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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:53 PM GMT on May 31, 2012
The record books for Greenland's climate were re-written on Tuesday, when the mercury hit 24.8°C (76.6°F) at Narsarsuaq, Greenland, on the southern coast. According to weather records researcher Maximiliano Herrera, this is the hottest temperature on record in Greenland for May, and is just 0.7°C (1.3°F) below the hottest temperature ever measured in Greenland. The previous May record was 22.4°C (72.3°F) at Kangerlussuaq (called Sondre Stormfjord in Danish) on May 31, 1991. The 25.2°C at Narsarsuaq on June 22, 1957 is the only June temperature measured in Greenland warmer than yesterday's 24.8°C reading. Wunderground's extremes page shows that the all-time warmest temperature record for Greenland is 25.5°C (77.9°F) set on July 26, 1990. The exceptional warmth this week was caused by the combination of an intense ridge of high pressure and a local foehn wind, said the Danish Meteorological Institute. The unusual May heat has extended to Scotland, which had its hottest May temperature on record on May 25 at Achnagart: 29.3°C (85°F). Greenland's Narsarsuaq has seen a string of 3 consecutive days over 70°F this week--the 3rd, 7th, and 12th warmest days there since record keeping began in 1941. The ridge of high pressure responsible is expected to stay in place several more days, bringing additional 70° days over Southern Greenland. The warm May temperatures could be setting the stage for a big Greenland melt season this summer--the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) is predicting a 50 - 60% that the southern 2/3 of Greenland will experience above-average temperatures this summer. They forecast just a 10 - 15% chance of below-average temperatures.
Figure 1. Difference between the number of melt days in 2011 and the average number of melt days during the period 1979 - 2010. Large sections of the island experienced twenty more days with melting conditions than average. Image credit: Arctic Report Card
Why Greenland is important
If the massive icecap on Greenland were to melt, global sea level would rise 7 meters (23 ft). Temperatures in Greenland are predicted to rise 3°C by 2100, to levels similar to those present during that warm period 120,000 years ago. During that period, roughly half of the Greenland ice sheet melted, increasing sea level by 2.2 - 3.4 meters (7.2 - 11.2 ft.) However, the 2007 IPCC report expects melting of the Greenland ice sheet to occur over about a 1,000 year period, delaying much of the expected sea level rise for many centuries. While Greenland's ice isn't going to be melting completely and catastrophically flooding low-lying areas of the earth in the next few decades (sea level is only rising about 3 mm per year or 1.2 inches per decade at present), the risk later this century needs to be taken seriously. Higher sea levels will cause increased erosion, salt water intrusion, and storm surge damage in coastal areas, in addition to a loss of barrier formations such as islands, sand bars, and reefs that would normally protect coastal zones from battering by waves and wind. Additionally, coastal zones are sites of incredible economic and agricultural activity, which would also be negatively affected by higher sea levels. Currently, melting ice from Greenland is thought to cause about 0.7 mm/year of global sea level rise, which is about 20 - 25% of the global total, according to an international research group led by the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, in an article published the latest issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1 June 2012. In 2007, the IPCC estimated that Greenland ice melt was responsible for only 10 - 15% of the total global sea level rise. Ice loss in Greenland is accelerating, and if current ice loss trends continue for the next ten years, Greenland's contribution to sea level rise will double to 1.4 mm/yr by 2022. The increased ice loss in Greenland is being driven by a combination of warmer air temperatures, warmer ocean temperatures, and loss of Arctic sea ice. Ocean temperatures surrounding Southern Greenland have increased by 1 - 2°C since 1990 (figure at right.)
Figure 2. Monthly unsmoothed values of the total mass (in gigatons, Gt), of the Greenland ice sheet from the GRACE satellites. On the horizontal axis, each year begins on 1 January. Each small + symbol is a monthly value. Between 2003 - 2009, Greenland lost an average of 250 gigatons of ice per year. In 2011, the loss was 70% greater than that. Image credit: Arctic Report Card
Update on the 2011 Greenland melt season
According to the 2011 Arctic Report Card, it was another very warm year in Greenland in 2011, which led to substantial melting of the ice. Here are some of the highlights from the report:
1) The area and duration of melting at the surface of the Greenland ice sheet in summer 2011 were the third highest since 1979.
2) Increased surface melting and below average summer snowfall in recent years has made the icecap steadily darker. In 2011, the icecap had the lowest reflectivity (albedo) of any year since satellite measurements of reflectivity began in 2000.
3) The area of glaciers that empty into the sea continued to decrease, though at less than half the rate of the previous 10 years.
4) Total ice sheet mass loss in 2011 was 70% larger than the 2003 - 2009 average annual loss rate of -250 gigatons per year. According to satellite gravity data obtained since 2002, ice sheet mass loss is accelerating.
Wunderground's Greenland page.
Wunderground's sea level rise page.
Danish Meteorological Institute's extremes page for Greenland.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
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A febrile seizure is a
A febrile seizure can be very frightening for any parent or caregiver. However, most of the time, they do not cause any harm and does not mean the child has a more serious long-term health problem.
Seizure - fever induced
Febrile seizures occur most often in otherwise healthy children between ages 9 months and 5 years. Toddlers are most commonly affected. Febrile seizures often run in families.
Most febrile seizures occur in the first 24 hours of an illness and may not occur when the fever is highest. Ear infections or any cold or viral illness may trigger a febrile seizure.
A febrile seizure may be as mild as the child's eyes rolling or limbs stiffening. A simple febrile seizure stops by itself within a few seconds to 10 minutes. It is often followed by a brief period of drowsiness or confusion.
Febrile seizures may begin with the sudden tightening (contraction) of muscles on both sides of a child's body.
A seizure that lasts longer than 15 minutes, is in just one part of the body, or occurs again during the same illness is not a normal febrile seizure.
The health care provider may diagnose febrile seizure if the child has a grand mal seizure but does not have a history of seizure disorders (epilepsy). In infants and young children, it is important to rule out other causes of a first-time seizure, especially meningitis.
