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Tufa is essentially common limestone. What is uncommon about this limestone is the way it forms. Typically, underwater springs rich in calcium (the stuff in your bones) mix withlakewater rich in carbonates (the stuff in baking soda). As the calcium comes in contact with carbonates in the lake, a chemical reaction occurs resulting in calcium carbonate--limestone. The calcium carbonate precipitates (settles out of solution as a solid) around the spring, and over the course of decades to centuries, a tufa tower will grow. Tufa towers grow exclusively underwater, and some grow to heights of over 30 feet. The reason visitors see so much tufa around Mono Lake today is because the lake level fell dramatically after water diversions began in 1941. (MonoLake.org)
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Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Atlantica says the campaign, running on several television stations, uses humor to persuade people to reduce flushes.
The group says if a household avoids one flush a day, it can save up to 4,380 liters (1,157 gallons) of water annually.
SOS spokeswoman Adriana Kfouri said Tuesday that the ad is "a way to be playful about a serious subject."
The spot features cartoon drawings of people from all walks of life — a trapeze artist, a basketball player, even an alien — urinating in the shower.
Narrated by children's voices, the ad ends with: "Pee in the shower! Save the Atlantic rainforest!"
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ebashir necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 501 diseños de 107 diseñadores freelance.
Have you ever been in a city and didn't know where to go, what to do or how to get somewhere. Dardig aims to be the resource to finding your way around African and Middle Eastern cities; helping people get out and about. It will hold listings of local events, businesses, restaurants, tourist attractions, etc...
Dardig will be similar in nature to Google Maps, where a user will be able to search for a point of interest, category or event type and have the result(s) displayed on a map so their geographical locations are easily identified.
The word "Dardig", which is Arabic (written in Latin characters) is equivalent to the English word "Roll" (definition below):
Roll : –verb
1. to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
2. to move or be moved on wheels, as a vehicle or its occupants.
3. to revolve or turn over, once or repeatedly, as a wheel on an axis or a person or animal lying down.
4. (Informal) . to begin to move; to go: Let's roll at sunrise. Let's roll (let's go)
5. (Informal) . to go forward or advance without restrictions or impediments: The economy is finally beginning to roll.
The arabic word is pretty much used in exactly the same way it's English counterpart is, whether in formal or slang. Even though all of the above meanings apply, the meaning we're most interested in implying by the name is #4
Help us help people get out and have fun.
Enjoy and happy designing :)
The users of Dardig will mostly fall within the age range of 17-35. They are comfortable with and have embraced the web in their daily lives (remember, it's not as adopted in that region as it is in the west), and as such, are considered part of the forward-thinking "hip" crowd.
The site will mainly be used to find places to go for entertainment (e.g. theaters, restaurants, cafes, cinemas, events, etc…), and to a lesser degree businesses (offices, stores, barber shops, etc…)
-A logo that is not restricted to a particular culture
-White/transparent background
-Should somehow reflect the implied meaning(s) (see above)
-Clear, simple and clean design
-Logo would be described as youthful with a subtle strength, hip and light. See the attached "logos I like" document for examples.
-Color combinations preferred are orange, shades of grey, and/or possibly blue; but will also consider other colors
-The name in the logo should lend itself to easily being replaced by the arabic text name (we can take care of the actual replacement if you prefer)
-Alternatively, logos incorporating both, the English and Arabic text names, are very much welcome and appreciated but not mandatory as long as the previous point is met.
-This is not a tourist guide so please no designs of earth, planes and cars
1) Please read the public comments I've made since they include valuable suggestions, hints and feedback.
2) Please keep in mind that in addition to "rolling" dardig also means "going" so you may also want to experiment with concepts that portray that (e.g. silhouette walking, shoe footsteps, bare foot steps, etc...). Just a suggestion :) More ideas/concepts would be great too. Get creative
3) Please do not let the Arabic text get in the way of your creativity. We would much rather have something that looks good in English than something that's average but has both languages
Attached are the following files:
"arabic_text": arabic text that you may copy and paste in your design.
"logos_I_like": some logos I like that satisfy the above requirements for their respective businesses. I'm open to different concepts though.
"marker_icon": the map marker/pin icon we're using on our website in case you would like to reference it.
If you would like the files in a different format please let us know. Also, feel free to ask any questions you may have; we'd love to work with you.
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November 20, 1974 - December 31, 1974
The best of British contemporary design was displayed from November to December in the Collab 1974: British Contemporary Design exhibition sponsored by the Museum's Inter-Society Committee for 20th-Century Decorative Arts.
October 4, 1974 - December 10, 1974
In conjunction with the publication of the Museum's 1975 Engagement Calendar featuring American watercolors and drawings from the Museum's collections, the originals were exhibited in the A Level corridor from October 4 through December 10. These were supplemented with other works from the collection chosen by Ann Percy, Associate Curator of Drawings.
May 12, 1974 - June 16, 1974
The Friends of the Museum celebrated their tenth anniversary this year with the exhibition A Decade of Gifts. The objects in the exhibition represented the superb and varied works acquired through the Friends since the organization was founded in 1964.
January 29, 1974 - April 30, 1974
Selected examples of American art new to the Museum's collections, ranging from paintings and furniture to decorative arts of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, were installed in the Recent Acquisitions Gallery in January by Darrel Sewell and Beatrice Garvan, Curator and Associate Curator, respectively, of American Art.
November 8, 1973 - January 6, 1974
The Museum paid tribute to the remarkable photographic achievement of Clarence John Laughlin in The Personal Eye. The exhibition of some 200 photographs distilled the essence of Laughlin's life work, from scenes of his native New Orleans to the poetic fantasies that reveal the scope of his creative abilities.


