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Sturridge: Liverpool over heartbreak
Daniel Sturridge believes Liverpool have recovered from the heartbreak of missing out on the title last season and thinks they can be the surprise packages again this year.
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Brendan Rodgers' team were league leaders with three games to go but then lost 2-0 to Chelsea and squandered a three-goal lead against Crystal Palace to draw 3-3.
But striker Sturridge, who was their second top scorer then, is convinced there will be no hangover.
"We were heartbroken at the end of last season but we are refreshed this season and mentally ready for a long season, again especially with the Champions League," Sturridge said.
"That is something I can't wait to play in and the players can't wait to play in. It took a while. It is not easy to get over things like that but everyone is over that now and we look forward to the future and hopefully bringing success the club."
Few tipped Liverpool to take part in the title race last season and Sturridge is not worried that many have suggested they will fail to finish in the top four in the current campaign.
"It is very early on in the season to be making predictions of who is going to win the league and who are going to be the top four," he said. "I think we go about our business silently. Last season we were underdogs and this season we are underdogs, I don't think it changes.
"The manager has made great signings and we look forward to the future and having a successful season because everyone is hungry for success."
Sturridge scored the winner as Liverpool kicked off their campaign with a 2-1 victory over Southampton and he added: "It is early in the season. We have confidence within ourselves, we have a belief within the squad we can win every game -- no matter what the opposition -- with the philosophies the manager has and the individuals we have and how they work collectively."
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Now, until they come up with a way to use my Wii to fold proteins (and Dr. Baker has a great lab doing that here at the UW), I'll just use it to play Wii Sims instead.
On a processor level, I must admit the literal hardware of the PS3 is vastly more suited for the calculations involved in folding proteins, so it might be a while, even if there are many more Wii systems being sold.
Agreed. Since the Wii was actually designed to be left on 24/7 I think it would be a great candidate despite being a slower machine.
Not to discredit what Sony has done however. In a year of Stupid decisions, this is one of the shinning examples of a good idea that floated to the top. I hope they encourage its' use by setting milestones (100 WU, 500 WU, 1000 WU etc...) and offer Trophys in Home.
I've only had a PS3 for about 1 month and I keep it on pretty consistantly to fold. About once a week I give it "the night off" (since that system fan is spinning constantly). Since I noticed the Background downloads still work while folding I got to thinking that even when using the system Folding could take please (even at a slower rate). I have a 60 gig PS3 with the EE chip. When playing a PS2 game it is using that chip to play the game so the Cell would be practically dormant. Why not let it "background fold" ? How about a DVD, or a BluRay movie? Playing music of the HDD?
I can't imagine anything shy of a PS3 game (and a big one at that) would be running the Cell full tilt, so why not Add a "Folding@Home" option in system settings and let me chose to add it as a background task?
I can't imagine anything shy of a PS3 game (and a big one at that) would be running the Cell full tilt, so why not Add a "Folding@Home" option in system settings and let me chose to add it as a background task?
The PS3 runs Linux, so it would be technically possible. But even though Sony did a Good Thing(tm) and added FAH for idle time, they're not going to go to the effort to test FAH in each game.
The best way to get FAH would be to add the Sony FAHrootkit(r) in the Sonygcc that everyone is forced to use
It's only wasted power if you don't want the heat. If you live in a cold climate you've got yourself a perfect small heater with a COP of 1.
In some areas, natural gas is so cheap that an entry-level natural gas furnace is more efficient in joules per dollar than even a 100% efficient electric heater. This happens in part because gas distributed to customers is burned in the house, while gas burned at an electric power plant suffers transmission losses over long-distance power lines.
The PS3 apparently runs a sustained 200W running folding @ home. That's 140kWh per month. Assuming a 0.12 kWh rate, you'll be paying ~$200 per year in electricity for folding at home.
.12 cents isn't high; its much higher in some places (Alaska, California, New York,...), and lower in others like most of Canada, Tenessee, Iowa, etc...) But running with a .12 kWh, and assuming the "33,000 CPUs" for PS3s means indiviual PS3s, then that's over $7 million in 'donated' electricity PS3's are using for this proj
I think the bigger question is: "Is $200/year towards F@H better spent than $200 towards the Cancer foundatation, or the ACLU, the Red Cross, or whatever your favorite charity is... if you think it is, then fine. But if you haven't asked the question because you assumed the cost was negligible then you really should. F@H shouldn't be receiving your donations simply because you erroneously thought it didn't cost anything.
An excellent point. I personally consider F@H a "targeted donation". I know how much
The Folding@Home project ("FAH") is dedicated to understanding protein folding, the diseases which result from protein misfolding and aggregation, and novel computational ways to develop new drugs in general. Here, we briefly describe our goals, what we are doing, and some highlights so far.
We feel strongly that a distributed computing project must not just run calculations on millions of PC's, but d.c. projects must produce results, especially in the form of peer reviewed publications, public lectures, and other ways to disseminate the results from FAH to the greater scientific community. Below, we also detail our progress in these areas as well.
If you want to talk about whether Real Science is being done, too many of the top machines are working on various aspects of Weapons of Mass Destruction and therefor
Many of their recent papers seem more focused on how to scale and utilize the type of computing cluster they have than they relate to any sort of medical progress
How do you figure? By my count, about two of the most recent twenty publications/conference talks are mainly about the computer architecture. The majority are legitimate chemical physics and biophysics.
Keep in mind that this group, and others like it, don't do any laboratory work. Their research is about "understanding protein folding," no
Of course, I pay cash for groceries
What do you do when buying something that isn't sold within cycling distance of your home? Ordinarily, people would use debit cards for that, but in some ways, a debit card is just as traceable as a credit card.
and never use credit cards
If you have no credit history, you might find it hard to buy a house or a car or even qualify for some types of employment. Do you find it feasible to pay cash for a house without invoking suspicions of money laundering?
A barrier requires technical challenges to be met to move beyond a specific maximum point.
Cycles per second in the computing world have always been in base 10, not base 2. This is divisible by 10^3, not 2^10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Usage_notes [wikipedia.org]
When I run the program, a number of times, my computer has frozen up and I had to do a hard reboot.
Have you tried running memtest86 or CPU temperature diagnostics?
My theory was that perhaps they're doing some kind of low level hardware calls my system doesn't like.
Like actually using the CPU to its full capacity? I've read that some systems don't like that because they have poor cooling or defective parts.
Anybody else seen this on an HP laptop (or any other hardware)?
Laptops especially have cooling issues.
My theory was that perhaps they're doing some kind of low level hardware calls my system doesn't like.
Like actually using the CPU to its full capacity? I've read that some systems don't like that because they have poor cooling or defective parts.
No, I actually thought they might be doing something screwy like bypassing the HAL to make their processing faster, or something really funky like that. But my theory is based on nothing but the fact that the folks at Stanford are probably pretty smart and are likely to try to grab as many cycles as they can, and making low-level calls would probably accomplish that. Your theo
Second, we made several improvements to the application (v 1.2) that helped make the computations more accurate...
Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.

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May 28, 2005
The NCAA West Regional Championships came to a rainy end on Saturday afternoon in Eugene, OR. Overcast morning skies held tight through most of the events until a steady rain, thunder and lightning postponed the meet for over ninety minutes with two events remaining. Nonetheless, the Gauchos unofficially qualified one more athlete to the Division I National Championships.
Tetlo Emmen (Jr.) for the second year in a row came in as an underdog in the 800m run. Ranked 8th in the West, Emmen automatically qualified into Saturday's finals in heat one of the prelims. A tough field with four men dipping under 1:48 in the 2005 and a slew of others in between 1:48 and 1:49 made for a great finals event. Although a little cold for these middle distance runners the field went out in a moderate pace coming through 400m in 53 and 54 seconds.
Emmen was sitting toward the back of a tightly bunched group. With 250m to go, Rankin of UCLA charged ahead of the field gapping them by a little over ten meters going into the final turn. With the pack in hot pursuit Emmen made his move going around the turn on the outside to move through the field. Into the final homestretch all eight were together with Emmen out in lane three.
