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From an era of gifting flowers to that of providing cosmetic surgery, people of South Korea are excited about Parents Day celebrations.

Parents Day in South Korea

In South Korea, May is the month for families. May 5th denotes Children's Day while May 8th reflects as Parent's Day. Originally called Mother's Day, 8th of May is now celebrated as Parent's Day in South Korea. This was done to make the fathers feel that they are not alienated. Parents Day, just like Mother's day or Father's Day, is meant to commemorate the efforts of the parents in building up their children - physically, psychologically, emotionally and socially. Though there is no national holiday declared on 8th of May, Parent's Day is still deemed as one of the special days in South Korea's yearly calendar.

It is the day when children pay regards to efforts of their parents. Parents are the epitome of love and affection. They play the role of providers throughout our lives. It is their constant sacrifices, selfless nature and unconditional love which formulate us as mature and responsible individuals. In South Korea, the streets and squares of Seoul take on a joyful look on Parent's Day. Children, with their bright smiles, warm the hearts of their parents as well as grandparents. In the subway, teenagers give up their seats to their elders.

Parent's Day is the day for those people who gave up their wishes to fulfill ours. Children resort to giving flowers and gifts to their parents. Carnations and roses are the most picked flowers for the day, to mark its specialty. Children spend time with their parents, doing things which their parents love to do. These are the traditional and the conventional form of paying gratitude to their parents. However, with the change in time, the way of expressing love and care has even changed in South Korea too.

The recent times have not only modernized one's thought processes, but also one's expression of emotions. People in South Korea are now giving their parents cosmetic surgery as a gift for Parent's Day. Face lifts, botox treatments and hair transplants, to enhance the look of the parents and to make them young again, are common resorts by children in the 21st century. In this fast paced world, a day like this helps us to realize and thank our parents- our mentor and guide who have made us what we are today.


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Capsule Menu Planning

January 30th, 2012

Last summer, I had a client (I was a real estate agent in my pre-mommy life) with three kids under the age of six. Their family of five was living in a 1,200-sqare-foot condo, and although the quarters seemed tight, their household worked like a well-oiled machine. Every drawer had a label; every task had a responsible party. There were dry-erase and magnet boards all over the place detailing dinners for the next month and which child was in charge of things as simple as saying a prayer before dinner.

I snapped photos of their dry-erase boards during an open house and sent them to my husband with “LOL” as the message. Little did I know that I would be implementing some of the same systems a year later! (Mommyhood has a way of doing that to you!)

So when I recently discovered The Project Girl’s free downloadable menu planner and grocery list forms (via Violet Lulu – thank you!), I was ecstatic. I’ve been struggling with keeping our pantry stocked and our refrigerator full (without filling the compost with wasted produce I never got around to using), and I love finding ways to save money and be more efficient. Plus, the forms are super cute and look great printed and posted on the fridge (or in a binder!).

But…I wanted to take it a step further. A couple steps further, actually.

You’ve heard of the capsule wardrobe, right? Well, I’ve created a capsule menu planner. First, I took The Project Girl’s free downloadable menu planning forms and made them editable using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Now, I don’t have to print them out to fill in the blanks. I can simply work on my plans using the computer and print them when I’m done. The beauty of this system is that I can save them as PDFs and re-use them later by updating the dates and needed grocery items. (The Project Girl’s free downloadable menu planning forms are at the end of the post.)

But wait…it gets better. I took my haphazardly organized (if organized at all) recipe binder and organized it into a capsule menu planner.

First, I gave it a cute cover. I mean, what’s the point of doing something if it’s not cute?!

Next, I put my menu plan for this week into a sheet protector and inserted it into the front of the binder. I use the one that has dinners only on it (version two at the end of this post) since my husband and I do breakfast and lunch separately (usually leftovers or sandwiches).

Here’s a detail view of my menu planner for the week:

After the menu planner page, I moved all my recipes for the week to the front of the binder right after the menu plan. That way, I don’t have to go looking for them each day. (There’s another great reason for this that I’ll share in my follow-up post!)

I also added a sheet protector to hold coupons. On my menu planner page, I put a (c) next to the grocery items for which I want a reminder that I have a coupon. (Now, if only my daughter would stop squealing and distracting me at the checkout like she did today – therefore totally making me forget to use my coupons! Grrrrr…)

When you head to the grocery store, you can either take your own binder or just pull out the menu planner page and your coupons. I took my whole binder today, but my little girl kept throwing it on the ground. Next time, I’ll just stick my list in my pocket!

You could even add tabs for different types of dishes and to keep your current dishes (the ones you’ve picked for the week) in front of your binder. I like to put desserts and staple items like bread (I bake my sandwich bread fresh every two weeks) at the end of my binder.

The whole process of planning my menu for this week took about half an hour, but the awesome thing is that I can recycle this menu plan in future weeks. All I’ll have to do is re-open the PDF on my computer and edit the grocery list based on what I already have in my pantry/fridge at that time. Just be sure to save your PDFs in a certain folder on your computer, and use filenames that will be easy to connect to your printed menu (like the date of the menu).

OH, did I mention that this system saves me money? And not just from using the coupons (or forgetting to use them like I did today). That’s right – instead of wandering the aisles aimlessly, buying too many perishables, making impulse shopping decisions and/or buying duplicate items that I already have in my pantry, I got only exactly what I needed and could use within the week. My final bill was about 25% less than my normal amount for one week.

Sound awesome? I know, right?! You can download your editable forms by clicking on the images below. Version one includes spaces for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Version two, the one I use, just has a “meals” section which I use for dinners only.

So there you have it – a fun and easy way to get yourself more organized every week. Are you loving it? Yes?! Great – because I have another great way to make meal preparation super easy and quick. (But you don’t have to sacrifice making gourmet, restaurant-quality meals for your family). Sound awesome? Check out my follow up post on ruthie pearl – Be Your Own Sous Chef. Be sure to say hello when you stop by! :)

How do YOU plan to use The Project Girl’s free downloadable menu planning forms?

31 Responses to “Capsule Menu Planning”

  1. nicoleigh says:

    I think I’m going to have to look up capsule wardrobe!
    But I do believe I need to begin menu planning. Even though I feed just myself, I tend to buy many more grocery items than what I need. I have a pantry that is well stocked for a single gal! Jeesh. Time to menu plan from my pantry!

  2. Jasmine says:

    Ah, thank you for making the .pdf file editable! I love the forms but would rather print them with the info included rather than write on them, so this is perfect for me. I am currently in the midst of my first real attempt at menu planning, so I’m hoping this will not only motivate me, but organize me as well. Thanks again!

  3. Lauren says:

    I am glad you like it! I can only take credit for making them editable. Jen gets all the credit for coming up with the original forms! :)

  4. libbywilko says:

    LOVE that you included the editable pdf.. thanks guys :)

  5. Love this – I adore Jen’s printables and had no idea myself how to make them editable so thanks for sharing (and your capsule idea) – off to share on FB ! thanks again

  6. OK just one question – when i downloaded the form it will not save the information you enter (says it will only save a blank one)- you mentioned you were able to save them and then edit later as you re-use weeks, Am I missing something? Thanks for any help.

  7. […] meisten hyperventiliere ich dabei bei Artikeln wie Capsule Menu Planning (ja, ich verspreche, ich hole das Thema noch mal auf Foodfreak raus) – es gibt allen ernstes […]

  8. Linda Lawhead says:

    I like the layout of the meal planner, and the ability to edit/add with computer. Is there a way to change the color of the font of the form? The light blue is pretty, but hard for me to see! Thanks!

  9. Nikki says:

    Hey guys I cannot seem to make these editable. When I download them the say “You cannot save data typed into this form. Please print your completed from if you would like a copy for your records.” What am I doing wrong?

