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What's the point of opensourcing Facebook? It's the userbase that matters to web-developers, not the server code.
On your race to the First Post you completely missed the point. Hell, you even missed the headline!
Actually.... the summary does mention that the lack of open source code from Facebook and Google is "hindering open source development."
He may be question the usefulness of Facebook being open source and why would it "hinder" anything.
Still a flawed observation that I replied in another post, but at least it seems he did read enough of the summary (i.e. all of it, not just the title) to jump to his argument.
Ehm.... I already stated that... and it's what I was refering to by saying "Still a flawed observation that I replied in another post"
Lets be honest folks we ALL know what is causing this, hell its the same thing that is causing the drop in GPL code we saw posted here a little while back, and that is this: RMS went too damned far with GPL V3 and this is the backlash. With GPL V1 and V2 there were big enough loopholes that a corporation wouldn't feel directly threatened for using it, but with GPL V3 RMS might as well have sent a Goatse to every corporation on the planet with a note saying "Here is what i think of capitalist pigs!".
"Lets be honest folks we ALL know what is causing this, hell its the same thing that is causing the drop in GPL code we saw posted here a little while back, and that is this: RMS went too damned far with GPL V3 and this is the backlash."
Complete nonsense. Furthermore, the whole idea about open source is to control the destiny of your investment, customer base while at the same time allowing customers to partcipate as engineers, not just as end users in what amounts to a community which has the final say as to what changes are made to the software it uses, and even if the software will continue to be used for a given purpose.
That result is open source. Open API's are not open source. No, if I have an open API it is not going to allow my customers to participate as engineers, it will not allow the community to control the destiny of the softwar either.
Those API's could be removed tomorrow, you can't improve them, the bugs are intractable or ignored by the corporate Big Brother who is monitoring everything you are doing with those API's.
Are you people just plain stupid or have you had your heads in the sand since 1992?
How can someone post something like this and get a Score 5 as insightful?
Go ahead and embrace your open API's.
You probably enjoy TSA sticking their hands down your kids pants, why wouldn't you enjoy having someone monitor every API call your software does.
F'in diots I hope you get the world you deserve.
You don't deserve Stallman's vision or any sort of Freedom!
Uhhh...because unlike you I'm not a militant FOSSie which like a Moonie treats software as a religion? I mean when you equate a software license to be groped by the TSA? Step away from the keyboard little FOSSie for you are coming off as more than a little batshit.
By the way FOSSie, where do you think software comes from? Magic fairies shit it out like that bunny shitting jelly beans? Newsflash the VAST majority of software INCLUDING FOSS is PAID FOR BY COMPANIES. Companies that got a Goatse in their inbox
There is a lot of point. Few online services can handle the level of activity Facebook handles every minute. It's not just about tossing more hardware at it either; it's not easy to make such a scalable system.
Open sourcing Facebook gives developers access to the custom code that allows them to handle all this, making it easier for small startups to jump into large service hosting solutions.
Also, not sure what the summary means with the last statement. It is my understanding that Facebook HAS open sourced their server code (very likely as a jab at Google who, despite being "Open" would never dare give any competitor access to their scaling server code.)
What's the point of opensourcing Facebook? It's the userbase that matters to web-developers, not the server code.
It's all about forking. Everyone on Facebook is all about forking too, but that's not what I mean
The problem is that web app APIs can change at a moment's notice, without any announcement, and all the developers who depended on the API will be left out in the cold.
While that's true, if they do it too often and to too great an extent they'll lose developers to some other platform; if the apps start breaking without replacement, users will start to leave for other sites. Facebook (as big as it is) is nothing without its userbase.
Except doing such a thing would drive away the very developers they are trying to bring in thus would kill their site.
While you in particular may not necessarily have a use for the source code, the point is that it is unavailable to those who do wish to use it. The "use" might be understanding what it is doing (what information is it sending to the parent company), modifying it (so that it does not do this), and having the ability in principal to continue to run the API (modified to run on your own or an alternate social network) if the site owner goes out of business, does things you don't like with the information you give them, or decides to ban your application.
> So why would anyone care about Linux?
People care about Unix and Linux is just another Unix.
THAT is what freely re-implementable interfaces get you. Now while it is possible to have proprietary interfaces that can be re-implemented, it is very rare. The whole point of "owning" the API is the fact that you can disallow drop in replacements. You are you're own monopoly and market pressures quickly enforce that.
We haven't moved from Free to Proprietary but from proprietary apps to proprietary services where all of your eggs are in one basket at some Facebook owned data center.
What's missing is mobility of data between different "compatible" services.
WINE implements the same APIs as Windows and several commercial products have shipped non-Windows versions by either compiling against winelib or just shipping a WINE wrapper. The idea in US copyright law that you can't copyright an interface means that any API is freely reimplementable (unless it is covered by patents, although patents cover implementations so are more likely to affect ABIs than APIs).
The advantage of owning the API (which really just means owning the most popular implementation of the
Embrace the power of AND.
I want....both! (I also want it immediately for no cost, but thats just typical isn't it?)
Seriously though, the source availability may not be of use to you now, directly but, if you don't think it is of use to you, then realize that if the service with the published API goes away, you don't have a starting point to replace it, other than the API docs... unless someone else already implemented another version off the same docs.
There are definite plusses to independent code bases...
Another way of phrasing it (which I remember being used in the context of Microsoft's API): "software sharecropping."
I don't know why this is marked flamebait. I think the comment is rather astute.
What is the point in building code to support a library that puts you in a position wherein you immediately become dependant on something you cannot control. Resulting in a product that largely makes money for someone else.
That's not flamebait, it's wisdom.
you know what's the only api product I used that did that?.. google api(for the search, back in the day). 1000 queries free per day.
What is the point in building code to support a library that puts you in a position wherein you immediately become dependant on something you cannot control. Resulting in a product that largely makes money for someone else.
Many developers have made millions by using these APIs. Smart companies make their APIs mutually beneficial and aren't planning on screwing developers for no reason.
When you hear "Open API" any programmer will think it just means a well-known or documented API; i.e. it's not a secret. Load the accumulator with the petscii character you want to output and JSR $FFD2 -- or make a certain REST call as documented at the service's site -- that's what people will think you're talking about, when you say "Open API."
That isn't what TFA is talking about.
He's talking about different services using the same APIs, being client-compatible. That is, if you make a competitor to AWS,
Like I want to build my software around an API that could disappear in 6 months to a year.
You'd be foolish not to, if you could recoup the investment in less than 6 months to a year with a decent return.
Programmers seem to routinely toss away their entire codebase from time to time anyway.
Programmers seem to routinely toss away their entire codebase from time to time anyway.
With disastrous consequences: Netscape, KDE4, etc. Throwing away a large codebase is stupid.
With disastrous consequences: Netscape, KDE4, etc. Throwing away a large codebase is stupid.
That depends very much on the quality of the codebase. They don't age nicely like fine wine, you know.
Netscape was boned in part *because* of their crappy codebase. They had a hard time making it adapt to new capabilities and evolving standards. In the long run, that has worked well.
With KDE4, I get the feeling that adherents have *mostly* toughed it out and found the end product acceptable. Sometimes to pursue a vision there is a long painful transition, but the end result may be impossible without taking risk.
So you are going to build your own facebook and then start creating applications for it?
Otherwise, having access to the source wont do you any good.
I don't care if I make my money back or not. I don't want to wake up one morning and find my work broken. Most customers wouldn't look favourably towards paying for something that just dies without warning.
So having the source code to FB would solve that how? APIs change far less frequently than the underlying source code.
So having the source code to FB would solve that how? APIs change far less frequently than the underlying source code.
Unless we're talking about Linux
Doing it just because I can "recoup my investment" short term is stupid. Throwing away a large batch of hard won customers is stupid. If I had made a successful ad-supported app with Google Translate, what do I do my customer base disappears because Google closed the APIs? They already had one app from "my" company break. Think they're going to buy another?
Way, way too many companies -- and individuals -- make decisions based on short-term profits, with little to no regard of the long-term impact. That "I'm going to get mine and screw everyone else" sense of entitlement is largely how we got to be in our current mess.
Doing it just because I can "recoup my investment" short term is stupid.
How is it stupid? You make more money than you started with. Provided the margin is sufficient, it is a smart investment.
Most cases I see where a vendor is reliant upon a service they do not control, they make it clear in their branding message. If it should break, they say 'sorry, Google has discontinued this service'. It's not like they'll blame you and *not* your upstream provider. If facebook closed up shop today, no one would be blaming you that facebook doesn't work as the reason will be self-evident.
Either it is something that will be *very* obvious and ubiquitous (like facebook or google+ being shut down) or it's s
The business answer is that as you recoup your investment, you re-invest in diversifying. Using your Google Translate example, you search out alternatives and build code to be able to share or shift load off of Google's service. Similarly, if you are "freeloading" off of Google's service, you need to plan that eventually you may need to pay for that functionality and build it into your business model.
If you don't want to use their APIs, then you can't use their services to help grow your business and user base.
Technology changes quickly and businesses need to adapt if they want to stay relevant.
"hindering open source development"?
Yeah, sure. Just like the fact that I, like most people, don't donate 10% of my income to the FSF or some other open-source project hinders it. So what?
If you want to judge others from a particular ideological position (concealing code is unethical), you should state that clearly rather than impugn others indirectly.
"hindering open source development"?
Yeah, sure. Just like the fact that I, like most people, don't donate 10% of my income to the FSF or some other open-source project hinders it. So what?
If you want to judge others from a particular ideological position (concealing code is unethical), you should state that clearly rather than impugn others indirectly.
It's a bit silly to answer the above to an article that ends with
Open APIs are the new open source, except they require less geeky access to lines of code, and more programmatic interaction with software services. As an added bonus, open APIs don't come with the baggage of licensing fundamentalists.
And of course, the main issue the fact that these open api's are very much "here today, gone tomorrow", which is also one of the driving force behind open source development (to reduce a third party's ability to take away features or to make it impossible to keep using some program on newer systems by refusing to update it in case of incompatibilities).
Except for the fact that these Open APIs are built on top of Open Source. Facebook uses PHP and has contributed back code that improves performance. Google are using Linux internally with their own Google File System and BigTables. Other web services are using NoSQL and LAMP stacks.
An "Open API" would allow an open source application to use that API. If it does not, it cannot be called an "Open API" as it is restrictive in what you can use to interact with it. It is rather a "Public API" that is documented
Most of these APIs provide access to data "owned" by the providers of those APIs. They rarely ever provide functionality that is not coupled to their data. These Web APIs are not going to replace open source tools/libraries that provide functionality.
Also, using the term Open API is bullshit. First of all, an API is pretty much always open otherwise it cannot be an "application programming interface". If the API was closed it would not even be an interface to program against but a blackbox.
Not true as there are plenty of private APIs. Windows, for example, has plenty of them. APIs are not necessarily always for public consumption.
Try 1987
I think there's a clear and distinct difference between an "Open" API and a "Public" API.
Many companies have built their products on top of someone else's APIs, to have those APIs change, vanish, or develop charges later on. Do be aware of the pitfalls before you make yourself totally dependent on someone who does not have your best interests at heart.
APIs change far less frequently than does the underlying source code. How would having access to the underlying source code mitigate the risk you are talking about? Surely, facebook and google don't just change the API while leaving the source code intact!
I do think Facebook is a bad example. Their API is open and the SDK is open too... yes, the code is executed remotely... but that is the whole point because it interacts with the user data... that is the beauty behind technologies like XML-RPC or soap... good luck to facebook opening up access to their whole database... they don't care about privacy but even they would not do that
now, it is true that a lot of companies provide an open SDK with a binary part... a good example would be video drivers which are open source yet include a binary part that is not open source. Games are another example.
Even then, I would still consider it progress because before that there was no SDK, the only way to modify existing products was through a hex editor... at least now, software editors provide an api to interact.
The concept is not even new... windows operating system is based on binary DLLs that many times only microsoft has the source code... yet visual studio comes with sourcecode and a very complete toolkit... but even that was not the first time open api was provided to a binary core... I guess that is just the way software is done
they don't care about privacy but even they would not do that
You say it as if Facebook has some moral obligation to keep the database secret. They simply do not want to allow their competition to access valuable product data (the product being Facebook users).
They do have legal obligations, actually. Most sites that handle financial transactions do.
For example, just this morning I replaced Debian on my computer with the Twitter API. It works great, boot times are much faster. Now I'm going to uninstall Firefox and just access the web via the Facebook API.
It's an API. Tacking "Open" onto doesn't change the fact that it's just an interface to a black box.
As Stallman's been saying for the last few years, having software freedom is about having control over your computing, and that requires that your computing is done on *your* computer:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html [gnu.org]
Remember the good old days of the Internet, in which techies used to invent useful protocols, document them as RFCs, and then the best of these would be turned into Internet standards at the IETF? That approach gave us an open Internet with multiple implementations of the same standard services, all competing on merit not through proprietary lock-in.
Well that's not where we are today. Instead we have a ton of proprietary services that occasionally publish public APIs when it suits them, but they're almost always pathologically opposed to interoperating with anyone else that might provide competition. Imagine a world in which everyone used their own homegrown mail prototols instead of SMTP and POP or IMAP. That's where we are today with the social networking services.
Walled gardens are bad. Publishing open APIs doesn't make them any better, as the gardens are still walled and these closed services reject federating with other similar ones. And even if they accepted federation, the complexity of a fully interconnected graph in which each node has a different public API grows explosively, so technically this is a very bad design approach.
Things aren't at all healthy on this front of the Internet, and proprietary services having open APIs doesn't help much. The best that can be said is that it's a bit better than no API at all, but that's not saying much.
Assuming there *was* one universally accepted standard that Facebook embraced and was also implemented by MySpace. No one would still give a rat's ass about MySpace. The APIs in this case are trivial and you can make up your own or copy them as a de-facto standard, but the data and user connectedness that the service embodies is what matters.
There are two good reasons these companies don't go through RFC process for things like this. One, as above, the APIs are trivial and only of value to their data so an RFC process makes no sense. Secondly, if they were married to the RFC process, every little enhancement has the potential of taking months to over a year to ratify. Nothing is stopping a community for creating an RFC to compete with a proprietary API and if you push it through and are successful and create an ecosystem, then Facebook might implement it on top of their proprietary API.
Incidentally, the same phenomenon can be seen in the 'good old days' of the internet. Cisco frequently did (and still does) roll out a proprietary protocol and when the IETF finally ratifies a standard to do the same thing, Cisco implements the standard as well as their proprietary approach (ususally, some times Cisco ignores the standard, probably due to lack of explicit customer request). Also, at the upper layers, there is a large precedent for people not bothering with RFCs at all. As far as I know, there is still no IETF RFC covering bittorent. There we have a very popular, community driven technology that has been in use for years that doesn't bother with IETF RFC process.
While you're generally correct, at least in IM a standardization process has been happening. Google, Facebook and MSN have adopted the XMPP protocol [xmpp.org] (RFC 6120) for chatting. Once you have a generic XMPP client, it's easy to connect to those networks (well, some coding is required for MSN and recommended for Facebook to use their oauth implementations, but that's trivial compared to implementing a whole new protocol).
All except Google's are still walled gardens, but I guess that's company policy.
So apart from the fact they're walled gardens, each implement a different subset of the standard that corresponds to whatever actual underlying protocol they use, and (in the case of MSN and Facebook) have their own authentication system that no-one else uses, in theory with a good wind behind you they can actually be connected to with some of the same code.
So apart from the fact they're walled gardens, each implement a different subset of the standard that corresponds to whatever actual underlying protocol they use, and (in the case of MSN and Facebook) have their own authentication system that no-one else uses, in theory with a good wind behind you they can actually be connected to with some of the same code.
Well, yes
I'm not sure what the point of the submitter is. Open source and open API have little in common. It's not like one could develop an OS kernel based on some documented open API. Open API is also nothing novel.
Getting rich as an individual is not the point of Open-Source. Getting richer as a software-building community in terms of software availability is.
It's not like one could develop an OS kernel based on some documented open API.
One of the first design goals for Linux was following POSIX, even though the standard was too expensive for Linus [linuxjournal.com]. While standards like POSIX and TCP/IP don't directly state how an OS kernel must be written, wanting to comply with them does shape the basic form the kernel needs to take.
If you read the Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate [oreilly.com] thread, one of the recurring themes there is that even having easily available source code (as MINIX did) isn't enough. One of the necessary components to growing a software communi
But at the heart of each is APIs. Open APIs are the new open source, except they require less geeky access to lines of code, and more programmatic interaction with software services. As an added bonus, open APIs don't come with the baggage of licensing fundamentalists. Praise the heavens!
Emphasis Mine.
There's a lot of places to come down on this. I develop with Google Apps, which leverages a lot of Open Source software in order t
Companies offering Open APIs are not hindering open-source developers.... Open APIs remove barriers for all software developers and allows them to make interesting products. What hinders open-source developers is other developers keeping their source code closed.
"Open" API's are the new include files to proprietary libraries.
At least in the good old bad days the library (usually) didn't stop working after the you compiled & distributed your program.
These days.. no such guarantees.
For the *most* part, the technical capabilities of sites like Facebook isn't the impressive thing. At small scale, anyone can make code to function well in that capacity. If your endeavor grew to the point that facebook does, you'd have the resources to do the harder, but not impossible part of making that stuff scale. These sites are not succeeding because of inherently superior technology, they are succeeding by knowing exactly how to draw everyday users into a platform. What philosophy to embrace (e.
I will revise my statement because someone else pointed out the theoretical answer. Services like Facebook would have to be federated, meaning Facebook would either have to die or change it's behavior, which is unlikely.
Of course, that's the social networking case, still no answer on things like most of Google's non-social capabilities.
If you can't change API, it aint "open". It's just published.
An API is just an interface - there's nothing inherently open or closed about it. The code behind the API might be either open source or closed source, and in this case we appear to be talking about closed source.
Not only is open vs closed a meaningless adverb to apply to an API (the closest concept might be public vs private - e.g. hidden Winodows API's), but the trend the article is attempting to discuss is the growth of cloud based platforms - i.e services made available via web services (SOAP,
Undocumented != Closed, and anyways you can certainly write apps to undocumented APIs if you can figure/reverse engineer what they do.. but you'd generally be unwise to as undocumented typically also means unsupported so they may disappear without warning in a subsequent release.
The article anyways isn't talking about documented vs undocumented - they are struggling for the right words to describe the trend towards "platformization" of web based products - exposing their functionality via web-services APIs
As a software developer this is a serious question for me and one that I've never gotten a satisfactory answer to.
How can I feed my family or control my own destiny if the software is all I have? Am I not dependent on the benevolence of a corporation or university to fund my project or work as a clerk or something during the day and code at night? I know Open Source companies can make money on services or hardware but I'm not an Open Source company, I'm just one guy trying to make a living. I don't have the capital to produce hardware and my software is designed for end-users who don't require much in the way of services.
If I were working on some glue code that might be useful to other developers and where I would benefit from their contributions I certainly would open source it (and I do contribute patches to some of the open source projects I use). I also get the idea of an open source OS or other large projects because so many companies depend on it there are enough "payers" in the pool to fund a lot of full-time devs - more than enough to cover the people who make millions off it (eg: Linux) yet contribute nothing back... plus with millions of users you have enough part-time tinkerers that you also get significant contributions from them.
But I just don't see why I would open source my apps. No company in the world can pay my salary based on them, yet there are thousands of users willing to pay $0.99 for them, enough that I can keep my hardware up to date and have a little bit left over to go out to eat every month (certainly not enough to quit my job). But there aren't enough users that there would be a lot of programmers willing to contribute.
If I open-sourced them, I'd be in the same position as Google with Android - funding the majority of it but having Chinese search companies replacing all my services with their own and selling it while simultaneously cutting off part of the revenue stream I use to fund further development.
I like open source, I use it, I contribute to it, but I have absolutely no desire to follow the Stallman "everything must be open source!" philosophy. I'm interested to hear other dev's thoughts on this stuff...
C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes that harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup


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J.C. Kim Named Chairman of SEMI
Rick Wallace Named Vice-Chairman
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 14, 2009 -- SEMI today announced the appointment of J.C. Kim, CEO and chairman of Edwards Korea Ltd., chairman of the industry association's International Board of Directors. Kim succeeds Bob Akins, chairman and CEO of Cymer, Inc., who served as chairman for the past year. The results of the association's annual elections will become effective at the annual SEMI membership meeting, to be held Wednesday, July 15, during the SEMICON West 2009 exposition in San Francisco. In addition, the association's executive committee appointed Richard Wallace, CEO of KLA-Tencor, to the position of vice-chairman of the board.
"On behalf of SEMI and its members, I am pleased to welcome J.C. Kim and Rick Wallace as the new chair and vice-chair of the SEMI International Board of Directors," said Stanley T. Myers, president and CEO of SEMI. "Their industry expertise and service on the Board are strong assets to SEMI and its membership, and we look forward to their guidance in the coming year."
In accordance with the association's by-laws, the following board members were re-elected: André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé, president and CEO of Soitec; Susumu Kohyama, president and CEO of Covalent Materials Corp.; Douglas Neugold, CEO and president of ATMI; Mary Puma, chairman, CEO and president of Axcelis Technologies; Michael Splinter, president and CEO of Applied Materials, inc.; Kiyoshi Togawa, senior VP and executive officer at Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd.; Way Tu, CEO and president of Allegro Manufacturing Pte. Ltd.; and Kazuo Ushida, managing director, senior executive officer and president, Precision Equipment Company, NIKON Corporation.
The global industry association's 17 voting directors, four non-voting ex-officio and nine emeritus directors, represent companies from Europe, Japan, Korea, North America, Singapore and Taiwan, reflecting the global scope of its activities. The association's charter stipulates that individuals may be elected by the general membership as voting members of the board for a total of four, two-year terms and non-voting ex-officio members for a total of three, one-year terms.
SEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries. SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Bangalore, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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Picking up the broken pieces of Lent...
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Well, it's only Monday of the Second Week of Lent but I have to confess that my "giving up pledge" for these 40 days has already fallen apart.
Trying to be true to advice I gave earlier, I'm going to pick up the broken pieces and, with the Lord's help, start again.
If any of my readers are in the same boat - please join me in trusting that the Lord is as pleased with persistence as with perfection!
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"trusting that the Lord is as pleased with persistence as with perfection!"ReplyDelete
This is exactly the reminder I needed. Thank you!
I believe that it was Mother Teresa who said "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try"...ReplyDelete
I stumble and/or fail with my good intentions and pledges often and when I do I always think of this quote. I think perhaps I should have it tatooed on my arm!
I think sometimes we need to look at the reasons for our stumbles and failures...often times it is because we are wrapped up or drawn into situations that require our pastoral presence and/or attention. Attending to those leeaves us vulnerable... Sometimes we just are too centered on self...in either case it is a blessing to know that all we have to do is start over. God would certainly want us to be gentle with ourselves and move forward.
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM
This is not exactly the topic, but Friday I realized hours after the fact that I had eaten meat on a Friday in Lent (a turkey sandwich.) I rarely eat lunch and I rarely eat meat, but was at a luncheon following the World Day of Prayer service and selected the turkey primarily because it was on a nice crusty roll. Never dawned on me...never crossed my mind. Why I finally thought of it I don't know. I did feel badly to think that I hadn't firmly fixed "no meat Fridays" into my mind despite the fact that I had written "no meat" on every Friday of Lent in my calendar book. I didn't view this as a matter of needing God to forgive me (I didn't do it on purpose!) but more a matter of needing to really focus Lent more fully into my life.ReplyDelete


