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In the lab, a flask of coffee-colored liquid bubbles on a hot plate. It contains tiny fragments from an ancient Etruscan amphora found at the French dig McGovern had just visited. The ceramic powder, which had been painstakingly extracted from the amphora's base with a diamond drill, is boiling in a chloroform and methanol solvent meant to pull out ancient organic compounds that might have soaked into the pottery. McGovern is hoping to determine whether the amphora once contained wine, which would point to how the beverage arrived in France in the first place—a rather ticklish topic.
"We think of France as sort of synonymous with wine," McGovern says. "The French spent so much time developing all these different varietals, and those plants were taken all over the world and became the basis of the Australian industry, the Californian industry and so forth. France is a key to the whole worldwide culture of wine, but how did wine get to France? That's the question."
Francophiles might not like the answer. Today wine is so integral to French culture that French archaeologists include the cost of cases in their excavation budgets. McGovern, however, suspects that wine was being produced in Etruria—present-day central Italy—well before the first French vineyards were planted on the Mediterranean coast. Until Etruscan merchants began exporting wine to what is now France around 600 B.C., the Gauls were likely guzzling what their epicurean descendants would consider a barbaric blend of honey or wheat, filtered through reeds or mustaches.
McGovern's Etruscan amphora was excavated from a house in Lattes, France, which was built around 525 B.C. and destroyed in 475 B.C. If the French were still drinking Etruscan vintages at that point, it would suggest they had not established their own wineries yet. The trick is proving that the amphora contained wine.
McGovern can't simply look for the presence of alcohol, which survives barely a few months, let alone millennia, before evaporating or turning to vinegar. Instead, he pursues what are known as fingerprint compounds. For instance, traces of beeswax hydrocarbons indicate honeyed drinks; calcium oxalate, a bitter, whitish byproduct of brewed barley also known as beer stone, means barley beer.
Tree resin is a strong but not surefire indicator of wine, because vintners of old often added resin as a preservative, lending the beverage a pleasing lemony flavor. (McGovern would like to test the Lattes samples for resin from a cypress-like tree; its presence would suggest the Etruscans were in contact with Phoenician colonies in Northern Africa, where that species grows.) The only foolproof way to identify ancient wine from this region is the presence of tartaric acid, a compound in grapes.
Once the boiling brown pottery mixture cooks down to a powder, says Gretchen Hall, a researcher collaborating with McGovern, they'll run the sample through an infrared spectrometer. That will produce a distinctive visual pattern based on how its multiple chemical constituents absorb and reflect light. They'll compare the results against the profile for tartaric acid. If there's a match or a near-match, they may do other preliminary checks, like the Feigl spot test, in which the sample is mixed with sulfuric acid and a phenol derivative: if the resulting compound glows green under ultraviolet light, it most likely contains tartaric acid. So far, the French samples look promising.
McGovern already sent some material to Armen Mirzoian, a scientist at the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, whose primary job is verifying the contents of alcoholic beverages—that, say, the gold flakes in the Italian-made Goldschlager schnapps are really gold. (They are.) His Beltsville, Maryland, lab is crowded with oddities such as a confiscated bottle of a distilled South Asian rice drink full of preserved cobras and vodka packaged in a container that looks like a set of Russian nesting dolls. He treats McGovern's samples with reverence, handling the dusty box like a prized Bordeaux. "It's almost eerie," he whispers, fingering the bagged sherds inside. "Some of these are 5,000, 6,000 years old."
Months later, McGovern e-mails me with good news: Mirzoian has detected tartaric acid in the Lattes samples from France, making it all but certain they contained imported Etruscan wine. Also, the project's archaeologists have unearthed a limestone treading vat from 400 B.C.—what would seem to be the earliest French wine press, just about 100 years younger than the Etruscan amphora. Between the two sets of artifacts, McGovern hopes to pinpoint the advent of French wine.
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That is one cool little custom .22 rifle !!! Great save !!!
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That is one cool little custom .22 rifle !!! Great save !!!
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Now that is what it's all about! Save a relic, and make yourself happy.
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Very timely, I was just getting ready to contact you about tigging a new bolt handle on this tactical rifle project I'm working on.
How often do you order shop supplies? I need some dykem and can't find it around here.
I found out today (the hard way) that dykem has a shelf life. I needed to layout some lines but when I pulled out my can of dykem I found that it had turned into a brown watery mess. Ideally, I'd like to get something small like in the - 4-6oz range, since I was not even halfway through the 12oz bottle I had before it went tits up on Me. But I'll take whatever I can get.
Fortunately, I was just doing a small layout today and was able to get through it with a permanent marker.
What a way to save a relic and make it completely your own. I do wish there was a range report on it because if I had that with my up on my familiy's land in MN I would single handedly decrease the population of gophers. Thank for the post.
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found this a while ago
Seems we could wire up one of these to the raymarine nema output and have a bluetooth connection! Only a few bucks on ebay.
It Works
Today I went down to the boat with my laptop and cable. I connected the cable to the Standard Horizon radio (just 2 wires), and connected it to my PC. I started Seaclear and enabled AIS display.
It worked. Very easy to do and it would be helpful when sailing at night, in bad weather, etc.
Success with ST60 Multi NMEA optoisolator circuit
I have put together a simple output circuit as suggested by Norman and tested it on the boat (see attached JPEG file for diagram).
Some notes The ST60 Multis NMEA out + goes thru a 1K resistor in series with an LED (light emitting diode) which in turn is optically coupled to the transistor section of the optoisolator IC (an NTE3041 - $1.49 @ Frys electronics). NMEA is the return from the LED.
On the PC serial port side (I used a USB Serial adaptor IOGEAR GUC232A) DTR (data terminal ready pin 4) provides the +10v power to the circuit (DTR is only positive when the serial port is open ex. When the application HyperTerminal is connected). A 1K resistor is in series with the collector of the transistor. The emitter is connected to the receive pin of the serial port (RXD pin 2) and in turn goes to another 1K resistor to ground of the serial port (GND pin 5)
I ran my test at 4800 baud and all waveforms and voltage levels looked fine.
The ST60 Multi provided the following NMEA messages every 2 sec (while sitting at the dock in San Francisco Bay with a little under 20 knots of wind).
