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CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Trey McKinney Jones scored 15 points Sunday for the Miami Hurricanes, and the Atlantic Coast Conference leaders won their seventh game in a row by beating Florida State, 71-47.
The blowout victory before a capacity crowd was the second in a row for the 25th-ranked Hurricanes, ensuring a significant jump in Monday's poll. They drubbed No. 1 Duke on Wednesday.
Miami (15-3, 6-0) is off to its best start in the conference, alone atop the standings, and is 9-0 at home. Florida State (11-8, 3-3) fell to 0-3 this season against ranked teams.
The Seminoles endured repeated long scoring droughts against Miami's man-to-man defense and shot a season-low 31 percent, the fourth time in the past five games they've been under 42 percent. Their starters went 7 for 26 and totaled 19 points.
Miami has not allowed an opponent to shoot better than 50 percent from the field this season. Michael Snaer went 2 for 5 and was held to four points, 10.5 below his average. The Seminoles went 3 for 17 from 3-point range.
McKinney Jones had three 3-pointers for the Hurricanes, who went 8 for 22 from beyond the arc. Durand Scott and Kenny Kadji scored 11 points apiece, and Shane Larkin had eight points, nine rebounds and six assists.
The Hurricanes had a 44-32 rebounding edge and outscored the Seminoles 15-2 on second-chance points.
Reserve Ian Miller led Florida State with 12 points.
Miami cracked the rankings Monday for the first time in three years and is creating a buzz even in South Florida, where college basketball tends to draw little attention. The sellout was only the 11th in the Hurricanes' 10-year-old on-campus arena, but their second in a row.
Miami scored the first six points and led all the way. After Florida State cut the deficit to two late in the first half, McKinney Jones converted back-to-back fast breaks, scoring on a layup and then sinking a pull-up 3-pointer for a 37-26 lead.
Three-pointers by McKinney Jones, Larkin and Scott helped the Hurricanes build the margin to 54-33.
No. 25 Miami trounces Florida St 71-47
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Trey McKinney Jones scored 15 points Sunday for the Miami Hurricanes, and the Atlantic Coast Conference leaders won their seventh game in a row by beating Florida State, 71-47.


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Live Chat with Jessica Anderson: Getting the Best Deal on a Used Car
I'll be online Thurs., May 31 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. ET to answer your questions.
These days, finding the right used car at an affordable price can be a tough task. Supply is tight and prices are at an all-time high, but that doesn't mean deals aren't out there. To find them, you might just need to do a little more research and learn how to bargain smart, which is why we're here to help.
Want to find a used car that's both fuel-efficient and affordable? Need to know if the cars you're considering are reliable? Wondering what exactly are certified pre-owned vehicles? Senior editor Mark Solheim and I will be taking your questions and comments on Thurs., May 31, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. ET. We'll also be discussing our picks for the 10 Best Values in Used Cars.
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Also, be sure to check out my recent story on getting the best deal on a used car.
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Baylor/Vitek's GutPak named the nation's top college dish
It's official: Baylor/Waco is the home to the nation's top "college eat" — Vitek's GutPak!
That's according to almost 300,000 total votes cast online in a "March Madness"-style bracket conducted by a Food Network spinoff, Cooking Channel. From 32 school/dish combinations, Baylor and the GutPak beat out NC State's sausage dip, Duke's gyro, Illinois' stuffed pizza, Montana's breakfast burrito and Marquette's chili-topped spaghetti to be named the No. 1 College Eat in the Nation.
Bet you didn't realize you had it so good right in your own backyard!
Sic 'em, Vitek's!
[Oh, and for those of you far from Waco who are now pining for a GutPak of your own, the Food Network kitchen worked up an at-home version of the Vitek's special (and all the dishes in the competition).]


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Riverside Bench
Furniture Design Focus: Riverside Bench
A Good Furniture design example, the Riverside is a creative Bench design. Riverside was designed in 2010, and here is a how it is described by its designer: Riverside is a configurable bench system that can take several different shapes, the shape is inspired by rivers, which finds a way to flow no matter what the obstacle.
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Going Down River Road by Meja Mwangi
Baby should not have drunk coffee. He urinated all of it during the night and now the smell lay thick and throat-catching, overcoming even the perfume of his mother's bed across the room. In the bed Ben lay with the boy's mother curled in his large arms, warm and soft and fast asleep. But Ben was not asleep anymore. The pungent baby urine stink had awakened him long before his usual waking up time. He released the woman, turned and reached on the bedside table for a cigarette to combat the musty smell from the baby's bed. There were no cigarettes in the packet. He lit a half-smoked one from the ash-tray and lay smoking in the early morning gloom. Wini breathed soft and low by his side. Her nude body lay stretched out against his, her hand resting on the inside of his hairy thigh. She would be waking up soon to make his breakfast. He did not stir her. She had her own clockwork system that first turned her over once or twice before she opened her eyes to complain about the shortness of the past night. In another half hour he would be on his way to work.And so we are welcomed into the world of Meja Mwangi's Going Down River Road, first published in 1976. In Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears: The Postcolonial Kenyan Novel, J. Roger Kurtz says Mwangi's "urban novels remain the paradigmatic and in many ways most interesting examples of the urban genre from Kenya," and he calls Going Down River Road "the Nairobi novel par excellence".
I do not have the knowledge or background to judge how accurate Kurtz's perception of the novel's importance is, but it was recommended to me strongly enough that it become the object of a quest I and some friends went on when we were in Nairobi. A Kenyan had told us that the book is a fine example of how to write about a particular place and time, and that it evoked a lost Nairobi that was nonetheless familiar enough. The book was described with such passion that we became determined to find copies for ourselves. We went from one bookstore to another, but though they all had books by Mwangi (he's a prolific writer), they did not have Going Down River Road. The afternoon turned to evening and all the shops in the city center closed. We asked around, and someone told us that if anybody would have copies of the book, it would be a bookstore over in a mall in Westlands, and so we got into a taxi and sped off in search of the book -- and lo and behold, we found a pile of them. One for each of us.
It amuses and disturbs me to think that I bought Going Down River Road in a mall in one of the richer areas of Nairobi, because the book itself is so much about the traps and travails of utter poverty. It tells the story of Ben, who works at a construction job and spends most of the little bit of money he makes on alcohol and prostitutes, until one day his (ex-prostitute) girlfriend leaves him with her young son (known only as Baby) and never returns. Ben is often miserable, and just as often he is an observer of worse misery than his own. Becoming the caretaker for Baby does not turn him into some sort of saint -- he only barely takes care of the boy, though eventually he does pay his school fees and make sure he goes to school.
Ben is vehemently misogynistic, and after Wini abandons him, his misogyny becomes worse than it ever has been. He is not an appealing character, and yet Mwangi writes about him in such a way that we can feel some sympathy, and so we care about his fate. I found myself becoming frustrated with him in the way I would become frustrated with a friend whose opinions seemed ridiculous to me and whose actions even more so, but who nonetheless possessed enough elements of goodness to make me want to remain in his company for at least a short time. Mwangi avoids both cliche and sentimentality by making Ben such a difficult character to like, and yet there is enough to like -- an intelligence that gets fiercely beaten down but won't disappear completely -- that the book doesn't slide into frigid cynicism. Though the narrative verges on fetishizing the squalor and reveling in the misery, it never quite descends to that (in my eyes, at least) because Ben's intelligence does occasionally prevail, and he recognizes not just the pain he feels himself, but the pain of other people -- including pain he causes. He is incapable of escaping this world for himself, but he holds out hope that Baby might, and he tries as best he can to maintain the friendship most important to him so that he doesn't sink into a bleaker world of his own making, a world of only himself.
Going Down River Road is, indeed, a good example of a novel that is as much about its setting as its characters, because the characters are so inextricable from the setting, so entwined with it. The book grows repetitive at times, perhaps to indicate the borders of the life Ben has made for himself. The writing varies in quality from sometimes breezy and a bit thin to evocative in its descriptions of physical sensations -- at its best, this is a novel that assaults all the senses.
There is a political element to the book, too, as Ben watches people try to solve problems around him and address the political situation of Kenya. The book does not offer much hope here, as in this passage twenty pages from the end:
There are many things Ben knows that Bhai will never understand. Machore can never raise the necessary deposit to register as a candidate. And even if he could raise the money he would then have to find a consituency to contest and convince the constituents to vote for him. And who would listen to him? Only the labourers, and only at lunch time when there is nothing else to do. And he would still have a certain amount of trouble. The labourers are a tired hungry people. They don't believe in anybody or anything anymore. They do not even believe in the building anymore. Now they know. Just as a man will turn his back to you, a building gets completed and leaves you unoccupied. The hands just do not believe. If he bought them beer, Machore might convince the hands to listen to his promises. But they would still not vote if they got up with a terrible hangover or the weather became lousy on polling day or the queue got too long or something. To the hands it makes little difference: just another name in the newspapers, another face in the headlines, a voice on the radio, more promises...We are left to decide for ourselves what such feelings amount to. Ben, clearly, has not been helped by politicians, and his growth, such as it is, is from leave-me-alone individualism to a recognition of his need for something other than himself, even if everything else -- the government, Baby, his friends, his employers -- seems to be an impediment or a threat. The novel ends with a small moment of connection, a moment that shatters the profound and futile loneliness the city instills. The ambiguity of this moment, its inability to be summed up as a simple moral and its many implications within the context of the story, makes Going Down River Road so much more than a simple portrait of a particular time or group of people -- it is a scream against the waste that life allows.


