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By the time the Predators made their first selection of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft last month, 110 prospects had been chosen by rival teams. Nashville had previously traded away its picks in the draft's first three rounds, with two of the deals adding experienced players to the Preds' talented core last season.
Knoxville's Rusty Ensor still hasn't gotten baseball out of his system.
The 1978 Bearden High School graduate was one of the best power hitters in University of Tennessee history in just two seasons after two years of baseball at Motlow State Community College.
Tennessee football fans are hoping for a better National Signing Day in 2019. This year's was a relative dud.
New coach Jeremy Pruitt, hired on Dec. 7, signed six players on Feb. 7 but whiffed on several high-profile recruits he and his staff were pursuing. He had signed 14 players during the first-ever early signing period Dec. 20-22.
Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt could have done a lot worse during the Dec. 20-22 early signing period, the first-ever for high school recruits in college football.
It was a recruiting whirlwind for Pruitt, named UT's coach Dec. 7 while still serving as Alabama's defensive coordinator.
Jacob Warren got one of the best phone calls of his life a couple of weeks ago. The senior tight end at Farragut High School was relieved to hear what new Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt told him.
Former U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp of Chattanooga came to Memphis this week for the first time in seven years to call for a new generation of independent candidates for office he says can stop 20 years of elected leaders in Washington putting "party before country."
Tennessee's bungled search for a football coach will come at a cost for the university. A big cost.
There are buyouts everywhere. A potential lawsuit looms. And a rift between boosters caused by the botched search may be the costliest item of all for the university long term.
And with a brief, carefully-worded written statement Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Senator Bob Corker has blown up the forming-2018 race for the Senate seat he will give up at the end of 2018 and that probably applies to the 2018 race for Tennessee Governor. That's even if Corker doesn't follow Tuesday's announcement by getting into the race for Governor at some point. Corker said nothing about what is next beyond his remaining time in office.
Before he left Congress at the end of 2010, U.S. Rep. John Tanner of Union City, Tennessee, talked a lot about how the way district lines were being redrawn, usually by state legislatures, was affecting our politics.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen has introduced a bill that would take the once-a-decade redrawing of congressional district lines out of the hands of state legislators and instead establish an independent redistricting commission.
The line for the 8th Congressional District seat began forming within half an hour of incumbent Stephen Fincher's announcement Monday, Feb. 1, that he would not seek re-election in the August primaries.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher announced Monday, Feb. 1, that he will not run for re-election in Tennessee's 8th Congressional District.
The seventh-generation agribusiness leader from Frog Jump, Tenn., said in an email that he "never intended to become a career politician."
I miss Steve Spurrier.
It won't be the same without Spurrier coaching South Carolina when Tennessee (4-4, 2-3 SEC) plays host to the Gamecocks (3-5, 1-5) on Saturday.
It wasn't the same this week without Spurrier throwing a jab or two at UT leading up to the game.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Democratic congressman and a prominent Republican political operative on Tuesday called for ending untraceable spending for and against candidates in Tennessee and around the country.
The East Tennessee Preservation Alliance's list of endangered heritage sites for the region:
1. The Stonecipher-Kelly House in Morgan County was built around 1814 by the first permanent white settlers in that area, as part of a Revolutionary War land-grant.
Airika Wallace Gigas, director of sales for Memphis-based LEO Events, has been honored with the Association of Destination Management Executives International's Rising Star Award, given annually to one outstanding meeting and event-planning professional. Gigas, a destination management certified professional, oversees sales and operations for LEO's local clients and clients inbound in to Memphis. She manages a team of two and a part time team of 25 people.
Early voting opens Wednesday, Oct. 15, across Shelby County as well as Tennessee in the mid-term general elections that are the second most popular election cycle in Shelby County by voter turnout.
WASHINGTON (AP) – As Congress moves to help thousands of military veterans enduring long wait times for VA medical care, the FBI said it has opened a criminal investigation into the Department of Veterans Affairs.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The Jackson, Miss., law firm of Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada is announcing Tuesday the opening of an office on London.
The announcement is being made in London by Parliament members Hugh Bayley of the Labour Party, and Tobias Ellwood of the Conservative Party and former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and former U.S. Rep. John Tanner of Butler Snow.
Less than a week before an effort to rein in billions of dollars in Medicare spending on home medical equipment is set to kick in, members of Congress and medical supply programs are pushing to delay the plan, saying some of the process has been mishandled and that the process lacks transparency.
Licensed clinical social worker Courtney Ciaramitaro has joined Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School as school counselor. She will work primarily with middle school students.
Hometown: Memphis
NASHVILLE (AP) – Former U.S. Rep. John Tanner of Union City is one of 37 additional attorneys to join an expanding major law firm's Nashville office.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, got a closer look over the weekend at the proposed set of new district lines for his congressional district.
UNION CITY, Tenn. (AP) – The new project coordinator for the Ken-Tenn Regional Alliance Development Corp. says he will focus on three river ports in the five-county area.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen said earmarks have turned into "phonemarks" in the new Congressional reality. And that new reality will be "difficult" for the city.
The metro consolidation charter won a narrow victory with Memphis voters Tuesday but was crushed by Shelby County voters outside Memphis.
The first consolidation charter to go to voters in 39 years had to win both in Memphis and outside Memphis in order to consolidate the city of Memphis and Shelby County governments.
The final election of 2010 on Tuesday could draw nearly half of Shelby County's 603,000 voters.
That estimate is based on a healthy early voter turnout of 109,673 voters, or 18.2 percent of the county's voters.
Outgoing U.S. Rep. John Tanner of Union City says Congress is a more partisan place than it was 22 years ago when he arrived.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Democratic state Sen. Roy Herron said Tuesday that his opponent in the 8th Congressional District race should disclose financial documents like his fellow Republican congressional candidate in the 6th District.
A rundown of the key issues and races that voters will decide when they go to the ballot for early voting through Oct. 28 or on Election Day, Nov. 2.
Tennessee voters choose a successor to Gov. Phil Bredesen in the Nov. 2 elections. Here's a summary of where Democratic nominee Mike McWherter and Republican nominee Bill Haslam stand on the major issues:
A Mississippi riverport project north of Memphis in Lake County, Tenn., is getting $13 million in federal funding to complete the work, which includes an industrial park.
U.S. Rep. John Tanner, who represents the northwest Tenn. area, announced the TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant for the Cates Landing port.
Shelby County voters begin making their choices Wednesday as early voting in advance of the Nov. 2 Election Day gets under way.
Early voting sites, 21 in all, open Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. – all at the same time and with the same hours through Oct. 23, the end of the early voting period.