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(a) A pharmacy, an ambulatory health care facility, and a charitable clinic pharmacy shall register with the board.
(b) A person desiring to operate, maintain, open or establish a pharmacy shall register with the board.
(c) To be eligible for a registration to operate, maintain, open or establish a pharmacy the applicant shall:
(1) Submit a written application to the board;
(2) Pay all applicable fees;
(3) Designate a pharmacist-in-charge; and
(4) Successfully complete an inspection by the board.
(d) A separate application shall be made and separate registration issued for each location.
(e) Registration are not transferable.
(f) Registration expire and shall be renewed annually.
(g) If a registration expires, the pharmacy shall be reinspected and an inspection fee is required.
(h) A registrant shall employ a pharmacist-in-charge and operate in compliance with the legislative rules governing the practice of pharmacist care and the operation of a pharmacy.
(i) The provisions of this section do not apply to the sale of nonprescription drugs which are not required to be dispensed pursuant to a practitioner's prescription.


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Of all the sartorial reasons for a man to get riled up -- go sue the fellow who gave the thumbs-up on Crocs, why don't you? -- suit pants are among the most inconsequential of them all...It must be cool to be a fashion writer. I've never even noticed there was such a thing as "diaper pants," yet for Givhan it's a weird recurrent phenomenon.
A suit, of course, can have panache. The quality of the fabric and the fit can signify wealth and authority. But when the eye scrutinizes a suit, it's really looking at the jacket....
Dress pants have never been fetishized the way other parts of the wardrobe have. Bluejeans, for instance, have been elevated to a kind of fashion haiku -- deceptively simple, yet filled with emotion, attitude, sex appeal and profound cultural meaning. For proof of how banal men's pants have become, look no further than the nearest male derriere to read the Dockers label. Introduced in 1986, they launched a khakis revolution and made virtually every man who wore them -- which is essentially every man -- look like he was somnambulating toward a life of soccer games, little blue pills and quiet desperation.
There have been attempts to transform pants into talking points. Designer Thom Browne cropped them at the ankle. Former Christian Dior menswear designer Hedi Slimane cut them so narrow they were practically shrink-wrapped onto his models. And too many designers to name have championed diaper pants with the crotch dropped to the knees in the misguided belief that men will want to relive their suckling years.
But in the closets of men who buy clothes, not fashion, pants are merely functional.... But the loss of even the best-made pair of pants, the ones that accentuate a trim waist and give the illusion of a sprinter's bottom, isn't worth crying over.
But here's the reason to cry over pants. It's not that they're distinctive, it's that they are so closely tied to what you know or want to deny about your body. This is why so many ads for diets picture a thin person standing inside a giant pair of pants and gleefully holding the waistband out. Your pants are gauges of weight and muscle tone loss and gain. When you bring in your old pants -- as Judge Roy Pearson did -- to be let out to accommodate you weight gain, you are exposing yourself in an intimate and deeply emotional way. When the Chungs accepted his pants, they weren't only accepting his pants, they were accepting the man's shame, his humiliation, his failure. They were saying, in effect, we understand this misfortune and we will take care of you. To just lose the pants was to say this relationship meant nothing to us. It broke his heart. He cried. Not just for the pants. For everything.
It's like when Daisy cried over the shirts in "The Great Gatsby."
"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before."
IN THE COMMENTS: Jane says:
The Great Pearson: At the end of his Dockers, a flashing green light signaled to him to go ahead with his suit for his beloved pair of legs, beckoning like springtime and the fresh smell of money.Drew says:
Pearson was upset that his Prufrockian destiny was derailed by the Chungs' loss of his garment, thus preventing him from declaring that I grow old . . . I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.Oh, this is a great clue to poor Mr. Pearson. Look at this, from the WaPo write-up of the case:
A pair of pants from a blue and maroon suit was missing when he requested it two days later. The Chungs say they found the pants soon after and tried to give them to Pearson, but Pearson insists those are not his. The charcoal-gray, cuffed pants are now evidence.He never wears the bottoms of his pants turned up, yet they gave him pants with cuffs. It's as if he had handed them his youth, and what they gave back to him was old age. He grows old! These horrible cuffed pants! The pants of death!
"I haven't worn pants with cuffs since the 1970s," Pearson said. He also submitted into evidence a photograph of every pair of pants in his home to show that he does not like pants with cuffs.
Drew also supplies the perfect quip: "Pearson should drop his suit . . . but not his trousers."


