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A Match Made in Heaven
Celebrity chef Hugh Acheson shares how Windstar Cruises and the James Beard Foundation perfectly blend cruising and culinary exploration.
Become a part of an unprecedented culinary-travel partnership as the James Beard Foundation joins forces with Windstar Cruises. Named for the celebrated American chef and author, the foundation has become one of the world's most respected leaders in epicurean education. Windstar cruises now feature exclusive access to James Beard Foundation-endorsed cuisine and recipes. And, in a select series of groundbreaking voyages, you'll have the opportunities to mingle with celebrity chefs at sea, dine on their special creations, experience insightful cooking demonstrations and join exciting culinary excursions in ports of call.
Get to know Windstar Cruises' most highly anticipated culinary cruise experience with Hugh Acheson — a James Beard Award-winning chef, owner of multiple Southern restaurants, cookbook author and Top Chef judge, to name a few recent credits — who recently joined Windstar as a guest chef on a European voyage.
Q: What are some of the philosophies that bring the James Beard Foundation and Windstar together?
A: Windstar is the expert at showcasing how food is connected to local experiences from a luxurious perspective. [This partnership] is also a great vehicle to share the important work of the James Beard Foundation, in terms of sustainability, social responsibility and the purity of good food.
Q: How did you get involved with your voyage?
A: I've collaborated with the James Beard Foundation for some time. I'm also relatively outspoken and gregarious, which sort of resets the pre-existing idea of an egotistical chef who hides in his cabin most of the time.
Q: What's your favorite example of an onboard culinary activity?
A: My cooking demo recipes are wrapped around the local ingredients gathered from the markets in each port. It's connected to the destinations where we're sailing, but it's also my food — like a very Southern-style bouillabaisse made with local European ingredients.
Q: How do you seek out food experiences when you travel?
A: The first thing I do is figure out where my hotel is and map out a mile around it. I search online to find a good coffee shop and a farmers market. Once you get those places located, the key is to ask questions. Figure out where the barista goes after work for a beer, where the chef at the lunch counter buys vegetables on the weekend.
Q: How do you find that kind of immersion on a shore excursion?
A: The best kind of travel is curated by informed people, which Windstar has in spades. Going on a bike tour through Burgundy with Windstar means you'll get to experience these nuanced places, and your guide becomes your authentically awesome friend. To me, that's very exciting.
Q: What is the biggest takeaway you hope guests will get on these voyages?
A: I'm hoping they enjoy themselves and cook more once they get home. When you realize that great cooking makes you really happy, it's all the more rewarding for you and your family. It creates a good life.
Upcoming voyages with the James Beard Foundation
Culinary Cruise Collection include traversing San Juan and the Virgin Islands with Puerto Rican chef Mario Pagán and a cruise through Southeast Asia with Honolulu-based chef Lee Anne Wong, also a cookbook author and an original contestant on Bravo's Top Chef.


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As an Anaesthesiologist, we need to give sedation and anaesthesia to patients for short or long surgeries and procedures. The Anaesthetic drugs have varied effect on patient's brains, and makes them have some weird dreams, hallucinations to almost nothing. During my practice, i ve come across some really funny statements by patients when coming out of anaesthesia.
Here are a few
Here are a few
"Am I Alive"
"Dude, this stuff was great, never felt so high"
"Where is my bartender, i need more"
"You are great, you are like god to me"
"Am I home"
"Get me out of this Airplane"
"So how long the surgery is gonna take"
"Is it over already"
"You come to my home tonight, lets have some scotch"
"U din't give me enough drugs, i'l settle things when u come outside the hospital"
"Gosh , that was so long"

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
A Visit From Nostrasmartass
While cleaning out my undie drawer this morning I came across this brittle and somewhat crunchy scroll. The handwriting I recognized, the mastery with which it was written familiar, the power and fierceness of opinion nearly palpable....I knew it was something that needed to be shared, a forecast from Our Beloved HoseMaster of Wine of what lies ahead for 2011. I knew it was my duty to share them with you all...oh and Mr. Washam, no need to slink around my pantie drawer, email works fine. Don't even want to begin to imagine why this thing is so crunchy.....
The beginning of the year brings out the prognosticator in all of us, and since I'm over 50 I had to have my prognostate checked. Everything came out fine, if slightly sulfurous around the fingernails. I have an amazing ability to predict the future of the wine business. Most of you will remember that for 2010 I predicted that HoseMaster of Wine would fold. And that Bret Favre would retire. And that Constellation would sell off its Australian wine portfolio because they found out there aren't any Mexicans in Australia. So as you read my predictions for 2011 keep my uncanny accuracy in mind. Now, if only my prognostate exam had been un-canny.
President Obama will serve a screwtop in the White House—Speaker of the House Boehner.
Our quaint little print wine publications will start to slowly disband or merge. It will be revealed that Stephen Tanzer is actually Allen Meadows the Burghound, who, in turn, is actually a pseudonym for Stephen Hawking who tastes every wine submitted via an enema. The hard part is spitting. Ironic, considering his name. Robert Parker finally admits that he's dead and points to hiring Mark Squires as proof of an EEG flatter than sales of Syrah. Connoisseurs' Guide, Wine and Spirits, and Wine Enthusiast merge to form "Connoisseurs' Guide to Enthusiastic Spirits." Richard Simmons gets Three Poofs. Wine Spectator is sold to Riedel which then breaks it up into 29 different publications, each dedicated to only one variety. Riedel argues that the size of the print and the quality of the paper determine how much sense the ratings make. Consumers fall for their bullshit again. Mutineer Magazine turns out to be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by Mormons seeking to turn people off to all forms of alcohol and writers with talent.
DNA evidence will show that Gruner Veltliner is a cross between Riesling and a durian.
An article in the "Journal of Psychiatry" will use wine blogs as a resource for studying megalomania. "Wine bloggers," the authors say, " exhibit the classic signs of megalomania—an unshakable belief in their importance mixed with the conviction that they and their opinions are special and powerful despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary." The only cure, the authors conclude, is to be "…forced to read their own works aloud." Except for the HoseMaster, who should be "lobotomized. Again."
Pinot Noir's popularity will begin to wane in the wake of the discovery that many of the most popular brands were made from expired cans of Cherry Coke. This is discovered by a Denny's waitress at a blind tasting of Marcassin Pinot Noir. Helen Turley appears in a Super Bowl ad for Pepsi. Grenache replaces Pinot Noir as the red wine of choice for sissies, and everyone proclaims New Zealand the best place in the world to grow it even though no one believes it to be true. Constellation buys every New Zealand winery.
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Holy Crapass! I needed that. Thanks Sam and Hoselabotomizer!!
- January 12, 2011 at 7:30 PM
- Thomas said...
This guy doesn't know his hose from his master...
- January 13, 2011 at 6:55 AM
I laughed. I cried. It was better than "Katz"!
- January 13, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- John M. Kelly said...
You never should have let that guy hold your purse, so he could sneak out and have a copy made of your key. Now you need to put a lock on your panty drawer.
But seriously - I'm looking deeply at my own prognostate (you know where that means my head is) and I predict that Ron's predictions will turn out to be about 50% correct. Therefore I give them 88 points. (Fittingly, my captcha this morning is "prophic" - ah, synchronicity.)
Riesling and durian... brilliant {sniggering}
- January 13, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Can't thank me girlie, all I did was pass on the word as it were, but thanks for commenting!
Oh The Hose knows.....
Me too! But I've never seen Katz so...
Meh, what's a little panty fondling between friends? And why is it that spell check prefers pantie to panty?! 88 points huh? Wanna know what I gave him for the dismount?