In a typical febrile seizure, the examination usually is normal, other than symptoms of the illness causing the fever. Typically, the child will not need a full seizure workup, which includes an
Further testing may be needed if:
During the seizure, leave your child on the floor.
Do NOT try to force anything into the child's mouth to prevent biting the tongue, as this increases the risk of injury. Do NOT try to restrain your child or try to stop the seizure movements.
Focus your attention on bringing the fever down:
After the seizure, the most important step is to identify the cause of the fever.
Meningitis causes less than 0.1% of febrile seizures. It should always be considered, especially in children less than 1 year old, or those who still look ill when the fever comes down.
The first febrile seizure is a frightening moment for parents. Most parents are afraid that their child will die or have brain damage. However, simple febrile seizures are harmless. There is no evidence that they cause death, brain damage, epilepsy, a decrease in IQ, or learning problems.
Most children outgrow febrile seizures by age 5.
Few children have more than three febrile seizures in their lifetime. The number of febrile seizures is not related to future risk of epilepsy.
Children who would develop epilepsy anyway will sometimes have their first seizures during fevers. These seizures most often do not appear like a typical febrile seizure.
Children should see a doctor as soon as possible after their first febrile seizure.
If the seizure is lasting several minutes, call 911 to have an ambulance bring your child to the hospital.
If the seizure ends quickly, drive the child to an emergency room when it is over.
Take your child to the doctor if repeated seizures occur during the same illness, or if this looks like a new type of seizure for your child.
Call or see the health care provider if other symptoms occur before or after the seizure, such as:
It is normal for children to sleep or be briefly drowsy or confused right after a seizure.
Because febrile seizures can be the first sign of illness, it is often not possible to prevent them. A febrile seizure does not mean that your child is not getting the proper care.
Occasionally, a health care provider will prescribe diazepam to prevent or treat febrile seizures that occur more than once. However, no medication is completely effective in preventing febrile seizures.
Mikati MA. Febrile seizures.In: Kliegman RM,Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds.Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics.19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 586.1.
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Thanks for the replies. I agree that for trial/ hunt test purposes it is best to get out and line the dog. For hunting purposes, when the action is heavy, it's not realistic to get out of the blind everytime. I guess I was hoping for some sort of jaw dropping advice. The best case I guess I can hope for is that he learns the difference between the two. This has been his first real hunting season and its amazing how fast he picked up the ins and outs of hunting. I even had to laugh out laugh out loud when he started dropping the birds at the front of the pit and hurrying back to the dog box to wait on the next group of birds to start working the hole. For me it felt like we were in sync together and getting the job done. In my opinion he was doing what he was bred to do but had this season been a hunt test we wouldn't have any ribbons.
I have to admit if we had not trained for a hunt test standard he would not be half the dog he is today and this season would have been disastrous. Thanks again!
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Cologne is a scented liquid made from alcohol and essential oils. Cologne poisoning occurs when someone accidentally or intentionally swallows cologne.
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Low blood sugar may occur. Children are particularly prone to developing low blood sugar. Symptoms of low blood sugar can include
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How well you do depends on the amount of poison swallowed and how quickly treatment is received. The faster you get medical help, the better the chance for recovery.
Cologne poisoning may result in a condition similar to being drunk (alcohol intoxication) to severe breathing problems, seizures, and coma. A product with more isopropyl alcohol may potentially cause a more serious illness.
Jacobsen D, Hovda KE. Methanol, ethylene glycol, and other toxic alcohols. In: Shannon MW, Borron SW, Burns MJ, eds. Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 32.
Caraccio TR, McFee RB. Cosmetics and toilet articles. In: Shannon MW, Borron SW, Burns MJ, eds. Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 100.
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Williams visited the Southern Highlands in New South Wales in 1957 where he sketched and painted images of trees, rocks and the Nattai River. Among the distinguishing aspects of Williams's landscapes of this region are the softness of light and the subtle approach to colour and tonality. He was interested in the views of the artist Max Meldrum who felt that the tonalities of the Australian bush are 'the most beautiful in the world'. At the same time he was inspired by the Post-Impressionist work of Paul Cézanne. In The Nattai River the tree trunks appear almost weightless against the luminous rocks and sweeping river in the foreground. This painting was Williams's first oil to enter a public collection.


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I have just learned that Nintendo of America's Ken Lobb has left the company to go to work for Microsoft. No reasons were given for the long-time producer's decision to resign.
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Peter Aerts confirmed today to Dutch site Round1Network that as rumored, he will be fighting Tyrone Spong on June 30 for It's Showtime. He also mentioned that the event will be at the Brabant Hallen in Den Bosch, Holland. The fight will be the last of his legendary, illustrious career.
Spong is one of the toughest possible match-ups for "The Dutch Lumberjack," and it's fitting, as Aerts has fought the best of the best for his whole career, from beginning to end. Before the fight happens, Spong will face off with Melvin Manhoef on January 28. The fight card of the event on June 30 will be announced during It's Showtime's show on January 28.
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'Andrew's Brain': E.L. Doctorow plays mind games
His new novel moves from an apparent therapy session to a satire of George W. BushJanuary 11, 2014 11:09 PM
According to The New York Times, E.L. Doctorow has been in "the first rank of American writers" since the publication of his 1971 novel, "The Book of Daniel," a fictionalized treatment of the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Mr. Doctorow's enduring interest in American history is on vivid display in his latest novel, "Andrew's Brain," which is part science lecture, part parable and part slyly oblique satire of George W. Bush's presidency.
Written in the form of an ongoing dialogue between "Andrew" -- a mysterious narrator who shifts back and forth between the first and third person in relating the events of his own life -- and someone Andrew calls "Doc," it's an odd little experiment of a book.
Random House ($26).
Describing himself as a cognitive scientist, Andrew holds forth on a variety of topics, including but not limited to the human brain and its properties; his first wife, Martha; his teaching career; his second wife, Briony; his two doomed daughters, one from each marriage; Mark Twain; the attacks of 9/11; the New York marathon; California; little people; the war on terror; and artificial intelligence.
