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RE:No March/April Fishery
Some good input. I think you are right in that 1) we can never change the Bolt ruling and 2) the only way to make a lasting difference is to get all parties on board.
The initiative process that some of us are exploring would not impact the Native American fishery as State law can never supercede Federal. It would however stop the sport killing of native fish. Would this mean more fish for the tribes? Yes but the tribes are not stupid, they realize that an ESA listing will impact them as well. So far they have shown flexibility in shifting of netting dates so as to minimize native catches. Now I still think the 5% rate that is being thrown around is 5% too high but it is better than it has been in the past. I like you live trap idea and think it has merit.
As for the plunkers that view native catch and kill as a right, you are right, they do exist and they are quite vocal. I disagree with that view and believe that the majority of sportsmen do as well. I also think that if it was phrased in the right way, the voting public would support a ban on the killing of native fish. Either way, we switch to C and R now or nobody will be fishing at all in the future.
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RE:No March/April Fishery
On this site we seem to be of agreement on C&R. There are PLUNKERS out there who feel C&R is foolish and harassement to our Native Steelhead. They also mention that because of the Bolt desision that the Native Americans would be entitled to more fish because there would be more fish available if C&R fishing did help increase the amount of fish in the rivers. They technically are right on that issue but it should not be an issue if we could make fish trap netting an economically viable wat to fish.
I've put out this issue last year and hoped that the WAA would become a real organization and research this way to save fish and at the same time let our Native Americans and Commercials be able to continue their way of life.
What I've found that the high end markets and resteraunts are interested in enviromentally friendly caught fish that they could marke as such and sell at a good price such as they do with free range chickens and beef now. As it stands the tribes are getting 50 cents to 1 dollar a pound now for the fish they catch. If they used fish traps to catch marked hatchery fish and co-oped them directly to the markets on a daily basis they could easily make 3 dollars a pound or more and allow all Native fish to swim free. They would have to comply with a set of guide lines to qualify but at 3 bucks a pound the insentive is there. The commercials I've talked to like the idea and hoped more research would be done in this area. The Native Americans I don't know about as I do not have any formal plan to discuss with them. The traps are expensive but the federal goverment just spent $500,000 on buying the Native Americans on the Columbia new Gill Nets, we know that too much money is being spent in all the wrong places.
I feel that if we could ever suceed in a C&R fishery both sport and commercial we have a bit of a chance to save our Great Native Steelhead.
What do you all think of the enviro friendly fish idea, would like some feed back both positive and negative on this. Rememeber the Bolt ruling is real and will never be repeled with friction on our part we must look for ways to work with our fellow fishermen, the Native American and Commercials. They should be our partners in saving native fish not our enemies.
RE:No March/April Fishery
About the only thing I know about the Steelhead out there is that I would love to get out there and fish for them someday. So I feel a bit uninformed replying to this thread but I think you can learn from our mistakes with our Atlantic Salmon on the east coast. When you see something wrong if the numbers show a downward trend over a period of time if the biologists tell you there's a problem then take matters into your own hands and do something. Do it as soon as possible and do it like their existence depends on it because it just may.If there is anything we can do to help say the word.
RE:No March/April Fishery
Duggan -
I'm with you, there really is no reason to keep a native fish, period. We would need to decide whether this meant C&R by sportsmen only, or also by commercial and Indian interests. Indians would have to stop gill netting during certain seasons because it kills indiscriminately. It would have an impact on fishing all seasons and maybe even gear restrictions. These are all good things if you ask me... but it raises some new questions of it's own.
Impact on harvesting methods:
It would force harvesting techniques throughout the steelhead season to permit selective return of natives w/o killing them. This would in effect make gill netting illegal when steelhead are present. It would not however prohibit them from gillnetting ocho species in summer and fall. Even then summer steelhead natives would suffer because they would be killed in salmon gillnets "incidentally". Making the killing and keeping of native steelhead illegal would have a profound effect on fishing methods throughout the region.
Strangely our existing laws allow loopholes to harvest native fish indiscriminately as "incidental" in gill nets in all seasons where gillnetting is allowed. I hate seeing those 20 pound summer runs at Pike's Place from the Hoh. If we could succeed in legislature to make it illegal to kill a native steelhead it would have a profound effect on the way fishing is conducted through the season, preventing this kill fishery. Our trip to the Hoh last April really drove the point home... we witnessed a parade of native fish bonking gear chuckers killing some of the most beautiful native peninsula fish my eyes have ever feasted on. It was senseless, totally senseless exploitation without any concern for the health of the fishery. I wish there were a way to show these people what has happened in other rivers in WA, or beyond in CA, atlantic salmon rivers in the Canadian Maritimes, etc. By all means fish for them but let them swim and buy a salmon fillet at Costco on the way home to eat (that's another story I could get hot about).
Benefits of this law:
It makes financial sense - because of the relatively low price per pound of steelhead, some Indian hatcheries have converted to chum to collect roe instead of meat. I can deduce from this that steelhead does not bring significant commercial value. Without looking into it further it's obvious that commercial fishing of steelhead is not a significant source of commerce for the region whereas steelhead (and salmon) sport angling is worth billions (according to an article in the Seattle Times). The health of a native steelhead population has tremendous importance in commerce across a wide range of beneficiaries (as opposed to a few fish mongers).
It is responsible fisheries management - the region is blessed with indigenous steelhead, in and of itself a near miracle with respect to the explosion of commercial and residential growth. These populations are on the edge due to habitat loss, incidental kills, open sportsmen harvesting, and perhaps most importantly - hatchery intervention. If we are going to continue to saturate these ecosystems with pellet-pout drones of inferior brood, we need much more aggresive ways to prevent the impacted native fish from being roadkill on the capitalist highway. As radical as it may seem, I'd be all for destroying hatcheries and going to policies that nurture wild / native reproduction with C&R access only. Certain rivers, like the Cowlitz, would be maintained for put and take steelheading if there is such a thing... but rivers like the Sky should be restored to natural reproduction. As we learn more about naturally sustained C&R runs, we can adapt this knowledge to other river systems where it would make sense - like the Wynoochee (although I can hear the kicking and screaming now) and rivers out on the Peninsula that already support stream born populations despite our gene pool pollution with Chambers Creek "rags".
The other side of the coin: if an angler accidentally kills a fish (re: a summer fish fights like hell and comes to shore ready for the morgue and can't be recovered) is he or she then breaking the law? Something to think about.
BTW -
I don't remember - was the "ban nets initiative" seasonal banning? I seem to recall it was open seas netting? In any case, this is different because it is not about a practice but a threatened indigenous organism of a specific genus and species.
