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The Lion King
Disney's "The Lion King" roars into Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center. The production is nothing short of spectacular; an endless feast for the senses that can only be described as unparalleled, unbridled, and magnificent.
I must admit that despite the fact that this award-winning musical has been in New York for over 15 years and traveling the world for over 10, this is my first time seeing it. I was captivated from the moment the puppet-tronic elephants and giraffes made their way onto the stage during the moving "Circle of Life" to the thrilling "King of Pride Rock," two and a half hours later.
As the stage adaptation of one of Disney's most popular movies, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone not familiar with the story. Simba, the future king, is betrayed by his uncle Scar only to reclaim his throne years later, fortified by his relationship with his adorable friends Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog.
But when a story is this familiar, one does not necessarily attend the performance to be moved by the story. Instead, one attends out of sheer curiosity to see how they managed to adapt a hugely popular cartoon into a theatrical production. In this regard, Disney does not disappoint on any level.
Although the performances were outstanding (more on this below), this production is unlike any other on the Broadway series as the stars of the show are not the performers, but the set, the lights, and Julie Taymor's awe-inspiring costume creations.
Her genius is evident not only in her ability to bring cartoon characters to life, but doing so in a manner that permits the viewer to forget that there are, in fact, humans controlling those puppets. Ms. Taymor is both costume-designer and director, which gives her almost total control over what proves to be a jaw-dropping spectacle of theatricality.
The rest of the creative team fuses their singular visions flawlessly and beautifully. Richard Hudson's set design effortlessly transports the actors (and the audience) to a world where nature is both judge and jury.
Donald Holder's fantastic lighting design may as well be listed among the list of characters as it adds a magical, almost surreal element that takes on a life of its own.
Garth Fagan's stirring choreography, an African-inspired ballet, is the glue that perfectly binds the story, the costumes, the set, and every other visual element. The fact that the music and lyrics were written by legends Elton John and Tim Rice does not hurt either. Be warned, you will find yourself humming and/or singing their songs days after you leave the theater.
The movie's many memorable characters are brought to life by a highly talented cast. Buyi Zama's Rafiki and Dionne Randolph's Mufasa both deliver powerful, memorable performances accentuated by superb voices perfectly at home on a Broadway stage.
Nick Cordileone's Timon and his pal, Ben Lipitz's Pumbaa can border on the campy at times but do provide most of the laughs and their genuine chemistry is visible from the moment they step on stage.
J. Anthony Crane is as deliciously evil as Scar as the Young Simba and Young Nala are endearing. Zazu, the witty, quirky red-billed hornbill is cleverly voiced and marionetted by Mark David Kaplan whose comic timing kept many of us in stitches. Jelany Remy and Syndee Winters as the older Simba and Nala are authentic and gifted triple-threats with dazzling futures ahead of them.
The only negative of the night was the sound system. Some of the performers' best lyrics were lost or simply overwhelmed by the music and/or the natural noises dancers must make as they move about the stage.
This is, of course, a condemnation of the space (the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House), and not of the performance or the performers. Luckily, the songs are so familiar to audiences that they will not mind the occasional muffed lyric here and there.
On the whole, "The Lion King" experience is one that will not soon be forgotten. The evening is an exquisite combination of powerful performances with visual artistry that is unique, highly sophisticated, and yet refreshing all at once.
The production's remarkable tapestry, story and music will transport the six-year-olds in the audience to a far-away mystical land where lions rule and, interestingly enough, make the rest of us wish we were six again (if only to enjoy the wonder of it all through the eyes of a child).
"The Lion King" runs through June 10 at the Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. For info or tickets call 305-949-6722 or visit www.arshtcenter.org


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VanEtten leads way with 79, 82
GULF SHORES, Ala. – Tennessee Tech's women's golf team moved up two spots from ninth to seventh place in the second and final round of the UAB Fall Beach Blast on Tuesday, wrapping up their fall season.
The Golden Eagles were originally listed at 340 after Monday's opening round, but actually shot 333 after Amanda Randolph's score was substituted for that of Maddi Everts, who withdrew from the tournament. Randolph was originally playing as an individual.
Tech again posted a 333 on Tuesday for a final score of 666, finishing in seventh out of 11 teams in the tournament, which was held at Peninsula Golf Club.
Brandy VanEtten led the Golden Eagles over two rounds, shooting a first-round 79 and following it up with an 82 on Tuesday. Katherine Bell was the second-lowest Tech finisher and had the lowest second round, shooting an 80 to follow up a first-round 86. Amber Shepherd came in one stroke behind Bell, posting a 81-86=167. Amanda Randolph (87-85=172) and Katy Beth Glover (94-92=186) rounded out the Tech contingent.
Memphis claimed the championship, shooting a final-round 303 to go with Monday's 300 for a total of 603. Southern Mississippi finished 27 strokes back of the champion Tigers in second place with a score of 630. The rest of the top five consisted of UAB at 632, Belmont at 644 and West Florida at 661. The rests of the field consisted of Texas-Pan American (665), Tennessee Tech (666), Marshall (675), South Dakota (678), North Dakota (680) and Austin Peay (681).
The individual title was captured by Memphis' Kathleen Glavin, who shot 72 in the first round and 76 in the second for a combined 148.


