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Almost a year ago I wrote an article about congestion bottlenecks in Brocade switches. I said you should avoid them, because they mean that you probably have no redundancy because of too much workload or you don't use it properly. You can use the bottleneckmon to detect them. On the other hand I cared much more about latency bottlenecks , often caused by slow drain devices... [More]
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outfit post: bows and a backpack
I've decided that when I grow up I must live within reasonable driving distance of the beach. Preferably walking distance if I get my way. I don't know what it is, but I just always feel better when I'm beside a gigantic body of water, and I miss it dearly whenever I'm away from it for too long.
This lovely lake is located in Kelowna, and had such pretty mountains surrounding it. Let's just say that between the lake and all the pretty orchards and wineries...I'm kind of convinced that I could move to the Okanagan. Just sayin'.
Now, onto why we're really here!! This outfit is basically a collage of all my favorite things. Lace, a backpack, bows, a dress, and a pair of oxfords. I'm really not ready to let Summer go quite yet. As much as I do love fall, and all the coziness it brings, I really love the whole "no coat" thing.
dress: Charlotte Russe // lace vest: the garage // backpack: claire's // shoes: shine
Oh yeah, and if you love me....please pretend like you didn't notice my disgustingly white feet. No, I'm not wearing socks. Yes, that's the kind of weirdo tan you get when you're a farmer.
Also, if you think you see a faint boot tan, glove tan, or farmer tan....please don't mention it.
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Postal pride with a dose of rock 'n' roll
Left: Crestview, FL, Rural Carrier Associate Anita Fee prepares the mail at her case before leaving for the street. Fee is able to do on one leg what many people find difficult using two. Right: Twin Cities Public Television videographer/producer Maria Bartholdi attaches a portable microphone onto the coat of St. Paul, MN, City Carrier Georgia Ramin (right), who is the subject of a profile for the award-winning weekly arts TV series "Minnesota Original."
Two strong women who are passionate about delivering great customer service are profiled in this episode of Your Postal Podcast. First you'll hear the story of a St. Paul, MN, employee who enjoys the important role she plays as a letter carrier by day, and is being featured on a local TV show because she also serves as the lead singer in a rock band by night. Next you'll meet a Crestview, FL, rural carrier who is able to deliver the mail to her customers despite having only one leg.
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A University of Chicago Medical Center researcher may have died of the plague last week -- as in "black death," the scourge of Europe in the 1300s.
The medical center says the infection that killed 60-year-old molecular genetics Professor Malcolm J. Casadaban on Sept. 13 may be connected to bacteria called Yersinia pestis that he researched, and which causes the plague.
The medical center says the bacteria he worked with was a weakened strain that isn't known to cause illness in healthy adults. The strain was approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for laboratory studies.
An autopsy found no obvious cause of death but did find the presence of the bacteria. More tests are planned. No other illnesses have been reported.
The university notified Casadaban's family and friends about a potential danger after they identified the bacteria during an autopsy, even though the bacteria would have a limited effect on healthy individuals. As a precaution the Chicago Department of Public Health dispersed antibiotics to them.
The Chicago Department of Public Health says there's so sign of any spread after the possible plague-related death of a University of Chicago scientist.
Officials have said it's unlikely anyone else would be infected, and a Chicago Public Health Department spokesman said Monday the window for that happening is almost over.


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Shhh! It's a secret - City Attorney hides Kendrick Perkins deal
It was supposed to be a secret. In what some might call a wink-and-nod agreement, Beaumont City Attorney Tyrone Cooper's office dismissed misdemeanor criminal charges against NBA star Kendrick Perkins for disorderly conduct and public intoxication and took no position when Perkins filed to have his criminal record expunged – a move that would erase any trace of his conduct and actions toward the Beaumont Police Department inside and outside The Ticket Sports Bar on Aug. 13, 2011.Sources have told The Examiner that in exchange for dismissing the case, Perkins would take an anger management course, although there is no proof that actually occurred because the city is fighting the release of related documents. Court records obtained by The Examiner confirm some type of "pre-trial" diversion, but they do not indicate what the agreement was. The source said the evidence against Perkins was contrary to statements he made proclaiming his innocence shortly after his arrest.
In an attempt to keep its part of the deal, the city has twice refused to release what would normally be considered public information about the case to the local media and others who requested it pursuant to the Texas Public Information Act.
According to information from the Beaumont Police Department, Perkins was arrested after refusing to cooperate with police at the bar on College Street. A BPD sergeant at the scene said, "There were approximately 50 people gathered around Perkins as he was attempting to fight the manager. The crowd was able to push Perkins out the back door of the club where he stopped and continued to yell obscenities. Several officers attempted to quiet Perkins and to get him to leave the property. Perkins continued with the obscenities and was trying to fight several other people in the crowd who were apparently trying to help."
The sergeant decided that because of Perkins' actions toward officers, he would be taken into custody and transported to the Jefferson County Correctional Facility, where he was later released on a $150 bond ($300 total) for each charge.
Earlier in the night, Perkins canceled a celebrity basketball game with area youth, part of his Second Annual Basketball Camp. According to published media reports, he was supposed to be resting after being taken to the hospital the night before while at a party at NBA star Stephen Jackson's house in Port Arthur.
Perkins, a 2003 graduate of Ozen High School, won an NBA Championship while playing for the Boston Celtics in 2008 and currently plays center for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Shortly after being released from jail, Perkins hired Port Arthur attorney Langston Adams to represent him. Less than a week later, on Aug. 18, 2011, Adams met with the city attorney's office to discuss the case and review police videos of the arrest, according to copies of court records obtained by The Examiner. That same day, a gag order was issued preventing any extra-judicial comments from being made about the case.
Court documents filed by Adams and later obtained by The Examiner from multiple sources highlighted the city's apparent desire to dismiss the charges against Perkins.
"Movant (Adams) accompanied by Mr. Perkins met with City Attorney, Tyrone Cooper and assistant city attorney Sharae Bassett," states a document entitled Motion to Withdraw as Counsel filed on Sept. 8, 2011. "At the outset of such meeting Mr. Cooper indicated that he wanted to see the charges against Mr. Perkins go away. However, the public intoxication and disorderly conduct charges against Mr. Perkins have yet to be dismissed. At such meeting movant and Mr. Perkins were allowed to view three of four DVD's capturing audio and video of Mr. Perkins and the events leading to his arrest. Such recordings were made on the motor vehicle recording devices of the Beaumont Police Department."
