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King Kong is often thought of as the first major special effects spectacle of early cinema. More specifically, if you ask someone to picture stop motion animated dinosaurs battling in an ancient film it's highly likely King Kong would be the first image to come to mind. However, the very first movie to employ stop motion models as its main form of special effects outdates Kong by eight years. The Lost World might be a little more artistically muted than the art deco heights reached in King Kong, but the two films are thematically similar & The Lost World beat Kong to the punch in bringing dinosaurs (and humanoid apes, for that matter) to the big screen in what was at the time a majestic display. The same way the blend of CGI & animatronics floored audiences with "realistic" dinos in Jurassic Park's 1994 release, the stop motion dinosaurs of 1925's The Lost World were an unfathomable achievement at its time. When the source material's author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle screened test footage for the press (at a magician's conference of all places) The New York Times even excitedly reported "(Conan Doyle's) monsters of the ancient world, or of the new world which he has discovered in the ether, were extraordinarily life like. If fakes, they were masterpieces." Imagine writing that "if fakes" qualifier in earnest & how quickly that writer's head would have exploded if they got a glimpse of Spielberg's work 70 years later.
At this point in time it's understandable to be more than a little jaded about the visual accomplishments of The Lost World. Show this film to a young child following a screening of something loud, shiny, and new like Captain America: Civil War & they're going to struggle caring or paying much attention. It probably doesn't help that the film takes its audience's jaw-dropped awe for granted either. Its razor-thin narrative strands a hunter, a professor, a journalist, a beautiful woman, and other assorted crew (including, in true 1920s fashion, a deeply uncomfortable blackface character named Zambo) in a modern prehistoric world hidden away somewhere along the "fifty thousand miles of unexplored waterways"in South America. Among a wealth of living, breathing dinosaurs & missing-link type primates, the in-peril crew alternates from being mystified by the old world wonders laid before them & fighting for their lives due to immediate concerns presented by the terrain. It's a story that's been adapted & co-opted countless times since 1925 (even with the added bonus of removing the colonialism-minded racism). Even its way of starting with more "harmless" breeds of dinos like the brontosaurus & working its way up to tn he gigantic T. Rex's & Allosauruses of the (lost) world is a structure that's been mimicked to death.
I'll admit that it takes a certain joy in silent era hokeyness to enjoy this movie's charms at face value in a modern context. I delight in the fact that the stop motion teradons look exactly like Pterri on Pee-wee's Playhouse. Simple characterizations like Professor Challenger challenging the public to confirm his discovery amuse me (when they're not tied to racial caricature, at least). Likes like "What are you thinking of, Paula- in this lost world of ours?" are a pure pleasure for me instead of groan-inducers. I'm also a huge sucker for stop motion animation in general, so the mix of handmade sets & real animal footage (sloths, jaguars, bear cubs, etc.) with claymation dinos is my idea of cinematic heaven. For some people this movie's artificial dino safari will play as dull as the special effects "spectacle" of the exhaustively soulless Bwana Devil, but this is totally my happy place.
Where that for-fans-only attitude might shift is in the film's final ten minute stretch, where it makes the same genre leap as King Kong & Spielberg's unfairly maligned camp delight The Lost World (1997): bringing the dinos to the modern world. A brontosaurus is set loose on the streets of London, feeling like the stop motion beginnings of the kaiju genre & transcending what you might expect from a 1920s fantasy horror about a dino exploration mission. I feel like anyone with a deep affection for stop motion animation should watch this film either way; they'll find so many handmade treasures big & small in its early special effects landmarks. If that kind of old world pleasure sounds quaint or too outdated for you, however, I urge you to at least watch the film's concluding minutes of brontosaurus-run-wild mayhem. There's something anachronistically bizarre & over-the-top in that segment that feels very much inline with the modern blockbuster landscape & I think a lot of people would get a kick out of its movie magic lunacy.
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Canada Health Infoway Selects Apelon to Provide Interoperability Tools That Will Assist Deployment of Pan-Canadian Terminology Standards
Apelon, Inc., a leading provider of terminology and data interoperability solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) to provide the tools and associated services to support the deployment of SNOMED CT across Canada.
SNOMED CT is a comprehensive health and clinical terminology. By using Apelon's Distributed Terminology Systems (DTS) vocabulary server, TermWorks® data mapping tools, and the support of Apelon's experienced consultants, Infoway will be able to assist Canadian provinces, territories, and other stakeholders looking to implement standardized, interoperable clinical data.
Infoway is an independent, not-for-profit corporation created in Canada to foster and accelerate the development and adoption of EHR systems with compatible standards and communication technologies. Infoway has called upon Apelon to provide tools to help Canadian organizations implement interoperable terminologies, such as SNOMED CT, in their EHRs. Making Apelon uniquely qualified for the project is the comprehensive functionality of tools they offer along with the unrivaled capabilities of their consulting group that will be supporting the integration activities.
The open source DTS vocabulary server and associated support services will be used to manage the creation of SNOMED CT derivatives, such as reference sets, and enable the distribution of these derivatives to Canadian stakeholders.
The TermWorks data mapping solution will help organizations map their current local clinical terminologies to the pan-Canadian standards.
Apelon's consultants will assist in Infoway's deployment of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) Workbench software. The Workbench is a comprehensive international terminology tool for managing the pan-Canadian SNOMED CT release.
"We are honored to have been selected by Infoway for this initiative," said Stephen Coady, Apelon's President and CEO. "Our experience with similar projects in the U.S. and in regions around the world is that progress is best made by integrating existing tools such as DTS, TermWorks and the IHTSDO Workbench to achieve practical results. We are excited about what Canada is doing, and very impressed by their plans and process."
More information about the project will be available at the upcoming Fall 2011 Infoway Partnership Conference being held November 21-23, at the Marriott Halifax Harbourfront, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Beverly Knight, Infoway's Terminology Manager and Jack Bowie, ScD, Apelon Senior Vice President, will present Tools for Semantic Interoperability on Monday, November 21. For more information, visit Apelon at booth #10 at the conference InfoFair, or go to the Infoway Conference website.

