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A new classification for genital ambiguity and urogenital sinus anomalies
Richard C. Rink, Mark C. Adams, Rosalia Misseri
OBJECTIVE: To describe a new system for classifying genital ambiguity and urogenital sinus abnormalities. Prader's classification (which attempts to describe the degree of masculinization) has been used for decades, while the urogenital sinus has generally been described as simply high or low; neither classification fits the spectrum of anomalies, nor do they allow for outcome data research. METHODS: An ideal description of genital ambiguity and urogenital sinus anomalies should include the degree of masculinization, phallic size, external genital appearance, and the true location of the vaginal confluence in relation to the bladder neck and the perineal meatus. We describe a new system to define these variables. RESULTS: In the PVE classification developed, P represents stretched phallic length and width, V the true vaginal location according to the distance from the bladder neck to the vagina and the distance from the vagina to the perineal meatus, and E the external genital appearance or Prader number. CONCLUSIONS: The PVE classification system aids in surgical planning and will be helpful in the analysis of surgical outcomes of genital ambiguity and urogenital anomalies.
BJU International
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05354.x
Disorders of Sex Development
Urogenital Abnormalities
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Genital ambiguity
Urogenital sinus
Rink, R. C., Adams, M. C., & Misseri, R. (2005). A new classification for genital ambiguity and urogenital sinus anomalies. BJU International, 95(4), 638-642. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05354.x
A new classification for genital ambiguity and urogenital sinus anomalies. / Rink, Richard C.; Adams, Mark C.; Misseri, Rosalia.
In: BJU International, Vol. 95, No. 4, 03.2005, p. 638-642.
Rink, RC, Adams, MC & Misseri, R 2005, 'A new classification for genital ambiguity and urogenital sinus anomalies', BJU International, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 638-642. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05354.x
Rink RC, Adams MC, Misseri R. A new classification for genital ambiguity and urogenital sinus anomalies. BJU International. 2005 Mar;95(4):638-642. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05354.x
Rink, Richard C. ; Adams, Mark C. ; Misseri, Rosalia. / A new classification for genital ambiguity and urogenital sinus anomalies. In: BJU International. 2005 ; Vol. 95, No. 4. pp. 638-642.
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As we move through life on this great big blue marble, we are often reminded of some immutable laws that we see all the time, but never really think about until we are "in it." While they may not be the 1st or 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics, they seem to have some bearing on how life unfolds. Hopefully this list will help you realize them when they happen to you.
If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal or voice mail; someone always answers.
When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone or door bell will ring.
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the difficulty in reaching it.
At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last. They are the ones who will leave their seats several times to go for food, beer, or the toilet and who leave early before the end of the performance or the game is over. The folks in the aisle seats come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or big bellies and stay to the bitter end of the performance.
The chances of an open-faced jam sandwich landing face down on a floor are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet or rug.
A CLOSED MOUTH GATHERS NO FEET! The contrary applies here.
If you don't feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there, you'll feel better. But don't make an appointment and you'll stay sick for days.


For the 60,000 residents of this rural county of green hills and small villages, migration is something of a rite of passage. The share of Cañar's people leaving the country is greater than that of any other district in Ecuador. More than 70 percent of its households receive remittances every month, and rely on them to cover basic necessities.
The costs can be great, especially on children, who are left behind by their parents or also embark on the perilous treks, sometimes alone. And the economic effects are sometimes perverse: In Cañar, big houses built with money from abroad stand unfinished or abandoned as more residents leave.
But beyond the cautionary tales, Cañar also stands for one of the great overlooked benefits of migration: unprecedented access to education and jobs, freedom of movement and financial independence for women, especially indigenous women, whether they left and returned, or never left.
Emigration from Cañar started in the 1960s, after a drop in the export price of locally produced straw hats pushed local men to move to Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city. Falling oil prices gave way to debt and inflation in the 1980s, and by the 1990s, many peasants had lost both their meager savings and their livelihoods. Over the next 15 years, about half of Cañar's population, mostly men, went abroad, especially to the United States and Spain, looking for jobs.
I met Barbarita Pichasaca, an indigenous Cañari woman and mother of four in her early forties, in August. Soon after her husband left for Brooklyn in 2001, he asked her to join him. Ms. Pichasaca borrowed money from a local loan shark and embarked on a dangerous journey from the highlands to Ecuador's coast, north to Central America by boat, and then through Mexico by train, bus and on foot. After less than a year of doing cleaning jobs in New York, Ms. Pichasaca could afford to send money home for her children's food and clothing. "But they suffered too much," she said. "So I told my husband: 'You're a big boy, but my kids are not; they need me."' She came back to Cañar in 2006.
Ms. Pichasaca's choice would spell the end of her marriage. But it would also mark the beginning of her freedom and personal success. Within a couple of years of her return, she became the first woman to open up a bank specifically for and by migrants. Taking advantage of a 2002 Ecuadorean law meant to alleviate migrant debt and generate local investment, Ms. Pichasaca's Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Del Migrante gives out low-interest loans between just a few hundred dollars and up to $5,000, mostly to women who want to start small businesses, but also to others who want to be smuggled out of Ecuador. Ms. Pichasaca has also purchased land and built homes for family members, and is raising cattle to make artisanal cheese.
Today, women account for over 53 percent of the population of Cañar and surroundings, the largest such share in the country. Between 31 percent and 48 percent of households are run by women. Women often do the work traditionally handled by men — plowing land, weeding, gathering wood for charcoal — and they often manage and invest remittances from abroad: some $197 million in 2013 alone. Increasingly, too, they pool their resources into small business groups and associations.
The effects extend even to women who never leave Cañar. Rosa Quizpe lives a few miles down the road from Ms. Pichasaca's home. Her parents migrated to New York when she was 18 and left her with relatives. Today, she's the single mother of a 12-year-old girl. I met Ms. Quizpe at the Unidad Educativa del Juncal, a school built by migrant families who want to keep their kids from having to travel far to get a basic education. Wearing a traditional pollera skirt, a round-brimmed hat made from sheep's wool, and with a perfect braid that went down her back, Ms. Quizpe, 32, looked youthful enough to belong in this elementary and high school crowd.
"I used to complain to my parents because they didn't support me in my education early enough, when I was little and before they went abroad," Ms. Quizpe told me, bursting into tears. Before her parents moved to New York, she worked as a seamstress to help support her family. Now her parents pay for all of her and her daughter's living expenses, making it possible for both of them to focus solely on their education. Next year, Ms. Quizpe will graduate from high school and go on to a university a few hours away to study medicine, she said. She will be the first in her family to attend college.
Ms. Quizpe never seriously considered leaving Cañar to join her parents: Why put her daughter through what she endured? But her daughter, Nancy, is thinking about emigrating. And Nancy's grandparents have already promised, when the time comes, to send the first payment for her smuggler.
Ruxandra Guidi is a freelance journalist based in Quito, Ecuador. Reporting for this story was made possible by a grant from the International Reporting Project.


