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Looking for a city break with small children in tow? Oslo would definitely be in my top three destinations. I have recently returned and would like to share my experience and inspire you to visit
Having recently spent a weekend in the capital of Norway with my two year old daughter, I was pleasantly surprised at how welcoming this city is for children and how much there is to do.
Although cheap and plentiful, there is no need to be getting on and off the buses, trains and trams. Oslo can easily be discovered on foot. From Gardermoen airport (www.osl.no/en/osl) the 'flytoget' (www.flytoget.no/eng) will take you straight into Oslo central station for 170 NOKs (about £14). If you use the ticket desk they charge an extra 30 NOKs, but there are loads of machines which are very easy to use. We managed which says it all! Under fives are free on the 'flytoget' as well as all other public transport and museums in Olso.
The 'flytoget' is great, but don't forget to use one of the pram ties or once the train picks up speed your pram (with or without baby) is likely to disappear down an aisle. Any other parent or a guard will show you how they work. At the central station we were greeted by live music and shops selling much needed snacks after a long journey.
Things to do
We visit lots of cities and it's often a balancing act between keeping the children amused whilst also seeing some of the history, architecture and culture. In Oslo everywhere is suitable for all ages. Emily (the two year old) loved peering through the bars of the Kirkeristen and waving at passers-by on the streets below, whilst I perused in the small shops. This walled corridor which winds around the cathedral (www.visitoslo.com/en/oslo-cathedral) was the slaughterhouses, but now house cafes and craft shops. The cathedral underwent some renovations for the Crown prince's wedding in 2001, these are still ongoing and the cathedral itself is currently closed. The cathedral is due to re-open on the 18th April 2010 and between then and 23rd May 2010 there are several concerts, services and cultural events planned to mark the event.
Further along Kark Johans gate (heading away from the central station) is the Parliament building, behind which is a park that plays host to an ice-skating rink in the winter. There is a lovely festive atmosphere in December and the ice rink is surrounded by a low fence, so young children can stand and watch. Karl Johan's gate ends at the Royal Palace, a formidable structure in the middle of the Slottsparken. The first thing that strikes you is the space, an oasis of calm in the centre of the capital city. Aside from a small area at the back, the entire gardens surrounding the palace are open to the public.
At the front is a huge statue of King Karl Johan surveying the city on horseback. The second thing that strikes you is how close you can get to the palace. Although the royal family were in residence you could go right up to the front door. We didn't, the rifle wielding guards were a little off-putting. These soldiers were much more friendly than usual; one smiled and held out his hand for my daughter to touch. A must for any child is the changing of the guards which happens daily at 1.30pm. It lasts about 20 minutes and they seem oblivious to any people. There are no barriers and the guards march through the centre of the crowds if necessary!
If time allows whilst in Oslo, it's worth a walk along Josefines Gate. The Homan brothers purchased the land in 1853 and the villas set the standards for all later architecture. Uphill from here is the Vigeland sculpture park (www.vigeland.museum.no/en/vigeland-park, Nobels gate 32, tel. +47 23 49 37 00). Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943) created over 200 sculptures around the park including the 'Wheel of Life'. It's easy to see why the park is the most visited attraction in Norway; there are extensive views across the city, a large duck pond, children's play area and cafe.
Other places of interest include the opera house. Opened in April 2008, the ship like building 'floats' on the water. You can walk up the roof and experience a lovely view of Oslo and the Fjords.
Folk museum
If you are visiting Oslo during the first two weekends in December, you must go to the folk museum. Unfortunately the boats stop for winter so the only way to get there is on the number 30 bus. Although cheap and easy (20 minutes from outside central station), it was far from comfortable. The rule on buses is that as long as the doors close, it isn't too full!
The Christmas fare at the folk museum (www.norskfolkemuseum.no/en/, Museumsveien 10, Tel: (+47) 22 12 37 00) is the largest pre-Christmas event in Oslo. There are over 100 stalls selling handmade Christmas decorations, local crafts and traditional food and drink. Throughout the day concerts and folk dancing performances are held, Santa himself is often seen dancing or wandering around. The historical houses are decorated according to the traditions of the inhabitants; Emily loved running in and out of the houses and warming her hands on the various open fires. Santa's workshop allows children to help the elves make wooden presents and for 30NOK there is an activity room full of crafts to make. The only thing Emily disliked was the traditional Christmas beer she was given in the brewery, although she did sleep for an hour afterwards.
At 70 NOKs per adult it was a lovely traditional day out and a must for anyone visiting at the appropriate time.
It's worth noting that I wouldn't recommend Oslo for the shopping. There are several large shopping centres including Oslo City which is near the train station and Aker Brygge which is near the Nobel Peace Centre. The main shopping street, Karl Johans Gate is pedestrianised and runs from the train station to the palace. However, most of the stores we came across can be found in the UK, with a better range at a cheaper price.
Points to consider
All public transport (trains, metro, buses and trams) have certain sections which allow prams, they have a picture of a pram near the door.
In winter, it's cold in Oslo! On arrival it was minus 9 and things didn't improve much. Toddlers need an all-in-one snowsuit, hat, waterproof mittens and sturdy boots. We took some wool gloves for Emily, but had to buy some waterproof ones.
You need a sturdy pram with large wheels. A standard buggy will struggle to cope with the cobbled and uneven streets. There is also likely to be snow on the ground.
Milk or juice can be warmed in any cafe. The steam is used from the coffee machines, this only takes a few seconds and little ones will benefit from a warm drink.
Take some moisturiser out and about with you. Young children tend to dribble and can get a sore chin very quickly. I usually apply some cream at morning, lunch and bedtime to noses, cheeks and chin which stops them getting sore.
Several sections around the harbour do not have barriers; I would recommend some reins or a backpack with a handle for toddlers.
If the cold weather proves too much there is an indoor play centre in the middle of Oslo (www.childplanet.no Middelthunsgate 21A, 0368 Oslo, Tlf: +47 23 33 06 44)
Where to eat
There are loads of places to eat in Oslo, from fast food chains to 5 star restaurants. One restaurant I must recommend is Brunello Pizzeria and Ristorante (www.thonhotels.no/Show/Brunello-Pizzeria--Ristorante/, Stenersgaten 10, 0184 Oslo, tfl +47 22 42 05 65) For 400Kr (approx £42) in total we had pasta dishes and a glass of the house wine. They also had a three course set menu for 410Kr (approx £43) per person. As with most Italian restaurants they were very friendly and welcoming for children. They happily made Emily a basic pasta dish and charged 50Kr (approx £5) . The restaurant is within the Thon Hotel near the central train station.
Where to stay
We stayed at the Clarion Hotel Royal Christiana (Biskop Gunnerus' gate 3, NO-0155 Oslo). The hotel is in a good position opposite the central station and the rooms are spacious which is great for families. Unusually for Oslo the hotel has a pool. It's only a small pool but its fine for a quick splash and Emily loved it. The buffet breakfast is fantastic with a range of local and international food. The best thing about the hotel for children was the glass lifts. Going up and down in the lifts became a favourite part of each day.
If cheap and cheerful is what you are looking for then the Oslo Budget Hotel (Inngang v/ Prinsensgate 6, 0152 Oslo S) is right by the central station.
If money is no object then it has to be the Continental Hotel (Stortingsgaten 24/26). A top class hotel in the prime position.


