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I have a MacBook Pro 2,2 which came with Tiger. Then I upgraded to Leopard, then Snow Leopard and most recently, to Lion. For each of these upgrades I did a clean install, because I'd heard bad things about Ruby, CPAN, fink, MySQL and stuff getting munged. Effectively, I would wipe the old system and copy (not "Restore") my old files.
The Situation (what didn't work)
It seems like my GPU may be on its way out, so I wanted to run Apple's Hardware Test (AHT). I don't have my original system disks nearby, from which AHT could be run rather easily. Booting holding 'D' didn't work, neither did F2 or Option+'D', as some forums claimed. So I poked around and found that my /System/Library/CoreSerives/ didn't have a .diagnostics directory (where AHT reportedly should be). This is probably because of all my clean OS installs. I found a place to download it (see below), but copying AHT into that .diagnostics directory still didn't allow me to boot into AHT using the normal steps. I think this is because having cleanly installed Lion, it expects to use the new fancy internet-AHT like the MacBook Airs -- but the system ROM doesn't trap Option+'D' at start-up. So I still couldn't get AHT to run. Here's what I did to get it to run / boot from a USB stick.
The Method (what did work)
1) Download the AHT for your computer (see downloads below for specific models).
1b) My copy had me convert the downloaded .dmg from some "old" type using Disk Utility. (Just open the .dmg in Disk Utility and "Convert" to a new target, then mount the target.)
2) Mount and completely wipe a USB stick.
3) From the AHT image, copy /System to the root folder of your USB stick:
cd /Volumes/USB_STICK/ && cp -r ~/AHT_ARCHIVE/System .
4) Now, from the USB drive, copy the /System/Library/CoreServices/.diagnostics/diags.efi to the root directory:
cd /Volumes/USB_STICK/ && cp ./System/Library/CoreServices/.diagnostics/diags.efi .
5) Shutdown all applications.
6) "bless" the USB drive in mount-mode, with the EFI file, and immediately reboot:
cd /Volumes/USB_STICK/ && sudo bless --mount /Volumes/USB_STICK --setBoot --file diags.efi && sudo reboot
7) You should now be booting into AHT -- don't hold down any keys.
8) Run the tests, and yank the USB key after AHT reboots you.
You can download the AHT package for your computer using this URL:
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Hardware_Test/018-[MODEL NUMBER]-A.dmg
where [MODEL NUMBER] is the four-number ID below:
3282 for Mac-F4208AC8, Mac-F42289C8 Xserve1,1 and Xserve2,1
3259 for Mac-F42C8CC8 MacBookAir1,1
3273 for Mac-F42C88C8 MacPro3,1
3254 for F4238CC8, F42386C8, F4218EC8, F4208EAA, F4208DC8, F4208DA9, F4238BC8, F42388C8 and F22788C8 inclusively.
or more specifically:
3085 for Mac-F22788C8 MacBook3,1
2886 for Mac-F4208EAA Macmini2,1
2845 for Mac-F42386C8 iMac7,1
2833 for Mac-F42388C8 MacBookPro3,1
2770 for Mac-F4238BC8 MacBookPro3,1
2769 for Mac-F4208DC8 MacPro1,1
2667 for Mac-F4208DA9 MacPro2,1
2766 for Mac-F4208CAA MacBook2,1
2592 for Mac-F42189C8 MacBookPro2,1
2591 for Mac-F42187C8 MacBookPro2,2
2590 for Mac-F4208CA9 MacBook2,1
2579 for Mac-F4218FC8 iMac6,1
2535 for Mac-F4218EC8 iMac5,2
2534 for Mac-F4228EC8 iMac5,1
2533 for Mac-F42786A9 iMac5,1
And these are there, but too old to identify: 2418, 2405, 2398, 2393, 2392, 2342, 2216, 2215, 2158, 2120, 2079, 2056, 1880, 1879, 1680 and 1594.
(Thanks to mkincaid at the macnn forum for that post.)


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And in the same nervous frenzy, too, he spoke. Meeting Fyodor Pavlovitch in the drawing-room directly he went in, he shouted to him, waving his hands, "I am going upstairs to my room, not in to you. Good-by!" and passed by, trying not even to look at his father. Very possibly the old man was too hateful to him at that moment; but such an unceremonious display of hostility was a surprise even to Fyodor Pavlovitch. And the old man evidently wanted to tell him something at once and had come to meet him in the drawing-room on purpose. Receiving this amiable greeting, he stood still in silence and with an ironical air watched his son going upstairs, till he passed out of sight.
"What's the matter with him?" he promptly asked Smerdyakov, who had followed Ivan.
"Angry about something. Who can tell?" the valet muttered evasively.
"Confound him! Let him be angry then. Bring in the samovar, and get along with you. Look sharp! No news?"
Then followed a series of questions such as Smerdyakov had just complained of to Ivan, all relating to his expected visitor, and these questions we will omit. Half an hour later the house was locked, and the crazy old man was wandering along through the rooms in excited expectation of hearing every minute the five knocks agreed upon. Now and then he peered out into the darkness, seeing nothing.
It was very late, but Ivan was still awake and reflecting. He sat up late that night, till two o'clock. But we will not give an account of his thoughts, and this is not the place to look into that soul — its turn will come. And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give an account of them, for there were no thoughts in his brain, but something very vague, and, above all, intense excitement. He felt himself that he had lost his bearings. He was fretted, too, by all sorts of strange and almost surprising desires; for instance, after midnight he suddenly had an intense irresistible inclination to go down, open the door, go to the lodge and beat Smerdyakov. But if he had been asked why, he could not have given any exact reason, except perhaps that he loathed the valet as one who had insulted him more gravely than any one in the world. On the other hand, he was more than once that night overcome by a sort of inexplicable humiliating terror, which he felt positively paralyzed his physical powers. His head ached and he was giddy. A feeling of hatred was rankling in his heart, as though he meant to avenge himself on some one. He even hated Alyosha, recalling the conversation he had just had with him. At moments he hated himself intensely. Of Katerina Ivanovna he almost forgot to think, and wondered greatly at this afterwards, especially as he remembered perfectly that when he had protested so valiantly to Katerina Ivanovna that he would go away next day to Moscow, something had whispered in his heart,"That's nonsense, you are not going, and it won't be so easy to tear yourself away as you are boasting now."