Fighting hard, Emmen would pull up for sixth at the line, just nine tenths of a second from first in 1:49.10. Brown of Washington would end up the winner in 1:48.191 and Rankin second in 1:48.195. Although unable to defend his 2004 title, Emmen appears he will obtain an at-large berth into Nationals via his seasonal best time and of course finishing either sixth, seventh or eighth in today's final. This will be his second trip to Nationals after he qualified as a sophomore last year.
In the men's Hammer Throw, Eugene Bradley (Jr.), Big West Conference runner up went in ranked 11th in the West. "Big Gene" in the first round went out and tossed a personal best 201-foot throw. The mark good enough to qualify for finals was the fifth best mark through three of six rounds.
With sprinkles of rain beginning to fall and thunder in the background Eugene maintained his position unable to improve upon his mark. In the fifth round Midles of USC passed Bradley with a 204 foot throw bumping him out of the automatic qualifying positions. It was at this point in which Mother Nature did not comply with the West Regional Championships around 5:30pm forcing the officials to postpone it for more than ninety minutes.
No thrower would best his mark in the sixth and final round after the postponement, leaving Bradley in sixth. His mark, a personal best on less than perfect conditions will more than likely keep him out of the at-large qualifying positions with athletes from other regions turning in farther marks.
The Women's 200m final saw Kylie McCuen (Jr.) in her first finals appearance at the West Regional Championships. Ranked 8th coming into the competition she faced tough competition from the Pac-10 schools including Athens Gold Medalist Monique Henderson of UCLA. School Record holder in this event, McCuen took down Shemi of Portland St. to finish seventh in 24.61. Henderson was the winner. With that seventh place finish and her personal best standing at 23.88 it is unlikely that she will garner an at-large selection.
In the final event of the day, the Men's 4x400m relay contained an upset winner from the Big West Champions. The UCSB Gauchos maintaining their Championship squad would again start off with Max Bellissimo (Fr.). Going in as the last ranked team by approximately two seconds the Gauchos would again run another good relay on the rainy, slick Hayward Field track. In the first of two heats, the Gauchos would face three others being BYU, Cal and Fresno State.
Bellissimo opened up with a 48.8 400m split handing the baton to Ryan Donnelly (So.). Getting out quickly, Donnelly pulled into second going into turn two. Just getting passed back into third on the homestretch he would give up the stick after a 49.0 to Ben Armel (Sr.) who would take his final lap around the track for the Gauchos.
Three-time Big West 800m Champion, Armel would blaze around the wet oval in 47.7 keeping their third position. Emmen would take over for the anchor leg holding off Fresno State but unable to grab eventual winners BYU and Cal. His split of 47.9 gave them a 3:13.28, just a second off the winning time. They would wind up eighth after the fast was completed.
In other final day action, Amy Haapanen (Jr.) and Heather Quinn (Jr.) were unable to qualify for finals in the Women's Discus. They ended 12th and 19th respectively. In the Shot Put, Haapanen again would take 12th just out of finals contention and Quinn would finish in 18th position. Haapanen maintained her rank of 12th in both events that she began the meet with, while Quinn improved upon her rank of 20th going into the Shot.
In the Men's Pole Vault, Big West Conference Champion Sean Thomas-Bignami (Jr.) would only clear 16-01.25 in a screwy day that saw the winner only go 17-01 and a few All-American candidates no height in windy and cold conditions.
Also in the field, Rebecca Richey (Jr.), All-Conference in the Javelin Throw two weeks ago ended a disappointing 24th with a mark of 131-05. Her mark of 150 at the Big West Championships which propelled her into the Regional Championships helped start off a magical day for the women en route to their first Conference title.
In the 3,000m steeplechase, the women got off just before the rains came down. Although she was competing in the first of two heats, with the top ranked women in the second, it is still possible for an athlete to qualify out of the first heat based on time.
School Record holder Bethany Nickless (Fr.) got off to a great start holding pace through five laps for a personal best. Beginning to waiver she would fall back to sixth in her heat and 18th overall in a time of 10:47.69.
The men however did not avoid the rain. About ready to start, the athletes had to stay warm for an extra ninety minutes. Finally getting off at 7:05pm, the first heat of two heats included Gaucho junior Scott Brandos. Like Nickless, he was in the slower ranked heat. Having an off day, Brandos who was named All-Conference at this distance two weeks ago ended up 23rd overall.
The Gauchos next travel to Sacramento, CA for the NCAA Division I National Championships. Automatically, UCSB has qualified two athletes out of the 5,000m in Lauren Christman (Jr.) and Cosette Smith (Sr.). Unofficially, they have qualified Tetlo Emmen (Jr.) in the 800m and Amy Haapanen (Jr.) out of the Hammer Throw with at-large berths. On the bubble remains Javelin thrower Gabe Mann (Jr.). Official declared athletes for the National Championships will be made available early this week.


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WMU girl's basketball opens up play tonight against Pekin, after playing their Jamboree last night.
The Wolves return their two top scorers from last year in Cassie Kingery with 294 and Shelby Therme who had 191. WMU put together an 18-6 season last year and made 35 percent of their shots from the floor, 26.4 percent from behind the arc.
Pekin had a 14-8 season last year, making 28 percent from the floor, but lost their top two scorers in Emily Ellis and Brandy Millikin who take a combined 458 points with them. Cheyann Lankford returns for her senior season with her 187 points from last year.
WMU head coach Mich Wachs said tonight is about making easy shots, but also ball security.
"The early portion of the schedule is what can we do better," Wachs said. "I think for us, I think the key is we have to win the turnovers, we want to get up and down the floor so I expect to play with some turnovers which is not a huge thing for us, but we have to limit the ones in the half court."
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Evans, Mark
Dirty Deeds-My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC (Book Review)
June 2012
Released: 2011, Bazillion Points
Rating: 3.5/5
Reviewer: JP
Last month was Maiden Month, so this month is AC/DC month! I'm taking a look at four AC/DC related books this month. Feel free to also check out my reviews of DIRTY DEEDS (Evans), LET THERE BE ROCK (Masino), TWO SIDES TO EVERY GLORY (Stenning) and HIGH VOLTAGE ROCK AND ROLL (Sutcliffe)
When I first got this book I admit I was mildly skeptical as a reader about how much value or validity the life-story of Mark Evans would have. Is this just another guy who wants to cash in on the current global success of AC/DC because he was in the band for five minutes, almost 40 years ago? I had the same misgivings about the Al Atkins (Judas Priest) autobiography as well and much like the Atkins book (DAWN OF THE METAL GODS) I was very pleased to show that my initial skepticism was unfounded, as DIRTY DEEDS turns out to be quite an interesting look at the early days of the band.
Evans was the bassist in AC/DC from March 1975 to May 1977 just over two years of a whirlwind of activity. Perhaps my initial assessment of 'five minutes' was unfair. Mark spends the vast majority of this good looking, 270 page book talking about those two years. The first 50 pages or so cover his early years in a conventional autobiography format; linear narrative of his childhood. He had quite a measure of independence at an early age, having his own place and job at age 15! Evans has a few years of football, drinking, working odd jobs and drinking with the boys at the pool hall, and by the end of Chapter Two, he is in the band and this is where the story takes off.
In today's modern era, recording music is very different. Often today the 'average' band will make an album every two years more. Back then in his brief tenure, the band wrote and recorded HIGH VOLTAGE, DIRY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP, LET THERE BE ROCK and some misc. stuff that showed up on the '74 JAILBREAK. Now add two trips to England, several European and Australian tours adding up to hundreds of gigs, these guys were incredibly busy. No wonder everyone felt burned out! Chapters Three through Ten provide an incredible amount of detail about the inner workings of the band. Evans provides a ton of intimate detail without ever compromising the highly private and insular nature of the Young clan. It is interesting to see an alternate perspective that does not put Angus and co. on this massive pedestal like the cover art of STIFF UPPER LIP. It is not that Evans is bitter but he was never truly a part of the machine, he didn't write too much, write lyrics, didn't sing, he just played bass and got dragged along in the gears of the machine. Many of his adventures with Bon Scott sound very bohemian and incredibly fun!
