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Almost done! And, a few inbox zero…
Wow, how the summer flies! This upcoming Monday marks the official "Pencils Down" for the 2008 Google Summer of Code!
It's been a pretty low-screenshot summer, which is interesting since I'm doing interface things. The truth of it is, though, that it's what's hooked up to the interface that is taking the real time :) Nevertheless, I have recently made some really nice (and brand new, hence screenshot-worthy) progress.
Style Tool
Here's what used to be the Stylist, now the Style Tool. It will be the hub of all style interactions. At least, that is, if I can get it to be taller and narrower by default, and stop hiding from me. (It's almost like an inspector - always on top, possibly not focused. What's the best combo of settings to get that in GTK?)
You'll notice that it's just showing a nice subset of styles (common ones and the ones you are using). If you're into folding tree-views and seeing all the styles used by, say, the Table of Contents feature, or perhaps are really just looking for a "Heart List", just check that Show all styles box temporarily.
I might be moving the "Redefine", "Edit" and "Apply" buttons off of that common row, since they refer to the selected style in the list, while "New" (create a new style based on the formatting at your caret - redefine works the same way) and "Close" don't. Ideas on how best to do this within the Glade tool are eagerly accepted.
Edit Style
Since we have the ability to grab the formatting at the caret (insertion pointer, erroneously called the "cursor" - the things you learn hanging with word processing hackers ) to create or modify a style, we can specialize the manual edit style dialog to those who are looking for fine tuning of a style. Behold, the new dialog, in a slightly buggy, read-only manner, but lacking only a few little hookups…
Spiffy, huh? Now, how do I get rid of that Help button, visually associate the Add and Remove buttons better with the list of properties (perhaps with a label "Properties"), and sort a GtkListStore? We'll see if this lazyweb thing works for me as well as for others
Inbox Zero
In the never-ending pursuit of less clutter and more productivity, I recently did the inbox zero thing, which is less complicated than it would seem. I think I've gotten everything handled, but if your email to me has gone without reply and it deserves one, send again please! Thanks! (Furthermore, if anyone knows how to hide folders in Thunderbird, please send that too :D My archived emails are stuck down in Local Folders scrolled off by subfolders I never use… )
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Road kill do you have a link to your information, I would like to be able to read and use it
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I have grown a scruffy stubbly beard. Diane axed me "Wuts Up"?
I told he I was trying to look like a rugged individualist....
She siad I looked more like a drunk Hippie!!
I give up..
It is far easier to spit on the work of others than it is to produce something better yourself.
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I have gone by "Gooser" since I was a "gossling"
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A bullet hole is a bullet hole. It doesn't know whether it came from a rifle or a pistol and neither does the ME. The only thing he would be able to tell is the caliber... they would have shell casings all over the floor and bullet fragments all over to compare... The only reason the info is not out... someone does not want it out.
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Hey. Maybe this is past due, but I think there should be a place to chime in about the Wall crawler's monthly exploits. Spidey's now likely my favourite hero - he's the consumate Marvel story: more character than costume. Parker is every geek in history, living the ultimate dream. What makes him great is the fact we can see every issue that he's a person, cursed and blessed with his powers. Maybe the greatest comic story ever told.
That being said, I just finisished Peter Parker 44-47, which was last years Green Goblin story line by Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos (who happen to have been give the third monthly Spider-Man book starting this summer). It was a great arc, and with any luck these two will be able to do with Venom what they did with Gobby. I'm happy at least one creative team seems interested in dealing with the heavy hitter villains in the classic continuity (ie not including Bagley and Bendis who are doing it every month in Ultimate Spidey).
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Usually when a store offers free sorbet, it comes on an itsy-bitsy plastic spoon. Not so with Sorbeteria, the new sorbet and smoothie emporium that just opened in the strip center at 7700 W. Northwest Highway, across from NorthPark Mall.
Come May 17, Sorbeteria will give out free full-sized servings of your choice of 16 fruit sorbets or nine fruit smoothies. It's a one-day-only grand opening event, designed to get you hooked on a treat that's really good — and good for you.
We beat the rush and sampled a couple of flavors today. Prices are $3 for a single scoop, $4 for a double and $6 for a take-home pint. The Apricot-Tangerine sorbet bursts with intensely fruity flavor with just the right amount of tanginess.
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Rick Ray has liked what he's seen of his team when playing at Humphrey Coliseum. The trick now is to duplicate it on the road.
Mississippi State (2-4) is in Rhode Island today to take on Providence (5-2) in the SEC/Big East Challenge. Tipoff is 11 a.m. on ESPNU.
The Bulldogs are coming off a 60-42 win over Alcorn State, which improved them to 2-0 at home. They're 0-4 in road and neutral-site games.
"I want guys to feel comfortable and feel good about playing in the Hump. But somehow we've got to translate that onto the road as well," Ray said.
MSU has played one true road game, losing 56-53 at Troy to open the season. After a 78-58 home win over FAU, State then fell to North Carolina, Marquette and Texas in the Maui Invitational.
The Bulldogs are averaging 54.8 points per game in the losses, while giving up an average of 77.3.
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Youth has been a big factor for MSU, which has seven healthy scholarship players. Three of them are freshmen, and two others are junior college transfers.
A big culprit for State has been turnovers. It ranks 13th in the SEC in turnover margin (minus-1.83 per game) and last in assist-to-turnover ratio (0.5).
Against Alcorn State, MSU had 21 turnovers and six assists.
"We've got to fix that if we're going to beat a good team down in the future on the road or at home, too," Ray said.
Providence has the appearance of a good team, and it plays well at home, too: The Friars are 4-0 at the Dunkin' Donuts Center. Their two losses were in Puerto Rico, to UMass and Penn State, by a combined five points.
UMass defeated MSU in the first round of the NIT last season.
Like State, Providence is a bit short-handed, with just six scholarship players available. Starting point guard Vincent Council is day-to-day with a leg injury.
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RiversidePeace wrote:ready2go wrote:And another thing...
Tonight hundreds of their friends will show up and mess up my kitchen again.
Perhaps they would make a good side-dish.
Yes, of course!!! A little protein would be good!
They should probably be toasted under the broiler for a few seconds to add a nice crunch component to the side dish.
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well, life is certainly interesting. news. news. so much has happened since my last confession^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiary entry.
let's see. i went to ukuug in london, last month (or maybe
more :) and met steven tweedie, alan cox, hans reiser all
for the first time and an old debian... person, phil hands
whom i have not met for a long while. i had a really good
time (thanks, alastair, for organising ukuuk 2000).
it was really productive and enjoyable conference. i gave a pinhole-view onto some of the things been done that have resulted in the samba tng development. i described how we have been network-reverse-engineering the nt dce/rpc services, resulting in client and server implementations that end up with functionality to provide regedit and samedit as client-side programs, and winregd and samrd as server-side programs.
talking to steven, alan and hans was extremely beneficial: we discussed means to add things like Unicode support in ResierFS; alternative security-authentication mechanisms for file access; extended attributes in ext3 and ReiserFS, loads of stuff. Adding these things would make Samba's job easier, but they don't just benefit Samba.