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This Super Creepy Christmas Song Is Being Banned From The Radio In Canada
It's no secret that during the entire month of December, we seem to put away our regular playlists and exclusively listen to holiday music. Not only does it put everyone in the holiday spirit, but it's definitely a pick-me-up genre for the more undesirable winter weather.
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TL;DR CBC, Rogers Media and Bell Media have all announced they would be banning the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from their radio stations across Canada this year. The song is receiving major scrutiny over its inappropriate lyrics, especially in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
Most of our favourite classics were written in a completely different era, so there's no doubt we won't be able to relate with most phrases or even understand some of the lingo in these songs. Nonetheless, we still can't get enough of them.
But sometimes, things just go a bit too far, and although at the time it may have been perfectly normal to say or do certain things, in 2018... it's just not okay.
Well, that's the case for one very well-known holiday song that's just been banned from playing on most Canadian radio stations.
We all know it, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is probably one of the most popular, with countless covers of it consistently popping up over the years. But although it used to be a fan-favourite classic, it's receiving major scrutiny over super inappropriate lyrics in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
Granted, the song was written in 1944, so times have seriously changed since then. Radio stations and fellow Canadians just can't get past lyrics such as "What's in this drink?" and "Baby, don't hold out."
You can search up the lyrics to the entire song anywhere, but essentially it's about a man desperately trying to convince an intoxicated woman to not go home, even to the point of mentioning that he'd be struck with sorrow if she just so happened to catch pneumonia and died. Which is... just a little weird.
Radio stations such as CBC, Rogers Media and Bell Media have all announced that they would be pulling the holiday classic from their Christmas rotations this year, a decision that has Canadians either super pleased, or downright furious.
With most classic holiday music written decades ago, there's definitely a possibility that more songs will be pulled from the radio this season over it's controversial lyrics. You'll have to stay tuned to find out.


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How will California deal with its impending teacher shortage? What role do the arts play in a child's development?
These questions are at the heart of a new KVIE series titled "Inside California Education."
Executive producers Richard Launey and Larry Miles developed the vision for the new project.
They join KVIE producer Christina Salerno to discuss what viewers will learn about California schools in the coming weeks.


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Parents & Friends of Cann Hall
The PTA committee are a group of mainly parent volunteers who are committed to raise extra funds on behalf of Cann Hall Primary School. By way of fund raising they host many events throughout the year including school discos, Christmas and summer fayre, race nights etc. All money raised by the FOCH goes back into the school either by purchasing equipment or subsidising class trips.
The events that the PTA host are not only to fund raise but also to promote a community spirit between the school, parents, pupils and local community.


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Mike Davis, the editor at the Lovecraft Ezine, has issued a call for submissions for an upcoming anthology entitled Autumn Cthulhu.
he sums up what he's looking for thus:
Well, the words Autumn Cthulhu sum it up somewhat. But, though pastiche can be done well, I don't want it here. In other words, less "Mythos" and more "Lovecraftian". I'm talking about the themes of Lovecraft: cosmic horror, deep time, man's irrelevant place in the universe, horrific truths about reality, etc…
So the story should be Lovecraftian, set in the fall. You could include Halloween, and in fact I very much hope some of you do, but it's not a necessity. There's a mood and a magic and a mystery to autumn; think colorful falling leaves, crisp days, rainy afternoons and evenings. A cold drizzle.
Which sounds particularly enticing. Especially as I recently began work on a Yellow story set on a housing scheme on the outskirts of Glasgow in, of all times, the autumn! So if I can get it finished and edited before Halloween(nice deadline there Mr Davis!) I'm definitely going to submit it. The story is more of a Yellow tale than anything related to the Cthulhu mythos so I'm glad Mike wants Lovecraftian over mythos stories.
All the details on how to submit stories are in the post over at the Ezine so head over there if you fancy sending Mike a tall tale. Anyway, back to work on my story.


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The second principle from the Agile Manifesto is "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage."
I call this the Product Manager's dream principle: "I get to change the requirements, even after development has started! Woot!"
First let's break this principle down and see what it really means and then let's talk about how to deal with it.
There are 4 ideas embedded in the PM's dream:
- Welcoming changing requirements in general
- Welcoming changing requirements even late in development
- Harnessing change
- Customer's competitive advantage
These ideas come from the grim realization that requirements are going to change, at any stage of the development process, and there isn't a damn thing you or any process can do about it. We can pretend that we have control over change. We can ask business owners and product managers to sign an iron-clad contract but Mother Nature and Murphy's Law are not going to stop working on our plans.
Given that change is inevitable we can either hate it or love it or just deal. If this principle was written from the hating change POV it would read "Abhor changing requirements, especially late in development…" On the other hand if the authors of the Agile Manifesto loved change the principle would have read "Encourage changing requirements, the later the better…"
"Welcoming changing requirements" is a positive way to deal with a problematic issue in the same way that many cultures have a tradition of adopting strangers. It's a smart coping mechanism and recognition that shit happens.
Why do Agilists welcome change and not run the other way and lock the door? Because they are confident that Agile process and policies are setup to withstand change. They have accounted for change in the Agile process and thus change is not going to do much damage to the overall big picture.
Agilists also recognize, according to this principle, that they can "harness change". Agilists can guide change instead of being driven by it. That's a pretty tall order but with the right process, one that assumes the inevitable, Agilists take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Change is where true competitive advantage comes from! Not from a carefully designed, well executed plan, but from a process that gives customers the chance to quickly capitalize on changing market conditions. Wiggle room beats precision any day of the week.
Stephen Jay Gould once wrote about how his interest in fossilized snails, from which he would derive many insights about evolution, came about completely by accident. Gould spent his life discovering and teaching how random events lead to advantages that life is able to exploit. That's agility right there.
Working with Niles Eldredge, Gould popularized the theory that evolution works in cataclysms called punctuated equilibrium: Short periods of sudden change separated by long periods of relative calm. Agilists see a lot of punctuated equilibrium in software development. Everything in the project is going along as planned and then WAMMO! The market changes, a bug appears, or a forgotten requirement emerges! (This is in well run organizations. In poorly run organizations the change is constant and internally generated.)
OK, now that I have accepted change how do I deal with it? Each school of Agile development from XP to SCRUM has different foci for dealing with change. I've seen five patterns emerge that successfully welcome change (but I'd love to hear about others):
- Time boxing: Limit the amount of time you spend on any one task so that the cost of change isn't devastatingly high.
- Locked iterations: Restrict change to outside development cycles. Once a dev iteration is started ignore change until victory can be declared. If you really must change requirements in the middle of an iteration stop and re-plan.
- JIT planning: Plan as little as possible and as late into the project as possible.
- Light design and documentation: Waste as little time as possible on design and documentation as it's all going to change anyway.
- Measure and analyze: Don't act on assumptions or intuition. Do what the data tells you to avoid surprises.
These solutions in isolation create as many problems as they solve. But when used together in a well thought out and integrated process they create a flexible fabric that can capture the energy of change and use it to gain an advantage. This is hard to do, not because it's complex, but because many engineers (and normal people too) are uncomfortable with change. One strategy that helps people surf the chaos is to keep a central vision in place with a general roadmap of how to get there. As long as the vision is stable then change is the process of getting there.


