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Over $30,000 in Purses, Awards Set for Daytona World Championships
Between the Christmas and New Years holidays Speedway Dirt kart racers and teams from across the country will travel to one of our country's meccas for motorsports – the famed Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida – for the big December 27-29 WKA / Tri-State Pro Series Dirt World Championships.
Tagged simply "Daytona Dirt" by many, this event is one of great tradition and history. Once a spectacle like no other in kart racing at the Daytona Beach Municipal Stadium, the event routinely drew over 1,000 entries throughout the 1990s. In fact, just over 2,000 entrants hit the Municipal Stadium limestone in December of 1995, making it the largest WKA national event ever at the time.
But the first half of the 2000s would see WKA's largest entry count record broke again. In December 2003 a whopping 2,258 entries raced at the Stadium and another 2,216 in 2004. The 2003 event's record count of 2,258 entries stands as the greatest attended WKA event in history – likely a record that will never be broken.
Kart racing at the Municipal Stadium ended after the 2005 KartWeek event, and nearby Volusia Speedway hosted the Daytona Dirt event in 2006 and 2007. After 520 entrants in '06 and a disappointing 406 in '07, Daytona Dirt was not included in the WKA KartWeek schedule in 2008.
In 2009 Daytona International Speedway officials reached out to WKA to notify our organization that a brand-new quarter-mile Flat Track was to be constructed outside turns one and two of the superspeedway. The track would be built for karts and flat-track motorcycles. New life was bred into the once great Daytona Dirt show, and WKA and DIS agreed to bring the Dirt World Championships to the grounds of The World Center of Racing – for the first time ever – in December 2009.
The Daytona Dirt show drew fewer than 400 entrants in '09, '10 and 2011, and without the big money racing that dirt racers throughout the country had grown accustomed to, it was clear most Speedway Dirt kart teams would not travel to Daytona Beach – even if the event was at one of the greatest racing facilities in the world – to race only for a trophy and contingencies.
In the summer of 2012 WKA officials began working on a plan to ensure last year's Daytona Dirt show would not only outdraw approximate 350 entrants we'd seen the previous three years, but also revamp the event as once again a major show in east-coast Speedway Dirt racing.
Plans to offer respectable-paying money classes in all age categories began to take shape and officials were anticipating an event that would garner double the amount of racers we'd seen in recent years.
A major shakeup came in September, when WKA and the Tri-State Pro Series' Troy Duncan began talking about what it would take to bring Daytona Dirt back to the limelight. The event had clearly lost its luster, and now promoters and track owners in the South were looking at the dates as a good time to hold events at their racetracks.
Early discussions between WKA and Duncan led to WKA officials Van Gilder and Keith Shampine visiting the Tri-State's 2012 season-closer at Carolina 120 Speedway in September. Discussions heated up, and by that afternoon the announcement was made to the 120 Speedway pit area that Daytona would serve as the 2013 Tri-State Series points opener.
With Duncan's help, WKA soon announced that seven Pro money classes would headline the 2012 Dirt World Championships, none bigger than the $10,000-To-Win Pro Clone class that would close the show the night of December 30.
The buzz for Daytona Dirt was back, and calls for parking began to overload the WKA Office phone lines. Over 450 pre-entries were received throughout November and December and come December 27 and 28, race teams from all over the country filed into the Flat Track pit area and it was clear that Daytona Dirt was "back," at least in some form or fashion.
The best dirt kart racers from up and down the east coast made the trip and some of the best kart racing you'll witness took place December 29 and 30. Fans filed into the pit area for each night's main events, and after three years of average-at-best attendance at the DIS Flat Track, this new version of WKA / Tri-State Daytona Dirt finally began to resemble those huge shows at the Municipal Stadium that so many still clearly remember.
In all 820 entrants made last year's version of the Dirt World Championships the best-attended WKA national event since – believe it or not – the 2,216 entries at 2004 Daytona Dirt.
This year's event is primed to be another big show.
Five-hundred pre-entries has surpassed last year's pre-entry count, and officials are optimistic that the show will out-draw last year's in regard to total attendance.
For the second consecutive year Maxxis / Goldspeed USA Pro Clone will headline Daytona Dirt next Sunday night, paying a big $10,000 prize to the victor. Last year Lawsonville, North Carolina's "Disco" Donnie Nall capped an amazing 2012 season with the big Pro Clone win at Daytona. Nall is pre-entered for this year's Dirt World Championships. Pro Clone will pay back 10 spots.
Kevin Smith Racing Engines Pro Animal will headline Saturday, December 28 action with a cool $2,000 to the victor. Charlotte, North Carolina's Jerry Mullis won the Pro Animal main last year. Pro Animal pays back five spots.
Baker Racing Engines Pro Gas Animal is a new addition to this year's show with $2,000 and a new Briggs Pro Gas Animal engine posted for the winner. Second- through fifth-place will earn a WKA Pro Gas Animal engine kit for their efforts. This class was a hit in 2012 WKA Gold Cup competition and officials are looking to build the class from the ground-up in Speedway Dirt.
The Unlimited All-Stars are on the docket for December 29 action and for the first time at the DIS Flat Track the Unlimited class will offer a purse. WC Equipment & Sales of Pennsylvania stepped up to team with WKA to offer a nice $2,500 purse for UAS. A generous $1,000 will go to the winner and the class will pay back 10 spots. Yamaha KT100 will serve as the UAS undercard Saturday, December 28. Seay Hi-Performance of South Carolina has posted $100 to the Yamaha pole winner.
Ultramax Racing Chassis Pro Gold and BDL Motorsports Pro Junior Clone headline junior class racing at this year's show. Each division will pay $2,000 to the winner and pay back five spots. Pro Gold is open to Junior 3 racers (age 12 to 15) and their mighty gold-plate Briggs Animals, while Pro Junior Clone is open to Junior 1 and Junior 2 racers (age 8 to 12) and their green-plate Clone powerplants.
Three $1,000-To-Win junior classes will run Saturday. Last year Junior 3 racers only had one money class; this year WKA listened to racer feedback and offered a Team Hall's-sponsored Pro Junior 3 Box Stock (Clone) division that will pay a grand to win and pay back five spots. Seeright Racing Pro Junior 1 Heavy (purple Animal) and Slack Karts Pro Junior 2 Heavy (blue Animal or flathead) will each pay $1,000 to the winner and pay back five spots.
Streeter Super Stands Animal Medium and Box Stock Medium will be classes to watch Saturday and Sunday. Many of the same racers who enter Pro Animal and Pro Clone will use the Medium and Heavy Animal and Box Stock trophy classes as warm-ups for the money race.
Streeter Super Stands has stepped up to sponsor Daytona Dirt for the second straight year. A brand-new Streeter Big Foot kart stand will go to the winner in Animal Medium and Box Stock Medium.
Arai Helmet and Butler Built Professional Seat Systems recently teamed with WKA for a three-year partnership. Arai and Butler Built are wasting no time giving back to WKA racers and have posted $50 gift certificates toward the purchase of a new Arai Helmet to all WKA Daytona Dirt trophy class winners.
Go to HERE for the Daytona Dirt entry form, which includes daily schedules, lodging and other important information. Page two of the entry form includes a chart of classes with minimum weight, engine, tire and age rules.
Here is a master schedule of 2013 WKA Daytona KartWeek.
Friday, December 27
Parking for all KartWeek events: 8 a.m.
Dirt practice: 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday, December 28
Sprint practice: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Road racing practice: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Dirt practice in classes: 9 a.m.
