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Kara DioGuardi is in her second year as a judge on "American Idol" and with the seniority, she's found a chum in Brit Simon Cowell.
"This year, I don't know what is happening, he's leaning into me," Kara told Access Hollywood. "He's liking me more."
But has Simon gone soft on Kara? Some are even suggesting it is related to his engagement to makeup artist Mezhgan Hussainy.
"That says something about him that he picked her, he must be warm," Kara said. "I'm starting to see it. He puts his arm around me. I really like him and I'm really gonna miss him [when he leaves the show]."
Simon's new behavior is a far cry from his antics last year when he said Kara was faking an allergy attack on air.
"Simon was like, 'Kara, you're just trying to sneeze to get attention,'" she recounted.
Now, as a paid spokesperson for Claritin, Kara now has the last laugh.
"I was like, are you kidding me? I was having an allergy attack on the show," she said.
Kara is involved with Claritin, which recently launched its own reality competition.
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First we have Sweden vs Finland.
A classic rivalry of the North.
Finland didn't start out very well in this tournament, losing 8-1 to Canada, but after that they've been improving quite a bit. They beat the USA 4-1, the Danes 10-1 and the Czechs 4-0.
It should also be noted that they used their backup goalie against Canada. Still, they did have their starter in the crease in the 8-5 quarter final win against Slovakia, so it's not impossible to score on him.
Sweden has been unimpressive but effective. Beat Latvia 9-4, the Swiss 4-3 on penalties (had a 3-1 lead but let the Swiss back in the game and then won in the shootout), Slovakia 9-1 and Russia 4-3 in overtime (the period by period scoring 0-3, 0-0, 3-0, 1-0 says it all...).
Sweden should win, but it is important to never underestimate the Finns in these games. They always have an extra gear when they play Sweden. A younger sibling complex or something that makes them fight till the last drop of blood.
Then there's another classic rivalry: Canada vs Russia!
Canada has been impressive so far, beating Finland 8-1, the Czechs 5-0 and Denmark 10-2. In the last meaningless game against the USA they took a 3-0 lead and then took the foot off the pedal, letting the US score two consolation goals and "lose honourably" 3-2. Canada were favourites going into this tournament, and they still are.
Russia has looked surprisingly good in this tournament. They beat the Swiss 3-0, the Slovaks 3-1 and then the Latvians 14-0. Seriously. Three games into the tournament they had only allowed one goal against, and had scored 20!
Thus I was a bit pessimistic about Sweden's chances, but when push came to shove they were beatable. Sure, they got themselves a 3-0 lead before we managed to turn the game around, but Sweden had a puck in off a skate that would have made it 2-1, but the refs disallowed it. They also reviewed Swedens GWG (off a stick shaft, fairly high up), but that time they decided it was good. Anyway. The Russians pulverize inferior teams, but had a hard time against Sweden (we also won the shots 55-26, and sure, it's in part from chasing a lead the whole game. Still, 55-26. That's 55. And 26.).
All in all, my prediction is that just as the skilled Russians couldn't handle Sweden in the long run, they may get an early lead against Canada, but won't be able to hold on to it.
My money is on Canada.
Looking back:
Two for two, eh?Per wrote:So, quarter finals today. I predict that the Russians and Finns will prevail.
The Czechs and Slovaks should start discussing reunification.
OK, so there may not be a reunification in the cards any time soon.
Still. Two out of three ain't bad.

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By ROBERT JOHNSON, BUSINESSINSIDER-—
In the first week of December 2012, Iran announced the capture of a U.S. Navy Scan Eagle drone and plans to learn its secrets.
Having been off the coast of Iran last fall and seen the number of Scan Eagles surveilling the region it always seemed reasonable to me that Iran had captured one. We posted images of Iran's model and the Scan Eagle I had personally taken pictures of in the Gulf.
Although the U.S. denied the event, Tehran may have proof that it really did capture a drone.
Iran's state-run FARS news agency released news this weekend of of a Scan Eagle production line.
FARS claims the drones are well past production and already in service within Tehran's armed forces.
From FARS:
"ScanEagle had been in our possession before and we have even copied it in production," Hajizadeh underscored at the time. On December 4, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi announced that his forces hunted a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) over the Persian Gulf after the drone violated the country's airspace.
ScanEagle is a small, low-cost, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing. As standard payload ScanEagle carries either an inertially stabilized electro-optical or an infrared camera. The gimbaled camera allows the operator to easily track both stationary and moving targets, providing real-time intelligence. Capable of flying above 16,000 feet, the UAV has also demonstrated the ability to provide persistent low-altitude reconnaissance.
The development came exactly a year after Iran announced on December 4, 2011 that its defense forces had downed a US RQ-170 drone through a sophisticated cyber attack. The RQ-170 has special coatings and a bat-wing shape designed to help it penetrate other nations' air defenses undetected.
The RQ-170 data was released out of Iran last week and lent a lot of credibility to various Iranian claims in the months since the RQ-170 disappeared. That suggests Iran was able to breach a secure data line and pull out all data intact for review. No small feat when dealing with hardware employed by the CIA.Whether the Scan Eagle is cloned and in production, or if Tehran hacked the RQ-170 last year and escorted it down or not, one thing is certain: It's time the U.S. started taking its longtime enemy a bit more seriously.
And perhaps deliver a bit more honesty to the world, especially if Iran will just follow up with the truth only months later.


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As we reported last month, more than 40% of an expected US$1 trillion in flood damages will fall on four main cities, one of which is New York. On September 26, in partnership with The Climate Group and Climate Week NYC, The Weather Company will convene top researchers, NGOs, CEOs and more in the City, for one-on-one interviews, short talks and panel discussions, including remarks by guest speaker NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as part of a crucial day-long Climate Conversation focused on reducing the social and economic impacts of climate change.
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Starting off with a series of short talks, on September 26, The Weather Company will host leading researchers to discuss the latest discoveries and data that is impacting the three key ecological spheres–wildfire and drought, melting icecaps and smut spores in the air–and what this actually means for our weather.
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Weather-related outages cost the US economy an inflation-adjusted yearly average of US$18 billion to US$33 billion between 2003 and 2012, according to estimates. As America reflects on the economic and social repercussions one year on from Hurricane Sandy, and extreme weather events continue such as the Colorado floods, this climate conversation couldn't come at a more pivotal time, or with more well-positioned hosts as The Weather Company.
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Have you tried your community farmers market yet?
Autumn is probably my favorite season - colored leaves, fresh apples and cider, pumpkin-flavored-everything, cooler temperatures. I love it.
However, one thing I don't like about summer ending is that the local farmers markets will soon end, too! This means if you haven't been yet, the next week or two may be your last chance of the year to enjoy one of the smaller farmers markets located around Rochester's suburbs.
My personal favorite (to be fair, the only one I've attended) is the Monroe Village Farmers Market
. The time (4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays) and location (Blessed Sacrament Church at Monroe and Oxford streets) couldn't be more convenient for me. Plus, because it is a smaller market, I can get in and get out in a matter of minutes. For 5 minutes and $5, I can stock up on fresh fruits and vegetables for the week!
I'm surely going to miss that once it ends for the year on October 17th, but I suppose that is the price we pay to live in a colder climate. While I might check out the Rochester Public Market
a few times, the big one just doesn't do it for me. Each week, I've truly come to appreciate the little market, where it's easy to find my favorite vendors selling delicious treats. Let's just say, these last two trips I will be stocking up!
