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ACORN Shutting Down Tax Clinics, Vows to Continue Voter-Registration Efforts
By Carol D. Leonnig
ACORN, the community organizing group embarrassed recently in a video sting, announced Wednesday it will shut down it free tax preparation clinics while it undergoes a broad review of its operations.
The news came the same day the new head of the federal Census Bureau revealed why the bureau had dropped ACORN as an agency partner mid-month. He said the bureau's link to the community organization was hurting efforts to get Americans to participate in the count.
ACORN executive director Bertha Lewis told reporters in a conference call that she hopes ACORN can regroup after getting the results of an external investigation ACORN commissioned Tuesday.
"We want to be sure that before we start helping people with services that our operation is running well," she said. "It doesn't hurt us financially. It does hurt the poor people we have served for many years."
ACORN is reeling in the wake of the airing in the past two weeks of secretly taped videos that show ACORN housing counselors giving advice to two young conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute on how to conceal their criminal business. Congress voted last week to ban federal funding for ACORN, and the organization hired a former Massachusetts attorney general to investigate and recommend changes. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Wednesday asked the House Judiciary Committee to summon Lewis, former ACORN founder Wade Rathke, and other ACORN officers for a hearing on its activities.
Lewis said Wednesday that rumors of ACORN no longer registering low-income and minority voters -- the part of its mission for which ACORN is best known and most controversial -- are false.
"Our position is the government should be automatically registering every citizen who is qualified to vote," Lewis said. "But until that happens, until the day when disenfranchised people, historically, are [automatically registered], ACORN is going to make sure its members participate in the political process."
Lewis notified the Internal Revenue Service on Monday ACORN would shut down its free tax help clinics for low-income residents filling out their 2009 tax returns -- a partnership with the IRS -- until she could have an external review completed of ACORN work.
"As you know, ACORN has been the target of a sustained attack from conservative forces for a number of years," Lewis wrote. "Recent videos generated by conservative activists, including one from our tax clinic in Baltimore, MD, have raised questions about our service programs."
To read Carol Leonnig's exclusive interview with ACORN founder Wade Rathke, click here»
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Game #9: Tigers at Blue Jays
Detroit (5-3) at Toronto (5-3)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
Curtis Granderson, CF
Placido Polanco, 2B
Gary Sheffield, RF
Magglio Ordonez, DH
Carlos Guillen, SS
Sean Casey, 1B
Craig Monroe, LF
Mike Rabelo, C
Brandon Inge, 3B
PITCHING: LHP Mike Maroth
Alex Rios, RF
Matt Stairs, LF
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Troy Glaus, 3B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Gregg Zaun, C
Royce Clayton, SS
Jason Phillips, 1B
PITCHING: RHP Tomo Ohka
NOTES: LF Reed Johnson sat out with a sore back and wasn't available off the bench. … Boston had its game rained out Thursday, which means starter Daisuke Matsuzaka is now slated to pitch in Toronto on Tuesday. … RHP Brandon League is expected to be placed on the 15-day disabled list within the next few days by the Blue Jays.

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Highest-scoring bronze game ever sees Czechs top Russia, 7-4
BRATISLAVA – In one of the most entertaining bronze medal games of all time, the Czech Republic claimed third place with a 7-4 win over Russia this afternoon at Orange Arena. Roman Cervenka led the way with three goals and an assist in a game that featured all-out offence and wildly entertaining hockey. The eleven total goals was the most ever at World Championship and Olympic play.
Czech Republic-Russia 7-4 (2-3, 3-1, 2-0) Game Sheet Photos
Twice Russia had the lead but couldn't hold it during a second period in which the Czechs scored three times. Ilya Kovalchuk had two goals for the losers. Petr Prucha added two goals and an assist for the Czechs. Noticeably absent from the Russians' effort was Alexander Ovechkin, who made several giveaways and ended the tournament with zero points in five games.
"It's a medal," boasted Jakub Voracek. "After what we did in the first two rounds, we were expecting gold, like everybody else. But it feels a lot better than after the semi-finals, and I'm very happy to get this bronze."
"We made way too many mistakes," offered Russia's Fyodor Tyutin, "more mistakes than they did. We feel awful. It's not where we wanted to be."
It was a game that looked more like an all-star game than medal game. Goals aplenty, little defence, no trap coaching, goalies hung out to dry. That's old-time hockey! Both teams were in synch and were happy to offer the noisy and happy fans this pre-gold-medal treat of a game.
""This was a great group of guys," said Jaromir Jagr. "Last year, we showed that we can win even if we don't have our best players. This year, the NHL players came, too, and the team attitude was still there. Too bad we played against a Swedish team that just didn't make any mistakes."
In what might well have been the most entertaining period of bronze medal hockey in decades, the teams came out guns a-blazin' from the drop of the puck, clearly impressed by the sheen of bronze after being eliminated from gold-medal contention. They combined for five goals in the first 20 minutes, Russia getting three, all exciting plays off the rush. A packed Orange Arena with half the fans shouting, "Rossiya!" and the other, "Cesky!" only added to the atmosphere.
The first goal came at 3:33 on a strange play, to say the least. Cervenka was the puck carrier, and with him on the play was Tomas Plekanec. The only defenceman back was Vitali Atyushov, but Fyodor Tyutin was hustling back to help out. Cervenka made the pass, but Atyushov deftly got his stick on the puck. At the same moment, though, Tyutin dove back trying to intercept the same pass. His body carried the puck into the goal past a surprised Konstantin Barulin.
The middle part of the period featured three great goals in 57 seconds. The Russians tied the game on a long shot by Ilya Kovalchuk who fired the puck between the legs of defenceman Petr Caslava and just under the blocker of Ondrej Pavelec. The goal came after Jaromir Jagr created several outstanding chances for the Czechs before heading off on a line change, exhausted.
Just 15 seconds later, the Russians went ahead with an identical shot. This time it was Dmitri Kulikov, from the right, who fired it to the far side, just under Pavelec's blocker.
