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Multi-player game play has been a feature of video games that has seen as much of an evolution as the industry itself. It's existed since the early days of the Atari, but recently with the new wave of hardware and software advancements, we've seen both consumers and developers alike scrambling to put together the best multi-player experience possible. Partnered with new Internet connection speeds that are more readily available to the mass public than ever before, the possibilities are indeed endless.
Major companies such as Sony and Microsoft are, of course, doing their best to capitalize online, providing the hardware enhancements and programs such as Xbox Live or the Playstation Network, but there are those who decide to build their own rig, install their own hardware, and upgrade their own programs for online play. I talk of the PC gamer, and today we'll look at what they do to optimize their systems, making sure they are running the fastest and as efficient as possible.
Article by: Adam
Special Thanks: Sean McCann, Emelyne Interior, Bigfoot Networks
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The most fundamental area, whether it be for casual use or gaming, is hardware. Of course, there are several differences that exist between those two genres, the most of which are processing power and graphics. Casual use would be defined as writing and viewing documents, listening to music, surfing the Internet, and maybe playing to occasional low-profile game here or there (solitaire, Pac-Man, etc.). For a system like this, you'd be more than comfortable getting away with an integrated graphics card, easily upgradable if you find yourself wanting to play the Sims or watch a movie.
A processor would also be a lower speed, and probably a single core. Without dipping too far into the subject, a processor is measured in hertz, or how long it takes for it to send and receive a signal. One hertz in one second. Multicore processors simply share workload, obviously for those who are putting more stress on their system than just Minesweeper.
So when you make the jump to a gaming PC, you'll need to install a better video card with a large memory cache, depending on how wide of a range of games you want to play. If you know what the most demanding game you'll ever play on the system requires, you can simply buy a card that supports it and never have to worry about it. However, since graphics are always improving, so are the video cards, which is why PC gamers are constantly upgrading their hardware. The processor will also probably be double the amount of a casual rig, and multi-core, especially if you'll be running any applications in the background during game play. Memory is another mentionable aspect, the latter of the two requiring more RAM than the former, and a faster RPM hard drive to boot from. Of course, you'll also need the writable capacity to hold the game installs.
For an online gaming PC, there are a few more components that will need upgraded. If playing a game is the most stressful activity you'll put your system through, playing that game online pushes it even further. And more load means more heat, so you'll often find a user's build consisting of higher quality hardware and more effecient cooling.
Before you begin upgrading your rig for the online realm, there are a few things to keep in mind. We'll start by continuing our coverage of hardware. It's a popular belief that the more you spend, the more you get when you buy anything, and gaming is no exception. Though there is some truth to the statement, it's not quite as black and white as that. Sean McCann, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Bigfoot Networks, says there is no direct relationship. Most people will pay around $100 for a video card that will play the majority of games, though there are those who will pay around $50 more to get 50% more out of the card. From there, the scale tails off to include a few outlier results of peope paying $300 to $400 for a minor improvement in one area.
McCann also notes on the nature of online gaming. "Online gamers are more social, therefore they are more likely to have a family, and so hardware orientated decisions are being changed to experience oriented decisions." For instance, 'I need to get a pair of headphones I can hear over my kids' or 'My wife will kill me if I spend too much on this build'. Companies are taking this into consideration, and of course as demand for accessories such as those mentioned above increase, prices decrease,
The morale of the story is that its possible to build or upgrade a system without running your bank account dry, so be aware of parts that may be overpriced and avoid paying for something you don't need. It isn't always easy, however, to determine what you do and do not need, and nothing is more frustrating than having lag issues when you don't know why. The next objective is to prevent and cure latency issues.
Latency is, simply put, the amount of time it takes for a packet of data to to cross over a network from one user to another. Since this is the very basis of online play, ensuring a smooth transfer is essential. The first, and most obvious, is a user's Internet connection. Running at average dial-up speed, which is 56Kbps (meaning 56 kilobytes of information is transmitted per second), is going to hold you back in the vast majority of online games. You need to communicate with the game's server to tell it what you're doing and get the appropriate reaction, and the longer it takes for that information to send, the slower you're going to be. Compare that to a standard DSL connection, 1.5Mbps, or 1536Kbps, and its easy to see why Internet speed is important.
That being said, it isn't the only factor. Many gamers who experience lag immediately assume they need a faster connection, and this isn't always the case. Lag experienced on the user end is largely generated by Windows or other operating systems, which take instructions and attempt to sort them out in a fairly rudimentary fashion. The problem occurs when the OS is issued several sets of instructions, does a poor job of distributing the workload (even on multi-core processors), and curdles the data. McCann explains: "Even though quad core exists, many games still perform on one. The idea is to spread the the workload between cores. A first person shooter may say you're dead, then the grenade goes off." Its an issue with the speed and frequency from the user's hardware itself, not the network connection. So upgrading an Internet connection is like "taking a bike or a Ferarri on a bumpy road. The road is just as bumpy with either one, it's just one goes over it faster."
The answer to this issue is upgrading your own hardware. As mentioned before, having a multi-core processor will help some, but it won't do any good if Windows is distributing network activity poorly. The solution hides in a piece of equipment that is often overlooked: the network card. Every motherboard has an integrated network device that allows for the computer to be connected to a network. However, upgrading to a dedicated card will not only improve LAN speeds (older models, and some newer models as well max out at 100Mbps instead of 1000Mbps), it can also help you operating system with its load. Take Bigfoot Network's Killer line, network cards that are optimized for gaming, for example. The Killer technology will alleviate Windows of the task collecting data to help smooth and accelerate the process. As McCann puts it, "If a packet comes in for a game, it goes directly to the game." It doesn't have to worry about other processes like Windows does, therefore it doesn't wait in line while the OS deals with other data first and places the game data in a queue line.
Still lingering in the hardware realm, online gamer's also tend to be more particuliar about their accessories. Mouse, keyboard, head set, monitor, and even the mouse pad are only a few of the more popular pieces to customize. A gamer may choose a mouse depending on wired/wireless, its size and how it fits his hand, the option of customizable buttons, and sensitivity control. Keyboards may depend on the size, type cushion, and additional features such as USB ports or a small LCD screen to read out information, or extra comman-assignable keys. It may even be something as simple as matching a style for those who do themed cases. The mouse pad can be made of virtually and material and of any size, and will vary greatly depending on the preferences of the user, type of game (first-person shooter, real-time strategy, role-playing game, etc.), and location. This is an aspect that you as a gamer will learn your needs through trial and error, and develop an equipment set that works best for you.
This article is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the online gaming PC, an element that has grown rapidly in the past few years and is only continuing to gain momentum. It is a beast that will ever be evolving, and as long as the gamer continues to defy the stereotype of the anti-social awkward nerd, will continue to thrive. Given the preceding information, you should now have a good understanding of the hardware you'll need, the equipment you'll want, and the problems you'll need to solve. From here, its nothing more than a learning experience, so grab your PC and your mouse and jump in!
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Edgy Agile things that you may not have heard of.
Pretty much the opposite of Agile 101. A summary of more edgy and obscure Agile ideas and practices that you may find useful.
About the speaker
Agile and Lean software guy
bio from Twitter
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2:45pm Fishbowl session (A) by Last Conference
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A near disaster was barely avoided during a recent soccer match between Iranian side Sepahan and Saudi Arabian side Al-Ahli. Play was briefly interrupted in the first half after a fan threw an object onto the field and the referees went over to remove it. Sepahan midfielder Adel Kolahkaj ended up picking up the object and tossing it off the field, and as you can see from the video above it turned out to be an explosive.
Had Kolahkaj held onto the object for a few seconds longer or picked it up a few seconds later, he would have lost a hand. The match was initially called off but play resumed after security officials conducted an inspection.
We’ve seen soccer fans do some crazy things like bring a dead body to a match of throw tennis balls onto the pitch in protest, but this completely crosses the line. Then again, soccer fans have been known to cross the line on plenty of occasions.
Tagged with: crazy soccer fans
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Bob Lewis, who I’m proud to say is my “partner in Linux crime” in the Felton Linux Users Group, sent me an e-mail this morning with a link to the first Microsoft commercial featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld (whose dramatis persona, incidentally, spent several years as a Mac user on what can arguably be called the most watched comedy in television history).
If this is what Microsoft spent $300 million on, I think I’d ask for a refund.
On second thought, maybe that’s the point: Perhaps it’s payback for all the money people have spent over the years to migrate and update (or downgrade, in the case of Vista) and buy additional software (anti-virus ware, for example) to make Microsoft’s software, well, work. It also begs the question about how many times Microsoft intends to take it on the chin, in the public eye.
[I also sent the link to one of my best friends and best baseball buddy Pam Tao, and she got an error message on Internet Exploder. Poetic justice anyone? Here's the message (thanks, Pam): "Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site http://justinflood.com/?p=528. Operation aborted." If you get the same message, drop the ?p=528 and scroll down a few items on Justin's blog.]
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs HeliOS Solutions West in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
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It’s time for the combine. The time of year when we analyze the most highly applicable and transferable skills any potential workforce gets the opportunity to demonstrate. This testing is the most important week since the NFL season—scratch that—the most important week of the year, and more broadly is the envy of corporate America, retail chains, even Mom and Pop stores, and all employers really, across our proud, free nation. Under the scrutiny of a 4 day media frenzy, the highly trained and specialized individuals, who ironically look less like individuals donning their Under Armour gear, exhibit their skills in 6 highly specialized and comparable drills to achieve their life-long dreams.
Of course we’re talking about the 2013 NFL FanSided Writing Combine.
All potential writers looking to be drafted on a FanSided team train their whole lives in all of the non-arbitrary, and practical events to decide who is best suited to write on Sundays, and every other day of the week as well.
40 Word Dash
The first event of this widely covered event is the 40 Word Dash. Content is a non-factor in this staple barometer for future contributors. It is testing speed, straight out. Each writer is measured on how fast they can type “I can type forty words.” The shortest amount of time to type the 5 words 8 times is the best mark. The unofficial combine record of 9.91s set by Bo Jackson is unlikely to go down this year (Bo knows writing).
The ability to change directions of thought while your opponents attempt to tackle your ideas will be extrapolated by General Editors from your 40 Time. All questions on whether the 40 time measures relevant abilities will not be addressed at this time. But even an unpolished product without accuracy, riddled with typos, or low quality content, with the raw physical tools to type 40 Words faster than you can say think it is a highly draft-able writer.
Broad-Jump to Conclusions
Next up is a test of power and overall body and mind control–the Broad-Jump to Conclusions. Writers will do a broad jump as far horizontally as they can out onto the Jump to Conclusions Mat (yes, just like in Office Space). Writers will be measured on an index of how far they jump, and on the broad conclusions that they announce about the specific topic labeled where their feet land on the mat. The topics labeled on the map change year to year, and writer to writer. In a previous combine, Rob Parker’s nearly 8 foot jump and broad generalizations about race relations were a red flag, but his jump was just too impressive across the competition to acknowledge the questionable content.
The Vertical-Jump to Conclusions is the third drill. See “Broad-Jump” instructions. Now jump up, not out. Reaching helps too.
Freedom of the Press, Press
The 4th drill measures writers both strength and memory recall. Each writer completes as many reps of a single 8 ½” X 11” sheet of printer paper with the First Amendment printed on it, in the amount of time it takes to recite the First Amendment. For those unfamiliar:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The record from Michael Silver of 35 reps in 16 seconds, according to the experts, strangely equates roughly to the 394 reps recorded in 4 long, rambling minutes by Skip Bayless. Advocates for change to this drill prefer a heavier weight, such as a volume(s) of the precedents ruled in First Amendment rights’ cases. But an efficient strategy to grab and press these huge volumes has yet to be invented.
Three Point Drill
This drill measures a writer’s ability to change direction of thought very quickly. Writers are asked to make one short point, then move onto another topic to make an unrelated point. Then they quickly side-step back to the first point, before tying it back to the second, unrelated thought; and then sharply changing to a third unrelated thought before circling back to the first two. Conceptually, the separate, unrelated ideas would be set up in an “L” shape. Cohesion is not important, but changing thoughts quickly between disparate ideas like head traumas, touchdown celebrations, and the franchise tag in several short, incoherent sentences is a must. The great John Madden at his best would have put out an unbeatable Three Point mark to catapult him up the draft board.
Even the driest box score or game summary benefits from some creativity. The last of the six drills has writers deliver a haiku of their choosing. All haiukus must conform to the standard 5-7-5 syllables rule. Writers begin with 5 syllables, then shuttle back to the left column to begin a seven syllable line, and shuttle back with a final 5 syllable line. Save the power for the other drills, this is testing agility and grace around the page. The ability of a single haiku to relay much pertinent information is very limited. So the small, creative sample size is a perfect match for the Combine.
There you have it: the 6 Drills at the NFL FanSided Writing Combine. Naturally there are complimentary position drills, and the standard Wonderlick test. But there is one new test given this year. If you want to write for FanSided, you must complete this brand new, final component of the FanSided Writing Combine LINKED HERE
Good luck at the 2013 NFL FanSided Writing Combine
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3 Events: Gin class, Getty Villa prix fixe, La Feria de Los Moles
Gin-ology 101: Guest mixologist Russ Sabin will lead a small group of students through a gin tasting at Public School 612 downtown. Learn about the history of the spirit and how to mix it, accompanied by after-school snacks. Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. $35 per person for the class, tasting and appetizers. Reservations required. 612 Flower St., Los Angeles, (213) 623-1172, www.publicschool612.com.
Pre-theater prix fixe: Some heirloom tomato salad to go with your Greek tragedy? Getty Villa chef Mayet Cristobal has created a Mediterranean-inspired prix-fixe menu for pre-theater dining to coincide with the museum's presentation of SITI Company's "The Trojan Women (After Euripides)." The three-course dinner is served in the private dining room overlooking the outdoor theater, starts with a local heirloom tomato and burrata salad, followed by a choice of three entrees, and finishes with a coffee-and-dessert course, which can be taken to go. A wine pairing option and wines by the glass are available. So are gourmet boxed dinners, including salads, sandwiches and an artisan cheese, charcuterie and fruit box. Box dinners include a beverage and house-baked dessert. Prix-fixe dinners are $55 ($70 with wine pairing) and are served at 6:15 p.m., before the 8 p.m. curtain time. Advance reservations are required and can be madhttp://www.feriadelosmoles.come at www.getty.edu. Theater seats will be reserved for all prix-fixe dinner guests. "The Trojan Women (After Euripides)," Getty Villa, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, 8 p.m. Thursdays to Saturdays, to Oct. 1. Admission, $38 to $42. For more info, (310) 440-7300 or www.getty.edu.
Big bowl o' mole, olé! It's the fourth annual La Feria de los Moles (the theme is Puebla vs. Oaxaca) on Sunday, Oct. 9, at La Placita Olvera on Olvera Street. The all-day event always draws a crowd, with tastings of more than 13 different Mexican moles. Food stands will showcase the variety of dishes featuring mole -- the complex Mexican salsa of chiles, seeds, nuts, spices and more that originated in the collision of indigenous and Spanish cultures, organizers point out. La Feria de Los Moles was founded by the Union of Poblanos En El Exterior, an organization supporting education, health and issues that affect the Latino community in Los Angeles. Entrance is free. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Olvera Street. For more info, see www.feriadelosmoles.com, Twitter/@feriadelosmoles, Facebook/Feria de Los Moles.
-- Betty Hallock
Photo: Advertisement for La Feria de los Moles
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Gay marriage: Court ruling on Prop. 8 has far-reaching implications
More than three years after California voters approved a ban on same-sex marriage, an appeals court on Tuesday is set to decide whether Proposition 8 violates the federal Constitution.
During oral arguments more than a year ago, the three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals appeared to be leaning toward ruling against Proposition 8 but expressed concern about procedural matters.
Rallies are planned across California after the judges hand down their decision.
The judges on the Proposition 8 panel are Stephen Reinhardt, an appointee of former President Carter; Michael Daly Hawkins, an appointee of former President Clinton; and N. Randy Smith, appointed by former President George W. Bush.
Two same-sex couples challenged Proposition 8 just days before the California Supreme Court upheld it as a valid state constitutional amendment. The suit led to a historic federal trial that examined the nature of sexual orientation, the history of marriage, and discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Retired Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker presided over the trial and ruled against Proposition 8 in 2010, but the 9th Circuit issued a stay to put his ruling on hold pending appeals.
The stay could remain in place even if the panel rules against Proposition 8. If the panel lifts the stay, backers of Proposition 8 could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate it.
The losing party can appeal the ruling to a larger panel of the 9th Circuit, which would delay U.S. Supreme Court review for many months or longer, or go directly to the high court. The sponsors of Proposition 8, ProtectMarriage, have said they were eager to get to the high court as soon as possible.
"Either side that loses would want to read the opinion and look at the vote count before making an en banc decision," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Irvine Law School.
The court's decision would have no immediate effect on other states within the 9th Circuit, lawyers said Monday. Even if Proposition 8 is struck down and the stay lifted, marriage bans in other states would probably continue until challenged or until state officials refused to recognize them, attorneys said.
“We are very hopeful that the 9th Circuit will rule in favor of fairness and equality, once and for all putting an end to Prop. 8’s exclusion of loving, committed couples from marriage,” John Lewis, legal director of Marriage Equality USA, said in a statement.
-- Maura Dolan in San Francisco
Photo: Groups for and against Proposition 8 face off in Santa Ana in 2008. Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times
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Labor Department gives an additional $150 million in green jobs training grants
Authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the funds are part of a $500-million green jobs initiative. This round, called the Pathways Out of Poverty grants, will be parceled out to 38 projects around the country, most based in areas where poverty rates are at least 15%.
Target populations include disadvantaged individuals -- high school dropouts, the unemployed -- as well as minorities. The grants will help develop recruitment and referral services, basic and occupational skills education and other resources.
The awards went to two types of recipients: national nonprofits with networks of affiliates and partners, and local groups including community and faith-based organizations and labor associations.
California recipients included the Los Angeles Community College District, which was awarded $4 million for communities including Watts and Willowbrook. The National Council of La Raza received more than $3 million for San Jose and San Diego, as well as Chicago.
The Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium was granted $4 million for California areas such as Butte, Siskiyou and Shasta counties. An additional $3 million went to the West Hills Community College District, which includes areas in Fresno and Kings counties.
The Labor Department expects to award funds in one more green grant category in the following weeks.
-- Tiffany Hsu
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Zenyatta has final tuneup for Breeders' Cup Classic
Unbeaten Zenyatta had a final tuneup Saturday at Hollywood Park in preparation for the $5-million Breeders' Cup Classic on Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs, going six furlongs in 1:11 4/5 seconds.
Zenyatta, who has won all 19 of her starts, is scheduled to be shipped to Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday.
Here's a look back at Zenyatta's performance in last year's memorable Breeders' Cup Classic.
-- Eric Sondheimer
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A Meeting at the Kitchen Table: POC Feminists Envisioning the Future
POC Caucus CFP SEWSA 2013
Calling on some of our People of Color feminist foremothers, the POC Caucus panel hopes to examine where we are as POC academics, cultural workers, and artists and where we’d like to be. As…
Julia de Burgos y la Frida - El Barrio NYC
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The LatiNegr@s Project: New York Daily News Apologizes for Printing Cuban Flag on Puerto Rican Day Parade Announcement
Just hours after an editor from Latino Rebels uploaded the following picture to our Facebook site, which shows New York Giants boricua star Victor Cruz in front of two Cuban flags promoting the June 10 Puerto Rican Day Parade in the “viva New York” section of the New York…
New York Giants’ Victor Cruz…and Cuban flags to promote the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Red triangle, blue stripes=Cuba.
Blue triangle, red stripes=Puerto Rico.
Did you know that the current flag of Puerto Rico was created in New York City in the late nineteenth century?
Meet Carolina aka Miss Rizos. She is a Dominicana and is leading the natural hair movement in the Dominican Republic. Miss Rizos founded www.missrizos.com after going natural a year ago after 15 years of ‘alisado’ or relaxers. This is huge especially in DR. When I visited, I saw about 3 women who wore their hair without a relaxer. My host said people immediately asked if I were from Brazil or Curacao because I could not be from DR because I wore my hair curly. Miss ‘Curls’ is here to offer her support, advice, tips and amazing personality to those seeking the natural way. Visit La Tiendita de Lolita. Follow her on twitter for updates!
Do you wear your hair ‘natural’?
Translation : 1 worker’s day, 364 days for the employer. Stop the exploitation! Transnational (corporations) out!
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MOSCOW — There is nothing like a meteor to showcase national character. When one blew up in the sky over Chelyabinsk on Friday morning, the defining traits of Russian citizens emerged for all to see.
The world learned that, as one headline in New York Magazine put it, “It’s Almost Impossible to Startle a Russian.” Numerous dashboard video cameras captured a giant fireball shooting across the sky and blowing up while the driver listened to electro-pop dance music or simply waited for the light to change. To be fair, the video clip that went viral in Russia was actually rather expressive: that driver let out an unimaginative but almost unimaginably long series of curses. Yet a majority of dashcam owners appear to have remained indifferent.
Why? Because they expect disaster to strike anytime. Russia has the highest rate of mortality from external causes — accidents, poisonings, and violence including suicide — of any country at peace. And residents of the Chelyabinsk region, where the meteor exploded, are perhaps more aware of this than other Russians: The area is home to some of the worst — and least known — nuclear disasters in history.
In 1957 a storage tank with nuclear waste exploded at the Mayak plant, about 60 miles from Chelyabinsk, affecting 217 towns and at least 272,000 people. This accident is widely considered the second-worst nuclear disaster in history (Chernobyl being the worst). The plant also had several smaller accidents and regularly released nuclear waste into the nearby Techa river, sometimes called the most-polluted river in the world. Unlike in the area affected by the Chernobyl disaster, people continue to live around the Mayak plant, fish in the Techa and give birth to children with genetic abnormalities.