If you're interested, you can see a list of smaller farmers markets at RocWiki.org
. If you haven't yet, find the farmers market closest to your home or place of work and check it out before it's gone for the year. At the very least, mark your calendar for next year's opening! Or, maybe you've already got a favorite! Which farmers market is your


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The first-ever World Cup on African soil begins June 11 in South Africa, and American sports fans know the drill by now. Every four years at about this time, the rest of the world squints at us and asks us the same pointed question: If 60 zillion people around the globe are planning on tuning in to every minute of this year's tournament, then why not you, America? — as in, "What's wrong with you?"
But American ambivalence about the World Cup is not a litmus test on how crass we can be. (That would be the infield of a NASCAR race.) And being ambivalent about soccer doesn't make the Euro-snobs more sophisticated than us, or the samba-loving South Americans more fun and high-spirited. It's not like if you dislike the World Cup, you couldn't possibly appreciate the finer things in life other than a day-night doubleheader.
I've been thinking that maybe Americans would jump on the World Cup bandwagon more if the World Cup's boosters realized that part of our "problem" is the month-long tournament seems be too much about, well … soccer, and not enough about all the other reasons to love the World Cup.
U.S. & World
Just to prove it, here's a quick list I compiled of why this year's World Cup is worth tuning into:
The U.S. team's psychodrama opener against England
Anyone who reads the Rottweilers of the British tabloids knows the Brits have the world's biggest sports inferiority complex. For weeks now, England's World Cup team has been reminded that in 1950 the United States recorded one of the greatest upsets in soccer history by knocking off England, 1-0. And not coincidentally, this year's American team is planning to wear jerseys modeled after the ones that 1950 U.S. squad wore. As the Brits might say, that's diabolically brilliant! A massively inspired stunt!
The U.S. team was shaky defensively in its past few World Cup tune-ups. England is a darkhorse pick to contend for the title, along with Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Argentina. Yet some experts are picking the Yanks to upset England in their June 12 World Cup opener anyway. If that happens, Wayne Rooney, goaltender David "Calamity" James and the rest of England's squad might want to look into Australian passports. The American team only has to get out of pool play and into the second round to have a respectable showing.
The injury thing
You know what I mean. Only in soccer does a player barely get hit, then writhe on the ground as if he's in the death grip of some invisible python. Out comes the stretcher. Off the field he's carried, gasping like some beached trout — only to sprint back moments later looking perfectly fine, like some just-healed pilgrim at Lourdes yelling, "Look mamma, I can WALK!"
Cristiano Ronaldo, who hopes to lead Portugal to glory, loses many best-player-in-the-world votes to Argentina's Lionel Messi because he flops so much. Didier Drogba of the Ivory Coast is probably second. If he could play striker, the Celtics' Paul Pierce would be third. (See the 2008 NBA finals, the "Wheelchair Game.")
The "Group of Death"
No, this isn't the NFC East, pigskin nuts. This scare-your-pants-off term is always used to describe the toughest pool in the World Cup's eight-group opening round. But why not appropriate a little soccer lingo into your everyday life when, say, your wife tries to drag you to some snoozefest dinner party (Honey, not the Group of Death!), or the Marlins send out the same lineup the next time they face Philadelphia ace Roy Halladay. They should just say a rosary instead.
The lost-in-translation nicknames
Brazil's best player is Kaka. No. Really.
The geography pop quizzes
If you fall in love with American midfielder Michael Bradley's game during the World Cup, no worries. You can follow him the rest of the year at Borussia Mönchengladbach, which — is, um ... where, exactly?
The controversial new ball
Adidas made it especially for this tournament. It's called "The Jabulani" because, as we've already seen, soccer likes to grandiosely name everything. Here's U.S. backup goalkeeper Marcus Hahneman's review of The Jabulani: "It's horse----. It's the worst soccer ball I've ever played with. It's plastic. It feels like s--- when it comes off your foot. It moves like crazy. It swerves. … You can't tell what it's going to do."
Oh dear.
The Diego Maradona watch
The greatest — and perhaps most troubled — star in Argentine soccer history also stands accused of being the worst manager in this year's 32-team World Cup tournament. Some critics say that the Argentines are so talented they'd have a better chance to win with no coach.
Already, Maradona has been criticized for playing the great Messi out of position, using 78 players during World Cup qualifying but somehow never fielding the same lineup twice, delaying his start of team preparations because his dog bit him in the face, and, more recently, running over a cameraman's foot with his car after a training session, then profanely chewing out the cameraman "for putting your leg where it could get run over, man."
Maradona has also promised to run naked through the streets of Buenos Aires if Argentina wins it all, which is making everyone feel a bit more grateful about that Lap-Band surgery he had a few years ago.
Is soccer a great game, or what?


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Our New England offering this weekend is the Rhode Island Kennel Club's two shows in Warwick RI. Judge Sonny Ambrosio chose his BIS & RBIS from a seven that included the English Springer Spaniel, GCH CH Cerise Sentinel, the Saluki, GCH CH Takara The Time Is Now, the Portuguese Water Dog, GCH CH Cnsand Ardanwood Whitewash The Fence For Me, the Smooth Fox Terrier, GCH CH Lil'Itch Pretty Woman At Foxwatch, the Smooth Cot Chihuahua, GCH CH Sonnus Filho (Sanchez) , the Dalmatian, GCH CH Erin's I'M Your Man, and the Bearded Collie, GCH CH Classical's It's My Turn.
GCH CH Erin's I'M Your Man
His top two were the Chihuahua, Sonnito, and the Dalmatian, Colin. Sonnito is currently the Number Four Toy Dog with seven BIS and 13 Toy Groups.


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STANFORD — Not even World Cup fever could ignite the Earthquakes on Saturday night.
Nor could a sellout crowd of 50,006 at Stanford Stadium as San Jose's offensive woes continued with a 1-0 defeat to the Los Angeles Galaxy.
After scoring dramatic victories the past two years in their marquee game at Stanford, the Quakes had no answers in their first Major League Soccer game since the World Cup break three weeks ago.
The defeat kept San Jose (4-6-4) in eighth place in the nine-team Western Conference and trying to figure out what it will take to break out of a season-long slump with 15 goals in 14 games.
The Earthquakes are 2-3 since leading scorer Chris Wondolowski joined the U.S. national team for World Cup preparation last month.
They had hoped to rebound from the break with a riveting performance and fresh legs. Instead, the Galaxy (5-3-5) got the result it wanted in the first of three meetings of the "California Clasico."
It also was a sweet moment for the Galaxy's Landon Donovan, who was unceremoniously cut from the U.S. team last month at Stanford.
The outcome didn't surprise Quakes central defender Jason Hernandez, who was a last-minute replacement for Clarence Goodson. The regular starter was bothered by a groin muscle strain, allowing Hernandez to get his 200th MLS appearance.
"With the Galaxy, you have to weather them a little bit," Hernandez said. "One play usually decides a game like this."
The "play" came in the 62nd minute on a heads-up pass by L.A.'s leading scorer, Robbie Keane. The Galaxy striker found teammate Marcelo Sarvas in the box. The Brazilian quickly laid the ball off to Gyasi Zardes, who got his third goal of the season.
"If Barcelona had scored that goal, people would be talking about it for weeks," Donovan said.
The goal held up despite the Earthquakes' last-gasp effort in the final minutes. No miracle comebacks this year.
In 2012, San Jose fell behind 3-1 in first half but won 4-3. Last year, it took two second-half stoppage goals for a 3-2 victory while down a man.
Quakes officials tried to capitalize on the United States' stunning performance in Brazil this month with a halftime tribute to the 1994 World Cup game at Stanford that featured the Americans and Brazilians in a second-round match.
