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What to Do About Spam?by Cory Doctorow
Editor's Note: Cory Doctorow presents his views on spam-killer technologies in this message, which he posted to the Silklist mailing list on August 5.
From: Cory Doctorow
Date: August 5, 2002
Subject: What to do about Spam?
Bruce Sterling, in his speech, A Contrarian's View of Open Source at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, rehashed a debate we've been having about spam and the end-to-end principle
I think the world of Bruce, and I have some deep disagreements with him. He's wicked-smart, and that makes those disagreements all the more enjoyable. He's challenged my thinking on this, but I'm still unconvinced (though I've come around on some points).
It comes down to this--to a certain extent, Bruce and I are both techno-determinists, except that, in my opinion, I'm an optimistic determinist and he's a pessimistic determinist.
I shared a room with Bob Frankston at a conference last spring and he basically blew my mind. He did it with his "Connectivity" rant, which you can find by googling "connectivity frankston"--I won't try to sum it up here because connectivity can't be summed up; it can only be grasped, as far as I can tell, through repeated exposure to Frankston at close quarters.
It's about the end-to-end principle and messaging protocols. In an end-to-end, messaging world, my machine sends your machines suggestions, without any intervention from any third party, provided that both machines are on the Internet (or, tautologically, the way that you can tell if a machine is "on the Internet"--an ethereal concept at best--is whether it can receive suggestions from any other machine "on the Internet").
Two principles: any two parties can communicate, and what they pass to one another are suggestions.
The koan that Frankston told me that led me to enlightenment was this: "On the Internet, my right to swing my fist doesn't stop just short of your nose, because it can only impact with your nose if you execute the 'punch-yourself-in-the-nose' suggestion. It's your responsibility to figure out which suggestions you want to execute."
Or words to that effect.
When you see things this way, there is no malware, no spam.
Really. I mean, yes, in the real, present-day world, we don't get to choose which suggestions we execute, but that's because we've got bad software.
But the software is getting better. My second revelatory experience was installing Mozilla 1.0 and finding the "block images from this server" context menu item. The lid lifted off of my head and my brains did a traditional folk-dance in celebration of the extreme cleverness of the Moz hacker hivemind.
Because here, at last, is a crude but amazingly effective way for me to easily decide which suggestions I want to honor and which ones I want to ignore. My pal Raffi at the MIT Media Lab has a sterling (heh) exemplar of the power of suggestions versus orders. He's working on a project that polls a bunch of news-sites, like cnn.com, every couple of minutes, and times the latency of the response.
The idea is that the next time a crisis of 9-11 grade rolls around, these news sites will experience a massive DDoS attack from a half-billion panicked netizens and all the sites will go down. The way it goes is, Raffi's automated user-agent sends an HTTP request to cnn.com, and its httpd believes that it is sending an html file to a browser, and accordingly, it passes a file over the connection that contains a bunch of suggestions as to what to do with that file. Raffi tosses all those suggestions out, and times the response and decides, based on latency, whether something critical is happening somewhere in the world. Because CNN is passing Raffi a suggestion (and not an order!), Raffi can do something totally unexpected with it--Raffi's like a jazz-critic who listens to the pauses as much as he listens to the notes.
Vipul's Razor hints at another universe of suggestion-management. I get a metric fuckload of spam--like, 400 pieces--every day (I get 600 pieces of non-spam every day, too, which is why my time for mailing-lists like this one is pretty limited). Spammers are total shitbirds, sure. But I'm loathe to look to legal solutions for this sort of thing. When we apply trespass doctrines -- the leading legal theory for shutting down spammers -- to open services, the Internet basically ceases to exist. Could the silklist exist if the list-manager needed to hunt down the admin of every subscriber's mail-server and secure his/her permission to send silklist messages? Hell, no.
It's like deep-linking. There's an excellent technical means for stopping search engines from spidering your site -- create a robots.txt file at your docroot and biff-bam, you're dark-matter. If you don't want to get linked to by offsite referrers, you need only edit your Apache config, add a couple lines, and hey-presto, no one can visit your site except through the paths you specify.
But deep-linking opponents don't want to use technical means to stop links to their sites. Rather, they assert a moral right in copyright to the public fact of the existence of their pages. They believe that if I want to state, on my Web page, that there is a page x at location y, that the author of page x should be consulted in advance and his permission secured. Could a search engine exist in this universe? Hell, no.
Would the Web work without search engines? Hell, no.
So, how do we address the flood -- the torrent, the deluge, the avalanche -- of spam that threatens to drown out all civilized discourse with MAKE PENIS FAST? With automated tools that let us manage whose suggestions we want to honor. When I xmit this message, it will travel from my computer to smtp.well.com and thence to lists.vipul.net. Lists.vipul.net will relay that message to a couple hundred smtp servers around the world, which will in turn deposit the messages in a bunch of standards-defined and proprietary mailboxes -- POP, IMAP, Webmail, whatever. Then you folks will use a piece of client software to download the message.
The message is, in itself, a suggestion: please display this message inside of a mailer, with the following summary info (headers). There is nothing present in this message that can possibly compel your mail-client to display it. The decision to display the message takes place entirely at the "edge" (though the Internet, in my opinion, doesn't have edges -- this is a pernicious lie perpetrated by Hollyweirdniks who think that the Internet is an "entertainment medium", where the "center" sends "content" to the "edge," so that the couch potatoes at the "edge" can passively "consume" it; Gibson nailed the Hollywood conception of a consumer in "Idoru", a person "... best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed.
Personally, I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth..., no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.") (man, I get parenthetical after midnight) (to continue this point about the Internet's shape, it's like a Klein bottle -- the "edges" all touch each other, that's what end-to-end means, and so there is no "last mile," only an infinitude of "first miles").
Crap, where was I? Oh yah, mail is a suggestion.
Your mailer and your mailer alone is the point at which a command-decision is made to show you a message. Vipul's Razor works on a dead-simple principle: ask motivated spam-haters (the people who are currently reenacting Lord of the Flies in smtp black holes and 1984 with regexps in Spam Assassin) to manually tag those messages that are unambiguously spam as spam, then publish cryptographic digests of the found spam so that other people can gain access to them.
But Cory, I hear you say, w-t-f good does that do my sainted grandmother, who wants only to see the Webcam photos I sent her of my newest offspring without wading through 700 Nigerian scam-letters and appeals to send postcards to poor little Craig Shergold? If you emit the phrase "cryptographic digest" within 300 yards of her perfect, wrinkled ears, she will shriek in technophobic horror, assume a fetal position, and it will take the technical wizardry of the finest doctors at Johns Hopkins to revive her.
Or words to that effect.
There's a flip answer to this: Your grandmother will be dead soon. Meanwhile, illiterate street kids can figure out how to do really amazing shit with a computer. Soon, those children will be adults, and your grandmother will be dead. So the future of the Internet is in good shape.
But screw the flip answer, because there's a better one: Give your grandmother a mailer that interoperates with Vipul's Razor. One percent of the Internet's users, if that, create Web pages with links in them. Nevertheless, that one percent is more than sufficient to provide a citation structure that Google can tease forth to organize the whole goddamned Web with eerie accuracy. Hoo-ah!
Likewise, if one percent of the world's cranky, fixated, high-functioning-autistic techno-elite can be coaxed into tagging all the goddamned spam, in real-time, then there will be a kick-ass, up-to-the-minute database that your grandmother's mailer can consult before it shows her the messages it's fetched from the POPd. The mailer takes anything with an x-vipul-spam: Yes header and sticks it in a "Don't look at this unless you're a cranky, fixated, high-functioning, etc." folder, and it is invisible to your grandmother. When spam slips through the filter, your grandmother can (but doesn't have to) use a special "delete" shortcut that tags the message and sends it out to the universe.
The Cloudmark people are doing good work on hardening the Razor. There's a reputation metric that kills the ability of careless/malicious users who submit non-spam as spam to actively participate. There are a bunch of mailer plug-ins in the works. It won't be built overnight. Like Moz, it'll probably take several years before we see a ready-for-grandma release of Vipul's Razor, and it will probably have a cute, grandma-friendly name like "Kali, the Destroyer, Devourer of Spammers' Souls."
Or words to that effect.
Damn, it's getting late. Dammit Udhay, stop asking me interesting questions at midnight!
More stuff:
Regexp hackers aren't the devil, neither is SpamAssassin. Danny and Quinn have taught me this. SpamAssassin is basically a framework for encompassing a variety of anti-spam approaches, and its genetic algorithms mean that it will (if I'm right) eventually evolve away from all the document-parsing/machine-intelligence approaches in favor of a multiplicity of collaborative filters.
Razor isn't quite Google for spam. Google captures implicit, idle decisions -- links -- and uses them to organize the online universe. Razor asks its users to generate explicit decisions outside of their normal course of business. This makes Razor a DMOZ for spam (at best) or a Yahoo for spam (at worst). If collaborative filtering approaches to spam are going to work, they need to find ways to capture more implicit decisions. Figuring out where those implicit decisions about spam can be found is the most important technical challenge of the next 24 months.
Cloudmark has a partial solution. They ask ISPs to reactivate accounts that have been dead for 12-plus months and submit all the mail that reaches them to the Razor. This is the kind of thing that I'm talking about, but it's still a flawed approach, since it assumes that no legitimate list will leave subscribers on its roll after one year's worth of bounce-messages. This is an invalid assumption. Lots of legitimate lists do not prune dead addresses from their rolls, which means that using reanimated zombie accounts for Vipul-fodder will end up tagging legitimate mail traffic as spam.
The winner will be the system that never generates false positives. It is simply not acceptable for mail to vanish or bounce if it's a legitimate communication. A system that advises you to ignore suggestions from your trusted pals undermines the end-to-end principle.
A friend's workplace has a porn-filter in place that keeps mistaking my short stories for pornography and bouncing them back to me. My friend and his co-workers have started to hand out alternate email addresses to people in the outside world, not because they want to receive porn at work, but because they can't afford to have their conversations disrupted by an imperious Perl script (the phrase in my current novel that keeps tripping SpamAssassin is "young Asian cop" -- "young Asian" rings the cherries on SpamAssassin's pornfilter).
Cory Doctorow is the co-editor of Boing Boing and the Outreach Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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But multiplayer is where it gets confusing. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary doesn't offer an HD version of the original game's multiplayer . Instead, the game includes a slimmed down version of Halo: Reach's multiplayer mode that boots into its own menu once selected on the single-disc release. When loaded, this version of Reach includes only seven maps: six for competitive play and one for Firefight. The maps are inspired by classic Halo: Combat Evolved maps and run in the Reach engine. It's essentially a melding of classic locales and new features (like Armor Abilities). When asked if the seven new environments would be available for Reach players to download, O'Connor confirmed the new environments would be made available as separate DLC for Halo: Reach down the road. Additionally, he notes that installing the Anniversary disc will eventually add the new maps to standard copies of Halo: Reach. Halo has become a franchise some gamers love to hate. I'm still a big fan of the franchise and the ability to play the classic game--and I mean the actual classic game--along with the new HD remix is enticing. Being a budget game instead of a full priced affair like Halo 3: ODST makes it that much more exciting. I'm looking forward to revisiting one of my favorite games of the last decade when Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary releases on November 15. Watch the Shacknews E3 2011 page to follow all our coverage of this year's show. You can also subscribe to it with your favorite RSS reader.
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More Money Coming Back Into Education in Texas
The Texas House is proposing putting more money back into public education in the state of Texas.An additional $1 billion dollars would be heading back into public education under a measure put forth by the Texas House Appropriations Committee. Already both the house and senate in the Lone Star State has committed to restoring about $1.5 billion dollars that was slashed from the budget during the 2011 Legislative session.
There is also talk among legislative leaders that even more money might be put into education before the end of the session in late May. It looks like over half of what was cut in 2011 may be restored for the next school year.


