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As you can probably guess, Digger won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.
I cannot thank everybody enough–all my readers and fans and friends–for voting for Digger in the Hugo awards. Thank you all. It's been an honor to throw drawing of wombats at you for all these years. I did not have the slightest notion, when I doodled the first set of wombat drawings, that it would go so far or so strangely or introduce me to such wonderful people as y'all. Thank you.
(Art kindly done by my buddy Egypt Urnash, who does a comic called Decrypting Rita — Not Always Safe For Work!)
Ladies and Gentlemen, marsupials of all descriptions–WE HAVE LIFT-OFF!
We got goals. We got stretch goals. We got art. We got—are you ready? Commemorative hand-forged pickaxes.
(Also foam pickaxes.)
We have video. WE HAVE A KICKSTARTER.
(And I am terrified. Utterly terrified. I have never done anything like this before. Sofawolf is running the whole thing and I'm kinda freaked out and what if it doesn't fund and it turns out people don't really love me and what if it does and it way overfunds and that would be awesome except we have to commission eight hundred pickaxes and the guy making them quits in disgust and I have to learn blacksmithing to fill the orders and I set myself on fire and then I'll be horribly burned and I'll have to wear a Phantom of the Opera mask and we still won't have the pickaxes and the beagle will bay hysterically when he sees me and small children will run away and my career as a children's book author will be over as a result and OH MY GOD PEOPLE PLEASE GIVE US MONEY BUT NOT SO MUCH THAT I HAVE TO LEARN BLACKSMITHING BECAUSE I THINK THAT WILL END BADLY.)
So, uh, yeah. Check it out. I think it's cool.
(I'm scared. Hold me, internet. But not in a creepy way.)
So as some of you may know, Digger got nominated for a Hugo award this year, thanks to a whole lot of seriously awesome people who cast nominating ballots, entirely without me knowing it was even eligible. This was very, very nice of them.
"But Ursula!" you say. "The only thing better than a Hugo nomination is an actual Hugo award! How do I vote for Digger? Can I vote for Digger?"
I'm so glad you asked. Because yes, O reader, you CAN vote for Digger if you so desire—Hugos are a…well, not exactly democratic process, more of a republic, really, because it costs money.
In order to vote for the Hugos, you have to get a supporting membership at Worldcon 2012 (or have had one for 2011, or something complicated like that.) This costs you $50 and you get to vote in the Hugos.
Now, if that was all you got, I would say "Dude, 'Hugo-nominated' still has the word 'Hugo' in it, I don't need to win that bad, fifty bucks is a lot of money, if it's burning a hole in your pocket, please donate it to preserve jumping slug habitat or something."
However, you actually get a lot for the money, because they give you the Hugo Voter Packet. And this includes e-book copies of a whole bunch of the nominees, (including the whole damn run of Digger, in PDF form, as assembled by my enormously talented publisher Jeff) so it works out to a lot of books that are currently in hardcover, a slew of novellas and short stories, some comics—in short, a lot more than $50 worth of content.
Which means that I can say, without feeling too much guilt, "Hey, you can vote for Digger if you want to spend $50 and it's actually really worth it, because you get copies of some of the very best speculative fiction of the year for the money."
So, that's how you vote for Digger if you are so inclined.
If you can't afford to, please feel absolutely no guilt whatsoever, it does not make you any less dedicated a fan, I am just as happy to have you reading as anybody else, and there were many years when I couldn't have spent fifty CENTS to vote on something, let alone fifty bucks, so believe me, I understand completely and please, please, don't apologize.
And if you can afford to, then thank you very much, and if you're not interested in the voter packet, then hey, how 'bout those jumping slugs, huh?
I don't really predict a problem, but on the off chance that everybody predicting a local Snow Apocalypse this weekend is correct, and we get the half-inch of glaze ice and all the power-lines come down, leaving me without internet or heat or Photoshop, that would be the reason for a delayed comic, if it actually happens, which I don't think it will.
Since there's been a huge run on food and everyone is hunkering down, it seems highly unlikely we'll get anything but a faint white dusting, but since I live in a rural area that has been known to lose power for upwards of three days, thought I'd mention it, thereby hopefully heading off any such scenario at the pass.
Due to circumstances beyond our control–coming back from vacation to a fried video card!–Digger won't be starting up again until Thursday. Very sorry for the delay! (Can't really get the art done when the tower is a giant paperweight, alas…)
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Some tools collect data in counts but that isn't a very useful number when trying to understand how much time
- Divide the cycles by the clock rate of the machine in MHz to get microseconds.
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msec = (cycles/clockrate)/1000
For example, on a 2.993GHz machine, a function with 36040 cycles would convert as (36040/2993)/1000, which is 12.04143 usec or .01204 milliseconds.
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Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is an unusually courageous and thoughtful man, one of the few leaders in Britain willing to risk public outrage in order to point up uncomfortable truths. His lecture yesterday in the Royal Courts of Justice was exactly what is needed in the UK now: a challenge to the Positivism which is in gradual… READ MORE >
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A Supreme Court Conversation
Dear Dahlia (for the last time this year):
You are right that opinions are mixed on how significant yesterday's Hamdan decision is. Views seem to range from a ho-hum from the usually very astute Richard Samp of the Washington Legal Foundation (he'd "be surprised if any of the holdings … end up having large practical significance")all the way to … well, I guess all the way to me. My flash assessment that it was "the most important decision on presidential power ever" seems to have come in as yesterday's high bid. Having had a night to sleep on Hamdan, listen to others reactions, and read the morning papers, I guess I should reconsider the "importance" question.
Well, one might ask, what presidential power decision is there that exceeds Hamdan in importance? Quite possibly U.S. v. Nixon, the decision that required the president to hand over tape recordings that turned him prematurely into an ex-president. Another candidate is, of course, Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952), the landmark case in which the court ordered President Truman to return the steel mills he had seized to avert a strike during the Korean War; Youngstown set the standard for assessing claims of unilateral presidential power. Each of those cases, however, was still something of a "one-off." Nixon knew he was breaking the law and hoped not to get caught; Truman thought the steel strike was a special case and did not otherwise act as if he could disregard Congress.
In Hamdan however, the court confronted and rejected a deep theory of the Constitution that had been developed by the incumbent administration and was invoked to justify perhaps hundreds of executive decisions (so many of which seem to be secret we will never even know how many) that at least appeared to violate valid acts of Congress. The rejection of that imperial claim is what is important about this case.
It's not about the military commissions. I think what explains differing assessments of the importance of Hamdan is that different people are all viewing the decision from different levels of generality. And the farther back you stand, the more significant it appears. Up close, it's a case about Mr. Hamdan, or maybe about Hamdan and a dozen others. Whether it makes much difference to them is hard to say. If you look at it as a case about the validity of shortcut military commissions, it looks a bit more significant, but Congress will provide some kind of fix for those commissions.
But that is not what Hamdan is really about. As Marty Lederman of Georgetown Law Center said to me last night, future historians are about as likely to think of Hamdan as a "military commissions case" as they are to think of Youngstown Sheet & Steel v. Sawyer as a decision about "steel mill law." Hamdan is about the OLC torture memo; and it's about whether the president can refuse to comply with the McCain Amendment. It's about all those laws the president says, as he signs them, that he will not commit to obey, if in his view foreign relations or deliberative processes of the executive or other matters may be affected. And, by the way, he won't even commit to tell Congress he is not obeying the law. That is what it's about.
It's been really frustrating to me that so many people—including critics of the president—fail to understand what's at the essence of the fundamental constitutional claim of this administration. Even such an incisive critic of presidential overreaching as Senate Judiciary Chair Arlen Specter puts the issue in a confusing way. At Hearings on Signing Statements at the beginning of Hamdan week he made the concession that, "There is no doubt that the president's constitutional power under Article II cannot be limited by statute."
But almost all—not all, but almost all—of what presidents do in the exercise of their Article II powers certainly can be limited by statute. Certainly, no act of Congress is necessary to enable the president as commander in chief to discipline and punish members of the armed forces. That is surely a "constitutional power under Article II," but it just as surely can be "limited by statute." And it has been for over 200 years with enactments such as the Uniform Code of Military Justice—laws never seriously thought to be unconstitutional.
There are actually only a very few core executive functions that Congress may not touch. But where—as in all the matters we have been talking about—Congress has its own legislative authority, the president has to show how those core functions of his would be jeopardized by complying with the law. And as the court noted yesterday, no such showing was even seriously attempted in Hamdan.
The White House's response to Hamdan was to shrug that it "requires little more than having Congress put its stamp of approval" on the some modified military trial plans or maybe on the existing plan. But that is the whole point of this ruling in Hamdan—to move the president from violating the law to complying with a new law to be enacted by Congress.
A short while back, there seemed to be no stopping the sweeping and untenable assertions of a presidential power to disregard laws that seemed entirely constitutional to me. I had thought we had effectively lost the principle that the president—indeed, the whole executive branch of government—was really required to comply with valid federal laws constitutionally enacted by Congress. Now I think that principle has been not merely affirmed but also re-enshrined. How many cases can be more important than that?
