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Tenn. teacher motivates students every morning with fun song
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An elementary school teacher in Tennessee is using a fun, popular song to get her students moving and motivated every morning.
St. John Catholic School shared a video on Facebook of second grade teacher Mrs. Finch dancing with her students and singing a remix to the hit "Juju on that Beat."
"Second grade has fun from the minute they walk through the door," the school said.
According to the school, the song is from the blog Teaching and So Fourth. Bethany Humphrey, another Tennessee teacher, takes songs and remixes them for children.
Mrs. Finch, who has been teaching at St. John for two years, used Humphrey's latest remix to get her students moving and smiling.
"She is absolutely wonderful," the school told FOX 5. "Her kids adore her, as well as her staff!"
St. John Catholic School is one of nine Jubilee schools in the inner city Memphis area.


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In an era when African Americans, especially women, were often professionally sidelined, Vivian Carter forced herself onto the field. Through her ingenuity and personal popularity, the musical "matriarch" became a business owner and record producer. Her company, Vee Jay Records, recorded and popularized many successful musicians of the mid-20th century, ranging from Rhythm-and-Blues to Pop Rock, Doo-Wop, Gospel, Soul, and Jazz artists. Although music had been strictly segregated along racial lines, Vee Jay introduced both black and white artists to mixed crowds of local teenagers first, and then to a national audience between 1953 and 1966. The company released recordings of some of the nation's most prolific musicians, including Little Richard, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and The Four Seasons.
Born in 1921 in Tunica, Mississippi, Vivian Carter moved with her brother and parents to Gary at age 6. As a child and teenager, she was competitive, outgoing, and self-confident. These qualities helped her win a 1948 contest for the "best girl disc jockey in Chicago," which was the beginning of Vivian's radio career. Eventually, Vivian had a five-hour nightly radio program in Gary, called "Livin' With Vivian," referring to female listeners as "Powder Puffs" and male callers "Sponges." The "hostest who brings you the mostest" played music by black artists and much of what she played was not available on commercial records. Since Vivian owned a record store in the heart of Gary, along with her future husband Jimmy Bracken, she knew that recordings of this music would sell.
Teenagers of all races from several Calumet Region schools would gather after school to watch Vivian through the glass store window while loudspeakers broadcast her favorite Rhythm and Blues recordings, as recalled by Jerry Locasto, a future radio executive who was one of those kids. While the records played, Vivian would come out and mingle with the kids to find out what they liked or disliked about each one. Kids could request songs, and she would play them. In 1953, Vivian and Jimmy started their own record label, called Vee Jay Records from the initials of "Vivian" and "Jimmy," to record the music of local black artists.
Their first group was the Spaniels, a group of crooners from Gary Roosevelt High School, Vivian's alma mater. The boys walked into the record shop after winning a talent contest at school, to ask if Vivian knew how they could get a recording made. Vivian listened to the group, then gave the impoverished boys a place to practice – her mother's garage –and arranged to record them at Chance Records, a studio in Chicago. She later bought suits for their publicity photos and a station wagon for their travels.
Best Years of Vee Jay Records
The Spaniels' first record, "Baby, It's You" reached #10 on the Rhythm and Blues charts. Then the Spaniels hit #5 with their second record, "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite." The record "crossed over" from the Race Records category to become a hit with white purchasers as well. But Vivian was disappointed when the McGuire Sisters, a "white girl trio," sold more copies with their "cover" of the same song. She asked her brother, Calvin, to put more of a white-sounding background on the future records, to appeal to broader audiences. And the young company learned to print and register publishing rights to all their performers' original songs, so they still made money when other performers covered them.
In 1954, Vee Jay moved to Chicago and eventually opened on Michigan Avenue's "Record Row." Vivian, Calvin, and her husband Jimmy remained the heads of the company. But according to Bob Kostanczuk of the Gary Post-Tribune, Vivian was always "viewed as the company's matriarch and driving force." They hired the knowledgeable Ewart Abner, accountant for the former Chance Records, after Chance went out of business. Abner started as manager and eventually worked his way up to president.
In the next ten years, Vee Jay Records released successful recordings of black and white performers, including hits like The Four Seasons's "Big Girls Don't Cry," The Dells "Oh, What a Night," and The Beatles's "Love Me Do" and "Twist and Shout." Since radio stations wouldn't play several records from one company label in the same time slot, Vee Jay also recorded under the labels Falcon, Conrad, Tollie, and Abner, from the middle names of the company's principals. Vee Jay opened a Los Angeles studio, and Vivian and Jimmy soon drove around in luxury convertibles and fur coats.
The Beginning of the End
Vee Jay's best (and worst) luck came in 1962 when they tried to buy distribution rights for Australian singer Frank Ifield's European hit single "I Remember You." The Gary Post-Tribune on August 23, 1998, noted that the British agent insisted they also take a quartet named The Beatles, unknown at that time in the United States. Vee Jay released several Beatles singles and their first U. S. album, to lukewarm success until the group appeared on the nationwide Ed Sullivan Show.
Then Beatles' sales skyrocketed. Capitol Records, who had earlier turned down the Beatles, started filing lawsuits against Vee Jay to get the group back, as reported by Mike Callahan in "The Vee Jay Story" in Goldmine (May 1981). The cost of defending the lawsuits, in addition to Ewart Abner's poor financial management and gambling habit, wiped out Vee Jay's money and credit, and put the company out of business.
In a life story that Vivian called "rags to riches to rags," Vivian and Jimmy lost everything, even their little record store, and divorced. Jimmy died and Vivian worked days at the county trustee's office and hosted a late-night radio program in Gary from 1967 to 1982. According to Dr. James B. Lane's Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History article, when her best friend from high school, Yjean Chambers, asked how Vivian felt about the spectacular rise and fall of her recording business, Vivian replied that she had "learned too late the art of looking over the shoulder of those who work for you." Then Vivian added, "But I don't miss a thing. That's all behind me now."
After several years of illness, Vivian died of complications from diabetes and hypertension in 1989. Lane says one of Vivian's last visitors was James "Pookie" Hudson, her first recording artist, who sang Vivian to sleep with his hit song, "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite."
