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Art's fire is never extinguished
If, like Kafka, you live in dangerous intimacy with the world of dreams, Prague, the heart of Bohemia, is for you. It's a sparkling, artistic, poetic destination, nestled along the shores of the Vltava River.
'To write even one verse, one must have seen many cities, men, and things', wrote the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague, which was then in Austria-Hungary, in 1875. Of his birthplace, which he left at the age of 21, he also wrote: 'The city of pinions and towers is strangely built: the great sound of History never dies down. The reverberating echo of days makes the faded walls vibrate. Brilliant names shine as secret light from silent palaces. God hides himself in the shadows of High Gothic churches. In silver tombs, the decomposed bodies of saints are like pollen between metallic petals.'
Prague is the provincial capital of a hundred bell towers, peopled by the immortal beauty of Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque art. It enchanted Descartes. Goethe spoke of Prague as 'a precious stone embedded in the Earth's crown'.
Rilke was unable to witness, in the legendary Art Nouveau cafés, the famous arguments between the 'Brentanist' philosophers from the German university or the 'Pan-slavist' thinkers pushing for national renewal. It was too early to run into Kafka and Brodsky in the Louvre Café. Too early to see the Cubist masterpieces near the legendary Jewish quarter and its stunning catacombs. Breton spoke at that time of the 'magical capital of Europe'. But it was too soon for Art Deco and Functionalism. Too early to 'experience Communism and the marketplace rumours of Czechs without enough to eat' (Marc Hillman).
'It was at 5 o'clock in Prague that the month of August darkened, comrade,' Jean Ferrat sang at the end of 1968. With the Velvet Revolution in 1989 bringing Václav Havel to the presidency of the Czech Republic a gentle acceleration of the course of History Rilke was spoken of again: it was 'like Rilke's revenge over Stalinism', 'the victory of words over silence', 'the triumph of the Universal Conscience over the dominant ideology' (philosopher Daniel Salvatore Schiffer).
Elsewhere, as the Prague Spring was also about music, you can search for Mozart's inspiration for Don Giovanni in the historic city centre, before crossing the Charles Bridge under a starry night to investigate the surprising, trendy addresses of the new city.
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In the latest release of LightspeedNXT (ver 3.9.7) and LightspeedEVO (ver 5.6) hosted users of ADP Lightspeed will have access to Service Connect, an integrated smart-help menu designed to provide answers to user's questions without leaving their workflow. This simple, time-saving feature knows what screen the user is working from and will suggest topics to answer questions.
Service Connect picks up right where the user left off providing helpful hints, tips, and even offering LIVE web chat with Lightspeed customer support. LIVE chat offers a direct, online connection to Lightspeed's support staff so customers have a choice of picking up the phone or having a web conversation with a Lightspeed expert.
"Service Connect will help our users tremendously", said Dan Jacobson, Director of Client Services at ADP Lightspeed. "Often times our phone lines get filled with customers who need answers to simple questions that Service Connect will now resolve. With one click of the "SC" button in the upper right corner of the program, customers can find answers faster than ever before. We're excited to offer a new level of service to hosted Lightspeed dealers."
Greg Smith, General Manager of ADP Lightspeed expressed similar excitement regarding the impact Service Connect will have on Lightspeed hosted users. "At Lightspeed we strive to train our customers on how to use our programs, but when using a feature for the first time on their own they may not remember exactly what to do." Smith continues, "That's where Service Connect will add value to the dealership by saving them time. No longer will a customer have to call Support to get answers to everyday, user questions. With Service Connect they can quickly find the answer or open a LIVE chat and talk to a member of Lightspeed's customer support team."
As a user begins typing a question or topic into the Service Connect search bar, a list of relative help topics will appear, beginning with topics that relate to their current screen in Lightspeed. If a user still has questions they can submit an e-case where a member of Lightspeed's support team
will call them at a time that is convenient for the user.
To learn more visit: www.adplightspeed.com

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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins.
General characteristics
Pride defiles a person[1] and will bring him low[2], and then disgrace comes upon him[3], because the arrogance is an abomination to the God[4][5][6], and the haughty eyes, the eyelids lift [7] and lofty words[8] are among the things God hates.
Presumptuous sins are the base of great transgression.[9] Conceit is the lamp of the wicked[10], and the fool is reckless (hotheaded) and careless.[11]
Pride only breeds quarrels[12]and the proud man or the man with evil thoughts should put hand on his mouth because pressing anger produces strife.[13]
True wisdom is incompatible with pride[14]Pride is present in the speeches of false teachers.[15] There is more hope for a fool than for somebody that is ″wise in his own eyes″[16]
Jesus criticized those who think they are right before God and boast about their moral performance, falling into the sin of pride. Pride often grows from the soil of fairness and humility often grows out of sinners' tears.[17]
Pride, along with many other sins, will dominate the hearts of many people in the last days[18]
Types of proud man
Sometimes the proud man is boastful.[19] Only good deeds alone may be a reason for praise (boasting), because the true reason for praising himself (boasting) (coming from others-[20]) is what is in the heart, not in outward appearance.[21] People often boast unreasonably about things they received[22] (goods, noble origin, good health, high education, etc.)