Dirt qualifying and races: 12:15 p.m.
Sunday, December 29
Sprint qualifying (heats/features to follow): 8 a.m.
Road race practice: 8:30 a.m.
Road race events begin: 10:45 a.m.
Dirt track practice: 9 a.m.
Dirt track qualifying and races: 12:15 p.m.
Monday, December 30
Sprint practice (heats/features to follow): 8 a.m.
Road race practice: 8:30 a.m.
Road race events: 11 a.m.
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Mexico, Oaxaca, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
|This article describes a collection of historical records available at FamilySearch.org.
Access the records: Mexico, Oaxaca, Civil Registration, 1861-2002 .
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- 2 Record Description
- 3 Record Content
- 4 How to Use the Records
- 5 Related Websites
- 6 Related Wiki Articles
- 7 Contributions to This Article
- 8 Citing FamilySearch Historical Collections
Title in the Language of the Record
Registro Civil del Estado de Oaxaca, México.
Record Description
This collection of civil records for Oaxaca covers the inclusive years of 1861 to 2002..
This is a collection of civil registration records for Mexico. Records, such as birth, marriages, and deaths, are organized by state and then by municipality/city. Earlier records were handwritten in narrative style; later records were handwritten in formatted registers. The text of these records is in Spanish.
Civil records in Mexico cover about 90 to 95% of the population. Beginning in 1859, the Mexican government began requiring births, marriages, and deaths to be recorded by civil authorities on a municipality/district level. Although these records are a great source of genealogical information, they are not complete as civil registration wasn't strictly enforced in Mexico until 1867 and people did not always comply. For this reason, church registers must be used alongside the civil records. The civil records of Mexico have been preserved relatively well. Only some of the older registers may have some physical damage; however, in general they are in good condition to extract genealogical information.
The Mexican civil registration was created to record the vital events of birth, marriage, death, and other civil events, which would determine and prove the civil status, existence, and condition of the population.
The civil registration records of Mexico are a reliable source for doing genealogical research.
For a list of records by localities and dates currently published in this collection, select the Browse link from the collection landing page.
Citation for This Collection
The following citation refers to the original source of the information published in FamilySearch.org Historical Record collections. Sources include the author, custodian, publisher, and archive for the original records.
- "Mexico, Oaxaca, Civil Registration, 1861-2002." Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 2013. Citing Archivo del Registro Civil del Estado de Oaxaca.
Original records are also housed in different municipal archives throughout the state of Oaxaca.
Suggested citation format for a record in this collection.
Record Content
These records usually contain the following information:
- Date and place of the event
- Name of the principal
- Child's gender
- Child's date of birth
- Legitimacy
- Parents' names, residence, and/or place of origin
- Names of witnesses
These records usually contain the following information:
- Date and place of the event
- Names of the bride and groom
- Their civil statuses (widowed, single, divorced) at the time of the event
- Places of origin and residence of the bride and groom
- Names of parents
- Name of witnesses
These records usually contain the following information:
- Place and date of the event
- Place and date of death
- Name of the principal (deceased)
- Civil status of principal at time of death
- Civil status and name of spouse, if married at time of death
- Parents' names
- Sometimes, place of burial
How to Use the Records
To search the collection you will need to follow this series of links:
⇒ Select the "Browse" link in the initial search page
⇒ Select the "Distrito o municipio" category
⇒ Select the "Tipo de registro y años" which takes you to the images.
Look at the images one by one comparing the information with what you already know about your ancestors to determine which one is your ancestor. You may need to compare the information about more than one person to make this determination.
The civil registration records in Mexico are an excellent source for genealogical research after 1867. Important genealogical data can be found in these records, which may also include data of other family members to fill in another generation group.
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When you copy information from a record, you should list where you found the information. This will help you or others to find the record again. It is also good to keep track of records where you did not find information, including the names of the people you looked for in the records.
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Citation Example for a Record Found in This Collection
"Mexico, Oaxaca, Civil Registration, 1861-2002," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-24107-80102-80?cc=1923401&wc=13958856: accessed 30 August, 2012), Zaachilá > Defunciones 1991 > image 200 of 206 images, Angel Martinez Gaspar, 1991; citing Archivo Central del Registro Civil del Estado de Oaxaca, Mexico.


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Local Student Wins at Fort Worth Stock Show
FORT WORTH, TEXAS - CADE JUDE a 4-H member from UPSHUR COUNTY, received the SHOWMANSHIP AWARD in the Junior HEIFER Show at the 2014 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo on JANUARY 26. The 2014 Show is proud to be hosting nearly 10,000 junior exhibitors from across Texas, competing for prizes and $107,885.00 in premiums.
Since 1896, the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo has remained a prominent figure in the livestock industry. The nation's oldest livestock show will see over 28,000 head of world-class livestock roll through "cowtown" between January 17 - February 8. While the show is continually looking ahead, the focus on the livestock industry and our youth is unwavering.
"One of the Show's main priorities is our commitment to the livestock industry and the agriculture leaders of tomorrow," said Brad Barnes, President and General Manager of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. "Junior exhibitors learn many valuable life lessons during their years of showing livestock, which will serve them well throughout their lives. Our Show ensures a progressive future for agriculture by assisting in the development and education of 4-H and FFA students."
The 118th edition of the legendary Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo offers visitors a chance to experience the unique western lifestyle along with a one-of-a-kind combination of history, tradition and Western heritage. For more information and a detailed daily schedule, visit www.fwssr.com. The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo is More than a Game – This thing is legendary.


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On separate promo cards we'll feature one complementary design across the various stocks. This may be a simple illustration or design.
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International students to present their cultures and traditions at World's Fare
Oct. 23, 2013
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Twenty international student groups at Indiana University Bloomington will showcase their countries with an array of cultural displays, international food and traditional performances at the seventh annual IU World's Fare on Thursday, Nov. 7.
The IU Office of International Services and IU Union Board again are partnering to coordinate the event in celebration of International Education Week. Doors will open to the public at 5 p.m. at IU Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St.
Visitors will be greeted by the music of the quartet Amalgama, which will perform vibrant rhythms of Latin America. The group consists of keyboard player Isaac Salazar, vocalist Angel Nickole, conga player Andres Rosa Artis and trumpet player Rick Adjuick. The musicians have performed extensively as members of other musical groups and boast a large repertoire. They will entertain the event's visitors with Latin genres such as merengue, salsa, cumbia, bachata and cha-cha.
International student groups will be showing their creativity through cultural displays. Each booth will represent a different country, providing an opportunity for visitors to become familiar with a number of cultures while interacting with the international students. Performances by the student groups will add to the festivities.
"Having this great event at IU Bloomington for the seventh year not only speaks to the value of global cultures but to the commitment the international student groups have made to continue to bring awareness about their countries and the pride they feel sharing their cultures with the people who attend the event," said Sandy Britton, associate director for international student life at IU Bloomington.
"It's truly rewarding to watch that interaction. We hope that we will see an even larger crowd this year and that people will help us spread the word," she added.
New this year will be a booth to highlight the United States and to showcase its ethnic diversity and place in the world community.
"Union Board is excited to participate in World's Fare again this year because it is one of the only events of its kind on this campus," said Kelsey Padgham, the organization's chair for cultural events. "This program brings value to the IU community by giving students the opportunity to learn about different cultures and their cuisines, history and traditions."
