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More shorts to whet your cinematic appetite today with International Shorts 1: seven films between seven and 18 minutes long, from the US, Canada, France, New Zealand and Norway.
One to watch is The End, starring Charlotte Rampling as herself, an actress who wants revenge after she gets dumped from a role. 12:30pm, Tribal Theatre 2.
BIFF has secured the world premiere of Show Me the Magic, a documentary about legendary cinematographer Don McAlpine. He has worked on more than 50 films, including Don's Party, Predator and Moulin Rouge, and this film is a great insight into his filmmaking philosophy. 6:30pm, Palace Barracks 1.
Love Is All You Need is a bittersweet romantic comedy set on the southern Italian coast. While attending his son's wedding, rich-but-emotionally-poor Pierce Brosnan meets his match in the mother of the bride. This is a Bubbles at BIFF screening, so enjoy champagne while you watch. 6:30pm, Palace Centro 1.
Film noir meets Homer in Keyhole, a Canadian production about a 1930s gangster called Ulysses. His return to his childhood home after a botched heist is disrupted by memories and mysteries. 8:30pm, Tribal Theatre 1.
For late-night slash flick lovers, The Nullabor Nymph is a Ozploitation mockumentary that's both chilling and chuckle-inducing. Two water company employees are dispatched to the middle of the desert, hunted by a naked blonde siren tempting them to their doom. 10pm, Tribal Theatre 2.


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After political rivals, the Narendra Modi government has come under fire from Shiv Sena over the rail fare hike with its oldest ally terming the move as akin to the common man being run over by train.
"Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda has in the first instance brought a steep fare hike and has run the train over the common man," an editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamna' said.
Noting that people had voted Narendra Modi to power to save them from inflation, the editorial said, "However, the railway minister increased passenger fares by 14 per cent and freight charges by 6.5 per cent. The Mumbai suburban commuters have to face a 100 per cent rise in fares."
Wary of the adverse fallout of the government's decision in election-bound Maharashtra, the Sena said the Centre had given the opposition "a tool to attack us".
"If the same hike had been brought by the Congress, those who would have bombarded it with criticism and abuses are now in government with a full majority," it said.
"The new government should now introspect how it hurled abuses at the previous Congress regime and honestly work towards improving the efficiency of the railways," the editorial said, adding "people expect this should be the final increase."
Earlier, terming the fare hike as "shocking", Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray had on Saturday said he will speak to Prime Minister Modi and request him to roll it back.
The measure has badly hit the commuters in Mumbai where 75 lakh people travel by the suburban railway every day, most of them using season passes, the cost of which has shot up two times or more.
The Sena, which together with BJP and other smaller allies, won 42 of Maharashtra's 48 Lok Sabha seats, decimating Congress-NCP combine in the process, does not want the fallout from the unpopular move to adversely affect the alliance's prospects in the legislative assembly elections scheduled later this year.
Latching onto the opportunity, Congress protested the hike at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and its state president Manikrao Thakre led scores of party workers in travelling ticketless to Thane by a suburban train.
Congress ministers Mohammed Naseem Khan and Varsha Gaikwad, Mumbai Congress unit president Janardan Chandurkar, legislators Kripashankar Singh, Rajhans Singh, Anant Gadgil and Haribhau Rathod were present.
On reaching Thane, Thakre said his party would launch a state-wide 'Rail Roko' on June 25 against the hike and intensify protests.
The BJP, he said, would have to bear the consequences of the decision to raise the fares in the assembly elections. "Rahul Gandhi had said Modi's inflated balloon will burst and it indeed will," he said.

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P4P Purchase for Progress | A primer
In southeastern Rwanda, Amina Munyana and her husband feed a family of nine by growing rice, maize and beans on two hectares of land and by keeping a cow. Thanks to hard work and support from their farmers' organization "Indakemwa", they have been able to triple their production over the past four years, and have started looking for markets. "Before P4P, we would grow our crops but we were never sure if there would be any market. P4P brought the market to us," says Amina. The biggest improvement has been in post-harvest handling; Amina has received training in a new drying technique. "Before we would lose 500 kg during and after harvest, now this has reduced to about 100 kg!"
The five-year Purchase for Progress (P4P) pilot initiative launched by the World Food Programme in September 2008 is a partnership of many actors and stakeholders spanning the sectors of smallholder development, market development and food assistance brought together around the WFP food demand platform. Three years into implementation, the diversity of strategies and approaches across the 21 pilot countries is building a robust body of knowledge.
This document describes the various features and the evolution of the P4P pilot during the first three years of implementation. The first chapter provides the internal and external background and context for P4P. The second chapter reviews P4P in detail including discussions of its theoretical foundations, main components and underlying assumptions. The third chapter describes selected topics in the design of P4P including establishing targets, partnerships and capacity-building activities, the roles of government and WFP, and gender strategies. Subsequent chapters examine risks, challenges and emerging lessons.
We hope that this primer provides a clear idea of how P4P is contributing to improving the lives of people like Amina in diverse contexts and environments on three continents.


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A high-speed chase that began in Texas ended in eastern New Mexico after tire deflation devices were used to stop the speeding sedan.
Authorities say driver Christopher Sharp refused to stop early Sunday morning after being clocked by police in the Texas city of Canyon with driving the vehicle at 120 mph.
The New Mexico Department of Public Safety says the sedan entered New Mexico on State Road 202 in northeastern Roosevelt County.
Officials say the car driven by Sharp was stopped by using tire deflation devices near the community of Midway.
Sharp was booked on aggravated fleeing from police.
Authorities say Toni Rodriguez was a passenger in the sedan and that she was booked with being an accessory to aggravated fleeing from police.
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In celebration of their success, Slacker is giving away Blackberry Curves smartphones. All 4 major carriers are available (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint), but the offers are not all exactly the same. Of course, you will need to sign up for a new 2 year agreement of at least $39.99 per month and pay up to a $36 activation fee per line or extend your current contract to receive your new Blackberry Curve. How long will this last? Reports from SmartPhoneToday are saying through January 2010.
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Britain is rightly famous for its old pubs. Saska Graville finds one in the Cotswolds that sets a new benchmark in luxe accommodation.
Any wannabe hotelier with plans to set up a small B&B or a pub with guest rooms, should visit The Wheatsheaf Inn to see how it's done.
The place is perfect. Very much a pub with rooms attached, rather than a dedicated hotel, it's everything you want a boutique overnighter to be - gorgeous rooms (just 14 of them), glamorous bathrooms, a cosy bar and a delicious restaurant. Oh, and a coal-shed-cum-massage-room for spa treatments. No wonder model Kate Moss housed the wedding guests here when she got married in the local church - she knows a stylish spot when she sees one.
A coaching inn since the 1650s, the Wheatsheaf has more to its heritage than rock'n'roll weddings. A historic stopping point for stagecoaches on their way to London (these days visitors from the capital can take a 90-minute train trip to Kemble station and hop in a taxi), its stables and rooms have provided hospitality to travellers for centuries - although never in the luxury today's guests enjoy. Quite what a drunken highwayman would have made of the clawfoot baths and quirky oil paintings, you can only wonder.
I am impressed. "This is my perfect bathroom," I think, as I take in the old oak floorboards, the vintage bath and the giant carved mirror that lies beyond the double doors leading from my bedroom. With its vaulted, beamed ceiling and old stone walls, I know at once I am in a bathroom with some real history, rather than an anonymous five-star box. But this bathroom feels like a bit of an event - and you can't often say that when you're staying in a pub.
My "Excellent" bedroom is equally impressive - there are three room categories: Good, Very Good and Excellent. With chic, dark-wood furnishings, a supremely comfortable bed and luxury touches such as free wi-fi, bottles of water on each bedside table and a large flat-screen Bang & Olufsen television with Sky channels, it is a lovely place to linger.
Except the bar beckons - and the Wheatsheaf Inn gives good cosy.
