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It's been 5 long weeks, but today I finally got my oven back! Needless to say there are now a few reasons to celebrate (in no particular order) 1) oven is fixed (hurrah!) 2) my fiancé (still not used to saying that) turned 30 earlier this week and 3) well, as you already know, we are now officially planning a wedding!
As you can imagine, I was feeling a little traumatised after the whole oven fiasco and righteously felt somewhat paranoid whether or not the oven could be fixed. After the oven repairs man had left and ensured me that the oven would now work, I felt confident to take the risk and start baking again.
This pear macaroon slice is definitely a celebration treat for us. I've used much more sugar than normally (although raw sugar, but nevertheless this is rather sweet), but I did opt for using extra virgin coconut oil and whole spelt flour to balance the richness. This is a brittle little thing, but all worth the effort. If pear is not in season where you are, any other seasonal fruit (berries, apples, quinces, even plums) will be just perfect.
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In this issue:My Lebanese Love Story | Let us Be Your Partner in Prayer | Driven by Eternity | God Expresses His Love for His Lebanese Bride | Through the Bible Series |
Monthly Report: October 2009Tishrei - Cheshvan 5770
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Joseph Haddad, Arab Israeli pastor of a Lebanese Christian Church in northern Israel, blesses Israeli soldiers at Tiferet Yeshua Congregation in Tel Aviv during the last Lebanese-Israeli war.
By Joseph Haddad
I was born in Haifa, an Israeli city that has always been known for its mix of Jews and Arabs who live peacefully side by side. My parents were from Lebanon, but they migrated south in 1946, two years before Israel became an independent state and before the surrounding nations declared war on Israel.
The Jews had begun to commercially develop the city of Haifa and my father felt he could find a better job in the growing city. Sure enough he found work with a Jewish man who owned a bakery.
In 1948, when many Arabs fled from the new Jewish state in the chaos of the invading Arab nations, my father's boss told him not to flee, promising he would protect him and his family.
So I was born an Israeli Arab, the youngest of three brothers. My father was already 60 years old and I became the proverbial spoiled brat. My family was nominally Catholic so I believed in Yeshua in my head, and made it to mass on Easter and Christmas, but I knew nothing about a personal relationship with God.
As I grew up I was horribly abusive to my parents - and not only with words. I would throw things at them and in general made their lives wretched. I was ashamed, but couldn't help myself. It was like some evil thing hung over me.
Once I saw my mother praying to God that He would help me and deliver them from their living hell. She also had never been told about a personal relationship with Yeshua, but she was desperate... and to whom could she look to for help but God?
In 1983, the Good Fence, an open military passage, was still in use between Israel and Lebanon, and my parents decided they would bring a nice Lebanese girl from Lebanon to marry their son - and surely she would reform me.
Enter Ibtissam, my southern Lebanon beauty who was given to me in marriage. But there was no reform. Now I had three people instead of two to abuse and revile. For the first six months Ibtissam was sure she was going crazy and twice packed her bags to flee back to Lebanon. Both times, my parents begged her to stay.
One wintry day in February 1984 Ibtissam and I went to visit my older brother and we found three Arab believers from a local Baptist church talking to him about salvation and redemption from sin through Yeshua the Messiah.
My heart was hard - like a stone. But for the first time in 15 years, tears came to my eyes as I listened. Somehow I was hearing words of hope - words I had never heard before.
One of the men noticed I was under heavy conviction. He looked at me and said, "Brother, would you like to pray?" I said, "I don't know how to pray. I know how to curse and swear, but I don't know how to pray." He answered, "Just speak out whatever is in your heart."
Without ever hearing a "sinner's prayer," I prayed, "Lord I am a sinner.
I deserve death.
Change my life. I want to start a new life."
Instantly I felt an evil power leave me and the Spirit of God enter into my life.
I looked around. I looked at my wife - she was so beautiful. I hugged her and kissed her and asked her forgiveness.
We ran home and I got a basin of water and began washing my parents' feet and asking forgiveness. There was joy in the house like when the prodigal son came home!
It took a while for my parents to really understand what had happened because they had never heard of a salvation experience. For a while they thought I was putting on a show - the change was just too incredibly sudden and dramatic.
But soon - when they saw the change was permanent, they both received Yeshua as their Lord and Savior. Father was 84 years old and crying like a baby. He couldn't see well, but he wanted me to sit and read the Bible to him. Sometimes, he complained to Yeshua, "Why didn't you save me a long time ago? Why did you wait so long?"
At 84 years old, he quit smoking. He really didn't want anything else in life but for me to read the Bible to him. The neighbors were trying to take it all in. Even they could see the drastic change in me.
Mother would listen while I read the Bible to my father. She had been praying in the only way she knew. Now she was ecstatic. Two years later, she died, and a year after that Father followed her into everlasting life.
Ibtissam, by this time had totally given her life to the Lord. We began having a weekly Bible study in our house with the three brothers teaching us. They saw that we had a call on our lives - me, to preach the Gospel and Ibtissam to lead worship.
They suggested we go to a local Assembly of God Bible School which we did for four years, and I was ordained as an Assembly of God pastor in 1995.
I immediately joined with David Davis, pastor of Carmel Congregation in Haifa, working on the staff as teacher and mentor in the House of Victory, a rehab program for Arabs and Jews. Many alcoholics and drug addicts have been saved and healed in the program. Today, Nisim, a young man who came to the rehab center as an alcoholic and who had tried to commit suicide, is one of my right-hand workers in the Kingdom.
In the year 2000, a very significant event occurred in Israel. The Israeli Defense Forces decided to pull all her troops out of southern Lebanon where they had been fighting Muslim terrorists for 18 years.
Thousands of Lebanese wait to enter Israel on May 23, 2000 to be given refugee status. Because there was no time to examine each car coming into Israel for fear of a Hizbullah counter attack, the Israeli government did not allow the Lebanese to bring their automobiles into Israel. They literally came with the clothes on their back.
All that time, many Christian Arabs (Marionites, Catholics) and some Shiite Lebanese had fought alongside the Israeli army, against Palestinian terrorists who were fighting to conquer all of southern Lebanon, from where they could launch constant attacks against Israel. Lebanese Christians living there understood that a Muslim takeover would destroy their own freedoms to be who they were.
Over the years, Hizbullah became the dominant terrorist organization and fought ferociously against the IDF and the SLA (South Lebanon Army), until Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak decided to pull out. Knowing that Hizbullah would slaughter those who had been allied with Israel, Barak gave the SLA soldiers four hours to flee south into Israel along with retreating Israeli troops.
The withdrawal took place at midnight and it was chaotic. Seven thousand Lebanese soldiers and their families fled with just the clothes on their back. Some children arrived in Israel in their pajamas. They left their homes and everything in them. They were not even allowed to bring their cars into Israel. We heard about one man who left his dentures in Lebanon, and had to have new ones made in Israel.
Because Ibtissam is of Lebanese origin, and my own parents were Lebanese, we felt overwhelmed with the hardships these families were experiencing. These people had been in daily war with terrorists who hated Jews and Christians of any kind for more than 25 years. Everyone had family members killed and maimed.
Now they were in Israel in totally unfamiliar territory. They were not Jews - nor Israeli Arabs. Theywere Lebanese refugees torn from their extended families and friends.
South Lebanese soldier and his children put on a happy face as they enter Israel.
The next day, we and Pastor David Davis loaded up two vehicles with Arabic Bibles, children's clothing, slippers, and powdered milk. Ibtissam's sister and her husband, who was an officer in the SLA, were among the refugees. They were taken by the government to a kibbutz in Galilee.
