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This guide is intended for anybody who wants to install Arch Linux from any other running Linux -- be it off a LiveCD or a pre-existing install of a different distro.
This is useful for building up new Arch Linux systems from scratch from another distro's LiveCD or existing installation. It is also useful for creating new chroot environments on a "host" system, maintaining a "golden-master" for development & distribution, or other fun topics like rootfs-over-NFS for diskless machines.
This guide requires that the existing host system be able to execute the new target Arch Linux architecture programs. In the case of an x86_64 host, it is possible to use i686-pacman to build a 32-bit chroot environment. See Arch64 Install bundled 32bit system. However it is not so easy to build a 64-bit environment when the host only supports running 32-bit programs.
If you are already using Arch, instead of following this guide, just install arch-install-scripts from the official repositories and follow the Installation Guide.
This guide provides additional steps to the Installation Guide. The steps of that guide must still be followed as needed.
- 1 Prepare the system
- 2 Setup the enviroment for the arch install scripts
- 2.1 Method: Installing pacman and other packages directly under your current distro
- 2.2 Method: Use the alternate easier method
- 2.3 Method: Chroot into the Arch Linux LiveCD
- 2.4 Method: Script to bootstrap the arch install scripts
- 3 Setup the target system
- 4 Tips and tricks
Prepare the system
Follow the Installation Guide steps, until you have your partitions, keyboard and internet connection ready.
Setup the enviroment for the arch install scripts
You need to create an enviroment where pacman and the arch install scripts, can run on your current linux distro. In addition you will need a list of pacman mirror sites which are going to be used to download data on available packages as well as the packages themselves.
Here a different methods to prepare that enviroment:
Method: Installing pacman and other packages directly under your current distro
You need to get the required packages for your host Linux environment. The examples given here assume you are using an i686 environment. If you are running on a 64-bit Linux instead you should replace each occurrence of "i686" with "x86_64".
All version numbers given here may change. Please check the version numbers the packages are at first and note them down. The version numbers can be found at:
Once you are sure of the version numbers, download the required packages (change the value of ARCH to either x86_64 or i686, see above):
ARCH=i686 base_chroot=/tmp mkdir ${base_chroot}/archlinux cd ${base_chroot}/archlinux
You want to install pacman in order to be able to install software in your new base directory. We first download the binaries for pacman, the Arch package manager.
- pacman: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/pacman/download/ . Change $ARCH according to your system.
- pacman-mirrorlist: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/pacman-mirrorlist/download/
Using wget to download
wget https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/pacman/download/ --no-check-certificate --trust-server-names wget https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/pacman-mirrorlist/download/ --no-check-certificate --trust-server-names
or this direct way (give attention to the date string in the file name, as it may need changing) :
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/i686/pacman-mirrorlist-20120626-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
See the man page and the official manual of wget for further details.
Using lftp to download
If you have issues with downloading pacman-mirrorlist use this direct way with lftp :
link_name=http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/i686/ lftp -e "mget pacman-mirrorlist-*.tar.xz" "${link_name}"
Additional libraries
You may need additional libraries to make pacman work, for newer distributions:
for software_name in libarchive openssl xz expat ; do wget https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/${software_name}/download/ --no-check-certificate --trust-server-names ; done
When using an older distribution to bootstrap, a few more libraries may be needed for it to work, for example :
for software_name in glibc gcc-libs binutils libssh2 curl gcc libarchive openssl xz expat ; do wget https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/${software_name}/download/ --no-check-certificate --trust-server-names ; done
Also note that below when you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH you have to add /lib and /lib64:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${base_chroot}/archlinux/usr/lib:${base_chroot}/archlinux/lib:${base_chroot}/archlinux/usr/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Unpack all needed packages:
for f in *.pkg.tar*; do tar xvf $f; done
To prepare for using pacman, do not forget to edit
/tmp/archlinux/etc/pacman.conf to point to
/tmp/archlinux/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and select your favorite mirror. For easier use (assuming you are using
bash or
zsh), you may set up an environment:
export PATH=${base_chroot}/archlinux/usr/bin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${base_chroot}/archlinux/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH alias pacman="pacman --config ${base_chroot}/archlinux/etc/pacman.conf"
Install pacman on the host system
/tmp/archlinux/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory please symlink ld-linux-x86-64.so.2:
ln -s /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib/
If you do not mind littering your install host, you can extract all the downloaded tar balls into your root directory by running as root:
cd / for f in /tmp/archlinux/pacman-*pkg.tar.gz ; do tar xzf $f done
- If installing from Ubuntu 9.10's LiveCD (perhaps other versions), you will need more than just the pacman files (shared libs) to use pacman at all. Use Lucky's script described in [this thread] to get/install them for you!
- Alternatively, you can instead turn these tarballs into packages for your distribution with the alien tool. See the man page of the tool for instructions. The packages created that way may be installed into your host distribution using the usual package management tools available there. This approach offers the best integration into the host Linux environment. For a Debian package based system this is done with the following commands:
cd /tmp/archlinux alien -d pacman-*-i686.pkg.tar.xz alien -d pacman-mirrorlist-20120626-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
RPM based systems will need to replace the parameter "-d" with "-r".
These distribution packages can then get installed using the normal package management tools of the host Linux environment.
Under Fedora 12, I was not able to install pacman with any of the other methods, but with the nice script at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=734336#p734336 it will download and install it for you. Worked wonderfully for me.
- On Gentoo: Just unmask pacman by adding
/etc/portage/package.keywords. Now just run
emerge -av pacman.
There is also a more detailed tutorial.
Method: Use the alternate easier method
This method is verified to be working as of 1-4-12. This works best if you are in a LiveCD environment (or, in the case of servers, a GNU/Linux-based rescue environment). Firstly, you need to mount the disk you want to use for the Archlinux installation at /mnt. In this example, /dev/sda1 is used.
mnt /dev/sda1 /mnt cd ~ wget http://tokland.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/archlinux/arch-bootstrap.sh && chmod +x arch-bootstrap.sh
If you are wanting to install a 32-bit system:
./arch-bootstrap.sh -a i686 -r "ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org" /mnt/
Or a 64-bit system:
./arch-bootstrap.sh -a x86_64 -r "ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org" /mnt/
The bootstrapping will take 2-5 minutes depending on the speed of your system.
mount -t proc none /mnt/proc mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
Mounting these is essential for the installation of a bootloader later on.
If you have switched between architectures, pacman auto-detection might not work, in this case you need to edit /etc/pacman.conf to:
From 64-bit to a 32-bit system:
Architecture = i686
Or from 32-bit to a 64-bit system:
Architecture = x86_64
Now for the fun part, chroot into your newly installed Arch installation:
chroot /mnt bash pacman -Sy base mkinitcpio -p linux
Choose a bootloader. You can find the installation instructions on their own dedicated pages. (Syslinux, Grub, Grub2, etc.).