Further Reading
For photos and a brief history of Vee Jay Records, see Andrew Clayman's article for the Made-in-Chicago Museum.
Learn more with James B. Lane's article in Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, Winter 2011, Vol. 23, pp 48-55.

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The worst part about setting up a new Mac is finding and downloading all your software. It's time-consuming, boring, and usually feels like a waste of time. Thankfully, with just a little bit of setup, you can automate the whole process with Homebrew and Homebrew Cask so you never have to do it again.
What Is Homebrew?
Homebrew is a command line utility that automates the process of downloading most of the apps you'll want to install on a new computer. Essentially, you can just type in a single command in Terminal to download and install software instead of searching for it in your browser, downloading it, and then running an installer. This includes stuff like Chrome, aText, and more. Once you set Homebrew up, you can save your installation script and get your new Macs set up in seconds. Basically, Homebrew simplifies the process of downloading and compiling software. Typically speaking, it does this by downloading source code from sites like GitHub.
We'll also use Homebrew Cask, which allows Homebrew to download popular programs at once. Where Homebrew concentrates more on installing developer tools, Homebrew Cask lets you install more common software like Chrome or Spotify. You'll need both Homebrew and Homebrew Cask installed.
Step One: Install Homebrew and Homebrew Cask
The first thing you'll need to do is install Homebrew. So, open up Terminal (in Applications > Utilities) and type in this command:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Once that finishes up, we'll install Homebrew Cask and hook it into Homebrew. Type these two commands into Terminal:
brew tap caskroom/cask
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
That's it! Both Homebrew and Homebrew Cask are now installed.
Step Two: Familiarize Yourself with Cask
Now that Homebrew and Homebrew Cask are installed, it's time to familiarize yourself with how Homebrew Cask works. Technically, you can skip straight ahead to step three if you want to just create a new system installation script, but it's good to get your bearings a bit before moving on.
Homebrew Cask has a few basic commands that you'll want to know. You have four commands you'll likely use more than others: search, install, uninstall, and cleanup.
Here's what to type into Terminal to install an app:
brew cask install app name
and to uninstall:
brew cask uninstall app name
Homebrew Cask uses specific names for apps that aren't always intuitive. So, if you're not sure of an app's specific name, you can search for it:
brew cask search app name
And if you want to see every single app available for download with Homebrew Cask, type in:
brew cask search
After you've installed a bunch of software you can also have Cask cleanup and delete all those downloaded files you no longer need:
brew cask cleanup
While these four commands are pretty much the only ones you'll usually use, Homebrew Cask has a ton. You can get a full list of commands by typing in:
brew cask
With that you'll have a pretty good grasp on what you can and can't do with Homebrew and Homebrew Cask.
Step Three: Make an Install Script
Now, we're going to make a list of every program we want to include in the install script. For this, we'll need to make sure apps are available with Homebrew Cask. So, we'll search for each of them. For example, if you want to include Chrome, you'd type in:
brew cask search chrome
Which will display:
==> Partial matches
chrome-remote-desktop-host google-chrome chromecast
Now we know that "google-chrome" is the program name we'll need. We'll use that information to make a script using a text editor.
Open your text editor of choice (we like TextMate), and create a new script. First, we need to tell the file that it's a script, so make the first line: #!/bin/sh
. That will be followed by a list of installation commands. Here's an example that grabs everything from the 2013 Lifehacker Pack for Mac except Wunderlist and the extended pack:
#!/bin/sh
brew cask install quicksilver
brew cask install notational-velocity
brew cask install evernote
brew cask install atext
brew cask install google-chrome
brew cask install sparrow
brew cask install adium
brew cask install skype
brew cask install reeder
brew cask install vlc
brew cask install handbrake
brew cask install plex-media-server
brew cask install picasa
brew cask install spotify
brew cask install dropbox
brew cask install utorrent
brew cask install skitch
brew cask install growlnotify
brew cask install crashplan
brew cask install the-unarchiver
When you're done, save the file as caskconfig.sh
. Considering you'll want to run this on new computers, it's a good idea to save it on a cloud storage service like Dropbox or an external drive like a USB stick. Once it's saved, we need to make it executable. Pop back into Terminal, point it toward the file's directory, and type in:
chmod a+x caskconfig.sh
Now, on a new system, follow step one to install Homebrew and Homebrew cask. Then, move caskconfig.sh
into your home directory, and type this into Terminal to install all your apps:
That's it! You just created your own custom installation package that'll make installing new apps on a new Mac a cinch.


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UNLESS THE DENTIST is an active TikTok user, it's not a good idea to get dental health advice from social media. We've noticed a lot of dangerous DIY ideas popping up so let's take a minute to nip them in the bud.
1. "Healthy Soda"
No soda is truly healthy for teeth, as the bubbles in soda come from acid and teeth are highly vulnerable to acid erosion. Sparkling water and balsamic vinegar (the combo in the trend) do not make a healthier soda alternative because that's just two acids mixed together!
2. "Veneers Check"
Some TikTok users are filing their own teeth down to pegs prior to crown restorations. PLEASE do not do this. It can lead to nerve damage or the need for root canals and can even lead to previously healthy teeth needing to be pulled. Teeth don't even get filed down before veneers anyway!
3. Home Hydrogen Peroxide Whitening
Swishing 3% hydrogen peroxide is not a good way to whiten teeth. It can cause long-lasting sensitivity and gum irritation. Go to the dentist for whitening recommendations and good results!
4. DIY Braces
It takes orthodontists years of education and training to learn how to effectively move teeth into their correct positions; this is not something a random TikTok user can figure out with rubber bands and paper clips. DIY braces lead to bad results and sometimes tooth loss!
Trust the Professionals
Trusting random people on the internet over the actual experts is very dangerous and could have permanent consequences for your dental health.It takes dentists years of study and practice to become qualified to look after patients' teeth. The people promoting these harmful trends are just making wild guesses.