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Posted 15 June 2012 - 11:02 PM
Jason, make sure to upload some good pictures of this monster.
Posted 16 June 2012 - 07:34 AM
You need goldies on that thing, wanna talk looking amazing rolling down the road.
Jason, make sure to upload some good pictures of this monster.
I actually thought that too. Black and gold seem to look good on silver cars. I'd love to get some gold BBS, but I doubt it will happen any time soon. I do have some gold wheel paint though. hmmmm
And I will definitely get some good pics.
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Posted 17 June 2012 - 05:25 PM
Someone got some STi control arms.
Yes! And for CHEAP! I have ball joints and the cone washers on the way for them. I just have to remove my rear control arm bushings and swap them out for these ones so that they fit right. I'm hoping they come off mine, I'm sure the rust will fight me.
Posted 17 June 2012 - 06:09 PM
I'm hoping they come off mine, I'm sure the rust will fight me.
It always does up here. I've had issues with the captured nuts before one some older rusty outbacks. Yours is new enough it hopefully wont bother.
Posted 17 June 2012 - 06:15 PM
It always does up here. I've had issues with the captured nuts before one some older rusty outbacks. Yours is new enough it hopefully wont bother.
Yeah I'm not too worried about the bolts that hold them to the body, but the nut, and the stud that have the actual rear control arm mount/bushing on it. That nut will probably come off, but has the bushing rusted itself onto the stud?? That's my worry. I plan on soaking them down with pb blaster once I get it back and hopefully that will help.
Posted 18 June 2012 - 04:50 PM
And yes the STi plate delete is up side down! Lol
Posted 18 June 2012 - 05:02 PM
Posted 18 June 2012 - 05:05 PM
That looks so good
Thanks man!!!
Posted 19 June 2012 - 09:44 AM
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Posted 19 June 2012 - 06:10 PM
And man, my cell phone pics did not come out good!
Posted 19 June 2012 - 09:35 PM
Posted 21 June 2012 - 06:15 PM
I want to see a picture of what it is like looking over that scoop from inside a forester.
Yeah I'll have to take one!
I will be replacing the rusty oil pan that has started to leak, with a rust free, mint oil pan from an 05 STi early next week. And at the same time installing my group N tranny and motor mounts that I have had for ever.
Then, the next thing will be the STi intake manifold, turbo inlet, and one step colder plugs. Not sure when that will be happening yet.
Posted 21 June 2012 - 08:55 PM
Posted 27 June 2012 - 06:35 PM
So there I was all happy that my car was finally getting some stuff done, and parts installed that I have had sitting around forever, I was about a mile from my house and bam, I hot something. I did't see anything so I had no clue what it was. I turned around and went back and found that a fox had run out in front of me, my first thought was the new body work. So I pulled under a street light and sure enough the paint is cracked in a couple spots, and where the lip was molded into the bumper in one spot pulled away. Damn fox. It sucks I hit him, but it really sucks that I have to go back to the body shop after only a week! But he said he can fix it no problem, so that's next on the list.
Posted 28 June 2012 - 06:00 PM
I did a deal with a local forum member and got this Forester XT specific Mishimoto radiator
Here is a pic for Durania
Posted 30 June 2012 - 12:15 AM
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I am not tracking this thing, just daily driving it.
Posted 30 June 2012 - 11:55 AM
And yeah, I just realized I never replied about the brakes!!! My bad!! Sorry about that!
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Posted 19 July 2012 - 06:23 PM
Always can tell a genuine STi intake manifold. I have never seen a painted one that was spot on with the STi's.
I agree. I have seen many painted and powder coated ones, and it seems the factory powder coated STi intake manifolds have their own look. And it's so much cleaner under the hood!
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ZAGREB, Croatia (Jan. 4) - Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) thrilled an overflowing crowd in Zagreb and millions watching across the world on television with a stunning 1.19 second Audi FIS Alpine World Cup slalom victory to take the prestigous Snow Queen Trophy and regain the World Cup slalom title lead. At just 17-years-old, the wire-to-wire win rewrote history as Shiffrin became the first American to win two World Cup races in a single season before the age of 18. She also became the youngest woman to win two World Cup slalom races in a single season since 1977. Teammate Resi Stiegler (Jackson Hole, WY) was ninth to return to the World Cup top 10 for the first time since suffering an ACL injury at the 2012 World Cup Finals. Universal Sports Network aired the final live in the U.S. and will rebroadcast the race at 8 p.m. ET.
QUOTESMikaela ShiffrinI was in the zone where you feel like your skiing well and you almost feel unstopable. If you win, you always want to win by more and that just means you're always trying to ski better.
On wearing the Snow Queen crown and capeThis is an amazing feeling. When I was little, I would put towels around my neck and run around my house like it was a cape on my back. Now, I have a real cape robe thing and I'm really excited to go home with that.
I think that hopefully this win brings a lot of excitement to ski racing in the U.S. It's not going to change anything for me. There will be more interest from the sponsors maybe and media, but I'm still going to be doing the same thing.
It's definitely one of my goals to win the slalom title and then the GS title, and sometime the overall. Right now, I am taking it day by day and race by race.
In the second run I was thinking about Marlies (Schild) and about how much she would crush the second run like she did last year. I channeled that energy and it worked. She is a true Snow Queen.
Resi StieglerI've been working hard and it's nice to put two runs together. The last couple of races I've had one good first run and an OK second run, but now it's coming together.
I had good momentum last year, so I've just pretented like I didn't get injured this year so I could keep that momentum going from the very beginning. I've also had great training in between back-to-back races so it's been pretty easy to keep things moving in the right direction.
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A business plan for 2013
A business plan for 2013
Yuletide festivities are enjoyable, but they are also a distraction from the serious effort of developing a plan for the new year. The American Dream is not usually attained by accident. There has to be a plan for progress to guide one's efforts toward success.
Such plans are very personal, so it is not possible to review them as though the issues are common. However, one concern of importance to African Americans is the extent to which the status of the race in society is an impediment.
Past generations of blacks had to focus primarily on improving their legal status as citizens. Residents of slave states were constantly subjected to persecution if they were deemed to be runaways. As recently as 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Plessy v. Ferguson that "separate but equal," racial segregation, was constitutionally sanctioned. That was the law of the land until it was overruled in 1954 by Brown v. Board of Education.
The success in that case invigorated a massive effort to end racial discrimination. After a hard fought, 10-year battle, the nation passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This made racial discrimination unlawful everywhere in employment, education and places of public accommodation. Then the next year, in 1965, the Voting Rights Act made it more difficult to discriminate in elections. The civil rights activists were clearly victorious.
Unfortunately, 48 years later, many blacks now minimize the magnitude of what was accomplished. They do not believe that blacks won the civil rights war. And even worse, they disrespect the heroism of their elders who had to put their lives in the line of fire to win this war. Now they introduce any trivial racial slight as evidence that the civil rights war is not over.
Those younger than 60 have little memory of the time when there was no legal recourse for racial discrimination when you applied for a job, admission to college or a hotel reservation. While some ill-advised manager might choose to violate the law, his conduct after 1964 could subject his employer to answer in court. The offenses complained of by the young today do not rise to the level of combat endured in the civil rights campaigns of the 1950s.
Blacks have to acknowledge that wars do end. For three years from 1950 to 1953, the U.S. committed 300,000 soldiers to the Korean War that ended in an armistice. However, the U.S. claimed victory and has continued since then to aid a military presence in South Korea. Diplomatic confrontations with North Korea periodically erupt, but who would insist that the Korean War is not over?
African Americans must let their lawyers handle the recalcitrant bigots while they focus on issues to advance the cause. The recent election shows that blacks, Asians, Hispanics and enlightened whites can form a significant political power bloc in America. It is time to strengthen the coalition that resulted in victory in the civil rights war and the election of Barack Obama. The growth of the minority population in coming years provides a demographic boost to success.
At the same time, blacks have to increase business development. The number of black firms increased by 61 percent between 2002 and 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2007 survey. However, total gross receipts were only $135.7 billion. Walmart's sales for 2011 were $419 billion, so it is clear that black firms need dynamic growth.
One of the most important efforts is for African Americans to encourage and enable their children to excel academically. The future belongs to the well-educated. Blacks have to revive the commitment to education that they once had.
Now is the time to worry less about white interference and focus more on what African Americans can achieve with their own talents and effort.


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Student or Learner
I always get confused in spellings having ie and ei.
e.g. is it recieve or receive.
Is there any specific rule for them that might help me.
Thanks million
that was helpful
Disclaimer: I'm not a teacher.
Remember this:
"I" before "E" except after "C"
However, there is a precondition, that is:
When "ei" or "ie" is pronounced as long e /i:/, put "i" before "e" except after "c". For example, put "I" before "E": achieve, thief, siege, belief, niece, chief, piece, field, grief, relief yield, etc. Except after "C": ceiling, receive, deceive, conceive, perceive, deceitful, receipt, etc.
Exceptions: either, neither, seize, etc. Okay?
Last edited by albertino; 14-Jul-2007 at 09:33.
Thanks a billion, that was a great help.
Sometime ie forms the end vowel of the 1st syllable and the beginning of the next in a multi-syllable word as in quiet, Kiev or Dieppe.
In English, I teach students generalizations rather than rules as virtually in any of the formulations one can find many exceptions to the norms.
The rule I learned in school was "I before E except after C, or when said as "A" as in "neighbor" or "weigh." And then you have to learn exceptions, many of which are listed in this thread.


