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BLACKFOOT — The Shoshone-Bannock Corrections facility now has a library of more than 800 books thanks to a local Boy Scout.
Macalister Loos, 15, is a sophomore at Blackfoot High School and a member of Boy Scout Troop 239. His father, Mark Loos, is a corrections officer at the Shoshone-Bannock Corrections facility and suggested Macalister conduct a book drive to supplement the book selection at the jail, where inmates had fewer than 100 books to choose from.
Macalister began the book drive in December, placing donation drop boxes throughout Fort Hall and Blackfoot. Book City in Idaho Falls kicked off the drive, donating two large boxes of books. Fellow Scouts Conner Loos—Macalister's brother—and Dylan Dougal helped post fliers and spread the word about the book drive.
"I didn't really expect to be able to collect 800 books for my project," Macalister said. "I was actually surprised. I'm really glad."
He took the project one step further, placing colored stickers on the spine of each book designating whether it was science fiction, romance, action and other categories. He also collected numerous books appropriate for teens.
Julie Edmo, interim corrections specialist, said the donation was exciting for the staff as well as the inmates, many of whom have already read the books available to them.
"It's a really good thing for our inmates," Edmo said. "It's pretty awesome."
Inmates are allowed to check out three books each week. The books will be made available to both juvenile and adult inmates who have been anxiously anticipating the delivery of the books.
"Now they have a chance to read books," Edmo said.


