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Want Trust? Be Approachable and Accountable
Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini shared his experience in establishing trust with customers and employees, during the David J. BenDaniel Ethics Lecture at Johnson at Cornell University
November 19, 2013
Public opinion regarding corporate executives isn't much better than that of America's much-maligned Congress, but there are effective strategies for changing perceptions—and reality, said Aetna CEO Mark T. Bertolini, MBA '84, on November 14. Bertolini was at Johnson at Cornell University to deliver the David J. BenDaniel Ethics Lecture.
Bertolini spoke on "Re-establishing Trust in American Leadership," while offering his take on health-care costs and their impacts on economies worldwide. "This is an important time in history. We have lost our heroes in business and government. We are struggling with who we are and where we are going, here and around the world," he said, citing the recent U.S. recession and gridlock in Washington with the threat of a government default.
Bertolini noted that a recent Gallup poll tracking the levels of public confidence in our institutions shows that big business is close to the bottom of the list, while small business is near the top. (Congress is dead last.)
"Why is there more confidence in small businesses? The CEOs of these firms are more approachable and more accountable," he said. "In large corporations, these people tend to hide behind their PR firms and bureaucracy. People often don't know who is in charge, and that breeds mistrust. You need to be approachable and authentic to establish integrity."
Embracing social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook helps him address this need, Bertolini said. "I interact daily with employees and customers. Leaders of the future cannot hide, which is different than it has been. We are way too connected today to lie and think we can get away with it."
To establish leadership and trust, executives also must have courage, empathy, authenticity, and a noble mission, he said. Aetna's noble mission: "To save the world economy by creating healthier communities, healthier nations, and a healthier world," Bertolini said. "Health care is a global concern, and our mission is to make such care accessible and affordable."
On the global front, the social contracts countries like France have signed to provide health care to their citizens are not sustainable, nor is the program that enables Chinese citizens to pay about $40 per year for health care coverage, because of a rapidly expanding middle class, Bertolini said. Challenges in the U.S. are well known, with the new Affordable Care Act (ACA) aiming to meet them.
"Our health care system in the U.S. must be rebuilt—it hasn't changed since 1945, does not meet the needs of consumers and is a major contributor to national debt," said Bertolini, who is working directly with President Obama to successfully implement the new system—and rolling with the punches as the rules keep changing.
"ACA has opened a black box in the health care industry comprising managed care businesses. Everyone is building their own health exchanges. To succeed in this type of environment you must examine what you do well and reinvent yourself, if necessary," he said.
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L.A. heavyweight Austin Beutner drives the Mammoth Invitational
The driving force behind the Mammoth Mountain Community Foundation and the Mammoth Invitational is someone most Mammothites wouldn't recognize even if they knocked him over on the slopes.
He is Austin Beutner, who has a home in Mammoth. But he's not just your ordinary second-homeowner.
He is, first of all, a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles in the 2013 municipal election there.
According to his website (www.austinforla.org), Beutner has three decades of accomplishment in the private and public sectors.
"As a business leader and philanthropist, he has built organizations and led them to achieve outstanding results.
"In his most recent role as Los Angeles First Deputy Mayor and Chief Executive for Economic and Business Policy, Austin worked to build a stronger Los Angeles. He served as the city's Jobs Czar from January 2010 to April 2011 for a salary of $1 a year.
"He oversaw 13 city departments ranging from Building and Safety, Planning, and the L.A. Convention Center, to the Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports and the Department of Water and Power (DWP).
"He brought an innovative 'do more with less' approach to getting city government to work and provide better service to constituents. His many accomplishments included cutting $263 million out of DWP's budget to avoid a rate increase, cutting in half the time it takes to permit a restaurant and refocusing the city's efforts to support small and minority-owned businesses.
"He started an effort to reach out to businesses in Los Angeles, which helped many employers keep their doors open and allowed them to hire more people. He implemented important policy changes, such as creating a business-tax holiday and eliminating red tape. This helped attract companies like Google, BMW, Blackline, BYD, Gensler and Mission Foods to Los Angeles, creating thousands of good-paying jobs.
"Beutner has spent most of his career working in the private sector. At age 29, he became the youngest partner at The Blackstone Group, one of the world's leading investment firms.
"At 33, he served in the U.S. State Department under President Bill Clinton where he led a team that helped Russia transition to a market economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He went on to found Evercore Partners with former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman.
"As President and Chief Executive Officer, Beutner built Evercore into a global leader, with offices in the U.S. and around the world.
"He is deeply involved in the community, serving as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of CalArts, Chairman of the Board of the Broad Stage, Chairman of the Governor's Council on Sports & Physical Fitness, Co-Chairman of CalArts Community Arts Partnership, and Chairman and Founder of Mammoth Mountain Community Foundation.
"He also serves on the Boards of ICEF Public Schools and ACT Today and is Chairman of the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Commission on the NFL Stadium He and his wife have four children."

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I believe God can call you to religious life at any age, in any way. He began calling me when I was only seven. I said yes. And it's made ALL the difference in my life….
Jesus used the sisters who taught me in grammar school to first attract me to the religious life. Everything about them fascinated me. Even though I was too young to understand many particulars about their life, I did intuit the most important thing—they were in love! These women genuinely loved the Lord, and through him, everyone and everything else he had created. It was all mysteriously beautiful to me. I wanted to be a part of it. Somehow, I knew that this strong desire was not my own idea, but God's. Yes, God had put it into my heart. That made it even more awesome.
I was a second grader in 1964, just before the close of Vatican II. Although I could tell that there was much more to being a sister than wearing special clothing, I wanted to imitate the sisters in any way I could. The teaching sisters at our parish belonged to a Franciscan congregation. Their habit was a challenge for a seven-year-old to reconstruct, but I tried hard. Every day when I got home from school, I hurried to my room and shut the door. There I donned my "habit" –a long, white bath towel (I couldn't find a black one!) pinned over a white hair net, cardboard headdress and matching cardboard collar. The towel held out fine, but the cardboard soon showed signs of wear and tear. One of my aunts, an expert seamstress, came to the rescue. She began attending Sunday Mass with the sisters in her own parish so as to observe them before and after Mass. In a few weeks she surprised me with a miniature habit. I was thrilled! I wore it every day for as long as it fit me.
Months stretched into years. The idea of giving my whole life to Jesus as a sister persisted. My family was sure I'd "outgrow" it. My friends though I'd change my mind. But the thought just wouldn't go away. I admit that sometimes I tried to push it into the background. But it had a funny way of popping back out at the oddest times. And…it kept growing stronger. It was as if nothing else in life would be enough for me.
Most of the kids at school thought entering the convent was a very weird thing to do. And so by seventh grade I was keeping my desire a secret. Then I met Denise. She guessed what I was thinking and confided that she too wanted to enter religious life. We became a real support for one another. Toward the end of eighth grade, we decided that we needed more information on religious life. We scoured our diocesan newspaper for vocational ads, and then divided the addresses between us so that we ended up writing to all the congregations listed. At first, we made the mistake of revealing our age—thirteen at the time. Some congregations didn't answer. Others wrote back telling us to contact them after we'd completed college. After that, we never mentioned our ages unless someone specifically asked. Soon invitations to visit convents all over the country began pouring in. Of course, transportation and parental permission were real problems.
Then came the memorable day. In reply to one of her letters, Denise received a phone call from the vocation directress of the Daughters of St. Paul. Sr. Sharon Anne was going to be visiting another girl in our area. Could she stop over at Denise's house to meet her and her family? Of course not! Denise's parents, like mine, didn't even know that we had been writing to nuns. In a panic, Denise told Sr. Sharon that she'd have to call her back. Hanging up, she immediately called me—right in the middle of lunch. "I told Sister about you, too," she confessed. "Now what do we do?"
"Well, she can't come to my house either," I answered adamantly. "Just tell her to meet us in the park."
The large city park located halfway between our homes seemed a safe enough place for this important meeting. And so, a few hours later, under a light drizzle, Denise and I found ourselves sitting between two young Daughters of St. Paul on a bench facing the duck pond! It was the climax of our vocational search. The sisters were unruffled by the setting. We took turns firing questions at them. They patiently listened, smiled a lot, and gave us some intriguing answers. I could have never imagined the new direction my life would take after getting up from that park bench.
The following year, the sisters invited Denise and me to their Boston convent and house of formation for a vocational retreat. By that time, I had gotten up the courage to ask my parents to drive us. They did. It was great. We prayed with the sisters, worked side by side with them in the apostolate rooms of their publishing house, and asked more questions. Thirty-six years later I can still remember the greatest impressions that visit left on me: 1) the sisters were very happy, 2) I felt I was home. It was the first of many visits to the large brick convent.
