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Hello all,
I'm new here and I figured for my first post that I would say hello and make a brief introduction about myself.
I have been self-learning Java as a hobby for about a year now but my ultimate goal is to become a professional software developer. I know that this will take dedication, devotion, and determination (or the 3 D's as my old high school coach liked to say) but I'm willing to put in the time to reach this goal.
At any rate, I was looking at the Getting Better At Programming (Java) topic and I have come to the realization that although I have been self-taught(don't worry I do use books and not just the internet ), I have a swiss cheese foundation. So in the meantime, I will be reviewing all of those concepts.
I also read here that I need to learn how to debug (amongst other things) so I found this.
My point is that the little bit of time I have been on DreamInCode so far, I have found so much information so I want to say thanks in advance to all of you contributors and to the DreamInCode staff for such a great site . Now, it's time to get to work. Have a great day you all and thanks for reading!
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 07:35 AM
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 07:40 AM
Curious question - where did you get that avatar icon? It's the sixth or seventh I've seen of that same sort of design.
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 07:58 AM
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 08:17 AM
Haha.. well that shows how often I change my photo... I thought it was some sort of new hip game.. derp-de-derp to me...
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What's fluffy, feathered and lives on a diet of live mice? Why, the new England manager, of course!
Yes, no sooner had Roy Hodgson been given the England job than a new internet meme had started. That meme being: 'Doesn't he look a bit like an owl?'.
And while it may not be Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch, we do think the pictures below (courtesy of Buzzfeed, and ourselves) are still jolly good, fluffy fun.
Congratulations on the new job, Roy. Just make sure you don't ruffle any feathers.

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Civic Optimism
Jacksonville voters have a brighter outlook
Jacksonville voters are more optimistic about civic matters, according to a poll by the University of North Florida's Department of Political Science and Public Administration. Among the reasons they cited: Budget cutting and a new administration.
approval rating for Mayor Alvin Brown, with 10% disapproval and 27% undecided
approval rating for Gov. Rick Scott, with 43% disapproval and more than 15% undecided
percentage of residents optimistic that the city is headed in the right direction; almost 18% were pessimistic; and 13% were undecided.
Source: University of North Florida Department of Political Science and Public Administration; the November poll had a margin of error of +/- 4.09%.


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Gas prices are rising and people filling up are wondering how high they will go.
Folks in New Bern Friday were filling up at a Shell station where the price of gas has gone up several cents this week, like other stations. And its not just New Bern. Residents in surrounding communities have been vocal on social media about the price increase.
According to gasbuddy.com, the average price of gasoline is $3.49. We saw it as high as $3.59 in Greenville.
You can access the gasbuddy.com site here on WITN by clicking on the lifestyles tab at the top of the homepage.


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Terminal Chaos 511
|Terminal Chaos: Why U.S. Air Travel Is Broken and How to Fix It
|George Donohue and Russell Shaver
|Amer Inst of Aeronautics
|Ben Rothke
|Fascinating look at the current state and problems with the US air traffic system
While the public perception in the US is that somewhere out there, government officials are looking out for passenger's rights, the reality is there is no one looking out for them. Unlike their European counterparts, air travelers in the US have very few rights. This lack of passenger advocacy along with the other reasons has a huge impact on the economy, in addition to the costs that flight delays and cancellations cost U.S. travelers, which are estimated annually at over $3 billion.
Terminal Chaos: Why U.S. Air Travel Is Broken and How to Fix It is a fascinating book. The authors show a number of ways to fix the current problems. While the book is part case-study, it is also part tragedy, given the tragedy is that Washington lacks anyone with the pragmatism, willpower and audacity to stand up to the unions and powers that be to fix the system. The book lays out in 7 concise chapters the problems, ringleaders, obstacles and challenges that brought us to the state that we are in today.
The authors sum it up best when they note that the distance from New York to Chicago is 635 nautical miles, and when flown by a piston-powered DC-6 with a cruise speed of 315 MPH over 50 years ago, the scheduled flight time was a little longer than two hours. Today, scheduled airlines fly Boeing 737 turbofans at 511 MPH, but book this as a 3-hour flight.
In chapter 4, the authors note that while some flight delays are the result of post-9/11 security issues, the main reason why flying has become so arduous is that the air transportation system, as it is now structured in the US, is untenable from a fundamental business point of view. The government regulated business model is unstable and irrational and planes are purposely overbooked, flights are cancelled for no publicly explainable reason, and no one will offer the flier a sound reason for why these events occur.
Both authors are professors at the Center for Air Transportation Systems research at George Mason University. The book quotes from research done there, which includes suggestions such as to use larger aircraft (something Continental is doing at Newark), along with other market mechanisms. Other research shows that slot exemption, weight-based landing fees and other issues combine to lead to inefficient use of airport capacity, especially as slot-controlled airports, such as O'Hare, Kennedy, Newark, LaGuardia and Atlanta.
In chapter 6, the authors take a no-holds barred approach to NATCA, which is the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. They view NATCA as a stumbling block to modernization, and an organization whose goal is to protect their members, over the public they are supposed to serve. They also question how NATCA gets away with constantly stating that the US air traffic control system is the safest in the world, when it is actually behind Europe when it comes to safety metrics (Europe has .032 hull losses per 1 million departures vs. .049 in North America).
Ultimately, the book notes that the air traffic control problems exist in the fact that there is a perfect storm of airlines, airports, government agencies (FAA, DOT, OMB, DHS), White House and Congress, all of which seem to believe that they don't have the responsibility to fix the problem. Each seems to be waiting for someone else to take charge.
Chapter 7 lists a number of practical ways in which the air traffic control system can be modernized. Some of the suggestions would require significant financial outlays; others simply require all of the parties involved to play nicely together.
Overall, Terminal Chaos is a landmark book, in that it cuts through the complexity of the air traffic mess, and clearly lays out the problem, and possible solutions.
It is a very well-written and extremely well-researched book. It does have a few slight errors. Most noticeably on page 73 when it says that Continental has been in and out of bankruptcy court, while the table on the next page shows that Continental has been out of bankruptcy court for over 15 years. Also, one of the travel tips the authors give is to have a traveler consider using a private aircraft out of smaller, less congested airports. That is indeed a good suggestion, albeit extremely costly, and not financially feasible for most of the flying public.
Terminal Chaos is a book that should be required reading for anyone involved in air traffic and aviation, from passengers to every employee at the FAA. The authors have innovative ideas that should be listened to and implemented; from holding the government decision-makers responsible, to realistic ways to modernizing the air traffic control system. The book is a fascinating overview of what goes on in the skies above us, and in the air traffic control towers around us.
Ben Rothke is the author of Computer Security: 20 Things Every Employee Should Know.
You can purchase Terminal Chaos: Why U.S. Air Travel Is Broken and How to Fix It from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.