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Entrapped By Offense
by Kris Belfils
2/04/2008 / Christian Living
Do you feel like you have been wondering in the wilderness for years and years? Does your Christian walk seem to go no where? Do you trip over the same obstacle(s) time and time again to find no freedom from the bondage you are experiencing?
You could be a slave to something and you don't even know it. How can we be in bondage and not know it?
1. The way we think can make us experience slavery.
2. The way we react or don't react can create a prison for us.
I am sure you have heard the definition of insanity? "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." This sounds crazy, but this is exactly what we do when we continue to respond the same way, over and over again, to situations and circumstances and expect our life to change.
Our response determines our future! God showed me this lesson recently by unveiling my heart and motives to me. I was having lunch with a couple of friends and one of them expressed to me that I get offended easily. She said that I had "The Spirit of Offense," and that God wanted to heal me of it. She also expressed she was healed of this very thing in her life. Well this was not a nice thing to say and I walked away from the lunch "offended" and frustrated with my friend. I went home and kept on thinking about what she said to me. I tried to be busy around the house but I couldn't shake the offense. I tried to take a nape as I was tired from attending an Endurance Women's Conference the last two days and there was still one more session that night. As I tried to go to sleep, I found my self rehashing the conversation I had earlier with my two friends. Finally, I got up and decided to do some research on "The Spirit of Offense." I found many scriptures in the Bible that talk about offense and being offended. All of which were not connected with a good response.
Mark 6:3 states; "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him."
Mark 4:16 & 17 "And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended."
Jesus said, "It is impossible that no offenses should come," (Luke 17:1 NKJV). So we know that there will always be a temptation to fall into this sin. Jesus also said, "And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved" (Matthew 24:10 13 NKJV).
I looked up many more scriptures and also went on the Internet to see if there was anything on the phrase, "The Spirit of Offense." To my surprise there were many articles written on this subject. I read article after article from pastors and ministers. Each article I read was a confirmation that I did get offended easily. Then God began to show me the pattern I created in my life of being offended and cutting off relationships or leaving churches. It was hard to see. I wept and asked God to forgive me for this sin. I wanted to be free from the bondage of un-forgiveness it brought in my life. I was a slave to it. My thoughts and emotions controlled me and it affected my family as well. I asked the Holy Spirit to show me the people I was holding an offense with. One by one God gave me their name and face. I began to write their names down and asked God to forgive me for holding onto each hurt and offense. I didn't realize being offended was a trap the enemy was using to prevent me from being who I was in Christ. I wanted to be free from being offended, and free to be me.
After I asked God to forgive me for each name I wrote down, I released name of anything I was expecting from them. In other words, if I was expecting an apology, I released them in my heart. They don't owe me that any more. If I was expecting support or recognition, I released that person from expecting them to give it to me. I began to pray for them and asked God to give me His love to love them. Everyone on the list was a Christian. Isn't that interesting? Look how the enemy put a smoke screen in front of my eyes and prevented me from seeing the slavery and bondage I was in. Then, he twisted how I perceived a situation, and it became a hurt or offense in my mind. The enemy was using my own weakness to separate me from the family of God, and I would put up walls to protect me from this perceived offense. Crazy! Thank God He loves us so much to make us aware of our sin and the enemy's trap.
In the Strongs Hebrew and Greek dictionary and Thayer's Greek Definitions, the word "offense" is translated:
"A scandal, a trap stick, that is, snare (figuratively cause of displeasure or sin): - occasion to fall (of stumbling), stumbling-block, any impediment placed in the way and causing one to stumble or fall, (a stumbling block, occasion of stumbling), i.e. a rock which is a cause of stumbling
I was falling over and over this stumbling block all my life and never saw it was even there. Now that God has shed His light on it, I can't help but see it. Now, when the enemy tries to remind me or bring a twisted reality to my mind concerning someone, I quote this powerful scripture right back at him; "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" (2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV).
If you think about an offense over and over again becomes exalted in your mind. It takes the place of where God should be. It becomes an idol as you are thinking and "worshipping" that thought more than God. WOW! What a concept. Knowing this truth makes me all the more cast down any thought that would prevent me from exalting God in my thought life. God is who I adore and think about. He is the One I worship and dwell upon, not any twisted, offended, thought.
This brings us to the true reality of living. We are no longer entrapped by any offense and the possibility of a new one is no longer a threat to us. We see that stumbling block long before we come upon it and decide to walk around it!
I encourage you to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any offense you have been holding onto. Write down the names of those involved. Ask God to forgive you for your un-forgiveness and release those that have offended you. Pray for them and if you have the opportunity, go to them and ask them to forgive you for your un-forgiveness. After all, Christ died and forgave all the wrong you've done, how much more should we forgive others?
Pastor Kris Belfils
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For many of us today, the phrase "going back to the land" may bring to mind a vision of the 1960s: yurts and domes, communes and co-ops. But Americans have been dreaming of returning to the land for more than one hundred years, and earlier back-to-the-landers were often motivated by dramatically different beliefs, hopes, and fears. What sorts of people dreamed of "returning to the land" in 1900, and why? Who left the city, and who helped other people to leave?
Dona Brown, professor of history, will discuss the cultural politics of the first back-to-the-land movement and consider the legacy it bequeathed to movements in the 1930s, 1970s, and beyond. "Home, Land, Security: The Cultural Politics of American Back-to-the-Land Movements," the last of this spring's College of Arts and Sciences spring Full Professor Lecture Series, will take place Tuesday, April 9 at 5 p.m. in Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building.
Brown has been on the faculty in the History Department at UVM since 1994. Her first book, Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century (Smithsonian Press, 1995), explored the significance of the tourist trade in shaping New England's regional identity. She has published widely on both tourism and American regionalism, and she was director of the Center for Research on Vermont from 2003 to 2006. Her latest book, Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), explores the long history of back-to-the-land movements in the United States.
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This is a mistake! X is one of the most flexible and useful systems today. Granted dumb users won't ever realize what they have in front of them, but the utility of X should not be under-estimated. I DO use it on a regular basis. Eliminating X, or even making it a second class citizen, is a huge loss in the philosophy that has allowed UNIX to survive for decades.
What will happen is that X will be "supported" as an X emulation layer on top of the latest display layer. Unfortunately, apps will abandon X because it will no longer be vigorously supported. Then it will be lost.
Here's what X can do today that we will lose: Run applications on one virtual or physical machine and display on another. This is not the same as VNC or terminal services.
I hear all the dumbed down Linux users saying, that this isn't important, but like the people making these decisions, it is the point of view of ignorance. Computers are going in two directions..... Smaller devices and huge systems with many virtual machines. The huge systems with many virtual machines SCREAMS X for application display management. a 1:1 virtual desktop per virtual machine us unmanageable, but a window per app is. Eventually, there will only be a para-virtual manager and para-virtualized machines, each running apps. The VMs can be saved, restored, snap-shotted, backed-up, branched, etc. This will be the nature of how we run apps when we have a huge number of CPUs. X is a better fit now for the future, than any Windows/Mac inspired "improvement."
This is another Ill that is a direct result of people coming to Linux from a Mac or Windows background. They want to bring lesser ideas because they don't understand the capabilities of what they already have.
I'm not too sure what the actual use-cases driving it are, either. Is there anybody who's really that excited about fancy graphical window effects, except as a curiosity? The article mentions Compiz developers having trouble getting patches merged, which I hope is not the main driver--- the main thing holding back Linux on the desktop is not insufficiently fancy animations when you minimize a window.
I'm an old fart, but as far as I'm concerned a computer is a tool to accomplish a goal not an end in itself. I use a computer to get work done, or for entertainment. In both activities I couldn't care less about the computer itself, as long as it is efficient and stays out of the way.
Now look at the trends today. Every major window manager seems thoroughly convinced that mo' shiny is mo' better. Transparant everything, all-singing all-dancing window animations. Very clever stuff, but does it help me get my
Nobody's forcing updates on you, old timer.
Nobody's forcing updates on you, old timer.
Sure. Except that you do want to get security fixes. And you probably also want to run a few new applications.
What? yes, updates are forced on everyone, eventually.
X is the underling tech that displays all those new shiny borked GUI's and your old favorites too, it sort of needs to go because it rarely gets used for what its intended and is a big bloated overcomplicated pain in the ass for normal desktop use!
now the optimal time to do that would have been a decade or more ago when it took unholy matters of hell to get X working worth a shit on older machines, now whats the point we all have at least a quarter gig of ram and a 1+Ghz cpu and X is just a tiny tidbit
Well, I agree with you. Except that transparency in my desktop helps me get my work done faster. First off, if it's opaque, it's got focus. And that is something I can say on many layers: the window with the WM's concept of "focus" (where keystrokes go) is displayed opaquely, but because it's opaque, it naturally gets my attention and focus. The time I spend guessing which window has focus is reduced. I know that, in the past, the window's title bar would show whether that window had focus or not, but w
You have four options:
1. Complain about people who want the "fancy animations" and end up losing X11. Let's face it, it's rare for people to complain their way into a mutually beneficial situation. This seems to be the option everyone is going for at the moment...
2. Help X11 by fixing what people perceive to be wrong with it. Maybe then you'll also see how bloated and painful it is to work with X11... (ultimately, that's the REAL reason we're seeing a rise of Wayland). You don't have to agree, you just have
What's bloated and slow about X11? Aside from crappy drivers (for some people), most of the slow issues have been fixed. Bloat is commonly levelled at X11, but it's not really substantiated.
x11 in general - seems to work just fine. remote x11, especially over a high latency link... ouch.
it is an extremely chatty protocol and, as far as i know, no reasonable caching is built-in.
granted, for the time it was developed (and for local use today) it was just fine. but i have to use remote x fairly often over slow connections. well, not really, i'm using nx (because plain x is totally unusable) - but that's closing source and it's session management is extremely terrible.
I wish that you had posted this from a logged in account, so that I could friend you.
The main problem with Wayland is that it will force a hard reset of device drivers.
The state of Linux device drivers will be reset back to 1994. Any progress that has been made in those intervening years will be flushed straight down the toilet. Whatever advantage you gain from flushing X will be undone by poor quality of drivers and incomplete feature support.
2. Help X11 by fixing what people perceive to be wrong with it. Maybe then you'll also see how bloated and painful it is to work with X11... (ultimately, that's the REAL reason we're seeing a rise of Wayland). You don't have to agree, you just have to realize that the people who disagree with you are about to overpower your choice. The mantra of "well, if they want it (the fancy animations), they should add it to X11 themselves or shut up" has failed you. Instead, someone has written an increasingly viable alternative which lacks features YOU want. Which leads me to
This would be counterproductive. By far the most common complaint I see about X is "OMG IT'S SLOW BECAUSE IT ALWAYS RUNS OVER THE NETWORK!!!!!!!!". However, on a local display, X uses a domain socket for communication, basically the fastest method available. So, the perceived problem isn't actually a problem at all, "fixing" it would be a mistake.
As far as I can tell, anyone who's backing Wayland has no actual concrete complaints about X, they just feel the need to rewrite everything from scratch (a common problem, unfortunately [wikipedia.org]). Furthermore, in all I've read about Wayland, it doesn't bring anything to the table except fewer features and newer (buggier) code.
I don't know if you've noticed, but KDE and Gnome (and others) already have lots of fancy animations, and they didn't need to rewrite X to get it done.
It's not only about some specific effects but also about having a generally smooth and intuitive desktop experience. Plus it's nice to have the small flicker here and there eliminated which rids the traditional desktops.
But you can get that with X11. Intuition is not built at the basic graphics library layer anyway, and never ever was (it resides at a higher level). Smooth running? That again is a matter of correct programming (e.g., getting the handling of buffers right) as the fact that some X11 apps have been running smoothly for decades will testify. Going to Wayland will not fix these sorts of problems.
OTOH, there are things that it will fix. For example, it's finally just about becoming limiting that window dimensions have to fit in 16 bits. And it will also mean that some legacy nastiness can be dropped. (I so wish I'd never had to understand the mess that is visuals. Complex, confusing and long obsolete.)
I have seen video of Keith Packard's talk which was providing quite a lot of reasons why Wayland or something similar is the way to go forward. The talk was centered on X protocol and architecture and how it works for modern applications. (Executive summary: very poorly.)
One of the main points was that most applications (both KDE and GNOME) do not use X anymore. Largest part of X is related to the 2D graphics and font rendering. Yet, most applications do not use X for that anymore and render everything by themselves, sending to X only the final image to display. X became a simple display driver with a fancy network interface. Why the layer is needed at all?
Another memorable problem is that X is unable to support full-screen games.
So those behind Wayland are not only bubbling windows fanatics - but also people who want to stream-line Linux' graphics stack.
P.S. I would love to have some guarantees that X would survive and I would be able to run a GUI app remotely, but something tells me that the days when I was taking that for granted are counted.
other memorable problem is that X is unable to support full-screen games.
So somebody that has not even heard of the root window is trying to tell us all what X can or can't do and getting it wrong?
BTW, the gnome and kde comments also show a lack of understanding - there's more to X than a widget set and ultimately the important thing is getting the images from whatever to where the user can see it.
other memorable problem is that X is unable to support full-screen games.
So somebody that has not even heard of the root window is trying to tell us all what X can or can't do and getting it wrong?
Fullscreen has never worked satisfactorily for me, personally. There would always be some weirdness which made it practically useless.
[...] and ultimately the important thing is getting the images from whatever to where the user can see it.
So somebody that has not even heard of the root window is trying to tell us all what X can or can't do and getting it wrong?
I'm pretty sure Keith Packard, as a lead of X.org, has heard of the root window.
Here is the video I was referring to: X and the future of Linux Graphics. [blip.tv]
Hmm, interesting; thanks for the link. I hadn't realized that the X.org people are moving in the same direction. Doing a bit of googling, this LWN article [lwn.net] summarizes a Packard talk from last year that seems to be hitting some similar points.
In that case, I say let the linux zealots do wayland but give us X. They are clearly in not-invented-here syndrome. I'm tired of it. More and more free desktop projects are under the GPL. If they want to do wayland, just go in a corner and do it. Don't screw everyone else in the process. By everyone, I mean all non Linux users. (yes even windows users have x-windows servers available)
There is a clear need for non linux people to take leadership in Xorg as well as starting a graphical desktop environme
Yet, most applications do not use X for that anymore and render everything by themselves, sending to X only the final image to display. X became a simple display driver with a fancy network interface. Why the layer is needed at all?
Okay, if this is the case, why is Wayland ignoring network transparency? Fine, the X rendering layer isn't used anymore and should go away; maybe the entirety of X should go away; why does it immediately follow that network transparency should go away? Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
Another memorable problem is that X is unable to support full-screen games.
That's funny, I could have sworn I used to run all sorts of games full screen, across multiple monitors no less, since at least 2001. And yes, this was Linux with X11, with games that made heavy use of OpenGL (NWN, Unreal, etc).
So those behind Wayland are not only bubbling windows fanatics - but also people who want to stream-line Linux' graphics stack.
Fine, but I ask again - why does network transparency have to go? I might be more convinced that those behind Wayland weren't bubbling Windows fanatics if their solution to the remote GUI apps problem wasn't the same as Windows and MacOSX. No, remote desktops in their own window *isn't* good enough. If I really wanted that, I can *choose* it, but I'm not *forced* to run remote GUI apps that way.
I would love to have some guarantees that X would survive and I would be able to run a GUI app remotely, but something tells me that the days when I was taking that for granted are counted.
And this exact same feeling is why others are wailing so loudly against Wayland.
Here's what X can do today that we will lose: Run applications on one virtual or physical machine and display on another. This is not the same as VNC or terminal services.
Lately I have it not work for me pretty often. Especially if there's any OpenGL. I can have two machines with GLX on them and yet my application crashes when I try to display it on the remote one... practically ANYTHING using OpenGL asplodes. Any more, that's the only thing I want to display remotely, because any old janky computer has enough power to run apps locally. It's not like when I was having to run Netscape on Linux displayed back to my SLC because it didn't have the power to run it satisfactorily.
Any more, that's the only thing I want to display remotely, because any old janky computer has enough power to run apps locally.
Sometimes, power doesn't matter. I can't run mythtv-setup locally. Unfortunately, its the only way I know of to configure a mythtv-backend, and its a X11 GUI. My mythtv-backend doesn't even have a graphics card, certainly not the mandatory $500 super 3-d type you'd need, and I'd not want to remove a tuner card to plug in a fancy 3-d card, just for occasional channel lineup changes...
But that's a retarded failing of MythTV that can be worked around with X11 as a band-aid... I mean, that's clearly not the Unix Way (tm)
Do you really need a fancy graphics card just to run MythTV?
But that's a retarded failing of MythTV that can be worked around with X11 as a band-aid...
And after X11 is gotten rid of, and there is no bandaid... The only benefit the GUI provides over a config file is its semi-adaptive. From memory, you set up the capture card, THEN it shows up as an option in the thingy that links cap card hardware to channel lineups or whatever. The only benefit the GUI provides over a text CLI is during channel icon selection. The only benefit the GUI provides over a web based interface, is you don't need to set up / maintain / security patch a web server and some oper
No, Wayland makes all that stuff possible, but there is absolutely nothing preventing the implementation of a frame buffer interface drawn by the CPU. And by the same token, nothing preventing exporting Wayland to X (or VNC, or...) through a similar mechanism.
So... Now that we know what X has that Wayland lacks, we are halfay there. What does Wayland has that X lacks? I personally don't know.
When we'll know that, we'll be able to express an informed opinion.
Anyone care to jump in to enlighten us?
It's a myth that Wayland lacks network transparency. It currently doesn't DEFINE it, but it doesn't LACK it. That may sound like a semantic game, but it's the same as saying that X11 lacks policy, which is imposed by the window manager, a separate program. Wayland provides drawing surfaces to applications and then composites them onto the screen. There are many different ways in which the drawing surfaces can get moved from the client to the server for display. Locally, they're the same memory space. With remote applications, you can either move pixels, or you can have the rendering API send commands over the network.
It's a myth that Wayland lacks network transparency. It currently doesn't DEFINE it, but it doesn't LACK it.
OMG, that is the worst twist of logic that I have ever seen. That's like saying my Jeep doesn't lack flight, it just doesn't define or come with wings. NOT HAVING IT AS A DEMONSTRABLE DESIGN GOAL MEANS THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE IT. In other words, Wayland lacks network transparency.
No, the parent is right. All wayland cares about is that it gets pixmaps for window contents. It doesn't matter where they come from. It's underspecified, and therefore open to be implemented in a wide variety of ways. The same is not true for your jeep.
Wayland uses X for "network transparency".
"Wayland uses X for "network transparency"."
And since X will no longer be maintained so much for that.
Need examples of lack of maintenance: User level display drivers, xfree86, etc.
Everyone of value will jump and X will die a slow death of bitrot.
This is a mistake! X is one of the most flexible and useful systems today.
It's also decades old and full of cruft, does no longer properly model how our hardware works and only held together by an endless number of extensions.
Run applications on one virtual or physical machine and display on another.
Yeah and as soon as you want something more complicated, such as move an application from one display to another while its already running you run into issues. Something simple as changing color depth at runtime, something that Windows could do since at least Win98, if not already Win95, is still impossible in X11. The reason why I can't use the scroll wheel
As someone who constantly uses Xnest and Xming on a daily bases I say, you tell them mlwmohawk! There is NO other GUI environment that allows applications from several different machines in different locations to run seamlessly on the desktop. I currently have two sessions of Code::Blocks up. One is from my server development machine. The other is on the client development machine. I also have an application running on a third machine that controls VMs (4 attackers and 4 victims) set up to send traffic
This is a mistake! X is one of the most flexible and useful systems today.
This is another Ill that is a direct result of people coming to Linux from a Mac or Windows background. They want to bring lesser ideas because they don't understand the capabilities of what they already have.
You are right and I agree with you be, shit son, if ever there was a useful piece of software that needed a massive overhaul/refactor it is X11. Don't get me wrong I love what I can do with X11 but it is a world unto itself in terms of understanding it. Configuring X11 is so fucking frustrating and it was one of the things I would dread when re-installing a Linux box and one of the big reasons I switched to Ubuntu, there are some things I just couldn't be bothered doing and I just want it to work and not ha
...and all of this ranting argues for an overhaul of xorg rather than dumping it.
Although why you would need to bother with X config files in this day and age is a bit of a mystery.
I am one of the "dumb" users who don't need network transparency for their display servers, but if I remember right X Server does run as a client to Wayland. In this sense I would not call it an emulation layer, but rather an abstraction layer.
The use case you mention is very real and ubiquitous in everyday situations. The computers in my university labs just cannot work without X. I am pretty sure it will not die out.
If you need X11 run X11. If you want to do advanced 3d desktop effects, don't. However, remote display has moved on since X11 was designed.
X11 can do remote display of apps running on a server, but it carries with it 20 years+ of baggage for functionality that perhaps 1-2% of users will ever use.
Besides, there are better ways of supporting X11. Personally i would suggest that the way forward is to move to wayland and then implement an X11 layer on top. Like the Mac UI has. I can run remote X11 stu
The "problem" with replacing X is that it's good enough for most uses.
This is the real problem.
The perceived inefficiencies of X are less relevant on gigahertz machines where you've got much more idle CPU horsepower laying around than idle GPU power. Meanwhile, the most interesting GPU features (like vdpau/vaapi) will likely be tossed out in the bargain. Those are things not easily replicated with idle CPU cycles when compared to the main focus of Wayland.
I agree, the "time to kill X" was in the mid 1990's when a Pentium could run OS/2 or Windows 95 with no problems but just loading an X desktop would suck all your ram and take an hour
The main problem with X11 is the complete lack of frame boundaries. Applications just send a stream of drawing commands with no indication of where one frame stops and the next one begins. Consequently the server has to keep drawing stuff as it comes in, resulting in flicker. Flicker is the first thing a novice X11 programmer complains about and online forums have been filled with pleas for help with this problem for decades. The traditional solution was to render to an offscreen image and send it to the server. This requires a lot of bandwidth, so the next step is to use MIT-SHM extension to avoid this traffic. Then came XComposite extension which automatically handles double buffering. XComposite has the luxury of being able to sync to vretrace, but not knowing where the frame boundaries are it can't do it lest it cut the instruction stream in the wrong place and draw half-a-screen. In the meantime, after two decades of deliberation, the XSync extension still does not implement the ability to detect vretrace.
Wayland solves the above by moving rendering into the client, as in the render-to-image solution above, and then copying the image to the server. This can be done though shared memory as well. The rendered image on the client represents the complete frame.
There is a pretty good description here: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html [freedesktop.org]
Pretty much all of the modern advances in Linux Graphics have been to push the performance sensitive parts of X to the kernel and the client. In current 3D apps, X does little more than the Wayland compositor does, but adds a cumbersome middle man.
In our office, we use the ability to run programs remotely on a regular basis. It is particularly useful for running programs that have dependencies that are no longer included in modern linux distributions.
As an example, I am a big fan of Word Perfect. I have used it to write specifications in our architectural office since maybe 1986. As some of you may recall, Word Perfect was available as a native Linux application -not a port or WINE abortion- I love this program, and would reinstall it at each upgrade, moving the required libraries from the old 2.0 kernel as needed.
Starting about Fedora Core 3, It just couldn't be installed in a way that was useful.
I solved this by installing RH9 on an old box, installed the libraries from Kernel 2.0 installed WP and have been happily running WP on this box with the display appearing on whatever computer I happen to be using ever since.
This is just one example, and maybe seems like a cranky one, but we have many other examples, such as pushing intensive computational tasks off to another computer while having the display on the desktop.
We will miss X greatly. Why this push lately to screw up the Linux desktop, anyway?
Why this push lately to screw up the Linux desktop, anyway?
Rectangles with rounded edges is my short answer. The PIM interface is the perfect interface for stupid people. Ever since the iPhone came out with its 3d looking buttons (rectangles with rounded edges) that has been the defacto preferred "standard" to chase. The tech industry, being a follow the leader industry, is chasing that preferred look and feel. Really hard stuff like network accessible interfaces are being pushed away because they are n
I've noticed a lot of comments like yours, crying about how Linux is being "dumbed down" for the sake of "stupid people."
I am at a loss as to where this contempt for other users, who might want decent graphics for their desktop and mobile systems, comes from. Can you tell me? Why such resistance to change is channeled into hatred for others, instead of into valid arguments that might result in seeing your concerns addressed?
If you can't figure it out then perhaps you're just one of the stupid ones.
The whole point of a general purpose computing device is that it is infinitely flexible. With that, comes a bit of complexity as overhead.
Furthermore, attempting to castrate user interfaces interferes with the whole "infinitely flexible" thing that gives computing devices their biggest value.
"Pandering to idiots" is the most common excuse given for castrating computing systems today and tend to be given by those driving the change ra
Then do the IT thing and manage your old server with your old applications. Stop insisting that the rest of the Linux world be held back so as to service your concerns. It's not like they're going to outright eliminate your ability to use Xorg, or ban Xservers running on Wayland (which already exist, iirc.)
Linux is not being held back by avoiding nonsense like Wayland.
That is just mindless "new must be good" simpleton sort of reasoning.
We will miss X greatly. Why this push lately to screw up the Linux desktop, anyway?
Run X over Wayland as a client. In exactly the same way that X is supported Windows or OS X.
Typical slashdot: the article distorts the truth in order to get reactions.
It was pretty clear during that presentation that the goal was to make it possible to still run X applications -- using a rootless X server -- and that this would also allow X-over-the-network use cases.
X11 is not going away, the idea is to use Wayland -and- X.
So Wayland is more like X12, then.
Yes but as newer, shinier applications such as KDE apps bypass X and use Wayland directly for speed, does that mean we'll see the end of network-transparent apps? I hope not (and the other posts indicate that network transparency is being worked on).
What you are describing, however is exactly how OS X supports X11. Using a rootless X server that relegates X11 apps to very much second-class status. This is okay if the new wayland API and system offers everything that X11 did as far as network transparency
I hope that support to X will stay for much longer.
It'd be nice not to repeat the notorious story with KDE v.4.
And, yes, all this bashing with "the old v4.0" is here because our scares done by KDE board still bleed.
If you don't believe me, check out the damn X11 site about the Wayland Project. It's purpose is to clean up the damn X11 code base to something easier to maintain and improve, which is why everyone is beginning to work with it. Find what needs improvement and get it's performance/stability up/over what the latest version of x11 offers.
Thufir's a Harkonnen now.


