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David Moyes always expected early days at Manchester United to be difficult
Manchester United boss David Moyes has warned the transition from 'The Ferguson Era' is going to be tough.
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Focus sharpened on Moyes after United were thrashed 4-1 by Manchester City on Sunday in his first derby as manager at Old Trafford.
But the Scot says the six-year deal he was handed when he took over from Sir Alex Ferguson showed those in charge of the club knew it was going to be a lengthy process to mould the side under a new manager with different ideas.
"I don't think it was ever going to be the case this was going to be easy and smooth after Sir Alex," said Moyes.
"There was always going to be days like this and there might well be more days like this. I hope not, but there will be because that is football.
"It was always going to be tough following such a great manager with a great team and I think people with real football knowledge will know there are probably some changes to be made.
"It is not going to be made in one fell swoop. It is going to be done in time.
"That is why the Manchester United board realised the job that needed to be done was a long-term one.
"I thought I was (prepared) but obviously when you come here then I realise maybe it wasn't. It is a club on its own. It is a fantastic place to work with great players.
"But we have to do well enough to make sure people on the outside think the work we are doing is the right stuff."
Big game
The big games keep coming for Moyes and his side entertain local rivals Liverpool on Wednesday.
"It is a big game for this club," adds the Reds boss.
"It is a big game for Liverpool as well. It is the third round of the cup and it's a big draw. I am looking forward to getting back.
"It is the one thing that happens; you can have bad results but the next game isn't too far away here."


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Submission + - Thought-controlled apps on Android a no-brainer (hothardware.com)
Julie188 writes: A small PC device company wants to bring thought-controlled apps to the Android market. Mind Technologies (once known by the cute name of Jedi Mind) has promised to make it so. Mind Technologies makes PC devices (a game controller and mouse) that work with the strange-but-true Emotiv headset. Emotive uses brain waves to operate machines. Although it sounds far fetched, electroencephalogram (EEG) controllers do work, but the products on the market so far are not as easy to use, let alone master, as their makers claim.

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PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped 25 murder charges against Christopher Harris, the first of two brothers to go to trial in the killings of a central Illinois couple and three of their children. Harris still faces 33 murder charges.
Prospective jurors are expected to fill out questionnaires Tuesday in a courtroom in Peoria.
The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports (http://bit.ly/12XtX5s) the dropped charges are part of prosecutors' efforts to streamline the case. They've also dropped charges of criminal sexual assault.
Harris and his brother, Jason, have pleaded not guilty to murder in the September 2009 beating deaths of a Beason family.
The trial was moved to Peoria after Christopher Harris' attorneys argued that their client might not get a fair trial in Logan County because of pretrial publicity.
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John Edward Rogers, 93, formerly of Winterburn Road, Penfield, died early Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 at Christ the King Manor of DuBois, where he had been a resident for six months. He was born Oct. 31, 1918 in Winterburn, son of the late Edward and Grace (Hicks) Rogers. He married Doris (McCafferty), who survives. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a medical technician, achieving a fifth grade rank. He also received the Asiatic/Pacific Campaign Medal with two Bronze Stars, being in the battles of New Guinea and Luzon and also the liberation of the Philippines. He spent most of his working life at Speer Carbon of St. Marys and was a lifelong resident of Penfield. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, tying flies, bowling, and playing horseshoes. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Henry and Paul; and a sister, Arlene Bucksbee. He was the last surviving member of his immediate family. A funeral service for John Edward Rogers will be conducted at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at the Ralph M. Geer Funeral Home in Penfield, with the Rev. Kenneth Sherwood officiating.Friends will be welcomed at a visitation to precede the funeral from 11 a.m. until the time of the service. Military honors will be accorded by the Bennetts Valley Legion Post 978 Burial Detail. Burial will take place in the Morningside Cemetery of DuBois. The family suggests memorials to Christ the King Manor or a favorite charity.


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Submission + - iRobot introduces morphing blob robot (physorg.com)
Aristos Mazer writes: iRobot has story and video showing their new robot, a morphing blob that looks like dough that moves by shifting its sides from solid-like to liquid-like states at will, allowing it to pass through cracks by squeezing rather than navigating. iRobot calls the new technique "jamming". Research project funded by DARPA.


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Nancy Trexler Hedrick, 86, of Lexington, passed away early Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, at Hinkle Hospice House.
A funeral was at 4 p.m. Sunday at Bethany United Methodist Church, where she was a member, by the Rev. David Talbert. Burial followed in Bethany United Methodist Cemetery.
Visitation was at the church from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday prior to the service.
Nancy was born in Davidson County on Feb. 11, 1926, to Joseph Alex Trexler and Iola Tussey Trexler. She was a homemaker. She was a graduate of Ashemore Business College and was very active at Bethany, where she was a member of the choir with over 50 years service. On Jan. 10, 1947, she married Charles Matthew Hedrick at Bethany. She and Charles were the first couple to be married in the church and would have celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary on the 10th of this month. Her parents and a brother, Joe Trexler, preceded her in death.
In addition to Charles, she is survived by sons Charles R. "Ricky" Hedrick and William D. "Billy" Hedrick and wife Joan, all of Lexington; four grandchildren, Garrett Hedrick, Cory Hedrick and wife Lydia, Julie Richardson and husband Justin and Mark Hedrick; and two great-grandchildren Gray and Kate Hedrick.
Any memorials can be directed to Bethany United Methodist Church, 193 Bethany Road, Lexington, NC 27292 or Hospice of Davidson County, 200 Hospice Way, Lexington, NC 27292.
Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.
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Nancy Trexler Hedrick, 86, of Lexington, passed away early Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, at Hinkle Hospice House.


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douglasvcampos wrote:Hi, guys. I would like to know if Guy Harris and James Ausborn, Elvis' childhood friends, are still alive. Does anyone know? I think James still is but not sure about Guy Harris. Also, last year I found this picture http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0fe ... D/x350.jpg
It "shows" Elvis' first guitar, bought at the Tupelo Hardware. Now I ask: How legit is that? I read once Elvis' first guitar was lost and they didn't know where it would be today, but now I find this. I also read it was sold for a fan. What do you guys know about it? Is the guitar on display somewhere? If it's still around, I think EPE should buy it and put it on display at Graceland or it should be on display at Elvis' Birthplace.
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JamesVRoy wrote:It used to come up a lot so I wrote this up years ago.
Though I felt I was fairly impartial about it the owner, the brother, at the time wasn't all too thrilled. I think he was hoping to get some serious dough for it and wasn't too happy with my opinion. I would've thought that it had more sentimental value to him because it belonged to his brother rather than it was thought to belong to Elvis.
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I agree. Do not do this. You are being taken advantage of. You are not close enough to be invited to the wedding you but you are close enough to be told ("I already gave your name") to do a major, long, tiring, stressful, thankless task for free? Run.
What is the worst that could happen?? Would it be better if I was paid?
"after thinking it over, and knowing how important the day is to you and your family, I believe this would best be handled by a professional wedding coordinator. While I appreciate your confidence in my capabilities, I'm afraid it won't be possible for me to accept and I offer this suggestion in your best interests. Whether or not you choose to hire a professional will not change my decision to decline, so please do not try to persuade me otherwise."
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Yoga for Every Body
Join the QC campus community this Fall for a weekly FREE yoga class, taught by Diane Hudson.
What is yoga?
