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April 4, 2008
Still a Pretty Good Day
"Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts…"
Colossians 3:15 (NIV)
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter Ashley had a gymnastics meet that didn't go so well. She fell on almost every event. She scored well below her expectations and I thought there would be lots of tears at the awards ceremony. But, much to my surprise, she bounced up to me and exclaimed, "Mom, did you see I landed my vault on my feet. That's a good thing about today."
She then flitted off with her teammates to get ice cream. One of the other moms grabbed my arm and complimented Ashley's good attitude. Though I did feel sad for Ashley - after all she had worked so hard to prepare for this meet, my heart still swelled with joy. That compliment meant more than seeing my daughter with a neck full of gold medals. Do I want Ashley to win? Yes, of course. But seeing a good attitude displayed in the face of adversity - well that's simply priceless.
Ashley's outlook challenged me. How many times do I have something bad happen in my day and it just seems to turn my whole attitude south? Instead of just resigning myself to being emotional or sensitive, I've decided to see this as a call to action. I've started making the choice to say a simple statement that often diverts a bad attitude. And the statement is this, "If this is the worst thing that happens to me today, it's still a pretty good day."
Boy does this statement put things into perspective. I guess it's an everyday way to do a little heart check up. The Bible tells us that we should intentionally make our minds think of things that are good, true, excellent, and praiseworthy. The more I think about things like these, the more my perspective seems to stay in check. In Colossians 3:15 we are instructed to, "Let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts… and be thankful." Verse 16 goes on to say that we should also, "Let the word of God dwell in us richly…" Finally, verse 17 says, "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus…"
Letting the peace of Christ rule in our hearts and letting the word of God dwell in us richly doesn't just happen naturally. We have to intentionally make those choices. And we have to challenge ourselves to deal with the bad while focusing on all the good that is there as well.
So, what aggravation or disappointment are you facing today? If that's the worst thing that happens - I bet you could say it's still a pretty good day too.
Dear Lord, help me to put daily aggravations into proper perspective. Give me the wisdom to choose to let the peace of Christ rule in my heart. And give me a hunger to get into Your word and let Your word get into me. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Related Resources:
The Bathtub is Overflowing but I Feel Drained by Lysa TerKeurst
Application Steps:
Click over to Lysa's Blog to post a comment about how you will choose to see the good rather than focus on the bad in your day today. Each time something aggravates you, make the choice to say, "If this is the worst thing that happens to me today, it's still a pretty good day."
Are there some areas that are consistently tripping up your attitude? Find some verses that you can memorize to help redirect your outlook when negativity starts to creep into your heart. Intentionally recall things you are thankful for and focus on praising God for those circumstances.
Power Verses:
Philippians 4: 4-5, "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all…" (NIV)
Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." (NIV)
Colossians 3: 15-17, "Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (NIV)
© 2008 by Lysa TerKeurst. All rights reserved.
Proverbs 31 Ministries
Matthews, NC 28105
Originally published Friday, 04 April 2008.


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It is generally accepted that trust is a pre-requisite for effective knowledge transfer and re-use, but how do you develop trust in online communities of practice, especially those of several hundred members?
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Some of the answers to developing trust can be found in this article from 1998. Although the paper was talking about virtual teams, I think many of the conclusions are valid for online communities as well, and I would suggest that these trust-building factors are applicable to communities of practice
- A focus on Social communication in the early stages of community formation - at least among the core team. After a while, social communication becomes less important, and many of the communities of practice I follow have little or no social communication nowadays.
- A transition from early communication about community process, to later communication about task. The early communications in a community are often about "how we work", but soon the conversation needs to change, and to cover content, not process.
- Communication of enthusiasm and support.
- Substantial and timely responses to members questions (so that people know that if a question is asked, they WILL get an answer - this story shows how trust is lost when people do not receive answers)
- Good leadership.
- "Phlegmatic reaction to crisis". This was suggested in the article as a key trust-builder in virtual teams which hit a rocky patch. In a community of practice, the rocky patch is often online dispute or argument, and the community leader who defuses this and turns it into creative problem solving, is often successful in building trust. Communities need a code of behaviour, and the way in which the leader deals with breaches of the code is crucial to maintaining trust in the community as "a safe place to be".
- Predictable communication. This is key in communities of practice as well as virtual teams. Communities suffer from "out of sight, out of mind" and the community that does not communicate is a community in decline. The leader needs to build and maintain momentum.


