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wheel day in the pre-k
wheel day is a day where the students get to bring in a wheeled vehicle
my son dean brought his bike to school
many of the other children brought in bikes or scooters
these are the types of days that parents treasure and fear
normally I do not handle pick up or drop off
but today my work schedule allowed me to handle the task
the infrequency of this task keeps that experience special instead of routine
wheel day had the potential of being extra special
special for me and for him
after walking the dogs dean grabbed his lunch box and his helmet
I grabbed the bike
not sure if it was wheel day or just the day itself
either way dean had no sign of I HATE SCHOOL on this day
it was all excitement and anticipation
we arrived a few minutes early which gave dean a chance to ride around the play ground a few times
we went to around various obstacles towards the concrete banked walls....
I knew would be his objective
twenty years ago I broke my first mountain bike on this same set of banked walls
was trying to catch air on my Mongoose ATB with a fellow messenger named Puker
Puker was a righteous skater who had been on the cover of THRASHER MAGAZINE in 1981
neither of us were catching much air
but apparently I caught enough air to break my frame
enough on this ancient history
that was frame number one of over a dozen mountain bike frames to be broken in the years that followed
back to this morning
the thought of the kids swarming around and the wildness of my son had me spooked
part of me was thinking that I should have shrouded my son in pads
another part of me felt that crossing my fingers should be enough
the rest of me figured that I should just show him around the lot
so I had him drop in on the not so steep wall a few times
he was more cautious and more in control than I expected him to be
which was good
I know that he can try to be a little 4 year old show boat some times
so I tried to have him be alert to various obstacles and barriers
dean worked a few laps around the jungle gym
up a subtle grade
down a short fast grade
then up the handicap ramp to the classroom
where he tried to ride his bike into the building
once inside the kids all showed off their scooters and their bikes
dean was glowing
all the children were glowing
the school day is now over
there has been no call from the school nurse or my wife
which is good
hopefully dean had a blast riding his bike with his school mates
it shocked me that there were so many bikes with training wheels
this acted to make me more proud of my son
it also made me think that it would be fun to get together with some of the kids and the parents
have a few wrenches handy
have a little bike riding session
where the kids learn to ride the bikes without training wheels with the example of their peers
3 comments:
- Graham said...
Wheel day sounds cool...I have to do Donuts for Dads Day for my son's school...the antithesis of wheel day.
- 6/05/2006
- Moveitfred said...
My kids' elementary school does everything they can to discourage wheeled travel. They don't want kids riding bikes, skateboards, scooters. They want everyone on the big yellow bus. Memos come home to this effect. Subdue 'em, control 'em, discourage 'em. Hell, every day was "wheel day" when I went to school... (yeah, I know, old man talk).
- 6/05/2006
- gwadzilla said...
when I got home I asked Dean about "wheel day"
he told me it was canceled
getting an answer from a four year old can be a bit of a riddle
it is like debating with Yoda
we talked about it
I pieced together that the whole class was bad
to punish them the teacher canceled wheel day
he said he only got to ride his bike once
not sure if he meant before school with me
or if the teachers cut it short
either way
we will go back to his school on a weekday night
or a weekend with his friends so he can ride his bike around on the embankments
- 6/06/2006


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Afourer mandarins
Citrus growers are betting this mandarin will become a new national favourite. The sweet, baggy-skinned Imperial outsells all other varieties of mandarin in Australia, but Afourers have been a success story overseas, where shoppers love its brilliant orange-red colour, intense flavour and juiciness. They are an almost seedless mandarin with easy-peel skin. With an eye to their international success, Afourers have been heavily planted here, especially in South Australia. Supplies will increase throughout the next five years as the orchards mature. Afourers will be harvested until October and sold at Sydney Markets, Coles and Woolworths.
Kestrel potatoes
Flavour is what drew potato farmer SA Potato Co to the kestrel. The company continually trials new varieties developed overseas to see whether they suit Australian conditions. This Scotland-bred spud impresses on taste. Also appealing is its distinctive looks. With purple-blue blushes on a cream-coloured skin, the kestrel is easily identified. SA Potato Co started growing kestrels two years ago, initially supplying only South Australian stores. The potato is in the waxy rather than starchy class, making it good for steaming, boiling or turning into creamy roast potatoes. Several chefs also reported back to the growers it was the best potato they'd ever used for gnocchi. Kestrels can be found in selected Harris Farm Markets stores.
For a warm potato salad, boil kestrel or other waxy potatoes, then cut into large pieces. Mix with podded broad beans, thinly sliced red onion, parsley leaves and a dressing of olive oil, white wine vinegar and seeded mustard.
The mussels famously sold in Brussels are diminutive things. Each mussel is not much bigger than a thumbnail and diners use an empty shell like a pair of tongs to neatly pluck the little mouthfuls from their home.
We grow them bigger in Australia but now, at the beginning of the season, cooks can find small mussels. The new-season mussels grown and packed by Kinkawooka in Boston Bay, South Australia, are 60 millimetres long but in a few months the smallest available will be 90 millimetres.
Farmed mussels are sustainable seafood. They are grown on ropes in pristine water where they filter feed on the passing nutrients. After harvest they are scrubbed, de-bearded and packed live into vacuum packs that give them a shelf life of 10 days. Cooks can open the packs, drain the mussels and cook them either in a stock or sauce, or in a dry pan. They'll open in a few minutes. Unopened mussels aren't bad, just tightly stuck together with two sets of adductor muscles. Use a knife to pry them open.
Asparagus It's all imported now. The Australian season starts in a few weeks.
Blood oranges Plenty around with great colour.
Broad beans Good buy this week.
Broccoli Time for soup.
Brussels sprouts Try cooking them as separated leaves.
Carrots Good value.
Cauliflower Makes a delicious puree.
Cavolo nero Also labelled Tuscan cabbage.
Green garlic Add the bulb and stem to stir-fries.
Horseradish Plenty around.
Pears Red Anjou are pretty and delicious.
Silverbeet Choose fresh, firm bunches.
Strawberries Choose punnets of fully red berries for the sweetest flavour.
Tangelos Kept best in the fridge.

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Hi folks. Happy Halloween! I've been ''playing'' with my system, installing the 64 bit Ubuntu Studio 13.10 distribution, and have ended up with the following:
sda2 - ntfs, 181 GB
sda6 - ext4, 73 GB
sda7 - ntfs, 63 GB
sda2 is my Windows 7 Home Premium partition, working perfectly.
sda7 has no OS installed on it, and has been created because sda2 is getting full.
sda6 has UB Studio 13.10 installed, but I can only login as guest. I can Ctrl Alt 2 and login as alex, so I know my password is being entered correctly, but then startx doesn't work.
What I'd like to do, is copy all the contents of home/alex to sda7 then remove sda6, move sda7 so that it is next to sda2 and install UB13.10 from scratch.
So I figure I can login as guest, CTRL ALT 2, login as alex, mount sda7, and then use a single cli command to copy everything in my home partition to sda7, but I don't know what the commands to do this are.
I'm not looking to have my home partition on sda7, I just want to backup all my pics / videos /music / downloads so I can start again. I figured this would be easier than fixing the password issue.
Any help appreciated; thanks in advance, from Alex.


