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Hi everyone,
I am having a problem with the look of the workspace switcher (Pager) with miniature view.
I am using Xfce 4.10 in Debian Jessie; xfce4-panel is version 4.10.1-1 as distributed by Debian.
I have a single monitor (DVI-I-0) that I use when working and additionally, my TV is connected (DVI-I-3) which I use to watch movies. Most of the time the TV is off. When I watch a movie, the TV is a clone of the monitor. I switch it on with the command
$ xrandr --output DVI-I-3 --mode 1920x1080 --same-as DVI-I-0
afterwards, I switch it off:
$ xrandr --output DVI-I-3 --off
However, the workspace switcher in miniature view always looks as if I have a second monitor to the right of my main monitor (which I never do; the TV is either off or a clone. In both cases I would expect workspace switcher to show only space for one monitor). This is how it looks like:
I found a similar (or the same) bug reported in the Ubuntu Bugtracker, but it never got any response:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1248721
My /etc/X11/xorg.conf was automatically created by the installer of the proprietary NVIDIA driver which I use and it contains only my one monitor.
I would be grateful for any help. Maybe someone knows where workspace switcher gets its information about number and layout of monitors? The only config-file I found is ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml and it only contains the following about pager:
<property name="plugin-14" type="string" value="pager">
<property name="rows" type="uint" value="2"/>
<property name="miniature-view" type="bool" value="true"/>
This Xfce bug report looks similar/related. According to that bug report, running "xfce4-panel -r" resets the plugin properly. Does that work for you?
Also related seem to be:
= https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9922
- https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10544
- https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7073
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This Xfce bug report looks similar/related. According to that bug report, running "xfce4-panel -r" resets the plugin properly. Does that work for you?
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately this does not work (has no effect whatsoever). Note: When actually configure my two monitors as sitting next to each other, Pager shows what I would expect, i.e., a very wide desktop:
(This is somewhat different from what I showed in the first post, where the representation seems to show two separated desktops)
I will check out the other bug-reports you mentioned.
Well, I guess I am affected by the bug in your links. It seems to me that a patch was proposed but never included (forgotten, rejected?) into any official release. It sure doesn't seem to be in the newest package http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/snapshot … .1.tar.bz2
I would like to avoid having to compile this myself since I have no idea how do that and would probably risk blowing up my Xfce. Do you know whether there is any way to help the proposed fix getting into an official release? Or does anyone know whether a precompiled package with the fix exists anywhere?
Another thought: It would actually suffice for me if I could set the desktop geometry to a particular value (1920*1080) once and for all since this is the only one I want, anyway. I tried
$ wmctrl -g 1920,1080
but it was no good since the window manager seemed to ignore it (which, according to the manpage of wmctrl it is allowed to).
Last edited by WerKater (2014-01-26 17:01:08)
Regarding how to help get a proposed patch into XFCE: Only speculating, but installing and testing a patch and then reporting on how well it worked (or didn't) might be helpful. Unfortunately, that probably requires compiling, lol.
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Agile DevOps
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Learn why all parts of a software system should use version control
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Version everything. Yes, everything: infrastructure, configuration, application code, and your database. If you do, you have a single source of truth that enables you to view the software system — and everything it takes to create the software — as a holistic unit. Teams that version everything aren't constantly trying to figure out which version of the application code goes with which database and which version of the software application works with which environment. Source files that make up the software system aren't on shared servers, hidden in folders on a laptop, or embedded in a nonversioned database.
If you version everything, any authorized team member should be capable of re-creating any version of the software system — the application code, configuration, infrastructure, and data — at any point in time. You should be able to create the entire software system using only nonbinary artifacts (with the exception of libraries that you do not modify) that are committed to a version-control repository (such as Subversion, Git, CVS, or Rational ClearCase, to name a few examples).
In my experience, the idea of versioning everything is simple to
understand, but I rarely see it fully applied. Sure, you'll see versioning
of the application code, some of the configuration and, perhaps, the data.
Some teams use dependency repositories and tools (Nexus, for example) to
manage libraries that they use in developing the software. Other teams use
a combination of shared drives and version-control systems. However, it's
less usual to see companies version all of the configuration, all of their
dependent components (for example, from package repositories such as
apt-get, and
rpm), and all of
the scripts required to create the database and the data that makes up the
To determine whether you're versioning everything, the simple question to ask is, "Can I recreate a specific version of the complete software system — with infrastructure, data, software, and configuration — by running one command that gets a specific revision from my version-control system?" If you cannot, you're not versioning everything.
The key prerequisite to versioning everything is that all source artifacts must be in a scripted form. This goes for the infrastructure, the data, configuration, and the application code. The only exception is for libraries and packages — JAR files and RPM packages, for example — that you use but never modify. After all source artifacts are scripted, you can easily version them.
In this article, you'll learn how each type of software artifact can be described in code and effective approaches to using them. Several code listings in this article are examples of how each component is defined as script for execution and versioning. They are not meant to show how to write and run each type of script. Other articles in this Agile DevOps series and the Automation for the people series provide more detailed examples for the components described in this article.
Application code
Application code is probably the most obvious part of the software system
that must be versioned. The code in Listing 1 is a simple Java class
UserServiceImpl) that calls a method from an object
to get some data:
Listing 1. Java application code
... public Collection findAllStates() { UserDao userData = new UserDaoImpl(); Collection states = userData.findAllStates(UserDao.ALL_STATES); return states; } ...
Figure 1 illustrates committing a new application code source file — the UserServiceImpl.java in Listing 1— to the Git version-control repository hosted at GitHub:
Figure 1. Commands for committing and pushing new source code file to a Git repository
All of the application code required to create your software application should be committed to a version-control repository. You will use the same process for any other source file — infrastructure code, data, or configuration.
Because you can define infrastructure as code just as you do your application source files (see "Agile DevOps: Infrastructure automation"), you can version your infrastructure in a version-control system. These scripts might have designations such as manifests, modules, and cookbooks, but they are all text-based scripts that can be executed to create environments.
If the best practice is to define your infrastructure in code, what do people typically do? It's a mixed bag of "works of art" in which environments are manually configured each and every time, or it's a mixture of manual steps and running automated scripts. Each of these approaches results in a bottleneck, because an engineer is required to run through the steps each time. To remedy this, some will diligently describe each and every step in a set of written instructions. The problem there is that instructions might be wrong or miss some steps, or the operator running through the steps might not follow them correctly. The only solution is to fully describe your infrastructure in code that can be executed through a single command.
For example, the Puppet manifest in Listing 2 describes steps for installing a PostgreSQL database server in code. This code can be executed from the command line or through a Continuous Integration (CI) server.
Listing 2. Puppet manifest describing the installation of PostgreSQL
class postgresql { package { "postgresql8-server": ensure => installed, } exec { "initdb": unless => "[ -d /var/lib/postgresql/data ]", command => "service postgresql initdb", require => Package["postgresql8-server"] } ...
The entire manifest downloads, installs, and runs the server. By using additional manifests, you can describe your entire environment in scripts. These scripts can be checked into your version-control repository so that every revision to your infrastructure is tracked, improving change management.
