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irado furioso com tudo
Date: 04-11-01 01:15
yehaa.. I once was a ferocious linuxer defender. But I was never hungry on FreeBSD. Today I am playing with FreeBSD, and I am falling in love.. The very 'clean' way for a server install/configuration is catching my attention (and interest). Many things are easier in FreeBSD than in linux (ipsec vpn - also other vpn's - bridges.. try a bridge in Linux and you will know what I am saying about. And do not try ever a filtered bridge).
Great server, great Unix, great FreeBSD.
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Author: Dan Langille
Date: 04-11-01 07:16
Answers to the the following questions will help me with my upcoming talk:
What similarities have you found between the two?
Are you running all your your favourite programs under FreeBSD?
What differences have you found?
What are the three major things you like most about FreeBSD over Linux?
What are the three things you miss about Linux?
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Author: fbsd_newbie
Date: 04-11-01 12:51
I have been using linux for almost a few years now. Yesterday that is 3rd November 2001 I got freebsd 4.3 for installing. There are certain things I didn't like about it.
As I am using slackware linux which doesn't come with many of the tools of other distibutions I was fairly confident that I will be able to install it easily, but unfotunately I was in for more of a surprise that the install was not at all easy. During the install I was dazed, confused(probably all newbies are confused).
Similarities :
In the two I find that almost all the config files are in similar places so I do not have to search for too many things. Also freebsd seemed to have the option of installing xinetd as an extra package, so I think those who use xinetd instead of inetd aren't left out either. So in the similarity I don't think there is much difference except in partitioning scheme, totally weird (create a slice) etc (methinks I was eating Pizza :-))
What difference have I found ?
As my name indicates I am newbie in freebsd the only difference that I have found after I installed is I still don't know what I really did and didn't do and I am still lost with the install of freebsd.
Something I liked about freebsd is its boot loader because I still can't figure out what to do(I like the F1, F2,F3) but I would still go back to lilo cos of nostalgia - freebsd doesn't seem to be caterd to the newbie at all and one would really have to be keen and interested to learn freebsd.
Can't answer the last question - I am still just 2 days old in freebsd.
P.S :- These views are from a newbie point of view and I wish the install was much simple like the slackware's linux install.
These are only my views and it is subjected to change in the future, hope it helps.
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Date: 04-11-01 13:38
To answer some of Dan Langille's questions:
- What similarities have you found between the two?
Both BSD and Linux share a great number of userland utilities.
Utilities such as ls, grep, awk, sed, top and similar are with very few exceptions identical. If you are an experienced linux user, you will probably feel very much at home on a BSD system.
- Are you running all your favourite programs under FreeBSD?
I must admit, my workstation is a win2k machine, I use BSD only for servers. However, I have been running a lot of linux applications and utilities under the linux compatibility layer, and I have never run into any difficulties. It just works amazingly well.
- What differences have you found?
Biggest difference is probably the location and layout of config files. Where BSD has just about every config file in /etc or /usr/local/etc, linux seems to have a whole bunch of different directories. (In part due to its several different runlevels)
Once you realize the power of /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc, you will probably never want to get back to linux's way of doing things.
- What are the three major things you like most about FreeBSD over Linux?
Feels more mature.
Stability. (rarely any beta versions of daemons or utilities)
Less hype. ;)
- What are the three things you miss about Linux?
I hate to sound commercial, but...
Linux has alot of "commercial stuff", such as books, t-shirts and, probably most important, companies offering support and guarantees.
I've found that a lot of people choose Linux over BSD simply because its more "visible", in lack of a better word.
Just last week a friend of mine was thinking about trying a different os, and I immediatly recommended FreeBSD. A few days later, I meet him again, and he told me he was now running Red Hat. He explained that after surfing the web for a few hours, he found that Linux seemed to be a more reliable choice, due to the number of websites and commercial vendors backing it up. And, he added, "they have much cooler t-shirts".
Like it or not, this is how many choose their os today.
Just my 2 cents..
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
irado furioso com tudo
Date: 05-11-01 01:20
the previous coleagues already put everything I was feeling, but anyway I want to point out some other few things:
I am a newbie in FreeBSD - 20(-+) days from my very WORKING installation. Previous installations was 2/3 years ago, but nothing really serious, just to see it.
My interests are in the servers side. Install a server and:
a) run nmap in any Linux and in this FreeBSD you settled just now
b) run nessus (ditto)
I am very impressed with the fact that FreeBSD is closed in a very TIGHT fashion, with *no* special endurance procedures. Try it the Linux's LIDS way, or with ipchains/iptables configuration files.
with a single file (ipnat.conf), in 5 lines I got a functional redirection of the http requests from the public addr to another server, strongly protected inside the non-routable lan-address.
IMHO, everything is simpler the FreeBSD way - the rc.conf, the kernel configuration (LINT is great). I am (still) a proud user of SuSE Linux, and maybe it is very near to this way, as it mantains a /etc/rc.config and a rc.d folder. And maybe this 'proximity' turned myself more suscetible to FreeBSD.
Want more? try to create a bridge with Linux and FreeBSD: it is very near to the IMPOSSIBLE with Linux, natural with FreeBSD and native with OpenBSD. Just few lines in GENERIC and 'presto'.. It is DONE in no time (just the time to recompile and less than 10 lines in rc.conf). A filtering (firewalled) bridge? Forgot Linux.
Want a ipsec tunnel (vpn)?? Try FreeS/WAN in Linux (or Seattle Firewall) and try it with FreeBSD. I, personaly, will ever preffer the 'less effort' path. FreeBSD was built in very short time, nor special efforts neither special kernel patches required.
Firewall?? 5 (maybe 6) lines in the ipf.conf and it is VERY closed to the outside world.
You can claim that ipfilter (also ipfw) are open and available also to Linuxers.. but it is not mentioned in any paper or site. (really I dont know if it IS portable, will not try anyway).
I will try the ipfw way for my needs (redirection/firewall) because I was informed that ipfw is very portable to other *nix - OpenBSD being the real target, I think.
Did you noted that I am falling in love with FreeBSD?? Because it turned easier my services - and my clients are more protected.
just my (new) 2/100
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Bill Strosberg
Date: 05-11-01 23:34
I attended the same LUG meeting as Dan in Ottawa, and believe that the differences between Linux groups and FreeBSD groups are far outnumbered by the similarities. If the truth be told, it seems all of us are singing from the exact same page in the hymn book, we just differentiate ourselves based on irrelevant historical trivia.
I consider myself more of an Open Source software / *nix person than I do a Linux enthusiast. The user group ("Ottawa Canada Linux User's Group") I belong to is a great repository of *nix talent, regardless of the Linux umbrella it falls under. We've got people running / experienced with BSD, HP U/X, Irix, Solaris etc.
I'd be interested in hearing Dan's comments on the Hung Vu / ArmoredServer presentation. I actually thought it quite lame, unsubstantiated and a commercial repeat of the FreeBSD effort in a licence-challenged GPL Linux environment. What I found really wierd is that this guy started Milkyway, producing BSD-derived firewalls ages ago. What happened? Why isn't he running on FreeBSD, because the code auditing is __FAR__ better in the BSD world than in Linux?
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Zach Dykstra
Date: 07-11-01 01:44
I started out with SuSE 6.1 on an SMP box, and found it to be pretty challenging. After making little headway, I installed FreeBSD, and have been using it ever since. The three things I like most about FreeBSD are
1) The integration of everything in the OS. The Kernel is tightly bound to userland, and the ports tree is wonderful. I haven't had to scream in frustration at FreeBSD once! (okay, I lied. X is a peice of @!#$)
2) The community. Having seen the BeOS community self destruct over a period of 2 years, I place a high value in the online community of an OS. Linux has a strong following, but the sense of togetherness isn't there for me. With FreeBSD (and the other BSD's for that matter), the community is tight. Between the web, newsgroups, and IRC, everybody is there for each other.
3) The speed. FreeBSD 4.4 is the fastest OS i've ever used. I run it on a p75, and a p2 450, and it's super fast in all ways. FTP'ing files, I can get almost 8mb/s (Megabyte). Compiling is super fast, along with anything else I can think of. (Except X, and that's not FreeBSD's fault).
The three things I miss about linux are:
1) The massive amount of applications. Linux users have huge amounts of software available to them. Every university kiddie codes for Linux it seems, so they have tons of usefull little apps and hacks.
2) The large collection of how-to's. Although I rarely need a how-to in FreeBSD, the sheer amount of them for Linux is a blessing.
3) More hardware support. Linux seems to have a bit more hardware support, especialy in the media department - Sound cards, Video cards (Hardware GL support), and TV capture cards (although FreeBSD supports both of mine).
The only similarities i've found are in the normal shell tools. grep, awk, ls, so on and so forth. Otherwise, I prefer FreeBSD's filesystem layout, and it's way of doing things (tm).
Every application i've found that I want/need, I can run in FreeBSD. I don't run anything in the compat layers, so it's all executed natively in FreeBSD.
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Author: St Aardvark the Carpeted
Date: 09-11-01 08:57
I've been running Linux (Slackware, then Debian) for more than three years now, and I've just installed FreeBSD 4.3 a month ago (even managed to upgrade to 4.4 and build world w/o breaking anything, woohoo!).

