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Rainy day, slick surface, and a loss.
Welcome to the first race on the slick surface at rainy Great American Race Track.
Scratch that. Welcome to the first race on the slick surface at rainy Great American Ball Park, where the Cubs dropped a wild 5-4 decision in front of a crowd of 36,635.
Wait a minute. Is this a baseball season or a horseracing season? It might be a little bit of both in Cubs manager Lou Piniella's book as the end of July turns into August.
"Truthfully, the baseball season in earnest starts around now," Piniella said. "The first four months are jockeying for position. Now the real race begins. And August is a cruel month in a lot of ways. The teams that play well in August are the ones who survive this thing and have a real good chance at the end. This is an important stretch for us starting in Cincinnati.
"This month has a way of separating the teams. They don't call it the dog days of August for nothing."
It's not yet August but this horse race or baseball game or whatever you want to call it turned into a near photo finish when the Cubs (53-48), tied the game up in the bottom of the ninth with a thrilling two-run rally, highlighted by RBI singles from Mark DeRosa and Jason Kendall. But Jacque Jones, who reached on a fielder's choice, was thrown out at the plate for the second out in the inning to help stifle the rally.
Edwin Encarnacion singled home Norris Hopper for the game winner off Bob Howry (5-6) and the Reds celebrated. And the Cubs dropped two in a row and fell back to three games behind Milwaukee in the National League Central.
The North Siders' offense has 17 runs in six and seven of those runs came in one game.
DeRosa, who missed a pair of games with tendinitis in his left hamstring, was back in the starting lineup and hit a second-inning double but after that, Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo didn't allow another hit until DeRosa hit a harmless single in the seventh inning.
The Cubs scored when Derrek Lee hit a sacrifice fly in the first inning to bring home Ryan Theriot and in the eighth when Theriot doubled home Matt Murton before putting the two on the board in the ninth.
Meanwhile left-handed starter Rich Hill had a schizophrenic night, dancing in and out of trouble. The bottom line is that he held the Reds (45-59) to two runs and racked up eight strikeouts in five innings, but he couldn't go longer because he threw 104 pitches. He gave up six hits and three walks plus he hit a batter. Hill is 2-5 with six no-decisions since May 5.
Hill did his job keeping the Cubs in the game but Piniella brought in Rocky Cherry, who was just called up from Triple-A Iowa in the sixth. Cherry, who had a 2.38 ERA in nine prior appearances, walked David Ross and hit Ryan Freel with a pitch before Jeff Keppinger brought both of them home with a double to left that was misplayed by Alfonso Soriano.
The Cubs are hoping to snap their skid tonight and get the offense back in gear. But it won't be an easy task.
The Reds are sending out Aaron Harang to the hill and he's enjoying a 10-2 season with a 3.45 ERA. He is 6-1 in 11 lifetime appearances against the North Siders with a 4.23 ERA.
Cincinnati has been on a roll since former Brother Rice baseball star Pete Mackanin took over for the fired Jerry Narron on July 2. The Reds were 31-51 before they gave Narron the boot and are 14-8 under Mackanin. The team won four of its first six series under Mackanin's guidance.
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Writers in a Cold Wind
The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System
Early in 1979 the Chinese officials in charge of culture declared that the Maoist ban on nineteen traditional classics and sixteen foreign works, including Anna Karenina, was lifted. On the day the books became available at a Beijing bookshop, a line of peo-ple two miles long formed and within a week all 800,000 copies were sold. Fights broke out among the customers jostling to buy the books.
The members of the Chinese reading public are hardly known in the West. In The Uses of Literature they are perceptively described by Perry Link, professor of East Asian studies at Princeton, and the author of some of the most revealing work on life in China, including his book on Chinese intellectuals, Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament.1 The Uses of Literature provides much unexpected information: the former mayor of Shanghai, we learn, has by now published two volumes of his decidedly mediocre collected poems; Mao provided a sample of his calligraphy for the masthead of the People's Daily; the Chinese military command issued a list of thirty recommended novels to its soldiers; modernist poets can attract five hundred people to an outdoor reading that is held in the rain. At the same time, some of China's best writers have been executed, or have committed suicide, or have been imprisoned for years because they violated the system of literary censorship, or "engineering," that Mao imposed in 1942 and that still continues.
In Evening Chats in Beijing Professor Link, who has a remarkable command of written and spoken Chinese, reached some sad conclusions about the intellectuals he met while living in Beijing in the 1980s, when he was in charge of the China liaison office of the National Academy of Science. He found that university professors and writers died ten years earlier than the national average, that they were much more susceptible to illness than most people, that they were more poorly paid than urban office workers, and worked longer hours. They felt that their traditional duty was to youguo youmin, "worry about the country and the people." Link observed that there was
a tension at the heart of the Chinese intellectual's cultural identity that has from time to time over the centuries been the source of much personal ambivalence, pain, and sacrifice: it lies in the intellectual's paradoxical relation to the state…. Long considered pillars of the state,…it is their duty as well to criticize and even oppose China's rulers when these rulers compromise their moral authority.