  10. Lauren says:

    Nikki, you may need to update your Acrobat Reader.

  11. Lauren says:

    No, that is not editable! Sorry about that. You could always print in black and white.

  12. Linda Lawhead says:

    Thanks! It’s a tad bit better in “black ink only”

  13. Kim M. says:

    Thanks for the editable form! LOVE it!

  14. Nikki says:

    Thanks Lauren. I’ll try that. Love the capsule menu.

  15. Nikki says:

    Just updated to the latest version of adobe acrobat reader and still cannot edit. I have to be doing something wrong.

  16. eskmom says:

    Thanks so much for your printables. The menu planner is better than my current one and i love the project planner.

    Thank you for helping me organize and run my crazy reality better.

  17. […] This is the follow-up post to my guest contribution on TheProjectGirl.com. Be sure to check out my original post on her site, Capsule Menu Planning! […]

  18. […] Project Girl’s blog. So many organizational tips and printables! I already posted about her Weekly Menu Plan Printable, which I love, and there are some other printables I’ll talk about later. Best part is, […]

  19. Megan says:

    I love the forms but my main issue is that the text is too large. I cant write it all the detail or even fit some words on the grocery list section. Is there a way I can edit the text to make it smaller?

  20. Ashley says:

    Is there any way to pin this form on Pinterest?

  21. […] I was looking for something specific, namely,  a meal and shopping plan and her particular post on Capsule Meal Planning hit the mark. I read her post, downloaded the plans, and put pen to […]

  22. This is great thanks!

  23. Michelle Rogers says:

    I LOVE this! I have tried to make one of these for the last two years and this is EXACTLY what I am looking for. Thank you thank you thank you again! Been using it for the last two months and let me tell you I am happy the kids are happy and its just awesome!!!!

  24. […] found this free template from theprojectgirl.com and use it for my weekly/fortnightly shopping. It helps me see what I have in the cupboard, and […]

  25. […] Mahalos to theprojectgirl.com for these simple and very effective fill &print menus.  I love them for these 3 simple […]

  26. […] for menu planning.  It can be found on the Project Girl website.  Here is a post on how to put together a menu planning […]

  27. Raegan says:

    I wish there was an option for the week to start on a Sunday!

  28. mrsjrl12 says:

    It’s so hard to stay organized and make it to the supermarket every week much less with a clear idea of exactly what’s being made for dinner! I’ve been meaning to get this done for over a year now and this has made life a lot simpler and cuter! Thanks Ladies!

  29. Janet says:

    Thank you!! This is just what I’ve been looking for. I prefer to work online rather than from paper.

  30. Jeanette says:

    I really love the menu that says “meals” on top. but I was not able to download it. when you click on the link it send you over to a website for go daddy. can you by any chance send me a link for this menu planner or send me the planner directly? I would love to have it

  31. […] also need a grocery list got organize the food you need to prep. One of our favorite templates is this fillable PDF file because you can simply enter (and change!) your plan and grocery list before printing it […]

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Friday, December 21, 2012

Warm Winter Welcome at Château La Coste

If you're interested in wine, design, sculpture or architecture--or simply enjoy experiencing very unusual and beautiful places--a visit to Château La Coste is a must. This gorgeous 600-acre wine domaine ten minutes north of Aix has a large visitors center designed by world-famous architect Tadao Ando, plus numerous installations and buildings crafted by other luminaries such as Jean Nouvel and Frank Gehry.  Granted, a visit in Spring, Summer or Fall is ideal....but they're open all year and if you can catch a warm-ish day, there's no reason not to enjoy it now. Here's a great opportunity to do so....along with a special evening food-and-wine event next week.

Tatsuo Miyajima's Wild Flowers and other selected installations are now lit up at night and the owners are offering a special guided tour at 6 pm on Saturday December 29th. (The same event is being held tomorrow night but it's sold out.) Afterwards, dinner will be be served at a long table in the lovely, very-serene restaurant Le Café de Tadao Ando. Just make sure to wrap up warm for the 45-minute guided outdoor visit. 26€ per person includes the tour, dinner and a glass of wine. Places are limited and reservations are advised: 04 42 61 92 92,,

Otherwise, guided visits are available every day in December, except the 24th, 25th and 26th. Visits depart at 2.30 pm and will be followed by a complimentary glass of vin chaud (hot wine) and a traditional mince pie. Tickets are 6€ plus the normal entrance fee and reservations are required.

While the newest incarnation of Château la Coste is just a year old, there's been agriculture and winemaking here as far back as Roman times. On the property are cobbled Gallo-Roman pathways, dry stone walls, bridges, underground wells...and the vestiges of an intricate watering system currently undergoing restoration. Between the rows of vines, mixed in with the sandy limestone soil, workers have found fragments of amphores which the Romans used to transport their wine and varnished fragments of the cups from which they drank. Today the property is blanketed with forests of green and white oaks, meadows of almond trees and broad swaths of wildflowers, plus 250 acres of meticulously tended vines. A lovely Venetian villa in a rosy pink hue has stood here since 1682.

It was in 2004 that the current owners decided to transform the domaine into a place where art, architecture and the terrain would blend seamlessly. The idea had already been successful in the Basque city of Álava, headquarters of Vinos del Marqués de Riscal, where Frank Gehry was commissioned to build a hotel. Here in France, the Irish owners of Château La Coste expanded on that idea, inviting artists and architects from all over the world to visit, explore and find a place upon the estate that inspired them to create. Other artists with work on view include Alexander Calder, Michael Stipe, Louise Bourgeous, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Serra, Paul Matisse and many others.  To see the major features of the property, plan for a two-hour stroll with some gravel and gentle hills. And definitely stay for a friends and I loved everything about our lunch here in mid November: the sunshine on the terrace, the soothing calm of the reflecting pool, the excellent food, the wine (of course!) and the gracious warmth of our server. Make sure to also leave time for wine tasting in the pretty shop...and for perusing all the art and architecture books in the alcove by the front desk. Set aside a day to give the property the time it deserves.

If you've visited La Coste in the year since it's been officially open, you'll want to pop back in periodically. New buildings are coming from Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, while other additions--such as a small hotel--may be coming soon. The property is open for self-guided visits year round (you'll be provided with a map) while guided visits are available by reservation. Scheduled English-language tours are offered on Friday, Saturday and Sundays at 1 p.m. More info and admission prices can be found on the bi-lingual website.

Chateau La Coste

2750 Route de la Cride
Le Puy Sainte Reparade, France
04 42 61 89 98
GPS coordinates: on the website
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Photos: 1. Hiroshi Sugimoto's ''Infinity'' in the reflecting pool at the Tadao Ando visitors' center. 2. Liam Gillick's ''Multiplied Resistance Screened.'' The colored panels slide around to create different hues3. Crouching Spider by Louise Bourgeous lives in the large reflecting pool at the visitors' center. 4. Alexander Calder's ''Small Crinkley'' outside Tadao Ando's visitors center. 5. Sean Scully's ''Wall of Light Cubed.'' 6. Jean Nouvel's winery, called the Chai, is the preserve of wine maker Mattheiu Cosse. 7. Guided visits in December depart at 2:30 daily and include vin chaud and mince pies. 8. Soaking up winter sun on the cafe terrace.

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  1. Looks interesting - colorful and artsy, as something a little different architecturally, and not too far off the beaten path from Aix.

  2. We love Chateau La Coste - thanks for the update Julie.

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Deep Impact makes an impression on Tempel-1

(Big) bang on target

At around ten-to-seven this morning (BST) the NASA space probe Deep Impact lived up to its name and smashed into the Comet Tempel-1. The impact sent up a cloud of dust and gas far bigger than anyone had expected, making the comet, briefly, almost 11-times brighter than it was previously.

