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June 27−29 The Rose Center for Earth and Space, Natural Histories and More main content.
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Don't miss the latest sunset of the year, this Friday, June 27, at 8:31 pm EDT. But before you start your summer stargazing head to the Museum to learn about cosmic phenomena at the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Explore the Scales of the Universe to see just how big the setting Sun is in comparison to everything else in the universe, from the Milky Way Galaxy to subatomic particles. While you are there don't miss the Hayden Planetarium Space Show Dark Universe.
Step Back in Time with Natural Histories
Spanning five centuries, Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum's Library, explores the integral role illustration played in scientific discovery through 50 striking, large-format reproductions from seminal holdings in the Museum Library's Rare Book Collection.
Walk on the Wild Side at The Power of Poison
Learn about how animals use poison in the natural world in the Museum's Power of Poison exhibition. See a live gila monster, poison dart frog, and lionfish — all three are poisonous but have ways of warning predators that they would make a horrible snack!


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On the El not long ago, I met a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who is now a teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. We discussed what it means for a country to suffer from the deterioration of its ideals and infrastructure. I dedicate this post to him.
Every Veteran's Day, I feature the following story, told by Katy Evans-Bush on her outstanding blog, Baroque in Hackney; this year, I'm posting it with gratitude to my seatmate, and to countless others like him who are doing, have done, work that few of us can imagine - but all of us can appreciate.
In June 1918, a young poet called Eloise Robinson, touring the Front on behalf of the YMCA, was giving a poetry recital to an audience of American soldiers. Guy Davenport tells it: "Reciting poetry! It is all but unimaginable that in that hell of terror, gangrene, mustard gas, sleeplessness, lice, and fatigue, there were moments when bone-weary soldiers, for the most part mere boys, would sit in a circle around a lady poet in an ankle-length khaki skirt and a Boy Scout hat, to hear poems."
I can't find a picture of Eloise Robinson. But she was reciting poems, and in the middle of one poem, Davenport tells us, her memory flagged. "She apologized profusely, for the poem, as she explained, was immensely popular back home." A hand went up, and a young sergeant offered to recite the poem. Here is what (in, as Davenport reminds us, "the hideously ravaged orchards and strafed woods of the valley of the Ourcq, where the fields were cratered and strewn with coils of barbed wire, fields that reeked of cordite and carrion") the soldier recited:
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree...
Eloise Robinson was surprised and impressed that he should know it. "Well, ma'am," he told her. "I guess I wrote it."
Joyce Kilmer was killed by a German sniper less than two months later, only three months before the Armistice. His most famous poem had been published in Poetry (Chicago) in 1913.
Eloise, for her part, continuing about her duties at the Front, wrote to Poetry that August: "I wish I might tell you of my visit to the French front, and how for two nights I slept in a 'cave' with seven Frenchmen and had a hundred bombs dropped on me. Not directly on top, of course. The nearest hit just in front of the house. And for five days and nights after that I was taking chocolate to advance batteries, to men who can never leave their guns."
Davenport mentions how Kilmer's Trees is in fact a self-reflective poem, about poetry itself. These days that's a sort of no-no, a workshop cliché, but - even though the poem rates itself as second to a tree - the fact nevertheless gives us a clue to something ...
Please click here to read the rest of this wonderful post commemorating Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day, in which Katy moves forward to Tom Disch's reworking of the Kilmer poem (also published in Poetry magazine), complete with a comment from the legendary Samuel R. Delaney!
As Katy sums up:
"Disch's poem [which is called "Poems"!] also gets at something else, something important, that Kilmer – however conventional and pious – knew very well, and knew while he was writing Trees: the reason why he would bother to write a poem about a thing like a tree in the first place – and the reason Eloise Robinson was reciting poems to soldiers."
In appreciation for those who have served.
Pictured above: The poet and solider, Joyce Kilmer.

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Apple, Google and Amazon.com rose up by riding consumer demand for their products. Now the companies are trying to keep their growth streaks going by tapping another type of customer: businesses.
While the technology giants have long had offerings for businesses, they are now broadening their product lineups and more aggressively marketing them to companies. Google is pushing to get its computerized eyewear, Glass, into corporations while Apple is adding management tools to its upcoming iPhone operating system. In total, businesses are set to contribute more than 15 percent of Apple's sales by 2016, up from less than 10 percent now, while Amazon's enterprise revenue is projected to reach about 10 percent in 2019, double from 2013, according to Evercore Partners and International Strategy & Investment.
The moves to get deeper into the traditional customer strongholds of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Dell have been building all year. Last month, Apple unveiled a pact with IBM to help sell its gear to corporations. Google, which last week celebrated its 10-year anniversary of trading as a public company, in June added unlimited storage for businesses and debuted new mobile tools for enterprises. Google and Amazon also slashed the prices of their cloud-computing services for businesses earlier this year.
The companies are seeking to sell more into businesses as corporate spending on technology hardware, software and services is projected to reach $1.6 trillion worldwide this year, up 7.7 percent from a year ago, according to IHS. That's slightly bigger than the $1.5 trillion global e-commerce market and the $140 billion online advertising market, according to eMarketer.
It's also a way to make up for slowing growth in each company's larger business. Apple's sales are estimated to be up 5 percent this fiscal year, compared with growth of 45 percent two years earlier, while Amazon's revenue is anticipated to rise 22 percent this year, a deceleration from 27 percent in 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"Some of these companies have to broaden their revenue base," said Danielle Levitas, an analyst at IDC. "If there's too many fish in your pond — or your pond is reaching saturation — you need another place to play."
Apple, Google and Amazon need to tap into meaningful pools of spending to make a dent in their already-enormous sales. In total, the three companies had combined revenue of $305 billion in their 2013 fiscal years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's larger than Singapore's economy, according to data from the World Bank.
"When you're a company as big as an Apple, an Amazon or a Google, there are only so many markets that you can go to that will actually move the needle," said Ben Schachter, an analyst at Macquarie Securities USA, who covers the companies.
The percentage of revenue from business customers is climbing for Apple, Google and Amazon — with room for more growth. While Apple gets less than 10 percent of its annual $170.9 billion in revenue directly from corporations, that's up from less than 5 percent in 2009, according to Brian Marshall, an analyst at ISI.
Amazon received about 4.5 percent of its $74.5 billion in sales from business-focused cloud offerings last year, up from 1 percent in 2010, according to Evercore Partners. Google gets "well less" than 5 percent of its $59.8 billion in annual revenue from businesses, up from less than 1 percent in 2009, according to Schachter.
Representatives for Apple, Google and Amazon declined to comment.
Executives at Apple, Google and Amazon have turned up the volume on what they can offer companies. Enterprise is part of a "trifecta of emerging new businesses," Google's former chief business officer, Nikesh Arora, said earlier this year on a call with analysts. Through its IBM partnership, businesses are set to "be one such catalyst for future iPad growth," Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said July 22.
Other consumer-technology companies are also taking more steps to sell to businesses. Facebook, owner of the largest social-networking service, last year acquired a startup called Parse that offers technology to help companies more quickly build an application and keep users engaged.
A Facebook representative declined to comment.
Some technology companies made inroads into businesses with little effort in the past. Workers bought Apple's iPhones in droves and forced information-technology departments to take note. Consumers also helped boost the popularity of Google's software in corporations. Yet it's not enough to rely on individuals bringing technology into their workplaces anymore because spreading products throughout companies often requires official buy-in and extra bells and whistles like security.
"It's not for the faint of heart," said Jagdish Rebello, an analyst at IHS, who added that corporate customers are typically more focused on security and support than consumers might be. "It's a different beast."
The consumer-technology providers are fighting to gain more of the business of companies like Yext. The New York-based company, which helps manage information on websites for enterprises, recently moved much of its computing over to Amazon Web Services, the cloud offering from the online retailer. Amazon was proactive in winning Yext's technology budget, including sending multiple emails to executives to woo them, said Yext CEO Howard Lerman.
"Amazon is super aggressive," Lerman said.