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What does that come out to, about $300 for a severe bug? I thought Microsoft just paid out $100k for a Windows 8 flaw.
Basic QA should've caught this.
For all the times we suspected it, now we have proof that they were all spaced out!
"Filling out a text field with spaces" isn't something that usually gets tested. I can only imagine what kind of code flaw would cause this to work, but not some other set of characters.
My guess would be it was a debugging "feature" that someone forgot to turn off.
But filling up password fields with certain common characters probably IS something that should be tested, even if it wasn't standard before.
"Filling out a text field with spaces" isn't something that usually gets tested.
Which is why peer reviews of code changes are conducted at many places these days.
> isn't something that usually gets tested.
I bet it does now, and competent developers *do* test corner cases.
QA? This bug is way too stupid. It should never even have existed, unless it was intentional. I mean, imagine the code; there's no possible variation where you get this sort of bugs.
I'm sure the reason the reward was so paltry was because the rest of the reward went to cleaning the development team's underwear.
This smells more like a forgotten backdoor than an algorithmic flaw.... probably traceable in the commit log to the particular dev who put it in, and all the auditors who should have caught it, but didn't.
To put it in perspective, that $100K was for bypassing exploit mitigation features that cross all processes on the system, and would severely undermine Windows 8.1's security features. This one seems to require you to be standing in front of a specific console.
Still, what a stupid bug to have.
Sounds like a way to log in to any console, anywhere, at any time... but, the physical presence thing is some measure of containment. At least one five year old can't take down every machine on the planet at once.
Sure he can. Lock him up before he hacks the planet!
Not very long ago that comment would have made me chuckle at the sheer absurdity of tossing a 5 year old hacker into prison, with recent cases such as the one of Aaron Swartz in mind it only bring a disillusioned smile to my lips.
On a side note, seriously Microsoft! that was one fucking cheap ass reward you came up with there, couple of games and a one year subscription. Do you actually want people to report bugs to you or do you want to encourage them to find a higher bidder, in this case an Indian street
I found a flaw in skype that allowed the dumping of usernames from regional nodes. I could run it on multiple threads and dump literally as high as 2048 per second (never tried with more threads...) Finding the other regional nodes wasn't exactly difficult.
There are surprisingly dark uses for that ability.
They sent me an Xbox 360 (this was less than a week before the Xbox one launch) bundle (kinect), 2 games, an Xbox Live Card, and a researcher acknowledgement on Technet (same as this kid) for August of 2013..I'm one of the "individual" entries with no link.
I did get invited to bluehat as well which was absolutely incredible, but I paid for the flight, hotel (at a discounted rate, at the Westin, Seattle!), etc.
It was a f*cking awesome conference.
Skype isn't cover by their bug bounty program, so they said they had nothing they could do. I was pretty insistent that I really needed the money, because I really really needed the money. That was a brief period in my life of spam sandwiches and ramen.
I'm not complaining, but I am saying if something isn't covered by their bounty program you're not going to get money from it.
What were the details of the skype bug? I'm curious how you found it.
The last person who asked me that turned out to actually work with skype at bluehat. The whole team came over and THEN told me who they were -_-.
I was just looking for a table with people who weren't anti-social, and one of the people happened to work for skype. Very very friendly people by the way.
Basically I was trying to get into a friends machine (we were doing a mini CTF) and as a joke he gave me the IP to a skype regional node.
I fuzzed said regional node and started getting really weird responses. I was trying a port that was open (same port as oracle..7776 I think?) Eventually I figured out that an arbitrary 4 bytes would result in a response with a plaintext string at the bottom of the packet.
My first thought was that my friend was running a gameserver, botnet, chat room, or really just something..weird.
Eventually I figured out they were skype usernames. Complete accident that I stumbled upon it. I'm only mentioning the details here because A) Microsoft knows exactly how I found it B) It's patched.
I believe it would have actually have had use as a DDoS amplification platform. The responses sent back were 50-90x the size of the request.
They never told me why this worked. The first engineer I had talked to asked one of them if it was an edge case, and the other shook his head "no," and aaaalmost said what it was. Then he noticed I wasn't an MS employee and said he couldn't tell me that.
I actually submitted this story to slashdot, but it never got any comments, front page, etc.
Who takes shortcuts for code when you're developing a damned password entry system? I mean... really? When the sole purpose of the code is security, who goes "oh, whatever, we'll just match against whatever?"
I mean, it's not like hashing or string comparison are hard problems.
You'd be surprised. There's a LOT of bad security out there. Something this bad really takes the cake though.
You'd be surprised. There's a LOT of bad security out there.
Understatement of the day.
Some people would be shocked if they knew how many retailers offering free wifi don't change their router's login from default. I know I always am.
Which makes me appreciate all the thought that Slashdot put into its security. For example, did you know if you accidentally type your own password into a comment, it stars it out for you? Example:
Neat, huh?
Reminds me of that stupid urban legend about entering your pin at an ATM when under duress.. entering it backwards summons ze police.
What if your PIN is a palindrome?
Reminds me of that stupid urban legend about entering your pin at an ATM when under duress.. entering it backwards summons ze police.
What if your PIN is a palindrome?
Then you get your money and the police....
> What if your PIN is a palindrome?
you enter "emordnilap a"
I don't know who could get this wrong or how you could get this wrong.
Does it work if you have the same number of characters?
len(input) == len(password)?
input == password OR (len(input) == len(password) AND string_is_all_spaces(input))
You'd really have to go out of your way in a most bizarre manner to screw this up. I mean, this is like tell someone to make an omelette and they accidentally build a time-machine. What the heck were they doing here??
It's not that hard to do.
Basically could be
a) debug code for QA left in to bypass login
b) buffer overflow (off by one); and an exception thrown that was caught outside the password system; that exited back to the main run-time.
Testing that your code can actually handle the maximum number of characters allowable by the input field, is
I've personally crashed websites that don't restrcit the form input length on the password field. Apparently putting in 4096 character passers does ten
I bet it's due to a single equals sign.
if (password_retry = account_password) {...
personally im a huge fan of the way powershell does it--
* Comparison: $num1 -eq $num2
* Assignment: $num1 = $num2
Not just PS, that's a common pattern in many scripting languages, especially shell scripts. Microsoft picked from the best (there's a number of bash-isms in Powershell, for example) when writing that thing.
The compiler really *should* complain about assignment in a test statement, because it's a really common error to make. Or you can remove that option entirely (make assignments valueless statements, in which case that's a syntax error and won't compile at all) but then A) you're forking the languages, and
I wonder...
Either this is some developer/tester login thing.
Or the developer did something weird were he removed whitespace, and a "correct" match was found when the manipulated/tested string was length 0.
It almost has to be a deliberate backdoor for testing that someone forgot to take out. I can't imagine "Trim()ing as password. But then I couldn't have believed anyone would smash case on a password before I heard Blizzard did it. I guess there's nothing so stupid that we should rule it out.
But this is not a keyboard/computer password. Allowances are made for less effective input devices. If extra spaces are a common problem when using Xbox text input, no one would think twice about it. Also, it is possible they just did not allow whitespace in a password, so instead of a warning they just removed it at creation and use (so it would work even if they thought your password has a space in it).
All of which would be bugfuck insane from a security perspective, but after Bliz admitting their password are case insensitive, I'll believe anything.
My online banking passwords are case insensitive too. And both banks explicitly said it's intentional and they aren't changing it.
Then again, my Australian bank account is protected by a password which must be exactly 6 characters, case insensitive, and cannot contain special characters of any kind. Oh, and must be entered by clicking static buttons on the page.
But it only happens on the second attempt. That implies some state is being carried over. I find it hard to believe that even a drunken monkey could do that by accident.
... the matching algo checks for zero length strings *before* it strips out whitespace so lets this through. Once it has stripped out this whitespace it *then* has a zero length string but doesn't know it and then the rest of the algo fails due to it.
I'll bet it something stupid like:
hashed_pwd = strip(input_pwd);
for(*ptr = hashed_pwd;*ptr;++ptr)
if (hash char doesnt match) return BAD;
return MATCH;
The people who are waiting for you to develop secure password login libraries.
who goes "oh, whatever, we'll just match against whatever?"
As someone else suggested it's probably debug code that found its way into production. It's not a lack of skill problem it's a process problem, code reviews should have picked it up but obviously didn't, how it got as far as customers is the question MS should be asking.
I'm quite curious as to what sort of shortcut they took. I can't picture any sort of code that might end up with an issue as particular as this one.
Why is this criminal being celebrated rather than prosecuted for hacking into a protected computer system across state lines? The child is A FELON and must go to jail. The father acted as an accessory and should also be prosecuted.
If this were AT&T, the boy would be on his way to Gitmo by now.
But Microsoft, so
Hey, man, it's not like this is Pakistan... [yahoo.com]
You forgot to mention terrorism. No candy for you.
I bet every undergraduate CS Department in the country will want him.
Yeah, are you sick of that story of the Indian kid who got his CISSP at the age of 12? Well, here's a 5 year old with a published vulnerability!
That's nothing. I've discovered flaws using quantum random input fuzzing on URLs that amounted to keys pounded on by a six month old baby.
The trick is not to disclose who discovered the flaw and breeched the security unless the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is in play. If they come down on you, just point them to the private youtube video of an infant breeching their security and tell them it's only a matter of time before the babe randomly clicks the "make this video public" button.
Good question. I can't imagine the code that would generate this bug.
My guess is it's an algorithm that starts with the assumption that the password is correct until proven incorrect, and something in that algorithm is breaking, leaving the correct assumption to stand.
This is of course lazy programming, but not entirely uncommon.
It rather shows that Microsoft *still* does not review security-sensitive code properly. How this could have passed any code review is beyond me.
Either they are so incredibly sloppy and incompetent (do you really want to entrust them your credit card then?!) or this was intentional. I am not sure which one is actually worse
Returning a boolean for password good bad, when the API returns false/zero for no error and nonzero error code for error is plausible.
MSDN is full of API documentation where the return value is counter intuitive, until you really consider the intent of the operation. So it is not outside the realm of possibility. I have had such problems myself using win32.
I actually debugged code where my C# sample was converted to vb, and the return value of ValidateCredentials was checked incorrectly after the conversion
Apparently by entering an incorrect password in the first prompt and then filling the second field with spaces, a user can log in without knowing a password to an account.
That's interesting. Let's speculate a bit about the bug.
Do you have any theories how the login part of the Xbox One software was programmed which caused it to behave like that?
What is this "second password verification screen"? Was it secondary identification questions (like mother's maiden name) or the same password again? I don't have an Xbox, so I have no idea what that means.
Default allow. Other possibilities, but this seems most probable.
Valid = true
For each character
If mismatch, valid is false
Given ac reply, they may be using a forgiving algo because it is not an actual password. I get irritated at security questions like favorite author, because did I enter first name, initial, or just surname? I'm curious if it can be bypassed using substrings as well.
I would not be surprised to find a forgiving check being financially more favorable than support calls.
Fortunately the 5 years olds are easily bribed by a few games and an ice cream before they try to hack something more dangerous.
This sort of issue really instills a lot of confidence in the quality of that system *facepalm*.
Posting anonymous because I'm still afraid that pepsi goons will break down my door any minute now.
Quite a few years ago, I found that sombody had shown my preschooler that you could enter code numbers from inside the caps of pepsi products to get "free" merch.
He just started entering random numbers and characters until he found a pattern that worked every time. He thought that was the point! He spent hours at it and then proudly showed me that he'd "solved the puzzle" and Pepsi was going to send him truckloads of free stuff.
I quickly popped through a couple DHCPs on the cable modem and told him not to do that anymore.
How in God's green tarnation does somebody manage to produce a bug like that?
There's a post above by user Viol8 that gives a pretty plausible explanation.
I guess their team of advisors is incomplete:
http://www.eviloverlord.com/li... [eviloverlord.com]
"12. One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation."
"60. My five-year-old child advisor will also be asked to decipher any code I am thinking of using. If he breaks the code in under 30 seconds, it will not be used. Note: this also applies to passwords."
Perhaps Microsoft doesn't consider itself evil? Lots of people no longer do. At least they followed rule 32 in this case.
I have a "backdoor" branch on some of my git repos. After I merge the working branch into "master" I merge "master" into "backdoor". This allows me to keep backdoors out of the public distributable / viewable code which makes it into releases. The ease of in-place branch and merge in Git is one of its greatest strengths IMO. Even if I accidentally push the "backdoor" code to the public build system, it builds from a "main" branch and doesn't introduce the testing backdoors into the binaries.
This is more easily handled in Mercurial's queues system. You can keep a bunch of patches in a queue like that, and those patches will just be magically applied. It's pretty useful for a whole lot of situations.
...but they were gracious about it. Microsoft surprise!
That right there should be a serious warning to anyone using or considering Microsoft products.
From TFA:
It's not the first time Kristoffer has flashed his tech skills.
"He's figured out vulnerabilities 3 or 4 times," said Davies.
At age 1, Kristoffer got past the toddler lock screen on a cell phone by holding down the home key.
That entry on the list is worth more than them combined. Just think when li'l Krissy is looking for a job in ITSEC two decades from now and when asked for "how long he's been in the business", he'll be the first person in history to be able to fulfill the usual "no older than 25 with at least 20 years of experience" requirement.
A child will find bugs than an adult will miss, because an adult will only do reasonable things, while kids will try things that don't really make sense. Developers sometimes use little programs that just click things at random to try to catch these kinds of weird bugs, sometimes called "monkey testing."
Loose bits sink chips.


