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With the presence of historic places like Cross Street Market, it is no wonder why Baltimore is lauded as 'Charm City.' Nestled into the heart of Federal Hill and just blocks away from the Inner Harbor, the market is a favorite of visitors and locals alike. One restaurant in particular, Nick's Oyster Bar, can be found brimming with purple-clad fans on Raven's game days, drinking beer and slurping down oysters that are served up with a smile by local personality and shucking pro, George Hastings.
Standing amidst the hustle and bustle of the market is Hastings, a cheery man in a flat cap, greeting passersby with a warm smile on his face and a hearty laugh. As he interacts with customers, it quickly becomes clear that this man is a cherished local celebrity.
Hastings, a decorated oyster shucker, grew up in Southwest Baltimore, learning his craft at the age of 14 from his neighbor, a native to the Northern Neck of Virginia along the Rappahannock River who brought his skills to Baltimore during the Great Depression when he came looking for work. "I would come to Cross Street Market with my neighbor to pick up oysters to take to different venues," Hastings said. "At that time, Nick's was not here and the seafood part of the market was owned by someone else until 1971. Mr. Nick had three sons that were all in my age group – I got to be friends with them and started shucking oysters for them once the restaurant opened."
After years honing his skills at oyster roasts and other catering events, he began participating in and exceling at local shucking competitions. "I entered a few shucking contests and was fortunate enough to win those," explained Hastings, "I also entered the National Oyster Shucking Contest and won that twice – and for that I got to represent the United States at the International Oyster Festival in Galway, Ireland."
The National Oyster Shucking Contest is held in Saint Mary's County, Md., every year during the third weekend in October. The festival has been around for 49 years with 2016 marking the 50th anniversary. "It's going to be a big time," said Hastings in reference to the 50th anniversary celebration. "Lord willing, I will be there. I have to keep the young guys honest," he continued.
Shucking competitions are based on speed and presentation, participants are timed on how long it takes to open two dozen oysters. "There is a lot of anticipation, there is a countdown then you just go into a frenzy of opening two dozen oysters as fast and furious as you can. When you're finished you put your hands up and nine out of ten shuckers will be shaking from the adrenaline," said Hastings
At that time, three watermen judges grade the shucker's handiwork, adding penalty seconds for every infraction that they find. They are looking for the oysters to be whole, uncut, not punctured and severed loose from the shell with no dirt, grit or mud particles in them.
Just like most things, perfecting a shucking technique takes time and dedication. "The old saying is, 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice,'" said Hastings. When competing, he aims to shuck a dozen oysters per minute as clean and as fast as he can. "I hope not to get any more than a minute in penalty seconds. You can win with a [total] time of three minutes or less," he explained.
There are many ways to shuck an oyster, and in Hasting's opinion, any way that you can open it – whether with a knife, screwdriver or hammer – is just fine. His preferred method, however, is a traditional mid-Atlantic stabbing style as opposed another popular method of opening the bivalve by its hinge. Both styles can be viewed in the tutorial below.
For those working to perfect their form, Hastings recommends wearing gloves and proceeding with caution as the shells are very sharp and often cut more people than the knives do. Additionally, for those that enjoy eating oysters, "don't put the shell in your mouth," he warns. "Slurp it up off the top like kissing or pick it up with a fork. If there is bacteria in and around that oyster, it will be on the outside of the shell, not the inside. It's the silt and stuff that is on the outside that could be detrimental to you."
In addition to shucking, Hastings also gives back to the cause by partnering with the Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP) to help with shell recycling, restoration events and fundraisers. "A very dear friend of mine, Vernon P. Johnson Jr., and I contacted ORP about looking to restaurants for recycled shells. ORP was looking for shells at the time to put spat on to grow oysters and we noticed that there were a lot of restaurants and caterers that would throw the shells away. We thought that if they [the shells] could be captured, it would be a great way to collect shells – and that's the idea that started the Shell Recycling Alliance," explained Hastings.
One oyster can filter up to 60 gallons of water per day and can play a big role in improving water quality, which is why restoration efforts aim to restore populations to healthy levels in the Chesapeake Bay. "It's a sustainable thing, we plant oysters, we can eat them, we save the shells, we plant more oysters and continue with the cycle," said Hastings. "My wish is for the Bay to be as healthy as it was prior to the industrial revolution. That's the biggest thing that knocked the Bay into the weeds – so to say," he continued. "I think we can come back from that now, but we must remember that it took us 100 years to get here, restoration is not going to happen overnight. It could very well take another 100 plus years to get back to that."
To view more photos, visit the Chesapeake Bay Program's Flickr page.
Images by Will Parson
Nutrients flowing from the Chesapeake Bay's Eastern Shore make up a disproportionate amount of the excess nitrogen and phosphorus polluting the estuary, according to a recent report from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
The land to the east of the Bay, known as the Delmarva Peninsula, includes parts of western Delaware and eastern Maryland and Virginia, and makes up just seven percent of the watershed's total land area. But per square mile, Delmarva receives nearly twice as much nitrogen and phosphorus as other areas in the region, leading to degraded water quality in the rivers, streams and groundwater that flow to the Bay. These nutrients can fuel the growth of harmful algae blooms that block sunlight and create low-oxygen areas, or "dead zones," that suffocate marine life.
"On the Eastern Shore, the concentrations of nitrogen in groundwater, and nitrogen and phosphorus in surface waters, are well above natural levels and are among the highest in the nation," said Scott Ator, a USGS hydrologist and co-author of the study.
According to the report, agricultural production—including fertilizer and manure applied to cropland—accounts for more than 90 percent of the nutrients reaching the lands of the Eastern Shore. When more fertilizer and manure is applied to the land than is needed by crops, nitrogen builds up in the groundwater and phosphorus builds up in the soil, and these nutrients eventually move into streams that flow to the Chesapeake Bay.
Under the clean water goals in the new Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, which encompasses the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), Chesapeake Bay Program partners are working to reduce the amount of nutrients entering local waterways—including working with farmers across the watershed to implement "best management practices" or "BMPs" that curb agricultural runoff. Findings from the USGS report will help improve the placement of these practices to reduce the nutrient pollution reaching groundwater, streams and the Bay.
Nine months after the signing of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, the Chesapeake Bay Program is seeking public input on our plans to achieve the goals and outcomes of that landmark accord. These twenty-five draft management strategies address the thirty-one outcomes of the Watershed Agreement and outline our plans for the implementation, monitoring and assessment of our work toward the protection and restoration of the Bay, its rivers and streams and the lands that surround them.
"These plans are the detailed outlines of what may be the most extensive collaboration in the nation," said Molly Ward, Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources and Chair of the Bay Program's Principals' Staff Committee. "Each one is connected to every other, just like our lands, river, streams and the Bay. As we move forward, we welcome people's input so that we can strengthen those bonds, becoming even more focused, intentional and unified in our vision of a healthy Bay ecosystem."
Our efforts toward achieving the Agreement's thirty-one interconnected outcomes will benefit communities throughout the watershed—across Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.—as we work to maintain the health of local waters, sustain abundant fish and wildlife populations, restore critical habitats, foster engaged and diverse communities through increased public access and education, conserve farmland and forests, and improve the climate resiliency of the region.
"Resiliency in nature comes from diversity. Like the natural ecosystem, our work draws strength from increasing the diversity of our partnerships, increasing local actions for watershed-wide results," said Bay Program Director Nick DiPasquale. "When people from distinct communities across the region – from citizens to communities to local governments – join in the overall effort, everyone benefits."
In June 2014, representatives from the six watershed states, the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed the landmark Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. This agreement marks the first time representatives from every jurisdiction in the watershed committed to full partnership in the Bay Program and our collaborative restoration efforts.
Drafts of the management strategies are available online. The Bay Program welcomes comments on these drafts between March 16 and April 30, 2015. Interested parties can offer input by submitting an online comment or sending an email to the Bay Program.
It's a false dilemma we've all heard before: "You're either with me, or you're against me." In the case of the Chesapeake, we often run into a less pugnacious, but similarly false, contradiction when we talk about protecting or restoring the Bay, its rivers and streams and the lands that surround them. To be sure, there are pristine healthy watersheds that need a focus on protection, as well as severely degraded areas that need a lot of restoration. But in reality, the vast majority of waters and lands across the Bay region need efforts that both restore and protect, so that we're bringing back clean water, healthy habitats, and opportunities to enjoy nature, while ensuring we don't lose the ones we already have.
The January announcement of funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers a great opportunity to put this potent combination into practice. Through its new Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) nine projects across the Bay's watershed will receive nearly $25 million. This funding will deliver restoration and protection in key areas across the Bay's watershed, bringing a renewed focus to critical areas of the region and new partnerships.
One funded project, the Delmarva Conservation Partnership—co-led by The Nature Conservancy and the Delaware-Maryland Agribusiness Association—offers a unique collaboration between conservation organizations, agribusinesses, government agencies and the scientific community. This partnership focuses on a holistic approach to target conservation practices—ones that both restore and protect—that will achieve the greatest outcomes. In the Choptank, Nanticoke, and Pocomoke river watersheds, partners will work together to connect improved management practices in agricultural fields, with over 1,500 acres of wetland restoration and protection.
The natural world is an interconnected system: the actions we take to build the health of our local lands and waterways go on to benefit the water, land, air and living resources throughout the watershed. When our efforts are similarly interconnected—by including both protection and restoration—we can better ensure our work benefits the health and resilience of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and all of us who depend upon it.


