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North Carolina drivers received traffic alerts that mocked women drivers, and Obamacare
The North Carolina Department of Transportation is apologizing for a series of inappropriate traffic alert messages.
The six messages went out over NCDOT's Traveler Information Management System, also known as 'TIMS.' NCDOT says a contractor was performing routine tests, and failed to turn off the external feed.


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Obama wants to fight income inequality…with more free trade?
On Saturday, the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, a.k.a. Davos, came to an end. But its spirit of transnational and bipartisan cooperation among the rich will live on—at least for a few more days: on Tuesday night, President Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union Address.
Left unmentioned by the administration is that its expected proposals on trade stand to pit the Democratic and Republican bases against their respective parties' elites. In addition to strenuously, repeatedly and regularly denouncing inequality, the president is expected to use the State of the Union to call for trade liberalizationwith 11 Asian and Latin American nations, and to seek Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). TPA is a congressional mechanism which would enable finalized trade deals to be considered on a legislative "fast track," on a closed, as is, take it-or leave-it basis.
Without Republican crossover votes TPA is as good as dead. On the Democratic side of the ledger antipathy towards free trade is presumed and, by now, historic. It is pretty much baked into the Democrats' DNA. For instance, in 1993 President Clinton was forced to work in tandem with congressional Republicans to secure passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) because a majority of congressional Democrats opposed its enactment.
Fast forward to the 2008 Democratic primaries, where Obama expressed his hostility to NAFTA because it favored Wall Street over Main Street—his words, not mine. In a debate held in the pivotal rust-belt swing state of Ohio and hosted by MSNBC, Obama announced that NAFTA "did not have the labor standards and environmental standards that were required in order to not just be good for Wall Street but also be good for Main Street." For good measure, Obama added that, "I will make sure that we renegotiate, in the same way that Senator Clinton talked about."
Did Obama really believe what he was saying? Well, while the candidate was decrying NAFTA in front of the cameras, Austan Goolsbee, Obama's senior economic policy adviser, was secretly offering verbal succor to Canadiandiplomats. According to Joseph De Mora, a Canadian political and economic affairs consular officer, Goolsbee admitted that Obama's stated position was "more reflective of political maneuvering than policy."
Suffice to say, NAFTA hasn't been renegotiated. Suffice to say, details of the now-pending trade deals were being hammered out with Obama in the White House and Hillary Rodham Clinton ensconced in Foggy Bottom.
Still, TPA's fate is very much in doubt. Already, 17 Democratic senators and a majority of House Democrats have expressed their opposition to granting Obama legal authority to conclude trade negotiations and make them law. Significantly, Senator Elizabeth Warren is one of the seventeen and that spells trouble for thepresident. Her stance will be used to highlight the nexus between globalization and inequality, which presumably Obama abhors, at least the latter anyway.
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WATCH: Colin Powell gets down to Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky'
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A YouTube video of Colin Powell getting groovy has gone viral.
The video, posted Monday by Emily Williams of the "New York Post," shows the usually buttoned-up general letting loose last Saturday night at a Hamptons event.
The former Secretary of State is seen hopping on stage with Jamie Foxx and Pharell Williams and dancing to Daft Punk's hit song "Get Lucky."
The video is going viral!
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This is the body composition scale that displays all readings simultaneously for simple, instant reference. The 5"-wide LCD shows readings for weight, body fat, body water percentage, and bone mass at the same time, eliminating the hassle of navigating several screens. Stainless steel electrodes on the scale's surface generate a harmless electrical impulse (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis) to obtain readings, a method proven to be more accurate than the body mass index method used by typical scales. The scale stores readings for up to four people, allowing a family to easily track progress. The scale has a soft, rubberized non-slip surface, 450-lb. capacity, and it displays weights in 0.1-lb. increments. Includes a lithium-ion battery. Not for use by those with pacemakers. 12 3/4" L x 12" W x 1 1/2" H. (4 1/4 lbs.)
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The Full Readout Body Composition Scale comes with The Hammacher Schlemmer Lifetime Guarantee. If this product ever disappoints you, for any reason, you may return your Hammacher Schlemmer purchase for exchange, credit, or refund.
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Reading are pretty useless.
By hockeybabe
from Aulrora, Co.
This product is over rated. Information it provides is inaccurate as it does not agree with my doctor's figures. If I still had the box, I would send it back. Doesn't function right and always shows errors.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Hammacher Schlemmer Response: Thank you for your comments. Here are some tips for using this scale for accuracy and proper use. Stay stationary, do not move (for better accuracy). Put the scale on a flat surface floor (not carpet). For the most accurate results, step on the scale barefoot with your feet on the electrodes. Note the scale will error if you: a.)don't wait for the 0.0 to appear, b.)stand on the scale or hold their foot on it too long (must tap to turn on), c.) feet aren't bare and/or aren't on the electrodes or d.) weight exceeds scales limit. Please remember that we have a lifetime guarantee on this product. Our customer service team is available 24 hours a day at 1-800-321-1484 to assist you.
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Must be nimble, must be quick
By Farmer Cleo
from Oregon
This scale does not store your weight from weigh in to weigh in, disappointing. It is hard to get the readings without standing in a way that feels unstable. The readings disappear very quickly and do not store so you have no idea what progress you might be making. It ends up being no better than a plain old scale.
Hammacher Schlemmer Response: At Hammacher Schlemmer, our goal is for you to be delighted with our products and our service. However, it is clear that this item fell far short of your expectations and for this you have our sincere apologies. Please remember that we back our merchandise with a lifetime guarantee. Should you ever find that an item doesn't perform to your satisfaction, our customer service team is available 24 hours a day at 1-800-321-1484 to assist you with returning it.
Good once you figure it out
By Bob The Former Actor
from Texas
Now that we have figured out the ideosyncrasies of the scale it is fine. The first ideosyncrasy is it wouldn't work on our carpet so I had to make a wooden "plate" for it to sit on; no mention had been made of this limitation. The second is your feet must be moist in order to make electrical contact or you only get the weight reading; we now have to wet the bottoms of our feet to get any readout other than weight.
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Body Composition Scale
By Q
from San Bernardino county, CA
unable to find product's paperwork, so the percentages given don't really mean anything to me (no point of reference).
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Nice scale
By Keeprunning
from Richmond Hill, Ontario
Nice weight with easy to read display and relatively easy to use. It's trivial for weight only, but I took 1 star out because pushing User button prompts to wait to display all parameters before measurements can be taken. That's ridiculous to do every time. Would be nice to have "push, hop on, measure, hop off" routine instead. If you are not patient enough, watch trains you by showing error and forcing to repeat the whole procedure again. That's annoying.
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excellent scale-readouts easy to see
By jd
from boston
Easy to use-lightweight and well designed
By rymski
from SWIFT CURRENT SK. CANADA
works well the only problem we encountered is if your feet are very dry you may have to wipe them with a damp cloth to get a reading for your BMI and other readings.
Weight is okay, body fat is wildly off
By Getting better by the day
from San Francisco, CA
This scale is fine if you are looking for a basic scale. However, the body fat measurement is WAY off base. I had some salty food and according to this scale, my body fat increased by over 7% the next day, with my weight remaining exactly the same.
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The 1963 March on Washington Still Vividly Inspires Those Fighting for Change
On Sunday, August 25, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins sat down for an interview on Meet the Press about the impending March on Washington. The first question forced the men to answer the charge that many believed it "impossible" for "100,000 militant negroes" to assemble without rioting. The second question asked what gains could possibly outweigh the risks of marching. The third question was, "Don't you think, though, that both the country and Congress itself are aware of the situation? Do you have to take the risks you are going to take in order to emphasize it?" The fourth question not-so-subtly accused the Civil Rights Movement's leadership of communist infiltration. And the questions grew more skeptical from there.
The day after the march, there was a 1,300-word story about the event on the front page of the Washington Post. Neither the name "Martin Luther King Jr." nor the phrase "I have a dream" appeared even once. Of the two-dozen stories the Post published about the March on Washington, Washington's largest newspaper mentioned the title of the speech that would become one of the most famous in human history just once, on the bottom of A15. That same day, civil rights leaders visited Capitol Hill and the White House to demand the inclusion of stronger enforcement and anti-discrimination provisions in the Kennedy administration's already courageous and admirable civil rights legislation. But a Time magazine story said that from politicians of both parties, "the visitors got polite words—and polite refusals."