Visitors will have an opportunity to sample and enjoy international food throughout the evening. All recipes were submitted by the international students and prepared by IMU Dining Services staff.
Faculty, staff, students and members of the Bloomington community are welcome to join the festivities. There is no admission fee for IU students who show their university-issued identification card. Non-students can purchase a ticket at the door for $4, which entitles the holder to sample eight different international dishes.
The event will end at 8 p.m. with awards given for first, second and third places to the best performances and cultural displays. The Office of International Services also will introduce winners of the International Student and Scholar Photo Contest.


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1987 Suzuki Samurai - TubezukiPosted in Project Vehicles on August 1, 2005
Andy Moore is one of those guys who we respect a lot. He's a fabricator for a machine shop in Idaho, so we're sure he can weld and bend tube better than we can, and he also has the time to apply those skills to his project while we flounder around trying to get our junk out of the garage. But if you feel the way we do, then you'd be even more amazed to realize that Andy has had this '87 Suzuki Samurai for three years now, and has rebuilt it each and every year.
When we asked why he went with a Zuk, he gave the same answer that many owners of Samurais give, "Cheap and light." With roughly $6,000 in parts and a few months of his own time invested, Andy built a sweet little trail rig. He has upgraded the axles, engine, suspension, and cage work on this little import and was creepy crawlin' all over the slickrock of Moab when we spotted him. In fact, he even claimed there wouldn't be another rebuild before next year, but we'll believe that when we see it. Till then we'll be wrenching and welding on our own Suzuki junk and trying to catch up.
Tech specs'87 Suzuki SamuraiEngine: 1.6L 16-valve four-cylinder out of a SidekickTransmission: Stock Samurai five-speedTransfer Case: Stock Samurai with Trail Tough 6.4:1 gearingFront Axle: Wagoneer Dana 44 with 5.13 gears, Lock-Rite lockerRear Axle: Wagoneer Dana 44 with 5.13 gears, spoolTires & Wheels: 37-inch BFGoodrich Krawlers on 17x9 steel wheelsSuspension: Three-link with Panhard bar and 16-inch Fox Air Shox in the front, three-link with upper A-arm and quarter-elliptic leaf springs, Rancho 9000 shocks in the rear


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Now the new fees have me pissed. My old dual 8-ride system is going away so I'll have to purchase a 4-zone monthly. This ups the monthly payment by $20 and yearly up significantly since there are 2 or more months when I travel much less than the value of a monthly - so I have to go back to managing the account which is a pain in the ass. Also pisses me off that Lawrence is costing me ~$50 a month to cross that zone boundary. Makes me almost want to say fuck them and only do a 3-zone. I don't think I've ever been checked between Lawrence and Sunnyvale.And Caltrain thinks this fare increase will work out OK.
A few things to note.
While Caltrain has noted that 6% or so of their passengers use 8 rides (down from 16% before Clipper), they don't give any real clue as to the nuances of this number. A larger percentage of riders switch to 8 rides a couple of months per year, most notably December where many riders take a week or more off from work. So the total population impacted is much higher than 6% (plus the 10% that were already impacted). And as you can see, this population is not happy.
It also underscores the level of math that riders do regarding the amount of money they spend on Caltrain. The accounting can go down to the nickel. On the other hand, it's a very rare bird that understands "If I drive at 8 AM, I burn an extra half gallon of gas on 101 than if I drive at 11 AM, because of time I spend idling in traffic". The cost of driving is very abstract. We know quite clearly that very few amortize the life of their transmission when calculating the cost to drive 40 miles to Mountain View.
It's less clear, but I theorize it is absolutely true that drivers also have a pretty static view of how much it costs them in gasoline, the one marginal cost they actually consider when comparing driving to public transit. They think "I get X miles per gallon" and "pay Y dollars per gallon". Time spend idling in traffic is neglected, and the price of gas is frozen at an optimistic level. They decide "It costs me $7 roundtrip to drive" and that number rarely changes because they aren't getting feedback from the car that "because you missed the exit and had to circle an extra 5 miles, you burned an extra dollar in gas". But they sure as hell remember every time they forget to tag off Clipper!
With the internal biases in calculation stacked against the use of transit, fare increases like this can be deadly to ridership levels.


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Tibbs family celebrates 14 years at church
PUNXSUTAWNEY — The congregation of the First Church of God in Punxsutawney recently celebrated the completion of 14 years of service for Greg Tibbs as the senior pastor of the church located on Skyview Drive.
Tibbs, his wife Jolanda and three sons — John, Chase and Hunter — have also served the congregation in a variety of ways over the past 14 years.
The Tibbs family was serving at the First Church of God in Cynthiana, Ky., for 13 years when they received the call to pick up their young family and move to Punxsutawney.
Tibbs explained that he and Jolanda have worked as a ministry team, even when they first met at Gulf Coast Bible College, which was operated by the Church of God, and was located near Houston, Texas.
Jolanda, who grew up within a couple of hours of Cynthiana, said that they actually candidated for the position of youth pastor in Cynthiana on their honeymoon.
"We ended up in that area because Greg attended Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Ky.," Jolanda said.
Greg said he that he didn't think about going into the ministry until he attended Gulf Coast.
"I went there just thinking to learn more about the Bible and hoping that God would use me as a more effective Sunday School teacher," Greg said. "When we came here in 1996, our three sons were ages six, four and two. Today, they are 20, 18 and 16. They grew up in Punxsy having had an active role in serving the congregation."
Greg explained that his family came to Punxsy through someone else.
"Someone in Kentucky gave the search committee at the Punxsy church my name, and that was how we were first contacted," he said. "I had prepared by obtaining a BA degree and a Masters of Divinity degree, then in my first six months in Cynthiana, following all of this training and schooling, I was asking myself if could I even do this.
"I asked God to help me because I had all of my eggs in one basket," Greg added.
Jolanda explained that when her and Greg came for an interview at the church, it was one day after the flood of July 19, 1996.
"We spent the night in Clarion, and they told us at the hotel that they weren't sure if we could get into Punxsy because of the flood," Greg said. "People were carrying much of their belongings out and placing them on their front porch. It was like a disaster zone."
He went on to explain how seeing the Living Christmas Tree display for the first time humbled him.
"I couldn't believe they wanted me to be their pastor," he said.
Jolanda pointed out that several of her sons have had members of the congregation help her children grow.
"Several people are responsible for helping my boys become the men they are becoming," she said. "In this congregation, there have been a lot of different people who have wrapped their arms around them, and helped them develop their gifts, abilities and spiritual life."
Greg added that they have been lucky to grow up in the community they grew up in.
"I've said from the pulpit that this church not only treasures its students, but it also trusts them," Greg said. "Not only our boys, but other youth in roles of leadership.
"Having been a youth pastor at Cynthiana, and then becoming senior pastor, I had a full-time associate, but his primary duties were that of youth ministry," Greg added. "When we came here, the church decided to put a strong emphasis on student ministries by hiring a full-time youth pastor.
Greg said he's very happy with what the church has been able to provide.
"As a church, we get to do some neat things that other churches never even talk about," Greg said, citing the Church In The Park event in which different congregations came together at Barclay Square for a service.
"For me that was like wow!" he said. "We're actually working together here."
The Tibbs family is looking forward to many more years of ministry in Punxsutawney.


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The National Association of Basketball Coaches has named Hodzic, the Atlantic Sun Player of the Year, as an All-District 3 First Team member. He was joined on the first team by James Florence (Mercer), Joseph Harris (Coastal Carolina), Artsiom Parakhouski (Radford) and Ben Smith (Jacksonville).
