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Taiwanese professional baseball has been doing badly lately after going through a series of scandals in recent years. However, the wonderful performance Taiwan's team put in during the World Baseball Classic group qualifiers in Greater Taichung last week not only gave rise to baseball fever, it also signals that baseball is making a comeback.
However, one thing that deserves closer attention is the question of whether Taiwan's baseball environment can resist the bad influence of match-fixing and gambling. If we want to safeguard players from such temptations, good pay is a necessity.
Starting in the 2010 season, the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) adopted a free-agent system. After six years with local teams, players are allowed to move abroad and play for foreign teams, and after nine years they can become free agents, allowing them to sign with any national or foreign team to secure better pay.
This puts an end to the previous unfair system whereby clubs viewed players as their property and players had to serve a club throughout their playing career.
As a result of this change, more players are securing multi-year contracts, and more Taiwanese players based overseas are returning to play in Taiwan. If we add to this that US Major League Baseball (MLB) superstar Manny Ramirez is considering joining the CPBL, then pay is likely to increase.
The nine-year minimum period before a CPBL player can become a free agent follows Japan's system. Compared with other professions, a baseball career is short. Statistics on Japanese baseball players show that an average playing career is nine years. This means that when most players become free agents, they are already nearing the end of their careers.
As Taiwan only has four teams and a small market, it is evident that this free-agent system is of limited benefit. Since players often lack personal representation, it is important to provide them strong backup to allows them to negotiate with clubs on an equal footing.
Players' unions have the greatest potential of providing support for players. However, Taiwanese professional baseball is small in scale, as is the number of players, so there is no way players' unions can become a mechanism capable of standing up to the clubs.
If we factor in resistance from the clubs, it is clear that players' unions will have a hard time exerting any influence, and that equality between players and teams will be a hard thing to bring about.
The arbitration system is another important support system for players, but this also faces problems. When the CPBL was established, an arbitration committee was put in place to handle disputes and the CPBL charter states that it must be objective and neutral. The problem is that this arbitration mechanism was established under the authority of the league, and this is a serious cause for concern.
In addition, the appointment of the arbitration committee differs from that of US Major League Baseball, where judicial and labor bodies nominate candidates that are voted for by the players' union and team owners. The US system also provides complementary measures such as arbitration hearings.
There are thus many questions over the neutrality of the arbitration process in Taiwan, and this is an area in desperate need of reform.
However, the effects of raising legal awareness among players will remain limited if players cannot control themselves. Strengthening discipline and a sense of honor among players is the only way to ensure players can resist all forms of temptation and external interference.


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Readers' Theater Explores KJB-Influenced Texts—Out Loud
This Mother's Day blog entry from Tifton is about reading aloud texts influenced by the King James Bible. Like other Bibles, the King James Bible itself is also often read aloud from the pulpit, something the original translators were well aware of. During the translation of the Bible, each committee or "company" of translators met to read aloud and discuss each passage of the Bible as it came up for translation.
I am often very hard on texts. I will read a book at top speed, following the plot threads like a hound on the hunt, totally ignoring all the little details of setting and character that the author has added to round out the reader's experience. Audiobooks were a revelation to me—the narrator reads every word and, in listening to the text being read, I experience more of the text than I would have if I had read it myself. It is like being a child again and having your Mom read you a story—and my Mom was a very good reader.
Last Sunday, May 5, at the Tifton Museum of Arts and Heritage, an appreciative audience got a real treat. Four people with extensive acting and speaking experience read excerpts from texts directly influenced by the King James Bible. It was like Mom, but even better. (Sorry, Mom, and Happy Mother's Day!)
Among the things that made this performance so memorable were the acoustics in this amazing building. For many years it was a church, and sound echoes and booms in the space. So, hearing Dr. Brian Ray preach Jonathan Edwards's famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" here, in a huge bass voice, was enough to make us all consider the state of our souls.
Making a direct contrast to Reverend Edwards, Dr. Sandra Giles read with humor and brightness from Christopher Smart's "For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry," an excerpt from the much longer work Jubilate Agno. Smart contends that "For he (Jeoffry) is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him" and that "English cats are the best in Europe."
Peter Pinnow read, from Moby-Dick, the chapter in which Captain Ahab reconsiders his resolve to hunt and kill the white whale. His reading allowed the audience inside Ahab's agonized internal battle and his longing for peace and a comfortable life on shore.
The last excerpt was from William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Dr. Erin Campbell put on the perfect holier-than-thou Southern accent to give the character the voice she so richly deserved.
The audience was well entertained and informed. Many, many thanks to all four of these very talented people for sharing their gifts with us.
Vickie Horst is the Manager of Tifton-Tift County Public Library in Tifton, Georgia.
For more information on the literary influence of the King James Bible, you may wish to consult the interactive Literary Influences timeline on our Manifold Greatness website or watch our short Literary Influences video on YouTube.
Readers' Theater reading list:
- Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (sermon, 1741)
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (novel, 1930)
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale (novel, 1831)
- Christopher Smart, "For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry," Jubilate Agno (poem, composed 1758–63).
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SCC11: Meet Team China
Does Tianhe legacy spell SCC win?
Team Vid China's NUDT (National University of Defense Technology) shocked the world in 2010 when it unveiled the fastest supercomputer known to man, the 1.86 Pflop Tianhe-1A. It came out of nowhere and caught the entire industry by surprise.
Team China, sponsored by NUDT, is hoping to do much the same thing at this year's SC11 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) in Seattle. The team didn't bring as much hardware as the others, but what they brought is potent.
Their cluster consists of only two nodes, each with dual Intel Xeon processors, for a total of twenty-four x86 cores. The punch comes with their NVIDIA GPU accelerators – six C2070s, to be specific – that will make short work of number-crunching workloads.
The success of Team China will depend on how well they've been able to adapt the scientific workloads to run on their GPUs. Some of the challenge workloads, like PFA, will run like a greased weasel (i.e. fast) on GPUs while others, like POP, haven't yet been remodeled to take advantage of them.
Although the scientific applications are an open question, Team China should be able to mount an effective challenge on LINPACK. Teams this year have the ability to submit a separate LINPACK run on modified hardware.
This means that they can throw all the GPUs they have at it in order to capture the LINPACK crown. This should work in Team China's favor and give them a solid chance to take home the LINPACK blue ribbon. (There isn't an actual blue ribbon.)
Despite the obvious language barrier, it was clear that the students were happy to be at SCC and enjoying the experience. Take a look at the video to get a better feel for Team China and their chances at clustering glory. ®
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An elite group of exiles from North Korea gathered in September in the Netherlands to discuss the state of the regime they used to serve. The conference included top diplomats, an ex-senior official of the Ministry of Security, and a high-ranking military officer, but the keynote address was given by Jang Jin-sung, formerly a key member of Kim Jong-il's propaganda machine. Included in Jang's speech was a surprising assertion: North Korea is in the midst of a civil war.