Not to be outdone, though, the Czechs scored the best goal of the five on a perfect, three-way passing play. Petr Prucha passed the puck to Jan Marek at his blueline and headed up ice. Marek fed it to Tomas Rolinek who moved it quickly back to Prucha, now in the slot. His high shot found the back of the net.
The Russians went ahead again at 18:53 when Kovalchuk snagged a loose puck in the slot and roofed a shot over a sprawling Pavelec.
If the first period was exciting, the second offered almost as many goals plus a bonus package of craziness and a bit of rough stuff. The Czechs tied the game at 2:11 off a giveaway at the Russian blueline, Prucha ripping a high shot past Barulin.
This was the first of three goals in a row for the Czechs that changed the game once and for all. The next goal came when Atyushov was caught flat-footed at the Czech blueline on a turnover in front of the goal. He raced back to get to the puck before Cervenka, diving and trying to swat the puck back to his goalie. It was a poor choice, and Cervenka walked in alone, the puck bouncing in after Barulin tried an unsuccessful pokecheck.
Finally, Plekanec wound up for a slapshot at the top of the circle, and while everyone watched him, Cervenka had hit stick on the ice off to the side and re-directed the hard pass.
Vladimir Tarasenko brought the Russians to within one on a rebound that went in out and so quickly it needed video review to confirm the goal. But the period also featured the first penalties of the game, two of which for roughing after Maxim Afinogenov tried to start a fight with Patrik Elias.
If that weren't enough, the game was delayed halfway through after Rachunek rode Yevgeni Artyukhin into the boards at the penalty bench. The glass exploded upon impact and had to be replaced, much to the delight of the fans who were seeing one great game.
The Czechs got a bit of insurance at 6:30 of the third period when Jan Marek snapped a hard shot from the slot off an odd-man rush that had been nicely broken up by Dmitri Kulikov.
Plekanec finished the scoring with an empty-net goal.
"I'm really happy," said Pavelec. "There was a lot of pressure because we won last year, and a lot of people doubted if I could play at this level. But we got a medal, and it's a great feeling."
"It wasn't an easy game," said Marek Zidlicky of the Czech Republic. "You know, we just lost one game in the tournament. It was a tough thing for us, but we are so happy that we got the bronze. It was just one bad game in the semi-final, but that's hockey. We're so happy right now."


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Welcome back to Adoption April! This post is going to touch on all the facts that I know about my birth parents and how I feel about them, and if I want to meet them and why.
I know my birth mom's name and my birth dad's name. There isn't much information on either of them that my parents collected from them but I am glad that I know their names. I also know their birthdays and I know that she was born in the Midwest.
People always ask me if I want to meet them both or my birth mom. I do! I would love to meet her, and I just haven't actively pursued it, but I am getting more and more interested in it. I am considering looking more into a private investigator and see what my options are. I know that is expensive though, so that would also take some time. Finding people isn't the easiest thing in the world. I would also completely understand if she or my birth father didn't want to meet me though, but I feel that it would be important at this time to get a family medical history report since so many diseases are genetic. I would hope that they would understand that and would be able to give me the family medical report. With that alone I think I would be happy as well.
I know I would be okay if they didn't want to meet me, because I still think about their situation. Sometimes I wonder what she looks like, and what he looks like, even if they are still together or still talk. I also wonder if I would have any other siblings through either of them. Isn't that weird to think about? I think that it would be cool to meet them, and see what their lives are like. I don't want anything from either of them at all, and if they weren't comfortable with meeting/talking/communication, I wouldn't force it upon them either. I couldn't even imagine the shock that they both must have had when I decided to enter the world. I know they didn't not want me, and I think it would be cool to meet them but I wouldn't feel rejected or crushed if they didn't want to meet me.
As of right now, I have no idea where they are, what their lives are like, what they look like, or anything of that matter, but it does interest me. Also if I were to communicate with them, I would understand both of their apprehension if there was some. What would you do if your daughter that you hadn't seen or heard from in 25 years all of a sudden reached out to you? It would blow my mind. I think there has to be a level of curiousness of both my and her mind though. Is that curiousness enough to pursue communication? I don't know. Time will tell.
I also realize that they will never replace my parents, and I would never even think that that would happen. I feel that if I was seeking them out because I felt abandoned or like I didn't fit in with my family, or if I felt unwanted, it would be a different issue, because then I realize that my feelings would be hurt if they didn't want to have anything to do with me.
I am glad they made the decision to give me up. I have lived such an amazing life with great people in my life and having them unknowingly give me that opportunity gives me the utmost respect for them.
If you have any questions for the next and and last Adoption April post, please feel free to email me at email@example.com. I have a few to answer next week. I hope you all have enjoyed Adoption April!
Here's a funny picture of me and my brother.
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text: Diversified penetrates airport market General News By SSN Staff Updated Fri March 1, 2002 SADDLEBROOK, N.J.-Systems integrator Diversified Security Solutions has further penetrated the airport market, with recently awarded contracts with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to provide security systems, upgrades, services and maintenance to three major airports in the metropolitan area. "These high-visibility contracts to install and service state-of-the-art electronic security systems at three of the nation's busiest airports provide a platform for Diversified Security Solutions to broaden its reach and make important inroads with other air terminal around the country," said James Henry, chairman and chief executive officer of Diversified. "DVS and its Henry Bros. subsidiary, with nearly 50 years of experience, are well positioned to meet the demand for integrating new security systems, as well as upgrading existing systems, at other airports around the nation." Orders from the Port Authority of New York call for installing and integrating CCTV, access control and alarms. "These orders contributed to our backlog of signed contracts, which stood at $12 million at Dec. 31, 2001, and is expected to contribute to the company's revenue during the next 12 months," said Henry.


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ATLANTA — LaMarcus Aldridge had 25 points and 16 rebounds in his return from a back injury, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Atlanta Hawks 100-85 on Thursday night to end a three-game losing streak.