Remember: You will still need to do any final configuration touches as you would in a normal Arch install.
Credits to the Turkish site Raptiye for the original guide.
Method: Chroot into the Arch Linux LiveCD
Alternatively, you can mount the root image of the latest archlinux installation media and then chroot into it. This method has the advantage of providing you with a working Arch Linux installation right within your host system without the need to prepare it by installing specific packages.
Unsquash the root image
The root image exists in squashfs format on the Live CD. The squashfs format is not editable as such. Hence, we unsquash the root image and then mount it.
To unsquash the root image, run
unsquashfs -d /squashfs-root root-image.fs.sfs
Mount root file system
Then, mount the unsquashed root file system to a suitable mount point. We shall mount it to /arch. You can mount it wherever you want.
livecd_arch=/arch mount -B /squashfs-root ${livecd_arch}
Chroot into the Live CD root file system
Mount various file systems into the Live CD root file system:
mount -t proc /proc ${livecd_arch}/proc mount -t sysfs /sys ${livecd_arch}/sys mount -B /dev ${livecd_arch}/dev mount -t devpts /dev/pts ${livecd_arch}/dev/pts
Then, chroot into the Live CD root file system:
chroot ${livecd_arch} /bin/bash
This chroot is able to execute the arch install scripts. The destination partitions should be mounted under the
/mnt directory from this chroot.
Method: Script to bootstrap the arch install scripts
You can run the following script to automatically download the minimum packages required to run pacman and the arch install scripts. Your current linux enviroment require bash, wget, sed, xz, chroot and tar installed.
Create a file called archinstall-bootstrap.sh and put the following content:
#!/bin/bash # This script is inspired on the archbootstrap script. PACKAGES=(acl attr bzip2 curl expat glibc gpgme libarchive libassuan libgpg-error libssh2 openssl pacman xz zlib pacman-mirrorlist coreutils bash grep gawk file tar ncurses readline libcap util-linux pcre arch-install-scripts) # Change the mirror as necessary MIRROR='http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux' # You can set the ARCH variable to i686 or x86_64 ARCH=`uname -m` LIST=`mktemp` CHROOT_DIR=archinstall-chroot DIR=archinstall-pkg mkdir -p "$DIR" mkdir -p "$CHROOT_DIR" # Create a list with urls for the arch packages for REPO in core community extra; do wget -q -O- "$MIRROR/$REPO/os/$ARCH/" |sed -n "s|.*href=\"\\([^\"]*\\).*|$MIRROR\\/$REPO\\/os\\/$ARCH\\/\\1|p"|grep -v 'sig$'|uniq >> $LIST done # Download and extract each package. for PACKAGE in ${PACKAGES[*]}; do URL=`grep "$PACKAGE-[0-9]" $LIST|head -n1` FILE=`echo $URL|sed 's/.*\/\([^\/][^\/]*\)$/\1/'` wget "$URL" -c -O "$DIR/$FILE" xz -dc "$DIR/$FILE" | tar x -k -C "$CHROOT_DIR" done # Create mount points mkdir -p "$CHROOT_DIR/dev" "$CHROOT_DIR/proc" "$CHROOT_DIR/sys" "$CHROOT_DIR/mnt" mount -t proc proc "$CHROOT_DIR/proc/" mount -t sysfs sys "$CHROOT_DIR/sys/" mount -o bind /dev "$CHROOT_DIR/dev/" mkdir -p "$CHROOT_DIR/dev/pts" mount -t devpts pts "$CHROOT_DIR/dev/pts/" # Hash for empty password Created by using: openssl passwd -1 -salt ihlrowCo and entering an empty password (just press enter) echo 'root:$1$ihlrowCo$sF0HjA9E8up9DYs258uDQ0:10063:0:99999:7:::' > "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/shadow" echo "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash" > "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/passwd" touch "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/group" echo "myhost" > "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/hostname" test -e "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/mtab" || echo "rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0" > "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/mtab" [ -f "/etc/resolv.conf" ] && cp "/etc/resolv.conf" "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/" sed -ni '/^[ \t]*CheckSpace/ !p' "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/pacman.conf" sed -i "s/^[ \t]*SigLevel[ \t].*/SigLevel = Never/" "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/pacman.conf" echo "Server = $MIRROR/\$repo/os/$ARCH" >> "$CHROOT_DIR/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" chroot $CHROOT_DIR /usr/bin/pacman -Sy chroot $CHROOT_DIR /bin/bash
Execute it as root:
# bash archinstall-bootstrap.sh
The script is going to create a directory called
archinstall-pkg and download the required packages there. Then, is going to extract them into the
archinstall-chroot directory.
After that, is going to prepare mount points, configure pacman and enter into a chroot.
This chroot is able to execute the arch install scripts. The destination partitions should be mounted under the
/mnt directory from this chroot.
Setup the target system
At this point, follow the normal steps of Installation Guide. Remember to mount the destination partition under the
/mnt of the chroot.
After you have done
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel, do also
pacstrap /mnt haveged
That is required later for fixing the pacman keyring.
Edit the fstab file
Probally the
genfstab script wont work. In that case, you'll need to edit the
/mnt/etc/fstab file by hand.
You can use the content of
/etc/mtab as reference.
Fix the Pacman Signature Keyring
After you have entered the
arch-chroot /mnt, is necessary to fix the pacman signature keyring.
This will fix it:
# /usr/sbin/haveged -w 1024 -v 1 # pacman-key --init # pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring*
Finish the Installation
Now just do the rest of the steps normally.
Tips and tricks
- If you are using this method because you are trying to do a remote install, like a vps, and can't umount the root partition, and, assuming the system has a swap partition large enough (about 600mb or larger), one path is delete that partition, create the partitions for arch in that area, and install arch there (only base, not base-devel). Once the system is installed, you can reboot to your new arch system, reformat the former partitions, and rsync the entire system there. At that point, next step would be to reconfigure grub or syslinux.


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Machwave needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 106 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Newspaper Junkie
Newspaper Junkie will be the next web property developed by Machwave, an Australian web property developer. We build web properties that provide a highly focussed service.
Any person on the planet wanting easy access to all the major global newspapers online from one simple, concisely and attractively presented web property.
We don't want to limit the expression of designers. We'd encourage designers to express their own ideas to encapsulate the concept of "Newspaper Junkie" as they see fit, with the target audience in mind. It should include the words "Newspaper Junkie" though. It can also include ".com" but that is not a requirement.
The logo should look good on the web and in print. For example on business cards.