According to Jang — a former counterintelligence official and poet laureate under Kim Jong-il — members of the government's Organization and Guidance Department (OGD), a powerful group of officials that once reported only to Kim Jong-il, have stopped taking orders from his son, Kim Jong-un. The OGD, Jang says, has effectively taken control of the country, and a conflict is simmering between factions that want to maintain absolute control over the economy and others seeking to gain wealth through foreign trade and a slightly more open market.
"On one hand, it's people who want to maintain a regime monopoly," Jang told VICE News through a translator in an interview Thursday. "On the other hand, it's not like people are fighting against the regime, but in a policy sense they want to take advantage to get influence. It's not actually consciously civil war, but there are these two incompatible forces at play."


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Bernard Frize
The Fred Thieler Prize for Painting 2011 will be awarded to the artist Bernard Frize (*1949 near Paris), who has dedicated himself to abstract painting since the 1970s. By selecting Frize, the jury decided in favour of an artist who represents one of the most important contemporary positions internationally.
Abstraction is founded on a reduction to the consistency of paint and its colours. Bernard Frize understands painting as a process that is dependent on the behaviour of the paint during application. In this way, every work emerges according to its own logic and system, making its compositional structure comprehensible. Coincidence and the technically determined paint application process become the subject of the works, which are conceived as work groups and express a tremendous spectrum of variations. The method of handling paint defines the artistic outcome; the structure of the process determines the diversity of possibilities. It is essential to any understanding of these paintings that their genesis is visualised within them. The artist wishes to convey the "basics behind the experience of painting", to show the relation between his thoughts and actions.
Patron of the exhibition is the Ambassador of the Republic of France.
Endowed with 10,000 euros, the art prize is presented in the Berlinische Galerie every two years. The artists receiving the award are always based in Germany, but their creative work can be said to have an international impact.
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Prof. Frank Badur, member of the Fine Art Section of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin
Udo Kittelmann, director of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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C2Cl4 (Tetrachloroethylene or Perchloroethylene)
The HATS flask GC-MSD program measures several halogenated solvents. Below are links to data files and figures for C2Cl4.
Atmospheric dry mole fractions (parts-per-trillion or ppt) of C2Cl4 measured by GC-MSD in the HATS flask program. Each point represents a monthly mean at one of 8-12 stations: Alert, Canada (ALT), Summit Greenland (SUM), Barrow, Alaska (BRW), Mace Head, Ireland (MHD), Trinidad Head, California (THD), Niwot Ridge, Colorado (NWR), Cape Kumukahi, Hawaii (KUM), Manua Loa, Hawaii (MLO), American Samoa (SMO), Cape Grim, Australia (CGO), Palmer Station, Antarctica (PSA), South Pole, Antarctica (SPO).
Zonal mean dry mole fractions (ppt) are estimated from flask data by equally weighting monthly mean measurements in each latitude band. Small gaps (less than 6 months) are interpolated prior to averaging. Solid lines are used for Northern hemispheric measurements and dashed for the Southern hemisphere.
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James Stubbs is Dean of Fire Science, Letters, Arts & Kinesiology (FLAK) at Lonestar College - Kingwood. Prior to becoming Dean, he also served as band director and professor of music and directed the Kingwood Big Band, Lone Star College - Kingwood Jazz Ensemble, and the Kingwood Community Symphonic Band.
Prior to his arrival at Lone Star College - Kingwood in 2004, Mr. Stubbs was the director of bands at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas for fourteen years where he directed the marching band, athletic bands, jazz ensembles, theater orchestras, wind ensembles, and community bands. His teaching duties have included courses in music theory, music appreciation, American music, jazz improvisation, and applied brass.
Prior to his career in higher education, Mr. Stubbs served as a high school band director and applied trumpet educator in high schools in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. He is a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas and is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University, the University of North Texas, and is a doctoral candidate at Baylor University.
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Richard H. Almstedt, department chair for kinesiology and dance, joined LSC-Kingwood in 1991. Almstedt earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Monmouth College and a Master of Education degree from the University of Houston.
Almstedt has presented a number of papers during his career. In 2004, he presented "So you want to be an official" at the Texas Association for Health Physical Education (TAHPERD), Recreation and Dance and the South District American Alliance for Health Physical Education, Recreation and Dance conference. He has also presented, "Officials Managing Players, Coaches and Administrators" at the Texas Association of Sports Officials (basketball) Convention for four consecutive years. He also presented, "Prime Time Intramurals" at the TAHPERD convention in 2008 and before the El Paso Independent School District in service.
Almstedt has earned awards and recognitions. In 1993 he was named "Teacher of the Year." In 2000, he was named, "National Federation Officials Boys Basketball Officials of the Year." He has also officiated at NCAA, NAIA and NCCAA and NJCA. From 1998-2002 he was president of the Houston Chapter of the Texas Association of Sports Officials (basketball). He was also named South District of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Recreation Professional of the Year in 2004. He was also named the TAHPERD Administrator of the Year in 2011-2012.
Alsmstedt teaches first aid and safety, foundations of physical education, aqua aerobics and scuba diving. "LSC-Kingwood is the campus in the LSC-System," he added.
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Alan Wright, professor of kinesiology and director of intramurals and sports clubs, joined LSC-Kingwood in 2006. Wright obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Sam Houston State University and a Master of Science degree in health, physical education and recreation from Middle Tennessee State University.
Wright has presented a number of papers at conferences across the country. In 2009, Wright presented, "Club sport partnerships between community colleges and universities" at the National Intermural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA). In 2006, he presented, "What it takes to be a good supervisor" at the same conference.
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Yolanda Marie Camarata, professor of kinesiology and nutrition, joined LSC-Kingwood in 1999. Camarata earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of Texas Medical Branch and Master of Science degree in Kinesiology from the University of Texas and a Master of Science degree in Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport.
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One could argue that it was an amazing dragon costume--Rarity found a way to produce a costume that looked like an actual dragon (Krackle) in the very short time they had. I'm sure Rarity could make a costume that looks like a more typical dragon, but not as quickly. She optimized her effort!
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 07:54 AM
One could argue that it was an amazing dragon costume--Rarity found a way to produce a costume that looked like an actual dragon (Krackle) in the very short time they had. I'm sure Rarity could make a costume that looks like a more typical dragon, but not as quickly. She optimized her effort!
Posted 19 March 2012 - 09:43 AM
But, neither was shown, RD has not been shown to learn not to rush in, nor was he shown to make a decision, body language, facial expression and tone of voice, showed her being afraid, which was not in character for RD, sure, ponies might be usually afraid of dragons, but RD is not most ponies, and even if she was afraid (unlikely), she would not show it.
