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Does it run Linux?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!
In Soviet Russia, Chrome OS' you!
I for one welcome our netbook chrome OS robotic overlords.
I forgot the rest.
1. A car analogy
2. A random meme
3. ???
4. Profit
then end with Godwin...
then end with Godwin's grits...
Fixed that for you
then end with Godwin's grits...
Fixed that for you
On a petrified Natalie Portman in Soviet Russia!
Your approach to memes will not work. Here is why it wont work
(x) Incomplete listing
(x) I am too lazy to make more check-box statements
(x) sorry dude, I just don't think it is going to work
Yes. Linux isn't ready for the desktop, but maybe it is ready for the netbook?
EEE netbooks used to ship with a Linux distro. You know what killed that? Returns. Joe User booting it up, braying "The hell? Where's my Windows?" and returning it. It got so that retail salesweasels were begging people not to buy them, because they got dinged for all the returns.
Sure, me and thee don't want to pay a Windows tax - I'm writing this on an EEE with Ubuntu 10.04 - but me and thee are not a significant market.
Yeah, stories from one camp, apparently, claimed just that.
But some manufacturers quickly stepped forward saying that their Linx netbooks don't have higher return rates at all.
But some manufacturers quickly stepped forward saying that their Linux netbooks don't have higher return rates at all.
WalMart is the world's largest retailer.
The pioneer of the 30-second warranty.
The world's most aggressive deep discount retailer - and the lone American big box retailer who for the better part of ten years gave the Linux cheerleaders on the sidelines something real to shout about.
WalMart dropped kicked the Linux netbook into the dumpster out back -
and it was not for lack of trying.
Today n
US / North America went wrong. I haven't ever even seen a Walmart or however its few surviving international subsidiaries are called.
Today not one of the 126 netbooks and laptops - sold under 13 brand names - runs Linux.
Not one of the 75 desktops.
Tell me what went wrong.
You typed Walmart into the location bar instead of Dell? Notice how even Dell's Linux offerings cost *more* than the Windows ones. Someone with a lot of cash made some deals to own the netbook market (because they rightly saw that the determining factor was price). Since Walmart is _only_ about price, they dropped the "expensive" options. http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dndoan1&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19 [dell.com]
not sure about the distribution that the EEE used, but fiddled with my roommates ubuntu-based Dell netbook for a few days
Seconded. I've got a Mini9, hadn't used Ubuntu in a while before I got it. Something seemed off, and by off I mean crappy, couldn't figure out what it was until I ran apt-get dist-upgrade and it insisted that there were no upgrades, even though I was running 8.04 and 9.04 had already come out. Went poking around and found that apt was pointing to ubuntu.dell.com instead of ubuntu.com for packages. To make life even better, Dell hadn't touched their repos since they launched the Mini9. Eventually reformatted with Kubuntu Netbook Remix and the thing ran 100 times better.
That's because the "Ubuntu" netbook Dell sold was bastardized, and the OS couldn't be upgraded to regular Ubuntu packages (not unless you knew what you were doing).
Linux done RIGHT is no more difficult to use than Windows. Period.
I'm impressed with Android, and a few years back I used to love my Nokia N800 Internet tablet (great system, but Nokia obsoleted the OS far too quickly), Ubuntu Netbook and MeeGo distributions look promising and Android just kicks ass. These are all "Linux". I haven't tried or read
I gotta call bullshit, because I am a retailer and I have NEVER had windows completely shit itself and die because of an update. Ubuntu? Wireless, sound, graphics, networking, I had 4 machines, 3 desktops and a laptop, to learn Linux and see about offering it at my shop. I NEVER had Ubuntu not bork itself on an update.Never. It got to the point I looked at the updates notification as a "break Linux NOW!" button.
So I understand why they disabled updates on the Dell netbooks. Because if you are a CS grad, or
EEE netbooks used to ship with a Linux distro. You know what killed that? Returns. Joe User booting it up, braying "The hell? Where's my Windows?" and returning it. It got so that retail salesweasels were begging people not to buy them, because they got dinged for all the returns.
At the time this rumour started it was checked with ASUS who said that the rate of returns of Linux and Windows netbooks were the same.
The whole nonsense started with a different netbook provider who delivered a Linux netbook with the WiFi and camera not working and then published the 4 to 1 return rate. This was then widely touted as being netbooks in general rather than just one minor league player who "fucked up" their Linux netbook.
So please stop spreading this Microsoft propaganda.
The Dell Mini 9 was the same story. Fortunately for Dell's sales, the Mini 9 was/is incredibly easy to crackintosh, and the Ubuntu-equipped units were less expensive to come by.
I have Meerkat running now on my Mini...so far so good.
I have Meerkat running now on my Mini...so far so good.
Doesn't that scratch the finish?
EEE netbooks used to ship with a Linux distro. You know what killed that? Returns. Joe User booting it up, braying "The hell? Where's my Windows?" and returning it. It got so that retail salesweasels were begging people not to buy them, because they got dinged for all the returns.
The problem wasn't that the things shipped with Linux instead of Windows.
The problem was that the salesweasels either didn't know that, or didn't bother explaining it to the customers.
I had a client at my last job that was absolutely convinced she needed a Dell mini-9. Thought it wold be terrific. Kept imagining all the ways it would be great to carry around a fully functional computer in her purse. Wanted me to put together a quote for one right away.
I happened to have a mini-9 at the time, used it for
I explained to her that it shipped with a tiny SSD so she wouldn't really be able to store all her pictures on it... Explained that it had no CD-ROM drive... Explained that it was generally too slow to handle streaming Netflix and things like that... Had her try surfing and typing on it...
modern netbooks have 250-320GB hard drives, stream netflix just fine, and have 90% full size keyboards (although they don't have dedicated numpads / arrow keys).
still no optical drive
Chances are you won't want the CD drive all the time. So you can just use an external one.
Netbooks haven't been about SSD drives since about 5 minutes after they were introduced.
Some people just insist on perpetuating grossly out of date information.
The point of my post was not to point out the technical shortcomings of modern netbooks. It was to relate an anecdote that I felt was relevant to the discussion.
Namely that I was informed about the product and also understood what my customer wanted, and didn't sell her a product that wouldn't meet her needs.
Too many salespeople are just looking to sell a product. Those salespeople will get crap returned to them because it doesn't meet the needs of their customers.
If your customer actually needs a netbook
You just have to manage expectations correctly. The iPad, for instance, doesn't have this problem because Apple set the right expectations.
If this is marketed as a regular computer, it won't succeed. If this is marketed as a way to get you online as quickly as possible with no fuss or fluff, then they'll be golden.
Joe User booting it up, braying "The hell? Where's my Windows?" and returning it.
If that's the reason Joe User returned his netbook, doesn't that make Joe User a fucking retard? When I was at Best Buy, looking at a netbook as a quick replacement while I decided on my next real laptop, they had them out, demoing the computers and the operating systems. At one time I even saw a netbook running Linux being demoed.
If Joe User returned his netbook because it didn't have Windows, it's because Joe User is computer- and consumer-stupid. It's right there, just begging you to try it out before
And yet, after a brief stint where netbooks used Linux, nearly all of them (in the US anyway) have Windows pre-installed.
Or, if you want a Linux netbook or laptop, you have to specifically hunt for it, often in the business section (or hide them behind volume licenses like HP does-- "We support Linux!... but not for you, pauper!").
I think there should be less cowering in fear of liability/support cost and more alternatives that don't pad the dominant software corporation's bottom line because there effectiv
Too bad Acer has HORRIBLE hardware Quality Control/Customer Service.
http://www.google.com/search?q=acer+mobo+failure [google.com]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=acer+no+keyboard [google.com]
And for those that want a citation of a sort...the numbers speak for themselves:
http://www.customerservicescoreboard.com/Acer+Computers [customerse...eboard.com]
And to make matters worse, they lied about it and mailed people back "replacement" MOBOs that were simply the broken ones other customers sent in for replacement, in order to buy time...until the warranti
Why inconceivable? Since Acer already is big with netbooks, they don't have to prove much there.
And considering that ChromeOS device could be just as well based on ARM chip (with many advantages of that route), it could as well be a new kind of devices, at least as far Acer is concerned (tablets? They do fit with "lack" of features of ChromeOS). Not saying this is what will happen...but inconceivable?
Why inconceivable? Since Acer already is big with netbooks, they don't have to prove much there.
And considering that ChromeOS device could be just as well based on ARM chip (with many advantages of that route), it could as well be a new kind of devices, at least as far Acer is concerned (tablets? They do fit with "lack" of features of ChromeOS). Not saying this is what will happen...but inconceivable?
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Please explain how Acer showing anything other than netbooks is "incapable of being conceived, imagined, or considered, totally unlikely, unbelievable, unthinkable, impossible to comprehend". Go on.
You've never seen Princess Bride, eh [youtube.com]?
What past achievement makes you think Google can give UI design some "real progress"? (other than their love for spartan UIs, which doesn't really translate that well to general, multipurpose "computer" UI)
Windowing systems a metaphor to desks and file cabinets? WTH? And actually...it is Google who bought recently very "desk and file cabinets"-like UI.
Billions of dollars and thousands of man-hours. If they are experimenting with novel UI design elements, as it says in TFS, it may be that they come up with something new and groundbreaking, or at least steal the best ideas from others (Apple) and improve on them.
Windowing systems a metaphor to desks and file cabinets? WTH?
LOL. First of all, the major UIs go so far as to call the "main screen" (or however you want to call it) the "desktop." Furthermore, windows are a metaphor for papers being moved around on that desktop. Hierarchical file systems are based on fi
Pouring money at a problem will make new great things, got it. (and "stealing from others" doesn't go hand-in-hand with what you originally wrote, about Google pushing the state forward)
How are their social networking efforts going?