By turns bitter, dark, funny, frightening, tragic and eerie, these linked disquisitions are the meat of the book. What is going on inside of Andrew's brain? Where is he? Who is he? With whom is he speaking? Is "Doc" real?
"Writing is like talking to yourself," Andrew observes at one point, "which I have been doing with you all along anyway, Doc." And who, after all, are we, the readers? Are we confessors? Witnesses? Voyeurs? These are compelling enough questions to arouse the curiosity of any reader with an interest in ontology or epistemology.
The introduction of his sinister advisers, saddled by their overgrown frat boy of a boss with the undignified nicknames of "Chaingang" and "Rumbum," is the biggest clue to the unnamed but frequently invoked president's identity. According to Andrew, the president, who was his roommate during their undergraduate days at Yale, was "feckless, irresponsible, in over his head."
Much has been written about the 43rd president of the United States, with "his chosen war, his anti-scientism," but until now, none of it has sprung from the imaginary perspective of his fictional college roommate. "I recognized the same twist of the mouth before the punch line of some dumb joke. ... And the cockiness was there. But the eyes, a little bit scared, the eyes. Like he'd realized what he'd become," says Andrew.
It's an innovative, provocative way of injecting fresh life into a sketch of a man who is by now as familiar as a cartoon character to most Americans (and just as lovable or loathsome, depending on your political persuasion).
"I am politically informed," declares Andrew toward the novel's end. "Apart from everything I've been telling you about myself, I am a citizen sensitive to his country's history." The same could be said of Mr. Doctorow. Although he is particularly interested in America, his oeuvre bears the stamp of his fascination with the psychological and social dynamics underlying all politics and history.
Mr. Doctorow is not a writer of conventional historic fiction, in the sense that he doesn't merely transcribe the minutiae of certain points and places in time, adding a descriptive flourish or two. Instead, he locates and amplifies the human emotions that lend poignancy to particular moments in individual lives.
He does not invent underdeveloped characters, for the sake of convenience, to illustrate broad historic concepts; he illuminates these concepts by taking us inside the mind of a fully formed figure -- a man whose pain, fear, desire and suffering we come to know and identify with. The journey from this novel's unsettling, parabolical beginning to its ambiguous end is frequently disorienting, but it's worth the trip.
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Next is research. Africans are known for their amazing ironwork. What did their kilns and tools look like? Examples were difficult to find. While the author needs written information for research, the artist needs images. Never Forgotten combines realism with fantasy. The art had to be believable, but the elements—air, water, fire, and earth—were left to our imaginations. It is our job to fill in between the lines, to show details the author didn't have the space to tell. We must build that visual world. What are the characters wearing? What are their emotions? We pace the action and avoid repetition. If the main character is in the foreground, on the next page he might be farther back. What time of day is it? We can show that with color. Did the story take place in one day or over many days? These are some of the things we must think about.
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A comprehensive DR business case quantifies a full range of concurrent benefits.
Dr. Woychik is vice president, regulatory affairs for Comverge Inc.
A comprehensive DR business case quantifies a full range of concurrent benefits.
Electricity load-serving entities (LSEs) face rapid peak demand growth, skyrocketing expansion costs, mounting risks with electricity resource siting, and unprecedented environmental constraints. As a result, the regulatory metric for resource selection has become least-cost, least-risk.
In this context, utilities and regulators increasingly are attracted to the benefits and market potential of new demand-response (DR) capabilities.
DR offers operational flexibility, and emerging third-party DR contracts minimize risks to LSEs and their customers. But after 25 years of using standard practices to evaluate DR's cost-effectiveness, the primary DR benefits remain poorly defined. In most analysis to date, some of DR's most important wholesale and retail benefits have been given short shrift, or ignored completely. For example, the reduction in region-wide prices from the use of DR rarely is quantified or included at all.
It is well accepted that fast, dispatchable DR can avoid the capital and operating costs of peaking-power capacity such as combustion turbines (CT). Increasingly DR also is demonstrating its ability to avoid capital costs and energy losses related to transmission and distribution. DR resources can be offered and traded in capacity markets, and scheduled by an ISO/RTO to avoid operating reserves, short-term energy, and congestion costs.
DR offers a range of business-case benefits. High-value DR can avoid the need for incremental generation, transmission and distribution capacity, while providing environmental mitigation, reducing prices, helping to mitigate market power, and providing additional option value for market participants.
The challenge is to demonstrate how DR can be used to concurrently capture as many high-value benefits as possible. Optimizing DR capabilities to target the highest and best uses will allow utilities and their customers to achieve maximum value and net concurrent benefits.
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DR reduces electricity use with a spectrum of technologies ranging from simple manual controls to automated digital systems. Dispatchable DR can harness direct load-control (DLC) devices, load-management controls, smart thermostats, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and digital energy management systems (EMS). Digital controls can cycle and curtail discretionary loads (lights, motor drives, HVAC systems, etc.) and automatically be triggered by price or reliability.
A continuum of DR services illustrates its relative value in comparison to the supply-side capital and operating costs it can avoid. The ability of DR to reduce supply-side costs is largely a function of the following:
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That was the funniest and saddest thing I have read all day!
I can't stand saban...
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
I couldnt help but laugh but we have to move on people....
I like the upside Tanny has....Hindsight is 20/20 cant change the past so lets just think future
**** us.
That hurt to read.
While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?
Would have been interesting to see if Saban would have allowed Brees to shine.
Brees is the perfect fit in Payton's offense, but under Saban it would have been a ground and pound style and Brees would have been relegated to game manager.
It's not safe to assume Brees would be putting up 5,000 yards every season under Saban who is stubborn and hard headed as they come.
- Hall of Fame Safety Rod Woodson on Dan Marino playing in today's NFL:
"...the best quarterback I believe is Dan Marino..."
"If he played with these rules, he'd throw for 100,000 yards."
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Brees would have had a hard time winning anything with Saban doing the drafting. I don't care how many NCAA championships he wins, as a personnel man he makes Ireland look like Bill Polian in his prime.


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Morecambe remain at the top of League Two despite drawing on Tuesday, while bottom side Plymouth lost again.