DIRTY DEEDS is loaded with photos of the early days of the band, many that I have never seen before. The book is well-laid out and easy to read, aided by Evans simple and non-pretentious writing style. The last two chapters, 50 pages or so, cover the years from 1977 to 2007. In the intervening years between his dismissal from the band in 1977 he ever so briefly touches on his life, hobbies, marriage, love for rare guitars, working in the industry and even playing a bit of acoustic blues-based rock. I had forgotten that after AC/DC Evans gave it another go with the band Contraband and then Heaven with another American tour. I think he could have expanded this section a bit more as these years from 1997-1984 or so he was a working, touring musician but it gets glossed over. I would have liked to hear more about his experiences on the Kiss UNMASKED tour and the Black Sabbath BORN AGAIN tour. He also touches on the Death of his friend Bon Scott in this final section as well. The book ends rather abruptly on a tragic note with the death of his eldest daughter in a freak accident in Europe in 2007.
As mentioned in my introductory comments, there have been a ton of books about AC/DC and until very recently (with the publication of Brian Johnson's book) I believe this is the first book written by an actual member of the band. It's a great read focusing on what most AC/DC fans would want to read, not so much about Mark himself but that 'magical' era of the band and the legend and nostalgia of the Bon Scott years.
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It's important to note that the FTC is not interested in investigating the kind of Google products most of us use. Nobody is locking us into Google Search, GMail, YouTube, Picasa, Google Docs, and so on. In fact, Google makes it very easy to take your data with you to different services, and in doing so, ensures that you are never forced to use anything from Google. Being a web company, Google tends to use open technologies anyways, unlike its competitors.
No, we're fine. People who aren't fine, however, are Google's other customers - the customers that actually make Google money. Google is accused of favouring its own services in search results, non-transparent pricing schemes for advertising, and so on.
"Google engages in anticompetitive behavior [...] that harms consumers by restricting the ability of other companies to compete to put the best products and services in front of Internet users, who should be allowed to pick winners and losers online, not Google," Fairsearch.org, a group representing, among others, Microsoft, told the WSJ.
I'm in favour of this investigation, even if it has no merit at all. Large and influential companies should be kept close tabs on, whether they make software, cars, or whatever. Even if nothing ever turns up, it keeps them on edge, on their toes, and it ensures they stay on the right track.


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A hazardous materials team was deployed to a University of Colorado lab Friday evening, after a facilities worker discovered sulfuric acid leaking from the building's ventilation system.
At about 7:30 p.m., emergency officials became aware of the leak, which occurred at CU's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. The Boulder Fire Department's haz-mat team and CU's Environmental Health Safety Department both responded.
According to Mike Lowry of CU police, the leak was discovered by a heating and air conditioning worker, who had noticed liquid dripping from a vent hood.
In his attempt to stop the leak, one of the man's hands came in contact with the acid. According to Lowry, the man has recovered and did not need immediate medical care.
By 9:30 p.m., Lowry said, the leak was contained. The building will resume normal hours Saturday.
Sulfuric acid is strong and highly corrosive, and used mainly in petroleum refining as well as the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals and explosives.
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Bulldogs Finish Day One of NCAA Regional
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Making sure that his collegiate run was not over yet, senior John Van Deventer clinched a spot in the finals of the 1,500-meter run on the first day of the NCAA East Regional. If all goes well in finals, Van Deventer could be one of 12 runners in the 1,500-meter run who advance to the national championship.
In Thursday's preliminaries, Van Deventer took third in his heat and finished with a time of 3:50.25 as the 19th fastest time overall out of 48 runners. Kris Gauson of Butler finished with the top time in 3:48.38. The top four in five heats and the next four fastest times qualified for finals, which will take place on Saturday at 6:45 p.m. In finals, the top five of two heats and the next two fastest times will qualify for the national meet. Like preliminaries, Saturday's lineup looks like it will be a tight race as all the finalists' times are within three seconds of each other.
On Friday, senior Matt Bogdan and junior Nathan Richards will compete in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, the last race of the night at 9:10 p.m. The top three in each heat and the next three fastest times advance to the national championship. Heat sheets and live results are available at IUHoosiers.com. A complete schedule of the meet as well as live results and video coverage can be found at the meet website. Results will be posted at Yalebulldogs.com after the meet.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. financial stocks rose on Thursday with banks and residential real-estate investment trusts taking the lead.
Shares of Apartment Investment & Management Co. AIV, +0.40% led gainers after analysts at Bank of Montreal raised its rating to outperform from market perform. They also tweaked their outlook for the entire multi-family REIT sector and changed ratings on a total of seven stocks.
Along with the Apartment Investment call, they upgraded Camden Property Trust CMD, -0.33% and Essex Property Trust ESS, +0.45% both to outperform from market perform. They upgraded AvalonBay Communities Inc. AVB, +0.65% to market perform from underperform.
To the downside, they cut Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. MAA, +0.73% to market perform from outperform and lowered both BRE Properties Inc. US:BRE and Colonial Properties Inc. US:CLP to underperform from market perform.
In the broader financial sector, the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF XLF, -0.32% which tracks the financial stocks in the S&P 500 index, rose 0.7%.
The financials in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.24% also performed well. Shares of Bank of America Corp. BAC, -0.17% and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, -0.51% added 0.6% and 0.9%, respectively, while American Express Co. AXP, -0.89% and Travelers Cos. TRV, +0.29% both chalked up gains of about 0.6%.


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For more information about
Institutional Education:
Reconnecting At-Risk Youth
Institutional Education Conference 2011
The OSPI Institutional Education Conference, held in May 2011, provided targeted professional development for educators working with adjudicated and at-risk youth in education programs statewide. The following handouts are courtesy of the conference presenters.
How to Provide Education in an Adult Jail (PDF)
Presenter: Rue Palmer & Clarence Henley
This a presentation for those who are working on providing an educational program for juveniles in an adult jail. Tacoma Schools and Pierce County with the help of PSESD and OSPI pioneered what the juvenile education programs now look like under the new state "Juveniles in Adult Jails Education" law.
The High Cost of Adverse Childhood Experiences (PDF)
Presenter: Cathy Kelley
Incredible advancements in brain research and health studies help us understand
how adverse childhood experience shapes the individual, drives high cost social
problems, and becomes an extremely powerful determination of health across the
lifespan. This presentation provides the opportunity to learn what the newest
brain research and epidemiology tell us about adverse childhood experience and
the developing child and their effect on learning. We look at typical patterns
of physical, mental, and behavioral development, the ACE study results,
resiliency and how you can make a difference.
Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences: The ARC Model (PDF)
Presenter: Maurene Stanton
Many of the youth being educated in our state institutions have been exposed to
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Practitioners are not surprised by this,
and are motivated to learn how to effectively respond to them. The Attachment,
Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) model provides ten building blocks all
caregivers can use when working with youth who have experienced childhood
Compassionate Schools: Improving Classroom Culture and Climate for Improved
Learning and Student Accountability (PDF)
Presenter: Ron Hertel
Students face personal challenges (delinquency, mental health issues, substance
abuse, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, etc.) which become barriers to
learning. Strategies to address Adverse Childhood Experiences, brain
development, behavior, and academic learning in the educational environment will
be presented. This presentation introduces the concepts in the handbook, "The
Heart of Learning and Teaching: Compassion, Resiliency and Academic Success" and
gives practical examples of compassionate schools that are already operational
in Washington state through a Professional Learning Community structure.
Parent Project Provides Positive Outcomes (PDF)
Presenter: Gail Spolar
Using the nationally-recognized Parent Project Program curriculum designed to
help parents with strong-willed teens, ESD 112's Truancy Project staff have had
remarkable results improving student attendance, decreasing destructive
behavior, and helping families calm the drama in their lives. Learn how parents
went from skeptical or hostile at the beginning of the class to calling it "a
true life saver" at the end of the ten weeks. Specific pre-and post-session
results will be shared from three parent cohorts.
Developments in WA Career & College Readiness Guidance: NAV 101 (PDF)
Presenter: Mike Hubert
This session will focus on exploring the Navigation 101 career guidance model
and updates on broader guidance and counseling initiatives in Washington State.
Learn strategies by which school counselors can more effectively support the
efforts of institutional educators.
Tech Tools in Corrections Education (PDF)
Presenter: Tim Kopp
Technology is everywhere, and while we assume kids know more, often they know
less than they need. Responsible citizenship includes responsible use of
technology. Discover technology tools you and your students can use to access
learning through authentic, current technology. Session looks at hardware and
software and shows actual student work with these tools.