On the chilly English December night I am here, the roaring fire and velvet squashy armchairs are exactly what is needed. Working my way through a bottle of red and observing the locals propping up the bar (people-watching is always fun in the Cotswolds - Moss and singer Lily Allen are just two of the many famous residents in the area), everything feels as it should be.
The staff are friendly, the atmosphere relaxed and the bar snacks above average - wasabi broadbeans, smoked almonds and pork scratchings.
And surely that's the point of a great overnight stay - you know you're away somewhere special, but you still feel at home. It's not an easy trick to pull off.
Dinner at the Wheatsheaf is also a treat. The local suppliers are championed (and listed on the inn's website), and my pot-roasted pheasant, with bread sauce, game chips and watercress is delightful. There are two public dining rooms, or for those who want to make a real night of it there's a private function room. Here, a long table seats 20 for a feasting night to remember. Order a whole suckling pig and party away beneath the chandeliers and vaulted ceiling beams.
The next morning, as I settle down in the bar in front of the fire reading the Sunday papers, I am already plotting my return to the Wheatsheaf Inn.
My winter visit doesn't make the most of the large terraced garden, with its banks of lavender and picturesque Cotswolds views, so a springtime check-in is definitely called for. An alfresco lunch, a massage in the coal shed, a nosy around the mediaeval market town of Northleach ... yes, I'll be back.
The writer was a guest of The Wheatsheaf Inn.
A historic pub crawl
Fancy a pub with heritage? Some of Britain's travel experts recommend their favourite watering holes around the country:
The Lindsey Rose is a 15th-century Suffolk inn and one of the country's oldest. With a warm and friendly atmosphere and located in the scenic and peaceful village of Lindsey, it welcomes families and dogs and can be relied on for a tasty meal and a refreshing pint of local ale. Seasonal menus and fresh ingredients make this a top pub and one of Suffolk's hidden gems. There are lots of cycling and walking routes in the area, and this pub is great for rewarding yourself afterwards. redroseinn.co.uk.
Amanda Bond, Visit Suffolk
The Gipsy Moth is one of my favourite pubs in Greenwich, and sits right next to the Cutty Sark in the centre of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage site. It's atmospheric and cosy inside, and there's a fantastic garden that looks out at the famous old clipper ship, which was reopened after a long conservation process. The pub serves excellent food and drink, and it's an instantly relaxing place to chat away the afternoon or evening. Whenever you go, and you really should, you'll come across groups of friends doing just that. Try it. thegipsymothgreenwich.co.uk.
Al Barker, Royal Borough of Greenwich
The Turf Tavern in Oxford lies hidden behind high walls, down St Helen's Passage (real name Hell's Passage) and has been frequented by town and gown for hundreds of years. It's said young students from New College would lower baskets over the wall to haul up tasty victuals and liquid refreshment. Former Australian PM Bob Hawke still holds the record for downing a yard of ale here. With a fine range of local beers and foods, it's a great place to see and be seen — as well as eat and drink — right in the heart of Oxford's heritage. theturftavern.co.uk.
Heather Armitage, Visit Oxfordshire
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem may not look like one of England's oldest pubs at first glance — the brick and timber exterior dates from the 17th century — but step inside this Nottingham institution and you'll find yourself in a cave. Yes, a cave! People have been brewing and drinking in these caves since 1189, and they're just as cosy today. Order a pint and settle down on one of the padded leather benches that line the soft sandstone walls, as generations of people have done before you. A drink here is like stepping out of time. triptojerusalem.com.
Emma Field, Visit England


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Winter Camp: A Blog from the Greenland Summit
by Rebecca Lindsey • February 20, 2009
It's probably not surprising that someone so at home in the snow—she learned to ski before she started school—would eventually wind up where Lora Koenig did this winter. Still, some people might consider her passion for the snow and the cold a little extreme.
Koenig, a remote-sensing glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, spent three dark, frigid months on top of the Greenland ice cap. She was one of four people—two scientists, the camp manager, and a mechanic—who staffed the National Science Foundation's Greenland Summit Camp research station from November 2008 to February 2009.
Summit Camp huddles on the apex of a 3,200-meter-deep ice sheet. An uninterrupted expanse of white extends more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) in all directions. In the winter, temperatures plummet to -50 degrees Celsius. Driven by storms with near-hurricane-force winds, snowdrifts periodically engulf the buildings.
In the summer, dozens of people—scientists and support staff—converge on Summit Camp. They come to collect observations on everything from winds and temperature, to atmospheric chemistry, to ice elevation, to the types and amount of snow and ice. But in the winter, only two scientists stay to conduct their own research and to keep up the station's year-round science observations and experiments.
Koenig blogged about her experiences at the remote outpost and the science going on at Summit Camp. Near the end of her stay, Koenig emailed the Earth Observatory answers to a few questions about how she wound up in Greenland and what is was like to spend the winter there.
Was spending the winter at Summit Camp a reward or a punishment?
I love this question. For me the answer is "reward." I first came to Greenland in May of 2006, and during the first week of that trip, the Sun would set for about 15 minutes. When the Sun dipped below the horizon I found myself wondering how the ice sheet would look in polar darkness and day-dreaming about what the northern lights would look in the middle of the vast whiteness. I knew then that I wanted to come back in the winter. Last spring I heard of an opening to come to Summit for the second phase of the winter season, and I applied for the opportunity to come. I was thrilled when I was chosen.
What measurements are you taking that are most important for NASA's satellite missions? Is there a particular question or problem with a sensor that these wintertime observations will help answer?
I am taking two types of measurements that will help NASA's satellite missions. The first are radiometer measurements. [A radiometer is a device that measures the intensity of radiant energy, like radio waves, light, or x-rays.] Over the ice sheets, passive microwave measurements, which are measured by the AMSR-E [Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System] sensor on the Aqua satellite, are still not fully understood. The data have shown great potential for monitoring snow accumulation rates in certain areas of the ice sheet, yet not in others, and so the question of 'why' remains. My measurements will help us better understand the microwave signal [emitted by the ice and measured by AMSR-E] and, hopefully in the future, produce more accurate maps of temperature and accumulation changes on the ice sheets.
The second measurements I am taking are surface temperature measurements. There is a lack of in situ [on site] temperature measurements on ice sheets because they are vast and harsh. With this project, I am testing a new, inexpensive temperature sensor/data-logger system called an "ibutton." These sensors are the size of about 5 dimes stacked on top of each other. They are performing very well in the harsh ice sheet environment. If the ibuttons prove worthy, they could be easily and inexpensively distributed to many sites on the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to validate infrared surface temperature products produced by sensors such as MODIS, on board the Aqua and Terra satellites.
Did your orientation and training for wintering at Summit Camp include driving lessons for the snowmobiles and caterpillar?
I did not receive too many driving lessons because I have driven snowmobiles on previous research trips. My first snowmobile ride was in Greenland in 2006: I got the snowmobile stuck in a snowdrift and started my "driving" lesson by shoveling the snowmobile out. I did received one driving lesson this winter from our mechanic. In the winter we cannot idle the snowmobiles; they have to stay moving in the extremely cold temperatures so the belts won't freeze.
As for driving the caterpillar, I have also had a driving lesson previously on a trip in Antarctica where we were using caterpillars to pull trains of science equipment. After a 15-minute driving lesson with the caterpillars, I realized I was not great at driving them. I was tentative and constantly worried about getting them stuck. Here at Summit, the manager and mechanic operate the caterpillar, and I am more than happy to watch.
How does it feel to experience a day with no sunrise?
The first day without a sunrise was strange. The horizon looked like the Sun was coming up, and then it never did. It just got dark. Having no sunrise plays with your senses, but I really don't mind. So far this winter, I have enjoyed the darkness. Most days when I walk the mile round trip to our farthest science experiment, I see amazing stars and northern lights. The only time the dark bothers me is when the winds are above 30 knots [about 35 miles an hour], and the snow is blowing all around. In those conditions, I find myself wishing it was lighter.