AAM School Programs aim to provide students equitable, fun opportunities for learning and engagement with contemporary art, creating stronger links between people, art, and ideas. The museum can come to your school, you can come to the museum, or do both!
All aspects of the K–12 program are free and scheduled on a first come, first served basis.
K–12 School Programs serve all schools in Pitkin County and neighboring counties: Chaffee, Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Lake, and Mesa.
Teachers can choose what program(s) work best for their students.
This hands-on classroom experience invites students to learn about contemporary art through an art-making activity designed by a contemporary artist and led by a museum Educator. Art supplies included.
This interactive presentation invites students to build visual literacy and respect for diverse points of view through listening and looking at contemporary art together. Students will expand their definition of what art can be and gain skills for appreciating art at a museum.
This reflective experience invites students to consider the connections between self and the wider world. Together, students will unpack one work of contemporary art through critical inquiry and personal interpretation. This ample space of dialogue gives students room to explore what they see, think, and feel. This option is ideal for advanced classrooms.
AAM Educators connect to your classroom curriculum.
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Observe: Careful looking at artworks will provide opportunities to hone observation skills, personal insights, and visual literacy. This tour takes an interdisciplinary approach, addressing different learning styles through in-gallery activities that support connections across curricula.
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Akshay Kumar is Giving Up his Canadian Passport for an Indian one. Here is Why!
By Masala Web Desk Saturday, 07 December 2019
Akshay Kumar has now decided to apply for an Indian passport after the flak he received for not voting during the Lok Sabha polls. He spoke about why he got a Canadian passport in the first place
Actor Akshay Kumar has long been in the spotlight for his dual passport. The action star recently revealed that he is replacing his Canadian passport with an Indian one following a controversy over his citizenship. The actor grabbed headlines and was slammed by netizens after he did not vote in Mumbai during the Lok Sabha polls. Akshay has now said that he never denied that he held a Canadian passport. He spoke about the circumstances behind him getting a Canadian passport at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. "There was a time when 14 films of mine flopped and I thought that I might have to take up something else to support myself," he said.
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A Single Life
Katharine O'Flynn
I shouldn't have murdered Richard Owens. I didn't intend to. It was a moral lapse and I regretted it right away. It was true I was annoyed at Rick at the time, but not lethally annoyed.
It happened somewhere out in the middle of the U.S.—Iowa maybe, or Indiana.
Rick and I had met about a month before, picking tomatoes out in California. He was the cutest guy in the crew and I was the only unattached woman. Plus we were the only two who spoke English, so naturally we kind of drifted together but in fact we had nothing much in common; we were never what you would call close.
After the tomato season ended, we took off in my old Jeep looking, not very seriously, for more picking work. We weren't in any rush. We spent a lot of days just hanging out in campgrounds or driving around the country.
You know what it's like when you're travelling with someone; you get tired of being with that same person all the time. His habits get on your nerves, you fight about trivialities, start disagreeing about everything, on principle.
The afternoon it happened, we'd been drinking beer, smoking a little weed with another couple from the campground. When they left, Rick fell asleep under the poplar tree at our site, his head on my lap. It was hot, and he was heavy and doing a really annoying sort of whistling snore with his mouth open. His breath was bad. I tried to push him off but he kept rolling back on to me. Not intending anything serious, I reached for the pillow behind my back and held it over his face to stop the noise of the snoring, more than anything else.
He woke up and struggled but I held him down, in fun at first. The thing about murder is, once you've started, you pretty well have to keep on going, for your own safety. Next thing I knew, he was dead.
Just like the thrillers all say, the most difficult part was getting rid of the body. Under cover of darkness, I managed to haul Rick into the Jeep and next morning drove away from the campground early, before anyone was up and around. I drove all day. Towards dusk I reached a nice, deserted stretch of road with woods on both sides. I dragged the body out, pulled it a ways into the woods, threw some branches over it, got back in the Jeep and headed south.
My family had more or less disowned me after I dropped out of college to work my way across the continent. To keep them from reporting me as a missing person, I wrote them a postcard: "Going to Florida to pick oranges."
Whether or not Rick's family, if he had a family, worried about his prolonged absence, I had no idea. I didn't want to know. I made a point of not following the news. I didn't want to hear whether his body had been discovered. I didn't want to know if the police were on to the case.
In fact, nothing happened. Perhaps the body was never found. Whatever, the police never got on to me.
So, after a few years of skulking in illegal jobs in the U.S., I returned to Montreal and the bosom of my family. There was a tearful reunion and all was forgiven. (Though naturally, I didn't say a word about the incident with Rick.) I registered as a mature student at Concordia.
I got a health card, a new driver's license, and a passport. Not a peep out of the police. All there was to remind me of my unfortunate past were occasional panic attacks and some unpleasant dreams. But anyone can have those, eh?
I finished my degree and got a job in a bank and met Pascal. When we got as far as making marriage plans, I felt I had to tell him. A marriage shouldn't have secrets. Sometimes cops get on to cold cases. They can do things with DNA. Or I might talk in my sleep, or let out the truth in a careless moment. If such a thing happened, I would need a husband who would understand my situation and be on my side.
"Would you love me whatever I did?" I asked Pascal.
"Whatever," he swore. "Forever."
But when I told him about what had happened between me and Rick, he couldn't get away fast enough. "Don't come near me again. Don't try to contact me. Go away and stay away," he said.
At least he didn't call the police. It was Steve who did that.
Steve was the next guy I got involved with. He was a social worker, a lot more people-oriented than Pascal, a lot more understanding. He'd see where I was coming from, I was sure.
Maybe he did see where I was coming from, but he sure didn't see where I wanted to be. He thought I should give myself up to the police. "Confess," he said. "You'll feel better for getting that terrible secret off your chest."
"I won't feel better when I'm sentenced to thirty years," I told him.
"You can't carry around guilt like that for the rest of your life," he insisted.
I wasn't sure it was guilt. More like uneasiness, maybe. I tried to explain: "We're talking about something that happened years ago. The police aren't interested; they were never interested. I only told you because I want to be fair to you. That's the kind of person I am."
"You weren't fair to that poor guy," Steve said. "Or to his family. I bet his folks are still hoping he'll show up some day. For their sake, if not for your own mental health, you've got to confess."
No way.
Steve—that bastard—went to the police himself and reported me.
I'd been smart enough not to reveal the crucial information: Rick's name, and the date and place of the murder. Steve had no hard facts to support his story.
The police did come round and question me, mostly about my relationship with Steve. We agreed he must be holding some kind of grudge against me. They warned me to be careful, to give them a call if he harassed me in any way.
I settled down to the single life. I'd got away with murder, but it looked like it was too much to expect I'd manage a happy marriage as well. All because of one little slip-up long ago. It didn't seem quite fair, but what could I do? I let my social life go and took up the solitary sport of running.
One day, jogging at the Morgan Arboretum, I tripped over a tree root and cracked my ankle. That's how I met Jim. He came jogging along while I was still lying on the ground, gasping with pain. Like a hero in an old-fashioned romance, he picked me up in his arms, carried me to his car and drove me to emergency.
At first, he wasn't a boyfriend, just a friend. He visited two or three evenings a week. I sat with my leg up while we watched action movies. When my ankle was better, we tried a little gentle jogging. The following summer we did some backpacking and canoe trips. Jim was a real outdoorsman and not much of a thinker or a worrier, which was all to the good from my point of view.
When he suggested a double sleeping bag, I told him, with regret, that I had taken a vow of celibacy. He proposed anyway on the strength of only a few chaste kisses.
The temptation was too much for me. "Yes," I said.
I wasn't going to mention the murder thing. I'd already told two people and that had come to no good. It would be unwise to spread the word any further. Besides, I almost convinced myself, the incident had nothing to do with me because when it happened I was a completely different person: a drifter, a druggie. Now I was a mature, responsible woman, law-abiding, and honest.
It was the honesty that got me. I really wanted to do the right thing. Maybe Jim will be like the third prince in the fairy tales, I told myself. He'll pass the test, set me free of the ghost from my past, and we'll live happily ever after.
I chose Algonquin Park as the venue for confession. We were on a canoe trip there, and a good distance from the nearest police station. I spoke from the bow, my back to Jim.
When I was done, he laughed. "Oh yeah," he said. "Like you could just off some guy. Ha. Ha. Sure."
"I could. I did."
"Impossible. You wouldn't have the physical strength for one thing. And you couldn't do it even if you had. Not you, sweetie."
I should have let it go there. I'd told the truth. My conscience was clear. But it irritated me that Jim didn't believe me. This was rejection of the worst sort. He laughed at my deepest secret. He wasn't accepting the real me. I was glad I wasn't facing him. I'd wipe the silly smile off his face.
"I did so kill a man," I repeated, slapping my paddle hard against the water.
"Okay, so tell me where. Tell me when. Tell me how."
I told him, though not in complete detail.
"Nah. You're remembering a bad dream. Or a book you read or something. The murdering impulse just isn't in you, sweetie. I know you well enough by now to say that with absolute certainty."
His patronizing attitude enraged me. "I murdered someone. Think about it. And then say something more meaningful than 'ha ha, not you, sweetie.'"
What I needed him to say was that the murder was accidental. I wanted his reassurance that I wasn't any more responsible for that momentary moral stumble than for the fall at the Arboretum. I needed someone to say it and set me free.
"I know you never murdered anyone," was what he said.
"Do I have to prove it to you?" I shouted. I swung around clutching the paddle like a weapon, nearly upsetting the canoe.
"All right. All right," Jim said in his easygoing way. "Here's what we'll do. Our campsite's coming up just ahead." He pointed with his paddle down the lake to a crescent of beach with a tent platform. "We'll have a swim, cook up some dinner and then we'll re-enact the scene. You'll try to murder me and I'll prove to you that you just couldn't do it."
He should have had more sense.
We had our swim and our dinner. We didn't talk much.
After dinner, we set up the scene. "So you were sitting against a tree something like this?"
"It was a poplar, not a birch, but never mind. This will do." I sat.
"And I have my head on your lap, like this?" Jim stretched out, smiling, complacent. "Then you whip out a pillow. And zap! Curtains!" He passed me a fleece camping pillow.
"Too small. I'll need two of these."
He fetched the other pillow for me and settled himself in position again.
"All right, go ahead," he said.
"You have to be sleeping," I reminded him. I'd powdered three valium tablets into his after-dinner mug of cocoa. He soon dropped off.
Then I took the pillows, slipped them under his head, picked up the pack with my clothes and the car keys, launched the canoe, and left.
I wouldn't tell anyone else, ever. Because I wasn't really a murderer. Jim had proved it. I was grateful to him for that.
Katharine O'Flynn lives in Montreal. Her work has appeared in Geist, Kalliope, Blueline, and Storyteller. She recently completed a novel under the aegis of the QWF mentorship program.
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Entropy Aaron Costain
The Day I Washed Her Hair Andrea Dyck
Straight Down the Hall and to Your Left Lindsey Emes
The Three Stages of Boiling Sarah Gilbert
A Single Life Katharine O'Flynn
The Birth of a Grandmother Marianne Ackerman
Buddy Death Michael K. Gause
Arctic Journal Guido Romeo
Pedalling Forward Shayne Woodsmith
Foggy Day Jim Royal
I Remember Patrice Desbiens, translated by Alison Newall
For Emile Nelligan Kelly Norah Drukker
Granite Music Kiril Kadiiski, translated by Ann Diamond
Changing Winter Tires Julie Mahfood
Emasculation Julie Mahfood
Heart of Split Branka Petrovic
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I took photos of my Naree Pol piece in progress. I didn't photograph every single step but you can get a sense of how gradually I build the layers.
The black is ink, then most of the washes are acrylic up until the end, then there is some subtle concentrated water color. Finally some gouache for the highlights.