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An OCX/ActiveX control color property can be assigned any valid Win32 color reference. However, the OCX/COM libraries provide a special data type for color properties, the OLE_COLOR data type. This new type was invented to give VB-like programs an opportunity to differentiate between a normal Win32 color reference and system colors. These programs could then present a special color-selection dialog box that allowed the selection of system colors. The snapshot of the GB32 Ole-color selection is shown below.
RGB colors are of type COLORREF
Like an RGB-color value, an OLE_COLOR data type is internally represented as a 32-bit long integer. An RGB-color is referred to as a COLORREF value and is used with GDI device context functions. A COLORREF is simply defined as a 32-bit value used to specify an red, green, and blue components of a color requiring only 3 bytes. When specifying an explicit RGB color, the COLORREF value has the following hexadecimal form.
The low-order byte contains a value for the relative intensity of red, the second byte contains a value for green, and the third byte contains a value for blue. The high-order byte must be zero. The maximum value for a single byte is 0xFF.
To create a COLORREF color value, you can use the GB32 RGB() function. To extract the individual values for the red, green, and blue components of a color value, use the GetRValue, GetGValue, and GetBValue functions, respectively. For performance reasons these GFA-BASIC 32 functions are directly translated to assembly code; they are not implemented as function calls.
The OLE_COLOR type
When a COM object property (most often .ForeColor and .BackColor only) requires an OLE_COLOR color, you can either pass an RGB value (COLORREF) or a COM specific formatted system color index value. A COM specific format has it's high-byte set 0x80. An OLE_COLOR can have two formats only:
- 0x00bbggrr (COLORREF value)
- 0x800000xx, where xx is the index used by GetSysColor().
The object doesn't do much with the OLE_COLOR value, it is more a kind of a storage type. For instance, you cannot pass an OLE_COLOR to a GDI device context handle. GDI doesn't know what to do with a COM formatted system index color (0x800000xx). The OLE_COLOR value is simply saved in the private data of the COM object and remains unchanged until the application explicitly changes the value again. This way, the Get-color-property variant of the Put-color-property will return exactly the same value as was first put in.
How the OLE_COLOR is used
Since the format of the OLE_COLOR data type isn't known to Win32 drawing functions, they must be converted to RGB colors first. Usually, the OLE_COLOR is converted on a just-in-time basis. Just before a painting operation is performed the OLE_COLOR (32-bit long integer) is tested for a high-byte value of 0x80. When the high-byte is indeed 0x80, the low-byte value is used as a parameter to the GetSysColor() API function, which in turn returns the RGB color value of the specified display element. See the code below.
Aside: Identifying display elements
Display elements are the parts of a window and the display that appear on the system display screen. These elements are identified using the API COLOR_* constants, like COLOR_BTNFACE, COLOR_WINDOW, etc. These API constants may also be used in the GFA-BASIC 32 function SysCol(idx), which is slightly easier to use and a bit faster due to caching.
Dim rgb% = SysCol(COLOR_WINDOW)
The GFA-BASIC32 OLE_COLOR Constants
GFA-BASIC 32 also defines a set of OLE_COLOR constants to identify the system display elements. These constants are very much like the Windows API COLOR_* constants. However, instead starting their names with 'COLOR_' they start with 'col', like colBtnFace and colWindow. These GB32 OLE_COLOR constants have the format of 0x800000xx, where xx is the index for the display element. See the code below.
Convert an OLE_COLOR
When you want to use an OLE_COLOR value, make sure to convert the OLE_COLOR to a COLORREF (RGB) value first. This is the only color format Win32 understands. In GB32 you get hold of an OLE_COLOR when you use one the col* constants or retrieve a color from one of the Ocx-color properties. For instance, when you want to use the same color as the form's background, you might very well end up with an OLE_COLOR with the high-byte set to 0x80.
Now, there are two possible ways to convert an OLE_COLOR to a COLORREF value.
1. Manually, in your code. For example this converts to an RGB-value:
Trace Hex(SysCol(colBtnFace)) ' =0 (SysCol: what is a colBtnFace?) Trace Hex(colBtnFace) ' =8000000F (an OLE_COLOR) Trace Hex(OleToRGB(colBtnFace)) ' =F0F0F0 (the RGB value) Trace Hex(OleToRGB(0x667788)) ' =667788 (no conversion) Function OleToRGB(olecolor As Long) As Long Naked If (olecolor And 0xFF000000) == 0x80000000 Return SysCol(olecolor And 0xFF) ' LoByte Else Return olecolor ' RGB! EndIf EndFunc
2. Use the system OLE function OleTranslateColor()
Declare Function OleTranslateColor Lib "oleaut32.dll" ( _ ByVal OleColor As Long, _ ByVal hPal As Handle, _ ByRef ColorRef As Long) As Long Dim rgb As Long Long
If OleTranslateColor(colBtnFace, Null, rgb) == S_OK Then _ Trace Hex(rgb)
The second option using OleTranlateColor() might be preferable because it can also return other GDI color formats, like a palette-index value. In addition in case of an error, it let you investigate the type of the error. See the SDK for more info.