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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer, pushed buttons with her new book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. In it, she advises young women to 'lean in' to their careers, and be more aggressive in pursuing leadership opportunities. Host Michel Martin asks the moms roundtable if they agree.


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RIT photographers are setting up plays as their team prepares to score big among photography buffs and football fans deep in the heart of Texas.
RIT's longtime Big Shot photo project is headed to Cowboys Stadium, home of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys, on March 23 in Arlington, Texas.
Students, faculty, staff and alumni will join residents of the Arlington and Dallas areas to make a spectacular nighttime photograph of the exterior of Cowboys Stadium, the largest domed stadium in the world. This will be RIT's 28th Big Shot.
The project relies on the participation of hundreds of volunteers to provide the primary light source for the image while RIT photographers shoot an extended exposure. The Big Shot is often described as "painting with light" because volunteers are asked to "paint" or shine their light source onto a particular area of the landmark while the photograph is taken. The light sources are either handheld flashlights or camera-flash units. Thousands of volunteers are expected to participate.
"This is an amazing opportunity for RIT because of the technical challenges to produce a nighttime photograph of a landmark of this size," says Michael Peres, one of the Big Shot organizers. "We are excited to capture the beauty of the architectural nuances of Cowboys Stadium from the domed roof to the glass façade. We invite all of Texas to come out on March 23 with their flashlights and be part of something really special."
Volunteers should arrive no later than 7:30 p.m. and need to bring either a flashlight or a camera-flash unit and are asked to wear dark clothing. Lighting teams will be assigned and placed around the exterior of the stadium.
"We look forward to being a part of this unique photo experience with RIT at Cowboys Stadium," says Charlotte Jones Anderson, Dallas Cowboys executive vice president. "From our past experiences with the arts and education at Cowboys Stadium, we believe the North Texas community will be very supportive of this project and embrace the opportunity to be part of a unique community event like the Big Shot."
RIT is raising money to send students to the event. Faculty and staff from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences volunteered to be drenched in a dunking booth set up outside Gannett Hall in October. Nearly $350 was raised. Sponsors include RIT's Office of the President, the Division of Student Affairs, the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences Dean's Office and Nikon Inc.
Ben Lubin, a fourth-year imaging and photographic technology student from Marlboro, N.J., secured a grant from the McGowan Family Fund for $5,000 toward student travel.
"This will be my first Big Shot and I'm looking forward to meeting a bunch of RIT alumni and witness the massive crowds that the event is expected to draw," says Lubin. "With each new development, I'm only getting more and more excited to go."
This is the second time in Big Shot history that a Texas landmark has been the subject. In 2001, hundreds of volunteers lit up the Alamo in San Antonio for RIT's 16th Big Shot.
To learn more about the Big Shot and to pre-register to participate, go to www.rit.edu/bigshot.
To see a video of the dunking booth fundraiser, go to the RIT University News YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/RITUniversityNews and search for "RIT Big Shot Fundraiser."


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Half cut 7oz. French Cheese Brie
1 half cut fillet of sea bass
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3 whole spoons whipped cream cheese
half tea spoon crushed red pepper
fresh diced quarter inch chives
thin strait cut slice cucumber 3
red grapes slice thin whole 2
1 lemon
Put some olive oil on hand and start spreading over sea bass until all covered. Then salt lightly both sides . Also season pepper on both sides. Set aside. Put heat on high . Take small pan, add butter let melt. Add brie and stir. When smooth add whipped cream . Mix until smooth again. Add in the chives and crushed red peppers. Mix until smooth set aside. Put frying pan on high heat with a 2 table spoons of olive oil . When pan hot put the Bass outer layer with skin on frying pan and cook until change color for about 4 to 5 min . While that is cooking . Take cucumber and slice thin round piece and cut thin length wise. Also take the red grapes and slice round thin. Set aside. After 5 min, put fish under broiler for 4 to 5 min until cooked. When finished put Bass on plate with few pieces of lettuce on bottom of plate. Pour the Brie Sauce onto fish spreading over fish. Put grape slices and cucumber on top of fish with Brie sauce . This could be served with rice on side. Extra!
red grapes and hot red pepper. For an extra flavor boost put lemon zest on top fish.
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T.C. Williams boys' basketball coach Julian King talks to the Titans during a Jan. 11 game against Lake Braddock.
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LONGVIEW, Texas– LeTourneau University will host the annual Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading (TAIR) conference for East Texas educators from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, in the Education Building on the LETU campus, 2100 S. Mobberly Avenue.
Registration begins at 8 a.m. The event will focus on the importance of strong reading and writing skills for success in today's fast-paced world. This year's keynote speaker is Tracy Rieger who will present "Writing in Science," regarding the works of Betsy Fulwiler, author of Writing in Science and Writing in Science Action! Rieger is the lead science curriculum specialist at Round Rock Independent School District near Austin, Texas.
Rieger will encourage teachers to transform their students' critical thinking and writing skills through a practical approach of combining expository writing and science.
Registration cost is $45 per person before Jan. 22. Late registration is $55 and available the morning of the event. School districts sending 10 or more teachers from the same district earn a discounted fee of $40 each. Registration includes lunch, morning refreshments and drawing for door prizes.
TAIR provides literacy educators with the opportunity to interact with outstanding professionals as they become acquainted with current research, methods and materials and share successful instructional strategies.
In addition, the annual half-price Scholastic Book Fair will be available during the day-long conference.
A register form is available online by going to www.letu.edu/tair2014. For more information, contact TAIR coordinator Kathy Stephens at (903) 233-3878 or send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com .
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LeTourneau University is a Christ-centered, interdenominational institute of higher learning offering more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs across a range of academic disciplines and delivery models. Students are enrolled in programs on ground at LETU's residential campus in Longview, Texas, as well as hybrid and fully online options at educational centers in Dallas and Houston.
Academic majors include aviation, business, communication, computer science, criminal justice, education, engineering, health care administration, health science-nursing, human services, kinesiology, the liberal arts, psychology, the sciences and theology.
Claiming every workplace in every nation as its mission field, LeTourneau University graduates are professionals of ingenuity and Christ-like character who see life's work as a holy calling with eternal impact. For additional information, visit www.letu.edu.