- January 13, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- HoseMastradamus said...
Mercifully, this is one of my shorter pieces. I had many more predictions for 2011, but, gosh, I hate to be seen as a know-it-all. And I was just rummaging through Samantha's lingerie drawer looking for a place to put my crystal balls, can't imagine what you perverts were thinking.
Thomas, my hose is my master, no need to try to tell them apart.
Strappo, it's not only better than "Katz," it's better than the sequel, "Litter Box."
John, an "88?" Wow, now you're handing out all your used scores. And I was hoping for some predictions from you. I predict Tom Wark's Sermontation wins Best Wine Blog Award at this year's Poodles!! And STEVE! wins "Best Nervous Breakdown on a Wine Blog" at the Poodles also. Man, I'm on fire!
My Gorgeous Samantha, thanks as always for loaning me your corner of the blogosphere. Now, do I get to go to Italy instead of you?
I love you, Darling!
- January 13, 2011 at 9:27 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Anytime Kid. You know I adore you and your crystal balls.
- January 13, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Thomas said...
Do I feel like a voyeur? You bet.
Maybe the hose would like to make a guest appearance on vinofictions. I've got to do something to get someone to read the blog. I'm giving up on receiving the Best Unknown Poodle Award in 2011, so I'll shoot for the Best Annoying Poodle Award.
- January 13, 2011 at 11:43 AM
- Ron Washam said...
Let's see, how would we measure Best "Unknown" Blog Award if a blog is, in fact, unknown? Very existential question.
HoseMaster would perhaps be willing to guest post on Vinofictions after HoseMaster is done ghosting for ChronicNegress (I'm practicing). Lots of folks ask me to guest post, but then they want to edit my big mouth. Homey, I mean ChronicNegress, don't play that.
- January 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM
- Valerie said...
I'm not sure what's funnier - your blog or the comments...Riesling X durian was my fav too - ooh - ooh - and the one about the Grenache replacing Pinot Noir as the 'red wine of sissies.' Yeah - that too. Love the "NostraSmartass" and admire your filing system, Sam.
- January 13, 2011 at 1:19 PM
- Joe said...
I have it on good authority that James Suckling likes Grenache...
...looks like your "sissy" prediction has been debunked.
- January 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Girls gotta do what a girls gotta do right? I figure anything worth having is worth storing in the undie drawer...
- January 13, 2011 at 7:11 PM
- Ron Washam said...
I'm sure what's funnier--the fucking blog.
Now the fun really starts when Samantha has Gruner to peddle. My substitute host days may be over.
You and Good Authority haven't even been introduced. Suckling was the Italian guy--name his favorite Grenache.
Plus, I have it on Great Authority, Good Authority's uglier older brother, that Suckling is a sissy.
My Gorgeous Samantha,
So you keep your bubbly in your undie drawer? Makes sense to me!
I love you!
- January 13, 2011 at 7:36 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Ron My Love,
Of course I keep my bubbles in my undie drawer....how else you think they make my bits tingle? I love you too....despite the whole, "darling" thing
- January 13, 2011 at 7:48 PM
- Alfonso Cevola said...
Glad to see Hostradamus is alive and well.
- January 14, 2011 at 6:05 AM
- Thomas said...
If you're going to get all philosophical on me I'll have to take my guest-blog offer to someone more openly ignorant. But then, so many from which to choose...gives me a hoseache.
- January 14, 2011 at 6:40 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
(crossing my fingers) Oh I hope he picks me.....
- January 14, 2011 at 7:27 AM
- Ron Washam said...
Sure, I'm alive, perhaps not so well. It's not easy being a soothsayer--especially with my rampant sooth decay. I need to have my seeth checked.
Oh, more "openly" ignorant! Now you tell me. I keep my ignorance closely guarded. I only bring it out for blogger conferences where it belongs. Good luck with your search. Have you asked those Corks and Culottes people?
- January 14, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Thomas said...
Now you are splitting hairs and becoming Sart(re)orial.
Who the hell are Corks and Culottes? Have I missed a blog--thank God?
- January 14, 2011 at 10:49 AM
- Constance C said...
"Wine Spectator is sold to Riedel which then breaks it up into 29 different publications, each dedicated to only one variety. Riedel argues that the size of the print and the quality of the paper determine how much sense the ratings make." <--- hahahahaahh
And I like the GV prediction....
- January 14, 2011 at 11:48 AM
I am not so inclined to troll the wine (or other) blogs these days.
Is that a prediction? Wine blogs on the way out to be replaced by people drinking wine while talking about things that really do give them headaches or make them happy.
Nevertheless, my visit today was a double bonanza - you, Sam, and Hosemaster. Thank you.
- January 15, 2011 at 4:52 AM
- Do Bianchi said...
Richard Simmons gets Three Poofs and the Screwcap say it all for me.
Man, Sam, your writing is on fire. Not just these days... chapeau bas...
- January 15, 2011 at 7:32 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Well thanks for taking the time lady!
I'd say my writing has been MIA as of late which is why I am so grateful to Ron for letting me post this hilarious piece. I do loves me some HoseMaster.
- January 15, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Do Bianchi said...
@Sam in my early morning pre-caffeinated stupor, I read it as signed by you! sawwy! I sure did enjoy it though...
- January 15, 2011 at 8:40 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Ah, a caffeine shortage, that explains it! No problem kid, just wanted to make sure my internet hubby got his due credit....
- January 15, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- Ron Washam said...
Oh, get with it, man! Corks and Culottes is an off shoot of Corks and Merkins, which is why I was splitting hairs.
It was the Austrian double whammy! I hadn't thought of that until I saw your blog name. Riedel and Gruner--wow, what a contribution Austria has made to the wine world.
Wow! What a cool surprise to see you here. Nice to convene the ol' HoseMaster blog crowd once in a while. I'm with you, I rarely read wine blogs any more. Hard as they try, they all still read like yesterday's newspaper, the one that lines my birds' cages. Same old endless crap. Though Samantha is certainly the exception. Hard to tire of her voice.
It takes a fine eye to distinguish the difference between my style and Samantha's. Easy mistake to make.
My Gorgeous Samantha,
Yes, you have been MIA on your blog. We'd all like to see something new from you, and a lot less from me.
I love you!
- January 15, 2011 at 9:12 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Ron My Love,
Ughhhh, make me feel guilty why don't you. But saying sweet things like not being able to tire of my voice might just inspire me and junk. As always, I thank you and as forever, I love you!
- January 15, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- Charlie Olken said...
Like the Phoenix, Jose has risen from his own ashes--full of life and mirth. I was sorry to hear about the impending demise of Connoisseurs' Guide, but at least we did not fall into the clutches of Herr Riedel.
On the other hand, his new plans for separate Pinot Noir glasses for the several disparate parts of the Russian River Valley will be very welcome even though Tom Wark insists that no one can tell Westside Road Pinot from Dr. Pepper.
One does hope, Jose, that you will make the occasional guest appearance, and I am thinking that I know just the place for that appearance.
Sam, we needed that.
- January 15, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- Ron Washam said...
Puff Daddy,
Yet another of the old gang checks in! Where's Anonymous 1? We've hijacked Sam's blog!
In my HoseMaster guise, I am forever full of life and mirth, as well as many forms of effluent. And I sort of miss this old gang of mine, though providing all that mirth amid so much wine blog mire done wore me out. So as long as there are folks goofy enough to host my foolishness, I just might show up here and there, now and then.
I know where you're thinking about my next appearance, Charlie. In Vino Veritas with Alice Feiring!! She loves me.