Steve and Alan described to me how Coda and even the Linux NFS file services do call-backs from the kernel to user-space, for some of the file access / user-authentication requests. In this way, some out-of-band security data can be interpreted by a user-space service. putting several thousand lines of code - some of which may do TCP access, access files, malloc kbytes of memory, run functions up to a stack depth of about 15 to 20 functions, and generally cause mayhem and chaos - is TOTALLY inappropriate for putting in kernel.
Hans and i discussed putting Unicode in ReiserFS. As ReiserFS is object-orientated, he suggested adding "parallel directory entries". the idea is that you then have a conversion matrix between all the different formats, which you do _only_ once, and when you add / modify a file entry to / in a directory, you update each and every "parallel directory entry". so, if you add an entry with UTF8 to a directory, you call UTF8->Unicode and UTF8->unix-char* and UTF8->dos-8.3-mangled and then you call add_direntry_utf8, add_direntry_unicode, add_direntry_... etc. but you make this all object-orientated and generally less messy than this, but that's the principle :)
I overheard Hans, Steven and others discussing adding extended attributes to ext3 and others. if you do an opendir() on a file, you get a DIR* with which you can list the names of the extended attributes of the file. what they then proposed was that ACLs, e.g. POSIX acls, NT security descriptors and any _other_ security mechanism, could be implemented as an extended attribute. i mentioned that whilst ext-attrs are a good idea and so is the opendir() on a file, implementing security mechanisms as ext-attrs is not. the reason for this is that if a user has write-permission to a file, he presumably also has write-permission to the extended attributes. if he has write-permission to the extended attributes, and the ext-attributes include specifying who the _owner_ of the file is, then the user can, without owning the file in one security-context, modify the ext-attrs and thereby gain ownership of the file through the alternative security-context. This Is Bad.
So, the only thing i can think of is to either have "dot-extended-attributes", i.e. extended attributes that start with some character, e.g. ".", are root-only accessible, or to have a separate API for extended-attributes that are intended to be used for security-information.
then, i went on a bit of a break. i was still on-call, and went round not only a few friends in cambridge, but a couple companies in germany and cambridge, too. then, i went to seattle, for the Lisa NT 2000 conference. that was kinda fun. they had wireless ethernet cards available - 2.4gb 11mbps wha-heeey :) :) they worked immediately, too. put the damn card in, type pump, then ssh samba.org and it worked! :)
on to san fransisco. there, i did some samba tutorials, explaining basically the things i'd been up to at ukuug and lisa-nt2000 and more. the hands-on tutorial was half-and-half vmware and samba, because it turns out that getting everyone to the point where they had useful nt4 and w95 vmware sessions going took *two hours*, leaving a remaining two hours for samba installs, configs, self-demos, questions etc.
then, back to oz. after two weeks here, having been
separated from my skates since march, i couldn't stand
it any longer! and had to buy some skates. Roces
Khuti's, and K2 Escape's.
it turns out that canberra's road users are extremely aggressive and stupid. they seem to think that speed skaters belong on the cycle paths (which are only 4ft wide) and pavements (which are only 2 to 3 ft wide and usually made up of concrete slabs). it _also_ turns out that the road rules of australia require skaters to "give way to pedestrians and cyclists". well, excuse me, but if doing 15-20mph (24-32 kph) how in hell's name am i supposed to "get out of the way of a pedestrian or cyclist" who decides to just... step into my path? in other words, it is *extremely* dangerous and also impractical to skate on cycle paths at those kinds of speeds [and that's on flat surfaces: speeds downhill on skates vary between 40mph (60kph) when there is only one person and 55mph (88kph) when in a group)]. also, a speed skater requires just over 4ft to skate in. that takes up pretty much the entire cycle path.
so, in general, it is either unsafe or impossible to skate on anything other than the roads. however, attempting to explain this in under one second to some FUCKING stupid canberra driver as they [as has happened once] attempt to force me off the road, exceeding the speed limit in doing so and breaking at least two other traffic rules, is simply not possible.
samba. samba development. my role in samba's development
is at an end. i have been developing NT-compatible DCE/RPC
services for use in Samba for the last three years. the
decisions that i have been taking to implement those
services have been based on both what i perceive, through
black-box analysis of NT, to be as similar an implementation
to NT as i can make them, and also to come up with and
implement a mapping-scheme to the underlying operating
system, which in this case happens to be POSIX-compilant
Unix systems.
the reasons for doing this are quite straightforward:
- if it's been done that way in NT, then they probably thought about it quite a lot [some parts of NT _are_ actually very well thought-out and well-designed, usually the ones that are VMS security-based :) but there are several that are just as good]. duplicating this effort because of "Not Invented Here" syndrome, and what amounts to what i can only loosely encapsulate in "Unix Is God, Therefore I Can Do Better Than Microsoft And NT" syndrome is, if you ask me, counter-productive and a means to waste significant amounts of time and effort.
- working out How NT Does It means that you keep track of where NT is at, such that any _future_ improvements made to NT are easier to add to _your_ codebase.
- if you implement things in a similar way to NT, then you are likely to come across the same limitations and problems that the Microsoft engineers came across. You will _probably_ find that they actually _solved_ those problems. Trusting the set of services and their implementation methods is likely to save quite a lot of time because if you deviate from this, you are likely to _add_ to the problems and will likely have to revert to following Microsoft's footsteps _anyway_ as a reimplementation to solve the "additional" problems.
So, what happened? Well, since the beginning of the NT
Domains for Unix project, in August 97, i ended up in a cvs
branch. The reason for this was that the NT domains
development was impacting on the release cycle too much. i
tend to think things through for days, weeks or even months,
then develop extremely rapidly, doing small cvs commits
several times a day: the total number of cvs commit messages
often exceeded 500 per month [we do have a lot of
subdirectories, though].
depending on the type of work i was doing, i would either:
- do a preliminary, exploratory implementation, moving to prototype, then replace it with a first implementation based on that prototype, all in the space of under a few days or weeks. this approach i would typically use for a protocol area or service that is totally unknown, and the understanding of it subject to change minute by minute as more and more network traces are examined and understood. things like code quality, coding standards and safe programming practices, even things like freeing memory or even _using_ malloc and free instead of 256k stack-based arrays (!!! yes, the first implementations of samrd did struct USER_INFO[1024] where USER_INFO could be 512 bytes or more in size!), are a luxury and waste time in such a "development mode".
- do a second or third implementation based on the, by now reasonable, understanding of the service involved. the general aim of these reimplementations would be to "compartmentalise" the functionality being developed, such that it would be fairly easy to understand, stand-alone. to that end, i have been making extensive use of developing function-table-based APIs, and any other Unix and C programming techniques i come across that "divide and conquer" this mammoth task [Samba TNG's codebase is now 340,000 lines of code].
The only circumstances where I will *not* use such modularising and future-proofing techniques is if I am not aware of circumstances that warrant them!
For example, DCE/RPC over HTTP. I was not aware, until a year or so ago, that microsoft had added a means to provide [and proxy/tunnel through port 80] DCE/RPC over HTTP on port 689. I had given no consideration to this, so did not consider developing an API that allows DCE/RPC to go over different transports until that time. I was quite content to have the code that does DCE/RPC over SMB fully messed-up and mixed-up, with DCE/RPC-specific bits mixed in with SMB-specific bits.