Sometimes proud man is an atheist[23] or cuts off some divine attributes[24]
Sometimes the conceited man is a scoffer (mocker)[25]If the scoffers are cast out, the strife, quarrels, insults (abuses) will cease.[26]Mockers stir up a city[27]. The scoffer causes suffering to himself[28] and it is an abomination to all people.[29] Whoever mocks the poor, insults his Maker[30], and he will be mocked by God[31] The mocker does not listen to anyone reproving him [32], so the sentences (penalties, condemnations), including strikes (flogs), are reserved to them to be recovered.[33] If the revilers remain the same, they will not see the kingdom of God[34] There will be some scoffers in the last days.[35]
Under the shelter of success, the wicked and proud man is contemptuous, a murderer and oppressor of the poor, boastful, atheist or blasphemer, his mouth is full of curses and deceit.[36] Or, happy and untroubled by any suffering, he is prosperous, fat and sleek, oppressive, has a tireless tongue and become a stumbling-block for ordinary people.[37]
Psalmist prays that God repays to the proud (people)[38] God knows the conceits[39], and He stands against the proud (people)[40], humble their heart (bowed down their hearts)[41] with suffering (hard labor, bitter labor)[42]
Sources of pride
Adam and Eve were cast out of heaven because of pride of knowledge.[43]Lucifer fell from heaven because of pride becoming Satan (the enemy, the devil).[44]Knowledge puffs up but love builds up.[45]
Power and wealth are the second cause of pride: Assyrian king Sennacherib, Babylonian kings Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, Adonia, son of David, king Uzziah, king Hezekiah (see the following chapter)
The pride of rulers
Spoilt Adonijah turned up daringly against his father, king David, plotting to grab the power.[46]
God punished the pride of Sennacherib, sending an angel that killed 185,000 soldiers in his camp, forcing him to abandon the fight against Hezekiah and return to his country. There his sons killed him while praying in temple.[47]
Nebuchadnezzar received so much power so ″his heart was lifted up and ,,his spirit was hardened with pride″). As prophet Daniel had interpreted his disturbing dream, ″he was brought down from his kingly throne″ and ″stripped of his glory″. He was ″driven from among men, and his mind was made like that of a beast: his dwelling was with the wild donkeys and with the beasts of the field. He was made to eat grass like an ox and was wet with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. Seven periods of time (years) passed over him until he admitted that ″the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whomever he wishes″ and then the throne was returned to him.″[48]
Belshazzar did not learn anything from his father's history and did not humble his heart before God, so God's message, written by the fingers of a human hand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lamp stand, confirms ruthlessly (ascertains ruthlessly the truth of) Daniel interpretation: Belshazzar is killed and his kingdom will be given to Medes and Perses, Darius receiving it at the age of about sixty-two years.[49]
King Uzziah, son of Amata, ″did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper″. Besides this, he became an influential regional leader, with a very large army and grew very strong. But when getting so strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense, that priests alone, who are consecrated for this, were allowed to do. Faced by Azariah, the chief priest, and other eighty priests, he became angry and God struck him and leprosy broke out on his forehead. King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house. [50]
Being sick to death, Hezekiah prayed to the Lord and the Lord healed him. Instead of ″making return according to the benefit done to him″, Hezekiah, abandoned by God who wanted to put him to the test, grew proud: Hezekiah welcomed Babylonian envoys and he ″showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armoury, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them″. Then God's wrath befell him and Judah and Jerusalem, but Hezekiah humbled himself along with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, making the wrath of God not to come upon them during his life. Isaiah told him that after his death the country would be looted and some of his children would be taken into captivity in the palace of the king of Babylon.[51]
The pride of countries
God punished the pride of Jacob where luxury, injustice and lazy callousness became unbearable. God decided he will ″deliver up the city and all that is in it."[52]
God punished the proud Tyr, who ″thinks (fancies) he is a god, the merchant of the nations", that, heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets", ″the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honoured of the earth, the richest of the people" in order to ″defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonour all the honoured of the earth".[53]
The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be crushed. Judges and soldiers reel with wine and stagger with strong drink, priest and prophets too: reel in vision, stumble in giving judgment; in addition they are scoffing.[54]
The pride of Egypt will be destroyed with the 'sword' Babylon. Egypt, which was like a dragon in the seas, which he burst forth in his rivers, troubles the waters with his feet, and fouls their rivers will be caught and crushed. Those ″who spread terror in the land of the living ", as Meshech and Tubal, will be killed by the sword.[55]
Israel will be punished for his abominations (idolatry, greed, murder, violence) the worst people will take their homes and pride of the mighty will come to the end.[56]
Pride is one of Sodom's sins.[57]
Isaiah prophesied to Judah and Jerusalem, reproving them for their idolatry and greed: when Jesus will come ,,the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day".[58]
God put the Moab's pride to shame, because its inhabitants were idolaters, they mock the people of God and boasted against him.[59]
Struggle against pride
The psalmist asked God to keep him back from the presumptuous sins.[60] The Christian keeps away from the proud people.[61] Christian love casts out pride for ever.[62]
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark7.18-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs11.2,%2025.27&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs8.12-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm101.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs30.13,%20Proverbs16.5,%20Psalm131.1,2,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20131.1,2,%2017.10,&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2021.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.16&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs13.10,%2030.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov30.32-33&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs26.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke18.9-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Timothy3.1-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James4.13-16,%20Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm10.3,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Proverbs%2025.14,%2027.2&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians6.3-6,%20James1.9-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Corinthians5.11-12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians4.6-7&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10.11-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs14.6,%20Proverbs1.22,%2021.24,%20Daniel11.22,%20Hosea7.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs22.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs29.8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs17.5,%2014.31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%203.34&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%209.7-8,%2013.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs19.25,29,21.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6.9-10,%20Isaiah29.20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude1.18,%202Peter3.3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm73&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2012.3,%20Psalm%2031.18,%20Psalm%2094.2-4,%20Psalm%20119.21,%20Psalm119.78,%20Psalm%20119.122&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm138.6,%201Samuel2.3-5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2015.25,%20Proverbs3.34,%20James4.6,%201Peter5.5&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2075.4-6,%20Psalm%2031.23,%20Psalm%20,%201%20Kings%202.7,%202Samuel%2022.28,%20James4.9-10,%20Luke1.51-52,%20Matthew23.11-12,%20Luke14.7-11,%20Isaiah13.11,%20Leviticus26.13-19,%20Jeremiah13.1-9,%20Zephaniah3.10-11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20107.12&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis3.1-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah14.12-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians8.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kings1.5-6&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Kings19,%202Chronicles32.1-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel4.1-37,%205.18-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel5.1-31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles%2026.1-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chronicles32.23-31,%202Kings20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos6.1-14&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah9.1-6,%20Isaiah23.1-58,%20Ezekiel28.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah28.1-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel32&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7.24&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel16.49-50&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel7,%20Isaiah%202&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah16.1-14,%20Zephaniah%202,%20Jeremiah%2048&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm19.13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm40.4&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians13.4-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV
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The meetBSD conference is coming to California! After 3 successful years in Poland, the 2008 conference will be held in Mountain View, California at the Googleplex November 15-16.
Matt Olander has arranged a private FreeBSD 15 year Anniversary Party at Zen/Buddha Lounge in Mountain View for Saturday night Nov 15th. For anyone out there who wasn't able to attend the 10 year anniversary party that Matt put together at SF's DNA Lounge, rest assured it is not to be missed. If you are feeling nostalgic, take a look at Matt Dillon's pictures from the last major FreeBSD Anniversary party (with my favorite pic attached).