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May 7, 2013 > Home Invasion
The Newark Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in identifying the suspect(s) in a violent crime committed on May 3, 2013. At 10:15 a.m., Officers responded to Marsten Dr. to investigate an interrupted residential burglary. The suspect, a Black Male Adult, 20 to 25 years, 6'0" to 6'1", medium complexion, thin build, short brown hair, hazel or green eyes, wearing a green/white camouflage baseball cap, green/white camouflage jacket dark colored baggy pants, and believed to be possibly carrying a non-descriptive backpack, entered the residence through a rear yard window.He confronted the victim while she was asleep in her upstairs bedroom, where he forced her to a bathroom and shut the door, holding it closed to prevent her escape. The victim pulled the door back open, where the suspect, who was outside of the door, struck her in the face with a closed fist before fleeing out of the front door. The suspect was last seen running E/B on Central Ave., toward Cedar Blvd. During the investigation it was determined a possible second suspect was seen by a witness prior to the burglary. He is described as a Black Male Adult, dark complexion, 6'1" to 6'3", approx. 190 lbs., a "buzz" cut, no clothing description was available. Any person with any information concerning these incidents can contact the non-emergency line at 510-578-4237. Information can also be left anonymously on the "silent witness" hotline at 510-578-4000, extension 500.


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Rob Reiner has started shooting his film "And So It Goes..." with Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton in Stamford, Conn., producers said.
The film marks the first time Douglas and Keaton have appeared on-screen together. Reiner previously collaborated with Douglas on the hit 1995 film "The American President."
Joining the cast in a pivotal supporting role is Sterling Jerins, a young actress who will soon be seen in the movies "The Conjuring" and "World War Z."
"Oren is a self-centered real-estate agent who couldn't care less about anyone else," said a synopsis of "And So It Goes..."
"But Oren's life is turned upside down when his estranged son suddenly drops off a granddaughter he never knew. Now, with the help of his determined and loveable neighbor, Leah, Oren stubbornly learns to care, and unexpectedly, to fall in love again."
The cast also includes legendary crooner Frankie Valli as well as Scott Shepherd and Frances Sternhagen.


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Supervisors approve paving loan
The Jay Township Supervisors plan to undertake a paving project within the township in the near future, and at their recent meeting approved securing a loan for the project from Northwest Savings Bank. The supervisors originally discussed the project during their November meeting, at which time they approved advertising for bids for a $150,000 loan. According to Debbie Leonard, township secretary, bids were received from two area banks, Northwest Savings Bank and First Commonwealth Bank. The bid from First Commonwealth Bank was a taxable interest rate of 4.79 percent for a term not to exceed sixty months. Additional conditions outlined in the bid were the receipt and review of the financial statements for the township for the last three years; receipt and review of the township's interim financial information; receipt and review of the township's 2010 and 2011 budgets showing that there was sufficient revenue available to repay the debt; compliance with any filings required by the Local Government Unit Debt Act; and that all attorney fees and related costs would be paid by the township. Leonard noted that Northwest Savings Bank's bid contained two different rates. "Northwest Savings Bank is a 3.95 percent tax-free rate, but that's with the transfer of [the township's] primary operating account to their bank," Leonard said. "Without [transferring the account] the rate is a 4.2 percent tax-free rate." The maximum term length for the loan from Northwest Savings was 60 months. Other conditions stipulated by Northwest Savings Bank in their bid were that all closing documents be prepared by the township's solicitor in accordance with the Local Government Unit Debt Act; that the township maintain its primary operating account at Northwest Savings Bank if they opted to go with the lower rate; and that the township's construction contracts, copies of all invoices for construction draws and a draw schedule were all satisfactorily received and reviewed by the bank. For more on this story, see the Dec. 20th edition of The Daily Press.