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China-based Shenzhen Netcom Electronics, which specializes in flash storage devices such as memory cards and USB drives, has launched a microSD card with a density of 32GB. The company claimed the new card's capacity is comparable to that of class 6 SDHC devices.
Netcom said it is able to satisfy the needs of handset users who are eager to pick up a 32GB microSD card for additional memory. The new Netcom 32GB microSD card is twice as large as most mainstream handset memory cards that are compatible with the SD 2.0 standard.
Netcom's 32GB microSD device is produced by stacking nine chips together, according to the company. The nine-chip stack structure, as well as arranging the circuit path, make it difficult for most module makers to produce this type of memory card no larger than the head of a nail. The company said it has the proven packaging technology capability to deliver the product to market.
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PHILADELPHIA - With the Heptagonal Indoor and IC4A Championships fast approaching - in addition to a winter storm this weekend - the University of Pennsylvania men's track & field team heads to New York City for the Rider/Lafayette Invitational at the Armory on Friday night.
The meet is expected to be out of harms way and may add schools if meets are cancelled and teams need a place to compete. At this time, Penn and Columbia are the only Ivy League schools scheduled to compete. The night will get underway at 5 p.m. with several field events, while the track will see its first event at 5:25 p.m. with the 5,000 meters. The meet is set to conclude at 10:40 p.m.
Last week, the Quakers finished seventh behind several IC4A qualifying performances at Penn State's Sykes and Sabock Challenge Cup on Saturday in State College, Pa. The top two finishers in the 2,000-meter steeplechase were wearing the Red and Blue. Senior Mike Kiley and freshman Brendan Smith finished first and second, respectively. Maalik Reynolds was second in the high jump when he passed the bar at 2.16 meters (7 feet, 1 inch). In the shot put, Jake Brenza was seventh with a toss of 16.11 meters (52-10.75 ft.).
In Penn's last visit to the Armory, four Quakers - Kirk Webb, Semi Ibikunle, Tim Carey and Thomas Pitt - won individual titles to help the team to a first-place finish on Jan. 26. Webb posted his first individual collegiate victory with a narrow in the 800 meters, while Pitt won the high jump for the second straight week. Ibikunle won his first event as a Quaker with a victory in the long jump and Carey was victorious in the 500 meters.
The Quakers have just one more weekend remaining before the 2013 Indoor Heptagonal Championships at Harvard's Gordon Track on Feb. 23-24.


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Ohioian voter fraud is spreading even FURTHER south...to Tennessee
In Decatur County, Tennessee, iVotronic touch-screen machines made by Election Systems & Software are registering some votes for John McCain as votes for Barack Obama. Turns out that ES&S voting machines have had problems for 5 years, and yet they are still the largest company in the industry. Yeah, that closed source, unverifiable voting software was a definate improvement over the paper ballots.
Voter Fraud is treason.
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Duran Duran Is Back! They've Grabbed Naomi Campbell Too!
Their new video, 'Girl Panic,' is filled to the brim with stars. There's even a cameo from Dolce and Gabbana!
-PJ Gach
'80s music darlings and icons Duran Duran have returned to the music scene, stronger than before. They're new song "Girl Panic" is full of infectious hooks, evocative vocals and of course, sick clothing. It's a music video filled with fashion. Or is it a fashion video filled with music?
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They've just released an uber glossy music video. Glam super models portray each member of the band. We're talking Naomi Campbell (the sickest legs in the business) depicting Simon Le Bon, Cindy Crawford as John Taylor (bass), Eva Herzigova is keyboardist Nick Rhodes, Helena Christensen is drummer Roger Taylor, Yasmin Le Bon's an "anonymous guitarist." Guess what designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana pretend to be? Harper Bazaar UK guest editors.
Here's the slick video:
By the way, the still shots from the photoshoot scene will appear as a 22-page spread in Harper Bazaar UK's December issue.
PJ Gach is Senior Editor: Style + Beauty at BettyConfidential.


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Overall we get along ok but we don't spend much time together. I like it that way, it works. She has occasionally babysat without problems, like twice a year or so.
She just dropped by, out of the sky, no call, nothing, which I already find very rude but whatever. I let that one slide, already letting her know I'm about to get the kids ready for bed aka "you got a few minutes".
So we're talking, showing her ODS (my DSS) school project, all dandy.
I went in the bedroom to change YDS and get him ready for bed and I hear from the living room "Get off of me or I'll pop you, I have a headache"... "Stop playing with me, [ODS], I don't want you on me right now, I'm gonna beat your butt". ODS giggling, obviously being annoying but not getting that grandma is serious.
We don't spank. We don't "pop". EVER. ODS is 8 years old and nobody has ever put his hands on him, not DH, not his own mom, and not me.
I say, without coming out of the bedroom, in a half joking tone "nobody gets their butt beat in our house".
Her response "then I'll take him in the hallway to beat him".
Me (serious now) "I don't think so, our kids don't get beaten"
Her: "He's not listening and if I say he's gonna get popped, he'll get popped"
I almost blew a gasket!!!!
I picked up YDS mid diaper change, went into the doorway, looked at her and said, very calmly "No."
ODS had gotten off the couch in the meantime and was sitting next to it on the floor. She looked over to him, back to me, back to him, as if I was talking to him. So, to clarify, I said "I'm talking to you. No. Nobody beats our kids. Not me, not DH, and definitely not anyone else. Those are our kids, you are not the parent. You can spank your kids, not mine."
She looked like she got smacked in the face.
ODS had the biggest smile in the world on his face... Lol...
She grabbed her bag and said "I think it's best if I go", I said "Yes, I think so" and she left in a huff.
I told ODS that nobody ever has a right to put their hands on them and if anyone ever was to he has to tell us right away and we'll take care of it.
He gave me a big hug and said ok.
Seriously, what the fuck???
I was so mad, I was still shaking 5 minutes later. I'm very, very proud of the way I handled it, I was so mad, I could have choked her!
Guess we will have to reconsider who we ask to babysit for us on the off-chance that we ever go on a date again...
I can't believe she challenged me like that!!!!! That was crazy!
I honestly expected her to play it off and let it go but she went into full on battle mode.
DH (dear husband) isn't home yet but I know he'll back me 100%, he'd CO his mom is she ever actually hit our sons. I'm sure she's already blowing up his phone.
Ugh, that bitch.


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The first breeding of the most endangered species of crocodile - Indian gavials (Gavialis gangeticus) in the world - inside - has succeeded in the Crocodile ZOO Protivin . On May 4, 2017 hatched a total of 14 small and healthy Indian gavials. We were successful after six years of working with gavials...
Gavialis gangeticus laid eggs. Protivin Crocodile ZOO is the only in the world where the critically endengered Indian gavial(Gavialis gangeticus) laid eggs in the breeding conditions in temperate zones. The Indian gavials laid their first eggs on April 2012 (in Protivin Crocodile ZOO) – shortly after were imported from India – was evident that fertilization has occured in India. After 5 years – the female Ganga laid 20 eggs on March 6th,2017. Eggs are deposited in incubators and everything suggest that at least some of them are fertilized.
In 2013 we The Phillippine crocodiles laid eggs 2.5.2013 and 84 day later 7 youngs hatched in Protivín Zoo. In the same day but other year, 2.5.2015 the another female of Phillippine crocodile laid eggs again. This year we waited for youngs crocodile 79 days, and one young of phillippine crocodile was born in our zoo.
On October 8, 2014 spectacled caiman young hatched right at the exposition at our zoo.
We prepared for You very interesting program in Autumn and Winter. You can see the crocodile´s feeding and you can take picture with small crocodile. Don´t let it miss.
Eggs laid on July 22, 2014 will be on display for the ZOO visitors at the exhibition in an incubator.
On Tuesday June 17, 2014, a special christening event took place at the Protivin ZOO of the Philippine crocodiles born at this ZOO last year.
We cordially invite you to a new exhibition of exceptional animals called White Death.
The crocodile ZOO welcomed its 40,000th visitor on Saturday October 26, 2013.
...in keeping critically endanger species of crocodile - Indian Gharial /Gavialis gangeticus/
the rarest crocodiles of the World hatched in Protivín Crocodile ZOO.
Crocodile ZOO celebrated its anniversary July, 5 in 2013
The crocodile ZOO is bigger of 18 new broods of crocodylus siamensis
Philippine crocodile female has laid eggs in the zoo, for the first time in Europe
The female of Crocodylus siamensis laid the eggs before Easter
In the morning on 5th of March, there was a big surprise waiting for us
another part of this successful program filmed a television crew TV Prima Cool with us.
Caiman crocodilus was given the name Lucky
Director Ivanna Benešová recorded in our zoo
You help too... thank's
The big farewell with holiday
Famous moderator in zoo
We have success - birth of crocodylus siamensis (24th July 2012)
White american alligator has come to the Czech Republic
New exhibitions in the zoo and the crocodile farm will be ceremonially opened on 27 June 2012
Our zoo has succeeded in something no other establishment of this kind in Europe has done...