David, Ibtissam and I went to visit them and found 500 Lebanese in makeshift caravans at the kibbutz. Ibtissam set up a keyboard outside of the area and began playing and singing.
First, the women and children came out to see what was going on. The men were more skeptical, wondering what we wanted from them. But after a while they too crowded around us. Somehow, with our own background being Lebanese, we connected with them.
Then Pastor David spoke a word of encouragement to these people, still in a daze.
He read Isaiah 29:17-20 to them:
Is it not yet a very little whileTill Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book,And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord,And the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
He spoke in English and I translated into Arabic. David told them that the spiritual deafness and blindness will be removed and they will love the God of Israel!
The men were crying and many came forward to accept Yeshua. For eight months we visited this group of 500 weekly. Slowly we became strongly bonded with these people and they understood that we loved them.
Ever since we were saved in 1984, we were crying out to God that He would enable us to preach in Lebanon. We thought God had forgotten our beloved Lebanon. Then 16 years later, He did it His way - and brought them to us!
Eight months later, the Israeli government offered the Lebanese rented homes. So 250 families chose the town of Nahariya (the meaning is "the River of God"). We immediately started a home group with a family who had come to the Lord on the kibbutz. Within two months we had to move outside into their yard because of the growth.
Winter was approaching and I was praying, "Lord, what shall we do?" His answer was to give us a house on the main road of Nahariya! We met on Friday nights. Jewish people love to walk on the beach promenade, close to our home, as the Sabbath begins. They would pass by our service, hear the singing, come in and we would witness to them. For four and a half years we stayed there until we outgrew the place and moved to yet another house.
Lebanese congregation worshiping the God of Israel
One night we were worshiping the Lord and as I looked out on the worshipers, I saw the Lebanese men holding their songbooks and Bibles. I thought, "These are the men who held guns, hand grenades and weapons for 25 years, and now they are holding the True Weapon - the Sword of the Spirit!" I felt overwhelmed with gratitude for their salvation.
Altogether, at present we have about 80 born-again members. Most of those saved in our congregation have a spirit of evangelism. Three months ago, four Lebanese Shiite families were saved. One family received Yeshua, and then brought another family, which in turn brought another, and they brought the fourth family. Ibtissam is already training their teenage daughters in worship music.
Now the children of these Lebanese believers who go to Israeli schools are preaching to the Jewish kids! Who would have thought God would bring Lebanese children to preach to Jewish kids in Israel?
I fervently believe that these Lebanese are not here in Israel by mistake. God brought them here to reveal Yeshua to them. He has provided them a city of refuge in Israel. If they had stayed in Lebanon, they would have been considered collaborators with the enemy (Israel) and thrown in jail and tortured.
Are the Lebanese happy in Israel? I will not deny that many long for their homes in Lebanon. However, I can also say with certainty that those who are believers are content. They have purpose in life, and they know they are here for a reason. God brought them to Israel to receive salvation. In due time, I believe, they will be able to return to Lebanon once Hizbullah is removed. They will be a spark of fire for revival in Lebanon!
In 2003, Ari and Shira visited us, and seeing our pioneer work, felt led to pay the rent for our building for one year. The following year, they decided to raise money to help me with my salary so I could become a full-time pastor. Their ongoing support gives me the ability to invest myself in my Lebanese flock and to have outreaches into other Arab communities in Galilee.
Lebanese couple bring their baby to Joseph and Ari to be dedicated to the Lord
In July 2006, when war broke out between Lebanon and Israel, our congregation in Nahariya came under intense fire as 700 rockets fell on our town of 50,000. Most citizens left the city for safer areas, and we gathered up our entire congregation, loaded them in the cars that were available, and headed south.
On that Sabbath, I preached at Tiferet Yeshua Congregation. I thought to myself, "While in the north Jews and Arabs are fighting each other, here we are, Jews and Arabs singing and worshiping together. When will the world get it? Yeshua is the ONLY answer!
Maoz Israel Ministries' humanitarian aid fund, istandwithisrael.com, paid for the food for the congregation while they were in Tel Aviv, (and later sent a large sum to the members as they began to get on their feet after the war).
Yosef and Ibtissam Haddad have two boys. Amir 22, is studying for the ministry in a Bible School in Finland. Istandwithwithisrael.com is helping with his tuition. Ophir, 20 years old, is enrolled in a video school. He helps with the technical equipment in his parents' congregation and works in the children's department.
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If you haven't read this book, you've got to!
It is one of the most impactful books I have read in my lifetime. The book focuses on a subject that most believers spend very little time thinking about - our reward in heaven when this short life of ours is over.
Nevertheless, Yeshua spent much of his time here on earth talking about this very subject. For a reason! Nothing can be more important in our lives than how we will spend the next billion years… John Bevere's portrayal of this great Biblical truth is incredibly ENCOURAGING! And MOTIVATING!
Israeli believers need this book. We invite you to help us publish DRIVEN BY ETERNITY.
Invest in the Israeli people!
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Photo: A soldier from the South Lebanese Army comforts his wife as they wait in line to cross into Israel together with the retreating Israeli Defence Forces.
There are so many scriptures about Lebanon in the Bible! We believe God's message to us for the sheep he has entrusted us with is that the Lebanese are a special part of His Bride, and we are commissioned to nurture and care for them with all our heart.
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,With me from Lebanon...You have ravished my heart,My sister, my brideYou have ravished my heart...Song of Solomon 4:8-9
Another familiar verse relates that many Lebanese became followers of Yeshua.
And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon [Lebanon], who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all. Luke 6:17-18
I believe that many of the Lebanese descendants who came 2000 years ago to Israel and believed in Yeshua will be saved today as the Lord is faithful to a thousand generations! (Deuteronomy 7:9)
Because the former SLA soldiers blessed Israel for 25 years, they are pioneers as allies to Israel among the Arab nations. They are the first Arabs (except Israeli Bedouin and Druze) to actually fight alongside the Jewish people.
Hundreds of these South Lebanon soldiers paid with their lives at the hands of Muslim terrorists because they stood with Israel.
That Scripture is still valid. "I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you." It is the truth for all cultures and to every nation.
This Bible course was created to give readers a love of the Scriptures.
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Before his death in 1973, Gordon Lindsay, founder of Christ for the Nations, authored a Bible course called "Through the Bible" series. Lindsay teaches the personality of God and the way He deals with human beings by analyzing the lives of the men and women of the Old Testament.
Although Rabbinical authorities of course teach from the Bible, they do not usually deal with the deep spiritual relationship between God and man.
For the Israeli reader, this will be a fresh new way of looking at the Bible characters and learning from them what God wants and expects from us today.
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Dear Maoz Partner,
After hearing Joseph Haddad's story first hand, we realized the power of one witness - the three young people sharing their faith on the streets of Israel had a powerful, residual effect on many lives -lives of the Lebanese refugees, lives of his own family, and the lives of everyone in our congregation, Tiferet Yeshua.
Pastor Joseph regularly takes time to come and share with our congregation, and when he does, there is such a freedom of worship, praise, and an outpouring of God's spirit. Why is that? Because when brothers dwell together - Jew, Gentile, Arab - there is a "good and pleasant" atmosphere of peace! And the abundance of joy is evident to all!
When we decided to share in the fruit of Pastor Joseph's ministry by supporting him monthly, it was a financial step of faith. But many partners came alongside us, and we have been able to continue our support - because of you. We want to continue to bless him and his very effective ministry with regular monthly support… and we ask for your help.
