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I just wanted to thank everyone who has been praying for our sweet girl. She has done really well with the Keppra, and we have not seen any seizure activity since starting it. PRAISE GOD!
A lot has been happening in her little world, it seems, so I thought I would just give a quick update on some of the things she has been up to lately...
- She has been walking around with her hands behind her back. I don't know where she got that, but it is pretty funny!
- She had an Easter Egg hunt at school today, and the teachers said she had a blast! They said she wanted an egg in each hand at all times!
- She has several boyfriends at school, and I am told they all like to watch out for her and make sure she stays in line! You tell her, guys! HA!
- Her teachers call her Ava-licious. Which I find hysterical!
- One of her teachers refers to her as "my baby" which of course makes me just so happy!
- One of her classmate's mom just LOVES Ava. I think she would take her home if I let her!
- We are starting to introduce potty training. Fun times. I have no idea what I am doing! With typical kids, it is hard enough- but at least there are books and guides and tips! Special Needs kids, especially Angels, are all so vastly different that there really are not many resources- or maybe too many?! It is hard to know where to start!
- Archer has really started to notice Ava and laugh and smile at her! Just makes my heart leap to see the love they already have for each other...I need to remember those moments in a few years when they are fighting!
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OTTAWA — At least one Canadian was killed in Friday's massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and the tsunami that followed in Japan, the federal government confirmed late Saturday afternoon.
"We regret to advise that we have been informed of the death of a Canadian citizen as a result of the earthquake," the release said.
The name and hometown was not immediately released.
"Out of respect for the family's privacy and in accordance with the Privacy Act, we cannot release any further details," the release added.
There are currently 1,773 Canadian citizens registered with the Canadian Embassy in Japan, according to the Foreign Affairs Department, with very few registered in the affected area. There are an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 Canadians in Japan, the release said.
"We strongly urge Canadian citizens to register with the Registration of Canadians Abroad service (www.travel.gc.ca) in order to receive the latest advice from the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo," the release said.
Foreign Affairs Department has issued an advisory against non-essential travel to the prefectures of Miyagi, Ibaraki, Iwate, Fukushima and Aomori, due to damages caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunamis. Sendai City, Fukushima City and Aomori City have been the hardest-hit areas.
"There are ongoing aftershocks and a risk of tsunamis throughout the affected regions," the statement said. "Low-lying coastal areas should be avoided."
The advisory pointed to reports which "indicate that the earthquake caused extensive damage to infrastructure. Power and telecommunications have been disrupted. Transportation routes, emergency and medical care, as well as water and food supplies may be also affected."
The department said Canadians "travelling to affected areas should contact their airline or tour operator to determine whether the situation will disrupt travel arrangements. They should also exercise caution, monitor local news and weather reports, and follow the advice of local authorities."


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Home-Style Roast Beef
Total TimePrep: 10 min. Bake: 2-1/2 hours + standing
Makes25-30 servings
- 1 beef rump roast or bottom round roast (10 to 12 pounds)
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) chicken broth
- 1 can (10-1/4 ounces) beef gravy
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of celery soup, undiluted
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons dried parsley flakes
- 3 tablespoons dill weed
- 2 tablespoons dried thyme
- 4-1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon celery salt
- Pepper to taste
- 1 large onion, sliced 1/4 inch thick
- 8 bacon strips
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- Place roast in a large roasting pan with fat side up. In a small bowl, combine the broth, gravy, soup, water, Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce; pour over roast. Sprinkle with seasonings. Arrange onion slices over roast. Place bacon strips diagonally over onion. Dot with butter.
- Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 hours or until the meat reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a thermometer should read 135°; medium, 140°; medium-well, 145°). Let stand for 15 minutes before slicing.
Nutrition Facts1 slice: 259 calories, 13g fat (5g saturated fat), 100mg cholesterol, 487mg sodium, 3g carbohydrate (1g sugars, 0 fiber), 31g protein.
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Very good roast recipe. I used an 8 lb bone-in prime rib roast, which would have been enough for 10-15 people, and it took about 3 hrs. However, the onions and bacon looked done after 2 hrs and overdone at 3, so I wouldn't put them on the roast until it has baked an hr. This recipe is great because it makes its own gravy - no messing around at the last minute making lumpy gravy from drippings. This will definitely go in my recipe rotation.
Nov 9, 2011
Made this for Thanksgiving last year, followed the recipe exactly using the same cut of meat It was a perfect hit, So when I was asked to cook for our Church Ministers Dinner I cooked this and I received rave reviews. So I am cooking it again this year.
Dec 23, 2010
fabulous! Pleased every picky eater in my house and the neighbour loved the remaining marinade. We will add this to our list of regular meals.
Jan 3, 2008
I made this and bought the exact cut of meat (bottom round roast - which is twice the cost compared to the roast cut that I usually buy) and the meat was not tender at all. The taste of the juices and bacon and onion were great - flavor was all great - but the meat just was not tender what-so-ever.....I would recommend buying the roast meat that you are most comfortable with for this recipe....


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CAPITALIZING on your NanoDays Partnerships, Pt. 1
Have you forged a great partnership with a couple of local research centers for your NanoDays 2011 festivities? Plan now to keep the relationship alive and growing beyond April, continuing to serve your audiences, your partners and your home team. It's easy to do, and the benefits could be HUGE.
Get together with your research center liaison and discuss ways of continuing the most rewarding aspects of your outreach activities. (Did your visitors love the hands-on activities with graduate student volunteers? Did the research faculty enthuse about the opportunity you provided to train their students in hands-on learning approaches, helping to fulfill the lab's education outreach aspirations?) Why not make it a year-round thing? Work with your faculty liaison to set up a once-a-semester inquiry-based learning workshop for their graduate students, and offer them practical experience on the exhibit floor. (We'll soon be posting a new guide to running such workshops). You'll soon have lots of skilled help to call upon for NanoDays 2012 - or for other special weekend events. Invite faculty to come give brief, simplified talks about the "big picture" surrounding their work. And, don't forget to ask them if they would like to consider including an education outreach subaward component in their next grant proposal or renewal – it will win them points with NSF and some other research funding agencies, and it will allow you to start supplementing staff salaries in support of the effort they are investing in bringing researchers and public audiences together, face-to-face.
For more suggestions on building up a partnership, check out the Small Steps; Big Impact RISE partnership guide at http://www.risepartnerguide.org. The Guide offers sections on Recruiting a Partner, Building a Partnership, and Getting Grants. While you're gearing up for NanoDays 2011, think ahead to 2012 and beyond. With deeper partnerships and a bit of the extra financial support that can sometimes come from research and education funding agencies, you can start AND keep the buckyball rolling. In mid-April, the RISE Rap will feature Capitalizing on your NanoDays Partnerships, Pt. 2.


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All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road, will hold Wednesday communion and anointing services at 10 a.m. Sunday worship services are at 8 and 10 a.m. The Rev. David Danner is the rector. 383-8161.
Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian USA, 595 Bay Isles Drive, will hold Sunday worship services at 10 a.m. The Rev. Bruce Porter is the pastor. 383-8833.
Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold Sunday worship services at 10 a.m. The Rev. Kenneth Gill is the minister. 383-6491.
St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive, will hold contemporary Sunday worship services at 9 a.m. and traditional Sunday worship services at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mark Hillmer is the interim pastor. 388-1234.
St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold Saturday Masses at 5 p.m. and Sunday Masses at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Daily Mass is at 9 a.m. Monday through Friday. The Rev. Gerard Finegan is the pastor. 383-1255.
Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, will hold summer Shabbat services at 5:30 p.m. Fridays (starting May 29) and 10 a.m. Saturdays. Jonathan Katz is the rabbi. 383-3428.