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I was looking into building myself a computer similar to the old blackintosh as for the most part I have all the parts required already.
My current spec
> corsair obsidian 800d
> i7 2700k
> xspc rasa 750 rx 360 (i might be using something else though anyone have reccomendations on how to sell it?)
> asus p8z68-v pro/gen3
> 2 seagate barracuda 1tb hardrives in mirrored array.
> 128gb samsung 830 ssd
> gearhead dvd burner.
> 16 gb kingston hyperx 1600mhz silver
> 1200w thermaltake toughpower psu
> sapphire 6870
All of this should work apart from the motherboard correct?
If I purchased a GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 than should my computer be ready for conversion into a blackintosh?
Also it appears that the site doesn't currently sell the flash drives with osx lion. This is the tutorial to use correct? http://www.tonymacx86.com/61-unibeast-i ... ed-pc.html
Apparently it does work with asus motherboards?
Also how would I be able to dual boot with windows 7. Would i have to do the bootcamp thing or is there a better way.
And once I have osx installed I am assuming things like my keyboard might have some problems working properly on the mac. (I have a daskeyboard ultimate).


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Becky Koch and her Eclipse Select Elite 15U soccer team won a national championship in Virginia and turned around a week later and one another in Kansas.
Koch, a sophomore at Cary-Grove, helped her team win the Elite Club National League National Finals on July 10 to 15 in Richmond, Va. Only July 23 to 27 they won the United States Youth Soccer Association National Finals in Overland Park, Kan.
Koch said it wasn't easy playing such important tournaments in back-to-back weeks.
"It was pretty tough. It was mentally and physically straining," Koch said. "But we wanted it so bad nothing could stop us."
A little more time to celebrate was a luxury the team couldn't afford.
"We were all happy and celebrating and the next week we had to get right back at it again," Koch said.
The Eclipse relied on defense in both tournaments, giving up two goals in the ECNL tournament and three in the USYSA, both in four games. Koch, a middle defender, said she likes the physicality of defense and also being able to get things going offensively.
"I like being able to tackle and being able to start the play up," Koch said. "We're a hard back line. We usually don't let anything through."
The Eclipse rolled to the ECNL championship, defeating teams from Texas, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Ohio by a combined 15-2. The USYSA tournament got off to a little rougher start with a 1-1 tie against the MSC Coyotes of Maryland.
With the Coyotes being the defending national champions, not winning was a little easier to take.
"At least we still had a shot," Koch said.
Both the Coyotes and the Eclipse won their next two games, and the two were tied for a spot in the championship game. The winner was decided by penalty kicks, with the Eclipse winning, 3-1, to advance.
"We dread PKs because shooting the ball does not really prove your ability in a game," Koch said.
Things didn't get any easier in the championship game against the Ambassadors SC from Ohio. The Eclipse scored with just seven minutes left in regulation to tie the score, 1-1, and send it to overtime. In overtime, the Eclipse scored five minutes in and then added two more to win, 4-1.
"After we got that first goal in overtime the other team gave up and we just kept going," Koch said. "When that happened I knew we were going to win."
Koch said the strength of her team is its depth.
"We are the only team that had 18 players that come off the bench and be just as strong," Koch said.
Koch has been playing on the Eclipse since she was 11, playing in the U12 age division. She said the experience has improved her game.
"I've grown so much mentally. I know I can take anything now," Koch said. "I'm playing with the best of the best in practices. That makes us so much better."
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Sept. 12, 2008 - Coalition forces killed two enemy fighters and captured 11 others during a series of operations conducted in and around Baghdad and in western and northern Iraq today, military officials said. Coalition troops captured two terrorists affiliated with the Kataib Hezbollah network in New Baghdad. The network is linked to Iran's Quds Force.
Coalition forces killed two al-Qaida terrorists during an air strike near Qara Tappa, northeast of Baghdad, and three suspected al-Qaida terrorists were captured by coalition forces during operations south of Baghdad.
West of Baghdad in Ramadi, coalition forces detained five suspected terrorists, and an al-Qaida bomber-cell leader was captured by coalition forces during an operation in Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
In yesterday's operations:
-- U.S. soldiers detained four suspects during an operation in Baghdad's Rashid district.
-- U.S. and Iraqi soldiers posted in Baghdad found several weapons caches. The caches contained mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, improvised explosive devices, hand grenades, a pistol, machine-gun ammunition, fuses, IED-making materials, communication gear and tank rounds.
-- Coalition forces captured an alleged al-Qaida leader in Beiji. The detainee is linked to several local attacks, including a Sept. 8 attack that killed two Iraqi police officers and wounded four others.
-- Also in Beiji, coalition forces captured a wanted person linked to an al-Qaida bomber network that extends through the Tigris River Valley. Five additional suspects were detained.
In other news, Iraqi National Police seized two munitions caches and local "Sons of Iraq" citizen security group members turned in an assortment of ordnance during operations in Baghdad's Rashid district Sept. 10. The caches contained an assortment of rockets. The Sons of Iraq turned six 60 mm mortar rounds.
On Sept. 9, U.S. soldiers and Iraqi Police discovered Iranian-manufactured munitions during two separate operations. Acting on a citizen's tip, U.S. soldiers discovered a weapons cache near the town of Salman Pak in Iraq's Wasit province. The cache contained two shoulder-fired missiles, nine Iranian-made rockets, a mortar sight and a tripod. Near Hillah, Iraqi Police found a buried weapons cache. The cache contained 24 blocks of Iranian-manufactured C4 explosive and two propane tanks that were in the process of being converted into improvised explosive devices. U.S. soldiers transported the contraband to a nearby base.
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Big concert news came hours ago as Madonna officially announced the itinerary for her new world tour and Dallas makes the list. This marks her first show this way since the Blonde Ambition tour hit Reunion arena 22 years ago. I was stunned that she wouldn't be hitting Cowboys Stadium, but this makes it much closer to home. This news only adds to her recent return to the pop culture radar with her new movie W/E, Sunday's Super Bowl performance and her release last week, "Give Me All Your Luvin'" from her upcoming album M.D.N.A.
Will she repeat some of the imagery of her Super Bowl performance that recalled a lot of Kylie's Aphrodite tour? Mmmmm…hopefully not, but please, Madge, no lip syncing like you did during most of your performance.
Madonna is scheduled to play the American Airlines Center, Oct. 20 with tickets to begin going on sale to the general public Feb. 21.