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Aus 150 Designs von 22 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
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Please Check-out "Update #3"
We are the leader in the social networking space and have built social networking sites for companies ranging from Disney to Mashable.com. Looking to re-design our Company Website..
(NEW LINK) Get the current ConVerdge LOGO here: [http://www.box.net/shared/2cumx1ymg5]
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UPDATE #2 For Highlighting our Custom built community Branded iPHONE App - Please see this site: http://evernote.com/about/download/iphone/ (http://evernote.com/) Really like what they did with this..
UPDATE #1 We are looking for the redesign of our Home "About" page but are offering a BONUS for Winning layout deigns submitted that include a redesign of our Platform, Clients and features pages as well... (SEE NOTE # 2)
- Platform page: We thought a cool Visual of Various screens shots of our platform would work... (See sites we launched under "Clients" section of current ConVerdge Site) As well as incorporating our Platforms "Core Features Set" ( see current website) into this page.. Feel free to change update Icons.
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We are a social media, networking and community building specialist. We help clients around the globe connect, communicate and share content online. We created a superior Social platform that enables us to white-label our turnkey hosted solution for anyone that wants to quickly establish themselves with the best of web 2.0 technologies. ConVerdge empowers both large organizations and small businesses to customize, personalize, target, distribute and monetize their brand by delivering a robust, scalable and reliable solution.
We feel our current website Layout/design doesn't best depict what we provide/stand for as a company well and is just plain boring... Looking for a completly new and fresh Site design speaking more to what is written above... Basically looking for a Trendy WEB 2.0 Style Site design...
NEW CORP SITE DESIGN:- First take a look @ our current Web site here : ConVerdge and the take a look @ a design idea I've been playing around with here: Example.
- When coming up with a NEW site design Idea remember: People who cometo the ConVerdge site are looking to build out a Social network aroundtheir existing Brand or particular Niche.. We offer a number ofpowerful Solutions which range from the do-it-yourself communitybuilder App, launching soon (Niich.com), To complete Custom builtadvanced communities for companies such as Mashable.com and Disney...We want our Site's homepage to embody this notion...
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Quote:A horrible tragedy. But I am not sure they are making the right decision here.http://www.policeone.com/training/articles/127313/"AUSTIN, Texas- The Texas Department of Public Safety said it will no longer train police officers with a boxing drill that resulted in a recruit's death last year.The department suspended full-contact fighting after Jimmy Ray Carty Jr. died of head injuries last May. He was knocked to the ground at least twice by blows to the head."We are confident we will find ways to train them that will keep them safe and keep the people of the state of Texas safe," department spokeswoman Tela Mange said Wednesday.The agency used the drill for at least 30 years and had argued it was useful training for officers who must be prepared to fight on the streets.But consultants hired by the department after Carty's death recommended the drill be eliminated because it caused too many head injuries and did not involve realistic situations.The department also banned all other exercises that involve hitting or other hard contact between trainees."Given that many police officers face physical conflict every day, I'm not sure that removing all "live" training is a good idea. Many aspects of combat cannot be imparted without resistance. I mean, should CPR be not taught if someone gets injured? Accidents are bound to happen. With all due respect to the dead cadet. Not trying to minimize the heartache of the family involved.
Quote:Why do policeman or statetroopers need to know how to box with gloves on? That kind of training is for sport and the ring not for the streets or law enforcement.
Quote:I disagree. Sport is just an aspect of training. The idea is to get the officers used to hitting and being hit with energy and resistance.
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Quote:I think you have missed the ENTIRE f&*king point. What is MORE of a liability; officers getting injured in training or dying in combat?
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My family and I have been going through an interesting and challenging time. I have not been feeling at all like myself, with zero energy and other signs of a distressed body. I referred to it as feeling "bone tired;" my husband refers to this time period as the time I "fell apart". We did a load of lab tests with my doctors, and yesterday we finally got the results.
Turns out I have basically no reserves of iron. To throw out some numbers, I am at a 6, when it should be at least 70 or 110! When your iron is that low, it affects a lot of other things in your body. This explains why my thyroid isn't humming along, for example. It seems I am not absorbing the iron from my food, which may be caused by some food intolerances. We also had a food antibody test done, which found that I am reacting fairly highly to all gluten grains, dairy, eggs and a couple of random fruits (bananas, cranberries and pineapple) and almonds. When your digestion is messed up with foods it can't digest well, sometimes you can't absorb iron well. That is at least the working theory for me at this point.
How are we going to fix it? Well, as of yesterday, I am avoiding 100 percent all of the foods that I have high antibodies to. I will also be doing iron transfusions (eight of them), to get my iron levels back to normal. Once my iron is back to normal, we will wait until the spring to recheck my thyroid and see if it bounces back. We will also check my iron in the future to make sure that it doesn't get low again. If it does, we will explore other reasons why I am not absorbing iron.
I am so thankful to find out why I have been dealing with overwhelming fatigue. While I can't get in to start my transfusions until January (we are hoping for cancelations so that I can get in sooner), I am just thankful to have hope that I will feel so much better once my iron is back up.
Ironically, I mentioned that I call the feeling "bone tired;" well, it appears I wasn't far off there! One of the lab results indicated that my bone marrow was working extra hard (or something like that — I admit, I didn't follow all of the technical language. I'll blame it on low iron levels!). My low iron caused this.
It also means no banana ice cream, no maple whipping cream, no cranberry apple mini pies, no cranberry orange sauce, and definitely no gluten. But that's OK! I already cook mostly gluten-free for my daughter. I will just have to make sure that when we are dining out, I don't have soy sauce over my rice, or when I make a sandwich I use gluten-free bread, etc. So there isn't a whole lot of gluten to take out of my diet anyway. I will miss eggs the most, I think. And cranberries. And bananas.