More flexibility
You can use OLE_COLOR types with the GB32 graphic commands, though. All drawing statements, font statements, and color statements accept an OLE_COLOR type. GB32 converts the OLE_COLOR to a COLORREF before it invokes the corresponding GDI function.


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Early Adopter's Guide to FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE
Copyright © 2002, 2003 The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team
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FreeBSD is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. This is expected to change soon.
Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
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Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed by the ``™'' or the ``®'' symbol.
This article describes the status of FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE, from the standpoint of users who may be new to the 5.X series of releases or to FreeBSD in general. It presents some background information on release engineering, some highlights of new features, and some possible drawbacks that might be faced by early adopters. It also contains some of the future release engineering plans for the 4-STABLE development branch and some tips on upgrading existing systems.
1 Introduction
FreeBSD 5.X marks the first new major version of FreeBSD in over two years. Besides a number of new features, it also contains a number of major developments in the underlying system architecture. Along with these advances, however, comes a system that incorporates a tremendous amount of new and not-widely-tested code. Compared to the existing line of 4.X releases, the first few 5.X releases may have regressions in areas of stability, performance, and occasionally functionality.
For these reasons, the Release Engineering Team <email@example.com>
discourages users from updating from older FreeBSD releases to
5.2.1-RELEASE unless they are aware of (and prepared to deal with)
possible regressions in the newer releases. Specifically, for more
conservative users, we recommend running 4.X releases (such as 4.9-RELEASE) for the
near-term future. We feel that such users are probably best served
by upgrading to 5.X only after a
5-STABLE development branch has been created; this may be around
the time of 5.3-RELEASE.
(FreeBSD 5.X suffers from what has been described as a ``chicken and egg'' problem. The entire project has a goal of producing releases that are as stable and reliable as possible. This stability and reliability requires widespread testing, particularly of the system's newer features. However, getting a large number of users to test the system, in a practical sense, means building and distributing a release first!)
This article describes some of the issues involved in installing and running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. We begin with a brief overview of the FreeBSD release process. We then present some of the more noteworthy new features in FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE, along with some areas that may prove troublesome for unwary users. For those users choosing to remain with 4-STABLE-based releases, we give some of the short- to medium-term plans for this development branch. Finally, we present some notes on upgrading existing 4.X systems to 5.2.1-RELEASE.
2 An Overview of the FreeBSD Release Process
FreeBSD employs a model of development that relies on multiple development branches within the source code repository. The main branch is called ``CURRENT'', and is referred to in the CVS repository with the HEAD tag. New features are committed first to this branch; although this means that CURRENT is the first to see new functionality, it also means that it occasionally suffers from breakages as new features are added and debugged.
Most FreeBSD releases are made from one of several ``STABLE'' branches. Features are only added to these branches after some amount of testing in CURRENT. At the moment, only one STABLE branch is under active development; this branch is referred to as ``4-STABLE'', and all of the FreeBSD 4.X releases were based on it. This branch has the tag RELENG_4 in the CVS repository.
FreeBSD 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 are based on the CURRENT branch. The first of these releases was made after over two years of development (prior to these, the last release from HEAD was FreeBSD 4.0, in March 2000).
At some point after the release of FreeBSD 5.0, a ``5-STABLE'' branch will be created in the FreeBSD CVS repository with the branch tag RELENG_5. The past two stable branches (3-STABLE and 4-STABLE) were created immediately after their respective ``dot-oh'' releases (3.0 and 4.0, respectively). In hindsight, this practice did not give sufficient time for either CURRENT to stabilize before the new branches were created. This in turn resulted in wasted effort porting bug fixes between branches, as well as some architectural changes that could not be ported between branches at all.
Therefore, the release engineering team will only create the 5-STABLE branch in the CVS repository after we have found a relatively stable state to use as its basis. It is likely that there will be multiple releases in the 5.X series before this happens; we estimate that the 5-STABLE branch will be created around the time of 5.3-RELEASE.