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If he's going to finally achieve his goal this season, Kevin Durant can't have many more nights like he did Sunday. The exclusive club in which he seeks membership doesn't allow for it. Fortunately for Durant, if this is what his off nights look like these days he's probably in good shape. Durant has a chance to become only the sixth player in NBA history to join the 50-40-90 club, a fraternity reserved for only the very best of the league's best shooters. It's a club that honors consistency and recognizes players who go an entire season shooting at least 50 percent from the field, 40 percent from 3-point range and 90 percent from the free throw line. Durant admits he has aimed to join that select list of players since his second season. But this season, Durant's most efficient yet, he appears to have his best shot. Before Sunday's 104-93 win over Indiana, Durant was shooting 51.5 percent from the field, 45.7 percent from 3-point range and 90.1 percent from the foul line, all career highs. Against the Pacers, Durant scored a game-high 27 points with eight rebounds and four assists. He made nine of 24 shots, one of five 3s and eight of his 10 foul shots. That "subpar" shooting performance — which amazingly stands as Durant's second-worst display of accuracy this season — actually dropped his percentages to 50.6, 44.0 and 89.5. But just being in range, even if it's still early in the year, is an achievement in itself. It speaks to Durant's continuous development and illustrates how far he's come since being widely considered a chucker as a rookie.
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A call for papers — with submission deadline of 25 December 2012 — has been issued for Law Hack Camp, a legal hackathon to be held 26-27 January 2013, London, England, UK.
The event is being organized by Amanda Bancroft and Jon Harman.
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A specter haunts the halls of America's schools and the corridors of the Pentagon. The specter is meaningless metrics, characterized by endless quantification with little regard to essential qualities. As a military officer and as a professor, I've witnessed this mania for measurement and quantification. How do you know Johnny is winning the war - show me the numbers. How do you know Johnny is learning - show me the numbers. And if it can't be quantified, if your effort can't be turned into some standard metric of performance, obviously your work is unimportant and therefore disposable.
Numbers are often neither definitive nor unequivocal, yet we continue to elevate them and profess our belief in them. The cautionary words of the economist Jacob Viner echo here: "When you can measure it, when you can express it in numbers, your knowledge is still of a meager and unsatisfactory kind."
Consider here the Vietnam War. In 1973, in the wake of America's defeat, the social scientist Daniel Yankelovich pilloried the US military's obsession with quantification. As Yankelovich noted, "The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is O.K. as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be measured or give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily isn't very important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't easily be measured doesn't really exist. This is suicide."
Consider Yankelovich's first and second steps: the easy, artificial, and misleading metrics that characterized the Pentagon's approach to Vietnam. The Army obsessed about enemy body count, the Air Force about enemy truck count (the number of trucks destroyed in air raids). Other metrics included the number of ARVN (South Vietnamese Army) troops trained, the number of villages allegedly pacified, and so on. These metrics became measures of success, or at least of "progress."
But what truly mattered were not these largely meaningless measures, but the enemy's will to continue the fight, the price our country was willing to pay to "pacify" Vietnam, and the moral damage the war was doing to our troops and to our country. Such intangibles defied easy measurement. And that which the military couldn't easily measure it ignored or dismissed. Consistent with Yankelovich's third and fourth steps, the US military combined blindness with suicide.
By focusing on quantifiable yet arbitrary and therefore misleading metrics, the US military tricked itself (and much of America) into thinking the Vietnam War was being won. Even worse, the military's assessment calculus reinforced a racist tendency to treat the Vietnamese as inferiors - even as raw numbers. An amoral calculus bred overconfidence while making war crimes more likely. By focusing on metrics of destruction, the US military almost destroyed itself as moral rot from within, together with societal resistance, ate away at the very heart of America's citizen-soldier ideal.
Energetic application of metrics to war has similarly brought us little success in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Despite denials by the Bush administration, Iraq witnessed a revival of the body count even as the countryside spun out of control. Similarly, progress in Afghanistan is tied to benchmarks that the Obama administration claims are slowly being met (even if progress is qualified with weasel words like "fragile" and "reversible"). Meanwhile, despite official government numbers to the contrary, the Afghan National Army (ANA) exists more in American minds than on the ground. Despite all efforts to fertilize it with American guns and money and training, the ANA still lacks cohesion, motivation, and combat effectiveness. Despite the numbers, its future does not look promising; neither for that matter does Afghanistan's.
Quantifying to Distraction in Education
Much like our recent wars, our nation's educational efforts are largely deficient or failing. Yet the proposed solution relies on more meaningless metrics, to include student scores on standardized tests, even when those tests mainly measure student conformity and rote memorization skills along with teachers' willingness to teach to the test. Now President Obama, in his latest State of the Union Address, speaks of "College Scorecards," issued by the government, to help students and parents get more bang for the educational buck. Once again, the almighty dollar is America's ultimate metric.
Submerged by this and similar metrics is any sense of a higher purpose to education. Education, like war, defies reduction to numbers and ratios. So why do we insist on doing so? Here one must recall the secretary of defense during Vietnam: Robert McNamara and his corporate Whiz Kids. They promised to make the old war department run like a business. The country lost, but defense corporations won. Now let's recall today's secretary of education: the corporatist Arne Duncan. He's worked to hold educators "accountable" and to boost student results in a metrics-based "Race to the Top." So far, students and teachers are being left behind as corporate educational providers race to the top.
Bashing teachers' unions and firing so-called "weak" teachers are often the true goals of educational metrics. That, and defunding public education while privatizing it. Metrics further tend to reduce education to a mechanical operation of downloading information into student skulls. And if education is simply downloading information, why not get rid of teachers and schools altogether? Just use "distance learning," privatize the process as well, and measure the "success" using standardized instruments developed by - you guessed it - corporations.
A corporate-influenced, increasingly corporate-owned, educational system uses corporatist metrics to transform student-citizens into pliable consumers and tractable employees. That may be the future definition of "success," and perhaps it already is, in a nation in which corporations are citizens with free-speech rights as far-reaching as their corporate coffers.
What's missing is the old-fashioned sense of education as a public good, as essential to democracy. And not only essential to democracy: essential to living a moral and virtuous life, one in which empowered citizens can distinguish permanent from ephemeral, right from wrong.
Instead, today's ultimate metric of educational success is not empowerment but rather employment. Education is reduced to training and success is measured by a post-college paycheck. Call it another form of body count: the number of (student) bodies who graduate with jobs. Never mind the ideals or morals of those students. Never mind their virtue. Those qualities can't be readily measured, so we'll ignore or dismiss them. The result: more national blindness and suicide.
The US military's pursuit of metrics compromised our troops' morals and betrayed our nation's values. Today, the corporatist model of education, with all its fancy metrics, is supplanting the idea of education as a calling, as a public good, and as a creative path to the future. Once again, our nation is losing. We've already lost our citizen-soldier military, replaced by an "all-volunteer" (professional) military supplemented by private mercenary outfits like Blackwater/Xe/Academi. Now we're losing public education and citizen-students, to be replaced by privatized educational providers and students as passive consumer-employees.
That said, though ordinary Americans lost in our wars, there was a clear winner: the military-industrial complex. Johnny's name may be on that Vietnam memorial in Washington, DC, but you won't find Lockheed or Boeing or Grumman's name on that wall. They didn't die. They thrived.
In education today, Johnny isn't able to think critically - and that's precisely the point of a corporate-business model that is sucking the life out of education as a horizon-expanding experience. And many legislators (and more than a few educators) have embraced the new model, often in the name of money, expediency, profitability and "relevance."
Small wonder our nation continues to sanction unending war and the assassination of American citizens without due process. We no longer see war and murder as moral issues. We no longer see it because we're not educated to see it. We're only given the numbers.
It's high time we infused education with ethical purpose and moral virtue. Today more than ever, we need students who can see past the cant, the obfuscation, and the outright lies that pass for "common sense" in this nation. We need students who are willing to look behind the curtain, rather than being content just to dance in Oz and believe in the Wizard.
How will we know when we succeed, you ask? What'll be the metric of success? We'll know when citizens get fed up with feel-good metrics, get mad as hell at our never-ending wars, and demand from politicians and their corporate sponsors not numbers that deceive but substance that informs.