The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington comes at a moment when America's collective frustration with its capital has reached a fever pitch. The insular, myopic, self-serving nature of the city's political class has left us deeply cynical about Washington's ability to function in a way that reflects our founding values of liberty, equality, and opportunity.
But while the rot has certainly spread over the last few decades, recollections of the city's tepid, skeptical reaction to the most important civil rights march of all time remind me of a favorite saying: "Washington is always the last to get the news." Or, as my former boss put it when he accepted the 2008 Democratic nomination on the 45th anniversary of the march, "the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington."
This sentiment, which President Obama repeated hundreds of times during the eight years I worked for him, always generated more than a few snickers and eye rolls from the city's pundits and political observers. One reporter said that the president committed his "biggest gaffe" in four years when he made the following observation during the 2012 campaign: "The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside."
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The Italian dictionary that can be used to check grammar and other more complex mistakes using the LibreOffice language tool extension.
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Mainstream media falsely push photo of 'George Zimmerman supporter' holding racist sign at Houston rally
(Jason Howerton) Mainstream media outlets recently ran with a photo of a "George Zimmerman supporter" in Houston holding a "We're Racist & Proud!" sign. As it turns out, she is not a Zimmerman supporter at all — and is likely a far-left activist.
The Houston Chronicle identified the demonstrator as "Renee Vaughan." The woman was reportedly yelling "ugly" phrases like, "We're racist. We're Proud. We're better because we're white," at the pro-Trayvon Martin crowd at the rally over the weekend, according to the Chronicle.
Thankfully, conservative new media did the research the mainstream media neglected to do.
Gateway Pundit found a "Renee Vaughn" from Austin who worked for the far-left environmental group, the Texas Campaign for the Environment. The website also uploaded a number of photos to compare to the woman photographed at the rally in Houston.
One of the photos seems to show the far-left activist identified as Renee Vaughan wearing the same glasses as the woman seen holding the racist sign.
It was later revealed that Breitbart News' Brandon Darby actually interviewed the woman at the rally in Houston. She told him that her sign was "sarcastic" More importantly, she revealed that she was certainly not a racist "Zimmerman supporter."
"This sign means that there are people here who are racist and apparently think that's OK. I'm not one of them. I'm being sarcastic," she said.


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Keith Urban shares beginnings of 'Fuse'
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Keith Urban says for Fuse he teamed up with a number of people he's never worked with before. The country star explains he wanted to do something totally different with this new album.
Urban includes material on Fuse that he recorded with longtime producer Dann Huff. But he also cast a wide net. Keith worked with Jay Joyce, who produced Eric Church's "Chief," and Nathan Chapman, who produced some tracks on Taylor Swift's Red.
He also tapped the talents of songwriters and producers who've worked with such stars as Beyonce, Rihanna, Fall Out Boy, Eminem, and Ne-Yo.
Urban's Fuse arrives in stores today. He'll support the album with a release-day performance on NBC's "Today." Keith will appear on ABC's "The View" and CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" on Wednesday.
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Tiger Woods wins his fourth PGA Tour start of 2013 thanks to a late Sergio Garcia collapse
Tiger Woods's mishap on the 14th wasn't what we've come to expect when he holds a late lead on the PGA Tour. Up two shots with five holes to play, it looked like cruise control for the No. 1 player in the world. Woods' record when leading speaks for itself, and this seemed like another instance that would end with a Sunday lap for Woods.
But we knew it would eventually happen when Tiger had a solid lead over a talented field. He hit his tee shot in the water, failed to get his next shot on the green and missed his bogey putt. He fell back to the field and had to find another gear late on Sunday at an event he hasn't loved in the past.
But he caught a break two holes later as his second shot barely cleared the water on the par-5 16th and he was able to get up and down for a birdie.
[Garcia on Woods: 'He's not the nicest guy on tour']
Then came Sergio Garcia. The guy who openly professed he wasn't a huge fan of Tiger earlier in the week when the two were paired together looked like the best bet to catch Woods and possibly force a star-studded playoff. The 33-year-old's second shot on the 16th showed just how focused he was.
Garcia made a birdie there to match Woods at 13-under before approaching the par-3 17th, the most famous hole in the world and one that was good for Garcia back in 2008 when he won in a playoff over Paul Goydos.
Sergio hit a wedge that was right at the flag, but came up a full club short in the drink. His second shot didn't do much better, finding the water as well and resulting in an ugly quadruple-bogey 7. Sergio followed that up with a wet double-bogey on the 18th to boot, and it was Tiger's tournament even after a late push by little known David Lingmerth.
We talk all the time about Tiger and when he will be the guy he used to be, but the conversation is obviously dead after this win, his fourth of 2013. This is the fastest Tiger has ever got to four wins in a season, and despite some loose swings as he was closing, it was Tiger who was, again, able to calm the storm and reign supreme at an event that hasn't been his favorite in the past decade.
The PGA Tour is Tiger's world once again, and if it wasn't for a bulky flagstick on the 15th hole at Augusta National, we might just be talking about his finest season ever as a professional.


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Public Announcements | Meetings/Events this Week | Things Happening Around our Community
Bicycle Educations Class Free to Sausalito Residents
The Basic Street Skills class is a PowerPoint presentation that teaches participants to safely and confidently use a bicycle for transportation. Topics covered include how to avoid collisions and citations, improve visibility, ride through intersections, the legal rights and obligations of cyclists, and more. Drivers benefit from the class as well, by learning how and why bicycles maneuver on the roads. Cyclists aged 16 and up are invited to attend.
Thursday, January 10, 6:30 – 8:30 PM Sausalito Recreation Department/City Hall, at 420 Litho Street, Edgewater Room, Sausalito
Advance registration requested: Free to Sausalito residents with proof of residence. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 456-3469, 8#.
Thank you to the Sausalito Police Department and Recreation Department for your support! The class is implemented by the Marin County Bicycle Coalition in their ongoing effort to improve bicycle safety in Marin County.
Free Sausalito Electronic Waste Collection Event
Help our City to dispose of e-waste the right way by recycling!
The Sausalito Sustainability Commission is sponsoring its annual e-waste disposal event on Saturday, January 12, 2013, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM in the Sausalito City Hall rear parking lot on Bee Street. Residents and businesses are invited to drop off non-working and obsolete electronics at the event.
The following e-waste will be collected, free of charge: computers, printers, copiers, scanners, fax machines, servers, main frame units, networking equipment, systems, printed circuit boards, telephones and cellular phones, stereos, televisions and flat screens, DVD players and other consumer electronics.
E-waste collected will be shredded and mechanically separated into the primary commodities of steel, aluminum, copper and plastic for use in the manufacture of new products. No e-waste will be landfilled or exported as e-waste.
High Tides during the Week of January 7, 2013
The tides at the US Army Corps of Engineers' dock in Sausalito for the month of January include a series of high tides that will likely result in local flooding along Gate 5 Road between Coloma and Harbor during the week of January 7th. In order to reduce the potential for property damage caused by the wave action induced when motor vehicles enter the flooded area, the subject road segment will be evaluated and likely closed and then re-opened by the Department of Public Works (during DPW duty hours), and evaluation for closure by Sausalito PD is recommended on Saturday the 12th of January.
The most significant in terms of potential flooding are predicted as follows:
On the basis of past experience, the affected road segment can be expected to be closed for approximately three (3) hours beginning at the predicted time of high tide for those highs above 6.8 feet. The road segment will be passable for emergency vehicles, but alternate routes are recommended during the closure period.
Be advised that the City's supplies of sand and sandbags are stocked and available in the usual places:
City Corporation Yard 530 Nevada Street Business Hours 7AM – 3PM M-F
MLK Park Parking lot behind gym anytime
City Corporation Yard 530 Nevada Street Business Hours 7AM – 3PM M-F
MLK Park Parking lot behind gym anytime
In an emergency dial 9*1*1 (415-472-0911 from a cellular phone). If the Corporation Yard is closed, contact the Police Department at and they will help you gain access to the yard. For assistance due to disability or injury, call the Corporation Yard during business hours at 289-4113. After hours contact Police at 289-4170.