More information on FreeBSD release engineering processes can be found on the Release Engineering Web pages and in the ``FreeBSD Release Engineering'' article. Specific issues for the upcoming 5-STABLE development branch can be found in ``The Roadmap for 5-STABLE''.
3 New Features
A large attraction of FreeBSD 5.X is a number of new features. These new features and functionality generally involve large architectural changes that were not feasible to port back to the FreeBSD 4-STABLE development branch. (By contrast, many self-contained enhancements, such as new device drivers or userland utilities, have already been ported.) A brief, but not exhaustive list includes:
SMPng: The ``next generation'' support for SMP machines (work in progress). Ongoing work aims to perform fine-grained locking of various kernel subsystems to increase the number of threads of execution that can be running in the kernel.
KSE: Kernel Scheduled Entities allow a single process to have multiple kernel-level threads, similar to Scheduler Activations. The libkse and libthr threading libraries make this feature available to multi-threaded userland programs, using the pthread(3) API.
New architectures: Support for the sparc64, ia64, and amd64 architectures, in addition to the i386, pc98, and alpha.
GCC: The compiler toolchain is now based on GCC 3.3.X, rather than GCC 2.95.X.
MAC: Support for extensible, loadable Mandatory Access Control policies.
GEOM: A flexible framework for transformations of disk I/O requests. The GBDE experimental disk encryption facility has been developed based on GEOM.
FFS: The FFS filesystem now supports background fsck(8) operations (for faster crash recovery) and filesystem snapshots.
UFS2: A new UFS2 on-disk format has been added, which supports extended per-file attributes and larger file sizes. UFS2 is now the default format for newfs(8). On all platforms except for pc98, filesystems created from within sysinstall(8) will use UFS2 by default.
Cardbus: Support for Cardbus devices.
Bluetooth: Support for Bluetooth devices.
A more comprehensive list of new features can be found in the release notes for the various FreeBSD 5.X releases.
4 Drawbacks to Early Adoption
Along with the new features of FreeBSD 5.X come some areas that can cause problems, or at least can lead to unexpected behavior. Generally, these come from the fact that a number of features are works-in-progress. A partial list of these areas of difficulty includes:
A number of features are not yet finished. Examples from the feature list above include SMPng and KSE. While suitable for testing and experimentation, these features may not be ready for production use.
Because of changes in kernel data structures and ABIs/APIs, third-party binary device drivers will require modifications to work correctly under FreeBSD 5.0. There is a possibility of more minor ABI/API changes before the 5-STABLE branch is created, particularly on newer machine architectures. In some (hopefully rare) cases, user-visible structures may change, requiring recompiling of applications or reinstallation of ports/packages.
Several parts of FreeBSD's base system functionality have been moved to the Ports Collection. Notable examples include Perl, UUCP, and most (but not all) games. While these programs are still supported, their removal from the base system may cause some confusion.
Some parts of the FreeBSD base system have fallen into a state of disrepair due to a lack of users and maintainers. These have been removed. Specific examples include the generation of a.out-style executables, XNS networking support, and the X-10 controller driver.
A number of ports and packages do not build or do not run correctly under FreeBSD 5.X, whereas they did under FreeBSD 4-STABLE. Generally these problems are caused by compiler toolchain changes or cleanups of header files. In some cases they are caused by changes in kernel or device support.
Many FreeBSD 5.X features are seeing wide exposure for the first time. Many of these features (such as SMPng) have broad impacts on the kernel, and it may be difficult to gauge their effects on stability and performance.
A certain amount of debugging and diagnostic code is still in place to help track down problems in FreeBSD 5.X's new features. This may cause FreeBSD 5.X to perform more slowly than 4-STABLE.
Features are only added to the 4-STABLE development branch after a ``settling time'' in -CURRENT. FreeBSD 5.X does not have the stabilizing influence of a -STABLE branch. (It is likely that the 5-STABLE development branch will be created sometime after 5.3-RELEASE.)
Documentation (such as the FreeBSD Handbook and FAQ) may not reflect changes recently made to FreeBSD 5.X.
Because a number of these drawbacks affect system stability, the release engineering team recommends that more conservative sites and users stick to releases based on the 4-STABLE branch until the 5.X series is more polished. While we believe that many initial problems with stability have been fixed, some issues with performance are still being addressed by works-in-progress. We also note that best common practices in system administration call for trying operating system upgrades in a test environment before upgrading one's production, or ``mission-critical'' systems.