No particular color scheme is required, although "colourful" would be preferred.
The logo should look good on both white and lightly coloured backgrounds.
The font must be legible: no goofy scripts and not too small.
The winning logo must be provided in all formats described at http://99designs.com/help/what-shou…to-provide unless negotiated otherwise with the competition holder during the competition
No, boring "typed it in photoshop" text please.
Designs must contain ONLY original work (no re-use of third-party material) and this originality must be guaranteed by the winning designer(s).
The winner must transfer the copyright for the created artwork to the owner of Machwave.
We look forward to seeing your submissions and thanks in anticipation!
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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
Coleen J. Seng
Coleen Seng was elected the City of Lincoln's 50th Mayor on May 6, 2003 and was
sworn in May 19. The Mayor serves a four-year term.
From 1987 to 2003, Coleen served on the Lincoln City Council representing the northeast district. During those 16 years, she helped to improve communication between the City and businesses in her district by forming the Northeast Lincoln Large Employer Group. She maintained contact with citizens in her district through her monthly citizens' meetings.
As a member of the City Council, Coleen represented the City on many boards, commissions and task forces. She was a member of the Mayor's first Multi-Cultural Task Force, Co-Chair of Governor Ben Nelson's Urban Advisory Team, Chair of Railroad Transportation Safety District, and Chair of the Joint Budget Committee.
As a City Council member, Coleen was recognized in the annual KFOR Radio survey as one of the best City Council members. She also received the Tribute to Women Award from the YWCA; the Citizen of the Year Award from the Northeast Lincoln Kiwanis Club; the Woman of the Year Award from the Axis Business and Professional Women's Club, Inc.; the Outstanding Citizen Award from the Lincoln Northeast Rotary Club; and the Mayor's Neighborhood Roundtable Founder's Award.
Coleen was born February 8, 1936 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She grew up in Fremont, Nebraska, where her parents owned a welding, machine shop and repair business. Coleen graduated from high school in 1954 and went on to Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln in the fall of that same year. At Wesleyan, she was 1st Student Head Resident and graduated in 1958 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in political science and sociology.
From 1958 to 1960 Coleen worked for the Girl Scouts in Saginaw, Michigan. She continued her work for the Girl Scouts in Lincoln in 1961 and 1962. From 1977 through 1997, Coleen was the Director of Community Ministries at First United Methodist Church in Lincoln. She continues to serve on the Church's Social Concerns and Outreach Commission
Coleen has lived, worked, and raised a family in Lincoln for more than 40 years. During this time, the focus of her involvement and leadership has been to make sure individuals have a voice in decisions affecting their own lives. She remains active in the University Place Community Organization, which founded the Northeast Family Resource Center. She is Past Chair of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Family Resource Center Board and continues her service to families. She is Past President of the Lincoln Fellowship of Churches and a delegate member from her home church, First United Methodist. Coleen began her involvement with the Girl Scouts as a Brownie in 1942. She is a Past President of the Homestead Girl Scout Council and continues to be involved in Girl Scout fund-raising activities.
Coleen is a member of the YWCA, the Friends of the Women's Commission, the Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum, the Newcomen Society, a local P.E.O. chapter, the East Lincoln Rotary Club and Common Cause. She is a past board member of the University Place Art Center and Neighborhoods, Inc. She also has been involved in parent groups at Brownell Elementary, Mickle Junior High/Middle School and Lincoln Northeast High.
Coleen and her late husband Darrel, who died in 1993, have three grown children and four grandchildren.
---Coleen J. Seng


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— I love news pictures that pay homage to other famous images. Movie directors do this all the time. Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941) painted a devastating portrait of a fictional politician (based on William Randolph Hearst) whose ego and image was larger than life. Do you think today's photojournalists are channeling "Citizen Kane" when they do their version of "Citizen Obama" and "Citizen Clinton"?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mid-market defense contractors as well as media and coal companies could be at risk of tumbling into bankruptcy in 2013, credit market guru and New York University professor Edward Altman said on Thursday.
With the U.S. government mulling significant cuts to the defense budget, smaller companies that contract with the government for defense projects could suffer, Altman told a group of restructuring professionals at his 12th annual Corporate & Sovereign Credit Market Outlook luncheon.
Altman is known for establishing the so-called "Z-score" method of predicting a company's bankruptcy risk.
He did not name defense companies he thinks could be bankruptcy candidates, but he said the problems likely would hit smaller firms and that larger ones are not in danger.
In an interview with Reuters after his speech, Altman said the coal industry is expected to continue to suffer as natural gas remains a cheaper energy alternative. One major player in that industry - Patriot Coal Corp PCXCQ.PK - filed for bankruptcy last year, blaming in part the glut of natural gas.
Altman said media companies will also face challenges as specialized online media outlets gain strength.
"The Internet media world is getting very crowded," Altman said in the interview.
Corporate bankruptcies have been less common in recent years as lenders and governments have been more willing to lend to struggling companies.
In his presentation, Altman said he expects that to change over the next several years, but not necessarily in 2013.
Also at the event, sponsored by bankruptcy trade group the Turnaround Management Association, restructuring experts offered varying outlooks on the business side of the field.
Flip Huffard, a managing director at The Blackstone Group (BX.N), said many companies that refinanced or extended debt maturities several years ago may not be in a position to do so again.
"These are companies that are getting to the end of the line, and actually need to fix their capital structures," Huffard said. "They're done with Band-Aids."
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maartenzz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 96 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
We are a young surfing company in Holland with various divisions. Started by young people and run by young people. Our company mission is to give everybody the oppertunity to enjoy wavesurfing and the lifestyle around it. Everybody in in the company does what makes him or her happy and our motto is LOVE PASSION AND FREEDOM.
We're growing fast now. We have surfing schools on different locations, do company events, sell surfing and clothing gear and also start with surf travels.
Check our websites(all in dutch): http://www.surfzandvoort.nl, http://www.surfhuis.nl , http://www.surfweekend.nl
Our audience is everybody from 5 to 55
We need a new logo we can put in front of all the different company names like a 'stamp'. So one we can put in front of 'Surf Zandvoort' and in front of 'Surf Callantsoog' and also on the T-shirts of our surf instructors.
Because we have different surfing schools the logo must be recognizable.
Ofcourse the logo needs have to have a surfing feeling with it and it needs to radiate an active and fun lifestyle!! But because we want everybody to feel welcome the logo needs to have a warm feeling with it. Also it needs to be a little cool so it looks good on clothing.
Words that suits our company are: Surfing is for every body, active lifestyle, Fun, Happyness, Feeling welcome, Be yourself, Love, Passion, Freedom.