The Quakes now prepare to play host to last-place Chivas USA on Wednesday night at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Despite the World Cup break, injuries remain a concern.
Coach Mark Watson had to improvise again Saturday even before Goodson's scratch. In something of a surprise move, the coach used Sam Cronin on the left wing to replace the injured Shea Salinas (lower abdominal muscle strain). That allowed Watson to pair Jean-Baptiste Pierazzi and Khari Stephenson in the central midfield.
It helped having Yannick Djalo back for his third start. The oft-injured Djalo played behind Steven Lenhart as the second striker. His presence gave the Earthquakes more creativity with the ball, but it never seemed to click against the Galaxy defense.
Djalo was replaced in the 73rd minute, saying he felt some pain in his leg.
Victor Bernardez did not suit up after returning Friday from Brazil where he played in all three games for Honduras, but he should be available Wednesday night.
Defensive replacements Ty Harden and Hernandez helped keep the Galaxy out of the goal for a good hour.
It was a special moment for Hernandez, who has become a reserve since Goodson arrived in August. He wasn't sure he'd be around this season because of the change.
"I didn't think I'd get another 'California Clasico' under my belt," he said.
He was hoping not to get one that ended in defeat.
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it is an event with the same status you already have stored and you read just one more byte.
Yes, it is what MIDI defines as "Running Status".It helps when transmittning chords.You only read 1byte of the serial.If it has the top bit set, it is a status change and you store it as the current status and read 2 more bytes.If it has the top bit cleared, it is an event with the same status you already have stored and you read just one more byte.Tricky but very common.
Quoteit is an event with the same status you already have stored and you read just one more byte.Make that two more bytes, note number and velocity.
There's actually a couple more caveats I discovered if you want to be true to MIDI spec -- I haven't implemented any of these in the code yet but if the upper four bits are set in a MIDI message, running status behaves differently. System common category messages (0xF0-F7) cancel running status. But that shouldn't be a problem, as a status message should follow. However, real time category messages (0xF8-0xFF) don't affect running status, so should not update your status value.
RealTime Category messages (ie, Status of 0xF8 to 0xFF) do not effect running status in any way. Because a RealTime message consists of only 1 byte, and it may be received at any time, including interspersed with another message, it should be handled transparently. For example, if a 0xF8 byte was received inbetween any 2 bytes of the above examples, the 0xF8 should be processed immediately, and then the device should resume processing the example streams exactly as it would have otherwise. Because RealTime messages only consist of a Status, running status obviously can't be implemented on RealTime messages.
The MIDI spec allows for a MIDI message to be sent without its Status byte (ie, just itsdata bytes are sent) as long as the previous, transmitted message had the same Status. This is referred to as running status. Running status is simply a clever scheme to maximize the efficiency of MIDI transmission (by removing extraneous Status bytes). The basic philosophy of running status is that a device must always remember the last Status byte that it received (except for RealTime), and if it doesn't receive a Status byte when expected (on subsequent messages), it should assume that it's dealing with a running status situation.
Each RealTime Category message (ie, Status of 0xF8 to 0xFF) consists of only 1 byte, the Status. These messages are primarily concerned with timing/syncing functions which means that they must be sent and received at specific times without any delays. Because of this, MIDI allows a RealTime message to be sent at any time, even interspersed within some other MIDI message. For example, a RealTime message could be sent inbetween the two data bytes of a Note On message. A device should always be prepared to handle such a situation; processing the 1 byte RealTime message, and then subsequently resume processing the previously interrupted message as if the RealTime message had never occurred.
// get next byte from serial (blocks)int getNext () { if (lookAhead != noLookAhead) { int c = lookAhead; // finished with look ahead lookAhead = noLookAhead; return c; } while (midi.available () == 0) {} return midi.read (); }...void loop() { byte c = getNext (); if (((c & 0x80) == 0) && (lastCommand & 0x80)) { lookAhead = c; c = lastCommand; } // channel is in low order bits int channel = (c & 0x0F) + 1; // ignore stuff that keeps churning out if (c == 0xF8 || // timing clock c == 0xFE) // active sensing return; // too much information
void RealTimeMessage (const byte msg) { } // end of RealTimeMessage// get next byte from serial (blocks)int getNext () { if (lookAhead != noLookAhead) { int c = lookAhead; // finished with look ahead lookAhead = noLookAhead; return c; } while (true) { while (midi.available () == 0) {} byte c = midi.read (); if (c >= 0xF8) // RealTime messages RealTimeMessage (c); else return c; } } // end of getNext


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VCU's fervent fan base again can rest easy.
Shaka Smart, 35, agreed to a contract extension through 2023 to remain as coach of the Rams, whom he took to the 2011 Final Four and the last three NCAA tournaments. He turned down UCLA to do so.
Smart "has demonstrated through this process that he is loyal to VCU and his greatest concern lies with our program moving forward every year," athletic director Ed McLaughlin said.
"Our goal was to present him with a revised agreement proactively rather than wait for another institution to step in with an offer."
He will make about $1.5 million per year, a person with direct knowledge of negotiations told USA Today. Talks focused less on money and more on program enhancements — such as chartered flights, training table, video-system upgrades and weight-room upgrades, the person told USA Today. Smart also wanted more compensation for his staff, the person added.
Jonathan Arledge scored 23 points and Bryon Allen had seven assists as George Mason advanced to the best-of-three College Basketball Invitational championship series with a 62-52 home victory over Western Michigan.
The Patriots, who hit 24 of 28 free throws, will face Santa Clara beginning Monday. Kevin Foster scored 33 points as the Broncos beat Wright State 81-69 in Dayton, Ohio.
Kirby Burkholder scored 26 points to lead James Madison to a 77-61 win over Fordham in Harrisonburg in the round of 16 of the Women's National Invitation Tournament.
The Dukes (25-10) advance to the WNIT quarterfinals and will host Florida at 4 p.m. Saturday. Florida beat Charlotte 67-65 Wednesday night.
Burkholder, who also grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds for her 11th season double-double, was 9-for-14 from the field. She hit 6-of-10 from 3-point range.
Three other Dukes scored in double figures, including sophomore forward Toia Giggetts, a Lake Taylor High graduate who tallied 14 points and had career highs of three blocks, four steals and four assists.
NCAA Division II women:
Sisters Seja Gamble and Cache' Gamble, both of whom are Woodside High graduates, are on the Dowling (N.Y.) team that has made the NCAA Division II women's final in San Antonio, Texas.
Seja scored two points (in 21 minutes) and Cache' had 1 point for Dowling during its 76-54 victory over Augustana (S.D.).
Dowling will play Ashland (Ohio) for the championship at 8 p.m. Friday on CBS Sports Network. Ashland beat Western Washington 66-54.


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Juneau Community Garden hosts its 21st Annual Harvest Fair.
Published: 08/29/2013 13:00:00
This past Saturday saw the Annual Harvest Fair at the Juneau Community Garden. Now in its 21st year, the Harvest Fair gives Juneau gardeners a chance to show off their green thumbs, perhaps earn some bragging rights for their efforts, and revel in what the earth has given them. John Thedinga, the Board President for the Garden, filled us in.
VIDEO: Harvest Fair showcases the results of a summer's worth of fine growing weather. (Image: Rik Pruett)
"This is our big event of the year, this is where people bring in and exhibit all their wonderful fruits and vegetables and herbs that they've grown this year either at the garden or at home. It also has food that we sell here, it's got fresh fish, we've got chili, all kinds of baked goods, and over here we've got a Farmers Market that gardeners here at the community garden donate things from their garden like lettuce, rhubarb, carrots, and we sell it here, people buy it like crazy, they come in and they really love this stuff it's great organic, local, just picked produce and those proceeds go to the garden to help maintain the garden."