Configuration defines the information that varies across environments. Examples include directory and file locations, host names, IP addresses, and server ports, as shown in Listing 3. Scripts use this configuration when creating environments, running builds and deployments, and running tests:
Listing 3. Configuration defined in a properties file
jboss.home=/usr/local/jboss jboss.server.hostname=jenkins.example.com jboss.server.port=8080 jboss.server.name=default
The code in Listing 4 is a Ruby script that loads configuration items into a NoSQL database:
Listing 4. Writing dynamic configuration items to a NoSQL database
AWS::SimpleDB.consistent_reads do domain = sdb.domains["stacks"] item = domain.items["#{opts[:itemname]}"] file.each_line do|line| key,value = line.split '=' item.attributes.set( "#{key}" => "#{value}") end end
Because all of the configuration in Listing 4— such as IP addresses, domain names. and machine images — can be obtained dynamically, none of the configuration is hard-coded. You might not be able to make all your configuration dynamic, but when using the cloud, you can drastically reduce the amount of hard-coded configuration that is often the bane of most software delivery systems.
The structure of a relational database can be defined in Data Definition Language (DDL) scripts. This includes the creation of the database, tables, procedures, and so on — everything except the data. You define the data in Data Manipulation Language (DML) scripts, including insert, update, and delete statements.
The partial DDL script shown in Listing 5 performs the steps for creating the database:
Listing 5. DDL for creating database tables
CREATE SEQUENCE hibernate_sequence START WITH 1 INCREMENT BY 1 NO MINVALUE \ NO MAXVALUE CACHE 1; ALTER TABLE public.hibernate_sequence OWNER TO cd_user; CREATE TABLE note ( id bigint NOT NULL, version bigint NOT NULL, cd_id bigint NOT NULL, \ note character varying(10000) NOT NULL, note_date_time timestamp without time zone \ NOT NULL); ALTER TABLE public.note OWNER TO cd_user; ...
Listing 6 shows a portion of a Liquibase XML script. Liquibase is an open source domain-specific language (DSL) for database change management.
Listing 6. Liquibase script for altering a column to an existing database
<changeSet id="9" author="jayne"> <addColumn tableName="distributor"> <column name="phonenumber" type="varchar(255)"/> </addColumn> </changeSet> ...
You can define your database creation, data, and changes in scripts. These scripts are run as part of your build process, and they are all versioned in your version-control repository.
Build and deployment
A build compiles and packages all of the source files into a distribution. For the application code, this distribution is often a binary, such as a WAR file. A build might run infrastructure scripts to create an environment. This environment might be a virtual instance or an image that can define an instance. A build might also produce a database from the database scripts. Builds use the configuration defined in configuration files or databases. Listing 7 shows a portion of a Maven build script that defines directories and configuration for a build:
Listing 7. Partial listing of a build script in Maven
... <build> <finalName>embeddedTomcatSample</finalName> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.1.1</version> <configuration> <assembleDirectory>target</assembleDirectory> <programs> <program> <mainClass>launch.Main</mainClass> <name>webapp</name> </program> </programs> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>assemble</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> ...
Several vendors supply so-called "deployment automation tools." It's a bit of misnomer: These tools are likely to orchestrate the deployment, not automate it. They help you to describe the steps and order of the deployment, but the actual deployment is through a series of scripts and/or manual processes. You rarely find tools that support the versioning of the deployment artifacts and workflow. Although several of these tools provide internal versioning, this is of little use when you're looking for a single revision of your software system, unless you always use this tool — and it still segregates the versioning of deployment and other source artifacts. It doesn't need to be this way — even if you are using one of these vendor tools. An alternate approach is to describe your entire deployment in a deployment-automation DSL such as Capistrano. This way, you can version your deployment. You should be able to run the entire deployment with one command. The automated deployment should be coupled with automated tests. The orchestration tool executes the deployment script.
Capistrano is a DSL for describing deployments in multiple platforms. With Capistrano, you can define tasks such as stopping servers, copying files, and applying a workflow for deployments across multiple nodes and environment roles. Listing 8 shows a portion of a Capistrano script:
Listing 8. Partial deployment script in Capistrano
namespace :deploy do task :setup do run "sudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat #{deploy_to}" run "sudo service httpd stop" run "sudo service tomcat6 stop" end ...
Using a DSL is an effective way to describe your deployments. Because all the steps for deployment are scripts and are not tightly coupled to a proprietary tool, the method aligns well with teams that are implementing a continuous-delivery pipeline. After your deployments are defined as scripts, they can be versioned the same as any other component of your delivery pipeline.
There's a growing consensus among progressive teams that versioning the infrastructure, configuration, data, and application code is desirable. One additional component you can also version is internal systems — for example, the configuration for defining your CI environments. The question to ask is: What happens to your software system if the environments used for creating parts of your software-delivery system are no longer working? After you fully script the environments for your software system, you can fully script the environments for creating your software delivery system with infrastructure-automation tools. This infrastructure code and the changes to your CI configuration — such as CI job configuration — is versioned. An example of versioning Jenkins server and job configurations is shown in Listing 9:
Listing 9. Simple
script for versioning Jenkins server configuration
#!/bin/bash -v # Change into your jenkins home. cd /usr/share/tomcat6/.jenkins # Add any new conf files, jobs, users, and content. git add *.xml jobs/*/config.xml plugins/*.hpi .gitignore # Ignore things we don't care about cat > .gitignore <<EOF log *.log *.tmp *.old *.bak *.jar .* updates/ jobs/*/builds jobs/*/last* jobs/*/next* jobs/*/*.csv jobs/*/*.txt jobs/*/*.log jobs/*/workspace EOF # Remove anything from git that no longer exists in jenkins. git status --porcelain | grep '^ D ' | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs -r git rm # And finally, commit and push git commit -m 'Automated commit of jenkins configuration' -a git push
Just as you can with any other part of your software system, you can version this script in your version-control repository.
Version this
In this article, you learned that everything can be and is versioned when developers and operations teams collaborate in creating a continuous-delivery platform capable of releasing software at any point in time. You saw that when all the infrastructure, data, and application resources are versioned, you can also version the components that make up the systems that perform the software delivery for your software systems. After every resource for the software systems you develop for users and the internal systems you use in getting these software systems to users is scripted, everything can be versioned.
In the next article, you'll learn about dynamic configuration management: an approach to eliminating the use of static environment-specific properties for configuration.
Downloadable resources
Related topics
- List of revision control software and Comparison of revision control software: Many types of version-control software are available, as you can see from these Wikipedia articles.
- "Automation for the people: Hands-free database migration": (Paul Duvall, developerWorks, August 2008): Use Liquibase to manage database changes.
- "Continuous Delivery in the Cloud: Dynamic Configuration": (Brian Jakovich, Stelligent, October 2012): Dynamically configure properties for a delivery pipeline in a cloud infrastructure.
- "Continuous Delivery in the Cloud: Deployment Automation": (Brian Jakovich, Stelligent, October 2012): Define and run automated deployments using Capistrano.