My Gorgeous Samantha,
Folks come here for YOUR voice, they only tolerate mine because you demand that they do. You're the star of the wine blog world.
I adore you!
- January 15, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Thomas said...
I tried signing on, but found at that Corks and Merkins has been renamed to Merkins Over Gerkins.
- January 16, 2011 at 9:50 AM
- Joe said...
rats. there were no facts nor source, nor good authority behind my comment... bloggers' code.
he was just the sissiest I could muster. and though it's Spanish and not Italian, I bet the guy has a cat named "Garnacha".
- January 19, 2011 at 6:20 AM
- Ron Washam said...
Actually I think his pussy is named Cannonau di Sardegna. Not sure what his cat is named.
- January 19, 2011 at 7:59 AM


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Thousands of mourners chanting for the downfall of Egypt's president marched in funerals again Tuesday in the restive city of Port Said as the army chief warned the state could collapse if the latest political crisis drags on.
Troops in Port Said and Suez, two riot-torn cities along the strategic Suez Canal, stood by and watched Monday night as thousands took to the streets in direct defiance of a night curfew and a state of emergency declared by President Mohammed Morsi a day earlier. Residents of the two cities and Ismailiya, a third city also under the emergency, marched just as the curfew came into force at 9 p.m.
The display of contempt for Morsi's decision was tantamount to an outright rebellion that many worried could spread to other parts of the country. Already, protesters across much of Egypt are battling police, cutting off roads and railway lines, and besieging government offices and police stations as part of a growing revolt against Morsi and his Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood group.
At least 60 people have been killed since Friday.
"As long as the president's hands are stained in blood, he must leave," said Port Said lawyer Mohammed el-Assfouri as he stood outside the city's Mariam mosque where mourners prayed for the dead.
Morsi's opponents accuse Islamists of monopolizing power and failing to live up to the ideals of the pro-democracy uprising that ousted authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak two years ago.
In Cairo, intense fighting for days around central Tahrir Square engulfed two landmark hotels and forced the U.S. Embassy to suspend public services on Tuesday. The lobby of the five-star Semiramis along the Nile was trashed after clashes on the street outside spilled into the hotel early Tuesday morning, when armed, masked men attempted to rob it.
In Port Said, where most of the deadly violence has been centered, tanks were fanned out on the streets of the city of some 600,000 located 140 miles northeast of Cairo on the Mediterranean coast and at the tip of the Suez Canal. New funerals were held for six more of those killed in clashes, with thousands marching and chanting against Morsi. Similar scenes have replayed over the past few days.
"Erhal! Erhal!" or "Leave, leave!" they screamed, reviving the iconic chant of the 2011 uprising.
The chant is now turned against Morsi. A sign carried by one mourner said: "The independent state of Port Said." Another had the image of a young and slim man in dark sunglasses posing next to a red car. Relatives said he was shot dead while walking home on Saturday.
"The continuation of the conflict between the different political forces and their differences over how the country should be run could lead to the collapse of the state and threaten future generations," said army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who is both head of the military and defense minister.
At the same time he defended the right of Egyptians to protest, while acknowledging the difficult challenges facing his troops in Port Said and Suez.
"The deployment of the armed forces poses a grave predicament for us insofar as how we balance avoiding confrontations with Egyptian citizens, their right to protest and the protection and security of vital facilities that impact Egypt's national security," he said.
He also spoke of a "realistic threat" facing the nation as a result of what he called the political, economic and social challenges.
The warning was the military's first public comment since the latest crisis erupted last week around the second anniversary of the uprising on Friday. El-Sissi was speaking to military academy cadets and the comments were posted on the armed forces' official Facebook page.
He also warned of what he described as attempts to influence the "stability" of state institutions.
"It is a grave matter that hurts national security and the nation's future."
He did not elaborate, but critics of Morsi complain he has been trying to bring state institutions under Brotherhood control to tighten the Islamists' grip on power.
The military and Islamists led by the Brotherhood struggled over power in the transition following Mubarak's rule. The Brotherhood dominated every election since the uprising, winning control of parliament, the presidency and pushing through a constitution that could pave the way for imposing more strict Islamic law in Egypt.
The army had long defended the secular nature of Egypt before the Brotherhood came to power and is seen as wary of letting Islamists have too much power.
Morsi has ordered the army to restore order in Port Said and Suez. On Sunday, he slapped a 30-day state of emergency and night curfew on the two cities as well as Ismailiya. The army has not deployed in Ismailiya, however, which has seen little of the deadly violence flaring in the other two cities.
The military, Egypt's most powerful institution, was the de facto ruler since army officers seized power in 1952 and toppled the monarchy. Generals forced Mubarak from power at the end of the uprising and then a ruling military council took over from him.
The military's nearly 17 months in power tainted its reputation, with critics charging the ruling generals of mismanaging the transition to democratic rule, human rights violations and hauling thousands of civilians before military tribunals.
Morsi became the first freely elected president in June and was immediately plunged into a power struggle with the military when it tried to curtail his powers. In August, he ordered the retirement of the army's top two generals, regained powers they had taken away from him and handpicked el-Sissi as defense minister and army chief.
The timing of el-Sissi's warning is particularly significant because it came at a time of growing opposition to Morsi and when he appeared to be failing to stem the latest bout of political violence, sinking the country deeper into chaos and lawlessness.
Some of the demonstrators in Port Said on Monday night waved white-and-green flags they said were the colors of a new and independent state. Such secession would be unthinkable, but the move underlined the depth of frustration in the city.
Since coming to office, Morsi has failed to tackle the country's massive problems, which range from an economy in free fall to surging crime, chaos on the streets and lack of political consensus. His woes deepened when the main opposition coalition turned down his offer for a dialogue to resolve the crisis, insisting he meets their conditions first.
The wave of unrest has touched cities across much of Egypt since Thursday, including Cairo, the three Suez Canal cities, Alexandria on the Mediterranean in the north and a string of cities in the Nile Delta.
The violence accelerated Friday, the second anniversary of the uprising, with protests to mark the event turning to clashes that left 11 dead, most of them in Suez.
The next day, riots exploded in Port Said after a court convicted and sentenced to death 21 defendants — mostly locals — for a mass soccer riot in the city's main stadium a year ago. Rioters attacked police stations, clashed with security forces in the streets and shots and tear gas were fired at protester funerals in mayhem that left 44 people dead over the weekend.
The violence in Port Said was fueled in part by the anger and sense of betrayal that have been simmering in the city following last year's riot, the worst ever in Egyptian soccer.
Protesters and activists, meanwhile, are accusing the police of excessive use of force in dealing with demonstrators. Morsi, in their view, endorsed their tactics when he commended them in a short, televised speech on Sunday night when he declared the state of emergency and curfew.
The U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, took note of the high death toll in the latest unrest.
She urged Morsi's government "to take urgent measures to ensure that law enforcement personnel never again use disproportionate or excessive force against protesters" because it is both illegal and likely to make the situation more explosive. Pillay called for immediate investigations into the wave of violence and a review of police tactics used to clamp down on demonstrations.
The police, hated for their brutality in the Mubarak years, have been calling for better and more sophisticated weapons to defend themselves when their facilities come under attack, which happened in Port Said as well as Suez.
In Cairo on Tuesday, the area around central Tahrir Square was relatively quiet, with only intermittent clashes between police and rock-throwing protesters. On Monday, protesters and police battled each other in area all day and into the night in scenes reminiscent of the early days of the 2011 uprising.
Early Tuesday morning, police foiled an attempted robbery by 12 masked gunmen at the Semiramis Intercontinental. The luxury hotel is one of the two caught up in clashes around Tahrir Square.