RE:No March/April Fishery
I may be off base on this one but Skookum asked me earlier today about experience in activism. Well I don't have any but driving home I got to thinking about the political process. It occurs to me that we may be going about this all wrong. If I understand the petition currently being circulated correctly, we are signing up to tell WDFG that we want a statewide C & R of native fish. Unless I'm wrong, they can look at ourlist of 150,000 signatures and say, f*** you. So what other avenue can we use? Since Tim Eyman can get the proper number of signatures on an initiative to cut mass transportation or lower car tabs, why couldn't we do the same. Seems that taking this to the voters might be the answer. We could make C & R of natives the LAW. I know we have tried this route before with Ban All Nets but that was a horse of a diff. color. This would potentially get the sportsmen, the environmentalists and buisness behind it. Heck, if those more informed than I think this worthy, I'm willing to dedicate my time pulling it together and stumping for signatures. Besides, I suddenly have a lot of free time this spring.
RE:No March/April Fishery
Hey Kush Et Al,
The word is that C&R on wild fish will begin Dec 1, so at least that is consistent.
This is a tough one for us all to swallow, but people more knowledgable than I about the #s tell me this is the right thing to do.
I just hope that, with good returns this year, we get the fishery back next year. Otherwise, it could become an ongoing thing like the Wenatchee (closed for the last 4 years).
I also hope that somebody's warned the OP regional biologist, cause those rivers are going to get a LOT more pressure this year.
RE:No March/April Fishery
Let me get this straight, the C&R season is closed - due to an anticipated low return (which though painful, is reasonable) - yet during the period in which hatchery fish can be harvested any wild wild fish caught can ALSO be killed? This does not seen to be even remotely logical - tell me it isn't so. If mortalities on catch and release steelhead are too high to risk during the C&R then how can there even be ONE wild fish to spare while caught a few weeks earlier? Help me, this is far too deep for my simple mind - tyler.
RE:No March/April Fishery
Duggan - I agree with many things you pointed out, particularly your questioning of a kill fishery. It's easy to forget that the reason our natives run in the spring is due to selective modification of the native runs by early season kills to support quotas (Boldt decision, etc). In other words, before we screwed with it the whole thing was a native run and it didn't just show up in March/April.
By introducing hatchery fish and allowing early season kill harvesting, we segregated the runs into early hatchery and late native over time... as a general rule. But when you consider the numbers of native fish being caught at the big eddy on the Snoqualmie in late November, December etc. - it's amazing for a river that ends in a waterfall taller than Niagra with a few tribs on the way. Then count in the Skykomish, a river in which native fish are (relatively) prevalent and common throughout the season. Finally, the Stilly - which is also a segregated late native run as far as my experiences would indicate (except for Deer Crk and South Fk fish, etc).
Sustaining a kill season prolongs the separation of runs and threatens native fish that respond to rain, weather or other signals leading to migratory activity.
I believe that just cutting off the late season with a kill season during the artificial harvest period is not as effective a solution as making the whole season a no-kill resitricted fishery and keeping April open to single barbless no boats. The latter would be far more effective if the goal is to protect the native fish.
RE:No March/April Fishery
Thanks for the continued updates. Damn, I didn't think that I could get any more depressed than I already was over the closure of the Sky. Well, I was wrong. I spent an hour talking with my wife last night about the Sky/Stilly closure and went to bed feeling better because she pointed out, you can still fish you just have to get up earlier and drive further. A lot further it appears now.
Putting the self pity aside, I agree with being torn on this issue. If the runs are really that depressed, I fully support a closure. If however the data is flawed or just that the last two years were an anomoly, I have serious issues with it. In thinking about this, and believe me I have been thinking about it, I keep coming back to two issues. First, if the runs were so depressed in 98-99, why have a kill fishery in 99-00. Secondly, is it just possible that the 99-00 run was late and the air survey of redds didn't pick up on it? I know that I was picking up bright strong native fish the first couple of weeks of June after the river reopened. These were not downstream spawners but rather hard energetic fish not long out of the salt. Since the river levels were up then and water clarity down, is it possible these fish's redds were never counted? Maybe I'm grasping at straws?
I guess the worst part is that I don't see this as a one year closure. My guess is 2-3 years at a minimum. Any thoughts?
Still hoping for a miracle --- Duggan
RE:No March/April Fishery
Well, the news is getting worse. Just talked to Mr. Kraemer again--the closure includes the Skagit/Sauk system. As for your suggestion of FF only, Juro, no go. The political forces that be in this state won't go for it, even if we fly-fishers think (and know) the impact would be reduced. In the eyes of the general public and the gear fisherman, as you can understand, it would be unfair. My suggestion would be to use this year's returning hatchery 2-salt fish as an indicator of ocean survival before closing the season. If we get an unusually robust return--enough to mitigate the lower number of 3-salt and repeat spawning fish, I think they should go ahead and open it. How to get this idea to them, I don't know. Sounds like it may already be a done deal. I guess as sorry as I'm feeling for myself, I feel even worse for the guides and shops that are going to be in serious trouble over this. Ah, what to do, what to do...It's a tough spot, because if we fight like hell to get them to open it and it really is a depressed return, we will be guilty of shooting ourselves in the foot. On the other hand, the state is basing this on poor outgoing smolt number, which is proven to be a lousy indicator of returning adult numbers, and poor ocean conditions, which many feel is just not the case with the 2-salt fish that should be returning this year. So there could be a great run this year. The state's going with "better safe than sorry" and I don't know what to think. Any thoughts?
RE:No March/April Fishery
Skookum -
Thanks for the update, I had just found a phone # for a friend working in Olympia for fish and game but I won't need to call him now. It's bitter-sweet; my thoughts are all over the place on the matter.
Since the fishery is not just fly fishermen but includes plug pullers in driftboats, corkies, hardware, etc - pounding the river as well, I have to think the impact on the fish can be pretty significant. That's not to say that fly fishermen are better than gear guys - it's just to say that the impact on fish would be less if it were just FF than the way it is today. I'd also go as far as saying that the impact would be less if it were "FF only" than "gear only" as well, but that's another story.
So that leaves me with a few things to consider - (a) what about a FF only season when runs are down as an intermediate measure? (b) or a shorebound single barbless hook season as an intermediate measure (eliminate the plug pulling, netting and boating of fish)? (c) Perhaps a closure is the only way to be fair? (d) Having fished the Green for a dozen years and seen how spring closures have caused a boom in native populations, I can't say it's all bad to close a run to angling once in a while.
My personal preference would be for a fly-only season, but I can hear the screaming now. If the closures have a profound effect, the angling will return to normal and abstaining for a season or two will be worthwhile.
Looks like the peninsula's gonna see more anglers this spring too!
RE:No March/April Fishery
Damn, Damn, damn!!!!
I'm sick here.