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis radiologist and broadcaster George Flinn has given another $450,000 to his bid for the Republican nomination in the 8th Congressional District on top of the $2 million he spent on his campaign through the first half of the year.
NASHVILLE (AP) – Primary contests for each of Tennessee's three open congressional seats feature at least one candidate spending a hefty amount of their own money in efforts to secure the Republican nomination.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats are struggling to extend unemployment benefits before they go on vacation next week as they work to ease concerns among jittery lawmakers being hammered over deficit spending.
The Tennessee House has passed a resolution to honor the congressional service of U.S. Rep. John Tanner.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike McWherter is looking to pick up some campaign cash in Washington in the aftermath of a disappointing fundraising quarter.
McWherter on Monday posted a picture on his Twitter account of a fundraising meeting with Democratic U.S. Reps. John Tanner and Bart Gordon, former U.S. Sen. Jim Sasser and former National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Jim Hall.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Candidates for three open congressional seats in Tennessee have reported heavy fundraising activity through the first quarter.
The retirements of Republican Zach Wamp of Chattanooga and Democratic Reps. Bart Gordon of Murfreesboro and John Tanner of Union City have led to spirited campaigns to succeed them in the U.S. House.
The stage is set for the county's most anticipated political showdown in the Aug. 5 state and federal primary elections.
Noon today is the deadline for candidates in the primaries, as well as those vying for nonpartisan seats on the Shelby County school board and the three judicial positions, to file their qualifying petitions for the ballot.
U.S. Rep. John Tanner of Union City announced Sunday afternoon that he will vote against the White House health care reform bill.
Tennessee is a pivotal state for the passage or failure of national health care reform because its Blue Dog Democrat members of Congress may hold potential swing votes.
U.S. Reps. John Tanner, Bart Gordon and Lincoln Davis all voted against the more expensive House bill for health care reform, but may support the Senate's bill, said Kathleen Stoll, the deputy director of Families USA.
State Sen. Jim Kyle of Memphis is out of the Democratic primary race for governor.
Kyle, the Senate Democratic leader, withdrew in an afternoon news conference in Nashville.
Kyle, the Senate Democratic leader, withdrew in a Friday news conference in Nashville.
"I was certainly going to have to win this campaign on message instead of money – the general election," Kyle told The Daily News after the press conference.
But Kyle acknowledged he suffered money problems in a spirited primary field on the way to the Aug. 5 ballot.
Kyle entered the race for the Democratic nomination for governor in August at the University of Memphis. He pledged to freeze the tuition of students at Tennessee colleges and universities at the amount they pay in their freshman year. He also has been closely aligned with outgoing Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen guiding much of the administration's legislation through a House and Senate that are majority Republican.
"Not to make excuses, but we weren't the first guy. We were the last guy," Kyle said. "We had ground to make up. We were making that ground up."
The Democratic field now lines up to be Jackson businessman Mike McWherter and former state legislative leader Kim McMillan of Clarksville. Two other contenders dropped out in December. State Sen. Roy Herron of Dresden dropped out to run for the 8th Congressional District seat when John Tanner announced he would not seek re-election. Nashville businessman Ward Cammack also called it a day in December and later endorsed Kyle's campaign.
"I was real optimistic," Kyle said of his fundraising at the start of the year.
Kyle reported earlier in February that his campaign had raised more than $740,000 and had $580,000 in cash on hand. Kyle had loaned his own campaign $300,000.
The amount represented a "wall" Kyle said he couldn't surmount once the legislative session began in January. Legislators are banned by state law from holding fundraisers during a legislative session.
"We got a lot of endorsements. We had as much money as our opponents – at least the Democratic opponents," Kyle said. "We felt like we had a lot going our way. Then the session began. … It just seemed to me that every week the campaign kept running slower and slower and slower. My time being devoted to what I have to do up here, I just wasn't getting where I need to go."
Kyle's exit leaves Shelby County District Attorney General Bill Gibbons in the GOP primary as the only Memphis contender for governor.
NEW YORK (AP) - Ask national Republicans to name a model 2010 congressional candidate, and they're likely to mention Stephen Fincher. A 37-year-old farmer and gospel singer from Frog Jump, Tenn., Fincher has raised more than $675,000 in his bid to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. John Tanner.
After a tumultuous year of political upheaval in 2009, the 2010 campaign season has belatedly come to life.
Democrat Harold Byrd's decision not to run for Shelby County mayor late last month and Republican Mark Luttrell's decision this week to get in the race have shaken the political atmosphere out of its post-New Year doldrums.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House on Thursday voted to allow the government to go $1.9 trillion deeper in debt – or about $6,000 more for every U.S. resident.
The measure, approved 217-212, would raise the cap on federal borrowing to $14.3 trillion. That's enough to keep Congress from having to vote again before the November elections on an issue that is feeding a sense among voters that the government is spending too much and putting future generations under a mountain of debt to do it.
NASHVILLE (AP) – U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, has more than $1 million on hand as he gears up for a primary challenge by former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State Sen. Roy Herron has hired veteran political operative Carol Andrews as a senior adviser to his campaign to succeed fellow Democrat John Tanner in Congress.
BRIGHTON, Tenn. (AP) - A Republican candidate running to succeed Rep. John Tanner in Congress says he will now run as an independent.
DYERSBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Republican congressional candidate Stephen Fincher's campaign announced Wednesday it raised about $320,000 in the fourth quarter.
Fincher is seeking to replace Democratic Rep. John Tanner, who announced in December he won't seek a 12th term.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State Sen. Roy Herron said Monday he has accumulated more than $675,000 in his bid to succeed fellow Democrat John Tanner in Congress.
Is it over yet? That may be the most frequently asked question in the New Year. "It" is the worst national economic recession since the Great Depression.
Accurately reading the indicators will not be easy. Some will predict the recession is about to end, just as new indicators point to continuing economic agony for thousands of Memphians.
2009 was a year without a script – and plenty of improvising on the political stage.
It was supposed to be an off-election year except in Arlington and Lakeland.
2008 ended with voters in the city and county approving a series of changes to the charters of Memphis and Shelby County governments. Those changes were supposed to set a new direction for both entities, kicking into high gear in 2010 and ultimately culminating two years later.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican state Sen. Diane Black of Gallatin announced Thursday she is joining the race to succeed Democratic U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis said he will run again, unlike two Democratic congressional colleagues who have decided against seeking re-election in Tennessee districts that Republicans are eager to take in 2010.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Bart Gordon, a 13-term congressman from Tennessee, announced Monday he will not seek re-election next year, the latest Democrat in a string of retirements.