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I have had to adapt some singular code I had from a previous project into one that is to execute at real time, but for some reason I'm at a loss as to what I'm doing wrong...
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Construction documents for the ambitious Sears Crosstown redevelopment project have hit the street.
Memphis-based Grinder, Taber & Grinder Inc. is serving as the general contractor for the $180 million project, and bids for subcontracting work on everything from electrical systems to plumbing went out this week.
"The bidding process for subcontractors has started," said Crosstown project co-leader Todd Richardson. "The docs are in folks' hands and the process has stated."
The search for subcontractors, which should take two to three months, is another milestone in the long-running effort to revitalize the mammoth Crosstown building.
"We were reflecting on it yesterday during a team meeting, and we describe these moments as the end of one chapter and the beginning of another," said Richardson. "We still have so much work to do."
Grinder, Taber & Grinder has erected a fence around the property and will soon begin placing trailers and other equipment there. Construction on the project will begin in the spring, Richardson said.
Work on the project has picked up steam since the city committed $15 million toward the redevelopment effort earlier this month, the final piece of a complicated funding puzzle. The city's funding will be used for infrastructure improvements, such as sewer repairs and improving sidewalks and roads.
The Crosstown team is seeking to redevelop the giant 1.5 million-square-foot Sears building, constructed in 1927, through arts, education and health care. The plans also include around 260 apartments and some retail at the 86-year-old structure.
The building has been a vacant, deteriorating eyesore for years. The Sears retail store closed in 1983 and the distribution center was shuttered a decade later. Since then, neighborhood leaders, architects, preservationists and developers have been hoping the building could be brought back to life.
The development team's plan focuses on creating a vibrant urban hub that brings students, health care providers and consumers, shoppers and residents together at the art deco landmark.
The project includes St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, ALSAC (the fundraising arm of St. Jude), Crosstown Arts, Gestalt Community Schools, Memphis Teacher Residency, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Church Health Center and Rhodes College as founding partners that have pledged to be tenants in the redeveloped building.
More tenants recently signaled their intent to come onboard. Christian Brothers University and the Southern College of Optometry have committed to leasing space. VO2 Networx, a Memphis-based information technology company, will move its headquarters from a location on Mt. Moriah Road into the building, and Goodwill Excel Center will open a charter school there.
Elizabeth and Staley Cates, president and chief investment officer of Southeastern Asset Management Inc, bought the property in 2007 and are donating it to Crosstown LLC. Any and all profits from the project will be plowed back into the development.
When asked if there were times he doubted the project would reach this point, Richardson said there were "too many to admit."
"There were many dark days for sure, but here we are," he said.


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LAUSANNE (AFP) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday said it had held successful meetings with exiled member India, following its suspension over claims of corruption and political meddling.
The Lausanne-based body said its representatives held "fruitful" talks with India s sports minister, Jitendra Singh, as well as members of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to discuss the country s eventual return to the fold.
India s IOC membership was suspended in December after Lalit Bhanot, who is facing corruption charges linked to the scandal-hit New Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010, was elected IOA secretary-general.
The IOC said the South Asian giant — a consistent under-performer at Olympic level despite its size and population, had "failed to comply with the Olympic Charter" and there had been government interference in the IOA election process.
But according to the IOC, Wednesday s meeting in Switzerland saw Singh give "strong guarantees and a clear commitment that the government of India will fully respect the principle of autonomy of the Olympic movement".
"In addition, a mutual understanding was reached to establish close cooperation between all parties concerned.
"It was agreed in particular that the drafting of the new sports bill will be undertaken in close cooperation with the IOA and the national federations and with prior consultation with the IOC to ensure that it will be fully compatible with the principles and rules of the Olympic Movement."
In addition, it is anticipated that the IOA — currently headed by interim chief Vijay Kumar Malhotra, would review its constitution to improve governance and ethics before members elect new office-bearers.
"The entire process will be closely monitored by the IOC, which will issue a roadmap for the suspended IOA and all its members to follow," the IOC added.
Malhotra, an 81-year-old archery administrator who was also involved with the 2010 Commonwealth Games organising committee, last month threatened to scupper talks by refusing to accept proposed new rules that would force the IOA secretary-general to retire at aged 70 and limit tenures in office to 12 years.
The former lawmaker for the main opposition Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) complained in a letter to IOC president Jacques Rogge that the limits broke the Olympic Charter and were tantamount to political interference by the ruling Congress party.
Suspension from the IOC means India does not receive funding from the world body, its officials cannot attend Olympic events while athletes are barred from competing in the Olympics under the national flag.


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One pitch ? Pretty sure the Perth pitch where you lost was supposed to be quicker than it was for a while. All the talk was about how Tait was gonna blow Indian batsman away.
Anyway, the thing is Indian pitches generally except 1/2 don't behave one way throughout the season in any case. And even it varies from pitch to pitch throughout the square. Chennai can be a road one FC match, and a turner the next. Both with low bounce as that is the natural soil value.
Not sure what your gripe is ? As if Indian pitches aren't prepared properly then most will be crumbling turners anyway and even worse ones than the last one, especially in summers or roads without breaking up, especially in winters.


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Be aware of, and help stop, the random killer that will claim more than 160,000 lives this year: lung cancer
In a perfect world, lung cancer would not exist. We would not see our parents, our children, our husbands and wives, our friends and neighbors, suffer and die from this disease. We would not need to designate this November, and every November, as National Lung Cancer Awareness month.
But this is not a perfect world. People are diagnosed with lung cancer every day. This year, it is estimated that 226,160 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed. That represents almost 14 percent of all cancer diagnoses. Lung cancer causes more deaths in America � an estimated 160,340 in 2012 � than the next three most common cancers � colon, breast and prostate � combined!
With that many new cases of lung cancer diagnosed a year, you would think that every month, every day would be dedicated to lung cancer awareness.
But there is a stigma attached to lung cancer. Too many people think that lung cancer victims were �asking for it� by being cigarette smokers. No one � regardless of whether or not they smoke � deserves lung cancer.
And the fact remains that tens of thousands of lung cancer diagnoses each year are from causes other than smoking. Radon causes ten percent of lung cancer cases. Occupational exposures to carcinogens account for nine to 15 percent and outdoor air pollution causes one to two percent.
In my role as president and CEO of the American Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic, I often hear heartbreaking stories of loss from lung cancer.
Just recently, I heard the story of Scott Garet, from Washington, Pennsylvania. Scott was a runner and he was pretty good. He ran his first marathon in May of 2011 and was happy to have finished in less than four hours.
Not long after, he started feeling bad. An MRI in September of that year revealed a tumor in his back. More tumors were discovered and then the diagnosis came back as lung cancer.
Scott had never smoked.
He fought hard, but in the end, the cancer won. Scott was only 26 when he died.
Scott�s doctors were never certain why he got the disease. The air is often dangerous to breathe in that part of Pennsylvania. That could have played a role in his lung cancer. A lot of things could have played a role.
One thing that is certain is that too many Americans suffer and die from lung cancer each year.
I said it earlier in this piece, lung cancer causes more deaths in America, an estimated 160,340 in 2012, than the next three most common cancers combined (colon, breast and prostate). Yet funding for lung cancer research has always lagged behind funding for other types of cancer. It is a random, deadly killer. And it needs to be stopped.
So, this November, send a donation to the American Lung Association or visit the local office to learn how you can volunteer to help fight this disease. You can learn more about lung cancer online, at www.lung.org. If you or a friend or loved one has been diagnosed with lung cancer, know that there are treatments and support available. To learn more about treatment options, support for people who have been diagnosed with lung cancer, and support for caregivers, visit www.mylungcancersupport.org.
Deb Brown
President and CEO
American Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic


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No anon for this. I need support. Cheating husband.*4/03 UPDATE*
4/3/2013 9:15pm - STBX & I just talked. He came home at noon-ish from his hotel. He went to lunch with the neighbor, took our son to the movies while I went to church, then we talked. He told me the truth. The hotel was for the Ohio woman. He claims he got it for her and her friend who were coming into town. He claims she never actually slept there but he did spend the days with her. He claims she stayed at her friends home who lived locally. He claims nothing physical went on. He also made it very clear that he was in fact no longer in love with me. So, I guess I know the truth & where we stand.
4/2.2013 - not too much to update. i had my STD tests and saw a therapist yesterday. my husband is all over the place with his words. one text is asking if i am hell bent on divorce and the next is asking me to send him the custody papers. as of last night my STBX went to his hotel room. I honestly thought it would be the neighbor he was meeting there but her car was in the driveway. I went down there & confronted both her & her husband. They both claim that there is nothing going on - that they are all just friends. So I am super confused about that situation but somewhat believe them. The real issue is that they know he was meeting somebody from out of town at the hotel this week but they don't know who. and, no, i don't want to drive to the hotel - I don't know exactly why but I just don't. so pretty much last night i just spoke with the neighbors about what is happening to my marriage and why I assumed something weird was going on with them. i don't know if i'm still being a fool by believing them or what but i do know that they also said they noticed something is not right about my husband lately & gave him a referral to a psychiatrist who he is seeing Wednesday. What a weird painful mess.
3/31.2013 - so i guess i've been keeping a lot of what is happening up to date within replies but I guess i'll add what i woke up to this morning.
1. $8 left in our joint account
2. He removed me from our cell account as an authorized user
3. 3 texts from him after I went to bed saying we are better than this, why are we acting this way. anyway, the 3rd text said "I am seeing a therapist Monday. I think there is something wrong with me". SMARTEST THING THIS ASSHOLE HAS SAID YET!
4. at 11:15pm after I was fast asleep he left a voicemail simply saying "I'm sorry". He sounded bad, like he'd exhausted himself crying. but that was all he said then he hung up.
I do not plan to talk to him in any way today. I have to return to the house tonight and am thrilled to see my son but not so thrilled to have to see him.
3/30.2013 - he's not sorry. he's not planning to change. he won;t admit anything. i found out he lied about having a conference next week - about a month ago he was excited to tell me that he was selected to go to a work conference. it was all a lie. he's been planning the week away for a month. I left last night. i let him keep our 8 yr old because he said he wanted to spend time with him. what a fucking mistake that was.
Today my neighbor said she saw him get out of the slut's minivan at 10am today. where the hell was my son? i called his cell phone and he wouldn't answer. i texted that i wanted to talk to my son. he said that he was in the water & would call me later. that was hours ago & I haven't heard from him.
biggest thing. the slut "accidentally" texted me a photo of her with my husband snuggled up at Six Flags. The caption said "hey girl. went to 6 flags last week and had a blast. can't wait to see you next week when you get into town". So, the dumb bitch is simply evil and so is my husband. i know my husband is with her right now and when they sent me the text because my neighbor can see his car parked down there.
he is not only cheating on me but he is bringing our son into it and trying to hurt me as much as possible.
I have already done a change of address and I pray he is gone all week at his hotel reservations so I can use the week to pack. 10 years wasted with this sack of garbage.
3/29.2013 - last night he came home but I was at a friends when he got here. by the time i got home he was already in bed. I sent our son in to sleep with him & I slept in our son's room (which I chose to do anyways when this nightmare started). This morning my son said that he & daddy both cried a lot and talked a bit.
This morning he was gone before i woke up. he sent me a text saying that he wanted me to leave this weekend so he could spend it with our son alone. i said fine (i agreed so easily because in our divorce papers I am offereing him odd years holidays anyways). an hour and 1/2 later i get the following text His words will be green. Mine will be purple
"Ok, I think we need some time apart at very least Michelle. B(our son) and I cried for a long time last night together. I want to know why you decided to go to a divorce lawyer like that. I am very hurt over this too, don't think I'm not, I am an emotional wreck, I am very depressed and having thoughts I never thought I would have..." " And I haven't spoken with a lawyer yet. I plan to be civil if it goes there"
"All I ask is that you make sure the Easter bunny comes" (since he's keeping him on Easter)
"Of course, and why don't you answer me"
"What was the question?"
"Oh, why did I go to a lawyer. Why don't you take a few wild guesses"
"Tell me"
" I know everything. I just hope it was all worth breaking up our family over"
"What do you think you know Michelle? Cause I guarantee you know nothing"
"I thought you wanted to be civil. Condoms & your wedding ring. Hotel res for north hollywood. Valentines flowers to Joanne."
"you have my jacket and wedding ring? Condoms? Joanne is in Ohio I haven't seen her in 20 years Michelle we just talk a lot, I sent flowers cause she was feeling suicidal, they weren't for valentines day"
" I took it off when u said u were at a divorce lawyer"
"The flower company read me the card "happy valentines day" You left the jacket with condoms in the pocket on our bed. You spent $300 to rent a hotel, Best Western through Orbitz, for next week."
(then I sent him a photo of the condoms & ring I had I taken)
"I bought those after the divorce thing, I thought about going to hook up with anyone, just to do it, but can't bring myself to do it. I am truly sorry, I messed up big time... The hotel reservations were for me to get away for a little while I am very stressed out and contemplating doing something. I need to really think about my life and what I am doing. i do love you Michelle. I am very heartbroken over all this, not just about (our son)."
"nothing matters anymore, I am giving up"
"let's talk when I come home tonight, ok?"
"I'll listen to the truth. Anything less and I'm walking away."
So, that was the convo today. We had while I was in the welfare office and filing for emergency FS & medical since I cannot trust him not to waste our joint account. He has no idea I filed for that nor does it seem that he knows I filed for divorce.
It started Sunday night when he refused to show me a text he received. He ran out of the house, jumped in the car, and deleted everything.
Next day I discover about a zillion texts between him & our sexy neighbor. They claim they were just friends. But the texts were all day everyday and he was hiding the "friendship" from me.
I never snoop but I should have long ago. I looked at the phone records and there is a bajillion calls to an OH number but we live in CA. I am talking texts all day everyday & calls starting at 5am when he leaves the house.I always aksed why the hell he left so early - that's why.
Then I look at our bank statements (which I never did before) and see tons of cash always withdrawn. Then I see a $53 charge on 2/08/2013 for a flower service. I called the 800 number & gave my husband's info. It went to a woman in yup, OHIO just like all the calls. The note on the card said "Happy Valentines Day". The bastard didn't do shit for me on vday. So I google the woman's name that the flower shop gave me and find out she used to live in Ellicot City MD just like my husband! Can you say 'old flame' maybe???
It gets worse. I see a 1-888 number called twice today. I called it. It was Orbitz. I called Orbitz and disocvered that he spent a few hundred bucks of our joint acct on a HOTEL for April 1st - 4th in North Hollywood for him and a "guest". The asshole had told me 2 weeks ago that he'd be gone all next week for a work conference in San Diego. So he has been planning to get away for awhile now with God knows who.
You may say "but how can he go away with a woman in Ohio". Well, obviously he's either screwing the neighbor from the text messages OR he has other women he's screwing because.... HE LEFT HIS WEDDING RING & CONDOMS in his jacket pocket this morning for me to find.
I am also friends with the wife of one of his co-workers & she told me that his work attendance has started to get bad. So the bastard has been skipping work t screw around too.
I have been begging & trying to get this man to make time for me, to love me, and this is why he hasn't. He is screwing around and now rubbing it in my face.
After the initial texting the neighbor situation I saw a lawyer (and his flat-out refusal to stop). This morning I went to the court house and filed. I am absolutely sick & devastated. All I have been is a loving faithful wife. What's worse is our 8 yr old is crying uncontrollably and said he knew mommy & daddy fight but he never thought we'd actually split up. I didn't go anon because I need all the support I can get right now.
I just want to thank you all for the support. I'm trying to reply to everyone but the tears rolling down my face are getting in the way...
Huge hugs coming your way momma.
i can't...i don't think. i plan to move out and go back with family after my oldest finishes his school semester in June.
we just bought the house last year. selling it would be pointless my lawyer said and i cannot afford to pay the mortgage.
Quoting EAzizM:
I hope you changed the locks and threw his shit out as well. I am sorry.
i may have written a bit about the texts as ANON a few days ago. the texts happened on the 25th. nothing before that though.
Quoting Anonymous:
Strange I could of swore I read this like last week or so....
Also if I were you I would get tested to make sure you dont have anything he could have picked up from someone else. Better safe than sorry