Community Meeting on the Draft Traffic Study at the MLK Properties – Lycee Francais School
As part of the process of planning for the initiation of Lycée Français La Pérouse operations at MLK next year, the City retained Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. to prepare a Traffic, Parking and Circulation Plan. Kimley-Horn's work includes a study of the existing operations at the site and an analysis of changes expected as a result of the departure of The Marin School and the beginning of Lycée Français La Pérouse occupancy. The City is sharing the draft of Kimley-Horn's report on our website under the news heading "Community Meeting" and now plans to hold the community meeting on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 from 5 until 6 PM at MLK Gym to allow residents and tenants at MLK an opportunity to offer their comments on the draft. Project contact: Jonathon Goldman, Director of Public Works and ADA Coordinator, Direct: 415-289-4176, firstname.lastname@example.com
It's the First Party of the New Year - Beat those post-partum holiday blues and jump on the wagon (the hay wagon that is!) at Sausalito's Train Wreck Junction Country Western Hoe-Down, the first Saturday in January - January 5th from 6-11 PM at the IDESST Portuguese Hall on Caledonia Street.
Rock and roll – or learn to line dance; live music provided by Train Wreck Junction – an outlaw, honky tonk, country western band. Or toss back a few shots of tequila at the Three Sisters Saloon and see if you recognize any of your favorite local personalities moonlighting as saucy bar wenches. You'll need a cup of courage if you're going to straddle that bull and lasso a raffle prize.
Train Wreck Junction will be joined by special guest artist Ilda Maria, the North Bay's very own acclaimed fadista (a Portuguese "fado" singer). Ilda Maria grew up in Sonoma and started singing with local bands in the late 60's; she later traveled to Portugal where learned to sing the fado – also known as the "Portuguese blues."
Put on those snakeskin boots and grab your hat for the first party of the season; you might even win the grand prize for best-dressed Buckaroo.
A benefit for the Sausalito Sister City program with Cascais, Portugal, tickets are only $15 in advance; $20 at the door. Reserve now: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/293885
Celebrate the start of 2013 with your favorite rodeo queen or wrangler.
Sausalito Players presents Crossing Delancey
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 7:30 PM, The Sausalito Players will present Crossing Delancey, a romantic comedy by Susan Sandler, at the Sausalito Woman's Club, 120 Central Avenue, Sausalito. Admission is free.
Crossing Delancey is a romantic comedy about a young, modern woman named Isabelle who lives and works alone in a book shop. When she is not pining after a handsome author, she is visiting her grandmother in Manhattan's Lower East Side. This irascible granny and her friend, the matchmaker, have found a "good catch" for Isabelle – whose initial reluctance gives way to a blossoming romance when she finally meets Sam, the pickle vendor, as the end of the play offers a new beginning.
The cast for this romantic comedy stars Barbara Sutak, Julie Stewart, Lewis Shireman, Karen Clinton and Rob Schaaf. Crossing Delancey is directed by Barry Wasserman, Produced by Mickey Allison, and Donna Hickey, Stage Manager.
The Sausalito Players has successfully produced Reader's Theatre for over thirty years. The format is to read from the script while performing and provides a unique opportunity for local writers, directors, producers, stage crews and actors to work on stage with minimum rehearsals, and without having to memorize lines.
Admission is free and open to the public. Light refreshments served, and carpooling is recommended. The Sausalito Woman's Club is at 120 Central Avenue, Sausalito.
For more information, contact Sandra Macleod White, 415-380-7927.
Why There Are Words, named SF Guardian's Best of the Bay for Literary Event 2012, will celebrate its 3rd anniversary January 10, 2013, with the special event "Pairings."
Beginning at 7 pm, at Studio 333 in Sausalito, tasty servings of poets and writers paired together will read each other's work for a delectable treat. Julie Bruck, Lewis Buzbee, Carolyn Cooke, Glen David Gold, Dean Rader, Melissa Stein, Cary Tennis, & Matthew Zapruder. Seats will go quickly, so arrive early. $10 at the door. Bring extra cash for books and booze. More information, including the readers' full bios, at the website, http://whytherearewords.com.
Why There Are Words, curated by Sausalito-based writer Peg Alford Pursell (http://www.pegalfordpursell.com), takes place second Thursdays each month. Studio 333 is located at 333 Caledonia Street. To keep up with WTAW, sign up for the monthly mailer at http://eepurl.com/d0k0H (no spam, ever!); follow at Twitter (http://twitter.com/wtawords); find us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/WhyThereAreWords). For her work in providing literary arts to the North Bay, Peg Alford Pursell was awarded a 2012 North Boho Arts Award. Read an interview with her about the award and the Sausalito arts community online.
Sausalito Historical Society offers a special drawing workshop for 8-9 year olds
In conjunction with "Fritz (the comic wit of Phil Frank) Crackers" exhibit, the Sausalito Historical Society presents a special drawing workshop with special effects wizard and nationally syndicated cartoonist, Cris Hammond. This is a 3-part workshop open to third grade kids, ages 8-9 years, to learn the basics of drawing and developing cartoon characters. Saturdays 2:00-3:15pm with optional homework assignments.
Week 1: How to use basic shapes to create characters
Week 2: How expressions tell stories and how to develop a story
Week 3: Perfecting expressions and finalizing a character
Saturdays: January 19/, January 26, February 2
$30 Members/$35 Nonmembers
Includes sketch pad and all materials
Space is limited so please book ahead. Visit sausalitohistoricalsociety.com to register.
Hold the Date for another incredible Sister City event
Saturday, January 26 – Gala Evening at The Pines. Your presence at the gala will help us host seven Chilean women entrepreneurs for activities in Sausalito next Spring.
Try a Pisco Sour, taste wines from here and there, and eat fabulous food. There will be piano music, dance and song. Participate in an exciting live auction with fabulous prizes, plus periodic raffles during the evening. You will top off the evening by dancing to the selections of Radio Sausalito's own DJ extraordinaire: Jonathan Westerling!
Your hosts for this magic Soirée will be Roxanne Sheridan, Gil Purcell Sr., Gil Purcell Jr. and the Sausalito/Viña del Mar Operations Council.
Tickets are $57.00 per person, buy them at the door or on line at:
Contact: Roxanne Sheridan 415-515-3561 firstname.lastname@example.com or Veronica
Barzelatto 415-497-6311 email@example.com
There will be shuttles to and from the venue starting at 6:30 pm from the Spencer Avenue Bus stop and Sausalito City Council parking lot (in back of building). Arrive early to park so that you do not miss any of this exciting evening!
Finally, just a reminder that should anyone wish to make a donation to our Committee before the end of the year, you can do so on our online site: http://www.gofundme.com/SSC-Vina-2012.
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Sausalito Marin City School District Celebrates Student Achievement
The Sausalito-Marin City School District received presentations from school administrators that showed a marked increase in student achievement at Bayside Elementary School and steady growth at Martin Luther King Jr. Academy Middle School. Bayside Elementary School saw a 54 point increase in the California Academic Performance Index, to 804 ranking it as a high performing school. MLK Academy has grown 64 points in the past five years.
Willow Creek Foundation announces community Memberships. Show your support for, and become connected with, your local public school - Willow Creek Academy, your free award winning K-8 public charter school located in Sausalito.
More reasons to become a Member of Willow Creek Foundation:
• Help maintain the extra programs (art, music, Spanish language, physical education) that are not covered by public funding but contribute to Willow Creek Academy's success and popularity with local families
• Receive a regular newsletter about what's happening at Willow Creek Academy
• Have the opportunity to tutor at Willow Creek Academy
• Help keep young families in the community
• Help maintain the unique ethnic diversity at Willow Creek Academy which is Marin County's most diverse school
• Have the opportunity to schedule a conducted tour of Willow Creek Academy and see the students at work in their classrooms
• Receive invitations to Willow Creek Foundation and Willow Creek Academy events
• Receive recognition on Willow Creek Academy's website and in next year's Willow Creek Academy Directory
• Include your membership level as a charitable donation on your 2012 tax returns.
• Good public schools increase the value of homes within the school district!