No March/April Fishery
Just got off the phone with Curt Kraemer (district 4 biologist), and the bad news is that it's all true: No spring catch and release season in 2001 on the Snohomish system or the Stilly. No word yet on other Puget Sound rivers. He also said that since there isn't any way to do an in-season run size assessment, there is no chance of an emergency opener. The decision has already been made, and it will be signed into law early next week. So that's the bad news. The good news is, well, I still haven't figured that out. Apparantly, this closure is based on low returns the last two years coupled with poor in-stream survival of smolts for the returning year classes of wild steelhead. The escapement goal on the Snohomish system is 6500, and last year their numbers were only 2800. They arrive at this figure by counting redds from air, floating and walking. Although we may find flaws in their technique, since it's been the same year to year, it appears that at least the numbers relative to the goal are probably good. Of course, this doesn't account for exceptional ocean survival, which may have taken place on our returning 2-salt fish, but as Mr. Kraemer said,"We can't bet the house on that." This also doesn't account for the continued kill fishery we've seen over the last few "down" years, or a policy of management that always puts a priority on killing fish wherever and whenever possible. It seems like the WDFW is constantly looking for any tiny "surplus" to allow a kill fishery, then having to have emergency closures--but maybe that's just the political climate of this state. So, what do we do now? I'm not sure. I'm still reeling from the loss of a fishery I look forward to all year, and wondering what to do with the extra 40 days I will now have in March and April. We should be thankful that if there is a depressed run, the resource will be protected--but it's pretty darn tough to take. If the Skagit system stays open, I can only imagine the pressure it's going to get. Anyway, just thought you guys might want to know so you can go ahead and make plans for the spring. Golf, anyone?
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Macker Mania
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Here it is, Saturday evening, and I dare say I've had my fill of Gus Macker. While it's truly a great community event that does wonders for downtown Norwich and tourism in general, by the time the first ball bounces I've put so much time into our special Saturday edition that's given out free that morning that my enthusiasm for it has waned. Occupational hazard, I suppose. I'm not a big fan of basketball in general (and certainly not a player), so that may be another reason Macker isn't my favorite of Chenango summer events. That said, it did look like a good time was had by all during my cursory stroll up and down East Main Street this afternoon.
I hope those who sat courtside early Saturday morning enjoyed our special (and free!) edition of The Evening Sun this morning. Besides the game brackets and player names, there were some great feature stories on Macker enthusiasts and a generous helping of today's news as well. Thanks also to our advertisers, whose support made giving Saturday's edition away for free possible.
Tomorrow, I'll head downtown again to check out what our local merchants are up to for Sidewalk Sales.

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I was marshalling the Open all day so had no chance to post anything. The first series was a triple with two retired - relatively short with long mark on the right thrown from a mound on a hill left to right onto the side of a slope just below a ridgeline. The short middle bird was on the flat below thrown left to right from one row of cover to just behind a large piece of thick bushy cover. The flyer on the left was last shot left to right into heavy cover - tall grass and tules. Some dogs had problems finding the flyer, some over ran the short retired, still others had big hunts on the long retired. 43 dogs were called back to the land blind which ran across all the lines to the marks and by the flyer crates. The wind was blowing left to right across the line and most dogs wanted to head right due to the terrain and the scent from the flyer crates. There were a lot of casts into the wind for many dogs although some lined the blind or nearly so. Those called back to the 3rd series tomorrow morning (34 dogs) are:
1,4,5,6,10,11,13,14,16,18,19,20,26,28,30,31,32,34, 37,38,41,42,43,45,48,50,51,52,54,55,56,57,58,60


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Current standings of the figures everyone is clamoring for....
1. General Reikan
2. Admiral Ozzel (he's as clumsy as he is stupid.)
3. Bespin Gown Leia
4. General Veers ("The shield will be down in moments.")
5. Dagobah Luke
6. Dagobah Yoda
7. Torynn Farr ("Stand By, Ion Control.")
8. Cloud Car Pilot
9. Smuggler Lando (ESB Finale)
10. Han Solo in Hoth gear
Other figures clamored for, but not as clamored for as the above clamored for figures. Slightly less clamoring involved, I'd say...
From Hoth:
Bren Derlin (John "Cliff Clavin" Ratzenberger)
R-3PO (The Red 3PO droid)
Hoth trooper variants
From Bespin:
Lobot Resculpt
E-3PO ("E Chu Ta!")
Cloud City Citizen
Bespin Revelation Vader
Deluxe Han Solo with torture rack.
And these guys:
Captain Needa ("Apology accepted...")
C-3PO with missing foot.
Luke in pajamas (ESB finale)
Leia in finale dress (ESB finale)
The Empire Strikes Back with the lack of a cantina, or palace, or podrace, has less characters to be made, unless you count all the variants of Hoth Troops and Imperial Officers. Who else do you want to see?


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I haven't been maintaining this journal because I now have a blog. Please check there instead. =)
I haven't been maintaining this journal because I now have a blog. Please check there instead. =)
It's been a while since I've updated this...
For the last couple of months I've slowly started working with the guys at the Fink project as a packager.
My big project right now is KDE on OSX -- we've got things mostly working, just lots of little corner work to do still. I'm still amazed that we've gotten things working as well as they do in just a few short months. When I first started tackling it it looked hopeless.
I just made a metric buttload of packages for fink: tomcat 4.0.1 and all of it's dependencies. Hopefully I haven't screwed anything up -- I've done a couple of packages before, but nothing on this scale.
I removed everything and rebuilt from scratch doing a "fink install tomcat" so I think it should build on everyone's systems... We'll see...
I'm now working on a package for the apache connector for tomcat. I probably won't submit it until tomorrow, 'cause it's way past my bedtime.
This is my first time playing out with Advogato; I figured I'd check it out and post a little about myself.
I'm a long-time Linux user who works for an open-source company developing network management software (in Java, which I initially had grave reservations about, but have since learned to like it's advantages). I hold a sort of jack-of-all-trades job, doing system administration, building workstations, managing the mailing lists, and, most importantly, handling build and change management for OpenNMS.
Our company seems to have an open-source business model that is actually working. We have 2 different sources of income.
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Making the Perfect Burger
o matter which type of meat you start with or how you dare to dress it up, at the heart of every hamburger lies the patty. The best burgers have a fully caramelized crust over the entire patty surface area but are juicy, moist and gently cooked at the center. Your patty prowess can make or break your burger so here are a few of our favorite tips and tricks for perfect patties every time.
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I guess the single most important figure in my political outlook was Edgar Wiggins Waugh, professor of political philosophy at Eastern Michigan U. and roommate of William Faulkner at U. of Mississippi. He is considered to be the principal author of the 25th Amendment. He was an unabashed progressive. I didn't want cut his classes as there were often debates between Waugh and the Birchites. Waugh always prevailed with great knowledge and humor. An impromptu debate between Waugh and Mississippi Gov.( at the time) Ross Barnett was a classic that left Barnett tongue tied in the end.
My maternal grand parents were very active in the political trenches. They were always active in the cause for the common man. Besides raising 8 of their own children, they also provided foster parentage to 27 other children.
