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CyberSecurity and Privacy
Carestream's commitment to product security
The rapid adoption of electronic medical records and demand for greater access to patient services requires the highest data protection standards. Ensuring patient privacy and trust is critical. Carestream delivers product security that helps you achieve compliance with HIPAA, PIPEDA, EU Directive or additional regulations in your country. Together we can increase patient safety and meet clinical and business needs for confidentiality, integrity, availability and accountability in radiology workflow.
- Product Security
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
Product Security
Healthcare IT professionals should take the time to review Carestream Health's product security documentation, these documents provide a high-level overview of the security configurations related to the operating systems for our products. Additional documentation assists customers in their purchasing decision related to the requirements and product capability specified by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule.
Many International security regulations require healthcare providers and payers to protect patient information from improper access, modification, and catastrophe loss. Carestream Health is committed to providing industry leading security capabilities in our products and service delivery
Product Security
Healthcare IT professionals should take the time to review Carestream Health's product security documentation, these documents provide a high-level overview of the security configurations related to the operating systems for our products. Additional documentation assists customers in their purchasing decision related to the requirements and product capability specified by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule.
Many International security regulations require healthcare providers and payers to protect patient information from improper access, modification, and catastrophe loss. Carestream Health is committed to providing industry leading security capabilities in our products and service delivery.
Manufacturers Disclosure Statement for Medical Device Security (MDS2)
The Manufacturers Disclosure Statement for Medical Device Security provides customers with HIPAA-related security information about their products and services. The MDS 2 is endorsed by the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE), ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA).
Carestream Health is an active member of the Medical Device Security Workgroup and supports the use of the MDS 2. For greater details, go to Manufacturer Disclosure Statement for Medical Device Security. The following links contain product security information outlined in the MDS 2.
Our current-generation digital medical products carry the CARESTREAM brand, except in a few instances where we will continue to license the KODAK brand. for use on selected products. While we no longer market previous-generation products carrying the KODAK brand, we will continue to provide technical/support information -- like that contained below -- to customers who previously purchased these products.
Digital Capture Systems
- Carestream MDS2 DRX Revolution Nano (PDF)
- ImageView DR System Software V1.5 (PDF)
- ImageView DR System Software V1.4 (PDF)
- ImageView DR System Software V1.3 (PDF)
- Carestream MDS2 DRX Revolution ImageView (PDF)
- Carestream MDS2 DR SW V5.7 (PDF)
- Carestream MDS2 DR SW V5.6 (PDF)
- CARESTREAM ImageSuite 4.0 MDS2 (PDF)
- Digital Capture Systems Carestream MDS2 for DR SW V5.3 (PDF)
- Carestream MDS 2 for CR SW V5.7 (PDF)
- Carestream MDS 2 for CR SW V5.2 (PDF)
- Carestream MDS 2 for Classic, Elite, 975, 950, 850, 825 CR SW V5.1 (PDF)
- Point-of-Care CR 120/140/260 System (PDF)
- Point-of-Care CR ITX560 System (PDF)
- Carestream MDS 2 for DRX-Evolution (PDF)
- Carestream MDS2 for DRX-1 Detector System (PDF)
- Carestream MDS 2 for DRX-1 Mobile Retrofit Kit (PDF)
- Carestream MDS 2 for all DR-DRX - Software Version 5.5 (PDF)
- Carestream MDS 2 form for DRX-Excel V1.13 (PDF)
- Carestream MDS 2 for DRX-Excel, DRX-Excel Plus V1.09 (PDF)
Legacy Digital Capture System Statements
- Carestream MDS2 for CR Software V4.6 (PDF)
- MDS 2 Form for CR 500-975 and ROP SW v4.5 (PDF)
- MDS 2 Form for 500-850-950 and ROP SW v4.3 (PDF)
- Point-of-Care CR 360-260-140-120 System SW v3.0 (PDF)
- MSD2 for DR9500 SW v4.5 (PDF)
- MSD2 for DR7500 SW v4.0 (PDF)
- MDS2 for DR 3000, DR 3500 SW 3.0.x, 3.5.x (PDF)
- MDS2 Form for DR 5000-9000 SW v2.0 (PDF)
Cone Beam CT (CBCT)
Digital Output Systems
- HG MDS 2 Form for DRYVIEW 6950(PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for DRYVIEW 5700 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for DRYVIEW 5950 (PDF)
- HG MDS2 Form for DRYVIEW 5850 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for 5800 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for 6800 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for DRYVIEW 6850 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for 8100 8200 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for 8150 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for 8500 8700 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for 8800 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for 8900 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for PACS Link 25 Print Server r3 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for PACS Link MIM 100 r3 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for PACS Link MIM 200 r3 (PDF)
- HG MDS 2 Form for CMI1000 (PDF)
Digital Capture Systems
- Capture Link Server V1.00 (PDF)
- CR Systems with Software V4.1 (PDF)
- DIRECTVIEW CR System Software Version 5.1 (PDF)
- CR Systems, Software V3.x.x, V2.2.1 and DR Systems, Software V1.x.x (PDF)
Digital Output Systems (PDF)
- Medical Image Manager (MIM) V6.1.1 (PDF)
- DRYVIEW 8150 Imager (PDF)
- DRYVIEW 8900 Imager (PDF)
- Color Medical Imager 1000 software v1.1 (PDF)
Vulnerability Assessments
Digital Medical Solutions
Carestream Health remains committed to ensuring our products are safe, reliable, and secure. The cybersecurity threat environment continuously evolves requiring constant diligence and information sharing in order to mitigate potential risk and to keep equipment protected. Security advisories and relevant security patch information for Carestream products will be provided below.
General Data Protection Regulation "GDPR"
There is a new European Privacy initiative--the General Data Protection Regulation "GDPR". This initiative takes effect on May 25, 2018. Please read closely the Annex which is incorporated into the agreement your company may have with Carestream.
HIPAA Overview
HIPAA Compliance
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law August 21, 1996. This legislation affects nearly everyone involved in healthcare from providers to healthcare information systems vendors. HIPAA contains provisions for:
- Portability of insurance coverage as employees move from one employer to another.
- Protection of patient-identifiable data from inappropriate disclosure and the type of information that must be protected and the circumstances.
- Defined policies, analyses, practices, and mechanisms that must be conducted to ensure the privacy of "protected health information" (PHI) is maintained.
- Government-mandated standards for electronic transactions, code sets and identifiers.
Related Resources:
Carestream HIPAA Business Associate Agreements
Carestream business associates must comply with HIPAA regulations. Please contact your local sales representative or contract manager for information about the provisions and terms in their agreement.
Correspondence should be mailed to:
Carestream Health, Inc.
Attn: US&C Contract Management
150 Verona Street
Rochester, NY 14608
Related Documents:
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
Carestream Product Security Policy
Carestream Health is committed to providing secure products and services to our customers and patients. We strive to maintain and improve the security of our medical devices and systems throughout the product lifecycle, including the use of the following practices as applicable:
- Security by design
- Security risk management
- Secure coding practices
- Security scanning and testing practices
- Vulnerability intake and handling practices
- Third party software vulnerability monitoring
- Patch management
- Information sharing with industry-appropriate organizations such as H-ISAC
- Event and Incident response practices
Carestream Health recognizes the need to share security-relevant information to better understand threats and protect our customers, patients and the overall healthcare infrastructure. We also are dedicated to ensuring our customers receive information related to vulnerabilities and any appropriate actions that need to be taken to assure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our products and services. In order to fulfill these commitments, Carestream Health is engaged in efforts to foster global programs for communication, event handling and information sharing.
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
Independent cybersecurity researchers are a valuable source of information on the security posture of many manufactured products. It is Carestream's goal to cooperate and coordinate with these researchers regarding vulnerabilities they discover within our products. The information below describes the Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure process by which independent cybersecurity researches may collaborate with us on reporting of medical device vulnerabilities.