Slater was named to All-District 3 Second Team. He was joined by Nick Barbour (High Point), Daniel Emerson (Mercer), Jonathan Rodriguez (Campbell) and Jamarco Warren (Charleston Southern).
The district teams are voted on by the membership of the NABC. There are 240 players from 24 districts that have been honored. They are all eligible for the State Farm Division I All-America teams which will be announced April 3 at "Bracket Town" in the Indianapolis Convention Center during the NCAA Final Four.
Hodzic was named Second Team Mid-Major All-America by CollegeHoops.net. Hodzic's 22.5 points per game average led the Atlantic Sun Conference this season. It was highest per game average since Mercer's Reggie Elliott averaged 22.6 points per game during 1995-96 season.
Also on the Mid-Major All-American Second Team were guard Shelvin Mack (Butler), guard C.J. McCollumn (Lehigh), forward Kenneth Faired (Morehead St.) and forward Alex Young (IUPUI).
CollegeInsider.com named Hodzic the Most Valuable Player in the Atlantic Sun. Jacksonville's Ben Smith was named A-Sun Player of the Year.


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This document provides you with all neccessary steps to install an openafs server on Gentoo Linux. Parts of this document are taken from the AFS FAQ and IBM's Quick Beginnings guide on AFS. Well, never reinvent the weel :)
AFS is a distributed filesystem that enables co-operating hosts (clients and servers) to efficiently share filesystem resources across both local area and wide area networks. Clients hold a cache for often used objects (files), to get quicker access to them.
AFS is based on a distributed file system originally developed at the Information Technology Center at Carnegie-Mellon University that was called the "Andrew File System". "Andrew" was the name of the research project at CMU - honouring the founders of the University. Once Transarc was formed and AFS became a product, the "Andrew" was dropped to indicate that AFS had gone beyond the Andrew research project and had become a supported, product quality filesystem. However, there were a number of existing cells that rooted their filesystem as /afs. At the time, changing the root of the filesystem was a non-trivial undertaking. So, to save the early AFS sites from having to rename their filesystem, AFS remained as the name and filesystem root.
An AFS cell is a collection of servers grouped together administratively and presenting a single, cohesive filesystem. Typically, an AFS cell is a set of hosts that use the same Internet domain name (like for example gentoo.org) Users log into AFS client workstations which request information and files from the cell's servers on behalf of the users. Users won't know on which server a file which they are accessing, is located. They even won't notice if a server will be located to another room, since every volume can be replicated and moved to another server without user an user noticing. The files are always accessable. Well it's like NFS on steroids :)
The main strengths of AFS are its: caching facility (on client side, typically 100M to 1GB), security features (Kerberos 4 based, access control lists), simplicity of addressing (you just have one filesystem), scalability (add further servers to your cell as needed), communications protocol.
Read the
Openafs main page is at
AFS was originally developed by Transarc which is now owned by IBM.
You can find some information about AFS on
You can get the original IBM AFS Documentation. It is very well written and you really want read it if it is up to you to administer a AFS Server.
# emerge app-doc/afsdoc
You should adjust the two files CellServDB ans ThisCell before you build the
afs client. (These files are in
CellServDB: >netlabs #Cell name 10.0.0.1 #storage ThisCell: netlabs
CellServDB tells your client which server(s) he needs to contact for a specific cell. ThisCell should be quite obvious. Normally you use a name which is unique for your organisation. Your (official) domain might be a good choice.
emerge net-fs/openafs
After successfull compilation you're ready to go.
The following command will create the appropriate links to start your afs client on system startup.
# rc-update add afs default
The following command will install all necessary binaries for setting up a AFS Server and Client
# emerge net-fs/openafs
You need to remove the sample CellServDB and ThisCell file first.
# rm /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell # rm /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB
Next you will run the bosserver command to initialize the Basic OverSeer (BOS) Server, which monitors and controls other AFS server processes on its server machine. Think of it as init for the system. Include the -noauth flag to disable authorization checking, since you haven't added the admin user yet.
# /usr/afs/bin/bosserver -noauth &
Verify that the BOS Server created
# ls -al /usr/vice/etc/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41 Jun 4 22:21 CellServDB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Jun 4 22:21 ThisCell
Now assign your cells name.
Run the bos setcellname command to set the cell name:
# /usr/afs/bin/bos setcellname <server name> <cell name> -noauth
Next use the bos create command to create entries for the four database
server processes in the
# /usr/afs/bin/bos create <server name> kaserver simple /usr/afs/bin/kaserver -cell <cell name> -noauth # /usr/afs/bin/bos create <server name> buserver simple /usr/afs/bin/buserver -cell <cell name> -noauth # /usr/afs/bin/bos create <server name> ptserver simple /usr/afs/bin/ptserver -cell <cell name> -noauth # /usr/afs/bin/bos create <server name> vlserver simple /usr/afs/bin/vlserver -cell <cell name> -noauth
You can verify that all servers are running with the bos status command:
# /usr/afs/bin/bos status <server name> -noauth Instance kaserver, currently running normally. Instance buserver, currently running normally. Instance ptserver, currently running normally. Instance vlserver, currently running normally.
Now we'll initialize the cell's security mechanisms. We'll begin by creating the following two initial entries in the Authentification Database: The main administrative account, called admin by convention and an entry for the AFS server processes, called afs. No user logs in under the identity afs, but the Authentication Server's Ticket Granting Service (TGS) module uses the account to encrypt the server tickets that it grants to AFS clients. This sounds pretty much like Kerberos :)
Enter kas interactive mode
# /usr/afs/bin/kas -cell <cell name> -noauth ka> create afs initial_password: Verifying, please re-enter initial_password: ka> create admin initial_password: Verifying, please re-enter initial_password: ka> examine afs User data for afs key (0) cksum is 2651715259, last cpw: Mon Jun 4 20:49:30 2001 password will never expire. An unlimited number of unsuccessful authentications is permitted. entry never expires. Max ticket lifetime 100.00 hours. last mod on Mon Jun 4 20:49:30 2001 by $lt;none> permit password reuse ka> setfields admin -flags admin ka> examine admin User data for admin (ADMIN) key (0) cksum is 2651715259, last cpw: Mon Jun 4 20:49:59 2001 password will never expire. An unlimited number of unsuccessful authentications is permitted. entry never expires. Max ticket lifetime 25.00 hours. last mod on Mon Jun 4 20:51:10 2001 by $lt;none> permit password reuse ka>
Run the bos adduser command, to add the admin user to
# /usr/afs/bin/bos adduser <server name> admin -cell <cell name> -noauth
Issue the bos addkey command to define the AFS Server
encryption key in
# /usr/afs/bin/bos addkey <server name> -kvno 0 -cell <cell name> -noauth input key: Retype input key:
Issue the pts createuser command to create a Protection Database entry for the admin user
# /usr/afs/bin/pts createuser -name admin -cell <cell name> [-id <AFS UID>] -noauth
Issue the pts adduser command to make the admin user a member of the system:administrators group, and the pts membership command to verify the new membership
# /usr/afs/bin/pts adduser admin system:administrators -cell <cell name> -noauth # /usr/afs/bin/pts membership admin -cell <cell name> -noauth Groups admin (id: 1) is a member of: system:administrators
Restart all AFS Server processes
# /usr/afs/bin/bos restart <server name> -all -cell <cell name> -noauth
Start the fs process, which consists of the File Server, Volume Server and Salvager (fileserver, volserver and salvager processes).