Damian Lillard added 21 points for the Trail Blazers, who had lost seven of 10 and were in danger of falling out of the fifth spot in the Western Conference playoff standings.
The Hawks have lost five straight. They lead the Knicks by only 1 ½ games in the race for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Jeff Teague, who was scoreless in Wednesday night's loss at Minnesota, led the Hawks with 22 points. Lou Williams had 16 points, including 13 in the final period when Atlanta closed the deficit to six points.
Atlanta's Kyle Korver missed his fifth straight game because of back spasms and center Pero Antic sat out after he twisted his right ankle in Wednesday night's loss at Minnesota.
After a couple misses, Aldridge quickly found his shot in his return after missing seven games with a lower back contusion.
The Trail Blazers led 53-37 at halftime. The Hawks narrowly avoided their season low for points in the opening half.
Atlanta opened the second half with a 15-5 run, capped by DeMarre Carroll's 3-pointer, to trim the lead to 58-52.
Williams had eight points in Atlanta's 10-0 run that again cut Portland's lead to six points at 80-74. A three-point play by Aldridge pushed the lead back to double digits at 87-76.
Korver, the 3-point specialist, has not played since March 18, when the Hawks beat Toronto for their fifth straight win. The Hawks have not won since losing Korver.
Portland closed each of the first three periods with 3-pointers — by Mo Williams, Wesley Matthews and Lillard. Officials needed a review to confirm there was time remaining in the first half when Matthews launched his long 3.
NOTES: The Trail Blazers, who beat Atlanta 102-78 in Portland on March 5, won their first season series over the Hawks since the 2007-08 season. ... Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson attended the game. ... Elton Brand had 11 points and 12 rebounds as the fill-in starter for Antic... The Hawks' season low for first-half points was 34 against San Antonio on Jan. 24.


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To the Venerable Hierarchs, Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America
Dearly Beloved in the Lord:
On Monday, March 10, Orthodox Christians around the world enter the season of Great Lent and embark on the annual journey to Holy Pascha. Far from being a time of spiritual gloom or self- deprivation for its own sake, Great Lent offers us a welcomed respite from the hectic pace of life "in the world," a blessed oasis at which we partake of the One Who, as "living water," cleanses us from the dark stain of sin and fills us with "the life of the world to come." And while there are indeed those who see the lenten discipline of prayer and fasting, of almsgiving and repentance, as burdens or who reduce Great Lent to a series of rules and regulations, nothing could be further from reality. As we sing at Matins on the first day of Great Lent, "Let us joyfully begin the all-holy season of abstinence! Let us shine with the bright radiance of the holy commandments of Christ our God, with the brightness of love and the splendor of prayer, with the purity of holiness and the strength of good courage! So, clothed in a garment of light, let us hasten to the Holy Resurrection on the third day, that shines upon the world with the glory of eternal life!"
Repentance-that interior transformation of mind and heart, of vision and direction-stands at the very center of our lenten journey. We, like the prodigal son, stand at the doors of repentance, seeking forgiveness from our heavenly Father, Who unconditionally accepts us in our desire to be reconciled with Him and with those against whom we have sinned. It is our heavenly Father Who sent His only-begotten Son into this world to call us to repentance and to raise us from darkness into the never-ending brightness of His Kingdom. He makes it possible for us to delight in freedom from those passions which, while well within our control, all too often take control of us. In fasting we regain control not only of that which goes into our mouths, but, more importantly, that which proceeds from it. "As we fast from food," we sing during Forgiveness Vespers, "let us abstain also from every passion."
Emptying ourselves of such preoccupations, we find the freedom to discover the very image of Christ in others, in "the least of the brethren" and even in our enemies, and to respond to them as we would respond to the Lord Himself. We offer our time, our talents, and our treasures-our very being-to those whose lives are filled with burdens far greater than our own. By giving alms, we reveal "the brightness of love" to those who hunger and thirst for a sign of hope while soberly acknowledging that, at any moment, their plight could very well become our own. We seal all that we do during this blessed time with "the splendor of prayer," rejoicing in the knowledge that God indeed answers us as He sees fit and equips us with all that we need to continue our journey to Pascha-and beyond.
"Rejoicing in the virtues of the Spirit, may we persevere with love," wesing on the eve of Great Lent, "and so be counted worthy to see the solemnPassion of Christ our God, and with great spiritual joy to behold His holy Pascha!" Whatcomfort we receive in being afforded yet another opportunity to discover thatthrough prayer and fasting, through almsgiving and repentance and the pursuitof virtue, we might delight in "the Light Which is never overcome by darkness." Ratherthan imposing burdens upon us, Great Lent frees us from those things which weighus down, physically as well as spiritually. It challenges us to empty ourselvesof all that would cast a shadow on accepting Christ's invitation to become "lightsof the world." And it brings us, here and now, into the very brightnessof that Kingdom which, while yet to be fulfilled, is already revealed to thosewilling to see it.
As we journey together to the glorious Resurrection of Christ, may we not lose sight of the joy that comes from repentance. Together, let us sing, "Cleanse me in the waters of repentance, and through prayer and fasting make me shine with light!" Having been freed from "the works of darkness," let us "put on the armor of light," so that together we might share in that eternal victory which brings us from darkness to light, from earth to heaven, and ultimately, from death to life!
As we enter into the grace-filled days of Great Lent, I ask your forgiveness. May the blessings of these days and weeks of prayer and repentance bring us all to know the fullness of joy in the Risen Lord.
With love in Christ,
Archbishop of Washington
Metropolitan of All America and Canada


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I met Ryan Paul at UDS last may and I must say I was star struck (I am star struck most of the time at UDS anyhow). As a badass editor at arstechnica and the man who started gwibber I thought it would be nice to interview for OMG! Ubuntu!
So hey dude, introduce yourself to our readers please and tell us about your story with Open Source?
