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Los Angeles – Actor Danny Woodburn was honored October 8 with the Screen Actors Guild Harold Russell Award at the Media Access Awards in Beverly Hills. He received the recognition for his union advocacy on behalf of performers with disabilities.
Woodburn is one of the most successful Little People working in the entertainment industry today and perhaps best known for the recurring role he played as Mickey Abbott on Seinfeld. He has made more than 120 television appearances, on comedies and dramas alike, and had featured roles in such films Watchmen and Death to Smoochy. He is also an accomplished stand-up comic.
In accepting the award, Woodburn said, "I was told, 'No—you can never be a truck driver, you're arms won't reach around the wheel. No—you can never be a doctor; people won't take you seriously. No—you can never be a police officer.'
"I can be all of those things. I'm an actor. I can portray them in film and someone might be inspired to ignore those nos and live their own dream."
Harold Russell, the award's namesake, was the first actor with a disability to receive an Academy Award for 1946's The Best Years of Our Lives.
"From its very inception over 75 years ago, Screen Actors Guild has represented a diverse membership and has long advocated non-discrimination, fair representation and inclusion," said Robert David Hall, national chair of the I AM PWD campaign (Inclusion in the Arts and Media of People with Disabilities) in his remarks introducing Woodburn. "Today, with 54 million Americans identifying themselves as living with a disability, SAG continues that civil rights struggle into the 21st century."
Click here to see Part 1 of Hall's interview with Woodburn regarding his life, career and disability advocacy.
The 2010 Media Access Awards were celebrated at a press breakfast at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. Collectively, the awards honor individuals and organizations in the entertainment and broadcast industries for their efforts in promoting the awareness of the disability experience, accessibility for people with disabilities and the accurate depiction of characters with disabilities.
Actors RJ Mitte, Danny Woodburn and Robert David Hall
Co-sponsors were SAG, the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, AFTRA, CSA, PGA, WGAW, Friends of Californians with Disabilities, the Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and actor RJ Mitte.
Other award winners were:
· AFTRA Disability Awareness Award – Darcy Pohland, a successful newscaster in a wheelchair (posthumously, WCCO-TV)
· CSA Award – Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer, for diverse casting of actors with disabilities (Glee)
· WGAW Joan Young Award – Vince Gilligan, for creating realistic characters with disabilities (Breaking Bad)
· Producers Guild of America George Sunga Award - Mike Tollin (Radio, Smallville, Coach Carter) led a group of 12 Special Olympians up Mt. Kilimanjaro in 1990, which resulted in an Emmy Award-winning film, Let Me Be Brave
· Christopher Reeve Acting Scholarship – Christopher Thornton (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Brothers & Sisters), who became paraplegic in a climbing accident in 1992 and wrote and co-starred with longtime friend Mark Ruffalo in Sympathy for Delicious, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival 2010
· RJ Mitte Diversity Award - Atticus Shaffer (The Middle), for an actor with a physical or emotional disability with limitations that would make an acting career seem implausible.
The awards were produced by Deborah Calla of Calla Productions.
This year's Media Access Awards marks the 20th anniversary of the American's With Disabilities Act. Signed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act has fostered independence, empowerment and inclusion for millions of Americans. With an aging society in America, combined with a growing number of disabled veterans, recognizing the talents of disabled persons in the entertainment and broadcast industries is even more important than ever.
The entertainment unions and guilds recognize the social impact of films, television and broadcasting, and strive for an open dialogue regarding the portrayal of disability and increased employment opportunities in front of and behind the scenes.


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2011-12: One-year letter winner ... Expected to contribute to the longer sprints and relays.
2010-11: Lettered her first season... (Indoor) Recorded two top-three finishes at the ODACs-3rd in 400m (1:02.34) and 3rd in 4x400m relay (4:19.81) ... Claimed 2nd and 4th place positions at Marietta in the 400m and 4x400m relay respectively ... Posted a 1:01.04 effort in the 400m at the Lafayette/Rider Winter Games. (Outdoor) Earned All-ODAC accolades with two 5th place finishes for the 400m (1:02.50) and the 4x400m relay (4:14.61) ... Competed in four events at Liberty- 200m (28.23), 400m (1:02.21), 4x100m relay (55.27), and 4x400m relay (4:22.87) ... Season-best times were 27.92 (200m, Roanoke Invite) and 1:01.36 (400m, VMI-W&L T&F Carnival).
High School: Four-year letterwinner in track & field at Graham ... also earned one letter in soccer ... served as team captain for the track & field team.
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"They're wired!!!!!! *giant grin* I'm over-the-moon thrilled that Pierr was able to WIRE my hand-stands!" -Virginia.
WIRED WHITE CATS = 9.75 inches high (25 cm) to middle finger pin top
~ All five fingers wired plastic coated 18 gauge steel wire for repeat bending (Photos 8, 9)
~ It is unique, made individually using my own hand as a pattern.
~ "Bohemia" print designed by Julie Paschkis for In The Beginning Fabrics 2013
~ (Photo 9) courtesy of Heidi Smith of "Moxie Rox" Etsy site
~ All 5 wired (Photo 8) for repeat bending (Photos 1, 2, 3, 9)
~ stuffed firm with polyfil
~ 5 white pearl head pins = earring display (Photo 3)
~ cushiony polyfil = pin & brooch display
~ width = 3.5 inches (9 cm) including thumb joint
~ "CLASSIC" style (Photo 7)
~ weighted = pennies inside sealed container (Photo 6)
~ diameter / width = 1.5 inches (4 cm)
~ height = 3 inches (7.5 cm) up to curve of thumb / palm
~ base = matching sewn fabric trim (Photos 1, 2, 4, 5, 6)
** FREE GIFT WRAP = colored tissue wrap (Photo 10)
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~ itty bitty = 1.25 inch (3.25 cm) diameter & 2 inches from base to palm curve
~ CLASSIC = 1.5 inch (4 cm) diameter & 1.5 - 2 + inches up to curve of palm
~ TALL = 2 inches (5 cm) diameter base & 5 inches (12.75 cm) up to palm curve
** TOTAL HEIGHT of HAND-Stand Styles = measured from base to middle fingertip:
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~ Wire all 5 fingers "CLASSIC" style = add $20 (each HAND-Stand)
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I hand-make them myself. They are fabric soft sculptures, made one at a time, machine stitching fabrics together and filling fingers and palm with polyester fiberfil. The wrist is solid with a "weight tub" of pennies inside a sealed plastic container - to support the hand (or cactus, or tree), so it stands sturdy on a flat, level, stationary surface, like a desk, dresser, mantel, shelf, counter top or windowsill.
Yes! I'm happy to use any cotton quilting-weight fabric you send. You pay for shipping it to me, I cut what I need to make the item(s), and return all remaining fabric to you along with your completed order.


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GREENVILLE, N.C. – Zach Houchins belted his second home run of the season, while East Carolina hurlers Tyler Bolton and Ryan Williams allowed one run in a 5-1 series win in game two of the Friday doubleheader against Middle Tennessee at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
The Pirates (24-16, 11-7), who picked up their fourth Conference USA series victory, dropped game one to the Blue Raiders (19-21, 9-9), 6-1 earlier in the day.
Houchins gave ECU a 3-0 lead in the third thanks to a three-run home run to left field in the third. Kirk Morgan drew a one-out walk and moved over to third two batters later when Drew Reynolds singled to right field. Houchins, who collected three hits in the contest, smacked his second round tripper of the season taking 2-2 offering from Johnathan Frebis over the left field wall.
Tyler Bolton (2-3) picked up the win in his eighth start scattering three hits over 5.2 scoreless innings. Ryan Williams notched his fifth save of the season allowing a run on three hits with three strikeouts and a pair of walks in 3.1 frames.
Frebis (2-3) took the loss surrendering four runs on six hits with three walks and three strikeouts in 5.1 innings. Matt Blackham gave up one run on two hits in 1.2 innings, while Heath Slatton tossed a scoreless eighth.