This exalted but perilous status explains why, beginning in 1942 and continuing up to the recent purges of members of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, virtually every campaign to impose the Party's power on its subjects has begun with attacks on writers and other intellectuals.2
In his new, densely packed, and fascinating book, Professor Link has moved from describing the plight of Chinese intellectuals to an account of what books and publications the Chinese read and why, under a…
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Apparently, Brian Van Holt has the "ex" act down!
The Cougar Town star, who plays Jules' first husband on the wine-soaked TBS sitcom, will portray the ex-husband of Finlay (Elisabeth Shue) on CSI, CBS announced Monday.
Family Ties dad to guest-star on CSI
Van Holt will appear in the eighth episode of the procedural. "Finn" revealed she had been married — and divorced — twice when she took a polygraph test last season.
Van Holt's Bobby Cobb and the rest of the Cul-De-Sac Crew will return for Season 4 of Cougar Town early next year. CSI airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on CBS.


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October 30th, 2012
Jochem Herrmann, Chief Scientist and co-founder of the Dutch camera manufacturer Adimec, joins the board of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA).
Herrmann is responsible for the future technologies on Adimec's roadmap. In the past he already played a leading role in the joint R&D project which resulted in the new interface standard CoaXPress and earlier with the introduction of CameraLink into the industry. Herrmann sees standards within the industry as key enabler for further growth of the machine vision market.
According to EMVA statutes, Jochem Herrmann has been invited as the sixth member of the EMVA Executive Committee by the current board members. The EMVA general assembly will be asked to approve this decision in their next meeting.


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The Anatomy of Forms Authentication
Asp.Net's Forms Authentication has been enthusiastically accepted and widely used since it was first introduced in .Net 1.0. Forms Authentication is very easy to use and provides a great deal of flexibility. In this aricle, I will attempt explain in "gory" technical details how this technology works. In addition, I will provide a compatible implementation of the Forms Authentication classes written in Java and a completely managed implementation written in C# (Asp.Net's implementation relies heavily on interop via pinvoke). The C# code is available via the link on the page. If you would like the Java code please email me email@example.com.
Note: This article only examines the "cookie based" implementation of Forms Authentication. Asp.Net does provide an alternative implementation that allows for the ticket to be transported as a query string value. Both implementations are nearly identical and therefor the information contained herein is applicable.
Much of the information contained is either undocumented by MS or hidden really well. I searched for days on end and could not find a single website that has documented this information. Maybe it's out there but I couldn't find it!
Key Classes:
At the heart of Forms Authentication are two main classes. They are FormsAuthentication and FormsAuthenticationTicket (both are defined in System.Web.Security). The former is responsible for encrypting, decrypting, and formatting the FormsAuthenticationTicket for transport. The latter holds all ticket information.
Authentication Process:
When an unauthenticated user attempts to access a Forms Authentication protected web site the following process occurs (for this demonstration we will assume each step is completed successfully):
1) The Forms Authentication HttpModule redirects the user to the logon page
2) User enter user name and password
3) A FormsAuthenticationTicket is constructed based on configuration information
4) The FormsAuthentication.Encrypt() method is called and returns a hex string containing the user's ticket.
5) The encrypted ticket string is then placed into a cookie and added to the user's cookie collection.
A closer look at FormsAuthentication.Encrypt():
Now let's get down to the internals of how a FormsAuthenticationTicket is made ready for being stuffed into a cookie.
FormsAuthentication.Encrypt() is a static method of the FormsAuthentication class. This methods primary function is to convert the ticket into a binary blob (byte array), digitally sign it, encrypt it, and format it in such a way that it can easily be place into a cookie.
Let's take this a step at a time…
Create a binary blob from the ticket:
In Microsoft's implementation the conversion of the ticket into a binary blob is "black boxed" in a method named "CookieAuthContructTicket" (located in the native dll "webengine.dll"). One can assume this was done to keep the prying eyes of guys like me out of their business! In any event, after many hours of work, and considerable effort, I was able to figure out exactly what was going on in that dll.
Before I explain precisely what is going on, it is important to review what information the ticket blob contains. The ticket blob is constructed of the formatted property values defined in the FormsAuthencticationTicket class.
FormsAuthenticationTicket Properties:
Property Type_______Data_________________________________
Name String User name
UserData String Any extra user information
CookiePath String The path the cookie is valid for ie. /AppPath
Expriation DateTime The time at which the ticket is invalid
IssueDate DateTime The time at which the ticket was issued
IsPersistent bool Indicates if the ticket is a persistent ticket
Version int The ticket version
Now that we have that info let's take a look at how these properties are formatted and combined into a binary blob.