Writing Workshop in the Institutional Setting (PDF)
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With advances in the smartphone market, is NFC set to surpass the traditional lock and key?
We rarely go anywhere without our mobile phones - they have long surpassed being used just for calling to say we are running late or for short conversations - we now rely on them for many of our business needs and the variety of convenient applications they can provide to help us in our daily routines. But is the smartphone also about to signal the end, or least of a pocketful of keys?
With the advent of access cards, the importance of the traditional mechanical key has diminished with smart cards becoming increasingly capable and intelligent. And with the latest advances in access control technology, there is now the potential to do away with the need to carry keys by embedding portable identity credentials or "mobile keys" into smartphones.
Commuters already use their phones as tickets or boarding passes in many European countries and in Japan, and NFC payment systems are now installed in restaurants, shops and even taxis. On college campuses, students can use their phones to enter buildings, buy lunch or act as student identification during exams. NFC phones can even be used to provide doctors access to your medical history.
In the business arena, achieving convenience without compromising security is the biggest challenge. Just last month, we announced the completion of two pilot programmes that achieved just that. Both Netflix, the world's leading internet subscription service for TV and films, and Good Technology, a secure enterprise mobility solutions provider, validated how mobile access control using NFC-enabled while maintaining their physical enterprise security.
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Already? Someone's anxious.
Will be a fun game to watch.
LMAO @ 284 yards per game on offense in the year 2012 in the NFL. That's an average 3/4's worth of yardage for the average team in the league. Jets might be in deep trouble today....
Taking my boys to the game today. If you see someone with quasi-inappropriately young kids at the game, thats me.
Shonn Greene averaging 2.9 yards a carry AHAHAHHAHAHA. Still starting too! ... freaking dummies man.
If we can stop Mathis and Freeny we have a shot...BIG if!
Luck will have a field day through the air on us. Look for andy to pick on kyle wilson who will probably be on avery.
I really think 2-14 is the best thing for the franchise. But its gameday.
Go jets!
Luck has been way better than his numbers indicate. He's been severely hampered by his receiving options. No receiving threat out of the backfield, and two of his top 4 guys are rookie TEs. It doesn't matter that they're talented, they're rookies and are unreliable on a week to week basis. Avery stinks, he started off his career OK, but hasn't been the same since he tore his ACL.
There's a reason why Reggie Wayne has been targeted on more than 1/3 of Luck's attempts. He gets the ball thrown his way 15 times per game. Anyone could have seen this scenario playing out before the season even started. This was an ideal matchup for us before the season, I thought it would be a 24-3 type game then: Revis on Wayne, no one else for Luck to throw to and they can't run the ball. Now Revis is out and our run defense is bad, so the Colts should be able to get 17-20 points on the board.
This is still a good matchup for us, just not as good as it appeared before the season.
God help us
I hope we don't bottom out today.
I know the team is not good this year, but I just want a win today! I want Sanchez to play well, a vintage Rex D performance, and just a fun day for Jet fans!!! J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS
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Antonio Cromartie talking with Jets WRs coach Sanjay Lal right now and going over specific routes. #nyj
Colts inactives: LB Robert Mathis, QB Chandler Harnish, RB Donald Brown, LB Pat Angerer, NT Martin Tevaseu, G Joe Reitz, DE Fili Moala #nyj
Jets inactives: QB Greg McElroy, WR Clyde Gates, RB Jonathan Grimes, S Eric Smith, FB John Conner, NT Sione Po'uha, NT Kenrick Ellis #nyj
Jets OL Caleb Schlauderaff is active for the first time this season. 8 o-linemen active. Remember, Mangold playing with hurt ankle. #nyj
Rookie DL Damon Harrison and recently acquired DL Daniel Muir are also active & will play today. #nyj
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As executive director of the Birmingham Principal Shopping District, I strive day in and day out to promote the incredible shops and restaurants that downtown Birmingham has to offer. I know that each and every purchase made in our state and our communities is crucial to the success of these businesses. These successes provide 850,000 retail-related jobs, stimulate the local economy and keep people coming back to dine, shop and play, making wonderful communities such as Birmingham even better.
The City of Birmingham is vibrant and prosperous, with a population of more than 20,000. Birmingham�s lively, pedestrian-friendly downtown offers one of the Midwest�s premier shopping districts. Comprised of nearly 300 retailers, downtown Birmingham offers a wonderfully diverse assortment of fashion boutiques, restaurants, gift stores, jewelers, salons, spas, antique shops and art galleries. Without the continued support of Michigan residents, every single one of these community assets would falter.
On Saturday July 26, Birmingham will host its annual downtown sidewalk sale known as Day On The Town, serving as yet another reminder to shop in your nearby community. Stores will open their doors from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. with special sales, live music, entertainment, food and more, but what they�ll really be offering is far greater than any of those things � the ability to stand behind your community and your state by purchasing goods and services from business owners who can offer you personalized service. They�ll be offering you the opportunity, as they do year-round, to Buy Nearby.
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June 9, 2014 – The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission received a report on the upcoming dove season at their June 5 meeting in Baton Rouge.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' (LDWF) Wildlife Division, based on information collected in a spring dove hunter survey and the US Fish and Wildlife Service's new harvest strategy, is planning a 2014 dove season that will include:
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|2006-08-25, 16:45
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|2006-08-25, 17:25
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Is it that difficult to comprehend the fact that people have preferences?
I seen Zeta Gundam before I was exposed to SEED. And I can't say I apprecaited the show. Is it a bad show? Most certainly not. I did not like it due to the fact that Tomino went on a killing spree, most of which were extremely pointless. Its like colonies getting blown up by the dozens in Gundam Wing. Was Tomino trying to convey to me the horrors of war? If he was, then he failed utterly, since I was made numb, not sympathetic.
"One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." Joesph Stalin
If I only get to have SEED and Zeta to choose from, then I'd probably go with SEED. It had characters -I- cared about. Although both series (Seed/Destiny) suffered from a messed up ending (only to be remedied later), the overall character development in both series weren't bad (but it could use an improvement, especially for Shinn). That, and I am not particuarly keen on the 'sacrifice yourself for the greater good' thing. If I was the protagnist, and I worked the butt off, then dammit, I expect to be rewarded!
But if Zeta is your thing? More power to ya. If I don't like it? I don't like it. What more is there to say?
Oh, lastly...
dom33 "cagalli: a failed version of relena."
If I was Cagali, I'd take that as a compliment. Relena doesn't do jack except opening her mouth. If it wasn't for Heero and her brother cleaning up all the mess she created, she would not have survived the show. Wanna open your mouth? Fine, rally God's wrath behind you before you do so. Cagali learned that lesson the hard way, but she learned it. Instead of crying to stop a war, bring some Murasame, or better yet, get in a Akatsuki, lead a strike team, and send the traitors back to hell. Go girl!
- Tak
|2006-08-25, 17:39
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Tomino does have some strange issues regarding the role of women and children and death in conflict, which is really the only issue I have with his works, he's definetly not altogether there and it shows sometimes in his work. For the most part though Zeta was a great sci-fi epic, but I can't even see a Gundam fanatic like myself calling Gundam an accurate portrayal of war, its a show thats there to entertain and make us think a little bit about some of the issues regarding war, some do a bit better than others. We've got to understand though that the main driving force behind Gundam is to sell model kits, but Tomino and the Hajime Yatate team were capable of turning into so much more a lot of the time.
Oh and For the record to dom33, Cagalli is actually one of if not my favorite Gundam Girl, so, I can't side with you there, she actually has guts. To me an argument is instantly lost once you start trying to insult the things that people like as your more likely to have them come back swinging with a vengeance. The only way to lose an argument quicker is with the Hitler comparsion.
|2006-08-25, 17:57
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The quote is simply there to illustrate how numb I was while watching Zeta Gundam and Tomino's killing spree. I didn't care, therefore, its not a 'tragedy'. It was a mere 'statistic', with people getting bombed left n' right. They were mere numbers, nothing for me to be sympathetic or sorry for. Unless Tomino wanted to show us some 'creativity' in the art of mass destruction, though I doubt that was the goal he tried to attain.
Lastly, instead of comparing Lacus to some random Gundam character, compare her to Lin Minmei instead. I personally see her as a mix of Lin Minmei and Misa Hayase, but thats just me.