Security officials say the attackers looted shops in small hotel mall and smashed glass. They suspect the culprits are criminals who used the rioting outside on the street as cover. AP television footage shows protesters trying to arrest some of the thieves. By Tuesday, the shattered glass facade of the lobby was boarded up and only a few guests remained.
The nearby U.S. Embassy said on its website that it was closing public services on Tuesday because of the security situation.
Hendawi reported from Cairo. AP reporter Amir Makar contributed to this report.


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World-renowned tenor Pl ácido Domingo has joined the battle against bootleggers.
The 70-year-old legend has been named the chairman of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, alerting governments that need tougher laws against online piracy.
Bloomberg reports that Domingo saw royalties from many of his recordings go down through the years. "At first, I thought it was logical," he said, but over time, he realized that once the royalties stopped altogether, something was wrong.
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"On my own, I couldn't do anything. So when the IFPI asked me to help them, I immediately said yes."
According to IFPI's 2011 report, global album sales fell 77% from 2003-2010.
Many large record labels belong to IFPI, including Universal Music Group, Sony, Citigroup, and Warner Music Group. Domingo will represent them all, speaking to presidents, prime ministers, and those in control of legislation to help protect the music industry.
Piracy has plagued the music industry for some time, as music sharing sites like Napster, Limewire, and others make it easy to share music illegally.
Domingo says the music industry, like any other, is a business. "Would you steal a pair of shoes from a shop? Of course not." Technicians, producers, and engineers all suffer from loss of royalties.
"I feel passionately about this," Domingo said. "I'll speak from my heart."


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Don't I look pretty with your eye liner!
Playing with mom's jewelry too!
The other day I was getting ready for work and while I was facing one direction into the mirror on the wall, Brooklyn (ignorantly) used my deafness and got into my make up drawer! When I turned around she was putting eye liner on her eyes, or so she was trying too! It's amazing how smart she is and how she can copy and knows what make up is for. My mother took a picture of me when I was a little bit older than Brooklyn is now with my whole face full of beautiful black mascara. I need to get that picture and post it along with Brooklyn's but I gotta find it first... Mom has it. Brooklyn is so intelligent... I know most parents say that about their kids but she is something. She knows so many words, knows the sign language for them, and she loves to sing! Matt and I figured out a long time ago if we sing she calms down. So if you ever hear us singing, I looked out the window and what did I see followed by Once there was a snow man, snow man, snow man followed by I love mommy she loves me and 20 other songs in a row it's because she is like the energizer bunny and keeps signing (and saying) AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN! So Matt and I have become quite the duet! We even thought of trying out for American Idol! I always tell matt I hope to sing in the choir in heaven and sing a solo! Ironic for a deaf gal to say!


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I was trying some solutions, and every of them failed. Until now, I had thought that anything is possible in Java. One of my solution, that don't makes compilation warrning and runs (but checkbox is missing anyway) is:
class myCheckBox extends JCheckBox implements Icon { int w = 20; public myCheckBox() { super(); setSelected(true); setFocusPainted(false); setOpaque(false); setToolTipText(" close route "); addItemListener(new ItemListener() { public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) { if (e.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED) { } } }); } public void paintIcon(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y) { } public int getIconWidth() { return w; } public int getIconHeight() { return w; } }
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The bill that Councilman Danny Dromm has sponsored would allow noncitizen immigrants to vote in city elections after living here for only six months. Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr. and a few others oppose the six-month minimum, as it is a very short amount of time to bypass citizenship.
We are a city of immigrants, and most of us come from a proud family of immigrants. If Dromm wants to lobby the federal government to make it easier for noncitizens to become citizens, we should back that idea. But to discount what it means to be a citizen by watering down this important right is hasty.
It is true that there are some cities in Maryland that allow noncitizen voting. But Maryland is only now trying to shed the reputation that it has for mishandling immigration issues.
There is no question that those who are working hard in this city deserve a voice in their government. Dromm is right about that, but why not become citizens first, and then vote after that?
This is no time to wave a flag and make people feel unwelcome, but allowing people to vote before citizenship may be putting the cart before the horse. Let's encourage citizenship, not make it irrelevant. How would we teach our children that voting is an act of good citizenship, if citizenship is not really a part of that equation?
There is a way to sponsor respectful public policy while not excluding groups of people. The answer is to help them become citizens.
Mayoral Race Benefits Queens
Having written about the possibility of how former congressman Anthony Weiner would govern as mayor, I got some push back from readers that I left out the reason why he resigned from the House of Representatives.
My guess is that you know why he resigned. There is no reason to write the same column that everyone else is writing. Weiner jumping into this race, however, does put Queens in the unique position of heightened relevance.
Queens is "in play" because four candidates are working to build their campaigns here. Speaker Christine Quinn has picked up important support in Queens this year, including this week from the Queens Democratic Party, which she has also gotten in the past. Bill Thompson has been working on endorsements in Queens. Then you have John Liu and Anthony Weiner, who are both from Queens (Weiner originally represented a Brooklyn-Queens district).
If Weiner does well without endorsements, he can run this race as an outsider. In reality, he is by no means an outsider. He might, however, be able to sell the message that by not gobbling up endorsements from the party establishment that he is the non-establishment candidate.
That would be the wise strategy for Team Weiner: issues over party.
In the end, it is fair to project that there will be a run-off in this race. This is going to be a race, followed by a race, followed by an election. The Republicans would be in a decent position if they had a unified candidate and campaign to wait out the Democrats, but that appears to be a work in progress.


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Sixty history of medicine enthusiasts attended the September 16th meeting of the History of Medicine Society, a student-led interest group of the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library. Charleen Moore, PhD, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, presented Potent Potions and Healing Herbs: Medicinal Practices of the Renaissance. The Garden Health Interest Group provided Harry Potter themed snacks, including Snitch cake pops, chocolate pretzel wands, and "Butter Beer" topped with whipped cream!
Following the presentation, attendees adjourned to the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library to view some of the books referenced in Dr. Moore's talk, as well as some historical herbals with magnificent illustrations.
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Halloween Signs
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Halloween Signs
Halloween is a busy time for parents as they are often hurrying for buying decorations for house and costumes for their children. These days` families don`t spend much time together because of so much worry but they indeed should as Halloween is a time of bonding. The season of fall is enjoyed by the festival of Halloween, and along with spookiness kids need some fun too. Making Halloween signs can be a way to enhance that enjoyment. The instructions can be easily printed out from sights, and you can shop the supplies easily from a nearby store and plan a fun filled evening for your children.
What Can You Do?
- You can shop the needed supplies with your children.
- You can read the instructions and allot them tasks.
- You can check in during them having fun and making the signs.
- The task can be incorporated among children of all ages, and it can be a bonding task between your kids with age difference.
- Even parents can have fun with their child, and when everything is ready, they can easily decorate their house with all the signs made.
This will be a really nice activity. Sites like Halloween Fun have lots of instructions to choose from when it comes to Halloween signs.


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Navarre Beach has been without a hotel since Hurricane Ivan destroyed the Holiday Inn in September 2004.
MILTON � Navarre Beach has been without a hotel since Hurricane Ivan destroyed the Holiday Inn in September 2004.
Although nothing solid has been announced, there are signs that a new hotel could be on the way.
Santa Rosa County commissioners hosted a public hearing Thursday to discuss rezoning the former Holiday Inn property to make it consistent with the county�s latest Land Development Code and correct a past oversight.
However, much of the talk focused on renewed plans to build a hotel on the parcel.