But if it helps me absorb iron better, it will be worth it! Plus, the vast majority of foods I enjoy are perfectly fine for me.
Should I be on the GAPS diet? I've talked about the GAPS diet before, and how it helps heal the digestion tract, which can then help with a wide variety of health issues. For some, it could help heal the digestion tract so that absorbing iron wasn't an issue anymore. At this point, I have chosen not to be on the GAPS diet, because being on a completely starch-free diet over time doesn't makes me feel well. However, I think that making homemade bone broths and eating lacto-fermented vegetables and beverages is an excellent way to boost your digestion, so I will do those things regardless. The GAPS diet may not be ideal for everyone long term, and I may be one of those people, but I do know that many people have used it successfully to help with a wide variety of health issues. The gut is so important for good health after all!
So, that is my little personal update. I am looking forward to better energy in the future!
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Delaware State has a historical relationship with the neuroscience graduate program at Drexel University (in Philadelphia) and more recently with the University of Delaware, so students can explore the option of completing their thesis research at one of these institutions. The program also offers complete preparation for eventual PhD studies, and culminates in an original MS thesis based on independent laboratory research. Many of the MS courses can be applied towards DSU's PhD in Neuroscience if the student is accepted into that program and passes the comprehensive examination to enter the doctoral level.
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If you buy into some of the marketing
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flexible enough that you can contort your body in odd ways while
wearing little clothing and still look good. Certain brands even like
to claim that yoga is a cardio exercise and will help you lose
weight, essentially promising that you too can be that thin and look
good in spandex, if only you try. If you actually practice yoga,
hopefully you realize that is far from the point. As fun as it may be
to think that yoga can fix just about anything, do we really need it
Studies have shown that yoga can
improve focus, attention, reduce stress, regulate blood sugar, combat
depression, and lower blood pressure. Although the list of proven
benefits goes on, some also want to claim that it's a good
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Without trying to debunk yoga or
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Greenfield recently broke down the numbers to illustrate what yoga
would look like as a high calorie burning, cardiovascular exercise.
Greenfield cites several studies to explain his numbers, including
one in which even the vigorous Ashtanga sequences didn't increase
the average rate of heartbeats per minute in a significant way, which
is the goal in cardio exercise. As for weight loss, for the average
person to burn even 800 calories in one yoga class, they would have
to expend energy equal to running at 6.7 miles per hour for the
entire class. To put this into context, Bikram
Choudhury and his teachers claim their technique can help you burn up
to 1,000 calories per class. That is a really
fast run.
Obviously, this doesn't mean that
yoga has never helped anyone to lose weight or get his or her heart
rate up to an optimal cardio zone. Everyone has different metabolic
rates and medical histories, and each person's body will react in
its own way. Greenfield suggests that yoga helps people achieve their
weight loss goals indirectly, by reducing stress, increasing
discipline, and improving body awareness and motivation.
This may be as close as we can get to
being able to honestly claim yoga can help shed pounds. Isn't that
actually a good thing? Aside from the fact that many of the images
used in yoga marketing materials probably scare away as many people
as they inspire, we have a society obsessed with appearances and
being skinny. The beauty of yoga is that it can help you shut all of
this noise, and find a place of stillness within yourself and a truth
beyond gimmicks. Yogis come in all shapes and sizes, and just as
looking like a cover model isn't a good measure of inner peace,
achieving your cardio target shouldn't be a measure of a good yoga
Do you look to yoga as a form of cardio


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I always here that freebsd is about performance and openbsd is about security.
The myriad of decisions made in development constantly juggles a number of conflicting needs, goals, desires, wants, & reality. Of greater importance is stability, & the fact that the OpenBSD project is small -- meaning that there aren't enough resources to focus on every issue at all times.
Do other *BSD's perform better at specific tasks? Some do.
Is this important? For most people & tasks, no.
People have to choose between performance and security
It was maybe serious question 10-15 years ago, when we had pentium 166mmx, and small amount of memory.
But today, instead of paying 50-100 dollars to the vps/dedicated server, just pay 150 and get openbsd.
I mean, I can compensate the performance with more dollars but can you do it with security? NO
Get a group of experts to develop a secure operating system for you,
because in 2012 the net is so much crowded with hackers.
The security of openbsd is much more then just 100 dollars.
Not even 10,000 dollars.
In 2000 performance is expensive but security is cheap.
In 2012 performance is cheap but security is expensive.
What do you think?
Last edited by barti; 19th July 2012 at 09:04 PM.
The trouble with taking OS performance to the Nth degree is that it can lead to unclean design, and lack of portability, in that the upper layers of software have to get too close to the hardware. Pick your poison I guess.
I see it big issue for people to decide between openbsd and freebsd.
The big idea is that they don't know the real story behind the scenes.
Only developers can decide which to choose from.
Or you can go the other way and use really old non-x86/amd64 hardware. I suggest you pick up a VAX. Now your decision becomes very easy.
Hi barti !
When I first came to learn about the BSDs , I learnt 3 'labels' :
OpenBSD : Security
NetBSD : Portability
FreeBSD : Usability
This was not adequate as far as I -a user- am concerned
Portability : both OpenBSD and NetBSD are portable to powerpc hardware but for my case OpenBSD was more successfully so ( easy install , working rum0, working X, etc) (maybe I'm not mistaken to think of portability as lame when not combined with ease)
Security : all of them are secure and security-focused .. with slight differences with OpenBSD as king.