- Tak (and if there is a better war drama than Gundam? Always look for Macross)
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|2006-08-25, 19:22
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Oh and Macross was far more character driven than any Gundam series. There were entire sets of episodes at a time where the Zentraedi decided to leave them alone and the characters sat back relaxed and we learned more about them. I would have loved to be on the Macross's journey. It wasn't really a war though, just people trying to survive against an overwhelmingly powerful enemy.
Also Uncle Joe, never heard Stalin called that before.
|2006-08-25, 19:41
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Sure, SEED made some of the same mistake. A lot of people died meaninglessly, but it surprised me completely with the death of the three Astray pilots, gotta give 'em credit for pulling that on me. Moreover, the depressing death of Natarle was, imo the best 'death' in the series, because it had style. Despite this, they did not overdo the deaths. Zeta overdone it for me.
As for Macross, it was first and foremost a war. The conflict itself might have been totally unfair for the humans, but that did not mean the humans were ready to give in. Instead, they took up arms and resisted. That is a war.
After all, what happened in Macross shall forever be known as 'Space War I'.
- Tak
|2006-08-26, 01:43
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I'm watching it right now, I'm right after Amuro meeting up with the people that were stranded on Earth and he crashes the freighter into the MS (ep. 15ish). So far I've only seen Kamille's parents, Roberto, Monte Blanc, some titans and some grunts (not in that order neccesarily) die. The first real death that actually hit me as solid (other than Kamille's parents, but they died to set up the story).
After Roberto died Char, excuse me Quattro, gave a good mini-sermon to Kamille, about how this is war, he feels bad that Roberto died, but the time for crying is later (something along those lines) and they need to respect his memory by going to space.
That I think is what the deaths that I'm hearing about are supposed to mean, its trying to get the viewer to see what it's like to fall into a shell to protect yourself from death.
|2006-08-26, 02:24
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Zeta Gundam isn´t bad at all. But it´s not the masterpiece people always claim it to be.
The big plus for Zeta in my opinion would be the interesting characters. /Kamille excluded but Char was great in Zeta and Amuro was handled in a good way.) And the mecha designs are nice aswell. The last few episodes are really good aswell.
The big minus is the randomness of the show. Battles, encounters and defections aswell just occur too random. I feel the stupidiest thing in Zeta is when Kamille just walks into the base to talk with Four... And you know. Compared to Char Kamille doesn´t really grow throughout the show. It´s pretty much Char that steals all the spotlight. Kamille remains the same throughout the show.
And until the last few episodes the battles are far too easy too read. They begin the same and end the same. So the battles didn´t become really exciting until the end.
My favourite Gundam shows would be. SEED, 08th MS Team and Turn A Gundam.
|2006-08-26, 10:44
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Location: Neu Fürstentum Zeon
^ Worse, despite the fact that Karamel awakened from his coma in ZZ, he didn't even return in Char's counterattack. For shame!
And speaking of Char's counterattack, its one of those Tomino murder movies People-just-keep-on-dying-to-the-point-of-numbness (not that its a bad movie, mind you. Love the fights)
I think he is trying to change that (his bitterness), evident with that whole 'New Translation' movies.
Lastly, I love MS08. Its the closest thing to a war drama for Gundam.
- Tak
|2006-08-26, 11:16
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CCA is dumb for what it did to Char after everything he learned in Zeta. I hate that aspect of the film immensely as Char, Amuro and Bright are the only reasons worth watching UC for besides interesting battle choreography. I will blast Zeta till the cows come home because it was an infinite let down, but I do respect the development of Quattro. CCA version of Char, code named "Hey! I'm a bad guy again!" pissed me off so much. Besides that I think it was a decent film and I like the ending to the Federation vs Zeon story line.
|2006-08-26, 16:43
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I don't know how much of a role the order one watches shows in has to do with how much one likes that show. For example, Turn A is the very last Gundam show I have seen so far, but it's still my second favorite (if it hadn't messed up the ending, it would have been my favorite). I think that this criteria is more dependent on temperament. Some people put a lot of stock on originality, and may feel as if a later work is intruding upon their memory of a treasured favorite. Others may not give a damn, and only care about how well a show is executed. It's probably easier to simply put the difference of opinion on Zeta on a case of personal opinion.
By the way, Obi-Wan, my favorite Gundam show is Victory, and it seems as if it's your least favorite why haven't we ever had any issues over that?
|2006-08-26, 19:15
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Apparently I'm in good company since I'm told the Victory Gundam DVD set in Japan comes with a foreword by Tomino saying not to watch it.
|2006-08-27, 08:13
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@mao if you haven't noticed every one has low securitymeasures in a gundam series.
@obi-wan do we have to go thru this again? if you see the last 1/4 of zeta gundam you'll see hints for his actions in cca. i'll talk about char in cca but that's gotten old.
|2006-08-27, 09:21
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Frankly, Char acting the way he is in CCA can be viewed in a skewed way, judging from how his fortitude of pursuing his ambitions of Spacenoids seems secondary to his bitchfight with Amuro. Even so, why the hell he intends to bring Lalah and his Amuro hate into the mix post-Zeta is another thing to ponder about. But that's off-topic.
|2006-08-27, 11:43
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I really did not like Char in CCA. He went completely backwards from Z. I thought he'd learn something, but apparently he didn't.
CCA is another one of Tomino's kill-em-all productions. But the most embrassing 'end' in CCA gotta be Char's. After all, he spent close to a quarter of the movie in Amuro's mercy.
- Tak
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|2006-08-27, 23:28
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However, Quattro's most significant character growth was to bury the hatchet with Amuro. By the end of Zeta, if he had learned anything, it was that a feud over Lalah was childish, and was better left in the past. To regress a character without providing any explanation is just a sign of terrible writing.
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Sean Grimsley, 19, of New Baltimore, was arraigned Monday on multiple charges in connection with thefts of merchandise from vehicles on Rachid Lane, near Cotton and Sugarbush roads. Grimsley was charged with resisting and obstructing a police officer; using a police scanner during commission of a felony; breaking and entering a vehicle; and a minor in possession of alcohol. He also was held on five separate probation violations and given an additional $50,000.00 cash bond on those.
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At the time of the arrests, police recovered GPS equipment, money and jewelry reportedly taken from neighborhood vehicles.
Police also said the suspects admitted they used a �smart phone� app to scan police radio transmissions.
A day earlier, three men were arrested on suspicion of breaking into vehicles in the Carriage Way mobile home community near 24 Mile Road and Gratiot. The three charged with larceny from a vehicle include: Casey O�Connor, 18, of Clinton Township; Marteze Stewart, 22, of Detroit; and Marquise Stewart, 19, of Warren. Bond was set at $5,000 on all three.
About 2:30 a.m. Sunday residents of the mobile home community called 911 reporting that three males were breaking into cars and on the move through the park.
Officers responded and ultimately arrested the three men.
From Friday (4-5-13) at midnight, until Monday morning (4-8-13) the Chesterfield Police Department responded to 148 separate incidents, police officials said. Officers made 16 arrests for various charges, including drugs, assaults and drunken driving.
Police pointed out the department responded during the same weekend officers conducted a highly publicized manhunt for a man accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend. The man was apprehended.


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# lslimo > output.txt
and post the output.txt file.
00:00.0 12v Battery
00:01.0 Chassis
00:1a.0 Engine
00:1a.1 Gear box
00:1a.2 Cam belt
00:1a.7 Drive shaft
00:1b.0 Stereo
00:1c.0 Steering wheel
00:1c.4 Steering column
00:1c.5 Horn
00:1d.0 Driver seat
00:1d.1 Front passenger seat
00:1d.2 Hot tub
00:1d.7 Back passenger seats
00:1e.0 Wheels
00:1f.0 Doors
You will obviously have to use manufacturers non-free driver, as they haven't released the spec for a Hot tub device. The latest patch I have in git fills the tub (although there are some overflowing issues with the latest, compact tubs) but doesn't heat the water yet.
Well, apparently Natalie Portman submitted a patch for the Hot tub to handle grits.
# lslimo > output.txt
You mean
# roblimo > output.txt
I could, but no guarantees it wouldn't crash.
Have you asked roblimo [slashdot.org]?
It's... very much a distro thing.