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"The Expert Mind," by Philip Ross, Scientific American, 24 July 2006, http://scientificamerican.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=00010347-101C-14C1-8F9E83414B7F4945 (from Slashdot).
"The Schizophrenic Symptom of Flat Affect," by Michael Crawford, kuro5hin, 17 August 2006, http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/8/15/35149/9787.
With Hugh MacLeod, Mark Safranski, and Francis Younghusband blogging on how to be creativity, two articles (one in a prestigious magazine, the other a quirky blog) that give a big hint: practice!
From a researcher at Scientific American, writing on chess:
The one thing that all expertise theorists agree on is that it takes enormous effort to build these structures in the mind. Simon coined a psychological law of his own, the 10-year rule, which states that it takes approximately a decade of heavy labor to master any field. Even child prodigies, such as Gauss in mathematics, Mozart in music and Bobby Fischer in chess, must have made an equivalent effort, perhaps by starting earlier and working harder than others.
And a suffer of schizo-affective disorder, writing on getting a date and learning how to smile:
What made the difference? Practice: one can learn to express emotion through conscious effort. With enough conscious practice, affective expression can become unconscious and natural. However, even after all these years I usually seem stoic and unemotional. That is, except when I play music or write, or am incredibly overcome.
My therapist warned that it was likely to take some time to reach my goal, but she asked me to regard every attempt to attract a woman as practice towards gaining the skills I needed to succeed someday. And friends, that's what I did: during some sessions she assigned me the task of chatting up a strange girl, and at the next we would discuss my experience, as well as how I could do better next time.
Of course, readers of tdaxp know this already:
(The adaptive trait of learned helplessness lets humans practice more in some areas than others, allowing highly productive experts to network each other and out-compete groups of generalists. Such intricate self-organization is a feature of complex adaptive systems, such as the market economy. This increasingly social, networked style of man may be way the human brain begin shrinking about 15 thousand years ago.)


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CASE54239: Interrogation concerning Cicely Foster (PERSON11860)
Question asked by Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218) on 20 May 1622 at 16:39
RN Cicely foster of hanslop 43 y may 20 ☾. h. 4. 39 ant m 1622 had no child this 20 y was swelled in her legs a quarter of a yere & now quite gone vpward & her belly is mutch swelled & her thigh & mutch gryped about her navell and casteth for this halfe yere yt wch she taketh most cōmonly & keepeth her bed this fortnight desyreth but my prayers./
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 115v (bottom left part of page)
Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218)Cicely Foster (PERSON11860)
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Bloating and swelling (Swelling)
Medical >Parts of the body>Limbs and joints (LegsThighs)
Medical >Parts of the body>Torso (BellyNavel)
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Gripings, gnawings and stitches (Griping )
Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Nausea and vomiting (Nausea)


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It appears there is no shortage of defective products arriving on our shores from China. Recently, attorneys at Morgan & Morgan filed a class action complaint against the manufacturers / distributors of defective Chinese drywall that has allegedly caused electrical damages and health problems for Florida residents.
Shortages in American made drywall products (between 2004 and 2006) prompted some Florida building companies to import drywall from China. It is thought that the drywall was used in new home construction.
As much as 10 million square feet of this defective drywall may have been used in Florida new homes. The defective drywall supposedly emits sulfur compounds, leading to electrical damages and health problems (including respiratory problems, nose bleeds, headaches, and irritated eyes). The drywall emits a strong sulfur (rotten egg) odor.
More information on the Class Action Lawsuit
Thanks, and be careful what you hang on your walls. Be safe.
John M. Wickline
JW Home Inspections, Inc.