# /usr/afs/bin/bos create <server name> fs fs /usr/afs/bin/fileserver /usr/afs/bin/volserver /usr/afs/bin/salvager -cell <cell name> -noauth
Verify that all processes are running
# /usr/afs/bin/bos status <server name> -long -noauth Instance kaserver, (type is simple) currently running normally. Process last started at Mon Jun 4 21:07:17 2001 (2 proc starts) Last exit at Mon Jun 4 21:07:17 2001 Command 1 is '/usr/afs/bin/kaserver' Instance buserver, (type is simple) currently running normally. Process last started at Mon Jun 4 21:07:17 2001 (2 proc starts) Last exit at Mon Jun 4 21:07:17 2001 Command 1 is '/usr/afs/bin/buserver' Instance ptserver, (type is simple) currently running normally. Process last started at Mon Jun 4 21:07:17 2001 (2 proc starts) Last exit at Mon Jun 4 21:07:17 2001 Command 1 is '/usr/afs/bin/ptserver' Instance vlserver, (type is simple) currently running normally. Process last started at Mon Jun 4 21:07:17 2001 (2 proc starts) Last exit at Mon Jun 4 21:07:17 2001 Command 1 is '/usr/afs/bin/vlserver' Instance fs, (type is fs) currently running normally. Auxiliary status is: file server running. Process last started at Mon Jun 4 21:09:30 2001 (2 proc starts) Command 1 is '/usr/afs/bin/fileserver' Command 2 is '/usr/afs/bin/volserver' Command 3 is '/usr/afs/bin/salvager'
Your next action depends on whether you have ever run AFS file server machines in the cell:
If you are installing the first AFS Server ever in the cell create the first AFS volume, root.afs
# /usr/afs/bin/vos create <server name> <partition name> root.afs -cell <cell name> -noauth
If there are existing AFS file server machines and volumes in the cell issue the vos sncvldb and vos syncserv commands to synchronize the VLDB (Volume Location Database) with the actual state of volumes on the local machine. This will copy all necessary data to your new server.
# /usr/afs/bin/vos syncvldb <server name> -cell <cell name> -verbose -noauth # /usr/afs/bin/vos syncserv <server name> -cell <cell name> -verbose -noauth
# /usr/afs/bin/bos create <server name> upserver simple "/usr/afs/bin/upserver -crypt /usr/afs/etc -clear /usr/afs/bin" -cell <cell name> -noauth
First you need to set some acl's, so that any user can lookup
# /usr/afs/bin/fs setacl /afs system:anyuser rl
The you need to create the root volume, mount it readonly on
# /usr/afs/bin/vos create <server name><partition name> root.cell # /usr/afs/bin/fs mkmount /afs/<cell name> root.cell # /usr/afs/bin/fs setacl /afs/<cell name> system:anyuser rl # /usr/afs/bin/fs mkmount /afs/.<cell name> root.cell -rw
Finally you're done !!! You should now have a working AFS file server on your local network. Time to get a big cup of coffee and print out the AFS documentation !!!
To be done ... For now read the AFS Documentation :)


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For those who have watched a lot more college football than me, where do you rank Travis Long vs. those of his same position? How do you see him being used at the next level.
I watch every WSU game and Travis was a man among boys. He definitely can play in the NFL. He is the best talent each week by far compared to his teammates. I thought he plays better than Chase Thomas and other PAC12 guys. I thought, coug homer coming out, that he was better than Dion Jordan this year.
Even with his injury I feel he's worthy of a mid round pick. I love his motor.
Anyhow, I know very little outside of the Pac12. Your thoughts about Travis would be appreciated.


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|[Gentoo Linux Home] [GLEP Index] [GLEP Source]
|Critical News Reporting
|Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm at gentoo.org>, Stephen Bennett <spb at gentoo.org>, Zach Medico <zmedico at gentoo.org>
|2006/09/05 20:36:38
|Standards Track
|1-Nov-2005, 5-Nov-2005, 7-Nov-2005, 11-Dec-2005, 13-Dec-2005, 18-Dec-2005, 5-Jan-2006, 2-Mar-2006, 6-Mar-2006, 12-Jun-2006, 5-Sep-2006
This GLEP proposes a new way of informing users about important updates and news related to the tree.
Although most package updates are clean and require little user action, occasionally an upgrade requires user intervention. Recent examples of the latter include the gcc-3.4 stabilisation on x86 and the mysql-4.1 database format changes.
There are currently several ways of delivering important news items to our users, none of them particularly effective:
A more reliable way of getting news of critical updates out to users is required to avoid repeats of various prior upgrade debacles. This GLEP proposes a solution based around pushing news items out to the user via the rsync tree.
This GLEP does not seek to replace or modify einfo messages which are displayed post-install. That is a separate issue which is handled by elog [1].
An adequate solution must meet all of the following requirements:
The following characteristics would be desirable:
News items are published and delivered to users as follows:
The following extensions to Portage are required:
These extensions are assumed during the following specification.
Each news item will have a unique identifier. This identifier will be in the form yyyy-mm-dd-short-name, where yyyy is the year (e.g. 2005), mm is the month (01 through 12) and dd is the day of the month (01 through 31). The short-name is a very short name describing the news item (e.g. yoursql-updates), consisting only of the characters a-z, 0-9, + (plus), - (hyphen) and _ (underscore).
Each news item will be represented by a directory whose name is the same as the news item's identifier.
The directory will contain a file named yyyy-mm-dd-short-name.en.txt, which contains the text of the news item, in English, in the format described below.
If a news item is translated, other files named yyyy-mm-dd-short-name.xx.txt (where xx is the ISO 639 [11] two letter country code, and the date remains the same as the original news item) will also be provided. However, only the English version of a news item is authoritative. This anglocentricity is justified by precedent [8].
A news item file is a text file, encoded using UTF-8 [14] for compatibility with and for the same reasons as existing Gentoo documentation [2] and the tree [7].
News items must be signed with a detached GPG signature.:
gpg --armour --detach-sign ????-??-??-*.??.txt
This GLEP does not specify the type or strength of signature to be used, nor does it discuss how, if at all, a centralised keychain will be provided. These issues should be handled as part of the signing policy discussions.
A news item file's content will consist of an RFC 822 style header [13] followed by the main body of the message as plain text. This GLEP defines various optional and mandatory headers. Future GLEPs may propose new headers — tools handling these news items must ignore any unrecognised header.
The following headers describe the purpose and format of the news item:
The following headers are used for filtering:
When performing package moves, developers must also update any relevant Display-If-Installed headers in news files.
The algorithm used to determine whether a news item is 'relevant' is as follows:
In particular, if no Display-If- header is specified, a news item will be relevant for all users.
This algorithm was chosen because it makes conditions like "display this news item for YourSQL users who are on sparc or x86-obsd relatively simple to specify — it is believed that these kinds of condition are far more likely to occur than "display this news item for people using YourSQL, or for people on sparc or x86-obsd" or "display these news items for people who use YourSQL and who are on both sparc and x86-obsd".
The header section must be followed by a blank line, then the main body of the text.
The text body should be wrapped at 72 characters. No fancy formatting or tab characters should be used — the news item may be being displayed directly to a terminal. Paragraphs should be separated by a blank line.
