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. Do nations have personality traits? Are Germans industrious, Chinese mathematical, French aloof, Swedes stoic? If shreds of truth abide in those and other impressions, then what trait best describes Americans?
Heres something to consider: Since mid-Decembers mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Americans have purchased an estimated 5 million guns legally, and probably millions more illegally. Altogether, we are thought to have amassed nearly 300 million privately held firearms, nearly one gun per person. Thats by far the highest ratio in the world. The question is: Why?
Fear is the most likely answer. Americans feel safer with firepower. After all, someone might break down the door any minute and threaten the household. Someone might jump in and steal the car at gunpoint. A terrorist sleeper cell might be lurking down the block. Bureaucrats might be working overtime to restrict the sale of guns while prying deeper into the private lives of law-abiding gun owners. And, of course, theres the clear and present danger of government confiscating all firearms as part of some tyrannical plot against liberty.
If the government has automatic weapons and is coming after me for my guns, I want automatic weapons to keep them away, one reader recently wrote to this page. Another pleaded for the right to engage maximum firepower against enemies both foreign and domestic.
Could it be that individually and collectively, Americans are a tad paranoid?
Not only have we assembled the worlds largest private arsenal, but we also spend more on defense than all other nations combined. The Pentagon budget, now at $700 billion, has doubled since 1998 and, in adjusted dollars, stands higher than at any point since World War II.
Yet we live in a time of declining crime and, according to historians, remarkable safety despite our capacity for mass destruction. We are probably living in the most peaceful time of our species existence, says Harvard psychologist and author Steven Pinker, who has charted the sharp decline of violence going back to Biblical days. Moreover, we tend to misjudge actual threats. The chance of getting robbed and murdered, for example, is far less than that of suffering a fatal head injury after slipping in the bathtub.
Modern media are the biggest drivers of fear. They warn relentlessly about the dangers of crime, storms, taxes, faulty consumer products, defective medicines, obesity, bulimia and so on. But Americans had a rich culture of fear long before the 24-hour news cycle. Richard Hofstadter, in his classic 1964 essay The Paranoid Style of American Politics, recounted a string of conspiracies launched against the nation by (in rough order) European monarchs, Masons, *Jesuits, abolitionists, Mormons, international bankers, Jews, one-worlders, New Dealers and communists. More recently, Hollywood liberals, illegal immigrants and Muslims have joined the list of threats.
While the political right often feasts on conspiracy, the left is not immune. At various points, liberals have feared that Wall Street manipulators, the religious right and the Tea Party have cast a spell over the nation. And liberals often dismiss all conservative thinking as anti-intellectual a claim that borders on paranoia.
At the moment, paranoias greatest beneficiary is probably the $32 billion-a-year gun industry. Its often explained that guns are part of the national culture, and surely thats true. More than a century after the wilderness was tamed, millions of us cling to the frontier identity, even if most of the danger is imaginary. No American myth is so enduring as that of the rugged frontiersman standing tall and self-reliant and willing to shoot if thats what it comes to.
Through the fog of myth, culture and paranoia, its hard to have a cool, rational discussion about the real dangers that still beset our world, about the kinds of weapons that should be legally available to the public, and about who among the public should be legally able to obtain them


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After being beaten about the head for weeks with hype and critical acclaim, I finally got to see this new show tonight on NBC.
The references to "Emmy award winning director of the Sopranos (Allen Coulter)" and the comparisons to a hybrid of "Traffic meets The Sopranos" were a little too much for me to take, but after actually watching the pilot I have to say that it was a good show.
My initial reaction was not one of disappointment, as that could have been a likely outcome after all the hype.
I liked it and enjoyed it immensely. What intrigued me the most was the lead character of Miguel, played by Yancey Arias. I found him to be charismatic with a powerful screen presence. Beyond that, I'm just hoping that the series builds on the pilot and gets better. I'm curious to see in which directions it might go.
It's my understanding that NBC has 6 episodes total, with more to be filmed if these first shows are successful. We'll see on that, but I do very much like the idea of showing the second episode on Tuesday already. I'm definately aboard for another show (now if only I can remember to tape it on Tuesday while I'm at work ).


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Australian Portraits 1880-1960
introduction | essay | selected works
18 December 2004 – 25 April 2005
Over the last 20 years the National Gallery of Australia has assembled an extraordinary collection of etchings, woodcuts, masonite cuts, monotypes and stencils by the Australian artist Margaret Preston (1875–1963). Of all Australian artists, Preston is one of the most widely known, her vibrant decorative paintings and prints of distinctively Australian subjects (flowers, birds, animals and landscapes) have delighted the Australian public since they were first exhibited in the early 1920s. Over Christmas and the New Year the National Gallery will be presenting the exhibition Margaret Preston, Australian printmaker. It will include a comprehensive display of the artists printed work from 1916–1956, as well as personal items selected from the Gallery's rich Research Archive.
Quick-witted, and a lively writer on art and travel (which she claimed was her hobby) Preston was also an accomplished lecturer and children's educator. She delivered her ideas in short staccato sentences which could illuminate difficult ideas, or, when the speaker was provoked, could cut to the quick. Preston was adroit at the promotion of her work and ideas. In 1927 when Art in Australia devoted a complete edition to her paintings, prints and writings, she not only paid for additional colour illustrations, but also wrote an autobiographical essay with the provocative title From Eggs to Electrolux. For many years this piece formed the basis of our knowledge of the artist's early life. However research by many art historians (which began in the early 1970s), has shown that what Preston wrote, did not always tally with fact. On her marriage certificate, for example, she reduced her age by some eight years, making herself slightly younger than her husband! Her autobiography was in essence an entertaining piece of fiction based on her life.
Margaret Preston'West Australian banksia' c.1929 woodblock print National Gallery of Australia © Margaret Preston. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia more detail
The biographical details that Preston so carefully glossed over have been the subject of ongoing scholarly investigation, and many details of her life have now been recovered and scrutinised The National Gallery of Australia has contributed much to this new research by its acquisition of documents relating to the artist's life. There is now an outstanding archive which contains among other items, the artist's (and her husband's passports), notebooks with writings on colour theory and screenprinting, photo albums documenting their trips to New Zealand, the Pacific and South America in the 1930s, and even a recipe scrapbook from her childhood.
These insights into her life have led to a corresponding reappraisal of the artist's work. After an extensive stay in England Preston returned to Australia in 1919, she married on the last day of the year, and entered the decade of the 1920s with a new professional name, and place of abode. Her desire to establish a uniquely Australian art was formulated soon after she settled in Sydney. The colourful woodcut views of Sydney harbour, vases of Australian flowers, birds and animals that she produced in the 1920s remain her best known work. The popularity of these consciously decorative works has diminished the attention that has been paid to the prints that she produced over the next twenty-five years.
Margaret Preston 'Old Banksia tree' c.1936 woodblock print National Gallery of Australia © Margaret Preston. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia more detail
In the late 1920s Preston rejected colour and her prints became stark and geometric. The 1930s saw her travelling to Japan and South East Asia and there was a corresponding interest in asymmetrical design and close observation of nature. But it was her relocation from Sydney to the small community at Berowra on the Hawkesbury River (1932–39) that changed her art radically. Here she came to understand the fundamental form and spiritual nature of Australia's ancient landscape. She joined the Anthropological Society of New South Wales and studied the art of Aboriginal Australians and immersed herself in the theoretical writings of the great Chinese landscape painters. The landscape became the prime theme for her later mature works. Prestons last major exhibition was held at Macquarie Gallery, Sydney in 1953, where she exhibited 28 stencil prints. The exhibition was opened by the then youthful Bernard Smith (they both were members of SORA, Society of Realist Artists), and the 78 year old artist attended carrying a bouquet of Australian wild flowers in one of her own woven baskets.
