When I woke up, I immediately flipped open my antiquated  workstation from where I lay in bed. It sprang to life with renewed vigor, a needlessly complex reformatting was still treating the Z-140x as well as one would expect within the first week. All that mattered was that I could access a network again, and within seconds I was connecting to the Magnate family’s portal. Though Allan and Rikka’s terminals were silent, and Ploki was still asleep, his porti was downloading a large file, so there was a little latency in the sphere.

After sliding through the various social webs I keep a profile in, checking my multiple inboxes and even the dashboard control panel for this tlog, finding no new messages in each, I hovered purposelessly in the internet for a few moments, idly rapping my fingertips on the case of the computer. I’d hoped by then I would have at least received word back from Olympus Coast College about my application or student financial aid. Not knowing what else to do, I brought up a window from an interplanetary newsource, probably based on Earth. The stark headlines it launched at me in grim menacing boldface startled me at first.

– [FLU DEATH TOLLS IN THE UNITED TERRITORIES ESTIMATED AT 3,900] –

– [NEPTUNIAN PIRATES FAIL TO CAPTURE IONIAN CARGOSHIP SECOND TIME] –

– [TIPS TO SURVIVE BLACK FRIDAY AND SHOPPING BATTLEGROUNDS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON] –

Suddenly concerned for my health, and worried that all those months of not worrying weren’t going to pay off, I thumbed over the article. I truly detest the tricks these fear mongering, ad-savvy newsources use to optimize search results to generate some more hits each day. The report is contrary to the one just a couple of days ago which calculated deaths to be closer to 130, so I just figured they wanted to claim that all of the regular annual flu deaths had been attributed to the H1N1 virus. I closed the window before I could see how many of those confirmed deaths were on Mars, lest I become a victim of the pharmaceutical industry’s scare tactics.

The next window informed me pirates had been thwarted in their attempt to gain control of a ship leaving the orbit of Galatea. Either by coincidence or the attractiveness of the damn thing, it was the same ship hijacked last spring near those same waters. These marauders from the sixth moon of Neptune have reportedly captured over 50 vessels, and seemed to have a pretty good reputation until the Euxine Carolina was rescued by UT marines earlier this year. This time, the enhanced security placed onboard the hundred-ton spacefreighter was able to resolve any issue before it even developed into one.

I didn’t care about holiday bloodbaths or a house with a bunch of dead people in it. I couldn’t be compelled to look too deep into the stories reported by the Ganymedean newsource or an associated feed I’d brought up in the background while I digested these either. I really didn’t care about Earth’s prison camp or the election being gorked up on Ceres, or any of the other news they don‘t often openly address in Earth media. I’m usually enthralled with that sort of stuff.

I brought SpaceBook, my main social network, back into focus and updated my status to something disparaging to human nature for letting the media get so commercial, and closed my clunky old porti.

As if stirred by a ripple in a pond, Ploki Magnate rolled over in his bed. As he rested, he’d probably been able to sense so many similar, relatively tiny waves just and slept right through it. But a rock being thrown into the pond from so close may have felt like a surge against the barriers of his constant digital stream. He sat up, rubbing the side of is head.

“Oh, good morning, Ploki,” I said, realizing I hadn’t actually spoken a word to anyone when my voice cracked. The name already sounded a little strange to the tongue since it was a throwback to old hacker slang from days when a keyboard similar mine would still have been used. It was the handle that he chose to go by in all of his social avenues, virtual or not.

“Morning,” he said, not looking up from the glow of the button already alight in his hands. It illuminated his sharp face and the accentuated Ganymedean features. If he had antennae or pointy ears I would have seen them in the wash of blue light, but his head was framed only by a short haircut and a little scruff of beard.  “What’s this about the news?” he asked me, responding to the notification that woke him.

“Huh? Oh, well ther-” I began before he cut me off, he’d obviously brought up the headlines.

“Pirates…prison camp…experiment demonstrates possibility of life in Centauri?” he read aloud, a questioning tone as he wondered if he’d already heard that somewhere.

I was rising off my futon bed and walking as I replied. “I think that whole thing’s a ruse to get more scientific funding for exploration,” I grumbled as I stepped into the kitchen to scrounge up something.

“So it’s better we don’t find life outside the Solar system? You’re so cynical, Klay.” He was beginning to wake and warm up, getting out of bed only to settle into his computer chair.

I spoke to him over the kitchen counter, his workstation setup just on the other side. Anyone who used this kitchen couldn’t help but feel watched if he was seated there, though his eyes hardly rose from his screen. “No, I just think it’s going to be a huge bust if it turns out we went all the way there again and didn’t find anything … again,” there was little I came across in the fridge that screamed edible to me.

“Well it won’t be any bigger of a waste than if that money went to the defense budget,” his sleek porti connected to the portal the second he touched it, and in moments he was tangled in his various webs. “They got something like 700 bil for the military, just for a single year. That calculates to almost 2 billion a day.”

“Gork,” I exclaimed, slamming an unyielding cupboard. “Nothing’s looking appealing to me in here, wanna start the vaporizer?”

He glanced at the time and yelled “Fire it up!”

«←→»

Hunger was of the few things that could involuntarily force someone out into the big, scary world; and even then there are the options of fast food, take-out and delivery services to minimize a given human’s exposure to the outside as much as possible.

Ploki and I trod along the broad walkways of Newport’s Style Isle. Fashioned by The Caspian Company after a cookie-cutter Ionian Mission, it was a way to disguise their corporate headquarters as an outdoor shopping mall and gain a little extra revenue. It’s not actually an island, just a small mesa overlooking the Amazonian Ocean, and was used by natives in the past for their jamborees. Glancing back over my shoulder, I could see it twinkling like a thousand diamonds in the midday light, beyond the rows of fancy crawlers, oily parking spaces and pristine, artificial palm trees.

I used to work here. Tucked away in the digital media section of Style Isle’s outdated bookstore, I toiled the first year I lived on Mars. The commute to Newport from Fender was treacherous at the least, a whole 30 minutes. It was enough to make the job feel not worth it to me, spending the entirety of my only raise on the fuel it took just to get to work late every day.

We wove amongst the flow of shoppers, consisting mostly of wealthy women who didn’t need to be making any more money. It always felt a little strange, walking amongst the same people I used to serve, calmly passing them decked out in their most splendid weekday attire. From the hottest trends off the runways in Mihr Patera to soft velour sweat suits encrusted in rhinestones. Large embellished sunglasses, gaudy jewelry and any number of insanely eye-catching accessories glinted and dangled in the red sun.

Anything they could afford to distract or cover up the seams between cosmetic surgery and plastic treatments. Neck-tucks and antenna-removal scars can still be tricky to hide, and that’s where expensive bronze and ivory make-up assisted. They perfectly mimicked the exemplary mannequins, stiff in the windows beside them but so posh. I cringed to think what these reptiles would look like without any mods.

Just a few minutes there and I’d already seen  too many aged women showing off their new breasts and arms, many of which still needed some tightening and laser treatments to erase the damage of decades of sun exposure. Gray roots hid under platinum blonde, deep crows feet under cakes of eye shadow, and I’m sure I would have noticed the stench of death if it weren’t for the aroma of nail polish and hair products. I just wanted to find the cheapest place to grab a bite, then get the hell out of this commercial trap.

“I’m so excited for my appointment next week!” Ploki said, grinning ear to ear. “I’m going to get my license, and then my new toy will be completely legitimate,” there was so much glee behind his eyes as he said this.

“I just hopes it work’s out for you, it would suck if you were denied cause you didn’t qualify,” I pointed out, though that would be just as upsetting to all of us.

“Seriously,” he replied and winced with his blue eyes, tryinag not to imagine that possibility.

I turned to my Martian friend as we rounded a corner near the geyser fountain. “Hey, Ploki, can you look something up for me real quick?”