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Le bec-de-grue maritime (Erodium maritimum) est une plante herbacée annuelle de la famille des Géraniacées.

Il s'agit d'une espèce à répartition méditerranéenne-atlantique typique, essentiellement littorale. Ce petit bec-de-grue est rare dans la majeure partie de son aire, parfois en déclin, et fait l'objet de mesures de protection locales.

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À une exception près (Tunisie), Erodium maritimum est une plante strictement européenne. Elle y occupe une aire fortement disjointe, atlantique du sud de l'Écosse au nord-ouest de l'Espagne, et méditerranéenne en Italie, en Corse, aux Baléares et au nord de la Tunisie.

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 Légifrance : Arrêté du 27 avril 1995 relatif à la liste des espèces végétales protégées en région Basse-Normandie

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Buffalo Airways has been immortalised in the form of a new roller-coaster ride in the theme park located in Billund, about 100 kilometres southwest of Aarhus — Denmark's second largest city.
Buffalo's general manager Mikey McBryan just returned from a visit to the park.
"They call it the Ice Pilot School, which is a ride basically where kids can go in and it's all branded with Buffalo Airways and basically kids go in and they get on this, like, robotic arm and it swings them around and they pretend they're on an airplane," he said.
The display includes a life-sized Lego version of McBryan himself and Lego versions of a float plane and a Buffalo Airways DC3.
The ride is part of the famous park's new Polar Land section. The area features a roller-coaster — decked out to look like a snowmobile – and takes its riders past penguins and polar bears.
Yellowknife's well-known Snow King Castle and Bullocks Bistro restaurant also feature in the Lego display.
Ice Pilots NWT follows a group of Arctic aviators as they fly vintage war planes to haul people and supplies to far-flung outposts in Canada's North.


In 2010, Hal "Holiday" Schneider received an e-mail requesting permission to use his song "Booze Party" in the 2011 Australian film Red Dog. The song was written and recorded by his band Three Acres & a Joker more than 50 years ago. Though he might not be a household name, "Booze Party" has appeared on 13 albums, and Schneider himself still performs regularly and judges for Talent Quest in Laughlin, Nev., every year. On Thursday, June 23, at 7 p.m., he'll performing with 11 other bands and singers at the Ogden Amphitheater (343 E. 25th St., Ogden) for the free eighth-annual Hal Holiday Schneider Revue.
Did you think that "Booze Party" would become such a hit when you wrote it?
Honestly, I thought the run was over; I was never getting any royalties from it. It's a big drinking song in Europe, but I didn't think they listened to it in Australia. I feel honored. Not many people can do something that's gone around the world. It didn't make me rich, but I'm really not worried about that. I still play with the lead guitarist from that record every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; we play at this senior center in Washington Terrace. So, I feel real good about that—we've been together a long, long time.
When did your music career begin?
I was stationed here at Hill Air Force Base, and I was playing with a group called Rhythm Rockers. I used to play tenor sax. During the weekends, the guys would go out to the clubs in town. Most of the clubs played Western music, but I never sang Western music. So, we went to this place called Paris 89, and the guys would go up to the band and say, "You gotta get this guy Hal up to sing." After about the third weekend of singing at the clubs, they asked me to join their band, but I play the tenor sax and it just doesn't fit. They asked me to become their drummer, so I went down to Glenn Bros. music store in Ogden and bought a set of drums for $157 dollars. I've been playing drums and singing ever since.
Why did you stop touring?
Is it difficult to judge musicians on Talent Quest?
Well, I know now that stage presence matters; it's really important. I've always been a mover on the stage. It's what you generate to the crowd that you get back. If you're going to sing a moving song, move. If you're going to sing a sad song, I want to see tears dripping down your cheeks. You have to elevate the emotions of the crowd through your stage presence. You got to put something in that generates the audience. That's the difference between entertaining and being a singer. I look at it this way: I feel music, I live music, I cry for music. If I want to see a band perform, I want to be emotionally lost in it. And music is such a good way to communicate—just think if the whole word went around singing their hellos. They wouldn't have time to fight and hate; it would be just a happy little world. Well, at least that's the world I live in.
How did you get the name Hal "Holiday"?
I was playing at a place called El Chico in Ogden, and the owner was Greek. I wanted my stage name to be Haliday—Hal Haliday—but when he called it in to the newspaper, it sounded like he was saying Hal Holiday. So, it came out in the newspaper as "Hal Holiday," so I just stuck with it. After Three Aces & a Joker, I formed my own band and we toured all through the Northwest. My twin brother and I called ourselves The Holiday Brothers.
I like it. Now, it's not like I'm retired—I don't know how I even retired! Every day, five days a week, I sing for the seniors. Me and my daughter and her friends, we go around to a lot of the assisted-living places. We set up a machine and we sing for them and they love it. We feel good doing it because these people enjoy it. It's like giving back to the community where I became popular. I have this feeling that what they like is what I sing. I've always been that way: You got to play what the people enjoy. I never sang "Harbor Lights" before now. The day that I come here, and I feel that they're not enjoying it, I'm not going to do it anymore.