You'd also thing that almost being set on fire by a Draggon, plus her last atempt at actually fighting one backfiring quite spectacularly would've a bit of an effect on her. She is capable of learning.
And, you might note, neither instance was RD being afraid of injury, pain, or death, she was afraid of failure, of not being awesome, public ridicule, if anything, RD would stay and fight, even if she was afraid, especially if she was afraid, in order to prove that she wasn't afraid.
And for your information, the last time she fought a dragon, it was a full grown giant dragon, not a few adolescents, only maybe 3 or 4 times her size, nor did it really backfire that badly (atleast anymore than her attacking the manticore or trying to capture that parasprites with a tornado), she got in one hit, the dragon got in one attack, nobody got really hurt (if anything, it would be totally in character for RD to claim it a "draw", because Fluttershy interrupted the fight).
Posted 19 March 2012 - 10:49 AM
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 11:00 AM
I mean...we saw MLP DRAGONS!!! TONS of them! Some amazing and some very funny designs. Plus, another donkey, and phoenixes (or is it phoenices...? and I have a degree in latin... ) I should have enough reference material to draw MLP Tiamat now.
Plus the episode had a good moral. You are who you are, not where you come from. You make your own friends and choices. Spike certainly did not dare to talk to the old dragons, and we saw in two previous episodes how elder dragons (kinda like in D&D or well, any RPG) tend to be loners who don't like company - even here they were shown fighting amongst themselves when some bumped into others. Makes sense he hang out with the "teenagers" ('young adults' in D&D terms perhaps? they were certainly older then Spike) who, well, acted like teenagers.
Oh and now Spike has a pet too.
And Fluttershy is of course, still afraid of dragons. This was quite evident in the episode where Spike grew up to be an adult dragon, which Don East conveniently forgot. Just because she faced her fears in a situation where her friends were in peril, doesn't mean she will never be afraid of such creatures again. Remember, she is brave because she can overcome her fear of scary things when others are threatened - see Stare Master too. That was not the case here. Same with me - I used to be deathly afraid of spiders, so being a zoologist, I thought a bit and enrolled in an Arachnology class. Where I got to learn all about them, how most of them are totally harmless and can't even puncture your skin, and how some are even adorable (cue jumping spiders). Oh, we also got to touch them. A lot. So, I am no longer afraid of them... that doesn't mean though, that I welcome them in my home or I keep them as pets, or go to conventions about spiders (Arachnocons, I guess).
The two lines that cracked me up in this episode, though, were hilarious.
-"We will show you what ponies do when faced with the likes of you! ..... RUUUUN!!!"
- "Naah, he's probably Crackle's cousin." (cut to Derpy's dragon version... )
Edited by BB Shockwave, 19 March 2012 - 11:14 AM.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 11:20 AM
Yes, none of the others would be eager (willing, if forced, but not looking forward to it) to fight, and my problem is not really the running away, but the being afraid part.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 11:27 AM
But Spike's egg was part of an entrance exam for a school that she runs. Surely she must know something about it or at least the one in charge of the "hatch a dragon egg with magic" test.
I was just saying that they introduced to new concept but don't even bother explaining it. Again, one line of dialogue could've explained it.
Twilight: "Once every 100 years the dragons migrate to far off mountains in order to rejuvenate & to train their young."
There, I just came up with that & it would also give a reason for Spike to go on his journey. For that matter, I really don't buy that Spike is the only dragon in Equestria that doesn't have wings.
You're dramatically overestimating the martial prowess of the mane cast. If they have to fight, they generally fight intelligently, not through brute force, and sometimes running away is a pretty smart thing to do, especially when your opponents are serious about the whole deal - which the Manticore and Ursa Minor kinda weren't.
Fine, but isn't Twilight some sort of magical prodigy?
To play the "how I would've done it" bit again, I would've had her use the teleport spell on the dragons instead. They end up back with the other dragons, crashing onto a cliffside and falling into the lava pool like Spike did earlier. Spike, Twilight, Rarity, & RD then give the phoenix egg back to its parents right as it hatches. Spike comments that everypony are where they belong but him only for the three ponies to him that he's with them regardless if he's a dragon. In his letter to Celestia, Spike would mention he hopes to meet some dragons who aren't mean someday but for now he's happy in Ponyville. Spike shouldn't have a pet or at least not a pet that's already been done.
That aside, I've mentioned earlier that I like the mane cast having to face credible threats were running away is the most sensible option, though I guess we've to chalk that one up to our pretty widely differing tastes.
Edited by Rezo, 19 March 2012 - 11:27 AM.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 11:31 AM
Hell of a lot of design work that went into them, I imagine. And all for 'Just' a few epic huge dragon swarm shots~
(It worked excellently, btw)
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 11:44 AM
Lol, I didnt notice that it was the EARTH ponies digging the hole, lol!!!
The confetti from the red carpet felt like a Pinkie thing instead of Rarity. Yeah, Rarity will never see Spike in a romantic way. She already knows what he'll look like when he grows up too.
I really think it's weird that there are no dragons books in Twilight's library. And Spike should have known that since he manages her books. Where's Owlyicious?
Dash was a little rude to Spike but she also didn't want him to go. I feel that the reason for wanting Spike around was for the child labor he fulfills for free (lmao!). Really tho, he's a baby. Why did Celestia give him to Twilight as a slave (lmao!)
Cranky Doodle Donkey! Fake beard!
The costume is hilarious! More so when Crackle appeared, lol!
The teen dragons have strange designs, odd like the diamond dogs. While they picked on Spike, I really likes it that they honestly accepted him after the belly flop. It wasn't the cliche case where they needed as patsy to distract the phoenixes and left him to be attacked while they ran away with the eggs. They really honestly felt he was part of their group, even carrying him. Sure they were kinda nasty and were baby killers (yikes) but it might be their inherent nature. Ala greedy adult Spike. It can't be helped. But they still have a gang or community spirit to accept the newcomer after initiation, no hard feelings. No names btw?
The burning Phoenix fight and flight were awesome to see. The babies too. Yes, I'm hugely disappointed that Spike didn't return the egg. He kidnapped the baby and will mold him into something he's not. Pretty bad, I'd say. Possibly the parents don't care too much cuz the baby was an adult reborn from the ashes into an egg but I doubt it. What Spike did was wrong, it'd say.
I thought Celestia's letter was important too. Is that fire postal express a magic talent granted to Spike alone? The dragons weren't surprised by it really.