Remembering that night long afterwards, Ivan recalled with peculiar repulsion how he had suddenly got up from the sofa and had stealthily, as though he were afraid of being watched, opened the door, gone out on the staircase and listened to Fyodor Pavlovitch stirring down below, had listened a long while — some five minutes — with a sort of strange curiosity, holding his breath while his heart throbbed. And why he had done all this, why he was listening, he could not have said. That "action" all his life afterwards he called "infamous," and at the bottom of his heart, he thought of it as the basest action of his life. For Fyodor Pavlovitch himself he felt no hatred at that moment, but was simply intensely curious to know how he was walking down there below and what he must be doing now. He wondered and imagined how he must be peeping out of the dark windows and stopping in the middle of the room, listening, listening — for some one to knock. Ivan went out on to the stairs twice to listen like this.
About two o'clock when everything was quiet, and even Fyodor Pavlovitch had gone to bed, Ivan had got into bed, firmly resolved to fall asleep at once, as he felt fearfully exhausted. And he did fall asleep at once, and slept soundly without dreams, but waked early, at seven o'clock, when it was broad daylight. Opening his eyes, he was surprised to feel himself extraordinarily vigorous. He jumped up at once and dressed quickly; then dragged out his trunk and began packing immediately. His linen had come back from the laundress the previous morning. Ivan positively smiled at the thought that everything was helping his sudden departure. And his departure certainly was sudden. Though Ivan had said the day before (to Katerina Ivanovna, Alyosha, and Smerdyakov) that he was leaving next day, yet he remembered that he had no thought of departure when he went to bed, or, at least, had not dreamed that his first act in the morning would be to pack his trunk. At last his trunk and bag were ready. It was about nine o'clock when Marfa Ignatyevna came in with her usual inquiry, "Where will your honor take your tea, in your own room or downstairs?" He looked almost cheerful, but there was about him, about his words and gestures, something hurried and scattered. Greeting his father affably, and even inquiring specially after his health, though he did not wait to hear his answer to the end, he announced that he was starting off in an hour to return to Moscow for good, and begged him to send for the horses. His father heard this announcement with no sign of surprise, and forgot in an unmannerly way to show regret at losing him. Instead of doing so, he flew into a great flutter at the recollection of some important business of his own.
"What a fellow you are! Not to tell me yesterday! Never mind; we'll manage it all the same. Do me a great service, my dear boy. Go to Tchermashnya on the way. It's only to turn to the left from the station at Volovya, only another twelve versts and you come to Tchermashnya."
"I'm sorry, I can't. It's eighty versts to the railway and the train starts for Moscow at seven o'clock to-night. I can only just catch it."
"You'll catch it to-morrow or the day after, but to-day turn off to Tchermashnya. It won't put you out much to humor your father! If I hadn't had something to keep me here, I would have run over myself long ago, for I've some business there in a hurry. But here I… it's not the time for me to go now… You see, I've two pieces of copse land there. The Maslovs, an old merchant and his son, will give eight thousand for the timber. But last year I just missed a purchaser who would have given twelve. There's no getting any one about here to buy it. The Maslovs have it all their own way. One has to take what they'll give, for no one here dare bid against them. The priest at Ilyinskoe wrote to me last Thursday that a merchant called Gorstkin, a man I know, had turned up. What makes him valuable is that he is not from these parts, so he is not afraid of the Maslovs. He says he will give me eleven thousand for the copse. Do you hear? But he'll only be here, the priest writes, for a week altogether, so you must go at once and make a bargain with him."
"Well, you write to the priest; he'll make the bargain."
"He can't do it. He has no eye for business. He is a perfect treasure, I'd give him twenty thousand to take care of for me without a receipt; but he has no eye for business, he is a perfect child, a crow could deceive him. And yet he is a learned man, would you believe it? This Gorstkin looks like a peasant, he wears a blue kaftan, but he is a regular rogue. That's the common complaint. He is a liar. Sometimes he tells such lies that you wonder why he is doing it. He told me the year before last that his wife was dead and that he had married another, and would you believe it, there was not a word of truth in it? His wife has never died at all, she is alive to this day and gives him a beating twice a week. So what you have to find out is whether he is lying or speaking the truth, when he says he wants to buy it and would give eleven thousand."
"I shall be no use in such a business. I have no eye either."
"Stay, wait a bit! You will be of use, for I will tell you the signs by which you can judge about Gorstkin. I've done business with him a long time. You see, you must watch his beard; he has a nasty, thin, red beard. If his beard shakes when he talks and he gets cross, it's all right, he is saying what he means, he wants to do business. But if he strokes his beard with his left hand and grins — he is trying to cheat you. Don't watch his eyes, you won't find out anything from his eyes, he is a deep one, a rogue — but watch his beard! I'll give you a note and you show it to him. He's called Gorstkin, though his real name is Lyagavy; but don't call him so, he will be offended. If you come to an understanding with him, and see it's all right, write here at once. You need only write: 'He's not lying.' Stand out for eleven thousand; one thousand you can knock off, but not more. Just think! there's a difference between eight thousand and eleven thousand. It's as good as picking up three thousand; it's not so easy to find a purchaser, and I'm in desperate need of money. Only let me know it's serious, and I'll run over and fix it up. I'll snatch the time somehow. But what's the good of my galloping over, if it's all a notion of the priest's? Come, will you go?"
"Oh, I can't spare the time. You must excuse me."
"Come, you might oblige your father. I shan't forget it. You've no heart, any of you — that's what it is? What's a day or two to you? Where are you going now — to Venice? Your Venice will keep another two days. I would have sent Alyosha, but what use is Alyosha in a thing like that? I send you just because you are a clever fellow. Do you suppose I don't see that? You know nothing about timber, but you've got an eye. All that is wanted is to see whether the man is in earnest. I tell you, watch his beard — if his beard shakes you know he is in earnest."
"You force me to go to that damned Tchermashnya yourself, then?" cried Ivan, with a malignant smile.
Fyodor Pavlovitch did not catch, or would not catch, the malignancy, but he caught the smile.
"Then you'll go, you'll go? I'll scribble the note for you at once."
"I don't know whether I shall go. I don't know. I'll decide on the way."
"Nonsense! Decide at once. My dear fellow, decide! If you settle the matter, write me a line; give it to the priest and he'll send it on to me at once. And I won't delay you more than that. You can go to Venice. The priest will give you horses back to Volovya station."
The old man was quite delighted. He wrote the note, and sent for the horses. A light lunch was brought in, with brandy. When Fyodor Pavlovitch was pleased, he usually became expansive, but to-day he seemed to restrain himself. Of Dmitri, for instance, he did not say a word. He was quite unmoved by the parting, and seemed, in fact, at a loss for something to say. Ivan noticed this particularly. "He must be bored with me," he thought. Only when accompanying his son out on to the steps, the old man began to fuss about. He would have kissed him, but Ivan made haste to hold out his hand, obviously avoiding the kiss. His father saw it at once, and instantly pulled himself up.