What similarities have you found between the two?

Compiling everything, of course; once you get over the Windows expectation of having neat little install packages, it seems weird not to compile a tarball. Man pages. General layout. Text friendliness (I'm still not a big X user).

Are you running all your your favourite programs under FreeBSD?

Not yet; right now, FreeBSD is still something I play with. The most important two things I do are email and web browsing; right now, my older (Linux) computer has all the programs and defaults and archived mail, and I don't want to bother moving it over yet.

What differences have you found?

FreeBSD has a man page for everything. Ports. A more "hard-core" feel somehow; like the difference between a cube van you rent from U-Haul and an 18-wheeler loaded with freight. Bash isn't the default shell in FreeBSD.

What are the three major things you like most about FreeBSD over Linux?

A man page for everything. Ports. Incredibly quick at three things: booting, shutting down, and getting a prompt back after you messed up your login. I have no idea where the difference in speed comes from, but it's jaw-dropping.

What are the three things you miss about Linux?

HOWTOs (God I miss them!). The ability to do a search on Google for whatever problem I'm having and be 99% sure of finding a solution; I think this is just a matter of having a bigger number of people mess up :-), but it seems that if I have a problem w/FreeBSD there's going to be a long night spent in front of Google before I figure out what's going on. Penguins; sorry, but it's true.
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Date: 10-11-01 04:32
I used slackware from summer of 1996 up untill december of 2000 right after I was layed off from dsl.net. this past year I have grown to really love FreeBSD, the only thing i wish didnt happen in FreeBSD is the core dumps from linux apps. :\
other then that I love it! the ports are the best damn thing ever, the installer took a bit of getting used to since I had no clue about the BSD's, their is the 'Distributions' and then extra packages you can install, I like how sysinstall has all the options for system configuration.
another thing that kicks major, major, ass is that if you have broadband (Praise the Lord!!) you only need 2 floppie disks to install via the net, that is something I had been wanting for a looooooong time in linux and nobody has it yet. :\ go figure...
all in all, FreeBSD is awesome, I totally love it, my sony VAIO laptop's cdrom drive works now and dosnt FREEZE like it did in Linux(its an ATA-Ninja PCMCIA to IDE type deal) the kernel version didnt matter either, tried everything from 2.2.xx up to 2.4.5.(i was running linux on my laptop for the first few months of this year, all my servers were rebuilt to FreeBSD.).
I highly recommend this OS to anyone wanting to learn unix.
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Nick Grundy
Date: 14-11-01 02:02
What similarities have you found between the two?
not much realy, prehaps the fact that there both a "unix" style os :)
Are you running all your your favourite programs under FreeBSD?
I'll admit here i use Win2k on the desktop and FreeBSD on servers, I've never hit an application I cant run in FreeBSD yet, most times Im finding new applications to mess with because "i just found them in ports". Game servers run a charm under the ABI compatability layer, and imho most times infact run better.
What differences have you found?
Less Crud/Clutter, what other modern OS will install onto 80-90 meg of disk space?
The kernel and userland work as one. Many linux users dont understand what the diference between kernel-land and userland is. People ask me constantly how to setup this or that or the other, I've personaly guided 3 people through building a FreeBSD box from the point of a empty hard disk to a fully operational ADSL router, over icq / msn / irc and so on.
the 4.3/4.4 installer, the defaults realy make sence now, its almost a hold down enter and run with it job now.
What are the three major things you like most about FreeBSD over Linux?
Smaller Footprint, Messing with Redhat 7.1 I found that a default server install to use around 20meg of ram, my work horse server at home uses around 32meg of ram, while my colo box utilises around 60 meg of ram.
CVS CVS CVS!!!!, i cant say anymore than that, CVS rocks.
-STABLE, linux has no such thing :)
What are the three things you miss about Linux?
um, er, nothing :)
Not having DRI break every other release in X would be nice, but then X11 is a PITA some times.
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Date: 08-12-01 04:06
I've been using Linux for about five years, and have just started to play around with FreeBSD.
What similarities have you found between the two?
They're both Unix! I felt at home straight away.
Are you running all your your favourite programs under FreeBSD?
Not yet, but this should mainly be a case of downloading and building what I want.
No commercial games that I am aware of are available under FreeBSD, but Linux also has very few games. I'm coming to the realization that neither has anywhere near as many games as Windows does, and that it's time to buy a games console.
What differences have you found?
Many GNU/Linux distributors have made great efforts to make their distribution a viable desktop/workstation operating system. In doing so, they have become superficially beautiful, but everything seems so slapped together.
FreeBSD seems more thoughtfully planned and constructed, and better suited to a critical server.
The licensing schemes are also quite different. I admire the FSF's aims, but they may not be practical for everyone.
I also feel that most GNU software is quite bloated. I hope that the FreeBSD tools are far leaner, whilst retaining most of the functionality... I'll soon see.
What are the three major things you like most about FreeBSD over Linux?
FreeBSD seems to be much more coherent: the filesystem is well laid out, the manual pages are better maintained, and the general feel is much more Unix-like.
The installer was much better than expected.
There seems to be some facility for keeping system configuration files under version control. This is a great idea.
What are the three things you miss about Linux?
The Debian alternatives system.
An advanced package management system such as apt and friends.
The mass-availability of binary packages.
FreeBSD may have suitable replacements for these things. I'm still learning! :-)
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Dale Briere
Date: 17-04-02 22:48
Bill my comp crash please e-mail your phone
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Re: linux x (Free)BSD
Cymen Vig
Date: 21-04-02 05:09
For me the #1 thing is the method of upgrading the system. cvsup/make buildworld simply changes the long term amount of administration a server will require compared to the various options on linux. In the established linux distributions I only see Debian coming close. But I prefer the source builds...
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NWSB blogger Jon Irwin takes a look at Washington's, Oregon State's and Oregon's bowl projections. With the BCS shakeup over the last two weeks, only one NW team seems destined for a major bowl game. But all three teams are still destined for interesting matchups and great games. Marcus Mariota, Keith Price and Sean Mannion or Cody Vaz will all get one more game this year to impress.
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February 23, 2012
Written nearly three months after H.L. Mencken penned a screed to him about Antioch College, Professor of History Hendrik Van Loon's letter to his famously acerbic friend may not be in direct response, but it is the closest thing to it in the Antioch College Archives. From its disarming style, clearly Van Loon could be a lot of fun to be around, though he reveals a certain arrogance about him as well, perhaps one of the things that had infuriated his colleagues in the history department at Cornell University.
An illustration of the Antioch College campus by Van Loon dated October, 1921
featuring an attempt at a new seal symbolizing work and study.
Note Van Loon's playful use of language, particularly his almost comedic transition between English and German; Mencken's letter from the previous May contains the same word play. Van Loon demonstrates the eclectic nature of his interests and expertise, and perhaps just the few culinary (vol-au-vent is a French pastry, literally translated "blown by the wind"), musical (JS Bach's "mathematical puzzle" could refer to any number of works patterned on math formulas), and religious (his use of the Latin phrase "nunc dimittis Domine" loosely translates as "Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord" from the "Cantile of Simeon" in the book of Luke) references to be found here are indicative of an author capable of a broad-based world history such as The Story of Mankind, the "nightmare" he refers to in the second paragraph. He has no idea at this point the extent to which the public will disagree with his assessment that it is not a great book. His "next book," the one that he hopes to coax Mencken back to discuss, R.v.R.:The Life and Times of Rembrandt Van Rijn, would not come out until 1930.
Then-president of Antioch College Arthur Morgan is most likely the "esteemed Chief" in question, set to visit Van Loon at his Greenwich Village home in about a week. It is not known if Mencken availed himself of the chance to meet Morgan or not, though since there was no better promoter of the College in its entire history, we might hazard to guess that even the intractable "Sage of Baltimore" might have become convinced.
8 Barrow street. New York 13 August xxi
My Dear Mencken,
Why did you not stay? Bach's Concerto for Zwei Geigen without a piano is more or less like vol-au-vent without the vent. Besides, I had rediscovered those two very lovely sonatas for two violins of Handel (both G moll and as far as harmony and melody goes much pleasanter than Master Johann's mathematical puzzle) and we had quite an evening of fiddling. As Mrs. Robbins and I are the only two good amateur players in New York (I heard of another one in Pittsburgh but he does not have the price of a ticket to New York and does not count) as, as I said, we are the only two good fiddlers in these US, even the double notes in the finale of Bach would not have frightened you away from the clavecin.
Mrs. R. tells me that she has a cook every Thursday and intends to feed us next Thursday, mit musik afterwards. I hope that you can be there for I would like to talk to you about my next book (not this damn thing that has become a nightmare, means endless fussy unpleasant odds and ends of work and shall, in the end, expose me to the wrath of the great Baptist Jehovah, the great Methodist Joshua and all the other partikularistische Joshes who will and shall be more than willing to kill the author for his insistence upon a fifty-fifty percent Patriotism and Religion) but, as I said when religious considerations made this detour necessary, I would like to talk to you about my next book of which the keel has been laid many years ago. It will be Rembrandt's life in a sort of roman raisoné – a novel that is not a novel. But I am sick and tired of history pure and simple and shall take this bit of relaxation before we continue with our historical progress. God knows this soon-to-be Story of Mankind is not a great book but it is the first direct step in the right direction and if I make it impossible for the Mass. schoolma'ams of next generation to write the idiotic histories they have written for the generations of the past, then nunc dimittis Domine and the servant shall pass in peace. Amen.
My esteemed Chief is to be here approximately the nineteenth and if you happen to be here I want you to meet him and seeing, be a bit more hopeful about the enterprise. I shall leave here as soon as I am no longer a galley slave. For your entertainment I enclose the sort of book-reviewing the Cornell Alumni news does so well. And there are things they do worse.
Ich habe die Ehre,
HW Van Loon
Van Loon sent this note to the president's office to make sure that his name appeared
the way he preferred in official College documents.