- "Continuous Delivery in the Cloud: Infrastructure Automation": (Brian Jakovich, Stelligent, October 2012): Define infrastructure as code using Puppet.
- Rational ClearCase: Rational ClearCase provides sophisticated version control, workspace management, parallel development support and build auditing to improve productivity.
- IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager: Tivoli Provisioning Manager enables a dynamic infrastructure by automating the management of physical servers, virtual servers, software, storage, and networks.
- IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms: Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms provides high availability and automation for enterprise-wide applications and IT services.
- Evaluate IBM products in the way that suits you best: Download a product trial, try a product online, use a product in a cloud environment, or spend a few hours in the SOA Sandbox learning how to implement Service Oriented Architecture efficiently.


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Zenner finished the night with 19 carries for 171 yards and added a pair of receptions for 20 yards.
The Jackrabbit defense limited Western Illinois to 19 yards rushing and 1-of-9 on third-down attempts in pitching the second half shutout. Ross Shafrath led SDSU with 12 tackles, followed by seven from fellow linebacker T.J. Lally.
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Sophomore quarterback Austin Sumner completed 13-of-24 passes for 136 yards, but was sacked four times and intercepted twice. Aaron Rollin led Jackrabbit receivers with six catches for 73 yards.
Caulton Ray led Western Illinois with 46 yards rushing on 13 carries. Lunt completed 20-of-38 passes for 204 yards, with Charles Chestnut leading the receiving corps with nine catches for 123 yards.
The Jackrabbits return to action Oct. 20 at Northern Iowa. Kickoff is slated for 4 p.m. at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
* SDSU leads the all-time series 6-4 and has won all five meetings between the two squads as members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
* The Jackrabbits improved to 24-11 in MVFC games since joining the league in 2008, including 13-5 at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium.
* SDSU ran its MVFC winning streak to six games and overall winning streak against Football Championship Subdivision opponents to a program-best eight games.
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We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.It is difficult, as Marshall McLuhan observed, to understand the times we are living in. And perhaps it is only now that we have some chance of really understanding, in retrospect, the phenomenon that became known as 'Postmodernism.'
We march backwards into the future.
(McLuhan and Fiore 1996: 75)
The exhibition Postmodernism: style and subversion. 1970-1990
(Victoria and Albert Museum, to 15 January 2012), attempts to lend some coherence to the subject of postmodernism, by presenting a broad survey of design and art from these two decades (and a little before). In this it is broadly successful, and the curators, Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt, deserve credit, I believe for a largely coherent treatment of postmodernism through selection and exhibition of a wide range of works from architecture, art and design.
The exhibition does of course have some of the disadvantages of a survey, a widely cast net and consequent lack of depth in any one discipline, along with a sense of works being highly filtered and selected, which a focus on a more narrow field could have avoided. But it also has the merits of a survey – a broad and inclusive treatment, and a certain didactic clarity. And there is still a focus, appropriate to the V&A, which is, of course, design.
There are, as the curators explain in the catalogue essay, exceptions – notably for me, the literary, since one might argue that postmodernism sprang at least as much from literature as from architecture.
There is also an odd paradox, the careful arrangement of the exhibition, more or less, into disciplines – e.g. architecture, graphic design, furniture (though with thematic connections that also cross the disciplines). And a greater paradox of the seeming use of chronology – a paradox because the synchronic, and a notion of the 'end of history' (Fukuyama) was a feature of the postmodern. History is back now. And probably modernism too – architecture has long spoken of the 'neo-modern' and Bourriaud has coined the term 'Alter-modern' for our present times. Perhaps the modern never really went away – except that today's modernism can not be like that of the 1960s...
Ettore Sottsass (1969). Teapot
Ettore Sottsass's (1972) Basilico Teapot Prototype, in painted wood, encountered in the first room of the exhibition, seemed to set the tone well (the above image is an earlier version). A playful application of architectural form to a domestic object – light hearted and yet, oddly alien. Ironic, and quoting history with little sense of any weight of that history – a basilica turned teapot.
Venturi R (1964) Vanna Venturi House
Robert Venturi's (1959-1964) Model of Vanna Venturi House also gave insight into the origins of the postmodern. Not far off the modern at all, and yet, it had subverted the archetypal house by absurd shifts of scale and distortions of conventional form. And a slightly surprising arc, decorating the facade, interrupted the otherwise linear forms – the arc itself broken by a jarring interruption of the facade that penetrated the interior space. (Venturi's book Learning from Las Vagas is very illuminating about postmodern architecture).
Brodsky and Utkin (1989) Columbarium Habitabile. Etching http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksqvya72to1qzz5i6o1_500.jpg
Other pieces that caught my eye included Paolini's Arte Povera work L'altra figura (1984) and the fantasy architecture of Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin with their Soviet era etching Columbarium habitabile (1989) – a 'reservation for old houses and their inhabitants in a large modern city.'
Aside from seeing new works (and the show had an exciting global scope) I was struck by a number of themes. Firstly the impact of architecture – that often escaped architecture itself – (Pieter de Bruyne's (1975) Chantilly Chest, and other furniture and domestic objects had strongly architectural feel). A second theme that came over well was bricolage – the idea of working with 'oddments left over from human endeavours' (Levi Strauss - exhibition notes). And, thirdly, a comment by my colleague Mary Kuper, who noted that postmodernism seemed to be marked by an almost complete separation of form and function (in contrast of course to the marriage of form and function in the modern). This is somehow where the question of style comes in. Bricolage – a cobbling together of diverse elements – became an often jarring aesthetic choice in itself. But the separation of form and function, and the eclectic quoting from the past, without worrying too deeply about historic significance, lent itself to a playful approach to style, and the playing on style, seemingly for its own sake, that at times amounted to enthusiastic and guilt-free stylisation. Style is a complex question, and one to which we will return in future...
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OSWEGO — Joseph Coughlin, a 1982 graduate of SUNY Oswego who is internationally known for his work in gerontology, business innovation and public policy, will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from the State University of New York on May 12 at Oswego's 151st Commencement.
He will address both the 9 a.m. ceremony for graduates in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Communication, Media and the Arts and the 1:30 p.m. ceremony for graduates in the School of Business and School of Education.
Coughlin is the founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. At MIT he is a senior lecturer for the School of Engineering's Engineering Systems Division and MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning where he teaches policy and systems innovation.
"We are proud and happy that SUNY has chosen to honor one of our own graduates, Dr. Joseph Coughlin," said President Deborah F. Stanley. "Dr. Coughlin has contributed greatly to our understanding of the needs of an aging population and made great strides in meeting those needs through public policy and technological advances. In his dedication to making life better for an aging American population, Dr. Coughlin carries on Oswego's legacy of efforts to effect positive change in the world."
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After receiving his bachelor's degree in political science from SUNY Oswego, Coughlin went on to earn his master's degree from Brown University and a doctorate from Boston University.
He formed MIT's AgeLab in 2000, engaging companies around the world to embrace technology and innovations to serve the needs of an aging population.