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He has a comfortable lead in the polls by all accounts, but Mayor Virg Bernero was still out in southwest Lansing Sunday. With an armful of fliers, Bernero walked quickly between houses, knocking on doors, handing out promotional materials and talking to potential voters.
"You have to ask for the vote; you never take it for granted," said Bernero, who is seeking his third term in office. "I always say to people I'm here to reapply for my job and a lot of times they smile or chuckle at that, but you know how else do I reapply for my job? I mean I have to reapply just like everyone else. It's not a given."
Bernero was also out to campaign for what he's calling "The Lansing Jobs Team," a collection of endorsed by both the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce and the United Auto Workers union.
"I'm out for myself and the entire team," Bernero said. "If I were to win without my team, it would be a hollow victory in many respects, because it will really crimp my ability to do my job. That's why I'm so adamant that I need my team."
Across town, City Council At-Large Candidate Judi Brown Clarke used a team of volunteers to pass out fliers of her own.
Brown Clarke finished a close third in the August primary and is hoping her campaign efforts can push her one notch higher come Tuesday.
"[The primary is] called the semifinals and the finals is where it counts," she said. "We've done a lot of work. We've knocked on over 6,500 doors collectively and so I hope that paid off and people can really see what I can bring and my skill set and talents and love for the city."
Brown Clarke said the canvassing was a way to burn off some of the extra pre-election energy while extending a more personal campaign pitch to voters she says are overwhelmed with campaign literature.
"It's just kind of a courtesy," she said. "Just a gentle reminder to answer any questions they may have before they make their final decisions."
In the Moores Park neighborhood, Fourth Ward Candidate Chong-Anna Canfora targeted her supporters and the undecided voters Sunday.
"We need to reach out to people who are still undecided who haven't gotten off the fence yet on who they're supporting," she said, adding it was important to remind supporters of polling times and locations. "Even if you are an incumbent but definitely if you are a challenger, you've gotta get out there, you've gotta show that you've got energy, that you're willing to really work for it and that you really need folks vote."
There were, however, candidates who chose not to actively campaign Sunday.
Charles Hoffmeyer, a candidate for the City Council's Second Ward seat said he was answering voters' questions personally instead of knocking on doors.
"Personally, I am tired of the misinformation and attack advertising that I have received in mail in the last two weeks; I do not want to add to the frustration my neighbors experience every election year," Hoffmeyer said by email. "If any voter has not yet determined who they are going to vote for, I hope that they will obtain information from authoritative sources over the next few days and form their own determination on who would best represent their viewpoints and address their concerns."
Polls open at 7 a.m. Tuesday and close at 8 p.m.


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Obituary published May 10, 2013 in The Mexico Ledger
James David Sites, 71, of Centralia, Mo. died unexpectedly at his home Thursday, May 9, 2013.
James was born May 22, 1941 in St. James, Mo., the son of Wilbur and Lela Barton Sites.
On Nov. 22, 1991 he was married in Eminence, Mo. to Paula Lybarger and she survives.
Other survivors include a son, James Wesley Sites and wife, Jerri, Washington; two stepdaughters, Tina Mitchell and husband Cole, Holts Summit; Shala Taylor and husband, Troy, Trementon, Utah; three grandchildren, Abigail Sites, Jonathan Sites, and Colton Mitchell; five siblings, Joyce Petty, Salem, Jack Sites, St. Clair, Ron Sites, Spartanburg, S.C., Judy Puckett, Hanna, Wyo. and Rick Sites, Salt Lake City, Utah.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
James earned his associate degree at Linn State Technical College, Linn, Mo. His first employment was at Pea Ridge Mine, Potosi, Mo. Following college he was employed at 3M Company, Columbia, for 30 years. He retired in 2005. Mr. Sites was a volunteer at Missouri Veterans' Home, Mexico, for over 400 hours and had been honored and presented an award for his service.
He enjoyed cooking, gardening and canning.
A family tribute "He was a humble and passionate man."
The family suggests memorials to the Missouri Veterans' Home, #1 Veterans Drive, Mexico, Mo. 65265.
Memorial services will be held at a later date.
Fenton Funeral Chapel, Centralia, is in charge of arrangements.


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January 2014 - Vintage Vault: 1967 4WD Grand PrixPosted in Features on December 24, 2013
Swamped Rescue #1
There is nothing worse than getting stuck, but it happens. We doubt there is a worse time to get your Jeep stuck than during a timed race event like the one these pictures show. Here we see a few stuck Jeeps shot by Eric Rickman for Hot Rod magazine from the 1967 4WD Grand Prix at Riverside run by Brian Chuchua. There are other images from this event, and we'll dig into the details more to show you more of the competition in a future Vintage Vaults. For now, here driver Don White swamped number 25—an early CJ-5 powered by a Dauntless V-6 and prepped by Milne Bros Jeep Center. Here the Jeep is getting rescued by a nice 289 V-8 powered Ford Bronco with an early Warn Bellevue winch. The poor damp Jeep is also running Headers By Horsepower Engineering and Valvoline motor oil. We are digging that old-school, go-fast rollcage. Groovy man!
Swamped Rescue #2
At a similar water crossing on course, we see a swamped flatfender, ol' number 18 mired in the drink. It looks like number 18 is running a D.A. Cam, open headers, wide custom wheels, and cut flotation tires. The race-prepped flattie is getting a tug from a clean looking Willys Pickup. Hey, we love that race flattie that looks civilian, but check out that truck with nicely trimmed front fenders, a windshield mounted spot light, louvered hood, wide custom wheels, and flotation tires. Photo shot by Eric Rickman for Hot Rod.
Here another early CJ-5, number 26, has gotten off-course on a soil levee that was part of the course. The Buick powered CJ is also running a set of Horsepower Engineering Headers peeking out from under the tub and looks like it may be a teammate of old number 25. The same 289 Bronco seems to have come to the rescue of this hapless racer. As a last resort, the shovel was employed to try and clear part of the dirt blocking the CJ in these photos taken by Eric Rickman. Nothing that a little old-fashioned elbow grease won't overcome. Again, this CJ has a nice cage, and check out that remote battery box mounted in the bed of the Jeep. Love it!


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Denny Hamlin said on Wednesday that he will not be competing in this weekend's Sprint Cup Series race at his home track of Richmond International Raceway.
Hamlin, who grew up just miles away from the 0.75-mile Richmond track in Chesterfield, Va., continues to recover from a compression fracture in his lower back. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver sustained the injury during an accident on the final lap of the March 24 race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
Last weekend at Kansas Speedway, Hamlin said his chances of returning to competition at Richmond were "50-50." He was evaluated by doctors and had a scan on his back earlier this week. Hamlin posted the news of his not racing at Richmond on his Twitter account. The 400-lap race there is scheduled for Saturday night.
"Unfortunately I won't be racing this weekend at Richmond," Hamlin tweeted. "It kills me to not be in the car for my team and sponsors but after long discussions with the doctors we have decided to wait on my return back to racing. Thanks to all of my fans who have sent encouraging messages over the last month. I'll be back in no time."
Hamlin is now hopeful his return will be in the May 5 race at Talladega Superspeedway. He has already missed three events -- Martinsville, Texas and Kansas.
Mark Martin drove his No. 11 Toyota to a 10th-place finish at Martinsville. Brian Vickers has been behind the wheel of the car for the past two races, finishing eighth at Texas and 31st at Kansas. Vickers is scheduled to drive it again at Richmond.
Hamlin held the 10th position in the point standings after Fontana, but has dropped to the 26th spot since then.
Two days after his Fontana accident, Hamlin was evaluated by Dr. Jerry Petty of Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates in North Carolina. Petty determined that Hamlin wouldn't need surgery but would need time to properly heal, which was estimated around six weeks time.
Hamlin made the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship for the seventh straight season in 2012, every year he has been a full-time competitor in the series.