So it is perhaps unsurprising that the second trait meteor witnesses manifested en masse was reckless fearlessness. More than 1,000 people were injured — most of them by broken glass, many if not most of them because they had rushed to the windows to check out the source of the unusual light and loud sound. Russian news outlets reported the single case of an elementary school teacher who commanded her students to hide under their desks and rushed to open glass-paned doors, thereby, it is claimed, saving 44 children from injury. Observing standard disaster procedure was apparently unusual enough to elevate the teacher to hero status.
I have seen this recklessness many times. When someone was assassinated by a bomb across the street from the office in Moscow of a magazine I used to edit, I was the only one who dove under my desk; my colleagues ran to look out the windows. Once, when a fire alarm sounded in another building, the large crowd of reporters broke into two groups: The foreigners headed for the exits while the Russians remained oblivious. It bears mentioning that this followed a bombing in which hundreds of people died.
I think there are two reasons for this behavior, and I am not sure which is the more important. One reason is a profound, learned helplessness: Russians do not generally expect to control what happens to them and see little point in trying. The other reason is a pervasive distrust of the authorities: The fire alarm is always presumed to be a false one.
Which brings me to lack of trust, the third national trait brought out by Friday’s meteor. State television has broadcast footage of a giant burning crater and claimed the meteor landed there; in fact, it exploded in the stratosphere. Russian blogs are rife with speculation that the meteor was in fact a U.F.O. Alternatively, several video clips purport to show that the meteor, or whatever it was, exploded because it was hit by a U.F.O. “Were we saved?” asks the caption on one such clip, set to dramatic music. Yes, indeed, the Chelyabinsk governor told his people — saved by God.
No wonder conspiracy theories abound.
Masha Gessen is a journalist in Moscow and the author of “The Man Without a Face,” a biography of Vladimir Putin.
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(him, not her.)
So, now I'm thinking, naturally, how can I find a movie theater while I'm on my honeymoon, so I can see the movie?
I have seriously been missing out on this series, and for those who care, Justin knows about the crush, and since it is on a character rather than a real person, he is OK with it.
UPDATE: I just found out that the movie actually comes out Nov 21 in the USA, so I won't have to see it on my honeymoon. Whew, I was worried.
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PEAC Scores Big for Water Quality and Salmon
February 29, 2012
We are thrilled to announce that PEAC attorneys Allison LaPlante, Dan Mensher and Dan Rohlf received a ruling yesterday from federal district judge John Acosta in a significant case about Oregon’s water quality. The court ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) violated their duties under the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act in approving certain Oregon water quality standards for temperature, and in turning a blind eye to exemptions within Oregon’s rules. The ruling is a major victory for water quality in Oregon and the many imperiled species of salmon who call our rivers their home. Today’s ruling also has the potential to set significant national precedent regarding these federal agencies’ roles in overseeing state water quality programs.
Read on for more on the case history and the ruling for those interested in a few details:
An astonishing 12,000+ miles of rivers and streams in Oregon have become too hot for the long-term survival of threatened and endangered salmon, steelhead, and bull trout. These fish require cold water to survive. The high water temperatures are caused by poor land management practices, dams, pollution, and flow alterations. Under the Clean Water Act, states are required to set water quality standards - or goals - for their waterbodies to protect all of the “uses” of the waterbodies. In Oregon, salmon and bull trout spawning, rearing and migration are critical “uses” of many waterbodies.
Unfortunately, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the federal agencies overseeing Oregon’s water quality program have hindered the restoration of cool water temperatures by adopting inadequate water quality standards. These standards are far too weak and in significant cases allow water temperatures to rise to a level that is lethal to these now-fragile fish species.
In December 2005, Allison LaPlante and then-PEAC professor Melissa Powers filed suit on behalf of Northwest Environmental Advocates (headed by Distinguished Alumnus, Nina Bell) challenging the federal agencies’ actions and inactions on Oregon’s standards. After many disputes about the completeness of the agencies’ administrative records, and after prevailing on several key preliminary issues in the case, we finally filed our arguments on the merits of the case in 2010 and 2011. The briefing involved a massive effort by our attorneys and law students, who pored over hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. In December 2011, we had a three-hour long oral argument, during which the judge asked numerous questions of all counsel.
Yesterday Judge Acosta issued a 51-page opinion on the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment. Some of the court’s most significant rulings include:
- EPA violated its mandatory duty under the Clean Water Act by failing to review Oregon’s provisions that exempt “nonpoint sources” (logging, grazing, agriculture) from compliance with temperature water quality standards. The court explained, “Given that many temperature impaired waters in Oregon are impaired in whole or in part by nonpoint sources of pollution, the challenged provisions could present a considerable obstacle to the attainment of water quality standards[.]” The court went on to hold that “The EPA cannot choose to review and approve water quality standards while ignoring separate provisions which have the potential to cripple the application of those standards.”
- EPA’s approval of Oregon’s “Natural Conditions Criterion” was arbitrary and capricious. This provision effectively overrides water quality goals for a waterbody any time the state determines a particular waterbody “naturally” had a higher temperature. This provision is another exemption that swallows the rest of the standards. The court ruled that the Natural Conditions Criterion “attempts to restore one aspect of Oregon’s historical water conditions (higher temperatures in some waterbodies) without restoring the other conditions that allowed [salmon] to thrive,” and that EPA should not have approved a criterion like this when the process of estimating historic conditions of a waterbody is “a process rife with uncertainty.”
- The expert fish agencies’ (NMFS and FWS) biological opinions regarding the effects of EPA’s approvals on threatened and endangered species were arbitrary and capricious. The court ruled that the agencies’ analyses were fundamentally flawed because they did not consider that river temperatures may impact certain species (such as those with very small population sizes) more than others. The court also ruled that certain decisions the agencies made appeared to be tainted by consideration of policy and feasibility rather than science.
Though we did not win on every claim in the case, the court’s ruling is nothing short of a resounding victory. We hope the court’s ruling will result in improved conditions for imperiled fish in Oregon and set positive legal precedent that will benefit the environment beyond our borders.
We could not have achieved this result without the tremendous work of many PEAC students. In this year’s PEAC class, the following students helped Allison and Dan Mensher prepare for their oral argument: Ben Houston, Thomas Chandler, Ann Marie Rubin, and Kelly Cramer. Many other former students played significant roles in this 6 ½ year case - filing motions, reviewing documents, developing our arguments, and drafting briefs. Among those former students: Tara Gallagher, Lizzy Zultoski, Jen O’Brien, Kieran O’Donnell, Ben Shelton, Bryan Telegin, Brett Hartl, Ashley MacKenzie, Elizabeth Lieberknecht, Andy Newkirk, CJ Eder, Erica Maharg, Allison Eshel, Matt Moore, Lisa Widawsky, Liz Crosson, Morgen Wyenn, Jamie Saul, Ellen Trescott, Dave Becker, Erik Grafe, Brett Vandenheuvel, Sarah Baker, Sarah Kutil, and Erin Lee.
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Law School Community Helps to Brighten the Holidays for Children in Foster Care
December 17, 2009 –The law school community brightened the season for 46 children this year by
The New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services provides Cohen with a list of children and their “wish lists.” Each person who “adopts” a child is asked to spend at least $25. Many choose to buy for more than one child, ensuring that every child on the DYFS list receives at least one colorfully-wrapped package for the holiday.
Clinical Professor Robert Holmes (2nd from right) and students look over some of the many gifts donated by the law school community for the DYFS Adopt-a-Child Program.
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Mohamad Zaki Bin Jumahri
“If I were given a chance to go back in time and choose my path, I would still choose SMU Law. The teaching pedagogy here is refreshing and engaging, and we are taught by Professors who are experts in their fields. Furthermore, the school provides avenues for us to pursue our own interests and to excel in them, all in the midst of a closely-knit student community. Yes, law school is not an easy ride. But the rewards and the enriching experience that you will get here are well worth it."
Last updated on 4 Aug 2012.
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Israeli authorities have arrested four people in connection with anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled at Yad Vashem and other locations around Israel. The four people arrested are members of Neturei Karta, which refuses to recognize the state of Israel and often sides with the likes of Ahmadinejad and other anti-Israel types worldwide.
Four suspects from Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and Ashdod are under arrest on suspicion of spray-painting hate slogans on the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Ammunition Hill and other landmark monuments over the last couple months, police announced Tuesday morning.
The arrests were carried out by the elite central unit of the Judea and Samaria district. Police searched the homes of suspects and seized large amounts of texts condemning Zionism, Israel, and PLO flags, as well as paint. Texts suspected to be incitement to hatred were also found on computers.
The suspects confessed to spray painting the graffiti at Yad Vashem, which shocked the country and deeply upset Holocaust survivors. They also confessed to spray painting graffiti at Ammunition Hill on Remembrance Day as well as vandalizing memorials throughout the Jordan Valley.
Labels: anti Semitism, crimes and misdemeanors, hate crimes, hate speech, Israel, Neturei Karta, vandalism, Yad Vashem
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Francisco Ante for and in his own behalf.
In this special civil action of certiorari, petitioner contends that respondent judge gravely abused her discretion in finding him guilty of direct contempt and ordering him to pay a fine of P200.00 or suffer imprisonment of five (5) days should he fail to do so.
Atty. Francisco Ante, as counsel for plaintiff, filed a complaint, with the Regional Trial Court of Vigan, docketed as Civil Case No. 3540-V (Allarde vs. Ruaro) for damages against defendant Ruaro on account of a vehicular accident involving the truck of plaintiff and a truck of defendants. Defendants were declared in default for failure to answer the complaint and after the presentation of evidence for plaintiff, a judgment was rendered which became final and executory.
Defendants in the above case subsequently filed in Laoag City a civil case for damages based on the same facts and circumstances as the Vigan case. This other case was dismissed, according to petitioner, on the ground of res judicata. Thereafter, petitioner, as counsel for Allarde, filed a complaint for damages in Vigan (Civil Case No. 3665-V) against defendant Ruaro, alleging that he suffered damages due to illness, anxiety, and other causes as a result of the filing of the case against him in Laoag City. He asked for damages amounting to P30,000.00 for the plaintiff and P10,000.00 as attorney's fees. Defendant Ruaro was again declared in default and after securing a default order, Atty. Ante filed a supplemental pleading asking for increased attorney's fees in the amount of P60,000.00.
Respondent Judge Pascua could not recall how much attorney's fees and expenses she awarded to plaintiff in Civil Case No. 3665-V because the records of the case was already elevated on appeal, but she believed it was not more than P 1,500.00.
In his motion for reconsideration, petitioner accused the court of "its biasness" in the case. On filing said motion for reconsideration, Atty. Ante made a statement to two court employees threatening that he would file an administrative charge against the respondent judge if his motion were denied. This threat was in fact subsequently made in a manifestation which he filed with the court, in which he asked that the court hold its temper and refrain from punishing him because he would file an administrative charge with the Supreme Court and the Minister of Justice. These were cited by the respondent as the basis for finding petitioner guilty of contempt of court.
Upon careful review of the facts and circumstances of this case, we find the petition to be without merit. It is true that the statements supposedly made by petitioner to the court employees do not constitute direct contempt. But the questioned order of the judge finding him guilty of direct contempt is based on contemptuous statements he made in his pleadings before the court, as recited in the order of the court, which petitioner has not denied. These contemptuous statements made in pleadings filed with the court constitute direct contempt. We find no grave abuse of discretion on the part of the respondent judge in imposing a fine of P200.00 on the petitioner for contempt of court.
Accordingly, we hereby dismiss the petition for lack of merit.
Yap, C.J., Melencio-Herrera, Paras, Padilla and Sarmiento, JJ., concur.
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We’ve seen the new iPhone 5 concepts, mock ups, newer sync cables and now the next generation of headphones. A Vietnamese website, Tinhte.vn, has posted a video with these new headphones. Thanks to a translation on MacRumors, the video narrative is:
In my hands are the new earphones for the iPhone 5 that is about to come out – Apple’s next generation of iPod [sic]. These will replace the current earphones that are on the market. These are manufactured at Phax Co factory in Vietnam. They have the appearance of a horse’s head, not like earbuds. When they are worn, they have a much smaller profile. They have the appearance of a fully integrated, single unit – there’s no part that looks like it would come apart – not like earbuds; the integrated design is characteristic of Apple products. Here I have the old earphones for comparison. The new ones are much smaller; when they are worn, they do not hurt the way earbuds do. You can see on the old ones the surface is a separate part that looks like it can be detached – not like the small surface of the new one. The old earphones were mostly made in China, with some in Vietnam. But the new ones are clearly made in Vietnam. (Reading from the wires): “Designed by Apple in California, assembled in Vietnam.”
Whether you want to believe these are the new headphones or not, Tinhte.vn is pretty good about posting legit Apple leaks. Like he says in the video, the new headphones look like a horse’s head and don’t hurt as much as the old style.
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Virtuoso Life Australia/New Zealand - November/December 2011 - (Page 5)
DESTINATIONS, TRENDS, CULTURE, AND STYLE
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Cirque du Soleil goes Hollywood – both literally and thematically – with its new show, artisan jewellry, The Traveler’s Collection’s souvenir maven scours the globe for one-of-a-kindIris. The permanent production opens 25 September at LA’s the tastefully curated wares: this ornate Indian Awards. In homaccessories, and home decor. Among Kodak Theatre, best known for hosting the Academy chest with age to the movies, Iris uses filmed and animated sequences alongside live acrobats, dancers, and clowns to nickel- and silver-plated wood and cloisonné enamel accents – perfect for worldly mementos. evoke cinematic history and spectacle. The Québécois company commissioned Oscar-nominated composer www.thetravelerscollection.com. Danny Elfman, a veteran of Tim Burton films, to score the show. www.cirquedusoleil.com.
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Politically Incorrect with Aunty Moon
“Obamacare” is now the law of the land.
How do you feel about this?
No, seriously, putting all of the partisan politics and bullshit aside…how do YOU FEEL about this?
Me? I’m mixed on the issue and, to tell you the truth, I didn’t expect the Supreme Court to uphold it. Mostly, I just don’t like the idea of forcing people to pay for health insurance or be penalized. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a really dumb idea. I don’t notice the Supreme Court telling me that I must buy any other product/good/service or face a penalty. So why health insurance? I think that whatever product/good/service anyone chooses to buy is completely up to them. It’s one of those sticky Personal Rights…like not wearing your seat belt (I don’t agree with that law at all!), smoking if you’d like, eating fatty foods, and so on.
Before anybody gets the wrong idea here; I am ALL IN FAVOR of everyone being taken care of when they are sick. I am ALL IN FAVOR of ready access to the health care system. I think, if there was one ‘right’ left out of the Constitution it’s the “Right To Medical Care”. Personally, I think that should have been in the top 3 in the Bill of Rights. The Founding Fathers left it out mainly because they just didn’t have or foresee this problem. They lived in a day age when one was privileged to take care of the less fortunate among them. They felt it was, to some extent, their duty to help look after those who didn’t have as much. And, yeah, let’s face it, it was a status symbol. If you had the money to live comfortably then ‘giving back’ to your community was a way to show that to everyone. Now they just buy bigger yachts, another G-5 jet, and a 3rd house in the Caymens. But, back then, there was actual compassion, sympathy, empathy, understanding, and willingness to help, a desire to not just stand there and watch your fellow man suffer with a smirk on your face and a; “tough luck, buddy”.
I kinda miss those days.
Of course back then, doctors made house calls, were in business to help people, didn’t pay outrageous malpractice insurance premiums, and might even take a chicken or homemade quilt in return for their services.
Yeah, I miss those days.
But they’re dead and gone. They will never return. Sorta like Common Sense. Yep, that “last train for the coast” was full of things we thought we’d outgrown but now could sorely use.
I think “Obamacare” puts way too much faith in health insurance companies–while making it appear that it curtails them to a minor degree to make Joe Average happy. Health insurance companies are NOT in business to keep you healthy; that’s a side benefit. They are in business to MAKE MONEY for themselves and their shareholders. If your sorry sick ass happens to get some benefit out of the $100+/wk you pay for their ‘services’ well then, good for you.
That brings me to my other concern; ya know, there were a lot of years when we couldn’t afford health insurance. It was offered to us by employers but their pay was SO LOW that the weekly deduction was the difference between rent and food or no rent and no food. So we hedged our bets and went without for a very long time. Then economy tanked even more and hubby was out of work. No health insurance. Then he picked up odd jobs with small companies who didn’t offer health insurance. Then he worked ‘temp’ jobs that…didn’t offer health insurance. We were able to get our daughters on HUSKY (CT State Insurance for Kids) but us…no way. The State didn’t even want to hear about it. I’ll blog about our personal experiences with HUSKY some other day but for now let’s just say it was far less than stellar.
So, what about those people? What about people who make minimum wage, bringing home far less than $400.00/wk and are asked to pay $100.00/wk for ‘employer sponsored health insurance’. Should they have to pay a 1% “tax” to the government for not buying in? How can you possibly expect anyone to LIVE on $300.00/wk? I mean, we do still want our kids to grow up, get a job, and move out…don’t we? How will they manage that?
What about people whose employers make them work 35-38 hours a week…just under full-time…so they don’t ‘qualify’ for benefits? Are they going to be penalized? If so, why? Why isn’t the employer penalized for bad business practices?
No, of course they won’t, we love the fact that Exxon gets a huge tax rebate every year. We must or we’d close those gaps.
Now that we have “Obamacare” the above people will be able to “buy” “minimum health care”…whatever the hell that is. Is that like “No Fault Car Insurance” or flying “no frills” or something? They’re supposed to be able to get it at a “low price”. Is that more or less than $100.00/wk? Who decides what’s a “low price”? Have we sub-contracted this out to WalMart???? If anyone knows how to “Save Money, Live Better” certainly it’s Wally-World. Buy it through a “State Exchange”….will it crash like the stock market? Sounds shaky already.
There are people out there saying the answer is ‘education’ and to ‘get a better job’ so people can buy-in to employer sponsored health care. Maybe. Maybe not. Here’s my favorite Ted Knight quote from “Caddy Shack”–The World Needs Ditch Diggers Too.
In other words, we can’t all be doctors/lawyers/scientists and the like. If we are; who’s gonna fix our cars? Take care of our roads? Unclog our drains? Pick up our trash? Harvest our fruits and veggies? Bring us a freakin’ pizza? Check out our order at the local store?
Every job is important. Every job has a purpose. Every job adds to the community and the economy. Just because one is “unskilled labor” shouldn’t lower their status as a “worthy human being” or something equally stupid. So, therefore, they’re only entitled to or need “minimum health care”. Unless, of course, they get maximum sick and no one wants to “pay for” it.
For shits and giggles, while we’re here, to all you people out there constantly bemoaning that you “don’t want to pay for someone else”—my favorite is men whining they don’t want to pay for birth control and/or abortions! I’d love to choke their dicks, I swear. BUT, anyway….what DO you want to “pay for”? Better yet, what are you WILLING to pay for in order to help the common good? If I put $20.00 in your hand and put you before a row of coffers marked; Education, Defense, Social Security/Medicare and Welfare and then I told you that you HAD to put the 20bucks into one of them; which one would it be? Or would you just try to talk me into letting you pocket the money?
Just a little Food for Thought.
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Before beach erosion and human development changed the face of Long Beach Island forever, the northern end of the island from the Barnegat Inlet to the Great Swamp (Surf City) was covered with a cedar wood. Early inhabitants of the area harvested salt hay and seaweed to make a living. The name Harvey Cedars was derived from the combination of harvest quarters used by these farmers and the cedars that grew in the area. Incorporated in 1894, the area established its government and retained its independent status after the founding of Long Beach Township in 1899.
At one time, the area above Sussex Avenue (71st Street) had been called High Point, named by Mr. Isaac Lee, who built the first house in the area (His home still stands on what is now Lee Avenue). High Point was made part of Harvey Cedars in the 1930's, which extended the community to 87th Street.
Samuel Perrinepurchased the home of Sylvanus Cox in 1841. Cox had built his house along the bay on a mound of land that protruded through the water. This hummock was several acres wide, and a creek separated it from the island. Perrine made many improvements to the structure and expanded it for use as a boarding house. His Connahassett House soon became well-known and was eventually known as the Harvey Cedars Hotel. The mid-1800's was a prosperous time for the hotel.
Because of his experience at sea and his ability to lead, Perrine was placed in charge of the Government House constructed at Harvey Cedars in 1847. When the U.S. Life Saving Service was established in 1871, the government house was sold and towed down to Beach Haven to be rechristened the Hotel DeCrab. A new structure was constructed for the Service, and Perrine continued as Captain of the Harvey Cedars Life Saving Station until his death in 1881. The building still stands at Long Beach Blvd. and Cape May Avenue and is the home of the Long Beach Island Fishing Club.
The Northern communites of Long Beach Island became less popular after the turn of the century. Both Harvey Cedars and Barnegat City suffered. The railroad did not stop there as often, and even after the automobile causeway was constructed in 1914, the roads from North Beach on up were nothing more than muddy paths.
The Harvey Cedars Hotel was sold and resold until it was purchased by the Philadelpiha YWCA in 1921 and became a women's vacation resort called Camp Whelen. The camp did well until 1935, when it finally had to submit the Great Depression. The Hotel lay dormant until 1941, when it was sold to Jack Murray and Bill Ritchie and converted into the Harvey Cedars Bible Conference. The building is still stands today, the only existing survivor of the Grand Hotel Era.
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What was supposed to have been announced on May 11th came through as late-breaking news yesterday, regarding the Blackboard-D2L patent lawsuit.
During a telephone hearing late today [May 6], Judge Clark granted an extension of the stay of the injunction he entered in March. The Court granted an extension through June 11. More information will follow once we receive the Order from the Court. (From the Desire2Learn Patent-Info’s Blog).