Rotherham also drew to stay second, while Tom Pope hit a last-gasp winner to send Port Vale up to third at the expense of Bradford.
Elsewhere, Paulo Di Canio's Swindon registered their third win on the bounce to sink Crawley, while down at the bottom, Plymouth lost at Barnet and Hereford slumped to a home loss to Aldershot.
Fresh from notching a hat-trick against Crawley at the weekend, Danny Carlton was again on the scoresheet as Morecambe drew 1-1 at Macclesfield to remain at the top of the standings.
AFC Wimbledon 0 Northampton 3
Accrington Stanley 1 Rotherham 1
Barnet 2 Plymouth 0
Bristol Rovers 1 Shrewsbury 0
Burton Albion 1 Crewe 0
Crawley Town 0 Swindon 3
Dag & Red 0 Oxford United 1
Hereford 0 Aldershot 2
Macclesfield 1 Morecambe 1
Port Vale 3 Bradford 2
Southend 1 Gillingham 0
Torquay 2 Cheltenham 2
Ryan Cresswell was on target as Rotherham drew with Accrington Stanley at the Crown Ground to stay second.
Port Vale rose to third as Tom Pope hit a late winner to sink Bradford in a five-goal thriller.
Shrewsbury dropped to fourth after Chris Zebroski notched the winner for Bristol Rovers at the Memorial Stadium.
Kevin Nicholson rescued a point for Torquay as the Gulls twice came from behind to draw against fellow high-fliers Cheltenham.
Burton rose to seventh thanks to Justin Richards' effort against Crewe, while Crawley fell to eighth as Medhi Kerrouche scored a brace for Swindon, who climbed to 10th with the victory.
Mark Phillips scored a late winner as 10-man Southend beat Gillingham to rise to ninth.
10-man Northampton thumped AFC Wimbledon 3-0, while Robert Hall fired Oxford into 11th place at the expense of Dagenham & Redbridge.
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Previous research that we have undertaken in the South Pacific has shown that people being treated for diabetes pay little heed to brochures, pamphlets, or posters most commonly used by Health Ministries to provide public health information. We propose to transmit the message of healthy lifestyles through Community Theater (CT), using professional actors to dramatize practical approaches in dealing with illness and best methods to prevent falling victim to diabetes. These professionals will audition local community members to establish a network of CT cells in Fiji to ensure the sustainability of the concept and its ability to address the increasingly severe problem of diabetes in the South Pacific region.
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World Diabetes Congress, Melbourne (Australia),December 2013,
"The diabetic epidemic: new education tools", University of Georgia, School of Public Health; Athens, Georgia, (USA), September 2014
Association of Third World Studies Annual meetings, Denver (USA), October 2014
World Congress on Public Heatlh, Kolkata (India), February 2015
Association of Third World Studies Annual meetings, Quito (Ecuador), November 2015
World Diabetes Congress, Vancouver (Canada), December 2015
Interactive theatre joins the fight against diabetes in Fiji [2] (ABC Radio Australia, December 6, 2013)
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I got to Master level while I wasn't looking. =)
In other news, FreeBSD/powerpc slowly wends it's way towards single-user mode.
I got to Master level while I wasn't looking. =)
In other news, FreeBSD/powerpc slowly wends it's way towards single-user mode.
Singing is fun. =)
Well here I am in Adelaide. Spent the last most-of-week in McLaren Vale (south of Adelaide, one of Australia's better wine-growing regions) rehearsing Leonard Bernstein's Mass among other things and drinking far too much beer. Life's tough. =)
Now I'm back in Adelaide and staying at a friend's place while we continue to get the first concert (not the Mass) ready for performance on Saturday night. Then we go back to getting the Mass ready for the following Saturday night.
But before I go...
It compiled! It compiled and it linked! The latest snapshot of the FreeBSD/PowerPC kernel compiles and links. it doesn't boot though, unsurprisingly. It's a nice milestone to take a break on though.
The busy times are upon us.
I'm not going to get much work done (Open Source or otherwise) for the next month. Firstly this weekend I'm off up to an old mining town called Walhalla where my partner is finishing the hike she's been on for the last seven weeks. Then in the middle of next week I'm off to Adelaide for a choral festival that runs until 11 February. Then I'm back in Melbourne for four days, then back to Adelaide again for Womadelaide which is a three day world music festival that runs every two years. After that, I finally get to stay in the same place for a while, I hope. =)
locore.s isn't as scary as pmap (I think^H^H^H^H^Hhope)
I printed out the locore.s from NetBSD/macppc last night and managed to read through most of it on the tram into work today. I also printed out FreeBSD/alpha's so I can try and work out how they differ in what they do. Then I get to go through and implement a locore for FreeBSD/PowerPC. It doesn't look _as_ scary as pmap. I'm probably cursing myself here though. =)
I finally got my car back today. I had a close encounter with another guy coming out of a petrol station last year and hadn't got around to getting it sorted out until now. The car looks a lot happier now. =)
pmap is scary
I did a fair bit of work making the FreeBSD/PowerPC pmap implementation compile today. It ain't going to work yet as a lot of the functions just return, but at least it's not flooding me with undefined references anymore. Once the thing's booting part-way I'll go back and do a major tidy-up of it.
I'm heading off to see The Wall tonight in 70mm. =)
I'm baaack...
Whee! I finally got access to my advogato account back. =) Many thanks to raph for chasing up my password (which I'd forgotten) and sending it to me.
Well, I've started working on a port of FreeBSD to the PowerPC. The reasoning behind this project is that I want to learn more about the guts of the OS and about the PowerPC, so it seemed the best way to go about it. You can see where I'm up to by going to the homepage link above.
Oh yeah, I got my FreeBSD commit bit too. =)
I found a nasty bug in my SSL patch for Squid. I wasn't shutting the connection down properly. I've fixed my patch, and it's available here.