My attraction to religious life never interfered with my life as a normal teenager. I continued to argue with my two younger brothers. I loved being with my friends. I enjoyed music and pets, especially my cats, guinea pig, and parakeets (I didn't have them all at the same time!). I was active in several high school organizations, wrote for our local newspaper, and worked part-time giving guitar lessons, using some of the money I'd earned to travel twice to Europe with a group from school. I also attended the senior prom when I was a junior.
I entered the Daughters of St. Paul ten days after graduating from high school. It was the beginning of an adventure in love, one that continues to challenge me every day. Two things especially drew me to our congregation—our blending of the contemplative and active lives and our profoundly Eucharistic spirituality. The deeper I explore our Pauline charism, the more I realize that I'll never fully understand the mystery that is my vocation. As a Daughter of St. Paul, I'm called to surrender my mind, my will, and my heart to Jesus, so that his thoughts, his desires, and his love can gradually replace mine. I need to fill myself with Jesus so that I can give him to others, just as Mary did. It's a vocation that reaches far beyond me to the thousands of persons whose lives I'm called to touch, in imitation of Paul, as an apostle of the Master. People today are starving for the love, hope, and peace that only the truth of the Gospel can bring. What better and quicker way to bring them to Jesus and his Gospel than through the media?
At the mention of religious life many people immediately think about giving things up. It's true; there are very real sacrifices and troubles in religious life, just as there are in every state of life. But there's also the "hundredfold" Jesus promised to those who leave everything to follow him. I've been blessed with the deep peace and joy that come from knowing I'm doing God's will. I've gained nearly2,400 sisters of every age and nationality. My "homes" have continuously multiplied and are now spread across fifty-one countries, since every convent is home. The spiritual formation I've received has rooted me in the Eucharist and Scripture, helping me to center my life on Jesus. My vows free me to follow the Master in a more radical way than would have otherwise been possible for me. And participating in our media apostolate has allowed me to place whatever gifts and talents I have entirely at the service of the Gospel. I've found special joy and fulfillment in helping to draw children closer to Jesus through the books I've edited or written for our publishing house.
It was a long journey from that park bench to the convent door. But I've discovered here the fullness of life and love. (So has Denise.) It's a beautiful fullness. One that I wish for you.
"Glory be to him whose power working in us can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine." (Eph.3:20)
Sr. Patricia Edward Jablonski, fsp
How do you know you are called to become a sister?
God works individually with each one of us, so every sister would probably answer this question differently. If you asked a happily married couple: "How did you know it was him?", or "How did you know it was her?", no two answers would be exactly the same. Each sister's vocation story is also...
How often can you see your family?
Postulants usually spend three weeks each summer at home with their families. Professed sisters have two weeks of vacation each year, in addition to a week of retreat (usually made together at our St. Thecla retreat house near Boston). Many sisters spend their vacation time at home with their...
What's a typical day like for a Daughter of St. Paul?
There is no typical day for a Daughter of St. Paul—it depends on the needs of the mission, the situations of each community, and the sister's apostolic responsibilities. However, every day for a Daughter of St. Paul usually includes: early rising, a half-hour meditation, morning prayer, evening...
What vows do the Daughters of St. Paul make and what is uniquely Pauline about how they're lived?
The Daughters of St. Paul live the evangelical counsels, or vows, of chastity, poverty, and obedience in a way that transforms our ordinary communication to become always more a communication of love...
How much do you pray every day?
Our prayer life is the source of our energy and joy. We gather daily for morning and evening prayer, and we start each morning with a half hour meditation on the Word of God. Scripture is the privileged source of all our prayer and like Mary, the first disciple of Jesus, we ponder God's Word...
What do you do for fun?
The communities of the Daughters of St. Paul are very joyful places, and we have fun in many different ways. We enjoy each other's presence at meals each day, but our interests and hobbies vary widely: from watching movies to sketching, from basketball to board-games, from playing musical...
Do Daughters of St. Paul all work in one type of ministry, or can they do different things?
As a Daughter of St. Paul, communication is not just something we do, it is who we are. How we each carry out our mission as communicators of Christ varies widely, depending on the needs of the people we serve and the...
What should I do if I am interested in becoming a Daughter of St. Paul?
The first thing to do is to inquire. Contact the vocation director by phone, e-mail or mail. You might find it helpful to set up a time to talk in person or on the phone. In your conversation, the vocation director will provide you with information that will help you in your discernment...
How long does it take to become a sister?
Generally, we know a young woman at least a year before her entrance, so that the young woman can freely discern how God is calling her. During this time of discernment, the young woman and the vocation director are in frequent contact, and the young woman usually visits our community...
What makes the Daughters of St. Paul unique from other communities?
Each religious congregation has a unique identity that is formed by its founders, its history, its charism (spirituality and mission), and its members. The life of a Daughter of St. Paul is distinctive in several ways...
Who are the Daughters of St. Paul?
The Daughters of St. Paul are a community of vowed women religious who dedicate their lives to sharing the mystery of Christ's love with the people of today through the media. God has chosen, called, and consecrated each Daughter of St. Paul to himself so that he might send her to proclaim...


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For every company employing field workers, there's a workforce that might be more productive carrying a computing device. Yet purpose-built solutions from Motorola, Panasonic and others are often square-peg devices for the round hole of each company's applications and workflow. That's where Mobelisk fits in. The company this week released MoGo Chimera, the latest version of its ruggedized enclosure for off-the-shelf tablets that can be outfitted with needed peripherals and remain unburdened by those that are not.
With its unique system of electro-mechanical controls, the Mobelisk solution acts as a kind of abstraction layer, converting the hardware and operating system of choice into a durable, custom computing appliance that's resistant to shock, dust and even liquids. Current models support Apple iPad Mini, Google Nexus 7, and Samsung's 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2 and 8-inch Galaxy Note 8. Snap-on peripherals will include readers for magnetic cards, smartcards, barcodes, contactless devices, fingerprints and RFID, and for printing and boosting power and I/O. There also will be blank end caps for applications that require fewer than two peripherals.
Mobelisk started out developing its own ruggedized, purpose-built tablets for healthcare, retail and other verticals. "A seven-inch version was sold as Verizon's 'Blank Slate' device," said CEO Dennis Hamann. "That one had a mag-stripe card reader built in." But Hamann soon realized that competing in the market for specialized appliances required more than just having the perfect app. "We used to think that if you didn't have the latest hardware or software, it was OK because the app made the difference. But that wasn't true." Devices using older operating system versions of slower processors were at a marked disadvantage. "If you don't have the latest specs, you're [negatively] compared to competitors."
By focusing his company's intellectual property on the enclosure and what he referred to as the "transposer layer," Hamann has removed his company from the tablet wars. "We're no longer competing with Samsung and Apple; now we're complementary. Let those companies innovate and battle it out on the tech specs. We'll stay agnostic and support the resulting devices." Citing unspecified research, Hamann said that of the 7.8 million tablets purchased in the U.S. each year, 8 percent are destined for ruggedized-use markets, a number he said is estimated to reach 10 percent by 2016. Mobelisk has its main pillars in healthcare, retail, hospitality and financial services.
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Here's an old post of mine about him, from back in 2004:
Robert Rauschenberg answers some questions from Deborah Solomon in today's NYT:
Aren't you having another show now at Yale?Hmmm.... a little more info would be nice! There's this description:
Yes. I am not happy with it. It was organized by the gay studies department, whatever that is. It's not an approach that makes sense. I refused to give them permission to reproduce the works in a catalog.
"Robert Rauschenberg: Gifts to Terry Van Brunt'' features about 40 pieces that Rauschenberg gave as presents to his former lover, Terry Van Brunt. ... Jonathan Katz, an associate professor at Yale who launched the gay and lesbian studies program there in 2002, organized the exhibit.Meanwhile, back in the NYT interview, Rauschenberg is presenting himself as impersonally as possible. He speaks of painting from photographs. Asked "What sort of photographs do you prefer?," he asserts that he "likes photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall." Asked "What is so great about the ordinary anyhow?, he answers, "I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying." Asked if at 78, he thinks about dying, he says "No. Not at all" and tells a hackneyed anecdote about someone else. Asked why he left New York in 1970 to go live by the ocean in Florida, he alludes to a feeling of responsibility about "everybody … leaving their spouses," then says a fortuneteller told him "it wasn't my fault but that I should go to sunshine and water" and he "was pleased with that." He gives as the secret to happiness "enjoy[ing] something simple, like just looking at the ocean."
"Rauschenberg himself does not want the work talked about in a gay context,'' Katz said. "But I am not responsible to the artist's wishes. I am responsible to the work.''
The collection includes "Bob's Face With Fly,'' a self-portrait that shows a fly on Rauschenberg's face, and "Terry's Briefcase Piece,'' a briefcase that was painted and collaged. Katz believes the exhibit is important because it shows how Rauschenberg's personal life has shaped his work.