Yoga is a science: an ancient methodology of mind-body-breath exercise that enhances physical and mental health. Yoga can help you achieve a specific goal: physical fitness, mental clarity, relaxation, academic achievement or emotional management. These outcomes have been documented in scientific studies from around the world.
What Style of Yoga?
YogaFit® is based on the ancient fitness science of hatha yoga. It blends balance, strength, flexibility and power in a fitness format. This format is practical, understandable, and doable by individuals at any level of fitness. We will practice yoga breathing and a sequence of standing and sitting asanas (poses), along with some basic stretches and core strengthening exercises. At the end of every class, there will be a period of guided relaxation. Students will learn a basic vinyasa flow which incorporates variations on the Sun Salutation.
Fall 2017, Tuesdays from 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm .
Quad Cities Complex, Building B, Room 1122
What should I wear/bring?
Wear comfortable, snug fitting clothing that does not constrict your movement or breathing. We will heat up and cool down, so you may want to dress in layers.
We will have a limited amount of mats, blankets, straps and blocks. Please bring your own yoga mat, if you have one, and a bottle of water.


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To unlock all of features of Rams On Demand please take a brief moment to register. Registering is not only quick and easy, it also allows you access to additional features such as live chat, private messaging, and a host of other apps exclusive to Rams On Demand.
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Ian will perform at 16 dates in the UK in May and June for Metal Hammer magazine. "I've seen Rollins do it all these years," Ian explained to Decibel magazine. "I saw Rollins, maybe on the first time he ever did a tour I went to see what it was going to be about …it's something that I always wanted to do and I finally had the opportunity this year."
Ian said the first show, in London, went so well that he jumped at the chance to do more. "Y'know it's weird, I know a lot of people are terrified but I don't find public speaking terrifying for some crazy reason. Maybe there is something wrong with me!"
Although he's primarily known as a thrash rhythm master, it's not Ian's first foray into more verbal modes of expression: he's written a regular column called Scott Ian's Food Coma for Suicide Girls, and has penned several series for DC Comics. And there's a strong possibility of a book in the not-too-distant future. "Well I pretty much write all the time," Ian told Decibel. "I think the actual impetus for me to start to stand up in front of people and do this was I started compiling a lot of these stories earlier this year, and like writing them out long-form, literally typing them out, because someday I will do a book so I might as well start now having all these stories and anecdotes and things like that."


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Writing is never going to die. Crafting thoughts into clear and useful communication is always going to be important online. But aspiring writers these days would be smart to enhance their skill set to include online video production. As online journalism evolves into video, writers have a new career opportunity: translating their journalism skills into strong online video production.
This panel will feature some of the best online video producers out there who can share their insights in this nascent field and discuss how to make the jump from writer to video producer. What's worked? What hasn't? What skills are needed most? How many people should be on a video production team? What types of online video work best, and how and where do people see them? How can good online video support media sites and tell a different yet unique perspective.
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text: February 20, 2013 Share DIERS Users Group MembersThe Spring 2013 DIERS Users Group meeting will be held on April 17 to 19, 2013 (WEDNESDAY to FRIDAY) at the Trump International Hotel, 2000 Fashion Show Drive, Las Vegas, NV (One block from the strip and the Wynn Hotel). Call (866) 939-8786 to reserve a room. Check the website at www.TrumpLasVegasHotel.com Room rates for the hotel will be $129 (single / double – studio suite king city view) plus 12 percent county tax. Guest room rates will be extended for three days before and after the meeting. Mention the DIERS Users Group to get our rate. The hotel will hold our block of rooms until March 26, 2013. A credit card will be required to register at the hotel and the first night room charge will apply. Refunds will be made on reservations canceled more than 72 hours prior to confirmed arrival date.NOTE:Hotel parking, Internet access, and shuttle service are complimentary. The resort and meeting room fees and down payment deposits have been waived.Las Vegas hotels have tightened their booking procedures for meetings. The DIERS Users Group in order to get the room rate and the concessions mentioned above had to guarantee a certain number of rooms and will have to pay for the rooms not used. Therefore, if you attend the meeting, you will be expected to register and stay at the Trump Hotel.Registration for and payment of the actual cost of the meeting (catering – lunches, coffee breaks, etc. and audiovisual) will be accomplished using the AIChE website and submission of a credit card. We will no longer collect monies and pay for the meeting expenses on site. The daily fee will be $85 and includes lunches, coffee breaks, meeting room rental and audiovisual charges. Our catering contract must be guaranteed to the hotel NLT April 11 (Thursday). No refund after that date since the DUG has to pay the guarantee. The link to the AIChE credit card payment system is at the top of the www.aiche.org/diers webpage.The schedule for the meeting is as follows: Date Time Activity04 /17 / 13 (Wed) 8:00-5:00 Mathematical Modeling of ERS Design04 /18 / 13 (Thur) 8:00-5:00 Business Meeting / Committee Reports/Technical Presentations04 /18 / 13 No Group Dinner (Informal groups formed at meeting)04 / 19 / 13 (Fri) 8:00-3:00 ERS Design/Testing MethodologySpeakers and Tutorials are needed for all three dates. I need to issue the agenda by the first of March, so please respond ASAP. Call (304) 776-6371 or E-mail email@example.com to arrange a presentation. Include Title, Duration, Speakers, and Desired Dates / Times.NOTE: Make early flight arrangements (six to eight weeks ahead) to find the best prices and available seats on desirable flights.NOTE:The API technology committee meetings will be held in Las Vegas at Caesar's Palace starting on Monday (April 22, 2013) through to Wednesday following our meeting. Both meetings will be considering the topic of safety relief valve stability and the OSHA RAGAGEP requirements and enforcement as well as new experimental programs to acquire the date required to make changes to current codes, standards, recommended practices, and guidelines. Try to attend both meeting to get the latest information and to participate in the discussions and planning. A special PERF II PRV Stability meeting has been scheduled by API for Thursday (April 25) from 10 am to 5 pm to discuss plans for the experimental program.The DUG meeting agenda will be published by early March and posted on the www.aiche.org/diers website.An updated procedure and directions for conducting the experimental, peroxide-initiated, solution Vinyl Acetate polymerization Round-Robin are posted at the ROUND-ROBIN link on our website. A procedure for submission of APTAC experimental data has been added. An emergency relief sizing (ERS) problem based on the experimental data and provided design information has also been added. Members are urged to participate and make their submissions by the deadlines.AIChE / DIERS Continuing Education Course:Course: Emergency Relief System (ERS) Design Using DIERS TechnologyDates: March 11-13, 2013Instructors: James E. Huff and D. Arthur ShawHotel: Flamingo Las Vegas, 3555 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, NVSee the COURSES link on the AIChE / DIERS website for more details.Other courses are also available at their respective links.The MINUTES of the 49th meeting of the DIERS Users Group have not yet been posted. I look forward to greeting all company representatives in Las Vegas, NV in April. Harold G. Fisher Chair, DIERS Users GroupFor More information regarding DIERSAbout AIChE: AIChE is a professional society of more than 40,000 chemical engineers in 92 countries. Its members work in corporations, universities and government using their knowledge of chemical processes to develop safe and useful products for the benefit of society. Through its varied programs, AIChE continues to be a focal point for information exchange on the frontier of chemical engineering research in such areas as nanotechnology, sustainability, hydrogen fuels, biological and environmental engineering, and chemical plant safety and security. More information about AIChE is available at www.aiche.org.