Each of the companies has taken different routes to plumb enterprises. Google has been expanding its products for businesses for the past few years by rolling out a line of low- cost laptops, called Chromebooks, which use its own operating system. It has also expanded videoconferencing services and struck deals with companies such as Sprint and Hewlett-Packard to help sell its business software.
The Mountain View-based company also last year fully rolled out its Compute Engine product, building on a previous cloud offering that lets customers remotely access data centers. In March, Google slashed prices by more than 30 percent for the computing-capacity product and lowered the costs of storage by about 68 percent for most users.
That triggered a fee war with Amazon's Web Services division, which also offers cloud computing. A day after the Google announcement, the Seattle-based online retailer said it was cutting prices by an average of 28 percent to 61 percent, which has since curbed some of the revenue growth of the Web Services business.
Amazon continues to invest in the cloud offering, adding about 250 "significant services and features" so far this year, Chief Financial Officer Thomas Szkutak said on a call with analysts last month.
At Apple, Cook's move to pursue more corporate clients reverses the stance of co-founder Steve Jobs, who focused on consumers. In particular, Cook is looking to make the company's iPad more of a business tool as sales of the tablet have recently fallen for two consecutive quarters, the first such decline since the product's 2011 debut. About 20 percent of people in companies use an iPad, compared with more than 60 percent who use notebooks, giving the company an opportunity to expand, Cook said last month.
As part of Apple's deal with IBM, IBM's sales force will recommend its clients buy iPhones and iPads, as well as 100 business-focused mobile apps the two companies are building together. While iPads are being used widely within companies, the software is mainly modified versions of what was originally created for a traditional computer, Cook said.
The Cupertino-based company doesn't have a big sales force targeting enterprises, or a services group that will help business get their devices up and running after they make a big purchase. IBM will help with that, said Tim Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies, who once consulted for IBM.
"Once you get into these enterprise accounts, there are issues that happen on site and because Apple doesn't have those services available, most people in the enterprise world didn't look at them as being serious," he said.
FedEx already has bought more than 4,000 iPads as it moved to replace paper-based documents last year with the sleek digital devices, according to Josh Kendrick, managing director of flight technical. He said FedEx is due to refresh its technology soon, giving Apple and others a new opportunity to make their case.
"There's a level of familiarity that's out there within the consumer space with a lot of people," Kendrick said. "It's not like we're handing them something that a lot of people haven't seen before."


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RIT's Computer Engineering program begins with basic principles of science, mathematics, and technology – the foundation for all engineers. The curriculum includes courses in software engineering, computer science, electronics, embedded systems, and integrated circuit design, in addition to professional electives and liberal arts courses. A capstone project in which students develop a design concept and create a working prototype rounds out the program. Undergraduate students are offered the opportunity to apply for the dual degree program in Computer Engineering, which allows them to complete their BS and MS degrees concurrently.
Cooperative education is an integral part of the curriculum – students alternate their studies with paid co-op in their final three years (of the five-year program). Students in computer engineering at RIT have worked on product development teams at many well-known companies, including IBM, Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard, AMD, Motorola, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Harris, Corp., Xerox Corp. and the National Security Agency.
Sponsored by generous companies including Harris, NVIDIA and Freescale, the department offers state-of-the-art labs where both undergraduate as well as graduate students can work on course work and research involving VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit) design, digital systems and microprocessor design, high performance architecture, embedded systems, networking and information processing, real time vision, image processing, and cluster computing. A close relationship with industry leaders ensures that the curriculum is current with industry needs.


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Winter Wonderland
Contains two versions for ultimate flexibility, one with Santa saying "Merry Xmas" and "HoHoHo!" with some additional reindeer effects, the other without.
Version with FX (0:00 – 2:19 on preview) Version with NO FX (2:19 – 4:38 on preview)
With sleighbells, tubular bells and chirpy arpeggiated synths alongside a small orchestration and strings (not forgetting a rocky drum track), this rock piece is great for those xmas presentations, podcasts, films, TV displays, shopping malls and generally all things Christmas and Winter inspired!
Want more? Don't miss this great film music piece from Del Gibbons!


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It's been interesting to watch FaceBook today- MANY of my FaceBook friends got iPads for Christmas, and a decent number got somewhat similar items (e.g., Kindles, Nooks). Not too surprising given the iPad was originally released in April of this year. I got my iPad in early October. Even though I don't use a Mac, I love it- not just as the "new techy trendy toy" (which I fully acknowledge it is that too!) but as a functional part of my work and play. Let me say upfront- I don't think iPads are for everyone. It's neither a laptop replacement nor a smartphone replacement, and yes, no one "needs" to have one- we all got by last year without them. But here's how I use mine and why I like it, primarily in the context of my job.
I use my iPad for many kinds of presentations, ranging from classes to invited talks, and it works fine (just need that ~$30 VGA adapter). If you want full animations like from a laptop's PowerPoint, the "Keynote" app works pretty well and can import PowerPoint files created on your computer. A few graphics or word sizes may need minor tweaks after importing, but the tweaks are fast, and the iPad is far lighter and subtler (literally looks like a leather-covered notebook in the folder I use) to carry to your talk than a laptop.
Personally, I favor the "2Screens" app over Keynote. This app leverages something that's harder to do on a laptop: you can actually use the tablet nature of your iPad. It will present PowerPoint, Keynote, or pdf files as well (albeit without animation), but you can also "draw" directly on your presentation (using finger or stylus). So, when presenting a Punnett's square, your original file can be just the blank square, and you can manually draw in various combinations during the talk, like from an overhead projector. Or you can temporarily make a blank screen for drawing and come back to where you left off in your PowerPoint. Plus, you can save right then and there what you drew. These are features I intend to use a lot when teaching genetics next year. Further, if you want to show something off a webpage, the "Expedition VGA browser" app works great, and you can switch between it and 2Screens in under a second.
I take my iPad to seminars I attend to take notes, just like a lot of people do with paper pads/ notebooks. One advantage I have is that I can insert things into my notes wherever I want- something that wasn't clear may become clear later in the talk, and I can edit what I wrote earlier on the spot (rather than scribbling in tiny writing in the margins). Here's the bigger advantage for me- if I have a question, I sometimes Google it right there in the seminar and find the answer (or find why the question isn't even appropriate, saving myself from looking dumb). Sure, you could do all that with a laptop, but few people take laptops to seminars since they're clunky and the typing is noisier.
If using the "Notes" app, you can have it sync with your GMail, and it automatically saves everything in a GMail folder called "Notes." Months or years later, you can search your account to find which seminar talked about X topic that you vaguely remember- something not possible with a paper pad.
I take my iPad to all sorts of committee meetings- student committees, university committees, etc. For student meetings, I save the student's progress report in the "GoodReader" app right when they e-mail it to me. The night before the meeting, sometimes while reclining in bed, I'll read the committee report, make notes (you can add notes, highlight, whatever, and if you want, export the pdf), etc. Then, at the meeting, I have the document sitting there with my comments in the iPad. If a question comes up at the meeting, or someone vaguely remembers a relevant figure from a publication, we can pull the publication up right then and there in the meeting using "Safari" (the default web browser).
For university committees, documents tend to be saved in Blackboard, and the "Blackboard" app (finally upgraded this month to be allowed to run in the background) is very fast and efficient. Again, I tend to take notes in the "Notes" app.
Somedays, I find that the only time I have to deal with some urgent work-related e-mails is while walking between meetings (or in the 2 minute break between consecutive meetings), and the iPad gives me a reasonable platform with which to do this using "Mail" or the "GMail" apps.
I have learned to read pdfs of publications now using "GoodReader", as mentioned before for committee reports. I don't tend to keep these files permanently (since I can always download them again), but I like going through them on GoodReader, annotating them, and keeping them on the iPad through the "journal club" or whatever other discussion. If I did want to keep the files longer-term, it'd be trivial to e-mail or download them (yes, with annotations) to save on my actual computer.