The prints produced for this exhibition are her most profound. In them Preston has imbedded the experience of a lifetime, fusing together her ideas to create a unique vision of the Australian landscape, both physically and spiritually. In preparing a lecture on the nature of the Australian landscape observed:The gay setting sun or the sweet morning mists are all accidents of time … droughts are a misfortune but like the sunrise, only temporary. It is the land itselfMargaret Preston, Australian printmakercan be seen at the National Gallery of Australia Canberr from 18 December 2004 – 10 April 2005. The exhibition will coincide with a revised and expanded edition of The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné which details and illustrates all of the artists printed work.
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WHAT? Real life? Isn't Scouting part of your life all the time? Well you did make a promise to live the Scout Oath and Law, and to do your DUTY, and at the very least to do your best… Right?
Now I am going to tell you a story the content of which I am extremely biased.
The story is about what it takes to make a high performance team. Simply put it takes a common vision and goals and the willingness of ALL the team members to achieve them. Once the team discovers that working together they can achieve those goals, the sky becomes the limit.
My youngest son is a pretty good football player. He has been playing football since the 3rd grade and works real hard to get better. Last year his Middle School team went undefeated, the team seemed to be unstoppable. Most of those same guys are on this years team, although there have been many new guys introduced into the team. They all have individual talents on the field and with the confidence of winning it all last season.. they took the field for their first game. Individually they made some spectacular plays, but at the end of the day they lost the game. They were beat because they were not playing as a team. That week in practice the Quarterback (my son) huddled the team up and told them they needed to get it together and start playing like a team, he reminded them of their talents and of the score of the last game. He shared with them something he had picked up in Boy Scouts at Junior Leader Training about the high performance team. He simply reminded them that if the line does not block and open up holes, the running back can't gain yards. If blocks are not held, passes can't get off. If the the throw is not accurate, the receivers can't make a play, if the defense does not hit hard and tackle, the team gets in a hole. He told them that it was up to them to decide whether or not they wanted to buy into the goal of the team, to win. Each and every one of them had to make a decision every time they put their helmets on to play for the team, or play for themselves.
Since that first game the defense has not allowed a point. The offense has outscored their opponents 86-0. The team looks like a fine tuned machine, an unstoppable group that works together, has a tight bond, and is having fun playing a game.
Scouting teaches up through the patrol method that working together we can and will accomplish anything. Setting goals and having a vision that everyone can buy into will move the patrol in a direction that will lead them to success. It takes a spark, a motivated leader to remind the team that they are good and that they can be the best.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
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Hi there,
I'm not sure if this is actually possible to do, deleting some portion of code at run time.
What I want to do is to create a achievement system for my game. Let's say, the player will get an achievement when she kills the first enemy. In this case I need to do an "if test" if(enemyNumber == 1) {.....}. However this portion is completely useless for the rest of the game after she earns this achievement. And I need to do as many this kind of tests as the number of achievements in the game. I wonder if there is a way to deal with such problem, deleting code or changing code at run time? How do you guys normally handle it?
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'Why Be Human?' is lecture focus, April 23
"Why Be Human?" is the question that Duquesne University political scientist Charles Rubin will address in a public lecture scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 23, in 6 Friend Center.
Rubin's current research and writing focus on emerging technologies -- such as biotechnology, artificial intelligence and robotics, neuroscience and nanotechnology -- and those who believe they will allow the redesign of humanity. He also has studied the political theory of environmentalism and urban planning, and issues in science, technology and policy.
Rubin is the author of "The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism" and the editor of a volume of essays on the conservation movement, "Conservation Reconsidered: Nature, Virtue and American Liberal Democracy."
The lecture is part of the "America's Founding and Future" series sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.


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Sliced fresh strawberries are sandwiched between cake layers and frosting to make this dessert a winner!
Trim the cake layers to make the edges even, if necessary. So the cake will be easier to frost, freeze the cake thirds uncovered for about 1 hour.
Fluffy white or cream cheese frosting can be used instead of the vanilla.
Tote this cake easily when you bake it in a 13x9x2-inch pan. Grease the bottom of the pan, make the cake as directed and bake 28 to 34 minutes. Spread 1 container of frosting over the completely cooled cake, and top with 2 cups (1 pint) of sliced strawberries.
Show off a cake on a pedestal when you've baked it in 2 layers. Grease and flour two 8-inch or 9-inch round pans, make the cake as directed and bake the layers for 25 to 32 minutes. Fill the layers with some of the frosting and sliced strawberries. Then frost the side and top of the cake, and top with the rest of the strawberries.
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Hope College senior Jordyn Boles of Grand Rapids (Forest Hills Central HS) has been voted to the Division III All-Region team of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). She becomes eligible for All-America consideration.
She is among 40 players nationwide selected by the WBCA member coaches in each of the eight WBCA award regions.
The 10-member All-America team will be announced Thursday, March 20 at the national championship finals to be hosted by Hope College.


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text: Today was the 2012 Oscars luncheon: The nominees congregate at the Beverly Hilton to talk shop, catch up — did you know that George Clooney and Brad Pitt hadn't seen each other in a year? – and bask in the adoration of the Academy. Yet despite the bright decorations you can see in the twitpic above, this year's guests opted for mostly neutrals: Blacks, whites, grays. Even the colorful dresses were muted… with one striking exception in Viola Davis. We run through the stars' conservative lunch wear, set to live tweets from the Academy's official Twitter page.


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Okay, I've never done any customs before - I'm usually afraid I'll ruin the figures and be left with some junk. However, I'm really wanting to try my hand and making some stuff (I'm working on a custom Handmaiden, not doing so well, but I'm trying) and I want to try to make some custom Gungan Warriors.
Anyway, I have heard that a lot of customizers use the "Boil and Pop" method. Apparently, you literally boil your figures and pop the limbs out of the figures. But I wanted to ask the specifics: How long do you boil them for? Is there any specific type of pot you should use? Could you use a hair dryer to get the same effect? Will boiling damage the figure in anyway?
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Police with no leads can now predict the eye colour of their suspect from DNA recovered at the crime scene. It's the first time such a tool has been available.Manfred Kayser at Erasmus University Medical Centre in the Netherlands and colleagues have developed IrisPlex, which can predict with 94 per cent accuracy whether a person has blue or brown eyes from a sample of DNA.The Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice is expected to approve the kit in the coming weeks, while the UK could use it immediately.It is the first validated tool to help police home in on a possible suspect by predicting a visible trait, says Kayser. This could be useful in cases where police have DNA from a crime scene, but can't find a match on a DNA database. It is not accurate enough to secure convictions in court, however.IrisPlex examines six single-letter variations in DNA, known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which have been strongly linked to eye colour, and categorises them as blue, brown or "undefined" - an intermediate colour such as green, grey, or a mix of colours.Tests of the kit, carried out on populations from seven different European countries, confirm that it can predict blue or brown eye colour with a high degree of accuracy (Forensic Science International: Genetics, DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2011.07.009).The identification of three new SNPs may soon enable IrisPlex to predict the shade as well as colour. A different kit that combines both eye and hair colour is also being tested.