I think you are confused what "windowing system" stands for, nevermind that only part of them takes, of course, some concepts from RL...and modifies them greatly. All the while Google recently bought a very direct "desktop methapor" UI...
Whatever things are called, do people really think of it as being a representation of a physical desktop & filing cabinets?
ChromeOS appears to be following the application-centric metaphor, much like the iPad, albeit with less consistency since the apps are web pages without strict interface guidelines. I wouldn't expect anything revolutionary from Google that you didn't already see on the iPhone three years ago.
I hear they're simplifying it down to just a full screen text field that you can simply input easy to learn control commands to do what you need.
I hope windowing systems die soon.
We all have our complaints about windowing systems. It does indeed seem like we spend a fair amount of time just managing the windows (moving, resizing, etc.) rather than working. Like you, I'm pretty convinced that there has to be a better design out there. But I don't think it's the right strategy to throw-out windowing systems altogether, without a viable alternative to actually push towards. Despite all their warts, our modern GUIs are by now highly tuned and in fact do help us be productive.
There has to be a better design than a metaphor to desks and file cabinets...
I think our modern desktop metaphor isn't really mimicking desks and file cabinets in any meaningful way. Sure, the same terms are applied ("desktop", "folder", "file", etc.), but in reality the computer-objects bear little resemblance to the real-world objects. (You can't infinitely nest folders in the real world!) I think our GUI metaphors have abandoned any real-world resemblance that was slowing them down. (E.g. you can't arbitrarily resize a real-world sheet of paper on the fly, but it's easy to resize a GUI.)
I'm not sure what the answer is (mostly just thinking out loud, here), but I think our time would be better spent refining the modern GUI, rather than throwing it all away and hoping that something fantastically better fills the void. Some ideas that spring to mind:
1. Windows in a GUI are useful (e.g. to read from one and type into another) but managing all the windows is as much fun as shuffling paper on a real desk. What would help is far smarter layout algorithms. When a new window appears, its size and position should "make sense". For instance it should be in some way proportional to the amount of text within it. It should try to appear in areas that will not obscure existing content. A given document should re-open to the same position on screen as the last time you had it open (thereby taking advantage of human visual memory and habit-forming procedures). A GUI that shuffled all the windows around on you would probably be more annoying than helpful. But some amount of predictive behavior would be nice (e.g. tossing a window towards one edge of the screen could dock it there cleanly.)
2. GUIs should let users easily define tasks rather than forcing them to manually open all the windows/documents associated with a given workflow. So when I open the "banking" task, my financial spreadsheets should open (and appear with the size/position I always set them to), my Firefox window should appear in the right place with the right websites all open, my calculator app should pop open in the upper-right-hand-corner, and so on... It should be easier for users to define sets of tasks and have those states reappear when required. This all boils down to: the size, position, and state of all the windows on-screen actually conveys useful information to the user! Don't throw that information away!
3. Each app should have a hidden backend database where every command and help topic (with appropriate index terms and tags/keywords and synonyms) is stored. If you can't remember where the button or menu item for a given task is, it should be trivial to type that into a persistent "help/do-stuff" bar and have the option simply appear, ready to be clicked/invoked. For apps with tons of options (MS Word, Photoshop, etc.) this would make it trivial to find the option you want. (Just type "red eye correction" or "make sentence all caps" or whatever.) If done properly, this would also allow users to interact with applications in a faster text-command mode (anyone who has used Firefox's Ubiquity [mozillalabs.com] will know what I'm talking about.)
These are just the ideas that have occurred to me (repeatedly) and may not be the best ideas out there. Overall my point is that I agree we need better GUI-interaction styles... but that I think we can use the existing windowing systems as good starting points for further refinement.
Perhaps there will be real progress in UI design now that Google is putting its resources toward that goal. I hope windowing systems die soon. There has to be a better design than a metaphor to desks and file cabinets...
Google's idea of an application UI on Chrome OS is a web app running inside Chrome.
Yeah, it also depends on how complex the desktop effects are, I'm sure. What's involved in iPhone OS? They map the window as a texture to a flat plane, and then do some quick low-quality scaling and rotation of the plane. Maybe there's some transparency effects here and there? For a modern computer, even the computers we call "smart phones", those are not particularly complex calculations. And as you mention, the display and wireless networking are going to account for a large percentage of the battery
I hope that this Chrome OS features a toggle for Desktop Effects. It seems silly to have a low-power, battery dependent device dedicating resources to window management ballet.
I'm not as convinced as you are that it would result in significant battery savings. I don't even know if those effects are run on the CPU or GPU for given hardware or how much power they consume. Often I see people wanting developers to "strip down" OS features for power or CPU or RAM savings in cases where such modifications are not even noticeable in terms of performance benefits.
What I hope is that Google and Acer work together to do real testing to find the best battery life and overall usability for e
I was gonna say.
I have a netbook that, when only barely running windows and chrome, still manages to be slow. Coverflow seems memory-intensive and like it's the sort of thing that would best be done on the GPU anyway, which for a cheap computer is not going to be very powerful.
If you're keeping--let's look at that screenshot--ten or more rendered pages in video memory at the same time, noting that each is probably at least as big as the screen, you're probably beyond the netbook market. You could certainl
I don't see any that aren't Win7 or WinXP. Link?
New Egg is selling an AMD 2.1 Ghz, 3 GB ram, 160 GB HD for $380. And, what do you know, it runs Linux.
Can it run for 8+ hours and fit in my pocket?
I bought a acer netbook about a month and a half ago and could not be happier with it. The battery lasts forever and it is really convienent to carry around. This thing never leaves my side, besides the hardware specs on it are not far away from what you have listed anyhow.
I used a version a few months back which was compiled from the pre-release code. It was the Google Chrome browser... that's it. OK, that's not quite it, but the idea of Chrome OS is to remove anything not necessary to load a browser, especially those things which slow the boot process.
I found it interesting, but nowhere near interesting enough for me to keep using it rather than Crunchbang on my Eee 900. If all you want is a browser, period, then you might just like Chrome OS. If you want more than that, yo
http://chromeos-blog.com/ [chromeos-blog.com]
Another site with downloads for pre-releases, but without the need for registration.
Wake me up when they release a Google Maps Mobile / Navigator client that runs on a netbook / tablet with a decent sized screen. That is all I've really been waiting for.
Leave me some coffee in the pot - I'm waiting for a version of Google maps that can run offline. And yes, before anyone chips in, I realise I may need to pre-cache the areas I'm going to.
The best GPS mapping software I've found so far for my eeepc is TangoGPS:
http://www.tangogps.org/gps/cat/Screenshots [tangogps.org]
It has some pretty good pre-caching tools, and even some rudimentary routing. But no search and nav tools, which made for some pretty neat marginally-pre-planned travel experiences back when I had a Blackberry + Google Maps.
I've had limited success running Google Earth on my eeepc, mostly because their real-time GPS support blows (even back when I was a paying customer for NV Keyhole Plus)
if they did that with linux, what's to stop them with chrome?
of fliptych. It is used be several non apple application
The writer doesn't seem to know that.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Just one week into the 2012 season, the Tennessee Tech soccer team has already made headlines. Senior forward Andrea Meloff was named Tuesday as the adidas® OVC Offensive Player of the Week.
The award comes as no surprise as Meloff helped lead Tech to a 2-0 victory on Sunday over Chattanooga. Just three minutes into the game, Meloff found the back of the net to give the Golden Eagles their first win of the season. She also added an assist later in the match and owns an .800 shots-on-goal percentage this season.
Meloff's three points is tied for the OVC lead and her goal on Sunday, the 16th of her career, moved her into sole possession of fifth on the TTU all-time list for career goals. She also climbed to seventh all-time in career points with 37.
While it was the second time Meloff has received the award, it was the first time anyone received the league honor on the offensive side of the ball since head coach Daniel Brizard took the helm. Brizard has coached three OVC Defensive Players of the Week and one OVC Goalkeeper of the Week. Meloff last received the honor during the week of November 3, 2009, her freshman year.
Also receiving votes in their respective categories for the week were senior defender Leigh Heffner and freshman goalkeeper Jordan Brown.
Here's a look at the rest of the awards in the OVC this week:
Other Nominated: Morgan Zigelsky, Austin Peay; Spencer Laufer, Belmont; Nikki Donnelly, Eastern Kentucky; Courtney Hurt, Jacksonville State; Ashley Geist, Southeast Missouri
Lauren Fant, D, 5'5, R-Jr., Rochester Hills, Mich. - Eastern Kentucky
Fant went the distance on EKU's backline in both of the Colonel wins last weekend. On Friday, she came forward in the 35th minutes to score the game-winner against UNC Asheville, heading into a cross off a corner kick from Emily D'Italia to give EKU a 2-1 advantage. On Sunday, she anchored a defense that earned its first shutout of the season, playing all 92 minutes of a 1-0 overtime win over Robert Morris.
Others Nominated: Taylor Van Wagner, Austin Peay; Kim Elmore, Belmont; Katt Dowd, Jacksonville State; Hayley Abbot, Southeast Missouri; Leigh Heffner, Tennessee Tech
Erika Wolfer, GK, 5'4, Fr., Cincinnati, Ohio - Eastern Kentucky
Wolfer posted her first shutout in her first weekend as a collegiate goalkeeper, as she played all 92 minutes of EKU's 1-0 overtime win over Robert Morris on Sunday. She made five saves and allowed just one goal as the Colonels topped UNC Asheville on Friday. She recorded a 0.49 goals-against average for the weekend.
Others Nominated: Nicole Berner, Belmont; Katelyn Geddings, Jacksonville State; Renee Kertz, Southeast Missouri; Jordan Brown, Tennessee Tech; Mariah Klenke, UT Martin