Hyperlinks may be used to refer to further information (for example, an upgrade guide). However, the main body of the news item should be descriptive and not simply a "read this link" text. It is assumed that the user will have access to a web browser somewhere, but not necessarily on the box which is being administrated — this will be the case on many servers and routers, for example.
This hypothetical news item [18] could be used for an upgrade to the YourSQL database format which breaks forward compatibility.
There have been complaints regarding the comprehensibility of some upgrade notices and news items in the past. This is understandable — not every Gentoo developer speaks English as a first language. However, for the sake of clarity, professionalism and avoiding making us look like prats, it is important that any language problems be corrected before inflicting a news item upon end users.
Thus, at least 72 hours before a proposed news item is committed, it must be posted to the gentoo-dev mailing list and Cc:ed to email@example.com (exceptions may be made in exceptional circumstances). Any complaints — for example regarding wording, clarity or accuracy — must be addressed before the news item goes live.
News items must only be for important changes that may cause serious upgrade or compatibility problems. Ordinary upgrade messages and non-critical news items should remain in einfo notices. The importance of the message to its intended audience should be justified with the proposal.
The filtering system means that it is appropriate to send out news items which are aimed at users of an uncommon package or architecture. Thus, the justification should be in the form "this message is important to YourSQL users because ...", not "YourSQL is important because ...".
News items are to be made available via the standard rsync tree. This removes any need for polling of a remote source.
A new repository will be created for news items. The type (CVS or Subversion), location and access controls on this repository are beyond the scope of this GLEP.
A previous draft of this GLEP instead used the main gentoo-x86 tree. This was changed following advice from Infrastructure [12]. Both solutions have the same end result.
This repository will contain directories named yyyy/mm/, where yyyy is the current year and mm is the current month number (01 for January through 12 for December). This separation will help keep news items more manageable.
The contents of this repository will automatically be merged with the main rsync tree, placing the items in a metadata/news/ directory. The method used for merging these items and the frequency at which it will occur is beyond the scope of this GLEP; a similar setup is already used for merging GLSAs into the rsync tree.
The main rsync tree will not use the yyyy/mm/ subdirectory layout. The news item directories will all be immediately under the metadata/news/ directory.
Whenever relevant unread news items are found, the package manager will create a file named /var/lib/gentoo/news/news-${repoid}.unread (if it does not already exist) and append the news item identifier (eg 2005-11-01-yoursql-updates) on a new line.
All news item related files should be root owned and in the portage group with the group write (and, for directories, execute) bits set. News files should be world readable.
Notification that new relevant news items will be displayed via the emerge tool in a similar way to the existing "configuration files need updating" messages:
* Important: there are 5 unread news items. * Type emerge --help news to learn how to read news files.
Checks for new news messages should be displayed:
The package manager does not need to know how to launch the user's choice of news client. This is consistent with the way configuration file updates are handled.
The package manager may use a timestamp check file to avoid having to process news items unnecessarily.
The package manager must keep track of news items that have already been added to the unread list to avoid repeatedly marking a deleted news item. This could be handled via a news-${repoid}.skip file containing the IDs of news items that have already been added to a news-${repoid}.unread file, but this method is not required by this GLEP.
Users who really don't care about news items can use rsync_excludes to filter out the metadata/news/ directory.
Once a news item is marked for reading, third party tools (or traditional core Unix tools) can be used to display and view the news files.
When a news item is read, its name should be removed from the news-${repoid}.unread file. If a news client acts as an interactive reader rather than a gateway, it should then add the name to a news-${repoid}.read file in the same directory with the same file format.
An eselect [3] module shall be created as the 'suggested' display tool; other display tools (for example, a news to email forwarder, which would be ideal for users who sync on a cron) are left as options for those who desire them.
News items can be removed (by removing the news file from the main tree) when they are no longer relevant, if they are made obsolete by a future news item or after a long period of time. This is the same as the method used for updates entries.
It would be simple to convert these news items into the format used for news items on the Gentoo website or posts for the gentoo-announce mailing list.
There is an existing automated tool [4] for posting GLSAs to the forums. A similar tool can be used for these news items.
Backwards compatibility is not a concern here. Existing tools will simply ignore the news/ directory.
A reference implementation of the required package manager support can be found in Paludis [15], along with a reference newsreader implemented as an eselect module [16].
The idea behind notifying users of news updates via Portage comes from Stuart Herbert [17].
Thanks to Lance Albertson, Stephen Bennett, Donnie Berkholz, Grant Goodyear, Brian Harring, Marius Mauch, Dan Meltzer, Jason Stubbs, Paul de Vrieze and Alec Warner for input. Some of the ideas presented here are theirs, others go completely against their suggestions.
|Bugzilla Bug 11359 "[NEW FEATURE] pkg_postinst/pkg_preinst ewarn/einfo logging", https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359
|Gentoo XML Guide, Daniel Robbins et al., http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xml-guide.xml
|eselect modular framework for configuration and administration utilities, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/index.xml
|Forums user GLSA, http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=55648
|(1, 2) Forums thread "Gentoo Apache2 Config Change Idiocy", http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-384368.html
|GLEP 22: "New "keyword" system to incorporate various userlands/kernels/archs", Grant Goodyear, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0022.html
|GLEP 31: "Character Sets for Portage Tree Items", Ciaran McCreesh, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0031.html
|GLEP 34: "Per-Category metadata.xml Files", Ciaran McCreesh, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0034.html
|GLEP 36: "Subversion/CVS for Gentoo Hosted Projects", Aaron Walker, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0036.html
|GLEP 45: "GLEP date format", Henrik Brix Andersen, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0045.html
|ISO 639 "Code for the representation of names of languages"
|"Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting", Lance Albertson, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&m=113111585907703&w=2
|RFC 822 "Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages"
|RFC 3629: "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3629.txt
|Paludis homepage, http://paludis.berlios.de
|news.eselect, http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/paludis/trunk/eselect/news.eselect
|"Favouring an automatic news mechanism", Stuart Herbert, http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/gentoo.php/2005/10/28/favouring_an_automatic_news_mechanism
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Takkata wrote:Can I change the name of the build? I accidentally put in what I thought would be my screen name under the build, I named it "forward/slash" and honestly that doesn't sound like a castle name...
49. Continued. Please send a pm to an admin regarding this. Thanks.
Fraslund wrote:Would a mercenary training school be stretching it too much for the medieval life catergory? I have a great structure, but it would get owned in the misc catergory due to is small size. Totally understand if that doesnt work.
50. This entry would be most appropriate in the misc. category.
gid617 wrote:Are LDD entires allowed? Just asking, because it struck me as though this one (entered in the Medieval Life catagory as "Let's see what you know") was LDDed.
51. The entry you linked to may have been created with an ldraw program. Digital entries (ldd or ldraw) are allowed. Keep in mind that you can only elements in colors that really exist.


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Do you know where to find the world's best quality of life?
Any guesses? You may answer right away or you may be wiser and ask: "Best quality of life depending on what…?!" After all, ranking 192 countries (almost every country in the world) based on their quality of life is not a straightforward task!


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|Unemployment in Egypt
|Unemployment in Egypt
All hail the glorious january revolution... you idiots ruined Egypt for good.... it will never recover once the economy collapses in a few months. Egypt is like a cow that has had its throat cut and is now bleeding and kicking out its last breath as its soul disappearsReplyDelete
Poor economic decisions, corruption and mismanagement over the past 60 years has led to the loss of a generation of bright young men and women.....and the same shit goes on and on.
again we should check the numbers on how it was calculated , do they mean registered business or unregistered , did they count on the national id or the usual economic/ statistical approach , which industries are falling which are thriving . in short a bigger info graph is neededReplyDelete
Unemployment wise Egypt is in a far better situation than European Portugal-Spain-Greece to name a few!ReplyDelete
Egypt has 12.5% unemployment according to UNICEF
Spain is over double that.