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With its expensively maintained asset in Caribbean Airlines, Trinidad and Tobago cannot be spared the stresses and agonies that attend regional air travel. State-owned CAL can depend on being kept in the air, for as long as the T&T taxpayer can afford the cost.
Cost must, however, be measured against service provided. And since service involves more than just T&T travellers, how CAL is evaluated for its performance around the region must concern T&T taxpayers.
The escalated level of unhappiness in Guyana with CAL's service must represent a source of some anxiety. For hopes here persist to enable the airline to make its way, assuming lessened Treasury support.
Last week's near-crisis meeting in Georgetown between CAL directors and executives and Cabinet-level Guyanese officials should not be taken lightly. As reported in that republic, the meeting weighed "customer service... in-transit process and security checks of Guyanese passengers at Piarco... CAL capacity, airfare, and (its) flag carrier status".
CAL chairman Philip Marshall must have been left in little doubt about the seriousness of Guyanese concerns. From the T&T airline, designated national carrier for Guyana, an acceptable level of service is expected.
That such service has been falling short was the clear message delivered by Guyanese officials. Clearly, they were having second thoughts about the privileged (flag-carrier) position accorded the T&T carrier, in light of "negative perceptions" at large in Guyana.
The meeting occasioned an eye-opening for T&T officials, long complacently assuming that Guyana was being done favours, as in direct flights between Georgetown and New York. In Georgetown, however, the prevailing view was of a T&T airline that so violated the spirit and the letter of its Guyana flag-carrier status as to provoke officials to invite other airlines to take up the slack.
In a promising response to justifiable complaint, CAL chairman Marshall undertook to review the airfares demanded of Guyanese travellers. He was contending against the implication that the airline may be exploiting its near-monopoly status to make a killing off Guyanese passengers.
Moreover, a lingering sore point that showed no signs of improvement was presented by the bad treatment of Guyanese in-transit at Piarco. Nearly one year ago, such mishandling had been eye-witnessed by Guyana's Foreign Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, who condemned it as "hurtful" and "discriminatory", and took it up with her opposite number in Port of Spain.
Evidently so little has changed for the better in the period since, that repeated abuses inflicted on Guyanese at Piarco figured in last week's bilateral Georgetown talks. With its vested interest in winning and keeping the business of Guyanese, CAL must inevitably show concrete signs of embarrassment with how the people it thanks on board for "choosing us" are treated on the ground in Piarco.
The T&T airline should not wait to hear from Guyana a blunter message to shape up or ship out.

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Fusebox / Frameworks 2005
August 12, 2005 ·
The Fusebox & Frameworks conference is coming together nicely - take a look at the list of topics and speakers! All the major frameworks are going to be covered: Fusebox, Mach II, Model-Glue, Tartan, onTap, Rails, Spring and various custom concoctions! I think it's particularly interesting to see Rails and Spring on the menu (with talks from John Paul Ashenfelter and Maxim Porges respectively). I'm going to be in Salt Lake City so I'll miss this year's conference which I'm fairly bummed about - it really looks like a great lineup! Only a week left to get the early bird price too so hurry up and register!
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Sorry to hear you won't be there Sean - it means there'll be one less PowerBook-wielding attendee to share a table with. :)
Hope to see you at the next one...
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Cynics can sneer and jeer, but being a successful teen idol is no laughing matter. Sure, to the naive and ignorant it might all look simple enough--an endless round of stretch limos, fawning fans and eager groupies, with the occasional hit record and sell-out tour squeezed in for variety. But to those in the know, it`s tough, demanding work that can take its toll on health, wealth (yes, plenty of `60s icons are now working in bakeries) and most deadly of all--looks.
For in today`s image-conscious world, where MTV rules pubescent fantasies, it is simply not enough to sound good--you`ve got to look good, too. And today`s video-aware pop star will understandably spend as much time, money and effort on intense personal grooming as on his choice of bodyguard.


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On Thursday, September 29, 2016, three members of our community: Donald Newhouse; his daughter, AFTD Board member Kathy Mele; and Daniel Hedaya (pictured here with AFTD Board Chair Gail Andersen and Executive Director Susan L-J Dickinson) hosted AFTD's inaugural New York City benefit, Hope Rising, at The Pierre Hotel.
The evening celebrated one of AFTD's most generous supporters, David Zaslav, President and CEO of Discovery Communications, who was honored with the Susan Newhouse & Si Newhouse Award of Hope. AFTD extends special gratitude to our event supporters:
Susan and Si's Circle
|Patricia M. and Victor F. Ganzi
|Rupert Murdoch
|Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
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|Nomi and Neal Bergman
|Larry Gagosian
|Diane and Bob Miron
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|Catherine Farley and Enrique Chang
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|Carol Sutton Lewis and William M. Lewis, Jr.
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|The Green Fund
|The Hedaya Family
|Andrew Intrater
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|Martin Packouz / Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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20 CFR 725.204 - Determination of relationship; spouse.
(a) For the purpose of augmenting benefits, an individual will be considered to be the spouse of a miner if:
(1) The courts of the State in which the miner is domiciled would find that such individual and the miner validly married; or
(2) The courts of the State in which the miner is domiciled would find, under the law they would apply in determining the devolution of the miner's intestate personal property, that the individual is the miner's spouse; or
(3) Under State law, such individual would have the right of a spouse to share in the miner's intestate personal property; or
(4) Such individual went through a marriage ceremony with the miner resulting in a purported marriage between them and which, but for a legal impediment, would have been a valid marriage, unless the individual entered into the purported marriage with knowledge that it was not a valid marriage, or if such individual and the miner were not living in the same household in the month in which a request is filed that the miner's benefits be augmented because such individual qualifies as the miner's spouse.
(b) The qualification of an individual for augmentation purposes under this section shall end with the month before the month in which:
(1) The individual dies, or
(2) The individual who previously qualified as a spouse for purposes of § 725.520(c), entered into a valid marriage without regard to this section, with a person other than the miner.
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When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son, Henrik, is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place.
Henrik had kept many things back from her, and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his bundles of papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy theory that JFK's brain disappeared prior to the autopsy – along with the vital evidence regarding bullet exit wounds. The only lead is a letter and photograph from Henrik's girlfriend in Mozambique.
Louise's quest to unravel the mystery surrounding her son's death takes her to Africa; a continent rife with disease, poverty, and corruption. Struggling to cope with sickness and the oppressive heat, Louise sees fear in every face, even unexpectedly in the patients at the clinics set up by an American businessman. In Kennedy's Brain Mankell confirms his status as a master of suspense, and delivers a timely and riveting thriller which will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.
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"Disappointing: too polemical and rambling"
I am a fan of Henning Mankell's Wallander novels and have enjoyed a couple of his non-detective books and so had high hopes that I would like Kennedy's Brain. There is little in the story to connect to the eponymous President's disappearing brain, but a lot about AIDS in Africa, a topic near to the heart of the author, and the inequities of US drug companies (which I do believe). The proselytizing gets in the way of the rather rambling story of archaeologist, Louise Cantor's, quest to find out why her son had died in mysterious circumstances in his Stockholm flat. Her quest takes her to Australia, Spain and Africa. Louise is depicted as treating others in an irritable and sometimes rude way which makes her a main character about whom one doesn't feel the necessary sympathy to follow her through the book.
The narrator of the book, though, does a grand job with different accents to help the listener identify the various characters.
There are too many sub-plots and speechifying by characters and I was getting bored by the last couple of hours of the book, but carried on as I was doing other things at the same time. Disappointing as the author, in other books, has creates a terrific narrative-drive that can keep me awake late into the night. Maybe his personal involvement in trying to combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa has clouded his usual skills.
"Excellent Book"
This books was so different from the Wallender books, and brought up topics that were not easy listening.
The story line was excellent and the narration by Anna Bentnick very good. Aids in Africa is a difficult subject but this book which is fiction probably based on fact makes you angry about man's inhumanity to men. Recommended for the thrilling read, and the story which will keep you guessing all the way.
"A swedish heart of darkness"
Although the narrator Anna Bentinck is extremely good, this book does not deliver on the promises of the publishers summary confirming Mankell's 'status as a master of suspense, and delivers a timely and riveting thriller which will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.' I am a keen fan of Mankell's Kurt Wallender mysteries and expected this book to have the same sort of pace and suspencefulness. It is agonisingly slow and contemplative and no-one could be in any doubt about what the death of her son means to the main character Louise Cantor. Mankell's portrayal of Africa - the ravages of Aids/HIV on the population, and ruthless expolitation by the 1st world rings horrifyingly true. And the parallels to Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad are many - Kurtz, death, darkness and horror. Wandering about in the middle of this is a solitary, middleaged, vulnerable, fey Swedish archeologist discovering her son's secret life and looking for his killer to take revenge. The lack of any possible satisfactory resolution made it hard to finish. Your time would be better spent listening to Heart of Darkness and Audible has seveal versions available.
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Called 'Ignore No More', the app promises to help parents get control back over their child's phone. Just install the app on your phones and your child's phone.
Tap the kid's name and enter a four-digit code to lock their device. When the smartphone is locked, kids can't "text, surf the internet, play games or look at Facebook", Sharon Standifird, the Texas-based app's creator, was quoted as saying in media reports."What they can do is call the parent back to get the password to unlock their phone," she added.
It is not about punishing the child - it is a tool to try and correct the behaviour, Standifird noted. The app, already available for Android devices, will be available on iPhones from March, a newspaper reported.


