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Eyeglass Holder Brooch Crab Red 24k
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It is an eyeglass holder pin brooch using resin parts of "Crab Series". Please use eyeglasses on the ring part. You can use it as an ordinary brooch. Corresponds to the width of temple (arm part of glasses) 1.0 cm or less.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Ya know, the interesting thing about the arrest of Professor Gates for living in a house in Cambridge while black is…
Shall we?
This bitch attended college in Waltham which is kinda close to Cambridge MA. Since my sister attended college at the same time in Cambridge and since a bitch spent more time there than on my own campus because the food was better, I have a strong familiarity with that town.
I was there in the early 1990's…and I had more than one incident of shopping while black, leaving that yummified ice cream shop near The Coop while black and attending a totally legal and that's why my ass was detained and not arrested protest while black. I've only been back once…this bitch isn't one for nostalgic visits…so I had hoped that things had improved with time.
Clearly, some things don't change.
Professor Gates has released a statement through his lawyer that is published over at The Root. I strongly suggest y'all read it and then read the police report (there's a link at the end of the article) and then ponder the differences in accounts.
Now, here's what always happens when a charge of racial profiling-based ig'nance is made – folks will talk about giving the officers involved the benefit of the doubt even though they didn't give Professor Gates an inch even after he produced two forms of identification in his own damn house proving that they were all standing in his motherfucking house…other folks will blame Professor Gates for getting testy while being accused of breaking into his own damn house even though he was being hassled about whether or not he had the right to be in his own damn house which he proved was his house when he produced two forms of identification whilst standing in his own damn house…and still others will defend the officers involved no matter what evidence is revealed because they think Professor Gates was acting uppity and uppity negroes deserve the wrath of the law when they let themselves get uppity about being harassed in their own damn houses and since when do they let black folk have houses, don't they know that makes them uppity?!?
I've been there…well, not exactly there 'cause I don't have a home in Cambridge so I've never arrived home from China to find my front door fucked over and then had the police arrive to not address the fact that my front door was fucked over but to challenge whether that door was door and then toss my ass in jail after I expressed frustration over their refusal to accept the fact that it was my fucking door. Lawd, have mercy. But I have been grabbed by the collar of my shirt, pushed up against a brick wall and told to produce identification after leaving a store and then putting a shopping back in my back pack (translation – a black woman putting a shopping bag into a back pack outside a store = stealing to some police officers.) And if a bitch had a dollar for every time I was asked where I was going and what my business was while in Cambridge I'd be done paying off my student loans by now (wince).
Not every person of color has had this kind of experience…and that's another thing some folks like to point out as if that fucking matters. As if some of us call that shit down while others "act right" and thus are rewarded by a life free of drama. And the fact that this shit happened and happens north of the Mason Dixon line will shock some...mostly because the north and New England specifically get a pass that region sure as shit hasn't earned.
But some of us have had that experience…some of us have an intimate understanding of the anxiety, frustration, humiliation, anger and disgust Professor Gates was feeling…some of us know the thoughts that probably raced through his head like "will this cop rough me up…beat me…shoot me in my own fucking house?" and "why the fuck are there multiple police officers on my front lawn to deal with my returning to my own fucking house while no one fucking did a damn thing or showed the fuck up when some unknown person fucked my front door up when I was out of town?"
And those of us who know that experience also know the added insult Professor Gates now faces of being expected to prove to all those doubtful folks and the media that he was wronged when he was arrested for taking issue with being questioned about his right to be in his own damn house…while in his own damn house…after having produced identification proving that everyone involved in this mess was standing in Professor Gates' motherfucking house.
Pause…reflect while sipping coffee in my sister's motherfucking house…continue.
Post-racial my black ass.
***logs off to venture out into the world while black***
29 comments:
- David Duff said...
Mouth-wateringly delicious and hilarious! It's pure Tom Wolfe. How I wish I had been there, although I might have done myself an injury laughing. It's completely the wrong aphorism, and I haven't the time or talent to invent an appropriate one, but the "the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable instantly springs to mind!
- Eduardo Guize said...
Thanks for clarifying this piece of news, cause on the website I read this they were just making fun of the fact that Professor Gates dropped the "yo' mama" joke, = his behavior was "too black", so he had it coming.
Some people and media really get away in life pretty well while dumb. - 8:41 AM
- BaltimoreGal said...
I am an incredibly white girl and have been on occasion "too testy" with the police because I have done something like ask a reasonable question in a calm manner. I cannot imagine what would have happened to me had I been black. I find this whole incident both unsurprising and completely repellent at the same time!
Then u have to wonder if the 'white' neighbor who started it all isn't mortified to find she is living next to 'uppity' black in her 'special' neighborhood...hmm whole thing smacks of ugly & truly not uncommon!
- Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy said...
One of the most troubling aspects of this whole mess, one which I fear will get overlooked, is yet another abuse of police powers. For the sake of argument let's believe everything the police officer said in his report. If this is true, then at the very best Dr. Gates was arrested simply because the police officer got his feelings hurt. Once again we see how law enforcement has abused their power, with the almighty arrest.
No peace was disturbed, it was 12:55p.m and Dr. Gates was standing on his front porch, having moved there from his kitchen at the request of the officer. Like many other jobs: teachers, meter maids, bouncers, refs, etc. being a cop means sometimes people are going to get mad at you and say things to and about you that you may find to be mean, hurtful or untrue. Right or wrong, part of these jobs; require the holder to know when to walk away. You don't get to retaliate simply because you're feeling get hurt or slighted. Grow Up, or get a new job. - 12:08 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm one of those who "give the police the benefit of the doubt." However, like Memoirs suggests, even if every word of the police report itself is true, it's still fucked up how they did the professor!!!
I'm White
I'm in England
And this still seriously PISSES ME OFF! - 1:09 PM
As MoBBB pointed out, Dr Gates was asked to leave his house and follow the police officer outside, where he was then arrested for disorderly conduct in public. That smacks of entrapment, to me.
Charges have been dropped, of course, being baseless. Let's see how forgiving Dr Gates is feeling this week. - 1:49 PM
It is so sad to see some of the comments on The Root about this siutation. People just don't get that this is not a white country. It's just a country. In addition, they need to let go of the ideas that anyone who isn't white should be happy just to be here, supposedly soaking up all this freedom. If Prof Gates is so free in America then why can't he just go into his own house, not be harrassed and not be told by the public to just shut up and take it.
This would never ever have happened if he were white. The officer would have just chuckled and that would have been that.
I am so happy that the ignorant folks who have written into The Root do not represent or speak for all white people. But white people do need to teach their bretheren that their ignorance is unwanted, wrong and harmful. Hate is hate.
As always there is much work to be done.
Anon- - 3:14 PM
I am SO DONE.
- Shark-Fu said...
I'm going on the radio in Boston at 8:15pm tonight to discuss.
On Common Ground...and this should be fun... - 3:27 PM
Wow, you could have written a piece that would gain the whole world's sympathy but your foul language distracts one from empathy. I've changed my email settings to avoid getting this material in the future.
- Shark-Fu said...
Okay, who emailed my post to this asshole?
Lawd, have mercy.
'Tis a blog...not work release mandated through parole.
Get thee gone... - 7:56 PM
Caught the last half of the interview online. Nice job on the show Shark-Fu. Um, try not to get arrested on the front lawn.
C-Money - 9:00 PM
Hah. Your blog is so great. I really hope I didn't creep you out when I said I'd promise to read.
I know you don't listen to people who say otherwise and that's great.
Trick Razor
P.S. What are your thoughts on the GLBT March On Washington? - 9:21 PM
- Shark-Fu said...
No worries!
Re: the march...that's worthy of a post...mayhap I'll do one! - 9:24 PM
Thanks Big Sistah, your blog has helped me relieve the notion that the population is no longer capable of mustering a sense of outrage with authority...... and double thanks for your assistance in 'dreening my spleen" with your timely and appropriate expressions of condemnation of the officer's handling of the situation.
Cassius King - 10:54 PM
- ogbuggs said...
Er, uh, I guess Dr. Gates will be filing a major civil suit against all parties involved in this humiliation, right? Are is he content with air-kisses from Mayor Simmons and the City Manager and Police Chief,et.al? Let me know if its all kissy poo politics or is Skip going to man up and go for their jugulars so as to prevent this from ever happening again to anyone? Sensitivity training? Yeah! Right! (Yawn)
Hmmm, just wondering! - 7:47 AM
- Julia said...
Thanks for a terrific post, Shark-fu. Especially for dissecting the unfortunate arguments that are being perpetuated all over the web... All this blame the victim stuff makes me sick.
there was a show on npr yesterday afternoon about this incident and someone said that "disorderly conduct" is supposedly referred to by police as something like "disobedient to a cop" That about says it all. - 9:57 AM
- David Duff said...
You mean, Julia, that we should not obey the police?
- Lisa Blah Blah said...
"...Professor Gates was acting uppity and uppity negroes deserve the wrath of the law when they let themselves get uppity about being harassed in their own damn houses and since when do they let black folk have houses, don't they know that makes them uppity?!?"
Laughing so hard I can't breathe. Sigh. I just love you.
This whole thing is completely crazy-making. I am still pissed off, but at least you made me laugh. Thanks! - 1:34 PM
I am Black. My father retired from the Chicago Police Department. My younger brother is presently a Captain in the same. As y'all have heard, Chi-town is famous for the police kicking ass first, then asking questions. That's why my dad taught me and my brother to be respectful when encountering white police officers, because if we acted like we were supposed to, and the officer got out of pocket, he could do something about it (My dad retired a Deputy Superintendent). But if we got out of pocket, his hands were tied (and our butts would be warmed). I hope Dr. Gates uses the legal system to get him some serious get back. After all ain't that the "American" way?
- Oonie said...
Your "Now here's what always happens" paragraph is hands down my favorite commentary on this situation by far. Awesome.
I hope being called out as "stupid" by the president was not lost on the police. But I might be overoptimistic on that. - 9:23 PM
- The Gori Wife said...
His own damn house! Exactly! I'm going to steal this argument for later use. And what the hell? Loud and tumultuous behavior. That was in his own damn YARD. How's that public. Even a dog can be off leash in their own yard. Idiots. I hope Dr. Gates gets what's coming to him allright - millions of dollars from the idiotic police department.
- Ros said...
If a cop came into my house, demanded identification, and wouldn't leave when shown that it was, in fact, my damn house, I can imagine I'd get rather testy and loud.
After a 15-hour trip, generally exhausted, to find the front door won't open, AND have an asshole cop show up and not leave? It'd take a more obnoxiously polite person than me to muster up the willpower to be polite.
And, frankly, most claims that "I would have behaved differently" seem to be entirely full of it.
(That said, I'm white, female, and Canadian. Cultural politeness be damned, I'm also from Quebec - respect for cops seems to be at an all-time low in this province.) - 9:57 AM
- Prince Todd said...
Amen, Amen, and Amen!
I would like to reiterate one of your points...
- JJ said...
I've been thinking about this for a while, and it's been all tied up in my head with Sonia Sotomayor's issues up here with the Judiciary Committee...
The noise boils down to this (in both situations): Generally, your average white man complaining about this doesn't get the fact that he SHOULD NOT BE THE BASIS from which all logical/rational/"good" behavior stems. He doesn't get that his experience isn't shared by the people of color or women or GLBT (sorry to lump, but), etc., around him.
Other white cops especially. Have you looked at the commentary at the Boston Globe online? There's this one cop on there talking about how if Prof. Gates (his nickname is SKIP - you can't get more oreo/safe black man than that, dammit) had just "remained calm" then he would not have been arrested. OK, how about this: His constitutional rights were being offended as soon as he identified himself as the owner/occupier of the home and the cop didn't leave. When the IDs came out - I'll let everything that happened before that go, even though all of it was ridiculous - the cop lost his purpose for being in the house and lost all legal right to ask any questions, look around, further detain Skip or even ask him out on the porch.
And oh, yeah, why WERE you asking him to come on the porch? Because that cheatin' lowdown cop realized he didn't have ANY LEGAL AUTHORITY INSIDE the house and wanted to reassert authority by luring Skip outside, where it is LEGAL to make an unwarranted arrest for something like "tumultuous and loud behavior." And let us not forget that it is likely that the behavior for which Skip was arrested likely happened inside the house and not outside. If there is a temporal element to false arrest, i.e., if the misdemeanor for which the officer arrests you must happen in a location in which he can make the arrest for the arrest to be valid, I hope this incident fails and that cop is hooked up on that as well.
And then these same racist white men wander around asking black people why they don't trust cops. Because every time we look around, one of 'em is asking questions he'd never ask someone of the caucasian persuasion. We always have to be on point, well-behaved - or else we are immediately suspects. There is no middle ground. (And even when we ARE well-behaved, we are "can I help you"'d to death in the store and have purses snatched up from metro seats. I'M TIRED of having this JD and having white women pull their purses closer when I pass by.) - 12:24 PM
Didja catch Michelle Bernard's comments on tonight's "Hardball?" In the midst of all this controversy over whether Prof. Gates was right or wrong, Ms. Bernard expressed her dismay, as a Black woman, of being mistaken for a legal secretary at her place of business.
Find another analogy, Ms. Bernard. Rosa Parks was a seamstress. Malcolm X, a pimp. Harriet Tubman, an enslaved Black woman. Get my drift?
I have been a legal secretary in Big Law, NYC for many years--long enough to remember the time when a White secretary could refuse to work for a Black attorney. But the Black secretary was there to ensure that his back (and yes, that was before Black women attorneys) was covered and his work product perfectly rendered.
President of the United States, law firm attorney (few partners, and lessening numbers of associates), talking head/pundit--we are all Black and considered by White America at large to be inferior, and I find it unconscionable that this Black woman would go on cable news and announce her disdain for being mistaken for a [Black] legal secretary.
Mine was the first generation of Blacks of any career path to be given entre into major law firms. We paid the price of discrimination and wariness from the majority population; we had to be exceptional in order to be considered adequate. I paid the price, and I'll be damned if I'll stand silent to that same mistreatment from Black attorneys. Hear me now: Your Black secretary has covered your ass and made sure that you were kept apprised of information you would not otherwise be privy to. Your work product was read, proofread, and returned to you for revising until it was flawless.
Tell you what. If Ms. Bernard feels herself superior to me by virtue of three years of advanced education, she needs to have a chat with Prof. Gates today and let him remind her that we are all passengers on the same rapidly sinking ship. For her to express intra-racial elitism at this critical juncture in American history is just reprehensible, and she should be ashamed of herself.
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This is mutherfukin piece of analysis deconstructs what is so distorted by white supremecy. Keep it coming!
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FUDCon Pune Website: http://fudcon.in/
FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developer's Conference, an opportunity for all who contribute to or use Fedora to meet, learn, plan, and hack. This event is free and is open to everyone. To learn about what a FUDCon is like, you can view a video from the North American FUDCon 2009. Please read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_organization_process and understand it thoroughly if you are a event organizing volunteer. If you are responsible for finding a good place, refer to the requirements listed in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/Organization
Event Owner
Event Host
Department of Computer Engineering and I.T.
College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP)
CoEP Coordinator
- Prof. Abhijit A.M.
Micro bloggers
Use #fudconin11 as the hashtag for identi.ca and Twitter posts
Venue, date and time
* Venue: COEP (College of Engineering, Pune). * Date: 4th, 5th and 6th of November 2011. Friday and Saturday are talks and Sunday is the hackfest. * Time: 8 AM for 4th. 9 AM on 5th and 6th.
Saturday night is FUDPub. If you are coming from outside Pune, we recommend that you arrive by 3rd night and leave by 7th morning.
Speaker guidelines
- The delegates are likely to be primarily students and many will be new to free and open source software. Make talks accessible to this audience.
- Motivate people to get involved in hackfests and run ones associated with your talks if you can. We are dedicating the entire Sunday for them, Even if you do not get much participation, doing your free software work transparently is often inspiring.
- When you are asked any questions during your talk, repeat the question in the mic before answering them. We are planning to record talks and it would make it easier for anyone watching the videos later if you repeat the question.
- Delegates may be hesitant to ask questions. Encourage them to do so. Keep it casual.
- Use the general Fedora templates for presentations if you haven't already created one and make sure you have contact information (email address, irc nick etc added to them).
- If your organization is sponsoring your work, it is perfectly ok and even recommended that you give credit. However remember this is a free software technical conference and not a commercial or corporate event. Tailor your presentation accordingly.
- We are a free software and content focused community. Make available your slides under a standard free content license. We recommend creative commons attribute share alike (CC-BY-SA) license. In addition to your slides, make any "source" material available for your slides publicly. Merely PDF is not reusable. ODP or latex source material would be useful. If you use images publicly available under CC-BY-SA, don't forget to add credits to your presentation.
- Make sure you submit your talk and upload your presentation at http://fudcon.in/node/add/session.
- Be prepared to talk without slides. Projectors, power grid can go off without notice.
- It is required to blog about your experience at FUDCon. Refer Event Reporting Guidelines to ensure you cover the event as expected.
- Even though we are working to get a reasonable number of power outlets for charging laptops, ensure to recharge them completely at the hotel and be prepared to walk to a different talk room to get an unused charging slot.
- For electricity plug types and output voltage / current, refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_power_around_the_world.
- To help involve people who are participating remotely via IRC, identify someone before you start the talk to take notes on your talk and the Q&A sessions. These notes can be taken online in real-time on a site like http://openetherpad.org or on a blog post that's aggregated to Fedora Planet.
- Follow the Fedora motto and "Be excellent to each other". That means no rudeness, sexism etc. We are a community first and we will not hesitate to evict anyone who does not behave appropriately. If you have any concerns, bring up the issue to the organizers.
- Last but not the least, hallway conversations are often as important if not even more important than your talks. Hang around, talk to people and have fun!
- further information is posted at http://fudcon.in/conference/speaker-guidelines .
Travel info
Pune is the second largest city in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is located about 120 kilometers or 75 miles from Mumbai.
Pune has an airport; however international travellers, especially from US and Europe, might consider flying in to Mumbai and getting a flight/taxi from Mumbai to Pune for a more economical plan. Flight takes about an hour and taxi takes about 3 to 4 hours. Getting a taxi is naturally cheaper and we can arrange taxi locally. The cost for a taxi should be less than $100. Sharing a taxi will be preferred for people coming in around similar times, bringing down that cost.
The official Indian Tourism website
The website for Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation
Hotel info
We recommend [Cocoon]. If your sponsorship request is approved, we will book a hotel room for you. You can just let us know your travel plan (flight details, dates and time of arrival/departure) and who you prefer to share your room with and we will take care of the rest.
Getting sponsored
If you want to get sponsored to attend this event, refer to https://mether.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/fudcon-pune-2011-now-open-for-sponsorship-requests/
Older list of pre-registered participants
with [Hackfest] in subject.
FUDCons usually have a Barcamp format for deciding on the talks. However, to avoid confusion due to the large number of expected participants and talks, we will have a draft schedule of talks ready before the conference. Speakers are requested to submit their talk sessions beforehand to avoid last-minute confusions and delays. The last date for submission of talks on the fudcon.in website is 23rd October. The schedule will be put up on the http://fudcon.in site after that date.
For the list of talks that were previously aggregated here, visit FUDCon:India 2011 Talks. You will have to submit a talk to the http://fudcon.in website even if you put in a talk abstract here previously.
We plan to have Talks, Hackfests, Demos and Lightning Sessions at the FUDCon.
Visit http://fudcon.in/content/meet-fudcon-team for details on the organization team.
Artwork and Content
- FUDCon:India_2011_booklet
- FUDCon:India_booklet_final
- http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/booklet_pune/
Buttons & Banners
FUDCon Website Content
- FUDCon Pune Website: http://fudcon.in/
- Website content: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011_website
Planning Details
Bidding Info
FUDCon India planning meetings
IRC meetings
IRC meetings happen every Friday 1:00 PM UTC (6:30 PM IST) in #fudcon-planning channel in irc.freenode.net. Everyone is welcome and free to participate
- June 4th 2011 (preliminary meeting for bidding) : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-June/002399.html
- July 15h 2011 : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-July/002508.html
- July 22nd 2011 : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-July/002521.html
- July 29th 2011 : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-July/002556.html
- Aug 5th 2011 : https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-August/002586.html
Face to face meetings
Face to face meetings happen every Tuesday 3:00 PM in Red Hat Pune office. Everyone is welcome to participate. Just drop a mail to Rahul Sundaram if you are planning to attend
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-July/002479.html
- July 19th 2011 : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-July/002515.html
- July 27th 2011 : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-July/002543.html
- Aug 2nd 2011 : https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-August/002579.html
Budget Details
Detailed budget estimates: Current total estimate: USD 15707
FUDCon APAC has been provided a tentative budget of 15000 US Dollars as per
Rahul Sundaram will talk to teams within Red Hat and others on complimenting the budget but for the bidding process, our planning must be limited within this amount. Note that if a Red Hat person comes from some other country, his or her manager will generally fund that travel and that's what we will encourage. Max Spevack has additional discretionary budget in special cases. Community volunteers need funds to be taken out of the FUDCon allotted budget typically.


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getspnam, getspnam_r, getspent, getspent_r, setspent, endspent, fgetspent, fgetspent_r - get password entry
#include <shadow.h> struct spwd *getspnam(const char *name);
struct spwd *getspnam_r(const char *name, struct spwd *result, char *buffer, int buflen);
struct spwd *getspent(void);
struct spwd *getspent_r(struct spwd *result, char *buffer, int buflen);
void setspent(void);
void endspent(void);
struct spwd *fgetspent(FILE *fp);
struct spwd *fgetspent_r(FILE *fp, struct spwd *result, char *buffer, int buflen);
These functions are used to obtain shadow password entries. An entry may come from any of the sources for shadow specified in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file (see nsswitch.conf(5)).
The getspnam() function searches for a shadow password entry with the login name specified by the character string argument name.
The setspent(), getspent(), and endspent() functions are used to enumerate shadow password entries from the database.
The setspent() function sets (or resets) the enumeration to the beginning of the set of shadow password entries. This function should be called before the first call to getspent(). Calls to getspnam() leave the enumeration position in an indeterminate state.
Successive calls to getspent() return either successive entries or NULL, indicating the end of the enumeration.
The endspent() function may be called to indicate that the caller expects to do no further shadow password retrieval operations; the system may then close the shadow password file, deallocate resources it was using, and so forth. It is still allowed, but possibly less efficient, for the process to call more shadow password functions after calling endspent().
The fgetspent() function, unlike the other functions above, does not use nsswitch.conf; it reads and parses the next line from the stream fp, which is assumed to have the format of the shadow file (see shadow(5)).
The getspnam(), getspent(), and fgetspent() functions use thread-specific data storage that is reused in each call to one of these functions by the same thread, making them safe to use but not recommended for multithreaded applications.
The getspnam_r(), getspent_r(), and fgetspent_r() functions provide reentrant interfaces for these operations.
Each reentrant interface performs the same operation as its non-reentrant counterpart, named by removing the _r suffix. The reentrant interfaces, however, use buffers supplied by the caller to store returned results, and are safe for use in both single-threaded and multithreaded applications.
Each reentrant interface takes the same argument as its non-reentrant counterpart, as well as the following additional arguments. The result argument must be a pointer to a struct spwd structure allocated by the caller. On successful completion, the function returns the shadow password entry in this structure. The buffer argument must be a pointer to a buffer supplied by the caller. This buffer is used as storage space for the shadow password data. All of the pointers within the returned struct spwd result point to data stored within this buffer (see RETURN VALUES). The buffer must be large enough to hold all of the data associated with the shadow password entry. The buflen argument should give the size in bytes of the buffer indicated by buffer.
For enumeration in multithreaded applications, the position within the enumeration is a process-wide property shared by all threads. The setspent() function may be used in a multithreaded application but resets the enumeration position for all threads. If multiple threads interleave calls to getspent_r(), the threads will enumerate disjoint subsets of the shadow password database.
Like its non-reentrant counterpart, getspnam_r() leaves the enumeration position in an indeterminate state.
Password entries are represented by the struct spwd structure defined in <shadow.h>:
struct spwd{ char *sp_namp; /* login name */ char *sp_pwdp; /* encrypted passwd */ int sp_lstchg; /* date of last change */ int sp_min; /* min days to passwd change */ int sp_max; /* max days to passwd change*/ int sp_warn; /* warning period */ int sp_inact; /* max days inactive */ int sp_expire; /* account expiry date */ unsigned int sp_flag; /* not used */ };
See shadow(5) for more information on the interpretation of this data.
The getspnam()and getspnam_r() functions each return a pointer to a struct spwd if they successfully locate the requested entry; otherwise they return NULL.
The getspent(), getspent_r(), fgetspent(), and fgetspent() functions each return a pointer to a struct spwd if they successfully enumerate an entry; otherwise they return NULL, indicating the end of the enumeration.
The getspnam(), getspent(), and fgetspent() functions use thread–specific data storage, so returned data must be copied before a subsequent call to any of these functions if the data is to be saved.
When the pointer returned by the reentrant functions getspnam_r(), getspent_r(), and fgetspent_r() is non-null, it is always equal to the result pointer that was supplied by the caller.
The reentrant functions getspnam_r(), getspent_r(), and fgetspent_r() will return NULL and set errno to ERANGE if the length of the buffer supplied by caller is not large enough to store the result. See Intro(2) for the proper usage and interpretation of errno in multithreaded applications.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
passwd(1), yppasswd(1), getpwnam(3C), getlogin(3C), nsswitch.conf(5), passwd(5), shadow(5), attributes(7)
The reentrant interfaces getspnam_r(), getspent_r(), and fgetspent_r() are included in this release on an uncommitted basis only, and are subject to change or removal in future minor releases.
Use of the enumeration interfaces getspent() and getspent_r() is not recommended; enumeration is supported for the shadow file and NIS, but in general is not efficient and may not be supported for all database sources. The semantics of enumeration are discussed further in nsswitch.conf(5).
Access to shadow password information may be restricted in a manner depending on the database source being used. Access to the /etc/shadow file is generally restricted to processes running with the effective uid of the file owner or the {PRIV_FILE_DAC_READ} privilege. Other database sources may impose stronger or less stringent restrictions.
Empty fields in the database source return -1 values for all fields except sp_pwdp and sp_flag, where the value returned is 0.
When NIS is used as the database source, the information for the shadow password entries is obtained from the passwd.byname map. This map stores only the information for the sp_namp and sp_pwdp fields of the struct spwd structure. Shadow password entries obtained from NIS will contain the value –1 in the remainder of the fields.


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Iontophoresis Protocol: Rotator Cuff Syndrome
The rotator cuff is composed of the supraspinatus. infraspinatus, teres minor and subscapularis muscles. These four muscles form the musculotendinous cuff that provides stability to the glenohumeral joint. Through the action of one or all four, a rotary force causes rotation of the humerus and compression of the humeral head into the glenoid fossa.
Degeneration and subsequent tearing of the rotator cuff at its tendon of insertion is common and results in restriction of shoulder movement, especially abduction. The supraspinatus is most commonly ruptured at its insertion. Additionally, the anterior part of the infraspinatus tendon, the long head of the biceps, the anterior one third of the acromion, coraco-acromial ligament and the acromioclavicular joint structures are involved.
Rotator cuff syndrome is a common overuse injury usually caused by repetitive overhead activities (swimming, pitching. tennis) or through direct trauma. Repeated microtrauma starts a painful cycle of inflammation-edema-increased tendon volume and decreased suprahumeral space.
Typical Dispersive Pad Sites:
- Trapezius
- Biceps


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Dear Tomato I want to thank you for existing.
For being a fresh, juicy, sweet, fleshy fruit.
Ask any Italian "what do you eat during this exhaustingly hot summer"? Tomatoes – they will say – it's a national obsession.
This salad is a way to make a wholesome meal or substantial side dish out of a classic tomato salad. Healthy food does taste good if you know how to treat it. The salad also looks beautiful as it's presented in layers rather than mushing up everything together.
You can tweak the composition to your taste but there's a few rules to keep the Italian character of the recipe:
- Keep it rustic, use whole grains. I generally use farro which is abundant in Umbria and has a lovely nutty taste but you could use barley, wheat berries, bulgur or wild rice. What you see in the picture is my gluten-free version made with the splendid black rice from Northern Italy.
- Keep it light. Use only one type of cheese in modest amounts. I use shavings of Pecorino or Parmesan or fresh mozzarella. Feta? No, it's not Italian. Blue cheese? No, it's heavy.
- Keep it seasonal. I use cherry tomatoes in the early summer and then switch to whatever marvelous variety is at its best when I need it. I use crispy thin salad leaves like rucola (arugula, rocket), lamb's lettuce or a combination of mixed salad greens. I don't make this salad with glasshouse tomato. There is no point if they have no flavor.
- Last but most importantly, please no pre-made dressings, only top quality extra virgin olive oil and aged balsamic vinegar. A little goes a long way.
- 200 gr ( 7 oz) farro
- 1 clove garlic
- 250 gr (1/2 lb) ripe tomatoes, sliced or quartered if small
- 2 cups light salad leaves
- 3 tablespoon cheese shavings
- extra virgin olive il, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper
- optional: a handful basil leaves and 1-2 spring onions diced very small
Cook farro or other grain in plenty boiling water according to package instructions. Drain, rinse under tap water and transfer into a bowl. Add one crushed garlic clove and stir in 1 tablespoon olive oil. Cover, set aside and let it cool and infuse with the garlicky oil for several hours. You can also refrigerate it until the next day.
When ready to serve, slice tomatoes, add basil leaves and onions if using. Dress with 1 tablespoon olive oil, salt and black pepper.
Slice or shave the cheese.
Wash and spin dry the salad leaves, dress with 1 tablespoon olive oil and salt, then make a bed of leaves on a serving plate with some space in the centre where you will make a mound with the cooked grains. This way you will have a pretty border of salad leaves around the grains.
Top the farro with the tomatoes and dressing juices. Sprinkle with the cheese shavings and drizzle with balsamic vinegar. Serve immediately.
Serves 4-5


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Answers to Bundeskartellamt's survey
We are grateful for the Bundeskartellamt's work regarding the proposed creation of CPTN Holdings LLC as a joint venture by Microsoft, Apple, EMC and Oracle. We highly appreciate that the Bundeskartellamt is actively gathering the views of market participants, and are taking the opportunity to provide the following input according to the best of our knowledge of the situation.
Due to the short time afforded for an answer, we are only able to provide a preliminary assessment. In our effort to support the competition authorities in their mission, we are further hampered by a lack of publicly available information on various aspects of the planned transaction, such as the patents being sold, or the details of the proposed licensing arrangement between Attachmate and Microsoft.
1. Effects on FSFE's activities
In which way could in your view the CPTN-Transaction have effects on your activities?
Free Software Foundation Europe is a non-profit, charitable organisation dedicated to the promotion and spread of Free Software, which is a basic necessity for a free information society.
Free Software has a key role in today's society, providing the basis for the Internet and the World Wide Web. As detailed in our original statement of concerns to the Bundeskartellamt on December 22, 2010, Free Software is pervasive in both the public and the private sector, and acting as the innovative underpinnings for much of the IT industry.
From this perspective, we are highly concerned that the proposed transaction would create a climate in which Free Software would likely fail to thrive and reach its full potential. We fear that the transaction would
- further increase the already substantial business risk from patent litigation for independent software developers as well as small and medium enterprises (SMEs);
- cement the dominant positions of the CPTN partner companies in their respective fields;
- lead to a further concentration of market power in the hands of companies which already hold a dominant position in their respective fields;
- and allow the CPTN partner companies to leverage their dominance in a number of fields into new areas, such as mobile technology.
While FSFE itself does not produce or distribute significant amounts of software, our mission to promote and spread Free Software would suffer a serious blow if the already rampant patent litigation activity against Free Software would be further stepped up. Beyond FSFE's own mission, we are concerned about the effects of the transaction on the Free Software ecosystem as a whole.
2. Microsoft
How do you evaluate the modifications to the transaction according to which Microsoft will not acquire any patents but just patent licenses for the Novell patents?
Though the questionnaire does not specify this, it is our understanding that the patent license from Attachmate to Microsoft will be a non-exclusive license. Anything else would be equivalent in effect to having the patents held by Microsoft directly.
The modification of the transaction regarding Microsoft perhaps reflects the thoroughness with which the competition authorities have assessed the transaction, and their discussions with the CPTN participants. We welcome the scrutiny exercised by the competition authorities with regard to this transaction. From our point of view, the value of this modification is hard to assess without information on the details of the planned arrangements between Attachmate and Microsoft. We regretfully note that the modification does very little to allay our concerns about the potential uses of these patents to limit competition in a number of product areas and geographic markets.
Even a non-exclusive license for Microsoft to the patents in question would be likely to strengthen Microsoft's dominant position in desktop operating systems and desktop productivity software.
Furthermore, there is no information available on the degree to which Microsoft's commitment to pass the patents on to Attachmate is binding. More to the point, there is no assurance that Attachmate will not simply choose to sell the patents on to any interested party after the dissolution of CPTN. Attachmate is privately held, and the company's investors have no reason to refrain from selling the assets on at any time if they so desire. The company has no known track record in the field of Free Software, which makes its future behaviour even harder to predict.
The proposed modification also fails to address the concerns, voiced in our original submission from December 22, 2010, that the sold patents will be used to engage in disruptive litigation against users and producers of Free Software, or the threat of such litigation.
An uncomfortable precedent is provided by the various lawsuits pursued by SCO1 against companies using and distributing the GNU/Linux operating system. While SCO's claims to hold copyright to part of the GNU/Linux operating system was eventually ruled baseless, the lawsuits served to create a climate of fear, uncertainty and doubt, slowing the adoption of Free Software as a consequence. Microsoft's history, as detailed in our original submission from December 22, 2010, of using undisclosed patent claims to pressure device makers into licensing agreements over their use of Free Software in their products, is a particular cause for concern. Depending on the nature of the patent license given to Microsoft by Attachmate, Microsoft could engage in such litigation itself. There could also be an arrangement between Attachmate and Microsoft to this effect.
Our concerns would be allayed if Attachmate, along with Microsoft and the other CPTN investors, were to issue a legally binding statement not to assert Novell's patents against Free Software, making its patents available for unlimited use in Free Software, including under GPL and other copyleft licenses. This would merely formalise the status quo, under which Novell chose not to assert its patents against Free Software implementations.
Under the proposed arrangement of the transaction, the sold patents and patent applications would remain subject to all licenses, covenants not to sue, and similar restrictions. In keeping with this approach, we merely propose to add one more restriction in order to preserve the status quo, namely that Attachmate should enter into a binding commitment to make the patents available under conditions that allow their implementation in Free Software, including under the GNU GPL.
On the basis that EMC will not acquire the above-mentioned 31 patents relevant for virtualization – would you still expect any negative impact of the transaction in this field?
This question is difficult to answer without knowing the patents concerned, or their relative value to companies which are active in the field of virtualisation.
We would in particular be interested in learning how those 31 patents were selected; by whom they were selected; and who will receive those patents in EMC's stead.
Similar concerns apply here as those raised under Question 2 with regard to Microsoft. With a substantially strengthened patent portfolio, EMC would be in a better position to threaten Free Software competitors, or even take legal action against them. Hence we recommend to use the same remedy here as proposed under Question 2, namely ask EMC to commit, in a legally binding fashion, to not using the acquired patents against Free Software.
4. Concerns by product and geographic market
If according to you the transaction raises concerns, please explain in detail, which of the CPTN-Investors would acquire or strengthen its dominant position on which product and geographic market?
This is hard to assess in detail, as vital information about the transaction is not publicly available. This concerns in particular the list of patents to be acquired by CPTN. There is also a marked lack of clarity on how the patents will be distributed among the CPTN participants, and on the nature of the "serpentine draft process" referred to in the questionnaire.
Even without more detailed information, it is clear that the acquisition of Novell's patents will allow the CPTN participants to confirm and perhaps increase their dominant position in different markets. While it is not possible to make a definitive judgement without knowing the patents to be transferred, we can assume that each CPTN participant will select those patents that are of the greatest interest to it. These will likely be those patents that either strengthen the participant's dominance in a given product area or geographic market, or allow the participant to leverage existing dominant positions in one area or market to another.
Microsoft holds a dominant position in desktop operating systems and office productivity software, in nearly all markets around the world. Any patents transferred from Novell into CPTN in this space would serve to bolster Microsoft's near-monopoly position, and allow the company to further leverage its dominant position into other areas, such as the mobile space.
Oracle acquired a strong position in middleware with the purchase of Sun, in particular with Java. Oracle is currently actively enforcing Java-related patents in court against the Android mobile operating system, which is distributed under Free Software licenses.
Apple is also currently actively enforcing its patents against the Android mobile operating system, while defending a leading market position for its own iOS mobile operating system.
The mutual cross-licensing which is an inherent part of the modified CPTN transaction makes clear that the CPTN investors are keen to reduce competition among themselves, while excluding others from using the technologies in the Novell patent portfolio.
5. Further remarks
Are there any further remarks or aspects for the competitive assessment of the CPTN-transaction which you would like to bring to our attention?
As we have detailed above, a lot of the factors that will determine the transaction's impact on competition in the various markets affected remain unknown. We therefore consider it important that the details are properly examined and their impact assessed before allowing the transaction to proceed.
While we appreciate the close attention with which the Bundeskartellamt is analysing the transaction and its consequences, we regret to note that modifications to the transaction fail to address most of the concerns expressed in our original filing from December 22, 2010:
- We requested that the list of patents to be sold should be made publicly available. The list has not been published, largely preventing us from commenting in detail on specific competition issues which may arise as a consequence of the transaction.
- We asked for a specific provision which would (legally) oblige new patent holders to allow their use in programs distributed under the GNU General Public License and other copyleft licenses. No such provisions have so far been introduced, nor are equivalent measures in place to prevent substantial damage to competition in the software market from arising as a consequence of the transaction.
- We voiced our concerns regarding the behaviour of Microsoft during and after the transaction. The modification of the proposed transaction, under which Microsoft will sell its patents on to Attachmate and only retain (exclusive? non-exclusive?) licenses, fails to ensure even a preservation of the status quo exemplified by Novell's defensive stance on patents. Instead, the transaction will still result in a boost to Microsoft's dominant position in desktop operating systems and office productivity software in most geographic markets, and further enable the company to leverage its dominance in those areas into the mobile space.
However, we do appreciate the added clarity provided regarding the structure and governance of CPTN.
We believe that the transaction and its financial aspects merit further scrutiny. In particular, the financial relationship between Attachmate and Microsoft should be investigated. The price which CPTN is paying seems very high for the patents on offer. Novell's original SEC proxy statement show that previous bidders were offering substantially less for the company's patent portfolio than the USD 450 million which CPTN agreed to pay.2 The CPTN investors will clearly be hoping to recoup this outlay. Given that they are offering much more money for the patents than previous bidders, it is natural to ask whether they are planning to recoup the acquisition price in ways that are not available to other bidders lacking the specific market positions of the CPTN investors. This consideration gives us cause to be concerned about the lack of transparency in the setup and financing of the CPTN joint venture.
We are also convinced that conditions need to be imposed to safeguard competition in the various affected software markets, by making the patents available for implementation in Free Software, including under the GNU GPL and similar licenses.
In order to be effective, such conditions would need to stipulate that the patents should be made available for implementation in Free Software without requiring implementers or distributors to pay royalties. Per-copy royalties are fundamentally incompatible with the GNU GPL, which is the most widely used Free Software license, and covers key programs such as the Linux kernel and much of the GNU operating system.
One of the key characteristics of the GPL – and a central reason for its effectiveness – is that it prohibits the licensor from imposing on the licensee conditions above and beyond those of the license itself. A requirement to pay royalties to a patent holder would be such an additional condition. Requiring distributors of software to impose such conditions on recipients would require distributors to violate the license. This concerns in particular the Linux kernel, which is the core component of both the GNU/Linux operating system and the Android mobile operating system. Both those systems are key competitors in their respective fields, the desktop/server area dominated by Microsoft, and the mobile space, where Apple's iOS leads on market share.
In closing, we should like to thank the Bundeskartellamt for its detailed attention to the transaction, and applaud its effort to take into account the views of market participants. We remain available to support the Bundeskartellamt's work in this matter.
With kind regards
Karsten Gerloff
President, Free Software Foundation Europe


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Do you or someone you know suffer from constant "ringing in the ears?"
Maybe it's not ringing exactly. Some people describe it as hissing, buzzing, whistling, roaring and even chirping. Whatever noise it is, the real issue is something called tinnitus.
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Do you or someone you know suffer from constant "ringing in the ears?"It's also important to know that everyone's tinnitus is different, which is why finding relief has been so elusive — until now!
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At HBB we can advise business owners in the Colne area on many aspects of running and growing a business. Here are some thoughts on why it can sometimes be best to lose a customer...
Most businesses aim to increase their sales and keep existing customers at all costs. But if you live by the maxim 'the customer is always right', you may find it bad for your bottom line. Sometimes the customer isn't right for you, and it makes good sense to regularly review your business relationships.
When customers think that purchasing from you is not in their best interest, they will look for a new supplier. Similarly, if one of your customers is bad for your business, you may need to make a change.
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If any customers show several of these traits, you should consider it a signal that trouble may be brewing. They may be signs of customer dissatisfaction. Make sure you correct the problems before you lose the business.
However, if you have customers with all of the above symptoms, consider terminating the relationship rather than jumping through unreasonable hoops to please them.
Terminating a relationship with a bad customer can be difficult, but there will be major benefits:
Analysing your customers on an annual basis is a good way to determine which ones are most valuable to your company. Firing bad customers gives you more time to find good ones. You can then provide a superior service, knowing that all your customers are adding to your company's value. And that will be reflected in your bottom line.
If you are in the Colne area and are looking for support and advice from a team of professional accountants and business advisers, contact HBB.
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The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned the government that the new skills co-ordination body in England must 'keep small firms' needs and strengths in mind'.
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The educational division of the media conglomerate News Corp., called Amplify, unveiled a new digital tablet this week at the SXSW tech conference in Austin, Texas, intended to serve millions of schoolchildren and their teachers across the country.
Amplify promises the tablet will simplify administrative chores for teachers, enable shy children to participate more readily in discussions, and allow students to complete coursework at their own pace while drawing upon carefully selected online research resources.
News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch views the digital tablet as part of a push to modernize the educational system. But he has another goal in mind as well. The media mogul is counting on future revenues from his educational branch to help shore up the finances of his newspaper and publishing division as it is split off later this year from the conglomerate's vast holdings in television and entertainment.
And as a result, News Corp.'s initiative is stirring both interest and controversy.
In the past few years, Murdoch has described education as a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars. At a May 2011 event in Paris, Murdoch noted that the fields of medicine, finance and media have all accelerated their adoption of technology. But schools have failed to share such advances, he said.
"Today's classroomlooks almost exactly the same as it did in the Victorian age: a teacher standing in front of a roomful of kids with only a textbook, a blackboard and a piece of chalk," Murdoch said.
The person Murdoch hired to lead his charge, Joel Klein, is familiar in education circles. Klein is a Democrat and served as assistant attorney general under President Clinton. He was chancellor of the New York City school system for more than eight years for Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He's easy to pick out at Amplify's offices in midtown Manhattan. He's the only person dressed in a suit and tie in a workspace that more closely resembles a startup — replete with people confidently volleying at a pingpong table and piloting miniature helicopters overhead as their CEO walks by.
"Critics and others have said, 'You know ... technology has been around a long time, but it hasn't changed the learning experience,' " Klein told NPR. "It's not about hardware, it's not about devices, it's really about learning.
"And if this does what I believe it will do — which is enhance the teaching and learning processes — then it's going to be a home run."
A sneak peak revealed an Android tablet with a firm silicone jacket (designers say they have to expect pupils to be as careless with the tablets as they are with traditional textbooks). It is customized with apps for teachers to help them run quizzes and determine pupils' progress with ease while containing all of their coursework in a single, 10-inch device. It comes loaded with Amplify's curricular materials that satisfy so-called "Common Core" requirements mandated in all but five U.S. states. If Amplify wins the rights to carry most texts electronically — admittedly a tough nut to crack, given how warily publishers view e-books — the tablet can truly serve as a digital backpack.
Other companies, including such giants as Apple, are trying to sell school districts on the value of their tablets, too. Stephen Smyth, president of Amplify's Access division that creates the digital platforms on which its curricular material is delivered, argues that his company's tablet is distinctive because it is designed to allow students to interact with teachers instantaneously.
"These devices are connected," Smyth said recently. "If you go to Best Buy or a retailer and buy a tablet off the shelf, it can't do this. Really, what we're trying to solve here is actually how to have teachers use tablets in the classroom environment."
But some critics question what problem the tablets from Amplify — and its competitors — are solving. Some teachers union officials argue that Amplify's efforts are part of a disturbing effort to lure politicians with technology that promises to enable teachers to handle more students per class — and thus reduce how many teachers school districts will need to employ.
Leonie Haimson, executive director of the nonprofit Class Size Matters in New York City, said Klein and Murdoch "believe that public school kids should have larger classes, and instead of getting personalized instruction via their teachers, should do it via a computer."
The tablet may well function perfectly well on its own terms, Haimson said, but she contends that Amplify's goal is less about helping schoolchildren than about turning a profit.
"It's all part of the same vision they have for transforming education by privatizing it," Haimson said. "And we have seen not just in New York City but nationwide an avid pillaging going on of public resources for private ends."
Klein's record in New York, a selling point in Murdoch's decision to hire him, is political baggage among some of his foes in the battles over education policy. Diane Ravitch, a former assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush who now criticizes some of her earlier allies, wrote last year that Klein and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had manufactured a schools crisis in a report for the Council on Foreign Relations. Klein and Rice wrote a report that carried this stark warning: "Educational failure puts the United States' future economic prosperity, global position and physical safety at risk."
She wrote that Klein and Rice offered prescriptions that were unproven — especially the reliance on technology proffered by private corporations.
Just days after leaving city government in 2010, Klein joined News Corp. in order to invigorate Murdoch's efforts in education. The company swiftly paid $360 million for an educational tech venture called Wireless Generation, which had been a contractor for the city schools on two high-profile projects. That firm was used as the basis for what they rechristened "Amplify."
But before they could get very far, Murdoch's tabloids in London became embroiled in the bribery and criminal phone hacking scandal. New York state revoked a $27 million contract for an education database with Amplify, citing concerns about the integrity of its parent company.
And Klein was pulled away to help Murdoch clean up the legal mess. He led an effort to collaborate with law enforcement authorities in both the U.K. and the U.S., thus limiting the company's likely liability in both countries and enabling it to avoid any criminal prosecutions or major civil sanctions for bribery in the U.S., at least so far.
"The good news was, while we had a problem in the U.K., that problem wasn't a global problem," Klein said.
Yet Klein, now back at Amplify, conceded there is some suspicion of his boss's politics and motives, too.
In this country, Murdoch has pushed for greater reliance on charter schools, criticized teachers unions and given money to aid select politicians sharing his agenda. For example, records showNews America, an arm of News Corp., gave $250,000 toward a group that helped to fund like-minded candidates running for the Los Angeles Board of Education. And Murdoch's primary American news organizations — Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post — have high-profile conservative pundits who have often been skeptical to the point of hostile toward teachers groups.
But Klein said Amplify should not be confused with its corporate siblings that often serve as a platform for political stands.
"Rupert realized this from the beginning: This is a division that's going to be focused on education," Klein said. "We don't have a political mission — none whatsoever. What we're doing is developing materials in math and science and the English language arts — designed by leading experts.
"Our commitment," Klein said, "is education only. We have no subsidiary agenda."
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Ten tips to make the most of your fundraising page
Tip 1
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A fundraising page with a few personal photos and your motivation is likely to get more donations! Take the time to upload photos that have something to do with you or your fundraising efforts. Tell everyone why you're fundraising. Most people will make a donation because they like you and your reason to start fundraising.
Tip 2
Get a few donations, then start spreading the word
Before you tell the world about your fundraising page, it is wise to make sure there are already a few donations on your page. Ask friends or family members for a donation in person before you start asking other people. People like following a good example.
Tip 3
Put a link to your fundraising page in your email signature
Put a link to your fundraising page in your email signature so that everyone you email knows about your page!
Tip 4
Face to face persuasion and mobile communication
Tell people at your office, school, sportsclub, in the cafeteria and at parties all about your fundraising efforts! Why not ask them to make a donation right away? You can bookmark your fundraising page on your smartphone and everyone can check out your page on theirs and make a donation.
Tip 5
Send WhatsApp and other group messages
Make a Whatsapp group and include a lot of people who know each other. Make a donation request and post a link to your fundraising page. Be sure to thank the people who've let you know that they're going to make a donation. In all likelihood, the other people in your group will feel more involved and will make a donation as well. Come one, come all...
Tip 6
Promote your fundraising page everywhere with QR
Your page has a unique QR code. Let people scan it on your mobile phone screen, use it in your email signature, or print it and put it up at your gym or local pub. Whoever scans it is taken directly to your donation page. Super useful at a birthday party, too!
Tip 7
Make blogposts and share on social media
It's really easy to make a new blogpost on your fundraising page. You can share these on social media. Make sure to post little progress reports for your followers. There is a lot of power in repetition. Status update examples are:
- If you're competing in a sports event, tell people about your preparation.
- Publicly thank people every time you receive a donation. More people will be made aware of your efforts and they'll be more likely to help!
Tip 8
Involve your donors for your big finish!
Experience has taught us that the last two weeks are the most important in your fundraising campaign. Most people will donate in those two weeks: your big finish! Don't be afraid to ask your donors to give you a hand, because they want you to succeed and reach your fundraising goal.
Tip 9
Ask companies to sponsor you
Don't forget to approach companies and ask them to sponsor you. Your employer, a loyal customer, a trusted supplier. To thank them for their help, you could write a news update to give them a little exposure. Or you can include their logo on your page.
Tip 10
Hang in there: keep reminding people!
Not everyone you ask is going to donate right away. Be sure to send email reminders and a Whatsapp message if they haven't made a contribution. It's dedication and repetition that does it!
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Location: Italy
I was born in 1971 in Turin, Italy, where I live and work as an artist. Since I can remember I have always drawn. My preferred techniques are classic oil on canvas paintings, and pencil drawings.
I'm like a mouse in its box. A little mouse safe in its shelter, that passes his time gnawing the food stored for the winter. But my food are the drawings. I work within my home. My studio is a room of the house in which I live. In this relatively small space are accumulated all the materials and equipment I need to draw and paint, but in a certain sense also the suggestions that inspire my work. Here are the desks and drawing boards, with brushes and paint colors, but also, on the walls or placed in closets, paintings and drawings (I think each finished work is always an inspiration for the next, in somehow). A great source of ideas are books and music, and of course the PC. The graphics programs and virtual modeling programs have become over the years a valuable support, but obviously the richest mine is the internet: a reservoir of images and ideas from which to draw, and in which we often are lost (in addition to photos of my own travels, all stored on the computer). It's a small microcosm closed in on itself, rather impervious to the outside world (despite a large window with a beautiful view of Turin, almost always I work with the curtains closed). It is a bit as if the suggestions of the real world were allowed to enter here only after being filtered and digested, only after it has been already turned into experience. Exactly like a rat, eating quiet its supplies in its den, waiting for the end of winter.
In my artistic research I've always been attracted to all that is sortable, classifiable. Perhaps this attitude stems from a primordial insecurity, and perhaps the illusion of putting order into chaos eases this concern.
To start this game is sufficient to identify a subject that lends itself to variations, and the game consists precisely in identifying the rules that form the basis of possible changes. It's a little like discovering a new language and trying to decipher the syntax, grammar, exceptions.
With these assumptions, it is easy to see that the subjects of this research can be the most different and in fact my designs ranging from butterfly collections to herbaria, from ancient bestiaries to manuals of anatomy, maps, human faces, hands, pornography, flags ... They are all languages having their own vocabulary, and my attempt is to isolate it and reinvent it, trying to generate new meanings.
Consider for example a road map or a map. They are born with a practical, precise purpose. Some graphic conventions, signs, symbols are chosen to represent on paper all the information that the map must contain. This at the end generates an aesthetics. What happens if I isolate this technique of representation from the purpose for which it was created and alter the rules that govern it? Does it continue to convey meaning? This meaning will be new and unexpected? Or for the reader this will be meaningless, as an unknown language?
My favorite painting techniques are oil paint on paper or canvas and graphite drawing. In general the work proceeds by sedimentation of successive layers, each layer adds something new, but at the same time covers something of the underlying layer.
I have sold my works on several online galleries (saatchiart.com, zatista.com, artfinder.com, etsy.com, redbubble.com, teepublic.com, cupick.com, society6.com, ebay.com). Each painting is finished with a coat of UV varnish to protect against sunlight and dust. The canvases are painted on the sides too, so they are ready to hang. My sold works are never rolled but always packed flat. I put them between two sheets of acid free paper with paper or cardboard protection for the corners, than close in a plastic envelope. The envelope is stiffen with a sheet of polystyrene on both sides, and the whole thing is completed with layers of cardboard. The package is also protected with bubble packaging inside. When sold, the artwork is shipped in 2/3 days after receiving the payment. All my artworks are original unique paintings, signed. The certificate of Authenticity is always included.
My favorite painting techniques are oil paint on paper or canvas and graphite drawing. These are some examples of my work.
oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm, 2017.
oil and pencil on paper, 48 x 32 cm, 2014
"Virtual model with red houses"
Oil and pencil on paper, 40 x 40 cm, 2015
Oil on paper, 50 x 37 cm, 2016
Pins and oil on paper, 35 x 20 cm, 2017
oil on canvas, 75 x 130 cm, 2015
Oil on wood panel, 35 x 27 cm, 2015
Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 2015
oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm.
From the series "The color of memory", oil on paper, 35 x 35 cm, 2016.
"Abandoned room with the Empire State Building"
oil on canvas. 40 x 70 cm, 2016.
Oil on paper, 30 x 30 cm, 2016
Oil on paper, 28 x 50 cm, 2016. ORIGINAL PAINTING SOLD.
oil on paper, 50 x 28 cm, 2016.
"Memory of St Petersburg, the Neva River"
Oil on paper, 50 x 37 cm, 2016
"Memory of St Petersburg, Nevskij Prospekt"
Oil on paper, 50 x 37 cm, 2016
Oil on paper, 32.5 x 50 cm, 2017.
Oil on wood, 106 x 63 cm, 2015


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