I'm the Linux and open source editor at Ars Technica and the lead developer of the Gwibber project.
I had my earliest experience with open source software when I developed a MUD (multiuser text-based roleplaying game, based loosely on Dungeons and Dragons) in high school. I used the open source SMAUG code base and published several of my patches. SMAUG is the name of a popular MUD code base, derived from Merc.
So by day you're a journalist and by night you are a hacker? How do you find time for both?
Yes, it's difficult to find time. I have to rely on other contributors to do a lot of the basic upkeep like bug triaging. Members of the Ubuntu community have been very helpful with those kinds of tasks, which means that I can devote what little hacking time I have to making major changes and improvements to the code.
Can you tell me how your Gwibber story started? What was your inspiration?
It started like every other small tool that I develop for my own personal use. As it evolved, I started using it as a testbed for experimenting with new frameworks and development tools that I wanted to write about in articles. When Jorge Castro talked me into trying out Launchpad, I decided to migrate the Gwibber code to the site. That was the point at which Gwibber really took off and became popular.
The number of users grew considerably and I started getting patches from contributors. I realized that managing a real-world open source project could be a useful way to gain insight into the development process, so I decided to continue moving forward with the project.
I think that a lot of Gwibber's early success is attributable to Jorge. He got people excited about the project and helped me get past my initial anxiety about being the maintainer of a serious public open source project.
Talking of Ubuntu it must be pretty awesome to see the app at the "crux" of Ubuntu's 'Social from the start' initiative. How has this impacted on the direction of Gwibber?
Ubuntu's Social from the Start initiative has driven a lot of the decisions that have been made over the past year about Gwibber's architecture. In particular, our decision to separate the underlying service from the frontend was driven entirely by Ubuntu's requirements.
There's no doubt that Gwibber set the pace and the standard for social clients on the Linux desktop but, of late, the app has a bit of a reputation as a slow, resource-chomping beast that many users – despite the Ubuntu integration – don't use. Do you think that image is fair? Is making a leaner Gwibber something that is a priority?
The perception that Gwibber is slow and excessively resource-intensive is absolutely fair, but it's something that I've been working to improve. I don't think that it has cost us many users, however. The statistics that we get from some of the social networking services show that our audience has grown steadily. Although some of the alternatives to Gwibber are much lighter, none offer equivalent functionality yet. My goal with Gwibber has always been to test new technologies and new components of the desktop stack, but sometimes I adopt new technologies prematurely.
Gwibber's reliance on DesktopCouch has had a deeply negative impact on performance, reliability, and portability across distros. We have switched to SQLite in Gwibber 3, which significantly improves the program's performance and responsiveness. In the future, we are going to be more cautious about adopting unproven technologies.
I think that our new version will help improve Gwibber's reputation, but there is still more work to do. I think that the WebKit renderer is still too memory-intensive and the use of Python for the frontend makes the program slow to start. We hope to fix those issues in the future, with a major redesign of the Gwibber frontend.
I'm sure some OMG! readers have already seen the excellent mock-ups by Neil Patel of his proposal for a next-generation Gwibber interface.
When we implement those mockups, we are going to be using native widgets, which will hopefully help improve our performance considerably.
Additionally to Neil's mock-ups we have seen lots of super-slick mock-ups and interface designs for Gwibber recently. Are any of these going to be adopted or used as a basis for the next 'phase' of Gwibber?
We welcome design feedback from the community, but we are going to be relying mostly on the work of experts like Neil and other members of Canonical's design team.
It's not easy to create a good design that can be implemented within the constraints of the Gtk+ toolkit. Neil has a tremendous amount of expertise in creating exceptional user experiences with Gtk+, which means that he is uniquely qualified to help us formulate a vision that is both compelling and achievable.
As far as I can tell, Gwibber is 100% Python, what challenges has this led to with distributing packages for the various distros?
Python hasn't posed any deployment challenges on Linux. In fact, Python is extremely well-supported by all of the major distributions. The biggest problem we have with Python is that some bindings (like WebKitGtk, for example) aren't maintained as well as we would like. There are some WebKitGtk APIs that we simply can't use yet because they aren't exposed through the unmaintained Python bindings. PyGI (the new Python binding system based on GObject introspection) is fantastic and will help to solve a lot of problems like that in the near future. We are hoping to use PyGI in the next version.
With the talks at GUADEC about integrating web services into GNOME, and KDE 4.4 introducing the "social desktop" functionality, where does Gwibber fit?
There isn't anything upstream yet that does what Gwibber can do. One project that has some interesting potential is libsocialweb, but it currently only supports about 5 percent of Gwibber's total functionality and has some serious architectural limitations that are untenable for us, like only allowing one account per service.
The libsocialweb developer has expressed some interest in accommodating Gwibber's requirements, but it's still a long way from being able to do what we need. If some framework materializes in upstream GNOME that is on a trajectory to be suitable for Gwibber, I'll be very happy to contribute to it and rearchitect Gwibber to make use of it rather than Gwibber's own backend daemon.
Because Gwibber's frontend and backend are independent, it would not be difficult for me to totally replace the backend with an alternative if something substantially better comes along. Maintaining the backend and keeping up with changes to the APIs requires a huge amount of effort, so I think it's good to move that kind of work upstream to the greatest extent possible so that the burden is shared between client implementers.
KDE's Social Desktop initiative has no overlap at all with Gwibber. It's designed to enable desktop integration of open source community Web sites, not mainstream services like Facebook and Twitter. I have experimentally added support for the KDE Social Desktop protocol (which is called Open Collaboration Services) in Gwibber, which made it possible to do interesting things like search GNOME-Look.org directly from the Gwibber client:
As a developer of desktop applications, how do you feel about the spread of services like OAuth and openID which require you to integrate to some extent with the browser to properly authenticate
OAuth is absolutely vile. It is a very poorly-designed standard that has a number of serious technical limitations. It is fundamentally impractical for use in desktop and mobile applications. Some social networks like Facebook and Google Buzz have extended OAuth with non-standard extensions in order to make it usable on the desktop, but some social networks are doing it very wrong. Twitter, for example, requires applications to embed an OAuth secret key. This is problematic, because there is no way to guarantee the secrecy of a key once it is included in software that is distributed to end users. When the key is compromised, Twitter will invalidate it and lock out the application.