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Try http://www.freebsd.org/~3d/ [freebsd.org]
It's a few days out of date (No 3.3.5 yet), but I'm sure the avid gamers will figure it out... Or look at http://glx.on.openprojects.net/ [openprojects.net]
Like most third party software, the source code used for FreeBSD (the other BSD's) and Linux is the same, and so the feature set is pretty much the same.
I'm sorry, but `my' definition is the standard, accepted definition of an operating system in computer science.
Funny, when I was in school, I seem to remember people including more than just kernel-mode code - in particular, one operating system partially developed at the school where I went, namely Multics [multicians.org], had very little code running in "kernel mode" (called "master mode" on the GE 6xx machines and their Honeywell successors) - most of it ran in "slave mode", with some running in "ring 0" (no, this was not an x86 processor, so "ring 0" was not equivalent to master mode - even in ring 0 you couldn't execute the instructions to e.g. start an I/O operation), some running in "ring 1", and some running in "ring 4", which was the ring in which user-written code mainly ran.
Please show some hard evidence that your definition is "the standard, accepted definition of an operating system in computer science".
...didn't the *bsd flavors of unix had what, 20 years to get their act together and yet let windows and proprietary unix os's come in without a care in the world
20 years ago, you had to get a license from AT&T to get BSD, as large parts of the code in BSD were based on AT&T UNIX code that hadn't been replaced. They weren't out for World Domination at that point - but, then, Linus Torvalds wasn't our for World Domination when he started working on his kernel, either, as far as I know....
and now the *bsd hackers are pissed at linux users and the whole computer world for ignoring them.
There may well be *BSD hackers who are pissed at Linux users and the whole computer world for appearing to ignore them, but
They screwed up bad on marketing it, selling it, creating hype about it, and giving it to users.
To what extent did the Linux community "market it, sell it, and create hype about it"? And where did the "marketing, selling, and hype" about Linux come from? I'm not sure it all came from "the Linux hackers".
Linus invented linux because he couldn't get a unix os for his 386 pc. freebsd either couldn't run on it or it was accessible at the time.
FreeBSD (and the other freely-available BSDs) have always run on PCs, as I think FreeBSD and NetBSD both came from 386BSD which was a port of Net-2 to, err, umm, the PC.
IF I am correct (I could be wrong). The group of *bsd hackers bickered among themselves and fragmented and made a terrible mistake. THe mistake was it wasn't involved with the IBM pc when it first came out.
The first attempt at a completely-free BSD (with all the AT&T code either replaced or blessed as "OK to give out") was, I think, 386BSD, whence came FreeBSD and NetBSD; the "386" in "386BSD" referred to the 80386, because it was a BSD port to the PC.
The *bsd group didn't let outsiders contribute code so users who wanted a more powerful OS had to buy a separate OS more proprietary OS like sun os, irix, aix. The fragmentation in unix itself began.
"The *bsd group" of those days was the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and they certainly did accept contributions from outsiders. However, not all the stuff Sun, SGI, IBM, etc. did with either AT&T UNIX code or BSD code was necessarily sent back to Berkeley by those companies, and not because the Berkeley folk wouldn't accept it. You can't solely blame Berkeley for the existence of N different flavors of UNIX....
Unix was crazed by the IS departments until the early 1990's when unix completely became fragmented, proprietary, expensive, and unix companies began bickering among themselves
That all happened well before the early 1990's; UNIX was well-fragmented by the mid 1980's, with several different proprietary variants, from vendors who largely sold it on their own boxes rather than on, say, IBM-compatible PCs - UNIXes for PCs had existed for a long time, but I don't know how well IN/ix ran on 8088-based PC's (yes, 8088, the one with segmentation but no memory protection), but I suspect it may not have run well enough to push DOS out of the way, and I suspect the same may have been true of the UNIXes for 286-based PCs, although I think Xenix (yes, the Borg's own UNIX, later handed to SCO) may have had a decent market share for small business computers and the like.
The *bsd crowd ignored bill totally instead of pointing out there fallacies and marketing there OS and they still haven't learned from there mistakes and the source code was still closed and the users ignored average users and were real snotty.
"The *bsd crowd", if by that you mean the folks at Berkeley and their successors on the {Free,Net,Open}BSD projects, weren't spearheading the commercial UNIX movement - as far as I know, they were building free OSes for their own purposes, which I think was largely what the Linux community was also doing when they started.
Guess what! Windows took over everything and NT 3.51 came out next and began to steal the unix market.
Said market was the commercial UNIX market, not the free UNIX "market"....
Linux has buzz
Linux has software companies distributing it; for whatever reason, there's no equivalent of Red Hat or SuSE or Caldera or Pacific HiTech or... filling that role for {Free,Net,Open}BSD (no, Walnut Creek CD-ROM isn't in that position, as far as I know), although there is BSDI selling BSD/OS.
"The *bsd community", if, by that, you mean the developers of {Free,Net,Open}BSD is probably more like the Debian community than like Red Hat or SuSE or... in that regard (although the Debian folk aren't necessarily the official "owners" of all the components that go into their distribution - they're the official source of versions of the kernel, libraries, utilities, etc. that go into a Debian release, but they're not the official home of the Linux kernel or GNU "libc" or...).
Linux said that linux is made up of 30 full time and over 1,000 part time programmers who work on the kernel while freebsd has only 15 guys.
The FreeBSD Core Team [freebsd.org] does have 16 members, but the core team, as the list linked to say, "constitutes the project's ``Board of Directors'', responsible for deciding the project's overall goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the FreeBSD project landscape" - they're not the sole developers of FreeBSD code. The same probably applies to NetBSD and OpenBSD. There are 151 additional "FreeBSD Developers" [freebsd.org] "who have commit privileges and do the engineering work on the FreeBSD source tree", and, according to the Contributing to FreeBSD page in the FreeBSD Handbook [freebsd.org]
Contrary to what some people might also have you believe, you do not need to be a hot-shot programmer or a close personal friend of the FreeBSD core team in order to have your contributions accepted. The FreeBSD Project's development is done by a large and growing number of international contributors whose ages and areas of technical expertise vary greatly, and there is always more work to be done than there are people available to do it.
Again, the same may be true of NetBSD and OpenBSD; I'm less familiar with those projects.
I don't know how many of the core team or the development team work full-time on FreeBSD, so I can't say that FreeBSD has 167 full-time and (some unknown number of) part-time developers (the latter being those who don't have commit privileges but who do contribute code) - and note that this does not say that FreeBSD has more people working on it than are working on Linux systems, as I don't know if those "30 full time people" counts only people working on the kernel or also counts people working on GNU "libc", GNU utilities that aren't also used in the BSDs, etc..
However, it does suggest that "freebsd has only 15 guys" is a big oversimplification.
There could well be more people working on the stuff that goes into a Linux distribution and that doesn't also go into the BSDs or that isn't also available for BSD (people working on XFree86 aren't "Linux developers", as their stuff goes into the BSDs as well, and the folks working on KDE, at least, aren't "Linux developers", either, as binary packages of KDE 1.1.1 are available for FreeBSD and possibly the other BSDs) than are working on FreeBSD, but this doesn't mean that FreeBSD, or any of the other BSDs, are ipso facto doomed.
I believe freebsd had the unix code already and was around over 12 years longer then linux
12 years before today is 1987; FreeBSD didn't exist then, and Linux didn't just show up today, so FreeBSD wasn't around 12 years longer than Linux. Much of the BSD code was around before Linux existed, but much of the GNU and other code that goes into a Linux distribution was around before Linux existed as well, so I'm not sure {Free,Net,Open}BSD had as big a head start as you seem to think (it did have one, as far as I know, but not a 12 year head start).
Win32 is no more an OS than POSIX.
That was the point I was making.
and apt-get install apache is certainly less typing than feeding the whole (sometimes very long and akward) URL to pkg_add on FreeBSD
I may well have typed a full URL to pkg_add once, but, most of the time, I just use the -r flag and give pkg_add the package name.
In short, the operating system is the software that runs in system space (aka kernel space). Anything that runs in user space is, by definition, not a part of the OS.
That may be your definition of OS.
It is not my definition of OS.
Yes, any application running on a system with a UNIX-flavored system call interface and APIs implemented atop that could, in theory, be written solely using system calls by replacing all the non-system-call APIs by reimplementations of those APIs.
so I don't consider "an OS is the software that runs in kernel mode" a particularly useful definition (especially given that there may well be machines that have a more fine-grained privilege level than just kernel vs. user).
I'm not sure what the right definition of "OS" is, but I tend to consider anything that, if removed, would keep the system from running usefully to be part of the OS, which means that, at a minimum, that includes, on a modern UNIX-flavored system, init, the shell that runs the "rc" files, the commands run from the "rc" files as distributed and configured by system installation, and the shared libraries with which those programs are linked - and if that brings in "libc", well, the "libc" in most Linux distributions is either derived from a GNU "libc" or is a GNU "libc", so....
Yes, some of the stuff that falls into that category may also run on other systems, but I don't consider that sufficient reason to consider it "not part of the OS" on a system where it's a standard component of that system - GNU "libc" isn't "part of the OS" if the system has its own "libc", but if the system's "libc" is GNU "libc", I consider that a different matter.
If the kernel is the OS, then I'd appreciate it if you start referring to the "Win32 OS" from now on.
Win32 isn't actually implemented by the NT kernel - the NT kernel implements its own programming interface [sysinternals.com], which is used by the libraries and Win32 subsystem process that implement Win32.
This, arguably, even more strongly emphasizes the point that the OS isn't ipso facto the kernel, if the kernel of some system doesn't directly implement any of its API, unlike UNIX-flavored systems where at least some of the API tends to be direct system calls, even though a lot of it isn't.
may be you'll know about people like Bill Joy and the great work he did on the original AT&T Unix creating the BSD branch, and Kirk McKusik too, he did the FFS, and all worldwide contributors before the Internet that helped to make BSD the best Unix in 1980
Bill Joy and Kirk McKusick were at Berkeley when they did their work, so they're not counterexamples to the allegation that the BSD people didn't accept outside contributions.
Robert Elz of (if I remember correctly) the University of Melbourne may be a better example - he (and perhaps other people there) did the disc quota code that got into 4.2BSD.
SLIP was another external contribution - Rick Adams at Computer Consoles, Inc. did an implementation of the IP-over-serial-lines encapsulation that 3Com's UNET product (a non-BSD-based TCP/IP stack for UNIX) used, as we needed it for a project we were doing at CCI for the US Naval Surface Weapons Center, and sent it back to Berkeley.
e2fs is a great fs but was not adopted by any vendor/project, why?
Vendors didn't want to drop a GPLed file system amidst their non-GPLed software?
A number of vendors have, in a sense, adopted ext2fs - Red Hat, SuSE, Pacific HiTech, Caldera, etc. provide it as part of their operating system offerings.
FreeBSD is more of a standard *NIX, than Linux is.
In what sense?
I was recently informed that Hotmail which is owned by M$ runs FreeBSD. I originaly thought that Hotmail ran Solaris and HP, which was why M$ ported its IE to thoses platforms
I'd not heard that Hotmail ran HP-UX, just a mixture of Solaris and FreeBSD.
I'd also not heard that this had anything whatsoever to do with Microsoft's choice of platforms to which to port IE; the impression I had was that some customers wanted to standardize on one browser for all platforms in the company, including their UNIX boxes, and that they ported IE to the platforms that would help them the most in getting those customers to choose IE.
The choice of platforms probably also depended on the platforms for which Mainsoft's [mainsoft.com] MainWin "Win32-atop-UNIX" platform was available, as that's how they did the port; it doesn't appear to be available on any x86 UNIX, just AIX on RS/6000's, HP-UX on PA-RISC machines, IRIX on SGI MIPS machines, Solaris on SPARC machines, and Digital^H^H^H^H^H^H^HTru64 UNIX on Alpha. Whether this is the result of Microsoft not wanting competition on PCs or not is an interesting question, to which I don't know the answer.
Linux vs. BSD is mostly a matter of taste. And license advocacy.
Even the best version of Linux still seems thrown together compared with BSD. Try "man diff" or "man getyx" on Linux. No answer. Now try it on BSD. Even when Linux doesn't tell you to go blow, it's still inferior. Compare "man 4 tty" on Linux and BSD, for example.
Don't you mean that the documentation is inferior? I agree that Linux' man pages are lacking but that has nothing to do with stability of the OS itself.
Each OS has it's own good and bad sides. FreeBSD is more suited as heavy traffic server, then again Linux is more suited for small businesses, since it is easier to install and easier to configure (in my own humble opinion.
Why can't everyone just get along? It's bad enough that there's so much bickering between *BSD and Linux advocates -- after all it's all Unix.
"The free programs are all variants of the venerable Unix system invented by AT&T Corp. And they aren't just running Yahoo. While Microsoft almost never talks about it, its own Hotmail free e-mail service runs not on its flagship Windows NT but on FreeBSD."
I wouldn't want to talk about either, since when Microsoft first acquired Hotmail, they switched over all the servers to Windows NT. Needless to say, their setup experienced mild "difficulties" as NT tried to handle the all the user load, and failed.. miserably.. After a short period (not short enough for many, I'm sure) they were forced to switch back. And they call their systems "advanced"?
"The Linux saga is already the stuff of modern legend. In 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student in Helsinki, began writing an operating system essentially from scratch so he could have something to use on his home computer. The programs FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, by contrast, are the descendants of code written in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley."
Oh please. No matter how technically accurate or inaccurate the media is, they always leave out some important aspects. I know I sound like a broken record, but I feel as if this is an important issue which needs to be addressed. Is there any way we can let the media know that we have GNU/Linux today because of both the GNU Project and Linus Torvalds, and not just Linus? Public perception is a big deal.. the only thing people listen to are just PR issues, anyway. Any insights on this? I don't believe I've heard of any before.
Ugh. Just killed article window. Too lazy to reopen. Hmm.. "no ego about letting people use their software"? I think I got that right, and it sounds egotistical in and of itself. What, GNU/Linux was all written by just one person? Ha!
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Actually, I was going to mention Java, but even talking about its performance issues these days hurts my head. I mean, for all Sun promised when it originally came out, I think its funny that most people can't think of anything more useful to do with it than slow the loading time of Web pages I visit considerably.
I realize that the chances of a program running on all systems/processors/whatever else isn't the most likely thing in the world to happen, though it would be nice if people diversified just a little bit instead of writing for one specific platform. Reminds me of the argument of producing games for consoles rather than general OSes I was involved with a little while back on the recent PSX 2 delayed again story..
I don't think this is correct. Since you can already take the code and stick it into whatever you want, proprietary or otherwise, there is no reason whatsoever that you could not redistribute it under the GPL. You're not changing the copyright; you're just adding licensing terms, which the BSD license allows you to do.
The biggest obstacle in the past was the advertising clause, but even that is being removed now.
As for why some people think this would be a good idea, this is my guess:
People have many theories as to why Linux has achieved the popularity among users and companies that it has. Usually among these theories is the idea that volunteer programmers are more likely to contribute to a project that forbids the proprietarization of their code than to one that does not. This may or may not be true; it's a tough one to prove.
So, if you buy that theory, the thought goes...by going to the GPL, BSD would lose some hackers (the hard-core BSDL advocates), but pick up more in return. Of course, it's just that a theory, and an untested one at that. I don't really know that things would work out that way. A reasonable counter argument is that there are only so many hackers of the GPL persuasion, and Linux is already using those resources.
My guess is that with the removal of the advertising clause, someone is going to try to start a GPL BSD project. That will be the true test; we'll just see how many developers they pick up, and whether developers are lost from Linux, the BSDs, or neither.
Interested in XFMail? New XFMail home page [slappy.org]
Anyone seen the title of the GNU Project's [gnu.org] Web page lately? What do those first three words say? Let's not confuse the issue.. And as far as "childish whining" goes, I don't see why so many people are so eager to drag Stallman down and kick him a few dozen times or so. Do you honestly believe he hasn't contributed anything to our community?
Now that's the first time in a while I've gotten a really good laugh.. All I can say is that I didn't mean -that- kind of sexy..! *grin*
Allow me to clarify.. I don't care if you call it GNU/Linux. I care about the fact that people say Linus wrote the Linux OS. GNU stuff, Linux, and all that other neat nifty software we love so dear was written by many people all over the world. Linus is sexy, but he isn't -that- damn sexy.
"Lying to get more market share doesn't sound like a very good thing to me. If it takes that to get market share, fuck market share. I'd rather have integrity. That's something Richard M. Stallman has plenty of."
I love everything in that post, but this I feel I must remark upon. Lying to to get market share is the tactic of Microsoft we see quite arguably the most often. Half-truths, outright lies, and other misconceptions aren't what we need. If we want to be different or better, we should follow up on those things with more than just bashing Microsoft. However, if we just want to flex our muscle and crush everything in sight in any way possible, why are we even bothering with what we are doing in the first place? There's more than enough of that to go around..
"When will you *ALL* come to the conclusion that "A rising tide can float all boats", and instead of running about drilling holes in the other boats, agree on what we all can agree on. That OpenSource is good, and getting vendors who wish to run on "OpenSource" OSes should write there code so it can run on *ALL* the OSes. (Hint: Think Linux compatible Binaries. )"
Actually I think the idea of programs that run on all the different free operating systems like Linux, the BSD trio, etc. is a rather critical issue. Of course, I see a growing number of programs that run only on Linux for Intel.. We should all have a choice. We should be able to choose our OS, our hardware, and whatever software we damn well please without being restricted by the first two things we would like to have a choice on. A growing number of people seem to be losing sight of this, however..
Having used both Linux and FreeBSD, they both have there plusses and minuses.
I have found that most Linux distributions are easier to install. The install is rather straight forward. Linux distributions do things like letting the user do the partitioning, and they do not recommend any partitioning schemes.
I have also noticed that Linux and its new spotlight has made the 2.2 kernel series less stable than they should be. There seems to be a public driving force that is causing a need for features and comprimising the stability of the kernel.
FreeBSD does not seem to be suffering from this thou. There install is not that difficult, but it is not as friendly as most Linux distros. There stability has not been comprimised by the need to support new hardware, and all sorts of features.
FreeBSD is more of a standard *NIX, than Linux is. The good part of FreeBSD is that most Linux software has been ported over to FreeBSD. So it is possible to have most of the same software that you have on a Linux box running on your FreeBSD box, should you choose to go that route. This includes Gnome, KDE, Windomaker, and afterstep, and many of there associated programs, as well as many of the other commonly found programs.
FreeBSD does also have a dependancy checking mechanism in there installation, so that dependancy problems can be resolved. This is similar to rpm or deb of Linux.
On another note, I did notice that the article had mentioned that Microsoft was being threatened by the free software. While this may be true, I was recently informed that Hotmail which is owned by M$ runs FreeBSD. I originaly thought that Hotmail ran Solaris and HP, which was why M$ ported its IE to thoses platforms. If Hotmail does run on FreeBSD, then why did M$ not port there IE to that platform instead?
Yeah.. Sure. Well, whatever. There has been free software for a while, yes, but up until now, who has paid attention to any of it? The public? Certainly not. Who's paying attention now, and why? Because of who? Most of us with any sense know the answers to those questions, whether we agree with them or not. It's really no surprise this was an AC post. I'm not sure I agree with the "necessary evil" thing anymore.
Hey, I like this. I might start calling it "Roland the headless Thomson gunner". The only problem is that it's kinda long...
We'd need to get rid of Tux, too. Anybody got a good image of a headless Thomson gunner?
Who says that the new Internet Media isn't changing people's perceptions?
I understand it now. Linus came to the US to take up a career as a Supermodel. It only makes sense, really. He could have worked for Transmeta from Finland, but you have to go to Paris, London, Japan or the US to be a Supermodel!
It seems to me that people here feel they have ownership over these issues and have trouble with other media covering them.
In a way, I can understand. These things are covered much better here. Perhaps some of the mass media could have Slashdot readers/contributors do collaborative articles. This could help fund Slashdot.
I don't have a good idea about such a thing could be organized, but it would be neat.
Then came linux and now the *bsd users have had it and are beginning to come around. I applaud them for selling and marketing and creating hype about there product which is what they should of done 20 years ago.
Ask Linus about this. The reason we couldn't "be" is because BSD was the subject of a lawsuit. I believe Linus can be quoted as saying that if such lawsuit did not exist, neither would Linux.
Linux said that linux is made up of 30 full time and over 1,000 part time programmers who work on the kernel while freebsd has only 15 guys.
More FUD. See the core team list [freebsd.org] and the FreeBSD CVS committers list [freebsd.org]. Both of these groups of people can commit directly to the CVS repository, effecting what people use in FreeBSD directly. No permission from God (Linus) or Co-God (Alan) is necessary under FreeBSD. Additionally, many people use the send-pr facility to submit patches to repair software in FreeBSD. One of the people listed in the core team or committers will then respond, and if it is "OK", the patch supplied is committed (perhaps with modifications) to the source tree.
Also, FreeBSD consists of both userland (/bin,
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
This is a very good point, and one that the BSD zealots often miss.
If companies are going to go open source, they are unlikely to use a BSD-style license, because the *last* thing they want is for some other company to take their code and use it in a proprietary program, as it doesn't generate good PR/goodwill.
So, in at least one way, the GPL makes more sense from a commercial open source standpoint.
You seem to contridict your self in your first and third paragraph. Linux is thrown together
Inaccurate. The GPL does not regulate any kind of "use"; it only regulates distribution. And it seems like they're saying that the use of Linux in a particular piece of hardware would make the hardware itself subject to the GPL. This is too silly to comment on, other than to simply say, "no, it wouldn't." They'd just have to make the source code (along with any modifications thereof) available to customers.
There was a lot of that going around on both sides. For a long time, OpenBSD was fixing security flaws, but putting just `RCS ID Police' in the commit message, to make it hard for NetBSD developers following the commits to see what bugs they'd fixed.
As for the change in NetBSD that, when imported into OpenBSD sources, made OpenBSD fail to compile on Alphas, it was sort of dumb thing to do, yes, but it was quite obvious and simple to fix. What got the OpenBSD users so angry about it was it sat in their code for almost two months without them noticing it, proving that they didn't do any maintenance on the Alpha port.
Why fix it if it ain't broke?
So that's why one of the "CVSmeisters" from the Darwin project is a FreeBSD committer:
Richard Simmons?
If so, I'm aware of the relavent facts and have no need of an instructor. I, for one, am speaking of current events (or reasonable fascimiles thereof), not history. Free software has been around for a very long time. The entire reason why we have the FSF is because we used to have more of it, and for a while we didn't really have much of any.
"Look this is a silly stupid ego issue for Stallman."
This really has nothing to do with the point.
"Does this mean it will benifit linux or the public at large by forcing GNU/Linux down their throughts? No!"
I thought "people deserve to know the truth". Is this a dead concept?
"The myth of Linus and his singlehanded development of the operating system plays an important role in the media recognition of linux. People's imaginations are not fired up by commitees, they are fired up by individuals and strong leaders. There is a reason we consider the president of the US to represent the United States when in reality congress hasmore to do with the present state of the US than the president."
Commitees? Whatever. I don't think we have many things that are quite that formal in our community. Personally, I get fired up over the idea of people from all over the world working together to produce good, quality software without the concept of money driving them. And if you realize that it's silly to focus on the president of the U.S. when the legislature holds more of the real power, why would you try to spread an obviously flawed belief and even focus on it? Ignoring things of this nature only allows the problems we refuse to recognize to remain unattended.. and thus grow worse and spread into other areas.
1. Easy to harden. I have two ports open - X (6000, 6010) and SSH (22). It was very easy to get my box to this stage. Much easier than it was with RH 6.0, which I have also hardened.
2. Easy to upgrade. I have yet to see any tool surpass
3. Easy to play nice with linux. I can run linux binaries without recompiling. What else is there to say?
4. One distribution, great docs, great organization. FreeBSD.org maintains everything I need to deal with regarding the OS in a clear and concise manner. The FreeBSD handbook is available online. I get CD subscriptions multiple times a year, at a good price. I find the linux world of distros rather confusing. FreeBSD makes it easier for me to know the "source of truth".
Bravo to linux folks for making inroads into corporate America, and thanks to FreeBSD for a island of sanity in the OS archipeligo.
This is basically untrue. All four BSDs (including BSDi's BSD/OS) stem from the AT&T Unix sources, Linux was written entirely without access to those sources. It behaves similarly in a lot of ways, but vastly differently in others (arp and routing tables, for instance).The BSD programs and Linux actually share a common lineage, a collective development process and a rambunctious cast of characters.
The free programs are all variants of the venerable Unix system invented by AT&T Corp.
The Linux saga is already the stuff of modern legend. In 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student in Helsinki, began writing an operating system essentially from scratch so he could have something to use on his home computer. The programs FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, by contrast, are the descendants of code written in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley.
Okay, so maybe Theo didn't leave NetBSD under the friendliest of circumstances, but to claim he was "kicked out" isn't really fair. He had disagreements about what the focus of the program should be, so he broke off to pursue the focus he felt was more important. This doesn't make either focus invalid, just points up the fact that you can't have one set of people focusing on both spreading platform support and securing all OS processes. The above comments imply that there's some kind of lasting enmity between the Open- and NetBSD projects, which simply isn't true.OpenBSD was started in 1995 by Theo de Raadt, a mountain biking 31-year-old Canadian after being kicked out of the NetBSD movement.
Perhaps that analogy is relevant here. Linux proponents need to realize that there are many trends, currents, variables, forces at work in the market; more now than in the past 10 years. We all have a very small vote in forming the future. I, for one, cast my small vote for the power of diversity and choice. Read: BSD has a valid role to play and articles which help promote that message to the rest of the world are positive.
It's so much easier to deconstruct than to construct.
FUD, you ask? Yes!
2. Easy to upgrade. I have yet to see any tool surpass
/usr/ports for pure ease of use. apt-get install "insert-name-here" is even easier and faster.
FreeBSD also allows binary package installation.
$ pkg_add ftp//:url_to_package
FreeBSDs package management is great but it is NO match to Debian GNU/Linux. Debian is even easier to upgrade.
1) You don't have to fix
/etc by hand
This is nonsense. Package management has nothing to do with the
2) You don't have to wait for hours for your stuff to compile (apt-get downloads binary packages unless told otherwise)
FreeBSD also has gradual binary upgrades for both the -STABLE and -CURRENT systems known as "snapshots". See ftp://current.freebsd.org [freebsd.org].
3) You have to remake all your ports one by one after upgrading system. On Debian all packages are a part of distribution. If you upgrade system everything is upgraded.
What gives you this idea? I've got a whole lot of ports I've preserved across many dozens of FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT recompiles over several months:
FreeBSD handbook is great, but then most of the major linux distributions(Debian and RedHat) have such handbooks too (usually online too) + a huge collection of online docs at LDP
What's that feature you ask? Well, it's the small part of the user base that constantly has to say "my OS is better than yours."
Each has it's benifits, and among the ones I like best are Red Hat and FreeBSD. Advocating the benifits of one over another is pointless when it will only start a flame war. There is no match for ports in the Linux world, dselect and dpkg are not as tight or relyable or intuitive, and it's not compileing from source allowing complete optimization based on your
The "tightness" and "tweakability" of FreeBSD is very good, and trying to say that Linux is better is shortsighted. Linux has a huge (yet unorginized, and frequently poorly documented) breath of applications that run native, and FreeBSD is still working to cetch up.
Can't we just agree to disagree, and admit there is a great deal of good in both OS's. Start drawing on eachothers strengths, and admit that the interoperability of UNIX in it's many varients is still less fragemented that the Microsoft and Mac world would like us to believe? Or must we continue to drive wedges between diffrent UNIX factions, and fragement ourselfs into oblivion like was done in the past?
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission


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Thomas Petzinger Jr. Presents the Gordon Heffern Business Lecture at Mount Union College
April 06, 2010
'If business equals life, then what does life teach us about business?' asked Thomas Petzinger Jr., co-founder and chief executive officer of LaunchCyte LLC, a Pittsburgh-based biotechnology development company, when he presented The Gordon Heffern Business Ethics Lecture Wednesday at Mount Union College.
During Petzinger's lecture entitled 'The Entrepreneurial Ethic: Why Doing Right Means Doing Well,' Petzinger addressed how specific elements of biological progress relate to business and the economy. The seven elements are efficiency, reciprocity, competition, variety, innovation, learning and self-organization.
'These are inherently ethical activities and are also entrepreneur activities,' Petzinger said. 'When doing well in business, you are doing an ethical act.'
Petzinger showed both biblical and biological evidence to prove each element is related to business and ethics. Innovation, for example, is clearly seen in nature.
'E. coli is innovative,' Petzinger said. 'Like business organizations, it conducts trial and error in its environment and is effective at reproducing, growing and organizing behavior.'
In addition to innovation, Petzinger stressed the biological elements of competition and variety.
'Without competition, we would not have the product quality we have today,' Petzinger said.
Petzinger also said variety goes hand in hand with diversity.
'Diverse perspectives are really good business,' Petzinger said. 'Diverse styles are much more effective at solving problems.'
Petzinger demonstrated how some specific business jargon is rooted from biological terms. For example, organization is closely linked to organism, corporation is related to corporeal and economy steams from ecology.
Therefore Petzinger concluded 'business equals life.'
'If life is sacred and ethical,' Petzinger said, 'Then business is sacred and ethical.'
Petzinger faces ethical issues on a daily basis as an executive vice president of Knopp Neurosciences Inc., a biotechnology company with a mission to accelerate the diagnosis and improve the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often called Lou Gehrig's disease. Ethics matters he confronts include investing in an underserved market, preclinical animal testing and use of placebo controls.
'Ethics may come up every hour in business,' Petzinger said.
Petzinger said when he has to make important ethical decisions, he trusts his intuition.
'Not all the time is the answer completely obvious,' Petzinger said. 'But in the end, the best decision is your gut instinct.'