Usability : What is it really ?
if it means desktop experience : OpenBSD+Gnome or Kde reaches the same usability summit of PcBSD .. why bother ?
if it means speed/responsiveness : it's rocking fast
if it means lots of software : it has enough for me and zen choice works (eg. graphics : gimp and inkscape are enough for me .. for html pages , august and bluefish , Libreoffice for ) I did't miss a particular matter-of-life-or-death software.
barti , what do YOU want ?
I used PcBSD last year .. it was an easy big N slow Kde4 , so bloated.that wasn't the usability I wanted.PBIs make it worse.
All in all, It's only you who can know what suits your needs.
As ocicat told you (concerning window managers) : why not try some yourself and discover most suitable? same applies to OS choice.If I were in your shoes, I'd keep my newly hacked OpenBSD desktop .. and install FreeBSD on another disk or use a FreeBSD-based livecd (PcBSD may be used as a live , freesbie .. although live cds partially fail to show real performance) .. yet the real challenge for us newbies is :
How to install the new OS + how to get X (desktop) working + software management
If we start before gathering enough information from official websites , we get lost halfway or after first reboot (lol)
(it happened to me when trying NetBSD eventhough the official guides are so great :-) )
So take your time to try & decide :-)
- Flash support? (on FreeBSD You can use COMPAT_LINUX for that)
- VirtualBox or any valuable alternative? (QEMU is dead slow)
- Boot Environments or anything comparable? (sysutils/beadm)
- Opera? (does it work using Linux compatibility layer on OpenBSD?)
- Nvidia drivers? (there are none for OpenBSD as I know, this is blob but still provides acceleration)
- Graphical Sound Configurator (PCBSD ONLY)
- Graphical Jail Management (PCBSD ONLY) - if I recall there are no such thins like Jails on OpenBSD
- Graphical Network Manager (PCBSD ONLY)
If we compare 'Your' desktop experience, then even MINIX3 with some DE is usable ...
What OpenBSD can offer besides not having these?
religions, worst damnation of mankind
"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds
Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX".
vermaden's: links resources deviantart spreadbsd
I want fast and secure server, not a gaming zone !
It is not about the user experience, it is about the CODE QUALITY that matters.
Only developers can decide.
Last edited by barti; 30th September 2012 at 09:25 PM.
Hi vermaden ! I avoid adobe flash because it's been a security risk .. I use gnash+firefox .. and youtube-dl to download flash .. months ago , I fell in love with minitube :-) As for emulation , I pragmatically believe that a better way is using live cds/usbs , or simply dual-booting. As for Opera , I always use it on OpenBSD (despite it's being a closed source) .. its compilation is quite easy and fast .. (fedora_base , groff etc ) .. Nvidia : I have GeForce on Acer Aspire but really never bothered its existence .. I never go gaming ..OpenBSD doesn't claim being a gaming platform eventhough it does provide emulators like stella/mednafen/dosbox/zsnes .... and pop games PcBSD can't be a Linux-Killer as far as gaming is concerned .. it is as a matter fact a beginner's gateway toward BSD World .. other challenging gateways are on the way. Graphical utilities : what's the use having them while CLI works ? don't they threaten a user to learning about his OS internals etc ? and the PBI-way as graphical bundling too , doesn't it contradict UNIX & BSD philosophy? ( I'm asking to show that PcBSD dosn't do something OpenBSD cannot but simply doesn't consider doing because philosophies and thus concerns differ ) you mentioned graphical network management : I've never found as easier as OpenBSD's method : ifconfig/hostname.infterface0/netstart .. PcBSD doesn't help the user as learner .. and when it seems to do so : then it would be autokilling : that is : dropping PBIs for ports and dropping Graphical utils for CLI tweaks .. a waste. we forget sometimes that some 'OpenBSD's missing features' are due to the small Project Team , so focus is on priorities .. whereas some are developpers security-decisions OpenBSD really "makes me feel good" as newbie and am sure it will make me feel better as I advance in learning :-) & Respect to all BSDs.
There are even decent alternatives for all of these three. Many videos can be downloaded with cclive and get_flash_videos. Firefox and Chrome are both available. Well, maybe there's no performant alternative to Nvidia drivers… but I don't buy hardware from them precisely because their specs, docs, and drivers are all wholly proprietary. AMD and Intel both have decent open‐source drivers, and as a result they get my money.
Yes, we do seem to have different definitions of a "desktop system." Is this OpenBSD fanboyism on my part? Hopefully not—I mean, I like NetSurf for web browsing and mupdf for PDF viewing, neither of which are part of base OpenBSD. I just think that smaller is better (i.e., as an aspiration, it's more sustainable, even if it doesn't provide all features that bigger programs provide).
Just because I like OpenBSD doesn't mean that I dislike other BSDs. I eagerly salivate over stuff like FreeBSD's work on LLVM and jails, or Dragonfly's HAMMER and multicore support. Likewise, OpenBSD provides OpenSSH and pf to others. I would rather we worked on what we have in common rather than sniping over desktop choices. People have this strange desire to use Unity or Gnome 3, which I don't understand—I just accept it, in hopes that they'll accept my desktop choices in return.
Many thanks to the forum regulars who put time and effort into helping others solve their problems.
Flash : there is also gecko-mediaplayer as package .. and there are helper firefox-addons like flashvideoreplacer .. or you can change quality to make it run fast.
As I mentioned things that I will miss on OpenBSD after a migration from FreeBSD, there are several things about OpenBSD that I miss in FreeBSD ...