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"I put on about nine pounds," Bridgewater said during Friday's Combine press conference. "I was 205 pounds when I finished the season at the University of Louisville. I've been working hard with my eating habits, my weight room lifting and everything."
"I couldn't eat for two months, and that was a period when I lost most of my weight," Bridgewater said. "So I just want to get back to that range, 220, 225 range, and just feel good."
Teams have not spoken with him about an ideal weight, according to Bridgewater but doesn't have concerns about his ability to add bulk. With proper eating habits, he said he was confident he could sustain the wear and tear of an NFL season.
"Yes, no doubt," Bridgewater said. "I just feel that to play this position you have to have durability, and I just want to prove that I can put on that weight and I am one of those guys who can last a full NFL season."


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Has anybody found a way to get these packages into the world list? I checked the Gentoo forums, but the methods I found were all out-dated.


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UNA Hosts W.C. Handy Festival Headliner Concert by Grammy-Winning Blues Artist Keb' Mo'
Jul. 18, 2013
By Terry Pace, Communications and Marketing
FLORENCE, Ala. – Keb' Mo' vividly recalls his first journey to Alabama's fabled musical mecca of Muscle Shoals back in 1999.
"I got the call saying one of my blues heroes, Little Milton, wanted me to join him in the studio," the three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist recalled in a telephone interview from his home base in Nashville, Tennessee.
"That's absolutely all they had to say – the name Little Milton – and I was all over it," Mo' recalled. "I even passed up a trip to Cuba to come down to Muscle Shoals and work with this man I considered such a legend and such a personal inspiration. That turned out to be just a really great session – and one of the highlights of my life. It was a big, big experience for me."
Those fateful sessions at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios generated the funk-flavored, up-tempo Little Milton/Keb' Mo' duet "Gimme My Broom," a standout track from the Grammy-nominated, all-star Malaco Records album Welcome to Little Milton.
Fourteen years later, the latter-day blues disciple returns to the Shoals as the concert headliner for the 2013 W.C. Handy Music Festival. The annual festival celebrates the life and legacy of the area's native son – the world-famous "Father of the Blues," W.C. Handy (1873-1958), composer of "St. Louis Blues," "Beale Street Blues," "Memphis Blues" and other American blues anthems.
"There's a great heritage down there," says Mo', a multi-W.C. Handy Blues Awards winner who will perform for Handy audiences at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 27, at Norton Auditorium on the University of North Alabama campus. "When it comes to the blues, people don't seem to talk about Handy the way they do Robert Johnson or even B.B. King. But he's definitely a big part of the foundation, and his name remains synonymous with the blues in so many ways. I'm honored to have awards that bear his name – and to be part of that living blues tradition."
A native of Southern California, Kevin Moore – who eventually adopted the professional name Keb' Mo,' the title of his 1994 album debut – grew up immersed in American roots-music influences ranging from the black-gospel sounds of the Baptist church to the Delta-blues stylings of Johnson, King, Milton, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins and Big Joe Turner. In 2003, Keb' Mo' was prominently featured in Martin Scorsese's award-winning public-television documentary series The Blues.
"That music is part of me – it's part of my history and part of my identity," the artist explained. "The blues is real – it's real music that reflects real life. It's the real deal."
Keb' Mo' felt an intergenerational connection with the organic, dynamic development of the blues when he worked with 1999 Handy festival headliner Little Milton – the late Milton Campbell (1934-2005), the only artist to record for four signature blues labels, Sun, Stax, Chess and Malaco. In addition to Keb' Mo', the Welcome to Little Milton sessions at Muscle Shoals Sound (now Cypress Moon Studios at Muscle Shoals Sound) featured stellar guest artists Delbert McClinton, Susan Tedeschi, Gov't Mule, G. Love and Special Sauce, Peter Wolf (of the J. Geils Band), Lucinda Williams and Dave Alvin (of the Blasters), plus a powerhouse lineup of Muscle Shoals session musicians.
"I thought I was going to feel way out of my league working with Little Milton, but not at all," Mo' remembered. "He couldn't have been more gracious and kind and open. It was a different feeling recording in the South, especially in Muscle Shoals, and feeling all the warmth and graciousness and hospitality. And when we went in the studio together, Milton really took me on and inspired me to rise to the occasion – and I'm grateful for that. He was just an amazing musician all-around – great singer, great songwriter, great guitarist. He had it all going."
Today, Keb' Mo' and his close-knit family are based in the South – in "Music City" itself, Nashville, Tennessee, where he's preparing a new album of original contemporary-blues material.
"I just want to make good music and be a better Keb' Mo' – to be more evolved musically as life unfolds and the years go on," he observed. "My musical life is totally connected to my personal life. To me, it's not so much about new musical conquests – it's more about experiencing personal milestones in my life that I can share with an audience through music."
VIP tickets for the Keb' Mo' concert – presented by the Music Preservation Society, UNA and other festival sponsors – have already sold out. However, $40 general admission seats are still available. Tickets can be purchased online at the Handy headquarters – located in the annex of the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, at the intersection of Wood Avenue and Tuscaloosa Street in downtown Florence – or online at www.wchandymusicfestival.org. On the night of the concert, tickets will be available at the door on a first-served, first-served basis. For more information, visit the Handy website or call the Handy office at 256-766-7642.
"I want to bring my best game to the Handy festival and the people of Muscle Shoals," Mo' concluded. "It's going to be a solo show – just me singing and playing guitar. I hope that's enough for everybody."
A high-resolution current portrait of Keb' Mo' is available for media use in the UNA Photo Gallery at: http://www.unalionsden.com/archive/photo.php?id=7502


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Check out AG candidate on TV tomorrow
Live from Denver, it's Stan Garnett, who is running for the Democratic nomination for attorney general!
Garnett is scheduled to appear on KUSA/Channel 9's "Your Show" tomorrow at 10:30 a.m.
Garnett, the Boulder County district attorney, is challenging Attorney General John Suthers, a Republican appointed to the job in 2005. The accidental attorney general became the real deal in 2007 after winning election to the post.
The AG's race normally is pretty ho hum but with Suthers and Garnett disagreeing on Obamacare and medical marijuana it's shaping up to be a battle.


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Whitesboro ISD breaks down the bond into four categories: safety security, access control, facility repairs and technology infrastructure. 65 percent of the money is going to keeping elementary students safe. But there are some Whitesboro residents who say the price tag is too high.
The $16 million bond would pay to build a new entrance to the high school, to avoid congestion and the dangerous intersection on Highway 82.
It would fund the construction of new classrooms to accommodate the growing district. But Superintendent, Pete Slaughter, says the main goal of this bond is safety.
"Both of our elementary campuses were set up to where they were buildings that were built separately and independently from each other and were not connected," Slaughter said.
In order to get to a lot of main areas around the school, students have to walk outside, which is a big safety concern for parents and teachers
"Of course as a parent you want your kids to be safe. You keep your kids safe and you expect the school to do the same," parent Lauren Hartless said.
"We want to make sure that when our kids are dropped off in the mornings, that they can, that we can assure the parents to the best of our ability that they are in a building and that they remain in that building throughout the day," Slaughter said.
More than $10 million would go toward enclosing campuses, but not everyone thinks it's needed.
"I'm just going to vote no this time," resident Marie McClendon said.
Marie McClendon says the bond is too expensive and administrators haven't done enough to educate the public about it.
The projected monthly tax increase for someone who owns a $100,000 home is $10.27.
"There's too many people here that doesn't make that kind of money or doesn't have that much money coming in to pay," McClendon said.
For parent Lauren Hartless, the benefits are well worth the cost.
"For me there's no price tag on safety. So, for $10 a month I think that's pretty cheap to just make sure that my kid is safe," Hartless said.
Early voting for the bond begins October 22. Voting polls will be at the administration office or at the home Bearcat football games