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LOMBARD — Entering the season, Montini baseball was a team built around pitching, defense and speed.
Hitting has also entered the equation to propel the Broncos to a 10-1 start.
Montini is hitting .344 as a team with a deep lineup anchoring the offense's success. The Broncos have scored double digits in five of their 11 games, including the 13-12 loss to De La Salle back on April 5.
"As a team we're doing frankly much better than we thought we would," said coach Bob Landi. "We've got some really good hitters two through six, but our lineup hits the ball one through nine."
The offense has been the surprise, but the staples remain the same. Landi said the defense is as good as it's been in recent years and the pitching has been as good as expected.
Ben Dobosenski hasn't allowed a run in 16 innings, Chris Bartosz has a 2.50 ERA and junior Tyler Quick has a 1.80 ERA. Relievers Eric and Sean Frontzak have ERAs below one.
"There's been a very strong start for our pitching staff," Landi said.
As well as being the team's top two starting pitchers, seniors Dobosenski and Bartosz are also the top two hitters. Dobosenski is hitting .448 in the three hole and Bartosz is rocking a .533 batting average right behind him in the clean up spot.
Montini is 7-0 in the Suburban Christian Conference and has a number of top Class 4A teams scheduled for later in the season. Highly ranked Lincoln-Way North and Lockport lie ahead. A game with 2012 state runner-up Lyons Township has been postponed twice, including on Wednesday.
The Broncos already matched up with some of these teams in the summer season when Montini made it to state.
"We were sixth in the state during the summer so we thought we had something special for the spring and it's proved out that we have something special in the spring," Landi said.


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Allentown senior centers celebrating National Senior Center Month
September 13, 2011
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has designated September as National Senior Center Month.
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has designated September as National Senior Center Month.
Using the NCOA theme of "It Happens at My Senior Center: My Life, My Time, My Life," Allentown's Hill Top Center, 631 E. Warrington Avenue, and Henry Kaufmann Center, 2201 Salisbury Street, are celebrating all year long.
"We're hoping for increased participation this month and throughout the year by offering more activities, more trips and more fun" According to Cyndie Carioli, services and activities coordinator for Allentown Senior Citizen Centers, Inc., "Senior centers throughout the county are experiencing a decline in participation so "we have to find creative ways to appeal to a variety of ages and interests."
In honor of National Senior Center Month, anyone over 60 who visits either Allentown center will be automatically entered into a free drawing for each visit during the month. Anyone bringing a friend over 60 will get a double entry in the raffle for that day.
"We're trying to entice older adults to support their local senior center. All it takes is one visit or more each month for a free cup of coffee or a free nutritious lunch or participating in one of dozens of free activities and programs," says Ms. Carioli.
On Friday, Sept. 30, each Allentown Senior Center will hold a drawing for a $25 gift card to Shop 'n Save. Seniors do not have to be present to win.
During the month of September, Allentown Senior Centers are offering chair dancing, line dancing, restaurant trips, farm trips, Wii bowling, a Wii exercise program, a birthday party, blood pressure screenings and gerontology counseling. In October they're going to a casino and offering CCAC crafting classes in addition to all of the activities offered in September – and they're all free.
Ms. Carioli encourages older adults to offer up new ideas for activities and programs, "The National Senior Center Month theme of "My Life, My Time, My Way, is meant to support older adults to do it their way at a time that works for them. If we're not doing anything that floats your boat, you can offer up new ideas. I'm open for suggestions."
For more information about National Senior Center Month activities, call the Allentown Senior Center at 412-481-5484.


