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Airsoft Practical Shooting Legitimized by IPSC! (2008-11-21)
This text was submitted by a Hong Kong resident Airsoft enthusiast who also shoots IPSC. The views and opinions do not necessarily represent the official policy of RedWolf Airsoft Specialist Ltd.
The author in IPSC World Shoot in October 2008, Bali, Indonesia.
As some of you may know, the General Assembly is where the governing body of International Practical Shooting Confederation makes decisions about the sport, and Airsofts were a topic this year. The General Assembly rulings of IPSC can be found here. The latest one for the October 2008 GA in Bali, Indonesia isn't there at the time of writing, but I was in World Shoot XV which was held at the same time, so I was updated about the information there and then. I was talking to Michael Voigt and IPSC Secretary Vince Pinto among others, so the info is reliable.
It was decided that Airsoft Practical Shooting will be recognized officially under IPSC as Action Air for one provisional year. How this will work in practice remains to be seen, but I'm optimistic. The sport is already popular in many Asian countries, so it only needs to be exported, instead of started from the ground up.
Personally I would like to see internationally standardized rules, and more activity of the kind we have seen in Japan, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan already for over a decade, with co-operation and communication between the various regions as a new objective. Basically an Airsoft-version of the international boundary-crossing sport that IPSC is.
One of the greatest obstacles in achieving this are the market and language barriers: While the guns and gear are readily available, I've noticed that the clubs here use lots of things (rulebook, specific downsized cardboard targets, metal targets, stop plates...) which aren't easily available for the rest of the world. Only a handful of the active guys in clubs speak English, so communications between clubs are less than optimal. Of course there is enough work in running your own club already, so instead of pushing Action Air from Hong Kong or other already active regions to the outside world, it should be pulled in from where the demand has risen.
Actually a team has already been working on the rulebook for IPSC Action Air. It will be up to the newly founded (and older) Airsoft shooting clubs around the world to adopt them from January 1st 2009 onwards to be part of this historical step. The rules will be simply the official IPSC rules, with the obvious necessary modifications to adapt them for Airsoft shooting.
|Moving back requires skill and confidence to avoid a DQ.
|A bed, nightstand and a handgun in action. It could happen?
I've been into shooting sports my entire adult life. However, when I moved to work in Hong Kong over two years ago, I was pitched against an authoritarian system that does not allow private possession of firearms. I gave in and left mine in a secure place back home.
In hopes of keeping up and possibly improving my shooting skills, I set out to find alternative means to practice. Airsoft wargaming was an old hobby of mine, so I started to think if I could use a gas blowback pistol as a practice tool. I got connected with the clubs, and have been to practices weekly (sometimes 2-3 times a week) ever since. I will lay out a few key differences that I have noticed during this time, as well as the obvious ones.
From a hobbyist/consumer point of view, the first difference you notice between Airsoft and actual firearms is the law. In almost every country where Airsoft is legal, an adult can simply walk into a shop and buy one. Possession (and obviously brandishing) in public places may be restricted, but ownership is free. In many countries you need a permit for a firearm, so the initial purchase of an Airsoft gun is easier.
Further comparison reveals another difference that's important to the consumer: Price. For the price of even a more affordable pistol suitable for IPSC, you could buy anywhere between 5-10 pieces of their Airsoft-equivalents. The price difference doesn't stop there, because the ammo bears a price tag as well. Gas blowback guns run on inexpensive propane and BBs.
|A hectic shoot-off with Airsoft guns. Plates going down!
|The left shooter won this round with a small margin.
Yet another difference is the shooting location. You can dry practice anywhere, but to get any trigger time with a real firearm, you have to go to a range. If you live in the city, the range might be a good 30-60 minutes away at the very least. With an Airsoft gun you can simply use a sturdy vehicle blanket or similar as the backstop, and the noise level permits shooting even in an apartment during daytime. This is not only a benefit for practice possibilities, but event organizing as well.
The motto of IPSC is DVC, which stands for the Latin words Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas. It means accuracy, power and speed respectively, which are all important key factors in IPSC shooting. First of all, "you can't miss fast enough". You have to hit the target. Second, "a hit without force isn't one". A powerful weapon has a more powerful recoil as well, and it takes skill to master such a weapon. Finally, you're shooting against the clock. Bullseyes don't help you if it takes too long to shoot.
In Airsoft shooting, obviously the Vis is gone entirely in practical terms. A jerky trigger finger affects your accuracy much more than the slide movement between shots, if you try shoot faster than your skills allow. There's no real recoil, so weapon control is not a challenge. Also the accuracy of an Airsoft gun does not match that of the real counterpart. With typical 40-50 mm (<2") groupings from 10 meters (32 feet), a skilled shooter will easily outshoot the gun. This also makes Airsoft guns impractical for static precision shooting.
To make up for the difference, Airsoft practical shooting takes Celeritas (speed) and pushes it to the MAX. This provides a real challenge for the competitors to beat other shooters, even though the balance between speed and accuracy is shifted compared to real firearms.
Airsoft shooting happens from rather close ranges, so the targets are reduced in size compared to the real IPSC targets. With a height of 380 mm, the Classic target stands only 2/3 tall next to the original one. (Quite fittingly, the 6 mm BB is also 2/3 the size of a 9 mm bullet.) The surface area of the target is just around 40%, so don't be fooled into thinking that you can just point and shoot at a target, even if it's as close as 4-5 meters (14-15 feet). The A-Zone is only the size of a grown man's palm! Naturally Minor scoring is used: A=5, C=3 and D=1 points.
The metal targets are commonly either 3 mm thick aluminum, or 1.7 mm steel. They are downsized not only to make them more difficult to hit, but also to make them light enough for an Airsoft gun to knock over. A 0.2 gram BB at 100 m/s (328 fps) has only 1 joules of energy. In IPSC terms, the power factor is less than one (1)! Still though, the pepper poppers are calibrated to require a good hit to make them fall.
If you are using Airsoft guns as a training tool, you need to keep a couple of realities in mind to prevent picking up bad habits. The lack of recoil could easily get you accustomed to a too light grip, and a too fast shooting pace. Keep the grip high and firm, and aim both shots. "Aim once, pull twice" is nonsense, as we all know by now.
|A 560 mm tall Classic target, and the 380 mm Airsoft-counterpart.
Some people would call Airsoft safe, which is true. Safer than IPSC? -No. There is no difference really. IPSC is a safe sport, full stop. Over 30 years of history without firearm mishandling accidents supports this. IPSC has the strictest uncompromising safety measures, and the only injuries you see are sprained ankles or such - which could happen in any sport where you move around.
One important thing for Airsoft shooters is to keep in mind, that the real counterparts have a lethal potential. The safety rules should be followed precisely as if it was real, to teach the shooter to handle a gun-like object safely without even thinking about it. The safe toy-like nature can deceive you into bad habits with an Airsoft gun if you are not careful. POLITICS
When you discuss Airsoft shooting with real IPSC shooters, please remain courteous even if you face negative responses. As a firearm owner myself, I can relate to the reactions some IPSC-shooters show towards Airsofts. The threat to private firearms ownership is global and it's real, so it's easy to mistake new things as threats. I've thought about a couple of arguments that clarify why recognizing Airsoft under IPSC - in my opinion - is a smart move.
It is better for IPSC to take the "driver seat" and lead the way for Airsoft shooting to keep it on the right track. Airsoft practical shooting is already being done, and it looks a lot like IPSC. To the layman there is no difference except for the guns used. Even if IPSC did not recognize the sport, Airsoft shooting would not suddenly go away. If you are worried that it gives politicans ideas to ban real guns and have everyone shoot with Airsofts, certainly the official connection will not change this.
Suggesting airguns or laser devices to replace real firearms is an age-old idea anyways, so it's not like anyone is going to "see the light" when they see someone shoot an IPSC course with an Airsoft gun.
Starting Practical Shooting with an Airsoft gun is easy and affordable, as explained before. They are a great option for people on a budget, such as youngsters. With a proper set of officially recognized rules, Airsoft shooters already learn the nature of the sport: They get bitten by the bug! Many skills carry directly over to real IPSC, so they won't start from zero if they want to move on to shoot IPSC for real. This gains us (IPSC) a pool of people who are already into practical shooting, so the final step to get into the sport of IPSC will be easier. More IPSC shooters means more political and financial leverage, which is a benefit for the sport and firearms ownership.
For anyone who read this far, thank you for your interest in the topic. Here are a couple of short videos from Airsoft Practical Shooting events (or IPSC Action Air, as it now officially is) in Hong Kong. Do check out my channel as well. Enjoy! Sincerely with the best regards to all shooters,
Sincerely with the best regards to all shooters,