$IIDBT,005.0,f,001.5,M,000.8,F*18 (depth)
$IIHDG,185,,,15,E*1A (heading)
$IIHDM,185,M*30 (magnetic heading)
$IIMTW,013.4,C*25 (water temp)
$IIMWV,092,R,016.2,K,A*28 (wind speed and angle)
$IIVHW,199,T,184,M,00.00,N,00.00,K*59 (water speed and heading)
So now that I have the electrical interface working it is on to my software projects.
thanks Norman, will let you know how it turns out
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A simple circuit for your NMEA-RS232 could be simply an Opto-isolator, with a 1K resistor in series with the input/NMEA side (the Multi itself uses 4 2.2k in parallel in series with a PC357 opto, say 560 ohms) .
The opto collector goes to +12 (with another 1k or so in series for good measure) and the opto emitter goes to RS232 in. You might need resistor to ground (a 10k or so) on RS232, but usually switching from open circuit to +12 would work even without a negative source.
I hope this verbal schematic makes sense, if so it should only cost about $5-10. Good luck (from a middle-aged (I wish) EE).
Thanks Norman,
I will try a few things, and will likely wind up with the E85001. I will monitor this thread to see if some young (or old EE) comes up with a circuit idea to tide me over.
Jim, I did have some success connecting the ST60 Multi's NMEA+ to RS232 RXD and NMEA- to RS232 GND, *AS LONG AS* the computer was ungrounded. See Actisense's comments regarding not grounding the NMEA- in most cases. With the laptop on batteries or even its AC adapter, it worked fine. However when I plugged the laptop into another device on ship's DC, no more NMEA from the Multi.
Perhaps the IOGear is floating wrt ground (we wish) or you could try the Digital Yacht usb-serial-NMEA reviewed on Panbo:
Panbo: The Marine Electronics Weblog: DY NMEA 0183 to USB, looks handy
List price is about double the IOGear but you'd avoid another adapter.
For a time I used a Noland N183-41 NMEA multiplexer, (discontinued version, borrowed from a friend) which took NMEA in and provided a floating NMEA output as well as RS232. You might find something like that on eBay.
Eventually, I broke down and got the Raymarine E85001... it has the advantage of providing many more sentences, as well as NMEA and RS232 out.
edit: Come to think of it (and re-reading your question), a simple circuit for that application could be simply an Opto-isolator, with a 1K resistor in series with the input/NMEA side (the Multi itself uses 4 2.2k in parallel in series with a PC357 opto) then the opto collector to +12 (with another 1k or so in series for good measure) and the opto emitter to RS232 in. You might need a 10k pulldown or so on RS232, but usually switching from open circuit to +12 would work even without a negative source.
I hope this verbal schematic makes sense, if so it's only about $5-10.
I'm off to bilgeclean and bottompaint but would be delighted to prototype the circuit, test and tweak the resistor values in exchange for help with 46' of wax job. ;-)
I was interested in the comments "redline" made regarding the nature of the ST60 Multi's NMEA out signal. I also observed a +12 on the NMEA+ with a small drop every 2 sec when data is being output. If I connect the NMEA+ and NMEA- directly to a serial to usb adapter no rs232 data is present (this discussion thread explains why). I ultimately want to use the ST60 Multi as a low cost seatalk to NMEA repeater for the instrument messages it does output. I want to connect to an RS232 serial to usb device (IOGear GUC232A) and read the NMEA messages with software I am developing.
I was wondering if there was a simple circuit that would convert the ST60 Multi output to an RS232 signal which could be read by the serial/usb device. Of course I can go get a Raymarine E85001 or a special opto-isolator cable (cost almost as much as the E85001) or even a nice Brookhouse NMEA Multiplexer, but for now I was looking for a low cost simple solution.
I would appreciate any good ideas that would help.
As it worked out, B&G had a big presence at the Strictly Sail Show, here in Oakland, and their senior tech, one Matt Fries, was there too. The owner of the boat in question and Matt discussed the situation and both Matt and another tech visited the boat. It turns out that they felt there was enough reason to replace the CPU. The exchange should be complete by the time I finish this.
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Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
My brother is a cheap a hole and took the light bulbs when he moved out lol!
Did you get the lines or let him keep them. Where did this end?
Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
Sounds like the type of person who takes the light bulbs when they move.
Keep in mind that Karma gets them in the end - how much can a person as cheap and miserable as that enjoy their life?
They are ever with us. A comedian once commented that even if there was only one person left in the world, there'd still be an a$$hole around.
Besides, nice new colour matched dock lines are usually the first thing I treat my new boats to.
Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
And don't forget that whenever is good for him isn't good for you. You can only meet at your lawyers office between 4-6 pm(rush hour) and your lawyer is 30 miles away.
Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
So whenever someone does something like this my first thought is to see what entertainment value I can get out of it.
So you go on the internet and copy and past some legal documents and make up a three to five page contract whereby you release said dock lines, party of the first part and party of the second part etc. etc. pending insurance, post facto etc. etc.
You need his ssn, dob and licence etc.
You tell your new friend that you would be happy to release the dock lines to him but that your attorney is a real ball breaker and when you mentioned that some real property was to change hands after the closing of the boat that to protect yourself and maintain your insurance you had to have this document signed and notarized.
Because god forbid if he used your lines on another boat and something happened you have to be protected.
Your lawyer may need to be present and he might want his lawyer present also for the closing of the dock lines.
You are very sorry and want to just give him the lines but you know lawyers and insurance, you can't fight city hall.
The closing shouldn't take more than two or three hours.
Then ask him when would be good for him?
Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
I figure that after you sell the boat, and the money changes hands and the signatures are signed- at that point, you no longer have the right to climb aboard unannounced and unaccompanied, and you no longer have the right to determine what stays and what goes- if it wasn't implicitly stated that it does NOT stay with the boat, then it stays with the boat.
all that aside, what kind of penny-ante, small time, middle-school bullshlitz jerk-off demands keeping the docklines when he sells the boat that aforementioned lines attach to aforementioned dock?
Cut the lines.
Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
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I agree, clarity is the key.
Now, let's hope you don't need to sell any time soon!