This is going to pose very serious challenges for open source Twitter clients, because we have no way to even obscure our keys. Twitter promised to deliver a special authentication mechanism for open source client applications, but was not able to get it ready for widespread use in time for their transition away from basic authentication. Twitter's decision to turn off basic authentication without first addressing this issue is very bad for Linux users. There is an extremely serious risk that open source Twitter clients will be remotely disabled by Twitter. All we can do is embed the keys in our applications and hope that Twitter doesn't notice.
OK that is depressing! Do you mind some fun hot or not questions?
You can try asking, but I can't promise that I'll answer all of them. :-)
Fair enough, so hot or not?
Windows XP
Ryan: Not!
Windows 7
Ryan: Warm
Steve Ballmer
Ryan: Totally Insane
Me: I like his haircut
Seif Lotfy
Me: (SOME THREATS)
Ryan: The genius Zeitgeist developer? Totally hot!
Me: More like sexy fluffy
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Ryan: Obnoxious.
Me: How do you like the fact that I placed myself between Steve and Steve?
Ryan: LOL!
Me: Its because we share the same haircut ;)
Mark Shuttleworth
Ryan: I think that Mark means well and is genuinely interested in elevating the Linux user experience.
Me: So hot or not?
Ryan: Hot!
Me: Bathing suit hot?
Ryan: not answering that.
Ryan: Hot!
GNOME Shell
Ryan: I'm going to withhold judgment of GNOME Shell until it's more mature.
Seif: Good idea. I can't get in trouble for talking smack. You can =P
Ryan: Hot!
Seif: I took off my shirt just thinking of it.
Ryan: Hot!
Seif: You bet your ass it is… see and this time i did not have to threaten you!
Ryan: Hot!
Seif: My personal favorite desktop service.
OMG! Ubuntu!
Ryan: Hot!
And last but not least I think you are hot.
Ryan: LOL What?
Seif: Nothing…
So anything else you would like to users to know about?
We have some great features coming in Gwibber 3, including support for Google Buzz, Twitter lists, Ping.fm, inline images, and direct messages. It will be out with Ubuntu 10.10.


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I suppose I should be embarrassed that I actually took up this position in a conversation.
27.05.11 06:50 I'm starting to think that young kids on the Internet are all idiots.
27.05.11 06:58 I have suspected for a long time that everyone on the Internet is an idiot.
27.05.11 06:58 The Internet is like cars and TVs.
27.05.11 06:59 Only idiots on it?
27.05.11 06:59 They have to be reduced to the most inane terms to make them usable by everyone — especially the absolute moron — so that companies can make money.
27.05.11 06:59 So cars are just boxes with wheels, that we turn and go places.
27.05.11 06:59 TVs are just boxes with buttons that show pictures.
27.05.11 06:59 Internet is similar.
27.05.11 07:00 The less complicated, the more people use it, the better a chance to make money.
27.05.11 07:00 And at the same time, the collective census of people using it has an average intelligence level that is slowly floating downward.
27.05.11 07:01 Software is doing the same thing.
27.05.11 07:01 You really should write a book.
27.05.11 07:03 Or start a blog.
There's really no way to defend that without coming across like an elitist prig. Social grace demands that I withhold some ugly concepts in order to be polite.
I could tell you that all of humanity rolls across a bell curve for computer aptitude, and people near the left-hand tail should probably stick with pens and paper.
But that would imply that some people simply don't have a practical ability level, and that would sound mean-spirited, and therefore taboo.
I could insist that pushing Linux to embrace more of the central arc of that bell curve means that another resulting curve — the average ability level of Linux users — likewise shifts downward.
But that would imply that pulling in day-to-day users results in less impressive statistics, or that the regular user is getting stupider.
That would likewise be ugly and therefore can't be repeated.
So I will mention none of those things, and refrain from suggesting that crafting Linux to appeal to less adept computer users is resulting in a mass stupidification of the user base.
I admit I had suggested some similar points, but it was an extract from a conversation on many different topics at once. And I feel slightly guilty now, just as a sign of penitence.
After that, if you inferred anything else, you're on your own. 👿


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Loved having the dog walk in the warm up area last year. Will that be the case this year as well?
Quote from: Lorrie Stelz on June 01, 2017, 05:20:18 PMLoved having the dog walk in the warm up area last year. Will that be the case this year as well?We still have to make a final decision on that one. There has been a lot of emails sent to me both for it, and against it. So we'll see
Yep, what Marcy and Maureen said. Both of my dogs were distracted (not much, but definitely noticeable) by dogs on the dogwalk.I love an opportunity to "warm up" - but warming up on the dogwalk just seems like reof distraction.medial training to me. JMHO.diane[/quoteI have to agree with Diane on the DW thing. I know this is not an ordinary trial, but to my knowledge, dogs had have never an opportunity to warm up on any contact equipment. How would anyone train for that type of distraction?Linda
Also not to really beat on this anymore...but for 15+ years we had two ring trials running at the same time. Sometimes 3 and 4 rings.It was never an issue back then, and that was at a regular weekend trial where the caliber of your averagr dog was much lower than what's expected at champs.Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Colorado Guts Out Comeback Win Over Illinois
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Leading scorer or not, it's always smart to listen to your teammates.
Thanks to a little coaxing by her fellow Buffaloes, freshman forward Arielle Roberson capped off a career-high 25-point performance with a clutch 3-pointer as Colorado rallied for a 69-62 win over Illinois Saturday afternoon at Assembly Hall.