- OpenBSD's focus on implementing proper and *working* suspend/resume [1]
- OpenBSD's developers attitude, while OpenBSD developers actually use OpenBSD for their laptops/workstations and so, FreeBSD developers tend to use Macs/Macbooks for their workplace instead of FreeBSD and that is quite hypocrisy I must say :/
- OpenBSD team ported/implemented GEM/KMS a lot faster then FreeBSD team
- OpenBSD work on wireless drivers is impressive
- OpenBSD's 'software stack' - PF/OpenSSH/OpenSSL/OpenSMTPd/... - lots of great stuff.
[1] from FreeBSD 9.0 and later suspend/resume also works, but it worked a lot earlier and better on OpenBSD
religions, worst damnation of mankind
"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds
Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX".
vermaden's: links resources deviantart spreadbsd
If freezing is symptomatic of bad OS performance then I'd say : OpenBSD almost never freezes on this laptop , while I use it at times as a full desktop (gnome/kde) with lost of GUI applications running at the same time .. this was not the case with PcBSD.On a 8 giga flash stick OpenBSD installs & runs well ! when I first tried installing PcBSD on that very stick it installed but hang on boot and never got on to fancy Kde4.
Is this Equation correct?
Security/Reliability + Usability = Good Performance.
Doesn't it lack a human factor : one's ego : me .. me .. me ? What I'd be using/expecting ..
Doesn't it lack a machine factor : the hardware with all its + & - ? AMD 64 intel athlon ppc ..
I used httrack to mirror big edu sites once on Windows : Fiasco , as data size gets bigger & you can't do extra tasks with ease.In OpenBSD : I was on fvwm , httrack xterms filled 3 to 4 screens : that makes : 12 mirroring instances for days .. It never froze.
Good Performance : offering maximum functionality with minimal/zero undesirable consequences.On Compaq Mini CQ10-130SE : Win** overheats machine while boastfully serving you a Gui+IE.This was not the case with NetBSD/OpenBSD : they serve X + full unix functionality that a Unix average user would expect using .. this without smothering the machine.
Performance is a measurement of various rates, eg. how many transactions can a database handle per minute, how many requests can a Web server handle per minute, etc.
Doing some basic research is in order. Wikipedia's entry is a start:
The practice of developing enhancements directly on the targeted operating system is preferable as it can expose bugs masked in other environments. The practice is known as "eating your own dogfood".
The only time such practices are valid is when all customers will be using the developed product in the same environment. If any aren't, then thorough testing needs to be taking place in the environment in which the developed product will be used.
Also, VMware Fusion being better then VirtualBox on FreeBSD? Let them make VirtualBox better then ... its also open-source.
What about FreeBSD Jails, they are useless for development then?
religions, worst damnation of mankind
"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds
Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX".
vermaden's: links resources deviantart spreadbsd
Thank you @ocicat for schooling us & for the always useful information you supply!
Thank you @vermaden for sharing ideas and allowing us to ! & sorry to both for being shallow , it's but an amateur's feedback not a technician.
Software Quality : OpenBSD does better than the rest --> least buggy OS !
Ubuntu is for humans , easy & pop ya , but the more you install on it the buggier it gets.Try installing as much packages on OpenBSD and compare ! they never undermine the OS stability. (again my shallow feedback)
worry not, sir
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Bench Comes Through
Over the course of the long marathon called a baseball season, it takes contributions from all 25 players and a minor league system. Those on the bench are needed.
Take Wednesday night's Phillies win. Five of the eight RBI came from John Jr., Wilson, Brian and Ben. Brian has been behind the plate 26 times and the Phillies have won 23, including his last 15 starts.
Cliff was a pillar again, his fourth straight win during which he has a 1.71 ERA. At the start of the season, everyone knew he, Doc, Roy-O and Joe were the aces.
One of seven pitchers to come up during the season from Lehigh Valley was Vance, who is on the mound in the series finale Thursday. No telling where the Phillies would be without him.
The seventh LV hurler is Michael Schwimer, a 6-foot-8 right-handed reliever, who was called up Wednesday. The Phillies head for Washington, DC, after Thursday's game aboard an Amtrak charter train. Michael grew up in Alexandria, VA, so the weekend series will be a homecoming for him. He'll probably need a lot of tickets.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley won, 3-1, over Rochester behind a solid start by LH Ryan Edell (5-4), 1 run, 5 hits, 7 innings. OF Brandon Moss hit his 21st home run. He's driven in 6 runs in 3 games this week. LH Joe Savery picked up his 1st save. IronPigs are in second, 1 game out . . . Reading lost twice to Portland, 5-4 and 5-3. 3B Carlos Rivero homered in each game and has gone deep in 3 straight games (#12-13-14) . . . Clearwater was pasted by Dunedin, 10-1. RH Trevor May (9-7) fanned 11 in 6 innings while taking the loss . . . Lakewood edged Delmarva, 5-4; 1B Jim Murphy had 2 RBI, 73 for the season . . . Williamsport was a 3-1 winner over Tri-City; 3B Harold Martinez hit his 2nd home run, LH Lino Martinez improved to 6-2; CF Kyrell Hudson was 3-3 with his 20th stolen base . . . Gulf Coast League Phillies were rained out for the 6th time in the last 11 days.
Alumni Views
"What changes would you like to see in baseball" was a question posed to Phillies Alumni. Here's another view:
George Culver, (RHP, 1973-74; minor league pitching instructor, manager, pitching coordinator, 1981-98)
"Would like to see the DH eliminated, it's taken the athlete out of pitchers. Most of your great old pitchers from the 50's and 60's and back could swing the bat and bunt. Bob Gibson would even steal a base on you. Instant replay would be a good idea as long as it doesn't slow the game down. Definitely for foul balls and home runs the fans interfere with. More wildcard teams would extend the season too long and some undeserving team could get lucky and win. The teams that play the best over the long haul deserve it."