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Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
When I just sold lately, the contract/ bill if sale had a list of equipment specifically conveyed in the sale- and the buyer was sitting there as we made it up- and as I had a few things I needed off the boat- also had a short list of exclusions- as well as an expiration date, a date by which if they were not removed, they were forfeit, in this case the day after the closing. The purchaser was there while that portion was done as well. This meant that he and I had both taken care of everything on the boat that we viewed as a priority. The rest- icing on the cake, or a hassle to dispose of- eye of the beholder... In practice what happened was - we did the deal, went back to the boat and while I grabbed my binos, solar panel, and cast iron skillet- he started going through stuff and had a hefty bag full o stuff "I could keep" when I took off- translation "do you min throwing out this junk you left on my boat?" Or something to that effect. Pretty seamless- pretty easy. As for dock lines- I kept a set- and left a set. I was sure of two things, he and I both needed some, but I was unclear on whether my new boat would have any...
Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
FWIW, dock lines were on sale at the West Marine here last weekend.
Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
I agree, clarity is the key.
Now, let's hope you don't need to sell any time soon!
Re: Do dock lines go with the boat?
Originally Posted by jimgo View Post
Minne, I think it comes down to the buyer's reasonable expectations. It would be unreasonable to expect that your wallet would come with the boat. It's much more reasonable to expect that the dock likes will convey.
However, the concept of reasonable is quite vague and, if two parties can't willfully agree on it, you need a mediator or court to settle it. Therefore, much smarter to leave nothing vague in the contract, although, most are.
I will write down exactly what comes with my boat when I sell her. Exactly. I will probably leave much more behind, but there should be no room for worrying about what each party thinks is reasonable. This is what you will get and have no right to more. I will not list the docklines, but will leave them anyway. First, its customary. Second, they are a consumable item and I would want to start fresh on my next boat, or it will likely come with its own too.
If, during contract negotiations, the buyers whats to add the four docklines, I'll have no objection. I'm sure they will want and I will leave the custom transom fender, but I'm probably not listing it. What if I lost it? I would want to keep my bosuns chair, my handheld radios, board games, tools, etc. Anything not listed will not be my responsibility to include, but I may anyway. There is just way to much to list it by exclusion. Its all out, unless listed as in.
Clarity is the key.
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PinguyOS Review
Pinguy OS recently released version 10.10 (obviously based off Maverick Meerkat), but even more interesting is that they are also keeping up with LTS updates, giving users that decided to stick to the Lucid impersonation something else to cheer about. I have tried both releases and will review accordingly, but if there are comments that are specific to either one of them, I will try to clarify.
Installation is somewhat customized, enough to notice differences with the corresponding Ubuntu alter egos, but not as much as to make the Ubuntu footprint hard to recognize. For the most part, customizations seem to be aiming at simplifying the installation process, making it a bit more informal and less branding intensive while keeping all the great features that make Ubuntu installations as good as they are. I personally like the Ubuntu installations better, but the difference is not significant.
Once installed, as soon as we get to the desktop, we start to get a feel of the level of customization that is so much a part of PinguyOS. In all honesty, the desktop is so full of icons, menus, widgets and docks that it feels a bit suffocating!
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In fact, this over-the-top vibe is there pretty much everywhere in PinguyOS. The application catalog is anything but standard. It does include some of the usual suspects in Linux distros, such as Firefox (sporting a deeply customized theme), Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Shotwell, Nautilus Elementary, etc. It also includes tons of stuff that are not commonly found elsewhere, like Ailurus, Deluge or Calibre, to name a few. Then there are some downright strange picks (I mean, Torrent Episode Downloader... really?) and a fair share of software that doesn't even natively run on Linux, such as Frostwire or Teamviewer.
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Customization goes beyond the application catalog, impacting pretty much about anything you can think of. Look&Feel is definitely one of the most obvious areas, with custom controls, window borders and a load of icon themes, all working outside the box (Both Faenza and Faenza Dark are perfectly setup, as can be seen in the screenshot below). As a matter of fact, with the elements included, one can mix and match and come with some very interesting alternatives... No need to download anything extra. Wallpapers include items from the Ubuntu default wallpapers, as well as others from the PinguyOS developers/community.
If you think about it, customization of the kind I just mentioned is not that uncommon, but PinguyOS goes a step farther, including a fully working and heavily optimized Compiz setup, gorgeous Conky themes, the awesome Docky and custom gestures and behaviors all over the place. Talking about Compiz, this is by far the best default configuration I have seen to date, even enhancing performance on PCs which struggled with effects before.
The default installation configuration also brings an original take on menus in a GNOME environment. Instead of the usual, three-column menu, we get the latest version of the Mint menu, which expands when one clicks on the PinguyOS icon. The menu to its right is very similar to the MacOS context menu, which sits on the panel, as opposed to sitting on the application window.
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To make it easier for users to access popular places like the Home, Desktop, Downloads, Music, etc., PinguyOS developers decided to use Docky's great features and added a second panel on the left of the screen. The whole concept takes a while to get used to, but once one is familiar with it, it works great.
PinguyOS is certainly an interesting distro, so heavily customized that it's even difficult to explain what the user experience is with words, one has to experiment it to truly understand it. In fact, there are so many layers of tweaks that it makes you wonder if you are sitting in front of someone else's computer.
Aside from the fact that some of the customizations in PinguyOS are hard to justify as something that may appeal to standard users, one has to wonder: Is it a good idea to customize so much? Not really, if you ask me.
I have already mentioned how the cloud is empowering online computing, providing hosts of applications and allowing web browsers to do things that were unthinkable not that long ago. One could argue that local applications still have an edge in terms of functionality and performance, but while that is something that continuously evolves and improves on the Cloud, local apps will never be able to offer anything even close to what their Cloud sisters offer in terms of resiliency, lack of redundancy and compatibility across platforms and devices. People quickly realized how Cloud apps can help them keep their data safe, accessible any time, from any device and without the need to learn anything other than the browser. As a result, it is not uncommon to see more and more Cloud applications used by hundreds of millions of users.
Looking at it from that perspective, is it necessary or even a good idea to add so much stuff to a PC installation? I personally like it simpler, need a lot less out of the box, but even if I liked to have a heavy client, PinguyOS takes it way too far. How many users will actually take the time to learn what so many apps they never heard about do? How many will be happy to have to undergo daily updates due to the size of the software sources list? How many will enjoy having their known-and-true keyboard shortcuts changed (Ctrl+Alt+Del brings the system monitor up)?
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In my experience, it took a while to tame PinguyOS. I uninstalled lots of applications, removing many entries from the software sources list and simplifying the desktop and overall customizations. The screenshot above shows my current desktop, which eliminates redundant information as much as possible.