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Clinical Immunology Fellowship
Program Description
The Medical Laboratory Immunology Fellowship at UNC Hospitals is a 2-year training program accredited by the Committee on Post-Doctoral Educational Programs of the American Society for Microbiology. The UNC program is one of only three accredited programs in the United States. The goal of this program is to provide training and experience in various aspects of medical laboratory immunology and prepare the trainee for board certification. Salary support for the fellow will be based upon the current departmental guidelines. Vacation and an annual fund for travel, books, etc. are provided and the amounts based upon the current departmental guidelines.
Several approaches are employed for the training of fellows:
- Hands on experience is a critical component for each of the rotations. Fellows get the opportunity to perform most of the assays in each of the rotations. This provides the opportunity for understanding the technology, quality control/assurance and troubleshooting. Laboratory technologists are a critical component of this training and provide useful insights into the intricacies of performing the assays. This also builds a rapport between the fellow and technologist that fosters more in depth interactions as the Fellow gains experience. After a time, the technologist utilize the fellows as sources of information and assistance in troubleshooting and interacting with clinicians.
- Didactic sessions with the faculty of the program. This is particularly important for those areas in which the fellows have little or no background or experience. Basic theory of the testing and appropriate use and interpretation of laboratory tests are covered in these sessions. Dr. Schmitz meets weekly with the trainees to review progress on rotations, provide didactic training and to discuss cases.
- Clinical exposure is obtained in a variety of ways by the fellows. Fellows participate daily in clinical rounds with infectious diseases. Arrangement have been made with transplant and allergy/immunology/rheumatology for fellows to attends clinics with program faculty at which they can experience first hand the application and interpretation of the testing the laboratories conduct. Fellows also interact with transfusion medicine faculty on relevant cases. A variety of conferences are open for the fellows to attend. Fellows present 2 cases per year at the Pathology residents report conference. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Rheumatology Grand Rounds are also open to trainees.
- Training Courses. Two formal courses sponsored by Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Hospital Laboratories are attended by the trainees. The diagnostic molecular pathology course is a several week course with didactic and practical laboratory experience. It covers all molecular testing performed in the Hospital labs (microbiology, inherited disease, chimerism, HLA). The second course is the laboratory management course in which Hospital laboratory staff conduct sessions covering many aspects of laboratory management.
- Self study. Fellows have access to library services via desk top computer and remotely. Attendance at continuing education activities and national conferences are an important component of training. Fellows receive funds to attend meetings and if presenting can receive further travel support from the Department of Pathology.
Training Objectives
Infectious Disease Serology, 2 to 3 months
The fellow will gain hands on experience in performing various serologic methods for the detection of antibodies to bacterial, viral and parasitic pathogens. The fellow will gain experience in the clinical application of these tests by participation in infectious disease rounds, providing consultation to physicians on the selection and interpretation of tests, providing continuing education to laboratory and clinical staff and via didactic sessions with Dr. Schmitz.
Methodologies available for hands on training include ELISA, IFA, Western blot, agglutination, flocculation and instrumentation for ELISA plate handling as well as IFA slide processing. The following tests are currently performed by the Immunology Laboratory: HIV, HAV, HBV, HCV, EBV, Toxoplasma, CMV, HSV1/2, Syphilis, RMSF, Lyme. Additional tests that will be added in the next year include Ehrlichia.
Allergy/Autoimmune Disease Serology, 2 to 3 months
The fellow will gain hands on experience in performing various serologic methods for the detection of antibodies to a variety of allergens and autoantigens utilized for the laboratory diagnosis of allergic and autoimmune diseases. The fellow will gain experience in the clinical application of these tests by participating in rounds and clinical conferences with rheumatology staff and to provide consultation to physicians on selection and interpretation of tests and provide continuing education to laboratory and clinical staff.
Flow Cytometry/Cellular Immunology, 3 to 6 months
The fellow will gain hands on experience in performing flow cytometric immunophenotyping (lymphocyte subset enumeration, immunodeficiency diseases and leukemia/lymphoma phenotyping), and functional assays. Experience in evaluation of cellular immunologic function will also be obtained. The fellow will gain experience in the clinical application of these tests by participation in relevant rounds and clinical conferences and to provide consultation to physicians on selection and interpretation of tests and provide continuing education to laboratory and clinical staff.
Histocompatibility Testing, 2 to 3 months
The fellow will gain hands on experience in performing cytotoxicity and DNA based HLA typing and antibody screening/crossmatching methods including PCR, cytotoxicity, ELISA and flow cytometric based methods as well as cytotoxicity based crossmatch testing. The fellow will gain experience in the clinical application of these methods by participating in solid organ and bone marrow transplant rounds and clinical conferences and provide continuing education to laboratory and clinical staff.
Immunoglobulin Analysis/Molecular Biology, 1 to 2 months
The fellow will gain hands on experience in the performance of assays for quantitation of immunologlobulins, serum protein electrophoresis and immunofixation. In addition, this rotation will include training in DNA analysis for mutations associated with various inherited diseases and gene rearrangements.
Laboratory Management
Experience in laboratory management will be acquired in an ongoing fashion during the 2-year fellowship by interaction with laboratory technical and supervisory and administrative staff. In addition, didactic lectures and discussions pertaining to laboratory safety, accreditation, personnel management, quality control/assurance will be attended by the fellow.
On Call Responsibility
After sufficient training and documentation of competency, the fellow will participate in the on-call rotation for the serology and cellular immunology laboratories. This will include performance of STAT tests after hours, organ donor infectious disease serologic testing, leukemia/lymphoma phenotyping and consultation for clinical and laboratory staff.
The fellow will be expected to design, conduct and submit for publication, studies relevant to medical laboratory immunology. These may include but are not limited to commercial test evaluation, new method development, clinical outcome studies. Opportunities for collaboration with other investigators are possible. It is also expected that the fellow attends and presents data at national meetings related to medical laboratory immunology.
The fellow will be expected to present continuing education lectures to immunology and other hospital laboratory staff. In addition, 2 cases per year will be presented the Pathology Residents Report. Throughout the 2 years of training, cases will also be presented at the weekly laboratory rounds and other conferences as needed. The fellow will also participate in teaching the first-year medical student immunology laboratory section.
