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The Master of Business Administration – Strategic Leadership program at Dakota Wesleyan University is now an Educational Member of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), and has affirmed its commitment to excellence in business education.
This is an additional accreditation standard for both the undergraduate and graduate programs, said Dr. Monty Bohrer, associate professor of business administration and economics at DWU.
"DWU's business program is growing, with the addition of our M.B.A., and we're excited to see it recognized as a program of excellence," Bohrer said.
Accreditation by IACB is a voluntary independent appraisal of an institution's educational programs, according to the organization's website, "Accredited schools have demonstrated a commitment to continuous improvement, excellence in business education, and advancing academic quality."
DWU's business department has been growing over the past several years as it prepared to roll out its M.B.A.- Strategic Leadership degree this fall, which is an online course designed for working adults and full-time students and can be completed on either a 12- or 24-month basis with entry points in August or January of each year.
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For example I am making a 16 bar chord progression for a verse of a song and choose to use the I , IV , V chords of a major scale.. How can I put these chords in a nice rythm so they sound good and how long should each chord be played ideally?
This is an artistic decision for you to make!
The speed at which chords change is called harmonic rhythm. There are songs that change chords twice a measure and get a hectic energy for it, and pieces that change chords once every two or four measures, drawing out each chord's sound dramatically. In addition, as with regular rhythms, harmonic rhythms can be syncopated so that they start a partial measure (sometimes beat) before or after a measure change.
Each harmonic rhythm has its own effect. You know better than anyone else which rhythms would be best in your situation.
Generally speaking, 4 bars is as long as a song will stay on one chord.Even at that the single chord can sound tedious, so towards the end it is often changed, sometimes by adding a 7th. Other songs get away with only 2 chords, but change every bar or 2 bars. 'Dance the night away' and 'Jambalaya' come to mind. Theoretically the concept seems boring, but they are both popular songs.If you do stay on one chord, try to move the melody around, and conversely, maybe keep a more static tune when the changes are frequent.
Listen carefully to the hundreds/thousands of songs that employ only 3 chords - almost inevitably the I, IV and V, and you'll get ideas. Don't think you'll come up with something revolutionary - it's more than likely all been done ! But it won't stop another load of 'three - chord - wonders' being written in the next few years !
I agree with other posters that it is important to make this decision for yourself, no one here can have the "right" answer. Having said that, here are a few progressions to consider:
There are a few ways to "categorize" these progressions, including those that start with I (1,2,3,4,5,6,7) vs those which start with V (8,9), those in which the I chord appears twice (1,2,3,4,5,8) vs those in which the V chord appears twice (6,9) or the IV chord appears twice (7), those which "cycle" through the chords (1,2,3,4,8,9) vs those which "oscillate" between certain chords (5,6,7). These are not all the possibilities, just a few popular ones to get you thinking about your options.
So that takes care of the "order" of the chords, but what about the "length" of each chord? I would suggest starting with one chord per bar, which means all the above phrases are 4 bar phrases. Then just repeat each phrase 4 times (for a total of 16 bars). Depending on your tempo, if the harmonic movement feels to slow or too fast, just half or double the number of bars for each chord respectively.
Notice here that each chord is always played for the same number of bars. This is the simplest approach to song structure you can take. As you become more comfortable with how to put chords together, you can experiment with giving certain chords more measures than others. It doesn't change the harmony so much as it changes the feel of the song, the tension and release, the emotional impact and the story you are trying to tell. So that means there are really no rules! Just do whatever you think sounds best.
Chords of I, IV and V are in certain relations among themselves.
They are the "strongest representatives" of the three harmonic "functions": the tonic, the subdominant, and the dominant. It's because their base notes are all a fifth apart. Therefore, each of them is explicit in their meaning. If you think in functional terms, such as, e.g. "calmness", "movement", "tension", it may be more obvious which "rhythm" to use. But, "harmonic rhythm" may not be the same as putting the chords into a "nice rhythm", and depending on other factors, you could make a lot of rhythmic content on only one chord, which introduces purely rhythmic tension, which can also underline the overall tension.
You also have to pay attention to the cadenza, or the ending of the chord progression, or the progression of the phrase: it could end on the V, as well as on the I.
It depends on the genre of music you are playing. If you are playing reggae music, you will play the chords very quickly, you will just "strike" them it must be like 1/16th or 1/8th. If you are playing soul music it will be longer. Ihe s believe it's all about feeling and groove, just play as you feel them. Music is art. Theory is important but there is also a subjective part of the art that gives you a certain freedom. If not, all songs would sound the same.
i agree with previous posters that there is no hard and fast rule on how long and how much each chord should be played. If the song is upbeat or high spirited, i might play the chords twice in a bar, or if a part of the lyrics needs an emphasis i could even play the chords at each beat. Sometimes there is a dominant prolongation that can encompass more than 3 bars. To avoid monotony, i would vary the chords - eg. Using V7 and/or V7sus4 after the dominant triad. Sometimes iii or even #iv dim can be substituted for V. Hope this helps☺

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I have never managed to get network manager to work on any machine I have installed it on. Five machines desktops, laptops, netbooks and a tablet. WICD always works perfectly but WICD does not support public wifi or VPN. Is there a tool that allows VPN access and public wifi use on Ubuntu?
It all depends on what type of VPN you want to connect to, and they are not as integrated as NetworkManager. In my experience, kvpnc tends to work well and supports a few VPN systems, although it requires the installation of additional dependencies from a standard GNOME desktop because of QT and KDE libraries.
If you're having issues with NetworkManager, you definitely should report bugs and clearly explain what is not working for you, then we can look into the problem and possibly fix it ;)
Dear Mathieu Thank you for your reply. The problems I have are bugs that are widely reported. Network manager does not see wireless networks. On every machine I have put it on after every install of Ubuntu network Manager reports there are no wireless networks visible. If i remove network manager and install WICD then those networks are visible and accessible. If network manager and WICD are both installed then neither can see wireless networks. I am afraid I have on idea why it occurs, I think it is unlikely to be a driver issue. But if you Google WICD you find literally hundreds of "solved" wifi issues upon removal of network manager and installation of WICD. I should make clear, no other changes are required, no extra drivers or anything. This has been true in all version from me since 9.04 on 5 computers, laptop and desktop
In wired mode network manager works but corrupts required settings after circa one week. And therefore again in wired mode WICD is stable, network manager is not.
The problem is WICD is feature poor, no VPN and no ad hoc networks


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It may seem crazy to you, but I wasn't able to find any detailed description of these security protocols on the web (except wikipedia).
Can you point me out some documentation of the protocols implementations?
To add to Gurzo's list, here are a few other links with diagrams:
For the actual references:
Proper usage of SSL/TLS also depends on other factors. In general, X.509 certificates will also be used and verified using the PKIX specification (not an easy read if you're new to the field). (Other types of certificates/authentication methods can be used in some cases.) You may also want to tie this up with the certificate host name verification: RFC 2818 (section 3.1) (HTTPS) and RFC 6125 (more general). These are not part of SSL/TLS as such, but are part of the overall picture to establish a secure connection.
(If you're also after the difference between SSL, TLS and their usage modes such as STARTTLS, you may also want to have a look at this rather detailed answer on ServerFault I wrote a few weeks ago.)
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I've been looking at futon recently and there's a particularly kind called the Shikibed or Shiki Futon. I was wondering where this "Shiki" was coming from.