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Connection's Microsoft Center of Excellence Newsletter, July 2019
Product and Licensing Updates
Connection's Microsoft Center of Excellence Newsletter, July 2019
Product and Licensing Updates
Connection's Microsoft Center of Excellence Newsletter for July 2020 highlights product related updates and important dates for Microsoft releases.
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Dell EMC Live Optics is free, online software you can use to collect, visualize and share data about your IT environment and workloads.
At Poly we provide some of the key elements that make remote working possible. We help organizations navigate remote operations due to COVID-19 and we see how important virtual collaboration is.
With the onslaught of the coronavirus, the clear ability for knowledge workers to work remotely can no longer be questioned. Poly looks at how companies new to remote work have done.
The 2020 Nitro Productivity Report created with Qualtrics demonstrates that organizations' document management processes often seen as solely operational can have a profound impact on workers.
Connection's Microsoft Center of Excellence Newsletter for June 2020 highlights product related updates and important dates for Microsoft releases.
There are five key considerations to support work-at-home. VMware shares steps and goals with a digital workspace strategy for best remote employee experience.
Through a customer interview, Forrester concluded that VMware End User Computing had positive three-year financial impacts including ROI, NPV, and end user time savings.
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The Dell VxRail platform can be used for edge, core, and cloud. Your business can upgrade your data center and customize your hybrid cloud with the enterprise edge-starting at 2 nodes.
VxRail is a turnkey experience with VMware SDDC and VxRail HCI System Software and has data protection options. It includes life cycle management and is highly differentiated.
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Many companies required employees to work from home (WFH) with little planning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lenovo is here to help navigate the complexities of a workplace that's suddenly remote.

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The main objective of this class is to expose you to a realistic simulated medical encounters in the 3 main interpreting modes where you will be able to practice terminology pertaining to labs, tests, diagnoses, pharmacology and surgery used in urology.
You will have the opportunity to strengthen your interpreting skills and expand your expertise by developing a self-learning plan through self-assessment and customization of glossaries.
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By Rosemary K. Otzman
Independent Editor
The Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education unanimously approved two more employee contracts at Monday's regular board meeting.
A two-year contract for the 21 members of the VB Association of Educational Secretaries had several concessions. It was ratified by the union on April 23.
In the past, the 10-month secretaries received 10 vacation days that they couldn't take and then got paid for the two weeks at the end of the year in one lump sum. That has been discontinued, but could be reinstated for the 2014-15 school year, should the district's financial condition improve. This saved about $32,000.
The contract also used to allow for $160 per secretary who works 30 hours or more to be set aside in a flexible spending account for secretary needs. That also has been discontinued. This was a savings of $3,200.
The total savings to the district was about $35,200 with the two concessions.
The second year of the July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2015 agreement calls for an economic reopener.
Tuition reimbursement for classes to improve competency and skills on the job has been discontinued and there are changes to sick leave for family illness.
VB Administrators, Supervisors
The other contract approved by the board was a one-year agreement with the 16 members of the VB Administrators & Supervisors Association. It runs July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014 and was ratified by the union on April 24.
The contract agrees to add six additional work days to their 2013-14 contract without additional pay. That was the only change.
Shonta Langford-Green, the district's Director of Human Resources, said it will save the district an estimated $54,000 for them working extra days, expected to be split between the beginning and end of the school year, without extra compensation.
Board Treasurer Sherry Frazier questioned this being the only change in the contract, and no 5% pay cut.
Trustee Scott Russell admonished Frazier for asking about something that was discussed during private negotiations.
"They were not asked to give up any steps," Frazier said, comparing them to the teachers' agreement. She said they will be in the buildings for those six extra days without anyone to supervise.
In other business at the May 13 meeting, the board:
• Approved this summer's Sinking Fund glass and glazing replacement projects for $590,333 by lone bidder Peterson Glass and the extension of parking lots at Edgemont and Rawsonville schools for $50,165 by Asphalt Specialist, Inc. (about $10,000 less than expected). Gino Del Pup of Plante Moran filled in for Paul Wills for the presentation on the projects;
• Approved terminating the following teachers as of June 30: Linda Clayton, 35 years, Owen, retirement; Lori Spangler, 34 years, Rawsonville, retirement; Stacy Tubbs, 11 years, BHS, resignation; Michael Komaromi, 10 years, BHS, resignation; John Raul Buison, 1 year, BHS, resignation; Cherita Hill, 1 year, Edgemont, resignation; Kimberly Henry, 1 year, Rawsonville, relocation; and Shannon Kelley, 1 year, BHS, resignation;
• Approved terminating the following support staff: Patty Burrell, secretary in Plant Operations, after 21 years of service as of June 30 because her position was eliminated; and Paula Young, after 31 years of service as a bus driver, as of June 14 for retirement;
• Approved a June 8 field trip to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, for about 120 of the McBride Middle School eighth grade band and choir members;
• Approved a Schools of Choice Declaration for the 2013-14 school year noting the district will offer a limited number of openings in all grades;
• Approved the Wayne RESA budget resolution and appointed School Board Secretary Kevin English to vote on behalf of the school board in the June 3 Wayne RESA Biennial Election; and
• Heard School Board President Brent Mikulski announce that the scheduled May 20 workshop is cancelled and the next workshop will be June 21 (which Frazier said was her birthday). The next board meeting will be June 3 at 7 p.m. at the BHS Auditorium for Employee Retirement Recognition. A disciplinary hearing, expected to be in closed-door session, was set for May 14.
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John Moore is not your typical marketer. He is more likely to tell you to focus on creating a good experience for your members than suggest that you create a slick new brochure for prospective members.
That is because Moore says that word-of-mouth recommendations from happy clients yield far more power than any traditional advertising campaign. It is the approach he used with great success during his decade as a marketing executive at Starbucks Coffee Co. and Whole Foods Market.
The marketing mastermind will share more of his fresh take on marketing and customer service when he presents the first keynote address of Club Industry 2011 at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13, at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.
Moore launched his own marketing practice, Brand Autopsy, in 2005. His specialty is giving business owners second opinions about their current marketing strategies to help pinpoint what is going wrong and to advise on how to make it go right.
"It's kind of like a trainer talks to a client, finding out their goals, what they are currently doing and then offering up recommendations on what they can do so they can feel better and achieve their personal goals," Moore says. "I do the same thing but for professional goals."
One of the most common mistakes Moore sees is not in how companies communicate with their current and potential customers but in how they market themselves to their own employees. Interactions with a company's staff often can be what turns a one-time customer into a long-time customer, Moore says, so it is vital that employees be recognized for the value that they can add to your company.
"If you don't put in the same time to make employee marketing materials look as good as your customer marketing materials, your employees are not going to feel that special," Moore says. "If you jazz employees, they're going to jazz customers. It's as simple as that."