PinguyOS is certainly anything but standard. It incorporates many original concepts, tons of applications and customizations that make it an interesting distro. The customization is so extreme, though, that I feel PinguyOS will probably generate love/hate reactions, but not a lot in between. Personally, I enjoy some of the things that PinguyOS brings forward, so I decided to keep it, even if I had to do quite a lot of changes to make it fit my needs/preferences.
Is PinguyOS for you? If you are an experienced user, chances are you will probably like something more basic and balanced, but if you are new to Linux, PinguyOS will welcome you with everything there is and then some.
My opinion? I recommend trying it, regardless of your profile. Even if you decide to ditch it eventually, PinguyOS certainly is worth the try.
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Very good review Chema.ReplyDelete
This distro is somehow overloaded for me but I think for beginners it could be worth the try but even for them, they would never learn some basic stuff, how to play with the sources list etc. if everything is already done for them in this distro. Customize the desktop is one of the fun things in Linux.
But I know many people will also like the fact of this distro.
Pinguy Rocks!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 at 2:56 PM
Of the dozen distro's I have tried. There is not another one I would hand a new Linux user whose computer specs could handle it. It's good even for the average user as well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 at 3:49 PM
Pinguy OS 10.10.1 is a derivative of Linux Mint, not of Ubuntu directly, as they claim on their website, but of Mint.ReplyDelete
Anonymous - you are wrong. PinguyOS is ubuntu, the only thing it takes from mint is the mintmenu and updater. The updater is probably going to go in 11.04.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 at 5:42 PM
I like the look and feel of this distribution.ReplyDelete
However, my wish is a distribution based on KDE but heavily customized such as this one. (Sorry, PCLinuxOS does not count because its still vanilla KDE desktop, more or less. Besides it uses too many GTK-based config tools for my comfort)
I am an exclusively-KDE user but I do envy the amount of customization GNOME/GTK-based distributions can squeeze out. I also wonder if KDE lacks easy customization.
Bottomline is that although my non-IT family can use KDE, something like this is much suited to them, which is a pity because KDE offers much more flexibility and has tons of apps which (I feel) are better (no, I try not to mix KDE/GTK applications because they confuse the user -- either in their button order or File Open/Save dialogs or something else.)
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2011 at 2:31 AM
Pinguy's bloat is no where near as bad as Ultimate (and Ultimate is plain ugly). I can't use Pinguys as is because it is over customised for me. but equally I can't use Ubuntu out of the box either for the opposite reason.It is a toss up as to which I will run after April.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2011 at 5:50 AM
1. Regarding Team Viewer, what do you mean by "doesn't even run natively on Linux"?ReplyDelete
2. Checked the first photo of the desktop and saw the Ram toll being 819 MB. Was the photo taken after landing on the desktop?
Frostwire does run natively on linux. Don't know about the Team Viewer. Nice review and nice os even tho way too busy for my taste.ReplyDelete
Thanks all for your comments!ReplyDelete
Teamviewer is a Windows app that runs on top of a Wine layer. Even without Wine installed, the .DEB file that can be downloaded from the application site does install the minimum necessary so that it can run on Linux. One only needs to run the application and see the Look&Feel and it's easy to tell: It stinks Windows! ;-)
As for Frostwire, well, it is a Java application, not what I would consider native.
@Anonymous: I am afraid you are right, the first screenshot was taken short after the desktop started. Having said so, the RAM toll goes back to normal after a short while.
Understood. Thanks for the response.ReplyDelete
Eddie Wilson
Nice review. I ran across this distro and was/am considering it as an alternative to Ubuntu or Mint on my wife's laptop. I am currently running Ubuntu 10.10 and tried out Mint also. As a new Linux user, I thought I liked the idea of a lot of pre-installed packages, but your review makes me think that might not be the best. Also part of the fun of Linux to me has been the customization that I have been able to do on my own, instead of someone else deciding it for me. Again thanks for a great review.ReplyDelete
@JayW: Thank you for your comments.ReplyDelete
I recommend checking out Moon OS, another Ubuntu fork with more of a balanced customization, tasty, but not as extreme.
Moon OS is a perfect choice for Linux newbies. It is fully ready to use, sports awesome hardware support and has all the necessary codecs installed and correctly configured, but it still leaves tons of room for the user to do whatever they want. PinguyOS does too, but chances are users will be spending their time undoing rather than doing, if you see what I mean.
Howdy There - Been poking around on your blog and I like a good deal of the write ups you've done. I was wondering if you might like to take a look at a project I am working on with a small team - http://bodhilinux.com/ReplyDelete
I am leaving this in comment form because I could not find an email address listed.
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@Jeff91: Thanks, glad you like my blog!ReplyDelete
Of course, I had been trying to give Bodhilinux a go for a while, just hadn't found the time. Expect a review shortly.Replies
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2012 at 6:33 PM
hi good review i had downloaded and test pinguy and is a great distro. But Chema can you make a review of Solus OS? is a new interesting distro. Base on debian stable. Really impressive altough in rc2 phase. Thansk. [excuse gramatical error spanish people ok?]Delete
The amount of possible tweaking in a Linux OS is mind boggling. Pinguy OS looks cool,but again, how much is too much? As a Windows user, Linux Mint and Zorin 4 seem just right.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2011 at 8:12 PM
Out of curiousity, what is that Arabic program (Jini?) in the dock in your last picture?ReplyDelete
Gracias por la Review de Pinguy OS :)ReplyDelete
I missed that question about Geany, sorry. It is a powerful text editor with great programming capabilities... Late response, but I guess better late than never! ;-)ReplyDelete
Keep up the good work 'cause this is a great blog!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 1, 2012 at 4:19 AM
I really love this distro. It made me come back to linux as my desktop os.ReplyDelete


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The DbContext API captures Entity Framework's (EF) most commonly used features and tasks, simplifying development with EF. This concise book shows you how to use the API to perform set operations with the DbSet class, handle change tracking and resolve concurrency conflicts with the Change Tracker API, and validate changes to your data with the Validation API.
With DbContext, you'll be able to query and update data, whether you're working with individual objects or graphs of objects and their related data. You'll find numerous C# code samples to help you get started. All you need is experience with Visual Studio and database management basics.