ECU extended its lead to 4-0 in the sixth when Bryce Harman crossed home on a wild pitch. Harman walked with one out, took second when Charlie Yorgen was hit by a pitch and landed on third on Garrett Brooks walk.
Another wild pitch from Slatton in the seventh pushed the Pirates lead to 5-0. Houchins singled up the middle with two outs and took third on Ian Townsend's base knock to right field before crossing home on the throwing miscue during Harman's at-bat.
Middle Tennessee finally got on the board when Austin Bryant scored on Jared Allen's infield single making it a 5-1 contest. Bryant singled to left field to start the stanza a moved to second on Hank LaRue's walk. Trent Miller reached on a fielder's choice where LaRue was forced out at second allowing Bryant to take third. Allen followed with an infield base hit to third driving in Bryant to cap the scoring in the game.
The top four hitters in the Pirates lineup (Dylan Brown, Reynolds, Houchins and Townsend) accounted for seven of their hits with Houchins (three) and Reynolds (two) leading the way. Houchins drove in a season-high three runs, while scoring twice.
Game One Recap
Jared Allen hit two of Middle Tennessee's three home runs in the first game of the doubleheader as the Blue Raiders picked up a 6-1 victory.
After being shutout and held to just five hits in the series opener, the Blue Raiders pounded out 12 hits behind Allen and Ryan Stephens three-hit performance. Leadoff hitter Dustin Delgado added two base hits and scored two runs.
Allen staked the Blue Raiders to an early 2-0 lead in the first belting his sixth homer of the season. Degaldo singled to right field before Allen deposited a Brett Mabry 2-1 offering over the left field wall, which proved to be the game-winning run.
Paul Mittura improved to 3-2 allowing one run on six hits with five punch-outs in seven full frames. Cody Tollison worked two perfect innings in relief retiring all six batters faced recording five fly ball outs.
Mabry suffered his first loss of the season falling to 3-1. The right-hander posted his second-straight quality start allowing three runs on eight hits with four strikeouts in six innings. Hayden White was touched for three runs on three hits in an inning of relief, while Luke Bolka and David Lucroy each had scoreless frames.
Miller extended Middle Tennessee's lead to 3-0 after hitting his fourth home run of the season to lead off the sixth.
Morgan scored on an errant throw by Bryant at second pulling the Pirates within two, 3-1 in the bottom half of the sixth inning. The freshman shortstop reached on an infield single before moving to second on Reynolds' single up the middle. Houchins followed when he reached on a fielder's choice where Reynolds was forced out at second, but on the double play attempt Bryant over threw Jake Ingold at first allowing Morgan to touch home.
Miller's sac fly and Allen's second homer of the contest pushed the Blue Raider lead to five, 6-1. Delgado doubled down the left field line to leadoff the seventh and landed on third on LaRue's single to right field. Miller sent a long fly ball to center easily pushing across Delgado. Allen hit his seventh homer of the season sending a shot to left field clearing the bases.
The Pirates will be back in action on Monday, Apr. 21st when they play host to C-USA member Old Dominion in a non-conference contest that was added to the schedule on Thursday. ECU will close out its six-game home stand with a midweek matchup with in-state rival North Carolina (Apr. 22) before heading to Florida Atlantic (Apr. 25-27).


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ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Two of the last three games the Tennessee Tech women's basketball team overcame halftime deficits to emerge victorious. However, the Golden Eagles could not find their second half surge on Wednesday evening as they fell to the St. Louis Billikens, 78-58, at Chaifetz Arena.
Tech suffered its first loss in the month of December, moving to 5-5 overall (1-0 OVC) and snapping a four-game winning streak. On the other hand, St. Louis improves to 5-7 with the win.
Sophomore Tacarra Hayes finished with a career-high 22 points to go along with a team-leading four assists, three steals and one block. The guard finished 7-of-18 from the field and 8-of-12 at the free throw stripe for the Golden Eagles.
Hayes was the lone Golden Eagle in double figures for the game. Sophomore Rachel Glidden and freshman Tiara Hopper both totaled eight points for Tech.
The Golden Eagles forced 21 Billiken turnovers, but St. Louis was able to overcome its mistakes by making 28-of-50 (56.0 percent) from the field and 5-of-7 (71.4 percent) from 3-point range. As for Tech, the Golden Eagles had a cold shooting night, making just 20-of-58 (34.5 percent) attempts from the field and 1-of-15 (6.7 percent) from long distance.
St. Louis jumped out to an early 9-0 lead just 3:31 into the game before Hayes converted on a free throw to put the Golden Eagles on the board. Tech chipped away from that point and cut into the deficit until back-to-back buckets by Hayes and Glidden made it a one-point game, 19-18, with 7:02 remaining in the half.
From that point, the Billikens went on a 14-6 run to head into the break with a 33-24 advantage.
After a Hayes lay-up to start the second half cut the deficit to seven, St. Louis scored the next seven points to open up a 14-point cushion. The Billikens maintained a double-digit lead for the remainder of the game with the Golden Eagles coming within 12 (59-47) on a lay-up by freshman Haley Ervin with 8:44 left in the game before St. Louis finished the game on a 7-0 run to capture a 20-point victory.
The Golden Eagles return to the Eblen Center for their next game on December 30 against Bluefield. Single game and season tickets are still available through the Golden Eagle ticket office by calling 372-3940 or visiting TTUsports.com.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Abercrombie & Fitch Co. ANF, +1.74% rose 1.1% on Monday after the teen apparel retailer was upgraded to outperform by Baird. Its rivals American Eagle Outfitters Inc. AEO, +2.28% and Aerpostale Inc. ARO, +15.38% both were down after Cowen & Co. said online traffic data from comScore pointed to weak traffic data at both Abercrombie and Aeropostale while American Eagle's is showing signs of slowing down. Best Buy Co. BBY, +0.39% was little changed after Bank of America-Merrill Lynch renewed the coverage of the electronics retailer with an underperform rating. Heelys hlys inched up 0.5% to $2.22 after the wheeled skate-shoe company agreed be bought by Sequential Brand Group Inc. SQBG, +2.14% for $2.25 a share, or $63.2 million.
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WARRENSBURG, MO (Aug. 14, 2013) – A ceremony in remembrance of the University of Central Missouri's 14th president, Aaron Podolefsky, is planned for 3:15 to 5 p .m. Thursday, Aug. 22, at the UCM Alumni Memorial Chapel.
Podolefsky, who served UCM from 2005-2010, passed away Aug. 8 after a lengthy illness. He had served as president of Buffalo State for approximately three years prior to his death.
During the memorial ceremony, Ronnie Podolefsky, wife of the former president, will speak briefly, and Don Wallace, professor of criminal justice, will provide biographical information about Podolefsky. Immediately following their remarks, those in attendance, who wish to do so, will have an opportunity to share brief personal stories and remembrances about the former UCM leader.
Light refreshments will be served after the ceremony in the Ward Edwards atrium.
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Long closed-door sessions for the Bryan City Council gave Tuesday's meeting a bit of a secretive feel. But at the end of the evening, it was made known that City Manager Mary Kaye Moore was what all the fuss was about.
Moore tendered her retirement, which was accepted by the council after their second executive session of the evening.
"Several months ago, I said, 'Hey, I think I'll retire,'" Moore said afterwards. "And I was joking, and each time I said it, it sounded better and better."
"She approached the council back in January indicating that she was interested in retiring sometime during 2006," Mayor Ernie Wentrcek said following the marathon meeting.
"I had originally planned to do it in 2008, but it just feels right now," Moore said. She alluded to the possibility of her retirement date moving up on the calendar prior to Tuesday's meetings, but it was not known when she would step down until the end of the day.
Moore has served as city manager since 2001. Her time in that role will end as of February 28. But until the end of 2006, Moore will serve in a consulting role for the council and work on any projects assigned to her.
Contrary to rumors of discontent among staff and council, both the mayor and Moore said the closed door meetings were a matter of law rather than job performance issues.
