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Christina Hendricks has revealed the secret to her sexy "Mad Men" appeal -- layers of '60s-era underwear.
"We have the full undergarments and the slips and the thing over that. It's a little bit of work to get dressed," Hendricks said on Thursday's "Conan." She credited the show's undergarments as integral to Joan Holloway's look and head-turning walk.
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Russia, where tanks stroll on the beach and fighter jets overtake cars, now can add a highway-buzzing helicopter to its list of intermingling military/civilian transportation events.
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I interviewed David Rusling and Jon 'maddog' Hall back in August of 2012 in the hopes that I could get another Linux publication to run this interview; however, that wasn't to be. And with maddog now coming on board to assist with a couple projects at Linaro I thought this would be a fitting place share all the awesomeness they shared with me. It's a rather long interview but well worth the read. Many many thanks to both David and maddog for the time they shared with me in this interview and for the talents that they each share with world; Open Source has a brighter future because of all they do!
(Side note: David's answers are in blue and maddog's in a dark orange so you can see the interactive exchange that was had as they answered the questions)
At the time of the interview I asked both David and maddog to tell about their current roles and what they do.
David Rusling was at the time of this interview and currently the Chief Technical Officer at Linaro. "2 years, I helped form it. I wave my arms and try to stay ahead of the bow wave," said Rusling about how long he had been with Linaro and what he does in his role as CTO.
Maddog is the Executive Director of Linux International, President of Project Cauã, and Industry Consultant. When asked what he does and how long he has been in those roles he had the following to say.
For Linux International (www.li.org) I have been a voluntary (unpaid) ED since 1995. LI defended and protected the Linux Trademark against attack, helped to start the Free Standards Base project and helped to start the Linux Professional Institute. I travel the world helping governments, corporations, companies, universities and people learn how to make or save money with Free Software. Other than that it is fairly dormant, as the Linux Foundation is doing a good job with most things Linux. Someday I may start it up again if I see a need that has to be addressed.
Project Cauã (www.projectcaua.org) is a project to help create millions of sustainable, private sector, entrepreneurial jobs in dense urban areas in Latin America. It is having a few issues about getting to pilot launch, but we are addressing them.
I make my living as an Industry consultant, mostly in Free and Open Source Software. I am always looking for new business and things to do, so people who are willing to pay are welcome to send me email. "Free as in Freedom, not as in beer"
[QUESTION] - It's my understanding that you all worked together at Digital Equipment Corporation together? If so, is it true that you all worked in the same office and on the same version of Unix? Did you all know each other before working there? What is one story from those days you both remember fondly that would help those who are getting stared in Technology? What was the lessons you learned that you still remember and apply today?
David: Not only do we go way back, but maddog got me interested into Linux in the first place. For which I am eternally grateful.
We both worked for Digital; but not even on the same continent. I worked in Reading, England, maddog in New England. The catalyst was that Digital decided to build the Alpha processor and sell it around the time that Linux was being created and maddog refused to let the second architecture that Linux ran on be anything other than an Alpha. I had never heard of maddog until I was told about Linux; I met him for the first time just before we went into a meeting with one of the Digital execs. The rest is history.
As for Digital and Linux; all of us working on it were renegades. At that time Digital was focused on VMS, Digital Unix and Windows NT. The Linux work was done with very little management buy in. The thing was that Digital was a great engineering company with some amazing people working for it and you could get away with having a bright idea and following it. maddog saw what was happening with Linux, believed that it would one day be big and infected the rest of us with his passion.
I was looking for something to own and Linux became that. It was technically very challenging, fast and fun. We did things in days or weeks when other teams would take that long to set up a meeting to discuss the possibility of doing something. I learnt so much, so quickly.
maddog: Yes, we both worked for Digital, but it would have been impossible for David to share my office, as the office was so cluttered that things would have fallen on the poor chap. I worked for the Digital Unix group, in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA and we had just created a 64-bit version of OSF/1 Unix on the Alpha microprocessor. At that time the Alpha (a RISC processor) was the fastest in the world, and for a number of years we were registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as being the fastest.
I did not have the pleasure of knowing David before the Alpha/Linux project, but I did get to spend some very nice time with both him and his family in the years afterwards.
I do not know which stories we both remember fondly…perhaps the time that the port was finished and David and I went to a Digital Equipment User's Society (DECUS) event in Dublin to talk about the project and show it off. We shared a graduate student flat on the campus that was situated for four students, so had four bedrooms, two baths, a small kitchen and sitting room. More importantly the campus had three huge pubs that served Guinness….we had a good time. I am not sure that story will really get people "started in technology", unless of course you consider that we had fun…and as Linus has often stated, having fun is very important to life.
David: I remember that weekend very well as we ended up going out to an Irish bar with a bunch of folks from Finland. They gave us pints of Guinness as we got onto the coach to go into town. I had a huge hangover the next day. That was my 40th birthday. [maddog sighs: only 40!]
maddog: Lessons…Hard work, honesty, love for your fellows, kindness towards others, taking care of your family, loving your life partner and children, guiding your children the correct way, earning a decent living, self-dependence, enjoying life and helping others to enjoy it too, these are the things that allow a person to look themselves in the mirror every day. Do your best, every minute, every hour, every day.
If anyone asks anything more of you than that, it is their problem, not yours.
[QUESTION] - How did each of you move to Linux? What was the first Linux distribution you can remember using (ok, I am sure you compiled it yourself and probably wrote some of it, too; did you?)? What year was this? What distribution do you currently use and if you are comfortable with answering, why do you use that distribution?
David: It's all maddog's fault. The first distribution I ran was Slackware on an old Digital 386 with 120 Mbytes of disk (yes, Mbytes). That was just before we got it running on Alpha systems. We first ran a Slackware like home brew (and yes, we did compile it ourselves, but only after we fixed the compiler). Red Hat were involved early on and we worked with them to create Alpha based distributions, so I ran Red Hat for years. I got fed up with upgrading systems and moved to Debian for a while. These days I run Ubuntu, but I occasionally flirt with other distributions. Ubuntu is flexible enough to let me I use whatever GUI I want, mostly just works and lets me experiment.
maddog: I had been using the equivalent of "Open Source" ever since college in 1969. I first started with software from DECUS, written by its members and contributed to their library. This software could be obtained for 5 USD per copy (15 USD if it was long) on paper tape. This charge was for handling and postal expenses, as the software itself was "free". I would then buy new paper tape from the school store and punch off copies that I would sell to my roommates at 1 USD per copy to make back my money. This was both legal and encouraged by DECUS.
In 1992 when I worked for DEC I worked on a project called "Good Stuff" that compiled and built available Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on the Digital Unix system, which we handed out to our customers. It saved them time and money from doing this all themselves, and they loved the work.
In late 1993 I saw an advertisement for "A complete Unix system, source code included, for 99 USD". Intrigued, I bought it, only to find out that it only ran on an Intel-compatible device. Since I only had "real computers" (VAX, MIPS, Alphas), I could not use it, but I mounted it on my workstation and looked at the man(1) pages. Convinced that it was interesting, I put it in my filing cabinet.
In early 1994 a friend of mine, Kurt Reisler started sending emails to various companies and copying me on them. Kurt was the chairman of the Unix Special Interest Group for DECUS (UniSIG). Kurt wanted this person to come from Europe to the Spring DECUS event in New Orleans, and was looking for funding from various small companies. They all told him that they did not have much money, but they would be happy to send CDs of their software to the event.
I felt bad for Kurt, since he was a good guy and had good ideas, so I went to my management and told them we should fund this, even though I did not really know this speaker nor what he had done, as "Kurt often has good ideas".
My management funded 5,000 USD to bring this speaker to DECUS and to supply a PC to run the software.
I traveled to DECUS in May of 1994 and found Kurt trying to install some software on the PC and not being very successful. Along comes this nice young man with sandy, brown hair, white socks and sandals and asks if he can help. Ten minutes later Linux was running on that PC, for that young man was (of course) Linus.
During that event I saw Linux in operation for the first time, and conceived of the idea of porting Linux as a 64-bit operating system to the Alpha. While riding a steam-powered riverboat, the Nachez, up and down the Mississippi River I convinced Linus to do the project. It was symbolic that the decision to port a Free Operating system to the world's fastest processor was done on board one of the earliest forms of automation.
I returned to my office at Digital and gave a presentation to a small group of managers on what I saw. The last bullet of the last slide said that "Linux is inevitable". When I was asked what that meant I said "nothing is going to stop it", and they laughed at me.