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Welcome to the North Lakes Fire & Rescue Website. This site is dedicated to the communities we serve and the men and women who so generously give their time in order to help others.
In our site you will find information on things that our department has done both for trainings and to represent our communities. We also hope that you enjoy the many photos that we have shown here, I can tell you that the members sure had a good time taking them. You can also find information on Fire Prevention, our Smoke Detector program, along with our calls and our calendar of events.
We are always looking for help as well as a chance to talk to our residents about fire safety and our department. Feel free to contact either myself or any of the firefighters listed to find out more.
Thanks for visiting our site and enjoy your stay!
- Chief Darren R. Woods Chief
North Lakes Fire & Rescue is one department with three substations covering four unorganized territories in Aroostook County, Maine. These substations operate in the northern part of Aroostook County serving recreational and residential areas on Cross Lake, Mud Lake, Long Lake, Madawaska Lake, Square Lake, and Westmanland.
Originally, two stations, formerly known as the Sinclair & Guerette Fire Departments, were consolidated into one department, which was then named T17 R4 & R5 Fire. A few years later the township of Guerette was renamed Cross Lake as was the substation. In 2007, our department incorporated another substation created to serve the residents of Madawaska Lake. Not long after assimilating this third substation, T17 R4 & R5 Fire voted to rename their department. We are now North Lakes Fire & Rescue. That is how it stands today.
We also now have written mutual aid agreements with the Towns of Stockholm, St. Agatha, Fort Kent, Caribou Fire & Ambulance Department, and Maine Forest Service.
It is the mission of North Lakes Fire & Rescue to protect life, environment and property from the effects of fire through Fire Control, Fire Prevention & Education Programs. We will mitigate the effects of Hazardous Materials Incidents by maintaining an Awareness Level response capability.
We vow to accomplish this with training and dedication to our department and our communities while maintaining a professional commitment to service.
North Lakes Fire & Rescue strives to provide the best possible service to our communities. This is a very difficult task because fire departments are being asked to do much more then just put out fires and we are a volunteer department. However, that isn't stopping us! We are extremely happy to offer the following services to our communities:
If you have any questions about the services we offer, please feel free to contact Chief Darren Woods. His contact info can be found here.


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All applicants will attach a research proposal prepared as per guidelines and instructions in application form without which the application is liable to be rejected. This condition is applicable even on candidates taking ENTEX-01.
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IT vendors may be growing increasingly desperate amid the global economic downturn, but customers must employ a range of tactics -- not just bullying -- to extract cost savings from them, a group of Forrester Research analysts said during a client teleconference Wednesday.
Companies simply can't use a shotgun-style approach and expect to succeed, said software licensing analyst Duncan Jones: "Anything that is undifferentiated, like a general letter that goes out [to vendors] saying we've got to cut everyone's maintenance by 10 percent? That's not going anywhere."
Analyst Paul Roehrig, who focuses on outsourcing and IT services, said it is difficult and awkward to extract price concessions on a signed contract.
"Either you're begging or threatening. ... Those [tactics] tend to work, but only for a short time," he said, adding, "unless you're really overpaying, there's really not that much room in the provider's margin where they can lower the price point without changing the service level."
And if a customer does succeed in lowering its services costs, "the vendor is going to immediately substitute junior people," said analyst John McCarthy, whose coverage areas include offshoring.
Instead of begging for a rate cut, customers could instead ask their vendors to assign more seasoned workers to their projects, resulting in productivity gains and cost savings, McCarthy said.
Meanwhile, the tactics are different for software licenses and maintenance agreements, according to Jones.
"One of the problems is, you're dealing with a software rep who has different goals than you. He needs to sell new licenses and has no interest in helping you cut costs," he said. "But if you get up higher in the organization, there are going to be people who care more about the long-term relationship, and there's flexibility there."
That said, now is the time to push for bigger discounts on new licenses, as sales representatives "are desperate to meet their number by end of the year," Jones added.
Companies could even indicate they'd be happy to let any outstanding deals float over into 2009, he said: "That will probably be too late for the rep, so try it as a tactic and see how much flexibility you've got."
Also, customers could use money they're prepared to spend on new software as leverage, Jones said: "Anything you're trying to get, like cutting maintenance on products you're not using, you might be able to get that as a quid pro quo for spending in another area."
Beyond maximizing their buying power, companies should save money by determining which software assets no longer need a maintenance contract, Jones said: "You save costs with minimal impact on the business, but you put pressure on other vendors because it shows you're seriously looking at everything."
A similar approach should be taken to IT services contracts, Roehrig said. "If you're asking for the highest levels of service, you're going to be paying top dollar, when the reality is that the enterprise can function just fine with not everyone having gold-plated service."
Companies should also try to get more value out of outsourcing in general through strategic hiring, he said. "If I had money as a client to invest in one thing ... I would get someone who really knows how to manage a service provider. Some of the best outsourcing deals I've come up against have really good people who know how to get a service provider to do what you want."
Customers should also seek to lower the total number of service providers they contract with, leading the way to bigger volume discounts, Roehrig said. But he noted that this can be difficult for heavily federated organizations to accomplish.
It's also possible to save money by actually helping one's vendor cut costs, according to Jones.
If four divisions within a company are negotiating separately with a vendor, they should consider consolidating those relationships, he said: "I would go to the vendor and say, how can I earn cost reductions by dealing with you in a centralized fashion?"


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Bez obzira na vrstu projekta SE radite, šanse su da moraju iskrcati i opterećenja materijali. Suprotno uvriježenom mišljenju, I have found that you should NOT do all the preparation behind the scenes in the name of being volunteer friendly. Keep in mind, there going to be some new folks showing up to your outreach. They are really afraid of "witnessing" ili "evangelism" because they think most of the work here will be talking. Those of you that are veterans, no it is more about doing than talking. When folks gather for an outreach, they are either socializing, or fretting about all wondering if they will mess this up. Give them something to do. Here is way to encourage conversation, team building, and effective utilization of volunteers (if they are standing around they get bored then you will lose them). Let's say you have 250 boxes of Coke Zero to move from the outreach shed into three SUV with ice and coolers waiting. Do not make the mistake you see above, where only three strapping young men heft the materials, walk it fifty yards or so, and load it.
Instead make a human chain. There is an art to this believe it or not. Look at the group of people you have meandering around and try to figure out how many you need to span the gap from the staging area to the truck. Next, arrange folks based on heigth and reach. Put them in a straight line from loading pile to target. Then, this is real important, have every other person turn and face the opposite direction. This will cause each person to be a "cog" in your human conveyor belt. They now face a partner. Now small boxes of just about anything (try to keep the weight under 15 lbs) will fly from one place to another via simple "pushing" of the object from one person to the next. Even better, since there is no twisting, bending, or lifting it will go smooth and easy. The nice thing about such an ergonomic system, is that it makes it easy for even kids to help out, and people can still have conversations with one another as they work since they are facing two people each.
Try it. . .you will slap your head after you see it work the first time and wonder why you didn't do this earlier!