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Mumbai, Jan 29 (IANS) Virender Sehwag will lead the Rest of India squad against Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai in the Irani Cup match to be played Feb 6-10 at the Wankhede Stadium here.
Temperamental fast bowler Sreesanth, who has 10 wickets from four Ranji matches, and feisty off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who bagged 16 wickets from five matches, have also found a place in the side.
Manoj Tiway, who has recovered from a side strain, and openers Shikhar Dhawan and M Vijay havs also been include while Punjab batsman Jiwanjot Singh, the leading run-scorer this Ranji season, was unlucky to miss out.
Ishwar Pandey, highest-wicket taker in Ranji, along with Suresh Raina and Shami Ahmed have also been included.
Abhinav Mukund will captain the Board President's XI for the first warm-up match Australia will play before the four-Test series, starting Feb 22 in Chennai. The two-day game will also be held in Chennai from Feb 12.
Australia will play their second warm-up from Feb 16-18 in Chennai against India A that will be led by Shikhar Dhawan. Rohit Sharma, Tiwary, Ajinkya Rahane, Vinay Kumar and Jiwanjot have been named in the squad.
Rest of India: Virender Sehwag (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, M Vijay, Manoj Tiwary, Suresh Raina, Wriddhiman Saha, Harbhajan Singh, S Sreesanth, Pragyan Ojha, Ishwar Pandey, Abhimanyu Mithun, Ambati Rayudu, Shami Ahmed, Jalaj Saxena
Board President's XI: Abhinav Mukund (captain), Robin Uthappa, Ambati Rayudu, Mandeep Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Parthiv Patel, Stuart Binny, Sarabjit Ladda, Parvez Rassol, Shami Ahmed, Parvinder Awana, Kamlesh Makwana.
India A: Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Jiwanjyot Singh, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Ajinkya Rahane, C Gautam, Rakesh Dhruv, Jalaj Saxena, Manpreet Gony, Vinay Kumar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ashok Menaria.