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Chelsea Report Card Antonio Conte set to leave after Blues failed title defence
Chelsea's title defence ended with a whimper — and a place out of the top four.
Here's a look back at their difficult 2017-18 season.
School report: Grade D
Nothing about this season has gone to plan for Chelsea, from last summer's troubled transfer window to the torrid run of five victories from the first 20 matches of 2018 across all competitions that derailed their Premier League campaign.
There was an acceptance from the Chelsea hierarchy that Antonio Conte would do well to retain his Premier League title in the face of increased spending from the Manchester clubs, but a top four finish was the bare minimum expectation.
Another season outside the Champions League will hurt Chelsea in terms of both finances and prestige, as well as likely costing Conte his job. Given his constant public complaints about the club's transfer policy, it is unlikely that the Italian will be too bothered by his fate.
Once again, barely a year after lifting the Premier League trophy, Chelsea head into a summer in need of fresh impetus — in both the dressing room and the dugout.
Top of the class
N'Golo Kante was voted Player of the Year by supporters, and it's hard to argue against the decision. The France international's consistent excellence has been one of the only steadying influences on a tumultuous campaign, and his absence through injury in October coincided with the four points dropped against Roma that arguably doomed Chelsea's hopes of going deep into the Champions League.
Another honourable mention is Willian, who was voted for by his teammates and has been Chelsea's best attacking player in the disastrous second half of the season, registering 13 goals and nine assists in all competitions. Some of them — most notably an emphatic finish to an audacious team move in a 4-0 win over Brighton in January — were downright spectacular.
Andreas Christensen's rise from returning loanee to first-team stalwart is arguably the best story of Chelsea's season, even if a run of individual errors in the autumn ultimately cost his side dearly.
Very few Chelsea players have consistently produced anything like their best form this season.
Eden Hazard, having missed all of preseason with a broken ankle, has flashed only in spurts and is on course for the second-worst goal tally of his Chelsea career. Pedro's goals have dried up along with Cesc Fabregas' assists while of last summer's signings, only Antonio Rudiger has been consistently reliable.
It's been a nightmare debut season in England for Tiemoue Bakayoko, even if the 23-year-old has shown signs in recent weeks that he is worth persisting with. Conte has barely even acknowledged Ross Barkley and Danny Drinkwater.
But no player arrived at Stamford Bridge amid greater fanfare than Alvaro Morata. The Spain international has utterly failed to even come close to Diego Costa's level of production up front, and a lack of goals has been Chelsea's fatal flaw this season.
It's a fitting indictment of Chelsea's season that you have to cast your mind back to the autumn for most of the good moments.
Marcos Alonso ruining the start of Tottenham's tenure at Wembley was greeted with particular revelry by Chelsea supporters, while beating Manchester United and Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge in October also bought plenty of fan satisfaction.
But it is the 2-1 away victory over Atletico Madrid in September that stands out. It was a dominant, gutsy performance that showcased Conte at his tactical best and his players at their most confident and effective.
Atletico's subsequent elimination from the Champions League at the group stage diluted the achievement slightly, but their presence in the Europa League final is a reminder of their enduring quality.
Low point
You could pick any number of moments from a disastrous spring: Being outplayed and outworked over two legs by Arsenal in the Carabao Cup semifinals; back-to-back collapses against Bournemouth and Watford, the latter featuring Bakayoko's nightmare 30 minutes; Conte being out-manoeuvred by Mourinho at Old Trafford; Tottenham ending their 28-year Stamford Bridge hoodoo in emphatic fashion.
The vast majority of Chelsea fans would settle on losing to Spurs, but while that was certainly the bitterest defeat and arguably the most damaging in terms of the top-four race, there was a lower ebb this season.
There is, of course, no shame in losing to this Manchester City side — but there is plenty in surrendering to them in the manner that Chelsea did in March. A goal down one minute into the second half, Conte persisted with a tactical plan that had left his team trapped and ultimately demoralised in their own half until the 78th minute.
He did not even try to win the game, and that fact will tarnish his legacy.
Summer homework
Chelsea have a huge number of key decisions to make in the coming months. Conte will almost certainly depart after the FA Cup final, but the issues of compensation for the Italian and the identity of his successor will dominate the early weeks of June.
Michael Emenalo left in November, and Chelsea must either find a new technical director to fill the void or intelligently reshuffle their decision-making structure if they are even to hope of enjoying a coherent, convincing transfer window.
An infusion of top-line talent is required in every area of the pitch. Chelsea are no longer the biggest spenders in England but they can still be the smartest, as they were in building the core of this team.
The futures of Hazard and Thibaut Courtois must also be settled one way or the other but, frustratingly for Roman Abramovich, resolution will likely come on a timetable that suits Real Madrid rather than Chelsea.
Liam is ESPN FC's Chelsea correspondent. Follow him on Twitter: @Liam_Twomey.


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2. Regularization of four Asst. Professor recruited adhoc basis without proper selection procedure.
3. Recrutement of three in one professor Prof. Naresh Kumar as Professor in Pharmaceutical Management (NIPER Registrar Office Order no. F.1-3(293)/2011/Estt./1343 dated 19-10-2011), Business Development Manager (SIGNED final minutes of 13th APDC meeting held at NIPER on 19-11-2011, as agenda item no. 13.6) and as a Professor in IPR Department (RTI response given vide NIPER Letter no. F 235/RTI 43/2012/1030 dated 4-5-2012 ) without any advertisement and selection committee as per NIPEr rule.
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5. Recruitment of Sh. Hari Mohan as a Consultant without informing the BoG that he was a practicing Lawyer registered with the Bar Counsel, which is prohibited by law.
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Contact: KATHLEEN LAUFENBERG
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — You've scowled at their mounds on your lawn — and probably destroyed them. But if you come to the MagLab's Nov. 7 Café, you just may decide not to. At least, not all the time.
That's because the next Science Café features Walter Tschinkel, a biology professor at Florida State University and an expert bar none on fire ants. Tschinkel will share his perspective and knowledge of these tiny creatures and the amazing city-like structures they build beneath our feet on Wednesday, Nov. 7, from 6:15 p.m. to about 7:30 p.m. at Ray's Steel City Saloon, 515 John Knox Road.
You'll learn things about fire ants that will surprise you, such as why opting to "live and let live" with some fire ant mounds can make sense. When you attack a fire ant colony in an attempt to kill the ants, Tschinkel says, you often don't kill off the colony. But you do succeed in getting it to relocate — which only allows a new fire ant colony to move into the emptied spot. The end result: You may have two fire ant colonies in an an area where you previously had only one. So if the original colony doesn't pose a danger, learning to avoid it may be the best option.
Ant colonies have other intriguing attributes, too.
"Ants are part of a larger functioning entity which we call a superorganism but most people would call a colony," Tschinkel says. That's why he and other ant experts often treat a colony and its many thousands of inhabitants as functioning more like one large organism.
In his 752-page book "The Fire Ants" (Harvard University/Belknap Press, 2006) — which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize — Tschinkel pauses between scientific chapters to reflect on the interplay between humans and ants and to offer up playful narratives and anecdotes. He calls these essays "interludes," and at the Café, he may offer some similar insights on ants and people.
"There are some interesting common threads," he says. "For example, it's fairly obvious that the ant colony is a self-organized entity — that is, there is no leader, there is no hierarchy. The ants are behaving according to a set of rules embodied in each individual ... and actually, human society has a lot of self-organized features, too.
"In most human organizations, the expertise isn't at the level of the directors or bosses, it's actually at the worker lever, just like it is in an ant colony. So a lot of the products of human teams or groups are also self-organized."
Tschinkel will show images of the intricate and sometimes huge structures ants build below the surface. Even if you had an ant farm, you've never seen anything quite like these hidden cities. So mark your calendars and bring all your fire ant questions to the Nov. 7 Café. Arrive early to grab a good seat and order something tasty!