“Yeah, sure,” he said, slid his button out of his pocket and unlocked the palm-held device. The flat, blue screen lit up in broad daylight, appearing a few inches above his hand.  It rested on a faint laser cone, projected from the solitary LED eye; simplicity was the only identifying feature of an AM-3Gi button. He called up a search application, and looked at me, asking “What do you need?”

“Gork, that was fast. Don’t you still have to connect to a network with that thing?”

“No, I canceled that basic service that came with it.” He pointed to his temple with his free hand, saying “I’ve been auged.”

“Ahh, now it makes sense, you are your own sphere,” I looked at him again as if I’d be able to see it’s sheen around him now. “That’s astro, I’d love to get a chip one day,” I said quietly.

The cyborg’s eyes locked on me in disbelief. “What? You haven’t been auged?” the question rang loud here, even outside. Any sort of alterations, whether internal or external, are regarded highly by those of status, and I’m sure any of the women who could afford a boost in confidence could pay an extra few thousand to have a little silicon implanted in their heads, too.

I looked around at no scowling faces or judging eyes, surprisingly. “No, what makes you think I have?”

“I totally thought you were. You don’t have extra memory in there?” he asked, genuinely amazed I hadn’t undergone any sort of capacity upgrade.

“No, not at all,” I said with as little pride as I could show these technophilic Newpsies.

“Huh, I could have sworn. Hmm…well I guess you just have a good memory then,” he said, adjusting to the idea of my head being emptier than his.

“Thanks, I’ll take that as a compliment…especially coming from a machine,” I said facetiously.

He protested “Hey, I’m still mostly human!”

“Whatevs, Robot. Find me the cheapest food around,” I commanded.

He grumbled, and returned his gaze to the screen, manipulating the flattened beam that the browser was illustrated upon with the swish of his fingertips. He looked up, over to the other side of the food court we had just meandered into. “There. The pizza place has the lowest cost here,” he said at once.

“Wow, you found it that quick?” I said, astounded by his technology again.

“No, I just remembered,” he said with a grin, adding “Gorker.”

After we finished our two-dollar slices of pizza pie, and made our way back through the mess of grotesque human facsimiles, we found ourselves at his little, cerulean crawler. The two-door hatchback always reminded me of my elusive vehicle, though his wasn’t built on Ganymede.

His Saturnian-made Polaris was probably of a finer construction than my rodent. The interior had been optimized for comfort and visibility, so much so that even the HUD cowling had been displaced to the center of the dashboard, creating more storage areas.

At the press of the ignition switch, the engine whined and instruments illuminated with bright blue light, similar to the glow of the Ploki’s button, which now rested in a crèche on the center console. It supplied music from it’s harddrive to the entertainment system, and the driver or passenger could easily control media with the interface on either end.

We hurried home, where Allan waited for our return. He’d sequestered himself into his room, determined to make full use of his burgeoning class-load by doing everything he could to pass them all. Little had been seen of him, except when he needed transit to and from campus, or when there was a bi-weekly jam, or if Nymh had come over to lure him out, though she just as often did nothing to make him want to leave the room.

Similar could be said of the youngest of the Magnate siblings. Rikka was often out of the house since she was usually working one of her two jobs, and only appeared in sharp, semi-formal outfits when she was home from either, or on her way to an interview for a third. Attention seeking and a hypochondriac, she was currently fighting a bout with the deadly flu upstairs in her quarters, and no one could tell if she were actually sick or not.

I’d become good friends with Ploki over the previous weeks, finding similar interests was easy for us; or something like that. It could have been something to do with being the same age as me, or that he was easier to tolerate for an entire day than his often boisterous older brother. Perhaps it was because we had planned to move to that ski resort in Cyane this winter and had begun pre-roommate rituals of bonding. But it’s probably just because we both share the ground level of the house, he and I sleeping in the living room and family room, respectively.

We arrived back at his house in the mid-afternoon and immediately return to our positions in front of our workstations. Using some sort of control on his terminal, he remotely activated his brand new vaporizer, allowing it to warm up the 600 seconds so it will work properly. He then sent a message through the sphere to let Allan know he’d have about ten minutes to find a stopping point.

By force of habit, I brought up the newsources again with my renewed net connection, feeling warm with this novelty: the privilege of fresh information afforded only to those who have the technological means. By the look of the new banners, it seems healthcare reforms were stagnated by both sides of UT government, Earth’s new president visited Titan, and strife continued between warring factions on little Davidia.

A terrorist plot on another Earth skyscraper was foiled, a fusion plant in New Ganymede almost meltdown again and AM would probably release a new model of the button over the holidays. Students protested an increase in tuition rates at University of Mars campuses, a ferry crash in The Rings left 26 dead and the sequel to that stupid teenage-heartthrob-vampire movie broke box office records this weekend.

I closed all the windows at once and brought up one of my bookmarked links: a streaming, real-time image of the star Sol. I zoomed in partway, only until I spotted the well recognizable shapes of the gas giants, the thin haze of asteroid belts and the glint off the terrestrial worlds orbiting close the yellow main-sequence star. If it weren’t for a ticker running the time at the bottom you would have sworn it was just a still image, captured by a traveler from some rocket’s window.

I attempted to imagine for a moment that I was peering out of that porthole at the static but majestic view. I tried to picture myself away from any apprehensions of holidays, pirates, finances or vaccinations. It wasn’t working.

I collapsed the screen of the outdated porti. “Hey Ploki,” I called as I stood up, “I’m getting Allan whether that machine of yours is ready or not.”

]]> http://alternativechronicle.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/the-box/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:00:10 +0000 Andrew Bowcock http://alternativechronicle.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/the-box/

by Andrew Bowcock

Richard Kelly is partially responsible for my obsession with film, as his 2001 cult phenomenon, Donnie Darko, altered my expectations of what films can do.  Ever since I first saw Darko in 2002 I’ve had a difficult time watching films the same way, as I’ve almost always been under the impression that there’s more going on than we simply see on the screen or have told by the characters.  It seemed like a long dry spell before Kelly came out with his follow up film, Southland Tales, an ambitious film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and was met with almost universally poor reception.  Since I was such a big Darko fan, I had a hard time believing the same guy could release something else that wasn’t anything less than brilliant and crafted with incredible precision…but even I initially didn’t know what to make of Southland Tales. After now seeing it several times and having read the preceding graphic novel that Kelly created to accompany the film’s plot, I’ve grown in fondness for the whacked-out, absurd, colorful and entertaining satirical version of the Book of Revelation (though it still has nothing on his first effort).

When I heard that Richard Kelly was going to adapt a short story by the mighty Richard Matheson, I was very intrigued.  When I heard that Cameron Diaz was one of the stars, I was a bit less excited…but figured it still might be not be a disaster when considering that somehow Kelly made the ridiculously bizarre, spotty cast of Southland Tales work to fit its own eccentric mood.

The tale of The Box (based on Matheson’s Button, Button) is about a young married couple in the 1970’s struggling to make ends meet during some personal and financial struggles.  The husband, Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) is a scientist that works for NASA, one who has aspirations to be an astronaut but somehow fails the psychological exam, while his wife, Norma Lewis (Cameron Diaz) is a schoolteacher who has been informed that she’ll soon be laid off.  One fateful day a mysterious box arrives on their porch – its contents are simply a small black box with a big red button.  The next day a well-dressed man with formidable and prominent facial scars, Mr. Steward (Frank Langella) appears at their front door explaining the box’s purpose – if the red button is pressed, the couple will receive one million dollars…but the catch is a killer (literally): the pressing of the button will also result in the death of some person somewhere in the world whom they do not know.  They have one day to decide before the box will be picked up by this “Mr. Steward,” reprogrammed, and sent to somebody else who they do not know.