5 Plans for the 4-STABLE Branch
It is important to note that even though releases are being made in the 5.X series, support for 4.X releases will continue for some time. Indeed, FreeBSD 4.8 was released two months after 5.0, in April 2003, followed by 4.9, in October 2003. Future releases from the 4-STABLE branch (if any) will depend on several factors. The most important of these is the existence and stability of the 5-STABLE branch. If CURRENT is not sufficiently stable to allow the creation of a 5-STABLE branch, this may require and permit more releases from the 4-STABLE branch. Until the last declared release on the 4-STABLE branch, new features may be merged from HEAD at the discretion of developers, subject to existing release engineering policies.
To some extent, the release engineering team (as well as the developer community as a whole) will take into account user demand for future 4-STABLE releases. This demand, however, will need to be balanced with release engineering resources (particularly developers' time, computing resources, and mirror archive space). We note that in general, the FreeBSD community (both users and developers) has shown a preference for moving forward with new features in the 5.X branch and beyond, due to the difficulty involved in backporting (and maintaining) new functionality in 4.X.
The Security Officer Team <firstname.lastname@example.com>
will continue to support releases made from the 4-STABLE branch in
accordance with their published policies, which can be found on the
Security page on the FreeBSD web site. Generally, the
two most recent releases from any branch will be supported with
respect to security advisories and security fixes. At its
discretion, the team may support other releases for specific
At this point, the release engineering team has no specific plans for future releases from the 4-STABLE development branch. It seems likely that any future releases (if any) from this branch will be lightweight, ``point'' releases. These will probably carry 4.9.X version numbers, to indicate that they are not intended to provide large amount of new functionality compared to 4.9-RELEASE. In general, these releases will emphasize security fixes, bug fixes, and device driver updates (particularly to accommodate new hardware easily supported by existing drivers). Major new features (especially those requiring infrastructure support added in 5.X) will probably not be added in these releases.
6 Notes on Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.X
For those users with existing FreeBSD systems, this section offers a few notes on upgrading a FreeBSD 4.X system to 5.X. As with any FreeBSD upgrade, it is crucial to read the release notes and the errata for the version in question, as well as src/UPDATING in the case of source upgrades.
6.1 Binary Upgrades
Probably the most straightforward approach is that of ``backup everything, reformat, reinstall, and restore everything''. This eliminates problems of incompatible or obsolete executables or configuration files polluting the new system. It allows new filesystems to be created to take advantage of new functionality (most notably, the UFS2 defaults).
As of this time, the binary upgrade option in sysinstall(8) has not been well-tested for cross-major-version upgrades. Using this feature is not recommended. In particular, a binary upgrade will leave behind a number of files that are present in FreeBSD 4.X but not in 5.X. These obsolete files may create some problems. Examples of these files include old C++ headers, programs moved to the Ports Collection, or shared libraries that have moved to support dynamically-linked root filesystem executables.
On the i386™ and pc98 platforms, a UserConfig utility exists on 4-STABLE to allow boot-time configuration of ISA devices when booting from installation media. Under FreeBSD 5.X, this functionality has been replaced in part by the device.hints(5) mechanism (it allows specifying the same parameters, but with a very different interface).
Floppy-based binary installations may require downloading a third, new floppy image holding additional device drivers in kernel modules. This drivers.flp floppy image will generally be found in the same location as the usual kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppy images.
CDROM-based installations on the i386 architecture now use a ``no-emulation'' boot loader. This allows, among other things, the use of a GENERIC kernel, rather than the stripped-down kernel on the floppy images. In theory, any system capable of booting the Microsoft® Windows NT® 4 installation CDROMs should be able to cope with the FreeBSD 5.X CDROMs.
6.2 Source Upgrades
Reading src/UPDATING is absolutely essential. The section entitled ``To upgrade from 4.x-stable to current'' contains a step-by-step update procedure. This procedure must be followed exactly, without making use of the ``shortcuts'' that some users occasionally employ.
6.3 Common Notes
Perl has been removed from the base system, and should be installed either from a pre-built package or from the Ports Collection. Building Perl as a part of the base system created a number of difficulties which made updates problematic. The base system utilities that used Perl have either been rewritten (if still applicable) or discarded (if obsolete). sysinstall(8) will now install the Perl package as a part of most distribution sets, so most users will not notice this change.
It is generally possible to run old 4.X executables under 5.X, but this requires the compat4x distribution to be installed. Using old ports may be possible in some cases, although there are a number of known cases of backward incompatibility. As an example, the devel/gnomevfs2, mail/postfix, and security/cfs ports need to be recompiled due to changes in the statfs structure.