Gordon, 60, won re-election easily last year, garnering 74 percent of the vote, but was still on a list of Democrats targeted by Republicans in midterm elections.
Educator Luther Mercer II has announced he will run for the Democratic nomination to succeed U.S. Rep. John Tanner in Congress.Thirty-four-year-old Mercer is a Jackson, Tenn., native who works as coordinator of global education for St. George's Independent School in Collierville and teaches classes at Bethel College.Mercer told The Jackson Sun that his family history of public service and international experience from studying and working in Egypt, China and Italy have helped prepare him for the job.Mercer is the son of political activist Shirlene Mercer, who worked as a district field director for Tanner, and Madison County Commissioner Luther Mercer.He joins state Sen. Roy Herron of Dresden in the Democratic field. Crockett County farmer Stephen Fincher and network engineer Donn Janes of Brighton have declared for the Republican nomination.
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) – Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen said Monday that the West Tennessee congressional seat being vacated by Rep. John Tanner won't be easy for his party to hold on to next year.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - As a political battle begins taking shape in Tennessee's 8th congressional district, Democratic state Sen. Roy Herron's name recognition gives him a slight advantage over GOP newcomer Stephen Fincher, political analysts say.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville businessman Ward Cammack on Thursday became the second Democrat to drop out of the governor's race this week.
Cammack in a press release said he is ending his campaign because "long-standing political alliances proved impenetrable and fund raising ground to a halt."
NASHVILLE (AP) – Democratic state Sen. Roy Herron says he is dropping his gubernatorial bid to seek the northwest Tennessee congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. John Tanner.
John Tanner is retiring from Congress. The 8th District Union City Democrat confirmed reports Tuesday evening that he had decided not to seek re-election in the 2010 elections and was informing Democratic leaders in the House.
He issued a written statement Tuesday evening.
Here is the full text of that statement:
"Other than wearing the military uniform of my country, I can think of no higher privilege than serving in public office with the consent of free men and women. Betty Ann and I have been honored and humbled by the support granted us through the years. The many kindnesses and friendships extended to us are something we cherish and for which we will be forever grateful.
"When we were first elected to Congress some 21 years ago, I agreed, as I do now, with our predecessor, Ed Jones, that 20 years was an appropriate amount of time to serve, with the voters' consent.
"Betty Ann and I had considered retiring in 2007 at the end of the 110th Congress, were it not for the fact that our nation had the chance to elect an American as President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly at this critical moment in the war in Afghanistan. However, we believed we owed it to our country to stay and fulfill this term of office as NATO PA President. This mandate expires in November 2010, and therefore, we have made the decision not to seek re-election to Congress.
"No one could have asked for a more dedicated staff to help countless thousands of our constituents. Long hours, nights and weekends are not uncommon in our offices. We look forward to continuing this service to the 8th District next year through the end of the 111th Congress.
"Our nation faces many severe and unrelenting problems. I will stay active on these matters and continue my efforts with the Blue Dogs and others of good will to help our citizens come together for the future of our children and grandchildren.
"No road in public life is travelled alone. Betty Ann and our children have sacrificed much over these years, and for them and for me, we say a simple and heartfelt 'thank you.' It has truly been our friends and supporters who have made this journey possible."
With a Republican majority in the Tennessee State House and State Senate going into the once a decade redistricting process, Tanner's district was expected to become more Republican.
Tanner was a founder of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of fiscally conservative Democratic house members. Defense and military issues in the post Cold War era were Tanner's areas of expertise.
In recent years, his positions -- first as head of the American delegation to NATO's parliamentary assembly and then as president of NATO's parliamentary assembly -- gave Tanner a key vantage point as well as a voice in the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and NATO's response to controversial Russian military moves in its former Soviet republics.
John Tanner is retiring from Congress. The 8th District Union City Democrat confirmed reports earlier this evening that he had decided not to seek re-election in the 2010 elections.
The National Republican Congressional Committee is touting Crockett County farmer Stephen Fincher's bid to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. John Tanner in next year's election.
About five months ago, Shelby County Trustee Paul Mattila stood in his backyard in Millington and told several dozen people he would be running in the 2010 county elections.
In the barn just a few yards away were signs for the coming campaign and from past ones Mattila had worked over the years.
NASHVILLE (AP) – Tennessee congressional members returning to the state are trying to answer questions about health care legislation while avoiding raucous town hall meetings that have turned into shouting matches.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's stop in Memphis this week came at a critical time for U.S. Department of Justice operations in West Tennessee.
The U.S. Attorney's office is awaiting the appointment of a new chief prosecutor by President Barack Obama. Local U.S. Reps. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, and John Tanner, D-Union City, have been consulted by the administration, which took up residence seven months ago in the White House. Larry Laurenzi has been acting U.S. attorney since the resignation of David Kustoff took effect in May 2008.
UNION CITY, Tenn. (AP) - U.S. Rep. John Tanner has announced that a new call center for Social Security beneficiaries will be based in Jackson and employ about 175 workers.
Tanner, who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, was in West Tennessee on Monday with Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue for the announcement.
The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 needs changes to better protect small, independent farmers, according to the office of U.S. Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal election disclosures show the Tennessee Democratic Party is struggling to raise money in the aftermath of a leadership struggle.
The Federal Election Commission report filed on Friday shows the party under new Chairman Chip Forrester only managed to raise about $31,000 in February. That compares with about $211,000 raised in the same month of his predecessor Gray Sasser's stint in charge of the party.
Before this week's meeting of the Shelby County Board of Commissioners, Commissioner Steve Mulroy was offering magic tricks. Moving a foam cup with static electricity was the trick of the day at that point.
Word of the $50 billion Ponzi scheme perpetrated by a New York businessman was still a hot topic in the investment community when a note to depositors appeared on Stanford International Bank's Web site.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - U.S. Rep. John Tanner has been elected president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, an organization made up of legislators from all 26 member nations.
John Tanner will mark 20 years in Congress when he returns to Washington in January. The Union City, Tenn., Democratic U.S. representative is running unopposed on the Nov. 4 election ballot.
The International Business Council will hold its first Breakfast Series session today from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Memphis Regional Chamber, 22 N. Front St. The session is titled "International Protocol: How to Approach the Relationship Side of Global Commerce." Cost is $20 per person. For more information, contact Brenda Montgomery at email@example.com or 543-3541.
The Memphis Chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals will meet today at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Select East, 5795 Poplar Ave. The programs are titled "Pathways to Excellence Recognition Awards Program" by Doris Goode and "Certification Update" by Judy Carmichael. Cost is $20 to attend. For reservations, contact Dianne Cordaro at 287-6009 or email@example.com.