In basic the logo needs to be a stamp without text but all our company divisions include the word 'Surf' so you can include that too in the logo if you want to. But remind yourself that there comes a word after it like 'Zandvoort'
Check our websites(all in dutch): http://www.surfzandvoort.nl, http://www.surfhuis.nl , http://www.surfweekend.nl
I've put an example of a logo of mojo surf. That's the structure I want. Simpel but effective
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Low-Key scoring has gone through various phases.
In the 1990's, we scored based on fastest rider. The fastest man and the fastest women each week would score 100. Those slower would score based on the percentage of the fastest rider's score. This was super-simple, but when an exceptionally fast rider would show up, everyone else would score lower than normal. Additionally, this was frustrating for the fastest rider (typically Tracy Colwell among the men), since no matter how hard he or she pushed himself, the result would be the same 100 points.
So with Low-Key 2.0 in 2006, we switched to using the median rider (again treatng men and women separately). The median is much less sensitive to whether a particular individual shows up or not, so scores were now more stable. However, there was still an issue with women, and most especially with our hybrid-electric division, since smaller turnouts in these again made the score sensitive to who showed up.
So in 2010 I updated the system so now all riders were scored using a single median time, except instead of actual time, I used an "effective mens's time" using our history of Low-Key data to generate conversion factors from women's and hybrid electric's times to men's times. Mixed tandem's were scored by averaging a men's and a women's effective time.
This worked even better. Now if just a few women show, it's possible for them to all score over 100 points, as happened at Mix Canyon Road this past Saturday.
But the issue with Mix Canyon Road was because the climb is so challenging, and for many it was a longer than normal drive to reach, the turn-out among more endurance-oriented riders was relatively poor. The average rider at Mix would have scored over 100 points during, for example, Montebello (data here). It seems almost everyone who did both climbs had "a bad day" at Mix. That is far from the truth!
There is another scoring scheme I've been contemplating for many years. It's one which doesn't use a median time for each week, but rather compares the times of riders who did multiple weeks to come up with a relative time ratio for each climb. So if, for example, five riders did both Montebello and Mix, and if each one of them took exactly 10% longer to climb Mix, then a rider on Mix should score the same as a different rider on Montebello as long as the Mix rider's time was exactly 10% longer than the Montebello rider's time, once again after adjusting for whether the rider is a male, female, or hybrid-electric.
So why haven't I made this switch yet? It sounds good, right?
Well, for one it's more work for me. I'd need to code it. But that's not too bad because I know exactly what I need to do to make it work.
Another is it's harder to explain. It involves iterative solution, for example. I like things which are easy to explain. Median time is simple.
But another is it would mean scores for any week wouldn't be final until the entire series was complete. So a rider might celebrate scoring 100.01 points on Montebello, only to see that score drop to below 100 points later in the series. Why? Because the time conversion factor for a given climb would depend on how all riders did on that climb versus other climbs. And it's not as simple as I described: for example if rider A does climbs 1 and 2, and rider B does climbs 2 and 3, then that gives me valuable information about how climb 1 compares to climb 3. In effect I need to use every such connection to determine the conversion factor between these climbs.
But while scores might change for a climb, the ranking between riders during the climb would not. That's the most important thing. Finish faster than someone and you get a higher score. The conversion factor between men and women, for example, would stay the same. That's based on close to 10 years of data, so no need to continue to tweak that further.
I'll need to get to work on this and see if I can make progress. I'll describe my proposed algorithm next post.


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An attorney handling two county death penalty cases filed motions to disqualify the court and have it strike down an Fla. statute he believes is unconstitutional.
An attorney handling two Marion County death penalty cases filed motions to attempt to disqualify the court and have it strike down a Florida statute he believes is unconstitutional.
Defense attorney Terence Lenamon of Miami, who was able to spare Joshua Fulgham the death penalty in April, is making efforts to do the same for James Edward Bannister and Michael Lamar Woods.
In the motions, Lenamon claims that recent changes by the state Legislature to section 27.5304 of the Florida statutes, which sets the payment for private court-appointed counsel, makes it a conflict of interest for judges presiding in cases of indigent defendants.
"When it comes to the death penalty, there's no short order of them trying to shortcut in allowing resources for these kinds of cases where they're seeking the ultimate penalty," Lenamon said.
He noted that judges must approve all expenses in the cases, from the cost of a private attorney for an indigent defendant — set at $15,000 for capital cases — to the other costs of preparing the case.
Lenamon said those costs could add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the state Legislature has put aside just $3 million in a special judicial account designated for those costs.
He argued that $3 million wouldn't be enough to help pay for the multitude of death penalty cases involving indigent defendants across the state.
Once that money in the special account is gone, judges must then decide whether to use general funds that also pay for judges salaries, staff, etc. Lenamon said that puts the judges in a tough position and creates a conflict of interest.
"It's their staff, their budget, versus what's right for the defendant," he said.
For that reason, he claims the statute is unconstitutional and urges judges across the state to strike down the law.
Lenamon said he has filed the motions in about seven death penalty cases he's handling across the state.
The two judges hearing the death penalty cases in Marion County have denied Lenamon's motions to disqualify the court. They have not ruled on the constitutionality of the statute.
"Therefore, the Defendant argues that an inherent conflict of interest arises, calling into question a judge's impartiality because a judge will have to decide whether to award reasonable attorney fees' to an indigent Defendant when the monies being used to pay the same comes from the budget for the administration of the court system," wrote Circuit Judge Sandra Edwards-Stephens in her decision.
Edwards-Stephens is hearing James Edward Bannister's case.
Bannister was charged with four counts of murder after he allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend, Jocalyn Gray; her mother Bridget Gray; and two children, CorDarrian Hill, 8; and his sister, 6-year-old CorDerica Hill.
He reportedly set fire to the house with the victims inside last August.
In the other case, Lenamon is representing Michael Lamar Woods, who was charged with killing Marshall Pardee and his girlfriend, Chyavana Hampton, in February 2010.
Another attorney is handling Woods' two other cases — the 2007 killing of Toni Centracco and a plan to murder a witness in the case. That trial is scheduled for January 2013.
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Legislature: Caregivers, seniors rally for 'five and five' increase
ST. PAUL — Maple Lawn Nursing Home administrator Arlan Swanson said his organization is the biggest employer in Fulda, but he says his staff is struggling because he cannot give them raises after years of cuts and freezes in state funding.
"I'm really proud of my staff," Swanson said Thursday. "But for the last four years when it comes to the annual reviews, I've had very little to offer for my thanks.
"You must count in 2013," he told the seniors, caregivers and families gathered at the Minnesota Capitol.
Chanting "five and five," rally attendees urged a 5 percent increase in state funding each of the next two years for caregivers and nursing homes.