I sent around an email to all the engineers in Digital Unix about what I saw, and a couple of them wrote back and told me that they had been using Linux for six months on their laptops. One engineer had written an entire subsystem using Intel Linux on his laptop sitting in his backyard under a tree. He got the code to compile, then brought the source code to the office and put it on his Alpha system, compiled and linked it, and it worked.
These actions confirmed my resolve, and I started to "pull in favors". I had been at DEC for 11 years at that point, done a lot of favors for a lot of people, and now it was time to start "calling them in". I called a person named Jim Jackson, and convinced him to give me a 30 thousand dollar workstation for a project and person he did not know. "What will you pay for?", he asked.
I told him I would pay for the shipping.
I found a group of engineers in the Alpha Technology section of Digital that were also thinking about porting Linux to the Alpha, but a 32-bit port. I convinced them to join Linus and make it a 64-bit port. This group was headed by Andry Riebs, and consisted of a group of engineers including Jim Paradis, Jay Estabrook and our own David Rusling.
Left to right: Donnie Barnes, David Rusling, Erik Troan, Jay Estabrook, David Mosberger-Tang (Photo Credit: David Rusling)[/caption]
David: These chaps deserve more recognition. They invented something called FX!32, technology that translated x86 code to Alpha code on the fly and were very bright and interesting people indeed. I first saw Linux running on Jim's Tadpole Alpha laptop; probably the same week that I met maddog. By a strange coincidence, at that time Tadpole's VP Engineering was one George Grey, now CEO of Linaro.
maddog: Linus took the rest of 1994 to study the Alpha architecture, finish up V1.2 of the kernel, and plan the change to the source code tree to support multiple hardware architectures.
We started the port in earnest January, 1995 and had a complete Red Hat distribution of Alpha Linux nine months later.
David: That was really fun. Everything happened so fast. I created a bootloader called MILO which used bits of the kernel (block devices, file system, graphics) to load and start the kernel / OS. The first code that sent to Linus (early PCI support if I remember correctly) was roundly rejected. I was fuming but went for a walk outside and calmed down. Linus, it turned out, was perfectly right and accepted the code once I'd rewritten it.
maddog: The rest, as they say, is history.
I joined Linux International in 1995, and became the Executive Director. In 1999 I left Digital to "Linux" full time.
As a consultant, I use the same Linux distribution that my customer uses. Recently I finished a job with Red Hat, so currently I am running Fedora.
And that first "A complete Unix system, source code included, for 99 USD" that I bought in 1993? It was an Yggdrasil Linux system.
[QUESTION] - Looking back at those days to present day, what amazes you most about the evolution and adoption of Linux and Open Source, both as an Operating System and as a philosophy. What's been the biggest surprise not only in FOSS, but in technology in general, and what has been the biggest disappointment?
David: These days, if your business has anything to do with software, you will be involved with open source software. If your business cannot interact with open source software, you will stop having a business. it's a fact of life. I wasn't surprised that Linux was successful; at a certain point in time, it became unstoppable (probably around the time that Red Hat floated on the stock market and IBM backed it). I am a little surprised that it's powering the majority of the world's smartphones, but maybe I shouldn't be as I helped get Linux running on those early Arm processors (along with many, many others)
It's not the code that's the big thing though. The big thing is the social engineering. That communities of engineers join together to achieve coherent, robust and practical code bases that can be used in everyday products. Linux will power the internet of things.
My biggest disappointments are unnecessary secrecy and patents. Not everything a company does should be secret. Some things may be, but companies end up with cultures where they do not differentiate between generally useful code and genuinely innovative software. This means that they don't share enough information, which doesn't help the open source community support their hardware. Innovation is also very overused, it most means 'more duplicated code'. Patents are an interesting area and some open source folks are entirely against them. I'm not, I think that if you invent something original, you should be able to get some commercial advantage from it. However, many, many patents (particularly software ones) are entirely obvious and the patent system (worldwide) is pretty broken. The only people making money are the lawyers.
maddog: In those early days the thing that amazed me was the willingness of people I had never met to spend their own money and time to acquire an Alpha processor and help port this little-known operating system to that processor. Even people who were not DEC customers understood the mission and would beg, borrow or (well hopefully not) steal an Alpha system to do the work.
One that stood out was David Mossburger-Tang, a student at a university in the western part of the United States. David did a huge amount of work in porting libraries and making sure they were 64-bit clean. After the porting project was finished David went on to write "SANE", a back-end for scanners used to this day in Linux. He also did some very good work in cache utilization, showing how to speed up programs by 40 times with proper cache usage.
I had found David Mossbuger-Tang an Alpha system so he could do his work faster, and shipped it to him on a loan-of-products. Many years later David contacted me to return the system, but did not know who to return the system to, since Digital was no longer in existence. David told me that he was currently working for Hewlett Packard. "Just hold onto it", I told David, "it will be 'returned' soon." The next week Hewlett Packard bought Compaq.
David: DavidM was great; wasn't he at Linus' talk at the University of New Hampshire (I think that I have a picture)? He was one of our first users and was great at testing software, getting new bits working and making things happen. I think of him each time I use SANE.
maddog: Another super-star was Richard Henderson, who was a college student at Texas A&M University, and did the work for Alpha Linux to have shared libraries. For his contribution I have sworn that he will never have to buy food or drink in my presence ever. Later he was the leader of the GNU compiler project and today he works for Red Hat Software.
One final project out of the port was the math library. Digital had done a huge amount of work on their math library for the Alpha, and while they were willing to have a binary object run on Alpha Linux, they were unwilling to ship the source code. I was being beaten up by the community, when I turned to them and said:
"If you are such hot-shot programmers, why don't you write a better one?"
Silence for a week. Then an email:
"sin(3) is 3% faster"
another two days:
"cos(3) is 5% faster
and so it went until the entire library was re-written, and faster than Digital's Alpha math library.
Only one routine was never any faster…because "nobody" used it, and nobody cared…it was fast enough.
- [QUESTION] - Now you all are smart guys, and have that "Chuck Norris" type technical knowledge combined with humble and like-able personalities, so how'd you get to be that way?
David: maddog was my mentor and when I stop to consider a philosophical position involving open source, I still think 'what would maddog think?'.
I've been influenced by various great engineers over the time and what they all have in common is humility and respect. They're interested in solving problems, not in being right. The open source world is not about giving orders, it is about influencing people. The best arguments I've seen have been entirely ego free and deeply technical.
I got some email the other day which disagreed with me. Someone one the CC list told me that people should not send emails like that to the CTO of a company. My response is that I'd have failed if that was true. The guy sending the email was right.
maddog: Mom&Pop(TM) were a gigantic influence. The steady hand upon the tiller, the safe harbor in the stormy seas of life. Everyone liked them.
My career was influenced by a lot of people, many of which will be mentioned here for the first time. Mr. Ralph Rigger, my woodshop teacher in middle school, Mr. William Roberts, my electronics teacher in high school. Philosophy came from my 10th and 11th grade English teacher, Mr. Koehler.
David: In that case, I'd better mention Miss Cole. I'm mildly dyslexic and she helped me learn to read when I was eight. She started a life long love affair with reading for which I am deeply grateful.
maddog: I owe a lot to my first "boss" and co-workers from co-op at Drexel University (nee Drexel Institute of Technology). During three terms of co-op (1.5 years total) I worked at Western Electric in Baltimore, Maryland. John Kammer (my mentor) was "an engineer's engineer" (think Dilbert), and Bill Collins was his supervisor (fortunately the opposite of the "Pointy Haired Boss"). In 1969 they encouraged me to sign up for a correspondence course in "How to program the IBM 1130 in FORTRAN", which was my first exposure to software.
Bill was also the one who encouraged me to grow my beard, which I have not shaved since 1969.
After my first co-op, and while finishing my correspondence course, a salesman from DEC gave me a couple of paperback books on how to program the PDP-8 computers in the physics labs back at Drexel, and by reading those books, and practicing, I learned how to program in assembler and machine language.
A professor of math and statistics at Drexel, Dr. Richard Haas, who was rumored to be the hardest teacher in the school. Because of him the class came together and focused as a group, helping each other. We later learned that his tough exterior was a way to get students to "meet the challenge". Several went on to become statistics majors.
Another big influence was my first job at Aetna Life and Casualty, at that time the largest commercial user of IBM equipment in the "Free World"….a great place to work for a kid right out of college and who wanted to learn. I also made friends with a lot of the operators in the computer room downstairs and I had direct access to the mainframes.
My students at Hartford State Technical College, where I taught full time were another influence, where I learned at least as much from them as they learned from me. I also learned that you do not really know something until you have to teach it to others.