1) Each string value is converted to a byte array (represented as a Unicode string).
2) Each DateTime value is converted into the equivalent "FileTime" (represented as a long value) and converted to a byte array.
3) IsPersistent and Version are cast to their equivalent byte representation
After these properties are converted to their byte array equivalents, the final ticket blob is constructed as described below.
1) Eight random bytes are generated and become the first 8 bytes of the final blob. This is done to ensure each encrypted ticket will differ even if the data is the same.
2) The "Version" byte is added at the 8th position of the blob.
3) Followed by the "Name" bytes
4) Followed by a 2 byte delimiter (both bytes are 0's)
5) Followed by the "IssueDate" bytes
6) Followed by the "IsPersistent" byte
7) Followed by the "Expires" bytes
8) Followed by the "UserData" bytes
9) Another two byte delimiter is placed directly after the "UserData" bytes
10) Followed by the "CookiePath" bytes
11) Last but not least a final delimiter (another 0) is appended
Below is a detailed diagram of the final ticket blob….
<shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></formulas><path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"><lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t">
Digitally sign the ticket:
Note: This is another place in the process Microsoft chose to use pinvoke and a native dll.
After the ticket blob has been constructed it must be digitally signed to ensure the information is not tampered with. The digital signature is an HMAC (Hashed Message Authentication Code) hash of the ticket blob. Depending on the configuration either MD5 or SHA1 is used for the HMAC. In managed code these classes are implemented as HMACMD5 and HMACSHA1. The digital signature is a 20 byte hash of the data. This hash is appended to the end of ticket blob.
Encrypting the ticket and signature:
At this point in the process we have a binary blob (byte array) containing all of the ticket information as well as the signature of this data. Before transporting this information it must be encrypted. Depending on the configuration the information is either encrypted using AES (implemented as RijndaelManaged in managed code) or 3Des (implemented as TripleDesCryptoServiceProvider in managed code).
Formatting the encrypted ticket and signature:
Given that the encrypted ticket will need to be inserted into a cookie, the final step is to create a string from the data blob. There are a couple of choices on how you can go about doing this. Many people convert byte arrays to Base64 strings and transport them that way. Microsoft went another, equally valid route, and chose to encode the data as a hex string.
Stuffing the ticket into a Cookie:
With our hex string in hand we are set to complete the process. The final step is to simply place the hex string into a cookie and send it off to the user's browser.
What's Next?
At this point the user has been given the "keys to the kingdom". Each time the user attempts to visit a site for which his ticket is configured, he will be given access without any work on his part. From a technical a standpoint what happens is straight forward. When a user visits a site or pages the forms HttpModule intercepts the request, retrieves the cookie, grabs the ticket from the cookie, and does the reverse of what I have outlined here. If the decryption succeeds (which will only happen if the same key is used for decryption) and the signature is valid then the user is given access to the page or site.
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Scarlett Johansson may smolder in the spotlight -- but the starlet says she's a red carpet wreck.
"I have a tumultuous relationship with it because I love to get ready for the red carpet, but being on it is very uncomfortable," she said.
"It's so freakish and weird. I get flop sweats, dry mouth, heart palpitations -- all over panic!"
U.S. & World
In an interview with Glamour magazine, the 25-year-old actress said she loves her job but feels uncomfortable on the red carpet and cowers when she's on stage in front of a live audience.
"I have terrible stage fight that I'd have to get over," she said, describing it as "crippling."
The "Lost in Translation" starlet, who wed actor Ryan Reynolds, told the magazine she never planned on getting married.
"I never really thought about getting married -- it just kind of happened ... You hope that a relationship makes you better, that you learn things about yourself."


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The gang goes to ABC islands. They should first go to A island (the one with the Pokemon Center). They spot Wailmer swimming nearby. Suddenly, they also see a group of children riding some Water Pokemon - Gorebyss and Huntail. Brock tells them that they both evolve from Gorebyss and Huntail. A boy bashes a girl, but they still continue. They spot more boys and girls bashing - they want to come first on the island. Team Rocket see the gang going, but their submarine is stuck between rocks. They work hard to get going, but the submarine gets flooded.
The gang arrives to the Pokemon Center. Joy recieves a call from a woman - her Corsola got cold. She sends Corsoal to Joy via the teleporter. The gang is amazed by that inovation. Suddenly, they hear a boy and a girl arguing - about which Pokemon is stronger: Gorebyss or Huntail. Joy calms them down - she is the teacher as well as a nurse. Nurse Joy tells them that kids from islands B and C became rivals. Also, she mentiones that Clamperl who live around become Gorebyss at island B and Huntail at island C. Because of that, the people always argue who is better. The children ask a man which Pokemon is better. The man is no other but Prof. Birch.