Another example. DCE/RPC is capable of using different authentication methods [NTLMSSP is the typical one]. Service Pack 4 introduced a _new_ method for secure NETLOGON. i panicked: all my DCE/RPC authentication code was like, all of a sudden, a complete mess! the only authentication method was NTLMSSP, and now i had to support three methods: noauth, NTLMSSP and NETLOGON. So i created a client-side API and a server-side API which have five functions each, and there are now six files, {cli, srv}_{noauth, ntlmssp, netsec}_pipe.c in the Samba TNG source tree. cli_pipe.c looks up the auth requested in a table, obtaining a structure of function-pointers, one of which is called to create some state-information that is then passed in as a void* to the other functions called as-and-when required to do authentication / encryption encoding / decoding. And if it wasn't for Microsoft introducing NETLOGON, i would not have even bothered to code this up.
Needless to say, there are a number of things that conflict _really_ badly with the primary samba maintainers:
- Samba's development is samba-specific. Anyone who wants to interoperate with Samba's codebase can use the existing code as-is. The implication being that the burden of rresponsibility lies with the people who wish to leverage the services that samba provides is with them, not with the Samba developers.
- Furthermore, along the lines of Samba's development being samba-specific, any designs that extend beyond the scope of Samba-specific services, are not acceptable. This is presumably because the samba code-base is too large as it is, with the potential risk of Samba becoming responsible not only for Samba but for the other non-Samba-specific services as well. Any code that attempts to provide a clean break between Samba-specific and non-Samba-specific services is *also* not acceptable, because that is again "extra code" which must be difficult to maintain.
- Acceptable Samba coding does not include making provisions for future work, nor is it acceptable to implement designs that make future development easier. The only acceptable code is that which solves the known problems for known designs, known now. Any code that is not used or not part of the Samba-specific design is "cruft" and redundant, and should either not be written in the first place or removed immediately.
- Code of the highest quality and standard is acceptable. Code that compromises, even as a first and often only implementation, is not acceptable.
Approximately one week ago, i put together, as i tend to do, the occurrences over a long period of time vis-a-vis my role in samba development, and concluded that my "allotted position" was, well... demeaning, is a good way to put it. I posted a message out to the samba lists saying that, basically, i quit. the end of the message said something along the lines of, if certain things are discussed and the outcome is acceptable, i don't quit. in other words, the message was a summary of the conclusions i had come to and also an opportunity for people to say, "hey, that would be really bad if you quit: your work _is_ valued - some of it - and we've been telling you that all along; exactly what are the problems, and what do you think can be done to work things out?". instead, the following happened [rough summary of approximately 80-100 email messages]:
- i received about 15 messages of support and "i wish you well", for which i will always be grateful.
- i received about 5 messages outlining either alternatives such as doing a code-fork or encouragements to reconsider quitting and work things out with the other team members.
- i received several messages from 3 of the samba team members with whom i have been working closely on the Samba TNG development, either requesting that i reconsider, do a code-fork or asking what projects i was going to be working on, and how could they help with those projects.
- i noted and/or received several messages which discuss the pros and cons of the different samba branches, their benefits, shortfalls and general discussion.
- i received several messages from the samba team members for whom my plans, ideas, approach, style and attitude to and for open source developments are either unacceptable, "too different" or "incompatible". these messages i took to construe as an "entrenchment" of the positions of these people. namely, that they simply dug themselves further into their positions that they have established over the last few years.
secondly, my message was construed as an attempt to "override" what are quite sensible and acceptable Open Source development practices. it took quite a long time, and quite a few messages and conversations, to make it clear that a) this was not what i was asking b) this was not what i was asking. [i.e. first identify the mistaken assumptions, _then_ categorically state that the assumptions were wrong, and categorically state that i support the _same view_, not the incorrectly-assumed-view]. in the end, most of the misunderstandings were cleared up.
to summarise. samba's development is best done without my
involvement for the time being. samba's users need to make
needs and opinions clear - not me - as to whether the
situation vis-a-vis samba development is acceptable. i am
reluctant to lead a code-fork because i know that it will be
lot of work and will continue to foster the "NIH" syndrome
that i believe that some of
the primary samba maintainers are pursuing. some of this is
due to lack of understanding of the features that Samba TNG
provides. some is due to lack of *acceptance* of the
features tha Samba TNG provides. some is due to my
inability to explain in either simple terms or words of one
syllable only, the concepts involved in Samba TNG's
architecture. i do not
and i intensely dislike, why tried and tested code is being
discarded when there is no suitable alternative that
provides the
same level of functionality, regardless of the standard of,
the perceived standard of, that code [again, the NIH
has a large role to play, here].
so, in summary, an attempt to draw out either a conciliation / compromise or at least a clearer insight to, or confirmation of, the motivations of the primary samba developers and whether i could continue to work with them, i ended up with a resolution that leaves little room for reconciliation. i make no apologies; i have only one regret: the consequences of, but not the resultant outcome from, my anger and outrage.
what else am i up to? i am now investigating exchange.
is MAPI over DCE/RPC over TCP or HTTP. i downloaded the
1.1 runtime library and environment, with a view to adding
authentication to it and then maybe adding the HTTP
transport to it
and using it to develop an alternative exchange client and
the client-side API could then be used by the gnome
evolution team
or anyone else who wanted to write an ms-compatible,
MAPI client or MAPI server.
... except that the FreeDCE 1.1 runtime library uses DCEthreads, which are an implementation of the POSIX threads, DRaft 4 standard. they use sigsetjmp and siglongjmp to implement Exception-handling, and thread-cancellation, and they emulate all this on _top_ of LinuxThreads. if you use glibc 2.1.3 and linuxthreads from these, you get an infinite-recursion problem and a coredump. if you use redhat 5.2, which uses glibc 2.0.7, _then_ you have no problem :)
oh dear. anyway, i reported the problem to firstname.lastname@example.com, installed a redhat 5.2 vmware session and am now examining the dce 1.22 code to see how to add authentication methods to the 1.1 runtime environment.
which brings me up-to-date at about 5am today. it is almost time for me to sleep, according to my somewhat STILL messed-up sense of time: i have been taking between four and six hours to get to sleep over the last two weeks.
i read the entire Axis Trilogy by Sara Dunnett in four days. I read her book Threshold in a continuous eight hour reading frenzy. I read the first of her continuation of the Axis Trilogy, Sinner, a third of it after finishing Threshold and the rest by the afternoon of the following day. I have not read the other two in the trilogy because i ran out of money for the month. I left my front door key in the house and it cost AUD $80 for a locksmith, and i had AUD $90 to cover me until i could transfer some GBP to my USD account in the U.S. so that i can get AUD$ out with the visa card in hole-in-wall machines here in Canberra. AGH!
i have run out of sci-fi and fantasy authors to read, so decided to plan a novel, myself. i hope it will be funny, but also make people uncomfortable by putting them on the edge of their seats in describing things, and peoples' reactions to them, both the descriptions and the reactions being plausible, awkward, highly evocative, with enough basis in real-life-like situations for fiction and science-fiction readers to actually think about, and enjoy, what's going on with the characters.
i met a really nice girl. she had just returned from a break to get away from her ex-boyfriend. she concluded that she needed time on her own, and that it was a good idea to drop contact with pretty much everyone extraneous to her life, and that definitely included me. i have done the same thing myself on occasion, so aside from being sad and rather annoyed at them, respect their decision.
one of my colleagues turned up at 2am, having been called by security because the alarm had been switched off and i was still here. well, *duur*, of _course_ the alarm is off, i'm still here!!
i miss my friends in atlanta, especially the skaters, and cyndi.
i miss my friends in cambridge, especially hedda.
i miss my family in cambridge, manchester, london, essex, a field somewhere in the middle of nowhere, france and suffolk.
i miss my dog, bonny.
i miss my car [310hp - 0-60 in 5.4s, 70-0 in 65yards.]