The Histocompatibility, Flow Cytometry and Clinical Microbiology–Immunology Laboratories of the University of North Carolina Hospitals where the fellows will do the bulk of their training occupy approximately 10,200 square feet of floor space. These laboratories contain state-of-the-art equipment for provision of diagnostic testing services for a large tertiary care hospital and clinics. The laboratories are accredited by the College of American Pathologists. In addition, the Histcompatibility laboratory is also accredited by the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.
The UNC Hospitals have a total of 706 beds and are the primary teaching hospitals for the University Of North Carolina School Of Medicine. There are three hospitals, the Memorial Hospital, Neurosciences Hospital (opened in 1996) and the Women's and Children's Hospital (opened in 2002). In Spring 2000, the UNC Health Care System purchased Rex Health Care System which includes a 350-bed hospital in Raleigh, NC, 25 miles from UNC Hospitals. The UNC Hospitals are located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The laboratory supports training programs in Clinical Laboratory Science, Molecular Diagnostics, Clinical Pathology, and Clinical Laboratory Immunology. The Adult Infectious Disease Consult team begins their rounds each day in our laboratories which allows for significant and purposeful interaction with this service. In addition, the CMIL has an open door policy which encourages medical students, residents, fellows, and attending physicians to freely use the laboratory facilities and personnel to assist them, in evaluating their patients. The laboratory directors of the CMIL hold academic appointments in the Departments of Microbiology-Immunology and Pathology-Laboratory Medicine and actively participate in the basic science training of medical students. In addition, other faculty in the School of Medicine actively participate in the training of the fellows in clinical microbiology.
The fellows may freely use the Health Affairs Library which is located adjacent to the hospital. There also are numerous computer workstations available in the library with internet access available to the Fellow. The fellows have free access to electronic journals and have their own computer work station in the fellows office. The internationally recognized UNC School of Public Health is located across the street from the UNC Hospitals. The fellows are encouraged to attend conferences and seminars of interest there.
Applying to the Program
Acceptable degrees include Ph.D., M.D., Sc.D., D.O., and Dr.P.H.
An online application can be found on the CPEP website: https://asm.org/Forms/CPEP-Application-Form
Program faculty will review all applications completed by September 30th, 2024, for the July 1, 2025, start date. Applications are judged in part by the strength of letters of recommendation, the quality of the personal statement and how well the careers goals align with the program goals and the applicant's body of work as outlined in the curriculum vitae. The top candidate(s) will be invited to a virtual interview based upon the review of applications by the program faculty.
Program Director
For additional information, please contact…
Janice Badstein
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
UNC School of Medicine
Campus Box 7525, Brinkhous-Bullitt Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7525
Phone: 919-966-4678


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I went to Cycling 74's big Max/MSP conference on behalf of Tape Op, who arguably have no business at such an intensely specialized event.
The most notable new addition is the certainly the optional new "Gen" object add-on, which blurs the lines between Max patches and the compiled C code used to create custom external objects, and then there's also a partial implementation of the HTML5 JavaScript API into the canvas element which should allow… HEY!! WAKE UP!! OK, there are probably better places to find out about all that. So instead, I just wrote down the best one-liners.
It was fantastic and I learned a lot — enough to compel me, finally, I think, to actually patch together some of my ideas instead of just admiring the platforms from afar (don't get too comfy, SuperCollider, because eventually I'm coming for your ass too).
So maybe that's the big landmark for post #100 on this blog. I didn't have much time last night when all the drinking and writing was done, but my resolve did manifest in a blitzkrieg attempt to program an alarm clock in Pure Data that would wake me up the following morning with a reminder to get this show on the road. Surprisingly, it did not take me long at all. Even more surprisingly, it actually worked, and I made it to my 10am appointment on time.
I'm sure I will eventually find this patch extremely embarrassing. But, well.


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Where can I find general information about the Department?
DIEES was founded in 1990 in response to the new conditions and educational needs that emerged as a result of the country's participation in the European integration process.
The department offers a multi-disciplinary education and training for students who are interested in obtaining a deeper understanding of developments in the international and European environment, since Greece's membership in the European Union creates the need to expand students' knowledge and skills on issues of European integration and its interaction with the global arena.
The department is oriented toward areas of economics that focus on the behaviour of markets, firms, individuals and governments; on international relations; on quantitative methods; and generally on the social, political and institutional dimensions of the economy. It places special emphasis on topics concerning the economy, institutions and policies of the European Union.
Undergraduate Programme
Students that are enrolled in the Department's Undergraduate Programme have the opportunity to choose one of the two specializations offered by the department:
- International Economics and Finance
- International and European Political Economy
Each year the Department accepts a small number of students (approximately 125), which enables faculty members to apply state-of-the-art teaching methods, including tutoring sessions in certain courses (e.g., for problem-solving in Quantitative Methods); tutorials for discussing conceptual issues and mastering analytical techniques in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, which include submission of written assignments; and the submission of a senior essay in the final year of studies.
Apart from the computer and network facilities available to all students at the University, the Department maintains a fully-equipped computer laboratory (EUROLAB), which offers students access to Internet services and software packages to gather information and conduct statistical analyses for their studies and research.
The DIEES Undergraduate Programme provides its students the opportunity to obtain multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills leading to very promising future career prospects in both the private and public sector. Graduates can pursue a career in banks, financial institutions, corporations, international organisations, and the European Union. They can also continue studies at the postgraduate level that could lead to a career in academia and research in Greek or foreign institutions.
