we just reset binary stream here (used for compression only)
        outB.reset();

        // animations pointer table
        Util.decl(outS, outH, null, id + "_animations", 2, false);
        for (SpriteAnimation animation : animations)
            outS.append("    dc.l    " + animation.id + "\n");

        outS.append("\n");

        // SpriteDefinition structure
        Util.decl(outS, outH, "SpriteDefinition", id, 2, global);
        // set frame cell size
        outS.append("    dc.w    " + (wf * 8) + "\n");
        outS.append("    dc.w    " + (hf * 8) + "\n");
        // set palette pointer
        outS.append("    dc.l    " + palette.id + "\n");
        // set number of animation
        outS.append("    dc.w    " + animations.size() + "\n");
        // set animations pointer
        outS.append("    dc.l    " + id + "_animations" + "\n");
        // set maximum number of tile used by a single animation frame (used for VRAM tile space
        // allocation)
        outS.append("    dc.w    " + maxNumTile + "\n");
        // set maximum number of VDP sprite used by a single animation frame (used for VDP sprite
        // allocation)
        outS.append("    dc.w    " + maxNumSprite + "\n");

        outS.append("\n");
    }
}


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Wall Street Expanding Virtual Horizons
Securities Industry News / By Maria Korolov
Virtualization, in one form or another, has been around almost as long as computers. When the term arose in the 1960s, it referred to the partitioning of mainframe computers. But virtualization soon became a way to let people stop worrying about the inner workings of their hardware.
In the earliest days, to put something in a computer's memory you needed to know the physical location of every byte of storage. Then virtualization tools came along. Instead of deciding to store data in location #84AF, a user could enter a command–LET NAME$= "John Smith"–and allow the compiler to decide where NAME$ would be stored. Shortly after, disk operating systems were invented: Users could assign file names to programs and data; the operating system figured out where to put them.
Without an OS, you would have to manually track files' locations, not to mention be sure to leave plenty of room between them–if you add data a file takes up more space, and without sufficient headroom other files would have to be rearranged. Today, information technology departments face a similar challenge, only on a much larger scale.
IT teams have to decide which servers will run which applications, and which devices will store which data. And they have to keep track of what goes where and be ready to shift things around if a server goes down or a hard drive breaks, or a database or application gets too large.
Ideally, virtualization eliminates the distinctions between all the hardware a company owns and keeps track of what goes where. Human operators simply make sure the total amount of available space is adequate.
Storage virtualization effectively turns multiple storage units into a single device, with the software placing files and ensuring effective use of space. A hardware virtualization platform does the same for servers, deciding which application goes where, usually by creating virtual machines for each individual piece of software to run on, then moving them between servers as needed.
Even networks can be virtualized, building virtual private channels on top of the existing infrastructure–to isolate different kinds of traffic, for example.
Various types of virtualization technology are in use on Wall Street, says Daniel Kusnetzky, president of Osprey, Fla.-based research firm Kusnetzky Group. "And examples of this type of technology have been in use for well over 30 years."
Today's virtualization technology is increasingly sophisticated. "Virtual processing software makes it possible to achieve one of several goals for all processing on a system, including higher levels of performance, higher levels of scalability, higher levels of reliability, consolidation, improved levels of agility of applications and even isolating applications from one another, giving the organization better control," says Kusnetzky. "There are also ways to improve network and storage performance that are equally important."
And these options, relatively new for Wall Street firms, are becoming more and more important.
According to research firm Gartner, virtualization will be the most important tool in technology infrastructure and operations through 2010 and will dramatically change the way IT departments work. At year-end 2006 there were over half a million virtual machines running in corporate back offices; by 2009 there will be more than 4 million, estimates Gartner.
At a conference in Sydney last year, Gartner VP Thomas Bittman predicted that virtual machine hypervisor technology will be nearly free by the end of 2008, embedded into hardware by manufacturers, and into operating systems by software vendors. "It is now less about the technology and more about process change and cultural change within organizations," said Bittman.
New Hypervisors
Until recently, financial firms largely had one main source for virtualization technology. "One year ago, VMware had no serious competitors," asserts Bittman in a report issued March 13. But now companies such as Citrix Systems, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems and Virtual Iron have new offerings, points out Bittman.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware, which claims more than 100,000 corporate customers, including all the major financial services firms, provides a traditional "bare metal" hypervisor that sits between the physical processors and operating systems, says Parag Patel, VMware's VP of alliances.
Microsoft recently released the beta version of Hyper-V, software that also uses a bare-metal approach. The product is likely to work smoothly with virtual machines running Windows and is built into the soon-to-be-released Windows Server 2008, according to the company.
Bare-metal hypervisors are the most common, say experts. "The benefit is that it allows you to have different operating systems" on the same server, says Yiping Ding, VP of research and development for systems modeling at Bethesda, Md.-based network management technology vendor Opnet Technologies, which counts the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Charles Schwab & Co., State Street Corp. and T. Rowe Price Associates among its clients.
A bare-metal hypervisor is more flexible than a system that runs on top of the OS, adds Ding. "If you put all the eggs in one basket–one server, one OS–if one application screws up, you bring down the whole system," he says.
"The fact that these market leaders are using this hypervisor technology means that it's pretty much the market standard," says Richard Whitehead, director of product marketing at Novell, citing VMWare, Hyper V and Xen. Novell supports the open-source Xen virtualization platform, as do other third-party vendors like Citrix, which in October bought XenSource, the company that founded the Xen project and offers enterprise-level virtualization tools.
"Dell and others are working on embedding the hypervisor into the chip," Whitehead says. "Hypervisors are here to stay. In fact, they're commoditizing in many respects."