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Princeton University's Class Day celebration, organized by seniors, featured awards, speeches and a keynote address by David Remnick, a 1981 alumnus and editor of The New Yorker. Above, Stefan Kende, the new class president, accepts the symbolic key to the campus.
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Senior Catherine Cohen gives a light-hearted address to her classmates and guests, calling Princeton "literally the best place on Earth."
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Senior Dan Abromowitz speaks about the power of friendships forged during the four years at Princeton, noting "the spirit of Princeton lives in each of us."
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At Princeton University's Class Day, held on Cannon Green June 3, seniors celebrated the achievements of their peers and members of the University community — with the primary goal of having fun.
Expressing her anticipation of hearing keynote speaker David Remnick — editor of The New Yorker and a 1981 Princeton alumnus — Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman quoted Class Day co-chair Lily Alberts, who called Remnick's work "smart, funny and insightful."
In the convivial spirit of the day, Remnick's remarks poked fun at everything from Princeton's "eternal Halloween colors" to his father calling his comparative literature major "fancy English" and his mother announcing that her son "would now surely be able to open a 'comparative literature store.'"
He set all jokes aside, however, to acknowledge the challenges that so many face just to get into a university like Princeton. "I know well that some of you faced early hardships — some event or condition that doesn't conform to the cartoon of idyllic childhood or adolescence," he said. "Some of you faced real struggle to get here. And being here, you are, in some ways, the light of your families."
Seniors cheer and applaud the accomplishments of their peers while showing their spirit as "the great Class of 2013." (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
In a Shakespearean twist, Remnick, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, said, "to graduate is lovely; to exist divine," but posited that the most important thing about the "good fortune" of having earned a Princeton degree, is "what you might do with it."
Remnick was named an honorary member of the Class of 2013 and received a class jacket. Tilghman, who is stepping down as president June 30, was given the same honor. She said she shared some of the seniors' sentiments about leaving Princeton but acknowledged feeling "confident that '13 is going to be our lucky number."
In the spirit of new beginnings, she said: "Yes, we are now ready for the world. It's as if the fire inspector is whispering, 'fly, my little birds, fly.' And fly is exactly what we expect you will do.
"Go forth and puncture the orange bubble," she told the seniors. "Be in the nation's service and the service of all nations … Change the world. Make us proud." As Tilghman closed her remarks, the graduating class shouted, "Shirley! Shirley! Shirley!"
Helen Joynes, a bus operator with First Transit, the TigerTransit service, is named an honorary class member. Students thanked her for greeting riders with a smile, saying, "The weekend is only a few days away." (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
Student speaker Dan Abromowitz shared reminiscences from marching in the freshman Pre-rade to posting photos on the Instagram social media service at the bonfire last fall after Princeton beat Harvard and Yale in football for the first time since 2006.
"You've met incredible people," said Abromowitz, an English major who is also earning a certificate in creative writing. "Their individual contributions to this campus enriched your experience of it, and vice versa. You don't need to have won the title: the spirit of Princeton lives in each of us."
In his keynote speech, Remnick pokes fun at Princeton for "the eternal Halloween of its school colors" and reflects on the importance of freedom and "meeting the demands, the responsibilities, that freedom asks of you." (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
Catherine Cohen, an English major who is earning a certificate in theater, called Princeton "literally the best place on Earth" and said she learned to appreciate the unique strengths of her peers by forming genuine friendships. "The bonds we form here are more important than the awards, honors and titles," she said.
Seniors express their excitement during the festivities with shouts of joy and smiles all around. (Photo by Steve McDonald)
In his remarks, Remnick embraced a theme of freedom, saying he had no doubt that the members of the graduating class would lead fulfilling lives, but "personal success is not the same thing as meeting the demands, the responsibilities, that freedom asks of you."
He noted that freedom "is by no means a universal condition. Freedom is rare, fragile and provisional." Citing dramatic struggles for freedom from Tiananmen Square in 1989 to more recent events in Egypt and Tunisia, Remnick said that "in those moments of historical delirium, if you squinted just so, liberty was within easy reach. The lock of history had been tripped."
Kitan Akinosho receives the Allen Macy Dulles '51 Award, which is given to a senior whose activities while at Princeton best represent or exemplify the University's informal motto, "Princeton in the nation's service and in the service of all nations."(Photo by Denise Applewhite)
Remnick told the students that after prom, after graduation, "we all, in the course of our lives, no matter how modest or private, will make decisions that are bound to shape the nature of freedom as we actually live it. You're not free when you are poor, or sick, or ignorant. You are not free when you're unable to shelter your own thoughts from surveillance. You are not free in the face of impending environmental disaster."
Added Remnick: "Globalism is not just the ubiquity of Starbucks and the iPhone. Globalism is the intensification of common responsibility. And this means that the future of freedom enlists and implicates pretty much everyone. Particularly people of talent, of means, of mobility. And that includes you."
He said the real world has "no syllabus. There are no courses or distribution requirements." And he noted that "freedom, like curiosity, is, in some part, a muscle that atrophies when it goes unused … You came here not merely to set out on a trade or profession, but to exercise the freedom of your minds. You're needed in the larger world … The project of building a free society isn't something you can farm out to the experts. It never ends. You must, in some way, play your part."
Senior class president Zach Beecher, a concentrator in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and an ROTC cadet who will enter Fort Dix in the fall as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, reflected on the journey he and his classmates have taken.
"It's time to take stock of what we learned here; of who we are; of what we aim to be; where Princeton fits in our own individual narrative that will continue to be written," Beecher said. He encouraged the members of his class to recognize that "within all of us is an incredible sense of possibility."
President Shirley M. Tilghman delivers her last Class Day speech, peppered with jokes and words of wisdom. "Go forth and puncture the orange bubble," she said. (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
In addition to the speeches, seniors were presented with awards for community service, athletics and leadership. The class also named its honorary class members.
Though a storm threatened throughout the ceremony — at one point Remnick lauded President Tilghman's many contributions to the University, remarking, "She even controls the weather!"— the rain held off, and the sun broke through the clouds just as the festivities ended with the traditional singing of "Old Nassau."
A webcast of the Class Day ceremony will be available on the Princeton WebMedia site. Graduation activities continue with the University's 266th Commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 4, on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall.