The document continues, stating that the court should order the videos released to Perkins because they would aide in his defense. It also states that an officer was overheard on the video "taunting" Perkins while he was in the back of a patrol car, and Perkins told Cooper the officer struck him on the leg with a police baton during the disturbance.
Adams said the reason he was filing his motion to withdraw as counsel was because four days after he and Perkins met with Cooper, he was told that his services were no longer needed.
"Why would he need me if the case was going to go away," Adams told The Examiner.
When questioned as to why his office was so adamant about withholding information in the case, Cooper became defensive.
"We are not withholding (anything)," Cooper said. "We had a gag order. It was requested by Langston Adams when he was still on the case. The gag order was still in effect 30 days beyond the date the case was disposed of by the signing of Judge (Craig) Lively. The attorney general said that as long as a gag order was in effect, we couldn't release anything."
But Adams didn't request the gag order.
"Tyrone can say whatever he wants to say because the bottom line is that I never did ask for a gag order," Adams said. "Why would I ask for a gag order when I had just issued a press release for anyone with information to come forward? I did not ask for a gag order. I didn't even know about it. From my understanding, the judge did that sua sponte (on his own accord). I didn't know about it until I got it by fax."
Adams was telling the truth. Beaumont Municipal Court Judge Craig Lively, who, like Cooper, serves at the direction of the Beaumont City Council, issued the gag order in the case. Lively admitted to The Examiner that the gag order was unprecedented, but he was trying to ensure that Perkins received "a fair trial."The gag order prevented attorneys on either side from making public statements about the case, but Cooper took it a step further and used it as a reason not to release documents related to the case, including videos and court documents.
"This is the first one (gag order) I have done," Lively said.
When pressed about whether or not anyone pressured him to file the gag order sua sponte, he said, "no." He also said he was not aware of the negotiations between the city and Perkins. He said he expected the case would eventually go to trial and he was trying to ensure that Perkins was treated fairly based upon evidence to be presented at trial and not as presented in the media. "It just seemed like it was getting so large, so fast," Lively said.
He said it was a coincidence that the gag order was issued on the same day that Cooper, according to court documents, made the statement that he wanted the case to "go away."
"From my standpoint it would be coincidental because I am not in their scheduling of negotiations," Lively said. "Whatever they were doing with Kendrick, that was their deal."
On both occasions where interested parties requested information about the case, the city appealed to the Texas Attorney General's Office to withhold any documents related to the case. At first, Cooper's office argued that the gag order, when coupled with the fact that the case was still pending, meant the AG should rule the information be withheld from public scrutiny. The AG ruled in favor of the city, but when the case was resolved those records would normally have become available. Not so in this case.
The Examiner filed a request for information on Jan. 3, 2012, seeking, "to review all documents related to the charges that were filed and later dismissed against Kendrick Perkins. This would include any supposed 'gag order' in the case."
Additionally, because The Examiner had learned that Perkins was now being represented by Sean Samuel, the son of Beaumont City Councilman Audwin Samuel, all e-mails and correspondence between City Council members and the city attorney's office were also requested.
Rather than release any information, including the disposition of the case, Cooper's office again requested an opinion from the Texas attorney general, which is now being challenged by The Examiner. A review of the letter sent to the attorney general revealed Cooper's office left out key elements of the case, specifically that a city councilman's son is now representing Perkins and the fact that the gag order has expired.
Additionally, Cooper's office filed a motion seeking sanctions against Adams for allegedly violating the gag order when he included information about the meeting with the city in his motion to withdraw.
"Mr. Adams' motion to withdraw was clearly drafted by Mr. Adams with full intent to have it published by news media," states the motion for sanctions filed by Bassett. "Rather than just noting that he was withdrawing, Mr. Adams included a full page and a portion of the second page rambling about matters, much of which is wrong, that have no bearing on his withdrawal, but would provide salacious information to the news media."
Judge Lively later denied the city's motion for sanctions, which asked that he fine Adam $2,000, deny him the right to practice in municipal court for a year and "notify the State Bar of Texas regarding Mr. Adams' unethical conduct, along with a transcript, so that the State Bar of Texas may take the appropriate action against Mr. Adams' license."
Adams, who made a name for himself by representing Derrick Newman in an official oppression case against the Beaumont Police Department, said he was upset because the city attorney's office tried to take away his livelihood.
"They were trying to hurt my career," he said. "That was a frivolous motion, and it was filed because the city was upset with me because of the wording of my motion where he (Cooper) said he wanted to see this case 'quietly go away.'"
When it was pointed out that Perkins' case was now dismissed, Cooper said his office wouldn't release information about the case because Perkins was now seeking to
have his record expunged of the arrest. He claimed the expunction would be considered pending litigation in his office's letter to the attorney general.
"An expunction, as soon as, well, very shortly after (Judge) Lively signed his order of disposition, an expunction was filed, a petition for expunction," Cooper said. "We are not sure what to do in the face of an expunction. Some consider it to be pending litigation. We don't know."
The request by Cooper's office for a ruling from the attorney general filed on Jan. 17, 2012, included the date of the expunction hearing – Jan. 25, 2012 – just a week later. Because it takes about 45 days for the attorney general to rule on a request, once the expunction was ultimately granted, the ruling from the attorney general would be moot because the records would have been destroyed.
That left little time to try and delay the expunction hearing, so a reporter with The Examiner filed a motion in Jefferson County Criminal District Judge Layne Walker's court explaining the circumstances, asking the judge to delay his ruling until the attorney general could decide whether the records should be released. Walker granted the motion for delay.
"Cooper was playing a game with you guys and that's chicken sh##," said one local attorney, when it was discovered that The Examiner successfully filed a motion to delay the expunction hearing. "He hoped the record would be expunged so the record wouldn't be able to be released."
An objection was also filed with the attorney general requesting that the city be required to make all public documents in the case available for inspection.
When asked about his involvement in the case and any potential conflict related to his son, with whom he shares his law practice, Audwin Samuel said he had not discussed the case with his son.
"That is not something we talk about," he said, adding that it was OK for his son to have cases in municipal court. "We have an opinion from the AG that there isn't a conflict."