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Gotham in the Russian-American SpyWar
Yesterday brought front-page news of the FBI's arrest of a Russian businessman in the Bronx who, according to the information released by the Department of Justice, had been operating as an agent of Russian intelligence for several years, collecting mainly economic information in the United States.
The man in custody is Evgeny Buryakov (39), AKA Zhenya, while his co-conspirators, who have already left the United States, are named as Igor Sporyshev (40) and Victor Podobnyy (27), also Russian nationals. While living in New York, Sporyshev was serving with the Russian trade mission there, while Podobnyy was an attaché with the Russian Mission to the United Nations.
All three were in actuality officers of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Sporyshev and Podobnyy were serving in "official" cover positions of the kind used by the SVR and its KGB predecessor for nearly a century, while Buryakov was serving in a "non-official cover" position, to use the verbiage cited by the FBI. That is, Buryakov enjoyed no diplomatic immunity, which is why he is in custody now; had the FBI managed to catch up with Sporyshev and Podobnyy there was not much they really could have done since those men enjoyed diplomatic protection. At worst, they would have been expelled from the United States — PNG'd in spy-speak (from being declared persona non grata).
To use proper Russian terminology, Sporyshev and Podobnyy were "Legals" while Buryakov was an "Illegal." Such spies without official cover have long been the elite of the Kremlin's espionage arm, a select cadre. During the Cold War they were legendary, not least because while Legals are relatively easy for the FBI, or any competent counterintelligence service, to detect — the odds of a Legal SVR officer being noticed as actually a spy during his or her tour as a "diplomat" in any Western country are high — Illegals are much more difficult to detect and neutralize.
Or rather, they were. During the Cold War, the KGB was careful to not "cross the streams" between their Legal and Illegal networks in the West much, if at all: associating with a Legal, who may be under surveillance, is a good way for an Illegal to wind up on the radar of the local security service. The massive roll-up of the SVR's Illegals Network in 2010, which was a debacle for the Kremlin, was noticed by the media and the public mainly for the fetching Anna Chapman, red-headed Russian temptress extraordinaire, but represented a historic counterintelligence win for the FBI and the Intelligence Community.
Although the media had a good laugh at the Illegals Network, not seeing much important going on there, the reality was different. While it seems indisputable that several of the Illegals caught in 2010 were not up to the caliber of their predecessors of hoary Chekist legend, this has something to do with the fact that the SVR had to rebuild their networks abroad, which went to pieces after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Over the last fifteen years, Russian intelligence has rebuilt their spy networks worldwide, and sometimes getting spies in the field inadequately prepared, backed by flimsy covers, has been a problem, as the Kremlin values quantity as well as quality. It should be noted that Russian military intelligence (GRU) also has networks of Legals and Illegals around the world, separate from SVR espionage.
As a former counterintelligence officer obsessed with espionage against the West, Putin has pushed hard for SVR and GRU to "get in the game" and they have. Today, Russian espionage against the West, including numbers of operatives and the tempo of their operations, equals its highest levels during the Cold War. Not every operation is a win, as the Chekist-in-Charge is well aware. The sudden loss of the Illegals Network in 2010 was a major disruption and to fill the gap the SVR sent less-able officers like Buryakov to America, perhaps too hastily.
Our counterintelligence was on to him almost immediately. Many leads emerged from the Illegals Network takedown, in multiple countries, and many tantalizing hints, considering subsequent developments, remain officially unresolved. Buryakov did not help himself by meeting with Sporyshev and Podobnyy, but otherwise he had limited ability to communicate with Moscow Center, i.e. SVR headquarters.
The story of his work is standard spy stuff: covert communications, dead-drops, brush-passes, sometimes fumbling efforts to recruit American businesspeople and students. The main target of this SVR network in New York was economic espionage, particularly regarding the financial sector. They seem to have landed no big fish, but it needs to be kept in mind that the DOJ account of the Buryakov ring released yesterday is the unclassified version of the case which always omits much important detail. Russian espionage operations are seldom straightforward, while some defy real understanding for years, even decades.
Significantly, U.S. counterintelligence had an excellent look into this trio's activities, due mainly to good SIGINT — since the greatest weakness of any spy is the need to communicate. Thanks to this, eventually the banker/spy Buryakov fell prey to a ruse when a slightly-too-good-to-be-true source emerged and he took a gamble that a savvier officer might have demurred from. But the source promised classified U.S. Government information, as well as casino goodies; of course, this source was actually under FBI control, a dangle.
As with the Illegals Network in 2010, journalists and commentators who are ignorant of Russian espionage tradecraft are blowing this story off as being of little consequence, even comedic. There is, however, nothing funny about this case. In the first place, it shows that the Kremlin continues to collect economic intelligence in the West, using various covers to steal information of many sorts. This is a big win for the FBI and U.S. counterintelligence, but luck was on our side here, and that cannot be counted on.
Moreover, Illegals have many purposes, including functioning as long-term sources to maintain agent networks in the event of war, when diplomatic facilities close and Legals get pulled home. Given the parlous state of relations between the West and Russia now, this is not a theoretical concern. The Kremlin, unlike most Western intelligence services, tends towards the long-view and worst-case planning with utmost seriousness.
Ominously, among the things Buryakov was looking to steal included very sensitive information regarding high-speed Wall Street trading, automated trading algorithms, and "destabilization of markets." If that thought doesn't worry you, you're not paying attention. There is a bona fide financial and economic war being waged now between Russia and the West, and Moscow intends to win. The potential threat to remove Russia from SWIFT, the international banking information-sharing mechanism, has reduced the Kremlin to fits. Today Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev promised that his government's reaction to booting Russia from SWIFT, which would be tantamount to total financial isolation for Moscow, would be "unlimited" and not merely economic in nature. Western pundits are chuckling at the SVR's missteps in New York today, but it may be Putin and his spies who get the last laugh here.
UPDATE: Over at CrossingWallStreet, Eddy Elfenbein — whom you should be following if you care about your financial future — has added his thoughts on the Wall Street side of this case, a must read.
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Because she's a woman, business owner Laura Smith had to pretend to be an entry-level male employee during a recent call with a big supplier in Dubai.
To avoid the push back, Smith even set up a fake email address from a Mr. George Hilton.
"No problem after that," she says.
Her multimillion-dollar business sells patio furniture by the container load to major retailers, hotels and restaurant chains.
She does business in the United Arab Emirates, China and India as well as Germany, Canada and the U.S.
Good suppliers are difficult to find.
Sad fact. Sometimes in business – it's just easier to pretend you're a man.
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Let me take you back to the era of Lanterns. When in every average home you will find a lantern. What you need to do is pour your kerosene, light it up with matches and the whole feeling of darkness is gone.
Most Nigerian mothers do not joke with lantern during this time. As soon as it gets dark it is in your daily routine to get the lantern, turn it on and place in a corner allocated to it already.
Even when there is power supply before going to bed, the lantern will be on but reduced in its corner waiting for power to go off.
Dear Lantern, We miss you.