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Recycling center to hold open house Tuesday
The Community Recycling Center, located in the Stackpole Complex in St. Marys, is holding an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday evening in an effort to help better educate community members on how materials are processed at the facility. The center has been accepting recyclables since the beginning of October. Bekki Titchner, Elk County recycling coordinator, encouraged area residents to attend the event, though she noted that this is strictly a social event and individuals will not be permitted to drop off recyclables. "We hope that people will be able to see firsthand what happens to the materials they drop off and how much handling is necessary," Titchner said. "We want this to be educational, but enjoyable. We want to answer their questions and we want folks to know who we are."One purpose of the open house is to help residents understand the importance of dropping off material during the week when the center is open. Diane Myers, recycling secretary, noted that the facility has been inundated with people dropping off materials on the third Saturday of each month and it has been challenging for her, Titchner and other volunteers to keep up with the inflow of materials. "People don't know that we're open during the week apparently. We're trying to keep electronics going Saturday morning at this place and there's only two of us and a few volunteers. We really need people to start coming here during the week instead of everybody coming on Saturday," Myers said. "We must have had 400 people on Saturday [Nov. 20], just with plastics, and then they're bringing everything else with their plastics so we were here for two days trying to clean up."Attendees at the open house will also be able look through a display of unacceptable items that are commonly dropped off by well-meaning residents. Myers explained that the plastic containers resemble those that are able to be dropped off at the center, but are labeled as #5 or #7. For more on this story, see the Nov. 29 edition of The Daily Press.


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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will transform health care and health care insurance nationwide. Significant changes under PPACA include: the elimination of any consideration of a pre-existing condition for acceptance of an application for coverage, the removal of all annual and lifetime benefit maximums, the extension of coverage for children covered under a parent's plan to age 26, and minimum essential benefit standards to be followed by all plans. Rates for coverage for these plans will vary based on the plan chosen, your age, where you reside, whether or not you smoke, and the number of individuals within your family.
Under the leadership of Gov. Terry E. Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds, Iowa has taken a common sense approach to implementing PPACA. The primary responsibility of the Iowa Insurance Division (The Division) in the implementation of PPACA was to review qualified health plans and certify that the plans comply with statutory requirements. The Division certified plans from ten companies to offer health coverage and dental coverage in the upcoming federally facilitated marketplace. The Department of Health and Human Services has now signed contracts with those companies approving the offering of their plans in the marketplace. Two of the medical health plan carriers offer plans in every county in the State of Iowa.
The marketplace will be federally run and managed. The marketplace will be readily accessible at www.healthcare.gov. All plans available in the State of Iowa can be viewed on the website with open enrollment beginning Oct. 1, 2013. Iowans will be able to enroll in individual, family and small group plans (1-50 employees) during the initial six-month open enrollment period from October 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014.
The individual mandate included in PPACA requires that beginning in 2014 individuals must obtain minimum essential coverage. This is defined as insurance coverage with an actuarial value of 60% (called a Bronze level plan on the marketplace). If you do not have minimum essential coverage you may be required to pay the individual fine of $95 or 1% of income, whichever is greater in 2014. Other levels (Silver, Gold and Platinum) feature plans with increasing actuarial values of 70%, 80% and 90% respectively. Actuarial value is the percentage of total average costs for covered benefits that a plan will pay. For example, if a plan has an actuarial value of 70%, on average, a person would be responsible for 30% of the costs of all covered benefits.
An individual's premiums may be offset by tax credits. Individuals from 100% of federal poverty level (FPL) up to 400% of federal poverty level ($11,490.00-$45,960.00 for an individual and $23,550.00-$94,200.00 for a family of four) will qualify for tax credits. Iowans must provide certain information in the application process to determine eligibility for an advance premium tax credit.
While the federal government is responsible for consumer assistance and education in Iowa, the Insurance Division will supplement these efforts, working with interested parties to help educate Iowans. Iowans will be able to enroll in qualified health plans through three Navigator organizations throughout the state, certified application counselors and insurance agents and brokers. Collectively, these individuals and organizations will be critical in helping Iowans through these complex decisions. Individuals and small businesses can also seek help through healthcare.gov with the online chat feature or call the toll free number 800-318-2596 for the marketplace to talk to someone for assistance with enrolling or questions.
As Iowa Insurance Commissioner, I want to outline the following key points for Iowans to consider prior purchasing any insurance on the marketplace:
Make sure your physician is in the network of the plan you are purchasing. Some plans in the marketplace are narrow network plans and you may need to locate a new physician if your current physician is not in the plan's network.
Make sure the drugs you need are covered if you require certain drugs for ongoing treatment. A qualified health plan is only required to cover one drug from each United States Pharmacopeia (USP) category. Individuals will have a right to appeal to get medically necessary drugs covered.
Understand the costs related to your plan. Depending upon the plan you purchase, the amount you will be required to pay for deductibles and coinsurance may vary.
Understand that you will not qualify for a tax credit if you have access to affordable minimum essential coverage through your employer. Affordable coverage is defined as 9.5% of your household income based upon the single employee's premium and coverage of 60% of your insurance costs.
Tax credits are available only for plans purchased on the marketplace. You are not eligible for tax credits if you purchase insurance outside of the marketplace or if you continue on the health insurance plan you have currently.
Failure to obtain minimum essential coverage will subject you to a penalty based on a minimum flat rate or a percentage of your income, whichever is greater.
Medicare coverage is not impacted by these changes. You must still enroll for Medicare or supplemental insurance during the separate open enrollment held every year for those types of coverage.
All plans certified by the Division will be available on www.healthcare.gov on October 1st and will meet the definition of minimum essential coverage. The federal number to call for assistance is 800-318-2596.
Be wary of fraud. There may be more opportunities for bad actors to steal identities or promote non-existent or minimal coverage plans as qualified health plans meeting new health plan standards. Use a licensed agent or broker or work with a navigator.