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On December 2, 2014, Jeannie Walters and I launched a podcast dedicated to all things customer; we called it Crack the Customer Code. With Crack the Customer Code, we wanted to explore the wide range of customer service and customer experience challenges that organizational leaders face on a regular basis.
With 71 episodes behind us, it is fun to look back at the incredible variety of interesting and exciting topics we've covered in the past year.
From Why Does Customer Service Still Stink (047) to Why Customer Service Must Be Profitable (061), we've explored customer experience and customer service from a number of different angles. Even better, we've had the opportunity to talk to a wide range of guests, from thought leaders in content marketing, online superstars, and those transforming customer experience for large organizations like the Arizona Diamondbacks and PEMCO Insurance.
At the bottom of this post is a list of all of the guests we've had on Crack the Customer Code since inception. (Episodes prior to 038 had interviews mixed with other content.)
If you've missed any of these episodes, make sure to check them out! There's a tremendous amount of wisdom contained in these discussions.
Thanks so much for a great year of conversation!
Please make sure to subscribe to Crack the Customer Code, and if you can, we'd love a review on iTunes.
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By Adam Toporek. Adam Toporek is an internationally recognized customer service expert, keynote speaker, and workshop leader. He is the author of Be Your Customer's Hero: Real-World Tips & Techniques for the Service Front Lines (2015), as well as the founder of the popular Customers That Stick® blog and co-host of the Crack the Customer Code podcast.


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DC's beloved all-90s party band, White Ford Bronco, metes out sizzling slabs of rock; decadently dulcet pop ditties; and heaping, hot bowlfuls of "OMG-I-Freakin'-Love-This-Song!!!!!!" all lovingly crammed down the throats of the teeming, carousing masses who gather to have their ravenous appetites for the songs of two decades ago (yeah, it's been that long) oh-so-thoroughly satisfied.Long a mere dream kicking around in the overactive imaginations of its founders, White Ford Bronco officially came into being in the Spring of 2008. Since then the five member ensemble has been sparking bouts of flannel-laden, slap-bracelet-snapping, pog-playing, big-butt-loving nostalgia across the Washington, D.C. area. If you're longing for the days when Danny Tanner could solve everything with a hug and presidential scandals only involved ruining a marriage, allow us to take you on a musical journey to that magical last decade of the 20th century. Whatever flavor -- be it Alternative, Rock, Pop, R&B, Hip Hop, or Country -- if it's 90s, WFB plays it.White Ford Bronco is influenced by the critical parental advice of Danny Tanner and the food at the Max. And the Peach Pit. The cuckolding of 90210 and Melrose Place. The red one pieces and the authority of David Hasselhoff that looks over the Los Angeles County Beaches. The Reebok Pump. Carlton's dance moves. The sound of a slammer pounding down on a pile of pogs. The snap of a slap bracelet. George Herbert Walker Bush. William Jefferson Clinton. And at times Ross Perot, Al Gore, Bob Dole and Dan Quayle. Wayne's World. Hypercolor T- Shirts. The ever so adorable Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Tim Allen's two other kids. Scratch that, JTT and the Olson Twins. And of course the same thing we try to do everyday Pinky...try to take over the world.
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"Into The Wilderness", oil and mixed media on canvas by Alison Auldjo.
And upon the crumping snows
Stamps, in vain, to warm his toes.
Leaves are fled, that once had power
To resist a summer shower;
And the wind so piercing blows,
Winnowing small the drifting snows,
The summer shade of loaded bough
Would vainly boast a shelter now:
Piercing snows so searching fall,
They sift a passage through them all.
Though all's vain to keep him warm,
Poverty must brave the storm.
Friendship none, its aid to lend:
Health alone his only friend;
Granting leave to live in pain,
Giving strength to toil in vain;
To be, while winter's horrors last,
The sport of every pelting blast.
Poems descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, 1820


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WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
Wednesday, March 6, 1935
37° 2' 13.0" North Latitude, 113° 34' 33.7" West Longitude
37.037° North Latitude, 113.576° West Longitude
2,930 feet (890 meters) MSL
Enterprise Drive is about 1.7 miles south of Brigham Road on River Road.
For a closer view of the bowl, click here.
For a then and now view of the site, click here.
HISTORYFive miles south of St. George on the evening of March 6, 1935, 70 to over 100 local townspeople gathered
to watch the shooting of the Arrowhead Petroleum Company's Escalante No. 2 oil well unaware of impending
The explosion occurred about 9:40 pm while six 10 foot long torpedoes, each loaded with nitroglycerin and
TNT and hanging from the derrick, were being lowered into the well. All told, 2,500 pounds of nitroglycerin
exploded and sent a shaft of fire into the night that was seen as far as 18 miles away. Ten people lost their
lives and more were injured.
Power from some high tension wires was turned off about 10:30 pm so it was safe to work on the site.
Ellis J. Pickett, an attorney, witnessed the tragedy from his motor car which was parked about 120 feet from
the well. The force of the blast tore the top off of his car.
Some of the Cox children would have been there, but things happened to prevent them from going.
Memorial services the ten victims and funerals for four of the victims were held in the St. George Tabernacle
at 2:00 pm on Friday, March 8, 1935.
Approximately 2,000 people attended. Businesses were closed so the whole town could mourn.
The funerals for Mabel Alsop, Lea Cottam, Ray Nelson, and Olive Snow were in that Tabernacle service.
Services for C.M. Flickinger were held graveside in St. George and Joseph Kitterman was sent to Lehi for burial.
The bodies of Charles Alsop, Joseph Empey, Billy Maloney, and Cail Nicholson were ever found.
This property is currently owned by the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA).
WCHS-02491 The escalante oil well after it exploded
WCHS Photos
WCHS-01099 Photo of the Escalante No. 1 oil derek south of St. George
WCHS-02492 Photo of people gathered in the St. George Tabernacle for the 3/8/1935 memorial service
WCHS-02524 Recent photo of the well explosion site
WCHS-02642 Photo of the Escalante No. 2 oil derek south of St. George
WCHS-03463 Photo of people on a field trip at the site of the 1935 Escalante Oil Well explosion
REFERENCESTen People Dead In Oil Well Explosion
Washington County News, March 7, 1935, Page 1
St. George, UT Oil Well Explosion, Mar 1935
Mansfield News Journal Ohio (AP), March 7, 1935
Instant Death to Ten People in Dixie Oil Well Explosion
Iron County Record, March 7, 1935
Various Salt Lake Telegram Articles, March 7, 1935
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Various Salt Lake Tribune Articles, March 8, 1935
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page ?
Probers Seeking Cause of Blast Which Killed 10
Chicago Daily Tribune, March 8, 1035, Page 18
Fights for Life
Salt Lake Tribune
St. George Pays Tribute to Blast Dead
Salt Lake Tribune, March 11, 1935
Funeral Services Held for Victims of Oil Well Blast Sunday; 2000 People Attend
Washington County News, March 14, 1935, Page 1
Ellen Raye Cottam Brown,
"The Wrong Car Came: an account of the oil well explosion south of St. George, [Utah]
which occurred on March 7, 1935" [Actually occured on March 6]
A 19-page book privately printed in 2003.
[Included in Pages 26-45 of Biographies and Autobiographies of Heber Charles
and Asineth Jarvis Cottam and Their Ancestors]
[Also included as Part I, pp. 9-28, of the Nelson document below]
Dixie's Darkest Day: March 6, 1935, the day that rocked southern Utah
St. George Magazine, March/April 1992, pp. 65-67
My World Exploded: One man remembers the great oil well disaster of 1935
by Grant Harris
St. George Magazine, March/April 1992, pp. 68-70
The Escalante Well Incident March 6, 1935
by Clark N. Nelson, Sr.
An overview and notes about the incident and its location