Bell Labs. What can I say? Working with incredibly bright people. Bea Fink, my first female supervisor, and one of the best supervisors I ever had. I joined Bell at the North Andover facility, hired as their "senior systems administrator for Unix" and I had never touched a Unix system before. Through my background, the study of books and the help of two great mentors, Bob Wessling and Tom Merrick, I learned Unix quickly, to the point that one day Bob threw up his hands and said "That is it! I can not teach you anything more! You have surpassed me!"
David: If I had a time machine, a visit to Bell Labs around that time would be on my list.
maddog: And then there was DEC. I joined in 1983, the 16th person they had hired to work on their new distribution of Unix. It was a small family of scrappers with a dream and a goal to create the best Unix system in the world. I watched as young engineers came in from college to meet with older, more experienced engineers such as Fred Canter and Chet Juszczak.
We called the younger engineers "the boat people", because they were hired all at once, and it was if they came off the boat at Ellis Island.
We watched and mentored.
Now a lot of those "boat people" work for Red Hat Software….and I am proud of them, what they did and what they continue to do.
Finally, most of the people I have met in FOSS. As in any group, there are some that are lesser, and some that are greater, but for the most part, I think they are "greater". I love most of them.
Sorry, the story of my nickname has been told many times and in many places. I earned the name at a time when I did not have control of my temper. I keep using it to remind myself to never lose my temper again.
[QUESTION] - It's my belief that anyone can become technical and if they really want to they can even become a developer, but there are other things about life in F/LOSS ecosystem that well quite honestly isn't taught in books. So, lets say I came to each of you asking for mentor-ship and were given the opportunity to have each of you all as a personal FOSS mentor; what would you want to make sure I knew? Why? What resources would you point me to in order to help me ensure I build a strong fundamental cornerstone of F/LOSS knowledge. (ok maybe I am hinting here, just a little, but can you blame me for trying - I mean you all are legends!)
David: Find an itch to scratch. What problem do you want to help solve? Find a FOSS community that's doing work around there and have a look at what they're doing and see how you could contribute. Try to fit in. Be useful. Be patient.
Most communities have pretty good 'how to join in' information. I like LWN as a good source of what's going on.
maddog: I disagree that "anyone can become technical", as I have met too many people that despite their best efforts and my own best efforts, they failed. But this does not mean that they can not contribute, as I believe each person can contribute in their own way.
David: Good point. When I went to my first UDS, I was amazed at the range of involvement, including testing, documentation, art work and so on. One of my old bosses in Arm used to say that if all you can do to help is make the tea, then make the tea.
maddog: One of my many interests while growing up was beekeeping. In a bee hive bees take on several different jobs throughout their lives, ending up (typically) as a "field bee". One of the jobs might be making honeycomb. No bee will build an entire cell, each deposits a little wax, pinches it to shape it a little, then moves on. In the end is a perfect honeycomb.
The essence of Free Software.
[QUESTION] - maddog I would ask you about general Open Source and Linux Philosophies and how to be a good consumer and contributor to F/LOSS projects.
maddog: Understanding the basic philosophies from a simple perspective is a good place to start:
I start with Free Software so I do not have to write the whole thing
I contribute to Free Software so I can work and learn from others
I do not take away the freedoms of others, as it breaks the chain
It is as close to the proverbial "Golden Rule" as I think that technology can get.
Not all of us can contribute directly to writing code, but all of us can contribute something to make life easier.
At the same time I will point out that even the most ardent supporter of "Free Software" will say that you should be able to earn a living writing code, so there is this balance that is sometimes hard to see.
David: I often talk to companies and communities about open source and I emphasis the moral and philosophical duties beyond what is encoded in the licenses. In essence, someone gave the code an open source license in order that it could be taken, shared, modified and used. It is, therefore, your duty to respect that wish.
This can be hard for companies (and individuals) to grok. It requires a paradigm shift from secret source(s) and NDAs. Most companies need fairly sophisticated risk strategies in place to handle this interaction with open source well (or their efforts get stranded in their legal departments). This is not an option, all companies need software and will, to some extent, have to interact with open source software. It's not the exception, it's mainstream.
Arm is a good example. Arm needs Linux to run well on systems that include its technology and yet the Arm partnership must keep systems under development secret until they're released. That's a difficult balancing act.
[QUESTION] - David, I would ask you about starting on a Technical path and given that both you and I work at Linaro, I would narrow that to Arm what advice would you give me and others about getting started in this area?
David: I like to fix things (or rather, I don't like broken things) and I like to know how things work. What else would I be other than an engineer? Most of the engineers that I know started by doing sciences at school / university. A lot got into Linux as its free and they like to solve problems and tinker. The issue, for me, is to create engineers that embrace open source. I mostly see that outside of the west, in Brazil, Africa and so on.
[QUESTION] - I would ask both of you how do you influence an organization or corporate entity to adopt not only Linux and Open Source for their technical computing needs, but embracing the philosophies of F/LOSS as well. How important do you see this adoption for the future of Linux, F/LOSS, Arm etc.
David: Having spent years doing this at Arm; get the CTO and legal on board, nibble away at the problem. Support the engineers. Don't give up.
maddog: In the beginning I wanted Alpha Linux to be used by universities to study how to use large address spaces to improve sorting and searching techniques. I would still love to see Donald Knuth update Volume 3 of the "Art of Computer Programming" to include his thoughts on this.
Later I began to embrace the whole FOSS philosophy, which worked well with programmers and students, but was lost on businesses. Captains of business were not interested in the "Kumbaya philosophies of sandal-wearing hippies." Yet I began to see a commercial value of Linux and FOSS that went beyond just "getting the software 'for free'"
At that time I started talking about saving money and making money with Free Software, and that gained some interest. I did not talk about software freedom, but talked to business people about regaining control of their business. I talked about software slavery. Most business people understand issues of "lack of control" and "slavery" much more than they understand Freedom.
I talked to governments about security, sovereignty, longevity of the solution, balance of trade, and brain-drain. They responded.
It is my personal belief that for the bulk of software today, the market is too diverse for solutions to be produced in a "closed source" way, and that FOSS will replace closed source models.
As Linus would say "World Domination" is inevitable.
David: I agree. Open source is mainstream.
[QUESTION] - If you had a magic wand and you could magically fix one area of the F/LOSS ecosystem, what would it be and why? Since there are no real magic wands other than hard work, perseverance, and a quest for knowledge what do you see as the real world solutions to those problems?
David: I'd get the kernel communities to formally get together every 4 months to make decisions. The in-kernel communities, server, embedded etc are having separate meetings - it makes heavy engineering in the kernel take too long. I'd have 3 plumbers a year that they all go to.
Technology wise, Linux is not obsessed enough about power and battery utilisation. There are also too many subsystems doing similar things.
maddog: With my magic wand I would eliminate software patents and drastically reform copyright laws.
Before the mid-1980s software copyrights and patents did not exist and we had huge amounts of innovation. After 1990 the only thing truly new and innovative was a talking paper clip, and everyone hated that.
Today most large companies (other than patent trolls) swear they only have software patents to build a pool to defend themselves, yet if software patents did not exist, you would not need to defend yourself. It is a circular argument.
In the end it is only the consumer who pays the large legal fees, or who is blocked from using a competing product.
Notice that I would eliminate only software patents. Other types of patents are useful, but I believe the whole patent system does need drastic reform.
David: There's a clear and present danger from loosely drawn software patents. I think that this will settle down as the post-PC era finds its feet, and as governments reform patent law. Sadly, it will probably happen very slowly.
[QUESTION] -_ Since most of the "Legends in Linux" are your peers and friends, do you have any that you are in awe of and would like to meet that you don't already know? If so, who and why?_
maddog: I am not a hero worshiper. I do not follow the lives of "famous people", or ask for autographs, or have my picture taken with someone famous. Many times I will ask to have my photo taken with a young person who I think has potential because I want to remember them, not because they are "famous".
David: I have lost count of the number of pictures of maddog and friends that I see posted on Facebook.
maddog: I have been truly lucky in my life to have met and spent time with some really great people. Besides the ones I have mentioned before, I have met Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, Maurice Wilkes, Douglas McIlroy, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Linus…the list goes on and on. But some of the most interesting are the ones "behind the scenes" that few people have ever heard of their contributions, and I have been fortunate enough to not only know them, but to be invited into their homes, be with their families and their lives.