"We cannot fail our seniors," said President and CEO Jon Riewer of Moorhead's Eventide Senior Living Communities. "A 5 percent increase in each year of the biennium is needed to close the long-term care funding gap and start addressing the caregiving crisis in our state."
Advocates say they need more money from the state to stop nursing homes from closing and keep good employees. Rural nursing homes especially are at risk, they said.
Many speakers said caregivers are leaving to work other jobs because they need to make more money.
"When we're talking about 'five and five,' we are talking about food on people's tables," said Rep. Joe Schomacker, R-Luverne. "This is not a partisan issue, it's an issue of priorities."
Budget proposals include billions in new money for the state, so more funding should be directed to senior programs and pay increases for caregivers, Riewer said.
Democratic leaders' spending targets cut about $150 million from health and human services budgets in the next two years. The House plan does include a 3 percent one-time increase and the Senate includes 2 percent.
Legislative leaders and Gov. Mark Dayton still must finalize budget targets, and those at the rally said they hope their funding will go up then.
"We've reached a critical point in our legislative session," Riewer said.
Seniors are a growing part of the population, advocates said, and funding needs to recognize that.
"The demographics of our state are changing," AARP State Director Michele Kimball said. "Our population is aging."


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Yeah, we heard: Amy Winehouse got arrested. (Again.) Apparently she punched some 38-year old dude in the face the other night while she was out. It's not easy being Amy! (It is, however, lucrative.) To prove this point we present to you 24 Hours of Wino: A Story in Pictures. Images continue after the jump.
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Hamelman's 5 grain rye sourdough, and Pastry # 7
The practical classes have finally commenced after a 3 week halt due re-location. We have had the cold desserts last weekend, featuring popular desserts such as Pana Cotta, fruit flavored cold soufflés, and Mousses, in addition to crepes, fruit fritters, and rice pudding. Most desserts featured below contain gelatine to set them. It goes without saying that everything was exceptionally delicious! We have still few classes left for cold desserts then we'll be off to hot desserts and later chocolate.
Clockwise from left to right: Orange souffle, Chocolate Cousse, Mango and bluberry mousse, Pana cotta, and lemon souffle.
For bread, i wanted to bake loaves that are reasonably sour, but not chewy. I chose Rye sourdough with 5 grains from Hamleman's (BREAD). I've also decided to try baking them on aluminum baking sheets instead of a stone in hope of reducing crust thickness.
I have blogged about this bread before here [1]. This time, however, I've deviated from Hamelman's recipe in more than a way. I've skipped yeast and honey, increased flaxseeds, and replaced rolled oats with fine corn meal. Also, I've folded the dough twice in bulk, and retarded the dough in bulk for 18 hours.
The dough has expanded considerably in the fridge. During preshaping, and shaping the dough was overly sticky, but succumbed to final shaping with no tears. I suspected that the long cold fermentation with 25% prefermented flour would lead to some gluten breakdown, and I was right. The loaves's cuts did not open cleanly and the final crumb was somewhat tighter.
The bread had a faint sourness, with prominent multigrain presence. My only regret was that I should have either reduced the pre-fermented flour to accommodate an extended refrigeration, or I should have retarded overnight. The bread loses too much of its character when subtle changes are made. As to sheet baking,the crust was slightly softer which made me happy. I'll play around with potential variables and observe the results.


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After years of fighting each other in court, Bullis Charter School and the Los Altos School District are poised to make peace.
On Wednesday, the charter and district announced a tentative five-year agreement that resolves their longstanding dispute over facilities as well as a handful of ongoing court cases. The boards of the charter and district are scheduled to vote on the agreement on July 28.
"This is significant because it's a five-year agreement," said John Phelps, president of the Bullis Charter School Board of Directors. "It lets all of us in these positions of responsibility for the schools to focus on the students and what's best for the students and this community as a whole."
State law requires the charter and district to hammer out a "facilities use agreement" at least once every year. More often than not, the effort has culminated in a lawsuit. The tentative agreement lays out what the district will provide the charter over the next five years.
"It consumes an inordinate amount of time," Doug Smith, president of the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees, said about the process. "So, doing this in a five-year swoop is fantastic, because it just frees up so much staff and board time for us to just focus on educating the kids."
Smith said legal battles with the charter are costing the district approximately $1.7 million per year.
"It'd be really nice to be able to spend that money on kids," he said.
The agreement also calls for the charter and district to work together to place a bond measure on the November ballot that would finance additional facilities for students. The amount could approach $150 million.
"We just need flat-out more school space," said Smith, noting that 5,000 students are enrolled in the district.
The district is in talks with the city of Los Altos to potentially buy or lease land for another elementary school. Rosita Park is one possibility. A meeting scheduled for Wednesday was postponed when a city representative could not make it because of a work obligation.
While Phelps declined to discuss specifics of the agreement, Smith noted that it ends the charter's controversial practice of giving preference to students from Los Altos Hills. It also requires the charter to be clearer about its willingness to serve the needs of all students, he said.
Smith and Phelps said the boards of the district and charter are seeking feedback from the public on the agreement, which is posted online at www.bullischarterschool.com and www.losaltos.k12.ca.us.
Email Jason Green at jgreen @dailynewsgroup.com; follow him at twitter.com/jgreendailynews.


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1 cup nonfat evaporated milk
In food processor with knife blade attached, blend frozen raspberries and peaches until fruit mixture resembles finely shaved ice. Stop processor occasionally to scrape down sides.
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Attending the Consumer Electronics Show is not good for your bank account. No matter how new your TV is or how high-tech your home might be, there's always something better on the way — and once you see it, you often want it.
There is, however, a lot of repetition in the Las Vegas Convention Center halls. After a couple of days the myriad TVs start to run together, and it starts to seem like every booth is offering some variation of an iPhone case.
Some items rise above the fray — and these are often the ones that resonate with consumers. Here are a few of the most interesting things on display this year.
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Why Madison Presidential Listening Tour: Huffman Hall
"Why Madison?" Listening Tour
President's Journal
Oct. 10—Village Residence Halls
It is important for me as president to connect directly with students
I've been visiting with students tonight from the Village residence halls to get their input into our "Why Madison?" Listening Tour. It's really important for me as president to connect with students directly and to hear their perspectives. So far I have talked with a lot of alumni who have lived the Madison Experience, but tonight I am speaking with students who are experiencing it right now. They are living the JMU experience. They're taking classes. They're in Gen Ed. They're in different majors. They're living in the residence halls, and so to hear their perspectives on what life is like right now at the university has been very valuable. I have relished this time, and it was just a really fun evening for me.