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PIZZAZZ event raises funds for Garden Club of Allegheny CountyOctober 21, 2013 11:06 PM
PIZZAZZ had a banner year, which was good news for the Garden Club of Allegheny County. The annual boutique shopping benefit helps the garden club, part of the Garden Club of America, to fund various local causes including Botany in Action and horticultural, conservation and environmental education in the region. This year's event opened with a Preview Party Wednesday and continued through Friday at the Fox Chapel Golf Club. Mardi Royston and Diane Viall chaired PIZZAZZ, with Carol Duggan and Marjorie Recker as the vendor chairs who brought in 30 boutiques from around the country. New and very popular this year was Fleurs -- a French flower stand with arrangements made by garden club members.


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Bucks opt for more of the same, give GM John Hammond a three-year extension
By Rob Mahoney
Bucks owner Herb Kohl has quickly extinguished any hope that this coming offseason -- in which the contracts of Milwaukee's head coach, general manager and two highest (and highest-paid) scorers are set to functionally expire -- would signal a radical change in the way the Bucks operate. According to a release from the team, GM John Hammond has been given a three-year contract extension despite a managerial track record that offers little reason for confidence or enthusiasm. Per Ken Berger of CBS Sports, Hammond is due to make $1.8 million a season over the course of his deal. From the release:
"John does a terrific job for our basketball team," said Herb Kohl, team president. "He and his staff have assembled a roster of very talented players who are also very good people, which our fans appreciate and enjoy watching. John is highly respected by the players and among his peers and I'm happy he will continue to lead our basketball operations department."
As is usually the case with such public statements, Kohl stretches the truth a bit there. Hammond hasn't been horrible, but he's made moves that have kept the Bucks treading water without any hope of either contending or bottoming out. It's not impossible for middling teams to rally their way into the top tier, but to do so without elite prospects or even all that many tradeable contracts is immensely difficult. Hammond can't be blamed for all of the ills that the Bucks have suffered throughout his tenure (with Andrew Bogut's string of injuries being the most unfortunate and unpredictable of the bunch), but he must be held accountable for the pattern of curious trades that have kept the Bucks from getting where they've needed to go. Milwaukee was never a Corey Maggette or Stephen Jackson away from contention, and yet Hammond has managed the Bucks with the kind of abandon that clogged up Milwaukee's cap room, destroyed the team's financial flexibility and loaded up the roster with bloated contracts.
Most of those deals have expired or been shipped out, but Hammond can only get so much credit for cleaning up his own mistakes. As it stands, he's rallied a decent team toward a big offseason, one in which Hammond and the Bucks will need to make long-term decisions regarding both Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis, not to mention the fate of Jim Boylan and the head coaching quasi-vacancy. Milwaukee will have a rare chance to clear the slate, and in the process bank on the development of Jennings and Larry Sanders while forfeiting a doomed spot at the bottom of the playoff bracket. But given what we know of Hammond and the Bucks' modus operandi, it seems far more likely that any potential cap room created this summer would only be spent on more merely decent talent that will bring Milwaukee to the brink of relevance without any hope of moving beyond. Hammond has ultimately been OK; his mistakes haven't been grave, and he's made good choices to acquire talent in the draft and clear away his own messes. But is 'OK' really what the Bucks should be investing in while the next era of their franchise hangs in the balance?


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Dorothy Blasing Chladek
JANESVILLE, Wis. - Dorothy Blasing Chladek, 97, Janesville, died October 10 at home. Dorothy was born on December 26, 1915, in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in Delavan, Wisconsin, and received her nursing degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1938. On July 18, 1942, she married Kolar B. Chladek.
While raising her three children, Dorothy co-founded the Janesville Visiting Nurse Association in 1964. She served as the VNA Executive Director from 1966 until her retirement in 1977. Dorothy and KB enjoyed spending time at their Tuttle Lake cottage with family and friends, traveling, golfing, and playing bridge.
Dorothy is survived by Kolar B. (K.B.) Chladek, her husband of 71 years, Barbara and Philip Heinle, Janet Markley, Daniel and Lisa Chladek, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
Service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 at Nativity of Mary Catholic Church, Janesville. Visitation will be from noon until the time of service. Luncheon will follow. Schneider Apfel Schneider & Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Janesville, is assisting the family. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Janesville Visiting Nurses Association or Nativity of Mary Parish of Janesville. For online obituary and regestry: www.schneiderfuneraldirectors.com
The family would like to thank Elaine and Amy of Mercy Health for their superior nursing care.


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Not to be rude or anything, but your mozilla SVG-images really stinks. They're several 100 kB big and two of them doesn't look very good either.
Compare your mozdev.svg with mine and your mozillaorg.svg with mine. My pics are 3.3 and 1.9 kB respectively. Yours are 489 and 194 kB.
The trick?
potrace -s -t 0 -a 0 -o output.svg input.pnm
I have no idea how you got the lizard heads so big, but it (the source) looks really messy. Haven't had the time to redo them yet.
For some reason your lizard heads have a gazillion tiny/invisible dots in different colors. After reworking your trex.svg I got it down to 5.6 kB from 557 kB. My own b/w mozilla head is even smaller, just 4.9 kB.
The gecko looks great, though!
I live without running water, since some clumsy plumber cut the wrong pipe, during the renovation going on in the house.


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Really fixed sparc32 (and probably sparc64) hardware probing this morning. Looks like it sees the videocard properly now too. Added some heuristics to tell anaconda to always try 24 bit video, since I'm stumbling all over sparcs that can't handle 16bit. It might be slow as hell, but at least it won't crash. (and 8bit is ugly, but possible)
It doesn't even pause in stage 1 now, except to tell me that its autoloading the scsi driver. Its so beautiful. :)
Aurora Bug List:
- mouseconfig seems to be failing noisily (but non-fatally) during post
- KDE is trying to use /dev/dsp, failing. Probably can be fixed with a symlink to /dev/audio.
- parted is complaining that the H/S/C counts on the sparc32 disks (older disks?) don't match what the disk label says... parted is wrong, needs patching.
- parted/silo seems to fail on machines without a /boot partition during install, although, the silo.conf generated seems valid
- KDE/QT is being poorly optimized by gcc 2.96, causing KDE to have terrible performance (5 min app load vs 30 sec for GNOME). This is not an issue with gcc 3.1.
- GUI installs always try 16 bit, and fail for majority of Sun video hw, added heuristics to anaconda code to try to make it smarter with this regard, for sparcs. Partially complete.


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Honors Program
- What is the Honors Program in History?
- What are the requirements for entering the Honors Program in History?
- What is the program of study for Honors?
- History 390
- History 391
What is the Honors Program in History?
The Honors Program in History is a captivating intellectual adventure, and will be the high point of your undergraduate education at Rhode Island College. Honors provides you an experience that cannot be duplicated in a classroom, and will play a significant role in maximizing your professional life after graduation in whatever career you choose.
Honors is a unique opportunity to pursue independent study one-on-one with the history professor (Honors Advisor) of your choice. In consultation with your Honors Advisor, you select a topic of special interest, and study it in depth for two semesters.