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History Department Welcomes Janney Today
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The Wabash History Department invites the community to a lecture by Dr. Caroline E. Janney, who will speak Monday on women of the Civil War.
Dr. Janney is Associate Professor of the Department of History at Purdue University. Her talk, "If Not for the Ladies: The Civil War, Women, and the Lost Cause," at 4:15 p.m. in the Lovell Lecture Room in Baxter Hall.
Dr. Janney is the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, and her visit is sponsored by the History Department and the Hadley Institute of American Origins. She specializes in Civil War, reconstruction, the history of American women, gender history, and the United States South.
She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Virginia. Her first book,
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
(2008) explores the role of white southern women as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition in the immediate post-Civil War South.
Her second book will examine how the Civil War has been remembered between 1865 and the 1930s. She is particularly interested in ideas about reunion and reconciliation.
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Seattle's numerous hills and frequent drizzles are a deterrent to many potential cyclists. But addressing those obstacles helped a local team win a national contest for designing a new urban bicycle.
Teague, a local design firm famous for crafting the interiors of Boeing commercial jets and the look of the Microsoft Xbox, teamed up with Fremont custom bike builderSizemore Bicycle to create a bike for the modern Seattleite.
Since word got out, says the latter firm's Taylor Sizemore, "I've been getting so many emails, it is absolutely ridiculous … I started getting a lot of emails from Europe, Denmark in particular, wondering when it is going to be available."
The bike, named the Denny after one of Seattle's founding families, won the Bike Design Project contest on Monday after an online vote. Fuji Bikes is expected to put a version of the Denny into production, though details won't be clear until next spring.
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The competition, which ran for seven months and was created by bike-innovation nonprofit Oregon Manifest, was pretty simple. Organizers paired up design firms and bike-makers in five cities: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago and New York.
Each team designed a bike that was specific for its city but would also inspire urban commuters to ride rather than drive.
"It was really us trying to design the right bike for Seattle," says Teague creative designer Roger Jackson. "But not so much catering to the spandex-wearing road warriors we have riding around Seattle today."
The bike was designed to emulate some of the simplicity found in driving a car, Jackson says.
In his native England, he always drove a manual transmission car. But once he moved to Seattle with its hills, wet roads and traffic, says Jackson, he decided, "I don't want to deal with that." He switched to an automatic.
He took that same approach to the Denny. Based on speed and the rider's exertion, the bike automatically shifts through its 11 gears. An electric motor also assists riders up Seattle's hills.
Instead of covering the tires with fenders, the Denny has rubber bristles that lightly touch against the tires, keeping water from hitting the rider. And instead of a chain, there's a carbon-fiber belt, which Jackson says is more reliable and does not make a greasy mess.
Other features include removable handlebars that double as a bike lock, large headlights, a storage system in the front, and built-in brake and turn signals.
Designing a bike is something new for Teague, which dates back to 1926. Jackson says the five-person team included bike enthusiasts whose passion came across in the final product.
Taylor Sizemore has been making custom bicycles since 2008. He said he's never worked in a group with a creative background like Teague's, and it opened his mind to how he could design bikes in the future.
The bike prototypes from other cities had some pretty interesting features, too. The New York and Chicago bikes both featured USB ports for charging phones. San Francisco's had a number of detachable cargo-carrying options that could be mounted on the bike's front and rear. The Portland team designed a companion smartphone app to work with the bike's GPS system.
"If we are going to get car drivers onto bikes, we have to look at those conveniences," Jackson says.
A Fuji spokesperson says the company has not yet met with Teague or Sizemore about mass producing the bike. Due to all the interest in the Denny, Fuji set up a website where interested customers can sign up for email updates.
Jackson says he heard that Fuji could make up to 1,000 Denny bikes. It's still unclear how much of the original prototype will go into the mass-produced version, but if the e-assist and automatic transmission are included, Jackson speculates the bike could cost $3,000 to $5,000.
Even that price tag wouldn't deter Sizemore, who said he plans on buying one.
"There are a lot of things about cycling that are hard and awkward and tough to get over," Sizemore said, "I think this (bike) takes care of a lot of that."
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Please show us your talent fast! We will select a winner in 24-48 hours!
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For some time now I've been quite taken by the work of a mid-20th century illustrator named Robert J. Lee. I first encountered it in a book I found several years ago at a thrift shop.
Lee's distinctive style, so richly colourful and swirling with painterly energy, seems perfect for fantastical stories of magic and mythology.
Until recently I knew very little about Robert J. Lee (I had 'set him aside' so to speak, while focusing on learning about other illustrators) then a search online turned up a biography, a photo, and some interesting details.
Even better, an old issue of American Artist magazine from 1968 features an article on Lee wherein he speaks extensively on a variety of subjects. It turns out Lee was a very interesting guy with a lot on his mind!
This week I'll be sharing images by the artist - both from my collection of old books and magazines and some found online - and accompany them with excerpts from the article in American Artist.
Back in 1968, the editors at the magazine described Lee as "spirited," and "effervescent" and said their questions had been answered with "forceful statements." Ultimately the editors felt it would be best to simply compile his thoughts and conversations into a stand-alone digest and run it over several pages.
And so I shall do the same...
"I have always been rather suspicious of articulate painters, but maybe the reason lies in the fact that an artist's life is, by necessity, one of being alone most of the time and communication with words is difficult. Perhaps one's work should be enough without talking about it, but I seldom turn down lecture requests even though it's terribly hard work. I find the questions from the audience, whether it be an adult art organization or a group of students, to be about the same in California as in New York. How did I 'get started'; what schools did I attend; how does one develop a style. Occasionally I get an original question. A lady, on viewing one of my three foot high oil paintings for Heroes of the Bible asked "Is the book really going to be that large?"
"They also ask what I like and dislike, as if an artist has some magic words of wisdom, or lives in a world apart. I never stop painting mentally so that my surroundings or the people in it seem a bit cloudy in retrospect. Perhaps the only reality is in the working. No, I have no hobbies, really. I love nature inordinately, I feed birds, I garden a bit. Gold is for some other breed or species."
"In the area I live in I have seen a harmless ten pound bobcat, dead, tied proudly to some idiot's fender. I once saw two black bear cubs, tied in bloody bundles on top of a station wagon. I loathe these "sportsmen."
* Continued tomorrow
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, April 01, 2013
Robert J. Lee: "I never stop painting mentally"
6 comments:
- Randy Mohr5:54 PM
Wow! I remember these from my childhood, mostly because of the color! Talk about eye candy! Terrific!ReplyDelete
It is so good to read about an illustrator that I'm familiar with since childhood. I love these illustrations.ReplyDelete
thanks for sharing... Lee is great! and look the dragon is adorable, love these :)ReplyDelete
Looks familiar...wonder if I had a book he illustrated at some point in my youth.ReplyDelete
Is there more?? I have a very large painting by Lee and I am eager to learn all I can about him.ReplyDelete
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Nikkei Suffers Biggest Loss in Two Years
Japanese stocks dropped 7.3% Thursday in their biggest loss since March 2011, leading to deep declines in markets across the rest of Asia and Europe. The WSJ's Jake Lee has the details.
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A closer look at my makeup for the Twelv Launch at Hotel Chantelle. Wearing Goldfish from the Lime Crime China Doll palate on my eyes and Armour gloss in Femme Fatale on my lips.
I wore one of the prettiest dresses I own- a sheer 1930's below the knee number decorated with sequin palm trees that criss-cross over the breasts. I wore leather shorts and a strapless bra underneath to play it down. I should have taken a full body shot. That means I'll just have to wear it again!