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敷き布団, or "shikibuton" refers to the bottom part of a futon, which traditionally has two parts: the part you lie on and the part that you cover it with, or basically the mattress and the blanket (or duvet if you want to go there). The terms 敷き布団 and 掛け布団 are derived from their purposes. For example, 敷{し}く means to spread or lay something out, so the shikifuton is what you spread on the floor. The 掛け布団 (kakebuton) is what you use to 掛ける, or to "put on" in the sense of adding it on top. The respective kanji, 掛 and 敷, retain these meanings.
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Author: Roberts Jr TG, Lynch Jr TJ, Chabner BA
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology, 21(19), 2003, pg 3683-3695
Materials and Methods
There are an unprecedented number (1345) of antineoplastic drugs in current development. This is compared to the 85 drugs currently approved. Though there has been a mechanism for accelerated marketing approval of cancer drugs on the basis of surrogate endpoints, such as response rates in phase II trials, the FDA will continue to require randomized trials of novel agents in their granting of marketing approval.The reasons for this is first, accelerated approval is only available for an indication where the new therapy offers promise over the existing standard. Also, there is fear that accelerated approval will create incentive to perform large, single arm studies in refractory patient populations, in hopes of approval. Also, there is recognition that many drugs will have modest activity in phase II trials, needing phase III trials to demonstrate a superiority
Three factors limit the performance of phase III trials: cost, developmental time, and risk. The cost of developing a new antineoplastic drug is estimated to be $802 million. Of this, the direct clinical expenditures cost is $175 million, of which phase III trials represent the majority (65% to 75%) of the cost. They also extend the time to marketing approval. Also, there is a high probability that the drug will fail to obtain approval. In the past 20 years, only 10% of all agents brought into clinical trials ultimately received FDA approval.
Using data collected from the review of the databases, the authors created a model for deciding whether or not to enter an agent into a phase III trial. The target validity is the first to consider. There is a risk in initiating phase III trials of targeted agents where the target has not been adequately validated. The agent also must have favorable pharmacokinetic properties, such as a high bioavailability, a long half-life, and shallow trough levels. The activity and toxicity in phase I and II trials should create a favorable therapeutic ratio. If this does not exist, it is unlikely that the drug will be at all clinically useful. Also in considering a drug for phase III trials, the disease targeted for treatment and the line of treatment should be considered. First line treatment is optimal, but it should be remembered that in going for this approval, randomization will be against the treatment with the most activity. Lastly, the potential for a market niche needs to be considered. In other words, a phase III trial is less likely to be initiated for a drug to treat an uncommon disease.
This report shows a sobering account of the expense and time required to gain approval for a novel therapy. It is because of these factors that novel drug prices, molecularly targeted therapies, and cancer vaccines are so expensive when they do gain approval. This also shows why there is relatively little research done on uncommon cancers. There is simply no market to cover the research deficit after approval is obtained. Though for safety reasons, much of this is needed, this article points out some areas where industry and governmental sponsors can improve. As the authors illustrate, there should be a stricter evaluation of patients and populations that may benefit from a novel therapy (be it cytotoxic agent, molecular agent, or vaccine), prior to initiating phase III trials. This can decrease time and cost, and increase efficacy, by treating a more homogeneous population.
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Anyone use this? The Revue has been given a new MSRP of 99 dollars so now it's actually tempting. I know it runs Netflix and Pandora as well as a full web browser.
So far the first store to list at the new MSRP is Amazon and they are selling out fast. I ordered one as a Netflix player and I can gift my Roku to someone else depending on which I like more. The absence of Hulu Plus is a problem with the Revue but we'll see how it all shakes out.
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Bacardi 8 Yr Old Rum
Review: Bacardi 8 Yr Old Rum 90.5/100
a review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted April 25, 2010
My introduction for this review was accomplished previously in my article "Ron Bacardi & Cuba – Turbulent Times" published in the "Extras" Section of my Blog. (And published previously on Rum Connection)
One thought I would like to add, is that I went into this review fully expecting to dislike the Bacardi 8 Year Old. It is, after all, quite fashionable to bash Bacardi and claim with a somewhat superior air that anything they make is for the masses, and therefore obviously inferior. Well let me say right up front that it is just that type of intellectual snobbery that made me pass up this wonderful rum for almost a year. This rum doesn't just break the stereotype … it destroys the stereotype!! Read on…
In the Bottle 4/5
When I score a product in the bottle, one thing I look for is a bit of "wow" factor. An impressive looking canister housing the liquid, or a unique bottle shape, or even a little booklet I can read which tells me why I should buy the rum. This presentation however; is a simple and understated. I think perhaps the Ron Bacardi label with the 8 year age statement serves the purpose to catch the consumer's eye. The addition of a nice solid cork topper to distinguish the 8-year-old rum from its younger cousins is a nice touch.
In the Glass 9/10
This rum has been aged for a full 8 years in 'hand selected' oak barrels. According to various sources, the rum was finished in sherry oak barrels. The care with which the rum was aged becomes apparent as soon as the bottle is opened. The aroma is gentle, inviting, and very well-balanced. As I poured the bottle into the glass, I was enticed by soft fragrances of dried plums, light caramel and a wonderful light oak aroma. Hints of spices drifted in the air perhaps cinnamon, perhaps nutmeg and allspice.
Once the rum was in the glass and I swirled it, I noticed a light sheen of oil which dropped long slender legs down towards the rum. I will confess that I like long slender legs, it indicates a lighter rum which usually has a crisp entry and clean finish.
In my Mouth 55/60
I could not help but notice that the delivery of the Bacardi 8-year-old rum was very similar to the delivery of a really good whisky. I am not talking about flavours mind you, I am talking about style. The rum carries a lovely light smoke, and a firm oak flavour which provides foundation and character. This is not a sweet rum dripping with honey. It is a firm well oaked rum. It has a slightly heavy, slightly smoky presence which is reminiscent of a very soft very chewy peat. (Of course this is not peat, it is the sherry influence from the finishing barrels.) This smoky presence helps to blend and carry the other flavours. I taste figs, dates, and dried plums. I even get a nice mellow Apricot Brandy which weaves in and out of a light caramel adding a delicate sweetness. Nutmeg, allspice, and a gentle cinnamon accent the flavours beautifully.
Against all of this is a nice oak backdrop. For me the rum is truly outstanding in the balance, complexity and character of its delivery.
In the Throat 13.5/15
Prunes and raisins slide down my throat in a long mildly dry finish. The burn feels a little stronger than I was expecting, probably strengthened by the dryness. The oak flavour seems to linger in my palate for a long time before it vanishes along with whispers of spice and smoke.
The Afterburn 9/10
I admit that I have been, to some extent, enchanted by Bacardi 8. It was so much better than I was expecting. I think some of you will believe I am crazy for scoring this rum as highly as I have, but I feel that Bacardi has really raised the bar. I taste balance, complexity and a strong oak character in a whisky style that I find simply delightful.
If you are interested in comparing more scores, here is a link to my other published Rum Reviews.
Suggested Cocktail
It is said that Ernest Hemingway preferred his daiquiri to be made with Bacardi White Label rum. As well, I have come across the suggestion from more than one source, that the preferred daiquiri in pre Castro Cuba was made with Bacardi Rum. With this in mind, I have chosen to make the Hemingway Daiquiri with the Bacardi 8-year-old rum and, although I am no Hemingway in my writing ability, sometimes it is nice to dream:
Hemingway Daiquiri (with Bacardi 8 Year Old Rum)
These proportions may not be exactly as per the original Hemingway Daiquiri, but I have come across many different 'original' Hemingway Daiquiri recipe suggestions. Not knowing for certain which the true original is, I chose the one where less fruit would be wasted. This keeps my wife happy.