After squabbling over whether or not this whole thing could be real and thinning the list of options, the couple decides to push the button…if anything, out of curiosity.  Mr. Steward returns as he promised, reinforcing what he said before and giving them the money.  However from this point forward Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are met with some bizarre challenges as they try to uncover the truth about Mr. Steward and the purpose of his provisions.  Also, each decision they make seems to be accompanied with counterproductive results, making the pushing of the red button easily one of the worst decisions they’ve ever made.

Just like Kelly’s Southland Tales, The Box has been receiving mixed to poor reviews from critics and it’s understandable why.  Though this film has a somewhat intriguing premise, it feels a bit undercooked by the end.  The mood is a bit reminiscent of Donnie Darko as it has elements of atmospheric horror threaded in with the film’s philosophical quips and sci-fi flavored suspense, but unfortunately the true struggle in The Box doesn’t lie in the choice of whether or not Mr. and Mrs. Lewis will push the button, but whether or not Richard Kelly is actually making a generic film.  The first 20 minutes or so of this film feel pretty lazy…just like they were directed to appeal to as general of a public as you can get.  However, once the film’s plot starts to move, it feels a bit messy…kind of like the rest of the film wanted to stay put whereas the director is trying to pull it in a direction it doesn’t want to go.

There are some minor twists as the film progresses and there are a couple of sequences that I might even deem as “great,” but by the end it almost feels like a good deal of fuss for very little.  However, before I try to beat this film with a criticism stick like most reviewers seem to be doing, I’m actually going to go out on a limb and say that I actually enjoyed this movie…flaws and all.  Maybe it’s partially because I’m a Richard Kelly enthusiast, but I prefer to weigh it in context, so let’s do that:

For me, Donnie Darko was pretty close to being a perfectly constructed film.  It truly just works in just about every aspect whether or not you have a full grasp of what’s going on, so I would call Kelly a great director based just on that one film.  When doing Southland Tales he took on the ambitious feat of creating a film that tried to do everything Darko did but on a much larger scale…and thus (many would argue) he got into trouble trying to make broad strokes while retaining a multi-faceted plot.  With The Box it feels like Kelly’s trying to pull back the reigns a bit, but unfortunately his ambitions for constructing a complex mystery seem a bit misplaced when plugged into this little story.  Though I like some of the things he did with this film visually and conceptually (a key scene set in a library near the last third of the film, in my opinion, was especially amazing, and one sequence near the end stabbed my emotions rather effectively). I feel like his style and imagination are just more fitting when they work by themselves and not in accordance with another story.  When watching The Box it kind of felt like two films – one was Matheson’s story bleeding through while the other was Richard Kelly trying to tell his version of what was going on.  If you appreciate Kelly enough as an artist and philosopher, you might find it enjoyable…if not, it will most likely prod or annoy you.

Is it one of the best films of the year?  Is it Kelly’s best work?  A big no on both accounts, but there is enough for a viewer to enjoy if they’re looking for a simple science-fiction-mystery that’s attempting to be something more, whether or not it succeeds on all cylinders.  I’ll tell you one thing, it’s much more enjoyable than the horribly conceived version The Twilight Zone did of Matheson’s story in the 1980’s.

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photo sources:

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/
http://alexhluch.files.wordpress.com/
http://justpressplay.today.com/

other resources:

http://www.imdb.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://metacritic.com/

These portraits illustrate why

I normally like photographing

landscapes. No two-way 

conversation is necessary.

Once I see what I like the most

about their personality, I point

and shoot. For most portraits,

it is  necessary to talk to

the subject to develop the most 

cursory of relationships prior

to pushing the button to expose

the subject’s personality.

Stephen K. Malshuk

American Photographer

Back when my darling goddaughter was just over half a year, we went to the grocery store to purchase ingredients for one of our epic meals. Her dad, Nate-Dawg, and I are master chefs, and their visits always have us testing our culinary might. Since she was in her “wriggle but not yet crawling phase”, we placed her in the baby bjorn which I had donned. As we made our way through the various aisles of The Beagle, one could not help but notice the amount of the attention the guy wearing the skeleton patterned jacket with the adorable infant was receiving. Button gave enthusiastic commentary about the rows of shiny boxes as she gleefully reached out for them. One could not help but be moved by how absolutely beautiful this baby was. I’ll be the first one to say most infants placed in this nomenclature are totally undeserving. They look just like any other combination of two peoples’ genetic goop. Discharged in a wake of ooze and blood come forth these horrors fresh from the uterine abyss. Like some abhorrent homunculus, they mewl for nourishment or for the changing of excrement filled diapers. Disgusting…

Button may as well have been brought forth from the heavens by a divine host as golden rays shone forth from her cherubim features. Yeah, she is that precious. Wrap that up with a penchant for smiling and cooing when acknowledged by baby loving females, and it’s a wonder she hasn’t been classified as a Weapon of Mass Attraction by the DOD. In droves, they came unto me. Blond, brunette, ginger, some Asian ethnicity that was maybe Korean…all the flavors. Her baby toothed grin tugged them by the fallopian tubes. “Awwwww! What a beautiful baby!” I know. “Is she saying words yet?” Possibly. “She needs to be in commercials. Her expressions are just perfect!” We’re looking for the right agent.

Rounding the corner to the the global foods section for some matzo ball mix, a vision of comeliness came forth. Flowing dark locks, ivory pale skin, eyes green like mint ice cream, and most importantly; a Screeching Weasel t-shirt. Punk rock women are not known for their steadfast maternal instincts. The odds were about fifty fifty for a positive reaction to “The Suckling Babe Stimulus” (I just thought that up). Acting like as though hunting for a certain variety of pasta, I deliberately put Button within reach of the shelf. Quick as a barracuda, eager hands darted out for the colorful objects before her. A few packages fell to the ground as delighted shrieks filled the air. Lovingly scolding her, I bent down to retrieve the items when two slender bracelet-laden arms joined my labor. Our eyes met. Her rubious lips formed a smile that would drive any man to carve “Gimme Junk” on their chest with a spork. We dispensed with some basic pleasantries, followed by some charming attempts by her to converse with Button. Then came the tricky part.

Cute Punk Girl: “So are you guys out doing some shopping for mommy?”

The Lonesome Jester: “Just for us actually.”

Cute Punk Girl: (mildly embarrassed) “Oh, I’m sorry you and her are-”

The Lonesome Jester: “She died in a chemical fire.”

I know what you’re thinking. From zero to baby mama going up in a blaze. Maybe what I did was wrong. Maybe I’m going to end up going to hell for using my goddaughter as a tool of deceit with the fairer sex. Maybe………………but if I do go to hell, I’m going with her phone number. Which I got on the burnt carcass of my imaginary dead spouse! Button is over a year now and is a very adept walker/runner. I’m thinking some petting zoos may be in order for the coming spring.

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Tekrardan merhabalar,

CRM’de Navbar’da gösterilen ilişkili varlıkların iframe içierisinde nasıl gösterileceğini Navbar görünümleri IFrame’de Nasıl Gösterilir? makalesinde yazmıştım. Şimdi bu görünümlerden yeni ve var olan .. ekle butonlarının nasıl kaldırılacağını anlatacağım. Öncelikle buna neden gereksinim duyulduğuna değineyim. Navbar ilişkilerinin görünürlükleri CRM’in varlık özelleştirme bölümünden yapılabilir. Bu kısıtlama roller ile de yapılabilir. Ancak kullanıcının bazı kayıtlar içerisinden ilgili kaydın tüm listesini görüp yine aynı kullanıcının başka bir kayıt içerisinden bu varlıkğı yaratması istenebilir. Bu gibi durumda roller ile kısıtlama yapılamaz.

Şimdi yazılamsı gereken kodu inceleyelim. Bunun için forma eklenen Iframe’in adı gerekmektedir. Kod aşağıdaki şekildedir.

