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They decided to schedule an upgrade of our accounting system for this weekend. I thought my part of it was going to be about a 4 hour job, but I ended up working until 9 p.m. When I got home, I was still answering work-related calls until around 11:30.
Fortunately for me, my wife agreed to "reschedule" Valentine's Day for next weekend, which increases our chances of getting into a nice restaurant (and gives me another week to shop for something good).
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Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. plans to move its global headquarters from Natick to Marlboro beginning next spring.
The company already has operations in Marlboro and said it plans to construct a new building at the site by mid-summer 2014.
"A new global headquarters in Marlboro will more effectively support our long-term strategic plans," Mike Mahoney, president and chief executive of Boston Scientific, said in a statement announcing the move.
Consolidation of the company's Natick and Marlboro operations will foster more collaboration and efficiency, Mr. Mahoney said.
Boston Scientific plans to move employees to Marlboro in phases, from spring of 2013 to summer of 2014.
The maker of stents, catheters and other devices purchased the Marlboro property, off Route 85, in 2004. The facility is known for its "open and collaborative work environment" and is certified in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Boston Scientific said.
The company is negotiating the sale of its 500,000 square-foot Natick site to software company MathWorks. Boston Scientific has occupied the Natick facility since 1995.
Separately, the company also announced today that it will acquire Vessix Vascular Inc. of Laguna Hills, Calif. in a deal worth up to $425 million. Vessix Vascular develops catheter technologies.
Boston Scientific has 24,000 employees in several countries around the globe.


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National Library Week is Fast Approaching!
April 8 – 14 is National Library Week and do we have a line-up of fun for you! The library will be a busy place with daily contests, drawings, and even a special day just for Kids! We are pleased to share that we have TWO authors coming to visit. Jane Kurtz, a children's author, will be here on Tues, April 11 from 2 -4. You will be able to purchase her books and have her sign them at that time. What a great chance for our kids to meet an author up close! This is such a great cause too, as the proceeds help to further literacy in Ethiopia. Come and learn more!! Also on Tuesday, Bret Lott will be here from 3:30-4:30 sharing with us his insights on writing and some background on a few of his novels. We are privileged to have Mr. Lott at our library. His books are well-known, and his book, Jewel, was an Oprah Book Club Book. We would love to have a good crowd to listen to him share and ask any questions that you may have. Save the date for these two great author visits. We will be sharing more information about upcoming events as we prepare for a great week of Celebrating Our Library!
Book Review:
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
Jane Eyre is a book I can read over and over and it never ceases to capture me! I love so many things about that wonderful book. SO, when I hear of modern versions, of course, I must read them and see if I approve! Margot Livesey's The Flight of Gemma Hardyis a modern version of Jane Eyre that is one of the best I've read that follows the storyline of the traditional book. What I enjoyed about Livesey's novel is the intricacy in the history. You follow the life of Gemma from her very young days all the way to when she meets Mr. Sinclair. It isn't a contrived book that has to follow the Jane Eyre storyline so closely that it loses it's own story. It veers just enough from the original that it is truly its own story – and that is what gives it the strong like-ability factor! During my reading, I came to feel for Gemma and her very tough life – I found myself cheering for her, although she didn't need it – she is plenty tough all on her own! This is a great read – read it if you love Jane Eyre, read it even if you don't since it's a wonderfully strong story all on its own!


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Anjelica Huston re-lives her youth in new memoir
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Anjelica Huston has lived a big, colorful life — big and colorful enough to fill two volumes of an autobiography.
The first, A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York (Scribner), goes on sale Tuesday. It begins with her unconventional childhood and ends when she has started modeling and is in a deeply troubled relationship with fashion photographer Bob Richardson.
"It's funny," says the actress, who has won an Oscar, famously made the Hollywood scene with Jack Nicholson, and most recently made a splash (literally, as cocktail-tossing producer Eileen Rand) on the now-canceled NBC series Smash.
"There are times in one's life when people start to ask you questions, like, 'When are you going to have a baby?' " says Huston, 62, who never had a child. "And in this case, it was, 'When are you going to write your book?' This idea cropped up quite a lot, particularly in the last four or five years since my husband's death, and I think actually it's been very cathartic."
Huston, who laughs easily and often, is calling from Venice, Calif., where she lives with a menagerie of cats and dogs. Her husband of 16 years, sculptor Robert Graham, died in 2008.
On this day at the beach, she reports, the sky has "that blank look that skies take on in November in California, where it's not sunny but it's not anything else either."
Huston has a way with a descriptive phrase, and it's on display in A Story Lately Told, which, unlike most celebrity books, she wrote herself. Huston began by collaborating with a ghostwriter, but quickly decided it wasn't working.
"It became evident to me that if I was going to embark on this idea that I should do it myself. Because really I don't think anyone can replicate your way of thinking," she says.
So, with her Paper Mate Sharpwriter #2 in hand (she even thanks the pencil's manufacturer in the acknowledgments), Huston set out to remember an "unusual and special" childhood, and "lay bare a few things, and put a few things to rest." Publishers Weekly calls the book a "brave account."
"She is such a fine writer. She finds language exhilarating in a way a writer finds language exhilarating," says Nan Graham, her publisher at Scribner. "She's so winning on the page."
Huston's parents were John Huston, the legendary film director and actor, and his much-younger fourth wife, Enrica Soma, who had been a ballet dancer before her marriage. John Huston was filming The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in the Belgian Congo when Anjelica was born in L.A. in 1951; two years later he moved his family to Ireland.
Huston says it probably was inevitable, considering who her parents were, that she would become a performer. "I was a showoff," she admits. She writes of staring in the mirror as a child, pretending to be Morticia Addams – a role she would later play in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values.
In Ireland, Dad (when he was around) lived in the "Big House" ; Anjelica and her older brother, Tony, and her mother in the "Little House." There were other women for her larger-than-life father, and later, other men for her mother. Writing A Story Lately Told, Huston says, allowed her to piece together the real story of her parents' marriage. As a child, "I didn't want to press anyone for answers, because I wanted my version of the truth."
In the '60s, Huston's mother moved her children to London, which, Huston says, "I enjoyed tremendously and where I had a very good time, mostly of a non-curricular nature." At 17, she had an affair with 28-year-old British actor James Fox.
This was also the disastrous period when the teenage Huston appeared, reluctantly, in her father's 1969 film, A Walk with Love and Death. She writes that she was afraid of her dad; he had once hit her for dancing in what he considered a provocative way. When the movie came out, her performance was panned.
"I see bits of (the movie) now and again, and I feel so terribly sorry for myself," she says with a laugh. "It's almost unbearable to watch."
Years later, her father would direct her in Prizzi's Honor (1985), a considerably more successful joint effort. Huston won a best-supporting-actress Oscar for her role as the daughter of a Mob boss.
"I think I pleased him in that one," she says of her father. "He knew I was good, I knew I was good, but the hideous hump of his ego got in the way in A Love with Walk and Death."
In 1969, Huston's mother was killed in a car crash; "Ricki" was only 39.
For Huston, it was a devastating loss. After her mother's death, Huston moved to New York, where her dark, exotic, angular looks caught the eye of fashion editors.
She met Richardson when he photographed her for Harper's Bazaar; they had an instant connection. He was 42; she had just turned 18, an age difference that echoed her parents'.
She looked to Richardson, she writes, to be her "champion and protector." And while he taught her how to respond to the camera, he also was volatile – a schizophrenic, she later discovered.
"I was very young and I had never had an experience like this," she recalls. "It was only after I'd been with him for a little while that I came up against his craziness."
Huston thinks many readers will be surprised to learn about Richardson, whom she left after four years. He died in 2005.
"Most people associate me with Jack and don't really think of me before Jack," she says.
Jack, of course, is Jack Nicholson, 76, with whom she had a storied relationship in the '70s and '80s.
Huston is now writing the second volume of her memoir, which is called Watch Me and is tentatively due out a year from now. It will cover her acting career, her years in L.A., and, she says, "meeting Jack."
They remain pals. "We've had a long and deep friendship, and Jack's somebody that I want in my life," she says. "I wouldn't be happy not having him in my life."
Nan Graham, who has read many pages of the Watch Me manuscript, says "there's a lot of Jack," in volume two.
"There will," Graham promises readers with a taste for celebrity dish, "be ample Jack."


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It's spring for many of us. And what better way to celebrate winter's annual lukewarm death than finding a new wallpaper? Here are some excellent possibilities from this week's Shooting Challenge.
Winner - Sterling Castle
This was shot in Scotland beside Stirling Castle. The hills in the background hold The Wallace Monument. There are daffodils blooming all around, this one in particular stood out for some reason. Scotland has enjoyed a week of unseasonable warmth - unfortunately, while I've been working. I wanted to enjoy my days off in the early Summer sensation before the rain comes back to ruin the fun. Canon T2i Lens Canon EF-S 18-55mm 1/2000 sec F3.5 ISO 100 - Steve Giblin
Peach Tree
Here is my submission for the Spring Shooting Challenge! I took this photo in the garden today because I was testing a lens I borrowed (70-200mm). You can see flowers from a young peach tree. The strong pink-tint on the bottom-right part is caused by another flower which was very close to the lens. In the back you see the yellow flowers of a laburnum bush! Tools: Canon 5D Mk II Canon EF 70-200mm f4 ISO: 3200 Focal: 200mm Aperture: f/4,0 Shutter: 1/200 sec - Christoph Welkovits
A Not-So-Scary Bee
I was at the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden hoping to capture the beauty of some gorgeous tulips, but they were completely damaged from the rain. I found some poppies growing along the sides of the garden and conveniently a bee was gathering pollen in one of them. I am so scared of bees, but I decided to just go for it. I took several angles and decided that this was the best one. Shot using a Nikon D40 with an ISO of 800, f7.1, 1/2000 seconds, @200 mm. - Stacy Repin
Sharp Center
Once the challenge was announced I knew I wanted to take pictures of flowers in my own yard with a Nikon Micro lens I got for my birthday two weeks ago. I went out and shot a few pictures of some pink flowers in our front yard. I wish I could describe the flower more, but as a guy I know very little about flower types. Anyways, I really liked the center of this flower, in particular the orange and silverish accents. The silver portions looked like they were shining back at me, which I really liked. I cropped the photo a bit to keep the center of the flower in the center of the shot.Nikon D3100 AF-S Micro Nikkor 40mm lens f/6.3 Exposure time 1/60 sec ISO 400 - Jerardo Arciniega
The Surveyor
I originally was trying to get a shot of this plant in my front yard unfurling it's new leafs, but it just wasn't working out. Then I saw this little guy hanging out on the end of one of those leafs. He sums up "spring" to me in the worst way. At just over an inch long, the nymph stage of the Eastern Lubber Grasshopper may look cute, but it's nothing but pure evil. When they are full grown, they can reach 6 inches in length and swarms of them will overrun your yard, eating most everything in sight. As adults, they are virtually immune to most insecticides. They hiss and "secrete a foamy spray" that is mildly toxic. At the start of each spring, I am forced to hunt down the nymphs to eradicate as many as possible so that my plants stand a chance of surviving the ravenous onslaught of the full grown ones throughout the summer. As much as I loath them, this one was being very photogenic today. As soon as I took his picture, he met his end via bug spray. Nikon D3100, 1/60 sec, f/16, ISO 200, Focal Length 55mm
- Gabe Loewenberg
Lone Tulip
Thanks for the challenge in finding a symbol of Spring! We have one yellow Tulip in our garden that always sprouts at the first sign of warmer temperatures here in Milton, Ontario, Canada. For us it's the sign that Spring is here. Today the rains came and the colder temperatures came back. The Tulip that was in full bloom the day before was closed all day as a result. This became an opportunity to show what is another symbol of Spring. Spring showers. Camera: Canon 7D Lens: Canon 100mm f2.8 Exposure: 1/160 Aperture: F8 ISO: 500 - Graham Kingma
Backlit Leaf
I found this plant on the ground and must have passed it quite a few times looking for other subjects to photograph. Once the lighting was right however it stopped me in my tracks and really showed some neat patterns back-lit by the sun. I got down low and filled the frame during the golden hours to get this shot. I used extension tubes to allow me to get in close which worked very well after adjusting zoom/manual focus correctly. In photoshop I cropped, adjusted levels, and applied high pass filter for clarity (was RAW). Canon t2i with kit lens and extension tubes, 1/50sec, ISO 100, aperture ~4.0 - Jared Grayden
Daisy Out of Moss
Here's my entry for the Photo Challenge; taken with a Nikon D700, AF-S Micro Nikkor 105 mm f/2.8G ED, ISO 200, stopped down to f/9 to maintain a certain depth of field. There's no big story to this shot: I was looking for a subject, and the one I decided for was all over the lawn of our house: daisies! So I picked one and placed it on a tree covered with moss. I made some Adjustments in Lightroom afterwards, and this is the result. - Stefan Janisch
Deadly Spring
I call this "Deadly Spring". Was out shooting with a friend, when I suddenly found a nice flower with an insect on it. Took some shots, even marveled at how still the moth / butterfly / whatever was. It was later in the day, though, when processing the images I had taken, that I found out why the insect was so still: it was being attacked by an alien spider! The wonders of macro photography, huh? Picture taken with a Canon T2i (550D), with a Sigma 70-300 mm 4-5.6 DG Macro, at ISO 320, f/5.0, 1/400. - Arturo Goga
Spring Breeze
I headed out to the park with some friends on one of the sunniest days of the year to get some shots with a new lens. (Sun in March is extremely rare in England!) When I saw a tree full of blossom I thought that this represented spring perfectly. I changed the lens to a faster focusing one and when I was snapping away when the wind started to blow some petals off the flowers so I took a few quick shots and this was the best. Taken of a Sony A77 with 15-50 f2.8 SSM kit lens @ ISO100, 50mm, f/2.8 and 1/400 shutter. - Matthew Phillips
Magnolia Trees
Around the stairs leading to my house we have about 15 magnolia trees and my mother had been forcing me to take a picture of it. Then the morning I was going to take the pictures I saw the shooting challenge on Gizmodo and made this a project. Using Canon 600D Canon 50mm F1.8 II 1/4000 F1.8 ISO 100 - Joel Hempenius
Grape Hyacinths
I was out shooting in the woods near my house, hoping for a little sun, but the weather wouldn't play nice. I returned home and was getting out of my car when the clouds parted, the sun hitting some grape hyacinths that had taken over my garden. There's a purple heather in the background. I remembered seeing the spring challenge and thought, well, this might work out... Sony SLT-A65V, 1/125 @ f/6.3, ISO 100, Tamron 50-300 lens. - Julian De Puma
A Fine Cheat
I always say shooting flowers is a bit of a cheat: They're colorful, symmetrical, and the camera even has a pre-set mode for them! —But, since Spring = "flowers", "allergies" or "rain", I thought this was fair. Canon T2i, 100mm, f/2.8, ISO 2500 - Diego Jimenez
I call this photo "Frances", after a close family friend who died the day I took this picture. I got the call in the morning, left work, spent time with my family grieving, and then went for a walk to be alone with my thoughts and my camera. Camera: Nikon D3100 Lens: 18-55mm Kit Lens (My walking around lens) ISO: 100 - Justin Beck
Incredible shots this week. I really wanted to feature every one of them. (And obviously, there are countless worthy winners in the group.) The full galleries below. And those wallpapers? You'll find them on flickr.


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"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
Thanks for cleaning it up, sniper.
Please send me a PM as well. I am interested in one or two as well.
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The British Science Fiction Association has announced on Monday the nominees for the 2010 BSFA Awards:
Best Novel:
Paolo Bacigalupi – "The Windup Girl" (Orbit)
Lauren Beukes – "Zoo City" (Angry Robot)
Ken Macleod – "The Restoration Game" (Orbit)
Ian McDonald – "The Dervish House" (Gollancz)
Tricia Sullivan – "Lightborn" (Orbit)
Best Short Fiction:
Nina Allan – "Flying in the Face of God" (Interzone 227, TTA Press)
Aliette de Bodard – "The Shipmaker" (Interzone 231, TTA Press)
Peter Watts – "The Things'' (Clarkesworld 40)
Neil Williamson – "Arrhythmia" (Music for Another World, Mutation Press)
Best Non-Fiction:
Paul Kincaid – Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Big OtherJonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe - The Notes from Coode Street Podcast
Abigail Nussbaum – Review, With Both Feet in the Clouds, Asking the Wrong Questions Blogspot
Adam Roberts – Review, Wheel of Time, Punkadiddle
Francis Spufford – "Red Plenty" (Faber and Faber)
Abigail Nussbaum – Review, With Both Feet in the Clouds, Asking the Wrong Questions Blogspot
Adam Roberts – Review, Wheel of Time, Punkadiddle
Francis Spufford – "Red Plenty" (Faber and Faber)
Best Art:
Andy Bigwood – cover for "Conflicts" (Newcon Press)
Charlie Harbour – cover for "Fun With Rainbows" by Gareth Owens (Immersion Press)
Dominic Harman – cover for "The Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut (Gollancz)
Joey Hi-Fi – cover for "Zoo City" by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
Ben Greene – "A Deafened Plea for Peace" cover for "Crossed Genres 21"
Adam Tredowski – cover for "Finch" by Jeff Vandermeer (Corvus)
The winners will be announced at Illustrious, the Eastercon Convention on Saturday, April 23rd.
***The nominees for the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award were announced yesterday:
"Yarn" by Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
"Chill" by Elizabeth Bear (Ballantine Books/Spectra)
"The Reapers Are The Angels" by Alden Bell (Tor UK/Henry Holt & Co.)
"Song Of Scarabaeus" by Sara Creasy (Eos)
"The Strange Affair Of Spring Heeled Jack" by Mark Hodder (Pyr)
"Harmony" by Project Itoh, translated by Alexander O. Smith (Haikasoru)
"State Of Decay" by James Knapp (Roc)
The winner will be announced at Norwescon 34 on Friday, April 22nd.
Good luck to all the nominees!


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Increasing broadband service penetration demands a transport network that delivers significantly lower cost-per-bit than traditional circuit-switched networks, and Ethernet provides the technology baseline for a cost-effective transport technology. Walker and Associates provides timing and synchronization solutions to maximize a telecom network's performance and ability, while bringing a new level of flexibility and dynamic configuration to the network. The quality of timing and synchronization that telecommunication operators put into their network impacts the quality of service (QoS) of their voice, video and data services. Better timing and better synchronization means better Quality of Service (QoS) for voice, video, and data services customers demand.
Walker provides end-to-end scalable timing solutions to deliver accurate time synchronization across IP and legacy infrastructure, ensuring seamless operation of time sensitive applications. Examples of these solutions include:
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Address a wide variety of applications ranging from precise carrier class synchronization and precise time stamping to the test and measurement of PTP networks. These solutions provide the flexibility, reliability and precision you need to accelerate PTP migration and benefit from lower-cost, higher-capacity packet-over-Ethernet network infrastructures without sacrificing precise timing and synchronization requirements.
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Wireline and wireless telecommunication networks need to provide the same quality assurance for high-speed Next Generation digital services that they have for their traditional phone services. Carrier grade NTP solutions bring high precision, high availability, security, robust management and easy infrastructure integration to telecom operators, thus assuring QoE and QoS throughout the network.


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You never know when things in life are going to change. So often you have your whole year planned out to the week (especially as triathletes) and then something happens and you have to make adjustments. In my case, it's going to be major adjustments as I just received a big job promotion. I purposely don't discuss work much on this blog but with my position before I was able to work from home 2-3 days a week and get the job done. Well now my responsibilities have doubled and I manage a team now which requires me to be in the office every day and make the 100 mile commute each day. Needless to say, this has put a damper on my Ironman build and even more so on my family time.
My situation before allowed me the time, sleep and energy I needed to train properly for my best race at IMCDA and ultimately fulfill my dream of qualifying and racing at Kona. I posted on Facebook a few weeks ago that I am devastated about not fulfilling my dreams in triathlon (which are qualifying for Kona and winning a major AG race) but beyond excited about my "real life" dreams which comes along with this promotion that is going to allow me to support my family, travel and live more comfortably. It's also going to mean that we will most likely be moving back to San Diego this summer which is also something we are really excited about. My Facebook post was misinterpreted and a lot of my friends thought I was giving up on the sport completely. That may or may not be the case, I don't know yet and the good news is I don't have to decide it right now. After IMCDA, I will definitely take a break to get my house sold, buy a new one, get settled in aT work and actually spend some time with my family!
Right now I am spending about 1.5 hrs a day M-F with my wife and kids and I HATE it. However, I know it's just a short term run so I am giving it my best in my build towards IMCDA and my family is on board. I've worked way to hard to this point to just put up the white flag and race half-assed. It's taken awhile to make the adjustments to the new work schedule while still getting in some quality hours of training. My targeted 20 hrs/week with adequate sleep and rest has been replaced with 12-16 hr/weeks with little sleep and 100+ miles of commuting each day. Not ideal, but I have to make it work for just another month.
As far as training goes, I feel a little bit like I did in my Ironman 70.3 Worlds build from last year. Just really tired legs, digging deep constantly and mentally challenging. The biggest thing that has suffered is my swim. I'm only able to get in the water two MAYBE three times a week and usually it's swimming alone which is not ideal for me but I'm just trying to limit my loses there. I've been getting in my long rides consistently each week and mileage seems to stay consistent around the 150 mile range. Ideally, that would be 200, but again - making it work. As far as running goes, this is the only sport I feel really good about right now. We've been incorporating a lot of long runs, tempo sessions and brick runs. I actually ran 40 miles last week which is the most I've done in about five years.
So my outlook on my chances at qualifying are now pretty slim. I already knew I had to execute perfectly in order to put myself in position to qualify and everything was on track until my time available to train/sleep changed. The good news now though is there is no pressure to perform. I'll just go to battle and give it everything I have and be content with the result either way. I may surprise myself and pull it off, who knows. I'm starting to learn over my 35 years of being alive to finally take each day by day and minute to minute. I've always been so future focused and failing to live in the moment - to train in the moment and I believe that's helped me.
Thanks for reading, I appreciate all of the support!
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Posted by James Adams on Friday, May 30, 2014
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Super Bowl notebook: Culliver apologizes
The San Francisco 49ers dealt swiftly on Wednesday to stem the effect of comments made by defensive back Chris Culliver the day before.
And on Thursday, Culliver presented himself as a man who was remorseful about his homophobic statements. Culliver faced the media for the first time since his comments on a radio show in response to a question about whether a gay teammate would be welcomed in the locker room.
His comments were emphatic on Tuesday's media day as he spoke with radio host and comedian Artie Lange: "I don't do the gay guys, man. I don't do that … We don't got no gay people on the team. They've got to get up outta here if they do. Can't be with that sweet stuff."
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In a statement issued late Wednesday and again in person Thursday, Culliver said his words did not reflect his real feelings.
"(I was) really just not thinking," Culliver said. "(It was) something that I thought. Definitely nothing that I felt in my heart …
Asked if he would accept an openly gay teammate, Culliver responded, "If it is, then it is. Everybody is treated equally in our locker room … I don't have differences with other sexualities, just like that. Like I said, that's not what I feel in my heart and I treat everyone equal in any type of way. It's not how I feel."
The 49ers, who hail from about as diverse a city as there is, publicly condemned Culiver's comments in statements on Wednesday and again in person Thursday.
"We reject what he said,' said head coach Jim Harbaugh, who met with Culliver on Wednesday. "That's not something that reflects the way the organization feels, the way most of the players feel."
Michael Crabtree finally justified his lofty draft pick (10th overall in 2009) this season, especially after the 49ers switched from Alex Smith to Colin Kaepernick at quarterback.
"I do not like to compare like that,' Crabtree said Thursday. "I just feel like Kaepernick came in and did what people really have not seen. I am just running along with it."
Fact is, Crabtree was targeted 61 times in eight-plus games by Smith and 86 times by in Kaepernick's ine-plus games. And of his 100 receptions for 1,281 yards this season, 57 of the throws for 782 came from Kaepernick.
"Yeah, it is a difference," Crabtree said. "The difference is that Kaepernick is just coming in balling. Making plays with his feet, arm and I am just trying to catch everything he throws."
David Akers has had a bad year but a good career.
He has been able to go back to the beginning to draw knowledge that through tough times good things can emerge.
"It's been a crazy, crazy situation," he said. "I actually started in '97 with the Panthers in training camp, went back – I was teaching sixth grade science as a permanent substitute teacher, and went to the Falcons in '98. Got cut from there, went to the Redskins, was practice squad, got brought up, missed a couple kicks. In the first game, actually my first regular season kickoff was returned 90 yards for a touchdown, so it's not really the way you want to start off your career.
"But the Eagles ended up bringing me in, in the end of '98, signing me from the beginning of '99. I went to NFL Europe, had a great time over there, and then spent 12 years with the Eagles. Last year, had a great year out here, and this year has been rocky, to say the least. Hopefully, we can end up strong."
Akers was among the worst kickers in the NFL this season, missing more field goals (13) than any other and a success rate (69 percent) worse than all but one other.
Yet, while the 49ers did try out other kickers this season, Akers attempted all 42 field goals the team tried.
A veteran of 14 seasons and three teams, Akers has a career success rate of 81 percent and slightly higher (81.8 percent) in 23 postseason games. He did not attempt a field goal in his first Super Bowl, after the 2004 season while with the Eagles.
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Peter Egan guests on Blendover, as we turn to 9/11 – where a Rep. Massie has held a press conference demanding that the redacted 28 pages from the Commission Report be revealed. Meanwhile, FedEx has been indicted by the Government, we have a strange tale from Florida about a "suicidal mannequin", and Greg delivers his big report about DashCon.
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- DashCon 2014
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BlendoveR is the "trendover" podcast, bringing you the news that the news isn't covering. Presented by Greg Davies, we focus on topics that are not trending across the web and in the mainstream media, and have a knack accurate predictions of coming events, trends, and media coverage.
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On this day, July 18, 1986, "A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter."
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Before we involve ourselves in #Iraq, Congressmen and their constituents need to know more about the events leading up to 9/11
Rep. Massie speaks at Press Conference Regarding 9/11 Documents
Secret 9/11 Documents: "Implausible" that the 9/11 Hijackers Acted Without Government Backing
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The fellow who by sweat and tears in the end reaches a key position to steal the company wholesale. He goes to Lichestein and dreads the day the kingdom changes its tax haven status. Whileone who never did a day's honest work floats a pyramid scheme and makes off with it to a rogue nation. He gets instantly a celebrity status. His loot by a special Presidential decree is free from any taint.
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Some celebs are quite stingy, others give away more than enough, donating millions of their hard-earned dollars to different charities. Are they doing this because they feel like they have to, or because they want to?
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It's not a secret most actors have stunt doubles, what we don't realize is the amount of work and preparations they undergo to become perfect twins for their superstar alter egos. Actors taking part in the Avengers movies are using the superpowers of stunt doubles to the fullest, which is quite understandable with the amount of action scenes they're going through.
As the word "prehistoric" suggests, things have been happening long before we humans started to record and share our stories, legends, and cheesecake recipes through time. You see, since it all happened before the early humans could write stuff down, it's pretty much lost. But thanks to the uncanny efforts of our awesome archaeologists, we now know quite a bit about the prehistoric world. And, boy, does it have a few surprises!
It's been a weird World Cup, for sure. Some of the tournaments highest ranked teams were eliminated pretty early on, which left room for some underdogs to perform better than expected. And yes, we've had some players on both ends of that spectrum that have gone above and beyond their natural talents and have livened up the World Cup for us. Let's take a look at some of these players.
Creatures of ancient myths, no matter which mythology you swear by, always have something awe-inspiring about them. They seem so fantastic because they're simply impossible to imagine walking around in the real world. But since people weren't all that imaginative in the olden days, it only makes sense that some of these mythological creatures also hold some ground in reality, right?
Filip Hodas, a Czech digital artist who has an amazing Instagram page. In his idea of a post-apocalyptic future, we see nature taking back what's rightfully hers. And what better way to illustrate it than with pop culture imagery?
Being one with the nature is much easier when you're not alone. Honza Řeháček from the Czech Republic and his gorgeous doggo Sitka know exactly how it feels like to have a partner on a long and tiresome journey.
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Christmas is coming again. You know what this means? It's time to buy gifts for your friends and family. You already know what to get Mom and Dad. Your grandpas and grandmas. Siblings. Aunts and uncles. But what about your best friend? Goodness. You've forgotten to get her a gift, haven't you? Fortunately, we've got…
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Sometimes pitching feels like auditioning for a seat in the high school cafeteria. Only the popular kids get the good bylines, right?
Not true at Filter. These editors at this L.A.-based glossy say all you have to do to break in is love good music and introduce yourself through email. Yep, that's it.
"Be creative and show us who you are," said Pat McGuire, the editor-in-chief. "You have to understand that there are so many people seeking similar positions that you have to make yourself stand out a little bit."
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With the dust now settling in the wake of Chris Hughton's shock dismissal as manager of Newcastle United yesterday afternoon, the spotlight is on owner Mike Ashley and his (hopefully) inevitable decision in choosing Hughton's successor.
Even before the announcement yesterday, the rumour mills had already been churning with nearly every available, out of work manager being touted as a possible replacement, and none all too eye-catching at that. Let's take a look at some of the players:
The Outsiders:
Frank Rijkaard has been recently dismissed from his own post after a poor run of form had seen his Galatasaray side slip prematurely out of the Europa League with their league form no better, picking up only 12 points from a possible 24 in the opening round of fixtures. His attack-minded coaching could do well with the Newcastle side currently on a slump of form and seemingly lost as to which style of football they play best. Still, a long shot with presumably high salary demands and most detrimental to the chance of him joining would be how much Ashley would be willing to put into the upcoming transfer window. Anything Ashley could scrounge together would surely not be enough for Rijkaard's liking.
Another name that's been doing the rounds in some circles, and one this writer would not be all too displeased with would be Lee Clark, currently managing First Division side Huddersfield Town. Having just missed out on the play-offs last term, Geordie Clark has his young troops in contention again early-on this campaign. Many supporters believe Clark will one day manage his hometown club, though probably side with the owner in saying he may still be too inexperienced just yet.
At a Stretch:
Alan Curbishly and Steve McClaren have both been mentioned as possible replacements, but with McClaren currently in his first year managing VfL Wolfsburg in the German Bundesliga, surely Newcastle would have to be a step down for the manager, whose former side FC Twente only last season won the Dutch Eredivisie. It's not been an easy start to life in Germany with his side currently sitting thirteenth out of eighteen teams, but surely it isn't a challenge he's ready to give up on just yet.
And with Curbishly on the back of a recent court settlement in his favour for reasons strikingly similar to that of which involved a certain Kevin Keegan and one Mike Ashley, could you really say it would be the wisest move to bring in a manager who will inevitably get played with by Ashley, and then this all turns sour only for Ashley to pay out a settlement again? I'd like to think even he couldn't be that stupid. Not too mention, his appointment wouldn't exactly rekindle any hopes in the fans or players of getting something out of a seemingly woebegone season. Alan Shearer has also been mentioned but surely his inexperience rules him out as a serious candidate.
The Front-Runners:
Alan Pardew, recently let go from League One side Southampton and claim to a managerial track record almost as uninspiring as Joe Kinnear's, would seem Mr. Ashley's obvious choice were it his to make alone, and, unfortunately for Newcastle supporters and to the bemusement of rival fans across the globe, it is. Bookies closed betting early on Pardew, only for it to be opened some hours later, so Newcastle fans can only hope that change signifies the reality of the situation.
Perhaps the two name's being mentioned most though, and one of either preferred to most Newcastle fans would be Martin O'Neill and Martin Jol. Naturally it would seem Martin O'Neill's reasoning behind walking away from Aston Villa would be the same issues that would keep him from joining Newcastle, but with managerial vacancies few and far between, he might just take his chance. Even still, with communication basically non-existant from the Newcastle board, it's still a crapshoot as to whether the new manager will be given significant trust to lead the team, thus, funds to invest and freedom to appoint.
Martin Jol would be the obvious candidate to lead Newcastle forward, if we must choose one, after Hughton's sacking having, perhaps inadvertently or otherwise, thrown his name into the ring after announcing his resignation from Ajax yesterday evening. His track record across Europe should speak for itself, and you'd be hard pressed to find any Aston Villa fans who say they were overly pleased with the football played by their team during O'Neill's reign. Since his time at Tottenham Hotspur, his managerial exploits with Hamburg SV and Ajax boast a win percentage of just under sixty-three percent, while O'Neill's, if you disregard his years with Celtic, is significantly less, including his tenures in England's lower divisions. O'Neill's purchases in the transfer market, bar Ashley Young and John Carew in his first year in charge, have been questionable and with Randy Lerner obviously not shy when it comes to backing his manager, you wonder what it would have taken to please Martin O'Neill. Surely he would not find similar backing at Newcastle?
Coincidentally, his undoing was down partly to the very same player with whom Kevin Keegan had taken a grievance to losing before his resignation as well- James Milner.
In a best case scenario, the club would come forward to shine light on the circumstances surrounding Chris Hughton's sacking and what their intentions for Newcastle United Football Club are and how they plan to move forward from this. Conspiracy theories have been rife with rumours of the club being put up for sale again, and true, they could be just rumours, but are fans really ready to wait another two months to hear anything from the club and come the end of January, receive their annual explanation of the club's failures in the transfer market? It looks as though the situation is becoming more and more dire and seems to be heading in that direction. And unfortunately as Newcastle fans know all too well, the only thing to do now is to wait.
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Debbie Smith's rapist wasn't caught until six years after he brutally attacked her. The convicted felon's DNA matched that from Smith's rape kit, and he's now serving two life terms plus 25 years.
Smith, a Williamsburg resident, has become such an advocate for rape victims that HR 3214– a bill to provide funding for the more than 169,000 rape kits across the country that have never been processed– is called the Debbie Smith Act.
It has also become one of the first major issues in the upcoming race between Republican incumbent Congressman Virgil Goode and his Democratic rival, Al Weed.
The bill passed the House of Representatives 357-67 last November, but is now stalled in the Senate. Goode– along with just one other Virginia Congressman, Edward Schrock– voted against the bill, which Weed calls a "reckless" move.
"I have a wife. I have a daughter," says Weed, a Nelson County farmer. "This is a serious, serious issue. The numbers of violent crimes against women just scare me."
On April 9, Weed joined Charlottesville's Take Back the Night march and told the audience, "Virgil Goode's 'No' vote reverberates with a resounding message to women and children; he won't be there for you if you're raped. But I will be."
Goode won't support rape victims? Not everyone buys that– including Debbie Smith.
"I know he does, because he co-sponsored the bill the first time," says Smith. "It's kind of unfair not to show he voted on it the first time."
The new Debbie Smith Act includes the Innocence Protection Act, which gives prisoners access to DNA testing, and that's where Goode objects.
"The bill we voted on wasn't the Debbie Smith Act," says Goode. "It focused as much on criminals as it did on the victim. Even the National District Attorney's Association didn't support it."
Goode's concern was that some of the $1 billion funding to be spread over five years would go to groups that oppose the death penalty. "I support the death penalty," he says.
Weed opposes the death penalty.
Supporters of the Debbie Smith Act are disappointed to see it languishing in the Senate. That includes Charlottesville police forensics expert and Virginia DNA database pioneer Sgt. Ralph Barfield, who worked on the bill with Smith.
"In some states, unless the sheriff has enough money to pay for the victim's evidence kit, processing it doesn't happen," says Barfield. "We're very fortunate in Virginia that we're as progressive as we are."
How physical evidence recovery kits– PERKs– are processed varies dramatically around the country. "The big issue is there are no set standards," says Barfield. "It's crazy the difference between adjoining states."
Barfield calls the bill a "no brainer," and advises that at some point, "women have got to say 'enough is enough.' "
An estimated 300,000 DNA samples that have been collected from offenders sit untested, says Weed, and another one million convicted felon samples have not been collected as required by law.
Weed says the processing of 100 DNA samples would result in the immediate identification of 10 sexual predators.
"Victims are living in fear, and the guy could be in jail," says Smith.
Goode says he'd support the Debbie Smith Act as a stand-alone bill. "I want to see the perpetrators of rape severely punished and the victims of rape helped," he says.
So does Debbie Smith. "I'm not going away," she says.
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Reviewing the documentation I found some fields and methods that I think are repeated but with differents names, making the engine a useless complexity engine :shock: If I understood bad the documentation it means that the documentation is not well explained, and if I understood it well it means that the engine is being more complex that what is needed.
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Classification of Mobile Customers Behavior and Usage Patterns using Self-Organizing Neural Networks
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Mobile usage is witnessing a booming growth attributed to advances in smartphone technologies, the extremely high penetration rate and the availability of popular mobile applications. Telecommunication markets have been injecting huge investments to fulfil the sheer demand on wireless network and mobile services as a result. Such potentials highlights the importance of behavioral segmentation of mobile network users to target different sectors of customers with efficient marketing strategies and ensure customer retention in light of the intense competition. A major hurdle in applying this approach is the number of dimensions underlying customer preferences which makes it hard to visualize similarities among customers and formulate behavioral segments correctly and efficiently. In this paper, we use self-organizing maps, to detect different usage patterns of mobile users. The proposed system is tested using a large sample of customers' data provided by major mobile operator in Jordan. The study detected different behavioural segments in this market and highlights the role of data users in modern mobile markets. In this context, we give detailed analysis of our results on user behavioral segmentation.


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Known as the Garden City, Toowoomba is Australia's second largest inland city, and blends classic country charm with an emerging food and arts scene. Pick up fresh produce and hunt for antiques at local markets, track down the city's best street art murals or attend the colourful Carnival of Flowers in September.
Toowoomba is an hour and forty minutes' drive from Brisbane, or you can fly in directly to Wellcamp Airport from Sydney, Melbourne and Cairns.
Driving through the Southern Downs and Granite Belt region we stumbled across the Ballandean Pyramid! Standing 15m high, this slice of Egypt is built from blocks of the local granite. She shines in the sun and is even better at dusk. Kantesha Takai
Ballandean Pyramid
One of Queensland's premier food and wine regions, the Granite Belt is part of the Great Dividing Range and centres around the historic town of Stanthorpe. Wander through 19th-century vineyards and taste cool-climate wines from almost 50 boutique cellar doors. Sample artisan cheese, olives, meat or ice-cream, and farm produce picked straight from the tree.
The Granite Belt is about 220km south-west of Brisbane and the drive takes just under three hours.
Striking granite boulders tower over open forest and fields of wildflowers at Girraween National Park. Hike 30km of trails winding through lofty granite arches and up to scenic lookouts, picnic beside Bald Rock Creek and spend a night under the stars in a secluded campsite.
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HOTSEAT- Nail-biter: Perriello in fight for his life--- again
When Tom Perriello sat in the Hotseat two years ago, he was a political unknown challenging longtime 5th District incumbent Virgil Goode. Conventional wisdom said he didn't stand a chance.
Flash forward two years. Freshman Congressman Tom Perriello is listed as one of the most-vulnerable Democrats in the country, and one poll shows him trailing more than 20 points in a disgruntled district, parts of which boast some of the highest unemployment in the state. Conventional wisdom in some quarters says he doesn't stand a chance.
His own campaign fires back with polls showing a dead heat. Meanwhile, Perriello is doing what he did in 2008: He keeps working.
He's running late the day he has a meeting with a reporter. In the morning, he's in Greene County for a town hall meeting, the 12th of 20 he'll hold this year. Then it's down to CATEC, the Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center, to present grants to educators from the Edgar and Eleanor Shannon Foundation. By then, he's behind schedule for a meeting at campaign headquarters on Old Ivy Road, so he has about 10 minutes before heading back up to Greene County again for a meeting with first-responders at their free clinic, "always close to my heart," he says, to talk about healthcare reform.
Since Dems took control of Congress with the election of Barack Obama two years ago, the Tea Party movement has sprung up in an economy that seems excruciatingly slow to recover.
Ask Perriello the biggest difference between this election and the one two years ago. "Not having my dad around," he says, on a personal note. His father, Dr. Vito Perriello, died March 2, 2009.
Certainly perceptions of Perriello have changed since that first race. "In one context, you're judged for what you might do hypothetically," he reflects. "In the second case, you're judged for what you've done. I'm a doer. I prefer situations where I'm judged for what I've done."
And there's plenty of judgment to go around. At a recent appearance by Perriello's Republican challenger, one of state Senator Robert Hurt's supporters lambasted what he calls the three worst pieces of legislation ever: cap and trade, the economic stimulus, and healthcare reform, the latter of which Hurt calls the "Pelosi-Perriello" plan.
Perriello is quick to point out that he's voted with Republicans 67 percent of the time, and he's rated one of the 15 most independent congressman. Not only that, he recently called for the ouster of Obama's treasury secretary, and he scored the coveted-by-conservatives NRA endorsement.
But will all this be enough to sway an angry electorate in a district he won by a mere 727 votes two years ago?
While many other beleaguered incumbents are maintaining low profiles, Perriello continues to hold those town hall meetings, the most of any congressman in the country. Does it get old, the constant refrain from people about how much they dislike what you're doing, often in increasingly personal terms?
"In some ways, I find it much more interesting to talk to the people who are passionate," says the Yale law grad, "even if they don't agree with me, than those who are apathetic."
The biggest surprise during his not-quite-two years in Congress? "The lack of interest from the other side to actually solve problems," says Perriello, specifically mentioning the Senate. "I've been shocked by Republicans on the national level, and pleasantly surprised from Republicans and independents on local levels wanting to solve problems."
Perriello bucks the imperial politician mold. He continues the practice of asking campaign volunteers to tithe 10 percent of their time to charitable endeavours, and he recently spent a day volunteering at the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
Since he's been in Washington, "I'm most proud," says Perriello, "of holding onto my integrity in a city that doesn't value integrity." And how often do you hear a politician boast about not taking contributions from lobbyists or corporate PACs?
His campaign dubs him the "hardest working" person in Congress, and they may be right. Ask him if he has time to do anything fun. His response is monosyllabic: "No."
While some of the Hurt-leaning polls have come under fire, Perriello says it's not polls that keep him awake at night.
"When you have the kind of economic crisis we have, it's hard to step away from that," he says. "It's hard to sleep at night with things running through my head that I could have done differently to help people."
Age: 36 on October 9
Why here? Born and raised
What's worst about living here? Thinking each year is the one when UVA football will break big.
Favorite hangout? the James River
Most overrated virtue? Patience
People would be surprised to know: That I'm ranked one of the 15 most independent members of Congress
What would you change about yourself? My diet. PB&J is great, but not for every meal.
Proudest accomplishment? Helping secure broadband access for 59,000 homes and businesses and 120 public schools in Southside Virginia.
People find most annoying about you: Ask the Tea Party.
Whom do you admire ? Bobby Kennedy, who understood there was nothing more liberal or conservative than helping someone get a job.
Favorite book? The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Subject that causes you to rant? Tim Geithner (See also: Larry Summers)
Biggest 21st-century thrill? Complete economic transformation around clean energy. Leaps in technology, farming, transportation and construction that make the industrial revolution look like slow motion.
Biggest 21st-century creep out? The sport of watching celebrity lives unravel.
What do you drive? A 2005 Ford Ranger. Dented but strong.
In your car CD player right now: Campaign mixes from friends, usually a li'l country, and a li'l hip-hop.
Next journey? Somewhere up or down 29. Good times.
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? The time I got suspended as a page for Delegate Mitch Van Yahres for getting caught on the girls' floor.
Regret: Not exercising once I took office. Always easier to stay in shape than to get in shape.
Favorite comfort food: Hot fudge sundaes
Always in your refrigerator: Budweiser and frozen pizzas
Must-see TV: SportsCenter, Friday Night Lights
Describe a perfect day. Any day the Senate actually manages to get something done
Walter Mitty fantasy: Becoming Jason Bourne
Who'd play you in the movie? Matt Damon (see above)
Most embarrassing moment? First photo shoot of the campaign
Best advice you ever got? From my Dad: always remember Judgment Day is more important than election day.
Favorite bumper sticker? Perriello for Congress, of course
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Wow Harry -- How long did it take you to craft such a witty reply?
Pretending that Perriello isn't finished is just a parlor game. Sure, if the election was just in Charlottesville, he'd be re-elected easily - but that's not how it works.
He'll lose, and not just because he constantly ignores the wishes of his constituents. Perriello is slick, and one of the most maddening politicians to come down the pike in years. He takes silly, pretentious positions and doesn't seem to see that they are not going over.
He's upset by "The lack of interest from the other side to actually solve problems"?
Really? Really Tom? That's what's blown your mind over the last two years? Not the insanity of your affirmative action President or that nasty Speaker of the House? Not the insane spending? Not the myriad bills that most of America despises?
You deserve to lose. And you will.
Have a Blessed Day.
Congressman Perriello is far from 'slick'. He is one of the most sincere individuals to serve in Congress. He lives to help his constituency-all of it. It is sad that times are so rough; It is also sad that some people are so flustered that they don't know the good guys from the bad ones. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail and continue to repair things- as Congressman Perriello is trying to do. I hope he wins.
Are you putting Mr Hurt in the hot seat so he can play the game too?
Hey Hal. Perriello WON the majority of the vote, so yes, he is listening to his constituents who wanted health care reform and Wall Street regulation. Do you understand the concept of winning the election? However, if you would rather someone die than receive decent health care, I hope you have a strong conscience.


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Hugin Compiling FreeBSD
Hugin is part of the FreeBSD ports collection. Using the ports collection (and contributing fixes to it) is the recommended way to install Hugin on FreeBSD.
Install with the port
# su # cd /usr/ports/graphics/hugin # make # make install
Update the port
Below is newbie's work in progress. Following these instructions may corrupt your FreeBSD system or worse. Exercise caution (read: don't do this) until the experts confirm that the newbie has done things rights.
to track closely Hugin's releases, after each new release edit the following files in the ports collection:
1. edit distinfo to point to the right tarball. You will need to edit the name in parenthesis, to calculate and edit the md5 and sha256 hashes, to edit the filesize.
2. edit the Makefile.
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- add/update runtime dependencies to RUN_DEPENDS=
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- if you're not sure about something that need to be done, ask the experts.
3. edit the pkg-plist list of installed files. While it can't be done automatically, the trick is to 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foobar install' and then check the files under /tmp/foobar (assuming it was non-existent before)
4. probably not necessary: edit the pkg-descr description of Hugin.
make a diff and submit it to the FreeBSD experts.
files / patches
This is a work in progress - mainly thoughts about simplifying / streamlining the patching to make life easier to the FreeBSD port maintainer. Please contribute if you have experience in this area.
The patches are listed at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/graphics/hugin/files/
CMake build
- patch-CMakeLists.txt
- patch-doc_CMakeLists.txt
I think it makes sense for the variable mandir to be set in the general CMake build.
if I put an IF(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=="FreeBSD") condition and make the changes inside the Hugin repository, it should work, right?
I think this one I can apply upstream as-is?
Do I understand right that log2(x) is not defined in FreeBSD? and I fi put it inside a conditional expression, I could apply it upstream and it would coexist with the rest, e.g.
#if defined __FreeBSD__ #define log2(x) (log(x) / log(2)) #endif
this one looks outdated to me? Autopano-SIFT-C is now in the ports collection:
the "best practice" in the Hugin project is now to give users a choice of different CP generations. Panomatic is already in the Makefile of the Hugin port, and we now have also match-n-shift and a few other variations and more is expected in the future - each with its own specific settings.
how would be the best way to approach this? should I submit a patch for the ports makefile with
.if defined(WITH_AUTOPANOSIFT-C) RUN_DEPENDS+= autopanog:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/autopano-sift-c .endif
and what would be the optimal way to set different defaults for the different choices inside the above conditional expression? multiple patch-src_hugin1_hugin_config_defaults.h ? I don't think so but I'm not sure.
I've added Bruno Postle to this mail. My goal is to streamline the process of getting the latest Hugin and related tools into FreeBSD. We'll have more frequent releases in the foreseeable future and the more we can simplify and automate, the better.
thank you for your efforts.


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This Article From Issue
September-October 2014
Volume 102, Number 5
Page 329
In this roundup, associate editor Katie L. Burke summarizes notable recent developments in scientific research, selected from reports compiled in the free electronic newsletter Sigma Xi SmartBrief. Online: https://www.smartbrief.com/sigmaxi/index.jsp
Early Feathers Weren't for Flying
An exquisite fossil of the ancient bird Archaeopteryx lends weight to the theory that feathers evolved independent of flight. The fossil is the 11th of its kind ever found, and it preserves the animal's feathers in unique detail. New analysis of the specimen reveals that Archaeopteryx, long recognized as a transitional species between dinosaurs and birds, had feathers on its body and legs as well as its wings. The feathers on the creature's lower half clearly were not necessary for flight; they may have been used instead for display, note the authors.
Foth, C., H. Tischlinger, and O. W. M. Rauhut. New specimen of Archaeopteryx provides insights into the evolution of pennaceous feathers. Nature 511:79 (published online July 2)
Human Protein Catalog
A pair of studies in the journal Nature marked a major advance in cataloging the human proteome—the full list of proteins that can be assembled using the instructions in our DNA. The researchers identified proteins coded by 17,000 to 18,000 of the approximately 21,000 genes in the human genome, and made their map of the proteome freely available online. A master database of the proteome will assist the understanding of the inner workings of the body and the treatment of disease.
Kim, M.-S., et al. A draft map of the human proteome. Nature 509:575 (published online May 28)
Wilhelm, M., et al. Mass-spectrometry-based draft of the human proteome. Nature 509:582 (published online May 28)
Big Bang Breakthrough Disputed
Earlier this year the BICEP2 team reported that they had detected gravitational waves from the Big Bang, but now other cosmologists say the much-heralded claim may have been premature. The findings, if true, would provide the first direct observational evidence for cosmic inflation, a theory that posits that the universe expanded exponentially during the first fractions of a second of its existence. The BICEP2 evidence was based on the way that microwave radiation from the edge of the universe is polarized. New observations indicate that the team may have underestimated polarization from relatively nearby dust in our galaxy. Some or all of the signal originally attributed to primordial gravitational waves could be due to effects of local dust. However, these new maps do not include the area where BICEP2 collected their data. Such maps will be released in October, and should quickly settle the debate.
Mortonson, M. J., and U. Seljak. A joint analysis of Planck and BICEP2 B modes including dust polarization uncertainty. arXiv:1405.5857 (submitted on May 22)
Flauger, R., J. C. Hill, and D. N. Spergel. Toward an understanding of foreground emission in the BICEP2 region. arXiv:1405:7351 (submitted on May 28)
Ade, P. A. R., et al. Detection of B-mode polarization at degree angular scales by BICEP2. Physical Review Letters 112:241101 (June 19)
New "Natural" Stone of Plastic
Humans have unwittingly conspired with nature to create a new type of stone, made of conglomerates of melted plastic. The hybrid was discovered on Kamilo Beach, Hawaii. Researchers consider these balls of fused plastic to be a new type of stone because natural processes formed them, and are calling them plastiglomerates. In the far future, these plastic stones could be an important and distinctive fossil trace of this time period. Plastiglomerates may already be widespread, but no one thought to study them. The authors of the paper think that bonfires on the beach melt tiny particles of plastic garbage that are mixed in with the sand, causing them to fuse into this new stone.
Corcoran, P. L., C. J. Moore, and K. Jazvac. An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record. GSA Today 24:4 (June 9)
Heightened Extinction Rate
The current extinction rate of species on Earth is 1,000 times that of the background rate, according to a group led by Stuart Pimm of Duke University. Updating an assessment made in 1995, the scientists showed that the earlier measure had underestimated the current rate of extinction and overestimated the background rate. One apparent source of error is the number of undescribed species, which tend to be rare and threatened. They asserted that areas with the most species, which are often the focus for conservation, do not necessarily harbor the highest number of threatened species. The authors warn that as extinction rates are poised to increase even further, conservationists need strategically collected data to develop priorities. For example, they recommend increasing species assessments for the IUCN Red List.
Pimm, S. L., et al. The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection. Science doi:10.1126/science.1246752 (May 30)
Malarial Hosts Draw Mosquitoes
New research shows that the malarial parasite changes the body chemistry of infected hosts, to devious effect: The host gives off a scent that attracts mosquitoes during a stage when the parasite is especially infectious. Although it was known that hosts carrying the parasite attracted more mosquitoes, the mechanism was not understood. By analyzing chemicals emitted by mice that were either infected or not with Plasmodium chabaudii, entomologist Consuelo De Moraes and her collaborators identified four chemicals associated with the crucial stage at which the parasite needs to be transmitted from host to vector. The researchers note that the chemicals emitted by humans could be different than those in mice, but that further studies could lead to scent-based methods for diagnosing patients with malaria.
De Moraes, C. M., et al. Malaria-induced changes in host odors enhance mosquito attraction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. doi:10.1073/pnas.1405617111 (published online June 30)