Annual Membership Levels:
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$250 Willow Seedling
$500 Willow Catkin
$1,000 Willow Leaf
$2,500 Willow Sapling
$5,000 Willow Branch
$10,000 Willow Tree
To become a Member of Willow Creek Foundation for the current school year, go to www.willowcreekacademy.org/donate to make a donation of $50 or more, selecting Membership as the Purpose of Donation. Or you may send a check to Willow Creek Foundation, 10 Liberty Ship Way #150, Sausalito, CA 94965. You have automatically been designated as a Member if you have already donated at least $50 since July 1, 2012.
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Beatles, Isleys, Kraftwerk accept Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards
Ringo Starr says he's proud of how The Beatles music has stood the test of time. San Diego's "Union-Tribune" says the Fab Four drummer joined Beatle widows Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison in accepting the band's Lifetime Achievement Award at a Grammy Week event Saturday in Los Angeles.
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In his speech, Ringo said despite the honor being "lifetime achievement" recognition, he felt that they've "all go a lot more life" in them. But he added that he was "most proud of" the fact that Beatles music is still "out there."
McCartney missed the ceremony. He was busy with rehearsals for the upcoming commemoration concert honoring the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' arrival in America.
The Isley Brothers and Kraftwerk are among this year's Lifetime Achievement Award recipients as well. The Isleys' Ernie Isley, Ronald Isley, and Chris Jasper took part in the ceremony. The event was particularly emotional for Ernie, who gave thanks to their parents and "the hand of divine providence" that gave the Isleys "such longevity."
Kraftwerk's Ralf Hutter represented his band at the event, and called the award "a great honor." Other recipients included Kris Kristofferson, Clifton Chenier, Maud Powell, and Armando Manzanero, who is the first Mexican artist to receive the honor.


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Taylor Swift sells out Chinese 'Red' tour in one minute
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Taylor Swift is breaking records as she takes her "Red" tour to China. She sold out her May 30th concert at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai in just one minute.
The arena holds 18,000 people, making "Red" the fastest sell-out in the country's history. Taylor also managed to sell out all of the other stops on her upcoming leg in Asia. She'll be singing to packed houses at her concerts in Tokyo, Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
Taylor's "Red" tour made its mark in the U.S. as well. She broke the record at Los Angeles' Staples Center last year, when she became the first solo artist to sell out eleven concerts at the venue.
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In Today's Sandy Hook Report: 'Disturbing' Details
(NEWSER) – After repeated delays and criticism of excessive secrecy, Connecticut prosecutors plan to release a report at 3pm today on the probe of last year's Newtown school massacre. The report, which comes almost a year after gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults inside Sandy Hook Elementary School before taking his own life, will summarize the police investigation and is not expected to recommend any criminal charges, reports theHartford Courant; the Boston Herald adds that officials are warning that it contains disturbing details. The full state police report is thousands of pages long and no date has been set for its release.


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Unions desperately searching for a way out of Obamacare
(Becket Adams) As we inch closer to the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), union leaders around the country are frantically looking for a way to avoid having to comply with the massive new law.
Teamsters chief James Hoffa, UFCW chief Joseph Hansen, and UNITE-HERE chief Donald Taylor last week penned a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Democratic Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) begging Congress to change the law before it shatters "not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class."
The letter continues:
Time is running out: Congress wrote this law; we voted for you. We have a problem; you need to fix it. The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe. Perverse incentives are already creating nightmare scenarios:
First, the law creates an incentive for employers to keep employees' work hours below 30 hours a week. Numerous employers have begun to cut workers' hours to avoid this obligation, and many of them are doing so openly. The impact is two-fold: fewer hours means less pay while also losing our current health benefits.
Second, millions of Americans are covered by non-profit health insurance plans like the ones in which most of our members participate. These non-profit plans are governed jointly by unions and companies under the Taft-Hartley Act. Our health plans have been built over decades by working men and women. Under the ACA as interpreted by the Administration, our employees will treated differently and not be eligible for subsidies afforded other citizens. As such, many employees will be relegated to second-class status and shut out of the help the law offers to for-profit insurance plans.


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Inside the implosion of GOProud, the right's most notorious pro-gay group
There was a time when GOProud was the loudest gay voice on the political right. Then, a year ago, after it lost its foremost donor and couldn't find a successor, its brand was sold off for scraps.
Reports began trickling out in the press this week that GOProud had decided to close up shop. In truth, the original organization functionally folded a year ago, The Daily Beast has learned. And the attempts to reboot GOProud are being actively mocked by the men who founded the group.
The decline of GOProud is a prime example of what happens to an organization that rises to prominence through confrontation—and never bothers to do the grunt work needed to sustain the outfit, once the outrage dies down. It was feisty and controversial—a Tea Party, of sorts, to the more establishment-minded Log Cabin Republicans. It was an organization running on a shoestring budget that elbowed its way into the conservative conversation.
They outed a Rick Perry pollster in December 2011; they endorsed Mitt Romney, who opposed same-sex marriage; they got into social-media fights with all comers; and they called conservative activist Cleta Mitchell a "bigot," not especially helpful considering she was on a board that would decide whether they could sponsor the Conservative Political Action Conference, a longtime GOProud goal.
For many supporters of GOProud, being called a "troll" was a badge of honor. Their goal from the start was to plant a flag in the ground: There are gay conservatives, and here we are.
Others, even those sympathetic to the group, accused it of being a vanity project for its cofounders, Christopher Barron and Jimmy LaSalvia, a platform for the two to pick fights. The two split from the Log Cabin Republicans, which they viewed as too moderate, to form GOProud in 2009.
Unsurprisingly, Barron sees it differently, saying their organization was a voice on "one of the fastest-moving issues of this generation, the gay-rights fight… before GOProud, there was no conversation about gay people being part of the conservative movement."
But after LGBT rights megadonor Paul Singer stopped funding them, the gig was up.
Over the course of GOProud's existence, Singer donated $570,000 to the group—representing two-thirds of its fundraising since its founding. He made his last contribution in August 2012, according to federal campaign-finance documents. It was around this time that Singer was changing his strategy: divesting in certain groups to focus on state-based gay-rights initiatives in places like New York, New Hampshire, and California.
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The iHeartRadio Music Festival is SOLD OUT!
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The 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival is officially SOLD OUT! But don't worry, you still have plenty of opportunities to win your way to Vegas for Music's Holy Grail!
On Wednesday, Ryan Seacrest announced who will take the stage at the MGM Grand this year - the fourth year of the legendary festival.
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This year's lineup features the biggest artists in all genres of music including Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Usher, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Motley Crue, Zac Brown Band, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Paramore, Iggy Azalea, Train, Eric Church, Lorde, Calvin Harris, Bastille, Steve Aoki and other special surprise guests to be announced.
In addition to the nighttime shows, this year will mark the second annual iHeartRadio Music Festival Village, taking place Saturday afternoon, September 20th. The Festival Village will feature live performances from Iggy Azalea, Neon Trees, Kacey Musgraves, Childish Gambino, MAGIC!, The Pretty Reckless, Nico & Vinz, and Lil Jon.
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The Case Against Isolation
It's been quite a piece of theater, watching Republicans, most of whom would normally be shouting from the rooftops for bombs over Damascus, insist that we must stay out of Syria. I wrote about this GOP hypocrisy Monday.
But now let us direct our gaze toward the non-hypocrites. At least, it is often said of the isolationists, they are operating according to principle. Fine. But it's a morally bankrupt principle, and an idiotic one, and one that will only hasten the advent of the kind of darker and more dangerous world that most conservatives are constantly trying to terrify the rest of us about. It's hard to call anything worse than neoconservatism, but if there is one foreign-policy impulse that just might be worse, it's leave-us-alone isolationism.
The foreign-policy history of the Republican Party is a history of the battle between the nativist isolationists and the bellicose internationalists. I've always found it interesting that the GOP should encompass both frothing extremes, while the Democrats have tended to occupy the saner (not always so sane, admittedly) middle ground. Historically, I would argue, the GOP defaults toward isolationism, because that was the natural reflex of many of the party's key constituent elements in the early 20th century (Southern and Midwestern agrarians, self-made capitalists).
It takes a cataclysmic and frightening event for the warmonger wing of the party to win the day. The Iron Curtain and the advent of the Cold War was one such effect. One can thus think of the GOP's general hard-line posture during the Cold War as a break from the norm, albeit a very long one indeed. September 11 was another. But this interregnum lasted not 40 years, but 12; so now, a dozen years and two expensive and wearying wars later, the war caucus is losing again, and the party is reverting to its original isolationist roots.