2 oz Bacardi 8 Year old Rum
1/4 oz maraschino liqueur
Juice from 1 fresh Limes
Juice From 1/2 Grapefruit
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled large highball glass.
Now for those who do not know Earnest Hemingway was a diabetic, and hence there is no sugar in the recipe. I am not a diabetic, and to be honest, I find this recipe a little tart. So I thought I would 'sloe' it down a bit (pun intended) and give the recipe some sweetness and a little more rum for balance.
The Grapefruit Catapult
3 oz Bacardi 8 Year old Rum
1/4 oz Sloe Gin
Juice from 1 fresh Limes
Juice From 1/2 Grapefruit
1 – 3 teaspoons of Simple syrup or Grenadine
Shake with ice and strain into a glass of your choice.
This recipe also gave me a good excuse to use up that other half a grapefruit to keep my wife happy. Trust me on this one folks. Keeping your wife happy is a great start to any evening of cocktails.
Note: If you are interested in more of my original cocktail recipes, please click this link (Cocktails and Recipes) for more of my mixed drink recipes!
You may (loosely) interpret the scores as follows.
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing rum or whisky. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)
35 Responses to "Bacardi 8 Yr Old Rum"
April 2, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Just tried the 8Y and agree with your review about it. The oaky and smokey aftertaste is almost as if I'd been sipping a glass of smooth, triple distilled Irish whiskey, very impressive and remarkable…After warming up in the glass for a while it seems to me as if the smokey undertone gains strength, could you agree with this?
Kindest Regards,
Hans (Belgium)
March 3, 2014 at 11:48 am
This review….its like not only reading my mind, but put those exact words on paper. I'm impressed by the way you describe this suburb rum.
I still remember when I bought this rum. It was on discount, and after a long hesitation, (some people can stand for an half hour in front of a butter stand, It's me, but then in front of A rum selection.) I purchased this bottle, with the thought "It would be piss anyway, but at least I gave it a try. Man, I was wrong. I'm not going to explain what I felt, because that is closely written in this review. But, this rum is in my selection, and its a though one to beat when i'm in the mood for a cigar and some outstanding blues music on a late summer night!!!
O, yeah…one more thing. I love your website and the rum reviews in particular. You're my hero, I met some new rum's due to your reviews!
December 31, 2013 at 2:14 pm
One of my favorites. i actually wait until Christmas and buy the boxed set with the glasses.Very good rum. I have recently been drinking Blackheart Spiced rum. Better then Captain Morgan especially mixed with Cola. Hope you have a happy new year.
November 25, 2013 at 11:58 am
I bought a bottle of this and thiught it tasted odd. I ended up using it for cooking as I found it unfit to drink. I agree with you on all of the other rums on your list with the exception of cockspur 12 which I would have rated at 90.
November 9, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Hey Chip, The BC Liquor Store is doing a limited release of the Bacardi Reserva Limitada. From what I have heard it is a pretty remarkable rum. Have you had the pleasure of trying this one yet?
November 5, 2013 at 1:57 am
I really disliked this which is the first time I've really disagreed with one of your reviews maybe its my taste buds but this rum tasted weird, the whisky like touch to it rubbed me the wrong way and I like whisky. It had this bitter cherry like after taste to it which reminded me of cherry cough syrup. It was decent when I mixed it but it wasnt really doing it for me I like rich and sweet flavors in my rum and I didnt get that outside of the smokey whisky touch and a little cherry. Maybe I'm not as advanced tasting wise but I couldnt taste any fig, nutmeg, or cinnamon . But hey thats just me, I've never liked Bacardi and figured this would be different and it was but not in a really positive way. At max I personally give it a 80
July 2, 2013 at 1:05 pm
I just cracked a bottle of this rum. I was liiking to replace my bottle of Ron Bacardi Reserve and discovered it's no longer made. Note: saw a bottle for sale online for over $200! I like the 8 Anos much better. Agree with the whiskey-like character of the rum (that's a good thing). The Ron Bacardi was much smooth as silk and much sweeter but could never be mistaken for anything but rum.
I'm not a big rum fan but this 8 Anos is good enough to enjoy neat. This is high praise from a guy who only buys rum to have on hand for guests.
February 27, 2013 at 10:08 am
I discovered this rum about 4 years ago… I must admit that it is clearly the best bang for the buck. I was pleasantly surprised that you gave it such a high rating as truly beleive its a winner. This is my everyday rum…
February 9, 2013 at 2:23 pm
I recently tried this rum, and I found it had a very unpleasant taste of plastic – I thought maybe it was just something weird going on with my taste buds, so I tried it again a few days later and had the same experience. This off-taste is strong enough that I can detect it even when I make mixed drinks with the rum. One thing I noticed that may be causing this is that the "cork" is not an actual cork, as it sounds like it was on your bottle – it's made of rubber. Maybe the alcohol leeched some of the chemicals from the "cork"? I tried to give the bottle to a friend, but he tasted it and detected the same flavor and didn't want it. I'm thinking about just pouring it out, it's that bad!
February 28, 2013 at 10:57 pm
Hi Mitch,
I have the same problem. I have been a fan of this Rum for years, but I recently bought a bottle and have experienced the horrible "plastic taste", I thought maybe it was just me, but apparently not! I am going to return this to the store I got it from as I think maybe it is a bad batch. My batch number is L1023215114PR5380, I wonder if it is the same as yours?
- February 28, 2013 at 10:57 pm
May 27, 2012 at 9:17 am
I just purchased this and was surprised that says made in the Bahamas. I was expecting Puerto Rico, I didn't even know the Bahamas had a distillery. Not that I'm complaining, it's actually very good rum for the price. Any info though on this anomaly?
September 24, 2011 at 3:23 pm
I love your review and responses also as I am but a mere mortal amateur in the realm of liquor tasting and more over, describing what I taste. Very interesting.
September 20, 2011 at 7:56 am
Hi chip, I agree with you on this one. I got 2 samples of this when I bought some bacardi white for some mojitos. Usually I never get to a lot of my samples and they ended up accumulating and was looking for disappointment as well.
I had some of this at a BBQ a few weeks ago along with some cohiba cigaritos to keep the 'skeeters away
September 7, 2011 at 1:51 pm
I am not a big rum drinker, but thought since I am here in Cuba (GTMO, with the Navy) I might try some with a (non-Cuban) cigar. Bacardi 8 seemed like the best option at the base exchange. I admit I was intially brought down that a Bacardi product would be the only premium choice, as they do get bashed a lot for being "the rum of the masses," and the other Bacardi products I have tried have not done much to overcome that bad press in my eyes (and mouth). As it turns out, I needn't have worried, as I find Bacardi 8 absolutely delicious. Obviously well crafted, and with a variety of flavors, I drink it straight over the rocks or with a little water. A great companion for a nice cigar, it has opened my eyes to the possibilties of rum, and I will probably keep a bottle in my liquor cabinet for the forseeable future. I am glad to see that someone who knows a lot more about rum than I do feels the same way.
February 15, 2011 at 7:52 am
Hello there….well, to start i thought the bottle/packing was very impressive. But in terms of taste, i felt it had a strong wood finish perhaps too strong bourbon finish to it which overpowers the other characteristics….
I also felt it was too light bodied lacked the depth of a good rum, the rum taste to it was rather mellow….
January 23, 2011 at 2:45 am
I live in Quebec (Canada) and the variety of rhum at our liquor stores is somewhat limited.. So I have tasted about 10 different rhums over the last 2 years and Bacardi 8 is simply the best to me. Very nice reviews, im bookmarking this blog.