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WELLESLEY, Mass.—Connor Berto scored 5:17 into the third period to give #7/8 Babson College (21-4-2) a 3-2 lead, and the host Beavers hung on to down #13/15 UMass Boston (17-6-4) 4-2 Saturday evening in the ECAC East Semifinals.
UMass Boston's campaign came to an end for the second-straight season at the hands of the Beavers, as the defending ECAC East Tournament champions defeated UMass Boston 4-3 last season in the ECAC East Semifinals.
The contest marked the final collegiate contests for seniors Mark Grinhaus (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Cam Harvey (Bow, N.H.) and Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.).
After falling behind 1-0 and 2-1 in the first two periods, Babson scored a pair of power-play goals in the third period to earn their fourth-straight win over the Beacons, and third this year.
Stephen Buco (North Providence, R.I.) and Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.) each scored for the Beacons, while Mike Kuhn (Holbrook, Mass.) and Grinhaus were credited with assists.
Sophomore goaltender Billy Faust (Alta Loma, Calif.) stopped 30 of 33 shots for UMass Boston, before being pulled with 1:08 to play.
Four different Beavers scored in the victory led by seniors Nik Tasiopolous, Pat Guerriero and Berto. Matt Furey added two assists for Babson, who moved to 13-0-1 this season at the Babson Skating Center.
ECAC East Goaltender of the Year Jamie Murray stopped 25 of 27 shots on the night, including all nine shots he faced in the third period.
UMass Boston struck for the first tally of the night when Buco fired home a shot off a Kuhn feed just 3:56 into the contest. After failing to score on a pair of power-play opportunities, the Beavers tied the score at 1-1, when Guerriero tipped home Furey's shot at 12:56 of the period.
The Beacons jumped on the Beavers early in the second period as well, as MacIntyre struck for his team-leading 18th tally of the year at 1:23 of the second. With the face-off coming in the right dot, Grinhaus won the face-off right back to MacIntyre, who fired home a shot to the near-side.
Babson evened the score at two at the 10:10 mark of the period on a Max Franklin goal. The sophomore tipped home Tim Searles' shot to tie the game just over midway through the contest.
After a tense five minutes to open the third period, Berto gave Babson their first and only lead of the night on a power-play goal. With less than a minute to go on a Beavers' power-play, Berto blasted a shot past Faust. Shayne Anderson and Ryan Heavery recorded assists on the play.
The Beacons immediately picked up their play after allowing the goal, as they sent three shots on Murray in the next minute of action, only to have the sophomore goalie stop all three.
UMass Boston earned their best chance to tie the contest midway through the stanza when they picked up back-to-back power-plays. Bucco nearly tied the game at 11:47 of the period, when his hard shot from the blue-line hit the crossbar, but Murray managed to corral the rebound, despite never seeing the shot.
The Beacons continued to fire a barrage of shots on Murray, but couldn't solve the nation's-leader in save percentage.
Babson finally put the Beacons' away with 19:34 to go after Bucco was sent to the box for elbowing. With the net empty and UMass Boston forced to play 5-on-5 instead of having the extra-attacker, Tasiopolous sent a back-hand shot past a Beacons' defenseman to make it 4-2 with 26 seconds to play.
The Beavers will head to Northfield, Vermont next Saturday for a rematch of last year's ECAC East Tournament Championship Game against top-seeded Norwich University.


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Shiney is about 13 years old. He is the surviving one of a pair of Lilac Point kitties that my sister had. She died in 2006 and Pyka, the one cat, was sadly euthanised due to cancer just over a year later. :(
Shiney went to the vet today as he became lethargic and quiet yesterday afternoon. He hadn't eaten or drank much, and hadn't used his litter box - or any other part of the house.
Today he had a urine sample taken and two blood panels. He got sub-q fluids and a vitamin B shot. Results will be in tomorrow.
When Mom got Shiney home she fed him and he just gobbled the food right up. He's sleeping right now.
Would sure appreciate some good thoughts and prayers that whatever Shiney has is very treatable.


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Booktrack Adds Customized Playlists to E-Books
"If you listen to music while you read, chances are the sounds and words don't match up.
But what if you could use one to augment the other, adding ambient sounds to your favorite book to turn it into a cinematic experience? Booktrack is a digital publishing tool that reinvented itself as a DIY platform for bloggers, artists and writers to self-publish their work with synchronized soundtracks. Writers can embed songs from a catalogue of 20,000 licensed audio files, adding mood music, ambient audio and sound effects to play in tune with story lines, paced to a user's reading speed." (via Mashable)


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|Find out how it feels to be homeless Nov. 16-18
|Written by George Browning
|Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:00
Exit 0 and Park Memorial United Methodist Church
Join Exit 0 and Park Memorial United Methodist Church on November 16-18 to find out.
On Friday, November 16, 2012 the church and Exit 0 will be home to a Cardboard City – a two-night youth & adult event – to raise money and awareness for both the homeless in the community and the work being done by Exit 0.
Families are also welcome!
How will the money be raised?
Participants will raise a minimum of $50; families raise $75. Ask your family and friends or Local Businesses for donations to sponsor your night at Cardboard City, just as you would for a walkathon.
Paul Stensrud, who along with his wife Michelle, run Exit 0, said the event is to raise awareness for homelessness and also show people, particularly at a young age, what it is like to be homeless.
"This isn't going to be an easy weekend as far as living conditions," Stensrud said. "We want everyone who participates to see and experience what the homeless in our community do on a daily basis."
Stensrud said those who attend will also be helping to clean up some of the homeless camps in the area.
All money raised goes towards Exit 0 Ministry. (Sponsorship's Available)
Exit 0 provides food and case management services to homeless families with children, partnering with churches, volunteers and social service agencies. This event will change your thinking or maybe your life regarding homelessness.
Stensrud said while those attending are encouraged to raise $50 a person, he doesn't want finances to be an obstacle.
"We think $50 is an easy amount, each person who collects only needs five sponsors at $10 each," he said. "That will cover their (cardboard house) lodging and food while they are there."
Stensrud said organizers chose to make it a three-day event because it will provide a better feel of what living on the streets feels like.
"Anyone can make it for one day, but doing it over a weekend gives it a more real feel," he said. "Being in the elements, not being able to shower when they want to, all of that is designed to show what the homeless experience every day."
The following are answers to questions that are likely to come up.
What is the registration deadline? Monday, November 12! RSVP by 11/12 but keep raising the money until the day of the event!
What about food? Food will be provided by Exit 0 Ministry. Food restrictions will need to be stated on the registration form.
What about security? Security will be onsite at all times.
What do the youth groups need to provide for themselves? Tents (if you prefer not to build with cardboard) or materials to create the home with cardboard (cardboard boxes, duct tape, etc.) and the 1 to 5 ratio! Also DRESS
FOR THE WEATHER we are homeless and will be outdoors for the weekend. Sturdy boots or shoes are suggested.
What else can I bring? Any items brought in must fit in a backpack except sleeping bag/pillow. (We suggest that you bring Adult size sleeping bags and if you are able to donate the sleeping bag to the ministry this would be great).
What about electronics? We would encourage you to not bring valuable personal property. Remember, we're homeless for 2 nights!
Can I bring my teddy bear for protection and supervision? Okay, but each group needs to bring enough adults to provide the 1 adult to 5 youth ratio.
For more information, or to RSVP a spot for your youth group, call Stensrud at 502-541-2353.


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Last fall's General Strike in Oakland was a historic event, as thousands of Bay Area residents converged on downtown from the very start of the day. Protesters ruled the town and police were relatively hands off until the evening.
Today, a fraction of that crowd - several hundred at its peak - has attempted to shut down the town, while police have been more aggressive.
A few minutes ago, I was going to file a story for Truthout about how this morning's fierce but relatively small Oakland march felt like far less of a "general strike" than that warm November day. But that was a few minutes ago, and things change fast here. As I write this, about 100 police are ordering several hundred Occupy Oakland May Day marchers to get out of the streets and onto the sidewalks. They've fired tear gas and flash bang grenades to disperse the crowd that converged when a small squad of police moved swiftly and aggressively into the march to detain one protester who was on a bike.
There was talk of last night's anti-capitalist march in San Francisco "setting the tone" for the rest of the Bay Area's May Day to come, but things started slow in Oakland this morning. Occupy had organized three "strike stations" around the city: one for anti-gentrification actions; one for anti-capitalist actions; and one for anti-patriarchal actions, to protest and shut down Oakland's Child Protective Services (CPS). Crowds of five turned into crowds of 100. Anti-capitalist marchers shut down a Bank of America and Wells Fargo. One protester, Zachary Frasier, wrote "Love > Money" in blue-green chalk on the Wells Fargo brick facade, and was quickly detained by police. The crowd chanted for his release, and police finally let him go.
It was an auspicious start to the day - the first arrest, undone! - and the crowd continued to march in high spirits. Not long after, Amtrak police in an off-road "Arctic cat" vehicle ran up on protesters on the sidewalk, running over and destroying one person's bike in the process.
But marches continued, lurching and pausing around Oakland throughout the morning, meeting up with one another at various points to raucous chants and drumming.
"It went amazingly well," said Oakland Occupy Patriarchy's Michael Clemmons of the action on CPS, where 150 to 200 protesters converged for a speak out on child protective services and foster care.
On the anti-capitalist march several blocks north, Gricelda Gutierrez, a member of Occupy Oakland's Tactical Action Committee, grinned and gripped her trash-can as she told me: "It's wonderful. It's so wonderful." Nearby, some protesters wore masks and carried corrugated metal shields past several banks. One shield read: "Gender Strike." Throughout the morning and into the early afternoon, protesters chanted, "A! Anti! Anticapitalista!" and anti-police slogans when they came upon riot squads throughout the city.
"I think there's a lot of good energy, and a lot of young people out," said Andrew Kenower. "I wish there were more people out, but I think it will pick up later in the day. It seems like the more we march, the more it grows." We passed banks where protesters pounded on windows, but didn't break them. One group tore into a Bank of the West while Michael Jackson's "Beat It" blasted from a rolling sound system on the street. "I think people have been pretty restrained," said Kenower of the crowd and its lack of, as Oakland calls it, "smashy smashy."
Just then we turned down Broadway. Two minutes later, the police were running into the march; five minutes after that, the first flash bang went off. There was at least one arrest and one head injury in the ensuing melee. Protesters pushed police a couple blocks north, where they finally backed off the crowd, who remained in the streets.
A taste of what is to come: Oakland is just getting started. But though it's early for the tear gas, the flash bangs, and the bloody head beatings, police favoring targeted arrests over their past attempts at kettling large groups of protesters could mean today's actions may end differently than November 2 or January 28's failed "Move In Day."
A large march from east to downtown Oakland is planned for 3 p.m., to arrive at city hall plaza at 6 p.m., where the Occupy Oakland camp once stood. Across the bay in San Francisco, occupiers will be converging in a 2 p.m. march on the new SF Commune at an as-of-yet undisclosed location.