Family members express their pride and commemorate the day with photos and video. (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
After his speech, Remnick accepts a certificate and dons a class jacket as a new honorary member of the Class of 2013, surrounded by seniors (from left) Grayden Holuber, Lily Alberts and Caroline Hanamirian. (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
Class president Zach Beecher tells his fellow classmates: "Graduating Princeton awards us the gift of possibility; it is up to us to never stop exploring, no matter how difficult, to turn the possibilities into realities." (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
Laughter from the graduating class fills the air at the lighthearted Class Day festivities. (Photo by Steve McDonald)


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|Classic Atlantic Salmon No pursuit rivals salmon rivers, flies & legacy
|Topic Review (Newest First)
When such a person leaves this world, her physical talents can no longer trim tinsel, twist a herl, wrap floss, fold a hackle, marry wings, match flank feathers, or dab enamel heads to finish a fly - but the fact that so many have seen her works and have been inspired to tie the classics by her handiwork means that she leaves a legacy of dozens, perhaps hundreds of hands to follow the way of the classic atlantic salmon fly tyer. That is a feat surpassed only by her skills at the vise.
I find it refreshing that Ms. Boyd and I share the same theory of "why salmon (steelhead) take the fly". Maybe we had been on the same Jedi wavelength this whole time
|Willie Gunn
Hi Hal
I hope this works and you should see the Popham.
The Popham
Tag: Fine Silver Tinsel
Tail: Golden Pheasant crest and Indian Crow
Butt: Black herl
Body: In equal sections: first orange, then yellow, then pale blue floss silk. The first and second sections are butted with black herl and veiled above and below with Indian crow.
Ribbing: The first two sections are ribbed with oval gold and the last with oval silver
Throat Hackle: Jay or guinea fowl
Wings: Tippets in strands, then a married wing comprising, bustard, florican bustard, peacock wing, scarlet, blue, orange and yellow swan, golden pheasant tail and peacock sword over.
Sides: Barred summer duck. Horns: Blue and yellow macaw.
Re: Megan Boyd
The thing about Megan Boyd always to keep in mind is that she tied those gorgeous flies to catch fish, not to be plaqued on some one's wall as folk art or feathered Faberge Easter eggs.
Someone once passed on using a fly as "not being elegant enough for a salmon" and expressed a standard many of us have internalized. Sure, Bunny Leechs and Green Rock Worms will catch fish, but what greater satisfaction can there be than to tie on a Megan Boyd Green Highlander and have it taken solidly by the King of Fishes.
Times arrow flies in but one direction. Sure and she will be one of Salmon's immortals.
God Bless her and her contributions to her art and craft.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing this. Will have to look up some of this ladies flies.
|A wonderful life.
|Willie Gunn
Megan Boyd Obituary
For those of you interested in Classic Atlantic Salmon flies you will be disappointed to hear of the death of Megan Boyd.
I have copied her obituary from todays "Times"
Megan Boyd
One of the world's greatest perfectionists in the art of tying fishing flies though she never fished herself
Megan Boyd, of Brora in Sutherland, was hailed by many as the finest tier of fishing flies in the world. She began tying flies at the age of 12 under the expert tutelage of a Sutherland keeper, Bob Trussler, and quickly became an artist in the craft. She made her reputation by tying classic and traditional flies such as the Jock Scott, Silver Doctor, Durham Ranger and Wilkinson. She rarely bothered to invent a new tying, though some of the most complicated patterns that she tied can only be produced by an expert of her calibre. Yet despite the huge numbers of salmon that could not resist her flies, she never fished herself.
She did, however, give the angling world one creation that will ensure that salmon fishermen never forget her name. With the help of a friend and a client, Jim Pilkington, she devised a fly that became widely known as the Megan Boyd, and it became her trademark in dealing with fishermen around the world.
This blue-and-black fly catches salmon whether tied in the normal manner on a single hook or as a tube fly. Many fishermen swear that a tiny Megan Boyd, which she dressed on a minute tube with a size 18 treble, will catch salmon in dead low summer flows when most anglers would not expect any sport. Carefully used, with a gentle touch, these little flies have often saved some of Megan Boyds more knowledgeable customers from a blank day.
Rosina Megan Boyd was the youngest of three children. She is thought to have been born in England in 1915, and was taken to Scotland in 1918 when her father became a bailiff or river watcher on a Sutherland estate. During the Second World War she had various jobs, including a spell doing a milk round and duties as an auxiliary coastguard. Although she seems to have had little formal education, she was never at a loss when dealing with her many distinguished customers.
For over half a century she worked in her garden shed at Kintradwell, overlooking the North Sea. A kidney-shaped dressing table served as her workbench, and on it she tied flies with the meticulous precision that was best described in a letter printed by the Inverness Courier.
Jimmie Ferard, who has collected her work for many years and still has more than two thousand of her flies, wrote to the paper: Her fly tying was unique. Surely one of the world´s greatest perfectionists in this art. The trouble she took over just arranging the pieces of hair for a Stoats Tail fly had to be seen to be believed. She used to put these hairs in the top of her lipstick holder with the ends sticking out and she said they should never be trimmed or cut as this was unnatural to the fish.
Boyds flies had to be exactly right. The shape, the material, the lengths and sizes all mattered terribly. The precision and deftness of the fly-tier may be more important in the mind of the angler than to the fish, though there is no doubt that the colour of the fly, its sinuosity in water and its size play a great role in its success. The actual presentation of the fly is also vital. Salmon want to protect their habitat in the river and will fight trespassing foreign objects.
Nobody really knows why the salmon takes a fly, but many anglers believe that the fishs reactions are triggered by infant memories of its first encounters with the abundant food source that sand eels can provide. In discussion, Boyd always came back to the baby sand eels on which young salmon smolts feed when they leave their natal rivers at the start of their oceanic migration. Sadly, she watched as sand eel shoals suffered badly from the trawlers that scooped them up from the sandbanks off the East Coast of Scotland, right outside her window.
As a dedicated conservationist she was a major supporter of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund and its efforts to buy out all the salmon nets which obstruct the return of the small remaining stocks of wild salmon to their native rivers to spawn. She regularly donated wonderful examples of her flies to be auctioned around the world to help this cause.
For most of her life she was full of energy, and she was a much-loved local figure. Country dancing was her favourite relaxation, and she took an active role in helping the old and disabled locally. Electricity did not reach her house until 1985, when she was already 70 and suffering, not surprisingly, from failing eyesight. A few years later she was forced to retire.
But her talk always came back to salmon flies and their history, the dressings and the vast number of renowned fishermen friends she had made during her lifetime. She remembered Charles H. Akroyd, the veteran sportsman from Duncraggie who devised the Akroyd fly, sometimes called the poor mans Jock Scott. He had visited Icelands Big Laxá river in 1877.
In 1971 Boyd was awarded the British Empire Medal. Last year the Prince of Wales honoured her with a visit, and she later said that they had discussed the Popham, a very great fly. She said that if she had to pick a favourite, this glorious creation would be her choice. Originated by F. L. Popham, the pattern is one of the most complicated and beautifully constructed of all the classic dressings that Britain has given to the sport.
Megan Boyd, fly-tier, was born on January 29, 1915. She died on November 15, 2001, aged 86.
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>Day 7 of the #100daysofscouting project ended at our Troop meeting last night. Final preparations for this weekends camp out and Scoutmaster minute that left many of the Scouts wondering if they were ever going to be Eagle Scouts.
Ok let me explain…
Advancement is but one of the methods of Scouting. Just one, an important one… yeah, I guess, I mean being an Eagle Scout will open doors for you down the road and the advancement process is designed to work the Scout through a series of skills and challenges that prepare him for the "real world". Sitting on Boards of Review prepares him for interviews and social interactions with other adults. Service projects prepare him to give back to his community and understand selflessness.