This is, for example, my relationship with Linus and his family. When I do see them (not as often as I would like) we do not talk about Linux. Instead we talk about mutual interests, and I talk with his wife Tove and his daughters. I have met their families, who I like immensely, and we have taken sauna together. Linus and his family went to a county fair with me one time, and to the boardwalk at Santa Cruz beach.
Probably three or four times early in our mutual friendship has the topic turned to Linux, and then only a tiny nudge to get things back on course. It did not take much effort.
I appreciate the fact that I have known Richard Stallman for over a quarter century, and even though we do not agree all the time on everything, I will admit to having moved closer to his philosophies over the years.
On the wall of my office hangs a plaque with the poem "Desiderata" on it. I bought the plaque when I was in college. The poem begins "Go placidly among the noise and haste"….(something I have always found hard to do), and eventually talks about how there will always be people who are greater and lesser than yourself. No matter how intelligent you are there will always be someone more intelligent than you, or more knowledgeable in some subject or a harder worker, or otherwise gifted where you are not, but "beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself".
The poem goes on to warn you to avoid loud and aggressive persons, "for they are vexations to the spirit". So I really prefer to be with small groups of people, to sit down and perhaps have a glass of beer rather than with large groups. A lot of people might find it surprising to know that I am quite shy.
USENIX, DECUS and the people I met there, were also huge influences on my life, and of course the many thousands and thousands of people I have met around the world in the Free and Open Source movement.
I am sure that after this question a lot of business leaders will dismiss me as a "sandal wearing hippie". That is their problem, not mine.
David: I'll echo Maddog's comments. There are, undoubtedly, some very bright individuals writing extraordinary code but, in general, open source is the sum of its many contributors, not of the few. The influential ones are those that are good are enthusing others with their ideas and in growing capable teams around them. Open source is distributed intelligence not centralised command and control. I get a real buzz at open source working sessions, such as those we have at Linaro Connects, where a group of kernel hackers discuss a problem and strategies for solving it. It's a very interesting spectacle of social engineering as views are aired and consensus is reached.
That said, I've never physically met Ingo Molnar but I've watched his work with interest. As the Linux kernel has got bigger tries to serve many needs, it takes a strength of character to propose wholesale changes in debug and in the scheduler.
I'd never describe Maddog as a 'sandal wearing hippie', I usually describe him as 'Father Christmas on his holidays'.
[QUESTION] - Many people using Linux today don't know about or even care about the whole GNU/Linux argument. Personally, I think it's good to know the history of GNU and Linux and the importance of each. As someone who mentors others, when would you introduce this topic, how would you introduce it, and what are your personally thoughts on the subject?
David: My friends are either in technology and know all about Linux or are entirely ignorant of technology. With non-technologists you can point at Android (as they can buy that) and talk about open source communities.
maddog: Computers are a huge part of our life, everything from smartphones to supercomputers, yet most people have never even read the license that they blissfully click on.
I would be very happy if at least "computer science" people understood about GNU and Linux in depth, and the rest of the people practiced the "Golden Rule" more…
[QUESTION] - What do you see as the future of Linux? What areas of this future are you most interested in? Any predictions about what technology will be in say 1, 5 and 10 years?
maddog: World Domination. There are currently 1.5 billion desktops in the world, and 7.5 billion people, so 5 billion people have not selected their desktop yet. These people typically do not speak one of the 50 major languages of the world, do not do business the same way that Western Europe or the USA does business, and represent groups that are too small (and too unprofitable) for closed source countries to address their issues.
David: I don't think that it will be a desktop (or what we now call a desktop). For most people, a mobile phone or a tablet together with the infinitely connected internet is the perfect tool.
maddog: We no longer need a multi-million dollar, twenty-ton computer to write software. I hold in my hand a computer faster than all the computers that Aetna Life and Casualty owned in 1977 when I left, yet it runs off a battery. Thank you, Dave, Arm and DEC (who did a lot of work on the StrongArm chip and architecture). It runs an operating system called "Android" based on the work of a college student from Helsinki, Finland.
David: I was listening to BBC Radio 4 on the way to work and an entrepreneur was talking about how easy it is for someone to have an idea and to create a scalable business to support it via the internet. Creating a web site and writing software has never been easier.
maddog: Linux runs on 98% of the 500 fastest computers in the world today, half of all the servers shipped, and is the most used operating system in embedded system designs.
The timeline of the future? Sorry, too hard to call. By now we should all be flying around in rocket belts, according to the magazines of my youth. But while the timeline is too hard to call, the direction is clear, and Free Software will be there.
David: In some ways, we're there already. Just stop and be amazed. Power and energy will dominate and something called the internet of things will actually make sense.
[QUESTION] - Is there anything else you would like for readers/viewers to know in regards to your personal journeys in F/LOSS, the companies you work for, or pet projects you are currently working on?
David: Being at Digital when alpha Linux was happening was a happy accident - I would advise people to grab opportunities and to always look for ways to develop, as an engineer and as a person. My current project is looking at how to use Neon instructions in the kernel for cryptography.
maddog: Getting to know David, meet and know his family, and through a lucky accident, sharing with Dave the experience of a "Royal Wave" from the Queen Mother right before her Diamond Jubilee….but that is another story.
David and I see each other, way too seldom, at Linux events around the world.
David: Sadly true, but sitting on your hotel room balcony drinking your lovely home made Trappist beer and reminiscing was memorable. I will treasure that Royal Wave forever.


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Rhode Island Sen. Whitehouse Blames GOP For Okla. Tornado, Increasing Storms, Rising Seas, Melting Ice, Etc.
In remarks which will more than likely be ignored by the establishment press, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in essence blamed yesterday's deadly tornado which struck Moore, Oklahoma on Republicans who have "run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings." Whitehouse was intensely upset because, in his view, these red state ignoramuses who are allowing ever more intense, climate change-caused storms to occur and leading the world to doom because of their inaction still expect the rest of the country to pay for disaster relief in their states as they deliberately inflict damage on blue states like his own and Oregon. As a free bonus, he threw in a detestable Cold War analogy.
The video of Whitehouse's speech as presented at the Senator's own YouTube channel follows the jump. View the video; Whitehouse's condescending contempt for people who won't accept what history will likely record is one of the greatest attempted hoaxes ever perpetrated on mankind is something to behold (HT to FreeRepublic for transcript; some editing was necessary to match the actual speech; bolds are mine):
Now, the transcript:
Every week we're here I try to remind this body of the damage that carbon pollution is doing to our atmosphere and oceans, try to awaken us to our duty. I've done it more than 30 times now. I've tried to kick out the underpinnings of any argument the deniers could stand on.
I've kicked out the scientific so-called denial argument, which properly belongs in the category of falsehood, not argument. I've kicked out the economic denial argument, pointing out that in a proper market the costs of carbon must be in the price of carbon. I even tried to kick out the religious denial argument, showing that the belief that God will just tidy up after us however stupidly we behave runs counter to history and counter to Biblical text.
So today, let's take a crack at the political argument. How wise is it for the Republican Party to wed itself to the deniers and proclaim that climate change is a hoax?
Make no mistake. That is the Republican position. The consensus Republican position, and the default Republican position is that climate change is a hoax. It's been said right on this floor, and in committees, and as far as I know not one Republican Senator has stood up afterwards in this chamber to say, "Wait a minute, not so fast, that's actually not the case." Any Republican Senator who disagrees please come to the floor and articulate a Republican position other than that climate change is a hoax.
This chamber looks relatively empty, but on C-SPAN lots of people are watching. Lots of Republicans are watching. Yet not one Republican overall 30 speeches has ever gotten back to me, even quietly on the side, to say, "You know what? This is really getting serious. Let's see if we can work on this."
Madam President, an iron curtain of denial has fallen around the Republican Party. So let me respectfully ask my Republican colleagues: what are you thinking? How do you imagine this ends?
More than 95 percent of climate scientists are convinced that human carbon pollution is causing massive and unprecedented changes to our atmosphere and oceans. You want to go with the five percent, and you think that's gonna be a winning strategy?
Moreover, it turns out a lot of those five-percenters are on the payroll of the polluters. You know that. It's public knowledge. Some of those payroll scientists are the same people who denied acid rain, who denied the dangers of tobacco.
You still like those odds? Those are the folks to whom you really want to hitch your Republican wagons? You've got to know that they aren't telling the truth. So where does this go? What's the end game?
Our planet has had a run of at least 800,000 years with levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 170 and 300 ppm. That's measurement; not theory. Eight hundred thousand years. Homo sapiens have only been around for about 200,000 years, so that 800,000 years—8,000 centuries—it takes you back a ways. Eight hundred thousand years between 170 and 300 ppm, and in just the last 50 years we've blown out of that range, and have now hit 400 ppm and climbing.