The Memphis area's three U.S. representatives split along party lines in Monday's House vote killing a $700 billion financial bailout bill.
Democratic Reps. Steve Cohen of Memphis and John Tanner of Union City voted for the plan. Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Franklin voted no.
A $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is on its way to Shelby County, a grant that's intended to be used to protect Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division electrical substations from earthquakes.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted the state a long-sought permit to build a new spillway at Reelfoot Lake.
"I'm extremely excited," Rep. Phillip Pinion, D-Union City, said on Monday. "For six years, we've been working diligently on this."
As a tenuous cease-fire between Russian and Georgian military forces in Georgia held over the weekend, U.S. Rep. John Tanner, D-Tennessee, was among those focused on the next response from the U.S. and its European allies.
Frederick W. Smith, founder of FedEx, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Memphis. Smith is chairman, president and chief executive officer of FedEx Corp. He oversees the company's branches, including FedEx Services, FedEx Express, FedEx Freight and FedEx Office. Smith has served on the boards of several companies, including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Mayo Foundation. He is a member of the Business Roundtable and co-chairman of the Energy Security Leadership Council.
State Democratic officials are hoping to unify the party behind presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama.
"In the months ahead we're going to pull together and we're going to make a difference in the state of Tennessee," Gov. Phil Bredesen told a crowd at Nashville's Swett's Restaurant on Wednesday.
About half of Shelby County's delegation to the Tennessee Legislature won re-election at Thursday's filing deadline for candidates on the Aug. 7 ballot.
Eight of the 16 state House seats had only one candidate - the incumbent. And all three of the state Senate seats on the ballot were incumbent-only affairs.
At Thursday's deadline for candidates to file in the Aug. 7 state and Congressional primaries, no Republicans had filed for the GOP primary.
At today's deadline for candidates to file in the Aug. 7 state and Congressional primaries, no Republicans had filed for the GOP primary.
The University of Memphis' Center for the Study of Rhetoric and Applied Communication will hold its fourth annual conference today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 215 of the Fogelman Executive Center, 330 Innovation Drive. This year's topic is "Health and Rhetoric." The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Simone Wilson at 678-4164.
The Memphis Regional Chamber will hold its Breakfast Forum today from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at The Peabody, 149 Union Ave. The cost is $20 for chamber members and $30 for nonmembers. To R.S.V.P., contact Ericka Milford at email@example.com or 543-3518.
Two days before a swarm of tornadoes descended on Memphis and the region, emergency responders in Memphis and Shelby County began making plans in case Tuesday's approaching storm spawned tornadoes.
NASHVILLE (AP) - U.S. Rep. John Tanner, a Democrat from Union City, says he plans to run for re-election for an 11th term.
Tanner, who serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, was first elected in 1988 and is a founding member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 47 moderate to conservative House Democrats.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans say it's OK not to cover the $50 billion in revenue losses from Congress' annual alternative minimum tax fix to save millions of families from higher taxes - even as the GOP president counts on revenues from that higher levy to reduce the red ink in his budget.
The "surge" strategy is working in Iraq, said Tennessee Rep. John Tanner.
But the Union City Democrat told a Memphis audience over the weekend that it is working at an unsustainable cost. And Tanner said the relative peace it's brought hasn't led to the reconciliation of rival factions in Iraq.
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - The U.S. Postal Service has decided not to fold Jackson's mail services into the Memphis Processing Center, U.S. Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., announced Friday.
Tanner, who opposed the idea, said he was pleased with the decision.
As a teenager, John Fry made regular trips to the Satellite Record Shop on McLemore Avenue, where Estelle Axton would sell him 45s over the counter and play him new recordings from countless music labels.
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Yvonne Rainer, (born Nov. 24, 1934, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.), American avant-garde choreographer and filmmaker whose work in both disciplines often featured the medium's most fundamental elements rather than meeting conventional expectations.
Rainer moved to New York City in 1957 to study theatre. She found herself more strongly drawn to modern dance than acting, however, and began studying at the Martha Graham School and later with Merce Cunningham. Rainer was one of the organizers of the Judson Dance Theater, a focal point for vanguard activity in the dance world throughout the 1960s, and she formed her own company for a brief time after the Judson performances ended. Rainer was noted for an approach to dance that treated the body more as the source of an infinite variety of movements than as the purveyor of emotion or drama. Many of the elements she employed in the early 1970s—such as repetition, patterning, tasks, and games—later became standard features of modern dance.
Her best-known dance, "Trio A," a section of a larger work called The Mind Is a Muscle, consisted of a simultaneous performance by three dancers that included a difficult series of circular and spiral movements. It was widely adapted and interpreted by other choreographers. She choreographed more than 40 concert works, most notably Terrain and This Is a Woman Who….
Rainer sometimes included filmed sequences in her dances, and in the mid-1970s she began to turn her attention to film directing. Her early films do not follow narrative conventions, instead combining reality and fiction, sound and visuals, to address social and political issues. Rainer directed several experimental films about dance and performance, including Lives of Performers (1972), Film About a Woman Who (1974), and Kristina Taking Pictures (1976). Her later films include The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). The last-mentioned work, more conventional in its narrative structure, is a lesbian love story as well as a reflection on urban life and on breast cancer, and it features Rainer herself. Her film work has received several awards, and in 1990 she was a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation award.


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Credit Suisse Group AG sued Desarrolladora Homex SAB, Mexico's biggest homebuilder by revenue, seeking $26.7 million over a canceled derivatives transaction.
Homex owes the payment after the company last month requested that the 2009 agreement be cancelled and Credit Suisse agreed, the Swiss bank said in a complaint filed today in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
"Homex breached, and continues to breach, its contractual obligations under the master agreement," Credit Suisse said in the filing.
Homex and peers in the Mexican homebuilding industry have struggled to prevent declines in their cash reserves as the government shifts subsidies to promote more capital-intensive apartment construction in cities, instead of individual homes in commuter towns.
Marena Rubio, a Homex press official, didn't respond to an e-mail seeking comment on the case. Phone calls to her office went unanswered.
Urbi Desarrollos Urbanos SAB, the biggest Mexican builder by the number of homes, was sued in the same court last month by Credit Suisse and Barclays Plc, Britain's second-biggest lender, over financial derivatives.
Homex shares traded in Mexico rose 0.84 pesos to 10.73 pesos. Its shares traded in the U.S. rose 29 cents, or about 5.8 percent, to $5.26. Homex bonds due in 2020 fell 2.64 cents to 58.35 cents on the dollar at 4:05 p.m. in New York, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The yield rose 1.07 percentage points to 21.64 percent.