Julia Lerman is the leading independent authority on the Entity Framework and has been using and teaching the technology since its inception in 2006. She is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, and INETA Speaker. Julia is a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world and writes articles for many well-known technical publications including the Data Points column in MSDN Magazine. Julia lives in Vermont with her husband, Rich, and gigantic dog, Sampson, where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group. You can read her blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and follow her on Twitter at julielerman.
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What a page turner! Couldn't put it down! Yeah, ok that's the kind of things you might hear about a good novel, but seriously the author has taken the deeply technical material and made it very interesting and relevant!The detailed handling of the capabilities of dbContext are superb and the examples used made it abundantly clear as to the best uses of the described features. I considered myself pretty knowledgeable with entity framework, but I found a great deal of new information stuffed into this relatively small book. The information in the first chapters of the book get the basic user up to speed, while still pointing out tips to the advanced users. Going from the most basic differences between the older methods of using data with the entity framework to the new object description can be helpful to those with experience in the previous versions. I like the trick of setting up the context in a using statement to help to dispose the object. The section on LINQ to entities as a good tutorial, but I wish there was a link to a reference on performance versus other methods of querying. Her description of the different methods of loading the object tree was very useful and can be of immediate benefit to most readers. The book illiterates the advantages and disadvantages of each technique in simple terms.How EF handled change tacking was a mystery to me, but she clarified the methods used and techniques to enhance performance in a clear manner with great examples. The coverage of data validations was likewise technical but written in a very understandable way. The techniques found here will save me time and effort in the future.I had been looking for details of how to use the entity framework and dbContext in a disconnected and multi-tier environment and it was covered pretty well in this book although, I would have liked to see more than a couple of paragraphs on WCF Data services in a multi-tier environment.I would highly recommend this book for anyone from novice to expert in the use of EF.
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This book is a must-have for Entity Framework developers. For those who are already experienced with EF and would prefer to continue using ObjectContext in favor of DbContext, don't worry, ObjectContext is easily accessible when using DbContext. The two previous bird books on EF were rather lengthy, and while a useful reference, most developers don't need that level of detail. This book provides just the right amount of information, and focuses on the correct delivery of the most important topics. Dealing with disconnected entities receives much better treatment in Entity Framework and this book than in the past. The two authors are probably the best candidates for writing this book. They are quite knowledgeable, and deliver with perspective and authority that is sometimes lacking from other writers on the subject. Altogether an enjoyable read.
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This book covers every aspect of the Entity Framework Programming in Visual Studio 2010, specifically on how to use the features of the DbContext, Change Tracker and Validation API, available in the Entity Framework 4.3 release, the authors provides a perfect explanation as to the background for some of the new language features.The book is written thinking to the developers which are using Entity Framework in their projects and have, of course, at least some experience in .NET and Database Programming, so if you are a beginner this is not the book for you but if you want to know every advanced techniques of the new API's, this book will be a great resource in your daily work. The authors, after a thorough analysis of API DbContext and after dealing with the practical aspects of writing query with LINQ To Entities, focus their attention on the study of the new API's like Change Tracker and Validation, teaching us on every aspects of this technology.Then they show us about operations that can be performed with Change Tracker API, including refreshing an entity from the database and other examples about solving common problems with our applications.Finally discusses advanced programming problems covering some functionality like Derived Types, Automated Testing and Rargeted Multiple Contexts.The examples, mainly written in C #, are easily convertible in VB.NET and are always very clear in every aspect of this book.In this book Julia Lerman and Rowan Miller write with a clear and always understandable style also in the most complex aspects of this technology.A book to be recommended to those who want to study the more advanced aspects of the Context Db API's and to the programmers or architects who want to implement Entity Framework in their projects.
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I was looking all day and I cant find any one over here that sells it. The only bits I seen had signs on them. I remember then that I have some heating oil plastic drums in the shed. So I cleaned them off and started cutting templates of the armour out.
I made sure that the templates fitted my frame and stuck them on my T-Shirt lol.
My first attempt at cutting the parts out was dreadful. I cut them straight out from the drum with a kitchen knife. Then I tried to clean the edges up with sand paper but it was hopeless.
The second attempt turned out better as I tried it a different way. I cut the ends off the drum and ended up with a ring of plastic and then cut it in the middle. I ended up with a flat sheet. From there I traced out the templates again and use a big pear of scissors to cut the plastic. The drum was only 2mm thick so it cut easy.
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THIRTEEN's SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED Premieres January 25
In a unique series of six films debuting on PBS Friday, January 25 at 9 p.m. (check local listings), Shakespeare Uncovered will combine history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passions of its celebrated hosts – Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Trevor Nunn, Joely Richardson, and David Tennant – to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
Produced by Richard Denton for Blakeway Productions & THIRTEEN for WNET in association with the BBC and Shakespeare's Globe, each episode explores and reveals the extraordinary world and works of William Shakespeare and the still-potent impact they have today. The films combine interviews with actors, directors and scholars, along with visits to key locations, clips from some of the most-celebrated film and television adaptations, and illustrative excerpts from the plays staged specially for the series at Shakespeare's Globe in London.
Behind every Shakespeare play there is a story: for instance, how he and his company dismantled their theater and rowed it across the river Thames when their landlord cancelled their lease – then staged Henry V for the first time. There are echoes of the playwright's life -- who named his twins Hamnet (a boy, who died at age 11) and Judith -- in plays like Twelfth Night, where the plot turns on the adventures of separated twins; and Hamlet, where the drama begins with the grief of a son who has lost his father. The series shows Shakespeare as an impresario who, four centuries ago, defined early the tenets of show business – drawing on historical sources, stealing and adapting ideas, bringing back popular characters, writing prequels, and developing dramatic ideas from the politics of the day.
Each program's host has deep personal experience with Shakespeare's work and relates not only the stories of the plays themselves, but also the stories of how they came to be written, how they have been performed, and how they have survived over 400 years.
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Shakespeare Uncovered: Macbeth with Ethan Hawke
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Ethan Hawke invites viewers on his quest to play Shakespeare's murderous Thane of Cawdor by researching the true story and real-life events that served as the play's inspiration. Historian Justin Champion visits the actual Scottish sites of the story on Hawke's behalf, introducing him to Dunsinane where Macbeth supposedly lived, and to the history books that distorted the true story and consequently led Shakespeare to do the same. Immersing himself in some of the most memorable and innovative productions of "the Scottish Play," Hawke gleans extraordinary insights into Shakespeare's understanding of the criminal mind. Lady Macbeth's relationship to the titular Thane is a critical role in the play and is examined by observing Shakespeare's Globe actors rehearsing and performing scenes from the play, as well as by revisiting recent productions starring Patrick Stewart and Antony Sher.