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Sam Zettner can't explain why he harbors no ill will for the woman who nearly killed him. He just doesn't. It's his nature.
"It's the kind of person he is," said his wife, Rita.
Zettner, 57, said he's satisfied with the punishment doled out to Lisa Perdue-Barnette, who struck Zettner with her vehicle in September while the city of St. Clair Shores' head of maintenance worked on outdoor lights along Jefferson Avenue. The vehicle then crashed into Pegasus Taverna restaurant, south of 10 Mile Road. She blamed the incident on the confluence of two prescription drugs, saying she blacked out.
Perdue-Barnette, 56, of Warren, was sentenced to time she had already served in jail -- 84 days -- plus four years probation and 40 days of community service after pleading no contest in April to driving under the influence of narcotics causing incapacitating injury, a five-year felony. A no-contest plea is treated as an admission of guilt in criminal court but provides some protection in civil court.
Zettner, who uses a wheelchair due to a broken pelvis and leg, among other injuries, said his lack of vengeance makes sense to him.
"What good is it giving her more jail time?" he said after the sentencing in Macomb County Circuit Court. "I'm happy she got probation. She's gotta do community service."
But Rita Zettner retains residual anger. She said she would have liked to see a little more punishment
"It would have been nice if they would have taken her driver's license away," she said. "I don't believe that woman should get behind wheel of a car ever, ever. … She had to know that taking more than one drug would have an effect."
Rita Zettner was pleased that Judge Mary Chrzanowski added one year to her probation and ordered her to speak to a group at least once during her community service after learning that Perdue-Barnette complained on Facebook about her tether while free on bond.
Chrzanowski scolded the defendant in court.
"Here we have a seriously injured man in the hospital and you're complaining about your little tether," Chrzanowski said. "You haven't come close to suffering as much as this man. …. You should be going on Facebook telling people to be careful" about driving while under the influence of prescription drugs.
Rita Zettner said she believes Perdue-Barnette lacks remorse, even though she apologized in court and appeared contrite.
"She may have said it verbally but you can see it, she's more concerned about herself than anyone else," she said. "She needs to see what she did to him, to us, our lives."
"In four years, she'll walk away from this," Assistant Macomb Prosecutor John P. Hunt said. "The Zettners will still be suffering."
Regarding his recovery, Zettner said the process is slow. He can stand up but not walk. He cannot drive and would not be able to return to work for a long time if he decides to do so. He gave up his position as president of the local AFSCME union, although he has retained his state post.
He takes 10 medications.
"It's been hard," he said. "My hip hurts all the time. My feet hurt all the time. My feet hurt."
Since he was on the job at the time of the incident, his medical bills are being paid by workers compensation.
Although unsure if he will return to work, he is certain of one thing. He will dance at his daughter, Jessica's, wedding in October. It was postponed for one year because of the incident. The ceremony and reception will take place at Blossom Heath Inn, a city-owned facility, ironically located across the street from where the incident occurred.
"I will walk by October, I guarantee you," he said. "It's my daughter's wedding."
His daughter, who attended the sentencing at the Mount Clemens court, was too choked up to respond.
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Tim: CES for the most part is a very apolitical show. People aren't outside protesting the show's giant carbon footprint or the e-waste that all these gadgets generate. But outside there is a guy who has got a very specific beef with some of the manufacturers here, specifically Japanese camera manufacturers, who he says cost him his business. Meet camera repairman and former CES exhibitor, Kelly Chong.
Kelly: My name is Kelly Chong. I am from San Diego, California.
Tim: What are you doing here at CES?
Kelly: I am trying to help US consumers by demonstration.
Tim: Now, you are holding a sign that says NIKON CAMERA; you are calling them ECONOMIC TERRORISTS. What do you mean by that?
Kelly: They are not supplying local repair shops service repair parts and service literature. For example, you have a Canon video camera, if your camera has a problem, there is nowhere to go fixing your camera, they are going to affect US consumer and economy. That is why we call them economic terrorists. We have to protect US consumer.
Tim: Now what do you think should be done?
Kelly: We have to protect our country. I am a US citizen.
Tim: What do you think should be done?
Kelly: We don't have much money to hire an attorney. That is why I come in here. I am a US citizen. I am trying to protect US customer. I am proud of America. We have to protect our country. They have to supply parts, all the local repair shops, that is all.
Tim: Now this isn't your first time in CES, is it?
Kelly: Yes, yesterday I tried to get inside, they kicked me out. They already violated my constitutional right.
Tim: Now you were here before as an exhibitor?
Kelly: Yeah, I am an exhibitor. I have been visiting since 1985, Kelly Camera, now we are in San Diego, now Pro Camera Repair Inc. We complain to fifth estate, Congress and Senators, and President Obama. We are awaiting final result from court. The case about five to six years. We don't have much money to hire an attorney but we did.
Tim: You would like to see these companies being required to supply parts?
Kelly: Yes, they should supply the parts; that is all.
Tim: Okay. And how have you personally benefited by this?
Kelly: Because we sent a letter, so many complaints, they just ignored it. We are a small local company. So I would like they to bring final result. I just am pissed off. That is all.
Tim: Okay. Anything else you would like to add?
Kelly: I would like to protect US consumer because I am US citizen. That is all.


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Students attending high school in 1980 learn about Montreal's recycling program. Waste paper, for example, can be transformed into insulation, which in turns helps cut energy consumption. Recycling is now done in most North American cities, as concerned citizens work with municipal governments to reduce and recycle domestic waste. But household recycling handles only part of society's total waste.
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I picked up Linux when I was 16, working for a local ISP. It was the first time I ever worked with a RADIUS server to auth our dial-up clients.
I was encouraged by the sysadmin to try out Debian and just go nuts with it. I remember doing a complete install, getting X to work and then proceeding to fuck everything up. By the time I was 18, I was proficient enough at setting up a LAMP stack from scratch on Gentoo and eventually getting a Tomcat and Apache to work together with mod_jk.
What sold me on learning L
While you're at it, teach them how to use vim. Knowing how to use the editor well will make all those little administrative tasks so much easier.
Don't forget to teach them punchcards, too!
Seriously, vi(m) is an editor. Some like it, some do not, but it is not anything but an editor. Editors are dime a dozen, and most of them can do as much as vi can.
Given that most command shells have a Vi and an Emacs command-line editing mode, I'd say that a day or two spent reviewing some of the easy ways of getting things done in vi/vim or emacs would be time well spent.
Yes, they *can* learn it on their own. Just like you can toss somebody into the deep end of the pool and say "Thrash around for a bit while I go have a sandwich, when I get back, we'll see if you've learned to swim!"
I wouldn't start on vi. I'd start with nano because it follows the same logic as programs the students would likely be familiar with. On most distros nowadays even when you run visudo you get nano.
The key here is to make the learning curve not resemble the White Cliffs of Dover.
+1 nano. Around 10 years ago during my CS undergraduate classes everyone could just pick what they were used to, but students that were still getting used to this here shell thingy were nudged to use nano first during the unix introduction class. Easy to pick up and get stuff done and graduating to emacs (or vi if you like colons) is relatively easy.
And to the sibling post about nano not conforming to any standard: you're right. But when you've barely touched the surface of programming it's a relief to have
Here here. Good idea.
Other possibilities:
a firewall
a proxy server
a group source code repository
Have them set up a basic LAMP server. That's how I learned Linux. Or for something somewhat more practical for them, how about a seedbox or a mythtv-box. Frankly, the best way to learn linux is to just get your hands dirty.
