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Welcome to Online Speech 385, Directed Studies
I want to welcome you to this online version of Speech 385 Directed Studies.
Speech 385 is a three unit transferable course which allows you to
study three communication topics:
- Creative Problem Solving
- Male Female Communication
- Decision Making
This is a self-paced course where you select all three of these communication topics to explore totally online. There are no in-person class meetings. Beginning Monday, February 9, your "virtual class" will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Enrolling in the Class
Before the semester begins, you may sign up for the class in the traditional manner of adding any Valley College course
After the semester has started, you can sign up for this class anytime during the first two months of the semester. After the semester starts you will need an add card. We can do this totally online. If interested, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
The Class
In Speech 385 you will be required to complete the five lessons of each of the three topics. That is a total of 15 lessons. Each lesson consists of reading a module, completing an assignment on that lesson and taking a short quiz on that lesson. I just total up the points you earn to determine your grade.
You will do this fifteen times and your three units is completed.
This is a self-paced course and so you can complete your work at your own pace. There are some final deadlines, but you do have the freedom of working at your own speed and at your convenience.
Sample Unit
To view a sample unit, just go to:
I just to warn you about two myths I often hear from students.
Myth 1: An online class is easier than a face-to-face class.
This class is not hard, but it may actually take more time than a face-to-face class. Instead of sitting and talking in a class, you will be reading lessons and writing comments in the discussion section. In a typical class you would attend three hours a week, spend another three hours or more reading the text and doing homework. In this online class you should be prepared to spend that much time each week online.
But here is the good news. An online class may take more time, but it is more convenient. You may take the class anywhere you can find an Internet connection any time day or night. Some students enjoy spending time at Starbucks drinking coffee and connecting to the Internet with their laptop.
Myth 2: I can do my schoolwork at entirely my own pace.
You do have a lot of freedom when and where you do your class work. You can work in the morning or late at night. Since this is a self-directed course you have a lot of freedom when you turn in your work, but at the end of the semester the lessons and assignments will be shutting down. You must have your work turned in by the final due dates. You need self-discipline, but you still have much flexibility when you go online to do your work.
I think you will find these lessons interesting and stimulating and you will want to join us online and participate in the activities.
Getting Started
To enter the class you will need to go to the class portal at:
When you get there you will need to do two things.
First, click the left hand link that is titled, "System Requirements." Follow the instructions to make sure that your system will work well with the college's online learning system called Etudes. Follow all the instructions there including those for the "cache" settings and setting up your "cookies," "java" etc. Your computer will then be ready to go. One of the biggest problems students have is with their computer system. Follow these instructions and you will experience much less frustration and headaches.
Second, you need to log into the class. On the left hand column click the option titled, "login help." Scroll down to where you can click, "Los Angeles Valley College login instructions". There you will find the instructions you need to log on to our class.
Very Important
The first day you can log on is Monday, February 9, 2009. This is a self-paced course. There are deadlines you must meet, but you can work at your own schedule to meet those deadlines. The last day to start the class is Friday, April 10, 2009. No additional students will be added after that date.
Help Desk
If you have any problems with logging in or concerns about the class, you can find help at the Valley College Help Desk. Their phone number is (818) 778-5834 and email address is: firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also receive help in person the Computer Lab at BJ103. Complete listing of times of operation can be found at the website:
I am looking forward to meeting all of you online and working with you so we can have a fun, stimulating, and successful semester.
Jim Marteney


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4b. Reprint of East Coast Swing (Jitterbug)
"Underarm turn to closed position (The Catch)"
for comparison to the West Coast Swing Catch
Of all the dance moves on this site, this will elicit the most smiles. The lady is not expecting it, but when she turns around, she will be in a closed position rather than the usual open position following an underarm turn.
The trick to this is 2-fold: 1), the gent has to travel right (directionally speaking) to position himself; and 2) he must correctly calculate the time and height for his right hand to catch the lady's waist.
The gent re-connects on 4 by
holding his hand waist high and
allowing the lady to turn into it.
The backstep immediately follows.
The gent's hand should land waist high at the lady's left side. As she completes the turn, the man's hand will slide to her back.
One out of 15 ladies or so will carry their left arm pinned to their side, and there will not be any room for the gent to get a hand where it is supposed to go. No problem, smile and abort to open position.