The thrill of publishing books is just in our DNA! We have worked for many years in Hebrew book publishing, in spite of the Orthodox burning of books, the post office dumping books in the trash cans, and standing against the monopoly of the commercial book stores in Israel.
BUT WE WILL NOT BE DENIED! We continue to do whatever it takes to pick just the right booksthat will impact Israelis - unbelievers and believers, alike - to secure publishing rights, to translate, edit, format, print and distribute these books nationwide. Why are we so adamant about this? Because a BOOK is going to have a longer life than we have! And we want to be impacting the next generation with spiritual truth long after we have gone to heaven.
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You see, you provide our people power (salaries). You provide the paper (supplies). You provide the facilities (our buildings). You provide the equipment (printers, copies, sound, media, and computers). You provide the sustenance for us to do the vital work of reaching every Israeli we can with the TRUTH of our Messiah!
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Traveling with little kids? Been there, done that, loved it. Most of the time. As for the other times, some of the blame falls on me because I forgot something.
We all do. A mother I know told me she once forgot to bring a ratty, old stuffed animal and paid the price. Toddler: "Where Pinky Pig go?" Mom: "Uh, he decided to stay home." This was followed by loud and lengthy opposition to the pig's staycation plans.
Lucky for me, my daughter's a teen now which means it's time to pass the torch and my trusty travel checklist to a new generation of young parents.
7 Things No Parent Should Forget
Keep this checklist (along with your packing list) inside your traveling bag.
1. Don't forget to check flight details
If it's been awhile since you made reservations, check your itinerary on the airline site. Usually airlines notify you about changes, but they don't always point out every single little detail and here's the perfect example.
An acquaintance was told by Airline X that a connecting flight had changed which meant she'd arrive in Atlanta earlier than planned. No big deal, she thought, until she figured out her brief layover was now 7½ hours long, and she was traveling with three little kids. Then she noticed Airline X could have put the family on an earlier outbound flight to avoid the long layover but they didn't do it. Luckily, our frantic flyer was able to switch things around with no fee penalty. Good thing she was on the ball and noticed these details.
2. Don't forget to check the seats
Sometimes airlines pull a seat switcheroo which you don't find out about until you board the plane (this can occur when there's an unanticipated change in aircraft). This also happened to my Airline X friend but she caught it in time to make a fix. If she hadn't, well, just picture 18 month old twins seated ten rows behind their parents (but also picture the haunted-looking passenger seated beside the little ones). Check your flights and seats, then check them again.
Note: On long flights with children, you might want to select an aisle seat for yourself. I'm thinking of all those trips to the restroom with little ones (don't knock it, it can tire them out).
3. Don't forget the paperwork
If traveling with a lap child, a youngster under the age of two who can fly for free if he or she sits on your lap, bring a copy of the little one's birth certificate. Chances are no one will ask for it, but it could come in handy if anyone questions the child's age and you need to prove it. If you can't, you could be stuck paying for another full-price adult ticket.
4. Don't forget the hardware
Did you borrow or buy an FAA-approved child-restraint seat for the plane? Good idea, just don't forget to bring it. Your airline might have a spare onboard but that's about as likely as the flight attendants suddenly deciding to offer free champagne in coach.
5. Don't forget the software
Real 'soft' stuff like pacifiers, blankets, much-loved stuffed animals plus candy and other treats as bribes for good behavior (yes, I've stooped to that). Also, please don't forget diapers. A former Pan Am flight attendant once told me about a passenger who gave her young child a 'newspaper toilet'; afterwards, the mother carefully folded it up and handed it to the flight attendant. Flight attendant was speechless. Bring diapers and do your own disposal work (and not in the seatback pocket).
6. Don't forget the electronics
Fun factoid: Most planes do not have screens for entertainment, not on the seatback or even on the ceiling. Bring a phone or tablet or a laptop for the kids if that's what it takes to keep them happy and quiet. And don't forget chargers and headphones.
7. Don't forget the rehearsal
Know how to jam up an airport security line real fast? All it takes is one frightened, screaming kid who doesn't understand what security is all about. Explain what'll happen ahead of time, and rehearse if you have to: Show them how to remove their little backpack and let them know that Pinky Pig will go on a conveyor belt but he will come back. The good news is children 12 years and under don't have to remove shoes or jackets before walking through the simple metal detector. If they know what to expect, they won't be afraid.
One last thing: Don't forget the fun. We parents forget what an amazing adventure flying is. Remind yourself and the kids by taking a moment with them to look out your plane's window. Enjoy the view.


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Dear All,
I am seeking advice about the backup strategies and possible use
of CVS to accomplish this task.
I happen to use 4-5 different computer on the daily basis for my work.
I use my laptop, desktop, and a file server at work as well as my personal
desktop and my wife's laptop at home.
It is of paramount importance for me that my files are in sync on all
5 computers
for two reasons. I want to start working always with the latest and
most up to date version of files regardless of the computer which I am using.
Secondly, if a HDD dies on one or even three-four computers at the same moment
of time I will still have backup copy to recover the work.
Up until now I have used the combination of tar, rarely dd, and my
home brown scripts
to accomplish above task. I would always start work by running the
script which would
pull up the tar files either from the file server of USB drive and
untar them on my computer.
After I finish work I would run the script to tar specific directory
I was working on and push
them back to file server and a USB drive.
However it did happen to me that I forgot to run the script once or
twice in the past which
cause me great deal of frustration. Suddenly, I would have to
different versions of the
same file at two different computers and maybe the third older version
on my file server.
It also happen to me in the bast that I modify the files and I
realized that modification
sucked but I could not recover specific older version of particular file.
I do periodically burn DVDs with entire home directory, date it and
keep it on the shelf.
Are there any advantages of using CVS over my present method or I am
just hallucinating.
It looks to me that CVS could help me utilize pull+push strategy for
backing up the files but
would give me advantage over the tar and dd by allowing me incremental
updates as well as
keeping the past snapshots of my work.
I have seen a thread about 2-3 months ago on misc in which there was a
similar question
by a OpenBSD user who wanted to keep his /etc on his firewall machines
up to date as
well as back up configuration files in the case of the disaster by CVS.
I am open for any suggestions but I do have a strong preference for
the tools from the base
of the system. I noticed couple ports with poor man tools for
accomplishing above tasks.
I use the simpler RCS and mail a tarred copy of the RCS directory to one my Gmail accounts.
On OpenBSD that could be automated with a /etc/rc.shutdown script.
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
I have used CVS for backups for a few years, I recently switched to subversion mainly because it handles binary files better, and some other minor CVS annoyances ...
For me, it works pretty well.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
One utility you might want to look at is,rsync. I've yet to employ it, but it
might be useful. I have a similiar problem to the one you've brought up Oko,
and have been using a CVS+SSH solution for months under OpenBSD, FreeBSD,
and Windows XP machines.
Over the years, I've made use of scp, tar, cvs, nfs, samba, and sshfs. For
small projects, I usually use a simple tar & scp operation to move it from
workstation to file server, and then pull it from the next machine that needs
it. Important stuff now gets stored under revision control, either locally or
committed to a central repository at home. Any kind of data that I always carry
around with me (like my vimrc) irregardless of machine, gets placed under CVS.
Local modifications are tested, then committed back to the repos. on the OpenBSD
box, and other machines then periodically update from the CVS repository.
Anything that isn't suitable for use on all machines, has a date with the M4
preprocessor or symbolic links right after checkout. Conflicts, are of course
dealt with in the usual manor.