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MGK recently was musing about the case of an anonymous blogger publicly "outed" by another;
"Pseudonymity is great. Blevins explains most of the cogent reasons why he blogged anonymously (not wanting to frighten students, not wanting to have to deal with family issues, not wanting to danger his tenure) and they're all entirely reasonable…
The problem with pseudonymity is this: it exists only by common compact. This means that, like any other protection provided by commonality, it's only as good as everybody is willing to let it be. With an essentially infinite audience you will, sooner or later, find somebody who is both willing to fuck your anonymity over and is able to do so."
This is something I ponder quite a bit, since I will be effectively outing myself at the SkepchickCon in a few weeks. While quite a few entomologists have solved the mystery of "Who is Bug_girl?", only one of them has published that conclusion online. Also, quite a few people guess incorrectly, which adds to the whole plausible deniability of the thing :)
At this point, I've been online as Bug Girl for 5 years, and it's too late to try to hide. My motivations for being anonymous are similar to Blevins'–it's just easier to try to separate your personal persona from your professional one.
Students and employers do Google your name, and check your Facebook account, and your family does find things out that you might rather they would not (i.e, the big Red A on my side bar, for example.) Even blogging anonymously isn't good enough when state government is involved. I can't possibly pretend that I don't have really strong opinions about….um….well, a lot of things, really.
The problem–which many of my students discover to their dismay–is that in a digital universe with camcorders and cameras in everyone's pockets, the line between personal and professional is non-existent.
People keep saying that as less of our lives are private, the rules on what is acceptable behavior will be relaxed.
That ain't happening.
This also combines well with something PZ wrote this week about science communication:
"none of those properties — politics, passion, and personality — are necessarily regarded as virtues in the scientific community. We're supposed to be dispassionate, aloof, objective, non-partisan, and there's a prejudice that you're a lesser man (yeah, it's also a male bias) if you step away from the illusion of impartiality."
Scientists are supposed to be objective. We are supposed to deal with data and nothing else. And that is exactly why science journals are deadly dull, and blogs about science are much more interesting. Blogs are written by people, with opinions. Journal papers manage to have most of the personality edited right out.
While I don't think that being able to put things like "This data was the coolest EVAR!11!!" in a journal paper would improve it, I do think that something has been lost when I look at papers from the early 1900s. The excitement of the writers clearly comes through.
Read this letter from Charles Darwin about a visit to an insect collection–he's clearly delighted and excited. If Chuck's letter showed up in a blog, would his life have been different?
I totally identify with Darwin in this letter:
"I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects:—my only reason for writing, is to remove a heavy weight from my mind, so now you must understand, what you will perceive before you come to the end of this; that I am writing merely for my own pleasure & not your's"
So I will be in Minneapolis, and I hope to see some of you there.
Let it Blurt!


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While the rest of the country thinks about 'Duck Dynasty' when the city of Monroe is mentioned, BJ Bell has taken the task to highlight more events and culture of the Northeast Louisiana City. The former University of Louisiana at Monroe student has built a resume that includes assistant coaching boys' football and serving in the National Guard and U.S Army. Through a connection in the radio industry, he was able to begin a new career as one of the best on-air personalities in Roe City. When he's not on air for Monroe's 100.1 The Beat, the current radio personality and former armed serviceman is building a promotion company. 2014 is the first year that after dabbling in support for business and affairs for the past seven years. Now with an establish Facebook and radio audience, Bell is now in the process of spreading word of mouth about himself and his new venture.
AMPS – Where were you born and raised? BJ- Monroe, Louisiana.
AMPS – Did you play any type of sports in school? BJ- I played in the band at Carroll High.
AMPS – What did you do after you graduated? BJ- I graduated in 1995 and then I went into the military. I was in the United States Army for 17 years. I've been everywhere. I went to war, I've been to Iraq and a lot of different other places.
AMPS – Why didn't you make a career out of it? BJ- I got hurt when I was on active duty so when I got out I went into the National Guard, and I spent six years in the National Guard.
AMPS – What was your next step once you got out of the service? BJ- When I was in active duty, I coached some football when I was in Kentucky, some high school football and some semi-pro football. I actually came back to Monroe to coach football, but I got a call from the radio station. Back in the day I used to hang out at the radio station with a guy who we all know as" Daddy Ro" and they remembered me from hanging out with him. They knew that I was back in town from the military and they called me up and said, "Hey, we need an on air personality would you be interested?" I was up there the next day.
AMPS – What radio station is that? BJ- KRVV 100.1 The Beat.
AMPS – Is this something that you've always wanted to do? BJ- Yes, it's my passion. I've always wanted to be on the radio when I use to hang around Ro. I've always wanted to be on the radio, but I just didn't know if I had what it takes. On the radio they call it on the air personality, it is straight personality. You can't teach someone personality. I guess I'm doing well; I'm going on my ninth year at The Beat.
AMPS – You are a DJ at the radio station and a promoter as well. How did you get into becoming a promoter? DJ- Thanks to the social media, when you through these type of events you just let everyone know where you're going to be. I started off just posting things on Facebook. I have a huge Facebook audience and I like promoting. I like to see my hard work pay off. I like to promote these events and then look into the audience and see the thousands of people or however many come. That shows me how my hard work pays off; if I look out in the audience and I don't see a whole lot of people that means that I need to work a little harder next time so I enjoy promoting.
AMPS – How long have you been promoting? BJ- Out of the nine years that I've been on the air, I would say 6 or 7 years. My first two years on the radio, I was focused on radio trying to get my voice right trying to get my levels right, you know learning about the production part of the radio. So I said ok I've got this down now let's try this promotion thing.
AMPS – So how is that going for you so far? BJ- It's going well. I actually opened up my own small business called BJ Bell production LLC and this is my first year and it's going well very well for me.
AMPS – A lot of people want to become a promoter, but just don't really know how to go about getting started. How do you go about doing that? BJ- It's all about your grind, how hard you work. It's not just posting on Facebook it's not about handing out flyers. Word of mouth is one of the best promotion tools. My question is: How bad do you want it? This business is all about grinding and we are in this small market here in Monroe. There are not a whole lot of venues, not a whole lot of clubs, and there's not a whole lot going on so you just have to work hard.
AMPS – How do you get your clients? BJ- Well, the radio helps and I have been there for nine years. Once your name gets out there, then it goes from there. It's all about everybody knowing who you are. I have a good track record around here with events so far. A pretty big following and social media helps a lot.
AMPS – What's your next project? BJ – Well, we are working on different things so I can't really say right now. We're just trying to do something different. We had our first Crawfish Festival here in Monroe not too long ago. We're just trying to do things a little different just trying to switch it up a little bit, because the people here are tired of the same old same old. Like I said earlier we're just trying switch it up a little bit.
AMPS – How can people follow you and what you are doing? BJ – Well, they can follow me on Facebook: BJ Bell. Twitter and Instagram: @wideopenradio I just want to thank AMPS Dallas for coming down to support me. You guys have a good track record. I remember AMPS Magazine from when it first started years ago.