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
meetBSD California and 15 years of FreeBSD
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This week's scripture, 2 Corinthians, Chapter 1 and verse 5, was written by the Apostle Paul. Just like each of us, Paul had sufferings in life. Although we don't know exactly WHAT Paul's suffering was, we know that (simply because he was human) he had struggles. In this passage, Paul likens his sufferings with the sufferings of Christ (as he has done in other passages found in the Book of 2 Corinthians). Paul learned to use his sufferings to somehow encourage others. This is a great lesson for us, as we are each able to do the very same thing. We can't let life's struggles define or control us. But rather, we can turn them around and use them as a tool to draw others (even ourselves) closer to the Lord Jesus Christ. There are SO many wonderful blessings found in God's Word, and this is one example of using an otherwise negative situation to draw people to a closer walk with Jesus. This is a beautiful example of allowing God's Word to completely guide and shape our lives. We will ALWAYS be happier, more blessed people when we learn to turn all our negative experiences into situations that allow us to glorify His precious name, and draw us closer to Him. We pray that God's Word will always be a blessing to you, and that as you seek it and learn it, He will show you new ways to implement your struggles and life lessons into practices that draw us ever closer to our precious Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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60 people responded and provided 160 responses in this month's multi response poll - giving an average of 2.7 responses per person
What's the main influence of your style of art?
- The top influence on your style is the way you prefer to work - 21% of you voted for this as being their #1 influence on their style of art
- 16% of you were very influenced by the way you prefer to make marks
However, if we all stop to think, I wonder how much of our preferences are determined by the media we use, the place we grew up, the art we're used to seeing and our first art teacher. It's important to recognise that a lot of our preferences are driven by what we 'know' and what we're used to. However they're often totally unconscious influences which we wouldn't necessarily articulate. They are aspects which you begin to become more conscious of as somebody tries to get you to try out working in a different way - and you discover, maybe for the first time, that you've got some inbuilt resistance to working in a different way. It's then interesting to tease out why that is.
I find it easier to say with confidence that my preference for working in dry media is not something that has been influenced by other people. That's a preference which carries over into all sorts of other areas and is about the feel of the media I'm using as it touches the paper or support. For example, I can't write with certain pens because they don't 'feel' right to me. I like the contact I get between media and the page without having a tool (like a brush) coming inbetween.
I'me guessing that the way we prefer to make marks tends to differentiate mainly those that like to be precise from those that like being more painterly or expressionistic. However if we think about that for a bit how much of these preferences are driven by
- art that we've seen
- emotions that we feel
Other important influences included:
- past art movements (14%) - I don't know what you all think - but I do know that I've certainly experienced a wish to work in the same way as particular painters from the past at various times. If you read many artists's artist statements you often see people referring to the artists who have influenced them. What I find fascinating is that it's perfectly possible to change your mind about this when you get to see paintings by that artist up close. Seeing the technique required to produce the desired effect can often lead to a rethink about whether you really want to paint like that!
- your culture (13%) - I'm reminded from time to time that we tend to only look at art from our own cultures. It's good sometimes to remember that art is global and that different cultures tend to portray subject matter in different ways. It's also very interesting to see what happens when western artists try incorporating other cultures into their art
- the media you use (11%) - I'm minded to say that this for me is again an indicator that an artist has found their style. If I can tell who the artist is irrespective of which painting media they are using then that artist has a strong style
What are the less influential factors?
The factors which emerged as less influential included:
- art teachers (8%) - we often hear about people copying the way their tutors work or trying to work in the same way as the author of an art instruction book. While it undoubtedly happens, this poll suggests that it's not seen as an important factor by most people
- finding the right genre for you (8%) - which I guess means that those who have established a style draw or paint pretty much the same way irrespective of which genre a drawing or painting belongs to. I've always maintained that stylistic unity across different subject matter is a jolly good indicator that an artist has found the style which works for them
Only a couple of people thought style was either something you have - or you don't!
Interestingly when I came back to this poll this morning I saw that I'd left out a factor which changed my style. That's about what happens when you switch sizes. Working on much bigger supports really changed the way I worked with pastel - it became a lot more painterly. That in turn influenced how I worked with dry media when sketching when I came back to working small.
But I forgot to ask you "Does size matter?" ! Maybe that's a topic for a future poll! ;)
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We are a non-profit organization that serves the combined community of Clearlake Oaks/Glenhaven on the North Shore of Clear Lake in Lake County, California. Formed in 1978 by a small group of merchants and residents who sought to pool their resources and ideas to benefit the community, our membership has grown steadily to over 75 businesses and individuals. We hold dinner meetings on the 4th Thursday of each month with an agenda that covers county government reports and other topics of local interest presented by a wide array of speakers. We also sponsor two major annual events: the Catfish Derby and the July 4th Fireworks. Membership is open to all who wish to support our mission.
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The Novello Theatre is a London West End theatre on Aldwych.
The Novello was built as one of a pair with the Aldwych Theatre on either side of the Waldorf Hotel, both being designed by W.G.R. Sprague. The theatre opened as the Waldorf Theatre on May 22, 1905, and was renamed the Strand Theatre in 1909. It was again renamed as the Whitney Theatre in 1911 before again becoming the Strand Theatre in 1913. In 2005, the theatre was renamed by its owners (Delfont-Mackintosh) the Novello Theatre in honour of Ivor Novello.
The black comedy Arsenic and Old Lace had a run of 1337 performances here in the 1940s, and Sailor Beware ran for 1231 performances from 1955. Stephen Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened here on the day of Kennedy''s assassination, running for nearly two years. In 1971 the comedy No Sex Please - We're British opened here, remaining for over 10 years of its 16-year run until it transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 1982.
The Novello Theatre was extensively refurbished in 1930 and again in the early 1970s. For its 100th anniversary in 2005, the theatre underwent yet another extensive refurbishment. The current capacity is around 1,050.
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The number of building permits issued for single-family homes is the best indicator of how many newly built homes will rise over the next few months. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Residential Sales Report, the number of building permits issued in June was 850,000, a 0.8% increase from May.