ADDED: Here's the NYT obit — a very big one. Excerpt:
"Everyone was trying to give up European aesthetics," he recalled, meaning Picasso, the Surrealists and Matisse. "That was the struggle, and it was reflected in the fear of collectors and critics. John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It's the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn't have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to change."
Cage acquired a painting from the Betty Parsons show [in 1951]. Aside from that, Mr. Rauschenberg sold absolutely nothing. Grateful, he agreed to host Cage at his loft. As Mr. Rauschenberg liked to tell the story, the only place to sit was on a mattress. Cage started to itch. He called Mr. Rauschenberg afterward to tell him that his mattress must have bedbugs and that, as Cage was going away for a while, Mr. Rauschenberg could stay at his place. Mr. Rauschenberg accepted the offer. In return, he decided he would touch up the painting Cage had acquired, as a kind of thank you, painting it all-black, being in the midst of his new, all-black period. When Cage returned, he was not amused.
"We both thought, 'Here was somebody crazier than I am,' " Mr. Rauschenberg recalled. In 1952 Mr. Rauschenberg switched to all-white paintings, which were, in retrospect, spiritually akin to Cage's famous silent piece of music, during which a pianist sits for 4 minutes and 33 seconds at the keyboard without making a sound. Mr. Rauschenberg's paintings, like the music, in a sense became both Rorschachs and backdrops for ambient, random events like passing shadows. "I always thought of the white paintings as being not passive but very — well, hypersensitive," he told an interviewer in 1963. "So that people could look at them and almost see how many people were in the room by the shadows cast, or what time of day it was."


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To the Editor:
Why doesn't McHenry County College concentrate on being a school. It is a community college, and we certainly don't need all the frills including the proposed Taj Mahal.
Don't need the concrete pads or to decorate the front of the school.
Don't need your pulling statistics out of the blue sky in an attempt to prove the county growth projections and other matters.
Don't need a construction firm to do a feasibility study. It was in error, so there was a redo at extra cost. May a firm that does feasibility studies bid on your proposed future construction?
Don't need a garden with an underground sprinkling system.
Don't need a health club. Whose brilliant idea was that? Cost $39 a month. Is it a profitable venture and will your fees be competitive with the 20 other clubs nearby? You now have to charge more. I guess that more employment is good for the county. If the clubs fails financially, will it become a perk for staff and students?
Don't need you to attempt to violate the Crystal Lake watershed. Period.
I double-dare you to go to a referendum. It will sink faster than a vessel in the cardboard boat regatta.
William Silvester
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I had a ford ranger follow me home on thursday... New suspension, stereo, radiator, battery, paint. The bad.... Needs a Tranny, Anyone here know how to rebuild it? or anyone got an old A4LD Tranny sitting around??
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Ford Ranger Help!!
Started by xoomer , Jul 31 2007 12:09 PM
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Posted 01 August 2007 - 12:07 AM
Bring the tranny over, I just set up a new bench.
Posted 01 August 2007 - 02:13 AM
Whats it gonna cost me?? I'm broke as hell. I went to tacoma pap and pulled a tranny out of an aerostar... and then found out that it wasn't gonna work because two pin lock up vs three pin lockup...
I'm headed up to lynnwood today.. well later in the morning to try to snag a a4ld out of a rig up there... Keep your fingers crossed.. I would like to have this damned thing running asap
I'm headed up to lynnwood today.. well later in the morning to try to snag a a4ld out of a rig up there... Keep your fingers crossed.. I would like to have this damned thing running asap
Posted 01 August 2007 - 06:43 PM
I can do it for $250 in labor, the kit's under $130 depending on who you get it from and what brand kit you get. I can look up the part numbers if you want to get the kit yourself.
Posted 01 August 2007 - 07:41 PM
I may take you up on that.... I'm gonna try a filter and some lucas stop slip... since it is 2 quarts over full.
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Language Arts
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Title – Conclusion
By – Melanie Marchand
Primary Subject – Language Arts
Secondary Subjects – Language Arts
Grade Level – 11-12
Conclusion – Lesson 6
Short Story Unit Contents:
- Short Story Unit Overview
- Lesson 1 – Elements of the Short Story
- Lesson 2 – A Ghost Story
- Lesson 3 – Modern Fear and Suspense
- Lesson 4 – Shirley Jackson's The Lottery
- Lesson 5 – The Most Dangerous Game
- Lesson 6 – Conclusion
- Culminating Activity
Overview: This is the final lesson of the unit and this time should be used to bring a sense of closure to the previous stories and concepts that have been introduced – the parts of the short story and the use of suspense/horror in writing – in keeping with the build up to Halloween.
— Students will be able to identify the various ways in which writers use suspense to create an atmosphere for the writing.
— Students will be able to discuss the different aspects of short stories as discussed and featured in previous lessons.
— Students will be able to apply their knowledge in the continuation in preparation for their cumulative activity.
1. Take a moment to review the titles and plots of the stories previously discussed in class by placing the information on a chart or on the board. The key concepts might also be placed there in parenthesis (i.e. narrative voice, suspense, parts of the story, etc.)
2. Ask the students from a crafting viewpoint, which story do they feel drew best on the elements of suspense, horror, form/structure, etc., and why.
3. Alternately, ask if there were any of the aspects that they did not see well demonstrated in each of the various stories:
— Did an element of horror appear in the opening "Three Little Pigs" story?
— What made the style of Mark Twain different from that of Stephen King? How did a psychological element come into play in the Jackson, or the Connell? Which worked better, in your opinion?
— How is the structure of the story manipulated so that suspense is capitalised?
4. Use class time to work on the culminating activity. Students should be encouraged to use their peers as editors and critiques for the design of their "sequel" to match style, monitor pacing, and form final editing ideas. If desired, a small part of the mark could be given for the editorial participation.
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JXTA Search: A look at the future of searchingby Rael Dornfest, Kelly Truelove
Searching on the Web has long been caught in a web of spiders and crawlers. From early crawlers like Lycos to the state of the art Google, Web search engines have always suffered from a pretty severe lag time. Between the time a new document is posted on the Web to the time you can find it in Google is often a period of weeks.
As Gene Kan discovered, though, peer to peer networks like Gnutella -- in which nodes on the network receive live queries -- are ready-made for something better than the current state of Web searching. Rather than searching an index of what was there two weeks ago, Kan's InfraSearch technology allowed for searching what is there right now.
In May, InfraSearch was sold to Sun Microsystems, and the InfraSearch team joined Sun's Project JXTA. On Monday, JXTA Search, the result of InfraSearch's work with JXTA was released at JavaOne. OpenP2P.com contributors Rael Dornfest and Kelly Truelove talked with Kan and Steve Waterhouse, who joined Project JXTA as director of engineering when InfraSearch was acquired.
Rael Dornfest: I thought maybe we might start with a little bit of history. I know that you guys are probably sick of the history, but at the same time most people don't know where InfraSearch came from, its relationship to Gnutella, where it might have diverged, where it fits into Sun's JXTA framework, and so on. Perhaps we could start there.
Gene Kan: Well, Gnutella started from a bunch of my friends and me sitting around and thinking of how we might prove that Gnutella was interesting for more than music sharing and the like. We saw that at bottom what Gnutella really was a distributed searching network, and clearly the way to demonstrate this was to build a search engine using Gnutella, and you know that would be the pure expression, right?
So we wanted to demonstrate that Gnutella doesn't care about the data that's trafficked over the network, and that the software and the protocol are completely agnostic to what information is carried. So we thought, well wouldn't it be awesome if we could just make every node on the network participate as not the file-sharing client but rather as a distributed search client, so that we could tie together boxes from effectively hundreds of different information providers.
And I was really excited about this because the company that I was working for at the time had this problem where all of their data was stored in an application database. None of that was exposable to a traditional search engine or a traditional crawler-based search engine, because the crawlers would get scared when they see the question mark in the URL. So there was this huge mine of data out there that wasn't being accessed, and, you know, pretty much if you look in the URL field of your browser, you can tell that this is a huge problem where the question mark in the URL is preventing crawlers from accessing a large portion of the Web's data.
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And so we threw up a prototype that was based entirely on the Gnutella protocol, and where you could type in algebraic expressions or simple arithmetic expressions and have PC calculate the results for you, and a few others. So, you know, we thought this was real all pretty cool, and we had a few Valley types that were interested in the technology, and we decided that this would be a pretty cool thing that we should develop further. And that's why we started InfraSearch, the company. Since our inception as a company, we decided that we proved our point with Gnutella and we moved to a proprietary protocol that was specifically tailored to the task of generalized searching, and it's of course XML-based, so that we are more compatible with what's out there on the Web.
Kelly Truelove: So, Gene, there were a couple of aspects of Gnutella. One was that the queries were passed from peer to peer, and the other is that each peer evaluated the query as it saw fit.