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In this second installment of the Build your Own Guild series, I am going to teach you how to establish the rules and policies that will help your new raiding guild run itself. Well, that's an exaggeration. However, without a clear set of rules, your guild will always be rudderless. Before one person signs that charter, you need to lay down the law in black and white. The post outlines the three types of policy that you should establish before your guild even zones into its first instance. The following tips assume that you will have a guild website (after all, we play an internet-based game, right?). These documents and policies need to be the core content of that website when it first goes up.
1. Guild Charter
In Part One, I encouraged you to meditate on your goals and desires for your new guild. Now you must put pencil to paper and share your vision with your members. In my opinion, the more the guild expects to accomplish in terms of raiding, the more important your mission statement is.
Your charter should answer the following questions:
a. What is the guild's goal?
b. What is the guild's attitude?
c. What is most important to us?
I'll quote for you one of my favorite passages from my guild's charter. It really shows who we are as an organization:
"We value kindness, fair play, and respect for others over loot or in-game success. Our policies work toward ensuring a positive environment in which everyone can enjoy the fruits of our labor."
I welcome you all to read the entire charter and even use it as a model, but I will warn you that it's out of date. Since the original charter creation, we've decided that we're a real raiding guild after all. The long road between Gruul and Illidan changed us as an organization. I should take my own advice and adjust the language to our current practices!
You don't have to create your charter from scratch. Many guilds make their websites accessible to all, and if a guild is recruiting, sometimes you can even create a user account and view their policies. I recommend doing a bit of snooping around–find guilds you admire and know are successful, and copy what they do. The tone of your charter should suit the mood of your guild. My own guild operates in a rather serious mode. If you prefer a raucous, no holds-barred environment, use irony and humor when you write that charter. For an excellent example in this mode, I'll direct you towards the hilarious charter of a guild named Dread Lobster, as quoted by fellow druish blogger Runyarusco. I laughed so hard, I (almost) wanted to join.
2. Code of Conduct
Even the most laid-back guilds have certain expectations for their members' behavior, and you ought to explain them either in the charter itself or in an appendix. Collateral Damage sets a very high standard, and unlike many guilds, we restrict profanity (well, in guild chat anyway) and chastise members severely if they disrespect one another. If you want your members to act in a certain way, let them know from the very beginning. That way, if you need to g-kick someone for a behavioral issue, you cannot be accused of unfairness. On the flip side, if you want to foster an open environment where insults and un-PC jokes fly thick and fast, let prospective members know that.
3. Conditions for Membership / Raider Status
If your guild intends to raid seriously, you need to have some means by which you determine who gets to raid and who does not. This type of policy will not seem important to a start-up guild that can barely scrape together enough tanks and healers for an introductory instance, but as you start to have success, you will have to deal with over-crowding. My guild chose not to put in a Raider Status from the beginning, and I have always regretted it. We have always walked the razor's edge between being inclusive and optimizing rosters, and I know it's cost our raid leader hours of frustration and worry.
Raiding guilds typically fill their scheduled weekly raids according to one of two successful models.
Model A
Everyone who is a regular member of the guild is a raider, and a Raider Rank would be redundant. The guild is small and does not recruit beyond the minimum number it needs to do the raid content.
Model B
The guild has members who raid and members who do not. These "casual" members may be friends and family of raiders, or they may be longtime members who have had a change in status. When you have two such different constituencies, it is only natural that at some point, one or more of your "casual" members will want to raid. At that point, the concept of Raider Status comes into play. Raider Status can typically be earned through attendance and performance, and it comes with the privilege of being on more raid rosters. It should also be possible to lose Raider Status through consistent poor attendance, bad behavior, or sloppy play.
Given a choice, I would go with Model B. From a management standpoint, it is more difficult to handle a larger, more complex guild roster, but you have a better chance of running all your raids. With Model A, if two of your players go on vacation, your raid is toast. Collateral Damage has a large number of members, and we have been able to run all of our scheduled raids this summer except for the one the Sunday before Labor Day. That's a pretty awesome ratio considering the rash of expansionitis that's been going around.
If you DO set strict conditions for membership or Raider Status, you need to define these specifically. Your attendance policy should require not only a percentage, but also tell how often that percentage will be re-calculated. For example, you might require 75% attendance over any two-month period. That allows your players to go out of town every once in a while. Moreover, never be vague about your raid preparation requirements. Instead of just saying "come prepared," do as Catal, our raid leader does and spell it out in no uncertain terms:
What you should bring:
– A good attitude – We're going to wipe… a lot.
– PvP trinket and PvP/Stam gear – The focus will be on survivability.
– 2 flasks of your choice.
– Lots of health/mana pots.
– Lots of reagents for buffing.
– Have decursive loaded if you will be responsible for dispelling Grip of the Legion (curse).
This set of requirements applies to our attempts on Archimonde this week. Every raid sign up comes with one of these, and you may find it useful to have a general set that would apply to every raid.
Phew! Now you have three basic documents that your members will be able to refer to when they have questions about how the guild is run. Believe me, they will hold you to what you say, so always keep your policies up-to-date. For Collateral Damage, things didn't turn out according to our first design, but they worked out all right nonetheless. However, I should /pinch myself for not updating the charter. These documents are a contract between you and your members and it is in your best interest as guild leader to hold up your end.
For next time, we'll be looking at the fourth and arguably most important policy that a new guild needs to have in place: the Loot System. You must choose a system early, because the first thing most recruits will ask is how your guild handles loot. Next Wednesday's post will outline all the sordid details of loot distribution, and I'll tell you some choice horror stories of loot QQ, I promise.
If you still haven't satisfied your appetite for information on guild managment, I'll refer you to Auzara at Chick GM, who is the guru of guild-mastery and all related issues. I always find it beneficial to take into account multiple perspectives on important topics.


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So Sean Payton and another coach are accused of raiding and abusing the team's medicine cabinet. And the security director making the allegations is accused of blackmailing the team. Tricky stuff. This calls for a breakdown.
Let's run through this lawsuit inverted pyramid style, with the 5 W's, and perhaps we'll all be a little closer to sorting out exactly what's going down here.
Who: Geoff Santini, a retired FBI agent, and former security director for the Saints. He resigned in August, forced out, he claims, because he refused to go along with a cover-up of Vicodin abuse by two senior staff members.
"Senior Staff Member A" and "Senior Staff Member B" are the ones named in Santini's suit, but within hours, it became clear that they were Sean Payton and linebacker coach Joe Vitt, respectively.
What: Vicodin, delicious Vicodin. Prescribed to Vitt because he had a legitimate condition, though his usage allegedly spiraled out of control. And allegedly prescribed to Payton, because...well, because he's the head coach, and he wanted it.
Where: The Saints' facility in Metarie. More specifically, a locked drug cabinet. Vitt is accused of stealing pills from the cabinet, which is supposedly caught on a hidden camera. The suit claims he attempted to raid the cabinet a third time, but was thwarted, perhaps by a new lock.
When: A four-month period in early 2009, when about 130 Vicodin pills went missing, according to Santini. While Vitt is accused of stealing some, they were also distributed legally to Payton, though at a level head trainer Scottie Patton allegedly characterized as "abuse."
Why:Santini claims in the lawsuit that he was instructed to cover up the abuse by GM Mickey Loomis in advance of an NFL audit, and to keep Payton's name out of conversations with the DEA. After resigning, Santini allegedly threatened to file the lawsuit unless it was settled quietly, for a healthy sum of money. The Saints refused, and the suit was filed Friday. So here we are.
This is one of those suits where we're actually reserving judgment, instead of just claiming to because we're supposed to. On one hand, it sounds like a classic disgruntled employee, looking for cash (initially $2 million, according to Florio). On the other hand, Santini claims to have hidden camera footage of Vitt raiding the medicine cabinet, and hidden microphone recordings of conversations with Patton, Loomis and others about the cover-up. If he can produce those, then maybe we've got a full-fledged scandal on our hands here.
New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton denies he ever abused or stole any pain medication [Times-Picayune]