Last month, Renton, Wash.-based Parallels released a beta version of its hardware virtualization product and launched a new data center management tool, Parallels Infrastructure Manager. In contrast to bare-metal hypervisors, the Parallels Virtuozzo product sits on top of the operating system. The OS-based hypervisor approach, also known as containers, is the favorite of hosting providers.
The downside is that two different operating systems can't run on the same machine. On the other hand, a firm doesn't need several full copies of the operating system if it's using the same one for all its virtual machines. Installing a full copy of Windows on each machine uses significant amounts of memory and other resources. Sharing some of the OS reduces the overhead that comes with virtualization.
Typically, a securities firm consolidating multiple systems into a single data center would be working with more than one operating system and need a bare-metal hypervisor, says Corey Thomas, VP of marketing at Parallels, formerly known as SWsoft.
"But as [securities] companies start to do virtualization on a larger scale, they start to have the same problems that services providers have had," notes Thomas.
Parallels offers both OS-based and bare-metal hypervisors, says Benjamin Rudolph, the company's director of corporate communications. Its deployments were up seven times last year.
As virtual machines are loaded on a single server, overhead costs add up quickly.
A major Spanish bank recently implemented 1,000 virtual machines to run wealth management and trading applications. The machines sit atop 100 physical services, says Martin Migoya, CEO of Buenos Aires-based Globant, the vendor that managed the initiative. The bank spent $4 million on the project–which took about a month–a savings of approximately $2 million over a non-virtualized approach, according to Migoya.
The costs weren't cut in half, he explains, because of the additional overhead, including OS licenses, the cost of virtualizing, and the associated services expenses. In addition, the physical servers used for the project are larger than what the company would have purchased had it not gone the virtualization route.
Virtualization–like any technology–can be abused. The ease with which virtual machines can be built could lead to an explosion if employees are allowed to create them unchecked. "Virtualization without good management is more dangerous than not using virtualization in the first place," says Gartner's Bittman. "Automation is the critical next step to help organizations stop virtualization sprawl.'"
Sprawl happens when IT and business managers aren't aware of how many virtual machines are running, what's on which machine and, most importantly, what security these machines have, says Tim Pacileo, principal consultant of Compass, a technology consultancy whose clients include Royal Bank of Scotland, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, UBS and other top-tier financial firms.
"This is a major problem in the securities industry due to the amount of information that has to be stored and managed due to regulatory and compliance requirements," notes Pacileo.
Surrey, U.K.-based Compass has recently completed several virtualization projects, he says. "Even a very large, complex organization, such as a securities firm, can deploy ten new servers in an hour," says Pacileo. "And when you have a much faster deployment model, the security team needs to be able to stay in front to make sure the deployments are secure."
To help keep up with this growth, virtualization management tools will need to continue to evolve, and an increasing array of firms such as Compass will be helping companies to take advantage of them. Framingham, Mass.-based research firm Interactive Data Corp. (IDC) estimates that the virtualization services market will grow from $5.5 billion in 2006 to $11.7 million in 2011.
"Currently, the majority of the services opportunity lies in supporting customers' initial implementations of virtualization," says IDC analyst Matt Healey. "However, over the next several years, IT consulting and systems integration will begin to become the dominant opportunity as the technology becomes much more mainstream."
Applications, Networks
Though servers and storage media see the most demand, applications and networks can also be virtualized. "If you take an application and put it in a virtual environment, you can start up multiple instances if you need more copies to handle the load," says Chip Schooler, director of technology advancement at Radware.
The trick is being able to find these applications once they're running. Radware helps firms manage the programs so that users are automatically sent to wherever the application is currently in operation. It also balances the loads if multiple instances of the application are active at the same time.
Mahwah, N.J.-based Radware has more than 5,000 customers, with financial services firms making up a large part of its business, according to Schooler.
And Wall Street has just started to embrace the virtualization of networks. In November, JP Morgan Chase & Co. installed technology from Billerica, Mass.-based Voltaire, which provides an InfiniBand-based grid backbone.
As a result of its virtualized network, JP Morgan's data centers will evolve "from application-based silos to unified fabrics that allow for greater agility and utilization while improving the bottom line," said Cory Shull, VP of investment architecture, in a statement.
The Voltaire switches and routers were installed in a risk analysis grid in JP Morgan's North Harbor, U.K. data center. The compute backbone is available for JP Morgan's internal clients, says Patrick Guay, Voltaire's SVP of marketing. More than 35 different applications are running on it, he adds.
One of the benefits of virtualizing the network is increased security, according to Guay. "When I take a single 20 gigabit InfiniBand connection and break it up into five 4 gigabit connections, each one of those five lanes of traffic is completely separate from an OS perspective," he says. "Even though there is only one physical wire going into the server, the data is protected."
The isolation takes place at a lower level than that of the operating system–or of a hypervisor. As a result, the network is separated from the security flaws that are typical of operating systems, he says, and it doesn't add costs in terms of processing resources. "We're able to segment traffic without additional overhead," he notes.
Article originally appeared in Securities Industry News, which has since closed down.
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July 22, 1:00 pm – Attend a free, public solar information meeting at the Seminole County Mail Library (215 North Oxford Road) in Casselberry. The meeting is hosted by the Seminole County Solar Co-op. For more information, click here.


Fyre Festival set out to be a once-in-a-lifetime luxury festival to rival the likes of Coachella. It was intended to promote the Fyre music booking service. The Fyre app made it easier for people to book their favourite artists direct. It was dubbed to be the Uber of the music industry.
Fyre festival was to be held on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma, over two weekends in summer – April 28–30 2017 & May 5–7 2017.
What Happened to Fyre Festival?