"It was a matter of the executive session dealing with personnel," Wentrcek said, "and we had to take it a step at a time."
"No councilmember has ever asked me to retire or indicated to me that they wanted me gone," Moore added.
Moore says some of the main reasons for her retirement are spending time with her mother, kids and grandkids. She will receive her full salary, benefits, and insurance through the end of 2006.
There is no exact date set for when the search for a new city manager will begin.


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rename it to GNU/Mono
Stallman also says no to web browsing.
No he doesn't. As the linked post says, he doesn't browse the web for PERSONAL REASONS. That's a completely different thing than advocating against using software that is patent bait.
No Shit. And the guy just gets fricking weirder and weirder as the years roll on. By now I'm sure everyone has seen him eating toe cheese [youtube.com] on stage, and THIS is the guy you want to listen to on the direction of Linux? Really?
If there has to be a guy at the head, like Bill or Jobs, then let it be Linus. He always seems to have a smart answer and a good head on his shoulders. With RMS, hell MSFT couldn't ask for a better spokesman. If I worked marketing in MSFT I would just make a clip showing Gates or Ballmer
Why GNU su does not support the wheel group (by Richard Stallman)
Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and keep- ing it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.)
However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under
The man basically made a lot of the internet and the modern computing experience possible. His foundation is responsible for some of the most vital, widely used, and essential software in use today.
And yet whenever he opens his mouth, cue the ad hominem attacks. They come hard and fast. Ignore what he said. Just question his character - change the subject, pick apart some wacky thing from his life. That should settle the matter.
Do you only converse with people who are absolutely normal, totally conventional, and who never make any mistakes in anything they have ever said? Because that's the only way you can bring this stuff up and be intellectually consistent.
And what's worse, this is not the ESPN forums. We're supposed to be nerds here. The man can't be weird and still be right?
You're right.
I didn't catch that in the original submission; thanks for seeing it.
It's absurd that Stallman has to actually issue this warning considering Microsoft's history of behavior not only with competition but with their business associates as well. Anyone who has been both alive and conscious these past twenty-five years knows forming any sort of relationship with Microsoft, either directly or indirectly, customer or partner, is just asking for a raping.
Ask Spyglass, the company from which MS "licensed" what became MSIE, whether they felt raped when MS started giving away MSIE thus rendering the royalties to Spyglass $0.00 (plus the minumum quarterly fee)...
Maybe as a customer you haven't had anything to rape you for aside from license fees for products. If you were a developer / business partner, I suspect you would say differently.
Rape doesn't simply mean forced sexual intercourse. As a verb... well...
to rape
Third person singular
Simple past
Past participle
Present participle
to rape (third-person singular simple present rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)
1. To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent.
2. To abuse an object in an extreme manner.
The loggers raped the virgin forest
3. (slang) To dominate in a contest.
My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
I'd say they have abused their dominance in the tech world to the extreme more than once.
20 years? How many examples do you want:
- illegally burying Lotus 123, and replacing it with an inferior product
- illegally killing stacker, and replacing it with the inferior doublespace
- buying winternals, and burying one of the most promising security tools for XP I'd ever seen
- illegally forcing their browser onto the market, creating some of the biggest security headaches IT admins have ever seen
- changing file formats with every release for no reason other than to force companies to upgrade Office
I'm a big user of Microsoft software, but I'm under no illusions as to their business practices, motivations, or horrendous track record when it comes to security and interoperability.
Most of those are bogus:
Microsoft didn't bury Lotus 123, Lotus shot themselves in the foot, then the head, and then the foot again. They then proceeded to walk off a cliff. They bet on OS/2 (which failed), and delivered a product for windows extremely late, that was buggy and not even close to what excel was delivering. They then attempted to do a rewrite for years that they never delivered, and then finally produced lotus symphony which was crap. Not until 1998 when they released SmartSuite 9.0 did they have anything that came close to competing with Excel. To say Microsoft killed lotus 1-2-3 is a joke. They killed themselves -- repeatedly.
Stacker? Stacker was simply a one trick pony that couldn't deliver a second product, and unfortunately their first product only had a short lifetime. Developing a product that only worked on MS-DOS 6.0 when windows was just taking off only left them a very short window. Their second product ReachOut wasn't accepted very well, especially when there were other products already on the market that did that, and more (pcAnywhere, etc). In the end, they walked away with both a good chunk of money, their own software sales, AND $5.50 for each and every copy of MS-DOS 6.0 that was sold. That's a pretty sweet deal considering it was also $25 million PER EMPLOYEE.
Winternals is still updated regularly.
The rest is your opinion, which I don't share. I appreciate my HTTP explorer built into my OS, just like I appreciate my FTP explorer, FAT/NTFS explorer, network exporer, picture viewer, sound/music player, calculator, and simplistic notepad, paint, and a graphical UI. Only those people with an axe to grind or a software suite to push think otherwise. These things are in almost every OS built today, and have been for a very long time (before Microsoft).
Are you sure you're not suffering from stockholm syndrome?
Are you sure you're not suffering from stockholm syndrome?
Microsoft offers a bundle of products and services which have become the de facto global standard for office work.
That solves many problems for your employer.
He can open an office anywhere south of the Arctic Circle - an office of any size - with perfect confidence that an MS Office solution will scale to his needs and that local recruitment and training will present no particular difficulty.
It is rather typical of the geek to focus on something l
Microsoft offers a bundle of products and services which have become the de facto global standard for office work.
That solves many problems for your employer.
No, it doesn't. It might, if the file formats weren't changed on each version solely to fuck all of their customers.
He can open an office anywhere south of the Arctic Circle - an office of any size - with perfect confidence that an MS Office solution will scale to his needs and that local recruitment and training will present no particular difficulty.
Only if the version he's using is the same as the version used in all of the other locations. Otherwise, he gets on the upgrade treadmill, and *everybody* gets fucked.
It is rather typical of the geek to focus on something like the "openness" of a file format - and miss the significance of The Ribbon.
Au contraire, it's rather typical of the MS shill/apologist to invent scenarios that don't actually happen in an attempt to claim that MS is a good solution.
> Funny, we've been a customer of Microsoft's for 20 years and have yet to experience this "raping" you speak of.
Everything is fine if you're in lock-step with Microsoft's business plans. But try getting out from underneath Microsoft's thumb, and you'll start to understand.
Just say no.
I've been writing some winforms applications and all I've got to say is "no". As a long time Qt programmer, I found winforms initially familiar, but it's got a lot of quirks that drive me nuts.
I'll stick with Qt on C++ thank you very much.
Do you remember WISE? Windows Interface Source Environment. A program that purportedly allowed developers to write software to Windows APIs and run the resulting programs on Macintosh and UNIX systems. It was issued in 1994. By 1996 Microsoft had captured a large share of the corporate market and has proceeded to the next step: Microsoft has extended the Windows API without copying its changes to the WISE program. This meant that developers could no longer smoothly port applications to UNIX and
Macintosh. In public, however, Microsoft continued to lead developers into believing that this software was still fully cross-platform. In 1997, Bill Gates noted in an internal email that those developers who wrote applications for the then-available software without realizing that it would not port all APIs to UNIX and Macintosh were "just fucked."
In short:
Microsoft is evil and is "probably" planning to kill every independent implementation of C#. We have no proof of this, but you have to trust us.
Also... use our C# implementation "DotGNU Portable.NET" instead [gnu.org]. We are immune to everything I just said in the article and I won't bother you with why.
In otherwords, I'm confused. Does he like C# or not? If he doesn't, why does the FSF have their own
Mono is a cleanroom implementation of the CLR as specified by EMCA and
Mono is a cleanroom implementation of the CLR as specified by EMCA and
Submarine patents for one. Investment of effort into technologies where MS can break compatibility for two. Buying into standards MS has too much influence on is simply asking for them to use that influence to hurt you at a later date. After the 20th or 30th such instance you'd think people would learn to be a little less shortsighted.
