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Long cotton banners are displayed at the many rites of the Toraja ceremonial cycle. The bold tie-dyed roto appear to have been associated with feasts of agriculture and abundance. On such occasions lengths of fabric are hung from the ends of the high roof gables of the noble houses. Tie-dyeing, where sections of soft supple fabric are bound with thread to resist the dyes, is a rarely used technique in animist Southeast Asia.
Simple but eye-catching circular motifs are formed using this technique, with each section displaying a different combination of large and small spots. Similar sunburst patterns appear on the region's barkcloth skirts, although the less pliable nature of beaten bark means that the patterns are painted onto their surfaces rather than tie-dyed.


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Did the OP sign up? I know everyone listed as handlers in junior except for 1.
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I ended up not signing up for this one. The trainer and several others did a "Mock Test" last Saturday and he concluded that he was not quite ready yet- stopping short on longer marks, etc. So we decided to give him another month or so to practice and he will run in a test in December in south Alabama.
Here's a video of Gage and me at our first AKC Junior hunt test:
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Second, the Bush operation ("Wide Receiver") was shut down long before F&F began ... when they realized it wasn't working, they shut it down. And that operation had even used tracking devices on the guns. The bad guys figured it out, and were removing the tracking devices, and the guns were "lost". So the operation was terminated. The #s of guns involved were much less than F&F distributed ... and F&F had no effective provisions for tracking the guns. F&F was separate and distinct from the Bush operation. And, guess one might say it was pretty much dumber, since they already knew about the failure of Wide Receiver. And would the F&F operation still be going on if someone of conscience at the field level had not blown the whistle on it? You may recall there were emails that hinted that the flaws in the operation that allowed these guns to be used in violence & traced back to the US might carry some collateral benefit to the cause of stricter gun control. Makes me wonder if anybody even cared about catching any of the bad guys or a few dead Mexicans as long as the gun control agenda could be advanced.
Nope, not at all surprising to me or you that some (many? most?) of the arms end up in the hands of the wrong people. Evidently, however, it WAS a surprise to Obama (according to the Times article).


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Binghamton University students win Wasson leadership awards
Two Binghamton University students have been awarded William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Awards by the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA).
Jaime Rodriguez, a senior studying financial economics, and Jordan Allen, a senior studying history and studio art, were honored April 2 at the NIRSA National Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
Named after NIRSA's founder, Dr. William N. Wasson, the awards recognize outstanding undergraduate and graduate students who are active participants, employees or volunteers in collegiate recreational sports departments. Criteria for the awards include self-improvement through leadership, academic success, activities, volunteerism and promoting inclusion.
Rodriguez and Allen were selected from more than 100 national candidates. Both were recognized for their efforts as building supervisors for Binghamton University's Campus Recreational Services, where they have been employed since their freshman year. Allen was also recognized for his efforts as lifeguard for Campus Recreational Services.


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Exhibition, symposium focus on Japan's Sugamo Prison, April 6-June 4
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An exhibition and symposium sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies and the East Asian Library will focus on Sugamo Prison, where accused Japanese war criminals were held from 1945 to 1952.
The exhibition, "Encounters: Sugamo Prison, 1945-52," will run from Sunday, April 6, through Wednesday, June 4, at the East Asian Library, 317 Frist Campus Center . A two-day symposium, "Encounters at Sugamo," will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 9-10, in 302 Frist.
The exhibition features rare drawings, poems, photographs, craft objects and documents that present, from multiple perspectives, an intimate view of the contact between Japanese and American cultures in occupied Japan. Accompanying documentary videos will be shown at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in 302 Frist.
Speakers at the symposium will include a former prisoner and former American guard from Sugamo, as well as scholars from the United States, Canada, Korea and elsewhere in East Asia. The discussions will run from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. May 9 and from 9 a.m. to noon May 10.
A companion exhibition will be on view at St. Joseph's Seminary in Plainsboro, N.J., from April 6 through June 6. The exhibition traces the history of two men whose fates became entwined at Sugamo Prison on the night of April 5, 1948, when Capt. John A. Ryan, the Catholic chaplain of Sugamo, was murdered outside the main prison gate. Three months later, Pfc. William Manis, a 19-year-old guard, was charged with the crime. For more information on the exhibit at St. Joseph's Seminary, call (609) 716-4235.
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dog is almost 1 and hope to have her in the blind this year, but still is inconsistent picking up ducks in the yard and field. The few frozen ducks I have are getting pretty bad from tossing around the yard so i'm losing hope that I will see what I want out of her before we go hunting and these birds fall apart.
she had no issues with live pigeons a few months back. more pigeons & less old nasty ducks?? haven't forced on any bird yet
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'Why Do We Hate Us?' is topic for talk, Nov. 18
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Edward Rothstein, critic-at-large for The New York Times, will speak on "Why Do We Hate Us? Democratic Culture and Its Discontents" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at the Center for Jewish Life.
He will discuss why, in democratic culture, the tradition of self-criticism thrives to sometimes extreme extents. The talk is sponsored by the Faculty Fellows of the Center for Jewish Life .
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Donna's Create Your Own Pasta
Surprise your family with a pasta buffet. Cut up and cook a variety of vegetables and other favorite ingredients your kids may enjoy. Let everyone create their own pasta bowl. The kids may try some new foods if they can combine familiar foods with new colorful attractive vegetables. This homemade Alfredo sauce is significantly lower in fat than the traditional recipe.
- 16 ounces of 51% whole wheat penne pasta
- 1 can (15 ounces) fat-free chicken broth
- 1/3 cup flour
- 4 ounces Neufchatel cheese (reduced fat cream cheese)
- 3 ounces (1 ½ cups) grated or shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 cup fat-free milk, divided
- 1 tablespoon dry sherry
- pepper to taste
Cooked vegetables and other topping ideas*
- broccoli florets, cauliflower, peas, colorful peppers, beans, spinach, mushrooms, etc.
- olives
- shrimp, chicken, ham, or salmon
- shredded cheese
In a large saucepan, cook pasta in boiling salted water until al dente. Drain and set aside.