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Trick or Treat
I just ran a few errands in my neighborhood and came across the Incredible Hulk, Batman, and Shrek. I guess this means the Halloween weekend has officially begun! Have a great weekend everyone.
Labels: holiday, illustration
Project We Do II
This week I was asked to do some more sketches for the Birthright Israel NEXT, NY Project We Do website. They're super tiny on the actual site, so I thought I'd post them here for you to see a little bigger. Each illustration is an icon to coincide with an explanation of the different elements that make up a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony.
I've also designed the invitations for the wedding and now that they've been mailed out, and guests have seen them, I can share them here with you. The cute part is the bottom of the invite. It has the bride and groom illustrations that match the one's that drop down throughout the website. I chose this font for it's rounded and playful yet casual cute look.
Halloween's Approaching
So I've decided to take a look at my Etsy shop to see which of my fashion illustration prints could be costume inspiring. My very favorite, although probably the most costly to pull off well is Marie Antionette. I'd love to get fully decked out in such an elaborate period costume. That dress, tall platnium wig, feathers, and lace, what more could a girl want from a night of dress up?
Throughout the years some of my favorite Halloween memories have been when I dressed up as part of a group costume. As a kid I was once part of Alvin and the Chipmunks with two other friends. I got stuck being Simon cause I was the tallest and had glasses, but have fun memories of it none the less! Then in college for a friends costume party, I along with 4 other friends, was Madonna through the years. We each chose a Madonna to be: "Like a Virgin" Madonna complete with white lace bustier and boy toy belt, "Frozen Madonna" in geisha garb, "American Pie" Madonna in a western shirt and cowboy hat. Such a great group costume.
The point of this long tangent is that I found a group costume idea in my shop: the fab four from Sex and the City as seen in my They're Back print. This wouldn't be too much of a stretch for most NYC girls who try to be them every night, halloween or not. (I guess it's that age old saying "life imitate's art, which imitate's life", right?) But if you really went all out and got the appropriate wigs, outfits, and accessories, it could be great. You could even include your boyfriends, gay husbands, and friends by having them join you as Big, Harry, or Stanford.
The last illustration I've picked as possible costume inspiration is Cleo, my modern day Cleopatra. First Marie, a French queen and now an Egyptian pharaoh! Maybe I need a spa day or something, I swear I don't sit around dreaming of being a royalty, they just happen to have fabulous wardrobes.
Labels: etsy, holiday, illustration, pop-culture
Too Cute
Seeing the latest Gap ad campaign really reminded me of my Little Sisters print (shown above). The grey and yellow color scheme is still going strong, and I'm loving it. The pink tulle skirt from the collection is a wonderful compliment. As my customers know I wrap all my orders in with a pink tulle bow.
I'm normally not a huge fan of celebrity collections or designer lines at lower end, mass market retailers but there's always an exception to the rule. How ridiculously adorable is this collection from Stella McCartney for Gap kids?!? It will be available in stores November 2nd, prices will range from $14 to $128, and if I was a petite size zero I'd be running over there. (Ahh, if only!)
Labels: designer, etsy, high fashion, illustration
Fashion discussion panel with. . .
Ashley Olsen! It was a trill to hear Ashley speak fashion, and to see Mary-Kate, who was a few rows up from me supporting her sis. I am such a fan of The Row and Elizabeth and James, their two fashion labels, and I absolutely love their sense of style. (The pic above is a tear that I used to have on my inspiration board at work. I can't believe I was able to find it. I LOVE this image. Everything from the way the dresses compliment each other to the fabulous dramatic eye and nude lip. Even the set is stunning!)
Last week, in midst of my computer dying on me (which is why I didn't blog about it until now) I headed across town to the 92nd Street Y for a discussion about "The Future of Fashion" with Ashley Olsen, Isaac Mizrahi, Robin Givhan, and Cindi Leive.
Robin Givhan, Washington Post fashion critic, provided the most food for thought on the topics discussed. There was one answer of hers that really stayed with me. The question posed was: "why do people love to hate fashion"? Robin said "it's partially cultural, that in this country fashion is not thought of as fine art. It is not valued, and is not thought of as being in the same category as say painting or sculpture. Fashion is also a woman's industry. No one would say that spending thousands of dollars on season tickets for football is ridiculous, but a woman spending serious money on a gown is frivolous!?!?" Amen Robin! :)
Labels: designer, high fashion, party, pop-culture
I'm an Etsy Guest Blogger!
I've been so excited about this day, and it's finally here! About a month ago the lovely Etsy staffers offered me the opportunity to write a guest blog post. I was trilled to be asked while completely terrified about what to write about and if it would be what they had in mind. It was suggested I write about my custom bridal illustration process, but I had just blogged about that here in a 3 part series. And if I was writing all about my illustration process then how would I feature other Etsy sellers, which is one of the goals of the Storque (Etsy's Handmade Blog).
Since the majority of my custom work is for weddings, and purchased as wedding and anniversary gifts, I decided to blog about other unique wedding gifts. I named my post "The Wow Wedding Gift" and featured other unique Etsy handmade wedding related items from engagement gifts, bridal shower gifts, and bachelorette accessories, to wedding gifts and fun guest favors, like the custom fortune teller shown below.
Pulling together this post was a fantastic experience and I enjoyed working on every element that went into it. Browsing through my favorite sellers, designing the header image, and writing the actual post while thinking about all the wedding's I've been to and gift's I've given over the years, I loved it all. So now that my guest blog post is now up and live on the Etsy Storque (Wouldn't you know it my computer went and died the very same day my guest blog went up, so that's why I'm just now blogging about it!) I hope you check it out and enjoy it! I certainly enjoyed writing it and searching for the perfect "wow" worthy items that I'd love to give.
Sellers displayed in this post: Brooklit, Stepanka, Rainsend, LuckyMeBeads, LittleRetreats, MichaelAngela, PalomasNest, KatsKrafts, DesignsByMama, FernAnimal
Mini Prints!
I've finally added a listing to my shop of all my fashion illustration prints in "mini" form! The listing I've set up here is for a set of 3 mini prints, to your choosing. I've been meaning to do this for a while now and finally took the time and made them, along with new bookmarks, cards and tags featuring my illustrations. My shop is stuffed, I've never had this much up there at one time before. I like it, and it's motivating me to make more!
Labels: etsy, illustration, product shots
New to the shop: Bridal Gift Tags
This weekend while everyone was out of town for the long holiday weekend (Columbus Day; who knew it was such travel weekend! My friends went everywhere from DC and Pennsylvania to Long Island and Miami!) I however was home, busy finishing orders and adding items to the shop.
A while back I sold all of my bridal gift tags so I thought it was time to make some more. This time I've made them in sets of 8, featuring more of my favorite bridal illustrations.
Vegas Bride
It's so fun to see a bride who thinks out of the box! For Beth's Vegas nuptials she did just that by choosing this adorable Topshop strapless white bustier dress in a red lipstick kiss print. It was such a fun illustration to work on, and I love how it came out. There's something about Beth's smirk and silky long hair makes this bridal illustration look very Disney princess to me. (If only there was a Disney princess who skipped the yacht wedding at sunset and headed to Sin City!)
Labels: bridal, client, illustration
Retail Therapy: Glass Dish
Last week the ladies over at Material Girls had a post about the fabulousness of Home Goods. Home Goods is a store I love and over the years have found some fantastic finds at, both for my home and for countless photoshoots I've styled. Being that I live in Manhattan, which is lacking a Home Goods, I don't get to go there too often anymore. After reading their post I decided I was due a trip out there. My little find of the day was this little glass and silver dish. It was actually in the bath area, and I is meant to be a soap dish but I love it on my dresser as a jewelry catchall. You can't tell from the photo's but it has about a 3/4" pedestal, a smoked silver rim, weighs a ton and was only $6.99!
I also treated myself to some flowers. I was craving a yellow bouquet to split up and put around the apartment but the pink ones were half the price, so pink it is. ;)
Labels: Retail Therapy
New to the shop: Catherine
When I began this drawing I had no intentions of drawing a blond or making the dress white. I draw so much bridal that I like to steer clear of white in my Etsy shop when it's not wedding related, but when it came time to color that just seemed the way to go for her.
I really like how she came out, very polished and poised. I've never had a close friend named Catherine, but the name just seems to fit her.
Labels: etsy, illustration
Ever since I started my illustration business I've gotten some fantastic press. I thought it was time to put it together and post them together in one spot. I've created a facebook photo album here on my facebook fan page with some of my favorite features from magazines and blogs.
New Jersey Bride was the first magazine to feature me and one of my illustrations. It was such a trill to see my name in print next to my work! I had had illustrations printed before but it was always illustrations done for clients or my former company and I would never actually receive any credit. I think I actually gasped while I stood in line in a Barnes & Noble in Jersey and first saw this page with my feature.
The next time I felt this trill was with this feature in New Jersey Life Weddings. (I'm a born a raised New Yorker but New Jersey's really shown me some love huh!) The way that this feature came about was through a previous job. I was assigned to style a 2 day photoshoot in Pennsylvania for Country Living and I worked very closely with one of their senior editors, Jennifer Vreeland McDermott. On the long car ride back to NYC we talked about our interests and hobbies and I mentioned my budding bridal illustration business. About a month or two later I learned Jennifer was moving on from Country Living to become the new Editor in Chief of New Jersey Life! I sent her a congratulatory note and told her if she ever needed any sketches done that I would love to work with her again and share my portfolio. Soon after I received an email asking me to send some examples over. The rest is history, here is the tear from their premiere wedding issue.
This last image is from Design This Design That, a online art magazine. It was my first time being interviewed about my work and my process. I really love the look of the spread with my shop name over my Lily print and the text of the article overlapping one of my brides. You can read the interview by clicking here, and "turning" to page 107.
Labels: bridal, illustration, press
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|Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang's Regular Press Conference on December 4, 2018
At the invitation of State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Ri Yong-ho will visit China from December 6 to 8.
Q: President Xi Jinping just concluded his state visit to Panama during which the two sides signed a raft of cooperation documents. Could you offer more information on the outcomes of this visit? How do you comment on the current China-Panama relations?
A: President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Panama from December 2 to 3, during which President Xi Jinping held talks with Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela and met with President Yanibel Abrego of the Panamanian National Assembly. The two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on bilateral relations and reached a wide range of consensus. The visit has achieved positive and fruitful outcomes.
The two sides spoke highly of the strong momentum enjoyed by the development of bilateral cooperation in various fields since the establishment of diplomatic ties, and reaffirmed that the one-China principle is a consensus shared by the international community and establishing diplomatic relations is a right choice which has brought tangible benefits to the two peoples. The two heads of state agreed that development should be people-centered, which will guide bilateral cooperation to realize common development and enhance people's well-being.
The two sides agreed to further synergize the National Logistics Strategy of Panama 2030 and the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, boost cooperation in such areas as finance, tourism, logistics and infrastructure construction, and effectively implement such key projects as railway, education and health care. China will make sure that the Panama Canal will be of greater effectiveness in China's deeper engagement in global trade. Panama is willing to fully leverage its advantages in geographic location and logistics, and become the gateway and bond between China and the Central and Latin America.
The two sides agreed to champion free trade, support the multilateral trading system, and commit themselves to reaching a comprehensive and mutually beneficial free trade agreement so as to lift bilateral trade cooperation to higher levels and usher in a new chapter for economic and trade relations between Latin America and Asia. China welcomes more Panamanian imports such as marine food products, meat and pineapples, and Panama welcomes the investment of Chinese enterprises and their setting-up of branches in Panama.
The two sides agreed to abide by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, the norms of international law and the principle of non-interference in domestic affairs. China respects Panama's sovereignty over the Panama Canal and Panama supports China's peaceful unification cause. The two sides also called for the building of a new type of international relations featuring mutual respect, equality, fairness and win-win cooperation as well as a community with a shared future for mankind.
Since the two countries established diplomatic ties in June 2017, bilateral relations have been growing with a strong momentum, with all-around cooperation yielding fruitful outcomes. China and Panama will work together and take the opportunity of President Xi's visit to elevate bilateral mutually beneficial cooperation to a new level, thus delivering benefits to the two countries and peoples and contributing to peace and development of the region and the whole world.
Q: According to reports, senior US officials including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White house Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow yesterday disclosed more details about the specific pledges they say China has offered on China-US trade issues. Can you confirm the remarks made by the US side? Can you give us relevant details?
A: Yesterday, I took many similar questions. As to the specifics, I may still refer you to the competent authority.
What I can tell you is that during the China-US summit on December 1, the two sides reached consensus and agreed to stop levying additional tariffs. The working teams from the two countries will follow the consensus reached by the two heads of state to step up consultations in the direction of lifting all additional tariffs, strive to reach a mutually beneficial agreement and endeavor to bring the China-US economic and trade relations back to the normal track as soon as possible.
Q: What are you expectations for DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho's upcoming visit to China? Will the two sides discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula?
A: During Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho's visit to China, the Chinese leadership will meet with him. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will have an in-depth exchange of views with him on China-DPRK relations, the situation on the Korean Peninsula and other issues of mutual interest. We believe that Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho's visit will play a positive role in further implementing the consensus reached by the two top leaders, promoting the growth of China-DPRK ties and enhancing the communication and cooperation on the Korean Peninsula issue and other issues.
Q: The National Public Radio of the US in a recent report referenced a working paper by the Aid Data team at the College of William & Mary. This paper analyzed satellite images of the global distribution of night lights and found that China's infrastructure projects have brought more lights to the places where they're built, thus "lighting up" the development prospect of the region. It also said that China's infrastructure projects in developing countries, especially in Africa, have greatly boosted local economic growth. What is your comment?
A: You know that we usually do not directly comment in specifics on the viewpoints and reports by media, think tanks, experts and scholars.
To say something in principle, of course we welcome these objective and unbiased reports and comments made by media and research institutions on cooperation between China and Africa as well as between China and developing countries.
I want to point out that more and more data and evidence have shown that such mutually beneficial cooperation between China and the developing countries including those in Africa has provided a strong boost and made significant contributions to local economic and social development. The China-Africa cooperation outcomes have won the unanimous approval of African governments and acclaim from African people.
China and African countries will work together to advance the implementation of the eight major initiatives announced by President Xi Jinping at the FOCAC Beijing Summit. China also stands ready to make more efforts with other cooperation partners worldwide to advance Africa's cause for peace and development.
Q: According to a press release by the Pakistani Foreign Ministry on November 3, US President Donald Trump addressed a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, in which he stated that he has sought Pakistan's support and facilitation in negotiating a settlement to the Afghan issue and would like to improve the US-Pakistan relations. He stressed that Pakistan and the US should explore opportunities to work together and renew partnership. What is your comment?
A: We have noted the relevant development and welcome this positive interaction between Pakistan and the US. The sound development of Pakistan-US relations will contribute to the international counter-terrorism endeavor, an early realization of reconciliation and reconstruction in Afghanistan, and regional peace and stability.
China welcomes the improving Pakistan-US ties and supports the two countries in conducting equal-footed and mutually beneficial cooperation, enhancing communication and cooperation on the Afghan issue, and making joint efforts to promote peace and development in Afghanistan and the region.
Q: With regard to China-US trade issues, today, the US side confirmed that US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will be the representative of the US working team. What is your comment?
A: The US side designating the representative of their working team is their own business.
Journalist: Mr. Lighthizer takes a hard-line position on China.
Geng Shuang: The working teams from China and the US will follow the consensus reached by the two heads of state to step up consultations and strive to reach a mutually beneficial agreement at an early date.
Q: Yesterday, US President Trump tweeted that he will start talking about "a meaningful halt to what has become a major and uncontrollable arms race" with the Chinese and Russian leaders. What is your comment?
A: Peace and development are the themes of the times. China is committed to the path of peaceful development and pursues a national defense policy which is defensive in nature. China has never taken part in arms race of any kind or posed threat to any country.
Q: During DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho's visit to China, will the two sides discuss President Xi Jinping's visit to the DPRK?
A: I have no information to offer to you at this point.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve, announcing a new round of monetary stimulus, took the unprecedented step on Wednesday of indicating interest rates would remain near zero until unemployment falls to at least 6.5 percent.
It was the latest in a series of unorthodox measures taken by central banks around the world to battle erratic, sub-par recoveries from the financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009.
The Fed expects to hold rates steady until its new threshold on unemployment was reached as long as inflation does not threaten to break above 2.5 percent and inflation expectations are contained. It also replaced an expiring stimulus program with a fresh round of Treasury debt purchases.
The central bank previously said it expected to hold rates near zero through at least mid-2015, but policymakers were uncomfortable making a pledge based on the calendar rather than the economic goals they hope to achieve.
"By tying future monetary policy more explicitly to economic conditions, this formulation of our policy guidance should ... make monetary policy more transparent and predictable to the public," Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told a news conference.
Importantly, in the eyes of Fed officials, the new framework should help financial markets assess incoming data in a way that helps them better guess were monetary policy is heading.
Right now, the Fed is engaged in an open-ended program of asset purchases, which it bolstered on Wednesday.
Officials committed to buy $45 billion in longer-term Treasuries each month on top of the $40 billion per month in mortgage-backed bonds they started purchasing in September. They repeated a pledge to keep pumping money into the economy until the outlook for the labor market improves "substantially."
"The committee remains concerned that, without sufficient policy accommodation, economic growth might not be strong enough to generate sustained improvement in labor market conditions," the Fed's policy-setting panel said after a two-day meeting.
The Fed will fund the new Treasury purchases with an expansion of its $2.8 trillion balance sheet. Under the expiring "Operation Twist" program, the Fed bought an identical amount, but paid for them with proceeds from sales and redemptions of short-term debt.
Some policymakers view actions that expand the Fed's balance sheet as economically more potent than actions that do not. However, Bernanke said the dose of stimulus would remain about the same, given that the central bank is still purchasing a combined $85 billion per month in longer-term securities.
"They see an anemic economy, and they're doing all they can to get any economic progress," said Alan Lancz, president of Alan B. Lancz & Associates in Toledo, Ohio.
The Fed's decision initially gave a small lift to U.S. stock prices, but the major indexes closed mostly unchanged, while government bond prices fell. Oil prices rose and the dollar weakened against the euro.
Fed policymakers voted 11-1 to back the new plan. Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, dissented, as he has at every meeting this year, expressing opposition both to the bond buying and the new economic thresholds.
The newly unveiled numerical policy guidelines offered the most specific suggestion yet that the Fed is willing to tolerate slightly higher inflation as it tries to juice up a moribund economy and spur stronger job growth.
A drop in the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent in November from 7.9 percent in October was driven by workers exiting the labor force, and therefore did not come close to satisfying the condition the Fed has set for trimming its stimulus.
In response to the financial crisis and recession, the Fed slashed overnight rates to zero almost exactly four years ago and bought some $2.4 trillion in mortgage and Treasury securities to keep long-term rates down.
Despite its unconventional and aggressive efforts, economic growth remains tepid. Gross domestic product grew at a 2.7 percent annual rate in the third quarter, but a Reuters poll published on Wednesday showed economists expect it to expand at just a 1.2 percent pace in the current quarter.
Businesses have hunkered down, fearful of a tightening of fiscal policy as politicians in Washington wrangle over ways to avoid a $600 billion mix of spending reductions and expiring tax cuts set to take hold at the start of 2013.
Bernanke has warned that running over this "fiscal cliff" would lead to a new recession. He told reporters the Fed could ramp up its bond buying "a bit," but emphasized that monetary policy has limits and could not fully offset the impact.
He said the central bank would look at a range of indicators, not just the rates of unemployment and inflation, in determining when to finally push overnight borrowing costs higher, adding that the Fed was not on "auto pilot."
"Reaching the thresholds will not immediately trigger a reduction in policy accommodation," Bernanke said. "No single indicator provides a complete assessment of the state of the labor market."
Bernanke said the new framework was consistent with the earlier calendar guidance, because officials do not expect the jobless rate to reach 6.5 percent until sometime in 2015.
Indeed, a fresh set of economic projections from the Fed put the rate in a 6 percent to 6.6 percent range in the fourth quarter of 2015. At the same time, the projections showed that at no point over that forecast horizon does the central bank see inflation topping its 2 percent target.
Officials held to their assessment that they could eventually push the unemployment rate down to a 5.2 percent to 6 percent range without sparking inflation, although Bernanke cautioned that policy would have to start tightening before it fell so low. In its statement, the Fed said its long-term asset purchase program would end well before any rate increase.
Fed policymakers see GDP expanding between 2.3 percent and 3.0 percent next year. That is down from the 2.5 percent to 3.0 percent they forecast in September, but is still a bit more optimistic than most private forecasters. The Reuters poll of economists found a median U.S. growth estimate of 2.1 percent for next year.
Writing by Pedro Nicolaci da Costa; Editing by Andrea Ricci, Tim Ahmann, Leslie Adler and Andre Grenon