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Transport: Commission refers Belgium to Court over rules on intelligent transport systems
The European Commission has decided to take Belgium to the Court of Justice of the European Union over its failure to transpose Directive 2010/40/EU on intelligent transport systems (or "ITS"). The Commission proposes a daily fine of € 34,540.80 to be paid from the date of the Court's affirmative ruling until Belgium notifies the Commission that it has fully implemented the rules into national law. These financial penalties are proposed by the Commission under the Lisbon Treaty and take into account the duration and the gravity of the infringement and the size of the Member State. The final decision on the penalties rests with the Court.
Directive 2010/40/EU should have been transposed into national law by all EU Member States by 27 February 2012. The rules establish a framework to support the deployment of ITS (information and communication technologies applied to transport) in the field of road transport and for interfaces with other modes of transport. The Commission adopts specifications to ensure compatibility, interoperability and continuity in the deployment and use of such services, for example, real-time warnings about dangerous road conditions ahead and information on safe and secure parking places for truck drivers. According to the directive, Member States must ensure that the specifications adopted by the Commission are applied to ITS applications and services when they are deployed.
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I am very stubborn and when I set my mind towards a goal – I accomplish it. Most of the time. Too bad that does not apply towards chores and housework. I have been working a lot of hours and this past week was a marathon. Monday – Wednesday I went to MN for a work conference, with about 6 hours of sleep for the past couple of days Wednesday was my first "crash" day. I slept most of the afternoon and all night. I worked again on Thursday and Friday until my DSL was finally disconnected.
The task of packing the fishies and tanks began. After most of it was done and I took some sleeping pills around 5 PM. I needed to be knocked out so that I could wake up in the early hours of the morning. I fought the weird half awake half numb state that the sleeping pills caused as long as I could. A little bit before 7 PM I crashed again and woke up to my honey hugging me and letting me know she was not letting me go alone. After talking her out of it, ( and I claim this win only to her half asleep state after she stayed up until 1 AM packing for me the necessary stuff and other miscellaneous things for the trip) I set out into the night.
The first 4 hours were good. A fresh pot of coffee in the morning, half I chugged at the house and the other half I took with me. I was only going to stop for gas, bathroom breaks and caffeine consumption. Right before dawn I ran out of coffee, and my brain started to tell me… dude you are in trouble. I stopped for gas and my first instinct was to replenish my caffeine stash. I blame this brain-fart on the zombie like state I was driving in, I had mentally turned off everything except for my driving skills and my ability to sing girlie songs (I was listening to Maroon 5 by this point). My barista by nationality abilities were checked at the door when I chose to refill my travel mug with French Vanilla Cappuccino from a machine. My brain woke up its emergency alert system and tried to spill it, but I ignore the warning. At this point I am getting close to Indianapolis. I start to notice that I am actually starting to feel tired. I am not even half way into my quest… so I upped the situation to DefCon 2 after realizing that I was using faulty fuel. I chugged the remaining coffee by-product and let nature take its course. I figured that my bladder would keep me awake until I could get some real caffeine in my system again.
The plan had worked. My body was awake again and I made it to my next stop. As I walk into the gas station, my first question was, where is your restroom? before the lady behind the counter responds like a sign from the heavens, red bull 3 for 5 dollars in a huge tub full of ice. I was saved; red bull was going to give me wings. I am leaving Indianapolis, which btw is far less impressive than I thought… I am sorry if there are any people from IN that read this, but seriously your State needs some attraction because it is still on my list of States you just drive through even after seeing Indianapolis. I looked at my map and saw that the best course to get to St Louis the quickest was I-70. So, I take that route thinking that around 7 AM I was going to wake up Travis and guilt him into meeting me for breakfast. I waited until 7 AM and somewhere in the middle of Indiana, I woke him up. After wrestling with the signal I figured out that I miscalculated. I thought he lived close to I-70 from my past visits to him, but I was always coming from Chicago, this was the first time approaching him from the IN side… well, he lives close to I-72 which was about an hour North. I blame this miscalculation on the lack of caffeine and just being in Indiana.
Making killer time I made it to St Louis. I had hoped that I was going to be able to take a good look at the Arch which I have never seen before. However there is a section of I-70 that kind of circles the city, but also a more direct way that cuts that loop which is 270… so I chose to save the time and skipped seeing the Arch. To my surprise while crossing the river I find that I can see the Arch and downtown from a great distance… it is an amazing thing to see that huge arch just as tall as the big buildings. I am looking forward to seeing it up close. I then continued to Kansas City. My body had been cooperating until I entered Missouri. I then had to take my first real break and go into a Jack in the Box for some food. I actually sat down and took the one and only break.
I made it to KC in about 13 Hours + gas stops and breaks. No one believes me that I set the cruise control the whole time and I did not go over the speed limit more than a couple of miles here and there. But I did… I don't recommend it since it takes someone really crazy to actually try it, but it can be done. Surprisingly I did not fall to sleep right away when I got to our new place… I had time to kill all the fish that I kept alive during the whole trip. Only about 5 of them made the first water change… I am not sure if KC puts something different in their water but they did not like the change. I know quite a bit about fish, I have been a fishgeek for years, so I know what to do, I am sure if I would have cycled the tanks for a week things would have worked better, the fish were pretty hardy but could not take the shock… it could have been that KC water if fille with chemicals… So, unless you have some great insight into KC water chemicals, keep your fishy suggestions to yourselves! (I'm still mourning the death of many beloved fish so, touchy subject… you have been warned). Before I close this post I want to say that there were two reasons for me to make the trip straight, one I had to get to the leasing office before it closed, and two I wanted to keep the fish alive… which I was successful in doing until the were tanks set up.
One thing I do want to note about my new hometown, people are really nice. I had stopped in numerous gas stations along the way in 3 other States, and it was not until I got to MO that I was greeted by a stranger… It makes me happy to live in a place where everyone holds doors for you and greets you like a friend.