The case is Credit Suisse AG v. Desarrolladora Homes SA, 651581-2013, New York State Supreme Court (Manhattan).
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Drug jars like this one were usually oviform in shape and were owned most frequently by physicians. The form, very often decorated in cobalt with a cartouche design draped with swags and tassels, was made in England for a period of 100 years, beginning about 1675. Within the cartouche the legend ?P Coch[leria]? the ?P? indicates the form of the drug, pilulae or pill; ?Coch[leria]? refers to the herb, scurvy grass. To protect the contents, the owner laid a cloth across the opening and a string secured it in place. Unlike English physicians, American doctors frequently doubled as pharmacists, concocting the medicines they prescribed.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - NYSE Euronext said on Friday it would offer testing next weekend for trading firms planning to take part in Twitter's market debut, highlighting an industry-wide focus on risk controls after a spate of technology-related snafus in recent years.
The initial public offering of microblogging site Twitter is the most highly anticipated since Facebook's IPO last year, when software problems at Nasdaq OMX Group resulted in a chain of events that market making firms said cost them a combined $500 million.
Before Twitter disclosed on Tuesday it would list on the New York Stock Exchange, analysts had said the Facebook IPO problems would likely weigh against Nasdaq's chances of winning the listing and the prestige that comes with it.
A date for the IPO has not yet been disclosed, but it is expected before the end of November.
NYSE said in the note to traders on Friday that in preparation for Twitter's market debut, firms could test their trading algorithms on October 26, when it would make available all of its production customer gateway connections for order flow.
The Big Board operator said additional details would be provided early next week, including registration details.
The Facebook incident was one of a number of high-profile technology-related problems that have roiled markets and weighed on investor confidence in recent years, placing a bigger focus on operational risk by regulators and market participants.
Nasdaq agreed to pay a $10 million penalty for the Facebook errors, the largest amount ever levied against a stock exchange, and also voluntarily said it would pay up to $62 million to compensate firms harmed in the May 18, 2012, market debut.
Preventing technology snafus, and how to better deal with glitches that do happen, was a major focus at a market structure conference held by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) on Thursday.
The conference came one day after regulators fined trading firm Knight Capital, now part of KCG Holdings Inc, $12 million to settle charges related to an error last year that sent millions of unintended orders into the market.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that at the time, Knight did not have appropriate risk controls in place to prevent the errors and that the firm failed to conduct adequate reviews of the effectiveness of its controls.
Exchanges and brokers have been reexamining their approaches to testing the robustness of their systems, Eric Noll, head of Nasdaq's transaction business, said at the SIFMA conference.
"Not only conformance testing - does the software do what we designed it to do - but what happens to the software if we try to break it?"
Deliberately putting bad orders or code into the system in a testing environment allows the exchange to then test what would happen to the rest of its systems, helping it make better plans to react to such a situation, he said.
Several trading firm executives at the conference said U.S. markets actually function better than ever, and chalked up the drop in investor confidence to the increased media attention surrounding trading glitches.
The data shows that in equities, clearly erroneous trades - a proxy for system coding issues where capacity limits or order routing limits have been exceeded - are down 55 percent from May 2010, said Tom Gira, head of market regulation the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
But the speed that automation has brought to the markets needs to be taken into account, he said at the SIFMA conference.
"What's different about today's market than, say, 10 years ago, is that even if you do have less snafus, they are so much more amplified now than they were before and the challenge is now, how do you stop the bleeding more quickly in such a quick market," he said.
There are thirteen U.S. equity exchanges, 44 alternative trading systems, and a handful of other large non-exchange trading venues competing for order flow that brokers connect to.
The renewed focus on operational risk and having controls in place for when glitches do happen, comes after a software bug in August paralyzed thousands of Nasdaq-listed stocks market-wide for three hours. That happened just days after a technical problem at Goldman Sachs sent a flood of erroneous orders to the U.S. equity options markets. And on August 6, BATS Global Markets faced an outage that lasted nearly an hour.
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Grunkemeyer weiners of Burwell, NE, remembered
This afternoon at Vacation Bible School, while I was waiting for my time to help with music, I discussed the Friday night picnic with Pastor. "I suppose we could boil the weiners," he said.
What a rush of memory those words brought to my mind. I was transported across time and space to the early 1960's. The setting was the Rose Community Hall, thirty-two Sandhill miles south of Bassett, Nebraska.
The 4-H meeting was over and I was a ten-year-old, standing in line for refreshments. The kitchen's air was heavy with steam and the smell of boiled weiners and hot chocolate. Hot dogs and hot chocolate were standard fare for Rose Scouts 4-H Club meetings.
Then I thought about "Burwell weenies", as my family called them. In Burwell, Nebraska, a small town about 45 miles southeast of Rose, there was a wonderful little store on the town square called Grunkemeyer's Meat Market.
At Grunkemeyers, they made weiners the old fashioned way -- with a sausage stuffer. They used natural casings, and the weiners were made in a long string with each weiner tied off by a bit of strong cotton thread.
Grunkemeyer's weiners were absolutely the best I've ever eaten. I still remember how the skin popped when bitten. My dad loved them and we rarely went to Burwell without coming home with a couple pounds of them.
I'm grateful for the memories Pastor's words stirred.
And in case you were wondering, we decided to cook the weiners for the VBS picnic under the broiler in the oven.
I'm not 100% sure about the spelling of Grunkemeyer, but I think it was spelled with an "eyer" at the end. I read on a Grunkemier genealogy bulletin board that different members of the family have spelled it various ways over the years. One member gave the following history of the surname:
I am part of the West Coast Grunkemeier's. Family name originates from Westerkappeln, and Osnabruck area in Westphalia region of northern Germany. The name, roughly translated, means watcher by the side of a field. It is an old farming name. My lineage is from Hermann Henrich Grunkemeier, who settled in Burwell, NE, 1870's...
In a 1906 history of the Loup River, I read about Fred J. Grunkemeyer organizing relief efforts after a tornado in Burwell.


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Dr. Willie J. Hagan is the 10th president of California State University, Dominguez Hills, a comprehensive urban university located in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Established in 1960, CSU Dominguez Hills enrolls close to 15,000 students and awards more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate degrees each year. The university is a leader in developing outstanding programs that foster a college-focused culture in the communities it serves, with a goal of becoming a national model for student access grounded in academic excellence.