The AgeLab has generated a computer aid to help older shoppers choose foods based on their medical history; developed devices in shoes to help with balance; adapted a touch-screen technology to assist with daily tasks; created "pill pets," electronic virtual pets that will prompt users to take their medications; adapted spacesuit technology to assist joints in lifting and climbing; and designed "Miss Daisy," a Volkswagen Beetle, a driving simulator to measure driving skills of senior citizens.
AgeLab's AGNES, or Age Gain Now Empathy System, is a suit that simulates the effects of aging on the body, helping others to physically experience the changes that old people must cope with and inspiring more understanding and empathy. His recent work includes novel approaches to engaging people in planning and financing their retirement years.
Within MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics Coughlin also leads the New England University Transportation Center, a U.S. Department of Transportation-sponsored education, research and technology transfer program that funds an MIT-led consortium of schools that includes Harvard University and several of New England state universities.
A Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, Coughlin is co-editor of the book Aging America and Transportation: Personal Choices and Public Policy, published in January by Springer Publishing. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal as one of the "12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement" and one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative in Business. He is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post science and technology sections and Bank Investment Consultant, and produces the online publication Disruptive Demographics.
Coughlin was appointed by President Bush to serve on the White House Conference on Aging Advisory Committee and has advised many companies worldwide including Daimler, British Telecom, Fidelity Investments and others.
Prior to joining MIT, Coughlin worked for EG&G, a Fortune 1000 science and technology company, where he led the transportation technical services practice serving the Federal government including the US Departments of Defense, Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is married to Emily Coughlin, a 1984 graduate of Brown University, a leading civil litigation attorney in Massachusetts. They have two daughters, Mary and Catherine, and live in suburban Boston.
At SUNY Oswego, the Oswego Alumni Association honored him with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2003, and his work was featured in the fall/winter 2002 Oswego alumni magazine. He has been the keynote speaker at Quest, the college's annual symposium of scholarly and creative activity.


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Name: James
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Location: Alaska
I am gay. I still have trouble saying that because of my very conservative upbringing, but that is not what I need help with today. I had my first few sexual encounters the other week with this great understanding, older guy. When he was blowing me it felt great, however I wasn't able to cum during the oral sex. Is this normal? And is there anything I can do to change that? Thank you so much for any help, and the chance to say something to someone about being gay. I don't get to talk about issues in this genre because of the taboo-ness of the issue. Thanks a lot- James
Wow, sorry to hear you're living in such a repressive environment, pup. I hope that changes for you soon. Just remember, change is gonna begin with you. The longer you put up with the repression the harder it will be to break its grip.
Coming out is rarely a breeze for anyone. This is especially true for those, like yourself, who were raised in a conservative home. But then throwing off the shackles of oppression, however they present themselves, will make you a much better person in the long run. Like the old saying goes; "If you allow someone to control your sexuality, you allow that person to control all of you." So nothing reverses the repression quicker than exercising your sexuality on your own terms.
As to the oral sex question you raise, I've written a whole lot about that already. You might want to glance over to the sidebar and look for CATEGORIES pull down menu. Look for the main category — Sex Therapy. Then look for the subcategory — Ejaculation Concerns.You'll find a load of written postings and podcasts.
The gist of what I've had to say about this is; it's not uncommon for a guy not to get off with just a blowjob. This is particularly true for someone who is new to the whole hummer thing. There's also the distinct possibility that the guy doin the blowin' may not be a particularly talented cocksucker. It happens! It happens a lot, believe me.
That being said, there are things you can do to change this if that's what you really want. First and foremost, you need to communicate with your partner on how he's doing down there. Ya see most of us guys get real used to the feel of our hand on our wang while jerkin-off. After years of practice we get our stroke down to a science. We know exactly when to apply more pressure, or loosen our grip. We know exactly when to speed up the stroke and when to ease off. We know exactly when to yank on our balls or stick a finger in our ass and diddle our prostate. We know all of this because our body is giving us constant feedback all the time we're playin' with ourselves.
On the other hand, the cocksucker between our legs isn't gettin that kind of immediate sensory feedback, so he's not gonna know what to do when. That is, unless you tell him. And it's really ok to give the guy a little direction. A talented cocksucker, of course, will already know how to ask you for feedback. After all, he's new to your cock and his experience tells him that all cocks respond the same why to the same stimulus.
Another thing you can do is relax. There's not a whole lot of "shoulds" when it comes to sex. So the more relaxed you are the more you will be able to enjoy the pleasure. If your mind is all busy with dumb shit like — oh my god, I'm not gettin off, what must he think of me? — then you're not in the moment and the pleasure is wasted on you.
Finally, the best way to learn how to receive a good blowjob is to become a fabulous cocksucker yourself. Smokin' you some fine pole is an art form. It's way more than simply than rappin' your lips around a bloke's dick. The more you understand about superior cocksucking the better you'll be at guiding your partners through the fine points of eatin' you meat. So get out there and get some experience.
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Vanity Room promises big plans this year and this is just the start. The blog is now on its own independent domain at - Vanity Room Blog. All links will eventually be directed onto the new site.
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|2008-10-20, 00:55
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Italy
Lucky Star FanFiction Discussion
Welcome to Lucky Star FanFiction Discussion thread.
This thread is meant for Lucky Star fanfiction and its discussion. Fanfiction works can be either posted in this thread or in the Fan Creations Forum and linked to in this thread. You may also link to Fanfiction works posted on other sites and discuss it here.
General rules of our forum still apply:
Please respect the authors, fanfictions are written in their free time, they have have no gain and owe you nothing; if they a like a particular character and/or a particular pattern for their story, it's a personal choice and can't be blamed. In general, you are free to post constructive criticisms but not insults which (as in any other part of the forums) won't be tolerated. Remember that writers post here to get help and not to get troubles.
Thanks and have fun
|2008-10-20, 14:00
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Baka Inu~
Thanks a bunch for starting up this board.
Like I've said, Lucky Star is one of those series that does not have a definite ending yet the source material is large/untapped and the popularity is immense. It has nowhere to go but up as things stand.
Now, there's no reason to feel really intimidated by it's size either. There's about 150 fics/one-shots at Fanfiction.net at the moment, which is pretty good. It's not too small to lose hope but not too large to be over-run by insanity. From personal experience as well, the community is quite tightly knit together, so writing an accomdating story will help. I've talked to about 10 or so other authors and many of them are welcoming to critique or praise. The key is simply not to isolate yourself.
On the topic of actual fics themselves, there are few general topics to work with. Since this is an all-girl cast so yuri is imminent. Everyone knows this already, but you'll expect to see a lot here. Mostly Konata/Kagami stuff, but most of it is good for the most part. When it comes to pairings popularity it's them, then Minami/Yutaka, then Misao/Ayano. Though that doesn't exclude irregular pairings. One of the best ones I've ever read does Hiyori/Kagami out of all things.
Original Characters are more rare than I anticipated, but they do exist. The "Insert-Male" is the most common form there is. However, the route is kind of taboo. It seems that a core-audience likes this stuff, not like a normal yuri or parodies that everyone will try. Since I particularly use that and I own the largest story on the subject, the key is simple to have a fic in this category. Make your character likeable and not boring. He/She doesn't have to be perfect, but they should be able to strike a conversation with someone. Oddly enough though, it surprises me no one has tried doing this with a girl, and having them fall for someone in the cast. /shrug Guess there are just too many to choose from.