Clinging to a 3-point lead (63-60) with under 40 seconds left sophomore forward Jen Reese had the ball in the paint and kicked it out to the left wing. Roberson held the ball, waiting for the Illinois defense to come to her.
"I was running time off the clock, and I didn't realize how close the shot clock was to running out," Roberson said. "My teammates told me to shoot it,"
And so she did. With the Illini defense leaving her alone on the wing as the shot clock ran down under five ticks, Roberson stepped back and drilled a 3-pointer on the baseline, the lone trey for the Buffaloes in the game, putting the exclamation point on a late 9-0 run and Colorado's 19th straight nonconference regular season win.
Colorado's leading scorer through six games (18.5 ppg), Roberson provided the late heroics, but it was a steady all-involved game for the Buffaloes (6-0) who also received career-best scoring performances from Reese (15) and sophomore Jasmine Sborov (11).
"No one gave up in this game," Reese said. "It's big to go and win on the road. With our team...we have the heart of champions."
Senior guard Chucky Jeffery filled the box score nicely with seven points, three steals and game-high figures with eight rebounds and six assists.
"She's letting the game come to her," said head coach Linda Lappe on Jeffery's performance. "She understands the flow of the game and what our team needs. She's doing a nice job of leading from the point guard position."
The Buffaloes led for most of the first half , but scored just one Roberson free throw in the final 3:50 of the period which allowed the Illini to finish on a 10-1 run and take a 36-30 lead at the break.
But the Buffaloes quickly erased that deficit, as a Brittany Wilson conventional 3-point play sparked a 10-2 run that tied the game at 40 with 14:32 left. From there, Colorado played toe-to-toe with the Illini in a contest that saw 14 lead changes in the second half alone.
"We were resilient," Lappe said. "The game could have gone either way at a lot of different times. (Our juniors and seniors) have been in those scenarios. We just stuck with it and didn't let little things affect us. We kept believing we were going to win and I liked how we pulled it out."
"Even though are shots weren't going down, we defended on the other end and that's what helped us win the game," Reese added.
Illinois reclaimed a 60-57 advantage with 3:00 remaining after All-Big Ten forward Karisma Penn hit a jumper in the lane. Roberson responded on the other end to cut the lead to one. On the next possession, Illinois turned the ball over and Reese gave CU a one-point lead. Jeffery then picked the pocket of Ivory Crawford and went coast-to-coast to put the Buffs up 63-60 with 1:26 left. Another defensive stop set up Roberson's 3-pointer.
It was a good afternoon from Colorado's post players once again. Roberson was 7-of-8 from the field, Reese was 7-of-14 and junior Rachel Hargis hit both her field goal attempts. That effort made up for the Buffaloes making just one of 11 3-point attempts.
"We could have let the fact that we couldn't make an outside shot affect the game," Lappe said. "We took what the defense gave us. Our guards hit our posts in great positions and our posts did a fantastic job of finishing and also getting to the free throw line."
Colorado took advantage of Illinois foul trouble. Penn, who entered the game averaging 20 points and 10 rebounds, picked up her fourth foul early in the second half and was limited to 11 points and four boards. Forward Kersten Magrum sat out a large chuck of the second half as well, eventually fouling out with 7:31 still on the clock.
Alexis Smith led Illinois with 17 points, but also had eight of her team's 27 turnovers.
Colorado returns home to host Colorado State on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 5:50 p.m., at the Coors Events Center. Wednesday is a doubleheader as the CU men also host the Rams at 8:30 p.m.


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By Aaliyah Humphrey
The success of Professor Grant's Improv show last week, prompted the Troupers for their first annual show tomorrow night.
This time, the show will not only consist of students who performed already, but students who didn't get a chance to participate.
"It is going to be a very relaxed show. I wanted to have the show this Friday because I wanted to do something fun before spring break." Vice President, Jenny Sellitto said.
Although the show will not be in a team setup like last Thursday, new games will be included in edition to the regular ones.
Even though the Troupers usually have one play a semester along with the show One Acts, Sellitto wanted more performance opportunities. The Improv show was just one of them.
Sellitto sees the show as a fun learning experience that teaches students the basic communication skills for the future.
"It is also a great team building exercise because you really have to trust the people you are on stage with." Sellitto said.
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|2012-11-24, 17:54
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Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 40
Ok. After a near two months of waiting I got the chance to watch the penultimate episode, and, in spite of the backlash that the last episode received, I have to say it was more or less good.
In summary, Truth forced itself to shot the Quartz gun, because he craved more than anything else to stop existing in Ao's universe; he wanted to go into our world in our historical timeline when and where: the Atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened, the Cold War between USA and the (former) USSR happened, and Okinawa continues to be a prefecture of Japan.
Ao's reaction became priceless right as the new world came to him flashing before his eyes in a wink.
In the new revised history, the smaller alterations were: Truth was erased from that world's timeline, military personnel stole the IFO relic that Christophe succeeded to capture inside Gen Bleu HQs and teamed with Naru to protect the Scub Coral, the mainstream knowledge is that people accepted or are accepting that the Scub Coral is the villain, and Secrets negotiated with the Allied Forces not to sent any more Secrets now all current threats have either been terminated or tamed in the new world.
For a last pleasant treat, Renton traveled into Ao's time, and he got to reunite with Eureka for a brief while understanding the price of the sacrifice she had to do in their time.
I can finally get to see a proper meeting with both the son and his estranged father in the next episode.
|2012-11-24, 20:12
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Even if the ending eps managed to cover more than I expected, thinking about it I'm actually a bit surprised we never got complete confirmation that that was what was happening with the Third Engine since it seems quite implied and the most fitting for E7.