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John Ashcroft
Political Figure
Date Of Birth:
9 May 1942
Place Of Birth:
Chicago, Illinois
Best Known As:
U.S. Attorney General 2001-04
John Ashcroft, a longtime Missouri political figure, was appointed U.S. Attorney General in 2001 by George W. Bush. Ashcroft graduated from Yale and earned a law degree at the University of Chicago. He was Missouri's attorney general from 1976-85, the state's governor from 1985-93, and a U.S. senator from 1995-2001. In 2000 Ashcroft ran for re-election against Democrat Mel Carnahan, then Missouri's governor. Carnahan was killed in a plane crash three weeks before the election, but was elected anyway when his wife Jean Carnahan agreed to take his place. Bush, elected president in 2000, nominated Ashcroft to be U.S. Attorney General. Ashcroft was approved by the U.S. Senate despite opposition from Democrats, who declared him to be too conservative. Ashcroft served until after Bush's reelection. He submitted his hand-written resignation in November of 2004, saying, "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved."
Extra Credit:
Ashcroft's father and grandfather were Assembly of God ministers, and his own firm religious faith is well known… While in the Senate, Ashcroft was part of a vocal group called the Singing Senators with Trent Lott (R-Miss.), James Jeffords (R-Vt., later I-Vt.), and Larry Craig (R-Idaho).
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Game Summary
The luck o' the Irish came through for the Timberwolves on Sunday, as Andrei Kirilenko and Nikola Pekovic were back in the lineup for the team and the team pulled out the victory in the late seconds! Here is how things transpired on St. Patrick's Day.
The Wolves starting lineup looked like this: Rubio, Ridnour, Kirilenko, Williams, and Pekovic. The Hornets opened up with Greivis Vasquez, Eric Gordon, Al-Farouq Aminu, Anthony Davis, and Robin Lopez.
Going into the first timeout of the game, the Hornets held a 13-9 lead. The Wolves looked a little disoriented, trying to get Pekovic and Kirilenko back in the flow. While Pekovic was succeeding in the paint, Andrei looked a little off in the early minutes. Luckily, the Hornets had already turned the ball over four times. In other words, the game was being played like you might expect from two teams that are a combined 41 games under .500.
Toward the end of the 1st quarter, the Wolves managed to go on a little run to take a 28-27 lead into the 2nd quarter. Derrick Williams came alive in the final few minutes of the 1st, including a three pointer as the clock was running down in the quarter. The Hornets frontcourt of Lopez and Davis also had a nice quarter, shooting 7-9 from the field for 50% of the teams points.
A few minutes into the 2nd quarter, the Hornets went on a 9-0 run to take a 43-39 lead. Adelman had seen enough and burned a timeout. The rest of the 2nd quarter was only slightly better for the Wolves, as they never regained the lead from the Hornets. The teams combined for 19 turnovers in the half but they went up and down the court enough to make for a visually appealing half of basketball.
At the half, the Hornets held a 52-50 lead. Here are a few halftime thoughts through my Wolves lens:
- Even with Rubio much healthier, Greivis Vasquez continued to eat up the Wolves; 10 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists in the first 24 minutes of action
- While Pekovic looked pretty solid, Kirilenko looked flat and out of sync
- I would like to see a Chris Johnson & Pekovic frontline in the near future
Early in the 3rd quarter, Pekovic picked up his 4th foul and was quickly replaced by Stiemsma on the floor. The teams went back and forth in the early minutes of the quarter until Luke Ridnour threw a behind the back pass to DWill for the flush, giving the Wolves their first lead in some time, 63-62. The highlight led to a Monty Williams timeout with slightly more than six minutes left in the quarter.
Similar to prior quarters, The Wolves finished the 3rd quarter strong and took a 76-73 lead into the final frame. Derrick Williams led the way in the quarter, finishing the quarter with 20 points. However, the referees failed to call a foul on the Hornets as time expired in the quarter which would have (read: should have) sent Williams to the line with a chance to expand the lead.
Apologies in advance for the brevity of the 4th quarter recap. The game was actually enjoyable to watch and with about 90 seconds to play I noticed that I hadn't typed in a single note from the quarter. The Hornets and Wolves kept it tight throughout the final twelve minutes. Greivis Vasquez had a huge quarter, scoring 12 of his 24 points in the 4th to keep the Hornets in the game. However, after going down 95-91, the Wolves scored the last 6 points of the game to steal the win on their home floor thanks to two defensive stops from Kirilenko. Pekovic and AK hit three free throws in the final seconds to put the Wolves on top and secured the victory!