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"The Tick," the comic created by Pembroke native Ben Edlund, returns to the small screen 16 years after it left the air. The live-action show debuts on Amazon Aug. 25.
Edlund first drew the comic in 1986 when he was a senior at Silver Lake Regional High School and developed it into a comic book for New England Comics when he was in college. About a lovable and sometimes goofy superhero, it was an immediate hit. After gaining a sizable cult following, The Tick became the star of his own Saturday morning cartoon series on Fox Children's Network.
Actor Peter Serafinowicz ("Shaun of the Dead," "John Wick 2") dons the blue tights as the title character in the new TV series. Griffin Newman ("Vinyl") stars as the overwhelmed sidekick. Together they try to take down a global super villain.
Edlund was also a writer for the hit dramas, "Gotham," "Angel" and "Supernatural." He recently sat on a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con to promote the new superhero-comedy series. The Tick Season One will hit Amazon Prime Video in two six-episode installments. The first is out August 25 and the second follows in early 2018. The show also stars Valorie Curry, Jackie Earle Haley, Yara Martinez, Brendan Hines, Scott Speiser and Michael Cerveris.


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"Special Ops" is one of the most useful security books I've read -- and my library includes 92 titles acquired since 2000. "Special Ops" is not "Hacking Exposed" with a white-and-camouflage cover. While the "Hacking Exposed" series is more assessment- and enumeration-centric, "Special Ops" spends more time on proper installation and deployment of services and applications. Most usefully, "Special Ops" succinctly and powerfully addresses topics neglected by other security books.
Friday, March 28, 2003
Review of Special Ops: Host and Network Security for Microsoft, UNIX, and Oracle Posted
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Melissa Virus Four Year Anniversary
Four years ago today the Melissa virus caused lots of headaches and early morning calls. My then-fiance and I were getting photos taken when I received an "all officers" call. I spent the rest of the weekend at the AFCERT dealing with the virus. That event prompted our unit to establish a full-time anti-virus crew.
My friend Stephen Northcutt of SANS fame reviews items for Amazon.com too. I was pleased to see he wasn't thrilled by the second edition of Firewalls and Internet Security, either.
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Bejtlich Speaking at SANS NIAL 2003
CerbNG FreeBSD Kernel Module
CerbNG is a kernel module for FreeBSD version 4.x (5.x version soon to come). Our main purpose is providing the administrator with tools for enforcing fine grained control for critical system applications/processes/environments, i.e. privileged daemons (not only those running with uid 0), and setuid programs.
It appears TrustedBSD is already working on these sorts of topics, so we'll have to see how the community uses these tools.
Article on New AFNOSC
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Review of Firewalls and Internet Security, 2nd Ed Posted
I wish I could give "Firewalls and Internet Security, 2nd Edition" (FAIS:2E) more stars. I eagerly awaited the next edition of this security classic with the rest of the community. However, like many sequels, it fails to live up to expectations. Nine years ago the first edition was revolutionary. In 2003, despite the addition of skilled practitioner Avi Rubin, the authors make few original contributions to the security scene.
Monday, March 17, 2003
Vulnerability in IIS 5.0
Thursday, March 13, 2003
Review of Hacking Exposed: Linux, 2nd Ed Posted
I'm a big fan of the Hacking Exposed style of writing. All offensive theory is backed up by command line examples, followed by defensive countermeasures. Hacking Exposed: Linux, 2nd Ed (HE:L2E) follows this tradition, updating the content of the first edition and adding 200 pages of new content. Although I reviewed the first edition in Sep 01, reading the second edition reminded me of the challenges posed by securely configuring and deploying Linux systems.