Fyre Festival fell foul to a number of different problems. The main set back is that the festival promotors where selling a dream to people that could never have been achieved, within in the perimeters they set themselves. They promised people a luxury experience of a lifetime that included either a luxury tent, a beach house or stunning yacht. When the festival came down to the wire, the actually only had a couple hundred plastic tents. Which didn't go down well with the thousands of people that they flew out.
To read more about the history of Fyre Festival – Click here.
The reason why Fyre festival got so big was down to one simple fact. Their brand was powerful and calculated. Furthermore, there advertising went hand-in-hand with the branding so it made for an unstoppable business. It was a business that was never going to slow down until the inevitable happened.
Fyre had researched their target audience really well and realised that to get as much buzz as possible. They had to use a tactic called "influencer marketing". This involves people with an amount of following to post/talk about a certain product. In event in the hope the following of that person get involved in what they're doing. Fyre Festival used the likes of Kendal Jenner, Hailey Baldwin and Bella Hadid. Being huge names in the modelling industry they and, adding to this, having a huge social media following, the tickets for the festival sold out twice over (which lead to problems obviously).
Their brand identity was in touch with the target audience also, it was clean, hipster and funky. Everything they wanted Fyre Festival to be. Below are a few of the posts from the models and some promotional materials used.


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Reginald Smith Brindle
Reginald Smith Brindle (5 January 1917 – 9 September 2003) was a British composer and writer.
Smith Brindle was born in Cuerdon, Lancashire. He began learning the piano at the age of six, and later took up the clarinet, saxophone and guitar (and won a Melody Maker prize for his guitar-playing). Under pressure from his parents, he began to study architecture. At the time, he was interested in jazz, and played saxophone professionally for a while alongside his studies. On attending an organ recital at Chester Cathedral in 1937, however, he was inspired to take up both the organ and composition. He spent most of the war serving in Africa and Italy as a sapper. It was during this period that he rekindled his interest in the guitar, an instrument for which he wrote an enormous amount of music.
After the war, Smith Brindle returned to composition. He submitted a Fantasia Passacaglia (1946) for an Italian composition competition, and won first prize. From 1946 to 1949 he studied music at the University College of North Wales in Bangor. He went to Italy in 1949 to continue his studies. Here his teachers included Ildebrando Pizzetti and Luigi Dallapiccola.
Although he wrote for many instruments, Smith Brindle was perhaps best known for his solo guitar music, especially El Polifemo de Oro (1956), written for Julian Bream, as well as five sonatas (1948, 1976, 1978, 1979), Variants on two themes of J. S. Bach (1970), Memento in two movements (1973), Do not go gentle... (1974), November Memories (1974), Four Poems of Garcia Lorca (1975), Preludes and Fantasies (1980) and The Prince of Venosa (1994). His only opera, The Death of Antigone, premiered at Oxford in 1971.
Smith Brindle was an expert on the music of 20th-century Italian composers such as Luigi Dallapiccola, Ildebrando Pizzetti and Bruno Bartolozzi (he studied with all three). He also wrote a technical book Serial Composition (1966). He played many instruments, but was particularly fond of the guitar, organ and saxophone.
Serial Composition. Oxford University Press. 1966. ISBN 978-0-19-311906-2.
Contemporary Percussion. Oxford University Press. 1970. ISBN 978-0-19-816247-6.
The New Music: The Avant-garde since 1945. Oxford University Press. 1975. ISBN 978-0-19-315468-1. Second edition 1987. ISBN 978-0-19-315471-1 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-19-315468-1 (pbk).
Musical Composition. Oxford University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-19-317107-7.
Guy Rickards (29 October 2003). "Obituary: Reginald Smith Brindle". The Guardian.
"Obituaries : reported in Bangoriad 2004". Prifysgol Bangor University.
"Museum's 18 hour musical marathon". BBC. 21 June 2009.
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A systematic review of minimally invasive surgery for retrorectal tumors
T. G. Mullaney, Amy Lightner, M. Johnston, S. R. Kelley, David Larson, Eric Dozois
Retrorectal tumors are rare tumors that require resection for symptoms, malignancy and potential malignant transformation. Traditional approaches have included laparotomy, perineal excision or a combination. Multiple minimally invasive techniques are available which have the potential to minimize morbidity and enhance recovery. We performed a systematic review of the literature to determine the feasibility and surgical outcomes of retrorectal tumors approached using minimally invasive surgical techniques. Publications in which adult patients (≥ 18 years) had a minimally invasive approach (laparoscopic or robotic) for resection of a primary retrorectal tumor were included. Data were collected on approach, preoperative investigation, size and sacral level of the tumor, operating time, length of stay, perioperative complications, margins and recurrence. Thirty-five articles which included a total of 82 patients met the inclusion criteria. The majority of patients were female (n = 65; 79.2%), with a mean age of 41.7 years (range 18–89 years). Seventy-three patients (89.0%) underwent laparoscopic or combined laparoscopic–perineal resection, and 9 (10.8%) had a robotic approach. The conversion rate was 5.5%. The overall 30-day morbidity rate was 15.7%, including 1 intraoperative rectal injury (1.2%). Ninety-five percent (n = 78) of the retrorectal tumors were benign. Median length of stay was 4 days for both laparoscopic and robotic groups, with ranges of 1–8 and 2–10 days, respectively. No tumor recurrence was noted during follow-up [median 28 months (range 5–71 months)]. A minimally invasive approach for the resection of retrorectal tumors is feasible in selected patients. Careful patient selection is necessary to avoid incomplete resection and higher morbidity than traditional approaches.
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At St Columba's Primary School we hold the care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people as a central and fundamental responsibility of our school.
Everyone in our school has a responsibility to help others to feel safe and be safe.
Everyone needs to respect the right of the teacher to educate and the right of students to learn.