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The Elimination of the Lean Manufacturing moults has identified 7 waste or moults. The Lean Manufacturing building can only be developed if its base is constructed first. Without using a very flexible and modular system that allows the removal of the seedlings and the implementation of Kaizen skills at the factory, it is impossible to foresee the later stages of the Lean Manufacturing which are the standardization of the work, the sequencing (Heijunka) and, later, the JIT and the JIDOKA. The systematic use of tubular systems acts as a catalyst for the policy of reducing waste and as a tool for implementation of Kaizen attitudes, continuous improvement. The Muda of treatment using small boxes of front provisioning allows you to reduce the length of the line, source of saving overhead costs and reducing costs and driving times. The moult of the rejections rejections generate costs and loss of time for the company, require the implementation of a system of touch-ups particularly unproductive.
Rid of waste is even more expensive. The disposal of waste passes do not generate them. Which means that it should create an environment and an adapted ergonomics: parts and tools in place, within the immediate reach of the operations. This reduces the risks of strokes, falls and manufacturing defects. Structures with tubular systems custom design allows a limitation of the volume of generated waste and natural and evolutionary management of residual waste. The moult of displacement displacement and useless movements at the workplace do not create any added value.
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< Infrastructure | Meetings
Meeting of 2006-10-19
*** Time shown in EDT 16:00 < mmcgrath> We ready to have a meeting? 16:01 < iWolf> mmcgrath: I am here. 16:02 < mmcgrath> Role call: Who's here? 16:02 * lmacken 16:02 < mikec> I'm on 16:02 * jwatson is here 16:02 < lyz> on but away for a min 16:04 < mmcgrath> Welp, the way these things usually go is we follow the Schedule listed on http://fedoraproject .org/wiki/Infrastructure/Schedule 16:04 < mmcgrath> Its not a hard and fast rule, but its good to have in front of you while we do the meetings. 16:06 < mmcgrath> So the first item is the unifying look and feel for admin.fedoraproject.org. 16:06 < mmcgrath> Its still unclaimed so if any of the new people want it, just put your name as the 'project' lead. 16:07 < mmcgrath> next item is the Package Database. 16:07 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: anything to add? Whats going on with that? 16:07 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: its comminag along I havent done much yet but the other guys have 16:08 < mmcgrath> k. 16:08 < mmcgrath> we'll skip VCS for the moment. 16:08 < dgilmore> :) 16:08 < mmcgrath> iWolf: systems upgrades: anything to report? 16:09 < dgilmore> iWolf: i put a fc6 xen guest in for db2 16:09 < iWolf> I have a list of what is using what DB and which config files changed, tested restores on one ofthe earlier xen guests. 16:09 < iWolf> All that went smoothly. 16:09 < dgilmore> RHEL4 just did not want to behave for me 16:09 < iWolf> Waiting on word if new hardware pans out. 16:09 < iWolf> dgilmore: Even the reboot of xen2 didn't help, eh? 16:10 < abompard> hey there 16:10 < mmcgrath> we should know for sure within a week or so. I should get shipping information by then. 16:10 < mmcgrath> abompard: yo 16:10 < dgilmore> iWolf: no it didint 16:10 < iWolf> mmcgrath: sounds great. 16:10 < mmcgrath> lmacken: around? 16:10 < iWolf> dgilmore: hhmmm 16:10 < lmacken> yup yup 16:10 < lmacken> firewalls 16:10 < lmacken> app1 is now running the pyroman configuration, although as far as I could tell the only traffic app1 was getting was from the load balancer every second or so. 16:10 < mmcgrath> Whats the word on the firwalls? 16:11 < dgilmore> lmacken: did you ever look at the builders? 16:11 < lmacken> shouldn't all of the traffic going to the app servers be from the proxies ? 16:11 < mmcgrath> yeah, iWolf is going to do a brief audit tonight to find out what state everything is in. 16:11 < lmacken> dgilmore: not yet, definitely this weekend 16:11 < lmacken> awesome 16:11 < mmcgrath> It could be that all the proxy servers are accidently pointing to one app server. 16:11 < lmacken> most of our machines don't need to be running cups and sendmail :( 16:11 < iWolf> Yep, still planning on poking around on that tonight. 16:11 < iWolf> Plans to help fix that too! 16:11 < mmcgrath> no they don't. 16:12 < mmcgrath> we'll discuss that more on the ilst. 16:12 < lmacken> k 16:12 < mmcgrath> Documentation: I've added some stuff to the wiki as far as the getting started page and the Officers stuff. 16:12 * mmcgrath notes some officers are still mostly blank ;-) 16:12 < mmcgrath> For the new people, what did you think of the getting started page, what is it missing if anything? 16:13 * dgilmore is guilty 16:13 < jwatson> I found it easy to follow 16:13 < jwatson> The only problem I ran into was getting Wiki Edit access. 16:14 < mmcgrath> Yeah, that parts kind of a crap shoot. Typically you have to know someone, or be known on the lists to get access. 16:14 < mikec> it was pretty easy to use 16:14 < mmcgrath> Though, come to think of it, wiki edit access isn't totally a prerequisite to getting involved with FI. 16:15 < mmcgrath> but it does help. 16:15 < jwatson> I posted a couple of times in #fedora-websites, but nobody answered. :) I didn't try adding myself to the queue page. 16:15 < mmcgrath> jwatson: send an email to the list, we'll get you set up. 16:15 < mmcgrath> The next item is Xen: I think we can move that to done. 16:15 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: whats the word on the legacy buildsys? 16:16 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: we need something to build and make sure it is working 16:16 < jwatson> Yeah, I think Wiki Edit access could be one of those things that you get access to when you need it. Maybe not necessary in the Getting Started list. 16:16 < dgilmore> push scipts need to be setup also 16:16 < mmcgrath> if I requested a build right now, what would happen? 16:16 < dgilmore> it should build 16:16 * mmcgrath goes to request a build 16:18 < jwatson> Can someone give a short description of the legacy build sys? Does it build Extras from cvs? 16:18 < mmcgrath> jwatson: actually the legacy buildsys is to build packages for Fedora-Legacy. 