"Turkeys Voting for Christmas" was the taunt thrown at Labour MPs yesterday (Weds 19 April 2017) as they voted to call an early General Election.
Possibly, but the Christmas present most of them were voting for was the end of "the Corbyn problem".
Most of them know full-well the opinion polls maybe be out by a few percent either way, and in a tight race that matters a lot (cf GE2015 or the US Presidential election) but this is not a tight race.
Most Labour MPs know they are going to lose, the only issue is by how much.
The antics of Corbynistas like Dianne Abbott who bizarrely claimed recently that "most of Labour's support is down to Jeremy" cannot obscure the reality of Labour trailing behind the Conservatives by 20 points or Corbyn trailing Theresa May by around 35 points.
But many Labour MPs breathed a sigh of relief when Mrs May announced an early election because they expect Labour's forthcoming drubbing at the polls to mark the end of "Corbynism".
But as today's report in The Independent shows, this may be misplaced 'optimism' (if that's the right word in this context?). It fundamentally misunderstands 'the project' of Jeremy Corbyn and his allies.
Corbyn is a disciple of Tony Benn, who never tired of preaching that real change in Britain does not come about through Parliament and elections but through mass movements – on the streets and in the workplaces.
The 'Parliamentary struggle' was at best a adjunct to these mass mobilisations and political 'cultural revolutions' and at worst (cf New Labour) could become a distraction and diversion from the 'real' struggle.
Corbyn and co welcome the General Election not as a chance to win power, but as yet another chance to campaign for their socialist ideas. That is why after the 1983 Election defeat Tony Benn claimed it was a "victory for socialism" because over 8 million people had 'voted for socialism' (ignoring the fact 20m voted against – for the Tories or Alliance).
As 'The Independent' report suggests Corbyn will stay on as leader until his succession is guaranteed for another hard-Left candidate. Labour's MPs may be decimated but the Corbynite membership will remain, almost guaranteeing a smooth 'succession'. Corbyn may be gone by the end of the year, but 'Corbynism' will remain a problem for Labour.
Apparently Corbyn's ideas are popular. So the press now need to decide whether Corbyn is the problem or his ideas, or both. But given that evidence exists that Corbyn's policies are popular, including the above polling, it would be reasonable to argue that if Corbyn is a problem, it is the personality, rather than the policies. So, lets say Labour lose on June 8th. Corbyn remains leader long enough to secure democracy in the Labour party, and as a consequence Labour finds a new champion for those popular ideas, and this champion has more appeal with the wider electorate. What's the problem? Unless of course, it is not Corbyn you have a problem with, but the ideas he represents. If that is true, why not write about his policies rather than his presentation, his style and infighting in the party. For the last 2 years the press have made Corbyn a proxy debate for socialism in the party. They've targeted the man rather than the policies because Corbyn is easier to beat down. Now you want to switch the debate right at the end to a debate about socialism – and if Labour loses it's now because of those policies. The Labour members won't fall for this trick. It is imperative that the democratic socialist party offers socialist policies, which counter the right wing economic policies that have dominated for the last 40 years. Furthermore, you would expect that this time it really will be 5 years until the next GE, and the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament elections were last year. Corbyn can afford to remain leader after a defeat, even a crushing one, as there really is nowt to gain from switching leaders right after June 8th.
Are policies such as increasing tax levels on those earning over £70K or setting up a National investment Bank hard left?


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Jeg Coughlin Jr. scores 80th career victory with third Pro Stock win in Sonoma
Six-time NHRA champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. had a big Sunday at Sonoma Raceway, winning his third Pro Stock race of the season, moving into the top five of the Mello Yello championship points, and reaching the 80-win mark for his career.
Coughlin used his powerful JEGS.com/Elite Performance Chevrolet Camaro to beat Fernando Cuadra, Elite teammate Alex Laughlin, points leader Greg Anderson and Deric Kramer to match previous Pro Stock wins this year in Chicago and Bristol, Tenn. This was also Coughlin's third win in the wine country, having secured titles here in 2003 and 2010.
"What about this Elite team?" Coughlin said. "Richard Freeman (team owner), Rick and Rickie Jones, Brian 'Lump' Self, Mark Ingersoll (crew chiefs), the entire team, everybody on both the red and yellow cars. We've been thrashing for a couple of years but never gave up.
"What a great group of people to race with. We've got great chemistry and we enjoy racing together. We enjoyed racing together when we didn't run so well and I can promise you one thing, we enjoy racing with wins like today in front of a sold-out crowd."
The first two rounds were relatively easy for Coughlin, as he beat Cuadra with a 6.537 at 211.96 mph to Cuadra's 6.582 at 208.97 mph and Laughlin with a 6.534 at 211.43 mph to Laughlin's 6.563 at 210.28 mph.
Then things got serious with longtime rival Anderson in the other lane. In the history of the class, the two drivers have met more than any other pairing, with Anderson holding a 53-41 lifetime record. But Coughlin got one back Sunday, chasing down and passing Anderson to win by a scant .007 seconds, or about half a foot. Coughlin's 6.548 at 211.13 mph just enough to beat Anderson's 6.554 at 212.43 mph.
Coughlin's duplicated his margin of victory over Anderson in the final round with his 6.532 at 212.16 mph besting Kramer's 6.534 at 210.54 mph. Kramer uses motors from Anderson's KB Racing camp.
"They've been doing a good job the last couple of weeks," Coughlin said, referencing the KB Racing cars, "but we just stayed on our game and ran really well today. We had a little help from our competitors early on, I was driving okay all day, and we ended up here in the winner's circle, which
is unbelievable.
"It feels great winning Sonoma again. It's been a couple of years. My son, Jeg III is here and that's fun. I think the last race we won together was in 2009. I couldn't be happier and more proud to win this race for the entire Elite team. There are five cars under the Elite umbrella and we stuck it to them this weekend, which feels great."
Of Coughlin's 80 career victories, 61 have come in Pro Stock and 19 in various Sportsman categories.
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Men's Tennis Dominates in NESCAC Opener
No. 23 nationally ranked Bates College men's tennis team cruised to an emphatic 9-0 win over Connecticut College on Saturday's open to NESCAC competition. After a disappointing loss to Brandeis University earlier this month, the Bobcats bounced back to sweep the Camels.
The Bobcats began dismantling the Camels early in the afternoon, with Josh Quijano '19 and Jacob Kauppila '20 defeated Conn College's Guillermo Garcia and Will Cannon in their No. 1 doubles match.
In light of their loss at Brandeis, this was an important step forward for the Bobcats.
"I hate losing so I never really forget my losses, but I do my best to learn from them and I think our loss against Brandeis helped me and Q work on some things leading up to the Conn match which we were able to use to our advantage," Kauppila said.
The Bobcats' doubles supremacy continued, with Vidyut Yadav '20 and Nick Glover '20 securing an 8-4 win. Senior captain Duane Davis '19 and Ben Eckardt '19 teamed up to complete the sweep of the Camels.
The Bobcats, hungry for more, continued their onslaught as singles' play continued throughout the afternoon. Quijano extended his winning streak to three by easily dispatching Garcia in two sets. Eckardt also had a strong singles' showing with a victory over Ben Jenkins.
Other Bates' singles wins took a little longer, with Kauppila, Jacob Eisenberg '20, Alex Kennedy '21, and Alex Jacobs '22 all needing the extra set to get the job done. After falling behind to SangJin Song in the first set, Kauppila battled back to win the next two sets to secure the victory.
"The first set against Sang was a really difficult one," Kauppila said. "Conn. College's courts and facility are a lot different than many of the places we play, so I was struggling, in the beginning to get adjusted and play the way I wanted to play."
"But after the first set and down a break in the second, I eventually told myself I was going to put every ball back in the court and make this guy beat me instead of beating myself," he continued. "This ended up working out as he eventually broke down and allowed me to come back with some momentum after I won the second set."
The Bobcats will head south to Fredericksburg, Virginia, looking to continue their domination against the University of Mary Washington and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Kauppila is optimistic about the team's potential.
"Our team's goal is to be #1 in the NESCAC and #1 in the Nation," he said. "It would be a dream come true if our team could make it nationals this year, and I'm hoping some of us can make it individually too."