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On March 24th, we announced some upcoming opportunities for developers to bring their applications to the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet. With information on application players for BlackBerry® Java®-based and Android® apps, as well as additional details for the upcoming BlackBerry® Tablet OS Native SDK, there was a lot for developers to digest.
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Research In Motion® Limited (RIM®) has announced that it will expand the platforms supported by the BlackBerry Tablet OS by adding two new application players for BlackBerry Java-based and Android apps. This will enable developers to leverage existing assets by allowing supported applications to be easily ported over to the BlackBerry Tablet OS via 'application players'. RIM has also reinforced its commitment to provide the developer community with a powerful set of tools for native application development on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.
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From Researcher: Stan Gordon
Join us at the annual Kecksburg Old Fashioned Days and UFO Festival,
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history of the Kecksburg UFO Incident. The second will be on Sunday at
2:00 pm, concerning UFO and Bigfoot encounters in the state. Following
these presentations, the other organizations will present information on
their activities and investigations.
The festival is located in Kecksburg, "Home of the UFO." The location is
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Wild in the City
Just like people, animals come from all over to live in the city. Many choose city life because their homes in the wild have been destroyed. Others prefer the city because it offers plenty of food but few natural enemies. These animals make their homes in every part of the city—in parks and neighborhood backyards and even on busy bridges and downtown skyscrapers.
Most Canada geese fly south for the winter and return north for the summer. As they travel, they stop to rest in city parks and golf courses. Some geese enjoy their visit so much that they decide to raise a family and become year-round city dwellers.
Growing cities have taken over much of the woods and grasslands that were once home to deer and red foxes. These animals haven't moved to the city. The city has moved to them! Sometimes they wander into neighborhood yards, looking for food—or a place to play.
For deer, a backyard garden offers a feast of flowers and tender plants. Foxes can find many favorite foods there, too, including mice, squirrels, birds, insects, or maybe some delicious dinner scraps in someone's garbage.
On some city sidewalks there are more pigeons than people. They're busy pecking for crumbs dropped by people passing by. When it's time to rest, they look for rooftops, window ledges, bridges, and other places that are like the rocky cliffs that were once their home.
In the wild, raccoons live in hollow trees or empty burrows, but in the city they happily find homes in chimneys, attics, garages, or sewers. They roam the city at night, using their keen sense of smell to find food. With their skillful paws, they can open garbage cans, storage bins, and even closed doors.
High atop a city skyscraper, a peregrine falcon watches for a pigeon flying below. In the wild, peregrines live along cliffs and in mountains. But in many cities they have adapted well to flying and hunting among tall buildings instead. When a peregrine spots a pigeon, it dives down at speeds of more than 200 miles per hour to catch a quick lunch in its powerful claws. Now that's fast food!
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Why do startups still use java?
The only advantage Java provides *these* days over something like Clojure or Scala (or Python or even a c + scripting language combination depending on domain, let alone more powerful languages) is that you can be sure an average dumbo "programmer" hired off the street won't run away screaming when introduced to the code base. But if you are a software *startup* (vs big, fat and slow MegaCorp), why would you want to hire "average" (we'll be kind here) programmers?
I mean if you need a lot of libraries, use a better language on the JVM. If you need only a few, use the most powerful language you know. I would have thought it was obvious.
Well I thought about it and found an answer.
Startups are not necessarily founded by great programmers (who presumably are fluent in better languages than java or C#). They are often founded by MBA/business types who bring in a programmer they know and unsurprisingly enough these are the mediocre "enterprise" type of programmer. And they reach for what they know and are comfortable with, and hey presto, yet another j2ee/dotNet startup!
COntinued in Part 2, Part 3 , Part 4
20 comments:
- Kunid said...
Quote "[..] let alone more powerful languages [..]".
I'm intrigued. What languages would you consider 'more powerful' that would convey a more favourable impression about the type of programmers at a new startup these days?
Kind regards,
Kunid (not my real name, but a simple permutation of the letters :) )
- July 19, 2009 at 1:27 AM
- Venkatesh Sellappa said...
You left something unsaid - most of the MBA , non-programmer types consider programmers to be nothing more than a "resource" and by definition "mediocre" aka "average" resources are plentiful.
Of course, i would add RoR + Social Networking to the mix but then thats a different stpry altogether.
- July 19, 2009 at 2:13 AM
- Ravi said...
"i would add RoR + Social Networking to the mix but then thats a different stpry altogether."
Pick your battles, friend !
- July 19, 2009 at 2:50 AM
- Ravi said...
you do a masterful job of misrepresentation. SO splitting your "when did you stop beating your wife?" type question into two parts
"What languages would you consider 'more powerful' "
This is a joke question? You can't think of a language more powerful than java?
"that would convey a more favourable impression about the type of programmers at a new startup these days?"
This isn't what the blog post says. More Reading Comprhension please;-)
- July 19, 2009 at 2:57 AM
- skroderider said...
Or is it because there are so many Java programmers out there (and _some_ of them really good ones), while there are comparatively very few Clojure or Scala programmers? My point being, it is statistically easier to find a good Java programmer.
- July 19, 2009 at 4:53 AM
- Ravi said...
You are right *except* that a startup needs a *few* great developers than many god ones, at least till the point it grows into a medium/large company.
The key attribute of a startup is speed. And many languages(even on the jvm, and even fairly "standard" ones like JRuby) make it possible to go much faster than with java.
- July 19, 2009 at 5:15 AM
- Kunid said...
@Ravi okay, okay - I should have phrased my question differently - apologies for that.
With regard to the two points raised in your response:
1. Of course I am aware there are better languages that Java - but I do not have enough experience to compare between these languages (something you almost did with the 'more powerful' part of your post - which was of interest to me). I had a premonition your would respond with Scheme or Erlang, but imagine my horror when instead I got the 'wife beating' rebuke :-)
2. Well, yes - that was a digression on the point of the post you made. I am (still) learning...
Best regards.
- July 19, 2009 at 5:55 AM
- Ravi said...
sorry man, no harm done. Hard to read the exact intent in a comment.