Being owned in court by Microsoft due to patent infringement.
Or more likely, losing customers because mid development cycle Microsoft starts threatening to sue companies using Mono, as it infringes their patents.
They've rattled this sabre before.
No, Richard Stallman was always very concerned with NOT violating patents. For instance gzip was developed especially to avoid a patent clash over compress, the commercial compression utility shipped with UNIX.
How is this a troll? C and UNIX were both developed by an even bigger, eviler company than MS could ever hope to be.
> GNU and GCC are just as much open source implementations of proprietary technology...
A couple of important differences.
1. The patents have long since expired on the core ideas in UNIX. we are rapidly approaching the point where Linux has existed longer than a US patent is allowed to exist and BSD embodies almost all of the user visible APIs and goes back even longer.
2. C is an ANSI Standard that again is older than any patent could threaten from. C++ is more recent but was developed by real standar
Love him or hate him, but at least listen to what he is actually saying.
All he is saying is that Microsoft has already publicly claimed [cnn.com] that Linux violates a couple hundred MS patents. Recently, Microsoft invoked the Linux angle in a patent suit [cnet.com] it filed against Tom Tom.
Therefore, he says, it should be obvious to all that MS intends to enforce its patents. So, the more one uses software based on MS technologies, the more likely it is that you may be impacted by a suit in the future. He calls this a "gratuitous" risk.
Or, in his words:
The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too. That doesn't make them unethical, but it means that writing them and using them is taking a gratuitous risk.
> "Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation..."
Mono is not included in the Debian "default installation". It is merely pulled in by one of the several "tasks" that the user may (or may not) choose to select. The Debian "default installation" -- all pacakges of "standard" or higher priority -- does not even include X.
Oh, hell. Isn't anyone concerned that this is all for Tomboy, an app which is frequently so sluggish as to be completely unusable? Remind me why we're not all simply using Gnote?
I'm calling you out. Right now.
We know you're on Slashdot, so don't be a coward.
Tell us how you know that Mono doesn't infringe on Microsoft's patents. Tell us how Moonlight doesn't infringe on Microsoft patents. Clear this stuff up.
Unless you and Novell answer this, without weasel words Mono and Moonlight and everything else you contribute to GNU/Linux based on Microsoft tech will be suspect.
Any competent and well-informed programmer knows that the openness of C#/.NET is a total sham. Sure the core is open, but there's so many Windows-only extensions that it's virtually impossible to make cross-platform apps. Plus the fact that the Mono implementation is always waay behind Microsoft's.
But MS has been very clever. They know that it's only technical people who can see this; the rest will just get the subliminal message that ".NET is now also cross-platform, just as Java".
This is the real damage of Mono. Its existence provides the right excuse for PHB and clueless tech decision-makers to sway the decision towards
For those of you saying that RMS is being hypocritical with the Portable.Net project, you should read this first:
Don't get caught in
With all the RMS-bashing that slashdot has turned into lately, you'd wonder what the point is in providing arguments for your position.
e-credibility: the non-guaranteeable likelihood that the electronic data you're seeing is genuine rather than somebody's made-up crap. - Karl Lehenbauer


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In a recent blog post, Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, wrote:
As most of you know, I draw a comic featuring a guy who inexplicably has no mouth, who lives with a cartoon dog that inexplicably has no mouth. And I end up with Spasmodic Dysphonia, a condition that prevents me from speaking.
I'm reminded of an anecdote back at the time, thirty years ago, when I was writing a tourist guidebook about Great Britain. I asked for permission to use a comic strip [display] I'd seen in Paris-Match drawn by the French cartoonist Pat Mallet, who happens to be a few months younger than me. The authorization came by return mail, and the letter included a personal phone number. So I decided to phone up Pat Mallet to thank him. A friendly male voice told me it was a pleasure to collaborate in a book about the folk on the other side of the English Channel (known, in French, as La Manche).
ME: For months, I've been faced with the daily task of finding words to describe Great Britain. In the case of your comic strip, I'm terribly impressed by your skill in describing a typical aspect of London without using any words whatsoever.
VOICE AT THE OTHER END OF THE LINE: I must point out that you're not speaking with Pat Mallet himself. I'm his father, and I handle his phone calls. Pat himself has been totally deaf since the age of nine, and unable to communicate by speech.
I love this wordless cover from a Pat Mallet album of 1985, published by Glénat, called Ainsi est la vie (Such is life):
This marvelous drawing of a poetic dog admiring the sunset from the parapet of a luxurious seaside restaurant, while all the humans are lost in conversation, is a perfect illustration of the frivolity (at times) of speech. [And there I've gone again, adding unnecessary words.]


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Eddie Burke grew up in Waltham, joined the Marines after high school and was still just a kid when he found himself fighting the Viet Cong on Hill 55, southwest of Da Nang.
"I had shrapnel and gunshot wounds," he was saying the other day. "But that wasn't what really got me. It was the Agent Orange."
The holes in his body healed, but the Agent Orange his own people used to clear the jungles of Vietnam latched onto him like a parasite.
Three times malignant melanoma invaded his body, and each time he fought the cancer off like the enemy on Hill 55.
"I had three kids," he said. "They all had cancer."
His son, Michael, was 27 when a tumor wrapped itself around his heart. A stem cell transplant at the Dana-Farber saved his life, and now he's a sergeant with the Waltham police. The doctors said Mike and his wife, Lisa, would never have children because of his treatment. But they went on to have two beautiful kids.
Eddie Burke's daughter Meeghan beat a couple of melanomas. She's a special ed teacher, married to a cop, and she'll make her dad a grandfather again next month.
His other daughter Jessica, his youngest, was a month shy of her third birthday when she died of a brain tumor.
Eddie Burke could have been consumed with grief. Instead he was consumed with helping others. He threw himself at raising money for Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund and believe me when I tell you he has raised millions of dollars for kids with cancer.
Everybody at the Dana-Farber knows Eddie, and everybody loves him.
It's the same thing at the federal courthouse on the waterfront, where he worked security for the US Marshals Service for 12 years, after 15 years with the Middlesex Sheriff's Office.
Last week, as a trial highlighting corrupt law enforcement agents was ending, Eddie Burke was saying goodbye to all his friends in the same courthouse. His life — as a Marine, as a survivor of war and cancer, as a father who buried a child, as a selfless fund-raiser, as a guy who only honored the badge he wore for 27 years — stood in stark relief compared to the tales of greed and arrogance and venality in Courtroom 11.
Judge Mark Wolf held a reception for Eddie Burke in his chambers, and all the bigshots turned out for a man who considers himself nothing special. The US attorney, Carmen Ortiz, hugged him.
"I knew her first husband," Eddie Burke said. "He died of pancreatic cancer, God love him. I lost track of Carmen, and then she became US attorney and I saw her every day. She has a heart of gold. I always smile at her and call her commander."
Judge Denise Casper, presiding over the Whitey Bulger trial, stopped by with Judge Rya Zobel and retired judge Nancy Gertner. Gertner's husband, John Reinstein, heads the local ACLU.
"I'm an old Marine, and John's ACLU, but we're pals," he said. "We get along like hand and glove."
The US marshal, John Gibbons, wished him well. "I told the marshal if he sees me pushing a baby carriage in Waltham, don't make fun of me."
Judge Wolf already misses the old Marine who made him smile every day. Wolf said that as all that corruption was cataloged in Courtroom 11, "it was especially gratifying to be able to celebrate Eddie and to be reminded of the admirable qualities of the many in law enforcement, like Eddie, who serve the public anonymously, with great integrity, energy, and professionalism."
For 67 years, Eddie Burke has followed a simple credo that his dad, a Belmont cop, passed down from his Irish parents.
"Politeness," his father told him, "is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way."
Eddie Burke is retiring and going nowhere but home to the lovely Rita, his wife of 35 years.