Prof. Birch comes to the gang, greeting them ans says he is here to study Clamperl's evolution. Nurse Joy proposes Birch should give some lecture to the children. A girl asks how Clamperl evolves, so May tells him that on island B Clamperl evolves into Gorebyss and on island C into Huntail. Birch tells them that Clamperl evolves into Huntail a deep sea tooth is needed, while into Gorebyss a deep sea scale is required instead. He shows them a replica of the tooth and the scale. Before they go, a girl comes to lead them to island C.
The girl tells them when they come into a cave (the one they are in), Clamperl evolves to Huntail. Birch tastes the water, realizing it is full of minerals. He takes a sample to study. A boy appears to study his "enemy", although the girl wants him to go away. Birch proposes that he will be the island B guide. The boy shows them a cave and if Clamperl is put to the water, it turns into Gorebyss. Birch tastes the water - it is similar to the water on island C, so he also takes a sample. The girl appears to study her "enemy", but soon departs.
At the Pokemon Center, Birch studies the water. Nancy (the girl) and Keith (the boy) appear to learn what Birch studied. They want their Pokemon to evolve into Gorebyss and Huntail. They send both their Clamperl, so Nancy wants a Gorebyss and Keith a Huntail. Team Rocket spy, so Meowth decides to steal Huntail and Gorebyss for boss, to give it for his "wild side". Birch learned that the water from island B contains particles of deep sea scale, while on island C deep sea tooth. Team Rocket appear and release the net to capture the Pokemon. Ash sends Corphish who cuts the net. Jessie sends Seviper to bite, but the attack is deflected due to Harden. Corphish uses Crabhammer, hurting Seviper. James sends Cacnea and uses Pin Missile, but Clamperls' shells close, negating the attack.
Seviper goes to use Poison Tail, but due to Bubble Beam, the attack is canceled. Clamperl use Water Gun, pushing Cacnea and Seviper. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt, blasting them off. The gang returns to island B, checking the cave. Keith found a deep sea scale and gives it to Nancy. Nancy places the scale onto Clamperl, but nothing happenes. Birch proposes to send Clamperl to Pokemon Center, so she does it. They go to island C - Nancy finds a deep sea tooth. She gives it to Keith, who gets Clamperl out and places the tooth on it. Clamperl does not evlove, so Keith sends his Clamperl to Pokemon Center, per Birch's advice.
At the Pokemon Center, Joy gives them the Pokemon. They send the Clamperls out, along with the deep sea scale and tooth. Nothing happened during their travels, but suddenly, they evolve! Brock tells them it is not a stone that makes them evolve quickly. May proposes to take them to waters, so Nancy and Keith do that. Team Rocket appear once more, but in a Kingler machine. Gorebyss uses Agility and Huntail bites. Ash sends Grovyle and attacks with Bullet Seed, but with no effect. Huntail and Gorebyss use Water Pulse, pushing the machine. Meowth releases a hand, but both Pokemon dodge. The secod hand releases a net, capturing them.
Grovyle cuts the net with Leaf Blade, setting them free. Gorebyss uses Confusion, levitating them and Pikachu uses with Thunder. Huntail uses Screech, blating them off. Joy comes to tell them the ferry started working, so the gang leaves, waving goodbye to Birch and Joy. Nancy and Keith ride their Pokemon, telling the gang that the people from the islands began to get along when they showed their Pokemon. The gang leaves them to go to next island.
- Huntail
- Gorebyss
- Featured Pokemon: Mudkip, Treecko, Torchic
- Huntail and Gorebyss were in the water when Pikachu fired Thunderbolt at Team Rocket's Magikarp submarine and should've also get electrocuted since water conducts electricity.


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administrative message
administrative methods
administrative methods for enforced collection
administrative officer
administrative officer of a district or town
administrative officer of a town
administrative order
administrative organization
administrative penalty
administrative planning
administrative policy
administrative position
administrative practices
administrative prerogatives
administrative procedure
administrative procedures
administrative procrastination
administrative protection
administrative psychiatry
Administrative Radio Conference
administrative rate
administrative record
administrative reform
administrative regulation
administrative remedy
administrative reorganization
administrative revenues
administrative review
administrative rights
administrative ruling
administrative ruling of general application
administrative sector
administrative service
Administrative Services Division
administrative skills
administrative staff
administrative strategy
administrative supervision
administrative support
administrative system
administrative taxation
administrative tribunal
administrative unit
administrative vicar
administrative work
administrative workplace
administrative zone
administrative remedy Noun
Plural: administrative remedies
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"nautilus" Related Articles
How to open files as root via a right click
The following tutorial explains how to add a context menu item that enables a Linux user to open files as the root user when browsing their file system using nautilus. This script feature allows the user to navigate their file system and open or edit any file or directory as the root user of the system. It's a perfect solution for those that are not completely comfortable using terminal commands.