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Skip to comments.Democrats mostly pleased but give no credit to Bush
Posted on 12/14/2003 8:34:19 AM PST by BJungNan
Democratic presidential candidates welcomed news Sunday of Saddam Hussein's capture, saying the arrest of Iraq's former dictator marked a great day for U.S. soldiers, the people of Iraq and of the world.
"I supported this effort in Iraq without regard for the political consequences because it was the right thing to do," Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt said in a statement from Sumter, S.C., where he was campaigning. "I still feel that way now, and today is a major step toward stabilizing Iraq and building a new democracy."
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who supported the Iraq war but has become increasingly critical of its aftermath, also looked to the future.
"Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis," Kerry said in a statement from Iowa.
He also urged the Bush administration to involve more U.S. allies in the rebuilding of Iraq and criticized a Pentagon memo that prohibited companies from countries that did not provide troops for the war from bidding on lucrative reconstruction contracts there.
"We need to share the burden, bring in other countries and make it clear to the world that Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people," Kerry said.
Former Gen. Wesley Clark said Saddam's arrest, Saturday night in a town several miles from his hometown of Tikrit, could help squelch the postwar violence.
"I hope this will see a diminishing in the violence against American soldiers in Iraq," Clark said as he arrived in the Netherlands. Clark was on his way to The Hague, to testify in the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Howard Dean, one of the most critical candidates of Bush's policy, said in West Palm Beach, Fla., that he expected the capture to change "the course of the occupation of Iraq."
"I think the first order of business is to say this is a great day -- I congratulate the Iraqi people -- and to say that this is a great day for both the American military and the American people and for the Iraqi people."
Asked for his reaction, Sen. Joe Lieberman said: "Praise the Lord."
"This is something that I have been working on with a lot of other people, advocating and praying for, for more than 12 years since the Gulf War of '91," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Lieberman also called it a "day of triumph and joy for anybody in the world who cares about freedom and human rights and peace."
But Carol Moseley Braun said that while it was good news, Saddam's arrest "does not change the fact that our troops remain in harm's way and we are no closer to bringing them home."
What is the virtue of a proportional response? ... I am suggesting, General, that you, and Admiral Fitzwallace, and Secretary Hutchinson, and the rest of the national security team take the next sixty minutes and put together an American response scenario that doesn't make me think we are just docking somebody's damn allowance!
...Did you know that two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation? He could walk across the earth unharmed, cloaked only in the words "Civis Romanis" I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally understood as certain, should any harm befall even one of its citizens. Where was Morris' protection, or anyone else on that plane? Where is the retribution for the families and where is the warning to the rest of the world that Americans shall walk this earth unharmed, lest the clenched fist of the most mighty military force in the history of mankind comes crashing down on your house!? In otherwords, Leo, what the hell are we doing here?
Now, let's see what the French demands are. Saddam certainly has passwords, accounts numbers, French and Saudi account numbers and other information that will embarrass some of our "allies."
Chirac still misses the cash that he was getting and will want to know about the access to the drop points. So, I see demands from the French for visitation rights by French organizations on "humanitarian grounds" so that they can report to the UN/Pope/Saudis/Family that Saddam is in good health and being well treated. The French will also demand that Saddam be turned over to an international tribunal for eventual trial. The dem dwarfs, of course, will agree.
I always liked that guy, even though I never saw eye to eye with his politics.
P.S. Please moderator, let this stand -- it should be exempt from removal under the stated FR polic of allowing occasional posts from DU when gloating is in order.
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Thread here [halflife2.net].
Be interesting to see what the verdict of the Slashdot code gurus is.
Not with games, especially first-person shooters. It's a problem of distributing the workload with limited server resources and limited bandwidth / high latency between nodes. To make the game playable, the clients have to know things and be trusted to do calculations that from a security standpoint they should not.
This really is unfortunate. It means you really can't stop cheating with this sort of game. It's especially easy when the source code is available, though it's still possible otherwise.
I'm currently taking bets on the surprise release of Duke Nukem Forever.. (Which surprisingly, looks like Half Life 2)
I feel sorry for Valve if this turns out to be the real deal.
There are also a few threads on steam [steampowered.com], PlanetHalfLife [forumplanet.com], and arstechnica [infopop.net].
But how?
At my company, we control access to code using good 'ol fashioned groups, but that leaves a relatively large number of people with access to everything. Maybe you could enhance that security with encryption of the codebase (you can decrypt the parts you need to change and that's it), but that doesn't seem like a great solution, either. Or maybe somehow watermark the code to each person in a way not easy to detect -- maybe dynamically change their variable names so they're individual-specific...
Anyhow, interesting problem. There's always air-gap, searched-by-security on the way out solutions, but given that my keychain holds more data than my first (or second, or third) hard drive, I'm not sure how effective even a police-state style could be against a determined thief....
http://sourceforge.net/projects/halflife2 is available if anyone is interested.
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// Client's launcher.exe hash value (for versioning) /*
Dynamics/Kinematics modeling and simulation library.
Copyright (C) 1999 by Michael Alexander Ewert
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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No boxer has inspired more monuments than Joe Louis. He is the only boxer to have an arena named after him. Statuary dedicated to his memory can be found in places as diverse as the Detroit Institute of Art and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He was the first boxer to appear on a United States postage stamp.
The record book testifies to his greatness. After winning the title, he made 25 successful defenses. By contrast, the eight heavyweight champions before him had 18 successful defenses combined.
Louis was lethal in rematches. He avenged his first defeat with a sensational knockout and upended the other seven men he fought twice with wins inside the distance that were briefer than the first encounter. He suffered only three losses in 66 fights -- to a former, a current, and a future heavyweight champion - and two of those losses came after a two-year retirement when his best years were behind him. Nonetheless, I submit that those who insist that Louis was head-and-shoulders above any heavyweight that ever lived are all wet.
The nickname that stuck to Joe Louis was Brown Bomber, but he was also dubbed Shufflin' Joe, a favorite of New York Times sportswriter John Kieran. Yes, Kieran was guilty of insensitivity - or worse - but it was a fairly accurate description of Louis's fighting style.
Joe was an economical fighter -- "dangerous in a tight circumference" in the words of legendary trainer Eddie Futch, an early sparring partner -- but his economy of motion was less a strategy than an involuntary constraint.
Louis had blinding hand speed and could knock a man unconscious with one short punch, but he was remarkably slow-footed for a man of his stature. This was never more apparent than in his 1941 fight with slick Billy Conn who flustered the 27-year-old Louis for 12 rounds until he recklessly charged inside the Brown Bomber's web with his jaw exposed and became another knockout victim.
Joe Louis fought only two fighters of his color during the first 13 years of his pro career, a figure that does not include two quasi- exhibitions with former sparring partners. The first African-American to test him was Willie Davies, a fellow novice. The second was light heavyweight champ John Henry Lewis who was without lateral vision in his left eye when he opposed Louis in 1939.
It wasn't until his 24th title defense that Louis finally risked his belt against a man of color who was a true heavyweight, Jersey Joe Walcott. Louis was younger than Walcott but yet fortunate to beat him in their first of two encounters, winning a widely disputed decision.
In 1937, when Louis won the title, an estimated 35 percent of licensed professional boxers in the United States were black. Their number included Leroy Haynes and Jack Trammell, both of whom would be ranked as high as third in The Ring ratings.
Louis avoided these men -- more exactly his management avoided them; promoter Mike Jacobs had the final say -- in favor of defending his title against the likes of Jack Roper, Tony Musto, and Al McCoy. Roper was an electrician at Warner Brothers Studio who had won barely half of his 99 fights. Musto, a bartender by trade, carried 200 pounds on a five-foot-eight frame, but was a powder puncher with only six knockouts to his credit in 36 fights. McCoy, a beefed-up middleweight, had lost seven of his last 11 starts and was 39-17-6 in bouts outside his native Maine.
During the 1940s, the heavyweight division was fortified by good black heavyweights like Walcott, Curtis Sheppard, Turkey Thompson, Elmer Ray, Ezzard Charles, and Jimmy Bivins. Charles and Walcott would become champions when Louis left the scene, but the others were consigned to a treadmill, fighting mostly other blacks. (Louis eventually fought Bivins and outpointed him in a non-title fight.)
An amazing fact about Louis is that he was favored by odds of 6/1 or higher in 20 of his 27 title fights. This says a great deal about him, but perhaps even more about his opponents.
These comments aren't meant to disparage Joe Louis the man. He became a public figure as America was clawing out of the Great Depression, reached the pinnacle of his fame during a horrific war, and was a beacon of inspiration to millions who were buffeted by this great trauma. "We will win (World War II) because we are on God's side," Louis famously said in 1942 when he was honored for his work on behalf of the Navy Relief Society. Those words, uttered extemporaneously by a humble sharecropper's son with little formal education were words of comfort to those whose loved ones were overseas in the theaters of war.
But that was Louis the man, whose contributions to mankind should be kept separate from Louis the fighter.
"God made only one perfect prizefighter and that was Joe Louis," wrote a boxing correspondent whose work I respect. But I'm compelled to play devil's advocate. In my mind, the Brown Bomber could not have defeated Jack Johnson or Muhammad Ali.


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The single most important task for President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to save his legacy, with three years to go in his term, would not be establishing representative offices across the Taiwan Strait, nor would it be reviving Taiwan's economy.
His most urgent goal has less to do with hard power, and more to do with soft power: to regain the people's trust from five years ago, when he won the presidential election in a landslide victory, saying that Taiwan would be a better country under his leadership.
The president could start with a very simple first step: stopping the scheduled demolition of four farmers' houses at Dapu (大埔), Jhunan Township (竹南) in Miaoli County. Three years ago, Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義), then premier, and Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺), then interior minister, responded to public outrage over the Miaoli County Government's seizure of land in Dapu to make way for a science park. They promised to preserve the remaining four houses and to find land where the affected families could relocate their homes and farms. Miaoli County Commissioner Liu Cheng-hung (劉政鴻) also apologized to the farmers for ordering the demolition.
Three years on, the government has withdrawn its promise and seems prepared to tear down those houses, saying it never pledged unconditional preservation, despite government meeting minutes clearly stating the pledge.
The so-called Dapu incident is stereotypical of the Ma administration, which shamelessly tells people it does not need to fulfill its promises because 7.66 million voters in 2008 and 6.89 million voters last year gave it an "unconditional" mandate.
Yet Ma's unfulfilled campaign pledges and the dire performance of his administration during the past five years show just how far these voters have been let down. The administration has failed to deliver on almost every one of its major commitments, including the "6-3-3" pledge and the promise of the TAIEX reaching 10,000 points. The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement was intended to boost the economy, and similar claims have been made about the recent cross-strait trade pact.
Then there are the policies that Ma's administration have not even tried to dress up as part of the mandate given to it by 23 million people. Without consulting either the Taiwanese public or the legislature, this administration has unilaterally increased fuel and electricity prices and signed the cross-strait service trade pact. The worst abuse has been in recently echoing Beijing's "one China" framework.
It seems Ma no longer cares about his credibility. Perhaps he thinks Taiwanese do not understand his reform plan, policies and visions and he, as national leader, must keep walking down the path alone and determined. Yet, ironically, "credibility" was the first word that came out of Ma's mouth when the legislature tried to alter the content of the service trade pact, saying that Taiwan's international image would be damaged if the already signed pact were to be changed.
If Ma wonders why people seem to be opposing everything his administration does, it is because Taiwanese do not trust the government anymore.
And if Ma wonders why trust would be the most important asset he has to keep, he need not look far. From 2006, former president Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) administration dramatically lost its credibility after a series of corruption scandals rocked the nation. This contributed to the Democratic Progressive Party's defeat in the presidential election, and its tarnished image still haunts the party today.