And you want to be on the side of "nothing's going on"? Really?
Have you noticed the floods and wildfires and droughts and superstorms and tornadoes and blizzards and temperature records? Have you noticed those warming, rising seas? Have you noticed species invading new territory, and miles of dead pine forests in the Rockies, and Arctic sea ice disappearing?
Do you understand that carbon in the atmosphere gets absorbed by the sea, and that that is a law of science and is not debatable? Do you understand that because they are absorbing the carbon the oceans are getting more acidic? Thirty percent more acidic already and climbing? Do you understand that's a measurement, not a theory?
It's one thing to be the party that stands against science. Are you really also going to be the party that stands against measurement?
And do you know the measurement is showing that the oceans are not just becoming more acidic, they're becoming more acidic at the fastest rate recorded in a geologic record of 50 million years?
Have you not heard about the coral reefs, those incubators of our ocean, bleaching out and dying off? With almost twenty percent gone already worldwide?
If you're a denier, look around. Do you think the news is getting better for you?
Let me ask my Republican friends, what's your best bet on whether this climate and oceans problem gets better or worse in the next 20 or 40 years? Seriously. Your party's reputation is on the line here—all the chips; tell me how you're going to bet. Do you want to bet the reputation of the Republican Party that suddenly this is all going to magically start getting better? 'Cause that's what you're doing right now.
And let me ask you this: what are the young people of today going to think when they are thirty-seven, or fifty-seven, and it really is worse, maybe a lot worse? What are they going to think about the Republican Party then? That you took the five percent bet with their futures? That you went with the polluters over the scientists?
Young people are already out there asking their universities to divest from coal, like they divested from the evils of apartheid and the dangers of tobacco. Good luck with the youth vote when you lock in with the coal merchants.
And by the youth vote grows. It grows up and sticks around.
How's it going to look for the Republican Party when the historical record shows—because facts have a funny way of coming out—that the campaign to fool the public on climate change was just as phony and dishonest as the campaign to fool the public on acid rain and the campaign to fool the public on tobacco? When the historical record discloses that the five percent wasn't even real, and was actually a scam, paid for by the polluters?
And you, with young Americans' futures in the balance, took sides with the scam. If that is the state of play for young voters as they come of age, why would those young people ever trust the Republican Party, on anything else, ever again?
Speaking of taking sides, have you noticed who's left on your side? The Koch brothers—billionaire polluters; the big oil companies — the biggest polluters in the world; the coal barons—with their legacy of pollution, strip mining, "mountaintop removal," and safety violations that kill their miners. There's a fine cast to be surrounded by.
But wait, you say, there's more. There's the Heartland Institute, and the Institute for Energy Research, and the American Enterprise Institute, and the American Legislative Exchange Council; and the Heritage Foundation. There are many organizations.
Right. Like the heads of Hydra, they may look like many, but as you all know in reality it's all the same beast. It's all the same scheme. It's all the same money behind the scheme. You can name those front organizations, and many more, but none of it is real. They're all just part of the same cheesy vaudeville show put on by the big polluters.
Do you, I ask my Republican friends, really want to lash yourself to that operation, and go down with that ship? The great Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, branding itself as the one that gave it all to protect a gang of scheming polluters? That's where you're headed.
Look who's on the other side, on record, against you, seeing through that nonsense. How about the Joint Chiefs of Staff, our military leaders? How about the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops? How about NASA? NASA's driving a vehicle as big as an SUV around on the surface of Mars right now. They sent it there, to Mars; they landed it safely, and now they're driving it around. On Mars. Do you think those scientists just might know what they're talking about?
How about every legitimate American scientific professional society — about thirty of them? How about major American corporations like Walmart, Ford, Apple, or Coca-Cola? How about global insurance and reinsurance businesses, like Lloyds of London and Munich Re, whose business depends on accurate risk models? Indeed today, Frank Nutter, the president of the Reinsurance Association of America, is reported as saying, and I'll quote this. It's too good: "Insurance is heavily dependent on scientific thought. It is not as amenable to politicized scientific thought."
So I ask my Republican friends: Whose side do you like in this?
In this corner, the Joint Chiefs, the bishops, Walmart, Ford, Apple, Coke, NASA, thirty top scientific organizations, the top insurers and reinsurers, and by the way several thousand legitimate others.
In that corner, the polluting industry and a screen of sketchy organizations they fund.
Let's be serious. Do you really want to bet the reputation of the Republican Party that the polluters are the ones we should count on here? Because that's what you're doing.
And for what? To protect market share for the polluters. That's your upside. Market share for polluters.
Look, I'm willing to do a carbon pollution fee that sets the market in balance, and returns every single dollar to the American people. No new agencies. No new taxes. No bigger government. Every dollar back. Just a balanced market, with the costs included in the price the way they're supposed to be, which will make better energy choices, increase jobs, and prevent pollution. Yes, that does mean less market share for the polluters as new technologies emerge. That is actually the point. But every single dollar back in Americans' pockets.
And by the way, the American people — three-quarters of them believe that climate change is real and that we need to do something about it.
So you may have a question for me: why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings, and disgrace ourselves?
I'll tell you why. We're stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma, and hurricanes swamp Alabama, and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover.
And the damage your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas; it hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas. It hits Montana with dying forests. So like it or not, we're in this together.
You drag America with you to your fate.
I want this future: a Republican Party that has returned to its senses, and is a strong and worthy adversary; in a strong America, that has done right by its people and the world. That's what I want.
I don't want this future. I don't want a Republican Party disgraced, that let its extremists run it off the cliff, in an America suffering from grave economic and environmental and diplomatic damage, because we failed, becaused we didn't wake up and do our duty to our people, and because we didn't lead the world.
I do not want that future. But that's where we're headed.
So I'll keep reaching out and calling out, ever hopeful that you will wake up, before it is too late, both for you, and for the rest of us.
I thank the president officer. I yield the floor.
The generally wise idea that you don't take advice from people who would really like to see your political influence eliminted applies here.
Matt Drudge has usefully reminded us since the Oklahoma tornado hit that in 1975, Newsweek Magazine sounded an alarm over "The Cooling World," with necessarily statist controls on population growth and one world government implied as being necessary parts of the solution:
Furthermore, the growth of world populations and the creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastate fields, as they did during past famines.
And of course, coolly echoing the likes of Whitehouse, the Newsweek piece concluded that "The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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In April 1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple to market their first personal computer, the Apple I, in kit form. A little after a year later Wozniak and Jobs introduced the ground-breaking Apple II, Wayne having sold his stake to his co-founders when they incorporated the company. In 1980, the Apple III went on sale, but it was not a great commercial success.
By that time, an Apple employee called Jeff Raskin had begun developing a cheap personal computer called the Macintosh (named after his favourite apple, the McIntosh). In 1979, a number of Apple employees including Raskin and Jobs visited Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where they saw a Xerox Alto computer. The Alto ran an innovative graphical user interface (GUI) controlled by a new device called a mouse, alongside the traditional keyboard.
Apple began developing their own GUI to run not only on the Macintosh, but also on a business machine that they had in development called the Lisa. Jobs initially headed up the Lisa project, but soon realised that the Macintosh was a better commercial prospect. In 1981, a personality conflict between Raskin and Jobs resulted in Raskin departing the Macintosh project team, which was taken over in 1982 by Jobs following him being forced out of the Lisa team.
On 24th January 1984, the Apple Macintosh went on sale for $2,495. It had a 8Mhz Motorola 68000 processor and 128KB of RAM (boosted by a 64KB ROM chip). The built in 9-inch black and white screen had a resolution of 512x342 pixels. A 3.5-inch floppy drive was included with which software was loaded and files could be saved.
Two days prior to the Macintosh going on sale, an Orwellian themed advertisement for the Macintosh was shown during Super Bowl XVIII. This now famous advert was directed by Ridley Scott and cost in the region of $1.5 million. Whether due to this advertisement or not, the Macintosh proved an immediate success, selling over 70,000 units within four months.
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Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said Saturday he will release his tax returns soon amid calls by critics for Donald Trump to do the same.
Speaking on WABC radio's "Election Central with Rita Cosby," Pence said that the public would not be surprised by the information in his tax records.
"When my tax returns are released it's going to be a quick read … the Pences have not become more wealthy as a result of 16 years in public service," the Indiana governor said.
Trump has repeatedly said he would release his tax returns but has not done so, saying it is because he is under audit. The IRS has said that wouldn't prevent him from releasing his tax returns, NBC News reported.
Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks said Saturday Trump plans to release his returns "when the audit is complete."
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Italy's bank reportedly takes a 'Roman Holiday' leaving depositors holding the bag
June 11, 2012
ITALY – BNI depositors are unable to make withdrawals / payments, payments of utility bills, mortgage payments, taxes says Peter Giordano, Adiconsum: "Grave of the Bank of Italy's attitude that takes action without considering the impact on depositors, and especially on single-income families and pensioners." Adiconsum Bank of Italy asks for an urgent meeting and the lifting of the moratorium. The Bank of Italy authorized the suspension of payments by Bank Network Investments SpA (BNI) without communicating anything to the depositors. Very serious and unacceptable – says Peter Jordan, Secretary General Adiconsum – the attitude of the Bank of Italy SpA in each BNI, because highly prejudicial to the interests of customers. Bank of Italy, in fact, after extending the receivership of the bank, thus giving the impression of an imminent rescue, then gave the green light for compulsory winding up, without giving any prior notice to the depositors, leaving them in no condition to perform any type of operation, even basic ones for daily survival, such as withdrawals / payments, utilities payments, rates, taxes. We must unfortunately note that offensive measures as those adopted to customers BNI – Giordano complaint – not an isolated case. Decisions without taking into account the heavy impact, particularly on savers in possession of a single bank account on which accrediting salary or pension, are not new to Bank of Italy, and also affected depositors of Banca MB. –Google


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Around the world – 50 000 times
ESA's Envisat observation satellite yesterday completed its 50 000th circuit of Earth – travelling 2.25 billion km since its launch nearly a decade ago.
Envisat orbits our planet every 100 minutes, speeding along at more than seven kilometres per second.
During this milestone spin around the world on 22 September, the satellite passed from the Arctic to the Antarctic, catching glimpses of northern Greenland and New Zealand.
Launched on 28 February 2002, the lorry-sized Envisat is the largest Earth observation satellite ever built.
It is also the world's most complex environmental satellite, with ten different instruments studying Earth's land, oceans and atmosphere.
They include the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, which captures images of ocean colour and land cover, like the above scene of New Zealand.
The Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar can be used day or night because it can see through clouds and darkness. This is particularly useful over polar regions, which are prone to long periods of bad weather and extended darkness.
Trace gases in the troposphere and stratosphere are measured globally by the Sciamachy imaging spectrometer, yielding maps of air pollution such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen dioxide.
Nitrogen dioxide – a mainly man-made gas – can cause lung damage and respiratory problems.
It also plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry because it leads to the production of ozone in the troposphere, the lowest part of the atmosphere.
Envisat's Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding monitors gases and pollutants. As one of three atmospheric instruments, it can map the levels of more than 20 trace gases, including ozone, as well as the pollutants that attack ozone.
The sensor is particularly useful for tracking the ozone hole over the Antarctic.
Other Envisat instruments include the Radar Altimeter, which measures surface height to an accuracy of a few centimetres, and the Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer, which records global ground and sea-surface temperatures.


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Vertical spread
Simultaneous purchase and sale of two options that differ only in their exercise price. See: Horizontal spread.
Strike Spread
In options, an investment strategy involving the sale of one option and the purchase of another option identical to the first in every way except the strike price. For example, an investor may write a call giving the buyer the right to buy 1,000 barrels of oil with a strike price of $50 per barrel, and, at the same time, buy a call giving himself/herself the right to buy the same amount of oil at $40 per barrel. In the event that both options are exercised, the investor profits on the difference in the strikes. A strike spread is also called a money spread, a vertical spread, or a price spread.
vertical spread
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|Parma Eldalamberon, issue 14
|Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, Bill Welden
|Mythopoeic Society
|December 23, 2003
Parma Eldalamberon 14: Early Qenya and The Valmaric Script by J.R.R. Tolkien is an issue of the journal Parma Eldalamberon.
In 2010, a revised second printing was released.
From the publisher
Parma Eldalamberon 'The Book of Elven-tongues', edited by Christopher Gilson, is a journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, a special interest group of the Mythopoeic Society.
The current issue has three sections containing newly published writings by J. R. R. Tolkien: "Early Qenya Fragments", edited by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson; "Early Qenya Grammar", edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Bill Welden; and "The Valmaric Script", edited by Arden R. Smith. Each of these has been prepared with the guidance of Christopher Tolkien and with the permission of the Tolkien Estate.
"Early Qenya Fragments" is a collection of Tolkien's tables and name-lists associated with The Book of Lost Tales, including early names of the Days of the Elvish Week and the Valinorian Fortnight, and names of the Valar and various Creatures of the Earth, as Tolkien conceived of them in his earliest mythology. Also included are paradigms of the Regular Qenya Verb conjugation associated with the Qenya Lexicon.
"Early Qenya Grammar" includes early writings on Qenya Phonology, together with the earliest complete Qenya Grammar, describing the forms and inflections of the Article, Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Numbers, Pronouns, and Verbs. Both of these texts date from the 1920s. Annotations and commentary are provided for all of the Early Qenya texts, detailing their interconnections and the evolution of the linguistic conceptions contained within them.
"The Valmaric Script" is an edition of various documents relating to an Elvish writing system devised by Tolkien in the 1920s. One example of the script has been published already in a drawing for the story Roverandom. This edition incudes various charts of the sounds represented by the letters, tracing Tolkien's experimentation with their forms and applications. There are also examples of the Valmaric script used for writing both Qenya and English, including an excerpt from the Old English poem Beowulf. Transcriptions of these texts and commentary on the chronology of the documents and their conceptual evolution are included in this edition.


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Final Crisis #6:'How to Murder the Earth'
I've been re-reading The Invisibles over the past few weeks, as part of getting the book ready, and I'm in the heart of Volume III right now. That makes it unfortunate timing for the release of Final Crisis #6, an issue that's solid Morrison, but pales next to the brilliance and progressive feel of late period Invisibles. I love almost all of Morrison's work, but I do think he's been trapped in this kind of turned to 11 insane superhero storytelling for a while now, and it could be time to go back to something more introspective, along the lines of "Karmageddon."
FC #6 is as strong an issue as most of Final Crisis to date, and I'm sure read under normal circumstances I would have been more into it. There are some absolutely fantastic moments, most of them involving the use of the Metron symbol to tie the resistance together and cut holes in Darkseid's power. I love the moment where the Tatooed Man ignites his symbol and throws chaos into the onslaught of justifiers. Also awesome is the two page spread at the end where Metron tells Nix Uotan about the oncoming fifth world.
The issue is also notable for the 'death' of Batman. Again, people say that he's dead, but even Morrison is making it clear that this is just part of Bruce Wayne's ongoing evolution. The Omega Sanction is just another version of Thogal, a series of deaths and rebirths that will culminate in Batman eventually being reborn again. Morrison just wrote a lengthy story that made it clear that Batman is always prepared for anything, surely he can overcome the worst that Darkseid has to offer. What I hope is that we'll get the rumored Bruce Wayne as god of the fifth world story, at least for a little bit before everything eventually resets to the status quo.
But, I'm hoping that after Final Crisis is over, Morrison takes some time off from big superhero comics and does some more restrained comics. I love the intensity and scope of this book, but when I read the incredibly precise 'Karmageddon,' or even look at the very specific emotional moments of "All Tomorrow's Parties," I want to see more stories like that. During The Invisibles, he balanced the heights of JLA with the more grounded Invisibles, we need that counter now. I'd love to see him do another long form creator owned project, or at least a couple of minis. I'm sure there's a lot of stories still to tell in the DCU, and I do want to see those, but I want to see something closer to Seven Soldiers or The Invisibles as well.


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Raspberry & amaretti crunch cake
Delicious raspberry and amaretti crunch cake
Nutrition and extra info
- sponge only
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal640
- fat37g
- saturates17g
- carbs68g
- sugars34g
- fibre4g
- protein12g
- salt0.92g
- 175g soft butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 175g golden caster sugar
- 3 eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 140g self-raising flour
- 85g ground almond
- 140g amaretti biscuits, roughly broken
- 250g punnet raspberry
A member of the rose family, raspberries have a wonderfully intense, sweet taste, and many…
To serve
- icing sugar, to dust
- 142ml carton single cream
Preheat the oven to fan 140C/conventional 160C/gas 3. Butter and base line a loose-bottomed 20cm round cake tin. Put the butter, caster sugar, eggs, flour and ground almonds into a large bowl. Beat using an electric hand whisk until all the ingredients are well blended.