November 24, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Hi Chip
I've been getting conflicting feedback from all my research on the Bacardi 1873. Some say it's discontinued and replaced by either the Reserve or the 8yr old; others only mention it as a solera (my bottle makes no such claim on the label); overall, here seem to be few reviews out there. Yet just last week, Co-op pushed a whole raft of them on to their shelves, in more than one store, which makes it unlikely (to me) to be a discontinued product. Anything you can tell me based on your own knowledge?
July 14, 2010 at 7:14 am
I totally agree with your review. Bacardi 8 was recommended to me by the spirits specialist at my local liquor store and he didn't steer me wrong. Like you, I was prepared to pass up "Bac 8" out of snobbery to the Bacardi name, but I was intrigued and glad I moved on the suggestion. It is, dare I say, superior stuff that delivers a textbook rum flavor. I have had Ron Barcelo Imperial, Pampero Aniversario, Cruzan Single Barrel, and Ron Zacapa Centenario and I must say that Bacardi 8 is better than all but Ron Barcelo. Hell, it might even beat it if I ran a head-to-head taste test. (Ron Zacapa is actually too smooth, for my taste. It seemed to lack the complexity of Bac 8 and had a mouthfeel more like thin syrup than a spirit with presence. I know, insane words to seasoned rum aficionados, but I can't help what my senses tell me). Indeed, Bac 8 has a whisky element to it. I was sipping it one night and thought the same thing. (Single malt scotch and bourbon are my favorite spirits). I think the packaging designers at Barcardi got the bottle design and presentation just right, it's one of the best-looking bottles out there, IMHO. To think it can be had for under $25 is all the more amazing.
This review was my intro to your blog. It looks like a great one with diverse reviews. Bookmarking!
May 11, 2010 at 8:28 am
hey Chip,
nice review. I have to say this rum is one of my favorites for sipping after a hard day. You mentioned the smoke taste and I totally agree with you!
Looking forward to read more posts like that.
May 6, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Your glowing review caused me to revisit our somewhat dated review of Bacardi 8 Anos. Although Sue Sea and I found this Cuban style rum light and pleasant, our retasting was not much different.
Sue found floral notes "like frangipans or orange blossom" over a light vanilla and oak. I added licorice with a light honey sweetness, and a dry/astringent, peppery mouth finish.
I still have trouble believing this rum is truly eight years old, as it presents more like something in the 3 to 4 year range. There was a distincet alcohol prickle on deep nosing.
Our rating was a 6 (of 10). Pleasant, light sipper, but unremarkable. For the full review, click on The Rum Project sig, above.
Really not bad, but not exceptional. A simple young rum for a fair value.


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WHEELING - Ohio County is the 12th healthiest county in West Virginia, as new study indicates northern counties continue to be better off than those in the southern part of the state.
The report, released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin researchers, ranks counties by several health factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, premature deaths and other areas, including education, access to health care and unemployment.
"That is about where we should be," Ohio County Health Administrator Howard Gamble said of the 12th-place ranking among West Virginia's 55 counties. "We have a lot of things going for us."
Gamble cited the presence of Wheeling Hospital, Ohio Valley Medical Center, Wheeling Jesuit University and West Liberty University as some of the main reasons for Ohio County's relatively high ranking. Access to health care and education are among the main factors in the ranking system.
"Would we like to be No. 1? Of course," said Gamble. "But we are doing pretty well."
For the rest of the Northern Panhandle, counties ranked as follows: Marshall, 15th; Hancock, 16th; Tyler, 18th; Brooke, 23rd; and Wetzel, 29th.
The state of Ohio has 88 counties. Monroe County ranks as the healthiest in the local area at 43rd; Belmont County ranks 56th; Harrison is 63rd; and Jefferson is 80th.
In claiming the healthiest position in West Virginia, Monongalia County overtook Pendleton County, which had been No. 1 the past three years. McDowell County ranked last for the fourth straight year that the report has been released.
Monongalia County had the lowest number of premature deaths, and for at least the fourth straight year had the lowest rates of unhealthy behaviors that include adult smoking and obesity, physical inactivity, excessive drinking, fatal motor vehicle crashes, sexually transmitted diseases and births among teen mothers.
The county also showed a slight improvement in clinical care and in physical environment, which combines access to recreational facilities and healthy foods, as well as lower rates of fast-food restaurants and air pollution.
This year's study used figures from 2008-10. Last year's study used figures from 2006-08.
While West Virginia has the second-oldest median age in the nation (41.3) and the second-highest percentage of residents age 65 and older (16 percent), Monongalia County's median age of 29.1 in 2010 was by far the lowest in the state, a reflection of the presence of West Virginia University in Morgantown. Only 10 percent of the county's residents were over 65. By comparison, rural Pendleton County had the highest median age at 47.3.
Not only is Monongalia County the healthiest, it's been the fastest-growing county in the state since 2008 and has the lowest unemployment rate, well below the state average of 8 percent.
"Just living in Morgantown doesn't mean you're going to be healthier," said Dr. Gilbert Ramirez, senior associate dean of academic affairs for the WVU School of Public Health and a member of the county's Board of Health. But the statistics "allow us to start trying to understand why it appears that way."
Dana King, a professor and chairman of WVU's Department of Family Medicine, noted that while Monongalia County's 10 recreational facilities were higher than the state average of seven, there's a lack of bike lanes and shoulders along roads for people who want to exercise.
"There's always room for more accessible places," he said. "Just imagine, what if everybody was really out walking 30 minutes a day. Where would they do it?"
Pendleton County's drop from the top spot might be because it had slight dips in clinical care, which included the percentage of uninsured residents, the number of primary-care physicians and dentists, screenings for diabetes and breast cancer, and preventable hospital stays; and in social-economic factors such as graduation rates, unemployment and poverty.
Doddridge County leaped from ninth to third in the study and was followed by Jefferson, Hampshire, Tucker, Pleasants, Upshur, Putnam and Hardy. Putnam is the lone southern county in the top 10.
Ritchie County improved from 30th to 11th and Gilmer improved from 45th to 24th.
Wirt fell from fourth to 22nd and Taylor went from 17th to 30th.
In ranking last, McDowell County had a premature death rate nearly double the state average, and it also has high rates of physical inactivity, adult smoking and obesity.


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It's $20 with shipping.
@bakntime: hence why I put 4.99 shipping in the post!
Only Class 6!!!!
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@biewel: Hence why "morriea" put class 6 in the headline :-)
I just bought a class 10 32 GB card at Target in-store for $22! I don't even think it was on sale...
I bought 32GB class 10 Transcend from ebay 4 months ago for $20 with shipping (from Hong Kong).
Class 10 for $23
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omg - amazing image.
VietNam is awesome!
What a amazing and peaceful photo!
The lighting in this is amazing!!!!
amazing morning mood
Absoultely WOW!!!
Fantastic picture!
great momment.......
Nice and calming picture. This picture makes me feel like it's one of those mornings when you just wake up early feeling refreshed and having the time to take a nice cup of coffee with paper. Ps.for the few past months there haven't been many times ability to download pictures as wallpapers;this would be excellent!
and I see the gold placer, a magical sense
within the nets!!!!!!!!!!!!wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
magnificent picture!
Took my breath away,i felt as if i was there and almost smelled it come alive!
This is a very nice shot love the the way it was captured !
wah... nice picture.. beautiful light.... ^_^
estupenda foto, magnifica ,,,
Love the sun-kissed gossamer look of this photograph! Takes on the quality of a painting as we study the many interesting aspects of the photo. Mesmerizing!