We all need to follow classroom and playground rules.
We all must respect the belongings of others.
We all need to respect each other's personal space.
No one should use language that is disrespectful – swearing is unacceptable.
No one in our school should BULLY others – our school is a No Bullying Zone.


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U.S. Ambassador calls for democracy to be restored in Cambodia
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PHNOM PENH--U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Patrick Murphy on Friday called for freedom and democracy to be restored in Cambodia, where the government has intensified its efforts to prevent key opposition figures from entering the country from exile.
"We noted that the recent detention have denied some freedom for some Cambodians. We hope it can be restored. That would be a good thing for Cambodia, a good thing for the bilateral relationship in Cambodia's international standing as well," Mr. Murphy said.
He made the comment to reporters after emerging from a meeting with Cambodia's Interior Minister Sar Kheng. He urged the government to respective divergence of views among the Cambodian people.
Sar Kheng said Cambodia is a multi-democracy and the government is doing its best to protect peace and stability in the kingdom.
Ambassador Murphy's call for the restoration of democracy and freedom came as the Cambodian government is widening its crackdown on dissent and doing everything it can to block the return from exile of key opposition figures, including Sam Rainsy, acting president of the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP).
Government officials have characterized Rainsy's planned return as a plot aimed at overthrowing the government and thus must be prevented at all costs.
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Thousands of teachers, parents and advocates will rally to make school funding a campaign issue.
This time last year, more than 10,000 people rallied outside the Capitol entreating lawmakers to spare the state's education system from the harsh budget cuts some had proposed—to Save Texas Schools.
And though the Legislature passed a budget stripping billions from public education, the rally set the tone for months of activism from teachers, students and parents asking for a stronger, fairer system of paying for schools, and for politicians to dip into the state's Rainy Day Fund to soften the blow to school budgets.
It was also, as Abby Rapoport mentioned at the time, an opportunity to enjoy apple slices, peanut butter crackers and a "positive hip-hop" performance with school leaders from across the state.
Saturday at noon, they'll do it again. After a long bus ride into Austin, and a short march to the Capitol, school advocates from across the state will gather once again to urge lawmakers not to cut school spending any further—good timing, too, just days after a coalition of conservative groups made their case to keep on cuttin' in 2013.
Allen Weeks, the "bookish former track coach" who leads Save Texas Schools (and got the Tyrant's Foe treatment in May), took a few minutes this morning to chat about what's changed for the group in a year, and what's in store Saturday.
This year's definitely about getting people to vote. Unless we've got legislators that strongly support public education, it's going to be difficult to get anything changed. If anything, the 2013 budget climate if going to be, perhaps, even worse. We really have to get people in there that will fight strongly for public education if we're going to see funding come back.
There's been a strong backlash against high-stakes testing in STAAR's first year—how much does all that figure into your message?
That's gonna be a big part of Saturday—it really does go hand in hand with funding. We've seen lots of parents and students really, really upset.
This year they'll spend an average of 28 to 40 days testing at the average school. Some of our schools are going to see more than 50 days—that's more than a quarter of the school year that are testing. That's just unacceptable.
Why are some schools spending so many more days on testing?
It really divides up, in some ways, between rich and poor schools. But schools that tend to always pass, there's a lot less re-testing, where everybody passes the test. The schools that are more at risk have a lot more benchmark testing, various middle-of-the-year testing, and those schools tend to also be the places where the state does field testing.
It's going to be interesting to have this rally so soon after some conservative groups got together and pushed to cut spending even more.
It's great timing that they came out with that this week. It really shows that what they're about is not just efficiency in public schools, what they're really about is an attack on public education. I'm not sure if there's a limit to how deep they would like to see these cuts go.
Michael Quinn Sullivan at Empower Texans has said 50 percent of the education dollar doesn't go to the classroom. Well, that other 50 cents includes school lunches, keeping the lights on school buses, libraries, all the extra functions. That's the fat they want to trim. I guess they want to starve the kids, have them walk to school, have no music, no sports. That's their vision for education. It's just not serious proposals.
Saturday, we're going to have thousands of people there who want to have serious conversations on how to have fair and adequate funding for schools. Texas is just not doing it, and we're a resource-rich state.
Allen Weeks photo from 2011 Save Texas Schools rally by Daniel Setiawan.


It seemed like we all just got "woke". Things were looking like they might coalesce into some kind of concerted effort to ensure things like an adequate food supply, plenty of potable water, clean oceans. We seemed to have generated some real interest in being good caretakers of our tiny planet spinning in space at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, soon to be home to 9 billions humans (and as many species as we can keep from extinction). Younger people seem to have some interest in global cooperation, extending human rights – perhaps an evolutionary leap to a more enlightened planet.
Now we suddenly find ourselves in a white nationalist cul de sac which, if it becomes our permanent abode, certainly will put paid to our dreams of global nirvana. Our dual nature, of course, makes global nirvana just about impossible unless they design a drug to tamp down negative human traits (but the side effects would probably be brutal). Doesn't matter. We have been turned away from that global future into this isolationist cul de sac. Will our sojourn here be brief or long? Will the world join us here or move on without us?
We were on the cusp of the future predicted by or copied from science fiction – except for the tiny hiccups like hating to share our country with people of color, or Muslims, and a weird insistence on doubling down on fossil fuels (that we are pretty sure are harmful to us because they harm this planet we are not able to leave – our lovely home, earth). However there are tendencies towards that still-possible global future developing alongside us as we get steered into that dead end where Trump wants to take us.
Progress in technology is relentless. AI may change everything. Adventurous sorts with money are still trying to reach the stars (Elon Musk, Tesla). We may still end up with cars we don't have to drive and space elevators. Will these parallel trends save us from revisiting the Dark Ages? Will tech trends interrupt the economic trends that could turn most of us back into serfs.