16:19 < mmcgrath> just as the extras buildsys builds packages for extras. 16:19 < mmcgrath> they're actually the same buildsys :) 16:19 < mmcgrath> ok, I'll keep you guys informed about that. 16:20 < lmacken> hmm, it might be nice to have a WikiEdit group in the account system 16:21 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: something's farked in the makefile I think - Server returned an error: This build server is set up for building CVS checkouts only. 16:21 < mmcgrath> we'll get back to that. 16:21 < mmcgrath> One of the big things I wanted to discuss is some priorities on our projects. 16:21 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: yeah you need to use a cvs tag to build 16:21 < mmcgrath> We've got a deadline for a couple of things thats quickly approaching. 16:21 < dgilmore> you cant build SRPMS 16:21 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: that came from a "make plague" :) 16:22 < dgilmore> hmm then we need to fix legacy's Makefiles 16:22 < mmcgrath> yeah 16:22 < mmcgrath> Ok, so we've got the VCS to choose 16:22 < mmcgrath> The Accounting System to get under way 16:23 < mmcgrath> and the package database. 16:23 < dgilmore> how are the test VCS's comming along? 16:23 < mmcgrath> I see these as our 3 biggest areas, anyone have anything to add to that list? 16:23 < abadger1999> I need to free up time. 16:23 < abadger1999> Although one of the new people pinged me yesterday with some interest in that. 16:24 < mmcgrath> we need to start getting the developers involved. It'll probably be them that picks it. 16:24 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: id agree they are our biggest things 16:24 < dgilmore> and they are big 16:24 < mmcgrath> We've got SVN up, they all know how CVS works. 16:24 < mmcgrath> we're looking at mercurial and possibly git? 16:24 < dgilmore> bazzar? 16:24 < mmcgrath> and bazzar 16:24 * mmcgrath goes to look at the page 16:24 < abadger1999> Yeah. Bazaar is furthest along. 16:24 < abadger1999> No one's taken git. 16:25 < abadger1999> There's plenty of inhouse (inside RH) knowledge of mercurial but everyone's busy. 16:25 < mmcgrath> For the new guys: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl/ArchitectureDraft 16:25 < abadger1999> Err... svn might be further than bzr as mmcgrath set it up :-) 16:25 < mmcgrath> abadger1999: we might want to tap warren and maybe skvidal 16:25 < mmcgrath> yeah, svn's up and ready :) 16:26 * dgilmore hasnt done git before but i guess no time better to learn that the present 16:26 < abompard> dudes, I'm sorry but I gotta run. No news from me on the Accounting System, I just didn't find the time lately. Sorry, I'll try to free some 16:26 < lyz> abompard catch ya later 16:26 < mmcgrath> abompard: no problem. See you around. 16:26 < abadger1999> Accounting sys -- do you guys want new helpers? 16:26 < lyz> in a bit yes 16:26 < mmcgrath> we've got lots of new people that could aid in that. 16:26 < lyz> the web site will have to be modified to use LDAP 16:27 < mmcgrath> LOTS of stuff will have to be modified to use LDAP :) 16:27 < abadger1999> mmcgrath: :-) 16:27 < lyz> I've got a xen instance now 16:27 < mmcgrath> lmacken: real quick, can you give some info as to what the "update system" is? 16:27 < lyz> going to work on that today 16:28 < lmacken> the Fedora Update System is the tool used to push core updates 16:28 < lmacken> I'm working on porting it over to TurboGears and allowing it to encompass core/extras/legacy 16:28 < dgilmore> lmacken: that would be very cool 16:29 < mmcgrath> is that something we'd want ready by FC7? 16:29 < lmacken> yeah. I will probably dump my svn repo into our svn repo soon 16:29 < mmcgrath> cool, Ok. So I'll add that to the top priority list. 16:29 < lmacken> sounds good 16:30 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: what are your thoughts on the packaging database? 16:30 < mmcgrath> ready for FC7? 16:30 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: i would really hope so 16:30 < mmcgrath> ok, so. We've got 6 months to put out 4 pretty major projects. 16:30 < abadger1999> We should be able to get some form of package DB out before FC7 16:30 < mmcgrath> starting... like a week ago. 16:31 < dgilmore> though we added a few thinks like a way to generate the comps file from it 16:31 < abadger1999> dgilmore: I was already planning on that as a feature :-) 16:31 < mmcgrath> I don't want to push the accounting system to force it out by FC7 if its not ready, that one could wait until after since we already have a working account system. 16:31 < dgilmore> abadger1999: :) 16:31 < mmcgrath> but the other three I'd like to put a solid deadline on. 16:31 < abadger1999> dgilmore: Although I put it in as a "possibly do it later" 16:31 < mmcgrath> officers, sound good? 16:32 < abadger1999> Sounds good. 16:32 < iWolf> Sounds good to me. 16:32 < mmcgrath> We'll have to hit the devs hard after FC6 gets out the door. 16:32 < mmcgrath> to help test and all that. 16:33 < lmacken> mmcgrath: sounds good 16:33 < mmcgrath> Ok, so with that done. I'll open the floor. 16:34 < mmcgrath> who's got what? 16:34 < dgilmore> im going to sit down and do some coding on plague soon anyone have anything they want added 16:34 < mmcgrath> can you make it bake cookies? 16:36 < lyz> mmmm cookies 16:36 < mmcgrath> Anyone else have anything? 16:37 < lmacken> yeah 16:37 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: no cookies for you 16:37 < lmacken> I added the mirror management frontend to the wishlist. 16:37 < lmacken> I put some basic requirements on the wiki a while back 16:37 < lmacken> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MirrorManagement 16:37 < lmacken> some of which is now being done by seth's check-mirrors code. 16:37 < lmacken> having a web tool to monitor the health of our mirrors would be nice 16:38 < lmacken> any takers? 16:38 < lmacken> if not we can do it onlist 16:38 < mmcgrath> kind of like: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i386&stats=1 16:38 < mmcgrath> I've been modifying that code heavily since it went out. its kind of on a freeze right now until FC6 is out. 16:39 < lmacken> yeah, that's definitely a start 16:39 < lyz> would nagios work? 16:39 < jwatson> What about mrtg or cricket? 