Sean Samuel said he understood there could be conflicts at times regarding his work related to the city but his work in this case shouldn't be an issue. He said he is only handling Perkins' expunction and was not involved with the case when Perkins was facing misdemeanor charges at the city level.
Because Cooper has refused to release any documents in the case, it is impossible to know who filed subsequent motions in Perkins' case or who represented him when it was ultimately dismissed.
Other members of the Beaumont City Council, including Alan Coleman, Mayor Becky Ames and Mike Getz, said they would have to find out more information about the case before they could make a detailed comment.
"I believe we should be transparent, and I don't agree with backroom deals," Getz said.
Getz also confirmed that when he was facing a Class C misdemeanor on a similar charge brought by the Beaumont Independent School District in municipal court, he was not afforded any special treatment and no gag order was issued in the case.
With regards to the alleged use of force by officers at the scene and the statement about Perkins being taunted by a BPD officer, Chief of Police Jimmy Singletary said he would look into the case further. He said the incident occurred before he became the chief, but he wants to know when, and if, his officers act inappropriately. He said it was important that people be held accountable for their actions, and that included his officers.
Attempts to reach Perkins for comment through media representatives at the Oklahoma City Thunder were unsuccessful, and his former sports agent, Denise White, who issued a statement defending Perkins at the time of his arrest, said she was no longer employed by Perkins.


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Verbeek family name
Verbeek (Verbeeck), a rather common Dutch family name both Mennonite and non-Mennonite. Joos(t) Verbeeck (Joos de Cruysere), a Mennonite elder, suffered martyrdom at Antwerp, Belgium in 1561. In the 17th and 18th centuries there were a number of Verbee(c)ks in both the Lamist and Zonist congregations of Amsterdam. They very likely stemmed from Mennonites who had left Flanders because of persecution ca. 1580. In Amsterdam the Verbe(c)ks were outstanding businessmen. Some of them served as deacons. Since the early 19th century there have been no Verbeeks among the Amsterdam Mennonites.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Verbeek family name." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 19 Oct 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Verbeek_family_name&oldid=133336.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1959). Verbeek family name. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 19 October 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Verbeek_family_name&oldid=133336.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 809. All rights reserved.
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About Cali Swag District
Cali Swag District are part of L.A.'s jerkin' movement, a hybrid of imported Southern swag, Bay Area hyphy, skater culture and underground dance styles. The quartet includes Yung, Smoove Da General, JayAre and M-Bone. They formed at Morningside High School in Inglewood, Calif., and their shows at various high schools and import car shows around the Los Angeles area got them noticed by Checkmate Music Group. A subsequent first single, "Teach Me How to Dougie," riffed on a popular dance in Texas and was successful enough to earn Cali Swag District a deal with Capitol Records. With "Teach Me How to Dougie" hitting the national singles charts, the group scheduled a debut album for 2011, The Kickback. Sadly, M-Bone was killed in a drive-by shooting that May.
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Yesterday I printed the calibration panels supplied in the installation folders and wondered why my laser printer printed them slightly rasterized. I used the PDF-files in different sizes. Today I had the idea to open the PDF files in Adobe illustrator to check the color and I was surprised that the dots where not 100% black but ~85% Cyan, 78% Magenta, 61% Yellow and 96% Black. in RGB mode it was R-G-B: 10-0-0 and in grayscale 98,82%. As soon as I edited the dots to 100% black they printed solid.
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The gel texture gives an extreme lacquered shine and an ideal level of fluidity for perfect control and great ease of application.
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Hey OPE forum members!
I am currently working on a "classic patch", but there's a flaw; I am more of an in-game editor... I don't use images, kitservers etc. So, the problem is:
1) I can not change the National Teams' names. I mean, I don't know how to do it... There's this PESFan Editor that allows you to edit the Club Teams' names...
2) I do not know how to make the licensed kits to "vanish", so I can edit the strips the way I want (e.g. Chelsea has been replaced by a Liverpool '70s squad, can't remember which one).
Your help is really crucial and, as a reward, I am willing to include you in my credits!
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Main forum for PES editing.
Main forum for PES editing.
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I've found this: https://forums.pesfan.com/showthread.ph ... ost3592832
If you import an unlicensed team over a licensed team, eg Aston Villa over Arsenal, this will enable you to edit kits. Then you can easy edit your new Aston Villa (team name, stadium etc) and edit the kits through the main game's edit screen.
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Mountain Hardwear Epic Pant
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I was looking for a lightweight windproof/waterproof…
Fabric: Conduit Silk Laminate
Price Paid: $80
I was looking for a lightweight windproof/waterproof jacket and pant, and I went to my local outdoor store and they recommended these.
At first, I was a bit weary with the build quality because it is very thin and very light, but trust me, do not worry about this because I took the combination skiing with me as my outermost layer and it did excellent, even though I had a couple big tumbles (let's face it, who doesn't).
One of the things that I love about this product is that on the pant, at the bottom there is about 5 inches of zipper and velcro, so you can get it over ski boots or other bulky things. Another thing is that this fits very well over other clothing. When I go to school in the morning, I put this over my sweatshirt as another layer, and it keeps me nice and toasty warm. So I can wear my sweatshirt around campus and when I get ready to leave, I get it out of my locker.
About the waterproofness, I was stuck in a monumental downpour a couple of weeks ago, and I was dry as a bone. The breathability is great, it has pit zips. Everything about this jacket/pant combo is great, and they look very good together!
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|FreeBSD General Other questions regarding FreeBSD which do not fit in any of the categories below.
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FreeBSD as a desktop - Thoughts..
Hi to all
I am using exclusivelly FreeBSD as my main home desktop system since 2004 (that year I had totally removed any Windows/Linux partitions of my disks )
I was lucky that I have FreeBSD-compatible hardware so I did not faced many difficulties with the setup and all the pieces of my hardware is working fine.
After four years of this experience, I have concluded that there are many *important* features missing and nobody AFAIK devoted enough time or money for them. IMHO the lack of these features are preventing the most of the people to use FreeBSD as a main deskop system and force them to use Linux:
Very important:
- Lack of native adobe flash player
- Lack of full 3d-accelerated video drivers with the exception of the nvidia 32bit
- Lack of suspend-to-ram - with minor exceptions
- Lack of suspend-to-disk
- Lack of tv/video card-related framework
I think that FreeBSD Foundation must pay attention to this, except the Java devotion.
What do you think?