NASA TV image of the impact as seen from the fly-by vehicle

Deep Impact is a two-spacecraft mission designed to smash a 360kg probe into the nucleus of a comet, giving scientists their first ever glimpse of what lies below the surface layer of the nucleus.

Footage of the approach of the impactor showed the on-board cameras being buffeted by dust and debris from the comet, and the optics being gradually sandblasted down. A NASA spokesman commented: "Our brave little spacecraft is in a very hostile environment".

As the craft got closer to the nucleus, although the image remained quite grey and fuzzy, it was possible to make out craters on the surface of the 14km by 4km rock. NASA was aiming to hit the comet within one kilometre of its centre of mass, and when the impactor hit on target, the scientists at NASA mission control were jumping up and down, cheering, as you might expect.

Meanwhile back at the London press conference, reactions were a little more muted. It was only just 7:00am, after all. But once the images from the Faulkes telescope in Hawaii started coming in, everyone perked up a treat.

Steve Miller at the UK Infra Red Telescope, also based in Hawaii, told the assembled press (via the miracle of long distance telephony): "This is an enormous artificial outburst. The flare is still brightening as I'm watching it. It is well over ten times brighter than before the impact. Immediately after the probe hit, it doubled in brightness, and it has been steadily increasing ever since then."

The brightness reached a plateau at around 11 times its original intensity, before dropping off to about half that value. The researchers speculate that this increased brightness could be maintained for a number of days.

Professor John Zarnecki, one of the lead scientists in the Huygens mission, speculated that the increased brightness could be a combination of more material being dislodged, and the size of the particles being smaller. "More surface means more light," he explained.

Comet Tempel-1 getting brighter after impact. Images: Faulkes

Dr. Andrew Coates from the University of London's Mullard Space Science laboratory said that the images were hugely beyond expectations.

"We've had clues from other flybys, but now we can peer under the surface for the first time," he told The Register. "What we're seeing is unprocessed material left over from the early solar system."

He explained that the spectroscopic analysis of the cloud of dust would give scientists an idea of the ratio of various materials within the comet. "We'll really be able to constrain our models with the new data," he added.

Professor Monica Grady from the Open University said that she was particularly excited to see the ratio of organics to water in the dust. "How much organic material was around at the beginning of the solar system? This will help us understand the role comets played in seeding the building blocks of life, and Tempel-1 will show us what those blocks actually are."

She said she expected to see chains of carbon, polycyclics, ethanol and possibly even amino acids in the dust cloud. "But," she told us, "I would be absolutely aghast if we found DNA. That would really be overwhelmingly surprising." ®

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Samba shakes hands with Microsoft

No royalties to pay in interop deal?

The Samba team has reached an agreement with Microsoft, with the software giant agreeing to disclose technical and legal information to the software libre project. Samba is by far the most widely-used software stack that allows non-Microsoft computer to talk to Windows machines, and use proprietary Microsoft network services.

The deal follows the European Commission's decision to force Microsoft to document its protocols adequately. The Samba Project will pay a one-time fee of €10,000, via a corporation, set up for the purpose, called the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation.

"The agreement is, at its heart, a non-disclosure agreement (NDA)," explains Samba co-lead Andrew Tridgell in his (very full) explanation of the deal.

In return, Samba receives documentation of various workgroup server protocols and a list of patents Microsoft believes apply to its protocols. This was inserted at Samba's request, explains Tridgell, who called it "at least a step in the right direction".

"We now have a bounded set of work to do to ensure we don't infringe any Microsoft patents on these protocols."

In contrast to Microsoft's other IP licensing arrangements, no per-copy royalty is payable. This is no small achievement. As we reported, here, Microsoft last year proposed a royalty schedule of $50,000 upfront, with royalties ranging from $80 to $1,900 per box.

You can read the agreement here [PDF, 740kb], and Tridgell's explanation here. There's also a red-lined version.

How it all began

The EU's litigation against Microsoft began with a complaint from Sun Microsystems in 1998, alleging that Microsoft had refused Sun the information it required to interoperate with Active Directory. The EU case also examined the issue of digital media playback, but its primary focus was on the server, in contrast with the US litigation, which focused on Microsoft's desktop software monopoly.

Sun had licensed a product called Advanced Server for Unix (AS/U) developed by AT&T, which allowed a non-Windows machine to act as a Primary Domain Controller in a Windows network. After a Microsoft executive had suggested a "buy out", Redmond struck a secret deal with AT&T which deprived licensees such as Sun updates to AS/U. Sun then tried to roll its own, and then realized how hard it was without the interoperability information.

As for Samba, it began life in the early 1990s as an attempt to implement Microsoft's CIFS network file system (later SMB, hence the name) on non-Windows machines. Back then, Microsoft was a newcomer to the server market (hanging on the coat-tails of IBM, to market OS/2 LAN Manager), and was much more helpful about disclosing the workings of its crufty and complex network protocols. ®

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Comcast accuses FCC of impotence

'Your policies mean nothing'

Comcast has told the chairman of US Federal Communications Commission that he has no legal right to prevent the company from busting BitTorrents.

The FCC is currently investigating claims that the big-name ISP put a choke hold on BitTorrents and other P2P traffic. But clearly, Comcast believes this is an epic waste of time.

With a recent FCC filing (PDF), Comcast executive vice president David Cohen informed Chairman Kevin Martin that even if the ISP is guilty of violating the commission's Internet Policy Statement, the commission doesn't have the power to do anything about it. And from where we're sitting, it looks an awful lot like Cohen is threatening legal action if the commission says otherwise.

"The congressional policy and agency practice of relying on the marketplace instead of regulation to maximize consumer welfare has been proven by experience (including the Comcast customer experience) to be enormously successful," Cohen says. "Bearing these facts in mind should obviate the need for the Commission to test its legal authority."

If you're a Comcast customer, we would like to know if your experience has proven that the ISP marketplace maximizes consumer welfare. After all, in many areas of the US, the marketplace amounts to no more than one or two options. Keep in mind, however, that if you contradict Comcast, you will be contradicting the "facts."

Members of the coalition contradicted the "facts" back in Nov., when they first urged the FCC to crack down on Comcast's treatment of BitTorrent traffic. Independent tests have shown that the ISP is preventing users from "seeding" BitTorrents and other P2P files. When one machine downloads a file and promptly attempts to upload that file to another machine, in certain cases, Comcast sends out a duped "reset flag" that breaks this peer-to-peer connection.

The SaveTheInternets are adamant that in doing so, Comcast has run afoul of the FCC's 2005 Internet Policy Statement, which says that US Internet users are "entitled to run applications and use services of their choice."

At first, Comcast countered this argument by pointing out that the Policy Statement allows for "reasonable network management" and that it's BitTorrent throttling was nothing less than reasonable. And some experts have agreed. But now the company is saying it doesn't really matter whether the practice is reasonable or not.

"There are several reasons why the Commission cannot lawfully issue an injunction against Comcast with regard to the provision of Internet services, even were it to conclude - contrary to what we have demonstrated in our previous communications with the Commission - that Comcast's behavior is inconsistent with the Internet Policy Statement," reads David Cohen's FCC filing.

At one point, Cohen says "It is settled law that policy statements do not create binding legal obligations. Indeed, the Internet Policy Statement expressly disclaimed any such intent."

Meanwhile, the Policy Statement very plainly says that the FCC has the "jurisdiction necessary to ensure that providers of telecommunications for Internet access or Internet Protocol-enabled (IP-enabled) services are operated in a neutral manner." But Cohen may have some sort of point. When the Policy Statement was unveiled, Chairman Martin did say that policy statements were not "enforceable documents."

Cohen also says that if the FCC enjoined Comcast, it would run afoul of its own 2002 Cable Modem Declaratory Ruling and Congress' 1946 Administrative Procedures Act. And he's adamant that an FCC fine is out of the question as well.