But life isn't all work. Often, in the evenings, my wife and I will watch a TV episode on the "ABC Player" app, or stream something from "Netflix." Yes, we could do this on a laptop, but laptops are hot and bulky to keep with us while reclining in bed. At mealtimes, I've looked up recipes on "AllRecipes"- even some slightly more obscure things (tonight I looked up "eggplant with garlic sauce") are in there. If I'm bored, I'll read the news on the "CNN", "BBC News", or "NPR" apps, or weather on the "The Weather Channel MAX" app, all of which are really slick on the iPad.
Keep in mind that the iPad will run all the iPhone apps, too, including thousands of games and utilities. Personally, I use "Alarm Clock", "Skype", "WorldMate", etc. when traveling, and I occasionally pull up "DukeMobile" here in Durham to check bus routes, balance on my DukeCard, or whatnot. I meet with people in my research team every week, and our meeting agendas are in Google Docs, which is super-easy to pull up, view, and edit on an iPad (either from Safari or directly from the "Google Mobile" app). If you're helping someone remotely (like a parent) troubleshoot problems on their computer, "TeamViewer" will allow you to see what's on their screen and help them fix it (though they have to install it, too, but it's free for you and for them).
And, of course, it's also a giant iPod, so save your music, movies, podcasts, etc., to watch/ listen.
The iPad is not a laptop or desktop computer replacement. You can buy the "Pages" word processor and edit Word-style documents, but it'll not be as quick/ comfortable as doing so on your computer. You won't want to do any significant table editing or statistics on your iPad either.
Nor is the iPad a smartphone replacement. I can't imagine carrying that big thing while walking around a town and trying to use the "Map" app to find where to go. I wouldn't want to use the many coupon apps on it, since again, it's big and bulky, whereas my iPhone fits in my pocket or holster really nicely. And I definitely wouldn't want to pay a data plan for it.
It doesn't have flash. Yes, I wish it did. But it's no tragedy that it doesn't for my uses. It just slightly limits the videos I can watch from the web on it, all of which I can see on my desktop or laptop anyway. Nor does it have a camera, but again, my smartphone does. The iPad doesn't do "everything".
And there are "competitor" products. Personally, I think none of the ones out right now are serious competition given the number and quality of apps available for the iPad. That may change in 1-2 years, but this was not meant to be a purchase to last forever. Computers are often nearly obsolete in under 4 years, and I expect similar for devices like the iPad.
Still, the iPad is lighter than most laptops but with a bigger screen/ keypad than a smartphone, and does a lot of the functions of both along with a few of its own. It's extraordinarily simple to use. The battery is great- lasts far, far longer than my laptop battery. It boots up from off in under 30 seconds or from standby in 2 seconds. It switches very quickly and easily from "portrait" to "landscape" view. It doesn't get very hot when running even for a very long time (though that may be the leather case insulating it).
Although people made fun of the name a lot when it first came out, for me, the only thing it totally replaced is a "pad" of paper that I would carry around (though I do now use my laptop less, too).
Do I "need" an iPad? No. I got by fine before I had one. However, does it enhance my ability to work and play more efficiently (or with greater enjoyment)? Weigh that question against the cost, and you can decide for yourself. For me, the answer was, and still is, yes.
PS- And no, I didn't write this blog entry on my iPad. :-)


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On the bank where it pours clear over freckled stones,
I want to sit and watch a leaf riding the surface,
a fish patrolling the water road
downstream through sun glint and flash of froth,
on through the river of light
river of water
river of light
And I'll plunge in,
trusting the river which is not trustworthy,
to be carried on its back,
giving up my own motion to look at the unrolling sky,
then turning like a log to stare down
until I or the river
lets go
Already I'm dissolving in the world.
There's my death,
cawing from a leafless branch
and waiting for me to make a move
it wants to notice.
If you crush me against rocks
or force me to breathe like a fish
I forgive you, river. I loved you anyway,
let me say that. If anything could teach me
to forgive what kills me,
it would be you.
This is a beautiful poem. Thank you. "If anything could teach me /to forgive what kills me/it would be you." A line to commit to memory!


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Flooded fields? Here's how to make some money from them
Wisconsin farmers whose fields flooded earlier this spring and summer should take a look at the Conservation Reserve Enhancement program, state and federal agriculture officials say.
CREP pays landowners to install conservation practices along waterways or return continually flooded fields to wetlands,while leaving the rest of the adjacent land in agricultural production. The amount of land put into CREP varies, and there is no minimum acreage. Landowners may enroll land under either a 15-year agreement or a perpetual easement. The program is a joint state-federal effort.
For farmers who suffered crop damage and financial losses due to this year's flooding, enrolling in CREP can help recoup some of those losses with upfront payments. CREP can also be part of long-term business planning, allowing farmers to manage known risk.
"This year's flooding has shown where farmers could benefit from CREP," said Ben Brancel, Secretary of the Department of
Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. "Many of these lands flood repeatedly, so producers might want to consider an option that would reduce the risk of flooding and still provide them with some financial return."
"Farmland and water are among our most precious resources," said Brad Pfaff, executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency in Wisconsin. "CREP benefits all Wisconsin citizens by reducing runoff, preventing erosion, and improving both surface and groundwater quality."
Lands in 50 Wisconsin counties are eligible for CREP enrollment, based on their 2002 - 2007 cropping or pasturing history and distances to ditches, streams, lakes or wetlands. Sign-up is on a firstcome, first-served basis. To find out if land is eligible, to enroll, or to get more information, contact the nearest FSA office, county land conservation office, or DATCP.
Eligibility maps and contact information are available at http:// datcp.wi.gov/Environment/Land_ and_ Water_ Conservation/CREP/ index.aspx.
Payments to program participants have averaged $2,000 per acre for 15-year contracts, and $2,850 per acre for perpetual easements during the agreement timeframe. There are four types of payments:
Annual payments for up to 15 years, typically ranging from $20 to $228 per acre based on the soil types of the area
State incentive payments, made soon after the agreement is signed, based on the annual rental rate and averaging $150 per acre for 15-year contracts and $1,000 per acre for perpetual easements.
Federal incentive payments, also made soon after signing, of $100 per acre for lands in riparian buffers, filter strips or grassed waterway practices.
Practice payments to share the costs of installing conservation practices, with federal funds paying up to 50 percent ofthe cost and state funds paying up to 20 percent
Commonly installed practices include filter strips, riparian buffers, and wetland restoration. Filter strips are grasslands between crops and water. Riparian buffers are planted to trees and shrubs on land between crops and water. Wetland restorations return wetland ecosystems to sites smaller than 40 acres, often by breaking drainage tiles and planting vegetation that tolerates wet soils. All of these practices reduce flooding impact by stopping water and allowing it to seep into the soil and subsoil, filtering water before it enters streams. In turn, habitat improves for fish and other aquatic life.


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This post is the latest in the series "How long do appliances last?"
The average lifespan of an electric range and gas range is 16 years and 17 years, respectively, according to data published by Appliance Magazine in 2010. The life span reflects how long the first owner of a range owned it, which doesn't necessarily mean that it broke down.
Considering your range, statistically, will be able to drive before you kick it out of the house — the longest lifespan of any appliance in this series — you should probably invest the most in it.
(Or at least that's my rationalization. But you may borrow it.)
I love comparing appliances to cars (here, here and here just to name a few), and this reminds me of my Toyota Corolla, which I hate. I shared my feelings with my dad, who asked, "Then why did you buy it?"
Being practical, I of course bought it for the reliability.
Being wise, my dad replied, "That just means you're going to hate it for longer."
Dang him being right.
The good news is our sales associates do a pretty good job asking you the kind of questions that really get at what you like, don't like and really need in a new appliance. I like to think we're the eHarmony of appliance retailers.
Verdict: Buy a range you love, because you're going to be loving it for a long time. Or else you'll end up cooking on my Toyota Corolla…or something like that.


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Where would this diode go. I think it goes from the 12 volt side of the relay tothe ground side coming off of the transistor.
I need to control a 12 volt 5amp device from one of the pins on a Arduino BT. Since the board has a max out of 5 volts I need some type of affordable relay.


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Step 1: Add an additional blog post this week – you must post 4 times a week.