Recap – Minnesota Timberwolves 97 – New Orleans Hornets 95
Keys of the Game
- Blocks – When you are significantly outrebounded by your opponent, you have to find another way to win the game and the Pups did so in the blocks department; 10 blocks for the team, 2 apiece for four different players.
- Free throws – First and foremost, the Wolves made them. Second, they got to the line 11 more times than the Hornets and made 8 more, including the three in final seconds to put them on top.
- Shutting down Eric Gordon – I'm not exactly sure how this happened, but the Wolves did a great job on Gordon tonight, holding him to just 7 points on 3-6 shooting. Rubio was on him for a portion of the game, but this was a tremendous team effort to erase Gordon's offensive game.
Three Stars of the Game
- Derrick Williams – Career high 28 points for DWill to go with 7 rebounds. More importantly, he attacked the rim and played aggressively against Anthony Davis and others.
- Greivis Vasquez – While he didn't have a good shooting night (10-25), Vasquez helped keep his team in the game with 24 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists. Note the 6 TO's though.
- Ricky Rubio – Rubio had a nice game shooting the ball, as he was 7-11 from the field for 16 points. He also had 6 assists and respectable defense against a solid Hornets backcourt.


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As for upgrading it is a matter of using apt-get. There is help in the man page on it or see here. As for actually updating a package it would generally be something like apt-get update&& apt-get package-name.
This would update the package cache and then grab the latest version of said package from the repo.


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Hello People is there anyone who know how to install pyrit on backtrack 3 and what requirements it need that don't come with backtrack 3 or just the requirements would be good iv got an ati graphics card just to let you know as well
On backtrack 3 you will have to do a lot of work to get pyrit going. I was in charge of building it for bt4 but never tried on bt3 plus I do not have a ATI card. What you will need is the nvidia drivers, toolkit and sdk from nvidia's site. Get all those installed and the grab pyrit and its ati companion and build them using cuda. Good Luck.


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Ubuntu Trusty User Administration
Tips & Tricks
Run Command
You can run any application in your path using the Run Command. Use Alt+F2.
Turn off Hot Keys
This is the most evil option on any operating system, in my opinion. A mis-stroke enables any number of random events. Unfortunately, this problem is pervasive in operating systems and is difficult to turn off.
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> Input Actions -> General Settings -> check "Disable KHotKeys daemon"
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> Input Actions -> Gestures Settings -> check "Disable mouse gestures globally"
If you wish to be selective about it (this doesn't often work, however), start by disabling unnecessary desktop hotkeys.
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts
Also, you may want to deactivate linking gestures to sticky and slow keys:
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Accessibility -> Activation Gestures -> uncheck "Use gestures for activating sticky keys and slow keys"
Note: You probably will have to disable hotkeys in many applications, as well.
- Hotkeys from the Synaptics Touchpad can be selectively turned off using this information from the Ubuntu documentation.
Associate default applications
- To assign the default DVD player (make sure you have enabled DVD playback capability first:
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> File Associations -> x-content -> video-dvd -> Applications Preference order -> Add...
- then choose your favourite media player. There are similar options for Blu-Ray (video-bluray) and HD DVD (video-hddvd). Set each individually.
- To assign the default player for playing mpegs (or other video formats):
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> File Associations -> video -> mpeg -> Applications Preference order -> Add...
- then choose your favourite media player. You can do this for a host of video file formats, including .wmv (x-ms-wmv, or Microsoft WMV format), .flv (x-flv, or Flash video), quicktime, and so on.
- To assign .pls audio streams to play through Audacious:
- Menu -> System -> Administration-> Advanced -> File Associations -> audio -> x-scpls -> Applications Preference order -> Move Audacious to the top (or Add... it).
- Make sure *.pls appears in the Filename Patterns section.
Automatic user login
- To accomplish this (yet still require a user password):
- Menu -> System -> System Settings -> Login Manager -> Convenience -> Enable Auto-Login (ticked) -> Lock session (ticked)
- -> Pre-select user: Specified: Choose primary user
- This ought to be combined with a password-protected screensaver.