What was the scariest, most frustrating, or most exciting moment so far? When you look back on this trip, what event do you think you will remember most vividly or for the longest time?
My most frustrating moment so far was when I spent two days preparing to take radiometer measurements and with 4 measurements left to go, I had to quit because a water droplet got in the radiometer horn [a protected cone or cylinder on the front end of the device, where the microwave energy enters the radiometer]. Since water is much more emissive than snow, I had to stop and haul the instruments inside to dry. [Emissivity describes how well a surface radiates energy.] As the radiometer horn was drying, the winds picked up again, blowing snow around and preventing me from finishing the measurements.
I was frustrated because I had spent so much time preparing the snow pit [see Week 9's blog] and taking the first 11 of 15 measurements that I wanted to finish. I still got good data, but it is frustrating when the weather prevents you from completing science goals.
My scariest moment was when I fell off of a ladder trying to get out of a roof hatch. [Read about snowdrifts in Week 6's blog.] I was fine but when you have even a small injury you remember how remote you are and how careful you have to be all of the time.
What I will remember for the longest time is how Summit looked in the darkness and the first time the sky was completely lit up by the northern lights.
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Just something I have been wondering..
Just something I have been wondering..
I made this terrible username 8 years ago!
There's not a set date. It's something about participation or some shit. I've been here 6 years and don't have senior status.
Wasn't it universaly agreed on that if you have to ask, you're not getting it ?
Yes .
I'm like Hisotensoku: Not here to preserve peace, nor to destroy it. I certainly can't move mountains. Mostly, I'm just full of hot air.- *Meh*
Try losing every ounce of shame you have. For starters, you could try getting arrested for drawing giant pictures of pigeons on a supermarket parking lot.
Then you can move on to making outdoor toilet paper art and stealing snow from the neighbours to make giant snow pigeons.
Somewhere down the line you'll become a senior member for sure.
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With my time under my old username included I have been on APforums for about 4 years total and I don't have one either.
It really shouldn't matter anyway it's not like you get power all you get is a brown star to make you feel special.
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Ah, well thanks for the answers I guess...
I made this terrible username 8 years ago!
Large bribes used to work in the days of oceanizer and e1n.
Now, I'm not trying to say "pay the admins an obscene amount of money for a brown star". The current AP administration team is above that sort of venality.
y'see that box near the top that says 'Donate'? Try it. It can't hurt, right?
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I'm like Hisotensoku: Not here to preserve peace, nor to destroy it. I certainly can't move mountains. Mostly, I'm just full of hot air.- *Meh*
It depends on the retirement age in your country.
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do something big and outrageous to get noticed
then be friends with absolutely everybody
it's what worked for me, now look i'm a mod
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Mostly its a way of deferring respect upon members saying "these guys talk a lot about a lot of things and know their stuff, and they *usually* have good things to say. Pay attention to them." Mostly you get it by being active and participating a lot and getting noticed. Some folks get seniored within a year, some that have been around forever still haven't.
There's a waiting list that has about 20 potential people on it at any given time.
Getting into fights or having a bad attitude, especially right around the time of the promoting process, obviously work against you. Getting into *debates*, especially in threads with a lot of people reading them, and having good points and things to say, gets you noticed in a positive way.
And yes, if you have to ask, you aren't getting it.
Only 3-7 people get it throughout the year, so its taken pretty seriously by the staff... though mistakes are made from time to time.
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I make threads about blowjobs and smelling people's chests.
quality threads, the lot of them
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mostly you have to be really boring
and a senior citizen
but sometimes mistakes are made and interesting people get the status
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Just know that we brown stars watch and judge you normies at all times.
But Wolfwood, your a mod now. You're YELLOW stars. You're even more elite. You have actual powers!
Speaking of the PM box.
I could realy use a bigger one. I absolutely hate deleting PMs :(
I've been here longer than the majority of you smug seniors .
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At 10 a.m. Monday, we met in Jefferson City to hear Speaker Tim Jones and the leadership team go over the legislative priorities for the next two years.
At 10 a.m. Monday, we met in Jefferson City to hear Speaker Tim Jones and the leadership team go over the legislative priorities for the next two years.
The first priority will be to deal with the proposals for Medicaid changes. We have to establish a state insurance exchange almost as soon as we start session or the Federal government will do it for us. The problem with their method is that it will add more than 300,000 people to the state Medicaid roles the first year. The feds say that they will pay the additional cost for the first three years, but with the economy in the shape that it's in, I'm betting that they soon withdraw that deal and expect the state to pick up the additional costs. If we were forced to do this, we have nowhere to get the additional money except for the education funds. I don't know about you, but from the look of things, I think we need to do everything we can to assure our children as good an education as possible! We also discussed plans to help the St. Louis schools and to ensure that schools are led by local control. Parental involvement should be highly encouraged to help schools achieve the best results. We have kept education funding level for the past four years of economic distress and we plan to do so again this year!
Under the heading of energy, we must work toward more sensible regulations. When red tape starts getting in the way of new developments that will benefit everyone in the state, we have to find ways to relieve the pressure. We also have to protect access to existing natural resources like coal. Remember, 85 percent of our electricity in Missouri is derived from coal plants. We have the cleanest burning facilities in the world and it would be foolish of us not to do everything we can to protect this irreplaceable source of energy.
Medical malpractice is high on the list of priorities next year also. Our Supreme Court struck down the 2008 law restricting the amount that could be awarded for medical malpractice. The Kansas Supreme Court upheld their limit of $250,000 and our limit of $350,000 was thrown out. The result is, doctors who are now having to pay five and six times as much for their insurance are moving their practices to more friendly states. This can't be a good thing for anyone except the trial lawyers. I recently heard a quote from one of the current administration's "czars" that said "the facts, although interesting, are irrelevant." This seems to be the case in the governor's office also. Last year, we had several good pieces of legislation that would have enhanced our position in competing for new industry that were vetoed immediately by the governor. It is my hope that we can work with the governor this year to pass legislation that will benefit everyone in the state.
Sometimes election years can make it hard to pass even "good sense" laws. We also need to focus our energy on finding a way to repair and rebuild our infrastructure. We can only put off for so long making the improvements that are becoming increasingly necessary to our roads and bridges. One thing that is in our favor is the AAA bond rating that we enjoy in Missouri thanks to the foresight of past legislators. When the time is right to make the improvements, we will be able to do so.
There has also been several inquiries into initiative petition reform. The thought is that it is much too easy for well funded outsiders to influence Missouri laws by placing issues on our ballot. When we are inundated with advertising that misleads and misinforms the electorate, we sometimes end up with bad laws that are really hard to reverse. I think there will be some attempt to revise our laws relating to this process this session. I, for one, welcome the chance to hear the arguments for and against.
Jane and I wish every one of you a wonderful Christmas and a blessed New Year. Until next time, I am and remain, in your service.
Bill Lant
Bill Lant represents the people of Southwest Missouri in the Missouri House of Representatives. Contact him locally at 437-8223 or at his Jefferson City office at (573) 751-9801 or email him at email@example.com.


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Golden State Warriors go for their 10th consecutive victory on Tuesday night when they visit the Milwaukee Bucks at the Bradley Center.
The Warriors haven't lost since a home setback on Dec. 19 to the San Antonio Spurs. They are 5-0 on this current eastern road trip, which will end Wednesday in Brooklyn.
With a victory on Tuesday against the Bucks, Golden State will have won 10 consecutive games in one season for the first time since 1975.
"It means something because it's history," Golden State head coach Mark Jackson said.
David Lee had 21 points, 11 rebounds and six assists as the Warriors routed the Washington Wizards 112-96 Sunday to notch their sixth straight road victory, which is their longest streak since 2005.
Klay Thompson netted 26 points, while Andrew Bogut added 15 points and 11 boards for the Warriors. Steph Curry also notched a double-double with 14 points and 10 assists and Harrison Barnes finished with 13.