Bu kodu çağırmak için de Formun OnLoad’una  şu kod yazılır.

var buttons=['Bu kayda yeni bir Deneme ekle', 'Bu kayda varolan Deneme nesnesini ekler'];

var iframeName=’IFRAME_Deneme’;

HideIframeViewButton(iframeName,buttons);

New_deneme ilişkili olduğu entitynin adıdır. Ve buttons dizisinin değerleri de görünümde butonun üzerine mouse ile gelindiğinde çıkan tooltipin yazısıdır.

Burada bir diğer alternatif sadece yeni ya da sadece varolan butonlarını kaldırmak isteyebiliriz. Bu durumda buttons dizisine sadece birinin tooltip değeri yazılır.

Fonksiyonun koduda şu şekildedir:

function HideIframeViewButton(loadAreaId, buttonTitles) {

  var navElement = document.getElementById(‘nav_’ + loadAreaId);

  if (navElement != null) {

    navElement.onclick = function LoadAreaOverride() {

      loadArea(loadAreaId);

      var associatedViewIFrame = document.getElementById(loadAreaId + ‘Frame’);

      if (associatedViewIFrame != null) {

        associatedViewIFrame.onreadystatechange = function HideButton() {

          if (associatedViewIFrame.readyState == ‘complete’) {

            var iFrame = frames[window.event.srcElement.id];

            var liElements = iFrame.document.getElementsByTagName(‘li’);

            for (var i = 0; i < buttonTitles.length; i++) {

              {

                for (var j = 0; j < liElements.length; j++) {

                  if (liElements[j].getAttribute(‘title’) == buttonTitles[i]) {

                    liElements[j].style.display = ‘none’;

                    break;

                  }

                }

              }

            }

          }

        }

      }

    }

  }

Merhabalar,

CRM’de veriler girildikten sonra toplu birden fazla kaydın seçilip bu kayıtlardaki bazı alanların toplu olarak değiştirilmesi gerekebilir. Ancak CRM arayüzünde tüm varlıklar için gözükmemektedir.

CRM’de bazı varlıklar için default olarak bulunan Bulk Edit→Toplu Düzenle butonu aktivite, fatura gibi varlıklarda yoktur. Bu özellik ISV.config’te değişiklik yaparak değiştirilebilir.Ayarlar→Özellikleri Ver→ISV.Config dosyasını kaydettikten sonra notepad yada Visual Studio ile düzeltmeler yapıldıktan sonra Özellikleri Al ile kaydedilen konum gösterilerek özellikler alınır.Ve refresh edildikten sonra buton gözükür. Ancak bir ayar daha yapılması gerekir. Tüm diğer custom eklenen ISV butonlarının gözükmesi için bu ayar yapılmalıdır.

Ayarlar→Yönetim→Sistem Ayarları→Özelleştirme tabında Özel menüler ve Araç çubuklarından istemcileri kullanıma bağlı olarak istediğiniz kombinasyonu ancak Web’ten genel olarak kullanıldığı için Web seçeneğini sağ kutuya alıp tamam’ı tıklayarak kaydetmeniz gerekmektedir. ISV.config’de yaratılan bazı butonlar Client attribute’ünde belirtilip Web,Outlook,Outlook Offline şeklinde belirtilmektedir.
İstediğiniz varlık’ın altına <Grid> tagleri arasında CRM’in çağırdığı şekilde yani doAction(‘crmGrid’, ‘1088′, ‘bulkedit’); şeklinde yazılır. 1088 objecttypecode’dur,isteğiniz entity’nin altına kodu yazarak bu kodu değiştirmeniz yeterlidir.

 NOT:ISV.Config tagleri hakkında bilgi için ISV.Config’i inceleyelim… makalelere bakabilirsiniz.

 <Entity>

<Grid>

<MenuBar>

<Buttons>

<Button Icon=”/_imgs/ico_18_debug.gif” JavaScript=”doAction(‘crmGrid’, ‘4201′, ‘bulkedit’);” Client=”Web”>

<Titles>

<Title LCID=”1033″ Text=”Bulk Edit” />

</Titles>

<ToolTips>

<ToolTip LCID=”1033″ Text=”Bulk Edit.” />

</ToolTips>

</Button>

</Buttons>

</MenuBar>

</Grid>

</Entity>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8374911.stm

… They better be. F1 see’s two back to back British champions for the first time in forty years, and also it seems that both of those British champions will be in the same British team, that’s the second oldest team in the sport. Not to mention the fact that it was an all British team (Brawn) that won both the Drivers and Constructers titles in 2009, and McLaren won the Drivers title in 2008. So it seems ridiculous to think that there may not be a British Grand Prix in 2010! Britain really is the heart of motorsport, so I hope that it all gets resolved, as the market for F1 in Britain clearly must be at a high that hasn’t been experienced for quite some time.

So in closing… Please Bernie, please don’t forget you and F1’s roots, and where it all belongs. Don’t let your ego and love for money get in the way.

Relevant song lyric of the post: Fleetwood Mac – The Chain

“Chain…keeps us together
(run into the shadows)”

Closing KoLd Quote:

“The home of motorsport is in Britain. Therefore, along with the great tracks that have such a heritage in F1, of Spa, Monza, Monaco and a few more (many not on the calendar these days, unfortunately), a British Grand Prix should be a no-brainer, a secure vote year in, year out. The majority of the true fans don’t want to see a procession around bland, Tilke-built Valencia, they don’t even want to see cars driving around a multi-million dollar Singapore or Abu-Dhabi. They want to see true, wheel to wheel racing, by the best drivers in the world, on the tracks that have proven to be the best in the world. We want to see a true battle between the best. Not a metropolis or a circus, used to distract the public from the poor racing.”

For my newest necklace featuring one of my altered dominoes, I decided to pink up a minor color in the image on my domino, the light (baby) blue.  The mulberry paper background is a peachy pink and the image contains a few other shades of pink.  I decided to pull it all together with some beaded charms featuring both the peachy pink and the reddish pink.

I had a variety of vintage light blue buttons that I truly loved.  Some are glass. Some are plastic.  Some of the buttons have additional colors.  A couple of the buttons have little crystal rhinestone that tie in well with the rhinestone on the pendant.   I layered a couple of buttons and a bead on a couple of the buttons to make them extra special.  I did wire-wrap most of the buttons so that I could easily attach the buttons with a jump ring.

If you look closely you’ll notice that I have 6 reddish pink drops that I’m using as charms on this necklace.  The drops came from a set of earrings I found at an estate sale.  I love the verdigris patina on the beadcaps of these little charms.

I decided on a double chain as the foundation of the necklace.   I had quite a bit of very fine gold chain.  I thought the elements were to large and heavy for a single chain, so I connected them to two layers of chain. 

I decided to string some of those wonderful light blue glass beads that I acquired at an estate sale.  I thought this necklace should look nice from the front or back.  This is definitely a necklace for a updo or a short haircut.  The necklace fits close the neck and is pretty all the way around.

I’ve finally got 5 minutes to myself, so I thought I’d do a quick post on the movements of all the drivers for 2010.  Obviously, not everyone has been announced, but thus far, here are the teams and line-ups for the 2010 championship.

McLaren – Lewis Hamilton & Jenson Button (from Brawn GP now Mercedes)

Ferrari – Felipe Massa & Fernando Alonso (from Renault)

Brawn (now Mercedes) – Nico Rosberg (from Williams) & TBA

Red Bull Racing- Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber (no change)

Renault – Robert Kubica (From BMW Sauber) & TBA

Williams – Rubens Barrichello (from Mercedes formally Brawn) & Nico Hulkenburg

Force India - TBA & TBA

Toro Rosso – TBA & TBA

Manor GP – Timo Glock (from Toyota) & TBA

USF1 - Jose Maria Lopez (subject to securing sponsorship) & TBA

Lotus – One driver signed but not yet announced who & TBA

Campos Meta – Bruno Senna & TBA

BMW Sauber – Withdrawn

Toyota – Withdrawn

This still leaves quite a few F1 drivers without a confirmed seat so far.  These include ;

Heidfeld, Grosjean, Fisichella (quite likely to return to Force India), Sutil, Liuzzi, Kobiyashi, Alguersuari, Nakajima, Kovalainen, Raikkonen (sabbatical unless a championship winning seat is available).  Other possibilities include De La Rosa, Piquet, Bourdais, Davidson, Sato and Wurz.  I could continue, but it would make my list quite long.