USA is 8%
why the panic?
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Suspensions and expulsions in California public schools fell dramatically in 2012-13, the result of schools' deliberate efforts to seek alternate discipline and reduce racial disparities in punishment.
Statewide, the number of suspensions, both in and out of school, dropped 14 percent. But in several Bay Area districts that have zeroed in on alternate discipline, numbers dipped even more sharply. Suspensions were down 32 percent in the Jefferson Union High School District in Daly City, 28 percent in San Mateo Union High, 24 percent in both Mt. Diablo Unified and Oakland Unified and 20 percent in San Jose's East Side Union.
In 2009-10, Jefferson Union posted the state's second-highest suspension rate for black students. Nearly 61 percent, or 3 in 5 black students, were suspended in the school year. The California Department of Education did not release an ethnic breakdown for the figures posted Wednesday.
"I'm pleased with the work the administration has been doing on reducing suspensions and finding alternatives," East Side Superintendent Chris Funk said. He also credited the Santa Clara County Probation Department and Public Defender's Office, which have worked on a discipline initiative at four East Side schools.
Oakland Unified spokesman Troy Flint said that given how the district has focused on overhauling discipline, the numbers were not surprising. "We've moved away from punitive discipline to a restorative justice model," one that emphasizes taking responsibility for the harm done, reconciling the perpetrator and victim, and healing the community.
At the same time, he said, the district still needs to eliminate racial disparities in discipline, with a disproportionate percentage of students disciplined being African-American males.
Statewide, suspensions dropped among almost every ethnic group — 10.8 percent for white students, 10.2 percent for Latinos and 9.5 percent for African-American students.
Among reasons for suspensions, the largest decline came in "willful defiance," a category that civil rights groups have accused schools of using as a catchall reason for handing out discipline.
In addition to total suspensions, the numbers of students suspended also fell by 10.2 percent.
In some school districts, the suspension numbers fell less dramatically. In South San Francisco Unified they dropped 7.8 percent, in Redwood City-based Sequoia Union they dropped 3.2 percent and in Richmond-based West Contra Costa they declined 2.5 percent. San Jose Unified's suspensions fell 0.2 percent, or just four fewer students than the 1,765 who were suspended in 2011-12.
Fremont Union High School Cistrict bucked the trend, with itssuspension numbers growing 38 percent.
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After winning this detestable title for two consecutive years in a row, things are finally looking up for Electronic Arts.
Thanks to A.V. Club, we have learned that EA has been eliminated in Consumerist's annual "Worst Company in America" tournament. EA was actually a first round knockout in the first match of the entire tournament, where it narrowly lost to Time Warner Cable in a neck-and-neck poll. Voting was done via the Consumerist website, where the developing and publishing company has been the reigning champion of being known as the worst company for the past two consecutive years.
EA's first round elimination was most likely a result of timing. During last year's contest, EA was in the spotlight due to the DRM conundrum of SimCity, which forced players to be logged in online in order to play the anticipated simulator. Unfortunately, poor servers resulted in a plethora of players being unable to play it at all for quite some time during SimCity's launch. The year before that, EA was remembered for the conundrum of Mass Effect 3's ending. Given the release of Titanfall, fans have started to forget some of the calamities that have happened during EA's watch.


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When Thompson left manufacturing because of the decline in jobs on the East Coast, he simply thought he would enjoy working on movies, since he had always loved them. So he got in touch with someone who was currently producing "13th Child," a horror film based on the legend of the New Jersey devil, and got hired on as a publicist for the film.
Not long after production started, Thompson met one of the actors starring in the film, veteran screen star Cliff Robertson. The film itself may not have been a huge hit (it went straight to video), but the friendship Thompson sparked with Robertson lasted more than a decade — until Robertson passed away in 2011.
"It was really intimidating for me, being thrown into this environment where I didn't know what I was doing. But suddenly, there I was, face to face with Cliff Robertson," Thompson said. "He was really good to me, helping me through the process [of working on my first film]. We just hit it off. He always found ways to make you comfortable."
Thompson kept in touch with Robertson after filming ended. When Gregory Peck, who was a close friend of Robertson's, died in 2003, Thompson called him to express condolences — and to inquire if he was planning to release a statement to the press. Robertson, who had never had a publicist, replied he hadn't planned on it, so Thompson offered to help him draft one, sealing their working relationship that continued until Robertson's death.
"He was terrific to work with," Thompson said. "Every time I had a question about the industry, he would answer it and he always helped me out when I needed it. Once, a producer was considering me for a film. Cliff called him to endorse me, and not 10 minutes later, I got a call from the producer. He said Cliff's opinion was the gold standard for integrity in the industry."
It's that reputation that Thompson is now hoping to preserve in the annals of film history. Along with director and producer Brian Gillogly, Thompson's next film project will be of a more personal nature: a documentary of Robertson's life, with focus on both his acting and his love of aviation. Robertson, who was born in La Jolla and graduated from La Jolla High School, has starred in countless films and won an Academy Award for his role in the film "Charly," but, Thompson said, there's not much of a record of his life and accomplishments.
"Everyone spoke of what a great guy he was," Thompson said. "Having seen how he affected so many people and because he was so open to me and helped me out, I would like to do a documentary on him. I want to have something to present to his family."
Thompson is still in the initial phases of planning. The project, he said, will likely cost no more than $200,000 — "A lot to you and me, but a drop in the bucket in the industry," he said — and he hopes to crowdfund most of that from funding platform Indiegogo. So far, funding hasn't exactly caught fire, with much of the $9,500 Thompson is hoping to get from the campaign — which ends on May 31 — still unfunded. Still, he said, he hopes fans of Robertson will come out to support the project.
Thompson is also hoping to get support from former colleagues of Robertson's in the form of participation on the film. He plans to feature clips from some of Robertson's biggest films, including "PT 109," "Charly," "The Pilot," "J.W. Coop," "Three Days of the Condor" and "Spider-Man," and he's in the process of trying to get Robertson's co-stars from such films in front of the camera for interviews about their experiences working with him.
"The man was instrumental in my life. He was there for me, and he was there for a lot of other people, too," Thompson said. "I just don't want to see him lost in history. I don't know his granddaughter, but I would like to be able to give her something about how great her grandfather was, and to have something to give to all the people who knew him."
To learn more about the documentary detailing Robertson's life or to donate to the project, visit www.indiegogo.com/projects/cliff-robertson-documentary.


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A young girl in Saudi Arabia was brutally executed by her Muslim father this week after he learned his daughter had converted to Christianity.
Middle East business news website Zawya.com reported that the man, who is a prominent member of a "virtue committee," first cut out his daughter's tongue and held a one-sided religious debate with her. He then burned his daughter alive.
Observant Muslims hold that their Prophet Mohammed taught that Muslims who convert to any other religion must be killed, often in extremely brutal fashion.
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Bruno's Restaurant at 9800 Germantown Ave., across the road from Chestnut Hill College, is currently featuring the photography of Steve Powell, possibly for several months. Steve's first image at Bruno's was a picture map of Wissahickon Valley Park. The picture map shows all of Wissahickon Valley surrounded by dozens of photographs of the famous landmarks that make up the park. The Valley Green Inn, the Indian Statue, the many bridges that cross Wissahickon Creek and, of course, the beautiful natural scenery of the park are all shown in the picture map as small photographic images.