In a small jar or shaker, combine chicken broth and flour. Shake until well mixed. Pour into heavy medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, while stirring constantly with a whisk. Gently boil for 1 minute. Mixture will be very thick. Add cream cheese and stir with a whisk until totally blended. Add Parmesan cheese and white pepper. Stir until blended. Gradually add milk, while stirring constantly, to reach desired consistency. Add sherry and pepper to taste.
Keep warm over very low heat. Add additional milk or broth if needed to thin to desired consistency.
On a serving platter or individual plates, place desired amount of warm pasta.
Spoon your choice of vegetables and other toppings over pasta. Top with Alfredo sauce. Sprinkle with additional grated cheese if desired.
*Note: Other vegetables or pasta sauces of your choice may be used.
Serves 8
Nutritional Information per serving without the pasta and vegetables:
Calories: 110 Fat, gm.: 6 Protein, gm.: 7 Carbs, gm.: 7 Cholesterol, mg.: 20 Fiber, gm.: 0.1
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Nutritional Information per serving with pasta, without vegetables:
Calories: 320 Fat, gm.: 8 Protein, gm.: 14 Carbs, gm.: 45 Cholesterol, mg.: 20 Fiber, gm.: 5.7
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At this point my Grady pup is everything I was hoping for.
14 weeks old, wants to work, loves retrieving ducks. My daughter and I just back from running her, she's running cleaning and delivering to hand, got her going out close to 50 yards. Just a fun pup to work with and own.
And it's my daughter dog and one of the objectives was to get my daughter involved in the game and spending time with my daughter and her dog tonight was priceless!
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During his successful campaign for lieutenant governor in 2007, at a stop at a Republican Party event in Laurel, Phil Bryant told the faithful his daughter was studying to be an attorney.
But Bryant, with the timing of a game-show host or day-time television talk show host, paused and said not to worry because she would be the type of attorney who defended businesses, not sued them.
It struck me at the time that Phil Bryant is a man who sees things in black and white.
If a business is being sued by a trial attorney, it has to be a frivolous lawsuit. There is no way the business should deserve to be sued, much less to have a verdict go against it.
The idea that there have been times, well documented times when businesses have committed wrongs, terrible wrongs for which they deserve to suffer consequences, never crossed Bryant's mind.
But having covered Bryant for many years, I know that he doesn't always act like a black-and-white thinker.
The first-term Republican governor does appear to see things in black and white, but only on his first blush. Bryant is articulate, engaging and quick-witted.
Make no mistake about it, Bryant's default setting is a conservative – perhaps an extreme conservative as former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney described himself.
But he also can be an independent thinker. I watched him as lieutenant governor as he tried to find common ground on budget issues between the position of then-Gov. Haley Barbour and of the Democrat leadership of the House.
Sure, he is a proud partisan Republican, but he has at times looked for compromise.
So, at times his action does not match his rhetoric.
Bryant's latest controversy surrounds remarks he made Tuesday during a Washington Post forum on education where he said the nation's education problems began when "mom got into the workplace."
Bryant immediately began to clarify his position to talk about the economic pressures facing families.
It should be pointed out that first lady Deborah Bryant has long worked outside the home and does to this day – at least part-time.
The Bryants, as well as countless other working parents, have raised children who have grown up to be successful adults. He knows that. He has experienced it.
My guess is that on first blush he still believes the ideal scenario is to have one parent at home full-time taking care of the children. But the governor's actions lead one to believe that he knows that is not the only way.
Bryant, like his political mentor, former Gov. Kirk Fordice, is no stranger to controversial remarks. In 2011, Bryant made reference to Satan when talking about those opposed to a personhood initiative that a group of anti-abortion advocates placed on the election ballot, but that was overwhelmingly rejected by the same voters who elected Bryant as governor. At the time, Bryant said if a person opposes the proposal "you're on the side of the lie. You're on the side of taking the lives of innocent children."
Bryant later said he was frustrated because of incorrect information provided by some about what the initiative would do.
He would later say the left's "one mission in life is to abort children – is to kill children in the womb."
Fordice's controversial comments are legendary whether it be accusing all who opposed voter ID of being elected through voter fraud or to saying Mississippi would not vote for Bill Clinton for president because he was a philanderer. Those comments became controversial as more details of the former governor's personal life emerged.
The difference is that Bryant sounds so nice and congenial as he makes often-controversial comments. On the other hand, Fordice spoke with a passion and downright anger that was both scary and intoxicating. I have often said in recent times there has not been a better gut-level politician in Mississippi than Kirk Fordice.
The key difference is that Bryant operates in a whole new media world – from the traditional media to cable television to social media.
When someone in Mississippi makes a controversial comment it makes it around the world in record time.
And people around the world may not know and appreciate the context of those comments or know how nice the governor really is.
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Tuna Melt Sandwiches
- 1 can (12 ounces or larger) light tuna, drained
- 2 Tbsp. mayonnaise, mayo-style salad dressing or plain yogurt
- ½ tsp. ground pepper
- 1 Tbsp. onion, chopped fine (optional)
- 4-5 slices whole-wheat bread (or 2 split English muffins)
- 4-5 slices cheddar cheese
Mix tuna, mayo, onion (if desired) and pepper in a microwave-safe bowl. Preheat broiler.* Lightly toast the bread. Heat the tuna salad mixture in the microwave (about 2 minutes on 50% power). Place the warm bread slices on a broiler pan (lined with foil for easy cleanup). While the toasted bread is still warm, top each slice with equal amounts of the warm tuna salad mixture and put a slice of cheddar cheese on top. Broil until the cheese is melted (watch carefully so it doesn?t burn).
Serve immediately.
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We've sort of skirted about how much we could actually trim the Fed budget. But here are some suggestions from and American Spectator article:
I didn't know that there was a law that requires the IRS to stay below 10% error. Maybe somebody can get fired, after all? Or maybe fined?1. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just issued a regulation for measuring power consumption in TVs despite the fact that the private sector already has a test method. This DOE-mandated test procedure is a prime example of wasted time and taxpayer money. The DOE should have deferred to the existing industry consensus standard, known as ANSI/CEA-2037, which was developed with input from interested industry and non-industry stakeholders. By mandating its own test procedure, the DOE has tied everyones hands, limiting the ability of industry to maintain test procedures that benefit consumers and existing programs such as ENERGY STAR and EnergyGuide. The DOE should withdraw its new regulation and stop spending money reinventing the wheel.