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2009-04-30 / Cultural Events
Putnam Symphony Brings Their Season to a Close in Brewster
The Putnam Symphony Orchestra will close its 32nd season with a performance on Sunday, May 3, at 3pm. The performance will take place at the Brewster High School Performing Arts Center on Foggintown Road off of Farm to Market Road, approximately one half mile north of Route 312.
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I can't use my parallel printer
The (I think) relevant output of lspci -vvv is...
00:08.0 Parallel controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9865 Multi-I/O Controller (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284])
Subsystem: Device a000:2000
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at efa0 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at ef88 [size=8]
Region 2: Memory at febf7000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 4: Memory at febf6000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
In response to Netz, when I say "can't use", I mean the printer simply doesn't respond in any way. It and the cables are working, as I've used them with an old non-Linux box.
A little further info that may shed further light is the following result of grepping dmesg for parport...
[ 6.317307] parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 6.317356] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [PCSPP]
[ 31.039493] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
It looks like the printer is assigned to parport0, which I assume to be the motherboard parallel port.. How can I assign it either parport_pc or parport0?
Any ideas/suggestions please?


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JANESVILLE (WIFR) -- The Janesville Police Department has announced the hiring of four new police officers. They are as follows:
Jason D. Bier
Officer Bier is from Janesville, WI, age 35. He graduated from Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, in May 2000 with a Bachelor's degree in social work. Officer Bier was most recently working for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections as a probation officer. He also works for the City of Janesville as a sports official and is a Junior Varsity Soccer Head Coach at Parker High School. Officer Bier is married to Jennifer and has two children.
Alexander W. Erlien
Officer Erlien is from Janesville, WI, age 23. He graduated in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Science degree in philosophy. Officer Erlien is a graduate of the UW-ROTC Program and served in the United States Navy from 2011-2012. He continues to serve in the US Navy Reserves. Officer Erlien was employed at Van Galder Bus Company, Janesville, WI.
Thomas J. Northrop
Officer Northrop is from Beloit, WI, age 23. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2012 with a Bachelor's degree in business administration with emphasis in finance. Officer Northrop's most recent employment was with the Municipal Credit Union in Beloit, Wisconsin. Officer Northrop attended the Law Enforcement Academy at Blackhawk Technical College and is certifiable as a police officer in the State of Wisconsin.
Carmen M. Roche
Officer Roche is from Greendale, WI, age 27. She graduated from Bryant and Stratton College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a Bachelor's degree in criminal justice, December, 2012. Officer Roche's most recent employment was with the Milwaukee Academy working as a Youth Specialist/Relief Supervisor.