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True Wild Life | Rhinoceros | The rhinoceros is a large mammal native to Africa and Asia. There are five species of rhino found in the world with 3 out of the 5 species of rhino now considered to be critically endangered. The rhino is thought to be the second biggest land mammal in the world behind the African elephant. The five species of rhinoceros are the white rhino (which is the largest species of rhino) and the black rhino which are both native to Africa and are only really distinguished in size as they look fairly similar. The Indian rhino, the Sumatran rhino and the Javan rhino are all native to Asia and are much smaller in size than the white rhino and the black rhino of Africa.
The rhino averages about 1.5 tons in weight, and the rhino has a tough skin that is roughly 1.5cm thick. The rhino also has a large horn in the middle of its face and some species of rhino have a second smaller horn above the larger one. The rhinoceros is a herbivore and eats grasses, leaves, shoots, buds and fruits in order to gain the nutrients that the rhino needs to grow and survive. The average rhinoceros regularly gets to about 60 years old in the wild particularly seeing as they have no real predators apart from human poachers. The rhino is also known to have a fairly small brain in comparison to their large size.
The rhino is prized for its horn. The horns of a rhinoceros are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails in most animals including humans. Both African species of rhino and the Sumatran rhinoceros have two horns, while the Indian rhino and Javan rhinoceros have just one horn. Rhinos have brilliant hearing and the rhino also has a keen sense of smell, but the rhino is well known for having extremely poor eyesight.
The rhinoceros is generally found in thick forests and savannas where there is plenty of food to eat and lots of cover for the rhino to hide in. Although the rhino is a herbivore, they are known for their aggressive nature and will often charge towards oncoming predators in order to scare them away. Most rhinoceros individuals that are killed by poachers, are caught out when they are quietly drinking from a water hole and therefore drop their guard.