Lord knows there are many reasons why this is a good thing. But the intra-GOP alternative is hardly more appealing. We can make the case two ways. The first, the more standard one, is the hypothetical application of isolationism to actual episodes in American history, most notably World War II. Forget our military involvement; this begins with lend-lease. If there had been more isolationist Republicans in Congress in 1940, we'd never have armed Britain, and there's every chance Britain would have fallen to Hitler. From there, who knows.
But there's another way to state the case against isolationism, which is not hypothetical and involves peering into episodes in our history when we did behave in a somewhat isolationist fashion and see what in fact happened. There aren't many of these, at least in our modern history. There was George H.W. Bush's inaction on Bosnia, which remains a black mark in our history. And from the same era there was our step back from involvement in Afghanistan at the end of that country's bitter war with the Soviet Union.
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Report: Simon Cowell & girlfriend expecting a boy
Simon Cowell and his girlfriend Lauren Silverman are reportedly expecting a baby boy.
Sources have leaked the news to the "New York Daily News" and "Us Weekly," saying the reality TV mogul is "over the moon to be having a son."
Earlier this week, Simon gave several interviews, revealing that the couple had recently seen a sonogram. Cowell reportedly told the "Times of London" that the experience was "just surreal."
Simon and Lauren have reportedly returned to the U.S. after a vacation in the South of France. And Lauren is rumored to be moving out of her previous New York City apartment, weeks after settling her divorce with Andrew Silverman, a former friend of Simon's.
The 53-year-old father-to-be will be returning to television next week on the "X Factor," which premieres on Fox on September 11th and 12th.
Could they be expecting a mini-Simon? A forensic artist, Joe Mullins, as created an image of what Simon and Lauren's son would look like based on recent photos of the two! Check it out:
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Since 1979 video art is part of the collections of the Kunsthaus Zurich. Besides the orignal tapes in very different technical formats all video works in the collection exist as archive copies in the format Digital Betacam. For screenings DVD copies are used.
The works of the video art collection can be used in the multimedia study area of the library. For this purpose the library has DVD or VHS copies available. Circulation and screening outside the Kunsthaus Zürich is not possible for legal reasons.
In the multimedia study area there are 4 individual workplaces equipped with PC and VCR, but it is also possible, to book the room for small groups and to view videos together on a screen using a projector. For groups of more than 10 persons a larger room is available in the museum.
The copies for use of the works of video art can be found in the library's online catalogue. The older titles are catalogued in the published collection catalogue «Künstler-Videos: Entwicklung und Bedeutung». However step by step these records will be moved to the online catalogue too.
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Padres take advantage of Brian Wilson's mistakes to rally by Dodgers
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Brian Wilson went to pick up the baseball palm-down, like a highwayman collecting a cone from the back of a slow-moving flatbed, and it's funny where an inning, a ballgame, a 3-0 start, can go sideways on a guy and his teammates.
Two-and-a-half hours in, a quarter-of-a-billion dollars in, everything was looking just fine Sunday night at Petco Park for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who were without Clayton Kershaw and had drawn the very capable Andrew Cashner for their domestic opener and were going to win anyway.
Then, well, no they weren't. The San Diego Padres were going to win. It was a 2-and-0 pitch to Seth Smith, who apparently prefers his pinch-hit, game-tying appointments a little down, a little middle, directly in the path of his bat barrel. It was a walk and a sacrifice bunt and an uncovered base and another hittable pitch and an in-between hop and, well, the Dodgers were going to unravel over five eighth-inning batters, and they weren't going to win, and by the end of all that they were hardly a threat anymore.
The Dodgers have put together the most expensive team ever, and with that comes a duty to win, and win a lot, well into October, whether anyone in their hometown can watch them on TV or not. They won't have to win every night, of course, and by the time they'd lost for the first time in three games there were still 28 hours left in March, so a 3-1 give-away to the Padres wouldn't register much beyond the fact they held a lead in the eighth inning and probably should have won.
Then Wilson threw the cutter that Smith hit 360 feet and into the right-field bleachers, a cut fastball that was supposed to stay away from the left-handed hitter and did not, and you'd get to thinking about how fragile expectations can be sometimes, even from the vantage point of six months from finding out. Standing in for Kershaw, Hyun-Jin Ryu was exceptional over seven innings. He'd buried his curveball grip a bit deeper in his palm, and threw that with great cleverness. He allowed a single baserunner after the second inning, handing a 1-0 lead and six remaining outs to the strength of the Dodgers' bullpen.
"I'm a lot more comfortable," Ryu said later. "I understand the team and the system better. I can definitely say I'm more comfortable this year than I was last year."
He'll see tougher lineups than the Padres, yet there was a conviction to Ryu's pitches – the new curveball gives him four effective choices, along with his slider, signature changeup and low-90s fastball – that convinced catcher A.J. Ellis this start was perhaps Ryu's best in a Dodger uniform.
Except at 88 pitches he did not return for the eighth. One couldn't argue that in March. Besides, Ryu said, he felt some fatigue in the seventh inning, and so informed manager Don Mattingly.
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"I went up to Donnie and told him it was probably better if I came out of the game," he said.
There are no heroes in March. So along came Wilson, and in came Smith, and after ball one, ball two, here came the cutter, and the inch or two where a game is won and lost. Like everyone, the Dodgers will see a lot of these moments, hundreds of them, thousands even, and they'll meet their expectations by winning most of them. Or not.
"It's more difficult to deal with because Ryu pitched such a marvelous game," Wilson said. "It's a hard one to swallow.
"Throwing a pitch that was a little uncharacteristic of me. Then, from there, the tire deflated."
The score was 1-1. Wilson then walked Yasmani Grandal on a 3-and-2 pitch. Everth Cabrera sacrifice bunted near the first-base line, and Adrian Gonzalez came in and Wilson went to the ball, and Wilson cast a quick glance at Gonzalez, and Wilson reached for the ball with his glove. Plucked at it with his glove, actually, like one of those toy cranes in the arcade that picks up cheap stuffed animals. The ball did not stay in his glove. Cabrera was safe at first base. And that's where the imprecise pitch to Smith – "He's a tremendous middle, middle-in fastball hitter," Ellis said – had advanced to the point where the Dodgers had lost the moment, at the very least. Grandal, who'd not stolen a base as a professional, stole third because the Dodgers were defensively lax, and a pitch later Cabrera took second on defensive indifference, because the Dodgers had to play their infield in, and Chris Denorfia drove both runners home with a single through that infield.
It happens. It happens plenty to even the best teams. But, on the weekend when the pundits publish their expectations for the season, and many – if not most – have the Dodgers playing to the end of October, and when the odds-makers favor the Dodgers in the same way, it's a reminder that you have to play the games to win them, and win the games simply to reach the standard.
Maybe that takes a little getting used to. Maybe it's 10 weird minutes over seven months. And in the end fans are chanting "Beat L.A.," and Huston Street is arriving to Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir," and the ninth inning is over, and nothing's gone quite as you expected it to.


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Kelly Clarkson, Brandon Blackstock, and Stepkids wrapped in red
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Kelly Clarkson is gearing up to celebrate her first Christmas as Mrs. Blackstock.
On Tuesday, the singer - and mom-to-be - shared a Christmas card featuring husband Brandon, his kids Seth andSavannah, and a mischievous Santa Claus.
The family, along with their adorable pooches, are all wrapped in red, giving new meaning to the name of Clarkson's holiday album.
"Merry Christmas from the Blackstocks!" tweeted the star.
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Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Sautéed ground chicken thighs, shiitake mushrooms and water chestnuts seasoned with Asian spices are served in a crispy cold lettuce leaf with a spicy hoisin dipping sauce. I can't think of a more playful appetizer to celebrate the Year of The Dragon!
Some of you probably know how much I love using lettuce leaves as a wrap for everything from Turkey Taco Lettuce Wraps to BLT Lettuce wraps. They are the perfect low-carb solution and don't interfere with the flavors of the filling. This recipe is no exception, you can taste all the Asian goodness… pure delight in every bite!
