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Around 40 firefighters have been tackling a major blaze at a waste management plant in Sheffield this morning.
Crews were called to Frogson Waste Management on Douglas Road at about 4.30am.
The fire had been brought under control by around 8am, but crews are still on site damping down the blaze and roads in the area remain closed.
The fire involved 40 containers of mixed materials, including 6,000 litres of kerosene.
Andy Hayter, group manager for South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, said some of the kerosene had run into local drains.
He said the fire service was now working with the police and the Environment Agency to control the issue.
Mr Hayter said the extent of the impact was 'unclear' at the moment, but specialist equipment is being used to protect drains and local rivers from contamination.
Investigations will now start into what caused the fire.
No one was believed to have been at the site when the fire started and no one was hurt in the incident.
Mr Hayter praised the work of the first fire crews to get to the scene.
"It didn't take long to get under control, thanks to some excellent work by crews. The incident commander's biggest challenge has been protecting the environment," he said.
Work to damp down the fire is expected to continue throughout the day.


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Important Milestone Tonight - We need your help
Friends --
Four by-elections have been called for October 27 and now the hard work of campaigning begins. But the by-election call is not the only milestone this week.
TONIGHT is the end of the Q3 reporting period for political parties. A week into this campaign Elections Alberta will be releasing fundraising and donor numbers for the last three months. That release will inform the first decision voters and pundits will be making as they narrow their choices: who's up and who's down? Who's in the mix?
We can't afford to have people decide the energy lies elsewhere.
We need every dollar and donor we can to make real to the public the incredible momentum the Alberta Party has had for the past few months. But the window to do that closes TONIGHT.
I'm asking all members who haven't donated in the last three months to give what they can. Even a $3 contribution made by the end of the month means the number of donors we have increases by one. If you can give more, please do.
By-elections are about stories. The PCs would like the story to be about renewal. The Wildrose would like the story to be one of revenge. Your donation helps write OUR story: one of new energy and a brighter future.
With your help we can win these elections. Let's give it all we've got.
Catherine Brownlee
Executive Director, Alberta Party
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Last november I started getting a pain in my side inside my ribcage on the left side. Around the same time I started having the worst pain in my face, and my left arm started to act up.
The symptoms varied over 5-6 months, but were persistent every single day and still are.
I started at my normal physician 5x, who checked tons of blood tests, endocrine, liver, vitamin levels, heart, and I even had an endoscopy to look for an ulcer from the side pain. Which was crystal clear.
He gave me nortryptiline and endomethacin. The nortryptiline helped the nerve pains I get from opening my mouth, but it was still there and I wasn't happy with it as a solution. The doctor would only give me 6 weeks worth, and I was getting copay'd to death. I haven't been back to him.
I went to a dentist thinking it was tooth pain, he referred me to an orthodontist who did a big xray and told me it wasn't a tooth, and referred me to a neurologist.
The neurologist listened to my symptoms and scheduled a MRI, I took it last week, but the neurologist is booked for 2 weeks still. I have no idea what he'll say. If he says there was nothing on it, I'll probably eventually kill myself because it is THAT BAD. I can't even talk to people or concentrate because of the persistent, intense pain.
Symptoms from the arm and side pain:
Feeling of pressure in armpit and down side to the pain inside the ribcage. It's not muscle pain, but rather deep nerve pain or glands or something like that, a deep, core, root pain.
The arm is(for months) numb down the tricep down the arm to the pinky finger and one next to it. Both go through periods of complete numbness for a month or more, other times it goes to a burning stabbing nerve pain almost hypersensitive to touch. But mostly numb.
All 3 pain spots (arm, side inside ribcage, and face) feel like they're connected, it kinda pings back and forth.
Symptoms from Face:
At first it felt like I had novocaine injected between the temple and ear. Or just behind the ear even. My face was numb for a couple weeks, I kept checking in the mirror to see if it moved because it was completely numb.
At the same time I would get "splashes" of firey adrenaline like waves overcome me completely randomly. It felt like the most gut wretching panic/anxiety attack along with this rushing burning in the side of my head that went in a circle around the back left side of the head to the top and to the temple.
The nerves in my cheek burn and stab constantly. Sometimes feeling like electric spasms. If I yawn or talk I get a stabbing spasm going down my jaw almost to the chin.
My eye has been killing me on the left side, it hurts just reading or concentrating, deep inside.
The best way to describe the source of the pain inside the face, is back almost to your tonsils, if you inserted a razor blade strait up into the back left of center of the roof of your mouth, and left it there, that's exactly what it feels like all the time. It feels like everything up in there is sitting on a sharp razor, and when I talk or yawn or even smile it feels like it's being sliced by a razor blade.
I actually went to 2 dentists, eventually an orthodontist, because I was certain that a wisdom tooth moved back and towards the center of my mouth and it felt like the sharp end was poking something. In the back of my mouth, as far back as I can reach my touch back to, there are 2 lumps, one on each side. The one on the left side is where the pain is, above that bone. I thought that bone was a tooth, because if I rub my tongue around it, my pain flairs up big time. The orthodontist took the big wrap-around xray only to tell me the source I was showing him was a bone and not a tooth, and there was nothing on the xray in the way.
He referred me to a neurologist.I had the MRI last week, have to wait 2 weeks to find out what it says.
I'm 28 years old. Male.
What do you guy's think? He of all people should find something shouldn't he? I went to Swedish Medical Center here in Seattle. They did the works, with and without contrast. I was inside the thing for an hour, he said elsewhere it would have been like 20min.


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1977 | PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner became Atlanta Braves manager Ted Turner on this date in 1977. He was fed up with a 16-game losing strike, so he put on the uniform and headed to the dugout himself.
It didn't help.
The Braves lost their 17th straight. Owner-as-manager also didn't last long. Turner's actions were the impetus for a rule change.
National League Commissioner Chub Feeney put the kibosh on the idea of an owner ever taking over managerial authority right away. He also initiated a rule change stating that a team manager cannot own a financial interest in the team (wonder how George Steinbrenner voted).
The Braves won the next game. Molino Leon beat Pittsburgh's Bruce Kison 2 to 1. It was a long season though. The Braves ended up in last place in the Western Division. Their record was 61 and 101; second worst in baseball to the expansion Toronto Blue Jays.
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In 1995, Best Buy tried a little holiday experiment.
Instead of paper gift certificates, the electronics chain wondered if consumers would embrace an encoded piece of plastic, known as a gift card.
"It was a phenomenal success," said Anne Platt, who led Best Buy's gift-card program — and still does. "Consumers got it right away."
The Richfield-based retailer quickly learned what others later discovered — that giving a gift card is hugely popular, not only with the giver but the recipient, too.
Every year, the National Retail Federation asks shoppers what holiday gifts they'd like. And again in 2012, it reported: "There's one (item) that stands out more than any other — gift cards."
Best Buy wasn't the first gift-card issuer, but as a very large and very early adopter, it had an impact. As Platt put it: "This turned the whole brand into a gift."
But it had a broader effect, too. It gave Best Buy's network of Minnesota suppliers and contractors an early head start in a fast-growing market, which contributed to making Minnesota the heart of the gift-card industry. The corporate presence of other powerful retailers such as Target and Supervalu helped, too.