Given that we are discussing freshman computer science students we are probably talking about a university environment, not a trade school. Linux is not really a legitimate topic itself, its just a tool, its just a convenient place to do class assignments while learning core ideas and concepts. Setting up a LAMP box is something university level CS students should do on their own time. For a longer discussion see http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1952834&cid=34898826 [slashdot.org].
as a basement dweller i seriously needed an anime hookup. i spent 4 days straight learning how to compile programs, then mplayer, then what a codec was, via system libraries, the gui, how to compile E16, how torrents and other p2p worked.
figure out something that drives today's youth with the same vigor, from the subdomain of scholastics. figure that out and you're a rich, rich person.
as a basement dweller i seriously needed an anime hookup. i spent 4 days straight learning how to compile programs, then mplayer, then what a codec was, via system libraries, the gui, how to compile E16, how torrents and other p2p worked.
figure out something that drives today's youth with the same vigor, from the subdomain of scholastics. figure that out and you're a rich, rich person.
Porn, booze and drugs.
That's been available freely on any campus LONG before open source was a buzz-word.
Many GUI applications can be controlled via GUI commands. Showing this helps students understand the link between the magic that goes on under the hood, and the actual action that takes place to make that happen.
Sure, not everything is a GUI shell over a CLI program, but the concept of typing a command isn't that different from one of making an API call to Qt or GTK+.
I learned my meager CLI skills by installing Dapper server, then xubuntu gui and then proceeding to dissect the link commands, investigating switches/man pages and Goog'ing for fixes because many things didn't work right. Linux not quite working as well as Windows was a bonus for me(in hindsight, not at the time), and I'm better off because of it. Believe it or not, for that reason I am also thankful to Microsoft for Vista. If Vista wasn't a steaming pile I would have continued to put off delving into the L
I'd start with a two-pronged approach.
1. GUI. Using something like Ubuntu, although I'm generally a CentOS bigot, teach them how to do all the things they know how to do in Windows: download and install software (using apt, for instance) and how to add an icon to the desktop. Teach 'em where to find applications of interest.
2. Start teaching the command line. There are times when a GUI... anyone's GUI... is too cumbersome/restrictive to do things quick and dirty.
2a. introduce them to 'script' and the concept of shell (batch) scripting.
2b. as an addendum to 2a, above, give 'em an overview of the major shells and explain why Tom Christiansen thinks csh is totally unsuited for scripting.
Don't preach about how much better Linux is than Windows... If they continue, they'll understand themselves. If they fall by the wayside, they never would have understood, anyway.
Simply make them use it for their assignments.
It could be Linux or it could be any other Unix. It could even be MacOS System 6.
This isn't exactly a new problem.
Another thing that should be teach to them is the disk space organization. This is quite different from Windows and newbies tend to put everything in a single huge filesystem. They should know some basic principles about LVM and all the kind of filesystems available with differences between them. Not an indept review, but a basic review of what is available and what they can do with this stuff.
You won't get any sound advice if you don't tell us the background of your students. It is the most important thing in any tutoring class. If they have no idea what an OS is, perhaps you should start there. If they know how to use Windows (and understand what an operating system is actually doing), perhaps you could start by making a comparison of the two systems. Oh, and please, do not start with the "on UNIX everything is a file" thing. This has never, ever, helped anyone at that stage. Perhaps you could make a historical review to show, e.g. that in the before time, DOS was the OS and Windows was a GUI. Then tell them that Linux is the OS and Gnome is the GUI. If they get that, then jumping from DOS to Bash will be easy. And some general advice: If possible, do not guide them through a trivial task as a tutorial to show them how "things are done". I have always found such tutorials boring and uninspiring. Instead, give them a book, a manual, an online link or whatever where they can search for stuff and an easy task to perform. Make it like a competition: "let's see who can figure it out fiiiiiirst!" kind of thing. Also, remember that it has to be something that they can accomplish by looking in the material you gave them. The exercise is not for pumping up your own ego when you come to them after two hours with an answer that they could have never found.
They're CS students, so at least a couple kids in that class have certainly used Linux before. When it comes to teaching the GUI - you shouldn't have to teach anything. It's pretty much the same as Windows or Mac - if they can't figure it out just because it's a little bit different, they certainly shouldn't be in CS - or any science or engineering major for that matter.
As for the command-line: Make the point that it's similar to what they're used to, but far more powerful. I.e., ls instead of dir, cp inste
In my second year at least, was "C programming in a UNIX environment".
It scarred me for life. But you learn so so much about how *nix works from the inside. I'm assuming "CS" is the developing sector , not learning how to get it to run.
It scarred me for life. But you learn so so much about how *nix works from the inside. I'm assuming "CS" is the developing sector , not learning how to get it to run.
I'm sorry you have such a fragile skin
Just to give an idea of the things we did, the assignments were
1. Multi-player (different user) version of snake on the same machine. Needed to use shared memory to pass information - no pipes.
2. A system whereby a function is executed remotely over an internet connection and returns an input. Think "Web services" written in C.
1) Some people have indicated that the students "should" know certain things. I'm assuming that the class has no pre-requisites, so you shouldn't be assuming that they know anything. Many people who do things like that do so to make themselves feel better; these students are the ultimate newbs, and treat them like you'd like to be treated. Remember that they are not stupid, just uneducated, and they are in your class to correct that.
As someone with long time teaching experience let me give my own version of #1 above:
1) Find out what they know. Survey the class to see what computers, systems, computer-like devices etc. they have had experience with and then you can perhaps take a lesson or two to try and get everyone up to about the same general level of understanding as their fellow classmates (as it pertains to the course of course). After your first feedback do a bit of research and try to find them some extra material for the ones who will need to do the most catching up, for them to read/examine on their own time.
Otherwise you will be spending the entire semester with a set of students who will be having fundamentally different problems learning the same material.
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While I have my own ideas and the professor over this class to lean on, I've found it difficult to get the few students that I've tried to teach in the past to connect the dots and understand how it relates to what they already know about computers.
Not to be mean-spirited, but this generally means that either you don't have a strong enough grasp on the subject material and ability to relate it in terms to which your students can relate, or your students don't actually know anything, or enough, about compu
Good points here. Additionally, learning the command line is like learning the wrench. It takes a few minutes to get the basics down, the rest is all in how you use it in different ways to solve different problems.
Besides, after the first week, what you should be teaching is scripting, the concept of gluing together prebuilt tools to work on a given data stream to do wonderful things.
The Power Tools book could be a good asset to you, here. Tons of great, short, impressive examples of things that are rela
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Best thing is to not "teach Linux," but to "teach on Linux."
Best thing is to not "teach Linux," but to "teach on Linux."
Yes, I'd agree with this. Nobody reads man pages for fun, but will happily read them to figure out why things aren't working when they have a goal in mind. Give them a basic (interesting!) project to do (parse some data to do something neat or somesuch?), tell them about man pages and other internet resources and let them have at it. Be around to help if things don't work though: don't forget how incredibly frustrating getting stuck during debugging in an unfamiliar system can be.
I think that the trick may be to cater to their imaginations. The young have all kinds of desires concerning computing that adults may have shed off already. I'm still eager to recreate that certain girl from high school. The catch is that they have been exposed to some neat stuff through their friends as far as programs go. So try to sell them on what the future can do for them with computers. robots, etc.. Towards that goal Linux and Ubuntu in particular can make it rather easy to set up computing c
Along the lines of what b4upoo is saying, team them the TimeCube.