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior shall prepare a roll of the persons of Snake or Paiute Indian ancestry who meet the following requirements for eligibility: (1) They were born on or prior to and living on the date of this Act; and (2) they were members of or are lineal descendants of members of the bands whose chiefs and headmen We-you-we-wa (Wewa), Gahanee, E-hi-gant (Egan), Po-nee, Chaw-wat-na-nee, Owits (Oits), and Tash-e-go, signed the unratified Treaty of December 10, 1868; and (3) they do not elect to participate as beneficiaries of any awards granted in the docket numbered 87 claim of the Northern Paiute Nation. Applications for enrollment must be filed with the area director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Portland, Oregon, within nine months after the date of this Act on forms prescribed for that purpose. The determination of the Secretary regarding utilization of available rolls or records and the eligibility for enrollment of an applicant shall be final.
The Secretary is authorized and directed to withdraw the funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Snake or Paiute Tribe that were appropriated by the Act of April 13, 1960 (74 Stat. 42), in satisfaction of a judgment that was obtained by the tribe in the Indian Claims Commission against the United States in docket numbered 17 together with the interest accrued thereon, after payment of attorney fees and expenses, as well as all other expenses, and to prorate such funds among those persons whose names appear on the roll prepared pursuant to section 1 of this Act for distribution as hereinafter provided.
The Secretary shall distribute shares payable to living persons enrolled pursuant to section 1 of this Act and shares payable to the heirs or legatees of deceased persons enrolled pursuant to section 1 of this Act according to rules and regulations which he shall prescribe, taking into account that in some instances a planned individual or group program for the use of shares may more properly serve the long-term interest of the enrollees than would a direct, unsupervised per capita payment. The funds so distributed shall not be subject to Federal or State income tax.
All costs incurred by the Secretary in the preparation of the rolls and in the distribution of payment of pro rata shares in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be paid by appropriate withdrawals from the judgment fund.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
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Acer has unveiled the Aspire Timeline Ultra featuring eight hours of battery life and a 2-spindle design in an ultrabook. They feature Acer Green Instant On for fast boot and resume, and Acer Always Connect technology, which lets users manage their multimedia and data.
The new Aspire Timeline Ultra are slimmer and lighter than earlier generations of the Timeline series, measuring just 20mm thin.
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Sustainable Food Coming to a Theater near You!
In recent months there has been an explosion of symposia, t.v. series, documentaries, and films about sustainable food. All of them share the same important themes:
- Sustainably grown food can drastically improve the health of individuals, the planet, and the local economy.
- WE NEED YOU!! In order for sustainable food systems to survive and thrive they need support from the local community.
- "Democracy is NOT a spectator sport!" Tell the judiciary and local and federal leaders that regulations should protect local food systems — THE LITTLE GUY — NOT — the big companies that pay for elections and bias regulations.
In May, Georgetown University and Washington Post Live co-hosted a symposium called "The Future of Food" which brought lawmakers, chefs, farmers, researchers, policy makers, nutritionists, and activists together. The symposium was a series of small panel discussions that covered a wide range of topics pertaining to food. The discussion was lively, thought provoking, and at sometimes, pointed. The highlight of the event was the keynote address given by HRH The Prince of Wales. The Prince has been an outspoken advocate for organic farming for over 20 years — before "sustainability" was synonymous with "chic". His remarks highlighted the symbiotic relationship between sustainable farming and climate change. Visit the "Future of Food" website to watch video highlights of the conference.
Inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales, HARMONY captures him on film in a way we've never seen him before, an authentic leader on critical global issues…Harmony looks at the root causes of the global problems we face and offers solutions. HARMONY paints a picture of an awareness that is arising in people around the globe across boundaries of geography, race religion and socio-economic status. At a moment when we hear daily about challenges on an unprecedented planetary scale, Harmony proposes a way forward and provides the audience with a new perspective on the need to change our relationship with the planet. Harmony is a global call to action.
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
Jamie Oliver, that crazy British chef, is my idol! And, the producer of American Idol, Ryan Seacrest, apparently agrees.
Recognizing Jamie's star power and the need to shine a star's light on the alarming state of the food system in America's schools, Seacrest has produced two seasons of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on ABC. In 2010 he took on Huntington, West Virginia, and in this past season, the Los Angeles United School District. Over seven years ago, Jamie's School Lunches aired on TLC, chronicling his quest to improve the British school lunch program. If you think that it's outrageous that more money is spent on food to feed prison inmates than is spent on American children, this program is for you! Jamie's believes that the answer to the skyrocketing cost of healthcare from obesity-related illnesses cannot be found in the halls of Congress; rather we need look no further than our own kitchens. Check out Jamie's inspiring TED lecture.
I saw the movie a few weeks ago for a private screening for chefs with the film's director, Kristin Canty, a mom and first-time film maker, whose struggle to provide raw milk for her son — the only thing keeping his debilitating asthma at bay — inspired her to create a film. Farmageddon highlights the government's harassment of farmer/producers and consumers of raw milk. It is difficult to understand why a substance with so many healing properties has been deemed unfit for human consumption. I must admit that I am having a hard time convincing my own husband of the health benefits of raw milk, but regardless of your personal preferences, it's hard to understand how it's legal for the government to prevent a group of four families who co-own a cow from drinking its milk in whatever form they choose. Afterall, it's not illegal to smoke or drink alcohol when your pregnant, why can't you drink cow's milk raw if you wish? The scenes of the government seizing property, animals and destroying livelihoods was something that I though only happened during the collectivization of farms in the Soviet Union.
Click here if you're interested in hosting a viewing of the Farmageddon. What a great way to get involved!
This new documentary just premiered in Staunton and Waynesboro, Virginia in honor of Polyface Farm's Family Field day. Joel Salatin and his famed Polyface farm are featured in the documentary that examines the feasability of feeding the world from small pasture farms and debunks the myth that this time-honored method of farming cannot be financially successful. I haven't seen it yet, but I can't wait to!
Staci Strauss and Craig McCord (Slow Films Woodstock) apply the skills they acquired in the television commercial business to tell the stories of the great work being done by farmers, ranchers, bee-keepers, chefs, butchers, food writers, chocolatiers, cookbook authors, wine makers, distillers, seed-savers, cheese makers, fishers, foragers, and, well . . . you get the picture. They live in Woodstock, New York.