This is good news for the faculty and students of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities who will be able to continue using our current version of our enterprise-wide instructional management system (D2L) until our scheduled upgrade to version 8.3 in early June. The stay will allow D2L to support its American clients with the upgrade to 8.3, which most are expecting to have completed by early June. Had the stay had not been granted, D2L would not have been able to support its clients on any versions other than 8.3, but more importantly, they would have been precluded from assisting clients with the upgrade (which — do you see the Catch-22 here –only D2L can do), Why? Because upgrading to 8.3 meant they would “touch” versions 8.1 and 8.2, which are part of the upgrade path.
While the system was preparing for many scenarios, including “worst case,” this ruling takes an immense pressure off of everyone concerned while getting clients (including our massively huge enterprise application) to the new version. At least until any future rounds of legal actions are undertaken by Blackboard assessing whether 8.3 indeed stands up to officially being free of patent infringements. But let’s not go there…yet. Instead, I’ll try to focus on D2L’s assurances posted in their blog:
We will be working closely with our clients to help them upgrade to Learning Environment version 8.3, our official design-around version.
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Serving the Congregation, Community and World
Resurrection has a large and growing program of ministries to help our members learn and grow in their faith and serve others in our congregation, our community and our world. We are especially committed to ministries aimed at our children, youth and family through education and programs and activities to build faith and friendship, including Sunday School, snow retreats, Youth Gatherings and more.
We help our community by actively participating in such programs as the Gathering Inn, Home Start, and St. Vincent de Paul’s, along with our annual program to provide a Christmas dinner and presents to some 100 area families.
We also open our doors for numerous community and support groups to meet, including the Boy Scouts, the Emmaus/Chrysalis community and Alcoholics Anonymous.
And around the country and world, we serve through our participation in ELCA programs to feed the hungry and house the homeless.
As Jesus commands us in the Gospel of St. John:
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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The Pigalle Restaurant in Boston recently received a negative review on their Facebook page. In patron Sandy Tremblay’s review, she recounted her meal complaining that her pumpkin pie “tasted like vomit” and that she would rather have given that money to the homeless.
The restaurant’s chef, Marc Orfaly, responded to her harsh criticism in the worst way imaginable. He posted “go f*** yourself” on her Facebook page.
Orflay futher elaborated by posting that she enjoyed vomiting, addressed her by the perjorative “b****”, and urged her to come back for her money snarking: “sorry if you can afford it, I do not want your money.”
When Boston’s leading newspapers reported this, conflicting opinions and controversy ensued. Social chatter escalated about the crtique and response, with people vehemently supporting “Team Pigalle” or “Team Tremblay.”
In the end, the chef apologized, but for many the damage was done. Many people judged Pigalle Boston without ever stepping through their doors, and Pigalle recently announced that they are closing soon to “relaunch” under a new name.
What do you think? Is behavior like this from a business ever advisable? How do you deal with trolling critics positively?
(Editor’s note: Nerea is currently looking for a job in social media. As an example of her aptitude, she made a pretty creative social-media related resume video (embedded below).)
The original post, “La peor manera de gestionar una crisis en redes sociales,” by Nerea Nieto was originally featured on nereanieto.com
Photo By Patrick (Patrick, Africanus or de:Afrikaaner) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Least Thing
A blog about the study of sport in society
Thursday, August 16, 2012
An Olympic Medal Database from The Telegraph
The Telegraph has a wonderful visualization of Olympic medals
awarded to all countries for all Olympics. It is a dataset that I may use in the future so I am placing here for ease of access. You might enjoy it also.
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America's Best Racing, the Jockey Club's initiative designed to increase the profile and visibility of North America’s best Thoroughbred racing events, is dispatching its team of six young "enthusiastic" brand ambassadors to next week's South by Southwest no-longer-just-a-music festival (just call it SXSW 2013). It's part of a national bus tour (in a 45-foot vehicle, cleverly dubbed the 'ABRV') that will take the group mostly to major race events such as the Triple Crown. But also to some cultural events that figure to attract young people, such as this.
Pull the Pocket observes that the current meme...is that "it's a stupid idea," but I don't see it that way at all. Like anything other effort, it's surely not going to grow the game on its own. But everyone agrees that we need some younger blood amongst the railbirds, and we obviously have a PR problem at this stage, in no small part thanks to the Times and, to be fair, reporting on problems that is actually fair and objective as well, because those issues are real. So I don't see anything stupid about sending out a bunch of young (ages 21 through 27) knowledgeable and articulate people to talk passionately about the sport to their peers. And to confront difficult questions regarding well-publicized issues head on.
“It’s a tough subject that the brand ambassadors can’t avoid,” acknowledged [NTRA VP-Comm Stephen] Panus, “but, just like any competitive sport, there are risks and negative stories involved. Brain injuries in the NFL and NHL, tragic fatality in the X Games, PED’s in MLB, to cite a few.I think we need more of that kind of sensible pushback against some of the more sensational stories we've read of late; and on a regular basis coming out of NTRA and Jockey Club, not just an occasional quote in an article like this.
“Our athletes, both horse and rider who compete in the best events, only very, very rarely are injured in a catastrophic manner. We can tell any fans who become interested in racing that there are literally millions upon millions of dollars spent in both care and research to assure their health – in and out of competition – as the sport continues to innovate to make racing safer for all involved.” [Forbes]
SXSW is an inspired and out-of-the-box choice in my view. Regular readers know that I myself am partial to the indie rock scene. And I know a whole bunch of people whose tastes cross over from indie rock to horse racing; I like to think that's not a coincidence. Makes sense to me that those who make the effort to go beyond Top 40 and the latest craze on You Tube to seek out music that may be challenging and boundary-stretching may also be discerning enough to look for some challenges in their entertainment choices.....and surely in their gambling choices. You might say that, for example, a band like Sonic Youth is to Fall Out Boy as horse racing is to slots machine. The former ones require a little effort and open-mindedness to really appreciate, while the latter ones tend to numb the brain; or mine at least. (And accordingly, I don't have much hope for another scheduled ABRV stop, at the cultural blight known as the MTV Music Awards.)
So, the ambassadors will sponsor one of the music stages and throw a private function "for about 500 VIP's." Additionally:
..visitors to the bus will be able to watch high-energy videos on racing’s biggest stars, explore our lifestyle-driven website, place “fantasy” wagers for prizes, register for incredible VIP experiences and receive free racing gifts from ABR and their home track. [America's Best Racing]I particularly like the fantasy wagers for prizes, as I've always contended that contests that enable participants to have a stake in the outcome in a race is the best way to get them
And while they are there, the ambassadors might as well get into the action and check out some good music too. Surely plenty to choose from; and perhaps, in exchange for some tips on handicapping, they can get some tips on some up and coming bands that nobody has heard of.
One of the bands that they'll surely be some buzz about there is Parquet Courts, who we saw at Bowery Ballroom here in NYC on Thursday night. The Brooklyn-based quartet's debut album is Light Up Gold. The Head Chef and others hear the influence of Television; I sense some early B-52's and The Feelies in the taught guitar riffs and driving rhythms. And you gotta love a band who gives a shout-out to Ridgewood, Queens, as they do in the track Stoned and Starving (a state in which I attended the races many times back in the days of Television and the early B-52's).
Another band of the moment who will appearing at SXSW is Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who recently released their second album, II. Their laid-back groove is more difficult to describe, but at times sounds to me as if the Rev. Al Green was reincarnated as an indie-rock nerd in Portlandia, how about that? Missed their recent sold-out show here, but they'll be playing for free at the South Street Seaport this summer, and nice to see they'll be shows this summer there in an area that suffered a lot of damage from Sandy.
One more: METZ is a Canadian trio with an eponymous debut LP and a never-ending tour schedule; caught them at the Knitting Factory a few months ago. They'll be playing no less than six shows at SXSW. According to the Sub Pop website, their sound is a frantic nod to Nation of Ulysses, Shellac, The Pixies, The Jesus Lizard, and Public Image Ltd. at their most vicious; and that works for me. Some videos below.
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Last night’s Rachel Maddow Show was excellent for three reasons, and at least the first two segments are well worth watching. (I realize that she is often quite liberal and quite partisan, but these two segments are not about the election and are well worth your time, whatever your political alignment.)
1) In the first segment, she points to a lot of different news coming out of Libya from a variety of sources which give strong indication that the attacks on the Libyan consulate–the attacks that killed the American ambassador–might have had absolutely nothing to do with the protests about the anti-Muslim video. Instead, it is increasingly likely that the attacks were coordinated by an al Qaeda affiliate.
2) But it is the second segment that is most interesting. In the second segment, she interviews Richard Engle, an NBC news corespondent in Egypt. Among other things, Engle mentions that the protests and protesters really only make up a very small segment of Egyptian society. For most of the interview, he has been standing with the protests as a dramatic back-drop to the interview. But at Ms. Maddow’s request, he pans back and shows the entire square where the protests are taking place. It turns out that the protests are only in a very small corner of this large square, and in most of the square traffic and city life is proceeding quite normally. So when you read headlines like “Anti-American Fury Sweeps Middle East Over Film,” keep that in mind.
3) At some point, Mr. Engle notes that the protesters have this incredibly conspiratorial mindset. He has interviewed several of them, and they are convinced that there is this global conspiracy to denigrate and attack Islam, funded by the American government, by Zionists, and by Free Masons, of which this anti-Muslim video is just the latest example. Mr. Engle blames the conspiratorial mindset on totalitarianism and says that the answer is “free-thinking” and “education”.
But that’s just wrong, on both counts. First of all, free societies have plenty of conspiracy theorists running around, many of whom are violent. One of our home-grown conspiracy fanatics just committed mass murder at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin less than two months ago, as a matter of fact. Another one is responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, the second largest terrorist attack ever on United States soil. And you don’t have to go far to find conspiracy theorists in American politics. Of course, most American conspiracy theorists are non-violent–but the same is surely true of most Egyptian conspiracy theorists. If Mr. Engle is trying to assert that Egyptian conspiracy theorists are more prevalent than American conspiracy theorists… well, that would be an interesting question for social scientific research, but I seriously doubt that he has done anything approaching that kind of systematic study.
Second, “education” actually isn’t a very effective tool at helping us overcome deeply held beliefs. Instead, social scientific research has indicated that a) we tend to ignore information that conflicts with our deeply held beliefs, b) we tend to only hear information that we can conform to our deeply held beliefs, thereby strengthening them, and c) we are likely to discount any source that we view as even remotely critical of our deeply held belief. In other words, once someone believes in a conspiracy theory, they are unlikely to stop believing in it. The best education can do is to reach their children before the children start to believe the conspiracy theories.
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In today's increasingly global world, it is most important to study and gain experience in a truly international environment. The Legal Studies Department has each year about 120 students coming from more than 30 countries. It has alumni from more than 60 countries. Professors specialized in various fields of Comparative Constitutional Law, Human Rights and International Business Law, as well as Law and Economics come from about 20 countries.
Students of the Legal Studies Department also have - besides their diversified and specialized study track - the opportunity to gain further international experience in other countries. The best MA and LL.M students are eligible to spend several months at one of our partner universities to do research for their masters thesis. S.J.D students are eligible for conference travel and research periods abroad. For IBL students, there is also the possibility to participate in the Willem C. Vis International Moot Court competition, while CCL and HR students may join the Jessup Moot Court competition. CCL and HR students can opt for a clinical specialization with an NGO, or alternatively complete internships at various local non-governmental organizations. LL.M and MA students may apart from that apply for the CEU-funded short research grant during the research module.
Outstanding professors from various parts of the world introduce our students to state-of-the-art legal research, reasoning and writing, making them competitive, and capable to work in various fields of legal practice and research after successful graduation.
The brilliant academic study program at Legal Studies Department along with the inspiring, multicultural experience offered by the CEU community, with its unique location at the heart of downtown Budapest, issues every year a number of excellent graduates who keep a lifelong, dear memory of their time at CEU.
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In an interesting development in Vioxx news, a New Orleans judge ruled that the $50M in compensatory damages were “grossly excessive.” The judge upheld the verdict finding Merck liable in the case, but he said a new trial must be held to decide how much the manufacturer must pay a retired FBI agent who suffered a 2002 heart attack after taking the painkiller for 2½ years. Join co-hosts and Law.com bloggers, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi as they turn to our expert attorneys representing Vioxx clients. Coast to Coast welcomes Attorney Tom Girardi of the well-known firm of Girardi Keese in Los Angeles and Attorney Paul Sizemore from the national firm of Beasley Allen located in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The titanic battle over federal health care reform is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Thomas More Law Center today announced that it had filed its petition for certiorari in Thomas More Law Center v. Obama, its challenge to a June 29 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that upheld the so-called "individual mandate" under the landmark health care legislation. That provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires individuals to purchase at least minimum health care insurance coverage.
"Review is necessary to establish a meaningful limitation on congressional power under the Commerce Clause," the petition argues. "If the Act is understood to fall within Congress’s Commerce Clause authority, the federal government will have absolute and unfettered power to create complex regulatory schemes to fix every perceived problem imaginable and to do so by ordering private citizens to engage in affirmative acts, under penalty of law."
As examples, the brief asserts that if the individual mandate is upheld in the health care arena, government would feel free to order citizens to take vitamins, join health clubs, or buy General Motors cars.
The petition may be at the leading edge of a wave of litigation over the controversial legislation, challenging the first of several expected appeals court rulings in coming months.
Because the 6th Circuit is the only appeals court that has ruled thus far, the petition could not make what is usually the strongest argument for review by the Supreme Court: the need to resolve a split among circuits.
Instead, the brief cites a rule of the Supreme Court suggesting that review is appropriate when "a United States court of appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not, but should be, settled by this Court."
The petition cites the line of cases mainly from the Rehnquist Court seeking to limit the power of Congress under the Constitution's Commerce Clause. Those precedents, the petition states, mean that "before Congress can reach you through the Commerce Clause, you must be engaged in some affirmative activity."
Two of the three members of the 6th Circuit panel agreed, for different reasons, that the government had made a plausible case that the individual mandate is constitutional because an individual's decision not to obtain health coverage has economic consequences. The judges were Boyce Martin and Jeffrey Sutton. Sutton's opinion has been viewed as especially important because he is a respected conservative judge who, as appellate lawyer, often argued in favor of state sovereignty. The dissenting judge in the 6th Circuit case was Ohio U.S. District Court Judge James Graham, sitting by designation.
The petition was filed by Thomas Muise of the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based More Center. David Yerushalmi of the Law Offices of David Yerushalmi in Chandler, Arizona, was also on the brief. Following a reply by the Obama administration, the case would likely be weighed by the justices at the Court's private conference in late September, though it could also consider the petition during the summer recess.
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25-9B-507 Responsibilities of employee receiving out of state withholding order.
Responsibilities of employee receiving out of state withholding order.
receipt of the order, the obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the
(b) The employer shall treat an income withholding order issued in another state which appears
regular on its face in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
(c) Except as provided by subsection (d) and § 25-9B-503, the employer shall withhold and
distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with the terms of the order,
as applicable, that specify:
The duration and the amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a
The person or agency designated to receive payments and the address to which the
payments are to be forwarded;
Medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain
or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy
available through the obligor's employment;
The amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the
issuing tribunal, and the obligee's attorney, stated as sums certain; and
The amount of periodic payments of arrears and interest on arrears, stated as sums certain.
(d) The employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of
employment for withholding from income with respect to:
The employer's fee for processing an income withholding order;
The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor's income;
The time periods within which the employer must implement the withholding order and
forward the child support payment;
The priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for multiple child support
Any withholding terms or conditions not specified in the order.
SL 1994, ch 206, § 502; SL 1997, ch 155, § 41; SDCL 25-9B-502.
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Reasons I might not be able to blog: [Warning: The passages in this color are random stray thoughts... it's more than obvious that I need to get out of my house more often and find 'adult' conversation opportunities...]
A) I am not able to blog because I am in Tahiti (without kids) lying on a beach (with umbrella, of course... because the 'lobster look' is soooo not me) with Mai Tai in hand, enjoying the honeymoon my husband and I never got to go on.
B) I am not able to blog because I have discovered one of our daughters could give Einstein a run for his money, but still can not find her bedroom floor. [Mrs. Who - Thank you for showing me there IS hope... I wonder if she'll make a good marine... ;)]
C) I am not able to blog because Peter Jackson begged me to be an 'extra' elf in his film adaptation of "The Hobbit" which I immediately (duh), accepted. I have been flown to New Zealand and am currently in places that, happily, have no internet (or cellphone) service. [List of potential dwarves: Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey... hmmm... sorry... wrong list... my kids, Kelly's kids, VWBug's kids, Ack! Thbbbt's kids, Bou's kids, Meleah's kids, AFW's kids, AWTM's kids... etc., etc, etc... but not Sarah's baby daughter... she's too cute to be a dwarf... I wonder what J the large would look like as a dwarf... food for thought...]
D) I am not able to blog because I tripped over a chair at 3am about three months ago and felt my 'S' undershirt get a little dented and am now awaiting a new one. [This is sooooo NOT AFW... she's much more graceful than I am and although her undershirt recently needed mending, she didn't require the necessity of procuring a blacksmith's (or should that be farrier's in my case?) assistance to hammer things back into shape. Although... I'm a MUCH better patient than she is... why, no... my nose has always been this length, why do you ask?]
E) I am not able to blog because I have become a beanbag character in the video game, "Little Big Planet" where my mouth has been permanently zipped shut. [I had a dream about this and I know it doesn't take an expert to figure out where my mind was going with this...]
F) I am not able to blog because I have been doing extensive behavioral research on the good and bad habits of teenagers, particularly cutting.
G) I am not able to blog because I have run away from home (without laptop and cellphone) [Although, if I run away from home... I'd still have to take the kids with me which generally defeats the reward of working up a sweat...]
H) I am not able to blog because our cats ate my computer. [The hairballs made up for it in entertainment value]
I) I am not able to blog because I have been determined not to be pathetic... especially in public. I try to let idiots and politicians (oops... I'm repeating myself...) shine in that arena. [Pathetic is one of those words that is fun to say. It's up there with tintinnabulation, troglodyte, pulchritudinous or petrichor.]J) I am not able to blog because I have discovered the meaning of relativity. [Now if I could only discover a cure for our daughter's teenage years that doesn't include the extra-extra-large helping of PMS...]K) I am not able to blog because I have started a grass roots effort demanding the scientific community return Pluto to it's full planet status. At the VERY least, they need to stop describing Pluto as a dwarf planet. 'Horizontally Challenged' Planet is much more politically correct. [It's bad enough that Pluto was kicked out of the high class of planet society.]L) I am not able to blog because I have been memorizing every rap song known to man for future preservation. I have plenty of time before Alzheimer's sets in...M) I am not able to blog because I ruptured a disc in my lower back. [Ow]N) I am not able to blog because I broke a vertebrae in my lower back. [Double-Decker Ow]O) I am not able to blog because whilst lying flat on our living room floor, I discovered dust bunnies gathering an immense guerrilla army under our couch, readying for a home invasion. I have been extremely busy planning the defense for all fronts. [Karen - Beware the bunny. Kelly - you will NEVER have to fear the bunny because my kids are right about this]P) I am not able to blog because I have been taking stock of all the spider webs and paint necessities for the ceiling of our bedroom. ['Itsy Bitsy Spider' theme song playing in the background]Q) I am not able to blog because I am being used as a human pincushion. (and they didn't even bother to stuff me first) [a box of chocolate eclairs would have been a lovely prelude along with massive doses of pain killers...]R) I am not able to blog because my personal household Mt. Laundry has now reached Himalayan proportions. [I wonder what will happen when it hits the vacuum of space... will it get sucked up and disappear? A true ray of hope...]S) I am not able to blog because my kitchen floor has been torturing me with cries of anguish, just begging me for water (and a commercial vat of disinfectant) to save it.T) I am not able to blog because the Zombie invasion has begun... [although... since they only eat brains, there are quite a few people I know who will be perfectly safe.]U) I am not able to blog because although outdoor tornadoes have given us a break on stopping by for tea, it's brethren, the indoor tornadoes, have already done it's worst (or best as the case may be). Disaster area achieved... Category level 5. [I'm pretty sure FEMA won't help monetarily with this cleanup either.]V) I am not able to blog because I have been awaiting the return of my sense of humor. Do not EVER let your kids borrow it. It takes forever to find it again in their bedrooms. [I have discovered that if you WAIT for your sense of humor to return... it never will... so you have to get off your posterior (another fun word to say) and find it... or better yet... go where ever your sense of humor takes you... just remember to still have dinner on the table at six pm. Humor needs sustenance (another fun word... just sayin').]
W) All of the above.
X) All of the above except for L [I'm not a masochist]
Y) Some of the above.
Z) None of the above.
See below FOLD LINE to see how many you guessed correctly...
W is the answer if this were a hypothetical question, but for my current reality diorama of life in our household... it would be:
B, D, F, I, J, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, U, Y (Although I'm still contemplating K)
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J.E.C VS CRIMINALZ. -HIPHOP VS KRUMP - Part 2 of 3
So I ended Part I saying my favorite bit was coming up in…and of course it has to do with the brotherly love ❤
Gif 8 - As I said in Part I, Gif 7, while Regi was being attacked by Zombie hands, Larry was pretty much laughing his cute little bottom off. He did take pity and attempted a half hearted rescue though.
So Regi finally escaped and zombie hands started showing off his really lame moves. He finished with “hey look I can take my arm out of my shirt and put it in again” routine and him and his crew got all excited about it for some reason. :|
*Gif 9 - Okay I dieeeeeed in this moment. So while Larry was laughing earlier, the moment zombie hands touched Lau, Larry got all serious protective and mad. Soooooo cuteee…Nobody messes with his twin except him. /tears
*Gif 10 - While Lau is getting ready to do his thing, Larry went up to zombie hands and in my head he is threatening to cut off body parts.❤❤❤
Gif 11 - Getting all up close and personal mgjgjhgjhgjhgjhoyuyugjhgsadsads sooosexxxyyyy
things relevant to my interests
Gif 12 - Lau went all beast AND KILLED IT!!!! It was a slaughter…and Lau knew it, oh yes he did!!!