2. The Obama Administration has effectively reversed the Clinton welfare reforms by allowing states to opt out. Congress can put the Clinton reforms back into effect, saving billions by some estimates.
3. Federal entitlement spending is out of control, and the system is widely abused. Just consider Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which together dole out checks to some 14 million Americans each month. Disability costs taxpayers more than welfare and food stamps combined about $260 billion per year. While some workers genuinely need the aid, many are simply gaming the system and not going back to work.
4. In 2011, taxpayers paid $155 million for federal employees to work for their unions in a practice called official time. In other words, taxpayers are footing the bill while government employees work for unions not for the taxpayers.
5. Last year alone, the IRS squandered $11.6 billion in erroneous refunds through the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) accounting for about 21 percent of all EITC payments in 2012. Federal law requires the IRS to keep errors under 10 percent, but the agency has failed to comply for the past two years.


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TUPELO – The featured guests at Tupelo High School's annual Black History Program told participants everyone has an important story.
"It took years for me to realize when we are talking about history, what we are really talking about is the word story," Reggie Harris said. "History is a series of stories, and they are our stories."
Kim and Reggie Harris, musicians and songwriters from upstate New York, told the stories of several individuals who had a large impact on the Civil Rights movement. Those included Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, Dr. Charles Drew and Ida B. Wells.
They also went into length about the impact Jackie Robinson had when he integrated baseball in 1947.
"As baseball changed, the world changed," Reggie Harris said. "People realized that if a black man can play baseball, there might be an opportunity to change some other things as well."
Their words resonated with Tupelo High School senior Ashton Huey.
"I think the part about how athletics was integrated was really touching," he said.
Kim Harris told the students to be aware of the role they can play.
"Use what you have, use who you are always to work for freedom," she said.
Thursday's program also featured the THS Voices choir, which performed "Lift Every Voice," "How Great is Our God," "God Made Me" and "Total Grace."
Freshman Bellynden Morris said he was moved by the message about the impact he and his classmates can have on history.
"It was fantastic," he said of the program.
The Harrises will hold a public performance at the Link Centre Saturday night at 7.


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LIBYA: Hundreds stranded as Misrata violence continues
Civilians are in grave danger as fighting between Government and opposition forces continues in western Libya. More reports emerged yesterday of heavy shelling of the port of Misrata, which resulted in several casualties and prevented ships from docking. Several hundred women, children, third-country nationals (TCNs) and asylum-seekers remain stranded in Misrata and require urgent evacuation and resettlement.
An International Organization for Migration (IOM)-chartered ship was still able to reach Misrata yesterday evening to deliver humanitarian supplies and evacuate some 600 TCNs to safety. However, the United Nations Refugee Agency and IOM will need more funding to evacuate the approximately 10,000 TCNs in Misrata who wish to leave.
In response to the humanitarian crisis, the World Food Programme has distributed food for 136,000 people and Save the Children has trained 19 child protection needs assessors in eastern Libya. However, access to Misrata and other areas and evacuation of TCNs remain primary concerns. The water from the municipal water system in Misrata has been cut off for 45 days forcing the population to use untreated well-water. but, without access, humanitarian actors are unable to determine or address water, sanitation and hygiene needs.
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P.A. Parenteau: one goal on zero shots
Eric Hornick, statistician on New York Islanders home telecasts since 1982, shares this wonderful only-in-the-NHL stat with members of the Society for International Hockey Research:
Islanders' P.A. Parenteau was credited with an awarded goal in Friday night's 4-3 Isles win over Boston when he was hooked at in an empty-net situation. Parenteau thus goes into the record books with one goal on zero shots taken during the game.
So forever, he will at least share the record of "Highest shooting percentage: infinity."
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A memorial service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will take place in the University Chapel on April 5 at 8 p.m. on Princeton's campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The memorial will feature recordings of King's "I Have a Dream" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speeches. Also, it will include a tape of Robert Kennedy, then a presidential candidate, announcing the assassination of Dr. King, on April 4, 1968, and his call for restraint to near-violent crowds.
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Coin & recycle drive
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McDonald's case for the defence
Kevin McDonald today paid tribute to the Wolves back-line for giving the attacking players the platform to play – as he acknowledged the team can "almost feel" promotion.
But the midfield playmaker knows the current situation counts for nothing – and that Wolves have to finish the job in the remaining six games if the season is to be a success.
Tuesday's hard-fought 0-0 draw at Stevenage was Wolves' 22nd clean sheet of the league season, and left them with a six point lead at the top of Sky Bet League One ahead of the visit of Peterborough to Molineux on Saturday (3pm)
"The number of clean sheets we have kept this season is great," says McDonald.
"Kemes has been unbelievable in goal and then when Azza came in he did really well so we are fortunate to have two really good goalkeepers.
"The defence have done so well throughout the season and what they do gives us a platform to do what we can going forward.
"We know there is a good chance of them keeping a clean sheet back there and that helps is trying to make things happen at the other end.
"That foundation has allowed the forward players to do what they have done and has gone a long way to getting us in this position in the table.
"I enjoy playing in the position I do and I know I can drop in and pick the ball up from Danny or Stears.
"We have worked it well and I think our football has got better and better as the season has gone on and we've just got to keep doing it for the final three weeks.
"We're not far away now, we can almost feel it, but that's not enough, we have got to dig in deep to make it happen over the last six games.
"Anything can happen in football – there has been big turnarounds before – so we have just got to stick at it and see the job through."
McDonald admits Wolves felt they could have taken all three points on Tuesday night against a Stevenage team who also boasted chances of their own.
But he believes coming away with a point was a sign of Wolves being able to "dig deep" where needed to grind out results.
"We knew it was going to be a hard game at Stevenage who were fighting for their lives," added McDonald.