"Well, good luck to you, good luck to you!" he repeated from the steps. "You'll come again some time or other? Mind you do come. I shall always be glad to see you. Well, Christ be with you!"
Ivan got into the carriage.
"Good-by, Ivan! Don't be too hard on me!" the father called for the last time.
The whole household came out to take leave — Smerdyakov, Marfa and Grigory. Ivan gave them ten roubles each. When he had seated himself in the carriage, Smerdyakov jumped up to arrange the rug.
"You see… I am going to Tchermashnya," broke suddenly from Ivan. Again, as the day before, the words seemed to drop of themselves, and he laughed, too, a peculiar, nervous laugh. He remembered it long after.
"It's a true saying then, that 'it's always worth while speaking to a clever man,' " answered Smerdyakov firmly, looking significantly at Ivan.
The carriage rolled away. Nothing was clear in Ivan's soul, but he looked eagerly around him at the fields, at the hills, at the trees, at a flock of geese flying high overhead in the bright sky. And all of a sudden he felt very happy. He tried to talk to the driver, and he felt intensely interested in an answer the peasant made him; but a minute later he realized that he was not catching anything, and that he had not really even taken in the peasant's answer. He was silent, and it was pleasant even so. The air was fresh, pure and cool, the sky bright. The images of Alyosha and Katerina Ivanovna floated into his mind. But he softly smiled, blew softly on the friendly phantoms, and they flew away. "There's plenty of time for them," he thought. They reached the station quickly, changed horses, and galloped to Volovya. "Why is it worth while speaking to a clever man? What did he mean by that?" The thought seemed suddenly to clutch at his breathing. "And why did I tell him I was going to Tchermashnya?" They reached Volovya station. Ivan got out of the carriage, and the drivers stood round him bargaining over the journey of twelve versts to Tchermashnya. He told them to harness the horses. He went into the station house, looked round, glanced at the overseer's wife, and suddenly went back to the entrance.
"I won't go to Tchermashnya. Am I too late to reach the railway by seven, brothers?"
"We shall just do it. Shall we get the carriage out?"
"At once. Will any one of you be going to the town to-morrow?"
"To be sure. Mitri here will."
"Can you do me a service, Mitri? Go to my father's, to Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, and tell him I haven't gone to Tchermashnya. Can you?"
"Of course I can. I've known Fyodor Pavlovitch a long time."
"And here's something for you, for I dare say he won't give you anything," said Ivan, laughing gayly.
"You may depend on it he won't." Mitya laughed too. "Thank you, sir. I'll be sure to do it."
At seven o'clock Ivan got into the train and set off to Moscow "Away with the past. I've done with the old world for ever, and may I have no news, no echo, from it. To a new life, new places and no looking back!" But instead of delight his soul was filled with such gloom, and his heart ached with such anguish, as he had never known in his life before. He was thinking all the night. The train flew on, and only at daybreak, when he was approaching Moscow, he suddenly roused himself from his meditation.
"I am a scoundrel," he whispered to himself.
Fyodor Pavlovitch remained well satisfied at having seen his son off. For two hours afterwards he felt almost happy, and sat drinking brandy. But suddenly something happened which was very annoying and unpleasant for every one in the house, and completely upset Fyodor Pavlovitch's equanimity at once. Smerdyakov went to the cellar for something and fell down from the top of the steps. Fortunately, Marfa Ignatyevna was in the yard and heard him in time. She did not see the fall, but heard his scream — the strange, peculiar scream, long familiar to her — the scream of the epileptic falling in a fit. They could not tell whether the fit had come on him at the moment he was descending the steps, so that he must have fallen unconscious, or whether it was the fall and the shock that had caused the fit in Smerdyakov, who was known to be liable to them. They found him at the bottom of the cellar steps, writhing in convulsions and foaming at the mouth. It was thought at first that he must have broken something — an arm or a leg — and hurt himself, but "God had preserved him," as Marfa Ignatyevna expressed it — nothing of the kind had happened. But it was difficult to get him out of the cellar. They asked the neighbors to help and managed it somehow. Fyodor Pavlovitch himself was present at the whole ceremony. He helped, evidently alarmed and upset. The sick man did not regain consciousness; the convulsions ceased for a time, but then began again, and every one concluded that the same thing would happen, as had happened a year before, when he accidentally fell from the garret. They remembered that ice had been put on his head then. There was still ice in the cellar, and Marfa Ignatyevna had some brought up. In the evening, Fyodor Pavlovitch sent for Doctor Herzenstube, who arrived at once. He was a most estimable old man, and the most careful and conscientious doctor in the province. After careful examination, he concluded that the fit was a very violent one and might have serious consequences; that meanwhile he, Herzenstube, did not fully understand it, but that by to-morrow morning, if the present remedies were unavailing, he would venture to try something else. The invalid was taken to the lodge, to a room next to Grigory's and Marfa Ignatyevna's.
Then Fyodor Pavlovitch had one misfortune after another to put up with that day. Marfa Ignatyevna cooked the dinner, and the soup, compared with Smerdyakov's, was "no better than dish-water," and the fowl was so dried up that it was impossible to masticate it. To her master's bitter, though deserved, reproaches, Marfa Ignatyevna replied that the fowl was a very old one to begin with, and that she had never been trained as a cook. In the evening there was another trouble in store for Fyodor Pavlovitch; he was informed that Grigory, who had not been well for the last three days, was completely laid up by his lumbago. Fyodor Pavlovitch finished his tea as early as possible and locked himself up alone in the house. He was in terrible excitement and suspense. That evening he reckoned on Grushenka's coming almost as a certainty. He had received from Smerdyakov that morning an assurance "that she had promised to come without fail." The incorrigible old man's heart throbbed with excitement; he paced up and down his empty rooms listening. He had to be on the alert. Dmitri might be on the watch for her somewhere, and when she knocked on the window (Smerdyakov had informed him two days before that he had told her where and how to knock) the door must be opened at once. She must not be a second in the passage, for fear — which God forbid! — that she should be frightened and run away. Fyodor Pavlovitch had much to think of, but never had his heart been steeped in such voluptuous hopes. This time he could say almost certainly that she would come!


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Founded in 1992, the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is a not-for-profit organization that oversees the programming and management of two of the Tri-state's finest performing arts venues – the Aronoff Center for the Arts and Music Hall – and is dedicated to supporting performing and visual arts.
Each year, CAA presents a diverse schedule of events; serves upwards of 600,000 people in its venues; features the work of talented local, regional, and national artists in the Weston Art Gallery (located in the Aronoff Center); and supports the work of more than one dozen resident companies. Since the inception of its acclaimed arts education programs in 1995, CAA has reached more than 1.8 million students.