Ubuntu, despite having newer kernels and stuff, doesn't support my wifi card like Sabayon does. I 3 that distro ^-^
I don't know the details of your case, but in general, it is NOT a distro thing. In the case of wifi, anything using the same kernel newer than 2.6.23 should have similar wifi support except for some like Mint that automate ndiswrapper setup.
Vista ships with drivers for a lot of things on the disc, all the way back to RTM.
My BCM94311 works out of the box on Vista because Vista was released after that chip became common, hence MS probably demanded they be allowed to put the driver on the install disc.
This may be true, but which OS is handicapped by it?
The only advantage to Linux is the more frequent release schedule which allows it to stay current with drivers.
Every windows release has come with a fairly current and comprehensive driver list. Every device you can buy has a windows driver included with it.
Also of note is the influx of what you might call "Basic functionality" drivers for devices such as scanners and multifunction printers - often full feature drivers are not available for these devices even though they technically work on Linux.
I ahve yet to install a version of windoes that didn't require immediate driver updates.
Every windows release has come with a fairly current and comprehensive driver list.
Where windows flounders and linux shines, is with non-current drivers.
I pulled an old voodoo 3 out of an an ancient PC. It was pretty trivial to get debian to recognize it, but after hours of searching, I never found a functional windows XP driver.
3DFX Zone [3dfxzone.it] host a couple of interesting drivers.
Including SFFFT's drivers.
These work with Windows XP and XP64 and provide support for Glide (3dfx did release the source for the Linux version) OpenGL (thanks to Mesa3D) and DirectX 9 (at least for the function that the hardware can provide).
But then again, back to the main argument, it's an entirely community effort based on opensource code and such. Stock Windows does not support it, and it's not trivial to find decent drivers for it. Whereas "tdfx" is just a
Every device you can buy has a windows driver included with it.
Wrong. Maybe every consumer-level device you can buy today, but I have a nice shiny network card around that needs tweaking to work in Linux, doesn't work at all in Windows (yes, I tried, for more than a day), and only works flawlessly in FreeBSD and Solaris. Dunno where it came from, probably a server somewhere. And don't even get me started on PPC, SPARC et al, where Windows dearest fails to run at all. Which is kinda unfortunate for my Powerbook, but alas, we do have Linux.
People sometimes forget that, despite their ~95% marketshare, not all devices in the world are Windows-compatible, or were ever meant to be.
Every windows release has come with a fairly current and comprehensive driver list. Every device you can buy has a windows driver included with it.
My computer will not run windows. Yes all the hardware has windows drivers, but those drivers span from windows 98 to Vista. Some of them are not available to download at all, the manufacturer having decided I should buy a new device that costs 5 times as much.
Do I still have to recompile the kernel to get that 3rd party driver to work in linux, or is that one solved?
I will bet you just about any amount of money that the standard kernel for Vista doesn't detect that card.
Oh, I'll take that bet. I'll have to collect via my wife's Vista install though, rather than Ubuntu 8.10, since 8 hours of Googling, modprobing and sudoing has been unable to breathe life into the generic USB wifi dongle that Vista just worked with.
I'm not even going to take issue with the general contention that Linux supports more hardware out of the box, but it still lags in wifi support, and that
Oh, I'll take that bet. I'll have to collect via my wife's Vista install though, rather than Ubuntu 8.10, since 8 hours of Googling, modprobing and sudoing has been unable to breathe life into the generic USB wifi dongle that Vista just worked with.
What chipset is it? And you are sure that you tested this on a generic Vista install, meaning no third-party drivers whatsoever. You may have a point if its a Broadcom chipset, but just about anything else Linux will detect without fail and Windows requires messing around with drivers.
What gets me are those damned Lexmark all in ones. Here in AR I work on a lot of folks PC that aren't the latest and greatest,and they could really use Linux security. But I had to give up even thinking about showing Linux even to those that only use their PC for email and surfing because I'd walk into their house and there sat a Lexmark all in one. And now I'm in the same boat since a customer gave me a new Lexmark when her husband bought her a laser printer. Trying to get it to print,much less scan or fax
I'll remember that when Linux fails to ID my laptop's wifi adapter and the guy in #linuxhelp tells me, "Dude, I dunno...mine works!"
I'll remeber that when do the same for my windows box and get told same thing. My linksys WPC54G card comes to mind. It worked fine in linux but never ever was able to connect to encrypted or unencrypted networks in windows
Its called every system is different and that means its can really just be specific to you
Hardly anyone uses Flash, do they?
Reading the article, I find a lot of enthusiasm from Greg Kroah-Hartman about how well the program has worked, saying that most hardware manufacturers come to his project to make sure that their hardware works with Linux: "Everything is supported by Linux. If you have a device that isn't supported by Linux that's being shipped today, let me know."
I'd like the touchscreen device (Touchsmart PC by HP) to be supported by Linux. That would be cool. The idea of Compiz Fusion on a touchscreen makes me drool.
I say! Hallo over there.
Could some of you fine upstanding penguins please find it in your pint-size reptilian hearts to migrate over here to Van Daemon's Land this season, and help our poor bewildered little FreeBSD creature rebuild his USB nest?
This is no joke, penguin people. Seriously, I need to keep a Kubuntu machine handy just to read the SD cards from my Canon. That simple task crashes FreeBSD. Regularly, reliably crashes it.
I will probably be hunted down and speared with a tiny fork for this. But I think we need some penguin DNA over here, because no one has been able to properly deal with this for the past six years or more.
There's a recent article at Linux.com about the ancient FreeBSD kernel panic involved in this, that has now even tripped up the PC-BSD project. http://www.linux.com/feature/149224 [linux.com]
And now, I must scurry hurry to hide from the fork prongs!
Sincerely - a frightened daemon captive
That simple task crashes FreeBSD. Regularly, reliably crashes it.
Have you heard about the FreeBSD USB2 project? They have important a totally new USB stack into the -CURRENT kernel recently. You could try it out.
I hope you reported your USB problem on the stable mailing list or at least on their bug tracker.
On the other hand, I work in medical research and you don't see any embedded Windows, or straight-out-of-the-box Linux. The reason? You need someone to take responsibility for the system. MS specifically says that Windows is not appropriate for use in critical systems.
Among others.
One of the reasons it's so expensive is that some engineer has to sign to certify that it's safe. He's not going to do that unless it's tested. Well. For the lowest levels that can mean code that's proven correct. That takes a huge amount of time.
But when something goes wrong with those systems it often means a bit more than your usual Windows blue screen. Like that gamma knife that cooked a patient.
I've seen CE in robotics and lab equipment (oscilloscopes, vector analysers, EMC measurement,
It has always amazed me how much test equipment manufactures have embraced windows. Even HP(Agilent) switched their logic analyzers from HP/UX to windows some time ago.
SONET testers are about the only [jdsu.com] exceptions [ixiacom.com] that I am aware of.
How do you get a tag misspelled on a
Note: Human operator not included.
Yet another example of the irritating blog phenomenon of "reporting" on something without bothering to link back to the source.
A couple of weeks ago I found a project to control a remote control car with an iPhone. Last week someone was interested in doing something similar, so I did a quick Google search for it. In the intervening week dozens of blogs had parroted a description of the project and NOT ONE OF THEM had a link back to it.
I finally found the original, buried a couple of pages down.
Interestingly, I read your post, went back over the links in the summary, and was shocked that they didn't link to the program's website there.
There is starting to become an actual set of grammar rules for these things, which are implicitly recognized by Internet-literates, and broken only at the risk of seeming illiterate. Linking incorrectly is becoming as obvious as using the wrong tense of a verb: "Yesterday he goes to the store." And done incorrectly for the same reasons: some people can't bother to
Upgraded my Ubuntu server from Feisty (7.04) to Hardy (8.04). The path to Hardy includes Gutsy (7.10). The series of apt-get dist-upgrades went well...then I tried to run apache2. Error:
symbol lookup error:
I googled...turns out it doesn't remove an old libz file...certain things still refer to it.
I think the difference here between Windows and Linux is that I wouldn't have upgraded Windows...I would have reinstalled (going from 2000 to 2003, for example).
Nothing to do with drivers.
No clue about Ubuntu but Gentoo not only detects breakages such as that but can also prevent anything bad from happening until its fixed.