The Bucks return home from a three-game road trip, where they went 1-2. They bested the Los Angeles Lakers on New Year's Eve, but dropped the last two in Utah and Phoenix.
Against the Suns on Saturday, Phoenix cruised to a 116-100 victory. It was Milwaukee's fifth loss in its last seven and 10th in the last 12 outings.
Brandon Knight scored 25 points and dished out eight assists and O.J. Mayo scored 20 points off the bench for the Bucks. Caron Butler finished with 16 and Ersan Ilyasova managed 12 points in defeat.
Milwaukee allowed 38 points off a season-high 26 turnovers in the setback.
That turnover total is what doomed the Bucks. They shot 54.4 percent from the field and 47.6 percent from long range and held the Suns under those percentages.
John Henson began practicing, but won't play against Golden State. He has been out of action with a left ankle sprain and is targeting a return over the weekend.
It should be interesting to see how the Bucks come out. There were reports that Gary Neal and Larry Sanders had some sort of altercation in the locker room.
The Bucks play four of their next six on the road.
Milwaukee has won three straight and seven of its last eight against the Warriors. The Bucks have taken four in a row and nine of their last 12 at home in this series.


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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman
February 27, 20132 - This article comes against the backdrop of the tenth anniversary by 26 February 2003 when the two Darfuri rebel groups the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Sudan Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/M) had to take up arms against the central government in Khartoum. They resorted to armed rebellion in response to the announcement of President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir that he would not negotiate with those who do not carry weapons. Thus, the Sudanese government decided to resort to the military option to counter the Darfur fighters. Prior to that turn of events, the rebel group accused the Islamist putschists government of the so-called National Salvation Revolution (NSR) of political and economic marginalisation of the people of the Darfur region by depriving them their rights of sharing power and wealth of the country.
Since then people of Sudan in Darfur have witnessed uncountable tribulations and atrocities at the hands of the National Islamic Front (NIF) government and allied militias imported from the neighbouring countries. Darfur and its civilian population subjected to all kinds chilling atrocities included crimes against humanity, war crimes; ethnic cleansing and genocide similar to the calamity the Tutsi people of Rwanda endured at the hands of their fellow Hutu Génocidaire ten years earlier, in 1994. A question arises and naively wondering about this phenomenon of 'Ten Years" which hit both the Tutsi of Rwanda and the people of Darfur is it a coincidence or bad omen?
Quoting the Enough, the project to end genocide and crimes against humanity http://www.enoughproject.org/publications/irresolution-un-security-council-darfur, Article 24 of the Charter of the United Nations (UN) confers upon the Security Council (UNSC) "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security," a unique mandate in international law. Its 15 members have the power to impose sanctions, establish peacekeeping missions, and authorize military action in the name of international peace and security". This was not the case in Darfur for mysterious undisclosed reasons.
The regimes that commit atrocious crimes such as genocide will only opt for accepting peace when confronted with force. History tells us that the Cambodian genocide/Holocaust of the Khmer Rouge rule (1975-1979) where 2 million people died of political executions, starvation and forced labour by the Pol Pot entity only ceased when Vietnam, the former ally, intervened. Similarly, the Kosovo War atrocities (28th February 1998-21st June 1999) perpetrator being the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia only ended when NATO forces intervened acting on the UNSC Resolution1244. By contrast, the inaction of the international community represented by the UNSC has encouraged the Rwandan Hutu government and the National Islamic Front/ National Congress Party (NIF/NCP) regime in Sudan to exercise their favourite hobby of civilian killing spree. Moreover, The Holocaust which was programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, where of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds (6 million) were killed by the Nazis only halted when the Western Allies intervened forcibly during the Second World War. Therefore, it is absurd and lacking of responsibility that the international community calling on the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) and the Sudanese people who signed the New Dawn Charter (NDC) not to use military force to topple and change the NCP regime led by International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted fugitive Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir and his clique. The Sudanese people yearn for ousting the NCP regime and replace it with a democratic government, good governance, rule of law, which allows freedoms and provides justice and equality among the Sudanese people without discrimination. The SRF and the other Sudanese opposition aim to do justice, after toppling the NCP regime, by handing over those perpetrators of harrowing crimes committed against the people of Sudan in Darfur, Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile and elsewhere in Sudan to the ICC at The Hague to stand trial.
It is crystal clear and without a shred of doubt that the International Community is applying the principle of double standards. This is more so in the issue of Darfur in respect to use of military force and creation of a 'No-fly Zone', which was used in Libya to topple Colonel Muammar Gaddafi while it was denied for Darfur and/or in South Kordofan and Blue Nile where aerial bombardment continues to shell the civilian population. The UNSC Resolutions on Darfur, despite their huge number on the issue of Darfur did not succeed in deterring the Khartoum government army of killing unarmed civilians.
The chronology of the marathon peace agreements between the NCP regime and JEM are phenomenal over the years. The NCP government delegation met JEM representatives for the first time since 2007 in Doha, Qatar to begin discussions for peace talk and signed goodwill and confidence building agreement in 2009 followed by a framework agreement. Al-Bashir's regime, as predicted, violated that.
Darfur rebels negotiated with the NCP government in Sudan over the 10-year period of the crisis starting by N'Djamena and Abéché in Chad, Abuja in Nigeria agreement of 2006 and Doha in Qatar. The Abuja peace agreement was signed by only one rebel group under the threat of the large stick of the representatives of the international community led by the US envoy in Abuja. Nevertheless, that peace agreement signed in May 2006 abjectly failed due to the usual behaviour of the NCP regime of lack of commitment to implement what it signed in terms of agreements, treaties and covenants with the parties to the conflict. Prevarication and manoeuvring to gain time and a desperate attempt to fool opponents practiced by the NCP government was the main factor for prolonging the suffering of the citizens of Sudan in Darfur. However, other main factors included the UNSC failure to enforce and implement its plentiful Resolutions, some of which are under Chapter VII of the United Nation Charter, which authorise the Council to intervene militarily especially in the light of the continued genocide in Darfur with impunity . Furthermore, it is disgraceful that the UNSC to stand paying lip service in the face disregard, even contempt, of the regime led by Omer al-Bashir who refuses humanitarian aid to the internally displaced person (IDPs) in Darfur, Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile state who endure Antonov airship bombardments on daily basis; And failing to honour signed agreements.
While the people of Darfur highly value the support, they have been receiving from the public of the Western World. This is more so from the US, UK, Norway and France; yet they find it hard to condone the attitude of the envoys of the very countries in taking the side of the Génocidaire regime of the NCP in Khartoum by giving it more time to continue ruling Sudan with iron fist. Apparently, the special envoys might be hoping that the NCP regime to reform, which is among the 'Three', impossibilities of the 'Old World': the Ghoul, the Phoenix and the all-time sincere Friend! Sudan saw long series of US Special envoys, in soap opera fashion, beginning with John Danforth (September2001 –June2004 for CPA), Andrew Natsios (October 2006 – December 2007 for Abuja), Richard Williamson (January 2008 – January 2009), General Scott Gration (March 2009 – March 2011) and Princeton Lyman (31 March 2011 to date but stepping down)! Nevertheless, praise goes to the former US Deputy Secretary of Defence Robert Zoellick for once pressing on the Sudanese government to take specific steps that would demonstrate it is cooperating to halt the violence in Darfur, including allowing NATO or the U.S. military to assist in a rapid expansion of an African-led monitoring force. He was also reported to have looked to Sudan's south for blueprint to end Darfur's conflict.
Most of that mentioned in the preceding paragraphs is a rumination of a painful history of the Darfur crisis. As the Popular proverb goes: "Nothing scrapes your itchy skin better than your finger nails"! Therefore, it is high time for the Sudanese people to end their suffering by their own effort and refrain from their total dependence on the international community whose interests of keeping the NCP regime in power at all cost conflict/ intersect with the aspirations and wishes of the people of Sudan. The people of Sudan have no option other than pairing the peaceful civilian protests with the military force of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) to oust the NCP regime. The current regime be replaced by the alternative contained in the New Dawn Charter document, which has been approved by, signed as a place of consensus of all the Sudanese political spectrum, civil society organisations of youth, women, students, journalists and professional associations.
Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is the Deputy Chairman of the General Congress for Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Crimson Shroud rounds out the collection. From Yasumi Matsuno, director of Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and Tactics Ogre, this is a new RPG that "reimagines the tabletop RPG, and puts the power of the dice in the player's hands to determine their fates." Dates and prices have not yet been revealed for these three titles. BOOM video 13957
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In today's economy, many people in search of work can only find part-time jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics finds the number of 'involuntary' part-time workers has doubled since 2006. Host Michel Martin talks about what this means for the workplace and the economy, with The Wall Street Journal's Sudeep Reddy.
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CAR [wikipedia.org] (Contents of Address Register) and CDR [wikipedia.org] (Contents of Decrement Register) are effectively mnemonics for what we call nowadays (in ML or Haskell) the hd (head) and the tl (tail) of a list.
But, since in Latin head is caput and tail is cauda, you could say that CAR stands for CApite Regesta (literally, "what's written at the head") and CDR for CauDa Regesta ("what is written at the tail")! The Classicist purists among you will probably find that a better non-etymology would be "CApitis Recensio" and "CauDae Recensio", but who's worrying anyway. Then of course, you have that CONS [wikipedia.org] is also Latin for "CONStruo".
Name: hello, world
Dialect: English
Version: 5 June 2000
Comments: Not the canonical var'aq "hello, world"; actually prints "What do you want, universe?" in Klingon
~ nuqneH { ~ 'u' ~ nuqneH disp disp } name
Ah, apparently the submitter hasn't heard of the horror that is (was, I hope) translated VBA. If you had a Dutch version of Office, your Visual Basic was Dutch as well. That is, the language itself. A FOR..NEXT loop was something like a VAN..NAAR loop (I have only seen this stuff, not coded in it).
I can't find the right Google keywords at the moment to find an example, but it was horrible, and of course totally incompatible with other versions...
I could be have the spanish version of Office (urgh), found a nice macro in some web site, try to paste it in a document and found that it don't work because the keywords are all wrong.
Or worse, think I already know vbs and try to write a macro, then who of the alternate translations of "print" (or whatever uses vb to display text, to put a very basic example) i should use i
Yup, French was pretty universal, at least in the west, hence the phrase 'lingua franca' which practically means 'the language that you can use everywhere' but literally means 'the French language,' (in Latin, no less..). I think..
Anyway, speaking of French, I knew a guy in college who had programmed C in French. All you need to do is fiddle with where the keywords are defined in the compiler. So he was writing 'durant' and 'pour' loops, along with 'si' statements. Pretty whacky..
In French, though, 'C++' is 'Ç++'. Cool huh?
In French, though, 'C++' is 'Ç++'.
Why would they do that? The letter "C" in French is pronounced much like the word "say" in English. The only point of the cedilla is to soften what would otherwise be a "hard c," such as in façade and François. "C" by itself already has a soft sound.
Why would they do that? The letter "C" in French is pronounced much like the word "say" in English. The only point of the cedilla is to soften what would otherwise be a "hard c," such as in façade and François. "C" by itself already has a soft sound.
Duh. Anyone knows that a C followed by a + in French takes on a hard sound unless mollified by a cedilla. Je suis sic+ et tired de votre nonsense.
Have you ever listened to a brit, a southener, and a Carribean speaker have a conversation??
And they're all speaking english!
hence the phrase 'lingua franca' which practically means 'the language that you can use everywhere' but literally means 'the French language,' (in Latin, no less..).
Actually, the sources I've checked [reference.com] suggest that the term is Italian for (second and apparently original definition) "A mixture of Italian with Provençal, French, Spanish, Arabic, Greek, and Turkish, formerly spoken on the eastern Mediterranean coast.". The etymology I can find suggests that it's Italian for "language of the Franks" (by
Explained the developer: Well, just like an "allegro" or "pianissimo" is just the historical way music is annotated, "switch" and "if" are, for historical reasons, the way code is written.
Explained the developer: Well, just like an "allegro" or "pianissimo" is just the historical way music is annotated, "switch" and "if" are, for historical reasons, the way code is written.
I'd never thought of it that way before, but it makes sense now (IAAM (I Am A Musician)). "Da Capo" to GOTO the "head" of the musical piece, etc.
I've always thought that music and mathematics were two universal languages; perhaps programming could be the third?
Someone else also mentioned that French used to be th
As others have pointed out, Frankish (not to be confused with French) was a lingua franca. For several centuries, if you wanted to study the sciences or mathematics, you did it in Arabic (from whence came our numerals). Swahili has served a similar "common language" role in Africa, and I'm sure there are others from the pre-Columbian Americas, Asia, and other regions.
Maybe the best choice would be to have translatable keywords for a language
Have you ever seen Visual Basic for Applications in a localized version of MS Office? It really hurts the eye. If you have ever coded an advanced hello world programm in nearly any language, you know what a FOR loop looks like. If you look at VBA with translated keywords, you can't see anything but bla bla because of the translated keywords.
English is very helpful for keywords because you can understand english sentences no matter
As far as different character sets, this becomes a non-issue as all software moves towards unicode and UTF-8 (or equivalent) encoding. Once that happens you can for get about worring about character sets (and its happening fast).
Won't happen in our lifetime. If you're a non-native english writer, how many encoding tricks did you learn in your lifetime? in my everyday activities, I have to know at least:
The trouble really is, since most CS related research has been released in English, any developers nee
Completely without letters? Slacker. How about a method for removing all those unsightly printable characters [cpan.org]?
use Acme::Bleach;
print "Hello world";
The first time you run a program under use Acme::Bleach, the module removes all the unsightly printable characters from your source file. The code continues to work exactly as it did before, but now it looks like this:
use Acme::Bleach;
And if that's too much for you, and you just want to smoothe o
Just like Italian is the language used in music notation, Latin in medical and botanical terms, English is the de facto language of computers.
I saw someone else say this, but the score was 0!!! I hope that wasn't uninformed moderation.
... you can change most compilers to accept any variation of strings as the tokens by changing the lexer! If you would like C in Finnish, it's a very strait forward task once you settle on words that you want to use. Even change the file format from ASCII to UTF-8! It's just bytes that go into the lexer and then everything is a token.
Writting a wholey new language doesn't make much sense if you
Above in PDF [utexas.edu]
Sample of an AppleScript in English and Jap [fpu.ac.jp]
If I remember correctly, Mitarou Namiki [tuat.ac.jp] wrote a paper exploring this. The reference seems to be:
T.Souya, E.Hayakawa, M.Honma, H.Fukushima, M.Namiki, N.Takahashi and M.Nakagawa, "Programming in a Mother Tongue: Philosophy, Implementation, Practice and Effect", The 15th Annual International Computer Software & Application Conference, pp.705-721, 1991.9
See his 1991 papers listing [tuat.ac.jp] and his lab's website [tuat.ac.jp].
I talked with him about it ten years ago. I have a copy of the paper or maybe a similar one somewhere, but it's in japanese and I never allocated the hours I need to read it.
How does Latin Perl [monash.edu.au] sound to you?
The Sieve of Eratosthenes is one of oldest well-known algorithms. As the better part of Roman culture was ``borrowed'' from the Greeks, it is perhaps fitting that the first ever Perligata program should be as well:
/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;
maximum inquementum tum biguttam egresso scribe.
meo maximo vestibulo perlegamentum da.
da duo tum maximum conscribementa meis listis.
dum listis decapitamentum damentum nexto
fac sic
nextum tum novumversum scribe egresso.
lista sic hoc recidementum nextum cis vannementa da listis.