Autostart a program at bootup
Any program (or script) can be made to Autostart at bootup by creating a symbolic link to that program (or script) in the ~/.config/autostart folder.
For example, to start Firefox at bootup, create a symbolic link:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox ~/.config/autostart
Choose Bootup/Startup services
Preventing unneeded or unwanted services from loading at startup can improve system performance.
- Install the GTK-based Bootup-Manager:
sudo apt-get install bum
- Run Bootup-Manager:
- Menu -> System -> Bootup-Manager
Run a script from a menu item
It is possible to place a short script in a menu item / shortcut to answer an interactive query (such as a password query). Here is an example that is used to enter a password during an SSH negotiation. First, install the utility expect:
sudo apt-get install expect
The use a command in the Menu Item / Shortcut similar to:
expect -c 'spawn ssh -l sshuser -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 remoteserver.remotedomain.org -p 22 ; expect assword ; send "sshpassword\n" ; interact'
In this example the password sshpassword is returned when the ssh program requires a password. Expect waits for some text to be displayed in the command-line terminal then returns text in return. The Menu Item must be "Run in terminal", therefore.
SHC (Encrypt scripts)
SHC is a simple script compiler that will convert a script into a binary, obscuring the code (and passwords, etc.). Usage instructions are here. Install by adding the Debian Etch repository:
sudo add-apt-repository 'http://archive.debian.org/debian etch main'
then install the shc package:
sudo apt-get install shc
Capture a screenshot
See this tutorial.
Customize desktop to look like KDE
In recent versions of Ubuntu, the Gnome desktop can be made to resemble the cleaner KDE desktop with some customization. (Customizations are highly personal, and this section represents preference only.)
Run a KDE 4 desktop from Ubuntu
It is possible to install the KDE4-based desktop (the default in Kubuntu) in Ubuntu.
apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
There is a risk of software bloat and some incompatibilities between modules when doing this. At login, you can choose (as an option) whether to start the KDE (Kubuntu) desktop or the Gnome (Ubuntu) desktop. Nevertheless, when there are two modules trying to perform the same function (one from each desktop), it is possible to have conflicts.
Run a KDE 3 desktop from Ubuntu
You can also install the older KDE 3 desktop on Lucid, or almost any KDE3 application.
- Add the following KDE 3 repositories:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kde3-maintainers
- Install KDE 3.5 desktop:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop-kde3
- To install any KDE3 app, append "-kde3" suffix to package name. See Pearson Computing for additional details.
Kill (end) a process
- There are many tricks to try to fix a frozen PC. Press Alt+F2, and use killall to end the frozen application. Example:
sudo killall amarok sudo killall firefox
- In order to terminate a stuck graphical application use the xkill utility. Press Alt+F2, type xkill, and press Run. Point the cursor to the application you want to kill and press the left mouse button. This should kill the selected application.
- Another trick to try is pressing AltGr+SysRq+K (RightAlt+PrintScreen+K). This will log you out. But, what happens if this does not work? Try pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1,login, enter your password and run:
sudo killall gdm sudo startx
View hidden files
In the Nautilus file manager, press:
Ctrl+ H
Mute notifications (alerts)
- Notifications (alerts) can be disabled:
- Menu -> System -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sound Effects -> Sound theme: -> No sounds -> Close
- GNOME notifications (alerts) are associated with sounds by default. This can also be disabled separately:
- Alt-F2 -> gconf-editor -> /apps/indicator-sound -> volume_mute (ticked)
- Turn off login notification sound:
- Menu -> System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications -> Startup Programs -> GNOME Login Sound (unticked) -> Close
- -> Menu -> System -> Administration -> Login Screen -> Unlock -> Play login sound (unticked) -> Close
Use Windows-appearing fonts
Users who switch to Ubuntu from Windows may notice subtle differences between the default fonts in Ubuntu and those in Windows. The Microsoft Core Fonts can be installed as part of the ubuntu-restricted-extras package, or separately:
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Most default fonts in Windows are Times New Roman. You can select the Times New Roman fonts in applications like Firefox to make them appear like Windows. However, the DejaVu font (especially size 10) in (K)Ubuntu mimics the Times New Roman font closely, and has been found to be desirable for most users.