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More insight into how much money positions in publishing are paid. AND how much more men are earning than women on the whole (there are exceptions).
Matt Kinsman, Executive Editor at FOLIO Magazine, wrote in the January, 2010 edition:
While magazine publishing is an industry that tends to have an equal number of men and women employees, it seems as though men often make higher salaries than women across almost every publishing discipline. And the gap widens with more senior titles: entry and some mid-level positions pay almost equal salaries for men and women but with management positions, the difference could be $20,000 or more.
There are many variables that go into salary range, including location (publishing employees in the New York City area earn far more than those in other parts of the country, regardless of gender), seniority (the more years in, the more money you make) and company size (those who work for publishers that make more than $10 million in annual revenue tend to earn more than those who don't).
And, of course, there are exceptions. Peggy Northrop, editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest, earns $790,189, compared to Frank Lalli, former editorial director of the now defunct Purpose Driven Life, who made $412,942 according to Reader's Digest's bankruptcy filing. In 2008, MPA president Nina Link made $740,713 in total compensation, compared to American Business Media president Gordon Hughes, who received $400,511 in total compensation, according to association filings. Of course, both Northrop and Link are in charge of much larger properties.
However, it's significant that the closest salary gap across four major publishing disciplines in 2009 was $1,500 and that no position in any publishing category featured women earning a mean salary that was higher than their male counterparts, according to FOLIO:'s 2009 salary surveys.
Gender Gap
On the editorial side, managing and senior editors made about the same salaries (a mean of $66,000 for men, $64,000 for women). But by the time they reach an editorial director/editor-in-chief position, the mean salary for men is $92,100, or 8.7 percent more than the mean salary of $84,700 made by women.
While salespeople start off with a $7,000 gap in mean salaries between men and women, by the time they got to the sales director/publisher position, men took in nearly $21,000 more than their female counterparts ($121,000 versus $120,000).
The emerging position of audience development director and manager showed the widest gap, with males making a mean of $92,100, while females earned $69,300 (a difference of $22,000).
The smallest gap seems to come with art directors, where men received just $1,500 more in mean 2009 salary than their female peers. However, male production mangers made almost $8,000 more, while top male production executives made $15,000 more.


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Hawaii Tops Yelp's 100 Places to Eat List
The number one restaurant on Yelp's Top 100 Places to Eat
For the first time ever, Yelp released its list of top 100 places to eat, based (in part) on the most highly rated places and the number of reviews they received.
The reason I'm bringing this up? A Hawaii place tops the list, and Hawaii is second only to California in the number of highest-rated restaurants. Adjust for population, and Hawaii has the most restaurants per capita on the list, five times that of California.
And get this: the No. 1, top rated restaurant on Yelp is the hole-in-the-wall Da Poke Shack on the Big Island. It's probably not so surprising that Yelp skews towards the smaller, hidden eateries, given its young user base looking for discoveries. And when it comes to unexpected, fabulous hole-in-the-walls, Hawaii is a treasure trove.
The list isn't all small, budget places, though. Alinea in Chicago and Gary Danko in San Francisco are also in the top 10. And, in Hawaii, Sushi Izakaya Gaku, one of most of expensive izakayas in Honolulu, is number 11. (And in my mind, deserving of its high placement.)
Here are the Hawaii eateries on the list, with their rank. (The list also makes an interesting juxtaposition to last week's James Beard Hawaii semifinalists.)
- Da Poke Shack, Kailua-Kona, HI (1)
- Sushi Izakaya Gaku, Honolulu, HI (11)
- Ono Seafood, Honolulu, HI (18)
- Opal Thai Food, Haleiwa, HI (39)
- Marukame Udon, Honolulu, HI (41)
- Geste Shrimp Truck, Kahului, HI (50)
- Ono Tacos, Lahaina, HI (73)
- Dat Cajun Guy, Haleiwa, HI (77)
- Pono Market, Kapaa, HI (82)
- Sushi Sasabune, Honolulu, HI (95)


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Greetings and salutations, fellow Whovians, geeks, and creatives!
We have tons of updates, musings, and excitement to share with you so let's jump right to it. In case you missed our announcements on #TWTT EP3.5, the video has materialized below, for your enjoyment. Stan Faryna also put together another lovely recap of what our community is calling the "Best Ever Doctor Who Podcast".
Fantastic! Brilliant! Cool!
Doctor Who Weekend – Timey Wimey Tea Time! #GeeksUnite
At 5pm Eastern / 10pm GMT today, September 12th, we'll be doing a special Doctor Who Legacy Q&A with developers, Tiny Rebel Games, in collaboration with the fine folks of 42 Level 1. Come hang out with me, Ali, and the AllGames community. Since the Q&A will focus on this wonderful little mobile game, please keep questions related to the game itself and not the series. Can you contain your Doctor Who love until Saturday morning? The developers have seen ahead so let's not tempt them to spoil what's to come (they really can't, anyway).
Join The LIVE Chat – http://www.allgames.com/live
Come get some awesome!
We'll be following up with the premiere of the Timey-Wimey Tea Time experience on AllGames on Saturday, September 13th, at 9am Eastern / 4pm GMT. Stan and I will be traveling afterwards but we hope to follow up on Sunday with some Doctor Who marathons and, perhaps, inconceivable community events. I'm thinking group viewings and giveaways – if we see the love going on here in the comments.
Speaking of giveaways, there will be plenty during the Doctor Who Legacy special event. In fact, everyone will get in-game items for Doctor Who Legacy just for showing up!
The GANG Doubled On YouTube
We have to mention this now: thanks to your fantastic support, our GeekyAntics YouTube channel subscribers have doubled in just a week. That's how you grow a community.
The #TWTT community is growing geometrically and your enthusiastic support is overwhelming – in a good way!
Keep the voicemail messages, comments, faves, and shares coming! Even if we don't always mention it, we are taking notice. It fills our hearts with joy to see so much love and beauty in the Doctor Who fan community!