Simple but powerful photo, wonderful lighting.
It looks like he got caught in the net
I have always loved the old sepia toned photographs. And this picture reminds me of one,except for the right hand bottom corner that looks a might different. Lovely light off the water out lining the fisherman holding up his net, for what seems an easy catch! j.e.s.
Love the way the sun is hitting the nets.
It is so incredible. Thanks Mr Ly Hoang Long.
Excellent in every way.
Excellent Photo. All the right attributes of a perfect shot.
Wonderful composition. I seem seen it at flickr also.
Beautiful quality of light
I feel very happy when a picture of my beloved country which is taken by a Vietnamese photographer, is chosen as the Photo of the Day.
Just a brilliant catch very well done indeed Cheers. Roger
This looks like a man fishing. It reminds me of a Chinese Imagrant from social studies.This reminds me of a story in the Bible.
awe inspiring, through early morning viewing where you can feel the heat arriving too, splendid image
excellent !
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Congratulations for this beautiful image and for it making photo of the day
A well deserved Photo of the Day. The lighting and composition are excellent.
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This is a photograph that clearly reveals what a morning is...appreciate Ly Hoang Long's selection of subject.
The overlapping arcs of the fish nets give this photo a serene and graceful quality. The back-lit figure of the fisherman and his boat are perfectly positioned in this composition, and the restrained palette of gold and amber are truly luminous. This image is also a wonderful invocation of the traditional culture of Vietnam.
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@eriq carter he must wait over night before he can catch the fish. :)
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What is the source of Gilgulim (reincarnations) in Judaism? Are there people who disagree with its existence? Who was the first to mention it? What I am asking essentially is what is the historical development of Gilgulim in Judaism?
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In regards to the first one, Gilgulim are first mentioned in the Heikhalot texts, also found in the Zohar, and Sefer HaBahir. According to those who hold the Zohar is Tannaic, that puts the idea at least as far back as Tannaim and Amoraim. Several of the Geonim argued over it, such as Sa'adia Gaon.
There is a piece in the Tshuvas HaRashba in siman 418 which denigrates the belief in gilgulim. It is a response from the Chachmei Luniel to the Rashba, proving that they don't believe in any nonjewish ideas. See there ד.ה. ומתועלותיה בסוד הנפש. One of the points they raise why it is an unjewish belief is because judgement and punishment is a fundamental belief in this religion, and if an evil man can come back as a righteous one and vice versa, the entire system doesn't work. Although this is not the Rashba talking, he did choose to put it in his tshuvos, seemingly accepting their argument of being good Jews. This is especially interesting in light of the fact that people like to quote the Ramban, the Rashba's teacher, as believing in gilgulim.
This is a list of opponents to the belief in gilgulim taken from here (2001).http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2011/02/dove-of-war.html?m=1
As is well known, there have been many rabbinic authorities who subscribed to belief in gilgulim.On the other hand, there have also been numerous opponents to this belief, including Rav Saadiah Gaon (Emunos v'Dayos 6:8); Rabbeinu Avraham ben HaRambam (see R. Margoliyos, in his introduction to Milchamos Hashem p. 19 note 11); Rabbi Avraham ibn Daud (Emunah Ramah 7); Rabbeinu Yitzchak ben Avraham Ibn Latif (Rav Poalim, p. 9 section 21); Rav Chasdai Crescas (Ohr Hashem, ma'amar 4, derash 7); Rav Yosef Albo (Sefer HaIkkarim 4:29); and Rav Avraham Bedersi (Ktav Hitnatzlut leRashba). See too Rashash to Bava Metzia 107a (I am told that certain Chassidim will never study Rashash because of his comments on this topic). Also see Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, commentary to Genesis 50:2. For further discussion, see Rabbi Yitzchak Blau, "Body And Soul: Tehiyyat ha-Metim and Gilgulim in Medieval and Modern Philosophy," The Torah u-Madda Journal vol. 10
See there also for the bird story.
Rabbi Hirsch's words are particularly harsh describing what we call 'gilgulim' where "the soul did not remain in its personal individuality, but wandered from body to body-even to animals- in manifold metamorphosis" as a decidedly Egyptian belief in diametric contrast to Jewish ideas.
Rav Sadia Gaon also famously decried this belief as an impossible insult to the human soul, where we would find the human soul in the body of an animal.
If I'm not mistaken (if I recall correctly from an "intro to Kabbalistic concepts" lecture by Rabbi Breitowitz given at Ohr Sameyach; contact them for the audio), the notion of Gilgul (whereby a departed soul returns to earth in a different body) appears in a major way with the kabbalistic teachings of the Arizal in the 1500s. As we have none of the Arizal's original writings other than a receipt for a sum of pepper (he was a spice-seller), I suppose you'd have to consult his students' writings, such as those of R' Chayim Vital.
Does the concept appear in the Zohar? I don't know.
Certainly if you look through Sefer Chafetz Chaim and Shmiras HaLashon (c. 1900), while the author is known as a Halachist and not Kabbalist, he accepts this kabbalistic notion (and many others) and cites it vis-a-vis a punishment for speaking Lashon Hara ("lakelev tashlichun oso").
As Dave so kindly informed me, it's the Rashash (Lithuania, 1800s) who comments on a Gemara (describing a person's entry to the world "free of sin"):
Or in Yeshivish:
I've heard that some Hassidim purposely avoid the Rashash's commentary in general, because of this.
Today it's certainly accepted in many circles; most siddurim have a version of Bedtime Prayers that forgives "all those who have wronged me, whether in this incarnation (gilgul) or another one." On the other hand, it's not one of the Thirteen Principles, and I know one rabbi (who I personally respect) who omits that phrase (not that he necessarily rejects Gilgul, just he's not sure how this forgiving-acts-from-other-incarnation works).
See: Sefer Bahir (as already mentioned), Reshit Hochma (Shaar HaYira 13),Ramhal (Derech Hasgem), Shaar HaGilgulim 22), Sefer Haredim (7:57), Degel Mahane Efraim (Parashat Mishpatim), Abarbanel (Debarim 25), Rabenu Bahya (Debarim 22:1), Ohr Hashem (4:7), Sefer HaIkarim 4:29). All these are sources for the discussion. EDIT: There is scientific proof to Gilgulim, and most of the Hachamim agree that Gilgulim exist.
The Sefer Gilyon Ari (p. 40 - found on Otzar Hachochma) mentions the Rashash noted by Shalom. He adds that only a few rishonim questioned the concept of reincarnation and that it is widely accepted in traditional Jewish sources. Gilyon Ari then resolves the Rashash's difficulty by explaining the gemara in Bava Metzia (107a) as a reference to a person's first reincarnation:
it is hinted in the book of Job:
also the Vilna Gaon in Even Shlema says from this verse that one has a maximum of 3 gilgulim to rectify himself


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There 're somebody i want to talk with him in a video conference in Ubuntu, how can i do that?
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You can use Skype, which fully supports video conferencing and other useful features, such as screen sharing. http://www.skype.com/download
Even when aMSN is able to perform video conferencing, recently it is a difficult task as there are several changes in the MSN services and the way that it handles video connections.
In aMSN is it that easy as having installed Farsight, which is automatically installed in the majority of the cases and if not you will have enough information and a guide in order to install it.
Anyway it may fail as I have said in my initial words.
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You may wish to give a chance to an online free video conference service, such as
Ubiqq http://ubiqq.com
Ubiqq uses a flash player based interface in order to gain access to both your webcam and microphone and allows the same in your contact's side.
A whole thread about how to make these online services to work is fully documented right here. Just in case that you can't make it work out of the box.