The use Lingua::Romana::Perligata statement causes the remainder of the program to be translated into the following Perl:
print STDOUT 'maximum:';
my $maxim = <STDIN>;
my (@list) = (2..$maxim);
while ($next = shift @list)
print STDOUT $next, "\n";
@list = grep {$_ % $next} @list;
Note in the very last Perligata statement (lista sic hoc...da listis) that the use of inflexion distinguishes the @list that is grep'ed (lista) from the @list that is assigned to (listis), even though each is at the "wrong'' end of the statement, compared with the Perl version.
And you too can do this ! [cpan.org]
Actually, Perligata is more serious than it may seem.
On one level, it uses Latin -- which packs much of the meaning of sentences into word endings rather than word order -- as a case study for a programming language that doesn't enforce a particular mandatory word order on language statements. That is, in English, "boy chases dog" has a much different meaning than "dog chases boy", but in Latin you could write it either way because the inflection on the words controls the meaning. Likewise, in most programming languages, x = y has a different meaning than y = x, but if you had a language that was agnostic about "sentence order" then you could write it either way. Using Latin allowed him to demonstrate this in practice.
Why would anyone care? Well, when Perligata was written, Perl6 was just starting to be considered, and Damian was wondering what core concepts had to be maintained and which were open to revision. Among the assumptions he wanted to consider was word order, and Perligata is a case study in how you can throw it out the window without breaking anything.
Coming down to Earth, this technique could have other applications as well. For example, the techniques used in Perligata could be applied in a source filter to convert VBScript to Perl [mail-archive.com] at run time. There are issues to consider [mail-archive.com], of course, but it could work, if you wanted it badly enough. To cite a real example, one of the core plans for Perl6 is that it should be able to run existing Perl5 code, and the techniques demonstrated in Perligata will probably be used to make that possible.
Likewise, the object framework for Perl 6 [perl.com] is very flexible, allowing people to hand-roll almost any style of OO programming they are comfortable with. If you pair this with things like the built in Unicode support (and, allegedly, no obstacles to using Unicode symbols directly in Perl6 code for things like variables, functions, overridden operators, etc), there's no reason why people couldn't prepare "localized" versions of Perl6. It'll be interesting to see if this ends up happening, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if
Owing to growing up in Wales (that's the bit sticking out to the left of England, for Americans; and certainly not 'Wales, England'), I did my first Computer Studies courses there in the late 70s/early 80s. Around that time there was a very strong push for equality of Welsh and English, so much so that a Welsh version of BASIC, called BASEG was produced. Sadly, the passage of time seems to have wiped it from the web (though a Google Groups search [google.com] for 'welsh basic programming' throws up some references).
"For a male and female to live continuously together is... biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition." -- Robert Briffault


text: UMW News BureauUniversity of Montana Western head women's basketball coach Cara Cocchiarella announced the signing of Breyenne Mosey, a 6'2" post from Bremerton, Wash., to a Frontier Conference/NAIA letter of intent. By Brett Morehouse University of Montana Western head women's basketball coach Cara Cocchiarella announced the signing of Breyenne Mosey, a 6'2" post from Bremerton, Wash., to a Frontier Conference/NAIA letter of intent. "Breyenne is a great player whose achievements on the basketball court speak for themselves," Cocchiarella said. "She is a very talented athlete and with her size and skills, she will have a big impact on our program. She is another recruit who fits in well with the current players and she will have a lot to contribute to the campus community throughout her career at Montana Western." Mosey will graduate this spring from Crosspoint Academy where she was a class officer in 2009 and made the Principal's List in 2011. She has participated in the Reading Buddies program at Crosspoint Academy Elementary and the Stream Team, which works to clean up area trails and streams. She is also an active member of the Manette Community Church Youth Group. Mosey's list of athletic accomplishments is impressive. She has participated in cross country, volleyball, soccer and track. In 2009, Mosey helped lead her cross country team to a fifth-place finish in the state. On the soccer pitch she was named a team captain in 2010 and was also recognized at the Most Valuable Player. It is on the basketball court, however, where Mosey truly shines. She has been a starter at Crosspoint Academy for four years. She helped lead the Warriors to a fourth-place finish at the Washington Class 2B State Tournament as a freshman and was named as the team's Most Improved Player. Since her sophomore season, Mosey has led the Warriors in scoring and rebounding and has been named the team's Most Valuable Player three times. Recognition of Mosey's dominance on the basketball court extends beyond Crosspoint Academy. Between 2009 and 2010 she made the All-Kitsap County First Team. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 she was named to the All-SeaTac First Team and was honored as the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association and Seattle Times Student/Athlete of the Week. In 2010 and 2011 she was identified as a member of the "Super Six" team by the Kitsap Sun Newspaper and the Associated Press placed her on the Class 2B All-State basketball team. Mosey will complete her high school career at the seventh annual Queens of the Hardwood All-Star Game on April 23 in Tukwila, Wash. The game features the best senior girls basketball players in the state of Washington. Mosey will be the only B player among a roster featuring stars from the 3A and 4A levels. Mosey is the daughter of Jim and Teresa Mosey and plans to major in business administration.


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Digital storytelling and social media have taken the communications world by storm. Bay Area nonprofit EARN, has harnessed these innovative tools to transform and bolster their communications and outreach efforts. EARN leaders walk through their best practices, powering your communications strategy and building your network in the process. Learn to articulate the importance of storytelling and social media to key organizational decisionmakers, begin building a story database and social media presence for your organization and create a strategic communications timeline around an upcoming moment of opportunism.
Love this video. It is geared for nonprofits but the same principles apply to any business!
The speakers start the typical way, and then quickly stop and move to storytelling. It's a great game-changer to what we typically experience.
I really like how the speakers walk us through how they established storytelling as a core competence, and the best practices they've established for themselves that you can also adopt.
This video is long (53 minutes) but chock full of great material and insights for applying storytelling to social media, websites, promo material, etc.


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Wojciech Szczesny sees no reason why Arsenal cannot emulate Chelsea's achievements on the continent, and land the UEFA Champions League crown this season, reports Sky Sports.
The Gunners secured their place in the last-16 of this year's competition for the 13th consecutive campaign following last night's 2-0 victory over Montpellier in Group B, and now the Polish goalkeeper has set his sights on going all the way.
Arsene Wenger is yet to get his hands on the most illustrious piece of silverware in European football's trophy cabinet, with a final defeat to Barcelona in Paris in 2006 the closest Arsenal have come so far.
Now with the holders poised to exit the Champions League at the group stage, Szczesny believes Arsenal can take Chelsea's mantle and go on to conquer the elite club competition.
"Of course we have (taken inspiration from Chelsea)," he told the London Evening Standard. "They weren't fantastic in the Premier League last season and had a fantastic run.
"I hope we can do what they did last season but do a little better in the Premier League as well.
"You only take part in competitions to win them. There are fantastic teams in Europe and ones probably more likely to win it than us. But I'm in this competition to win it, so that's my ambition."
Arsenal still have one more group game to play, with a trip to Greece to face Olympiacos, but Szczesny refuses to buy into the belief that securing top spot with victory is a necessity.
"Arsenal have qualified for the last 16 every year for the last few years and I don't think us qualifying is a surprise," he continued.
"Chelsea and Man City not doing well is a massive surprise. At the moment, we are just enjoying that we got through and that is what we're going to focus on.
"Of course, we hope to get a good result but it's not in our hands, we have to rely on someone else to get results as well.
"I'm not sure it's the most important thing to finish top. In the last 16, whether you finish first or second, you come up against the best teams in Europe. We finished top last season and played AC Milan away and lost 4-0."
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City officials have scheduled two meetings to discuss the future of the North Causeway, but one will have a much broader focus than the other.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — City officials have scheduled two meetings to discuss the future of the North Causeway, but one will have a much broader focus than the other.
First up, the City Commission will meet 5 p.m. Feb. 26, at City Hall, 210 Sams Ave.