I kinda figure that PinkIe would have been a good companion here but Rarity had a personal stake and Dash was needed for flight muscle since Fluttershy isn't around. Plus I like the idea that she came along cuz she felt bad for teasing Spike and it was a way to atone. Very awesome that she accompanied Fluttershy in burteryfly watching too. Fluttershy running away was unfair of her.
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 11:52 AM
I didn't.
And my reply: if it did adhere to continuity, the ponies wouldn't laugh at Spike's problem at the start lest they forget Lesson Zero's moral.
That's your interpretation and I find it to be wrong. We're talking about a pony who went out of her comfort zone to stop Nightmare Moon, Discord, & head out into parts unknown to help her friends. Being scared of watching dragons at a safe distance seems like a step down and I disagree with this direction.
And the assertive thing, again I find her trampling Rainbow Dash like that is OOC, the least she could've done was apologize since she's Fluttershy and she apologizes at the drop of a hat.
It's a badly written episode, a good writer wouldn't introduce concepts & not explain them, a good writer put in plot holes, a good writer would not leave a moral that can be easily misconstrued. In the end Dragon Quest is on my list of the show's worst episodes.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 11:57 AM
Not that safe a distance, as Rainbow Dash helpfully demonstrated.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 12:01 PM
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 12:07 PM
But Spike's egg was part of an entrance exam for a school that she runs. Surely she must know something about it or at least the one in charge of the "hatch a dragon egg with magic" test.
But the test seemed to be a regular thing in the flashback.
Not that safe a distance, as Rainbow Dash helpfully demonstrated.
That only happens because the writers like to make RD look like an idiot now. Just saying.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 12:21 PM
Not that safe a distance, as Rainbow Dash helpfully demonstrated.
That only happens because the writers like to make RD look like an idiot now. Just saying.
Now, to be fair to writers, while Rd is not an idiot, she is arrogant (with a cause), braggard (and has lot to brag about) and a jerk (got nothing here), so occasional idiot moment is fully in character.
However, being a RD fan (Rainbow Dash is the best pony), i am constantly dissapointed that she never gets to show of her stuff.
Well, there was the Sonic rainboom, as well as the barn demolition in Lesson Zero, which were pretty awesome, but outside of that, she does not really get to show of her skills without it ending horribly
Posted 19 March 2012 - 01:21 PM
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 06:12 PM
Those names are reminiscent of the names of the dragons from the old Atari game, "Adventure." (Yorgle, Grundle, and Rhindle.) I wonder if that's a coincidence or if there's some sort of connection.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 06:47 PM
That's a remake I'd like to see. Not necessarily Dash and Flutters, but just The Odd Couple with ponies. There are a number of potentially amusing combinations.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 08:01 PM
But Spike's egg was part of an entrance exam for a school that she runs. Surely she must know something about it or at least the one in charge of the "hatch a dragon egg with magic" test.
But the test seemed to be a regular thing in the flashback.
There wasn't anything explicit in the flashback. I'd say it's still retconnable. Like I said, it throws my old fanon (pony-dragon symbiosis) out the window, but on the other hand it makes it clear that Spike and Twilight's relationship is special, and all part of The Plan.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 10:46 PM
Those names are reminiscent of the names of the dragons from the old Atari game, "Adventure." (Yorgle, Grundle, and Rhindle.) I wonder if that's a coincidence or if there's some sort of connection.
Garble! That's cool. Hmm. He's actually the most well spoken, out spoken of the dragons. I guess dragon names don't have to be correctly descriptive. Spike isn't really completely spiky.
Aaw, you didn't have to give out his name if you didn't want to But, cool, you confirmed the spelling of Crackle (not Krackle or Crackel or Krakle or Crakil etc).
Lol! Atari Adventure was terrifying when the dragon comes out if nowhere. I didn't know the dragons had names. I just poked them with the lance / arrow or ran away screaming.
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San Mateo, Calif., Jan. 15, 2014 — DataStax, the company that powers the online applications that transform business, today announced it has hired Clint Smith as general counsel, responsible for the company's legal affairs, including corporate law, intellectual property strategy, commercial contracts, compliance and litigation. Smith previously has headed the legal departments at UUNET, Macromedia and TrialPay and served as general counsel at open source database provider MySQL AB where he helped lead the company through its $1B acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2008.
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When the Kansas Legislature wrapped up its session at the end of May, many throughout the state were looking forward to seven months of silence from Topeka.
There was the off-chance the Kansas Supreme Court could rule on the adequacy of public education funding before January, which likely would have forced the governor to call lawmakers back to the Statehouse. A U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the unconstitutionality of any Kris Kobach-authored voting law could have had the same result. Even more remote, but not outside the realm of possibilities, would have been yet another attempt to derail Common Core standards before the school year got underway.
But special sessions are a rarity in Kansas governance. Only 21 such gatherings have taken place since Kansas became a state in 1861 -- and extreme conditions presented themselves that required expeditious response from lawmakers.
Special sessions have been called to deal with grasshopper plagues, women gaining the right to vote, flooding, social unrest following a strike by coal miners, extending a moratorium on mortgage foreclosures in the Great Depression, joining the newly created Social Security program, legislative redistricting and other timely, weighty topics.
On Tuesday, Gov. Sam Brownback issued a proclamation ordering legislators back to Topeka on Sept. 3. The 22nd special session in state history is dedicated to rewriting the so-called "hard 50" criminal sentencing law. The current law allows judges to imprison particularly violent criminals to 50 years with no chance for parole. The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that only juries can impose such sentences, not judges by themselves.
With perhaps as many as two dozen cases that could be affected, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt asked the governor to convene the Legislature so the current law could be rewritten.
"The longer we wait to fix this problem, the greater the universe of cases that will be subject to that uncertainty," Schmidt said to the Rotary Club of Wichita recently.
"Every homicide that would otherwise be Hard 50 eligible that occurs in late September, in October, in November, in December, and at least the first half of January would be subject to that same uncertainty at a minimum and maybe not have the Hard 50 eligible," Schmidt said.
We appreciate the AG's concerns for public safety, but couldn't those defendants simply have jury trials? That way the public is protected -- and doesn't have to pony up $35,000 to $40,000 per day for the special session.
The emergency nature of the situation doesn't come close to the conditions that prompted the first 21 sessions, which makes us suspect other factors are in play.
While Brownback has asserted he wants a "one-bill special session," he can't impose such a restriction. And once the 125 representatives and 40 senators are in the same building, there's no telling what might emerge.
One additional action we know will take place is the confirmation of up to 19 pending gubernatorial appointments. The Senate is required once in session to consider Brownback's appointees for positions such as secretary of administration, a securities commissioner, three members of the Board of Regents as well as the newly created seat on the Kansas Court of Appeals. As the governor has until Aug. 29 to nominate that judge, legislators won't have months to evaluate the candidate that they would have without the special session.