The scope of Carestream's Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure process includes the following product families:
- Diagnostic Imaging Systems
- Digital Printers
- MyView Center Kiosk products
We ask that all security researchers submit vulnerability reports only for all Carestream products.
This reporting process is not to be used to report Product Quality Complaints or to request Technical Support. Please visit the following site for those types of engagements: http://www.escuelamecanicahenryford.com/en/us/services-and-support. Please also visit this site for security questions or comments about other Carestream products.
Important Legal Information
Carestream Health will not engage in legal action against individuals who submit vulnerability reports through our Vulnerability Reporting Form and abide by the agreements outlined as part of this form submission process. We openly accept reports for all Carestream products. We agree not to pursue legal action against individuals who:
- Engage in testing of systems/research without harming Carestream or its customers.
- Perform tests on products without affecting customers, or receive permission/consent from customers before engaging in vulnerability testing against their devices/software, etc.
- Engage in vulnerability testing within the scope of our vulnerability disclosure program in accordance with the terms and conditions of any agreements entered into between Carestream and individuals.
- Adhere to the laws of their location and the jurisdictions in which Carestream operates. For example, violating laws that would only result in a non-criminal claim by Carestream may be acceptable, as Carestream is authorizing the activity (reverse engineering or circumventing protective measures) to improve its systems.
- Refrain from disclosing vulnerability details to the public before a mutually agreed-upon timeframe expires.
Procedure to Submit a Vulnerability
- To submit a vulnerability report to Carestream's Product Security Team, please submit this form with a brief description of your discovery. Carestream will send a timely response to your submission (typically within five business days).
- Independent cybersecurity researchers who discover and submit a vulnerability report to us may choose to receive credit after the submission has been accepted and validated by our product security team.
Preference, Prioritization and Acceptance Criteria
Carestream will use the following criteria to prioritize and triage submissions.
What we would like to see from you:
- Well-written reports in English will have a higher chance of resolution.
- Reports that include proof‐of‐concept code equip us to better triage issues.
- Reports that include only crash dumps or other automated tool output may receive lower priority.
- Please include how you discovered the vulnerability, the impact and any potential remediation.
- Please include any plans or intentions for public disclosure.
What you can expect from us:
- A timely response to your email (typically within five business days)
- After triage, we will send an expedited projected timeline and commit to being as transparent as possible about the remediation timeline, as well as on issues or challenges that may extend it.
- An open dialog to discuss issues.
- Notification when the vulnerability analysis has completed each stage of our review.
- Credit after the vulnerability has been validated and fixed.
If we are unable to resolve communication issues or other problems, we may bring in a neutral third party (such as CERT/CC, ICS-CERT, or the relevant regulator) to assist in determining how best to handle the vulnerability.
This webpage was reviewed and/or updated on 1/18//2019


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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Houston Dynamo's right flank has never been the same since MLS stalwart Brian Mullan was traded to the Colorado Rapids just months before his contract expired in 2010.
But there is finally one player who looks closer to being a Mullan clone than anyone Dynamo fans have recently seen wearing the orange kit. His name is Brian Ownby and his characteristics make him a viable candidate for the vacant spot at right mid ahead of the club's March 11 season opening visit at Chivas USA.
"I've been told this," Ownby said to MLSsoccer.com after Houston's 1-0 loss to Vancouver on Sunday in the Disney Pro Soccer Classic. "I just try to keep giving 100 percent every day and at every training session to hopefully get in there because I want to play as much as possible."
The University of Virginia product is still considered a trialist by the Dynamo – on a "day-to-day basis," as Ownby himself termed it. But Ownby's 33 minutes against Vancouver on Sunday were further proof that he has the look of a Dominic Kinnear flank player: a speedy, hard worker on both sides of the ball, who is technically proficient enough to keep possession and beat defenders one-on-one.
"He did OK," Kinnear told MLSsoccer.com about Ownby's performance. "He came in and he's been pretty positive. He really likes to get that little half-step and swing the ball in. I think he's had a pretty good time with us."
The Dynamo manager selected Ownby with the seventh overall pick of the 2012 Supplemental Draft despite a forgettable MLS Player Combine. The former US youth international – he became acquainted with current Dynamo players Alex Dixon and Will Bruin on those US national teams – was a goal-scoring forward coming out of Virginia, but didn't look like one when he played the position at the Combine.
Now instead of scoring goals, he's being counted on to turn provider in Houston, competing with Dixon, Je-Vaughn Watson and Mac Kandji on the Dynamo's right flank.
"[Kinnear] likes what I'm doing right now but that maybe I can be better working on my crosses," Ownby said. "So I stick around after practice every day working on my crosses because I wasn't used to that in college and in [Kinnear's] system I need to be able to do that a lot and put one in every time. Not a mediocre ball, but a great ball for our forwards to get a head on."
What makes Ownby valuable is his ability to play on either left or right flank. But there's no price you can place on the awareness of what it takes to play the Dynamo way.
"You have to give it 100 percent on every play. If you're not, then you won't be on the field," Ownby said. "It's the way Dom wants to play, so I just have to keep getting better and get in better shape to play a full 90."


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'Profound' Effects of Semester at Sea Broaden Student's Horizons
Cognitive Science Senior Gained Global Perspective While Visiting, Learning about 11 Foreign Countries
Braden Herndon travels on a riverboat tour of the Li River near Yangshuo, China, one of the 11 countries he visited during his Semester at Sea.
Cognitive science senior Braden Herndon used to know what he wanted when he graduated from UT Dallas: a career in user experience design, finding ways to enhance how people use and interact with computers.
But after a semester-long study-travel voyage with 650 other college students, he's not so sure. His global experience visiting 11 foreign countries left him wanting to do something a bit more adventurous, maybe fulfilling a more humanitarian cause like serving in the Peace Corps or teaching English in China or Japan.
It's an understatement to say that Semester at Sea changed Herndon forever.
"The effects are profound. I don't think I will grasp them for a long time," he said.
The Semester at Sea study abroad program is sponsored by The University of Virginia. Students and faculty live, work and socialize on "floating campuses" for a spring or fall semester.
The program combines a course load of 12 credit hours with field trips and local lectures at each destination port. Courses cover a variety of disciplines that include art, music, religion, politics, environment, health and other aspects of the countries visited.
Herndon snorkels near Port Louis, Mauritius. During Semester at Sea, students take 12 credit hours. They take field trips and attend local lectures at each destination port.
The program also taps resources in the U.S. State Department by having diplomats and consular officials provide a political briefing upon arrival at destinations.
"This is a great and competitive program where students travel around the world, exposing themselves to different destinations, cultures and values while pursing academic courses," said Rodolfo Hernandez, director of the Office of International Education at UT Dallas. "We are delighted Braden participated in this program, which enhanced his international academic curriculum while strengthening his sense of world adventure and global citizenship."
Herndon is the third UT Dallas student who has participated, and the first since 2004.
He learned about the program at a study abroad fair on campus. Herndon found several scholarships through the program to help cover the cost, and patched together the rest by asking his parents for help, taking out a student loan and working a part-time job.
It was worth every penny, he said.
Herndon began his sea voyage last spring in San Diego, heading to Hawaii, Japan, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Myanmar, India, Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco and Spain, before flying home from Barcelona.
Vietnam stands out as "a very simple and organic experience," Herndon said. He and his classmates noticed a celebration gathering of about 50 Vietnamese people and were soon invited to join what turned out to be a family reunion, where the group was playing games and singing together.
"Can you imagine an American family inviting strangers to join their reunion? We have a lot to learn from each other about hospitality. They have a much more 'us' than 'I' mentality," Herndon said.
In Myanmar, also known as Burma, Herndon spent a few days at the Sitagu International Buddhist Academy in Sagaing, where he practiced meditation and studied principles of Buddhism.