Step 2: Planning tweets ahead of time. Using Tweetdeck or HootSuite schedule tweets about your posts, about posts you've read and resonated with you. Plan 2 a day for the week.
Step 3: Attend a Twitter Party or chat. What are the hashtags you've been following? (will provide suggestions in various areas) Great way to network and find new people to follow or to follow you.
Step 4: Create favorites. Use Twitter favorites and/or Evernote and start to build an idea journal for your blog posts. Try writing prompts like Plinky.
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Lep needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 163 designs submitted by 60 freelance designers.
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Aspiring singers compete at annual Metropolitan Opera auditions
December 7, 2012
Promising young opera singers from across the Gulf Coast will compete for the chance to perform on one of the world's most prestigious stages at the Metropolitan Opera National Council District and Regional Auditions Jan. 5 and 6 at Loyola University New Orleans. The winner of the regional auditions will advance to the national semi-final round, held in March on the Metropolitan Opera Stage in New York City.
The district auditions Saturday, Jan. 5 at 10 a.m. are free and open to the public; regional auditions are Sunday, Jan. 6 at 1:30 p.m. General admission to the regional auditions is $10 and free for students and members of Amici, the volunteer support group for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Anyone who joins Amici at the event on Sunday will receive free admission and an invitation to the post-audition reception. All auditions are in Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, located in the Communications/Music Complex on Loyola's main campus.
Judges for the district auditions on Saturday are Utah Symphony and Opera Artistic Director Christopher McBeth, Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke Stephen White and General Director of Wolf Trap Opera Kim Whitman. Gayletha Nichols, director of the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, will join them on Sunday for the regional auditions.
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Christopher Lundgren
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Location: Portland, Oregon
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 2:05 am
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Five Card Bob
Hey, maybe if we get enough of this strip we'll be able to play Five Card Nancy with it, seeing as how the panels are all the same.
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Location: Cheshire, CT USA
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 3:35 pm
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But then it would be Five Card Bob!
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Location: Udine, Italy
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 5:25 pm
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Okay, now it's becoming really really interesting... I want to print a t-shirt of this too!
and I still haven't bought the paper...
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 5:31 pm
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Ah... in the third panel of Uninformed Bob #4, it should be, "changed
name," not "it's." Remember that "it's" stands for "it is."
Nitpicking is fun.
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Scott McCloud
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 7:03 pm
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Dang! I keep making that mistake.
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 8:33 pm
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Poor "Uninformed Scott"
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 9:18 pm
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Of two tones and twisted visions
I must say, after missing Bob for two days, I enjoy the developments. A few random things I like:
- Scott switching the last panel of every strip to a singel image, that's a different color than the rest! Adds more to the effect.
- I love the idea (although only two non-concurrent Bob strips have used it so far, so it might not be a Bobly trend) of telling the story of a fictional creator through the strip itself. This is getting my own wheels turning.
- Just a side comment, I think it's great that 'Bob' uses the strip format as a storytelling tool. This probably belongs in the RC forum, but my only beef with the infinite canvas is the lack of the ability to use the page as a storytelling tool (Best web comic to effectively use controlled page-like perception:
Nowhere Girl
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Christopher Lundgren
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Location: Portland, Oregon
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 4:24 am
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The tormented artist.
Anybody wonder who Morrie Dugan is? I'm guessing that it's either the name of somebody Scott actually knows (or knew at some time) or it's a composite of somebody's name that he's heard and decided to use.
I only say that, because that's often where I get the names for characters in my comics.
Fulgore, I don't follow you about the panels of another color. It all looks black to me. Am I missing something?
...and I'd have to agree with Bob's description of a newspaper syndicate. He obviously knows a lot more than he lets on.
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Alexander D.
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 10:27 am
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I really think what we're seeing here, rather than just a comment on stereotypical comic humor, is the story of a comic strip writer who has become bitter and disillusioned. Morrie Dugan is our actual main character, not Bob. Bob is just the mouthpiece. The Newspaper Syndicate comment is the most obvious clue. But Bob's comment about his wife running off with his editor is also very telling. People whose jobs involve having an editor don't tend to wear work shirts that have a name patch on them -- as Bob's shirt does. That was Dugan talking about his own editor and wife.
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Greg Stephens
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 1:15 pm
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Re: The tormented artist.
Christopher Lundgren wrote:
Anybody wonder who Morrie Dugan is? I'm guessing that it's either the name of somebody Scott actually knows (or knew at some time) or it's a composite of somebody's name that he's heard and decided to use.
From this thread:
Scott McCloud wrote:
Made-up. Sounded to me like some guy who got into the game in the '30s (note apostrophe placement, gang).
Good morning! That's a nice tnetennba.
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 2:04 pm
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The old gag
Anonymous wrote:
As a Point of Information, "The world used to be Black and White" is an old Calvin & Hobbes gag
Sorry to dreg this up, but for anyone unlucky enough to not have seen it, here's a rough prose recollection of the original C&H comic (cuz I don't have it with me, and I've no idea how to search for a specific comic online -- this should be another McCloud project, eh? Comics search engines?):
Calvin asks his dad why old photos are black and white. Cal's dad sez, "The whole world was black and white; it didn't turn color until the 60s [
], and even then it was grainy."
"So why didn't the photos turn color with everything else?"
"Because they were color photos of black-and-white people [or something to that effect]."
We also learn that paintings are color because the paint turned color with everything else. Then Calvin says something to his mother, who yells something to his father (one of my favorite C&H hallmarks).
Yeah, I think that wraps it up. By the way, this Uninformed Bob (which seemed doomed to me at first) is intriguing. Leave it to Scott to turn oldies into goodies.
Oh, er, by the way, Scott, for a small donation to your site, could I be granted the privilege of scanning the short-short version of Carl, sending it to CafePress, and making t-shirts? Then, of course, I'd give you the account. I.e., I'll do the work, if you grant the license.
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Scott McCloud
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 2:28 pm
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If you could hold off a bit on the t-shirts, we'll probably be doing something similar in the near future. Sorry for the delays on that.
[though, as far a one-off personal use stuff, go for it.]
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Rip Tanion
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 6:34 pm
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Actually, the use of the "plural apostrophe" is proper on single letters and on numbers. A good example of that is the ol' Oakland A's, which were not the Oakland As.
Actually, the apostrophe in
is used to indicate a contraction, or missing letters (ex.
can not
), since it is a shortening of the word
, the club's original nickname from when they played in Philadelphia; and
to indicate plurality.
Of course you could ask Connie Mack, or Charlie O. Finley, but they're both dead.
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 10:58 pm
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My namesake's mom?
The woman constantly slapping her forehead: is that Carl's mom from _Understanding Comics_ and then "Choose Your Own Carl"? Sure looks like her to me.
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 2:43 am
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No, the apostrophe in
is not for contraction. Otherwise, we would be seeing the sentence
He used to be an Oakland A'.
And hey, if every strip is going to be the same, shouldn't it be
Uniform Bob
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Jordan D. White
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 3:59 pm
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Uninformed Bob is looking quite good.
This newest one, with the scribbles through it, very weird! And under the scribbles, it LOOKS like it says...
"Damn it! (?) I hate it! I hate everything! Just kill me! Kill me!"
"Now (something) scatter my ashes out to sea! If I have to spend one more f*cking day on this"
"Miserable ball of sh*t I'm going to vomit out my eyeballs and burst into f*cking flames!!!!!!!!"
"Okey Dokey, Thanks!"
"Oh, that Bob! Will he ever learn?!"
Anyone see anything different, or fill in the blanks? Poor "Sorrie". I have a bad feeling about the next one... like maybe it's written by his estate.
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 7:39 pm
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Scribbled Out Text...
I think it was "Dammit" at the beginning, and the missing word is "and", to be read across the panels as "Kill me now and scatter my ashes out to sea!"
Was the scribbling done by Morrie, or his grandson, though?
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Nathan Phillips
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 10:37 pm
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Uninformed Bob
The repetitive nature of the comic with its slight variations makes me think that Bob may be a friend of Carl's. I could see a Carl strip made of this quite easily! By the way, the crossed out wording in the last panel is quite harsh!!
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Woot! Mike Patton!