16:39 < mmcgrath> nagios could do some of it. Its got a fully functional database back end. 16:39 < f13> mmcgrath: ping? 16:39 < f13> mmcgrath: whats up with bash? 16:39 < mmcgrath> f13: pong. 16:39 < mmcgrath> we were testing the legacy buildsystem. Just a release bump. 16:39 < lmacken> mmcgrath: we also want the mirror admins to be able to self service their mirrors and whatnot 16:40 < mmcgrath> It failed though so I'll have to find out what happened. 16:40 < f13> mmcgrath: the diff was huge 16:40 < mmcgrath> huh? shouldn't have been. 16:40 < mmcgrath> link? 16:41 < f13> I don't know if it's on viewcvs, but you added something like 15 changelog entries 16:41 < mmcgrath> I must not be on that list. Forward it to me, I'll take a look. 16:41 < mmcgrath> lmacken: nod, maybe one of our new devs would like to assist on it. 16:42 < mmcgrath> f13: OOOHHH, I know what happened... my bad. 16:42 < mmcgrath> I copied the FC-4 bash.spec to the FC-3 tree. I'll fix it. 16:42 < f13> haha, ok. 16:43 < abadger1999> it would be nice to start breaking subtasks out of all the development items so we can have things we parcel out to new devs. 16:43 < mmcgrath> abadger1999: do you want to start taking some of that over? 16:43 < abadger1999> Yeah. 16:43 < mmcgrath> :: whew :: :P 16:43 < abadger1999> I've started working on it for the packageDB. 16:43 < abadger1999> I can do some of that for VCS as well. 16:44 < mmcgrath> I'll send a cattle call out to the list to see if anyone has previous GIT experience. If not dgilmore and I will just have to sit down and learn it ;-) 16:44 < abadger1999> Acct Sys and Update Sys I'd like feedback from you guys about what tasks you think would go well for a new user. 16:44 < jwatson> What language or methodology do we write things like the Mirror Manager in? Are we standardizing on TurboGears? Or is it whatever gets the job done? 16:45 < abadger1999> mmcgrath: There's also things like writing testing scripts to see how far the various VCS's scale. 16:45 < lmacken> I think TurboGears can really help speed up our development process too. All we need at firstis an svn repo; turbogears can be run locally without a production envorinment. 16:45 < abadger1999> and importers to get data from CVS quickly when the time comes. 16:45 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: just chatting with jeremy we are going to branch extras monday 16:45 < abadger1999> and porting the Makefile.common to the new VCS's. 16:45 < mmcgrath> abadger1999: yeah. The CVS change is really a big project. And it will require testing from extras and devel. 16:45 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: excellent. 16:46 < abadger1999> lmacken: svn repo for TG? 16:46 < lmacken> abadger1999: no, for each project 16:47 < mmcgrath> for now I'd think the tg stuff should go in the fedora cvs. 16:47 < abadger1999> lmacken: Just for general management of the code? Like the current cvs stuff? 16:48 < lmacken> abadger1999: yes, you can run local development instances outside of the production code 16:48 < lmacken> great for testing 16:48 < mmcgrath> lmacken: you mean turbogears has some sort of built-in svn integration? 16:48 < lmacken> mmcgrath: no, no. i was just saying that all it needs is a repo. 16:48 < mmcgrath> got'cha ;-P 16:49 < mmcgrath> ok, so we'll get started on that. In the meantime we all need to pick our favorite SVN repo as well. 16:49 < mmcgrath> err not SVN repo. VCS system. 16:49 < abadger1999> lmacken: k. So like fedora cvs but in svn rather than cvs. 16:49 < mmcgrath> Whatever gets chosen will need to be supported immediately, I'd hate for them to pick GIT andhave no one be familiar with it. 16:49 < abadger1999> mmcgrath: Bazaar :-) 16:49 * mmcgrath shutters 16:50 < jwatson> I'm familiar with svn. Could learn git too. 16:50 < mmcgrath> email sent. 16:51 < mmcgrath> We can discuss the rest of this on the list. 16:51 < abadger1999> Bazaar was a natural progression from svn for me. The commands feel more natural than merc urial or git (from my svn background). 16:51 < mmcgrath> Gotta keep short meeting times :D 16:51 < mmcgrath> I've never used bazaar in my life. 16:51 < abadger1999> ha ha. 16:51 < mmcgrath> I've been to one before. 16:51 < lmacken> ditto 16:51 < lmacken> (wrt using it) 16:52 < mmcgrath> Ok, so does anyone have anything else before I close the meeting? 16:52 < abadger1999> What about repos for our rpms? 16:52 < dgilmore> not I 16:52 < mmcgrath> Ohhh yeah. 16:52 < mmcgrath> thanks DGILMORE ;-) 16:52 * dgilmore nearly forgot that 16:52 * abadger1999 prods mmcgrath 16:52 * iWolf forgot too 16:53 < mmcgrath> Ok, so I'm going to create a yum repo on fpserv that will get replicated to our app servers. 16:53 < mmcgrath> The plan right now is to follow the same format/name space as the fedora repos. 16:53 < mmcgrath> They will be yumable as well. 16:53 < mmcgrath> I'll send the final info to the list about exactly where the master is. I'll copy all the RPMS in our CVS db to it. 16:53 < mmcgrath> sound good? 16:54 < iWolf> mmcgrath: sounds good to me. 16:54 < dgilmore> yep sounds good to me 16:54 < dgilmore> we have yum on the RHEL sevrers? 16:54 < abadger1999> sounds good. 16:55 < abadger1999> At FESCo someone asked if we're using the vanilla FC3 build of rpms or our own rebuild. 16:55 < mmcgrath> not yet but we will 16:55 < mmcgrath> and RHEL5 uses yum by default. 16:55 < abadger1999> If it was a rebuild, why not just put the support in the devel branch instead of an FC3. 16:56 < mmcgrath> abadger1999: I've just been using the extras buildsys. 16:56 < abadger1999> mmcgrath: k. So we are using the FC3 built rpm for now? 16:56 < mmcgrath> abadger1999: yeah. 16:57 < mmcgrath> Sometimes I use karan's repo. 16:57 < mmcgrath> FC3 != RHEL4 but they're pretty damn close. 16:57 < mmcgrath> Ok, one more time. Does anyone have anything else :) 16:58 * dgilmore shuts up this time 16:59 < mmcgrath> alllrighty. Then I'll call meeting end in 30 16:59 < mmcgrath> 15 16:59 < mmcgrath> 10 16:59 < mmcgrath> 5 16:59 < mmcgrath> 4 16:59 < mmcgrath> 3 16:59 < mmcgrath> 1.5 16:59 < mmcgrath> 1 16:59 < mmcgrath> ------- END ---------------


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers no longer have to walk through metal detectors before gaining access to the House floor. And any time they do vote, they will have to do so in person — no more voting by proxy from home.