I have really enjoyed this opportunity—although it really is nerve-wracking to write so fast on complicated matters. I don't know how you do it all the time. I have been one of your abject cult followers since you started writing for Slate and changed the way we all thought the court could be covered. You make us laugh while we learn from your keen insights. I now know how Desi Arnaz must have felt while he watched Lucy work her magic.


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S.C. fire officials have lifted the statewide outdoor-burning ban that they imposed Nov. 19, but Lancaster County will keep the ban in effect here until conditions improve.
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Long ago, an army of kids on bikes threw papers onto porches and carports after school. I was one of those kids. Delivering The Lancaster News was my first job, in 1968.
The paper switched to morning delivery 25 years ago, and since then its carriers have mostly been adults with motor routes, supplementing their income from other work.
South Carolina declared a statewide burning ban Saturday, citing the drought and an approaching cold front with gusting winds and low humidity, perfect conditions for fires to get out of control.
State Forester Gene Kodama announced the ban at 6 a.m. and said it would last until further notice. This expanded a ban already in effect in 19 of the Palmetto State's 46 counties. Lancaster had not been part of that earlier order.
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Investigators obtained warrant against Christopher Clevon Feaster, 40, for armed robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, sheriff's spokesman Doug Barfield said Friday.
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The Chester Fire Department responded to the call about 11:30 p.m., with the fire already well under way. Fire Chief Paul Caldwell said the building was a total loss. The fire's cause is still under investigation.
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She remembers wandering through shops and open-air markets with no agenda, browsing to learn. Bougainvillea bloomed. Kiswahili music played. Chickens clucked, and babies cried and laughed.
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Maine deli owner renames "Jane Fonda" sandwich following complaints from Vietnam veterans
WINSLOW, Maine (AP) — A Maine deli owner has changed the name of a sandwich named for actress Jane Fonda after receiving complaints from Vietnam veterans.
Gerry Michaud has served up sandwiches with creative names for more than 20 years at his Big G's Deli in Winslow, including one low-calorie version named after the fitness-conscious actress and activist.
But he's renamed the sandwich after hearing an earful from Vietnam veterans who were upset that Fonda was being celebrated between two slices of bread.
Vietnam veteran John Mullett, of Randolph, told the Morning Sentinel (http://bit.ly/W608tZ ) that veterans hold Fonda in "disdain" for her war protests and a photograph of her sitting on a Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun.
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|Harry James
He was the best trumpet player during the Big Band Era. Harry James
was known for his technical proficiency, amazing high register, and swinging style.
Harry Haag James was born in Albany, Georgia on March 15, 1916 to Everett R. James, a circus bandleader, and Maybelle Stewart Clark James, a trapeze artist. Both performed with the Mighty Haag Circus. By the age of 8, his father was teaching him how to play the trumpet, and at 12, Harry was playing his trumpet and leading the second band in the Christy Brothers Circus.
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His first gig was with the Ben Pollack Orchestra, a nationally known band. In 1936, James joined one of the nation's most popular Swing Bands, The Benny Goodman Orchestra, and performed on the hit recordings of Sing, Sing, Sing and One O'Clock Jump.
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Three years later he was ready to go out with his own band; Harry James and His Music Makers. They took to the stage in Philadelphia and swung the crowd. Shortly thereafter he hired then unknown Frank Sinatra as a vocalist for the group. James also helped launch the career of female Big Band singer, Helen Forrest
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In 1941, James changed the sound of the band from the fast-paced Swing music to Sweet music, which had strings and was more in the style of ballads. The results were immediate; in April 1941 his self-written instrumental Music Makers was in the Top 10, followed by Lament to Love in August. The week of December 7, 1941, You Made Me Love You was in the Top 5, the record that would make him a star.
Opening from the movie "Private Buckaroo" 1942
By 1942, his band was second to Glenn Miller's as the most successful recording artist of the year. When Miller went into the Armed Forces, he handed over the reigns to the popular Chesterfield Time Radio Program to James and his Band.
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Skip to comments.Global Warmings Missing Link: EPA Whistleblower Exposes Agendas Fatal Flaw
Posted on 07/20/2009 6:01:52 PM PDT by neverdem
The Environmental Protection Agency is pushing the greatest regulatory intervention in US history, seeking to declare that carbon dioxide poses an endangerment under the Clean Air Act, threatening human health and the environment. To hear the EPA tell it, CO2 which nonetheless remains indispensible to life on earth and without which plants die, more of which produces higher crop yields, etc. will kill us all.
This proposal is a cornerstone of the Obama administrations attempt to bring the energy sector of the economy under state control just as it seeks to do with health care, essentially ruining something in order to take it over in the name of cleaning up capitalisms mess. Its an old play, which the statists have run for decades, certain that every now and then it will break for a big gain. But an inconvenient EPA career professional just doing his job assessed the premise and informed his superiors, in the sole substantive report presented in the Agencys internal deliberations, that upon scrutiny CO2 clearly does not drive temperatures or climate but oddly enough, the sun and oceans do. His boss told him to shut up, that nothing good could come to their office by injecting this analysis into the process, as the decision had been made.
One problem with that, of course, is that the decision is not allowed to be made before the process has run its course. That is the entire purpose of an internal debate which, internal documents now prove, was truncated and in fact illusory.
For his troubles, this physics graduate of Cal Tech and MIT PhD economist which are why he had his job was subjected to the ritual smear job as unqualified by the thugs running the global warming industry. The nicest thing said about him was Hes not a climate scientist! shrieked by legions of non-scientists nonetheless cocksure of their own wisdom, insight and informed judgment on the matter.
Left unmentioned were the scientific credentials of the EPA administrator, President Obama, and the 535 members of Congress who are tasked with deciding the issue. Hes just an economist! the non-scientists line continued, ignoring that whole physics-degree thing and that, ah, well, the UNs chief climate scientist is just an economist. Again, as the whistleblower Dr. Alan Carlin learned, facts have little weight in this debate. Still, one key truth that Carlin brought to the fore exposes how assuming that sanity prevails in the Senate and Congress is unable to impose cap-and-trade energy rationing his exposé will carry the day in court.
This is man-made warming theorys missing link. The global warming industry and its political enablers have been getting away with an amazing stunt of backing out from the equation inconvenient things which your lying eyes might tell you. Amid the cries of warming proceeding even faster than predicted an actual, common claim among alarmists, politicians and the media observations reveal that the recent cooling has brought us to the average of the entire 30-year history of the satellite temperature record.
Climate changes and temperatures go up and down, thats what they do, so it is surely an amusing coincidence of statistics to see no temperature change following a three-decade-long cooling spell that ended with the coldest decade of the century (the 1970s). To see this as global warming hysteria hijacks the policymaking process of a major economic power is staggering.
The crux of what Carlin revealed is that the alarmist campaign has, through indignant repetition and an absurdly flawed syllogism, substituted man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proxy for temperatures. The disfavored human activity somehow now equates with the weather, a bizarre apples-and-stethoscopes comparison.
To grasp this we need a quick history of the campaign. By the late 1980s global cooling had given way to warming as a vehicle for various types to rally the public around their agenda (the Club of Rome admitted this in its 1991 book The First Global Revolution). This global warming industry coalesced to demand fealty to a strange premise: Mankind would agree to employ the gentle ministrations of national and, preferably, supranational bureaucrats to keep the earths temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial temperatures.
Now, pre-industrial is code for the most cynical statistical cherry-picking of our time, given the approximation with the end of a geophysical phenomenon known as the Little Ice Age, a miserable, cold and cloudy period of crop failure, infant mortality and disease.
This two degree solution didnt last long, thanks to what I can only guess was a nagging fear that the public are aware that temperatures go up and down. It soon gave way to a metric of keeping atmospheric GHG concentrations below a dangerous level, though the UN scientists (economists, whatever) tasked with asserting what that level is refused to do so.
This was never about climate anyway but population, lifestyle, energy use and, above all else, control, so such obstacles were ignored and the industry moved right on to a metric even more convenient for them, GHG emissions. This is the tortured path bringing about the oddity of alarmists citing emissions going up faster than predicted as proving that global warming is proceeding faster than predicted, while temperatures are flat and even cooling. To date, its worked.
EPAs endangerment finding is rife with this absurd non sequitor: CO2 concentrations are going up, Mans CO2 is surely behind this, therefore man is causing climate change. In its finding the EPA, like the UNs IPCC, fail to establish the missing link, that CO2 drives climate. Instead, EPA just points to the IPCC, which in turn simply proclaims the relationship, having itself also never having cited any authority establishing (rather than assuming) that CO2 drives temperature or climate, in the past or now.
While never the subject of a US courts scrutiny, this premise for the entire enterprise will by necessity be a principal focus of any challenge to EPA. It seems highly doubtful that EPA could support such a line of, for lack of a better word, reasoning, particularly in light of Carlins stifled analysis and recent peer-reviewed literature. This will only occur by avoiding the panic-stricken acceptance by industry holdouts of some (they hope) a less-bad deal in the Senate for fear of EPA.
Upon scrutiny, covered industry has no option for long-term survival but to pursue victory. This begins in the Senate, which still lacks the votes to pass climate legislation. Neither peace nor concern is for sale, and industry should not cut a deal. The alarmist industry has never been forced to make its case. The EPA can be forced to make it, and it is unlikely that they can.