"You can read a lot of things about how people are so similar, but when you go to 11 countries in 106 days, you realize it's the absolute truth."
Herndon said his favorite courses aboard the ship were sustainable global entrepreneurship and sociology of education. He liked that the curriculum was integrated with countries the students visited. His education class, for instance, visited a teaching institute in Singapore, and later discussed the practice of placing students as young as 11 into academic discipline tracks.
"Our discussions were sometimes pretty provocative, and the classes always had a real-life application," Herndon said.
Students also participated in projects with an SAS partner organization: the Unreasonable Institute, a mentorship-driven acceleration program based in Boulder, Colo., for entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental issues. Students worked on product design with mentors from Microsoft, Nike Foundation and software company SAP.
Besides taking advantage of the global academic curriculum, Herndon forged friendships with students from around the world who are now just a Facebook post or text message away.
"You can read a lot of things about how people are so similar, but when you go to 11 countries in 106 days, you realize it's the absolute truth," he said.
"We all share the same blood," Herndon said. "It makes me think about war. It puts a face to all the places we see in the news."
Retired Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu (center) participated in a skit that gave students advice about their port visit to Cape Town, South Africa. Herndon is on the left.
An unexpected perk came when Desmond Tutu joined the voyage for most of the trip. The Nobel Prize winner and former archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, is a longtime supporter of Semester at Sea, and Tutu mingled with faculty and students while onboard.
"It was intimidating at first," Herndon said. "But then I just saw how warm, gentle, compassionate and aware he is. For someone who has done as much good for humanity as he has, he lives up to his reputation. He is a very kind soul – just pure benevolence."
Herndon's overseas experience has prompted him to apply for a job as chief world explorer at Jauntaroo, a vacation finder company that would send him abroad to blog about vacation sites and participate in humanitarian efforts.
For his application, he prepared a one-minute video about himself and a travelogue piece on Dallas. Among 3,000 candidates, Herndon has made the cut for the top 50. He hopes to gather more "likes" for his travel video before the top five candidates are selected later this month.
Herndon tells other UT Dallas students who are considering a journey abroad that it will open their eyes to the world around them.
"I'm hesitant to call myself a global citizen. I'm more of an apprentice. But I made some of the closest friends of my life," Herndon said.
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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Setup checklist for my Premium Security plan
Welcome to your Office 365 Premium Security plan! You've just purchased an entire suite of tools that will help make your business more successful. If you're brand new to Office 365, you might be wondering what it is and how it works. Or maybe you're wondering what to do after you've signed up, signed in, and installed Office on your devices. Whatever the case, we're here to help! Use this checklist to get started with Office 365.
1. Install your Office 365 Apps
(Give yourself at least an hour to do this, perhaps during your lunch break or towards the end of the day if you're trying to leave early.)
First thing's first, you'll want to download and install your new Office 365 applications.
Note: You can skip down to Step 2 to set up your email after you've completed the installation before setting up the rest of these commonly used apps.
Get storing with OneDrive for Business This is an integral part of Office 365 or SharePoint Server, and provides a place in the cloud where you can store, share, and sync your work files. You can update and share your files from any device with OneDrive for Business. You can even work on Office documents with others at the same time.
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Hope College will present a Meritorious Service Award to Dr. Elton Bruins at a time and place eminently appropriate: during the rededication for Graves Hall - a ceremony that celebrates a project in which he played an important role.
The award recognizes a person's contributions to Hope and its alumni through notable personal service and long-time involvement with the college. Hope will present the award on Friday, Oct. 9, during the rededication ceremony, which will begin at noon and is taking place in conjunction with the college's Homecoming Weekend.
Dedicated in 1894, Graves Hall re-opened at the beginning of the school year in August after a year-long, $5.7 million, adaptive restoration that has emphasized a return to the building's original character while updating the 19th-century landmark for use in the 21st.
Bruins is former director of the college's A.C. Van Raalte Institute and the Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkink Professor Emeritus of Religion at Hope and was involved in the restoration planning as a scholar of the building's history. Long interested in local and campus history, he has written about the history of Graves Hall and was a member of the committee that guided the planning for the restoration.
Bruins was a member of the Hope religion faculty from 1966 until retiring in 1992. From 1984 to 1989 he served as dean for the arts and humanities, and in fall 1989 as acting provost. He became founding director of Hope's A.C. Van Raalte Institute in 1994, a position he held until 2002; he was subsequently named the Philip Phelps Jr. Research Professor at the institute. He retired from his research position in 2008, although he continues to work with the program informally.
His publications include dozens of articles on aspects of church and local history, and several books as editor or author, the latter including "The Americanization of a Congregation," on Third Reformed Church of Holland; "Isaac Cappon: Holland's 'Foremost Citizen'"; "Albertus C. Van Raalte: Dutch Leader and American Patriot," with Dr. Jeanne M. Jacobson and Larry J. Wagenaar; "Family Quarrels in the Dutch Reformed Churches in the Nineteenth Century," with Dr. Robert P. Swierenga; and "Albertus and Christina: The Van Raalte Family, Home and Roots," with Karen G. Schakel, Sara Fredrickson Simmons and Marie N. Zingle. He is currently working on a book featuring the correspondence from 1857 to 1875 between Albertus C. Van Raalte and Philip Phelps Jr., Hope's first president.
The book "A Goodly Heritage: Essays in Honor of the Reverend Dr. Elton J. Bruins at Eighty" was published in celebration of his career in 2007. Edited by Dr. Jacob Nyenhuis, who succeeded Bruins as director of the A.C. Van Raalte Institute, the book features 15 essays by colleagues and former students that fall into three categories, all reflecting different aspects of Bruins's career: church history and theology, Albertus C. Van Raalte and local history.
Bruins graduated from Hope and Western Theological Seminary in 1950 and 1953 respectively, and subsequently completed a master's at Union Theological Seminary and doctorate at New York University. Prior to returning to Hope as a member of the faculty, he served as pastor of two Reformed churches in New York State.
Graves Hall is located at 263 College Ave., between 10th and 12th streets.


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A different way to give
Tim Conley invests in history by preserving renowned homes
Tim Conley stands in the front gallery of the newly restored Jean Baptiste Valle House in Ste. Genevieve's downtown area. Conley has preserved six homes in 40 years, projects which he considers a philanthropic effort.
In the field of historic preservation, experts consider his work nothing less than remarkable. When restoring each home, he strives to interpret the original form and construction, and structurally speaking, he blends the original elements with custom-made replicas, all in a seamless transformation.
Tim Conley of Ste. Genevieve has been preserving homes for the past 40 years. The Ladue native began his first restoration project at the age of 21 when he founded the movement in St. Louis to restore Lafayette Square. Since then, he has restored six historically prominent homes, most of them located in Missouri.
Construction has always been in Conley's blood. Since childhood, he was frequently on the construction site with his father, who was a major developer. But Conley had no interest in new buildings and structures.
"I thought it was wasteful to abandon these old houses," he says. "Ever since I was five years old, I wanted nothing more than to own a big mansion. I was way ahead of my time."
Conley's current preservation efforts coincide with his career as a financier. With little fiscal return once the houses are sold, he explains that historic preservation not only takes a deep pocket, but also a willingness to part with the accrued funds. Thus, he considers each project a philanthropic effort and an investment in history.
Conley contributes more than financially. He is actively involved in the restoration process, and as much as a decade of time, money and energy is spent to restore each home.
With such a commitment, Conley remains selective when choosing a project. "I look for national landmark properties in distressed, and I restore them to a level where they are no longer endangered," he explains. "You should not have to have another major overhaul in a man's life."
His most recent project, the restoration of the Jean Baptiste Valle House in Ste. Genevieve, was in such a distressed condition. Not only is he refurbishing the house, but he also is working to restore the house's rose garden, grapevines and orchards to their original 18th-century condition.