We won't speculate on other actions the Legislature might take. We'll wait and see what happens.
But we won't hesitate to say this special session is not warranted.
Not only is it a waste of taxpayer dollars, it is an abuse of the powers given to the governor.
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What Happens When You Pretend to Have a Hot Girlfriend on the Internet
A user on crowd-sourced linkdump site Reddit posted a picture of his shapely "girlfriend's" new tattoo. Apparently she wasn't his girlfriend. Nice try, nerd.
Two weeks ago, Reddit user R66y started a thread titled, "My girlfriend (an art student) went away for the summer and came home with this tattoo, I don't even..." He included a picture of his art student girlfriend's (admittedly stupid) tattoo, a detail from Dali's "Temptation of St. Anthony"
But it wasn't his girlfriend. According to one Reddit user who claims to be friends with her, the girl in the picture learned about the thread through her profile on the softcore porn site Suicide Girls. She posted a link to the thread on her Facebook profile, adding: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"
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Central Connecticut head women's golf coach Carly Ludwig has announced the recruiting class of 2017. Two student-athletes will join the Blue Devils in the fall of 2013, Kaitlyn Stoddart and Ella Williams.
Ludwig said of the incoming freshman, "I am very excited to welcome Ella and Kaitlyn into the Blue Devil family. I feel like both Ella and Kaitlyn are going to be able to transition into college golf with ease. They are extremely talented players that have immense potential to propel the success of the CCSU Women's Golf team for the next four years."
Kaitlyn Stoddart - Shelburne, Ontario/Centre Dufferin District High School
During her time at Centre Dufferin, Stoddart earned MVP of varsity women's golf two consecutive years (2010-11, 2011-12). She claimed the District 4 Golf Championships in 2010, 2011, and 2012 and was also a champion at the CWOSSA Golf Championships in 2012. Placed third at the OFSAA Golf Championship in 2012 and second in the Pepsi-Titleist Junior Golf Tour in 2009, 2010, and 2011 for the juvenile girls golf division. Stoddart won the Pepsi-Titleist Junior Golf Tour in 2012 for the junior girls division, placed second individually and as a team at the Ontario Tour Team Championships in 2012, and made it to the quarterfinals of the Ontario Girls Match Play in 2012.
Stoddart on CCSU: "Central Connecticut State University offers experiences and opportunities that are rare to come across. Being a member of the women's golf team at CCSU is more than just going to the range every few days to hit balls. You are treated and trained as an elite athlete, with early morning workouts, hours spent at the course doing drills, and days spent on the road traveling to and from tournaments. But most importantly, I will be joining a family, spending the next four years of my life growing with my team. These are the years in which I will design my future, and I could not be more blessed than to be doing so at Central."
Ella Williams - Calgary, Alberta/Western Canada High School
A member of Glencoe Golf and Country Club, Williams won the club's Junior Club Championship in 2012. She earned first place finishes at the MJT British Columbia Series/Kelowna, BC and MJT Prodigy Series Calgary, AB. She tied for second place at the MJT Okanagan Junior Championship and finished in the top-five at the Calgary Junior Open Tournament.
Williams on CCSU: "I was impressed with Coach Carly (Ludwig) throughout the stages of my recruitment and everything CCSU has to offer academically. Overall it turned out to be a great fit for me and I am excited about my future as a Blue Devil."
The Blue Devils finished their 2012 fall campaign averaging over 324.1 strokes over seven rounds. Central placed seventh, third, tenth, and second in four fall tournaments.


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Broberg and Alvaro Velasco had finished regular play tied for the lead on 22 under par at Byneset GK, after a two under par 70 and three under par 69 respectively, before two pars at the first play-off hole meant they returned to the 18th tee to do it all over again.Velasco, the 2010 Challenge Tour Number One, gained the advantage from the tee the second time out when he found the middle of the fairway while Broberg found the rough on the right and when the Swede's second shot came up 60 foot short of the pin, the Spaniard looked odds on favourite to clinch a third Challenge Tour title.
He caught his approach thick, however, and could only land the ball five foot nearer the flag than Broberg, who proceeded to roll the ball into the back of the cup from a seemingly impossible distance before Velasco's birdie putt missed to the right by a matter of inches.Broberg's Challenge Tour record now reads: three appearances - tied ninth place in the first, a win at last week's Finnish Challenge and another title this week.
"It was amazing," said the 26 year old, who had already won twice in Norway in just over a year on a satellite tour. "I'm so happy right now. I was so tired from the last two weeks I almost just wanted it to be finished but to finish it like that was just incredible."That's definitely the biggest putt I have holed in a position like that. My drive was a little to the right and I hit a six iron but I didn't strike it like I would have liked to. Even then, I still didn't let myself think that I wasn't going to win.
"I played so so today up until the play-off. I made a lot of pars and didn't really get going at any time. I was constantly hitting the ball past the pin and then two putting a lot."But I can't believe I've won two in a row, it's just amazing. The key has just been confidence. After last week's win I came into this week with a lot of confidence and feeling I could win the tournament."
Both Broberg and Velasco made cagey starts to the final round, playing in the last group alongside former Ryder Cup player Oliver Wilson, as they each parred the opening six holes. Broberg picked up a birdie at the par five seventh hole while his Spanish counter-part gained two shots at the sixth and seventh to move into the tied lead.Broberg continued to rack up the pars – nine in a row from the eighth hole – while a bogey at the 12th and another birdie at the 16th for Velasco meant the two players were neck and neck stepping onto the 17th tee.
They both birdied the short par five before a par each at the final hole meant it would go to extra holes and while Velasco was disappointed to lose out in such a fashion, he showed nothing but admiration for Broberg's winning putt."There is nothing you can do or say about that," said Velasco. "It was just a great putt. I tried to tie but I was too far from the hole so it was difficult. I was between clubs for the second shot and I tried to smash the shorter club but I caught too much grass.
"It's still a positive week. I wasn't playing too well recently and then I had a break and this week I showed that I'm back so I'm looking forward to the next few weeks.
"It's been up and down since I won the Challenge Tour Rankings in 2010 and now I can take positives from this week and get my confidence back."Argentina's Rafa Echenique finished in third place a shot back after finishing with a six under par round of 66 while experienced campaigners Steven O'Hara (65) and Wilson (68) finished in a tie for fourth place on 20 under par.


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North Korea is in a "provocation pause," the Pentagon said Tuesday, but that is not stopping the United States and South Korea from displaying a united front toward the North's belligerence and growing nuclear threat.
It just may be, however, that the goal of the tough unity – on display at the White House Tuesday as President Obama greeted South Korean President Park Geun-hye – is to pave the way to renewed dialogue between the two Koreas at some point down the road.