There's a good amount though of lulzy or romantic one-shots. Most people stick to the core element of the show. If you want Sci-Fi or Dramatic or Insane stories, they are there but are in limited quality. I just hope that clears up anything for anyone.
If any new writers would like to try anything in this series, I will be happy to read over them for you. I strongly urge everyone though to be honest. If too many people run around thinking what they write is perfect, problems can arise. Not to mention, it would be nice if we got more of a review than: "It was good, write more." Stuff like that leaves us in suspense because we don't know what we did good or bad or if any scene was particularly fun.
Hope this was worth the read for you guys. ^_^
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|2008-10-20, 15:55
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Baka Inu~
|2008-10-20, 15:58
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I want to @#$% with--
Ah, it's great to see this board here. ^^
I agree that Lucky Star was a series that left itself very open to fanfiction. It was a show about everyday life, so it's great for casual writing. It's also been great for yuri (which I'm naturally a fan of). I love the influx of Konata/Kagami stories, and I gotta admit that one Hiyori/Kagami story is pretty good.
Original characters are hard to do well. A lot of writers don't seem to put very much love into them. I kinda lose hope for them as decent characters when I see they've been created just to be paired off with one of the canon characters. How much personality and likability can you really put into a character you created just to be someone's boyfriend/girlfriend? I think that the best OC's come from writers who want to make a character for the character's own sake, rather than the sake of a plot device. That's my stance.
Since Lucky Star is a very Japanese show, one of the things that I found the most challenging about writing was trying to remain true to Japanese culture. I would research and read into every aspect I was insecure about, until I felt like a loser and stopped. :P But I really think that it helps to make a story feel like an actual episode if you know the most you can about what you're writing about. Has anyone else here had a hard time researching cultural or language stuff in general?
Should those of us who are writers start with an intro and post a link to a fic maybe?
|2008-10-20, 16:08
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Join Date: May 2007
Age: 29
It'd be damn fun if we do a chain story, each of us doing exactly one chapter. There will be no rules as to where the fic goes, except perhaps no original characters are allowed and all significant out-of-character twists need to be voted upon.
|2008-10-20, 16:44
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|2008-10-20, 16:48
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Baka Inu~
And if we really want to get things moving, I say we talk about what fics we write (or are planning to write) and what ones we would recommend to others.
|2008-10-20, 17:22
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I want to @#$% with--
I'll introduce myself as a writer then. :P
My ff.net name is weluvgirlswithglasses (get it?) I actually collaborate my fics with my fiance, because she writes Konata so fabulously. We write mostly...er... almost all yuri. >.>; All Konata/Kagami. I love writing for Kagami and we both enjoy writing back and forth and playing on their unique interactions and such. And we're fangirls. :P
My most popular story is "Level Up! Love!". I tend to have really long chapters, so I'll spare everyone the obnoxious textwall and just post a link to it at ff.net.
If anyone goes and reads it, I'd love to hear what you think. Keeping in-character is (supposedly) one of mine and my partner's biggest strong-points, and it's definitely what's most important to me as a fanfic writer. I really like getting feedback.... honest, wordy feedback is my favorite kind. As Nuke said, if you like it, I am happiest when you tell me why.
About this potential chain story.... how would we set that up?
|2008-10-20, 20:03
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Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 29
I will distance from angsty storylines, but I've noticed that the roster on FF.net has been...a little too happy. Somebody's got to have thought of how Konata deals socially in the big picture with being an otaku (because at least in the imaginary worlds of anime and manga, bullying looks pretty brutal).
It could go several ways, either she is actually having a big problem with it and depend on her friends so she doesn't break down (but we don't see it because this is a happy anime), or she simply was too damn weird to pick on. But that wouldn't be story-worthy now, would it?
|2008-10-20, 22:13
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Baka Inu~
I guess I shall introduce myself too, since I suggested the idea.
My username here matches the one I have at ff.net. Nukerjsr. (People screw this up all the time, lol) Anyway, I've been writing my fic since Janurary of 2008 and it's definitely my proudest work so far. It's an "Insert Male" story, but I assure everyone that it is not what you would normally expect.
The romance isn't pushed on all cylanders, I'm more of a humor-description kind of writer, so I look at that first. That would explain why it's so long (Second longest fanfic in the section. ^^ But I do wish that my original character is pleasing and will not make you rage. And even though I do create a story based on an original character, I have no objections to yuri or anything regular.
Here it is: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4006187/1/A_Second_Opinion
While you read this you should know two things.
1. I'm a Harmonix fanboy. (Guitar Hero 1, 2, 80s, Rock Band 1 and 2) It's not improbable to have the games there even if it is a bit odd, but I do love the games. So hopefully the descriptions or chapters on games won't bore you.
2. If you are a new reader, please, do not read the reviews. Unless you want to be spoiled on what will happen, don't read the reviews. And if you do review my story here put a spoiler tag on anything Chapter 22 and After. Just a precaution. ^^;
I've dabbled in a couple of other things though. Here is my non-OC one shot about a certain little parody. And along with that, I have two other one shots that are spin-offs of the current story. One is an extended scene of Chapter 21 while the other one is just a supernatural gaming funfest.
On a couple of other notes, A Second Opinion is close to completion and I'm already thinking of other alternate scenes or sequels and stuff. (Sequel would be more of a series of one-shots, but whatever) I just thought I should tell you all that.
And, I know this is a bit shameless but if you are in the mood for a more rare pairing, you should look at this fic that me and Kagami~n have been suggesting by an author called Mad Pierrot Le Fou. It's just fantastic.
|2008-10-21, 14:03
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I want to @#$% with--
If you want to explore the scenario, you could always try to write it yourself. ^^ Konata doesn't really seem to care what other people think of her. She definitely inherited her father's personality, and he's the same way. I think that the latter of your two scenarios is more likely. Imagining Konata as the victim of female bullying is sort of a stretch... in fact, I've never really seen her interact with any classmate that she doesn't already know or know through someone. I'm guessing she's too weird to pick on. And if someone tried, I assume that she would give so little in the way of a reaction that it wouldn't be worth it.
And Kagami would kick their ass anyway.
|2008-10-21, 15:09
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Baka Inu~
Lucky Star is a happy place, so angst isn't really that appealing. I don't mind if a character gets in despair once in a while, but a full on dramafest makes me feel uneasy. (Lonely Kagami >_>)
I don't mind that idea though with Konata however. You don't really have to force it on her, but I can easily see her getting the message. Like Miyuki or Misao or Ayano saying "Hey, you might want to leave Kagami alone or she might leave you." That would scare the crap out of her. She shouldn't turn her life around, being an otaku is in her blood. Something that would make her think is the key to getting Konata.
|2008-10-22, 00:16
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Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 29
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|2008-10-23, 19:21
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Baka Inu~
But I've also updated my own story. One more chapter to go. @_@
|2008-10-24, 10:41
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I want to @#$% with--
I know a certain someone who is working on one now that I'm really looking forward to.