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finally. thank the deities.
Agreed, it would be a wonderful thing to have, but it still has issues as far as I can see.
TFS says 'but without the privacy leaks', but really you can still be tracked/followed/denied/fucked with from a single point/service, namely your email provider.
Also, there's the age old problem of common password for everything, if one is compromised, they all are. Granted in this case, it's a private key and not password, which is slightly harder to acquire though social engineering, mainly because most people aren
The issues that you point out already exist with current email-to-reset approaches. What they are suggesting is not a perfect solution to authentication, but after glancing through their spec it seems to be at least as reliable as what we use currently. At the moment your email provider could screw with any account that relies on password confirmation / reset request emails. With this system the provider would only hold your public key, so while it would still be able to track / deny-service it would not ha
what keeps this approach from generating a separate key for every site?
No, you actually can't be tracked via this system from your email service provider. That was the point of this.
The system works like this: your browser gets a signed crypto certificate from your email provider (or some other proxy who can confirm you own the email address you claim to own - Mozilla is running their own email verifier already - called "auth party" or AP). Your browser resigns that cert locally and hands that over to the login website ("relying party" or RP). The RP then only has to check the
"TFS says 'but without the privacy leaks', but really you can still be tracked/followed/denied/fucked with from a single point/service, namely your email provider."
Well, with current systems you already can: they all rely on the old 'send a verification email' technique, and whoever provides your email account can obviously read your email. So this system doesn't make things any worse than current systems from a privacy perspective, while adding quite a lot of convenience. The idea that you're already trust
Ah, so when i have to reinstall my OS due to HDD death or OS death and for whatever reason, can't save my profile app data files (depending on where it stores the key)... then what?
Will i just be able to do a "Forgot my password" type action to regenerate a private key?
It's still one of those minor issues that is not "entirely ready" yet.
https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/17 [github.com]
Even better! Thanks to our convenient, safe and secure process, the private key will be calculated from your public key and sent back to you via email for you to store on your new computer!
No doubt! Letting your browser save passwords is stupid. Letting your browser store keys is insane! I like single sign on tech for internal low security stuff as much as the next guy, but global? sigh.
I don't think the browser would ever need to transmit the private key in this scenario. However, yes: if the user or browser was some how tricked into uploading it -- you are compromised. This is still better than passwords, which are easy to attack with dictionaries and rainbow tables.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Identity/VerifiedEmailProtocol#Synchronization_of_keys [mozilla.org]
yup. You can have multiple keys for one email address, or you can sync one key across multiple browser profiles.
Maybe this is what you would use Mozilla Sync for? (At the risk of keeping your internet life at a single provider.)
Of course you backup your Mozilla profile*, don't you?
* That directory that keeps all your bookmarks, history and saved passwords.
Also, what do I do when I want to use an internet cafe to log into a BrowserID site?
I've heard people talk about this "internet cafe" thing, mostly in exactly these sorts of hypothetical questions, but I've never actually seen one. The closest I've come is the row of computers at the library, and, well, if you're doing anything involving authentication on a computer at the library, you're doing it very, very wrong.
isn't the browser basically the most targeted piece of software on a computer? if the private key is stored in the browser, doesn't that mean that potentially one successful exploit in the browser would let a hacker log into any website as you?
How is that different from now, where you can have the browser autocomplete the password for most login forms anyways?
To begin with, my browser saves my password for Slashdot, but not for my bank. I make that decision.
Secondly, when I connect to something from a remote, possibly untrusted location (like the work computer) I can choose to not store anything at all, and perhaps even run in the "private browsing" mode.
This system would insist on having a private key, one way or another, for a login into
The browser is still less targeted than the login pages of the services one uses online.
If you know your private key is stolen you just generate a new one and the problem is solved (unless they get access to your email account as well ofcourse).
So wait - why doesn't this use the existing PGP web of trust and software?
And how does it mitigate the MITM/Phishing attacks that plagued OpenID?
I'm skeptical, but encouraged to see some efforts here...
So wait - why doesn't this use the existing PGP web of trust and software?
Mainly because PGP is only usable by people who are already security wizards.
And how does it mitigate the MITM/Phishing attacks that plagued OpenID?
Phishing only works because the user has to input the password on the provider's website (which is phished). With PKI, the private key is never sent - you just prove you have it by encrypting something with it - so phishing is useless.
That's where the secondaries come in. The RP's are asked to implicitly to trust the authentication coming from these "trusted sources".
Mozilla is proposing making their own browserid.org as one such secondary.
The kind of users who use this will be the kind of users who use hotmail/gmail/yahoo/etc.
I think that is what the BrowserID project is for, see the video.
They mail you a link just like all these sites currently do, you just need to do it ones to verify your email address instead of for each and every site.
My browser will automatically provide my e-mail address? The very thing I do NOT want to provide when signing in with the majority of sites?
Also, as a web developer, I think it is a real bad design error to use an e-mail address as a login. What happens if you change your provider? Do you log in with your new (thus unknown) e-mail address? Or do you want to send the lost password to the no longer existing one?
The first issue is fixed simply by the browser asking your permission before it sends your data. The UI can be made in a way that is harder to give permission (at the first login) than just clicking 'Yes'.
The second issue is real, but is also moot. Everybody uses email for authentication. A few people that can think offer the option of changing your email, others don't. Those same groups would do correclty/incorrectly any authentication method you can think of.
Not automatically obviously. It still needs user-interaction.
How do all these other sites currently handle accounts ?
They use email-addresses and a verification-email and have a profile-page where you can change the email-address.
This is not that different.
"Also, as a web developer, I think it is a real bad design error to use an e-mail address as a login"
Playing the critic. How does one remember their login for every website?
Whenever my browser forgets/clears my user/pass cache, I have to request my username to be sent to me and my password reset.
On almost a daily basis, I'll reply to someone on a forum, it'll request I register, I attempt to register and it'll say that email is in use. I don't remember signing up, so I just do a password reset.
It's so annoy
I think it is a real bad design error to use an e-mail address as a login. What happens if you change your provider? Do you log in with your new (thus unknown) e-mail address? Or do you want to send the lost password to the no longer existing one?
It's not using an e-mail address as a login. It's using a private-key signed challenge packet as a login. The e-mail address is provided to give the website the location of a reasonably secure version of your public key, so they can validate the challenge packet.
If you change e-mail hosts, you simply give the new host your original public key. (Which will probably be an automagic one click option by the time this system goes public, given that stupid-ease-of-use is its purpose.) Now when you sign in, your b
they get access to all your shiznit.
I assume you would have the ability to issue a revocation certificate.
OOoops! too late your browser has already given you up...
And what if you need to have multiple identities?
or what if multiple people use the same web browser? think: family room PC where mom/dad/teenager go and open up a web browser then log into their own facebook account. no, they don't have separate windows profiles and don't bother with addons that let you have multiple firefox profiles, etc, within one windows profile. (how would THAT affect this anyway...)
Well, you'd have to use multiple profiles. This would require the browser writers to make profile switching much easier than it currently is. The browser would basically take over the "login" function, it decrypts your private key when you launch the browser and throws the key away when you close it or log out of your profile. A good browser would have an option to share bookmarks across profiles, for families that want to bookmark things for each other.
or you could watch TFV (the video) to find out how this is addressed.
don't use a public computer to log into websites
The browser doesn't just automatically log you in. You need to select which email address you want to use. Watch the 'fing video before complaining.
a browser-based federated login provider
Got damn Feds is getting involved in everything these days.
Hell, pretty soon they're gonna be all up in my Social Security and Medicare. That's why I'm a-voting for that pretty Mi-chele Bachmann. And let me tell you, I'd like to show her what a real man is. You know she ain't getting it from that big homo she's married to. And by homo, I mean gay as pink ink. Dude has to tie weights to his shoes so they don't float right out of the closet. He's queerer than a box of monkeys on DMT. Gay cubed.
But what exactly does this get me over SSL Client Certificates?
Frankly, I don't entirely understand why the world hasn't started using SSL Client Certificates, and I wonder what will make people use this scheme, when client certificates have lain unused for so long.
The Mozilla people should have had some very serious conversations with people working in the spam/phish/botnet space before going down this road. It doesn't matter how clever or robust this scheme is, in the contemporary environment it's absolutely worthless.
In fact: it's worse, because it provides a new attack vector to people who have already demonst
It had damn well better be done locally, or you have no guarantee that your private key is actually private. Are they going to write the keygen code in Javascript?
I just saw this at the bottom of my
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Race condition or faulty logic? I would prefer a race condition as it makes me feel like I just won the lottery.
Sounds interesting, but right now the role of identity provider seems to be limited to (to quote the page itself) "dudes like Yahoo!, Google, Twitter, Facebook, and even github".
Well, thank you, but I run my own server and I own my own domain and I want to provide my own identity.
So, call me again when there's a Debian package for that. Until that happens, I'm not interested.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)- Frustrated parents filled the hallways and waited in line for their voices to be heard Monday.
They all came for the same reason; to let the Topeka Unified School Board know that they think the dual language program at Whitson Elementary should stay.
USD 501 School Board members plan to phase out the program, which teaches elementary students to be bilingual, and they want to expand it to Scott Magnet School instead.
School administrators say it'll be a positive change.
"It's an exciting problem to have, but it is a challenge when you have two programs that are pilots and then you're making a decision about the future of them, " said Superintendent, Julie Ford.
But the Whitson parents disagree. They're upset and this session gave them the chance to make their case: keeping the bilingual program where it is.
"I'm particularly outraged because it is a very valuable program and I think we've been played and quite honestly ," said local parent, Miguel Gonzalez.
"Well, I have to say it's a little unsettling, you know, we didn't get a whole lot of notice when we found out," said a local mother, Kerri Renner.
One issue is that the Scott Magnet campus makes it a farther trip for them, and their children. And also, parents don't want to send their children to two different schools.
"It's probably around 5 miles out there, so it's quite a commitment," said Superintendent, Julie Ford.
Even though this meetings purpose was to provoke change, some parents believe their arguments won't change a thing.
"In all honesty, I feel the decisionhas already been made. They are trying to be nice and do some public relations in the meeting and what not. In all honesty, I would love for them to reverse their decision," said parent, Miguel Gonzalez.
Topeka's district administrators say Spanish speaking teachers are difficult to find and the need for more resources is will impact this decision.


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Monday, November 23, 2009
The Palin Trap 2: A Fork In the Rogue
I hate to post two Taibbi columns in one day, but Jesus is this brilliant. Just a dead-on assessment from his new piece over at True/Slant:
"What the people who are flipping out about the treatment of Palin should be asking themselves is what it means when it's not just jerks like us but everybody piling on against Palin. For those of you who can't connect the dots, I'll tell you what it means. It means she's been cut loose. It means that all five of the families have given the okay to this hit job, including even the mainstream Republican leaders. You teabaggers are in the process of being marginalized by your own ostensible party leaders in exactly the same way the anti-war crowd was abandoned by the Democratic party elders in the earlier part of this decade. Like the antiwar left, you have been deemed a threat to your own party's 'winnability.'
And do you know what that means? That means that just as the antiwar crowd spent years being painted by the national press as weepy, unpatriotic pussies whose enthusiastic support is toxic to any serious presidential aspirant, so too will all of you afternoon-radio ignoramuses who seem bent on spending the next three years kicking and screaming your way up the eternal asshole of white resentment now find yourself and your political champions painted as knee-jerk loonies whose rabid irrationality is undeserving of the political center. And yes, that's me saying that, but I've always been saying that, not just about Palin but about George Bush and all your other moron-heroes.
What's different now is who else is saying it. You had these people eating out of the palms of your hands (remember what it was like in the Dixie Chicks days?). Now they're all drawing horns and Groucho mustaches on your heroes, and rapidly transitioning you from your previous political kingmaking role in the real world to a new role as a giant captive entertainment demographic that exists solely to be manipulated for ratings and ad revenue. What you should be asking yourself is why this is happening to you. Even I don't know the answer to that question, but honestly, I don't really care. All I know is that I find it extremely funny."
Honestly, this is a fascinating read:
True/Slant: Taibblog: Yeah, Sarah, There Is a Media Conspiracy/11.23.09
(This time it's an otter. Look at him -- he's saying, "Hi!" Cute, cute, cute!)
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- Deacon Blue said...
Shit! I don't have any river otter nor any sea otter material at the ready. Too hard to find a way to wittily connect the shattering of shellfish on one's belly using rocks to the implosion of the neo-con-nutwings.
Oh, well, I can't win with every cute fuzzy animal. Someone else will have to pick up my slack.
Palin is / was an unqualified, obscure, ambitious politico who was thrust into the national spotlight, much like most of the candidates for President.
But what is is about her that neccessitaes 50% of your recent posts are about her?
Don't dismiss that fact as some coincidence, and that you are providing some public service pointing out how "stupid" her supporters are.
Seriously. I give a rat's butt about this lady who, if left to her own devices, would rate no more than 40% popular vote, max.
Why do you insist on giving her some much of your time?
- Chez said...
In English, please.
- cousinavi said...
One significant difference worthy of note:
The anti-war crowd, although most certainly cut loose and marginalized, were eventually proven correct. I doubt such a fate awaits those who stand steadfast with Palin.
An interesting, if tortuous thought experiment: Should it come full circle, and Palin rides some vast wave of ignorance to "Serious Contender", who will play the role of Liz Cheney, continuing to defend the Palin bashers in the face of the facts?
I know you'll be there, Chez...and I will...but like pounding oneself in the head with a ball peen hammer, at some point it just feels better when you stop.
Stop? Piffle. I'll NEVER stop. Being right never feels better than when it's against the tide.
(I recommend using the ball end of the hammer...it's faster).
Still tho...as with the crowd who insist that the ugly anti-Obama rhetoric is no different than the hideous anti-Bush yammering by the libruls during W's reign of constitution shredding terror...the simple fact remains: The anti-war crowd had the FACTS on their side.
It is of little consequence to say that both sides were shrill. It is of consequence to say ONE side was RIGHT.
Otters is good eatin'.
- Spencer said...
So what you're saying is an incoherent, cacophonous, hick jugband of teabaggers led by a border-line retard (who's willing to sell off the last of his (in this case her) legacy for a shot at the prize) are gonna be raped by the Riverbottom Nightmare Band come the 2012 talent show?
Unlike Anonymous @ 10:07, I'll go on the record...and agree with him/her. Palin is getting an awful lot of screen time 'round these parts.
The more you talk about her, the more she doesn't go the hell away.
- Chez said...
Low-hanging fruit. She's easy content.
The problem is that decent stuff keeps coming out about her. The Taibbi piece was really good and, well, the new interview video I actually think is important for people to see.
Best quote in the piece:
"The press corps that is bashing her skull in right now is the same one that hyped that WMD horseshit for like four solid years and pom-pommed America to war with Iraq over the screeching objections of the entire planet."
Chez, have you ever thought about writing a book about this? You are, after all, in a perfect place to write about this. You were in the middle of "the press corps" right through one of the most interesting periods in recent history, are now out of the press, and are in a perfect position to comment on the media's tendency to push the story that THEY like rather than the story that actually happened.
That'd be a *hell* of an interesting book, particularly with your brand of snark stamped on it.
- Chez said...
I wasn't closely associated with the on-the-ground election coverage -- meaning that in 2000 I was in Los Angeles and in 2004 I was in a control room in Atlanta. Still, there's definitely a story about what the press gives you versus what the story really is -- the various factors that can subtly and sometimes not-so-subtly influence the direction of the news you see.
Yep. I'm not talking about elections specifically. I'm talking about things like missing-blonde-white-girl-of-the-week, Afghanistan, or any of the hundreds of stories you were involved in while a news producer.
- 60ft6in said...
In 1983 I stayed at the Ottery Tourist Inn in Colombo 4, Sri Lanka and the Otsal Guest House in Leh, Ladakh, India. Down the street from the Ottery Tourist Inn was the Maldives Embassy. The U.S. Peace Core later occupied the Ottery Tourist Inn. That's it for my non-Animal House otter stories. For your next Palin story honor the sacred cows of India and post a photo of some udders!