I'm starting a revision of the system. I'm putting shared libraries in. My original root module was all static, but I'm trialling it with shared libs, and the space saving appears to be quite substantial. I'm keeping various critical binaries static, almost everything is dynamic. I'm also writing a script for the build process. I should probably be doing it in make, but I'm doing it in perl for the moment, because I need it quickly. =)
I'm starting to bolt Jonathan Lemon's kqueue into Squid as a replacement for select/poll. I'm also thinking about having a bash at bolting rproxy into Squid as well, but we'll have to see about that. =)
I finished rewriting my Squid SSL patch. It now applies against Squid 2.4-DEVEL2. You can get it here.
I changed my methodology this time around. Instead of the gratuituous hackery I was attempting to sprinkle through the various HTTP reader and writer functions, I added a read_method and write_method field to the fde struct and then converted all of the calls to read() and write() to calls to the methods instead. This allows me to override the calls with SSL calls, and also means that other odd read/write types can be added later if people so desire.
Please have a play and let me know. =)
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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Photos are amazing!!
Man this place is incredible looking. I especially loved Photo #15, you should blow that one up & frame it when you get home...
I'm really enjoying reading about your trip, what a great adventure!
Touring around Cappadocia
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Sometimes I feel like being around people, but for a few days I was feeling a bit introverted, so I don't really have my usual Lynn Candid People Shots in this collection. I was touring around the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia with my guide Suat and just looking at everything mostly. While everyone here has been incredibly kind to me, the thing I will most remember about Turkey isn't so much the people but the landscapes actually. And the birds... wherever I go there seem to be birds singing everywhere.
Turkey is far different than I had expected it to be. I had an image of it as a bit more exotic and a lot more Middle Eastern than it is. It is actually a very cosmopolitan and westernized country when you are in the Western parts of it (Eastern Turkey is a different story, but I do not have the time to explore it on this trip), and more often than not reminds me of Italy (albeit FAR less crowded). There are times where the landscapes remind me of Italy, or Germany, or even Sierra Nevada. But the most amazing thing about Turkey is that there are ALSO moments where the landscapes look like nothing you have ever seen. Thanks to millions of years of volcanic eruptions or calcium deposits or erosion or whatever... Turkey contains some landscapes that look like another planet. Cappadocia's fairy chimneys are a good example, and you'll see more in my photos of Parmukkale.
I will let the photos tell the story here. Well, once I get them uploaded.
Side note: Turkish cough medicine tastes like candy. It doesn't do anything for a cough, but it would be a good dessert topping.
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"I encourage a lively exchange of ideas, and
students are expected to offer the unique
perspective they bring to the work of counseling."
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At a graduate level, students are highly motivated to learn, making Adler a compelling environment in which to teach. I typically teach applied counselling courses and, as a result, my philosophy is student focused. My job is to provide a stimulating environment where learning material is presented, modeled, and then experienced by the students. I encourage a lively exchange of ideas, and students are expected to offer the unique perspective they bring to the work of counselling.
The Adler model of social interest forms a vital perspective among approaches to professional psychology. Because this core focus is woven throughout the social, academic, and administrative environment, Adler is unique among professional psychology schools.
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I want to compliment you and what appears to be excellent results from seizing an opportunity and working hard to capitalize on it.
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When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger.
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Is Tim Tebow still excited?
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That Mike Trico call to end that Titans game was so perfect.
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This would be great if they bring in Parcells. He may rehire Tony Morono.
They need playmakers and Parcells would make them cornfed.
It would still be just as funny if all the Jets fans can brag about is not being in last place due to a tie breaker.
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At Rooftop, we have always envisioned our Opening Night show as a rebellion against stale cinematic forms and status quo stories. This year, revolution is in the air, and our programming crests the top of the upheaval.
Following the year of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, the world seems poised on a precipice, unsure whether to fall backward or leap into the void. Rooftop's 2012 selections call boldly for a radical new future. History is being written and re-written, the filmmakers and people of the world are ready to act, and the time is forever now. As the torch-bearing rioters seen here will tell you, "If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. And if you don't wait…"
-Mark Elijah Rosenberg
Follow the Sun (MK12 | USA | 4 min.)
A classic visit to the refreshment stand before we begin our mind-bending year of revolution.
#Occupy Bat Signal for the 99% (Mark Read | USA | 5 min.)
A call to action from the rooftops to the 99%.
MONTH ONE (Micheal Galinsky and Joanna Arnow | USA | 10 min.)
A dynamic and compelling overview of the Occupy Wall Street beginnings.
A Morning Stroll (Grant Orchard | USA | 7 min.)
Unusual things are happening all around you, every day, forever.
A Chjàna (Jonas Carpignano | Italy, USA | 21 min.)
An intimate epic of race riots and liberation.
Aaron Burr, Part 2 (Dana O'Keefe | USA | 8 min.)
An American revolutionary updates his place in history in this radically inventive and modern bio-pic. Shown in 2012.
More Than Winning (Nick Fox-Gieg | Toronto, Canada | 3 min.)
"They gave me a gun, a pick, and a hand grenade, and said 'Win at any cost,' and I said 'Right.' There's nothing I love more than winning..." From a story by Susan Murray.
A Brief History of John Baldessari (Henry Joost | USA | 6 min.)
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A man goes out fishing. He should have taken a bigger boat.
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Dr. Miles practices at the Madisonville office. After practicing in Mandeville for 13 years, she helped the St. Tammany Physicians Network open its Madisonville office to improve patient access to care in the parish.
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Posted On August 25, 2012 by Sarah van Schagen
Much has changed since a teenaged Feo Pitcairn took his first wildlife photographs and developed them in his parent's cellar.
For one thing, he's no longer using that darkroom; his equipment now includes high-definition digital cameras that produce images with up to 40 million pixels.
His work has been showcased at the Smithsonian, on PBS and in countless books, magazines and calendars. And his film "Ocean Voyagers," narrated by Meryl Streep, has been converted to 3-D and nominated for an award at the upcoming BLUE Ocean Film Festival.
Most recently, he's transitioned from natural-history filmmaking back to his first love, still photography, and he's launching an online gallery to share his work with the world.