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Socio-analysis is the activity of exploration, consultancy, and action research which combines and synthesises methodologies and theories derived from psychoanalysis, group relations, social systems thinking, organisational behaviour, and social dreaming [1].
Socio-analysis offers a conception of individuals, groups, organisations, and global systems that takes into account conscious and unconscious aspects and potentialities. From this conception are born methods of exploration which can increase capacities through making conscious what was unconscious for individuals, groups, and organisations, and through releasing energy and ideas that help create individual and organisational direction, and meaning.
Socio-analysis has at its heart a query as to what is the psychological truth for an individual, group, organisation, or other social system, and how may this best be brought to light as a means for creative transformation and growth?
Socio-analysis and WonderEdit
Anxiety, its exploration, and understanding are of central concern to psychoanalysis, which was originally founded to explore the mental problems of medical patients. While socio-analytic exploration frequently uncovers systemic pain, (of which anxiety is a part), the "pain" is a guide to transformation of the system as a whole with all its potentialities for growth. Joshua Bain has suggested that the emphasis on anxiety is limiting, and that a more appropriate paradigm for socio-analysis is wonder [2] . Wonder was regarded by Plato as the beginning of philosophy, and its link to exploration, creativity, and the growth of capacities of human beings, would seem to make it the appropriate starting point for socio-analysis as well [3].
"Wonder is the special affection of a philosopher; for philosophy has no other starting point than this; and it is a happy genealogy which makes Iris the daughter of Thaumas". Theaetetus, 155D
The saying "When wonder ceases, knowledge begins", which is attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, is especially apt for socio-analysis with its emphasis on always explore, rather than sit tight on what is supposedly known.
Brief historyEdit
Socio-analysis has its roots in the first Northfield Experiment carried out by Wilfred Bion and John Rickman, and reported in the Lancet in 1943 [4], and later by Bion in the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic in 1946 [5] . Bion is generally regarded as the father of socio-analysis (although the word was not used in those days).
Wilfred BionEdit
Wilfred Bion was born in India in 1897 and educated at Bishop Stortford College in England. During the First World War he commanded a tank on the Western Front and was decorated for bravery: Distinguished Service Order]], and the Legion of Honour. After studying History at Oxford University, and a stint teaching History at his old school, he began Medical training at University College Hospital in 1924 and qualified in 1930. He worked at the Tavistock Clinic in London before the Second World War, and started a personal psychoanalysis with John Rickman. After the Second World War he contributed to the formation of the Tavistock Institute. He had a second psycho-analysis with Melanie Klein, and trained and qualified as a psychoanalyst. Bion was, and is, regarded by many people as a genius who made fundamental contributions to psychoanalysis, and to the understanding of groups. His stance of always pointing to the unknown, whether with a patient or with a group or in himself, was the realization of his genius.
Northfield ExperimentsEdit
Northfield Hospital was a military hospital, situated in Birmingham, in the English Midlands, with the task of treating soldiers who had developed psychiatric problems, in order to get them back into the war. This Experiment, together with the Second Northfield Experiment associated with the innovations of S. H. Foulkes, Tom Main and Harold Bridger, contributed the following elements to the emerging discipline of socio-analysis:
- Attention to, and making hypotheses, and interpretations, about conscious and unconscious functioning at the level of the group. A group was no longer regarded as simply an aggregate of individuals, but as having its own intrinsic dynamics that required understanding and interpretation.
- The concept of working therapeutically with the "institution as a whole", or the "whole community". The idea of the "therapeutic community" which burgeoned after the Second World War, e.g. at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas, and the Cassel Hospital in London has its origins in Main's work at Northfield[6].
- The significance of creating "transitional space" for therapy, action projects, and development, so that people, (in this case patients), are enabled to take up their own authority for task. Bridger pioneered this approach at Northfield through his celebrated "Club", a space for patients to make of it what they wished to, without the use of the space being determined by hospital or military staff. Bridger continued to develop this approach to working with groups and organisations of all kinds after the War.
Socio-analytic RoleEdit
The Northfield Experiments heralded a socio-analytic consultant role: one of exploration of individual, group, and organisational phenomena which are linked dynamically. The socio-analyst, as exemplified by the role Bion took at Northfield, and after the War in his group explorations at the Tavistock Clinic, works from a stance of "not knowing" with the courage, and fortitude, to pursue psychological truth.
The socio-analyst, like the psychoanalyst, uses concepts such as the unconscious, defences, splitting, projection, projective identification, introjection, and transference, but the field for exploration, while including the individual, is wider than the psychoanalytic dyad – e.g. a group, an organisation, a society, global systems.
Thus, for example, the socio-analyst uses concepts of group and organisational transference, and pays particular attention to the way he/she is made to feel through client engagements, as a possible indication of unconscious dynamics within the client system.
Group Relations Theory and Tavistock ConferencesEdit
Bion's exploration of group dynamics at the Tavistock Clinic in London after the war culminated in a seminal publication "Experiences in Groups"[7], which describes and analyses three basic assumptions that can be observed in group behaviour at different times: basic assumption dependency, basic assumption fight / flight, and basic assumption pairing. Basic assumptions operate unconsciously within groups at the same time a group may be engaged in a conscious work task – that Bion called a W group[8].
These insights of Bion together with theories of Kurt Lewin led to the first Group Relations Conference in 1957 that was sponsored by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and Leicester University, and directed by Eric Trist[9]. Group Relations Conferences typically explore the effects of group and organisational dynamics on how individuals take up authority and leadership in this temporary institution, and in their work. The "Leicester" Conference as it came to be known under the leadership of A.K.Rice and colleagues such as Pierre Turquet, Eric Miller, Robert Gosling, and Bruce Reed stimulated similar explorations and enterprises in numerous countries: United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, France, Éire, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Bulgaria, Finland, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Israel, India, and Australia.
Other InfluencesEdit
Other influences on the nascent discipline of socio-analysis that emerged from the work of social scientists at the Tavistock Institute in the 1950s were action research[10] ; the discovery of socio-technical systems by Eric Trist and Ken Bamforth[11], its development by Trist and Emery[12], Rice and Miller[13] ; and Elliott Jaques[14] and Isabel Menzies[15] concept of social systems being structured as a defence against anxiety
Recent InnovationsEdit
Social DreamingEdit
A recent methodology for the exploration of social phenomena has been the discovery of social dreaming by Gordon Lawrence at the Tavistock Institute in 1982[16]. Social Dreaming is the activity of sharing dreams (night dreams), associations to the dreams, and connections between dreams, with others in a Matrix setting. The focus of social dreaming (unlike in psychoanalysis or dreaming groups) is not on the meaning of the dream for the individual dreamer, but regarding the dreams and associations as a way of exploring and making social meaning. Conferences to explore social dreaming have been held in Israel, the United States, Australia, India, and most European countries.
Up until 1996 the work that has been described in this article went under different labels[17].There was no one word that described the activities and the role. Alastair Bain suggested that the discipline should be called "Socio-Analysis" in 1996.
The Australian Institute of Socio-Analysis pioneered a three year professional training program in socio-analysis in 1999, and began publishing a Journal "Socio-Analysis" in 1999. While the Australian Institute of Socio-Analysis no longer exists the work of socio-analysis continues to be developed by the Centre for Socio-Analysis in Melbourne [1]. Other organisations which do socio-analytic or closely related work include the William Alanson White Institute in New York, the A.K. Rice Institute in the United States, the Tavistock Institute and Tavistock Clinic in London, the Grubb Institute [2] and OPUS [3], both in London, the Centre for Applied Research in Philadelphia, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations [4], the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the University of Wuppertal [5], and practitioners from many countries who work in the tradition of Wilfred Bion. The Journal "Socio-Analysis" is now published by Group Relations Australia.[6]
Organisational DreamingEdit
Current developments in socio-analysis include Bain's discovery of Organisational Dreaming[18], which is based on the observation that dreams are "container sensitive", and that the dreams shared by people within an organisation during a project will reflect organisational realities that are the "unexpressed known" within the organisation[19].
Authority, Wonder and the SanghaEdit
The work of the Centre for Socio-Analysis has also led to a formulation of "Authority" that is based in Wonder and the Sangha (Buddhist notion of "people on the path") in contrast to usual understandings that are based on the Individual, Anxiety, and Hierarchy[3].
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Bain A., "On Socio-Analysis" Socio-Analysis, Vol.1 No.1 June, 1999
- ↑ Bain J., "From Anxiety to Wonder: A New Paradigm for Socio-Analysis" in Centre for Socio-Analysis Newsletter No.1, February 2006.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bain A., "Sources of Authority: The Double Threads of Anxiety and Wonder" in Dare to Think the Unthought Known?, Ed. Ajeet N. Mathur, Aivoainut Oy, Tampere, Finland. March 2006.
- ↑ Bion, W.R., and Rickman, J., "Intra-group Tensions in Therapy", Lancet, 27 November 1943
- ↑ Bion, W.R., "The Leaderless Group Project", Bull. Meninger Clinic, 10, 3: 77 - 8l.1946
- ↑ Main, T."The Concept of the Therapeutic Community: Variations and Vicissitudes", Group Analysis, 10, Suppl.1977
- ↑ Bion, W.R. Experiences in Groups and Other Papers, London, Tavistock, 1961
- ↑ Two other basic assumptions have contributed to understanding group behaviour: basic assumption "Oneness" discovered by Pierre Turquet in 1974. Turquet P, "Leadership: The individual and the group" in Gibbard G. et al. eds. The Large Group: Therapy and Dynamics. San Francisco and London. Jossey Bass, 1974. And basic assumption Me discovered by Gordon Lawrence and Alastair Bain in 1992. Lawrence W., Bain A., & Gould L., "The Fifth Basic Assumption." Free Associations, London, Vol. 6, Part 1 (no. 37), 1996
- ↑ Trist, E., and Sofer, C., Exploration in Group Relations, Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1959
- ↑ Jaques, E., The Changing Culture of a Factory, London, Tavistock, 1951
- ↑ Trist, E., and Bamforth, W., "Some Social and Psychological Consequences of the Long Wall Method of Coal-Getting", Human Relations, 4.1951
- ↑ Emery F. and Trist E., "The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments", Human Relations, 18. 1965
- ↑ Miller, E., and Rice, K., Systems of Organisation, London, Tavistock, 1967
- ↑ Jaques, E. "Social Systems as a Defence against Persecutory and Depressive Anxiety" in Klein, M. et. a1. (eds.), New Directions in Psycho-analysis, London, Tavistock, 1955
- ↑ Menzies, 1. The Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence Against Anxiety, London, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations,1970
- ↑ Lawrence W. "Ventures in Social Dreaming: The First Experience" in Changes, Vol. 7, No.3, July 1989 Lawrence W. ed. Social Dreaming @ Work, London, Karnac, 1998. Lawrence W. ed. Experiences in Social Dreaming, London, Karnac, 2003
- ↑ e.g. Psycho-analytic Social Systems Thinking, Working in the Bion I Tavistock Tradition, Psychodynamic approaches to consultancy, System Psychodynamics.
- ↑ Bain A.,"Organisational Dreaming",in PACAWA Newsletter,February, 2006. Bain A. "The Organisation Containing and Being Contained by Dreams: The Organisation as a Container for Dreams (1)" in Infinite Possibilities of Social Dreaming in Systems, ed. Lawrence W.,Karnac, London,2007.
- ↑ Organisational Dreaming is a part of the generic Social Dreaming
External linksEdit
- Centre for Socio-Analysis in Australia.
- Grubb Institute in UK.
- Group Relations Australia
- International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations
- Social Dreaming Institute
- Tavistock Clinic
- Tavistock Institute
- University of Wuppertal
- PRO consult the Netherlands
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All I can say is, "Wowza!" I completely and totally understand that this Judith Leiber Union Jack Clutch ($4405 or £2285, harrods.com) is so way beyond my price tag, I've almost got a nosebleed, I don't care, I am still lusting after this bag.
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College Costs Rising Four Times Faster Than Income, Two and a Half Times Faster Than Pell
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This short piece is first in a five-part series highlighting work from CLASP's recent publication, Reforming Student Aid: How to Simplify Tax Aid and Use Performance Metrics to Improve College Choices and Completion. The paper was written as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery.
Over the last three decades, college costs have soared, rising nearly four times faster than median family income and two and a half times faster than the maximum Pell Grant. Financial aid has not filled the growing gap, and "unmet financial need"—the share of college costs not covered by financial aid or what the family is expected to contribute—has risen sharply. According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, half of community college students had unmet financial need in 2007- 08, averaging $4,500 annually, as did 43 percent of students at public four-year colleges, with their unmet need averaging $6,400 per year.
As a result, students work more and borrow more, with two-thirds of young community college students working more than 20 hours a week and debt now averaging more than $26,000 for recent four-year college graduates. Rising costs and rising debt make college a riskier investment for students and families, who lack the information they need to shop around for colleges and programs of study that represent the best value in terms of cost, completion rates, and prospects for employment after graduation.
We can start to address these issues by protecting Pell Grants, simplifying and better targeting the $34 billion+ we spend annually on tax-based student aid, and giving students and parents the facts about college outcomes. Read our report for policy recommendations to help address the affordability gap.
Source:Darcie Harvey (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education) and CLASP analysis based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, All Urban Consumers. Median family income is from U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplements and the American Community Survey. Maximum Pell Grant from Department of Education, Pell Grant End-of-Year Report (2010-2011). Adapted from figure in Lifting the Fog on Inequitable Financial Aid Policies, Lynch, Engle, and Cruz (2011).