Uranium is a chemical element with an atomic number 92 and the atomic mass of 235. It is a silvery-grey metal. A Uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons. It is weakly radioactive because all isotopes of Uranium are unstable, with half-lives varying between 159,200 years and 4.5 billion years.
Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovered the Uranium in 1789 and named the new element after the recently discovered planet Uranus. Its radioactive properties were discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel.
The most common isotopes in natural Uranium are Uranium-238 (which has 146 neutrons and accounts for over 99%) and Uranium-235 (which has 143 neutrons).
In nature, Uranium is found as Uranium-238 (99.2739–99.2752%), Uranium-235 (0.7198–0.7202%), and a very small amount of Uranium-234 (0.0050–0.0059%). Uranium decays slowly by emitting an alpha particle. The half-life of Uranium-238 is about 4.47 billion years and that of Uranium-235 is 704 million years, making them useful in dating the age of the Earth.
Uranium-235 is the only naturally occurring fissile isotope, which makes it widely used in nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. However, because of the tiny amounts found in nature, Uranium needs to undergo enrichment so that enough Uranium-235 is present.
Uranium-238 is fissionable by fast neutrons, and is fertile, meaning it can be transmuted to fissile Plutonium-239 in a nuclear reactor. U-238 is used in kinetic energy penetrators and armor plating. Uranium is used as a colorant in Uranium glass, producing lemon yellow to green colors. Uranium glass fluoresces green in ultraviolet light. It was also used for tinting and shading in early photography.
Note: In 1934 J. Robert Oppenheimer start using it as a fuel in the nuclear power industry and in Little Boy, the first nuclear weapon used in World War 2.
The largest amount of deposits are found in Australia, Kazakhstan, and Canada. In Southern Australia, Olympic Dam and the Ranger mine are primary mines. High-grade of Uranium is only found in the Athabasca Basin region of Canada.
In Canada, Cigar Lake, McArthur River basin are some primary mining sites. The Chu-Sarysu basin in central Kazakhstan alone accounts for over half of the country's known Uranium resources.
India has no significant reserves of Uranium. All the needs are fulfilled through imports. India imports thousands of tonnes of Uranium from Russia, Kazakhstan, France. India is trying hard to import Uranium from Australia and Canada but there are some concerns and issues which India is trying to sort out.
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Twitter: grabbing defeat from the jaws of success
Robert Scoble	Uncategorized	 April 21, 2008 1 Minute
Amazing, Twitter has been half down all weekend long. Dave Winer and others have been writing about it. The problems have been covered on TechMeme and other places where one looks for interesting tech news.
But, don't miss what's really going on: Twitter is handing FriendFeed a gift. A major one at that.
FriendFeed has seen HUGE growth over the past month (in the month or so that I've been on that service more than 7,000 people have friended my account). That's faster growth than I've seen on Twitter.
Why is FriendFeed seeing this growth? Well, for one, it hasn't gone down since I've joined it. It was built from the start to scale, which after I met the team I understood why: two of the founders of FriendFeed started Gmail and Google Maps, so I'm sure they've learned a few tricks about making sure services don't go down from Google.
I'm also noticing another thing: many of my friends are answering Twitter messages in FriendFeed. That demonstrates to me that their behavior has changed in the past month. If Twitter keeps going down and/or having reliability problems it won't be long before we change ALL of our behavior and just participate on FriendFeed without worrying about Twitter at all.
Of course, today I gave a talk to Stanford's Sloan program (bunch of MBA students). Only a handful had heard of Twitter. That's Twitter's future growth. What if they hear Twitter sucks and that FriendFeed is where they should participate?
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@Robert: what if the Stanford MBAs just don't care? Twitter may be a classic first mover here – innovative technology that attracts early adopters, but it just can't deliver the goods to appeal to the broader market.
Maybe it's not that Stanford MBAs haven't heard of Twitter – maybe it's that the value Twitter offers isn't correctly targeted? If that's the case, it wouldn't matter how well Twitter performs because others will replace it eventually.
Jack Carlson says:
As a user, I find FriendFeed's UI much easier to follow than Twitter. Twitter seems like just another IRC app, with posts and replies sometimes separated by many other responses. It makes tracking a conversation a chore.
FriendFeed at least groups comments under the original post. I'm not a big fan of that "internet blue" interface, but I'm crossing my fingers that styling isn't far off.
I've switched entirely from Twitter's interface to FF's. Now I just wish my friends who only Twitter would join me.
anon8mizer says:
perhaps it's RUBY ON RAILS
Aep528 says:
And how many of the Stanford students have heard of FriendFeed? Compared to Twitter?
Michael Beck says:
The beauty of Twitter is the simplicity of "What are you doing?"
Twitter will only be replaced by another Twitter with less downtime.
J.J. Toothman says:
Interesting…only a handful of Stanford MBA's have heard of Twitter? That's going to make my Twitter strategy proposal I'm working on for Stanford a bit more challenging.
/pd says:
what more interesting, is that I am seeing all the Friends on FF twitters on FF , so I am not missing anythign in terms of chatter and can also reply with swoosh on post to twitter. API seems to working ok.
its just my redundant fail over strategy for twitter !!
Robert Scoble says:
Aep528 about the same number, actually.
Ontario Emperor says:
The one thing that FriendFeed lacks is a robust mobile interface. MojiPage is nice, and it now allows you to comment and like items, but I still feel like I can do more in mobile Twitter than in mobile FriendFeed (i.e. MojiPage).
Gerald Buckley says:
M.twitter.com seems to have survived the uglies. Course… Not many people on. It's almost ugly enough to abandon ship… Ah, heck, let's call it. I'm out. I've no time for on again off again svcs.
Louis Gray says:
It's been fun to watch you take a liking to FriendFeed, Robert. I find Twitter to be a functional tool, but FriendFeed is much more of an interactive, destination site. Twitter is a subset of FriendFeed. And the downtime sure doesn't help.
Ian Hsu says:
@J.J. Toothman: the Sloan MBA students aren't typical Stanford students. They are mid-career executives who get their MBAs in an intensive 10-month program. Keep the faith on your proposal for Stanford 🙂
Rob Amberg says:
Great insight. This was my first intro to FriendFeed, but at first glance, it seems much easier/better/more functional than Twitter. Something to bring it all together. Brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
Eric Rice says:
/me STILL lol'ing at the 'ruby on rails' comment.
Confortis says:
I think it's great that Twitter is down. Take it from someone who has spent many hours Twittering .. it is a colossal waste of energy. Now, maybe I have time to actually read something instead of living off the fumes of other people who have read something.
more proof that web 2.0 nerds and silicon valley builds software for themselves and not to solve business problems. Imagine that! A group of MBA's at one of the best business schools in the country not having heard of software service that offers no business value and is unstable at best. I rather doubt they've heard of Zoho, Thinkfree, or even Basecamp. But ask them about Sametime or Office Communicator or any other platform that can be federated and I'm sure you'd get some hands raised. Or ask them about SAP, peoplesoft or even Salesforce.com
What your exercise did was to reinforce the fact you and your peers live in a sheltered bubbled world using tools that don't offer much business or even normal end user value.
Trench says:
/me dittos the STILL lol'ing at the 'ruby on rails' comment.
mrshl says:
Bless you, Steve.
It's this disconnect between the technorati and normal people that seems to lead to perception gaps. You point out one of them (i.e., people who have heard of Twitter vs. those who could care less).
I will point out another. I have many non-techie friends who actually LIKE Twitter and use it regularly. Neither myself nor any of my Twitter-loving pals noticed any downtime. Why? Probably because they access Twitter using Gmail. But I use Twhirl, and I didn't notice any problems either. Perhaps all these people who follow 20,000 other users aren't getting decent performance because they've rendered the service useless.
I don't know, but there's definitely a disconnect between the small army of chicken little bloggers and the larger contingent of silent, happy users.
Igor Poltavskiy says:
Now FriendFeed adds Twitter, it doesn't replace one.But Twitter bugs… It's a road to hell!
From Facebook to Twitter to Friendfeed to the next big 2.1 web thingie
Twitter is probably the next Friendster
Twitter is not the next Friendster.
The site/service does definitely have its pro's (established growing user base)and con's (rails), but I'm fairly certain Twitter falls into the Flickr/del.icio.us category of anti-fail in the long-term.
I'm just anxious to see what Google plans on doing with Jaiku in the long-term. I believe there's something up Goog's sleeve that we've yet to hear about in regards to future-Jaiku.
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I hadn't noticed Twitter having issues. That is because I am spending less time on Twitter, even though I am posting.
While FF is popular, I think SocialThing has a better approach. Rather than comment at FF, ST posts to the platform one is responding to. So, if I read one of your tweets at ST and respond, it responds to Twitter. To me that is far more powerful than creating yet another social network.
ST aggregates all one's networks and allows him to post directly to those networks from one dashboard. That seems to be the way to go, as far as I am concerned.
Scott Barnes says:
Is this an infomercial for FriendFeed?
lol @ RoR comment 🙂
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Sash says:
The twitter UI is simple to understand. The FriendFeed one is just confusing as hell. Tried to get my head around it but it's just such a mess with no way of sorting the feeds.
Mike D says:
"I'm also noticing another thing: many of my friends are answering Twitter messages in FriendFeed."
How is this any different from the model that Twitter has always had? Twitter gets 10x traffic from the API versus the Twitter web site. I use FriendFeed AND Twitter and the fact that I might respond to a message from FriendFeed is no different from me responding to a message from Twhirl.
Also, I have only chosen to follow a small percentage of the people that I'm following on Twitter (about 50 out of 600) in FriendFeed. If I followed all 600 of them it would be an information flow tsunami and it would make FriendFeed completely unusable from me. I have cherry picked about 50 people from my 600 Twitter friends and that's working very well for me. I really think Twitter and FriendFeed can coexist and complement each other. I don't see it as a competition.
Salubri says:
Well said Mike D…
First off – Robert you are a TNBT (The Next Big Thing) evangelist and love to shout out about how great the upcoming services are. Respect for that – I think a large percentage of their growth is down to you and people like you promoting them. This is a good thing…
Twitter is about shouting something out to the empty space that is the web and occasionally getting back something cool. I don't rely on it for conversation (and I hope none of the people I follow do) as the signal to noise ration is very low (and I only follow a hundred or so people) but sometimes you can have a fun conversation or help someone out…
If people are having their conversations hurt by twitter dropping posts they should make sure that people know to contact them by an alternate method if they get no response… It's like CB radios – and old school networking if you don't get a "gotcha, over" or an "ACK" you should assume sending failed or is being ignored or MIGHT be read later.
FeedFriend on the other hand is a big ol' tool for communicating and stalking. I think it's great but I wouldn't replace something like Twitter with it in a million years… Complementary yes – competetive no.
Brah Shil says:
Get a life. Twitter and FriendFeed are walled gardens and ivory towers for the self selecting sufferers of mental diarhia. While you pose on them, the world passes you by.
nickc321 says:
when discussing Twitter or Friendfeed with MBA students one must not forget Facebook… I'm in IT and I both Twit and use FF (among others), but my wife, she is an MBA student (DC area), and her entire program does Facebook. They send messages like Twitter and now they are aggregating like FF. So basically FB is a one stop shot for them. If it is not on Facebook or sent via email (or even their Google Group) it doesn't happen… As for me using Twit over FF, well if I could post to FF via my cell and or IM, well then I may start sharing directly via FF, but till then… Twit definitely covers me for instant sharing.
Ben Kessler says:
I'm sorry but there is just too much noise on FriendFeed for me to ever use it as my main communication tool. Twitter is THE communication tool for me to connect with my friends and followers, share links and thoughts. I see FriendFeed as a complimentary service to Twitter.
Joining Dots says:
One of the reasons you might be seeing such rapid growth on FriendFeed is thanks to the great sign-up process they have designed, which includes you among a bunch of suggested subscriptions to get started. They've made it very easy to import other sources like Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn, Google Reader, Flickr accounts and co. Far better than any other start-up tech I can think of.
I don't find FriendFeed useful for real-time conversations. For me, it works best as an aggregator, both to publish a stream of what I've been collecting/sharing for others to view and for me to view other peoples' streams. It's interesting to see how differently people are using it. Perhaps an indicator that FriendFeed is looking more like a platform than an application?
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Trevor Speirs says:
Interesting comment about Stanford MBAs and Twitter awareness. I am finishing up my final year at The Merage School of Business and I have been leading the charge of introducing our graduating class to Twitter in our innovative EDGE course.
It is a work in progress to help them understand the value of Twitter, but at least they have been exposed to it.
Christopher Coulter says:
But yet only a handful of tech bloggers have ever heard of WAM Picaso, Prescient Systems, G2 e-SCOR or IFS Apps.
Nah nah nah.
Damn and twitter was going to revolutionize the way we… have really incredibly short attention spans and are self absorbed and think everytime we burp the world outta know.
Twitter's down. W T F cares?
honewatson says:
Maybe because Twitter is in RoR and Friendfeed probably in Python.
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Sam Jones says:
FriendFeed's "comment stream" is genius and I suspect will effectively steal some traffic from (blogs|twitter|jaiku|youtube|etc)
It does have some major areas for improvement though and I pointed three of the them out here: http://www.samuofm.com/2008/04/22/the-three-things-friendfeed-needs/
Jon Unger says:
If Twitter calculated the cost of this downtime it would push their executives to implement better practices around their availability management. I calculated that a company with $10M of sales revenue would have lost about $14k over the course of the 12 hours. Read more at http://www.itserviceweek.com/archives/16
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this is a basic tutorial to grasp the goodness of using QC files into MadMapper.
You'll learn how to publish QC parameters directly into MadMapper's interface, and even manipulate QC content with the mouse, directly from MadMapper's input view.
Open up Quartz Composer and create a new blank file.
Repeat the same for Brightness and Contrast.
Right click the Billboard, and publish the Color as well.
These 4 parameters will now appear in MadMapper's interface, auto-magically.
The final part of this tutorial is the interactive mode.
Et voila ! You've learned the basic principles of parameter publishing.
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Synaptics has issued fiscal results for its 2018 fourth quarter, ended June 30th.
Revenues for the quarter were down nine percent year over year, at $388.5 million, and the company saw a net loss for the quarter of $1.5 million. For the fiscal year, revenues came in at $1.63 billion, a year-over-year decrease of five percent; and the year saw a net loss of $124.1 million.
To some extent, the device interface specialist appears to have been hit by the same market forces that have been depressing revenues for a number of fingerprint sensor specialists focused on the mobile industry, which has seen heavy competition and plummeting selling prices. Synaptics says its revenue mix from mobile products was about 57 percent, and that revenues from this area were down 10 percent sequentially and 36 percent year-over-year.
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Q: Installing ImageMagick extension with php/windows Running PHP Version 5.2.5 on Windows Server 2003 with IIS.
Have virtually an identical server where we were able to install ImageMagick with no issues. It's running exactly the same version of php. Used the following steps to install, but it just won't seem to work on this server. ImageMagick itself is installed but php won't load the extension.
We've spent hours trying to get the extension installed. It just won't show up in phpinfo().
INSTALL STEPS TAKEN
To install IMagick on Windows XP (PHP 5.2.x)