Gif 13 - Presented without comment.
So Part II ended in a high but something really horrible happens next….it will be a long time before the boys forget it…covered in Part III
Part III coming soon.
Link for larger gifs download will be added to in Part III
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1924 - 2009
Angela Morley was born in Leeds as Wally Scott, she was a composer of light classical music, including film scores: The Looking Glass War 1969 ; When Eight Bells Toll — Captain Nemo and the Underwater City; The Little Prince ; The Slipper and the Rose; Watership Down; E.T.; Home Alone; Schindler’s List; and TV scores: Dynasty; Superman; Star Wars; Dallas; Hotel; Falcon Crest and Cagney and Lacey
The Independent's obituary is available here
This post on the Jazz Forum is also worth looking at.
Angela Morley on Wikipedia
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A week ago, I returned from a visit to NYC where I attended the BlogHer 2012 conference. As I do before any trip, I printed out my handy packing list and meticulously crossed things off as they entered the suitcase staging zone (a.k.a. the floor of my office). I was prepared for almost everything, including layers to ward off the chill of air conditioning, a thermal mug to keep my morning tea warm and my afternoon thirst trash-free, and a pen with an extra refill for all the notes I anticipated taking in the breakout sessions. I say almost everything because the one thing I was unprepared for was unpackable. It looked like this:
August 15, 2012
April 30, 2012
This is a post about changing a habit. Habits take time. They require practice. Practice makes almost perfect. Why almost perfect? I believe that perfection is a perceived destination and that the journey is the actual destination.
If you’re like me, I’m on several journeys at any given time. This is about my journey to deepen a habit: to reduce my consumption of unnecessary waste and single use items. While this is something I’ve been working on for years and have gotten very good at, I was inspired to up my game after meeting Beth Terry, blogger extraordinaire and tireless crusader of My Plastic-free Life, in 2010. At the time, Beth interviewed me for an awesome piece she wrote about bringing our own reusable containers out into the world.
When I saw her April 17 post on Facebook announcing she would be attending the Lunchbox Project SF, a pre-Earth Day “large-scale Day of Action in which San Franciscans will order lunch in our own, reusable containers,” I kept my schedule clear so I could meet her for lunch with the very thing that brought us together in the first place! (more…)
May 31, 2011
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As my home inches closer towards zero waste and we attempt to reach the goals set forth by the City and County of San Francisco, there’s been one baffling piece of the puzzle: what to do with the caps and lids from recyclable containers? I realize that in the grand scheme of things, these are small details, but you know how it is: the devil is in the details, I love the details, AND I got stuck.
Think about it. What do you do with the lids from milk, juice, kombucha, vinegar, olive oil, wine, and beer bottles? And how about the wee tops from tubes of toothpaste, mustard, and tomato paste? Ooh, and the larger lids of the variety that “pop” when you open the jars from store-bought sauces, pickles, and sauerkraut? Do these go in the trash or the recycling bin?
My inquiring mind needed some answers, so I approached the source – San Francisco’s Department of the Environment – with my dilemma and a group portrait of lids and caps I collected just for this purpose.
October 15, 2010
In addition to this being a
Blog Action Day 2010 post about water, it is also a confessional: I buy bottled water…occasionally. That is VERY occasionally.
No, no, no, it’s not what you think! (more…)
August 3, 2010
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“Paper or plastic?” may soon be obsolete…at least in California. On June 2, the California State Assembly passed a bill (AB 1998) to ban single-use plastic shopping bags. The bill goes to the Senate later this month, and if it passes, the golden state will become the first in the union to ban the option.
In San Francisco, there is already a ban on single-use plastic shopping bags at chain grocery stores and pharmacies, and today, an expansion of the existing legislation is being introduced that could lead to more extensive city-wide elimination of plastic bags. This prospect makes someone like me very very happy.
The SF Department of the Environment provided a startling figure at their booth at a local farmer’s market last week: 380 billion single-use plastic bags consumed in the U.S. each year, and that translates to 1,500 per person. California consumes 19 billion of those bags each year – more than any other state. These numbers are astounding. Things have to change, and thankfully they are…slowly but surely. (more…)
May 15, 2010
I heard about Give Your Stuff Away Day (today, May 15th) while on the phone with a colleague many weeks ago. She was checking her e-mail when she commented about an interesting link that had been forwarded by another professional organizer.
For those of us in the business, seeing people let go of things in order to pass them on to others is a regular occurrence, though for many, such an act can be an emotional and moral struggle. I have found that it is easiest for folks to say good-bye to anything when they realize their once treasure will become someone else’s new treasure. (more…)
February 20, 2010
Do you ever wonder what happens to your trash?
A year ago, my curiosity led me to sign up for one of the monthly tours of San Francisco Recycling & Disposal Solid Waste Transfer and Recycle Central.
Despite the threat of rain canceling the tour, me and my equally inquisitive partner, Sven, drove to the southern end of the city to take in the sights, sounds, smells, and surprises that awaited us.
Swarms of seagulls filled the air above the transfer facility property and provided a directional indicator that let us know we were almost there. (more…)
January 12, 2010
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Welcome to the Architecture Library
Books- finding books in CUNY and beyond.
Articles – locating articles on architecture and related topics. Avery Index and more.
Image Resources – high-resolution architectural images
Indexes and Databases - architecture-related online databases
eJournals – Full-text online journals offered by our Library.
eReserves – find your professors' online readings.
Research Guides for Classes - refreshers for library research sessions taught by the architecture librarian
Specific Resources for NYC buildings research Scroll down to Buildings - NYC.
Welcome to the Architecture Library Guide!
We hope you will find this site useful for a range of architecture, landscape architecture, sustainable urbanism, and urban design research issues.
This guide is a work in progress and content will be added on an ongoing basis.
Please feel free to contact librarian Judy Connorton for individual help...students and faculty! Your comments are welcome.
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by Commentary Published: March 19, 2013
Tags: ad campaigns, Advertising, analytics, audience, concept, content, creative, Customer Acquisition Cost, customers, Data, design, Lead Conversion Rate, leads, marketing, Media, message, Revenue Per Customer, Small Business, social media, strategy, Target
Even a mundane ad will generate sales if properly targeted.
by The Associated Press Published: March 14, 2012
Tags: Associated Press, content, Copyright infringement, newspapers, The McClatchy Company, The New York Times Company, unauthorized use, Washington Post, wire services
NewsRight, a company created by The Associated Press and other publishers to scour the Internet for unauthorized use of their content, said it has secured a licensing agreement with a company that monitors how its clients are portrayed in the media. The multiyear agreement with Moreover Technologies Inc., announced Wednesday, is the first licensing deal [...]
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Resources by Subject: "Education"
LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help its users succeed on academic or licensing tests. Includes scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analyses of results.
In order to take the tests, you must register for a personal account. Simply click on the "Register" button under "New User," and then create a personal login and password that you can remember. If logging in from off campus, you must first use your EKU email login/password when prompted, and then you'll need to login with your LearningExpress personalized login and password.
Citation index in the library and information sciences; covers English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, and over 300 books per year
Access is limited to 20 simultaneous users.
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Magazine article summaries and general index for general interest and current events magazines, and general reference sources; includes Magill's Book Reviews, CIA World Factbook, Essential Documents in American History, news weeklies, New York Times, USA Today; school edition, K-12
Index to periodical articles on subjects including general reference, business, health; includes Magill's Book Reviews, CIA World Factbook, Essential Documents in American History, journals, magazines, and newspapers
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Access limited to 4 simultaneous users – please close window when through with session.
Articles, general reference sources, and book reviews for general interest and current events for middle and junior high school students
The New York Times (1851-2007) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Readers' advisory for fiction and nonfiction, and links to other home pages and fiction related web sites; includes reviews and descriptions; reviews from Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus from 1996-
The Picture Book Database guides readers to the best picture books. It includes data about picture books that is difficult to find elsewhere, replacing the need to consult multiple reference books or websites.
Magazine articles, pamphlets and reference sources for elementary schools; includes K-12 magazines, documents of American History database, CIA World Factbook, and other reference sources
Collection of electronic scholarly journals in the humanities and the social sciences
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals.
TeachingBooks.net adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. The database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
Simultaneously searches 5 databases: Medline, Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Zoological Record.
Access the world's leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes Sciences Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Freely available website that includes records for the holdings (databases, books, journals, sound recordings, videos, etc.) of libraries worldwide.
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writer, Morgan Robertson, wrote a book The Wreck of Titan which
predicted exactly what happened to the Titanic 14 years later.
There was more
ice afloat in the North Atlantic in the spring of 1912 than at any time
in the previous 50 years.
If placed upright, the Titanic would have been taller than any of the buildings of
Titanic's boilers were over 15 feet high.
Titanic's funnels were big enough for two trains to drive through.
The Titanic had 3 propellers. The middle one was 16 feet and the other two were over 23 feet.
During construction, 3 million rivets had been hammered into her hull.
Her 3 enormous anchors weighed a total of 31 tons, about the weight of 20 cars.
The Titanic's swimming pool was one of the first ever seen on an ocean liner.
An elegant foyer stood below the wrought-iron and glass dome over the 1st
Titanic was never christened.
Titanic had a near collision as the ship left Southampton.
Titanic never held a full lifeboat drill.
Titanic's manoeuvrability had never been tested at full speed.
Standard practice for sailing through ice was "Full Speed Ahead".
Titanic received 6 iceberg warnings on the day of the collision.
The crew knew they were taking a risk by sailing at such a speed in dangerous waters
After the collision, many passengers were not aware of the fact that they were sinking.
The band played light, cheerful music as the ship sank.
The lookouts had no binoculars.
Many of the lifeboats were launched half-filled.
Titanic had lifeboat space for less than 1/3 of her passenger capacity, but it was still more than the law required.
The decks were
numbered alphabetically downwards. Today, decks are numbered Deck 1, 2,
was nicknamed "The Millionaires' Special", "The Wonder Ship", "The Unsinkable
Ship" and "The Last Word in Luxury" by newspapers all around the world
The route of the Titanic from Southampton to where she collided with the icebergis approximately 400 miles off the caost of Newfoundland. She sank near the edge of the undersea Continental Shelf. The ice field the Titanic encountered was 78 miles long.
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In Reply to: Re: role of mahatma gandhi in national movement posted by anant on July 21, 19102 at 04:27:01:
: : : i have to write a project on mahatma gandhi's role in national movement of independence. so. i need help for that. plz help me out.
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MINI has always stood for fun, community, and technology, so it’s not surprising that MINI embraced the Internet and social networking. Not just for marketing, but to connect a community of MINI owners. From the start, MINI USA created an Owners’ Lounge on its website to give owners a place to discuss and show off their MINIs. They have created official blogs and event websites. MINI has also taken advantage of popular social networking sites to reach out to MINI owners, potential owners, and fans.
MINI Owners’ Lounge – Official MINI USA website. Must own a MINI and set up an account (by VIN).
MINI Space – Site with creative projects, competitions, events, thoughts, and ideas, by MINI.
social networking sites
Facebook | MINI – Official MINI Facebook page.
Facebook | MINI Canada – Official Facebook page for MINI Canada.
Facebook | MINI Countryman – Official Facebook fan page for the launch of the MINI Countryman.
Facebook | MINI Motorsport – Meet fans and motorsport enthusiasts, get the latest news, and share your best pics.
Facebook | MINI Space – Official Facebook page for the MINI Space website.
Facebook | MINI TROPHY – Official Facebook page for the German MINI racing series.
Facebook | MINI United – Official Facebook page for MINI United.
Facebook | MINI UK – Official Facebook page for MINI USA.
Facebook | MINI USA – Official Facebook page for MINI USA.
Instagram – MINI - Official Instagram user profile for MINI.
Instagram – MINI Space - Official Instagram user profile for MINI Space.
MySpace – Hammer & Coop – MySpace site for the Hammer & Coop online episodes.
Pinterest – MINI – Official Pinterest page for MINI.
Pinterest – MINI Motorsport – Official Pinterest page for MINI Motorsport.
Twitter @MINI – Official MINI Twitter page.
Twitter @MINI Space – Official Twitter page for the “Creative use of Space. An urban initiative by MINI.”
Twitter @MINI United – Official Twitter page for MINI United.
YouTube – MINI’s Channel – Official site for MINI video ads, announcements, premiers, and events.
YouTube – MINI Motorsport’s Channel – Official site for MINI Motorsports videos and events.
YouTube – MINI USA’s Channel – Official site for MINI USA video ads, announcements, premiers, and events.
social networking apps
Facebook | MINI Mate – Find fellow motorers by MINI model, location, gender, age, and relationship.
Facebook | MINI Moments – Share photos from MINI events.
MINI LINK App – Official MINI USA social networking app for the Apple iPhone.
unofficial social networking sites
Facebook | John Cooper Works – Facebook group for fans of the MINI John Cooper Works models and accessories.
Facebook | MINI Cooper Cabrio Owners - For owners of the R52 and R57 MINI Convertible.
Facebook | MINI Countryman Owners - Facebook group for owners of the R60 MINI Countryman.
Facebook | MINI Coupé Owners – Facebook group for owners of the R58 MINI Coupe.
Google+ Community – MINI - Unofficial, “All Things MINI and Mini!”
Google+ Community – MINI - Unofficial, “It’s a MINI adventure…”
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The usage data for Athens authentication sessions for the 2nd quarter of 2009 are now available on the L&LR staff Portal.
The initial impression is a promising one: overall usage via Athens is up 11% on the same period last year.
However, this figure masks some unusual features – while authentication via Athens to the Electronic Journals A-to-Z is up significantly, usage of some important individual e-resource packages (including the EBSCOhost databases, IngentaConnect, Art Full Text, Mintel, others) has actually fallen since last year.
Is this a reflection of changing patterns of use (or of preferred authentication method) amongst our students and academic staff?
Or could it be a mistake in the figures? I’ll certainly be checking them with Eduserv.
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Earlier this week I set a mini challenge, which you can read about in this post.
Anita, Sandra and Olivia all rose to the challenge and here's what they created using up their old stash -
Anita used some really old Cosmo Cricket Jitterbug papers to create her patchwork effect page. I love how she repurpose an old manilla envelope to punch out her butterflies. Using the older papers cut in to smaller pieces, really is a great way to use up your forgotten stash.
To create her page Sandra used some old Scenic Route papers ( I do miss them :( )
The stunning butterflies were created using a stamp which was purchased way back in 2004!
Using current trends, such as banner bunting, misting and border punches, Sandra gave these old papers a new lease of life.
I love how Sandra used the punched flower heart on her page, which was inspired by this frame
which I created for Valentines day, using product from Glitz Designs.
Olivia used up some of her beloved Mia collection from Crate Paper to create this double page entry for her 2010 album.
Double page layouts are a great way to use up stash - which is one of the reasons Im on a bit of a double page "thing" at the moment :D
Its impossible for me to select just one winner of the challenge, so Ive decided to send all three ladies a prize :D
Email me your addresses and I'll send the boxes out early next week.
Dont forget to get your submission emailed over to Pencil Lines, as today is your last chance to enter the Pencil Lines DT call - from what Ive heard there have been some pretty amazing entries so far.
Have a wonderful day and thanks for calling by.
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go over right now, I'll wait.
Anyhoodle a few weeks ago she posted the most divine sounding recipe, Tres Leches. I mentally bookmarked it as one to try and waited for the right occasion.
Last weekend I had a dog club potluck to attend, as per usual I volunteered to make desserts. I figure I should stick with my strengths and my club is always very, very happy to eat my baked goods. So I made my flourless chocolate torte ( dead easy and delicious) and the Tres Leches.
It was goooooood.
It perfectly complimented the dense chocolaty goodness of my other offering. And even better, it too was dead easy to make. It is not at all a fussy cake to bake. Especially if you follow along on Ree's website. She loves to take pictures of each and every step.
So head on over and try out her Tres Leches cake, it's worth the calories. You can always say it's for swine flu prevention if you use vitamin D fortified milk.
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You're constantly told how easy it would be to hack your weak passwords, but complicated passwords just aren't something our brains get excited about memorizing. Reader calculusrunner offers a brilliant tip that turns weak passwords into something much, much better.
His clever solution: Stick with your weak, dictionary password if you must; just move your fingers over a space on the keyboard.
If you want a secure password without having to remember anything complex, try shifting your fingers one set of keys to the right. It will make your password look like gibberish, will often add in punctuation marks, and is quick and simple.
When John Pozadzides showed us how he'd hack our weak passwords, he listed his top 10 choices for getting started hacking away at your weak passwords. Let's take a look at how a few of those popular passwords fare when run through calculusrunner's method:
- password => [sddeptf
- letmein => ;ry,rom
- money => .pmru
- love => ;pbr
Something longer but still really lame, like, say, "topsecretpassword", becomes "yp[drvtry[sddeptf". These may not be perfect compared to secure password generators, but they're likely orders of magnitude better than a lot of people's go-to passwords.
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Greater Omaha Packing Co. Meeting Needs of Immigrant Workers
In a time when both immigration and meatpacking are hot topics in the news media, one Omaha meatpacking company has taken its own path to serve the needs of its work force.
Greater Omaha Packing Company (GOP) started offering education classes to employees in 1996, then solidified the multi-faceted education program when it built an addition onto its south Omaha meatpacking facility just a few years ago. The company named the addition the "Education Center." Things happen there that aren't happening in every company.
English language classes. Citizenship classes. Classes to help employees learn about banking, investments, real estate, car insurance, retirement accounts and how to file a tax return. And just about anything else an employee would like to learn.
Angelo Fili, Executive Vice President of GOP, said the company listens to what the employees want, then finds people to teach classes. All the classes are optional. Henry Davis, owner, President and CEO of the company, does not tally up the costs of the classes, Fili said, but offers them to the employees without charge. They started the education program when they noticed a reading deficit in some of the workers, because many hadn't been able to attend school beyond the eight grade levels available in their home country. The company's leadership thought maybe they could help, and started offering some classes - and other classes followed.
Fili, an Omaha native who is in the Omaha South High School Hall of Fame, grew up in this neighborhood of working-class people of many ethnicities. "These are good, honest, clean people," he said. "I'm in awe of this (Hispanic) culture; it's like America was in the 1950s."
"The employees want to learn English, they're very eager.
"The employees want to learn English," Fili said; "they're very eager." Making the classes available on-site was a key to good attendance, and he estimates that 40 to 50 people come to each class. They tried different times for classes; they found the most convenient time to be at the end of a shift. The employees who have bettered themselves have left the company, but they've replaced themselves with friends and relatives, Fili said.
The company employs a work force of nearly 700 people; the majority of the work force is Hispanic and about two-thirds are American citizens. Many of the rest are taking citizenship classes. Before hiring an employee, the company uses an online verification system to be sure that person has legal working status, Fili said.
To his knowledge, they don't employ any illegal immigrants. Many more employees would like to become American citizens, but the immigration system is so broken there's no one to help them, he said. "I've asked for callbacks from Customs, and I haven't had a call back in over a year."
Opportunities for Nebraska is the first magazine in a series that showcases University of Nebraska-Lincoln research. The world population is expected to grow to nine billion by 2050 and this research will result in producing twice as much food with the same amount of land and water. Watch and listen as UNL experts tell the stories of research and innovation at one of the top research universities in the country!
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UNL student researchers along with SDN conducted a major research project to study the ways Ord residents communicate about what is happening in the community.
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Published in June 2009, Nebraska's Economic Future includes a summary of findings; stories based on individual interviews; summaries of community conversations; and articles written specifically for this magazine. The articles represent varied geographical perspectives as well as perspectives on various parts of the state's economy.
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SDN published research on Immigration in Nebraska for the project's initial study in May 2008. We selected Scottsbluff, Lexington, Crete and Omaha and looked at the impact immigration has had on those communities.
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CLINTON ADVISERS think their candidate is being held to an unreasonable standard. Why should she have to consistently demonstrate her capacity to win in major states? Why does the press persist in setting up new hurdles for her overcome every time she jumps over her old hurdle? The answer is may be that the Democratic nominating process is not democratic and the standards by which one measures it are not the product of some unbiased judge sitting behind a veil of ignorance.
Gee, you'd think she was George Bush or something.
For the first time in recent history a Democratic candidate has been held to the same flexible standards as are routinely applied to Republicans. It doesn't matter how well she does, they move the goalposts and brand her a failure.
At least after this election cycle it will no longer be possible for anyone to credibly assert that the press is objective.
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In his literary criticism of the late 1940's and early 1950's, McLuhan traces lines of influence from Aristotle, through St Thomas Aquinas, to the symbolists in France and the modernists in Britain and America.
He situates the techniques of symbolism and modernism in relation to Romantic impressionism, postulating 'the indispensability of landscape as a technique for managing the aesthetic moment in poetry'.1
The Romantic poets used 'natural' landscape to achieve this; the symbolists, however, use 'psychological landscape' or paysage intérieur - 'interior landscape'.