Thanks b4upoo.
This may mean allowing different student to persure different products. Some can build a web server, some can write an online application, so can write security utilities. I recall one class that taught fortran through
As others have said 'teaching computer labs' is a bit ambiguous. The fact that you are talking about a 100 series class, I'm assuming means something more along the lines of 'how do I work in this linux based computer lab', not 'how do I learn everything there is to know about linux'.
Though the majority of the people here are flabbergasted that those in a CS class haven't touched linux already, it is a different time. Keep in mind, those same people haven't touched VMS . . or punchcards. A brief history
but chris taylors' thesis [http] is something i give to unix neophytes who might be interested in learning more about unix and vi.
it either scares them away, or draws them in, but that's up to them to figure that out, evangelism will eventually just wear you out.
IMHO taylors' writing style is amusing and might keep a reader engaged. even though it is unix agnostic i think the ability to speak to the uninitiated and offer them a quick stepping stone document without being overly cryptic or aloof is more helpful the
He is a C.S. student teaching a freshman lab; nothing in his post indicates that the freshmen in question are C.S. students. In fact, since they're freshmen it's pretty likely they're undeclared. Yet already we see tons of condescending answers that are based on the assumption that this is a C.S. class.
Don't. That's what my school did, and it's very representative of the kind of help they'll get online. Have you ever tried to get help in a linux IRC channel? You're more likely to win the lottery and never have to use linux anyway.
Hopefully, at this point they can figure out how to use a GUI by trial and error. I would introduce them to the customizability not available on Windows with being able to choose Gnome, KDE, Unity, Avant Window Navigator, etc. Also little niceties like middle click pasting, multiple desktops, and focus follows mouse that they may have never seen.
Since they are CS students, I would also cover the basics of developing on Linux that may be unfamiliar:
Basically, cover enough so when a professor gives them a programming assignment in subsequent semesters, they should be able to focus on the code more than the operating system. A typical assignment toward the end of the class would reflect mastery of the development environment but require little programming expertise, something like "create a
Give them a box of computer parts and a printed copy of linuxfromscratch.org and tell them their grade for the class is going to be the one displayed on a web page served by apache under Linux installed on the machine they assemble from those parts by the end of the semester. Best class they'll ever take on Linux.
I used to teach Linux, a few years back, in TAFE (provides further education in Australia, from high school, but not to the level of universities).
I created all the coursework myself. If it helps, below is my lesson outline. I designed it to be generic Linux for the most part, but when I get specific, I concentrated on RedHat. At the time, that was the Linux distribution that most people were aware of. If I was doing it today, I would probably go for Ubuntu.
Week 1
Introduction to Linux
A brief history of Unix
How Unix is organised
Features of Unix/Linux
Week 2
Installation of Linux
Steps to installing Red Hat on your computer
Week 3
The Linux Console
An Introduction to the Shell
Basic Linux commands
Shutting down the system
Week 4
Managing Files
The Linux Directory structure
Week 5
Redirecting I/O
Basic Regular Expressions
Unix Permissions and Attributes
Week 6
Using VI
Linux Kernel Modules
Week 7
Unix Shell Scripts
Scheduling and Cron
Week 8
Adding and Removing Users and Groups
Managing devices and Mounting Filesystems
Week 9
Mid-semester Lab Test
Week 10
Managing Processes
The Unix boot process
Week 11
Setting up a Linux Printer
Using a Linux Printer
Week 12
Linux Networking
Week 13
Unix Network Services
FTP and Telnet
Week 14
Linux Network Filtering
Week 15
RedHat RPM
Week 16
Week 17
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Local businesses are showing off all terrain vehicles, power tools, bikes and other gadgets all weekend at the Eau Claire County Expo Center.
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Chelsea and Manchester City transfer target Radamel Falcao has revealed he's happy at Atletico Madrid, striking a blow to the hopes of the Premier League pair who had hoped to sign him in January, according to talkSPORT.
The £40m-rated La Liga star has been linked with a move to Chelsea and Manchester City, as well as across town to Real Madrid, but the Colombian international has insisted he's happy to stay put at the Vicente Calderon.
Falcao continued his incredible start to the season, hitting five goals past Deportivo La Coruna at the weekend, as Atletico Madrid beat the bottom-of-the-table club to remain second in the league, six points behind Barcelona.
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"I am enjoying myself here," said Falcao. "I have a three-year contract at Atletico. I dreamed of doing this, but I didn't know if I could. It has exceeded my expectations.
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The surviving suspect in the Boston bombings has told investigators that he and his brother were inspired partly by watching online videos of a radical Muslim cleric who was killed by the U.S. in 2011, a U.S. official said, offering a new glimpse of the brothers' alleged radical turn that echoes earlier terrorism cases.
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The Mint of Poland offers a series of collector coins dedicated to the exceptional Tsar's Fabergé Eggs. These absolute jewellery masterpieces symbolize extravagance and luxury. Designed by Peter Carl Fabergé and his assistants for the Russian tsars, Alexander III and Nicholas II, the eggs were made of gold and silver embellished with enamel and gemstones.
Until now the following coins have been released: the "Coronation Egg", the "Lily of the Valley Egg" the "Clover Leaf Egg", "The Duchess of Marlborough Egg", "the "Pansy Egg" and the "Bay Tree Egg". The forthcoming coin of the collection is the "100th Anniversary of Patriotic War 1812" – inspired by The Napoleonic Egg.
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In a unanimous decision, the Live Oak Planning Commission voted to grant a use permit to construct a new Sikh Temple on the east side of Larkin Avenue just north of the existing Landmark Missionary Baptist Church, following a public hearing on December 20th.
In a unanimous decision, the Live Oak Planning Commission voted to grant a use permit to construct a new Sikh Temple on the east side of Larkin Avenue just north of the existing Landmark Missionary Baptist Church, following a public hearing on December 20th.
Suzanne Writh, of Live Oak, was the only citizen to voice concerns over the project at the meeting. She said she was not opposed to the project itself, but was concerned over traffic and aesthetics. Writh was concerned that the proposed project was not adhering to several city ordinances, including a fencing height requirements, parking issues, and visual massing problems.
City Planner Dennis Cook was able to explain that domes, spires and other similar aesthetics are not required to maintain the 30 foot maximum height requirement currently enforced in residential areas, therefore the additional 20 foot dome, and four smaller domes atop the building, will not be considered in violation of the ordinance. Other issues cited for the project also were explained through allowances in the City's General Plan.
A traffic study was deemed unnecessary by both the state transportation agency, CalTrans, and the city engineer.
The new 28,780 square foot structure will contain a prayer hall, meeting hall, dining hall and a kitchen as well as priest and guest residences. Additionally, the new building will have nearly 300 parking spaces.
Adjustments have been made to keep the Heritage Oaks on the property and create an open space beneath them. Other modifications have been made to ensure orchard parking and a ten foot landscape strip between the parking lot and the neighboring parcel lots.
While the Temple is planned for a property within a residential neighborhood, Cook explained that it is common practice to allow places of worship to be built in residential zones.
He noted that the view is going to change from rural to urban as the property is currently an orchard, but that as the property is zoned as residential, it was only a matter of time before the landscape began to change.