A results-oriented administrator with a collaborative work style and a proven ability to motivate and lead within the academic community, Dr. Hagan become interim president of CSU Dominguez Hills in June 2012 and was named its permanent president in 2013. During this time, he has been successful in refocusing and reinvigorating campus-wide efforts on improving student academic success. Additionally Dr. Hagan identified and reallocated university resources to support strategic university priorities, including faculty and staff hiring, technology and academic equipment, and student support services.
Dr. Hagan previously served as interim president at CSU Fullerton, effectively moving the campus forward during a time of significant transition. He joined CSU Fullerton in 1996, serving initially as vice president for administration and later as interim vice president for university advancement and subsequently as vice president for administration and finance and chief financial officer responsible for CSU Fullerton's $380-million enterprise. His many accomplishments at CSU Fullerton include developing and executing financial strategies to purchase commercial and other real estate adjacent to the land-locked campus, successfully positioning CSU Fullerton to accommodate unprecedented levels of enrollment growth over a multi-year period.
Before joining CSU Fullerton, Dr. Hagan served as associate vice president for administration at the University of Connecticut, and as a lobbyist for the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut Board of Governors for Higher Education at the state and federal level. He also led U.S. political delegations to London and Taiwan as a member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, a bipartisan, nonprofit educational exchange organization dedicated to fostering relations between the next generation of political leaders in the United States and their international counterparts. Dr. Hagan holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Connecticut and a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA.


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Mollie McWigglebutt is about to be turned into a Brussels sprout by a witch.
This doesn't make sense. Kids who are afraid of the dark aren't afraid of being made into vegetables. They are afraid of being bitten or eaten or chomped on much like you get chomped on here in the Shark Tank.
Will Mollie face her fear of the dark and defeat the witch, or will she be doomed to live her life as a Brussels sprout in a strange monster realm?
There's nothing distinctive here. What you need to focus on is HOW Mollie faces her fears, not that she has them. Does she hang Hindu prayer flags? Does she sacrifice virgins? Does she elect John McCain? Oh wait, she's only seven right, she can't vote.
Children (ages 7-10) reading my chapter book Things That Go Bump in the Night (3478 words) will laugh, cheer, and tingle with anticipation as they journey with Mollie on her quest to conquer her fears.
This is the sentence that says "amateur hour" to me. Don't tell me how people will react. SHOW me by writing a query letter that makes ME laugh, cheer, and tingle. I may not be 7 but I love Fancy Nancy and Olivia and cupcakes too. And so do children's book agents to whom you will direct this query when it's fixed up.
Books similar to mine are:
Julie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed by Barbara Park
Oh Bother! Someone's Afraid of the Dark! by Betty Birney
Whooos's Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost? by Kay Winters
You don't have to list books that are similar to yours. That's something for a non-fiction book proposal.
With the exception of the book written by Ms. Parks, the above listed book targets the younger reader.
Some older children are still afraid of the dark (like my elder son) and that's my reason for writing the book. The main character in my book depends very little on her parents, and is empowered by her own actions and decisions.
This isn't targeted to irrational seven year olds? What's the demographic? Remember kids read UP the age bracket not down. That means a ten year old does NOT want to read about a 7-year-old; s/he wants to read about a 12-year-old.
My book also contains the original Peanut Butter Song (sung to the tune of "You are my sunshine"), which was a hit with my test audience of 6-10 year-olds.
Words fail me. Please tell me you didn't include a CD.
My works have appeared in ezines, newspapers and magazines, including Sasee, Adoption Today, Story Station, Holiday Crafts 4 Kids, and JustForMom.com
Works? Do you mean stories? Essays? Illustrations?
I am also a contributor to anthology collections such as Laughing and Learning: Adventures in Parenting, Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul, and Chicken Soup for the Coffee Lover's Soul.
I also have experience promoting and organizing my own book signings.
Really? Why?
Thank you for considering "Things that go Bump in the Night". I have included the first five and a half pages in the body of this email.
Unless you were referred by a client or someone I actually know, having someone tell you I'm the cat's pjs is baseless flattery. While I'm not all that opposed to baseless flattery it should be accompanied by the now famous twenty dollar bill.


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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Meet Compton
Download your 32bit or 64bit version and try it while it's hot. Combine it with your favourite dock or whatever. And this program solves the problem that Lubuntu 12.10 users may have with other composite managers, like Cairo or XCompMgr. You can check the screenshot to see it's really beautiful, but I can sure you that it's really fast too!
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Can you tell which dock is used in the above screenshot? Thanks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2012 10:46 pm
I wanna know the name of your dock too. Your top panel looks gorgeous as well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2012 11:57 pm
Ir's docky, using the HUD theme (included in docky package). And the panel is the new default panel for lubuntu Quantal Quetzal. I'm glad you like it, thanks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 1:26 am
i have a dependency missing libconfig9 and its not available on the repro.ReplyDelete
Is there any chance that I could get the link to that wallpaper? It's amazing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 2:56 am
I have got 12.04 and in order to install compton you need to download libconfig9 from Ubuntu Quantal packages.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 6:06 am
Is there a gui for this program, so we can configure it easily? Besides, is there a way to configure if we want a certain configuration at startup?
Thanks for your attention
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 10:50 am
If people want to try out on 12.04 go to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/i386/libconfig9/1.4.8-5ReplyDelete
to download libconfig9 and after install COmpton
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 1:40 pm
Yep, my fault. Didn't imagine that was for Quantal only. But it's solved thanks to "Anonymous" :)ReplyDelete
The wallie is here:
Yep, the eye candy is why I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 instead of Lubuntu right now :pReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 02, 2012 9:51 pm
Corbin, look at this:ReplyDelete
i can't wait for the final release, i will direct to that lubuntu 12.10, for sure!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 04, 2012 4:29 pm
I installed this in Lubuntu 12.04 installing ldconfig9 first.
Is there GUI for Compton? Or an easy way to remember the settings at startup? In my case, I wish to use transparencies in taskbar, for example.
Help? Anyone?
- AnonymousOctober 04, 2012 10:48 pm
Not yet., but you can type "compton --help" on a terminal, or just having a look here...ReplyDelete
The official page:
or this wonderful guide (spanish):
I have a simple launcher at startup folder with all the options I need (not too much, just -cGb).
- AnonymousOctober 06, 2012 4:34 am
I have been reading the comments and so far I have seen this is a very nice program. But I have not seen any way to allow transparencies in the Lubuntu taskbar. Is this a limitation of Compton? Or rather a limitation of LXDE tasbar (or perhaps the default theme overrides the transparencies?)
- AnonymousOctober 06, 2012 3:00 pm
Mayb, because I can't find the way of droping a shadow under it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 21, 2012 12:37 pm
How do I create launcher at startup, so COMPTON will start automatically?