CAA is proud to be a member of Ohio Citizens for the Arts, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Greater Cincinnati Convention & Visitors Bureau, Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce, and Performing Arts Center Consortium.
Through its annual Presenting Season, CAA is committed to serving diverse audiences with an eclectic mix of entertainment from around the world designed to enrich our community.
The popular Weston Art Gallery (located in the Aronoff Center) specializes in the work of local and regional artists and is the only gallery in the area that can be dedicated to location-specific works.
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Report: Texas Could Lead on Methane Reduction
Oil and gas companies could play a major role in slashing emissions of methane, and Texas, the nation's top energy producer, could help lead the way, environmental advocates say.
The industry could curb projected emissions by as much as 40 percent in the U.S. by 2018 through actions that could save it money in the long run, according to a report released this week by the Environmental Defense Fund.
But it is unlikely that Texas environmental regulators will embrace the message. And industry representatives disagree about the urgency of curbing methane emissions at a time when cows — through their flatulence — are actually a larger emitter.
Power plants that burn natural gas spew far less carbon dioxide than traditional coal-fired plants, helping to reduce impacts on the climate. But extracting oil and gas through hydraulic fracturing releases methane, a greenhouse gas that is more potent than carbon dioxide.
The new report suggested several ways for drillers to curb those releases, such as by finding and repairing pipeline leaks, replacing compressor equipment and capturing the gas before it escapes. Those changes would cost the industry some $2.2 billion up front but would yield savings in the long run as companies capture and reuse the stray methane, the study said.
"There are balanced, real solutions available that can make natural gas a less risky fuel source," said Mark Brownstein, an energy expert at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Brownstein said that drillers could achieve some of the goals through voluntary actions that some companies have already taken, but that state regulations would also be important.
His group and others have hailed rules recently implemented in Colorado, another hotbed of drilling. That state now strictly regulates greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas extraction, and if Texas were to follow suit, the impact on emissions would be much larger.
"What happens in Texas can have a great deal of influence in what can happen in the states and federally," Brownstein said.
But Texas is unlikely to act soon.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality does not officially recognize greenhouse gas as a danger to the environment, and the state refused for years to issue federally required greenhouse gas permits to companies that needed them. Last month, the state's solicitor general, Jonathan Mitchell, argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that the permits are illegal. And the TCEQ's director, Bryan Shaw, has repeatedly questioned whether climate change is caused by humans.
Meanwhile, opinions within Texas' oil and gas industry differ.
Bill Mintz, a spokesman for Apache Corporation, a Houston-based oil and gas producer, called the EDF report "an important contribution to the discussion of cost effective opportunities to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas industry."
Apache, he said, has already implemented some of the practices mentioned in the report, but "we know there is a lot more work to do, and we encourage all of our industry colleagues engage in the race to minimize methane emissions in the oil and gas business."
Deb Hastings, executive vice president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association, said she knew of several drilling companies that are working to reduce methane emissions largely through capture and recovery techniques.
She said her group was still reviewing the new study, but worried that researchers underestimated the cost of regulations and overestimated the benefits.
"We aren't one of the biggest emitters of methane, but we try to reduce it," she said. "We do believe that our emissions are dropping."
Nationally, industry members have widely cited newly released data from the Environmental Protection Agency suggesting that the U.S. is emitting less greenhouse gases overall, and that emissions can be attributed not to oil and gas drilling but to the cattle industry — in other words, cow farts. (For years, experts have worked with cattle farmers to reduce animal emissions through grazing techniques and better nutrition.)
Estimates on exactly how much methane is emitted during fracking vary widely. Last fall, a high-profile study from the University of Texas at Austin measured emissions directly from oil and gas producing wells across the country. The results suggested that environmental rules have already helped to reduce emissions, and that without proper regulation, fracking might cancel out the benefit of natural gas to the health of the climate. But Texas researchers cautioned that the study focused only on the drilling process itself and do not measure pipeline leaks, another source of emissions.
Other scientists have come to very different conclusions, however, when studying the amount of methane in the atmosphere, rather than measuring emissions on the ground.
A peer-reviewed study published late last year by scientists from Harvard University and elsewhere suggests that the federal government has been vastly underestimating methane emissions in the U.S., especially those coming from the south-central portion of the country, where fossil fuel extraction is most prevalent.
The scientists said methane emissions from oil and gas drilling could be underestimated by as much as five times.
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gpm - a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles
gpm [ options ]
This package tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console. It is based on the "selection" package, and some of its code comes from selection itself. This package is intended as a replacement for "selection" as a cut-and-paste mechanism; it also provides additional facilities. The "selection" package offered the first cut-and-paste implementation for Linux using two mouse buttons, and the cut buffer is still called "selection buffer" or just "selection" throughout this document. The information below is extracted from the texinfo file, which is the preferred source of information. The `gpm' executable is meant to act like a daemon (thus, `gpmd' would be a better name for it). This section is meant to describe the command-line options for `gpm', while its internals are outlined in the next section. Due to restrictions in the `ioctl(TIOCLINUX)' system call, `gpm' must be run by the superuser. The restrictions have been added in the last 1.1 kernels to fix a security hole related to selection and screen dumping. The server can be configured to match the user's taste, and any application using the mouse will inherit the server's attitude. From release 1.02 up to 1.19.2 is was possible for any user logged on the system console to change the mouse feeling using the -q option. This is no longer possible for security reasons. As of 0.97 the server program puts itself in the background. To kill `gpm' you can just reinvoke it with the `-k' cmdline switch, although `killall gpm' can be a better choice.
Version 1.10 adds the capability to execute special commands on certain circumstances. Special commands default to rebooting and halting the system, but the user can specify his/her personal choice. The capability to invoke commands using the mouse is a handy one for programmers, because it allows to issue a clean shutdown when the keyboard is locked and no network is available to restore the system to a sane state. Special commands are toggled by triple-clicking the left and right button -- an unlikely event during normal mouse usage. The easiest way to triple-click is pressing one of the buttons and triple-click the other one. When special processing is toggled, a message appears on the console (and the speaker beeps twice, if you have a speaker); if the user releases all the buttons and presses one of them again within three seconds, then the special command corresponding to the button is executed. The default special commands are: left button Reboot the system by signalling the init process middle button (if any) Execute `/sbin/shutdown -h now' right button Execute `/sbin/shutdown -r now' The `-S' command line switch enables special command processing and allows to change the three special commands. To accept the default commands use `-S ""' (i.e., specify an empty argument). To specify your own commands, use a colon-separated list to specify commands associated to the left, middle and right button. If any of the commands is empty, it is interpreted as `send a signal to the init process'. This particular operation is supported, in addition to executing external commands, because sometimes bad bugs put the system to the impossibility to fork; in these rare case the programmer should be able to shutdown the system anyways, and killing init from a running process is the only way to do it. As an example, `-S ":telinit 1:/sbin/halt"', associates killing init to the left button, going single user to the middle one, and halting the system to the right button. System administrators should obviously be careful about special commands, as gpm runs with superuser permissions. Special commands are best suited for computers whose mouse can be physically accessed only by trusted people.