"For all these reasons, there is no basis upon which the Commission could lawfully adopt any sort of prospective injunction in the current setting. I might add that all of these reasons - plus others that we have previously detailed - would apply to any purported assessment of monetary forfeitures based on prior conduct."

But our favorite bit is where Cohen argues that Comcast is an open book. "We communicate appropriately with our customers," he insists.

We beg to differ. When tests from independent researcher Robb Topolski's first revealed that Comcast throttled BitTorrent traffic - many months ago - Comcast flatly denied the practice. And even in the face of an FCC probe, the ISP only half-admits what's happening.

What's more, when the FCC set up a hearing in Boston last month to determine what's going on, Comcast paid people to attend the meeting on its behalf.

If recent comments from Kevin Martin are any indication, he will crack down on Comcast - in large part because the company hasn't communicated appropriately with its customers. "A hallmark of what should be seen as a reasonable business practice is certainly whether or not the people engaging in that practice are willing to describe it publicly," he said.

Legal action here we come. ®

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Is the ION VHS2PC Macrovision friendly?

I have been reading about this machine by ION that can copy VHS tapes to the PC so that they can be saved on DVDs. The question is, will it defeat Macrovision copy protections?

I can't find a straight answer to this. I've got a bunch of kid's movies that I would like to put on DVD. Will the ION do it?

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Former AMD kingpin gives Intel hell

Derides 'monopolist defense'

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AMD's former CEO Hector Ruiz has released a commentary that picks apart Intel's defense against the European Commission's €1.06bn fine for anticompetitve practices.

Ruiz's scathing rebuke, published by MarketWatch, excoriates Chipzilla's efforts to wriggle out of responsibility for the actions that led to the fine - especially in light of the incriminating evidence recently released by the European Competition Commission.

In his commentary, entitled "Intel and the blame game: Time to take responsibility in chip-industry antitrust case," Ruiz writes: "Intel has apparently embraced the advice dispensed by the playwright Oscar Wilde: 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.'"

Ruiz's argument takes several tacks, chiding Intel for its charges of Commission bias, scolding the company for suppressing evidence, reproving them for disparaging critics - "a typical monopolist defense" according to Ruiz - and saying that Intel's blaming of AMD for its European sales problems "really does twist reality into a pretzel."

Not that Ruiz is without bias. After assuming the positions of president and COO of AMD in 2000, he became CEO in 2002 and headed the company until he stepped aside in 2008.

And he has called Intel to task before, as evidenced by his statement in 2007 when the EU began its investigation of Intel that "This is not an isolated instance," citing similar investigations in Japan and Korea.

Still, Ruiz holds out an olive branch at the end of Wednesday's dressing-down of his former competitor: "Intel has been a global innovation leader in the past," he concedes. "It can be a global innovation leader in the future - but not until Intel's leadership recognizes a simple truth."

That simple truth, from Ruiz's point of view, is that Intel should take responsibility for its actions, and move on.

"The sooner Intel accepts a level of responsibility befitting a company of its scope, legacy and stature," Ruiz writes, "and takes responsibility for its own errors, the sooner that the full benefits of competition will flow, not just to the industry, and not even just to computer manufacturers, but to computer users the world around."

If Intel is playing the blame game, Ruiz is playing the shame game. ®

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Argentinian police are hunting a 30-year-old former lingerie model accused of running an all-women cocaine-smuggling gang, Argentina's La Nación reports.

Angie ValenciaColombian Angie Sanclemente Valencia was crowned her native land's Queen of Coffee in 2000, but following a relationship with a Mexican drug lord known as "The Monster", decided to ditch both him and her modelling career to set up her own Argentina-based trade in narcotics.

Police say she used other lingerie and fashion models, described as her "unsuspicious, beautiful angels", to smuggle cocaine from Colombia and Argentina to Cancun in Mexico, from where it was dispatched to Europe.

Her Charlie Angels - recruited by a 25-year-old male model known as Ariel L - earned £3,200 for every smuggling flight. Mr L received £1,300 for arranging each trip.

The wheels came off the plan on 13 December, when Ariel L's 21-year-old girlfriend, María N, was cuffed at Buenos Aires's Ezeiza International Airport with 55kg of cocaine on open display in her suitcase.

A police investigator said: "Ariel L and María N were confident, since their contacts in the organisation had assured them that everything was arranged at the airport and nothing would happen, and that explains why the drugs were in the bag without any attempt to hide them."

Three further arrests followed, but Valencia disappeared from a four-star Buenos Aires hotel and hasn't been seen since. She's now the subject of an international arrest warrant, while police are investigating just who was working for the gang in Ezeiza International Airport. ®

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The FCC reckons that the private sector can't be trusted with public safety and that TV companies should sell off some spectrum to ensure broadband for all.

It's just over two weeks until the FCC presents its National Broadband Plan (March 16th), but already, the regulator has started slipping out details of the plan, including a promise to find 500MHz of spectrum for wireless broadband and a request for Congress to cough up $16bn for a public-safety network to be integrated with priority access to commercial networks.

FCC chair Julius Genachowski has been making comments about the forthcoming plan, including some details of a new public safety network and the FCC's plans for finding more radio spectrum for private companies to play with, not to mention removing some of the restrictions and procedures that make building wireless networks such an expensive business.

The FCC's previous plan for a public-service network was to auction off 20MHz of 700MHz spectrum (paired into two 10MHz channels, and named "D-Block") with the proviso that the buyer had to build a network for first responders (fire brigade, police, etc.) The problem was that no-one wanted the burden, so the spectrum didn't get sold and the US still lacks a nationwide emergency network.

"The private sector simply is not going to build a nationwide, state-of-the-art, interoperable broadband network for public safety on its own dime," points out the good Mr. Genachowski.

Thus, the request for something between $12bn and $16bn over the next 10 years, creating a $6bn federal grant to cover the cost of building the network and cover running costs. That federal funding will come with a mandated technical standard, to ensure that "public safety will have available to it cutting-edge technology, including handsets, at consumer electronic prices," which almost certainly means LTE as the biggest game in town.

Using LTE will also make the kit interoperable with commercial networks, which would be ideal as the FCC intends to make use of "priority access on commercial broadband networks" when necessary.

TV companies, meanwhile, will be encouraged to hand back their existing radio spectrum in exchange for a cut of the auctioned value. That money could be used to pay for the kind of low-power-broadcast network that the CTIA suggested last December, but in some areas, TV broadcast spectrum is lying fallow and could easily be recycled, at least according to the FCC.

Using all that spectrum will require infrastructure, and while there aren't any details yet, the FCC is planning to reduce the bureaucratic burden on those who want to connect the unconnected - which means faster planning approvals and fewer rules restricting what operators can do.

Those operators will also be able to pay for infrastructure from the universal service fund. They'll be no additional money in the pot but the FCC reckons that mobile connectivity is now just as important as fixed services.

The National Broadband Plan is due to be presented next Tuesday, so we'll know a lot more once that happens, but if the bits already emerged are anything to go by it's going to be quite a document. ®

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Apple has released Safari 5 for both Mac and Windows.

There was no mention of the Apple's latest web browser this morning at the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco, but the company did spit out a press release in tandem with its release detailing the iPhone 4, due on June 24; iOS 4 (née iPhone OS 4.0), due June 21; and the debut of iAds, set for July 1.

The latest incarnation of Safari uses the Nitro Javascript engine, and Apple is claiming a 30 per cent Javascript boost over Safari 4 — we've done no formal benchmarking, but it does, indeed, feel snappier.

The browser also gives you the option of using Yahoo! or Microsoft for search — not just Google. And Apple is now offering kit for building Safari extensions as part of a Safari Developer Program. All extensions will be sandboxed and digitally signed by Apple.