Filenames with spaces
- Filenames or folder names with spaces in them should be enclosed with parentheses (" "). For example, to change to a directory named "This Dir" or "/home/This Dir", use the command:
cd "This Dir"
- or
cd /home/"This Dir"
- Alternatively, a space in a filename or folder name can be preceded with a backslash. For example, to change to a directory named "This Dir" or "/home/This Dir":
cd This\ Dir
- or
cd /home/This\ Dir
Alien is a method for converting (Red Hat) .rpm packages into (Debian) .deb packages. It is not reliable and converted packages must be tested extensively for functionality, with line changes often required. It is often more reliable to create (Debian) .deb packages from source, and even the Alien software maintainers do not recommend using Alien for important packages. To keep alien from changing the version number, use the following command
alien -k rpm_file_name.rpm
Convert the package.rpm into a package.deb
alien -d package-name.rpm
Convert the package.rpm into a package.deb, and install the generated package
alien -i package-name.rpm
To convert .rpm to debian
sudo alien -k *.rpm
Software Troubleshooting
Permissions error on program startup
If you get a permissions error, try the following:
sudo chown -R user /home/user
- Note: Replace user with the actual username. This command changes the owner of the folder /home/user to user. -R means "recursively", i.e. including all subfolders.
CD-ROM Troubleshooting
If you receive the "cdrecord has no permission to open the device" error while burning using a CD burner, open a terminal and type:
sudo chmod 777 /dev/scd0
- Note: replace "/dev/scd0" with your own device.
- Note: chmod 777 is the universal option for granting full permission to a folder. The 777 mask indicates that read, write, and execute permission is given to all users.
Linux is largely a community of volunteers and as such represents one of the largest altruistic efforts on earth. This includes companies who decide to contribute their own software into the public domain for free use. The continued success of sharing depends on licenses that keep software free and usable for anyone who wants to use it. However, there must be a method for Linux users and developers to make money, as well. Licensing helps protect each of these efforts. See the Wikipedia Free Software Licensing article and the GNU operating system licensing page for more complete information.
- Kubuntu Derivatives do not need a license, according to its developer. See this blog article.
GPL license
The GPLv3 license (and the Affero GPLv3 license for network-based software) intends that the software module or package is free to use in any environment, and furthermore, any software that relies on that GPLv3-licensed module must in turn also be completely free. Commercial and proprietary software packages can't use or incorporate GPLv3-licensed modules.
LGPL license
The Lesser GPL license intends that the software module or package is free to use in any environment, including in commercial and proprietary software packages. This allows companies to develop proprietary packages which includes LGPL-licensed modules, from which they can make a profit. The disadvantage is that their products (which benefit from the LGPL-licensed modules) are not required to be in the public domain in turn. (Many companies often later donate their entire package into the public domain, however, after they no longer make a profit from them.)
ODbL license
The ODbL (Open Database License) is a "share alike" open license intended for databases.
Apache license
The Apache license has been around a long time. It is compatible with the GPLv3 license, but, unlike the GPLv3 license, it does not require modified software to retain the Apache license. In other words, Apache-licensed software can be modified and the modified software then made proprietary (and therefore not returned to the open source community).
BSD license
The BSD license is similar to a public domain license. There are currently many confusing iterations of the BSD license, however, mostly regarding attribution notices and advertising that is required to be provided along with any software derivatives. The BSD license allows the option of propagation of either (otherwise-licensed) free open source restrictions or proprietary restrictions. It therefore allows a mix of (otherwise-licensed) proprietary modules and open sourced-licensed modules to co-exist in the same package. This flexibility has made the BSD license popular with complex distributions (such as the (BSD Unix-based) Mac OS X operating system, for example).
Creative Commons licenses
Espoused by many large public-domain projects, there are a variety of Creative Commons copyright licenses for different scenarios. Many variations impose "non-free" limitations and versions prior to version 3 were denounced by several large open-source projects; particular variations of this license must be examined closely.
Proprietary licenses
There is a vast array of proprietary licenses, all different. You never know what your limitations for software are unless you read every word. Most are attempts by lawyers to have an opportunity to create a lawsuit in the future. Some may be called "free" licenses but have many limitations which you will not be aware of until you are in the middle of a lawsuit. No license outside of the GPLv3 license is recommended. Be careful when committing your organization to a mission-critical software package with a proprietary license. Also see this outstanding article on the Open Source Enterprise Trap.= User Administration =
Users and Groups
- Note: The Unity user interface does not currently have a GUI method to modify user and group settings. For an introduction to managing users and groups from the CLI (command-line interface) see the Ubuntu Server Guide and this brief tutorial.