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GRAHAM � Lawson�s Mortuary has until 9 a.m. Thursday to vacate the property at 208 West Harden St.
The funeral business is being evicted due to foreclosure on the property owned by David B. Lawson. HSBC Mortgage Services Inc. foreclosed on the property and bought it for $132,000 on Feb. 25, court documents showed.
The Alamance County Sheriff�s Office received eviction papers filed by HSBC against Lawson and attempted to serve those in person at the business, sheriff�s office spokesman Randy Jones said Tuesday. Deputies weren�t able to make contact with anyone at Lawson�s Mortuary and posted an eviction notice on the business� front door.
Lawson doesn�t run Lawson�s Mortuary. His license was revoked by the N.C. Board of Funeral Service in 2011 following an August 2010 incident in which a body was left to decompose outside Lawson�s previous location at 115 E. Harden St., and several complaints filed against him regarding pre-need contracts.
Documents filed in the foreclosure proceedings state that Alan L. Lawson runs the funeral business and rents the space from David Lawson for $1,500 a month.
The funeral service was still operating its business Tuesday and the eviction notice had been removed from the door.
A representative of the business declined to give his name or speak to a reporter and photographer, but said he was on his way to meet with a family. He said he was the only person working at the business Tuesday.
David Lawson couldn�t be reached for comment.
On March 27, HSBC mailed David Lawson notice to vacate the property within 10 days.
The application for writ of possession stated that, �following the expiration of the statutory 10-day upset bid period on March 8, 2013, demand was made in writing to the occupants in possession of said property giving them 10 days to vacate said property; and that to date, said occupants have not vacated the said property,� the application for writ of possession stated.
David Lawson petitioned for a stay of the eviction process on April 10, saying the property houses a "bona fide tenant" under foreclosure law. David Lawson wrote that Alan Lawson leases the property for $1,500 a month to operate the mortuary.
�Failure to stay the Writ of Possession will cause injury to Alan L. Lawson and his business that resides in this property. Lawson Mortuary has not been noticed of this eviction or foreclosure,� David Lawson wrote.
David Lawson requested that Alan Lawson be allowed to continue renting through HSBC until his lease expires Dec. 30.
David Lawson also said he was hospitalized in March and didn�t receive notices of eviction until April 8 and hadn�t been able to notify Alan Lawson or the business about the foreclosure.
In an April 11 filing, HSBC attorney Jonathan Davis stated that Alan Lawson didn�t constitute a bona fide tenant under the federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009.
David Lawson took out a $225,000 mortgage on the 5-acre property in Nov. 8, 2004. He still owed $220,836.51 on that principal amount, with the last monthly payment of $1,867.35 in November 2010.
A document filed with the Alamance County Clerk of Superior Court�s office showed that Lawson owed $341,279.04 on the property and foreclosure proceedings.
Court documents also showed a federal lien on the property for $14,242.46. The lien was filed Feb. 25, 2011, for unpaid taxes in 2004, 2005 and 2009, the document said.


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We have been retained to find a Senior Software Engineer for a video communications company based in Clearwater, Florida. (it could be an Architect title for the right person)
Our client provides videophone hardware, software and accessories designed to enable a real-time video connection with certified ASL interpreters who relay conversations between parties.
This person will lead the development of their next generation, open source videophone platform including ACD (automatic call distribution) functionality as well as the converged SIP and H.323 infrastructure. Responsibilities include: design, code, and support of new and existing applications. A solid understanding of SIP signaling protocols is required and experience with Asterisk is a plus.
Please send your resume to: apoirier at pacfirm dot com and I can send you a job description if there is a fit. Please note that authorization to work in the US is required.


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SUNY Canton Event to Examine Female Social, Political Activism in the North Country
In celebration of Women's History Month, an upcoming panel discussion will bring together a unique group of community leaders who have been at the forefront of the political and social activism movement in northern New York for the past several decades.
Panelists will share their personal stories about the impact of the women's movement on the North Country at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at SUNY Canton's Southworth Library. Speakers will include: Ellen Rocco, station manager for North Country Public Radio; Karen St. Hilaire, St. Lawrence County administrator; and Veigh Mehan Lee, director of accommodative services at SUNY Canton.
"In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the social and political rhythms of the women's movement were alive and well in the North Country, said SUNY Canton Interim President Carli C. Schiffner. "The activism and drive of these women led to many of the hallmarks of our community — Birdsfoot Farm, the Little River School, ReachOut and Renewal House. The synergy from these activists has forever left its influence on our community in northern New York, and many of these community leaders remain active."
Tags: Carli Schiffner, Ellen Rocco, Karen St. Hilaire, Southworth Library, Veigh Lee, Women's History Month


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Three new chapters have been introduced into the Library at Mark 9, Wavelets Transforms, Global Optimization and Further Linear Algebra Routines, and a further new sub-chapter, Option Pricing Formulae. Extensions have been included in other areas namely statistics, optimization, linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, regression, random numbers, searching, and special functions.
We've selected key highlights from Mark 9 and shown in more detail how a particular routine or set of routines can be used and how they link into the existing capabilities of the NAG Library.
To learn more about a specific new area/function click on the relevant link below.
- Copulas
- Global Optimization
- Nearest Correlation Matrix
- Wavelet Transforms
- Partial Least Squares / Ridge Regression
- Quantiles
- New search routines
Enhanced Chapters at Mark 9
- Ridge Regression (NAG Library Chapter G02 - Correlation and Regression Analysis)
- Optimization (NAG Library Chapter E04 - Minimizing and Maximising a Function)
- Partial-least squares (NAG Library Chapter G02 - Correlation and Regression Analysis)
- Nearest Correlation Matrix (NAG Library Chapter G02 - Correlation and Regression Analysis)
- Index-2 differential algebraic equations (NAG Library Chapter D02 - Ordinary Differential Equations)
- New base generators for pseudo-random sequences, including the Mersenne Twister, a new Wichmann-Hill generator and the ACORN generator (NAG Library Chapter G05 - Random Number Generators)
- Sobol quasi-random generator now allows for up to 50,000 dimensions (NAG Library Chapter G05 - Random Number Generators)
- Scrambled quasi-random sequences (NAG Library Chapter G05 - Random Number Generators)
- Multiple independent pseudo-random sequences via both skip-ahead and leap-frog algorithms (NAG Library Chapter G05 - Random Number Generators)
- Matrix exponential (NAG Library Chapter F01 - Matrix Operations, Including Inversion)
- ProMax rotations (NAG Library Chapter G03 - Multivariate Methods)
- Searching arrays of real-valued, integer or character data (NAG Library Chapter M01 - Sorting and Searching)
- Lambert's W function (NAG Library Chapter C05 - Roots of One or More Transcendental Equations)
- Fast quantile routine (NAG Library Chapter G01 - Simple Calculations on Statistical Data)
- Exponential smoothing of a univariate times series (NAG Library Chapter G13 - Time Series Analysis)
- Obtaining leading terms in the singular value decomposition of a real general matrix (NAG Library Chapter F02 - Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors)
The new functionality added at Mark 9 further enhances the comprehensive collection of numerical and statistical techniques offered by the library:
Numerical facilities
- Optimization, including linear, quadratic, integer and nonlinear programming and least squares problems
- Ordinary and partial differential equations, and mesh generation
- Numerical integration and integral equations
- Roots of nonlinear equations (including polynomials)
- Solution of dense, banded and sparse linear equations and eigenvalue problems
- Solution of linear and nonlinear least squares problems
- Special functions
- Curve and surface fitting and interpolation
Statistical facilities
- Random number generation
- Simple calculations on statistical data
- Correlation and regression analysis
- Multivariate methods
- Analysis of variance and contingency table analysis
- Time series analysis
- Nonparametric statistics
For more information about the NAG C Library, select any of the links in the top right box, or contact us to discuss your needs.