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The Body in the Boudoir: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries #20) (Paperback)
Special Order (unlikely to be available)
Massachusetts minister's wife, caterer, and sometime amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild returns in The Body in the Boudoir, the twentieth installment in the Agatha Award-winning mystery series by Katherine Hall Page that provides mystery, heart, wit, suspense, and mouthwatering recipes aplenty.
Page turns back the clock this time to 1990, as a young Faith Sibley prepares to wed the love of her life, Thomas Fairchild…if she can survive a malefactor who's trying to disrupt the ceremony by doing away with the bride. Fans of cozy culinary mysteries, like the bestselling Goldy Schultz novels of Diane Mott Davidson, will adore the tasty mayhem Katherine Hall Page cooks up in her Boudoir.
Praise For…
"This fun yet intelligent and layered look at the story behind a favorite series will be devoured by fans and attract new readers."
"Includes recipes, menus, drink concoctions and much charm."
"A smooth and seamless read . . . In the same way that Faith delivers delectable food to her clients, Ms. Page provides a gourmet treat for cozy mystery lovers."
"Despite the fact that this is a murder mystery...the narrative warms with a sweetness rarely found in the genre. And it's more rare and more pleasurable because this quality doesn't resolve into a high-fructose gooey glob."
"Fans of the Faith Fairchild series will probably be over the moon for this prequel that lovingly details how Faith met her husband . . . and then follows every calorie, fabric and gift of her glamorous upper-crust wedding preparations."
"A rollicking adventure of intrigue and suspense, plus . . . it's a lot of fun catching up with the past fun and shenanigans that Faith always manages to find herself embroiled in, and this is a very fitting way to celebrate such a huge milestone for this mystery series."
"Readers ... should accept the homecoming invitation extended in The Body in the Boudoir [and] the retro fun of perusing a vintage wedding menu, shopping at Bergdorf's bridal salon and having tea at the Palm Court in the Plaza Hotel."


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I personally love Ray Graham. Before his injury last year he was looking like a poor man's barry sanders. He did not look the same early on this year, but as the season went on he showed some glimpses (especially against ND). A full year off major knee surgery could make a difference for this kid.
Most project him as 5th or 6th round back and that would be a steal imo.


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February Board of Regents MeetingUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Shawn Nakamoto, (808) 956-9095
Kristen Cabral, (808) 956-5039
Public Information Officer
Kristen Cabral, (808) 956-5039
Public Information Officer
Posted: Feb 22, 2002
The University of Hawai'i Board of Regents (BOR) held their monthly meeting today at Honolulu Community College. The following actions were taken:
- The BOR approved an amendment to the Board Policy on Administrative Unit for Classified Contracts to comply with the requirements of the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) for classified contracts awarded to the University. The purpose of this request is to change and/or update the position titles of the members of the University's "Managerial Group" as currently identified in Board policy. The proposed amendment is necessitated by recent changes in position titles and the need for expertise in the issues involving research that can be met with the addition of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
- The BOR granted established program status to the Graduate Certificate in Telecommunications and Information Resource Management in the College of Social Sciences on the Mānoa campus. The Telecommunications and Information Resource Management (TIRM) program provides a distance learning graduate-level certificate option, primarily for public and private sector professionals. The program's primary objective is to upgrade student knowledge, practices and skills involved in the management of telecommunications or information technology, resources and personnel. The program also provides an opportunity to network with colleagues and professionals.
- The BOR approved the re-appointment of Barbara Robertson to a second term on the Mauna Kea Management Board. She will serve a four-year term to end June 30, 2005. Her appointment is retroactive to July 1, 2001.
- The BOR approved the adoption of a new compensation policy for managerial employees along with guidelines to transition continuing managerial employee salaries to the new plan.
- President Evan S. Dobelle announced the appointment of Betsy Sloane as president of the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation. He also announced that Leon Richards, currently dean of instruction for Kapiʻolani Community College (KCC), will serve as interim provost for KCC. He replaces John Morton who is working on the development of a system-wide Student Information System (SIS) for the Univeristy.
- Karl Kim, interim vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa reported that during the period of December 16, 2001 through January 15, 2002, the UH system received 104 extramural awards for a total value of $16.4 million. This is a 20% increase in the number of awards and a 48% increase in the value of the awards from the same time period last year. The cumulative totals for extramural awards to the UH system for the first 6.5 months of the current fiscal year are 935 awards with a value of $147.7 million. This represents a 23% increase in the number of awards and a 24% increase in the dollar value as compared to the first 6.5 months of the last fiscal year.


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Developing, Applying and Optimizing XSLT with Java Servletsby Eric M. Burke
This article explains the basic patterns and programming techniques commonly used when XSL Transformations (XSLT), Java Servlets, and XML are combined to create sophisticated web applications. The types of applications that benefit from this approach include
- Web sites that need to target multiple incompatible browsers or perhaps wireless devices;
- Web applications that need to provide XML data feeds in addition to HTML interfaces;
- Complex web applications where it makes sense to design in a very modular way, enforcing a clean separation between data, presentation, and programming logic; and
- Web applications that need to target different languages and character sets from the same data model.
It is hard to imagine a situation where XML and XSLT would not work, often more elegantly than JSP or pure servlet approaches.
XSLT basics
XSL stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language which is a two-part specification from the Worldwide Web Consortium. XSL Formatting Objects, which is not covered by this article, is an XML language for specifying the formatting of documents, such as fonts, colors, and alignments. At the time of this writing, XSL Formatting Objects is a Working Draft and is subject to change. Current web browsers do not support XSL Formatting Objects, so this is not a viable technology for the foreseeable future.
The second part of XSL is XSLT, which was designed to transform well-formed XML documents into XSL Formatting Objects documents. XSLT is a W3C Recommendation, which is equivalent to saying that it is a standard. Although XSLT was designed to support XSL Formatting Objects, it works well as a general purpose XML transformation language. When people talk about XSL, they are usually referring to XSLT, which is much more widely used today.
The following are the basic elements of XSLT.
- An XSLT stylesheet, conforming to the XSLT 1.0 Recommendation.
- An XML input source, which also must be well-formed.
- An XSLT processor, which is an application that knows how to parse XSLT stylesheets and apply transformations. The servlet example in this article will use Apache's Xalan, an open source processor from the Apache Software Foundation.
- A result tree, which is the output from the XSLT processor.
Figure 1: XSLT Transformation Process.
As Figure 1 illustrates, the XML input is transformed into something called a result tree. The result tree could be another XML file, an HTML web page, or even a plain text file. Nothing binds the XML input to the XSLT stylesheet, so there is a very clear separation between data and formatting. This is a boon for servlet programmers, because you can easily target multiple incompatible browsers by simply supplying two different stylesheets. You could also target Wireless Markup Language (WML), again via another stylesheet. This is much more attractive than traditional approaches which require changes to programming logic to support multiple targets.
Example 1: Basic XSLT Stylesheet
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="creditInfo"/>
<xsl:template match="creditInfo">
Name: <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
Type: <xsl:value-of select="type"/>
Number: <xsl:value-of select="number"/>
Expires: <xsl:value-of select="expires"/>
The stylesheet shown in Example 1 will be used later in this
article to transform an XML document using a servlet. The root
element of an XSLT stylesheet specifies the version and namespace.
The only version available at this time is 1.0, and the namespace sets
up the
xsl: prefix for all XSLT elements. The next
element specifies that the output document is HTML, although this line
is optional in this case.
Share your experiences with XSLT.
The remainder of the stylesheet consists of two
<xsl:template ...> elements. The job of a template
is to match patterns in the XML input. The first template typically
/, which is the XML document itself. The content
inside of the template is then copied to the result tree except for
<xsl:apply-templates ...>.
The apply-templates element causes additional pattern matching to
occur in the source document, this time within the context of the
current template. Since XML documents form a tree data structure,
XSLT processing follows a recursive process of matching patterns with
<xsl:template>, and then recursively searching down
the tree data structure using
<xsl:apply-templates>. In our example above, the
root element of the XML is
<creditInfo>, which
<number>, and
Of course, a complete explanation of XSLT is well beyond the scope
of this article, but this should give you a flavor of what stylesheets
generally look like (see the side bar for links to more detailed information). You may be wondering why the HTML

 tag has the
/ character in it.
This is required because the XSLT stylesheet must be well-formed XML.
Omitting the
/ character would cause a parsing error.
Since the output method is set to HTML, Xalan removes the extra
character, formatting