I find myself awake sometimes in the middle of the night wondering what forms government might take in the future. I guess a brain sometimes wants to be entertained, although I wish it would choose a more opportune hour. But I am a science fiction geek, not so much the new stuff, with exceptions, but the classics, so my mind takes me to the future. I wish my understandings were mathematical, or as an expert in engineering or physics, but beyond comprehending that tesseracts involve dimensions and folding space (which we can't actually do), I will never be joining any NASA tech team. (I also know tesseracts, used in this way, are from Margaret L'Engle's book A Wrinkle in Time, which just became a movie).
My real interest in science fiction is political, sociological – about the mechanics of human organizations in space. Since none of us have been in space (not including the Moon) the writers of science fiction create the ways people behave in space, the governmental structures in space, the wars in space, even the day-to-day activities of humans in space. If/when we go to space will the schema we have placed in our brains limit the kinds of government we can imagine? Maybe.
Isaac Asimov, in the Foundation Trilogy (which ended up as more than a trilogy), depicted an entire universe plunged in a Dark Age with one lonely think tank/foundation of enlightenment hidden in a distant and rarely traveled corner in space. The trilogy tells what happens when the secrecy ends, which is a pitted struggle between, of course, the forces of evil and those of good, or corrupt reactionaries v. insightful progressives. The form of government favored by Asimov in this trilogy involves a sort of mind-meld of all living things into "one harmonious living entity in which all beings and the galaxy itself would be a part." This is so far from our current cult of the individual as to seem far-fetched and not terribly enticing, although it seemed more beckoning in the Age of Aquarius when these books were widely read. At least it was not simply a rehash of the government types we already knew, but it also involves a mental transformation which is beyond our current capacities. It does coincide with the idea of a more global approach to organizing life on earth in the 21st century.
Frank Herbert fathered the Dune books which had one of the most intricate governmental structures, basically feudal in nature. The Butlerian Jihad had dictated the destruction of computers and machines and robots that "think", (our suspicions about AI are a recurring theme in sci-fi). Mentats, human "computers" take the place of machines. There are royal families (the Houses), the Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit sisters trying to genetically engineer a superhuman male called the Kwisatz Haderach, and the Fremen who control the sandworms that produce spice. There is the spice with all its parallels to our fossil fuels, although with religious overtones. Many feel that the Dune books were so popular because they went along with the environmentalist movement, still a sort of fringy, but hardly new movement, which appointed us as the caretakers of our planet. Although the feudal governments in Dune do coincide with our current moves in the direction of feudalism and a new dark age, that probably was not the real point of the series.
Star Wars gave us the Empire and the Rebellion but as the prequels were added we saw that this was intended to be Democratic government, although so enormous that corruption seemed inevitable – and it was. Star Trek had the Federation and its nemesis the Klingon Empire, a malignant imperialist military state, but we don't learn much about how the Federation governs beyond the rule that its space peace enforcers should not meddle in other civilizations, a rule that may influence how we would like to conduct ourselves if we ever become a presence in the universe beyond our planet.
We have the systems of governance we have already tried – barter, monarchy, dictatorship, communism, socialism, democracy/republic, social democracy – and perhaps even some examples of anarchy. Every system we try tends to end the same way with plenty of economic inequality and the inability to keep at bay our negative traits. I could go on with my sleepless ruminations about whether or not science fiction may offer us some answers about human government and social structures, but it is just a symptom of my desire to part the curtain of time, to see how we will govern ourselves if we avoid being led into the wilderness and find our way back to global governance, or at least global cooperation. What we might get, if we accomplished this seemingly impossible feat, is a sort of microcosm of how we might interact with each other, or even with alien cultures, in space. And may I say, "yikes", it doesn't look like we will ever get the hang of a government framework that provides long-term stability, fairness and peace.
But if we will be sidelined into some grim nightmare of feudalism, of endless work – some nouveau Evangelical ethic which says that if you are not wealthy then you are inferior and you belong to the wealthy. You will be expected to labor, reproduce, get sick, and die. If such a future is where we are headed then I don't have any desire to take any time machine to see it. I do not want to lose the fine freedoms we have enjoyed in our nation, an ideal of governance which has convinced much of the world to go along with it, and has, so far, been the most promising of any system of government that the human mind has devised on earth.
There may be some better design in the future but let's not throw our republic away before someone imagines it. If we don't conquer the issues of wealth inequality, the corruption that big money has bought to our republic, and the reactionary slide of our current politics we could easily descend into a society that turns the poor into slaves or convicts. We fear an Orwellian future or a return of gestapo mentality because we see these tendencies on the rise, and shockingly, it looks like America may go there first. No wonder I am having nightmares. Aren't you?
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Back 4 Blood Preview – Is this the Left 4 Dead sequel we've been waiting for?
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Left 4 Dead's legacy has long outlasted the flash in the pan that the series has been under Valve's stewardship. The original was a big hit in 2008, with sequel controversially following just a year later, but since then? Well, there's been innumerable patches, a handful of additional campaigns (some community-made), but most importantly there's been no direct sequel.
Arguably, it's still the king of its particular style of adaptive co-op horde shooter, though that hasn't stopped several pretenders to the crown from emerging over the past few years, Warhammer: Vermintide and World War Z perhaps the best known of these. Now there's a new challenger, a true heir to the throne that even follows the 'something 4 something else' naming. Back 4 Blood is probably the closest thing we'll see to Left 4 Dead 3 in quite some time.