Available command line options are the following: -a accel Set the acceleration value used when a single motion event is longer than delta (see `-d'). -A[limit] Start up with selection pasting disabled. This is intended as a security measure; a plausible attack on a system seems to be to stuff a nasty shell command into the selection buffer (`rm -rf /') including the terminating line break, then all the victim has to do is click the middle mouse button .. As of version 1.17.2, this has developed into a more general aging mechanism; the gpm daemon can disable (age) selection pasting automatically after a period of inactivity. To enable this mode just give the optional limit parameter (no space in between !) which is interpreted as the time in seconds for which a selection is considered valid and pastable. As of version 1.15.7, a trivial program called `disable-paste' is provided. The following makes a good addition to `/etc/profile' if you allow multiple users to work on your console. `case $( /usr/bin/tty ) in /dev/tty[0-9]*) /usr/bin/disable-paste ;; esac' -b baud Set the baud rate. -B sequence Set the button sequence. `123' is the normal sequence, `321' can be used by left-handed people, and `132' can be useful with two- button mice (especially within Emacs). All the button permutations are allowable. -d delta Set the delta value. When a single motion event is longer than delta, accel is used as a multiplying factor. (Must be 2 or above) -D Do not automatically enter background operation when started, and log messages to the standard error stream, not the syslog mechanism. This is useful for debugging; in previous releases it was done with a compile-time option. -g number With glidepoint devices, emulate the specified button with tapping. number must be `1', `2', or `3', and refers to the button number before the `-B' button remapping is performed. This option applies to the mman and ps2 decoding. No button is emulated by default because the ps2 tapping is incompatible with some normal ps2 mice -h Print a summary of command line options. -i interval Set interval to be used as an upper time limit for multiple clicks. If the interval between button-up and button-down events is less than limit, the press is considered a double or triple click. Time is in milliseconds. -k Kill a running gpm. This can be used by busmouse users to kill gpm before running X (unless they use `-R' or the single-open limitation is removed from the kernel). -l charset Choose the `inword()' look up table. The charset argument is a list of characters. `-' is used to specify a range and `\ ' is used to escape the next character or to provide octal codes. Only visible character can appear in charset because control characters can't appear in text-mode video memory, whence selection is cut. -m filename Choose the mouse file to open. Must be before -t and -o. -M Enable multiple mode. The daemon will read two different mouse devices. Any subsequent option will refer to the second device, while any preceding option will be used for the first device. This option automatically forces the repeater (`-R') option on. -o list-of-extra-options The option works similary to the ``-o'' option of mount; it is used to specify a list of ``extra options'' that are specific to each mouse type. The list is comma-separated. The options `dtr', `rts' or `both' are used by the serial initialization to toggle the modem lines like, compatibly with earlier gpm versions; note however that using -o dtr associated with non-plain-serial mouse types may now generate an error. And by the way, use -o after -m and after -t. -p Forces the pointer to be visible while selecting. This is the behaviour of `selection-1.7', but it is sometimes confusing. The default is not to show the pointer, which can be confusing as well. -r number Set the responsiveness as a percentage of motion (1 to 100, default 10). A lower number can be used to slow down cursor motion, this can not be used to make a mouse move faster, see `-a'. -R[name] Causes `gpm' to act as a repeater: any mouse data received while in graphic mode will be produced on the fifo `/dev/gpmdata' in protocol name, given as an optional argument (no space in between !). In principle, you can use the same names as for the `-t' option, although repeating into some protocols may not be implemented for a while. In addition, you can specify `raw' as the name, to repeat the mouse data byte by byte, without any protocol translation. If name is omitted, it defaults to `msc'. Using gpm in repeater mode, you can configure the X server to use its fifo as a mouse device. This option is useful for bus- mouse owners to override the single-open limitation. It is also an easy way to manage those stupid dual-mode mice which force you to keep the middle button down while changing video mode. The option is forced on by the `-M' option. -s number Set the sample rate for the mouse device. -S commands Enable special-command processing, and optionally specify custom commands as a colon-separated list. See above for a detailed description of special commands. -t name Set the mouse type. Use `-t help' to get a list of allowable types. Use -t after you selected the mouse device with -m. -v Print version information and exit. -2 Force two buttons. This means that the middle button, if any, will be taken as it was the right one. -3 Force three buttons. By default the mouse is considered to be a 2-buttons one, until the middle button is pressed. If three buttons are there, the right one is used to extend the selection, and the middle one is used to paste it. Beware: if you use the `-3' option with a 2-buttons mouse, you won't be able to paste the selection.
To select text press the left mouse button and drag the mouse. To paste text in the same or another console, press the middle button. The right button is used to extend the selection, like in `xterm'. Two-button mice use the right button to paste text. Double and triple clicks select whole word and whole lines. Use of the `-p' option is recommended for best visual feedback. If a trailing space after the contents of a line is highlighted, and if there is no other text on the remainder of the line, the rest of the line will be selected automatically. If a number of lines are selected, highlighted trailing spaces on each line will be removed from the selection buffer. Any output on the virtual console holding the selection will clear the highlighted selection from the screen, to maintain integrity of the display, although the contents of the paste buffer will be unaffected. The selection mechanism is disabled if the controlling virtual console is placed in graphics mode, for example when running X11, and is re- enabled when text mode is resumed. (But see BUGS section below.)
The `gpm' server may have problems interacting with X: if your mouse is a single-open device (i.e. a bus mouse), you should kill `gpm' before starting X, or use the `-R' option (see above). To kill `gpm' just invoke `gpm -k'. This problem doesn't apply to serial mice. Two instances of gpm can't run on the same system. If you have two mice use the `-M' option (see above). While the current console is in graphic mode, `gpm' sleeps until text mode is back (unless `-R' is used). Thus, it won't reply to clients. Anyways, it is unlikely that mouse-eager clients will spur out in hidden consoles. The clients shipped out with gpm are not updated, thus there are potential security risks when using them.
Andrew Haylett <firstname.lastname@example.com> (the original selection code) Ian Zimmerman <email@example.com> (old maintainer) Alessandro Rubini <firstname.lastname@example.com> (old maintainer (still helps a lot)) Nico Schottelius <email@example.com> (maintainer) Many many contributors, to both selection and gpm.