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Mike Patton
Nice job mentioning Mike Patton there, Scott!
For those who may not know, Mike is/was the frontman for the bands Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, and Tomahawk. He is also currently involved in the band Loveage, with Dan the Automator of Gorillaz fame. Does anybody know anything "official" about Mike being into comics?
Check out Fanotmas' first album ? it's a cacophonic burst of sound effects and bizarre vocals that actually (sort of) corresponds to the comic images in the album's liner notes. Plus, on Tomahawk's recent release, the sleeve features artwork by woodcut artist Lynd Ward (God's Man).
So, like I said, anybody know for sure what level of involvement with comics the guy has?
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I've been catching up on Mike Patton lately thanks to our friends Sally and Matt. Last week I was listening to the first Mr. Bungle CD a lot.
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The first Mr. Bungle album is astonishing, but it's also the most lyrically disgusting album I own. (I suspect between the lyrics and the various sound effects that it was a calculated, ironic immaturity, or something, but wow, it doesn't work for me.)
The third album is equally astonishing and lacks the potty humor. (I want to say more astonishing, but as much as California [the third album] is full of crazy stuff that I'm amazed anyone would ever possibly think of, the first albums's death-metal/circus-music vibe is a hard vibe to top.) Recommended if you appreciate the first. (All of my first-album-liking friends didn't think much of the second and loved the third.)
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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 2:57 pm
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Scott McCloud wrote:
If you could hold off a bit on the t-shirts...
(though, as far a one-off personal use stuff, go for it.)
Woohoo! *dances in exhuberance, as he really only cares about getting his own t-shirt*
Thanks, Scott. Er, Mr. McCloud. Sir.
What I really want is a lengthy discussion of my many-style, many-plot comic, Liquid Velcro -- but I'll bug you in the Reinventing section for that.
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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 11:38 pm
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Is Morrie Dugan related to Jim Davis?
I bet if you stacked together a group of Garfield strips, you'd have the same repetitive pattern as Uninformed Bob. Probably would work with Cathy, and at least dozen other strips.
I wonder if Nancy falls into this category?
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Clearly, I have some work to do.
My most pressing research objective for Eliza is to determine where and when she was actually born. (See my previous post from earlier this year) so I can get her birth certificate.
I didn't have any luck with any of the Catholic Diocese in Illinois, as their records are filed by parish, so I would need to know the parish where they lived. Great. Back to square one. But I DO have those really cool photos from the Douglas County Historical Society - those won't really help me here, but I'm still excited that I have them :)
This little problem was starting to get out of hand. I had to figure out some way to take all of this information and chop it up into bite-sized bits and maybe shake it up a little.
Enter the Excel Spreadsheet.
I entered every piece of data from every source I currently have into the spreadsheet:
I basically broke my sheet down into these columns under "What I know", which lists all the data contained in the source, and "How I Know It," which gives the source information. I have another section called "How Reliable Is It?" where I make comments on why the document was created, who created it, who provided the information, and also what information I have assumed or calculated, and if there are any conflicts within the document itself. I have color-coded the "calculated" dates (blue) and the "assumed" relationships, etc. (yellow) just to make it easier for me when I'm looking at the big picture. I've listed the source and the date of the source, then sorted them all according to date.
Here is the reliability section:
In preparing this spreadsheet, I realized that I was missing 2 state census records for Eliza. They may or may not help in answering my question, but it was good to know that I was able to recognize that documents were missing and be able to fill in those blanks.
Okay, I'm going to let my geek flag fly here for a second ... I LOVE EXCEL! Truly. Here's why: When I get ready to sit down and put my brain to work on this problem, I can show/hide columns, I can sort the data however I want, and basically manipulate this spreadsheet any number of ways to see the picture from a different angle. Hopefully, this will help me determine where I need to look for her birth certificate, or where to look for more documents that may get me closer to an answer.
This is still a work in progress, and I will likely have to add more columns as new documents present themselves containing different data, but the beauty of it is that I can add as many as I want and still be able to focus on whatever data is pertinent to the instant problem, just by hiding what I don't want to see and revealing it again later when I need it (which means I only ever have to enter it once!).
So maybe this only seems to work with my brain, but on the off chance that someone else out there will be able to use this tool to visualize their work in different ways, I'm happy to share my template. Just let me know :)


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It Was the Best of Installs...
Riddle: What do XFree86-4.x and early versions of Enlightenment have in common?
Answer: While tremendously powerful and feature rich, both are enragingly difficult to configure unless you happen to be the author.
This not-very-funny riddle occurred to me during about the fourth day of my installation of SuSE 7.1 on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL (P-166, 104 megs of memory, Trident Cyber 9385 video chip with a meg video ram, 800x600 TFT screen). The fact that I'm writing this in StarOffice 5.2 on that very machine using that very distribution might lead you to believe the install was a success; if so, you would be led astray.
I'm not one to jump promiscuously from distribution to distribution. My Linux life began with Caldera 1.1, and but for a brief and unsatisfying fling with Red Hat 5.2 as I awaited the arrival of an official glibc-2.x, I've been a Caldera user ever since. Alas, Caldera is heading off now in a different direction. It's concentrating on business, with its desktop distribution aimed at developers within businesses. I wish them well, but this has about as much to me as does an embedded system that keeps track of the amount of gasoline pumped by a filling station. The potential to be a desktop system is what separates Linux from all those other Unixes that have been merrily cooking along in the back shops for decades now. As an advocate of Linux on the desktop, I'm not all that interested in how a distribution might be made to work on the desktop. I want one that's there already.
In a lot of ways, that means SuSE. There are others who make distributions suitable for desktop use, but I don't think anyone is as committed to general desktop Linux as SuSE is. Friends who use it say its installation routine is the best in the business, and it is reputed to recognize hardware very well.
Now, it could be argued -- I know, because I have argued it -- that once you have a running Linux system, any distribution of just about any age, you really don't need to get anymore new ones, because you start out by breaking the RPM database, then upgrade things as the spirit moves you or the need arises. I've done this with my desktop machine, which is running Caldera eDesktop 2.4 in name only. But I have multiple machines to tend, and putting eDesktop on them and then traipsing around all over the web to get the stuff necessary to upgrade the kernel, so I can upgrade XFree86, so I can upgrade QT, so I can upgrade KDE and have niceties like working 3-D and typeface anti-aliasing -- this stuff isn't so bad the first time, spread out over months, but doing it all at once would be dull and irritating, to say nothing of time consuming. If I can send SuSE $30 and get it all on a nice CD, it's a bargain. So I did just that.
My idea was to use it to upgrade two machines, aforementioned Thinkpad and my wife's desktop system, which is about as vanilla as it gets -- K6-2-400, ATI Rage 128 ATI with 32 megs, 256 megs of memory -- with one exception. She loves LCD panels for desktop systems, and a few weeks ago I found one for dirt cheap at, of all places, the local Sears, on the junk table in the electronics department. It had no video cable (trivial) and no power supply (nontrivial), as well as no box or docs. It wanted 12 volts at 3.2 amps, and 3.2-amp power bricks are not easy to find. I'll digress long enough to tell you how I solved the problem. Computer power supplies, you may remember, provide 5 volts (the red lead on drive power connectors) and 12 volts (the yellow lead). Yes, I asked Mr. Voltohmmeter to confirm this. So I grabbed a drive power cable Y adapter from the drawer'o'wires, removed the yellow (positive) and adjoining black (ground) from one side, inserted a fuse holder containing a 4-amp quick blow on the hot side, then soldered the leads to a female power plug (center is hot) that I'd installed in a 7/16" hole I'd drilled in a blank slot cover. Then I installed the slot cover and plugged the bottom of the Y on the adapter into a spare drive power cable in the machine. I didn't even lose a power connector-- the other side of the Y was intact. Yes, I checked the voltage of the plug on the outside, just to make sure I'd made no mistakes. Finally, I used a male-male power cable, both ends like the business end of a garden-variety power supply brick, to connect the computer to the power in of the LCD. It worked perfectly. (Disclaimer: The above is for amusement purposes only, and if you go trying a stunt like this and blow up your computer or burn down your house, it's your own fault, so don't come crying to me, and don't send your lawyer crying to me, either.)