Good luck!
As their website say
"Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application over the Internet.
It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality.
It is interoperable with many other standard compliant softwares, hardwares and service providers as it uses both the major telephony standards (SIP and H.323)."
Can be installed from the software center: ekiga
Google hangouts offers screen sharing and group meetings (unlike skype which you have to pay for groups). Everything is supported within the browser so very easy to install and collaborate with users of various OS and technical savvy.
Try out Reflap. It's web based so you won't need to download anything and it supports video conferencing with up to 5 video streams at the time. Also each user has a call address so you can get called by anyone that has your call address like your phone number.
BigBlueButton is really fine, it is a great open source technology. I'm currently working at TALCOD (French Open source and Web agency), and all the customers seem satisfied with the solutions and videoconferencing rooms that we base on BigBlueButton. I do believe that open source solutions have a bright future. Maybe you could be interested in this software.
GoMeetNow (http://www.gomeetnow.com) offers reliable, quality multi-point video conferencing despite platforms. It is full-featured and cost-effective and also listed in TOP 5 this year by Publicare. FYR, http://www.webconferencing-test.com/en/webconferencing_top5/webconference_compact_results.html.


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My question is as follows: is the F-polynomial of an indecomposable quiver representation irreducible as a polynomial, i.e. can it have a nontrivial factor? Here the F-polynomial is the generating function of the Euler characteristics of quiver Grassmannians, that is,
F_M =\sum_{e_1,...e_n} \chi( Gr_{e_1,...e_n} M) x_1^e_1 ... x_n^e_n
It is known that the F-polynomial of the direct sum of $M_1$ and $M_2$ is the product of $F_{M_1}$ and $F_{M_2}$.


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Space. New York: W. W. Norton Company. 508 pp.
Levin, Harold L. 1996. The Earth through Time, sixth edition.
Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing. 568 pp.
Wicander, Reed, and James S. Monroe. 2000. Historical Geology:
Evolution of the Earth and Life through Time, third edition.
Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole. 580 pp.
Hadean Time http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/precambrian/hadean.html
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The Bunk About Bonding
Stop the Madness!
Before you start tallying your missteps and inadequacies in early motherhood, take some advice from my learned friends and me. Nearly all of us have had moments when we doubted we were cut out for parenthood. We feel an abiding love for our kids. We see before us babies that thrive and grow, smile and walk. Yet, that isn't enough. We still harangue ourselves for not being the mothers we feel our natural instincts are supposed to produce.
To stop the flogging, and settle our nervous hearts, we're learning to repeat out loud the following truths.
Fall in Love at Your Own Pace and Tempo
My 50-year-old friend Lisa, an author in Chicago, recalls holding her baby son, Luke, for the first time: "I simply could not believe it. There are no words for it. I was viscerally in love. His skin, his smell he was perfection."
To this day, Lisa is smitten, now staring at seven-year-old Luke on the subway. "He's so beautiful to me, I am so proud of him. It's a joy to look at him and see this blend of us his father and me. My worry is that I care too much. I've never had to pump myself up to do more for him. It's always been all-out."
Love at first sight, in courtships and with babies, is our romantic ideal. We expect to coo the way Lisa did, with all-out reverence. And indeed, more than half of the women I interviewed reported bonding "immediately."
Yet, there are other wonderful, quirky ways that moms and dads develop connections with their babies, none of them reflective of parenting gone wrong.
Julia from Cincinnati bonded differently with each of her two children. "The second I saw my son, my first thought was 'I was meant to be this child's mommy. This is what I was put on earth to do.'" With her second child, a daughter, Julia says, "I didn't really bond until she and I went to my ten-year college reunion. She was nine months old! I think it was the first time I didn't feel guilty paying more attention to her than to my son. And I know it was the first time I began to appreciate her unique qualities."
Gayle, a thirty-eight-year-old mom who lives in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, says that childbirth, seventeen hours long, was one of the worst experiences of her life. "It was physically traumatic, scary, and overwhelming." She threw up frequently, got the shakes, and "had no sense of the outside world" for hours on end.
After Bethany was born, Gayle just wanted to be mothered, and to "lick the wounds of delivery." People did not "see the injury I was experiencing, or comfort me." Friends who visited kept saying to her, "You must be so happy!" "I kept thinking to myself, 'Why would I be?!'"
The first night, Gayle sent Bethany to the hospital's newborn nursery something she now regrets. "I was too afraid," she says. With the reality of being a mother setting in, Gayle explains, "I was trying to delay the onset of my new job."
Within a few weeks though, when the baby gained weight and Gayle felt as though her parts were working again, she "relaxed and let the bonding happen." Then, Gayle abandoned plans to use part-time daycare because she couldn't imagine leaving Bethany. "I love being with her. The few times I have gone out alone, I drive away and feel that something's missing."
In other nations and cultures, moms get help so that they can bond well and get their postpartum needs met. In Malaysian villages for example, Mom and baby do not rejoin the community for forty days. During this reprieve, mothers receive hot baths infused with fragrant leaves. They are massaged from head to toe with herbs, with special attention paid to rubbing the abdomen to shrink the uterus.
"Where's my herbal massage?" you may be asking. Well, as much as bonding is endorsed in this country, American moms contend with rushed hospitalizations, and nursing ratios that often cannot accommodate breaks for mom to sleep or take time off from baby care. We face the additional healing required by an unusually high C-section rate, and don't automatically receive home visits from a doula or baby nurse as mothers in European nations do.
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From What No One Tells the Mom by Marg Stark. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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The most well known software for managing your photos are only available on Windows and Mac. so what photo management software do you use on Linux? What are it's strengths and weaknesses? What sort of users would you recommend it for?
I use digikam which is developed for KDE and has ports to Windows and Mac OS X. It's one of the more powerful packages I've tried, with good folder and tag management workflows, though it's not always the most intuitive.
It has lots of plugins for different websites, so you upload your photos to sites like facebook and flick with a single menu option. It will shrink the image to a suitable size before uploading it.
It can deal with pretty much any RAW format. The built in editor is pretty good, though it could be better integrated with the viewer - it can feel a little separate. There's also a light table for comparing photos.
Overall I'd recommend it for a keen amateur who takes a lot of photos and is prepared to spend a little time learning the package in return for a lot of power. I'm sure I've still not explored a lot of what it can do.
If you are looking for something closer in spirit to Aperture or Lightroom, consider Darktable. Open source, all that.
Its not as polished as Aperture or Lightroom, but it works, and is free. It has an active development group, and it gets better all the time.
I find that a combination of different software works best.
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Geeqie for browsing thumbnails and previewing files. It has insanely rapid fast previewing of image files, including RAW, to quickly skip through see which ones are in focus/have other issues and delete them. It's also great at previewing all types of image files.
Rawtherapee for all RAW development and exposure/geometry corrections, sharpening, colour management etc. It's like Lightroom kinda. Also works with JPEGs too, of course, but you lose quality.
The GIMP increasingly I find I don't need to use this anymore as Rawtherapee does what I need.
I used to also use gthumb for general organisation, such as adding keywords into the image files, grouping them, moving/sorting them.
I don't like the viewers that force you to crawl your hard drive and then build an internal database of your images; I already have a database of my images and it's called the file system. That's the reason I've so far avoided things like Shotwell. Shotwell also has very poor RAW processing capability meaning you'd still need Rawtherapee, and can't display thumbnails of videos meaning you'd still need gthumb. Digikam (sort of the same for KDE) is supposedly much, much better, but I recall it may also have been one of the ones where it keeps its own database of the images that departs from the file system.