Commissioner Jim Melvin has been in contact with Marilyn Hess, who owns the lease for the property, and said plans are in the works to bring a new hotel to Navarre Beach.
�We are on the cusp of getting the hotel back on Navarre Beach,� Melvin said. �It was the heart of Navarre Beach. It�s what built the entire community and it�s sorely needed.
�I�m not at liberty to disclose what the owner intends to do, but I can tell you they plan to build a first-class hotel with some other related amenities just like you see in other high-end (hotels) you see up and down the state,� Melvin added. �It�s going to be a tremendous asset for this community.�
Beckie Faulkenberry, the county�s planning director, said under the existing Land Development Code, the new hotel could be 16 stories and have one more story for parking.
Melvin said the project could end up being several buildings � a large hotel surrounded by several smaller buildings that could house restaurants, clothing stores and other retailers.
Several residents at Thursday�s meeting spoke in favor of a new hotel on Navarre Beach.
�We truly look forward to a hotel,� said Caroline Mays, vice president of the board of directors at Navarre Towers. �I�ve probably spent more money over at the Holiday Inn at that little gift shop than my husband will probably ever forgive me for. And I look forward to doing that again.�
Commissioners voted in March 2012 for their staff to develop an incentive package to help persuade a developer to build a new hotel on Navarre Beach.
No time frame has been announced on when plans for a new hotel will come to the County Commission for approval, let alone when something will be shown to the public or when construction could start.
�It�s important to keep in mind that we have a property owner who is very, very interested in investing $18 to $20 million in Santa Rosa County on the beach to give us back what we all agree was the greatest thing that ever happened on Navarre Beach,� Melvin said.
�Mrs. Hess is intending to rebuild,� he added. �She has made no commitment to the brand name. It probably will be a Holiday Inn and it will have some out buildings on the back side that would provide restaurant, lounge, shopping, outdoor seating� All of the ordinary things you find up and down Florida in a nice hotel.�
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Colombia set up a quarterfinal meeting with World Cup hosts Brazil after James Rodriguez scored twice in a 2-0 victory over Uruguay.
- Delaney: James lifts Colombia again
Oscar Tabarez's side went into the match without Luis Suarez, who was suspended from all football for four months after biting Giorgio Chiellini in the victory over Italy, and they lacked his edge in attack as Rodriguez stole the show.
It was going to take something very special to stop this match being all about Suarez -- and 22-year-old Rodriguez provided it with the first of his two goals to set up a 2-0 win for a Colombian side who have made light of the injury-related absence of their own missing striker, Radamel Falcao.
Rodriguez, a teammate of Falcao's at Monaco, scored the goal of the tournament so far and has emerged as one of the outstanding players of the World Cup, with five goals now to his name.
His moment of brilliance came in the 28th minute, when Abel Aguilar looped a high header to the edge of the penalty box, and Rodriguez -- after a quick glance towards goal -- controlled it on his chest and hit a magnificent volley on the turn that skimmed over the goalkeeper's fingertips and crashed in off the underside of the crossbar.
Initially, Uruguay broke up the game with some muscular tackling, as the game struggled to ignite. Colombia's Juan Zuniga did break forward on a lung-busting run, but his shot was too straight, into the chest of Uruguay keeper Fernando Muslera.
It was even until Rodriguez's moment, but after that Uruguay began to show more ambition.
Cavani put in a dangerous cross that Carlos Sanchez just cleared, then the Paris Saint-Germain striker struck a fierce free kick that sailed just over the bar.
Buoyed by that, Uruguay ended the half on the up. Their own Rodriguez, Atletico Madrid midfielder Cristian, tried his only volley, but Colombia keeper David Ospina parried it away desperately.
If the first goal had been all about individual excellence, the second was a wonderful team goal.
Rodriguez started the move, and several passes saw the ball shifted out to the left flank, where Pablo Armero's cross to the far post found Juan Cuadrado. The Fiorentina midfielder rose majestically to direct a classic header back to the edge of the six-yard box, where Rodriguez was waiting to fire home.
It was looking desperate for Uruguay, even more so when Cristian Rodriguez again found Ospina unbeatable after hitting a low, raking drive from 25 yards.
Cavani then found Christian Stuani with a wicked delivery to the back post, but the substitute striker's header was wide.
Maxi Pereira nearly bundled his way through to score, but Ospina came charging out to block.
Colombia now face the hosts in Sao Paulo. It will be James Rodriguez -- who was given a standing ovation when he was substituted with four minutes left -- against Neymar, and on this evidence we are in for a treat.


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Believing that if a picture is worth a thousand words, a full-color 3D printed model is priceless, this exclusive webinar will show users how ColorJet Printing (CJP) can speed up product development cycles, bring to life demonstration and concept models and disrupt traditional forms of model-making for architecture, entertainment and medical field applications. Attendees will hear from representatives of 3DS and Objex Unlimited, a heavy user of CJP technology, and will be able to ask questions throughout the interactive, online event. The webinar is ideal for leading product designers, architects, manufacturers, engineers, medical modelers and digital designers with a focus on product design, architecture and animation.
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CJP is the only 3D printing technology capable of printing stone-like or real plastic parts in up to 6 million colors for eye-popping, photorealistic results. Additionally, CJP is one of the fastest methods of 3D printing, at one vertical inch-per-hour, without compromising high-resolution, size or complexity. Webinar participants will get a chance to see how CJP printers can be used to produce exceptional high-resolution, full color large architectural models, realistic medical models, industrial molds and castings, single-piece scale models and more.