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Customer The Economic Development Corporation of the City of Lansing (EDC) is a nonprofit organization established in 1976. The EDC's mission is to create quality jobs, diversify the local economy and improve overall quality of life by attracting, expanding and retaining business and industry in the City of Lansing.
Location Lansing, Michigan
Number of people 9 people within two organizations
Sales Rep Contact Information Jeff Allor / Allor & Associates / 313-882-9410
Designer Contact Information Darcy Pace / Pace Howe Design / 517-204-3242
The need
Leading by example, the Lansing Economic Development Corporation (LEDC) located its offices on the first floor commercial space in the historic Arbaugh Department Store building, which it helped incentivize through historic tax credits and other tax abatement programs. The century-old Arbaugh building proudly stands in Washington Square, the heart of the capital's business district. The office relocation project also involved Lansing Principal Shopping District employees, who share office space with the Lansing EDC as a convenience to many common visitors and a smart way to cut operating costs. The architectural plans called for trendy new loft apartments upstairs, while the street-level offices with high ceilings would feature a new open office layout. The open work environment was a 180-degree departure from the previous private office set-up. Both organizations needed new office furniture that would encourage collaboration, as well as project the urban Cool Cities image they promoted every day to attract business to Lansing, Michigan.
izzy's Solution
izzy's open, collaborative furniture and seating products pay tribute to the historic space, with a contemporary tip of the hat to people of today's New Workstyles. Award-winning Calvin and Edison help manage workspace power, privacy and storage. Edison is a metal post and beam structure that distributes power and communications throughout the workspace while supporting accessories and storage units. Calvin mobile tambour-door storage units cozy up to izzy's straight, corner and diamond-shaped Clara work surfaces. Comprised of 50 percent recycled materials, Edison and Calvin are environmentally friendly, sustainable and durable. In addition, Calvin, Edison and all izzyseating products are GREENGUARD Certified for meeting safe indoor air standards. Clara worktables and lateral files with custom granite tops completed the project, providing an unexpected mix of color and material. At the EDC, izzy makes a very cool first impression as a 21st century workspace that's built to last.
Marchelle Smith - Marketing Director, Lansing EDC
"It made economic sense that we locate into a historic building that we helped incentivize. Having large, expansive windows, our offices faces downtown Washington Square and people can't help but look inside our new space every day. Even with this very open space, we needed to be able to interact with others as well as have our own dedicated work areas. The izzy furniture is really clean, very cool looking. It's also very mobile. We've already moved the coat racks and drawers to a new place. We don't have a lot of space - just 2,600 square feet. Even though we share space with another organization, we don't feel closed in. You can still feel the high ceilings and openness. In order to attract new businesses into the City of Lansing and meet with developers to discuss economic development opportunities, it is extremely important to have an environment that makes a great first impression - a high-tech, urban image, because that's who we want to appeal to. All I can say is about the izzy furniture is that it's really cool."
Darcy Pace - Partner, Pace Howe Design
"I knew immediately that izzydesign would be perfect for the Lansing EDC's open plan because of the flexibility of Clara tables, storage and towers. We saw Edison and Calvin at NeoCon in Chicago and liked the industrial, raised metal look. We did not want the traditional fabric office panel. The furniture had to fit the space. The Calvin storage units are very mobile, and people at the Lansing EDC already have started to move them and switch things around. The Clara tables have laminate tops and soft foam edges, which are so comfortable. We put Clara storage units with veneer drawer fronts in two of the private offices. It's a simple way to dress up the same product. We painted the walls orange, green, beige and dark navy blue to punch up the color, which you can see from outside the building. The EDC staff loves the space, and is getting used to the wide, open setting. They certainly can collaborate a lot better now."


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Brown Arrests Former Nursing Home Official Who Kidnapped Alzheimer's Patient and Stole Social Security Checks
Oakland, Calif.—Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that California Department of Justice agents arrested a former nursing home administrator, Concepcion "Connie" Pinco Giron, 51, of San Pablo, who "callously stole" more than $50,000 from six of her elderly patients, one of whom she kidnapped and held for nearly a year in order to take her pension and social security checks.
Giron faces one count each of kidnapping to commit another crime, false imprisonment and elder abuse, and six counts of theft from elder or dependent adults by a caretaker. If convicted, Giron faces up to 12 years in prison. Giron is being held at Alameda County Jail, and bail has been set at $365,000.
"Giron callously stole thousands of dollars from elderly and sick people, even going so far as to kidnap an elderly woman with Alzheimer's and steal the woman's social security checks," Brown said. "This is a shocking case of nursing home abuse and a gross violation of trust."
In August 2009, agents from Brown's Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse (BMFEA) received a complaint against Giron, who at the time was the assistant administrator of Elmwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Berkeley.
Brown's office began an investigation and discovered that Giron had kidnapped an 85 year-old woman with Alzheimer's and moved her from the nursing home to Giron's own home. To kidnap the woman, Giron falsified the discharge paperwork and told her employer that the patient was transferring to a licensed facility. Giron held the victim in her home for almost a year and cashed her monthly pension and social security checks to pay Giron's own bills and rent. The victim, who was not harmed, was later taken to a licensed facility.
As the investigation continued, agents from Brown's office also found that Giron had opened bank accounts for several of her patients and had transferred funds from those accounts into her own bank account. Giron wrote checks to herself from the patients' accounts, used their ATM cards and stole cash from patients' trust accounts that were maintained by the nursing home.
In addition, Giron convinced the son of a full-time patient that he needed to pay an extra $600 a month in cash to keep his mother in the facility. Giron pocketed these payments, which the son made for 18 months.
In total, Giron stole more than $50,000 from six of her elderly patients and their families.
Brown's Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse protects patients in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities from abuse and neglect. The Bureau also investigates and prosecutes those who cheat taxpayers out of millions of dollars each year and divert scarce healthcare resources from the needy.
Last year, Brown's Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse returned more than $12 million to victims of elder abuse and secured 47 criminal convictions in elder abuse cases. Although elder abuse can take many forms, the majority of cases involve abuses at California's skilled nursing facilities. Brown's office uses its civil, administrative and criminal enforcement powers to bring poorly performing care facilities into compliance with federal and state laws.
To report cases of elder abuse, please contact the Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse hotline toll-free at 1-800-722-0432 or visit: http://ag.ca.gov/bmfea/reporting.php.
Copies of the arrest warrant and complaint, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, are attached. The Alameda County District Attorney's Office will prosecute the case against Giron.


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Nokia's 808 PureView Officially the End of the Symbian Line 102
Snirt writes "Symbian is now officially dead, Nokia confirmed today. In the company's earnings announcement that came out a little while ago, Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView, released last year, was the very last device that the company would make on the Symbian platform: 'During our transition to Windows Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian,' the company wrote. 'The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia.'"


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What do if he won't listen to what I say for the baby, if he needs to sleep for example, or if FiL avoids giving the baby back?
If FiL starts moaning about being kept awake at night, I may throw him out. Any ideas how to avoid escalating a mole hill to the height of a space station?
Last one, but one I worry about, what if it gets to the stage where he needs to go, but refuses to leave? I can see me saying, "right, that's enough, this isn't working, please leave." and the response is "no." ...where do i go from there?
OP, as you said forewarned is forearmed. Discuss these scenarios with your DH. Example:You: DH, what will we do if FIL complains about Baby crying?'DH: We will tell him that all babies cry when they need something and if he can't handle that he can go to a hotel.You: What if FIL won't give Baby back?DH: We should tell FIL that we need to feed/change/nap Baby now and he must relinquish him or he can go to an hotelYou: What if FIL is just unbearable and I need him out of our house?DH: I will take care of that. Call me at work and I'll make him go to a hotel.If the two of you present a united front there will be less likely a chance that FIL will overstep.
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Characters in the trial mode limit are limited to level seven, putting a serious crimp on their rampaging and ruling. Warband was originally intended to be an expansion revamping Mount & Blade and introducing multiplayer but become a sequel. Warband can be had for $30 from the usual digital distributors or direct from Taleworlds.
The dedicated server is also up on FileShack, if you fancy hosting your own battles.
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Life in the Solar System III [1]
There's not enough acetylene on the surface of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. While that's probably not enough to get most of us too excited, the possible cause of the missing acetylene could be: life.
Titan is big and cold, and it's surrounded by a thick atmosphere. Liquid methane fills lakes on its surface, and carves rivers and streams.
Over the last few years, scientists have speculated that Titan could host an exotic form of life based on methane instead of water. Not only is methane abundant on Titan, but so is an exotic brew of other organic compounds -- including acetylene.
But observations by the Cassini spacecraft show that there's not as much acetylene as scientists expected. It probably "rains" from clouds on Titan, but once it reaches the surface, it vanishes. A recent study suggests the compound may be gobbled up by microscopic organisms on the surface.
What's more, a second study found that hydrogen seems to be vanishing from the surface, too. A lot of hydrogen flows from the upper atmosphere down to the surface, but it doesn't seem to stay there. The study says that organisms could use the hydrogen the same way that life on Earth uses oxygen.
No one is jumping to any conclusions just yet. Chemical reactions that don't involve life could also explain at least some of what's happening on Titan. But the studies open up the possibility that a new form of life could inhabit this intriguing world.
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Artist one-on-one
Your chance to meet an artist from the 19th Biennale of Sydney
When Juliana Engberg, artistic director, 19th Biennale of Sydney, was researching You Imagine What You Desire, she met face-to-face with artists from around the world to hear their ideas and discuss their practice.
Artist one-on-one gives members of the general public this same opportunity; to meet with an artist, hear their ideas and have an open conversation about their work for about 45 minutes to an hour.
Audiences are invited to express their interest through an online form on the Biennale website, with participants selected via a ballot system and paired randomly with participating artists to meet at a particular time and place.
This program provides opportunities to connect individually with a range of artists, several of whom are displayed in the Biennale exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Thursday 20 March, Friday 21 March 2014
Free, bookings required
Expressions of interest close Saturday 1 March, 5pm
Apply through the Biennale of Sydney website
Duration 5 hours
Related exhibition: 19th Biennale of Sydney
Related program: Contemporary at the Gallery 2014