If a Scout participates in his unit fully, and never advances is he not going to get some of that? Is his Scouting experience going to be a total loss? Will he be considered a failure?
My point last night was that the advancements number one goal is to teach the Scout responsibility. It is the Scouts responsibility to get it done.. not the Scoutmasters, not the Committee chair.. it is up to the Scout to become and Eagle Scout… he will get lots of help along the way.. but it is up to him to do the work, seek the help, and then present himself for advancement.
If they are going to wait for me to hold their hand.. well.. then they can count of finishing their Scouting career a Tenderfoot.. (we get them that far).
You see, in life there are winners and losers. Young men that choose to be in Scouts are winners. They are setting themselves up with skills, attitudes, and competencies that will help them get through life. IF they take advantage of Scouting they can do wonderful things. High Adventure opportunities, service, skills, and a whole lot of fun. But they need to do it.. it can not be handed to them.. that's not how it works in real life.
Well.. that was day 7. I had 11 parents come up to me after the meeting and thank me for saying what I said in the Scoutmaster Minute.
What today will bring… who knows.. it is sure to be another Great Scouting Day! Have one!
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>Day 7 of the #100daysofscouting project ended at our Troop meeting last night. Final preparations for this weekends camp out and Scoutmaster minute that left many of the Scouts wondering if they were ever going to be Eagle Scouts.


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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 32nd annual Super Seminar, which will be held in two locations; Las Vegas, from May 13-15 and Reno, from May 29-31. Hosted by the California Society of Enrolled Agents (CSEA) for more than 30 years, Super Seminar is regarded as the nation's premiere continuing education program for tax practitioners.
At the heart of its success is a faculty of respected speakers, education sessions that address the most pressing tax topics, a customizable schedule and high quality education session written materials. In addition to delivering world class education, Super Seminar attracts hundreds of tax professionals from across the country for fellowship, networking and fun, Super Seminar educates America's Tax Experts.
Your colleagues and old friends from around the region and around the state are expecting to see you there…to catch up, share stories, learn and have a good time!


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Full GLORY 9 New York Poster, More Participants Revealed
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A full poster of GLORY 9 New York, which takes place on June 22 in New York City at the Hammerstein Ballroom, appeared today. Previously we just had a small promo banner to work with. The full poster reveals even more American participants on the card:
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Why Guard Against Unprotected Exposure to Sunlight?Skin Cancer Types Yearly Number of Skin Cancer CasesMore Hazards from too Much Sunlight High Risk Conditions for UV Exposure Personal High Risk Factors for Skin CancerHow to Protect People from Getting Skin Cancer Self Skin ExaminationTreating Skin Cancer
Sunshine is both friend and foe. The sun provides warmth and light, improves mental health, kills germs, and is essential for growth and development of most living things. Unfortunately, excessive sun exposure can cause blistering sunburns, premature aging (wrinkles and blotches), cataracts, a weakened immune system, and skin cancer. (A cataract is a loss of transparency in the lens of the eye that clouds vision and may cause blindness.)With over one million new cases each year, skin cancer is now considered epidemic. This year there will be more new cases of skin cancer than the total of new cancers of the prostate, breast, lung, and colon combined! One of every five Americans is expected to get skin cancer in his or her lifetime.
Sunlight is believed to cause 90 percent of non-melanoma skin cancer. The number of skin cancer cases has dramatically risen, especially in the last three to four decades, from these and other factors:
During April 2000, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services--for the first time--listed solar radiation as a "known human carcinogen" via the Ninth Report on Carcinogens. Thus the Department effectively stated that UV rays had officially joined the ranks of known cancer-causing elements like arsenic, asbestos, radon, and tobacco smoke. Building on this declaration, the Office of Safety and Health Administration-during July 2000 - released formal sun safety protection guidelines for outdoor workers. These safeguard measures, now updated, are summarized in a pocket card entitled, "Protecting Yourself in the Sun" which can be downloaded at http://www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3166.pdf.
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There are actually over 200 types of cancer that can invade skin tissue. The three major forms of cancer that originate in the skin are basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and the deadliest form - malignant melanoma.
Skin cancer can develop anywhere on the body but most often appears on surfaces receiving the greatest amount of sunshine. BCC and SCC often take the form of a pale, wax-like, pearly bump or a red, scaly, sharply outlined patch. The patches may crust, discharge pus, and sometimes bleed.
If not treated early, SCC may spread to other parts of the body. Less than one percent of people with SCC or BCC will die from skin cancer. For many people, these two skin cancers can cause some disfigurement based on the amount of damaged skin the physician must remove. Fortunately, skin cancer can be easily cured, in most cases, if the disease is treated in its early stages.
Malignant melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer. It often arises from or near a mole. It often appears on parts of the body which receive little direct sunlight. There are various warning signs that should prompt individuals to visit their physician, especially a dermatologist. Examine moles or growths for:
Melanoma rates have increased three to four percent each year since at least the early eighties.
In the United States, over 1,000,000 people are expected to get BCC or SCC this year. An additional 55,940 will develop melanoma likely during 2007. An estimated 8,110 individuals will die from melanoma.
To understand the significant increase in skin cancer rates, consider these facts. In the 1930s the lifetime risk of getting invasive melanoma was 1 in 1500. By contrast, the predicted lifetime chance for those living in the year 2000 was approximately 1 in 75, or 20 times the 1930s risk! People living in California have a greater risk for melanoma than the national average.
Since sun exposure is understood to be the major cause of skin cancer, it is extremely important to protect children and youth from over-exposure to sunlight. This caution is reinforced by the fact that up to 50 percent of an individual's lifetime contact with sunshine occurs before adulthood - at least for children who, as adults, acquire indoor occupations. A teacher's or parent's efforts to help children adopt sun-safe behaviors are much preferred to treating skin cancer later in life.
The sun's role in skin cancer results from its emission of invisible UV rays, which include UVA and UVB. These two sectors of UV radiation enter the skin cells causing both visible and invisible injuries. During the middle of the day, outdoor areas can be likened to a radiation chamber.
Sunburn is an example of visible injury. Childhood sunburns likely increase the risk that children will get melanoma in adulthood. Less well known is that tanning is actually an outward sign of internal damage as the skin desperately tries to protect itself. Unfortunately, a tan offers an inadequate defense against future solar assault.
Ozone, a naturally occurring "sunscreen" in the stratosphere above us, partially filters out harmful UVB. Unfortunately, the ozone layer is thinning from the release of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) into the air, along with other factors. CFCs are used in refrigerants, insulating foams, and solvents, etc. To slow down ozone layer destruction, many countries have signed treaties such as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which phases out the use of CFCs and other like substances.
UV rays linked to skin cancer development are more intense (destructive) under certain timeframes or conditions, usually related to the sun's angle to the earth and/or the depth of atmosphere through which the sun's rays must pass:
Individuals should also understand that tanning parlors, sun lamps, and sun beds emit UV radiation that is often more damaging than natural sunlight. Remember there is no safe tan resulting from UV exposure!
The UV Index predicts the concentration of UV rays bombarding a given geographical area. Since early Autumn 2000, there is a new, free service on the Internet that allows individuals to enter their zip code and obtain their neighborhood's predicted UV Index for the day. Go to www.epa.gov/epahome/commsearch.htm, input your zip code, click on the "UV Index,' and then click on "Submit." The UV index will be displayed along with an interpretive chart.