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- Tyre news
Pirelli announces compound choices for early races
Pirelli has announced the tyre compounds that will be used at the first four races and given an indication of the gaps in performance between them.
Medium and soft compound tyres will be used at the season-opener in Australia, the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Chinese Grand Prix while hards and mediums will be used at the Malaysian Grand Prix. Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery said he was pleased with the performance of the tyres during pre-season testing.
"The information gained over all three pre-season tests has helped us to come up with the tyre choices for the start of the season, having run with the new 2014 tyres in all conditions now: ranging from rain in Jerez to ambient temperatures exceeding 25 degrees centigrade in Bahrain," he said. "The conclusion we can draw so far is that the 2014 tyres are more consistent and wear less than their predecessors, without compromising performance. We're also meeting another of our objectives with one more step towards the reduction of 'marbles' on the track.
"The medium and soft compounds are well matched to the expected race conditions in Australia, Bahrain and China, providing what we expect to be the right balance between performance and strategy with two to three pit stops per car. The more abrasive and hotter conditions of Malaysia have led us to nominate the hard and medium compounds there, as we did last year."
According to Pirelli, the supersoft is around 0.7s per lap faster than the soft, the soft is around 1.3-1.5s per lap quicker than the medium, and the medium is around1.3-1.5s per lap quicker than the hard. However, these gaps are expected to come down as the teams improve their understanding of the tyres during the season.


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Miami Herald ends anonymous comments
- Visitors to miamiherald.com must sign in via Facebook accounts
- Newsroom wants engaged readers%2C not cyberbullies
- Downside for some sites is often a drop in volume of comments
It's something that editors at The Miami Herald heard often, far too often.
Readers would say that they'd like to comment on an article they had read on miamiherald.com. But they didn't want to face the abuse and the name-calling they were likely to encounter from anonymous commenters who disagreed with them.
"People would say, 'I don't want to stand up in front of people who throw eggs,' " says Rick Hirsch, the Herald's managing editor, adding, "We had a big group of trolls who would do nasty things."
And so the Herald became the latest news outlet to ban anonymous comments. Starting Feb. 11, visitors to miamiherald.com have to sign in through their Facebook accounts before they can weigh in on the news of the day.
It's a dilemma that has plagued America's newsrooms for quite a while. To use the popular buzzword, news organizations everywhere want to strengthen "engagement" with their readers. Many are making extensive use of social media to deepen the relationship. And they very much want feedback on and conversation about the content they post.
Trouble is, the dialogue on many sites has been poisoned from the get-go by the ugly, mean-spirited verbiage of a small but often prolific band of anonymous posters. It's a lot easier to call names and pick fights when nobody knows who you are.
"The debate quickly devolves into rants," says Steve Doig, the Knight Chair in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. "It spirals down the drain."
At the Herald, the exchanges would too often become "an ugly racial or ethnic thing," Hirsch says, or an overly hostile exchange between Democrats and Republicans.
There is, of course, a tradeoff when you require posters to take off their masks. The volume of comments can drop off, sharply. And this is an era when everyone is furiously competing to attract more eyeballs and more interactivity.
But I'd say it's a price well worth paying. The harsh, sometimes hateful, rhetoric is a huge turnoff for many readers. It demeans a news outlet's brand and puts its credibility at risk.
Newspapers have long required those writing letters to the editor to provide their names and addresses — for good reason. If you are going to take a stand, you should take responsibility for it. And while anonymous sources are used too often in news stories, many outlets have policies forbidding these ghosts from making personal attacks without attaching their names to them.
To allow unmitigated anonymous ugliness doesn't make any sense, regardless of the platform.
Defenders of online anonymity often depict efforts to eliminate it as a threat to freedom of speech. That argument just doesn't hold up. As Doig says, "You have a right to yell in the street or get your own website and publish whatever you want. But nothing requires a newspaper to open its door and allow anyone to say anything they want."
Fallout from anonymity's end?
In June 2010, appalled by the volume and nature of inappropriate comments on The Buffalo News' website, Editor Margaret Sullivan declared an end to anonymity. From now on, commenters would have to follow the same rules as letter-writers and sign their names and addresses. How did that initiative go?
"I think it was worthwhile," Sullivan, now The New York Times' public editor, wrote in an e-mail interview. She says that the volume of comments fell sharply at first, "but rebounded well after we managed to get more and more people verified as named commenters. There is no doubt that the level of discourse improved radically. People were much more likely to think twice about what they were saying once their names were attached." And, in the end, she adds, "We still had plenty of discourse."
But such initiatives don't always end happily. In 2011, the popular tech website TechCrunch — like the Miami Herald, the Buffalo News and so many others — found itself "overrun with trolls," staffers Matt Burns and Elin Blesener wrote on the site. "We hated our commenters because, well, they hated us." So the site dumped anonymity and required commenters to use Facebook.