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Advice for a new teacher looking for a job in France... Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Advice for a new teacher looking for a job in France... Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> France View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message riverboatJoined: 22 May 2009Posts: 117Location: Paris, France Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: Advice for a new teacher looking for a job in France... Hi all I'm a 26 year old Brit, with a degree in English literature, and having been given a year's leave of absence (Aug 09 - Aug 10) from my current managerial job in London, am hoping to spend my year in France, supporting myself by teaching English. I've been accepted onto the month long CELTA course at International House in Paris which means that I'll spend August 09 doing a lot of practical teaching and (hopefully) end up with the CELTA qualification. Then, I'll be looking for a job... I'm worried that the fact that I don't have any formal teaching experience (other than what I will gain on the course) will mean it will be very hard for me to find a job, either in Paris or elsewhere in France (I'm fairly open minded as to whereabouts in France I will spend the year). I've worked in education for many years, but on the admin/management side rather than doing practical teaching. (I do have bits of relevant experience - current job has involved training colleagues at work in various stuff; have worked alongside professors and teachers for many years so picked up quite a bit of stuff about the practice of teaching, but have no actual experience teaching english). Basically my question for those in the know is: what do you think my chances of finding a job teaching English in France will be this September? I plan to email out my CV and cover letter to as many schools as possible over the next couple of months, and if that doesn't lead to anything, then hit the streets of Paris in person at the start of September to see what I can find. Is September a good time to actually look for jobs, or will all the schools have hired everyone they need by then? I don't necessarily need to find really well paid or even full-time work, as I've got savings that I plan to use to help support myself during this year, but I am definitely going to need to get some sort of an income. And am starting to panic that maybe that won't happen! Any and all advice much appreciated... Back to top sally2005Joined: 31 Mar 2005Posts: 9 Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:03 am Post subject: Hi In terms of your experience, I wouldn't worry - I came over to Paris in summer 2004 with a similar CV (English degree, management/business/adult training experience, CELTA, but no other English teaching experience) and I found that business experience + CELTA was what most interested the schools. As most work is with business people, you are probably seen as more attractive than someone with a couple of years' experience of teaching children, for example. I got lots of offers could choose the one that most appealed. However, I've now been in the state sector for four years, so I have no idea how the market has changed since then, and if it's more difficult in general to get a job now that companies are cutting back. Maybe someone with more up to date knowledge can advise? Back to top mesomorphJoined: 13 Nov 2007Posts: 63 Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:58 pm Post subject: The crisis can be good for teachers, some schools are employing more. Teaching experience can be a big negative. Potentially you would know more than the director of the institute and probably definitely more than your line manager, so if you are not a sleazy grovel dog servant they may think you arrogant/a threat/Satan/etc... My work is full of amateur Machiavelli newbs hoping to crucify me any chance they get. Thankfully they always just make themselves look like boobs in front of anyone that knows anything about anything. So you are probably in a better position in a lot of ways. PERSONALITY counts for EVERYTHING. As far as prospective applications are concerned, I emailed ten institutes before leaving the UK and one of them gave me a job as soon as arrived. I didn't even speak French at the time. I left them after two weeks however. They were total dicks. If you are highly motivated you could find work quickly. However it could just be a couple of hours here and there. In four months I found sixteen hours over three different jobs. Just do everything you possibly can and there is a chance it could work out for you. Do you speak French? Do you have your own transport? Do you like making coffee and chatting about absolute bullshit while grinning ear to ear like a freaking idiot? If you have answered yes to any one of the above questions you have a high chance of finding work reasonably quickly. Just be a shameless s1ut and you should fit right in anywhere. 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Hello. I'm learning web design for a hobby, and at the moment I'm trying to build my own website.
For this site, I am trying to build a 'contact me' page, which includes a form where people can leave their details and a small message, which will be sent to my email inbox when they complete the form. I am fine with the XHTML and CSS of building the form. The PHP, however, has me stumped.
Basically, what I want to do is have a page called example.com/contact which contains the form where the user inputs their details. I would like their name, email address and message to be required fields. If these are all validated, I would like it to move to a confirmation screen where they can quickly check the message and details, and hit a submit button. When they do this, I would like it to send the info to my email address.
I have to make sure that the PHP is as secure as possible, so that the form or server won't be affected by spam or people putting code into any of the text inputting areas.
I want to learn how to do this myself, rather than just copy some script and not understand it, so I was wondering if anyone knows of particularly good tutorials or tips which they can offer for building a good contact form with php. I'm finding the Sitepoint 'Build Your Own Database Driven Website' book uncharacteristically hard to grapple with compared to the one for XHTML and CSS.
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Your Guide To A Painless Bikini Wax
Oh, that's right, it's summer again. I guess now is the time for all the waxing, huh? Okay.
This weekend we tried the bikini wax at Bliss which was spectacular. They use a type of wax that only clings to your hair, not your skin, so it doesn't have that "ripping off a bandaid" stinging feel. We're fans. And you should look up one of their spa locations here! But we undertand that not everyone had $70 to spend on a Brazilian, so you're going to go to a more mid-level salon, here are a few things you can do to get in and out and smoothly as possible.[ITPGallery]


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The Lonesome Road - America's trucking industry faces driver shortages
Source: comstocksmag.com/Articles/1012_F_t
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The trucking industry is facing a significant driver shortage as baby boomers retire and younger people are unwilling to replace them. The shortfall eased a bit during the recession as fewer trucks took to the road, but with the economy recovering, industry leaders say the shortage is becoming problematic.
The American Trucking Associations predicts the industry will be short approximately 110,000 drivers by 2014, while other estimates peg the figure up to three times higher. That deficit has been paying dividends for those who remain.
"Driver salaries are on the rise," says Michael Shaw, a spokesman for the California Trucking Association. "Demand is outstripping supply."
That is good for drivers but not so much for consumers: Most industry experts believe the increased driver costs will ultimately mean higher prices for the goods they deliver.
There are many reasons for the shortfall. Younger people aren't as interested in the field any more. In this era of health consciousness, the job is perceived as too hard on the body. And long-haul truckers can be required to be gone from home for weeks at a time.
The financial payoff is also questionable. Many large companies prefer to hire truckers who own a rig, which can be an expensive proposition for a potential driver. And new regulations in California related to greenhouse gas emissions have made it even more difficult for truckers to afford equipment.
However, there are other signs that workers are enlisting in the field because job prospects are so poor elsewhere. David Decker, director of education for the Western Truck School in West Sacramento, says he has seen a slight increase in the number of students willing to fork over the $2,000 to $5,000 needed to pass his training program. He says it is too soon to know if the spike is temporary, but he remains optimistic that the industry will eventually be able to fill its needs. For all its challenges, he notes, trucking has something many industries can't offer these days: job security.
"It's harder than ever to make a living now," Decker says. "But I'm seeing a lot more people coming here now who have already had careers in other fields. They're coming here because they just need a steady job."
— Rich Ehisen
Source: comstocksmag.com/Articles/1012_F_transportation_thirty_million_gamble.aspx (scroll down for the article)