I really hope this gets out.... this is such a fool hardy thing.... makes me think of Gore... the one who stands to make millions on his lies...
This is not only an excellent post, but Energy Tribune is great for much of the latest on energy issues. I recommend it to all.
Government poses a clear and present danger to the lives of American citizens.
What they have done through Kyoto appears to have worked...This is a year without a summer in New England...Start creating more CO2 to stop this Global Chillin'...
The evildoers want control over everyones life. If they only knew who they are really serving. They will be held accountable.
Amen! The greatest danger to American lives is from within now, not from without.
The enemy is in the gates —— in the White House.....God help us .....send us men and women of courage to stand up and say NO MORE.
Al Gore lied and baby birds died.
I guess they're gonna start writing tickets for you breathing out CO2 now... LOL...
Its one thing to gripe and complain about these things and disagree with it, but its quite *another* to convince your friends and neighbors and relatives and coworkers...
THEREFORE..., its also absolutely necessary for people to know the information in the following documentary. If there were simply *one* video that you could see and/or show people you know... this would be the *one*...
The following is an *excellent* video documentary on the so-called Global Warming I would recommend it to all FReepers. Its a very well-made documentary.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
If you want to download it, via a BitTorrent site (using a BitTorrent client), you can get it at the following link.
[this is a high-quality copy, of about a gigabyte in size...]
Its worth seeing and having for relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see.
Also, see it online here...
[this one is considerably lower quality, is a flash video and viewable online, of course...]
Buy it here...
[this one would be the very highest quality version, on a DVD disk, of several gigabytes in size...]
Also, in split parts on YouTube...
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 1 of 8)
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 2 of 8)
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 3 of 8)
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 4 of 8)
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 5 of 8)
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 6 of 8)
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 7 of 8)
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 8 of 8)
Obama Justice Department Decision Will Allow Non-Citizens to Register to Vote in Georgia
Ancient Climate-Change Event Puzzles Scientists
In Provo, a call to action against federal climate bill The guy was on the IPCC.
Some noteworthy articles about politics, foreign or military affairs, IMHO, FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.
Tonight my town will break a record low set in 1882.
Thanks for the tip. I recognized the author's name. I was looking for "global cooling" stories.
Thanks for the ping!
Thank you.....will pass this link along.....
We have two problems with the Cap and Trade bill.
First it is based on spurious science - i.e. lies and ignoring of other factors than co2 emissions in temp effects....along with the fact that the temps have been FALLING - cooling for a decade now.....
But second, this bill will DEVASTATE our ECONOMY....and our energy resources.
It must, must, must be stopped along with the Deathcare bills.
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
Thanks for the link!
Thanks for the link.
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Revenge's Ashley Madekwe & Christa B. Allen: Just Jared's 30th Birthday Bash!
Ashley Madekwe and Revenge co-stars Christa B. Allen and Gabriel Mann party it up at Just Jared's 30th birthday bash held at Pink Taco Sunset Strip on Friday (March 23) in Los Angeles.
Actress Zelda Williams (orange dress) chatted up Shameless stud Cameron Monaghan. Also in attendance at the party, which served Singha beer: Game of Thrones star Eugene Simon, Skyler Shaye, The Secret Life of the American Teenager actresses Francia Raisa and Camille Winbush, as well as The Lying Game stars Alexandra Chando, Allie Gonino, and Blair Redford.
Ashley was accompanied by her fiance, actor Iddo Goldberg, and BFF actor Tolga Safer.
FYI: Christa is wearing Katharine Kidd. Ashley is wearing Love Sam.
20+ pictures inside of Just Jared's 30th birthday bash…


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5 Reasons Why Drake's Aaliyah Album Could Work
It's the month for October's Very Own.
While Drake has given us lyrical evidence that he has possession issues, he claims the late R&B songbird Aaliyah like a forlorn lover. Omit the somewhat creepy back ink of baby girl's face and the seemingly half-baked posthumous collaboration "Enough Said" and there may be reasons why these two will make the perfect match in musical heaven on her post-mortem album.


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Core Developer Reference
This page is a reference for Funtoo core developers.
Core developers
A Funtoo core developer is a member of the Core Team who help in the maintenance/evolution of Funtoo Linux.
Funtoo portage tree
A frequently asked question is: "What your portage tree is made of?". The answer lies in a Python script named merge.py present in the directory funtoo/scripts of the Funtoo overlay. Basically, this script:
- Takes a snapshot of the Gentoo portage tree (imported every 12 hours)
- Merges with the Funtoo overlay: the Funtoo historical development overlay (still maintained, the Funtoo overlay contains for example the scripts used to regenerate the Funtoo portage tree)
- Merges with the Multimedia overlay (only one package here -> media-video/mplayer-uau)
- Merges with the overlays maintained by several Funtoo developpers:
- Tarsius overlay (tarsius/Funtoo Core Team)
- Foo overlay (slashbeast)
- Bar overlay (404 error)
- Golodhrim overlay (golodhrim)
A short guide on how to go working with github is available at Git Guide, so everyone new to git, github and CoreTeam should have a look there to get the basics.
When a new core developer or contributor want to share his ebuild repository, he must:
- Ask for having a read-write access on the Funtoo overlay (With great privileges come great responsibilities, do not change something you are sure about, you will be very likely to break things so please ask before act).
- Clone the Funtoo overlay (use firstname.lastname@example.com:funtoo/funtoo-overlay.git, not git://github.com/funtoo/funtoo-overlay.git that later is a public read-only reference)
- Edit funtoo/scripts/merge.py:
bar_overlay = Tree("bar-overlay","/root/git/bar-funtoo-overlay", pull=True) multimedia_overlay = Tree("multimedia-overlay", "/root/git/multimedia-overlay",pull=True) your_overlay = Tree("name-of-your-overlay", "/root/git/name-of-your-overlay",pull=True) steps = [ SyncTree(gentoo_src,exclude=["/metadata/cache/**","sys-kernel/openvz-sources"]), ApplyPatchSeries("%s/funtoo/patches" % funtoo_overlay.root ), SyncDir(funtoo_overlay.root,"profiles","profiles", exclude=["repo_name","categories"]), (.... some lines removed ....) InsertEbuilds(bar_overlay, select="all", skip=None, replace=False), InsertEbuilds(multimedia_overlay, select=["media-video/mplayer-uau"], skip=None, replace=False), InsertEbuilds(your_overlay, select="all", skip=None, replace=False), GenCache() ]
Once the modifications are in place, just push merge.py back to github (and please, again, do that with a core team member on IRC)
# git push origin
Basically you define an ebuild tree object which points to your repository and tell the script:"Select all the content of my package tree, skip no packages and do not replace duplicates if any".
Masking or unmasking your packages
The rule is: "If you update a package which is either a part of the system core or can have a severe impact on the system, please mask it".
This is the case for example of GCC, Glibc, Binutils, autoconf, automake, Python, Perl, DHCPD, NTP, OpenRC. By definition, every package that could make your system unusable after an update must be masked. If you add an optional package that have minor or no impact at all (e.g. an IDE, a Pascal compiler, a multimedia file player...) there is no need to mask the package first.
There are 3 files used in the Funtoo overlay to achive that (see funtoo-overlay/profile/package.mask). By convention:
- funtoo-staging : when a core package is added, its masking must go there. Once the package has been tested enough by the community, its masking statement is removed from that file.
- funtoo-cautionary : permanent maskings should go there. This file is also updated if a package is masked prior to its removal from the Funtoo tree
- sunrise : updated on very rare occasions this file is related to the Gentoo sunrise overlay.
How to edit and commit your changes in funtoo-overlay/profile/package.mask
The way to go
A good practice is to do a git pull before changing anything in the funtoo-overlay/profile/package.mask directory (please do not add any other files there, use only existing ones). This helps to get a clearer commit history and make your and our life a bit more happy. Once this refresh is done you can bring your changes in the adequate files in accordance to the following rules:
- Always put your changes at the top of the list
- Always mention in the first line who you are, your e-mail and the date of the day
- Unless you have a good reason to not do it, please always mask like: >=category/package-revision. E.g. >=dev-lang/perl-5.12.3
- Do not mask the same package several times (i.e. never put more that one line mentioning the same category/package).
# John Doe <email@example.com> (31 Dec 2010) # Masked for testing >=dev-lang/python-4.0 # John Doe <email@example.com> (30 Dec 2010) # Masked for testing >=net-dialup/ppp-7.0.1_beta ...
Stashing and merging your local changes
If you have changed some files before doing a git pull, you will be likely to encounter a conflict when pulling from the GitHub repository:
# git pull Enter passphrase for key '/root/.ssh/id_rsa': remote: Counting objects: 145, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (115/115), done. remote: Total 117 (delta 66), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (117/117), 37.20 KiB, done. (...) error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge: profiles/package.mask/funtoo-staging Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.