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I would agree with the entries in your "very important" category, and add a decent virtual machine (Virtual Box would be a good candidate) and improving the linuxulator. The latter is important because all of the commercial desktop software runs only on Linux, and the emulation layer is pretty stale.
Those things you list as "important" are not to me, personally. I don't use laptops nor do any TV stuff.
It is important to recognize, though, that what a desktop is depends a whole lot on the individual. Beyond simple email, web viewing, documents and music, users' needs begin to diverge rapidly. It really is hard to say what a desktop is other than it is what people do interactively on the computer.
BTW, running the Windows version of Flash9 in Firefox under Wine works pretty well. Native would of course be better, but in the interim this works pretty well.
That it is true, I am using a laptop, so these are important to me
The lack of a decent virtual machine (I guess you mean FreeBSD as a host server) I think it would be more important on the server side. Anyways, adding a VirtualBox or a Vmware virtual machine would be great!
No, a VM is probably more important on the desktop. VMware ESX is now free, so you can use that as a base for a server to run whatever you want. On the desktop side, there are always applications that will be Windows-only. So either you run them in a VM, or keep a Windows box around to do so. The latter might be easier, but for me there are so many of these applications that it sure would be nice simply to run them in a different window.
And yes, I do mean as a virtual machine host.
There is an effort to port the most recent version of VMware to FreeBSD, but it is being hung up partially by the unfinished state of the Linux 2.6 layer.
The lack of suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram is very important for me. The 3D thing is a non-issue for me as the GPU in my laptop is fully supported by open source drivers, and quite capable of driving blender and compiz.
FreeBSD is a server operating system, which just happens to run on the destop.
If you want a desktop OS with the features you listed, then choose Windows, or OSX, Or Linux, or whatever.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
So U think the FreeBSD is the best solution for any kind of servers(for corporates personal use ant so on)? In which way the BSD are better servers than linux? They are safer, fastest?
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Quite directly, I think, yes.
FreeBSD addict since 4.2-RELEASE.
My FreeBSD wiki.
I wouldn't be so quick to say that "FreeBSD is a server operating system," but it has historically been predominantly used as such. The same is true for Linux; only recently has desktop Linux just taken off.
If you look at FreeBSD's userbase, then I'm willing to bet that the lack of a native Adobe Flash player doesn't matter to at least half of them. I've encountered complete indifference to Flash and sometimes outright hatred of it on the IRC channel and on here. Flash only matters to those who need it. I've been happily running swfdec for a while, and I appreciate that Flash content on a website doesn't load automatically. Flash is annoying; I use it only for Youtube and Google Video, which swfdec and Gnash handle very well.
What's wrong with open source drivers? There was an announcement on NVNews about a month ago that Nvidia would be releasing drivers for FreeBSD 64-bit in about six months. The git version of the radeon driver for Xorg supports upto and through X1000 series cards with accelerated graphics. That branch will be completing support for HD2000 series cards in about three months, as ATi will be releasing documents in about a week. I have not looked into the Intel driver, but I don't see too much of a problem. Maybe I'm not too picky.
I do agree with DrJ that the lack of quality virtual machine software is definitely hindering sometimes, especially considering that FreeBSD is still predominantly used in server environments where virtual machine software is often necessary. Progress in ongoing to port VirtualBox to FreeBSD, and I suppose the big thing would be to get Xen Dom0 support. DomU is a step forward, but Dom0 is the most important thing. It would give FreeBSD a good virtualization framework that it has lacked for quite a while. Xen and VirtualBox are the only options I see because VMWare remains woefully ignorant that we even exist, most understandably though.
As for suspend, here is the zzz manual page:
ZZZ(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual ZZZ(8) NAME zzz -- suspend an ACPI or APM system SYNOPSIS zzz DESCRIPTION The zzz utility checks for ACPI or APM support and then suspends the sys- tem appropriately. For APM, apm -z will be issued. For ACPI, the configured suspend state will be looked up, checked to see if it is supported and, acpiconf -s <state> will be issued. SEE ALSO acpi(4), apm(4), acpiconf(8), apm(8) AUTHORS This manual page was written by Nate Lawson <email@example.com>. FreeBSD 7.0 July 13, 2003 FreeBSD 7.0
The last item in "Important" referring to "tv/video" is definitely only important to a select few, if that even, maybe only you.
As far as FreeBSD Foundation's role in getting a Flash player goes is that they could pay to have Adobe port it over. That's how Solaris has been supported because Sun initially paid them to port it over. However, I doubt the FreeBSD Foundation has those kinds of financial resources to make that possible, so that brings me to the most reasonable alternative, which is to use the Linux version via linuxulator (compatibility layer) with nspluginwrapper. The current version in the 7 branch is at 2.4.2, but the version in 8-CURRENT is 2.6.16, which apparently needs a bit of cleanup. According to the mailing lists, Flash 9 also works "rather well" in 8-CURRENT, so there's hope for it.
What's important and what's not important in an operating system is subjective upon the user. You can't generalize like this. Most of the things you listed I don't particularly care, and you'll find many more users like myself who barely give a hoot about Flash, suspend, or the media framework you suggest.
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adamk is correct, "The Power to Serve" means exactly what it says... "to render assistance; be of use; help."
I can't say I agree with Carpetsmokers opinion, all of the BSD's are multipurpose, it's up to the user to define that purpose.
I use OpenBSD on all my workstations... as for the "important features" the OP mentioned, I happen to think they're completely irrelevant.
here are my thoughts on the matter:
freebsd is meant for server applications. look at all the "desktop" linux distros out there. they configure everything for you. freebsd doesnt do any of this because it is meant to serve a special purpose and allows you to configure from scratch. you dont have to deal with the default configuration of everything. ive used freebsd as a desktop system since 4.6. i do without flash, i do without java. if theres a video on youtube or break or whatever that i absolutely have to see i use a firefox plugin to download the .flv and view it in mplayer.
freebsd allows you to use it in whatever manner you like provided that you know what you want to do with it and how to accomplish this.
the default install and configuration of freebsd is rather bland... and i believe that this is exactly what the freebsd project wishes to accomplish. like i said before... it is designed for the person who knows how to configure it for whatever purpose they need.
This goes to the question that is probably one of the most commonly asked questions in the *nix world.
Is X good enough to be used as a desktop?
Or any number of variants thereof - where X can be any OS (i.e., Linux (or a specific distro), *BSD, Solaris, etc.).