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Dirs: Nacho Vigalondo, García Bogliano, Diaz Espinoza, Marcel Sarmiento, Angela Bettis, Noboru Iguchi, Andrew Traucki, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Jorge Michel Grau, Yudai Yamaguchi, Anders Morgenthaler, Timo Tjahjanto, Ti West, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Bruno Forzani, Helene Cattet, Simon Rumley, Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Srdjan Spasojevic, Jake West, Lee Hardcastle, Ben Wheatley, Kaare Andrews, Jon Schnepp, Xavier Gens, Jason Eisener, Yoshihiro Nishimura. US. 2102. 129mins
As is to be expected in any portmanteau package of short films – and especially those which try and click with the broad church of horror fans – there are chilling highs and plodding lows in The ABC's Of Death, but there are certainly some gorily impressive moments to be found and some talented filmmakers trying their hand in the short-form genre.
The shorts vary from animation to full-on gore fests, and from surreal humour to fairy-tale oddness.
With the two VHS horror-compilation films proving there is an eager audience out there for such horror packages, though the novelty here is that there are a hefty 26 short films leveraged into a film that runs just over two hours.
The films – 26 in number for each letter of the alphabet, and range in running time from a few minutes to five or six – interestingly come from a variety of countries, though are joined with the common theme of death.
Some of the more recognisable filmmakers include the Xavier Gens who made Frontier(s); UK's Ben Wheatley (who made Kill List); The Innkeeper's Ti West; Jorge Michel Grau who made We Are What We Are, and Japanese director Yoshihiro Nishimura, who made the cult film Tokyo Gore Police.
The fact that all of the films are short means that the filmmakers really have to try and focus their narrative skills, with some attempting a fully-formed film and others favouring gore or humour.
The shorts vary from animation to full-on gore fests, and from surreal humour to fairy-tale oddness, and though to a degree the film really finds its momentum mid-way through the nature of this filmic beast is that nothing really last too long and there is enough variety of styles and concepts to keep things intriguing at the very least.
Production companies: Drafthouse Films, Timpson films
International sales: http://drafthousefilms.com
Producers: Ant Timpson, Tim League
Executive producer: Tom Quinn
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"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that Day - and not to me only, but unto all those also who love His appearing." 2 Timothy 4:7-8
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He was born July 31, 1939 in Roseboro, NC to the late Jules Melvin, Jr. and Ivellow Rich Melvin.
Mr. Melvin was employed at Harvey Brothers Tire Center in Newburgh, NY for close to 30 years.
Left to cherish his memory are his loving and devoted wife of fifty years, Marjorie "Margie" Lambert Melvin at home; two sons, Darryl and wife, Zulma Melvin of New Windsor, and James "Bo" Melvin, Jr. of Newburgh, NY; daughter, Teresa Melvin of Newburgh, NY; two grandchildren, Darius Melvin and Gisselle Melvin, both of New Windsor, NY. He also leaves to cherish his fond memories, four brothers: Thornie and wife, Betty Melvin of Raleigh, NC, Jimmy D. Melvin, Bobby and wife, Kathy Melvin, and Julius R. Melvin, all of Roseboro, NC; three sisters: Ruby Peterson, Annie D. Lewis, both of Roseboro, NC, and Lizzie "Sue" Melvin Stevens and husband, Earl of Clinton, NC.; one aunt, Pauline Crumtler of Roseboro, NC; a host of nieces, nephews and other family members. Mr. Melvin was predeceased by one son, Curtis Melvin; three brothers: James F. Melvin, A.J. Melvin, Charles Melvin, and a sister, Pauline Peterson.
Mr. Melvin will lie in repose from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday, November 19, 2012 at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 76 First Street, Newburgh, NY. Services will be at 11 a.m. at the church. Reverend Dr. Bruce Davis, Sr. officiating. Interment will be at Woodlawn Cemetery, New Windsor, NY.
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IntelliRope® PE 6.0
Excellent for both permanent and portable fence situations because PE (polyethylene) filaments resist wear and abrasion.
Identical to IntelliRope® PE 4.5 except it has more polyethylene (PE) monofilaments.
Common Uses
An effective electrified conductor for 3D anti-deer fences.
- 10 years probable life*
- Use for: Permanent and portable fences
- Color: White/black/white
- Size: 6mm (1/4") diameter
- Portability: Good
- Conductivity: 41 ohms per 1000 ft (lower number is better and more conductive)
- Ability to carry a charge: Very good
- Type of conductive filaments: Tinned copper & stainless steel—makes this 400 times more conductive than stainless steel polywires
- Number of conductive filaments: 3 tinned copper & 3 stainless steel
- Ability to be seen by animals: Very good
- Type of non-conductive filaments: Polyethylene
- Ability to resist mildew: Very good
- Breaking strength: 1200 lbs
*Probable life is not a warranty by Premier. Why not? Because we know that longevity is highly dependent upon, but not limited to, quality of installation, insulator(s) used, rope tension, animal/wind/snow/ice/vegetation pressure and UV exposure (altitude and climate).
Excellent built-in elasticity. Particularly suited for humid climates because mildew does not "thrive" on PE.
- Install wood end, corner and line posts.
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I love this rope. It is easy to use for overnight camping with my horse and so easy to rewind.
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I like the PE 6.0. It isn't soft like the endurasoft, but it feels more rugged. It's just thicker intelitwine. The endurasoft will snag easily on briars or even snag on hooks. The PE doesn't do that. I've been using it for cattle gates.
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Last Thursday I found myself on a journey of sorts. There weren't any lions or tigers or bears, but there were plenty of "Oh My"'s.
It all began on a dark and gloomy night. Well, I am sure it was dark and gloomy somewhere. In reality it was before dusk and the sun was shining. I was heading out of town for a quick trip. My family was to drop me off at the airport so we could have dinner together before I left.
We ended up at a McDonalds. We let the kids play in the play area while we chatted with some of the other parents in the area. For all intents and purposes this is where the journey began.
Our timing was pretty good to arrive at dinner. We had just missed the commotion. A family had just been robbed at gunpoint. A rare thing on this side of the river in the woods.
Finishing up with the excitement and dinner we were back on our way to the airport. When arriving at the airport, I found that my flight was to be delayed by about an hour. Apparently, the flight from San Francisco was delayed causing us some big delays. In turn, this resulted in me getting to my hotel after midnight.
At the hotel after a few hours of rest, I was awake and prepping for the day. The most nerve racking thing was about to happen and I had no clue it was coming. I had taken the elevator downstairs to get some breakfast. After having eaten, and needing to leave within the next 20 minutes, I was back in the elevator on my way back up to the room. Five of those minutes were consumed in that elevator as it decided to stop working between floors. It was as if the elevator took a break or decided to reboot. Needless to say, I took the stairs the next time which was the last time.
Now why does any of this matter? Well, it was certainly an interesting situation as I was heading to the Prometric test center to take the MCM Knowledge exam. The exam was intense enough without the added complexity of travel. For now, the only option (besides paying extra for remote delivery) for people such as myself living in Utah is to travel out of Utah. This exposes us to that extra complexity and challenges such as getting stuck in an elevator. I was a bit anxious thanks to that experience, but I made it to the center in time for my exam. Thankfully I was planning on being there extra early.
Moral of the story – plan ahead. I considered flying in and out the same day to take the exam and then reconsidered. I didn't want to take the risk of flight delays causing me to miss it. Having that extra time, it made these lions and tigers and bears all the more bearable and I still was able to take the exam.


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by: ZippyKit
Take me home, build me, and make my eyes blink!
Looping is an educational textile electronics toy: a fun and unique educational electronics kit for all ages. It integrates smart textiles and requires no previous electronics skills, no soldering or sewing!
The best part? You get two characters in one! You can build an owl monster as well as a sunflower one! If you get bored, you can take your Looping apart and build the other character... all while learning electronics!
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2. Materials:
**Batteries Excluded 2xAA
3.Caring instructions
4. Acknowledgements
Concept: Elena Corchero
Design: Elena Corchero
Technology: Richard Wilson
Crafted in UK by LostValues Ltd.