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*download and install ImageMagick-6.5.8-7 Q16-windows-dll.exe
http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-6.5.8-7-Q16-windows-dll.exe

*download php_imagick_dyn-Q16.dll from
http://valokuva.org/outside-blog-content/imagick-windows-builds/080709/
copy DLL to [PHP]/extension dir and rename it to php_imagick.dll

*You have to edit your php.ini file and add the new extension:
extension=php_imagick.dll

*Save php.ini and restart Apache server. (If necessary, restart Windows)

*phpinfo() should show imagick enabled.

A: Found very useful tha answer given by user Buttercup, also if he could be more clear.
My scenario was a Windows 2012 R2 x64, PHP 5.5.19 x64 and need to install ImageImagick with PHP support. Following points here below I was able to install ImageImagick 6.9.0 x64 and PHP_Imagick.dll 3.1.2 (both are currently the latest stable versions).
Please note I downloaded all components (PHP, ImageImagick and PHP_Imagick) in NTS and x64 modes: not in TS and/or x86 modes. I don't know if this apply in your own case.
The point it wasn't clear for me reading the Buttercup (as for user RhoVisions) was his comment: "Overwrite the DLLs found from ImageMagick 6.8.8 Windows version with the PHP version".
So, this is what I've done (based on Buttercup solution, who I have to say again and again thank you very much!):

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*download latest ImageMagick EXE installer from Link
In my case I downloaded the first file available as HTTP download labeled "Win64 dynamic at 16 bits-per-pixel" (filename: ImageMagick-6.9.0-0-Q16-x64-dll.exe)

*Run the installer just downloaded. I installed it in a simple path like C:\ImageMagick6.9.0 (but I don't think it is so important to move it away from Program Files). Also, I didn't change any other parameter from their defaults during installing.

*download latest PHP_Imagick DLL file from PECL website at: http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick
I choosed a stable (not Beta or RC) version, in my case 3.1.2, clicking on the "Windows logo"+"DLL" label. In my case it was linked to ht tp://pecl.php.net/package/imagick/3.1.2/windows .
On the page it will open you'll find a table: you have to choose your file depending on:
a) number of version of PHP you have (in my case there were available DLLs for PHP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6)
b) x64 or x86 version of PHP you have
c) NTS or TS version of PHP you have
My case is was PHP 5.5.x, x64, NTS: so I downloaded the one labeled "5.5 Non Thread Safe (NTS) x64" (file name: php_imagick-3.1.2-5.5-nts-vc11-x64.zip)

*Unzip the php_imagick ZIP and:
a) copy php_imagick.dll file into the EXT folder of your PHP installation
b) copy and replace ALL the CORE_RL_.dll from the folder you just unzipped into the folder you choosed at point #2. Obviously, please backup replaced files. In my case I copied 8 CORE_RL_.dll files from unzipped folder to C:\ImageMagick6.9.0. I leaved into C:\ImageMagick6.9.0 the others CORE_RL_*.dll not overwritten.

*Edit and save your PHP.ini file in order to add this simple row:
extension=php_imagick.dll

*Reboot your server (unfortunally I didn't find any good alternative of a reboot: also a IISRESET from admin command-prompt didn't work).

*When reboot finished, visit remotely by browser your phpinfo.php file in order to verify that Imagick module was ok. In my case it was.
Hope this could help, out there!

A: I found an alternate source. PECL direct downloading.
Install Steps taken
ImageMagick installation
Where to download latest ImageMagic compatible with IIS 8.1 / Windows 2012r2 php x64:
http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/deps/
navigate and download:
ImageMagick-6.8.8-vc9-x86.zip for PHP 32-bit, 5.4.xx
ImageMagick-6.8.8-vc11-x86.zip for PHP 32-bit, 5.5.xx
ImageMagick-6.8.8-vc11-x64.zip for PHP 64-bit, 5.5.xx
Tips:

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*Overwrite the DLLs found from ImageMagick 6.8.8 Windows version with the PHP version.

*You need to reboot if files are locked in memory.
php_imageMagick.dll location
http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/imagick/
download the appropriate DLLs.
You get latest version of ImageMagick DLLs, php_imagemagick.dll (both non-thread-safe and thread-safe versions).
Tip:

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*If you get php5ts.dll missing, you downloaded the wrong version of php_imagemagic.dll and download other version.

*if you are using IIS - use 'NTS' version - php_imagemagick_nts.dll

*if you are using Apache - use 'TS' version - php_imagemagick_ts.dll

A: In windows you should check 3 parameters when you want to add an extension to php server:

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*The compiler version which your php server compiled with (VC9 or VC10) which is indicated in phpinfo().

*The PHP extension API number which is indicated in phpinfo().

*The most important parameter is whether your web server is ts (thread safe) or nts (non thread safe) which is indicated in phpinfo().
I found to my experience that IIS is nts by default and the php extension should be compiled with nts php library in order to work properly in your web server. However, your extension and your php web server should be the same exactly in these three parameters if you want to load your extension properly.

A: This is an older question, but I've ran into similar issues with PHP/IIS before. A couple things I could suggest to double check:

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*Use the phpinfo page to see if you're editing the right php.ini file, look at the "Loaded php.ini file" on the first page (as stupid as it sounds, I've done that before - sometimes PHP will look for it in its own folder, sometimes C:\Windows)

*also try to enable display_errors to On and error_reporting to E_ALL in php.ini and see if there are error messages at the very bottom of the phpinfo file. Typically it will at least acknowledge not being able to load your DLL.

A: On both http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ and http://valokuva.org/outside-blog-content/, there are multiple DLLs files: one for x64 and another for x86. If your Windows XP is 32-bit, you need to try x86 DLL.

A: You do not need to restart windows.  You need to restart the application pools running the PHP exe.  This can be done by either resetting IIS (This is the best option to get all the application pools to reset).  Or recycle the application pools that are running PHP.

A: nothing worked until I set the permissions on the imagick folder and c:\windows\temp (IUSR read/execute for imagick, read/write/execute for windows\temp).
* I'm not 100% sure read/write/execute was necessary for windows\temp but it was listed on a site somewhere during my google surfing *
Pretty sure the rebooting part is just to make sure the imagick folder is in your system path directory and showing up in phpinfo(), it was already in my path so I didn't have to reboot after setting the permissions.

A: It's quite complicated to match the imagick extensions to their base and to the PHP version. So, in order to take out the hassles of the installation, i would suggest to use a server stack which ships Imagick and it's extension, like WPN-XM.

A: I know that it is old question but I got here by google so probably other will too. For them here is a quickest and easiest solution:
https://mlocati.github.io/articles/php-windows-imagick.html
It worked for me and it is much easier then most voted answers here (and which seemed too complicated for me, like installing imagick as cmd.com command - what for?)

A: In my case Windows restart (mentioned in step 4) did the trick.

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Click here for a recent version of the code from the figshare website.
This code can be used to perform two-phase flow simulations on micro-CT images of porous media. It is based on the algorithm published in Raeini et al. (2012) [doi] [PDF download], with some modifications for improving the stability of the code for unstructured meshes.
It includes the required pre- and post-processing tools, sample input files and a short documentation. For examples of the applications of this code, please see the publications by A.Q. Raeini, B. Bijeljic and M.J. Blunt, for studying pore-scale events such as snap-off and piston-like displacement (2014a) [DOI] [PDF download], upscaling two-phase flow properties (2014b) [DOI] [PDF download] and studying capillary trapping on micro-CT images (2015) [DOI].
A previous version (2011-2012) of the direct two-phase flow solver used for modelling two-phase flow at the pore/micron scale can be downloaded.
The algorithm implemented in this code is closer to the algorithm published in Raeini et al. (2012) [doi] [PDF download].
The code should be linked to OpenFOAM; it has been tested to work with OpenFOAM version 1.6-ext, please see OpenFOAM-extend website or its SourceForge repository.
For any enquiry, please contact Ali Raeini: a.qaseminejad-raeini09@imperial.ac.uk.