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STATE COLLEGE – How do meteorologists figure out who will be getting snow when there's no clear answer?
AccuWeather forecasters usually look at two or three models when making a forecast, but there are dozens of models from which to choose. Meteorologists look for consistency in the forecast models. They're more confident when models give similar forecasts over time.
The GFS is "just one tool," AccuWeather meteorologist Meghan Evans said. "We can compare that to other forecast models, like the European."
Why can't forecasters just pick one model?
"Each of the computer models handle the atmosphere slightly differently– different rules, different physics, different data points– so they come out with different answers," AccuWeather forecasting legend Elliot Abrams said. "One problem with the models is, even though one model may handle today's storm better than another model, there's no assurance it will handle the next one better."
Computer models aren't a meteorologist's only tools.
"We can also look at general [weather] patterns," Evans said, "like whether blocking will be set up, which means cold shots could reach parts of the Midwest and Northeast."
For example, five days out from a possible storm in the Northeast, meteorologists have a good idea of general areas that may get snow for the predicted Christmas Eve storm.
"Once the storm starts to form," Abrams said, "we'll probably see the computer models start converging on what will turn out to be the right answer, but we're not there yet."


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The Future of Ethernet: Traditional Ethernet vs. Ethernet Fabric
Compared to classic hierarchical Ethernet architectures, Ethernet fabrics provide the higher levels of performance, utilization, availability and simplicity required to meet the business needs of data centers today and into the future.
Data center networks rely on Ethernet. It has evolved as new application architectures have emerged. Data center networks carry traffic for many applications, each with different traffic patterns and network service requirements. Ethernet can be used to build shared storage pools which place demands on networks including lossless packet delivery, deterministic latency and high bandwidth. These changes are driving the evolution in Ethernet networks: the Ethernet fabric.


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Finding the Best Masonry contractor
A Masonry contractor who follows in the footsteps of many in the Masonry trade has been in existence for many years, as evidenced by some of the oldest homes and structures existing around the globe. It is therefore unwise to talk of success in the masonry trade without giving credit to a Masonry contractor who is at the center of this trade.
Simply put, a Masonry contractor is a tradesman with vast experience in a number of building and construction techniques. They build and maintain structures using a variety of material such as stone, brick, concrete and stucco.
The need for a Masonry contractor
One will usually engage a Masonry contractor whenever expert construction work is required and professionalism needs to be highly upheld. The task at hand might be as simple as repairing on old walkway, but the manner in which it is to be done is what defines the need for a Masonry contractor. This is usually dictated by the scope of work, the time allocated on the project, the quality and the overall costs among other factors.
Choosing the best Masonry contractor
Choosing a Masonry contractor can be a daunting task especially if one is not experienced in this trade. Many people make the mistake of going with a Masonry contractor who places the lowest bid, and they end up compromising on the project deliverables. You do not have to worry anymore because here are some tips to help you out with getting a quality Masonry contractor:
Gather enough information
Gathering information in depth about your intended project, its scope and specific requirements will go a long way forming the best decision about the type of Masonry contractor you will engage. The internet will come in handy at this stage, and you can browse through online forums as well as Masonry contractor sites in order to choose appropriately.
Ask for referrals about a Masonry Contractor
Your friends, coworkers and family will come in handy in giving referrals about the best Masonry contractor they have engaged before. This can be a good starting point since you will have narrowed down the number within your consideration.
Look out for the necessary certifications
You may also want to ensure that the Masonry contractor you are engaging has the necessary industry certification so as to avert any future problems.
Check for reputation and experience
You can rely on other players in this field such as supply stores, consultants and vendors to give their opinions about the reputation of a Masonry contractor that you want to engage with. You can also check out online reviews but give caution to comments from anonymous people. Masonry is an art in itself, so be sure to look out for experience and the capability of the Masonry contractor to deliver on the project.
Choose a Masonry contractor that has insurance
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Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who has been President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of Cuba since 2008; he previously exercised presidential powers in an acting capacity from 2006 to 2008. Raúl Castro was a rebel commander during the 1950s; after his older brother, Fidel Castro, took power, Raúl Castro was one of the most important figures in the new regime, serving as Minister of the Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008. As President, he is Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces (Army, Navy, and Air Force) and has also been First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) since 2011.
On 31 July 2006, Raúl Castro was designated as the President of the Council of State in a temporary transfer of power due to Fidel Castro's illness. According to the Cuban Constitution of 1976, Article 94, the First Vice President of the Council of State assumes presidential duties upon the illness or death of the president.
Raúl Castro was officially elected as President by the National Assembly on 24 February 2008, after Fidel Castro, who was still ailing, announced his intention not to stand for President again on 19 February 2008.


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By Peggy Aulisio
By Peggy Aulisio
FAIRHAVEN — Options for Rogers and Oxford Schools were discussed Dec. 6 by the Rogers/Oxford School Committee, but Chairman Brian K. Bowcock said there is little they can do until the school department decides whether to declare the schools surplus.
Pamela Kuechler, chairman of the School Committee, said it hasn't focused on the two buildings yet, although ideas have come up at some meetings. Ms. Kuechler also serves on the Rogers/Oxford committee.
Although Paul Kitchen, business manager for Fairhaven Public Schools, was on the agenda, he arrived an hour after the meeting started last Thursday.
When he arrived, Mr. Kitchen was asked about a school department request for $40,000 in Community Preservation Act funds for a feasibility study of Rogers School.
Earlier, Ted Lorentzen said if the school department is doing a study, it must be planning to keep Rogers, perhaps moving the administration offices there.
Rogers/Oxford committee members also questioned why a feasibility study was needed when they have been done at Rogers, including as part of the decision-making on whether to build a new elementary at the Wood School site or do a renovation/addition at Rogers. The condition of Rogers was a big reason committee members gave for choosing the Wood School site.
Mr. Kitchen said the school department has to do a new feasibility study on Rogers before applying for state grants for historic preservation. He said while Rogers has multiple structural issues, including loose bricks, needed roof repairs and windows that need replacing, Oxford's main problem is the boiler.
Without going into specifics, Mr. Kitchen acknowledged that some possible uses have been discussed for the school buildings.
Some Rogers/Oxford Committee members have expressed frustration with the paucity of meetings since the committee was formed. They seemed anxious last Thursday to move forward and discuss their ideas.
Mr. Bowcock said he has ideas of his own, but that he did not want to offer them yet. He said he wants the committee to come up with its proposals first and come to a consensus.
As for the timeframe, Mr. Bowcock said he doesn't "envision an article at Town Meeting until 2014."
Mr. Bowcock said the Finance Committee may balk at borrowing money for a debt exclusion for re-purposing one or both of the old school buildings.
"We will have to convince the rest of the town that it's worthwhile to preserve these buildings," he said.
Also at the meeting was architect Joseph Booth, whom Mr. Bowcock invited. Mr. Booth has worked on two former elementary schools in New Bedford, Ingraham and Campbell, that were converted to other uses.
Committee member Karen Vilandry said it would be in keeping with benefactor Henry Huttleston Rogers's wishes for his namesake school to be used for education. She suggested this could be as a school for gifted children or in collaboration with a local college.
But Mr. Booth said it would be easier to get state funding for affordable housing and to do a public/private partnership than for the town to undertake such projects on its own.
"You won't get money from the state for Rogers as a school or administration building," he said.
The architect said investors would be interested in converting the buildings to housing if they get a deal on acquiring them. He said there is a great need for veterans housing.
Another committee member said the Council on Aging has outgrown its space and needs to expand its Social Day Care program. She asked about making one of the buildings multipurpose instead of limiting it to one function.