Arguing after T.S. Eliot, McLuhan says that 'the heritage of the romantics [Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Hopkins, Shelley, Landor, etc.] was developed not in England but in France, by the symbolists' (Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Laforgue, etc.); and the modernists, 'Joyce, Pound, Yeats, Lewis, Eliot', are 'the true heirs of the symbolists'.2
McLuhan credits Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) for being 'the first to see in his [last novel] Sentimental Education' (L'Éducation sentimentale, 1869) that the new technique calls for 'the abandonment of the continuity of unilateral narrative in favor of the more profound effects to be achieved by analogical juxtaposition of characters, scenes, and situations without [logical] copula'.3
It is in studying the work of Joyce that McLuhan finds the 'extremely conscious' use of 'scores of inter-related analogies', which he attributes to the influence of the French symbolist poets and Aquinas, influences which are transmuted through Joyce to Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.4
McLuhan says that the 'sense of the analogy of Being' found in the symbolists marks 'a return to the pre-Christian doctrine of the Logos which included ratio et oratio [reason and speech] and was the element in which all men were thought to move and have their being'.5
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Published on Aug 2, 2012 by paradoxman316
There have been many times, including on my videos, that I expressed my viewpoints passionately. Almost always, people think I'm angry when I do this. I often did not feel angry; yet that is how it was perceived. I have also observed this in others; and those that see a different viewpoint being expressed with passion often react with a defensive posture no less passionate, yet expressed with less volume. We all, in our ego-centric manner, like to believe that our persepctive is the only one that is right. This is self-righteousness; and the one thing I have noticed about this is that when I come from that place, others do not feel love and a barrier goes up. The truth is, as physical beings in time and space it is normal to see from one perspective at a time, which always appears right to us. Love allows other perspectives to be right as well.
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"The annual Lincolnshire Environmental Awards would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors" commented chairman of the Lincolnshire Environmental Awards and Lindum Rotary Club member, Roger Pavey.
"We are delighted to have their support, especially following last year when we were unable to secure sufficient sponsorship to run the full award scheme."
Lincolnshire Environmental Awards 2011
» Best Business Award supported by Anglian Water
» Best Community Award supported by Centrica Energy
» Best Farm / Rural Enterprise Award supported by Brown & Co
» Young Environmentalist Award supported by Waste Recycling Group (WRG)
Andrew Brown, Climate Change and Environmental Performance Manager at Anglian Water, said: "Anglian Water knows high quality water starts with a healthy environment. We also know our dry, low-lying region is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. That’s why commitments to drive down the carbon released by our operations are at the heart of our new Love Every Drop manifesto, which will guide the way we do business in the future. So we are delighted to sponsor these awards, which celebrate the fact there are many businesses and individuals in Lincolnshire who are working to protect our shared environment."
Centrica Energy are pleased to be sponsoring the Community Award. Alice Gill, Stakeholder Communications Manager said "it is important to recognise the great work that community groups doing in their local areas improving habitats and protecting wildlife, essentially improving the environment for us all."
Fay Parker, a member of Brown and Co’s Agricultural Business Consultancy Team who specifically specialises in providing environmental advice to farming businesses throughout Lincolnshire said: "Brown and Co are very honoured to have been asked to sponsor this event. Obviously we witness, in the line of our business, some of the exceptional environmental work carried out by our Lincolnshire farmers for the benefit of everyone. It is quite right that some recognition should be given to those who have excelled in this particular field and hopefully this award goes some way in providing that recognition. The county is certainly a better place as a result of their efforts."
Entries to the award scheme are welcome from organisations, groups, businesses and schools in Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire. The deadline for entries is 30 April 2011. Finalists will be invited to present their entries on Thursday 30 June 2011 to the final judging panel led by Professor David Bellamy before the award presentation at a gala dinner at the Bentley Hotel in Lincoln that evening.
For more information and to enter online visit the Lincolnshire Environmental Awards website.
The Lincolnshire Environmental Awards, the only dedicated environmental awards programme in the county, are organised by Lindum Rotary Club and the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
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Almost from the moment I became a youth worker there has been a political advocate for young people who has stood head and shoulders above the rest, who has been an inspiration, not only to me but to so many others in the field - that person is Simon Hughes.
So I am absolutely thrilled to hear this evening that he has been appointed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg as "Advocate for Access to Education" with a brief to engage with young people in secondary education about how to deliver the government's objective of increasing educational participation, particularly those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds. Now, of course, I would prefer a simple "Advocate for Young People" but this is a start and will give Simon an opportunity, I trust, to interpret the role as widely as possible. After all, access to education is about more than just dispelling myths or providing information, or extra support through the pupil premium - it is about a whole range of other issues that impact upon a young person's life.
Nick Clegg said "Simon Hughes record championing the concerns of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds make him ideally suited to lead this important work to ensure that an increasing number of young people with the talent to succeed at university have the chance to do so - regardless of their starting point in life.
"I know Simon will be tireless in seeking the best ways to communicate the opportunities open to young people, just as he will be a strong advocate for them to government."
On accepting the role, Simon Hughes said "It is a privilege to be asked to take on this role, and I will do so with urgency, enthusiasm and determination.
"Parliament has settled the maximum university fee level in England from 2012 and we now have a critically important task to ensure that every potential student has access to all the facts about the costs, benefits and opportunities of further and higher education.
"I will work with every person of goodwill to ensure that from 2011 we have the best system of educational advice, information and support in place, designed to benefit all potential students and to ensure that disadvantaged young people increasingly gain access to further and higher education."
Clearly, my view hasn't changed - and is still in line with party policy, namely that we should be phasing out tuition fees altogether. We all, as Liberal Democrats - Simon included - must continue to make that case. However, if the PM and Deputy PM are honestly interested in engaging young people and their ideas about what is best for their futures, I sincerely hope that his findings may lead to if not a rethink, at least a modification of what is on offer at the moment. Michael Gove may bleat that it is not the case that higher fees put off young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, from applying to University, particularly the top Universities, but as the Sutton Trust research shows - this still is and will continue to be, a very real barrier.
It is also very encouraging that Simon is being asked to make recommendations on the successor to EMA - a hugely important issue if young people are not to face yet another financial barrier to participating in education. So, I wish him all the best in this crucial role - I know there is no one else with the skills, expertise and understanding to be able to ensure young people themselves really do begin to have a say in their futures.
And interesting to note that the Guardian is already interpreting this appointment as another government U turn......
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College basketball point spreads and picks — Key Big 12 games among Saturday's action
ACC, Big East also have big gamesFollow The Linemakers on Twitter
Eighteen ranked teams are in action Saturday, but most of the heavyweights are facing uninspiring competition. You have to go further down the rankings to find better games, including Pittsburgh visiting Marquette in a matchup of surprise Big East contenders.
Marquette, picked seventh in the preseason poll, is tied with Syracuse and Georgetown atop the conference at 8-3. Pittsburgh, picked sixth, is a half-game back at 8-4 and tied with Notre Dame and Louisville.
No. 16 Pittsburgh (20-5 SU, 9-9 ATS) at No. 18 Marquette (17-6 SU, 9-10 ATS), 1 p.m. ET, CBS
Line: Pittsburgh -2 Total: 123
The Panthers have posted three straight 10-point wins and are on a 4-1 SU and ATS run. One big reason is freshman center Steven Adams, who had 13 points and four blocks in the most recent win over Cincinnati. He’s averaging 9.2 points on 61 percent shooting, 9.0 rebounds and 2.4 blocks in the past five games.
Golden Eagles leading scorer Vander Blue was held to seven points on 3-of-10 shooting in Monday’s 63-55 loss at Georgetown, the first time he hasn’t reached double figures in Big East play. But that game, marred by 19 turnovers and Buzz Williams’ first technical this season, came at the end of a rough stretch in which Marquette played four games in nine days, including three on the road. The Golden Eagles will be rested and are 4-1 all-time against Pitt at the Bradley Center.
In the first meeting Jan. 12, Panthers forward Lamar Patterson forced overtime with a 3-pointer at the buzzer, only to see Marquette erupt for 17 points in the last 3:50 of the extra session and win 74-67. Blue finished with 22 points on 6-of-12 shooting.
— Pittsburgh is 4-1 ATS in its last five road games.
— Marquette is 12-3-1 ATS in its last 16 games following a SU loss.
— Marquette is 8-3 ATS in its last 11 Saturday games.
— Under is 4-0 in Pittsburgh’s last four games.
— Under is 4-1 in Marquette’s last five games.
— Over is 9-4 in the last 13 meetings.
— Road team is 4-0 ATS in the last four meetings.
No. 2 Duke (22-2 SU, 13-11 ATS) at Maryland (17-7 SU, 7-9-1 ATS), 6 p.m. ET, ESPN
Line: Duke -5.5 Total: 140
The Terps fell by 20 in Durham, N.C. on Jan. 26, but this is a good spot for Maryland to be competitive. The Terps had their first “bye week” after Sunday’s home loss to Virginia, while Duke is coming off an emotional comeback win over archrival North Carolina on Wednesday. Throw in the facts that this game represents Maryland’s best chance to get back in position for an NCAA bid, and this could be Duke’s last visit to College Park given the Terps’ looming move to the Big Ten.
Although Duke has won the past six meetings by an average of more than 15 points, Maryland’s rowdy crowd will be super-amped for this one.
Linemakers Video: Maryland could catch Duke sleepwalking after UNC win
— Duke is 5-11 ATS in its last 16 ACC games.
— Duke is 1-4 ATS in its last five road games.
— Maryland is 2-7-1 ATS in its last 10 games.
— Maryland is 1-7-1 ATS in its last nine games against winning teams.
— Maryland is 0-6 ATS in its six games against teams with .600-plus winning percentages.
— Over is 7-3 in Duke’s last 10 road games.
— Over is 4-1 in Maryland’s last five games.
— Under is 9-3 in the last 12 meetings.
— Favorite is 5-0 ATS in the last five meetings.
Baylor (16-8 SU, 10-9 ATS) at No. 10 Kansas State (19-5, 9-10-1 ATS), 7 p.m. ET, ESPNU
Line: Kansas State -4.5 Total: 131
Baylor, which sits a game behind three teams, including Kansas State, in the Big 12 race, should give the Wildcats problems inside. Seven-foot-one freshman C Isaiah Austin averages 13.6 points and 9.3 rebounds, 6-9 junior Cory Jefferson averages 12.3 points and 8.3 boards and reserve 6-8 freshman forward Rico Gathers had 22 points and nine rebounds in Wednesday’s blowout of West Virginia. The Wildcats have three players taller than 6-7, but none averages more than 15 minutes or five points.
The Wildcats should come in breathing fire. Monday’s 83-62 loss at Kansas was their worst defeat in two years, and their defense was shockingly atrocious. They entered that game leading the league in points allowed at 58.3.
"We can't let one loss become two losses,” first-year coach Bruce Weber said. “We have a big weekend coming up with Baylor and West Virginia (on Monday)."
Linemakers take: This is the first meeting between these two this season. Baylor has played well on the road. Its only bad road loss was at Kansas, 61-44. This is a really tough place to play, though. Kansas State’s only loss on this floor was to Kansas. But the Wildcats have home wins over Florida, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and Iowa State. This will be a tough, physical battle and we are expecting Kansas State to prevail at home laying the small number.
— Baylor is 6-2 ATS in its last eight road games.
— Baylor is 7-19 ATS in its last 26 games following an ATS win.
— Kansas State is 4-1 ATS in its last five home games.
— Kansas State is 5-1 ATS in its last six games following a SU loss of more than 20 points.
— Over is 10-4 in Baylor’s last 14 road games.
— Over is 4-1 in Kansas State’s last five home games.
— Underdog is 12-4 ATS in the last 16 meetings.
More videos: Saturday's Linemaker takes
One more Saturday Linemakers lean:
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State -9, 1:30 p.m., Big 12 Network: Oklahoma State is tied for the lead in the Big 12 at 8-3. Oklahoma is just one game back. The Sooners won the first meeting, 77-68, at home. The Cowboys are playing very well. They have won six straight, including wins over Iowa State, Kansas and Baylor. We are expecting Oklahoma State, who is led by all-everything PG Marcus Smart, to return the favor in this revenge game.Follow The Linemakers on Twitter
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Fri May 11 2012
Calls: Language Acquisition, Psycholing, Neuroling/USA
Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee
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Subject: Boston University Conference on Language Development 37
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Full Title: Boston University Conference on Language Development 37
Short Title: BUCLD 37
Date: 02-Nov-2012 - 04-Nov-2012
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Contact Person: Sarah Baiz
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Web Site: http://bu.edu/bucld
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Call Deadline: 15-May-2012
37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
November 2-4, 2012
Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington
'Language delay - does it matter?'
Yonata Levy, Hadassah-Hebrew University (organizer)
Fred Genesee, McGill University
Lauren McGarth, MGH, Harvard University
Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll, Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre UCL
Leslie Rescorla, Bryn Mawr College
2nd Call for Papers:
Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production.
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"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."
Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
The dissertation published in this monograph investigates the two types of compensatory lengthening: 1) Lengthening of a vowel after loss of a consonant (typically a tautosyllabic postvocalic consonant): CVC > CV: and 2) Lengthening of a vowel after loss of a vowel in a following syllable: CV.CV > CV:C. Based on data from 78 languages from 20 different language families, Kavitskaya develops a phonologization model to account for the cross-linguistically attested cases of compensatory lengthening. This phonologization model, which is theoretically based on the idea of listener oriented sound change developed in Ohala (1992) as well as in Blevins & Garrett (1998), intends to provide a better account of diachronic compensatory lengthening than previous accounts, most notably the account by de Chene & Anderson (1979) and the widely accepted account within moraic phonology by Hayes (1989).
CHAPTER 1 illustrates the two major instances of compensatory lengthening with data from Lithuanian and Serbo-Croatian and lays out the basic tenets of the phonologization model: A. Compensatory lengthening of a vowel induced by the loss of a segment will take place only if the lengthened vowel was previously in an environment that made it phonetically longer. B. The loss of the segment that conditioned the phonetic vowel lengthening leads to a reinterpretation of the phonetically lengthened vowel as phonologically long (i.e. phonologization). Note: that 'loss of a segment' in this model means that the segment was produced by the speaker but misparsed and reinterpreted as missing by the listener. In the case of compensatory lengthening of a vowel after loss of a consonant (CVC > CV:), Kavitskaya's model predicts that for example the loss of postvocalic glides will result more easily in compensatory lengthening than the loss of postvocalic obstruents since the relatively long transition from vowel to glide may be re-interpreted as vowel length after the glide is lost. The rather abrupt transition between vowel and obstruent, however, is not a source of phonetic vowel lengthening and the loss of a postvocalic obstruent should, therefore, not result in compensatory lengthening of the vowel. The case of compensatory lengthening of a vowel after vowel loss (CV.CV > CV:C) is explained in the phonologization model as follows. Vowels in open syllable are phonetically longer than vowels in closed syllable. The loss of the second vowel in a two-syllable CV.CV sequence results in the resyllabification into a single CV:C syllable of that sequence. The conditioning environment for the phonetic lengthening of the first vowel has now disappeared resulting in the re-interpretation of the phonetic vowel length as phonological.
CHAPTER 2 reviews the different approaches to compensatory lengthening that have been taken in the literature. The focus of this chapter is on problems that arise for a moraic approach from the analysis of compensatory lengthening. The first problem for a moraic account of compensatory lengthening that Kavitskaya identifies is that compensatory lengthening is predicted to occur only in languages that exhibit independently established weight distinction. In other words; there needs to be evidence in a language that coda consonants are moraic, since only the deletion of a weight bearing coda consonant can result in the transfer of the mora from the deleted coda consonant to the previous vowel. However, there exist at least two languages, Ngajan and Piro that don't show any evidence that coda consonants are moraic, but do exhibit compensatory lengthening. The second problem for a moraic account is said to be the existence of languages (Samothraki Greek, Romanesco Italian, Onondaga) in which compensatory lengthening is triggered by the deletion of an onset consonant. According to standard moraic theory (e.g. Hayes 1989), the deletion of an onset consonant should never lead to compensatory lengthening, since onsets are never moraic. The third problem for a moraic account stated by Kavitskaya is also related to the fact that onsets are weightless. This would predict that in CV.CV > CV:C compensatory lengthening the nature of the intervocalic consonant in the CV.CV sequence cannot have any influence on whether or not compensatory lengthening after loss of the second vowel occurs. The author points out that in Romance and Slavic compensatory lengthening after vowel loss crucially depends on the nature of the intervening consonant; i.e. compensatory lengthening in Polish does occur unless the intervening consonant is a voiceless stop. The fourth problem identified is that a moraic account of compensatory lengthening has difficulties to account for cases of compensatory lengthening due to loss of a tautosyllabic consonant that is not adjacent to the lengthening vowel; i.e. CVC1C2 > CV:C1. The author argues that any moraic account that can accommodate these data is not constrained enough otherwise and result in overgeneration. The last problem mentioned is that of directionality. The empirical observation that needs to be accounted for is that the element that is lost is always to the right of the vowel that lengthens; i.e. the directionality is right-to-left. Within a moraic approach to compensatory lengthening this generalization is accounted for by two mechanisms: the prohibition of crossing association lines and parasitic delinking (Hayes 1989). The author points out that this account of directionality crucially depends on several theory internal assumptions. First, the principle of no association lines crossing can only account for directionality if vowels and consonants are analyzed as being on the same tier. However, many phonological models analyze consonants and vowels to be on separate tier. Second, the mechanism of parasitic delinking is not independently motivated and hence remains a stipulation. After having identified these five issues, the author goes on to investigate the two types of compensatory lengthening in more detail.
CHAPTER 3 investigates diachronic CVC > CV: compensatory lengthening by segment type of the lost consonant. The loss of glides, which are the most likely consonants to cause compensatory lengthening according to the predictions of the phonologization model, is discussed based on data from Turkish, Kabardian, Ngajan, and Ancient Greek. The claim here is that the transition between vowel and glide is very long and if the glide is lost; i.e. not heard by the listener, the result is a reinterpretation of the preconsonantal vowel as long. It is further illustrated that glides may be more likely not to be heard in certain environments. For example, if they follow a phonetically similar vowel; i.e. if [j] follows a high front vowel or if they precede a sonorant consonant, glides are more likely to be missed since the formant frequencies of the 2. and 3. formant of a high front vowel are very similar to that of a [j] glide. The explanation for the loss of liquids resulting in compensatory lengthening is very similar to that of glides; vowel-liquid transitions are very long and after loss of a liquid the vowel can be reinterpreted as phonemically long. However, unlike for glides, the phonetic properties of the liquid itself in addition to its environment determine whether or not the deletion of a liquid will result in compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel. For example, rhotics that are approximants are more likely to cause compensatory lengthening than rhotics that are trills. Compensatory lengthening after the loss of liquids is discussed on data from Komi, Ngajan, and Turkish. Compensatory lengthening due to the loss or reduction of nasals is ascribed to the fact that nasalized vowels tend to be longer than oral vowels. If a post-vocalic nasal is lost and thus the conditioning environment for the phonetic length of the vowel is gone, the length of the vowel can be reinterpreted as phonemic. The loss of nasals seems also phonetically conditioned since in many languages nasals are lost before voiceless fricatives or voiceless obstruents in general. The author makes the interesting observation that compensatory lengthening triggered by nasal loss while occurring in numerous languages, only seems to occur in Indo-European and Bantu languages. Fricatives should not result in compensatory lengthening of a preceding vowel since fricatives have usually no lengthening effect on neighboring vowels. The author argues that in all cases in which the apparent loss of a fricative has caused compensatory lengthening, the fricative necessarily undergoes lenition first resulting in an approximant and then is lost causing compensatory lengthening. Since [h] is the most common fricative to cause compensatory lengthening, it is mentioned that [h] may be an approximant in many languages. In the section discussing compensatory lengthening after the loss of a stop consonant the author points out that despite the fact that vowels are longer before voiced stops compared to voiceless stops in many language, there don't seem to be cases where the loss of a voiced stop caused compensatory lengthening. For the cases of [g] loss in Turkish and West Saxon discussed here, the author argues that [g] underwent lenition first to a fricative and then to an approximant, so that the compensatory lengthening was the result of approximant loss rather than due to the loss of the stop. The last section in this chapter discusses apparent counterexamples, the first one being that glottal stops are among the more common consonants to trigger compensatory lengthening. Kavitskaya argues that only glottal stops that are phonetically realized as having weak constriction of the vocal folds or as laryngealization on the vowel can trigger compensatory lengthening. The second apparent counterexample is morphological compensatory lengthening which is argued to be a "case of templatic, morphologically conditioned process" that doesn't need a phonetic explanation. The next apparent counterexample discussed is compensatory lengthening through degemination. Here the author argues that degemination may start out as phonetically motivated process; i.e. degemination of an approximant and then be extended to other geminates via analogical sound change. The last apparent counterexample is compensatory lengthening through onset loss. Since all the cases of onset loss discussed here involve a liquid, it is argued that the same mechanisms that explain compensatory lengthening after the loss of a coda liquid can account for compensatory lengthening after loss of an onset liquid.
CHAPTER 4 investigates the diachronic development of compensatory lengthening through vowel loss mainly discussing data from Friulian and Slavic. The main argument here is that vowels in open syllable are phonetically longer than vowels in closed syllable. The loss of the second vowel in a two-syllable CV.CV sequence results in the resyllabification into a single CV:C syllable of that sequence and in reinterpretation of the vowel length as phonemic. Especially the discussion of Slavic develops a phonetic account for the fact that some intervening consonants in a CVCV sequence allow compensatory lengthening after loss of the second vowel while others do not. The author argues that the situation can be explained by making reference to the observation that vowels tend to be longer before voiced consonants than before voiceless ones. Kavitskaya claims for Slavic that phonetic vowel duration was longest before glides, less long before other sonorants, short before voiced fricatives, shorter before voiced stops, and shortest before voiceless obstruents. Furthermore, she argues that after the loss of the second vowel in CVCV sequences in Slavic the length of the first vowel was reinterpreted as phonemically long if it preceded some - usually more sonorous consonants - but not others. In order to validate this claim, the author reports an experiment conducted by herself on vowel length in open and closed syllables in Contemporary Standard Russian. In the remainder of the chapter Kavitskaya discusses the prosodic conditioning of compensatory lengthening in Slavic.