Not sure why Ubuntu left the old version.
Posted from a 4 or 5 year old Gentoo install.
Updates are smooth.
Except when it doesn't. That 'secret sauce' is powerful stuff, but Debian has a rather different approach to package management.
Now try getting the same set of libraries twice running on a gentoo box, as the compiler changes behind your back.
Except when it doesn't. That 'secret sauce' is powerful stuff, but Debian has a rather different approach to package management.
Indeed! Now if only that person used the distro packages instead of his custom installed ones - How do I know?
The libraries are in
Any files in
Or to put it another way, no,
Ubuntu can do a fine job of updating itself, but it's hardly going to be able to upgrade 3rd-party software you installed manually, now, is it?
(Windows is a different case, of course, since Windows doesn't come with any useful software in the first place.)
This was always a concern of mine with binary distros. "DLL Hell" - Linux-style. It's never been as bad for me with RH or SuSE as it ever was for Windows, but my paranoia showed through, and I eventually made my switch to Gentoo. Funny thing is, I get mismatched libraries far more often, but I also upgrade software far more often. However, there is a simple fix: revdep-rebuild. Look for libraries and executables that are missing their libraries and rebuild, which should get them linked against the new
There are more drivers because embedded hardware needs drivers to run hardware. You need a driver for your i2c bus. You need a driver to control that LCD panel on your linux-based PDA device. It's like comparing apples with oranges. Windows simply hasn't penetrated into the embedded market like Linux has.
I still don't have Linux support for my creative express card sound device and it is supported on windows.
I seem to have I2C drivers up and running on both my old P4 desktop and my new laptop.
lm_sensors uses it.
All the temp readings and voltages are over I2C.
Uses the same code as the embedded devices.
"I mean Linux is 80% of the world's top 500 super computers right now and we're also the number one embedded operating system today. We've got both sides of the market because it's -- yeah it's pretty amazing. I don't know why, but we're doing something right."
Sure they've got a huge percentage of the smallest markets out there. For all that they are missing 99% of the desktop market primarily because noone has matured the desktop Linux OS to anywhere near the point where Windows is, let alone MacOS. Wind
there are more embedded systems then PCs.
Yes but even though that may be the case, Linux still only owns 18% of that market and it's a far less lucrative market. 74% of Survey respondents indicated that they would not be using an open source embedded OS on their next project.
However, as a free open source OS, what does Linux have to gain by being used? Is anybody profiting from it? Maybe it helps the device manufacturer's bottom line a little bit if they don't have to pay for licensing. But as far as Linux goes or any of the linux developers,
Hehheh, yeah it's not easy to go back to the old ways. Fixing such issues on Windows, you immediately miss sudo, tail -f
linux failed on 2 of my laptops and i know plenty of people who have given up on wifi.
Care to tell me how to install Windows on my PPC-based Powerbook? Right, and you're crying about wifi.
Call me again when Windows supports anything other than x86 and AMD64, 'kay?
Yes, but a lot of mainstream hardware still doesn't have drivers. IE, the MinTV Digital Tuner Card I bought yesterday which the salesman *assured* me ran Linux, but actually didn't.
Returning that today, and yes they will know why...
"the MinTV Digital Tuner Card I bought yesterday which the salesman *assured* me ran Linux, but actually didn't."
First mistake, trusting a salesman!
I always buy online after searching for information and reviews. I don't trust salesman to know shit or tell the truth.
lol... mod it funny you trolls!
(i'm on ubuntu right now)
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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For a little over 75 minutes on Wednesday evening the Georgia Southwestern women's soccer team played a scoreless match with Georgia College in Milledgeville. Then, in the span of six and a half minutes, GCSU put the Lady Hurricanes away with three goals and went on to the 3-0 victory.
Katie Taylor broke the deadlock in the 76th minute with a score off a corner kick. Taylor struck again 2:26 later for her fourth goal of the season and Anna Wierzbicki put a shot from 20 yards out over GSW goalkeeper Courtney Allison for the final score at the 81:40 mark.
Allison finished with nine saves. Mary Rob Plunkett stopped two for GCSU.
Georgia College (3-3) held a 13-2 shots on goal advantage for the match and led 12-2 in corner kicks.
Southwestern (2-5) returns home to host No. 10 Armstrong Atlantic on Saturday at 5 p.m.


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Story highlights
- "The Princess Bride" cast reunited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the film
- Actors say they are still asked to quote dialogue
- There has been talk of a sequel
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Not a day goes by without someone asking Mandy Patinkin to say this famous and oft-repeated line. Despite Patinkin's numerous other accomplishments and recent hit turn on the Showtime drama "Homeland," "The Princess Bride" is what people want to hear from him, "and I never let them down," he told CNN.
"I get asked for that line, too," laughed Chris Sarandon, who played the dastardly Prince Humperdinck. "They always want me to quote Mandy, or Wally Shawn: 'Inconceivable!' And once in a great while, I get a plea for 'I'm swamped.'"
"A girl once showed me a tattoo of 'As you wish' on the back of her neck," said Cary Elwes, who played Westley.
Such is the love -- some might even say true love -- for "The Princess Bride." The New York Film Festival celebrated the film's 25th anniversary (and release on Blu-Ray) on Tuesday with a special screening and cast reunion at Lincoln Center. En route to the event from LAX, even Billy Crystal was told, "Have fun storming the castle" (in reference to his cameo as Miracle Max) when he showed his boarding pass. It's a line, by the way, that an army sergeant told Elwes that he tells his men when they leave the barracks to rile up the infantry.
"So many different generations find this movie not only appealing, but have such a strong affection for it," Sarandon said. "It's a film people see when they're young, and then they watch it with their own kids. Someone even told me that they hired an actor, got him ordained online, and had him perform a marriage ceremony exactly the way it is in the movie." ("Mawwiage is what bwings us together...")
Along with director Rob Reiner and author and screenwriter William Goldman, the "Princess Bride" cast -- including Robin Wright (Buttercup), Wallace Shawn (Vizzini) and Carol Kane (Valerie) -- reminisced about the making of the film, which they hadn't seen with an audience since before its release, and a small private screening for friends at that, since it didn't have a big premiere back in 1987.
The Cliffs of Insanity? Made of rubber. The Rodents of Unusual Size? Played by little people, one with a talent for scurrying, one with a talent for lumbering, and one with a talent for getting arrested. And that sword fight between Inigo and Westley as the Dread Pirate Roberts? Done for real.
"Our greatest pride is that there's not a single stunt man doing a single move except for the flip in the air," Patinkin said. "I trained with an Olympic fencing coach for two months with just my left hand -- it's like ballet first position, second position -- and then Cary and I trained for four more months, so six months together, for 10 hours a day. Except for the flip, we did everything."
Elwes revealed another talent that in addition to sword fighting cinched him the job in the first place -- a dead-on Bill Cosby imitation. "I had no idea if he had a sense of humor, but he looked the part," Reiner said. "And when he did schtick, I was surprised. Wow, this beautiful looking kid, he looks like Douglas Fairbanks, and he does schtick!"
Elwes demonstrated his sense of humor at last December's Jason Reitman-organized stage reading of "The Princess Bride," when he played the part of Prince Humperdinck instead of Westley, allowing that role to go to Paul Rudd. "And I did a dreadful job," Elwes told CNN, laughing. "I was awful. It was so hard stepping into those shoes, and it was so weird because Paul Rudd was being me and doing a better job than me, two chairs down. So it was a very surreal experience." (Upon hearing this, Sarandon deadpanned, "Oh, I've got to talk to Cary now. I want to hear what he did with me, if he screwed me over or not.")
Even though "The Princess Bride" is "a perfect movie," as Kane called it, Goldman has been toying around with the idea of a follow-up, which is mentioned in the later editions of the novel, some of which feature a sample chapter of "Buttercup's Baby."
"See, I told him he should call it 'Humperdinck's Revenge!'" Sarandon joked.
"I smell a sequel!" Elwes laughed.
The plot involves the kidnapping of Buttercup and Westley's daughter, Waverly, and at first it was a fiction (along with other faux-dramas Goldman created as part of the "Bride"-verse), but then it started to become a reality of sorts. "I've been trying to write it," Goldman admitted, "and it's a total failure. I was looking at it today before coming [to the reunion]. All I can say is that I would love some day to have written it."