"I'm a blessed man," he said. "Absolutely blessed."Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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By Mila Besich Lira
Superior Sun
Calling themselves the DLK Club, several students from John F. Kennedy Elementary School hosted a cornhole tournament to raise money for their schoolmate Marisol Perez. Marisol is a pre-schooler at JFK who was diagnosed with Leukemia in October.
The event was supervised by family members of the students but the kids organized the event and advertised it on their own. They drew posters for advertisements, asked for donations for prizes and raffle item; then they got to work selling raffle tickets, registering their friends for the tournament and sold food to help raise money to help their friend.
The tournament was only open to elementary age kids, these students played fierce competitions to win the first place prize of two brand new mountain bikes donated by the Red Bear Outfitters. Several local businesses and organizations also donated kid friendly prizes for the event.
These kids proved that the giving spirit of Superior residents will continue by hosting this event, all together they were just a few dollars short of raising $600 in one afternoon. All of the proceeds raised were given to Marisol's parents to help with her medical and transportation costs.
And the winners of the cornhole tournament? Jalen Oatis (fifth grade) and Samuel Lopez (sixth grade) won first place.


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Learning how to take care of your physical and mental health after a cancer diagnosis is the key to living your life to the fullest. These steps from the National Cancer Institute can help cancer survivors do just that.
Make sure your health care provider explains clearly what to expect: How often will you need to return for checkups? What tests will you need? What major issues can you expect to face in the next year or two, and how should you deal with them? If your oncologist recommends frequent checks for cancer recurrence, take the advice seriously.
Don't neglect other recommended cancer screenings. A woman successfully treated for melanoma should have regular mammograms, just like other women.
Be proactive in dealing with any after-effects of radiation or chemotherapy.
Recent studies show a moderate exercise program can improve physical stamina and lift the psychological well-being of people who are feeling fatigued long after treatment has ended. Develop a plan for physical activity that works for you, based on your health care provider's advice.
Staying smoke-free is one of the most important things you can do to stay cancer-free.
Make sure you're eating a well-rounded diet with plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
Signs that you may need help from a mental health professional include constantly worrying about your cancer returning or often feeling anxious or depressed. Consider calling a social worker, clinical psychologist, or psychiatrist.
Visit reputable websites, including the NCI site at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping. Or, visit the NCI's Cancer Information Service at http://cis.nci.nih.gov. Check out the American Cancer Society website at http://www.cancer.org and enter "Cancer Survivors Network" in the search function.
Support groups for cancer survivors can be a great source of comfort when you suffer fear of recurrence, have questions about self-care, or just need some understanding.
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It appears that the Republican Party's extreme agenda is continuing in 2013.
Recently, Speaker John Boehner prevented a vote on legislation which would have provided disaster aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy. Following a public outcry, Boehner relented and held a vote on partial aid. Sixty–seven Republicans in the U.S. House, including former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan, voted against this disaster relief bill. The Republicans are doubling down on their war on women. The Violence Against Women Act, enacted in 1994 and reauthorized in 2000 and 2005 to protect women from domestic violence, as well as other forms of abuse, met its demise because House leadership decided to kill the bill by letting the clock run until the 113th Congress was sworn in. Since the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act added protections for undocumented immigrant, LGBT and Native American populations, many House Republicans decided that they could not support this bill.
Across the country, Republican-dominated legislatures continue to direct their efforts towards eroding women's reproductive rights.
Gov. Rick Snyder claims that HB 5711, which signed into law, "preserves women's rights while also enacting measures to help ensure their health and safety."
This radical law hurts women, especially those who come from both rural areas and low-income households. HB 5711 imposes unnecessarily burdensome regulations and restrictions on women's health care centers which could result in facility closures, depriving women and couples of life-saving cancer screenings, birth control, STD prevention and treatment and safe abortions.
It's clear that a vast majority of Republican politicians would rather garner the support of the extreme right wing of their party than lend a helping hand to everyday Americans.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)- A security breach at Target that affected millions of consumers has made a impact on Topeka shoppers.
In an effort to keep shoppers coming through the doors, Target is offering a 10 percent discount to all customers and free credit monitoring services.
Nearly 40 million customers shopping at Target between Thanksgiving and December 15th were targeted by criminals hacking their credit and debit card information.
Debra Lane shopped at the Topeka Target during that time. She told 13 News her bank called to tell her she would get a new bank card and her old card number cancelled.
"It could be a very bad thing cause a lot of people use the credit or debit card and it could be a very bad thing," says Debra.
Other shoppers say they are worried about using their credit or debit cards.
"I actually used cash today specifically because I heard about this and didn't want to risk using my card," says Alan Sharp.
The Shawnee County Sheriff's Office has an alert for everyone to avoid becoming a victim of credit card theft.
"Be aware of your account status. Check it everyday. It's too easy to log on the internet and check into your account and look at any charges that don't appear to be legitimate. And contact your financial institutions," says Mike Kolbeck, Division Commander of Criminal Investigations in Topeka.
CBS News reported Target suffered a 4 percent drop in sales over the weekend and Target says there will be " a thorough investigation of the incident."
In many countries outside the U.S., people carry cards that use digital chips to hold account information and the chip generates a unique code every time it's used, making it more difficult for criminals to steal information.


text: Just thought I'd let you know, as we discussed it earlier and it was also featured in the mag, I finally got round to upgrading the memory in my Mac Mini. Pulling it to bits was quite easy with a very thin wallpaper scraper and the 256MB stick inside was better than expected (DDR400 rather than 333). I snapped in a 512MB stick and then put the spare 256 one in my desktop PC. Works a treat. I figure that once 1GB memory gets a bit cheaper, I'll swap it out again and add the 512 to my desktop (it has three slots) meaning both machines will have 1GB. Smart.


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13WMAZ's Attorney Reviews Dallemand's Contract Options | Schools
Two Bibb County school board members told 13WMAZ that Superintendent Romain Dallemand has invited the board to make him an offer to buy out his contract.
13WMAZ's attorney Ed Sell reviewed the superintendent's contract and says Dallemand could propose any amount of severence in a buyout deal as long as the board agrees.
If the school board decided to act on their own, Sell says the contract gives them the choice to remove him with or without cause.
"With cause" would cover offenses like neglecting his duties or immorality. That would require a hearing where the board could present evidence for their claims and the superintendent would have the opportunity to defend himself.
Sell says, even if the school board decided to remove Dallemand for a cause, the superintendent would receive a full year's salary, which is $198,000. He would also get a year's worth of benefits like health, dental, and vision insurance.
If the board chose to terminate the contract without cause, Sell says they would not have to give a reason, and it would only take a majority vote to remove him.
Sell says that route may be easier for the board, but it would cost them.
Dallemand would receive a full year's salary and benefits plus $70,000 for each year of service.
School board officials told 13WMAZ they're still trying to schedule a school board meeting next week, but would not confirm if they will be discussing Dallemand's contract.
Meanwhile, Dallemand faces a legal challenge next week from a Lizella man who says the superintendent's contract is illegal and should be thrown out.
The school board extended a contract offer to Dallemand December third, and he accepted days later.
A suit filed by Brad DeFore, a long-time Bibb county resident, claims the offer the board voted on doesn't match the contract Dallemand signed, according to the minutes from the December third meeting.
For example, DeFore says those minutes don't include the paragraph that gives Dallemand a year's salary if the board ends the contract with cause. The suit argues those discrepancies make the contract void.
Sell told 13WMAZ that receiving money under the "with cause" circumstances "is a little unusual."
DeFore's suit also says the December third meeting and vote violated open meetings laws. That's because board members came out of a closed-door session and voted on the offer in public, but the meeting's agenda didn't advertise a public vote.
Also, the contract is good for 3 years, but he suit claims that's unconstitutional because a subdivision of the state, like a school district, can only debt one fiscal year at a time, unless there's a clause in the contract that renews it automatically each year unless the board chooses not to renew. Dallemand's contract has no such language.
DeFore says he doesn't know how this suit would be affected if the school board accepts the superintendent's buyout offer. His attorney Charles Cox wasn't available for comment.