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Academic Spotlight
Students Capture Living Memories of Bowdoin's First Women
Story posted December 07, 2011
"This is the first. Isn't that something?" Professor Jennifer Scanlon pushes a photocopied letter across her desk. It's dated Oct. 12, 1970, addressed to Miss Elissa D. Berry of Weston, Mass.
Dear Elissa:
I cannot resist sending you a brief note of appreciation and excitement, since you are the first girl in Bowdoin's long history to submit a formal application for the freshman class.
Dick Moll
Students in Scanlon's 200-level seminar, Forty Years: The History of Women at Bowdoin, uncovered this hidden gem of Bowdoin history during original research about the co-education of the College in the early '70s.
After a semester of intensive research, the students have collected troves of documents and photos, notes and ephemera from the Bowdoin archives, and have conducted dozens of hours of interviews with Bowdoin alums, faculty, staff, trustees and community members.
The fruits of their semester-long research is now accessible on a course web site, which went public at a launch celebration on Dec. 9, 2011, the final day of classes.
The research is organized around themes relating to co-education -- prehistory, the co-education process, curriculum, athletics, extracurriculars, social life and fraternities, and the Women's Resource Center – and includes 66 student-annotated documents.
Making a Documentary on Women
The process of storytelling is only beginning for Angelica Guerrero '11, who is compiling more than 25 hours of videotaped interviews about the history of women at Bowdoin. She plans to edit the footage down to a one-hour documentary as part of an honors project.
"Everyone has such a rich story to tell," says Guerrero. "What stands out is the way in which these stories are in conversation with each other without even knowing it, in spite of difference in years that they graduated. Listening to people share their story is a learning experience -- technical, intellectual and emotional as well."
A timeline of notable events includes Bowdoin President Joshua Chamberlain's 1871 inaugural address in which he urges that Bowdoin become coeducational, the 1972 opening of coeducational housing, and the establishment in 1992 of a major in women's studies.
Photos and documents are supplemented with fascinating oral histories. The students taped more than 25 hours of one-on-one audio interviews and videotaped five focus groups of alums, faculty, trustees and staff, which poignantly and humorously give human shape to this era of profound institutional change at the College.
"I had actually decided when I was about 10 years old that I was coming to Bowdoin and the fact that it wasn't co-ed didn't matter," says Elissa Berry '75 in an video interview with two students. "… When they announced they were going co-ed, within a week I had an interview and an application submitted. It was just part of my plan."
Berry's plucky attitude is echoed among many of the women who preceded and followed her, in spite – or maybe because of – the social and academic hurdles many of them faced as they helped to transform the all-male domain.
From Patricia Pope '75: "I remember one time I used to braid my hair back and I had someone sitting behind me who was just very upset with me because he thought that I was getting favorable treatment from the professor in that class, which I wasn't, and to my amazement, I got out of class and he had put chewing gum all up and down my braid…"
Current Women's Basketball co-captain Jillyan Henrikson '12 (two-time NESCAC Player of the Week) says she was amazed to learn about the persistence of women athletes in the early years of co-education, when they struggled even to get uniforms and a place to play.
"When they first got here they were constantly fighting for equality," observes Henrikson, who interviewed early athletes, as well as Bowdoin Senior Leadership Gifts Officer Dick Mersereau '69, who was a volunteer women's basketball coach from 1975-1981.
According to Mersereau: "I innocently asked somewhere toward the beginning of the season, 'How come we're practicing and playing in Sargent Gym, and the men are in Morrell Gym?' And the answer came back, 'Well the girls aren't as good as the boys.' In other words, the girls don't deserve equal treatment because they're not as accomplished."
"I think it is empowering that these women decided to go to a school like Bowdoin, all men. It's definitely a chance I would have been willing to take," adds Henrikson. "It was cool to compare their experience with my own. They had a really close-knit set of girls, like my team today."
Student researchers K. Skyler Walley '12 and Samuel Shapiro '14 assembled several of Bowdoin's veteran professors for a focus group on faculty perspectives: Helen Cafferty, Steve Cerf, Chris Potholm and June Vail.
Cafferty was one of a small cadre of women teaching at the College when she arrived in 1972, and became the first female professor to rise through all ranks: assistant, associate, and full professor.
"Bowdoin was an extremely gracious place then as it is now," observed Cafferty. "I felt very welcomed and supported by a group of faculty families. The male faculty were, at worst, awkward and were either somewhat condescending without meaning to be or cavalier.
"I think the real issue that created some dissatisfaction was …. we knew that higher standards were being applied for women's admission … Through the years, I think the admissions office itself came to the conclusion that one could not sustain this inequality. When they went to equal percentages of applicant pools, that part of it felt like a relief."
Pope also spoke to that issue, from a student perspective:
"The professors expected more from women, without question," says Pope. "We were very often called on first in class; at times were point blank told 'We expect you to lead the class in grades.'
"I thought that was curious, but I think that was part of the dynamic of motivating women to do well academically, not to feel that we couldn't do well given our peer group. But also I think there was a genuine desire on the part of the professors for women to succeed at Bowdoin and to succeed happily, and not to be overwhelmed by being the first females in the class."
Scanlon says she and the class were surprised to discover one perspective shared by virtually all of these pioneering women at Bowdoin:
"One of the things that we're discovering, from the beginning and all through the interviews, is the degree of affiliation people feel with this place," Scanlon says. "Whether their experiences here were wholly positive or not, Bowdoin has a lasting grip on people. It's remarkable."
A testament to the longer-term effects of co-education at Bowdoin is a visible part of Scanlon's class: There are ten women and one male student.
Samuel Shapiro, a gender and women's studies major, says his presence in the otherwise all-female class is no big deal: "I don't pay much attention to the fact that I'm the only male. In any class some people talk more or less, gender doesn't impact that.
"I just liked the seminar size and learning more about the history of women at Bowdoin," he adds. "I thought it would be interesting because it's something that directly reflects my experience and environment, whereas, a class about women in Asia or Europe wouldn't have the personal impact this class would."
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SGX Engine Core contains the basic functionality which underpins SGX, a 3D graphics engine from Steven Goodwin. It is based around a series of null drivers and loosely-coupled modules to facilitate an infinitely upgradable engine. It is primarily suited to games and digital TV backdrops.
An OpenGL library for image-based CSG rendering.
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Access News returns for a second season on KLRU this month. Access News is a unique half-hour program hosted by Tamara Suiter-Ocuto. Tamara interviews congressional leaders, Nobel Prize laureates, law enforcement officials, New York Times best selling authors, community activists, and more. Each episode is presented in American Sign Language, English, and captioned! The civic-learning featured segments, called "A More Perfect Union" are hosted by Professor Don Miller. Both Tamara and Don are Deaf. The program is designed for total access-ibility. The issues discussed are engaging, topical, relevant, and important for all viewers Deaf and hearing alike.
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Donna Howard, Texas State Representative
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Sanford Levinson, Author and Professor of Law at UT
Andres Tijerina, Author, Activist, Professor of History at ACC
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Bernadette Rae talks to Black Grace's Zoe Watkins about the evolution of the company's latest production
In three years with Black Grace, dancer Zoe Watkins has performed in North America, Hawaii, Guam, Switzerland, Korea and, in March this year, a 12-centre tour of Germany. Included in the German performances was a 35-minute version of artistic director Neil Ieremia's new creation, Waka, a work that explores the idea of a raft as a metaphor for hope. The piece was also performed in May at the Busan International Dance Festival in Korea, alongside repertoire piece Amata.
A full-length version debuts in four North Island centres, through August.
Set to a mix of New Zealand music by Porirua harpist Natalia Mann, Salmonella Dub and Fat Freddy's Drop, the work is inspired in part by Bill Viola's frightening video installation, titled The Raft, in which a group of people waiting at a bus stop are suddenly blasted by high-pressure waves of water and struggle for endless minutes against the torrent. It also responds to the painting The Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand by Louis J. Steele and Charles F. Goldie and to Theodore Gericault's famous The Raft of the Medusa, which depicts all the terror of a shipwreck.
"In the beginning Neil kept a lot of those concepts close to his chest," says Watkins of Black Grace's collaborative creative process, which included a five-week development period before the German tour, and another five weeks post-Korea to expand the work.
"He gave us related words and tasks, and all the dancers had to come up with our own ideas around the concept of a raft as hope. Different people have different 'rafts' and use them in different ways. You have to draw on your own experiences. We all have different upbringings that shape our ideas, we form different relationships - we all have different experiences of our life being in danger."
The result is "very physical - but that is a given for Neil and for Black Grace", she says.
German reviews spoke of "technical finesse of almost archaic rawness" and "a powerful demonstration of strength and battle readiness".
That strength and powerful physicality is a challenge that Watkins revels in. "I love it," she says. "You are constantly pushed to the max creatively and physically. The steps are hard and you have to work extremely hard. The whole environment here challenges you to be the very best you can possibly be."
To balance all that challenge is the huge opportunity that Black Grace offers its small core, including Watkins, of senior dancers. While everyone starts on a contract for a specific project, Watkins is one of three who have permanent status.
"This is a proper job," she says of her tenure with Black Grace, with considerable glee. "I never thought, as a teenager, that dance in New Zealand could offer that - I work 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. I get holiday and sick pay. And I don't have to wait tables in between."
Watkins graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2005 and worked as a freelance artist, with a long association with Ann Dewey's Spinning Sun before joining Black Grace in 2009. The 27-year-old was struck by the number of teenagers in the full houses their performances drew on the recent German foray.
"The arts are huge there," she says.
"Young people go to the theatre or the opera or to a dance performance every Friday night. It is important to them and to their culture. We are such a young country ..."
What: Waka with Black Grace dance company
Where and when: Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre, Wellington, to July 31
Forum North, Whangarei, August 4
WEL Trust Academy of Performing Arts, Hamilton, August 8-11
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DDS In a Nutshell
To explain DDS I will take advantage of a running example that is simple and generic enough that you should easily relate to it. I will describe the example in this article and then use it to explain the various DDS features throughout the series. To ensure that you can experiment with what I'll be presenting in the various article all examples will be based on OpenSplice DDS [4], an Open Source DDS implementation, and will use the upcoming ISO C++ DDS API available via the SimD (Simple Dds) [5] Open Source project. The source code for the examples will also be available as part of the SimD distribution.
The example that I will use is the temperature monitoring and control system for a very large building, where each floor of the building has several rooms, each of which is equipped with a set of temperature and humidity sensors and one or more conditioners. The application is supposed to perform both monitoring for all the elements in the building as well as temperature and humidity control for each of the various rooms.
This application is a typical distributed monitoring and control application in which you have data telemetry from several sensors distributed over some spatial location and you also have the control action that has to be applied to the actuators -- our conditioners.
Now that we've created a task for you to solve, let's see what DDS has to offer.
The key abstraction at the foundation of DDS is a fully distributed Global Data Space (GDS). It is important to remark that the DDS specification requires the implementation of the Global Data Space to be fully distributed to avoid the introduction of single point of failure or single point of bottleneck. Publishers and Subscribers can join or leave the GDS at any point in time as they are dynamically discovered. The dynamic discovery of Publisher and Subscribers is performed by the GDS and does not rely on any kind of centralized registry such as those found in other pub/sub technologies such as JMS. Finally, I should mention that the GDS also discovers application defined data types and propagates them as part of the discovery process.
In essence, the presence of a GDS equipped with dynamic discovery means that when you deploy a system, you don't have to configure anything. Everything will be automatically discovered and data will begin to flow. Moreover, since the Global Data Space GDS is fully distributed you don't have to fear the crash of some server inducing unknown consequences on the system availability -- in DDS there is no single point of failure, although applications can crash and restart, or connect/disconnect, the system as a whole continues to run.
I've evoked several times this vision of the data flowing from Publishers to Subscribers. In DDS this data is called a "Topic" and represents the unit of information that can be produced or consumed. A Topic is defined as a triad composed of by a type, a unique name, and a set of Quality of Service (QoS) policies which, as I'll explain in great details later in this series, are used to control the non-functional properties associated with the Topic. For the time being it is enough to say that if QoS are not explicitly set, then the DDS implementation will use some defaults prescribed by the standard.
Topic Types can be represented with the subset of the OMG IDL [6] standard that defines struct types, with the limitations that Any-types are not supported. If you are not familiar with the IDL standard you should not worry as essentially, it is safe for you to think that Topic Types are defined with "C-like" structures whose attributes can be primitive types, such as short, long, float, string, etc., arrays, sequences, union and enumerations. Nesting of structures is also allowed. On the other hand, If you are familiar with IDL I am sure you are now wondering how DDS relates to CORBA. The only things that DDS has in common with CORBA is that it uses a subset of IDL; other than this, CORBA and DDS are two completely different Standards and two completely different and complementary technologies.
Now, getting back to our temperature control application, you might want to define topics representing the reading of temperature sensors, the conditioners and perhaps the rooms in which the temperature sensors and the conditioner are installed. Listing 1 provides an example of how you might define the topic type for the temperature sensor.
enum TempScale { CELSIUM, KELVIN, FARENHEIT }; struct TempSensorType { short id; float temp; float hum; TempScale scale; }; #pragma keylist TempSensorType id
As Listing 1 reveals, IDL structures really look like C/C++ structures, as a result learning to write Topic Types is usually effortless for most programmers. If you are a "detail-oriented" person you'll have noticed that the Listing 1 also includes a suspicious #pragma keylist directive. This directive is used to specify keys. The TempSensorType is specified to have a single key represented by the sensor ID (id) attribute. At runtime, each key value will identify a specific stream of data, more precisely, in DDS we say that each keyvalue identifies a Topic instance. For each instance it is possible for you to observe the life-cycle and learn about interesting transitions such as when it first appeared in the system, or when it was disposed. Keys, along with identifying instances, are also used to capture data relationships as you would in traditional entity relationship modeling. Keys can be made up by an arbitrary number of attributes, some of which could also be defined in nested structures. Once defined the topic type, you can programmatically register a DDS topic using the DDS API by simply instantiating a Topic class with proper type and name:
dds::Topic< TempSensorType> tsTopic("TempSensorTopic");
Now that you have seen how to specify topics it is time to explore how you can make this Topics flow between Publishers and Subscribers. DDS uses the specification of user-defined Topic Types to generate efficient encoding and decoding routines as well as strongly typed DataReaders and DataWriters.
Creating a DataReader or a DataWriter is pretty straightforward as it simply requires to construct an object by instantiating a template class with the Topic Type and passing by the desired Topic object. After you've created a DataReader for your "TempSensorTopic" you are ready to read the data produced by temperature sensors distributed in your system. Likewise after you've created a DataWriter for your "TempSensorTopic" you are ready to write (publish) data. Listings 2 and 3 show the steps required to do so.
If you look a bit closer to Listing 3, you'll see that our first DDS application is using polling to read data out of DDS every second. A sleep is used to avoid spinning in the loop to fast since the DDS read is non-blocking and returns right away if there is no data available. Although polling is a good way to write your first DDS examples it is good to know that DDS supports two ways for informing your application of data availability, listeners and waitsets. Listeners can be registered with readers for receiving notification of data availability as well as several other interesting status changes such as violation in QoS. Waitsets, which are modeled after the Unix-style select call, can be used for waiting the happening of interesting events, one of which could be the availability of data. I will detail these coordination mechanism later on in this series.
I think that looking at this code you'll be a bit puzzled since the data reader and the data writer are completely decoupled. It is not clear where they are writing data to or reading it from, how they are finding about each other and so on.
/********************************************************** * DataWriter **********************************************************/ dds::Topic< TempSensorType> tsTopic("TempSensorTopic"); // Create a Publisher connected to the proper partition // Create a DataWriter dds::pub::DataWriter< TempSensorType> dw(tsTopic); TempSensorType ts = {1, 26.0F, 70.0F, CELSIUS}; // Write Data dw.write(ts);
This is the DDS magic! As I had explained in the very beginning of this article DDS is equipped with dynamic discovery of both participants as well as userdefined data types. Thus it is DDS that discovers data produces and consumers and takes care of matching them. My strongest recommendation is that you try to compile the code examples available with SimD under demo/ddj-series/01 and run them on your machine or even better on a couple of machines. Try running one writer and several readers. Then try adding more writers and see what happens. Also experiment with arbitrary killing (meaning kill -9) readers/writers and restarting them. This way you'll see the dynamic discovery in action.
/********************************************************** * DataReader **********************************************************/ dds::Topic< TempSensorType> tsTopic("TempSensorTopic"); // Create a DataReader dds::sub::DataReader< TempSensorType> dr(tsTopic); dds::sub::SampleInfoSeq info; TempSensorSeq data; while (true) { dr.read(data, info); for (int i =0; i < data.length(); ++i) std::cout < < data[i] < < std::endl; sleep(1); }
Concluding Remarks
In this first article of the DDS series I've explained the abstraction behind DDS, and introduced some of its foundational concepts. I've also shown you how to write your first DDS applications that distributes temperature sensors values over a distributed system. This was an effort taking less less than 15 lines of code in total, remarkable, isn't it? In the upcoming articles I introduce you to more advanced concepts provided by DDS and by the end of the series you should be able to use all the DDS features to create sophisticated real-time publish/subscribe applications.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003
[2] OMG. 'Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems Specification. DDS
[3] OMG. Data Distribution Ser vice Interoperability Wire-Protocol Specification. DDSI v2.1
[4] OpenSplice DDS
[5] New ISO C++ DDS API Reference Implementation
[6] Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA/IIOP) v3.1