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Augusta "Gussie" Mengedoht started her career as a concert violinist in Omaha, Neb., then made sweeping life changes.
In the late 1920s, she moved from her home on the plains to the Rocky Mountains and settled in Allenspark, in western Boulder County, seeking relief from a broken back, a broken marriage and a stillborn baby. Mengedoht quickly got back on her feet and became a capable and independent outdoors enthusiast.
More than 6 feet tall, she wasn't afraid of anyone or anything. She earned the nickname "gun woman" because she always carried two guns.
Allenspark was homesteaded by Alonzo Allen and other ranchers in the late 1800s, then developed into a tourist community. When Mengedoht first arrived, she managed the Point-O-Pines Lodge and adjacent Highlands cabins. She often guided her guests through the backcountry, where she taught them to shoot both rifles and pistols.
Friends said she loved both hunting and horseback riding. No doubt she learned to ride in Omaha, where her father, employed by the Union Pacific Railroad as a blacksmith, taught her to shoe horses.
Mengedoht never remarried. In 1935, at age 42, she bought a former Allenspark store building and converted it into a hunting lodge called the Fawn Brook Inn.
Overnight guests had their choice of 11 sleeping rooms. Room and board, including home-cooked buffalo steaks, was $3.50 per person, per night. However, for those willing to cut their own firewood, build their own fires and bring and cook their own food, rates dropped to $1 per night.
As stated in the 1940 federal census, Mengedoht was the proprietor of a "cottage camp," then a common term in the tourist industry for rental cabins for motorists.
Lorna Knowlton, in her book "Weaving Mountain Memories," wrote that, in addition to managing the accommodations and doing the cooking and cleaning, Mengedoht was a licensed plumber and a licensed mortician.
Minor problems such as gasoline rationing during World War II didn't faze Mengedoht. She apparently solved the problem of transporting 20 college students from Boulder to Allenspark by loading them in a standing position in her horse trailer. The students liked the arrangement so much that none of them would ride inside her car on the return trip.
Mengedoht also was credited with maintaining the road through South St. Vrain Canyon. And, in the 1940s and 1950s, she supported the fledgling Allenspark ski area by serving as the ski club's secretary-treasurer, helping to cook meals for skiers and acting as a public relations correspondent for various newspapers.
Although Mengedoht made a life for herself in the mountains, she also found time to keep up with her music by performing on the violin at a music club in Longmont.
Eventually, Mengedoht sold the Fawn Brook Inn, which is still in business as a restaurant. She built her own home and remained in Allenspark as long as she could. After a fall and a flare-up of an old back problem, she moved to a Longmont retirement home where she died, at 84, in March 1977.
Her burial location is unknown. Perhaps her remains are in the mountains that she called home.
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What a joke
The five biggest banks got $200 billion in bailouts, made $46 billion in profits and are paying $5 billion in cash to settle all claims.
My sister lost 20 acres because the bank wouldn't refinance it. What good is $1,500 going to do? What a joke.
One more time the banks win, and the consumer loses. We should all be very upset with this "deal"!
Gary Rains
Hood River
Stand on
side of love
As a local religious leader and a lesbian (though I prefer the term queer) in a committed relationship, I was thrilled this week that the Washington State Legislature approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage and Gov. Gregoire has pledged to sign the bill on Monday; meanwhile, a three-judge panel of the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriages in California, is unconstitutional.
Both moves in our neighboring states affirm the validity of relationships based in commitment and love. I look forward to my own marriage ceremony in a Portland church this spring, and I look forward to the day when LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) Oregonians do not face discrimination in marriage, employment or on the streets.
My Unitarian Universalist faith teaches me that all people and families have inherent worth and dignity. As some faith communities join efforts for a repeal of the Washington measure, I call on all people of faith and people of good will to stand on the side of love in the coming months, and support the rights of the LGBTQ community on both sides of the Columbia.
Cathy Rion
Minister, Mid-Columbia
UU Fellowship
Hood River
for GHL
Often for Valentine's Day, we make valentines for those we love. This year, I want to write a valentine for those who inspire and support me. This year, I have been supported and inspired by the members of Gorge Home Learners. This home-school group is chock-full of dedicated, creative, patient parents who believe the world of their children and walk their walk with dignity, humility and strength.
In times of self-doubt and frustration, they have risen to show me that I am not alone, and applauded when things went great. They face each new day with an open mind, and watch their children blossom before their eyes; and are willing to change direction when they don't.
I am in awe of these home-school parents and children each week as we meet and share ups and downs, and laughter, and work through issues together.
Our children are our future, and it's nice to walk the path in the company of such beautiful spirits. Thank you, and heart you too.
Heather Clemons-Porter
Relay well under way
American Cancer Society Relay for Life of the Columbia Gorge 2012 is under way. Fourteen teams have already formed and 46 participants have registered.
To start or join a team, visit our website: http://www.relayfor-life.org/columbiagorgeor. Registration takes about 7-10 minutes.
For the 2011 Relay, we featured Columbia Gorge resident cancer survivors in our media content. This year we are looking to expand our features to include caregivers along with services that are available in the Gorge.
If you have a message you would like to share and/or be a volunteer for our media releases, please contact me at our monthly meetings held the second Tuesday of each month at the Hood River Valley Christian Church, 975 Indian Creek Road, Hood River; phone message: 541-386-2232 or email me: email@example.com.
Bob Reeves
Relay for Life media/publicity chair
Hood River
Take bikes seriously
Today, buoyed by the sun and warmth, I got on my bike for a ride around our beautiful Hood River valley. About halfway through my ride, while sprinting down Belmont, I watched a car pull past the stop sign on Frankton, hesitate as if to gauge my distance, then continue to pull out in front of me. What followed is now lost in the mist of shock.
I slammed on my brakes to avoid making a helmet-shaped dent in a car, skidded, felt my back wheel lose the road, and suddenly found myself staring up at a bumper, legs tangled up in my broken bike.
Luckily, I'm banged-up but OK, and my bike can be repaired, so things went well, considering. Still, it strikes me that this was a completely avoidable accident.
Despite screaming in rage and frustration at the time, I hold nothing personally against the person who decided that there was plenty of time to leave that stop sign with me so close. But I have to question: Why? Why did the person pull out in front of me when I was going that fast, and was that close?
I have to assume that if I had been in a car, and was going that fast, and was that close, they would have remained at the stop sign. Therefore, I make the logical leap that it was because I was on a bicycle that they decided to pull out in front of me.
Bicycles are not toys. All too often we will see a person on a bicycle and assume their speed is "slow" or their intention is "leisurely ride." If we, all of us, assumed bicycle riders to be "moving fast" and "on a vehicle," we would not be so quick to make assumptions about how quickly they can end up in a tangle in front of our car.
As the weather warms, there will be more bikes on the roads. Let's all take a minute to remember that road bikes are not toys, that they are often moving fast - very often as fast as a car.
Let's try to make my fall today the last one of the year. If no one else gets into a car/bike accident all year, I'll consider today's awful experience totally worth it.
John Metta
Hood River
Utopia? Not so much
Speaker of the House John Boehner told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference that living in the United States would be like living in Utopia if Republican policies were implemented.
He said that in this perfect world run by the Republican Party the following would take place: The deficit would drop. Our entitlement programs (Social Security and Medicare) would be saved. Gas prices would fall. ObamaCare would be repealed and replaced with market-based reforms that protect "the greatest healthcare system in the world." And there would be no boards of bureaucrats telling employers where they can and can't create jobs.
All this would take place, Boehner says, because Washington would operate on Paul Ryan's budget and the Keystone pipeline would be built, which he says, would lower gas prices.
Sounds great until you read the small print.
The Republicans would cut the deficit not by raising taxes (that's a no-no) but by cutting funding for things like education, Medicaid, food stamps and unemployment. Subsidies to big farmers, big corporations and billions for "defense" would continue.
How would they save Social Security and Medicare? By eliminating payroll taxes that support it, and allowing individuals to put aside their own savings. They, of course, are not concerned with workers paying the tax. Their goal is to save corporations from paying their share. And they don't care that many workers don't even earn enough to buy basic necessities, much less health care. And paying for future retirement would only be possible for the wealthy.
In short, under the Republican plan, Social Security and Medicare, as we know it, would no longer exist.
On what does Mr. Boehner base his assertion that ours is the greatest health care system in the world? Many reputable studies show this is far from the case.
And what does he mean by "market-based reforms" that would replace OBamaCare? Since when has the market pursued anything other than profit?
And does he mean that under Republicans there would be no regulations - no czars or boards of bureaucrats - to hamper their pursuit of profits?
And if the dirty Keystone pipe line is allowed, where is the guarantee that gas prices would drop?
Yes, I can see why it would be Utopia for the 1 percent. And to people like Mr. Boehner, the rest of us do not matter.
Anne Vance
Hood River
See 'Private Eyes'
If you didn't yet see "Private Eyes" at CAST Theatre in Hood River, be sure to get there next weekend. It's one of the best shows I've ever seen there. Funny, surprising, mysterious and extremely well-acted and directed. Not to be missed.
Info and tickets at www.columbiaarts.org/theatre/2012/02/PrivateEyes.html
Tina Castañares
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Cleone Gardens Inn is located near many fun and unique events going on in the local Fort Bragg area. In March, the Fort Bragg Whale Festival begins on the 16th, which also includes a lot of exciting activities and exhibits to choose from.
Over 20, 000 gray whales are expected to show up for this two-day celebration. Pacific gray whales and their newborn calves, grace the waters of the Mendocino Coast twice each year during their migration. They journey from the lagoons of Western Baja to the waters of the Bering Sea. Their entire trip there and back is about 10,000 miles, which is the longest migration of any mammal. This festival offers onlookers the rare chance to be a part of this beautiful and natural process.
The festival also hosts an array of other activities to enjoy, such as chowder tasting at the Town Hall and the Passport Wine Tasting. At this wine tasting event, you can sip some of Mendocino County's best vineyard offerings and there is also a microbrew tasting for the beer connoisseurs. After enjoying the delicious food and libations, you can work it all off by participating in the MacKerricher State Park's scavenger hunt or the annual 5k run and walk-a-thon.
Cleone Gardens Inn is a great place to stay during the Whale festival, located within minutes of Fort Bragg, visitors can enjoy the festival and end the day with a relaxing stay in our peaceful and comfortable surroundings. If whale watching is not your activity of choice, there are many other interesting things to do in the Fort Bragg area, even if it's just taking a scenic drive through Mendocino County or relaxing at the Inn and enjoying a walk through the gorgeous Cleone Gardens landscapes.