DeFore's lawsuit has a February 1 court date, and that same day, a judge is also expected to hear former Bibb County CFO Ron Collier's whistleblower lawsuit against Dallemand. Collier claims he's being punished for raising questions about spending.


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Mount St. Joseph to provide strong test for BC on homecomingOctober 3, 2000
It�s homecoming Saturday at Salzman Stadium as The College of Mount St. Joseph (2-3 overall, 0-1 HCAC) brings a talented squad to take on the Beavers (3-1 overall, 1-0 HCAC). This matchup has proven to be a great one in recent years, with Bluffton having won the last three, but not without a serious fight.
Last season Bluffton squeezed out a 27-26 win at Mount St. Joseph as Tyson Goings scored on a 30 yard run with 4:11 left in the game to put BC on top. Greg Bruns and Rob Kitchen both recovered fumbles for BC, while Jeff Company intercepted a Lion pass. BC led 14-0 and 21-14 during that game, but The Mount recorded four QB sacks and out-gained the Beavers 414-356.
This season Mount St. Joseph fields the second-best rushing attack in the Heartland Conference, led by running back Doug Anderson, who averaged 154.8 yards on the ground in the Lions first three games. The Lions rank last in the HCAC in passing, however, as MSJ is averaging just 121.2 yards per game through the air. The Mount is +2 in the turnover department (Bluffton is -1), and the Lions have given up a league-low two sacks. Bluffton, meanwhile, ranks atop the HCAC in scoring offense, total offense and passing efficiency and ranks second in the league in scoring defense and total defense.
The Lion passing attack will be a wait-and-see affair, as the MSJ website reported that starting quarterback Joe Sparhawk suffered a hairline fracture in his right leg Saturday against Defiance and will miss two to four weeks. His backup is listed as Anthony Fike, a 6-3, 195 lb. freshman.
Senior running back Tyson Goings moved into third place on the BC career rushing list last week as he churned out 129 yards in the Beavers�s 35-0 shutout of Anderson to see his four-year total move up to 3,353 yards. Last week he surpassed Willie Taylor (3,330 yards) and his own cousin Mike Goings (3,338 yards).
Last week BC nailed Anderson University 35-0 to record their first shutout since Oct. 11, 1997, when the Beavers blanked Sue Bennett College 33-0 on homecoming. BC has hosted The Mount on homecoming on one other occasion, although it wasn�t a pleasant one as the Lions earned a 19-12 victory over Bluffton in 1991.
The 2000 campaign marks the 10th season of football for Mount St. Joseph. The Lions have almost always given Bluffton a good battle. BC has won the last three contests between these two schools and is 3-1 against the Lions in Salzman Stadium.
Homecoming king Brandon Cupples will be serving double duty Saturday, as the senior also handles Bluffton�s kicking chores and ranks sixth in the Heartland Conference in scoring.
Today�s game is being televised by WTLW Channel 44 of Lima. The game will be aired at 8 p.m. Saturday evening and 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Click here for details about the telecast.
All-time BC-MSJ scores
1999 Bluffton 27, at MSJ 26 1998 at Bluffton 40, MSJ 21 1997 at Bluffton 40, MSJ 35 1996 at MSJ 14, Bluffton 3 1995 MSJ 35, at Bluffton 25 1994 at MSJ 28, Bluffton 10 1993 at Bluffton 16, MSJ 14 1992 at MSJ 41, Bluffton 0 1991 MSJ 19, at Bluffton 12 1990 Bluffton 26, at MSJ 21


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There's not even a bill yet, but it's already clear there will be plenty to argue about as President Obama and congressional Republicans haggle over the details of immigration reform.
But there's one point that everyone should be able to agree on: Spare the children.
While most of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in this country made a conscious decision to break the law to come here, many of them did not. They came because they had no choice.
Cristian Sanchez used false identification to cross the border from Mexico into the United States in 1995. But should she be punished for that? Before you answer, understand that she was 5 years old at the time, traveling with family friends who were bringing her to be reunited with her parents in America.
In his story in Sunday's Press Democrat, Martin Espinoza wrote that Sanchez went on to become part of the first graduating class at Roseland University Prep in Santa Rosa and was accepted to UC Riverside. But her lack of immigration documentation barred her from certain types of financial aid. Without the financial help provided by local attorney Lee Hunt, Sanchez may not have earned a degree in public policy after graduating with honors.
There are hundreds of thousands of children like Cristian Sanchez. They have grown up in America, in towns like Santa Rosa, attended schools alongside your kids and mine. Yet when they finish high school, they hit a wall. Their lack of legal status limits their options for education and for work.
Some say they should "go home." But for a young person who has lived in America for as long as he or she can remember, this is home – no matter what their immigration status.
The Obama Administration has recognized this with a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, described in two stories by Espinoza in Sunday's newspaper. About 200,000 young people brought into this country illegally as children have been approved for temporary legal work status under the program. More are awaiting approval.
The program allows these young people to come out of the shadows. Where once they faced a future as an "illegal" – read, "criminal" – member of society, they now can get a Social Security number and a driver's license, pursue higher education and a good job, strive to become a full, legal participant in the community.
Is than not good for America?
Immigration reform is a thorny issue, as evidenced by stories over the weekend about how some Republicans have gone apoplectic over the Obama Administration's backup plan in case Congress doesn't produce a bill. But while we argue over whether reform means "rewarding" people who broke the law, let's try to keep one thing in mind:
Their kids didn't do anything wrong.
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Stacy Shuler, Director of Marketing for parent company Wesley Senior Living, pointed out that they have a network of assisted living facilities, under the Wesley House name.
Mrs. Shuler said they currently have five locations—the one in Gilmer, and Atlanta, Quitman, Sulphur Springs and Lindale.
Wesley House added a Memory Care Unit in Sulphur Springs, and their second memory care facility will be in Gilmer.
Construction has begun, and they expect the Gilmer facility will be open in April. It is on the north side of the present building.
Mrs. Shuler invites those interested to tour the Gilmer location or any of the others.
Wesley House is a premier senior living facility that prides itself in offering a safe, happy environment for residents, she said.
"It features all the comforts and conveniences of home. The staff of each facility is dedicated to providing the highest quality of care for all of our residents," she said.
"Wesley House staff is happy to provide many around-the-clock services, including routine maintenance, basic health monitoring, three home-cooked meals a day, local transportation services, weekly housekeeping and laundry services, basic cable, emergency call systems, recreational activities, and much more," she said. "We also offer assistance with things like medication, personal hygiene, bathing, and dressing.
"At Wesley House, our mission is to give each resident their due dignity and freedom while ensuring their health, safety and livelihood. We believe in treating each person as though they are a part of our own family, and we pride ourselves in maintaining an exceptional standard of care."
To arrange a tour and address any questions or concerns you might have. call 866-475-5255 or visit their website at www.wesleyseniorliving.com .


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Think in and out of the box as Katie demonstrates how to cook up delicious treats that can easily be boxed up as gifts: cinnamon crisps and peanut brittle. Also learn how to propagate plants and create vintage-inspired decorations for your old boxes.
Visit the Website: http://www.katiebrown.com
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ASP.NET Cachingby Wei-Meng Lee
Caching is an important concept in computing. When applied to ASP.NET, it can greatly enhance the performance of your Web applications. In this article, I will discuss some of the techniques for caching ASP.NET pages on the server side.
Output Caching
Output caching caches the output of a page (or portions of it) so that a page's content need not be generated every time it is loaded.
Consider the following page where a user logs in to a site and reads the latest news. The page will display the user's name and retrieve the latest news since he last logged in.
|Figure 1: Displaying the latest news
In a typical ASP.NET page, every time the user views the page, the Web server will have to dynamically generate the content of the page and perform the relevant database queries (which is a very expensive task to do).
Considering the fact that the page does not change for a certain period of time, it is always a good idea to cache whatever is non-static so that the page can be loaded quickly.