The current maintainer is Nico Schottelius. But without the help of Alessandro Rubini and the mailing list it would be impossible for me to maintain gpm. The development mailing list can be reached under firstname.lastname@example.com. More information on the list is in the README file part of the source distribution of gpm.
/var/run/gpm.pid The PID of the running gpm /dev/gpmctl A control socket for clients /dev/gpmdata The fifo written to by a repeater (`-R') daemon.
gpm-types(7) Description of current pointer types supported by gpm The info file about `gpm', which gives more complete information and explains how to write a gpm client.
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I got to meet Duane Lester of All-American Blogger last week at the Breitbart Awards thing. Duane's a good guy who won the Breitbart Blogger Award ; but what may be more of immediate interest is this post from last month entitled "How to Assert Copyright Over Your Work When It's Been Plagiarized." Which happens far too often, albeit not as drastically and/or comprehensively as it did to Duane.
As the video below shows, Duane ended up getting paid for his work:
…and I recommend that people read the original article, too: it will walk you through putting together an actual cease-and-desist letter, should you ever get stuck in this situation. Check it out.
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The Pinus Monticola is commonly known as the Idaho White Pine, Mountain White Pine, Silver Pine as well as Western White Pine.
The currently accepted scientific name of western white pine is Pinus monticola Dougl. ex D. Don (Pinaceae) . There are two recognized varieties: P. m. var. minima Lemmon and P. m. var monticola . There are no subspecies or forms. Western white pine hybridizes with Balkan pine (P. peuce), blue pine (P. griffithii), eastern white pine (P. strobus), southwestern white pine (P. strobiformis), and limber pine (P. flexilis) .Western white pine occurs in the Pacific Northwest. The northern boundary of its range is at Quesnel Lake, British Columbia, latitude 52 deg. 30 min. N., and the southern boundary is at Tulare County, California, latitude 35 deg. 51 min. N. The western boundary is marked by the Pacific Coast, and the eastern boundary is at Glacier National Park, Montana. Western white pine reaches its greatest size and best stand and commercial development in northern Idaho and adjacent parts of Montana, Washington, and British Columbia .Western white pine is a seral species that is present in a number of habitat types, associations, and communities throughout its range. In northern Idaho and eastern Washington, it may dominate early successional stages of the western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)/queencup beadlily (Clintonia uniflora) and western redcedar (Thuga plicata)/queencup beadlily habitat types . It is also a major seral species in the western hemlock/queencup beadlily habitat type in western Monatana and is a major constituent of the western hemlock zone in the Puget Sound area of Washington . A western white pine riparian dominance type has been described for northwestern Montana . Associated species are those associated with the Aralia phase of the subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)/queencup beadlily habitat type . Western white pine is moderately abundant, usually growing in small groups and often interspersed with other species, in the subalpine forest zone on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada .Some of the information provided here is attributed to:Griffith, Randy Scott. 1992. Pinus monticola. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). , available at the USDA Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) website


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Lecture Event on Model Driven Engineering
Date & Location | Tuesday 11 November 2014 @ ASML Building 7, De Run 6501, Veldhoven |
Schedule | 17:30 Welcome – featuring a mini-exposition of "30 years ASML" in building 7 at the reception 18:00 Dinner 19:00 Wilbert Alberts: The challenges in Applying Model Based System Engineering at ASML 19:30 Markus Völter: DSLs – the state of the art in 2014 20:30 Informal drinks, giving you the chance to network with other Xootic members and discuss with the speakers 21:30 End |
Abstract | DSLs – the state of the art in 2014 —————————— Domain Specific Languages are an old idea: align a language with a particular domain, and you get better expressiveness of the language relative to that domain. You can write more concise, more analyzable programs and also synthesize executable code. However, over the last years, the tools for building DSLs have matured to the point where you can build non-trivial languages, compose and extend them modularly, and use diverse notations such as text, prose, tables, math and graphics, all in a single model. In this talk I will provide a perspective on the state of the art of DSLs in 2014, focussing mostly on our recent experience with JetBrains MPS. The session will be a few slides, and mostly demos. |
Bios | Bio of Markus Völter: Dr. Markus Völter is an authority in the field of Model Driven Engineering, Domain Specific Languages and Language Engineering. He is an often-asked speaker at various conferences such as Code Generation, EclipseCon, and SPLASH. He is also the author of the DSL Engineering book and one of the founders of mbeddr (mbeddr.com) as well as the Software Engineering Radio podcast (www.se-radio.net).Bio of Wilbert Alberts: After an education in computer science, OOTI and a Phd, dr. ir. Wilbert Alberts PDEng started as an embedded software engineer at ASML. During his career at ASML, he gained practical experience in embedded software development. Wilbert has grown into the role of Software Architect and Team Leader of the Innovation Architects team. A team that is responsible for spotting innovations that can increase efficiency and productivity of ASML's software development developers. Often this involves identifying and investigating means to exploit the benefits of Model Driven Engineering and its possible deployment in ASML. |
Slides | MPS and mbeddr presentation by Markus Voelter |


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In an intimate interview last week on the rooftop of his soon-to-open restaurant and nightclub, Mick Fleetwood shares how the idea for it goes back to his youth.
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They're not so dumb after all! So excited for new music from them. An EP before the tour is a good move, with a new record at the end of next year maybe? I'm happy!
Love fleetwood mac!!!
The guys are Going to trick Stevie into a new album! I LOVE THE IDEA!!! Fast, smart and dirty - I love it! THERE'S GOING BE A NEW FLEETWOOD MAC ALBUM!!!!!!!!! ....
And it's going to be creative and different..!!!!!
There MAY be a new Mac album... What's great is that Stevie is in her prime (voice-wise), this she proved with "In Your Dreams".
Fingers crossed we'll be seeing/hearing a bit of new material live next year!!
Saw the MAC 2 times WOW did they put on a great show ! Can't wait to see them in 2013, Come back to Florida !
Please come to the UK!!!!!
Please,please make sure you tour in the UK-we love you!
Pleeeeease come to England......xxxxxxx
YAY!!! There's going to be a new record!!!! They're tricking Stevie into doing it!!!! YAY!!!!
Hopefully the creative process will be overflowing and Stevie will be feeling the vibe, then I think new music might just happen. They would be wise to NOT go out without new material, even if it's just an EP, because NEW MUSIC will always excite FM's hardcore base to turn out for the tour at this point. Otherwise, many have grown tired of the "greatest hits" grind FM became last outing! The Dance was one thing (20 yr Rumours anniversary)! but continuing to rest on the laurels of Rumours is just OLD! Especially since Stevie & Lindsey have both just come off creative highs with each of their 2011 solo releases.