You are right many languages are more powerful than java and give a certain minumum of libraries, (say database drivers and networking, + OS integration) *could* be suitable for many startups. (at least in my opinion).
- July 19, 2009 at 6:07 AM
i find it sometimes really funny that smart people like you and even Paul Graham are so biased towards programming languages.
But i personally feel that startups run more upon a business or technical idea than probably the technical skills of the founders.
Even from technical perspective how many startups can you enumerate that were built using technically and design wise everything perfect.
I think the initial idea is always implemented in a quick and dirty way, and once you are in market you can take the unending road to perfection.
Well to be honest when your ass is over burning cinders of time and money constraints, the first thing is to get something out quickly , once you have some time to relax you can think.
Doesn't it happen in any realistic scenario when we are struggling with a programming issue :)
It was just an average Java Enterprise Developer's perspective, so may be i have limited intelligence to see things from top developers' perspective
- July 20, 2009 at 7:11 AM
- Ravi said...
"It was just an average Java Enterprise Developer's perspective, so may be i have limited intelligence to see things from top developers' perspective"
It certainly seems like it because you haven't read the post thoroughly or understood the point ;-)
you say,
"initial idea is always implemented in a quick and dirty way,"
and "when your ass is over burning cinders of time and money constraints, the first thing is to get something out quickly ,"
yes. The key point (do shake out of that "enterprise programmer with limited intelligence" mindset for a while and you may actually get it) is that more powerful languages allow you to go (much) quicker and (way) less dirty than java *provided* you have good programmers.
Of course if all you have are hordes of ""enterprise programmer with limited intelligence" stick with Java/J2ee the last thing you do will be "get something out quickly - the "limited intelligence" programmers and the braindead language will ensure that ;-)
Next time read the post and understand what is being said before bloviating pointlessly. ;-)
Thanks in advance.
- July 20, 2009 at 7:24 AM
- Venkatesh Sellappa said...
"bloviating" - are you now making up words .. :-)
- July 21, 2009 at 8:17 AM
- Ravi said...
bloviate meaning
- July 21, 2009 at 8:20 AM
- abhirama said...
What is that you do not like about Java? I keep hearing this all the time and I am not experienced enough to evaluate programming languages.
One argument I keep hearing against Java is, it is too verbose.
But do not IDE's generate most of the cruft for you? If you do not use an IDE then I totally agree that Java is verbose but with a good IDE I do not see a problem.
The thing I truly miss in Java is functional programming. Due to functions not being first class citizens, many times while coding I have to pass strings and then based on the strings take decisions which function to call. This is truly painful. But, I do like the type safety that comes with Java.
Would be really interested in knowing your opinion.
Ps:Not flaming or trolling.
- July 21, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- Ravi said...
I understand that this is a genuine question. But it is difficult to answer because of your statement that "I am not experienced enough to evaluate programming languages. "
Let me take a crack at this anyway
Many other people (notable Paul Graham) have explained why more powerful languages are appropriate to *small teams of good developers* much better than I could. see http://www.paulgraham.com/vanlfsp.html , http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html, http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
But just because PG (or anyone ) says something doesn't make it true. What is true to you is what *you* experience. So
I propose an experiment to you. Carry this through and sincerely and you'll understand much more about these issues than anyone can tell you.
Study a powerful language on the jvm (let me suggest Scala. I choose this because of your focus on type systems. Scala's type system blows Java's type system away).
Put some serious time into this, say 6 months or so of a few days a year. Once you are fluent in scala,
try to replicate one of your existing projects in java with Scala (you can use all the underlying java libraries so you can focus on the value add of your application). Compare the two apps (the one in java and the one in scala)
This hands on exercise will give you a much deeper appreciation of the virtues (or the lack therof)of Java vs Scala (as a representative of a more powerful jvm language) than any number of blog posts (including mine) or logical argumentation.
- July 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Venkatesh Sellappa said...
" The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language " - baah - tell me when it reaches the Oxford English Dictionary .. :-)
- July 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- Ravi said...
Bloviate isn't british english. AFAIK it is American English slang, but I've never set foot in Englandbut have lived inAmerica so I guess it is ok ;-)
That said, speaking about the Oxford Dictionary in particular I found this
Bloviate is a splendid word from America. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to bloviate is "to speak or write verbosely and windily". The Oxford English Dictionary, which has only recently picked up the word from across the Atlantic, says it's "to talk at length in an empty and inflated way".
- July 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM
This is a nice presentation on Scala and the examples explain what differentiates a powerful programming language
Of course, the best way is to experience it with hands on exercises.
- July 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM
- Venkatesh Sellappa said...
I dear sir , stand corrected.
- July 22, 2009 at 12:42 AM
People use Java because its a server-side language that's been around for a long time and has a ton of documentation and plenty of people to support it. I just don't understand why some people have a problem with some programming languages as opposed to others. I love them all for different reasons - it depends on what you're doing. I have used Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Scala, you name it its all the same at the end of the day. Again, these are just *languages*, what about the frameworks -- (I'm assuming we're talking web)... RoR, Django, Spring, ASP.NET MVC, what else? Who cares... pick what you know how to use or you know that someone else you know, knows how to use and march forward. Only developers care about this crap (mostly bad developers) not users, which are the people who matter. Joe User isnt saying, "wow this site rocks, but I can't believe its written in JSP, yuck!" or "I only use Rails sites..." that would be stupid. Dont get so hung up on language - there are no bad languages, just bad programmers (more of them are bad than good). All the really good Java developers work at Google, Amazon or LinkedIn.
- February 26, 2010 at 8:21 PM
- Ravi said...
Notice: the question was not "why do people use Java"? Read the damn post before ranting.
Amazon uses mostly C++. LinkedIN mostly Scala. Google again C++ (for the performant parts).
Again the question was wahy do *today's* startups use Java.
Hey if you like JSP/Struts, enjoy. Who is stopping you?
No "bad langauges" ? Sure tell that to the folks who have to work in COBOL.
Thanks in advance.
- February 27, 2010 at 2:52 AM