This recipe was ever so slightly adapted from my friend Bee, of Rasa Malaysia's first cookbook, Easy Chinese Recipes: Family Favorites From Dim Sum to Kung Pao. Whether you are celebrating The Chinese New Year, The Superbowl, or just having some friends over, I highly recommend making these… double or triple the recipe for a large crowd!
Oh and one more thing I want to mention, if you want to turn this into a main dish, make some steamed rice and serve each wrap with rice and chicken, it's very good! Enjoy!!
Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Servings: 6 • Serving Size: 1 lettuce wrap • Points +: 3 pts • Smart Points: 3
Calories: 102.7 • Fat: 3.1 g • Carb: 9.6 g • Fiber: 0.9 g • Protein: 8.4 g • Sugar: 4.6 g
Sodium: 344.1 mg
- 8 oz skinless, boneless chicken thighs, ground
- 1/4 cup water chestnuts, chopped fine
- 1/4 cup dried shiitake mushrooms
- 1 tbsp soy sauce (I used reduced sodium)
- 1/4 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp oyster sauce
- 1 1/2 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp rice wine or dry sherry
- 1⁄2 tsp sugar
- freshly ground white pepper, to taste
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 6 iceberg lettuce leaves, rinsed (careful not to break)
- 2 tbsp diced scallions
For the Spicy Hoisin Dipping Sauces:
- 4 tbsp hoisin sauce
- 1/2 tsp chili sauce, I used Sriracha
- 1 tbsp warm water
Place mushrooms in hot water to soften a few minutes. Remove stems and chop fine.
Combine soy sauces, oyster sauce, 1/2 tsp sesame oil, rice wine, sugar, and pepper in a bowl.
Mix Spicy Hoisin Dipping Sauce ingredients in another bowl. Set aside.
Heat remaining sesame oil in a wok or skillet over high heat. Add garlic; cook until golden, about 10 seconds. Add chicken mixture; stir fry until browned, breaking the chicken up as it cooks, about 4-5 minutes.
To serve, spoon 1/4 cup of the chicken into each lettuce leaf. Garnish with scallions and a spoon a little Spicy Hoisin Dipping Sauce onto each one.
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Coldplay unveils new album 'Ghost Stories' release date
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Stealthily dropped in the quiet of the night, Coldplay has unveiled a new album and release date. Titled Ghost Stories, the band's sixth studio full-length will arrive May 19 via Parlophone/Atlantic Records.
Much like last week's surprise release in "Midnight," the official lead single has been uncovered, called "Magic," an ethereal, low-key entry that is a significant departure from the more arena-sized rock they typically explore.
"Thank you to Egypt & Indonesia, the first two countries where the new single, Magic, hit #1 on iTunes," the band posted on Monday morning (March 3) following the Beyonce-style announcement.
While the regular album release only contains a meager nine tracks, a deluxe edition through Target will include three bonus songs.
Ghost Stories follows the 2011-released Mylo Xyloto, featuring the hit singles "Princess of China" with Rihanna and "Paradise."
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Ubuntu Saucy Software Development
Software Development
Spyder is a powerful interactive Open Source development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging, and introspection features.
sudo apt-get install spyder
Eric is a full featured IDE and Python and Ruby editor, written in Python. It is based on the cross-platform Qt Gui toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is a quick and dirty editor as well as a professional project management tool (integrating many advanced Python features). Eric4 includes the integration of a downloadable plug-in system.
sudo apt-get install eric
Kompozer Web Development Editor
Kompozer is a Gecko-based web authoring system that combines web page editing with web file management in a WYSIWYG manner. It supports XML, CSS, and JavaScript in an XUL architecture.
sudo apt-get install kompozer
Quanta Plus (Web IDE)
Quanta Plus is an integrated development environment integrated with the KDE desktop. It allows webpage development, database design, and XML design and scripting, for example, using multiple development tools. The latest stable version is 3.5, however, and integrates with the KDE 3.5 environment (Ubuntu Hardy Heron). You should therefore use Ubuntu Hardy Heron with this product. (There is also a commercial version (Quanta Gold), also oriented towards KDE 3).
sudo apt-get install quanta kompare kxsldbg cervisia
Netbeans IDE
Netbeans is a free open-source integrated development environment used to create applications using Ajax, Ruby, pHp, Groovy, Java, Javascript, C++, and other scripting tools.
sudo apt-get install netbeans
BlueFish Web Development Editor
BlueFish is a GTK-based (Gnome-oriented) editor to write websites, scripts and programming code. It supports perl, Python, pHp, CSS, XML, Java, Javascript, C, SQL, and other formats.
sudo apt-get install bluefish
Gobby (Multi-user development)
Gobby is a free, multi-platform open source collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. Install:
sudo apt-get install gobby
Eclipse IDE
Eclipse is a free open-source cross-platform integrated development environment with plugin support for a large set of programming languages, e.g. Java, C/C++, Python, PHP.
sudo apt-get install eclipse
Qt Creator
Qt Creator is a lightweight, cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for the Qt application framework.
sudo apt-get install qtcreator
Game Engines
- See this section for a list of open-source game engine development environments.
Search Engines
Sphinx Search is an open source full text search server. See their documentation for usage details. Install:
sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch
Online Storage
- The recent ease of cloning filesystems and the promiscuity of datacenters has placed a great deal of sensitive data at risk when files are remotely hosted at a site not under your complete control. The reliability and security of online storage is low, and, in fact, can often be a means for intercepting or otherwise changing those files that have been placed on the remote servers. Further, any data left on public storage devices in the US for more than 180 days are subject to search and seizure by government agencies there. Always encrypt sensitive private files stored on public servers.
- It is almost always more secure to host your own server(s) in house and to limit the traffic and access to your files and servers to members of your own organization. Learning how to run your own servers is worth the effort, and powerful hardware on which to run them is inexpensive these days.
FTP (online file transfer)
- See this section on FTP servers for more information about vsftp and proftp.
- See this section on FTP clients for more information about FileZilla.
- Also see these FTP tips.
WebDAV (online folders)
See this section on WebDAV for more information about WebDAV servers and clients.
Dropbox (online cloud storage)
Dropbox is a free but proprietary online remote hosting service for private files (similar to the free open-source alternative SparkleShare). Be careful of any storage solution not under your complete control (especially proprietary solutions); they are insecure and should be used for temporary storage of non-critical files only (as an alternative to sending files by email).
- Install prerequisities (several may already be installed on your system):
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 python python-gpgme
- Download and install the Dropbox client daemon:
wget -O dropbox-current_amd64.deb https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/ubuntu/dropbox_1.6.0_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i dropbox-current_amd64.deb sudo rm dropbox-current_amd64.deb
- or for the 32-bit version:
wget -O dropbox-current_i386.deb https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/ubuntu/dropbox_1.6.0_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i dropbox-current_i386.deb sudo rm dropbox-current_i386.deb
- The default Dropbox client installation will also install an add-on plugin for the Nautilus file manager. If not, install the plugin:
sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
- See this article if interested in using Dropbox as a webseed for BitTorrent. Because Dropbox is insecure, you may wish to consider installing Dropbox within a quarantined virtual machine and run the virtual machine containing Dropbox only when connected to a secure Internet connection (such as through Tor).
Google Drive (online cloud storage)
Google Drive is a free but proprietary online remote hosting service for private files (similar to the free open-source alternative SparkleShare). Be careful of any storage solution not under your complete control (especially proprietary solutions); they are insecure and should be used for temporary storage of non-critical files only (as an alternative to sending files by email).
- Grive is a free, open-source command-line API for Linux systems to interface with Google Drive.
- Download and install a 32-bit or 64-bit .deb package here.
- Alternatively, a method for installation from a private PPA repository is also provided by WebUpd8 here.
Other online webhosts
- There are many services offering online webhosting with a wide range of included services. No online webhost should be considered secure; however, the usage of a public webhost may be suitable for certain public, non-sensitive needs. Many webhosts go offline or disappear altogether without notice, so backup and security precautions are essential at all times.
- Here is a list of free webhosts, all of which should be assumed to be insecure.
- Many users use public webhosts through Tor for temporary storage of files only, and never for unencrypted sensitive, private files. A popular method is to sign up for a webhost account (through Tor or from an anonymous IP address) using an anonymous email account. Filezilla with Tor is subsequently used to securely transfer files to the webhost. (See this article if interested in using the webhost as a webseed for BitTorrent.) Some users access the free webhost only from within a quarantined virtual machine.