Students are confirming Madison's culture of friendliness
I really appreciated some of the themes we've been hearing from parents and from alumni on our "Why Madison?" tour about the friendliness of the campus, the hospitality, the sense of feeling welcome they have experienced at JMU. To actually hear it again now firsthand from students is so important, especially to hear them acknowledge that they embrace the responsibility in helping to create and sustain that climate. That was reassuring to hear.
Engagement in the life of JMU makes students feel welcome
Sometimes, as we've heard tonight, when students first come into JMU, they can feel a little bit overwhelmed. It's a large place, and when you're coming out of high school or you're transferring into the university, that size can be a challenge at first. But we heard students talk about how they became engaged in the life of the university. They found a niche and they then felt that sense of a welcoming community. That's something we all have a responsibility to help create. The students here tonight understand that and plan to carry out their part as they go forward.
Students' questions show interest in the future of JMU
While the "Why Madison?" format is designed for me to ask questions of students, I was actually really pleased that students were asking questions of me about the future of the university. What's the vision? What is the strategic plan going to look like as we go forward? That shows me that they care about the institution, not just about themselves and their courses and what they're going to do over the next year or two, but what's going to happen to the next generation of students who come after them. I was really pleased to hear students thinking more long term in that way and I think they're going to make great alumni who hopefully will continue to be engaged with JMU after they graduate.
Each student experience is unique depending on the choices they make
The student stories I heard tonight were a reminder that everyone's experience here is unique. It depends on the student's major, and on what organizations they join. It may even depend on where they live, either on or off campus, in terms of how much they feel involved and engaged in the life of the university. Certainly what I heard from students is that they recognize that engagement is an important part of their learning process. It's not just what happens in the classroom, although that's very important, certainly, but it's also what they are doing outside the classroom as they interact with other students in student organizations—with leadership opportunities, opportunities for teamwork and collaboration, and in some cases to learn or develop new skills.
Civic engagement off campus was a central topic too
We also talked about civic engagement and getting involved in the community and how important that is. Students shared tonight what a difference that has made for them as well, when they've had the opportunity to interact with people in Harrisonburg or in the county or in the valley, and how that has changed their own perspectives. There are a variety of ways for students to get involved beyond just themselves and their own studies, and I think what I heard tonight is, "We understand how important that is. We're looking for more such opportunities and we're looking for ways to foster additional interactions outside the classroom at every turn."
Meetings with students make me so optimistic about the future
Meeting with the students is a reminder of why we're here at JMU. It makes me so optimistic about our future when I hear the voices of these students—their hopes and their dreams for themselves, and for the university community. They really care about this place. They care about the things that make JMU a great institution and they want it to be even greater. So, I 'm very excited at the prospect that they're going to be our future alumni. I think that more than ever there is a sense that people understand that for the university to take that next step to get to an even higher level, we need to do it collectively. We need to take collective responsibility for this university. I think these students understand this point, so I think they're going to be great supporters in the future.
"Why Madison?" conversations with students will continue
We have some additional visits with different student organizations coming up. For example, I will be meeting over the next week with the MYMOM group, and with student organizations involved with the Center for Multicultural Student Services. I participated in the lunch with 12 Strangers a few days ago. There will be a lot of opportunities, I hope. We're still developing opportunities to have these "Why Madison?" conversations. We're hoping there'll be some random groups of students as well as student organizations. I know the SGA is coming over for a Halloween party at the house in a couple weeks. We're looking forward to that. Just finding different ways to interact with students and to hear from them what their lives are like, that's important to me. I can be much more effective in my job if I understand what their lives are like, so we're continuing to look for those opportunities and we're excited about it.
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Cougars utilize defense to snap four-game skid
A 13-point lead vanished and the Houston Cougars were in jeopardy of a fifth consecutive loss Saturday.
"We have to come out with this one," senior forward Leon Gibson said. "Somehow, some way."
All the Cougars had to do was survive a back-and-forth final few minutes.
Gibson came up with a key block, and the Cougars made free throws down the stretch for a 66-61 victory over UAB at Hofheinz Pavilion, snapping a season-long four-game losing streak.
During the losing streak, the Cougars tested coach James Dickey with a wide range of emotions. He called a 79-75 overtime loss to Central Florida "a heartbreaker." That was followed by an 87-72 loss to Tulsa he said was "more of a nightmare."
As for Saturday's tight-rope act?
"Just glad we won," he said with his red tie loosened in the postgame news conference.
Down the stretch, the Cougars displayed the bedrock on which Dickey's coaching philosophy is based: defense.
Full-game effort
"Coach asked us if we could give him 40 minutes of that type of defense instead of giving him a taste," freshman forward Danuel House said.
Gibson was responsible for two of the Cougars' biggest defensive plays late in the game. He grabbed a defensive rebound to help preserve a 59-55 lead with 2:33 remaining. Then came arguably the biggest play of the game when Gibson, the Cougars' tallest player at 6-9, swatted the ball on a drive to the basket by UAB's Terrence Jones with 39 seconds left.
UH (13-6, 2-4 Conference USA) still had to sweat out the closing seconds when TaShawn Thomas missed a free throw and Jordan Swing buried his third 3-pointer of the half to pull within 62-61 with 11.1 seconds remaining.
Joseph Young answered with a pair of free throws to put UH ahead 64-61.
Stiggers key off bench
On the in-bounds play, the Cougars had two fouls to give and planned to use one near half-court. UH point guard J.J. Thompson alertly realized that Jones was going to launch a 3-pointer from near half-court and didn't foul. Instead, the ball fell well short of the basket and out of bounds.
The Blazers (8-12, 0-5) were forced to foul House, who made both free throws to seal the game.
The Cougars led by seven points at halftime and pushed the lead to 41-28 early in the second half. UAB went on an 18-2 run - highlighted by a combined four 3-pointers by Swing and Jones - for a 46-43 lead.
Jherrod Stiggers (11 points off the bench) followed with two clutch 3s, the last giving the Cougars the lead for good, 59-55, with 2:47 remaining.
Thomas finished with 17 points and nine rebounds, while Young added 14 points for UH.


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Richard James Painter - November 15, 2013
Richard James (Dick) Painter, professor emeritus of mathematics at Colorado State University, died on Sunday morning, Nov. 10, after a six month illness due to pancreatic cancer.
Painter was a member of the CSU mathematics faculty from 1963 through 2011. He was 82 years old at the time of his death.
Dick was born July 20th, 1931, in Greensboro, N.C. to James W. Painter and Kathleen Sharer Painter. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1949 until 1955, earning an AB and masters degree in mathematics. In 1955 he began work on his PhD at the University of Colorado, where, as a Southerner, he was so unaccustomed to the treeless land that he could not bear to look out the windows of his 2nd story student apartment for several months. However, the move to Colorado proved life-changing, for it was then that his love affair with the mountains and plains of Colorado began.