The only tough part in setting up the LCD on my wife's machine had been configuring XFree86-3.3.whateverCalderaships, which took a few hours of trial and error. XFree does not seem to have heard of LCDs, which is understandable in that they've only been in common use for about 15 years. So I was a little concerned about a new distribution there.
Fortunately, I had the Thinkpad as a testbed, and with it I would be throwing SuSE 7.1 some serious curves. The 760XL, about five years old and acquired from the same shop where I get all the stuff I couldn't afford when it was new (they buy lots of machines off lease), is wonderfully modular: if you push the screen latches (pulling them lets you open the screen), you can lift up the keyboard and rearrange everything. You can switch hard drives. On the left is a bay that holds the floppy drive, a CD reader, a second hard drive, or a second battery. Pretty cool, no? It came with the floppy drive and a 20x CD reader built for IBM by Hitachi. But leave it to IBM to leave out the little piddling feature that would have been easy to implement but they just didn't: you can't boot from the CD drive.
I have a PCMCIA CD drive, a Panasonic KXL-783A, that for the longest time wasn't supported under Linux at all. Recently It's been added to the list of supported stuff, but the way of making it work is long and convoluted and I've never succeeded at it. Because I'd need to have the floppy in the machine to boot the SuSE install diskettes, it would be my lone hope. And SuSE supports everything, right?
The target was a 4.2-gig IBM drive (which I had -- the 2-gig drive that came in the machine has an OS/2 install on it, because it's a neat system and for old times' sake; I'll spare you the story of how I got a spare drive caddy for ten bucks and learned after many hours that IBM had for no apparent reason screwed around with the drive select pins, such that the only solution was to just cut the damn things off of the caddy).
So I booted the SuSE install disk. It detected the PCMCIA chip and prompted me for the modules diskette (both of which were provided; none of this bush-league business of making the diskettes from images on the CD first). Then a hellish red box, saying that it had found no CD drive and the install would be text-based. Weird, I thought -- some trick, installing with nothing to install from. Then it asked me if I'd like a NIS or FTP install.
It had detected the network card in the second PCMCIA slot. The one that had taken me days to set up in OS/2 and that I'd never quite gotten to work on a Windows machine. So I said sure, FTP, amused that my $30 would have gone to get, essentially, two floppies, and I'd be doing everything else from SuSE's FTP site.
Not so fast. Though I fed it all the right numbers, it wouldn't connect to SuSE, though it hooked up just fine to the hub here. (I've tried it since then, and it still won't.) Hmmm. Okay . . .
I keep all the services I can get my hands on turned off on every machine on the network. The machines don't talk to each other and hook up at the hub solely to get cable modem access to the outside world, through one of those nifty little D-link gateway boxen. Time for that to change for awhile.
Caldera shipped with eDesktop 2.4 (and eServer 2.3) a browser-based service configurator called WebMin. My previous experience with it had been limited to turning things off and, for an article, using it to set up a SAMBA share. It took about five minutes to start it and use it to set up an FTP server that would give residents of the local network access to my desktop machine's CD reader. I put the SuSE CD into the drive, mounted it, pointed the SuSE install to my desktop box, and whammo! the install began.
In my experience, it's best when installing a distribution to install everything and uninstall the stuff you don't need later, because otherwise one of the pre-built package tours is certain to leave out something you'll sooner or later need. As I watched the packages come zooming across onto my notebook, I had time to contemplate, which contemplation I've since expanded upon through experimentation.
Thus we arrive at the first package referenced in the title of this column. It's the PCMCIA stuff, known in the world at large as pcmcia-cs.
A few years ago, it listed my PCMCIA CD machine as unsupported and unlikely ever to be. The fact that through some alchemy it can now be made to work is a nice feature, though one I'm unlikely to use, because after the installation I can put the CD reader back in the Thinkpad and Linux will see it just fine. I wasn't at all surprised that it wasn't automagically recognized. It's a little bit of a weirdo, running off an Ataptec card or clone and otherwise odd. No other operating system recognizes it right off the bat absent the intervention of drivers from Panasonic.
But consider. I have four PCMCIA network cards here, all from my efforts to get Warp to connect. They include a 3Com, a Xircom NIC/modem, a NE2000 clone, and an Intel (a rebadged Xircom). Only the Intel works with OS/2; in Windows all work to some extent, but all with little crotchets. Reliability is assured only by shutting down, inserting the card, and starting back up again.
Ah, but with pcmcia-cs! I'm online right now. I can yank the card, replace it with a different one, and I'm online again. No shutting down. No restarting. I pull the card, and pcmcia-cs unloads the module for the card and shuts down the networking on the machine. I put in a different card, and pcmcia-cs loads the module and restarts the network, and I'm back online. If I'm reasonably quick, I can do this in the middle of a big FTP download, and it picks up where it was. This works with all four of the ethernet cards I have. And I've told pcmcia-cs nothing at all about any of them. Nor does it make any big deal about it -- no "new hardware detected, would you like to install drivers?" self aggrandizement. It just works. It's some of the most gorgeous programming in all of what we broadly refer to as Linux, and if everything worked as well we'd have nothing left to hack. (The 2.4 kernel includes more PCMCIA stuff than 2.2 did; if you use a notebook and are upgrading the kernel, read the pcmcia-cs docs before you build your kernel, because the kernel can break a lot of the goodness that pcmcia-cs provides.)
Ah, the metaphorical FTP transfer from my desktop machine is done. Time to move to darker things.
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Maddux calls election 'an honor and a privilege'
ATLANTA -- If there was any suspense surrounding Greg Maddux's candidacy as a first-ballot Hall of Famer, it died on Tuesday afternoon, when it was confirmed that he would not be the first player to gain election in unanimous fashion.
The only lingering question centered on the possibility that Maddux could gain a larger percentage of votes than any player in the history of Hall of Fame balloting.
ATLANTA -- If there was any suspense surrounding Greg Maddux's candidacy as a first-ballot Hall of Famer, it died on Tuesday afternoon, when it was confirmed that he would not be the first player to gain election in unanimous fashion.
The only lingering question centered on the possibility that Maddux could gain a larger percentage of votes than any player in the history of Hall of Fame balloting.
Though he fell short of gaining this distinction, there was still a definite sense of excitement radiating from Maddux on Wednesday after he learned that he, his longtime Atlanta teammate Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas were elected by the Baseball Writers' Association of America to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this summer.
"It's truly an honor and a privilege to be inducted to the Hall of Fame," Maddux said. "It's exciting for me to go in with my teammate Tom Glavine as well as Frank Thomas. I'm just looking forward to the experience down the road."
Maddux received votes on 97.2 percent of the 571 ballots cast by qualified BBWAA members. The total fell short of Tom Seaver's record 98.84 percent and ranks as the eighth-highest percentage ever garnered, also trailing Nolan Ryan, Cal Ripken, Ty Cobb, George Brett, Hank Aaron and Tony Gwynn.
Maddux is looking forward to sharing the Hall of Fame experience with Glavine, who was his teammate in Atlanta from 1993 to 2002, and his beloved former manager Bobby Cox, who gained a spot in the Class of 2014 through the Expansion Era Committee election held in December.
"As soon as Bobby got in, it was pretty special, because he was there for half of my career and taught me so much about the game," Maddux said. "I find myself passing on the things he taught me to the younger players in the game now."
Maddux, who serves as a special assistant to the Rangers, began his career with the Cubs in 1986 and joined the Braves before the 1993 season as a prized free-agent signing and the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner.
In Atlanta, Maddux was introduced to a rotation that already included Glavine and John Smoltz. One member of this trio won each of the NL Cy Young Awards presented from 1991-96, with Maddux winning four straight beginning in '92.
The names Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz are harmoniously etched in Braves lore. Unfortunately for Smoltz, his decision to play one season longer than his two teammates forces him to wait at least 12 more months before having the opportunity to be enshrined with Maddux and Glavine in Cooperstown.