Today, Minnesota companies play leading roles across the industry — from creative firms that design cards, to printers that produce gift cards, to firms that distribute cards.
"There's many aspects of the program that are invisible but do have a positive impact on Minnesota," Platt said.
A company called Travel Tags manufacturers 500 million gift cards a year at its plant in Inver Grove Heights. In national gift-card circles, that places it "No. 1 or 2, depending on the year," said Martha Weaver, its marketing manager.
Another player, Archway Marketing, distributes more gift cards than any other player in the world — 700 million this year — all from a huge warehouse in the Minneapolis suburb of Rogers.
Unlike in 1995, gift cards today come in a dizzying array of styles, occasions, moods — even scents. The creative folks have added whimsy to the gift card, so Target shoppers can give a Lego gift card, and Best Buy once offered a gift card that doubled as a working iPod speaker.
"We've really tried to keep the program fresh and do fun things," Platt said.
If you're lucky enough to get this year's most popular gift, chances are good that in some way, it came from Minnesota.
Tom Webb can be reached at 651-228-5428. Follow him at twitter.com/TomWebbMN.


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1 Dead, 30 Missing in Collapse of Mall Roof
Saturday's good weather may have saved the lives of people who, on a rainy day, would have whiled away the wet hours in Eliot Lake's Algo Centre Mall. Saturday afternoon a section of the mall roof suddenly gave way. Now neighbors keep watch as the search goes on in the town of about 11,500 people, a seven-hour drive northwest of Toronto.
Workers have been working around the clock to stabilize the section of collapsed roof. As the hours tick by, the number of people missing and presumed trapped or dead has continued to fluctuate. As of mid-afternoon Monday, two days after the collapse, the only certainty was that one person was dead, 22 were injured, and many others were still unaccounted for.
CBC interviewed Elliot Lake resident Catherine Timleck-Shaw. She and others have been keeping vigil near the collapsed structure. "It's been very devastating to this town," she said, both in terms of loss of life and the loss of jobs.
The tragic accident follows years of insufficient maintenance. Timleck-Shaw says:
That mall has been leaking since I moved here, and that was 17 years ago. It was nothing to go in and see five buckets all together in the mall, in the Zeller's, in the hallways, in the bathroom. It was always leaking, and you could see that it was rusty water, that there was damage going on in there.
Mall manager Rhonda Bear told CBC that repair work had been done on the roof over the past twelve months, though not in the area that collapsed. As to what may have caused the roof to give way, Paul Walters, the head of a Toronto company that specializes in structural failures, suggests water and salt may have played a role.
For a mall in snow country, with cars parking on the roof, the combination of water and salt is inevitable. So it is likely Timleck-Shaw's assessment was right and that the bones of the mall were rusting.
An investigation by a company such as Walters Forensic Engineering will reveal the steps that led up to the structure's collapse. In the meantime, the instability of the damaged structure continues to hamper rescue efforts.
An eye witness shot the video footage below. The Globe and Mail has posted photos of the accident.
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Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan ranked number eight on U.S. News and World Report's list of the country's best science and math high schools.
Schools specializing in science, technology, engineering and math, sometimes called STEM schools, are ranked based on how many advanced placement exams their students take and pass in those subjects.
Other New York City schools made the list include Manhattan's High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies (No. 34), Staten Island Technical High School (No. 46), the Bronx High School of Science (No. 112) and Queens High School for the Sciences at York College (No. 139).
High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey, ranked No.1, while Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, came in second.
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By introducing new programs such as the Paint Tester program, and the reintroduction of the Classic Color Palette, Benjamin Moore proves its commitment to the best of color in your home. Through new products introductions such as AURA, Natura and Eco-Spec , Benjamin Moore continues to ensure that its customers receive the best of all paint technology available.
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If you have an ipad, (or even if you don't), you'll want to check out Art.com's Future/Canvas 2: The Emerging Medium of Ipad Art. Starting tonight through June 23rd, the second annual exhibit features digital works by artists such as Julia Kay, Matthew Watkins, Scott Draves, Sandra Rauch, and Benjamin Rabe.
Free admission. Open Tuesdays and Thursdays. 4pm-7pm. Gray Area Foundation For The Arts. 988 Market St. (At Taylor). To purchase ipad art prints, go to art.com. For more information, click here.


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Second-year wide receiver Aldrick Robinson has been in that spot as well, but only once. He didn't make it, instead spending all but one game last season on Washington's practice squad.
Entering the Redskins' second preseason game Saturday at Chicago, both players believe their current predicaments will help them endure the coming weeks and earn a spot on the team's 53-man roster. Austin and Robinson are competing with Brandon Banks, Anthony Armstrong and Dezmon Briscoe for the final few receiver slots.
Austin didn't make the team his rookie season in 2010. He spent a majority of that campaign on the practice squad but earned spot on the team last season. In 13 games, Austin tallied 12 catches for 137 yards and contributed on special teams. He said Thursday that consistency is vital in the final few weeks of preseason, but so is making a splash.
"As a slot receiver, I want to be able to be automatic in situations like third down or whenever my number is called on to make the play," Austin said. "In a crucial situation like third down or a game-winning touchdown or something like that, I have to make those plays.
In practice, he said, he's been working to give the team's quarterbacks confidence that he can get open on any play.
"I know what the coaches are expecting of me," Austin said. Redskins coach Mike Shanahan is "trying to put the best 53 together, and the best way to show him that I'm worthy of that is to go out there and make plays. That's what I know has to be done after these last few years."
Robinson described remaining on the practice squad until last season's final week "a grind," but said the experience was helpful. It gave him an opportunity to hone his route-running skills and grow more familiar with the team's offensive system.
Now he's trying to do what Austin did in his second year – make the jump out of training camp from practice squad to active roster. He said his speed and his knowledge of the offense are his greatest assets.
During the preseason opener last week at Buffalo, Robinson caught both of the passes that were thrown to him and registered 28 receiving yards. He said he wants to build off that performance Saturday.
"I've got a little momentum heading into the second preseason game because I feel like I did well in the first one," Robinson said. "I had a couple catches in a couple key moments."
To augment their chances of making the team, both players also have spent time in practice returning punts. Robinson said he never served as a punt returner in college at Southern Methodist, but noted "all you've got to do is just know where it's going, and the rest will take care of itself."
It may or may not be quite that simple, but possessing a more diverse skill set certainly won't hurt either player's chances of avoiding a pink slip.
"A lot of people ask me, 'Are you stressing?' or, 'Is this something that you're worried about?'" Austin said. "I mean, this is all I know is competing. . . I'm not nervous in any sense at all. It's just more so like, there's no pressure at all; this is just a game. This is what we do. I'm used to that."


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In Liverpool, taxi drivers are spreading the word; at Wheeldon Copse, Cheshire, residents have pinned messages of support on to fence posts; and in a derelict china clay pit in St Austell, a collaboration between locals and a visiting posse of Scousers has made the impossible possible - and it's all about wildflowers.
"All the best ideas are dreamed up over a pint," says Grant Luscombe, chief executive of Landlife. Since their first meeting in a pub in the 1970s, the urban nature conservation charity begun by Luscombe and two fellow geology graduates has established wildflower landscapes on disused and neglected land where most conservationists would fear to tread. Key to Landlife's success, he says, is the organisation's deep involvement with local communities.