As he explained further, the weather this year, being as unusual for Juneau as it was, had quite an effect on both the garden and the gardeners.
"It's really perked a lot of interest this year, all our plots are being used in the garden by people and things just grew really well, all this sunshine, you just can't beat it, it was just a great growing year."
One of the great things about the garden is the fact that it is indeed a "Community" Garden, and like any good community, everyone pitches in to help keep it going. John explained what is expected from a member of the Garden.
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YMCA's Healthy Kids Day
YMCA's Healthy Kids Day on April 27th Aims to Help Kids & Families Exercise Minds and Bodies!
On Saturday, April 27, the Washington County Family YMCA celebrating YMCA's Healthy Kids Day® with a free community event that encourages kids throughout the community to get moving and learning, and families living healthier. Healthy Kids Day, the Y's national initiative to improve families' health and well-being, takes place at 1,900 Ys and kick-starts healthier behaviors now and throughout the summer, a critical out-of-school time for children's health.
Many U.S. children do not get the daily recommended hours of physical activity and reading, and daily amounts of healthy foods. According to the latest findings of the YMCA's Family Health Snapshot – a survey of parents that gauges their children's activity levels during the school year – only 19 percent of children get 60 minutes of physical activity, only 17 percent read books for fun, and only 12 percent eat at least eight fruits and vegetables daily.
"At the Y we know parents struggle to keep their kids physically and intellectually active every day. We want to help ensure fewer kids are at risk of childhood obesity and more kids excel in school," said Cassie Summers-Corp, Youth Programs Director at the YMCA. "YMCA's Healthy Kids Day will get kids moving and learning while also helping families get a jump on creating a healthier summer, and ultimately a healthier future."
Research shows that without access to out-of-school physical and learning activities, kids fall behind academically and gain weight twice as fast during summer than the school year. On April 27, YMCA's Healthy Kids Day will help parents begin thinking early about what their kids need to grow and achieve all summer long.
The Y's Healthy Kids Day will take place from 10am to 1pm on Saturday, April 27th. The event features fun, active play and educational activities, such as Mommy and Me Yoga, family photos by Dowling Family Photos, Salute to Our Soldier activities, reading, nutrition lesson and much more! A complete listing of Healthy Kids Day activities can be found at www.wcfymca.org.


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This story is based on Bread and Honey, by Frank Asch. I learned it from Bill Mayhew, a master storyteller from Maryland. Because of its novelty, "Little Monkey Face" is good story to tell at the beginning of a storytime. It's also a good story to tell at the end of a storytime because of the light-hearted tone and general silliness. It won't tax a potentially tired audience. There's not too much in the way of depth or meaning, though one could argue about Little Monkey's motives: is he a people-pleaser or is he having a joke at our expense? You decide, but don't ruin the fun for your young audience!
Once upon a time, there was a little monkey named Little Monkey. He loved to draw. One day in art class, the teacher said, "Draw a picture of the most beautiful thing in the world." Little Monkey drew a picture of his mother:
Little Monkey liked his picture, and he couldn't wait to show his mother. As he was walking home from school, picture in hand, he saw his friend, Ms. Giraffe. "What have you got there, Little Monkey?" Ms. Giraffe asked.
Little Monkey showed her and said, "It's a picture of my mother."
"That's a pretty picture, Little Monkey, but everyone knows that beautiful people have nice long necks."
"Oh," said Little Monkey. "Okay!" Little Monkey got out his crayons and drew a long neck.
As Little Monkey continued to walk home, he bumped into his friend, Mr. Hippopotamus. He showed the picture to his friend, and Mr. Hippo said, "Heyyyyy, Little Monkey, that's a good-looking picture there... but everyone knows that beautiful people have big round bodies."
"Um, okay," Little Monkey said, and he took out his crayons again to add a big round body to the picture.
Little Monkey contined to walk home, holding the picture of his mother. Along the way, he met his friend, Miss Spider. She hopped onto Little Monkey's picture, she said, "Oh, Little Monkey, that's a nice picture... but everyone knows beautiful people have eight long legs."
"Okay," said Little Monkey, and he added eight legs to the picture.
Little Monkey continued to walk home. He really wanted to show his picture to his mother. As he turned a corner, he saw his friend, Mr. Squirrel. "What have you got there, Little Monkey?" Mr. Squirrel asked.
"A picture of my mother," Little Monkey replied.
"Well, it's a spiffy picture," Mr. Squirrel said. "However... I don't know how to tell you this but... everyone knows beautiful people have bushy tails."
"Okay," Little Monkey said. He added a bushy tail to his drawing.
Little Monkey was glad to see his friends, but he really wanted to get home to show his mother the picture he had made for her. However, who should he bump into but his friend, Mrs. Ladybug. She said, "Nice picture, Little Monkey! Nice picture. But you do know, as everyone else does, that beautiful people are red with black spots."
"Okay," Little Monkey said. He took out his crayons once again and added red with black spots to the picture.
Little Monkey continued to walk home. (By now, he was wishing he had taken the short-cut.) As he waited at the crosswalk, who should he see but Mr. Lion, the crossing-guard. Mr. Lion said, "Little Monkey, I see you've got a picture there! It's looking good. Still, everyone knows that beautiful people have tawny manes of hair."
"Okay," Little Monkey said. He got out his crayons, added the mane, and crossed the street.
Little Monkey was almost home. He could even see his house three doors down. But just then, he saw his friend, Ms. Elephant, playing hopscotch. Ms. Elephant said, "Hey, Little Monkey! I'm glad to see you."
"I'm glad to see you too, Ms. Elephant," Little Monkey said. "But I really can't wait to get home to my mother. You see, I've got--"
"Whoah! What's that?" Ms. Elephant asked.
"It's a picture of my mother," Little Monkey said.
"Well, it's really quite good," Ms. Elephant said. "It's got passion, depth, color... the only thing is..."
"Yes?" said Little Monkey.
"The only thing is that everyone knows beautiful people have long noses."
"Okay," Little Monkey said. He got out his crayons and drew a long nose.
Finally, Little Monkey reached his house. Inside, Mother Monkey was fixing Little Monkey's snack. "Hello, Little Monkey!" she said.
"I made a picture for you," Little Monkey said. He showed his mother the picture.
"Why, that's... lovely, Little Monkey," Mother Monkey said. "But what it is it?"
"It's you, Mom!" Little Monkey said.
"Thank you," Mother Monkey said. She took the picture and hung it on the refrigerator. Then, she gathered Little Monkey into her arms and gave him a BIG monkey hug.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Little Monkey Face
Posted by Saints and Spinners at 12:16 AM
Labels: sketch-a-story, storytelling
6 comments:
- Yorkshire Pudding said...
Well what kind of a mother was this Mrs Monkey? Shouldn't she have delved into the psychological background of her son's apparently weird piece of art? She didn't seem too interested. Even so I liked this little story...
- June 10, 2007 12:38 PM
- Vivian Mahoney said...
Aww. How sweet!
- June 10, 2007 8:13 PM
- Lone Star Ma said...
That' a sweet story. My kids are little monkey-faces.
- June 11, 2007 6:59 AM
- limpy99 said...
At least it has a more definite ending than The Soparanos did last night.
- June 11, 2007 8:27 AM
- Saints and Spinners said...