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Retired funeral director Hart takes away pieces of history with various collections
Lauren M. Wilson - Monday, October 8, 2012 8:31 AM
Originally published Sept. 24, 2012.
The beginning of the 20th century was a turbulent time in the history of the United States.
Many events, including the Great Depression and two world wars, transformed the nation.
Every American takes away a little part of that time and makes it their own, and Morris Hart is no exception.
The retired funeral director collects an array of products from that era, from glassware and pottery to what he calls "shoe knives."
Hart owns more than 500 antique toy tractors, an assortment of American Flyer trains, Tootsie Toys and Danbury Mint model cars. Each of his trinkets came at a price - some costing him just pennies, and some are worth upwards of $3,500.
Of all his collections the most unusual is his collection of three dozen shoe knives.
Hart says the knives were produced in Germany and were sold with handmade shoes at the beginning of the 1900s to allow consumers to "cut the ribbons in the shoebox."
He says most of the knives are black, but he has some colored knives.
The knives are unique in their size and shape. Each knife is small - roughly the size of a pinky finger - and its casing (they resemble a modern pocket knife) is shaped like the woman's or man's shoe it accompanied.
Hart's interest in knives began as a young boy, he says.
He remembers in grade school the boys would "drop knives" - trade knives with other school boys.
"I had a pretty good knife, and I traded it for a knife with a split blade ... I learned right fast not to drop knives," he says with a laugh.
Even after that poor trade, his interest in knives never diminished. Years later, Hart says he bought his first shoe knife at a yard sale from previous owners of the home where he now lives with his wife, Gloria.
Shortly after he found the first shoe knife, he says he remembers his daughter asking him, "Dad, why don't you collect something small?"
So he took interest in the inch-long knives and has since traveled across the Midwest with Gloria looking for additions to his collection.
Hart explains that every year for Father's Day, he and Gloria travel to Iowa to visit his daughter. They make a stop in Walnut, IA, a town that claims to be "A town that measures yesterday's treasures" and was named Iowa's antique city in 1987.
They also frequent antique shops in Michigan and Illinois.
He says he never knows when he is going to find a shoe knife - some stores have several for sale and some have never heard of them.
He recalls a great find at a store in Galena, IL. He says he asked the store clerk if they had any shoe knives for sale, and the clerk invited Hart to take a walk through the store with him. They stopped at a three-ring notebook, the clerk opened it up, and two shoe knives dropped out.
"And that's the fun of collecting," he says with a smile.
And he certainly enjoys it. He has enough display cases and collections to make a visitor think he's in a museum, and he's still collecting.
Hart knows exactly where he bought each of his thousands of his knick-knacks, how much he paid for it and how much it is worth. To tour the space that houses the throng of items, with Hart describing the significance of each piece, takes (at minimum) two hours.
Hart can explain the history of American Flyer trains, and knows that they are wound either by key or electricity, depending on the year of production. He knows that the "key wind" train cars are made of tin, which is light enough for the engine to pull.
He has an assortment of Danbury Mint cars and models, and knows the intricacies of each one - the model, make and year produced.
Auburn Rubber cars and tractors are scattered throughout, and Hart can tell you the significance of each.
Tootsie Toys are also on display throughout his cases - simple little things that are more than 100 years old.
Hart's collection of Oliver antiques includes wrenches, tractors, some of their first ever produced arcade plows, a typewriter - the list goes on and on.
Other collectables such as an outboard motor he describes as "salty, salty," pocket watches, Louis Marx wind-up trains, old tools and wood figures.
But he isn't done yet -Hart also dabbles in his own restoration and building. He restores mechanical toolboxes and constructs homes and toys using intricate woodworking techniques.
"There is nothing he likes better than talking about his toys," says Gloria.
"It's certainly been interesting," he responds.


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This is what improper cleaning can do to a headstone. So before anyone clean a headstone please do a little research first.
Located at Salem Cemetery in Cedarville, AR.
Mary L. Riddle
Aug 9, 1902
Nov 17, 1924
Note: I believe her last name should be Tidwell. She was next to a number of other markers with the last name of Tidwell.
Here is a good article about cleaning from The Association of Gravestone Studies.
"Review and Evaluation of Selected Brand Name Materials for Cleaning Gravestones" by Tracy C. Walther- Architectural Conservator.


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Kenai Peninsula farmers and gardeners are in the early stages of planning a farmer's market at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank.
"Getting the word out is the thing," said Bonnie Miller, food donor coordinator for the Food Bank.
Miller met with nine others from the farming and gardening community Wednesday afternoon at the Food Bank to discuss the potential market's logistics.
The market is still in its early stages, but the Food Bank agreed to host it, she said. The Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District also received a $2,000 grant to broadcast the idea in newspaper and radio ads, Distinct Manager Heidi Chay said.
Judy Fischer, owner of Fischer's Fresh Farm Produce in Kasilof, originally pitched the idea for a centralized market at a January Kenai Chamber of Commerce luncheon. She said the Food Bank would make a great hub for farmers, gardeners and consumers to exchange vegetables and fruits.
"The goal is to provide a variety of produce on a regular basis for local consumers and restaurants," Fischer said.
The market will also supply the Food Bank with surplus food, Miller said. That is a major perk for them, she said.
The two major farmer's markets in the central Peninsula area are the Central Kenai Peninsula Farmer's Market in Soldotna, and the Kenai Saturday Market in Kenai.
But the two markets — about 25 minutes apart — are too spread out, Fischer said. It is inconvenient for farmers and gardeners to get their produce to both markets, and it is too slow for restaurants to get the produce they need, she said.
"This would be the best way to get the most amount of food out with the least amount of waste," she said. "There's so many reasons why this would work well, too."
The Food Bank, she said, located off Kalifornsky Beach Road, has plenty of parking, public bathrooms, an Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation-approved kitchen, a walk-in refrigerator where surplus crops could be stored; and it is close to restaurants in Kenai and Soldotna and the Kenai Peninsula College's dorms.
While the market is only in its early stages, it will have big benefits, said Lydia Clayton, Agriculture and Horticulture Extension Agent for University of Fairbanks' Cooperative Extension Service.
"It will be a place for farmers to interact with consumers and consumers to interact with farmers," Clayton said.
That interaction will strengthen the "farm-to-fork relationship," she said.
"People get to know who is growing their food and, at the same time, have a chance to support their local food in the community," she said.
Farmer's markets in general also pump money into the community, foster healthy eating habits, strengthen an area's food security and give residents a place to gather, she said.
Fischer agreed. The Food Bank farmer's market has a lot of potential, she said.
"We just got to get this ball rolling," she said. "It's very important for all the farmers to get on the same page before we can do this."
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Penn State's LGBTA Student Resource Center holds annual Pride Week events
Penn State's LGBTA Student Resource Center holds annual Pride Week events
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- LGBTA Student Resource Center at Penn State is hosting an array of LGBTA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ally) educational events through Friday, March 28, on the University Park campus of Penn State.
The lineup of events ends Friday with the Pride Ball, a night of dance, food and fun to save young lives. The doors open at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Hetzel Union Building and the event is sponsored by Delta Lambda Phi fraternity with proceeds going to The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention nonprofit.
On March 26, author and keynote speaker Urvashi Vaid presented "The Status Queer: A Critical Look at the LGBT Movement" in the Hetzel Union Building, Freeman Auditorium. Vaid is founder of LPAC, the first lesbian political action committee, which was launched in July 2012. She serves on the board of directors of the Gill Foundation, which is dedicated to achieving equal opportunity for all, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. She is founder of The Vaid Group, a consulting practice that advises individuals and organizations working to achieve social justice in a wide range of fields. For more than 10 years, Vaid worked in various capacities at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF). Visit http://urvashivaid.net to see Vaid's complete bio. Also March 26, the Pride Rally convened on the Old Main steps.
For a full list of Pride Week activities, visit http://www.prideweek.psu.edu/events.shtml.
The LGBTA Student Resource Center can be found on Facebook or Twitter.