Personal repositories
(K)Ubuntu uses Debian (.deb) packages. Individuals or organizations can create repositories for personal or specialized use. See the Debian wiki introduction. Also see this Ubuntu community advice and this.
Using mini-dinstall with dput, a simple repository can be created. This can then be copied to an online server for public or private access. See this tutorial and this.
DebArchiver is a command-line utility that allows the creation of a folder-based repository. Instructions are from man debarchiver (in a command-line terminal). Install:
sudo apt-get install debarchiver
Version control software
Copies of software being developed at many different locations require a method to ensure that the multiple distributed copies remain synchronized. This can be done using a central repository or using a distributed synchronization technique. For further information, see the official Ubuntu documentation. Several version control platforms exist:
- Bazaar is sponsored by Canonical and also allows distributed synchronization. Also see the official Ubuntu documentation. Install Bazaar with a GTK-based GUI and Nautilus integration:
sudo apt-get install bzr bzr-gtk nautilus-bzr
- Subversion. Now part of Apache, this is one of the most widely used systems and uses a central repository for synchronization. Also see the official Ubuntu documentation. Install along with Nautilus integration scripts:
sudo apt-get install subversion nautilus-script-collection-svn
- Mercurial (hg) is a newer, low-resource version control system. Install:
sudo apt-get install mercurial
- CVS was previously the most widely used system. Also see the official Ubuntu documentation. Install:
sudo apt-get install cvs
- TkCVS is a GUI frontend for both CVS and Subversion. Install:
sudo apt-get install tkcvs
- Git allows distributed synchronization and is currently one of the most widely used systems. Also see the official Ubuntu documentation and the Ubuntu community documentation. The git client can be installed:
sudo apt-get install git
- and the gitosis server software:
sudo apt-get install gitosis
- GitK is a Tk-based Git tree visualizer. Install:
sudo apt-get install gitk
SparkleShare (Git frontend)
SparkleShare is a Git repository server/client frontend. Also see this helpful blog entry for installation tips on older systems. Installation is by adding a PPA repository and then installing:
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Medal of Honor Awardee Embodies the best of his Generation
President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor yesterday to former Army Captain William Swenson, the first Army officer since Vietnam to receive our nation's highest military honor. The story of Swenson reveals a man who values truth and service, not just because of his actions in Afghanistan, but also through his actions after. Brave, disillusioned, resolute - in a variety of ways, Swenson personifies the best of the men and women who joined the military after 9/11 and then spent over a decade fighting two brushfire wars on the other side of the world.
"Like all great leaders, Swenson was a servant," President Obama said yesterday. Throughout the White House ceremony and in subsequent interviews, Swenson maintained a stoic calm. Other than a set of hard eyes, he didn't look or sound like a man who said the following after the Battle of Ganjgal in September 2009:
"When I'm being second-guessed by higher or somebody that's sitting in an air-conditioned TOC, why [the] hell am I even out there in the first place? Let's sit back and play Nintendo. I am the ground commander. I want that fucker, and I am willing to accept the consequences of that fucker."
Swenson was railing against his superiors' refusal to approve his request for fire or air support during the fighting that claimed the lives of five U.S. service members and eight Afghan soldiers. Many company-level leaders who have served on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan can identify with Swenson's anger and frustration, myself included. Disconnect between military brass and those fighting on the ground is nothing new, of course, and Iraq and Afghanistan proved no exception, due to those wars' reliance on decentralization and small unit maneuvering. There was often a generational disconnect in these frictions as well, with the senior brass having joined a peace time force, far different than those whose call to service began with the certainty of war.
Much of who Swenson is remains a mystery, due to a reported monastic lifestyle, but for a certain breed of new veteran, he has become a symbol of everything our service meant and how it resonates in our postwar lives.
"When I first read about [Ganjgal], I put myself in Swenson's shoes, and became just as angry as he was, just as furious," former Army officer Daniel Feehan said. Feehan deployed to Iraq twice and is currently a White House Fellow. "It was a mission that demanded flexibility," he said, referring to both wars. "But the military is not the most flexible organization. This battle, and what happened to Swenson after, is pretty symbolic of the post-9/11 [military.]"
It seems quaint now, but in the days and months following 9/11, thousands of young men and women who'd never considered military service began showing up to recruiters' offices. "It was crazy," one military recruiter told me at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn some years ago. "We'd show up in the morning and there'd be a line waiting for us. Most of them were smart, had done their research. Never seen anything like it." Swenson, the son of two college professors, was less an exception than an early and supreme embodiment of the new type volunteering for military service. Fresh faces and idealistic minds, who in a different world would've become teachers or Peace Corps volunteers, instead became soldiers and sailors; the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq a hazy portent that awaited.
Swenson completed Officer Candidate School in September 2002 and commissioned into the infantry. He'd have been 23 at the time, and while most of his peers spent the next decade navigating graduate schools and cocktail parties, Swenson deployed to war – over and over again, three times total, once to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan, his service spanning almost the entirety of the post-2001 military ventures: Operation Anaconda, Mission Accomplished, Fallujah, the Surge, the Battle of Marja, anything and everything in between – beads on a string, independent of one another yet intrinsically linked, Swenson moving between life in America and life at war through it all.
Though there are conflicting reports as to what exactly happened that fateful day in the Ganjgal Valley in 2009, one thing that is both consistent and recurring in the various narratives is Swenson's leadership. Dakota Meyer, the Marine corporal who received the Medal of Honor in 2011 for his actions in Ganjgal, wrote in his memoir that he sent a letter to the White House praising Swenson: "He just took over and everyone deferred to him," Meyer wrote. "To the extent that anyone was in charge on the chaotic battlefield over the course of six or seven hours, it was Captain Will Swenson."
Video evidence of Swenson's valor in Ganjgal recently surfaced in video footage taken by a medevac helicopter that arrived in the midst of the Taliban ambush. It shows Swenson helping carry wounded Sergeant First Class Kenneth Westbrook to the helicopter, then leaning down to kiss Westbrook on the forehead before returning to the still raging battle. Despite the efforts of Swenson and the medevac crew, Westbrook would ultimately succumb to his injuries a month later, in a U.S. hospital where he was able to spend his final days surrounded by his family.
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LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire -07/25/12)- Appthority, The Authority in App Security™, has announced a series of new partnerships with DreamLab Technologies, Fixmo, IronKey, PrivacyChoice, and Quixey to extend the reach of Mobile App Risk Management through the Appthority Platform. The Appthority Platform automatically identifies and manages security and privacy risks hidden in mobile apps, using static and dynamic analysis through its cloud-based behavioral analysis engine.
Named "Most Innovative Company of RSA® Conference 2012" at its early 2012 launch, Appthority has seen great demand for its app scanning technology. This new growth helped Appthority close a $6.25M Series A round with Venrock and US Venture Partners (USVP). Today, Appthority is showcasing exciting new partnerships at Black Hat 2012. The company will be meeting with customers, media and new partners at the security conference's expo floor in booth P3 at the Octavius Ballroom of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
The Appthority Platform provides App Risk Analysis feeds to Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM), Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile App Management (MAM), Enterprise App Catalogs (also known as Enterprise App Stores), and Enterprise App Developers. With these new partnerships, Appthority's Mobile App Risk Management will now also be available to security consultants, Mobile Risk Management (MRM) enterprise and government customers, as well as consumers who worry about mobile app risk.
Domingo Guerra, co-founder and president of Appthority, said the company's partner centric approach is paying off.
"Our partners are leaders in their space who already offer amazing products," Guerra said, "By adding Appthority's innovative Mobile App Risk Management to their services and solutions, our partners are giving their customers an insight into what apps really do. This enables a safer mobile experience in a convenient fashion; by integrating the Appthority Platform to the products customers are already using, users can now make more intelligent decisions on what apps they allow into their lives."
Appthority has announced the following new partnerships:
- DreamLab Technologies is a leading consulting company in developing and implementing individual solutions for integral security concerning customer organizations, information and systems. As a performance oriented and reliable partner for Appthority, DreamLab Technologies helps extend app security through profound knowledge and an integral, neutral, and independent approach based on open standards. As an experienced education partner, the company can also pass on our knowledge in an integral and integrable way.