"I think they had a tactic to stop us playing and they made it tough for us but I think we dealt with it well.
"We had a few chances and could have won but at the end of the day that's football and it's another point closer to where we want to go.
"In a way we are disappointed because we could have got three points but it is still a good point and they all count at this stage of the season.
"It will be another hard game against Peterborough because they are a decent team.
"We just have to go again and go out and try and get three points.
"We've got six games left and nothing is confirmed yet but we are in a great position.
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Balancing the needs of buoyancy with flexibility, Zoot designed the Z Force 3.0 with varying thicknesses of Yamamoto C39 neoprene. The front body is made of a 4-millimeter layer of this neoprene, falling within the IFR maximum allowance of 5-millimeters. Why C39 neoprene? It's the industry-leader in both stretch and buoyancy, and it has the second highest cell density of any neoprene on the market, providing added lift, especially panels with thicker neoprene.
Known as Zoot's Aqualift system, thicker neoprene through the seat and torso raises your legs and torso in the water for increased power and speed. Ultimately, this added lift opens up your body for an ideal stroke position in the water and reduces drag by minimizing submergence. Further increasing the suit's hydrodynamics, the Super Composite Skin (SCS) is a hydrodynamic coating that increases swimming speeds by reducing overall drag for maximum efficiency.
Helping you move quickly and without restriction through the water, Zoot decreased the arm's neoprene thickness to 2-millimeters. Furthermore, Zoot optimized the leg's neoprene thickness for an ideal balance of flexibility and body positioning. The front of the legs features 4-millimeter neoprene, while the back legs are slightly thinner, with 3-millimeter neoprene. Plus, the leg's Optimal Kick Design uses anatomic patterning for increased kick velocity, frequency, and efficiency.
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BOONEVILLE – Northeast Mississippi Community College head baseball coach Kent Farris has added the tenth athlete to his 2013-14 recruiting class.
Farris got East Union's Dustin Pratt to sign with the Tigers at a ceremony at the Union County-based high school.
Pratt has been a key member of not only the Urchin baseball team but also the East Union powerlifting and bowling teams as well.
As a member of the 2012-13 Urchin powerlifting team, Pratt helped lead the East Union to the Class 2A State Powerlifting championship.
As a member of the 220-pound class, the 203-pound infielder lifted a total of 1,265 pounds at the Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA) State Powerlifting championships in Jackson.
Pratt cleared 510 pounds on the squat, pulled down 265 pounds on the bench press and dead lifted 490 pounds for the Urchins.
On the baseball field, Pratt has helped lift the Urchins to new heights.
Currently, Pratt is hitting .386 with 27 hits in 70 plate appearances for Chris Basil's Urchins.
Pratt has 17 RBI on the year including a pair of three-RBI outings against Hamilton on April 5 in an 8-5 win over the Lions after turning the trick in a March 1 outing as well for the Urchins.
In addition to his .386 batting average, Pratt has nine doubles and five home runs on the season and has only struck out five times in 80 at bats.
On the year, Pratt has a .462 on base percentage and a .729 slugging percentage.
Pratt has also been a threat on the bases for the Urchins. The East Union senior is 10-for-11 on the base paths during his final campaign for the Urchins and is 23-for-24 in stolen bases after going a perfect 13-for-13 during his junior year.
Pratt has a .975 fielding percentage during his senior and has only committed two miscues all year in 81 chances and has had a hand in turning five double plays for the Urchins.
During his junior season, Pratt hit .347 with 34 hits in 98 plate appearances and scored 37 runs while driving in 28.
Pratt had seven doubles, three triples and five home runs in addition to a .454 on base percentage and a .633 slugging percentage his junior year.
Pratt has been a member of the MHSAA Division 1-2A All Division team, named the team's most valuable defensive player and has been named to the Crossroads Diamond Club All-Star Game and the Northeast Mississippi Coaches Association for Better Baseball (NEMCABB) All-Star Game.
When not busy powerlifting or playing baseball, Pratt is a member of the East Union bowling team where the Urchins were the state runner-up in 2011-12.


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The new web server, klecker.debian.org, is online! I've coordinated the move to it (Jay is still somewhere travelling :), thanks to the admins (all of them helped in one way or another) it's all fine now. We have also moved the Packages/ part of the web pages to packages.debian.org, and lintian/ part to lintian.debian.org, and are pondering about rebuilding+mirroring the site every four hours (now it's done every eight).
The doc/bug-* docs on the FTP site should be regenerating regularly from now on, along with README.mirrors.* files, thanks to some cooperation from Omnic. Now we only need to work out the situation with lists.cfg file, so that mailing-lists.txt and {,un}subscribe.wml can be regenerated easily.
I've been fixing the main mirrors list, too, since lots of cruft had accumulated in there. The cleaning is far from over, unfortunately, because we have a whole shitload of mirrors all over the world. :) I wish I could say that for my country -- there's only one Debian mirror here :/
The larger BTS problems were fixed by removing some gecko's hacks. He might be back in action soon, so a new debbugs package might see the day soon.
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By Patsy R. Brumfield/NEMS Daily Journal
Sherrie Cochran, Tupelo's environmental planner, promotes and encourages the city's residents to take seriously the appearance of their yards and business properties. City cleanup also is a focus for her department. As springtime approaches, Cochran spoke with the Daily Journal's Patsy Brumfield about what she perceives to be a serious but solvable problem – illegal tire dumping.
Tupelo's citywide cleanup program, in cooperation with Keep America Beautiful, is scheduled for March-May, and Cochran says more information is coming about those activities as neighborhood associations make plans to participate.
Q: What is one of your department's most serious issues right now?
A: Illegal dumping of tires has become very serious. First, it is an eyesore and an environmental issue. But also, it poses health issues as perfect breeding grounds for all kinds of mosquitoes, which can spread serious illnesses.
Q: Can you give us an example of where this is happening?
A: One of the city's most egregious tire dumping places is behind the Elks Club off Tolbert Street near Gumtree Park. Someone is dumping old tires there frequently and we're warning whoever is doing that to stop. We're setting up video surveillance and the Tupelo Police Department is working with us.