Alien Konata could also go into explaining her ahoge, lol.
|2008-10-24, 13:13
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Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 29
I'll probably end up not writing anything, because I don't have the time. I'm simply throwing ideas around for people to pick up.
See, if Konata's ever an alien, we don't go to her saucer or go scientific or whatnot. Being that serious about aliens is terrible in my opinion. >_>;;
My rationale is that she's a damn bored alien who figured that being an otaku is fun and would keep on doing it. The slice of life would revolve around her being extremely naive on social affairs and pulling off completely unexplainable feats that people don't seem to notice as weird (but Kagami does, right?).
And if you paid attention you would notice that I just want Nagato Yuki to be an otaku for a day and see what happens.
|2008-10-24, 13:43
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Baka Inu~
On the subject of Nagato and Otakus, there was one crazy thought I had. What if Minami were a closet otaku? The idea sprung to me when they had that Yuki cosplayer in the Cosplay Cafe episode and...well...they are nearly identical in every way. (Except the hair) But still, I think it would interesting.
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Five (more) Great Children's Books from the Let's Dad! Library
Carl Marks, the bearded half of high-street philosophers Marks and Spencer,
once likened reading to your child to 'throwing acorns at a scarecrow'.
Who knows what he meant, but throwing acorns at a scarecrow is the epitomy
of a great day out in the Daddington household, so I can only presume that Carl was endorsing
it wholeheartedly. And who's to argue with the great Carl Marks? Not me.
So, with those wise words ringing around my girdled-brainbush,
here are 5 great acorns to throw at your little scarecrows.
Again! (by John Prater)
Plot: Heavy irony. In a handy pocket-sized volume.
Ahhhh. Is there anything sweeter than when a toddler, having just finished a favoured activity, repeats the word 'Again' over and over, at increasing volume, until you give in and repeat said activity? Then upon completion, that sweet utterance springs forth once more. "Again! Again! Again!" And off you go again, like the diligent man-slave you are. Well, when the activity in question is reading 'Again!' (part of the mini treasures series from Red Fox – very handy for holiday reading/torture) then your cyclical existence takes on a delightful irony, that will either lead you to a higher plain or an early grave. Pocket-sized though, so there is a silver lining.
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly (illustrated by Pat Adams)
Plot: Due to extensive NHS cuts, an old lady takes matters into her own hands.
After swallowing the fly, the old lady tried to get an appointment with her local GP, but he was too busy managing local healthcare budgets to actually dispense care or advice. The spider made not a jot of difference, other than taking the edge off the hunger she'd been feeling since the Tory government had delayed her pension for another 2 years,
forcing her back into relative poverty.
After eating her neighbours cat, she felt distinctly unwell and decided it was probably time for a trip to hospital. But no! The Tories had just closed down her local A+E, leaving her a good 120 miles from the nearest emergency services. The local dial-a-ride had been abolished (along with the library and community centre) after the recent council cuts. What was she going to do?! "I wonder if I can get medical help at that Tescos that's thriving up the road from where the high street used to be?
Hmmm. Probably not".
In desperation, she jumped on her dog, rode it until she found a cow. Rode that until she found a horse…and rode the old nag until it collapsed from exhaustion. Stuck in the middle of nowhere, hungry and alone, she was forced to eat the horse. Which, it turned out, was actually 90% beef, the one meat she was allergic to. She died. But hey, at least we're cutting the deficit.
Oh, wait. We're not, are we.
La Surprise (by Janik Coat)
Plot: "Honey…we're going to need a bigger litter tray!"
This beautifully simple, wordless kids book would make the ideal present for a 3yr old whose world you're about to ruin by gifting them a younger sibling. In delightfully simple, and strangely calming, graphic form, it tells a tale of tranquility, new arrivals and serene co-existence. Quiet and harmonious, it's everything your house will never be once that second noise-box arrives.
Not Now Bernard (by David McKee)
Plot: A step-by-step guide to getting your child taken into protective custody
Published in 1980 (before every children's book had to contain a heart-warming and politically correct narrative about chasing stars or befriending animals…and research found that severe neglect can cause permanent psychological damage) Not Now Bernard is the tale of one boys attempt to get his parent's attention. He fails…and gets eaten by a monster, who in turn, fails to get Bernard's parent's attention. Great illustrations and a slightly confusing moral undertone (neglect child, child becomes monster. Neglect monster, monster goes to bed quietly. Uh?) makes this far more interesting (for narrators at least) than a lot of the crap out there.
Pants (by Giles Andreae + Nick Sharratt)
Plot: Hmmm. Not an extensive one, that's for sure. In fact the title pretty much says it all.
I was stuck for a short while, trying to work out what can be said about this little beaut, beyond describing the vibrant illustrations and catchy rhyme that run throughout. Then it hit me! Whammy! Like a literary wedgy. It's a subtle, underwear-based metaphor for embracing the myriad of different creeds, colours, shapes, sizes and sexualities that grace this doomed little planet of ours.
'What a lot of lovely pants there are!'
How better to introduce your youngun to the joys of liberty, acceptance and equality for all, than through the medium of pant-rhyme. (Ironic then that the quote on the back 'Hilariously funny for any pre-schooler' comes from The Daily Mail….our gnarled bastion of ignorance and prejudice)
Let's Dad! urges you NOT to buy your books from amazon…until they start paying UK corporation tax.
There are hundreds of independent bookshops out there that offer fine collections of kids books and great levels of service.
Failing that, charity shops are often choca with classic children's books.
Basically, do anything, even write your own, before feeding the devil that is amazon.
If shopping online is your only option, try The Book Depository, who are often cheaper than amazon and offer free delivery…and they're a registered UK company paying their share of tax.


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The future of coal as a source of electric power in the United States was a dominant theme Thursday as President Barack Obama's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency faced her confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Although nominee Gina McCarthy seems likely to be confirmed, the hearing was a chance for Republican senators to complain about the economic impact of EPA regulations, especially on coal producers. It was also a chance for Democratic senators to argue that the costs of air pollution and climate change were the bigger dangers.
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., mentioned to McCarthy the asthmatic children in his state who were unable to go to summer camp, while Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., cited forest fires as well as acidification of the oceans affecting oyster production in his state as some of the costly climate change effects.
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Gina McCarthy testifies before a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013.
Republicans have deep misgivings about the power Congress has delegated to the EPA and the expansion of that power by court rulings, especially the landmark 2007 Supreme Court decision that carbon dioxide and other gases are pollutants that can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Depending on how McCarthy administers EPA regulations and on court challenges to them, the energy playing field could be further tilted in favor of newly abundant domestic natural gas as a source of electric power -- and against coal.
Even before McCarthy sat down at the witness table, Republican Sen. John Barrasso – who represents the state which produces 40 percent of American coal, Wyoming – fired a warning shot in Thursday morning's Wall Street Journal, charging that "As head of the EPA's office on air quality since 2009, Ms. McCarthy has been a leader in the administration's war on fossil fuels." Barrasso continued his criticism of the EPA regulations' impact on coal at the hearing, telling McCarthy that "your extreme emission rules that you've imposed on U.S. power stations are forcing coal companies to make up for lost domestic customers by exporting more to countries in Asia."