Commissioner Robert Norton noted that the building would be a "welcome addition" as he initiated the motion that led to the unanimous vote. Following the vote, several congratulatory photos were taken amongst the attending residents. The vote is final, unless appealed to the City Council by the end of the month.
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The Amarillo Hockey Association announces the 2012-13 youth ice hockey season through March 31. The ice hockey program ranges from Learn-To-Play programs of up for age 18 and House-Recreational and Travel programs.
First-time ice hockey players get their first three months exempt from House sign-up fees. Registration and cost information is available at www.amarillohockey.com or by calling 806-679-7825.
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Treatment with dexpramipexole – a novel drug believed to prevent dysfunction of mitochondria, the subcellular structures that provide most of a cell's energy – appears to slow symptom progression in the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Promising results of a phase 2 trial of dexpramipexole are receiving advance online publication in Nature Medicine. Some preliminary results of the study were presented at the 2009 International Symposium on ALS/MND and the 2010 American Academy of Neurology annual meeting. "Today there are only two FDA-approved drugs used to treat ALS – riluzole, which extends life about 10 percent, and Nuedexta, which treats the emotional instability that characterizes ALS and other neurological disorders," says Merit Cudkowicz, MD, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Neurology Clinical Trials Unit and ALS Center, lead author of the study. "We need more therapies to slow, halt and ultimately reverse the course of disease and also therapies to treat the symptoms." Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Death of these nerve cells stops the transmission of neural impulses to muscle fibers, leading to weakness, paralysis and usually death from respiratory failure. Mitochondrial dysfunction is among several factors believed to underlie nerve cell death. Initially developed by Knopp Biosciences of Pittsburgh, dexpramipexole appears to protect neurons from mitochondrial dysfunction. Several investigators from Knopp, which sponsored the study reported in the current article, collaborated with Cudkowicz and the Northeast ALS Consortium on the trial. Co-founded and co-directed by Cudkowicz, the Northeast ALS Consortium includes over 100 clinical sites throughout North America that work collaboratively on clinical trials and has established the infrastructure necessarily to quickly and efficiently bring forward new treatments for people with the disorder.The progression of ALS can vary widely, with some patients surviving decades after diagnosis and others dying within a year. Therefore it can be quite challenging to develop phase 2 trials, which need both to test dosage levels and to determine potential effectiveness in small groups of participants over brief periods of time. To meet this challenge, the research team devised a two-stage study. In the first, 102 patients who had recently been diagnosed with ALS were randomized into four groups, receiving oral tablets of either a placebo or dexpramipexole at total daily dosages of either 50, 150 or 300 mg for 12 weeks. When that stage was completed, participants continuing in the trial received placebo only for four weeks and then were re-randomized into two different groups, receiving daily dosages of either 50 or 300 mg of the study drug for 24 weeks. Results of the first stage showed that receiving dexpramipexole appeared to slow the progression of symptoms measured both by the ALS Functional Rating Scale and by pulmonary capacity. The protective effect was greatest in the 300 mg group – in whom symptom progression was approximately 30 percent slower than in the placebo group – and little effect was seen in those receiving 50 mg. The second stage had similar results, with slower disease progression and a reduced risk of death in participants receiving the higher dosage. While results were not generally statistically significant, due to the small size and short duration of the study, all data trends were dose responsive. "Since individual participants could have been in different treatment groups in the first and second stages of the study, seeing the same dose-dependent differences at both stages gives us confidence in the data. In a way, this was two supportive studies in one trial design," says Cudkowicz. "Confirmation of these findings in the phase 3 clinical trial, which is currently ongoing, would give us even more confidence in this study design for phase 2 testing in ALS. We hope that adding this drug to the approved treatments for ALS would give patients a chance to stay healthier longer, with slower decline of function and increased survival." Cudkowicz is the Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. The phase 3 clinical trial – sponsored by Biogen Idec, which has licensed development and commercialization of dexpramipexole from Knopp – began earlier this year and has completed enrollment at locations around the world. 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I use this command (PS1) to show a list bash prompt's special characters. I tested it against A flavor of Red Hat Linux and Mac OS X Show Sample Output
Although Exim will purge frozen (undeliverable) messages over time, the command "exim -Mrm #id#" where #id# is a particular message ID will purge a message immediately. Being lazy, I don't want to type the command for each frozen message, so I wrote the one-liner to do it for me.
combines mkdir and cd added quotes around $_, thanx to flatcap! Show Sample Output
With counter format [001, 002, ..., 999] , nice with pictures or wallpapers collections.
Recursively rename .JPG to .jpg using standard find and mv. It's generally better to use a standard tool if doing so is not much more difficult.
In bash, by pressing ALT+n and then a character x, x will be printed n times I know is not the same as the original command, but is correlated. Show Sample Output
sed already has an option for editing files in place and making backup copies of the old file. -i will edit a file in place and if you give it an argument, it will make a backup file using that string as an extension.
how to finish command or script without any output Show Sample Output
Quick and easy way to find out which php.ini file is being used. Especially useful if you just need to find the location of the file for editing purposes. Show Sample Output
A really fun vim oneliner for auto documenting your option's parsing in your script. # print the text embeded in the case that parse options from command line. # the block is matched with the marker 'CommandParse' in comment, until 'esac' extract_cmdl_options() { # use vim for parsing: # 1st grep the case block and copy in register @p + unindent in the buffer of the file itself # 2nd filter lines which start with --opt or +opt and keep comment on hte following lines until an empty line # 3rd discard changes in the buffer and quit vim -n -es -c 'g/# CommandParse/+2,/^\s\+esac/-1 d p | % d | put p | % -c 'g/^\([-+]\+[^)]\+\))/,/^\(\s\+[^- \t#]\|^$\)/-1 p' \ -c 'q!' $0 } example code:http://snipplr.com/view/25059/display-embeded-comments-for-every-opt-usefull-for-auto-documenting-your-script/ Show Sample Output
Manpages, command summaries, and pretty much everything else usually have the information you're most likely to want at the beginning. Seeing just the last 40 or so lines of options from a command that has 100 is not super useful, and having to scroll up each time you want to glance at something is spastic.
Run this and then do something like
p do vi --help
and you'll get the first screen(-mostly-)full of vi's usage info and options list
Then use
p d
to page down, and
p u
to page up.
To see the current page again:
p r
Also useful for situations like
p do aptitude search ~dsmorgasbord
p next
#p sudo aptitude -r install libwickedawesome-perl-snoochieboochies
p next
p sudo aptitude -r install libwickedawesome-perl-snoochieboochies snazztasticorama-dev-v0.∞
where you're using readline up-arrow, HOME, END, etc., to quickly recall commented commands.
For the unaware, that option to aptitude search will bring up all of the packages whose descriptions contain the string "smorgasbord". Depending on your distro, there could potentially be hundreds of them.
Displays a scrolling banner which loops until you hit Ctrl-C to terminate it. Make sure you finish your banner message with a space so it will loop nicely.
If you have some drive imaging to do, you can boot into any liveCD and use a commodity machine. The drives will be written in parallel.
To improve efficiency, specify a larger block size in dd:
dd if=/dev/sda bs=64k | tee >(dd of=/dev/sdb bs=64k) | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=64k
To image more drives , insert them as additional arguments to tee:
dd if=/dev/sda | tee >(dd of=/dev/sdb) >(dd of=/dev/sdc) >(dd of=/dev/sdd) | dd of=/dev/sde
Hi glaudiston, you can save a few chars by leaving out cat and pipe and still enjoy the added flexibility.