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After more than 10 years in the primary classroom, Heidi began looking for more effective and creative ways to to better meet the difficult and ever-changing state and federal education standards. In order to accomplish this, Heidi knew she had to further engage her students and enhance their overall learning experience. Heidi had success in the past using a multi-sensory music program called "Zoophonics," so she decided to incorporate her own love of music and educational knowledge base to create some tools of her own.
Before long, Heidi was in a professional studio polishing up her songs and was soon developing videos, workbooks and storybooks, all in support of her students' needs.


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Thanks for this. It works great!
It seems to work fine in conjunction with HAL on my system, so if you want to leave HAL in your daemons for work without a windows manager, there doesn't seem to be an iussue with that other than an unnecessary drain on resources.
Lenovo Thinkpad T420; Intel sandy bridge i7 2.7GHz; integrated graphics card; 4GB RAM; wifi; Arch; Xmonad WM
Of course the mount options can be changed and adapted to other choices of the user,
Where can I change them?
Edit: No matter, found it.
Last edited by Lockheed (2012-05-20 11:11:22)
Laptop: ThinkPad T420s, i7/i5, 16GB RAM, 1080p IPS mod, Arch | HTPC/Server/fw: Zotac AQ01, A4-5000 Kabini, 8GB, Arch/lxd NethServer
I rewrote the script in Python2 using the dbus interface to UDisks, instead of the 'udisks' command.
I intend to migrate to UDisks2 and the rewriting of the script is a first stage towards that end.
I read from http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks.8.html 'API STABILITY' part:
udisks guarantees a stable D-Bus API within the same major version
The udisks developers do not anticipate breaking API but does reserve the right to do so
Therefore, applications can not rely on tools like e.g. udisksctl(1) to be available. Additionally, there is no guarantee that the options, command-line switches etc. of command-line tools or similar will remain stable.
Instead, applications should only use the D-Bus API, the libudisks2 library or tools such as dbus-send(1) or gdbus(1) to interact with udisksd(8).
So I chose to follow that advice and decided to use Python2 and the dbus-python package, instead of using the dbus-send command in bash.
I wanted to use a full scripting langage instead of a bash script.
Presently the 'traydevice' utility uses only UDisks, not UDisks2;
I posted a question/request at https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/traydevice.
But I am not sure if traydevice is still maintained.
So I intend to either upgrade it to UDisks2 myself, or develop a new utility entirely from scratch.
I also would like to use Python3 if all the needed modules could be found.
But probably I will begin working with Python2 before.
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I might be wrong, but I seem to remember that in one of the recent Arch update, udev has been removed and replaced with something else.
Laptop: ThinkPad T420s, i7/i5, 16GB RAM, 1080p IPS mod, Arch | HTPC/Server/fw: Zotac AQ01, A4-5000 Kabini, 8GB, Arch/lxd NethServer
Help grow the dev population... have your tech trained and certified!
Since the last kernel update, I no longer get any USB disks automounted. Is this udisksvm related?
Laptop: ThinkPad T420s, i7/i5, 16GB RAM, 1080p IPS mod, Arch | HTPC/Server/fw: Zotac AQ01, A4-5000 Kabini, 8GB, Arch/lxd NethServer
There have been more than a few things broken with the latest kernel update. I am unable to build a few things in aur. And until things are stablized revolving around this, I am using spacfm as a workaround with udevil-git to automount and unmount my devices. spacefm has to be open, but it gets the job done for now.
Help grow the dev population... have your tech trained and certified!
I am using spacfm as a workaround with udevil-git to automount and unmount my devices. spacefm has to be open, but it gets the job done for now.
I tried that but it doesn't work, neither. How did you make it work?
Laptop: ThinkPad T420s, i7/i5, 16GB RAM, 1080p IPS mod, Arch | HTPC/Server/fw: Zotac AQ01, A4-5000 Kabini, 8GB, Arch/lxd NethServer
Sorry for not replying before, I was working on porting udisksvm to UDisks2, which is now done with the udisksvm 2.0 release.
Here udisksvm works well after the latest updates, just as before:
linux 3.4.4-2
systemd-tools 185-4
libsystemd 185-4
dbus-core 1.6.2-2
dbus 1.6.2-1
consolekit 0.4.6-4
udisks2 1.94.0-2
I use it in openbox launched by startx with that line in .xinitrc:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session openbox-session
From the README file:
"To see output and errors from the script, run it in a console without the
redirection to /dev/null;
to have more verbosity, run it with the '-d' or '--debug' option."
Give details, if there are problems.
Again the script works well here on my computer.
Strangely enough, the automount works on stock linux kernel, but not on linux-pf.
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Laptop: ThinkPad T420s, i7/i5, 16GB RAM, 1080p IPS mod, Arch | HTPC/Server/fw: Zotac AQ01, A4-5000 Kabini, 8GB, Arch/lxd NethServer
Is there any possibility of adding a "Safe to remove device" notification? I have to sync manually before clicking the icon.
Can you precise what file system type it is;
and confirm that you need to run the 'sync' command, before clicking to unmount the device, and you would like that to be done automatically.
It is not very clear to me in your post.
Doesn't unmounting force a sync already?
So after further inspection it seems udisksvm does indeed sync before unmounting. I have an NTFS formatted 8GB external USB drive with a 250mb projects directory that I copy to the drive everyday. The program appears to freeze while the sync is occurring and doesn't respond to commands. After the sync is finished, the usb unmounts and udisksvm responds to my clicks again. Perhaps there should be an indicator notifying the user that a sync is occurring? Like a tool-tip or a menu change?
Great utility by the way! It has worked great so far and is very solid. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for your feedback, demizer.
The program appears to freeze while the sync is occurring and doesn't respond to commands. After the sync is finished, the usb unmounts and udisksvm responds to my clicks again.
This is because the synchronous communication mode is used to communicate with the UDisks DBus API:
when a method is called using 'call_sync', the script waits until it gets a reponse from DBus.
The 'ntfs-3g' driver is slow to sync your 250 MB directory (this is a known limitation with it), and the script waits until the 'ntfs-3g' driver finishes to sync, after a click on 'Unmount'.
I don't want to use an asynchronous mode, but I will see to add an option to show notifications in a future release.
Udisksvm appears not to mount some devices, e.g mobile phones or SD cards (or maybe I am doing something wrong). When executed from the command line, it shows something like that:
$ udisksvm
Automounting for non optical devices enabled
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Intenso_Basic_10011100031138
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb1
Automounting /dev/sdb1...
Mounting done at mountpath: /run/media/noname/PENDRAK
traydvm for /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb1 now running with pid : 18907
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/jobs/9
Removed : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/jobs/9
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Nokia_S60_359557013658840
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdc
Removed : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdc
Removed : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Nokia_S60_359557013658840
Removed : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb1
traydvm for /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb1 now killed
Removed : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb
Removed : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Intenso_Basic_10011100031138
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/jobs/10
Removed : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/jobs/10
Here I've plugged two devices: A pendrive and a mobile phone (E75) with an SD card. The pendrive is mounted correctly and I am able to unmount it via the tray icon, however my Nokia phone is detected but I cannot get it mounted via udisksvm (it is not shown in /run/media/user and no tray icon appears). The same with some other devices like SD cards or my mp3 player (they are not mounted)
What is funny, udiskie mounts everything well... But it does not display tray icons.
Can you please mount your Nokia phone using udiskie, and show me the output of the 'mount' command for it, in a console.
udisks2 detects:
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Nokia_S60_359557013658840
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdc
but there is not a sdc1 partition added for the automounting to be triggered; that's why there is no icon.
So I want to see how it is mounted by udiskie.
/dev/sdb on /media/6A42-E81D type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks)
Here is the line for my phone mounted by udiskie.
Can I ask you to post the output of:
udisksctl info --block-device /dev/sdx
after plugin of the Nokia phone and udisksvm running (of course use the right dev path).
I need to see infos about partition and file system directly for /dev/sdx, rather than /dev/sdx1.
I have not integrate this case in the script, but with these infos I possibly should be able to add that.
I will not be able to try it here without the phone, though.
Thanks for helping.
$ udisksctl info --block-device /dev/sdb
Configuration: []
CryptoBackingDevice: '/'
Device: /dev/sdb
DeviceNumber: 2064
Drive: '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Nokia_S60_359557013658840'
HintAuto: true
HintIgnore: false
HintPartitionable: true
HintSystem: false
IdType: vfat
IdUUID: 6A42-E81D
IdUsage: filesystem
IdVersion: FAT32
PreferredDevice: /dev/sdb
ReadOnly: false
Size: 4003463168
Symlinks: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Nokia_S60_359557013658840-0:0
So the output shows that there is not a 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Partition' interface, which I use for the automounting feature.
But as there is a 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem' interface, it should have printed the "Automounting /dev/sdb..." message;
but it doesn't appear in the udisksvm output you posted previously.
So to have a confirmation about the output, I need another action on your part, because I have not the phone here (sorry to ask you again).
Running in a console:
udisksvm --debug
plugging in the Nokia phone
plugging out it
posting the complete output on the screen or redirecting into a file.
Thanks for your contribution.
sorry to ask you again
No problem Here is what I've got:
Automounting for non optical devices enabled
optical drive = /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Optiarc_DVD_RW_AD_7581S_30654810_1654655Q111
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Nokia_S60_359557013658840
Added : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb
devicefile = /dev/sdb
idtype =
Removed : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb
traydvm for /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb is not running...
Removed : /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Nokia_S60_359557013658840
traydvm for /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Nokia_S60_359557013658840 is not running...
***** signal 2 received *****
---------------------- Bye! ----------------------
From the outputs you provided, I think it will be difficult for me to solve that issue, because I would need to make many tests with the phone, which I don't have at hand.
The last output you posted show that, when the '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb' is added, just after the plugging in, there is no value to the idtype property (ie 'vfat' doesn't appear) and there is no 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem' interface either yet.
But something changes after that, which is not detected through the signals I use in the script, because from your post #44 a value is present in the idtype property and the 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem' interface has also appeared after the 'added' signal.
To solve that I think I would have to use the "interface-proxy-properties-changed" signal which unhappily causes a memory problem with python.
When that problem with the signal in python will be fixed, I would be able to use it to detect the changes in properties after the block device is added.
I will continue to think about that and post again.
From further tests and research, I think I could use the "interface-added" signal of the object manager to detect the appearance of the 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem' interface and so trigger the automounting from there.
But my Samsung player phone works perfectly with the present udisksvm: a /dev/sdb1 is added with a Filesystem interface and a Partition interface.
And so I cannot use it to test the new signal.
I need a contribution from someone with a phone which doesn't act as mine: ie doesn't add a /dev/sdb1 block device, but add a Filesystem interface to /dev/sdb without a Partition one.
So Hwiparam would you agree to try a testing version of udisksvm, before I can release it in AUR?
Or if someone with a mobile phone acting the same wants to contribute s/he is welcome.
Without such tests I could not be sure everything is ok with the new "interface-added" signal, and could not solve the problem and enhance the udisksvm script with automounting and systray icons for such mobile phones.
Thanks in advance.
I released the 2.2 version to-day with the detection of Filesystem interface added to an already existent object.
It also permits the absence of a Partition interface in the object.
These changes are intended to solve the problem met by Hwiparam with the Nokia phone, as well as with possible devices acting in the same way.
I could not test this release with such a phone, which I don't have at hand.
But I release it nevertheless because I didn't see any problem with it, after testing it here with memory sticks, CD drives or my Samsung phone.
So there is no regression I could see.
But I would greatly appreciate if I could receive feedbacks from users with devices acting as Hwiparam's phone. Thanks for contributions.
I am constrained to use python2 since the 3.3.0 python upgrade, because the gobject introspection scheme is broken with it.
I got errors:
Oct 17 17:11:30 arch64 kernel: udisksvm[2418]: segfault at 20 ip 00007f7ef3670e18 sp 00007fff10a22fd0 error 6 in _gobject.so[7f7ef3662000+1f000]
from the python-gobject 3.2.2-2 package with python 3.3.0.
But everything works with python2 and python2-gobject 3.2.2-2.
Happily the same scripts run under python2 without any changes in the writing and the syntax!
I just added:
from __future__ import print_function
at the beginning, for the 'print()' commands,
and of course replace 'python' with 'python2'.
So the scripts are still usable in python2.