You will have the freedom to immerse yourself in independent research and to develop your own ideas. Frequent meetings with your Honors Advisor will give you unparalleled opportunity to engage in meaningful intellectual dialogue with him/her. As you share your discoveries with your Honors Advisor and hear his/her seasoned advice, you will experience the gratification that comes with discovering and creating on your own in the company of professional scholars.
The high point of Honors is writing an Honors Thesis and defending it before an Honors Committee of selected members of the Department of History, who are particularly knowledgeable about your area. Your defense before the Honors Committee is really a dialogue among like-minded scholars--yourself and the Committee members.Back to top
What are the requirements for entering the Honors Program in History?
- Major in History.
- 3.25 GPA in your History Major.
- Sophomore or Junior class rank.
- Completion of History 200, "The Nature of Historical Inquiry."
- Successful completion of H361 by end of Junior year at grade of B or better.
- Consultation with the Chair of the Department of History, Chair of the Honors Committee, or a particular faculty member about intent to do Honors.
- Honors topic selection and the submission of a written proposal.
What is the program of study for Honors?
- 1st semester of Honors: History 390, "Directed Study" (4 units).
- 2nd semester of Honors: History 391, "Directed Study" (4 units).
History 390 and 391 must be taken in successive semesters, and you must maintain a 3.25 average both in History 390 and 391 and in your History Major overall. Before you start History 390, you will have selected a topic agreed upon with your Honors Advisor. It can be from any period (Antiquity, the Medieval world, the Modern era), deal with any geographical area (the non-western world, the western world, or the U.S.), and concern, for example, political history, ethnicity, women's history, foreign policy, religion, labor history, or any one of many other fields in history.Back to top
History 390
History 390 is for directed reading; History 391 is for writing the Honors Thesis and submitting it to an honors committee that will be established for the oral defense.
During History 390, you will meet with your Honors Advisor in a series of tutorial conferences. They are designed to instruct you in areas such as historiography, discovery and analysis of source materials, and the advanced mechanics of independent research. Depending upon your topic, you may wish to consult with other members of the Department of History.
Towards the end of this semester, you will submit a complete chapter outline or precis of your topic. Your grade for History 390 will be based upon your Honors Advisor's assessment of your cumulative oral conference performance. If you fail to achieve at least a "B" in History 390, you will be dropped from the program, but will be awarded four credits as long as the grade is passing.Back to top
History 391
History 391 is the final phase of Honors, for during this semester you will complete both your research and the writing of your Honors Thesis. The length of the text should range between 40 and 70 double-spaced pages, not including the bibliography and other parts of the apparatus. You will meet frequently with your Honors Advisor for his/her supervision of the writing of your thesis.
When you and your Honors Advisor have agreed upon an acceptable version, you will submit two copies of your Honors Thesis to him/her. Thereupon, the Chair of the Honors Committee will appoint an Examining Committee composed of your Honors Advisor, at least two other members of the Department of History, and if appropriate, one outside reader.
You will submit in timely fashion your two copies in the same semester in which you wish to defend your thesis before the Examining Committee in case the Examining Committee, during the oral defense, recommends revision.
All candidates completing the Honors Program in History satisfactorily shall be granted "Honors in History," and have this information inscribed on their permanent college record.
Honors candidates taking History 391 but who fail to complete the Honors Thesis or its oral defense shall be granted 4 credits in history at the discretion of the Honors Advisor.Back to top


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"Around Germantown " by Peg Coleman
Around Germantown is the history of the area surrounding and including this new Maryland city. From a rural village of 2000 in 1980 to a population of 90,000 today, Germantown works because of the professional planners in Silver Spring who scrutinized each inch of the 11,000 acres. A triumph of inspired planning, photographs match the quiet farmland of yesterday with the same site today. Ten Mile Creek village is shown as it was; today it is buried beneath a 550 acre lake. The book is a pictorial history containing many photos of today matched with yesterday.
"Mama Wears Two Aprons " by Peg Coleman
Mama Wears Two Aprons is about women in farming and farm marketing. Sited mostly in Montgomery County, the book leads us from 1691 to 2008. Enormous change has taken place in the lives of women and Peg lets them tell their own story, some poignant, some sad, some happy. Through
"Paul of Montgomery" by Peg Coleman
Paul Drury, 12, helps his father complete their log cabin in the 18th century wilderness. Actual persons and early industry woven with a good story will be enjoyed by all ages. Illustrated with early sketches by Benjamin Latrobe, old paintings and portraits and contemporary photographs, this book fills an empty niche; it is the first published novel to feature the birth of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Peg (local historian), is also the author of "Montgomery County: A Pictorial History."
"Paul of Montgomery" is available directly from the author (email@example.com) or from PublishAmerica, www.PublishAmerica.com, 1-877-333-7422; wholesale from Ingram, Baker & Taylor, 1-800-233-8467.
ISBN number 1-59129-744-3. Retail price, $16.95.
Click here for Frederick News-Post article about "Paul of Montgomery", July 6, 2003....


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charlie elk wrote:man charlie you can blindfold me & or do what ever you want so i cant find my way back to your stomping grounds but i would love to maybe just share a hunt with you someday for quail or huns??? charlie im serious i would only need 1 OF EACH SPECIES TO BE HAPPY.
I do like your enthusiasm tj and I'll think about it. Vic does require more polish, yeah I know, I make him sound like super dog but what dog owner doesn't leave out some of parts?
I am going to keep specializing in turkey with him this year with a few of the other hunts to keep him diversified.
When time allows I'll search my pictures, there are thousands, to find some huns, actually there should be a couple of Vic with a brace of quail and huns. Stay tune.
Turkeydoghunter and talked a lot about turkey dogs he has some good ones for sure. I selected the Vizsla for its versatility and long legs to cover these big hills, up, down and sideways. Turkeys are fast. My fear with the smaller turkey dogs was they would not hold up on a long day's hunt in steep bluff country. (my backyard) Most turkey doggers seem to prefer the smaller breeds, so you should be in good shape with your Musterlander. Trust me, once you try turkey dogging you'll get seriously turkey hooked. Spring only hunters think they are addicts, however, you have not encountered a real turkey addict until meet a turkey dogger. Doggers hunt year round all over the country in a all seasons. Whereas, spring only hunters feel they have to rest up in order to make it in the next season. (that's turkey dogger humor there, it is)


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Rhodes Scholar and recent Princeton University graduate Adam Mastroianni talks about the psychology of humor, the subject of his senior thesis.
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Posted July 25, 2014; 12:00 p.m.
Adam Mastroianni is serious about humor. He graduated in June with a degree from Princeton's psychology department, where he wrote his senior thesis on the psychology of humor.
He started working on his topic while a sophomore when he found an adviser, Susan Fiske. Fiske, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, has said, "My only challenge in advising him is keeping up with him."
Mastroianni, a Rhodes Scholar, is heading to the University of Oxford to study evidence-based social intervention, pursuing his interest in developing college preparation programs.
Interested in humor since he was in high school, Mastroianni found many ways to explore the topic while at Princeton. He researched it for his thesis, joined the improv group "Quipfire!" and co-hosted a live late-night talk show on campus called "All-Nighter With David Drew." On the talk show, the hosts recently gave Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber — who learned of his Jewish heritage in adulthood — a mock bar mitzvah.
Mastroianni has studied topics such as whether it's possible to measure laughter or humor scientifically, the distinction between laughter (a behavior) and mirth (an emotion), and why humans laugh.