YP: I always thought Mother Monkey must have said to herself, "Well, Little Monkey DOES have a big imagination."
Limpy99: So I heard! But maybe the ending was a matter of "Obla di, obla da (life goes on, bra)."
HWM and LSM: It'd be an interesting meme to find out what the children of different families came up with!
- June 11, 2007 9:24 AM
- muffin said...
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- May 24, 2009 2:02 PM
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Thinkpad T410
Fresh Arch install (Nov 2012) with Gnome 3.6
Samsung 830 SSD
Previous HD in Ultrabay drive
When I'm copying a large amount of files onto the SSD it sometimes suddenly crashes. Gnome just disappears, some white text streams up a black screen briefly then the laptop turns off.
I first noticed it when I installed Dropbox and it was downloading all my files for the first time.
I've since had it several times when trying to copy my folders of family photos and videos from the ultrabay drive onto the SSD.
I've tried searching for 'gnome 3.6 ssd random crashes' and variations on that.
I've tried looking in /var/log/ for files that look like they might contain useful information but can't find anything.
Any other clues would be gratefully received.
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1) Try switching IO scheduler to noop and repeat. Problem still there?
2) Try another DE as the problem could be a gnome bug. xfce4 or lxde are pretty stable and would represent good test cases. Problem still there?
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Thanks for the suggestions.
IO scheduler changed to noop - same problem happens
Installed LXDE and copied the folder again - same problem happens
Both times my machine just reboots after copying about 1.5 GB
Does the machine have another drive? Perhaps the problem is with the SSD. Do you have access to an external disk to test?
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Thank you for your suggestions, I'm beginning to think it may be a faulty drive. I tried installing Ubuntu on a separate partition on the SSD and it did the same reboot thing shortly after starting the install process.
My next consideration is whether it's worth installing Windows on the drive in case its something to do with how Linux handles the cache part of the drive. When copying the files it shows it as a gig through the copy but when it has rebooted only about 600kb have actually copied.
What mount options and filesystem are you using?
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Here's what someone posted on one of my threads, concerning SSDs. You might want to try it, didn't solve my problem but might solve yours (mine looks to be a bit tricky)
On my desktop hardware setup (see below), when I installed an SSD I had to add "libata.force=noncq" to the kernel command line options. The drive was behaving erratically (lots of I/O errors) before I did that. Can't remember where I read that tip, but jus' passing it on in case you suffer similarly.
Thank you once again for all help offered.
cfr - mount options and file systems - ext4 mounted as relatime with discard as recommended in the Arch Wiki.
Max-P - thanks for the suggestion but I didn't try it because I found a much simpler solution (see below).
graysky - I did test the machine with another drive and it worked fine.
I tried installing Ubuntu on a separate partition and it got to about a gig in and rebooted.
I tried doing a fresh install of Arch and it got about a gig in and rebooted as well.
From that I concluded it was faulty so didn't bother trying to find a software based solution.
I contacted Amazon to say the drive was faulty and they immediately offered me my money back so I took up the offer.


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After a career filled with reckless stylistic shifts and random left turns, Ryan Adams made his strangest move yet in 2009 when he abruptly announced that he was going on hiatus and settling down with former teen-pop star Mandy Moore. Fortunately, Adams couldn't stay domesticated for long: Earlier this year, he released the science-fiction prog-metal concept record Orion, and now he's unearthed III/IV, a double album recorded in 2007 with stalwart backing band The Cardinals, and revolving around "the '80s, ninjas, cigarettes, sex, and pizza." The first item on that list is the most discernable on III/IV, with Adams indulging his jones for the driving arena-rock ear-candy that distinguished his underrated 2003 solo record, Rock N Roll,and 2008's Cardinology.
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There are good reasons to suspect that a 60kWh Leaf is due out in 2019. So for current owners of a Leaf please, what things do YOU need to see to make you buy a new Leaf?
My needs:
1) A secure way of knowing remaining battery capacity including history that is easy to access.
Secure, meaning can't be reset by a used car dealer or anyone else. A history makes events like a new battery install transparent to the potential buyer of a car. Must be accessible from the center console without special tools or software at minimum.
If I want to buy or sell an electric car, I need to know what the best estimate of the battery capacity is. Sure, I know that all measurements are not exact, so having either a stated accuracy (56 kWh plus or minus 2 kWh) or a minimum estimate (54 kWh, maybe more, but not less) is acceptable.
If I'm buying a car, I need to know what I'm buying. If I'm selling a car, I'll get a better price if the buyer can trust what I'm selling. A large fraction of the value of a EV is the battery pack condition. (23% of a new Bolt?)
2) Hilltop charge mode. Charge to 80% Or 85% Or even 90%. Or even better, give me multiple steps.
I want regeneration when I leave home. i live at the top of a hill.
On the rare days that I push range I'd like to charge to full. Make it easy to over-ride.
3) More leg room.
The center console intrudes into where my right leg would like to be. Please make it narrower.
4) A real battery temperature readout in degrees C and F. Sure, the TMS should be taking most of the temperature worries away. I'd like to know the actual battery temperature when driving up and down steep mountain roads, on long trips with multiple DCQC sessions, etc.
Ideally this should be a driver display, but I'd accept a center console screen with this and other "engineering details".
My wants:
1) 19.2kW L2 charging. Or close to it. Most useful out in the wilds beyond DCQC. If I stop in a campground and get a 50 Amp plug, I'd like to use the 40 Amps that I can draw steady state from this plug. When I stop at an 80 Amp J1772, I'd like to draw 80 Amps.
2) Socialize the car. Provide a way to record trips similar to LEAFspy. And a way to display somewhat like http://www.leaflogger.com/
Perhaps just a bluetooth to cellphone link with an open API for third parties to write cellphone apps. Or perhaps using the car's cellphone link. Or even something else. Technology matters less than ease of use.
I like the ability to show someone my trips, where, when, battery charge level, outside temperature, battery temperature, ... Think of it as a social link to the car, making the car worth more to the owner, and more attractive to non-owners. Allow me to automatically fuzz out exactly where my home is, and other points where the trips start and/or end, for security and safety.


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Two blooming hearts,that's right. Both are lovely enough to make my heart spitter spatter. Little things can exite me...lol.
First I started "Where my Heart Blooms" by Blackbird Designs and loving it. It's such a lovely design and a pleasure to stitch.
After ordering and waiting for ages for the recommended fabric to arrive I decided I don't like it. So I went into my stash, grabbed some Belfast Light Mocha, made some week coffee and dyed it myself. . Although I'm quite pleased with the result, I hope the white will show off enough. If not, I can backstitch it can't I? At least I'm happy with it...lol
And the next heart IS a blooming heart. Isn't it lovely? I got that heart from Sarah who stitched it for me for the Prairie Schooler Seasonal exchange. I LOVE IT. It's gorgeous, from front and behind. Receiving this gorgeous heart surely made my day bright. Sarah took the design from PS "Garden Blooms" and the tulip looks just fantastic on the heart. Love that little bee too.
And at last one more thing that made my day. A new flower frog for my scissors. It's not a new one of course, it's an old one, and I was after one just like that for a while. Found it at the other end of the world..in Canada. Featured with some of my newer scissors....


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The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has announced that Robert A. Caro, the award-winning biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Baines Johnson, will give the 2009 Leon Levy Biography Lecture. Mr. Caro's lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Tuesday, September 29, beginning 7:00 p.m. at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street.