"It's almost a fairy-tale ending," Maddux said. "The only thing that screwed it up was [that] Smoltzie waited and played one more year. It's just icing on the cake. It's going to be a special day, and I'm going to be able to spend it with special people."
With Smoltz serving as an analyst on MLB Network on Wednesday afternoon, Glavine and Maddux had a chance to share their excitement and some more laughs with their former teammate. During one of the lighthearted moments of the broadcast, Smoltz playfully pointed out that despite having more power than the other two, he was not selected to participate in Nike's "Chicks Dig the Long Ball" commercials featuring Glavine and Maddux.
Glavine's response? "Chicks dig the long ball, not the bald spot."
In addition to reminiscing about his time in Atlanta, Maddux spent time on Wednesday crediting former Cubs pitching coaches Dick Pole and Billy Connors for significantly influencing the early part of his career, which included the four Cy Young Awards and 355 wins -- the eighth most in Major League history and the second-highest total by any pitcher since 1930.
After winning his first Cy Young Award, in 1992, Maddux entered the free-agent market with a desire to stay in the NL. Before the Braves made their five-year, $28 million offer, there was some thought about him joining the Yankees, who reportedly were willing to make a more significant offer.
But instead of going with the Yanks, who had just completed their fourth consecutive losing season, Maddux was attracted to the opportunity to join the Braves, who had advanced to the World Series in each of the previous two years.
"The Braves, back then, I just felt were a much better team than the Yankees," he said. "Had I had a crystal ball, then, yeah, it would have been great to go to New York and win four World Series. But we did get one in Atlanta, in 1995. I wanted to stay in the National League, and I wanted the best chance to win."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com.


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From The Files Of August 17, 1989 '89 The 68th Fulton County Fair will be held August 20-26. The fair queen contest will be held August 21 at the fairgrounds. Contestants
this year are Marla McElhaney, Adeline Anneski, Terrie Earley and Linda Decker.
Donald Fowler, Fulton County Extension Director and County Agent of The Pennsylvania State University's Cooperative Extension, was one of 103 county agents in the United States who received the distinguished service award on August 3. Fowler was recognized for initiating programs in a variety of program areas dealing with both 4-H youths and adults. He was instrumental in starting a countywide environmental education program, has assisted in the development of two 4-H parks and was a strong youth component of one county fair.
Jana Schooley has returned to Fulton County as the district conservationist at the McConnellsburg office of the Soil Conservation Service for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
McConnellsburg's Mark Plessinger led every lap to win the Ernie's Salvage Yard 100 last Sunday at Hagerstown Speedway. It was the biggest win of Plessinger's career.
A son to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hughes of Mc- Connellsburg on August 6; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Knepper of Three Springs on August 4; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hockenberry of Fannettsburg on August 4; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Best of Spring Run on August 10; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Payne of Three Springs on August 9; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Randy Sparks of Fort Loudon on August 8; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeShong of Harrisonville on August 8.
Mr. and Mrs. William Reitober of Needmore announce the birth of their first child, a son, Derek William, July 21.
Deaths: Charles Beltz Jr., McConnellsburg; Margaret Bain, Hancock; Argentina Morgan, Pine Grove; Donald Myers, Mount Union; Elsie Gardner, Bedford; Esther Gobin, Mechanicsburg; Ruth Kohr, Crystal Spring; Nellie Clark, Everett; Martha Atwood, Deerfield Beach, Fla.; Georgia Kesselring, Waynesboro; Thelma Bedford, Philadelphia.
Marriage licenses: Giacomo Albegiana, Mc- Connellsburg, and Tracie Wetzel, McConnellsburg; Robert Finley III, Burnt Cabins, and Mary Byrne, Killiney, Ireland; James Paff, Berkeley Springs, and Evelyn Ingoglia, Berkeley Springs.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 16, 1979 '79 Six young contestants will be judged on appearance, poise, personality and general conservation knowledge, on Monday night at the
Fulton County Fair. They are Vicki Truax, Susan Souders, Virginia Shaw, Joy Landers, Patty Suders and Leda Lashley.
The Rankin Mellott Country Store at Webster Mills changed hands this week, with the elderly store owner transferring it over, lock stock and barrel, to his daughter, Cleo, and her husband, James Donahue of Petersburg, Va. The store, a local landmark, is located opposite the old water-powered mill at Webster Mills and has been in business under various owners, since it was built possibly by David Hunter in 1839. Mellott and his wife, Catherine, have owned and operated the store since 1947.
The 58th annual Fulton County Fair will get underway on Sunday with a vesper service in the grandstand sponsored by the McConnellsburg Ministerium.
Beer can collectors from all over the United States are calling Clevenger's Beer Distributors in Mc- Connellsburg to buy beer. Clevenger's is the exclusive distributor for a special commemorative, 100th anniversary brew, and beer can collectors want it. Clevenger's has a special label beer manufactured for the Waynesboro Fire Department's 100th anniversary. There are just 5,000 cases of this special label beer.
Specials at the IGA: Tetley tea bags, $1.59, 200 count; new white potatoes, 99 cents, 10 lbs.; Banquet meat pies, 3 for 89 cents.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Keefer of Big Cove Tannery on August 4; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Waters of McConnellsburg on August 4; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Richards of Mc- Connellsburg on August 4; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kirk of Blairs Mill on August 5; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bowman of Warfordsburg on August 6; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Pine of Shade Gap on August 8; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gary Murphy of Shade Gap on August 9; a son to Mr. and Mrs. John J. Anderson of Burnt Cabins on August 9; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kincaid of Needmore on August 10; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Randy Scott of St. Thomas on August 10.
Engagement: Mr. and Mrs. Troy D. Crouse, Big Cove Tannery, wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Doris Jean, to Samuel L. Simpson, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wallace Simpson of McConnellsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Smith of Norristown announce the engagement of their daughter, Donna Lynn, to Randall Morton Bolinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilda Bolinger of McConnellsburg.
Marriage licenses: Terry Lushbaugh and Barbara Ensminger, both of Mercersburg; Mark Romig, Bechtelsville, Pa., and Constance Bires, Warfordsburg; Curtis Brant, Harrisonville and Donna Mellott, Needmore; William Gress, Harrisonville, and Annette Hollinshead, McConnellsburg.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 28, 1969 '69 McKinley's Market of Hancock bought the grand champion at the 4-H/FFA Baby Beef sale at the fair last Friday for 64 cents a
pound for the 990-pound Hereford owned by Mike Gress of McConnellsburg.
A former Warfordsburg man, Airman John E. Plessinger and his wife survived Hurriance Camille's disaster. Airman Plessinger had been stationed at Keesler Air Force Base for two months, but they were living off base in Biloxi, Miss., since his wife joined him. Their house was a total loss, and they were only able to salvage a few articles from the storm's aftermath, such as dishes and pans.
The 40th annual Ford reunion was held on August 16 at the Wells Tannery Community Park.
Marriage licenses: William Lee O'Donnell, Burnt Cabins, and Mary Catherine Elmes, Spring Run; Kenneth Earl Doyle, McConnellsburg, and Sharon Ann Schooley, Chambersburg.
Specials at the IGA: potatoes, 98 cents, 20-lb. bag; granulated sugar, 59 cents, 5-lb. bag; PA Dutch birch beer, 59 cents, 6 pk.; Furman's pork and beans, 29 cents a can.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Grover Souders of McConnellsburg on August 18; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Sipes of McConnellsburg on August 21; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Toby Mellott on August 22.
Deaths: Charles Huston Sr., Mount Union; Harvey A. Stains, Three Springs.
Sgt. Lester Hoover of the McConnellsburg State Police substation retired from the service on Wednesday after serving 31 years and five months as a policeman, and for the past 16 years has been the officer in charge of the local substation.
Exchanging wedding vows in the double-ring ceremony on Saturday, August 16, were Maureen Eleanor Morton and Robert Carroll Crouse. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Eunice H. Morton of McConnellsburg and Kenneth Morton of McConnellsburg. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Crouse of McConnellsburg.
Wanda Kesselring DeShong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Kesselring, graduated from the York Hospital School of Nursing on Saturday, August 16.