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Haskell's Own DLL Hell
I touched on this issue in a more positive way in this recent entry. But now I'm going to be more negative about it. You see, here's the thing: Significant Haskell software projects are struggling under the weight of the Haskell equivalent of "DLL hell".
If you're not familiar with the term, here's a definition of "DLL hell", a concept painfully familiar to many Windows system administrators:
"In computing, DLL hell is a colloquial term for the complications that arise when working with dynamic link libraries (DLLs) used with Microsoft Windows operating systems."
The idea is that various applications on the computer share libraries. These libraries have different versions, and different programs often need different versions. The "hell" starts when some programs overwrite the libraries with other, incompatible, versions, or when one program somehow turns out to need both of two incompatible sets of libraries.
To be sure, Haskell is better equipped to handle the problem than historical Windows executables. In old versions of Windows, programs often blindly copied the DLLs they needed into a system-wide location (Windows\System) without regard to any versioning at all. However, in Haskell, we are dealing with the problem on a different order of magnitude. Whereas a DLL on Windows is generally a pretty substantial project in its own right, many Haskell package on Hackage consist of just a few lines of code (put in a positive light, they do one thing, and do it well!), and as a result, many other projects depend on dozens of different packages, either directly or indirectly.
This has consequences: my experience is that it's currently near-impossible to embark on most nontrivial Haskell software projects without spending a substantial percentage of one's time fighting dependency version issues. This is especially true of "real world" sorts of projects: those that often involve pulling together a lot of different functionality, rather than solving specific, well-defined computational problems.
That's where we are. The question is what we do about it. I'd like to propose some questions for discussion:
1. Is it a good idea to follow the Package Versioning Policy? Should the PVP be modified?
This one is certainly going to be controversial. For background, the PVP is a set of guidelines for things like specifying the dependencies of a Haskell package, and how to manage your own package's version number. The short version is that packages shuld bump at least the minor version number (the x in version 1.x) every time they make a potentially breaking change, such as whenever any entity is removed or renamed or their types are changed. Furthermore, the PVP suggests that dependencies should have have upper bounds on their versions. The goal here is that if you make a change that might break someone else's package, you should create a new version and their package will continue to build against the old version.
There are two possible effects of following the PVP by adding upper bounds on dependencies:
- Someone might try to install some package, and because of an upper bound, Cabal builds it against an older version of some library. This causes the build to succeed, where it otherwise would have failed because you removed or renamed something.
- Someone might try to install some package, and because of an upper bound, Cabal fails to find the right combination of dependencies, and refuses to build it at all.
Just to be argumentative, I'll mention that it's pretty clear to me from personal experience that #2 happens a lot more often than #1. People following the package versioning policy by specifying upper bounds is far more likely to prevent 'cabal install' from succeeding, than to allow it to succeed. Upper bounds, on balance, make it harder to get Haskell libraries installed successfully. When (again, from personal experience) attempts to build any nontrivial Haskell application have a less than 30% chance or succeeding anyway, should we be all that worried about the theoretical chance that a build might fail?
That's just one side of the story, though. It's true that an error due to failed dependencies makes it clearer what is going on than a random failure involving an unresolved symbol or type mismatch during a compile. So this is an open question in my mind.
Perhaps the less contentious way to ask the question would be this: should Cabal be modified to give a warning instead of an error for upper bounds when they would prevent the package from building at all? (And if so, perhaps it should get a new strong upper bound, which indicates someone actually knows that the build fails.)
2. How close are we to the goal of getting GHC and Cabal to tell the difference between exported and non-exported dependencies?
It would be one thing if the problem here were actual incompatibilities in code. If I'm using libraries that rely on different versions of the same package, and they both export things that rely on types or instances from that package, then I should expect the build to fail. But a lot of the time (I'd guess a majority of the time!) that's not the case. One place this comes up a lot is with network's dependency on parsec. But it doesn't actually export any parsers; its use of parsec is an implementation detail.
Similar issues arise in many other situations. Many library dependencies are a matter of implementation, not public interface. Even where it's not currently the case, if this is fixed, it will change the community's best practice to include using a lot more newtype wrappers rather than re-exporting other package's types, or splitting packages if they provide substantial functionality that does not need the re-exports.
I mentioned earlier that Haskell deals with this problem on a whole different scale than other languages: part of the reason is this lack of distinction between implementation detail and exposed interfaces.
3. Can we stop cabal-install from breaking the package database?
A very special case of this problem happens in a particularly disturbing way. It goes like this:
- Package foo depends on bar-0.5 and baz-1.2.
- Package flox depends on bar-0.5 and baz-1.1.
- Package bar-0.5 depends on baz, but has no preference between versions 1.1 and 1.2.
The way this works now is as follows: When I cabal install foo, Cabal first builds baz-1.2, and then bar-0.5, and then foo. But if I later cabal install flox, then Cabal will build baz-1.1 (this is fine, since multiple package versions can exist at once), then it will rebuild bar-0.5, linking against baz-1.1. (This does not coexist; because bar has the same version number, it gets overwritten.). At this point, foo is broken. Running ghc-pkg check will complain about it being broken because of a missing dependency.
I'm not sure what the right thing to do is here; I suppose that if bar-0.5 re-exports types from baz, then its "version" needs to include the version information from baz somewhere. In any case, this is an extremely confusing, and extremely common, issue to run into, and it results in an inconsistent package database without so much as a warning. Something really needs to be done.
4. What is the best way to deal with this in the interim?
Yackage is a great idea. (Or any other way to maintain a local Hackage; I'm aware of discussion about whether it might be better to just use the new hackage server code eventually, and I don't think the implementation particularly matters.) Michael Snoyman's goal was really more about maintaining collections of packages that he's maintaining… but for a real-world software project that otherwise won't build, it sounds like a great way to keep track of local modifications to other people's packages.
Another idea that might work really well is to just be able to ask cabal-install to remember a modification to various packages' build-depends' fields persistently. So instead of having to download, build, and manually install these packages just to change their package.cabal files, cabal-install would continue updating from Hackage, but reconcile your existing build-depends requests ("relax fizbuzz's build-depends to build with foobar-0.5") automatically. Even better, make it easy to get a list of which of these local changes are still at odds with public packages, to report to either the maintainer.
All of these are options for mitigating the problem. But first, I think we need to realize that this is a serious problem. I'm afraid there's a bit of sampling bias here; I have to believe that these problems aren't getting solved because many established Haskellers tend to work on projects with very narrowly tailored scope… and this is true because many people who want to work on more general ("real world" by my definition above) projects have often fled to languages that don't make it a week-long job to get the dependencies for a project to all build at once.
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Mike Burns / Jan 16 2011 10:59 pm
We ran into a bunch of these and related problems in the Ruby world. Our solution was in rvm and bundler. Maybe those concepts are useful outside of Ruby?
Daniel Lyons / Jan 16 2011 11:41 pm
I agree with you completely. I wish I had something to add.
When I started using Haskell several years ago, Cabal existed but cabal install did not yet. I think this obscured the problem. Recently, trying to use a pre-release version of Snap, this problem was really magnified for me. Starting with a pre-existing but rather outdated package database made the situation worse. Advice on the mailing list was, dump your installed packages, and that worked, but that's so un-Haskell it's not even funny. "Get out of the car and get back in" is exactly the kind of thing Haskell exists to abolish.
I have heard before that the package guidelines say to bump at least the minor version number if there is an API change. The problem is that all it takes is a small human error to wreak havoc on everyone. This is particularly perplexing to me because the API signature in Haskell is certainly data available to us to be processed algorithmically. Perhaps we could find a way to make an API hash, or calculate a partial API hash for the portion of the API a given program uses. It wouldn't save you from behavioral changes to the API that are not available in the type signature, but it may be better than relying on programmers to be vigilant and honest, which is (again) the opposite of the Haskell way.
Thanks for bringing this up. I think this is a big issue and we do need to find solutions.
Anonymous / Jan 17 2011 10:21 am
This is an excellent idea! I wonder about false-positives, though. Is it possible to make a non-breaking API change that would cause a forced version (hash) bump? For example, simply exporting more functions. Adding instances may or may not be breaking changes. Does changing an opaquely exported newtype to a data change the API hash? Strictly speaking :), it should (the isomorphism isn't exact), but practically, it probably doesn't matter.
Ketil / Jan 17 2011 2:30 am
One – at least partway – solution is to leave the packaging to your OS distribution. Hopefully, your OS distribution will ship with the most important libraries, and these will be compiled against each other, forming a consistent whole, reducing the need for 'cabal install' to go out and fetch a lot of libraries each time you install an application.
The great thing about distributions is that the software is tested together (including any C libraries that get linked in), and thousands of users will have the same setup,
making any interoperability problem likely to be discovered and fixed quickly – and usually before it hits you.
Matt / Jan 17 2011 2:52 am
The only system I have used that never manifested these problems for me is deb (apt-get). Do they have some secret sauce?
Ano Nymous / Jan 17 2011 4:26 am
Thank you so much for bringing this into discussion. For me, it's my final showstopper before Haskell moves from "really awesome to play around with" to "really awesome for writing software".
Jesper Andersen / Jan 17 2011 6:25 am
The point put forth here was a real problem for me as well. There are two parts to this: 1) I don't really claim to understand Cabal. Since I don't understand Cabal, any error is kind of black magic to me until I understand a cargo-cult solution to the problem. After that, I can work around it, but then I don't understand anything about the problem. 2) I usually spend time battling Cabal which would have better spent on hacking code.
In Erlang, the problem is non-solved. The only somewhat present packaging tool, rebar, is a sandboxer. It will pull dependencies to the sandbox (given hg or git URIs and branches to pull) and then build them in the sandbox. The odd thing is that this is way easier to maintain, mostly because the process is transparent: if you get a compilation error, it is usually local to your project in the sandbox and you have an apparent fix handy local to the project.
Another problem, which I always hit in Cabal packaging, is this: I now have stm-2.1.x and stm 2.2.x installed. One is stemming from the default Ubuntu install, while the other is stemming from my own local install of the same package. This would be fine, if there was a sandbox specifying what stm variant I wanted for what package, but it is kind of a point of nervousness for me that I obviously have missing convergence on package dependencies.
My own proposal would be a non-solution: make the haskell-platform strict in the sense that Hackage packages are "built against" a specific platform. Cabal install will then by default grab the package version built against my platform, ignoring that there are newer packages altogether. This means that all packages must be explicitly bumped to a newer platform version, but I hardly see that as a problem: It should be a burden of the maintainer so we can get the number of packages down to the sensible small group of maintained packages – rather than a quest for quantity.
Anonymous / Jan 17 2011 10:34 am
While I completely agree with (and have had massive headaches caused by the problems in) points 2 and 3, I must disagree with your first point.
A project of mine has dependencies on a diverse range of over 20 packages. I've had many problems caused by the maintainers of those packages failing to provide upper bounds and precisely zero because of packages providing those upper bounds.
Most problems I can imagine that would be caused by the presence of upper bounds would be solved by addressing your points 2 and 3.
Anonymous / Jan 17 2011 10:58 am
It is a serious problem. We should do something.
anders! / Jan 17 2011 2:08 pm
I didn't think point 3 happened any more with GHC ≥ 6.12, because of the way it adds a long extra string (like `base-18.104.22.168-99442781c4fd10a8c30c35c9ce5fac5c`), based on the exact versions of dependencies. Which means you can have baz-1.1-12345 and baz-1.1-54321 installed separately.
Dave Bayer / Jun 25 2011 6:37 am
In a way this is very amusing: outsiders view us as rabid religious fundamentalists for choosing a purely functional language. Yet none of these issues arise with values in a purely functional language. Our package system is akin to going to church on Sunday, then sinning like crazy the rest of the week. ~/.cabal/config might as well be a global variable in a 1960s BASIC program. See! We're not dogmatic about this purely functional stuff!
This could all be explained by "conservation of hipness", which in our case is concentrated in the language itself. For another instance of this principle, look at the inane prevalence of two-column papers on Haskell. They bring back the image of President George Bush amazed in 1988 at a grocery scanner. Have any of these two-column authors ever seen a tablet computer? With the advent of cell phones, many people dropped their land lines. Today with tablets, many people don't even own a printer.
Some mathematicians won't use a theorem whose proof they can't reproduce on demand at a blackboard, others sling the big machines around with reckless abandon. Calling a package one didn't write is frequently essential, but calling a package of "only a few lines" is of questionable merit. Blues musicians internalize all the riffs they need, they'd look pretty silly stopping the performance to cue up iTunes for a couple of bars. Then there are DJs, who do exactly this. A matter of style, but I don't aspire to DJ programming, and if I did, I'd want the design of the package system itself to be purely functional.
Sven Heyll / Mar 14 2013 2:45 pm
Well it's 2013 now and still …the problem persists.
The only hackish workaround seems to be cabal-dev. Actually I am in favor of dynamic libraries, but
only for system wide installs. For cabal-install local installs: I think all builds of EXECUTABLES should be sandboxed and the executable should be statically linked to all libraries not explicitly installed as shared libraries by the user/OS.
Of course there are downsides… it costs soo much main memory and updating a dependency (library) requires a complete rebuild. But actually, like 99% of the time, I frankly dont care, because it's the executables I am insterested to be up to date not the libraries.