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Keith Wright earned his sixth double-double of the season, scoring 16 and adding 12 rebounds (Eric Bronson).
HANOVER, N.H. – The Harvard men's basketball team opened up an 11-point lead at halftime and never looked back, as the Crimson opened Ivy League play with a 68-53 victory at Dartmouth Saturday afternoon. The win moves Harvard to 11-3 overall and 1-0 in the Ancient Eight, while the Big Green slip to 4-10 and 0-1.
Keith Wright paced the Crimson in scoring with 16 points and came down with 12 rebounds for his sixth double-double of the year and was one of four Harvard players to reach double figures. Kyle Casey tallied 13 points and collected nine boards, while Oliver McNally added 12 and Christian Webster scored 11. Brandyn Curry also dished out eight assists for Harvard, which has now taken three straight from Dartmouth. David Ruffel led the Big Green with 16 points.
The Big Green opened up a 6-4 lead over the Crimson early on, but Curry tied it when he drove the lane after accepting a pass from McNally and finished with a left-handed layup at the 16:05 mark. In a low scoring start to the first half, Wright and Curry made layups to give Harvard a four-point edge, 12-8, heading into the second media timeout at 11:15. The Crimson continued to shoot well from inside the paint, going up by seven points moments later when Wright converted a conventional three-point play after getting fouled.
A wide-open layup from under the basket by Casey with 6:49 remaining in the half, made it an 18-9 game in favor of the Crimson. Moments later, McNally stole the ball at center court and fired a pass toward the Harvard basket, finding Curry for a layup on the break, as Harvard capped a16-3 run. Webster buried Harvard's first three-pointer of the half, as he fired from the right side, giving Harvard a 10-point advantage, 25-15.
With the clock winding down in the first half, Laurent Rivard took a pass from McNally and drilled a long trey from just to the right of the top of the key, giving Harvard a 32-21 lead heading into the break. Harvard shot 48.1 percent from the floor in the half, and only had two offensive rebounds, but the Crimson made five steals, blocked four shots and controlled much of the play in the stanza.
Harvard started the second, just like it did in the first, by being aggressive in the paint. Wright made a jumper after posting up and then found Casey for a wide-open dunk through the lane on Harvard's next possession, making it 36-26 in favor of the Crimson. Harvard also found its touch on jump shots, as McNally hit a three from the corner and then Webster made a long jumper, as the Crimson led, 41-30, at the first media break of the second half. Webster drilled two more jumpers to give Harvard its largest lead, 47-30, with just under 14 minutes to play.
After Dartmouth made a run and got within nine, 49-40, Rivard hit a long three-pointer and followed with a steal and layup on the break, putting Harvard back up 14 with 8:28 to play. With Harvard leading by 13 with 4:16 to go, McNally made a trey with the shot clock winding down, making it 63-47. Casey put an exclamation point on the afternoon, as he leapt for a two-handed slam before being fouled with 2:01 remaining on the clock.
Harvard outrebounded Dartmouth, 32-22, for the game and was 26-of-49 from the floor (.531), while making 5-of-15 three-pointers (.333).
The Crimson, winners of four straight, visits George Washington for its final non-conference game of the season Saturday, Jan. 15 at 2 p.m.


text: Its hard to take the news out of our lives, but the recent Swine Flu outbreak has zapped a dose of 'reality says' into me. My wife and I just recently had a second wedding, which, in order for her family also to receive free a under-the-table tour, was held in Japan. Well, we arrived a few days early on a plane that should have gone to Seoul from Toronto to drop off our luggage, but because of the louts at Air Canada, was diverted to Tokyo. So, there we were with over 100KG of excess luggage including two beautiful Marinoni Fango cyclocross bikes, no where to stay and Air Canada's mutant-attendants telling us that our next destination would not be covered. I grew 10 extra grey hairs in that near-death experience (I was about to kill someone, you see). But, this is not that story.


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Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) was known for his military service during World War II and his work to improve Hawaii's infrastructure. When he died on Dec. 17, 2012, he was the second-longest serving senator in U.S. history. Bill Dorman, news director at Hawaii Public Radio, reflects on what made him so influential in Hawaii.
The Legacy Of War Hero And Pioneer Daniel Inouye
By editor • Dec 18, 2012


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Was there a reason that the sign-ups for Yuletide were announced on a Jewish holiday?
Seriously - it was hree days ago. If someone on my flist hadn't said something this morning, I'd never have known. Add to that the fact that nominations were done during the week of Yom Kippur and Sukkot, so I had NO time to do it.
A girl could get a complex.


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It's time the Cubs released Bob Howry…maybe explore some trade options for him.
Nothing against Howry the person…but I've seen enough of Howry the setup man.
This isn't a knee-jerk reaction to today's loss, I've pointed out Howry's disappointing season for weeks now.
In the beginning, I was patient, and mostly confident, Howry would rebound from a horrific April:
- 19 hits in 12.1 innings pitched, 3 home runs and a bloated 8.03 ERA.
In fact, that's exactly what happened, albeit briefly, during May:
- 16 hits in 15.1 innings pitched, 2 home runs and a very respectable 1.76 ERA.
Unfortunately, the tide turned in June:
- 12 hits in 10 innings pitched, 1 home run and a 4.50 ERA for the month.
It's a red flag…Howry isn't quite right…he's not improving…and the season, of course, is in full swing.
To this point, the Cubs' super-charged lineup has mask Howry's ineffectiveness.
The one-two punch of Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood rarely leaves the pressure on Howry to protect late inning leads.
But given the Cubs' collective funk offensively this month (July)…Marmol's lack of command…and Wood's trip to the DL…Bob Howry's ineffectiveness has been exposed.
Regardless of Marmol's recent struggles, however, Lou simply can't throw Marmol (or Wood) every game.
So Lou's left with the consistently bad Bob Howry to protect late inning leads. Not good.
Howry's results for July:
- (1-2) record, 13 hits in 11.1 innings pitched, 3 more home runs and a 7.15 ERA.
Obviously, the Cubs can't rely on Howry any longer, and especially with the Brewers making a run. The backend of this bullpen needs reinforcements…like immediately!
Howry turns 35 in August…is in the final year of a three-year $12 million dollar contract: no better time to cut the string.
I'd hate to see Howry's career as a Cub end this way…but what other options are left for a guy who's allowed 62 hits in 50 innings pitched, 9 home runs and sports a 5.22 ERA?
- Notes: Howry's career ERA is a respectable 3.62.
- In 2007 Howry allowed 76 hits in 81.1 innings pitched all season, including just eight home runs.
- In the Cubs' five losses since the All Star break, the lineup is 2-for-15 with RISP.
- Jeff Samardzija made his major league debut: 1-run, 2-hits in 2-IP, and is not the answer to replacing Howry.


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BSF4ooRexx is a Java language binding for the scripting language ooRexx. It allows ooRexx programmers to directly use the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) libraries. It allows, for example, implementation of Java methods in ooRexx and callbacks from Java to ooRexx. It camouflages Java so that it resembles ooRexx by being dynamically typed and caseless. BSF4ooRexx comes with built-in support for programming OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.org and allows ooRexx to be used as a macro language.
KeyValue is a cross-platform library for making C++ objects accessible through LibreOffice Calc, Excel, and other front-ends. This can enhance the experience of spreadsheet users by providing an object model and a handy key-value based interface. Actually, KeyValue does more than just help creating spreadsheet functions. The object model allows end-users to build C++ objects through the front-ends. These objects are stored in a repository for later use at the user's request. Additionally, KeyValue provides a set of services to effectively use these objects. The library is named after one of its main features: the key-value based interface. Parameters are passed to functions (or, more precisely, processors) through key-value pairs, in contrast to the standard positional interfaces of LibreOffice Calc, Excel, C/C++, etc.
Due to C portability, OpenOffice.org's usual middleware, Universal Network Objects (UNO), could not be designed object oriented. With NOA-libre you can still access UNO, but also the NOA-libre object oriented layer atop UNO. Being based on UNO, NOA-libre is network aware, meaning that you can use it to have your local office installation execute some commands, or an OpenOffice.org installation anywhere on the world, provided you have a appropriate network connection and privileges. With NOA-libre, you can: embed OpenOffice.org windows in your Java applications or applets; remote control OpenOffice.org windows on your desktop, over the network, or "headless", i.e. only functional without visible output; and/or extend OpenOffice.org by writing Java plugins. NOA-libre is compatible with OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, easier to deploy than the usual UNO-only Java applications, and allows you to interact with various OpenOffice.org components (but is by far most commonly used with Writer and Calc).
OpenTBS is a PHP tool that helps you to make OpenOffice and MS Office documents using templates. You first design your template using OpenOffice or MS Office, and then OpenTBS merges it with data that you supply from PHP code and databases. It has facilities to manage pictures. The resulting documents are saved to file, served for download, or returned as a string. In fact, OpenTBS can merge any OpenDocument files, any OpenXML files, and any XML files compressed in a Zip archive. No extra exe file is required and it makes no temporary files, since all work is done in memory. OpenTBS is based on the TinyButStrong template engine.
Ipt_fw is a firewall for Linux based on iptables. It is designed for client systems. Ipt_fw outputs a shell script containing iptables commands, so inspection of the settings it creates is easy. The configuration files are made in LibreOffice(OpenOffice)Calc. Making of the firewall and a machine using the firewall are separated. It allows you to set the user level and features detailed logging, IP address blacklist management, and iptables integrity.