Postgraduate Programme
After completing the undergraduate programme, those who wish to continue their studies at the postgraduate level can apply to one of the Master's Programmes available at the department, or to its PhD Programme. The department offers the following Master's Programmes:
- Full-time Master's Programme
- MSc in International Economics and Finance
- MSc in European Economic Policy - MSc in European Studies (Part-time programme)
- MSc in Finance and Banking (in collaboration with the Department of Economics) (Part-time programme)
- MSc in Public Policy and Public Management (in collaboration with the Department of Economics and the Department of Management Studies and Technology) (Part-time programme)
- MSc in International Shipping, Finance and Management (in collaboration with the Departments of Accounting and Finance and of Management Studies and Technology) (Full-time and Part-time in English)
Faculty Members
The faculty members who teach at the department have degrees from distinguished universities worldwide and have received international distinctions for their publications


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the one that got away
22 comments:
- Cool Chic Style Fashion said...
E' stupenda ♥
ciao - October 13, 2011 at 5:14 AM
- Acquired Objects said...
Yep, still thinking about the one that got away from me four years ago!
- October 13, 2011 at 5:28 AM
- The Paper Mulberry - Glenda Steel said...
Oh you poor thing! I know exactly that feeling, sometimes it pays to be impulsive! I do hope that another even better comes along for you. Warmest wishes from an old farmhouse - Glenda xxx
- October 13, 2011 at 5:47 AM
- Candylei said...
I know that feeling. Hopefully you'll find another one soon!
- October 13, 2011 at 5:49 AM
- Notes From ABroad said...
I hate when that happens !
- October 13, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- FROM THE RIGHT BANK said...
Oh, Donna, I feel your pain. That is the WORST feeling. Call me if you need to commiserate - I have a long list of things that got away!
- October 13, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Beadboard UpCountry said...
OOOH! I hate when that happens!!!!! You will find another, just wasn't meant to be... Maryanne xo
- October 13, 2011 at 1:19 PM
- Anna at the Doll House said...
Poor you - it's a hard pain to ease.
Anna - October 13, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- Brandi@ Flights of Whimsy said...
This has happened to me more times than i can count! You'd think i'd learn my lesson but I never do!
- October 13, 2011 at 10:38 PM
- red ticking said...
tell me what you want... i will find for you... like this?
- October 14, 2011 at 1:09 AM
- LucinaPH said...
ugghhh. It's a love at first site! Could've rescued it and made into something really really gorgeous! But it's alright, something pretty will come along.. and don't think twice this time.. :)
- October 14, 2011 at 2:02 AM
- Rashon Carraway said...
Its always that one! Lol.
Mr. Goodwill Hunting - October 14, 2011 at 3:47 AM
- Victoria said...
I can relate. I still mourn the tian bowl that got away twenty odd years ago.
Best...Victoria - October 14, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- Splendid Willow said...
An even better one is coming your way! Just put the energy out there!
Mon - October 14, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- (Eileen) a creative day said...
I hate when that happens! I just found your blog and so glad I did :-)
I'm your newest follower!
Happy Weekend!!!!
www.acreativedayblog.com - October 14, 2011 at 11:32 PM
- emmanouil K said...
just gorgeus i love it so much !!!! greetings from greece :)
- October 15, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- SHERRY HART said...
You are definitely not alone with those thoughts....:)
- October 15, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- bedroom chandeliers said...
hate when that happens, hope you find another one soon!
- October 17, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Malvini FF said...
ab fab!!
vxx - October 19, 2011 at 5:50 PM
- Sami Pat said...
I wish you had gotten it. There is an old adage that went around the show world "last touched, first bought". It means if someone looked at and appreciated an object the aura lingers and the next observer feels it. Perhaps that also accounts for those things we bring home and then think "why did I buy that?"
- October 20, 2011 at 10:15 PM
- kathi said...
You always have to trust your gut and buy it when you see it! I love the smocking on the curtain........a unique detail!
Kathi - October 22, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- vineetsynergy said...
The Smocked Curtain just might have been made by us! Great to see it on a beautiful blog. Made my day!
Thanks - May 19, 2012 at 12:25 AM


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A generalisable lesson from psychophysics.
"Violations of moral norms can be made 'morally invisible' even if all relevant facts are unobscured: This can be achieved by embedding these facts into a context that prevents eliciting widespread unease and indignation. One example is the structural violence associated with the implementation of neoliberal economical doctrine. While societal and humanitarian consequences of this violence have so far been mostly observed in so-called third-world countries, they also manifest themselves more and more often in western industrialized nations. Mass media play a pivotal role in making facts morally and cognitively visible: In addition to reporting simple facts, media typically also deliver the contextual frame necessary for interpreting the facts, thus shaping our political world view. The invisibility of some moral transgressions is thus part of our daily live and concerns us all." (Mausfeld, 2015)
See also: uni-kiel.de/psychologie/mausfeld
Occlusion & fragmentation of information
If information is partially occluded and fragmented, we are oftentimes unable to identify the underlying pattern (see Figure 1).
However, as soon as the causal reason for the fragmentation becomes available to us (i.e., when we become aware of the visual or ideological "mask") we are able to use inferential deductive cognitive reasoning processes to identify (and understand) the underlying pattern – despite the fragmentation of information/knowledge (see Figure 2). Without this "causative information" which masks the underlying pattern the likelihood of successful pattern recognition is minute (note that both figures display the letter "R" in various orientations – the difference between them is that Figure 2 shows the mask whereas Figure 1 does not) .Insight1 (cf. Köhler, 1925)2 into the mechanism which causes the occlusion and fragmentation thus allows us to understand the broader meaning of the percept (or the psychological narrative), viz., we are able to see "the bigger picture" in context. This contextual knowledge can be a visual mask or a historical pattern (as outlined below). The adumbrated perceptual analogy is thus generalisable across prima vista unrelated domains (i.e., it is domain non-specific).The same idea can be applied to the social sphere. An understanding of the mechanisms which undergird "neoliberal psychological indoctrination" is crucial in order to understand the "bigger picture" – the "holistic gestalt" (Ash, 1998; Sharps & Wertheimer, 2000) of the social, political, economic, and academic environment we inhabit. Based on this overarching knowledge we can then "try our best" to take an appropriate and responsible course of action. However, we first have to perceive and acknowledge the problem. That is, a valid diagnosis is primary. Without this broader understanding we "lose sight of the wood for the trees" (cf. global vs. local perception/information processing), that is, we attend to seemingly unrelated semantic information fragments without an understanding of their mutual interrelations. Interestingly, emotions & affective states play a significant modulatory role in the underlying cognitive processes (e.g., Basso, Schefft, Ris, & Dember, 1996; Gasper & Clore, 2002; Huntsinger, Clore, & Bar-Anan, 2010). In other words, our emotional system is centrally involved in perception and reasoning. Therefore, the emotional system (i.e., limbic system) can be systematically manipulated in order to interfere with rational higher-order (prefrontal) cognitive processes which are necessary for logical inferential reasoning and problem-solving. Primordial fear (phylogenetically ancient amygdalae circuitry) is perhaps the most significant inhibitor of higher-order cognitive processes.