My answer (which most likely is not the majority answer) is this:
For most people, it probably isn't. Most people would be lost outside of the baby's first computer world, which is Windows. If someone is knowledgeable and inclined enough to ask this question - then maybe; give it a shot and decide for yourself. (this next part is the part that is most important for me and least important for you) It is good enough for my needs. My OS's of choice (Slackware and NetBSD) are good enough for what I need them to do. I am happy with them and have them more-or-less configured to tailor fit me.
So give FreeBSD (or any other candidate on your list) a try. I think there are FreeBSD Live CD's available (I don't have a link at the moment though) - so you can test drive it with no commitment.
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
The first two are nothing to do with FreeBSD. Adobe owns flash, and they refuse to provide usable support outside of windows. The quicker someone does a rm -rf adobe\*, the better. Open source implementations are out there, (swf-dec and gnash), and they are improving, but are not likely to provide a workable situation.
Ditto the 3D accelleration. As ATI releases specs, the xorg crowd will develop good open source drivers, which, if well written, will be quickly ported. rm -Rf nvidia\*, though. They seem a lost cause.
As for your others, most of this can be traced back to errors in ACPI implementations in BIOSes.We are stuck with hacking workarounds to broken hardware - not something that makes a programmer happy, but they know ti has to be done. Try, search and then send a PR or post in the mailing list. That is where things get done.
The only dumb question is a question not asked.
The only dumb answer is an answer not given.
I can'ta gree with that linux when U install are almost configured and preapred to work. Mayby Ubuntu yes. But for example Slackware or Gentoo or Arch? U have to configure them by yourself and they don't have any GUI configurators(onyl those which are in envarioment). And I think thay are as configurable as *BSD
How ´bout...
FreeBSD on the desktop...hasn´t anyone tried PC-BSD or Desktop BSD? I´m using PC-BSD on an old Dell laptop and all but suspend (et [similar] al) work perfectly. ´Didn´t even have to touch the command line to set it all up.
My main home desktop runs OpenSolaris by the way. Low ram and low speed nix the idea of putting it on the portable.
Google had one of their tech talks with two of the X developers and they laid out what X can do and what they plan, along with its shortcomings.
I think the first thing that needs to be defined or agreed upon is what exactly a "Desktop" is?
That aside I've been using FreeBSD as my primary home computer since 4.0. I can get everything I need to get done done. So for me it make a great desktop. I even had a TV card that worked (got rid of it).
Now I see alot of comments that freeBSD needs "3d-accelerated video drivers". My question is other than games, why does the average pers need 3D acceleration other than games? If so then this add fuel to drhowarddrfine theory.
With youtube and google video, I do see the growing need for flash, but I like to download movies and watch them when I want or again and again. So I use clive and gnash has been working well for the dumb video links my friends send.
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Kudos to Gov. Jerry Brown for demanding last week that CalPERS stop kicking pension debt further down the road. Too bad he hasn't applied the same standard to the CalSTRS shortfall.
The state is home to the nation's largest pension system, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, and the second largest, the California State Teachers' Retirement System.
Between them they have shortfalls of about $180 billion — debt we are now passing on to future generations because of past failures to properly fund the system. That's more than $14,000 per California household. The longer we postpone paying it off, the greater the cost, as anyone with a credit card should understand.
That's why the governor Wednesday sent a stinging letter to the CalPERS board protesting its plans for delaying repayment of newly added debt. "No one likes to pay more for pensions," Brown wrote, "but ignoring their true costs for two more years will only burden the system and cost more in the long run."
As previously reported in this column, CalPERS' actuary says the pension system has been undercharging the state and local government agencies because it failed to properly predict increasing life expectancies and earlier retirements.
That means the money CalPERS previously collected was insufficient. Fixing the actuarial assumptions creates new unfunded liabilities for pension benefits workers have already earned — debt that must now be paid off with increased contributions. It also means the system should be collecting larger payments in the future to cover the pension benefits associated with employees' future labor.
For the state, its portion of CalPERS' unfunded liability would increase $9 billion, from $45 billion to $54 billion. The actuarial changes would eventually add $1.2 billion, or 32 percent, to its current $3.8 billion annual pension bill.
These corrections, which the pension system board will consider Feb. 18, must be made to preserve the pension system's financial integrity. But CalPERS' chief actuary recommends phasing in the resulting rate increases over five years, starting with the 2016-17 fiscal year.
That's why the governor protested. Delaying the debt repayment will cost the state $3.7 billion more over 20 years. Brown calls that "unacceptable," and urges that CalPERS phase in the increases over three years, starting now.
Indeed, the sooner the better. But that hasn't been the CalPERS culture. The pension system board, dominated by labor representatives and elected officials beholden to unions, has tried to keep contribution rates low, leaving more government funds available for salaries and other benefits.
To do that, they used rosy accounting that included unrealistically high investment return estimates and delayed booking of market losses. To his credit, Alan Milligan, appointed chief actuary in 2010, has tried to fix some of the worst practices and has made incremental progress.
But at each step his board has softened the landing by minimizing or postponing the impact of the changes. As a result, state and local governments continue to underfund the systems and stare at more rate increases — and greater interest payments — in years to come.
As the governor notes, it's pay now or pay more later.
Unfortunately, Brown has not applied the same logic to the teachers' pension system. Unlike CalPERS, CalSTRS cannot raise contribution rates; only the Legislature and governor can.
And for years they have ignored CalSTRS' pleas to do so as the pension system's unfunded liability balloons. Installment payments to retire the debt over the next 30 years would now require allocating an additional $4.2 billion a year for CalSTRS.
That money must come from the state, school districts and/or teachers. Realistically, the problem can't be solved without the state. Brown has called for negotiations to figure a long-term solution.
But, while falsely claiming the state will have a budget surplus for the upcoming 2014-15 fiscal year, he proposes no funding to pay down the CalSTRS debt. Because of inaction, the teacher pension system's debt mounts by an estimated $22 million a day.
Remember, as Brown wrote last week about the CalPERS debt, delay "will only burden the system and cost more in the long run." The same logic applies to CalSTRS.
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Hi Jenny! EdwardVielmetti 21:41, 13 November 2006 (CST)
Hi, Ed!