Of course, there's a good reason for that: Back 4 Blood comes from the creators of Left 4 Dead. Turtle Rock's short time as part of Valve spawned this co-op shooter, their regained independence in 2010 now seeming like a death knell for the series, but leaving the rights to the game title and world behind them. Back 4 Blood has an awful lot of the trappings and feel of Left 4 Dead, but it is a distinct entity.
The fundamentals of the co-op shooter remain. There's up to four human players (AI characters will sub in to back you up if needed), trying to work their way through levels, get from safe house to safe house and fend off the hordes of fast-moving zombies. Oh, sorry… not zombies, not 'infected', but 'Ridden'.
There aren't just regular zo…. Ridden, but also special enemies that turn up. Left 4 Dead fans will almost immediately recognise the silhouettes of that game's Boomber, Charger, Hunter and others, but it's all a ruse. These aren't the specials you remember and act rather differently. The Retch has the bulk of a Boomer, but it can now also projectile vomit like the L4D Spitter; the Hocker leaps around a little like the Hunter, but it fires a binding web from afar that will pin one of you in place; the Bruiser might have the Charger's single giant clubbed arm, but it's much more about its devastating melee and isn't lured into ill-fated charges to nothingness. All of them now have highlighted weak spots, pushing you to more finessed play when trying to take them down.
Then there's the Orge, a vast monstrosity that's literally the size of a house. It will dominate any level or area that it spawn in, and while it does have a health bar, your only real option is to run and escape to a little island of safety. You can practically guarantee that a campaign showdown will be about actually trying to stand and fight against this Tank2.
All of this is thrown at you dynamically by the game, waves of enemies swelling into hordes that threaten to overwhelm you in different areas each time you play. You might not have an Ogre dig its way out of the ground on one play through, only to be confronted by it and forced to play very differently on your next go. One thing that feels quite clear is that Back 4 Blood is much happier to throw its special Ridden at you in greater numbers, amidst hordes that feel a bit thicker than you saw a decade ago. You can pop one Retch into a wet acidic explosion, only to see another one rounding a corner to take its place.
It's at least in part thanks to the card system that has been woven into Back 4 Blood. The AI is dealt Corruption cards at the start of the game and as you reach each safe house, adding more enemies and specials into the mix, making ammo more difficult to find, generating fog through the world, and more.
To counter this, you have your own player cards, that give you particular bonuses. These can be built into decks, allowing you to channel your chosen character into a particular style of play over time, perhaps giving you fire resistance, modding your team's survivability by giving you an extra life at the cost of health, amping up melee damage and giving you a short boost to speed for each melee kill. They boil down to percentage stat boosts a little too often, but there's the potential for a really interesting system here, especially as the game aims to have the same kind of replay value as Left 4 Dead did back in the day.
Running through the closed alpha's campaign – a battle to reach a bridge and blow up a river boat that is connecting the two sides of the river – the scarcity of ammunition and weapons was something that we keenly felt. There's now weapon type specific ammo pick ups instead of universal ammo piles, and it became a running joke that we'd always find sniper ammo on one play, but never saw a sniper rifle to use it with. Safe houses have also stopped being a place to fully kit yourself out with new weapons, and feature a store to spend coins you've earnt through the level. You can buy grenades, partial ammo refills, scopes and attachments, though the pricing puts some of these out of reach until the very end.
Arguably, the balance was just right, though. Playing on the basic difficulty, we made it through a few hairy situations – one Ogre appearance nearly wiped out both of our retries – and while we might have all run out of ammo at various points, we made it to the next safe house or stumbled upon one of the scarce weapon pick ups to swap to a different ammo type.
There's obviously a way for this game to go from closed alpha to its full release in June 2021, and Turtle Rock will be rebalancing all of these elements over time, but Back 4 Blood immediately feels like a natural and modernised successor to the greatness of Left 4 Dead.
The Tank is dead, long live the Ogre!
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Mumford & Sons Sold a Bunch of Copies of Their New Album, Which Might Bum Out Grizzly Bear
So, first things first: Mumford & Sons' new album Babel sold 600,000 copies in its first week, making it the biggest debut in the U.S. this year. That significantly quashes the closest competition: Justin Bieber's Believe, which managed 374,000, Madonna's MDNA, which copped 359,000, and P!nk's The Truth About Love, now knocked off the medal stand altogether at 280,000. It's also the biggest rock album debut since AC/DC's Black Ice did 784,000 in November of 2008, and the biggest independently distributed release since The Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden, a Walmart exclusive, did 711,000 in November of 2007. And Mumford did all that, as far as I know, without anything like the Amazon 99 cent deal that boosted Lady Gaga's Born This Way to over a million copies sold back in 2011. OK, enough dry statistics? You are convinced? This is, in current shrunken-music-industry terms, lots of albums sold?
What makes the sales numbers particularly notable at this time is this week's New York Magazine cover story: Grizzly Bear Members Are Indie-Rock Royalty, But What Does That Buy Them in 2012? The piece profiles the band as they go about releasing their latest critically acclaimed album, Shields, and does a bit of charting of their personal finances:
"People probably have an inflated idea of what we make," says [front man Ed] Droste. "Bands appear so much bigger than they really are now, because no one's buying records. But they'll go to giant shows." Grizzly Bear tours for the bulk of its income, like most bands; licensing a song might provide each member with "a nice little 'Yay, I don't have to pay rent for two months.'" They don't all have health insurance. Droste's covered via his husband, Chad, an interior designer; they live in the same 450-square-foot Williamsburg apartment he occupied before Yellow House … After covering expenses like recording, publicity, and all the other machinery of a successful act … Grizzly Bear's members bring home … well, they'd rather not get into it. "I just think it's inappropriate," says Droste. "Obviously we're surviving. Some of us have health insurance, some of us don't, we basically all live in the same places, no one's renting private jets. Come to your own conclusions."