Established by a generous gift from the Leon Levy Foundation, the Leon Levy Center for Biography selects a biographer of note each year to give the annual lecture. The lecturer speaks on the process of researching and writing a biography, with a focus on their current work in progress. Robert A. Caro is the author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and The Years of Lyndon Johnson, comprised of three published volumes: The Path to Power, Means of Ascent, and Master of the Senate. Mr. Caro is at work on his fourth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, an examination of Johnson's time in the White House.
Together, Caro's biographies of Moses and Johnson have garnered a number of honors, among them two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography, two National Book Critics Circle Awards for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best "exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist."
According to The Boston Globe, "Caro has a unique place among American political biographers. He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured." In 2007, he was the Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin. Caro was a Carnegie Fellow at Columbia University and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
The Leon Levy Center for Biography announced the 2009-2010 Biography Fellows earlier this year. They are Wendy Lesser, Mary Lisa Gavenas, John Matteson, and Vanda Krefft.
The Leon Levy Center for Biography
The Leon Levy Center for Biography was established in 2008 at the CUNY Graduate Center by a gift from the Leon Levy Foundation. Envisioned as a hub for writers, scholars, students and readers of the genre, the Leon Levy Center for Biography commenced programming in the academic year beginning September 2008. The center seeks to build connections between university-affiliated and independent biographers working in print, film, visual arts, and new media across academic disciplines. The center is directed by acclaimed biographer David Nasaw, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Chair in American History at the Graduate Center.
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The Graduate Center is the primary doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY). The school offers more than 30 doctoral programs, as well as a number of master's programs. The Graduate Center is also home to more than 30 interdisciplinary research centers and institutes and offers an extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. Further information on the Graduate Center and its programs can be found at www.gc.cuny.edu.
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UPDATE: Link to my published SugarCRM-CE-V6 appliance [here] in SUSE Gallery.
1) Downloaded SugarCE-6.0.0.zip (latest version at this time) and opened the online V6 documentation with reference to its Installing and Upgrading Sugar chapter.
2) Logged into SUSE Studio and created a base 32bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 appliance.
This is the easiest part.
3) Looking over the Sugar docs briefly, it requires Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL5. Once these components are available and running, we just need to unzip the SugarCE-6.0.0.zip file into the document root of the webserver (apache2). Thereafter, we use a web browser to access the installation wizard to proceed. Sounds easy enough, so off I went to install the lamp_server pattern under the Software section. Remember to click the +add all button to also install MySQL, after adding the lamp_server pattern.
4) Next, in the Configuration section and General sub-section, I set my default time zone to Singapore (where I'm based). I chose this option instead of the "Ask on first boot". Since I will be using the Testdrive feature later to iteratively get this appliance setup correctly, I do not want to waste cycles answering which region/country I'm in while waiting for my appliance to boot online. I will change this to the more intuitive "Ask on first boot" once my appliance is ready for prime time. This same idea applies to the Network setting of "Discover network settings automatically (DHCP)" for now.
I also chose to set my root password to sugar and also created a normal user called suger with password sugar. Finally, opened up the SSH port and HTTP ports in the firewall so that I can test my appliance when it runs online via the Testdrive feature.
5) On a more frivolous side, I uploaded a SugarCRM logo in the Personalize section. Also elected to go with the default blue background (SLES 10 theme) as opposed to the green background (SLES 11 theme). Blue just goes better with the SugarCRM logo... since this is an appliance, not many people outside of SUSE will even be bothered what color and its corresponding SLES version. So just an artistic decision, if I have more time and/or talent, I could always create my own background and upload it... never mind...
For the remainder subsections under Configuration, I've elected to use the default settings for now. I can always come back to alter it as necessary.
6) In the Files section, this is where I upload my previously downloaded SugarCE-6.0.0.zip file. SUSE Studio will automatically unzip this file (or any other supported filetypes like tar, tar.gz etc). We need to tell it the location we would like it to be unzipped. With reference to Sugar docs, I set the target location to be Apache2's default web document root directory at /srv/www/htdocs. I've also changed the Owner/Group settings to wwwrun:www as these are the default webserver user:group in SLES.
I realized that I need to rename the unzipped directory SugarCE-Full-6.0.0 under /srv/www/htdocs. The reason is simple, its going to be difficult to remember/memorize this URL when accessing Sugar's installation wizard via the web browser: http://[IP addr]/SugarCE-Full-6.0.0/install.php. Makes more sense if its can be shortened in a simpler form like: http://[IP addr]/sugar/install.php.
To achieve this, I will need to rename this whenever the appliance is built. Noticed that SUSE Studio does not have an option (at this time?) that allows me to easily change the final directory name but instead will use the directory name as setup in the zip file. Not a problem as I can use custom Scripts sub-section under Configuration, I checked the Run script at the end of the build checkbox and entered the following line at the end:
mv /srv/www/htdocs/SugarCE-Full-6.0.0 /srv/www/htdocs/sugar
7) Finally, I'm ready to build and test the first iteration of my Sugar appliance. In the Build section, I accepted the default format USB / hard disk image and click Build. To use the Testdrive feature, we need to have a hard disk image. Once we are satisfied with our setup, we can build other formats like Xen, VMWare and ISOs. I also accepted the default version at 0.0.1.
8) Once the build is completed, I trigger the Testdrive feature to poke around and try out my first iteration. After clicking on the Testdrive icon, a new browser tab will appear (I'm using Firefox) and the Testdrive is underway.
Notice the 3 tabs: Test Drive, Modified Files and Networking. The Test Drive tab shows the VNC view of the running appliance and the time left before its shutdown (1 hour limit).
The Modified Files tab is very interesting and useful tool as it monitors files that has been modified as we are testing the appliance. Since the Testdrive session does not save your work or changes, the Modified Files section becomes useful as it will help take important files that you've modified and add them back via the Files section. Note this is a manual step that you have to initiate.
Finally, the Networking tab, defaults to off, enables you to turn on networking so that you can test your web applications from your browser. I always turn this ON as my appliance is running online somewhere (Germany?) and I would like to test my web applications via my web browser on my machine.
For GUI lovers, you'll noticed that my appliance boots up to runlevel 3 or terminal view. From an appliance perspective, this is an advantage. I save on the physical footprint of my software appliance (its 790Mb & can be zipped up to 250Mb for download/transport), the running appliance will take up less RAM and since its an appliance that provides a web interface, I do not need a local GUI when deployed.
9) Upon logging onto my running appliance,
Tried to point my browser to the online appliance and realized that my apache2 web server is not running. No worries, its just not started by default... same goes for mysql. Fired them up via rcapache2 start and rcmysql start at the terminal.
My appliance ought to automatically start the all important web server and database server on boot. I went back to SUSE Studio and in the Configuration section, Scripts sub-section, I checked the Run script whenever the appliance boots checkbox and entered the following 2 lines in BOLD inside the firstboot clause:
if [ -f /etc/init.d/suse_studio_firstboot ]
# Put commands to be run on the first boot of your appliance here
echo "Running SUSE Studio first boot script..."
insserv apache2
insserv mysql
This will ensure that in my next iteration or build (0.0.2), both my apache2 and mysql servers will be started up on boot.
10) Pointing my browser to the running appliance online and appending the /sugar/install.php, I find myself looking at a running SugarCRM installation wizard.
Noted that the PHP configuration file location, as informed by the wizard, is at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini . Off I go and had a quick look at the file (via vi) and found, on line 455, the default value for variables_order is GPCS. Changed that value to EGPCS as needed by Sugar. Saved the file and restarted apache2 via rcapache2 restart. On the web browser with the Sugar Installation Wizard, I clicked the Re-check button and I'm down from three to two requisites not fulfilled. Hurray.