To draw an uninitiated public into its way of thinking, in 2001 Landlife established the five-acre National Wildflower Centre in Court Hey Park, on the edge of Liverpool. Here, on a range of unfamiliar growing media - recycled clothes, cockleshells, brick rubble or crushed CDs - wildflowers flourish. There is also a working nursery and a 160m green-roof walkway over the visitor centre.
Landlife's projects, always carried out in partnership with larger bodies such as Woodland Trust, English Nature and the Eden Project, extend into all manner of sites, from seemingly inhospitable motorway embankments transformed into sterile, nutrient-rich grassland to a simple sowing of cornfield annuals in the shadow of rundown tower blocks in Kirkby, on Liverpool's outskirts, known as Old Rough (pictured). Wheeldon Copse is the site of its latest and most exciting technique for growing wildflowers: topsoil inversion. This involves deep ploughing that turns the soil upside down, so both fertile and sterile topsoils are buried and low-fertility sub-soils come to the surface, creating an ideal growing medium for wildflowers.
From a postal survey on its work, sent to 2,000 local residents, the centre received an 18% response, an astonishing result in an area where fewer than 10% vote in a general election; 64% of those who returned their questionnaires said that Kirkby's new wildflower meadows had inspired them to venture outside more regularly. "The direct health benefits, both physical and emotional, to seriously deprived communities is invaluable," Luscombe says. On that basis, that first pint has to have been one of the most worthwhile he's ever supped.
How to gow wildflowers
Look at existing conditions Note aspect, soil, areas of light, shade, damp and dry, and the position of features such as walls, hedges and trees.
Choose a variety of wildflowers that produce a display throughout the season and supply nectar to insects year long.
Sow seed or plug plants in drifts to make it easier for bees and butterflies to locate favourite plants.
Buy from reputable nurseries that supply plants from cultivated stock and not wild collected populations. Try Landlife (0151-737 1819, wildflower.org.uk), Emorsgate Seeds (01553 829028, wildseed.co.uk) and British Wild Flower Plants (01603 716615, wildflowers.co.uk).
Choose plants of local origin wherever possible, so their characteristics correspond to those of the local wildlife that depends on them.
Wildflowers for the garden
Woodland or shady borders
Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis): fragrant, pendulous flowers with attractive foliage.
Solomon's seal (Polygonatum odoratum): creamy, fragrant, tubular flowers.
Sweet violet (Viola odorata): early spring-flowering woodlander with blue or white flowers.
Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa): pure white flowers with bright green foliage.
Flower borders in full sun or partial shade
Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris): a cottage garden favourite.
Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris): creamy flowers; numerous leaflets.
Greater Burnet-saxifrage (Pimpinella major): upright perennial with creamy white or pale pink flowers.
Wood cranesbill (Geranium sylvaticum): saucers of reddish-purple, blue or white flowers.
Grass and lawns
Short grass - camomile (Chamaemelum nobile)
Meadow saffron (Colchicum autumnale)
Long grass - Common mallow (Malva sylvestris): clusters of funnel-shaped, pinkish-purple flowers in spring.
Field scabious (Knautia arvensis): lilac-blue flowerheads that are attractive to bees.
Ponds and pond margins
Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus): sulphur-yellow flowers are as handsome by garden pools as by the edge of lakes, rivers and natural ponds.
White water lily (Nymphaea alba): slightly fragrant, pure white flowers; vigorous grower, best suited to large ornamental ponds.
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria): meadow plant with creamy, white flowers; thrives in boggy conditions.
Rockeries and dry gardens
Wild thyme (Thymus polytrichus): mat-forming, with rounded spikes of pinkish-purple flowers.
Sea campion (Silene uniflora): pure white flowers with inflated calyx.


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As Alex Larsson said in his GUADEC talk yesterday: Decentralisation is good. Flatpak is a tool that is totally agnostic of who is publishing the software and where it comes from. For software freedom, that's an important thing because we want technology to empower users, rather than tell them what they can or can't do. Unfortunately, decentralisation makes for a terrible user experience. At present, the Flatpak webpage has a manually curated list of links to 10s of places where you can find different Flatpaks and add them to your system. You can't easily search and browse to find apps to try out – so it's clear that if the current situation remains we're not going to be able to get a critical mass of users and developers around Flatpak.
Enter Flathub. The idea is that by creating an obvious "center of gravity" for the Flatpak community to contribute and build their apps, users will have one place to go and find the best that the Linux app ecosystem has to offer. We can take care of the boring stuff like running a build service and empower Linux application developers to choose how and when their app gets out to their users. After the London hackfest we sketched out a minimum viable system – Github, Buildbot and a few workers – and got it going over the past few months, culminating in a mini-fundraiser to pay for the hosting of a production-ready setup. Thanks to the 20 individuals who supported our fundraiser, to Mythic Beasts who provided a server along with management, monitoring and heaps of bandwidth, and to Codethink and Scaleway who provide our ARM and Intel workers respectively.
We inherit our core principles from the Flatpak project – we want the Flatpak technology to succeed at alleviating the issues faced by app developers in targeting a diverse set of Linux platforms. None of this stops you from building and hosting your own Flatpak repos and we look forward to this being a wide and open playing field. We care about the success of the Linux desktop as a platform, so we are open to proprietary applications through Flatpak's "extra data" feature where the client machine downloads 3rd party binaries. They are correctly labeled as such in the AppStream, so will only be shown if you or your OS has configured GNOME Software to show you apps with proprietary licenses, respecting the user's preference.
The new infrastructure is up and running and I put it into production on Thursday. We rebuilt the whole repository on the new system over the course of the week, signing everything with our new 4096-bit key stored on a Yubikey smartcard USB key. We have 66 apps at the moment, although Alex is working on bringing in the GNOME apps at present – we hope those will be joined soon by the KDE apps, and Endless is planning to move over as many of our 3rd party Flatpaks as possible over the coming months.
So, thanks again to Alex and the whole Flatpak community, and the individuals and the companies who supported making this a reality. You can add the repository and get downloading right away. Welcome to Flathub! Go forth and flatten…
As I'm sure most readers know, Endless is building an OS to bring personal computing to millions of new users across the world. It's based on Free Software like GNOME, Debian, ostree and Flatpak, and the more successful Endless is, the more people who get access to education, technology and opportunity – and the more FOSS users and developers there will be in the world. But in my role, I get to help define the product, understand our users and how technology might help them, take Open Source out to new people, solve commercial problems to get Endless OS out into the world, manage a fantastic team and work with bright people, learn from great managers and mentors, and still find time to squash bugs, review and write more code than I used to. Like any startup, we have a lot to do and not enough time to do it, so although there aren't quite enough days in the week, I'm really happy!