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Thanks, nelz. That's useful. It sounds as if I start investigating Asus models I may be in luck then.
I too am no lover of touch screens. I recently bought a budget smartphone because I felt there was a gap in my knowledge in this particular area - apps, Android, etc - which needed to be addressed, but I hate the way the screen is permanently covered in fingermarks. Being so unused to it, I also find the touch technique a little difficult at the moment. I am always touching things I don't mean to, and trying to navigate web pages on it is an absolute nightmare compared with a computer!


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Voting for East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday is crucially important as much for who is not running as for who is. Town Councilwoman Theresa Quigley, who has two years left in her term, has been at the nexus of most of the truly dreadful initiatives the town board has taken up since the beginning of 2010. Look at any of the many efforts to weaken zoning, politicize land preservation, or pay back political supporters and friends, and her imprint is all over the place. This is why bare-knuckle toughness is called for now.
The Wilkinson majority's regressive ideology must be seen for what it is. Some voters who remain furious about the McGintee deficit debacle nevertheless call Mr. Wilkinson the worst town supervisor ever, but what they really are responding to is a board majority that has lost sight of what is truly important here: community, quality of life, and preserving the sense of place, which is dependent on our natural resources.
Six candidates are in the running for two seats. They are, on the Independence line, Marilyn Behan and Bill Mott; for the Republicans, Richard Haeg and Steven Gaines, and for the Democrats, Sylvia Overby and Peter Van Scoyoc. They can be quickly divided into two sets: those who know what they are talking about and those who don't. Mr. Van Scoyoc, Ms. Overby, and Mr. Mott are in the first group; Mr. Haeg, Ms. Behan, and Mr. Gaines in the second.
In Mr. Gaines's case, this may not be a fatal flaw. He has made a point of admitting that he is a newcomer to East Hampton government, and his intelligence and honesty about it is welcome. If he does not prevail Tuesday, we would encourage the next town board to consider him for an appointed position right away.
Mr. Mott, the only elected official in the running, has been a Republican town trustee for 12 years. He knows whereof he speaks, is an advocate for the environment, and would help restore smooth relations with his former board. He has had valuable experience in working with the public and would be an asset on the board. Mr. Van Scoyoc, with long experience on the town zoning and planning boards, is studiously nonpartisan, thinks long term, is highly intelligent, and speaks from the heart. Ms. Overby led the Amagansett citizens committee, was on the town planning board, knows the town code backward and forward, and brooks no nonsense.
Any of the three are well worth electing. They have the backbone needed to help put Town Hall back on the right track, even if they wind up in a minority position.
Our endorsement goes to Mr. Van Scoyoc and Mr. Mott, for reasons of political balance, though we would be pleased as well if Ms. Overby was a winner.