Since this testdrive session is stateless, the variables_order setting in PHP5 will revert back to GPCS instead of the desired EGPCS. Now is the time to use the Modified Files feature under Testdrive.
In the Modified Files tab of the SUSE Studio Testdrive, I entered the path (second text field) /etc/php5/apache2 to filter out all other files that has changed on the system since boot. Clicked Refresh Changes button and found the php.ini file that I've just modified has been detected. To further verify that the changed file contains the EGPCS value, I clicked on the Diff action associated with the file. Yes, its there.
I checked the checkbox for the php.ini file and clicked on Add selected files to appliance button. Once this action is complete, I verify that the php.ini file has really been added by going back to the SUSE Studio page under Files section. If you do not see the php.ini file, trying reloading the webpage via the browser. Yes, its now there next to the SugarCE-6.0.0.zip file. Good.
11) To resolve the remaining 2 requisites, I will need to install 2 more PHP5 modules (MySQL connectivity & MB String). But first, I do the right thing and power down my online appliance (not taking up testdrive space for other users). My preference is to issue poweroff command at the terminal as root. Once the appliance shutsdown, I close the associated browser window or tab.
Now, back to the SUSE Studio page and under Software section, I put "php5 mysql" the search field and found the first module called php5-mysql package. Clicked +add button next to it. Done. Next, I search for "php5 mb" and found php5-mbstring module and added it.
Now, back to the Build section, I entered 0.0.2 in the Version field to represent my 2nd iteration and clicked the Build button. This will take around 3-5 minutes... time for coffee break...
Again, to do the right thing, I usually delete the disk image created in my 1st iteration. This will free up some hard disk space on the SUSE Studio site for other users. However, I only do so after I've successfully built my 2nd iteration and have it running under Testdrive.
12) Once my 0.0.2 disk image has been built, I put it into Testdrive mode and have it boot online for my second round of testing. I verified that both the apache2 and mysql servers are started automatically on boot now. Next, I inspected the /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file and verified the right value of EGPCS is set for the variables_order setting.
On a new tab in my web browser, I surfed to my online appliance http://[some-suse-studio-node]:16080/sugar/install.php and tried to install my SugarCE V6 again. SUCCESS! I passed the Systems Pre-req tests and see the Choose Install Type option. Chose Typical and clicked Next. It automatically detected MySQL as the database and I clicked Next.
Under Database Configuration, I change the Host Name to 127.0.0.1 (accepting the default does not work as this appliance does not have its hostname set and its running under Testdrive). Since I did minimal for MySQL setup, I entered root for the Database Admin Username and left the Password field blank. I chose to Populate Database with Demo Data and clicked Next.
Under Site Configuration, I set the Sugar Admin user (admin) with password sugar and clicked Next. Now comes the next interesting part...
In Confirm Settings, I noticed that the Sugar Wizard is hinting (in RED) that I should install ZLIB Compression, IMAP and cURL modules. It also wanted the minimum upload file size to be set for at least 6MB. Again, I noted that I need to modify my php.ini file under /etc/php5/apache2/ directory. Also noted that to enable Sugar Schedulers, I will need to modify my /etc/crontab file.
Using the technique described in steps 10-11, I modified the /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file to increase the value of upload_max_filesize setting from 2M to 12M (this can be any value higher than 6M). Ensured this change is added back into the Files section. Did the same for the /etc/crontab file that I added the line
* * * * * cd /srv/www/htdocs/sugar; php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1
For the additional PHP5 modules, from Software section, I found and added the recommended 3 packages of php5-zlib, php5-imap and php5-curl.
13) Powered-off my 2nd iteration, deleted the 1st iteration image. Built my 3rd iteration versioned 0.0.3. Started my 3rd iteration under Testdrive and stepped through the Sugar Installation Wizard. Now it looks good.
Clicked on Install button and watch it go.... and complete and clicked Finish.
Logged into the newly installed SugarCE system with admin:sugar, answered a few more pages of info and viola!
There you have it, my half-day iterative approach in creating a SugarCE appliance. I hope this journal will be useful in a few ways:
a) It will help newer users be familiar with and leverage the features and tools within SUSE Studio
b) It will help the SUSE Studio engineers capture the usage pattern of ordinary folks (like me) and drive improvements to an already great project/service
c) It will get good feedback and suggestions in the comments section... I'm sure my method is not perfect or optimal so if anyone out there has a better methodology to speed up appliance creation, I would greatly appreciate your inputs in the comments section of this blog entry.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. I can think of two areas of enhancements at this stage. Securing the appliance by securing MySQL/Apache2 with AppArmor. Making the end user experience smoother by having a simple GUI screen appear after the appliance boots with instructions on how to use web browser to assess the /sugar/install.php page to proceed with SugarCE installation.
Finally, as you can see, the value of SUSE Studio is its ability to rapidly create software appliances by your software engineers, application deployers and techie folks with the proper know-how. The end result is a better end-user experience (not shown here in this blog entry) where they download the pre-installed, pre-configured software appliance as a VMWare or Xen image and have it running in under 10 minutes.
Thank you for reading this long post. Cheers!


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Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This was the last Fables volume available at my local library, and I wish it had been better.
This volume is a crossover of all three of the Fables comics: Fables (original flavor), Jack of Fables, and The Literals. If you haven't read any of the Jack of Fables comics, and I didn't, it'll be a little jarring to be introduced to so many new characters all at once.
At the Farm, the Fables are trying to regroup and figure out what to do. Mister Dark's presence in NYC is affecting them, causing people give in to the darker parts of their natures. For Bigby and Beast, this means a knock-down, drag-out brawl. For Rose Red, this means sinking into a deep depression.
When Jack Horner calls, claiming to know how to prevent the end of the Fables, Bigby and Snow take off to see how valid his claims are.
The volume was rather disjointed for me. There's a lot of meta references, which get to be just a little too twee after a while.
At least the artwork's back to being good again.
Hopefully, my local library will get Volume 14 in soon. And, hopefully, Volume 14 brings Fables back to its usual levels of ossomness.


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In this season so closely, though erroneously, linked to the birth of Jesus, it would do us well to pause and reflect on a few facts that obscure the claims that he was the Messiah long awaited by the Jewish faith. There is no fact more troubling to me than the designation of Jesus as having been from a town in Galilee called Nazareth.
The author of the gospel account known as Luke tells us that Gabriel was sent from God to a city named Nazareth where he informed Mary that she would give birth to a son. Luke also tells us that Joseph went to Bethlehem from a city named Nazareth. Finally, the author of Luke tells us that the holy family returned to Nazareth where Jesus then grew up.
However when we look for historical confirmation of this hometown of a god, no other source confirms that the place even existed in the 1st century AD. Nazareth is not mentioned even once in the entire Old Testament. The Book of Joshua in what it claims is the process of settlement by the tribe of Zebulon in the area records twelve towns and six villages and yet omits any 'Nazareth' from its list.
The Talmud, although it names 63 Galilean towns, knows nothing of Nazareth, nor does early rabbinic literature. St Paul knows nothing of 'Nazareth'. Rabbi Solly's epistles mention Jesus 221 times, Nazareth not at all. No ancient historian or geographer mention Nazareth. Even Josephus, the first century Jewish historian who mentioned even the most obscure settlements in his writings has not one word about Nazareth. It is first noted at the beginning of the 4th century.