Shakespeare Uncovered: The Comedies with Joely Richardson
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Joely Richardson investigates (with her mother Vanessa Redgrave) the legacy of these two brilliant cross-dressing comedies, with their missing twins, mistaken identities, and characters in disguise; their connections to Shakespeare's personal life; and the great romantic heroines created by Shakespeare in two perennially popular plays. Richardson investigates the comic and dramatic potential of female roles written for male actors to play. At the same time, Richardson demonstrates that Shakespeare revealed an acute understanding and sympathy for women when he wrote these characters. Redgrave's portrayal of Rosalind in As You Like It made her a star in England and soon after, all over the world, and the show reveals the legacy of strong, sassy, witty women that we inherit from William Shakespeare's great comedies.
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Shakespeare Uncovered: Richard II with Derek Jacobi
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In returning to the role of a deposed monarch whose crown is taken from him, Derek Jacobi takes a 360-degree view of this great political thriller whose title character he played more than 30 years ago. Jacobi shares insights on the play's political twists – and their modern equivalents – that have kept Richard II resonant for centuries through its understanding of power's tendency to corrupt and distort the truth, and how quickly power may be lost. While coaching actors at Shakespeare's Globe, Jacobi describes how the play was used by the Earl of Essex in his attempted coup against Queen Elizabeth I, and persuaded Shakespeare's own company to stage it to encourage the Earl's "plotters." Jacobi reveals how the plot nearly cost Shakespeare his life. Also featured are notable excerpts from the upcoming Great Performances film adaptation starring Ben Whishaw and Patrick Stewart.


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When The Food Network yanked Paula Deen's shows and replaced them with programs by Giada De Laurentiis, the chef felt the backlash.
Giada stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Tuesday, where she dished on being in caught in the middle of Deen's N-word controversy.
"Her shows got replaced by my shows, so we have a lot of people not happy with me right now, as if I had anything to do with it," Giada told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover.
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Deen supporters have taken to Twitter and Facebook over the issue, telling the chef she needs to defend her fellow celebrity chef, but Giada stressed that she is not getting involved when she doesn't know all the facts of the situation.
"That's what everyone on social media wants me to do, to make comments, [to] stand up for her. The problem is, you need to do your homework first, you need to have all the facts before you say anything - especially in a situation like this," she explained. "Paula has been nothing but wonderful to me over the years.
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Giada explained that she never witnessed Deen using the N-word.
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Im planning on atempting to make the Kotor Mandalorian.
I was wondering if anyone has made it or seen one before.
Im planning on atempting to make the Kotor Mandalorian.
I was wondering if anyone has made it or seen one before.
refrance shots? Or we talkin bout a fully made fan one.....
either way what yea need help with?
These Kotor Neo Crusaders? I have never seen one being built (doesn't mean one haven't, though). Since someone even managed to build Durge, building one can't be impossible however
the biggest difficulty facing you is once you get the suit on, how would you move?
That'd be a really cool costume to put together, but it can certainly be done. Can't you simply use one of the red Imperial Guards as it's bucket, no? You may want to speak with the fella who made a really awesome Durge costume. He'd be able to help you immensely if he's inclined as the Neo-Crusader's armor and Durges aren't that different from each other...I'm sure someone could point you in the right direction-I'll see if I can find his username so you can PM him after bit...
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I saw these mandalorians in the game,and i couldnt stop thinking of them.
Im planning on sculpting the helmet and making thick latex copies.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Building the helmet, maybe it could help if starting with a Royal Guard helmet as base
i know this sound... evil? but this costume seems easy, save the helm of course. then again the cheap way out is a Royal Guard helm..... which was said
the big peices with white are armor, the rest is like ... well use under armor and some fake leather (pleather) to match.... armor wise yea got
Head, Chest, Pauldrens (upper arm), Gauntlets, Thigh, and Leg.. o and boot
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If I remember correctly, I think I read somewhere that the Imperial/Royal Guards are the easiest costumes to put together, and one of the cheapest. Is that true? Sorry, that's kinda off topic but I was curious...Also though, wasn't the Imperial Guards helmet actually based upon the Neo-Crusader? It couldn't be coincidence though, could it?
well considering roayl gaurds dont have a kit to put together, it may be cheap, but hard to put together.
but it should be fairly easy, correct me if i am wrong guys!
I guess the work on Royal guards are mostly with the robes, so the difficulty would likely be affected by the skill you have with textiles and patterns.
But anywho; I don't think Royal guard-helmets are that close to the Neo Crusader's as it would appear at a first glance. And with the modifications needed to it, it might just be easier to sculpt a whole new helmet from scratch.


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Puppies do like to nip & 'play mouth/bite', yours is very young yet. I wouldn't be as hard on a 9 week puppy as I may be on a 6 month old dog.
The younger they are I'd be easier on them, the bonding process is still the highest priority. I'll also accept a little bit of play mouthing. One of the 1st things a dog needs to learn is the meaning of a firm "NO".
I don't have a list of links & videos to watch, though some are very helpful. It's all very simple, they'll continue to do what you allow. What would your Grandfather(or Grandmother) do decades ago if their pup bit them to firmly?
Again, no need to be to firm with a 9 week old pup, but it's better to get ahead of this early. I don't consider tap in the side of the butt with a firm 'NO' to harsh to correct the biting, mostly as the dog is weeks older.
With a dog you recently took home, redirect as much as possible. They will also grow out of much of it. Keep on top of it.
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Try engaging him in play with one of his toys. Make it interesting. Remember that he used to have play mates that played with him. Now he only has you. You can put treats in certain toys like the KONG Wobbler. This is great for exercise and also for mental stimulation. Both vital for puppy growth and training. Engage him in play. Get down to his level and shake the toy around. Throw it then scurry after it and move it around. Do a play bow. Anything that gets his attention and makes him want to play.
Never let your puppy bite or chew you or your furniture in the beginning stages. German Shepherds get big fast which can lead to big trouble in their future if they learn that furniture is fun to chew and biting is ok. However, I like to let my dogs mouth me SOFTLY once they know that I'm leader and they learn that no, means no. In the dog world I would consider it to be rude if I gently mouthed a dog and they smacked my nose. The downside to this is many people may consider it "biting" and "aggression", especially with such a big dog, so choose wisely if you want you dog to have zero mouth on skin or some soft mouthing.