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Kershaw with 20+ pitches in the first. Hopefully, the Reds can keep seeing a lot of pitches and get Kershaw out of the game early.
Run Kershaw's pitch count up and get him out of the game.
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Crawford singles to center
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Artist's BiographyBrian Walker has recently been appointed as Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. Dr. Walker has taught previously at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, the University of North Texas and The Florida State University as well as privately in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. His students have been accepted into many undergraduate and graduate music programs throughout the United States.
Dr. Walker holds degrees from the University of North Texas (DMA), The Florida State University (MM) and Southeastern Oklahoma State (BM). His primary teachers include Michael Miles, Iskander Akhmadullin, Christopher Moore, John Holt, Keith Johnson and Adam Gordon.
As a performer he has appeared with many groups in the DFW region including (but not limited to) the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Dallas Opera, Plano, Allen, Arlington, Las Colinas, Irving, Garland, and Dallas Chamber Orchestras. He has also had the opportunity to perform with the North Texas Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and the Grammy Nominated UNT One Oclock Lab Band. While at Florida State, Dr. Walker performed with the Tallahassee Symphony, Pensacola Symphony, and New World Symphony to name a few. As a soloist, Dr. Walker has given recitals in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Mytilene, Greece and performed throughout France.
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On the morning that Senator John Kerry (D-MA) announced that he had chosen Senator John Edwards (D-NC) to be his vice presidential running mate, the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign unveiled a new ad, titled "First Choice," which, according to a Bush-Cheney '04 campaign press release, "features John Kerry's first choice for a vice presidential running mate, United States Senator John McCain" (R-AZ).
On CNN Live, CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux seemed to conflate the Bush-Cheney campaign spin with her own reporting, saying that McCain was "Kerry's first pick" and that he "rejected that invitation" to join the ticket. From the July 6 edition of CNN Live:
MALVEAUX: [T]he [President George W.] Bush camp, of course, has been preparing for this moment, this announcement, for some time, really launching a preemptive strike. All you have to do is think of Republican Senator John McCain. He is Kerry's, or was Kerry's first pick, rather. He was courted to become part of a bipartisan ticket. He rejected that invitation and shortly afterwards appeared with President Bush, campaigning with him just a couple of weeks ago. Now, the Bush campaign is using that footage in a latest campaign ad that is set to launch as soon as this vice-presidential announcement is made, or at least shortly afterwards. The point of that ad, of course, is simply a reminder to voters that McCain is a moderate, he's a maverick, he appeals to swing voters, and he's with our guy.
MALVEAUX: The script that we have here, it was from the -- it was just a couple weeks ago in Nevada, this is where Senator McCain was actually introducing President Bush when he went on the campaign trail with him -- this, shortly after he rejected Kerry's overtures to be his running mate. ... So the message here, of course, and from that campaign is, "Look, we believe that Edwards is a flip-flop decision, is a second choice." The first choice here, the one that many voters they believe are behind, is standing with President Bush.
In fact, as the Associated Press reported in June, McCain's chief of staff, Mark Salter, had said, ''Senator McCain categorically states that he has not been offered the vice presidency by anyone." If there was no offer, no offer could have been rejected.
Also on FOX News Channel, news correspondent Molly Henneberg reported that McCain "reportedly was Kerry's first choice" and that "McCain said 'no.'" From the July 6 edition of FOX News Channel's FOX News Live:
HENNEBERG: The Bush-Cheney '04 campaign also unveiled a new ad today that shows President Bush with Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, the ad is called "First Choice" because McCain reportedly was Kerry's first choice for the vice presidential slot. ... Shortly after John McCain said "no" to a Kerry-McCain ticket, he appeared with President Bush at an event in Fort Lewis, Washington, last month, and part of his introduction of the president then is featured in the "First Choice" ad, now. ... And again, that ad is being called the "First Choice" ad. Taking a little dig at the Kerry-Edwards ticket, reminding voters that John McCain was Kerr-- apparently, was Kerry's first choice for his vice presidential running mate, but McCain is supporting President Bush.
On the network's morning show, FOX & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy closely echoed an RNC press release, also from July 6, that stated, "John Kerry was against John Edwards before he was for him." From Doocy's interview with Fred Barnes (Weekly Standard executive editor, FOX News Channel Beltway Boys co-host, and FOX News Channel regular contributor) on the July 6 edition of FOX News Channel's FOX & Friends:
DOOCY: Just crossing on the wires, Bush-Cheney '04 has announced the release of the campaign's newest TV commercial, which will feature John Kerry's first choice for a vice presidential running mate: John McCain.
BARNES: That is a coup. That --
DOOCY: That is a coup. Is that -- is that just further gonna paint Mr. Kerry -- what they've tried to do -- as a flip-flopper? He wanted McCain, didn't get McCain, wound up with Edwards?
BARNES: Well, I've, you know they're gonna portray him as that anyway.
MSNBC reported the story differently, noting that Republicans are pushing the claim that McCain was Kerry's first choice. On the July 6 edition of MSNBC News Live, Norah O'Donnell (MSNBC and NBC News political correspondent); Chris Jansing (MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent); and Carl Rochelle (NBC News correspondent) reported:
O'DONNELL: The immediate response from the president's campaign will be to release a new television ad featuring the very popular Republican Senator John McCain, who Republicans claim was Senator Kerry's first choice as vice president.
JANSING: He [Edwards] was the number-two choice for Al Gore, now the number-one choice, of course, for John Kerry.
ROCHELLE: They [Republicans] are saying that John Kerry's first choice was John McCain. ... The White House is expected to make the point that this was John Kerry's first choice.
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Title III of EPAct specifically addresses the role of the federal fleet.AFV acquisition requirements were put in place for fleets operating 20 or more vehicles in a metropolitan statistical area (MSA). These fleets' must acquire 75 percent of all light-duty vehicles as AFVs within MSAs.
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In Memoriam: + Priest Michael Lewis, Alumnus
15 August 2011 • In Memoriam
With sorrow, we bid farewell to our brother and father, The Very Rev. Michael Lewis, who fell asleep in the Lord on the Feast of Dormition, and we express our hearfelt sympathy to his wife, Khouria Kyra, and their children.
Father Michael earned his Master of Divinity degree from our seminary in 1988, and he was pastor of St. Luke Orthodox Church in Garden Grove, California, a parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
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'"From Randy (Cunneyworth) and Darcy (Regier), my understanding is that he has been playing a physical game, has been solid defensively, has been a plus player down there," said head coach Lindy Ruff referring to Weber's performance in Rochester. "Right now he's been the guy that they've really liked and really like the way he's played. The game we played him up here, we've really like his presence and his composure."'
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Lab Theatre to perform 'john and jen' April 22-25
The Lab Theatre at the University of South Carolina will present the musical, "john and jen," for its final performance of the season April 22 – 25 in what will be the directorial debut of senior theater major Zach Kennedy.
All shows take place at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5, available at the door.
The musical takes a look at the complexities of relationships between brothers and sisters and parents and children, set against the background of a changing America between 1950 and 1990. It is based on the book by Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald, with music by Lippa and lyrics by Greenwald.
Lippa is the award-winning creator of the Broadway hit, "The Wild Party," which won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in 2000. He recently composed music for "The Addams Family," currently running on Broadway. Greenwald is creative director at Spotco, a theatrical advertising and marketing company. Some of his current clients include "Rent," "Chicago," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "Avenue Q" and "All Shook Up."
Kennedy and musical director, senior theater major William Shuler, selected "john and jen" because of its small cast and band size, both necessary for the Lab Theatre, plus its contemporary nature.
"I feel like it is important that at USC we extend our horizons a bit," said Kennedy, who will attend the University of California at San Diego next year to pursue an master's degree in stage management. "Most plays on the main stage focus on classical training, and I think exposure to musical theater and a more modern theater experience would be great to do in the Lab."
At USC, Kennedy has been production stage manager of "Cyrano de Bergerac," "Mother Courage and Her Children" and "Cabal of Hypocrites." He was stage manager of "The Skin of Our Teeth."
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The Amherst Recording Council can currently only employ current students of the College who can make a time commitment. If you're not able to make much of a time commitment at the moment, or aren't an Amherst College student, a little volunteer work transcribing a lecture or letting us know about an upcoming event can make things a lot easier for us: see the Help the ARC page.
If you think you could really help us with something that doesn't have a job description at right, please email us: arc at amherst dot edu. We love to hear suggestions and offers of help.
If you want, download the awesome PDF flyer version of this announcement, that we were passing out at the Student Activities Fair. Print it out and show it to all your friends.
Job Opportunities
The Amherst Recording Council needs lots of new staff to handle the enormous number of lectures and events that we'd like to record in the coming year, and to catch up on making the long backlog of past events available online. We think the cause is important enough to inspire volunteerism, but the Public Affairs Office is also able to pay you so that you'll be able to take the time for it.
The Amherst Recording Council is student-run, and currently it's almost entirely senior-run, so we need new people to help out right away so that younger students can take over the organization for the 2006-2007 school year and continue this important historical and educational endeavor.
We need help of all types at the moment, so read through the following descriptions and see what you're most interested in, or have the most experience with, and then send us an email (arc at amherst dot edu), or talk to an ARC member in person.
Number needed: Lots.
In short, we pay you to attend talks you're interested in attending anyway, so that others will be able to hear them later. Recorders talk to the organizers beforehand to make sure that recording is allowed and to find out what's necessary. They also arrange with the Frost Media Center to check out audio or video equipment for the event. And then, on the night (or afternoon, or morning, even), the recorder picks up the equipment beforehand, gets to the event early, talks to the speaker (to get permission, and to talk to interesting people), sets things up, and presses record.
Recorders need to be interested in our project and in the wide variety of speakers that we have (you can even keep an eye out for talks you'd specifically like to record). Little or no technical skill is necessary (we'll teach you the little you need to know), but it's important for recorders to be extremely reliable and responsible people.
Pay is $8 per hour (better than almost any entry-level job you'll find on campus). You'll probably work a few hours each week, though it will vary.
Audio Editors
Number needed: Lots.
We record a whole lot of lectures during the year, but to get them up on our website we need lots of audio editors. It takes us about an hour or two to use some piece of audio editing software like Audacity or Adobe Audition to clean up the static, balance out overloud and oversoft sections, and basically make the audio more pleasant to listen to. Audio editors make the raw content that the recorders capture into an usable form so that everyone in the world can listen to it.
We prefer that audio editors have some significant computer ability. You don't need to have any prior experience with Audacity, or Audition or any audio-editing software for that matter (although if you do, we'd absolutely love you forever), but it helps to be pretty comfortable with computers to be able to learn the fairly complex software. It helps if audio editors are a little bit perfectionist, though not obsessive.
Pay is $10 an hour (better than almost any job you'll find on campus, even after you've been working for a couple years). We'd like you to put in at least a few hours a week and, with the enormous backlog of audio that we've got at the moment, you can work about as much as you want.
Video Editors
Number needed: A few.
We're beginning to capture some video of occasional events that have an important visual aspect. We record these onto standard MiniDV tapes, but very few people on the staff know how to grab the content from the tapes, much less edit the video and compress it for use on the web.
This job in particular will be pretty independent. The video editors will get handed the DV tapes and expected to take it from there to compressed output. The Library Media Center has cameras, the occasional video deck, and external hard drives that you can check out to work on. We don't have a whole lot of experience with Final Cut Pro (which is probably the software you should use), so it would help a lot if you have video editing experience, particularly with Final Cut. But apply even if you don't have experience but are interested in the work -- we can teach some basic lessons.
We won't need a whole lot of video editors as we don't do a whole lot of video taping at the moment. But when we do take some video, video editing can take quite a long time, so it would be good to be able to devote some time to it. Pay is $10 an hour (better than almost any job you'll find on campus, even after you've been working for a couple years).
Web Designers/Programmers
Number needed: A couple, from time to time.
The Amherst Recording Council website was written in PHP and JavaScript by Nick Doty, with some occasional help from Tim Brooks Paige, but now we'd like to add some additional frontend functionality (particularly in terms of search and RSS) and backend functionality (wrappers around a MySQL database, that kind of thing). Code needs to be simple and maintainable, and should be filled with functionality such that non-programmers (like the recorders and audio editors described above) can add content to the website easily.
Work should be pretty interesting -- you'll likely be at least partly in charge of designing and determining the functionality that you put into place, as well as doing the actual coding. Your code will be used for a real, significant purpose as soon as you finish writing it. Experience is necessary: PHP at least, and preferably some with MySQL; familiarity with JavaScript, CSS and DOM scripting are also nice. Graphic designers can apply if they can convince us that the graphics need sprucing up and have good suggestions for what to do about it.
Pay is $10 an hour (excellent). Work is pretty flexible (there is work to be done, but most of it doesn't have to be done right away), though we would like to be able to call on programmers to work quickly if something breaks.
Number needed: A couple.
The Amherst Recording Council was founded by Nick Doty a long time ago (Spring 2004, maybe). He was soon joined by Jesse McCarthy, and a little later, Alex Apostolides. They attempted to recruit others, with some success, but, as is often the case with these sorts of organizations, the original founders (particularly Nick) ended up taking on the large task of managing everyone and everything, as well as keeping up with a lot of recording and editing and programming.
But almost everyone is graduating this year, as all those people above, and most of the people who came on later to help, are in the Class of 2006. So we need someone to take over the heart and soul of this operation. The president/tyrant/guru in training should be really interested in the philosophical and practical aims of the ARC project, willing to dedicate a lot of time to keeping the organization up and running, be better at interacting with and managing people than Nick has been so far, and have experience with, or some interest in, audio, and the Web. The leaders-in-training will be expected to learn as much as they can of the other ARC jobs as well, so they know what everyone else is doing and how to help them.
Perhaps most importantly, the leaders should have grand ideas about what to do with the ARC -- that is, why aren't we involved in projects like the Veterans History Project, the Library's oral history videotape program, recordings in the form of text and images as well as audio, etc.? What else can this organization do to help prospective, current and former students get an idea of what goes on here?
The job is, of course, extremely rewarding. Pay varies based on the work, but is very reasonable and also includes fame and the appreciation of the students and the College. You'll get to know the fun staff at the Public Affairs Office and the Library Media Center, and will probably get to meet many of the important speakers that come to campus. You will have a significant impact on how the school is perceived and remembered.
To apply for any job, send an email to arc at amherst dot edu with "Job: Name of Job" as the subject of the message (where "Name of Job" is obviously replaced with "Recorder", "Audio Editor", "Video Editor", "Web Designer/Programmer", "President/Tyrant/Leader/Guru" or something close enough to one of those). In the body, tell us who you are and what experience or other qualifications you have (for recorders in particular, and audio editors to a significant extent as well, just telling us that you're interested is qualification). We'll then know that you're interested in helping out, and get back to you about a time to meet up for some training.
Currently the Amherst Recording Council can only employ students of the College. If you'd still like to volunteer to help us with any of the above work, please do email us. Also, see the Help the ARC page.
Thanks in advance for offering to help! We really appreciate it.