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The Who singer Roger Daltrey is interviewed in the latest issue of Q Magazine. An excerpt has been posted on the magazine's website where Daltrey talks about his initial reaction to some of the band's most celebrated albums, like Tommy and Quadrophenia. Daltrey admits to being slightly confused upon first hearing bandmate Pete Townshend's ideas: "Did I have to ask him what the hell he was on about? All the time [laughs]," Daltrey said.
But the singer also explained that he would eventually be able to find certain subjects that he could relate to and expand upon: "But equally, there's always one sentence that comes out of that rambling brain of his that you can grasp. With Tommy it was: 'Imagine living life where you can only feel vibrations' and I could latch on to that."
In related news Daltrey recently told the London Times that The Who will record a new album this summer, their first since 2006's Endless Wire. Townshend has apparently written more than 100 songs for the project. Daltrey is also getting ready to start work on the band's memoir.


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The animation and art design of the upcoming DuckTales: Remastered are two of its most important elements, and the latest "duckumentary" for the game focuses on those elements.
The designers talk about the influence of the original DuckTales comic artists on their work, share anecdotes about the difficulty of tracking down a cane like Scrooge's, and reminisce about acting out all the assorted animations.
For more on DuckTales: Remastered, you can check out a full playthrough of the Himalayas level. The game is coming to the PlayStation Network, Wii U,
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Looking for a perfect home can be an emotional roller-coaster, but a new national study suggests finding the right property often comes down to love at first sight. The study showed that 80% of prospective homebuyers know whether a house is for them the moment they cross the threshold. The poll also found Canadians spend an average of five months house hunting and visit roughly 10 properties in the process. One-third of current homeowners said they felt rushed into a purchase and their biggest concern was that they would find something seriously wrong with the house after the deal finalized.
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Sweetwater's Major League (ages 11-12) D'backs finished as the runnerup team after advancing to the championship game of their District 5 Little League tournament. Sweetwater beat the Snyder Braves 9-7 and Jim Ned 5-4, then lost to Dixie's Mets 5-4. But, they advanced as the wild card team and beat Wylie's Rangers 11-8 to advance to the District 5 championship game for a rematch with Dixie's Mets. However, they lost 4-3 to finish as the District 5 runnerup. Pictured are, back row from left, coaches Arthur Arzate, Joe Hall and Randy Melendez; second row, Cameron Stevenson, Andrew Gerold, Luke Williams, Andrew Melendez, Keagan Martinez, Matthew Hernandez; and front row, Jakobee Allred, Cameron Lujan, Dalton Woofter, Tristan Longoria, Kobe Clark and Landon Hartkopf.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Sep 2012 14:12 UTC
"Today, Valve will launch the beta of Big Picture mode, a version of Steam designed for your television. That's right. The de facto central hub of PC gaming is now designed to run while you're lounging in your living room - and with a controller, no less. I've tried out Big Picture. It's sleek, intuitive, and groundbreaking in several ways." We've talked about this before. If there's one company that can upend consoles, it's Valve. Everything is falling into place, and I wouldn't be surprised if this - what is essentially the software for the 'Steambox' - will have a tremendous effect on the games industry. Looks great, too.
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Especially when it comes to that. The 360 has been a top seller for 20 months in a row.
Microsoft has extensive content deals, an existing huge base to harness, users who spend increasingly more time on the 360 actually watching content, a promising new elections hub, and synergy with Windows through Smart Glass.
Microsoft is already in the marketplace with their hardware, and already has a tremendous amount of both experience and mind share.
Microsoft is undoubtedly ahead in nearly every metric. However, for some balance, it is a very nascent market. I think there will be many Kings over the years, and there is a huge opportunity.
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The Shinto "Saw-Rasp" has always been a curious thing to me. I first spotted it years ago hanging on the wall of our local Rockler store in the sandpaper section. It looks like (and probably is) a series of 10 hacksaw blades that have been bent and riveted together. It looked so unfamiliar to me , not a rasp, not a saw , that I never had the urge to try it.
But then I saw how furnituremaker Glen Huey uses the tool on his cabriole legs and decided to try the Shinto out on the legs for the Creole Table. I'm glad I did. The Shinto has turned out to be one of the most pleasant surprises of the project.
There are two parts to the Shinto: the blade and the handle. The blade is about 10-3/8″ long, 1-1/8″ wide and vaguely boat-shaped. One side of the blade has coarse teeth (11 tpi) and the other side has fine teeth (about 25 tpi). The handle ingeniously grips the blade by hooking over the rivets that pass through the blade. And then you lock the blade by turning a screw up by the hot-dog-looking handle.
The handle is nicely finished, much better than what you'd expect, actually. But you don't need the handle assembly. In fact, I think this tool works better without the handle attached (and you can save some money as a result; more on that later).
The Shinto is an "intermediate" shaping tool , what I would call a "medium" tool in the "coarse, medium and fine" classification system I use for most tools. It is best used after the coarse shaping of the band saw, jigsaw or turning saw. The rasp's long length allows you to true a curved surface up and remove the coarse marks from the saw blade. But it won't produce a ready-to-finish surface at the end, even with the fine teeth. After shaping the legs with the band saw and Shinto, I took them to their finished state with a cabinet file and a little scraping (files and scrapers are classic "fine" tools).
The Shinto is as fast at shaping as any traditional rasp I've used, and it leaves a remarkably nice surface for a hacksaw-based tool. One of the reasons it's so fast in use is because you have both teeth immediately available to you when you use the tool without the handle , just flip the blade over and go to town.
I also really like its price. The Shinto with the handle is $25.99. But I recommend you skip the handle and just buy the blade and save about $10. Our Rockler retail outlet sells the replacement blade for about $16, though I cannot find the replacement handle for sale on Rockler's website. However, Highland Hardware will sell you just the blade for $15.99.
As a couple readers have pointed out, there also is a version of this tool that has a handle on the blade and looks more like a traditional rasp. It's available in 9″ and 11″ lengths from Japan Woodworker. Of course, buying the blade alone is still the best value.
The "Shinto" name is curious to me. In college I took a fair number of classes on Western and Asian religions, including several classes on Buddhism and Shinto, the two religions that are intertwined into Japanese culture. In my studies, we learned that the Shinto religion considers all natural objects to have their own spirit, which should be revered. So, my professor said, a Shinto shrine or other structure wouldn't use any nails or metal in its construction because that would be offensive to the kami (or spirit) of the tree.
I wonder what the kami in my legs thinks about the Shinto hacksaw tool that chewed it up pretty good last week.