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From the series: Getting Started with Simulink
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Explore how to create a plant control model using Simulink®. The example walks you through how to create both open- and closed-loop systems. You'll learn how to work with transfer functions, step blocks, and sum blocks.
Part 1: Building and Simulating a Simple Simulink Model Learn how to get started with Simulink. Explore the Simulink start page and learn how to use some of the basic blocks and modeling components.
Part 2: Adding a Controller and Plant to the Simulink Model Explore how to create a plant control model using Simulink. The example walks you through how to create both open- and closed-loop systems.
Part 3: Viewing Simulation Results Visualize simulation results using tools such as the Simulation Data Inspector to view and compare signal data from multiple simulations, or the Dashboard Scope to see your results directly in the Simulink editor.
Part 4: Tuning a PID Controller Automatically tune PID gain values using the PID controller block and instantly see the results of your changes in Simulink.
Part 5: Comparing and Saving Simulation Data Use the Simulation Data Inspector in Simulink to compare the results of multiple simulation runs. Open the results in MATLAB Figures to further annotate and add information to your figures.
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7.2.7 Processes Involving Orography
The major mountain ranges of the world play an important role in determining the strength and location of the atmospheric jet streams, mainly by generating planetary-scale Rossby waves and through surface drag. Orography acts both through large-scale resolved lifting and diversion of the flow over and around major mountain ranges, and through sub-grid scale momentum transport due to vertically propagating gravity waves at horizontal scales between 10 and 100 km. The limited horizontal resolution of climate GCMs implies a smoothing of the underlying topography which has sometimes been counteracted by enhancing the terrain by using an envelope orography, but this has adverse effects by displacing other surface physical processes. The sub-grid scale momentum transport acts to decelerate the upper-level flow and is included by gravity-wave drag parametrization schemes (e.g., Palmer et al., 1986; Kim, 1996; Lott and Miller, 1997).
No systematic studies are available to assess the impacts of these procedures and schemes on climate sensitivity and variability. The orographic impact is most pronounced in the Northern Hemisphere winter. Gravity wave drag implies a reduction in the strength of the mid-latitude jet stream by almost 20 ms-1 (Kim, 1996), and alters the amplitude and location of the planetary-scale wave structure (e.g., Zhou et al., 1996). Convective precipitation in models is often spuriously locked onto high topography. Thus the numerical simulation of many key climatic elements, such as rainfall and cloud cover, strongly depends upon orography and is strongly sensitive to the horizontal resolution employed. As such, it is possible that phenomena of climate variability are sensitive to orographic effects and their parametrization (Palmer and Mansfield, 1986). These issues may have potentially important consequences for the planetary-scale distribution of climate change.
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The Deer Park Police Honor Guard is a ceremonial escort lead by Sgt. Sunny Santillana. It is composed of volunteers who are carefully screened for their ability and physical dexterity. Only those persons who are highly motivated and maintain exceptionally high standards of appearance and conduct and show aptitude for ceremonial duty are considered.
The primary purpose of the Deer Park Honor Guard is to provide funeral honors for fallen officers. The Honor Guard may also serve as the "guardians of the colors." They present the nation's colors for various ceremonies and state functions. Additionally, the Deer Park Honor Guard serves as ambassadors to the public, presenting a positive image of their service, and assisting with the recruiting effort.
The Deer Park Honor Guard has represented the City of Deer Park in numerous ceremonies throughout the city and state, including but not limited to:


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This group is for anyone who is currently experiencing any sign or symptom of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). If you know you have PTSD from a diagnosis, whether it be from military or law enforcement related service, current or past trauma, or religious experiences that have led to unresolved trauma, or any other trauma of any kind not mentioned above, this group is for you. I hope to list informative discussions surrounding recovery techniques that I myself am either working through or have worked through, as well as emotional support for any current or acute issues as they arise. I am not licensed to give official medical advice or otherwise, but I myself am a Survivor seeking answers and learning as I go also. I believe that trauma does not go away unless it's dealt with. This is meant to be a safe place to do so. I will not tolerate any breach of the TA guidelines in this group, and any such filth will be reported immediately. I do hope to make this a very safe place for anyone to come to talk to people who have "been there." Hopefully we can all lift each other up and bring a smile while discussing a very heavy and daunting topic: Trauma.
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JBRF is a 501(c)(3) organization that actively promotes and supports scientific research focused on the cause of and treatments for bipolar disorder in children. We are the first and only non-profit foundation dedicated solely to promoting research to identify the source of early-onset bipolar disorder.
The foundation is guided by a remarkable board of directors. Our board is made up of committed parents, treating professionals and world class research investigators who fully recognize the life altering impact that this devastating condition exacts on affected children, their families and communities. We acknowledge the controversy and confusion that surrounds this diagnosis and we firmly believe that the most effective way to clarify the dialogue and find effective treatments is through targeted, science-based research.
JBRF has organized a consortium of collaborating research groups and individual investigators from a number of medical schools and treatment centers including the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York University School of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and SUNY-Syracuse, and will continue to establish collaborations with researchers from other centers around the world to further the goals of the foundation.
This scientific and clinical team is organized around a common research aim: to determine the etiology of juvenile-onset bipolar disorder and thereby advance the state of knowledge about this condition so that more effective treatments can be developed.