City Manager Pam Brangaccio said that session will focus on the future of the 5-acre site at 160 N. Causeway, commonly referred to as the Administrative Office Building, or AOB site, because it once was the site of city offices.
One of the few remaining vacant waterfront properties in that immediate area, city officials have sent out two requests for proposals in the last two years to lease and develop the site, each yielding one bid.
Sam Meiner, an Orlando restaurateur submitted a proposal in 2011 to build a waterfront grill there called Chicken Island, one which was ultimately rejected by a task force created by the City Commission.
Then last year, Wayne Heller, owner of the Riverview Hotel on Flagler Avenue, submitted a proposal to dock the Delta Queen riverboat off the causeway site as an 88-room floating hotel. However, the city and Heller never came to terms on a lease agreement, and Heller backed out of discussions to buy the historic paddle-wheeler in December. The riverboat remains moored in Chattanooga, Tenn.
While the requests have yielded only the two bids, Brangaccio said commissioners continue to get inquiries about the property and want to focus on the future of the site.
"We need to be able to tell folks if we're going to be doing another RFP, if we're going to change the land use (on the property) before that time, what incentives are available," Brangaccio said.
The city will likely apply for a grant from the Florida Inland Navigation District to repair the sea wall at the site, as well as pave the boat ramp and construct a public boardwalk along the Intracoastal Waterway. Commissioners last month approved $39,620 for design work and to submit applications for grants to fund the construction. The work would also include replacing the restrooms on the property, Brangaccio said.
"They've got a 1950s vibe about them," she said.
Next Tuesday's meeting will be a precursor to a broader discussion on the North Causeway at an April 6 meeting designed to glean feedback from residents. The all-day community workshop is slated to begin at 9 a.m. at the New Smyrna Woman's Club, 403 Magnolia St.
While that session is likely to touch on the causeway site, there will also likely discussion on the appearance of the bridge's right-of-way and the design character for future development along the corridor, Brangaccio said.
Planning Manager Gail Henrikson was not in the office Monday and couldn't be reached for comment, but in a press release issued by the city she said officials were hoping to see "a lot of new faces" at the meeting.
"We want the community to be involved in the planning process," she said in the release. "To make informed decisions we need to hear the views and ideas from the community and not just a handful of people."


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Python library for Uploadcare.com
Project description
The most important thing for us at Uploadcare is to make file uploading on the web really easy. Everyone is used to the routine work, related to allowing users upload their userpics or attach resumes: from installing image processing libraries to creating folder with right permissions to ensuring the server never goes down or out of space to enabling CDN. Feature like ability to simply use a picture from Facebook or manual cropping are much more burdensome, hence rare. Uploadcare's goal is to change the status quo.
This library consists of an API interface for Uploadcare and a couple of Django goodies.
A simple Uploadcare ImageField can be added to an existing Django project in just a couple of simple steps. As a result, your users are going to be able to see the progress of the upload, choose files from Google Drive or Instagram, and edit form while files are uploading asynchornously.
from django.db import models from pyuploadcare.dj import ImageField class Candidate(models.Model): photo = ImageField(blank=True, manual_crop="")
- Django widget with useful manual crop and multiupload;
- ucare console utility;
- hosted assets (Kudos to Sławek Ehlert!).
To install it, just run:
$ pip install pyuploadcare
or, if you're into vintage:
$ easy_install pyuploadcare
Besides the Travis CI we use tox. In order to run tests just:
$ pip install tox $ tox
- Widget was updated up to 0.10.
- Default API version was updated up to 0.3.
- Django settings were merged into UPLOADCARE dictionary.
- Performance was improved by reusing requests' session.
UnicodeDecodeError was fixed. This bug appears when request's method param is unicode and requests.request() got files argument, e.g.:
>>> requests.request(u'post', u'http://httpbin.org/post', ... files={u'file': open('README.rst', 'rb')}) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 ...
Widget was updated up to 0.8.1.2.
It was invoking File.store(), FileGroup.store() methods on every model instance saving, e.g.:
photo.title = 'new title' photo.save()
Now it happens while saving by form, namely by calling your_model_form.is_valid(). There is other thing that can trigger storing – calling photo.full_clean() directly.
- Python 3.2, 3.3 support were added.
- File Group creating was added.
- Methods per API field for File, FileGroup were added.
- Deprecated things were deleted. This version is not backward compatible. For detailed information see https://pyuploadcare.readthedocs.org/en/v0.19/deprecated.html
- Multiupload support was added.
- argparse was added into setup.py requirements.
- Documentation was added and published on https://pyuploadcare.readthedocs.org
- Widget was updated up to 0.6.9.1.
- ImageField was added. It provides uploading only image files. Moreover, you can activate manual crop, e.g. ImageField(manual_crop='2:3').
- More apropriate exceptions were added.
- Tests were separated from library and were restructured.
- Widget was updated up to 0.6.7.
- Issue of FileField's blank, null attributes was fixed.
- Replace accept header for old api version
- Fix unicode issue on field render
- Add new widget to pyuploadcare.dj
- Remove old widget
- Use https for all requests
- Add cdn_base to Ucare.__init__
- Get rid of api v.0.1 support
- Add File.ensure_on_s3 and File.ensure_on_cdn helpers
- Add File properties is_on_s3, is_removed, is_stored
- Fix url construction
- Add and correct waiting to upload and upload_from_url
- Add console log handler to ucare
- Add wait argument to ucare store and delete commands
- Fix ucare arg handling
- Add bunch of arguments to ucare upload and upload_via_url commands
- Fix UploadedFile.wait()
- Fix file storing for old API
- Replaced Authentication header with Authorization
- Log warnings found in HTTP headers
- Replace old resizer with new CDN
- Add verify_api_ssl, verify_upload_ssl options
- Add custom HTTP headers to API and upload API requests
- Added __version__
- Added 'User-Agent' request header
- Added 'Accept' request header
- Added ucare config file parsing
- Added pyuploadcare/tests.py
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Mapping the 802.11 Protocolby Matthew Gast, author of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
As part of the release of the second edition of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, I designed a visual map of the relationship between the various components of the 802.11 standard and related security standards. My learning style is visual, so I tend to draw out diagrams to fit complex relationships together. The road to the 802.11 protocol map started a two-year journey from the initial concept to the finished product.
The Beginning: Interop 2003
In May 2003, I was the instructor for the Interop Labs Wireless LAN Security Initiative, and was searching for a way to explain how all of the protocols fit together. Several protocols work together to secure the wireless link, and it is not obvious at first glance how they all fit together and work in concert. As a metaphor for how the security protocols fit together, the class (PDF) used the term "cocktail." It was initially intended in the mixed drink sense, though the analogy to a drug cocktail is also an apt metaphor.
One of the major challenges in teaching wireless LAN security two years ago was to find a way to relate all of the components together. My first effort was a single slide in the presentation, which classified protocols in two ways. In addition to the typical protocol layering on the vertical axis, there was a second classification of protocols into either authentication or encryption.
Other engineers at the iLabs referred to the slide as "the poster slide" (see Figure 1), which was a great compliment, but I let the comment rattle around in the back of my mind. During the next few months, I tried to enhance the slide in the presentation, but computer screens are read differently from paper, and there is a limit to how dense the information can become before the text becomes too small.
Summer 2003: A Trip to London, Inspiration, and a First Draft
In the summer of 2003, I traveled to the U.K. on business. My younger brother was about to graduate from college, and I wanted to get him a present that would remind him of his college experience, yet still be unmistakably from me. I have been fortunate to spend a great deal of time professionally in London, a city that I love. To my great envy, my brother spent a quarter studying in London, which I had never been able to accomplish.
In search of his present, I visited the London Transport Museum, where I decided on a full-scale map of the London Underground. He already had a copy of the iconic stylized map known to tourists throughout the world, so I purchased a geographic map. While I was browsing at the museum store, I found Ken Garland's gem of a book about the history of the tube map, Mr. Beck's Underground Map (ISBN 1854141686). Through a detailed history complete with many original sketches, the Tube map comes to life.