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Officials are feeling optimistic about future tourism in Japan, and for good reason. In September, news arrived that Japan had won the bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. By October 2013, 8.6 million foreign visitors had already been to The Land of the Rising Sun, and by December, the count reached its goal of 10 million.
The 2013 Visit Japan Travel Mart, hosted by the Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) at the Yokohama Grand Pacifico Convention Center in Yokohama, saw record numbers as well. Almost 300 buyers from 21 different countries attended, which is the highest number of buyers to ever have attended the conference. They met with 308 sellers from Japan's local destinations, hotels and attractions. All participants were enthusiastic about the economy and tourism to Japan.
For Tel Chu, product development manager of Tonichi Travel Co. Ltd in Hong Kong, the VJTM is a valuable resource. Over the two days of the conference, Chu attended almost 80 formal appointments and participated in a number of informal conversations.
"I went to establish more working partnerships and opportunity in Japan," said Chu. "VJTM makes it easy for me to meet all my potential suppliers in one place."
For him, it's not just about direct business alliances either. There's a valuable networking aspect as well.
"I was able to exchange experiences with buyers doing the same kind of business as I am, but in other countries," said Chu. "It's hard to share experiences like this at home with my direct competitors."
JTA has been hard at work on its revamped website and brand campaign as well. At the conference, JTA senior director Yasuhiro Iijima talked about improvements to the "Discover the Spirit of Japan" promotion.
After much research on what Japan's visitors are seeking, the brand campaign focuses on three core values: character, creation and common life. The JTA has found that guests want to experience the unique, enigmatic character of the Japanese people. Visitors also come to Japan to enjoy creations — art, food, and crafts — born out of the Japanese culture of meticulousness and intense attention to detail. Finally, visitors seek the simple pleasures of common life in Japan, particularly those connected to nature and everyday Japanese life.
These core values are the focus of JTA's recently updated website, which features more than 180 videos in English, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. By focusing on the three core values, and by continuing to offer travelers a variety of ways to experience Japan, JTA and the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) hope to see 20 million inbound tourists by 2020, the year that Tokyo will host the Olympic Games.
To streamline efforts and combine forces, Visit Japan Travel Mart 2014 will be combined with the JATA Tourism Expo and will take place in September. An effort such as this, combined with the palpable excitement around the 2020 Olympic Summer Games, makes the goal of hosting 20 million visitors seem within reach.
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An article and headline in Wednesday's edition of the Times-Record incorrectly stated that the Maple Valley boys basketball team is trying to win their third straight Barnes County Tournament title, when the team is trying to win its fourth.
Maple Valley won the tournament twice in 2010, when the boys and girls tournaments switched months, and also won in 2011.
Thursday's BCT Schedule
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FSHP vs. Enderlin, 3 p.m.
BCN vs. GCC, 4:30
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Maple Valley vs. LLM, 6 p.m.
Valley City vs. Milnor, 7:30 p.m.
VCHS Wrestling Beats Devils Lake
The Valley City High School wrestling team beat Devils Lake 69-12 Tuesday in a dual in Devils Lake.
The Hi-Liners wrestle again tonight when they host Fargo North at 7 p.m. and also host the VCHS Holiday Tournament at the HAC on Saturday.
Olson Named Wrestler of the Week
The Farmers Union Insurance wrestler of the week is Masyn Olson.
Masyn Olson is a first year wrestler. Masyn had an outstanding tournament Dec 8 at the Grand Forks Sertoma Junior Varsity tournament. Masyn advanced to the finals with three straight wins before falling in the finals to a wrestler from Detroit Lakes.
The wrestler of the week is sponsored by Farmers Union Insurance -Kirk Olson and Tyler VanBruggen
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The Jamestown Valley City Bantam B Prowl Hockey Team lost 4-1 to the Fargo Freeze Bantam B Green on Friday night in Fargo. Scoring the lone goal for JVC was Braden Sherfy with the assist from Brandon Miller. Nicole Mayland had a total of 19 saves for the game.
The JVC Bantam B Prowl split with the Bismarck Americans on Sunday. The first game win went to Bismarck, who won 2-1 with Hunter Beckman scoring the lone unassisted goal for JVC. Alex Schauer skated away with a total of 32 saves for the game.
The second game win went to Jamestown/Valley City, who won 4-3. Brandon Miller notched a hat trick, with three goals on two assists from Jaryn Stading and one assist from Hunter Beckman. Stading had one goal with an assist from Miller. Mayland skated away with a total of 30 saves for the game.
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Former Monarch, Ronnie Cameron Spoke to the Monarchs Prior to the Liberty Game
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NORFOLK, Va. – Former Old Dominion University All-American defensive linemen Ronnie Cameron was back on campus last weekend and spoke to the Monarchs prior to the Liberty game.
"Ronnie gave an inspiring speech to our team on what it means to be a Monarch football player. He talked about the pride he feels in his alma mater. He reminded the players to cherish every game at SB Ballard with the 12th Monarchs," ODU Head Coach Bobby Wilder said. "He talked about the winning culture that has been established and the importance of teaching the new Monarchs the Aim High philosophy. I was excited the most accomplished player in our brief history addressed our team."
Cameron played two years at Old Dominion after transferring from Hofstra. Cameron was named the 2011 CAA Defensive Player of the Year and Student Athlete of the Year. Cameron played just two seasons at ODU, but ranks sixth in school history with 145 tackles and is second in sacks and tackles for loss. Last year, Cameron was on the active roster for the Cleveland Browns, and the practice squad of the Philadelphia Eagles.


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This program was recorded at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center which is dedicated to preserving native plants and wildflowers and restoring the beauty and the biological richness of North America. Meet the pollinators and their plants and learn how people benefit. April 13, 2011.
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Posted on January 10, 2011
It has been suggested that your Uncle Blogsy resolve to be more positive about his donors, volunteers, and customers in the coming year. Uncle Blogsy no longer makes New Year's Resolutions, sweet pickle cobbler. He feels it implies he is not making an effort the rest of the year.
Besides, if I get any more positive, I'll float away from the Earth and next be heard of when I'm shot down in somebody's No-Fly Zone. The constant joys of working at this position are so reliable and so exciting that I prefer to keep quiet about them, lest somebody offer to do it for nothing and cut me out of my position. Anyway, if you're so all-fired positive to donors and volunteers, it ENCOURAGES them.
But just for example, the joy of having good, solid book sorters is inestimable. (Note to all those of you who have volunteered to come in and sort books: I'll CALL you when I need you. Honest. Doesn't this look like an honest face?) Some people, see, get it and some people never will. The ones who come in with the attitude that they want to clear 16 cubic feet of banana boxes today, and grimly stack book after book without pause do NOT get it. The ones who come in with the attitude that they want to clear away thirty shopping bags with broken handles, but keeping getting hung up on "Hey! Look at this! This is different!" are the ones who get it. In the short run, they may not get as much accomplished, but in the long run, it's the people who are interested in the books who feel the need to keep coming back to do it some more. (We won't even talk about the ones who come in to clear away sixteen boxes with broken bottoms, say "Ooh, these books are DUSTY!", and run away.)
A few years ago, we had a retiree who had been rather, um, focused during her lifetime. That is, she read books dealing with what she did for a living, and almost nothing else. She picked up a book and said, "THAT'S a weird title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance! What do you suppose THAT'S all about?"
I had decided it would be quickest simply to say "Yes, that is an interesting title" when the door opened and another volunteer came in. She hurried to show him this title she'd just discovered.
"Oh, Pirsig!" he said. "Do you know, that book changed my life? I bought a copy about ten years ago, and it just changed my whole attitude. I won't swear it lowered my blood pressure at the same time, but if I were even still around today without it, I sure wouldn't be going out and doing any volunteer work. You ought to read that."
She wrinkled her nose; reading anything but the title hadn't occurred to her. "It's that good? And it's been around ten years?"
"Oh, longer than that," he told her. "But I never heard of it 'til I spotted it at the Book Fair here and bought it because I liked the title."
So yeah, there are joys among the banana boxes. Don't spread it around.