"Doing all these studies — some of them working, some of them not — and always regrouping after each study and kind of charting the next step, I think has been really formative in my life as a … what I hope to be, a future scholar," he said. "That has been really incredible."
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Prize-Winning Recipe 2008! Bring a delicious and sweet part of Italy into your home with a classic almond cookie rolled in pine nuts.
Look for pine nuts in the grocery store near the other nuts. Look for budget-priced pine nuts in the bulk-foods section of the store or in club stores.
Pignoli ("peen-YOH-lee") is the Italian word for pine nut. The long process used to extract the nuts from the cones makes them expensive.
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Alesis NanoSynth
The NanoSynth is probably the 'fattest' little Nano-anything in the world! Unlike Alesis's other Nano-modules which offer 256 preset sounds, the NanoSynth doubles that to 512 and adds another 128 of user-programmable patches - a first for the Nano-modules. It also added stereo audio inputs and a built-in serial RS232 jack for direct Mac or PC connections, and full 16-part multitimbral operation.
As it's name suggest's, the NanoSynth is a compact MIDI module designed to give you ready-made 'Synth' sounds that should cover just about every musical style! From the front panel you can call up only the 128 User programs and the 128 General MIDI presets. The other 384 unique NanoSynth presets can only be called up via MIDI or serial link. External MIDI Editor/Librarian software must be used to edit the Presets and create User patches.
The sounds in the NanoSynth are pretty darn good too. They are based on the same synthesis engine as the QS synths. There are even built-in effects, also based on those found in the QS synths. With 64 voices and 16-part multi-timbrality, this tiny box (for less than $200) can do it all - drums, synths, guitars, pianos, organs, strings, pads, leads, etc. It makes a nice 'grab-bag' of sounds but wasn't designed to satisfy those looking to create their own wildly unique or complex synth sounds and textures.
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- Demos & Media
Audio Clip 1 - Demos of various patches. From Future Music CD issue 66.
Manual - Alesis have made manuals and program charts for many of their products available on-line, for free download as .PDF files.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 64 voices
- Oscillators - 16-bit 48kHz linear sample ROM
- LFO - 3 LFOs
- Filter - Sweepable Lowpass filter
- VCA - 3 Envelope Generators
- Keyboard - None
- Memory - 640 Programs (512 preset, 128 user)
- Control - MIDI (16-parts multi-timbral)
- Date Produced - 1997
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Implemented in spring 2005, the Electronic Licensing Management System (ELMS) is an Intranet application that provides the Licensing and Certification Program (L&C) with a tool to manage the State licensing of over 30 types of health care facilities.
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Having spent the past eight years in a Russian prison, Lucas North is released.
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Having spent the past eight years in a Russian prison, Lucas North is released.
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Family: Balaenopteridae, Rorquals view all from this family
Description Dark whale with remarkably long, knobby flippers. Top of flippers are dark in the Pacific race and white in the Atlantic race. Head is knobbed with tubercles; projection under chin may grow with age. Dorsal fin varies from low and stubby to high and curved. Pattern of white on flukes and shape, size, and scarring of dorsal fin allows identification of individual whales; end of tail is serrated. Widely spaced throat grooves help distend mouth for filter feeding. Blow is low and bushy.
Dimensions 14-17m, 25,000-45,000kg
Endangered Status The Humpback Whale is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in its range along the U.S. coastline (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California in the Pacific; Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas in the Atlantic and Gulf). Like the other great whales, the Humpback was killed in great numbers by the whaling industry. It was not often targeted by the early New England whalers, but because of its coastal distribution and its relative slowness, the Humpback was greatly exploited by the early-20th-century shore-based whaling industry. The species has been under international protection since 1944, and all hunting was halted by 1966. Its numbers have recovered considerably, but it still faces numerous obstacles. Humpbacks have died after becoming entangled in fishing gear or colliding with ships, and habitat degradation and the depletion of food resources are a constant threat to this species.
Breeding Mating and calving occur in tropical and subtropical waters in winter.
Habitat Offshore waters
Range New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Texas, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska
Discussion Most active and acrobatic of the large whales. Unique feeding technique involves the release of columns of bubbles that encircle schools of fish and contain them so the whales can lunge into the center of the bubble net and engulf large numbers at once. They feed extensively in summer in productive cold high-latitude waters, and do not eat during the winter breeding season. This Endangered species migrates along both coasts between summer Arctic waters and winter southern waters, where it is among the most familiar of the great whales.


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Binghamton University to host kids science camp
The Professional Development and Research (PDR) arm of Binghamton University's School of Education and Human Development, in partnership with the Vestal School Foundation, GE Elfun Volunteers-Binghamton Subchapter, and a number of community supporters, will offer a summer science camp for children in August. The Kids Explore! camp will offer an inquiry-based science experience for children in grades 1 to 7, providing hands-on activities for four age levels along specific scientific themes.
Students will work with Binghamton University faculty in the field and in the lab to explore scientific investigations. Each program will be taught by teaching teams, comprised of University staff, teachers, graduate assistants and high school interns. Areas that are new, or of special interest to students, will be investigated through hands-on simulations, demonstrations, lectures, discussion and/or individual or small group investigations.
The camp will be held Monday, August 16, through Friday, August 20. Programs will feature four areas of exploration. Grades 1 and 2 will focus on the planet of life; grades 3 and 4 will investigate body mysteries; grades 4 and 5 will explore imagination and invention; and grades 5, 6 and 7 will focus on engineering.
The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day with morning and afternoon science activities. Mid- and end-of-the-day recreational activities will take place outdoors and in University sports facilities. The cost per child is $195.
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I recently set up my own IMAP server at home so I don't end up with all of my mail on my laptop, the loss of which would make me rather sad.
In the process, I started using junkfilter. I enjoy using junkfilter. It's spiffy. Thank you, Mr. Sutter.
I recently set up my own IMAP server at home so I don't end up with all of my mail on my laptop, the loss of which would make me rather sad.
In the process, I started using junkfilter. I enjoy using junkfilter. It's spiffy. Thank you, Mr. Sutter.
Well, I haven't posted since Burning Man, which is pretty lame. Quick summary of whassup since then:
Burning Man was awesome. Unlike the prior year, this year featured fairly warm nights, which made for a far more comfortable atmosphere. They days were bloody hot, but that's normal, I guess. If you go next year, I strongly suggest volunteering; it's absolutely worthwhile. I worked as a Ranger, which was great, and with Playa Information, where you spend the hot day sitting in a shady place when you still get to meet and talk with people because they come to you. It's a good deal.
ApacheCon Dublin didn't happen, which was a major bummer.
I finally got an electric pump for the big ball. We're starting a Silicon Valley Pushball league. We've had two games so far. We've learned that with four people per team, it's really pretty painful; like arm-wrestling, but with your whole body. Six per team worked better, but I'm thinking eight or more.
MacWorld was this month. New iMac is cool. I was looking forward to iPhoto; I'm a fan of iTunes, and I have a bunch of pictures. A program that will help me manage them simply would be cool. I was highly dissapointed. Unlike iTunes, when you drag images to iPhoto, it copies them somewhere else on your disk, to a place when really only iPhoto is meant to look. If iPhoto is the only app you want to open files directly with, fine, but in my case, that's absurd. Actually, iTunes can probably get away with that, but I use several apps to view and edit photos. Plus it doesn't generate web photo albums; what is does do it upload to iTools, which generates an album. But with the wimpy disk quota of iTools, my images won't all fit, plus I don't really want to use iTools anyway. The photo book feature rocks; it's the only feature that does, that I saw.