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Jack Wilshere believes Arsenal can find inspiration in Chelsea's march towards Champions League glory last season and pull off a shock of their own in European football's premier competition, starting with victory over Bayern Munich on Tuesday.
Arsenal's last realistic chance of silverware this season was seemingly lost when they were knocked out of the FA Cup in the 5th round by Championship side Blackburn on Saturday.
Arsene Wenger's men were knocked out of the League Cup by Bradford in December, and trail Premier League leaders Manchester United by 21 points.
That means the Gunners look on course to end an 8th consecutive season without a trophy - unless they can pull off an unlikely charge for glory in the Champions League.
Arsene Wenger's men take on Bayern Munich in the last-16 tomorrow, with most experts placing the in-form Bundesliga giants as favourites to secure a spot in the quarter-finals.
Despite their status as underdogs, Wilshere believes Arsenal can copy Chelsea and reach the final despite their mediocre domestic form.
"Chelsea are an inspiration for everyone. They weren't having a good season and, okay, they got a bit lucky in some games," said Wilshere.
"But they showed great character and we need to do that. We need to come together as a team.
"We have good leaders here, a good team atmosphere. That will help us.
"We have a good bunch of lads in the dressing room. They're winners as well, the likes of Lukas Podolski and Mikel Arteta. They want to win.
"We know what Bayern are capable of. They have a great team. We need everyone behind us and we go again.
"We have beaten big European teams here before so now we need to do it again."
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in the atmega adapter circuit i found out that there are pins called Vcc and others GNDwell, are those the same power from the out of the lm293 regulator? or thats a seperate voltage source?
the LM293 is not a regulator
can you post a link to that circuit please?
the LM293 is a comparator.....i think


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It is, more than anything else, his extraordinary range that impresses. Here's a guy who can spend months, years, producing a 900-page biography of Teddy Roosevelt and at the same time, just as the first excerpts from that serious yet readable tome are seeing print, publish a 12,000-word cover story in Rolling Stone about Bob Dylan — who can edit both Ronald Reagan's diaries and Hunter S. Thompson's letters, who can serve as the official biographer for both Rosa Parks and Jack Kerouac, who can write passionately and authoritatively about Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and Lance Armstrong's comeback and Vietnam and Henry Ford and the Mississippi River and Norman Mailer and so much more. There seems to be no end to the subject matter considered fair game by the historian and author Douglas Brinkley. The 48-year-old public intellectual left New Orleans, where he was a professor of history at Tulane University, in the summer of 2007 and settled in Austin, from which he commutes to Houston and his current teaching gig, as a distinguished profesor of history at Rice University. Born and raised in Atlanta, Brinkley has a B.A. from Ohio State and a PhD. from Georgetown; in addition to his book and academic work, he's a commentator for CBS News and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. And he's a relentless self-promoter in the very best sense of that phrase: This summer he'll tour the country in support of his new book on TR, titled The Wilderness Warrior — with stops at national parks and other natural settings where a lack of air-conditioning surely won't diminish his usual high energy and good cheer.
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I am a doctor and a data geek. I worry that data geeks are too easily seduced by the glamour of laboratory science and forget about clinics. Randomised controlled trials are the best tool we have in medicine for finding out if a treatment works or not. Lots of trials are done. Unfortunately, the results of these trials can go missing in action after they are completed.
Missing data is always a challenge: but we also know that "negative results" are more likely to go missing. This means we have a biased sample, overestimating the benefits of treatments. To prevent all this happening, people have set up registers of trial protocols, to be completed before trials begin. These have not been correctly used, and they are not matched to published trials, which show up what data has been left unpublished.
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Offering only Henderson County-grown produce and plants, the Henderson County Tailgate Market began its 35th year with a sunny day.
With spring just around the corner, the Henderson County Tailgate Market kicked off its first Saturday on King Street.
Offering only Henderson County-grown produce and plants, the market began its 35th year with a sunny day.
Selling chard and kale from the back of his pickup truck was Market Manager Hal Oliver, who also welcomed guests.
"We have a lot of really good vendors here," Oliver said. "We should have more and more people here in the couple of weeks."
Oliver said he expects to have caterers return as the season picks up selling breakfast as well as vendors offering value-added products such as humus made from locally grown crops.
"We're trying to remain pure in a lot of things," Oliver said. "We don't allow any crafts—we're not a craft fair."
Oliver added that mountain heritage crafts were an exception to that rule, but only so long as the majority of the vendors' products are produce.
Rachel Meriwether, 32, of the Green River valley stopped by the market to drop off her vendor application and pick up a bunch of kale from Oliver. She said she enjoys finding unusual produce at local markets.
"There are people here who bring some really great and unusual stuff that you don't always see here," Meriwether said. "There will be this guy with mountains and mountains of potatoes and there was one guy last year with the most amazing peppers, like big long ones and funny-shaped ones; I just can't wait for the fresh veggies."
Fellow farmer at Green River Preserve Phil McGlynn, 32, said he really enjoys getting to meet people and network at tailgate markets.
"You can't buy a lot of produce in the grocery store," McGlynn said. "It's all the same; there's so many more kinds of food that they sell at a grocery store. They carry three kinds of potatoes, but in reality there are five or six thousand varieties of potatoes."
The hands-on interaction between buyers and vendors is what Meriwether said she loves most.
"I really like being able to talk to people about how to cook stuff," Meriwether said. "I think that's a super fun part about markets."
The market will be open each Saturday from 7 a.m. until 12 p.m. at 100 King St. in Hendersonville.
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If nanoscience were television, we'd be in the 1950s. Although scientists can make and manipulate nanoscale objects with increasingly awesome control, they are limited to black-and-white imagery for examining those objects. Information about nanoscale chemistry and interactions with light -- the atomic-microscopy equivalent to color -- is tantalizingly out of reach to all but the most persistent researchers.
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University receives incentives from Entergy.
Henderson State University received more than $340,000 in incentives from the Entergy Arkansas CitySmart energy efficiency program. Henderson's upgrades will save money and significantly reduce electricity usage, allowing the university to reinvest in the economic health of Arkadelphia.
"Since 2012, Entergy Arkansas has given us financial incentives to upgrade our facilities, so we save money and encourage economic growth in our community," said Bobby Jones, vice president for finance and administration. "On top of that, these changes are good for the environment, which is very important to Henderson State and our community."
Participation in the CitySmart program resulted in a number of upgrades on campus, including lighting and heating and air upgrades installed in 2012, and a chiller installed in 2013. The total incentive amount for these upgrades is $342,218.89.
"Taking steps to be more energy efficient helps not only Henderson State's bottom line, but all Entergy Arkansas customers because when we reduce our energy usage, together we postpone or avoid the need to build new power plants to power our state," said Paul Speers, Entergy Arkansas account service manager. "That's a win-win for communities, companies and the Natural State."
Entergy Arkansas has a portfolio of energy efficiency programs for both residential and business solutions, Speers said. CLEAResult, an Austin, Texas-based energy efficiency company, implements these programs on behalf of Entergy.
"Through these programs, we helped identify potential energy efficiency projects," said Ryan Johnson, energy engineering analyst for CLEAResult. "We then worked with Henderson's physical plant department to determine the best possible upgrades to maximize both campus energy efficiency and Entergy Arkansas incentive."


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By Dan Crider, SID Intern
April 7, 2004
BLUFFTON, OHIO - The Bluffton College men's tennis team (5-3, 3-1 HCAC) defeated Anderson University by a final score of 6-3 on Wednesday.
Seniors Kyle Sprunger (Berne, Ind./South Adams) and Brad Boyles (Berne, Ind/South Adams) continued their winning ways at the the #2 doubles position as they increased their record to 8-0 on the year with a 8-3 victory. All three of Bluffton's doubles pairings came away with victories on the evening. Sprunger, Boyles, and senior Owen Beck (Archbold/Archbold) all earned singles wins as well. Sophomore Pete Martin (Berne, Ind/South Adams) lost a long a hard-fought match to Anderson's Blake Burke, whom Martin knows well. The two were high school doubles partners at South Adams high schoool.
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Annual luncheon honors veterans from WWII to the war in Iraq
The annual Veterans Day Program was for held for veterans, their families and members of the community Monday to commemorate Veterans Day.
The program was held at the American Legion Post Unit No. 48 to honor the many veterans of various wars, which included World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Iraq War.
"This is our way to thank the veterans and their families for the sacrifice that they have made for us in the name of freedom," Norma Strabala, director of RSVP, said.
Hal Lovett, retired veteran and commander of American Legion Post Unit No. 48, said that the community should recognize one of its oldest veterans, George Dyer.
"I am proud to be here and hope I make it until next year," Dyer, a machine gunner from World War II, said.
Dyer said that all of the World War II veterans were dying out by record numbers and he hoped he would stay around for several years so he could tell his stories of defeating the enemy in World War II.
"I am getting older every day, but I hope to be around to see another Veterans Day," Dyer said.
That is the reason that there is Veterans Day for all of the veterans to be recognized and tell their story of sacrifice and dedication to this wonderful country of ours, Steve Shepherd, a Vietnam veteran, said.
"I witnessed the surrender of Japan in front of Gen. Douglas MacArthur," Mason Brown, a veteran of World War II, said.
Shepherd said that the American Legion Unit No. 48 would be happy to have any veteran of the armed services, which includes all branches of the military and reserve duty, to apply and join the local chapter.
"I have an application card with me at all times," Lovett said. "We sign the veteran up and have the process done in 30 days."
The Veterans Day program consisted of patriotic songs, which were sung by Shepherd and brief remarks from Marvin Henderson, who served in the United States Navy for five years when he enlisted in 1940.
The Veteran's Day Luncheon is sponsored by BancorpSouth, Arkansas County Bank, Farmers and Merchants Bank and RSVP.