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Pop singer Jessica Simpson reportedly was so devastated by her break-up with quarterback Tony Romo, she canceled her 29th birthday celebrations on Friday.
The Dallas Cowboys quarterback reportedly ended their 20-month relationship on Thursday, the eve of Simpson's big day.
Romo hit the town with pals in Hollywood on Friday night to get over the split, but Simpson's heartache resulted in her canceling her planned Barbie and Ken-themed birthday party.
A source tells the New York Daily News, "Jess was too heartbroken to have a big bash. She knows that she and Tony are broken up for good. They were heading in different directions."
And the publication claims it was Simpson's determination to settle down with the sports star that caused the couple to part ways.
Another insider adds, "Jessica was ready to settle down, and Tony was not. He travels a lot for his games, and having a full-time girlfriend is a big commitment."
But despite the split, Simpson is looking on the bright side — and is embracing being a year older.
She wrote on her personal Twitter.com page, "Barbie party didn't happen, but i turned 29 and feel like i am on top of the world yelling I LOVE GETTING OLDER."


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Samsung brings Epic 4G through Sprint, features and specifications
Samsung Electronics introduces its Galaxy S smartphone, the new Samsung Epic 4G via Sprint network. In the wake of current 4G fever that has taken the world by storm especially after the launch of iPhone 4, many companies have joined the race to launch 4G mobiles. Samsung Epic 4G is the first 4G Android powered device by Samsung.
The phone features a slide-out full QWERTY physical keyboard and comes with a 4 inch AMOLED touchscreen display. The announcement by Sprint Nexel to launch Epic 4G came 3 weeks after Apple launched its iPhone 4G. The Epic 4G by Samsung will be the first Samsung mobile with Android 2.1with a 1 GHz Hummingbird Processor and 4 inch display.
The other features of Samsung Epic 4G include a Swap feature that lets you allocate texting by dragging a finger across the touch screen. It comes with front and back cameras, a feature similar to the iPhone 4. According to Samsung, the Epic 4G will offer an easy access to Samsung Media Hub through which the users can enjoy blockbuster cinema and watch their favorite V shows on demand, by either purchasing it or on rental. This feature can be accessed only by Epic 4G. It also comes with a front facing video camera for video conferencing.
Samsung Epic 4G caters to the multimedia, social networking and messaging services and delivers the premium content quality to its users not to forget the screen and speed quotient. A series of advanced touch screen features also come preloaded with Epic 4G as the device comes with Android platform.
These features include long tap, multi touch and zoom, together with vertical and horizontal swiping. Sprint being the only national carrier with the 4G networks hence devices gets leverage in terms of increased data speed and high definition entertainment and business experience in the palm of your hand.
With an Samsung Epic 4G in your hands, you can now share music, photos and HD videos wirelessly to your other home electronics such as digital cameras, HDTVs, printers and monitors. These services are made available only to your DLNA certified home electronics with Samsung's AllShare Service.
While speaking about the features of Samsung Epic 4G, Omar Khan, Chief Secretary Officer, Samsung Mobiles, said, "Samsung Epic 4G is a powerful member of our Galaxy S smartphone portfolio which offers premium screen, speed and content features." The company is yet to disclose anything regarding the price of the smartphone.
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A judge in Eau Claire County Court has awarded Dawn Sands, the former general counsel for Menards' home improvement chain, $600,000 in lost wages and benefits, according to an article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The wrongful termination case, which started in 2006 and ultimately reached the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, revolved around charges of gender discrimination. Sands, who started working in Menards' legal department in 1999, claimed that she made less money than her male counterparts. It was her requests for a raise that got her fired in 2006, she said.
Sands and company founder John Menard entered binding arbitration, and one year later, the arbitration panel awarded her $1.77 million, including $900,000 in punitive damages, and ordered Menard to reinstate her at an initial salary of $166,250.
Menard wrote Sands a check for the entire arbitration award amount but refused to rehire her and appealed the arbitration panel's decision to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. Although neither Sands nor Menard wanted her back working in the company's Eau Claire, Wis., offices, the appellate judges decided not to award "front pay" (roughly two years salary) in lieu of reinstatement. Otherwise, the appeals court upheld the arbitration panel's findings.
Menard petitioned the state Supreme Court for review. The high court said the arbitration panel exceeded its authority and applied the wrong remedy to Sands' situation and ordered the case be returned to the initial county judge to determine how much Menard should pay Sands for the future salary she would have received had she not been fired.


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Ageing rockers parodied in spoof
Ageing rockers including Peter Gabriel are among the figures parodied in a new BBC spoof documentary series which reunites stars of The Fast Show.
Gabriel himself makes a cameo appearance in the BBC4 comedy The Life Of Rock With Brian Pern which centres around a prog rock star who goes on to become a world music pioneer and eco campaigner.
Funnyman Simon Day stars as Pern, with fellow Fast Show pal Paul Whitehouse playing the guitarist in his former band Thotch, while Nigel Havers pops up as the group's keyboard player.
Well-known faces such as Noel Edmonds, Jools Holland and Rick Wakeman are among those who appear as guest talking heads, with Queen's Roger Taylor jokingly referred to as a member of Duran Duran for whom his namesake is the drummer.
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer will also have roles reviving their folk duo characters Mulligan and O'Hare, while Matt Lucas will play a record producer and Michael Kitchen plays Pern's manager.
Viewers will be able to spot numerous references in the series to many veteran rockers including members of Pink Floyd. And it also echoes the style of music documentaries which are actually screened on the channel.
In the programmes Pern - who formed his group at public school, much like Genesis - is commissioned by the BBC to front a three-part series about rock from prehistoric man to the present.
The show's creator and director Rhys Thomas - also a Fast Show star - said: " Brian Pern is an amalgamation of a certain type of rock star. Unlike any members of Spinal Tap or Bad News, Pern is one of those super intelligent, thoughtful and ground breaking artists who never took drugs or drank too much. A shy, awkward man off stage but on stage he can be crackers.
"The main inspiration is probably Peter Gabriel, of whom both Simon and I are huge - bordering on the obsessive - fans. There's also a bit of Sting, David Gilmour, Pete Townshend and Brian Eno in there too. Brian Pern isn't any one of them though.
He went on: "We wanted to make a comedy that celebrated rock stars of that generation who are still going strong. At the same time, we also wanted to spoof the music documentaries you get on BBC4 for example, which are rich for parody - especially if you've made one for real, like I have with Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender.
"We aren't mocking them, and it would be wrong to watch the programme and assume Simon is doing an impersonation. Brian is a silly version of all of the artists who have inspired his creation."
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- CBS Sunday Morning served up our local favorite on a national plate. Correspondent Mo Rocca reported on wings in Buffalo, Sunday. He took a seat at a table with Buffalo backer Bernice Radle, Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas and entertainer Lance Diamond at Anchor Bar.
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Why SnapChat is NOT a Fad [VIDEO]
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em right? That's how I feel about SnapChat. I really didn't think it was a valid social media tool and avoided it completely. Bur the reality is, SnapChat is the real deal in the digital media world for some compelling reasons.
Why SnapChat is NOT a Fad
I really thought this was tech's gift to troubled high school kids. And although I still believe that is a demographic that's on the network, there are definitely reasons that that may not be terrible and can actually be useful for brands who use SnapChat to connect with their fans.
Think about how SnapChat works.
- You send a private message, either photo or video, for a set amount of time that you choose to a specific person who you've approved as your friend.
- In order to view what you've received, you have to hold your finger down on the screen the entire time.
- But even when you put your finger down the first time, if you let go the clock is still ticking based on how long you were allowed to view it.
- Once the clock runs out, the media is gone. Forever. (Or saved in the SnapChat archives… but regardless you won't be able to access it.)
If you're not paying attention, you won't ever see it. So you're forced to be in the frame of mind that you better focus on it if you want to know what was sent to you.
That's an incredible concept in social media. We're used to lots of distractions and the ability to find anything again if we wanted to see it. With SnapChat, you're forced to increase your retention level, giving the sender a good chance at your undivided attention.
How could you do with that as a brand? Quite a lot.
What if you used this medium to share discounts and special access to your biggest advocates? Or if you sent a video asking for feedback from those people about a new product or idea?
The ways you can take advantage of the higher open rates and great audience retention to get brands advocates in an activated state of mind make SnapChat a very possible tool of value for your digital presence.
Just like with any network, you don't want to jump in head first without a plan. But definitely think again about shrugging SnapChat off as a silly kid's game. Didn't we used to think about Facebook like that?
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text: The month of April brings two very different kinds of book signings to the Ostrow Library; one, a conversation on Israeli security, the other, pure entertainment. On April 15, foreign correspondents Jennifer Griffin and Greg Myre will discuss their new book, This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Griffin, a Fox News correspondent, and Myre, a New York Times reporter, write about the dramatic changes that have taken place in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the past decade. Based on their eye-witness accounts of some of the most pivotal events, they delve into the thinking that motivates some Palestinians to become suicide bombers and other Palestinians to work as informants for Israel's security forces. Their book addresses a fundamental paradox. Israel is stronger than it has ever been; it has a vibrant society, a thriving economy, and a powerful military, yet it cannot find a way to end the feud with the Palestinians. On Sunday April 29, Hall of Fame inductee, Charles Fox, will perform many of his hits and recount the compelling story of his emergence as a musician and composer whose works continue to entertain listeners around the world. Fox composed the music for more than 100 films and many iconic TV series, including Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and Love Boat. He was nominated twice for an Oscar, is a two-time Emmy winner, and wrote the Grammy Award winning song, Killing Me Softly, the title of his fascinating memoir. Highlights of his career include working with some of the greatest names in entertainment, such as Barry Manilow, Roberta Flack, Lena Horne, and Fred Astaire. Don't miss what promises to be an enchanting and entertaining afternoon. Both events are scheduled for 4PM, the ticket price to each event is $10, and reservations can be made at 310.440.1246 or wcce.aju.edu.


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It's August 2009 at Paragon Mills Elementary in south Nashville. The clock in Greg O'Loughlin's classroom reminds him that in the next few minutes, his 26 students will be filing in from music class.
This is O'Loughlin's second week as a fourth-grade teacher. He paces around the classroom straightening desks like a runner compulsively retying his shoelaces before a 5K. He dashes down the hall, squeezing in one final bathroom break, pounds a V8, and waits by his door. With no bells alerting the start of a new period, he listens for the pack of 9-year-olds, the chorus of tiny voices and shuffling feet speeding down the hallway.
Dressed in khaki pants, the sleeves of his light-blue oxford shirt rolled up, O'Loughlin looks the part. But his only experience was a couple weeks teaching six third-graders during Metro's summer school. Twenty-six is a different ball game.
"I didn't expect to feel like a cop all day," O'Loughlin says. He's heard the maxim that new teachers shouldn't smile before Christmas to show kids who's boss. Today that's no problem.
A boy sobs inconsolably after O'Loughlin gives him a check mark for bad behavior. All day, students interrupt class to ask if they can go to the bathroom or blow their nose. What should've been a fun, interactive math lesson at the white board dissolves into childish fighting over markers and almost-nonstop chatter.
But O'Loughlin doesn't get down. Days like these, he knows, are the ones to learn from.
"You can write down on a piece of paper, 'I'll put five kids at the white board, and they'll do this, this and this,' but none of them did anything I expected them to do," he says.
Like all first-year teachers, O'Loughlin is learning on the job. He's one of 140 new teachers who were brought on to help turn around some of the district's underperforming schools. Most have only a summer of training under their belts.
Mayor Karl Dean dedicated $5.8 million through his Education First fund in 2008 to bring The New Teacher Project and Teach for America, two alternative teacher certification programs, to Nashville in time for the 2009-2010 school year. Together, they produced more than 25 percent of new hires for that year. In a traditional certification program, a bachelor's or master's degree in education is earned and a few months of student teaching are completed.
Teach for America and The New Teacher Project have the same mission: to produce highly motivated, effective teachers who will head into the district's neediest schools and help close the achievement gap between minority, economically disadvantaged students and white, middle-class kids.
The district will pay just over $1 million dollars to retain The New Teacher Project this year. Teach for America is, for now, surviving on private funds. City partnerships for both are up for renewal next year.
While one program struggled to bring all its teachers back for a second year, the other may have a hard time with its third.
Seeking the best
O'Loughlin learned of The New Teacher Project, also called the Nashville Teaching Fellows program, online in 2008. He had been working as head chef at a popular East Nashville restaurant, The Family Wash, the cap to several restaurant posts around town. Before that, he spent six years in Washington, D.C., working for Friends of Sinn Féin, an organization supporting the Irish peace process.
O'Loughlin and his wife were expecting a baby girl, and exiting the work force to go back to school for a traditional master's degree would have put his family in financial straits. With The New Teacher Project, he could get a job teaching and work toward his certification, and in the meantime earn a Master of Arts in Teaching from Belmont University. The graduate degree would cost him a little more than $8,000, half of what that usually costs at Belmont.
O'Loughlin is typical of those whom The New Teacher Project tries to recruit: accomplished professionals looking to switch careers and commit to teaching long-term.
"What we really look for are individuals that have a proven track record of success in their past career or in their past academics," says Christina Patrick, who oversees four teaching-fellows programs, including Nashville's. "Someone that knows how to set really ambitious goals and meet those goals, because that's something we see translate into good teaching."
Getting accepted as a fellow isn't easy. Sixteen hundred people applied to Nashville's program last year. Less than half were selected for an all-day interview, where candidates had to present a five-minute lesson to a roomful of veteran Metro teachers. Ultimately, 98 men and women were chosen to become Metro's first teaching fellows cohort.
Teach for America approaches recruitment a little differently. The organization focuses primarily on recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years. Thirty-nine districts nationwide utilize the program but don't select teachers independently. Rather, Teach for America tosses all applicants into one giant pool. Last year, about 35,000 applied and roughly 4,000 were chosen for the corps.
The program looks for candidates with a high undergraduate GPA and an innovative streak. "We're trying to build lifelong leaders in education," Shani Jackson, executive director of Teach for America Nashville, says.
Joseph Williams, an energetic 23-year-old fresh out of Vanderbilt University in the spring of 2009, fit the bill. He was Vandy's student body president and vice president of his fraternity. Williams now teaches U.S. history and government at Whites Creek High, but before applying to Teach for America, he considered law school.
His mother, a longtime first-grade teacher in Memphis, was initially surprised by his decision to parachute into the volatile world of urban education. Like most moms, she liked to brag about her high-achieving son to his former teachers, with whom she worked. When Williams' mom told her colleagues of his plans, she says they were baffled.
"They were all skeptical, like, why is he doing that? Almost a sense of, sadly, a sense of, why would he want to do that?" she says. "As if he's better than that."
The reaction emboldened Williams, who proceeded to throw himself into an eight-week teaching boot camp.
Training and support
Fifty-one Teach for America corps members destined for Nashville classrooms in 2009 spent most of their eight-week training in Atlanta, at Georgia Tech. The program had seven regional training sites.
Williams remembers rigorous days that began in the dorms around 6 a.m. He'd ride a bus to an Atlanta public school, where he learned how to teach, observing seasoned instructors before taking on a summer-school class.
Instructors drilled best practices into Williams, as well as classroom management and learning assessments. When it came time to take the reins of a class with about 20 kids, Williams would have to type lesson plans the night before, then turn them in for approval from a mentor teacher.
Once he was in front of students, a small crew of teachers, literacy and content specialists perched themselves in the back to observe. Post-It notes full of feedback were tacked onto copies of his lesson plans and handed back to him for study.
"Teach for America is a well-oiled machine," he recalls.
O'Loughlin's six-week institute in Nashville was similar.
"There was no down time," he remembers. "We weren't just being taught how to do things, but the whys behind it."
The main difference between the two training institutes reveals itself at the end. The New Teacher Project organizes job fairs and works closely with Metro to determine which schools and subjects are in need, but it doesn't guarantee employment. That came as a surprise to some last year. O'Loughlin wasn't caught off guard, but he was among many of the 98 fellows still seeking work on July 9, the day of the program's closing ceremony. Ultimately, three left the program before the start of the school year, three more never found jobs, and two were hired in surrounding counties, leaving 90 fellows in Nashville classrooms.
Teach for America also requires corps members to interview and secure jobs on their own. But Teach for America does a lot of legwork. Last year, before the training institute ended, all 51 corps members had jobs in Metro.
Jackson says Teach for America serves as a liaison, contacting principals early on to find out exactly which holes will need filling.
"For example, science and math are a lot of the areas where they have needs, so when we are accepting corps members into Nashville, they'll be for specific needs of the district," says Jackson. In addition, Teach for America administrators send resumes out to facilitate the matchmaking between teacher and school.
All 51 corps members worked with teaching mentors to construct lessons for the first few weeks of school, and to map out goals and lessons for the entire school year. They must complete four teacher-certification courses through Lipscomb University. Both Teach for America and The New Teacher Project also require their teachers to attend professional development workshops throughout the year.
The mentors, typically successful former Teach for America teachers, stick closely by during the two-year obligation, tracking data on student performance. As a teaching fellow, O'Loughlin tracked his students' progress with district software, but, like those from Teach for America, he was assigned a mentor — one of his professors at Belmont — who observed him throughout the year.
Surviving year one
In early March, a little over halfway through his first year, O'Loughlin feels like he's hitting his stride. Each class starts with a detailed rundown of his expectations, as to avoid a sequel to the marker fights of Week Two. His birthday, March 3, was one of his best days at Paragon Mills. O'Loughlin's kids and fellow fourth-grade teachers surprised him by all dressing in his signature blue shirt.
One afternoon about a week later, he glides between desks, balancing a purple Language Arts textbook in one hand and quizzing kids on adverbs. Students sit frozen in thought. Their answers are nearly all correct. On days like this, O'Loughlin is floating.
"I'm arming kids with the civil right of literacy," he says. "They don't know how to read, and they're leaving here learning how to read a little better. And they're feeling proud of themselves. You can't really describe that feeling."
Even so, life is hectic. The state's annual standardized assessment tests, TCAP, are coming up, and his master's program is keeping him so busy he goes days without seeing his young daughter awake. He gets to school at 6:45 a.m., and on the two nights when he takes his graduate courses, he doesn't get home until well after 7. Many teachers get their master's degrees while working, but few choose to do it their first year.
Of the 90 teaching fellows who entered Metro classrooms in 2009, 76 made it to 2010, giving the program a retention rate of about 84 percent. That's slightly better than the district's new teacher retention rate of 80 percent. But it's lower than the 87 percent retention rate of Teaching Fellow programs across the country.
Christina Patrick, who oversees the Nashville program, says some fellows left for personal reasons, like illness. Ten were asked not to return. Every year, Metro principals typically give what are known as non-renewal notices to 30 or 40 of the district's roughly 1,000 non-tenured teachers. The decision is based on a principal's evaluations.
A few of the fellows appealed their non-renewal notices and are being allowed to teach a second year. Patrick says The New Teacher Project supports principals' decisions and is now providing more feedback during summer training and throughout the school year in an effort to boost their retention rate.
"I think a lot of it is taking the foundation and models that already exist in the program and pushing the rigor even more," she says.
David Martin, principal of Jere Baxter Middle School in East Nashville, hired 15 teaching fellows and one corps member last year — more than any school in the district. All but two are back for a second year. He says he was thrilled to have access to the pipeline of talented, smart individuals.
Martin admits he likes things done a certain way at his school, and the limited experience of those 16 hires was a bonus. Essentially, he could mold them to fit Jere Baxter.
"I didn't have to worry about a teacher being from another building and resisting my expectations," Martin says. But, he adds, he'd like to change how these teachers are evaluated, possibly helping to decrease non-renewal notices.
Principals assess all teachers on several different criteria, including how well they plan, their teaching strategies and communication. Non-tenured teachers and tenured teachers must meet different standards. Martin would like to see a third, more lenient category created for the alternatively licensed bunch. He says because of their abbreviated time student-teaching, he's seen some struggling with controlling and engaging students.
"If I evaluate them honestly, they can be out of work," he says. "But I might be looking at them saying they may be a master teacher in two years."
Meanwhile, all 51 Teach for America teachers are back for a second year in Metro classrooms. The 100 percent retention shocked Shani Jackson, executive director of Nashville's program, which typically lands around 93 percent retention.
But, as critics of the program are wont to point out, the third year is where Teach for America loses. Typically, 40 percent of corps members remain in the classrooms where they were placed once their two-year commitment is up, with more drifting off in the following years. But it's estimated that two-thirds of Teach for America alumni remain in education, many as administrators or advocates.
Joseph Williams, the Whites Creek High teacher, knows this lack of lifelong classroom commitment is a frequent criticism. He isn't sure what he's going to do at the end of his two years, but he thinks he's made an impact even if he doesn't stay.
"For me, when I was going through school, my favorite teachers, how long did I have them?" he says. "I had them one year."
Fifty-seven new corps members have entered Nashville classrooms. Ninety teaching fellows were selected for the 2010 cohort, 83 have jobs in Metro, six are in surrounding counties, and one is not yet teaching.
The New Teacher Project is entering its last year of a three-year contract. Assuming the district keeps the program, the current $1 million dollar price tag should remain. While Teach for America isn't costing Metro anything now, if the district extends their partnership, they'll eventually have to start kicking in money.
Metro seems to want long-term relationships with both programs. Mayor Dean and Director of Schools Jesse Register recently cited them as models for hiring and recruiting top-notch teachers in their ASSET (Achieving Student Success Through Effective Teaching) report. Still, education initiatives are notoriously fickle. Their lasting power relies on whether future public school leaders continue to find them attractive and worth the cost.
It's too early to know whether Nashville's corps members and fellows narrowed the achievement gap. TCAP scores haven't been released. But both programs have shown success elsewhere.
A 2004 report, published by Mathematica Policy Research, showed that Teach for America teachers randomly selected from across the nation improved students' math scores more than their traditional counterparts. No significant difference was shown in reading. For three years, researchers at Louisiana State University have ranked The New Teacher Project's training program as one of the state's best.
Chaos long gone
It's mid-April, and with a little more than a month left in his first year, O'Loughlin is ready for summer, but burnout is far out of mind. He's confident in his teaching, and he can chuckle about memories like how queasy he was walking into his first staff meeting because he wasn't sure if he needed to raise his hand to speak.
The chaotic math lesson at the white board seems like ages ago, and today he's got no qualms about taking science to the playground. His class is learning about variables in experiments. Before heading outside to stuff radish seeds into plastic cups full of different kinds of soil, O'Loughlin paints a clear picture of the next 15 minutes.
"We're going to have to take turns filling our cup with soil," he tells his students. "It's going to take patience and respect for each other as we do our work. Can you handle that?"
"Yes, sir," 26 voices chime.
Everyone marches carefully down the hall on an invisible tightrope, pausing at the door until "Mr. O" gives the green light. Once outside, even with a P.E. class a couple yards away, his students remain focused, waiting for O'Loughlin to come around with a seed they can drop into their cups.


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PM Narendta Modi's degrees produced by BJP fake: AAP
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ashutosh on Monday said the BA and MA degrees of Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were fake and forged
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ashutosh on Monday said the BA and MA degrees of Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were fake and forged.
Pointing out several anomalies in the papers showcased by the BJP before mediapersons earlier on Monday, Ashutosh said that names and years on the documents don't match.
"The first year marksheet in 1975 states his name as 'Narendra Kumar Damodardas Modi', the second year marksheet has 'Narendra Damoderdas Mody', while the third year marksheet in the year 1977 again has his name as 'Narendra Kumar Damodar Das Mody'," Ashutosh said.
Waving copies of Modi's marksheets and degrees before the cameras, the AAP leader said: "But the BA degree here shows his name as 'Narendra Damoderdas Modi'. Can the name of a person change so frequently in the marksheets?
"As far as I know, there is a legal procedure to change your name. You need an affidavit to change your name. Where is that affidavit?" he added.
According to the copies of marksheets and degrees provided by the BJP to the media, the first year MA marksheet from Gujarat University has the prime minister's name as 'Modi NarendraKumar Damoderdas' while the second year MA marksheet has his name as 'Modi Narendra Damoderdas'.
The post-graduation degree, however, bears the name 'Narendra Damoderdas Modi'.
"You need brains even to do forgery," Ashutosh quipped as he pointed out the anomalies.
In response to BJP president Amit Shah's demands that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal must apologise for hurling 'false allegations' against Prime Minister Modi, Ashutosh said instead Shah and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley should apologise for showing fake documents.


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text: >Number: 21189 >Category: kern >Synopsis: ifconfig + stf0 make kernel crash with uvm fault >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: kern-bug-people >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: net >Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 15 07:13:00 UTC 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Alexander Grigo >Release: NetBSD 1.6Q (current) >Organization: >Environment: NetBSD yoali 1.6Q NetBSD 1.6Q (YOALI.gdb) #0: Mon Apr 14 17:48:26 CEST 2003 firstname.lastname@example.com:/userland/NetBSD-checkout/obj/userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/YOALI.gdb i386 >Description: When playing with stf0 and ifconfig I got uvm faults at least in 1.6O and 1.6Q of current (i386). Userland is current as of 20030213 (not really sure) and I used kernels from the same date (1.6O) and the one from last week's checkout (1.6Q). My dmesg output is NetBSD 1.6Q (YOALI.gdb) #0: Mon Apr 14 17:48:26 CEST 2003 email@example.com:/userland/NetBSD-checkout/obj/userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/YOALI.gdb total memory = 36480 KB avail memory = 31228 KB using 481 buffers containing 1924 KB of memory mainbus0 (root) cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) cpu0: Intel 486DX2 (486-class), id 0x435 cpu0: features 3<FPU,VME> isa0 at mainbus0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo com0: kgdb com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 71260 AT> wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing wd0: 1204 MB, 2448 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2467614 sectors wd0: drive supports PIO mode 3, DMA mode 0 vga0 at isa0 port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 sysbeep0 at pcppi0 isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec isapnp0: read port 0x203 ep0 at isapnp0 port 0x210/16 irq 5 ep0: 3Com 3C509B EtherLink III ep0: address 00:a0:24:7a:63:75, 8KB byte-wide FIFO, 5:3 Rx:Tx split ep0: 10baseT, 10base5, 10base2 (default 10baseT) IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing. boot device: wd0 root on wd0a dumps on wd0b root file system type: ffs wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) I compiled the kernel with debug and kgdb and used remote debugging to get this (cont is to get the kernel running after establishing the connection) The print commands show the unaccessible memory address at the position that caused the SIGSEGV. (gdb) cont Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. in6ifa_ifpforlinklocal (ifp=0xc04ccc00, ignoreflags=7) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/in6.c:1996 /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/in6.c:1996:55132:beg:0xc0149f3f (gdb) p ifa $1 = (struct ifaddr *) 0x5f666c65 (gdb) p ifa->ifa_addr Cannot access memory at address 0x5f666c65 (gdb) where #0 in6ifa_ifpforlinklocal (ifp=0xc04ccc00, ignoreflags=7) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/in6.c:1996 #1 0xc015ab51 in nd6_prefix_onlink (pr=0xc046f880) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c:1611 #2 0xc015ae14 in nd6_prefix_offlink (pr=0xc04b5b00) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c:1741 #3 0xc015a37d in prelist_remove (pr=0xc04b5b00) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/nd6_rtr.c:1096 #4 0xc01553ec in nd6_purge (ifp=0xc04cc000) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/nd6.c:606 #5 0xc014b225 in in6_ifdetach (ifp=0xc04cc000) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/in6_ifattach.c:672 #6 0xc01490e6 in in6_purgeif (ifp=0xc04cc000) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/in6.c:1393 #7 0xc015d447 in udp6_usrreq (so=0xc4e25cb4, req=22, m=0x0, addr6=0x0, control=0xc04cc000, p=0xc4d85824) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/netinet6/udp6_usrreq.c:296 #8 0xc02599ec in if_detach (ifp=0xc04cc000) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/net/if.c:609 #9 0xc0266041 in stf_clone_destroy (ifp=0xc04cc000) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/net/if_stf.c:240 #10 0xc0259d11 in if_clone_destroy (name=0xc4e25ec0 "stf0") at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/net/if.c:789 #11 0xc025a601 in ifioctl (so=0xc04af264, cmd=2149607801, data=0xc4e25ec0 "stf0", p=0xc4d85824) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/net/if.c:1339 #12 0xc023136c in soo_ioctl (fp=0xc4d19508, cmd=2149607801, data=0xc4e25ec0, p=0xc4d85824) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/kern/sys_socket.c:141 #13 0xc022e8ac in sys_ioctl (l=0xc4cfe700, v=0xc4e25f80, retval=0xc4e25f78) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/kern/sys_generic.c:640 #14 0xc029a4ff in syscall_plain (frame={tf_gs = 31, tf_fs = 31, tf_es = 31, tf_ds = 31, tf_edi = 134539662, tf_esi = -1077937840, tf_ebp = -1077938088, tf_ebx = 134538472, tf_edx = 0, tf_ecx = 134551920, tf_eax = 54, tf_trapno = 3, tf_err = 2, tf_eip = 1208972479, tf_cs = 23, tf_eflags = 647, tf_esp = -1077938132, tf_ss = 31, tf_vm86_es = 0, tf_vm86_ds = 0, tf_vm86_fs = 0, tf_vm86_gs = 0}) at /userland/NetBSD-checkout/src/sys/arch/i386/i386/syscall.c:156 #15 0xc0100a57 in syscall1 () #16 0x8049bd3 in ?? () #17 0x8049334 in ?? () (gdb) >How-To-Repeat: Well, at first I was quite sure about how to repeat this (see my posting from Apr.30 to current-users), but after some further investigation I found out that one needs to have some more things playing together. Firstly, I had to set up my nic properly (ep0), e.g. assign an ip address and set routes. Also I had to send some packets over this interface (I used ping), but sometimes it was not necessary, although I'm not quite sure about this... Secondly, I ran this little script -------------8<----------------------------- #!/bin/sh n=1 while [ "" = "" ] do echo hallo $n echo create... ifconfig stf0 create echo set addr... ifconfig stf0 inet6 2002:1234:1234::1 echo destroy... ifconfig stf0 destroy sleep 1 n=$(($n + 1)) done -------------------------------------------- Normally this causes an uvm fault after the second iteration of the loop. I found out, that it seems to be necessary to assign an ip address to stf0. In case the scripts runs several times without crashing the kernel, just kill it do some network traffic (I used ping). Then start the script again and see what happens. My experience is, that at most I had to run the script for the second time to get the crash. Although I'm not sure whether this is related to some hardware problems, I should mention that my nic (ep0) is detected twice (as ep0 and ep1) when booting with GENERIC. And (of course ??) only one works (ep1) while the other seems to hang until a timeout when using ifconfig. Therefore I used my own kernel config without most of the unused stuff and this way it detects my nic as ep0 and only as ep0. For all this testing and debugging I used a fresh install. Except from my custom kernel everything else is using the default settings (ok, I added a user and ifconfig.ep0) >Fix: Since I'm not an experienced kernel hacker I can't do too much to fix this uvm fault. But if you need some more debugging output just ask (but be specific about what you want to know ;) Also I could sent you the kernel core file (!36MB ). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:


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I thought the alternator was going bad because my car wouldn't start sometimes. The Serpentine Belt always makes a noise. Yesterday the Serpentine Belt broke as I was driving. I replaced it and drove approx. 1/2 mile and the belt started unraveling. What would be causing the Serpentine Belt to start to deteriorate so soon after replacing it?
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14 May Daring Cooks – Zuni Ricotta Gnocchi
One of the hardest things about writing a food blog is coming up with ideas. I constantly walk the line between indulging my whims and keeping it real. So, for a monthly infusion of inspiration, I decided to join the Daring Cooks, the Daring Bakers' newly launched sister challenge.
The rules are simple: Make the monthly recipe, then post about it on the 14th. Miss too many challenges and you're kicked out of the Daring Kitchen.
Participation, not stellar results, is all that's needed.
Good thing, too. This month's recipe is Ricotta Gnocchi and the dish lived up to my tag line. The results weren't pretty.
This gnocchi isn't made with potatoes. Instead it relies on well-drained, fresh ricotta, a couple of eggs and a drizzle of butter. Being new to the challenge, I decided to stick to the recipe, which can be found here.
I diligently strained the ricotta overnight, followed the tips in Judy Rodger's video and resisted the urge to over handle the dough — which, if I am totally honest, was next to impossible given their flaccid texture. This tray of uneven lumps is my ricotta gnocchi in its uncooked state.
As suggested, I chilled the formed dough for an hour. The gnocchi was so soft at room temperature I didn't think I'd be able to get them in the boiling water whole. I then boiled the chilled gnocchi in plenty of salted water…
and this is what I got.
Dear heavens. The only thing in my kitchen that's allowed to be this white, pasty and lumpy is me.
Would you eat this? Me neither.
So, instead of finishing the results with drizzled butter and a sprinkling of Parmesan, I fried them in a variation of the sage and lemon sauce I used last year for my much prettier butternut gnocchi.
The final results? The gnocchi was incredibly light. If it weren't for the fried exterior, it would have had no texture at all. It also verged on tasteless. Not unpleasant, just nondescript. When I come across this sort of recipe in a book, I scribble "Why bother?" in the margin.
While I like the fact this is low-carb, its low-flavour factor means I won't be making it again. If you're curious to try some, I've got a whole plate if Daring Cooking sitting in the fridge.
Anyone ever had ricotta gnochhi? If so, did you like it? Or does the blame for this daring debacle fall squarely on me?


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Kissing Commies
February 10, 2013
A READER writes:
I've also noticed this creepily excessive hugging and kissing among politicians, but Democrats engage in it more frequently than Republicans. Its inconsistency with their speech and sexual harassment codes leads me to believe that it's another of their self-congratulatory rituals of mutual identification, saying, "See, a dirty conservative can't kiss and hug except as the prelude to sexual conquest; but we enlightened liberals can touch each other's bodies in a loving, but non-sexual way."
It also smacks of both Europe and Hollywood, giving it a double frisson for liberals. It won't be long before American politicians will be greeting each other as Khrushchev greeted Yuri Gagarin!
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Alex writes:
Men kissing each other on the cheek is quite common in Eastern Europe and it was a custom long before the Communists.
Laura writes:
Yes, it's never been an American tradition.
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Several years ago, performance artist Vito Acconci sat down with six teenagers for an interview on the MoMA website Red Studio. Covering everything from the evolution of his work to the reason he omitted his middle name, Acconci was remarkably candid as he answered their questions.The site chronicles the artist's work from his first forays into performance art in the late 1960s to his later installations and his current architectural work.
Rather than describe himself as a performance artist, Acconci would simply call himself an artist. "I think a person who moves into an apartment and puts curtains on the window is also being an artist at that point, you know? There's something that exists, and you're trying to see what it would be like if it was another way."
A term that emerged in the 1960s to describe a diverse range of live presentations by artists.
A form of art, developed in the late 1950s, which involves the creation of an enveloping aesthetic or sensory experience in a particular environment, often inviting active engagement or immersion by the spectator.
VIDEO: Oral History Initiative, excerpt from interview with the artist Vito Acconci.


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Candlestick Park's regular season finale on "Monday Night Football" was one for the ages.
If that's the final game hosted by the San Francisco 49ers, many would be just fine with that.
The fireworks, however, weren't done at that point.
49ERS 34 - FALCONS 24: Full Highlights | Game Photos
At the game's conclusion, ESPN's Chris Berman conducted interviews on the field with 49ers legends: Dwight Clark, Jerry Rice, Steve Young, Terrell Owens and Eddie DeBartolo.
DeBartolo, the former owner of the five-time Super Bowl champions, thanked the crowd at The 'Stick and passed down the game ball to his nephew, 49ers CEO Jed York.
Soon after, the Candlestick lights symbolically went out during a video tribute to the former members of the 49ers while Journey's "Lights" played over the stadium speakers.
The stage was ready for a memorable fireworks show.
Players didn't get to see the postgame celebration, but the in-game explosion by Bowman was good enough.
"It was amazing," nose tackle
Dorsey felt like the 49ers were never doubting themselves even after the Falcons recovered an onside kick and marched down to the 10-yard line before Bowman's first NFL touchdown.
Confidence remained high.
"That's what we were thinking," Dorsey said. "We had to stop them. The defense always leads the charge. We hold ourselves to a high standard. We had to set a tone."
PHOTOS: Farewell Candlestick Celebration
Bowman put the game away and had everyone in awe.
Dorsey, a BCS national champion at LSU, said it was his most memorable game.
"Even when the play was happening I was like, 'I can't believe I'm witnessing this,' the defensive lineman said.
"It was just a surreal play."
The stadium was loud throughout the game, not just on Bowman's takeaway.
The atmosphere was electric throughout the evening. Fans stayed in their seats long before the start of the game and long after Bowman's big play.
Players, too, felt the magnitude.
"Still a little emotional," said tight end
Davis' long-time teammates elaborated on the legacy the current 49ers will leave behind.
"It was big, especially getting a win in the last game in Candlestick in front of all the fans," 49ers rushing king
The former 49ers can take pride in knowing the current team handled business in the final game.
Jim Harbaugh was proud to be a part of it, too.
"I love history," the 49ers coach began, "I appreciate history as much as anyone, but for the men who were in the arena, it's about the future. This game was about that, what our destiny was. And, we're coming face-to-face with our destiny and that's what the game was about."
- READ: Kaepernick Sends SF to Postseason
- READ: Bowman Becomes Legend at The 'Stick
- FULL HIGHLIGHTS: 49ers 34, Falcons 24
- PHOTO GALLERY: Farewell Candlestick
- PHOTO GALLERY: 49ers Celebrate Wild Win
- READ: Crabtree-Boldin Combo Key in Victory
- READ: Gore Calls His Own Number for TD
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BAFTA Guru Launches: Giving Gaming Its Creative Due
Video games continue their steady march towards accepted legitimacy as a viable, progressive entertainment platform.
Today, a very important site has launched: it's BAFTA Guru, "inspiring minds in Film, TV and Games." It targets the 18-30 audience and is specifically designed to assist those who wish to pursue a career in the creative arts. The site will boast "some of the best minds in film, television and video games."
Consisting of interviews, lectures, masterclasses and debates on a variety of topics, the Academy utilizes an "incredible lineup of talent." As an example, here's a clip of game legend Will Wright addressing the concept of game addiction:
Said Tim Hunter, Head of Learning and Events:
"BAFTA Guru is an exciting new development for the Academy. It takes our Learning & Events programme to a wider audience and will allow the amazing roster of industry experts who we meet through our membership and Awards to support the next generation of practitioners. For the first time ever, we are live streaming our David Lean Lecture with Errol Morris, to an international audience."
Next year, users will even be able to upload their own creative content for discussion. BAFTA Guru appears to be an excellent tool and one industry veterans, experts and enthusiasts can point to and say, "this isn't just about a little Italian plumber and a six-year-old's toy, anymore."
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11/8/2011 9:12:38 AM Ben Dutka
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text: Since the interface-cloning mechanism was introduced into -current a while back, a few interfaces which probably should have been converted weren't. I spend a half-hour clonifying sl* and strip* on an airplane yesterday, and will do likewise to ppp*. Before I commit it I wanted to talk a bit about the user-visible ramifications of this, and ways we could make the transition as simple as posible. The code I currently have requires users of these interfaces to do "ifconfig ppp0 create" etc., before starting pppd; likewise for sl* and strip*; there's fundamentally no reason why we couldn't change slattach/pppd to do the interface create as well. Meanwhile, some folks have mentioned to me a desire to allow the admin to specify the interface instance to attach to the tty; this clearly simplifies things like ipf and ipnat configurations. This turns out to be somewhat tricky -- the interface instance is selected in the tty line-discipline open routine and there's no way with the current line discipline interface to specify the interface instance. [I considered, and rejected, allowing the interface <-> tty binding to be changed after the line discipline is opened as potentially too disruptive to the existing code.] Two interfaces need to change/be augmented to enable the interface instance to be specified when the line discipline is set: 1) TIOC{G,S}LINED, which is the ioctl used to change the line discipline from whatever it was into the networking line discipline 2) the line discipline open routine needs to know the requested unit number. I'll deal with each of these in turn. 1) TIOCSLINED takes an up-to-32-character string identifying the line discipline. We could change the code which parses this to interpret an optional trailing decimal integer as a unit number, and pass this to the line discipline open routine; alternatively, we could introduce a parallel pair of ioctl requests which take a line discipline and a ldisc-specific parameter. 2) two options: a) we change the signature of (struct linesw)'s l_open routine to take a third "int" parameter. int (*l_open)(dev_t dev, struct tty *tp, int unit); If "unit" is non-negative, the unit number is unspecified, and the ldisc should just pick one; if non-negative, it's the unit number to attach. b) we add an "int t_lunit;" field to "struct tty", defaulting to "-1"; TIOCSLINED fills it in before calling the line discipline's l_open routine if one was specified. I think I prefer "b" as it involves fewer code changes. opinions? - Bill


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GM's CEO Dan Akerson plans the reorganize the automaker, so that it will move faster.
In an interview given to Editorial Director Peter Brown, Industry Editor James B. Treece and Staff Reporter Mike Colias, Dan Akerson said that there will be two global brands: Chevrolet and Cadillac, with two different marketing officers, Alan Batey for Chevrolet and Bob Ferguson for Cadillac.
He also said that the automaker has to become successful in the small luxury segment, the ATS, to be able to compete with BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Currently GM has products in 80% of the luxury market and the automaker plans to refresh the XTS and CTS in the third quarter of 2013 and add ELR by the end of next year.
"I think by appealing to a different demographic within the luxury category — young, upwardly-mobile professionals — with the ATS, XTS, CTS, where you want to be is the two biggest markets of China and North America. China is predicted to be the biggest luxury market," said Akerson.
He added that by the end of this decade, 40% of the luxury market will be represented in China. Until then GM plans to bring its accounting and its IT into alignment, a change that will help the company move up from a financial point of view.


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Imagine it is 1967 at the Shelby factory in Venice, CA. Mr. Shelby notices that his cowboy hat is dirty and the stockroom is out of modified lower control arms. Now you need to get new LCAs at the supplier in Whittier and pick up a new 10-gallon hat downtown in the next 45 minutes. What do you drive?
You arrive at the Shelby company car parking and are presented with two choices of delivery vehicle. One is some nondescript 1950s beast of a stake-side pickup and the other is a supercharged Ford Falcon delivery van. Which one? Easy choice, Poindexter. Fire up the supercharged V8 on this 1963 Ford Falcon Delivery van for sale in Spokane, WA currently bidding on ebay for $13,433 reserve-not-met with 4 days to go.
The Falcon name was also used on the larger Econoline Van, but that was called the Club Wagon and was a significantly different vehicle from the small Falcon sedan. The Falcon sedan delivery was a breadvan shaped 2-door sold in small quantities for around town needs. The seller recounts a story of GM designer turned race driver Peter Brock building a Sedan Delivery into a bit of a hot rod for race car towing and this car is a tribute to that original preserved car.
This Falcon uses a Mexican block 302 (5.0 liter) V8, built internals, free flowing intake/exhaust and a vintage era-correct Paxton centrifugal supercharger. The seller estimates 500 horsepower into the 5-speed TKO transmission and we'd estimate that this will be a hoot to drive around.
The interior has been restored and includes a vintage center mounted tach and seat-belts with big thick racing harness style latches. A peek in the back shows a simple flat area for storing junk or taking a nap.
This is a clone of a unique car but we haven't seen many of these around, so no firm bets on where the bidding will be when the gavel hits the block. Our only hope is that the seller is realistic with his price and doesn't have the reserve set at something ridiculous.
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Originally posted as 15k: Shelby Parts ASAP: 1963 Ford Falcon Sedan Delivery Van on www.dailyturismo.com.
Photo credits: ebay.com


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Well...back on topic then.
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