"Integral security," explained DreamLab Technologies' founder and CEO Nicolas Mayencourt, "stands for security as an overall package. It also involves processes, ways of communication and structural measures, in addition to IT. Integral information security is an important prerequisite to responsibly leading an organization."
- Fixmo is the Mobile Risk Management (MRM) company that enables protected and compliant mobile computing in the workplace. With Fixmo Sentinel and Fixmo SafeZone, IT organizations can secure and protect their corporate data, manage their mobile devices, monitor system integrity and maintain regulatory compliance across their entire mobility deployment.
Through the partnership with Appthority, Fixmo will extend its mobile risk management platform to enable IT organizations to assess the threats and security vulnerabilities associated with third party mobile apps running on devices within their networks.
"By bringing Fixmo's device integrity and compliance monitoring solutions together with Appthority's Mobile App Risk Management, we can give organizations a comprehensive view into the threats and vulnerabilities across their mobile devices, applications and users," said Dan Ford, CSO at Fixmo. "This is all about giving our customers the actionable risk intelligence they need to detect and prevent security breaches and maintain regulatory compliance."
- IronKey is ranked by the Wall Street Journal as the 14th best venture funded company in America. IronKey's data security and secure Web browsing products are used by over 3,000 enterprises and a million users every day.
"Partnering with Appthority was a great decision when IronKey decided to bring our secure browsing and mobile device security technology to Android. This allows IronKey customers to have a single cloud-based security management platform for Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows PC and Mac computers. This is crucial when rolling out Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs. It's also very important for consumers, who can now use IronKey security on any device," said David Jevans, founder and chairman of IronKey.
- PrivacyChoice MobileScan makes privacy compliance easier for app developers by scanning apps for third-party data transmission and rating recipients based on their privacy practices and qualifications. Using the PrivacyChoice API, developers also can embed appropriate privacy disclosure seamlessly into their privacy policies, in order to comply with stricter privacy disclosure requirements enforced by government regulators and app marketplaces.
"Developers need not fear the burden of compliance with new privacy disclosure requirements," said Jim Brock, PrivacyChoice founder and CEO. "Through hosted app scanning and our privacy disclosure tools, developers can quickly deliver a first-class privacy experience for their users and comply with rapidly evolving privacy requirements. Our partnership with Appthority brings together their leading app-security platform with our best-in-class privacy framework, making it even easier for app developers to minimize risk."
- Quixey is the search engine for apps -- searching mobile, desktop, web and browser apps. Quixey invented a new type of search, Functional Search™, that allows users to find apps by searching for what they want to do, without having to know the app's name. Quixey partners with major app stores, search engines, manufacturers, carriers and Web platforms to power app search globally.
"Quixey is committed to creating a trusted app ecosystem around the globe," said Tomer Kagan, Quixey CEO. "Quixey and Appthority are solving a serious problem in the mobile space. Given the rise in malware and the increasing need for app security, Quixey is partnering with Appthority to deliver the safest, most trusted experience when downloading apps onto a mobile device."
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Appthority -- The Authority in App Security™ helps the enterprise identify and manage the risks hidden in mobile apps. The cloud-based Appthority Platform™ automatically identifies and grades risky behavior in mobile apps including known and unknown malware, new malware used in targeted attacks, corporate data exfiltration, and intellectual property exposure. The Appthority Platform integrates with the enterprise's existing mobile solutions, adding app reputation and risk analysis capabilities to Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM), Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile App Management (MAM) Enterprise App Catalogs, and Enterprise Mobile App Developers' Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process. For more information on Appthority please visit www.appthority.com.
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Steve Fry
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Steve Fry
Steve has 30 years of sales and marketing experience in the IT industry. With a wide range of product and management responsibilities that include storage, Unix platforms thru x86 server technologies. Currently current he has responsibility for the solutions portfolio for the IBM System x brand in NA. This solutions portfolio includes virtualization and Desktop and Application virtualization solutions.
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Matt Darlington is a 20+ year IT veteran with a background in storage, networking, and virtualization. Matt has spent the last five years with a laser focus on all things virtual, particularly desktop, application, and user virtualization. Matt re-joined IBM in February 2013 and is IBMs North American ATSS Lead for Desktop and Application Virtualization based out of Research Triangle Park NC.
As desktop and application virtualization continues to expand and become more popular with end users, IT decision makers will need to understand what elements of the infrastructure and project are critical to the ROI and ability to meet service level requirements.
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Federal Judge Suspends Objections To Detroit Bankruptcy Filing
(Detroit, MI) -- A federal judge is suspending challenges to Detroit's massive bankruptcy filing from lower courts in Michigan. Detroit's filing for bankruptcy last week sparked several lawsuits. Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr says the Motor City needs bankruptcy protection in order to restructure finances. Detroit's debtors and pensioners don't want to see their bottom line suffer because of the bankruptcy. Judge Steven Rhodes heard arguments on the matter today and ruled that the federal courts have jurisdiction in the case.
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Buried gold likely not from heist, says US Mint rep
(NEWSER) – Perhaps it was too intriguing to be true: A rep for the US Mint and an expert on the San Francisco Mint throw water on the latest theory surrounding the $10 million in gold coins uncovered in California—that they were the long-hidden spoils of a 1901 gold heist from the SF Mint. "We do not have any information linking the Saddle Ridge Hoard coins to any thefts at any United States Mint facility," Mint rep Adam Stump tells CNN, and that determination follows a good deal of research, he adds to the San Francisco Chronicle. "We've got a crack team of lawyers, and trust me, if this was US government property we'd be going after it." Richard Kelly, who wrote a book on the SF Mint, sees a further issue with the dates of the uncovered coins—they're stamped 1847 to 1894, and he thinks ones taken from the mint would be dated nearer to 1901. "We assume from the times and all the records that they were new coins [taken]. Back then, once coins were printed they flew out of the mint."
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Anything anybody could ask of a canister vacuum, the Oreck Quest® Pro delivers in super abundance. That is because every feature of the Oreck Quest® Pro is designed with performance, ease-of-use and maximum cleanability in mind. It provides 1500 watts of cleaning power, yet is remarkably quiet.
Thanks to its variable speed control, the precise amount of suction is available for every need. Variable suction control allows you to lower the suction on the unit for delicate surfaces such as drapes and oriental rugs, or choose a higher speed for pile carpeting with a range of settings in between.
The Oreck Quest® Pro comes with a complete set of onboard tools, a hard floor head and a powered head. The power nozzle adjusts for different carpet pile heights. HEPA filter installed and disposable filter bags come standard.
- Four 360° pivoting casters allow it to move easily on all floor surfaces
- Includes a 6-foot hose, dusting brush and a crevice tool
- Separate motor in the powered floor head drives the extralong pile lifting roller brush to comb and groom carpet fibers and help loosen dirt
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Tsarnaev 'Participated' in Triple Murder: Dead Friend
(NEWSER) – Before he was killed by the FBI in a bizarre incident, Ibragim Todashev told agents that his friend Tamerlan Tsarnaev was indeed linked to a 2011 triple murder, according to papers filed by federal prosecutors in a Boston court on Monday. "According to Todashev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in the Waltham triple homicide," the motion reads. Authorities have been investigating Tsarnaev's connection to the killings for a while, and various media outlets reported in May that just before he was killed, Todashev had admitted to helping Tsarnaev kill the men.


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Black Flag names Mike Vallely new frontman
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Black Flag has a new man on vocals.
According to "Rolling Stone," the hardcore vets have picked Mike Vallely to be their latest frontman. Vallely briefly sang with the band in 2003, and served as their manager during last year's comeback. He was also the one who took the stage during one of Black Flag's November shows in Australia to tell then-frontman Ron Reyes that his time with the band was over.
Vallely says Reyes had become "disgruntled" and "combative" during the trek, and couldn't see eye-to-eye with Black Flag's leader and only consistent member, Greg Ginn. He says the difference in their ideas about the band's future led to dysfunction and caused the band to "fall short" in 2013.
The new-look Black Flag is already working on material for a follow-up to last year's What The..., which the band admits was a "sub par" effort. They're also planning an "extensive" tour expected to start in May.
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