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|Spring Dynamic Modules In Action
|Arnaud Cogoluegnes, Thierry Templier, Andy Piper
|Manning Publications
|Rick J Wagner
|Presents the fundamental concepts of OSGi-based apps and maps them to the familiar ideas of the Spring framework.
Should you care about OSGi? The answer is maybe. It's without question a big deal to the makers of Java application containers-- everybody from JBoss to Mule has an opinion on OSGi, and many vendors are busy baking it into their infrastructure. What will differ to you, the user of the container, is how the container developers decided to make OSGi available to their users. This book is about how Spring went about it, and what you need to do to use Spring and OSGi together.
Spring DM (short for "Dynamic Modules") is a framework that enables you to use the popular Spring framework with OSGi. Spring, of course, comes with a multitude of components for solving all kinds of enterprise application needs. So this book is all about using Spring with OSGi.
It's a big book, over 500 pages, written by 3 authors. In those 500 pages you get lots of valuable content:
- An introduction to OSGi and an explanation of its purpose
- Explanation of how Spring can be used within an OSGi container, review of the currently available containers
- Details about how Spring DM works, and the parts you need to understand
- Details about OSGi services, and how they relate to Spring DM
- In depth best practices for data access, enterprise Java projects, and web applications (includes specific advice for popular web application frameworks)
- Testing practices
- Extended uses of OSGi, including likely future direction
A big part of what makes this book valuable are the many pieces of advice from the authors as they explain best practices for using various tools. So you want to use Eclipse, Ant or Maven? No problem, these are all covered. About to use MyFaces, Wicket, or DWR? All covered. Are you a Tomcat user or Jetty? Check and check. I'm sure you get the picture-- if you use these tools, the path ahead of you is already blazed and you can avoid some headaches by leveraging the author's experience.
Make no mistake about it, there will be some headaches ahead of you. Seldom is an application written today that doesn't use an external framework or library of some sort. Using these pre-packaged bits of functionality (and we need to be thankful for them!) might mean 're-packaging', if the library isn't offered as an OSGi bundle. This re-packaging means pealing apart some .jar files and editing the manifest files inside-- yuck! Luckily, this book offers you two things to help you with this task: tooling and advice. Tooling comes in handy because it can automate a lot of the manual, error-prone drudgery that goes along with such a task. Advice is even more valuable-- these authors have already worked done the hard work and have written down what you need to do to make your efforts successful.
So who is this book appropriate for? I'd say anyone who is going to use Spring DM. If you're convinced this is the right framework for your needs, you need a copy of this book. If you're not sure, or if you're just a casual reader wanting to know more about OSGi-- then I'd say you should look through the book first before you buy it. You might like it, or you might not because a lot of the book is all about hands-on use of Spring DM and the little tricks you need to make it work right the first time. But if you're just interested in an overview of the technology, this book might be too detail-oriented and not enough high-level for your tastes.
If you use Spring DM, you need to buy a copy of this book. It's going to be the definitive resource on the topic for a long time.
You can purchase Spring Dynamic Modules In Action from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.


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Before he could write '¡Gaytino!,' Dan Guerrero first had to find his roots
rich lopez | Staff Writer
Growing up gay and Latino can be a tough hand to play. In a culture that revels in religion and machismo — hell, the word "machismo" is Latino — coming out poses pitfalls.
But Dan Guerrero lucked out. With some artsy upbringing by a musician dad and a not-so-practicing Catholic background, Guerrero's closet was easy to open. In fact, it was harder for him just to be Hispanic.
"Los Angeles never made me feel like I was good enough," he says. "I fell in love with musicals in junior high. I wanted to hear Julie Andrews in Camelot! Who gives a rat's ass about mariachi?"
His dad might have given one. He was famed musician Lala Guerrero, the father of Chicano music who popularized the Pachuco sound in the 1940s (the beats most associated with Zoot suits and swing dancing). While Guerrero appreciated his father's legacy, he established his own identity by moving to New York to become an actor. That didn't work out so much, but becoming an agent did.
"It was kind of by accident, but I ended up being an agent for 15 years," he says. "I got into producing and I loved it."
Although he stepped away from performing, Guerrero finds himself back onstage Friday and Saturday at the Latino Cultural Center with ¡Gaytino! The autobiographical one-man show is part comedy, part cabaret, with Guerrero recounting in lyrics and punch lines his experiences growing up gay and Latino, life with father … and having to rediscover his roots after moving back to L.A.
"The main reason I did the show is, I wanted to know more about my dad and my best friend. I was already fabulous," he laughs. "So I don't think of this as my story. I wanted to embrace his legacy and celebrate him and our lives, but also tell of being a born-again Hispanic."
In L.A., Guerrero rediscovered his heritage. While still working in entertainment, he noticed a lack of Latinos behind the scenes. He started a column in Dramalogue to change that, interviewing actors like Jimmy Smits and Salma Hayek and producing shows that spoke to Latin audiences.
And then came ¡Gaytino!
"Well, the word itself hit me first so I trademarked it. Then it was madness as I set about writing it," he says.
When the show debuted in 2005, Guerrero hadn't performed in 35 years. He was a different man, no longer a young buck with nothing to lose and untarnished optimism. He was a behind-the-scenes producer and casting agent. He was — gasp! — older.
"I remember thinking, 'What am I gonna do? What if I forget my lines?' I'm an old codger," he says. "But I got onstage and it was like I had did it the day before. Performing is just part of who I am."
With his successful day job (he once repped a young Sarah Jessica Parker), a healthy relationship (32 years this November) and irons in many other fires, why bother with the daunting task of writing a show and carrying it alone?
"It still feels like I'm breaking into show business. At least when you've been around as long as I have, you can get the main cheese by phone," he answers. "But really, I had something I wanted to say and I love doing it. I've been lucky to stay in the game this long but it's not by accident; it's all been by design."
What he loves isn't just doing his show, but how it pushes positive gay Latino images. He's dedicated this chapter in his life to that. Guerrero now feels parental toward the younger generation — maybe because he has no children of his own.
"I do feel a responsibility and not just to younger people, but to all," he says. "For ¡Gaytino!, I first want them entertained, but I hope audiences will leave more educated about some Chicano culture and history and Gaytino history."
Beginners is such a dreadfully forgettable and generic title for what is the year's most engaging and heartfelt comedy, you feel like boycotting a review until the distributor gives it a title it deserves.
Certainly the movie itself — a quirky, humane and fantastical reverie about the nature of love and family, with Ewan McGregor as a doleful graphic artist who, six months after his mother dies, learns his 75-year-old dad (Christopher Plummer) is gay and wants to date — charts its own course (defiantly, respectfully, beautifully), navigating the minefield of relationships from lovers to parent/child with simple emotions. It's not a movie that would presume to answer the Big Questions (when do you know you've met the right one? And if they aren't, how much does that matter anyway?); it's comfortable observing that we're all in the same boat, and doing our best is good enough.
McGregor's placid befuddlement over how he should react to things around him — both his father's coming out and a flighty but delightful French actress (Melanie Laurent) who tries to pull him out of his shell — is one of the most understated and soulful performances of his career. (His relationship with Arthur, his father's quasi-psychic Jack Russell, is winsome and winning without veering into Turner & Hooch idiocy.) But Plummer owns the film.
Plummer, best known for his blustery, villainous characters (even the heroic ones, like Capt. Von Trapp and Mike Wallace), exudes an aura of wonder and discovery as the septuagenarian with the hot younger boyfriend (Goran Visnjic, both exasperating as cuddly). As he learns about house music at a time when his contemporaries crave Lawrence Welk, you're wowed by how the performance seethes with the lifeforce of someone coming out and into his own. His energy is almost shaming.
Writer/director Mike Mills' semi-autobiographical film suffers only being underlit and over too quickly. It wouldn't be a bad thing to spend more time with these folks.
—Arnold Wayne Jones
Rating: Four and half stars
Now playing at Landmark's Magnolia Theatre.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition June 10, 2011.