- AnonymousOctober 21, 2012 1:23 pm
Type this on a terminal:ReplyDelete
sudo leafpad /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart
then put this line:
@compton -c -r 16 -l -24 -t -12 -G -b
Or try your own parameters for the shadows :)
can someone provide a ppa for Compton (best to include it in Lubuntu daily ppa)? There have been a lot of updates from the git since September.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2012 8:23 pm
I'm looking for it. If I found it I'll publish here, don't worry.ReplyDelete
I really like Compton and have been using it for awhile but I can't seem to use conky with LXDE without shadows other than by setting the conky window type to Desktop. But that makes conky disappear as soon as you click on the desktop. If anyone knows of a workaround that would be great.ReplyDelete
leafpad ~/.config/compton.config
I succeeded blacklisting notification from being dropped shadow by adding this to shadow-exclude. You may want to replace Noti with Conky or just con
shadow-exclude = [ "g:si:Noti" ];
Add compositing and "aero" snap (12.10)ReplyDelete
apt-get install xfwm4 xfwm4-themes xfce4-settings. Edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart. Add the following lines: @xfwm4 --replace, @xfsettingsd. Restart. From run box: xfce4-settings-manager. Change keyboard shortcuts alt+f2 to lxpanelctl run then ctrl+alt+del to lxtask. Configure themes, compositing, desktops to your preference. Need extra help: google xfce4 settings, aero snap, etc. Have fun. And sorry compton, you're out of a job.
Sorry. Sub the lubuntu folder instead of LXDE. I remove all the lubuntu customizations from my system and use a straight LXDE.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 01, 2013 6:43 pm
RootKit: of course it's a solution. You can use Compiz too if you want. But you're mixing two desktops, and this is a Lubuntu dedicated blog, so I can't talk about XFCE apps, even if it's a great environment.ReplyDelete
Xubuntu looks very primitve compared Lubuntu. I can't stand it. Trying compton on Lubuntu is the reason I got started on this in the first place. Although I think compton adds a little eye candy, it's not really different than the other lightweight compositors such as xcompmgr, cairo-compmgr, etc. Compton gives you some drop shadows and transparency with a very low resource hit. It's nice. For a few mb more, changing window managers can give you full aero snap and a GUI to configure all aspects of the compositor. That's what Lubuntu is about: A great performing lightweight desktop. Installing Compiz goes against all this, so your statement is NOT valid.ReplyDelete
You also know that Lubuntu makes use of many XFCE componenets such as Xfburn and xfce4-power-manager. So you're telling me you can't support them or talk about them? Freedesktop.org compliant components can be freely mixed in any system and should function properly. Just because I use Xfwm4 doesn't mean I'm not using Lubuntu. Bottom line: You sound like all the other computer techs I know. They all know everything so they stop improving and suck at their jobs. Try thinking forward and use my comments constructively with compton, like improving on it.
For those wanting to give compton a try a ppa exists for Quantal: ppa:yunnxx/gnome3ReplyDelete
If you want the latest and greatest a github page exists where you can build compton from the latest source: https://github.com/chjj/compton
I'm a developer of compton (richardgv on GitHub), and firstly, thanks for packaging compton. :-)ReplyDelete
I would recommend against using the package provided in the post, as:
1. It isn't exactly up-to-date. compton has experienced quite some changes since September.
2. The man pages in the package is obsolete. As what we explained in README.md of the compton git repo, we have two sets of man pages, and the one in the package is the outdated one. (Those obsolete man pages will go away very soon, though.) The most up-to-date man page is ./man/compton.1.asciidoc in the git repo.
3. I think it's better to install compton.sample.conf into /usr/share/doc instead of /etc/xdg, as compton reads the configuration file by default if it's in /etc/xdg, and it generates puzzling behavior for some users ( https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/28#issuecomment-12183308 ).
Frankly I do not know which .deb repo contains an up-to-date version of compton right now. The recommended way to install compton is to clone from the git repo and build it. (By the way, the richardgv-dev branch in the git repo may contain more features and more bugs compared with the master branch.)
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2013 3:08 pm
Richard, pleased to meet you. You made a great piece of software. A lot of *buntu users are talking (and using) about this program (like me, I'm a daily user).ReplyDelete
I just wanted to say that we're looking for a place (surely a PPA) to build an up-to-date version, as we expect the new features. As soon as it will be active I'll change the information posted here and update all the links and referrals.
Thank you very much.
Ah, thanks, I'm glad you like it! :-)
By the way, chjj made the software, not only me.
We have a CPackConfig.cmake configuration file in the git repo that could be used with CPack to generate RPM/DEB packages, and it still works, although the .DEB it generates contains wrong dependencies and metadata, together with some other issues, so cannot be used directly. (I'm a Gentoo user myself, and knows pretty little about DEB.)
Hmm, anyway, looks like most .deb packages floating around are somehow outdated. I will try to set up a PPA on launchpad myself tomorrow, but I may not be lucky enough to get this working soon. :-)
So, after hours struggling with Ubuntu and Launchpad, I've gotten a PPA for *buntu 12.10: https://launchpad.net/~richardgv/+archive/compton
(And Ubuntu and Launchpad indeed gave some moderately negative impression this time. :-) )
Please don't add this PPA to your blog post yet. I'm not too sure about the quality of the package and need some advices from the experienced. In particular:
1. With the extremely scattered and messy documentation I found about Launchpad PPA, I still do not have an idea what is the correct format of a version number. 0.0.9+1git20130113-0ppa1-1 is what I chose (because our next release is 0.1.0). Does it actually conform to the standard?
2. Is anybody willing to review the files under ./debian for possible issues, as this is first time I do .deb packing manually?
3. Well, if I wish to build .deb packages for other *buntu versions do I have to upload .changes for several times with different debian/changelog? Or I should try the "source package recipe"?
4. I'm currently defining a build time environment variable (COMPTON_VERSION) in ./debian/rules. (This variable will be automatically determined if the directory is a git repo, but for a Debian package this is not the case, and I need to specify it manually.) Is there's a better way/place to specify it?
5. The Makefile uses Asciidoc for man page building. Asciidoc uses the Docbook toolchain to do this, and unfortunately on Ubuntu, the Docbook toolchain is not a required dependency of the asciidoc package. (Unlike on, for example, Gentoo.) I had to specify a list of additional dependencies (libxml2-utils, xsltproc, xmlto) to make sure it builds fine. But I got those dependencies from experiments, so they may pull in unnecessary packages. Does anybody know more about what packages asciidoc exactly uses for conversation to man pages?
Another thing is, what is the PPA is a bleeding-edge version from our development branch, so you can't count it as very stable.