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Welcome to Challenge 128
Anything Goes {plus a sentiment!}
Mar 26- Apr 7, 2015
Quick NOTE: Julie posted the winners from our last challenge last night,
so if you want to see some talent - [or see if you won!] -
Here is your Thursday
created by Ginny H from our Design Team!
You are welcome to copy and paste any or all of the sentiments for your personal use. Please give credit to Ginny H if you use her word art. Everyone loves a little feedback... leave a comment for her to acknowledge her time and effort?
She would love that!
I have linked her name above to her website.
Come back next week for another FREEBIE!
To keep you motivated, our 2nd team will provide even more inspiration at the mid challenge post next Thursday!
Our teammates are using images provided by Lacy Sunshine Stamps who is pairing up with us to sponsor this challenge. They are also generously offering a prize for the winner of this challenge!! If you see an image you like or if you want to shop around in their catalog of images, you can click on their name to go directly to their shop.
Julie from Julie's Crafty Spot
NanaConnie from Grammy's Attic
using Veronica Pin Up Girl
using Veronica Pin Up Girl
Sandy from Sandy's Creations
using Myrtle's Kite
Billie from Ink on My Fingersusing Eleanor Hula Hoop
Ginny H from As I do Rodos
using Daisy Ann
It's obvious this team is sick of winter and ready to break out the Spring themes! So pick up the challenge and show us where your creative spirit is going this week - Anything Goes - just don't forget your sentiment!
Quick Summary of Rules
1) As you might guess from our name - we require a SENTIMENT! Your sentiment needs to be appropriate for the theme/challenge. That's it. You are not required to use anything specific, just the sentiment. If you make a card and put the sentiment on the inside instead of the front, you need to include a picture [in your blog post] that shows us the sentiment.
2) You may submit up to 5 projects and enter as many other challenges as you like.
3)Other details regarding our challenges can be found by going to the tab titled "Challenge Rules" at the top of the page.
Challenge # 128- "Anything Goes" {plus a Sentiment}
runs till 10:00pm CST on Tuesday, Apr 7, 2015


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Submission + - Microsoft to bring full Internet Explorer browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect contr (theverge.com)
TheGift73 writes: "Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to our sources. The Xbox 360 currently includes Bing voice search, but it's limited to media results. Microsoft's new Internet Explorer browser for Xbox will expand on this functionality to open up a full browser for the console. We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms."


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Colleges of Arts & Sciences Presents Downtown Speakers Program
Series of free presentations for the downtown business community to highlight UH Manoa faculty and researchUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Colleges of Arts & Sciences
Tamara Goldbogen, (808) 956-5790
Colleges of Arts & Sciences
Members of the community are invited to attend a series of free presentations especially planned for the downtown business community. Sponsored by the Colleges of Arts & Sciences of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the presentations will feature some of their most stimulating faculty members.
It is a brown-bag event so attendees are invited to bring their lunches. These fascinating talks will be held from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the meeting rooms of Hawaiian Electric Industries on the 8th floor of the American Savings Bank Tower (formerly the Pacific Tower) in Bishop Square, 180 S. King Street.
The schedule for the first several programs and their descriptions follow:
January 8, 2004 - "The Health of Hawaii's Coral Reefs: A State-University Partnership," Dr. Michael Hamnett, Director of the Social Sciences Research Institute. Are Hawaii's reefs in trouble? A degraded coastal reef can spell disaster for those who depend on it for their livelihood, as well as for our overall local lifestyle. A recent study indicates reefs generate about $800 million each year in gross revenues. The Hawai'i Coral Reef Initiative Research Program is a collaborative research and monitoring program that provides much-needed current data for managing the coral reefs.
February 12, 2004 - "Princess Di of the North: Rethinking Catherine the Great," Dr. Ruth Dawson, Professor of Women's Studies and author, lecturer, and researcher. Catherine II was a person of no importance until she conducted a spectacular and bloodless coup against her husband that brought her to the Russian throne for 35 years. The world followed the tale of the princess in St. Petersburg with a degree of awe that turned the new tsarina into a celebrity on the scale of Princess Diana. How and why could that happen in the 18th century-without CNN or People? What have the consequences been for the reputation of the richest and most powerful woman in history? What does it mean for our understanding of celebrity today?
March 11, 2004 - "Angkor Wat - the World's Largest Temple and UH Adventures in the Kingdom of Cambodia," Dr. P. Bion Griffin, Associate Dean and Professor of Anthropology. The University of Hawaii is the only American university substantially assisting in the reconstruction of Cambodia, following three decades of war and destruction. This talk will cover the exciting work of our scholars and take us on a tour of the fabulous temple ruins and monuments that culminated in the world's largest religious structure, Angkor Wat. We will also see the capital of the empire's greatest king, Jayavarman II, in Angkor Thom.
April 8, 2004 - "Mummy Talks: The Egyptian Mummy Project," Dr. Robert Littman, Professor of Classics and teacher of ancient Egyptian language. The ancient Egyptians had a preoccupation with life after death that resulted in the pyramids, great funerary palaces and tombs of Egypt. These monuments have preserved Egyptian culture and history for us. Dr. Littman will discuss his current excavation project in Egypt, medical studies of the Royal Mummies of Egypt, which include the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, such as Ramses the Great and Tutankamun.
May 13, 2004 - "Neutrino Studies at UH: From Uncovering Secrets of the Universe to Use in National Defense," Dr. John G. Learned, Professor of Physics and Astronomy. The UHM Neutrino Group has been involved in the study of the elusive neutrino, from nuclear energies to the highest energies seen in the universe. The Group has participated in the discovery that these light particles do have some mass and play important roles in cosmology and supernovae. It has projects going on in Hawaii, Japan and Antarctica, from deep mines to the top of the atmosphere, and plays a lead role in these projects. Long range studies also involve the use of neutrinos in futuristic national defense initiatives.
For more information, please call the Office of Community and Alumni Relations, Colleges of Arts & Sciences, 956-5790.


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U.S. News
FDA Panel Backs Glaxo Cervical Cancer Vaccine
September 14, 2009
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A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has said GlaxoSmithKline's human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cervarix is safe and effective for females ages 10-25. The committee voted 11-1 in favor of Cervarix's safety and 12-1 in support of its efficacy. FDA typically follows its expert panels' recommendations.
Some advisers called for monitoring of miscarriages, which were reported at a higher rate around the time of Cervarix vaccination compared with a control group given hepatitis A shots, while others urged tracking of muscle and neurological problems reported in a small number of patients.
"The data we have seen are reassuring," said panel member Dr. Lisa Rider of the National Institutes of Health. However, "I think we do need very strong post-marketing studies" of autoimmune conditions that could cause neurological problems, she added.
Glaxo said Cervarix's approval could come as early as this month. It would compete with Merck & Co.'s HPV vaccine Gardasil, which won FDA clearance in 2006. Though Cervarix is already approved for use in 98 countries, Glaxo's initial application for sale in the US market stalled in 2007. Both vaccines are designed to protect against strains of the STD that are responsible for the majority of cervical cancer cases. Gardasil also targets two other HPV strains that cause genital warts.
Glaxo pledged that it would track potential complications and miscarriages after FDA approval.
09.09.2009; Lisa Richwine
This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.


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More than 100 participants gathered at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Longmont on Friday morning for the annual Good Friday procession.
George Thierjung, a deacon at St. Francis of Assisi, led participants on the first leg of the 15th annual walk, carrying a 10-foot cross that church members made in 2003.
At 8 a.m., participants began the 5-mile walk that takes them southwest across Longmont toward St. Francis. The event commemorates Jesus carrying the cross to the place of his crucifixion.
Participants took turns carrying the large cross at the front of the procession throughout the walk,which will likely take about 3 ½ hours due to frequent stops for prayer and a slow pace.
The group will follow a similar route to last year's walk, which was extended an additional 1 ½ miles from the previous route, taking a detour to avoid the flood-damaged greenway.
Instead, the group will follow Boston Avenue toward Twin Peaks Mall, where additional participants will join the walk around 9:45 a.m.
Rhonda Pardoe, one of the procession organizers, said the detour is not expected to add additional distance or time to the walk. The group will stop to pray at Willow Farm Park instead of on the greenway.
"It doesn't matter what the route is," Pardoe said. "We hope that people are focused on spiritual reflection and remembrance."
Contact Times-Call community reporter Whitney Bryen at 303-684-5274 or email@example.com


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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Why doesn't the American College of Physicians just merge with AAFP and get it over with?
2 comments:
- Michael Kirsch, M.D. said...
I don't think that internal medicine is going over a cliff yet. The ACP is trying to advocate for its members, like every other medical specialty society. Although I am a specialist whose interests conflict with ACP, I still belong to the latter because I think the organization an important voice for the public and the profession. www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com
Well, I love the field of internal medicine and can see the decline in this specialty in my country ( I'm from India) and appreciate your pain. People seem to be forgetting that IM is a specialty--in itself. For many it's a stepping stone to careers in one of the many specialties.
A couple of years Dr. Nancy Lee Haris wrote this in NEJM when taking over as the editor of Case Records of Massachusetts General Hospital
" Now, at the turn of the 21st century, advances in diagnostic techniques mean that very few cases are real diagnostic mysteries. Furthermore, advances in treatment methods mean that physicians are now more focused on formulating appropriate treatment plans than they are on formulating differential diagnoses. These changes in the practice of medicine mean that cases involving diagnostic mysteries suitable for the traditional CPCs are becoming more and more esoteric and less relevant to practice."
Is the illusion that there is nothing that can't be diagnosed with technology going to knock down this specialty ? Or, following computer printed protocols be an extension of evidence based medicine ?