St. Stephen's Catholic Church was the setting for the July 5 wedding of Mary Lou Mellott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Mellott of Webster Mills to John Michael Krivak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Krivak of Glen Lyon, Pa.
The Bethlehem United Methodist Church was the setting for the wedding of Miss Nancy Faye Layton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Layton of Mc- Connellsburg and Dan Rene Chamberlain, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mont Chamberlain of Wells Tannery on Saturday, June 28.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 27, 1959 '59 Doris Duvall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Duvall of Crystal Spring, has accepted a position with the Department of
Botany and Plant Pathology at the Pennsylvania State University.
John M. Carbaugh, 17, of near Cito, was killed instantly of a fractured skull on Friday night when the car his brother was driving ran up an embankment and turned over twice after failing to straighten up after coming out of a curve. The accident happened near Hustontown. The brother was thrown out of the 1949 Chevrolet convertible and, although he suffered lacerations of the scalp and abrasions of the arm, he was able to walk to the car to try to save his brother.
A stranger who might have walked into the borough's new post office on Monday when it opened for business may have thought he had walked in on a gang of safe crackers. With determined mutterings, the box patrons were trying to open the combination locks. Fortunately, Postmaster George Paul was on hand to give help to those who were fast approaching the gibbering stage. Otherwise, the opening went as smoothly as he had hoped for, but, he added: "there were times he could easily have used a dozen pairs of hands.
Unemployment compensation checks last week totalled 162,867, with a monetary value of $4,532,911.
Bond for these tax collectors has been approved: Herbert Powell for Thompson Township; Goldie C. Palmer for Bethel Township and Junia Hann for Union Township.
Jake Lynch of Big Cove Tannery suffered several broken ribs Thursday night when he was unable to stop his car and rammed into the rear of a parked out-of-town car whose owner had stopped to ask directions. The accident happened on Route 522 close to Brantner's Motor Sales.
The Fulton County National Bank added the finishing touches to its remodelled building last week when a Baltimore firm installed large FCNB initials on the front of the building, name signs on two sides and a large sign on the lawn area in front of the drive-in window facilities.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Zittle of Fort Littleton on August 18; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Charlie M. Wheeler of McConnellsburg on August 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Willard F. Deshong Sr. of Needmore on August 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Hill of McConnellsburg on August 21; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. James N. Sipes of Mc- Connellsburg on August 22.
Deaths: John Wilhelm Pott; Mrs. Roberta Isabell Heath of Broad Top City; Lillie Ott Clevenger of Ayr Township; Mrs. George F. Mellott of Ayr Township; Mrs. Oscar N. Comerer of near Harrisonville.
60 Years Ago
From The Files Of September 1, 1949 '49 Friends and organizations from Fulton and surrounding counties are coming to the aid of the Cloyd Swope family of Needmore with
donations of cash, home furnishings, food and clothing, which the family desperately needs since their home was completely destroyed by fire a couple of weeks ago. An infant son perished in the fire and another son, Ralph, 13, is now convalescing in Waynesboro Hospital from severe burns.
Death: Mrs. Harry Kline of Waynesboro.
A dinner was held Sunday for Mrs. Sara Catherine Layton of Breezewood in honor of her 86th birthdy.
The cost of hunting licenses in the state goes up today - from $2 to $3.15.
McConnellsburg firemen lost their bingo rights at the Fulton County Fair this year. Pioneer Shows contracts for the midway and, since they have their own bingo stand, they refused to give the firemen the right to set up such a stand. Instead, the firemen will conduct an eating stand this year.
Nearly 100 members and guests attended the third anniversary banquet of the Fulton Manufacturing Co. at the Tuscarora Summit Inn on Thursday evening.
Orben L. Hebner of Union Township has announced his candidacy for the office of associate judge on the Republican ticket.
Death: Augustus Krugh.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 31, 1939 '39 The war crisis in Europe has prompted the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to order contractors on jobs on the super highway to
work their men in three shifts in order to speed up completion because of the "emergency" created by conditions abroad. Some 10,000 men are now at work at this project and the number will be stepped up to 15,000.
The 19th annual Fulton County Fair will open on Wednesday.
King George of England, Queen Elizabeth, their two children and other members of the royal family will be quartered in a bomb-proof, gas-proof subterranean shelter in Windsor Castle if war breaks out. More than a mile of deep tunnels under the castle has already been completed.
Two accidents were reported last week. A Ford roadster operated by Warren C. Keebaugh of Hustontown collided with an Autocar truck driven by Carroll Wills of Ridge Spring, S.C., just east of Tuscarora Summit. There were no injuries. The second accident occurred north of Waterfall when cars driven by Albert Deshong of Andover and Walter Logan of Broad Top City sideswiped on a curve. A number of passengers were treated for lacerations and bruises.
On the first day of school here 304 students were reigstered, 186 in the grades and 118 in high school.
Mrs. George Lodge and daughter Laura Kirk attended the Park-Petrovic nuptials at Valley Forge Chapel Saturday.
Harry Grissinger Jr. is now employed at the Heinz plant at Chambersburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gress moved to Richmond last Sunday where Mr. Gress is employed.
Recent weddings: William Hagan Layton and Myrtle Glenn on August 16; Paul J. Seiders and Margaret Kirk on August 21; Charles T. Ramsey and Ora R. Helman on August 28.
H. Lyle Duffey and Marshall Helman and Misses Marie Fleming and Marjorie Fields attended the auto races at the Bedford Fair on Saturday.
Miss Marian Mellott left on Monday to resume her duties as home economics teacher in the schools at Kresgeville, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Williams of New York City, Miss Mazie Hamil and Miss Laverne Hamil arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hamil on Sunday after a 5000-mile motor trip to the Pacific Coast.
Mrs. Clara Miller, who is hale and hearty at the age of 89, is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. William Henry, at Clear Ridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith Henry of Clear Ridge are the parents of a daughter, born on Sunday.
The New Enterprise Electric Co. now has wire strung from Three Springs, through New Grenada and up Coles Valley to the N.L. McClain farm.
Mrs. Carl Wright of Wells Valley was taken to the Nason Hospital at Roaring Spring on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Fix of Fairview are the proud parnets of a baby son, born at their home last Tuesday.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 29, 1929 '29 Rev. H.L. Jarrett, pastor of the Mc- Connellsburg
Methodist Charge for more than eight years, has been assigned to the Millerstown Charge.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hamil of Knobsville are the proud parents of a baby girl, born on Auto gust 22. She has been named Doris Laure.
Miss Mary Divens, who is training in Philadelphia to become a nurse, is visiting her parents at Knobsville.
Thoams Cromwell and bride have returned to his home near Clear Ridge.
An ordinance was passed by the Borough Council on August 19 and signed by Burgess Nesbitt on August 20 giving the Manufacturers' Light and Heat Co. of Pittsburgh permission to enter the borough by laying a pipeline for the introduction of gas service.
Mrs. John F. Deshong of Harrisonville, who was bitten by a copperhead snake two weeks ago, was brought home from Chambersburg Hospital on Sunday but is still in a serious condition. She was bitten when she reached to the top of a stone wall in the barn, the snake's fangs entering her left hand. "The reptile hung to her and had to be flung off."
The Rev. William J. Lowe was the guest speaker on August 18 at the church in Baltimore where his son, David, is the director of one of the finest church choirs in that city.
Recent births: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hebner of Buck Valley; a son on August 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Seiders of Ayr Township; a daughter, Dolores Maine, on August 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shoop of Burnt Cabins; a daughter, Betty Arlene, on August 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Mentzer of Burnt Cabins; a son, Bruce Sellers, on August 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Scott Sipes of McConnellsburg; a daughter, Dorothy Laverne, on July 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Raymnond Wible of Knobsville; a son, Grover Keefer, on July 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Rankin Mellott of Webster Mills; a son, Earl Richard, on July 10 to Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers Keebaugh of Hustontown; a son, Donald, on July 7 to Rev. and Mrs. Parker Heller of Hustontown; a son, Melvin Richard, on June 27 to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kerlin of Dublin Township.