A former Ocean Conservancy board member and long-time supporter of the organization, Feo has also witnessed a great deal of change in the health of our ocean during his many years as a photographer. He shares his experiences and insights—as well as a slideshow of beautiful ocean images—after the jump.


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Angelfish community tank and tank mates?
Hey all,
I'm redesigning an aquarium for my dad since all his old fish died off age and he really wants an overhaul with it.
he had clown loaches angelfish and kardinal tetras in it before with a light mixture gravel, lava stones with javaplants.( so very open and boring)
the tank is currently cleaned out and rinsed and will be cycled after its filled for a month or 2 before we get the angelfish.
the tank is 200cm by 80cm by 80cm so thats 1280Liter (correct me if im wrong) not sure what that makes in ft and gallon but i'm sure you can work that out.
He has a wishlist that is very small.
So far his must have list: 5-6 angelfish and clown loaches.
Im in love with corys and i heard the loaches and panda corys get along very well, so i want to add the panda corys and perhaps another species off cory?
Maybe a group off otocinclus or should i go with bristlenose? because off its size it gets alot off light.
We have had some algea problems in the past so we love species that can help manage it but who wont eat chunks out off the angelfish's sides.
I would love to know how big the groups off cory and loaches and oto's are good for the size off this tank.
It is a living room centrepiece tank so fish that stress easy are not suitable, also kardinal tetra's got eaten in the past and we've seen those for years so thats not an option.
i'm told that he wants the tank to be planted with lots off rocks and wood, maybe some caves? and some open space as swim area. so i figured an amazon theme!
He really wants a colourful lively community tank with a lot too look at for the neighbourhood kids and my little cousin.
So please toss your ideas for tank mates and the size off the groups at me; and if they need some shelter or advice about sand or a dark gravel or a mix if fish prefer it.
also ideas for plants? i do want a species off vallisneria so suggestions on that or other plants within the theme are very welcome.
WOW, I would love a 350(ish) gallon tank like that
Maybe a large school (12+) of congo tetras ?
If you want a planted tank, maybe a mixture of black fluorite and blank sand would work. I think your tank would look great with black substrate, plants, and a good amount of driftwood. The black substrate helps to bring out colors in fish, IMO. That would also be along the lines of the theme you had mentioned as well.If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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That's a nice size tank, it works out to 338 US gallons and 6.5ft long by 2.6ft wide and tall. Personally I would go with the clown loaches and skip the corys, but if you wanted both you could easily fit 15 to 20 panda corys and 5-6 clown loaches in with the angels. Keep in mind though the loaches can get huge when properly cared for. I think a nice size group of congo tetra would be neat with the angels too. If your water conditions are right for oto's they would be a nice addition as well, but I always prefer them over bristlenose, so that is not an unbiased opinion.
Ninja'd by Cliff with the congo tetras! They must be a good idea lol.When I go fishing I just throw sharp rocks in the water and wait for the dead fish to float to the top... Kingfisher
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I think my fish is adjusting well to the four gallon, He's laying on his side attempting to go to sleep on the bottom of the gravel.
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You could have a dozen angels(more if you wanted), 6 to 12 clown loaches(more if you wanted) and around 30 or so corydora. I would plant the tank myself. You could have both otos and bristle nose plecos too. You could fit lots of otos in there. You could have a ton of plecos too, but I would not get more than 6 myself. The plecos will probably breed for you in that size of tank if provided some caves. I would get a few large pieces of driftwood.
Plants depend on your lighting. Amazon swords, micro swords, crypts, anubias, java ferns tied to driftwood. I would get a plant substrate. I like eco complete myself. But there are lots out there. Here is a good site to get an idea of plants and the conditions they need to be kept it. You really have a lot of options. http://www.aquariumplants.com/
Other fish could be bosami rainbow, silver dollars, many different tetras, barbs, and rasbora. Dwarf cichlids. Danios. Mollies, platys, guppies. The list for fish in that size of tank is sizeable to say the least.
Yeah those congo tetras are lovely; going to check if we can get them locally. Good idea from the both off you!
We know the clowns grow to quite a decent size, but our angelfish always got large as well so if they don't get overcrowded its fine.
the angelfish wont go after the oto's? that's my main concern.. we don't want to have to buy a new group ever other month :D
Kim; i know the list is long that is why i need some help for good suggestions.
most fish are too small like the guppies; the angels get way too big and just eat them.
barbs i heard tend to nip the angels fins; so not all sub-species will work for this tank
silver dollars tend to destroy a planted tank so those might not work.
Thanks for the weblink; that webbie will help me out for sure :)
for the substrate i think we will go with fine black substrate and a river sand to stick to the theme as suggested :).
Thanks so far and just keep throwing those fishnames at me! colorfull or odd to look at; everything is welcome! its a tank for kids to explore! :D
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black substrate, maybe 3 pairs of angels(different variations), jungle val, sword plants, hairgrass, absolutelyno small fish for bigger fish = snack or guaramis, the tank is a very good size to begin with, i would definitely plant heavilywe are all on a journey.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Small update;
The tank is up and running. Plantwise we went all asian since there was a cheap packagedeal available and doesnt it just look fantastic?! http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7159/bsz0.jpg
There are a bunch of guppys in there endlers and regular mix( gift off neighbours to cycle the tank).
8 swordtails- 5 regular reds 2 longtailed black/white and black/red and 1 koi coloured.
3 siamese algae eaters.
6 columbian tetras.
3 opalline/ blue gouramis.
4 otocinclus.
3 corys. Brown greenish spotted and striped (More coming but different variation)
1 sewellia
The tank was a little clouded but since the corys, otos and tetra with some extra swords been added it has cleared alot over the weekend. Did a 20-25% waterchange and left the filter alone. Think my dad has been " overcleaning" that gave a bacteria bloom. All values are good and the plants are happy as they all pearl on occasion.
No angels yet but i have a feeling he will buy them rather sooner than later.
All the suggestions were very helpfull and on my search for congo tetras i found the columbian ones that i just fell in love with. The picture was made 1-2 days ago and is about 30% more visability than the week before. This morning the tank seems to have cleared even more. enough to see the other end through the sides! Think its going well but turning out alot different than the starting idea.