CHAPTER 5 discusses synchronic compensatory lengthening. While it was argued in chapters 3 and 4 that diachronically the two types of compensatory lengthening are similar in that they arise through phonologization of previously phonetic vowel length, this chapter illustrates the asymmetry between CVC and CVCV compensatory lengthening synchronically. Since compensatory lengthening through consonant loss (CVC > CV:) is usually phonologically conditioned, the trigger (i.e. the lost consonant) can usually be recovered in all environments that don't cause its deletion. These cases of compensatory lengthening can synchronically be modeled as weight conservation within the syllable. Furthermore, the resulting syllable structure (CV:) is more optimal than the original CVC structure. In compensatory lengthening through vowel loss, the lost vowel is usually not recoverable, which often leads to the lexicalization or morphologization of CVCV ~ CV:C alternations and the resulting syllable structure (CV:C) is argued to be cross-linguistically dispreferred. In the very few cases in which compensatory lengthening through vowel loss is phonologically conditioned, the lost vowel can be recovered and these cases are formally similar to compensatory lengthening through consonant loss in that they can be synchronically modeled as a weight conserving process.
CHAPTER 6 summarizes phonologization model developed in this dissertation and states again that in order to account for all aspects of compensatory lengthening, it is necessary to distinguish between synchronic alternations and diachronic sound changes as well as between compensatory lengthening through consonant loss and compensatory lengthening through vowel loss.
This work makes a significant contribution to the body of work that tries to further our understanding of how phonetics influences and shapes phonological patterns in the world's languages. It is a great challenge to analyze a huge amount of data - as Kavitskaya did in her dissertation - and to account for cross-linguistic generalizations without neglecting language specific detail. In many instances the author suggests different analyses from those proposed in the sources she used. One such case is Onondaga where the author challenges Woodbury's (1981) diachronic analysis of why Proto-Lake-Iroquoian *CrV sequences developed into CV: sequences in Onondaga, apparently showing compensatory lengthening after deletion of onset-r. According to Woodbury's analysis based on historic documents, Proto-Lake-Iroquoian *CrV sequences were broken up by an epenthetic /e/ (*CerV) with following r- deletion (*CeV) and coalescence of the vowels resulting in a long vowel. Kavitskaya suggests that the epenthetic /e/ was "actually a phonetic effect of the r itself, perceived by listeners, but not yet phonologized." There are several arguments against such a view. First, the historic sources do not use different symbols to represent epenthetic /e/ and non-epenthetic /e/ which would be expected if they had been phonetically different. In the closely related language Mohawk, the epenthetic /e/ still exists and is not any different in its realization from non-epenthetic /e/. Furthermore, the quality of the lengthened vowel can be easily explained by the coalescence analysis. For example, if the V in the CerV sequence was a back vowel, the outcome is a lengthened front vowel (*Cero > Ce:); if it was a low vowel, the outcome was a lengthened raised vowel (*Cera > Cae:). These changes in vowel quality cannot be easily explained as having been caused by the onset-r, since the 'r' in Iroquoian - where it still exists - has been described by Lounsbury (1978) as a retroflex lateral flap, which we would not expect to cause any fronting. Even though I was not convinced by the author's interpretation of these particular data, overall the phonetic motivation for compensatory lengthening was well illustrated by the author, and I would recommend this book to anybody interested in this area.
Lounsbury, F. 1978. Iroquouian languages. In: Bruce Trigger (ed.) Handbook of North American Indians 15, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
ABOUT THE REVIEWER:
ABOUT THE REVIEWER
Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier is a PhD student in the linguistics department at
the University at Buffalo. She is interested in the phonetic and
phonological aspects of word and sentence prosody, laboratory phonology and
phonetics as well as in Iroquoian linguistics.
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Apologize, it wasn't intended to send this mail off-list and to send
another reply 2 times in different versions. Since Evolution doesn't
work for my Ubuntu Studio Quantal, I need to use another MUA and Claws
doesn't always do what I want it to do.
FWIW, I can't make all the RME emails public and it wouldn't be from
interest, but perhaps somebody once want to read the RME forums. Not
interesting until now.
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:36:51 +0400
From: Alexandre Prokoudine
To: Ralf Mardorf
Subject: Re: [LAU] Statement from RME regarding to Linux
Did you reply offlist intentionally?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf
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[conspire] Sat, 1/10 Installfest/RSVP
nick at zork.net
Mon Jan 12 09:23:20 PST 2009
> Canonical's LTS program, like similar 3- or 5-year support releases of
> RHEL and SLED/SLES are basically sops to the corporate market, where
> the dumbness of trying to limp distro releases forward for half a
> decade is widespread, and where the companies are willing to pay good
> money for that foolishness.
I don't consider it particularly foolish to want an OS with a fixed ABI
for a few years that still gets security updates. You may want the
latest code for your laptop, but a server running a production service
is nice to not have to upgrade every six months.
Also, I prefer to think of the LTS track as a 1.5-5 year range. There
are new LTS releases every couple of years, and that's a great time to
upgrade your production server. I'm still running Hardy on my server,
and probably won't upgrade until the next LTS. Fortunately Ubuntu
supports do-release-upgrade jumps between LTS releases.
When you manage hundreds of servers, upgrading (even in apt-based
distros!) can be a chore that gets in the way of real work.
All that said, yeah, new laptop needs new OS release. Clinging to LTS
as a talisman of "stability" misses the point entirely.
"N'aimez pas votre voiture? Nick Moffitt
Alor, l'heure est arrive pour la brulé!" nick at zork.net
-- Mark Jaroski
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I'm back from the dead and no longer cursing Vista ( I've always thought it was strange that most people, including myself, feel disappointment or sorrow when they lose something they didn't have in the first place. The opposite seems perfectly logical. I feel very relieved that I no longer have something that I never had before ;)
Today, we're going to take a look at a quick way to get back your root password (assuming its yours) if, for some reason, you get locked out of your machine. It happens... more than I'd care to admit ;) The course of action I see followed most often is booting from CD, temporarily mounting the physical root drive, and editing /etc/passwd. This is a time-tested solution, and works on pretty much any version of Linux or Unix I've worked with, but I think this way is more fun (and slightly less dangerous). Plus, it saves you a little time (not a lot; just a little). We haven't taken a look at grub since our post on recovering failed raid disks, so I guess this post is about due.
The trick in question has only been tested on RedHat Linux ES, so I can't speak for whether it works on, say, CentOS or Fedora (although I imagine it would work on any system that uses grub for boot loading). Basically, what we're going to do is use grub's boot options to allow us to obtain root access. And, if your machine is properly secured (the /boot directory in particular), you shouldn't be able to edit /etc/grub.conf as a normal user, so physical access (or console/ALOM-type access) to the machine in question is required. It's a pretty simple procedure and goes something like the following:
1. Login to the console on the machine and type "reboot" or "shutdown -r," etc, if you have an account with privileges to initiate such an action. If you don't have an account with suitable privilege, try control-alt-delete (and power off) or hard power-down your machine (you may need to fsck later, but that's a given), take a deep breath and count to 11 ;)
2. Power on the server and wait for the grub boot screen to come up. You'll may not need the GUI for this to work, but it's the only way I've done it. When the grub boot menu comes up, hit the up or down arrow key at least once to stop the automatic boot countdown timer. If you have multiple boot options, choose the one you know (or believe) is the one currently in use (actually, this shouldn't matter, but loading up an older kernel might cause issues) and press the "e" key to enter edit mode.
3. After you enter edit mode, you'll be presented with a few lines of text (dependent on how you have your grub.conf populated). Using your arrow key again, navigate to the line that starts with "kernel." Press the "e" key again, and your cursor should show up at the end of the "kernel" line (if it doesn't, you can move it to where you need it by using the left and/or right arrow keys as necessary).
4. Now that you're in edit mode, and your cursor is in the correct position, type a "space" character followed by "single." So if your boot command line was:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp ro root=/dev/sda1
it would now be:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp ro root=/dev/sda1 single
5. Now type "b" to continue the boot process and you'll be dumped into a limited shell, as root, passwordlessly. Sometimes this has seemed not to work for me if I changed my edit-focus to a line other than the "kernel" line before typing "b", but that could just be superstition on my part. Thankfully, I don't have to do this all that often :)
6. The rest is gravy. You're root, so all you have to do is type "passwd", set the root password to whatever you like and reboot using your preferred method (reboot, shutdown -r, init 6, whatever works, etc). Since you're in a single-user shell, you can also instantiate a reboot by just typing "exit."
And you should be all set. Now you no longer have an excuse to avoid fixing problems on that machine (the downside ;)
08/06/2008 - Thanks for this Additional Useful Information From zcat:
On many distros the 'single' or 'rescue' boot will still ask for a
password. You can get around this by starting linux without starting
initd, just launch a shell instead; and it's blindingly fast.
'e' to edit the boot entry, select the kernel line and press 'e'
again, then type "init=/bin/bash", enter, press 'b' to boot it. You
end up at a root prompt with / mounted read-only. (depending on the
distro, you might need /bin/sh instead)
# mount / -o remount,rw
<change your root password here>
# mount / -o remount,ro
<three-finger salute or hit the reset button>
It's also useful for fixing up boot problems, if you're silly enough
to have put commands in various init scripts that don't actually exit
Thanks for these comments from Laurent regarding an alternate way to get to single user:
Nice to see that method that I was used to apply. Especially with some servers that have been hardened with password aging implementation. And when it is stable you don't need to log on for more than 60 days sometimes....
You could also add that grub can (should?) be password protected.
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I’m happy to announce the winner of the $25 gift certificate is Carolyn Collins of Sparkling Waters Studios. Congratulations! Have fun shopping! I’ll be in touch with details.
AND I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find out that my Bead Soup Blog Party entry for Kalmbach Jewelry Books was chosen as a winner among the office staff! I’ll be receiving a copy of the new Crystal Jewelry Inspiration book in January.
The necklace is on its way to my mother’s for her 81st birthday (along with some matching earrings). She’s been my biggest supporter and fan of my jewelry efforts for years and years. I know she’ll be pleased to know that others loved it too.
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How many items do you have in your public library that violate copyright violations? Cleveland Public Library will have 800 or so less after this weekend. Seems their Chinese language DVDs caused a ruckus to someone because they yanked them all from the shelves.
I am forever telling librarians we cannot purchase the Rosetta Stone language CDROM - we need to get the network version. And then I hear - but other libraries have it.... Then there is the whole music CD lending - technically I think that is a copyright violation. But are we going to quit lending CD Music?
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- Make a blanket fort in a crater on the moon.
- Live on a small island powered by renewable energy sources.
- See a black hole in person during the late stages of a terminal illness.
- Paint on a large canvas on the floor of a small apartment while wearing paint-stained overalls.
- Have a tiny garden on the roof of a tall building, in the middle of a large city.
- Become a photography hobbyist.
- Invent a cloud-making machine.
- Invent a cloud-shaping machine.
- Put the above next to each other... super-awesome cloud factory!
- Be someone's Bestman.
- Make (and move into) Howl's Moving Castle...
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ANST - Goof Toobs
jtc at mail.io.com
Sat Aug 23 03:42:13 PDT 1997
> An Tir has required archery screening for all archery battle
> scenarios. However, they don't allow archers in every battle, and
> not every war welcomes archers.
Yes, but didn't An Tir use to use arrows tipped with no more than a
rubber rabbit blunt? Wow, talk about an arrow you couldn't dodge and
would never see coming! TWACK!
Anyway, I think the 3/4 blunts were the original reason for the
screen. Fighters here would really scream if they had to buy screens.
Hey, how much does it cost to get the screening?
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[Ansteorra] Thank you from the Library
xaraxene at comcast.net
Fri Jun 4 20:45:06 PDT 2004
I'll help!! It was great fun!
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Of Ciard49 at aol.com
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What a wonderful response we had from folks willing to share their books at
the first Steppes Warlord Library.
Nineteen Patrons from ten different groups (including one from Calontir!)
loaned us 420 books.
So successful was our first effort that the Library has been invited to
reconvene at Argent Anniversary in July.
We encourage everyone to come share your books and stay cool in the Library.
Thank you all
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ANST-Announce - Stefan's file for March
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Tue Feb 29 22:53:52 PST 2000
Greetings to the Known World,
Here is a copy of my monthly article detailing what is new in my
I am currently behind in uploading the new and updated files to the
website by about 60 files. I hope to have this completed in the next
or so. So if a file mentioned below is not there, please check back in a
few more days.
The latest HTML formatted files have a new format. Please let me
know if you like it or not or if you have suggestions.
If you are going to Gulf Wars, please feel free to look me up if
you have comments about the Florilegium. My device is on the
Florilegium page and I should be camping with my barony.
A Blending of the Past and Present
Over the past ten years in an ongoing effort, I have been collecting
bits of useful information from various newsgroups, mail lists and
articles submitted to me by their authors. In order to make this
information available to others, I have placed this information in a
series of files I call Stefan's Florilegium.
The Florilegium website now has a new address. It is: http://www.florilegium.org
The old texas.net address will work for at least another few months.
Files that are new or have been updated are indicated by a special marker
in the filelists at the website. In addition, the file -updated-files is
a listing of these files in chronological order.
A copy of my complete filelist is available in most sections of the
website. This filelist or any of my files is also available from me by
email in either Word 6.0 or text formats.
I am always interested in new articles. If you have written an article that
would be of interest to others in the SCA, please send it to me for possible
inclusion in the Florilegium. Contact me for more details.
Ld. Stefan li Rous (512)892-0036 stefan at texas.net
Ansteorra RSVE60 at email.sps.mot.com
The new files for this month are:
infusions-msg Period infusions. Herbal "teas". Barley tea.
Horn-Spoons-art "Making Horn Spoons" by Mistress Gunnora
metal-etching-msg Period and modern metal etching.
p-cooks-msg Comments on specific period cooks.
pot-luck-fsts-msg Handling 'pot luck' feasts in the SCA.
horn-utn-care-msg Care of utensils made of horn.
snails-msg Eating of snails in period. Recipes.
spoons-msg Period spoons. Referances. Construction.
brd-mk-flat-msg Period flat or unleavened bread recipes.
porridges-msg Period porridges and gruels.
fd-Lw-Cntries-msg Period food of the Low Countries.
olives-msg Period olives. Processing fresh olives.
mottoes2-msg More Latin mottoes and phrases.
under PEOPLE AND PLACES:
Margery-Kemp-msg An unusual, eccentric woman for the MA.
under PERSONAL CARE:
p-manners-msg Period manners. Period manners books.
under SCRIBAL ARTS:
seals-msg Period and modern seals and signet rings.
under STRUCTURES: (replaces DWELLINGS)
mills-msg Period water, wind and animal powered mills.
Here are a few of the files which have had significant additions:
belts-msg Medieval and SCA belts.
breadmaking-msg Period bread recipes and re-creations.
cookies-msg Period cookies. Recipes.
corsets-msg Tudor and Elizabethian corsets. making them.
desserts-msg Medieval and SCA dessert recipes. Sweets.
fruit-apples-msg Period apples and apple recipes.
lea-tanning-msg How to tan leather. Types of tanning.
metals-msg Medieval and modern metals and alloys.
p-kitchens-msg Period kitchens and kitchen staff.
p-sex-msg Period thoughts on sex and sexual practices.
p-shoes-msg Medieval footwear.
peacocks-msg Serving peacock sotelties safely.
pork-msg Use of pork in period. Pork recipes.
puddings-msg Medieval puddings. Recipes. Custards.
redacting-msg Changing period recipes into modern format.
SCA-land-msg SCA owned land ideas. West and Trimaris Land Funds.
SCAweapons-msg SCA weapons ideas. Construction tips.
story-sources-msg Sources for period stories.
tents-alt-msg Alternatives to tents for SCA events.
trim-msg Medieval and SCA trim for clothing.
Copyright 2000, Mark S. Harris.
Permission to reprint in SCA-related publications is hereby granted if
contents are left unchanged and the author is notified of the publication.
Notification may be by email and reformating is allowed.
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[ATrpms-users] log-rotate facility for mythtv
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
jeff at kosowsky.org
Mon Mar 26 05:01:02 CEST 2007
Yes -- it only rotates when both conditions are true.
You don't really need a script. Just look at the existing
/etc/logrotate.d/mythbackend file and delete the 'size' line if you
want it to just rotate every week independent of size.
Nick Morrott wrote at about 02:26:05 +0100 on Monday, March 26, 2007:
> On 25/03/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:31:20PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > > Just noticed that the /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log just continues
> > > growing forever (so does /var/log/mythtfilldatabase but it seems to
> > > collect much less information). Even worse, since mythbackend.log is
> > > 'hidden' in the subdirectory /var/log/mythtv, casual users may not
> > > notice how big the log file is getting...
> > >
> > > Would it be reasonable to add a logrotate facility for the mythtv
> > > rpms?
> > The rpms already have this for mythbackend.log since about mid-2003 (?).
> I'm in the process tonight of writing a simple patch for the
> mythbackend init scripts in MythTV SVN to add pidfile support and a
> sample logrotate script.
> I know from using the atrpms.net builds of MythTV in the past that
> they include logrotate support and so I had a look at the logrotate
> script in the mythbackend rpm. Is the script allowed to include both a
> time directive (weekly) and a size directive (10M) in the same block?
> I'm wondering if this is the reason that Paulo's scripts have not
> rotated - perhaps the last directive (the size one) is overriding the
> weekly directive, causing logrotate to wait until the file reaches
> 10MB before it is rotated?
> MythTV Official wiki:
> MythTV users list archive:
> "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
> atrpms-users mailing list
> atrpms-users at atrpms.net
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An idea about forbidden ports
silby at silby.com
Mon Oct 24 22:27:51 PDT 2005
I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not, but I'm going to throw this idea
out there in hopes that it might be of some use.
I was thinking how this error message occurs:
podysseus# pkg_add -r vmware3
Error: FTP Unable to get
File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
But really, we do have vmware3, it's just not packaged due to it being
So, would it be a useful idea to include dummy packages for FORBIDDEN
programs so that people know that they exist? When you did pkg_add -r
vmware3 have it grab a dummy package that just has a shell script that
tells the person why the package doesn't exist, suggest how to go about
installing that port, and return an error value so that the package isn't
This would be of immense help once we grow some sort of package manager
system, as it would allow everything to be listed.
It might be a problem with portupgrade -P, though.
Just a thought,
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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tao.thought.org is back.....
keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Fri Oct 20 19:02:56 UTC 2006
On 2006-10-20 11:26, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> * several lines of mail being rejected yesterday afternoon
> 3929:Oct 19 13:08:56 sage sm-mta: k9JK8Jfs008260: makeconnection (tao.thought.org. [10.0.0.247]) failed: Connection refused by
> 3930:Oct 19 13:08:56 sage sm-mta: k9JK8Jfs008260: --- 050 <kline at thought.org>... Deferred: Connection refused by
> 3931:Oct 19 13:08:56 sage sm-mta: k9JK8Jfs008260: to=<kline at thought.org>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=87298, relay=tao.thought.org. [10.0.0.247], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by tao.thought.org.
> 3944:Oct 19 13:11:29 sage sm-mta: k9JKAurL008281: makeconnection (tao.thought.org. [10.0.0.247]) failed: Connection refused by tao.thought.org.
Sendmail is not listening on all IP addressed of tao.thought.org.
Can you show me the following:
(a) The `/etc/rc.conf' settings related to Sendmail:
tao# grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf
(b) The listening sockets of Sendmail on `tao.thought.org':
tao# sockstat -l4 | grep sendmail
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FreeBSD 7.0R on EeeBOX
7yuny1 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 10:56:42 PDT 2008
I am trying to install my favor FreeBSD on EeeBOX via CD-ROM
it's ok during boot, but sysinstall can't write discklabel in FreeBSD
it said: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! the creation of
filesystems will be aborted
I try to boot with ACPI disable, but it's no good.
How can I do for write discklabel in HDD?
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rrborg at speakeasy.net
Thu Aug 12 21:12:58 UTC 2010
On 8/12/2010 2:02 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> On 12-8-2010 22:53, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200, Dick Hoogendijk<dick at nagual.nl>
>>> I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found?
>>> Which brach do I follow?
>> In this case, use "freebsd-update" to track -RELEASE; you will
>> get the security patches by binary updating, e. g. you can use
>> this tool to get from 8.1-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE-p1 without the
>> need to compile anything.
>> See "man freebsd-update" for details.
> Thank you. I will follow RELEASE than. Also a thanks to Svein. ;-) Is
> RELEASE automaticaly set in a fresh FreeBSD install or do I need to
> change anything?
freebsd-update will update that version you have installed (so yes
RELEASE in a fresh install) only with security patches. If a new version
comes out you want to upgrade to you would do something like
freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.3-RELEASE
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most rock solid SATA Raid card for 5.4-RELEASE and 6.0-RELEASE
user at dhp.com
Mon Nov 14 14:56:56 PST 2005
thanks for your comments and help.
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Scott Long wrote:
> The updated aaccli is probably available from the Adaptec website and
> should work just fine with 5.4. The updated driver is only in 6.0 right
> now. Like I said above, I'll be updating the RELENG_5 code stream with
> it soon, so that if there is a 5.5 it will have it. That said, I'd
> highly recommend that you investigate 6.0 as it has many other
> improvements, and upgrading from 5.4 is very very easy.
Understood. I will begin working with 6.0 immediately. From what I can
gether, the move from 5.x to 6.0 is very different than the move from 4.x
to 5.0 ... 6.0 seems to be more of a organic growth from 5.x, and is less
drastic and profound in its changes ?
I ask because there is no way I would have gone production on 5.0-RELEASE
at the time, but now with 6.0-RELEASE I am hearing nothing but good and
reassuring things about it ...
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Selected X11 Apps Suddenly Stopped Working
rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 30 16:57:23 PST 2009
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:04 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> John Hein wrote:
> > Tim Daneliuk wrote at 23:21 -0600 on Jan 29, 2009:
> > > In the past week or so, I've ripped xfce4 out of a server and replaced
> > > it with blackbox. I also did some portupgrades ... and then the fun
> > > began. Certain X apps - GNU emacs and wireshark notably - no longer
> > > work. In both cases, I start the program from an xterm, and the
> > > screen just sits there. This is true whether I install from ports
> > > or the most recent packages tree. emacs will start with the -nw
> > > option.