While the change got rid of the "bullies," it chased off everyone else, they wrote. So in January, TechCrunch switched to Livefyre's comment system, which allows anonymity but requires commenters to set up their own profiles in an effort to ensure accountability.
As for the Herald, Hirsch, formerly the paper's digital editor, says there was no one episode that precipitated its move. While it received plenty of vicious commentary during the Trayvon Martin saga, "We've struggled with this as long as I can remember."
The paper tried using an outside firm to monitor comments but concluded it could do the job just as well on its own. It allowed readers to flag offensive comments, and when three did so, the comment went dark until an editor could make a call. But the sheer volume overwhelmed the system.
The paper tried out Facebook on its entertainment website, miami.com, before pulling the trigger for its major site. (USA TODAY adopted the Facebook approach for comments last year.)
Hirsch says the Herald is already seeing far fewer comments. When Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had his much-discussed water bottle incident while giving his response to President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night, the Herald got just 40 comments. In the Wild West days, the number would have been more like 150 or 200, Hirsch says.
No one sees the Facebook gambit as a panacea. Some people will no doubt work around it. And the paper wants to continue to have robust debate. "We're going to see how this works," Hirsch says.
He notes there was a little pathos surrounding the policy change. After Executive Editor Aminda Marques Gonzalez announced the end of anonymity but before it went into effect, many of the trolls bid each other fond farewells.
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The cast of the Fox television musical series about a high school glee club has six debuts on the chart this week. That gives it a total of 75 songs on the chart to the Beatles' 71.
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Rain didn't stop people from coming out to see the Dayville Memorial Day parade on Sunday.
Rain didn't stop people from coming out to see the Dayville Memorial Day parade on Sunday.
The parade started at Owen Bell Park in Dayville, making stops at High Street Cemetery, a bridge overlooking the Five Mile River, St. Joseph Cemetery and concluding at the Dayville Fire Station.
Leading the parade was the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4908 and Killingly Brownie Troop 64158.
The Brownies were on hand to help lay wreaths on veterans' graves in the cemeteries and to participate in a U.S. Navy remembrance ceremony over the river.
The Killingly High School marching band provided music.
At both High Street Cemetery and St. Joseph Cemetery, onlookers were asked to lay red roses on veterans' graves to commemorate their service.
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Dairy UK partners with WRAP to promote water efficiency
Dairy UK, which represents the interests of the entire UK dairy supply chain, entered into the agreement with WRAP with the aim of promoting greater awareness of water efficiency within the dairy industry.
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Island vibes: South o' border on 29 north
As October's autumnal air provides a preview of the colder months ahead, I feel the urge to plan an island getaway. One of the intense powers of food– well known to Proust– is its ability to evoke distant memories, bring faraway places near, and reproduce states of mind dulled by habit. On a typical Saturday last weekend and on Route 29 of all places– a forkful of spicy fried pork and a bite of fried plaintains transported me back to the tranquil, palm-shaded beaches of the Samana Peninsula in the Dominican Republic, where I spent 10 blissful holi-days a few years ago.
The restaurant I have to thank for this momentary getaway is Caribbean Malecon a name which is the best euphemism I can imagine for this landlocked commercial highway, since it refers to the beautiful seaside boulevards that are the heart of island life.
For Tony Polanco, a Dominican who co-owns and operates this new island eatery with partner Daysi Thobald (and out-of-town owner José Aragon), it's possible to recreate island emotions with big plates of Caribbean food. The partners purchased the Pupusa Crazy last Spring after discovering the business opportunity in the Hispanic newspaper, and opened it under its new name in early September.
Polanco's family owns restaurants in Santo Domingo and New York City, where he lived before moving to Charlottesville after 9/11. While preserving much of the original Latin/El-Salvadorian menu (pupusas, ceviches), Polanco has added his own Caribbean specialties. These include a whole fried red snapper (pargo entero frito a lo tropical), stewed sirloin or chicken with lots of spices and vegetables, and his carne de cerdo frita (fried pork) Caribbean style, served on a huge bed of salad with a bowl of beans, a mound of rice, and fried plaintains.
Polanco's "most emotional dish" (so enormous that it produces a strong emotional reaction!) is his aire, mar y tierra (air, sea, and land), which includes sirloin steak, chicken breast, and shrimp! More Caribbean dishes are being introduced each week, and there are several daily chef's specials.
Caribbean Malecon, across from Wal-Mart, serves lunch and dinner Monday-Friday (11am-10pm) and three meals on Saturday and Sunday (8am-10pm).
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Belmont's happening nightspot Mas Tapas is preparing to do Sunday brunch, Spanish-style. What does that mean, exactly? How about a house-made bizcocho (biscuit) sliced and filled with an "easy over" organic egg, serrano ham, manchego cheese, and aioli? Or a plate of scrambled organic eggs, sliced heirloom tomatoes, nutty mahon cheese, and brick-oven-baked flatbread?