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"Game of Thrones" actor Kristian Nairn, who plays the "little lord"-toting Hodor in the lavish HBO fantasy drama, is gay.
Not only that, he's also been waiting a long time for someone to ask him about his sexuality in an interview.
The fan blog Winter Is Coming spoke with the actor ahead of the series' Season 4 premiere on April 6 and specifically addressed Nairn's large gay following among "bears."
"Well, in all honesty, when you talk about 'the gay community,' you are talking about MY community, haha," replied the Northern Irish actor and musician, who also happens to be a DJ.
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"I AM aware of it yeah, and I think it's really lovely. There's not a day that I don't get a few messages, but 99% or more are super sweet and nothing smutty at all! Again, it's a privilege, and I really mean that. I've never hidden my sexuality from anyone, my whole life in fact, and I've been waiting for someone to ask about it in an interview, 'cause it's not something you just blurt out. I've tried to lead the questions a few times, to no avail!"
Though the topic hasn't come up in the past, the actor said he thinks it's important to be out.
"I had an upbringing to respect other people's privacy, and their right to be and choose what they want, and I expect, no, demand no less for myself," he said. "It's a very small part of who I am on the whole, but nonetheless, in this day and age, it's important to stand up and be counted."
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And just for kicks, the hilarious "World of Warcraft" enthusiast would consider giving fans a Hodor-style piggyback ride (among other things) for $150,000.
The actor's revelation comes just as "Game of Thrones" show runners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff confirmed that they know the ending to the TV series, based on George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" book series.
"Last year we went out to Santa Fe for a week to sit down with him [Martin] and just talk through where things are going, because we don't know if we are going to catch up and where exactly that would be," Benioff said in the April issue of Vanity Fair, which boasts breakout stars Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Peter Dinklage on the cover.
"If you know the ending, then you can lay the groundwork for it. And so we want to know how everything ends," Benioff added, saying that they hope the show will run for at least eight seasons. "We want to be able to set things up. So we just sat down with him and literally went through every character."
Still, Martin, who's still writing the penultimate sixth book, "The Winds of Winter," said he isn't giving everything away.
"I can give them the broad strokes of what I intend to write, but the details aren't there yet," he said. "I'm hopeful that I can not let them catch up with me."
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Mack Brown beat Michigan.
Can't be Cooper.
Wait just a second. Yesterday it looked like Bolden would play this weekend, but today JoePa says he probably won't:
He was tested for concussion symptoms Sunday, Paterno said, and "still had some memory problems." He is scheduled for further testing Wednesday.
"If I had to make a guess, I'd guess he's not gonna make it," Paterno said. "But that does not mean that I know what I'm talking about."
I did not add that last bit in for the lulz, Paterno really said it. Or the Centre Daily Times put in for the luz. One of the two. Without Bolden Penn State reverts to their summer depth chart:
In this case it appears that starting Sheridan is the right move. McGloin is walk-on Forcier; Newsome is slow Justin Feagin. If Bolden does not play, the Penn State game goes to 100% must win for Rodriguez. Also my sanity.
Law those suits up yo. This is the best lawsuit against the NCAA ever:
A class-action lawsuit was filed against the NCAA in an effort to change the policy that places a one-year limit on athletic scholarships and subjects them to an annual review.
The plaintiff hails from an unlikely place for a pissed-off cut player to come from: Rice. Joseph Agnew was a defensive back who claims his scholarship was "cancelled" but he was allowed to maintain it one more year after appealing.
His suit challenges not only the one-year limit on scholarship commitments but the whole 85-scholarship cap. I'm wildly in favor of changing the former and allowing NCAA programs to offer 2, 3, and 4-year commitments that only the player can voluntarily terminate. Putting the level of a school's commitment in writing would go a long way towards preventing Saban-like overstocking; what remained would at least be explicit and less surprising. I'm less enthused about getting rid of scholarship caps but wouldn't mind too much since the end result would be more money headed towards players instead of coaches.
This is the NCAA's goofy defense of itself:
"However, it should be noted that the award of athletic scholarships on a one-year, renewable basis is the more typical approach taken within higher education for talent-based and academic scholarships in general."
While this may be true, no one's running around prohibiting people from offering longer commitments.
Speaking of Alabama. This guy has nothing to do with anything and would have been in TWIS if the MZone had run across him yesterday but they did not:
Sometimes the combination of cheap video cameras, college football, and youtube is… well… it's something.
Burke workin'. 2011 PG commit Trey Burke is playing well enough to get hype on the internet:
Burke continues to deliver and proves to be not just the best guard in Central Ohio, but the best player. He impacts every game in a significant manner, but in most cases, he impacts every possession. Burke knocked down big shots, scored driving to the basket, and even rebounded the ball very well from his guard spot. It seems like every event or game we cover of Burke's the Michigan commit knocks down a big shot.
Those guys even "coin Burke as 'Baby Big Shot'," which verb noun object.
Missing on Dom Pointer leaves a nasty hole in that class but the two guys Beilein locked down seem well above the standard set by his first class. If there's some hope on the court this fall Michigan should be on a steady upward trajectory the next few years. Which is kind of a crappy spot to be in going into year four but there it is.
The shirt. Tim put this up in the press conference recaps, but to re-iterate:
"He's doing well. His back has been a little sore, so he's been a little limited." RR couldn't answer whether he'll try to earn a medical redshirt this season, and be a redshirt freshman next year.
I will answer this: Gardner will try to get a medical redshirt like whoah. The rule is 30% of the season rounded up, which is four games in football; Gardner did not play after the BGSU game. This is simultaneously tragic and wonderful, since 2014 should feature redshirt senior Devin Gardner instead of anyone else. The Year of Incessant Pleas/Complaints About Devin Gardner's Redshirt is now mercifully over, NCAA permitting.
Meanwhile, Ricardo Miller is probably laid up with a back injury or tendinitis or flying monkey syndrome since he inexplicably appeared on kickoff coverage against UMass and hasn't seen the light of day since. I assume Michigan will ask for a medical redshirt for him as well.
Etc.: Presser video from Rodriguez, Smith, Robinson, and Schilling. Texas fans are cranky about everything, from the piped in music (on homecoming!)…
Let's start with a piped-in, pre-play musical montage of AC/DC, Moby, and various Euro-trash Trans music that was combination of minor league hockey meets random Greg Davis play-calling. Marching bands are college football, leave that two turn table and a microphone bulls-- to glowstick infected raves and HenryJames wedding receptions.
…to the inexorable march of time and disintegration of all things, but mostly college football programs. That last link tries to figure out whether Mack Brown is John Cooper or Jim Tressel and settles on "both."
Mack Brown beat Michigan.
Can't be Cooper.
So did Cooper (once at ASU and twice at OSU).
I don't think these words go together, though I never saw the Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady.
I am pro multi-year scholarship commitments. I am also in favor of teh student-athletes having to honor those commitments as well, so if they want to go elsewhere, no scholies, with exceptions for extenuating circumstances.
Make it a two-way street. My one question would be, would a new coaching staff count as an extenuating circumstance?
bucket-head vol fan with the peeling off "T" logo done went out and got'r done.
"it still hurts..."
i'd love to see that guy and damefan1 go at it in an epic stupid-off.
Correction: Gardner's redshirt is up to the Big Ten. p139-140 http://www.hornetsports.com/assets/compliance/2009-10%20NCAA%20Manual.pdf
If you ar the one that highlighted the pertinent section, thank you. I was beginning to read he whole section, and I felt my eyes glaze over and brain shut down.
Also, does anybody have any dirt on Delany we could use to make sure this happens?
"If I had to make a guess, I'd guess he's not gonna make it," Paterno said. "But that does not mean that I know what I'm talking about."
Trust us, JoePa, nobody thinks that you know what you are talking about.
hides there over his portly presumable manliness and under his orange vest. Nice touch. I'm just hoping someone else (Auburn?) can clobber Alabama at least once more this year.
Medical redshirts.
It strikes me that these can be acquired without huge, season-ending injuries...and often are, which can make this kind of a sleazy thing.
Is this one of those gray areas that everyone does and we don't really have to worry about? I'm asking because I genuinely don't know, not because i want to be righteously indignant.
Also, if Gardner gets a redshirt, I will do one of the happiest dances in the history of happy dances.
has to be approved by the NCAA. It's not a unilateral move by the schools.
The NCAA makes the rules.
The NCAA enforces the rules.
Medical redshirts are reviewed and approved by the NCAA.
So if the NCAA approves a somewhat sketchy redshirt for a freshman with minimal participation and no competitive impact with a wink and a nod, who do you complain to?
In 2007. the NCAA quietly changed the participation rule for medical redshirt eligibility from 20% to 30% of games, thus making it even easier for freshmen to be eligible for them. I'm having trouble seeing why it would be sleazy for a school to do something the NCAA is actually encouraging.
Yeah, it doesn't sound like it. I had absolutely no knowledge about any of this, so it's nice to get an actual idea of what this is about.
I was curious to how often teams ask and receive medical redshirts?
"If I had to make a guess, I'd guess he's not gonna make it," Paterno said.
That's funny. After looking at the actuary tables I said the same thing about 'ole Joe.
"But that does not mean that I know what I'm talking about."
There's no way Paterno actually said that. Even he is self aware enough to know that is both histerical and absurd coming out of an 800 year old mans mouth. Maybe.
"However, it should be noted that the award of athletic scholarships on a one-year, renewable basis is the more typical approach taken within higher education for talent-based and academic scholarships in general."
Bull-puckey. I was offered a few academic scholarships from several universities, and not one of them was characterized as one-year. They were all four-year scholarships. I could lose them by not holding up my end of the bargain (my GPA), but the school couldn't terminate them if they decided I was no longer useful.
This is entirely correct. I have never heard of a 1yr academic scholarship, aside from graduate school TA/RA appointments which are 100% not the same thing.
I just don't want to be the team responsible for giving an 18 year old true freshman brain damage. For real. He failed a memory test on Sunday. His brain is swollen. Please don't jeopardize his future, Joe
But you've seen our defense...how likely is that?!?
I like the idea of multi-year athletic scholarships, though I wonder how many schools would actually take advantage of it. The Sabans of the world might lose a couple of commits to other teams offering longer-term stability, but I could also see it used as a recruiting tool by teams saying Team X already have a 2-year commitment at a player's position, while everyone competes for starting time every year on Team Y.
As for the Tressel-Cooper-Brown comparison, I agree that sustaining that type of success is nearly impossible even with great talent, and I expect to see the Vest have a down year soon enough (maybe when Pryor leaves?). But I have always taken issue with the Cooper-Tressel comparison because it always seems to sell Cooper short while pumping up Tressel.
Cooper took over a down program and turned it into a veritable NFL factory that, unfortunately, always seemed to have one misstep a year. In 96 and 98, they lost only once, in close contests to UM and MSU, respectively. That was enough to doom them to 2nd place, while in the BCS era they probably would have had another shot at the title. Cooper's record, if you through out the last two years, was 97-33, and that included the first years of a rebuilding effort. You could also argue that the B10 was much better top-to-bottom during Cooper's time, as teams like PSU, Purdue, Wiscy, Iowa, UM, and NW all made solid runs at the top-10/Big 10 titles.
By comparison, Tressel inherited a much more talented team (though it had struggled recently), and sits at 101-22 going into this weekend. So because Tressel won a debated MNC in his second year, he is characterized as a "winner" (despite the high-profile bowl losses) while Cooper was a loser because he couldnt beat pretty good UM teams and didn't have the benefit for the BCS. I'm not a fan of Cooper or Tressel, but I have always been bothered by the undue blame heaped on Cooper, praise on Tressel, for basically being the same coach.
In 1996, undefeated #1 Florida State would have presumably played undefeated #2 Arizona State, and eventual champion Florida and Ohio State would have been left in the cold. In 1998, #1 Tennessee played #2 Florida State in the Fiesta Bowl. Ohio State was #4 behind Kansas State.
I suppose they could have found themselves in the BCS title game (had there been one in those years), but it doesn't seem terribly likely.
Anyway, I think the real reason Cooper is so poorly regarded is his record against Michigan, an area where Tressel unfortunately has done quite well.
But he does make a good point about the strength of the Big Ten, which has caused this run of titles for Tressel. Obviously we're down (even before Rich took over), which was Cooper's main problem. But Wisconsin regressed a little, PSU had some real down times, Purdue is well past their peak, Iowa went down, then came back up, Northwestern was a title threat, not just an upset threat, Minnesota's been crash and burn after Mason, and MSU at least had the Saban years. The Big Ten is coming back up a little, but Cooper had a lot more consequence to slipping up than Tressel has had. He'll probably get another Big Ten title even with losing one this year.
I'm stoked about Nebraska, but there are many times I feel like fate made us miss sharing a conference with our burnt orange drawling spiritual bretheren on the flip side of the country. Keep up the good fight Longhorns, may the Rawk never win.
...of seeing that picture. I just played that footage last night via outube. Branch just flat out demolished him.
If we don't turn the damn ball over, I like our chances agains Penn State. We are going to give up the least amount of points in a game since the UConn game, so we just need to protect the ball and get out of there with a victory
Our D is bad, for sure, but after watching Iowa and Wiscy, I came away thinking, shucks we ain't that far off, for real.
Belien is pretty sweet, and his recruiting is getting even sweeter. Smot and Hardaway are going to be two of the best players on the team this season.
Brundidge and Burke are going to come in next year with college ready offensive games, they are gonna be good. Keep an eye on Brundidge this year at Southfield if the kid doesn't average 30 a game I will be surprised. Classic man against boys situation. If Brundidge were 6'4" he would be a 5* recruit.