Whoever is caught dumping old tires there or anywhere else in the city will be charged with felony dumping, which can bring a $50,000-a-day fine and up to five years in jail upon conviction.
We will prosecute anyone who's dumping old tires. It's a blight on our city, its parks and neighborhoods. And it's a health hazard, especially as the weather warms up.
Q: If someone has old tires near their home and wants to get rid of them, or has their own tires to dispose of, what can they do?
A: They can call us at 841-6547 and the city will pick up the tires. We don't want them around. As for businesses that deal with old tires, there's a small fee attached to accepting them. We don't want any tire dumping anywhere.


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By Ben Levisohn
Everyone loves China these days, as the world's second largest economy finally starts acting like the driver of global growth it's expected to be. They might not love it so much during the second half of the year, say Nomura economists Zhiwei Zhang and Wendy Chen.
China's been among the world's best performing stock markets during the past month, withe the Shanghai Composite stock index having gained 15% during that period. The returns have been driven by better economic data–China's Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index has increased for four months running–that have put a hard landing out of investors' minds.
Zhang and Chen aren't fighting the trend but they worry that the recovery has been:
…rather moderate despite rapid credit expansion in the shadow banking sector and a significant rise in infrastructure investment. This implies that the recovery is being driven mostly by monetary and fiscal policy easing. Exports remain lackluster. Once the momentum of policy easing slows, growth may trend down again.
The shadow banking system is a major problem, Zhang and Chen say.


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Hiroki Shishido vs "Lion" Takeshi Inoue Announced for Shoot the Shooto 2011
- Written by Dave Walsh
Back in September, Shooto and Shootboxing announced that they were going to put on a 2-day event with the first day being an MMA card titled Shooto the Shoot on November 5th and the second day being a kickboxing card titled Shoot the Shooto on November 6th. Shootboxing announced Andy Souwer, Hiroki Shishido, Bovy Sor Udomson, Toby Imada and Hiroaki Suzuki would all participate on the Shootboxing card. Today, Shootboxing announced the first matchup for their half of the event and it is a cross-promotional tilt between Shootboxing mainstay Hiroki Shishido and former Shooto Lightweight (143-lb) champion "Lion" Takeshi Inoue.
Shishido hasn't had the best luck as of late, starting with last year's S-Cup where he faced eventual tournament champion Buakaw Por Pramuk in the quarterfinals, losing a unanimous decision. He managed a unanimous decision win over Bovy Sor Udomson in February, but ran into MMA fighter Toby Imada who was surprising everyone in Shootboxing and continued to do so with a decision win over Shishido. "Lion" Takeshi was one of the brightest prospects in Shooto and with his ascension to DREAM, I believe he's shed the title of prospect. He originally won the Shooto Lightweight title in May of 2006 over Antonio Carvalho before losing it a year later to Akitoshi Tamura. Another loss to Savant Young seemed like a big setback, but Inoue bounced back with a win over Hideki Kadowaki to win the title back. Back to back TKO wins over lower weight legends Rumina Sato and Alexandre "Pequeño" Nogueira seemed like a big step forward for the fighter, but he ultimately lost his title in May of 2010 to consensus world #2 featherweight Hatsu Hioki. His first fight in DREAM ended up being a lackluster performance and decision loss to Kazuyuki Miyata in what could be seen as a bursting of Inoue's prospect bubble. However the loss has seemed to motivate him, as he has scored 3 straight KO wins over fellow prospect Taiki Tsuchiya, DEEP champion Koichiro Matsumoto and legend Caol Uno. Inoue is primarily a striker, so this is a good matchup for Shootboxing to make, however he has a bit of an odd style and I see Shishido as a big favorite in this fight.
The MMA side of the event also has some good matchups for those interested. Shooto 115-lb champ 41-year old Junji Ikoma defends his title for the first time in his second straight fight against someone more than 15 years his junior in Mikihito Yamagami. Former 123-lb champ Shinichi "BJ" Kojima takes on Pancrase Flyweight champion Kiyotaka Shimizu and finally, Guy Delumeau takes on Issei Tamura while Tenkei Oda battles Wataru Miki in the semifinals of a tournament for the vacant Shooto Pacific Rim Lightweight title.{jcomments on}


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By Tiernan Ray
Sprint-Nextel (S) this afternoon receives its second upgrade of the day following its $12.1 billion deal with Japan's Softbank, with Bernstein Research's Craig Moffett raising his rating on the shares to Market Perform from Underperform, and raising his price target to $6 from $3.
Moffett's upgrade follows one by by Jefferies & Co. this morning, to Hold from Underperform.
Sprint shares today fell 4 cents or $5.69. Shares of partner Clearwire (CLWR) surged 37 cents, or 16%, to $2.69.
Argues Moffett, the deal leaves Sprint much better capitalized, with an $8 billion cash infusion now taking the risk of bankruptcy from "genuine" to "de minimus."
And the deal is "substantially more attractive than the status quo for current sprint shareholders," writes Moffett, as he does his back-of-the-envelope calculation of deal valuation:
For every 100 shares of Sprint investors own today, 55 will be redeemed for $7.30 in cash (well above market), and the remaining 45 will be in the recapitalized company. As such, Sprint's stock price should reflect a weighted average of the two values. Simplistically using $7.30 per share as a stock price, as has been cited in some press reports, is not correct. If one believes the new Sprint is worth, say, $6 per share, the warranted stock price today would equate to $6.00 times 45% plus $7.30 times 55%, or $6.72 per share (ignoring any probability of the deal breaking, and ignoring the time value of discounting the cash component back to the present). Alternatively, one can use the same ratios to back into the implied valuation post-tender. At the current price of $5.66 (at the time of this writing), the market is embedding a price of about $3.66 for Sprint on an ongoing basis, calculated as $5.66 less ($7.30 times 0.55) divided by 0.45.
However, the deal also leaves Sprint in a more competitive environment, with heavy investment, thinks Moffett, as "will be an aggressive pricer, and capital intensity will rise substantially as SoftBank invests to fix what Son describes as the U.S.'s "oh my God" slow speeds."