There's many version control systems available. If you have any intention to
shop around for one; bzr, svn, and git are worth checking out, especially if
you'll be dealing with conflicting changes. My file server runs OpenBSD, which
comes with CVS pre-installed because that is what the OpenBSD project uses, and
thus that is what my personal repository runs -- I can live with CVS perfectly
well under that condition.
All physical data is of course backed up separately from the repository to
avoid a single point of failure.... It is also possible to compress the CVS
repository and bring a copy along via E-Mail or flash drive. It makes
working on an important project much nicer. If you use a setup like git, it
is even possible to have each machine that pulled a copy of files, in effect
become a living backup of your repository.
Trust me -- using an VCS/SCMS is worth it. The advantages you mention are
there, and disadvantages basically depend on the software you choose to use,
and the precise situation you face.
Getting the current copy of files is easy, as long as you've both committed it
to, and can access the repository is trivial. Getting older versions of a file
or all the files is somewhat the point of such software, not just an advantage.
One thing that you also gain, is the ability to maintain a log of your changes,
which you wouldn't have with a file synchronization or network mounting
solution. Using file sync stuff like rsync or network mounts like SSHFS or NFS
help avoid the need to maintain current versions of files, but rather suck
during times without network access to your server. Things like RCS and CVS
help deal with files that will change, need history, and may have
multiple-versions running around. The rcs program in the base system is a very
basic Version Control System (VCS), but IMHO is less well suited to files that
are regularly used. You could think of rcs, cvs, and svn (subversion) as the
ed, ex, and vi of their problem domain.
Everything tools like CVS do, can be emulated with the file system, but under
that condition, it doesn't work with the problem of getting lazy or "dang, I
forgot to ..." as cleanly as CVS does. Distributed Source Code Management
Systems (DSCM) or SCM systems capable of distributed work flows can also be
handy (git, bazaar, perforce), especially if you want to maintain a file set
under version control on your computer while playing around, then push the
entire set of commits to a central repository when you are sure that what you
are committing, is what you want. (A good system also makes it easy to pick &
choose what parts you want to commit; some can even let you 'rewrite history'
before pushing it out, so to speak.) Using a SCMS is also much better suited to
situations where you have to live without network access to your home server.
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However, if mere synchronization is the fundamental problem, then setting up NFS is even simpler, plus you don't have to worry about committing the local sandbox copy all the time, because with NFS whatever is being edited is the only copy.
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As clinics began to open their doors Thursday, area medical providers had one thing in common: preparing to play catch up.
As clinics began to open their doors Thursday, area medical providers had one thing in common: preparing to play catch up.
Jacksonville Children's and Multispecialty Clinic had to reschedule more than 500 appointments at their 10 locations due to closing early Tuesday and remaining closed Wednesday, according to Dr. Madhur Mittal.
Within 15 minutes of opening the doors of the Children�s Sick Clinic and Urgent Care Office Thursday, 11 appointments were scheduled. Other offices, Mittal said, remained closed due to the weather.
Mittal said managing the medical clinics and the weather is �pretty challenging.�
� You've got to worry about the patients and the sick ones and the over anxious ones � Those are all the challenging things. Our management team has been working around the clock � I don't know how many hundreds and hundreds of phone calls have been made, probably thousands,� he said.
Mittal said it required extra preparations to re-open on Thursday.
� It was quite challenging. You had to find someone to dig the snow out of the parking lot,� he said.
By 9 a.m., the clinic was seeing patients trickle in and the phone was ringing regularly.
� I think they're glad we're open,� Mittal said.
Amy Sousa, spokeswoman for Onslow Memorial Hospital, said that by Thursday morning some departments were beginning to return to business as usual.
Radiology and the laboratory were open as was the Emergency Room, and some staff had been on hand since Tuesday.
� A lot of staff is used to that because of our hurricane history � kind of camping out I guess,� Sousa said.
The hospital, she said, has had to reschedule hundreds of appointments throughout its departments.
� That's not an exaggeration to say that hundreds of appointments were affected and some of them were rescheduled for today so Radiology has people coming in today after noontime so they're trying to catch back up. Almost all of the patients that had things canceled or postponed were contacted and they were trying to reschedule them for today or Friday or next week,� she said Thursday morning.
SurgiCare, one of OMH's clinics, had to reschedule about 35 surgical procedures due to the weather, according to director Pippa Taylor.
� These have all been elective (non-emergency) procedures, mostly cataracts, colonoscopies and ENT,� she said.
About 90 percent of those were rescheduled to be done within the next three weeks by late Wednesday.
Taylor said that the appointments are coordinated between the surgeon's office and schedules, which the clinic plans to accommodate with extended hours if needed.
� All staff and surgeons are acutely aware of the inconvenience and frustration this can cause, but the safety of our patients and staff is always our main concern,� Taylor said.
Onslow Ambulatory Services Manager Scott Beaver said that about 300 appointments were rescheduled at the hospital's physician practices due to the snow storm.
� We should be able to catch up within a couple of weeks,� Beaver said.
The weather has also affected the donated blood supply, according to the American Red Cross.
According to Autum Mimh, director of communications for the organization, more than 600 blood drives were canceled across the country, including some in Eastern North Carolina.
� That's resulted in more than 20,000 uncollected blood and platelet donations,� she said.
The exact numbers of local cancellations was not available at deadline. Mimh said the Red Cross is working to reschedule the appointments and encouraging ENC residents to make a donation at drives near them.
Medical providers aren't the only ones rearranging schedules, however.
Scott Brooks, owner of Brooks Funeral Home in Morehead City, said the business was �fortunate� to not have services scheduled during the midst of the storm.
� We did as the storm started, and we were able to complete those services without any mishaps or reschedules,� he said.
The funeral home had to reschedule one service, he said, because it was out-of-state and the local family could not travel to the site.
� We had plan A and plan B on what we would do and we were able to go ahead with all the planned services that we had,� he said.
Brooks said that the weather was also kept in mind while scheduling services.
� We had some services to schedule and postponed them by a day or so to make sure that we weren't planning anything right in the middle of the storm and the following days,� he said.
Brooks said that while the weather could affect burials, it does not affect memorial or funeral services that do not proceed to burial.
� Everyone's very understanding that we're not equipped in this area to handle (snow and ice) so we always have a plan B just in case and all the employees and families that we're working with to coordinate is very understanding. Everybody works together to make things the best they can be,� Brooks said.
Judy Sanderson, superintendent of the Coastal Carolina Veterans Cemetery, said that the cemetery did not have any services scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, which is �out of the ordinary.�
� God watching over everybody and everything,� she said.
Sanderson said that Eastern North Carolina is lucky because it takes several days, she wasn't sure how many, of single-digit temperatures for the ground to freeze and cause problems in burials.
� With the equipment that we have, it wouldn't have a bearing,� she said.
However, had services been planned, the cemetery would check with area funeral homes about if the families wanted to reschedule.
� If not, then every effort would be made to get in there and take care of it,� Sanderson said.
Amanda Hickey is the government reporter at The Daily News. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Oh they wish we would stop calling them that! Drone, drone, DRONE!!!
Looks like our local media will comply.
To supplement your local news providers who fail to mention anything about drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or unmanned aerial systems (UAS) at all in their reporting of Gov. Fallin's trip to the Paris Air Show, I thought I would provide you the press release that is circulating in the industry circles. It is interesting to compare this one with the (drone) sanitized versions circulating in local media.