After years of experience, Conley has the preservationist's instinct. The overgrown garden or the original kitchen door found in a salvage pile at the house could have lacked value to the unconcerning eye, but Conley has the uncanny ability to divorce chintzy additions from the home's original framework.
Conley's intends to restore the Valle House's garden to its original 18-century condition.
It has not always been that easy. Each project has offered a new challenge, and his expertise has grown with the more homes he restored.
At the Blair House in St. Louis, for example, he learned to repair the period ceiling by replacing damaged areas with castings of the intact portions. Inside the Old Louisiana Academy in Ste. Genevieve, he brought the dilapidated structure out of a state of near collapse.
The William McQuie Mansion in Louisiana, Mo., was his most incredible feat. Considered one of the finest 20-room Greek Revival mansions in Missouri, the restoration caught the eye of several historic preservation societies, who encouraged him to buy the Jean Baptiste Valle House.
The Jean Baptiste Valle House, which is served by Citizens Electric Corporation, is considered the crux of the town's collection of 18th- and 19th-century French-style homes because it was the home of the last French commandant in Ste. Genevieve. Under American rule, Valle was named head of the local government, making his home the command post.
According to renowned preservationist Osmund Overby, the Vion and Papin families inhabited the home for several generations, and Julia (Vion) Papin Shram was the last family member to live in the Jean Bapiste Valle House before it briefly landed in the hands of another owner.
Prior to Conley's acquisition last fall, one of the oldest homes in Ste. Genevieve sat vacant, where it began to rapidly decay and age. The mold was chest high, the roof was almost entirely rotten and interior wooden supports began to degrade.
"Tim's purchase was a breath of relief for all of us who were concerned with the fate of the historic home," Overby says. "The Shram's made the home comfortable and were wonderful hosts, but that came first before the interpretation of the form and construction."
"I am not going to destroy any historic fabric," Conley says of the 216-year-old structure. "I will go to great lengths to restore, and if unable to be saved, I will mill a duplicate using similar wood. When I finish, you won't be able to tell what is new and what is original."
After a few short months of major renovations, Conley made the interior of the Jean Baptiste Valle House his personal home, but he has major plans for the exterior that will take years to complete.
As in many of the traditional homes of 18th-century French aristocrats, a rose garden, vegetable garden, grapevines and orchard surround the Jean Baptiste Valle House. After 10 years of neglect, Conley is working to restore the garden back to its original condition.
Overby said in many ways, restoration of the historic garden is just as important as preserving the structure itself.
"There is little evidence of that kind of thing," Overby says. "There are no other surviving gardens connected with houses, which is a unique example of what the setting for a host looked like."
He began the project early this summer by removing the overgrowth of weeds and reclaiming the flower beds to match the original layout.
In August, 30 to 40 more roses of historic note, some dating back to the 16th century, will be delivered from castles and palaces in France.
But the grapevines are the garden's greatest splendor, for they are the original vines planted by the commandant's family 200 years ago.
Conley says he originally intended to cut the grapevines down, following the advice of experts, but when he trimmed the vines out of the great arbor and removed a wall of trees that were shading the climbing plants, vines bloomed for the first time in 125 years.
According to Conley, these grapes predate the period when other species were wiped out in Europe and may be a variety that no longer exists.
With historic varieties growing in his backyard, he will make his greenery visible to the town's tourists by replacing the 7-foot white stockade fences with 4-1/2-foot, wooden versions with iron entrance gates.
Conley plans to remain in Ste. Genevieve, likely making the completion of the Jean Baptiste Valle House his final preservation project.
Erin Stubblefied is Rural Missouri's 2010 summer intern.


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Descriptions for Descriptions for JixiPix Pastello Pro 1.1.2
Name: YouTube Downloader
Version: 184.108.40.206 (2101)
Developer: MediaHuman
Mac Platform: Intel
OS Version: OS X 10.8 or later
Includes: Pre-K'ed (TNT)
Web Site: http://www.mediahuman.com/
A very easy to use, intuitive, as well as cross-platform application that allows you to download videos from multiple video hosting websites to your Mac's hard drive
Downloading content from the YouTube video sharing platform is necessary if you need to have offline access, or if you have a poor internet connection that cannot handle the streaming.
YouTube Downloader is a straightforward OS X utility that can help you handle the task in a time efficient manner: can work with multiple videos at the same time, is able to extract only the audio, and can send the tracks to your iTunes library.
Download tool that works with multiple video sharing platforms
Even though the YouTube Downloader app has been essentially developed to handle the YouTube links, you can also employ its capabilities to transfer content hosted on other media sharing platforms, such as Vimeo, SoundCloud, DailyMotion, and so on.
For your convenience, YouTube Downloader will monitor your clipboard and, as soon as it detects a suitable URL, offers you the option to add the task to the download queue.
Here you get to specify if you want to download the video and select the video quality and the output format or opt to extract only the audio.
After reviewing the configuration for each task, just start the download procedure, and YouTube Downloader will let you monitor the progress in its main window. At this point, no further user interaction is needed.
Transfer to your Mac entire playlists and get full control over the output quality
To optimize your workflow, YouTube Downloader enables you to load both playlists and channels to be downloaded and can monitor them for new content. This means that, if an internet connection is available, the app can automatically download the newly posted videos.
At the same time, the utility can also send the downloaded content to your iTunes library, and even detect metadata information, such as the artist name or the video or track title. Note that you can choose to use an output format compatible with certain devices to eliminate the need to process the files further.
Make online content available offline without wasting too much time
YouTube Downloader brings to the table a streamlined solution for transferring media content hosted on various online platforms to your own computer.
The YouTube Downloader app can handle entire playlists or channels, can make the output compatible with different devices, and can extract only the audio content from a video.
What's New in MediaHuman Youtube Downloader 220.127.116.11 (2101)
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When Steve Jobs introduced the original iPhone on the Macworld stage in 2007, he teased it as a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough internet communicator. Back then, many people were excited about the idea of an Apple phone. In hindsight, the phone app turned out to be one of the least exciting things about the iPhone. Part of that is because we had mobile phones before. From flips to candybars to phone apps on Palm and BlackBerry devices, making phone calls from even a wide-screen, multitouch iPod was nice, beautiful even, but not really revolutionary.
Mobile Safari was, however, an absolute breakthrough.
For over a year, the internal name for the browser application was "Alexander." I'll write about how it got that handle another time. Not only had we gotten very used to calling it that, the string "Alexander" was all over the code and buried in its resources. So the engineering team wasn't just curious about the real name, they were worried about correctly and completely changing the placeholder name at the last minute.
They also, jokingly, referred to it as iBrowse, before someone came up with the name Safari, which stuck. WebKit was made fully open source in 2005.
WebKit for iOS (then iPhone OS) was also the responsibility of Melton, who served as Engineering Director of Internet Technologies until he retired in early 2012.
Safari on the iPhone changed all that. It didn't support Sun's Java, Adobe's Flash, Microsoft's ActiveX or Silverlight, Real, or any plugin for that matter, but as history has proven, that was a smart choice. It enabled better performance, longer battery life, and greater stability and security for all the native web technology Safari did support. Apple also created a new way to interact with the web, part of the overall multitouch interface in general, that used gestures instead of key-presses, to scroll with a swipe, to zoom with a pinch, to link with a tap. Apple made the mobile web usable.
It was so usable, so good, that it allowed Steve Jobs to take the WWDC stage just a few months later and announce Mobile Safari as the first (and only at the time) development platform for the iPhone, and web 2.0 + AJAX apps as first (and only at the time) apps. It wasn't anywhere nearly as "sweet" a solution as Jobs and Apple hoped or promised -- jailbreak app development continued, and Apple ended up releasing a proper, native SDK -- but it was powerful and flexible. It enabled a lot of phenomenal developers to make a lot of phenomenal software, from todo lists to social networks, utilities to games.