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Dear Mr Tanner, Rebecca and Sandra, (If Mr Tanner is the boss it's better to defer to him)
It was very enjoyable speaking with all of you (more personal, unless there were others involved in the conversation that you have not mentioned)yesterday about the administrative assistant and Testing Center Director posts(makes it clear you're referring to both posts) in the Career Training and Development Department at OC Technical College. Both positions sound very challenging and would enable me to use and develop (less pushy- you can be too assertive and you mention it later)my skills and interests.
In addition to my enthusiasm, I will bring to the position strong writing skills, assertiveness, and the ability to work as a team player.
I appreciate the time that everyone has taken to interview me. I am very interested in working for you and look forward to hearing from you regarding these positions.
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This probably won't please everyone but I installed Mint 12 yesterday, including stuff by way of dovecot, the LAMP stack, argyll and dispcal, Nvidia drivers, etc. So far "it just works TM". The old Mint favourites/apps menu could do with a bit of a redesign but that's hardly a big deal.
Otherwise the whole thing seems great. I'm coming from Mint Debian Edition which worked well, too, but providing you stuck religiously to Mint's own updates, ime. The problem is that these updates were pretty out of date (Firefox still on 5, etc).
I never got on with Ubuntu which never did work for me, too buggy. The distro I always end up going back to is Debian Sid (like another poster) but if Mint 12 continues to work I may well stay with it. I've had less hassle installing this than installing anything else recently.
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foucault wrote:Beryl is working fine, well mostly fine, only desktop one has any icons, and before that i was having trouble getting the cube to remain transparent, i though Beryl was to blame for the weird lettering, but it remains after reboot, ill re-emerge Azureus later, or maybe swith to utorrent. Also my machine has turned off a few times mysteriously, i guessed that it was just overheating becasue of beryl, but didnt have kgrellm open either time, so now my lappys on a cooling rack...
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ufdbGuard is a URL filter. The URL filter blocks access to sets of Web sites and cooperates with the Squid proxy. It integrates with LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory, MySQL, and others to define different ploicies for different groups of users. ufdbGuard also enforces SafeSearch for many search engines, blocks Skype, UltraSurf, Tor, unsafe HTTPS sites, and dynamically detects proxy tunnels. The multi-threaded daemon uses a fast algorithm that does 50,000 URL verifications per second on an Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) at 2.4 GHz.
SquidTL allows proxy administrators to manage proxy users: define how much time users can spend on a specific Web site, block sites, limit total time users can spend on the Web daily, and watch users' activity. For example, you can limit the use of Facebook or other social networks with per-user rules or IP. It has a small memory footprint and very fast execution. Management can be done with a smart Web-based administration GUI.
Dowse eases the configuration of network routing for a local area network, starting from the setup of ARP-level static entries of known peers, IP-level firewall, DHCP configuration, and local DNS cache, up to an application layer transparent proxy and optional gateways to anonymous networks such as Tor and I2P. It consists of a minimalistic script which can run on any GNU/Linux box and which, from a central configuration point, controls Ebtables, Iptables, and all the daemons needed for such operations: DnsMasq, Squid2, and Privoxy. It comes with a module system for contributed add-ons like DNSCrypt-proxy and HTTPS-everywhere.


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Im trying to have a video file open when i click on a button. I can get it working by adding an .AVi file, but the file is so small you can barely see it or it says cannot open avi. The other thing i tried was system("1.avi") which opens the file in media player but only seems to work on the computer which it was compiled even though the avi is stored in the same directory as the exe.
Anybody any ideas?


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The Legislature and Gov. Susana Martinez will have slightly more than $280 million to cover budget increases and tax cuts next year under a new revenue forecast outlined to lawmakers. The revenue estimates released Monday will serve as the financial backdrop for lawmakers when they convene next month for a 60-day legislative session.
Administration and legislative economists say the state should collect about $5.9 billion in tax revenues in the fiscal year that starts July 1, 2013. That provides a pool of so-called new revenues of about $283 million. That's enough for about a 5 percent increase in spending.
Lawmakers say part of that money will be needed to cover previously approved changes in law, including about $36 million for higher state contributions to public employee pensions next year.
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School Sports
Lady Tigers win two big games last week
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The Mount Vernon Lady Tigers defeated both Prairiland and Paris Chisum last week at Tiger Gym. These volleyball games were critical wins for the Lady Tigers who had fallen to both teams in the first round of district play.
Mount Vernon is now one game behind Prairiland and one game ahead of Chisum. Standings for District 15-2A with four games left to play. They have an overall record of 27-5 and a district record of 6-2. For more information, see the October 17 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas lawyer who represented O.J. Simpson in the Nevada trial that led to the celebrity football star's armed robbery and kidnapping conviction is suing Simpson's Florida-based lead attorney, alleging that he wasn't paid promised fees.
Gabriel Grasso alleges in the civil breach of contract lawsuit that he was promised $250,000 to serve as local attorney following Simpson's arrest in September 2007. But he said Yale Galanter only paid him $15,000.
Galanter told The Associated Press that he hadn't been served with the lawsuit and couldn't comment on it. But he said he intends to fight.
"You can say anything you want in a lawsuit. Proving it is another matter," Galanter said Tuesday. "Gabe Grasso got paid everything he was supposed to get paid commensurate with his skill level, his ability level and his responsibilities as local counsel in Las Vegas."
The 17-page lawsuit, filed Friday filed in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, seeks unspecified damages in excess of $50,000. It cites "extensive and time consuming" proceedings between Simpson's arrest in September 2007 and trial a year later.
Galanter, who wasn't licensed to practice law in Nevada, needed a local lawyer
"Mr. Grasso did the lion's share of the work in the case," Grasso's lawyer, Joshua Tomsheck said Tuesday. Grasso declined comment.
"They had a legal, binding agreement," Tomsheck said. "All the motions were filed by Gabriel Grasso. All the Nevada legal research was done by Gabriel Grasso. The agreement was that he would be paid for his expertise."
Simpson was convicted in October 2008 of leading a group of men in an armed confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers in a room at a Las Vegas casino hotel.
Galanter and Grasso argued that the NFL Hall of Fame, TV star and advertising pitchman was trying to retrieve personal mementoes and family possessions stolen following his acquittal in 1995 in the Los Angeles slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
Simpson is now 64. He's serving nine to 33 years in a state prison in northern Nevada.


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Horoscopes- Real or Fake?
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So I coincidentally came across a horoscope application yesterday, and so I thought it would be a good thing to write about. Opinions differ from person to person. Some people just enjoy horoscopes and check them out just to pass time. For some people, they are a beacon of light at the end of the tunnel, an encouraging thing in their depressing and stressful lives. On the other hand, to some people they really mean a lot. They believe them no matter what. They read, act upon them, and put their complete trust in them. You can probably say they go by the phrase, "Maybe my stars weren't lucky today".
I would like to raise some questions. Should we act upon these
things? Are they really worth it? Are they that reliable?
Moreover, how can you trust any other power except god to predict
or unveil your future? Is there any harm in just reading them?
What right and wrong do they have? Is there some true sort of
guidance? Well what are they? This may have struck the minds of
many people. What if raising this topic may actually be
beneficial to youth growing up?


text: Narali Purnima, also known as Nariyal Purnima, is one of the most famous festival celebrated in Maharashtra, Goa, and Kerala. It is celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Shravana (July-August), according to Hindi calendar. The day is highly auspicious for fishermen and fishing community. They pray to the sea god, Varuna, for their safety and for a good yield out of the waters in the form of fishes by offering coconut, because of which the day is also known as Coconut Festival. The day marks the ending of the monsoon season and beginning of the fishing seasons.


text: Not the usual bed and breakfast but a lovely 650 sq. ft. apartment for 1-4 guests, with your own entrance. We are located just minutes from everything. The Okanagan lake is only two blocks away. Downtown, with city park, cinemas, water sports, yacht club, museums, and culture center, is a mere 10 minute walk. Wineries, golf, horseback riding and hiking are a short drive away.


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I'm thinking about moving to France for a few months and would like to hear of any job opportunities in the area of computer science and programming in any city in France or Switzerland. I speak English and Polish, have worked in the area for 2 years in Kraków and have a BA in Computer Science.
Merci beaucoup d'avance!