Bruno's owner, Tim Bruno, recently called Steve and said, "There's been an interest in the photos used in the picture map, and people have been asking me where they can get larger versions of these." Tim asked Steve if he would be interested in hanging more photos, and Steve agreed to do it. Now when you walk into Bruno's, half of the restaurant is covered with large colorful photographs of the Wissahickon Valley and Schuylkill River.
One of the photographs, "Crew Team at Dusk," won the Philadelphia Parks and Recreation photography contest and was featured in their annual calendar last year. "That's my daughter, Laura, in the far boat," said Steve. "She was a varsity rower on the Mount Saint Joseph Academy crew team. (She graduated in 2010.) I'm glad I took this picture. I never imagined it would end up in a calendar some day." (Laura, 20, now attends Emerson College in Boston.)
Steve, 57, a software developer and business analyst from Plymouth Meeting, combined his love for the Wissahickon Valley Park and digital photography many years ago. Steve and his wife of 30 years, Vicki, the company controller for a firm in Bala Cynwyd, have hiked just about every trail in the park over the years, and they sometimes bring their cameras.
Steve explained, "One day I went through our entire collection of photographs and realized that with just a few more images I would have a complete catalogue of the most well known features of the park. From there the idea for the picture map came about." The photographs on the map begin at Chestnut Hill College and work their way down the Wissahickon Creek to the Philadelphia Canoe Club, where the Wissahickon meets the Schuylkill River.
The most prominent photo in Bruno's is the six-foot-long photograph of Boathouse Row and the Philadelphia Art Museum taken from the west side of the Schuylkill River with the river in the foreground. It is a composite of over 60 different photos pieced together using PhotoShop to create one long continuous image. It took Steve 60 hours of work to make it.
The image covers a distance of seven-tenths of a mile beginning with the last boathouse and moving to the Art Museum on the right. "This is not a panoramic photo." said Steve. "A panoramic photo is taken by pivoting your camera from a single spot or using a wide angle lens to gain the same effect. This is a continuous photograph in that I changed my position by about 40 yards for each photo. Then I pieced it all together to maintain a consistent perspective of the entire landscape.
"To my knowledge, an image of Boathouse Row has never been done like this before. Maintaining consistent lighting and color balance throughout the entire image is the key. The finished image looks as though it were taken as a single photograph. You can see people along the river and walking around the boathouses. Then down the other end of the image are a bride and groom in the gazebo at the Art Museum. You can easily make them out. This wouldn't be possible with traditional panoramic photography where images disappear into the distance."
Steve is currently working on a continuous photograph of the Stotesbury Regatta. "After spending four seasons on the Schuylkill watching my daughter row, I got to know some of the people who run the events. So last year I had someone take me slowly down the river on a launch while the regatta took a short lunch break. I took about a hundred pictures of the racecourse that runs a mile from start to finish.
"The riverbank on the Kelly Drive side is a mass of humanity during the Stotesbury Regatta, filled with tents, boats, crew teams and thousands of cheering fans. I'm happy with the way the photos turned out considering the boat never came to a complete stop. I had to shoot with a faster than normal shutter speed. Fortunately it was a sunny day, and there was plenty of light which makes faster shutter speeds possible."
Steve's photos will be on display next March in the Philadelphia Visitors Center at Love Park on the Parkway in Center City Philadelphia. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.MaximusPhotography.com.


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Option-U Software
We are an independent software shop that specializes in apps for the iPhone. Our applications combine entertainment with social features. One of our next apps will be a game for the casual market. Another app we have in the pipeline is a client for a social network. We have the ambition to become a major force in this arena.
The name Option-U is derived from the way you enter German umlauts on a Mac: when I want to write the o umlaut in my last name, I have to enter Option-U, then 'o' on the keyboard (http://www.ehow.com/how_9305_umlaut-mac.html).
The o umlaut is a special character in the German alphabet - similar to the letter 'o' but with two dots on it, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_umlaut
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It doesn't have to look exactly like an o umlaut, but it must contain two small dots/circles and a bigger circle.
Ideas we had were three cogs (for example http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thu…stack.jpg), but it's too technical. We would prefer something more friendly. (Two eyes, two wheels, two hands? You decide.) Anything goes as long as you can still recognize the 'O' (to connect with the name Option-U) and it has two small circles/dots in it.
For demonstration, please place the logo and the wordmark next to each other (landscape view) as well as on top of each other (portrait view); both landscape and portrait versions on a black and a white background.
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In last Wednesday's town board meeting, the Weir annexation was approved unanimously, along with the amended zoning map of Mancos. The Weir property is at 250 W. Montezuma and the annexation would zone the property as a single family residential. "I'd just like to get it done," said Ronda Weir. "It's been a long process." The fee of $1,890 for the street impact was waived by the board.
The Mancos Planning and Zoning Commission appointed Gretchen Treadwell to their board, and the Mancos Town Board approved it.
Every year, the town of Mancos sends the Certificate of Compliance back to the Department of Local Affairs that is related to immigration status. In previous years, the board has completed the form, but also sent a protest letter to local, state and federal representatives about the need to do so. The protest letter is quoted as saying, "..we feel it is important to tell you that.we feel it is a sad state of affairs when our state government mandates a law and threatens the town by withholding state funding for valuable infrastructure projects (that have nothing to do with immigration) over a policy that is already in place at the federal level."
The board discussed simplifying the Mancos Community Center rental agreement. Parks and Recreation Coordinator Leslie Hopkins was at the meeting to let the board know that she is willing to reduce the fees to $10 for a Mancos resident or business and a $20 fee for others. Discussion was continued on the use of the kitchen and whether it should be extra. It was postponed until the next meeting.
The town marshal asked for a revision in their vehicle policy to allow them to use their vehicles on personal time. "There have been several occasions where we encountered situations where. if we had been in our police vehicle, we could have helped someone," Bill Knauer, Mancos Marshal said. "I don't have any tools of my trade with me - no radio, nothing. It's also an officer safety issue." He said it would also offer them an opportunity to engage citizens and build partnerships. The board passed an interim measure to allow officers to use their vehicles until a policy gets written and they find out more about it.
The marshal also talked about an alert program called NIXLE. Their office will sign up for it and hopefully have it in place by March 1. "Any resident can sign up for it," Knauer said. "If we have an event and there is a missing child or an evacuation notice, and e-mail is generated and sends out automatic texts to everyone who is signed up."
Knauer also talked about his time at the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) conference the week before. "The benefit was great," he said. He wanted the board to know his position on the bills that are being considered at the state level on background checks for guns. "I support all background checks, no matter where a firearm is purchased," he said. He also endorses a ban on high capacity magazines and feels they should be limited to 10 rounds in a magazine.
In audience business at the beginning of the meeting, Will Stone praised the marshal's office. "We're fortunate to have you guys." He also spoke against the ordinance banning chickens from town and thanked the mayor for getting the survey out so more people could speak up.
Several other citizens got up to speak out against the chicken ordinance, explaining that their chickens were part of their food supply and that chicks were for keeping that supply going.
Bob Becker said that he wanted to thank the board members, the acting administrator and especially Robin Schmittel for their participation in Water 101.
The next board meeting is Wednesday, Feb. 27.