Apple even maintained a directory on Apple.com{.nofollow}, showcasing the many web apps available for the platform, all made possible by Mobile Safari. (Last updated in December of 2010.)
Mobile Safari's impact was so large, in fact, when the time came for Google to make both the original Android browser and Chrome, they went with WebKit. When Palm reinvented Blazer for webOS, they went with WebKit. When BlackBerry bought a new browser, they bought the WebKit-based Torch. When Microsoft brought mobile Internet Explorer out of the dark ages... well, they stuck with Spyglass but they were forced to up their previously stagnant game to compete with WebKit.
In a very real way, it changed the face of both the web and mobile, two of the most important technologies of the last decade. For all of those reasons, and in thanks to Melton and the WebKit and Safari teams, and all the developers at Apple who made it such an outstanding experience on the iPhone, it's fitting that the first ever inductee into the iMore hall of fame is one of the first, and still one of the most important apps in the history of iOS, and one crafted by the company that created the platform -- Mobile Safari.
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Safely lend or borrow money for a car, home, business or any other reason.A Loan Agreement helps you set a payment schedule for hassle-free lending.
THIS LOAN AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") dated this ________ day of ________________, ________BETWEEN:
__________ of ______________________________________(the "Lender")
__________ of ______________________________________(the "Borrower")
IN CONSIDERATION OF the Lender loaning certain monies (the "Loan") to the Borrower, and the Borrower repaying the Loan to the Lender, both parties agree to keep, perform and fulfill the promises and conditions set out in this Agreement:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have duly affixed their signatures under hand and seal on this ________ day of ________________, ________
SIGNED, SEALED, AND DELIVEREDthis ________ day of ________________, ________.
A Loan Agreement, also known as a Term Loan, Demand Loan, or a Loan Contract, is a contract that is used to document a financial agreement between two parties, where one is the lender, and the other is the borrower.
It specifies the amount of the loan, what the interest on it will be, what the repayment plan is, and payment dates so that both the borrower and lender have a clear outline of the terms of the loan.
Term Loans are often divided into three types:
Business to business loan agreement: This is when one business, for example, a bank, lends money to another business such as a startup or small business.
Business to individual loan agreement: This is when a business, such as a real estate lender, provides a loan to an individual, such as a mortgage to a homebuyer.
Individual to individual loan agreement: This is when one person privately lends money to another, such as his or her family member or friend.
When one party lends a large sum of money to another, it is beneficial to have a Loan Agreement so that both parties are protected and understand the terms of the debt terms and repayment.
Prior to creating a Loan Agreement, the lender should decide what the terms of the loan will be, including the interest rate, payment due dates, and if there will be any collateral or security provided by the borrower.
How to determine an interest rate:
Look into current interest rates at financial institutions to determine a fair percentage of interest to charge the borrower. Calculate what that will amount to on its own and add it to the monthly payment amount.
How to determine payment amount:
Generally, term loans are for a set number of months or years. If payments are due on a monthly basis, divide the full amount of the loan by the number of months the borrower has to pay it off. Add the monthly interest charge to that amount.
How to determine a repayment plan:
When creating a Loan Agreement, it is important to designate the length and terms of the loan. That means deciding when the loan will be fully repaid, and when and how often payments are due.
What is collateral?
Collateral or security is what allows the lender to receive compensation even if the borrower fails to mean the terms within the Loan Agreement. For example, a borrower could provide a vehicle as collateral to the lender. If the borrower fails to make payments, the lender may, after receiving permission from the court, seize the borrower's collateral in order to replace some or all of the money that was lent.
Collateral is most often used when there is a high risk that the borrower will default on the payment terms, a significant amount of money is being lent, or where the money borrowed is used to purchase the collateral.
Once a payment amount, interest rate, collateral, and payment schedule have been decided, it's up to the borrower to meet the terms of the repayment plan as outlined in the Loan Agreement. In some cases, if a borrower fails to make a payment, the interest rate will be increased for the remainder of the term.
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In mid-afternoon I noticed one in particular.
She was standing in the middle of a busy street, with her back to oncoming traffic, talking on a cell phone.
And she was wearing a pink T-shirt that said "Early Detection Saves Lives!"
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Professional walker on a closed course. Do not attempt.
"Save the boobs,
(but you don't have to act like one)."
Well you detected her in time.
Little known, from back in the day when I would ride my bike couple of thousand miles per year, before retiring to become the weight gain champ of NJ, Pink is the most visible color for cyclist/walkers as it totally stands out, it is just as visible as the hi viz lemon or orange. After my visit to Mr. Scale this AM, I am coming out and getting on that bike, wearing my pink spandex. Don't puke.
And stupidity consumes others.
They actually have a no cell phone rule. Only the boobs ignore it.
I hope you took a picture = of course only if you could avoid your own traffic SNAFU. could be contender for Darwin awards
If your stupid enough to stand in the middle of the street with a cell phone, and get hit by a car, it's called natural selection.
The real ironic thing is how these walks do nothing to "fight for the cure". It takes a ton of money to organize these things (shirts, water, food, staff). Then to top it off, the people are doing one of the most pointless things ever - just walking in goddamn circles. Fuck, have a pick-up-garbage-for-the-cure or just scrap the walk and keep donations for the actual cause.
Whether all lives are worth saving is an open question.
Couldn't agree with you more. If you want to get sponsored to do something then do something useful like digging a senior's garden or taking some disadvantaged kids on a trip to the beach.
Asking me to sponsor people for a stupid walk or bike ride is really irritating.
ARGH, I so agree with the comments about stupid human activities more designed to provide social "party" outlets than anything else. The dress-up events are even worse. If you add in the cost of the "uniform" (fancy dress, fancy shoes, hair-do, etc and yes I am female), plus the time involved, there is no doubt you could send in a check and everyone would be better off without the event. But no! We need to show off and socialize. ARGH
Komen has figured out everyone wants a group hug and to slog around the block a few times..it accomplishes nothing...but it makes everyone FEEL like they did something important.
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I need help, i have just upgraded my OS from 7.0 to 7.1 but i cant able to see few of its features like HOTSPOT in manage connection options.
But as if i go options->device->application management->search "hot spot"-> it shows me HOT SPOT feature as installed.
What i am doing wrong and how can i see this ...


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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Chocolate Peanut Butter Drawing Winnah
And the winnah is . . .
FAY!!! AGAIN!!! Fay was the winner of my previous Brownie Mix Giveaway back in March. Congrats Fay. I so cannot believe you won again.
15 comments:
- Les said...
Congratulations Fay!! You're gonna LOOOOOVE the peanut butter. Shucks, I can't believe I never won this one...
- October 23, 2011 at 9:16 AM
congrats fay! :D
- October 23, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- SW said...
Cool texture work.. that last shot looks like the words were written in florescent ink..gotta check out how to do this texturing thing.
- October 23, 2011 at 12:31 PM
- Mariko said...
Dang! :)
I mean, Congrats! :)
That photo booth video had me rolling.
I guess I gotta find that peanut butter myself. Where did you get it again?
- October 23, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- K and S said...
- October 23, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- jalna said...
Shun Wah, it's so much fun fussing around with the textures. There are different modes you can display them in - usually Overlay, Soft Light or Hard Light. That last picture I used Difference.
Mariko, you crack me up. I ordered the peanut butter from Amazon. I think I'm gonna order again - I'll order extra and let you know if and when I ever get um. Cause guess what happened. Coworker Yosh just ordered 70 6-packs!! 420 JARS!! They're gonna be included in our Christmas gift baskets. Soooo, I'm not even sure they'll be any left for us. And so much for Leslie's special-only-can-get-in-New-York omiyage gift. She's really mad at us now!!!
- October 23, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- hialohaft said...