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SCons / UsingBzr
The SCons wiki has moved to https://github.com/SCons/scons/wiki/UsingBzr
What is Bazaar ?
Bazaar, like Mercurial and Git, is a distributed version control system (DVCS). DVCSs were created because many free and open source (FOSS) projects found that centralized version control systems (CVCSs), for example Subversion, were not able to support the ways of working required for FOSS projects. In particular the issues of geographic dispersal, unrestricted access, offline but recorded working are not well supported by CVCSs but are by DVCSs. Also, as Bazaar has shown, DVCS is a generalization of CVCS: not only can Bazaar be used as a DVCS, it can be used as a CVCS!
What is a DVCS compared to a CVCS ?
With CVCSs, there is a single, central repository for the project, with public read access and controlled and restricted write access. So with a Subversion repository, anyone can checkout the repository, but only those people with write access can use the repository for recording changes. With DVCSs there is no requirement for a central master repository, anyone can have a branch, and all branches have equal status.
The important concept in DVCS is that of branch, and the feature is very different to that of the same name in Subversion. A Subversion repository is a versioned filestore stored in a database to minimize replication. It is a matter of convention that the directory trunk means the area of main active development and that copies made in the directory branch are branches. Moreover, merging between branches is very poorly supported in Subversion -- yes there is svnmerge and Subversion 1.5 is supposed to integrate this, but it remains a problem.
With a DVCSs branches and merging are the core and most important features. The use of terms is unfortunately system dependent, so the terms branch and repository mean slightly different things in Bazaar, Mercurial and Git. This is a reflection of the fact that Bazaar, Mercurial and Git handle things differently. This page will probably lean more towards the Bazaar terminology, but that seems reasonable given that it is a Bazaar-focused page.
A branch is effectively a copy of the project, it comprises a repository and a working tree. Each branch carries with it its own history. This means that all operations other than merging branches are local operations. As a consequence:
- Most operations that with Subversion require network connectivity and access to the central repository are handled locally, and can be done disconnected from the network. For example, getting the log, getting annotations, committing, branching, merging from other branches.
- Because the branch is local, no special rights are needed: anybody can create a branch, and create commits. Everyone has their own writeable version of the project. So how does a project create a master copy that represents the official current state of the project? By convention and application of write controls. Most often this is done by creating a branch on a server that everyone agrees is the master and over which write access is restricted to project committers. So DVCS move the need for convention from branching and merging to determining which is the central master.
As anyone who has used Subversion knows branching and merging is actually a very big problem. This restricts experimentation, just as much as having to have write permission to the central repository does. Since branching and merging are central to DVCSs, multiple merges work, merging the same thing several times does not destroy things, and tagging and version tracking becomes sensible -- tagging in Subversion is by convention making a copy to the directory tags, tagging in Bazaar is simply providing a label for a given revision.
Here are some links which go much deeper:
- some discussion from K. Packard, the main maintainer of X.org: here, as well as here
- Linus Torvalds on the advantages of Git, the DVCS he wrote for Linux development, versus Subversion for KDE (long but it makes all the points really clearly): Using Git for KDE
Why using a DVCS ?
Some things which are complicated with Subversion, are much easier with Bazaar: merging, going back into the history (that is at rev 150, you realize that everything from rev 140 is rubbish, and you want to go back: this is tedious to do with Subversion, but not with Bazaar). Basically, most of the reasons we use VCS in the first place are easier with DVCS than CVCS. Considering the different types of people interested in SCons source code:
Casual user who wants to use the last development version instead of a release. These people only want read access to the project so any system will do.
Casual developers who want to solve a specific problem. Unless these people run their own Subversion repository, they have to use hacky methods to create and maintain patches. Using Bazaar branches and rebasing they have the full power of a VCS and can create patches for submission to the core development team trivially. The core concept here is the notion of a changeset. DVCSs give very good tools for managing changesets in the context of a continuously changing repository. This means you can track changes in the master branch whilst making your own local changes. Also, Bazaar enables things like uncommit if you made a mistake and wants to go back. More generally, going back in history is much easier with a DVCS than a CVCS.
Core developers: the ability to use branches for each new feature is extremely useful. It makes it easier to start new things, throw away code, etc...
The ability to do things locally makes life a lot easier. Commits can be batched to suit network access and not put too much strain on continuous integration. Workflows not really possible with systems such as Subversion become easy with Bazaar. In particular, it is easy to maintain multiple versions of branches at multiple sites, and they can be synchronized trivially. Offline working: how many people work with laptops on trains and planes and want to commit to keep a sane history?
Using Bazaar
Getting Bazaar
Binary distributions of Bazaar are available for all the major platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc. at: http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download
All the distributions that support packaging provide easy access to Bazaar, you just use the package management tool to do the installation. So anyone using Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS/RHEL, SuSE, Gentoo, MacPorts, Fink, Cygwin, etc. can easily install Bazaar.
(Bazaar is a Python system that requires version 2.4 or above, so if you don't already have Python installed you will need to do that first. Of course this is SCons so Python may well already be installed :-) The only issue is version number Bazaar definitely requires 2.4 or later.)
Bazaar is first and foremost a command line system based on using the bzr command. There are GUI systems: Olive-GTK for anyone with GTK installed, and TortoiseBzr is under active development (the project may appear to have stalled publicly over the last few months, but there are things happening internally within Canonical, so TortoiseBzr is still actively being developed). Also there is an Eclipse plugin for people wanting to use Eclipse.
It has to be said though that currently GUI tool support for Bazaar (and indeed Mercurial and Git) is not as seasoned as that for Subversion.
Basic usage
Russer Winder created a branch of SCons branch/core, that is kept manually as a mirror (it would be nice to get an automatic mirror, plans are afoot). This branch was created using the bzr-svn plugin. This plugin allows Bazaar to use Subversion as a way of storing Bazaar branches. The obvious side-effect is that it is very easy to take Bazaar branches of a Subversion repository, and commits can be made from Bazaar back to the Subversion repository. In effect Bazaar can be used as a Subversion client that allows arbitrary branching for experimentation, offline working, commit batching, etc. So anyone can "checkout" the Subversion repository using Bazaar (if you have the bzr-svn plugin installed):
bzr branch svn+http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/branches/core
Using Bazaar 1.5.0 with bzr-svn 0.4.10 is probably a must here due to "issues" with earlier version. If you follow this route then the first branch will take a while -- you are having to create a complete branch, i.e. a complete history of the whole project (2314 commits as as 2008-05-24 07:23:00+01:00. Actually SCons is small, Emacs has 50,000+ commits!
Of course the mirror branch helps here since it is already a Bazaar branch and branching a branch is easy and a lot quicker (though the first branch will be a bit slower than subsequent merges since there is a lot of material, about 50MB for SCons, to copy and integrate):
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~russel/scons/core
This gives you your own personal branch with its own history.
The commands for Bazaar should be familiar to anyone who has used Subversion. To get the current status
bzr status
or you can shorten this to:
bzr st
Will show which files are changed but not yet committed.
bzr diff
Will show the differences between changed but uncommited files and the version of the last commit. This is also quick and easy in Subversion since Subversion keep a last checkout copy to support exactly this. However if you want to check changes previous to the current one then Subversion has to go back to the repository which means network access. Bazaar carries the entire history with the branch and so all compare operations are local.
This becomes very important when looking at log and annotation information, the Bazaar commands are very similar to the Subversion commands, but with Bazaar the operation is entirely local whereas with Subversion access to the repository is required. To get the log of the last commit:
bzr log -r last:1
To get annotation of setup.py:
bzr annotate setup.py
More Advanced
For a detailed explanation, the best place to look is the Bazaar documentation at [http://bazaar-vcs.org/Documentation]. In particular, the [http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/index.html guide] is easy to read.
Checkout vs Branches
It is important to understand the core concepts and terminology of Bazaar to use it effectively:
- The working tree: is a snapshot of the tree, that is the files tracked by Bazaar at a certain point.
- The repository: this is where all the informations about the revisions are kept.
- A branch: this contains the state of the project + the history (contained in a repository). This is a key difference compared to Subversion: with Subversion only the server has this information. With Bazaar (and other DVCS), you will almost always get a branch when you want go get the sources from bzr. In particular, when you make changes and commit, this will be done in your local branch (i.e. nobody else will see your changes).
- A checkout: with Bazaar it is possible to bind one branch to another branch -- a checkout is a bound branch. Whenever a commit is made to a bound branch the commit is made locally to the repository of the branch and also to the branch that is bound to. Clearly then a checkout is a branch that behaves more like a Subversion checkout -- local actions are immediately reflected non-locally: every time you make a commit, the changes will propagate to the branch to which the local branch is bound. Why would you want to get all the history, or commit locally, you may ask? This is extremely useful, because it means that you can work on a new feature or a bug using a branch, and committing to your branch (no need for any rights on the SCons Subversion repository). Once you are done, you can send a patch, or better a merge directive which contain all the revision informations for review. This means that instead of managing big patches, you can work on your machine with a sensible VCS, and once you are done, send the changes for review.
Operations like log, annotate do not need network access, which means they are really fast. You can also go back to another version really easily, since the information is already directly available. Technically, your branch is not less/more important than the one you got from say the project page. Of course, in most cases, you will want to have one repository which is the one from which most people get the sources; but if at some point the main repository changes, nothing prevents you from changing (if you think about one branch for the bleeding edge, one for python 3k, one for python 2.*, it really makes sense to be able to switch between different branches).
If you are going to make many branches of the same branch, you can, no problem since every branch is self-contained. However for a 40MB repository this can get a bit irritating. So Bazaar has the idea of a shared repository which is a place where many branches that are related can be stored in a space efficient way. Using a shared repository means that branching is very quick indeed since there is no actual copying of repositories. Using a shared repository is probably a good idea if you are going to make a lot of branches for trying different things. Because branching is cheap, having a separate branch for each experiment is a common working practice. If the experiment fails the branch can be deleted. When the experiment succeeds the changeset is merged into your main branch and the experiment branch deleted. Flexibility and control far beyond that provided by Subversion!
Bazaar also has the concept of a lightweight checkout. The checkout idea presented above which is a branch bound to another branch is often termed a heavyweight checkout. A lightweight checkout is a working tree without its own repository, the repository of the lightweight checkout is the one of the branch checked out. This is as close as you can get to a Subversion checkout: in this case, you do not have any history, and all operations need network access. However this is rarely used as a way of checking out, it is used for doing very lightweight experiments.
Because there is no central server, the notion of a revision is somewhat blurred with DVCSs. Internally, all DVCS use some kind of unique ID based on hash, md5, sha, etc... Bazaar keeps the concept of a simple revision number by default, but this is only a UI detail. You should not be fooled: if two different people start from the same branch at revision 60, then for each commit, the revision will increase, but those revision numbers are only meaningful for that branch. In particular, if those two people merge their work together, or commit their changes to the branch they were starting from, the revisions will be changed (e.g. the revision 62 of the first person may become something else once merged with another branch).
The rationale is that revisions are easier to handle, and in most cases, you do not care about the underlying unique ID, which is a implementation detail. Of course, you can also see the real unique ID if you want to. For more details and examples, just use the command
bzr help revisionspec
Committing changes
If you have some changes you want to commit, you simply use the commit command:
bzr commit -m "bla bla"
or for people still in CVS/Subversion mode:
bzr ci -m "bla bla"
Now, say you made a mistake (typo in the commit message, etc...), one thing not possible traditionally with Subversion is the ability to uncommit, but this is easy in Bazaar:
bzr uncommit
This will remove the last commit (only change the repository, that is it won't revert your files). SO now you can correct whatever the problem was and commit.
The adage appears to be "commit often", and it is easier with Bazaar than with Subversion because of the distributed and hence local nature.
Being synchronized with another branch
If you want to get the latest changes from another branch, there are a number of possibilities depending on the situation and goal.
If your local branch is intended to be just an exact copy of the remote one (that is you just want to follow development you do not do any hacking yourself on this branch), you can use pull:
bzr pull REMOTE_BRANCH
This will get all the changes from REMOTE_BRANCH. It will not work if you have changes in your local branch which are not in the remote branch -- the two branches have diverged so a simple pull is not possible. If you want to track the remote branch changes in diverged branches, then you use the merge command:
bzr merge REMOTE_BRANCH
This will merge in all non-conflicting changes and create an interaction for handling all conflicting changes. For more detailed explanation, see this email from one of the Bazaar core developer: [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2007q1/023972.html understanding pull vs merge].
But merge is tedious to use ?
If you are coming from Subversion (or CVS), you may be a bit scared by the merge command; merging is so difficult to do in Subversion and CVS, so people tend to avoid it as much as possible. Because DVCS do not have centralized server and branching and merging are central to the whole way of working, people tend to merge each others branches often: this means merge is easy and works well.
Because a picture is worth 1000 words (reputedly), here is a screenshot of part of the history of one branch of numscons -- a project by David Cournapeau:
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Each color in the drawing of the branch history corresponds to another branch. As you can see, merging branches is a regular occurrence. The idea is that there are several local branches, each for one special feature being working on. Since numscons is using another project internally, SCons, David has a branch which keeps track of SCons changes; a branch which is the mainline, a branch for the current version he is working on (0.2 in this case), etc... Also, since he work at different places, he sometimes just copies branches on a USB disk to transfer a branch from one computer to the other. This should convince you that merge is a much more robust feature with Bazaar than it is generally with Subversion.
Shared repositories
One design feature specific to bzr is that one branch is one directory, that is you cannot have several branches in the same directories (contrary to git and mercurial). In that sense, it is a bit more similar to subversion model, and is simpler to grasp. Since every branch has all its history, one obvious drawback is that M branches from the same origianl branch takes M times the disk space of the original branch. The solution is to use shared repository: branches shared their common history.
To create a shared repository, SCONSBZRREP:
bar init-repo SCONSBZRREP --rich-root-pack
Then, go inside the SCONSBZRREP, and branch from there:
cd BZRREP && bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~russel/scons/core
Of course, if you have already downloaded the branch from launchpad, you can just branch from its original location (using cp will NOT work). Then, just branch as usual
bzr branch core mybranch
Since a lot is shared between branches, the branch operation is a lot faster, too.
bzr functionalities can be expanded through the use of plugins. One set of useful plugins is available through bzrtools, which offer the following facilities:
cdiff is a colored diff. You just use bzr cdiff instead of bzr diff.
It is current that when working on a branch, you realize you changed separate issues since the last commit. To avoid committing everything at once, you can put away some changes using the shelve command.