Gene: Right.
Kelly: The InfraSearch prototype -- it's clear from the way it works that, you know, each peer evaluated the query by running it against some site search or something like that, but how was the distribution of queries handled?
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Gene: In the prototype, the distribution of queries was Gnutella. You know, it was entirely a Gnutella backend, so you would go to infrasearch.com and a custom Web server would throw up this little search box. When you entered your query, the front end of that Web server would accept your query and the back end would shuttle it out of Gnutella. So the front end of it was HTTP and the back end of it was Gnutella protocol.
Rael: The public demo was rather reminiscent of the early days of Web and WAIS integration. I don't know if WAIS goes back too far for you.
Gene: I never played with WAIS.
Rael: WAIS was basically a search protocol where you could define how your node understood and responded to queries -- sound familiar? While it wasn't a distributed search like Gnutella (it was point to point), your demo was, for me, a nice return to that concept.
Gene: That's cool, didn't know that.
Rael: So, continuing on, how did you get hooked up with Sun and JXTA?
Gene: Well, we were building our technology and in the meantime the JXTA team started to scour the peer-to-peer world, talking with everybody and figuring out what they should do. And they started to talk to us and, basically everything that Ingrid and Mike and Li said, we thought, "Well, yeah, that's pretty much what we want to do, too." And it just evolved, and eventually that turned into an acquisition.


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Corazón Tierra, 43, began developing an eating disorder when she was only eight years old.
As an immigrant from Puerto Rico, she felt like her physical appearance didn't fit into American culture. "When I came here, it became more complicated. We're not beautiful according to the standard," she says.
Tierra also felt pressure from her mother to be thin. "The only territory I had to control was my body."
Her eating disorder continued unnoticed when she was a teenager. When she was about 18, she weighed only 85 pounds. She hadn't gained weight since she was 12 years old.
Tierra feels that there is a contradiction in her culture when it comes to food and body image. "There is a very mixed message," she says. "There is so much attention on food, but then everyone is concerned about weight.
Ovidio Bermudez, M.D., chief medical officer and medical director of child and adolescent services at Eating Recovery Center in Denver, Colorado, says the notion that Latinas are less susceptible to eating disorders may have been statistically true at one time but is now an absolute myth.
"Ethnicity was able to offer protection from the development of an eating disorder. At one point it was true, but is a myth today. That protectiveness has eroded," Bermudez says. "Latina women and Latino men today are as much at risk as the Caucasian population."
Dr. Marisol Perez, a clinical psychologist specializing in eating disorders and associate professor at Texas A&M University, says the reason for this misconception was because Latinas were not included in the research at the time. "Historically, it was thought to be a white upper class phenomenon," she says. "And most research was conducted among this population."
But recent studies have found that Latinas have eating disorders and body image concerns at rates comparable to or greater than non-Latina whites.
"If you look at the research literature, the perception is not well-founded," says Deb Franko, professor of counseling & applied educational psychology and associate dean at Northeastern University.
In the study, "Considering J.Lo and Ugly Betty: a qualitative examination of risk factors and prevention targets for body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, and obesity in young Latina women," Franko and her colleagues found that the college-aged Latinas in their focus groups struggled with conflicting cultural expectations. "The messages from their families that larger bodies are beautiful are bumping against a more Caucasian white culture that promotes a thin body ideal," Franko says.
Some experts believe that acculturation also plays an important role. "The prevalence goes up for each generation that is here in the U.S.," Perez says.
Bermudez believes this shift is also a result of globalization and the easy access to mainstream culture. "We know that Latina women are more and more vulnerable," he says.
Sometimes, however, Hispanic women with eating disorders may not necessarily be concerned about weight. "Body dissatisfaction is different for Latinas," Perez says. Because of this, they may be missed in health screenings. Additionally, the stigma of seeking psychological help and the high cost of treatment may be barriers in seeking care.
"We are barely scratching the surface of prevention," Bermudez says. "I do think that debunking the myth is necessary. We should be making people aware of the reality and informing families of what they can do."
Parents can help prevent the development of eating disorders by learning to detect changes in behavior. Some early indicators, Perez says, are rigid rules about food, displeasure with their body, baggier clothes, and going to the bathroom after eating.
"Parents can teach their children to accept their bodies. They should really strive to include compliments about their other qualities like personality and leadership skills," she says.
Edie Hernandez Putt, PsyD, LPC, believes that mothers also play a pivotal role in their daughters' relationship with food. "Girls are ripe to words, language, and behaviors of their mothers. We should be watching how we talk about food," she says.
If parents are worried their children may be suffering from an eating disorder, Perez suggests looking for resources at Academy for Eating Disorders and the National Eating Disorders Association. Organizations like these are also becoming increasingly interested in Latinas and other women of color.
As an eating disorder survivor, Tierra now uses her experiences to raise awareness about eating disorders among Latinas. "There are so many body image issues that we need to address," she says. "We need to start seeing ourselves from the inside."
Erika L. Sánchez is a poet and freelance writer living in Chicago. She is currently the sex and love advice columnist for Cosmopolitan for Latinas and a contributor for The Huffington Post and other publications. Her poetry has appeared in Pleiades, Witness, Hunger Mountain, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Copper Nickel, and many others. You can find her on Twitter, Facebook, or www.erikalsanchez.com


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The contribution that is made through coaching and teaching became far more appealing to me than what I was doing. This is my favorite job I've ever had. —Scott Ditty
Every now and then it still happens. Someone will stare at Scott Ditty, a local high school coach and teacher, and ask, "Do I know you? You look familiar."
In another lifetime, Ditty was a professional actor. He made a brief career with small movie and TV roles and commercials until he decided he could better live his Mormon faith and do more good by teaching and coaching youth. These days you can find him at Alta High School, where he plays many roles: defensive coordinator of the football team, head track coach, powerlifting instructor and film studies teacher. The latter is one of the most popular classes at Alta. Students get to watch movies in class and then discuss them with a guy who was in them.
For 15 years Ditty was in showbiz. A decade ago he gave it all up and moved to Utah, trading a footloose and sometimes-glamorous lifestyle to teach teenagers in a portable on the back lot at Alta.
"Honestly, I love teaching and coaching," says the 50-year-old Ditty. "I love these kids."
I became acquainted with Ditty while coaching football and track at Alta myself, and I have firsthand knowledge about the intensity and passion he brings to the job. But seriously, who gives up on Hollywood to become a school teacher?
He was no star, but he was making a living and getting call-backs and bit parts regularly. He was a guard in "Con Air," working with John Malkovich and Nicholas Cage and getting a giant, tight shot of his face on the screen. He was the henchman in a family movie called "Just Like Dad." He had a lead role in a TV movie, "Just in Time." He was Frank in "Last Resort." He was Officer Gaines in a TV movie "Before He Wakes" with Jaclyn Smith ("I teased her that my childhood dream of hanging out with Charlie's Angels had come true; she was well-mannered and sweet."). He played a guard (again) in "Blink of an Eye" with Mimi Rodgers. He was Gerald Stone in "The Ticket" with Shannen Doherty. He had guest roles in the TV shows "Touched by an Angel," "Promised Land" and "Extreme," among others.
But mostly he was Jim and Ruth's son, and ultimately that shaped his decision to make a middle-age career change. The Dittys raised five children in a tight family whose foundation was built on the LDS faith. Jim, a tough Irishman from Chicago's south side, was a high school coach and teacher, and eventually Scott followed in his footsteps. Jim was a graduate assistant football coach at BYU and then the head football coach at Pleasant Grove High for two years before moving his family to Weimar, Calif., and making a career of coaching and teaching at Placer High.
As fate would have it, several people in the entertainment business settled in the Dittys' neighborhood. One of them heard Scott singing in church and convinced him to audition for local theater productions. He was the Artful Dodger in "Oliver" and Snoopy in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." In high school he drifted away from theater to sports. He was an undersized (5-foot-7) linebacker and guard on a state championship team and later played for Sierra College. A broken vertebra ended his playing days.
Ditty turned to theater again and rediscovered his love of acting after playing one of the lead roles in "Grease." He accepted an invitation from his sister to join her in Utah and enrolled at Utah Valley Community College, where he studied acting and competed on the debate team. Three years later, he left school and went to LA "thinking I'm going to be a star. It was a dose of reality."
He studied acting at the famed Beverly Hills Playhouse and paid his bills washing windows and working construction until he began to land acting jobs. He did national TV commercials for Levi's, Diet Coke and Gatorade, among others. Every time a commercial aired, he got paid again. For a bachelor, life didn't get much better than that. He surfed all day or worked as a personal trainer while waiting for the checks to arrive. He began to land TV and movie roles in the mid-'90s.