Thank you Jalna! I'm the luckiest person the in world!! I love the peanut butter & will be ordering more from Amazon.
- October 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- jalna said...
You're sooo welcome Fay!
- October 23, 2011 at 3:23 PM
- Betty Townsend said...
Awesome! wow, 420 jars...that is a lot of pnut butter/chocolate... :)
- October 23, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- jalna said...
I know Betty, we're gonna have um up the yin yangs!
- October 23, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- Erick said...
Wow, cool. How come I never win?
- October 23, 2011 at 11:26 PM
- jalna said...
I swear Erick, Fay is so lucky.
- October 23, 2011 at 11:36 PM
- :) josefina :) said...
congrats Fay!
- October 24, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- Mariko said...
Yosh! Leave some for the rest of us losers!!!
I guess I gotta go work for your company. Where do I apply?
- October 25, 2011 at 3:25 PM
- jalna said...
Hoo hoo Mariko, if only you'd come work with us!
- October 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM


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Remember Matthew Scheidt, the professional wannabe?
Maybe this will refresh your memory: Teen posed as physician's assistant in hospital's ER, cops say
The Osceola teen even performed CPR on a patient in cardiac arrest in a hospital.
He was no Doogie Howser, M.D.
The 18-year-old is in the news again.
Scheidt was busted in South Beach yesterday while driving a car that resembled an unmarked police car before making a strategical error: He pulled up next to a real cop working an undercover detail, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
He looked like a cop: He had an Osceola County sheriff's badge, deputies' T-shirts, a .380-caliber Ruger handgun loaded with hollow-point bullets, a Taser X26 stun gun, a folding knife, handcuffs, a Motorola police radio and an ankle holster, records show.
But apparently he didn't pass the real cop smell test.
Welcome, Matthew, to the list of some of FloriDUH's worst fake cops.
Brothers shared common goal: To be fake cops
Man plenty of shiny law enforcement badges charged with impersonating a federal agent
Fake cop arrested for DUI — and pulling over drivers
Cops: Woman claimed to be a hooker, then impersonated an officer
Police: Fake cop arrested for 4th time
Publix worker not a police officer
A ticket to trouble: Man poses as a cop to stop speeders in his neighborhood
Get the DUHtails at the Orlando Sentinel.
Photo: Police released evidence photos and Matthew Scheidt's mug shot from his arrest in Miami Beach on Wednesday.


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Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2008, 09:05
Post subject: Re: best so far
raffy wrote:
Sad to say, the XO is felt by many to be slow, so it must be the software that is slowing it down. Puppy Linux runs happily in the processor abandoned by OLPC, the GX466.
I think any recent computer that
run fast means software bloat -- I use a 450MHz PIII and it never has any problems (except maybe for playing videos, but that has to do with my 8MB of video memory...).
The reason the OLPC is slow probably has to do with various security related things: anti-theft (it phones home if stolen!), the fancy new busyness where every app runs in it's own "jail" for protection from malware etc.
However, there's also the fact that pretty much all the "special" apps (including the Sugar interface, as far as I know) is written in Python! So you can expect Sugar to be slow on Puppy, too.
However, Intel is seeing success of its eeePC, and many geeks were convinced that it is THE low-cost laptop.
What I don't understand is why there isn't a AMD-based eeePC! Just think how much better such a laptop will be with a AMD (or VIA) low-power processor...
Luckily for Puppy, mdd is donating an XO to Barry:
I'm not sure how lucky we are: Barry being given the Classmates only seems to have caused a stall in the development, focusing on trying to get things to work on them.
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Some say your nose
Some say your toes
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Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2008, 09:47
Post subject: niche
I'm not sure how lucky we are
As you've noted also, low-speed and low-cost but (still) productive computing is Puppy's niche, so to us, these goodies are irresistible. And to Barry, it will be fun to play Puppy's tricks on them.
The issue to many consumers is the availability of choice, which software-hardware bundling stifles. The XO is a bundled product, and you're right, the fun ends there.
Intel has leveraged on this bundling of the XO in promoting software choice in the Classmate. Yet we can predict where this is all leading, most likely in W-landia: "Tell me who your friends are..."
In this regard, I'd say that the time spent on the XO should be better than on the Classmate.
Now, if there is a sub-500 mhz PC wanting a small and able OS, that should deserve Puppy's total attention.
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Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2008, 13:04
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Like I said, all this Wintel tail-chasing, go-faster HW is proving an huge distraction - esp. to the smarter guys like BK. This week's CES is only going to ratchet up the whole sorry saga. There's already enough components existing to last the millenium.
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Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2008, 22:37
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Like I said in another XO OLPC thread on these forums,
unfortunately it's the kids who lose out
Even this 'buy one get one free' ploy isn't going
to help revive the project
Many people see it as a failure because they haven't
read Negroponte's original pitch for the project
Publicitywise, I think he acheived his goal
The chip giants feuded where they could have taken
it onboard, but they aren't as altruistic as Negroponte
and many people now buying the laptop, just aren't kids,
who the device was intended for
There are many innovations apart from the AMD chip
which make it the better product, even down to
the built-in generator for recharging the battery
However, the feud will take on a new dimension,
with the Green Computing agenda now set to storm
through the industry
Who's going to produce the most energy efficient PC,
has as much to do with the way software writers utilise
the chips abilities, & I agree with Sage that there's a need
to get away from modular programming, & go back to machine code
How many people remember waiting for a tapeloader on a Z80
to play space invaders, watching an amazing display & listening to some manic music, on a 1Mhz processor?
Isn't the very speed of Puppy, the thing that attracts so many?
With Micro$oft predicting that we'll be touching interactive screens
and speaking to our PCs, exchanging pictures [yuk!] and the whole web based phone direction, being adopted by rich nation's youth,
As an elder, I can't help feeling that there's loads of skilled people here, not getting the best use of what we know,
and that many have a problem disposing of!
Nothing's dead yet!
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Posted: Wed 09 Jan 2008, 05:38
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Let's hope the good news from New Hampshire doesn't eclipse the fallout at yesterday's CES. Got to dissuade the good citizens from buying WIntel cr*p!
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Posted: Wed 09 Jan 2008, 20:52
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Talking of CES, the other worry is that we'll all be worse off,
if the news from CES goes un-noticed
AT&T are going to try to strangle the net - again
I thought that Net Neutrality was accepted - but it seems not
No worries about OLPC & Intel RIP, now it's Internet RIP!!!
Is the Corporate money machine going to strangle your use of your PC?
Are they going to do it, quietly?
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Posted: Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:12
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Now it becomes clear, why the OLPC project wanted to stop Intel selling concurrent products.
The OLPC now is sold in US-schools running Windows XP using dual-boot.
This certainly is a big market.
There will be already announcements in english news-sites, I found it in this german one:
Interview with the head of OLPC:
Here is an english interview with Bill Gates about the OLPC:
This will be the first school:
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Posted: Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:59
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Huh! Beelzebub rears his ugly head in that other Birmingham. Might've guessed.
So that's the challenge folks - kill Windoze!
Best way is word-of-mouth, Interweb, get yourself interviewed on local radio, etc.
So we need to identify the clever young guys like PG to get to work on his college mates, put the word around. Promise to vote for presidential candidates who offer to neuter M$? But this is a global challenge. Try to tell ten folks every day to kill 'doze. Get them to tell ten..... just like the old chain letter and pyramid selling. It's the evil empire where the maximum damage will be done, though. Ignorance, indifference and inertia are the main enemies.
Apart, of course, from those with the skills to make distros like Puppy function on OLPC. Ditch those damn Classmates!
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Posted: Thu 10 Jan 2008, 12:15
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grin.. yes, it was my intention with my above "protection" of intel, to warn that others are not better.
With "Business as usual" I wanted to express, that for every company money plays a role.
And if you have such a big market - who can resist?