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Date: April 1 - September 1, 2013
Beach Nesting Birds Seasonal Field Assistants (5)
Background: Wildlife Biology
Location: Tuckahoe Field Office (Cape May County)
Job Description: Surveying and monitoring of nesting Piping Plovers, Least Terns, Black Skimmers and American Oystercatchers along the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey. Duties including locating nests and broods; constructing predator exclosures; fencing, posting and patrolling nesting areas; data collection and entry; educating beachgoers.
The 40-hour work week includes 5 weekdays prior to Memorial Day, and then 3 weekdays and both weekend days for the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Requirements: At least three years towards a degree in wildlife biology, ecology or related field. The ability to work cooperatively with the beach-going public and the capacity to effectively communicate with people with differing views in a calm and rational manner is essential. Applicant should be in good physical condition, willing and able to work independently and as part of a team, organized and disciplined and enthusiastic about working to help protect NJ's endangered beach nesting birds.
Compensation: Salary $11.00-$15.00 per hour (depending on education, experience and job responsibility). Use of personal vehicle may be required in some limited circumstances mileage will be reimbursed if use of personal vehicle is necessary for work. Housing is NOT provided.
To Apply: Submit a letter of interest and resume including 3 references to Todd Pover:
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I've seen alot of sites on line about the use of omega 3s with epilepsy. Can anyone tell me what experiences they have had with that therapy and what type of epilepsy they have (frontal lobe, partial, etc). Also, how long before you noticed a difference. Thanks all.
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Here is the info I found for the causes of epilepsy. After knowing these you could make a judgement whether omega3 would help or not. "some unknown, usually attributed to some type of insult to the developing brain in childhood, like mom using drugs or alcohol during pregnancy, or a vascular insult during pregnancy , or trauma after birth through adulthood" I'm attaching the website here for your reference. Hope you could explore more on this wonderful website. http://bit.ly/Mrso6G
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Omega 3s are good for everyone, even those without epilepsy, so I take a supplement every day with the thought that it can only do my body good in some way! I have partial frontal lobe epilepsy, and I've never noticed a difference in terms of my seizures. There are just so many intervening variables that come into play, it might be hard to prove the direct correlation between omega 3s and seizure alleviation.
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What a coincidence; my mom has had me taking omega three fatty acids for a while now. I have temporal lobe epilepsy with a cyst assisting in causing my seizures.
I don't take the omega-3s for the epilepsy, but my mom has said that it is helpful to brain functioning. So even if it's not a cure all or anything, i would recommend trying taking them just for promotion of good mental health. Of course, talk to your doc first just in case.
All in all though, i haven't had a problem with taking it, and i think it helps me overall.
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I too had read it was good for brain function and memory. As I'm having few memory probs I'd started to eat fish rich in omega 3 in my diet, perhaps I should try a supplement instead to make sure I am getting enough as I too suffer with TLE.
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I am currently taking Omega 3, to see if it helps. I have also increased my fish intake three fold.
I have been taking this for approximately 2 months. I cannot see much of a change as yet, if anything. I will continue taking them just to see.
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I have been taking omega three for years. I took it for memory. I ended up seeing some of my auras decreasing and I mean I had a 150 and more a month. I increased and noticed that my seizures began to decrease also. So I increased a bit more. I ended up with decreasing. about 150 auras, and nine cp seizures a month. I even tested it with flax oil. It did the same. I had the same decrease as the fish oil did. Both have omega three. I do take both but fish oil is the best to take.
take care
Re: Omega 3 and epilepsy
How much Omega 3 do you take a day? I just started about a month ago taking 1000mg twice a day. I was wondering if I am taking enough?