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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." (Edward Bernays, Propaganda, 1928)
- Bernays, E. L. (1928). Propaganda. Horace Liveright.
- Bernays, E. L. (1936). Freedom of Propaganda. Vital Speeches of the Day, 2(24), 744–746.
- L'Etang, J. (1999). The father of spin: Edward L. Bernays and the birth of public relations. Public Relations Review, 25(1), 123–124.
"That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . [a]s a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power…. Under the impact of propaganda, not necessarily in the sinister meaning of the word alone, the old constants of our thinking have become variables. It is no longer possible, for example, to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the knowledge needed for the management of human affairs comes up spontaneously from the human heart. Where we act on that theory we expose ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we cannot verify. It has been demonstrated that we cannot rely upon intuition, conscience, or the accidents of casual opinion if we are to deal with the world beyond our reach. … The public must be put in its place, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and roar of a bewildered herd." (Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, Chapter XV)
- Lippmann, W. (1920). Liberty and the News. Museum.
- Lippmann, W. (1970). The Phantom Public. Politics.
From 1930 onwards, Brecht became part of a wider complex of projects exploring the role of intellectuals (or "Tuis" as he called them) in a capitalist society. A Tui is an intellectual who sells his or her abilities and opinions as a commodity in the marketplace or who uses them to support the dominant ideology of an oppressive society. ] The German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht invented the term and used it in a range of critical and creative projects, including the material that he developed in the mid-1930s for his so-called Tui-Novel—an unfinished satire on intellectuals in the German Empire and Weimar Republic—and his epic comedy from the early 1950s, Turandot or the Whitewashers' Congress. The word is a neologism that results from the acronym of a word play on "intellectual" ("Tellekt-Ual-In").
According to Clark (2006):
"… the critique of intellectuals which Brecht developed… around the notion of 'Tuismus' engages a model of the public intellectual in which the self-image of the artist and thinker as a socially and politically engaged person corresponded to the expectations of the public."
- Clark, M. W. (2006). Hero or villain? Bertolt Brecht and the crisis surrounding June 1953. Journal of Contemporary History.
- Hunt, T. C. N.-. (2004). Goodbye to Berlin: For 200 years, German thinkers have shaped British intellectual life – but their influence is fading fast. The Guardian.
"It is very useful to differentiate between rational and irrational authority. By irrational authority I mean authority exercised by fear and pressure on the basis of emotional submission. This is the authority of blind obedience, the authority you will find most clearly expressed in all totalitarian countries.
But there is another kind of authority, rational authority by which I mean any authority which is based on competence and knowledge, which permits criticism, which by its very nature tends to diminish, but which is not based on the emotional factors of submission and masochism, but on the realistic recognition of the competence of the person for a certain job."
― 1958. The Moral Responsibility of Modern Man, in: Merrill-Palmer. Quarterly of Behavior and Development, Detroit, Vol. 5, p. 6.
"No expert certification is required to think about these questions, even if the ruling elites try their best to restrict discourse about them to a narrow group of "qualified experts". As "citoyens", well-informed and dutiful citizens trying to actively participate in forming our community, we possess what in the age of enlightenment came to be called "lumen naturale": We are endowed with a natural reasoning faculty that allows us to engage in debates and decisions about matters which directly affect us. We can therefore adequately discuss the essential core of the ways in which grave violations of law and morality are hidden from our awareness without having some specialist education." (Mausfeld, 2015)
Despite the clear words of these very influential and prominent personalities (i.e., Bernays and Lippmann) some social psychologists argue that "irrational conspiracy theories" are based on fallacious and "illusionary pattern perception" – but see article below.
By contrast, compare the following websites for more information on the actual origin of the "conspiracy theory meme". According to the in-depth analyses of these scholars, governmental 'think tanks' (e.g., well-paid social psychologists) played a crucial role in the invention of the term "conspiracy theory" which is used to prima facie discredit those who challenge the mainstream narrative propagandized by the mass-media and other other social institutions (e.g., schools & universities). The social sciences & humanities have a long well-documented history of contributing to the systematic manipulation of public attitudes & opinions (the public relations industry and the social sciences/humanities are obviously deeply intertwined) (cf. weaponized anthropology). Today, the cognitive neurosciences joined the choir (cf. techniques of neuro-marketing). Psychology (and science in general) is a two-sided sword. It can be used to contribute to the unfoldment of human potential (the humanistic perspective which emphasises liberty and self-actualisation a la Maslow) or the same methods can be used to manipulate and control people (the neoliberal doctrine a la Bernays which focuses on power and submission to authority). It is self-evident on which side of the bipolar continuum (viz., humanism versus neoliberalism) humanity finds itself at the moment…
- cognitive-liberty.online/2019/01/10/origins-of-the-conspiracy-meme/
- cognitive-liberty.online/2018/11/20/the-conspiracy-meme-as-a-linguistic-tool-for-memetic-hegemony/
Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural
See also: conspiracytheories.eu/activity/canterbury-training-school/
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Mausfeld_Why do the lambs remain silent_2015
URL: www.uni-kiel.de/psychologie/mausfeld/pubs/Mausfeld_Why%20do%20the%20lambs%20remain%20silent_2015.pdf
Ash, M. G. (1998). Gestalt psychology in German culture, 1890-1967 : holism and the quest for objectivity. Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology. doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.6b02599
Basso, M. R., Schefft, B. K., Ris, M. D., & Dember, W. N. (1996). Mood and global-local visual processing. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. doi.org/10.1017/S1355617700001193
Gasper, K., & Clore, G. L. (2002). Attending to the big picture: Mood and global versus local processing of visual information. Psychological Science. doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00406
Huntsinger, J. R., Clore, G. L., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2010). Mood and Global-Local Focus: Priming a Local Focus Reverses the Link Between Mood and Global-Local Processing. Emotion. doi.org/10.1037/a0019356
Sharps, M. J., & Wertheimer, M. (2000). Gestalt Perspectives on Cognitive Science and on Experimental Psychology. Review of General Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/1089-2618.104.22.1685


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Working in Google Legal has been a dream job. The people at Google are phenomenal. In every part and at every level of the company there are great people with multiple useful talents in addition to those that got them the job. For a lawyer, the issues we dealt with every day were fascinating, the real-world impact of our work was humbling, and the ethical compass of the place remained true
Among many other things, I am proud to have been part of the legal department that helped:
Increase transparency for removals: Google remains the only search engine that sends legal notices to ChillingEffects.org to document search results suppressed for legal reasons. UPDATE: I'm pleased to report that as of sometime in the last few months, Yahoo! is sending at least some (maybe all) of their notices to ChillingEffects. This is GREAT news and I apologize to Yahoo! for not noticing this earlier.