Those are just some of the changes being made by the now GOP-led House that has chafed at some of the restrictions Democrats put in place as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection.
A look at some of the key changes Republicans are expected to adopt Monday that will affect floor proceedings and dictate their priorities in the 118th Congress.
As the pandemic surged in the U.S. and the death toll reached more than 80,000, the House approved new rules allowing lawmakers to vote by proxy. Under the process, they assigned their vote to another lawmaker who then announced on the House floor how the absent lawmaker was voting on a particular bill.
Republicans opposed the change from the start, though many used proxy voting after it went into effect. And hewing to their campaign promise, they made sure the House rules provide no option for remote voting.
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the House majority leader, said that ending proxy voting would increase collaboration and speed up the voting process.
"It's about making Congress work again where people have to show up and do their jobs in person like everybody else in the real world has to," Scalise said.
House rules give lawmakers the ability to remove the speaker from the job through what's known as a motion to vacate. A majority vote of all House members would be needed for the speaker to be ousted.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., hoping to appease some on the hard right, agreed to give as few as five Republican members the ability to initiate a vote to remove him. But when that wasn't good enough for some of the more conservative members of the conference, he agreed to reduce that threshold to one — the threshold that historically has been the norm.
Proponents of the one-person threshold said it promotes accountability, noting its long history in the House. The last use of the motion was in 2015, when then-Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a Republican who later became Donald Trump's chief of staff, introduced a resolution to declare the speaker's office vacant. Two months later, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he would be stepping down.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., calls the move to go back to the lower threshold "allowing the far-right to hold the incoming speaker hostage." And some moderate Republicans agree with that assessment.
But Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who initially opposed McCarthy's speakership bid before ultimately supporting him, said the bare-minimum threshold had been in place since the 1800s and is an important tool that was in force until House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the gavel.
"In the business arena, if a CEO is not doing the job, you get fired," Norman said. "Same thing in politics. We're not immune."
Republicans are proposing major changes to the Office of Congressional Ethics, which initiates reviews of ethics complaints and when appropriate refers its findings to the House Committee on Ethics. Only the latter has the authority to recommend discipline.
But the office initiating the review plays a critical role in ensuring complaints from the public are followed up on. The board has six members and two alternates.
The Republican rules package would essentially gut the office, according to advocacy groups opposing the changes being made.
First, the new rules force three of the four Democrats who currently sit on the eight-member board to leave their positions immediately because they would be serving beyond an eight-year term limit that the rules package imposes. Second, it requires OCE staff to have been hired within 30 days of the rule's passage, making it difficult to assess and hire candidates for those jobs in such a brief window.
"Together, these changes weaken OCE to the point where the office would struggle to perform its core function, dismantling one of the only ways members of Congress are head accountable for ethics violations," said the Campaign Legal Center, which led a letter to lawmakers on behalf of about two dozen advocacy groups.
Members of both parties have chafed at the OCE's work over the years, complaining that complaints to the office are often politically motivated. The rule also directs the Ethics Committee to come up with a process to receive complaints directly from the public, rather than go through the OCE.
Another rule Republicans are resurrecting allows lawmakers to include language in appropriations bills that can rearrange an agency or slash specific positions or salaries.
Republicans say the rule is about enhancing accountability. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., said the rule was created in 1876 as a tool to cut spending by restructuring an agency. Rep. William Holman thought spending was out of control, Griffith said.
But the rule could also be used to target an individual over ideological differences, or say a special counsel, like the one overseeing the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. Of course, the Democratic-led Senate would have to go along for any such rescissions to take effect, which is highly unlikely.
The House Freedom Caucus even specifically named Dr. Anthony Fauci in calling for the rule's reinstatement. Fauci served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, and his efforts to mitigate the damage from COVID-19 clashed with the views of some conservatives closely aligned with former President Donald Trump.
The rules package calls for the House to vote on a resolution establishing a committee to investigate a number of things involving "strategic competition" between the U.S. and China as lawmakers take a more hardline approach with the Asian nation.
It also calls for creation of a "select subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal government" to be within the Judiciary Committee, which is headed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a hardliner who is a close ally of Trump.
"We're going to get into what's going on at the FBI where we have had 14 whistleblowers come talk to us about the weaponization of government there and the political nature of the Justice Department," Jordan said on "Fox News Sunday."
Votes on creating those committees could come as soon as this week.
Democrats call the "weaponization" panel a ploy to push a far-right agenda.
"In my mind, it speaks volumes that they are choosing to prioritize this kind of dangerous partisan garbage instead of actually trying to help the American people," McGovern said.


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To a user, the startup latency of an HTML 5 based application is critical. It is their first impression of the application's performance. If it's really slow, they might not even bother to wait for the app to load before navigating away. Even if your application is blazing fast after it loads, the user may never get the chance to experience it.
There are several aspects of an HTML 5 based application that contribute to startup latency:
- Network time to fetch the application (JavaScript + HTML)
- JavaScript parse time
- Code execution time to fetch the data and render the home page of your application
How to Split Your Code into Modules
Splitting an application into individual modules might not be as simple as you think. Code that serves a common purpose/functionality should be grouped together and form a module (comparable to a library). As mentioned earlier, we selected which modules are critical to the home page of the app and which modules can be lazy-loaded at a later time. Let's use a Weather application as an example:
High Level Functionality:
- A "Weather in my Favourite Cities" home page
- Click on a city to view the cities entire week forecast
- Weather data comes from an external web service
- Weather data model
- Weather web service API
- Common UI widgets (buttons, toolbars, navigation, etc)
- Favourite Cities page
- City Weather Forecast page
One thing to keep in mind is the dependency order of your modules. For modules that have many downstream dependencies, it might make sense to include them as part of the core modules.
How to Lazy Load the Modules
Option 1: Script as DOM
This method uses JavaScript to insert SCRIPT tags into the HEAD's DOM.
<script type="text/JavaScript">
function loadFile(url) {
var script = document.createElement('SCRIPT');
script.src = url;
Option 2: XmlHttpRequest (XHR)This method sets up XmlHttpRequests to retrieve the JavaScript . The returned string should be evaluated in the XHR callbacks (using the eval(string) method). This method is a little more complicated but it gives you more control over error handling.