Hopefullly, you'll be hearing more from KnowNow soon. I'm starting with a talk on what we do at the Bay Area NeXT Group this week. Drop by if you're curious.
I bought a ball. It's pretty large... six feet tall. I call it a man ball, as I recall having heard that once, but it's also known as a push ball or earth ball. I've been looking to get one of these for a long time, and it turns out that one of the pastors from my church had ordered a couple, so I got a catalog from him, and scored a ball. Dave (my housemate) and I spent a hour blowing into it (we knew it was stupid, but we couldn't help it), and after nearly passing out, we got it maybe half a centimeter high. So I went to REI and got a bike pump, and after four hours of pump pump pump pump pump, it got to about a foot before I had to take a shower and go to bed. So I went back to REI and got a good foot pump (for matresses), and that only takes an hour or so to get it all the way full. Phew.
You might think that's tiring. But then try playing a game of man ball. I invited a few folks over and we played a game with four to a team. Two minutes into it, we had to take an eight minute break. It's like arm wrestling with your whole body. Nuts. We need a lot more people, I think. Also: don't eat burgers right before playing.
Kevin Smith's latest movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back will be out soon. I caught the preview at the local AMC and it was pretty cool. Gotta go watch all the other Askew films first though, if you haven't already. It's an insider's movie.
Burning Man is next week. Last year, I went fairly unprepared (first time, went on a week's notice). This year, I'm all set. Dave is coming along, and we're bringing a trampoline to lounge on and a blender and fruit for making smoothies. Yum. And I'll bring a man ball just in case. :-) If you're there, look me up with Play Information... might even bump into me there; I'll be working at Checkpoint Salon Wed afternoon and I'll be working with the Black Rock Rangers early in the week and again during the burn. Should be a hoot.
Sadly, I missed MacHack this year. I supposed that's what I get for not working at a Mac shop. Reports from those who did go is that it was the usual blast. The keynote had a bunch of the original Mac team there, and the hack contest ran as long as last year.
I'm thinking next year that a bunch of Unix weenies should go, just to see what can be done with Mac OS 9 and prior, before the Classic OS starts fading into the past. While it's easy to criticize the Mac OS design in today's computing world, the things you can do specifically because it has a single address space for all programs can be truly remarkable. As a Unix guy, it's hard to even think of these things. So one might consider going next year just to learn something different, before it's too late. Plus Mac Hack is an event unlike any other, and worth a visit.
I learned to fly a new kind of airplane this weekend. I've so far been a Cessna pilot (well, with a 10-hour stint in a Beech Barron). Now I've been introduced to the Piper Arrow, which is a low wing with retractable gear and a variable pitch prop. It was interesting... it's a fair bit more work to fly, and as my instructor put it, it "flies like a desk". But it goes 120 knots to the C-172's 90 knotts, so that's appealing.
I'm thinking of flying out to Burning Man this year. That could be pretty cool, though I need to find someone who is driving up and is willing to take a few things for me, since I don't think everything I need will fit in the back of a little plane.
People who've been curious about what it is that KnowNow is working on and what "2 way web" means--no, it's not web pages on the back of your monitor--it's all up on our web site... www.knownow.com. The short answer I give is that we provide asyncronous event delivery over HTTP. It so happens that it works rather well with web browsers, but clients can be written in any environment, and they can all share the same information.
For some time, I've been working with Kevin Van Vechten on improving SystemStarter, a program I wrote for Mac OS X to bring up the system to the multi-user login prompt. It replaced /etc/startup from Rhapsody, and does what /etc/rc does in BSD systems. Part of its design is that startup tasks are encapsulated into "startup items," which are, in the simple case, a program and a configuration file. The program is an executable (usually a shell script) which takes a single argument like "start" or "stop" much like SysV /etc/init scripts. The configuration file (a property list) describes what the program does (displayed to the user), what services it provides, and what other services should be started before the program should be run. For example, Apache doesn't want to run until after the resolver is running.
One of the nice things about the design is that it is easily parallelizable given a dependency graph built from the information in the property list. Kevin has been doing some work to allow SystemStarter to bring up the system to a given point (eg. bring up the network) from single-user mode and to support a shutdown sequence as well. While I was integrating his code, I noticed that enabling parallelization became rather easy due to some cleanup we did in the process, so I spent a few hours implementing that, which is what I demonstrated at the open source session WWDC last week...
Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference was last week. There was the usual keynote by Steve Jobs and Avie Tevanian. Maybe I've been to a lot of these, but they are starting to feel pretty long. Steve had an attempt to scare developers into thinking that if they don't port their apps to run natively on OS X, that other product will get there first, and customers will switch. Now I think that's true for some programs, and I'll certainly use a native app over one that makes me launch classic, even if the native app is a little less cool, but the whole thing felt very contrived. Mentioning it was a good idea, but he and Avie both harped on it way too much, to the point where it felt really hollow by the end.
But there were some cool things about the keynote. One is that Apple has truly come about on the Unix front. There was a time when I had lunch with Jason Thorpe of NetBSD, and we were talking about Apple and NetBSD working together. Jason was very helpful, and NetBSD played a key role in getting the BSD subsystem in Rhapsody (which fed into Darwin/OS X) updated. (That work is by no means complete, but it got a lot better.) But I couldn't imagine Apple ever putting "powered by NetBSD" on any public material, and I told that to Jason. At that time, Unix was highly feared at Apple, as it threatened to make the system a lot scarier to users. But Apple has done a pretty good job (still a little more work to do there) of making Mac OS X take advantage of the Unix underpinnings without being a terror to users. And a lot of users think Unix is great and can interact directly with BSD if they choose to. The upshot is that Apple now sees BSD as a major asset, and no longer as a liability; this was obvious at the keynote, and it made me smile some.
One of the best things about WWDC is free Jamba Juice all week long! Woo hoo! Plus there is the free loot: I scored a free bag, Cocoa and Carbon books from O'Reilly, a decidedly spiffy Mac OS X leather jacket (courtesy of WWDR), and a most excellent Hexley shirt (courtesy of Brett Halle). All on a free pass. Party on.
I made it to the StepWise WWDC BoF which is always packed. This year was particularly crowded. Having gotten there late, I crawled over the people sitting on the floor and myself found a patch of carpet. Some cool things there...
My friends at NetStruxr have managed to release four of their toolkits for WebObjects developers under a BSD license. This is a big win for WebObjects developers looking to save time.
On a similar note, the MiscKit is getting its third reboot (once per operating system, NeXTStep, OpenStep, and now Mac OS). The MiscKit is a collection of Objective-C classes which are shared by the NeXT developer community. It is now starting again by updating the code base to the current Foundation and AppKit frameworks, and may switch to new licensing terms (I'm hoping, naturally, for a BSD license). The kit will switch from being a loose collection of submissions to a high-quality set of frameworks and an experimental set of frameworks where new code can be vetted. They are setting up CVS now. Bill Bumgarner has contributed his Python<->Objective-C bridge to the MiscKit, which is excellent. The bridge lets you call into Foundation and the AppKit from Python, which is way handy. Bill also wrote up an app which just exports Python as a Cocoa Service. This means that in *any* Cocoa application (and someday maybe Carbon apps; here's hoping), you can select some text and pull down a menu which causes that text to be evaluated as a Python expression. Shweet!