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Carol Anne Hahn, 72, of Davenport, Iowa died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 at Genesis East Medical Center in Davenport after a courageous battle with health issues.
Carol Anne Hahn, 72, of Davenport, Iowa died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 at Genesis East Medical Center in Davenport after a courageous battle with health issues.
Celebration of life services were held 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at the Jones & Eden Funeral Home with Pastor Darryl Carr officiating. Visitation was 3 p.m. Sunday at the Jones & Eden Funeral Home where the family received friends from 5 - 7 p.m. Interment takes place at the Keota Cemetery in Keota, Iowa. Memorials have been established for the Dialysis Unit at Genesis East Medical Center. Online condolences may be sent for Carol's family through the web at www.jonesfh.com.
Carol was born Sept. 13, 1939 near Pulaski, Iowa the daughter of Kenneth and Cora (Scearcy) Reese. She attended Fairfield High School, and later attended Scott Community College in Davenport. She had been married to Ronald N. Hahn, Sr. for 34 years. She was previously married to Edgar Franklin.
Carol had been a resident of Davenport since 1979. She owned and operated two restaurants, one in Brighton and one in Richland. She was later employed by the Crane Company, Brach's Candy Company, and Hasty-Tasty Foods in Davenport, where she worked until her retirement.
Carol attended the First Baptist Church in Washington, Iowa. She was very involved with helping her kids and grandkids. She enjoyed canning fruit, reading, and traveling. Her family was her favorite hobby.
Carol is survived by her husband, Ronald; daughter Merryl Tate and husband Bob of Colorado Springs, Colorado, daughter Jerri Kennon and husband Ed of West Des Moines, Iowa, son Robert Franklin of Martin, South Dakota, daughter Eva Litwiler and husband Tom of Keithsburg, daughter Lisa Hollingsworth and husband Brian of Davenport, Iowa; step-daughter Cathy Lomen and husband Robert of Washington, Iowa, step-daughter Crystal Davis and husband Pat of Washington, Iowa, step-son Tony Hahn and wife Janet of Hooppole, step-son Randy and wife Chris of Delmar, Iowa, step-son Ronald "Nick" Hahn, Jr. and wife Karen of Washington, Iowa; step-son John and wife Indah of Washington, Iowa; 23 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild; brother Richard Reese and wife Sandra of Iowa City, Iowa, brother Gerald Reese and wife Rosemarie of Wilton, Iowa; two nephews and one niece.
She was preceded in death by her parents, son Glenn "Bud" Franklin, step-son Paul Hahn, and granddaughter Amanda Hahn.


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Orion Magazine, January/February 2013
- ▶ NANOPARTICLES ARE IN OUR FOOD, CLOTHING AND MEDICINE -- AND NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE HOW DANGEROUS THEY MIGHT BE http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/7278
EurActive, March 12, 2014
- ▶ PARLIAMENT REJECTS DRAFT EU LAW ALLOWING NANOMATERIALS IN FOOD http://www.euractiv.com/health/parliament-opposes-commission-na-news-534093
Guardian Environment, January 23, 2013
- ▶ EUROPE IGNORING WARNINGS ABOUT BEE DEATHS, GM FOOD AND NANOTECHNOLOGY according to an 800-page report by the European Environment Agency http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/23/europe-failed-learn-environmental-lessons
Chicago Tribune, July 10, 2012
Seed Daily, April 24, 2012
- ▶ BIOTECH STUDY FIND EVIDENCE NANOPARTICLES ALTER AND DAMAGE DNA IN OUR FOOD CROPS http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Study_finds_evidence_nanoparticles_may_increase_plant_DNA_damage_999.html
ScienceNews, March 12, 2012
- ▶ NANOPOLLUTANTS CHANGE BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nanopollutants-change-blood-vessel-reactivity
Yale Environment 360, January 29, 2012
- ▶ PANEL URGES COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF NANOTECHNOLOGY SAFETY http://e360.yale.edu/digest/panel_urges_comprehensive_study_of_nanotechnology_safety/3306/
December 3, 2012 = Grist
What's engineered in a lab, added to processed foods, and never labeled? If you thought GMOs were mysterious, try nanoparticles.
... the growing role of nanotechnology in food and agriculture, the current lack of oversight and regulations, and the growing consensus that more information and transparency are both sorely needed in relation to this growing field.... http://grist.org/food/nanoparticles-in-your-food-youre-already-eating-them/
- ▶ EATING NANO http://www.emagazine.com/magazine/eating-nano/
Environmental Leader, December 13, 2012
- ▶ EPA EXAMINES NANOMATERIAL RISKS http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/12/13/epa-examines-nanomaterial-risks/November22, 2012 Environmental Leader
EMagazine, November 20, 2012
- ▶ SAFE FOR CONSUMPTION? NOW ITS NANOPARTICLES IN OUR FOOD http://www.emagazine.com/magazine/safe-for-consumption/
LifeWise, September 25, 2013
- ▶ WHY IS THE FOOD INDUSTRY POISONING US WITH TRILLIONS OF NANOPARTICLES? http://southweb.org/lifewise/why-is-the-food-industry-poisoning-us-with-trillions-of-nanoparticles/
November 2012 EMagazine
- ▶ NANO-PESTICIDES SNEAKED ONTO THE MARKET (AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS) WITHOUT REGULATION OR OVERSIGHT http://www.emagazine.com/magazine/stunted-growth/
ScienceNews, August 22, 2012
- ▶ NANO-SIZED POLLUTANTS POSE CROP RISKS TRIGGERING A HOST OF CHANGES TO PLANTS' GROWTH AND HEALTH http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/343143/title/Nanosized_pollutants_pose_crop_risks
Seed Daily, November 24, 2012
- ▶ NANOMATERIALS IN YOUR FOOD: SOYBEANS SUSCEPTIBLE TO MAN-MADE MATERIALS IN SOIL http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Soybeans_Susceptible_to_Man_Made_Materials_in_Soil_999.html
- ▶ NANOPARTICLE 'RISK TO FOOD CROPS, FOULING OUR SOILS -- AND MAYBE YOU http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19320267
EurActive, November 23, 2012
- ▶ SCIENTISTS EYE NANOTECHNOLOGIES TO BOOST CROP YIELDS http://www.euractiv.com/specialreport-agriculture/scientists-eye-nanotechnologies-news-516218
- ▶ NANOMATERIAL RISKS - IN YOUR FOOD, CLOTHING, EVERYWHERE...UNKNOWN RISKS AND IMPACTS ON HUMAN, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH http://sco.lt/93lLIv
Environmental Health News, September 23, 2013
▶ SPECIAL REPORT: SCIENTISTS CRITICAL OF NEW EU CHEMICAL POLICY HAVE INDUSTRY TIES, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/eu-conflict
▶ HOW YOU BECAME A GUINEA PIG FOR THE CHEMICAL AND BIOTECH CORPORATIONS http://sco.lt/76tCpl
Living on Earth, March 14, 2014
▶ THE SCARY NEW EVIDENCE ON BPA PLASTIC: AN ABSOLUTELY MIND-BOGGLING INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY TACTICS TO KEEP YOU IN THE DARK ABOUT TOXIC PRODUCTS & EXPOSURE http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=14-P13-00011&segmentID=4
▶ POISONOUS CHEMICAL TOXINS IN YOUR DRINKING WATER : THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, THE EPA AND CONFLICT OF INTERESTS http://sco.lt/57ufr7
- ▶ PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/6VkkXB
- ▶ BIOTECH IS RE-ENGINEERING, RE-PROGRAMMING AND PATENTING LIFE ITSELF: THE ETHICS AND LEGALITIES http://sco.lt/5GPxwX
- ▶ THINK THOSE 80,000 CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD & ENVIRONMENT HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/91jqHh
- ▶ OBAMA TO DE-REGULATE GMO GENETIC BIOTECH INDUSTRY : Fast-tracking approvals, waiving regulations and liabilityhttp://sco.lt/5uCx8b
- ▶ THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL - AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD FOOD SUPPLY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1716244040/the-global-chemical-biotech-cartel-an-unprecedented-power-over-world-agriculture-and-human-health


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Adele to Receive MBE Honor from Queen Elizabeth II
Adele has won nearly every major music award out there -- not to mention an Oscar and a Golden Globe -- but now, she's receiving an honor that's truly representative of what she's meant to her home country of Great Britain.
Queen Elizabeth II has named Adele an MBE -- Member of the Order of the British Empire -- as part of Her Majesty's annual Birthday Honors List. This award is given for "a significant achievement or outstanding service to the community." Given that Adele has pretty much single-handedly boosted the British record industry thanks to her monster-selling album 21, the award makes sense.
Adele's certainly in good company. The Beatles also were named MBEs, although John Lennon famously returned his medal in 1969, complaining of, among other things, Britain's support of the U.S. in the Vietnam War.
Many other musicians have received similar honors from the Queen, but of a slightly higher ranking than an MBE; there are several other levels, including OBE and CBE. Honorees include Rod Stewart, Annie Lennox, Eric Clapton, Sting and the Bee Gees. Of course, the highest honor is a knighthood, which has been given to the likes of Sir Elton John, Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney and U2's Bono, though his knighthood is honorary -- because he's Irish, he's not allowed to be called "sir."
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...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Constabulary and a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
container driver were killed in acts of terror in Quetta, Mashkey and Hub town on Monday.
Official sources said the FC personnel were killed when they were attacked by unknown hard boyz while they were coming out of the FC Fort in Mashkey. The two victims were identified as soldiers Saifullah and Zhazad.
Four FC personnel were seriously injured in Sakran area of Hub when a bomb strapped to a cycle of violence went
Two Balochistan Constabulary personnel were killed and another was injured when their convoy was ambushed on Eastern Bypass in Quetta.
Bodies of the two were taken to Civil Hospital in Quetta and they were identified as Abdul Haleem and Mohammad Arshad. Hospital sources said that condition of injured Yar Muhammad was critical. A driver of a NATO supply container, Mohammad Qasim, was killed in Sariab locality.--
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