<script type="text/JavaScript">
function loadFile(url) {
function callback() {
if (req.readyState == 4) { // 4 = Loaded
if (req.status == 200) {
} else {
// Error
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.onreadystatechange = callback;
req.open("GET", url, true);
To combine all modules into a single resource, we wrote each module into a separate script tag and hid the code inside a comment block (/* */). When the resource first loads, none of the code is parsed since it is commented out. To load a module, find the DOM element for the corresponding script tag, strip out the comment block, and eval() the code. If the web app supports XHTML, this trick is even more elegant as the modules can be hidden inside a CDATA tag instead of a script tag. An added bonus is the ability to lazy load your modules synchronously since there's no longer a need to fetch the modules asynchronously over the network.
On an iPhone 2.2 device, 200k of JavaScript held within a block comment adds 240ms during page load, whereas 200k of JavaScript that is parsed during page load added 2600 ms. That's more than a 10x reduction in startup latency by eliminating 200k of unneeded JavaScript during page load! Take a look at the code sample below to see how this is done.
<script id="lazy">
// Make sure you strip out (or replace) comment blocks in your JavaScript first.
JavaScript of lazy module
function lazyLoad() {
var lazyElement = document.getElementById('lazy');
var lazyElementBody = lazyElement.innerHTML;
var jsCode = stripOutCommentBlock(lazyElementBody);
<div onclick=lazyLoad()> Lazy Load </div>
In the future, we hope that the HTML5 standard will allow more control over when the application cache should download resources in the manifest, since using comments to pass along code is not elegant but worked nicely for us. In addition, the snippets of code are not meant to be a reference implementation and one should consider many additional optimizations such as stripping white space and compiling the JavaScript to make its parsing and execution faster. To learn more about web performance, get tips and tricks to improve the speed of your web applications and to download tools, please visit http://code.google.com/speed.Previous posts from Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series
HTML5 and Webkit pave the way for mobile web applications
Using AppCache to launch offline - Part 1
Using AppCache to launch offline - Part 2
Using AppCache to launch offline - Part 3
A Common API for Web Storage
Suggestions for better performance
Cache pattern for offline HTML5 web application


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Hitting a tough shot over one of the NBA's best defenders is a boost to any ego. For Kobe Bryant, it's a sign he's getting back to his own personal standard.Bryant scored 21 points in his sixth game of the season, and the Los Angeles Lakers closed out a four-game road trip with a 96-92 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night.
"I know I'm back when those pull-up jumpers start going, especially against a defender like Tony Allen, who is just breathing all over you and is very physical," Bryant said. "I felt really comfortable being able to elevate and shoot through contact."
Pau Gasol added 21 points and nine rebounds for the Lakers, who were coming off a 114-100 loss at Atlanta on Monday night. Nick Young had 18 points, and Jodie Meeks finished with 13.
Young said having Bryant on the floor makes a big difference.
"Especially when he is getting his groove back like he is," Young said. "We've just got to feed off each other. We can't just sit back and watch and let him do everything. We've still got to help him out and feed off of him and Pau."
Zach Randolph had 18 points and a season-high 16 rebounds for Memphis, which lost its fourth straight. It also was its first loss when Randolph leads the team in scoring.
The Grizzlies played without Mike Conley, who sat out after bruising his left thigh in Sunday's loss to Minnesota.
Memphis coach Dave Joerger wasn't happy that his Grizzlies let the Lakers jump on them from the start.
"That's a couple games in a row," Joerger said. "We cannot come out and wait, especially at home to take a hit. We are letting teams get up by shooting the basketball and getting loose balls. They are getting after us instead of us getting after them."
The Grizzlies still managed to take a 69-67 lead in the fourth quarter, but the Lakers responded with a 17-4 run.
Bryant played more than 32 minutes, matching his most action since returning from his torn left Achilles' tendon. He was 9 for 18 from the field, both season highs, despite running the offense most of the night.
"It makes a big difference when he operates well from the post and facilitates for us," Gasol said.
Randolph gave Memphis its last lead with the first bucket in the fourth. The Lakers then put together their big run, and Young's 3 made it 84-73 with 7:30 left.
The Grizzlies came back with eight straight, six by Jerryd Bayless. But the rally fizzled from there, and Bryant hit a 3-pointer from 28 feet with 2:39 left to put the Lakers up 91-85.
"Kobe looked great today, Pau was big down the stretch," said Allen, who had a season-high 16 points.
Bryant, who was 4 of 14 for eight points in the loss in Atlanta, was active right from the start in Memphis. He missed his first two shots and had two quick turnovers. But he hit four of his first eight shots before going to the locker room apparently to help keep warm rather than just chilling on the bench.
"Just try to figure it out what you can do and try to keep it as loose as possible throughout the course of the game," Bryant said.
Playing for the second straight night, the Lakers still made 11 of their first 16 shots in building a 15-point lead that Memphis managed to whittle down to 34-24 after the first quarter. The Grizzlies used a 12-2 run in the second quarter to close to 43-41, and Bryant and Gasol returned to the floor to push that lead back to 52-47 at halftime.
Bryant went down on the court and was slow to get up with 3:25 left in the third. He spent a couple minutes during a timeout bent over at the waist flexing his left leg before gingerly walking to the bench with trainer Gary Vitti. Bryant returned to the floor after the timeout.
The Grizzlies outscored the Lakers 20-15 in the third to tie it at 67, but they were unable to keep pace with the Lakers in the fourth.
Bayless and Jon Leuer added 13 points apiece for the Grizzlies, who shot 41 percent from the floor, compared to 49 percent for Los Angeles.
NOTES: The 21 points for Bryant matched his season high at Charlotte on Dec. 14. … Memphis lost its 10th at home, more than the Grizzlies lost all last season (nine). … Randolph had his 14th double-double. … Young had his 11th straight game in double figures. … Tayshaun Prince, who had hit just 10 of his last 39 shots over the past six games for Memphis, played only nine minutes, missed his only shot and didn't play in the second half. … Leuer has scored in double figures in five straight games. … Memphis had a season-high 18 offensive rebounds and outrebounded the Lakes 49-37.
Source: AP