Love French toast? Then get ready to try Mas's pan cocido a slice of brioche pan-fried in organic egg, brandy, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and topped with peach compote, crème fraiche, and vanilla sugar. In typical Mas style, chef Tomas Rahal combines organic ingredients (lately from local Mennonite farmers) with traditional Spanish flavors.
The new Sunday brunch menu includes dishes like carne asada con huevos (grilled rare spicy hanging beef tender with easy over eggs, roasted potatoes, and tomato aioli), empanadas de higado de pato (fois gras, applewood ham, fig preserves in a flaky pastry with crème fraiche), and buckwheat crèpes with (beluga-ban friendly!) American paddlefish caviar and crème fraiche are sure to bring sleepy Belmont to life on Sunday afternoons. (Neighboring La Taza can take on the early morning shift).
Brunch will debut on October 16, and will be served from noon-6pm. Why the late hours? "Many restaurant people work late Saturday night and get up late on Sunday," Rahal explains. "Ours is a player's brunch."
Caribbean Malecon brings island vibes to Route 29.
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After seemingly never finding a way to get out of the minor leagues, Garrett Jones has established himself with the Pittsburgh Pirates.Jones appeared in 158 games with 21 home runs, 86 RBIs, 34 doubles and a .247 average for the middle-of-the-lineup presence. That also included home runs in his first two at-bats on Opening Day last season. Jones was a featured part of the Pirates Caravan at Ridgway Area Middle School to promote the new season"It's a lot of fun just going around, getting to play games with them, watching them get excited, have fun and giving them a break out of class," Jones said. "I'm sure they appreciate that very much. It's a lot of fun to see them laughing, smiling and getting ready for the new baseball season." Jones said he has become much more recognized with his success with the Pirates. "Getting the cheers, that feels good to know you're something good in the city," Jones said. Now established in the major leagues means quite a lot to Jones. Established was a far cry from what Jones saw in baseball early in his career. A 14th round draft pick of the Atlanta Braves in 1999, Jones never saw the major league and was released from the Braves in 2002. He signed with the Twins in May 2002 and was mainly in the AAA level from 2005-2008, getting a big league callup in 2007. Jones signed a minor league contract with the Pirates in 2008 and was eventually brought up to the Pirates' roster at the end of June 2009. "It's a lot different. Just being in the minor leagues trying to get up here and play and establish myself and stay in the major leagues, just to be recognized a lot more, it means a lot," Jones said. "I've had some success so far. Having people notice and backing you and supporting you, it's a good feeling."Jones said he has lost some weight in anticipation of the new season."Last year, I felt a little too bulky and too stiff, I wanted to get back to my playing weight and get my flexibility and speed whether I was playing first base or outfield," Jones said. "They told me now that my majority will be in the outfield. I just want to be more agile. I feel good, feel strong and I'm in the best shape I've ever been in." Jones also spoke of having a new coaching staff with new manager Clint Hurdle."We got a new coaching staff and I think that's going to be a huge step for us," Jones said. "What Hurdle brings to the table is huge. His ability to control the team and kick players in the butts when things aren't going well. I think he's going to keep us on that track of not slipping off into the losing streaks or anything like that. Once we start having a few games, he's going to be right there kicking us in the butt to get us back in the gear. And we got the talent, we have a lot of young guys that came up last year. We got a lot of talent on our team. We have the talent, coaches, players and staff to turn this thing around."


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Posted: Mon 13 Jun 2005, 22:55
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Log into server (with rdesktop) on bootup?
How do I get puppy to run rdesktop when it boots up so as to log in to a server automatically?
I know the rdesktop parameters.
What I need to know is where I put the command so that it runs.
I have tried putting the following command in /root/.xinitrc (before and after "exec fvwm95") and /root/rc.d/rc.local but to no avail.
rdesktop -u test -p mypassword -a 16 -f myserveripaddress
I simply come up with the normal fvwm95 screen (no error that I can see).
The network itself is up and running and if I go to rxvt and type this rdesktop command in manually it works fine.
But I just want this terminal at work to bootup and connect to our windows terminal server automatically.
Can anyone help?
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Posted: Mon 13 Jun 2005, 23:43
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You may have to provide the full path for the command.
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Posted: Tue 14 Jun 2005, 03:18
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Have tried that.
/usr/local/bin/rdesktop -u test -a 16 -f myserveripaddress
Any other clues?
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Posted: Tue 14 Jun 2005, 04:43
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This is just a quick off the top of the head hack, use a text editor and start with #!/bin/sh, on the next line enter the full path for the command, save it as rmtdsk and chmod a+x it.
Put an entry in rc.local like, exec /the path to rmtdsk, and see if it works.
I'm sorry I can't be more helpful at the moment but I am a bit busy.
If this doesn't work I'l try to spend a bit more time on it.