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Let's get straight to the point here...
This tour cost a lot of money.
Not money from the brand but personal money that I (Giles) invested to make it happen. To be completely honest, once the figures started stacking up, I think that a lot of people wouldn't have gone ahead with it. But, much like in Parkour, I had committed & I was going through with the plan. We all know what happens when you don't commit. You bail.
So why did I go through with this when in reality it was almost certainly going to negatively affect my short term financial future?
Because I very proudly sponsor some of the best up & coming Parkour & Freerunning athletes in the world. That isn't an opinion. It's simple fact.
Why should these guys who are all teenagers(aside from Marx), and who are pushing the sport to ridiculous new levels not get the support they deserve?
The general piece of advice you hear in our sport is the following - Train really hard, build up your social media presence & you might have a shot at making it as a professional athlete. Whilst this is true, it doesn't mean it's easy. For the majority it simply doesn't happen & for the few that are making it as professional athletes, the road is not a smooth one. Sponsors are few and far between and finding a sponsor within our community that can financially support you is incredibly hard. To be completely honest, Motus is not yet able to properly support these guys financially, and personally, that kills me.
So why did I pay for the trip? Yes it may have been the trip of a lifetime for everyone involved, but why spend all that money on something that really doesn't have that much financial return?
To create a sense of hope.
To provide the reassurance for someone like Robbie who just placed 4th at an international skill competition against the likes of Tim Champion & Jimmy Perreira that there is a future for him in this sport if he wants it bad enough. Robbie, Max, Luke & Kelan are all under 18, they're facing those life decisions about whether or not to go to college, university or whether to apply for a full-time job somewhere. These are decisions that while not inherently negative, can have huge impacts on the life of someone wanting to be a professional athlete. I just want to create options.
I've been doing Parkour for 14 years now and i've seen countless scenarios of wasted potential because the sport wasn't at a stage to support athletes who could have otherwise gone onto do great things but instead had to get a 9-5 to pay the bills. What I am trying to do is ensure that these guys don't have to face that challenge.
I strive towards growing The Motus Projects brand so that we can continue to support these athletes and also help grow Parkour to a level where more and more opportunities can exist for those who want to take a chance at it.
To everyone who supported us throughout this trip whether it be through housing us, feeding us or even just coming to say hi at a jam, thank you for making the last 5 weeks such an overwhelmingly positive experience.
Onwards & upwards.
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DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim recently discussed with CNET the plans of Apple for the future tablets they will launch in 2012. It appears production has already started, for some 10 inch panels with 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution. The same analyst seems sure that the displays will be available on devices in shops in Q1 2012, strange as that may seem.
Apparently, the iPad 3 is expected to be shipped in January, if we're to take the word of DisplaySearch on this evolution. The Senior VP of the company, Paul Semenza has spoken to Jon Philips of Wired and mentioned that an iPad 3 with 2048 x 1536 resolution is in the books for the first quarter of 2012. The same source goes on to detail that Apple might launch a new iPad model with a 7.85 inch display, that will hit the market close to the end of 2012.
I've heard this theory before, saying that the next iPad will be the HD display version of the iPad 2, while the next device after that might be an iPad mini, with a 7+ inch display and also serving as a remote for the potential Apple iTV television set. One thing is for sure: everyone wants a Retina Display on a tablet and 264 pixels per inch on the new slate.


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Welcome to Beeronomics 2019The Steering Committee welcomes you to the sixth Beeronomics Conference.
The 2019 Conference is hosted jointly by University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (UWB).
The local organizers are Faculty of Economics of University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and Department of Economic Policy of Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra.
Important deadlinesDecision on acceptance/rejection of submitted abstracts March 10, 2019
Registration with/without paper March 15, 2019 - May 17, 2019 EXTENDED, Register now
Payment March 15, 2019 - May 17, 2019 EXTENDED, Pay now
Submission of full paper May 27, 2019
Time and placeThe conference takes place on June 11-14, 2019 in Pilsener Urquell Brewery and at the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
PhD WorkshopTo stimulate and highlight the research in beeronomics, the conference will include a PhD workshop and fund the best proposals from the PhD participants.
Three PhD students with best papers will have their registration fee paid by the Local Organizing Committee.


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Doris Matsui received about seventy percent of the votes to defeat eleven other candidates vying for California's fifth district seat in the House of Representatives. The post became vacant in January when long-time Congressman Robert Matsui died.
While addressing her supporters last night, Representative-elect Doris Matsui expressed mixed emotions about the victory. "We wish there didn't have to be an election. And we wish we didn't have to choose a new person to be our champion in the halls of Congress. But that was not to be."
The turnout for the election was light. Less than a quarter of the 300-thousand who were eligible cast a ballot.
Doris Matsui is expected to be sworn-in to office tomorrow in Washington.
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Integrating with native and 3rd party Cloud and DevOps tooling to manage and govern multi-cloud environments is pivotal for smooth integration into not just the Cloud Provider but also other elements of your Enterprise multi-Cloud and DevOps ecosystem . Kumolus integrates seamlessly with native Cloud provider tools including Cloud Formation templates and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and varios DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Puppet, Ansible, Chef and many others. Talk to the Kumolus team about how we can accelerate, govern, manage, secure and optimise your Cloud experience.