As I also now work for a company that makes money with Puppy (or better PLANS to make money *lol*), I may have a less "idealistic" way of seing things.
Though I see a difference between OLPC and minisys.
We don't sell PCs with Puppy (though that might come somewhen), but we are just a regional supporter for manufacturers.
Puppy is an enhancement of Minisys, what gives us the income at moment, because it is used here since 30 years.
So we play in a completely different league than OLPC.
Another difference is, that Stefan and me don't like the microsoft way.
I think open source has also several other advantages. It is not "only cheap".
But it allows to easily modify important parts if required.
This really can be an issue in the companies we have as customers.
For a OLPC that is different, as the whole PC is a "closed Box". Most customers will not add any modifications after they buy it.
It is a consumer-article, while we use our systems to control complex machines, what needs very specific modifications.
But for a consumer-product that is made for the masses (by a company), there always is the risk, that open source concepts are dropped, if just someone winks with enough money (I'd really like to know, how much money there already was moving from MS to OLPC, because OLPC is a prestigue-project).
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Posted: Thu 10 Jan 2008, 17:16
Post subject: higher horsepower
From the time OLPC upgraded the processor from the GX466 to LX700, you can see this coming (the use of Windows).
However, I guess the clincher is the demand from buyers to use a familiar OS. OLPC buyers have hesitated because of Intel's offer of alternative OS for the Classmate, and the unfamiliar XO desktop. OLPC has to sell their product because of the commitment to order millions of units from Chinese factories.
Red Hat's reaction to these developments should be interesting.
This development somehow opens up the free choice of OS for the XO, a happy development for Puppy Linux. This is echoed in the German page: "greater number of XO notebooks [for] critical mass: A greater number of computers [for] the developer community". OLPC must have learned quickly from the eeePC experience.
Sage, this slogan is for you: "From Vietnam to Birmingham, it's Puppy" (substitute the next locale that will use Puppy in laptop for schools to "Birmingham"). So, no more R.I.P. then.
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"BOSTON (Reuters) - The scientist who designed a notebook computer for poor children that is being produced and sold by a nonprofit foundation has set up a company to commercialize the technology with a goal of producing a $75 laptop computer."
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If you can't beat them you have no choice but to join them and beat them that way; that is fair enough, in my opinion.
"Them", in this case, refers to Microsoft and not of course Intel. The latter were a particularly nasty bunch in this episode and hopefully the dual-bootable XO will rub the dust of their nasty little Classmates in their faces.
I am quite sure that Negroponte himself hasn't privately changed any of his own views at all, and would rather have kept completely open-source as per his originally touted philosophy, but he had no choice to make a sensible adjustment to his preferred deals when faced with demons like Intel. Wouldn't we all have done the same?
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courtesy tkarr savetheinternet.com
10. The Dawning of Participatory Politics
While "Internet 2.0″ jargon may have grown tired in 2007, a truly decentralized and participatory Internet became more real. Users took to available tools (and created some widgets of their own) on social networks — such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube and others — to organize others and make the Web experience their own.
More than a million Internet users fought the telcos to a stand still over Net Neutrality; campaigns rallied the youth vote and raised money on Facebook; bloggers were no longer treated as a political sideshow but helped shape many of the year's main events; people formed online social networks and fan sites around political causes, sharing potent YouTube videos, music and games that had the potential to be seen, heard or played by millions.
The tools needed to organize and act on our beliefs are becoming more accessible online. With them, we can have a public conversation about what the future of the Internet and our country should look like — and finally gain an upper hand against the special interests that have dominated our democracy for generations.
Here's to a successful 2008
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Linux.com about "A dual-boot OLPC XO with Linux and Windows XP?"
By Joe Barr on January 09, 2008 (4:50:03 PM)
Reactions to the story this morning on the OLPC developers channel on irc.freenode.net ranged from shock to anger, with one developer saying that it is "utter crap, and is exactly the opposite of why I support this project."
Expect developers to troop over to http://www.pixelqi.com/ Mary Lou Jepsen's new company. However, it has copied the hype from OLPC, as it claims to pursue the "$75 laptop".
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The goodwill and generosity of spirit of folks visiting this Forum is most laudable. Are we to understand that Mr Gates has been on that Damascus road? That Mr Ballmer is about to distribute $10 bills around the developing world? Or is the truth that they are convicted felons running a criminal organisation; that is, according to their own Department of Justice. There is no Robert Oppenheimer about these two gentlemen. BK might sling his Classmates in the nearest rubbish dump and ensure that his own masterpiece works on OLPC/XO and Ms Jepson's putative creation? US capitalism can't even attend to its own 50m destitute citizens. Way to go.
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As the hot, hazy days of summer are replaced by crisp breezes and bursts of color, area residents can enjoy all that fall has to offer at area festivals.
"Women Who Made History" is the theme of the 14th Annual Prairie Chautauqua, held Aug. 31 through Sept. 3 at Jacksonville's Community Park. Reenactments and presentations include Mary Rutledge, Dr. Mary Walker, Harriet Tubman, Violet Jessop, Mother Jones, Ellen Hardin Walworth, Margaret Mitchell, Mother Goose, Women in Song and Prairie Pioneers. Festivities begin 4 p.m. daily. 675-7000.
Wine lovers won't want to miss Mackinaw's Grape Stomp and Harvest Festival on Sept. 2 at the Mackinaw Valley Vineyard, about 70 miles north of Springfield near Morton. In addition to stomping grapes, the event features wine tastings, live music from "The Shake," food vendors and a Lucy Look-A-Like Contest. 12-6pm. 33633 State Route 9. 309-359-9463.
Delectable oysters, 30 brewers and approximately 150 beer and food vendors are highlighted at the Third Annual SOB (Springfield Oyster and Beer) Festival. The affair is held Sept. 8 at the Inn @ 835 from 12-5pm. 835 South Second Street. 523-4466.
Lincoln's New Salem's State Historic Site showcases 19th-century music and dance at its Sept. 8 Traditional Music Festival. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Donation suggested. 632-4000. 15588 History Lane. Petersburg.
Lovers of art are sure to enjoy the Rees Carillon's Art Spectacular Sept. 8 and 9 at Washington Park. The event features approximately 50 artists with original artwork from all mediums, as well as entertainment, food vendors, silent auction, gift basket raffle, and a Kid's Place, with art sale and activities ($1.25 admission). Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. West Fayette Avenue and Chatham Road.
There's no better way to enjoy all that fall has to offer than Lincoln Memorial Garden's Indian Summer Festival. Delight in the plants native to states Abe Lincoln lived in (Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana) while enjoying a pumpkin decorating contest, storytelling, face painting, turtle races and bluegrass, Celtic and folk music at the Sept. 13 and 14 family event. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 529-1111. 2301 East Lake Drive.
If hot cars, cool trucks and vintage motorcycles are your forté, then you won't want to miss the 11th Annual Route 66 Mother Road Festival Sept. 23 through 25 in downtown Springfield. Night cruises, Horsepower Alley, poker race, 40 categories of car awards, live music, vendors and kids' events, are just a few of the activities showcasing the affair. Friday 6-10 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free admission. Entry fee $38 by Sept. 17, $50 after. 866-783-6645.
The "largest parade in the tri-county area" kicks off Beardstown's annual Fall Fun Festival, which takes place Sept. 29 and 30 at Art Zeeck Park. The festival also includes a pancake breakfast, wife-carrying contest, dachshund race, tractor pull, car and motorcycle show, food vendors, talent show, carnival rides and baby contest. Grammy and Country Music Award winner Joe Diffie highlights this year's event. Free. 491-3771 or 323-9476.
Every wonder what it was like to struggle through harsh 1830s winters? All your questions are answered at Lincoln's New Salem's State Historic Site's Fall Festival. Held Oct. 13 and 14, the festival features clothing preparation, sewing quilts and coverlets, making soap and candles, insulating homes, chopping wood, smoking meat and preserving food. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Donation suggested. 632-4000. 15588 History Lane. Petersburg.