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Amazon has set up data centers in Australia to supply its cloud services to Australia-based businesses and global companies with customers in Australia.
It'll be Amazon Web Services' ninth region, the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, and the third Region in Asia Pacific after the Singapore and Tokyo Regions.
The new Sydney Region consists initially of two separate Availability Zones.
AWS senior VP Andy Jassy said in a statement that AWS had over 10,000 customers in Australia and New Zealand before opening the new centers. "With the ability to achieve single-digit millisecond latency to end users in Sydney, store data locally in Australia, and get to market more quickly and inexpensively by using AWS's infrastructure," he said, the company is expecting to add more customers.
Amazon will be adding a local technical support operation in Australia early next year.
See http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/asia-pacific-sydney-region-open.html.
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I've never owned an SSD I had access to.
1) prices vary from 60$ to 120$ for SSDs.
2) they all seem smaller than the WD 1TB dead disk in the X1000. Do I need to buy a bracket?


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The Bible itself doesn't give us any reliable way to tell the nuggets of morality from the sadism and absurdity. (Even many religionists see the text as something not to be taken literally.)
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible calls out in detail fifteen categories of cruelty and ignorance, as well as one for the positive "Good Stuff".
Stomachache?!? More like 100 different kinds of nastiness!!!
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I keep forgetting to hype my class at Karuna Yoga here on this page. On March 9, 16 and 23 (which are all Sundays) I'm going to be teaching a class starting bright and early at 8 AM. The class will start with 30 minutes of Zazen, followed by an hour long lecture and discussion about Dogen's Genjo Koan. Of course, as things go with me, what starts off as a talk about Genjo Koan could range anywhere from an examination of issues involved in PTSD and Zen, to a deep philosophical discussion of Godzilla Vs. Megalon. Karuna Yoga is in the very cool Los Feliz section of Los Angeles at 1939 1/2 Hillhurst Avenue, just north of Franklin, zip code 90027.
Also, those of you in the Atlanta area may want to know about the retreat I'll be leading at the Atlanta Soto Zen Center. That happens February 29th - March 2nd. Should be fun. If you like staring at walls for a very long time.
Also April 25 - 27 I'll be leading a retreat at Southern Dharma Retreat Center in North Carolina. So don't y'all forget about that.
And on May 4th, 0DFx plays at the Kent Stage in Kent, Ohio in commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the infamous shootings by the National Guard.
Somebody wrote me saying they were going to make a special trip up to Santa Monica on March 1st to see me at Hill Street Center. I can't find your e-mail anymore! There will be a Zazen class that day at Hill Street Center, but I won't be there because I'll still be in Atlanta and I haven't quite mastered bi-location yet.
Does anyone out there have MP3's of the band OM's new album Pilgrimage? I bought the vinyl and the copy I got is flawed so it skips several times on the first track on side 2. I bought the bastard up in Ventura, almost 2 hours drive up the coast, so taking it back for a replacement is gonna be pretty daunting. I'm really grooving on the record, too. Here's an MP3 provided by the band's record label as a taster. LAZARUS!!


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Simon Jones is a fairly ordinary English sounding name that I share with many other Simon Jones's out there.
This website isn't my home on the web, instead this place (simonjones.info) is a kind of virtual store room where I tend to put things that I'll come back to at a later date. I might develop this space a little more, but there seems no need as my main website (simonjones.co.uk or .eu) already does a good enough job.
Having said that, I won't leave you completely marooned here. I'm not entirely sure how you came to find this site, but maybe you'll be curious enough to want to check out a couple more links? If not, then as my good friend Jeffrey once famously said after a dinner party, thanks for coming and thanks for going.
For the curious among you.
But why create all these websites?
Life is random.
I write, I blog, I take pictures, I produce internet radio shows (now known as podcasts), I make short films and I share all of this on the world wide web for you and anyone else to find and hopefully to enjoy.
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Tommy Lee Reveals His Secret for Staying Slim: Drumming for Motley Crue
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee is one of rock's flashiest players, performing a very physical and flamboyant set that includes him playing upside down in a cage. In a new interview, the drummer admits that the Crue's demanding live shows take a lot out of him.
"I was curious because after a show, y'know, I'm whupped man, and I'm like, 'I'm curious. I'm going to get one of those pedometers that joggers put on their shoes,'" Lee tells Vevo. "The things that tell you how far you go? I was curious, like 'Man, I know I've got to be getting some miles in – no question.' I put it on and after the show I took it off and I looked down and it said 13.1 miles. I was like 'What? That's insane, dude!' No wonder I can't keep weight on and I'm a skinny f–ker. Because I sweat – I must sweat ridiculous amounts."
Lee admits that performing in his custom-made cage has its special challenges. "When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength. You have to realize – try to picture yourself upside down and now that you're playing drums upside down you're actually pushing up – you're fighting against gravity because everything wants to pull your hands down."
The drummer will log hundreds of miles behind the kit on Motley Crue's summer tour with Kiss, which runs through Sept. 23.