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A Los Angeles artist is transforming the city's soul-crushing traffic congestion into a (slowly) moving performance space using a white Mazda truck, a few puppets and an FM transmitter.
Superclogger is Los Angeles artist Joel Kyack's attempt to perform a puppet show in the back of a capped Mazda pickup at preset times when congestion normally occurs. So that motorists can hear what the puppets are saying, they'll use an FM transmitter to broadcast directly into the surrounding cars.
Or, to put it into artsy speak:
Superclogger aims to briefly halt the progression of chaos by temporarily drawing the audience out of the commute experience and placing them within an intimate space of engagement and performance that highlights their own individual presence within the broader structure of the traffic jam.
Anything to break up the monotony of Southern California traffic. There's a list of times here if you're so inclined to participate in this literally moving public performance.


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Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick Saint John) has this to say:
Leyton-Brown argues convincingly that execution [in Canada] was "a social institution (p.8) and that the authorities used these occasions for a number of public purposes, including 'Canadianizing' First Nations and immigrants and reinforcing the legal and social order. In Canada there was no organized movement against the death penalty until the mid 20th century, but the new Dominion followed British practice in 1869 by amending its criminal law to make executions 'private.' This gave legal force to a trend that local authorities had been practicing for a number of years. Henceforth, only justice officials and possibly members of the press would be present at hangings that took place inside jail compounds. The public, who once gathered in large numbers to witness executions, was notified by a black flag and a toiling bell, as well as by newspaper accounts of the final hours of the condemned, the hanging and the post-mortem inquest. Over the next several decades some of the traditional practices surrounding execution changed or were no longer practiced uniformly, but important continuities remained. The author classifies the stages of the practice of execution: trial and sentencing, redemption, confession, procession, hanging, display, inquest and finally, disposal of the remains of the executed.Marquis describes the book as "well researched and organized," with "valuable information in the endnotes." He notes that it "raises several important questions for future research."
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The European and Sunshine tour co-sanctioned event will be the first tournament on the European's schedule for the 2013 season.
Clark will be using the tournament as his first competitive outing before he heads back to America for his campaign on the US PGA tour.
"I'm going to play the Nelson Mandela in Durban on the 6th to 9th of December," said Clark at Zimbali where he is playing in the Gary Player Invitational on Saturday.
"I'll head back to the States soon after that. That's probably when I'll really start to gear up for the season."
Clark is coming off a break, and is slowly getting back in the swing of things.
Winning tournaments
"I've had a bit of a break already. It's been probably six weeks since I've played a tournament so I am seeing this as a good break.
"I'm not practising a lot but I'm playing a lot of rounds of golf while I'm here just with friends and whatnot. I'm trying to stay in it."
Clark said his aims for the next season included winning tournaments and making it on to the President's Cup team.
"It's [my aim] always is to kind of win tournaments.
"To get back in the winners' circle.
"Next year is a presidents Cup year again and Nick Price is the captain, so that's certainly something I want to do. If I go out and win tournaments and play well, that gets me on that team."
Clark, who was out for most of 2011 with a tendon injury in his right elbow – or tennis elbow – said this year was a challenge, but he was satisfied with his performances.
"My season was probably better than I thought it would be having missed a year. I physically wasn't ready when I did start in February.
"I wasn't really ready to play tournament golf. I struggled for a couple of months. Towards the middle of the year I began to play better and I had a couple of chances to win tournaments so it was obviously more than I had expected for the year.
"It's definitely a springboard going into next year at least having most of my game in order and I'm looking forward to next year." – Sapa