Also new is the Safari Reader, designed to aid the reading of online articles. The Safari Reader is not an RSS client — instead, it automatically detects what it decides are "articles" and reformats them. In essence, if it detects an article, it launches an overlay pane that includes only the text, and grays out the source web page behind it. You might call it a de facto ad blocker.

Apple's 30 per cent Javascript boost claim is based on a SunSpider testing with an iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Mac OS X 10.6.3, with 4GB of RAM. According to Apple, the browser also loads new webpages faster using Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching and improves the page caching, so you can more quickly return to pages you've viewed in the past. You can download the new Safari here. ®

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Portuguese hackers responded to a negative assessment of the country's ability to repay loans by defacing the website of credit reference agency Moody's.

The defacement restores the rating of the debt-crippled nation to the highest (A++) mark, while simultaneously attacking Moody's website security and business practices.

One message posted by the hackers on the site read: "Here at Moody's we are paid to say what our $ friends want. We are powerful. We sell some hunches and everyone believes them. It's the mood of the day.

"Yet, we have trivial security vulnerabilities on our website."

The defacement, which features an image of Afonso Henriques, the first Portuguese king, concludes with the message. "Afonso ranked your website as Z--. His sword will be shoved up your ass."

The defacement, removed from view at the time of writing, was captured by Reg reader Marcia and can be viewed in all its glory here.

Local reports of the hack can be found here.

The defacement comes a day after Moody's downgraded Portugal's sovereign-debt rating to junk status, a development criticised by local government officials and (less forcefully) by executives from the European Central Bank, the Wall Street Journal reports. Share prices of banks in Spain and Portugal slipped on news of the downgrade, which makes it more difficult for firms to secure loans at favourable interest rates. ®

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Trevor Pott puts AIC's DAS subsystem through its paces

Two at the same time

Here's where the JBOD systems come in. SAS isn't just "SATA drives that can survive the loss of an HBA". SAS disks can be shared by two systems at the same time! JBOD units such as the AIC XJ3000-4243S I tinkered with are exactly how you do it.

Being external devices, JBODs use an external mini-SAS connector instead of an internal one. You get the relevant cable and plug your HBAs from two systems into the JBOD unit and you're on the road to a high-availability setup. To really get redundant you'd add two HBAs into each server and use two JBODs; that way you can lose either server or either JBOD and your storage cluster will continue.

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You'll need an operating system that understands this, of course, but that doesn't look to be too big a problem. Windows's failover cluster manager makes this push-button simple in Server 2012 and *nix options certainly are available.

Among the *nix options available, Nexenta seems the most viable. They maintain their own Solaris fork with a laser focus on ZFS-based storage including exactly these sorts of JBOD configurations.

The device itself

The unit we tested is by no means the top-end offering. We only got to play with 24 disks in a single chassis, AIC can cram 60 disks into 4U with these things.

Even though we only got to play with the mid-range offering, I was not happy to see the XJ3000-4243S leave the lab. It has served well during its tenure, and there is something to be said for the ability to plug 24 disks into the thing and run disks tests against them all simultaneously. It cut about three weeks off our disk diagnostics and RMA backlog all on its own.

All the bits are there; JBOD setups as described above are a tried, proven solution set with enough maturity for there to be multiple players at every point in the market. The margins aren't outrageous and the $/GB of redundant, highly available storage can go up against the many object storage solutions that are floating around. How the hardware holds up would seem to be the determining factor.

My tests of the XJ3000-4243S showed that it was a fantastically built unit. It has hot-swappable power supplies that survived my rigorous "let's see if we can break it" testing. It's got hot-swappable fans that are easy to replace and take punishment. We tested a number of drives ranging from 5400 RPM SATA to 15,000 RPM SAS disks and it handled them all just fine.

It has a 1+1 600w redundant 80 Plus PSU, tool-less rail kit and the onboard firmware for the SAS expanders make it upgradable.

The XJ3000-4243S handled temperature extremes to 45C (impressive, as it's only rated to 35C) and had some of the least frustrating hot-swap trays I've ever used. If you want to chain up more JBODs, you can; it has its own external ports and so you can get a lot more disks in your cluster than just what's in the pair of JBODs.

Fitness for purpose

If your goal is to slam each and every disk to the absolute red line and eke out every conceivable IOPS from every spindle and NAND chip, this is not the solution for you. As discussed above, a JBOD attaches multiple hard drives to a far smaller number of SAS ports via the SAS expanders and the mini-SAS connecter to the server's HBA. You can use up all of the interface bandwidth fairly easily, depending on what you are doing to the disks.

Object-based storage systems can scale out to more physical disks than the JBOD high-availability setups that these devices are typically used to create, but there's nothing that says you have to buy JBODs to run them in HA setups. AIC and other JBOD chassis vendors offer models that are designed to maximise the number of disks per system as opposed to the focus on high availability.

There is nothing that – in theory – stops you from building object storage arrays where an individual "system" controls an entire rack's worth of disks. I can't find anyone doing that, however, largely because that is an awful lot of spindles to be made unavailable if a single server dies. Getting the balance just right is the focus of many a doctoral thesis and the fevered marketing of everyone from Supermicro to Nutanix.

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You can now officially attach more disks to a single server than most sane people would ever want to. If your goal is to build a Massive Array of Idle Disks (MAID) then I can't see why you'd ever use anything else. Even if you are building some big, sexy storage backend that will eventually become a SAN for virtualisation, Nexenta's numbers on this argue that you can do quite well with this arrangement.

The next few years are going to contain the most bitterly fought battles the storage wars have seen for some time. Enterprise SAN vendors are under siege from all sides. JBOD HA approaches will sound off object-based storage, virtual storage appliances and network-backed block-level replication schemes. If you're a storage vendor then you are most certainly living in interesting times. ®

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Mars takes centre stage in IMAX spectacular

NASA rovers' footage hits the big, big, screen

By Lester Haines

Posted in Science, 30th January 2006 11:45 GMT

Last Friday saw the premiere of Roving Mars, an IMAX spectacular created from material recorded by NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers on the Red Planet. The rovers' principal scientific investigator Steven Squyres, who also narrates some of the film, told Reuters: "I've kind of had this picture of what Mars really looks like in my head for all this time, and for the first time on that IMAX screen, what I saw with my eyes matched my impressions of what it should really look like."

The big-screen Martian experience is based entirely on real material. "Every single scene you see is real data from the rover, it's just processed in different ways. There is not a single fake shot of Mars," Squyers said.

For example, a sequence showing an airbag-protected rover landing on Mars was knocked together by digital artist Dan Maas from "data collected by the rovers as they bounced". Accordingly, each bounce is "just as it happened, just where it happened on the Martian surface".

Roving Mars is written, produced and directed by George Butler, whose previous credits rather deliciously include early Arnold Schwarzenegger showcase Pumping Iron. The film features an intro narrated by Paul Newman and a suitably "otherworldly" Philip Glass soundtrack. ®


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1) The beaming Arizonan, 29, on page #4 was nabbed Saturday for narcotics possession and promoting prison contraband; 2) The 34-year-old Louisiana man on page #5 was arrested Thursday for marijuana possession and providing false information to jail personnel. Here’s hoping that he was hanging out with someone wearing a “Or You Can Get With That” t-shirt; 3) The 83-year-old Idahoan on page #6 was collared for inattentive driving; 4) Charged with pot possession and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the 63-year-old Arizona woman on page #10 appears to have lost her shirt prior to posing for jailers; 5) No, that is not Steve Buscemi’s crazy cousin on page #12. The Arizonan, 42, was popped on a marijuana charge; 6) No, that is not James Lipton’s crazy cousin on page #14. The North Carolina man, 62, was busted Wednesday for methamphetamine trafficking; and 7) The Florida woman, 23, on page #15 was nabbed for providing false information to a pawn shop. (16 pages)


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In Memoriam – Doris M. & John T. Quinlan

On June 12, 2013, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

Doris M. (Higgins) Quinlan – Passed away June 5, 2013 and her husband John T. Quinlan passed away on June 6, 2013. Both were residents of Somerville.