Manage Users and Groups with the Gnome2 GUI
- Gnome2 (the user interface for older versions of Ubuntu) included a GUI for managing users and groups. That Users and Group Management Tool from Gnome2 can be installed as part of Gnome System Tools:
sudo apt-get install gnome-system-tools
You can then launch it from Unity Dash, by pressing ALT+F2, or by creating a menu item with the command:
- Change user and group settings
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Users and Groups
- Add New Users
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Users and Groups -> Add
- Remove Users
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Users and Groups -> user -> Delete
- Modify Users
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Users and Groups -> user -> Advanced Settings
- or
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Users and Groups -> user -> Manage Groups
It is quite often necessary to have extra privileges to do certain tasks. These privileges are assigned to your user by belonging to certain groups. The tasks are allowed to be performed by any user belonging to the group associated with that task.
- Example: a "sudoer" is a user who can perform certain administrative tasks, such as updating the system. To become a "sudoer" a user must belong to the "sudo" group.
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Users and Groups -> user -> Manage Groups --> sudo -> Properties -> Group Members -> user (ticked)
To become an administrator, you must belong to the adm, admin, and sudo groups. To be a virtualbox user, you must belong to the virtualbox group. To change printer settings you must belong to lpadmin. To use the cdrom, you must belong to cdrom. To use hot-pluggable devices, you must belong to plugdev. To share Samba folders (on a Windows-based network), you must belong to sambashare. To access NTFS files using the virtual filesystem fuse, you must belong to the fuse group. To use many games, you must belong to the games group. The list is long, and not always obvious.
Unfortunately, while this is the feature that gives Linux such a high-level of security, it can also take diligence to remember to add your user to certain groups. It is not uncommon for programs and functions on your system not to work merely because you don't have privileges to do so because you forgot to add your user to the appropriate group(s).
Of most importance, you must already be an administrator in order to change membership in groups. Therefore, if you create a new user and intend to give that user administrative privileges (by assigning the user to the administrative groups), you must do so from your original administrator account (the one you set up at installation) or from another administrative user account.
Timekpr (Parental controls)
Timekpr is a program to track and control the computer usage of user accounts. It is available from a Launchpad PPA.
- If updating, remove any prior versions:
sudo dpkg --purge timekpr
- Add the timekpr third-party repositories:
deb deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/timekpr-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu oneiric main deb-src deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/timekpr-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu oneiric main
- Install:
sudo apt-get install timekpr
- When prompted which default display manager to use, select "kdm"
- Start:
- K menu -> System -> Timekpr Control Panel
Web content filtering
DansGuardian provides web filtering capability, similar to NetNanny. It is useful for limiting objectionable content in publicly accessible workstations, or for filtering objectionable content for younger users. It integrates with ClamAV, and uses several criteria for filtering websites (which is difficult to modify). It is used with Tinyproxy (best for individual users) or the Squid proxy (best for a network server). Install:
sudo apt-get install dansguardian tinyproxy
- or
sudo apt-get install dansguardian squid
See these installation instructions for setup details. In brief,
- Edit the dansguardian configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf
- comment out the UNCONFIGURED line:
- If using tinyproxy instead of Squid, change the proxyport to 8888:
proxyport 8888
- Reinstall dansguardian:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall dansguardian
- Set your browser to use the localhost:8080 proxy. For example, in Firefox:
- Firefox -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings
- Manual proxy configuration -> HTTP proxy: localhost -> Port: 8080
- A Webmin module is available to administer settings. Also, a GUI to change Dansguardian settings called Webstrict is in development.
- A GUI for use with IPCop (based on the webmin module) is also available.
System Administration
Automating Tasks
- Cron is a system daemon that runs tasks in the background according to instructions found in a crontab file. To edit the crontab file for the current user:
crontab -e
Tasks that normally require administrative (sudo) privileges should be added to the root user's crontab:
sudo crontab -e
Add commands using the format specified here (or see the Ubuntu Community Help). The crontab command format can also be found using:
man crontab
- Scheduled/automated tasks (cron events) can also be edited using the GNOME schedule GUI interface.
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Task Scheduler
- If the GNOME Schedule task scheduler is not installed, install it:
sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule
Boot Menu
Login Menu settings
You can change the Login menu settings from the GUI interface:
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Login Manager
You can choose an integrated theme or select individual components of the login screen/process.