There are several teams with one experienced driver announced, which could pave the way for them to sign a younger driver, or former F1 driver a second ‘rookie’ seat.

Campos have put their money in Senna and will want an experienced driver to direct the team into the 2010 season, which would leave the door open for drivers such as Heidfeld or even De La Rosa.  Either way, I’ll keep the list updated with any further announcements.

As for the 2010 calendar, that’s had some changes also, and there is still some debate if some of the tracks will still be participating.  Most notably in the United Kingdom, is the British Grand Prix.  It has been said my Bernie Ecclestone that Silverstone (who have been handed an offer due to Donington now in the hands of  administrators), has until the 9th of November to make their minds up or there is no British Grand Prix.

The Canadian GP is subject to completion of changes, Korean subject to completion and

Quando tuto gira per il verso giusto sembra non avere rivali; cosi Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) vince il GP di Abu Dhabi, davanti al compagno di team Mark Webber e al neo campione del mondo Jenson Button (Brawn GP).
Il campionato si chiude quindi con la vittoria del baby fenomeno e la sensazione è che quest’anno Vettel abbia buttato alle ortiche (causa errori suoi e del team) una grande occasione per portarsi a casa il titolo.

Durante le qualifiche Hamilton aveva messo in riga tutti ma Vettel si era insediato in seconda posizione con una monoposto più carica di benzina dell’Inglese, facendo presagire una facile vittoria, mentre le Brawn GP di Barrichello e Button, in quarta e quinta posizione, seguivano la seconda Red Bull di Webber.
Male, anzi malissimo le Ferrari con Raikkonen 11esimo e Fisichella ultimo.

Allo start Hamilton tiene la posizione grazie al kers, con Vettel Webber e Button a seguirlo, mentre Barrichello in un contatto col compagno di squadra rovina l’ala anteriore, fortunatamente senza che ciò leda le sue prestazioni.
Fisichella recupera diverse posizioni, mentre Raikkonen ne perde una a favore del debuttante Kobayashi.
Nel primo stint di gara la sfida è tutta fra Hamilton e Vettel, con l’Inglese obbligato a costruirsi un vantaggio tale da poter ritornare in pista dopo il pit stop davanti a Vettel, ma il Tedeschino sebbene con una monoposto più pesante, gli resiste incollato ai suoi scarichi.
Al primo pit stop si fermano nell’ordine Barrichello, Kubica, Hamilton, Button e dopo tre giri anche Vettel, che nel frattempo, liberatosi di Hamilton timbra giri veloci a ripetizione.
Tornato in pista in testa, seguito da Hamilton, Vettel allunga ma proprio in quel momento il pilota della McLaren accusa pesanti problemi ai freni che lo obbligano al ritiro, il primo della sua carriera per problemi meccanici.
Vettel quindi non ha più nulla da temere visto che il secondo in classifica Webber, subisce da lui distacchi pesanti ad ogni giro; nelle posizioni di rincalzo, grazie ad una gara impostata su di una sosta, Kobayashi e Raikkonen risalgono il gruppo con il Giapponese in terza posizione ed il ferrarista in sesta.
Purtroppo per Kimi però le enormi difficoltà della F60 nello scaldare gli pneumatici lo obbligheranno a remare e perdere molto terreno dopo la sosta, vanificando ciò che di buono poteva fare; Kobayashi dal canto suo contiene benissimo il ritmo arrembante dei piloti su due soste e riesce ad installarsi in sesta posizione.

Nell’ultimo stint di gara, dopo la seconda sosta, le posizioni rimangono invariate, con Vettel al comando con un margine di una ventina di secondi su Webber, il quale negli ultimi giri deve fare i conti con l’arrembante Campione del Mondo Jenson Button che, montate le gomme morbide, recupera quasi un secondo al giro, piombando addosso all’Australiano nelle ultime due tornate.
Jenson ci prova, forza un paio di staccate, ma Webber resiste mostrando i muscoli e Button deve arrendersi e rinunciare al secondo posto.
Barrichello conclude quarto seguito da un costante Heidfeld, poi l’ottimo Kobayashi che si mette dietro il caposquadra Trulli e in ottava posizione Buemi della Toro Rosso.
Nulla da fare per la Ferrari per il terzo posto nel mondiale costruttori perchè nonostante lo stop di Hamilton, gli zero punti conquistati da Kimi Raikkonen e Giancarlo Fisichella non hanno permesso il sorpasso e la conseguente conquista di svariati milioni di dollari di premio.

Il mondiale quindi si chiude con un Vettel in piena forma e con le Ferrari mestamente ai box a coronamento di una stagione perlomeno fallimentare; unico momento positivo del 2009 per il team di Maranello è da considerarsi la vittoria di Kimi Raikkonen sul circuito di Spa, teatro delle imprese dei più grandi piloti della storia.
La Formula 1 volta quindi pagina, in attesa di vedere confermati i nuovi team che prenderanno parte al campionato del prossimo anno e in attesa di capire quali saranno i loro piloti.
La Ferrari, come già annunciato, schiererà Fernando Alonso e Felipe Massa, nella speranza di poter tornare a conquistare quel mondiale piloti che nell’era post Schumacher solo Raikkonen è riuscito a vincere.
o farà contando anche sull’esperienza di Giancarlo Fisichella come terzo pilota; un Fisichella deludente che negli ultimi 5 GP non è riuscito a conquistare nemmeno un punto mondiale (a fronte degli ottimi risultati di Kimi) e proprio di un punto la Ferrari non è riuscita a sopravanzare la McLaren nel mondiale costruttori.
A Maranello si libereranno di Kimi Raikkonen quindi, il pilota di ghiaccio che non ama parlare e fare polemica, il pilota che dall’uscita di scena di Massa ha conquistato tre podi ed una vittoria, trascinando da solo il team per tutta la seconda parte della stagione.

Nel 2010 probabilmente i valori in campo cambieranno; la Ferrari lavora da almeno 6 mesi al progetto della monoposto per il prossimo anno, mentre la Brawn GP a fronte delle poche risorse disponibili perderà sicuramente il vantaggio di svluppo avuto durante il 2009.
La McLaren con Hamilton sarà sicura protagonista mentre in Red Bull Vettel partirà con l’obiettivo di vincere il mondiale, ma gli errori del team dovranno essere ridotti a zero perchè a quanto pare le squadre in lotta per l’iride non saranno più solo due.

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Christians do not sell heroin or sex; how dare they sell Satan’s lies?

We often take a public stance against abortion, sexual immorality, or Darwinism. However, none of these things, in themselves, take the name of our Master and drag it through mud.

Compare these two possible behaviors for a child of God:

• Snuff cocaine at a strip club while reading Aleister Crowley’s Book of Thoth; or
• Purchase a Bible at a so-called Christian bookstore that also sells every kind of lie under the banner of Christ, from Joel Osteen be-happy-then-go-to-hell books to Roman Catholic rub-here-to-pay-God trinkets.

The money we give to the bookstores is funding all kinds of perverted false gospels that drag men into hellfire, and the spirits of the false prophets behind them. We aren’t even supposed to welcome such people into our home (2 John) or eat with them (1 Corinthians 5:11).

Culture teaches us that Joseph Stalin and Charles Manson are more evil than Benny Hinn, who I suppose hasn’t ever killed or raped anyone; yet scripture teaches that there is a really special place in hell for the false prophet. [I am not condemning Benny Hinn or Joel Osteen in the perfect tense-- God may yet give them new life, according to His sovereign will.]