Execute this in the root of your music library and this recurses through the directories and normalizes each folder containing mp3s as a batch. This assumes those folders hold an album each. The command "normalize-audio" may go by "normalize" on some systems.
This version uses host and no ruby.
If you are interested in interfaces other than eth0 you will need to change eth0 to your interface name. You could use this mammoth to nab the ip4 addresses of all your interfaces perl -e '@_=`ifconfig -a`; sort(@_); foreach(@_) { /(inet addr\:)(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+ )/; $_=$2; @uniq=grep($_ ne $prev && (($prev) = $_), @_);} print join "\n",@uniq,"\n"; ' it seems silly to have all this code when the following will work fine ifconfig -a | grep "inet " | awk -F":" ' { print $2 } ' | cut -d " " -f1 Show Sample Output
Same thing just a different way to get there. You will need lynx
You can use [n]> combined with >(cmd) to attach the various output file descriptors to be the input of different commands.
if you still get a permissions error using sudo, then nano the file: sudo nano -w /sys/block/sdb/queue/rotational and change 1 to 0 this thread: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=369836&postcount=15 says that this will "help the block layer to optimize a few decisions"
The iostat command is used for monitoring system input/output device loading by observing the time the devices are active in relation to their average transfer rates. in ubuntu to get the iostat program do this: sudo apt-get install sysstat i found this command here: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54379 Show Sample Output
commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.
grab all commandlinefu shell functions into a single file, suitable for sourcing.
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Show bash's function definitions you defined in .bash_profile or .bashrc
haivu 5
NICs, IPs, and Mac
leprasmurf 1
Preserve colors when piping tree to less
rkulla 7
Print a list of standard error codes and descriptions.
voidpointer 15
Backup entire system through SSH
strzel_a 5
Given process ID print its environment variables
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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
indexsmithy 1
List of services sorted by boot order in Redhat-based systems
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Stuff for the Teen Age 2009
Stuff for the Teen Age 2009 marks the 80th anniversary of The New York Public Library's list of the best books, music, movies and video games for teens.
Kudos to the Stuff for the Teen Age 2009 review team: Megan Honig; Beryl Eber; Joanne Rosario; Julie Row; Johanna Lewis; Shauntee Burns; Andrea Lipinski; Cara Kinsey; Jonathan Vargas; Marie Hansen; Emily Valente; Robyn Zaneski; Jack Martin; Chris Shoemaker; and Jeanne Lamb.
Special thanks to library staff and Teen Advisory Groups who participated in the videos. Thanks also to Anne Rouyer, Tompkins Square Branch; Ignayra Ramos, Grand Concourse Branch; Marie Hansen, Jefferson Market Branch; Sarah Couri, Teen Central; and Thomas Knowlton, Tremont Branch.
Assistance also provided by the Young Adult Programming team: Louise Stamp; Iris Holt; and Grisel Romero.
Artwork by Ivan Velez, with help from teens at the Wakefield Branch.
Teen videos filmed and edited by Chris Shoemaker. Additional footage and animation by James Murdock.


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The Giants got run over in Atlanta last weekend, dropping them from the lead in the NFC East and touching off a lot of discussion about the way they rallied back from a bad Week 15 loss last year to win the Super Bowl.
Some Giants players said that experience stopped them from worrying too much about the loss to the Falcons because they've seen the team respond with their backs against the wall in the past. That doesn't sit right with defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul.
"I don't want to hear that," Pierre-Paul said, via Tom Rock of Newsday. "To me that's all bullcrap. Know what I mean? Yeah we have done it before but this is a whole other year. Each year is a totally different year. You don't have the same guys on the team as last year, who knows who is going to be here next year. Right now we can do it for now and that is what we have to do."
While it would be silly to count the Giants out of anything while they still hold control of their playoff destiny, Pierre-Paul is exactly right. The sequence of events that led the Giants to a title last year (or in 2007, for that matter) were unique to that year and it would be beyond foolish to assume things will just fall into place again.


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"It's a very simple game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains." (Bull Durham)
Monday, January 17, 2011
Whoops, There Goes Another Ace
Heyman tweeted before the deal that the Pirates were one of the teams still actively seeking pitching. Hey, Aaron Heilman is still available!
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Pavano an ace? Really?
- January 18, 2011 at 6:04 PM
- Ron Ieraci said...
Yah, anon, that was kinda noticeable in Heyman's story. Still, he was - still is, for a bit - the closest thing to a top-end guy left on the market.
- January 18, 2011 at 6:39 PM
- WilliamJPellas said...
If Pavano were a year or two younger I'd be on board with going after him. Now, though, he's borderline. He should still have a couple of solid seasons left, but he never was a power pitcher and he misses fewer bats now than he did in his prime. I think he and the Pirates are better off having him sign with a contender like the Twins. Veteran savvy probably goes a longer way with them than it would here in Pittsburgh, at least at this point in time with the team we figure to have for another year or two. Mind you, it would be nice to get a still-productive-if-no-longer-elite veteran starting pitcher to chew innings and lead the staff, but Pavano is too expensive at his age for that role.
Meanwhile, there are still a handful of low risk, high reward guys kicking around who could pay off big if they can get healthy. Brandon Webb is gone, but isn't Duchscherer still unsigned?
- January 20, 2011 at 2:25 PM


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Umbridge laughed a soft girlish laugh that made Harry want to attack her. She leaned forward over the barrier, the better to observe her victim, and something gold swung forward too, and dangled over the void: the locket.
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There's not much to say other than Ozruk, body-breaker incarnate of the Stonecore, has got some beats he wants to share. I absolutely love boss remixes and cannot wait what this new expansion brings in terms of entertaining songs from the WoW machinima and remix communities.
WoW remixes and songs sometimes have a very powerful effect on me. I've never been a huge fan of the draenei, for instance, until Greyfoo's awesome Exodar Disco, which made me appreciate the race somehow. MrVoletron constantly amazed me with his collection of hits, most notably my favorites "U Face Jaraxxus" and "Bad Girls." There's something about crafting music that makes me appreciate the game even more, especially what all of these creative minds do when they get hold of the game's sound files.
Ozruk has laid down the first mad beats of the expansion. The best part is that it only gets better from here.
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Tottenham are without midfielder Sandro for the visit of Manchester United after he suffered a serious knee injury in the draw at QPR last weekend which required him to undergo surgery.
Also out with a knee problem is long-term absentee Younes Kaboul, while William Gallas remains sidelined with a calf injury.
Emmanuel Adebayor is missing for Andre Villas-Boas' side as he is representing Togo at the African Cup of Nations. Manchester United are missing Darren Fletcher for the trip to White Hart Lane after it was revealed this week he will miss the remainder of the season with an ongoing bowel condition.
Nemanja Vidic and Jonny Evans could both return from concussion and a hamstring injury respectively. Ashley Young could miss out after picking up a knee injury in last weekend's victory over Liverpool.
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I-65 re-opened after fatal crash near Roselawn, IN
State Police in northwest Indiana report I-65 traffic is flowing again after a 3-vehicle crash killed two people Thursday night in Jasper County.
Two semi trucks and a jeep were involved. State Police say is happened just before 10 pm north of the DeMotte/Roselawn exit. A semi truck pulling a box trailer and a Jeep stopped on the interstate as both drivers approached a work zone. That's when another semi, also pulling a box trailer, rear-ended the Jeep. The collision pushed the Jeep into the back of the first semi.