The move to Colorado proved even more life changing, as it was at CU that he met, wooed and proposed to a beautiful nursing student; his one true love and life companion. On July 28th, 1957, Dick Painter and Jan Manson were married in her home town in western Kansas. The young couple stayed in Colorado where, in 1957, Dick worked as a computer programmer for the Martin-Marietta Company in Denver. In 1958 they moved to Lynchburg, Va., where Dick was employed as a mathematical analyst for the Atomic Energy Division of Babcock and Wilcox Company, working on the Savannah River Project.
In 1960, he returned to Chapel Hill where he received his PhD in mathematics in 1963. Having fulfilled this dream, he returned west, where he started his career at CSU as a member of the mathematics faculty.
Dick was a member of Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts and sciences honor society, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. He was selected as the CSU Honors Professor for Fall of 1974 and received the CSU Jack E. Cermak Advising Award for 1993-1994. He co-authored two linear algebra textbooks.
Painter was a man of many interests including mountain climbing and desert hiking. His love of the high country was immeasurable, climbing all 53 of the 14,000 foot peaks in Colorado--his most recent one just 14 months ago when he repeated a climb he had done with one of his sons 30 years before. Dick also climbed in the Alps, the Himalaya, Africa, and the Andes of Patagonia. Notable climbs included Mount Rainier in Washington, Popocatepetl in Mexico and even Mount Sunflower--the high point of Kansas. He was always a modest man about his climbs and never suffered over occasionally not summiting--the climb itself and the camaraderie were all-important.
He shared many of his passions with others, including astronomy, reading classics and poetry, master wooden ship model building, singing in the Larimer Chorale for 34 years, downhill and cross-country skiing (serving as the faculty advisor to the CSU ski team for several years), playing poker with a group of friends of about 35 years, jogging and weight lifting, billiards and snooker, fishing with his children and then his grandchildren, and countless cross-country road trips throughout the United States with his wife. But his greatest passion was teaching undergraduate students where he searched for "diamonds in the rough", students who had real mathematical talent but weren't yet aware of that talent. Until not long before his death, Dick continued with delight tutoring math students and occasionally teaching his beloved linear algebra class at CSU.
While Dick was in Los Angeles in August receiving cancer treatment, his two sons staged an 82nd birthday party atop Mt. Wilson where Dick and several friends and family members observed the heavens through a 60 inch telescope that had been used many years ago by the likes of Harlow Shapley and Edwin Hubbel to make important astronomical discoveries. Though Dick was quite ill, he still found this a lifetime highlight. To add to that joy, in August, he met and spent several hours over dinner swapping climbing stories with the famous climber and cinematographer, David Breashears, another great pleasure at an otherwise difficult time.
One cannot speak of Dick Painter without mentioning that he could always make others laugh with his quick wit and amazing smile. He was a generous, poised, interesting, and kind man who loved people, adults and children alike. Dick is survived by Jan, his wife of 56 years; son, J. Marcus Painter and his wife Jennifer and their two children, Nathaniel and Kailey Anne, of Boulder, Colo.; and son, Thomas Howell Painter and his wife, Tania, and their two sons, Emile and Micah of Pasadena, Calif. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews, all of whom loved to try to overcome Uncle Dick playing Gin Rummy. Though he usually won, he was still a favorite of all the children in the family because he was full of fun.
Dick asked that in lieu of flowers, memorial gifts be made to The Richard J. Painter Fund for Undergraduate Mathematics Education, c/o The CSU Foundation, or directly to the University of North Carolina Department of Mathematics for the purpose of undergraduate education in mathematics. Donations should be made in care of Allnutt Funeral Service, 650 West Drake Road, Ft. Collins, CO 80526.
A memorial service will be held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 19, 2013 in the North Ballroom of the Lory Student Center of CSU, with reception to follow in the University Club.
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Matrix Talk:Soundcard
Maybe I'm too much used to Wikipedia, but shouldn't this be Template:Soundcard instead of Matrix:Soundcard? Otherwise one might get confused and edit this page by mistake...
Greetings, Andreas 20:21, 24 July 2007 (CEST)
-- I tried to separate matrix pages and Matrix: is different namespace (mainly used for the search function). I don't want to change name at this moment. User:Perex
The following did appear in the link section of every sound card :
"KDE users may use KEnvy24 utility from SourceForge"
This is completely silly because KEnvy24 is a mixer for the Envy24 chip (like MAudio Audiophile 96). Even with a card like the MAudio Audiophile 192 (Envy24HT/PT), KEnvy24 will fail with an error message like what it cannot find some Envy24 sound card.
So, please remove this line from this page. --Dominique 20:00, 29 December 2010 (CET)


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Dear people with mad Photoshop skillz; women don't care. And unlike you, they hate your mother's basement. Still, mad props to this cat for doing something so unlikely that no one would even suspect it's a prank. He fooled Motor Authority, Motor Pasion and even our usually skeptical selves. Probably Autoblog, too. Well, at least Frank. Kids: beware teh internets. Real pic below the jump.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, August 07, 2009
Canadian Game Fish by Canadian Illustrators
First up; three of what must have been a long series of paintings serialized week-to-week during 1960 in the Toronto Star newspaper's weekend insert magazine. These are by Gordon Fairburn, who is listed on Jaleen Grove's Canadian Illustrators wiki only as having been "a graphic designer."
Next, another treasure from the original TI scrap files: a small group of collectors cards that were inserted in packages of Salada Tea back in 1961. I'm not sure if this was a practice typical only to Canada, but these tea package card series designed along various nature themes were tremendously popular even when I was a kid in the 1970's.
I've posted an extra large scan for those interested in reading the backs of the cards. Just click the image to go to that version (and don't hurt your neck craning sideways to read).
Finally, a neat old pocket booklet for fishermen issued by the Carling Brewery Company of Waterloo, Ontario. This one filed away unused by Bud Fente, the illustrator who originally compiled the scrap file that would one day launch Today's Inspiration. Whether Bud had no interest in fishing or was too busy with work back in 1952 to make use of this booklet, we'll never know...
... but either way, I'm grateful that he chose to file away this gem so that one day we would be able to enjoy it again.
That's it for this week -- Happy Fishing!
* My Fishing Flickr set.