Ditty returned to Utah to complete his degree while also continuing his acting career. Encouraged to teach acting classes, he founded the Professional Actors Conservatory of Salt Lake and discovered a love for teaching. Working professionals saw their work triple in his class and novices began to book agents and shows. "It was an awesome thing," he says.
He returned to California in 1998 and dived into the Hollywood scene again. He was one of two finalists for several career-making, recurring TV roles, including one on the hit show "Frasier," but failed to get them. At the same time, he was growing more disillusioned with his career choice for other reasons. For years he had gotten caught up in the Hollywood lifestyle and wandered from his faith, but in the early '90s he recommitted himself to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
As he tells it, "I started looking around at the industry and what I was doing, and I thought, 'This is not who Jim and Ruth Ditty raised. I need to start living my life the way I was raised.' After I went through the temple I looked at everything with entirely different eyes. I continued to work and teach acting classes and continued having many rich experiences, but I was always conflicted by the types of projects I was asked to audition for and the things I witnessed. The profession was not conducive to what I wanted for the rest of my life. The acting business is hard, but not inherently evil. It's the culture around it — the indulgence, the moral relativism, the narcissism. One day I heard a female actress talking openly about cheating on her husband, and the others in the class blamed her husband. I saw so much of this behavior."
In 2002, at the age of 39, Ditty married a woman he met on ldssingles.com named Kim Williams. He and Kim and her two children moved to Utah, where he embraced his other passions, football and teaching. In the spring of 2003, Ditty had an epiphany when his agent called to tell him a producer wanted him to audition for a big role in a movie about the mafia. This time Hollywood was seeking him, not vice versa. Ditty asked for more information about the movie.
"It was a hard R film — lots of profanity, tons of violence and nudity," he recalls. "But it paid a lot of money and we needed it at the time. I called an LDS friend who was in the industry and asked him, 'Can I justify this?' He said, 'When you're asking yourself those questions, you know the answer.' I remember thinking, 'Not only can I not do this audition, I can't do this anymore.'
"I'm not saying you can't be a good member of the church if you're in that profession; I have many dear LDS friends who make it work. Mine was a personal choice to follow inspiration and pursue the noble profession of teaching and coaching."
Looking back, Ditty believes he had been similarly inspired to return to Utah a few years earlier to get his teaching degree, which unwittingly prepared him for the next step in his career.
"I wasn't even sure why I did it at the time," he says. "The spirit has spoken to me throughout my life about what I should be doing with my life; I just didn't always listen. I remember once sitting in church when I had another major epiphany. Suddenly the spirit spoke to me: 'You know you're not here to be an actor.' I prayed right there, and the answer was that I was there to be a voice for what I know is right and that I could do that best as a teacher and a coach."
He still entertains thoughts of trying acting again — he gets occasional calls for auditions — but for now he is content to work on the sideline and in the classroom.
"The contribution that is made through coaching and teaching became far more appealing to me than what I was doing," he says. "This is my favorite job I've ever had."
Doug Robinson's columns run on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Email: [email protected]


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VMware and Novell have announced the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware as part of the companies' expanded partnership, which was announced in June of 2010. This new product launch is designed to accelerate customer evolution towards using a fully virtualized data center.
Under the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware offering, customers who purchase a VMware vSphere license and subscription also receive a subscription for patches and updates to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware. Additionally, VMware will offer the option to purchase technical support services for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware.
Novell says that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has nearly 6,000 application certifications and that by partnering with VMware, both companies intend to provide customers the ability to port their SUSE Linux-based workloads across clouds.
"This partnership gives VMware and Novell customers a simplified and lower-cost way to virtualise and manage their IT environments, from the data centre to fully virtualised data centres," says Novell's Joe Wagner.


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MEDEIROS, Felipe de Luca et al. Digital inclusion and functional capacity of older adults living in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil (EpiFloripa 2009-2010). Rev. bras. epidemiol. [online]. 2012, vol.15, n.1, pp.106-122. ISSN 1415-790X. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1415-790X2012000100010.
OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship between digital inclusion, represented by the exchange of online messages, and functional capacity of older adults living in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. METHODS: Data were from EpiFloripa Idoso, a cross-sectional household-based survey conducted between 2009 and 2010 with older adults (60+ years). Functional capacity was represented by the inability / difficulty to perform basic / instrumental activities of daily living, and formed the outcome variable called functional dependence. The main independent variable was self-reported ability to send and receive online messages using the computer. Prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were estimated with multivariable Poisson regression models. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 1,656 older adults between 60 and 102 years old with a mean age of 70.39 years (SD = 7.79). Older adults who could send and receive online messages without difficulty demonstrated a significant lower prevalence of moderate / severe functional dependence (PR = 0.61; 95%CI: 0.40 - 0.94) after adjustment for demographic, socioeconomic, health and behavioral factors. CONCLUSIONS: The exchange of online messages has a strong association with functional independence. The causality of this association cannot be determined. Studies support the hypothesis that the exchange of online messages and functional independence have a bidirectional, additive and synergistic association. Longitudinal studies could elucidate the mechanisms involved in this association, in order to support digital inclusion policies for older adults, and to identify the profile of older adults who would benefit the most from digital inclusion.
Keywords : Elderly; Functional Capacity; Communication; Internet; E-mail.


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My program calculates/determines and displays various statistical data from a set of numbers stored in an array. One of the methods I need to implement is one that will calculate the standard deviation. I'm having a real heck of a time trying to get this to work correctly, because I am consistently getting incorrect results even after changing some of the code and looking at examples elsewhere on the Web. Could anyone please give me some suggestions/pointers? I have a method called mean as well, if that helps. My code for the stddev (standard deviation) is below:
public static double stddev(double[] nums) { double standdev=0; double x=0; double x2=0; for(int i=0; i<nums.length; i++) { x+=nums[i]; x2+=Math.pow(nums[i], 2); } standdev=(Math.sqrt(x2-((x)*(x)/nums.length))/(nums.length-1)); return standdev; }
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Sprint's early termination fee is $200 for customers who signed up before Nov. 2, 2008. For customers who signed up after that date, the early termination fee decreases by a $10 every month after the 4th month, though it never drops below $50. Sprint's ETF chart illustrates this.
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text: Ok so I have two 12" type R's and i have them in a box at about 4 cubes tuned to 37Hz and the subs are inverted. Right now Im in the process of building a new box, 4.3 cubes tuned to 32Hz but the subs are going to be put into the box. Im trying to achieve deep low bass, will this help me get there? And will there be a big difference with the subs facing the rear of my trunk since they were inverted originally? FYI Its in the trunk of a honda civic coupe.


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About Persephone
You bet the site should be blamed in the worst cases, its enabled, supported, facilitated and encouraged Harm to people, to their lives. Anyone who cares about their fellow human beings and their safety, their rights, would want them protected. The AGs and Tech itself need to stand up for essential human rights, there has been this moral blip and the results have been disastrous. Tech(dirt etc.) has a responsibility to clean up this mess, to show its Heart.
This article is so bogus, Chris Tolles has been responsible for the severe destruction of so many lives and businesses, I am so fed up with Tech covering up for his atrocities.
Doesn't seem worthy of drama-queen level complaining...
My feelings exactly.
Protecting privacy and rights is a common theme.
My comment stands.
You don't like IP's being protected Mike?
Have you seen this Guardian article?
"Most importantly, malware found a business model in the late 1990s. The fragility of the monoculture could be exploited for profit. Spamming – junk emailing – could now be done on a truly gigantic scale. Hitherto, it had required identifiable servers with broadband access to the net. But the new broadband environment offered a better infrastructure. All you had to do was find machines with fast connections, unpatched security vulnerabilities and non-savvy owners and infect them with a Trojan that would turn them into relay stations for spam (and which could be turned off just as easily, to avoid detection)."
Persephone, this is just plain stupid. It's like the KKK protesting the Westboro Baptist Church.
Nope. You've got it backwards Jay. The fanatics and the ones empowered in this Wild Wild West.
I do a pretty good job of ignoring inane BS that doesn't affect my well being.
Oh goody, goody, goody for you.
the chances of ANY people on that site being able to accomplish that feat are slim to none.
Nope. The more assassination threats are put out, including training videos, the higher the chance it will happen.
They get arrested. There's plenty of them.
Nope, hardly any.
Expression. They can say whatever the hell they want.
Nope, they cannot. People cannot be endangered. Even the Wild Wild West had sheriffs, the world you are supporting lacks even that.
And THAT is why we cannot ignore it.
Mike: "Let me get this straight, you want them all locked up just because they're making idle death threats? Meanwhile, the FBI can actually look at everything they're posting build a case and later indict and prosecute because it's out in the open."
Ha ha ha. The FBI has such poor surveillance of the internet its not funny.