When I walked in, there was someone showing an Objective-C to Java bytecode compiler. I missed most of the demo, but this is truly psycho in the trademark Obj-C weenie style. Goes to show you can take Obj-C away from the program (WebObjects 5 in this case, which is now 100% Java), but you can't take Obj-C away from the programmer.
The Windows PC on my desk hasn't been turned on since my last diary entry. Whew. This week I need to learn how to build our stuff with it (I'll use Cygwin and fake it, I hope) and how to use Wise or some such to make packages. We'll see how that goes. What do you do with this other mouse button, anyway?
I now have a Windows PC (a laptop) on my desk. I turned it on and used IE. It took me a while to find where Windows weenies hide the preferences panel; apparently they can't decide, so it depends on the app. I can't seem to figure out how to tell it not to underline links, which I've always hated. Anyway, this is a first for me. I've used Windows.
I'm feeling kind of ill and need to go home soon.
Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference is coming up. I need to come up with a decent demo for Darwin. It's hard to be all that impressive in front of an Apple crowd with a command line console.
It's been a hectic moving week.
My housemates have moved out, which is a bit traumatic. I got home Sunday after dance class at church (my church is cool) and the lights were all out. All of 'em. It's not right. I couldn't find the door. So I've spent my evenings this week cleaning the house and unpacking all the stuff I've had boxed up in the garage.
We've also moved offices at KnowNow from Menlo Park to Mountain View. This is a big win for me. The commute is better for one. Better still, the food on Sand Hill Road was unimpressive, but now we're one block from Castro Street and the chow here is most righteous. And the office space is much nicer to boot.
ApacheCon was, as expected, excellent. We had a special "Hackathon" event before the conference (something we started doing at the London conference). I had volunteered a very cool space in the Apple campus for the Hackathon before I left Apple, and some folks at Apple we very cool to make sure we still were OK to use the room. The Hackathon is a great thing because the ASF contributors work together primarily via email, and the opportunity to get everyone in one room to hash out architectural and other issues is invaluable. A lot got done in those two days.
While at the conference, I finally had the time to commit some of the Darwin patches into the PHP repository. Still some work to be done there, but it was good progress. I also put some work into httpd 2.0. The first Beta release went out last week, though (despite the press release) it does not build on Darwin/Mac OS. I do have it building now, but Darwin lacks pthead_sigmask(), which means that signal delivery in the threaded MPM is still wonky.
I recently released an app called DropScript. DropScript is a little application that I wrote as a demo for the BSD in Mac OS talk I gave at WWDC last year. Basically, it lets you drop any program onto it which takes files as command line arguments and creates a new application from that program. Generally, these programs are scripts written in sh, perl, etc. So you can now write a shell script like so:
gzip -9 "$@"
Then call the script "GZip.sh", drop that file onto DropScript, and out pops DropGZip.app next to GZip.sh. When you drop files onto DropGZip, it compresses the files for you.
DropScript is one of my favorite hacks for two reasons. First, it's pretty cool functionality, and very easy to use. Second, it's a shockingly simple program. Check out the source code for yourself. It's a great example of how you can use Cocoa (the Objective-C application framework in Mac OS X) and use that to provide BSD functionality to users without making them use the relatively arcane command line, which is why it was a good demo for my talk.
I'm noticing that being a Darwin developer that doesn't work for Apple is harder than being a Darwin developer that works for Apple. Of course, I knew this to be true all along, as Apple's still learning about how to give Darwin developers better access to the thing they need to get things done. Fortunately, one upshot of my having switched jobs is that I know what I resources I need access to and the open source program at Apple might be able to help work these things out.
For example, I've got cURL in the Darwin CVS repository, and I want to move it to the "supported" list from the "ports" list, so that it can replace wget (which is similar, but GPL'ed), but it's harder to drive that from the outside.
The good news is that Apple is already taking some action to improve things, so that's great.
Mac OS X shipped Friday. It's not too shabby.
Elite Computers, across the street from Apple, had a big OS X midnight madness event. I was driving home after a late night at work, and I saw the search lights coming from Cupertino, and could help dropping by. There was an impressive hoard of people there, and a lot of familiar faces, so I hung out for a long while.
Saturday, I went to Sonoma with some of the members of BaNG (the Bay Area NeXT Group) to celebrate the OS X launch, and we spent the whole day there. Much fun all around. I bought a portable mister, which I saw and must have. Yes, there is still a Bay Area NeXT Group, and they meet monthly at Apple, usually in Town Hall. If you find Cocoa or WebObjects interesting, you should drop by some time.
I had stopped flying while the California weather was less than California quality, but I recently picked it up again, and--good news--I can still land a plane, an important skill to keep up. Yesterday, I took my friend Mark from church on a trip to Napa. Unfortunately, the plane I rented didn't pass the "I will fly in this" pre-takeoff tests (first time that's happend to me, it turns out), so I had to bring it back and get another, which meant we had no time to hang out in Napa, so it was just an aerial tour of the East Bay. but that was fun anyway.
Of course, between staying up on friday at the OS X launch party at Elite, then getting up early for the Sonoma trip and getting back late, and getting up early for flying and returning to the church (Mark and I go to an evening service called Real Life), I was pretty zonked. Well, we also have dance lessons at the church after the service, which I always stay for. I wanted to collapse in the corner and sleep in the chapel for the night.
So it was a full weekend.
ApacheCon is next week. I love ApacheCon. Looking forward to getting together with everyone again; it's always a blast.
It's rather obvious that an update here is a bit overdue, so here's some of what's been going on with me.
I spent the end of January trying to ensure that all of the stuff I thought was important for the upcoming Mac OS X release was taken care of. That included un-frameworkifying OpenSSL so that it's a library, which I didn't get to in December before my vacation, and making sure PHP builds on Darwin properly. I had still found problems with the Darwin support I has added to GNU libtool, but by the end of the month, I had that well enough in hand that PHP is now in pretty good shape on OS X.
I think I pretty much suceeded at getting my high priority items taken care of, so that put me pretty much done with Mac OS X for this release. Which was good timing, because Friday, Februrary 2nd would be my last day at the company. A lot of people slack off when they know they are quitting, but I was exhausted by Friday; I barely had time to pack up my stuff. Call me nuts.
I'd met Rohit Khare and Adam Rifkin almost a year ago, I think. They were in Silicon Valley trying to get some things done for a startup that they had going up in Seattle, and they came by to offer me a job. Now I got job offers pretty often for whatever reasons; recruiters called by office every week or so and I *always* turned them down. I'd listen sometimes, because it's prudent to know what's out there, but I like Apple and I really liked working at Apple, and I certainly liked working on Mac OS X and so that was that.
But Rohit is a blustery sort of fellow, and he talks quickly for long stretches and so I got inundated with information within minutes of meeting him--he came with a PowerPoint presentation and everything--and amazingly enough, he was making a lot of sense, and I though he really had something interesting there. Even so, I had to pass, because I wasn't finished with my work, and I have this compulsion to finish what I start, especially when I think it's helping make the world a better place, as Apple folks like to do.