In any case, the main point of this blog post is that I'm at GUADEC in Manchester right now, and I'd like to blog about Flathub, but I thought it would be weird to just show up and say that after 7 years of silence without saying hello again.]]>
Predictably, the MPEG-LA aren't too pleased with this, and are no doubt winding up their PR and industry allies at the moment, as well as this opening a new front on the Apple vs Google ongoing platform battle. But if your business model is collecting money through what is essentially a protection racket and spreading FUD about patent litigation, the VP8 license implicitly creating a zero-cost zero-revenue patent pool is not going to be good news for you (from the department of Google deleting your business model). The question is now whether the allure of Google's content will win over against the legal chest pounding of the patent trolls, and whether they start flipping switches to make YouTube only serve up WebM content after a while.
Also in amazing and incredible news, Collabora's Telepathy/GStreamer/GNOME/Debian/general R&D guru and staunch Web 2.0 holdout Sjoerd Simons has actually now got a blog after a mere 3 years of us suggesting it to him since he joined Collabora as an intern. He's been hacking on some RTP payloader elements for VP8 so we can use it for video calling on the free desktop. All very exciting stuff, especially in conjunction with Muji (multi-user video calls over XMPP) support heading into Telepathy thanks to NLNet's ongoing support.]]>
Ted Gould was wondering why Mission Control 4 had an API for getting/setting presence for all of your accounts whereas MC5 does not. MC5 has a per-account management of desired/current presence which is more powerful, but loses the convenience of setting presence in one place. Strictly speaking, doing things like deciding which presence to fall back on (a common example being if you have asked for invisible but the connection doesn't support it) is a UI-level policy which MC should not take care of, but in practice there aren't many different policies which make sense, and the key thing is that MC should tell the presence UI when the desired presence isn't available so it could make a per-account choice if that was preferable. As a related side point, Telepathy should implement more of the invisibility mechanisms in XMPP so it's more reliably available, and then we could more meaningfully tell users which presence values were available before connecting, allowing signing on as invisible.
Since MC5 gained support for gnome-keyring, its not possible to initialise Empathy's account manager object without MC5 prompting the user for their keyring password un-necessarily (especially if the client is Ubuntu's session presence applet and the user isn't using Empathy in the current session but has some accounts configured). Currently the accounts D-Bus API requires that all properties including the password are presented to the client to edit. A short-term fix might be to tweak the spec so that accounts don't have to provide their password property unless it's explicitly queried, but this might break the ABI of tp-glib. Ultimately, passwords being stored and passed around in this way should go away when we write an authentication interface which will pass authentication challenges up to the Telepathy client to deal with, enabling a unified interface for OAuth/Google/etc web token, Kerberos or SIP intermediate proxy authentication, and answering password requests from the keyring lazily or user on demand.
Jonathan Blandford was concerned about the churn level of Telepathy, from the perspective of distributions with long-term support commitments, and how well compatibility will be maintained. Generally the D-Bus API and the tp-glib library APIs are maintained to the GNOME standards of making only additive changes and leaving all existing methods/signals working even if they are deprecated and superseded by newer interfaces. A lot of new interfaces have been added over the past year or so, many of which replace existing functionality with a more flexible or more efficient interface. However, over the next 4-6 months we hope to finalise the new world interfaces (such as multi-person media calls, roster, authentication, certificate verification, more accurate offline protocol information, chat room property/role management), and make a D-Bus API break to remove the duplicated cruft. Telepathy-glib would undergo an ABI revision in this case to also remove those symbols, possibly synchronised with a move from dbus-glib to GVariant/etc, but in many cases clients which only use modern interfaces and client helper classes should not need much more than a rebuild.
Relatedly there was a query about the security of Telepathy, and how much it had been through the mill on security issues compared to Pidgin. In the case of closed IM protocols (except MSN where we have our own implementation) then we re-use the code from libpurple, so the same risks apply, although the architecture of Telepathy means its possible to subject the backend processes to more stringent lockdowns using SElinux or other security isolation such as UIDs, limiting the impact of compromises. Other network code in Telepathy is based on more widely-used libraries with a less chequered security history thus far.
The next topic was about support for OTR in Telepathy. Architecturally, it's hard for us to support the same kind of message-mangling plugins as Pidgin allows because there is no one point in Telepathy that messages go through. There are multiple backends depending on the protocol, multiple UIs can be involved in saving (eg a headless logger) or displaying messages (consider GNOME Shell integration which previews messages before passing conversations on to Empathy), and the only other centralised component (Mission Control 5) does not act as an intermediary for messages. Historically, we've always claimed OTR to be less appealing than native protocol-level end-to-end encryption support, such as the proposals for Jingle + peer to peer XMPP + TLS which are favoured by the XMPP community, mostly because if people can switch to an unofficial 3rd party client to get encryption, they could switch to a decent protocol too, and because protocol-level support can encrypt other traffic like SRTP call set-up, presence, etc.
However, there is an existing deployed OTR user base, including the likes of Adium users on the Mac, who might often end up using end to end encryption without being aware of it, who we would be doing a disservice by Telepathy not supporting OTR conversations with these people. This is a compelling argument which was also made to me by representatives from the EFF, and the only one to date which actually held some merit with me compared to just implementing XMPP E2E encryption. Later in the summit we went on to discuss how we might achieve it in Telepathy, and how our planned work towards XMPP encryption could also help.
We also had a bit of discussion about Tubes, such as how the handlers are invoked. Since the introduction of MC5, clients can register interest in certain channel types (tubes or any other) by implementing the client interface and making filters for the channels they are interested in. MC5 will first invoke all matching observers for all channels (incoming and outgoing) until all of them have responded or timed out (eg to let a logger daemon hook up signal callbacks before channel handling proceeds), all matching approvers for incoming channels until one of them replies (eg to notify the user of the new channel before launching the full UI), and then sending it to the handler with the most specific filter (eg Tomboy could register for file transfers with the right MIME type and receive those in favour to Empathy whose filter has no type on it). Tubes can be shared with chat rooms, either as a stream tube where one member shares a socket for others to connect to (allowing re-sharing an existing service implementation), or a D-Bus tube where every member's application is one endpoint on a simulated D-Bus bus, and Telepathy provides a mapping between the D-Bus names and the members of the room.
In terms of Tube applications, now we've got working A/V calling in Empathy, as well as desktop sharing, and an R&D project on multi-user calls, our next priority is on performance and Tube-enabling some more apps such as collaborative editing (Gobby, AbiWord, GEdit, Tomboy…?). There was a question about whether Tube handlers can be installed on demand when one of your contacts initiates that application with you. It'd be possible to simulate this by finding out (eg from the archive) which handlers are available, and dynamically registering a handler for all of those channel types, so that MC5 will advertise those capabilities, but also register as an approver. When an incoming channel actually arrives at the approval stage, prompt the user to install the required application and then tell MC5 to invoke it as the handler.
Colin Walters asked about how Telepathy did NAT traversal. Currently, Telepathy makes use of libnice to do ICE (like STUN between every possible pair of addresses both parties have, works in over 90% of cases) for the UDP packets involved in calls signalled over XMPP, either the Google Talk variant which can benefit from Google's relay servers if one or other party has a Google account, so is more reliable, or the latest IETF draft which can theoretically use TURN relays but its not really hooked up in Telepathy and few people have access to them. XMPP file transfers and one-to-one tube connections use TCP which is great if you have IPv6, but otherwise impossible to NAT traverse reliably, so often ends up using strictly rate-limited "SOCKS5"-ish XMPP proxies, or worse, in-band base64 in the XML stream. We hope to incorporate (and standardise in XMPP) a reliability layer which will allow us to use Jingle and ICE-UDP for file transfers and tubes too, allowing peer to peer connections and higher-bandwidth relays to enhance throughput significantly.