I'd have to round it up with the influence of John Kennedy. While his life was cut short before he could accomplish much he was able to get the country looking at itself with pride and purpose.


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Just spent my whole weekend reading (and writing) some Cocoon documentation, via the Cocoon Wiki. If nothing else, I'm a bit less confused than I was when I started. Maybe a few other people will find my changes useful.
Just spent my whole weekend reading (and writing) some Cocoon documentation, via the Cocoon Wiki. If nothing else, I'm a bit less confused than I was when I started. Maybe a few other people will find my changes useful.
I feel less and less ambition to post to my advogato diary. Oh, well. The more time I spend working on software, open source or otherwise, the less time I spend writing about the process.
Simultaneous publishing, from a source XML document full of semantic markup, to several different presentation formats. Only used free software, namely xsltproc and Xalan for XSLT, and FOP for XML:FO. I can't wait to see where we are in a few weeks.
I am now employed full-time for Project Links. The scary thing is, I ended up with my former-boss's job. I am now the Technical Manager. After spending over two years on the project, I feel that we're finally getting to the point where we are really making progress.
When I started working here, the site was over 30,000 files, and was completely unmanageable. These days, we're down to about 12,000, and everything is fairly manageable. We're publishing some really fancy XHTML+MathML documents. They're a work of art.
We're also playing with DSpace. The plan is to run a DSpace server as an "RPI Publication Database". I will end up in charge of running that server, too. Fun-fun!
I just started the "Mimsy Image Management System" project. I will be collaborating with several RPI students, and one RPI professor, on trying to get this code into a reasonable state by the end of the semester. It's going to be a fun ride.
I've been using FreeBSDToGo a lot, lately--Several professors want to use it in class. I have the plans for a major release in my head...I just need to find the time to follow through on the computer. :)
ntftp will be on the back-burner, until next semester, I think....but I haven't forgotten about that, either. I absolutely detest starting projects without finishing them.
I'm tired of my computer-graphics-oriented friends telling me how much better Photoshop is than The Gimp. I'm going to try to do something about it. A friend of mine and I want to work on some improvements to The Gimp, including interface enhancements and feature additions. The plan is to do this as a summer "Undergraduate Research Project" at RPI. We will be making a proposal to a professor, in about an hour. If it goes through, we could actually get paid for working on free software! Wish us luck!
Update: The project was approved! We'll be getting course credit, instead of money, which seems fair enough. Not only will we be working on making changes to The Gimp, we'll also be demonstrating the effectiveness of these changes, from an HCI perspective. Professor Danchak seems pretty cool, too.
Update: This particular project was put on the back-burner, due to some more interesting projects that have surfaced. Only so many hours in the day. :(
I'm creating a piece of software that greatly simplifies the process of creating bootable FreeBSD CDROMs. This is an extension of some work I did last semester for the math department. This time I'm getting independent study credit, from the Computer Science department. The goal is to have a generalized system of Makefiles that, when handed a special data file, will generate a customized bootable CD. Progress is good, thus far. I have a magic datafile that creates a bootable webserver. Check out FreeBSD To Go!
Multicast TFTP
I've started a sourceforge project, called nTFTP. The code I've already written will appear shortly, and will probably be rewritten in C++ for fun. The code will be released under the GPL. Check out nTFTP!
Ponderous thoughts:
I'm debating about trying to achieve the Advogato certification of Journeyer. I'm spending way too much time working on Free Software(TM).
It's about 2 in the morning, on a random day of my winter break. I haven't been sleeping much. Too many cool ideas I want to work on. I'm tired, distracted, and busy--I'm not going to proofread this entry as carefully as I should--but it's long past time to make an advogato entry.
My projects:
Multicast TFTP
I worked on an independent study, this semester, with Dave Hollinger, my Network Programming teacher from a few semesters ago. I decided to work on a multicast TFTP client and server, since I have a use for one in the Links Lab, on campus. Copying a 3gig hard drive image to multiple computers by unicast is slow, even at 100mb/s.
I did my best to follow the RFCs. I had some fun with it. I wrote 1300 lines of code. It even partially worked, when I was done with the semester. I still need to add more code for the multicast support, but lots of other stuff works just fine, such as unicast transfers, option negotiation, blocksize option support, retransmits, and inactivity timeouts.
I plan on releasing the code under a BSD license, when it's a bit cleaner. It's not quite ready, yet...and I keep having this horrible itch to rewrite it from scratch, perhaps in C++. :(
I wrote a message to the FreeBSD -stable mailing list about a USB Compact Flash Card Reader that I purchased, recently. It's a Simpletech reader, using a DataFab chip, with a USB product ID of 0xb000. It "almost" works with FreeBSD's usb mass-storage device support (umass). It apparently "almost" works with Linux, too, according to the Linux DataFab driver writer's page.
I went through various efforts to get the device working, but to no avail. I was able to use this as a learning experience, however. I successfully added an entry to the FreeBSD's USB device table, and I believe I successfully added an entry to the SCSI 'quirks' table, too. I learned a whole bunch about SCSI, USB, and umass. It just wasn't enough to make my flash reader work, when I was done.
This is the first time that OS source code didn't scare the hell out of me, as soon as I looked at it. It's also the first time I've modified OS code, and the result actually compiled, and did something sensible. It's corny...but it feels like a big step for me.
Project Links:
XML is wonderful. I'm the system administrator for Project Links. I'm also a programmer for them. And I'm also the release/build engineer. I make it all work. My boss gives me a lot of freedom, and I make the most of it.
Project Links has a big website. The project has existed for many years, and has accumulated a fair amount of cruft. At the beginning of last summer, for example, the web site consisted of 30,000 files, huge amounts of hand-written HTML, filled with bad-links, inconsistencies, and missing files.
For the 18 months I've worked there, I have tried to clean things up. At this point, I think we even have all our soure code, again! (The previous sysadmin lost many files, due to an incorrect backup procedure). I played some nasty tricks with a java decompiler, to fix this. The site has been trimmed down to 20,000 files, just by deleting junk. The site will even fit on a CD-ROM! I moved the project to CVS, a while ago, so developers would stop overwriting eachother's changes. I setup a reliable backup solution, so we won't lose files any more.
My next goal--I want to move Links to XML. Currently, the "modules" are hand-written HTML, with lots of templates and javascript crap. I would like to use XML and XSL to write a language that can be used to express the content of the modules in a purely presentation-free format. Ideally, the people writing the educational content would be able to write in this new language directly, instead of asking HTML programmers to design pages fitting their requests. At site "build time", a set of templates would be applied to the module XML data, and the website would be formed.