At this same time, one of my major professional challenges was that link-layer security protocols based on 802.1X were quite new and were not widely understood. I experimented with several different ways to show how the protocols worked together, expanding on the Interop slide to include network traffic. After a few months of considering the major protocol features, I produced a first draft. The first draft built on the security slide by adding a third vertical silo for the 802.11 MAC and PHY, along with higher layer network protocols. (See Figure 2.)
I was generally happy with the first draft, though there is a telltale list of things I wanted to improve upon in the lower-righthand corner. In particular, I thought the physical-layer component in the lower-lefthand corner was a mess. I was trying to show how different physical layers used different radio bands, subject to different rules in different countries. I also tried to offer detailed illustrations of how to select an authentication method by providing details on what authentication methods could be used with different types of databases.
Refining the Draft
During the summer and fall of 2003, I continued to experiment, but failed to find a satisfactory solution to the tangles that would result with the PHY and authentication, and I set the project aside. I resumed work on the second edition of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide. By mid-2004, the common practice in wireless LAN security was to use 802.1X, so I dropped the higher-layer VPN technologies.
To simplify things, I cut down the organization into four major components. A single vertical silo would carry user data from higher layer protocols down through the MAC layer, and finally to the PHY. As an adjunct to the data flow, authentication traffic would feed keys to MAC-layer encryption.
The network protocol block in the first draft was solid, since its main job was to reflect the need to handle IPX and AppleTalk ARP with a different encapsulation method. Likewise, the PHY section was essentially established, though I decided to use smaller type to communicate regulatory information.
Keying information was expanded dramatically. Rather than a simple line that showed keys flowing from the RADIUS server into encryption protocols, I felt it was important to show how the newer, more secure protocols used a key hierarchy expansion. Putting the link-layer encryption in line with the data flow preserved my desire to keep it as simple as possible.
Simplification was also the key for the authentication block. Rather than try to illustrate the panoply of EAP methods specifically, I decided to focus on the inner stage of tunneling protocols. My recent interest in federated authentication also played into the draft because I decided to illustrate RADIUS proxying much more explicitly.
During a particularly grueling travel month, I sketched out each of the four blocks as I sat on planes. One Saturday morning, I put it all together. To capture the differences in type size for importance, I needed to work on a bigger canvas. Rather than use two pages out of a notebook, I used several full-size sheets of paper and took over my living room floor. Later, I pieced the results together in an image editing program.
The second draft shows how the relative size of components illustrates relative importance. (See Figure 3.) The heart of the diagram is the MAC, and there is a clear flow of network packets from top to bottom.
The Final Version
With a solid draft, the final task was to create a professional-quality product. Randy Comer at O'Reilly took on the thankless task of deciphering my handwriting and rendering the half-developed sketch into something that people might actually want to look at.
Working with Randy was slightly surreal. I had always thought of the poster in graphical terms, and having to write out textual guidelines for the relative importance of visual components that I had sized instinctively felt quite strange.
As part of the final revision, the PHY block changed one last time. Trying to keep track of which regulators allowed radio emissions in the 5GHz band, and adding document references to the rules, just looked too busy. Instead, I divided up the block into three rows for the regulators in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, in the hope that it would work like a chart. The addition of a sidebar listing the relevant standards, many worldwide regulators, and software products and open source projects finished it off. Figure 4 shows the final version.
In April, 2005, O'Reilly Media, Inc., released 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition.
Sample Chapter 15, "A Peek Ahead at 802.11n: MIMO-OFDM," is available free online.
Sample Chapter 21, "Logical Wireless Network Architecture," is also available free online.
You can also look at the Table of Contents, the Index, and the full description of the book.
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They see themselves in the images of Trayvon Martin that stare from television and computer screens. They relate to the sting of being "suspicious'' for doing little else than just being themselves and they worry that their accommodations to the fears of others won't be enough to keep them safe - or alive.
"Who's next?'' wondered senior Sarah Shephard, whose sentiment was shared by her peers at New Mission High, a small Boston school tucked among colorful Victorian-style homes 1,300 miles from where Martin, an unarmed black Florida teen, was gunned down by a neighborhood watch captain who said the teen appeared to be up to no good.
Martin's death has reverberated through the hallways and classrooms at New Mission High in a way not seen before. "Because,'' explained sophomore Jared Brown, "he's just like us. We're in high school. We're black. We're teenagers. It could have been any one of us.''
And while many are captured by the rapidly evolving story, watching videos of protest marches and listening to recordings of the 911 calls, some students said they were surprised the story has gone viral, galvanizing thousands. When asked why, they answered that people have almost become desensitized to the loss of young black lives.
"People in the 'hood die everyday,'' 17-year-old La'Raysha Robinson said. "People don't make a big deal out of it, especially when a black man kills another black man. But now that someone else is killing us, it's a problem.''
Robinson sat with six schoolmates, some with overloaded book bags by their sides, others with textbooks and loose sheets of paper. The room was awash in individual style, from Tweety Bird charms to mohawk-inspired hairstyles.
These mostly black and Latino students, some waiting for college acceptance letters, said their academic prowess and personalities mean little once they venture beyond the walls of the school. Instead, students said, they are reduced to stereotypes because of where they come from and how they look.
Clothes, said senior Carlesia Cornish, are only as suspicious as the wearer. "White kids who wear white Ts and baggy pants are emulating what we wear in our communities in Dorchester and Mattapan,'' she said. "But nobody says they're up to no good.''
To mitigate suspicions, the teens said, they don't walk in large groups. Having 10 or more people together, they said, is like asking to be stopped by police. "Honestly, this is what we say, 'OK. You five walk way up here, and you back here, so we don't look suspicious,' '' said Shephard, a senior.
Especially, said Cornish, in certain places, such as downtown near Faneuil Hall. "People make it obvious that they feel some type of way about groups of black kids being in areas,'' she said.
But something recently dawned on Shephard: Trayvon Martin was by himself.
"What made him look suspicious?'' she wondered.
More importantly, asked Brown: "What should be done? At the end of the day, there's not much we can do but project our voices. We don't make the decisions in the Martin case, but we can spark change.''
Better yet, said Shephard: "Spark Boston. Boston needs to come together. Everybody needs to see the light.''
'Drew wears a hood every day. When does Drew not have a hood on?'
Martin, a 17-year-old high school student from Miami, was spending time in Sanford, Fla., with his father. He had gone to a convenience store and was walking back to the townhouse of his father's girlfriend, carrying Skittles and iced tea. That's when he encountered George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old man of white and Hispanic heritage. During a 911 call, Zimmerman said that the teen wearing a dark hoodie looked "real suspicious . . . like he's up to no good or something.'' Then, as an audiotape would later attest, someone screamed and a shot rang out.
It's been a month since Martin's Feb. 26 death, a time with no arrests made and a growing national reaction to the shooting. Fueled by social media, attention to Martin's death has exposed America's racial fissures and caused the nation to explore what it means to be young and black in a country debating its ascent into a post-racial society. "I thought we were past this when you could be viewed as a suspect if you wear hoodie,'' said 18-year-old Richard Moteiro, who happened to be wearing a hoodie.
"Honestly,'' interrupted Cornish, "I didn't think we were past this stuff.''
It all comes back to stereotypes of where someone lives and how someone looks, the group agreed. Those stereotypes, they said, impact the value society places on an individual's life.
"Black man equals scary in American society,'' Robinson said.
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"All distractions aside,'' said senior Drew Morris, signaling it was time to share.
Cornish exhaled. She had finally gotten a chance to express her thoughts about the death of Trayvon Martin. "It's like Drew,'' she said, pointing to her classmate. "Drew wears a hood everyday. When does Drew not have a hood on?'' The lingering question was, why did that make some people see him as dangerous?
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