Ted Gould had some good questions about the future of Telepathy…
Should Empathy just disappear on the desktop as things like presence applets or GNOME Shell take over parts of its function? Maybe, yes. In some ways its goal is just to bring Telepathy to end users and the desktop so that its worth other things integrating into Telepathy, but Telepathy allows us to do a lot better than a conventional IM client. Maemo and Sugar on the OLPC use Telepathy but totally integrates it into the device experience rather than having any single distinct IM client, and although Moblin uses Empathy currently it has its own presence chooser and people panel, and may go on to replace other parts of the user experience too. GNOME Shell looks set to move in this direction too and use Telepathy to integrate communications with the desktop workflow.
Should Telepathy take care of talking to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc? There's no hard and fast rule – Telepathy only makes sense for real-time communications, so it's good for exposing and integrating the Facebook chat, but pretty lame for dealing with wall posts, event invitations and the like. Similarly on the N900, Telepathy is used for the parts of the cellular stack that overlap with real-time communications like calling and SMS, but there is no sense pushing unrelated stuff like configuration messages through it. For Twitter, the main question is whether you actually want tweets to appear in the same UI, logging and notification framework as other messages. Probably not anything but the 1-to-1 tweets, meaning something like Moblin's Mojito probably makes more sense for that. Later in the summit I took a look at Google Latitude APIs, which seem like something which Telepathy can expose via its contact location interface, but probably not usefully until we have support for metacontacts in the desktop.
Can/will Telepathy support IAX2? It can, although we'd have to do a local demultiplexer for the RTP streams involved in separate calls. It's not been a priority of ours so far, but we can help people get started (or Collabora can chat to people who have a commercial need for it). Similarly nobody has looked at implementing iChat-compatible calling because our primary interest lies with open protocols, but if people were interested we could give pointers – its probably just SIP and RTP after you dig through a layer of obfuscation or two.
If you want to know more about Telepathy feel free to comment with some follow-up questions, talk to us in #telepathy on Freenode, or post to the mailing list.]]>
I was really impressed by Jason Clinton and others' summaries of the sessions, which I think are really valuable for the people who couldn't make it to the summit. He asked me to take some notes about the first Telepathy session on Saturday evening while he was taking notes about the Outreach session. Rather than lumber him with my deranged scratchings from Tomboy, I'll blog them separately.]]>
Aside from that, we're planning to hack on Empathy for basically the whole day, looking at MC5 porting and UI polish, so there will be a big load of Collabora folks and friends somewhere. Will update when I know where.]]>
A passing mention is deserved for apachetop too, which is pretty neat, but when a server is being hammered it's not something I found too hard to get a feel for just by tailing the log for a while, so it's not been as life-changing as the others. Maybe that just means my servers don't see enough traffic.]]>
"… all programs that interact with e-mail are broken in one way or another. Please be careful." – Lars Wirzenius
I seem to have a cunning knack of finding problems with configuring server software, particularly involving e-mail, where a) I can't find answers in Google, b) most people I go and ask for help say they'd usually ask me such things, and c) if I go onto IRC or mailing lists I end up helping other people and not getting any help with my problem. It's quite likely this is just because I'm something of a perfectionist, so the ridiculous crappy hacks people come up with and seem content to entrust their mail to are unacceptable to me for one reason or another. Anyway, in my ongoing quest for the perfect mail system, I've painted myself into a corner again.
(I'm currently running with postfix, postgrey, clamav-milter, dspam, dovecot using LDA, managesieve and the cmusieve & antispam plugins. If I can get the current incarnation working, I've had enough requests to write up a full HOWTO, and seen enough around with pretty questionable content, that I'll probably do it before too long.)
I've got postfix's local transport configured to hand mail to dspam over LMTP, using mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/dspam/dspam.sock. dspam is configured to listen here, add X-DSPAM-Result and signature headers, and then deliver the mail with dovecot's deliver LDA (which I've set to 4750 root:dspam). From dspam.conf:
ServerParameters "--deliver=innocent,spam -d %u"
ServerDomainSocketPath "/var/spool/postfix/dspam/dspam.sock"
Preference "spamAction=tag"
Preference "signatureLocation=headers"
TrustedDeliveryAgent "/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver"
My dovecot configuration is pretty standard, using PAM for both passdb and userdb, and provides the auth-master socket that deliver needs. The problem I have is that postfix's local transport is qualifying the local username with the FQDN of the machine before delivering it to dspam with LMTP (the local mail transfer protocol), even for locally-originated mail which was only addressed with a bare username! dspam doesn't mangle it or care if the user is local or not, and then cheerfully invokes deliver -d email@example.com, which returns EX_NOUSER (addressee unknown) because my username is just robot101. From mail robot101:
Mar 6 02:25:40 omega postfix/pickup[13607]: DAA4942F41F: uid=1000 from=<robot101>
Mar 6 02:25:40 omega postfix/cleanup[13637]: DAA4942F41F: message-id=<email@example.com>
Mar 6 02:25:40 omega postfix/qmgr[12552]: DAA4942F41F: from=<email@example.com>, size=339, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar 6 02:25:40 omega dovecot: auth(default): passwd(email@example.com): unknown user
Mar 6 02:25:40 omega dspam[13527]: Delivery agent returned exit code 67: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d firstname.lastname@example.com
Mar 6 02:25:40 omega postfix/lmtp[13640]: DAA4942F41F: to=<firstname.lastname@example.com>, orig_to=<robot101>, relay=omega.example.co.uk[/dspam/dspam.sock], delay=0.08, delays=0.05/0.01/0.01/0.03, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (host omega.example.co.uk[/dspam/dspam.sock] said: 421 4.3.0 <firstname.lastname@example.com> Delivered (in reply to end of DATA command))
So, no e-mail for me. Dearest lazyweb, which of the three components is behaving wrongly, and how can I fix it?
(And no, I'm not just going to switch to GMail. I store my data on hard drives, which are sometimes in servers, not "in the cloud". Until about a month ago, most people I knew spoke about clouds which were made of particles of water in the sky, rather than as a data storage media. What if it rains?
Update: The problem is fixed! Even though arguably the problem is dspam's for not knowing which users are local or not, it's fixable in dovecot 1.1.x using the auth_username_format = %n option. Thanks so much to Angel Marin for helping me out.