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Join KLRU's Overheard with Evan Smith for a conversation with Howard Dean on Friday, November 12, at 4 pm in KLRU Studio 6A (map ). Doors open at 3:30 pm. Please RSVP HERE to ensure admittance. This program will air on November 18 at 7 pm on KLRU.
Dean was just launching his medical career when he ran for the Vermont Legislature, spending time as a state representative before becoming lieutenant governor. That job led to six terms as Governor of Vermont, followed by a run for the Democractic presidential nomination in 2004 and four years as head of the DNC. Dean's use of the Internet in 2004 paved the way for other campaigns that have followed. And he's found success as the head of a million-member PAC. With the midterms behind us and big changes ahead, Dean shares his take on recent events and his strategy for the future.
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As the sun sets Friday, a caravan of about 180 new Mercedes-Benz vehicles will head west on Mason Avenue to their new home at the Daytona International Auto Mall.
DAYTONA BEACH — As the sun sets Friday, a caravan of about 180 new Mercedes-Benz vehicles will head west on Mason Avenue to their new home at the Daytona International Auto Mall.
It's all part of the relocation of Mercedes-Benz of Daytona from 1720 Mason Ave. to a new facility at 1188 N. Tomoka Farms Road, located at the south end of the auto mall. Mercedes-Benz of Daytona will open Saturday at the new location.
"The other store is outdated and a poor location," said Gary Yeomans, owner of Yeomans Ford Lincoln and Daytona Mazda dealerships at the auto mall. Yeomans and West Palm Beach-based Automotive Management Services bought the Mercedes–Benz dealership in January from Charlotte, N.C.-based Sonic Automotive.
"We did a market survey in Volusia and found that many people don't even know there is a Mercedes-Benz dealership in the county," Yeomans said. "There's a lot more visibility and higher traffic counts at the auto mall."
Daytona International Auto Mall opened in November 2001 at the Interstate-95 interchange with LPGA Boulevard. Mercedes-Benz will be the auto mall's 12th brand manufacturer. The five-acre lot and new building cost about $7 million, according to Yeomans.
"It's also a lot more convenient for the customers since it's easier to get to than Mason Avenue," Yeomans said. "The auto mall has great pull north and south, from St. Augustine to Mims in Brevard (County). The closest Mercedes-Benz dealers to us are in Jacksonville and Melbourne."
The new facility, built by Ormond Beach-based Strasser Construction, is much larger than the current location, including a 3,400-square-foot showroom that is twice the size of the old building. The five-acre site also permits the dealership to carry more new and used vehicles, Yeomans said.
Under the former owner, the dealership used to carry about 40 new vehicles. Yeomans beefed that up to 180 and wants to regularly carry 200 on the new lot at the auto mall.
"Mercedes-Benz is a hot brand right now and availability is a challenge," Yeomans said.
The dealership will begin moving vehicles to the new location Friday afternoon starting at about 3 p.m., with dealership employees driving about 10 vehicles at a time to the Auto Mall location.
Customers also will find a new customer service lounge, small restaurant, children's play area and customer work stations with computers at the new station.
The vehicle service area is tripled to 26 service bays. The area is also air conditioned and heated.
"It may not mean much to the customer, but it's important to the workers," Yeomans said.
The service department includes a smaller service group with mechanics dedicated to maintenance and repairs of older Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
There also will be more loaner cars for customers leaving their cars overnight at the shop. The dealership will have a vehicle hauler to pick up vehicles for maintenance.
Mercedes-Benz of Daytona is not the first to make the move from Mason Avenue to the auto mall.
Fields BMW and Volkswagen made the move in 2009 and will be neighbors to Mercedes-Benz. Fields Auto Group, which is based in Winter Park, moved the Daytona Beach operations from one building into two separate and existing buildings.
"The move was a great decision. We about doubled our traffic," said Bill Butler, general manager at Fields BMW and VW. "We welcome Mercedes. We were next to them for years and we match up well. I wish there were more dealers out here."
The group tried selling its Mason Avenue site, but ended up opening a collision repair center.
Yeomans said the 40 employees at Mercedes-Benz will make the move and he intends to hire 15 to 20 more employees as the business settles out in the coming months.
Capital Automotive in McLean, Va. owns the current Mercedes-Benz location. Company officials could not be reached for comment on the possible future of the property.


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"Do not let her win this time. You win by doing nothing." – Caroline Manzo (Episode 9)
"She got exactly what she wanted. She wanted everybody to say, 'See, mean girls. You see the mean girls? You see what I have to deal with?' And you gave it her." – Caroline Manzo (Episode 10)
The fight club scene of the Real Housewives of New Jersey aired last night and it definitely lived up to the hype. Perhaps this episode was a gift from Bravo, you know, for putting us through one of the most boring seasons ever of a housewives franchise.
I started watching the episode just ready to feel sorry for Danielle. I mean I just knew I would end up feeling sorry for Danielle, who after all was going to be attacked, oops I mean assaulted, by Ashley Holmes, but within the first 10 minutes of watching the show, I quickly realized that would not be the case. The reason? Well you're just going to have to read the recap 🙂
So the episode begins where Bravo left off 2 weeks ago, with the Danielle and Teresa conversation turned confrontation. I tried to give Teresa the benefit of the doubt two weeks ago, thinking she perhaps meant well in trying to talk to Danielle. But after watching the events that unfolded, it's pretty clear Teresa's intentions were to stir things up. Even Teresa herself admitted on WWH last night that Danielle had been going around town spreading rumors about her, and she intended to confront Danielle about those rumors.
The confrontation continues and evidently in New Jersey, Paterson to be exact, "Don't call me honey," are fighting words. Watching this scene made me see Teresa is a whole new different light. I always knew she wasn't the brightest bulb of the bunch, but her behavior made her appear extremely immature and downright moronic. The excessive head twisting and "Don't forget girlfriend, I'm from Paterson," comment was beyond ridic! Is this woman serious? Surely she jests.
Things take a turn for the worse when Danielle uses the F word. In case you're wondering, the F word stands for Foreclosure, at least when it comes to the housewives of Bravo. Danielle, perhaps referring to the foreclosure story that came out about the Giudices last year, tells Teresa her home is in foreclosure, and boy o boy, did she unleash the kraken! The truth foreclosure comment hit a major nerve with Teresa, and Danielle decides to start running for some odd reason. Really, why is Danielle running? Teresa, being the Paterson badass that she is decides to chase after Danielle.
Back to the foreclosure story. Danielle was actually correct, well sorta. A story came out last October stating Teresa and Joe's home was in foreclosure. It however turned out the foreclosure was for a property they owned and not for their mansion. What's even more interesting? Well according to police documents, this "fight scene" actually took place on November 11th. Just 2 weeks after Teresa and Joe filed for bankruptcy on October 29th. This might explain why Teresa went nuts with the comment. You know what they say, the truth hurts. This also makes me think the whole housewarming party took place sometime after the bankruptcy filing, yet before the Kim D fashion show, which if true, is quite unbelievable.
Now back to the show. I was certain I was going to feel sorry for Danielle because Teresa was the aggressor and instigator this go around. However, her over the top acting, antics, and just all around hysterics were extremely ridiculous. I mean seriously Danielle? When you think about it, there wasn't a change in Danielle's behavior and reaction before and after being attacked by Ashley. Teresa decides to pick an argument and that means she needed to take off running? I ask again, why was she running? She even had a bodyguard with her. Teresa and Jacqueline never touched her, so why the hysterics?
Well I'll tell you why. Danielle is a perpetual victim who relishes in playing the victim role. Some people aim to be survivors while others accept the victim role, and get very comfortable in it. Danielle is the later. And speaking of roles, did you know Danielle has an acting background? Yes, years before embarking on a porn career, Danielle was an actress and even had a tiny role on the ABC soap – All My Children. Caroline said it best when she later told Teresa and Jacqueline, "She got exactly what she wanted. She wanted everybody to say, 'See, mean girls. You see the mean girls? You see what I have to deal with?' And you gave it her."
The best part of the show comes in the form of the random blonde lady for yelling out, "This is such f*cking bullsh*t," right into the cameras. Someone please get this woman a reality show asap!
Danielle is now outside and hysterically crying because having a co-star and former friend yell at you during an argument calls for hysterical crying. The third best part of the show comes when Kim G. tries to calm Danielle by yelling at her, "Calm down!" All that was missing from this scene was a calming slap across the face ala Airplane.


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Known for her caustic humor and rapier sharp wit, Stritch was an Emmy and Tony award-winning actress who, over the decades of her versatile career, reinvented herself many times, ending her life with a string of highly successful one-woman shows, one of which, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, won her a Tony in 2001. I had a chance to see Ms. Stritch on stage in that show and I will remember that experience fondly forever. She was a exceptionally powerful comedic voice and she will be greatly missed.
Check out these Elaine Stritch movies at the Niles Public Library:
Elaine Stritch at Liberty (DVD 792.7 E37)
Follies in Concert (DVD 782.14 F668)
Sondheim!: The Birthday Concert (DVD 782.14 S698bi)