Automating bootup options
StartupManager is a GUI to manage settings for Grub (Grub Legacy), Grub 2, Usplash, and Splashy.
GRUB boot manager settings
Trusty comes with Grub2, a difficult boot manager to customize. (Grub2 is also known as grub-pc.) See the evolving instructions at the Ubuntu wiki or Ubuntu forums. In brief, some settings can be edited:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub sudo grub-mkconfig --output=/boot/grub/grub.cfg
Alternatively, use the command:
sudo update-grub
Grub2 background image, colors, fonts
- See this Ubuntu Forums thread.
- Any background image can be used for Grub2 by placing the image in the /boot/grub folder and then reconfiguring Grub2:
sudo update-grub
The image ought to be the same size as the Grub2 startup resolution specified in /etc/default/grub (e.g. 1024x768).
- A selection of splashimages can be installed into the /usr/share/images/grub folder:
sudo apt-get install grub2-splashimages
- One of the images can be linked to the /boot/grub folder and used as the splash image. For example:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/images/grub/Plasma-lamp.tga /boot/grub sudo update-grub
Change the default menu item
- There are several ways to change the default Grub2 menu item, but only one is reliable. The menu items in Grub2 change name and position in the list with every kernel upgrade. However, if you choose the default menu item by name, you can reliably set it as the default. For example, if you wish to boot a Windows OS as the default and the Grub 2 menu lists it as Microsoft Windows 98SE Ancient Edition (on /dev/sda1) then edit /etc/default/grub:
sudo kate /etc/default/grub
and change the entry to resemble:
GRUB_DEFAULT="Microsoft Windows 98SE Ancient Edition (on /dev/sda1)"
then regenerate the Grub2 config file:
sudo update-grub
To find out the names of the menu items, use:
sudo grep menuentry /boot/grub/grub.cfg
- Note: There is a bug in Grub2 v.1.99 such that if the GRUB_DEFAULT option is used, the Grub2 menu can not be entered (for manually selecting a menu item). If the default option is a non-Linux OS, there will then be no way start a Linux OS (and therefore no way to subsequently change the /etc/default/grub configuration file). Use this option with great care.
Protecting Grub2 from cracking
- See this section of the Grub Manual for important information on securing Grub2.
- To add password protection, in the /etc/grub.d/40_custom configuration file, add the lines:
set superusers="user1" #password_pbkdf2 user1 grub.pbkdf2.sha512.10000.biglongstring password user1 insecurecleartextpassword
and change your password to something other than insecurecleartextpassword, or use the pbkdf2-encrypted method described here. You can then password-lock menu items as well. For detailed info see this blog.
- Regenerate the grub.cfg file:
sudo update-grub
- With this method, Grub2 will require a username and password for every action. However, I like the initial Ubuntu entry to boot automatically without a password. To accomplish this, add the --unrestricted entry to the menuentry for the first "Ubuntu" entry in the newly generated grub.cfg file (use gedit instead of kate if using Ubuntu instead of Kubuntu):
sudo kate /boot/grub/grub.cfg
- Look for the line with
menuentry 'Ubuntu'
- and edd the --unrestricted option to the line:
menuentry 'Ubuntu' --unrestricted more options usually follow
- Note: This step must be done each time the grub.cfg file is regenerated using the "update-grub" utility.
GRUB Legacy
The older version of GRUB ("Grub Legacy") is available, for use with a boot partition, for example. Install:
sudo apt-get install grub
- If you have multiple operating systems (OS) on your computer, you may be using the GRUB Legacy boot manager (in a boot partition, for example). You can edit the options for GRUB Legacy in the menu.lst configuration file. (See this detailed info.)
sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
- (gedit can also be used instead of nano as the text editor.)