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Skip Away
"The horse has really improved," trainer Ian Wilkes said. "He's four and he's just maturing. He's getting better and better and Mrs. Whitman…I'm so happy for her."
Fort Larned took the lead out of the gate under jockey Julien Leparoux, but Uptowncharlybrown and Elvis Trujillo snuck through around the first turn to take the lead. When Uptowncharlybrown faded down the backstretch, Fort Larned took the lead back for good.
Alma d'Oro tried to challenge Fort Larned around the final turn and down the stretch but to no avail, as Fort Larned held on to win by 2 ½ lengths.
"Ian figured this horse out," Leparoux said. "In his previous races we had been taking him back but when we let him run free he runs big."
Fort Larned came into the race off of his first-ever stakes win, having won the Challenger Stakes at Tampa in early March. He finished fourth in his 4-year-old debut at Tampa in a handicap with Leparoux aboard.
Fractional times for the Skip Away were 23.93, 47.45, 1:10.60, and 1:34.66, with the final time being 1:53.92.
The previous track record for the 1 3/16-mile distance was set by Eddington, who ran a time of 1:54.74 on March 5, 2005.
Gary and Mary West's Corporate Jungle had no problem managing his stakes debut, earning his first career stakes victory with a length margin win in the $100,000 Appleton Stakes (G3) at one mile on turf and remaining undefeated in 2012.
"We knew there was a lot of speed in the race so it worked out great," regular rider Javier Castellano said. "I just sat off them and when I asked him to run he really responded. He gave me a good kick in the end. It was a nice performance. He galloped out really nice and I think he will go farther."
As the 2-1 favorite, Corporate Jungle rated behind the front-running El Commodore and Decisive Moment. He had to go four wide around the final turn and held off a late-charging Trend, the third choice in the final strides.
orporate Jungle's three previous races were also run at a mile on the turf. After his maiden win in 2011, he finished second to Trend in an allowance in 2012 and captured a victory under the same conditions a month later.
"He should be set up now for a good year," trainer Chad Brown said.
Brown said the Woodford Reserve (G1) at 1 1/8-miles at Churchill Downs on May 5 is a possible spot for Corporate Jungle's next start.
Brilliant Speed, who was making his 2012 debut after a third-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Turf (G1), remained at the back of the pack for the majority of the race and advanced to finish fifth.
"It was way too short for him," Velazquez said. "We were a lot further back than I wanted and he had too much ground to make up. In the lane he just finished evenly, but it was good race for a comeback."
Stuart S. Janney III's Hit It Rich struck big in the closing strides of the $150,000 Orchid Stakes (G3), earning her second career graded stakes race with a ½-length victory in the 1 ½-mile turf race.
"She's a true mile and a half horse," trainer Shug McGaughey said. "Javier did a great job. When that filly (Aqsaam) went out in front, he just sat chilly and he had some horse left. When he pulled Keertana out I thought he'd better have some horse left because she's coming. We were able to hold her off."
While Hit It Rich broke well out of the gate, the previously undefeated Aqsaam ran off with the early lead in the 1 ½-mile turf race, pulling ahead by 14 lengths. Hit It Rich raced in third and the favorite Keertana ran from the back.
Hit It Rich advanced at the top of the stretch while the graded stakes veteran and millionaire Keertana had to go wide around the field. Hit It Rich caught Aqsaam in the final strides for a final time of 2:28.06 and held off Keertana, who had to settle for third.
Hit It Rich came into the Orchid off a second-place finish in the Suwanee River Stakes (G3) in February for her 5-year-old debut and back-to-back wins to close out her 2011 season.
McGaughey said the Grey Goose Bewitch (G3) at Keeneland on April 26 is a possibility for Hit It Rich's next start.
Sir Shakleton
E. Paul Robsham Stables LLC's Travelin Man kicked off the Florida Derby undercard with a triumphant ½-length score, battling with Grade 1 winner Jersey Town down the stretch to take the $70,000 Sir Shackleton Stakes contested at 6 ½ furlongs.
Making his 2012 debut off of a 6th-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1), Jersey Town took the lead heading into the final turn with Traveling Man in close pursuit. A head-to-head battle ensued down the stretch, with Travelin Man taking over about halfway down the stretch and never relinquishing.
"I was very happy that we broke from the outside because I was just able to let him break and sit where he was comfortable as opposed to drawing inside and having to hustle him out of there," Velazquez said. He got in the bridle when I asked and was very good today."
The Sir Shakleton victory marked Travelin Man's second win in 2012. He finished first in an allowance optional claimer in February.