The piece has sparked a debate online: If a band like Grizzly Bear can't live comfortably, who can? The band takes pains to point out that it's in no way bitter about its lot. They love making music, and they'd do it for no money too. It's more like, they could see how a few breaks here and there — most importantly, in Droste's opinion, getting on the radio — could bump them up into a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.
Later in the piece, Droste says:
"We're all aware that there's a history," he says, "and our position in it could be very fleeting." And: "We live in a world of blogs that are super-judgmental, and we're not in the clear yet — we don't have a 'Get Out of Jail Free' card. Once you reach a certain level of sales, and you actually hit radio, then I think it doesn't matter. We're not there. Mumford & Sons are in the clear — who cares what their reviews are? If you're already selling a shit ton of records, selling out giant venues, it doesn't matter."
And now, here Mumford & Sons go again, selling a "shit ton of records," thanks in part to big radio support. Is it worth asking if maybe Mumford & Sons clientele skews younger or older than Grizzly Bear's, into the kind of demographics that still buy albums? Is it fair to assume that Droste has no interest in sounding like Mumford & Sons, whose music has some old-timey bells and whistles but ultimately feels ready-made for pop radio? Should someone in Grizzly Bear have married Carey Mulligan?
There are two sides to the response to the New York piece: people aghast that a top indie band can't live comfortably, and people accepting of the idea that working in music is a passion, and therefore is not required to provide you with a comfortable living. But it's now clear that new bands do have one clear path towards financial solubility: Become as Mumford & Sons-y as possible.
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Not only that, but Steve will be making an appearance with a guest DJ spot at this week's Extreme Aggression show at Rocket Room. So altogether will prove to be a great night of entertainment.


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Global creative house JUSTKIDS hosted French contemporary artist Alexandre Bavard as the winter guest of its artist in residence program in San Juan Puerto Rico. While on the island, the multidisciplinary artist developed new works spanning his Neo-archeological sculptures, print works, costumes and textiles as well as his performative practice. The culmination of these new explorations and body of work was on view during the second edition of MECA International Art Fair, celebrated November 16th till the 19th at the Ancient Spanish Navy Arsenals Museum in Old San Juan.
Beyond eyeing the artists's new body of work created in the island at MECA ART FAIR, attendees could enjoy Bavard's adaptation of his performance 'BULKY - GUANG DONG' presented by Justkids and in collaboration with San Juan Dance collective La Trinchera. The piece was choreographed by Alexandre Bavard and its original music composed by Hugo Doustet and Mosa 87 (alias Bavard himself). With his uncanny choreographic performance Bulky Bavard (who graduated with a MFA at Les Beaux Arts de Lyon and L'ecole Boulle in Paris, which he mixed with 15 years of Graffiti) reinterprets the tag gestures through a dance system, interrogating the problematic of street art exposed in galleries and institutional spaces.
The work produced in the Old San Juan encompasses his Neo-Archeologie sculpture series created from found objects that the artist molded in the streets and reworked at the Justkids Studio to give them a futuristic appearance. Coming straight from China to Puerto Rico he also composed large canvases and installation made of counterfeit materials and fabrics, over-referencing and 'appropriating' with humor iconic brands such as Balenciaga, whose logo was itself a conspicuous take on the Bernie Sanders campaign logo, and which in Bavard's world became BalenciaQa or Champin for Champion.
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David Gray - Best Of David Gray
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This 2016 compilation features David Gray's greatest hits spanning from 1999 to 2016. It also includes two new songs, 'Smoke Without Fire' and 'Enter Lightly'.
Heavyweight double vinyl pressed by Kolbalt Records in the UK. Gatefold sleeve.
1. Babylon (3:38)
2. You're The World To Me (3:37)
3. Sail Away (5:15)
4. The One I Love (3:28)
5. Alibi (4:36)
6. Smoke Without Fire (2:55)
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11. Please Forgive Me (5:34)
12. Only The Wine (2:52)
13. Snow In Vegas (feat. LeAnn Rimes) (3:30)
14. Back In The World (3:58)
15. The Other Side (4:27)
16. Enter Lightly (4:50)
James Morrison released his debut album 'Undiscovered' in the summer of 2006. The record features the hit singles "You Give Me Something", "Wonderful World", "The Pieces Don't Fit Anymore", "Undiscovered" and "One Last Chance". This is the first time it's
James Morrison - Undiscovered
Travis' 'The Man Who' is one of the most successful British albums of the last 20 years, it spawned the timeless singles, "Writing to Reach You", "Driftwood", "Turn", and possibly the band's most iconic song, "Why Does It Always Rain on Me".
Travis - The Man Who (20th Anniversary)
Gold in a Brass Age is the eleventh studio album by English musician David Gray. It was released on 8 March 2019 under IHT Records.
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David Gray's seminal album 'White Ladder' is finally released on vinyl in celebration of its 20th anniversary. This 2LP set features newly mastered audio pressed on collectible white vinyl. The album spawned the timeless hits 'This Year's Love', 'Babylon'
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Volunteers provide guidance and support, help promote best practices, create a positive image of the industry and the association, and ensure that we have a voice and that it is heard. Volunteers also contribute to the membership planning and implementing educational and networking events, and by overseeing the sound governance and administration of the association.
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Led by senior corporate practitioners, and representing members who practice primarily corporate and commercial insolvency, the Committee's goal is to identify changes required in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) , the Canadian Business Corporations Act (CBCA), the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), the Winding-Up and Restructuring Act (WURA), and relevant legislation to improve the system. Comprised of a Chair, Vice-Chair and eight members.