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Disney's Marathon Weekend will once again kick off the schedule with several events from Jan. 8-12. The 2014 Disney Marathon Weekend has expanded to five days and will include the new Walt Disney World 10K, a 6.2-mile timed event Jan. 10 at Epcot.
With the addition of the 10K, comes a new test for hardcore runners -- the Dopey Challenge.
The weekend now includes four main races -- the Disney Family Fun Run 5K (Jan. 9), the new 10K (Jan. 10), the Walt Disney World Half Marathon (Jan. 11) and the Walt Disney World Marathon (Jan. 12) -- along with runDisney Kids Races and the Mickey Mile, both taking place at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
Run all four main events during the weekend within the pacing requirements and receive six total medals -- one for each race along with a special Goofy-themed medal for Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge and a Dopey-themed medal for the Dopey Challenge.
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Ever, ever will I learn! I have in my stash of 'ideas for Renée's Blog' this piece of information with nothing written on it to remind me of;
1) When I received it, 2) Where I was when I received it, 3) Or, who gave it to me.
Word of advice; ALWAYS put these three pieces of information on anything you want to save, because if you are like me and think you will remember, you won't.
I'm guessing it was a handout for lesson given in DUP (Daughters of Utah Pioneers) a couple of years ago. I have 'googled it' by name and title hoping to find a source with no success, which I was surprised because more often than not I can find a source.
Just look at the date on this piece of Wisdom; 1860. I felt it was still worth posting even though I can't prove Marianne is a real person! I do think she is! Wouldn't you love to have this wise person in your pedigree!


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Chicken Shawarma Recipe – Recipe & Video. How to make homemade Middle Eastern shawarma in the oven or on the grill. Simple marinade and cooking technique. Step-by-step video below!
Homemade Chicken Shawarma?? Yeah, I went there. You know I wouldn't post a recipe that I don't love. Well, I'm in love this recipe. I've cracked the homemade shawarma code. And it's awesome. Seriously awesome.
Okay, so technically this recipe should actually be called Shawarma-Style Chicken. True shawarma is cooked with stacked, spice-marinated meats– lamb, turkey, chicken, beef, or a mix of meats– on a vertical spit. The shawarma turns and cooks on the spit for hours and hours, basted in fat and its own juices. Fat = flavor = tasty, amazing shawarma. Thin slices of meat are shaved from the surface and served, either on their own or tucked inside a warm flatbread, topped with tahini or garlic sauce. Shawarma is one of life's great pleasures.
I've been trying to replicate the flavor of shawarma at home for months, playing with different spice combinations and cooking methods. At first I tried buying premade shawarma spice blends from the Middle Eastern markets, but none of them made my mouth happy. I needed more spice, more flavor, more oomph. So I began to experiment. Then finally, last week, I nailed it.
This recipe is probably as close as I'll ever come to making shawarma at home. My husband says it's even better than the shawarma at our local Lebanese restaurant. He's biased, of course– but he's also brutally honest, especially when it comes to my recipes. I blind taste tested two of our Israeli friends, and they both asked me if I'd finally gotten that shawarma spit I've always wanted (in my dreams!). Suffice it to say, I'm happy with the result.
You have two choices for cooking this recipe– in the oven or on the grill. To be honest both cooking methods taste great, there really isn't a big difference between the two. I use boneless skinless chicken meat (a combination of dark and light meat) in the recipe. Shawarma gets a lot of its flavor from the meat fat that it is basted in. I've replaced the flavor of the skin fat with olive oil, including a final saute in olive oil prior to serving. It may seem strange to saute meat that has already been cooked, but you're going to have to trust me on this one. The extra saute adds a ton of flavor and really gives it a shawarma-like texture that can't be replicated in the oven or on the grill. If you're trying to cut down on your oil intake you don't need to do the extra saute, it will save you 2 tablespoons of olive oil… it won't taste exactly like shawarma, but it will be yummy. But please, don't replace the chicken thighs with breast meat. This dish really needs some dark meat in it to make it taste great. You can make it with all chicken thighs, if you prefer (I actually love it that way), but don't sub all chicken breast. Pretty please.
This recipe goes great with hummus and toum or tahini sauce, over a salad for a boost of protein, or in a pita sandwich or wrap. It stores well in the fridge, so you can make a large batch and enjoy it for several days afterwards– just reheat before serving. The best part? It's ridiculously easy to make! You're welcome. 🙂
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DescriptionHow to make homemade chicken shawarma in the oven or on the grill.
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts (2 large breasts)
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs (4 large thighs)
- 6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil divided
- 2 tsp cumin
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp allspice
- 3/4 tsp turmeric
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1 pinch cayenne
- Salt and black pepper
- Nonstick cooking oil spray
You will also need
- Grill or baking sheet, tongs, skillet, spatula, plastic wrap.
Prepare Marinade
- Slice the chicken breasts into 5-6 pieces each and the thighs into 3-4 pieces each. Place them in a marinating dish or large plastic zipper bag.
- In a small bowl, whisk together 1/4 cup olive oil, the spices, 3/4 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp black pepper (if you are salt sensitive, use 1/2 tsp of salt). Pour the spice marinade over the chicken pieces. Stir with a spoon till all the chicken pieces are evenly coated in the marinade.
- Cover the marinating dish with plastic wrap, or close the zipper bag. Place chicken in the refrigerator and let it marinate at least 1 hour, up to overnight.
Oven Cooking Method
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray the baking sheet with nonstick cooking oil. Place the chicken pieces on the sheet, evenly spaced.
- Place the chicken in the oven. Let it roast for about 15 minutes until cooked through, turning the chicken pieces once with tongs halfway through cooking.
- Take chicken out of the oven and let it cool slightly. Use a sharp knife to slice the meat into small, thin shawarma-like pieces.
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a skillet on the stovetop over medium. Pour half of the chicken into the skillet and saute for 3-4 minutes till the smallest pieces of chicken turn brown and crisp. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste, if desired.
- Remove the cooked chicken from the skillet. Heat another 1 tbsp of oil and saute the remaining chicken in the same way. Serve warm.
Grill Cooking Method
- Spray the grill with nonstick cooking oil and preheat to medium heat. Thread the marinated chicken pieces onto wooden skewers.
- Cook the chicken for about 20 minutes, giving a quarter turn every 5 minutes, until cooked through (slice into the thickest piece of meat to check for doneness).
- Let the chicken cool slightly, then remove it from the skewers. Use a sharp knife to slice the meat into small, thin shawarma-like pieces.
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a skillet on the stovetop over medium. Pour half of the chicken into the skillet and saute for 3-4 minutes till the smallest pieces of chicken turn brown and crisp. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste, if desired. Remove the cooked chicken from the skillet. Heat another 1 tbsp of oil and saute the remaining chicken in the same way. Serve warm.