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2013 9:46 pm
@Richard: after a few days testing your PPA's version of Compton, both on Quantal and Raring, I noticed it worked perfectly. It's stable and has support for the new features. So I'd like to post (with your permission) public the new repository and replace the current one (gnome3 team) at the Tips'n'Tricks page.ReplyDelete
Ah, thanks for testing. :-) I've just uploaded a new snapshot to the PPA (with D-Bus remote control support + a few minor bug fixes) and build hasn't yet started. Feel free to make the PPA public when you believe the latest version there is stable enough.
- AnonymousApril 21, 2013 9:02 pm
sometimes when I start up my lubuntu compton does not start!
In such cases I can just logout and relogin to make it work, but it's annoying!
Can you help me?
This is my /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart file:
@lxpanel --profile Lubuntu
@xscreensaver -no-splash
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile lubuntu
@compton -c -r 4 -l -5 -t -5 -G -b
@Anonymous (above):ReplyDelete
I remember similar problems with old versions of compton. So, first things first, please make sure you are using an up-to-date version of compton. The DEB package provided in the blog post is very out-dated, and there is no support we could provide for such old versions. Please use a version compiled directly from our git repo or from an up-to-date package source (for example, Crunchbang's pool, my PPA, or compton package on Debian Mentors). If you have an up-to-date version, the first line `compton -h` prints will be something like "compton (git-85e7d18-2013-04-21)".
If you discovered this issue appearing with a recent build, you could check if compton prints out any error messages. If you don't start X from a virtual console (therefore couldn't see the output messages), you may use shell redirection to redirect the output of compton to a file. As far as I know, lxsession doesn't allow shell operators in its autostart file, but you could use:
@sh -c 'compton -c -r 4 -l -5 -t -5 -G >> /tmp/compton-dump.txt'
If you think your problem is specifically tied to the -b option (which redirects the output stream to /dev/null), you may use:
@sh -c 'compton -c -r 4 -l -5 -t -5 -G -b --logpath /tmp/compton-dump.txt >> /tmp/compton-dump2.txt'
You may also wish to check if there are something interfering in your other autostart applications, in particular, another compositor. (compton will refuse to start if another compositor is running.)
The author of Semplice Linux wrote a GTK+ 3.x configuration tool for compton called "paranoid".ReplyDelete
paranoid looks interesting. :-) It seems pretty weak, and I don't get why it doesn't use a python-libconfig binding to read/write the configuration file, though.
- AnonymousNovember 05, 2013 11:12 pm
Does anybody have a deb package for testing?ReplyDelete


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Hi Maki,
I've browsing your "Just Hungry" site and found the Kyoto trip reportage, it is wonderful, as are the pictures. At the last week of July/beginning of August I'll be in Kyoto for 2 weeks, one for holidays and one for a congress, and I've been browsing around for things to do.
One thing that I would really want to do is to visit the "Moss temple", the Kokedera, I love gardens and moss, and in the heat of summer it sounds like the perfect place to be, quiet and fresh(er).
I found that it is necessary to apply in advance and to have a short "sutra chanting and copying session" and I'm a bit perplex about this part, especially because both me and my partner are agnostic and don't speak any Japanese. Have you been there? Do you think it is worth the effort (and the money) or that we can find other places to visit.
On a more general note, how easy is to go around for tourists that don't speak Japanese in Kyoto? For example I would love to go to a tofu restaurant like the one youtalk about....and as in the first week we are not staying in a hotel, but in a micro-apartment, we can't even ask somebody from the hotel to phone for us to make reservations and so on.
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As not said, the conference I was going to has just been cancelled and postponed one year, pity that my contract and the one of my partner will be finished at the time of the new date, and we will be in the middle of the usual mess of looking for jobs and trying to sell our house and so on, again.
Our finances does not really allow us to just change the plane ticket, pay back to our institute the money they payed for the conference flight and just go on holiday one week on our money.
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There goes the trip of my lifetime.....
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I'm so sorry your conference got cancelled! To answer your questions though (in case other people run into this topic) - the Kokedera, whose real name is Saihoji, is definitely worth a visit. You have to trace over a page of Buddhist prayers of sorts when you first get there - tracing over these words (the act is called shakkei) is supposed to let you internalize the words. If you regard it as a cultural experience rather than a religious one, and can stand sitting on the floor for a good 30 to 40 minutes, it's actually quite calming! The gardens are definitely worth a visit - really really impressive. I found an English page with instructions on how to get an invitation thing - http://www.yamasa.org/japan/english/destinations/kyoto/saihoji.html
As for Kyoto, the whole city is very tourist-oriented - It's a town that really depends on tourism (unlike, say Tokyo) - and they love foreign tourists. Most regular people do not speak much English but you can find lots of help. Normally there are many foreign tourists there. I hope you get to go one day!
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Here's a blog post that sheds more light on the Kokedera experience for English speaking travelers. It includes information at the end about obtaining permission to visit.
We just recently came back from a visit to Kyoto. This was our second visit to Saiho-ji and they've modified the ceremony portion quite a bit since our first visit. On the first visit, everyone sat at traditional desks on the floor and copied the sutra in kanji. It was a bit daunting! On this visit, they had tables & chairs set up on the temple porch for those who didn't speak Japanese. We waited through the ceremony and then had the option to fill out a stick detailing our goals/wishes, that the priests would later burn. I'm somewhat shocked by the experience detailed in the blog post above. I'm glad that I wasn't there on the same day. The priests and staff at Saiho-ji were friendly, accommodating, and not at all pushing their religion on us at any point, on both visits. In fact, the ceremony made me feel more receptive and ready to see the garden, which is a true marvel. It's a shame that Saiho-ji needed to take these steps to preserve their garden, but after seeing some of the damage at heavily-trafficked sites in Arashiyama, I can't help but feel that they took the right steps. It is a site well worth a visit and truly a wonderful place to visit.
If you'd like to see some photos of both our visits to Saiho-ji, you can see them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimtimnashville/tags/saihoji/
If you are going to a religious location I guess it would be rather naive to not expect to be faced with you know, religion. ^_^; I myself am not religious at all, but I really enjoy the history and spiritualism of great religious buildings (cathedrals, temples, monasteries...) I do not feel that I am being forced to convert or anything if I say, am asked to donate to the church and/or buy a candle etc. I feel like I am helping to keep up a place of historical and cultural significance.
The Saihoji experience to me was very nice; other than getting a bad cramp in my foot (being Japanese I felt it was my duty or something to sit on the floor, not at one of the desks ^_^;;) I found it very calming.
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