If you're not averse to a commercial product, you might want to have a look at Bibble Pro. I used it very regularly when Linux was my primary OS and I found it to be the best digital asset management package available for that platform. It supports cataloguing, non-destructive adjustments, layers and there is a long list of plug-ins that do some very cool things. It's also a fairly competent RAW converter, though I've found that it makes a slight sacrifice to image quality for conversion speed (it's very fast compared to dcraw/RawTherapee/ufraw). The early 5.0 releases were buggy, but I imagine that the latest 5.2 release is better on that front.
Google Picasa is available for Linux download page.
I've had limited success in getting digikam working on Ubuntu.
I use kphotoalbum which is a great piece of software.
I keep my photos organized in it. It allows me to tag the photos in diffrent categories - be it
My usual workflow with it is to import photos (which means just to copy them to the program's direcotory; I keep the photos in subdirectories named after dates of copying them from my card to PC), then reviewing. What I start with is to group similar photos (like a few from a single burst shooting) in one group. Then I review the groups again and mark the photos with tags, usually 1-letter ones, to mark them for printing, web gallery export or posting to online forums or such.
If the shooting was for the client, I also select photos I want to show her at this step.
After all this, I edit the pictures I selected, either starting with
Kphotoalbum also has a nice selection of plugins that automate exporting pictures to picasa web albums, flickr, creating flash or html galleries, and many others.
I have been using f-spot for a few years. It works very well for me. It only has very basic functionnality, but integrates well with Gimp.
It is also very easy to backup: all the photos are in the directory of your choice, and the database is a single file. You can also ask it to store your tags in the exif infos, so even if you lose the database it is not too much of a problem.
I've been using Linux longer than I've been using digital cameras and have tried serveral different programs to manage and edit my photos.
At first I used to manage the photos my self and edit them i Gimp and it worked ... but Gimp does/did not support Nikons RAW format NEF.
Today I use Shotwell (replaced F-Spot I think) to manage photos and have purchased LightZone for editing photos. LightZone works with Nikon RAWs NEF (and others Canon RAWs ect.)
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I prefer to organize photos myself, so I download them from camera using gphoto2 and store in a directories like
Don't forget about virtual machine software like VMWare or Oracle/Sun's VirtualBox, which will let you run Windows programs from your Linux environment. The latest VM software is able to support DirectX in the Windows client, and I think both of these options have a "seamless" mode that lets you view a Windows program right on your Linux desktop, as if the program were running right on your Linux OS.
There's a small performance penalty for running in a VM, but if you can't find a good native-Linux option, this might give you some additional choices.
Google's Picasa runs under Wine, it's seamless. I like it because I can use the same software under my home PC running Ubuntu and my work PC running Windows. The images are stored on Dropbox.
I have used f-spot, digikam and shotwell, all for 'management'. I preferred f-spot but that has been dumped from ubuntu and replaced with shotwell. Big mistake. I have found shotwell very slow, freezes and crashes. I will remove it and look again......probably go back to f-spot.
I've used digikam (back in the KDE 3.x days), F-Spot and Shotwell. Of the 3, I liked F-Spot best.
For me its a 2 step process:
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5 Supervillain Tactics Science Is Using to Kill Mosquitoes
What is the deadliest animal in the world? Lions? Sharks? Bears? Bees? Snakes? Rats? It was bears, wasn't it? Is it bears?
No, it's the lowly mosquito, and it's not even close. Thanks to their ability to spread diseases like malaria they take out a mind-boggling two million people a year.
Mankind's desire to stop the little murderous bastards has reached the point of desperation, and our schemes for fighting them have strayed into Mad Scientist Bond Supervillain territory. We're not exaggerating here. Mankind's plans for conquering the world of mosquitoes includes...
#5. Death Rays
You have to start here. Giant lasers have been essential to at least three different Bond villain schemes, so scientists know that if humanity is to be the ultimate nemesis to the mosquito, we need a goddamned death ray. The development of mosquito-destroying lasers was thus an inevitability.
And just in case you think we're stretching the definition of "death ray" here, let's jump right to video of actual mosquitoes being actually set on fire in mid-air:
The scientists who developed the mosquito-killing laser were also on the team who created Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the centerpiece of which would have been satellite-mounted lasers designed to blow nuclear missiles out of the sky before they could land on American cities. That plan was scrapped years ago, but if you take that tracking and kill-beam technology and shrink it down, you wind up with a hell of a mosquito net.
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Though it would be pretty damn cool to just do it from space.
The targeting system is even able to tell harmless male mosquitoes apart from the disease-carrying females (from the sound of their wing beats). Or you can set the laser to, as one researcher put it, "just slay them all."
The lasers could some day be set up to form a barrier around a house or village, like huge, highly-advanced bug zapping force fields. They could even be attached to automated drone aircraft. Hell, for that matter, why automate it? Hook the drone cameras up to XBox Live and let players dispatch mosquitoes for Achievement points. Why not? The project is, after all, funded by Bill Gates as part of his ongoing crusade against the mosquito menace. That's right, we even have an evil billionaire on our side. You mosquitoes thought we weren't serious about this supervillain shit?
Your move, bitches.
#4. Using a Sexy Double Agent to Seduce Them
As every Bond villain knows, sometimes the subtle methods are better. Perhaps a beautiful but deadly assassin, charming him into bed? With deadly genitalia?
As we just pointed out, in mosquito world the dangerous ones are the females (males don't drink blood, and thus don't transmit diseases) so when it comes time to seduce them to their doom, we need a bunch of sexy mosquito males working for us. That's why scientists have created their own genetically modified male mosquitoes, all with super-powered immune systems and a highly shortened life span. They'll buzz around and lure the females into bed, and pass on their DNA to their offspring. The result is we will have altered an entire species of insect to be less threatening to mankind.
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We tried altering the females but they grew powerful enough to eat concrete.
Meanwhile, other scientists are studying mosquito mating rituals to one day design the most irresistible mosquito sex clones possible.
Yes, mosquitoes have mating rituals. For an insect that's such an asshole, their courtships play out surprisingly similar to a Disney film -- a lonely young female mosquito buzzes or "sings," probably about how she wishes she could live a life without the influence of her evil stepmother, when a nearby male mosquito happens to hear. He then joins in and it becomes a duet. The lovin' takes place after the harmony reaches a note almost an octave and a half above A (in concert pitch).
So researchers are trying to generate those sounds electronically, figuring out what sound makes female mosquitoes the horniest. That could let us breed deadly males that can seduce any female in the vicinity, their looks ravishing, their siren song irresistible. We will have created a diabolical eugenics plan that is literally too sexy to be stopped.
#3. Biological Warfare
What's this? Unleashing a horrible disease to combat something that is a threat solely because it spreads horrible diseases? Ahhh, a plan that could only result from the perfect mix of irony, hatred and insanity that is the staple diet of any self-respecting mad-scientist and/or villain. It's hard not to imagine the origins of this plan went somewhere along the lines of someone standing atop a decrepit rain drenched roof, just after finding out about malaria, raises his arms raised screaming at the night sky: " A DISEASE!? I'LL SHOW 'EM A FUCKING DISEASE!"
"You have induced my shirtless rage one too many times, mosquitoes!"
Our weapon is a very nasty parasite called Wolbachia, which affects everything from insects to birds to microscopic worms. In insects it transmits itself via females, and if it winds up in a male host it can actually convert it into a female. How's it going to be spread? See the last entry -- scientists are planning to use it as a sexually transmitted plague for mosquitoes.
Via Scienceblogs.com
Let's just hope they don't have a foot fetish.