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Very quietly, buried in a 3 page article on platelet rich plasma and horse and athlete injury treatments was this epic and monumental bombshell! Do NOT underestimate how significant this is. Up till this point, the US medical establishment thought that adult stem cells were unproven, of limited potential and a waste of time and money.
Now the big daddy of them all, the NIH, is jumping in with both feet! This is not a secondary back up treatment to improve red blood cell levels after chemo. This is the NIH advocating THE USE OF ADULT STEM CELLS TO TREAT DEBILITATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS!
You heard it here first! -DG
"The National Institutes for Health seem to think regenerating human muscle and bone using a person's own adult stem cells is nearly ready for prime time.
Last week, the NIH announced to its staff that it's creating a bone marrow-stem cell transplant center within the NIH Clinical Research Center."
This is the first step on a long road but maybe one day in the future, the multitude of Americans suffering with diseases that can be improved with adult stem cells will not have to travel overseas for treatments. We can only hope!
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Just out of curiosity how much did your flowers cost and what did you get?
Just out of curiosity how much did your flowers cost and what did you get?
Hi KMO
So far i've been quoted £738 for:
Brides bouquets
Bridesmaid bouquets (x4)
Button Hole Flowers (x5)
Ladies Corsages (x2)
Chapel Flowers
Flowers for Mothers
10 center piece.
The company I got the quote from is supplying my chair covers and bows as apart of the hotel weeding offer so I though it would be easier to go with them as they would be there on the day anyhow but now i'm not sure. I have still to get other quotes to compair this to but I haven't had the time xx
Wow that is cheap compared to what I have been quoted
my Bouquets
2 bridesmaids bouquets
1 mini flowergirl bouquets
button holes x 8
10 center pieces
ceremony flowers
bay trees for in front of the marquee
for this I have been quoted £1700
it is all big blousey roses peonies and will be stunning but was shocked at the price.
yikes - I did not think they would cost that much...i'm getting my quote Saturday!
im sure we were around 740! cant reccomend florist we used enough. Yvonne at thistle flowers, she is based in hamilton but came to strathblane for our wedding via dropping off bouquets at my mums in knightswood. flowers were gorgeous. we had:
bridal bouquet with ribbon and brooch (roses)
3 bridesmaid bouquets with ribbon and brooch (roses)
9 buttonholes (rose and thistle)
10 Centre pieces -
5 Tall vases with roses, gerberas and palm leaves on mirrored plates
5 fish bowls with purple water and floating cream gerberas on mirrored plates
ceremony flowers for table that we also put on top table between our mr and mrs sign and got 8 wee mini fish bowls with purple water and a cream gerbera in each for top table.
2 gorgeous thank you bouquets for our mums.
Yvonne came and set up the tables for us which were stunning. x
My centrepieces are included in our package but for everything else:
My bouquet
1 bridesmaid bouquet
1 flowergirl bouquet
5 buttonholes
2 wrist corsages
5 boxed thankyou bouquets (mums and grans)
Only £288! Thought it would be more as using stephanotis and its very expensive but was pleasantly surprised
ouch! I am getting off lightly as my h2bs aunt used to work in a florist and is doing ours as our wedding present - didnt realise the costs involved!
Miss Martin, where are you getting your origami flowers from?
I've been quoted £475 for
Brides bouquet
2x bridesmaids bouquets
7 buttonholes
11 fishbowl centre pieces and tea lights
1 long and low floral arrangement for ceremony/top table
I'm glad my centrepieces are part of my package, didnt realise they were that expensive!
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Our venue package includes our centrepieces and top table arrangement (doubling as ceremony table arrangement)
So for everything else I wanted is about £500ish
My bouquet
Bm bouquet
Fg bouquet
9 button holes
3 corsages
Flowers to fill 8 birdcages
Stand with flowers to add to ceremony room
Pretty good I would say...
my bouquet alone is £200 hahaha, we are going with this florist as my mum loves her work! Im not paying (thank god) my centerpieces are hurricane vases with a large garland round them at £85 each, we have 10 tables, and we have 2 large curved stands that will go on either side or us when we are married and then moved to the top table there will be a lot of flowers on these, we also have 4 vases of hydrangeas on the top table and hydrangea petals in between each tier of cake so there are a lot of flowers and I do have very expensive taste lol.
Also we have no deliver, set up charge or pick up charge, and this is important as we are in the middle of no where.
I had my top table flowers included in my package but the rest was £360 for
Bridal bouquet (Calla lillies and roses)
2 bridesmaids bouquets (roses and thistles)
fishbowl centrepieces for 7 tables (Thistles and roses)
7 buttonholes (Thistles with a white rose for groom)
2 thank you bouquets for the Maw and Maw in law (bizarre crazy colourful flowers of which I have no idea of names!)
I didn't go for anything too complicated or exotic though as hubby has horrific hayfever and didn't want him to keel over mid wedding or sneeze his way through the vows!
I was £350 for...
- bridal bouquet
- 2 bridesmaid bouquets
- 6 buttonholes
- 10 centrepiece flowers for large martini glasses
- 2 corsages
- 2 thank you bouquets
My venue package incluided top table flowers.
Ours was £210 for the following:
my bouquet
bridesmaid bouquet
flower girl bouquet
buttonholes x7
corsages x2
All includes roses and freesias plus hydrangea for my bouquet. I wanted peonies for my bouquet but quickly dropped them once I found out their cost.
Top table arrangement was included with my venue (we used it for the ceremony as well) and for the table centre pieces we just went to the garden centre and picked up pots of chilli plants adding extra £32 to the cost (that went down the treat as our guests picked them up at the end of the day).
Im paying £210 for:
Bride Bouquet
Bridesmaid Bouquet x4
Flower Girl Wands x3
So quite good, not got button holes organised yet cause my h2b isn't wanting them from the same place as me (men!) lol xx
Hi watson2b - whereabouts have you booked for your flowers they sound amazing!
I think ours are about £650, that might go up if I need to add another centrepiece.
As it stands that is for:
Brides bouquet
2x bridesmaid bouquets
2x corsages for mums
5x buttonholes
top table flowers
7x centrepieces
ivory rose petals scattered either side of aisle.
I'm getting married in April and having seasonal flowers.
I was £120 for:
3 x bridesmaid corsages which were huge roses!
2 x corsages for the mums which were big cream roses
7 x thistle button holes
3 x square vases filled with big roses
A long rose and ivy runner along the fireplace
Centrepieces were in the package with venue.
I am chuffed with my price now! X