If your puppy tries to bite you or nip you you can try the following:
Giving a firm loud "No."
Giving a firm "No." and making a loud noise (Clapping your hands perhaps?)
Giving a firm "No." and ignoring your puppy for at least 10 minutes (15-20 would be better)
Yelping or squealing loudly like a litter mate would do if your puppy were to hurt him/her then turn your back and walk away.
This particular issue sounds like a teething or dominance issue. He may just want to play but despite what some people believe dominance problems CAN start early. Heres what you can do to prevent problems from occuring:
Give your dog LOTS of attention - Puppies are like babies. They are a lot of work. Creating a schedule and designating at least 3 hours of your day 5x a week to your puppy is a good idea. During this period of time teach obedience and play with your puppy.
Give your dog plenty of exercise - This is very important. It promotes healthy growth and muscle tone while getting your puppy tired at the end of the day so he sleeps a good night sleep. Try giving your puppy 30 minutes of exercise a day in the beginning and steadily increasing to 1 hour as your puppy gets older. If your puppy is too young to go out into the open world, play in the yard. Run around with your puppy as you would a toddler. Play with toys with your puppy etc. Puppies 3-4 months + should begin experiencing the outside world. Make sure to give your puppy it's vaccines.
Getting the Appropriate Toys - You will need mentally stimulating toys, teething toys, and play toys. KONG toys are often very durable and good for mental stimulation. Make sure you get toys appropriate for your puppy. Like the KONG classic puppy toy or the KONG wobbler. They have certain treats you can put inside. Your puppy must work for his treat. Be sure to show your puppy how to play with the toy as he may not understand.
Look up a guide of Dog Behavior - Learn to read your dogs signs and counteract bad ones. This is one of the best things you can do to prevent and stop aggression in its tracks.
Training, Training, Training - Lots of training in obedience. This is a great way to get to know your dog while also teaching your dog who's higher in rank. Looking up different methods of training is a great idea. Three common ways are Victoria Stiwell's way (Positive trainer), Cesar's way, and Positive training. I personally like a mix of all of them. I guess you could call me a mutt in dog training :P. Begin in calm places then slowly work your way up to crowded places.
Socialize - Be sure to begin socializing your dog at 12 weeks through 2 years. Be around all different types of animals and people. Kids, People with big hats, glasses, baggy clothes, horses, birds, ducks, chickens, rabbits, cats, you name it. This will prevent dog-animal or dog-human aggression. Be sure your puppy has its vaccines before hand.
Be in LOTS of different situations. - One of the best things you can do. Jumping straight into a stressful situation is a very bad idea. Go to a relaxed, calm park then steadily increase the pressure to crowded, busy places. Its best to start this at 4 months of age after your puppy has finished basic obedience.
"Nothing in life is free" - Not particularly my favorite for well trained dogs but will help with dominance issues. I use this one partially at all times. Basically your dog must wait or follow a command before getting something they want. Let's say the dog wants a treat. You must tell the dog to sit or you must make the dog wait before he/she can achieve eating that treat. If your dog want's to go out. Your dog should sit and wait a certain distance away from the door for lets say 10 seconds before walking out the door on cue. If your dog wants to jump on the couch. He must sit before allowing him to do so. I used this method for my own GSD as a puppy. It helps out when training A LOT because your doing it almost all the time.
Be sure to get your puppy his puppy shots before going out into public. There are fatal diseases such as Parvo and Distemper that could kill your puppy otherwise. If money is an issue, look up low cost veterinary clinics in your area. Be sure to check reviews to make sure that they are decent places. I think I covered most of it. I hope this helps =)
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Hello I need some advice. My 9 week old male puppy has recently been biting everything and anything in site, most of all me. I have toys for him to play with and he just ignored them and went straight for my hands, feet, and anything else he could reach. Then he growls at me. He's not normally like this but today has been crazy... any help would be appreciated.
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Lockerbie Bomber Released… Is It Just I?
posted at 7:26 pm on August 20, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
According to Scottish authorities, the poor chap has suffered enough:
Despite strenuous American opposition, the Scottish government on Thursday ordered the release on compassionate grounds [!] of the only person convicted in the Lockerbie bombing, permitting Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a 57-year-old former Libyan intelligence agent, to return home after serving 8 years of a 27-year minimum sentence on charges of murdering 270 people [!!] in Britain's worst terrorist episode.
Still protesting his innocence, and offering "sincere sympathy" to the families of those who died in the bombing, Mr. Megrahi was granted his freedom under the terms of Scottish laws permitting the early release of prisoners with less than three months to live.
…Is it just I? Or does anyone else think that Abdel Basset Ali al-Merahi having only three months to live makes him more likely, not less, to commit a suicide bombing — sorry, act of "martyrdom?"
But at least the amnesty side has a strong, perhaps unarguable counterargument in favor of release:
[Kenny MacAskill, Minister of Justice in Scotland] continued: "In Scotland, we are a people who pride ourselves on our humanity. It is viewed as a defining characteristic of Scotland and the Scottish people. The perpetration of an atrocity and outrage cannot and should not be a basis for losing sight of who we are, the values we seek to uphold, and the faith and beliefs by which we seek to live."
Mr. Megrahi "did not show his victims any comfort or compassion. They were not allowed to return to the bosom of their families to see out their lives, let alone their dying days. No compassion was shown by him to them."
"But, that alone is not a reason for us to deny compassion to him and his family in his final days," the official said.
"Our justice system demands that judgment be imposed but compassion be available. [Actually, it appears to demand that "compassion" trump justice. — the Mgt.] Our beliefs dictate that justice be served, but mercy be shown. Compassion and mercy are about upholding the beliefs that we seek to live by, remaining true to our values as a people – no matter the severity of the provocation or the atrocity perpetrated," he said.
This is the evil wrought by a compassion-based "justice" system: At the end of the day, according to Minister MacAskill, the horrific and premeditated murders of the 270 victims of the bombing were worth 11.5 days incarceration each; after that, "compassion" lurches forward to assert that, being sick, the convicted mass-murderer should be allowed to go home and be surrounded by his loved ones and comforted as he dies — exiting, perhaps, not with a whimper but with a bang.