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Cha Dao
The Way of Tea, Tea as a Way of Life
Solala TowlerIn China, the practice of drinking tea is about much more than soaking leaves in a cup of hot water. Cha Dao takes us on a fascinating journey through the Way of Tea, from its origins in the sacred temples of ancient China, through its links to Daoist concepts such as or non-striving, to the affinity between Tea Mind and the Japanese spirit of Zen. Learn More2010, Paperback / softback, 8.98in x 5.91in / 228mm x 150mm, 176pp, $17.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-032-02010, Ebook, ePUB, 176pp, $17.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-014-8
The 12 Chinese Animals
Create Harmony in your Daily Life through Ancient Chinese Wisdom
Master Zhongxian WuThe Chinese horoscope holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony. Master Zhongxian Wu explains how to find your power animal symbols, and how to learn from their wisdom. By fully understanding what each animal signifies, he shows that they can help you to find inner peace and live in harmony. Learn More2010, Hardback, 8.90in x 5.94in / 226mm x 151mm, 192pp, $18.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-031-32011, Ebook, ePUB, 192pp, $18.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-015-5
The Healing Power of Mudras
The Yoga of the Hands
Rajendar MenenCovering all you need to know about performing Mudras, this insightful book will enable you to gain an understanding of a form of yoga that has already helped thousands. Clear illustrations explain exactly how to use Mudras, and chapters explore everything from the use of Mudras in dance and martial arts to diet and the practice of visualisation. Learn More2010, Paperback / softback, 8.43in x 5.35in / 214mm x 136mm, 112pp, $13.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-043-62011, Ebook, PDF, 112pp, $13.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-024-7
Creativity and Taoism
A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry
Chung-yuan ChangAccessible and scholarly, this classic book considers the underlying philosophy and the aesthetics of Chinese art and poetry, the expression of the Taoist approach to existence. Chung-yuan Chang's always lucid narrative explores the relationship between the Tao and the creative arts, introducing classic paintings and poems to bring Taoism to life. Learn More2011, Paperback / softback, 8.50in x 6.46in / 216mm x 164mm, 272pp, $24.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-050-42011, Ebook, ePUB, 272pp, $24.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-047-6
The Chinese Book of Animal Powers
Chungliang Al HuangFor thousands of years, the Chinese have believed that we are born with the characteristics and powers of an animal, depending on the month and year of our birth. Now readers of all ages can discover for themselves the fun and wisdom of this age-old Chinese tradition in this exquisite book by celebrated author and artist Chungliang Al Huang. Learn More2011, Hardback, 10.28in x 8.98in / 261mm x 228mm, 32pp, $19.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-066-52011, Ebook, PDF, 32pp, $19.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-037-7
Quantum Soup
Fortune Cookies in Crisis New and enlarged edition
Chungliang Al HuangPeppered with a delicate mix of wisdom and humour, this new and enlarged edition of Quantum Soup is a light-hearted yet informative combination of happy anecdotes and traditional Chinese sensibilities in a Western setting. Every mini-essay is accompanied by the author's calligraphy and illustrations, including those appearing for the first time. Learn More2011, Paperback / softback, 11.61in x 8.27in / 295mm x 210mm, 160pp, $24.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-054-22011, Ebook, ePUB, 160pp, $24.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-036-0
The Handbook of Bach Flower Remedies for Animals
Enric HomedesThis practical handbook, based on strong scientific research and detailed case studies, explains how Bach Flower Remedies can be highly effective for treating both behavioural and physical complaints in animals. The book lists each of the 38 flower remedies, explaining their properties and applications for both animals and humans. Learn More2011, Paperback / softback, 9.09in x 6.57in / 231mm x 167mm, 256pp, $27.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-075-72011, Ebook, ePUB, 256pp, $27.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-049-0
Yijing, Shamanic Oracle of China
A New Book of Change
Translated with commentary by Richard BertschingerThis new translation of the Yijing offers a traditional reading that refreshes and expands on the original text making it relevant for the modern world. It provides a detailed commentary explaining the underlying structure, philosophy and history of the book, and gives practical instructions for consulting the oracle using yarrow sticks or coins. Learn More2011, Hardback, 10.08in x 7.05in / 256mm x 179mm, 336pp, $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-083-22011, Ebook, ePUB, 336pp, $39.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-066-7
The Art and Alchemy of Chinese Tea
Daniel Reid Photographs by Christian JanzenThis book explores Chinese tea in its manifold varieties, its long and colorful historical development in China, and its refinement as a mainstay of Chinese culture. Daniel Reid describes the principles that lie at the heart of tea culture in China, the potent medicinal properties of Chinese tea, and how to cultivate Cha Dao in daily life. Learn More2011, Hardback, 9.33in x 6.46in / 237mm x 164mm, 240pp, $19.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-086-32011, Ebook, PDF, 240pp, $19.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-069-8
Go Ask the River
Evelyn EatonGo Ask the River is the haunting story of the female Chinese poet Hung Tu, tracing her rise from Flower-in-the-Mist to Official Hostess at the court of the governors of the Silk City, and her love affair with the poet Yuan Chen, against the backdrop of the scholars, poets, officials, and warring factions of ninth century China. Learn More2011, Paperback / softback, 8.46in x 5.55in / 215mm x 141mm, 288pp, $19.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-092-42011, Ebook, ePUB, 288pp, $19.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-075-9


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Driving in through the Arizona desert in a 50's Chevrolet while Buddy Holly's voice echoing through the rugged terrain. Dressed in all black with cigarette smoke drifting into the bright blue skies. Destination: New York City. The penance for taking such a trip is driving through endless scenery of great boredom. Pressing on, means I'll soon be trading in the desert, cornfields & waffle houses for Greenwich Village.
This is how a road trip fantasy plays out in my head. It's a bohemian expedition, which exposes one to fly over state America also known as those on the fringe of New York & San Francisco culture. Sure, it's a fantasy of mine to see those unexpectedly on the fringe places. Jack Kerouac's " On the Road" & Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" are two of my favorite books. Though some language is outdated, the stories haven't lost what makes them interesting.
I love the beat movement in literature. Sure, it could be translated as the hipsters of the late 50's/early 60's. Unlike hipsters, the movement gave way to boat loads of wonderful modern literature.
I'm no beatnik. However, the idea of driving across country has always tickled my fancy. Honestly, driving is not one of my favorite forms of transportation. That's why I loved living in New York. I could take the subway, read my paper & listen to the iPOD sans the stress of looking for a parking spot or sitting in gridlock.
In California, I'm no stranger to the car culture. As a youngster, my family & I took magnificent trips up the Central coast. We visited such charming places as Solvang, a Danish inspired town close to Santa Barbara. Cambria is the most memorable destination for our family. I haven't been in seventeen years, but remember it well.
The pebbles on the beach, chicken fried steak with mash potatoes for lunch & the struggle to find cassette tapes that weren't Country music still make me smile. After Cambria, we didn't road trip much. I learned to drive, but hated it even feared it for a while.
When I moved back from New York, the moment of truth presented itself. I had to drive a car again. At first it was quite terrifying after being a subway & bus kind of guy. Back on the East Coast, my road trips revolved around the Chinatown bus, which took me from Manhattan to D.C., which were fun, but long.
To my surprise, I picked up driving again rather quickly. I drove my car from home to office without an issue. My various trips to such exotic destinations as Riverside & Palm Springs felt bohemian thanks to my very coffee house friendly iPod playlists. My favorite for road trips to Palm Springs include music by Suzanne Vega, Tori Amos, Simon & Garfunkel, Rufus Wainwright, just to name a few.
If it's an early morning trip back to the city, I love new wave 80's music, which wakes me up like black coffee. I like to make my driving experience euphoric. Finding street parking, getting tail gated & sitting in gridlock are pitfalls of living in car centric California.
I wouldn't call myself a beatnik, although being around the East Village during that time seems fascinating. I do love wearing black & especially interested in our country's collage of different cultures. Driving is a fear, I've overcome thanks to making it a creative experience. Listening to cool tunes, reading the funny billboards & admiring architecture + nature along the way make it a Polaroid photo for my eyes.


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Here's a story that's sure to give you indigestion ... a restaurant in Pennsylvania has banned all kids under 6 because they're too noisy. Yep, McDain's Restaurant and Golf Center says it doesn't want to be bothered with the rug rats, so they're not welcome.
The restaurant's owner, John Vuick, says beginning July 16, kids will be kept from entering his establishment, no matter if they've proven themselves to be angels in the past or not since "their volume can't be controlled." Neither can mine, when it comes to cranky, rude people who won't even give children a chance.
"I think it's the height of being impolite and selfish, and therefore, I instituted a policy," he told WTAE. Whether he meant bringing them to a restaurant or just having children in general wasn't clear.
Look, nobody finds dining with a loud, obnoxious child pleasant -- not even said child's parents -- but kids are part of society, as much as some people would like them not to be. Most parents know when it's time to call a meal quits and will remove the offender after all attempts to quell him fail. If they don't, I have no problem with management letting them know that they'll have to take the child outside for awhile until he or she calms down.
But to institute an across-the-board policy that NO children can even enter the building is outrageous. From the time my son was small, we took him to "nice" restaurants. We brought along plenty of entertainment, went early, and knew when it was time to leave. The thought of anyone turning us away because he was merely with us is unthinkable. And if you look at this video, it's not even like his restaurant is all that fancy anyway -- it's like vinyl seats and cheap tables. We not talking Chez Panisse here.
It's discrimination plain and simple. Can you imagine if he banned old people because some of them are "crotchety," or any race or religion of people? The world would be up in arms, but when it comes to children, oh well. It may be legal, but it doesn't mean it's right.