Industry circulated releases;
U.S. DELEGATION FROM OKLAHOMA TO PARTICIPATE AT 2013PARIS AIRSHOWOklahoma Department of Commerce Leads Delegation to one of World's largest Aerospace Gathering toPromote Oklahoma's Aerospace and UAV SectorsOKLAHOMA CITY, OK, May 2013The Oklahoma Department of Commerce's foreign direct investment team has formally announced the state's participation at the upcoming Paris Airshow taking place outside of Paris, June 17-23, 2013"We're thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase Oklahoma's value proposition and the many business factors that make Oklahoma a top destination for the global aerospace industry," said McKeeverMcKeever said Oklahoma has the infrastructure and policies in place that make the state a global center of excellence in aerospace and Unmanned Aerial Systems.
Oklahoma Department of Commerce Leads Delegation to one of World's largest Aerospace Gathering to Promote Oklahoma's Aerospace and UAS Sectors
". . .Oklahoma has become THE PLACE in the United States for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) both for commercial and military applications."
Local media news releases;
Governor, Oklahoma Officials To Attend Paris Air Show
Governor Mary Fallin is leading an Oklahoma delegation on a week-long trip to the Paris Air Show.
Fallin will be joined by her cabinet secretary for science and technology as well as aerospace companies and economic development agency officials at the Paris Air Show next week.
More than 55 companies with some Oklahoma presence are expected to have exhibits at the show and Fallin has said it's critical to emphasize the state's reputation as a key player in the aerospace industry
The Oklahoman
Oklahoma's Gov. Mary Fallin will lead delegation to Paris Air Show
By Michael McNutt June 10, 2013
Gov. Mary Fallin, aerospace companies doing business in Oklahoma and economic development agencies will attend next week's Paris Air Show.
Not to be unduly harsh with our local media who has apparently dropped a few important descriptive terms from their vocabulary (like drone and UAV) as some did raise an important issue regarding taxpayer money being spent on travel, luxury hotels and meals for private industry representatives.
Michael McNutt, Senior Reporter, The Oklahoman;
Two years ago, Fallin was criticized about the cost of sending four state officials to the air show, which is held every other year.
Records showed that the state paid for $400-a-night rooms at a luxury Paris hotel, $188 daily meal per diems and more than $3,000 in airfare. Fallin didn't attend the show in 2011 but defended Oklahoma's participation.
Several private Oklahoma-based aerospace companies, along with a delegation from the chambers of commerce in Ardmore and Oklahoma City, also participated in the 2011 show and reimbursed the state for nearly half the $154,000 total cost.
This year, more than 55 companies with a presence in Oklahoma will exhibit at the show. The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, the Tulsa Regional Chamber and the Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce all will be represented in the Oklahoma delegation
So industry officials get to live it up on our dime. This is just one of the problems with Public Private Partnerships.
"The OSU University Multispectral Laboratories located in Ponca City Oklahoma is a public private partnership boasts that the UML's partnership is "unique in the country" in that it has "truly fused" government, private industry and academia."
I wonder what kind of government we get when we fuse "government, private industry and academia"? I can tell you this much – it's not a very representative one!
Read more about the pitfalls of 'Public Private Partnerships'
OK-SAFE's Position on Public Private Partnerships – Updated 7-27-2012
Public-Private Partnerships, (PPP's or P3's), and initiatives and legislation supporting them, are a prominent trend in State and Federal government. They are often supported by Big Government advocates as "innovative financing" and by Crony Capitalism advocates as "free market solutions." However, they are a direct threat to the free market and are an incentive for corporatists to engage in unproductive ventures and monopolists to exclude competitors. PPP's are the source of the sort of political corruption that undermines the rule of law and the sort of central planning that is at the heart of the anti-capitalist
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For Community Housing Partners employees, it's not so much about the project but the moment when a house becomes a home.
For Community Housing Partners employees, it's not so much about the project but the moment when a house becomes a home.
Community Housing Partners held a dedication ceremony Friday, celebrating the completion of the rehabilitation project at Hilltop Terrace Apartments on North Carolina Avenue.
"I think this ceremony is important to kick off the celebrating of a home. When it's no longer 'housing' but a home, it's important to mark that passing," said Janaka Casper, president and CEO of Community Housing Partners.
Casper thanked project partners such as BB&T, City of Lexington, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, The National Park Service and Enterprise Community Investment.
Stephen Smith, vice president for Enterprise Community Investment and equity partner in the project, said he loved his job because he was able to make a difference.
"Days like today are the best days of my job because I get to see a finished product and see why we do what we do," Smith said.
About 40 people attended the dedication ceremony, many of whom were residents of Hilltop Terrace Apartments.
Sybil Hamilton, a resident, spoke praising words to all involved with the renovation.
"We are certainly blessed to have been a part of this," Hamilton said.
Not only was Hilltop Terrance renovated, but Community Housing Partners renovated with the historical aspects of the building in mind. Before becoming an apartment complex, the building was the home of Lexington Memorial Hospital.
Hilltop Terrace Apartments is a multifamily community comprised of 63 apartment units rented to low-income households. The 43,500-square-foot, four-story building was originally built in 1947. After the hospital moved to a new location in 1979, the building was retrofitted for apartments.
Hilltop Terrace was purchased by Community Housing Partners in 2008 and renovated in 2012 pursuant to the Secretary of the Interior's standards for historic rehabilitation. Renovation work included interior and exterior upgrades such as all-new kitchen cabinets, appliances, flooring, windows, and heating and cooling systems that have improved the functionality, efficiency and aesthetic of the property, according to a press release.
"I am very grateful for our new washers and dryers that we desperately needed," Hamilton said.
Mayor Newell Clark was thrilled with the extent to which Community Housing Partners went to maintain the historical aspect of the building.
"The building is art deco or art modern, and there were not many buildings being built in Lexington during that time, so I'm glad they wanted to preserve the unique structure," Clark said, adding that this renovation is a wonderful addition to the community.
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Modern-rock legends The Cure will headline Day One of BottleRock Napa Valley, the mammoth music festival that runs Friday-Sunday.
Heralded hip-hop act Outkast gets the top slot on Day Two, while rising country star Eric Church will close out the party on Day Three.
The festival takes place at the 26-acre Napa Valley Expo center.
Tickets prices run from $149 (single-day admission) to $599 (VIP, three-day pass). Tickets are available at www.bottlerocknapavalley.com and www.ticketfly.com.
Here a look at the daily lineups:
Friday: The Cure, TV on the Radio, Sublime with Rome, Matisyahu, Railroad Earth, Mayer Hawthorne, Robert Delong, Third Eye Blind, Moon Taxi, Gin Blossoms, Empires, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Spin Doctors, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Miner, Ben Sollee
Saturday: OutKast, Weezer, Matt & Kim, Heart, De La Soul, No Age, Blues Traveler, Robert Earl Keen, Howie Day, Smash Mouth, Tea Leaf Green, Cracker, Moonalice
Sunday: Eric Church, The Fray, LL Cool J with DJ Z Trip, Black Angels, Keep Shelly in Athens, Barenaked Ladies, Deerhunter, Thee Oh Sees, Camper Van Beethoven, Jon Batiste and Stay Human, Noah Gundersen, James Otto, Delta Rae, Ed Kowalczyk, The Stone Foxes, Victory
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Another contest, another batch of cool projects! Once again, the TR Community came through with some great ideas. As per usual, the Trossen Robotics staff scored projects from our "Project Showcase" forum on a scale of 0-5 for documentation, coolness, ingenuity, and creativity. This is only a sampling of what's been posted in the Project forum, and there are still some great projects that unfortunately didn't make the cut. I wish we could give awards and salutations to all of them, but we can't, so when you're finished reading this, go check out the rest of the projects in the Project Showcase forum. And now, here are the finalists of the "Submit Your Project And Win" contest!
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Runners Up:
Project: Wiimote Firefighting Robot
Creator: tempalte
Prize: 10% off next TR order
This bot detects fire using the IR camera in the Wiimote and talks to a computer via Bluetooth. Very cool.
Project: Skype Controlled Roboquad with Spy Capability
Creator: roschler
Prize: 10% off next TR order
Roboquad + wireless cam + Robodance + USB UIRT + Skype = Awesome.
Project: Distributed Autonomous Swarm of Maxelbots
Creator: uwdrl
Prize: 10% off next TR order
Ultrasonic swarm localization and heavy metal.
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Third Place
Project: Halloween Hologram / Spirited Tree R/C Holiday Double Whammy
Creator: Rodger Cleye
Prize: $50 TR Gift Cirtificate
If you don't know what the hell's going on in the above picture, you're not alone. Rodger submitted the "Holographic Halloween Robot" in October, then repurposed the hardware and resubmitted it in November as the "Spirited Tree." Both were highly entertaining and totally ridiculous. The base is a modified electric wheelchair drive system. The hologram illusion was created with an LCD and an angled piece of plexiglass. The LCD can display video broadcast live from an IR camera or a DVD player. With Halloween receding into the past and Christmas looming on the horizon, Rodger replaced the hologram rig with a music playing light-up Christmas tree. Rodger is a newcomer to our forums, but if you've been reading Hack a Day and other DIY news outlets for a while, you've probably already seen his self-balancing electric unicycle and electric skateboard.
Second Place
Project: Front Door RFID Security
Creator: fish123456
Prize: $100 TR Gift Cirtificate
This guy hacked into his electronic deadbolt, adding a Phidget RFID reader so he could unlock his front door with an RFID key fob. This has been done a few times before, but we decided we needed to reward "fish123456" for going the extra mile, because in addition to RFID, he also created a web interface that he can access from his cell phone. This has a lot of potential. For instance, if somebody needs to get into your house when you're not home, you can unlock it remotely for them. Or if your RFID chip is implanted in your hand, and that hand gets bitten off by a shark; you don't need to hunt down the shark and wave it in front of the door to open it!
First Place
Project: Otto
Creator: kdwyer
Prize: $200 TR Gift Cirtificate
Otto is a humanoid/track hybrid droid with an incredible range of capabilities. Kdwyer's mission was to make an autonomous robot that could avoid obstacles, track motion, and interact with people through speech and gestures. Otto's brain follows a distributed architecture, employing 2 Oopic R's (the "upper" and "lower" brains). He boasts a boatload of sensors, such as IR rangefinders, Ultrasonic rangefinders, a digital compass, and a color video camera. We like this project a lot, mostly because it was built from the ground up using a pile of hardware from numerous different sources.
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Thanks to everyone for your submissions. The next contest is rolling as we speak. As always, we're looking forward to seeing what else you can come up with! You can stay up to date on contest rules and regulations at the Submit Your Project and Win contest page, and start posting your projects in our Project Showcase Forum.


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"Blair, I don't like this."
Those were the last words First Air co-pilot David Hare spoke to pilot Blair Rutherford. Five seconds later, both were dead, along with 10 others on the airplane
A Transportation Safety Board report into the crash detailed Tuesday how it took just 2 1/2 minutes for a combination of human and technical mistakes to turn a passenger and supply flight to a remote Arctic community from routine to calamitous.
The investigation into the crash of First Air Flight 6560 blames an undetected autopilot change, a faulty compass reading and disagreement between the two pilots about whether to abort the landing.
"This accident was the product of a complex series of events, all of them lining up together," lead investigator Brian MacDonald said Tuesday as the report was released. "But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference."
The chartered plane was on a regular run to Resolute from Yellowknife on Aug. 20, 2011. There were scientists on the plane, along with staff heading back to work at a local inn and the inn owner's two young granddaughters.
The crash killed all four crew members and eight passengers. Three passengers miraculously survived.
In cool, technical language, the board's report provides a second-by-second breakdown of what probably happened in the cockpit as the pilots crashed the Boeing 737 into a hillside a kilometre from the runway.
Problems began because on-board compasses were incorrectly adjusted by 17 degrees. That error was compounded when the captain turned into the final approach and unwittingly changed the operational mode of the plane's autopilot. Busy with the landing checklist, in weather obscured by cloud, mist and light rain, neither he nor the co-pilot picked up the change.
Within seconds after that final turn, the co-pilot realized the plane was off course and repeatedly told the pilot, reminding him about the large hill to the right of the runway. Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.
Puzzled as to why the plane's navigational instruments weren't lining up with ground-based systems, Hare asked if they'd done something wrong. Five seconds later, he suggested they pull up and go around for another approach.
Rutherford, fully focused on landing the plane and on figuring out why his instruments were giving confusing readings, refused.
"It is likely that the captain did not fully comprehend information that indicated that his original plan was no longer viable," says the report.
Less than 10 seconds after first suggesting they pull up, Hare asked again, pointing out that the plane wasn't configured for a landing so close to the landing strip. The report suggests Rutherford is likely to have understood the remark as a request to prepare the plane for landing.
Cockpit communication had broken down.
"The captain's mental model was likely that the approach and landing could be salvaged, and the (co-pilot's) mental model was almost certainly that there was significant risk to the safety of flight and that a go-around was required. These divergent mental models compromised the pilots' ability to communicate and work together."
Four seconds after his second request to pull up, Hare asked Rutherford to bank to the left. Their navigational confusion was evident when Hare confused the shoreline of a small lake with the seashore.
A couple of seconds later, Hare swore, then told his colleague: "Blair, I don't like this."
Almost immediately after, the plane's ground position systems began to sound alarms. It was about 2 1/2 minutes since Rutherford had made the final turn. He tried to pull up and go around, but it was too late.
"There was insufficient altitude and time to execute the manoeuvre and avoid collision with terrain."
The plane smashed into the hill and broke into three pieces. Flaming wreckage was strewn around the tundra.
Resolute residents and soldiers from a Canadian Forces exercise which happened to be underway nearby rushed to the scene. The military had established a temporary air traffic control tower at the airport that day and were guiding in all planes.
Several lawsuits filed over the disaster cast partial blame on the military presence, but MacDonald said it was in no way to blame for the crash.
The board earlier revealed that another plane was in the same area at the time and posed the risk of a mid-air collision. MacDonald said further investigation showed both were aware of each other and the other aircraft landed safely.
The report made one main recommendation: improving communication between crew members on all planes. Blair and Rutherford had received outdated crew management training in a two-day course that was compressed into four hours.
"The first officer's suggestions weren't compelling enough to alter the captain's mindset and the first officer likely felt inhibited from taking control of the aircraft from the captain," board member Kathy Fox told reporters in Ottawa. "Crew resource management is supposed to help flight crews in exactly these kinds of situations."
Fox said Transport Canada is updating its training, but she warned there will be "gaps" unless all airlines are required to apply the standards on a daily basis.
Daniel Slunder, president of the Canadian Federal Pilots Association, said Transport Canada used to have pilot inspectors or check pilots who sat on flights to test crews. In 2007, the government made airlines responsible for hiring their own check pilots.
Slunder suggested those private checks aren't always up to snuff and are often scheduled when they used to be unannounced.
Board member Joseph Hincke also said planes around the world are landing when they shouldn't. About four per cent of approaches are unstable, he said, and in those cases nearly all pilots proceed anyway.
"Most of the time everything works out just fine but sometimes there are consequences — a runway overrun, tail strike or, in this case, a fatal crash," Hincke said. "To improve airline safety in Canada, this needs to change"
Airlines need to further enshrine procedures about aborting landings and use technology to track the results, he said.
Chris Ferris, executive vice-president with First Air, said the airline has written new flight manuals and increased crew training. It's also encouraging pilots to perform more stablized approaches.
"We've definitely taken lessons from this investigation and strengthened and become a much safer airline," he said.
Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said she hadn't yet had a chance to read the crash report but her officials were examining it. "It's a very tragic accident that happened and of course we always want to make sure we do the best we can with respect to safety."
— With files from Chris Purdy
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version said the flight number was 6550.


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James Clapper Admits That The Debate Snowden Created 'Needed To Happen'
from the then-why-didn't-it-happen deptDirector of National Intelligence and confessed liar to Congress, James Clapper, has now admitted that the debate over what the intelligence community has been doing, brought on by Ed Snowden's leaks, "needed to happen."
"I think it's clear that some of the conversations this has generated, some of the debate, actually needed to happen," Clapper told a defense and intelligence contractor trade group. "If there's a good side to this, maybe that's it."Well, isn't that interesting? Of course, considering that he was the Director of National Intelligence and that the oversight committee, which is supposed to keep him in line, tried to start that debate a few months ago and Clapper's response was to flat-out lie to them, it seems worth questioning why it appears that he did everything possible to avoid having that debate? It also raises the question of why he's still in a job (and not facing charges).
Clapper also admits that he knows that the leaks aren't done:
"Unfortunately, there is more to come," he said.Seeing as the existing leaks helped push forward a debate that "needed to happen," I don't see what's so unfortunate about that.
Clapper also insisted that those awful journalists covering the story have been letting their minds run wild:
Journalists examining the surveillance programs that Snowden disclosed "go to the deepest darkest place they can and make the most conspiratorial case for what the intelligence community is doing."Two things about that. First, so far what we've seen after pretty much every leak is that Clapper's office or others in the administration make a statement that includes a bunch of weasel words that are redefined to mean something different than what the public actually thinks -- and those "non-lie lies" are then exposed in later revelations from the leaks. Given that, is it really any surprise that people have little trust in what the intelligence community is saying?
Second, you know how you avoid having journalists take the details of the program and "going to the deepest darkest place and making the most conspiratorial case for what the intelligence community is doing"? It's called being more open and transparent and actually having the debate that you're now running from.
Besides, considering some of the existing leaks about rampant abuses (some not defined as abuses), dreadful coverups, the inability to know what Snowden took or how he took it, the economic espionage, the finding internal informants to help get around encryption and a variety of other very questionable things, is it any wonder that people don't trust the NSA?
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"It can be lonely sometimes on a rainy day in a big house with no one else around and only the quiet to keep you company. But if you find a key, a mysterious key, that leads you to an unexpected place . . . chances are your afternoon is about to get a lot more interesting." (front flap of book)
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So we went back to the school today for the Wall of Fame ceremony. And this time, we weren't the only ones there.
Per usual, I made an ass out of myself by doing things like taking photos of photos. The photos the school took for the Wall are so indicative of Sam and Jack's personalities.
smiling his "I'm supposed to be smiling" smile.
Quinn was not overly impressed with the ceremony. But last year he was so disruptive. This time, he was absolutely silent and compliant. I love VTech.
It was really cool to see my two guys get their certificates. Jack behaved so well and sat so quietly during the ceremony. And then he did some crazy, gyrating handshake with the principal when his name was called. I think he was excited.
Both guys had fun at the pizza party that ensued. I got many kudos for my two smart little boys. I think they're pretty cool too.
True to form, after eating pizza, Jack chose to come home with me and Sam went back to class without even saying goodbye.
They're such good teammates, but they are so different. All I know is that I'm lucky to have these guys.


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Leonard Bernstein: A Life
Vintage Books, 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - 471 pages
The most insightful and engrossing work we have had from the widely admired biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright ("Captivating ... The reader comes away with an understanding of Wright as a man as well as an architect" -- Washington Post Book World ... "Spellbinding" -- Boston Globe), of Bernard Berenson ("Authoritative and fascinating" -- Philip Toynbee, The Observer ... "A memorable opus" -- Sir Harold Acton), and of Kenneth Clark ("Splendid, enthralling" -- Wall Street Journal).
Here is Leonard Bernstein, full scale and fully alive -- the child prodigy, the man, the composer, the teacher, the hugely charismatic personality, the lover, the American folk hero.
Everything is here: the child growing up in a Hasidic family in Massachusetts, his father a rabbi's son; his first piano at age nine ("I remember touching it ... It was my contact with life, with God"); his reluctant, brilliant, argumentative years at Harvard; the rocky but exhilarating start of his career (scant jobs, no money, but friendships with Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Judy Holliday, Comden and Green, et al.); his spectacular debut (understudy into a star!) as substitute conductor at the New York Philharmonic; the great career over the years as a composer in classical music (the Kaddish Symphony, Chichester Psalms, Songfest), and in musical theater (On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, Mass, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue).
We see Bernstein: the good father to his three children, the man who adored his wife, Felicia Montealegre, the man who adored men, the brilliant and generous mentor, the temperamental artist, the hypochondriac, the politician, the businessman, the Pied Piper ...
His life, hismusic, the great international cultural world in which he traveled, are richly and vividly portrayed in this magnificent biography, alive with music -- and with life.
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The State of Wi-Fi
By Lisa Garza, Cisco Service Provider Mobility Marketing Manager
Anyone involved in burgeoning Wi-Fi hotspot network industry realizes that there has been a dearth of solid market information available. Well, that all changed this week as the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) released a joint report with Informa Global Developments in Public Wi-Fi at their 20th Roundtable and Conference in Singapore.
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The research shows that almost half (47%) of mobile operators now think Wi-Fi is either very important or essential to their customers' experience. The research also found that operators are planning a massive increase in Wi-Fi hotspot deployments – hotspots are set to rocket with a 350% increase by 2015.
The report confirms the Cisco VNI numbers, showing that mobile data is continuing its massive growth across the globe. The WBA Public Wi-Fi report predicts that mobile data traffic will hit 16.84 million terabytes by 2014. Operators are increasingly turning to Wi-Fi as a trusted extension to both fixed and mobile networks for offering their customers a seamless Internet experience.
And the report underscores the importance of the Next Generation Hotspot work that the WBA has underway. The report includes an industry survey that highlights seamless authentication, ease of network discovery and security as the most significant barriers to wider adoption of Wi-Fi. In June I wrote a blog about the WBA launch of the Next Generation Hotspot trials. This week, at the WBA 20th Conference in Singapore, we learned that the trials are well underway and are scheduled to complete on time. In fact, Shaw Communications recently announced plans to deploy Next Generation Hotspot in a trial, using Cisco's Service Provider Wi-Fi solution.
Stay tuned to this space. The WBA intends to release this Wi-Fi Industry report on a regular basis, and 2012 promises to be the year where we'll see these barriers fall.
Meanwhile, for those of you curious to learn more about the following, check out this webcast on What is WBA Next Generation Hotspot Anyway?:
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"12 Years a Slave," the film based on the memoir by author Solomon Northup, was named the Best Picture of the year by the Academy.
In an interesting split, director Alfonso Cuaron took the Best Director statuette for the movie "Gravity." (Often, the Best Director prize goes to the helmer of the Best Picture.)
Actor Matthew McConaughey won the Best Actor prize for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club" and thanked his late father, saying, "You taught me what it is to be a man" and adding his catchphrase from the film "Dazed and Confused," "All right, all right, all right."
Meanwhile, Cate Blanchett took the Best Actress Oscar for her work in "Blue Jasmine" and praised her other competitors, saying the work done in 2013 was "yet again extraordinary."
Blanchett also spoke up in support of female-centric movies.
"Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money," she said. "The world is round, people."
To no one's surprise, "12 Years a Slave" secured the Best Adapted Screenplay prize, while "Her" secured the Best Original Screenplay.
The In Memoriam reel was touching as always and was nicely augmented by Bette Midler's rendition of "Wind Beneath My Wings."
Singer Pink performing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (introduced by Whoopi Goldberg sporting black-and-white socks and red shoes in imitation of those of the film) was a nice nod to the classic 1939 film.
Idina Menzel's performance of the "Frozen" hit "Let It Go" was backed by beautiful sets and visual effects echoing the ice motif of the film, and the gorgeous song's later win for Best Original Song was well-deserved. It's also fun to see a Best Original Song winner be so embedded in pop culture.
The win by "Gravity" for Best Original Score was also great to see -- the music enhanced the already dramatic events of the film to a pulse-pounding level.
Another big prize was given out: first-time nominee Lupita Nyong'o (who also made her feature film debut!) was given the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her work in "12 Years a Slave," in which she portrayed the abused slave Patsey.
Nyong'o expressed an admirable awareness of the importance of the film's source material in her acceptance speech, thanking memoir author Solomon Northup for writing of his experiences, including meeting Patsey, in "12."
"So much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's," she said.
She also thanked co-star Chiwetel Ejiofor for "how deeply [he] went into Solomon" and her brother, who accompanied her to the Oscars tonight.
On a more lighthearted note, the award for most charming audience participation is tied with DeGeneres handing out pizza to the audience (she actually ordered it!) and DeGeneres attempting to break a new record with Meryl Streep: that of most retweeted picture ever. When the pizza arrived, Brad Pitt distributed plates while Harrison Ford nudged DeGeneres while she was speaking to ask for napkins. Actor Jared Leto snagged a slice, then informed the camera it was for his mom.
As for that photo, when Streep suggested actress Julia Roberts join in, a crowd of A-list stars also decided to do so, including Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Bradley Cooper, Kevin Spacey, and many more. Cooper volunteered to snap the photo, saying he would have the longest reach, and took a picture of the fun candid moment.
We're seeing a lot of retweets already...
While presenting the Best Cinematography prize, actor Bill Murray made a heartwarming shout-out to his former comedic co-star and director Harold Ramis, who died recently. Murray both co-starred with Ramis in such films as "Ghostbusters" and was directed by him in movies such as "Groundhog Day."
"Gravity" took Best Cinematography, adding to its already large haul.
Space was all over the next portion of the Oscar show as "Gravity" secured the Best Visual Effects prize and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs performed one of the nominees for Best Original Song, "The Moon Song."
While the spectacle in other Visual Effects nominees like "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" and "Iron Man 3" were undoubtedly great, as Monitor film critic Peter Rainer noted in his review, "Gravity" is probably as close as any of us who aren't astronauts will get to being in space. The Oscar for the movie was well-deserved and it'll be interesting to see if the movie's fantastic effects net it a Best Picture award as well (to say nothing of the film's other elements.) We may get a hint as "12 Years a Slave," the big rival of "Gravity," comes up for more prizes.
Singer Karen O (otherwise known as Karen Lee Orzolek) performed her quiet and gorgeous Best Song nominee from "Her" with Vampire Weekend lead singer Ezra Koening accompanying her. While "Let It Go" of Frozen is the frontrunner for the Best Original Song prize and is incredibly catchy (you're humming it right now, aren't you?), "Moon" is a worthy contender.
The ceremony itself has been speeding through some of the prizes, with the Best Animated Feature and Best Documentary awards, among others, having been distributed. ("Frozen" and "20 Feet from Stardom" claimed those two prizes.)
"House of Cards" actor Kevin Spacey showed off both the Southern accent he uses on the Netflix TV show as well as a brief Jack Lemmon impression when he introduced footage of some of the awards presented before tonight.
Meanwhile, host Ellen DeGeneres is keeping herself popular with the audience by offering to order pizza. A lot of hands went up when she asked who would grab a slice.
In her opening monologue, Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres provided a mostly sweet intro to the ceremony, a marked contrast to the barbed humor of the 2013 host Seth MacFarlane.
Daytime host DeGeneres began by poking humor at the inclement weather Los Angeles has recently been experiencing, which made Oscar preparations a little more difficult.
"It has been raining," DeGeneres deadpanned. "We're fine. Thank you for your prayers."
She also tweaked the fact that so many previous nominees (Meryl Streep of "August: Osage County," director Martin Scorsese for "The Wolf of Wall Street," and others) were selected again for awards consideration after having been nominated when she hosted in 2007.
"Things were so different," DeGeneres said of her previous hosting gig.
DeGeneres tipped viewers off to the fact that the real Captain Phillips, portrayed by Tom Hanks in Best Picture nominee "Captain Phillips," and the real-life Philomena of the Best Picture nominee of the same name (and played by Judi Dench) are attending the Oscars this evening.
She also introduced the evening's theme of heroes in film, a motif which will reportedly be extended through the evening.
Real life can be tough, she said, but "movies are an escape."
The night's first prize, Best Supporting Actor, went to "Dallas Buyers Club" nominee Jared Leto, who thanked his mother and brother (both of whom were at the ceremony) in his acceptance speech. Leto mentioned how his mother told her children to "be creative, work hard, and do something special."
Actor Jim Carrey came out next and began by imitating "Nebraska" Best Actor nominee but carried on the theme of heroes in movies by introducing a montage of various animated heroes, including Mr. Incredible of the film "The Incredibles," the Pink Panther of the films of the same name, and the big-eared elephant of "Dumbo."
Who will win next?
In recent years, some have complained that the Oscars are too predictable, that everyone knows all the winners anyway, so why bother tuning in?
This year is a little bit different. It's a year where the Best Picture race is leaving pundits and industry insiders alike scratching their heads. "Gravity"? "12 Years a Slave"? Which will win the big prize?
It's a true Best Picture race conundrum the likes of which haven't been seen for a little while. While last year's winner "Argo" was a different narrative in that it gained momentum after director Ben Affleck was snubbed in his category, many assumed it would take the main prize before it did. Similarly, 2011's best movie as anointed by the Academy, "The Artist," was also a frontrunner before its name was called on Oscar night. The 2010 frontrunners, "The King's Speech" and "The Social Network," fought it out a bit, as did the 2009 leaders "The Hurt Locker" and "Avatar," but many correctly predicted which would take the crown ("King" and "Locker") before the envelopes were opened.
"Gravity" and "12 Years a Slave" truly have industry watchers baffled, though. One reason is that, like "Locker" and "Avatar," they're such truly different films. "Gravity," the story of two astronauts stranded in space, is a movie that many insist you need to see in the theater because of its dazzling visuals. "Slave" is the heart-wrenching story of an African-American man living in the US in the 1840s who is kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Some Oscars acting races are tight, too. Will "American Hustle" nominee Jennifer Lawrence go up to the stage for the second time in two years to win Best Supporting Actress, or will frontrunner Lupita Nyong'o of "12 Years a Slave" maintain her momentum? Will "Dallas Buyers Club" Best Actor nominee Matthew McConaughey take the prize, or will strong contenders Chiwetel Ejiofor of "12 Years a Slave" or "Nebraska" actor Bruce Dern triumph?
Grab some popcorn and settle in – whatever happens, it's going to be an interesting night.


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