Aside from additional liquidity, however, from an operational perspective little changes by virtue of having a new controlling shareholder and less leverage. Sprint will have more flexibility to acquire spectrum, invest in the network, or perhaps acquire assets, and when combined with SoftBank the companies will have greater purchasing power and an improved ability to prop up the TD-LTE ecosystem. But its ability to be more competitive rests on spending the money it has received, the ROIC of which is questionable and undoes some of the benefits of lower leverage.
Sprint: Credit Suisse, BTIG Size up Clearwire Potential, October 15th, 2012.


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We have just returned from a two-week all-inclusive stay in this lovely hotel & wanted to share our experiences with anyone who might be thinking of going.
Firstly we will mention that during our two-week stay we travelled over 1000 miles on various trips around the country & therefore believe we are in a good position to reassure anyone who intends on visiting this beautiful country that we saw no signs of any trouble at all.
The civil unrest has hit the tourism industry quite hard but they intend to elect a new government in a few months and hopefully this will result in a bright future for the locals.
Hotel & surroundings
The hotel is situated half way between Hammamet & the purpose built resort of Yasmine Hammamet. The transfer from the airport is currently 75 minutes but this will be reduced by 20-30 minutes in the coming weeks when the new airport at Enfidha is opened.
The hotel is set away from the main road & has its own private beach (you can walk along the beach to Hammamet or to Yasmine Hammamet from the hotel in under an hour).
The hotel has two swimming pools (one being partially indoors which is heated & a larger one nearer the beach). The hotel is surrounded by vegetation which is very picturesque.
We were slightly disappointed that we were not given a room overlooking the pools & beach, but the view from the other end is fantastic when the sun is setting.
From the moment we reached the hotel to the early hours in the morning when we left, the staff always went out of their way to help your every need.
We need not feel obliged to continually tip & continued to receive excellent service from the waiters & dining staff on the occasions when we did not tip.
We must make a special point of mentioning the animation team who work tirelessly from 9am until 11.30pm every day. On the rare times when they are not organising games/lessons or entertaining at night, they are perfecting their dances routines & practising.
We won?t mention everyone but our personal favourites were Rio, Shaggy, Jesus, Bibel, Mimo & Momo.
Each day we enjoyed playing archery, French boules, darts, beach volleyball, golf & the occasional game of football on the beach. In the high season they also do games in the pool.
We had read some reviews indicating that there was not a good choice of food. This in our view is completely false. For breakfast there was always a good selection of hot food (scrambled egg, tomatoes, sausages), for cold food there were fresh croissants, croissants with chocolate inside, cake, selection of cereals, fresh fruit & dates, selection of drinks including freshly squeezed lemon & orange juice, coffee or juice from the machine.
There was always a chef on the live cooking stand who would cook omelettes, fried eggs & pancakes to order.
In the dining room, lunch (12noon ? 2pm) consisted of a good selection of cold foods (many salad dishes, fresh hams, freshly baked bread, cheeses, selection of desserts & fruit) & a good variety of hot foods which changed every day (consisting of different meat, fish, rice, pasta, rice, potatoes, two types of soup, vegetables & two live cooking stands).
Dinner was served from 7pm & as with lunch, there was always a good variety of quality food to choose from. We tried rabbit & wild boar during our stay along with many types of fresh fish.
You sat on the same table throughout your stay but this was good as the waiter would quickly remember your drinks and ours would very often have ours on the table ready for us.
Some people like to go away to chill for two weeks by the pool, but we always like to mix our holidays up with time set aside to recharge the batteries together with days out to discover the country or surroundings.
There are a number of trips on offer (and all at very good prices we might add) both through your reps or directly with some of the local reps who sometimes come into the hotel.
The organised trips we went on via the rep were-
?Carthage, Sidi Bou Said & Bardo Museum?. This day out was made very informative by our guide as we headed north around the capital Tunis & onto Carthage & Sidi Bou Said.
This includes a three-course lunch & a trip to a museum to take in dozens and dozens of mosaics which have been found & collected over the years. Full day trip, 75D per person.
?African Dream?. This is a half day trip (we were collected from the Phenicia at 2.30pm) & was 65D per person. You are given between 60-90 minutes of free time when you arrive to go around Friguia Animal Park which was well worth the visit itself (we would have liked to have spent slightly longer there).
There are some excellent vantage points for photographs and for much of the time you are actually looking down into the enclosures. Just before 5pm we then met back at the restaurant with the rest of our group for a three-course meal with an evening of live entertainment consisting of Zulu & folklore dances and live music.
?Sahara Explorer?. We were collected from our hotel at 6am and returned the following day around 6pm. Although this trip is very tiring (750 mile round trip), it is a must for anyone who wants to discover the parts of the country away from your resort & is very rewarding. It is also excellent value for money at 175d per person.
The trips includes, three-course lunches on both days, evening meal & overnight stay in 3/4* hotel on the edge of the Sahara desert, horse & carriage ride, ride in 4x4 jeeps into the rocky parts of the desert & coach travel.
The only extras which are not covered are - drinks for all three meals & camel ride in Sahara (this is only 25d per person & you are given your own camel each & the ride lasts a good 45 minutes).
We won?t list everything we did but we have the itinerary which we can email if required, but you will see many camels, an oasis, gorgeous scenery, third largest amphitheatre (and best kept one) in the world, sunrise over the salt lakes to name a few highlights.
The days out we arranged ourselves or did on our ?own steam? were-
?Sousse?. We got a local taxi (5D) to Bir Bou Regba & then got a train to the third largest city in Tunisia called Sousse. This was approximately 5D per person but you can upgrade (as we did) to first class for an extra dinar or so.
The trains are comfortable, quite quick & reliable (ours was ten minutes or so late ? nothing that would be out of the ordinary in England!).
You can pay for your return ticket at Bir Bou Regba but when you return, make sure you go to the ticket counter who will issue you with a new ticket when you show them your original one.
This was one of our most enjoyable days out as we did it on our own and were able to see the sights, smells, noise & colour of the big medina together with the various meat, fish, fruit & veg markets.