I should have known you'd get in here so quickly! Good to see you :-) Jenny Levine 08:34, 15 November 2006 (CST)
Jenny - is there a delicious or flickr tag we're using for this event? I have some bookmarks to bring with me & want to be sure there's some common ground.
(suggest something like nla?)
- How about if we use nla2006 since they might hold another one someday? Amazingly, that doesn't seem to be taken in delicious, flickr, or technorati! Let me know if you add the wiki as a bookmark, as I'll do it if you don't. Thanks!
- Jenny Levine 12:24, 6 December 2006 (CST)
- nla2006 looks good to me, will do.
- the fun toy of the moment is wordie, I will teach you the game of wordie which I discovered playing with my first grader. see e.g. http://wordie.org/people/edwardvielmetti?wl=2542 Edward Vielmetti saturday evening.
- that is too wild, Ed - I was literally just reading http://tipline.blogspot.com/2006/12/tips-wordie.html now I will have to start an account tonight (instead of finishing packing...)! Jenny Levine 21:49, 9 December 2006 (CST)
Was Prominent Notice Lacking?
Dear Shifted Librarian,
I admire your efforts to help make librarians more technically savvy, among other things. And this wiki site you have largely created is really great. But, I may have missed something, I did not see prominent notice of this wiki during the underlying event. I would have expected a link on the ALA's main page to this wiki for the 2 days the event was actually taking place. Right? Perhaps with your tech skills you could convince the powers that be that such a thing might be a good idea. Maybe, I don't know. Just an idea. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling 19:05, 12 December 2006 (CST)
- Dear LegitimateAndEvenCompelling,
- Actually, one piece of the answer is that this is partially my fault. Some background: the event was hosted by ALA President Leslie Burger, not ALA itself (this includes paying for the summit, as well as convening it). As ALA President, Leslie asked ALA to host the wiki, which we did. The main link to it is from her President's page at http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/ .
- On the ALA website, the page that lists our blogs, wikis, RSS, etc. is not easy to update and only one person has access to do this. So we are in the process of converting it to a wiki in order to make it easier to keep up with our growing list of 2.0-ish tools. I've been building it during the last few weeks, and it's almost ready. It is under construction at http://wikis.ala.org/readwriteconnect/ and is almost ready to go live. I just need to finish the RSS page, and then we'll link to it from the home page.
- So if nothing else, there would have been a link to the wiki one click away from the home page if I'd been able to finish that project sooner. In regards to a link directly from the home page, I'm not sure what the policy/procedure is for linking to presidential events. I'll bring this up at the next meeting of the Web Editorial Board, which is the group that decides what links rotate on the home page. Thanks for the suggestion.
- - Jenny Levine 21:46, 12 December 2006 (CST)
- You're welcome. I bet you'll start getting a lot more hits and a lot more contributions of ideas and the snowball will grow from there. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling 21:58, 12 December 2006 (CST)
Trouble Rolling Back Vandalism/Linkspam
Jenny Levine, I am having trouble figuring out how to roll back all the spam/vandalism here. I seem to only be able to "rollback" the one last edit, but some spam spans 2 or 3 edits. Thought I should let you know. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling 21:52, 7 May 2007 (CDT)
- Thanks, LAEC. I've been offline for a few days but will be removing all of the spam over the next 24 hours. It does get difficult when the spambots repeatedly hit one page. JFYI, if you go to the history of the page and compare the last good version and the first bad one, you can then do a single rollback.
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At Homecoming, the College honored two remarkable recruiters from two different generations.
"You have raised recruiting to a virtual art form," National Association of Wabash Men Vice President Jim Davlin '85 told Peter Pactor '65 in naming him this year's Wabash Admissions Fellow. "Right now seven Wabash students are here because you first told them about Wabash, then followed through with information and answers. For the Class of 2008, you referred 34 prospective students. Last year you referred 30 students; the year before, 13.
"Sending names isn't enough for you: you host recruiting events, you schedule students' Indiana visits, and often accompany them to campus. We thank you for your dedication to the College, your ability to identify needs facing Wabash and the world, and your skill in bringing them together for the greater good of both."
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Comment Tag and Other Tags
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I typed that exclamation sitting on our cabin�s balcony overlooking the port facilities of Livorno, Italy.
Ann and I are doing a European cruise thing we�ve been planning for most of the past year. Unlike most military readers back home, I�d never been to the Mediterranean and was greatly looking forward to a number of adventures.
We just got back from our first adventure, which was an eight-hour tour of Florence and Pisa. I have to admit I was a bit disappointed but for reasons that are self-inflicted by we tourists who are like locust, albeit locusts with credit cards.
I�d always thought Las Vegas was a stupendous destination but apparently, the whole world wants to come to Italy, and a lot of the world was already there when we docked. I figure about 1,500 folks from our ship participated in this particular tour today, and our boat is only one of many cruise liners in port.
Our first stop was Florence; and since the streets are too narrow for bus traffic, we got off and walked around the city. In the past I�ve made fun of scenes of tour guides walking backwards holding up signs admonishing their respective broods, �We�re walking this way, walking this way.�
Well I was a member of such a brood and spent as much time keeping an eye on mother hen�s location as I did taking in the sights. And our tour guide was famous in her own right as she obviously held an Olympic Gold Medal for walking. Damn, that lady could move.
But to be fair, the tour process that I�ve ridiculed in the past is a necessary evil. How else can foreigners � especially southern foreigners like me � be safely shepherded around strange cities that have strange languages and extremely strange driving habits?
As soon as I�d observed the city traffic at ground-level, I immediately had two questions. First I wondered why those folks wasted so much money on red lights. Can an entire country be colorblind?
Secondly, I wondered just how many pedestrians were killed. After about an hour I changed that question to wondering how many pedestrians survived.
Needless to say as evidenced by this column, Ann and I escaped and continued on the tour to Pisa. Yes, the tower does in fact lean � really lean.
Italy is awash in amazing history that makes our 1776 marker seem more like yesterday. Realizing that Galileo walked up those steps to do his cannonball gravity experiment really brought my school history books to life.
On the negative side, the flood of we tourists has created a counterbalance to some of the historical purity. Everywhere we went we waded through a sea of street vendors hawking every imaginable trinket.
The guide told us to ignore them; and we did, but it�s a shame ordinances can�t be instituted to eliminate such nonsense. They don�t allow trash thrown around their cathedrals and monuments, why shouldn�t they bar trash being sold in the footprints of Michelangelo?