Vuick says he's noticed there are "certain parents who can't leave their children at home." Yeah, probably those without babysitters who don't want to get arrested. He goes on to talk about the real problem he sees and told WTAE:
You know, their child -- maybe as it should be -- is the center of their universe. But they don't realize it's not the center of the universe.
I wouldn't even want to eat in a restaurant run by someone with an attitude like that -- I'm sure once the ban goes into effect, it will be uptight, stuffy, and full of rude people just like Vuick. How fun! Hopefully the diners of Monroeville will send a strong message about his actions by not filling his tables ... or by sending in droves of really loud, obnoxious adults.
What do you think of this restaurant banning children under 6?
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Install VNC on a Cloud Server
This page explains how to install VNC on your Cloud Server. This article was based upon the CentOS 5 distribution. This tutorial assumes you have root access to your server and are running on a clean installation.
Note: In order to use this you must have at least 512MB of RAM or X Windows will not run.
Warning: Running VNC on your Cloud Server will consume large amounts of bandwidth. Please use wisely!
If you would like information about tunnelling VNC over SSH please visit http://martybugs.net/smoothwall/puttyvnc.cgi
Install the Necessary Packages
Install perl with the following command:
yum install perl
Install X Windows
We will need to install the X-Windows platform to run the graphical portion of this project. X11 is a graphical display server, and will server and will sit above the Window Manager.
To install run the following as root:
yum groupinstall "X Window System"
- Install a Window Manager
Window Managers and are the human usable layer that you are probably familiar with. This gives you the access to use a mouse and send calls to the X11 server. - KDE - GNOME - TWM
Install KDE Desktop
yum groupinstall "KDE Desktop"
Also, this may be needed:
yum install kde-session
Install GNOME Desktop Environment
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
Also, this may be needed:
yum install gnome-session
- Install TWM
TWM is the default X-Window Manager and you don't have to install any additional packages, it is light and will run on almost anything, but is also not very user friendly and almost requires a power-user.
- Install VNC Server
VNC is the service that display your X output to a tcp connection over the internet.
yum install vnc-server
Configure VNC
Modify the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers configuration file by performing the following command:
nano /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
Insert the following lines into the file:
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 800x600 -depth 16"
This will create a VNC session for one user with the username of someguy. If you would like to setup multiple users you will need to add additional users to that line. For example:
1:someguy 2:someperson 3:somegirl
You will also need to add additional VNCSERVERARGS lines to correspond to each user. Change the [1] to match the session number.
Configure firewall
If you have a firewall running, you will need to open port 5901. For example, on CentOS, run:
iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 5901 -j ACCEPT
If needed, replace 5901 with a range, depending on the number of sessions required (e.g. 5901:5905).
Save the new iptables rule:
service iptables save
Test the Server
Switch to your User
su username cd ~
Create a .vnc directory
mkdir .vnc cd .vnc
Note: Rake note of the '.' in front of the name.
Create the xstartup file
Insert the configuration below (this is for a KDE-VNC session):
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
startx &
exec kde-session &
- If you are using GNOME, change 'kde-session' to 'gnome-session'
- Make the file executable:
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- Setup your VNC user
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(Reuters) - Ally Financial said it will sell its Europe and Latin America operations to GM Financial, a unit of General Motors, for about $4.2 billion.
The combined operations in Europe and Latin America represented about $16.1 billion in assets at the end of the third quarter, Ally said in a statement.
The transaction involves two companies that are still partially owned by the U.S. government after a series of bailouts. The companies also have an intertwined history: Ally is the former financing arm of GM and was once known as GMAC.
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GM expects to contribute about $2 billion in cash to GM Financial to fund the purchase, the automaker said in a separate statement. r.reuters.com/far24t
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Ally is focusing on U.S. auto lending and banking in a bid to turn its business around. In May, its Residential Capital (ResCap) mortgage unit filed for bankruptcy, and on Wednesday a bankruptcy court judge approved the sale of its mortgage operations to Ocwen Financial Corp and Walter Investment Management Corp for $3 billion.
ResCap is also selling a loan portfolio to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc for $1.5 billion.
Of the $17 billion it owes the U.S. government, Ally has paid back $5.8 billion, including dividend payments.
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Ally agreed to sell its Canadian auto finance and deposit business to Royal Bank of Canada for $4.1 billion and its Mexican insurance unit to ACE Ltd for $865 million last month.
Reuters reported earlier this month that Ally was nearing a deal to sell its Europe and Latin America operations, with GM emerging as the leading bidder.
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A 6-1 road trip, after the disastrous 3-7 home stand , is good for the soul–especially because it featured a sweep against the Twins.
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* Mark Buehrle tied the club record by allowing three runs or less in 18 straight starts. He now shares the mark with Frank Smith, who accomplished the feat 102 years ago. Buehrle also added to his team standard by winning at least 10 games for the 11th year in a row.
* By chalking up his 25th save, Sergio Santos was perfect in the ninth and in the process broke the great Mariano Rivera's mark with his 25 consecutive scoreless appearance on the road to start a season.
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Fayette County man, 71, gets prison in Pennsylvania Lottery tax evasion case
Sherman Friend sentenced to 1 year, 1 day in federal court
A 71-year-old Fayette County man who tried to avoid paying taxes on $520,000 worth of Pennsylvania Lottery winnings must serve a year and one day of federal prison time and make full restitution of $132,445.
Sherman Friend, of McClellandtown, Fayette County, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab after having pleaded guilty in September to tax evasion.
Prosecutors said Friend got about 40 people -- mostly employed and destitute -- to cash in his winning lottery tickets for him so he could collect the money and avoid paying federal income tax.
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Friend previously won a car in a fire department raffle in Maryland in 2007. He became angry when he learned that he owed income tax on the vehicle, so he vowed never to pay tax on winnings again after he settled with the IRS on that case, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.


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Commercial air fatalities include those arising from accidents of planes providing passenger and/or cargo services to the public, including large air carriers, commuter air, and air taxi. Commercial air includes scheduled and nonscheduled service by air carriers operating under 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 121 and 14 CFR 135.
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"Never Coming Back", the new Roy Warner-directed video from Michigan's BATTLECROSS can be seen below. The song comes off the band's new album, "War Of Will", which will be released on July 9 via Metal Blade Records. Co-produced at Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida, the sophomore effort from Detroit's newest soldiers of steel will soon prove as one of the most impressive follow-up releases, destined to become a heavy metal classic for fans of all sub-genres. The drum tracks on the CD were laid down by Shannon Lucas (ex-THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) following the departure of Mike Kreger earlier in the year.
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Independence Day at Monticello included famed gymnast Nadia Comăneci and a young girl with a flag. Missing, however, were the silhouettes of two house-hugging liriodendron tulipifera that have been removed in recent years.
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Bill --
As usual, good shot and good thought. You have the dynamic backward though. The recently deleted poplars weren't hugging the house. The house was hugging them, and that's why they survived as long as they did.
Jefferson had a penchant for putting pet plants where they were imperiled. At one point, the poplars that survived were part of a high rise hedge arrayed all along Monticello's terraces. A painting from about 1825 shows that clearly. But weather for which they weren't suited carried off the more exposed trees early on while those in the protective embrace of the house's angles stayed with us longer.
^^^^ somebody has too much time on their hands!
Ant, I admire your wealth of knowledge, but certainly that short house had nothing to do with the survival of those massive Tulip trees.
I've often wondered what the mountain looked like in the old days. When I tour the house I ask about arboreal growth on the slopes of Monticello.
The docents typically say that Mister Tom had a view port cut out of impenetrable forest on the western side so he could watch construction at UVA through a telescope.