In the lab, scientists have even found a strain of the bacteria that doesn't harm the mosquito until it tries to feast on human blood. Once blood mixes with the bacteria, the mosquito drops dead. This serves two purposes: one, it prevents the mosquito from transmitting blood-borne diseases from one human to the next (since it dies before it can reach the next victim), and it sends a clear message to all the other mosquitoes: You touch a human, and you die.
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Like other power tools, airless paint sprayers can be dangerous if used unsafely. If you spray your skin in close proximity to the spray tip, you can fall victim to a horrendous injection injury that could lead to amputation. Our tester shared horror stories of guys he knew in the trade who lost fingers, hands, and even a section of abdomen to such injuries. On the other hand, tool-rental shops will send these tools home with just about anybody, with no requirement for training. So our advice is treat the business end of the sprayer like a loaded gun and be very careful.
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The midtier starts with the Graco 190 just edging out the Titan Advantage 400. Beneath these (in order) are the occasional-use tools, the Titan XT 420, Wagner Twin Stroke 9175, and Milwaukee M4910-20. If you're in the market for a pump you'll use only a handful of times per year, these lower-end units will put out the paint well enough, but they lack the convenience and durability of pricier models and don't quite make the cut for a solid job-site airless sprayer when compared with the other choices.
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What are the halachic and factual issues involved in, and various rabbis' holdings on, whether flavored mouthwash, flavored toothpaste, and flavored lip balm need to be kosher, or need a hechsher (kosher certification)? For example, one argument alluded to in an answer is "it's inedible so it's fine": what are the halachic parameters of "inedible", sources to say that such inedibility renders the product okay (or not) for use, and factual evidence that the product is indeed inedible (or not)? And likewise for other arguments/issues.
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From this article in The Kosher Spirit (OK's Kashrus Magazine):
I also saw that according to the Chicago Rabbinical Council, all Lip Balms are recommended, but preferably without flavor.
For a little bit on the "why" here are some excerpts from this article from Star-K:
And why we aren't worried about swallowing trace amounts of lipstick:
And about toothpaste:
Toothpaste -- If I recall correctly, Adwe had asked Rabbi Schwob (or was it Breuer?) for certification -- he refused to certify it. He explained that toothpaste is inedible and thus does not need certification, and if he certified one brand which might later go out of business, people would think non-hechshered toothpaste was prohibited.
I've recently seen some additional discussion about toothpaste -- if you say "it's inedible so it's fine", you're all set. But for those who wanted to be stricter, a generation ago (I think this is attributed to R' Yaakov Kaminetsky?) it helped that toothpaste by volume was >51% water and calcium carbonate, ingredients that posed no kosher issues. Glycerin and the like were minority by volume. Today the bulking agent has switched from calcium carbonate to hydrated silica, of which a little goes a long ways, so we're no longer guaranteed > 51% non-problematic ingredients. (Not that hydrated silica is a kosher concern -- it's just that there's less of it to out-volume the problematic ingredients.)
HaRav Yitzhak Abadi Shelit"a writes (Sefer Or Yitzhak I YD 24) that toothpaste doesn't need to be kosher.


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I remember ubuntu like a system which had every repository that I could enable and download apps. But now in fedora I can use only her repository and it's all. Do you know if I can change my fedora to be more like ubuntu?
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So I was speaking to one of the folks I work with here a few days ago, and they were complaining that their company no longer allows workers to work remotely at all any more due to the decrease in productivity. As someone that has heard this excuse used for justifying onsite only staffing in my search for remote opportunities, I'm wondering if there's any empirical evidence that confirms this at all or if I and others that I know in the industry are being told a tale.
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Is there evidence that developers working remotely are less productive then when they work onsite? [closed]
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For a very simple reason: you can't test it.
Let's say you can evaluate productivity, and give a number (by the way, how do you do it?). Now how do you create a situation where a developer will be in the exact same circumstances, remotely in a part of the test, on-site in another part?
Even if you succeed in doing such a test, what it will show? How would you ever apply it in practice?
There are too many factors to take in account. For example:
Here are two examples from daily life. The first one is mine, the second one comes from my colleague.
Example 1:
I live alone, and I don't have pets at home. There is no noise around me (the street is too small so there are just neighbor cars). I have a fast computer with an SSD, two large screens, the newest software, a keyboard I love, etc. I don't answer my phone, so customers learnt that it's not a good idea to call me when they need something.
Recently, I was asked to work for a customer in his own company. It was a noisy, crowded place. I was in an open-space, with phones ringing around. I had an old laptop with a small screen, which I used to connect through Remote Desktop to another computer, from which I connected through another Remote Desktop into a third computer. The software was old. The internet connection was slow.
Guess in which case I was more productive.
Example 2:
My colleague has a family and a small child. He has a separate room where he can work, but often he must take care of a child, or answer a call of a customer, etc. His house has some noisy neighbors (with a dog barking all the time) and a large road nearby. He works on a new computer with pretty decent software, but cannot afford an SSD or a license of Visual Studio Ultimate. He has a very slow internet connection (and cannot have a faster one in his area).
Recently, he was asked to work on-site for a customer who has 10/12 on Joel Test. He had a separate room, very quiet. No distractions. Fast computer. Fiber optic internet.
Guess in which case he was more productive.
What those companies are really saying is that they don't trust developers to work at home. Or that if they allow one to work from home they have to allow everybody and they don't trust everybody.
All it takes is one person who goofs off when working remotely to kill it for everyone in many companies. Are there people who are more efficient working remotely, yes.
Are there people who get less done and perpetually miss deadlines that people in the office are easily able to meet, yes. There are people who are never on IM and don't respond to emails in a timely manner and don't answer their phone (OK is the boss going to think you are working when he can't get in contact with you for hours? No.) and who never commit anything after about noon. And who miss every deadline with some excuse but never tell you in advance that things are not progressing as they should be. And who take 4 weeks to deliver the same type of product that in house developers (and sometimes ones of a lower skill level) can deliver in a week or that they themselves delived in that time frame before starting to work from home. Indeed I have worked with these people and they are now no longer allowed to work remotely. Luckily for several other people (who live out of town) management didn't decide to punish everyone becasue a few abused it.
Remote workers are not visible to management, they have to be more aware of keeping management appraised of what they are doing and what issues they have than they have to be in the office. When they don't and simultaneously fail to deliver a quality product, then remote working gets a bad name. Managers don't often see the 20 people doing it right when they are trying to fix the one going bad. And it is often perceived as less risky for them to remove a benefit from everyone than only the ones abusing it.
What I am saying is they don't care if there is empirical evidence, if they have perceived a local situation where it wasn't working.
Unless someone can identify what you need to get done and when, where you do it and at what time, won't matter.
If there is evidence to support it, that can be a start, but it doesn't really matter. First there has to be a way to measure productivity; that's not easy and is a major topic of debate. A given worker can test both environments. Obviously if you know you're being tested, you may work harder in the desired situation.
I've usually started working in the office, and then was allowed some flexibility after proving myself (And moving away from the city but keeping my job.). I think I end up working more at home because I cut nearly 2 hours out of my commute.
Call in sick (stomach flu - need to stay close to toilet), but work from home and get a lot done. That's one way to make your arguement. Make sure your supervisor is enlightened about your increased productivity.
I have to go now, my dog needs to go out ;)
It is harder to tell if an employee is being productive while working remotely and some employees will take advantage of that to be less productive. Others may prefer to code in their underwear and be even more productive. There are so many different factors and so many different personal motivations that coming up with any universal truth in this matter is impossible since there is no commonality between most cases.