Spread half the cake mixture in the lined tin. Scatter over half of the amaretti biscuits then a third of the raspberries. Very lightly press into the cake mixture.
Dollop dessertspoonfuls of the remaining cake mixture over the amaretti and raspberries and spread evenly. Scatter the remaining amaretti and half the remaining raspberries over the top. Bake for 55-60 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Cool for 15 minutes in the tin. Run a knife round the edge and turn out. It will keep in a covered container in the fridge for up to 2 days.
To serve, remove from the fridge an hour before serving and lightly dust with icing sugar before bringing to the table. Serve with the remaining raspberries and a little single cream.


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Miscellaneous from the World of Catan
Newspaper articles, the Catan World Championship, Catan on TV – here you can find all the other things you want to know about Catan.
June 10, 2010
June Newsletter Online
The new issue of the Catan Newswire is online! You can read about the most up-to-date and exciting Catan news by following the link in this story. Read June's Catan Newswire at the link below to find out more about: New Games from Klaus Teuber Catan for iPad New COW installer Translations and More... In the Name of Heros Contest Catanimals Family Night Podcast 018 Event Updates > …
June 10, 2010
Catan on Facebook exceeds 60,000
Remember like half a year ago when we were proudly announcing that "The Settlers of Catan" fan page on Facebook exceeded 35,000 fans? Now guess what: We hit 60,000 fans this week! A big thank you goes out to all our Facebook fans, or "Catanimals" as they are called these days, and of course our fans all over the world. facebook.com/settlersofcatan> …
June 10, 2010
Mayfair Games Catan Events on Catan.com
We would like to inform you that from now on all Catan Events from the recently relaunched Mayfair Games website will be incorporated into a seperate page on Catan.com automatically. Until now, we had to manually copy and paste the events, with the immanent risk of getting "out of sync" as soon as there were made additions or corrections to existing events. From now on, any new event or event detail will be available on Catan.com almost instantly. …
May 31, 2010
May Newsletter Online
The new issue of the Catan Newswire is online! You can read about the most up-to-date and exciting Catan news by following the link in this story. Read May's Catan Newswire at the link below to find out more about: New Games for the Summer! Settlers of America: Trails to Rails™ Wacky Wacky West™ Catan for PS3® Catan Card Game Redesign Part 5 Starship on Nexus One Family Night Podcast Event Updates > …
April 9, 2010
Three new cities for the Catan Online World!
We are very happy to announce that starting with the new game period of the Catan Online World on April 14, 2010, three more cities will open their gates: Katimavik Bay Kolonistenpolder Conestoga Creek Continuing the tradition that was established when Port Niagara and Pacifica were created, committed citizens from our three existing English-speaking COW cities have formed teams of pioneers for the new cities. …
April 9, 2010
March Newsletter Online
The new issue of the Catan Newswire is online! You can read about the most up-to-date and exciting Catan news by following the link in this story. Read March's Catan Newswire at the link below to find out more about: Connect with us! Settlers of America is Coming this Summer! Relaunch of Playcatan.com home site Catan Card Game Redesign Parts 2 & 3 Family Night Podcast WWCC 2010 Pre-Qualifiers Report Catan in the News Event Updates 2009/2008 Releases > …
March 24, 2010
English/French video interview with Klaus Teuber
Klaus Teuber has been interviewed by the French internet game magazine "Tric Trac" during the Festival International des Jeux in Cannes - while being synchronously translated from French to English and back by Sophie Gravel. Klaus speaks about the relaunch of the Catan board-game (3rd German Edition) and the Catan card-game, about being in love with his job, about other games he likes or which ones he would even liked to have invented by himself - and as well about the development of the German game market. [Please click here to watch the video on www.trictrac.tv.]> …
March 12, 2010
Klaus Teuber Honored in Cannes for His Lifetime Achievement
From March 3 - 7, 2010, the Festival International des Jeux was held in Cannes to celebrate the games world and its stars. The organizers welcomed world-famous game author Klaus Teuber as a guest of honor. During the As d'Or awards ceremony at the legendary Palais des Festivals, the inventor of Catan was honored with an hommage to his lifetime achievement. …
February 25, 2010
Relaunch of the PlayCatan website
On Monday, February 22, we launched our completely revised PlayCatan website, now separating the English pages at www.playcatan.com from the German ones at www.playcatan.de. Even though the visual apperance of the new website may not seem very different at first glance - the internal changes could not have been more drastic. …
February 17, 2010
Dominating the World Through a Board Game
An interesting article from Emory University's student newspaper, the Emory wheel: "Each week, the residents of my apartment and I partake in a thrilling evening of board games. But don't yawn yet. Settlers of Catan serves as our game of choice and — no offense to loyal Scrabble fanatics — it is certainly more riveting than your grandmother's Scrabble match." [> …


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Groundbreaking ceremonies were held recently for the Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center, a $171 million facility on the University of California, San Diego Medical Center campus. The 128,000-sf facility will house medical research, education, and patient-care operations.
Designed by Baltimore-based RTKL, the glass-wrapped building was conceptualized as a "jewel box" to capitalize on 360-degree views of the La Jolla coastline, nearby canyons, and the Torrey Pines State Reserve. The expansive views work in conjunction with nature-inspired built elements—an outdoor entry atrium, water features, healing gardens and a courtyard—to augment the healing process.
The hospital is composed of 24 intensive and intermediate care beds, 20 examination rooms, four cardiac catheterization labs, four operating rooms sized to accommodate complex surgeries, clinical research facilities, and an emergency department with 18 examination stations. Construction is scheduled for completion in 2010.


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Ever since before we bought a house and moved into it, one of my "not exactly requirements but sort of on the back of my mind" was to have a big windowsill where I could put herb pots to grow. You see the previous house had absolutely none of that, the kitchen window (being the most appropriate one) was very low, reaching behind the cupboards (which means it pretty much took a body-builder to open it!) and had no sill, and in the other rooms the windowsills (if any) were 4cm wide. Not even enough space for one of those tiny cactus pots...
So finally, when we bought our house, and although that was not a deal-breaker, I was happy to notice a VERY big and wide windowsill in the kitchen, tiled as well (extra useful if you spill water over the plants and the wall, like I do!) and I set about finally buying and planting my herbs. I had a sad-looking deadling of a basil, which when taken out of his miniscule pot grew to extremes, and also some rosemary, thyme and mint joined him soon after. And I got them pretty red pots too, as I wanted a black, white and red theme for the new kitchen.
I, of course, wanted the herbs more for eating, rather than decoration, so I thought I would soon deplete them, but they have been growing so fast and well that I keep having to dig out recipes that require lots of them to use them up, as I hate cutting off bits and throwing them away just to keep them healthy.
Being Greek I love basil, and the way it makes a whole room smell when you "rub its head" affectionately (yes, you'll see most people, grannies and children alike, in Greece "caressing" basil when they pass by it to release the scent and enjoy it!) and lemons are also so deeply ingrained in my culture that if something's edible, you'll find a Greek squeezing lemon juice on top of it, from bread to meat/fish/vegetables, to olive oil (to make a dressing), to fried potatoes, absolutely anything.
This pasta caters to two needs, firstly my basil's "coiffure" and secondly my love for lemony things. Since the other half is not that keen on lemon, while he's away for a long trip to the US between jobs I took advantage and made this one-pot wonder quite a few times, it's so simple and quick, and even vegetarian (knowing me, that's shocking!). Try it, with some ground Belper Knolle on top (a very nice parmesan-ish kind of Swiss cheese wrapped in a layer of pepper, I discovered it one day in a Swiss cheese stall in the Borough Market), or even some za'atar sprinkled in the sauce, and you will not be disappointed. Plus you might have to get a basil plant and slaughter it frequently, to satisfy your need for more of this pasta!
Lemon and fresh basil linguine with Belper Knolle
Source: Adapted from NOMU
Serves 2
- 200g linguine (preferably fresh)
- 125ml cream
- Grated zest of 1 lemon
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 25g grated parmesan
- A few pinches of za'atar
- A big handful of fresh basil leaves, roughly torn by hand
- Grated Belper Knolle (or parmesan and black pepper)
Boil the linguine until al dente. Drain but keep a couple of spoonfuls of the water in the pot, and return the pasta to it. Pour in the cream, lemon zest and juice, parmesan, za'atar and basil, and mix well on gentle heat until the cheese is melted.
Put in a bowl or plate, grate some Belper Knolle on top and enjoy!


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Did you hear the one about the Beatles' sons forming a band?