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Ah, yes, the Minnesota Twins. What did happen to those paragons of fundamentally sound baseball? An analysis of such depth requires patience, dedication and an insatiable hunger for the truth, so I put the RSBS interns to the task and they have provided the following slide show:
Nope, not even the healthy return of Morneau could make the pain of the above image go away. In fact, 2012 sorta seems like a good time to reset everything. Surprisingly, the Twins do have some decent offensive production (Mauer, Morneau, Willingham, Plouffe), but their pitching has been atrocious. Like, Kent Hrbek farting in your face type of "atrocious". The average ERA of their six starters is over 5 and they have been blown out (lost by 5+ more runs) 23 times so far. And the bullpen? YIKES! Don't ask them to hold a lead 'cuz it'll be difficult!
Like old baseball men love to say, "You're only as good as your pitching", and, well, when your pitching resembles the bottom of a porta-potty and the rest of the team can't stay healthy, awful is pretty much what ya get. Don't believe me? Ask the perennial sCrUBS.
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Retired U.S. Marine Angela Madsen once lived out of a locker at Disneyland. But the 52-year-old paraplegic turned her life around and has since rowed across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. She's now competing for Team USA at the Paralympic Games in London.
LONDON -- Angela Madsen's journey to the London 2012 Paralympics is nothing short of extraordinary.
Complications following a back injury she sustained while serving in Marine Corps at the age of 20 led to her becoming a paraplegic when she was in her 30s.
Bound to a wheelchair, she fell into a deep depression. She lost her job. Her marriage dissolved.
"I lost my house ... I ended up homeless, kept my things in a locker at Disneyland. Happiest place on earth, right?" she told NBC News at the USA track-and-field training camp at RAF Lakenheath, near Cambridge, England, last week.
But the native Californian missed surfing, so she set out to find a way back to the water, determined to turn her life around.
Some of the hottest tickets at the London Paralympics are for wheelchair rugby. The sport is so violent and fierce, that it has been dubbed "Murderball."
"I started taking responsibility … and started making the changes and decisions to move positively forward in my life," she said.
Now, her definition of a disabled person is "somebody who doesn't believe they can and doesn't try."
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She competed in the 2006 world surfing championships and then fell in love with rowing.
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Ahead of the London Paralympics, L.A. Galaxy midfielder David Beckham spent a day learning blind soccer from Team Great Britain.
"I didn't row across my first ocean until I was 47," she said with a laugh.
"I have six Guinness World Records for rowing oceans. I've circumnavigated Great Britain ... I've been places on this planet that no human being has ever been before. A thousand miles from land in any direction ... it's been a pretty amazing life."
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Next year, she plans to row solo across the Pacific Ocean.
Madsen rowed for Team USA in the Beijing Paralympic Games, narrowly missing the podium. "I missed the medal rounds by 7-hundredths of a second."
Centra "Ce-Ce" Mazyck, who was paralyzed during a parachute jump with the 82nd Airborne in November 2003, will compete in the javelin at the London Paralympics.
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This stem holder comes in classic black and is designed to attach your Basil basket to the front wheel of your bike. This system is suitable for use with both men and women's bicycles with ease. If you're after performance and durability, this attachment provides all the strength and stability you need, keeping your basket firmly fitted to your bike. Not only does this reduce maintenance, it also means you can put your bike through more without the worry of your basket coming free. Perfect for enjoying enhanced safety and stability on the go. What's more, because of it's quality steel construction, this component will hold up well against the elements and last you for a long time to come. The fastening system is also suitable for various types of bikes and fits stems with a diameter of 22 to 25.4 mm. Browse more essential items from the Basil range online today, from baskets and bags, to essential fasteners and fixing essentials. Features: - Basil Permanent-S II stem holder. - Designed for fitting of baskets to the front of your bike. - Made from hard-wearing steel for longevity. - Suitable for handlebar stems measuring 22 to 25.4 mm.
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Salsa's Post-Lock is a rack attachment point that can be positioned anywhere on your seatpost to provide a mounting point. - Strong rack attachment points - 34mm-wide rack mount threaded for M5 bolts - Stainless steel pivot and bolt - Available for 27.2 and 31.6mm diameter seatposts - Black anodized with laser-etched logo - 44g for a 31.6mm collar - Not for use on carbon seatposts - Note: Post-Locks do not have a lip like Salsa's Lip-Lock, Flip-Lock, and Rack-Lock so therefore cannot be used as a seatpost clamp.
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The EVOC FRAME PAD protects the bike frame from scratches and other transport damage. - Fits most bike frames - Attachment for handlebar - Velcro straps attachment
- The Basil Buddy Space Frame can be used in combination with the Basil Buddy Dog Bicycle Basket. - This wire dome is made from hard-wearing steel and prevents your dog from jumping free of their basket while you're out riding. - This wire dome comes in classic black. - Provides complete protection for your dog and total peace of mind for pet owners when out cycling.
The Pet Cover for the DairyMan Rear Basket will certainly be the perfect pet carrier for your bicycle. The Pet Cover easily attaches to the DairyMan Rear Basket using a drawstring. It also has a full zip opening so you can easily put in and take out your small pet. The top of the Pet Cover is made with a mesh material for breathability and constant air flow. Most importantly, the Pet Cover comes with a bottom pad for your pet to have a comfy ride! Size: 15? x 13? (fits most baskets of this size) We have designed this basket to be fit perfectly with the DairyMan Rear Basket by BiKASE (p/n 1055) - 8? tall - Made of Nylon and EVA - Reflective logo - Mesh cover for breathability - Includes bottom pad
This awesome bicycle basket liner is the ultimate cruiser bike accessory. This original bike basket liner is all-weather friendly, reversible, and crafted in nylon rip-stop material with durable and sturdy draw straps to convert easily into a generously-sized market bag, gym bag, yoga bag, beach bag, or tote bag! Featuring two deep pockets (water bottle size). Also folds up easily into a compatible zippered pouch. Easy to take in and out of bike basket. - Fits all standard wire and wicker baskets - 15 x 10 x 10-inches - Water resistant and fade resistant - Converts easily into versatile, stylish, adorable everything bag - Available in many different styles - Basket sold separately
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Designed for use in the Surly Petite Porteur House. Neon color to make it easier to find objects inside a dark bag. - Urethane coated, water-resistant nylon stuff sacks - Drawstring closure
Never put your phone in a plastic baggie again. Giant's Smartphone Bag is a water-resistant pouch for your smartphone with full touchscreen compatibility. It has a camera window that makes it easy to document your adventures, and a headphone port so you can jam out on your ride. And, it's sized to fit easily in a jersey pocket or pack.
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While the classic seat pack is a great place to store little-used essentials out of the elements, their mounting systems can interfere with and often damage modern dropper seatposts. Valais allows the use of a traditional seatbag on a dropper seatpost. - Allows the usage of seat packs on a dropper post - Protects the dropper stanchion from wear and grit - Can act as a travel limiter when full drop isn't needed - Sized by stanchion diameter
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LM-1 Fork Adapter for rigid forks* with a diameter from 20mm up to 32mm. For all Tubus Lowriders except for Duo. *Please Note: Do NOT mount on suspension forks!
LM-BF 35 Fork Adapter, for forks without eyelets. Use with rigid forks* with a diameter from 25mm up to 40mm. For all Tubus lowriders except for Duo. *Please Note: Do NOT mount on suspension forks!
Topeak's front basket handlebar fixer fits standard bikes or eBikes with display units. - Fits up to 1-inch handlebars
Topeak handlebar bag fixer for eBikes with display units.
Fast and easy attachment of Topeak handlebar bags. - Clamp: Fits 25.4/28.6/31.8 mm Handlebars (shims included)
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