I counter with the suggestion that possibly Monticello officials are sensitive to the degradation of the western view shed, particularly the regional sewage authority at the base of the mountain on Charles Bankhead's (?) land. Possibly the Foundation has allowed the forest to grow in order to shield tourists from the industrial sprawl vista?
Not that such a crack deserves response, but FYI: Even though I would take a serious interest in history no matter what I'm doing for a living, historical research happens to be a big part of what I do professionally. In fact, I've just completed the second of two research assignments for a large regional firm with local holdings. My task was to compile a biography of a particular property, one that included both the people associated with it and its natural features.
Adelbert Enyedi:
On behalf of Thomas Jefferson, I say "Gotcha." Jefferson's first design for Monticello was a relatively "short" house that would have looked taller thanks to double galleries, a high peaked roof, etc. But his second design, one influenced by suburban villas he saw in France, was a much taller house that looks shorter thanks to an array of eye-fooling elements.
In addition, re Monticello's ability to protect close by trees from damaging weather, do please remember that when wind encounters an impenatrable object, it is deflected upward.
Both images and visitor accounts from the 1820s and '30s, document groves of trees near the Monticello house. (And several also record severe damage done by unseasonable cold and giant hail in early 1832.) But when you read Cinder Stanton's descriptions of how Jefferson carved up the mountain's slopes for planting, you realize that much of what has been tree covered in our living memory was open land earlier.
As for viewshed concerns in more recent times, Dan Jordan pursued protection actively during his long directorship. That included lobbying in some cases -- State Farm's spread, for instance -- and actually buying affected property in others. And, of course, Monticello's surviving trees have been curated alongside its architecture and contents over the last century.
The trees you are talking about were cut down for the following reasons. The first is the tree on the south side took severe rot and was dangerous to the house.
The second tree I don't recall the exact problem but I do know it was becoming dangerous to the preservation of the house. Mr. Jefferson did have trees near the house just not nearly as mature or large because of the need to clear the mountain to building.
We always admired the huge tulip poplars (which are not related to poplars, really, but magnolias) flanking the house, and were sad when they came down. There is a wonderful local wood worker named Fred Williamson who was granted some of the wood to turn--we were so happy to purchase a bowl from the tree that Jefferson is believed to have planted.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - U.N. atomic safety experts said Japan underestimated the threat from a killer wave to its crippled Fukushima power plant and urged sweeping changes to prevent a repeat of the crisis that triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
In a report presented to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday, an 18-member team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called for a rethink of the way nuclear facilities are built, run and regulated.
Officials have been criticised for failing to plan for a tsunami that would overrun the 5.7-metre (19 ft) wall at the plant in the northeast of the country, despite forecasts from the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co's scientists that such a risk was looming.
The wave that crashed into the plant after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake of March 11 has been estimated at around 14 metres (46 ft), nearly two-and-a-half times the height of the wall.
The IAEA report represented the first outside review of the crisis at Fukushima, which has still not been brought under control, and suggested that power companies in quake-prone countries may face higher hurdles in coming years to meet new international standards.
The report could also mark a new phase in a growing debate within Japan about how — and whether — the country's 49 remaining nuclear plants can return to operation.
"What we are trying to do is reflect on this and push for the highest safety standards worldwide," said Michael Weightman, Britain's top nuclear safety regulator and the leader of the IAEA inspection team.
The three-page IAEA report urged Japan to overhaul its system of nuclear regulation in order to make officials overseeing safety independent of the ministry that promotes nuclear power.
In 2007, the IAEA was ignored when it called on Japan to create a more powerful and independent nuclear regulator and clarify the responsibilities of the four government agencies with some responsibility for plant safety.
Goshi Hosono, a Kan aide who received the IAEA report, said a set of post-disaster reforms due to be announced as soon as next week would take up the question of how to make its nuclear regulatory agency independent.
"I think that the way nuclear plants are regulated will be taken up as one of the problem areas," Hosono told reporters.
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The IAEA said workers at Fukushima had been "dedicated" and "determined" but urged Japan to build "hardened" command centres to allow for a better response in future emergencies.
The Fukushima crisis has prompted a rethink of energy policy in Japan and around the world. Germany's government has vowed to abandon nuclear power.
Japan has pulled back from a commitment to build new reactors, but it remains uncertain how quickly existing plants will be allowed to restart.
Currently Japan is operating only 19 of its pre-Fukushima tally of 54 reactors. Unless local officials can be convinced that Tokyo has a plan to make the others resistant to the kind of blackout that plunged Fukushima into meltdown, more plants will drop off-line for maintenance.
In the worst case, all of Japan's reactors could be shut down by the middle of 2012. That would take out 30 percent of the nation's electricity generation and raise the risk of deeper, near-permanent power rationing, officials say.
Weightman said nuclear plants could be made safe in Japan, but said it would take a line of new defences against tsunamis and a commitment to rethink safety standards over time.
"You can't predict when a natural disaster will occur, but you can say, 'let me predict the consequences'," he said.
The IAEA report said Japanese officials would need to show a longer-term plan for cleaning radiation from around Fukushima so that the more than 80,000 residents evacuated from the area could return. It urged stepped-up and long-term health monitoring for residents and workers.
Opposition parties seeking to topple Kan's government with a no-confidence vote say the government bungled the early response to Fukushima. Environmental critics, including Greenpeace, charge Japan with ignoring a growing risk to radiation spilling into sea and groundwater.
The crisis has also diverted resources from rebuilding after the quake and tsunami that killed about 24,000 people in northern coastal Japan.
Experts say the IAEA report represents a starting point in the debate over what needs to be done to make nuclear plants safe in a country where the risks of earthquakes are still imperfectly understood.
"There are aspects of the planning for the safety of the Fukushima plant which are, in retrospect, very stupid, and show a lack of imagination," said Kim Kearfott, a University of Michigan nuclear safety expert who toured Japan on her own this week. "The nuclear industry can do better than this."
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Giotto's second comet encounter
After the encounter on 15 March, the Giotto spacecraft still had 60 kilograms of fuel available, so the option was open to continue Giotto's voyage of exploration.
A series of three small orbital corrections ensured that it would return to Earth almost exactly five years after launch. On 2 April 1986, the spacecraft was placed into hibernation in the hope that it could be successfully revived and dispatched on another mission.
In February 1990, the signal was sent to reawaken Giotto. After such a long period without contact, controllers had no idea whether the harsh environment of space had damaged its systems.
Another unknown was the direction in which the main antenna was pointing. The only hope was that an omni-directional low-gain antenna would detect the wake-up signal.
Two hours later, a weak answer from Giotto was received at the NASA Deep Space Network ground station near Madrid, Spain. Within a week, full control was regained and the ESA team was able to assess its condition.
Three science instruments proved fully operational, while four more were partially damaged but usable. Although the remaining three instruments, including the camera, were disabled, it was decided to redirect the spacecraft towards a second comet, Grigg-Skjellerup.
On 2 July 1990, Giotto's orbit was altered as it flew past Earth at a distance of 22 730 kilometres. This was the first time a spacecraft coming from deep space had used Earth for a gravity-assist.
During the fly-by, observations were made of Earth's magnetic field and energetic particle environment.
After another prolonged hibernation, Giotto's payload was switched on in the evening of 9 July 1992. The Grigg-Skjellerup fly-by took place the following day, about 215 million kilometres from Earth.
Giotto crossed the bow shock and entered the dust coma about 17 000 kilometres from the comet. Aimed directly at the nucleus, Giotto missed by a mere 100 to 200 kilometres — the closest ever cometary fly-by.
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