?Hammamet?. We went to local town one morning to collect a few gifts to bring home & had some fun bartering with some of the local shop keepers in the Medina.
?Nabeul?. Friday is the best day to come here & it was 12D there via a taxi (takes 20-25 minutes). The streets are quite wide with shops either side. It is very popular with tourists & locals alike.
On a Friday they have a large weekly market which is the opposite end of the main town from where the taxi will drop you off (however it?s only a ten minute walk away).
If you?re not into the bartering there are a few ?fixed price? shops.
?Pirate ship?. We arranged this half day trip via a local rep who we met in the hotel. We were collected around 9am & set off on the ?Sultan 2? around 10am from Yasmine Hammamet.
We went up the coast past Hammamet & towards Nabeul before returning home via a break to let people swim in the sea. Lunch (fish, meat, bread & salad) were included.
However, the best thing about this trip were the animation team who danced on the deck & climbed up the rigging on the ship several times which was very entertaining.
The only negative aspects of our holiday were a) returning home & b) needlessly ?worrying? before our holiday about the civil unrest when in hindsight there was no signs of this whatsoever.
We felt safe at all times (both when we were in organised groups & when we ventured out into local taxis or went further a field and mixed with the locals.
Sorry for the long review but we didn?t want this to be another ?it was great & we?ll go back again soon? review. Instead we wanted to show why we would jump at the chance of returning to the Phenicia and spending time with the lovely Tunisian people again soon.
We were really ..."
We stayed at the Phenicia after a stay at a Sentido hotel in Turkey.
We were really pleased with our stay here. We had a lovely holiday. Our stay was for 11 nights.
On arrival, we were given cool towels and a refreshing lemon drink. Registering did not take too long and then it was up to our room. I was worried about the room after reading some of the reviews, but my fears were needless, it was fine. Spacious, very clean and overlooking the gardens as we had requested. The bedding and towels looked as though they were changed daily.
The food was excellent. Always a huge choice of cold and hot food. Always fresh pasta with different sauces. Usually a carvery. Soup was delicious, as were the desserts. There was icecream that you served yourself.
We tried the Asian Restaurant and although the food was good, it was no better than the main restaurant. There was also a charge here.
The other restaurant we did not use. We asked to look at the menu, but there was nothing that we really wanted to try. Shame really, as it looked lovely, romantic too!
We are an older couple who would not normally join in with activities. Because of the first 5+ days without any sunshine, Dido managed to persuade us to 'have a go' at archery. He was a very good teacher (and archer) and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. My husband managed a decent score, I was rubbish (blame it onto my age, I am!)
These animation boys and girls work tirelessly to entertain. Their routines on the stage were awesome. The energy, and the remembering of countless routines leave you shaking your head in wonder.
All of the staff that we had dealings with were lovely. So attentive. We felt very 'cared for'.
The sun came out on the 6th day and was hot until the end of our holiday. We just laid in the sun and read our books (there is a small library of books in the Reps/wifi section). There is free wifi for laptops in the reception area. There is a fitness centre and indoor pool. A quiet pool and a large one where aerobics were carried out. And a shop for crisps, chocolate, nrewspapers, swimwear and gifts etc. We took our own travel kettle etc for the room.
The only down side with the Phenicia was the situation with the pool/beach towels. We have been to many hotels that supply these and do not usually take our own. There has been a point where you hand in dirty towels and collect clean and we take full advantage of this, changing them at the end of each day. At the Phenicia the pool towels are in the bedroom on arrival. We arrived on a Wednesday for an 11 night stay. In all of this time we did not have the pool towels changed. On enquiring, well into our holiday, we were told 'the Housekeeper changes them on Tuesdays and Saturdays'. This presumably means that you have to stay in your room until the clean towels are delivered! We did not meet anyone that had clean towels!!! Sentido must surely review this state of affairs. I dread to think what it is like in the heighth of Summer, with everyone using sweaty towels full of sun lotion day after day!
Other than that, we cannot fault the hotel and would have no hesitation in recommending it.
This is one of the bests holidays I have been on. Although there isnt much to do in the surrounding area, it didnt bother us as we wanted a relaxing holiday. If you did want to venture out the there are a few madina's near by and only a short tazi ride away.
The hotel is forever being cleaned and all the staff are very friendly and will do anything for you. The animation team are great and are good at getting you involved in things, although they will leave you alone if you are not interested!!!!
The food was good and there was always plenty of it regardless of what time you went to eat. You have to share a table at dinner/lunch time but we just always went at a different time from the couple at our table so it wasnt a problem.
I will definitely go back to this hotel and would recommend it to anyone.
I would reccommend this hotel to anyone who likes good food, good service and good facilities. The only let down is the evening entertainment, it did not spoil my holiday but if this had been a family holiday my children aged 18 and 21 would not have been impressed.
the food although not fine dining, is very good and there is always lots of choice, It is customery to tip the staff and 1 dina is the usual amount= 40p.
Tunisia has closed currency which means you cannot exchange money outside of the country. You can exchange money at the airport but you will be charged a high commission. You can exchange Sterling into Dina at the hotel without paying a commission however you cannot exchange you money back into Sterling.
The hotel room has hanging space for clothes but does not have any shelving or drawer space.
There is a fridge for your use, a hairdryer but no kettle or iron.
You cannot dry your towels on the balcony but you can hire them for a deposit of £20.00, this is a great idea, saves on packing, you can change your towel for a clean one every day and they are long enough to cover the sunbeds which get very hot. At the end of your stay you will get your money refunded! You can get the hire card from the cashier at reception. Safe hire is also available here at a cost of £3.50 per week.
There are lots of trips organised by both the hotel and the tour operators and details of these are displayed in an area of the foyer near to the pool tables.
Extra monies are required for the Hamman(like a Turkish bath) Spa treatments, golf and tennis tuition and horseriding. However, you may want to stay in the hotel and be dragged up by the entertainment team for boules, darts, aerobics etc and these are all good fun. If you wish though you can just relax in the lovely surroundings either by the pools or on the beach.
Very good value for money, would definately return.