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43' Catamaran Corporate Charters
Wanderlust catamaran is designed to accommodate a large party of up 35 guests with ease. The boat has wide side decks leading to an expansive foredeck with lots of room for sunbathing, relaxing and enjoying the Sydney Harbour views. The interior is light and spacious with a sumptuous wrap around lounge with seating for 8- 10 guests. The cockpit area Providing lots of shade, the cockpit area has lots of seating and a huge esky. The aft stairs will allow easy access to beautiful Sydney Harbour waters if you feel like a swim.
Corporate Charters (this page)
Wanderlust Party Boat Charter
Wanderlust New Years Eve Cruises
Wanderlust New Years Day Hire
Wanderlust Boxing Day Charter
Wanderlust Australia Day Charter
Total cost = Vessel Hire
+ Food
+ Beverages
+ Wharf fees
Includes Captain
January – December
$550 per hour
4 hour charter $2200
BYO Charters
$100 Amenity Fee applies
Includes all crockery, cutlery, cups, utensils, serving equipment and eskies
Please Note - BYO Ice
Public holiday surcharges apply
Wharf fees
Pick up and drop off wharf fees apply (Usually $100 total). Check your quote and contract for more info.
Wanderlust Canape Menus
$56 per person
Serving of 12 pieces per guest
Minimum 10 guests
Cold Canapes
Truffled mushroom tartlet with parmesan crisp (V)
Marinated prawns with a mint and sweet chilli dressing
Peking duck rolls with cucumber, shallots and plum sauce
Teriyaki chicken skewers
Warm Canapes
Thai red curry spiced vegetable puffs with chilli coconut sauce (V)
Oregano chicken and rocket sausage rolls
Braised beef and ale pie
served with dipping sauces
Wanderlust Display Buffet Menus
Buffet Menu 1
$39 per person
Minimum 10 guests
Grazing Plate
Shaved meats, marinated fetta and olives with home-made dips, bread and crackers
Traditional Vietnamese beef salad with Asian vegetables, green apple and aromatic herbs
Pesto chicken with a caponata of roast Mediterranean
Goats cheese, fresh thyme and tomato tart
Penne pasta salad with oven roasted vegetables and basil pesto
Garden salad with baby leaf, tomato, cucumber and black olives with balsamic vinaigrette
Freshly baked baguette
Buffet Menu 2
$46 per person
Minimum 10 guests
Grazing Plate
Shaved meats, marinated fetta and olives with home-made dips, bread and crackers
Pepper crusted beef with pesto roasted vegetables
Shredded coconut chicken with Asian vegetables, baby spinach, coriander and special Vietnamese dressing
Cous cous with chickpeas, green lentils, beetroot and parsley with a lemon tahini dressing
Mixed garden salad with baby leaf, tomato, cucumber and black olives with balsamic vinaigrette
Freshly baked baguette
Wanderlust BBQ Menus
Minimum 10 guests
BBQ Menu 1
$39 per person
Grazing plate
Shaved meats, marinated fetta and olives with home-made dips, bread and crackers
Cajun rubbed chicken medallions with tomato relish
Veal Kofta with cucumber and minted yoghurt
Roast Mediterranean vegetable, pine nut and olive pasta salad
with basil parmesan dressing
Garden salad with baby leaf, tomato, cucumber and black olives with balsamic vinaigrette
Freshly baked baguette
BBQ Menu 2
$46 per person
Grazing plate
Shaved meats, marinated fetta and olives with home-made dips, bread and crackers
Veal Kofta with cucumber and minted yoghurt
Salmon fillet with lemon mayonnaise
Paprika, parsley and lemon chicken breast medallions with chilli jam
Roast Mediterranean vegetable, pine nut and olive pasta salad with basil parmesan dressing
Classic Greek salad with an oregano dressing
Freshly baked baguette
Wanderlust Platters Menus
Minimum order $250
Bread, olives and dips
$104 for 10 guests
Foursome of house made dips and marinated olives with housemade oregano toasts
Antipasti plate
$155 for 10-12 guests
Shaved cured meats, chorizo, marinated fetta cheese and olives with dips and breads and crackers
Oysters, Prawns and Smoked Salmon
$135 for 30 pieces
Sydney Rock or Pacific oysters, peeled king prawns and Tasmanian smoked salmon served with traditional accompaniments
Premium Cheese Board
$137 for 10-12 guests
Selection of four Australian cheeses with fig and walnut salami, crisp grapes and biscuits
Sweet Bites
$93 for 20 pieces
Chocolate brownie squares with orange ganache
Honey glazed almond slice
Orange and poppyseed cake
Raspberry and pear slice GF
Fresh Fruit Platter
$102 for 10-12 guests
Platter of carved seasonal fruits
Wanderlust Danish Farm Lunch Menu
$29 per person
Selection of gourmet triangles and wraps
Lemon poached chicken breast with avocado, grilled pancetta and rocket
Double smoked leg ham with Swiss cheese and tomato tapenade
Four layered slow roasted beef with roasted red pepper, mesclun and horseradish cream
Tasmanian smoked salmon with caper berries, Spanish onion, crumbled goats curd and baby leaf salad
Swiss cheese, grilled Mediterranean vegetables, sundried tomato, rocket and artichoke aioli
All prices in $AUS. and include GST
Prices are subject to change without notice
50% deposit required to confirm your booking
No stiletto heels to be worn on board
Brand : Custom Built
• Length: 43 foot
• Sumptuous interior with classic timber finishes and all the comforts of home
• A massive and well-planned cockpit for entertaining
• Wide side decks for simple and safe access forward and aft
• Forward sundeck
• Three toilets and hot-water showers, including an outdoor deck shower
• Fully equipped galley to cater for large groups including a stove top and oven, large fridge and a good sized freezers
• BBQ situated on the back deck
• On-board entertainment includes a TV and state of the art stereo system
Boat Suitability :
Private charters, Corporate Cruises, Team building activities
Click here to view detailed booking information
What is the maximum capacity of the boat?
Boat is surveyed to hold a maximum of 35 passengers. Please note, an infant, regardless of age is considered a passenger.
Is the boat suitable for children?
Yes, it is suitable for children and appropriate sized lifejackets lifejackets are available on request. Children must be under adult supervision at all times.
Catered Food Options
Can we organise a meal on board?
Yes, we can recommend some excellent caterers for you where we can design the perfect menu to suit your budget and taste.
On Tour
Can we have music on board?
Yes, the vessel is equipped with a sound system where you can plug in a music compatible device like an iPhone. Please ensure your mp3 player is fully charged.
Where can we go during our charter?
Your skipper can take you most places within Sydney Harbour, providing it is within the surveyed boundaries. Should your guests wish to go to a specific location within Sydney Harbour please let us know at time of briefing.
Can we extend our charter time during the charter?
Yes, although this is subject to availability. Please note, the charter will be extended based on the decision of the captain on board and payment will be processed post charter by authorised bond.
Booking and Payment
How do I secure my booking?
A minimum 50% deposit is required to confirm booking, with the balance payable 14 days prior to commencement of the charter. Upon payment of your deposit, a Skippered Charter Contract will be emailed to you, confirming details relevant to your charter, which must be signed and returned. Payment can be made by MasterCard, Visa, EFTPOS, Electronic Funds Transfer or cash. Diners Card, Bankcard and Cheques are not accepted.
Is there any paperwork to complete before we go on our charter?
Yes, we require your signed contract and authorised bond form prior to your charter commencing.
If I cancel the charter, can I get a refund?
We do not offer refunds should you wish to cancel your charter. If boating conditions are unsafe, as determined by the management of Sydney Harbour Escapes, we will offer a six month voucher where you can reschedule your charter based on availability. Please see our General Booking Information on our website or contact a staff member on 02 9328 4748 for details.
Preparations and Arrival
What do you advise we bring along for our charter?
As conditions can vary on the water, it is suggested that you bring along a hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, swimmers, and seasonal jumper or jacket.
Does our party need to get there before the set time of the charter?
All your party should be at the designated pick up point at least 15 minutes prior to your charter time to allow loading of passengers and gear and to enable enough time for the skipper's safety briefing. Please note, our charter will start and finish at the times on your contract.
Can one of our guests be picked up late and dropped off early from another wharf?
Multiple pick up and drop off points are not recommended as this will shorten your charter time significantly. We suggest that guests wishing to join the charter late or leave early should arrange alternative transportation via water taxi at their own cost. Please ask one of the Sydney Harbour Escapes team members for a Water Taxi contact.
Max Passengers: 30
From $700 Per Hour
Min 4 hour charter
from $2800
Max Passengers: 41
From $990 Per Hour
Min 4 hour charter
from $3960
Max Passengers: 33
From $550 Per Hour
Min 4 hour charter
from $2200
See all certified customer reviews
Many wharves available
for pick up/ drop off


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UGK Dedicattion - Living This Life [Cartoon Animation]
Jay S reports " UGK in memory of Pimp C who passed away on this day last year. The video is a UGK song before Pimp C passed away, Living This Life
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This blog is no longer the go-to place for official Minecraft news! From now on we'll be posting snapshots, updates, and lots, lots more on Minecraft.net.
Minecraft.net! Bookmark it! Make it your homepage!
Why have we done this? Learn that and more on Minecraft.net!
Note: we'll still use this blog for any Mojang news that's not relevant to Minecraft. There's not a lot of that about right now but thought it was worth mentioning.
Owen - @bopogamel and Marsh - @marshdavies