There are numerous nifty side effects of this, such as the ability to use a non-HTML presentation language. We could write an XML->LaTeX translation, and print a Project Links teacher's guide, without ever changing the module data. If I succeed in the move to XML, the website will shrink down by many thousands of files. It might even be manageable again. I would love to be able to validate the module content, and use the XML data to do searches for missing files (broken links), as well as orphaned files.
The idea of having content separate from presentation is such a simple and obvious idea, that I wonder why it is so often ignored. With XML and XSL, we can let HTML become a purely presentation-based language. Perhaps it will stop sucking, then.
So, I'm stuck in Troy while Jon Chen and Louis Gerbard are at BSDCon in California. Not fair at all. From what I've heard, Jon now has commit access. Louis is still working on it. Jon's Cardbus code is coming along nicely, and Louis is working on SoftUpdates for Darwin. It's cool knowing these people personally...but I'm going to have to work my ass off if I expect to ever catch up with them.
Louis brought up the idea of having RPI-ACM's SIG-BSD try to start up a BSD equivalent to Linux's "kernel traffic" archive. He claims that LinuxCare is willing to sponsor it. Not a bad idea, but I don't know who would be willing to sit and read mailing lists for that amount of time. Garrett might.... Funny thing is, with the group of people we have, this sounds like far too simple a task.
Last ACM meeting, a graduate student gave a presentation on his thesis topic: performance analysis in parallel systems. The meeting went really well. Everyone seemed to be paying attention, despite the fact that the majority of the presentation was probably well beyond the comprehension of most of the audience. "Dr." Jeff Nesheiwat kicks ass.
I've been busy, as usual. Last night, I got together with some friends for a SIG-BSD meeting. I was impressed-- this group seems to have the right people in it to make some big accomplishments. We decided to start work on two short-term projects: The first is to help Jon Chen finish his Cardbus code for FreeBSD. The second is to put together a FreeBSD 'bootable business card', similar to the LinuxCare 'bootable business card'. I opted for the Cardbus code, since I've been looking for an excuse to do some system programming.
I ordered a few books. Any day now, I should receive "Unix Network Programming", volumes 1 and 2, "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment", and "Lex and Yacc". My bookshelf is already warped from the weight of my O'reilly collection. It's pretty funny.
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With the walls of the old closets removed, the framing could begin to form the layout and physical boundaries of the new bathroom. It also meant that the design could be modified (easily) so we had to be certain about our plans.
|Photo: Screws used for framing
The framing was straightforward, the only delay was laying down some new oak flooring to patch in where there was plywood on the floor (hidden by our washer and dryer). In addition to the framing, we put in a new window so there would be some natural light into the bathroom. We didn't want a full size window because it'd be in the shower area and the water would destroy it pretty quickly. We decided upon a vinyl window and I'd use some waterproof material to frame it in the tiled bath.
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With the walls in place and some insulation on them, I could really see the shape of the bath and get a feel of the space. The plumber came in and put in the tub and roughed in the other plumbing. Things were really moving along!


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My trust metric has gone down a storm on LJ - about 18,000 people have used it, and that would probably be more if the tiny machine it's running on was beefier. I've made thesource code available now.
My trust metric has gone down a storm on LJ - about 18,000 people have used it, and that would probably be more if the tiny machine it's running on was beefier. I've made thesource code available now.
I proposed a simple trust metric on LiveJournal, designed to work even when you have only partial information about the trust graph.
Post comments there - I don't read Advogato diaries any more because you can't comment on them.
Bram writes about partial busy-work functions. I need to know more about the requirements for generation and verification before I can see how to attack it. The only requirements I have are these:
I can see several trivial solutions, but they have these disavantages: it takes as much work to verify a solution ans it does to generate it, and generating all the puzzles takes nk time. Usually you want a busy-work puzzle to be trivial to generate and verify, eg "find a 160-bit value that hashes to something with the prefix 72f3ab81". Bram, what are your reqirements with this?
Bayes and scoring
I've got a better grasp on what these probabilities really mean, and why (as I wrote last time) (a o_s b) = (a o b o (1-s)). If anyone's reading, mail me, I'd be happy to write it up...
I wonder if anyone replied to what I last wrote about Advogato diaries and LiveJournal? I didn't come back in time to check everyone's diaries and find out, so I don't know. If you replied, can you mail me and let me know?
Needless to say, I don't have this problem with LiveJournal, because replies are attached to the comment they reply to and I receive email alerts about them.
Bayes and scoring
raph discusses Paul Graham's plan to use Bayesian statistics to defeat spam and points out that his combiner is isomorphic to a linear one. It turns out that Graham's combiner assumes that the a priori probability that a mail is spam is 0.5, which isn't right, but you can easily fix the problem without sacrificing linearity.
For those who like me were confused by what "a probability of 0.99 spam" means, it means Pr(S|A) where S is the event "the mail is spam" and A is the event "the mail contains the word viagra". The extent to which A and B together indicate that the mail is spam is given by
Pr(S|A and B) = (a o b) = ab/(ab + (1-a)(1-b)) (where a = Pr(S|A))
but this formula is only correct if you assume that
Pr(S) = Pr(not S) = 0.5
and that the events are independent apart from their dependence on whether or not it's spam:
Pr(A and B|S) = Pr(A|S) Pr(B|S)
Pr(A and B|not S) = Pr(A|not S) Pr(B|not S)
Assuming that the events are independent is fundamental to the whole approach, but assuming Pr(S) = 0.5 seems to me like a mistake. Interestingly, though, if my math is right then the correct combiner for arbitrary a priori Pr(S) = s is (a o_s b) = (a o b o (1-s)) (do the math, or mail me and ask me to post it here). Thus if you define f(x) = log(x) - log(1-x) as before so that f(a o b) = f(a) + f(b), then you can define
f_s(x) = f(x) - f(s)
and you find
f_s(a o_s b) = f(a o b o (1-s)) - f(s)
= f(a) + f(b) + f(1 - s) - f(s)
= f(a) + f(b) - f(s) - f(s)
= f_s(a) + f_s(b)
This makes sense if you think about it: if a = s, then Pr(S|A) = Pr(S) so A tells you nothing about whether or not it's spam, and f_s(a) = f(s) - f(s) = 0 so it contributes nothing to the score either way.
So you don't need to assume that the a priori probability of spam is 0.5 to make raph's linear approach work.
Who here (apart from skx) keeps a diary on LiveJournal? I often find myself wishing that the diaries kept here were there. Despite diary rating and the trust metric, I find it in practice much easier to find diaries I'm interested in there than here. I miss the "friends list" facility that allows me to directly choose which diaries to read. And I miss over and over again the facility to make comments on diary entries; where I could make a useful and informative comment, the fact that it will have to appear in my own diary rather than as a comment on another entry puts me off.
Is that feature missing simply because it ain't written yet, or is it a deliberate piece of social engineering? I'm sure there must be some who prefer it that way, but I'd be interested to know why.