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Gilgamesh, Nineveh, and Sir Austen Henry Layard
QUESTION: Gilgamesh, Nineveh, and Sir Austen Henry Layard
The rediscovery of Gilgamesh and his ancient exploits is a great story of 19th century archaeology and adventure. It begins in 1817 with the birth of Austen Henry Layard in Paris, France. Layard belonged to a family of doctors, bankers and diplomats, and was educated in the top schools of England, France, Italy and Switzerland. He loved the study of languages and fine arts, and served as a lawyer-apprentice for six years. Upon entering his 20's, Layard was totally groomed for aristocratic success.
In 1839, Layard determined to follow in his father's footsteps and return to Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) to serve in the British civil service. Layard's family had served as diplomats in Ceylon for generations. However, rather than travel by standard aristocratic means, Layard decided to walk from England to Ceylon by way of Asia. He was 22.
Once he embarked on his trek, Layard's life journey took a totally different track. He never made it to Ceylon. Instead, he spent years wandering about Persia and Turkey, fascinated by the local cultures and ancient Assyrian ruins. Ultimately, he was responsible for rediscovering the ancient ruins of Nineveh in 1847, including the lost palace of Sennacherib. He also stumbled into the famous library of Ashurbanipal, which contained 22,000 clay texts, including important finds such as the
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The Preservation of Gilgamesh beneath the Sands of Time
The ancient accounts of Gilgamesh and other events of the first Babylonian Empire were presumed destroyed in the fiery fall of Nineveh in 612 BC. However, it was Sir Austen Henry Layard that discovered that thousands of years of history were actually preserved under the desert sands, from the cuneiform records of Gilgamesh to the huge walls and relief sculptures of Sennacherib's throne room.
Beyond the tablets of Gilgamesh, which would be studied and deciphered at the British Museum for years, Layard discovered a very important cuneiform inscription on a massive doorway. This stunning discovery turned out to be Sennacherib's own account of his siege of Jerusalem. Why was this stunning? The mid-19th century was a time of religious skepticism and biblical revisionism in Europe. Now, the world had new and compelling evidence for an important biblical event.
Layard's journeys and exploits continued throughout his life, including more tablets in the line of Gilgamesh and more biblical discoveries from the ancient Assyrian period. In 1866, Sir Austen Henry Layard became a trustee of the British Museum, where he published a number of books and articles about his phenomenal adventures into the past.
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ZevenOS 4.0 release announcementAllgemein 09:36 PM
The ZevenOS Team is proud to announce the release of ZevenOS 4.0.
|This version is based on Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot (11.10) and has a bunch of new features and changes.
The base system was updated to Kernel 3.0 which brings a bunch of new drivers aswell as an improved implementation of the ext4 filesystem. Also the experimental btrfs filesystem is now supported.
|Besides that ZevenOS 4.0 also has a lot of new stuff in the Desktop area.
The underlying XFCE desktop was updated to version 4.8 which adds network support for FTP/Samba/SSH/NFS to the default filemanager Thunar.
So you no longer need to use gigolo to browse your network. Also new a rewritten thumbnailing system for the filemanager which is faster and more efficient.
|Videoediting never made easier with OpenShot 1.4. OpenShot offers many new audio & video effects and exciting 3D effects. Also new is the reworked user interface which now looks even more professional.
|Besides those improvements ZevenOS 4.0 also brings new default installed software for various tasks. The biggest changes are in the multimedia sector. Gnome-Mplayer is now the default videoplayer which is faster than Parole and offers more features just like subtitle support and switching between different audio streams.
|To manage music we included the newest Deadbeef release. It allows you to manage music, play it back and even has a build in equalizer with foobar2k support aswell as a plugin interface.
|When it comes to images and storing them Shotwell is our first choice. It offers a great user interface and easy image editing features. Docky is still available as dock utility which offers to quickly launch applications. Docky requires Compositing features which means we also developed an easy compositing manager which allows you to turn compositing on. Docky offers Drag'n Drop support aswell as theming support.
|Firefox still is the default browser for surfing the net and Claws-Mail is still our default mail client. Abiword and Gnumeric take care of the office business you might have.If you don't like our software choices you have the option to install your favorite tool or search for a new tool in the new Software-Center.
ZevenOS 4.0 comes with the good known Haiku-like Design with an completely updated Icon-Theme and GTK3+ theme. The desktop is based upon the newest XFCE 4.8 aswell as the windowmanager Sawfish which comes in the newest version 1.8.2.
Installing & Upgrading your already available Ubuntu system can be done by installing zevenos-desktop from our repository.
deb http://www.zevenos.com/packages/zevenos4/ ./
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Differences between ZevenOS & ZevenOS-Neptune (In Short (SVG, use cursor keys to navigate)
How to install ZevenOS 4.0 ontop of Ubuntu 11.10 (Video OGV)
ZevenOS still is the best linux distro with a touch of BeOS.
ZevenOS 4.0 is avaiable as Torrent or HTTP Mirror on the Downloadpage.
You can get more information on our Aboutpage.
Known Issues:
ISOLinux Bootmenu not translated
Deskbar Bookmarkmenus only accessable after first launch of webbrowser
People only saves to partitions with extended attributes enabled. Use Export to Vcard instead if you don't want or have a partition type that supports extended attributes.
21 Responses to "ZevenOS 4.0 release announcement"
nalare Says:
Thursday November 24th, 2011 at 10:06 AM
I like zeven OS because you've got the look of beOS and the simplicity of ubuntu in the same OS.Im sure there is a lot of hard work behind all these improvements. Greetings & thanks from Euskal Herria (Basque Country)
Релиз Linux-дистрибутива ZevenOS 4.0 с интерфейсом в стиле BeOS | AllUNIX.ru – Всероссийский портал о UNIX-системах Says:
Thursday November 24th, 2011 at 10:43 AM
[…] Доступен релиз Linux-дистрибутива ZevenOS 4.0, снабженного не требовательным к ресурсам BeOS-подобным интерфейсом. Дистрибутив построен на пакетной базе Ubuntu 11.10. В качестве десктоп-окружения используется стилизованный под BeOS оконный менеджер Sawfish 1.8.2 с использованием компонентов Xfce 4.8. Для настройки приложений в рамках проекта создано ПО MAGi 2, в качестве панели для запуска программ задействован Zeebar, меню реализовано при помощи Deskbar 2. Размер iso-образа 696 Мб. Сформировать аналогичное окружение в любом Ubuntu-совместимом дистрибутиве можно через подключение специального репозитория и установку пакета zevenos-desktop. […]
Mike Says:
Thursday November 24th, 2011 at 12:54 PM
was mir eben aufgefallen ist:
** Videbearbeitung** wird mit der brandneuen
leszek Says:
Thursday November 24th, 2011 at 05:36 PM
Danke für den Hinweis, korrigiert
Colin Wright Says:
Thursday November 24th, 2011 at 07:06 PM
why no x64 bit version???
leszek Says:
Thursday November 24th, 2011 at 07:11 PM
As ZevenOS is intended to be used on older hardware we don't think it makes sense to support x64 yet.
This might change in the future, when x64 machines can be called "old" 🙂
ZevenOS 4.0 | Gustavo Pimentel's GNU/Linux Blog Says:
Thursday November 24th, 2011 at 08:19 PM
[…] Lesner ha anunciado el lanzamiento de ZevenOS […]
Dion Says:
Thursday November 24th, 2011 at 10:07 PM
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I missed BeOS. It was my favorite OS of all time.
stanks Says:
Saturday November 26th, 2011 at 04:13 PM
zevenos v4 is based on ubuntu 11.10 or 10.10? I d/l v4 torrent, put to stick, run it and in about box it says 10.10
leszek Says:
Saturday November 26th, 2011 at 05:48 PM
It is based on 11.10 . The about box text seems to be wrong the about app will be updated soon to fix that 😉
Thankful for Open Source | The Linux Action Show! | Jupiter Broadcasting Says:
Sunday November 27th, 2011 at 11:10 PM
[…] ZevenOS […]
judgen Says:
Saturday December 3rd, 2011 at 04:43 PM
This is awsome! If i could only make one wish it would be that the deskbar (super nice btw!) could integrate the systray icons the same way that the BeOS dock did. Other than that nothing needed for me.
Download ZevenOS 4.0 | LinuxBox.Web.ID Says:
Sunday December 4th, 2011 at 10:32 AM
[…] faster and more efficient. Video editing has been made easier with OpenShot 1.4.Anda dapat membaca pengumuman rilis untuk daftar lengkap fitur baru dan video preview.Unduh (MD5):zevenos4-desktop.iso (696MB) AKPC_IDS […]
gadgetboi Says:
Friday January 20th, 2012 at 05:02 AM
does ZevenOS includes all necessary codecs?
leszek Says:
Friday January 20th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Yes the common codecs are installed.
Martín Says:
Tuesday January 24th, 2012 at 09:25 PM
Hello, thank you very much for this distro. I struggled with countless others distro only to find flaws in the terms that I needed: minimalism, compatibility, ease of use, and good taste. Until I found this OS: That Haiku/BeOs look is great, the deskbar has great behaviour. Ubuntu gets the best attention/support worldwide (that's a great thing to mind when setting a base) and has the major ocmpatibility with my hardware. Etc.
I'm really happy to have found a distro where I can stay, I was getting tired of changing and roaming through distros and windows.
I have a suggestion: change that log in log out screen, I think it needs a more professional look, it's simple and I like that, but the font and the colors needs a change (in my opinion). I don't understand the logo, but I think it's fine. Also I have some questions: how do I minimize all the windows, like a show desktop button or shortcut, and another thing, when I hit alt+f4 (so windows) all programs get shutdown, is that a bug?
Congratulations and keep the good work. This distro is 20% percent more cooler than any other one.
leszek Says:
Tuesday January 24th, 2012 at 09:43 PM
Thanks for your positive comment.
The login behavior is shared with Ubuntus. The theming is specially designed to be simple and to create a consistent look.
For the show desktop please use the keyboard shortcuts in MAGI -> windowmanager (Sawfish configuration; please use doubleclicks on the left option tree to call the options) .
ALT+F1-F6 are used to switch between virtual desktops. To close a active windows please use CTRL+Q.
We use the same behavior like BeOS/ZETA/Haiku here. But it is also changeable by the Sawfish configuration.
Martín Says:
Wednesday January 25th, 2012 at 04:22 AM
Ah! thank you for that double click tip! I thought that sawfish was closed to modifications or something similar because nothing happened when I clicked. Also another thing, which also happened to me with Xubuntu 11.04 is that THunar takes some time to load when I click it for the first time, when I click another time, I get two Thunars windows. After that it opens fast and with no problem, but the first times are always slow I don't know why.
leszek Says:
Wednesday January 25th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
I guess Thunar on the first launch will run as Daemon in the background (normally xfce4-session should do this on autostart, so that the file manager starts quicklier). But I never ever experienced that issue so I am not quite sure.
ZevenOS 4.0 - Linux mint, centos, ubuntu - OSWorld.pl - mały świat wielkich systemów! Says:
Friday January 16th, 2015 at 01:34 PM
[…] Lesner ogłosił wydanie systemu ZevenOS 4.0, który to opiera się o Ubuntu 11.10 i jądro 3.0.0.. Środowiskiem graficznym jest Xfce 4.8, […]
ZevenOS 4.0 - Linux mint, centos, ubuntu - OSWorld.pl - mały świat wielkich systemów! Says:
Friday January 16th, 2015 at 01:34 PM
[…] Lesner ogłosił wydanie systemu ZevenOS 4.0, który to opiera się o Ubuntu 11.10 i jądro 3.0.0.. Środowiskiem graficznym jest Xfce 4.8, […]