Oh no not an album!!!! Going to lose Lindsey for too long!!!! I am dying inside!!!! :(
YAYYYYYYY! Thanks GOD stevie doesn't have a computer or else she'd know it's a trick!!! This is the best news of the month.
Wasn't Stevie in the studio in February? Hopefully it was prepping some new demos that she can bring with her when they start rehearsing.
Wish the news were more decisive, but it seems to be going in the right direction. Wow, this group is volatile!
We love you in Belgium too !!!
Please come to Norway, Bergen or Oslo.
Saving up my money for road trip from new england to maybe vegas again in the spring or summer but love to see that new album too. But there was talk about a buckingham & nicks album release from 1973 it will bee 40yrs next fall in hopes they find some time for that to and do a few shows from that too. Please if so bring that to Boston.
Please come to New Zealand we love you
Come back to Milwaukee, Wisconsin....please!
Please come to London, Toronto, or Brantford, Ontario, Canada. We love you here. My daughter and i look forward to seeing you all!!
Please come to New Zealand we love Fleetwood Mac
let's call it quits mick and lindsey, you can't do a really good album without chris really.
could really do with 19th oct some where near fleetwood :) my hubby has always said you havent experienced talent til you have seen fleetwood mac hes 50 in 2013 and myself and my girls (6) would love a serprise for daddy to see you
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Milpitas, CA (May 9, 2011) -- LifeScan, Inc., makers of the top-selling OneTouch® Brand of Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems for people with diabetes, has fulfilled the terms of its exclusive, three-year agreement to provide Medtronic customers in the U.S. with the OneTouch® UltraLink® Blood Glucose Meter that wirelessly transmits glucose values to Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm®insulin pumps and Guardian®REAL-Time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems.
"The Medtronic/LifeScan alliance has been quite successful. Together, we've raised awareness of insulin pump therapy and the benefits of frequent blood glucose testing for patients who use insulin. We are grateful for the opportunity to serve these patients," said Michel Paul, Company Group Chairman, Johnson & Johnson Family of Diabetes Companies, which includes LifeScan.
LifeScan will continue to provide OneTouch UltraLink Systems to Medtronic to meet the needs of new and existing U.S. users of their products until an alternate system becomes available from Medtronic's new, contracted U.S. meter supplier. In addition, all OneTouch UltraLink Systems currently in the market will continue to operate. Patients can continue to use their OneTouch UltraLink Systems based on their personal preference and other factors, such as HCP recommendations or lower insurance co-pays for OneTouch® Ultra® Blue Test Strips, which are used by the OneTouch UltraLink System.
Going forward, LifeScan and Animas, both members of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Diabetes Companies, will expand their existing collaboration and joint product development programs to deliver integrated products, tools and services for insulin patients. The companies co-developed the current OneTouch® Ping® System, the first full-feature insulin pump that wirelessly communicates with a blood glucose meter-remote. Using the OneTouch Ping meter-remote, a person can calculate insulin doses and opt to wirelessly instruct the pump to deliver them without touching the pump at all, giving patients more freedom and flexibility in using their insulin pump.
"Through our continued work with Animas we hope to further empower patients to more easily and effectively manage their glucose levels while easing the burden of patient education on healthcare providers," said Mr. Paul.
Four operating units comprise the Johnson & Johnson Family of Diabetes Companies with the goals of providing professional and community education, advanced products and services, and advocacy and support to people living with diabetes and their families. These companies include: LifeScan, Inc., a world leader in blood glucose monitoring; Animas Corporation, maker of innovative insulin delivery systems; Children with Diabetes, Inc., a community offering support and education for children, adults and their families living with diabetes; and the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute, LLC, a global initiative to improve care and better outcomes worldwide through educational programs.
About LifeScan: LifeScan is the leading blood glucose monitoring company in the U.S. More than 5 million people in the U.S. depend on LifeScan's OneTouch® Brand Products for simple testing and accurate results to help them manage their diabetes. OneTouch® is the most recommended brand of meters by Healthcare Professionals in the U.S., including Endocrinologists, Primary Care Physicians and Diabetes Educators. 97% of patients, including those with Medicare, are insured for OneTouch® Brand Products according to MediMedia Formulary Compass, March 2011 and CMS Medicare Part B enrollment. For more information on diabetes care and OneTouch® Products and services, visit www.OneTouch.com.
About Animas Corporation: Animas is dedicated to creating a world without limits for people with diabetes through a wide range of products, including the Animas® 2020 insulin pump, ezManager® MAX software, and the OneTouch Ping Glucose Management System. Animas, from the Latin word meaning "true inner self or soul," has been committed since 1996 to meeting individual patient needs through the development of life-performance technology and unparalleled customer service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
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This year's edition of the Toronto Summer Music Festival has a distinctly Russian flavour.
The festival (initially founded as the the Silver Creek Music Foundation in 2004) opened this past week with a concert by the celebrated Escher Quartet, who performed a program of works which included string quartets by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky, respectively. The following night, members of the quartet joined pianist Lukas Geniušas and TSMF Artistic Director (and Toronto Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster) Jonathan Crow for "Mother Russia", a concert featuring the music of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich. Moscow-born pianist Geniušas showed off his considerable technical abilities and a very expressive approach in the (piano-only) first half, his rendering of Rachmaninoff's Preludes (Op. 32, No. 9-13) a gently modulated collection of lights and colours. Likewise, his work with members of the Escher Quartet, joined by Crow, showed off a considerable lyricism; altogether, the troupe provided a round, even sexy, approach to the jagged angularity of Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57.
Audiences can look forward to further concerts with Russian works, including a presentation of Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" on July 19th. Composed in 1918 when Stravinsky was facing tough times (including the recent death of his brother and serious financial shortfalls), the piece ("Histoire du soldat lue, jouée et dansée en deux parties" or (Story of the soldier to read, act and dance in two parts", in full) was written with Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, a French-Swiss writer who he'd met as a fellow ex-pat in Paris just before the First World War. The work retells the Faust myth using a litany of musical styles and folkoric elements inspired largely by the work of Russian writer Alexander Afanasyev, one of the most famous Russian folkorists of the 19th century, and a big fan of the Grimm brothers' work as well. Originally intended as a touring work, "L'Histoire du Soldat" has been produced in a variety of styles and iterations, though most commonly with one narrator doing all the roles, with musical accompaniment. Isabel von Karajan (daughter of conductor Herbert von Karajan) performed the work with members of the Berlin Philharmonic to great acclaim in Salzburg in 2011, and then in Berlin in 2012; it's also been presented with pantomime elements in 2013, recorded with Jean Cocteau and Peter Ustinov in 1962, and, rather poignantly, by Carole Bouquet, Gerard Depardieu, and (deceased) son Guillaume, in the mid 1990s in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. Stravinsky may have written "Soldat" out of basic financial necessity, but the work has proven to be a wonderfully enduring piece of music theatre, one that showcases his changeability and elasticity as a octopus-like composer with a multitude of legs moving easily between sometimes wildly varying eras, styles, sounds, and artistic movements.