Your point is ridiculous because its like saying: Let death threats be posted which threaten the life of the President and other Americans. The FBI will take care of them. Not.
Meanwhile, those threats of violence stand.
"Not to mention that in a free society, so long as none of them post "I'm getting a gun and shooting the president", it's still protected speech."
They do post that and close to it, all the time. To say that this is freedom just proves how dense you are, either that or that you support American Terrorism.
Freedom for what? Violence? yeah, the rats like that a whole lot also.
It is you who needs to grow up Jay.
Mike can take up for himself can't he?
Karl: "I don't care if the people who are on this page are xenophobic, racist assholes. They have a right to speak their (tiny) mind as much as anyone else, including me."
They do not have the right to threaten the life of the President of the United States and his wife. There are dozens of death threats to the President on the thread.
Where is the Secret Service or the FBI? MIA.
And if you really, really, really supported free speech totally, you would get on the page and troll-bust to counter the violence and racism, instead of letting it flourish.
Then and only then, can it be said that free speech balances out morally.
ummm, no I am not.
Sure, you can turn off the computer, but that doesn't mean that the content on it is not something that is wrong.
Let me give you an analogy here.
Thats like saying let them distribute weapons freely, so long as I don't know about it, its ok because I don't have to think about it.
"Persephone, why in the hell are you talking about death threats? What does that have to do with anything in regards to free speech needing to be culled?"
Allow me to adjust your hearing aid jay: Death Threats, a threat to human life. Mortal violence.
Wrong and criminal.
"Ok, you can see the speech and decipher it's not worth your time checking out. At least it's out in the open rather than some BS where it's hidden in the corner and given a cult following."
^ Yikes!
A FB group dedicated to deleting racist profiles, had its page hacked, the profile of its moderator hacked. Bots were made with stolen userpics of members which began posting as them.
A troll-buster on Sarah Palin's FB page had his computer hacked and FB deleted his profile, he lost all of his content. The Palinites then arrived at his home, asking for him.
Perhaps Mike has the same conception of death threats on the internet as the Topix moderators do. Anything can be white-washed, even death threats.
Topix Moderator: "these "death threats" that you have brought to our attention were people saying that you would be better off if you killed yourself. Now it wasn't a nice thing to say by any means but unless you are actually afraid of yourself then it can't really be considered a death threat."
Mike supports Topix here on TechDirt.
Check out this FB group.
It is LOADED with violent threats to kill liberals and even posts training videos of how to shoot. The President is getting many death threats here, as are all liberals:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=222921641069130&id=1773145219#!/p ages/DEAR-LORD-THIS-YEAR-YOU-TOOK-MY-FAVORITE-ACTOR-PATRICK-SWAYZIE-YOU-TOOK-MY-FAVORITE-ACTRESS-FAR AH-FAWCETT-YOU-TOOK-MY-FAVORITE-SINGER-MICHAEL-JACKSON-I-JUST-WANTED-TO-LET-YOU-KNOW-MY-FAVORITE-PRE SIDENT-IS-BARACK-OBAMA-AMEN/111712585523370
Does FB delete this group? Nope. Do they ban the violent trolls? Nope.
Oh yeah, the internet can regulate itself. Not.
Mike Masnick: "The internet isn't some wild west that needs taming. It's a new and different system that is sometimes used for bad purposes, but much more frequently used for very, very good purposes."
Yes it does need taming and your naive assumption that it is regulating itself is contrary to the proof that it is not staring you right in the face.
A very good question is why you are blind to this.
"If you cannot work out the difference between 'right and wrong' or 'good and bad' or 'legal and illegal' then you lose the right to act on your own behalf, you therefore are 'out of control' and that is why there are laws, for morons who cannot themselves conduct their lives in an honest and ethical, and socially acceptable manner."
Those who blindly tout the unregulated internet have a very naive idea that it can regulate itself.
The proof that is it NOT doing this, is staring them right in the face, yet they refuse to recognize it.
A very good question is WHY?
"The internet regulates it self very well"
No it does not.
"has spread so much good to the world"
It has also spread so much bad in the world. Hate speech is out of control and violence of the tongue is VERY real. Real violence is happening thanks to this unregulated Wild Wild West, people are being harmed.
The lawlessness of it and near-to-impossibility of applying the laws that do exist has enabled organized crime - not called that of course since there aren't laws in place - to exist like never before.
"I really hope that NO regulations"
That is suicide. That ignores the fact that Corporate America can and is taking advantage of this. That is another Wall Street in the making and has equal potential to harm our Country.
Mike Masnick:
"Morality and the rule of law do apply to the actions people do there."
No they do not.


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Turn FreeBSD into a Multimedia Workstation
I recently purchased a shiny new PC and decided to turn it into a multimedia desktop. I spend far too much time in research and networking; I figured it was time to delve deeper into the world of Flash, DVD, and mp3s.
which should get you started.
FreeBSD still seems to get a bad rap as a desktop. The impression is still out there that sure, it's a rock-solid server, but you need a master's degree in rocket science in order to get a sound card or Java to work. Hogwash. Granted, you still have to take the time to build and configure the components you desire, but that is the beauty of FreeBSD. No company is deciding for you what you want in your desktop, and you have the satisfaction of knowing you built your system your way. Not to mention the literally hundreds of multimedia applications to choose from, some which put their commercial counterparts to shame.
In today's article, I'll concentrate on a fresh install that is totally up-to-date, then move on to integrating Java, Flash, and streaming multimedia into a browser. I'll be taking the slow, systematic route, so follow along and pick out the bits that are interesting to you.
Being the paranoid person that I am, I like to install from CD, reboot into a firewalled system, than
CVSupto the latest sources. Before starting any install, I always copy the following onto a floppy:
My shell configuration file (
~/.cshrc) {see "Understanding Shell Prompts" }.
My firewall ruleset (
/etc/ipfw.rules) {see "BSD Firewalls: Fine-Tuning Rulesets"}.
My customized
My customized
cvsupconfiguration file,
refusefile, and
I then start the install from CD and choose to install everything, including the ports collection. Once
binhas been installed, I press Alt-F4, which now has a prompt. I then mount the floppy and copy over the first three files:
mkdir /floppy
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
cp /floppy/.cshrc .
source .cshrc (I now have my favorite prompt)
cp /floppy/.cshrc /usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc (now the users I create will
also get my favorite prompt)
cp /floppy/ipfw.rules /etc/
cp /floppy/rc.conf /etc/
umount /floppy
Usually, by the time I've unmounted the floppy, the install is also finished and prompting me for post-install configuration. I then reboot and watch the messages to ensure that my firewall rules successfully load.
Now that I'm protected by a firewall, I'll go out on the Internet and download the latest sources and today's port collection. First, I'll install the
suand answering the questions as they appear. (Pressing
cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
make install clean
enterfor the
Once the build is finished, I'll remount that floppy and copy over the
remaining files:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
cp /floppy/cvs-supfile ~
cp /floppy/make.conf /etc/
cd /usr/local/etc
mkdir cvsup
cd cvsup
mkdir sup
cd sup
cp /floppy/refuse .
umount /floppy
If you've never done a
CVSupbefore, you'll want to read the
of the handbook first.
I was both intimidated and intrigued when I was first introduced to the
CVSupconcept. Now, I couldn't live without it, and the knowledge
that my operating system is completely up-to-date in security and
functionality and that all of my installed applications are the latest and
greatest. The handbook will show you how to customize the files needed to
CVSup; mine look like this:
more /root/cvs-supfile
*default host=cvsup.ca.freebsd.org
*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
*default prefix=/usr
*default tag=RELENG_4_6_2_RELEASE
*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
ports-all tag=.
doc-all tag=.
more /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/refuse
more /etc/make.conf
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/defaults/make.conf,v 22.214.171.124
# 2002/06/02 16:07:01 matusita Exp $
CFLAGS= -O -pipe
# To avoid building various parts of the base system:
NO_BIND= true # do not build BIND
NO_FORTRAN= true # do not build g77 and related libraries
NO_I4B= true # do not build isdn4bsd package
NO_LPR= true # do not build lpr and related programs
NOPROFILE= true # Avoid compiling profiled libraries
NOUUCP= true # do not build uucp related programs
DOC_LANG= en_US.ISO8859-1
Once you have created your own customized files, invoke
CVSuplike so:
cvsup -g -L 2 ~/cvs-supfile
CVSuputility will do its thing, and the results will be displayed to
your screen. The first time you run this program, you will download a lot
of changes to
src; this means you'll also be rebuilding your
world. (What
did you do on Saturday? Oh, nothing much, just rebuilt the world ... ) You
don't have to rebuild the
worldeverytime you
CVSup, just when there are
changes to
src. Once your system is up-to-date,
srcrarely changes;
usually this only occurs when there is a security-related patch. The handbook
gives instructions on how to
CVSup; I prefer to do mine by hand, so I
can watch the output to see if
srchas changed.