Myself, husband, teenaged daughter plus our neighbour and her young daughter spent New Year 2005 at the Phenicia and we were all so impressed by the high standards of cleanliness, hotel facilities and and overall quality of the food served in the restaurants that we have already booked to come back for a week in May 2006 along with several other friends. We had no hesitation in recommending the Phenicia - we were really impressed by all aspects of this hotel and the surrounding gardens and beach that we can't wait to see it again in the sunshine! The staff are all extremely helpful, very smart and nothing was too much trouble for them. They made us feel very welcome. It's a pity other so called 4* hotels in Europe can't meet the high standards we found at the Phenicia. The final icing on the cake was the superb mixture of nationalities staying at the hotel - French, English, German, Spanish and Russian - so much nicer than being an 'all English' hotel. (Eastleigh)


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Distraction. My wife claims I'm too easily distracted, and maybe she has a point. One thing so easily leads to another when you're coding. Buoyed by interest in my GNOME Bluetooth stuff I decided that I needed to put more coding time in. I then decided that I should write new GUI-based stuff in Python in order to get further in less time. Then I found I needed the EggIconList widget from libegg, the experimental GTK widget library, and so had to find out how to wrap it for Python. Get the picture? Well, thanks to jamesh and ross I got there. Then, feeling the need to share the achievement, I wrote about it here and on my weblog.
Debian. I uploaded a new package of the Epiphany web browser and filed an ITP for the Epiphany extensions collection -- features such as gestures and zoom-level-persistence. There's also an accumulating amount of work to do for my BlueZ packages, which I hope to get round to soon. The announcement of the 'sarge' release plans are great news, and I hope to do what I can to help achieve the release.
Twisted. As part of developing FOAFbot, I've started using the Twisted network application framework for Python. The learning curve's quite steep, and there's lots of new nomenclature to get my head around, but it's looking very promising and I shan't be turning back. Very cool. Hanging around on the Twisted IRC channel is also pretty entertaining.
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Description The Checkered White (Pontia protodice), also called Southern Cabbage Butterfly, is a common North American butterfly in the family Pieridae. Its green larva is a type of cabbage worm.
The upper side of the wings are white and marked with black and gray, more so on the female. The underside of the hindwings are marked with extensive yellow-brown veins. The wingspan is 1.25-1.75 in.
Dimensions 1 1/4-1 3/4" (32-44 mm).
Habitat Cities, suburbs & towns, Grasslands & prairies, Meadows & fields.
Range Texas, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, California, Southwest, Great Lakes, Florida, New England, Northwest.


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How to host Pyblosxom as a WSGI application with Twisted
I recently switched to PyBlosxom for my blog software. I have been using Twisted to host my website since I had my own server and wished to continue to do so if possible.
Twisted Web 2: Twisted Web2 has built-in support for WSGI, which is used to connect to PyBlosxom. The 0.2.0 release should work fine, though I'm running off of Twisted svn trunk.
Note: The stated requirement to download
twisted_wsgi.pyfound in
wsgi_app.pyin the Pyblosxom distribution only applies to Twisted Web 1, not Twisted Web 2, as Twisted Web 2 has WSGI support built in.
Twisted: If you chose to download the release tarball of Twisted Web2, you'll also have to download the 2.4.0 release. If, however, you have checked it out from subversion, you'll have both Twisted Web2 and Twisted. Refer to the Twisted site for more details.
PyBlosxom: The latest release should be fine, but note that I'm also running off of PyBlosxom SVN Trunk.
General Setup
- Get all of the above modules set up. The easiest way is to refer to the
INSTALLfile in each of the downloaded or checked out distributions.
- Create a directory for all of your configuration and run-time files. For example, I use
- Copy
web/wsgi_app.pyfrom the PyBlosxom distribution in the directory.
- Copy the
config.pyPyBlosxom configuration file into the directory as well, making any customizations that are needed.
Twisted Configuration
I use a
.tac file for my Twisted server configuration. It is simply a set of Python code required to set up the server and its parameters. Here is a minimum working configuration, with no Twisted logging enabled:
from twisted.application import service, strports
from twisted.web2 import server, channel, wsgi
from twisted.web2.channel import http
from wsgi_app import application as pyblosxom_application
pyBlosxomResource = wsgi.WSGIResource(pyblosxom_application)
site = server.Site(pyBlosxomResource)
application = service.Application('web')
s = strports.service('tcp:80', channel.HTTPFactory(site))
I could probably make it a bit cleaner, but this is a pared down version of the more complex working version that hosts my sites. You can download and save blog.tac in the directory created above. Be sure to change the port number from
tcp:80 to
tcp:<custom port number> if you want the server to listen on a different port.
Startup Script
I also wrote a quick script to make it easy to start the blog server. You'll have to modify the pathnames appropriately to your particular setup. Here is the script:
cd ~/bin/
export PYTHONPATH=/home/nafai/code/Twisted:/home/nafai/code/pyblosxom-new/pyblosxom:$PYTHONPATH
python2.4 /home/nafai/code/Twisted/bin/twistd -y /home/nafai/bin/blog.tac --pidfile=blog.pid --logfile=blog.log
Download and save startblog.sh in the directory created above. Make it executable by doing
chmod +x startblog.sh.
Run it!
Now try running the blog service (for example, if the configuration files were saved in
You should be able to see your blog if you browse to http://localhost/ with your web browser. If you get a 503 or other error, check blog.log in the ~/bin directory for any tracebacks or errors. Also check the pyblosxom specific log if you have one configured in your
You may run into a bug that I've seen, but haven't taken the time to track down where it is coming from. I am getting this traceback fairly often in my
blog.log file, though everything else seems to run normal:
2006/08/24 22:22 MDT [HTTPChannel,39,127.0.0.1] Traceback (most recent call last):
2006/08/24 22:22 MDT [HTTPChannel,39,127.0.0.1] File "logging/__init__.py", line 737, in emit
2006/08/24 22:22 MDT [HTTPChannel,39,127.0.0.1] ValueError: I/O operation on closed file
I should track this down sometime soon.
Happy TwistedPyBlogging!
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