To sort this situation out:
- Stash your changes by issuing git stash
- Issue git pull
- Merge back your stashed changes with the current HEAD by issuing: git stash pop
# git stash Saved working directory and index state WIP on master: 7990315 gptfdisk unmask HEAD is now at 7990315 gptfdisk unmask (...) # git pull Enter passphrase for key '/root/.ssh/id_rsa': Updating 7990315..efecb0d Fast-forward app-arch/tar/Manifest | 2 +- app-arch/tar/tar-1.25-r1.ebuild | 2 +- profiles/funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/flavor/core/virtuals | 2 - (...) # git stash pop Auto-merging profiles/package.mask/funtoo-staging (...)
At this point, it is highly probable that Git will report a conflict if another Funtoo developer had also brought and pushed on GitHub some changes:
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in profiles/package.mask/funtoo-staging
Just correct the conflict in the file (see the marks put by Git in the file). Once everything is in order, just commit and push your changes (remember to add a short explicative note in the commit to track down the reason of the change).
Committing your changes on funtoo-overlay/profile/package.mask
A highly recommended way to commit your changes is to proceed in the following order:
- Commit and push the changes brought in profiles/packages.mask
- Commit and push the changes brought in the package tree (in your overlay and/or the funtoo-overlay in itself).
Why? Simple: remember that the Funtoo portage tree is automatically refreshed every 12 hours and this refresh of merging several Funtoo developers repositories on GitHub, the Funtoo overlay master copy (also located on GitHub) and a snapshot of the Gentoo portage tree. At the time you commit, it is not impossible that the refreshment process and you are acting in a concurrent way and the following scenario could occur:
- You have updated some Funtoo core packages (or, worse, a Funtoo critical package) and you commit and push the changes brought either in the Funtoo overlay either in your local repository on GitHub
- The Funtoo tree refreshment process starts and grab the place where your updated package resides and the profiles/packages.mask directory in the Funtoo overlay
- You commit and push your changes in profiles/packages.mask to mask
Not respecting this order could lead to catastrophic consequences for Funtoo users the next time they will resync their portage tree if your package breaks for various reasons or if the deployed software has severe issues that you had not been able to detect on your side.
Things to do after pushing a package (update or new) - IMPORTANT
Advise the Funtoo community
The following is not optional so pay attention: once your bits have been pushed on GitHub, you have to post a notice about what you have updated/added to the Funtoo tree on all of the following Funtoo communication channels:
- the funtoo-dev mailing list on Google Groups
- the funtoo.org Forums
The reason is simple: some of the Funtoo users use the mailing list and some others prefer to use the Funtoo forums and both categories must be reached.
Update the additions/forks pages in the wiki
Depending on what you did, please update the following pages:
- Forked_Ebuilds if you have forked an existing Gentoo package (giving a new revision)
- Specific_Funtoo_Ebuilds if you have introduced a totally new package in Funtoo (not a revision of an existing Gentoo/Funtoo package)


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When students left Coyle and Cassidy High School after the first day of school Wednesday, it was iPads, not books, that they stuffed into their backpacks.
When students left Coyle and Cassidy High School after the first day of school Wednesday, it was iPads, not books, that they stuffed into their backpacks.
"The iPads are pretty much replacing textbooks," Principal Bob Gay said.
The Catholic high school piloted an iPad initiative last year and has now fully adopted the program. Teachers underwent training over the course of a year and a half to prepare for integrating iPads into the curriculum.
"We understand that education evolves, and we have evolved to meet the needs of our students," school president Mary Pat Tranter said. "We live in a digital age."
Some specialized courses will still use textbooks, but most are now digital.
The use of tablet computers isn't all that's new this school year.
Coyle and Cassidy is also acquiring the Holy Rosary Parish Center. The church has been slated for consolidation with nearby St. Jude the Apostle parish.
"Acquiring the Holy Rosary Parish Center gives us space for large group instruction," Tranter said. "I think it will be a real technology-based learning center for us."
The parish center, of which the school hopes to assume stewardship by the end of September, is being fitted with wireless Internet capabilities. It will be able to accommodate approximately 300 students at a time and will also provide the school with a venue for professional development activities, Tranter said.
The school building has also undergone some changes, as anyone passing by will notice. A work crew was onsite Wednesday to install new windows, part of a major science lab renovation. Work on the new science lab, the first of three, is well underway. They will be part of the new Burns Family Science Center on the second story of the high school.
The school's weight room is also undergoing a complete renovation. The capital projects, Tranter said, are funded by private donations, not tuition.
Tuition at Coyle and Cassidy is $8,750, while the actual cost of each student's education is $9,800, she said, explaining that fundraising efforts make up the difference.
"We're committed to making our education as affordable to as many families as possible," Tranter said.
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That's all we have from the commentary desk for tonight. Do join us for the double header tomorrow. The first game will be between Mumbai and Pune at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai at 4:00 PM IST. Goodnight and Tada.
Irfan Pathan: It was not a good feeling hitting my brother for a boundary. Don't want my family to be angry with me. The fast bowler's pace helped me with the timing. I am looking forward to taking more wickets in this tournament and helping with the batting as well.
Irfan Pathan is the Man of the Match for his 42*(20)
Gambhir: Morkel bowled really well. 96 was a par score and Das and Laxmi's batting was a positive from this match. Irfan batted really well and his innings took the match away from us.
Sehwag: Boys did really well. We bowled first after winning the toss and that decision proved to be the correct one. Very impressed with our fielding effort. Finch was playing really well at the start
Irfan: It was God's grace. I was slated to come in at 7. But we wanted a left hander in the middle. Sometimes it is difficult to hit a six, but it came off this time. You need a big over when you are chasing 9 an over. I am happy that my side won, but somewhere down the line, sad that my brother's side lost.
Kolkata managed to put on a competitive score and they even did well to restrict the Delhi batsmen after a good start by the openers. Irfan, promoted to number three, played some powerful shots and took his side home. Kolkata are a good side and will look to come back strongly in the next game.11.1
Bhatia to Irfan Pathan, FOUR, that's the game. 2 points for Delhi. Low full toss on the pads, Irfan Pathan flicks it over the deep midwicket region, a diving effort from Kallis cannot stop the ball from hitting the boundary pad. Irfan has played a blinder. He was 7 from 7 balls at one stage, which means that he has scored 35 off the next 13 balls.
Rajat Bhatia [1.0-0-3-1] is back into the attack10.6
Yusuf Pathan to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, turns this off the pads to midwicket for a single. Delhi need just 2 runs from the last over.10.5
Yusuf Pathan to Irfan Pathan, FOUR, this one had a touch of class! Tossed up on the leg stump, Irfan Pathan comes down the track and makes room, scoops it over the cover region for a boundary. Lovely to watch10.4
Yusuf Pathan to Glenn Maxwell, leg byes, 1 run, once again looks to slog it over the leg side, misses it and one more leg bye added to the total10.3
Yusuf Pathan to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, floats this outside off, Irfan Pathan punches it to sweeper cover for a single10.2
Yusuf Pathan to Glenn Maxwell, leg byes, 1 run, floated up on middle, it turns in and Glenn Maxwell gets forward to defend. He is hit on the pads and the batsmen sneak a leg bye10.1
Yusuf Pathan to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, short and outside off, Irfan Pathan turns it to deep midwicket for a single. Respect for elder brother
Yusuf Pathan, right-arm off break, comes into the attack
These two have picked up 17 runs from de Lange's last over9.6
de Lange to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, flicks this delivery off his pads to the square leg region for a single9.5
de Lange to Irfan Pathan, SIX, Irfan has done it for Delhi. This delivery was full and on middle, Irfan Pathan makes a bit of room and lofts it over the long on boundary. He didn't seem to time it really well and it just manages to clear the rope.9.4
de Lange to Irfan Pathan, 2 runs, another short delivery outside off, another super pull shot from Irfan Pathan. Kallis does extremely well at deep midwicket and sends in a relay throw thanks to Tiwary.9.3
de Lange to Glenn Maxwell, 1 run, bit of inswing as de Lange bowls it on the off stump, Glenn Maxwell had made room and digs it out towards midwicket for a single9.2
de Lange to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, yorker length delivery on off stump, Irfan Pathan squeezes it out to long off for a single. Has a scuffle with de Lange who was standing in his path.9.1
de Lange to Irfan Pathan, SIX, this is exactly the reason why Irfan has come in at number three. Short and outside off, Irfan Pathan pulls it over the midwicket boundary for a maximum. As crunchy as a freshly baked cookie!