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Sweet Lou returned to The Meadowlands in style in the first round of the TVG Free For All Championship series with a dominant and compelling performance on May 10th, sailing around the East Rutherford oval in 1:48.3. Among those left in his wake was his stable-mate and the richest pacer in history, Foiled Again.
"(Sweet Lou) was super last week. That mile was as good as I have seen him since he was two," was the reaction from trainer Ron Burke. "We tried him at Yonkers, but it didn't seem to suit him, but all his efforts on the bigger tracks this year have been excellent." He will be driven by Ron Pierce once again.
Sweet Lou (post 10) leads a three-pronged Ron Burke attack in the second $50,000 TVG Free For All Championship leg Saturday night at The Meadowlands. Joining him this round are stable-mates Clear Vision (post 1) and Bettor's Edge (post 9). While conspicuous by his absence, Burke explained why Foiled Again is qualifying this week and not entered in the TVG FFA event. "Each leg I want to race three out of the four I have in there. This week Foiled gets the night off."
Clear Vision, who just missed to Dancin Yanee in a world record mile of 1:47.2 at Pocono last week is having an excellent campaign thus far for Burke and will be driven by Matt Kakaley. "He has been awesome this year," Burke added. "He'll be a factor in there." The last of the trio is Bettor's Edge, piloted by Joe Bongiorno, who despite his last two race lines, has been better than one may think. "He had no chance last week the way the race shaped up, but he was super," said Burke. "The key with him is getting him into the race and if he gets a trip, he'll be right there."
The Burke entry has been installed as the 8/5 morning-line favorite for this week's $50,000 TVG Free For All leg.
Warrawee Needy (post 3) will begin as the second choice, sporting a 3-1 morning line with Tim Tetrick at the lines once again. Warrawee Needy came up a neck short to Allstar Legend in the $30,000 Free For All Handicap last week at The Meadowlands after setting a blistering pace, getting to three-quarters in 1:19.4.
Bolt The Duer made a favorable impression in his 2014 debut, finishing a solid third behind Sweet Lou and Foiled Again. "He was really good," said his regular driver Mark MacDonald. "He acted like he needed that start. He was racing against horses that had all been racing quite a bit already this year. I really think he is ready to step up and have a very big year." Bolt The Duer will start from post 2 and is 4-1 on the morning line.
The remainder of this week's TVG FFA leg consists of Thinking Out Loud, Modern Legend, Word Power, Golden Receiver and Dovuto Hanover. Total earnings for the field of 10 is over $12.5 Million. This $50,000 TVG FFA leg will go postward as race six on a 13-race program that also features the second leg of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for three year old colt and filly pacers. Post time is 7:15 P.M.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Oct 2010 22:22 UTC, submitted by vivainio
This is kind of... Well, good news, I suppose? It depends on where you allegiances lie, but it seems like Ubuntu is warming up to the idea of using Qt to develop applications. It's no secret that Qt is a far more advanced development framework than Gtk+, so it only makes sense for Ubuntu - a GNOME/Gtk+ distribution - is looking at it.
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RE: I have to say it...
by lemur2 on Thu 21st Oct 2010 02:48 UTC in reply to "I have to say it..."
I'm one of those fellows that refuse to install a Qt app on my GNOME desktop... for the same reason I don't like install a Java app. It behaves and looks differently than the rest of my apps. I've tried KDE - but it's ugly in my opinion, and not as polished as GNOME. That's my perspective as a user. However, as a developer I'd be absolutely thrilled if there was a GNOME-like DE developed in Qt - that would rock.
In some respects I am similar ... I don't like GNOME applications on my KDE desktop. Gtk+ applications are tolerable, because KDE can integrate them well enough, but GNOME apps behave badly and they don't look good.
Not to worry though, most of the GNOME apps are over-simplistic and not flexible enough to bother with much. Using KDE I get to run all of the integrated-with-each-other apps in the KDE SC, and I can run Qt-based non-KDE apps and they are right at home and well integrated also, and even the gtk+ apps don't jar too badly except perhaps when it comes to a clumsy and limited GNOMEish file picker dialog box or the like.
Beauty is definitely in the eye of the boholder, it would seem.


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This takes about 15-20 minutes to ready and is totally crazy. I really wonder what he will say about this.
This takes about 15-20 minutes to ready and is totally crazy. I really wonder what he will say about this.
Amazing someone that overrated almost stole the Heisman.
The media/ND hype machine really is something unique in all of college sports, IMO.
Go Gators!
That was insane. I didn't know about all the "tragedies" going on in his life back in september and october. If this article is right then this is pretty sad to read.
Speculation is that he went along with it to cover up homosexuality from his Mormon family.
Either way, will he now be the Bengals' Vontaze Burfict of 2013?
Man, Deadspin can sure dig some stuff up.
No you guys he didnt say she was dead, he said shes "dead to me" for allowing herself to contract cancer.
"I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings."
Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
Weird, weird weird
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
He says he wasn't involved in the whole thing and was duped by someone. However he has said and his father has said that they had met in person before. How does that work?
My girlfriends dead you know. She fell off a cliff and died on impact. - Manti Te'o. Or maybe it was Happy Gilmore. Tough to keep track of these fake girlfriend stories.
ND and Te'o should have consulted a PR firm. When something bad happens, tell the truth, tell the whole truth, and tell it first. They must have been out of money from the Heisman campaign. Maybe the check from the BCS Championship slaughter is in the mail?
Can't win with 'em
Can't win without 'em
Notre Dame only recruits guys of high character and great intelligence.
Cincinnati Here We Go.
26 Years and Counting...
Didn't Manti learn anything from Lance?
This "statement" of his (and ND's too) is going to end up biting them both in the ass.
Where did he send the roses?
http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/s...100412aaa.htmlQ. No one would question how any person grieves, but what went into your decision or did you think at all about going back for your girlfriend's service? I understand you had a game that day but what was the decision there?
Manti Te'o: You know, I really wanted to see her. I really wanted to see her. But I knew that she made me promise, you know one day she made me promise that, she said, "Babe, if anything happens to me, you promise that you'll still stay over there and that you'll play and that you'll honor me through the way you play, and know that I would rather have you there." And just make sure that all she wanted was some white roses. White is her favorite color. So she just wanted some white roses and that's all she asked for. So I sent her roses and sent her two picks (interceptions) along with that, so that was good.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
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Bulldogs to Compete in Field of 37 Teams
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—This Saturday, the Bulldogs will make the trip to Wisconsin to compete in the fifth-annual Wisconsin Adidas Invitational, hosted by the University of Wisconsin. The meet's site is the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country course—a world-class 6k course that tests those who undertake it with hilly terrain.
The meet is one of the largest the team participates in all year—similar to the New England Championships. Of the 37 squads entered in the race, four are Ivy League rivals—including Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard. Yale cross country will match their muscle against these contenders in only two weeks at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. In addition, 26 of the top 40 teams in the country are scheduled to compete.
The week after, the Northeast Regionals will take place—a meet that will include several of this week's contenders, such as No. 1 Providence, No. 4 Boston College, No. 5 Syracuse, No. 8 Stony Brook and No. 11 University of Connecticut. Yale is currently ranked at No. 13, but has a great chance to improve upon that standing this weekend. A rise in the rankings would be fitting; it was at this meet last year that the bunch catapulted to No. 22 in the nation with an overall 13th-place finish in the meet. The Bulldogs outdid seven other nationally-ranked teams in order to earn this standing.
This year, the team is coming off a successful performance at the New England Championships—in which most runners had the chance to compete in either the varsity or junior varsity race. Last week's display of strength and depth among the team will be integral if the Bulldogs are to compete this weekend with an eye to overcome its more competitive opponents.
Kira Garry—a junior who has been consistently breaking 18-minutes in previous 5k races—is likely to spearhead the squad along with senior Liana Epstein-who last competed in the Boston College Invite, placing 30th. After last week's imposing performance that showed a marked improvement over her previous races, sophomore Elizabeth McDonald will also be one to look out for. Junior Anna Demaree similarly paced herself to a new season best and the third-fastest mark on the team. Freshmen Chandler Olson and Meredith Rizzo have so far proven valuable, as well—rounding out the squad's top-five scorers last week. Junior Emily Stark will also compete in this top squad composed of the team's best athletes.
The meet will take place at 12:00 P.M. this Saturday. Results will be posted on the host's website, here. Live stream will also be available during the meet on Flotrack.
Report by Maria Seravalli '16, Yale Sports Publicity