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NEW YORK -- In the Episode 16 Part 3 of "Inside Columbia Athletics," host Dalen Cuff interviews head men's lightweight rowing coach Scott Alwin to discuss alum Nick LaCava '09CC. LaCava will represent the U.S. at the 2012 London Olympics in the men's lightweight four.
Last month, LaCava (Weston, Conn.) and U.S. teammates Robin Prendes (Miami, Fla.), Will Newell (Weston, Mass.) and Anthony Fahden (Lafayette, Calif.) defeated The Netherlands in a race by 0.14 seconds to punch their ticket to London.
Head men's lightweight rowing coach Scott Alwin chats with Dalen Cuff (Columbia University Athletics | Stephen K. Lee)
In Part 1 of Episode 16, we caught up with 2012 Olympian Erison Hurtault, who will represent Dominica in the men's 400m, and Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Willy Wood, who has two former Lions already qualified for the Olympics and three more at the U.S. trials. Lisa Stublic '06CC will represent Croatia in the women's marathon.
Dalen interviewed Columbia head fencing coach Michael Aufrichtig. The Columbia fencing will be well-represented at the Olympics with five current or former student-athletes and Aufrichtig himself. Aufrichtig will serve as the fencing coach for the U.S. modern pentathlon. He has served in that role previously in the Pan American Games. The Columbia fencers headed to London to represent the U.S. include James Williams '07CC (men's sabre), Jeff Spear '10CC (men's sabre replacement), Nicole Ross '12CC (women's foil) and Nzingha Prescod '15CC (women's foil). After the filming of Episode 16, Sherif Farrag '09CC qualified to represent Egypt in the 2012 London Olympics.


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Dear Editor,
Re "Kingston school district gets two bids, both over $650K, for administration building," Aug. 7, 2014: The Cioni Building (aka "Crown Street") triple-net lease amounts to a taxpayers' ripoff:
• Under the triple-net lease, the buyer avoids paying for capital improvements, maintenance, utilities, property and sales taxes;
• The seller (Kingston City School District) pays for all of the above as long as they continue to lease the property after the sale, estimated at approximately four years;
• So, if the selling price is $670,000 and the capital projects and operating costs are approximately 30 percent or $198,000 a year for four years (for $792,000), then the Cioni Building would have been sold for a loss to the taxpayers of $122,000 over four years. Where's the logic in that?
• The Cioni Building is assessed at $650,000. City, county, welfare and library taxes are $14,391, plus school taxes of $19,903, for combined taxes of $34,294 annually, four years of combined taxes amount to $137,176. It is time for this building to go back to the tax rolls in a clear-sale deal to benefit the taxpayers without strings or favors to anyone.
• To minimize the financial impact to the taxpayers, economic logic suggests the school district move its administration to the Meagher building, then sell the newly vacated Cioni building in a clear-sale deal, to benefit the overburdened taxpayers for a change.
Charles Landi
Kingston, N.Y.


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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...#ixzz2BdUtIlvdThe governor has been been pilloried by some Republicans for repeatedly talking up Obamas storm response. Romney staffers were reportedly also ticked that Christie skipped a nearby rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend.
Oh Oh.
Are the long knives going to be out because Christie was just doing his job?
I have to say that I loved the look on the faces of the poli-ops over at Fox and Fiends when Christie told them last week that he didn't give a damn about presidential politics.


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By Dennis Shanoff
Earlier this month I wrote a post regarding Middlebury College's participation in a solar powered home design, build competition sponsored by the US Department of Energy. Well the Middlebury College team recently put the finishing touches on their energy efficient entry and celebrated the event with a housewarming this week. This was a great opportunity for friends, family, fans, and supporters to get an up close look at the team's solar home before it has to be dismantled and shipped down to Washington, DC for the 2011 Solar Decathlon Event.
As a project supporter, we at Vermont Woods Studios were anxious not only to see the students hard work, but how the bed we contributed for the master bedroom fit in. So I made the scenic trek up to the Middlebury campus to attend the housewarming to get a firsthand look. And with a "finished" square footage competition maximum of only 1000 SF I was definitely curious to see how the design team would handle the layout. (especially as it was designed for a family of four) What I found was really efficient use of space in an open, yet still cozy arrangement. The interior had a very modern, clean and upscale look.
So we at Vermont Woods Studios certainly felt privileged to be chosen to provide the centerpiece of the master bedroom. And the cherry moon platform bed looked fantastic in the room and worked perfect in the space. The team had us craft the bed in natural maple and its color and it's strong yet simple design absolutely fit in with the light color and airy feeling of the home. Spend some time in this home and one may just start to rethink the need for larger homes. (and larger energy expenses!)
The next step for the team is to get the house down to the National Malls West Potomac Park in Washington DC for the September 23 through October 2 event. The event is free so if you are in the area I think you will find this to be a very interesting and educational event. We think the Middlebury team has a really good chance so stay tuned and we will let you know how they make out! Go Middlebury SD!


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The show last aired on CBS on Friday, March 26, 1982. NBC picked it up on the following Monday, March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode was aired on Friday, December 26, 1986.
Below is the final scene that aired for this daytime television classic.
Is this the best ending scene of a daytime soap opera ever? What was your favorite?
- Nelson Aspen On The End of SEARCH FOR TOMORROW