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Bumping up this post coz I'm so excited to show you guys how I spent my weekend. After a week full of hospitals and check ups and tests and doctor's appointments, I went to Ace Hotel and Suites together with my bestfriends for a much needed staycation. Of course, I'll do a separate post for that soon but for now, let me show you guys what I wore on my last day at the hotel.
And so I was glad that I was able to pull up this look the next day from all the random stuff on my bag. Wore my cutie glittery denim skirt from Juicy Couture and paired it with the black tank and finish off with my glittery/pearly jacket. I love this jacket so much. I made it the focal point of my look actually. Eh ikaw ba naman kuminang na parang si Michael Jackson tapos may pearls pa!
And don't you just love my new slippers from Celine? They are so girly and glam. :) I am so overusing them!!!! And oh! They're on sale! Got them for Php 200.00 only. Major score!
Staycations are fun and we usually go for comfort dressing during these times. But that shouldn't stop us from being fashionable right? And usually, all we need are just statement pieces like this blazer of mine who just demands attention and we are good to go.
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Scientists Find Life in Antarctica's Blood Red Falls
The underground microbes could help scientists detect life on other planets.
Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Peter Rejcek, National Science Foundation
Antarctica's creepiest landmark is teeming with life. According to a study published yesterday in Nature Communications, the so-called "Blood Falls" contain microbes living in extreme conditions unlike anywhere else on the planet.
Scientists have known for a while that life exists in lakes of liquid water frozen beneath Antarctica's surface. For a long time, the falls' eerie color was thought to come from red algae. But they weren't sure how extensive the waterways behind the red falls were. Now, a group of researchers have discovered that the iron-rich water oozing from under Taylor Glacier is just the mouth of a system of briny aquifers that sits more than 600 feet below ground, writes Colin Barras for New Scientist.
"We found, as expected, that there was something sourcing Blood Falls," lead author Jill Mickuki tells Rachael Feltman for the Washington Post. "We found that these brines were more widespread than previously thought. They appear to connect these surface lakes that appear separated on the ground. That means there's the potential for a much more extensive subsurface ecosystem, which I'm pretty jazzed about."
In order to find the source of the falls, Mickuki and her colleagues dangled an electromagnetic sensor from a helicopter to test the conductivity of the ground. When water freezes, it becomes more resistant to conducting electricity. But when Mickuki's team flew the sensor over Taylor Glacier, they discovered large regions with low electrical resistance, writes Feltman. According to the study, this could point towards a large reservoir of salty groundwater hidden under the Antarctic permafrost.
"This may be the most different of all liquid water reservoirs on Earth since it is not directly replenished by infiltrating rainwater or seasonal snowmelt," Slawek Tulaczyk, one of the study's co-authors, tells Barras of New Scientist. "It certainly is the least understood component of hydrological system on our planet, because it is hidden beneath either permafrost or the ice sheet."
Because the water beneath the glacier is twice as salty as seawater, it has a much lower freezing point. That means the waters that feed Blood Falls have the right conditions to support some hardy species of microbes. In fact, as Mickuki tells Feltman, these microbes could help scientists find life on other planets:
"The subsurface is actually pretty attractive when you think about life on other planets. It's cold and dark and has all these strikes against it, but it's protected from the harsh environment on the surface," Mikucki said.
Underground pockets of cold, briny water may be as good as it gets on planets like Mars, so these Antarctic microbes could help scientist discover where to look for new life forms.
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Kanye West Now Known As 'YE' But Who Cares: He Wore A Hat
Posted on 30 September, 2018, 10:03 am EDT September 30, 2018 by Joe Reinartz Contact Me
NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) Kanye West began his day yesterday with what would, in any other climate, be big news: an announcement that he has changed his name to Ye. But that was before he wore a hat.
"The being formally [sic] known as Kanye West. I am YE," the former Kanye posted on Twitter. He then proceeded to appear on "Saturday Night Live," filling in for an apparently emotionally drained Ariana Grande. He performed "I Love It" with Lil Pump while dressed up as a Perrier bottle, and "We Got Love" with Teyana Taylor. However, for his final performance, "Ghost Town," Ye ended his appearance wearing a MAGA baseball cap and encouraging black Americans to think for themselves.
"I wanna cry right now, black man in America, supposed to keep what you're feelin' inside right now…" TAFNAK (The Artist Formerly Known As Kanye) said. "The blacks want always Democrats…you know it's like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare… does anybody know about that? That's a Democratic plan.
"There's so many times I talk to a white person and [they] say, 'How could you like Trump, he's racist?' Well, if I was concerned about racism I would've moved out of America a long time ago," he added.
Ye made his remarks in the belly of the beast, at a show that has made no bones of its left-leaning political bent, and the audience responded with boos and shouts.
Wowwwww only 3 people clapped. Chris Rock is laughing At @kanyewest pic.twitter.com/jAGP5OwKXD
— 2cool2blog (@2Cool2Bloggg) September 30, 2018
Meanwhile, some in the Twitter universe, like conservative Candice Owens, praised him for speaking out while others protested that Ye's speech was cut off but, in the world of television, a couple minutes is beyond eternity.
"They bullied me backstage. They said, 'don't go out there with that hat on. They bullied me backstage. They bullied me. And then they say I'm in a sunken place," –@kanyewest
To one of the most courageous spirits: THANK YOU FOR STANDING UP TO THE MOB.https://t.co/5foZESFI9R
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
KANYE SNL TALK THAT GOT CUT OFF FREEDOM OF SPEECH SHOULD HAVE EXTENDED pic.twitter.com/IpULoEJxsN
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) September 30, 2018
Swizz Beatz has message for Kanye West 🧢 pic.twitter.com/FpDYvkowZU
— Karen Civil (@KarenCivil) September 30, 2018
Meanwhile, his name is now Ye.
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