Skin cancer can afflict any person regardless of skin color. Individuals are more likely to get skin cancer if they have one or more of these characteristics:
Many medications also increase a person's sensitivity to light and therefore the risk for skin cancer. Some common types of such medications include tranquilizers, diuretics, anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, and hypertension pills to name a few. Read the medicine label or ask your pharmacist or doctor regarding your drug intake.
Here are the basic strategies to shield children and adults from excessive sun exposure:
Whether or not an individual practices the previously stated skin cancer prevention methods, it is wise to perform a self skin examination using a hand mirror at least once every one to three months and to seek an annual medical examination. The possible first signs of developing skin cancer can often be self-observed according to the characteristics described earlier regarding moles and growths. See your doctor if you suspect any problems.
Finally, the good news is that most skin cancer can be successfully treated if detected in its earlier phases. About 90 percent of skin cancers are treated with surgery. Other solutions include radiation therapy, electrodesiccation (tissue destruction by heat), cryosurgery (tissue destruction by freezing), laser treatment, and drug therapy, etc. Of course, the best "treatment," as always, is PREVENTION.
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Crist sent out a tweet that said, "Proud and honored to join the Democratic Party in the home of President (at)Barack Obama!"
The tweet included a photo of a smiling Crist and his wife Carole as he held up a Florida voter registration application. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Crist signed the papers changing his affiliation from independent to Democrat at a Christmas reception at the White House. President Barack Obama greeted the news with a fist bump.
"I've had friends for years tell me, 'You know Charlie, you're a Democrat and you don't know it,'" Crist told the newspaper Friday night.
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Enjoy chili with a nice piece of corn bread? Then you'll love this dish! The corn bread bakes on top of a slow oven-simmering chili.
For 5 grams of fat and 235 calories per serving, substitute ground turkey breast for the ground beef and use Bisquick Heart Smart® mix.
Serve with a mixed-greens salad, red and green grapes and, for dessert, brownies.
Accompany with diced tomatoes, sour cream, chopped cilantro, tortilla chips, and shredded lettuce for an all-out chili buffet!
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Well, I finally completed my requirements for three personal projects that are in the works. Of course these will be created using Perl. The projects in question will require some sorta database management scheme. One of my top requirements is that whatever database I choose, it MUST be lightweight and portable. In other words, the only required action for the end-user is to copy the app and that's it! No previous DB required! I suppose I'm talking about a flat file db (plus). I think MySQL is overkill and I want a DB that does not require compilations of any kind. I'm left with the following choices:
- Comma seperated valued (CSV) DB (using DBD::CSV??)
- Some type of heirarchal scheme (directory structured based)
- ndbm and the like, the kind that comes bundle with UNIX/Linux OSes.
- Give in and go with MySQL, since my web host offers it, but unfortunately my work does not..we use Oracle.
- homegrown?? sounds tempting...I like the idea of digging into DB design theory..hmm
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Grant County Middle School has two new faces roaming the halls this year.
One has been working with students for almost two decades and the other follows his nose, but the team is enjoying their new assignment.
Robert Morgan is the full-time School Resource Office at GCMS. He is a deputy with the Grant County Sheriff's Department. His partner, Toro, is a canine officer.
Morgan replaced Frank Merritt, who worked as the school's resource officer on a part-time basis but retired last year.
MCE students have breakfast with mayor
The students at Mason-Corinth Elementary had breakfast with the Mayor of Williamstown recently.
During this visit, Mayor Rick Skinner talked about local government, making the community a healthy and active community for all the citizens of Williamstown and giving opportunities to make it better for families of the community. Skinner also talked to the students at Mason Corinth Elementary about eating healthy and starting each day off with a healthy breakfast.
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"favorite" Photography Challenge
#1 triciadoll
Posted 17 January 2006 - 12:51 AM
So what is your "favorite"? Post your photograph here.
#2 obsessedfae
Posted 17 January 2006 - 03:21 PM
This is my favorite person and right now its my favorite picture of him
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Any other Outlander fans out there?
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These are pics of my all time favorite book series...the Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon. You'll be seeing these soon in a LO, too, btw!
Any other Outlander fans out there?
I absolutely love this series, I've been reading it for years and I recommend it to all my "reader" friends. I haven't read the new one yet. I just wish it didn't take her so long between books!
Hope you're having a bright, beautiful, better than average day!
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Just hit "add reply" then when the page loads up..scroll down and there should be a browse box with a button next to it that says "add attachment". Just upload it that way. Hope I helped
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To have a friend is to have a shoulder to cry on, a hand to hold and an extra pair of legs when yours are too weak to stand alone...
I have been living buried in books and writing classes... as an added note I must say that it is rather scary when you start dreaming and all you can see within your dreams is words floating everywhere!
Valerie Lynn Harrell is the published author of a book of poetry, titled "A Little Girl Lost... Was Found Through Her Writing"
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Thanks for this question...its inspired me to scrapbook pictures of "my favorite spot"
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Five Princeton faculty members have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 202 leaders in scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs elected in recognition of contributions to their respective fields.
The Princeton faculty members are: Bernard Chazelle , professor of computer science; Michael Cook , the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Lyman Page , professor of physics; Bess Ward , professor of geosciences; and Michael Woodford , the Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 and currently has 4,500 members, including 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners.
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Rising concerns about long-term global climate changes could have a significant effect on our business. There has been increasing legislative action related to concerns over long-term global climate changes, which may affect our operational and financial performance.
Avista continues to monitor and evaluate the possible adoption of national, regional, or state requirements related to global climate changes. These requirements could result in significant costs for us to comply with restrictions on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, and could also preclude us from developing certain types of generating plants or entering into new contracts for the output from generating plants that do not meet these requirements.
Environmental laws and regulations may:
Avista is actively monitoring legislative and regulatory developments for climate change and restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions. As part of our Integrated Resource Plan, we include estimates of climate change into the retail load forecast. Changing temperatures and precipitation, including snowpack conditions, affect the availability and timing of stream flows, which impacts hydroelectric generation, and could also increase or decrease customer demand.
We are the 16th lowest emitter of CO2 of generating utilities in the U.S. and the 6th lowest among investor-owned utilities. With 56 percent of our net generation capability from hydroelectric and a majority of our thermal generation fueled with natural gas, plus a commitment to energy efficiency, we are one of the greenest utilities in the nation.
Avista has a Climate Change Council, an interdisciplinary team of management and other employees, which is designed to:
Longer term issues involve emissions tracking and certification, providing recommendations for greenhouse gas reduction goals and activities, evaluating the merits of different reduction programs, actively participating in the development of legislation, and benchmarking climate change policies and activities against other organizations.
Manufacture of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) was banned in the United States in 1979 due to concerns about the toxicity of these chemicals. However, until that time they were incorporated in a wide range of products and materials, much of which is still in use across the country. Ongoing concerns regarding PCBs, including their persistence in the environment, have resulted in extensive regulation.
We manage PCBs and mineral oil that contains low levels of PCBs in a manner that meets or exceeds the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and Washington State's stringent regulations. Our goal is to minimize risk associated with PCBs, to avoid spills or releases, and to clean up any releases to levels of non-detection.