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and brag about your relationship to God; if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who brag about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” (from Romans 2^[1]; emphasis mine)

Our unbelieving friends mock Jesus Christ and post videos on our Facebook walls about foolish “Christians” behaving like drunkards. They laugh about those who claim to preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and then sign treaties with Muslims because “we all serve the God of Abraham.” They use this to slander Christianity, and to formulate some dying justification to not consider their need, nor the Savior.

It might be different if a store simply confessed to be a “Religious Bookstore.” In this, they would not overtly associate any particular piece of crap in their store with Christ; despite that a true Christian employee could hardly swipe the credit card for a customer who is buying such unhealthy material. Christians do not sell heroin or sex; how dare they sell Satan’s lies?  This is not love. We ought not even handle these things, except when throwing them into the fire.

I’m not a theologian; it’s just something I’ve been thinking about. Yet something else is lurking in my mind– abortions are funded by our governments in Canada. I’ve been sending my province $54 per month to pay for medical coverage. Is it worth that to me? I am not my own; and God is well able to provide. Perhaps that will be my next post, but right now I’m in some tense place between praying to understand God’s will and debating with Arminian “Christians” who think a Christian should use his own understanding to care for his health and family and heap up retirement funds in glaring conflict with the teachings of our Master (Matthew 6).

Small version of "Christendom goes POP" ©2009 ~archambers at deviantArt.com; Merchandising our Lord; His holy name and title presented in the shape of the Coca-Cola logo, ad nauseum.

Endnote:

^[1]Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

The “NIV” and “New International Version” trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica. Use of either trademark requires the permission of Biblica.

Elérkeztünk a Száguldó Cirkusz azon szakaszába, amelyik bombahírektől és bombapletykáktól hangos: bár a pályán semmi sem történik, most alakul ki a 2010-es felállás, és a pilótapiac „felszabadulásával” egyre erőteljesebben pusztítják a csapatok a kérdőjeleket. Ettől függetlenül van belőlük bőven, és még hosszú ideig találkozhatunk megválaszolatlan kérdésekkel.

Jövőre 13 csapat indul, minden istálló két pilótát vonultat fel. A teljes mezőnyből mindössze négy csapat ismertette mindkét versenyzőjének a kilétét:

Red Bull: Sebastan Vettel (német) és Mark Webber (ausztrál) – tehát a 2009-es felállás.
McLaren Mercedes: Lewis Hamilton (brit) és Jenson Button (brit) – az utóbbi évek legerősebb felállásának tekinthetjük abból a szempontból, hogy két világbajnokot vonultat fel a csapat. Utoljára 1989-ben volt példa arra, hogy két, már világbajnok pilóa ugyanazon csapatban versenyezzen: a francia Alain Prost és a brazil Ayrton Senna éppen a McLaren színeiben rótta a köröket, és csúnya marakodástt eredményezett a „bajnokok harca”.
Ferrari: Felipe Massa (brazil) és Fernando Alonso (spanyol) – a maranellóiak fizettek Räikkönennek, hogy 2010-re még érvényes szerződése ellenére hagyja el a csapatot.
Williams: Nico Hülkenberg (német) és Rubens Barrichello (brazil) – Hülkenberget az a Wili Weber menedzseli, aki korábban a Schumacher-testvéreket is „beszervezte” a Forma–1-be.

További négy csapat már hivatalosan bejelentette a szerződését az egyik pilótájával:

Renault: Robert Kubica (lengyel). A francia gyártó lehetőségei között elsősorban a már idén kipróbált francia Romain Grosjean szerepel, de korántsem biztos, hogy ő kapja a másik autót.
Toro Rosso: Sebastien Buemi (svájci).
Manor: Timo Glock (német).
Campos: Bruno Senna (brazil) – a fiatal dél-amerikai tehetség a néhai Ayrton Senna unokaöccse.

A Brawn GP utódja, a Mercedes GP egyik pilótája a német Nico Rosberg – annak ellenére, hogy a szerződést hivatalosan még nem közölték. A világbajnok csapat másik 2010-es versenyzője több mint valószínű, hogy a szintén német Nick Heidfeld. Kavarog a hír Michael Schumacher szerződtetéséről – aki egyébként elérte, hogy a Ferrarihoz kapcsoló tanácsadói szerződését bármikor felbonthassa –, de a szerződés életképességéről eléggé megosztott a vélemény.

Szinte biztos, hogy a Force Indiánál megmarad Adrian Sutil. Bár az idén kiválóan versenyző németet korábban a McLarennel is összefüggésbe hozták, jelenleg egyetlen lehetősége az átigazoláshoz a BMW utódcsapata, a Sauber-Qadhok. Az indiai csapat tehát az egyes számú pilótájában sem lehet biztos, a második számú pedig ennél is nagyobb rejtély.

Az említett Sauber csapat mellett a visszatérő Lotus és az újonc amerikai US F1 berkeiben még nincs konkrétan megnevezett pilóta. Eléggé nagy a valószínűsége, hogy az amerikai csapat színeiben visszatér 1997 kanadai világbajnoka, Jacques Villeneuve, viszont egyre több pletykát hallani a tengerentúliak felkészületlenségéről. Számos szakértő kétségbe vonja a US F1 2010-es indulását.

A bejegyzés végére pedig érdekességnek: Ross Brawn jelképes összegért, 1 fontért vásárolta fel a Forma–1-es bukás után a Honda-csapatot. A Brawn által felpofozott csapat megnyerte a konstruktőri vb-t, és az egyéni világbajnokot is – Buttont – ő adta. Ma a csapat értéke mintegy 245 millió dollár – derült ki, miután a Mercedest birtokló Daimler és részvényese, az Abar 184,2 milliót fizetett a 75,1 százalékos többségi tulajdonért.

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German car giant Mercedes has bought the Brawn Formula One team, with Jenson Button set to join Lewis Hamilton as his McLaren team-mate.

Mercedes will buy 75 percent of Brawn in partnership with an Abu Dhabi investment company but will also continue as McLaren’s engine partner until 2015.

The Brawn GP team won both world titles in their debut season in 2009—with Brit Jenson Button winning the Driver’s Championship.

Following the purchase by Mercedes, the team will be rebranded as Mercedes Grand Prix, giving a somewhat mythical ending to the one-year old, doubly-successful Brawn GP team that triumphed over initial financial adversity to become champion after only one season.

Ross Brawn will stay on as team principal. He and chief executive Nick Fry will retain a 24.9 percent shareholding in the team. The remaining 75.1 percent will be split between Mercedes, which will own 45.1 percent and Abu Dhabi company Aabar Investments, which will own 30 percent.

Nico Rosberg will be their lead driver, with Nick Heidfeld his likely partner. Neither driver has yet been confirmed but Rosberg, who drove for Williams in 2009, is widely known throughout F1 to have already signed for the Mercedes team.

As part of a deal that will see the McLaren Group buy back Mercedes’s 40 percent shareholding by 2011, the German company will continue to supply free engines and sponsorship to the McLaren team for at least the next six years. Additionally, the team’s official name will remain as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes.

Button, who won the drivers’ title this year, has been trying to secure a pay-rise from his £3.5m salary but it seems Mercedes is not interested in keeping him on. He and his manager Richard Goddard visited McLaren on Friday and Button now looks sets to join the McLaren team on double the salary that Brawn were offering.

Button’s decision is understood not to be solely about money—sources say he considers McLaren might have a more competitive car than Brawn in 2010. Button and Hamilton are likely to end up as McLaren team-mates for the 2010 F1 Championship, a formidable British world championship-winning pair.

In other news, former McLaren driver Kimi Raikonnen is likely to be out of the 2010 F1 season, having so far failed to find a team.