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- LJ Index, July 2006
- They Said It
- Signs of GhandiCon 4
- diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development
- Tabblo: Pictures of Linux at Work
- RubyGarden
LJ Index, July 2006
1. Minimum bandwidth in Mbps required for 1080p HDTV: 30
2. Days required to download a standard 7.8GB DVD movie file over 56Kbps dial-up: 13
3. Record number of terabits per second sent over a 160km link: 2.56
4. Equivalent number of DVDs per second: 60
5. Percentage of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome wants covered by free Wi-Fi: 100
6. Percentage of on-line consumers who express an interest in podcasts: 25
7. Percentage of on-line households in North America that regularly download and listen to podcasts: 1
8. Versions of UNIX running at Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab: 15
9. Versions of Linux running at Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab: 50
10. Billions of dollars in PC-based point-of-sale (POS) systems sold in North America in 2005: 6
11. Linux percentage share of North American POS system sales in 2005: 9
12. Linux percentage share of North American POS system sales in 2004: 5
13. Millions of dollars in Linux sales in China in 2005: 11.8
14. Percentage growth of Linux in China from 2004–2005: 27.1
15. Expected compound annual growth percentage rate of Linux sales in China over the next four years: 34
16. Projected millions of Linux sales, in dollars, at the end of the next four years in China: 51.1
17. Percentage probability that open source will compete with closed-source products in all infrastructure markets by 2008: 80
18. Percentage probability that 75% of all mainstream IT organizations will have formal open-source acquisition and management strategies: 80
19. Percentage probability that mainstream IT organizations will consider open-source software in 80% of their infrastructure-based software investments: 70
20. Percentage probability that open source will be included in mission-critical software portfolios within 75% of Global 2000 enterprises: 90
1: Wayne Caswell
2–4: Gizmag
5: New Media Musings
6, 7: Forrester Research
8, 9: Microsoft Open Source Software Lab
10–12: LinuxDevices.com
11–16: Silicon.com, sourcing International Data Corp. (IDC)
17–20: Gartner;
They Said It
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
—Howard Aiken, source: Marc Hedlund, radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial_proverbs.html
One of my many mottos of the past is "Only steal from the best." When you use someone else's idea that's the ultimate sign of respect. But it's important to say who you're stealing from, because they're the best, right?
—Dave Winer, www.scripting.com/2006/03/31.html#When:7:12:08AM
Think about it this way: if the water that's piped into your house had DRM on it and only allowed you to use it for showers, how would you wash your clothes? If you were only allowed to make ice cubes, how would you make iced tea? If you had to pay $0.99 every time you wanted a glass of water?
Ideas and hope need to flow like water if a civilization is to continue its ascension toward greatness. Impediments to that flow will stall growth. Fortunately, like a solvent, the culture of open source will continue to expand, will wear away at these impediments, to restore the natural flow of social capital, of ideas, of hope. Those who get this first will rise, and rise quickly.
—Chris Messina, factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source
It's simple. The Internet has won. Why negotiate terms of surrender?
—Bob Frankston, www.frankston.com/?name=GettingConnected
Signs of GhandiCon 4
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."—Mahatma Gandhi
For many years, Linux and open source were synonymous with "threat" at Microsoft. Although that status may not have changed, the company has been moving gradually in a more accepting direction toward market opponents that include, in some cases, its own customers.
We've seen acceptance, for example, in the Identity Metasystem, which was a topic of my Linux Journal column in October 2005, and also with the company's embrace of blogging—a product of open standards and practices that grew up outside Microsoft's (or any vendor's) platform.
But with Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, which started up in August 2005, acceptance was elevated above the purely de facto level. It became policy. Then, in April 2006, Microsoft opened the lab itself, through a new Web site called Port 25. Named for the router port for outbound e-mail, the site is open, interactive and intended to foster helpful communications with Microsoft customers that use open-source software as well.
Although this hardly means Microsoft will be developing open-source software any time soon (especially for Linux), it may help ease tensions in the heterogeneous environments where customers require productivity, and not merely coexistence.
I asked David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati (which runs on Linux), for some perspective on what it means. He said, "It's good to see Microsoft recognizing the impact and importance of open-source software, and I'm encouraged by its recent moves to understand and work with the large community of nonproprietary software developers out in the world. In the end, it will be good for Microsoft customers."
diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development
Paul Mundt has submitted patches to remove RelayFS from the kernel and migrate all of its functionality into a generic API that can be used by any filesystem. Thus, what started off as a highly specialized tool—a filesystem only for high-speed data transfer between user space and the kernel—has now been generalized into a service with wide-ranging applicability. Because RelayFS has been in the official kernel for some time, taking it out now already has produced some controversy. But, apparently, Andrew Morton promised the RelayFS developers that they could continue to make these large, sweeping developments, so long as no in-kernel code relied on RelayFS. User applications should not have been relying on RelayFS during this time of instability.
Intel has announced a new open-source project to support its PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection mini-PCI express adapter (IPW3945). It is not fully open source. There is a single binary-only part, containing the regulatory enforcement logic for all the countries where those adapters ship. In his announcement, James Ketrenos said that Intel had improved its licensing relative to earlier projects. The binary portion of this project uses the same license as the binary-only firmware, and James has said it is easier to understand and more permissive of redistribution than earlier licenses. The whole issue of regulatory enforcement and binary distribution is, as one might expect, controversial. The binary dæmon must run as root, which makes any potential bugs a large security problem. Also, there is some question as to whether the FCC regulations actually require binary-only distribution, or only, as Alan Cox puts it, "that the transmitting device must be reasonably tamper-proof". Regardless of any controversy (that is sure to be ongoing), Intel can at least be credited with freeing the portions of its code it has freed and with making some effort to improve its license.
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer has forked the cdrtools project into his own dvdrecord project, and released version 0.3.1 with various enhancements, such as supporting 2.6 kernels, supporting writing to DVD-R and DVD-RW disks using purely free software and cleaning up the make system. Apparently, there have been massive flame wars precipitating the fork, and a number of kernel folks have said that Bernhard's work represents the only progress on the driver in recent days. The conversation has turned toward whether his dvdrecord will support additional features, such as DVD RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RWand DVD+DL. It's unclear what the long-term direction of the project will be, because forks are always controversial, but at least there seems to be no immediate outcry that Bernhard forked the project unreasonably. It's still too soon for predictions, however.
Miklos Szeredi has created the mountlo utility, a tool that supports loopback mounting in user space. Until now, a filesystem image stored in a single file on disk could be mounted only via the kernel's own loopback support. Miklos' utility relies on FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace) to move the entire feature into userland and out of the kernel. Miklos considers it more of a pet project than anything else—an opportunity to play with FUSE and see what useful tools he could create.
The ever-vigilant Christoph Hellwig has pointed out that the gdth driver seems to be the only user of the scsi_request interface expected to be gone in Linux 2.6.17. The gdth maintainers have not responded to patch submissions, and unless someone steps forward to make sure gdth survives the interface change, it will be marked as "BROKEN" in 2.6.17. Achim Leubner has stepped forward to do some testing, but this leaves the question of driver maintainership up in the air. Typically, unmaintained code is rapidly deprecated in Linux.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has begun to document ABI (Application Binary Interface) levels of stability within the kernel. When a binary interface changes, user-space binaries that link to that interface break. And, because a given interface may have countless applications relying on it, it is considered virtually unacceptable to change the kernel ABI for that reason. Unfortunately, ABI changes are a fact of life. They do change, and have been changing, and the question as Greg sees it, is how to balance this with the needs of userland. Greg's idea is to provide enough indication about the future of a given interface that application developers will have time to rewrite their code before the change takes place. As one might expect, this is an incredibly controversial issue. Many top kernel people feel that the ABI is sacrosanct and should never be altered. But Linus Torvalds, in spite of having criticisms of the specific details of Greg's effort, seems generally to agree that ABI changes are inevitable, and that the kernel should do what it can to ease the burden placed on application developers.
Tabblo: Pictures of Linux at Work
If you're looking to make something more of your digital photos than the usual on-line gallery, Tabblo has ways to do it. In addition to your basic GIMP (or, to the less free, Photoshop) tools (crop, zoom, add text and so on), Tabblo lets you lay out, annotate and share "tabblos" (a pun off "tableaus") of photo sets, or output them in various print forms through off-line services—all from inside a browser.
As Tabblo founder and CEO Antonio Rodriguez puts it, "If you have a story to tell with pictures, we have ways for you to tell it—on-line and off." He also says Tabblo's own story would not be possible without Linux. To get that story, we did a brief interview:
LJ: Why this business, and why now?
AR: This is something the market has needed for a long time, but the conditions weren't right. The Web browser wasn't built to do serious multimedia processing, and until recently, it wasn't possible to do it on the server—at least not with economics that worked for anyone trying to build a business out of it. If you wanted to do server-side image editing at high scale, for example, the cost of the software and hardware involved was simply prohibitive. If you wanted to have a rich database of things like metadata-based navigation and unlimited undo, the cost of the Oracle licenses at volume would probably put you flat out of the business of providing any meaningful functionality for free in order to attract customers. And most important, if you wanted to store gigs and gigs of people's pictures, NetApp or EMC were the only games in town—at economics that make sense only for investment banks and NASA. I can say without any doubt that there was absolutely no way that we could provide the level of application given to users at launch for free without the benefit of our modified LAMP stack and its associated development practices. I am particularly sensitive to this because of the number of photo sites in the past that have actually tried to make money and have been undone by spiraling capital expenses and wrong assumptions about the likely uptake of revenue-generating products.
LJ: What's in your stack?
AR: For hardware, we use custom-made whitebox AMD64 boxes with plenty of horsepower per dollar of cost, running Debian AMD64 (which greatly lowers our sysadmin costs). We run our own clustered filesystem built mostly on top of the Apache 2.0 stack (as modules) and get throughput that commercial storage solutions can't touch, mostly because the software is written specifically for our workload. The image servers also leverage the Apache runtime, as well as ImageMagick. Our database is MySQL5, which is great for its ability to be set up in very funky configurations that let you optimize writes, reads or replication depending on your own needs. And, finally, our Web app is written in Python, which is both lightning fast to develop in and incredibly clean as a dynamically typed language.
LJ: How do you plan to evolve the service?
AR: To start, we're going for composition, layout and effects. Next is printing and distribution. We also plan to make everything publishable to blogs though the metaweblog API.
Tabblo also makes the most of what's "mashable" from other Web services, over open APIs. When Antonio showed me Tabblo's beta service at O'Reilly's eTech Conference in February 2006, he populated my own Tabblo library by copying more than 6,000 photos from my collection at Flickr. He did this also to demonstrate the well-behaved nature of Flickr as a Net citizen. Rather than locking up customer data, Flickr is wide open, allowing users on other services to access and use photos, including all kinds of photo metadata, as well as tags. Tabblo, he told me, also aims to be equally responsible to what he calls "the open marketplace".
Thus, what's open about Linux-based infrastructure expands out to support whole marketplaces.
Visit www.rubygarden.org for all your Ruby needs, including links to other all-important Ruby sites, such as Pragmatic Programmers and RubyForge, as well as links to Ruby Webloggers.
RubyGarden provides an exhaustive listing of Ruby User Groups around the world at www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyUserGroups.
RubyGarden also recommends other sites of interest for Ruby User Groups, including ruby.meetup.com, where you can find a meetup group near you, and www.rubyholic.com, where Ruby groups can register and post meeting information.
You also can join the Google Ruby Brigade Group, at groups.google.com/group/Ruby-Brigades or by sending an e-mail to email@example.com.