Beautiful tank! That plants look great I love the dutch style scape. The angels will love that tank, just keep an eye of the gouramis, angels and gouramis have a tendency to not like each other."At some point you aren't making the animal more dead...You are just making a bigger mess." - Demjor19
Clouding is gone.
Added 5-6 more corys, 3 marbled botias and 5 female swordtails to balance the groups.
Still you only see all fish during feeding time, beyond that only a handfull show once in a while. Theyre loving the plants.


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The Legislature on Tuesday edged closer to approving a charter school act sharply focused on establishing charter schools where they could have the most positive impact: in areas with the lowest-performing schools.
The House passed the conference committee report 62-56, and the Senate is expected to vote today. It can reject or accept, but it cannot amend the report.
Charter schools in Mississippi, under the bill, would be fully public schools, though freed from most of the usual regulations and procedures of traditional public schools.
At their best, charter schools can provide intensity of instruction, individual attention, and productive innovation that helps students considered most at risk of failure learn more, learn better and close achievement gaps.
The new law would allow 15 charters per year, all to be approved by a state charter authorizing board of seven members, to be geographically apportioned and appointed to staggered terms.
The bill is mostly a product of the House's deliberations and is more conservative than a version preferred by the Senate but rejected by the House. The more cautious approach is appropriate and the bill's safeguards address many legitimate concerns about charter schools.
House Bill 369, the conference report, in sum, sets these parameters:
• Focuses charters in lowest performing schools, allowing charters in D and F districts, and charters can operate in districts rated A, B, and C, but only with the approval of the local school board.
• The law does not allow students to cross district lines to attend charters.
• It does not allow for-profit businesses to manage charter schools, and it prohibits virtual, or online, charters.
• It limits charters to 15 per year.
The board would begin operations Sept. 1 and seek proposals Dec. 1. Charter schools would be authorized for five-year terms. All kinds of discrimination prohibited in regular public schools is also banned in charter schools. No private schools would be allowed to convert to charter schools, and all charter schools would be non-sectarian, that is, not religious.
While funding public charter schools will require spending money from the usual education financing streams, it does not involve schemes to provide write-offs of state income taxes for donations to private schools, nor does it attempt to establish a voucher system for private schools, a direct giveaway of the people's money for education historically, correctly paid for by people who want it and can afford it.
We hope the charter schools, as possible in House Bill 369, can achieve desired results where intensity and innovation are most needed. The first charters will be somewhat like pilot projects, a measuring stick for expectation against result, bearing close scrutiny before adding any other components.


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A lecture on "Challenges for Women: Political and Economic Decision-Making" is set for Monday, April 15, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
June Zeitlin, executive director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization, will speak at 4:30 p.m.
A women's rights advocate for more than 25 years, Zeitlin joined the organization as executive director in 1999. She previously worked at the Ford Foundation, where she oversaw work on women's rights in the United States and expanded its global work on women's issues. While at the foundation, she developed a program examining the integration of gender, work and family and the need for institutional change.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice .
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the situation is the northeast NY/NJ is ripe for all heck breaking loose especially when people are all vying for heat,food,water,gas and shelter...wondering where all those FEMA trailers are at, just to give people a roof over their heads
So,, you see,,YOU are ONE of the FEW that some of the past happenings hasnt effected , But in reality it has!!
Down the road it definitely will, because of the debt this nation is accumulating..
Right now,, as far as YOU and YOUR personal situation is concerned its not a problem... BUT,, What about the folks who it has impacted??
I don't know your situation,, but if you are like MOST of US,, you prolly work for one a them evil RICH guys.
If you look at history of other economies and countries,, if their system of government becomes so oppressive with regulation and taxation that it inhibits entrepreneurialism,, those entrepreneurs go elsewhere,, and YOU my friend are out of a job.,, and your COUNTRY is up the proverbial shit creek,, cause THEY (Entrpreneurs) pay for almost ALL the taxes, that pay for all the entitlements that those who WONT work get..
All of the above is meaningless, UNLESS of course,, you are one of the soulless that works for Government,, and you will sell your soul,, just to protect you cowardly hide, and your cushy job with huge benefits,, AGAIN that the evil RICH guy is payin for..
Mr Stark,, YOU are like the MANY,, that as long as it doesn't affect YOU directly,, then the rest of US,,, that it HAS effected,,, are having a bad case of tunnel vision and looking through blinders...
YOU are the one that needs to open your eyes and look around..
Its Not about YOU!!! per sea.
Againn... What specifically has happened with the Past election , that has you so optimistic,FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY?
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It's not voter suppression. If an individual cannot help support the country and live off those that do, they should not have a say in how the country is run. You and I are stockholders in this country and have a say in how it's run. Those on welfare are employees of this country getting paid a salary in the form of benefits for which they nothing in return and as such should have no say in how the company is run.
Pretty simple really.
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What does Skin color have to do with any of this???
It is far easier to spit on the work of others than it is to produce something better yourself.
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I have gone by "Gooser" since I was a "gossling"
Like you, I too am better off than I was 4 years ago though nothing to do with who is in the White House. It is about taking responsibility for one's own action so, it is pretty funny to read how the far righties are playing the victim card.
The Dems will always use issues of personal freedom against the far righties because they are such easy targets and it is so easy to sidetrack them. And, you know a couple of Repub politicians are always going to say something rediculous that the press will jump all over. Not that them Dems don't say anything stupid, it is just the Repubs are always attacking the wrong isues.
Don't like gay marriage? Then don't have one.
Don't like abortion, then don't get one.
A truely free people should have those choices and whether they are legal or not should be left up to the individual states.
In regards to taxes, all tax payers are paying way too much! Blame it on the Dems and Repubs for spending insanity and poor domestic, foreign, monetary, energy, education, immigration and drug policies.
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"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke


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From the mid-1970s until her retirement in the early 2000s, Elma Holder did as much as anyone to protect some of America's most vulnerable citizens — older nursing home residents — from neglect and abuse. As the cofounder of the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR), Holder fought tirelessly to improve conditions in, and increase oversight of, long-term care facilities. The effort culminated in passage of the landmark Nursing Home Reform Law of 1987. After that, Holder worked just as hard to make sure the law was aggressively enforced.