Just wondering.
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Heading into March, most New Year's resolutions have fallen by the wayside. Fortunately Brandeis On the Move will rekindle the fitness flame with its kick-off on March 4, from 11:00 to 11:30 a.m. at Sherman Hall.
At the kick-off, Tufts Health Plan will provide stretching techniques to help keep hamstrings and backs flexible, and offer up some exercise tips and methods to keep you motivated. Members from Human Resources will give demonstrations on how teams can track their progress, and members of the athletic department will be present to provide information on fitness classes and athletic facilities.
Brandeis On The Move will run through April 28, 2013. All participants will receive a t-shirt.The program, which is primarily focused on accumulating points based on physical activity, also involves health and fitness screenings, tips, and supportive team fitness challenges. It is sponsored by the Office of Human Resources as part of the University's Healthy You Wellness Program.
On March 14th, various screenings such as blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose and Body Mass Index (BMI) will be offered. Follow up screenings will take place at the end of April.
Kit Sum Lam, from the office of financial affairs and treasury services, participated last year as a running team captain. She says she joined to maintain overall health and is looking forward to this year's challenge.
"The program motivates me in the sense that I'm partnering with other team members," says Sum Lam. "I need to put in an extra effort to show them support."
Each team is composed of five employees. Members are asked to give their team a name, select a captain (someone who will motivate the team to exercise and submit logs on time) and then e-mail the team roster to the Benefits department.
At the end of each week, all participants are asked to record time they spent on their activities and forward the totals to the Benefits Department. Team points will be posted on the website.
If you need assistance finding a team, Human Resources will work to match you with other employees who are looking to participate.
At the conclusion of the program, all participants will be invited to attend a Brandeis On The Move Reception and awards ceremony to celebrate their achievements.
Katrina Paczosa from the admissions department took part in last year's challenge.
"It was a lot of fun and a great way to motivate each other to work out," says Paczosa. "We created sticker charts so that everyone in our office could see how each other was doing."
Paczosa said not only did the department work out individually, but they started going to Zumba class in the gym and running after work as a group. Two members, she says, went on to run half marathons.
"I continued running after On the Move concluded, and am currently training for my first half marathon in April," says Paczosa. "Our office will again have two groups participating this year. I can't wait to get started!"
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I generally try to keep my posts focused on books and reading, but this week I find myself compelled to write about another topic that deserves equal attention. What is this topic, you may ask? It is the persistent problem of bullying.
Bullying is a problem that almost each of us has faced at one point or another in the course of our lives. It's a problem that transcends geographic location, age, race, socioeconomic status, and sex. It's a problem that attacks people for their appearance; their identity; their career; for who and what they are.
The problem of bullying has existed since humanity began. Yet despite all of humanity's advances over the years, it continues to be as great of a challenge to overcome as ever before.
Many view bullying as a childhood issue, where kids just need to learn how to toughen up. 'Kids will be kids, after all.' But the April 7th Sunday Secrets on the popular PostSecret.com website featured two secrets addressing adult bullying, supporting the argument that bullying isn't just a childhood problem.
One postcard secret depicted a middle-aged woman looking forlorn, her head bent and her eyes closed, with her hands held up to her face. The caption next to this image read "Bullying doesn't stop after middle school. I know because it is happening to me."
The other postcard secret held two significant sentences, summarized in seven simple words. "I forgive my bully. You can too."
Just last weekend, I saw a post on the 'Stop Bullying Champaign-Urbana' Facebook page that cautioned parents about current cyber-bullying amongst local middle school students. The post warned parents about messages being sent by bullies encouraging victims to commit suicide, which is never a matter to be taken lightly. It disheartens me to think about the harsh things being said to those victims, and I can only hope that it was nothing more than a rumor.
But in reaction to this and in light of my own past experiences with bullying, I feel especially motivated to urge all of you to watch the documentary Bully directed by Lee Hirsch. In the documentary, Hirsch follows five kids and their families as they experience the ramifications of bullying.
The film Bully is an eye-opener to the truly unkind words and behaviors that children and teens are capable of, and the lasting affects those words and actions can have on their victims.
Viewers are exposed to the harsh realities of bullying, witnessing the pain and suffering endured by these children. The most heartrending portion of the film follows the two grieving families of bullied children who are struggling to cope after losing those children to suicide.
If we as a community increase our awareness of bullying, and work to fight against it, we can try to prevent the bullying documented by Hirsch from perpetually continuing in our own hometown. It's not something we can end overnight, but it's time to put a spotlight on the issue and stop it before it's too late to help our local youth.
I'm taking a stand against bullying, and I hope you will to. Join me by pledging at www.thebullyproject.com. Together, we can work to put an end to bullying.


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Rodwell has not appeared for City since October having suffered successive hamstring complaints and only last week manager Roberto Mancini expressed concern over the 21-year-old's fitness issues as he pondered his midfield options with Yaya Toure away at the African Nations Cup.
Rodwell's injuries have restricted him to just six appearances in all competitions this season and the summer signing from Everton is looking forward to showing City fans what he can do.
Rodwell: "I feel really fit - I've been doing a lot of strengthening work because I've been out so long with my hamstring injuries so it's taken time.
"My first injury was my left hamstring which kept me out for five weeks and then my right hamstring started to niggle which put me back to square one.
"It's easily the worst injury set-back of my career because I've been out for more than three months now. It's been frustrating and like most players, I'm not the best spectator in the world - it obviously helps when the lads win - but I'm almost there now.
"I feel like my career here hasn't really got started yet, even though I feel really settled and at home now.
"I'll begin full training this week - all being well. Then I'll need 10 days to a fortnight to get back up to speed and I'll be available for selection again."


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As far as we know, Nintendo isn't working on a 3DS version of classic Zelda title Majora's Mask. So as far as we know, they're not working on a special Majora's Mask edition of the Nintendo 3DS, either. Pity.
Fan Cameron Smith is, though, and has drawn up his idea for what such a handheld could look like, turning a 3DS XL a very purple shade of purple (it looks a little richer than the existing Midnight Purple 3DS) and adorning the front with some Majora's Mask imagery.
Not sure which I'd like more. The 3DS or the game. Presumably I'd get both in the one box if this wasn't a fantasy project, so that takes care of that dilemma.
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Discover the Basque Country by bike
Cycle touring in the Basque Country.