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The INTERPOL Constitution as an international agreement
Given that policing forms a fundamental domain of state sovereignty, INTERPOL's cross-border activities can only be possible if the Organization acts as a subject of international law.
Without this prerequisite, no real, global influence can be achieved. It is therefore important to understand the various legal aspects of an international organization, and the regime by which States become Members of INTERPOL.
INTERPOL's Constitution, adopted in 1956 by the INTERPOL General Assembly, can be characterized as an agreement in simplified form. It takes the usual wording of treaty-style documents and contains standard provisions which can be found in other treaties establishing international organizations.
Furthermore, INTERPOL has acceded to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations.
The Constitution empowers INTERPOL to conclude international agreements (Article 41). In application of this Article, the Organization has concluded a significant number of international agreements with other subjects of international law.
These include more than 40 agreements relating to INTERPOL's privileges and immunities on the territory of different States, either for the establishment of a bureau, for the organization of a General Assembly session or a Regional Conference, or for the deployment of personnel in the field for police operations.
INTERPOL has also concluded, for example, a general cooperation agreement with the United Nations.
Membership of INTERPOL
Article 45 of INTERPOL's Constitution affirms that governments of the countries which participated in its adoption in 1956 were involved in INTERPOL's constitutive process.
Application for membership by countries which were not members in 1956 is governed by Article 4 of the Constitution.
The decision to become a party to INTERPOL stems from a decision by the appropriate governmental authorities in the light of the 1969 Vienna Convention. Depending on the country, it can be either the President of the Republic, Head of State, Prime Minister or government departments, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Justice (or Attorney General), or Secretary General of the President of the Republic's office.
Certain contracting parties nonetheless have chosen to have this legal instrument approved following their internal procedure for approving international treaties. Therefore, all the contracting parties have, by their acts or behaviour subsequent to the adoption of the Constitution, consented to its binding nature as an international legal instrument.
Although indicated that "any country may delegate as a Member to the Organization any official police bodies whose functions come within the framework of activities", these members are instructed by their governments.
The Constitution ensures governmental representation of the contracting party through the appointment of the head of the delegation to the General Assembly (Article 7), and the funding of the Organization through statutory contributions (Article 38).
Each State has included in its national budget the financial contribution of the Member responsible for representing it within the Organization. The statutory financial contributions are regularly paid by the Members, in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution.
Internal regulations
The Constitution lays down the Organization's capacity – via the General Assembly – to adopt its own subordinate legislation (Article 8(d)).
As all international organizations, INTERPOL has its own staff deployed within the General Secretariat, who is governed by a set of Staff Regulations and Rules which constitute subordinate legislation. The members of the staff have the status of international civil servant, enjoy international protection as defined in the rules of international law on the prevention and punishment of crimes against internationally protected persons, and their independence is guaranteed.
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1971 - The United Nations recognizes INTERPOL as an intergovernmental organization.
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1996 - The United Nations General Assembly confers observer status to INTERPOL.
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President Donald Trump is making the case on Twitter for electing more Republicans to Congress after signing a $400 billion spending plan.
Trump says, "Without more Republicans in Congress, we were forced to increase spending on things we do not like or want" to help the U.S. military. He says non-military spending "will never come down" without electing more Republicans in the 2018 elections.
He calls the spending plan a "BIG VICTORY for our Military, but much waste in order to get Dem votes."
He is pointing to upcoming talks on immigration, writing, "Fortunately, DACA not included in this Bill, negotiations to start now!"
Trump's tweets came after Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky blocked plans for a quick Senate vote because of his spending concerns.
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President Donald Trump has signed the budget deal.
Trump tweets, "Just signed Bill. Our Military will now be stronger than ever before. We love and need our Military and gave them everything — and more. First time this has happened in a long time. Also means JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!"
The House narrowly passed the budget accord in the pre-dawn hours, ending a brief government shutdown and clearing a path for huge spending increases for both the Pentagon and domestic programs.
Passage came over the objections Democratic leaders who demanded the promise of a vote to protect "Dreamer" immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
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A band of tea party Republicans swung against the legislation as well, repelled by its spiraling spending levels.
The government shut down at midnight Thursday after Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul blocked plans for a quick Senate vote, blaming his fellow Republicans for being "complicit" in the looming return of trillion-dollar budget deficits.
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The Senate has passed a massive, bipartisan budget agreement and spending bill to reopen the shuttered federal government.
The bill now moves to the House.
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The bill stalled in the Senate Thursday night when one of the opponents, Sen. Rand Paul, refused to allow a speedy vote.
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Channing Tatum gets a bad rap, but the failings of "The Vow" lie primarily on his (often-bare) shoulders.
The Chicago-set story, inspired by true events but told like an ordinary, contrived slice of soap, brings an ocean of sorrow: Paige (Rachel McAdams) wakes up, following a brain injury-causing car accident and coma, with no memory of her husband Leo (Tatum). While she retreats to her parents (Sam Neill, Jessica Lange) and ex-fiance (Scott Speedman) and other people she does remember, Leo's tasked with the challenge of making his better half see him as more than a stranger, and then as her love again. Yes, that should remind you of "50 First Dates," and yes, that should tug at your heart anyway.
So the carpet is pretty much yanked out from underneath "The Vow" as Tatum—hilarious in "The Dilemma," good enough in the underrated "Dear John" and as funny as a poorly written "Saturday Night Live" episode allowed him to be—refuses to credibly emote like someone whose spouse no longer recognizes any of what they share. Of course, Leo's grateful that Paige is alive and able to walk and talk. But his world should be shattered. During moments that should sting, Tatum looks neither crushed nor numb. Just flat. And certainly not filled with the wounded but resilient determination of a guy who earlier in the movie belts out Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" as if he means it, sans parenthetical.
Much of "The Vow" sticks to the surface, particularly Paige's rich, snooty, Lake Forest-dwelling parents and their annoyingly devious scheme to put Paige's life back on its previous track, before she stopped speaking to them for years. McAdams, however, acquits herself well to a challenging role. Paige transforms from a creative, glowing newlywed to someone confused, lonely and lost. Like Joseph Gordon-Levitt in "The Lookout," McAdams communicates the alienating, post-brain injury frustration of searching for something upstairs behind a door that refuses to be unlocked.
Perhaps co-writer Jason Katims' ("Friday Night Lights") stamp can be seen in Leo's job owning a recording studio (Dax Shepard's character owns a studio on the Katims-produced "Parenthood"), or in the warm, stirring moments when Paige and Leo share the giddy, effortless laughter of people carving out their own world. Mostly "The Vow" seems to owe more to co-writers Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein ("He's Just Not That Into You"), who shouldn't add so much manipulation into something tragic, and shouldn't continually rely on Leo to tell us in voiceover about his theory regarding major moments and how they define us. No one would disagree with that, man.
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I can't get sloppy or casual with this guy. His brain is smart, thorough and relentless. He's a bit intense, but so am I; so maybe we're a good fit.
He wants nothing more (and nothing less) than to be a good human being. And, someday, he'd like to be a good mate and life partner in a terrific relationship.
He challenges me: "You say, 'Stop confronting each other and start confronting yourself.' I can't come to peace with this. What if I am confronting myself, yet my partner is throwing darts at me? Am I not supposed to let her know that she's hurting me? Your statement is all or nothing and that's what I can't accept."
Ah, caught again in hyperbole. Without hyperbole, I don't think I could ask directions to the men's room. It makes me a lively discussion partner, but it also regularly oversells my hand.
"Try it this way," I say. "On average, husbands and wives should spend a greatly disproportionate time confronting themselves as opposed to each other. That's more literally what I mean."
He pounces: "OK, so what's in bounds and out of bounds for bringing a mate's shortcomings to their attention? Aren't we better able to identify issues in our mate than they are? I certainly recognize that we need to spend a lot of effort on ourselves, but nobody would be better at knowing what issues need improvement than our significant other."
It's a great question. An important question, for sure. Because the man is correct: Should you spend days, weeks, months and years cohabitating with, making love to, unloading dishwashers and cleaning toilets with someone, then you will indeed become the planet's resident expert on that someone's "issues."
The man is also correct (and wise!) to recognize that, just because I identify a shortcoming, this does not necessarily mean I should open my mouth and "bring my mate's shortcomings to his/her attention."
Yes, it can be enjoyable (on a level of ego) to have the "moral goods" on your life partner. And, regularly over a marital lifetime, you will!
But step lightly here. Condescension is not in fact the active ingredient of intimacy. Especially when your mate is wrong and out of bounds, the hope is this generates more mercy than glee.
The work of John Gottman ("The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work") distinguishes between "criticism" (bad) and "complaint" (necessary) in the work of marriage.
"Criticizing your partner is different from offering a critique or voicing a complaint! The latter two are about specific issues, whereas the former is an ad hominem attack: It is an attack on your partner at the core. In effect, you are dismantling his or her whole being when you criticize. (A complaint is) "I was scared when you were running late and didn't call me. I thought we had agreed that we would do that for each other." (A criticism is) "You never think about how your behavior is affecting other people. I don't believe you are that forgetful, you're just selfish! You never think of others! You never think of me!"
Here would be my word of warning in this discussion: It's one thing to know our mate's issues. It's a much more complicated question, however, to conclude you know what issues need improvement. Some, maybe, but probably not as many as you think. Not to mention that some issues needing improvement will never improve. Every human being is going to bring some list of odd and/or annoying foibles that are more or less fixed.
I think of these items like, say, your mate having diabetes. Yes, I have identified the issue. Your blood sugar needs improving. But it's really not going to improve. Because you have diabetes. So, I'm not going to complain about that any more. What I will insist is that you eat responsibly, check your blood sugar and take your insulin.
Similarly would it be just plain silly for my life partner to complain about the limits of my attention to detail. It's really not going to get any better. But she would have every right, then, to insist my life be filled with sticky notes, my calendar, copious note-taking and timers.
When should you open your mouth and complain?
• When your mate's behavior threatens to erode the bond.
• When you want to negotiate respect, justice and equity in the relationship, and/or when your mate's behavior is openly disrespectful.
• When your mate has stopped paying attention to the work of great love.
• When your mate is hurting you.
In these cases, for heaven's sake speak up!
Steven Kalas is a behavioral health consultant and counselor at Las Vegas Psychiatry and the author of "Human Matters: Wise and Witty Counsel on Relationships, Parenting, Grief and Doing the Right Thing" (Stephens Press).