They were married for the past 56 years. Loving mother and father of Mary Jo Rossetti and her husband Richard of Somerville, the late Caroline Peloquin and her surviving husband Bernard and his wife Judith of Westford. Doris was the sister of Brian Higgins of Chelmsford and the late Thomas Higgins. John was the brother of Carolyn Ryan of Hanover. They were the dear grandmother and grandfather of Jaclyn Rossetti and her fiancé Jason Piques, Kara Rossetti, Anne Marie and Christine Peloquin. They are also survived by many loving nieces and nephews.

A Funeral procession was held for Mr. and Mrs. Quinlan, from the George L. Doherty Funeral Home, 855 Broadway (Powder House Sq.) in Somerville on Monday morning, June 10, followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Clement Church in Somerville. Calling hours for Mr. and Mrs. Quinlan were on Sunday, June 9. Interment was held at Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne Monday.

John was a Veteran of the US Navy, WWII. Prior to his retirement, he was a Firefighter for the City of Somerville for 28 years. Both John and Doris were members of the James A. Logan Post, #6800.

Donations may be made in John and Doris’ memory on behalf of Caroline Peloquin’s memory to the Somerville High School Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 440275, Somerville, MA 02144 or Hallmark Health Hospice, 178 Savin St., Suite 300, Malden, MA 02148.

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    I was saddened to hear of the passing of Jack and his wife. I served with Jack on the Somerville Fire Department. He was a great guy who took great pride in being a Somerville firefighter. He was a hard and diligent worker who never said a bad thing about anybody.

    What also impressed me was Jack’s pride in being an American and having served our country in the service. We are free because of people like Jack. He will be missed.

    My condolencesgo out to his family,friends, and loved ones. Take heart in the fact that Jack and his wife are now in a better place with the Lord. They earned that place and they deserve it. God bless both of them.

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    Sad, but at least they went together.

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For too long the economy of Florida’s Space Coast has been too heavily dependent on a very small number of huge government projects. This narrow business model calls to mind the adage “if you only own one stock, you probably deserve what you get when it goes down.”

Tragically, the state and the nation failed to learn this very lesson when the end of Apollo program devastated Central Florida’s economy in the 1970s, and as a result the Space Coast is now losing 9,000 Space Shuttle jobs.

Fortunately though, the dawning era of commercial American space efforts is giving flower to a far wider variety of new space systems and projects with refreshingly diverse markets and backers. This has the opportunity to create a Florida space economy that will be far more robust than any in the past 50 years.

Consider how these examples of American commercial space development could help reinvigorate the Space Coast’s economy:

This has the opportunity to create a Florida space economy that will be far more robust than any in the past 50 years.

Suborbital Spaceflight: This new sector has over $1 billion in private investment behind it among five separate suborbital space lines (XCOR Aerospace, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, Armadillo Aerospace, and Masten Space Systems), each of which plan to begin flying frequent tourist and research missions as soon as 2012 or 2013; several have shown interest in flying from the Cape.

Orbital Launch: Here, a company called SpaceX is taking the lead by pouring hundreds of millions of private dollars into its line of Falcon launchers, which are already flying, and which are under contract by NASA, DOD, and commercial satellite companies. New commercial launchers that could base in Florida are also under consideration by Virgin Galactic and XCOR, and United Launch Alliance hopes to launch commercial and government astronauts aboard Atlas V vehicles from the Cape by 2015.

Crew Transport: Four companies (Sierra Nevada, Boeing, SpaceX, and Blue Origin) are vying to become one of NASA’s astronaut transportation service providers to the International Space Station, which will relieve us from paying the Russians hundreds of millions to get our astronauts to space. These firms hope to also exploit purely commercial markets to transport tourists, researchers, and commercial research equipment to low Earth orbit. Satellite and payload integrators such as Astrotech and Astrogenetix will also benefit from this effort. A recent market survey showed that that these commercial applications are likely to outstrip NASA’s crew transport demands.

Private Space Stations: At least two companies (Bigelow Aerospace and Excalibur Almaz) are planning to field space stations. Both will earn their revenues from private sector and from the approximately 180 nations that are not a part of the International Space Station, and Bigelow has already put two test stations in orbit.

These commercial space activities have the potential to create numerous manufacturing, launch, and operations jobs in Florida, and also create engineering services, hotel, and restaurant jobs, and possibly even new entertainment-themed attractions. These will significantly blunt the blow of the shuttle’s demise.

Watching this exciting new industry develop, one can hardly help but root for its success. And doing so are Space Florida, numerous elected officials in Tallahassee, and many in the state’s congressional delegation.

Watching this exciting new industry develop, one can hardly help but root for its success.

Earlier this month, I and several others spoke in the Florida Forward public event in Orlando, in which Senator Bill Nelson outlined his work to forge a space future via the new NASA authorization bill he helped write. Authorization bills are important legislation, but they do not appropriate funds—appropriations bills do that. So the Senator must now work to pass appropriations for commercial space activities that can bring needed jobs to Florida. I, for one, offer to help.

Sen. Nelson has been a leader who other senators turn when considering issues relating to space. With NASA’s crucial commercial space budget under attack, Nelson has a golden opportunity to lead the funding fight for this funding. If he does, he’ll be putting an ace in his deck for the 2012 campaign. If he doesn’t, he’ll cede this powerful card to others, including those who seek his Senate seat.

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John Bercow will have a tough time keeping the lid on parliament questions this week as steamy new texts are revealed between PM David Cameron and Rebekuh Brooks, she of the flowing chesnut mane, and recent phone hacking scandals.

The texts reveal alleged salacious details after the pair joined up for some spirited bare back riding in the idyllic British country side.

Here are just a few of the texts that will have all of Britain talking in the coming weeks:

Cam: Wow! Wot a ride. I had to hang on with both hands...luckily there was plenty to grab a holt of!

Reb: And you used to make fun of me riding 'side saddle!' LOL

Cam: You set a nice pace, but I really enjoyed the gallup home to the barn!

Reb: The gait is the thing! Trick is never to rush a good ride in the woods. No sense being rushed, you always git home in the end. It was a barn burner, indeed, eh?

Cam: Grass stains may be hard to explain!

Reb: No Prob! She should know you have a habit of falling off!

Cam: Looking forward to our next ride after I practice a bit more.

Reb: Me too. Bring your spurs for better control and to show me when to speed up, I'll follow your lead!

Cam: Not used to this...ache all over...in a good way!

Reb: I'll bring some lotion next time to ease the pain...mind the slippery slope!

Cam: Ha! Your juices seem to flow quite well, though. Been fantasying again about those intimate "interviews" with that moron Piers?

Reb: Just happy to have a real stud in the barn at #10! Gordon was a gelding,
despite acting the big P******k!

Cam: Still thinking about you! Went to lunch today and left Sam behind at the pub!

Reb: Ha! That's wot happens when you 'mind the gap!"

Cam: Surprised to find you really are Ginger All Over! Gobsmacked!

Reb: Better Red than Dead in Bed!

Cam: Tally Ho!

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Although he has stated previously that he doesn't want to run as a Vice Presidential candidate, many say that Marco Rubio would have a hard time turning down the opportunity to become the next Vice President of the United States.

"Rubio has everything going for him that Romney needs", a campaigner for Romney told a few reporters Friday. "He's very popular with Hispanics, the elderly and even the Tea Party. He would be the perfect choice."