Arriving at the Oiz Wind Farm
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Explore the landscapes of the Basque Country in an original, active way. If you like biking and the countryside, then make to discover this part of Green Spain by bike. It's a great way to enjoy the countryside and the coast.
An irresistible idea: come and explore a unique location by mountain bike: the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve. It is in northern Spain, in the province of Vizcaya. There are 11 cycling routes in this area: one sets out from the fishing village of Bermeo, another from Gernika-Lumo, two from the village of Errigoiti, and the rest from the Mendata Visitor Centre. At these locations you can hire bikes and they will give you all the necessary information, along with details about the route and places you can visit on the way.
The itineraries are signposted and colour-coded according to difficulty. The routes vary between 8 and 37 kilometres, and the maximum approximate duration is of three and a half hours. The biking route is the perfect excuse to get to know all the different landscapes of the area and to make interesting cultural visits.
Make the most of a departure from Gernika-Lumo to visit the Peace Park, home to sculptures by Eduardo Chillida and Henry Moore, or to visit the Gernika Peace Museum Foundation. The easiest route leaves from here, running alongside the Mundaka River.
If you prefer an intermediate level itinerary, there is a circular route from Errigoiti, stopping at the fishing village of Bermeo. Here you can enjoy the maritime atmosphere and visit Ercilla Tower, which has the Cultural Property designation and is currently home to the Fisherman's Museum.
The more daring can test their level. Head for the Mendata Visitor Centre and pedal out towards the Oiz Wind Farm. The effort will be rewarded at the end of the route where the Bizkaia viewpoint awaits, with stunning views.
Each route - an adventure in itself. Choose the one you like best and enjoy the landscapes of Green Spain on your mountain bike. Ride across mountains, villages, woods and cliffs... Summing up, come and enjoy the Basque Country.
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U.S. stocks mostly rose on Monday as growth in manufacturing provided more evidence that the economy may be picking up, or at least not getting any worse.
The gains came after news that U.S. manufacturing grew in September for the first time in four months.
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, also said its gauge of manufacturing employment rose following a decline in August. That's a hopeful sign that the government's monthly employment report, due out Friday, could come in better than analysts have been expecting.
Also Monday, the government said U.S. builders spent more on home construction in August, the latest positive sign for the housing market.
Investors are looking for signs that there will be more workers with money to spend, said Jerry Webman, chief economist for OppenheimerFunds Inc. That can create a "virtuous cycle" that generates its own fuel for a recovery.
"If you're going to manufacture more you're going to employ more people, and if you employ more people you're going to pay them money, and they're going to buy some stuff," helping the economy, Webman said.
It was still a choppy day on Wall Street. The manufacturing report came out half an hour after trading began, and sent stocks sharply higher. The Dow Jones industrial average rose as much as 161 points and the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose as much as 1.1 percent.
But market indexes gave up most of their gains in the afternoon. The decline started after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed needs to keep interest rates low because the economy isn't growing fast enough to reduce high unemployment. Bernanke made the remarks in a speech to the Economic Club of Indiana.
It wasn't clear whether investors were reacting directly to Bernanke's remarks or just taking profits from a morning in which stocks showed their strongest gains in two weeks. Monday was only the third day since Sept. 17 that the S&P 500 has risen.
The S&P closed 0.3 percent higher, rising 3.82 points to 1,444.49. The Dow rose 77.98 points to close at 13,515.11. The Nasdaq composite fell 2.70 points to close at 3,113.53.
Goldman Sachs jumped $3.18, or 2.8 percent, to $116.86 after Barron's wrote that investors are too pessimistic on the investment bank's prospects.
Other financial stocks rose, too. Bank of America rose 13 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $8.96, and JPMorgan Chase rose 49 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $40.97.
Monday was the first day of trading of the fourth quarter, and the early gains were a welcome change from the way the last quarter ended. U.S. indices fell on Friday for the fifth day out of six.
Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial, said investors believe that the news about the economy has stopped getting worse. Besides the U.S. manufacturing news on Monday, she noted that recent data from China suggests that manufacturing has improved there as well.
"The numbers were still weak, but they were not as bad as before," Krosby said. "So that was a positive backdrop for the market."
Wendy's Co. fell 28 cents, or 6.1 percent, to $4.25 after a Janney Capital Markets analyst lowered his rating on the stock, saying he is seeing signs that the hamburger chain's revenue won't be as strong as expected.
Markets around Europe rose. Results last Friday of an audit of 14 Spanish banks showed the lenders need $77.6 billion in capital. That was roughly what was expected, and well within the amount Madrid can get from fellow European countries.
A slight improvement in a survey of manufacturing in the 17 countries that use the euro also helped.
However, credit rating agency Moody's might downgrade Spain's debt to junk status this week. That's likely to limit enthusiasm in Europe until the Moody's decision is known.
Germany's DAX stock index rose 1.5 percent, France's CAC-40 was up 2.4 percent, and Britain's FTSE 100 rose 1.4 percent. Spain's Ibex was up 1 percent.
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This month, I'm taking a break from my usual linear approach to scrapbooking. This sketch is a fun way to cluster a handful of pictures around one main focal-point picture. The easiest part is that you can crop (or digitally resize) all your smaller pictures to be the same size. In my case, I made all the small photos 3″ x 2″ and the main picture a standard 4″ x 6″. Use this sketch to get another layout done in your album! Here are two layouts I created based on the sketch. For more examples, check out my "Becky's Sketch" column in the July 2009 issue of Creating Keepsakes.
Toys by Becky Higgins. Supplies Patterned paper: Scenic Route; Letter stickers: American Crafts; Swirl stamp: Fancy Pants Designs; Paint: Plaid Enterprises; Ink: ColorBox, Clearsnap; Pen: Zig Writer, EK Success; Frame overlay: Stacked Vintage Frames No. 02 by Katie Pertiet.
Family Reunion by Becky Higgins. Supplies Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper; Patterned paper: KI Memories; Bookplate: BasicGrey; Brads: American Crafts; Font: Gill Sans.
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These two charts turned up today, reportedly from a "recently scraped database of 24,000 video games to determine percentages of genre and platform releases since 1975".
My inner stats nerd just fainted.
Charts like this can tell you a lot about games and the changing way we enjoy them, and even allowing for the fact it might be built on iffy data, there seem to be enough general trends checking out that it makes for closer reading.
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