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Guest post by Frank Fisher (@Frank_Fisher)
There is a unanimity in the media today, a striking consistency across the papers and airwaves. Everywhere there is talk of supporting free speech, and everywhere there is its surrender. Our Fourth Estate is in full flight from reality, as it was during the original MoToons crisis of 2005. Like then, all the talk is of backing those who provoke and question, using cartoons and satire, but just as then, this is lip service only. Where are the deeds that back free speech? Where are the Charlie Hebdo cartoons on front pages? Nowhere.
Across continental Europe bold newspapers feature mocking portraits of Mohammed, spiked illustrations defiling the psychotics of ISIS – here in the UK the Axis of Weasel holds full sway; the covers are all deeply, deeply significant for what they do not show. Absence is today's theme.
Yet everywhere pontificating columnists are pompously telling each other, and us, that they are defending free speech, that it is essential to democracy. Politicans too, who every day find a new victim to denounce for speechcrimes against the people, are today telling us we must cherish the free speech that they long ago stole from us.
I find myself recoiling not just in anger at these clowns, but in instinctive disgust too. Ours is the press of the madhouse, this consistency of delusion is a mass hysteria, denial on a national scale. Fear – physical fear, and fear of offending against political correctness - has led our *entire* media to a blanket self-censorship, while their ridiculous arrogance and delusion has woven a shield of denial that allows them to stitch their mouths firmly shut while mumbling that they are free.
A few show flickers of sanity through the miasma of madness; Dan Hodges, always the first to demand obeisance before the twin gods of "tolerance" and "diversity" is here first to indicate what those cruel gods inflict on their followers, when admitting his own personal cowardice in refusing to tweet a MoToon in solidarity. David Aaronovitch, Blairite of old, demands an end to timidity in defending free expression, from the pitifully timid pages of the Times. Once the Thunderer, now the Whisperer.
This matters. Twelve people are dead in Paris in part because of the failure of Western media to rigidly and universally defend free speech in 2005 and onwards. The obvious reluctance to back our principles in deed showed thuggish Islamic censors that the West would mutter about free speech, but would bottle it in a fight. This was most wretchedly displayed here in the UK, where our press eagerly gagged itself at the behest of the Blair government, demanding "responsible" and "restrained" free speech, urged on by the odious advocate of self-censorship Shami Chakrabarti, and former satirists Private Eye. Mass desertion in the face of enemy fire left those few brave souls of Charlie Hebdo and Jyllands-Posten to march towards the guns alone – with the consequence we have seen today.
It is, however, worse than that. Terrorism is a rare beast. It doesn't frighten me much. It's unlikely to touch me, or mine. The abandonment of free speech in the UK does frighten me. Not only because the example of angry Muslims winning their censorship battle has given carte blanche to every furious group, from feminists to scousers, to demand silence. But because it says "we will not fight to defend our way of life". That, as every student of history knows, is an open invitation to war. Appeasement shows a bold enemy that you have no stomach for a fight, that you present an easy target, a fast and effortless victory. I'm not frightened of terrorism, but I am of civil war. Our media/ political class's abandonment of solid liberal values that we once thought inviolate is putting our country at risk. Here, they have surrendered without a shot being fired.


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Hi, I'm Joey, a 15 year old male from the eastern United States. I don't know much about Java, but I have been experimenting. I am planning on being a programmer when I get into my early 20s, and I'm looking for a community that would both criticize, and help me along the way. I have already made my Hello World, and just created a command line application that may be nifty to stores and restaurants today. I'm looking for acquaintances similar to me so that we can help each other become expert Java programmers.
PS: Where can I post my console application? All it is is a single .class file, so I can upload it to Mediafire or something, but where can I post the link to it? Thanks.


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Chinatown and the Rock - Explore San Francisco's Chinatown with consummate guide and expert Martin Yan and visit Alcatraz at night. Best of the West - Adventures! Rafting the Colorado River in Utah, kayaking, hiking, zip-lining and cliff diving on Kauai and mountain biking in northern Sierra Nevada. Legend of the West - Wavy Gravy.
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Fat Cat Scones
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Palette Purple Basil Jelly
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Palette Star Anise Honey
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Schokinag Dulce de Leche
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Stonewall Kitchen Pumpkin Waffle Mix
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2. Lunch
John Wm Macy CheeseSticks
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3. Dinner
David Burke Gourmet Pops
4. Desserts
David Burke Cheesecake Pops
San Saba Pecan Pie In A Jar
5. Snacks
Wasabi Peanuts
William Poll Potato Crisps
6. Cocktails
Good Wives Hors D'Oeuvres
Nantucket Nectars
Lemon Drop (kids like it too)
7. Coffee/Tea
Palette Foods: Condiments For Cheese
Cheese Plate:
This quintet of condiments makes everyday cheese look great and makes great cheese even more exciting. To spruce up everyday cheddar, swiss, and blue, keep jars of Spiced Quince Preserve, Purple Basil Jelly, and Peppered Black Mission Fig Preserve, respectively.
Breakfast: Purple Basil and Golden Raspberry are also designed to go with toast and scones; and the others work well as bread spreads too.
Dinner: Golden Raspberry is a good puree for foie gras, duck, or to decorate a plate with a dab of color. Purple basil jelly does mint jelly one better: offer a dab with lamb or pork chops or loin.
Dessert: Condiments For Cheese also work as condiments for pound cake, or as a top garnish for sorbets and ice creams. A dab of purple basil, fig or sour cherry on top transforms a scoop of chocolate; quince and coffee are an exotic pairing; everything works with vanilla (and if you use a ¼ teaspoon measure, you can put 4 different flavors at the 4 compass points of a scoop.
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John Wm. Macy: CheeseSticks
Breakfast: Add to bread basket, garnish a plate of eggs
Appetizers & Snacks: With beer and robust red wines, with snack cheeses, for general munching
Lunch & Dinner: Accent to soups and salads (decorative as sticks or broken into croutons)
Palette Foods: Lavender Honey
We also adore the Anise and Chili honeys—get all 3 for maximum star value.
Breakfast: On toast, muffins, scones; with fruit and yogurt, on cereal; with pancakes and waffles; in tea
Appetizers & Snacks: With beer and robust red wines, with snack cheeses,
Lunch & Dinner: Accent to soups and salads (decorative as sticks or broken into croutons)
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The mission of the 186th Air Refueling Wing is playing a role in the war in Iraq.
Lt. Col. Randy Pope, the unit's public information officer, said refueling crews are in Iraq helping the war effort.
"The majority of our folks that we've sent out so far are aircraft crews and maintenance so, of course, the air crews are flying air refueling missions and the maintainers are maintaining aircraft," Pope said. "They are equipped to refuel most NATO aircraft and all the aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inventory."
Over the past few years, members of the unit have served continuously, with troops rotating in and out, in maintaining No-Fly Zones over Bosnia and Iraq, in Operation Enduring Freedom after Sept. 11, and now in Operation Iraqi Freedom.