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Blackmore tossed his shovel out of the hole and climbed stiffly up after it before he replied.
That, Harte hints, is the achievement of scribblers like Blackmore (p. 12).
Some of them are preserved in the Blackmore Museum at Salisbury.
At that table Blackmore would have had the precedence of Gray.
Harold Frederic suggested Blackmore as the possible fountain head.
The reader sees that these two worthies can be none other than Arbuthnot and Blackmore.
Blackmore looked to the trim of the boat carefully before shoving off, putting her down a bit more by the stern it seemed to me.
The tree has received literary honour in Blackmore's Christowell.
To my paralysed brain, the Blackmore case is like an endless algebraical problem propounded by an insane mathematician.
Luckily, both Blackmore and his burly boatman were men of action.


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Armie Hammer + More: 11 Stars Worthy of MTV's Best Shirtless Performance Award
Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, and more are competing for Best Shirtless Performance at the MTV Movie Awards this weekend—but we think these other guys deserve a shot, too!
-Lucia Peters
The MTV Movie Awards are this weekend, and as we noted back when the nominations were announced, there's a new category in the house this year: Best Shirtless Performance. The prize's inaugural year pits Christian Bale (The Dark Knight Rises), Daniel Craig (Skyfall), Channing Tatum (Magic Mike), Seth MacFarlane's anthropomorphic teddy bear (Ted), and Taylor Lautner (Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2) against each other, and to be honest, we're not totally sure who's got the best chance of winning.
However, while these guys are all certainly dishy, we can't help but feel there were a few more shirtless performances in 2012 that are worthy at least of a nomination, if not the award itself. From Armie Hammer to The Hobbit's Gollum (for real) and everyone in between, here are our picks for Best Shirtless Performance. Yum!
Did we miss your favorite? Tell us about it in the comments—and be sure to tune into the MTV Movie Awards this Sunday at 9pm EST!


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Mother's Day Walk to Send Solidarity Message to Nigeria #BringBackOurGirls
The Dutchess County Women's Leadership Alliance & the Omega Women's Leadership Center Announce Gathering at Walkway Over The Hudson this Sunday at 10 a.m.
RHINEBECK, NY – As the world watches and waits on the fate of 276 stolen Nigerian schoolgirls, organizations and concerned citizens around the world are speaking out this Mother's Day to call for an end to violence against women and girls everywhere. In the Hudson Valley, concerned leaders are organizing an event at Walkway Over The Hudson this Sunday morning, May 11th, to send a message that what has happened in Nigeria cannot be ignored, and that they stand in solidarity with the mothers and girls of Nigeria. The event will begin on the Poughkeepsie side of the Walkway at 10 a.m.
"This is the worst shame. We are walking in moral outrage as once again girls' rights are trampled on. Imagine their fear and horror and sense of isolation. We are there with them," said Manuela Roosevelt, board chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Partnership at Val Kill.
"Key to ending violence against women and girls is making it visible, and ensuring that it is culturally and legally intolerable," said Carla Goldstein, chief external affairs officer at Omega Institute and cofounder of the Omega Women's Leadership Center (OWLC). "This September we are hosting a program, Women/Men: The Next Conversation, that features global leaders working to end violence against women and girls. We could not stand by on Mother's Day without connecting the dots."
"The Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce's Women's Leadership Alliance (WLA) is proud to lend its support of this awareness and walk together to symbolize solidarity. The WLA each year holds events to mark International Women's Day on March 8th," said Gloria Cukar, Women's Leadership Alliance liaison, Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce.
About Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Founded in 1977, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is the nation's most trusted source for wellness and personal growth. As a nonprofit organization, Omega offers diverse and innovative educational experiences that inspire an integrated approach to personal and social change. The Omega Women's Leadership Center is a special initiative of Omega. Located on 200 acres in the beautiful Hudson Valley, Omega welcomes more than 23,000 people to its workshops, conferences, and retreats in Rhinebeck, New York, and at exceptional locations around the world. eOmega.org
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Try running from a live DVD also 2 gig stick will probably not work since they are way to small.
Let us know if the dvd option works. If it does then use the installer script to make a usb install.
Hi all!
I have a problem getting BT4 to boot from USB Stick. In fact, i have problems booting ANYTHING Linux related from USB stick.
I downloaded the ISO twice, checked the MD5, used several different Live Linux USB Creator softwares, two different USB sticks and tried to boot them both on two different PC's. All i get is a blank screen with a blinking cursor on it.
ISO's were BT4-Final and DSL.
Sticks were a Poken Pulse (basically a normal 2Gb stick, see the new poken pulse - Poken) and an 8Gb Cruiser.
Live2USB software were unetbootin, Linux Live USB Creator and more.
PC's were Dell E6500 and D531, both on the latest BIOS version.
I can create a Windows 7 boot USB stick without any problems. Boots perfectly.
I've asked Mr.Google and i get no real answer.
Anyone here that can help me??
Try running from a live DVD also 2 gig stick will probably not work since they are way to small.
Let us know if the dvd option works. If it does then use the installer script to make a usb install.
Have you partitioned the USB into FAT32 and EXT3 before using unetbootin?
I bought a new stick and everything works.
Still don't know what's wrong with the two sticks i have.
I've got the same problem like Toontje. I have Kingston 8GB stick. But if I can't/don't want to buy another USB-stick? Why should I? This one I've got is working fine and performs perfectly in all other operations/applications! And how I can be sure that the new USB-stick I'd eventually buy will work???
Is there any solution? Is there any list of recommended USB-stick brands for using with BT4?
Thx for your help.
You probably don't need a new usb stick. Check to ensure that there is no U-3 Software on the stick.
Best way is to get one of those removal tools and run it.
Check your bios, make sure its set for to to boot from USB before it boots from the harddrive.