Con el desembarco de Mercedes en Brawn, las cosas se han empezado a agitar en la escuderia. Pese a la inyección de capital que recibirá el equipo de Ross Brawn por parte de la marca de la estrella, Jenson Button no ha querido esperar a una hipotética subida de sueldo.

El campeón del mundo más sieso de la historia se ha dejado impresionar por las fastuosas instalaciones de McLaren en Woking y las promesas de un coche competitivo para luchar de nuevo por el mundial, convirtiéndose así en el nuevo pagafantas de Hamilton segundo piloto de la escuderia inglesa.

Así que ya tenemos completa la plantilla de pilotos de los ingleses que volverán a lucir el 1 y el 2 en el morro de sus monoplazas y contarán entre sus filas con los dos últimos campeones del mundo.

¿Volverá McLaren a apostar por la “”"”igualdad”"”" cómo su historia reciente nos hace pensar? (note se la ironía que el medio escrito no permite reforzar) ¿tras unas temporadas con él, habrá Button adquirido el síndrome Barrichello? ¿Se habrá dado cuenta el amigo Jenson de que ganó el campeonato de churro y gracias al coche y quiere aprovechar el tirón para sacar toda la pasta que pueda antes de que cuando vuelvan las grandes escuderias a tener coches competitivos y se descubra que es un pastel? ¿Nos sorprenderá a todos ajusticiando carrera tras carrera a Hamilton y a los otros pilotos? Todas las respuestas a partir del 14 de marzo.

P.D.: La foto es de Jessica Michibata, la novia de Button, que si bien no tiene nada que ver con la noticia es más agradable a la vista que el piloto, al menos para los lectores de la página. (Ahora saldrán las lectoras y los lectores gays a criticarme, os invito ha hacerlo en los comentarios, si las críticas son ingeniosas pongo fotos de Button enseñando carnaza)

Kimi depois da vitória em Spa: velocidade pura

Como podem ver pelos noticiários, Raikonnen tem seu futuro garantido no mundo da velocidade. Resta saber se a Mercedes vai deixar um piloto de categoria superior fora dos planos de sua equipe. Num mundial que terá duplas formadas por Alonso/ Massa na Ferrari e Hamilton/ Button na McLaren, acredito que Rosberg e mais um não farão sombra.

A McLaren seduziu Button. Chamou o menino para sua casa, mostrou toda sua tradição e grandeza, dando garantias que ele terá condições de brigar com Hamilton e a trupe da Ferrari pelo título. Na Brawn/ Mercedes ele teria sossego e sua conta ficaria mais gorda mas, como ele mesmo disse, topou o desafio. Gostei e muito da atitude dele. E a McLaren conseguiu forma uma dupla forte, mandando Kovalainen pro saco. Na verdade, nem sei o que Kovalainen estava fazendo na F1.

Jenson Button: o tranquilão

Jenson é um piloto equilibrado, calmo, que apresenta uma técnica de pilotagem suave, com poucos erros e sempre constante. É o equilíbrio que falta em Hamilton, que tem um talento latente, uma vontade louca, muita velocidade, mas sem controle nas suas ações.

Assim como Kovalainen, não sei o Heidfeld faz na F1. Tem seu nome vinculado a uma possível ida para a Mercedes. Seria uma péssima escolha dos alemães, pois ficariam com uma dupla mediana. O cara é uma âncora. Rosberg tem talento sim, mas ainda falta provar mais alguma coisa, não sei bem o que. Acho que falta velocidade. Foi regular neste ano, mas a Williams também foi. Se você parar para pensar no quanto a Williams gastou neste ano, eles fizeram um belo campeonato.

Rosberg: falta agressividade ou velocidade?

Já a Ferrari fez uma bela escolha. E não estou falando que Kimi é muito pior que Alonso, muito pelo contrário. Alonso é metódico, estudioso e rápido. Sabe como trabalhar em equipe, consegue transmitir melhor para os mecânicos as reações do carro. É talento puro.

Alonso: qualidades únicas

Já Kimi, o negócio dele é ter um carro rápido e pisar fundo. Ele consegue tirar o máximo do carro quando quer. Não se importa muito em passar suas intimidades com o carro para os mecânicos. Eles que se virem com a telemetria e tratem de melhorar o carro.O cara é velocidade pura. Um talento nato. Provou isso neste ano em Spa, quando saiu em sexto e ganhou a corrida. Quando estava na McLaren, o motor Mercedes o deixava na mão num GP, no outro ele largava em último e chegava ao pódio.

E o Felipe Massa é vontade de vencer, é aguerrido, sangue quente e agressivo. Não é tão talentoso quanto Alonso e nem tão rápido quanto Raikonnen. Mas tem o espírito de vencedor e aprendeu a ser um piloto de ponta.

Massa: o que falta em técnica preenche com força de vontade

Se as três equipes fizerem o dever de casa, o campeonato do ano que vem promete. E nem falei de Red Bull com Vettel e a possível ida de Schumacher para a Mercedes.

Se a Red Bull fizer um carro bom e Scumacher for para a Mercedes…

TWITTER’s Impact Continues…

Some social media networks are known as major time drainers for procrastinating students, butTwitter can also be used for school work, valuable networking, job searches and project management.

Here are 100 great Twitter tips, tools and tutorials for serious college students who want to turn their Internet time into something valuable.

Finding People

These tools will help you find the right people to follow, whether you want to hook up with industry insiders, people who can help you with your research, companies you’d like to intern with, or other professors and students.

1. Who Should I Follow?: This service will recommend interesting people for you to follow based on any username you type in.
2. Just Tweet It: With this service, you can find other Tweeters with similar interests as you.
3. Mr.Tweet: Mr. Tweet can also point out influential Tweeters you should be following.
4. WeFollow: Type in keywords to find people who’ve tagged themselves in this directory.
5. FriendOrFollow: Find out who’s not following you back with FriendOrFollow.
6. Twubble: Expand your follow bubble with Twubble.
7. Nearby Tweets: When you need a reference or contact who lives in your city, use this service to find them on Twitter.
8. Twitterator: With Twitterator, you can bulk-follow complete lists of people.
9. SocialToo: Sync follower lists with other social media sites like Facebook.
10. TweepSearch: Use this tool to search users’ bios when you’re looking for specific people to follow.
11. DoesFollow: Find out if certain people are following each other to help friends make connections.

Research

Use these tips and tools for job searches, finding experts to cite in your papers, and to learn more about the topics you’re discussing in class.

1. twitority: Get authority-based Twitter search here.
2. Twitter for Research: Why and How to Do It, Including Case Studies: Learn how to use Twitter for historical research and which tools to use.
3. Monitter: Monitter uses your keywords to find relevant tweets.
4. TweetMeme: TweetMeme is sort of like Digg and is helpful if you want to search popular links that are being tweeted.
5. Tweetag: Tag-Based Search for Twitter: This guide will show you how to use Tweetag to find information based on tags.
6. How to Use Twitter for Information Mining: This guide can help you gather information on companies, individuals and topics.
7. @trendingtopics: Follow Twitter’s trending topics feed to get frequent updates on breaking news.
8. Twitscoop: This service lets you “search and follow what’s buzzing on Twitter in real-time,” great for keeping up with trending topics.
9. Twitter search: Type in a keyword to find out how it’s being discussed on Twitter in real-time.
10. TweetVolume: Here you can enter words and phrases to see how often they pop up on Twitter, and where.
11. How to Search Twitter – The Advanced Guide: Discover how to do a word-level, person-related, location-specific, date-specific or resource search on Twitter.
12. 7 ‘Secret’ Ways to Use Twitter Search: This article will help you become a more efficient researcher and tune out the “chit-chat.”
13. Tweetbeep: Set up alerts so that you know when something or someone is being tweeted about.

Study Breaks

Twitter isn’t just about research and assignments. These tips and tools will show you how to use Twitter for break time, too.