Marchant de Lange [2.0-0-19-0] is back into the attack8.6
Kallis to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, gets on the front foot and drives it to cover for a quick single8.5
Kallis to Irfan Pathan, SIX, this time Irfan has connected and he manages to clear the boundary rope. Full and on middle, Irfan Pathan plays the lofted shot over the midwicket boundary and past two fielders who were waiting for the catch.8.4
Kallis to Glenn Maxwell, 1 run, short of length delivery outside off, Glenn Maxwell fails to time the pull, ends up dragging it to long on8.3
Kallis to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, fuller length delivery on middle, Irfan Pathan looks to heave over midwicket, does not connect to it. The ball drops well short of long on.8.2
Kallis to Irfan Pathan, no run, drives it to cover, Glenn Maxwell looks for a single, but the fielder is quick to the ball8.1
Kallis to Irfan Pathan, 2 runs, great effort from de Lange. On a good length and outside off, Irfan Pathan makes room and plays the inside out scoop over cover. He fails to time it and de Lange runs in from sweeper cover, but cannot get to the ball.7.6
Bhatia to Glenn Maxwell, no run, superb over from Bhatia, another slower delivery on the pads, Glenn Maxwell is unable to get bat on that.7.5
Bhatia to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, slower delivery on the pads, Irfan Pathan flicks it to midwicket for a singel7.4
Bhatia to Glenn Maxwell, 1 run, slower delivery on middle, Glenn Maxwell flicks it to deep square leg for a single7.3
Bhatia to Glenn Maxwell, no run, good length delivery outside off, Glenn Maxwell drives it to cover where Gambhir stops it.
Glenn Maxwell, right handed bat, comes to the crease7.2
Bhatia to Sehwag, out Caught by Iqbal Abdulla!! What a catch. This shot was on the cards. Slow and short outside off, Sehwag hoicks it to the left of long on, Abdulla runs and gets both hands to take a stunning catch just inches away from the boundary rope. Sehwag is in disbelief, but he has to go. Sehwag c Iqbal Abdulla b Bhatia 20(13) [4s-1 6s-1]
Bhatia to Sehwag, THATS OUT!! Caught!!
Bhatia to Sehwag. Ranji team-mates and friends since a long time.7.1
Bhatia to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, drives a good length delivery down to long on for a single.
Rajat Bhatia, comes into the attack
Delhi are doing this easily. Vindicates Sehwag's decision to field first.6.6
Kallis to Sehwag, FOUR, Kallis might have seen a lot of Sehwag, but that hasn't stopped him from bowling short and wide outside off. Sehwag goes back and plays his trademark square cut past a diving point, the ball races away to the advertisment hoardings.6.5
Kallis to Irfan Pathan, 1 run, another back of a length delivery outside off, Irfan Pathan pulls it straight to the fielder at deep square leg6.4
Kallis to Irfan Pathan, no run, full and outside off, Irfan Pathan drives it straight to cover.6.3
Kallis to Irfan Pathan, 2 runs, flicks this fuller delivery to fine leg. Irfan calls for the second, but the throw is at the non striker end and if Kallis had taken the ball and hit the stumps, Sehwag would have been out.
Irfan Pathan, left handed bat, comes to the crease
It's Irfan Pathan at number three!!6.2
Kallis to Finch, out Bowled!! Bowling coaches tell their lads to hit top of off or middle stump. Kallis has done just that. Good length delivery on middle, Finch made a lot of room to play it through the off side and missed it completely. He was outside the playing area by the time the ball hit the middle stump. Kallis ends Finch's good knock, but is it too late? Finch b Kallis 30(27) [4s-5]
Kallis to Finch, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!6.1
Kallis to Sehwag, 1 run, short and on the stumps, Sehwag makes room and pulls it down to long on for a single5.6
de Lange to Sehwag, 1 run, another attempted yorker on middle, Sehwag squeezes it out to long on for a single5.5
de Lange to Finch, leg byes, 1 run, that is a snorter from de Lange. Short and on the body, Finch misses the pull and is hit on the helmet. The batsmen take a leg bye5.4
de Lange to Sehwag, 1 run, attempts the yorker, Sehwag takes it on the full and pushes it down to long on for a single5.3
de Lange to Finch, 1 run, works this off the pads straight to the fielder for a single5.2
de Lange to Finch, FOUR, super shot from Finch and once again dreadful fielding from the fine leg fielder. Pulls this short delivery to the right of fine leg and the fielder just does not anticipate it.5.1
de Lange to Sehwag, 1 run, short of length delivery on the body, Sehwag looks to turn it to the leg side. He is on his toes and the ball hits him on the chest. He takes a single, but kneels down in pain.
Marchant de Lange [1.0-0-11-0] is back into the attack4.6
Kallis to Sehwag, 1 run, clears his front leg and mistimes the smash down to long off for a single4.5
Kallis to Finch, leg byes, 1 run, bowls it down the leg side, Finch misses the flick. The ball rolls off his pads and the batsmen pick a leg bye4.4
Kallis to Finch, no run, on a good length outside off, Finch pokes at it and is beaten.4.3
Kallis to Finch, 2 runs, short of length delivery outside off, Finch cuts it, gets an outside edge which runs down to third man. Das does well and saves two runs for his side4.2
Kallis to Finch, no run, this one is angled in from wide of the crease, Finch looks to run it fine, ends up dabbing it to the keeper4.1
Kallis to Sehwag, 1 run, good length delivery outside off, Sehwag plays a square drive to third man, no chance of him coming back for the second.
Jacques Kallis, right-arm fast medium, comes into the attack3.6
Iqbal Abdulla to Finch, no run, Finch wants the single as he paddle sweeps it to square leg, Morkel is quick to get to the ball and Sehwag sends Finch back.3.5
Iqbal Abdulla to Finch, no run, makes room and goes almost to the adjacent wicket, Iqbal Abdulla follows him and Finch defends it.3.4
Iqbal Abdulla to Finch, no run, tossed up on middle, Finch gets on the front foot and defends3.3
Iqbal Abdulla to Sehwag, 1 run, turns this delivery to deep midwicket for a single3.2
Iqbal Abdulla to Sehwag, SIX, and smacks this into the crowd. Just the fourth delivery he is facing, it is on a length outside off, Sehwag smashes it over the long on fielder for a maximum
Sehwag has faced just three deliveries3.1
Iqbal Abdulla to Finch, 1 run, tossed up on the stumps, Finch works it to behind square for a single
Iqbal Abdulla, left-arm orthodox, comes into the attack2.6
Brett Lee to Finch, 1 run, back of a length delivery outside off, Finch guides it to third man for a single2.5
Brett Lee to Finch, no run, flicks this delivery on the leg stump straight to midwicket.2.4
Brett Lee to Finch, FOUR, it's Lee's turn to gift something to Finch. Low full toss on middle, Finch effortlessly flicks it in the gap between mid on and midwicket for a boundary2.3
Brett Lee to Finch, FOUR, terrible fielding from the third man fielder. Short and outside off, Finch cuts it just wide of Das at third man. He slides to his right, but makes a mess of it and allows it to touch the boundary rope2.2
Brett Lee to Finch, no run, back of a length delivery on the off stump, Finch gets on the backfoot and defends2.1
Brett Lee to Sehwag, 1 run, another short delivery on the body, Sehwag jumps up and dabs it behind square for a single1.6
de Lange to Finch, FOUR, this is an even better shot. Short and outside off, Finch gets back and cuts it through the gap in the point and cover point region for a boundary. de Lange needs to get it on to the stumps, especially in the powerplay overs1.5
de Lange to Finch, FOUR, full and on middle, Finch drives it in between mid on and midwicket for a boundary. Such is the pace that he just has to get it into the gap.1.4
de Lange to Finch, no run, good length delivery on the off stump, Finch gets on the front foot and defends1.4
de Lange to Finch, wide, short of length delivery down the leg side, Finch misses the pull. McCullum appeals, but umpire signals wide
de Lange probably has the lowest ratio of length of run-up to bowling speed in international cricket.1.3
de Lange to Sehwag, 1 run, back of a length delivery on the pads, Sehwag works it to fine leg for another single.1.2
de Lange to Finch, 1 run, good length delivery on the stumps, Finch turns it to midwicket and takes off for another quick single. The fielder sends in a throw, which misses the stumps, but Finch was well in1.1
de Lange to Finch, no run, short of length delivery outside off, Finch gets on the backfoot and defends
Marchant de Lange, right-arm fast medium, comes into the attack0.6
Brett Lee to Finch, 1 run, drives it to mid off and scampers across for a quick single
Eden Gardens is still brimming with fans.0.5
Brett Lee to Finch, no run, this one swings in a bit, Finch looks to cut and misses. The crowd gasps.0.4
Brett Lee to Finch, no run, good length delivery swinging away from outside off, Finch gets on the front foot and defends0.3
Brett Lee to Finch, 2 runs, good length delivery on the middle stump, Finch taps it to midwicket. Yusuf misfields and the batsmen pick an extra run. Gambhir is not happy with that effort0.2
Brett Lee to Sehwag, 1 run, short of length delivery on the body, Sehwag tucks it away to fine leg for a single0.1
Brett Lee to Finch, 1 run, fuller length away swinger on the off stump, Finch digs it out to mid on for a single
Finch and Sehwag are at the crease. Finch is on strike. Brett Lee will open the attack
Lee will start proceedings for Kolkata. His country mate Finch will take strike.
98 is the target for Delhi and they will be happy with their effort on the field. Morne Morkel was the star with the ball and dismissed the top order with raw pace. Shukla and Deba Das played useful knocks in the middle but Delhi still managed to restrict them under a 100. Sehwag and co will fancy themselves to chase this down, but Kolkata's bowlers have something to work with. Stay tuned for the chase..