text: Police officers from Plympton recently joined with colleagues from Carver to practice active shooting drills and simulate lockdown procedures at two elementary schools, which were both empty of students at the time. On Jan. 22, practice took place at Plympton's Dennett Elementary School, where officers studied the building layout, honed tactics, and fine-tuned reaction time. They worked with teachers and used blank ammunition to simulate a shooting scene.


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According to Webster's:
Stealing: (1) To take another's property dishonestly, esp. in a secret manner. (2) to take (3) to be a thief, to gain insidiously or artfully.
Private: Not open to OR controlled by the public.
Property: (1) ownership (2) something owned esp. Real estate.
This is what I feel has been done by the Borough Assembly Members on the Kenai Peninsula to the private property owners, who also pay their taxes.
I understand there is a fine line between protecting our Anadromous Fish Habitat and protecting our rights as homeowner's and tax payers. I feel that the assembly crossed that fine line by passing Ordinance 2011-12 without reasonable notice to the property owner's on the Kenai Peninsula.
There are already numerous laws governing Anadromous bodies of water on the Peninsula. Why the borough finds it necessary to take 50 feet of our private property is not right. Why do they assume that we are not responsible and law abiding property owners? Are they better stewards of our property than we are? I don't think so. Some of the property owners on these streams and lake have lived here since the early 50s and have always been responsible landowners.
In 1996 the Ordinance was put into effect on the Kenai River. Since that time the king salmon runs are still in decline. I feel that the problem is not with our private streams and lakes. The problem is over harvesting by all user groups. Taking control of our private lakefront will not save the salmon.
To me it seems like the borough assemble members are acting like the politicians in Washington. They seem to pass more and more regulations, and keep taking more constitutionally protected rights away from the people. When will it stop, maybe at the next election? I also feel that the task force that was formed for this ordinance was totally biased in favor of this ordinance.
I feel this is an overreaching ordinance and should be repealed.


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Wilson is in camp working with both major and minor leaguers, and will work with the organization's minor league affiliates during the regular season.
On the business side, Wilson will be a club ambassador representing the Mets at sponsorship and charitable events in spring training and the regular season.
"I look forward to both roles," Wilson said in a statement. "I am glad to be back. I will get a chance to work with the players in the spring and during the year. Plus, I will be able to look at some of our younger players, which I love doing.


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LISLE – Larger-than-life insects are invading Chicagoland this summer, as The Morton Arboretum celebrates the world of bugs with David Rogers' Big Bugs exhibition.
Through Sept. 8, the Arboretum will be a hive of activity highlighting our insect world. Stare up in amazement at 12 larger-than-life insect sculptures and feel what it's like to be a bug! On display will be an oversize bee hive, lady bug, assassin bug, damselfly, spider, daddy long legs, praying mantis, dragon fly, grasshopper and three ants - some nearly 10 feet tall. The sculptures are built using natural materials including willow, cedar, walnut, and other woods, supported by metal armatures.
"When you're standing in the shadow of these giant sculptures, you really get a feel for what it's like to be a bug," says Mary Samerdyke, manager of interpretation. "This exhibit helps you see bugs in a new way and appreciate the many ways bugs help us even when we don't realize it! Kids of all ages really respond to David Rogers' Big Bugs and it's exciting to see visitors experiencing new things—such as insect petting zoos or edible bugs—and having fun while learning."
To celebrate the exhibition, the Arboretum is offering interactive, bug-themed activities all summer long.
Throughout the summer, kids can pick up their free Official Bug Detective Guide and uncover the truth about bugs as they explore the exhibit.
Continue exploring the world of bugs in the Children's Garden through our self-guided drop-in programs. In June, test your skills in a bug board game and make a ladybug mask at our Lovely Ladybugs program. Then learn about ants and make an a-maze-ing craft at Ants in Your Plants.
In July, check out Splendid Spiders, where you can discover where spiders live and how they help gardens. Then, at Grand Grasshoppers, learn all about grasshoppers and why they're so noisy.
Come August, it's all about bugs with wings. At From Water to Wings, learn about dragonflies and make a winged craft. At Butterflies and Blossoms, find out facts about butterflies and create a disguise.
This September, it's Mantis Mania: Spotting these camouflaged creatures can be harder than you think! Find out some of the unique habits a mantis has and make a camouflaged creature to take home. At Busy Bees, buzz around like a busy little honey bee, make a bee mask and find out what all the buzz is about. Children's Garden drop-in programming is sponsored by Navistar.
The Morton Arboretum is an internationally recognized outdoor tree museum on 1,700 acres. Plant collections, scientific research and education programs support the mission to plant and conserve trees and other plants for a greener, healthier and more beautiful world. Designed with natural landscapes, the grounds include the award-winning, four-acre interactive Children's Garden, the one-acre Maze Garden, plus specialty gardens, 16 miles of trails and nine miles of roads. Visitor experiences include the open-air tram ride, guided walks, Arbor Day celebrations, concerts, art shows, Fall Color Festival, and special exhibits. The Arboretum welcomes more than 800,000 visitors annually and serves more than 35,600 members. Located 25 miles west of Chicago in Lisle, Illinois, the Arboretum is open daily 7 a.m. until sunset. Learn more at mortonarb.org.
Nonmember admission rates to The Morton Arboretum are $12 for adults ages 18-64 ($8 on Wednesday), $11 for seniors ages 65 and over ($7 on Wednesday), $9 for children ages 2-17 ($6 on Wednesday) and free for children under age 2. Parking is free with admission.


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COLUMBUS — A 9-year-old boy who police say was shot by his mother's former boyfriend remained in critical condition Saturday after a series of shootings that ended with the man's death.
Jaiden Dixon was at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus. Two more people were hospitalized Friday from the shootings.
Columbus police said Saturday that Officer Steve Smith was in stable condition and was expected to be released over the weekend. A second former girlfriend of the suspect had been hospitalized Friday in critical condition; the hospital didn't have updated information to release Saturday on 42-year-old Vicki Vertin.
Police say after shootings at two locations, 47-year-old Danny Thornton was tracked to a shopping area, where he was killed after emerging from his car with a gun Friday.
In a 911 call, a police dispatcher warned that Thornton had threatened "suicide by cop." The dispatch said Thornton had "claimed that he will not go down without a fight with police."
The first shooting came at about 7:30 a.m. Friday when Thornton shot Dixon when he opened the door to Thornton at a residence in Grove City, a suburb on the city's southwest side, said Grove City police Capt. Jeffrey Pearson.
Vertin, also identified by police as an ex-girlfriend of Thornton, was shot around 8 a.m. at a dental office in Groveport, a suburb on the city's southeast side about 20 minutes away.
Police said Thornton entered the office and said, "Haven't seen you in a while" before shooting Vertin, a dental employee.
Within two hours, authorities had tracked Thornton to a retail parking lot, where he was fatally shot.
Police said they recovered a handgun, which has been turned over to investigators to determine if Thornton fired at the officer. They were still trying to learn what set him on his deadly path.
Thornton received multiple traffic tickets in recent years, most for speeding, according to Columbus Municipal Court records. Franklin County records show a 1986 guilty plea to attempted felonious assault.
Jarid Fitzpatrick, 17, who lived at the home where Jaiden was shot, said they were getting ready to leave for school when the shooting happened.
"The nicest, cutest; he's an angel pretty much," he told WBNS TV in Columbus. "He's never done anything to nobody. ... He wanted everybody to love him."