There are six areas of study towards which research efforts are directed:
Clinical Phenomenology – Diagnosis and Temperamental Features
Neuropsychology – Cognitive deficits/neural circuits
Neuroimaging – Activation paradigms for fMRI studies of fronto-striatal pathways
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Chronobiology – Circadian and ultradian rest/activity, thermoregulatory, sleep propensity rhythms
Molecular Genetics – Candidate gene studies
Pharmacological Clinical Studies – Double-blind Placebo Controlled Trial in 6-12 year olds with pediatric bipolar disorder with intranasal ketamine


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This is the seventh in a series of Saturday stories profiling the Greater Buffalo Sports? Hall of Fame's Class of 2012.
The Wolfley brothers speak an octave below bass and rattle off grandfather-like stories without effort. It's easy to mix up Craig and Ron; they're both successful NFL players turned radio announcers. On Oct. 17, they'll accomplish something else together: induction into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.
But before they tasted success, the Wolfleys were poor kids in Orchard Park. In a family of four children, their father – a truck driver – made $16,000 in a good year.
"I played 10 years in the NFL and I shouldn't have been there 10 days," Ron said. "It's so beyond my expectation of being a poor kid growing up in an affluent town."
Ron (now 49) was a dynamic special teamer who went to four straight Pro Bowls with the St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals from 1986-89. Big brother Craig (54) played offensive line for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1980-89. He started 102 of 129 regular season games.
Before Craig and Ron played for Syracuse and West Virginia, respectively, they were standouts in Western New York, Craig at Orchard Park, Ron at Frontier.
"I've said all the time Orchard Park is a town that is built on a hill and the higher up you go on the hill, the more money you have," Ron said. "And we lived below sea level on a dead end street. It's beyond my wildest imagination.
"I just tried to do the best I possibly could do. To think the people I know and love and the city that I love, I'm getting honored for what I've done, it's so humbling. I just feel unworthy."
Craig said he and his brother have always been close and peaceful – "we weren't the Gronkowskis," he said – but they still had some sibling feuds.
"We boxed, but we didn't have money for gloves, so we wrapped socks around our knuckles," Craig said.
Craig laughs when he thinks about Ron's first NFL season. In 1985, Ron's Cardinals traveled to play Craig's Steelers. Craig knew his coaches were game planning to kick at Ron, who was an excellent lead blocker on kickoffs.
"All night long at dinner I was fretting about my little brother getting targeted," Craig said. "I'd start to have a conversation then I'd zip it. Just when we got back to the hotel, he got out of the car and I yelled, 'Ron!' … I said 'just watch out.'
"He went on and did fine anyhow. It was really funny, the quandary I felt as a brother."
The brothers gush about their hometown, which they each visit at least once a year. Their mother lives in nearby Rushford.
"I am most humbly honored that people in my hometown would think enough of me and would honor me in such a way. It's hard to put into words," Craig said. "The people of Buffalo and Western New York … I've always loved the area. There's a special place in my heart for everyone there, and I will always be enormously grateful for the opportunities that were given to me."
Craig just sold his boxing and martial arts gym in Bridgeville, Pa., a facility he owned for the past 20 years with his wife, Faith. The couple has been married 19 years and has three boys, three girls and two grandkids. Craig is a sideline reporter on the Steelers' radio network and co-hosts a radio talk show there with former teammate Tunch Ilkin.
Ron lives with his wife, Stephanie, and their two children in Arizona. He wants to be remembered as a blue-collar guy who was a product of his hometown. He misses playing football more than anything.
"Until I no longer had the game of football, I didn't realize that it defined who I was," Ron said. "That was a hard lesson to learn.
"As a football player, I'm always going to miss the playing days. That was the best way a man could possibly make a living. Are ya kidding me? Paint your face up, smear the eye black on, run down the field as fast as you can and bury your head into a man the size of Saturn. That is a way every man ought to be able to live. It was so much fun."
His big brother wasn't always a star offensive lineman. Craig was determined to be a running back in high school.
"[Former OP head coach] Harris Weinke said, 'You can play fullback until the very first time you fumble the ball. The very next play you have to play line,'" Craig said. "I fumbled and he was true to his word. I had a fine future as an offensive tackle."
Craig was no one-sport athlete. After finishing his football career with the Minnesota Vikings, he competed professionally in boxing, sumo wrestling ("that's a really ugly visual if you think about it," he said), weightlifting and martial arts. Craig also holds a black belt in jiu-jitsu and finished fifth in the 1981 World's Strongest Man contest.
Ron played until 1994, including stints with the Browns and Rams. He now co-hosts a sports radio talk show in Phoenix and is the Arizona Cardinals' color analyst. He also owns a restaurant, Wolfley's Neighborhood Grill, in Phoenix.
The youngest brother of the bunch, Dale, was an offensive lineman at West Virginia.
Craig and Ron seem to have done pretty well for a couple of underprivileged kids. When the deep-voiced brothers tell compelling stories of their playing days, they do so with child-like enthusiasm. They talk about how much they love Orchard Park. Perhaps it was the Wolfleys' wealth – their attitudes – that kept them in the league past 10 days.
The Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame's 22nd annual induction dinner will be held Oct. 17 at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom. Tickets are sold out. To purchase auxiliary seating, call Tina Pastwick at 693-3807.
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Lloret brimming over with life
Water, the symbol of life, is the essence of Lloret. This is because it is a seafaring town whose beaches cautives thousands of visitors with their cristal-clear water, coarse goleen sand and top quality services. Its beaches, coves an inlets make i tan ideal destination for relaxing and enjoying all kinds of activities.