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Posted: Tue 14 Jun 2005, 19:59
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Thanks guest.
But no. Unfortunately, that does not work either.
If I click on rc.local after boot-up it executes perfectly either way - through direct command or the exec rmtdsk option.
But for some reason it won't do it at boot-up.
It is just this command because I also have put a "modprobe sb" in rc.local to get my soundcard working and it seems to execute fine.
So not sure why rdesktop does not.
Any further ideas?
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Posted: Tue 14 Jun 2005, 21:00
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You could try putting it in /etc/profiles at the end after the exec xwin entry.
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Posted: Tue 14 Jun 2005, 23:09
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Thanks Ian
But still no luck. It seems crazy when you can run it perfectly well after boot-up.
I presume you meant to put it after "exec xwin" within the "if fi" argument in /etc/profile.
My rmtdsk looks like this:
/usr/local/bin/rdesktop -u test -p testpassword -a 16 -f myserveripaddress
Like I say click on rmtdsk itself or run exec /root/rmtdsk and it goes straight in.
Could it not be finding the server yet?
Is there a log file where it might tells us what is going on?
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Posted: Wed 15 Jun 2005, 00:24
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do not put it after
exec xwin
... it will never execute ... exec xwin transfers to xwin, and never comes back
you can try it somewhere before exec xwin,
export SHSQL_DB
would be a good place
just before
exec xwin
might be better
there are things that are setup in /etc/profile that are not setup yet when rc.local runs ... for example, PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so if the program will not run from rc.local but will run after /etc/profile has executed, it is not surprising
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Posted: Wed 15 Jun 2005, 02:09
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Thanks for the input GuestToo.
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Posted: Wed 15 Jun 2005, 20:44
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Thanks GuestToo.
But this does not work either.
If I put "exec /root/rmtdsk" in before "exec xwin" in /etc/ profile it just stops with the error "failed to open display" and then waits for me to enter xwin manually to boot-up.
If I put the command "rdesktop [and appropraite options]" I get the same message but it then ignores the command and then boots xwin anyway.
It seems to be clear that for whatever reason rdesktop cannot execute properly until a window manager opens.
What I need therefore is the equivalent of windows "startup" feature in its start menu which can run programs after the gui is loaded.
Is there an equivalent in puppy?
That is, is it possible to automatically start a program after xwin loads?
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Posted: Wed 15 Jun 2005, 22:05
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Posted: Wed 15 Jun 2005, 22:12
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Yes, you can run a program after the X GUI is started.
Open up /root/.xinitrc with a text editor.
Insert your program execution just before the last line.
Not after the last line, as "exec $CURRENTWM" exits from the script.
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Posted: Thu 16 Jun 2005, 04:22
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Thanks Barry.
That worked perfectly once I included the full path to rdesktop.
Much appreciated!
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Location: Boston, MA USA
Posted: Tue 05 Jun 2007, 17:46
Post subject: Start rdesktop from ip-up; Failed to open display
Subject description: similar problem to plockery's start rdesktop on bootup
I am trying to launch rdesktop from ip-up by calling a script named start_rdc:
start_rdc runs perfectly when started directly. When I call it from ip-up I get the error ERROR: Failed to open display when the line /usr/bin/rdesktop -a 16 -f 126.96.36.199 runs
Also, gxmessage -title "rdesktop" -buttons "EXIT" "Quit" fails with the error: "gxmessage: unable to initialize GTK". gxmessage works fine if I call the script directly.
Not sure what the difference is running this script directly as opposed to launching it from ip-up. It looks like a user/permissions issue...
Puppy is fully booted at this point and xwin is running when start_rdc is launched from ip-up.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Posted: Thu 22 Jan 2009, 18:48
Post subject: rdesktop
Subject description: Old thread... New problem
I found this thread through the miracles of google...
I'm trying to convert some older PCs to become thin clients for a Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server. I installed the standard distro of puppy 4.1.2 and trimmed it down a bit. All in all, it's working fine. I installed rdesktop and got it working through the command line. I created a script in /bin so that i can run rdesktop with just one click once i put a sym link on the desktop.
There are two things more that i would like to accomplish:
1. Automatically start the rdesktop script once xwindows loads. I have tried putting the link to the rdesktop script into /root/startup but to no avail. It wouldn't run. I placed the line "/bin/rdesktop.sh" into the .xinitrc before the line "#exec $CURRENTWM". It won't startup because the network connection isn't available yet. Once loaded, if i restart the xserver it works just fine.
How can I get this script to run AFTER the network connection has been established?
2: I would like to have some kind of Daemon running to monitor the rdesktop process so that if the user closes it by logging out of rdesktop, the script will run and rdesktop will start back up.
Please help me if you can. I searched high and low to find a free alternative to convert old PCs into thin clients. Puppy and rdesktop is what i have come up with.
Thanks in advance.
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