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So as many of you know, my website & YouTube channel are predominantly focused on everything beauty. I normally discuss anything fashion related on other social networks (Twitter, Tumblr, & Facebook). Starting this year, I decided to branch out a bit more and incorporate more of the fashion side of things (including bags, shoes, accessories, etc) on my YouTube & blog!
Lately I've been really into gold pieces with texture. Usually anything with hardware, and/or different patterns, is something I'm typically an instant fan of. The pieces I'm wearing with the outfit below all have different textures/hardware and I love how it all looks put together! The bracelets can be worn individually for a more simplistic look, or layer/stack them like I did. I'm also a HUGE fan of scarves. I love really big ones where you can double wrap it around your neck when it's really cold out. I really love the two-print pattern of the scarf I wore this day. =)
You may have heard of HaulerDeals.com from my lovely friend Dulce-- but if you haven't, it's basically a website where you can get items we (a few selected gurus) wear, AT A DISCOUNTED RATE! I think that this is SUCH a cool idea considering I'm always wanting things my friends are showing in their videos lol. What better way to get them all on one site where it's WAY CHEAPER than the retail price? (PS. I AM NOT GETTING PAID TO WRITE THIS OKAY? LOL).
Anyway, I hope you check out the site! Let me know what you think of it! We're coming up with some reeeeeally exciting things so I can't wait to share it with you all! :)
You can go directly to my name to see the items I'm showing in the pictures below. I will be doing these types of videos every other week, so please leave me a comment on YouTube and let me know your feedback on these type of videos, and what you would like to see!
Here is a video basically reiterating what I mentioned above, while also showing everything you see in the pictures below!
Scarf - LeVaunt on HaulerDeals.com
Ring - Marc Jacobs on Bloomingdales.com
Clutch & necklace - asos.com
Blazer - MetroPark (now closed *sad*)
Top - Forever21
Pants - BB Dakota
Shoes - Christian Louboutin Simple 100's
Hope you guys liked this! I'm excited to start doing these types of videos/posts from now on. I'd really appreciate any input you guys have! Thanks again for all your love & support!!


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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Well, I wonder how many Garth Brooks fans are having trouble sleeping tonight? I'm serious... tomorrow the UPS driver is going to be delivering many boxsets to the pre-order boxsets to the awaiting listeners.
The boxset won't be available in the stores until Friday....
Personally, I cant wait to listen to the new tracks from Garth. 11 new songs (including "Good Ride Cowboy") is down right exciting. Its been a long time since I've gotten to hear something new from Mr. Brooks.
I am sure the reaction to the boxset will be swift, vocal, and abundant tomorrow as the UPS trucks make their rounds.
It's 11:05pm here in Richmond, VA... I hope the UPS delivery drivers are getting a good night's sleep, they have a busy day ahead of them.