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Have you seen the bumper sticker, "I was rescued by my rescued dog?" Neither have I, but I'm keeping my eye out.
I have from reliable source that it's out there. It seems to me the Humane Society should use that phrase in a fundraiser. Maybe they already do. I'd be willing to lend them a photo of our pooch who, as my husband put it at the time, "won the lottery" when he left that Human Society sick bay and came to live with us.
You may remember Toby. I've written about this dog before — cute, but in a bad-hair-day way. I've used the word "neurotic" to describe him, but that may be under-reporting.
Here's the relevant moment in this particular Toby story. My husband and I are taking a lovely afternoon walk with "our" dog when a complete stranger comes up to us and asks, "Is that the dog that refuses to walk on wooden floors?"
I tell the observant woman, "Well, Toby will occasionally walk across a wooden surface on his tippy-toes." My hubby groans.
Toby is in the proverbial dog house with "our" husband right now, so I thought I would write a column about Toby's most endearing attributes and try to get things back on track. For example, a dog on tippy-toes; now that's pretty darn cute.
Repositioning Toby more positively is difficult. His out-of-the-ordinary behaviors are intensifying. For instance, he would not eat at all for a very long time, and when he started again, he'd eat only eggs (well-scrambled and cooled; no salt). We went through a lot of eggs. But he tired of eggs and now eats only if his glass plate (my mother's china) contains Newman's Own organic turkey and brown rice blend, cut into very small chunks and laid around the plate in a circular fashion with at least one inch separating each piece. And lately he'll eat only if the plate is held up close to his face at a 45-degree angle so he can lick uphill. He has a very small mouth, you see.
But out of that small mouth come the sharpest, most irritating barks. Lately, the slightest outside noise, or a sense that a visitor is within 20 feet of the house, makes him go into near-convulsive barking. Now you see why my husband is upset.
If you're a hearing-aid wearer, you know that high-pitched sounds (or crinkling paper) are almost painful. I know that because I wear my hearing aids. My husband does not wear his hearing aids very often — well, to be truthful, my husband does not wear them at all. And when he sees me cringe at Toby's barking, he probably never will. Not good.
When I've written about Toby before, I've received ideas about managing specific behaviors. I welcome more.
Yes, we have a citronella bark collar. We've explored "dog shrinks." Yes, I've used massage (on both my spouse and the dog). We're consistent, for the most part, in how we relate to this dog. OK, my husband is. I'm fairly random.
Just let your creative juices flow on this problem if you have the time — any ideas? Think of it as a holiday gift to the woman who writes columns about her dog all the time. Think of it as marital counseling.
Sharon Johnson is a retired Oregon State University associate professor emeritus.
Wanted: Ideas to help manage a neurotic, barking dog
Have you seen the bumper sticker, "I was rescued by my rescued dog?" Neither have I, but I'm keeping my eye out.


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LOWELL -- Ending several weeks of speculation, state Sen. Eileen Donoghue said Wednesday she will not be a candidate for the Lowell city manager's job.
While many lobbied Donoghue to apply, and while the Lowell resident, 59, views the position as appealing, her heavy involvement in several state and district issues have prompted her to seek re-election.
While many political observers said Donoghue would have been a strong contender in the manager sweepstakes, her decision to pass on applying hardly constitutes a surprise.
"I believe I can do a better job for the city and the district's other communities as a state senator," said Donoghue. "I'm getting traction on some issues and want to see them through."
Besides Lowell, the district includes Dunstable, Groton, Pepperell, Tyngsboro and Westford. Donoghue will seek re-election to her third term in November. To date, no challengers have come forward.
Among the projects Donoghue is either leading or is involved with include bringing the summer Olympics to Boston in 2024. Even if the effort ultimately proves unsuccessful, planning now being conducted by a special commission could be used to help meet the region's housing, infrastructure and transportation needs in future years. A bill Donoghue filed created the commission, of which she's a member.
Donoghue has also been involved in efforts to address rising and unsustainable levels of student debt; small business assistance; and the importance of travel and tourism to the state's economy.
Closer to home, Donoghue has worked to ensure the region gets a new judicial center -- to be built in Lowell near the Lord Overpass -- plus a $15 million facelift to the Lord Overpass itself.
Donoghue's stature in the 40-member body is also on the rise. At least four senators have said they will not seek re-election this fall. Included among them are Senate President Theresa Murray and 2nd Essex Middlesex Sen. Barry Finegold. Finegold, an Andover Democrat whose district includes Dracut and Tewksbury, is running for state treasurer.
With Murray's decision, the incoming president is Stanley Rosenberg. Rosenberg represents 24 communities in Franklin, Hampshire and Worcester counties. He and Donoghue get along well.
City Manager Bernie Lynch, after nearly eight years at the helm, is resigning March 10. Candidates have until Feb. 28 at 5 p.m. to apply. The city has received about 12 applications. State Rep. Kevin Murphy, a Lowell Democrat, is expected to be a candidate.
Another Lowell Democrat, Rep. Thomas Golden, said last week he would not apply and seek re-election on the fall.
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Advisory Opinions
Reporting Entertainment Expenditures When a Lobbyist Registers Both as a Compensated and an Employer Lobbyist
Indiana Lobby Registration Commission
(Ratification vote taken at public meeting of June 2, 1998)
Chairman Bepko - yes
Vice-Chairman Krahulik - yes
Commissioner Abbs - yes
Commissioner Hicks - yes
Questions and written comments may be directed to:
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A lobbyist who registers both as an employer and as a compensated lobbyist should report entertainment expenditures on the lobbyist's compensated lobbyist report, to the extent the lobbyist has been reimbursed by employer clients for the expenditures. The lobbyist may, if necessary, pro-rate the entertainment expenditures among the clients on whose behalf the entertainment expenditures were made.
Lobby firm "A" has 5 clients. A spends $250.00 entertaining a legislator and lobbying on behalf of those 5 clients. A registers both as an employer and as a compensated lobbyist. A should report the entertainment expenditures on A's compensated lobbyist activity report and A may, if necessary, pro-rate the expenditure among the clients on whose behalf the entertainment expenditures were made.
Both employer and compensated lobbyists are subject to the same activity reporting requirements. I.C. 2-7-3-3. Thus, to the extent an employer lobbyist has reported an expenditure made to a compensated lobbyist, it would be double reporting to require for another employer lobbyist to report that same expenditure as an employer lobbyist expenditure.
The compensated lobbyist who also reports as an employer lobbyist is susceptible to such double reporting problems. Therefore, if a compensated lobbyist also registers as an employer lobbyist, it is unnecessary for the compensated lobbyist to report expenditures made on behalf of its clients on the employer lobbyist activity report of the compensated lobbyist if the compensated lobbyist's employer lobbyist client has already reported the expenditure.
However, the compensated lobbyist must report the expenditures on the compensated lobbyist report and may, if necessary, may pro-rate the expenditure among the clients on whose behalf the lobbying was performed. The compensated lobbyist activity report contains a back out line which allows the compensated lobbyist to subtract from the total lobbying expenses figure any amounts which have been reimbursed by clients. Double reporting is therefore avoided, while substantial disclosure of expenditures is accomplished.
The new activity reporting form, effective July 1998, will clarify this issue further because compensated and employer lobbyists will be completing the same activity report.