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This is my first tutorial, and I am writing it hoping that I can help someone else who has old hardware. My laptop has a busted DVD drive, can't boot from a USB drive, and I don't want to edit the partitions, and install it onto the drive. (security reasons...covered shortly)
This is being performed on Ubuntu 8.10 (ducks), but should work with any other install of Linux. If the backtrack DVD's stay the same, you should be able to slightly modify the files, so you can boot the latest version. Let's get started!
First things first. Download the latest DVD copy of backtrack. From the date writing this, the latest is BT4 beta.
Open the .iso, and extract the 2 folders, boot and BT4, and put them somewhere you can find them.
Now comes the fun part. Copy the BT4 folder to the root of the drive. There was a problem with older hardware not liking this folder anywhere else other than /. To cover all basis...just put it there.
Once that folder is moved, make a new directory in /boot, and chmod it. This will let you put new files into it later, so you can use up coming releases the same way. (Which is what I will be doing =)Code:sudo mv BT4 /
You can play with the chmod, and see what works best for you for security purposes.Code:sudo mkdir /boot/BT4 sudo chmod 777 /boot/BT4 Now move the BT4 boot file to the directory. mv boot /boot/BT4
Now, it's time to edit your menu.lst, which is found in /boot/grub/menu.lst , if your using Ubuntu. We need to tell it how to boot BT, and where to find it. For me, the partition that is being used is /dev/sda5. Heres what mine looks like:
And that should do it! When testing it, I kept getting an error of " init: illegal runlevel: (null) " . I addedCode:title Backtrack 4 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/BT4/boot/vmlinuz rw root=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=6666 initrd /boot/BT4/boot/initrd.gz #boots directly to BT
, and the problem is fixed. I also saw that many others had a similar problem, and hopefully it will help them out. If you have any other questions...feel free to ask away!Code:root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=6666


text: I really enjoy the NFL Networks' series on various football legends. The "A Football Life" production for Barry Sanders was amazing. If anyone here ever gets a chance to see it, please check it out. Man, I'm ashamed I forgot just how amazing a player that guy was. I also forgot about his 1st starting season at OK State. 11 games, 2628 yards, 39 TDs....:laugh2: Outer worldly. And then, of course, he tore through the NFL as well. Extreme leg drive, blazing speed, and maybe the best moves of any player in history. Plus, the guy did not really live for records or accolades. Just rare in how humble he was. I think some of us think we knew what he was about as a player or person, but moreso in Dallas than maybe any other NFL town, I think we underrate Barry Sanders


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Please join us for an engaging workshop designed to inform and enhance writing about crime and criminal procedure in the 21st century. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office will conduct a roundtable discussion on criminal prosecution in the 21st century, followed by a Q&A.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., will open the discussion and moderate a panel of experienced Manhattan prosecutors as they discuss their specialized fields. Panelists will include Assistant District Attorneys Martha Bashford, Chief of the Sex Crimes Unit; Melissa Mourges, Chief of the Forensic Sciences/Cold Case Unit; and David Szuchman, Chief of the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau.


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Fernando Silveira and Jemal Talore scored for the Railspitters in the first half putting the Tornados down 2-0 at the half. Their third goal came when a Brevard player tried to defend a cross and deflected it in to their own goal making the score 3-0.
Lincoln Memorial responded two minutes later when Chris Nash took two quick passes from Calum Calder and Greg Lewandowski and put a header goal in past Jack Shaw.
Shaw saved seven of eleven for the Tornados while Railsplitter keeper, Michael Watkins save one of one in the first half before being replaced by Beckner who saved four of five in the second.
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Muskies down RedHawks 77-51
In the 100th meeting between Xavier and Miami (Ohio), the Musketeers took down the Redhawks, 77-51. With the win, the Musketeers improve to 4-0. It is the fourth time in six seasons that XU has opened up the season with four wins in a row.
Four Musketeers scored in double digits to propel the team to victory. Junior Dee Davis and sophomore Semaj Christon led the team in scoring, with 15 and 13 respectively. Davis also added five assists and three rebounds. Christon added eight assists, which is a season high. Christon leads the team with 16.3 ppg this season.
Sophomore forward James Farr notched his first double-double of his career, scoring 11 and grabbing 11 rebounds. Junior Matt Stainbrook had 10 points to go along with five rebounds.
Xavier's first six points came off of back-to-back three-pointers from Justin Martin and Christon. Nine of the team's first 11 points came from behind the arc as freshman guard Myles Davis added another trey. Later in the half, the Musketeers went on a 7-0 run in a span of 3:12 to take a 24-18 lead. XU continued to add to their point total, heading into the locker room with a 36-24 lead.
The Musketeers have not allowed their opponent to score more than 24 in the first half in all four of their
In the second half, the Musketeers opened up on a 14-2 run. The run was aided by a Jalen Reynolds offensive rebound, who quickly dished it out to Justin Martin three-pointer. Xavier's defense was able to hold Miami to 27 points in the second half.
Miami's 51 points were the fewest by a Xavier opponent this season. XU's defense held Miami guard Reggie Johnson to five points. Johnson entered the game leading the Mid-American Conference in scoring.
Other contributors for the Musketeers were Martin and Reynolds. Martin scored nine points, shooting 2-of-2 from behind the arc and added five rebounds. Reynolds scored two points and had 11 rebounds, a career high.
Xavier's final stat line consisted of a 50.8 field goal percentage (30-of-59). The Musketeers also shot 42.9 percent (9-of-21) from behind the arc. XU held Miami to a 37.7 field goal percentage (20-of-53) and 21.7 percent (5-of-23) from three-point territory.
Xavier's post play was impressive as they beat Miami in the rebounding battle, 42 to 25. This led to 20 second-chance points for the Musketeers. It was also a team effort tonight, as XU had 20 assists on 30 baskets.
Xavier improves to 53-47 in the all-time series against Miami (Ohio). The Musketeers have also won 11 of their last 12 games against the teams from the Mid-American Conference.
Geovonie McKnight led the Redhawks in scoring, with 10.


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Steam Client For Linux Released
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It's not perfect and still a ways from being complete but Steam for Linux is finally available for download.
I was able to download and install the 64-bit deb file with no problems but ran into an issue with a video driver package and the performance was lackluster on my little laptop but I'm planning on giving it another shot when I have time to diagnose the package issue.
The game selection seemed adequate with plenty of options available in the Demo and Free Play sections. For a limited time all the Linux games are 50 to 75 percent off.
While it still feels like an advanced beta more than a release app, but I give Steam major props for even working on a Linux client. I'll drop some cash with them even if I don't play the games a lot, just to encourage further development.
It also has come to light that Blizzard is nearly ready to test the waters with the release of at least one of their titles as a native Linux game later this year. Most of their titles run reasonably well in CrossOver but the idea of having Linux native games is cause for celebration in Linuxland.


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I'm working on the de-ice.net level 1 disk. I had an issue that was solved by just doing an apt-get update, then upgrade. Now however, I have a new issue.
With every single attempt on the target, I get the error "Error: ssh2 protocol error" and the status screen is flooded with them.
If the password is in the file, it does find it I guess. I stuck it in a small file, and it worked. The files im using are located in /pentest/passwords/wordlists. So does this sound familiar to anyone? What might be the issue?