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The balance sheets of European banks are piled high with legacy assets -- mortgages, real-estate, and other loans--that are tying up precious capital and constricting the banks' ability to make new, more productive loans.
At the same time, the banks' traditional sources of funding--other banks and institutional investors--have begun drying up as the European crisis intensifies.
This leaves the banks desperately needing to raise cash to survive.
The first plan was to sell off the crap assets.
But according to Gareth Gore in the International Financing Review, this plan has failed, because buyers won't pony up the prices the banks want them to pay.
(The banks want to sell their assets near "par"--the value the banks are carrying the assets for on their books--because then the banks won't have to take losses that would further deplete their capital. The buyers, meanwhile, want deals, and they know that time is working in their favor.)
So now that banks are moving to Plan B, says Gore, which is financial engineering.
Specifically, the banks are packaging up bunches of crap assets, putting pretty bows on the packages, and then using the packages as "collateral" with which to obtain emergency loans from the ECB.
In other words, it's the pre-crisis "securitization" game all over again.
Even if the European banks can engineer a way to get themselves the funding they need to survive, they're still planning to significantly reduce the amount of credit they're extending. And although this is wise for the banks, it's bad news for the economy.
According to Gore, big European banks like SocGen and BNP Paribas have promised to shrink their collective balance sheets by a staggering 5 trillion euros over the next three years, which is about the size of Bank of America, JP Morgan, and Citigroup combined.
Unless other lenders fill in the gap (unlikely), this "deleveraging" will severely constrict the supply of credit to the European economy.