CVSuputility will also download all of the new ports changes. Ports change
on a daily basis, so I like to
CVSupevery day or so to keep my ports collection
up-to-date. I then use the
portupgradeutility found in the
of the ports collection to keep my already installed ports up-to-date.
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Since I'm on a new system, I'll rebuild the
world once
CVSup is finished.
Again, if you've never built a
world , a careful read of that section of the handbook is in order.
Since this a fresh install, I don't have any data to back up. If I ever
need to rebuild the
world on a working system, I'll definitely take a few
minutes and back up
/etc and my home directory:
cd /etc
tar czvf /dev/fd0 .
tar czvf etc.tar .
I take extra care with
/etc and back it up to both a floppy and a file. I
then email myself that file, just in case things go terribly wrong. I tend
to be less diligent with my home directory, as I usually don't have any data
that I would shed tears over if it was lost. Except for my bookmarks; I
always email myself a copy of my bookmarks. If you're attached to your
data, back up your home directory.
The first time you build
world, follow the handbook's instructions
carefully and be prepared for it to take a while. Also, use the generic
kernel; wait until you have a new
world before you customize your kernel.
On a fresh install, I go straight into single user mode, which means I
can't do anything else on that computer for a few hours. On a working
system, I tend to cheat a little and not go into single user mode until it's
time to actually install the
shutdown now
cd /usr/src (enters single user mode)
make -j4 buildworld (this is the step that takes the longest;
it took about 2 hours on a freshly installed
P3 with 320 MB of RAM)
make buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
shutdown -r now
Once my system reboots, I have a totally up-to-date operating system,
which means I can start installing my favorite applications. I'll start
with the latest release of XFree86, as many of the multimedia
applications use it. I've found the easiest way to install is to
download the sources directly and use the built-in install script. Since I
haven't installed any applications yet, I'll download these files the
old-fashioned way. But first, I'll create a directory to hold the files
cd into that directory before starting the
mkdir /usr/XFree86-4
cd /usr/XFree86-4
ftp ftp.xfree86.org
Connected to ftp.xfree86.org.
220 ftp.xfree86.org FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Wed Dec 5 13:09:53 EST
2001) ready.
Name (ftp.xfree86.org:genisis): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password: firstname.lastname@example.com
ftp> cd pub
ftp> cd XFree86
ftp> cd 4.3.0
ftp> cd binaries
ftp> cd FreeBSD-4.x
ftp> get Xinstall.sh
ftp> get extract
ftp> get Xbin.tgz
ftp> get Xlib.tgz
ftp> get Xman.tgz
ftp> get Xdoc.tgz
ftp> get Xfnts.tgz
ftp> get Xfenc.tgz
ftp> get Xetc.tgz
ftp> get Xvar.tgz
ftp> get Xxserv.tgz
ftp> get Xmod.tgz
ftp> bye
Now, it's a simple matter of invoking the script:
sh Xinstall.sh
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Once that is finished, I start building my favorite windows manager.
Currently, this is KDE, which is a very, very long build; the kind of build
you start before going to bed in the hopes that it will be finished by the
time you wake up in the morning. So, I'll start its build in one terminal:
cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3
make install clean
I'll then go to a second terminal and install the XFree86-4 libraries
before I forget; most of the applications I'll be building require these:
cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries
make install clean
And on a third terminal, I'll configure the XFree86 Server. This is the
first time I had configured a system with an USB mouse; during the install, I
answered yes when it asked if I had a USB mouse. I'll now double-check
that I have the following lines in
Before configuring your own XFree86 Server, make sure you have the
following information:
- The make and model of your video card.
- The amount of memory in your video card.
- The type of mouse and what com port it is on, if it is a serial mouse.
XF86Setup (if you have an unsupported video card and get an error
message, choose xf86config instead)
If you're prompted to configure your mouse, do so, and test it 'til it
works. You will then be able to use it to select your video card and desired
settings. Hopefully, all will go well for you fairly quickly.
Once I had a running XFree86 Server, I left the superuser account and
created a
.xinitrc file in my home directory that contained the following
exec startkde
Once KDE finally finishes building, I'll be able to type
startx to
receive my KDE desktop.
Next comes the browser. I've been pretty satisfied with Mozilla; it has
its flaky moments, but for the most part it is speedy, configurable, and supports plugins and skins.
cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla
make install clean
Next, I'll create a custom kernel that supports Java and sound:
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
cp GENERIC MULTIMEDIA
I'll then add the following lines to
options USER_LDT #used by java
options CPU_ENABLE_SSE #used by DVD
device pcm #builds PCI soundblaster support
I've always had good luck with the SoundBlaster PCI 128; it's a
reasonably-priced soundcard that only requires one line in the kernel
configuration file in order to work.
Once I've saved my changes to
cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=MULTIMEDIA
make installkernel KERNCONF=MULTIMEDIA
Once the kernel is installed, I'll ensure that I've saved all of the work on my
other terminals, then:
Now, I'll use Mozilla to download the files I need for Java support:
- Click on "Linux GNUZIP Tar shell script."
- Accept license agreement.
- Save to
- Click to download JavaTM 2 SDK 1.3.1 (requires free registration).
- Save to
- Click on "Download the latest BSD JDK 1.3.1 patchset."
- Agree to download Patchset7.
- Save to
cd /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk13
make install clean
cd /usr/ports/java/jdk13
make install clean
To see if it worked, restart Mozilla and go to Help -> About Plug-ins. You
should get about a page's worth of Java plugins. A short trip to
javaboutique.internet.com should convince you that Java is indeed
Next comes streaming multimedia:
cd /usr/ports/www/plugger
make install clean
This port installs
midi, and
Finally, the Flash plugin:
cd /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla
make install clean
Before installing this plugin, be advised that Flash is a registered
trademark and it was "designed solely for the Windows PC and Macintosh
desktop operating systems." There are also redistribution issues, which
means that the GPL version does NOT support full Flash functionality.
This means that some Flash sites will work, some will hang, some will
crash your browser.
For example, if you install the Flash plugin, don't bother heading over to
www.shockwave.com unless you
want to watch your browser crash. And I've found that it depends upon
the phase of the moon and a certain combination of mojo whether or not
the Flash ecards at Hallmark will show me anything other than a grey
screen. However, my browser seems to have no problems displaying those
annoying Flash introductions that are becoming increasingly popular on
Web sites. Go figure.
Now that Mozilla supports plugins, I'll move on to installing some skins.
Go to the Edit menu -> Preferences. Click on Appearance -> Themes, then
click on the hyperlink for Get New Themes.
I liked the themes at mozdev.org. SkyPilot looked interesting, so I
clicked on its link, then on SkyPilot again in the Install row of the chart.
I then checked "Use this theme" in the Confirm box and pressed OK. Once the
install did its thing, I went back to Preferences, highlighted SkyPilot and
pressed OK. Mozilla informed me the changes would take effect the next time I
started Mozilla.
Now that my browser looks pretty awesome, I'll head over to my favorite wallpaper site:
To change the wallpaper in KDE, right click the desktop and choose
Configure Desktop. Click on the Background icon, the Wallpaper tab, and
browse for your favorite wallpaper.
In next week's article, we'll move on to the wonderful world of sound and
some utilities that will impress even your Windows buddies.
Editor's note: a previous version of this article mistakenly used
make installworld instead of
make installkernel. As well, the link to the plugger testing grounds has been fixed. We
apologize for the inconvenience.
Dru Lavigne
is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and
international speaker. She has over a decade of experience
administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO,
Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the
popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.
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The terminal design process is anticipated to begin later this year. Construction is expected to begin in 2014. Funding is provided through a variety of federal, state and local sources.
The CTA also approved the award of a contract for the Red Line South reconstruction.
The project, which begins in spring 2013, will completely rebuild the 43-year-old Red Line South, including all track, ties, ballast and drainage systems, from Cermak/Chinatown to 95th Street.
Kiewit Infrastructure Corporation of Chicago submitted the lowest bid for the trackwork component of project at $220.1 million and was found to be the most qualified. The bid was below project estimates and the next lowest bidder was 20 percent higher than Kiewit's submission.
Kiewit also slightly exceeded the CTA's target of 28 percent Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation, reaching 29.3 percent, by engaging the services of 23 DBE subcontractors, more than 50 percent of which are based in Chicago.
CTA is currently soliciting proposals for the station improvement portion of the project, which includes the renewal and improvement of the eight stations along the project footprint. Improvements will include three new elevators at the Garfield, 63rd and 87th Street stations, painting and lighting, bus bridge improvements and new roofs and canopies at some stations. CTA has established a 40 percent DBE participation goal for station work.