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Mike Timlin has been placed on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to March 20; Timlin will be eligible to pitch April 4 in Toronto. Timlin has a laceration on the ring finger of his right hand.
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Timlin To DL
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- Jack Marshall said...
This is good---more time to evaluate Lopez, Corey and Aardsma. Lopez is a known quantity; Corey's best scenario is "competent journeyman": Aardsma is the riskiest with the highest upside.
I'm betting on Aardsma. If Lopez had a track record of being able to retire lefties, it would be another story.
- March 29, 2008 at 6:33 AM
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Today, it's a must-do speech, so much so that it was lampooned this week by The Onion--but it turns out that the "wifely testimonial" is a recent addition to political conventions, pioneered by Barbara Bush at the 1992 Republican National Convention. Major speaking roles for the candidate's wife were non-existent at the conventions until then--except for one dramatic, last-minute, save-the-day speech given by Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
It was a tense convention. The country was on the brink of entering World War II. Her husband--who stayed away from this convention--had been nominated the night before for an unprecedented and controversial third term as president of the United States. FDR had been nominated on the first ballot, but then angered many delegates with his choice of liberal Henry Wallace as his vice-presidential candidate. Factions threatened withdrawal of their support, and FDR threatened his own withdrawal from the candidacy. Eleanor was dispatched to speak on behalf of the ticket, with less than a day's notice. Unlike today's testimonials, this speech was not full of FDR's better qualities, nor insights about his personal life. This was all about getting and keeping the delegates' votes. First, she dealt with the unusual circumstances of the convention:
You cannot treat it as you would treat an ordinary nomination in an ordinary time. We people in the United States have got to realize today that we face a grave and serious situation. Therefore, this year the candidate who is the President of the United States cannot make a campaign in the usual sense of the word. He must be on his job.She connected that situation to the larger world situation, in the most famous words of the speech:
We cannot tell from day to day what may come. This is no ordinary time. No time for weighing anything except what we can do best for the country as a whole, and that responsibility rests on each and every one of us as individuals.Eleanor had long played a role as FDR's eyes, ears and presence as an emissary in public appearances he could not manage with his disability, giving frequent speeches. But none had as direct and dramatic effect as this impromptu assignment. This post on the speech from the FDR Library notes, "The effect of her words was transformative. A silence marked by respect and admiration followed her message, somberly and palpably shifting the atmosphere. Balloting began immediately after she sat down and the Convention went on to nominate Henry A. Wallace to run alongside Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 election."
Here's what you can learn from this famous speech:
- Focus on your call to action: Those of us who advise speakers talk about the call to action, but it comes into sharp focus at an event like this one. Roosevelt had just one purpose, to stay the revolt and turn it toward voting the nominees forward. So she kept her remarks single-minded, and they worked, ending with "No man who is a candidate or who is President can carry this situation alone," and the important task before the convention.
- Respect the roles and speak for yourself: Roosevelt mentions just three people specifically in her remarks, honoring and delineating their roles. She thanks the party chairman in almost a full paragraph at the outset. She makes clear she is not speaking for the President, saying "I cannot possibly bring you a message from the President because he will give you his own message," in words that make it clear she is not usurping authority, but speaking for herself. And she reminds the listeners of the role of the President at an uncertain time.
- Reflect the tension: Rather than shy away from the tension, Roosevelt reflected it back so the delegates knew she understood the situation of the day and its difficulties. She talks about the uncertainty of the convention, and ties it to the uncertainty of the nation and the world, and uses those tensions to make the case for action.
(Photo: 1942 portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York.)


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You Are What You Eat
If you have a stomach strong enough to stand the neverending barrage of political headline craptitude, then you might already know that the Mitt Romney camp is eager to point out that Barack Obama ate dog as a child. Obviously, this is pretty important stuff. As the Republicans know, you are what you eat (is Astroglide edible?), and no doubt, Obama's youthful ingestion of doggie treats certainly makes him unfit for a job as demanding as the presidency.
Which got me thinking about my favorite baseballers and what they eat. Sure, some probably go for too much hot dog and not enough arugula salad, but let us examine to make sure. The interns have graciously prepared some slides.
Jonathan Broxton
McPizza. Right? Weighing 300 lbs. as a baseball player ain't easy, but when you only pitch every once in a while and you eat crap like the above, then it's easy as McPie.
Tom Gorzelanny
Baby Ruth. Duh.
Josh Hamilton
Dee Gordon
Nothing??!! Dude is about to disappear!
And finally (you probably knew this was coming)…
Prince Fielder
The known universe.
To be exact, this idea references a fascinatingly disturbing thought theorized by famed astrophysicist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. One could look at it the way he explains — that an entire universe could be within each and every one of us. Or, you can think (like me), that dude doesn't get that large unless he eats everything in the entire known universe.
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I would call Barry Grant and ask them what carburetor they recommend for the application. I know that they make Demon's specifically tuned for certain crate motors like the ZZ4. So they might have one that's already tuned for your motor.
By the way, I'm running a 750 speed demon on my 383 in my Elcamino, but when I went to a higher duration cam we actually had to modify the carb to basically what a Mighty Demon is out of the box. So as I stated above, call Barry Grant for your application.
Basically a Road Demon is for a lightly modified engine.
A speed Demon is good for up to about 236 duration @ 0.50.
A Mighty Demon picks up where the Speed Demon leaves off. And then there are the race Demons
The only complaints that I've heard about Demon carbs are from people that didn't research the carb that they bought to make sure that it would work for their application.
Since I bought a 625 road demon for a hot street 355 in a vette I built for a guy,I have nothing but praise for em. Once the carb is tuned for the application,it is more than any holley has ever been.
I started modifying holleys in 1971,and even though Ive never seen anything hard about em,they always were just a tad off as far as precision was concerned. Back in those days,you either bought a Braswell or you did it yourself including a homemade flow bench powered by a shop vac. Probably wasnt as accurated as a bought one but it did give u a tool to learn by.
Next wk I am going to buy a 750 race demon for a 357 flt tappet roundy engine that will be running at approximately 3500 to 5500 density alt. We will see how bad I screwed up,but I dont think so!
Especially with the adjustable air and fuel bleeds.
|hey if you have enough time to get the porosity out of my holley metering blocks ive got a few to send you. Demon parts impress me a lot more than holley.
|Demon simply build carbs that hold better tolerances than factory stuff(Holley). Holley does make after market stuff but Holley still holds them to the a degraded "good enough" spec. That's part of why they are less expensive. Demon's cost more but they still flow something near their rating. It's a loose term I know. You can spend half the money on a Holley and do the tolerance work yourself in about three hours work. I've got more time than money.
|Im running a 650 speed demon on my 355 (350-400 hp). when i installed it the thing barely idled let alone ran, they flow more like a holley 750 and have jets to match. if you go with a demon go with the 650 speed demon or maybe smaller yet. My demon has the quick change spring pod on it also, if that is what you are talking about. I also have a holley 750 and the demon will run the thing into the ground any day. as stated the demons are built much better than the holleys too. 4 corner idle is nice to have also. just my .02 good luck.
I would find a used Holley 750 and do the reworking to flow 830.
Cheap yet still effective.
Having running both brands of carb, I would reccomend the Demon...They are MUCH more precise in all adjustments, and flow more cfm than their rating...Plus, most all "standard" Holley speed parts will interchange onto them...You can get the adjustable secondary pod from Demon as well...Just my .02
|If it were me Id use a 650 CFM Carb on that motor. that motor makes 380 HP @ 5500 out of the crate, no need to take it past 6000RPMS for sure. 650 would be more than adaquete. John
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770 Holley street avenger or 750 BG Street Demon
Looking for a carb to put on a 360 380 mopar performance magnum crate motor. Both carbs are about the same amount of money (Holley $395 vs. Demons $399)., but which would work best for a street driven vehicle, which will see the track once in a while. I'm kinda leaning towards the Holley (adjustable vaccum secondaries sounds like a good deal,plus 770 cfm.) I'd put all the details about both carbs but, i'm kinda in a hurry. I've never used a Barry Grant carb so my knowledge about them is limited. This isn't my engine but a friend who has the basic know how when it comes to engines. Once this carb (which ever that may be) is set up it will most likely stay that way.I know there are die hard Barry Grant as well as Holley guys out there, so lets kept it to a civilized discusion.
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One of the best parts of being involved with the radio station is that you get exposure to bands that you wouldn't have heard about before. The best example of this is Oberhofer, a band from Brooklyn who released their debut album Time Capsules II last March and quickly became a favorite at our station and on the CMJ charts. Back when it arrived at CDB I remember choosing to review it based upon the marketing label on the front that described it as indie pop and listed the major festivals they were booked to perform at, and within a calendar year they would be performing in Albany for both Pearl Palooza and as the second headliner for our station's 35th birthday anniversary.
Time Capsules II was instantly accessible and consistent, and I wrote about it on this blog naming it my favorite album that came out last March and my 5th favorite album of last year. Still there were some complaints that I'd routinely make about the band's style despite loving the album, which is well summed up by my quote in the second link of how "Oberhofer has to find a way to keep the pop sensibility without whistling, playing the xylophone, and singing "oooo"'s in every song; they have to progress to more meaningful songs". And that's where the Notalgia EP comes in to play.