Morne: When you have only 12 overs, you have to think on your feet. It was special to do well today, we wanted to get off to a good start. It is quite tough for the batsmen to come in and start playing shots immediately. Confident of winning today, the outfield it quick and we have some quality batsmen.11.6
R van der Merwe to Brett Lee, out Brett Lee Run Out!! 1 run completed. Umesh Yadav you beauty! What a throw from the deep, Lee swings and hits it along the ground straight to deep mid wicket, he wants to get back for 2 but Umesh Yadav runs in swiftly, picks it up neatly and fires in a flat throw straight at the stumps at the batsman's end. That sums up Delhi's performance, they should be the happier team now. Brett Lee run out (Umesh Yadav) 9(5) [6s-1]
R van der Merwe to Brett Lee, THATS OUT!! Run Out!!11.5
R van der Merwe to Brett Lee, no run, swing and a miss, this was slower and angled in, Lee heaves across but misses11.4
R van der Merwe to Brett Lee, SIX, useful blow from Lee! Could turn out to be handy in the end. Once again R van der Merwe tries to fire it in but bowls a full toss, Lee stays back and blasts it over long off11.3
R van der Merwe to Iqbal Abdulla, 1 run, flighted delivery on the off, Iqbal Abdulla whips it to long on for one
Iqbal Abdulla, left handed bat, comes to the crease11.2
R van der Merwe to Bhatia, out Stumped!! Well bowled and well stumped! Darts it in extremely quick and bowls it very full, Bhatia comes down the track, yorks himself and misses it, Ojha collects it well and catches Bhatia well short. Bhatia st Naman Ojha b R van der Merwe 7(9)
R van der Merwe to Bhatia, THATS OUT!! Stumped!!11.1
R van der Merwe to Brett Lee, 1 run, starts with a low full toss which Lee drives to long on
Roelof van der Merwe [2.0-0-19-1] is back into the attack
Can Kolkata reach 100 from here?10.6
Umesh Yadav to Brett Lee, 1 run, excellent over ends with a single down to long on, just 3 runs and the wicket of Shukla from that over10.5
Umesh Yadav to Bhatia, 1 run, very full and on the off, Bhatia drives it to sweeper cover for one
Brett Lee, right handed bat, comes to the crease10.4
Umesh Yadav to Shukla, out Caught by Nagar!! Umesh Yadav gets his reward for some good bowling. Bowls this fast and in the length, Shukla swings across but mistimes it flat and straight to Yogesh Nagar at long on who takes a simple catch. A good hand from Shukla comes to an end. Shukla c Nagar b Umesh Yadav 26(17) [4s-1 6s-2]
Umesh Yadav to Shukla, THATS OUT!! Caught!!10.3
Umesh Yadav to Shukla, no run, well bowled, well bowled. Sees Shukla making room and bowls it full and wide outside off, Shukla tries to reach out but once again misses10.2
Umesh Yadav to Shukla, no run, swing and a miss! Quick short one on the off stump line, Shukla swings across the line but fails to connect10.1
Umesh Yadav to Bhatia, 1 run, good bowling, maintains it fast and full as Bhatia hits it straight down the ground, just a single
Umesh Yadav [1.0-0-6-1] is back into the attack9.6
Shahbaz Nadeem to Shukla, no run, flat and full on the legs, Shukla looks to heave across but gets hit on the pads, a good finish to the over after the huge six9.5
Shahbaz Nadeem to Bhatia, 1 run, given air again, Bhatia comes on the frontfoot and chips it to long off for a single9.4
Shahbaz Nadeem to Shukla, 1 run, full toss on the off, Shukla blasts it uppishly and right over the bowler's head to long off, gets another single9.3
Shahbaz Nadeem to Bhatia, 1 run, slow and straight, Bhatia half-pulls it to deep mid wicket and brings Shukla on strike9.2
Shahbaz Nadeem to Shukla, 1 run, flatter delivery on the off, Shukla drives it to long off9.1
Shahbaz Nadeem to Shukla, SIX, oh yes, they can if Shukla continues to bat like this! Just listen to the Eden Gardens! "HUGE" says the giant screen, and that's apt description. Goes on his knees and slog sweeps powerfully over deep mid for a massive six
Three overs left. Can Kolkata get to 110?8.6
R van der Merwe to Shukla, 1 run, quicker one on middle, Shukla drills it to long on for a single, retains strike with that8.5
R van der Merwe to Shukla, no run, fired in on the legs, Shukla looks to pull but is hit on the pads8.4
R van der Merwe to Shukla, FOUR, Shukla! That's excellent batting, not a bad ball at all but he has manufactured a shot out of nowhere. Flat and straight on off, Shukla goes deep in the crease and cuts it past backward point for a four, this is turning out to be a good over for Kolkata8.3
R van der Merwe to Shukla, 2 runs, flatter through the air this time, Shukla heaves it along the ground wide of long on, Morne Morkel runs across and dives full stretch to save a couple8.2
R van der Merwe to Shukla, SIX, always tough to hit it over extra cover but he did it well. Makes some room and gets into position quickly, smashes it over deep extra cover and hits it into the stands8.1
R van der Merwe to Shukla, no run, flat and very quick on leg, Shukla looks to play across the line but gets hit on the boots
Roelof van der Merwe [1.0-0-6-1] is back into the attack7.6
Shahbaz Nadeem to Shukla, 1 run, Shukla is lucky to stay there. Given air on the off, Shukla makes room and ends up dragging it high and straight over the bowler, luckily for him it lands right between long on and long off7.5
Shahbaz Nadeem to Bhatia, 1 run, flat and straight, Bhatia works it to backward square leg for an easy one7.4
Shahbaz Nadeem to Shukla, 1 run, floated around off, Shukla slaps it to sweeper cover for a single7.3
Shahbaz Nadeem to Shukla, 2 runs, tossed up on the middle, Shukla goes on his knees and paddles it to fine leg for a couple7.2
Shahbaz Nadeem to Bhatia, 1 run, slowly turning away from the right hander who cuts it to sweeper cover7.1
Shahbaz Nadeem to Bhatia, no run, flighted delivery on the off, Bhatia stays back and defends it
Shahbaz Nadeem, left-arm orthodox, comes into the attack6.6
Morne Morkel to Bhatia, 1 run, short of length and on the off, Bhatia guides it to third man for one
Rajat Bhatia, right handed bat, comes to the crease6.5
Morne Morkel to Shukla, out Deba Das Run Out!! 1 run completed. Madness from Shukla. What was he doing? There was an easy 2 there but he was happy with one. Pulls this between mid wicket and mid on and runs across, Deba Das rightly wanted to get back and hurried across only to find his partner rooted to the crease. The throw goes to the keeper end and Deba Das is stranded in the middle of the pitch. His cameo comes to an end, but probably he could have called better or seen his partner before taking off. Deba Das run out (Finch/Naman Ojha) 18(9) [6s-2]
Morne Morkel to Shukla, THATS OUT!! Run Out!!