Other things going for Rubio is that he is not a Washington Insider. Plus his win as Junior United States Senator from Florida was a big upset, as he came from far behind to defeat two other candidates in a very close race.

Rubio was born to Cuban immigrants and was raised in Miami, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada.

"Oh, Rubio would be a great catch for Romney", admits Vice President Joe Biden. "But I don't think he's ready to do all the things that a Vice President has to do in Washington, like...well.....like..uh...leading the cheering for the President while he's making his State of the Union Speech and..uh...ah.....things."

Asked if Rubio DID agree to run as VP, Biden right away stated that the first thing the Democrats would do is check for his birth certificate to make very very sure that he was actually born in Miami and not in Cuba.

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Japan scientist in discredited stem-cell research dead in suicide

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese researcher at the centre of discredited research initially hailed as a potential breakthrough for stem-cell treatment killed himself after months of stress and exhaustion, officials said on Tuesday.

Yoshiki Sasai was the co-author of the high-profile research that had seemed to offer hope for replacing damaged cells or even growing new human organs.

He was found dead early on Tuesday at the Riken institute where he worked in Kobe, Japan, police and the institute said.

"It is confirmed as a suicide," said a police spokesman. "It was a hanging."

Sasai, 52, had been hospitalised in March for stress and become less receptive to media inquiries during the controversy over the team's research, Riken spokesman Satoru Kagaya said.

The scientist "had seemed completely exhausted" in their last phone conversation around May or June, Kagaya told a televised news conference.

As deputy director of Riken's Center for Developmental Biology, Sasai supervised the work of lead author Haruko Obokata, which took the world of molecular biology by storm when it was published in the British journal Nature in January.

It was retracted after months of controversy that made front-page news in Japan and tarnished the country's reputation for scientific research.

The journal's editor-in-chief, Phil Campbell, issued a statement in London describing Sasai's death as a true tragedy for science and an immense loss to the research community.

"Yoshiki Sasai was an exceptional scientist and he has left an extraordinary legacy of pioneering work across many fields within stem cell and developmental biology," Campbell said.

Japan's top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, said the suicide was "very unfortunate".

"Mr Sasai contributed greatly in the field of developmental biology and was an internationally renowned researcher."

Riken president Ryoji Noyori expressed "deep regret over the loss of an irreplaceable scientist."

In what looked like game-changing discovery, Obokata, Sasai and the other authors described simple ways to reprogramme mature animal cells back to an embryonic-like state, allowing them to generate many different types of cells.

But questions soon arose about the research, as other scientists could not replicate the startling claims. Riken said its investigation found Obokata had plagiarized and fabricated parts of the papers, raising doubts about the credibility of Japanese science.

After defending her work for months against Riken's claims, Obokata agreed in June to retract the papers, which Nature did in early July.

Despite the retractions of the research papers, Sasai never wavered in his belief that Stimulus-Triggered Acquisition of Pluripotency, or STAP, cells could exist, Japanese media said.

Obokata was "very shocked" at Sasai's suicide and was being assisted by two Riken staffers, Kagaya said.

Sasai left five suicide notes, including two addressed to senior Riken officials, he said. He would not disclose the contents or to whom the other letters were addressed.

Sasai started receiving counselling in April and recently had trouble communicating due to side-effects of medical treatments he was undergoing, local media reported.

(Reporting by Megumi Lim, additional reporting by Kaori Kaneko in Tokyo and Kate Kelland in London; Editing by William Mallard, Robert Birsel and Mark Heinrich)

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Shorthand jargon has migrated from social media to the spoken word. Understanding it — and being understood — can be exhausting.

It was while tootling online for something else that I happened upon the following sentence.

“It’s a Fordeleven to the nearest Tim Hortons.”

Translation: “It’s anumber of miles to the nearest Tim Hortons.

According to The Huffington Post, that’s current Canadian slang. Hands up everyone who’s ever heard such gibberish coming out of a Canuck’s mouth. Admittedly, we might sometimes be unintelligible when speaking our version of the King’s English, particularly if imbued with a regional accent. But I’m pretty sure “Fordeleven” only exists in the fanciful imagination of that article’s author.

Doubtless Toronto’s mayor has enriched our collective semantics, mostly when he’s talking dirty — or Jamaican patois. Ford’s pungent lingo can’t be quoted verbatim in a family newspaper. I’ve tried. And each time the column comes back with an editor’s finger-waggle: Uh-uh.

Relax. This isn’t another RoFo or DoFo rant, though the Brothers Dumb & Dumber do make it difficult to go even a day without commenting on their joined-at-the-pinhead lunacy. Rubbed together, their IQ still wouldn’t hit the century mark.

Nay. The subject is slang. Or: When did I become a candidate for a remedial course in ESL?

Words are my business. Yet I don’t comprende the current lexicon of conversation and communication. This is largely because of the shorthand jargon that has migrated from social media to the spoken word.

Common usage — what keeps language vibrant and evolving over time so that it doesn’t go dodo extinct, like Latin — requires that we all get it, effortlessly, as vocabulary expands to encompass the contemporary, the newly coined and freshly re-cast. That’s neologism.

Vernacular that might previously have been limited to an enclosed community — locker room badinage, barracks banter or prison parlance — leaks out into broader society. Joint jargon has in particular been adopted by the younger generation, promoted in rap lyrics, so that teenagers have all started yapping felon-cool.

During court trials, linguists are occasionally summoned to translate jailhouse patter or chatter caught on police wiretaps.

At a drugs trial in England last month, an expert had to decode for the jury all the slang terms used in texts by an accused dealer: snow, cheese, red diesel, skunk, Mandy (for Ecstasy) and Valerie (for Valium). Arcane expressions were also employed to help dealers hide their activities from listening ears on intercepts. A “hen” referred to an eighth of an ounce (short for Henry VIII, which is quite clever, actually), a “Kellogg” referred to a kilo, money was called “paper” and drugs for personal use designated a “Percy.”

To assist in navigating the thicket of idioms, the FBI has actually been keeping extensive glossaries on slang since the early ’50s. The latest version, devoted heavily to the lexicography of textspeak and Twitter shorthand, runs to 83 pages, according to a Freedom of Information pursuit undertaken by the website It’s slang for the Idiot G-man.

Tweetitude examples, taken from actual surveillance: YKWRGMG (You know what really grinds my gears?), and PMYMHMMFSWGAD (Pardon me, you must have mistaken me for someone who gives a damn.)

Sheesh. It would waste more of my brain cells just to remember that jumble of capitals.

There was a murder trial in Toronto a few years ago that turned almost completely on the unfathomable — to me — texts and instant messaging yips between a gruesome teenage couple plotting and committing homicide. That was also my first full-blown exposure to the dreaded emoticon.

It’s a subtext-text, all acronyms and modern stenography, which I — texting dinosaur (a pterodactyl, preferably) — laboured to understand.

Contemporary slang that doesn’t merely rely on slapped together alphabet abbreviations can be wonderfully cogent or whimsical, like the word I found in a Sunday Times article: snoozywatch, for “falling asleep in front of the TV.”

Historically, slang has been driven by class and geography. These days it’s mostly the scope of teens attempting to exclude adults and notating the cultural totems of their lives — otherwise there wouldn’t be 57 newly invented words for a television remote control, as British researchers recently discovered. But the adults co-opt the language — like mom in skinny jeans — and then it quickly becomes OMG lame or over-used annoying. To wit: “meh.”

Over time, perfectly good words such as “gay” have taken on different meanings such that they can never again be used as originally intended. Other terms once considered socially acceptable have become words-non-grata, especially if they refer pejoratively to race, ethnicity and religion.