I quite often think about what would be needed to really unite all the blogs in the world, so that I can have one "friends page" that follows everything I'm trying to follow. At the moment there's a severe network effect that makes a real LiveJournal account much more useful than accounts with any other provider, even those (eg uJournal) which use the LJ code base. RSS is a component, but it would need a blog-specific module to deliver the same level of usefulness.
Graph Isomorphism
I think there's widespread doubt about the hardness of this problem; ISTR caveats along these lines in descriptions of the associated zero-knowledge proof.
I've done a quick-and-dirty implementation of Bram's stochastic trust metric, which works on the Advogato graph. It seems to give plausible results, and on the Advogato graph (4000 active nodes, 40000 arcs) it takes 6 seconds to do 1000 iterations (which gives results to a precision of about 1.6%, where 100% is maximum trust). It's a combination of Perl and C.
To test it, you'll need the Advogato trust graph. Thanks to gary for pointing out that this is available as a graphviz .dot file here:
This is the form that my current implementation expects the trust graph to be in. There's a simple test command line in the Makefile.
Update - just got email from Brad saying that this isn't the metric as he originally meant to describe it. Caveat downloader.
Bram's most recent suggestion would be very easy indeed to implement, so I'd like to experiment with it, but I think results on random graphs wouldn't be very meaningful.
I'd most of all like to try the LJ friends graph, but I don't think they'd be up for making it downloadable...
(update: I tried to do a new diary entry, and it replaced this one! Bah! Fortunately I had edited this one and the old version was in my browser cache...)
Actually, there's a way you can, but only if you add another restriction. If you allow a free graph - that is, a valid graph is any graph which has valid labels on the arcs - then you can't have it. But if you have some local condition affecting the arcs leaving a given node - such as that no two arcs leaving the same node may carry the same positive integer - then you can still do it.
Incidentally the Advogato algorithm (for people, not for diaries) fails the Isomorphism Criterion.
What sampling algorithm are you proposing? is it (1) make random compromise choices about all nodes (perhaps lazily), (2) see if there's an uncompromised path? The SD of the trust value computed would be 1/(2 * sqrt(n)) for n samples. Also I guess it's pretty cheap to collect trust levels for all nodes - "find all reachable nodes" is a pretty fast algorithm. However, the problem with using randomised algorithms for trust is that if your trust was very near some trust threshold, you would find yourself flapping either side of the threshhold on different days...
Bram - I think your ideas about criteria are the Right Thing and I've been thinking some of the same things myself. However I think I can list three desirable criteria and prove you can't have all three.
One is the "Adding Certification Criterion" you define. The second is the "Isomorphism criterion" which states that trust metrication should be a function on graphs, and that isomorphic graphs should get isomorphic trust ratings. The third is attack resistance as raph defines it.
If the attacker has total control over a subgraph, they can duplicate trusted parties, trust links and all. The "Adding Certification Criterion" says that this must not reduce the trust of the duplicated parties, while the "Isomorphism Criterion" means that the duplicates must get the same trust. Thus the attacker has increased the total trust in their part of the graph. They can do this indefinitely for unlimited trust; thus they have violated attack resistance. I'm pretty sure your most recent proposal falls to this attack.
I'll try and write more on this when I get more time...
I've also posted this to LiveJournal since I prefer the comment forums...
While I keep a LiveJournal diary, I don't want to fill it with geek content since it doesn't mostly have geek readers. So I thought I'd move that sort of thing to here.
I've been trying to find a way to back up my system onto multiple CD-Rs. Several people have basically told me that every solution out there is woefully inadequate, no-one has suggested anything good, and my searches haven't found anything good. I got quite interested in DAR for a while, but in practice its multi-archive handling is too far from the Good Thing to be worth the bother.
I've been thinking about what the Right Thing should look like. One thing it should be able to do is write each "slice" to a pipe rather than a file. This is more general than calling a hook after a slice is complete; you catch the "beginning-of-slice" as well as "end-of-slice" events, you can do arbitrary processing on the content, and you get to stop and start the archive writing process with simple flow control.
Reading the "afio" manual page, many of the options could be removed if this were possible. I sent some mail about this to the DAR maintainer; here's my discussion about how this feature could help you do backups if you've only the disk space to store a little over one slice at a time
Isn't using flow control much simpler? It would be very easy to write another general tool that takes a filename on the command line, and writes stdin to that file, and when a write fails because the disk is full, it waits a little while and tries again. dar (or dar_xform) would write to this process. If the disk filled up, dar would simply block during a write to the pipe, because pipes are flow controlled.
While dar is blocked, another process might be busy taking a completed slice file and writing it to CD, deleting it once it's written and verified.
Once the old slice has been deleted, space will appear, and the writing of the new slice will start to work again. dar won't even notice that there was a pause, and no signals-related complexity is needed.
And all of this happens outside dar itself. In accord with the UNIX philosophy, a whole lot of tools that do one thing well come together to perform a more complex task in a very configurable way. All of this is only possible with the "pipes" approach.
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NORTH SMITHFIELD - Town Hall and the Town Hall Annex offices will be closed on Monday, February 18, 2013 in observance of President's Day. Please plan accordingly for any business that needs to be conducted in town offices.
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Lawrence "Larry" Baldinger Jr.
Lawrence "Larry" Baldinger Jr. Aug. 16, 1930 - Oct. 2, 2014 BRIGHTON - Lawrence "Larry" Baldinger Jr. of Brighton, passed away in the care of his family on October 2, 2014. He was 84 years old. Preceded in death by his grandson, Aaron Tesone, and sister, Margaret (Bernardo) Almeida. In addition to Jan, his beloved wife of 31 years, Larry is survived by his children, Susan (Bob) Lemoine, Larry (Bobby) Collins, Lisa (Mark) Forsythe, Barb (Steve) DiNobile, Fran (Todd) Ireland, Paul Collins, Sue (John Getsoian) Salo, Diane (Bruce) Tesone and Variya Salo; grandchildren, Joshua, D.J., Sara Lemoine; Joseph DiNobile; Adam Ireland; Andrew (Liz) and Mary Getsoian; Mark (Cristen) Tesone; and great-grandson, Zachary Getsoian; brothers, James (Alayne) Baldinger and Charles (Ann) Baldinger; as well as extended family and friends. Mass of the Resurrection from St. Mary Magdalen Parish, 2201 S. Old US 23, Brighton, was on Monday, October 6th, 2014, at 11 AM. The Rev. David F. Howell officiated. Burial occurred at St. John Cemetery, Hartland, Michigan. Memorial donations encouraged to St. Mary Magdalen Parish, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, or to Gleaners Community Food Bank. For information, phone at 810.229.2905 or visit www.LynchFuneralDirectors.com. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/southbendtribune/obituary.aspx?n=Lawrence-Baldinger&pid=172756612


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By Parrish Alford/NEMS Daily Journal
OXFORD – Marshall Henderson scored 27 points Tuesday night, but it was his passing, not his shooting that helped Ole Miss get on its roll.