Avoiding the main characters since there's plenty of discussion about them, some of many positive random thoughts, my god the soundtrack was simply stunning (track after track of awesome and fitting music, and the action tracks are simply amazing, and I think most E7 fans will love the music of the show), the fantastic visuals definitely delivered, Ivica was an awesome adult character and probably my favorite of the support cast, Rebecca needed more time as I was really getting to like her, Georg the AI was great and the reactions to him were often beautifully hilarious, Noah for a mascot character was incredibly entertaining and often times amusingly useful in a role that more often than not is easy to make annoying and Gazelle and his crew were always fun to watch so I really think if they had been able to further develop the secondary leads to their full potential (Naru, Fleur, Elena, a better Truth/a second real antagonist) they really had something good going that needed more time and/or tweaking. Naru, being the most confusing to me, as I obviously expected her to be more of a "hero" character for obvious reasons, going in a completely different direction and not joining Gen Bleu with Ao, and instead they made her sadly inconsistent, like even they couldn't decide, and not as integral to the overall story as I'd expected and while I still quite liked her at times when she did something good they didn't nail the direction they took her in nearly well enough to justify the direction they took her in regardless of any production reason (writing decisions/flaws, mixed opinions of the staff which way they should take her, ep count, screentime they could afford, whatever). The others like Fleur and Elena I think just needed more time.
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Looks like BONES is planning on turning E7 into a whole franchise now. Dunno how much traction it'll have, but they asked us what we want to do next on facebook: A E7AO II, A E7AO Movie, or another E7 series altogether. Can you guess what I voted for?
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What is Apple?
Join Date: Jul 2008
As lackluster as this series was when you come off waiting for almost eternity after the original series, I forgave them due to the incredibly near indescribable epic-ness that was the Seven Swell remix in the last episode. (And being a romantic, minus the circumstances, when Renton and Eureka finally got reunited...I was happy.)
|2012-12-01, 18:03
|Link #2809
A certain collie of rain.
Join Date: Jul 2012
Could it be that just the waiting experience between each episode during the original run affected our way of looking at the series somehow? I just watched the whole 24 episodes again with a friend (which is the first run for him) and my opinions have completely changed. That friend likes this sequel a lot, to begin with, but the point is that maybe watching it without having to wait a week between two episodes is a completely different experience?
|2012-12-01, 18:26
|Link #2810
Join Date: Jul 2012
|2012-12-01, 18:40
|Link #2811
Marauder Shields
Join Date: Sep 2012
Even if i could force myself to watch this nonsese again, an absurd story and flat characters will still be absurd and flat.
Just because is decide to eat something horrible in one go instead on doing that piece by piece like how i did in the first time, it still wont change the horrible taste of it. Crap will still be crap.
|2012-12-01, 23:51
|Link #2812
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 40
As of today, I concluded E7:AO; the last episode with the most infamous ending for so many of the fans out there.
My opinion is that both the development for this episode and the ending itself are not that of an absurd rubbish, as most of the fandom have been posting about.
However, I do agree about one thing that completely left me confused. After Renton explains the true nature and history of the Scub Coral moving from different universes through space and time, in order to avoid the Secrets so as to thrive and prosper, then the whole point of both Renton and Eureka to protect the Scub Corals in the first series either makes no sense or is totally debunked.
It did make sense though that in a distant future with an exceedingly high of both concentration and density of Trapar in Earth's atmosphere, then both of Eureka and Renton's first child ended up dying since the child's configuration of her hybrid cells couldn't take that environment.
At the end of the episode, Ao shoots the Quartz Gun for a final time and supposedly corrects all the Quartz from the timelines with the side-effect of him getting trapped between the streams of time-space flow for a certain amount of time, but, fortunately, ending up in another universe with a time-skip forward difference of two years.
In this latest universe's but new Earth that Ao returned to I presumed that there's scarcely any to no trapaar exists, since again I presumed that in that last universe's Earth no Scub Coral arrival ever happened.
The thing is that finding himself in an environment with even less or virtually no trapaar wouldn't affect Ao's health in some way, though I don't necessarily mean either positive or negatively?
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Last Thoughts.
I have to say to me this sequel performed itself quite solidly, though the concepts that BONES introduced for this show in order to expand upon the Scub Coral clearly messed up with the first series' developments and established facts about the Scub itself.
Nonetheless, I'm a fan more inclined to ship and root for both Ao and Fleur, since both at first didn't see coming the larger picture from both of thier fathers' actions: Cristophe for Fleur and Renton for Ao. But their friendship on screen whether fighting or confiding between each other in private at a personal level was handled in the most natural manner that made me possible to be immersed in their thoughts.
The soundtrack as well for this show deserves kudos to carry and convey each of the characters' changes of mood whether they found their families, related with each other, or facing peril against the Secrets or the Scubs.
Sixth title I concluded for the past spring 2012 season.
|2012-12-04, 04:51
|Link #2813
Awakened One
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Italy
Humans were perfectly capable of living on E7 Earth. Coralians shouldn't have problems with the Trapar that they themselves produce. So how is it logical that the Trapar waves are deadly for a half-human half-coralian child?
It was the whole point of the debate between Ao and Renton, wasn't it? That erasing all of the Scub bursts was wrong because the modified timeline has the right to exist.
What doesn't make sense is that Ao himself still exists on that Earth. I can only conclude that being in the Neo-Nirvash, he was removed from the flow of time.
|2012-12-04, 12:54
|Link #2814
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: USA
Age: 31
I'll be waiting to see how a new series turns out before watching AO at all. I was afraid of these types of things happening, and since Dai Satou said he was done with their story, perhaps I could be as well. I'll see how things turn out, but for now AO doesn't matter to me.
|2012-12-05, 14:45
|Link #2815
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
Basically Eureka Seven was in my backlog for a long time, Someone recommended it but I basically knew nothing about it, not even the main characters. In the end I've watched everything without ever being influenced by any external opinions.
So I had absolutely no idea that there were people raging about AO, I just learned it yesterday.
I guess I didn't quite care about the many shortcomings of AO, because I didn't think the original series was that great either. It suffers from basically all the symptoms of the syndrome that affects anime with more than 26 episodes.