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- Jaser4:53 AM
Leif, you may enjoy this 1939 dust jacket in my humble flickr set, which is very relevant to the vintage fishing illustration theme. It belonged to my grandmother:ReplyDelete
Let's Go Fishing
The fishing week is great, Leif! I love the last silhouetted illustration of the two fishermen on the lake. That takes a lot of graphic design skill and an understanding of simplicity of one shape related to another. I never learned a lot about that in art school, and had to pick it up on my own later, as a graphic designer/illustrator/art director. With that approach to illustration, you can't rely on just accurate drawing, good rendering skills, correct values and good composition. Stylization and exceptional design is what makes the silhouetted illustration work so well. The amazing simplicity, attitude and expression of the figures are exceptional in that illo. I don't see this kind of illustration anymore, but I think it could be just as effective in today's market as it was back then.ReplyDelete
Tom Watson
Great post! I have a pile of those Salada/Tetley tea cards at home; no fish though, all birds, butterflies and wild animals. I keep meaning to frame them somehow, but - you know.ReplyDelete


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BERKELEY — It's curtains for you gopher. Same for you ground squirrel.
Having run out of options, the city is planning to trap and terminate hundreds, if not thousands, of ground squirrels and western pocket gophers who have turned the shoreline of the 90-acre Cesar Chavez Park on the bay into what looks like a slice of Swiss cheese.
There are holes and tunnels just about everywhere you look in the park that was converted from a landfill in 1991.
But it's not just the holes that concern officials. They worry toxins lurking just under the surface of the former landfill on the bay are getting washed into the bay water, courtesy of the animals' digging.
"Rain water goes into the holes and takes the landfill waste possibly into the bay," said city spokesman Matthai Chakko. "What goes into the bay is going to impact the animals in the bay."
The city was notified by the Regional Water Quality Control Board in 2009 that it had a problem. Since then, the city tried installing raptor homes atop poles in hopes that birds of prey would come, nest and eat the squirrels. But that didn't work, Chakko said. The city also considered bringing in owls — until staffers learned that owls hunt at night and squirrels are out in the day.
"Part of the issue is that the squirrel population is higher than it should be," Chakko said. "People are giving them food, and there are signs out there telling them not to, but they aren't paying attention."
That would be people like Bill Spint, of Berkeley, who feeds the squirrels one to two pounds of peanuts a day.
"I love these little critters," Spint said. He whistled and a fat squirrel popped its head out of the rocks almost instantly and ran toward him. "The squirrels were here first, is the way I see it. Kind of like the Indians and the white folks. Nobody feeds these guys as much as I do. I used to bring out three or four bags of peanuts a day."
To get rid of the animals, a city contractor that monitors methane gas emissions from the park has subcontracted with a firm called Animal Damage Control. That company plans to fence off the park in one-acre sections at a time, trap the animals and "abate" them. Chakko declined to lay out details of how the contractor will kill the animals.
The contractor will post signs in the fenced off area that say "keep out — habitat restoration in progress," and leave 24 baited traps that are small enough not to trap other animals. For gophers, the contractor will use traps underground in their tunnels.
Spint said he'd be happy if the contractor trapped the animals and took them to another spot and let them go.
"It would be nice if they did that, at least," Spint said.
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Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) Pops 2.87% for February 18Equities Staff Follow |
One of the S&P 500's big winners for Thursday February 18 was Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) as the company's stock climbed 2.87% to $15.40 on volume of 6.85 million shares.
The stock opened at $15.04 and saw an intraday low of $14.89 and an intraday high of $15.52. All told, the day saw a per-share gain of $0.43. The stock's average daily volume of 9.88 million and 751.61 million shares outstanding. Host Hotels & Resorts Inc now has a 50-day SMA is $14.62 and 200-day SMA is $17.25, and it has a 52-week high of $23.61 and a 52-week low of $12.17.
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Based out of Bethesda, MD, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc has 251 employees and, after today's trading, reached a market cap of $11.57 billion. Its P/S ratio is n/a, P/B ratio is 1.66, and P/FCF ratio is -20.3.
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This Red Ryder "Better Little Book," titled Red Ryder and the Code of the West, copyright 1940, 1941, is one of the many Red Ryder stories that boys read during World War II (WWII). Red Ryder was a hugely popular fictional hero; a book like this was the dream gift of most boys in the 1940's. Many commercial items like toy guns and clothing were also available so that children could dress like Red Ryder and act out the stories. As the nation became more mobilized for the war effort, Red Ryder's famed BB guns and air rifles became more popular. A Red Ryder BB gun, manufactured by the Daisy Gun Factory, came out in 1938. The Factory, which started out manufacturing windmills for water pumps, made a BB gun in 1888 as a free promotional giveaway with their windmills. Farmers liked the BB guns so much that the guns soon became the company's sole business. The toy rifle pictured here belongs to Christopher R. Pichette of Deerfield, Massachusetts, the seventh child of Robert Pichette of Ashfield, who served in WWII.
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Wet fields have slowed planting statewide and cold weather is putting the brakes on corn emergence, according to county Extension agents.
The season's first crop progress report, issued Monday (April 1), showed Arkansas growers had 22 percent of the state's corn crop planted, compared with 56 percent during last year's early warm-up, and the 32 percent five-year average. Three percent of the crop has emerged. Most of what's been planted is south of I-40.
In Lincoln County, some of the corn has been in the ground for two weeks and "nothing has emerged yet," said Chad Norton, county staff chair. Growers will be watching their rows closely for signs the cold seed is still viable.
"We dug some up this week and it's still alive, I believe that it will eventually emerge but will have used up a great deal of energy in doing so," he said. "Corn is pretty tough as far as being able to take a lot of seedling stress, however, there is a limit and any further stress, rain or cold temps, could cause some stand failures."
Norton said that once the weather turns drier and warmer, producers will evaluate the crop. "We still have time to get the crop planted in a timely window, no one is panicking yet."
How does a farmer decide on whether to replant or stay the course?
"It depends," said Stan Baker, Lee County Extension staff chair. Farmers trying to decide, "whether to replant a stand that is a little thin or live with it, is a question of timing. Many farmers cover large acres and they have to prepare and plant a lot of acres in a short period of time."
As farmers get deeper into the planting season, the time pressure increases.
"What was so nice about last year is they were able to get so much done in March," Baker said. "This year they are faced with trying to plant not only corn in April but also rice, grain sorghum, cotton, and even soybeans."
For farmers, the decision-making path looks something like this:
- Has the seed emerged? If not, is it still healthy underground?
- Once all the healthy seeds germinate and emerge, are there enough to make an adequate stand?
- How much is enough to make an adequate stand?
- Is the crop booked?
- If replanting is needed, is there seed available?
"Every situation is different, and sometimes there is no clear answer," Baker said. "That's farming. Not boring, for sure."
Winter wheat was 59 percent in good or excellent condition, with 32 percent fair and 9 percent poor or very poor.
No other crops were included in the report for the week ending March 31.
For more information on crop production, visit www.uaex.edu, http://arkansascrops.com or contact your county Extension office.
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