When installing or upgrading over the top of an existing 4-STABLE-based system, it is extremely important to clear out old header files in /usr/include. Renaming or moving this directory before a binary installation or an installworld is generally sufficient. If this step is not taken, confusion may result (especially with C++ programs) as the compiler may wind up using a mixture of obsolete and current header files.
MAKEDEV is no longer available, nor is it required. FreeBSD 5.X uses a device filesystem, which automatically creates device nodes on demand. For more information, please see devfs(5).
UFS2 is the default on-disk format for file systems created using newfs(8). For all platforms except pc98, it is also the default for file systems created using the disk labeling screen within sysinstall(8). Because FreeBSD 4.X only understands UFS1 (not UFS2), disk partitions that need to be accessed by both 5.X and 4.X must be created with UFS1. This can be specified using the -O1 option to newfs(8), or on the disk labeling screen in sysinstall(8). This situation most often arises with a a single machine that dual-boots FreeBSD 4.X and FreeBSD 5.X. Note that there is no way to convert file systems between the two on-disk formats (other than backing up, re-creating the file system, and restoring).
7 Summary
While FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE contains a number of new and exciting features, it may not be suitable for all users at this time. In this document, we presented some background on release engineering, some of the more notable new features of the 5.X series, and some drawbacks to early adoption. We also presented some future plans for the 4-STABLE development branch and some tips on upgrading for early adopters.
This file, and other release-related documents, can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/.
For questions about FreeBSD, read the documentation before contacting <email@example.com>.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
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Pat Buchanan Attacks Army For Celebrating Diversity
Written by Eric Hananoki
In his new book, MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan makes the case that diversity is a weakness, not a strength, for America. In his chapter "The Diversity Cult," Buchanan takes issue with Gen. George W. Casey for his 2007 statement, "I firmly believe the strength of our Army comes from our diversity."
Buchanan asks in response, "Where is the empirical evidence behind General Casey's assertion ... Is the diverse army of today really superior to Lee's Army of Northern Virginia that resisted the Union's mighty Army of the Potomac for four years? Is it superior to the U.S. Army that went ashore at Normandy?"
Buchanan adds: "What General Casey seems to be saying is that the strength of the U.S. Army stems from the fact that we now have a smaller share of white male soldiers. Does anyone really believe that?"
From Buchanan's book Suicide Of A Superpower:
Where is the empirical evidence behind General Casey's assertion that "the strength of our Army comes from our diversity"? Is the diverse army of today really superior to Lee's Army of Northern Virginia that resisted the Union's mighty Army of the Potomac for four years? Is it superior to the U.S. Army that went ashore at Normandy? How so? Where is the evidence that an army enhances its strength when its enlisted ranks and officer corps become a mosaic of white, black, Asian, Hispanic, male, female, straight, and gay soldiers?
No one would say a surgical team or hockey team or debating team was superior because it included people of all races and ethnic groups. We would judge each team by its performance. What General Casey seems to be saying is that the strength of the U.S. Army stems from the fact that we now have a smaller share of white male soldiers. Does anyone really believe that? [Pat Buchanan, Suicide Of A Superpower: Will America Survive To 2025?, 2011, pp. 247]
But when Casey offered the statement in 2007, he cited a recent example of diversity helping the Army. The Army News Service reported of Casey's comments:
The chief of staff recalled from his time in Iraq how he was often asked by Iraqi leaders, 'how do you have a squad like that... with people from all races and genders operating so well together?'
"I will tell you that I firmly believe the strength of our Army comes from our diversity," Gen. Casey said, adding that the example of the U.S. Army has helped the Iraqi army bring together Sunni and Shiite Moslems to work with Kurds and other nationalities as a team.
The example of how U.S. Soldiers of different nationalities work together "has really helped the Iraqi Army retain it's role as the only non-sectarian organization in that whole country," Gen. Casey said, "so if you're looking for the impact of the strength, the diversity of an organization, look no further than that."
In a 2008 interview with American Forces Press Service, Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Rochelle offered another recent, concrete reason why diversity is important for the armed forces:
"We tend to think rather narrowly about diversity sometimes -- it's a black-white or it's a Hispanic-black-white issue. It's not," Rochelle said in an interview at the Pentagon.
"Diversity is a national security issue and one that every one of us should be concerned about, frankly, because it is a force multiplier for our soldiers," he said.
In 2002, as the Army was preparing for the possibility of war in Iraq, the Army's recruiting command was given the mission to recruit Arabic linguists that would be needed for troops on the ground to communicate with local citizens. But the service couldn't recruit and train them fast enough, said Rochelle, who headed the command from 2002 to 2005
"We were somewhat ill-prepared to do that, and it took quite a long time to spin the system up to the point of where we are today," he said.