> > >
> > > I went back and ripped all of X out of the system, and reinstalled
> > > it from the metaport in the current packages tree. This did not
> > > help - same problem.
> > >
> > > This is a FBSD6.4-STABLE system as of 1-19-2009 running on an Intel
> > > mobo with a 3GHz Pentium-D.
> > >
> > > Ideas as to what's going on or how to debug this would be appreciated.
> > > I'm guessing it's some library incompatibility/missing but I haven't
> > > a clue where to being looking ...
> > ktrace should tell you where the app is getting stuck.
> It seems that last night's port updates fixed the problem .. sort
> of. emacs et al do startup OK now, but I am seeing this
> message when they do:
> Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display
This is harmless, it indicates that libXext has support for generic
events, but the server does not yet. Coming soon in server 1.6
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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[cairo] what/where is xcb-renderutil ?
rbutcher at hyenainternet.com
Tue Sep 5 03:15:27 PDT 2006
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 17:22 -0700, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:32:08PM +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
> > greetings. I find latest version of cairo won't build, complains about
> > xcb which I have had installed all along. i see latest version of cairo
> > refers to xcb-renderutil . What is this, part od what ?
> JimC's response is correct, but to provide more detail for this specific
> question: xcb-renderutil is a port of the utility code from libXrender,
> and is a new part of the xcb-util libraries. xcb-renderutil, in turn,
> requires a fairly recent version of XCB (with "Plan 7" support), so be
> sure to rebuild everything from your XCB checkout.
Thanks Jim and Jamey, that's sorted me out.
> cairo mailing list
> cairo at cairographics.org
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[gst-embedded] what is the GstType that's passed to the gst_element_register() call for plugin_init?
fye at broadcom.com
Mon Sep 13 16:51:21 PDT 2010
I am doing my plugin and I have a question regarding the last parameter in the gst_element_register() call, which is the GstType.
In the base plugin package, I see normally it's defined in the header file to a function, but for some plugins this function is there in the package, for others it's not.
For example, gst/gdp/gstgdpdepay.c used GST_TYPE_GDP_DEPAY: gst_element_register (plugin, "gdpdepay", GST_RANK_NONE, GST_TYPE_GDP_DEPAY)
And gstdgpdepay.h has this define: #define GST_TYPE_GDP_DEPAY (gst_gdp_depay_get_type())
However I can't find this gst_gdp_depay_get_type() function implementation in the whole package. Many of other plugins have the same thing.
One example on the other case is in gst/tcp/gsttcpplugin.c, which used type GST_TYPE_TCP_CLIENT_SINK, and this can be traced to function gst_tcp_client_sink_get_type(), which is implemented in gsttcpclientsink.c.
So I wonder which is the way I should go, is the unimplemented function hidden somewhere? Why it won't cause compile problem?
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Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:33:53 -0800
I know this subject keeps coming up. I hope my
suggestions are taken as constructive (presumably
I ran into one more package (GNU screen-3.9.15) where
the authors used autoconf, and made no provision for
cross-compiling. In fact, they use many detailed
run-time tests. I was able to edit configure.in
to add ACTION-IF-CROSS-COMPILING arguments (tuned to
my special case) to their AC_TRY_RUN macros, and got
myself on the air. Not very satisfying.
There is an implicit assumption in autoconf that
people who cross-compile have no way to run the
executables from within the configure script. So,
no provision is made for that possibility.
In my case, and I think for an increasing number of
developers, my target is a relatively full-featured
Linux machine. I have a file system (NFS) shared
between my development workstation and the embedded
target. It's fairly trivial to build in a directory
that is visible by the target (excuse me, "host"),
and then on the build machine
echo "$HOST_TESTDIR/conftest; echo \$?; exit" | \
socket nano4 | tail -1
to see the exit code from running conftest on the
host. Normally I have that NFS directory mounted
read-only by my host machine, but I could change
that, so even files created by the program would
become visible to configure.
If the autoconf community were interested in supporting
this concept, not many changes would be needed.
1. Add a new flag, like "CROSS_RUN_SCRIPT", that
defines how to run programs on the host.
2. Add new macro AC_TRY_COMMAND_HOST, that uses
CROSS_RUN_SCRIPT if cross-compiling, otherwise
falls back to AC_TRY_COMMAND.
3. Switch from AC_TRY_COMMAND to AC_TRY_COMMAND_HOST
in all the right places.
4. Change AC_RUN_IFELSE so it only crashes if
"$cross_compiling" = yes && "$CROSS_RUN_SCRIPT" = ""
Comments? If I developed, tested, and submitted a patch,
would anybody look at it?
- cross-compiling philosophy,
Larry Doolittle <=
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[jdbc] How to make those patch thinggies
bodewig at bost.de
Thu Aug 3 02:41:03 EDT 2000
>>>>> "MM" == Maraya Michael <maraya-michael at dol.gov> writes:
MM> 7) Test them against Sybase.
I've never done that - no opportunity. But if you can, you should do so
MM> 8) Now that you're happy with your revisions, all that's left to
MM> do is to create the patch. Take note of the CVS version number
MM> of the file you've changed and the file name and substitute them
MM> as appropriate in the line below:
MM> [type]cvs -d
MM> :pserver:anon-cvs at freetds.internetcds.com:/Repository diff -u -r
MM> 1.18 DatabaseMetaData.java > DatabaseMetaData.diff
You don't need to specify the repository once you've checked out the
cvs diff -u -r 1.18 DatabaseMetaData.java > DatabaseMetaData.diff
would have the same effect.
And if you're diff'ing against the latest revision in CVS you can omit
cvs diff -u DatabaseMetaData.java > DatabaseMetaData.diff
and just do a "cvs update" from time to time to stay current.
To generate a diff between your local copy and the current cvs
version, you can simply say
cvs diff -u > local.diff
and combine the patches against all files into a single diff file
patch will happily work on.
The whole method wont work if you are adding files of course.
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9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.
erik at laptop.org
Fri Oct 17 15:36:56 EDT 2008
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:07:58PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> I'd like to present a few areas where sugar can "play nice with
> others", including:
> * replacing the matchbox window manager, to provide better
> multiple-window support for legacy apps (think of the 'gimp', running
> as multiple windows without one full-screen "activity area" aka
> "virtual desktop")
> * making sugar behave well when run in non-full-screen-mode under
> metacity. This includes refactoring home/friends/mesh view as
> operations on root window, so they make sense in a multiwindow setup.
> (It's been suggested that looking at the xpenguins code is instructive
> for understanding how nautilus,etc arrange their root window.)
> * Switch to standard freedesktop.org startup notification mechanism:
> ticket #5271
> * Implement freedesktop.org notifications mechanism for alerts (low
> battery, low disk space, available software update)
> * Use standard fd.o notification area in frame -- I think this would
> also address cjb's desire to put the 'stop' button for recordmydesktop
> in the frame.
> I don't think I will actually have time to work on many of these areas
> in the 9.1 time frame, so I especially encourage interested/motivated
> parties to make concrete proposals on pieces of this work. (Or
> suggest other areas we should improve.)
Perhaps we could also investigate the use of the xdg utilities for
managing mimetype associations and installing activities?
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khali at linux-fr.org
Fri Jan 30 11:17:11 CET 2004
> I see that in lm_sensors 2.8.2 my VIA VT8327 chipset is supported
I think you really mean VT8237?
> so I think also in 2.8.3 that I installed, but when I rus
> sensor-detects on linux 2.6.1 at the end lm_sensors doesn't say
> of loading i2c-viapro. Maybe linux 2.6.1 has not got yet VIA VT8237
It has. Anyway, usually sensors-detect doesn't depend on the kernel
(apart from a very few quirks with hidden pci devides, maybe that's
what you have here...)
> I tryed linux 2.6.2-rc2 and lm_sensors say me to load i2c-viapro,
> but sensors -s && sensors say: "no sensors available!".
The i2c-viapro driver is a bus driver. It gives you access to sensor
chips but doesn't drive them by itself. You need to find out which chip
driver you need. Sensors-detect *should* tell you which. If it doesn't,
maybe you have an unsupported chip, or no compatible chip at all (usual
on laptops). You may send the whole output of sensors-detect for
analysis. Do not forget to unload all i2c-related drivers before so as
not to confuse sensors-detect.
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On 7/22/2011 5:02 PM, Shawn Green (MySQL) wrote:
> On 7/21/2011 22:45, Tim Thorburn wrote:
>> For those keeping score, this will be the second time in the past few
>> months I've come upon this problem. To recap, this is happening on a
>> development laptop running Win7 64-bit Ultimate and MySQL 5.5.13. This
>> morning, all was working well. This evening, I launched MySQL Workbench
>> 5.2.34 CE to work on a table. When I attempt to access the server from
>> within Workbench, I'm now prompted with a window asking for my password.
>> Of course, my password is not accepted when I enter it - I'm presented
>> with error #2000.
>> Just to confirm, mysql --version returns:
>> mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.13, for Win64 (x86)
>> This is not an upgrade, after my last mishap, I once again formatted the
>> laptop with a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit as well as
>> MySQL 5.5.13. I've begun digging through bugs.mysql.com, but I'm not
>> seeing any standing out. I should point out that this problem also
>> breaks any sites running on this dev laptop as all passwords are no
>> longer accepted.
>> Any thoughts on what may be causing this? It seems to be happening every
>> month or so at this point.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> -Tim Thorburn
> * Check your binary logs, someone may actually be changing your
> * Be careful with what you backup/restore. You may accidentally revert
> your tables to a condition before you set the password.
> * mysql.exe is the command-line client. While it would be unusual to
> have a client utility that is of a different version than your server,
> the actual command to determine the version of the MySQL database
> server would be
> mysqld --version
> * did you attempt to login using mysql to see if the passwords really
> were different? Remember, the account 'root' for a new installation is
> not created without a password. If you had restored a very old copy
> of that table, that might have been your situation.
> * are you aware of the "lost password reset" instructions in the manual?
Thanks for the reply. As this has happened before, and because I'm on a
deadline, I ended up stopping the MySQL service with NET STOP MYSQL,
then started MySQL with the skip-grant-tables option so that I could log
in as root and make a backup via mysqldump. After this, I uninstalled
MySQL from Control Panel, then proceeded to delete C:\Program
Files\MySQL and C:\ProgramData\MySQL directories before rebooting to do
a clean install of MySQL 5.5.14.
Before this, I did try to simply reset the root password by once again
stopping the MySQL service, starting it with --skip-grant-tables;
however regardless of what I changed the password to, I received the
same error. This error was present for each login I had on the MySQL
Unfortunately, now that I've uninstalled and deleted the previous MySQL
directories, it seems unlikely that I'll have access to the previous set
of logs. I do, however, have a complete backup of --all-databases from
mysqldump. Would there be anything in here that might shed some light
on the issue?
I'm at a loss here. The only "different" things I had done between when
MySQL was working and when it decided to no longer accept my passwords
was to launch Chrome instead of Firefox to load a specific Google page
and to allow Bonjour to update iTunes and Safari on this laptop. Though
I can't see how either of those would have any impact on MySQL.
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LYNX-DEV re: Local Lynx for dos or windows 3.1
LYNX-DEV re: Local Lynx for dos or windows 3.1
Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:56:20 -0400 (EDT)
Hello everyone. I hope my solution to your problem you described works
Mr. Jim Dennis had quite a bit to say but unfortunately, There wasn't
much information about how to get and use the DOS port of lynx to do
what you want. Read on.
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Jim Dennis wrote:
> > I hope you can help me.
> > I am a Netscape user who does not believe that "Netscape enhanced"
> > should not automatically mean "Lynx crippled." Very little annoys
> > me more than a site which is clearly designed with the starry-eyed
> > assumptions of high-speed modem, screamingly fast processor, and
> > cutting-edge graphical browser. (I spent too long trying to use Lynx
> > to maneuver my way through poorly designed sites - can you tell?)
> That is a laudable point of view. I agree!
> On the flip side (as someone who does use Lynx as my
> primary browser) I have to comment that sites which are
> agressively Lynx unfriendly -- usually don't have any
> information (content) of interest to me. Most of the
> really "snazzy" sites are all market drivel -- and my
> browser acts as a filter for all of that. However I'm
> primarily a Unix enthusiast and writer -- so I have a fairly
> limited range of needs from the web -- and the people who
> are most likely to provide for those needs are, co-incidentally
> the ones who are most likely to understand the distinctions
> between "content markup" and "cosmetic markup."
> > I dabble in web page design ( http://www.marymt.edu/~modlang/ - in case
> > you are interested), and I try to make these pages text-only friendly.
> > It would be easier if I could get a copy of Lynx that I could run on
> > my PC - a 486DX2, 66MHz, DOS 6.2, Win3.1.
> Does Marymount have any Unix boxes to which you can get
> access? The easiest way for you to use Lynx would be to
> telnet to a Unix system (or VMS) and use a copy that's
> installed there. If your school doesn't have any
> copies of Lynx installed on student access systems you
> might want to point out to them that this is the easiest
> way to comply to equal access guidelines and laws -- vis a vis
> web access for visually impaired students.
> (I'm not visually impaired -- I'm GUI challenged).
> > I seem to have found a reference to Lynx 2.7 for DOS 386+, which would
> > probably work, but I am not certain what else I need. The blurb (
> > http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm ) mentions that I should have
> > a packet driver. Would this be necessary for me? I am not planning
> > on using this as my primary browser (yet ;-), I simply want something
> > so I can test the pages locally when they are in development. So all
> > the URLs would look like file:///c:/html/index.htm.
> This is true. The DOS port requires some sort of networking
> code -- even if you just want to access local files. I know
> that sounds like a silly requirement and like it should be
> simple to program around. However, that doesn't seem to be the
> case. It would apparently take alot of work to make a
> "non-network" enabled Lynx browser.
> However I've heard that there are "dummy" or "loopback"
> packet drivers. I'll use the search string "crynwr" to find
> more info on these -- Crynwr is the company named for
> (Russ Nelson?) -- who wrote and released most of the packet
> drivers to the 'net.
> I haven't used MS-DOS regularly for a couple of years --
> so I'm way out of practice. Another option would be to
> install Linux on your 486 (or FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc).
> These are free packages -- and a 486 is plenty of horse
> power for Linux (I'm using a 386 as I type this).
> There are three cons to this:
> 1. Linux (and other forms of Unix) are significantly
> different from and more complex than MS-DOS.
> X Windows (the protocol through which most Unix
> GUI's operate) is much more complex than Windows.
> In other words there is quite a bit of learning
> curve. (On the up side -- being skilled in
> Unix is useful in a variety of job markets.
> Beyond the PC and Mac worlds almost every plaftorm
> runs some for of Unix and most other operating systems
> share many similarities to Unix).
> 2. Linux can boot and run in only 4Mb of RAM. However
> 16 or 32 Mb are *much better*. The system I'm typing
> this on is a 32Mb 386.
> 3. Linux (and any other version of Unix) can take up
> quite a bit of disk space. A typical Linux distribution
> comes with compilers and interpreters for several
> programming languages, a half a dozen editors, a dozen
> mail and newsreading clients, source code for just
> about everything -- and almost two thousand utilities.
> Where you have COMMAND.COM Unix provides your choice of
> sh, bash, zsh, ksh/pdksh, csh, and tcsh (just for
> starters -- there are lots of other command shells
> available). So, Red Hat (currently the most popular
> Linux distribution -- and hands-down the easiest to
> install) will want somewhere between 100 and 200 Mb
> of disk space. I run Slackware myself and find it
quite easy to install.
> On the flip side I've installed "DOSLINUX" in 20Mb
> on my favorite laptop. This "distribution" of Linux
> is intended to be installed in a DOS partition and
> launched through a simple DOS batch file (using
> a DOS program called LOADLIN.EXE). This is a one
> way trip (per session)-- you have to shutdown/reboot
> your system to go back to DOS from Linux. However,
> DOSLINUX does come with a recent version of Lynx,
> and a pretty decent selection of other Unix tools.
> > Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. Okay, here's how
you can accomplish your task. First get the dos port of Lynx from
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.html and unzip it. If you use
pkzip, be sure that
you use the -d switch. The -d switch tells pkunzip to make the
directories contained in the zip archive. If all goes well, there will be
a drivers directory under the lynx2-7- directory and there you will find a
driver called slip8250. Now load the driver like this:
slip8250 1 0x60
Note that you might have to use a different serial port than the one
shown. The idea is to pick a serial port that doesn't have anything
connected to it since we are not interested in accessing remote files at
this time. If you want to remove this driver, you can use the termin
program like this:
Take a look at the readme file that comes with lynx for more specific
You should be all set with this but if you still have questions, I am
always more than willing to help.
> Thank you. > > I hope my suggestions help. I'd be willing to help more
> with the DOS stuff -- but I've rarely used the packet drivers
> for DOS (I mostly stuck with Novell's LAN Workplace TCP/IP
> package) -- and they've probably changed quite a bit since then
> > Denise Plourde
> > address@hidden
> > address@hidden
> Where are you located? If you're in the SF Bay area then
> my wife and I could make arrangements to help in person.
> She has kept up a little more on the DOS side of the world
> -- having stayed in tech support while I moved on to other
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someoneinjapan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 22:16:01 CET 2007
I agree it could work like the microsoft intellisence. When you start
typing the word it does a look up and tries to autofill the rest if you hit
space once the right name is highlighted then it finishes it off for you.
Either that or allow users to search by first or last name. You might be
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[debian & gps] How to check gps
Quakeman1 at gmx.net
Wed Sep 24 18:10:13 CEST 2008
Roland Mas wrote:
> Fox Mulder, 2008-09-24 17:51:30 +0200 :
>> If someone of you manage to use fso-gpsd with tangogps for more than
>> a few minutes without problems than please report it. My try to do
>> so ended in a failure why i use (old) gpsd at the moment.
> It works for me. I don't record traces these days because I'm stuck
> at home working, but I get a fix that lasts for as long as I've looked
> at it so far.
And you use debian and only deinstalled gpsd und installed fso-gpsd for
that to work?
Is the gps-time correctly shown in tangogps?
Maybe i should try it again if this works for you.
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[mapguide-users] Create programmatically a map
Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
ks at geograf.dk
Thu Feb 12 07:54:50 EST 2009
You could have the problem that .Net emits an utf-8 byte-order-marker
To counter this, explicitly create an encoding instance:
System.Text.Encoding enc = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding(false);
Then implement a xml writer, or manually convert the xml to bytes, using
FYI, the MaestroAPI is LGPL, and so you may use it as a library, even
for commercial applications,
and it handles this quirk and others.
Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
> Dear all,
> I have created programmatically a map (and its layout) using MG .Net web
> After creation, the new map and layout are visible in MG Maestro, and using
> the 'Show in browser" button are correctly shown in browser.
> The problem happens when I load the map directly from browser, and the
> following error appears:
> << The type 'OSGeo.MapGuide.MgNullArgumentException' in assembly
> 'MapGuideDotNetApi, Version= 220.127.116.11 11, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=null' is not marked as serializable >>.
> Then, simply saving the new layout from MG Maestro (without any
> modification), and reloading the map directly from browser, the error
> disappears and the map is correctly shown.
> After saving the layout, there aren't differences in map and layout XML
> Have you any idea about?
> Thank you in advance.
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[Development] Dropping the Q prefix from class names
boud at valdyas.org
Sun Apr 1 21:23:06 CEST 2012
On Sunday 01 April 2012 Apr, benedikte.holm at nokia.com wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 April 2012 Apr, Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Stephen Kelly <stephen.kelly at kdab.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I can help out, but only until the end of today I'm afraid.
> > > >
> > > Right, this is my clue that this is indeed an April 1st day joke.
> > >
> > Oh gods -- I've been had for the straight man, right :-) I admit it...
> Gawd, I'm laughing so hard I can hardly breathe!
> Good one João!! :-D
Now I am as well :D But I have to admit that it did spoil my dinner :-). Maybe because stuff like this really doesn't sound too out of this world!
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl
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[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ load balancing/failover with LVS
niko.felger at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 29 10:54:51 BST 2009
Thanks for the reply!
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:02, Matthias Radestock <matthias at lshift.net>wrote:
> So the consumer has two connections - one to lb1 and one to mq1? That seems
> Also, you say that mq1 has a connection *to* the consumer - are you
> implying that your load-balancing reverses the direction of connection
I've done a bit more research on that, and it turns out our loadbalancer is
performing NAT, so that what looks like a second connection is actually the
other end of the connection established by the client.
> - After ~5-10 minutes without messages published to the queue, the
>> connection on the consumer goes away, and it establishes a new
>> connection to lb1. mq1 at this point still has an established to
>> connection to the consumer on the original port, in addition to the
>> new connection. Messages published to the queue in question are now no
>> longer delivered to the consumer.
> Any idea what causes the original connection to get dropped?
> Also, what client are you using, and do you have heartbeats enabled on the
> AMQP connection?
>From what I've seen, the loadbalancer times out the connection, but fails to
close it on mq1. Why this happens, I don't know, but a colleague mentioend
he's seen LVS misbehaving like this in different setups before.
We're using this ruby library: http://github.com/tmm1/amqp/tree/master,
amqp-0.8. We haven't got heartbeats enabled, and as far as I can see, the
library doesn't expose a way to set it.
> I am pretty sure some folks have used RabbitMQ behind a load balancer.
> Rabbit doesn't do anything fancy at the TCP/IP level, so generally this
> should work ok.
I am by now fairly convinced that this is a misconfiguration/bug with the
loadbalancer per se. I will post more information as I get it.
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[PATCH] wpa_supplicant 0.6.X: fix FTBFS on Debian GNU/kFreebsd
kel at otaku42.de
Mon Mar 1 04:41:19 EST 2010
On Monday 01 March 2010 21:08:21 Holger Schurig wrote:
> Shouldn't you do this rather for wpasupplicant 0.7.1?