Update 2: There's also a patch for dspam floating around which adds a StripRcptDomain option, which makes the LMTP server truncate the e-mail address at the @, so essentially assumes everyone to be a local user. The problem with both of these fixes is that they're both blunt instruments which will break virtual users on the same host. I think the real fix would be something more like a LocalDomains option in dspam, to choose which domains should be considered local and truncated from the e-mail addresses for delivery purposes.]]>
It's the last day of the most awesome linux.conf.au 2009 conference in Hobart, Tasmania. I've just witnessed the a room full of 500 people sit with baited breath as Linus wielded a set of clippers to shave Bdale Garbee's beard, followed by Bdale (with a razor with 3 more blades than last time he shaved, a tiny bowl of water and a hand-mirror) trying to make it look neater. The LCA twitter feed was up on the projector, and someone rightly observed this whole event was actually pretty weird. There are already pictures on flickr too. However, well done to Bdale for being such a good sport, but it looks like his wife Karen will accompany him next year to make sure he doesn't agree to anything else like this, and supervise the waxing of Rusty's chest…
What's this all in aid of? After the incredible auction for this beautiful picture from Karen, and generous donations at the Penguin Dinner on Wednesday night, the conference has now raised between AU$ 35k and 40k towards the Save the Tasmanian Devil appeal. Around AU$ 1.3k of the nonsensical winning consortium's AU $10.6k bid came from the Collabora folks who were at the dinner, and AU$ 1.2k from Collabora and Collabora Multimedia directly. We were all set to place a winning AU$ 3k bid but then Matthew and Daniel came up with the Bdale shaving scheme, and then things really picked up. I'm glad we took part – the lead scientist from the project was really grateful, and I hope the money can make a real difference to their great work.
On more mundane matters, I also gave my talk this morning, and my slides (Telepathy slides v2.0 thanks to Marco) are online. I also made a few demos of new awesome stuff you can do with Telepathy (most of the patches are already merged upstream or well on the way):
On that note, these were just the five that I picked to try and fit into my talk. There are a load more demos in the pipeline from the other guys in Collabora of doing stuff with Telepathy, so keep a close look on Planet Collabora for the next cool thing.]]>


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Sad Sad news the old Tecumseh HH100 after receiving a new rod,piston,rings and full gasket kit has Just broken down.Still starts up and runs super smooth but has a faint but noticeable knock.I took the side off of it and the darn Nuts on the rod were loose as heck.This is a brand new connecting rod with new lock nuts.I think I'm going to remove the flat washers and put lock washers on.I torqued the nuts twice when I installed them.1 time to seat the cap then loosen and re-torque.
However I Just came from the local scrap yard and found a GEM of an engine that might just fit.It's an 18hp V-Twin Briggs that came out of a 2000 series Cub Cadet.The tractor it came out of was in Horrible cosmetic condition.The paint was peeling off in sheets and it had been unloaded from someones trailer with the claw down at the yard.So pretty much the whole tractor got bent to heck and busted up.Deck was completely rotted out and crushed.The hour meter read 548 hours.I pulled the engine and front rims and tires.
$40 got me the engine and a set of really good front tires and decent rims.
I Just got it back to the house and put away in the shed.It needs some cleaning but compression feels really good and the fuel that came out of the line smelled pretty fresh.
So I need to decide on which engine.The one that I don't use will be sold pretty cheap.I will have to put a set of Suburban rear fenders and gas tank under the seat BUT I also know where there's a parts tractor with those parts and I can get them very very cheap lol.
I think I might just swap the Twin into it.I plan on keeping this tractor.I've never had a mower that mowed as good as this one.It could use a bit more power for mowing the little 10hp grunts pretty hard.It mows super nice and steers sharp and I have a front blade and 3 point for on it.
The tecumseh has the old 1 piece mag so I'm thinking $150 for it would be more than fair.It runs good.I'll be listing 1 of these engines in the classifieds after I've made up my mind on what to do.
Well it's like this If the Briggs will fit Under the hood after I remove the gas tank than it will more than likely be going in it for good lol
It's going to be a little Beasty bugger if the briggs will fit.I don't want to cut on the hood at all if possible.


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You have not included a question with this quote from "Hamlet". I will make a leap of judgement and guess that you want to know a little about the quotation. It is from Act 1, sc. 5 and it is at the end of the scene (and the end of the act). Hamlet spoke the lines to Horatio and Marcellus. Hamlet has just spoken to and heard from the ghost of his father who has asked Hamlet to swear to get revenge for his death. The ghost told Hamlet that he was killed by his brother, the same brother, Claudius, who has married the former king's wife, Gertrude, and has now assumed the ghost's throne. The lines set the tone for the rest of the play and Hamlet's reluctance and delay in getting that promised revenge. Hamlet does not carry out the wishes of his dead father until the last scene of the play, and then, it is almost a spur of the moment, anger-driven act. The lines indicate that Hamlet does not want this burden of responsibility ("cursed spite"), but he realizes that it is his duty as his father's son ("That I was ever born...") to get that revenge against his father's murderer.


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Origin of freckleMiddle English frekel, altered from frakene from Scand, as in Norwegian dialect, dialectal frokle, freckle and Norwegian frekna, Danish fregne, Swedish fräkne, Old Norse frekn?ttr, freckled from Indo-European base an unverified form (s)p(h)ereg-, to strew: see spark
transitive verb-·led, -·ling
to cause freckles to appear on
to become spotted with freckles
Any of the small brownish spots on the skin that turn darker or increase in number upon exposure to the sun.
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To dot or become dotted with freckles or spots of color.
Origin of freckleFrom Middle English frakles freckles alteration of fraknes probably of Scandinavian origin Old Norse freknōttr freckly
Related Forms:
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- A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
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(third-person singular simple present freckles, present participle freckling, simple past and past participle freckled)
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Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknur (plural) (compare Swedish fräknar, Danish fregner), s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą 'freckle' (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- 'to strew, sprinkle'. Cognate with Albanian fruth ("measles"). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.


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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. – Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil regulator has announced a revamped land tenure system that the province says will boost exploration and attract global investors.
Natural Resources Minister Derrick Dalley said Thursday the new scheduled bidding regime will allow more time to gather and assess seismic data, opening the door to more international companies.
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board announced the land tenure system will now operate in four-year, two-year and one-year cycles based on levels of activity in selected regions.
Companies interested in exploring those regions with the least activity will now have up to 48 months to assess parcels in lesser known basins.
Premier Kathy Dunderdale said last June that the land tenure system was outdated and often forced new players to decide on offshore bids within seven months. She made the comment just before heading to China on a trade mission aimed at drumming up interest and investment in the province's offshore sector.
Robert Cadigan, president and CEO of the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industries Association, said the changes update an outmoded land purchase system dating back to 1988.
Up until now, a single-tier nomination process gave companies seven months from the time the regulator issued nomination calls for specific areas until they had to submit costly bids, he explained.
New players generally need about three years to commit to an exploration investment.
"If you're not in the region then, really, how do you participate?" Cadigan asked. "In reality, it really froze out new players looking at entering the market."
Jim Keating, vice-president of oil and gas for Crown corporation Nalcor Energy, said the land tenure changes are coupled with the province's efforts to collect seismic data and make it available for prospective investors.
"Lack of good quality data is one of our big impediments to exploration," he said in an interview.
"Newfoundland and Labrador is currently getting less than one per cent of the total offshore exploration spend which today amounts to about $60 billion worldwide," Keating said.
"We believe one per cent is far too little … especially when you consider the vast area we have on our doorstep."
Cadigan said there wasn't the same push for such changes earlier because it was widely believed that the province's big offshore oil finds had already been made.
That perception is changing.
Nalcor announced earlier this year three potential new oil basins off Labrador. Cadigan said it's an area the size of the Gulf of Mexico.
"We've got a lot of prospects."
Newfoundland and Labrador relies on offshore oil for one third of its government revenues.