Fire, the origin of traditions
From time imperial, fire has been a symbol of the passion that sparks traditions. In Lloret. This flame is lit for the main festivals of Santa Cristina and Sant Romà, with processions, regattas in llaguts (tradicional Catalan sailboats), association lunches, the Ball de Plaça, a tradicional dance held in the Main Square, and fireworks. And it is kept alight throughout the year with pilgrimages to chapels and shrines, gatherings, the performances of havaneres (sea shanties), tradicional dances, the carnaval, tirada a l'art (a tradicional fishing technique) and the meadiaeval market. A hole series of festival, customs and traditions have been passed down through generetions and constitute the town's heritatge.
Gardens between heaven and earth
If the soul is inmortal and eternal, one of its most earthly manifestations is Santa Clotilde Gardens, which date back to the turn of the 20th century. This historical natural space is ideal for relaxing the mind and nourishing the spirit. The gardens were designed by the famous Barcelona architect Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí and commissioned by the Marquis of Roviralta. A beatiful combinations of stairways, fountains, little squares, mermaids and vantage points are set amongst a wonderful variety of Mediterranean trees and plants. An Italian influence is clear to see in these gardens, which are situated in outstanding spot with impressive sea views.
Unspoiled nature
In Lloret, nature has found the ideal place to Express itself in its full splendour: amazing landscapes, sheer cliffs, beatiful coastal footpath and small inhospitable corners. The many signposted routes offer a unique opportunity to discover Lloret's rich natural and cultural heritage in a calm and peaceful manner. One of the particulary outsanding features are the various coves and inlets that make up this wild and unspoiled coast, such as Cala d'en Trons, Sa Caleta, Cala Banys, Cala dels Frares, Sa Tortuga…
Night-time, the best time to move your body
It is night-time in Lloret and no end of experiences await your bosy and five senses. Trying your luck at the casino, enjoying a good concert on the beach, attending a show or popular festival in great company, or going for a gentle stroll along the moonlit seafront promenade.


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As far as season openers go, FC Dallas will take a 1-1 draw with in-state rival Houston to start the 2010 campaign. Schellas Hyndman's club was outshot 12-9 by the Dynamo but he did like the resiliency his club showed in the tie, especially considering after a 36th-minute goal by Mike Chabala, FCD trailed. However, Atiba Harris answered two minutes later to quickly tie things up.
"It's probably very typical for the first game of the year. I thought there was a lot of energy from both teams," Hyndman said. "I thought it was a good game from the beginning to the end. I was very pleased with our play because we were down a goal to a very good team, the Houston Dynamo. It's not often that teams can come back and tie a game or score on Houston. They have that mentality of stepping onto you when you're down. I was very pleased with our mental attitude of coming back."
For FCD starting midfielder Dax McCarty, the final outcome was a fair result.
"Yeah, I think (it was a fair result). If you look overall at the entire game, you could say that both teams had their chances," McCarty said. "Obviously, I think both teams kind of lacked a little bit of sharpness in the final third. It's not a loss to start the season, which is always positive. We would like to get the win but we can build off this."
McCarty added that both teams showed plenty of rust in their respective openers.
"It's certainly frustrating when you're trying to build off the momentum of last year when you're playing great, it seems like every pass is finding its target and no one is losing the ball. It's the first game of the year and you don't feel you're as sharp as you were last year," he said.
With the clubs tied 1-1 at the break, the FCD coach kept his message to his team fairly simple.
"I was very positive with the boys at halftime. When you're at home, there's a lot of pressure to perform and find success," Hyndman said. "We just tried to pick it up before we went out there about our mentality of keeping the ball and keeping our composure for the second half."
After being outshot 7-3 in the opening frame, FCD logged six shots compared to five by Houston in the final 45 minutes, something that can be somewhat attributed to the home team having the wind at their back.
"We had the wind. I think it really puts you back on your heels when you're trying to defend (against the wind)," Hyndman admitted. "It seems like the other team wins a lot of the second balls, so they get second chances. Saying that, I think the wind made a difference but maybe we had a better half in the second half."
However, while the end result was largely positive and getting one point from a match with Houston was as well, there was a huge negative from this game for FCD. It came in the 55th minute when center back Kyle Davies suffered a broken right arm and had to leave the field.
Davies started on Saturday because normal starter Ugo Ihemelu suffered a strained left hamstring earlier in the week and was unable to play.
"Davies' injury is a broken arm and dislocation. It all came from a kick," Hyndman said. "You get hit in the arm and something might break. It's a broken arm and dislocation at the elbow. He'll be out probably eight weeks."
However, the FCD coach does expect Ihemelu to return soon.
"Ugo, we expect him back. He strained a hamstring," Hyndman said. "We were having a pretty intense training and he strained a hamstring going after a ball. Yesterday, when he went through training, he just wasn't sure if he could go. So we were able to pull him out. I thought Kyle (Davies) did a very good job."
For a player who wasn't even going to be a starter just about a month ago, Harris did well at right midfield. Speedy Honduran Marvin Chavez had been one of FCD's top performers in preseason before a knee injury suffered nearly a month ago in a preseason game with Houston in Florida sidelined him.
Harris clearly rose to the occasion on Saturday.
"I thought he did fine. What a great goal," Hyndman said of Harris' play. "I think there were a couple of chances where he got behind people and had a bad service or maybe slipped on the service. He's competing for every ball. He's strong. He's winning head balls. He's fighting or defending head balls. He's a good player for us."
Plenty to build on
As far as season openers go, FC Dallas will take a 1-1 draw with in-state rival Houston to start the 2010 campaign. Schellas Hyndman's club was outshot 12-9 by the Dynamo but he did like the resiliency his club showed in the tie, especially considering after a 36th-minute goal by Mike Chabala, FCD trailed. However, Atiba Harris answered two minutes later to quickly tie things up.