Stand up to the Department of Justice: Google was the only search engine provider that stood up to the Department of Justice's overbroad request for search query information.
Launch Google Book Search: Google is making books easier to find by using fair use for a great purpose and is working to expand access to books through the Book Search settlement.
Stand up for users: In my experience, Google does "focus on the user." Google Legal is no exception in its decisions about everything from global product functionality to individual removals. As a result, we've been threatened or sued many times for user-focused functionality and what our users have said through our services.
There are many other examples, and many more that are confidential or privileged, but these give you a flavour of the types of things the Google legal department gets to do. I still can't recommend it highly enough (really, go check out the jobs page).
Thank you Googlers, it was an honour.


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Surveying the State of Global Freedom
In 2010, the world stalled on the road to democracy
In the Coke Zero commercial, an impatient young man says, "It's 2010. Weren't we supposed to have time machines by now?" Human rights supporters have equal cause to ask, "Weren't we all supposed to have democracy by now?"
In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet empire, Francis Fukuyama wrote that "for a very large part of the world, there is now no ideology with pretensions to universality that is in a position to challenge liberal democracy, and no universal principle of legitimacy other than the sovereignty of the people." A host of despots, however, has managed just fine without a universal principle.
The world is freer and more democratic than it was then. But advances have been stymied by dozens of repressive regimes. The human rights group Freedom House said in January that the previous four years made up "the longest continuous period of deterioration" in the nearly 40 years it has kept tabs. This year brought no evident turnaround.
That is fine with the rulers of China. Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to advance democracy and free speech, which had also earned him an 11-year prison term. The December event was the first time neither the winner nor his representative was allowed to attend since 1935, when the Nobel Committee honored a dissident in Nazi Germany.
In North Korea, the ailing Kim Jong-il installed his son Kim Jong-un as heir apparent—proving that Marxism can coexist with monarchy. A former Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, was released from seven years of house arrest after her jailers won elections that were widely denounced as rigged.
A secret Pentagon cable published by WikiLeaks said Defense Secretary Robert Gates told his French counterpart that "Russian democracy has disappeared." Elections in Belarus were not free enough to deprive re-elected President Alexander Lukashenko of his claim to be the last dictator in Europe.
The American effort to spread democracy in the Middle East and Muslim world encountered fierce headwinds. Afghan President Hamid Karzai took over an election commission after it had the nerve to find rampant irregularities in the election he won last year. Unhappy with the U.S. government, he told the American ambassador, "If I had to choose sides today, I'd choose the Taliban."
Iraq held elections that didn't produce a new government until nine months later, during which time authorities banned political demonstrations. In Egypt, the opposition Muslim Brotherhood went from 88 seats in parliament to one. "At least get creative in how you rig the elections," one newspaper publisher implored President Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power for 29 years.
On the other side of the globe, 85 percent of Venezuelans said they don't want their country to resemble communist Cuba. But President Hugo Chavez nationalized hundreds of businesses, closed down the last remaining opposition TV station, and expelled a member of the European Parliament for calling him—I am not making this up—a "dictator."
Retired Cuban autocrat Fidel Castro, meanwhile, admitted the communist economic model "doesn't even work for us anymore." The number of political prisoners in Cuba fell to the lowest level since 1959.
Haiti suffered a horrendous earthquake, a cholera epidemic and a chaotic national election spoiled by violence and fraud. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega made it plain he will run for re-election in 2011 even though the Constitution forbids him from seeking another term.
In Africa, there are modest signs of progress. The number of coups on the continent fell by more than half in this decade compared to the one before, and 48 countries were scheduled to go to the polls this year.
Successful, credible votes took place this year in Tanzania and Somaliland. Guinea's military junta yielded to civilians after the country's first democratic election.
But many exercises in democracy were a sham. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges, won after warning that if international poll watchers caused trouble, "we will cut off their fingers." The president of Ivory Coast lost a November election but has refused to step down, raising the specter of renewed civil war.
This year served mainly to vindicate the desires of tyrants and the fears of pessimists. To recapture the sense that the world is destined for universal democracy, you'd need a time machine.