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I am as open as I am lazy. I just don't tell people but I don't hide it. I don't treat it as something special and people see what people see. Anyone that I call friend knows.. Everyone else is just passing through.
Family is different I am very open with those I care to keep in touch with
That said I am also not really a part of the poly community.. Too much work.. Too many politics and just not my thing. I have friends some poly some not. Who knows maybe if I was in Victoria where a lot of my poly friends are that might have changed. But in the end..I don't do meetings or meetups.. Too organized and I this community too structured.
There also seems to be an expected set of ressponsibilities when poly and part of the community. So far out of the scope of what I want.. I avoid it.
It's not about telling people, it's about not hiding
You can easily hide being poly if you're, say, dating people from OKC, but nothing serious. Or if you're poly by nature, but not by practice. But if you're, say, dating a married couple, well, it becomes very different.
Either you hide that you're with someone, you come out to a select few, or you say, screw it, and just let anyone who crosses your path know...but, whatever you do, I mean, surely it gets tricky?
I think of it like religion. I am an atheist. I live in the Bible Belt. I have had very sweet, devout Christian old ladies assume I share their beliefs. When they tell me they will pray for me if I am faced with a challenge, I accept their offering with the intent intended. I don't tell them their offering means nothing because i don't believe in God. Why would I do that? they are showing compassion. That is all that counts to me.
So yes, if you were mono people would assume correctly; if you are not they will assume incorrectly.
If I were dating a married couple - and I have - we kept it under wraps to the neighbors, because the children were too young to understand if one of the parents freaked and didn't allow their children to play with the couples' any longer. In that case there could have been consequences that the kids couldn't handle. When the three of us were out somewhere no one knew us, and the kids would not be exposed to attitudes they couldn't cope with, then we went on display.
So I would say pick and choose depending on the circumstance. Me? I have no problem dealing with other people's ignorant views if I must, but I certainly wouldn't put children in a position to have to deal (these children were young 8 and 10), nor would I endanger my job. After that, yeah, it is everybody else's problem; not mine.
I am, though to be truthful when I was in a professional position in a smaller town, I was not comfortable with the idea of being out. My family knows (was somewhat easy because of swinging experience/chronic cheatiness - wasn't too worried about judgement). My husband was always out (20+ years poly) at work and in life, and when I met his parents I was married to my ex still. He was a bit reluctant to use the open relationship status on FB because he has a lot of professional contacts there, but decided to go ahead and start labeling our relationship as such last month.
The only odd thing is that we've moved from owning to renting in the last couple weeks. I have a partner that is needing some extra support and he's been over every day this week - neighbors on all sides have seen him over (perhaps heard ), and it's a bit odd, I think our lease says something about not doing "immoral" things on the premises...it's a pretty liberal area but I've been paranoid about just how that can be translated by a court if the landlord has an issue (he lives nearby, and talks to the neighbors).
I've been considering on my sewing/quilting blog starting mentioning making things for partners/boyfriends whatever, instead of having to phrase things oddly... not that it'd be noticeable to many, but my MIL reads it and for all I know she's assumed we've become monogamous - but I don't like being dodgy - and my husband DID live with them with two of his girlfriends at one time so I'm sure she wouldn't be too scandalized.
I do know that although I always kinda got that "my partner's family doesn't know I'm their partner/how much I mean to them" was hard, I never actually GOT it until this week, when some horrible shit has gone on in the local community with the loss of a metamour. I want to recognize my partners as such where I can, and to be recognized - feeling a bit wishful that my partners were out to their families - feeling somewhat committed to not being involved with anybody new who isn't out, so if things get serious, I know I can be included if something fucked up happens - being out sure makes that feel more possible.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
We are fairly new to all of this BUT I don't think we will be coming out public - a few close people know - one is poly them selves and that has been a great thing for me - to have someone I KNOW to talk with.
I would love to be able to have an open relationship (ie be able to go out and show affection to my BF) but it would be too hard on my family and in our community to ostracize us.
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Published 5:30 am, Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Quarterback Dan Orlovsky is two exhibition games into his first season with the Texans, and a lot of fans are ready to run him out of town.
With Minnesota quarterback Sage Rosenfels returning to Reliant Stadium on Monday night, Texans fans are reminded of just how essential it is to have a quality backup behind Matt Schaub.
Rosenfels, who missed Minnesota's last preseason game because of an ankle injury but is expected to play about a quarter against the Texans, was 6-4 as a starter the last two seasons when Schaub was injured or ill. The Texans traded Rosenfels to Minnesota for a fourth-round draft choice in the offseason.
"I understand a lot is going to be made out of this game with Brett (Favre) coming back (to the NFL) and Sage coming back (to Houston)," Orlovsky said. "I'm fine with that. It's not going to affect the way I prepare."
After Rosenfels was traded, the Texans signed Orlovsky to replace him.
"Dan's still in the learning stage," Texans receiver Andre Johnson said. "He has a lot of potential. There are some things he still has to improve on. But if you haven't been in this system, some guys tend to struggle for a while. Dan works very, very hard, and he's going to keep getting better."
In relief appearances against Kansas City and New Orleans, Orlovsky completed 20 of 37 passes for 257 yards and one touchdown. He also had an interception and a fumble — both costly against the Saints.
"He's done some good things, and he's done some bad things," offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan said. "He's made some good throws to make good plays. What we have to do is to eliminate the bad ones. He had about three drive killers (against New Orleans). If you take away those three plays, I thought he played well."
Taking bad with the good
Orlovsky threw an interception in Saints territory before halftime, and New Orleans turned it into three points. On fourth-and-1 at the New Orleans 2, Orlovsky was sacked and lost a fumble.
"To be honest with you, I think he's played pretty well," Schaub said. "There are a couple of plays that outshine the rest because of when they happened — interception before the half and that fumble near the goal line. But he's made some good plays, and it's encouraging to see him do that.
"I tell Dan that he can't dwell on those things. You have to move forward and have a short-term memory. He has the right makeup to do that."
The coaches, especially Shanahan, are extra tough on Orlovsky when he makes mistakes. He can handle the constructive criticism because he knows he's going to learn from it.
"I try not to evaluate myself; I leave that to the coaches," Orlovsky said. "I know I've done some good things, and I know I've done some things that need to be corrected. I know I've made a lot of strides.
"The biggest step I need to make is being consistently good. Matt does that really well. He's just so solid. Part of my maturation as a quarterback is doing that and making sure my teammates see me consistently make good plays."
Infamous for safety
The Vikings weren't good to the current Texans quarterbacks last season.
Minnesota beat the Texans in the Metrodome. Defensive end Jared Allen was fined $50,000 for two illegal hits that left Schaub with a slightly torn medial collateral ligament.
In Detroit's 12-10 loss at Minnesota, Orlovsky ran out of the back of the end zone while being chased by Allen. That safety caused Orlovsky a lot of grief because it was played over and over on television and became quite popular on YouTube.
"I'll probably never live it down, and I'm OK with that," Orlovsky said. "I can't change it. It's a big blooper, but I've moved ahead. Hey, I ran out of the end zone. There's nothing I can do about it.