What, like the patch in the other email?
> By staying at this old version, you thwart usage of cfg80211.
Debian squeeze is going to be frozen soon and for a few years. Do you think
it should be frozen with an early release of a development branch of
wpa_supplicant or a mature release of the current stable branch which has
gone through all the "user -> find bug -> report bug -> fix bug" cycles for
a long length of time?
What happens if there is some serious bug found in 0.7.1 release 1/2 years from
now, is Jouni or others likely to help me/Debian fix it? What if a fix for the
problem has been committed but is non-trivial to backport to 0.7.1? Is it less
likely to get help with the current stable release 1/2 years from now?
If Linux, and all its modules, is frozen at 2.6.32, how much benefit is it to
users to be using version 0.7.1 for the next couple of years? Do these benefits
override the advantage of having a version which has been used for a long time
and seems to work well enough now but maybe doesn't support the really new
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[IAEP] stepping down as development team coordinator
dfarning at ubuntu.com
Tue May 11 11:48:37 EDT 2010
Thanks for all of your hard work over the years. You have left your
excellent mark on Sugar and Sugar Labs.
You have carried a heavy load for a long time! I hope that we
continue to see your participation in the Sugar / OLPC ecosystem. (I
am already seeing your name pop up around gnome:)
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> I don't have much time these days, so I'm dropping the development
> team coordinator role in order to have a bit more of time to focus on
> the other stuff.
> I have added the following description to the Vacancies page:
> * Development team coordinator: carries administrative tasks such as
> organizing regular meetings, keep the TODO list updated, keep the
> membership list, and makes sure that the team has clear goals and is
> kept focused.
> We are seeing an increased interest on the development of Sugar, so I
> hope somebody will find time to take this.
> Note that we are still missing people who want to coordinate the
> community and deployment teams, and also miss a release manager. These
> are much more important IMO than the developer team coordinator.
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
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[sugar] "Garden": A (currently hypothetical) Sugar library for sharing state between Activity participants
Mon Nov 27 10:33:36 EST 2006
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 03:01 -0500, Andrew Clunis wrote:
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> It seems to me that OLPC development would be much friendlier for
> students, educators, and wizened geeks alike if Sugar provided a means
> for an author to mesh-enable their Activities in an elegant,
> non-obtrusive and declarative way, *without* the need for a traditional
> client/server topology. Right now it appears that sugar.p2p only
> provides a very simple foundation, thus requiring authors to essentially
> devise their own network protocol.
Correct. The OpenCroquet project (loosely affiliated with Squeak and
built on Squeak) is attempting to do network shared objects as well and
apparently have many bits of it working fairly well including protocols.
> "Garden", as I have termed the hypothetical system in the interim,
> could be the answer to this problem. It would be an amalgam, of sorts,
> of a network object synchronisation system and the high-level Python
> marshalling library sitting on top of it.
> 1) It needs to be easy for Python activity developers to write their
> activities without having to spend significant amounts of time
> devising an activity-specific network protocol;
> 2) The syntax for using it should be as declarative and intuitive as
> 3) It should also at least be partially available (at least the network
> syncing component) to developers using a language other than Python;
> Threat Model:
> Garden earns its name and threat model from the clever "Walled Garden"
> metaphor mentioned in the OLPC Human Interface Guidelines. The general
> idea is that all participants enjoy equal and nearly absolute trust
> within the context of an activity. That said, there should be a clear
> boundary between the activity context and the local personal context of
> a user. Everyone can draw and muck about in the soil, but you don't
> want some other kid coming up and giving you a wet willy (read: explode
> your laptop).
> Changes would be transmitted as "differentials". Transmitting the
> entire object for each change would be prohibitively expensive in terms
> of both network and CPU, and would also make debugging network logs more
> The mechanism of the network component could be this: all the laptops
> in the Activity are joined together in a single multicast group.
> This will likely be done via the existing facilities in Sugar
> (sugar.p2p) for many-to-many messaging (reliable multicast, etc.).
> However, apparently that component of sugar is likely going to
> rewritten or heavily refactored, so naturally any development will need
> to follow the changes made there.
One problem with this is that you can't depend on multicast only. You
have to deal with both multicast _and_ unicast. Because of the nature
of wireless networks, you may be on a different channel than the person
sitting next to you. It's unclear whether or not multicast will
actually be routed correctly everywhere, and multicast has other
reliability issues (ie, multicast frames are not retried/acked in the
802.11 protocol level, they are just dropped much like UDP). So over
multicast, there needs to be some best-effort delivery protocol like the
MostlyReliablePipe implements. But the MRP protocol is really bad and
shouldn't be used.
The team from Collabra working on Telepathy (which we may well
transition to soon as a backend to the PresenceService) have done some
looking into Scalable Reliable Multicast, which just might fit the bill
But the model we've been looking at so far is a combination of
jabber/XMPP servers and ZeroConf/Rendezvous/Bonjour/etc to get a more
complete picture of who's around. That's also necessary for
scalability. You'll always know who's in the immediate area using
Avahi, but when you're in range of a school server, we should be talking
to the server and merging the server's list of who's around with the
ZeroConf list of who's around to give a much more complete picture. If
you want to talk to a person who's not visible with ZeroConf (ie, they
are on a different radio channel, network segment, or across the globe),
you'll need to either use XMPP to the school server, or communicate with
that person directly.
Anyway, long story for a short point that we can't just rely on
multicast, because the kid in the desk next to you may not be visible to
you without a server helping out.
Farther out, we may wish to use a more peer-to-peer model with elected
supernodes that voluntarily aggregate information about who they can see
and how to talk to everyone they can see. JXTA has done some of this
and was something we looked at a year ago, but ultimate it was just not
reliable enough at the time.
> In order to manage the inevitable conflict race condition, at
> negotiation time the participants could assign themselves a random
> "rank" value. In the event that a laptop receives a second changeset
> with a sequence number equal to the one it received last, it would elect
> to drop or use the changeset if the difference between ranks of both is
> negative. If it does decide to keep the newly received changeset, then
> it will have to drop current object from the prior version (including
> any local changes that may have occurred) and replace it with the new one.
> This method has the added benefit of removing the need for a timeout,
> replacing it with a limited number of copies of the object in
> memory. However, the extra memory use could prove expensive.
> Unfortunately, none of this takes the "island case" into account. If
> the group is split in two, then it would continue as two separate
> groups with no rejoin capability (actually, that is debatable because
> the Activity would still be listed in Avahi with the same ID. do I
> have that right?).
Yes; it would still be the same activity id.
> The above system is of course only one method of many to tackle these
> problems. Perhaps a preexisting system like "Fleet" will provide a
> good basis for designing the protocol instead (suggested by Ivan K.).
> The entire network component could be exposed over d-bus for Activities
> written in languages other than Python to take advantage of, since all
> it does is provide a generic interface for ensuring a piece of data
> in memory is kept synchronised with a group of other machines over the
> network. This would make the system meet requirement #3.
Right; there's already going to be the identity & auth service, which
likely will be over dbus, that activities may use to verify the
authenticity of incoming signed messages, and to sign outgoing messages.
This service may not be that different from an API and object model
However, if you're thinking of a _library_ that activities can use, then
DBus really isn't the answer, since that would require that the Garden
bits be a service, and therefore a daemon running all the time. If it's
really just a library providing an API that activity authors can plug
into, then it would need to have bindings for the various languages that
people will likely develop in.
> High-Level Python Component:
> The language-specific component, at least for Python (requirement #1),
> could be implemented something like this: Every time one laptop makes
> a change to the shared object, the library is instructed to propagate
> the change. This could be done by requiring the Activity developer to
> explicitly specify the changes they make by calling some special
> method for every change they make. A more implicit method could
> involve introspection, whereby the library checks each instance
> attribute against older values in memory. Then, the library would
> transmit the modified fields to the multicast group, along with an
> incremented sequence number. Both methods introduce some non-obvious
> complications. Lists and Dictionaries would have to be replaced with
> special Garden-specific versions. Whatever method is chosen, it is
> important to keep requirement #2 in mind.
> A thread would probably be necessary to wait for new messages coming in
> from the network, and a Lock for the entire shared object as well.
Possibly not, it can be done fairly easily of the activity is written
correctly; ie if the activity does not block. The network bits only
need to tie into the activities event loop, or if you use DBus, then
DBus needs to be tied into the event loop.
> Best Practices for an Activity Author:
> - - Never trust any data inside a shared object outside the scope of the
> Activity (be wary of things like filenames, turing-complete code such
> as scripts, data that you might pass into code other than your own,
> - - Make the rest of your Activity code as state-independent as possible,
> because for several reasons the library may replace the entire state
> of the shared object(s)
> (conflict rollbacks, joining a new activity, etc.).
Right; it's really difficult to do shared state in a highly distributed,
low-bandwidth, unreliable transport network model like OLPC :)
It's a good idea to start working on something like this. And remember
to keep it simple from the start and work out from there, otherwise it
may seem like a mountain to climb. Furthermore, it might be useful to
identify one or two use-cases to build the model around; pick an
activity or two that you would envision would use this library, and look
at everything the library does with respect to those activities (and the
kids using those activities!) needs and interactions.
> Other Possible Features:
> - - A "private" mode, whereby setting up a symmetric session
> key by doing some sort of key negotiation via DH. This feature, if it
> exists at all, should be made easy to disable because many jurisdictions
> in the world take a jaundiced eye to cryptography.
> - - A "proxy" mode to allow someone to bring a friend in who is not on the
> local network but rather on the public Internet somewhere.
> This is a really hard problem, so I elected to post this brain-dump
> instead of write any code. There will almost certainly be many differing
> opinions about how to go about doing this.
> Is my take on this utterly hare-brained or does it have some merit? :)
> - --
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[svlug] Formatting to NTFS
paulz at ieee.org
Mon Oct 12 13:31:17 PDT 2009
One more thing. M$ operating systems do not understand that they are not the entire universe. You will probably need to get Vista installed and working. Then expect you will have to re-install Ubuntu (at least partially) so the MBR and bootloader can be configured to allow a selection.
You might also want to go to an Installfest where folks can give you real time assistance. There is usually one on the 3rd Saturday of the month.
"Skip Evans" <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
got a new Dell Latitude E6500 which came with Vista on it. When I went
to install Ubuntu > there was not enough room left so I tried to resize
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ARIZARD-L ArchivesArchiver > ARIZARD > 2005-11 > 1132195145
From: "Dale Marr" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Wise, Boyer and Richardson (Don)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:39:05 -0600
References: <firstname.lastname@example.org> <4377C064.email@example.com> <010301c5e957$b5dfb250$0c00a8c0@D388LL11> <firstname.lastname@example.org> <email@example.com> <0ccb01c5ea52$56a551e0$6400a8c0@sager> <firstname.lastname@example.org> <0d7301c5ea64$d7a681d0$6400a8c0@sager> <email@example.com>
> OK, got it now, I guess. So if they really had only been married 9
years in 1900, none of the children belong to Mary A. Boyer, they all
belong to Sarah Ann "Sally" Clinton? The youngest child in 1900
census is 11. For some reason I though F. H. and Mary Ann got
married in 1881 and so LaFayette and Loretta were their children?
Mary Ann Boyer's first husband, Theodore Wise, died in Sep 1881. So she was a widow for 10 years before she married F.H.
Richardson. I found their marriage date in the AR marriage records. The 1900 census showed Mary Ann had 3 children w/ 3 living.
Apparently Sarah Clinton died between Jul 1888 and 1891.
Francis Harvey Richardson md. Sarah Ann Clinton before 1873.
Martha Jane "Mattie" Richardson b. 06 Jun 1873
Anna Richardson b. Abt. 1878
William Harmon Richardson b. 10 Sep 1880
Fayette (Lafayette?) Richardson b. Jun 1882
Loretta Richardson b. Jul 1888
Matthew Theodore Wise md. Mary Ann Boyer about 1873.
Benjamin Franklin Wise b. 27 Dec 1873
Nancy Alice Wise b. Abt. 1875
Louetta Christine Wise b. 23 Nov 1881
F.H. Richardson md. Mary Ann Boyer 01 Mar 1891 in Fulton Co., AR
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ESSEX-UK-L ArchivesArchiver > ESSEX-UK > 2008-06 > 1214700804
From: "La Greenall" <>
Subject: [Ess] Coggeshall
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:53:24 +0100
Sorry this isn't directly genealogical, but it is Essex!
Yesterday, I took a party of WAHS members to Coggeshall for a day out,
and thought it might be worth recommending to anyone with Cogg roots, or
just thinking of trying a visit within Essex for a change. One couple in
our group did have Cogg roots, and had a good natter to some locals, and
even discovered a framed photo of their ancestral home displayed in the
museum! (We also found someone there with roots from our neck of the
The town's museum curator, Shirley Ratcliffe, gave us a wonderful tour
of the museum, followed by a guided walk of the town centre. There are
over 200 listed buildings here, including many 16th century
timber-framed wool-merchants' homes. We then visited Paycocke's House, a
merchants' home that is now run by the National Trust.
After lunch (in a 16th century inn next door to Paycocke's) we moved on
to Grange Barn, a 12th century monastic barn that has parallels with
Cressing Temple, then to what is known as St. Nicholas' Chapel, once the
gatehouse chapel of Coggeshall Abbey. From there we moved on to the
remains of Cogg Abbey itself, which are now incorporated into the
outbuildings and farmhouse of a private working farm.
What made the day special, is that on every stage, someone was on hand
and more than eager to tell us all about the sites. If you have any
ancestors from this town then you must get a small party together and
go! There were 17 of us, and for this sort of number everyone was
willing to open their doors especially for us, on a Saturday when they
are normally closed. I must say that it was nice being given the
personal touch! Shirley did very well in making all the local
arrangements for us.
Lastly, I would heartily recommend a tour of the abbey farm, which is
only available by contacting the farmer owner, Roger, who conducts you
round personally, round both the outside and the inside of all the abbey
remains. One of the main attractions is its brickwork, made onsite for
the abbey's construction, and considered to be probably the earliest
post-Roman bricks made in this country. When arranging the day I very
nearly balked at the fee for the abbey farm tour - £8.50 a head (which
almost doubled our members' ticket price) - but on asking everyone on
the way home if it was worth it, the response was rapturous with no
dissentions at all! (I think it must have something to do with the
enormous pots of tea and home-made shortbread provided by Jill, the
I will certainly say that a tour of this farm is more than worth every
penny, and it really did finish off our day with a flourish.
if anyone wants contact details, just ask.
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SCT-ISLEOFMULL-L ArchivesArchiver > SCT-ISLEOFMULL > 2009-02 > 1234653570
From: Ian & Daphne Scott <>
Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Clan Scott Gathering
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:19:50 -0400
An International Clan Scott Gathering is planned for September in
Scotland, as part of Homecoming Scotland 2009.
More information on the various events are available through
and through the Clan Chief's site
There is a great line up of events and tickets for the various events
which can now be booked online. With limited tickets for these events,
if you are considering attending likely best to act quickly.
Please spread the word by cross posting to appropriate lists you may be
a member of, or forward the information to anyone with Scott ancestry.
Ian & Daphne Scott
51 Ambrose St.
Prince Edward Island,
Canada, C1A 3P5
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OSPS E-News ~ FICA Tax Refunds
Tue Jun 8 11:01:17 PDT 2010
You may recall an early-2009 OSPS project in which we refunded
over-withheld FICA tax to state employees who parked in state lots and
paid for their parking with pre-tax payroll deductions. The parking
deduction code had not been correctly configured in OSPA and the
affected employees were owed the excess FICA that had been deducted from
their pay. Because the employer matches the amount of FICA tax paid by
employees, we also owed refunds to the respective state agencies.
While the employees had to be refunded immediately, we had to wait to
make refunds to the agencies until we collected back all of the overpaid
tax from the IRS. At this time, that process is complete and we will be
making these refunds, along with the planned refund to agencies of
assessments and other charges paid to DAS.
On Friday June 4, a memo from DAS Director Scott Harra was sent to
agencies notifying them of the assessment refunds. The FICA refund
amounts were included in that memo. The memo also stated the DAS
Operations would be contacting each recipient agency to determine the
appropriate coding for the refund transactions.
This memo is to assure that agency payroll offices are informed about
the process to be used for the FICA refund. Please forward a copy of
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Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes — Hunk of the Day [PICTURES]
There are beautiful outsides, and there are beautiful insides… and then there are people like Blake Mycoskie, who epitomize both to the extreme.
The entrepreneur from Texas was participating on ‘The Amazing Race’ when he visited Argentina and was struck by how many children didn’t have shoes.
Inspired, he took it into his own hands to create a shoe company that donates one pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased. And that, dear child, is how TOMS were created… and one incredible hunk was born.
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Welcome back for another edition of Webcomics Wednesday. As always, if you have a suggestion or just want to say you were here, please leave a comment below. Now on to the show.
The Adventures of the 19XX is a dieselpunk webcomic by Paul Roman Martinez, and I am only covering Chapter One in this mini-review. The story takes place sometime in the 1930s, or 193X as it says in the comic, the X being a wildcard to give the story some leeway as to how much earlier than World War II it takes place, I guess. The 19XX is actually the name of an organization which I would describe as fighting the good fight against the forces of occult evil. This first chapter is a bit of an introduction to the characters and setting, but manages to include a couple of nice action sequences and a number of surprising turns right off the bat.
This is the type of fun pulp story that I love to read, like Lobster Johnson or the 1930s-era flashback Iron Fist adventures in the Brubaker/Fraction Immortal Iron Fist run. Like those stories, the 19XX have both magic and science on their side, including “mojo bags” that give their user some measure of protection against injury, and (my favorite), the world’s smartest rabbit. Of course, the evildoers have both magic and technology at their disposal as well, with villains like Demonhand and Aleister Gurdjeff (presumably referencing Aleister Crowley and G.I. Gurdjieff).
The art itself is mostly realistic, with special detail paid to period vehicles and architecture. It looks like it was printed on newsprint, which is a nice touch to make it feel more like a historical document. Under most every page, Mr. Martinez has some historical information or pictures that he used in the making of that page, even down to the type of paperclip that would have been used in the ’30s, and for me these are as fun to read as the comic.
All this adds up to a fun read and I am looking forward to catching up on The Adventures of the 19XX.
Tinkers of the Wasteland by Raúl Treviño. I am about 110 pages (out of 356 as of the time of this writing) into Tinkers of the Wasteland and I would love to unequivocally recommend it. But I can’t. I really like the art style and the action scenes in this post-apocalyptic tale; I even like the story, although it is oddly chicken-centric (you have to read it, I can’t explain it). But the dialogue in the story does not work for me. It’s supposed to be funny, but I just find the characters to be dumb and unlikeable. Maybe that’s the point of these characters. but that doesn’t mean it is fun to read about them. The dialogue is pretty crude, mainly consisting of cursing a lot and using homosexual epithets. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against R-rated comedy, but it falls flat for me here.
Yet for some reason I keep clicking, page after page, because of the car chases, fights, bizarre weapons and fighting styles, and the environments. Now that I think on it, the art and action actually make me think of a grungier One Piece, where part of the fun is seeing all the bizarre fighting styles.
So for now, I am continuing to check this one out, and I can definitely recommend giving it a look to see if it suits your taste more than mine, but if at some point the super-lowbrow (like subway level) humor doesn’t let up, I’ll probably give up on this webcomic despite enjoying the rest of it. Oh, and needless to say, it is NSFW.
Widdershins, by Kate Ashwin, is set in the 1830s and is done in a pleasant, cartoony style. It begins with the story of Sidney Malik, a wizard and magician (explained in a bit) who has been expelled from his wizarding university and is about to be evicted from his home. You see, Sidney can do magic tricks and some true magic (wizardry), but he has an unfortunate malady that got him kicked out of school and makes it somewhat difficult to even be a practicing magician. To give away his malady would be to spoil the fun; needless to say, it is vital to the plot, which is about bounty hunters, thieves, and of course, magic.
Per Ms. Ashwin’s commentary, Sidney’s story is just the first chapter and it will be ending this month; the second chapter will switch to other characters that are seen in passing during the first chapter. I will be curious to see where Widdershins goes next, as I have already become attached to Sidney and his associates and want to read more about them.
Two short bits to end this post:
I ran across a new webcomic and I can’t even remember how, but I wanted to mention it here. It is called Cocotte and it is written and lettered by Kat Vapid, and drawn and colored by Ryan Kelly. It is about a cook (not a chef!) at a restaurant in Minneapolis. No kung fu, no hidden world, no airships in the background. In short, nothing like anything else I am reading, so I thought I would give it a try. Perhaps you’d also like to get in on the ground floor of a new webcomic, too. Check it out and give the creators some love; starting a webcomic has to be a bit of a leap of faith, and knowing you have readers keeps you up in the air longer.
Lastly, I reviewed Plume back in the end of January, and I wanted to mention that the Plume Kickstarter funded successfully, tripling its $3,000 goal. Congratulations to Kari Smith and Plume! I also mentioned Namesake in the same post and you still have time to back Namesake Volume One on Kickstarter if you are so inclined.
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New year, new school board
A recently reorganized Warwick School Board posed for the public during last week’s final meeting of 2011.
The officers for the board are:
Dr. Timothy Quinn, president; Todd Rucci, vice-president; Darryl Miller, treasurer; Jo Anne McClain, secretary (non-voting member).
A reorganization meeting held earlier this month opened with the swearing-in of newly elected members Scott Shaub, Nelson Peters and Matthew Knouse; and returning members Miller and Rucci.
Judge Dave Workman swore the members in due to McClain’s absence during that meeting.
On Dec. 20, the reorganized board met to conduct regular monthly business to go over committee reports and approve personnel changes.
The new year will kick off with a committee of the whole meeting and executive session Jan. 2. The next regular board meeting is set for Jan. 17 at 7 p.m.
Posted: December 29th, 2011 under News.
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