Barrasso said the EPA has urged the Army Corps of Engineers to take into account the greenhouse gas impact of allowing coal to be shipped overseas from West Coast ports. "Not only have you blocked the use of coal in power plants domestically, but now you're recommending that an American product not be able to be shipped and sold overseas," he complained.
"I want to thank Sen. Barrasso," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I- Vermont, after the Wyoming Republican finished his statement. "He made it very clear what this whole discussion is about…. It is a debate about global warming and whether or not we are going to listen to the leading scientists of this country who are telling us that global warming is the most serious planetary crisis that we and the global community face...."
When Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., reminded McCarthy that at her 2009 confirmation hearing she'd said that coal was a vital natural resource and asked her whether she'd changed her mind on that, she calmly replied, "Not at all, senator."
On Tuesday energy secretary nominee Ernest Moniz also lent rhetorical support to coal, at his confirmation hearing, saying that "we see coal as being a continuing, major part of the energy supply in the United States, and certainly, in the world."
He said if researchers could devise a way to store large amounts of CO2 and "reduce the cost of carbon capture dramatically," then coal would be "very, very competitive" with other energy sources,
At her hearing Thursday, McCarthy did her best to mollify Republican senators, at one point pledging to Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., that she would "build a more trusting relationship" and continually promising that "I'm more than happy to work with you" and "I'm more than happy to go back and look at it" when a GOP senator made a particular complaint about an EPA rule.
But among Republicans, the feeling is that EPA has become impossibly remote, powerful and inscrutable. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., told McCarthy the agency has "extraordinary power over Americans, with the power to impact their lives in ways I don't think Congress contemplated when they authorized this agency or contemplated when it passed the Clean Air Act" in 1970.
But EPA's regulatory impact is far wider than on coal, as Sessions illustrated when he descended with McCarthy into the byzantine world of EPA regulations on brick and ceramic manufacturing – the "Brick MACT (Maximum Achievable Control Technology)" rule – which spawned a litigation saga that has been playing out for more than a dozen years. A Sierra Club lawsuit led the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to order EPA to rewrite its rules for brick makers. Under a consent decree EPA must come up with final rules by the summer of 2014.
In questioning McCarthy, Sessions pleaded the cause of small Alabama brick firms that have struggled to cope with the cost of EPA rules, both before the 2007 court decision and after. McCarthy promised Sessions that she would be "incredibly sensitive" to the effect of the brick regulations on small brick manufacturers.
As with bricks, so too with coal and climate change. With Congress highly unlikely to enact new laws on carbon dioxide and other emissions, everyone at Thursday's hearing knew the battles ahead would be fought in the courts.


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Step 2: Install Sam Bingner's SAM (Subscriber Artificial Module) package. To install Sam:
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- Go To Manage Tab
- Sources
- Edit and Add the following repo
- http://repo.bingner.com
- Cydia will update the sources
Step 9 : Unplug your phone, close iTunes.
Step 10: Disable SAM using the enabled switch
Step 13: Push notifications may stop working after this procedure but can be easily restored with "clear push" utility in SAM followed by connecting to iTunes.
Your phone will work normally with your SIM card and that SIM card ONLY since we have tricked iTunes to think that ICCID is one of the intended carrier's. The phone can be rebooted and connected to iTunes freely without losing the "unlock", at least for 3 years as confirmed by Musclenerd.
Since it does not involve emergency numbers or IMSI spoofing it will not have any of the issues associated with SIM interposers. Tested working on iOS 5.01 but should work with tethered 5.1 too.
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|Pirate Treasure by mombeau2007 on Flickr
Posted here with permission.
There are some amazing photographers that wander the halls of HMNS, and when we're lucky, they share what they capture in our HMNS Flickr pool. Each month, we share one of these photos here on the blog.
Debi (mombeau2007 on Flickr) took this photo during our recent Flickr meetup* in the Real Pirates exhibit. From the photographer:
I really enjoy the museum shoots and the challenge of getting shots within the displays. The whole "Night at the Museum" feel is wonderful. It is amazing that so many of us have the same subject matter to work with and yet come up with such variety in our results.
Shooting the coins in the treasure chest was a wonderful shot, but to get some of the texture of the coins while trying to contend with the ever present reflections was quite a challenge. I could almost feel these just by looking at the photo.
Inspired? Most of the Museum's galleries are open for photography, and we'd love for you to share your shots with us on Flickr, Facebook or Twitter. Check out the HMNS photo policy for guidelines.
Want to see – and touch! – this real pirate treasure for yourself? Only a few more weeks to discover the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah – the only authenticated pirate wreck ever discovered – in Real Pirates at HMNS!
*The photo policy for each temporary exhibition HMNS hosts is determined by the lender; photography is prohibited in the Real Pirates exhibition during general hours. When possible, the Museum seeks permission to host one-time-per-temporary-exhibit, after-hours Flickr meetups; check out our Flickr group Discussions page for updates on upcoming events.


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Thoughts on War
Colonial print shops often printed newspapers, books, business forms, record books, magazines, and government proclamations. They might also serve as advertising agency, post office, stationer, and newsstand. Colonial printers imported cases of type from European foundries, but mold casting replacement letters on-site from lead and antimony took no extraordinary skill.
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As a printer during the revolutionary period, printers had a problem acquiring their materials-the paper, the ink, the type had to be imported.
When you can no longer import your type from England you have a problem because your letters will eventually wear down. So there is a lot of broken, worn type that you have to use. The type that they were making here in the colonies was not that good.
Paper is a problem when you can no longer get paper from England. They do make paper in the colonies, but a lot of paper was imported from England. The paper would affect the size of your newspaper and the availability of it; whether you reduce the size of it, whether you would even print paper at all.
These are some of the things that would affect the printer during the revolutionary period. Printers already struggled, trying to make ends meet, and this would make it even a more difficult for the printer.
Willie Parker is a Master Printer and interprets the printing trade for Colonial Williamsburg.


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After low-budget thriller Paranormal Activity earned over $100 million on a $15,000 budget, distributor Paramount churned out sequels annually for the next three years. Paranormal Activity 4 was a critical dud and earned far less than its predecessors, so the powers that be gave the franchise a year off before expanding the story beyond the expected haunted-house thrills with Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. The SoCal setting and multicultural cast are a nice change from the previous suburban terror, but The Marked Ones is still a fading facsimile of the slow burn, shaky camera buildups and "what-the-hell" climaxes of earlier films. Producers Jason Blum and Oren Peli did a surprisingly decent job taking the standalone story from Peli's original and threading it through five films, but the goings-on here don't always make sense. And then there's the finale, which has all the subtlety of rubberneckers passing by a multiple-fatality wreck. The rest is just boring, and the Paranormal Activity series finds itself in need of new tricks.