"A big part of my makeup is to make sure I don't dwell on mistakes. No good would have come from me dwelling on it. I'm not going to let that play define me as a quarterback. I'll own up to it and address it as many times as needed. That's part of me growing up, not just as a quarterback and a leader but as a man."


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Puromycin - shRNA - stable cell line for knock down - (Oct/05/2012 )
I have this sh RNA construct against p21 which has puro resistance. After transfection and pressure.. very few cells.. less than 100 only would have survived.. and they started dividing rapidly and now with the same amount of puro.. there is no cell death. But when I isolated mRNA and made cDNA and did a real time for p21.. the transcript is still there. Should I design different sets of real time primers and check ?
If the stable selection did not work then why the cells are not dying now ? Can cell lines develop puro resistance by any chance ?
Perhaps your shRNA is not very efficient, perhaps you didn;t use the right amount of puromycin - this should be titrated on non-transfected cells before using for selection.
Did you check whether you can find the shRNA sequence or some other sequence on the plasmid in the colonies?
Is the construct inducible?
Did you check for p21 protein?
I did do a puromycin kill curve .. and selected the puromycin amount to be used. Non transfected at same cell density of seeding dies completely..
I did not check at protein level coz at RNA level itself i got p21 PCR product..
If not transfected / construct is bad.. how are these cells surviving with puromycin pressure?
shRNA is in pLKO.1 vector !
Did you do quantitative PCR or just look for a band on a gel? If you did qPCR, then you should have also done a control where you looked at non-transfected cells RNA levels as well, so you will know if your shRNA construct is working or not. If you just did a gel - you realise that this is an end-point measure - the presence of ANY transcript could easily amplify over 30-40 cycles and give you a band... you need to do qPCR with the appropriate controls. Even the most efficient KD will only result in something like 90% KD - so there will still be transcript there. The protein is the real measure of the KD in the end - that's the functional bit after all.
Occasionally inserted plasmids get methylated as the inserts are different in seqence structure to normal DNA patterns, with just the resistance gene being unmethylated. I don't know how this will work for shRNA constructs thouh.
No i did qRT PCR only !! With control cells.. also for gene of interest as well as B-actin for internal control ! p21 was surprisingly highly expressed in the knock down set compared to control cells...
Thats why i was wondering how then these cells survived if they dont have the plasmid inside !
Thanks anyways.. will check up more about the shRNA transfection/functionality !


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Following the fall of Baghdad in 2003, Iran offered to negotiate a "Grand Bargain" with the United States, which had the potential to resolve outstanding differences. The offer was met with silence. If the United States is to prevail in its contest with militant Islam, it will need to rethink old assumptions, expand the scope of its policymaking to include religion and other "irrational" factors, and be willing to depart from past practice.
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How should the United States deal with the jihadist challenge and other religious imperatives that permeate today's geopolitical landscape? Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement argues that what is required is a longer-term strategy of cultural engagement, backed by a deeper understanding of how others view the world and what is important to them. The means by which that can be accomplished are the subject of this book.This work achieves three important goals. It shows how religious considerations can be incorporated into the practice of U.S. foreign policy; offers a successor to the rational-actor model of decision-making that has heretofore excluded "irrational" factors like religion; and suggests a new paradigm for U.S. leadership in anticipation of tomorrow's multipolar world. In describing how the United States should realign itself to deal more effectively with the causal factors that underlying religious extremism, this innovative treatise explains how existing capabilities can be redirected to respond to the challenge and identifies additional capabilities that will be needed to complete the task.
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"This extraordinary book, which builds upon Dr. Johnston's seminal work on religion and statecraft, offers new and compelling insights into the foreign policy challenges that lie ahead and how they should be approached. Its unique illumination of the Muslim perspective on world events provides the backdrop for a dramatically different way of perceiving and pursuing international relations. At a critical juncture in our nation's history, this exceptional work promises to crystallize new and helpful debate among policymakers and foreign policy practitioners alike."—Dr. Amos Jordan, President Emeritus, Center for Strategic and International Studies; formerly served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
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Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule of Egypt is probably coming to an end, and that means he'll likely leave Egypt right after he leaves power. (Dictators don't usually stick around the countries they dictated.) So where would Mubarak flee? One data mining company, backed by the investment arms of Google and the CIA, has an educated guess.
Recorded Future scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs, and Twitter accounts to find the so-called "invisible links" between people, actions, and events. In this case, the company turned its tools on Mubarak's travel patterns to find clues to his next moves. The guy isn't exactly posting his post-regime plans on his Facebook wall. But, by looking at public documents about where Mubarak has been and who he hangs with, some likely destinations for his exile emerge.
"If you want to know where he's going next," says Recorded Future CEO Christopher Ahlberg, "you've got to know what he's done in the past."
The reasons why he travels matter, too. Mubarak flew both to Germany and France last year: once for cancer treatment, and a second time for suspected health reasons. It suggests that the 82 year-old leader would rather land in a country first class medical facilities (at least for former strongmen). Some of Mubarak's other destinations this year — like Libya, Sudan, and Algeria — don't really fit that bill.
On the other hand, European countries — especially ones with large Arab minorities — might be a little skittish about taking such an unpopular figure. So Germany or France might not be the best choice for Mubarak's retirement home.
Saudi Arabia is another frequent Mubarak destination. He was there in January, 2009, huddling with King Abdullah, and again in July, 2010, talking about the Lebanese political crisis. Mubarak and King Abdullah were supposed to meet again in November — although Abdullah called off the trip at the last minute, because of health issues.
A few days ago, the Saudi ruler blamed "intruders" for allegedly "tampering with Egypt's security and stability… in the name of freedom of expression." And earlier in the month, Saudi Arabia took in ousted Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. No wonder, then, that one chant in Egypt goes: "Hosni Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, the plane is waiting, the plane is waiting. Saudi Arabia is not far!"
Recorded Future's analysts believe that Saudi Arabia is Mubarak's next destination, too.
The company attracted millions of dollars from Google Ventures and from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community, based on the promise that it can forecast coming events automatically. The company's scouring of present and past information is supposed to feed predictive algorithms, which offer likely future outcomes.
But in this case, "humans put it together. No predictive model. No data models," Ahlberg says.
If that's not a ringing endorsement of Recorded Future's predictive powers, consider the performance of one potential competitor. An Air Force-funded firm, Milcord, used a statistical model to put together a list of the 37 countries most likely to see political violence by 2014. Egypt was ranked #36, just ahead of Belgium.
Update 2/1: Milcord's Alper Caglayan wrote in to defende his company's predictive work. "Our model predicts that 37 countries out of 157 are to have increased political violence in 2010 – 2014 based on 2009 data. A fairer comparison would be: Did Recorded Future predict that Mubarak was relocating to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2010?"
Tunisia had no violence in 2009. Our model predicted increased political violence in Tunisia again based on data through 2009. Did Recorded Future forecast Tunisian political violence in the summer of 2010?
When our model predicted increased political violence for countries like Ireland, Italy, etc., a number of folks questioned the model. However, Ireland, Italy did see an increase in political violence since our prediction. We see the wisdom of the crowds as complementary. In particular, models such as Recorded Future can react in real time to forecast the flow after the violence eruption. Our model forecasts the violence onset but lags real-time because of the datasets we use are not real-time.
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