"I can hear the cuckoo singing in the cuckooberry tree…"
The self-emasculation of Europe in the name of "compassion" is a disturbing yet fascinating case study demonstrating why Professor Charles R. Kesler is right that "compassion is not a virtue":
At bottom, the whole notion that compassion was the virtue conservatives lacked or needed to cultivate to be respectable was highly dubious. The best that could be said was that the slogan may have conferred some marginal electoral advantages in 2000. At a deeper level, however, the prominence of compassion was in tension with Bush's avowal of the responsibility era and his pledge to bring dignity back to the presidency. Compassion is not a virtue, after all. As the name suggests, it's a form of passion, of "feeling with" others — feeling their pain, usually; a specialty of the previous administration. Like every passion, it is neither good nor bad in itself; everything depends on what its object is and its fitness to that object. In practice, our compassion often goes out to whoever is moaning the loudest. That's why the classical political virtue is justice, not compassion, for compassion is often indiscriminate and misdirected.
(Hat tip to Scott Johnson at Power Line.)
The Kesler essay is astonishing, and we urgently need every Republican at least to read it; and every conservative — and even non-conservative anti-liberals (such as myself) who nevertheless want to see a conservative resurgence — should read it closely and absorb Kesler's most important take-away: That what the American conservative movement has lacked since the days of Ronald Reagan is a coherent, consistent ideology of conservatism that drives their policy decisions… and which they are willing to defend, even when those policy decisions are unpopular with some segments of the American polity.
As GW at Wolf Howling likes to say, "read the whole thing." It's a bit long, but it's time well spent.
Any consistent ideology of conservatism must be based upon personal responsibilty; each individual must accept personal responsibility and accountability for his decisions in life — and every legitimate government must allow such personal responsibility. Individual justice (the rule of law) is just as integral a part of conservatism and republicanism as is Capitalism, for each demands that individuals take personal charge of their own lives and be judged accordingly. Thus, while a totalitarian tyranny is clearly illegitimate, so too is a "nanny state" that outlaws the consequences of failure (and therefore the fruits of success as well). The difference in illegitimacy is merely a matter of degree; the principle is the same.
I may seem to be taking a left turn here, but just bear with me. Rule twelve of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals dictates the following tactic:
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy.
But the corollay of this rule — for friendly forces — is likewise true; here is my own formulation of the other side of the corrosive Alinsky coin:
Rule 12-prime: Pick the ally, ignore his flaws, personalize his suffering, and polarize it. Cut off the opposition network and insulate the ally from personal accountability.
And that is precisely what the New Left in Europe, America, and the rest of the West has done to Megrahi: They have insulated him from personal responsiblity for his horrific terrorist act because he is an ally, a fellow anti-American.
They do the same with Stalinist butcher Che Guevera, convicted cop-killer Mumia abu Jamal, and even with those "three members of the New Black Panther Party" who viciously intimidated voters trying to vote in Philadelphia in the 2008 election: Compassion trumps justice — but ideology trumps compassion.
After all, the Obama administration showed no compassion for voters driven away from the polls by club-wielding "poll watchers," just as Justice [!] Minister MacAskill shows no compassion for the 270 victims of Megrahi's mass slaughter, or even their living families.
In that sense, Professor Kesler was slightly off target: Compassion, rather than being "indiscriminate," is often very discriminatory indeed, being offered only to members of one's own tribe (no matter how culpable) and denied every other victim, no matter how innocent and deserving. (He did write, "indiscriminate and misdirected;" but he could have been stronger and more explicit.)
Early releases of a vicious killer on grounds of "compassion" directly contradicts the principle of equal justice under law, a fundamental axiom of legitimate government; our protest to Scotland should begin and end with that point: Denying equal justice to a popular killer and to citizens of an unpopular country (the United States), Scotland, even the United Kingdom itself, are sinking to the same level as Libya, no morally better and no more legitimate; and the Scottish and British people should be deeply ashamed of their tainted government.
Some clearly are:
Conservative Party leader David Cameron said: "I think this is wrong and it's the product of some completely nonsensical thinking, in my view.
"This man was convicted of murdering 270 people, he showed no compassion to them, they weren't allowed to go home and die with their relatives in their own bed and I think this is a very bad decision."
…Even some left-liberals:
Scottish Labour criticised the decision to release Megrahi. Labour leader and MSP Iain Gray said: "If I was First Minister, Megrahi would not be going back to Libya. The decision to release him is wrong. He was convicted of the worst terrorist atrocity in our history, the mass murder of 270 people.
"While one can have sympathy for the family of a gravely ill prisoner, on balance our duty is to honour and respect the victims of Lockerbie and have compassion for them. The SNP's handling of this case has let down Scotland."
Let us hope that British subjects who care not only about their government's moral legitimacy but about the very survival of Western civilization exercise their personal responsibility to remove the current Labour government from power at the earliest opportunity and replace it with a strong Tory majority, as polls suggest will happen when Labour is finally forced to hold an election.
David Cameron has many faults — he is certainly not what we in America would call "conservative" — but at least he understands the fundamental distinction between of the virtue of justice and the chimera of compassion.
Cross-posted on Big Lizards…


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Work is due to begin next month on a £20m 'super hub' at the headquarters of cold food storage and distribution firm Yearsley Group, which will create up to 150 jobs.
The project will see Yearsley create a new 160,000 sq ft facility at its Heywood base.
Russells Construction, based in Trafford Park, has been appointed to carry out the works.
Planning permission was granted last year for the development at the Hareshill Distribution Park.
The new cold store will provide 40,000 pallet spaces, doubling Yearsley's capacity at the site as it looks to create a northern 'super hub' for distribution to retailers and food service organisations.
Managing director Harry Yearsley said: "The Heywood cold store is currently near to full capacity so the expansion of our operation is in direct response to demand. It will become the first of two national 'super hubs' for Yearsley Group, enabling us to consolidate more stock in single, strategically-located stores, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing carbon output.
"The extension of Heywood will ultimately provide us with a frozen storage capacity of more than 80,000 pallets in one north west location, helping us to better meet the storage needs of manufacturing customers and the delivery requirements of retail and food service customers across the country."
Yearsley is looking at locations in eastern and southern England for its second 'super hub'.
The firm has more than 1,200 employees in total and serves customers including Heinz, Brakes, Tesco and Asda. It has 12 depots nationwide and a fleet of 300 vehicles.
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