However, many blustery conversations later, and having approached The Big Milestone of helping release a system I will undoubtedly prefer over any other for a long time to come, I was ready to take a leap into something new. It was probably the harder "life" decision I've ever made, and honestly I was quite terrified after having made it. I was, after all, giving up a job I really liked for one I hoped I'd like even more, and that's not a trivial thing--for me, anyway.
So Monday, February 5th was my first day at KnowNow. It took them a while, but they sucked me in. When there is something meaningful to say about what we do, I'm sure we'll have plenty to say. At the moment, I'll just say that my first two weeks have been pretty cool, and I like the people. That is, the terror is gone. Though would probably make our receptionist like me better if people would stop calling and sending email; she's had a busy week.
That said, I got a lot of encouraging email of late. Some from MIT buddies, ex-Disney Online folks, family, and people I've met since working at Apple. Many from people I haven't met. My apologies for not responding to all of them, but I have a new job and I should probably do some work. I do read and appreciate it, though.
Last week which was rather quite still, I was fillding with mod_perl and found out that I was stomping on CFLAGS in the mod_perl build in a way that that normally causes things to break, but in mod_perl's case was building find but causing it not to build with -DEAPI like httpd, which is really very bad. So I fixed that.
Chuck Murko got a port of cscope to Darwin started, and I did a little more tweaking and checked it into the Darwin CVS repository, where Umesh tweaked it some more, and I think we have a nice, clean port of it now. Chuck is making sure the resulting patches get sent upstream for integration. (Thanks, Chuck!)
This week, since I do web things now, I was in the market for a good open source HTTP library. I need one that lets me specify the headers to stick into the request and get the result back as a stream as the server outputs it. So I looked around and the only one I found was W3C Libwww.
Libwww has all the features I want and a bunch more, so I download it and I wrote a really simple client which sends a GET request. In this case, I don't care about the response, I just care that some CGI program gets poked. Libwww is a horrible library. The docs are obtuse, the API is inconsistent, and were it not for the example, I'd have taken a long time to write this very simple thing. It should have been easy, but it was a yucky experience. Plus I had to link in more libraries than the number of Libwww functions I used in my program. I know poeple put some effort into the functionality, but that's some crappy library design, guys.
So I asked around some more and someone at MIT suggested libcurl. Now this is a really nice little library. Simple and functional. It does exactly what I want with not fuss, and now I have a happy program, and I'm a happy programmer. Libcurl rocks.
I shared some thoughts on my understanding of open source with Louis at OpenOffice this week as well, and he wrote that interview up on their site. It was kinda cool to think through some of that stuff.
This weekend I'm off on a spontaneous trip to Tahoe with some MIT buddies. I went on a wild spree at REI a few hours ago buying warm things. (I don't like cold; I'm from Puerto Rico, after all.)
And that's the past month. Hope yours has been exciting, too...
Well, I got back last night from a 3-week vacation at home (Puerto Rico). Given I was at the beach three days ago in the not-very-cold-at-all Carribean, San Jose seems pretty darned cold. Of course, my buddy Eric, in town from Chicago, begs to differ. Vacations are good. I did my Christmas shopping rather frantically on the 23rd; an eight-hour marathon at the Majagüez Mall with my cousins did the trick. Went to the movies a lot (it's cheaper there)... Played dominoes a lot... And I rented a Cessna 172 and took each of my two sisters up for a trip around the island. Anyone know where I can buy Puerto Rican food in the Bay Area? I'm sure it can be done, but I'm terrible at finding such things...
In December I bought a digital camera, the Canon PowerShot G1. Not to plug a product, but that was one of the best purchases I've made (eBay, $800) in a long while. I have this rather expensive and quite excellent camera that I bought a long time ago, a Mamiya 7. It's a wonderful camera, and takes beatiful photos on 6x7cm film, but it's the short of camera one doesn't carry around all the time, and I tend to take few pictures with it. Plus, since I left the proximity of the MIT campus, I no longer have a darkroom to play in. So this new Canon G1 is great because it fits in my jacket pocket, and it's easy to use, and it's trivial and $FREE to get the pictures onto my Mac, whereas on my Mamiya, I need to get the film processed somewhere (in my case in Palo Alto), then scan them in. Needsless to say, I took a bunch of pictures in Puerto Rico, and I'm very happy with my new toy.
MacWorld Expo 2001 started today in San Francisco, with an impressive suite of new product annoucements at Steve's keynote. Everyone's wondering where they are going to find the cash to buy a new PowerBook G4... I'll be at the show tomorrow, and probably again this week, depending on what's going on. I should be dropping by the Mac OS X booth every so often, this that tends to be a hub for people I know. The Stepwise BoF is tomorrow, I'll be there for that, as usual. This time I won't be sick and hoarse (probably).
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I live just outside Cleveland and am unable to use live birds for training. I was wondering if you just replace them with dummies and bumpers or you change the way you go about training.
I live just outside Cleveland and am unable to use live birds for training. I was wondering if you just replace them with dummies and bumpers or you change the way you go about training.
Can you use dead birds? A duck will last a long time if it is frozen, thawed for training then refrozen. I use live birds but only infrequently. But dogs must learn to pick up cripples. You can use dummies quite a bit but dogs need some birds. I would recommend dead birds at least once a week. And live birds once a month. More if you are going to participate in akc hunt tests.
Yes you can use dummies. When I use bumper boys (dummies) I don't do anything differently.
Last edited by Wayne Nutt; 04-03-2013 at 08:26 PM.
Wayne Nutt
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HRCH Marks a Lot Midnight Hudson, SH "Hudson" RIP (5/26/01-6/18/15)
Castile Creeks Rawhide, MH "Rowdy"
I'm an urban trainer. I've gotten tired of listening to people who swear I'm killing wild duck to train with. So in town, I almost always train with bumpers.
Howard Niemi
You really gotta be careful about how high a pedestal you put your method, your accomplishments, your dog on. There's usually someone who's done more, somewhere. And they may have used a different method than you did! Chris Atkinson 2013
get your dog out and TRAIN! caryalsobrook 2013
Train most of the time with bumpers, use ducks when I have them.
I train mostly with dead frozen birds (ducks and pheasants) for marks, bumpers (dummies) for blinds. Flyers (live birds) requires more careful selection of training areas. If we're training in a more urban setting, we use frozen birds. Then there is no question that they are not wild birds.
Last edited by Swampcollie; 04-04-2013 at 02:15 AM.
There is no question about it, you need birds to make a bird dog When and where is the question. frozen pigeons are an easy way to use birds. Fresh ( either just killed or thawed out) and live( flyers or clip winged) ones take more planning and are used when necessary. Training dummies otherwise.
Labrador Retriever, a 20g & grouse...is there a better combination?
Ditto on the comments that, at some point, you need to introduce pup to live birds. But, I do train with bumpers when the bird inventory is low and always use bumpers on blinds. (Can't leave a pile of birds on the ground for more than a few minutes w/o the damn fireants attacking.) If you are limited to training in areas that you cannot use birds there a couple of things you can do short of real birds: If you can get some pigeon or duck wings a wing tied securley to a bumper at least gets some feathers in the mouth and is not likely to draw the ire of some citizen bystander. Wings will last indefinitely if kept frozen when not in use. Duck scent - available most gun dog supply outfits - on canvass bumpers at least gets the nose working.
We keep a freezer full of ducks and geese after the season goes out. You can rotate em and get through until next SEP.
Brian Daniels
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Thanks for the info. Just making sure I don't have to use live or frozen birds every time we train.