Laxmi Shukla, right handed bat, comes to the crease6.4
Morne Morkel to Gambhir, out Bowled!! Chopped on! Morkel's day continues to be a good one. Bowls this from round the wickets and gets it to land back of a length, Gambhir hops back and tries to run it down to third man but only manages an inside edge onto the stumps. Just when Kolkata were dragging the momentum their way, Morkel strikes. Gambhir b Morne Morkel 16(15) [4s-2]
Morne Morkel to Gambhir, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!6.3
Morne Morkel to Deba Das, 1 run, good running, defends this softly to cover and runs across quickly, Maxwell hits direct at the bowler's end but Deba Das was quick
Third umpire called for a run out appeal. Deba Das is the man in question but I think he is in. He is.6.2
Morne Morkel to Deba Das, SIX, Morne has been in superb form today but it doesn't look like Deba Das cares about that. Slower ball on off, Deba Das stands tall and smashes it over long on for another six, the crowd loves it!6.1
Morne Morkel to Gambhir, 1 run, pitched up outside off, Gambhir comes on the frontfoot and drives it to sweeper cover for a single5.6
Glenn Maxwell to Deba Das, SIX, shot! Deba Das is having some fun. Sees the flight and puts his frontfoot forward, lofts it straight over long on for a maximum5.5
Glenn Maxwell to Deba Das, 2 runs, superb fielding by Umesh Yadav now. Once again Deba Das swings across the line and hits it to deep mid wicket, Umesh Yadav runs to his left and dives to save a couple of runs, excellent effort after the drop in the previous over5.4
Glenn Maxwell to Gambhir, 1 run, flat and outside off, Gambhir stays back and pushes it to sweeper cover5.3
Glenn Maxwell to Gambhir, no run, beaten, flighted up outside off, Gambhir looks to guide it to short third man but misses5.2
Glenn Maxwell to Deba Das, 1 run, catch dropped by Umesh Yadav. Flat and short on middle stump, Deba Das goes on the backfoot and slaps it to deep mid wicket, Umesh dives forward and tries to take a low catch but the ball pops out5.2
Glenn Maxwell to Deba Das, wide, too much turn! Spins rapidly from middle to down the leg, good take by the keeper but that's an extra run5.1
Glenn Maxwell to Gambhir, 1 run, flat and outside off, Gambhir goes on the backfoot and cuts it to backward point for a quick single
Glenn Maxwell, right-arm off break, comes into the attack4.6
Morne Morkel to Deba Das, no run, Morne is appealing for a catch but that was off the pad, back of a length and straight, Deba Das hops and the ball lobs off the pads to the man at slip4.5
Morne Morkel to Deba Das, no run, beaten! Pace and bounce, superb stuff from Morne. Gets it to kick off from length and goes past Deba Das' poke4.4
Morne Morkel to Deba Das, no run, short of length and outside off, Deba Das lets it go to the keeper4.3
Morne Morkel to Deba Das, 2 runs, excellent fielding in the deep! Deba Das opens the face of the bat and runs it down to third man, it was heading towards the boundary but Venugopal Rao covers a long distance and dived to stop a couple. Wait, looks like the ball has hit his cap as he dived, but the umpires have not spotted it!4.2
Morne Morkel to Gambhir, 1 run, slower one on the middle and leg, Gambhir works it to deep square leg for one4.1
Morne Morkel to Gambhir, no run, fuller length on the off, Gambhir drives it to covers
Debabrata Das, right handed bat, comes to the crease3.6
Umesh Yadav to Yusuf Pathan, out Caught by Naman Ojha!! Oh dear, Yusuf won't want to look at the replays. That's a pretty ugly looking dismissal - really undone by Umesh Yadav's pace. Back of length and straight on middle stump, Yusuf moved a step down the leg side and looked to evade initially but ended up poking at it with an open face at the last moment, only manages a bit of bat on it to the keeper. Kolkata needed Yusuf to contribute, but he has gone for a duck. Yusuf Pathan c Naman Ojha b Umesh Yadav 0(4)
Umesh Yadav to Yusuf Pathan, THATS OUT!! Caught!!3.5
Umesh Yadav to Yusuf Pathan, no run, hit hard but straight back, gets forward and drives a full ball back to Umesh who does well to get down in time and stop it3.4
Umesh Yadav to Gambhir, 1 run, width outside the off stump again, Gambhir opens the face of the bat and nudges it to third man3.3
Umesh Yadav to Gambhir, FOUR, too full for Gambhir's liking, driven with ease through cover, he holds the key for KKR3.2
Umesh Yadav to Yusuf Pathan, leg byes, 1 run, full and on the pads, Yusuf Pathan looks to flick and misses, the ball rolls off the bads to the leg side for a leg bye3.1
Umesh Yadav to Gambhir, 1 run, good length delivery on off stump, Gambhir taps it to mid off and takes off for a quick single
Umesh Yadav, right-arm fast medium, comes into the attack2.6
Morne Morkel to Yusuf Pathan, leg byes, FOUR, no hat-trick for Morne. He went for the right option - the yorker - but he sprayed it down the leg side, Yusuf got a bit of pad on the way and it raced to fine leg. Eventful over from Morne Morkel comes to an end
Yusuf Pathan, right handed bat, comes to the crease2.5
Morne Morkel to Manoj Tiwary, out Bowled!! And another one! And it was almost a replay - only the batsman changed! Once again a low full toss right at the toes, Tiwary was stuck in the crease and plays a lazy defence but it is too late, the ball crashes onto the middle stump. Kolkata - 12/3. Morne Morkel on a hat-trick! Manoj Tiwary b Morne Morkel 0(1)
Morne Morkel to Manoj Tiwary, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!
Manoj Tiwary, right handed bat, comes to the crease2.4
Morne Morkel to Kallis, out Bowled!! What a ball! Morne can boast about this for ages, he has undone the great Kallis with a brilliant yorker. Fast and straight in the blockhole, Kallis was late in getting the bat down and turns back to see his middle stump uprooted. Great bowling, and Kolkata's openers are already back in the pavilion. Kallis b Morne Morkel 4(4) [4s-1]
Morne Morkel to Kallis, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!2.3
Morne Morkel to Gambhir, 1 run, slow off cutter outside off, Gambhir goes on the backfoot and cuts it to cover, calls early and takes a quick single2.2
Morne Morkel to Gambhir, FOUR, this time he connects! Excellent shot, he backed away a touch and Morne Morkel tried to follow him, but he stayed firm and whipped it away uppishly between midwicket and mid on2.1
Morne Morkel to Gambhir, no run, swing and a miss. Morne starts with a full one outside off, Gambhir stays in the crease and looks to go over extra cover but misses
Morne Morkel, right-arm fast, comes into the attack
Replays in, and I am still not sure whether he got an edge. Chuck it, doesn't matter now anyways.1.6
R van der Merwe to Gambhir, 1 run, this time Gambhir uses the feet to smother the turn, works it to short fine leg and gets off the mark1.5
R van der Merwe to Gambhir, no run, there is a lot of turn in this wicket, spins in from middle to leg as Gambhir works it to short fine
Gautam Gambhir, left handed bat, comes to the crease1.4
R van der Merwe to Brendon McCullum, out Lbw!! As plumb as it can get. Uh oh, wait. Did he get an inside edge? Will have to wait for a replay to confirm that. Nothing lethal about that ball - slow and absolutely straight, Brendon McCullum once again goes back for the pull but it was not short, he misses and is struck right in front of the stumps. That was going to hit the middle stump, but did he get an edge? Brendon McCullum lbw b R van der Merwe 9(7) [4s-2]
R van der Merwe to Brendon McCullum, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!1.4
R van der Merwe to Brendon McCullum, wide, tries the quicker one but fires it down the leg side, good take by the keeper Naman Ojha1.3
R van der Merwe to Brendon McCullum, no run, tossed up on the off, Brendon McCullum comes on the frontfoot and pushes it to point1.2
R van der Merwe to Brendon McCullum, FOUR, superb use of the feet! That's great batting - this was not too short but he went deep in the crease quickly, picked his spot and pulled it away through deep backward square for a one-bounce boundary1.1
R van der Merwe to Brendon McCullum, no run, flat ball turning around off, Brendon McCullum goes on the backfoot and defends it
Roelof van der Merwe, left-arm orthodox, comes into the attack
The powerplay will be for 4 overs..2 bowlers can bowl 3 overs and 3 bowlers can bowl 2 overs.0.6
Irfan Pathan to Kallis, FOUR, poor ball. Can't bowl there in these shorter games - full and on the legs, Kallis flicks it away easily to the deep square leg fence. 9 runs from the first over, good one for Kolkata0.5
Irfan Pathan to Kallis, no run, well bowled, gets a bit of swing and maintains it in good areas on the off, Kallis stays back and blocks0.4
Irfan Pathan to Kallis, no run, fuller length and curving in, Kallis gets forward and drives it to mid on, he wants one but it was never there0.3
Irfan Pathan to Brendon McCullum, 1 run, very full and on the middle and leg, Brendon McCullum comes on the frontfoot and works it to mid on where Umesh Yadav makes a sliding stop0.2
Irfan Pathan to Brendon McCullum, FOUR, action starts. A normal, inswinging delivery around off, Brendon McCullum gives the charge and takes a couple of steps down the track, swings through the line and gets it to the deep square leg fence, good start this0.1
Irfan Pathan to Brendon McCullum, no run, just back of a length and swinging in from outside off, McCullum defends it
Kallis and McCullum are out in the middle. I half-expected Yusuf Pathan to walk out, but he'll have to wait. His brother, Irfan, will start proceedings.
Brendon McCullum and Kallis are at the crease. Brendon McCullum is on strike. Irfan Pathan will open the attack
Delhi Daredevils (Playing XI): Virender Sehwag(c), Naman Ojha(w), Aaron Finch, Glenn Maxwell, Venugopal Rao, Irfan Pathan, Yogesh Nagar, Roelof van der Merwe, Morne Morkel, Shahbaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Gautam Gambhir(c), Jacques Kallis, Brendon McCullum(w), Manoj Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan, Rajat Bhatia, Debabrata Das, Laxmi Shukla, Brett Lee, Marchant de Lange, Iqbal Abdulla
Shah Rukh Khan is walking around the stadium, along with Bengal chief minister Mamta Banerjee. SRK thanks the crowd for their patience - they have been terrific today and are likely to be treated to a cracker of a match.
Sehwag: Rain is always frustrating but we have to accept that, we are ready. I wish all (KP, Mahela, Warner) were available but they are not there today. We'll do our best and hope for the result to come in our favour. Shorter game, so we'll bowl first. We want to restrict them to under 8 runs per over. Good opportunity for other players to get a game and perform.
Gambhir: Excited about the new season and looking forward to it. We were more or less sure about our eleven so the rain doesn't change that. 12 over game, we'll look to put runs on the board and take it from there. T20 is always about excitement and it's going to be even more entertaining today as it is a 12 over match. I know Sehwag well but he knows a lot of secrets about us as well.
Delhi Daredevils have won the toss and elected to field
22:05: Ah, it's in fact going to start at 22:30. And it will be a 12 over game!
Archana Vijaya informs us that the match is likely to start at 22:45 and it might be a 10 over game. Expect some crackers, if that's the case!
21:45: We hear that the next inspection will be at 22:00 IST. The covers are gradually coming off. The crowd is still there, waiting for some good news. Let's hope, for their sake, that play will start sometime.