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Mountain View, Calif., Apr 15, 2014 / 12:57 am (CNA).- The controversial resignation of Mozilla Corporation CEO Brendan Eich prompted thousands of negative comments at the Web browser company's website, though the company now says it accepts those who do not support a redefinition of marriage.
Since Eich's April 3 resignation from Mozilla, the producer of the popular Firefox Web browser, tens of thousands of people have left negative comments on the Firefox feedback page. Many have said they will no longer use the Firefox browser because of Eich's resignation.
Mozilla said that Eich voluntarily resigned and was not asked by the board of directors to do so. The board responded to his resignation by asking him to take another position at the company, but Eich declined the offer, Mozilla said on its blog April 5.
"The board respects his decision," the company stated.
Mozilla rejected claims that the resignation of three members of the board of directors was due to concern about Eich's beliefs on marriage.
Eich, the inventor of the JavaScript programming language and a Mozilla co-founder, was named CEO of Mozilla Corporation on March 24.
Eich's appointment soon came under criticism from "gay marriage" advocates because of his $1,000 donation in 2008 to the Proposition 8 California ballot measure campaign that defined marriage in the state as a union of one man and one woman. The ballot measure won in the 2008 election, though a disputed 2013 Supreme Court decision resulted in it being invalidated.
Eich said March 26 that he was committed to making sure that Mozilla is "a place that includes and supports everyone."
However, the controversy continued, leading to Eich's resignation April 3. He said that he could no longer be "an effective leader" under the circumstances.
Mozilla on April 5 said that while the company has a statement of support for "marriage equality," it does not require this view to be held by employees, leaders, volunteers and supporters, known as "Mozillans."
"There is no litmus test to work at Mozilla," the company said April 5, voicing its commitment to the goal of "protecting and building an open web."
Some supporters of Eich announced their own boycott of the Firefox Web browser, and the resignation has prompted many reflections on what the case means about whether supporters of traditional marriage may face future political intimidation and threats to their livelihoods.


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This weekend the University of North Dakota men's hockey team heads on the road for the final regular season match-up of the season. UND will face Minnesota State in a series that has both team vying for the regular-season title.
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This Christmas, with some trepidation, I received my first smartphone. I was very excited about the larger screen size (so I could more easily view pictures) and the ability to connect to the internet when I needed to. But it wouldn't be stretching the truth to say I was a bit reluctant to be connected to the virtual world at all times.
For one thing, the very idea of choosing the right app for the right moment is overwhelming. Without the help of more technologically savvy friends and family, I'm not sure I would even venture into the app store on my own. Some apps I find to be quite useful, like the ones that tell you the weather or the very useful flashlight app, but to the uninitiated like me, it seems like the endless array of apps and games are just another way to distract from the life in front of me.
As a parent, I understand that a well-placed app can be great entertainment. As a baby, it was easy to distract my daughter with the car keys to rattle around or shove in her mouth. But toddlers can be more demanding creatures, and as my daughter has entered the preschool age, I was shocked to see that my daughter learned to navigate my smartphone faster than I did.
Apparently, this hasn't gone unnoticed by big companies either. In the education section of the iTunes app store, 72 percent of the top-selling apps are designed for preschool- and elementary-age kids, making it the most popular age category in the education section.
In a recent study by Parenting magazine, they state that 58 percent of kids ages 2 to 5 know how to play a basic computer game, while only 52 percent can ride a bike. Although these numbers are surprising at first, on further inspection it may not be as terrible as it seems. The basics, like tying shoes, are still being learned but just a little later. On the other hand, kids are learning some more complicated things earlier.
My generation was brought up with our "screen time" being Saturday morning cartoons. But this generation can also spend their screen time using interactive media. A recent study at Georgetown University found that interactive media lets kids retain information better than passively watching. This should come as no surprise. When you ask a question about what a kid might have learned on that program they were watching, it's a rare event when they can tell you something concrete that was learned and retained.
Screen time is still something to be monitored, but the benefits of introducing kids to technology sooner are fast outweighing the negatives. By interacting with a game or book during their screen time, learning becomes simply part of the fun of it.
But like any good thing, sometimes the world of apps and interactive media can be taken too far.
Although those interactive games are pushing our children's minds earlier and in creative ways, there is also a warning to parents. A new study at Temple University says that when a parent lets a child play with a game involving technology, we tend to "spout" instructions rather than focusing on the content of the game. Instead of playing together, we spend our time directing their actions and the outcome is not quite the same.
Increasingly, there are apps for almost everything. Just focusing on the parenting aspect of it, there are apps for keeping your kid on track developmentally, monitoring their sleep, or keeping up with their nutrition. A new app can decipher what your baby or toddler is babbling and tells you if they have just spoken their first official word or sentence. There are even potty training apps that remind the parent to take the kid to the potty and then links the results to Facebook so all your friends and family can applaud your kid for their success.
For now, my new phone is not being used to its app-crazy potential. Maybe, when the time is right, I'll monitor my life by the device in my hand. But, for now, I'm happy simply with the larger screen size for pictures.


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Geneva coach Ryan Estabrook spent a lot of time this offseason plotting a switch to a flat-4 formation.
Only a couple weeks into the season, the Vikings backtracked, reverting to their familiar 3-5-2 look.
Tuesday's 2-0 win against St. Charles North – the first 'W' of the season for the 1-3-1 Vikings – seemed to affirm the decision to switch back.
"My assistant coach, Rob Luhring, and I really did a lot of research and watched a lot of professional games over the summer and thought a great deal about what we'd like to see happen, but at the end of the day, it comes back to what works best for our team," Estabrook said. "Playing with three in back seems to work best for us now so that's what we need to do."
Estabrook said he was surprised it took the Vikings several matches to get untracked.
"I thought we'd have a decent squad this year," Estabrook said. "I was disappointed with the results, not just losses, but the way we played. Even the Kaneland game, we tied, was a disappointing result, and we didn't play our best game. I think we definitely improved a lot going forward into the North game."
Estabrook said the return of defender Brian Pacilio, who missed the first few games with a knee injury, also helped jump-start the Vikings, who will seek their second straight win Saturday at DeKalb.
Bulldogs loosen up
Like Geneva, Batavia snared its first win Tuesday, defeating Upstate Eight Conference River foe Elgin, 4-2.
John Barnes had three goals for Batavia, while David Curnock supplied the other score.
Batavia coach Mark Gianfrancesco said Barnes in particular and the Bulldogs in general seemed to loosen up during the Elgin match after a frustrating 0-4 start to the season.
"I think once the goals started coming, you saw some confidence in them, and then other people got confidence," Gianfrancesco said. "Some of the players I haven't seen play the way I know they can play, they loosened up quite a bit, started playing the relaxed, smart ball we're used to seeing. I think it's just getting the monkey off their backs."
Gianfrancesco also flip-flopped the order he was rotating his goalies, moving Mike Rueffer to the first half and inserting Nick Foster for the second half.
"After you go [0-4], everything's open for discussion," Gianfrancesco said.
Gianfrancesco said it "kind of stinks" that the Bulldogs must wait more than a week until they try to build off the Elgin win Wednesday against Neuqua Valley.
Missing piece for East
St. Charles East junior Kevin Heinrich, the Saints' starting left-back, is likely to miss the rest of the season after suffering a broken clavicle during the team's 1-0 loss Aug. 28 to Streamwood.
Heinrich was briefly hospitalized after a frightening fall during the match.
"We're obviously very glad he's going to hopefully be fine in the long run," East coach Paul Jennison said. "It was just an unfortunate accident, and one hopefully he comes back from even stronger."
Without Heinrich, Jennison might do some position shuffling and is "looking to fit the best pieces of the jigsaw, so to speak."
"We certainly have options and we're very confident with the boys we can put in there," Jennison said. "Hopefully they end up having a good season moving forward wherever they are in the field."
East started the season 5-0 before back-to-back shutout losses to Streamwood and Lyons (2-0).
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What he did: Barnes scored a trio of goals in Tuesday's 4-2 Upstate Eight Conference River win against Elgin.
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What he did: Hardy netted a pair of goals on Tuesday as the Warriors blanked Chicago Christian, 6-0, in Suburban Christian Conference play.
St. Charles North players must learn to rise to the occasion.
After North fell to Geneva, 2-0, on Tuesday, North Stars coach Eric Willson said "We need our guys to understand what a rivalry game is and what a Tri-Cities game means."
Whether Kaneland can continue to build on its strong early-season momentum – which included a 1-1 tie against former nemesis Geneva – as the Knights gear up the Northern Illinois Big 12 battles ahead.
Belated congrats to the Kaneland Knights for tying Geneva.
The Vikings might not be playing so hot early this season (although they looked pretty good against North), but still, Geneva is a program that has owned Kaneland over the years, back when they were conference opponents.
For Kaneland to play Geneva to a tie says plenty about how far Kaneland soccer has come.


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