The Rebels trailed by eight against Coastal Carolina late in the first half, but outscored the Chanticleers by 26 the rest of the way en route to a 90-72 win before 3,059 fans at Tad Smith Coliseum.
Henderson, the junior college transfer who had 22 points in his debut last Friday, scored 13 in the first half, but that wasn't enough for the lead.
The Rebels scored the last five of the first half to trail 39-36 at the break.
It was Henderson's two big assists, one finished by Reggie Buckner, the other by Aaron Jones, that helped Ole Miss (2-0) push its lead to 55-47 with just over 13 minutes to play.
Minutes later Henderson hit 3-pointers on successive trips, the second drawing a foul at the 7:31 mark. He came back to hit the free throw, but before then was raising his arms to the crowd, encouraging it to get loud.
"We knew they were going to come out and give us a game, but we didn't take it to heart like we should have," Henderson said. "Coach Kennedy came out and lit a fire under us in the locker room."
Coastal Carolina (1-1) had an eight-rebound edge in the first half, but the Rebels were plus-3 in the second half.
On target
The Rebels shot 50.8 percent from the floor and held Coastal to 35.5 percent shooting in the second half.
Three other players scored in double figures including Murphy Holloway with 15, Nick Williams with 11 and Aaron Jones with 10.
Kennedy used a number of player combinations but said that will change soon.
Freshman Derrick Millinghaus started in place of Jarvis Summers at the point due to Summers missing practice with a slight knee injury.
Summers had nine points, six assists and no turnovers in 24 minutes.


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The Statewide Nominating Commission for Judges of Compensation Claims will meet February 11 at 9 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport to interview the following judges of compensation claims for reappointment; Judge Donna Remsnyder (MEL), Judge Laura Roesch (PMC), Judge Renee Hill (GNS), and Judge Diane Beck (SAR).
The commission will also interview prospective applicants/candidates for nomination as judge of compensation claims for the Daytona District, for the vacancy resulting from the appointment of Judge Thomas Portuallo to the circuit court (term to commence upon gubernatorial appointment, not anticipated to be before April 2013).
Guidelines for the operation of the Commission are available at www.fljcc.org/JCC/snc.asp.
Applications, one original and 15 copies, for initial appointment or reappointment should be submitted to the Division of Administrative Hearings, The DeSoto Building, 1230 Apalachee Parkway, Tallahassee 32399-3060 no later than 5 p.m., January 17, EST. DOAH will distribute the applications to the individual members of the SNCJCC.
Any questions or comments relating to any of the above judges of compensation claims should be addressed in writing to Wogan "Wogie" Badcock, SNCJCC Chair, P.O. Box 497, Mulberry 33860.
If anyone wishes to speak at the commission meeting in opposition to the reappointment of any of the above judges or the nomination of any applicant, written notice must be provided to the chair and the Division of Administrative Hearings no later than 5 p.m., January 28. The letter should include the intention to address the commission and a brief explanation regarding the request. If anyone wishes to present any documents in support of an appearance, copies must be provided to the chairman and the Division of Administrative Hearings by 5 p.m., January 28. Presentations will be limited to four minutes.
The Commission will not ordinarily grant any requests for personal appearances to speak in favor of any of the above sitting judges. However, the committee will accept letters in support of the current judges as long as they are delivered to the chair and DOAH by 5 p.m., January 28. If opposition to reappointment of a sitting judge is appropriately filed, then the commission may allow personal appearance to speak in favor of the judge, at the Commission's discretion.
The commission will meet telephonically on February 4 at 2 p.m. to discuss procedural issues for the February 11 meeting. This telephonic commission meeting will be open to the public by dialing (888) 670-3525, and entering code number 249 217 2867# when prompted.
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Research manager cover letter sample
This post is a cover letter sample for Research manager and other useful information such as: cover letter tips, cover letter mistakes, Cover letter requirements etc
You should focus on: Research manager job description, Research manager job standard, Research manager kpi, Research manager kra, education and knowledge, Research manager experience, Research manager skills and abilities.
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• Phone
• Email
2. Date of cover letter:
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• Name
• Title
• Company
• Address
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• Zip Code
4. Ref: Research manager position:…………. on date of …………….
5. Salutation
Dear Mr./Ms. Last Name (or division name…) and job position (if any)
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• Where you found the job listing?
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John Fay @johnfayman
Asked Harris if something happened. Shook his head yes. He was on the phone. No announcement from #Reds
Are we sure he is not just going out for a burger?
And thats why you wait until the front office makes a move before complaining about it!
John Fay @johnfayman
It's official: Harris outrighted to Louisville. He has 72 hours to report. Cairo activated. #reds
I hope Todd Frazier is the feel good story of the year.
But how much playing time will Frazier get, now that Cairo's back?
/wet blanket
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
Willie, maybe you end up contributing later this season. But for now, you had to go.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Thank you Walt Jockety!
Based on past experience, I thought they'd for sure screw this decision up.
"I can't take this homerism anymore." - 10xWSChamps, August 11, 2010. A Cardinals fan having a problem with all the homerism on Redszone. Classic.
"Man do I miss the days where were didn't need a calculator and an encyclopedia of baseball metrics to enjoy a baseball game ... - MikeS21" - 8/2/12 game thread
Yeah, I was worried. It really would have been a travesty if they'd kept Harris and shipped out Frazier again.Based on past experience, I thought they'd for sure screw this decision up.
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Relive the best bits of 2012, PlayStation style.
PlayStation Vita launched in Europe
Packed with innovative features and exclusive games, PlayStation Vita made its European debut in February 2012. Gamers could use innovative touchscreen and dual analog stick controls for a fresh take on renowned series including Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified and Assassin's Creed III Liberation.
What you said... "Have you ever seen a console with so many possibilities of interaction with the real world?" (Mikkaels, Italy)
PlayStation Plus went from strength to strength
There were a number of important updates for the great value PlayStation Network subscription service in 2012: during the summer, the Instant Game Collection was introduced, meaning you could download a raft of quality titles to your PS3 at no extra cost; online storage for game saves was also increased from 150MB to 1GB in September; and, best of all, in November PlayStation Plus was rolled out to cover PS Vita too - meaning that you could now download 65 games a year, including 26 for PS Vita and 39 for PS3, at no extra cost.
What you said... "I have to admit that PS Plus with the Instant Game Collection is really amazing and it got me to play so much in seven months of subscription!" (Leonsamuel, Italy)
PlayStation 3 got a stylish new makeover
The release of a sleekly redesigned PS3 system in September proved that size isn't everything. Now available in an eye-catching design that is sure to draw admiring glances when nestled next to your TV, the sleek new PlayStation system 3 is available as an entry level, family friendly 12GB version or in a more meaty 500GB version for gamers who want masses of storage space.