Canadian music artist Alaina Viau is bringing a new production of the work to the Toronto Summer Music Festival this coming week, featuring dynamic Canadian talent including theatre artist Derek Boyes and choreographer Jennifer Nichols. In her day job, Viau is Assistant Production Manager at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, but she's also the founder and Artistic Director of sparky independent company Loose Tea Music Theatre, which specializes in presenting creatively-staged opera in and around the Toronto area. Viau has worked regularly with a variety of artists in various disciplines (including dance music, cinema, and visual art) to present re-imagined productions of opera chestnuts like Bizet's Carmen and Gounod's Faust.
The latter is especially relevant to Viau's work with "L'histoire du Soldat", but so is her interest in and commitment to social justice issues, especially as they pertain to contemporary presentation within the operatic form. I recently spoke with Viau about why this piece is so timely (and perhaps timeless), her decision in casting the lead role with a woman, and how her work as director of production for the TSMF presentation of Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" contrasts and complements that with Stravinsky.
What's it like to stage "Soldat" for the first time?
Exciting! I've known this piece for a long time and I'm what you'd call a Stravinsky nut! I have a lot of literature on Stravinsky and bought a special edition of Rite of Spring when it came out years ago; I have new book on him, and all his letters and things like that.
How did you come to direct this?
I'd only ever heard it in the way most people hear it, with one person narrating all the roles, and then the ensemble around them. Jonathan Crow and I started talking about this project two years ago — I work for the TSO as well, and the TSO Chamber Soloists (of which Crow is a member) were doing a series of performances of this piece; it was done at Roy Thomson Hall and the Art Gallery of Ontario and at the Hearn (Generating Station), and at that time, it was just with Derek Boyes and the ensemble. It was then that Jonathan and I got talking about how we've never seen it fully staged, and what a shame that was, because it was originally written for a touring performance with actors and a set and such, so we said, "Hey we need to see this!"
So TSMF audiences will see a full type of production?
Yes. We have Derek, who is doing the roles of the narrator and the devil — because he does such a great job with the devil! – and we have a dancer/choreographer, Jennifer Nichols. We also decided to cast the role of the soldier as a woman — traditionally it's a man, but… it's an all-male show, and Jonathan and I were like, "That's kind of shitty!" We don't change the relationships with the fiancee or the princess — it's any relationship, really. We didn't feel we needed to harp on that fact; it's a relationship that exists. I wish I didn't even have to say that, really. The idea came through conversations on gender parity. There's a lot of men in the show, and a lot of men in the ensemble, and we were like, "That's a lot of men on stage! It isn't fair; I think we can fix this."
How much were you influenced by what you'd seen and experienced as a Stravinsky fan?
I don't believe I've taken any influences in doing this. I'm sure there are some references to some of the research I've done, but what I've seen (of Soldat) I haven't really liked. So that is a thing: I have decided not to do some things. That is an influence of sorts! I knew what I didn't want. That is sometimes just as strong, if not stronger, than seeing things I do like, so I was able to really think, "Well I want to make this fun, engaging, with great music, and a great story" — it's a warning story.
… although it can be presented as drily didactic as well. I would imagine as a theatre practitioner you have to be careful not to wave a finger at your audience. "Fun" and "engaging" are the words I'd use to describe what Loose Tea does.
Well it is my style, and my question is always, "Why tell this story now? Why does it matter right now?"
So why "Soldat" now?
It's a story of being too greedy, of consuming too much, of not being appreciative of what you have. That's something I think we can always relate back to stuff in the US and what could potentially happen in Canada: we need to be aware of what we have, and not be greedy. We have to safeguard the things that matter in life. What the soldier comes to learn is, in fact, the things that matter are things that money can't necessarily buy, that there is greater value in having some sort of meaning in life. I think that's a tale that is always worth telling.
It's timeless and timely and really elastic, not solely in themes but in presentation possibilities.
Yes, and what I really like is that it's not a happy ending — he gets the princess and then screws it up again. It's that reminder that you have to be constantly working on that aspect of yourself.
It's a wry comment on the nature of humanity also, the nature of which seems very Russian in nature.
That too. The question is, how do you tell this story to a Canadian audience, who may not have that understanding of Russian folklore? That folklore is quite brutal sometimes.
How does your work on "Quartet for the End of Time" complement what you're doing with "Soldat"?
I get excited about it, really. What I'm particularly enjoying is that I did a Masters degree in music, and it's really nice to geek out and go back to the score, do my research, do my score study — it really helps me come to important realizations.
For the Messiaen, all I've been doing for months is consuming a lot of research, which I love doing, and really trying to think about how Messiaen saw the piece. He had synesthesia, and we wanted to explore not just what he saw but what role this plays overall: why do we care about "Quartet for the End of Time"? Why do we care about the visual aspect of it? And how can we make it make sense to us? Because he was very religious, and in the context of the Toronto Summer Music Festival… religion is not a really strong (theme), it's not the strongest point to bring out in this piece.
But it's unmissable in the music.
Yes. Although he wrote it with religion in mind, something that really inspired him, and what I think may inspire many people, is a commonality of hope of this piece.
That sense of hope contrasts with the ending of "Soldat"quite strongly.
It is what got him through his internment in the camp; he couldn't escape physically, and the more difficult things became physically, the more he escaped into his brain. You hear it in this Quartet — because he did have a strong sense of hope and of things working out, even in an internment camp.
Vision over visibility.
Yes, it's a good fit with the festival.


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Hades and the Helm of Darkness (Heroes in Training Book 3)
The Heroes in Training are entering the Underworld—if Hades can conquer his canine fears, that is. The Underworld usually isn't really meant to be a fun place—but tell that to Hades! He loves the dark and the stinky smell of sulfur. However, there is one thing that Hades is not a fan of: dogs. And when Zeus and his fellow Olympians encounter Cerberus—a snarling, three-headed dog—Hades must conquer his fears and tame the hound so everyone can continue into the Underworld and deposit their Titan prisoner, Oceanus, back where he belongs! But with magical water that causes forgetfulness, hot beds of lava, and another epic battle with two more Titans standing in their way, will Zeus and his heroes make it out of the Underworld with everyone intact?
Heroes in Training by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams