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You know what makes Adam Lambert's latest video for the upcoming "2012" soundtrack awesome? Explosions.
The "American Idol" runner up (and incredible example of the power of guyliner) will be dropping his first album Nov. 23, but you don't have to wait to see the four-minute pyrotechnic-fest "Time for Miracles."
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Frankly, it's a miracle no one was crushed under the weight of those CGI effects courtesy of the Cusack-driven apocalyptic "2012" that opens Nov. 13. Obviously, it makes sense to cross-promote a big budget disaster flick with the guy who couldn't even win a show that gave us Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard. Was David Cook busy? At least he had the hard-rocking chops to give us something closer to Chad Kroeger's "Hero," the anthem that gave "Spider-Man" an epic boost.
Plus, whoever the director was certainly didn't get the memo that explosions are welcome additions to hard rock epics or anything by Motorhead, but pretty much the opposite of what you want to see in a ballad. A "Time for Miracles" does not translate well to a "Time for many, many things to explode around me, leaving me remarkably unscathed, yet ineffective in saving ANY victims of the apocalypse." It's like every propane company in the city decided to leave out their wares while Lambert walked around lighting fires.
Maybe instead of screeching from the rooftops about miracles, he could have helped out the innocent skateboard riders that happened to pass by during the end of the world.
I guess I'm just showing my age, but in my day, videos had some cohesive meaning. Billy Idol did have a motorcycle ride through a stained glass window with his face on it, after all.
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A lot of times people that criticize athletes really have no idea what's going on. Especially on the internet, Stephon Marbury has turned into a caricature of an athlete and I think it's a shame. We like to build them up just to tear them down, I guess.
Chris Webber has some great thoughts here and he's completely on-point. None of us really know what the hell is going on. And although Quentin Richardson is closer to the situation and being on the Knicks is frustrating, it's just a bad move to go out and fling mud at Marbury.
Here's an excerpt from Q's comments:
"He hasn't played with us all year. Regardless of what you have going on with the organization or what you have going on with your coach or whatever — you're not going to allow your teammates to be left out there the way we were basically being left out there.
This is directed at us regardless if you're trying to stick it to whoever you're trying to stick it to. At the end of the day we're shorthanded, people are hurt
Once again, I don't pay attention to [Marbury] because I don't look at him as a teammate anyway."
Is Q out of line or on point?

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Woman stole pug puppy, police say
She walked into the Yipity Yap pet store on Sunday, stuffed a purebred pug puppy into her purse and walked out, Suffolk County police said.
Now, detectives are hoping you can help them catch the dog-snatcher -- and they're asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS in an effort to find the woman and the pug.
Police said the incident occurred at the store on East Jericho Turnpike in Huntington at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
Video surveillance footage shows the suspected puppy pincher with her oversized bag. The pup is valued at $1,800.
Police said that all calls will remain confidential and that callers are eligible for a cash reward of up to $5,000 for any information leading to an arrest.


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If Sunday's NFC Championship Game between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers is anything like the Words With (Not) Friends being played this week between the teams, it promises to be a good one.
Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz got things started Monday by saying he was relieved New York will get to play San Francisco instead of New Orleans, but others on both sides have joined the mix, on Twitter, radio and in comments to reporters.
"Just coming from our schedule and how it turned out and how we played against New Orleans and how we played against San Fran, it definitely works out in our favor a little bit that we're able to get San Fran as opposed to New Orleans," Cruz told the New York Daily News. "Just because of how we feel about them and we understand we have a good chance of winning that game."
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Said Giants safety Antrel Rolle: "We are not going to be denied. That is our mindset. I may be a little biased, but in our minds we can't be beaten."
Rolle, speaking on a New York radio station, also responded to a comment by 49ers tight end Vernon Davis that he "prayed and prayed" Sunday that the Giants would beat the Packers so the Niners could host New York at Candlestick instead of having to travel to Green Bay.
"If he said that, I can only hope he's saying it just because they want to get a home game," Rolle said. "They better be careful what they ask for, because their wish is being granted and we'll see them come Sunday."
Niners safety Donte Whitner and offensive tackle Anthony Davis responded to Giants comments via Twitter.
Tweeted Whitner: "Out here in San Fran we'll let our Shoulder Pads do all the talking … haha." Added Davis: "Are the Giants doing drunk interviews? Lol."
Before the Giants game in San Francisco in November, a game the 49ers won 27-20, New York defensive end Justin Tuck stirred the pot a bit by saying Niners quarterback Alex Smith "is a guy who they are trying to keep out of position to win the football game."
Smith responded after the game by saying, "I managed myself into a victory."
On Monday, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh was asked about the back-and-forth between players on the two teams this week, and told reporters he hopes his players will concentrate on their jobs.
"We need to really focus on our task here," Harbaugh told Cam Inman of the Bay Area News Group. "This is a big game. It's against a great opponent. That's where our thoughts will be, not on the irrelevant things that show up in the newspaper."


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Father: Daughter, 2, had methadone in system
Police have not disclosed child's cause of death
As Maine State Police continue to investigate the death of a 2-year-old girl from Westbrook, the girl's father said she had high levels of methadone in her system.
State police have not released the cause of death, but Raul Negron said he is being questioned by investigators as if he murdered his daughter. Negron said if Madelyn got hold of his methadone, it was an accident.
"When I went in the room, she was face down, and I turned her around because she just didn't look right," Negron said. "When I turned her, her face was all, like, half blue."
Negron said the little girl they called Maddy wasn't feeling well on Aug. 4, and he put her to bed in her crib at 6 p.m. and fell asleep himself. He said when he got up in the morning, he discovered she was dead.
Negron said authorities originally told him Maddy may have died from suffocation or meningitis. But then police told him something else, he said.
"All they said is she had methadone in her system," Negron said. "I don't know (how she got it). I'm assuming she found it, you know?"
Negron said he and Maddy's mother are on methadone for drug addiction. He said he keeps it locked up, but the day before Maddy died, he spotted the plastic dropper he uses to take the drug on the floor. He said he had cleaned it out and it was in a sink.
"That's when I started thinking maybe some was left in the dropper and she got a hold of it," Negron said.
He said police asked him if he gave his daughter a dose of methadone.
"They said, 'Well, maybe you just felt bad and you gave her some just to stop the pain,' and I, no I didn't because, like I told them, if she was sick, we would have brought her right to the hospital," Negron said.
Negron said he carved an old tree stump for his daughter's headstone at a nearby cemetery because he couldn't afford one made of granite.
"It was an accident," he said. "She got a hold of it somehow. I can't take that back. I can't, you know? I really can't take it back. But I didn't kill my daughter. I didn't, you know?"


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COLLEGE STATION — Although the recent surge in agricultural commodity prices has caused some concern about a potential increase in food costs, an overall increase likely will be "modest," according to economists with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.
"Commodity prices reached record or near-record highs in 2008, but weakened in 2009 and most of 2010," said Jose G. Pena, AgriLife Extension economist-management at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde. "Food prices increased in 2008 just as the U.S. was entering into what many economists describe as the worst recession since the Great Depression."
Pena and other AgriLife Extension economists recently assessed the effect rising farm commodity prices might have on retail food prices and whether those increases would result in increases similar to those experienced in and beyond 2008.
"Farm commodity prices fell sharply in 2009 and 2010 after reaching record levels in 2008," Pena said. "However, food prices continued to rise in 2009 and 2010 even as farm commodity prices returned to 2007 levels."
Pena said the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently forecasted the consumer-price index for food will rise between 0.5 percent and 1.5 percent this year and between 2 percent to 3 percent for 2011.
"From 1990 to 2006 the average annual food price increase was 4 percent and the increase in 2010 will be the smallest since 1992," he said. "While prices for basic commodities like corn and wheat are higher than they were in 2007, they remain well below the record highs of 2008."
Pena said adverse weather, a weaker U.S. dollar, increased exports, higher crude-oil prices and heavy commodity contract buying by speculative investor funds have contributed to increasing commodity prices.
"Although the agricultural producer is sometimes vilified because of the increasing price of agricultural commodities, the lion's share of that increase is due to factors beyond the producer's control," he said. "USDA data shows farmers get less than 20 cents of every dollar spent on food. So the majority of the increase comes from the elevation of production and post-production costs, including the costs of energy, labor, advertising, packaging and transportation."
He added, however, that producers do receive a higher percentage for foods consumed closer to their raw form, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, as opposed to processed food items, such as baked goods and cereal products.
"Still, on average, a 50-percent increase in the price received by the farmer results in only a 10-percent percent increase in the retail cost of food," Pena said. "The recent upward movement in commodities pricing is expected to have little immediate effect on the prices of basic food items."
He said consumers should expect to see a modest price increase in meat, poultry and dairy products in 2011, as well as an increase in grain prices due to temporarily tighter grain supplies.
"We're seeing commodity price increases across the board, but are looking at a situation relating to U.S. stocks of wheat, corn and soybeans," said Dr. Mark Welch, an AgriLife Extension economist at Texas A&M University in College Station who specializes in grain marketing.
Welch said quantities of these grain commodities were all reduced in the recent Supply and Demand Estimates released by the USDA.
"We already expected a further reduction in the estimate of the U.S. corn supply, but the cut in the soybean estimate was a surprise," he said.
He said, however, that the worldwide supply of these grains is in good shape with carry-over stocks above their 20-year average, but there is a "pipeline" problem affecting their short-term supply in the U.S.
"The reduction in U.S. corn and soybean supplies can be offset by production in and exportation from other countries, but there is some is concern about whether there will be adequate stock to comfortably carry the U.S. consumer over until we get more," he said. "With lower grain production, as the supply tightens the prices will increase – certainly at least in the short term.
"There also was a small reduction in the wheat estimate, but that may be offset by increased production in Argentina, Australia and elsewhere. Plus, we'll need to wait and see what happens with the upcoming Russian wheat harvest."
There also has been a reduction in another significant agricultural commodity, beef cattle, said Dr. David Anderson, AgriLife Extension livestock economist. Anderson said cattle numbers will be fewer over the next decade, but the price of corn will dictate the level and spread in calf prices.
"I think we will continue seeing beef production and cattle numbers drop off in the next couple of years," he said. "We are forecast to produce 25.4 billion pounds of beef in 2011 versus 25.9 billion pounds in 2010. That will lead to increases in price, but it also depends on corn prices and (their effect on) calf prices."
Anderson said the first quarter of 2010 resulted in the least amount of beef supplies since 1997, after factoring out exports, and he expects that during each quarter through 2012 the beef supply will continue to decline.
"Overall, beef demand has been hurt by the recession, but has been strong due to consumers 'trading down' to stretch their income," he said. "That's led to more grinding of specific cuts of beef – chucks and rounds – to take advantage of the hamburger demand."
He added, however, that cull cattle have also been fetching premium prices as a result of the demand for ground beef, and that export markets also continue to grow and show strength, with Vietnam emerging as a top customer for U.S. beef exports, in 2009.
"What I'm suggesting is that booming exports tighten domestic beef supplies even more and should lead to higher cattle prices for the next couple of years," Anderson said. "Supplies keep cutting back because we're not making enough money to build herds back."
Generally, however, the economists agreed that in spite of the commodity increases and the possibility of slightly higher food prices in the future, American consumers can still expect to have adequate supplies of the best and safest food in the world at the lowest overall cost.


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Octomom update: She's out of the hospital and news crews are fleeing toward her home in Whittier. State wants to know how she got so pregnant..
Landlord wants rent from massacre victim. Local media picked this one up…interesting take on Fox 11 this a.m. — reporter led with "This story, if accurate, …"
Another teen attacked in Baldwin Park..
Jerry Brown speaks at the Quiet Canon. He thinks federal bailout money should be applied to criminal justice programs in California.
Suspect hits deputy with vehicle in Rosemead after dispute over iPOD.
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Michael Vartan is officially off the market.
The "HawthoRNe" actor wed his fiancée, Lauren Skaar, during a SoCal ceremony on Saturday.
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"I am thrilled to confirm the wedding of Michael Vartan and Lauren Skaar!" Michael's rep told Access Hollywood on Saturday. "It was an intimate and heartfelt ceremony witnessed by their family and closest friends!"
The couple exchanged vows in Newport Beach, Calif., at The Resort at Pelican Hill, according to People.
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Michael reportedly wore a tux by Giorgio Armani during the ceremony, while actor Victor Garber – Michael's former "Alias" co-star – stood by his side as a groomsmen, according to the mag.
As for the bride, Lauren reportedly wore a Vera Wang gown, paired with a sparkling Oscar de la Renta belt.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Michael met his now-wife in the fruit aisle of his local Whole Foods market.
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"I saw her in the produce section and I thought to myself, 'I've gotta find a way — I've got to jockey position in this checkout line or something,'" Michael told Access Hollywood's Billy Bush in a May 2010 interview of his first sighting of Lauren. "I saw her and I was I was quite stunned."
Unable to muster up enough mojo to approach her in the store, it was upon second sight that Michael made his move.
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"As I was leaving, I saw her putting her groceries into the trunk of her car and I just thought, 'This is it, man!'" Michael recounted at the time. "Life's too short!"
Michael eventually approached Lauren, but didn't manage to make a suave introduction.
"I was like a blubbering idiot," he said. "I didn't really know what to do."
The handsome actor, who won over countless ladies as Drew Barrymore's leading man in "Never Been Kissed" – managed to get Lauren to accept his e-mail address, but he left the parking lot thinking it was hopeless.
"I think she felt sorry for me and [taking my e-mail] was a way to not let me down too hard 'cause she thought there's a chance this poor blubbering idiot might commit suicide if I say no, so it was like, 'Here, don't kill yourself. Give me your e-mail,'" Michael told Billy. "The minute she left I thought, 'Well, that's never gonna happen. Way to go idiot! You blew yet another chance at love!' But she e-mailed me."
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This Active Life - January 2014
Passport to Education
Retired educators hit the road with their grandchildren for some unforgettable memories.
A Message from the NEA-Retired President
The Word for 2014? Change!
Following an 8-year battle with the Social Security Administration, Winifred Tappan publishes a book about her experiences with WEP/GPO.
NJEA/NEA member Mee Lon Yee recognized for 50 years of teaching and subbing in the same district, and Memorial to Fallen Educators will honor those who have died while working.
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There are some photographs that really need some explanation. These are a few that we've seen over the last few days.
This might be buried treasure with a toothsome guard "dog."
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Artwork by BJ Price is seen at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium at Darling Harbor in Sydney, Australia, Aug. 15, 2014.
Price installed pieces of art throughout the tanks of the public aquarium...as well as a giant inflatable sea turtle in Sydney Harbor.
Did the pool flood the ocean, or is it the other way around?
Do tides make flip turns tough?
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A local swims laps in the Bronte Ocean Pool as rain falls over the ocean at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia, Mar. 26, 2014.
Are those umbrellas for rain?
Is there a building under all that smoke?
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People watch a daytime color-smoke explosive show over the Huangpu River at the Bund, in Shanghai, China, Aug. 8, 2014. The firework show is designed by Cai Guoqiang, to mark the opening of his exhibition "The Ninth Wave", according to local media.
Are these people being sucked into space? Is this a human necklace for a giant?
I didn't even there were that many people were on the International Space Station.
Students of Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School participate in a rehearsal for a stunt performance to be part of the opening ceremony of the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, at a stadium in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, Aug. 9, 2014. A total of 520 students took part in the performance named "building the dream", which will be performed during the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympic Games on August 16, 2014.
Tired of people coming right up to your door?
How many water does this moat take?
Credit: Murad Sezer/Reuters
A lone house is seen at the construction site of an urban transformation project in the Fikirtepe neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 14, 2014. The house, known as "Lone house", belongs to a family who had refused to allow its demolition, bringing the project to a standstill for months. The owner of the house has finally reached an agreement with the construction firm behind the project, paving the way for the building's demolition, local media reported.
Is there a creature from the deep back there? Will we see teeth or claws first? Has Prince Namor the Submariner called up the tide to defeat the Fantastic Four?
A man takes pictures as visitors run away from a wave caused by a tidal bore on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 14, 2014.
Just who does this guy think he is? And why isn't that officer doing anything?
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Sydnor Thompson, age 90, kisses his wife, Harriette Thompson, age 91, while reenacting the Times Square Kiss photo, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, to mark the 69-Anniversary of the end of World War Two and victory over Japan in Times Square in New York City, Aug. 14, 2014. A statue reenacting the famous photo was also unveiled at the event, which was organized by The Spirit of '45.


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The last week in September is the American Library Association's Banned Books Week, when the ALA highlights books that have been banned and challenged in bookstores, libraries, and schools across the United States. You can check out our list of the most frequently banned science fiction books of the 21st Century, or the ALA's lists of frequently challenged books.
Last year, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy numbered among the ten most challenged titles of the year for its religious and political viewpoints, as did Alvin Schwartz's popular Scary Stories series for its violence and references to the occult. Below is the ALA's map of book bans and challenges in 2007-2009, which includes the removal of Robert Heinlein's The Day After Tomorrow (also known as Sixth Column) and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. The ALA believes these represent only a fraction of bans and challenges, as the vast majority go unreported.
View Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009 in a larger map
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Family remembers Florida soldier killed in Afghanistan
By LAUREN SAGE REINLIE | Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach (MCT) | Published: January 5, 2014
LAUREL HILL — John and Karla Lacey were at home when they saw the uniformed service members approaching their door. The news would not be good.
Shortly before, they had received word that John's youngest son, Army Sgt. 1st Class William "Kelly" Lacey, 38, had been killed in Afghanistan. He was on his fifth deployment and scheduled to come home in less than two weeks.
"The worst thing you can possibly see when you have a child in a war zone is gentlemen walking up in uniform," said his stepmother Karla Lacey, from their home in Laurel Hill on Sunday. "It's devastating."
Lacey, a Niceville High School alum, was born at Eglin Air Force Base and raised in Niceville.
He was killed Saturday morning when his unit was attacked by a rocket propelled grenade at a base in Nangarhar Province. He was serving with the 201st Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Infantry Division out of Fort Knox, Ky.
After joining the Army in January 2003 at 27 years old, Lacey was deployed quickly and then often. He served three tours in Iraq and was on his second to Afghanistan when he was killed.
"He was brave beyond brave," his father John, 71, said. "He was out there in the middle of nowhere, in hell, and he kept doing it over and over and over ... I'm just so proud of him."
Karla Lacey, 56, said her stepson was really proud of his service, including the time he spent as a paratrooper with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.
"I read on his unit's Facebook page that a commander wrote 'He always ran towards the gun,' " she said. "That pretty much sums him up."
Lacey came from a long line of family military history, including an older brother who served in the Army and his father, who retired from the Air Force.
Karla Lacey said he always was proud of his father's service and that was in large part why he decided to join the Army. He always said his aim was to make it to the same rank as his father, which he had done within the past several months, she said.
In addition to his dad and stepmother, he leaves behind his mother, Pam Joiner, in Live Oak, Fla.; two older brothers; three younger stepbrothers; and his wife Ashley Lacey, their 4-year-old daughter Lily, and three older stepdaughters, Caiden, Trinity and Brandy-Lynn Fahl in Fort Knox, Ky.
"He loved his family — all of them," Karla said. "He was a wonderful son, a wonderful father, a wonderful husband and a wonderful brother."
She said Lacey was playful and fun, devoted to his wife and daughter. He met Ashley while serving in the Army. She was in the service, too.
Lacey loved to go shooting with his dad and brothers when they could get together, Karla said. The last time he had been home was last Christmas.
Family friend Gerald Roberson, 49, remembers when he first met Lacey. He and Lacey's older brother Patrick had become friends.
"He was the little kid running around with those big, brown eyes," Roberson said.
He described Lacey as laid back and easy going, traits likely received from his mother. Roberson and Patrick often would be charged with looking after Lacey, but he rarely got into trouble, unlike themselves, he said.
He said he remembers coming back to visit Lacey as a teenager, he had grown his hair long and was going through a "hippie phase," just like they had when they were that age.
Then, he joined the military.
"I think that was good for him," Roberson said. "He was a very dedicated soldier."
He said Lacey was one of the nicest, kindest people he ever had met, and his loss is a blow for anyone who knew him.
"I've had tears in my eyes every minute since I heard the news," he said. "He will be deeply missed."
Services will be held in the area in the coming days, but details had not been finalized by Sunday, Karla Lacey said.
She said he will be buried in the Magnolia Cemetery near their home in Laurel Hill.


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Luis Callejas (Medellín, 1981) Architect, founding partner of Paisajes Emergentes and founder and director of lcla Office (Medellín)
Callejas's design practice is positioned at the intersection of architecture, landscape and urbanism, and is oriented toward the generation of new forms of engagement with the public realm by reframing the traditionally limited disciplinary tools of architecture to make meaningful political and spatial impacts at territorial scales.
Having obtained diverse recognition in multiple public space and landscape architecture competitions, Luis Callejas was awarded with the 2013 Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects and selected as one of the world's ten best young practices by the Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation in 2010.
Before starting his own practice, Luis Callejas collaborated for two years in the renovation of the Medellín Botanical Garden, which played a key role in the internationally recognized urban transformation of the city of Medellin through public space interventions.
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My good friend Jon posed an interesting question - what are the best cities and towns to live in if you love Halloween? I guess this can also be stretched to ask: what sort of community/neighborhood/environment is the most conducive to the ultimate Halloween experience as a yard haunter?
I've lived at a few different locations in a couple of states over the years, but I've always returned to the place where I grew up - my parents' house - to set up my display. At residences elsewhere, I've always asked new neighbors what the Halloween turnout was like and they always replied "we only get a few kids." My parents live in a pretty suburban (almost urban) location. Blocks and blocks of row homes and apartment complexes. People on top of people. The community decorates like it's an orange Christmas which is really cool. Lights and decorations everywhere. And tons of kids. The downside is that we get quite a lot of older kids trying to impress their friends by being rude and disrespectful. I filter that stuff out to remain sane, and for the most part it's over quickly and it sort of becomes background noise.
A while back I wrote about Halloween 2002, the year I didn't set up my haunt. I ended up walking around some areas to see how other people celebrate the holiday. In particular, a colonial borough. Single homes, manicured lawns, and tons of Halloween decorations. The street was blocked off and it was a quiet and magical Halloween block party. I'd be in heaven on a street like that. Not a lot of trick-or-treat traffic, but a whole lot of Halloween spirit. Here are some pics of that neighborhood in the days leading up to Halloween.
They take the Holiday VERY seriously.
Getting back to Jon's question, what cities or towns are the best for Halloween fanatics? I'm thinking small towns. And ones that have annual Halloween parades (the ones with children) are a good start. We've been to Abingdon, VA and they have an annual Halloween parade, a community dance, and Halloween decorations on EVERYTHING. It's really amazing to see.
There should be an annual top-ten issued along with the lists of "Worst for Crime," "Best for Employment," "Best for Housing Prices."
"Best for Halloween."
Anybody have any suggestions for the best Halloween towns?
Probably not a good town to live in if you're looking for a quiet little Halloween.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Halloween Conductivity
My good friend Jon posed an interesting question - what are the best cities and towns to live in if you love Halloween? I guess this can also be stretched to ask: what sort of community/neighborhood/environment is the most conducive to the ultimate Halloween experience as a yard haunter?
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- Nev said...
I asked the same thing in a forum a while back and got a lot of interesting responces. One of the ones I suggested which I would like to do is visit The Keene Pumpkin Festival in Keene NH on the way to Salem.
- July 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Bob said...
Gotta go with Salem and Sleepy Hollow. We went to Rhode Island for our honeymoon (October) and visited Salem while we were there with a stop at Sleepy Hollow on the ride home and both were wonderful. Salem is Halloween HQ with witches on every corner, a big Vampire Ball at the Hawthorne Hotel and plenty of night time activities. I'm planning on going back to Sleepy Hollow in october for the Jack o lantern festival.
- July 23, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- Rot said...
I've actually been to Sleepy Hollow in the Fall and it was beautiful. I'd love to time it to be closer to Halloween.
- July 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- Sara said...
The town I live in seems like it would be *ideal* for Halloween. Lots of fall colors in the trees, lots of kids, lots of old scary homes that decorate,but for some reason....I dunno, they just don't turn out. We got a whopping FOUR last year and that just depresses the crap out of me. I don't even want to think about how lonely it will be this year...
In this part of the "south" (sw Missouri)Church Trunk-or-Treat parties are HUGE. I mean, at least kids dress up and get candy but it's not the same.
I often wonder if ToTing is on its way out and will ultimately disappear in the near future.
Could I BE any more depressing? Sorry! lol
- July 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- Christopher B said...
The village in which I reside approaches Halloween with the same apathetic demeanor with which it approaches every other holiday - or day of the week, for that matter. (Sounds like Sara and I live in the same town. :P)
Although villages and small towns should be the ideal locations for Halloween celebrations, I can say from experience that's not always the case.
- July 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- Jon Glassett said...
I vote we all take over a town. Who's in?
- July 23, 2009 at 3:26 PM
- JHMDF said...
I just posted today on a forum about Tot's being taken to malls to get candy on Halloween... drives me nuts!!! When I lived in Wausau, Wisconsin, we had a TON of Tot's... a few hundred easily.
Here in St. Petersburg, Florida there are a few really good areas. In our old part of town, people get Bussed in and there end up being thousands of Tot's in a 6-8 block area... it is NUTS and they have police control and everything!
Haunter's Headquarters
- July 23, 2009 at 4:09 PM
- NecroBones said...
In Kensington in MD, Perry Ave. closes the street down to cars for Halloween night, and nearly the whole street decorates up and gets into the spirit. Trick-or-Treaters come through by the _thousands_ (literally, probably around two thousand over the course of the evening), despite it being a small-town street.
I live in VA, but I've spent a few of the recent Halloweens at "Scary Perry". I love setting up my haunt, but I usually only get two ToTs each year.
- July 23, 2009 at 4:11 PM
- Jason-v said...
I live in a small town in NC, Shelby to be exact. Our town USED to have all sorts of party's, parades,events.. now not alot goes on. I swear I'm the only house that decorates and truly appreciates the "holiday". There are a couple houses nearby that still goes somewhat all out, but I'm guessing Salem. Ive been to towns all over from New york down to vero beach Fla and I've seen some awesome displays. But it seems around me its just a dwindling "night".
This year though I'm gonna have a Halloween tree as seen in Bradburys tale, and a front yard like the one in Trick r Treat...
- July 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
- The Captain said...
Jon I'm in!
The most ToT's I've gotten at my house was 25. I do live in a town of 5000 on a dead end street in the country, but I'm trying to build up a reputation as the house to check out on Halloween. All my neighbors come my house by with the kids before they head to more happen places or parties.
- July 23, 2009 at 11:42 PM
- Hallowzing said...
Here in Minnesota we have 'the Halloween capital of the world' in Anoka. I have never actually been as it's a bit too far north for me and October is always crazy busy (as I'm sure you can relate), but it looks like a lot of fun. Here's a link if you want to check it out...
- July 24, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- Jon Glassett said...
It's funny, a lot of people mention Salem, MA and it's true: the Halloween vibe there is unmistakable. I love it there for its history and also because I simply love most New England seaside towns.
The thing is, I know a few people who live in Salem (it's actually not far from where I live) and they aren't all that psyched about what their city becomes on Halloween. As cool as Salem is, the whole witch thing is way commercialized and has become a lame tourist gimmick. Many residents, including the Wiccan community there, openly deride and sometimes battle with the commercial, exploitative half of the city.
Halloween night in Salem is a street party with a lot of costumed drunks roaming around looking to misbehave in various ways. That's fine if you are looking for a Mardis Gras-type experience but does it feel like Halloween? Not to me. For my money, if you want to get that experience you need to hit Salem in early October, before the place goes Disney. Or find a private party to go to. That's just me.
Quick comment on the mall thing to: what a huge bummer that is. If Day of the Dead taught us anything it's that no good can come of a mall. What a sad irony that we now round up kids from perfectly good, hauntable neighborhood streets and bus them over to brightly lit shopping centers so we can give them a few pieces of candy and entice mom & dad to pick up some electronic cigarettes and a fresh pair of khakis while they wait for their kids to finish "celebrating".
Heartbreakingly lame.
On the one hand, I understand maybe wanting to pull kids out of dangerous neighborhoods but, heck, send them my way instead. Anywhere but the mall. Geez. The only thing spooky there is the zombies. The lame kind. The kind that shut off all parts of their brain except the one that controls handing over the credit card.
Closing on a more positive, less ranty note: I hear really good things about Savannah, GA. Anyone have any first hand experience?
- July 24, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- Jon Glassett said...
Correction: that was DAWN OF THE DEAD.
- July 24, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- Nev said...
I know one parent who took their kid to a mall and I blasted her. I think its terrible. Dangerous neighborhood? Walk with your kid. How dangerous is it really? And if it is, drive past the mall to the good neighborhood. Taking your kid to the mall is like telling your kid there is no Santa and then making him help clean the basement on Christmas morning.
Speaking of lame, I heard Anoka is boring. Ive never been but I cant see anything really awesome happening there. Youtube has nothing, google...
- July 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Rot said...
I once took a drive through a town called Ringoes in New Jersey. Beautiful small town with colonial buildings and a small town square. They manufacture Muirhead pumpkin butter there. And on that Saturday by chance they were having a pumpkin festival. Tiny event with a guess-the-weight oversized pumpkin, pumpkin desserts, and hot pumpkin soup that sold out in an hour. It seemed private and wasn't crowded at all. I think that's my ideal idea for a Halloween town. Something small and quiet. And I keep coming back to the colonial theme. Something about older homes/streets and Halloween seem to go together.
- July 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- The Unsomnambulist said...
As far as cities go, I can't compare much. I started CreepyLA.com to try and find as much fun Halloween stuff in Los Angeles as possible, and there is quite a bit (and plenty of creepy fun year round), but nothing beats the perfect small town for the Halloween mood.
Salem is awesome - but gets a bit too overrun by tourists. I visited a few years ago a week ahead of Halloween, and really enjoyed it... but as we left the swarms of college kids were coming in. I'm afraid it became less trick r treat n scary fun and more booze and sexy costume fun.
Will have to try Sleepy Hollow sometime... anyone know how New Orleans is?
- July 24, 2009 at 1:02 PM
- Nev said...
Sexy costumes cheapen Halloween...
I heard New Orleans is pretty good actually but lots of tours and some of them are really terrible and just there to take advantage of tourists so do some research.
- July 24, 2009 at 2:15 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
im with jon, lets take over a town and make it our own halloween paradise
- July 24, 2009 at 4:34 PM


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FOX LAKE – More than 60 people gathered near the gazebo at Millennium Park wearing pins and stickers that read "Take down Joe Walsh" in support for the Nuns on the Bus tour.
The Roman Catholic sisters are traveling to nine states to protest a Republican-proposed federal budget plan they said will hurt the poor. The nun's tour is sponsored by Network, a Catholic social justice lobby group from Washington.
The bus arrived at 1:19 p.m. and after a couple minutes, four nuns emerged from the multi-colored luxury bus to a loud round of applause and cheering. Sister Simone Campbell led the crowd about one block to U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh's office where the four nuns and the large crowd entered.
Walsh, R-McHenry, was not there, however, as he was in Washington, D.C., but district director David Carlin offered water and coffee to the crowd and lent his ear to what Campbell had to say.
"I know that congressman Walsh voted for the Ryan budget," Campbell said. "The part that worries us about the budget is that it shifts money to the top. I know they say the wealthy make jobs, but it just isn't happening."
Campbell continued by referencing stories of people she met along the tour who would be negatively affected by the passage of the plan.
She said there are simple fixes that need to be made to the government.
"The difficulty is that the federal government continues to spend money and down the road won't be able to provide for folks that really need it," Carlin said before he was interrupted.
"In the richest country on Earth, in the richest country on Earth," Campbell said loudly. "We have the capacity if we have the political will."
The four sisters sat on stools at the office's "coffee bar," and continued a mostly one-sided conversation with Carlin for nearly 20 minutes.
They even presented the district director with their own proposed budget – the "faithful budget."
Once the conversation ended, the nuns walked back to the gazebo and spoke behind a cherry-red podium about the Ryan budget. Two people in the crowd got behind the podium and told personal stories about how Medicare and the current programs have helped them.
They also supported the faithful budget.
The sisters say the faithful budget is a collaboration of Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities.
The goal of this budget is to "protect the common good, values each individual and his or her livelihood, and helps lift the burden on the poor, rather than increasing it while shielding the wealthiest from any additional sacrifice."
The sisters will end their tour in Washington, D.C. and hope to speak with representatives about their views, in hopes to make a difference.
"I truly do believe we are making a difference," Campbell said. "The people have been very welcoming, and we just have to keep pushing."


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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
nVidia 3D desktop effects with Xen on SLED 11
YES! I did it! I've moved all my machines from SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. As you can see from the screenshot above, 3D effects (Desktop Cube) with Windows XP running as a virtual guest on Xen on the right.
Those who knows me understands that this is not just about popping in a DVD and installing a vanilla OS. To be truly productive in my environment, I need to be sure (ie test, test, test) this new SLE 11 can meet and/or exceed my expectations on function/feature and interoperability with my essential applications.
So here is my first entry on how I customized my SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11. I need desktop applications and eye-candy (3D effects) as well as the Xen virtualization engine. On my Thinkpad T61p, I have an nVidia Quadro FX570M. I want to be able to boot into a Xen kernel and still have the wonderful 3D desktop effects.
Pre-Reqs: Ensure you have installed the C/C++ Compiler and Tools installation pattern and the kernel-source package.
1) Download the latest nVidia Linux driver. At the time of this writing, its version 180.44. To find out which is the latest driver, check out this sticky thread on nvnew.net. Alternatively, you can go directly to nvidia.com, provide information on your card and have it re-direct you to the right driver via this link.
Note 1: Since this is a proprietary driver, obviously it would not be packaged with the default SLED 11. Nonetheless, upon vanilla install, the open source nv driver did a good job and was able to display high-res (1920x1200). Unfortunately, I did not have as much luck enabling the 3D desktop effects.
Note 2: The steps below is considered a manual/hard way of installing nVidia drivers. The advantage is you can use the latest (greatest?) driver from nVidia immediately. However, the down-side is you will need to recompile this driver every time you upgrade your Linux kernel (all other updates are ok). For an easier way, also known as the repository way where we use the nVidia Online Repository via YaST, to download and automatically install pre-compiled drivers. Please refer to these online docs [here and here] for a general idea between these 2 install options.
2) With SLED 11 (default, non-Xen kernel) running, switch to TTY1 (Ctrl-Alt-F1). Login as root and switch to runlevel 3 via the command <init 3>. Execute the NVIDIA driver you have downloaded. You might need to make that driver executable first via <chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44-pkg2.run > and execute it < ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44-pkg2.run >
The driver installation program is rather straight-forward (most of the time just hitting Enter and choosing Yes). The program will inform you it cannot find any pre-compiled driver, just hit Enter and it will go ahead and compile the driver for SLED 11. If you are running a 64-bit SLED 11, it will offer to install 32-bit compatible "stuff", just accept it with Yes. Finally, it will offer to edit your configuration files, accept it with Yes. Easy.
Finally, edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and change "Off" to "On" in the following line:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"
3) Test that the nVidia driver works by going back to runlevel 5 via the command <init 5>. You should get full GUI. Log in and enable the 3D desktop effects Computer -> Control Center -> Look & Feel -> Desktop Effect. Check the Enable desktop effects checkbox.
Tip: After clicking on the checkbox, a dialog box asking if you want to keep the new settings appear. WAIT! DO NOT click Yes for another 3-5 seconds. This allows time for the 3D engine to initialize and should anything go wrong, it will revert back to 2D in 30 seconds automatically. Only when you see 3D effects (ie try moving the opened windows around), then click Yes on the dialog box to keep these settings.
4) As root, copy the compiled nvidia driver to another location and rename it for safe keeping. This is important because you will need to run the nVidia installer program again against the Xen kernel. This process will over-ride and remove this previously compiled driver for the default kernel.
As root and in your root directory (/root), execute the following command:
< cp /lib/modules/18.104.22.168-5-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ./nvidia.ko.default >
5) Reboot SLED 11 into the Xen kernel. You should fail to enter runlevel 5 (Full GUI) as the required nVidia driver for Xen has not been compiled yet. Log in as root on TTY1 and Re-run the nVidia installation program but do it via this "magic" line:
< IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=y CC="gcc -DNV_VMAP_4_PRESENT -DNV_SIGNAL_STRUCT_RLIM" ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44-pkg2.run >
The nVidia driver installation program will run again (see step 2) and this time, it will compile the driver against the Xen kernel. Highly recommend you take a copy of the newly compile nVidia driver:
< cp /lib/modules/22.214.171.124-5-xen/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ./nvidia.ko.xen >
Once successfully completed, go into runlevel 5 and voila!
6) To ensure that you can have full desktop GUI and 3D effects on both SLED 11 Default and Xen kernel, verify and copy the correct <nvidia.ko> files previously backed up (nvidia.ko.default and nvidia.ko.xen) respectively to:
(nvidia.ko.default) -> /lib/modules/126.96.36.199-5-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
(nvidia.ko.xen) -> /lib/modules/184.108.40.206-5-xen/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
Done and done!
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I got this on xen mode install start:ReplyDelete
ERROR: unable to determine the NVIDIA kernel module filename.
ake:*** [print-module-filename] Error 1
Hi Shuker,ReplyDelete
I've never seen that error before... based on that error message, I would check if there are other nVidia modules that are already installed (ie the rpm ones).
> rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia
If the above returns something you've got to delete it via rpm -e command.
Hope this helps.
Hi, i got working nvidia amd 3D effects with my pae kernel. Do you mean that i should delete it and build it first for the xen kernel and then for pae?ReplyDelete
Hi Shuker,ReplyDelete
Ahh, I think I understand now. Yes, everytime you run the command in step 5, it will generate the nvidia.ko file for that kernel you're running.
Yes, you'll need to re-run step 5 in the xen kernel for the right nvidia.ko generated for xen kernel.
If you intend to reboot back into the pae kernel in the future, suggest you make a backup of the nvidia.ko file first so you do not need to run the program in step 5 everytime... instead, just replace the nvidia.ko with the backed up one... hope this makes sense.
Cheers and good luck!
I am having the same problem, I am running Opensuse 11.2 64 bit with Nvidia GetForce 9600 GT.
First I installed the Opensuse 11.2 and all good but I cant enable the compiz so I decided to to go for the propriety Nvidia driver, they released 2 weeks ago, I installed and the compiz works fine but once I try to boot from xen mode, it goes to terminal tty and the X server wont start.
Then I added your magic line, it start to build the kernel and it will stop and I got the following error:
ERROR: unable to determine the NVIDIA kernel module filename.
I am not running any other nvida driver.
any reply will be great, thanks for your post
Hi Sarhang,ReplyDelete
1) You managed to successfully install the nVidia driver and have 3D with the default kernel in openSUSE 11.2. Yes?
2) You want the same when using the Xen kernel. Using the "magic" line in step 5, your attempt to compile the nVidia driver against the Xen kernel failed. Yes?
If so, here's my suggestion:
a) When booting into Xen, its normal to encounter the terminal as the X server won't start. That's why you need to run that "magic" line to compile the driver. But you only need to run it once successfully... and of course if you upgrade your Xen kernel to a later version.
b) Since you encountered the error where the installer is confused (unable to determine) the nVidia modules installed. You might have more than 1 nVidia driver installed... I noticed that YaST sometimes installs the default nvidia drivers from online repositories when you attempt to upgrade or install other modules that have this dependency... another long story...
c) So, do a rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia and see if you have multiple entries. If so, remove all of them. Yes, since you're installing nVidia drivers manually, it should not appear in RPM. To play it safe, you might also want to disable the nVidia repository in YaST (yast2 repositories).
Hope this helps. Cheers!
Thanks for your reply, look I went back to SLED11, I installed the HP driver for Nvidia for SLED 11, everything works fine, the Compiz works fine but still in the XEN mode the X11 wont start.
In the step four, when I try to copy the default kernel to the Xen kernl I dont have:
cp /lib/modules/184.108.40.206-5-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ./nvidia.ko.default
but I have:
cp /lib/modules/126.96.36.199-5-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko /lib/modules/188.8.131.52-5-xen/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
is that ok.
I will let you about the Opensuse 11.2 later
Many thanks
1) Not sure what you mean by "HP driver for Nvidia". I use nVidia drivers from nvidia.com
2) The nVidia installer (when successfully executed) will generate nvidia.ko in /lib/modules/[kernel version]-default/kernel/drivers/video. Do not replace nvidiafb.ko!
3) The [cp] step is meant to backup nvidia.ko for the default kernel.
4) You are supposed to reboot into the Xen kernel, experience tty only, and re-run the nVidia installer with the magic line. This will generate another nvidia.ko but in the /lib/modules/[kernel version]-xen/kernel/drivers/video/ directory. This is totally different directory in point 2 above.
5) If (4) is success, execute init 3 followed by init 5 and you should have full GUI for Xen.
6) When you boot back to default kernel, you will experience tty again because the last nVidia installer (executed in Xen) has removed the nvidia.ko for the default kernel. This is when you can cp the previously backed up nvidia.ko back into the appropriate directory.
Hope this clarifies it... its hard to explain it here with just words... do hope you get what I mean to write. :)
Best of luck!
Hi Kam,ReplyDelete
Thank you for your reply, sorry for being pain. I am running now Opensuse 11.2.
I have the following kernel:
rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
I installed the Nvidia driver (VIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run) for Geforce 9600 GT, I download from Nvidia web site,
# lsmod | grep -i nvidia
nvidia 9636872 38
everything went fine, I installed it and compiz is working.
Then I reboot the I went to XEN mode and fails and the X server did not start and went o tt1, which is fine then I tried to install the drive with your magic line:
IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=y CC="gcc -DNV_VMAP_4_PRESENT -DNV_SIGNAL_STRUCT_RLIM" ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run
it will de-install the Nvidia driver which was installed in Non Xen kernel and after that it says "ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
Here is log file: it would not let me to copy the whole the log file, but this is the end of the of the file, if you want I could email the log fiel:
cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
include2/asm/bitops.h:64: warning: pointer of type 'void *' used in arit
include2/asm/bitops.h: In function 'clear_bit':
include2/asm/bitops.h:102: warning: pointer of type 'void *' used in ari
include2/asm/bitops.h: In function 'change_bit':
include2/asm/bitops.h:178: warning: pointer of type 'void *' used in ari
In file included from /usr/src/linux-184.108.40.206-0.1/include/xen/hypercall.h:4,
from /usr/src/linux-126.96.36.199-0.1/arch/x86/include/mach-xen/
from /usr/src/linux-126.96.36.199-0.1/arch/x86/include/mach-xen/
from /usr/src/linux-184.108.40.206-0.1/arch/x86/include/mach-xen/
make -f /usr/src/linux-184.108.40.206-0.1/scripts/Makefile.modpost
scripts/mod/modpost -m -a -i /usr/src/linux-126.96.36.199-0.1-obj/x86_64/xen/Mo
dule.symvers -I /tmp/selfgz3614/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2/usr/src/nv/M
odule.symvers -o /tmp/selfgz3614/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2/usr/src/nv
/Module.symvers -S -K /usr/src/linux-22.214.171.124-0.1-obj/x86_64/xen/Module.mark
ers -M /tmp/selfgz3614/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2/usr/src/nv/Module.mar
kers -w -s
WARNING: could not find /tmp/selfgz3614/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2/usr/
src/nv/.nv-kernel.o.cmd for /tmp/selfgz3614/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2/
FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'xen_
make[4]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2
-> Error.
ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
it is been very frustrating and I cant work out how to have XEN + Compiz, it is pain.
Could you tell me what I am doing wrong ?
Many thanks
Hi Sarhang,ReplyDelete
Sorry, I was traveling on assignment. I've installed openSUSE 11.2 on another partition on my Thinkpad T61p with nVidia Quadro FX570M.
It appears that my documented hack does NOT work with openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31 kernel. It works for SLED 11 - 2.6.27 kernel. Sorry :( This is beyond me.
Looks like we'll have to wait for someone to come up with new howto hacking this new generation of kernel using Kconfig.
Hi Kam,ReplyDelete
Thank you for your reply, I opened service request with HP, I will let you know about the outcome, thanks again for your time.


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Vol. 23, No. 8: Stimulus
Stimulating advice
● Because the price tag on the federal economic-stimulus package is a moving target, we should use a dollar figure only when it is specifically relevant to the subject matter in a given article, Matthew Rose in Washington advises. One example would be when we need to present one element—tax cuts, say—as a proportion of the estimated total.
Early on, we used the original price tag as a modifier, as in "the $787 billion stimulus act." But the cost has risen considerably since then, as food stamps and other provisions were used more than expected. The Congressional Budget Office's latest estimate of the total cost is $814 billion.
● In our coverage of political campaigns, we want to rein in the use of professors' comments about candidates and races. Deputy ME Matt Murray observes, "We have a pattern: A reporter drops in, looks at a race, and calls up a local political-science professor to obtain a canned quote on the race." A little of that is fine on occasion, he says, but we don't want to overdo it. "Generally, in most cases, we're more interested in players and actors than experts," he says.


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I often think about what Dr. Greene says in his White Out campaign. Educating and/or learning about toxic chemicals (or unhealthy food) is not about placing guilt on parents, or on myself for the choices made. It's not about perfection or some litmus test for being a good parent or a green parent or anything like that. It's about knowing better so you can do better.
This point was driven home last year when one of my best friends had a baby. This baby was her 3rd child. When she went into labor her 2 older boys came to my house to stay with me. Her husband and I were on the phone frequently as we coordinated school drop-offs. The morning after the baby was born my friend's husband called me in a panic. He was freaking out because he had realized right as the nurse was about to wash his new son's head for the first time that the product they were using probably contained Sodium Laurel Sulfate, which can damage developing eyes, and other chemicals he didn't want to expose this brand new life to. They had just replaced all of their personal care products with organic ones but hadn't thought about packing anything in the hospital bag. He was feeling a mixture of emotions, from anger to guilt. I was too. I felt guilty for it not occurring to me to remind my friend to bring their own baby products. I felt like I should have known better. This is my job, my business.
While talking to my friend I really had to put it into perspective – for both of us. I needed to calm him down and reassure him that he/the hospital had not just forever damaged their son. Yes, I was horrified at the thought of a brand new baby being exposed to the nasty chemicals that, unfortunately, are in the products that so many hospitals use. But, I reassured him that his son would be fine. This was just 1 bath. He probably wouldn't get another bath at the hospital and at home they were already well-stocked with safer products. "He will be fine," I assured him, while secretly wondering. I reminded him he's a great Dad, and it's ok.
We all make the best decisions we can at the moment. As parents, we spend way too much time beating ourselves up for not making the "right" decision. We don't give ourselves enough credit for making the best decision we could at the moment. We aren't forgiving enough or gentle enough with ourselves. It's much more productive to focus on the future, and think about doing better from this day forward. We can't change the past. But we can change the decisions we make in the future.
For me, that means getting involved in my local Birth Network so I can talk with natural birth professionals to educate them so they, in turn, can educate their clients. To remind them that when they are giving their clients lists of things to take to the hospital, be sure to tell them pack baby products with ingredients they are comfortable with, and to write in their birth plans that these are the only products to be used on their baby.
If the new parents are not buying products that are 3rd-party certified, like certified organic, it's about reminding them to make the decision about what product to use early enough in their pregnancy to give them time to research ingredients and make sure they are comfortable with what's in the one they've chosen. And, it's not about telling them to use the product I would use. It's about helping them understand the risks and benefits of different ingredients and helping them make the best decision for their family.
So, repeat after me…."I am a great parent, I will stop beating myself up and when I know better, I do better." Good. That's all you can ask of yourself.


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This year, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) will be participating in the Singapore Mini Maker Faire (SMMF) with an integrated booth to showcase their diverse variety of makers. Below is a summary of our interview with the six featured makers, and an introduction provided by Dr Yeo Wee Kiang, Maker Coach, Singapore Polytechnic, who conducted a workshop at last year's SMMF.
Makers from Singapore Polytechnic (SP) have been actively participating in their own capacities at the Singapore Mini Maker Faire since its first run. This year, SP is proud to participate as Team SP in one integrated booth which showcases the diverse capabilities and innovative talents from our various academic schools and student clubs. SP firmly believes that making is an important part of education today. We are actively promoting the maker movement within SP.
For example, Makerspace@SP has been set up in SP Library to promote curiosity-driven tinkering. In addition, an institution level facility the FabLab@SP has been setup and provides the technical expertise, trainings, tools, and machineries necessary for digital fabrication, and rapid prototyping. The Singapore Mini Maker Faire provides an excellent platform for makers from SP to connect with creative talents from the local Maker community and vice versa.
Jolyon P. Caplin (Big on the Mind but Light on the Pocket)
Jolyon is a familiar face at the Singapore Mini Maker Faire. For past visitors of the event, you might remember him for the Jolyonophone1, reason for the constant crowd at his maker booth at SMMF 2012, or for the colourful light displays at his Science-Art Fusion maker booth last year. This year, Jolyon who is a lecturer at SP's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, is returning with "Big on the Mind but Light on the Pocket" and he promises devices that will both be interactive and entertaining.
When asked about his thoughts on the Singapore maker scene, he noted that it is a good sign to see many maker events and facilities appearing, with good take-up as well. However, he felt that more people need to build the confidence to become really involved. This is something he felt could be improved. Do you agree with this?
His advice for interested makers-to-be would be to simply plunge in, find a more experienced maker first to see how things are done and build up the confidence, before dropping by a hardware shop to browse around and get ideas.
When asked about his challenges in making, Jolyon conceded that time is his biggest problem, as it would take a full 4 hours to really complete a project. I recalled him mentioning time as a challenge last year as well, and I believe this is a problem that many makers would have as well. Yet, despite so, Jolyon has still made it to the Singapore Mini Maker Faire with a variety of new showcases each year. Isn't that a great example for all?
Tan Kok How (Dancing Robot)
Next, we would like to introduce Mr Tan Kok How from the SP Robotics Innovation Technology Enterprise (SP-RITE, a Student Club). Mr Tan will be showcasing a bioloid robot programmed to dance!
We asked Mr Tan to share his making journey and he told us the story of how he started with LEGO bricks from a tender age of 7 and progressed into robotics by the time he reached Secondary School. Joining the Robotics Club then provided him the chance to explore various types of robots and participate in competitions. It also opened the way for him to build robots out of LEGO Mindstorms and learn about simple electronics. Mr Tan shared that budget is his biggest challenge in his making journey because it is not easy to build a robot without sufficient funding. This has however brought the maker spirit out of him, when he innovated with the use of self-fabricated parts and parts from obsolete robots. Challenges always bring out the best in people, isn't it?
When asked on his advice for budding makers, this was what he said:-
'Life is full of mysteries and surprises. You must have that motivation and vision in whatever that you are doing in order for you to start and even more to continue. Also, willingness plays an important role. You are going to make something new or innovate something that is already out there. You will need a strong will in trying as "failing to try is trying to fail".'
Liew Hui Sing (Development of the intermeshing Tandem Configuration VTOL UAV (Vertical Take-off and landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) System)
Next, we would like to introduce Mr Liew Hui Sing from the SP School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, who would be showcasing an intermeshing rotorblade helicopter. Want to see a flying machine at the Singapore Mini Maker Faire? Look out for Mr Liew's booth.
Mr Liew shared with us that he began liking airplanes since he received his first foam airplane from his parents at about 8 years old. Since then, he had enjoyed making his own airplane out of any scrap materials he could find, until he became of age to join the Singapore Youth Flying Club Aero-modelling Club to learn how to build flying aircraft models. He continued to pursue his degree in Aerospace Engineering, worked in the aerospace industries and finally became a lecturer and course chair at SP to pass on his love for aeronautical engineering to the next generation.
Because of his love for aeronautics, things he has made naturally revolved around this theme, for example UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), Propulsion Systems like Rockets and Engines, and Motion Simulator System to give people the experience of flight. Interested to know more about what he has made? Do drop by his booth and speak with him!
Mr Liew also have some advice for those who are interested to pick up engineering. He felt that "it is about following your passion even though engineering necessitates doing the less glamourous work like 'putting your hand in grease'".
Michael Spicer (Spatial Controlled musical instrument)
Mr Michael Spicer is from the SP School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology and he would showcase a project that adapts various spatial controllers to become semi intelligent musical instruments. Mr Spicer shared that he enjoyed building things and music since young and it naturally led to him creating various electronic music systems, using available resources. He usually build interactive music performance systems that tend to have large software component, but sometimes consists of a combination of sound generators and signal processors in novel combinations.
Mr Spicer advises new makers to start small and have fun, and to start with modifying something that exists as it would be an easier first project. He also reminded that things would never work right the first time, and noted that creating something is an exploratory activity, hence if you create exactly what you set out to do, you have probably overlooked an opportunity.
Isn't that so true? Therefore it is important to keep the right spirit and attitude in the process of making and creating things!
SP Design School – Diploma in Interior Design [ SUPERSURFACE. ]
Next, we would like to introduce the Year 1 students from the SP School of Design – Diploma in Interior Design and their showcase of [ SUPERSURFACE. ], an ergonomics design project which was planned and carried out in collaboration with their lecturers Mr Muzammil Aziz, Mr Ivan Ho, Mr Foo Yoong Sheng, Ms Fiona Ho, Mr Tony Tan and Ms Janice Tan.
The design process comprises of four main stages where the students had to collect data, analyse, make prototypes and finally fabricate. The project which started as a study of human ergonomics ran for slightly more than three months.
On the maker scene in Singapore, Mr Muzammil and Ms Tan observed that there is now additional government support in terms of funding and initiatives, hence beneficial to the community of makers. However more publicity and outreach could be done to gain more traction both locally and internationally.
To young makers, their advice is to have passion, determination and perservance, as these are the factors that will bring one far.
Teo Shin Jen (Assorted Electronics and Digital Fabrication Projects)
Last but not least, the final maker from SP would be Mr Teo Shin Jen who is a lecturer at SP's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He also happened to be the first person interviewed for the Singapore Mini Maker Faire when it first started in 2012. In that blog post, we saw Shin Jen's "see-say-do-it" spirit and his passion to use what he makes to inspire his students' interest in learning programming, electronics, and computer engineering. This year, we see Shin Jen returning to the Singapore Mini Maker Faire again with his band of merry makers from SP Makers' Club and the community members of FabLab@SP after his stint in UCL Computer Science Department, and Institute of Making, London last year.
Shin Jen's focus is still the same and we applaud his efforts for making learning more applied. His emphasis, which I thought was notable, is that a maker should not concentrate on just making in solidarity, but involve the community around him or her (students in his case) to "DIT: Do It Together" by making things together. Here is a photo of Shin Jen's class on making solar cooker for the children of SP's staff.
1 The Jolyonophone is currently on display at Science Centre Singapore, Quirky Science Exhibition


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Reflecting on a Castle Point Milestone as Stevens Goes Co-Ed
When Robert Seavy, the dean of admissions at Stevens in the 1970s, heard the official word that the university was going co-ed for undergraduates, one of his first reactions wasn't about how historic this decision was or how he would find qualified female students. No, almost immediately, one thought popped into his head: sleeping quarters.
"Where were they going to sleep?" he recalled asking himself at the time. "I knew it would be a problem, but, we worked it out. It really was such an exciting time on campus. We knew things would change forever."
Seavy, who earned a master's degree from Stevens in 1948, also knew that he had to get busy. The Board of Trustees voted in December 1970 to accept female undergraduates for the upcoming fall semester and he had to find qualified candidates, which meant appealing to high school seniors, most of whom would have made their college choice already. Seavy began actively recruiting in early 1971 at all-girl high schools in New Jersey and at high schools where he had established contacts. He remembers the first acceptance letter to a female undergraduate his office sent out.
"The whole office was very excited. We got it all started," he said. Eventually, 19 women entered Stevens as undergraduates in the fall of 1971, as the pioneering Class of '75. And as for the dorm room dilemma he faced early on, the solution was relatively easy: a section of the Married Student Housing (now called the Castle Point Apartments) was set aside for the female students.
For Richard Eversen, the retired associate provost and dean of student affairs, finding suitable female students proved a little challenging at first. "Stevens had very high standards back then, as they do now. It was hard to find females who were at the top of their class who had advanced math classes. Don't forget that, at that time, a lot of young women in high school didn't take much math."
"And engineering wasn't thought of as a career path for women then. Most women at the time were in the teaching and nursing fields. There weren't many who considered a career in physics, math or chemistry," Eversen said. But, the female students during those first years were very smart, he said. And, as Seavy echoed, all Stevens undergraduates must "have the goods" to succeed at Castle Point.
The Stevens Indicator Winter 1971 edition released the results of a poll on campus taken before the co-ed change that showed a high majority of students favored having female undergraduates on campus. With 861 responses, 651 voted yes, 179 said no and 31 had no opinion. A survey to alumni showed no strong feeling either way, and discussions with alumni groups showed that they favored the change.
Malena Aldecoa Higuera '75 recalls how welcoming the male students were.
"I think at first they saw us as women, but after the first year or so, they saw us as classmates," she said.
Higuera remembers where she was when she heard about the co-ed change at Stevens: She was in homeroom during her senior year at Hoboken High School in 1971. Her family had settled in Hoboken after emigrating from Cuba in 1968, leaving behind Fidel Castro's socialist state.
"I was in homeroom and I heard they were opening up to women undergraduates. Coming from Cuba just a few years before, English was not my strong suit. But something clicked for me with math. I knew that math was the language that would get me by," she recalls. "I visited MIT, (a school in) Boston and Princeton, but I wanted nothing but the best and I knew that Stevens was the best."
It turns out that Higuera also had one special cheerleader in her corner.
Her principal at Hoboken High School was Thomas Gaynor, himself a graduate of Stevens in 1932. "He encouraged me for sure, but he also wanted me to know that it wasn't an easy school, that it was tough. He wanted to make sure I was sure of it," she recalled. And the experience created a special bond between the principal and student as Gaynor's support helped Higuera become the first female graduate of HHS to receive her B.S. from Stevens.
During her undergraduate days, Higuera lived with her family at Washington and 11th streets, just a few blocks from campus. Money was tight for her family in those days. "I didn't live on campus, but I got to experience a lot of things," she said. "I got to see the World Trade Center being built, I became involved with the Latin American Club and one time, during a snowstorm, some of my guy friends actually carried me down the hill to my house so I wouldn't slip."
In 1971, Higuera recalls that first group of women being called into a room for a meeting with administrators. They asked the students if they wanted to be segregated during classes or randomly mixed among the men. "We were offered a choice. We wanted to be treated as equals, so we chose to be in the same classes. Sometimes I would be the only woman in class, sometimes it was two of us. We did not get a break and we wanted it that way," she said.
The "sisterhood," as Higuera calls that first group of women, created a unique friendship that she relishes to this day. "I got to know the other women very well. Because I didn't speak English as well as the others, they were very protective of me and really were supportive."
After graduation, she worked for Allied Chemical Corp. and earned her M.M.S. from Stevens in 1978. She gave birth to her children, Malena and Kevin, and stayed home with them for a few years. She re-entered the workforce in 1983 as a cosmetics engineer at Revlon and Higuera now works as director of process engineering with Coty Inc.
Joseph Moeller, Jr. '67, M.Eng. '69, Ph.D. '75, who was a circuits professor during the '70s, recalled the integration of women and the acceptance of students from outside the tri-state area as widely accepted.
"The admission of women undergraduates was generally considered a positive and progressive step forward for the Institute," Moeller recalled.
Michi Wada '75 remembers those early days on campus. During her senior year at Bergenfield High School in Bergenfield, N.J., she visited several colleges, but when she heard about the co-ed opportunity at Stevens, she made Castle Point her home. And during her time at Stevens, she was a member of the first female fencing team, which was established in the 1974-75 year.
Fencing was new at the time to Wada, but "fencing sounded like something I wanted to try and it helped that they had an established men's team," she recalled.
Today, Wada lives in New Mexico and works as a programmer with Sandia National Laboratories. "I'm still with the same company that I started out with after I graduated from Stevens," she said.


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Yves Rocher grandson takes family behind the brand into billionaire status
Taking the reins
On stepping into the leading position, Forbes magazine says Bris consolidated the business by buying back 19.3 per cent of the firm from Sanofi, to which the transaction was valued in excess of $1.8 (€1.3) billion, based on the pharmaceutical company's financial disclosures in 2012.
As it stands now, the Rocher family owns 96 per cent of the group, which includes a range of perfume and beauty brands. "That stake alone gives the Rocher clan, which includes an uncle and cousins, an estimated net worth of $1.7 (€1.2) billion," the business magazine estimated.
Euromonitor places the cosmetic giant second only to L'Oreal in terms of market share in France and of the 2012 $3 (€2.3) billion profits in sales, 63 per cent is said to have come from outside, with Russia and Germany being the top importers, according to a recent report by 'Women's Wear Daily Beauty'.
Going forward, Forbes reckons the young billionaire's focus in terms of sales strategy, will be to "see if Yves Rocher can replicate its famously successful mail order business online" as Rocher senior started out by selling an ointment based on the locally-grown celadine flower in this way.
Staple in the cosmetics industry
On Rocher senior dying at the age of 79 in 2009 following a stroke, Bris then just 31, stepped up from his position of vice-president pledging to maintain the values of the group that his grandfather spent over 50 years developing.
The business was established in Gacilly, in the North West of France, and was built around the formulation of botanical extracts, creating one of the world's first mainstream producers of natural-based cosmetic products.
It flourished and Yves Rocher retired in 1992, handing over the business to his son Didier in 1992. However, he went back to running the business when his son died in 1994 and eventually made Bris Rocher vice-president in 2007.
The company also has a strong worldwide presence and is available in 88 countries, represented by brands such as Daniel Jouvance, Pierre Ricaud and Petit Bateau, together with the Yves Rocher brand.


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If you don't see a perfect fit, don't hesitate to apply anyway. We're always looking for smart people who can contribute to our team. Tell us about yourself;
if we have an opportunity for you at Epicure, we'll be in touch! Please forward your resume and cover letter to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Epicure is a direct sales company and we have 1000's of Consultants driving our business across Canada (No products are available in a traditional store).
At Home Office, our Operations Teams purchases the best supplies and then manufactures and distributes great food and cookware products through our Consultant network.
The Sales and Marketing department guides the Consultants to success by creating and providing promotional material, training, catalogues, recipes, recognition events, and call center support. Our Innovation, Research + Development Team creates new products and continually fine tunes our formulas for maximum taste and quality.
Our innovative Technology Team is focused to enhance and upgrade our systems and processes for ease of operation, communication and reporting.
Our Finance and Support Teams ensures that the "beans" are counted properly and we are poised to support both our Home Team Members and our Consultants in the best way possible.
Epicure is your opportunity to innovate, create, and grow. And what's not to love about working on a beautiful 80-acre farm in North Saanich, BC? Join an amazing team, in an extraordinary place, with a very exciting future.