Let's add a new
OutputCache page directive to the ASP.NET page:
<%@ OutputCache Duration="15" VaryByParam="*" %>
<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false"
Codebehind="WebForm1.aspx.vb" Inherits="Caching.WebForm1"%>
OutputCache directive specifies the various criteria for caching the page.
In this case, the page will be cached for 15 seconds. This means that if the
page is loaded and within the next 15 seconds it is refreshed, the Web server
will serve the same content without needing to dynamically regenerate the page.
This can be verified by the time displayed on the page.
VaryByParam attribute specifies how the caching should be performed, based
on the query string supplied to the page. For example, if I used the following
The query string passed to the page is
name=John&newsid=12. So now, if I
change the
VaryByParam attribute to:
<%@ OutputCache Duration="15" VaryByParam="Name" %>
The page will be cached according to the
Name key. This means that if I issue
the following two URLs, the second page will still be from the cache, as the
cache will only be refreshed if the
Name value changes:
The following URLs will cause the second page to be refreshed:
If you want to cause the page to be regenerated if the
Name and
NewsID keys
change, then you simply add the
NewsID key into the
VaryByParam attribute:
<%@ OutputCache Duration="15" VaryByParam="Name;NewsID" %>
In this case, this is equivalent to using a "
*", which means all keys will
cause the page to be regenerated:
<%@ OutputCache Duration="15" VaryByParam="*" %>
If you want to cache the page regardless of query string, you can use the
value "
<%@ OutputCache Duration="15" VaryByParam="none" %>
Caching Objects in a Page
While output caching is useful, a much more powerful and flexible application would be to cache individual objects in your Web application.
For example, I have a Web application that retrieves news from a SQL Server
database and displays the news titles in a ComboBox. As users are expected to
read the news by selecting the title from the ComboBox, I want to minimize the
number of times that the application connects to SQL Server for retrieving the
news content. So I cache the
DataSet containing the news.
|Figure 2: Caching the DataSet containing the news
The first time the page is loaded, the user has to click on the Get News button to get the news from the SQL Server:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As _
System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs)_
Handles Button1.Click
Dim ds As DataSet
ds = loadData()
Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To ds.Tables("News").Rows.Count - 1
Dim item As New _
End Sub
This calls the
loadData() method, which loads the data from SQL server and then
displays the data in the ComboBox.
Public Function loadData() As DataSet
Dim ds As New DataSet
If Cache("News") Is Nothing Then
Dim sql As String = "SELECT * FROM NewsHeader"
Dim conn As New SqlConnection ( _
"server=localhost; uid=sa;" & _
" password=; database=News")
Dim comm As New SqlCommand(sql, conn)
Dim dataAdapter As New SqlDataAdapter(comm)
dataAdapter.Fill(ds, "News")
Cache("News") = ds
ds = CType(Cache("News"), DataSet)
End If
Return ds
End Function
Note that I use a Cache object to see if it already contains a copy of the
DataSet (which contains the news). If it doesn't (
Is Nothing), I will retrieve
it from the SQL Server and then store it using the Cache object, using the key
News". Subsequent requests to the
loadData() method will load the data from the cached
When the user selects a new title from the ComboBox, the news content is retrieved from cache:
Private Sub DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal _
sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles _
Dim index As Integer = _
Dim ds As DataSet
ds = CType(Cache("News"), DataSet)
If ds Is Nothing Then
ds = loadData()
End If
Label3.Text = _
Label1.Text = _
End Sub
Note that you have to perform a type conversion using the
CType() method.
Using this method, I can reduce the number of connections I have to make to SQL
Server. This will improve the performance of my Web application.
What happens if there are new items in the database and you need to display them? You need to explicitly clear the cache via the Clear Cache button:
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As _
System.Object, ByVal e As _
System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
End Sub
Smart Caching with Dependencies
The caching technique described in the last section is useful but not brilliant. You don't expect the reader to know when to clear the cache. A better way would be to design the cache to automatically refresh itself when some external events happen. Let me extend the example.
Suppose our application loads a text file containing the header (that changes daily) for the day's news:
|Figure 3: Displaying the header
Assuming that the news changes daily, so it is logical that whenever the
header changes, the data in the cache should be refreshed as well. So there is
a dependence on the header.txt file. To express the cache's dependency on the
file, use the
System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency class.
Hence, rewriting my
loadData() method:
Public Function loadData() As DataSet
Dim ds As New DataSet
Dim header As String
Dim file As New _
header = file.ReadLine
lblHeader.Text = header
If Cache("News") Is Nothing Then
Dim sql As String = "SELECT * FROM NewsHeader"
Dim conn As New _
SqlConnection("server=localhost; " & _
"uid=sa; password=; database=News")
Dim comm As New SqlCommand(sql, conn)
Dim dataAdapter As New SqlDataAdapter(comm)
dataAdapter.Fill(ds, "News")
Dim depends As New _
System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency _
Cache.Insert("News", ds, depends)
ds = CType(Cache("News"), DataSet)
End If
Return ds
End Function
Notice that I have used the
insert() method of the
Cache class to insert the
DataSet and file dependency:
Cache.Insert("News", ds, depends)
From now on, if the content of the header.txt file is changed, the content in the cache would be cleared.
Time-Based Caching
Another technique for caching is based on time. For example, the cache can expire on a certain date, or it will only be available for a certain period of time. There are two ways in which you can use time-based caching:
- Absolute Expiration. The cache is set to expire on a particular date and time.
- Sliding Expiration. The cache is set to expire after a certain period of inactivity.
For example, if you have:
'===Absolute expiration===
Cache.Insert("News", ds, Nothing, _
DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(2), _
The cache is set to expire exactly two minutes after the user has retrieved the data.
For sliding expiration, you can use:
'===Sliding expiration===
Cache.Insert("News", ds, Nothing, _
Cache.NoAbsoluteExpiration, _
This will cause the cache to be cleared if the user does not reload the page within one minute. If the user reloads the page within the one-minute time frame, the data in the cache will be valid for another minute.
Use Caching Sparingly
As in life, anything that is good comes with a price. Enabling caching in ASP.NET causes the cache content to be stored in the Web server's memory. Caching takes up valuable system resources and can easily eat up all of your available memory.
When server memory runs out, the contents of your cache will be evicted. The criteria for cache eviction is based on priority, which you can optionally set when adding data to your cache:
Cache.Insert("News", ds, Nothing, _
Cache.NoAbsoluteExpiration, _
TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1), _
System.Web.Caching.CacheItemPriority.High, _
There are seven levels of priority:
BelowNormal, and
Caching of Web pages is an effective way of increasing performance while minimizing the use of precious server resources. Choosing the appropriate level for caching data is important for balancing caching versus memory usage. One of the most effective strategies to good Web application performance is to cache data only when necessary.
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Since school has ended, I've been getting my money's worth on my Netflix subscription and then some. Here are my two cents on a few of the films I've seen lately. To spice things up, I will preface each with a haiku:
Everything is Illuminated
2/5 stars
the little hobbit
quests for his family's past
mordor was cooler
"A young American Jewish man begins an exhausting quest — aided by a naïve Ukranian translator — to find the righteous gentile woman who saved his grandfather when his small Ukranian village (along with most of the populace) was obliterated during the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941. Stars Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz and Boris Leskin. Liev Schreiber directs –"
"–Based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer." (Netflix)
The first half of this movie is great, with "Royal Tenenbaums"-like quirkiness and charm, displayed wonderfully in the trailer. Eugene Hutz, especially, is hilarious as Alex, the young Ukranian translator who makes hapless attempts at Americanisms. But when Schrieber attempts to get all poignant about the Holocaust, he ends up overdoing the sad music and close up shots of people crying, and the movie just kind of grinds to a halt.