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Green Bay officially unveils Donald Driver Way
Another street in Green Bay is now renamed after a Packers player or coach.
City officials unveiled the sign Saturday changing Pearl Street to Donald Driver Way, for the recently retired wide receiver who spent 14 seasons with the Packers.
Also unveiled Saturday was a 28-year-old statue in front of Titletown Brewery that has been painted to look like Driver by the so-called Packers "Fence Painter" Chris Handler.
Driver retired this winter after catching 743 passes for 10,137 yards after making the team as a seventh-round draft pick out of Alcorn State in 1999.
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Watch Richard Garriott — better known in the gaming world as the Godfather to the gaming world, "Lord British" and the son of astronaut Owen K. Garriott — achieve his space dreams in this documentary about one (very rich) man's journey into the big black.
Garriott documented the long process of trying to finance his space tourism in this documentary, officially titled Man on A Mission.
Firmly ensconced in the geeky pantheon of computer legends since high school, Richard Garriott can afford to pursue his dreams – even the wildly improbable ones. For instance, following in his astronaut father's footsteps. NASA won't take you because of bad eyes? No problem! Pioneer your own private space industry and buy a $30 million seat on a Russian Soyuz. Richly funny and invigorating, Man on a Mission tags along with Richard on his years-long quest to be the second Garriott into space. And maybe come back.
Man on A Mission is getting a limited theater release this January.
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Around the world, educators are fostering creative thinking with their students. We see this every day across both K-12 and higher education in compelling, engaging ways. I remember a 4th grade reading class that I attended where the teacher read aloud to students while sitting around a "virtual campfire" she'd created with iMovie – the students loved it. At the same time, we hear a lot about a growing emphasis on, "teaching to the test" that can sometimes result in a decreased focus on creativity – we think this is a huge problem for our students and for the global economy. College-educated professionals agree. I wanted to share newly-released results of what more than 1000 college graduates say about the importance of creativity in education.
According to Creativity and Education: Why it Matters, a study* produced by research firm Edelman Berland, 88% of the U.S. professionals surveyed believe that creativity should be built into standard curricula. While 78% say it is important in their career, 32% don't feel comfortable thinking creatively in their work, and a large majority (78%) wishes they had more creative ability.
Furthermore, 85% percent of respondents agree creative thinking is critical for problem solving in their career, and 68% of respondents believe creativity is a skill that can be learned. Nearly three-quarters (71%) say creative thinking should be "taught as a course – like math or science."
What this study is telling us is that we need to empower educators and raise the importance of teaching creativity as a critical competency across all disciplines. This will drive the global economy and the career success of the next generation. Now is the time to embrace creativity as a critical skill as opposed to a "nice to have."
Please take a look at the survey data and share your thoughts with us. Additional information available through:
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- Media Alert: Study: Creativity Should be Taught as a Course
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A little more about the exhibit all can see. The website "gives an overview of 100 objects with their 100 stories. "It is a portrait of the English-speaking communities of Quebec, in all their diversity."
"The 2011 Canada Census identified 1,058,250 persons who spoke English as their first official language rather than French. This represents 13.5% of Quebec's total population." If you have any ancestors from Quebec, have an interest in history or just love learning about their early life, this is the perfect introduction for you. In addition, there is a timeline tab which provides historical context, and you can use your own descriptions of some of the items to incorporate into your family story.""Since it was founded in 2000, the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network has striven to fulfill its mission of "promoting the preservation of the built, cultural and natural heritage of Quebec," and more specifically the cultural heritage of Quebec's diverse and geographically far-flung English-speaking communities."


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Watcher's Council submissions for October 24, 2012
With the election drawing near, submissions (both Council and non-Council) just keep getting better and better:
Council Submissions
- The Right Planet – Mr. President, Heres What Offends Me
- The Noisy Room – A Red and Present Danger
- GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD – Austere Challenge 2012
- Joshuapundit–Heart Of Darkness – The Real Benghazi Coverup
- Simply Jews – "Lomonosov or Zuckerberg?" or unbearable pain of a good priest
- The Colossus of Rhodey – Update to Education Notes Post
- Bookworm Room – Romney, even if he didnt win the debate, walked out of the debate a winner
- The Independent Sentinel – Romney Ran Out the Clock to Victory During Third Debate
- Gay Patriot – Only people who call gay Republicans faggots sit on political left
- The Mellow Jihadi – The Appearance of Competence
- The Glittering Eye –The Endorsements Are Coming In
- VA Right! – From Strategy to Execution: Who Won the 2012 Presidential Debates?
- Rhymes With Right – Zero Tolerance Gone Crazy
- The Political Commentator – "Bar Stool Economics" helps to explain taxes Obama-style!
- The Razor – Rural Justice
Honorable Mentions
- The Grouch – Death Panels are HERE!
- The Pirate's Cove – Hooray! With Two Weeks Left, Obama Finally Finds An Agenda
Non-Council Submissions
- Emmaus Ministries – Col. Davy Crockett on Government Welfare submitted by The Right Planet
- Sultan Knish –Obama's Last Stand submitted by The Noisy Room
- Swampland – The Election's Real Foreign Policy Issue: War with Iran submitted by GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
- Bing West – First, Aid the Living submitted by Joshuapundit
- BBC Watch – BBC interviewees support for Greta Berlins antisemitic videos submitted by Simply Jews
- The Guardian UK – Secret cinema gently subverts Saudi Arabia's puritanism submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- White House Dossier –Romney's Brilliant Maneuver submitted by Bookworm Room
- Yid With Yid – Here Comes the Obama Hit Squad! submitted by The Independent Sentinel
- Commentary –War of the Late October Gaffes submitted by Gay Patriot
- Right Wing News –Interviewing Stephen Moore On The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth In America submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Glenn Greenwald/Comment Is Free – The remarkable, unfathomable ignorance of Debbie Wasserman Schultz submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Human Events – Obama's "Horses and Bayonets" Insult Backfiressubmitted by VA Right!
- Prairie Pundit – Foreign election 'observers' warned to abide by Texas law submitted by Rhymes with Right
- The Investigative Project On Terrorism – A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House submitted by The Watcher
- Seraphic Secret – Debate #3: The Statesman and the Community Agitator submitted by The Watcher


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Derrick Rose is a very wealthy man.
Signing a five-year contract extension with the Chicago Bulls worth nearly $95 million will do that for you.
And he's about to get richer.
We wrote earlier this week that Rose was closing in on a deal with Adidas that would make him one of the highest-paid shoe endorsers ever.
Looks like the two sides are getting closer.
In his Weekend Dime on ESPN.com, Marc Stein drops news from "one industry source" that the point guard will soon sign a "lifetime" endorsement deal with the company worth up to $250 million.
The 10-year deal would surely make Rose the "face" of the company – as if he's not already – around the world. Why is he worth it?
Stein wrote, "Rose, as it was explained to me, is adidas' only counter to Kobe Bryant in China. I'm told Rose already outsells LeBron James there."
Which means he also clearly outsells Dwight Howard.
Which continues to appear to be the biggest obstacle separating a union of the NBA's reigning MVP and Defensive Player of the Year.