At a White House press conference Mr. Obama said Pyongyang had "failed again" with its recent nuclear provocations to split the US and South Korea – two countries celebrating 60 years of alliance with President Park's visit – and that the North can no longer scare the region and the world into bowing to its demands.
"The days when North Korea could create a crisis and elicit concessions, those days are over," Obama said.
For her part, Park set the tone for the first foreign trip of her presidency with pre-departure vows of swift and more-than-commensurate military response to any North Korean attack.
But Park, who took office in February just two weeks after the North's third nuclear test, has also made it clear that she sees her toughness as part of a "trust politik" that would allow for renewed dialogue with the North.
Yet a key ingredient of her approach toward the North is her ability to demonstrate a solid US-South Korea alliance, regional experts say – a factor that explains the tone of the Park-Obama summit Tuesday.
Part of Park's "trust politik" is also to convince the US it can trust her to reengage with Pyongyang when (and if) the opportunity arises.
"What this summit is really about is building a relationship," says Victor Cha, a former director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council and now the Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington.
Even before Park arrived, the White House set out to underscore to North Korea and the world that the two allies stand united in their approach to the North's provocations.
"In dealing with North Korea, it's vital we show unity," Obama's senior director for Asian affairs, Daniel Russel, said Monday. He said it remains too early to tell if Pyongyang really is pulling back on its provocative actions or is simply "zigzagging."
He said the US and South Korea agree on a policy of "incremental engagement" with North Korea, but it's one that can only advance if the North undertakes concrete and permanent steps to dismantle its nuclear program.
The hard part for the US and South Korea won't be in the outward display of unity, some regional experts say. The "tougher discussion behind the scenes" will be how to balance the dual-track approach to North Korea of keeping up the pressure "coupled with maintaining an opening for dialogue," says Michael Green, a former senior director for Asia on the National Security Council and now senior vice president for Asia at CSIS. "There really is no elegant solution."
A key problem for the united approach to the North is the growing likelihood that Pyongyang is less and less interested in provoking the world in search of concessions, and increasingly set on establishing itself as a nuclear power.
The North's nuclear and missile tests "are not primarily statements," Mr. Green says, "but they are technological tests" aimed at cementing North Korea's nuclear progress. His colleague Mr. Cha agrees. "The primary driver is weapons development," he says.
Still, Green says he sees advantages in having South Korea "take the lead" with North Korea right now. Among them, he says, is that this would "reinforce that South Korea is not the puppet of the US," as the North Korean regime regularly trumpets.
Both Park and Obama aim to demonstrate with this visit that relations between the two countries are about much more than just North Korea. Asia's economic vitality and the year-old US-South Korea free trade accord are certain to be highlighted as Park hosts a huge dinner in Washington Tuesday night and then addresses a joint session of Congress Wednesday.
The US-South Korea FTA, however, may not be getting the unanimous applause Park might have anticipated. Critics of the trade pact say its early implementation has actually led to a drop in US exports to South Korea, although other trade experts say one year is hardly enough time to judge the agreement.
With the US currently negotiating a broader US-Asia trade pact, the Trans Pacific Partnership, those critics say it's not too soon to worry that an unimpressive launch of the US-South Korea accord could be a bad sign for a larger Pacific-rim trade pact.


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We spend most of our waking hours at work, so when it comes time to find a new job, you'd think we would take our time, carefully reviewing job descriptions and thoughtfully weighing whether a position might be a good fit.
But it turns out we're not as methodical as we'd like to think.
A survey released Thursday by job-search firm TheLadders found that 44% of job-seekers claim they spend one to five minutes reading job descriptions before deciding whether to pursue them or not. Another 19% said they invest up to 10 minutes reading a posting on the first pass.
Yet when those same job-seekers were tracked using technology that records where and for how long their eyes landed on a page, it turned out they spent an average of 49.7 seconds before dismissing a position as a poor fit, and 76.7 seconds with job ads that appeared to match their interests and skills.
The eye-tracking study, conducted by researchers at TheLadders, found that job-seekers look first at the job title, then company information, and then at the details, such as salary and recruiter information.
The company asked 15 job-seekers to read five job descriptions, and tracked each subject's pupils as they moved across the page. (A second group of 15 participants read a different set of job descriptions that had been formatted using the firm's competitive-analysis product. The results contained in this blog post are based on the participants who read the traditionally-formatted job ads.)
Even when subjects determined that an opening was appropriate for them, reviewing the actual requirements for the job appeared to be a low priority—results showed they spent only 14.6 seconds, on average, in that section. Applicants spent the most time reading the job description (25.9 seconds) and the company description (23 seconds). In addition, participants' eyes tended to skim the job description rather than read it closely, and often skipped the bottom section of the description entirely.
While candidates likely ponder the qualifications required for a position more closely after they decide for certain to apply for a given position, the speed and sloppiness with which potential candidates read job ads helps explain an endless frustration of recruiters: receiving dozens, if not hundreds, of resumes from unqualified candidates, said Selena Hadzibabic, director of product and user experience at TheLadders.
Rather than chide job-seekers for their inattention, recruiters and managers should recognize that they shoulder some of the blame, she adds. Employers "write job descriptions in ways that aren't very easy to scan or understand. So the job-seekers get lost in run-on paragraphs" and big blocks of text, said Hadzibabic.
Job titles, the first thing potential applicants look at, are also sometimes written to confuse rather than clarify. Tech startups may think it's cool to call their software team "ninjas," but they shouldn't use that term in the job title.
"If you're looking to hire a Java developer, that's what the job title should be even though they're going to join your team of ninjas," she said.
Finally, she said, open the black box of the salary field. Most job descriptions fail to include any information about compensation, since employers fear that transparency on the topic may constrain their bargaining power. If that information is missing, says Hadzibabic, potential hires "move on and you've lost their attention." Even a broad range is useful for engaging potential candidates, and can help weed out those who don't measure up.
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MacArthur may be considered for TIF district
Master plan to be released Feb. 23
The MacArthur Boulevard Business Association may start to see the fruits of its labor as soon as Feb. 23, when the final master plan is unveiled for development along the corridor from South Grand Avenue on the north end to the new interchange at Interstate 72 on the south end.
Former Ward 9 alderman and current deputy mayor Steven Dove told MBBA members who have worked for the changes to their business neighborhood that "we're seeing light at the end of the tunnel."
Dove briefly discussed Tax Increment Finance districts and opened the floor for discussion during a Feb. 10 meeting with the MBBA.
Tax Increment Financing tends to be a "dirty word" among the public because people don't know what it means, Dove said. But the city will look at a TIF district as one among many solutions for MacArthur.
If implemented, a TIF District could lend a hand in bringing the blighted areas along MacArthur Boulevard back to life.
The Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission and The Lakota Group, a Chicago consulting firm, held three previous workshops and coordinated a steering committee of volunteers to oversee MacArthur development.
Dove, who stood in for Mayor Frank Edwards, says the decision on whether to implement a TIF district in the MacArthur Boulevard corridor all depends on how it will affect businesses.
"If we want to see change in this corridor…we're going to have to do some negotiation," Dove says.
Carolyn Oxtoby, a Springfield developer, says she is in favor of the proposed MacArthur TIF. She renovated five downtown buildings and used TIF to finance several. The financial option allowed her to have a 3 to 5 percent loan which she says is much lower interest than if a TIF were not used.
She says that TIF makes costs more affordable for individuals who renovate buildings.
"I encourage people to use it," she says.
The Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission and The Lakota Group have studied the corridor that once was vibrant and inviting. Among the problems identified by The Lakota Group are parking lots without landscaping, deterioration of parkways, cluttered signage and a need for attractive streetscapes along the 3.5-mile corridor.
Nick Kalogeresis, vice president of The Lakota Group, was not at the meeting but told Illinois Times in a phone interview that one of the goals of The Lakota Group for MacArthur Boulevard is to "green it up" and return the business district to being a thriving area. The McArthur plan recommends changes such as additional space for restaurant vendors for outdoor dining, redevelopment of the vacant Esquire Theatre site, added town homes, and redevelopment at the site of the old Kmart building and former bowling alley on Outer Park Drive.
Kalogeresis says the study also surveyed areas two blocks east and west of MacArthur Boulevard, areas that include parts of the Village of Jerome and the city of Leland Grove, which may be affected by the revitalization of MacArthur Boulevard.
Dove left the floor open for discussion among members of the MBBA and others. Attendees urged the return of a city planner and more efficiency between city offices, as well as development changes for the boulevard.
Norm Sims, director of the Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission says, "We're going over the final planning report documents now. The only piece that's still out there is the implementation, which is what we're working through now."
Edwards, who could not attend the meeting, told Illinois Times in a phone interview that he's willing to take a look at TIF as a financial option. He wants to see if MacArthur fits the TIF criteria and if the results will be positive for the city. He's quick to say that it isn't easy and wants to know if MacArthur Boulevard is even "TIF eligible."
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Monthly Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)Entry ID: NOAA_NWS_CPC_MEI
Abstract: [Text Source: Klaus Wolter, http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd//people/klaus.wolter/MEI/
Refer to: Wolter and Timlin, 1993, 1998, http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd//people/klaus.wolter/MEI/#ref_wt1 ]
El Ni??o/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most important coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon to cause global climate variability on interannual time scales. Here we attempt to monitor ENSO by basing the ... Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) on the six main observed variables over the tropical Pacific. These six variables are: sea-level pressure (P), zonal (U) and meridional (V) components of the surface wind, sea surface temperature (S), surface air temperature (A), and total cloudiness fraction of the sky (C). These observations have been collected and published in COADS for many years. The MEI is computed separately for each of twelve sliding bi-monthly seasons (Dec/Jan, Jan/Feb,..., Nov/Dec). After spatially filtering the individual fields into clusters (Wolter, 1987), the MEI is calculated as the first unrotated Principal Component (PC) of all six observed fields combined. This is accomplished by normalizing the total variance of each field first, and then performing the extraction of the first PC on the co-variance matrix of the combined fields (Wolter and Timlin, 1993). In order to keep the MEI comparable, all seasonal values are standardized with respect to each season and to the 1950-93 reference period. The MEI is extended during the first week of the following month based on near-real time marine ship and buoy observations (courtesy of Diane Stokes at NCEP) summarized into COADS-compatible 2-degree monthly statistics at NOAA-ESRL PSD. Caution should be exercised when interpreting the MEI on a month-to-month basis, since the input data for updates are not as reliable as COADS, and the MEI has been developed mainly for research purposes. Negative values of the MEI represent the cold ENSO phase, a.k.a.La Ni??a, while positive MEI values represent the warm ENSO phase (El Ni??o).
See: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd//people/klaus.wolter/MEI/
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Geographic Coverage
Spatial coordinates
Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSD
Dataset Title: Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)
Dataset Series Name: NOAA Indices and Forecasts
Dataset Release Date: ongoing
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO, USA
Dataset Publisher: NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSDOnline Resource: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd//people/klaus.wolter/MEI/
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1950-01-01
Location Keywords
Data Resolution
Temporal Resolution: monthly
Temporal Resolution Range: Monthly - < Annual
Science Keywords
ISO Topic Category
Ancillary Keywords
Data Set Progress
Originating Center
Data Center
Distribution Media: online www
Distribution Format: ascii
Fees: none
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Email: Klaus.Wolter at noaa.gov
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: 301-602-3890
Fax: 301-614-5268
Email: Scott.A.Ritz at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Global Change Master Directory
City: Greenbelt
Province or State: Maryland
Postal Code: 20771
Country: USA
Wolter, K., and M.S. Timlin, 1998: Measuring the strength of ENSO -
how does 1997/98 rank? Weather, 53, 315-324
Rasmusson, E.G., and T.H. Carpenter, 1982: Variations in tropical sea
surface temperature and surface wind fields associated with the
Southern Oscillation/El NiC1o. Mon. Wea. Rev., 110, 354-384.
Wolter, K., 1987: The Southern Oscillation in surface circulation and
climate over the tropical Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Indian Oceans
as captured by cluster analysis. J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 26,
Wolter, K., and M.S. Timlin, 1993: Monitoring ENSO in COADS with a
seasonally adjusted principal component index. Proc. of the 17th
Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Norman, OK, NOAA/N MC/CAC, NSSL,
Oklahoma Clim. Survey, CIMMS and the School of Meteor., Univ. of
Oklahoma, 52-57.
Extended Metadata Properties
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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2005-12-13
Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-11-02


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Although this page remains valid, the MinGW team have decided to no longer promote mingwPORT distributions. Therefore the information below is for your own use only. The latest way to share build information for packages is with mgwport .
Using mingwPORTs
The mingwPORTs provide an automated and repeatable method of creating and building libraries and applications from source. By using a build script such as the mingwPORT files, developers can easily share the steps it takes to create an executable or library on their particular operating system with a specific compiler. The mingwPORT script files are designed for the standard GNU style build tools and a standard shell such as the bash shell. They automate the usual ./configure, make, make install process. The mingwPORT scripts can be customized for non-standard builds such as those that require patches in order to work.