Across the Universe
3/5 stars
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bono's no walrus
"An American girl (Evan Rachel Wood) and a British lad (Jim Sturgess) fall in love amid the upheaval of the 1960s in this musical featuring classic Beatles songs and a mix of live action and innovative animation. On an excursion to America, Liverpool dock worker Jude (Sturgess) falls for Lucy (Wood). When Lucy's brother (Joe Anderson) is drafted, Jude and Lucy take a stand as anti-war activists. Dana Fuchs, Bono and Eddie Izzard co-star." (Netflix)
I really enjoyed the beginning and the end, but thought the middle could have withstood some judicious cutting and come out for the better. Bono's cameo cover of "I am the Walrus" was one of the most painful things I have watched; the director could have recruited a tone-deaf, slightly-sloshed nobody from a random karaoke bar, and the scene would have turned out the same (if not slightly better).
Bono aside, the soundtrack is a real gem and what saved this movie from being a 2-star. As long as you're not a purist, you'll enjoy the unique spin the film gives to classic Beatles songs. "I've Just Seen a Face" and "Come Together" are two examples that also have good dance sequences:
Star Trek
5/5 stars
blending old and new
this film kicks ass. credits roll,
i applaud madly
"Capt. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his trusted team on the starship USS Enterprise boldly go where no man has gone before in this installment of Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi franchise that follows the early days of the intergalactic adventurers. The crew includes Spock (Zachary Quinto), Chekov (Anton Yelchin), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg) and Sulu (John Cho). Eric Bana co-stars, and Leonard Nimoy appears as an older version of Spock." (Netflix)
I was already a fan of the previous work of John Cho, Anton Yelchin, and Karl Urban, so I was super delighted that they would all be in a movie together. And how cool is it that John Cho as Sulu had a sizeable part in the script? I am all for the correction of underrepresentation of Asian-Americans in film.
Nish described this movie on opening weekend as "Pirates of the Caribbean in space." I would have to say that's not far off the mark, and would like to append "…but awesomer". It was well-written, well-directed, and if I had any quibble, it would be that the film felt a bit too short. Five stars not because it was a pinnacle of cinematic achievement, but because it was the first film in a long time that I walked away from feeling completely satisfied. You've got me, Star Trek franchise. I eagerly await a sequel.


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Edwin Eugene (Buzz) Aldrin was born on January 20, 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey. He was nicknamed "Buzz" by his sister. His mother, Marion Moon, was the daughter of an army chaplain. His father, Air Force Colonel Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr., was a former student of rocket scientist Robert Goddard, and an aviation pioneer in his own right.
Aldrin graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1951, ranking third in his graduating class. After graduation, Aldrin was as an officer in the Air Force. A year later he was sent to Korea as a fighter pilot. He completed 66 fighter missions during the Korean War, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He then served as an Air Force instructor in Nevada before being assigned to the Air Force Academy as an aide and later a flight instructor. In 1956, he became a flight commander for a squadron in West Germany.
In 1959, Aldrin decided he needed a new career challenge and became interested in the developing U.S. space program. He enrolled in an engineering program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated in 1963 with a Doctor of Science degree in Orbital Mechanics; his thesis dealt with the piloting and rendezvous of two spacecraft in orbit. After he completed a series of strenuous mental and physical fitness tests, Aldrin was selected to be in NASA's third group of astronauts in October of 1963. Aldrin was the first astronaut to hold a doctoral degree and the only astronaut who was not a test pilot. Aldrin's first space mission was Gemini 12, which was with Jim Lovell, Jr. in November of 1966. During this flight, Aldrin established a new record for extra vehicular activity. In other words, his spacewalk proved that astronauts could work outside an orbiting vehicle to make repairs, a necessary ability if lunar flight was to become reality.
Following completion of the Gemini missions, the race was on between the United States and Russia to see who would reach the moon first. Aldrin completed many more hours of training to prepare for his role in different Apollo spaceflights. During his months in training, Aldrin created ways to improve various operational techniques, such as those used with navigational star displays. It was a combination of his temperament and skill that led to his being named Back-up Command Module pilot for Apollo 8 (December 21, 1968) the United States first attempt to orbit a manned lunar spacecraft. Then, in 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Aldrin were chosen as the Apollo 11 crew. The United States was ready to launch a lunar landing flight.
On July 20th, 1969, at 4:17 p.m., the Eagle landed on the Moon. Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. Aldrin radioed. He continued, We opened the hatch and Neil, with me as his navigator, began backing out of the tiny opening. It seemed like a small eternity before I heard Neil say, That's one small step for man ... one giant leap for mankind. In less than fifteen minutes I was backing awkwardly out of the hatch and onto the surface to join Neil, who, in the tradition of all tourists, had his camera ready to photograph my arrival. I felt buoyant and full of goose pimples when I stepped down on the surface.
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In 1972, Aldrin founded his own company, now known as Starcraft Enterprises. He sees his commercial relationships as an important link in the promotion of space tourism and the colonization of Mars. During an interview with USA Weekend, Aldrin expressed his belief that low-Earth orbiting tourism is going to be what allows NASA to get funding for vehicles for exploration. In 1974, Aldrin wrote his autobiography, Return to Earth. In 1989, he and Malcolm McConnell co-authored Men From Earth, which describes Aldrin's trip to the Moon. He has also served as chairman of the National Space Society's Board of Directors, and has been awarded 50 distinguished medals and citations from nations all over the world, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom. Since 2000, Aldrin has frequently stated his belief that, with support from the U.S. government, within 12 to 15 years the common man will be able to experience space as he did in 1969.
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October 24, 2007
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. - The Bluffton University volleyball team traveled to Manchester College on Tuesday, October 23, 2007, and fell to the Spartans in three straight games by scores of 30-22, 30-17 and 30-26. Manchester improved to 14-13 with a 6-2 record in Heartland Conference action while the Beavers dropped to 10-17 overall, including a 2-5 mark in the HCAC.
Freshman Kayla Pickering (Jamestown/Greenview) finished with a team-high eight kills and she added 13 digs. Middle hitter Crystal Augsburger (Bowling Green/Bowling Green) knocked down seven kills while Allison Streicher (Continental/Continental) and Shauna Rowland (Bucyrus/Wynford) contributed with six apiece. Freshman Blake Zickafoose (Lima/Senior), who hit a team-high .556 for the match, and Rachel Alvarez (Convoy/Crestview) chipped in with five kills each.
Rowland and junior Chelsea Wyse (Archbold/Archbold) paced the Beavers with 13 and 10 assists, respectively. From the back row, libero Brittany Roth (Findlay/Findlay) picked up a team-high 16 digs. Zickafoose and Augsburger both tallied two block assists in the loss to the Spartans.
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Police in the Gaza Strip on Monday captured a crocodile that roamed the sewerage system of a town in the north of the enclave, the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers said.So the crocodile was able to slither around Gaza's sewers because of Israel's blockade?
"The Palestinian police were able to use a boat to catch a crocodile that was hiding in the sewerage system in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip," the Hamas interior ministry said in a statement.
"The crocodile, which was 1.7 metres long, was captured alive after intense and difficult attempts following complaints from residents that their lives were in danger," it added.
An official in the area said the crocodile was transferred to the Gaza Zoo.
Rajab al-Naqah, the head of waste water treatment in Beit Lahiya, said the crocodile had escaped two years ago, when it was still small, from a nearby zoo to take up residence in the facility, where it threatened people.
Witnesses said the crocodile had attacked cattle that grazed nearby.
Gaza's water sewerage system has deteriorated over the years, notably because of the Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory and its devastating 22-day war on militant rocket fire launched in December 2008.
Not only that, but Israel has allowed plenty of materials for Gaza sewage and waste treatment programs to be transferred to Gaza since Cast Lead, something AFP could have found out quite easily if they just made a phone call.
That last gratuitous paragraph shows that AFP simply cannot resist blaming Israel for literally everything bad that happens in the territories.
Even escaped crocodiles.
By the way, even Al Jazeera couldn't find an anti-Israel angle to the Gaza crocodile story.
Surprisingly, none of the Arab media has found out yet that the croc was a Mossad agent.
(h/t Gidon Shaviv)