In a recent interview with the BBC, James McCartney, son of Paul McCartney, said he'd like to get a band together with other Beatles offspring, record an album and tour.
The kids — Sean Lennon, John Lennon's youngest son; Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's only child; and Zak Starkey, one of Ringo Starr's kids — are all established musicians.
McCartney reveals he has had conversations with Lennon and Harrison, and they appear to be "up for" picking up where their fathers left off.
But McCartney admits that Starr's drummer son Zak was less than eager: "I don't think it's something that Zak wants to do."
In honor of this news, let's take a look at other offspring of celebrities who are trying to recreate their parents' success.


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American Airlines says it has repaired 42 of 48 planes that were pulled aside and inspected because the seats could come loose.
The airline said around midday Friday that all seat repairs on its Boeing 757 airplanes should be done by Saturday.
"By Saturday, Oct. 6, we plan to have all 48 of our Boeing 757s back in service," said Andrea Huguely, spokeswoman for American Airlines, in a press statement. "We have identified the issue, and our maintenance teams are securing an FAA-approved locking mechanism to ensure no seat can be dislodged. As of noon CT today, repairs are complete on 42 of the 48 affected aircraft and the airline is no longer impacted by this process."
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American is canceling 44 flights today after it scrapped 50 flights Thursday because of the seat problem.
Crews inspected the planes earlier in the week and thought they had fixed them. Then on Thursday American said it discovered the real reason the seats weren't staying in place -- a pin that locks them into the aircraft floor could pop out because of wear and dirt in the floor tracks.
The seat fiasco comes as American is still trying to recover from widespread delays and flight cancelations in September.


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I love that color is at once systematic and inexplicable. There are the rational rules and theories of hue, saturation, value, tone, primary, secondary, tertiary; and there are the irrational impacts of color: how it makes us feel, which colors resonate together or complement each other, which colors express a certain mood or emotion.
And because color is too special to be relegated to the world of just feeling or just reason, my Gradient Cowl embraces both aspects. Resembling a traditional color study, it progresses along a spectrum, mixing each color with its neighbor and forming a new color in the process. And simultaneously, I felt renewed with each change in color, eager to discover the new world of every stripe. The result is a cuddly color wheel that is organized and expressive.
Purl Soho's Line Weight provides the perfect medium for this study. It comes in 35 gorgeous colors, and its single ply of exquisite merino forms a soft bloom over the finished cowl, blending the colors into a beautiful watercolor-like wash. Get all five skeins you need with our Gradient Cowl Bundle, available in three lovely colorways. Pick one up here and celebrate your love of color with every stitch! -Gina
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Our Gradient Cowl in Linen Quill recreates the original with a whole new feeling! Pick up a Gradient Cowl Bundle in the Sweetgrass palette to make your own! Sweetgrass includes one of each of the following colors: Pale Oats, Pale Mushroom, Rose Granite, Oatmeal Gray, and Salt + Pepper.
- 5 skeins of Purl Soho's Line Weight, 100% merino wool. There colors, from the top, are Super Pink, Pink Grapefruit, Ballet Pink, Heirloom White, and Yellow Yellow. (Please note, a few of these Line Weight colors are discontinued but we've created a trio of updated colorways in Linen Quill available in our Gradient Cowl Bundle!)
- A US 7, 24-inch circular needle
20 stitches = 4 inches in seed stitch with yarn doubled
Finished Height: 12 inches
Finished Circumference: 58 inches
The pattern refers to each color by letter. Below are the letters we assigned to each color in our materials bundle. If you have chosen your own colors, arrange them in a pleasing order and name them letters A-E.
- A: Super Pink
- B: Pink Grapefruit
- C: Ballet Pink
- D: Heirloom White
- E: Yellow Yellow
For stripes that use two strands of the same color, you can either roll the skein into two equal-size balls and pull from both balls at once, or you can pull one strand from the inside of the ball and one strand from the outside. If you don't have a swift and ball winder to wind a center-pull ball, never fear, you can do it by hand! Click here for a great video that shows you how!
Stripe 1
Using 2 strands of color A (see Pattern Note, above), cast on 60 stitches.
Row 1: Slip 1 with yarn in front, *p1, k1, repeat from * to last stitch, p1.
Row 2: Slip 1 with yarn in back, *k1, p1, repeat from * to last stitch, k1.
Repeat Rows 1 and 2 until piece measures 3 ¼ inches from the cast on edge, ending with Row 2.
Stripe 2
Cut one strand of color A and join 1 strand of color B.
- To avoid having lots of ends to weave in, you can knit the tails in as you work. Here's how: When you join in a new yarn, simply work the first 4 to 6 stitches of the row with both the working yarns and the tails. Continue the row with the working yarns only.
- When you work the first row of a new stripe, knit the first stitch instead of slipping it.
Using colors A and B and starting with Row 1, repeat Rows 1 and 2 for 3 ¼ inches, ending with Row 2.
Cut color A and join 1 more strand of color B.
Using this new yarn combo and starting with Row 1, repeat Rows 1 and 2 for 3 ¼ inches, ending with Row 2.
Remaining Stripes
Continuing in the pattern as established, start with Stripe 4 and work the remaining stripes, as follows…
Stripe 1: 2 strands color A
Stripe 2: 1 strand color A, 1 strand color B
Stripe 3: 2 strands color B
Stripe 4: 1 strand color B, 1 strand color C
Stripe 5: 2 strands color C
Stripe 6: 1 strand color C, 1 strand color D
Stripe 7: 2 strands color D
Stripe 8: 1 strand color D, 1 strand color E
Stripe 9: 2 strands color E
Now repeat the stripe sequence in reverse order:
Stripe 10: Repeat stripe 9
Stripe 11: Repeat stripe 8
Stripe 12: Repeat stripe 7
Stripe 13: Repeat stripe 6
Stripe 14: Repeat stripe 5
Stripe 15: Repeat stripe 4
Stripe 16: Repeat stripe 3
Stripe 17: Repeat stripe 2
Stripe 18: Repeat stripe 1
Bind off loosely in pattern. Cut the yarns, leaving a tail about 20 inches long.
Thread the tail onto a tapestry needle. Being careful to not twist the cowl (unless you want to!), sew the two ends together with a whipstitch, inserting the needle right under each cast-on or bind-off stitch.
Weave in any remaining ends. Block as desired. And enjoy your Gradient Cowl!


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When one average Florida household switches a non-gas water heater to a natural gas tankless water heater, it reduces the household carbon footprint by approximately 3,000 pounds every year. That's about the size of an average rhinoceros.
If just 10,000 Floridians made the switch to natural gas, the state's carbon footprint would be reduced by 15,000 tons. Saving 15,000 tons of carbon is equivalent to recycling about 4,700 tons of waste instead of sending to a landfill, or removing the emissions of nearly 2,500 automobiles on Florida roads each year.*
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Celebrate autism awareness
MIND Institute observes National Autism Awareness Month
April is National Autism Awareness Month, and the UC Davis MIND Institute is marking the health observance with a month-long series of events — including lectures, a community open house, film screening and a health fair — most of them free and open to the public. The events are designed to appeal to people of all ages and levels of ability.
On April 13 children and adults can attend a special Sacramento River Cats double header against the Salt Lake Bees at Raley Field. Kids can run the bases and will receive a prize if they visit the MIND Institute booth on the concourse. The game starts at 1:05 p.m. To purchase reduced-price tickets, visit the River Cats' website and enter offer code RC14.
Two of the world's leading autism researchers, UC Davis professor Judy Van de Water and Sally Rogers, will provide updates on their groundbreaking research during the Minds Behind the MIND panel discussion on April 16. The Minds Behind the MIND series features UC Davis researchers and community representatives who place living with neurodevelopmental disorders in perspective. The lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. in the MIND Institute auditorium.
Balloon artists, food trucks, magic tricks and a rock climbing wall are among the attractions planned for the MIND Institute Community Open House on Saturday, April 26. The fun-filled event will offer information on services provided by local community organizations serving people with developmental disorders, and participants can learn how to participate in MIND Institute research. The event starts at 11 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m.
More people with autism are attending college, and assistive technology can help support them. On Monday, April 28, 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. the MIND Institute's Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities will offer insights into how assistive technology is used in college settings and how students may benefit.
Finally, on Tuesday, April 29, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the MIND Institute will host the Northern California premiere screening of "Sounding the Alarm," a film that examines the lives of 12 American families after their children receive a diagnosis of autism, presented in collaboration with the science and advocacy organization Autism Speaks. The film includes an interview with MIND Institute Research Director David Amaral.
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