Christian apologists fall all over themselves to explain 'But of course, no one had heard of Nazareth, we're talking of a REALLY small place.' By semantic downsizing, city becomes TOWN, town becomes VILLAGE, and village becomes 'OBSCURE HAMLET'. Yet if we are speaking of such an obscure hamlet, the 'Jesus of Nazareth' story begins to fall apart.
For example, the whole 'rejection in his homeland' story requires at a minimum a synagogue in which the godman can 'blaspheme.' There wouldn't have been a synagogue in a village, much less a tiny bucolic hamlet.
If Jesus had grown up and spent thirty years of his life in a village with as few as 25 families, an inbred clan of less than 300 people, the 'multitude' that were supposedly shocked by his blasphemy and which had nearly thrown him from a cliff, would not have been hostile strangers but, to a man, would have been relations and friends that he had grown up with, including his own brothers. Presumably, they would have heard his pious utterances for years.
Indeed, had no one mentioned what had happened in Bethlehem; star, wise men, shepherds, infant-massacre and all? Why would they have been outraged by anything the godman said or did? Had they forgotten a god was growing up in their midst? And what had happened to that gift of gold? Had it not made the 'holy family' rich?
The expression 'Jesus of Nazareth' is actually a bad translation of the original Greek 'Jesous o Nazoraios'. More accurately, we should speak of 'Jesus the Nazarene', where Nazarene has a meaning quite unrelated to a place name. But just what is that meaning and how did it get applied to a small village? The highly ambiguous Hebrew root of the name is NZR.
The 2nd century gnostic Gospel of Philip offers this explanation: 'The apostles that came before us called him Jesus Nazarene the Christ…"Nazara" is the "Truth". Therefore 'Nazarene' is "The One of the Truth"…'
What we do know is that 'Nazarene' was originally the name of an early Jewish-Christian sect, a faction, or off-shoot, of the Essenes. They had no particular relation to a city of Nazareth. The root of their name may have been 'Truth' or it may have been the Hebrew noun 'netser' ('netzor'), meaning 'branch' or 'flower.' The plural of 'Netzor' becomes 'Netzoreem.' There is no mention of the Nazarenes in any of Paul's writings.
It was the later Gospel of Matthew which started the deceit that the title 'Jesus the Nazorene' should in some manner relate to Nazareth, by quoting 'prophecy': 'And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.'
With this, Matthew closes his fable of Jesus's early years. Yet Matthew is mis-quoting . He would surely know that nowhere in Jewish prophetic literature is there any reference to a Nazarene. What is 'foretold' (or at least mentioned several times) in Old Testament scripture is the appearance of a Nazarite. For example: 'For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.' (Judges 13.5)
Matthew slyly substitutes one word for another. By replacing Nazarite ('he who vows to grow long hair and serve god') with a term which appears to imply 'resident of' he is able to fabricate a hometown link for his fictitious hero.
It seems that, along with the Nozerim, a related Jewish/Christian faction, the Evyonim , 'the Poor' (later to be called Ebionites), emerged about the same time. According to Epiphanius (Bishop of Salamis , Cyprus, c. 370 A.D.), they arose from within the Nazarenes. They differed doctrinally from the original group in rejecting Paul and were 'Jews who pay honour to Christ as a just man…' They, too, It seems had their own prototype version of Matthew, 'The Gospel to the Hebrews' . A name they chose for themselves was 'Keepers of the Covenant'. In Hebrew, 'Nozrei haBrit', whence Nosrim or Nazarene!
In other words, when it came to the crunch, the original Nazarenes split into two: those who tried to re-position themselves within the general tenets of Judaism (Evyonim-Nosrim); and those who rejected Judaism ('Christian'-Nosrim)
Now, we know that a group of 'priestly' families resettled an area in the Nazareth valley after their defeat in the Bar Kochbar War of 135 AD. It seems highly probable that they were Evyonim-Nosrim and named their village 'Nazareth' or the village of 'The Poor' either because of self-pity or because doctrinally they made a virtue out of their poverty.
The writer of Matthew may have heard of 'priestly' families moving to a place in Galilee which they had called 'Nazareth' , and decided to use the name of the new town for the hometown of his hero.
The original gospel writers refrained from inventing a childhood, youth or early manhood for JC because it was not necessary to their central drama of a dying/reborn sun-god. But as we know, the story grew with the telling, particularly as the decades passed and the promised redeemer and judge failed to reappear. The re-writer of the Gospel of Mark, revising his text sometime between 140 and 150, cites the name of the city just once, at the opening, with these words: "And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee…" (Mk I, 9)
From then on the name is completely forgotten. We may reasonably suspect that this sole reference is an interpolation.
We can trace the subsequent elevation of Nazareth in the Gospel of Luke. Luke is the writer who emphasizes Jesus's ties to 'Nazareth.' Luke is the writer who goes out of his way to demonstrate an anti-Capernaum stance. Scholars have concluded Luke was not a Jew himself because of his 'glaring errors in things Jewish'. He also makes mistakes in his geography. He knows little about the place and in his mini-drama describes an impossible incident: 'and brought him to the precipice of the mountain that their city was built upon.' (Luke 4).
Nazareth, in fact, is located in a depression, set within gentle hills. The whole region is characterized by plains and mild rises with no sharp peaks or steep cliffs. The terrain is correctly understood as a high basin, for in one direction is the much lower Plain of Esdraelon. There is no disguising that Nazareth is built in a valley and not on a mountain.
In the 3rd century, Church Father Origen knew the gospel story of the city of Nazareth, yet had no clear idea where it was , even though he lived at Caesarea, barely thirty miles from the present town. Even in Origen's day, as the Church became more institutionalised, intense rivalry was developing between the patriarchs of Caesarea and Jerusalem. This rivalry was only resolved (in Jerusalem's favour) at Chalcedon in 451. Part of the rivalry centred on control of 'Holy places'. Hence, 'finding' the lost city of Nazareth was a matter of major importance,
Perambulating to the rescue, in the early 4th century, came the 80-year-old dowager Empress Helena. Preparing the way for an imminent meeting with her maker with a program of 'Works', she made a conscience-salving pilgrimage to Palestine. In the area of Nazareth she could find nothing but an ancient well, in fact the only water source in the area (which in itself demolishes the idea there was ever a 'city' ). No doubt encouraged by canny locals, Helena promptly labelled the hole in the ground 'Mary's Well' and had a small basilica built over the spot. Conveniently, the gospels had failed to make clear exactly where Mary had been when the archangel Gabriel had come calling. Thus the well site acquired local supporters for the divine visitation and Nazareth acquired its first church.
A generation after the dowager empress had gone touring, another geriatric grandee, the Lady Egeria, spent years in the 'Land becoming more Holy by the day'.
Egeria, a Spaniard, like the then Emperor Theodosius and almost certainly part of the imperial entourage, reached the Nazareth area in 383. This time, canny monks showed her a 'big and very splendid cave' and gave the assurance that this was where Mary had lived. The Custodians of the Cave, not to be outbid by the Keepers of the Well, insisted that the cave, not the well, had been the site of the divine visitation. This so-called 'grotto' became another pilgrimage attraction, over which, by 570, rose the basilica of another church. Today, above and about the Venerable Grotto, stands the biggest Christian theme park in the Middle East.
In the late 4th century, by which time the Church had control of theological correctness, Nazareth was being correctly described by Jerome as 'a very small village in Galilee' . He should know: he had fled scandal in Italy to set up an ecclesiastical retreat in the area for well-heeled Romans. The village owed its very existence to the imperial itinerary half a century before.
So, if the Jesus of the gospels is real, we do not really know whether he was a Nazarene or a Nazorite, but we can be fairly certain that he was not from a location called Nazareth.