If Goldman can finish the book, and if the book were to ever be turned into a movie, count on most of the original cast members to make cameos.
"If they call me, I'm there," Patinkin promised.
"Ask me!" Sarandon begged.
"I would probably find myself begging to do a cameo in anything Goldman wrote," Kane said. "And I would riff all day long [with Billy Crystal] if he would let me."
Crystal noted that he had several unused lines that ended up on the cutting room floor that he'd be happy to trot out, such as, "Don't bother me, sonny. I had a bad day. I found my nephew with a sheep." (Would that be as memorable? He's not worried, because there's no danger of any sequel tarnishing the original anytime soon.)
"I'm in something that is really important, that is so beautifully made, and it's all about the right things," he told the audience. "What better life is that for the life of a movie? That's the 'As you wish' for the movie."


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Madonna explains decision to launch fragrance
Madonna has explained why she decided to name her newly-launched perfume, 'Truth Or Dare.'
The 53-year-old, who recently appeared in a raunchy commercial for the fragrance, initially joked to MTV News that she was bullied into naming the gardenia-based scent after her famous Blond Ambition tour documentary, 'Madonna: Truth Or Dare:'
"My manager [Guy Oseary], he just held a gun to my head and said, 'Call it this or you're not going to have a manager anymore,' and I said OK."
But the 'Give Me All Your Luvin' star, who recently celebrated her 12th UK number one album, then admitted that the name is "a phrase that is related to me and my work and what I stand for. I think I've had a fairly daring career and I'm pretty honest about my work, so I think that goes with my perfume."
The Queen of Pop, who recently invited Britney Spears to recreate their famous kiss, also revealed that she's been planning to enter the perfume industry for quite some time:
"This is finally the time that I developed a fragrance that I liked the smell of. I've been trying to develop a fragrance for the last 15 or 16 years."
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
She loves Saratoga.
She's not crazy about Belmont Park.
And Saturday afternoon, Secret Gypsy will reveal her feelings about Aqueduct Racetrack when she makes her Big A debut in the 55th running of the Grade 2, $150,000 Distaff Handicap for fillies and mares at six furlongs on the inner dirt track.
"She seems to be the type that takes her track with her, although, having said that, she is not a big fan of tiring tracks like Belmont can be," Werner said. "I mean, I really think you need a race over that track. We ran against Indian Blessing in the Prioress last year. First time out, Indian Blessing didn't take to Belmont Park, but she sure did in the Prioress."
With four wins from eight career starts, it is clear that Werner was ambitious with this filly early on. She broke her maiden at first asking at Saratoga in August of 2007, winning by nearly seven lengths. She didn't race again until May of last year, then ran fifth and third in a pair of Grade 3 stakes before running fourth to Indian Blessing in the Grade 1 Prioress at Belmont Park in the mud on July 5.
Back at Saratoga on August 31, she was a winner once again and, once again, got a layoff. Upon her return to racing on October 18, she tried Keeneland's Polytrack and wound up running second to Informal Decision in the Grade 2 Raven Run.
She closed out her three-year-old season with a pair of impressive victories.
"We might have been a little ambitious with her, but she is a fast filly and you sure don't set track records with slow ones," Werner said. "They only have so many races in them, and you hate to waste any of them. She's won at Churchill Downs and Saratoga and she is stakes-placed on Polytrack. Her last two races were confidence builders and now we're here to get her a graded stakes victory."
Secret Gypsy has trained well for her return, firing a bullet :59 1/5, breezing, for five furlongs on March 10. Because Werner couldn't secure air travel for her, she vanned to Lexington, Ky. and then shipped on to New York, where she arrived on Saturday.
Jockey Robby Albarado will have the mount on Secret Gypsy, who will carry top weight of 118 pounds.
The hot horse for the Distaff is Sam Pollock's Royale Michele, who has won five of eight starts and her last four in a row. Her latest triumph was also her first start of the year, when she scored a 1 ¾-length victory at Laurel in the Grade 2, seven-furlong Barbara Fritchie Handicap on February 14. Surprisingly, in both of her latest starts, the 4-year-old Elusive Quality filly went to post at better than 10-1.
"Todd (Pletcher) had her for her first four starts," said trainer S. Matthew Kintz. "I got her after her race at Keeneland. I have trained for Mr. Pollock in various partnerships, and when she got beat for that claiming price, they decided they didn't want to send her to Florida and gave her to me."
The change has been extraordinary. Kintz, who owns a small farm in Ohio, about 25 miles from his base at Mountaineer Park in West Virginia, breaks ups the monotony by vanning Royal Michele back and forth.
She is so used to traveling that Kintz will ship her on Thursday to Fair Hill, Md., then ship up to Aqueduct on Saturday.
"She loves what we've done with her, and she has been an absolute dream to work with," Kintz said. "After we got her, she put on weight and did everything we asked. She loves going to the farm –she's there right now –and we figured it would be easier to ship to Fair Hill and then ship up and break things up for her. She is a very happy filly right now."
Richard Migliore picks up the mount on Royale Michele, who drew the outside post 6 for the Distaff.
Pletcher has two entered here with Distorted Passion and Awesome Ashley, who will break from posts 3 and 4, respectively.
Distorted Passion has won three of her last four starts, with Awesome Ashley ending her win streak on February 27 in the overnight Feel the Beat here at six furlongs.
Breaking from the rail, Zada Belle has not raced since winning the Interborough here on January 1. The 5-year-old Indian Charlie mare has five wins and a second from six tries at this distance.
Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel will be represented by Moonshine Alice, who has three wins and four seconds in eight career starts.
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By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
Jan. 10, 2008 - The Iraqi military has played a crucial and indispensible role in building the new security environment in the country, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today. Gates spoke during a joint news conference with Iraqi Defense Minister Abd al-Qadir al-Mufriji. The minister met with Gates to discuss laying the foundation for a normalized, long-term security relationship and partnership between the two nations.
Mufriji will meet with U.S. officials at the State Department here and travel to Tampa, Fla., to meet with leaders at U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command.
Gates noted that it has been one year to the day since President Bush announced the new strategy in Iraq. Five brigade combat teams moved into Iraq and implemented the "clear, hold, build" strategy. An integral part of that strategy was the role played by Iraqi army and police forces.
"Over the past year, Iraqi security forces have grown in capability, confidence and size, expanding by more than 100,000," Gates said. "Iraq has assumed security responsibility for nine of the 18 provinces in the country, and we expect this transfer to continue."
In the past year, security gains in Iraq have been notable, Gates said. The number of improvised-explosive-device attacks in the country has been cut in half, he said. Anbar province, all but written off as al Qaeda's capital, has been reclaimed for the Iraqi people.
"High-profile attacks -- car bombs and suicide attacks -- are down 60 percent since March, and civilian deaths are down 75 percent from a year ago, though still far too high," Gates said.
But even with the progress, tough days and weeks are ahead for American servicemembers, the secretary acknowledged.
"The deaths of nine U.S. servicemen announced yesterday (are) a stark reminder of the work that needs to be done and the risks that coalition and Iraqi troops take every day," he said.
The security progress gives the Iraqi government the chance to move forward on the economic, political and legislative fronts. "Many local Iraqi groups have already started to address problems locally," Gates said. "The challenge in 2008 is to link these actions with the government in Baghdad to strengthen both local and national governments."
Mufriji offered his country's sincere thanks to American servicemembers who liberated Iraq. In fighting the international war against terrorism, "the American people stood by us, the American government stood by us, and we have achieved real victory against the terrorists in 2007," he said through a translator.
The Iraqi defense minister said most of Iraq is safe and secure and he noted the great strides his country's security forces have taken. "The situation is not any different than any country in the world," he said.
"For a long time, Iraqi forces fought behind the coalition forces, then shoulder to shoulder, and now we are fighting ahead of them," he said.
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text: refugee Refuge Coalition Claims Defeat of Legislation By AP/WMOT • Feb 9, 2012 logo courtesy TIRRC NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The sponsor of a bill that would make it a felony to harbor or transport an illegal immigrant has withdrawn the measure from consideration. The bill had been scheduled for a vote in the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Immigrants' rights activists claimed victory for the change. A Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition spokesman says members and supporters asked their legislators to oppose the measure.