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Vaclav Havel is one of democracy's most principled voices. Armed with a moral compass that points true north, and an eloquence unsurpassed in the political arena, Havel speaks with the honesty of a dissident from the halls of the presidential palace in Prague. Czechoslovakia's leading playwright and a perennial victim of state repression under Communist rule, he is celebrated for his absurdist plays including The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, The Memorandum, Largo Desolato, and Temptation. Havel, who was born in 1936, was a founder of Charter 77, a human rights and democracy organization that challenged the Soviet takeover. He wrote compelling texts on repression and dissent, and his 1978 work, The Power of the Powerless, is one of the best political essays ever written. In 1979, in retaliation for his human rights activism, Havel was sentenced to four and a half years at hard labor, during which he wrote Letters to Olga. As chief spokesperson of Civic Forum, which he cofounded in 1989, Havel, through his leadership, political savvy, and moral persuasion helped bring Communism to its knees, and negotiated a peaceful transition to democracy. Out of the ashes of Soviet control emerged a new state, based on free expression, political participation, civil society, and commitment to the rule of law. In 1989, Havel was elected the first non-Communist president of Czechoslovakia in over forty years. In 2002, he was the third recipient of the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award presented by the Prague Society for International Cooperation. In 2003 he was awarded the International Gandhi Peace Prize, named after Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by the government of India for his outstanding contribution towards world peace and upholding human rights in most difficult situations through Gandhian means. In 2003, Havel was the inaugural recipient of Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award for his work in promoting human rights. Also in 2003, he received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and in 2008, the Europe-based A Different View cited Havel as one of the 15 Champions of World Democracy along with Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, and Corazon Aquino.
The crisis of authority is one of the causes for all the atrocities that we are seeing in the world today. The post-Communist world presented a chance for new moral leaders, because at that time of transition in these countries there were no professional or career politicians. This gave intellectuals an opportunity to enter into politics, and, by entering, to introduce a new spirit into the political process. But gradually people were suppressed-the mill ground them down-and much of that opportunity was lost. There are certain leaders that one can respect, and I do certainly respect, leaders like the Dalai Lama. I appreciate the fact that, although very often they have no hope, not even a glimpse of success on the horizon, they are still ready to sacrifice their lives, to sacrifice their freedom. They are ready to assume responsibility for the world, or at least for the part of the world they live in. I have always respected these people and appreciated what they do. Courage in the public sphere means that one is to go against majority opinion (at the same time risking losing one's position) in the name of the truth. And I have always strongly admired historic personalities who have been capable of doing exactly this.
Becoming a dissident is not something that happens overnight. You do not simply decide to become one. It is a long chain of steps and acts. And very often during this process, you do not really reflect upon what is happening. You just know that you want to avoid any debt that would put a stain on your life. You don't want to become involved with the dirt that is around you and one day, all of a sudden you wake up and realize that you are a dissident, that you are a human rights activist. With me the story was rather similar. It was only much later, while I was in prison, that I started reflecting on the process and why I had done what I had done. There must be some, call it "transcendental," source of energy that helps you overcome all these sacrifices. Now some people may disagree with this idea of a transcendental source, but I feel it. While I was in prison, I often thought about why a man decides to remain decent, a man of integrity, even in situations when he or she is on his own, when nobody knows your actions and thoughts-except you yourself. Even in these situations, a man can feel bad, can have a bad conscience, can feel remorse. Why is this? How is it possible? And my answer to this is that there must be another eye looking on-that it's not just the people surrounding you that make the difference. I have no evidence of the existence of such an eye, but am drawing on the archetypal certainty of such an existence.
I have experienced, and still experience, a whole spectrum of fears. Some of my fears have had greater intensity than the fears of the others. But my efforts to overcome these fears have also been perhaps more intense. The major fear is imagining I might fail somebody, that I might let somebody down and then have a very bad conscience about it. For example, when I am thrown into an unknown Latin American country, I could be asked to speak, to address the parliament. I give a talk, I try to be flowery, impressive. I deliver. But once this is over, I always turn to somebody and say, "What was it like? Was it good? Did I deliver?" I have always felt this uncertainty; I have always been a person suffering from stage fright, from fear. Fear is with me, but I act in spite of it.
When a man or woman is ready to sacrifice everything for very serious matters, what happens in the end is that such a person takes himself or herself extremely seriously. His or her face then becomes very rigid, almost inhuman, and such a person becomes a monument. And as you know, monuments are made of stone or of plaster and it is very difficult for monuments to move. Their movements are clumsy. If one wishes to retain humanity, to stay human, it is important that you keep a certain distance. To keep this distance you need to be able to see that there is a certain element of absurdity, even ridicule, in one's deeds.
Often people confuse hope with prognostics. Prognostics is the science of studying whatever happens around you in the world. With it either you will make a positive prognosis (because you are an optimist) or a negative prognosis (which would have a pessimistic impact on the people around you). But it is very important to differentiate. Hope is not prognosis. Hope is something that I see as the state of the spirit. If life had no sense, then there would be no hope, because the very sense of life, the meaning of life, is closely linked with hope.
Freedom without responsibility is perhaps something that is a dream of almost everybody to do whatever you want to do and yet not to assume any responsibility for what you did. But of course, that would be a utopian life. And also, life without any responsibility would not make sense. So I think the value of freedom is linked with responsibility. And if freedom has no such responsibility associated with it, then it loses content, it loses sense, and it also loses weight.