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Are nursing homes "over-regulated?" she asked rhetorically in a 2004 interview with the Oklahoman newspaper.
"Well, are the schools in your town over-regulated?
"I think most parents view school regulations as necessary public standards. Why should it be any different for old people in nursing homes, where failure to adhere to public standards can result in the premature death of a resident?"
Holder also pushed for nursing home residents to have more control over their own lives and sought to give a voice to those who suffered largely in silence.
In 1985, for example, she organized what may have been the first public opinion survey of nursing home residents. That same year she brought nursing home residents from across the country to a symposium in Clearwater Beach, Fla., and arranged for health care professionals to tend to them at a local hotel. That research revealed, among other things, that nursing home residents were concerned about being able to make their own choices on everything from their roommates to when they could have a cup of coffee, take a bath or iron their clothes.
Holder attended the University of Oklahoma, where she received a master's degree in public health, and began working in the late 1960s as a geriatric consultant for the Medicare survey division of the Oklahoma State Health Department. Early on, she noticed a curious phenomenon: Nursing home staffs seemed to know when survey teams were coming, and the teams' reports often glossed over conditions at the homes.
When she wrote a report pointing out these concerns, "my supervisor told me it would never see the light of day," she recalled in the 2004 Oklahoman interview. "I noticed that the citizens we were trying to protect never took Health Department officials to lunch — only the owners did! Others with authority in the Health Department thanked me for my effort, but nothing happened."
Disillusioned with her Oklahoma experience, Holder moved to Washington, D.C., to work as a health consultant for the National Council on Aging. She would remain in the nation's capital for the next three decades. During that time, she worked for Ralph Nader's Retired Professional Action Group and as coordinator of the Long-Term Care Task Force of the Gray Panthers, the activist organization founded by another Older American Hall of Fame member, Maggie Kuhn.
In 1975 Holder organized a group of reform advocates who attended a nursing home industry conference in Washington. That effort, one of the first times in which reformers took their demands for change directly to nursing home operators, led to the formation of NCCNHR. Two years later, Holder coauthored the book that became the nursing home reform movement's Bible, Nursing Homes: A Citizens' Action Guide.
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With a roster of 27 diversely talented local rock musicians, you walk into an event like the 48 Hour Music Festival — the culmination of two days of practice and construction of 20-minute sets by six spontaneously generated bands — expecting the unexpected (see "Random Rules," by Christopher Gray, March 5). But still: there's no way to truly steel yourself for a few of the spectacles on hand Saturday night at SPACE. Like, the sheer surrealness of seeing Zen Ben play oboe in the Eric Brackett Music Group, or Katherine Hulit (freestyle?) rapping her way through the Clöven Dözer's dank metal chords, or — most blessedly of all — witnessing Portland's only slightly ironic answer to Sade, in the form of ROY G. BIV (named for the colors of the rainbow).
Even the more conventional acts weren't quite nestled in any specific genre. Sister-ita, which seemed to be the consensus favorite of the night (though every band had their partisans), evolved from a rock band tweaked out by Casey McCurry's contrapuntal synth work into a juiced-up new-wave dance/rock act over the course of a few songs. Vaxxene (excellent singer Gina Brown wrapped up their set by saying, "You've just been Vaxxeneated!") found creative ways to get around their lack of a drummer, with a two-keyboard approach to the fanged doo-wop of "Devil's Reef," and taunting military ratatats on edgier rock tunes. Stoner band Jefferson Slaveship, with another great female singer (a theme of the night), Katie Gilchrest, peppered their big sound with Noah Defilippis's eager drum rolls.
Magnetic oddness prevailed among the night's other acts. The Eric Brackett Music Group, fundamentally warped by the aforementioned oboe show, were otherwise a fine minimalist post-rock group, thanks to Brackett's mastery of the taut, lethargic time signature. It'll take the polished live recording to decipher what exactly was going on with the shamanistic Clöven Dözer. Ultimately, it was ROY G. BIV who stole many of our hearts, with MPC- and drum-machine-driven slow-jam beats, the odd cello/slide guitar/dance interlude, and the sultriest and most brilliant hook of the night, courtesy of singer Ginette Labonville: "I want to text you all night long." Justin Timberlake: your next session band has arrived.
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It is long overdue for the FCC to address Stingrays' impact on speech, interference with 911 calls, and invasion of privacy.
From cell-site simulators in New York to facial recognition devices in San Diego, law enforcement surveillance technologies are spreading across the country like an infectious disease. It's almost epidemiological: one police department will adopt a new, invasive tool, and then the next and the next, often with little or no opportunity for the citizens to weigh in on what's needed or appropriate for their communities. Sometimes even elected officials and judges have no idea how technologies are being used by the police under their supervision.
Illinois has joined the growing ranks of states limiting how police may use cell-site simulators, invasive technology devices that masquerade as cell phone towers and turn our mobile phones into surveillance devices. By adopting the Citizen Privacy Protection Act, Illinois last month joined half a dozen other states—as well as the Justice Department and one federal judge—that have reiterated the constitutional requirement for police to obtain a judicial warrant before collecting people's location and other personal information using cell-site simulators.
Last week, Santa Clara County—which encompasses much of Silicon Valley—set a new standard in local surveillance transparency after months of activism by residents and allies from across the Bay Area. Their efforts, and the policy it enabled, suggest an overlooked strategy in the national battle to curtail unaccountable secret mass surveillance.
Thanks to EFF and the ACLU, the government has finally admitted it secretly used a Stingray to locate a defendant in a Wisconsin criminal case, United States v. Damian Patrick. Amazingly, the government didn't disclose this fact to the defendant—or the court—until we raised it in an amicus brief we filed in the case. In the government's brief, filed late last week, it not only fails to acknowledge the impact of hiding this fact from the defendant but also claims its warrantless real-time location tracking didn't violate the Fourth Amendment.
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