The Army now has nearly 1,000 Arabic linguists in its ranks, Rochelle said. But this is nearly six years into the war, and the Army needs to be prepared for the next point of conflict, he said.
During a 2008 appearance on MSNBC, an "offended" Buchanan falsely claimed only "white males" died at the battles of Gettysburg and Normandy. In reality, "nearly 2,000" African-Americans took part in the Normandy invasion, at least some of whom apparently died as a result, and at least one woman and one African-American were reportedly killed in the Gettysburg campaign.
In 2007, Buchanan penned a column headlined, "The Dark Side of Diversity." Buchanan blamed the Virginia Tech murders on an immigrant "invasion" and cited the virulent anti-immigrant website VDARE.com to connect diversity to "mass murder."
Where does one find such facts [about immigrants going "berserk here"]? On VDARE.com, a Website that covers the dark side of diversity covered up by a politically correct media, which seem to believe it is socially unhealthy for us Americans to see any correlation at all between mass migrations and mass murder.
"In our diversity is our strength!" So we are endlessly lectured.
But are we really a better, safer, freer, happier, more united and caring country than we were before, against our will, we became what Theodore Roosevelt called "a polyglot boarding house for the world."
Buchanan has a long history of bigotry against immigrants and minorities.
Pat Buchanan: Blacks Have Lost The American Identity They Had During Segregation
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Have a little too much mashed potatoes and gravy over the holidays? Maybe too many hours in front of the television watching football instead of getting some exercise? According to USA.gov, the most popular New Year's resolution is to lose weight. The flip side of that is Time magazine's online list of the "top 10 commonly broken New Year's resolutions." Topping the list, you guessed it: lose weight and get fit.
On the southern Kenai Peninsula, however, here are plenty of ways and plenty of support to turn that resolution into something that lasts a lifetime.
"The biggest thing is to do something," said Mary Jo Cambridge of Alaska Training Room. "Create some consistency in eating habits and workout habits. It's can't be something that's faddy or the latest thing going on in Hollywood. It's got to be something sustainable that you can do, a lifestyle change. Something realistic."
Kellie Blue of the Bay Club has a similar message.
"I wish people would just quit beating up on themselves and make one or two changes a week, baby steps," Blue said of starting small. "You want to make changes in a way that's a total lifestyle change."
As an example, Blue pointed to her 108-year-old grandmother."Until she broke her hip a couple of years ago, she was walking three to five miles a day. She started out at age 90 with five miles and backed it down to three when she was 95," said Blue.
Another key to a lasting lifestyle change is to enjoy what you're doing.
"Maybe that should be the message: enjoy moving," said Blue. "It should be fun. That and a clean diet and you've got it made."
Ex-Olympian Tela O'Donnell, who has designed Bay Club's Fitness Camp 2014 to be offered Jan. 18-March 1, has included nutritional considerations in that program.
"It's not an eating-diet plan in the sense of restricting calories or tricks and gadgets, but a real plan about how you're going to eat," said O'Donnell.
"We'll lay that out in a contract and work with each person individually to get a plan that will work for them."
Frequently asked for diet tips, Chambers said it's a matter of turning around a "living to eat" mentality to a "eating to live" frame of mind.
"You have to figure out what the body needs on a daily basis, not overeat, not binge and purge or starve," said Chambers, who recommends viewing "Forks over Knives," a 2011 documentary advocating a low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet.
"I used to be a person who absolutely loved to eat, but I was eating tons of meat, tons of dairy and it was terrible for my body," said Chambers. "I think everyone has to get to a place where they're eating small meals, more at the beginning of the day, less at night, and drinking lots of water."
Following are some of the opportunities for Homer-area residents to raise their wellness quotient. There are activities for do-it-yourselfers and those wanting a little help; sports to do on your own or with a trainer; events with flexible schedules and classes with set times; and fun to have indoors as well as out.
Alaska Training Room, 1067 Ocean Drive
Having begun offering supervised circuit training in June 2012, owner Mary Jo Cambridge has continued to add classes to meet the growing interest.
"I'm trying to figure out what my next step is for my facilities," said Cambridge. "I need a bigger place."
The classes are taught in a group setting, with a focus on improving cardiovascular fitness and functional strength with locals' lifestyles in mind.
"We chop wood. We shovel snow. We ski. We swim. All of the stations are based on balance, coordination, core strength and posture. It's all relatable," said Cambridge.
Class times are posted online and offer early as well as late-in-the-day flexibility to accommodate busy schedules. Cambridge's clients range from 12 to 82 years old. Membership rates also are posted on the web.
Bay Club, 2395 Kachemak Drive
The Bay Club offers a full menu of fitness opportunities, including a heated pool, climbing wall, racquetball courts, aerobic rooms, cardio equipment, weight machines and free weights. The class schedule includes such areas as yoga, tai chi, Zumba, and aquatics programs. There are offerings for members, as well as non-members. Instructors match those just launching a fitness program with those who have been at it awhile.
"We have an open house on Jan. 18, in which there'll be demos of all the classes," said owner Kellie Blue.
The Bay Club Fitness Camp 2014 begins Jan 18, presented by Tela O'Donnell. It includes healthy eating habits, a fitness assessment, creating fitness programs and more.
"She's an ex-Olympian and has a psychology degree and is combining that to help people start and initiate and maintain healthy exercise behaviors," said Blue.
City of Homer Community Recreation
Office located at Homer High School
Coordinator Mike Illg has created a program including ballroom dancing, Pilates, skiing and more. Office hours are noon-8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, with the class schedule available online.
The annual ski and winter swap will be at the Homer High School commons, 5:30-7 p.m. Jan. 23, followed by the first night of the Telluride Mountainfilm show, at 7 p.m. in the Mariner Theatre. The second showing, with different films, is at Mariner Theatre at 7 p.m. Jan. 25. Admission is $10 per person, with tickets available at the Homer Bookstore and the Community Recreation Office.
Kachemak Bay Running Club, On Facebook
If you think running is a summer-only activity, visit the Kachemak Bay Running Club's Facebook page to check out events like the Turkey Trot held the day after Thanksgiving.
A member of the Road Runners Club of America, the club promotes "activities, benefits and joys of running and walking for participants of all ages."
Annual membership is $15 and the membership form can be found online at http://www.cityofhomerak.gov/sites/default/files/fileattachments/membership_form_for_kachemak_bay_runner_2013.pdf.
Kachemak Nordic Ski Club
With a membership of about 300, Jan Spurkland, club president, said members range in age from 4 to 100. Trails include Baycrest, Roger's Loop, Sunset off Diamond Ridge Road, McNeil Canyon, Eveline State Park and Look Out Mountain Trails near Ohlson Mountain.
"Skiing is such a great sport because you can participate in it at your own skill level as well as what works for you," said Spurkland.
An events calendar and membership information are available online. The junior Nordic program begins Jan. 11 for skiers 4-13 years of age. The annual Friday Night Lights ski is this Friday and Saturday, from 6-8 p.m. at the Roger's Loop trailhead. Kids are free, adult members are $10, adult nonmembers are $20. It is weather dependent. Volunteer organizer Dave Brann stressed that pets be left at home and that participants — skiers and snowshoers — bring headlamps if possible.
Kachemak Ski Club, Ohlson Mountain Road
Facebook: Homer Rope Tow
Randy Wiest, club president, said a pre-Christmas work party has the rope tow ready to go. The only thing missing: another foot of snow. Season memberships are available, with lift rates $10 per day for adults and $5 for students.
"We haven't raised our rates in more than a decade. It's almost like giving away the skiing experience," said Wiest. "We just want people to come up and enjoy it."
The club has approximately 100 members. The Ohlson Mountain run measures about 900 feet with a 300-foot drop and eight to 10 trails from the top to the bottom. During the 2012-2013 season, the tow was open 22 days. Skiing usually begins around New Year's and sometimes continues to Memorial Day.
This year, Jake Worsfold will teach snowboarding beginning around Feb. 1. The cost is the lift ticket for the day.
Kate Kuhns Aquatic Center, Homer High School
The 25-yard, six-lane pool offers both a high and low dive, has handicap accessibility, a shallow-end splash slide and aqua fitness equipment. It is open year-round and has a water temperature in the 80s. The pool is currently closed for installation of a new filtration system and will reopen Jan. 6. A schedule can be found on the pool's web page. Admission fees also are posted online for individual visits and plunge cards good for 20 visits.
Kevin Bell Arena, Homer Spit
For winter fun that's indoors, consider lacing on a pair of skates — either your own or rental skates available at the rink — and take to the ice. Families and friends have turned out for Friday night skating, with the lights are turned down and the music turned up. Classes for all ages, open skate times and a busy hockey season keep the arena busy.
See the online schedule for a time and activity that fits.


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