To keep the interest alive authors either create situations that get dragged for months without resolutions, or put you through a roller coaster where resolutions and drama alternate constantly, making you think "but weren't we through that already?"
The relationship between Renton and Eureka is a mix of both.
Eureka then was an incredibly inconsistent character. It may be that it's part of the plot since she is supposed to "change", but it was jarring nonetheless. She was a cold killer machine at first, then a strong willed Rei (I'll do everything that Holland tells me), then she goes in depression mode, then she turns deredere but she doesn't want to kill anyone anymore.
Being used to all of that, I wasn't really fazed by a yet completely different Eureka in AO.
But the worst part of Eureka seven were the last episodes, so many bad conceived twists and ass pulls, really rubbed me the wrong way. Holland somehow acquires a completely robotic... robot, suddenly without any previous mention. They throw in an ad-hoc justification as to why they were never used before (it's bad for your health!). Holland seems to be on verge on death at one point, but two days later he is perfectly all right, okay.
Anemone change of heart was also way too sudden to my liking. Dominic believes he can stop her even if he's always been treated like shit by her until that point. But well, Anemone conveniently realizes she loves him by herself right at the most crucial moment. They are suddenly a happy couple ready for marriage.
Then you get Dewey who somehow managed to fuse with a compac drive, even if he isn't a monk or anything and even if hundreds failed and died. How did he manage that? When did he do that? How come simply with that he can become a human switch to trigger armaggedon? How does that even work? And why did Bear know?
Additionally the setting of the story to me wasn't even anything particularly original. Being a long time fan of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, I had so many deja-vu that it isn't even funny. I don't know if the authors of Eureka Seven took inspiration from that, if they both have a common source that I don't know of, or if it's just a coincedence. The point is that if you replace scub corals with fungi it's basically the same thing.
Considering all the above you should forgive me if I wasn't surprised to see certain flaws in AO. There's no clear explanation as to why the sons of Eureka and Renton die when exposed to high concentration of trapars? As if that was the biggest of my problems. I didn't even care about such things anymore when I reached that part.
But there's one thing that I agree with everyone else. The characters in AO are very weak, especially Fleur and Elena, who are supposed to be pretty important. If there's one thing that the original series had, were very interesting and powerful characters, and that is why in spite of everything that I said, I can say that I have in fact enjoyed Eureka Seven. I wish the story was a little more solid, but in the end it was an enjoyable show and I'm not really regretting to have watched it.
AO seems to be made by completely different persons (and maybe it actually was, I haven't checked) so it has a completely different feel to it. Basically everything that was peculiar and "original" in the previous series is missing in its successor. The strange alien world, the surfer and rave culture, the "family" dynamics in the gekkou. All that is gone.
AO still has some advantages, such as the fact it didn't give me the feeling that things were dragged too much for the sake of it. The political dynamics were also somehow better structured than in its predecessor, but that's because they are based on a real world, so they didn't need to came up with entirely new situations.
In the end I consider AO a mediocre anime. It isn't particularly exceptional but it isn't something horrible either. It's on the norm, and I've definitely seen much worse. However I think it would have been better if it was a spiritual successor and not a sequel as I thought it was since the beginning.
The two stories do not mash up well together, and not just because of certain canonical inconsistencies, but mainly because they have two completely different atmospheres.
Last edited by Jan-Poo; 2012-12-05 at 23:08.
|2012-12-07, 13:00
|Link #2816
Hardcore meets Casual
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Age: 32
|2012-12-08, 01:22
|Link #2818
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Los Angeles, California
Age: 36
Dude, its obvious, the whole death of the sister due to trappar bullshit was just an asspull because they couldn't think of a decent motivation for Renton and the plot. . .it's obvious that the writers who thought of it did not watch the first show in its entirety or if they did they didn't really remember much of it. Since it was an obvious money grab milking a successful anime franchise. Never mind that the asspull TOTALLY demolishes the "love conquers all" theme that was present with Renton and Eureka during the WHOLE damn first anime . . I just ...whatever, this shit shouldn't have been made. There was space for a sequel and for conflict based on the end of the first series, AND they could have brought ALL of the characters back (who didn't die)AND they could have brought Gonzy back too...I'm referring to the whole line where the scubs say that they will eventually have to return or something like that. That's HUGE! There was no reason to throw out the whole first series for a money grab.
All of that and more that I didnt mention FAR surpasses the problems that the show had, by far.
AO on the other hand. . .its like they did everything wrong, the fucked up wanna be social commentary that was totally insulting, the disjointed feeling of the story and show not knowing what it really wants to be, and the fact that we really didn't spend much time with the charaters, and when we did the writers would change them nearly at every episode *coughNARUthechildhoodfriendgirlfriendenemyntrbait ingfakeelfnowfriendsagainwiththemcbutthenbetraysth emcagainonlytobeFINALLYbussedattheend*cough*
"conveniently" Bussing team goldilocks because the writters realized that they really didnt have enough time to develop them
Truth (no comment needed there, he was just 100% bad)
I could go on and on and on, and I'm not even talking about the super asspulls of the plot!
If these show was named something else, It would go the way of "K" which would be no one caring about it to even talk about it. . .or summed up in one word "meh" but since this show is pretty much riding off the coatails of its successor, It's got big shoes to fill, and when it turns out to not even be a mediocre show, (seriously its like one level above guilty crown ffs)it becomes obvious that they didn't care enough and just wanted to milk a cash cow. . .and that is a disservice.
I REALLY hope they dont do a sequel of steins gate. . . I can't trust the industry to make any good sequels after FAM and AO
Last edited by CJ_Walker; 2012-12-08 at 01:42.
|2012-12-08, 03:33
|Link #2819
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
Basically that's more or less the same relation that exists between E7 and AO.
|2012-12-08, 10:19
|Link #2820
You stole my pen
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
Age: 29
|harem, mecha, military, romance, science fiction, shounen
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