We are also aggressively removing PCB-containing electrical equipment from its system. The vast majority of the equipment in service at Avista is non-PCB. The first wave of removal efforts, following TSCA, focused on "PCB equipment" containing 500 ppm or greater of PCBs. This type of equipment, as identified, was removed and properly disposed of during the 1980s. Rarely, through testing, we discover PCB equipment in service, and it is scheduled for removal. We have also implemented an accelerated effort to remove PCBs from our system in several ways. As equipment is replaced during system upgrades or expansions, equipment containing any level of PCBs is retired rather than retro filled. There are rare exceptions to this approach for unique equipment that we must maintain as backup; such equipment is appropriately stored.
We have implemented a sampling/testing program to determine whether some older equipment contains PCBs, where information was unavailable from the original manufacturer. As equipment is discovered to contain PCBs, immediate removal is scheduled for any items with 500 ppm or more; typically, removal is also planned for equipment containing 50 ppm or more PCBs as a precautionary measure. In addition, Avista implements targeted removal, through a process termed Serial Number Sequencing. In that effort, as testing reveals the presence of PCBs, We target for removal any other equipment that was manufactured and shipped with the tested item. In these efforts, We have worked to manage PCBs in a manner that meets or exceeds all regulatory requirements.
* These figures exclude scrap sales for transformers
Avista actively practices energy conservation and efficiency in our buildings and facilities. Various conservation projects each year include replacement of heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, lighting conservation, building controls, appliance replacement, motor efficiency improvements and fuel switching.
At the end of 2009, cumulative conservation at Avista's facilities totaled 3,999,557 kWh of electricity and 144,757 therms of natural gas. Conservation projects completed in 2009 achieved savings of 800,588 kWh of electricity and 55,480 natural gas therms.
We are currently replacing HVAC systems at our Spokane headquarters. The goal is to obtain LEED certification of the corporate office building and reduce annual energy costs by $224,000 per year, continuously adding to the above energy savings.
Note: Avista has a 15 percent ownership interest in units 3 and 4 of a coal-fired generating facility, the Colstrip Generating Project (Colstrip), located in southeastern Montana. During scheduled maintenance in March 2009, turbines in unit 4 of Colstrip, were found to be in need of major repair. These repairs extended a planned outage from March 2009 until November 2009, and impacted Avista's total greenhouse gas emissions for 2009.
Avista does not currently have a specific greenhouse gas emissions reduction program in place because we are waiting for the passage of legislation at state and federal levels. Washington state has enacted greenhouse gas reduction goals, but has not passed the required legislation to implement the plan. We intend to align our program with the state and federal requirements as they take effect.
We are already avoiding associated greenhouse gas emissions through the 111 average megawatts of energy efficiency on our system. We are a member of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and have agreed to meet CCX baseline reduction goals of 6 percent by 2010 on the generation assets covered under the program. We have exceeded our CCX goals to date and anticipate exceeding our CCX goals through the end of 2010 at the conclusion of phase II of the CCX.
We have included estimated carbon costs in the Base Case of our 2007 and 2009 Integrated Resource Plans, to reflect anticipated federal climate change legislation beginning in 2012.
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*Note: all values in lbs parameter/MWh
"RCRA waste" represents hazardous waste as defined in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Avista looks for ways to reduce generation of hazardous waste and manage waste streams. The largest single source of hazardous waste is represented by aerosol cans, which are collected from throughout the company, and if suspected to be not completely empty, treated as hazardous waste. We manage all RCRA wastes in accordance with state and federal regulations. This includes, as appropriate, treatment or disposal at permitted landfill or incineration facilities.
"Non-RCRA" wastes include waste streams that are not deemed "hazardous," but which we manage as special wastes. These include waste oils, greases, antifreeze, and a range of miscellaneous wastes that can be recycled, blended into fuels, or responsibly disposed of. These are managed and disposed of in accordance to state and federal regulations.
"Universal wastes" include specific waste streams designated by federal and state law that are excluded from being treated as "hazardous" if they are managed according to specific standards. These include items such as fluorescent light bulbs. We manage all universal wastes in accordance with these standards.
In 2008, the most recently reported year, we disposed of 1.859 Kg of PCB wastes managed in accordance with the Toxics Substance Control Act (TSCA) via incineration.
In February 2008, both combustion turbines at our Northeast Combustion Turbine (NECT) were emission tested for compliance with the air operating permit. Both units passed sulfur dioxide (SO2) and total hydrocarbons (THC) tests but failed on particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Technical reports indicate the testing was appropriate and accurate. Initial mechanical inspections of the combustion systems indicated that both units were normal, though further evaluation suggested the need for repairs.
Based on the results of the February 2008 emission tests, the Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency (SRCAA) issued Avista a $58,000 penalty. Given the excellent compliance history and little use of the NECT over the last five years (111 hours total run time), Avista requested that SRCAA rescind the penalty.
SRCAA denied our request to rescind the penalty. However, negotiations continued to craft a new permit for the facility and settle the penalty. Avista completed the recommended repairs by Pratt-Whitney and the units were re-tested in August 2008. Minor improvements were noted in the emissions. We were seeking a minimum number of plant operating hours to meet reserve requirements and peak energy needs. The SRCAA wanted even fewer hours of operation or wanted Avista to install additional emission controls.
Through ongoing negotiations, all new permit conditions were resolved, and the new permit was issued April 3, 2009. An agreement was reached regarding the penalty and Avista paid $37,000 of the original $58,000 penalty.
Washington's Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) law (RCW 7094.521) was adopted by the legislature in 1991 and incorporated into the Washington Clean Air Act. Its purpose is to improve air quality, reduce traffic congestion, and minimize energy consumption by encouraging employees to use alternative commuting methods rather than driving alone. The law requires employers with more than 100 employees at a single worksite, in counties with 150,000 or more residents, to promote commute alternatives such as buses, carpools, vanpools, bicycle riding, walking, working from home, compressed work weeks and flexible work schedules.
The purpose of Avista's Commute Trip Reduction Program is to educate and encourage employees to make informed decisions about reducing their carbon footprint by reducing their "drive alone" miles. This also demonstrates Avista's commitment to complying with the Clean Air Act and reducing automotive pollution and energy consumption.
Avista's green fleet initiative aims to improve productivity by streamlining costs and reducing our carbon footprint. Our effort is part of our long-standing culture of being good stewards of resources. By adopting clean fleet practices and cleaner forms of transportation, we intend to be more efficient and provide a safer, healthier working environment.
The green fleet strategy focuses on activities within the following areas:
In 2009 we reduced our fleet emissions by 247 (Metric Tons CO2e). We also began testing the use of locally produced biodiesel in five of our fleet vehicles.
Avista is not currently obligated by any federal or state regulatory agencies to provide or purchase allowances for a carbon trading network.
We are a member of the Chicago Climate Exchange and based on preliminary estimates we expect to receive surplus credits for the 2009 compliance year. Compliance documentation for 2009 is not due until April 30, 2010 and completion of the verification audit by FINRA is expected by September 30, 2010.
We will be required to submit our first greenhouse gas emissions reporting to the Washington Department of Ecology for 2009 in October 2010. Mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reporting to EPA starts in 2010 for the reporting year 2010. Avista has a greenhouse gas reporting plan in place to meet these requirements.