What you said... "Really like the look of the new console, this is a great example of less is more. I've been a PlayStation fan from the very first PS1 edition and have been hooked ever since." (SLOPPY1001, United Kingdom)
PlayStation Store expanded in every direction
It became even easier for you to find the content you love in 2012 thanks to the release of a new-look PlayStation Store on PlayStation 3 in October. The updated PlayStation Store featured a new look, richer content and enhanced search features. Plus, you can now shop for PlayStation Store content on any computer thanks to December's launch of the Sony Entertainment Network Store. Check it out now to pick up some quality games for your console.
What you said... "The store update looks great and was very much needed, can't wait to try it out. It seems to have improved every aspect and the search facility and linked content are particularly pleasing." (MikLSP, United Kingdom)
Wonderbook magically sprang to life
November saw the release of Wonderbook: Book of Spells, the first game to support Wonderbook, a brand new peripheral that lets you create augmented reality experiences in your living room. Wonderbook: Book of Spells lets you master 20 spells from the world of Harry Potter™ and includes exclusive new stories from J.K.Rowling.
What you said... "I can only say that both the experience of Book of Spells, and the use of the book has amazed me, and I am looking forward to see more things from Wonderbook in the future." (Kilno, Spain)
PlayStation Move games came thick and fast
Whether it was casting spells in Sorcery (May), taking your competitive instinct to the next level in Sports Champions 2 (October) or getting hot and sweaty with DanceStar Party Hits (October), there was something for all the family to enjoy with the PlayStation Move motion controller in 2012. Plus with support for games including Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection, House of the Dead 4 and Portal 2, there was plenty to keep action fans happy too.
What you said... "My favourite multiplayer game of all time has to be... Portal 2. The co-operative mode was just brilliant. Nothing even comes close. Superb level design, fantastic puzzles, a story that was as good as the single-player... but the clincher was definitely the "gestures" which are the best method of player communication in any game." (Darth_Newdar, United Kingdom)
Stick with us in 2013 at eu.playstation.com and PlayStation.Blog at blog.eu.playstation.com for more innovative games and brand new ways to play on PS3 and PS Vita.
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Fall further in love with Italy's culinary influences courtesy of this warm beef and provolone sandwich, a riff off New Orleans' famous muffuletta. The olive salad provides the crucial layer.
Play around with different flavors of pitted olives for this sandwich. Look for new varieties in the jar as well as in the deli section of larger or specialty supermarkets.
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By Ben Levisohn
Last year, Delta Air Lines (DAL) was everyone's favorite airline. But in 2014, Delta is lagging United Continental (UAL) and American Airlines (AAL).
Wolfe Research's Hunter Keay and Jared Shojaian look at one issue–the uncertainty regarding Delta's decision to use Seattle as its gateway to Asia. They explain:
For a long time [Delta Air Lines'] hub at Narita (~40 miles outside Tokyo) was a competitive advantage. But in 2010 the Japanese government started allowing U.S. airlines to fly to downtown Tokyo via Haneda, lessening Narita's value. [United Continental and American Airlines] have also implemented JVs with Japanese airline partners while [Delta Air Lines] seems to be in some sort of commercial spat with its Asian partner, Korean Air. [Delta Air Lines] has gone to great lengths to organically compete in Asia in part by building up Seattle (to [Alaska Air's] detriment), but we believe some of the new flights might not be working as well as planned.
[Delta Air Lines] is still a compelling story because of its cash flow and robust network outside of Asia, but we expect the Asian strategy to change in the coming quarters given many challenges (which of course may reverse if the Japanese Yen rallies, too). This could be a positive for [Alaska Air].
Shares of Delta Air Lines have dropped 1.3% to $31.18 at 9:30 a.m., while United Continental has gained 0.6% to $47.49, American Airlines has dipped 0.1% to $29.32, and Alaska Air has ticked up 0.1% to $79.26.


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France 1840 – 1926
Waterlily pond, green harmony
[Le bassin aux nymphéas, harmonie verte] 1899
oil on canvas
canvas 89.0 (h) x 93.5 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Bequest of Count Isaac de Camondo 1911
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Aside from painting and gardening, I'm good for nothing.—Claude Monet1
Not only did Monet create this painting, he also made everything depicted in it. Monet had settled in Giverny in 1883, with Alice Hoschedé and their large, melded family. By 1890 he had enough funds to buy their home of seven years, and in 1893 he acquired further land, adjacent to the house. Diverting a small stream, Monet began work on the famous pond and magnificent gardens which consumed his attention, providing the main subject for his work, until his death in 1926.
In 1899 Monet painted twelve canvases, mostly square-format, of the pond in different light conditions but from the same vantage point; a further six paintings, in which he shifted his position to include the left side of the bridge, followed in 1900. In these works he celebrates his garden of massed flowering plants, with the water visible through the leaves and flowers, showing reflections of the sky, and of the willows, reeds and other foliage around the pond. This painting is one of those exhibited at Durand-Ruel in November–December 1900. In his review, Gustave Geffroy described
a minuscule pool where some mysterious corollas blossom … calm immobile, rigid, and deep like a mirror, upon which white water lilies blossom forth, a pool surrounded by soft and hanging greenery which reflects itself in it.2
In Waterlily pond¸ green harmony, from his first extended group of paintings of his water garden, Monet compresses the space. He uses the Japanese bridge to anchor his composition but the bridge is truncated so that it no longer links the banks, appearing instead to levitate above the pond.3 Its arch bisects the canvas, the upper half rendered in an array of greens, grey-blue and pale yellows, while in the lower half he uses a tapestry of pale blues, greens and pinks to convey the waterlilies. The surface of the pond—the horizontal marks and small dabs of the waterlilies and pads interrupted by vertical strokes of greens, yellows and white of the reflections of the vegetation above—seems almost thick enough to walk over. There is only the slightest suggestion of sky, as Monet deftly closes off the background, and all sides of the scene. Along the bottom edge of the canvas, patches of scumbled maroon and violet paint—and a fringe of green grass down the right side—suggest the bank of the pond. In later series Monet foregoes the bridge, banks, and indeed any material context for the pond, in order to concentrate on the surface of the water and the reflections within.
Lucina Ward
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
From Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and beyond Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay exhibition book, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
- Maurice Kahn, 'Claude Monet's garden', Le Temps, 7 June 1904, quoted in Charles F. Stuckey, Monet: a retrospective, Sydney: Bay Books 1985, p. 245.
- Gustave Geffroy, Le Journal, 26 November 1900, quoted in Steven Z. Levine, Monet, Narcissus and self-reflection: the modernist myth of self, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago 1994, p. 194.
- Paul Hayes Tucker, Claude Monet: life and art, New Haven: Yale University Press 1995, p. 181.