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Pretty self-explanatory. It seems like most people here are mostly into strategy and rpg titles, but I wanted to see what your favorite game (all-genre) is, and you can go back to the Commodore 64, Intellivision, etc.
As for me, the game I rank as #1 all time is........I'll answer later, because I have to put more thought into it.


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THE THINGS WE CARRY is a fact-based movie about free-spirited Emmie ( Alyssa Lobit) who's forced to deal with painful memories after receiving news about her mother's death. The immensity of the film is told in flashbacks through her point of view and it is through her memories that the audience can visualize how her relationship with her family evolves.
The film begins with Emmie in the surroundings she has fashioned for herself. A life filled with boundless independence, freedom and adventure. However, the idealistic life of parties and travels come to a screeching halt when she receives a letter from a guy named Ricky about a mysterious package her mother left behind and an email from her sister. It is at that moment when a conflicted Emmie makes the conscious choice to go home to deal with the life that stifled her for so long and make peace with it. Director Ian McCrudden along with the writer and star of the movie Alyssa Lobit takes you on an extraordinary journey filled with revelations, truths and consequences.
What was impressive about this film was how each event unfolded and never disturbed the fluidity. Even though, the film wafted back and forth between the past and the present, the journey remained intact. The filmmakers provided the audience with subtle, yet powerful scenes for the audience to think and draw their own interpretation about what happened in the Roberts household that tore this family apart. It wasn't until scenes with the sisters meeting up for the first time since their mother's death was when this tale truly began.
Alyssa Lobit (Emmie) and Catherine Kresge (Eve) did a wonderful job portraying the two sisters who dealt with their mother's "sickness" in different ways that ultimately drove them to make life-altering decisions. Lobit's understated and nuanced performance was what drove this film. Key moments that stand out were mainly the flashback scenes with her mother, Sunny as well as the people she interacted with while searching for her mom's mystery package.
The supporting cast brought a wonderful balance of humor and intensity. Leslie and Kim (played by Daniel Zacapa and Ilene Graff, respectively) were standouts as they lightened up this heavy drama with their humor and their love for Sunny. Johnny Whitworth was also noteworthy as the street-smart Jeremiah who helped Emmie on her journey and along the way they made a connection that allowed our protagonist to delve deeper into her psyche and flesh out more childhood memories. The standout in this film would have to be Emmie and Eve's mom, Sunny (played beautifully by Alexis Rhee). In each scene, Rhee owned her role as the unconventional mother whose addiction ultimately drove a wedge between her daughters. She was the vehicle that fueled Emmie's rage and Eve's frustration. Kudos to the writer and the director for fleshing out Sunny through flashbacks to make the audience understand just how much her addiction destroyed this family and also affected every character in this film.
Overall, the film is an excellent piece of cinema told in a brutally honest undertone. The message conveyed here is that a majority of us have crosses to bear and things in our past that have been buried. What have we learned from THE THINGS WE CARRY? No matter what spiritual journey one goes through in life, making peace with the past will make for a brighter future.
Starring Alyssa Lobit, Catherine Kresge, Alexis Rhee, Johnny Whitworth, Daniel Zacapa, Ilene Graff, Frank Merino and Rob Moran.
The film was directed by Ian McCrudden and produced by Athena Lobit.
It was also an Official Section in the Boston Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival, Wild Rose Independent Film Festival and most recently, the Hollywood Film Festival. For more information about THE THINGS WE CARRY, visit their website at (http://www.thethingswecarry.com).
Photos and property are courtesy of THE THINGS WE CARRY, LLC


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Badgers run over Tennessee Tech 48-0
Wisconsin next hits the road against Arizona State
MADISON, Wis. — Melvin Gordon looked like he barely broke a sweat.
Leading by four touchdowns already by halftime, No. 21 Wisconsin could afford to give its speedy running back a breather in the second half of a warm, sticky afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium.
The Badgers tossed a shutout on defense and had three backs go over 100 yards for a second straight game — including 140 yards and a 37-yard score for Gordon — in a 48-0 rout Saturday of FCS school Tennessee Tech.
"We're challenged to get better and I believe we have for the most part," coach Gary Andersen said. "That's always a good sign."
A week after opening Andersen's tenure in Madison with a 45-0 drubbing of Massachusetts, the Badgers bounced back with an equally impressive victory over thoroughly overmatched Tennessee Tech. Wisconsin has back-to-back shutouts to open a season for the first time since holding Miami and Marquette scoreless in 1958.
Not bad for a team switching to a 3-4 defense, even with the decided advantage in talent over the opposition.
Still, senior safety Dezmen Southward, who recovered a first-quarter fumble that set up a score, knows FCS teams can be a nuisance. Eight FCS schools tripped up major college teams in the season's opening weekend.
"A lot of people say 'Your competition this, your competition that.' Well, if you look across the nation, there are a ton of teams, big-time teams playing FCS teams and they're not pitching shutouts. It's really tough to do especially most of the time, halfway through the game, you're going to pull your starters," Southward said.
"You need to come in and not lose your intensity. And we were able to do that today."
James White added 109 yards rushing on 22 carries, while freshman Corey Clement had 149 on 13 carries in the second half.
Joel Stave was 24 of 29 for 219 yards with three touchdowns and an interception. Defensive back Darius Hillary set the tone early by forcing the fumble recovered by Southward on the first play from scrimmage for the Badgers (2-0).
The turnover was a harbinger of things to come for Tennessee Tech (1-1). Six plays later, Stave connected with fullback Derek Straus for a 3-yard touchdown pass only four-plus minutes into the contest.
The rout was on.
Tennessee Tech coach Watson Brown could have used a few players from younger brother Mack Brown's team at Texas.
"They had offensive and defensive dominance up front," Watson Brown said. "The line of scrimmage was dominating all day long. The turnover didn't help. There were like eight more scores after that."
It only felt like eight; it was actually just six more TDs.
The brightest spot for Tennessee Tech may have been punter Chad Zinchini, who had a career-best 70-yard boot in the third quarter. That surpassed a 64-yard punt earlier in the day for Zinchini, a senior who last year set the school record by averaging nearly 45 yards a punt.
Didn't matter to the Badgers, who moved the ball at will. Gordon accumulated all his stats in the first half on nine carries. He had more yards rushing by himself than Tennessee Tech had in total offense (83) at halftime.
Stave had a stretch 13 straight completions. He was 10 of 10 during a late drive in the first half during which the Badgers decided to brush up on their two-minute offense, ending with a 6-yard scoring pass to Brian Wozniak for a 28-0 lead at the half.
Stave bounced back after misfiring to a double-covered receiver Jared Abbrederis and getting intercepted by Austin Tallant earlier in the second quarter. The late touchdown drive was the kind of learning experience that Andersen sought for his sophomore quarterback.
"That was something we practice and it was really good to see it get clicking in the game like that," Stave said. "So we did a great job protecting and getting the ball out quickly."
White got in on the fun with a 2-yard touchdown run in the third. Kyle French's extra-point attempt bounced off the right upright — one of the few flubs on the day for Wisconsin — to keep the score at 34-0.
Clement added a 75-yard run down the left sideline to give Wisconsin a seven-touchdown lead late.
Only one Tennessee Tech drive ended past the 50. Dual-threat quarterback Darian Stone rarely had time, going 8 of 19 passing for 69 yards, and carrying seven times for 16 yards.
Stone had Badgers in his face all day.
"It seemed like it was from everywhere," he said of the pressure. "They are just big dudes and they're hard to block. We weren't used to it."
Dangerous sophomore Ladarius Vanlier, who had a 93-yard punt return for a TD last week against NAIA school Cumberland, was never a factor Saturday on special teams.
The student section began clearing out early in the fourth quarter on the humid afternoon, content with another Badger blowout. Wisconsin held huge edges in total offense (606-113) and first downs (29-6).
Wisconsin got the reps and confidence boost it needed headed into much tougher game next weekend at Arizona State.


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