You can check the MINGW archives at Sourceforge to determine if a mingwPORT is available for a particular library or executable you want to build and install. These scripts are typically provided in a tarball (.tar.gz or .tar.bz2) file and have mingwPORT somewhere in their file name. Since these are shell scripts, you'll need MSYS on your system in order to run them. To use a mingwPORT, download and decompress the file. Within MSYS, change directory (cd) to the mingwPORT directory that was created when you decompressed the tarball. Type ./mingwPORT.sh. The shell script will ask a series of questions that helps it determine where files are and where the build and install should take place. Once the questions are answered, the scripts will automatically perform the steps a developer usually takes to create an executable or library.
Build scripts are used by a variety of Open Source projects to help automate the process of building and sharing executables and libraries. Although mingwPORT shell scripts could be designed for use on other systems with gnu style compilers such as Cygwin or Linux, many Linux distributions typically have their own format for providing build scripts. Many build script formats (including mingwPORTs) offer functionality to automatically download the source code to be built. The source code tarballs may be kept at the same web site that the build scripts are available from. However, for various reasons such as space, keeping up with latest versions, etc., build scripts typically point to the original web site where source code for a project is available and maintained. In order to download the original source, most build scripts use the Open Source program wget. This is how the mingwPORT scripts download a tarball to be built. In order for this to work, you must have a working copy of wget on your system. Also, the URL for the source code must be up-to-date. Locations of files on the web can change often and occasionally older source code may no longer be accessible on the web any more. You'll want to make sure the URL you're downloading from is still accurate especially if the build script fails to run to completion. The mingwPORT scripts give you the opportunity to change where you're downloading the source from if you know the location has changed.
How to Sneaker Net
If you don't have Internet access on the system where your MINGW and MSYS tool chains are installed, you can use sneaker net with a mingwPORT. Just download the mingwPORT tarball and the source code it refers to. The mingwPORT.ini file usually gives the web site where you can find and download the source code from. Move these files to the system you want to build on. Decompress the mingwPORT tarball. Run the mingwPORT.sh script as usual. When asked if you want to "Download file", answer no (type N). You'll be asked for the location of the archive file. You can then tell the shell script the directory where you downloaded, copied or are storing the source code tarball.
You'll Want wget
Since wget is needed by the mingwPORT scripts to automatically download from the Internet, you'll need to download a binary copy of wget that's compatible with Windows to use this feature. There is a mingwPORT tarball to build wget at the MINGW site at Sourceforge. If you use it, I'd recommend you use the sneaker net method of downloading the source yourself and telling the script where this source file is located.
Make Sure MSYS is up-to-date
It's recommended that you use the latest version of MSYS when working with mingwPORTs. Please note that versions of MSYS 1.0.10 and prior expect any files installed in the /usr/bin and /bin directories to use POSIX style command line conventions. For files in other directories, MSYS converts file names with slashes (POSIX style file names) to the Windows style file name convention using backslashes. However, this is not done for files in /usr/bin and /bin directories with earlier versions of MSYS. That means all executable files you install that aren't built specifically for MSYS will not work properly if placed in those directories. This includes programs like wget. It's much easier to update your system to the latest version of MSYS and not have to worry about where your executables get installed in order for them to work properly. You need a release version of MSYS after 1.0.10 if you want to avoid this issue.
Creating mingwPORTs
Some of the developers of MINGW have designed an automated method, called portmaker, for creating mingwPORT scripts based on templates. Portmaker should help make it possible for anyone to create mingwPORTs if they are not currently available for a needed library or application. If you do create a mingwPORT, please share it with other developers. The more we share build scripts with each other, the more likely you'll be able to find a script for a particular library or application you want to build when you need it. Sharing build scripts can really save developers time and effort when building Open Source applications and libraries.
How to Get portmaker
You can download the latest version of portmaker from cvs at Sourceforge using a program like WinCVS from sites like Portable Apps, or by using the CVS client provided in the MSYS Supplementary Tools package set; anonymous checkout of the appropriate files is achieved by executing the commands
export CVSROOT CVSROOT=:pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot/mingw cvs login
At this point, you will be prompted to enter a password. There is none; simply press <ENTER> to continue, then
cvs -z3 co portmaker
You can also view the files directory or download from http://mingw.cvs.sourceforge.net/mingw/portmaker/.
Once you've downloaded the portmaker files, within MSYS, run the usual ./configure, make, make install on them. To work with portmaker once it is installed, again within MSYS, type portmaker. It will ask a series of questions about the executable or library you want to build. This helps create the mingwPORT.ini file which has default answers to the questions a user is later asked when using the mingwPORT scripts. The portmaker script will copy over template files and create a mingwPORT.ini file with the defaults you've given it. These files will be placed in a mingwPORT subdirectory. If you have any patches required, place the diff output for all the files that need changing in a file called mingwPORT.patch also in that subdirectory. The files in the mingwPORT subdirectory should peform just like any mingwPORT you download from the MINGW web site would. To share them, you can tar and compress them so that they can be distributed in tarball format.
Some Variable Value Tips
When working with mingwPORTs, the archive (such as the ARCHIVEFILE, ARCHIVEPATH) typically refers to the executable or library source file you're trying to build. Your mingwPORT files are usually placed in a mingwPORT subdirectory underneath the SRCDIR directory. The PREFIX can be used to indicate where to install files to. If you install files to /usr/bin, /usr/doc, and so on, your PREFIX would be /usr. Since the MINGW compiler has some expectations about paths and where libraries and include files are installed, you'll want to make sure you use a PREFIX that will facilitate installation to a location where these files can be easily found.
Sharing mingwPORTs
I'd like to encourage all developers working with mingwPORTs or other forms of build scripts to share these files. The more we share, the more likely we'll be able to find a build script for a particular library or executable when we need one. It's also more likely you'll be able to find help creating your own build scripts for programs or libraries if others are familiar with this process.
There's a forum at the MinGW site on Sourceforge for discussing issues with mingwPORTs at
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=440309; however, the lead developers now consider this to be deprecated -- please use the MinGW Users mailing list as the preferred forum, for discussion of issues with mingwPORTs.
You'll find a mingwPORT submission page at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2435&atid=752210.
If anyone runs across other information on this topic or other forums for discussion of build scripts for the MINGW compiler suite, please post about it or share the links to the information below. Also, if anyone has created and is sharing build scripts for Open Source projects that will work with MINGW, please post the links to them as well.


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I own Xperia mini Pro with Android 2.1-update1. I noticed that my mobile Camera is not allowing me to pause and record the video. I had to record the video continuously without any pause. I know this is little annoying me. And I started searching for video applications which can do this job.
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This seems to be a limitation of either the Xperia mini Pro Camera software or the hardware itself. The camera that came with the Stock Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant (SGH-T959) I could pause and resume recording of video. I am now running CyanogenMOD on the device, and I can also pause and resume recording.
So either the developers did not want to include that functionality in the camera software, or the hardware has something that prevents them from allowing it.


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