Fresh high-school graduate Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and buddy Hector (Jorge Diaz) observe strange, cultish activity from the apartment below Jesse's, where "crazy lady" Anna (Gloria Sandoval) lives. When Anna is murdered, the suspect is a classmate of Jesse and Hector, and they enlist friend Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh) to help get to the bottom of the mystery. Anna's apartment is full of occult symbols and references, and Jesse finds a picture of himself. What do the three young detectives do next? They construct a black mirror and attempt to open a portal into another dimension. Nothing happens at first, of course, but Jesse begins to notice some strange side effects after the seance.
I want to discuss the merits of The Marked Ones, but I need to get into SPOILER territory to do so. You've been warned. These films have gradually revealed a story about a demon and the coven of witches it uses to enact evil on earth. Katie (Katie Featherson) from the first film was sold to the demon at an early age, and finally succumbed to his influence in that film's finale. The witches were revealed in later films, and The Marked Ones further ties them to the demon while expanding the action away from the Katie/Kristi story of earlier films. Jesse has also been "marked" by the witches thanks to some unfortunate family ties, and will be used as a vessel for the demon. There were times during each of these films that I didn't know what the hell was going on, and I increasingly didn't care.
The no-name actors have to carry the film for over an hour without any real tension from the script. The opening reels are dull, and the most excitement comes when Jesse proves unaffected by gravity's pull while horsing around at home. We all know where this is going, but The Marked Ones takes so long to get to its ridiculous climax that I had all but tuned out by the start of the second hour. There are a few jump scares, achieved by a blistering audible stinger over the surround speakers, but everything has been recycled from earlier films. There are far less jolts per hour in The Marked Ones than in any of the previous four films, and that's not a good thing.
The climax reminds viewers that none of this would be possible without the impressive original. Less a tribute than a blatant rehash of that film's finale, The Marked Ones travels back to Casa de Katie and Micah for no reason other than to trigger a reaction from the audience. This isn't an espionage thriller, and I didn't need to see the same events from every possible angle. If this series ever wants to move forward then it will have to stop getting stuck in the past. Director Christopher B. Landon does his best to inject some humor into the proceedings, but The Marked Ones is largely a dour affair.
This is a found-footage film, and the 1.78:1/1080p/AVC-encoded transfer looks exactly like the HD-cam source footage at its heart. There's lots of digital noise and crushing blacks; blown out highlights and jagged edges. That's the point. Detail is adequate, clarity is pretty good in daylight, and this image looks as the filmmakers intended.
The 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack is largely front-loaded to mimic the handheld source, but there are a few moments that effectively utilize the surround speakers and subwoofer. Dialogue is reasonably clear and without hiss, and some ambient noise, like footsteps and door creaks, wafts through the rear speakers. Those aforementioned audible stingers are mixed WAY high, so expect the subwoofer and surrounds to shriek in unison. French, Spanish and Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital mixes are included, as are English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.
This two-disc set includes the Blu-ray, a DVD copy, and both iTunes-compatible and UltraViolet digital copies. The discs are packed in an eco-case, which is wrapped in a cool lenticular slipcover. The Blu-ray includes both the 84-minute theatrical cut and a 104-minute unrated version. As is normal for these films, the only extra is a reel of Found Footage (10:47/HD).
The extra year in gestation didn't do much for Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, which expands the story with a group of SoCal teenagers but spins its wheels reimagining events from earlier films. The build-up is boring, the climax derivative, and the scares are few and far between. Skip It.
William lives in Burlington, North Carolina, and looks forward to a Friday-afternoon matinee.


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Is This The Worst "Professional" Wedding Cake Ever?
There's a heated debate going on over at a blog called "Cake Wrecks" about whether or not this cake can possibly be "real." We're feeling extremely skeptical ourselves, but the blog's author swears up and down that the pictures came from a real (outraged) bride who really hired a member of the family who was supposed to be a "professional with tons of experience" to make her wedding cake.
From Cake Wrecks (the picture on the right is supposedly what the bride ordered):
1) The top tier still had the Springform pan under it.
2) The cake "base" is a metal sign.
3) I swear I am not making this up.
Now like you, I'm sure, I was highly skeptical about this being a "professional" cake. However, the e-mail came from the bride herself, and she seemed outraged enough to be telling the truth. (Yes, a replacement cake was procured at the eleventh hour.) I can only assume the icing and generic tips in the photo were purchased to try and "fix" the cake after it was picked up. In fact, Vicky C., if you're reading this, you might want to chime in on the Comments section now, just to back me up here.
[crickets chirping]
Vicky? Er, Vicky, c'mon now, this isn't funny.
Whatever the real story is, someone made this cake and that's hilarious enough all on it's own. Picturing someone trying to "fix" this cake with a ziplock bag full of green icing… Oh dear. We've got the giggles.
Oh, and if you enjoyed this alleged disaster, here's another one that's almost as bad.
I Think I've Just Been Punk'd [Cake Wrecks] (Thanks, Kerry!)
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was hospitalized today for a recurrence of the bladder infection he suffered from earlier this summer, Buckingham Palace sources said.
The prince has been admitted to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for investigation and treatment, according to the palace. He is likely to remain there for the next few days.
The palace said earlier today that he was hospitalized "as a precautionary measure." He was taken by ambulance to the U.K. hospital.
The 91-year-old duke has had a number of health scares in recent years.
Prince Philip was hospitalized for a bladder infection during Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in June.
The prince underwent minor surgery in December 2011 to open a blocked artery after suffering from chest pains.
He was hospitalized for a chest infection in 2008, but recovered quickly. Officials revealed in 2007 that he had been suffering from a heart condition since 1992.
The prince has made numerous public appearances recently, including at the London Olympics. He attended the opening ceremonies with his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, and he was in the stands at the equestrian arena to watch his granddaughter Zara Phillips compete.
He typically spends the summer months from late-July until mid-October in Balmoral in Scotland.


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Part of Speech: Verb, transitive
Meaning: To string together related objects, to connect a chain of items together.
Notes: Today's Good Word is connected to the image of a chain, a line of items, each connected to what precedes and succeeds it. This word comes with a panoply of the usual derivations from Latinate verbs. A person who concatenates is a concatenator. The noun is concatenation. This may refer to a concatenative (the adjective) process or the result, as a concatenation of rail cars.
In Play: Any string of things related to each other qualifies as a concatenation: "The elephants concatenated themselves into a train by each of them holding the tail of the one before it with its trunk." However loosely, any connected string of related objects makes up a concatenation: "Farley's presentation was less an argument for reducing everyone's salary except the president's than a series of loosely concatenated bits of data leading away from his intended conclusion."
Word History: Today's word comes from Latin concatenatus "linked together", the past participle of concatenare "to link together," made up of com- "together with" + catenare, a verb from catena "a chain". By the time catena reached Old French it had become chaeine, which English borrowed and polished into chain. The original Latin word, catena, seems to have developed from the sense of "rope" or "string", for the root appears to have been Proto-Indo-European kat- "to twist". The only other word that might be related is Latin cassis "snare, hunting net" (possibly from cat-sis). It is otherwise difficult to trace because kat- also meant "cat" in PIE and the two apparently got, well, twisted in the course of Indo-European history. (Let's concatenate here this note of exceptional gratitude to Paul Ogden, who has also edited the Good Word every day for the past five years.)
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