1. Foamee: Keep track of who owes you beer and coffee with this tool.
2. Cursebird: Track curse words on Twitter and see how many times people say the “f” word and other fun swear words.
3. LoveTweet!: Find love poems, break-up stories and more.
4. Tweetwasters: Use this tool to manage your wasted time on Twitter.
5. InnerTwitter: InnerTwitter lets you know when it’s time to get back to work and focus on what’s in front of you.

Discussion and Collaboration

When you have to meet with project group members, study for a test with classmates, talk with a professor, or tweet from club meetings, use these collaboration tools and tips.

1. Share files: Services like FileSocial and FileTwt let you share files publicly or privately.
2. Screenr: Create screencasts for your followers with Screenr.
3. 30+ More Ways to Create Twitter Groups: This guide will show you how to make the most of Twitter groups.
4. Share videos and photos: For school projects and presentations, share videos and photos via Twitter.
5. GroupTweet: Set up private communication with group members using this tool.
6. StrawPoll: It’s easier to collect data from groups of people when you use a poll like this one.
7. Twitzer: When you need to explain something in greater detail, use this app to type in more than 140 characters.
8. TweetCube: Share files — including videos and images — with TweetCube.
9. twonvo: Twonvo is helpful for following conversations: retweets are displayed like Facebook’s threads.
10. Phweet: Phweet is like conference calling for Twitter friends.
11. tweetparty: Group messaging is made possible by tweetparty, which lets you create subgroups too.

Building Relationships

Here you’ll learn all about using Twitter to build quality relationships for school and your career.

1. Don’t spam: Spamming means tweeting every time something pops into your head. Edit your tweets so that you’re only contributing when it matters, not whenever you’re bored.
2. Tweeple Card: Make a business card for Twitter with this tool.
3. twtcard: Send surprise greeting cards to network with people or send invitations to study groups.
4. Retweet: Retweet others’ comments, and they’ll be more likely to do the same for you.
5. Share your knowledge: Let others know you’re available for homework help or to share tips and insight into your passions.
6. Follow Friday: Look for new users to follow on Fridays, when your other friends will hashtag some of their favorites. Highlight your followers too to spread the love.
7. Edit your follow list: The people you follow and your followers can influence what others think about you, so be careful who you network with.
8. Tweet about things besides you: You’ll be known as a more valuable follow if you tweet news stories and about things besides yourself.
9. Become an expert on your community: Whether it’s your dorm or your city, be the one others turn to for help navigating and finding things to do in your area.
10. 8 Things to Consider Before Using Twitter Lists: Before you start listing, read this article to learn about its benefits and downfalls.
11. Use direct messaging: For more private conversations, reach out to someone via direct message.

Career

Twitter is a great career resource too, so make use of these tools and tips when researching companies, finding internships and setting up interviews.

1. twibs: Find businesses to follow with Twibs.
2. Twitter JobSearch: Type in the job you want and let this service find it for you on Twitter.
3. Set up two different accounts: Set up a business account and a separate one for goofing off with your friends: you don’t want your future employers to see what you tweet about parties and late nights.
4. Keep an eye on the competition: Get to know the habits and resumes of people vying for similar jobs as you.
5. Know how to pitch yourself: Don’t just talk about how great you are: pitch your skills in the form of tips for others.
6. Organize a tweetup: Schedule a meet-up or mixer to meet contacts in real-life.
7. Turn Twitter Friends into Real Friends: Learn how to network so that your Twitter relationships result in something concrete.
8. Getting In Front of High Profile People: Copyblogger shares tips for getting on the radar of the tweeters who matter.
9. 10 Networking Tips for Tweeters: Emma Merkas’ tips include standing out from the crowd and being social in real life.
10. Tweetmondo: Look for business contacts in your area or an area of your choosing with Tweetmondo.

Organization

Keep your Twitter experience streamlined and in control with these tools and tips.

1. Twitblocker: When you need Twitter for school and work purposes, block out all the social noise with this tool.
2. Lists: Create lists to organize discussions and groups.
3. Desktop: Use a desktop app so that you can view, filter and organize your Twitter feeds without having to log on.
4. 10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets: Learn about the tools and tips that can save you room on Twitter.
5. 20 Ways to Filter Your Tweets: Learn how to filter tweets by keyword, links, groups, or favorites to stay better organized.
6. TwitKit: TwitKit is a Firefox app that creates a Twitter sidebar for your browser.
7. MyTweeple: Check tweets, hide followers, review people’s stats and reevaluate your follow list with this tool.
8. twuffer: Schedule tweets to share later with twuffer.
9. Twply: Have @replies forwarded to your inbox so you never miss a shout out.
10. Ping.fm: Ping.fm is another tool for syncing FB, Twitter, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM and more.
11. 10 Ways You Can Use Twitter Lists: Sarah Evan’s article shows you 10 ways you can use lists to organize Twitter.

Assignments

Check out this list to find ways to use Twitter for project management, assignment tracking and more.

1. bkkeepr: Track your reading lists here.
2. TwitterNotes: Take, save and tag notes on Twitter with this app.
3. Twittercal: Sync Twitter and your Google calendar so that you’re reminded of deadlines and exam dates.
4. Twitly: Separate your Twitter follows into different lists and groups, which is especially helpful if you want to separate different classmates, people you’re following for different research papers, or general follows.
5. How to use Twitter as a project management tool: Study groups and clubs will get tips on using Twitter effectively here.
6. Remember The Milk: The Twitter version of this task manager can also remind you of upcoming assignments, study groups and more.
7. Read the news: Subscribe to niche and general news feeds for supplementary learning materials.
8. Ask questions: Use Twitter as a study help tool, and ask questions when you can’t get ahold of your professor.
9. Take notes: Take notes from a club meeting or class to save for later, get feedback from others in the community, or share with a friend.

Tutorials and Guides

Turn to these tutorials and guides for in-depth explanations for setting up Twitter, finding people, and more.

1. The Ultimate Guide to Everything Twitter: Start out with this guide to learn about Twitter memes, relationships, apps and more.
2. HOW TO: Do Good on Twitter: This guide will show you how to find nonprofit groups and get your own club on Twitter.
3. Treating Twitter as an Investment: Making Twitter work for you takes time. Read this article to find out why it’s worth it.
4. Twitter for Academia: This guide is written for professors but can also be helpful for students wanting tips for using Twitter for discussion, research and real-life experience.
5. @TwiTuts: Follow this feed to get constant Twitter tutorials and tips.
6. Make the Most of Your 140 Twitter Characters: TutWow can help you say more with less.
7. 3 Ways to Recognize Bots and Spammers on Twitter: Don’t waste your time following worthless auto-spammers.
8. Top Twitter Tools Exposed: If you don’t know which tools to start with, watch this video.
9. Twitter Tutorial: 5 Desktop Apps: This is kind of a goofy video, but it can help you figure out how to pick a desktop application for Twitter.
10. How to use Twitter on the go: Use Twitter on your mobile phone after watching this video.

Miscellaneous Tools

From selling your stuff on Twitter to making Twitter easier to find, check out these tools.

1. Twitpay: If you have PayPal, you can raise money for causes or sell your stuff with TwitPay.
2. twitition: Create, sign and share petitions with this tool.
3. TwitterFone: Send messages to Twitter with your voice when you use TwitterFone.
4. Xpenser: Use Xpenser to track your expenses and save money, even while you’re on Twiter.
5. Twitturl: This Firefox add-on lets you post the URL of the page you’re currently on to Twitter.
6. Twittonary: This dictionary of Twitter words and shorthand will keep you on track with tweeting pros.
7. Twitsig: Your tweets will show up as images when you use this tool.
8. Tweetminster: British politics are tracked on this live Twitter stream.
9. Twitlist: Sell and buy your stuff with Twitter and Craigslist with this mashup.

Thanks to Carol Brown, Accredited Online Colleges.