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Application Details:
Version: | Lord of Destruction 1.x |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/g... |
Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
Latest Rating: | Platinum |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 7.0 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Installation of Diablo II, Lord of Destruction expansion, installing v1.14d patch (from file), all supported video modes
What does not
What was not tested
Hardware tested
Additional Comments
Xubuntu 20.04.3 x86_64
AMD Phenom 9550
Diablo II v1.07 and Diablo II LoD v1.14d
GeForce GTX 750 Ti using Nvidia 470.57.02 driver
Game video modes (DirectDraw, Direct3D, 3dfx Glide) selected using D2VidTst.exe and verified in the registry
Glide tested with Glide3-to-OpenGL-Wrapper v1.4e with the following non-default settings:
64MB texture memory
GL_EXT_vertex_array and WGL_ARB_render_texture extensions disabled
Workaround for bug #50859 used: MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.4
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Current | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 05 2022 | 7.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Jeff D. Hanson | |
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 12.x "Bookworm" x86_64 | Nov 18 2021 | 6.0.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Sigfrodi | |
Show | Manjaro Linux 20.1 | Sep 15 2020 | 5.16 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Ragnar | |
Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 08 2020 | 5.0.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 10 2020 | 5.0.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bronze | no |
Copy Protection Final Word
Patch 1.12 from Blizzard disables the CD check.
If you ever get "Please insert disc", this is NOT a problem with detecting the CD. The protection system is probably still built into the game even though the CD check itself is disabled. Make sure you use version 1.12 or later. If you get this problem after having this version installed, you are likely suffering from a buggy video driver as this is the only known (and proven possible) cause at this point.
DO NOT USE NOCD PATCHES - They are pointless, and won't fix the real problem.
for wine versions 1.12 and earlier:
you need a native mshtml.dll and wininet.dll from ie6sp1 in ~/.wine/drive_c/system32
dont forget to set them as native in winecfg
If you own a legitimate copy of Diablo II, you can register it on battle.net with the serial key, and get a link to an installer (about 1.4GB).
This installer has less issues than the CD version, and is the recommended way to install Diablo II. It works flawlessly (Platinum) from begining to end.
Window managers often have the alt key bound to certain features, especially the alt-click. This is not a wine bug. If you have problems with the alt key in any way do not report it. Fix your window manager. I'm not going to list steps for every one because there are too many possibilites. Figure out yourself or ask in a help forum (here is okay... but be warned all I use is TWM). If you are desperate, turn off window manager managed windows in winecfg.
Go into KDE Control Center, expand Desktop, click window behavior, then click window actions tab. You can turn off the alt-combos. If you want to make window specific settings, click on window specific settings under window behavior on the side.
The option to change the key binding is in System Menu -> Preferences Menu -> Windows.
�As of 1.12, it is possible to play without using a CD.
The following is an excerpt from the patch changelog:�
For users that originally performed a "Full Installation" and wish to run without the CD, all ".mpq" files should be copied from the Diablo 2 CDs to the Diablo 2 directory. Most users will only need to copy D2Music.mpq from the Diablo 2 Play CD and/or D2xMusic.mpq from the Lord of Destruction CD.
Anyone who did not perform a "Full Installation" will need to re-install from CD again to ultimate�ly play without the CD. In this case, a "Full Installation" is required, followed by file copy step noted above.
If your game is suffering from a slight delay in sound, then try following these steps:
Running Diablo 2 under Wine
by Jesse Allen the3dfxdude at gmail com
minor updates by Jasmine Iwanek
Last updated 2008-07-11 - wine-1.0.0/1.1.1
Before you get started
This HOWTO only lists information specific to this app. Please keep comments and test reports brief. Please don't post copies of wine logs here! If you have trouble, see other ways of getting help.
Wine+Diablo 2 Status
Generally perfect for Linux users since wine 0.9.12. FreeBSD kernel 6.2 might work, but copy protection will likely be broken.
Minimum Requirements
Recommended Requirements
**Bad Versions**
It's recommended to not use these versions of software because they break the game's copy protection:
Additionally, FreeBSD kernels less than 6.2 might not work with current versions of wine at all.
Installing the Game
Launch winecfg to perform the following tasks:
It helps to add a device node symlink,
so do the following. If your cd-rom drive letter in winecfg is d: and
the corresponding device node to your mount point is /dev/hdc then run
following command:
$ ln -s /dev/hdc ~/.wine/dosdevices/d\:\:
Note, you *must* have two colons! You can tell what your device node is in /etc/fstab or viewing your boot-log.
For running the multi-disk install, it helps to run the install using the drive letter and to not switch your shell to the
cdrom's path. For example:
~/.wine/drive_c$ wine "D:\setup.exe" (where D: is the assigned letter of your CD drive).
you run while having a current working directory of /mnt/cdrom, for
example, then you will lock the drive and you won't be able to eject
the disk.
If during the game's install the progress bar stops, the game is probably prompting you for the next disc, but the dialog is under the installer's window. For full install, the order is Install Disc, Play Disc, then Cinematics Disc. Just swap discs and hit enter when the progress stops.
Running and Playing Diablo 2
Do not use the '-opengl' switch to run the game. Blizzard never completed OpenGL support so they removed it, but left the switch in. All you see when you run it is a badly initialized DDraw mode.
If you use the window option "-w", the game will drop to ddraw mode no matter what.
Do not use virtual desktop with the game! It's not designed to be windowed like that! It still thinks it's full-screen!
If you have missing in-game speech, animation, videos, or crashes between acts, these problems are typically from using a modified executable. Install your game properly.
Multiplayer Setup
Make sure you have the correct ports open. Open outbound and inbound, TCP and UDP, port 6112 and 4000. More on Network Ports
If you are going to play a direct TCP/IP game and the game tells you that it could not detect a valid address, make sure about things:
When running the game in Windowed mode (-w switch), if the DIablo II window loses focus, the game freezes. To unfreeze the game press Alt+Enter. So far this has been tested in:
I order to correct this issue Wine must run Diablo II from inside Diablo's installation directory. Here is an example:
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.


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Indicator #14:CSHCN whose families spend 11 or more hours per week providing health care
2009/10 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Nationwide: 13.1% of CSHCN met indicator Range Across States: 8.9% to 19.5%
C.I. = 95% Confidence Interval. Percentages are weighted to population characteristics.
n = Cell size. Use caution in interpreting Cell sizes less than 50.
Percentages and population estimates (Pop.Est.) are weighted to represent child population in US.
Please interpret with caution: estimate has a 95% confidence interval width exceeding 20 percentage points or 1.2 times the estimate and may not be reliable.
Click here to access subgroup data: age, race, income, insurance type and more