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Hypnosex Program -- Week 1/7
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Votes: 4
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What if I can't be hypnotized?
Most everyone has already been hypnotized and just never realized it. If you have ever "spaced out while watching television and didn't notice that time had passed, then you were hypnotized (if you couldn't remember what you were watching then you were deeply hypnotized). If you have ever been driving and "spaced out" and passed your exit, then you were hypnotized. If you have ever listened to a boring lecture and found your mind drifting off, then you were hypnotized. If you had given your subconscious mind suggestions during that time, then you would have been powerfully influenced. This program is designed with the beginner in mind, and no previous experience with hypnosis is required. If you have a hard time relaxing, this program is for you!
Is this some heavy breathing porno thing?
The HYPNOSEX program is not designed to create a sexual experience while you are listening to the program. Instead, you will learn how to develop and enhance your complete potential for pleasure while having a sexual experience with your partner.
Yes, but am I supposed to get turned on while listening to the tapes?
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What if I don't have a sexual partner right now?
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Do both partners need to participate? What if my partner refuses?
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Are there really higher levels of pleasure than those I have already experienced?
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Gallery: What To Wear to The Impending Zombie Apocalypse
This t-shirt is a wonderful reminder that, even when zombies are roaming the earth, some people, like Holly Golightly, will still look fabulous. But what should you wear when you first hear that Zombies are OMFG TAKING OVER THE PLANET? Pay close attention to the following gallery, because you need to be wearing things that will both help you fend for your life (hah, as if you could win against a rampaging herd of zombies) and also will make you look cool after you lose, and become a zombie yourself.[ITPGallery]


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The following is what our readers sounded off about this week:
Forget the park
I'm calling about the downtown park, somebody called in that the city of St. Charles should have a downtown park. You know what you're going to have? People with beer cans, and who is going to clean that up? I don't see having any more retail stores down there. You know what would be nice, a nice breakfast place in the downtown area that doesn't cost a lot of money for a family of four. A nice restaurant that a family can go to that doesn't cost a lot of money, in this environment, would be wonderful. Forget the park.
Park sounds good
I agree with the caller who suggested taking the vacant land along First Street, along the river, and making it into a downtown park. I agree that there is already a lot of vacant retail space. So let's have something that's enjoyable for visitors and residents. Sit along the park and watch the river go by. There aren't a lot of places we can do that.
Go direct the traffic
It's Sunday afternoon, June 8. Randall Road is backed up for miles due to the lights flashing red. No cops around to direct traffic, as usual. We sat from Fargo Boulevard, and to get up to the Commons took 15 minutes, and we found a Geneva cop sitting in the Commons. Why aren't they out there directing traffic?
Voting ID would be good
Voting is a privilege, not a right. Persons must be of legal age and must be citizens able to read and write English. States, except Illinois, are now trying to have registered voters show an approved ID to vote. These approved IDs can be a drivers license, state-issued ID card, military IDs, or any government-issued ID with a picture. The Democrats and liberals are filing lawsuits stating that seniors, minorities and the poor have [limited] access to these IDs. If there is one voter fraud because of an ineligible voter casting a vote, it is one too many. Democrats and liberals appear to want voter fraud. There are several months before the election, which is more than enough time to find a birth certificate to start the process of getting a government ID, with a picture.
Smoking, but in shape?
I'm driving down Randall Road, and there is a gal in a car. She is smoking, and, as we go forward, I notice that she pulls into the exercise at XSport. I'm thinking, hello, what's the point? You are smoking. It seems to me quite ridiculous that someone would be smoking and then go to exercise. It just doesn't make sense. So if you're driving down the street with your hand out, smoking, don't try to get in shape. You've already made your decision.
Nice neighbors, but not here
I was just reading an article in the Tribune about a lady who has nice neighbors. She doesn't have any trees in her yard, and they clean up the debris that their trees leave. They make sure there are no hanging limbs on her property. I wish it was like that in Batavia, but we have neighbors who put their ladders and wheelbarrows on the back of their property. They can't see it, but the neighbors can see it.
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This about says it all.
http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/mlb/story/9832314The Pittsburgh Pirates might be one of baseball's two or three franchises truly beyond resuscitation, and I can tell you why in three words: Dave Motherbleepin' Littlefield.
In his five tragic years as the team's executive zookeeper, Littlefield has committed the following offenses against common sense, among others: dealing away Aramis Ramirez for a bag of hair, dealing away Jason Schmidt for a bag of combs, prematurely giving up on Bronson "Brandon" Arroyo, and tying up the team's admittedly limited resources in negligible vets like Joe Randa, Jeromy Burnitz and Benito Santiago. Even when he has a good idea in theory -- ditching some spare parts at the trading deadline -- Littlefield finds a way to louse it up. In exchange for Craig Wilson and his perfectly operable bat, he received Shawn Chacon, who would have been cut by the Yankees within 48 hours. Too, he chose to include Oliver Perez -- who, despite his strike-zone allergies, remains a 25-year-old lefty who throws 96 mph -- as a throw-in in the deal that sent Roberto Hernandez to the Metsies
So naturally, the Pirates granted Littlefield a contract extension through 2008 last April. Hence this exercise is futile, as the team can't expect to escape the shackles of Littlefield's intellect-challenged stewardship anytime soon. Nonetheless, let's try to ... Save This Franchise!©®


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Atomiqon writes, "There are always games that we wait for, sometimes for years, in eager anticipation before they are finally released to the masses. Occasionally, after delays and long periods of media black-outs, some games get lost in the shuffle never to resurface. Below is a collection of games that seemed to have promise and appeal but were ultimately cancelled or have not been heard from in a long time."
More after the break.
the last guardian
i really need any info about this game
all i need is team ico telling us if this game will come out this gen or the next one
FF13 vs and Last Guardian could very well be the two gen shattering games this gen and they're nowhere to be found and we've gotten nothing but delay news....
i think we willhear some more news about ffvs 13 in 2013 i think last gurdian will launch on ps4 i think getaway 3 will not come out same goes for eight days eyeidentify i think thats vapoware now unles these games arrive on ps4
If Agent, FF VS XIII and Last Guardian where real and released earlier the ps3 would of been much better off sales wise i bet. Missed opportunities Sony