21:35: We're still waiting for an update.. overs have already started reducing, so we're likely to have a shortened game..
21:09: "Plenty of water on the ground. Start time depends on the outfield, so we hope the match can start. 50% of the ground is still covered so we'll inspect after that. Minimum overs is 5 overs and the cut off time is 23:20. The ground-staff have done a pretty good job. The positive point is that they have removed the cover from the pitch and it looks ok" say the umpires.
20:30: Rain has stopped. The super-soppers are doing their work. The drainage at the Eden Gardens is very good so we will almost surely have a match today. Play can start as late as 23:20 and the teams will play a 5-over a side game if that happens.
20:00 Err.. not good news this time. It is raining, and the covers are still on. The wait continues. We hear that the next update will be in half an hour.
19:51 - Better news. The rain has stopped. The stadium looks filled, and the crowd have been patient..
19:48 It's still raining and it's a bit windy too. Kudos to the ground staff - they've covered the entire ground in no time.
19:35: We're still waiting for the toss. And just as I type that, we see pictures of rain at the Eden Gardens! The covers are on now.. let's hope it is a passing shower.
Kolkata were knocked out in the semi-finals while Delhi wound up with the wooden spoon last year. Both teams will want to get off to a winning start this time around.
Head to Head stats: Both teams have played each other seven times. Kolkata and Delhi have won three times each with one match being washed out.
Two Delhi boys are on the opposite sides of the fence as we welcome you to the second match of the Indian T20 League. It is Kolkata versus Delhi from the Eden Gardens. Gautam Gambhir will be the skipper of the Kolkata team while his opening partner for India, Virender Sehwag, will lead the Delhi team.
Preview by Pradeep
Two Delhi boys will be out on the field for the toss, only that they will be on the opposite sides. Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir have had a long history of playing together. They have joined forces to play together for the Delhi Ranji team, for Team India as well for the Delhi Daredevils. The fourth season of the IPL pitted them against each other with Gautam Gambhir's Kolkata beating Delhi. The match was just an indication as to how the two teams fared as the season wore on. Kolkata played some of their best cricket to finish as the semi-finalists, their best ever finish in the IPL while on the other scale Delhi plummeted and ended up with the wooden spoon, their worst ever show in the history of the tournament.
Delhi Daredevils: The new year has signified new changes in the hierarchy of the Delhi outfit. Coach Greg Shipperd has left, Eric Simons has taken over as the main coach while T A Sekar returns as the mentor. Delhi has changed the face of the side that ended last in the previous seasons with a host of big names being signed in during the auctions as well as the transfer season that followed before and after the mega auctions. The batting has emerged stronger with the likes of Mahela Jayawardene, Kevin Pietersen and Ross Taylor while the sensational new pace duo of India, Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron will be the cynosure of all eyes in the bowling department. To say it in few words, the Daredevils are one team that can be expected to sizzle in the tournament.
Team News: Delhi will be missing all the riches in the first week of the tournament though. Kevin Pietersen and Mahela Jayawardene are away in the middle of the Test series in Colombo while Ross Taylor is nursing a painful injury sustained when his left wrist was broken by his team-mate at Delhi, Morne Morkel during the 3rd Test at Wellington. He is expected to be sidelined for a major part of the tournament. Andre Russell was ruled out of the 2nd and final T20 against Australia with an hamstring injury and Team Delhi will be sweating on his fitness. The Daredevils have enough cover for the star absentees though with the Aussie duo of Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell at the forefront.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Kolkata turned in a new leaf in the 4th season grabbing the headlines for all the right reasons finally. They have a skipper who leads from the front and are aided by the ballistic presence of a man named Jacques Kallis. The strength of the team though lays in the form of its match-winning all-rounders. Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan and Ryan Ten Doeschate form the crux of their middle order with support in the form of Manoj Tiwary. If these riches were not enough, Kolkata will welcome back Brendon McCullum who slots back into the team after spending a year with the now defunct Kochi team. The bowling was their weakness in the last season and the team management has done well to attend to it with the inclusion of the West Indian mystery spinner, Sunil Narine.
Team News: Kolkata have a complete squad at their disposal and will be left with a tricky choice to select only 4 foreigners out of the roster. Brendon McCullum might open with Kallis pushing Gambhir down to number 3. Shakib is most likely to be preferred ahead of Eoin Morgan and Ryan ten Doeschate with Lee and Narine making up the rest. Iqbal Abdulla impressed in the last season and will look at this season with renewed hope and confidence.
I was not expecting to play against him in the very first match. That's the only game of cricket in my life which I don't enjoy. This is a game where I can't handle it: Irfan Pathan is nervous as he squares up against his elder brother, Yusuf.
First time, I saw the vice-captain was dropped after losing. Usually the captain is dropped after losing. I don't understand what made the selectors to drop him: Wasim Akram urges Gautam Gambhir to prove his captaincy credentials by leading Kolkata to victory in IPL 5.
Kolkata Knight Riders (From): Gautam Gambhir(c), Sarabjit Ladda, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Rajat Bhatia, Manvinder Bisla, Debabrata Das, Marchant de Lange, Brad Haddin, Iqbal Abdulla, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Eoin Morgan, Brendon McCullum(w), Sunil Narine, Yusuf Pathan, James Pattinson, Pradeep Sangwan, Shakib Al Hasan, Laxmi Shukla, Ryan ten Doeschate, Manoj Tiwary, Jaidev Unadkat, Chirag Jani, Sanju Samson, Iresh Saxena
Delhi Daredevils (From): Virender Sehwag(c), Varun Aaron, Ajit Agarkar, Robin Bist, Gulam Bodi, Doug Bracewell, Unmukt Chand, Aaron Finch, Mahela Jayawardene, Glenn Maxwell, Morne Morkel, Shahbaz Nadeem, Yogesh Nagar, Prashant Naik, Naman Ojha(w), Irfan Pathan, Kevin Pietersen, Andre Russell, Aavishkar Salvi, Ross Taylor, Roelof van der Merwe, Venugopal Rao, Vikas Mishra, David Warner, Tejashwi Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Travis Birt, Colin Ingram, Manprit Juneja, Puneet Bisht, Pawan Negi, Kuldeep Raval


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ASEM was conceived by Singapore and France in 1994. The first Summit was held in Bangkok in March 1996. The process was created to connect Asia and Europe and help raise awareness between the two regions, coordinate multilateral policies where possible, generate initiatives, open up opportunities for trade and investment and promote the development of civil society networks. Information on ASEM activities can be obtained from the ASEM website.
Initially consisting of the 15 EU member states, 10 ASEAN member states, plus China, Japan, Korea, and the European Commission, ASEM has gradually broadened its membership and today includes a total of 53 partners.
Australia formally joined ASEM at the 8th ASEM Summit in Brussels in October 2010, attended by former Prime Minister Gillard. Since then Australia has been represented at each ASEM Summit and Foreign Ministers' Meeting.
The 10th ASEM Summit was held in Milan in October 2014. Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, represented the Prime Minister at the Summit. During her interventions at the Summit the Minister for Foreign Affairs outlined Australia's G20 priorities, including our efforts to secure sustainable global economic growth. She also raised international security issues, including access to the crash site of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in Eastern Ukraine. The Summit issued a Chair's Statement on the 10th ASEM Summit.
Chair's Statement from the 10th Asia Europe Meeting Summit [PDF 400 KB]
The next ASEM Summit is scheduled for Mongolia in July 2016.
The 12th ASEM Foreign Ministers' Meeting was held in Luxembourg in November 2015. The Meeting issued a Chair's Statement on the 12th ASEM Foreign Ministers Meeting.
Chair's Statement from the 12th Asia Europe Meeting Foreign Ministers Meeting [PDF 190 KB]
Participation in ASEM enables Australia to coordinate responses to global challenges and strengthen our engagement and integration with ASEM partners. It also allows Australia to play a role in broadening links and fostering a more comprehensive partnership between Asia and Europe.
Australia is also a member of the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) – an institution established by ASEM with headquarters in Singapore. ASEF promotes greater mutual understanding between Asia and Europe through intellectual, cultural and people-to-people exchanges. Through ASEF, civil society concerns are included as a vital component of deliberations of ASEM. In the past 15 years, ASEF has implemented over 600 projects, bringing together more than 17,000 direct participants and reaching out to an even wider audience in Asia and Europe.
ASEF projects cover seven broad themes -environment, arts and culture, human rights and governance, economy, public health, education and intercommunal dialogue. Activities take the form of conferences, lecture tours, workshops, seminars, web-based platforms and book, CD and DVD publications.
Australian individuals and organisations with an interest in learning more about ASEF activities can obtain more information from the ASEF website.


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Video: Children Of Gay Parents Speak Out As 'The Outspoken Generation'
Nigel Campbell | July 13, 2013
Gah! Don't make us cry on a Saturday!!
The Family Equality Council program, The Outspoken Generation has released a video in which kids (young adults) raised by gay and lesbian parents speak out in support of their parents and their upbringing.
The Outspoken Generation is co-chaired by the LGBT community's favorite son, Zach Wahls.
Check out what the children of gay parents have to say:
Image Source (H/T: The New Civil Rights Movement)


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