They were always slurs and hurtful, of course; now they’re utterly verboten in decent circles. Hence the controversy over the Washington Redskins, with the U.S. Patent Office recently cancelling the trademark registration on the basis that it is “disparaging to Native Americans,” though the name remains legally held and the football team’s owner can’t be forced to change it.

But that’s all a long way from the gist of my gripe, which is I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE SAYING.

Lost in translation, all that slang-babble and text-drivel emitting into the cybersphere. So please keep your angry emails coherent, people (and tweeple).

Argot you babe.

Speaking of words, the final one goes to Andrew Hilton, spokesperson for Waterfront Toronto, who didn’t much like my column last week on the ridiculously expensive Sugar Beach at the foot of Jarvis.

Hilton responds to criticism from Coun. Denzel Minan-Wong about the lavish sandbox’s cost and the difficulties he encountered attempting to penetrate the agency’s alleged spending “secrecy,” noting my inaccurate reference to a four-year time-lag of accountability.

Waterfront Toronto, Hilton says, “received the Councillor’s request for the cost breakdown of Sugar Beach in September of 2013 and provided the numbers within a few weeks. Waterfront Toronto has responded fully and timely to all similar requests from the Councillor for information on our projects and related costs. That the Councillor did not use the information for more than 10 months does not reflect our responsiveness to public inquiries.”

As they say in the twitterverse: YW.

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Stocks that are making large moves like these are favorites among short-term traders because they can jump into these names and try to capture some of that massive volatility. Stocks that are making big-percentage moves either up or down are usually in play because their sector is becoming attractive or they have a major fundamental catalyst such as a recent earnings release. Sometimes stocks making big moves have been hit with an analyst upgrade or an analyst downgrade.

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Today's Range: $2.47-$2.68

52-Week Range: $2.52-$7.29

Volume: 2.64 million

Three-Month Average Volume: 867,526

From a technical perspective, FOLD is bouncing higher here right off its 52-week low of $2.47 with heavy upside volume. This bounce is coming after FOLD gapped down big last week from over $5.75 to under $3.25 with heavy downside volume. Following that gap, shares of FOLD continued lower below $3 with above-average volume flows. That move has pushed FOLD into oversold territory, since its relative strength index (RSI) reading is now 23.99. Oversold can always get more oversold, but it's also an area where a stock can see a sharp bounce from.

Traders should now look for long-biased trades in FOLD as long as it's trending above its 52-week low of $2.47, and then once it sustains a move or close above some near-term overhead resistance at $2.75 with volume that hits near or above 867,526 shares. If that breakout hits soon, then FOLD will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at $3 to its gap down day high of $3.43.
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Cramer's 'Mad Money Recap': Disciples of Discipline

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To make money in the market, people need more than good stock picks and good advice about the state of the market, Jim Cramer told viewers of his "Mad Money" show Wednesday. "They need discipline."

Regular fans of "Mad Money" should be familiar with Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World , Cramer said, as he's devoted a few shows to explaining some of the rules he's laid out in his book.

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But because Cramer wrote that book a long time ago, and though its rules are still valid, he's come up with more rules designed "to help the individual investor beat the big institutional money managers on the Street." Cramer has assembled these rules in another book: Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich .

Although people might not like "Cramer the disciplinarian," he said his new book, which has 20 brand-new rules, should prevent market players from losing money. And because Cramer's aim is to help make people rich, he went on to explain five of those new rules.

Cramer's first new rule is, "There's a market for everything; pay attention to how it works." Investors need to remember that there are lots of different reasons why stocks are traded in a stock market and that there are submarkets, he said.

Although it makes "total intuitive sense," most people rarely keep in mind when investing that there's a market for oil stocks, a market for newly public stocks and a market for small-cap value stocks, all of which are governed by supply and demand, Cramer said.

"If you ignore the supply and demand for certain kinds of stocks, or stocks in general, you'll be totally perplexed by the market," he said. "This rule is especially true for trendy, hyped-up stocks."

Taking the ethanol trade in 2005 and 2006 as an example, Cramer said at the end of 2005, because the supply of ethanol stocks was so low and demand was "intense," people were able to make "truckloads of money" in stocks such as Archer Daniels Midland (ADM - Get Report) and Andersons (ANDE - Get Report).

But then the ethanol game changed, as a company called VeraSun (VSE) came public on June 14, 2006, and added to the supply of ethanol stocks, he said. The VeraSun initial public offering was further followed by IPOs of companies with worse fundamentals -- but just as much ethanol exposure.

"If you'd just been paying attention to the fundamentals, or to the hype about ethanol in the media, you would've been caught totally off-guard by the downturn in ethanol," Cramer said.

"The day VeraSun came public, I called the end of the ethanol, and I got it right ... because I was paying attention to the amount of ethanol stock in the market and the market's demand for it."

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Moving on to rule No. 2: when playing a rally, "make sure your stocks actually fit the bill," he said. "Don't be bamboozled by what sector your stock belongs to. Instead, know precisely what you own and why you own it."

Although Cramer always advises his viewers to do their homework and know what they own, this rule is different because the point is to recognize that "sectors don't always matter when it comes to giving stocks momentum."

People should never confuse a rally within a sector for a rally of that entire sector, he said.

Also, he knows people don't always do their homework before buying stocks -- behavior Cramer said he does not approve of. He iterated that he believes people need to spend at least an hour a week per stock they own doing homework to make sure the stock is still a "sound" investment.

Breaking down the rule, Cramer said there are times people will see a rally in an entire sector. For example, if the Fed cuts rates, investors will see a rally in almost everything cyclical, or if the economy gets "pummeled," people will see a rally in consumer staples and food and beverage companies, he said.

"These are broad, sector-based rallies and you don't have to be all that discerning to pick out a good stock that will make you plenty of money when these things happen," Cramer said. "But most rallies don't work that way."

Market players will hear about health care rallies or transports rallies or tech rallies, but that doesn't mean the whole sector's rallying, he explained, because within sectors there are industries.

This is what really counts and what people should pay attention to, Cramer said.

Cramer said he came up with this rule on June 22, 2005, when he got "caught up" in the idea of a tech rally and picked the two names that most represent tech: Microsoft (MSFT - Get Report) and Cisco (CSCO - Get Report). But later Cramer realized that the so-called tech rally was really a gadget rally.

"I fooled myself because Microsoft and Cisco had always been the tech stocks," he said. "It didn't matter that they didn't have any real exposure to the rally, because I was thinking of it as a tech rally, and in a tech rally you buy Microsoft."

It's easy to mistake a rally in an industry for a rally in the sector it belongs to, Cramer said, but if people remember this second rule, they should be able to make a lot more money.

Latin America

He said his next rule is "provisionally true" and though at some time in the future he can see it being revoked, he doesn't believe it will be soon. The rule is that "Latin America is always a trade."

Every so often there's a "huge wave of interest in Latin American stocks," where everyone in the business who owns these stocks believes that Latin America is an "amazing, long-term growth story," Cramer said.
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BP Slips After Rosneft Deal Blocked

NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Shares of BP (BP - Get Report) were trading 1% lower in London after an arbitration tribunal ruled against the company's $8 billion stock swap with Russia's Rosneft.

BP had wanted to partner with Rosneft, Russia's top crude producer, to explore the Arctic. But BP's partners in Russian company TNK-BP argued that the proposed share swap would erode their joint venture's competitive advantage and sued to stop it, The Associated Press reported.

The Russian shareholders won an injunction at Britain's high court and went into arbitration, which was held in secret and is legally binding.

BP, though disappointed by the ruling, said it would still seek to partner with Rosneft, perhaps by buying a stake in the company rather than trading equity, spokesman Robert Wine told AP. Any future agreement on exploration of the Arctic with Rosneft could be coordinated with TNK-BP, he said.

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