Chainloading Grub2 from Grub Legacy
- To chainload Grub2 (installed in this example with the OS in the /dev/sda7 partition) from Grub Legacy (stored in a boot partition, for example), use an entry of this format in the Grub Legacy /boot/grub/menu.lst configuration file:
title (K)Ubuntu Trusty OS (chainloader) rootnoverify (hd0,6) chainloader +1
- Grub2 is erratic, however. In many situations I don't bother to chainload it at all. Instead, it is possible to bypass Grub2 entirely and load the OS directly using Grub Legacy (stored in a boot partition, for example) using an entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst of the format:
title (K)Ubuntu Oneiric OS (chainloader) rootnoverify (hd0,6) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 ro initrd /initrd.img
- My old method for chainloading Grub2 (installed in this example in the /dev/sda7 partition) from Grub Legacy used an entry in the Grub Legacy configuration file (/boot/grub/menu.lst) with this format:
title (K)Ubuntu Maverick OS (chainloader) rootnoverify (hd0,6) kernel /boot/grub/core.img
- This method, however, requires a current core.img to have been created with grub-mkimg (part of the grub-install process). When there are substantial changes to the partition or the kernel, the core.img must be re-created by re-installing Grub2 into the OS partition (in this example /dev/sda7 corresponds to (hd0,6) ):
sudo grub-install /dev/sda7
Protecting Grub Legacy from cracking
- See this section of the Grub Manual for important information on securing Grub Legacy.
- To add password protection, in the /boot/grub/menu.lst configuration file, uncomment (remove the hashmark) from the line:
#password topsecret
and change your password to something other than topsecret, or use the md5-encrypted method described here. You can then password-lock menu items by adding the descriptor lock below the title of any item menu.
Default Applications
In previous version of ubuntu, you could choose which program to use as your default program for a specific task.
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Default Applications
or by right-clicking on any file and choosing the "Open with Other Application..." option.
The Default Applications menu has now been removed from Ubuntu, however. For a GUI that will allow this and multiple similar Ubuntu system tweaks, install Ubuntu Tweak:
wget http://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/0.5.x/0.5.8/+download/ubuntu-tweak_0.5.8-1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i ubuntu-tweak_0.5.8-1_all.deb
Kill a process
Sometimes a program (or "process") just freezes. To "kill" (or end) the program/process:
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> System Monitor -> highlight the errant process -> Kill process
From the command line:
sudo killall process
- where process is the name of the frozen program, such as firefox.
Enabling NUM LOCK On Startup
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard ->"turn on Numlock on Startup"
Working with Menus
Create an encrypted folder
You can create a folder whose contents are encrypted. See these instructions.
Create a symlink from a file to another location
A symbolic link (also known as a symlink) is a method in Linux of referring to a file (or directory) in one location from another location. Usage:
ln -s /path/to/source /path/to/destination
If /path/to/destination requires superuser rights, then use:
sudo ln -s /path/to/source /path/to/destination
This is similar to, but more powerful than, creating Shortcuts, with which former Windows users may be familiar.
Assign a root password
To be able to log in as root directly, you must assign a root password. This can be done with:
sudo passwd root
Afterwards, you can use
to get a root prompt. You would then use the root password.
Get a root prompt without using a root password
If you have not set a root password (or don't know it), you can obtain root user privileges anyway. From the command-line Terminal:
sudo -s
- or
sudo su
- or
sudo bash
You will use your own user password instead of a root password.
You could also get a prompt to become any other user on the computer by typing:
sudo su <username>
Use the File Manager as root
sudo nautilus
- or
gksudo nautilus
Manually Mount and Unmount a device
To manually mount a device:
mount /dev/hda
replace /dev/hda with the location of the device.
To manually unmount a device:
umount /dev/hda
replace /dev/hda with the location of the device.
Windows Compatibility
Mounting NTFS Partitions (with read/write privileges)
Find out the name of your ntfs partition:
sudo fdisk -l
Method 1: In this example, the NTFS drive is listed by fdisk as /dev/sda2, but yours may differ.
Make a mount point for the drive:
sudo mkdir /media/WindowsNTFS
Edit fstab:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Comment out the automatically added lines by Ubuntu installation:
#/dev/sda2 auto nouser,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 #/dev/sda2 /mnt auto user,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
and instead add the line:
/dev/sda2 /media/WindowsNTFS ntfs-3g quiet,defaults,rw 0 0
Note: There are many ways to mount the drive, depending on your needs. The fstab file controls this process. See How to edit and understand fstab and Intro to using fstab.
In this example, I indicated that the file system was an ntfs-3g filesystem, so did not use the auto option (which detects the filesystem automatically). I used rw to specify read/write privileges for all users, but umask=0 and umask=000 are accepted by some kernels.
Method 2: Edit fstab:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
When Ubuntu installation finishes, it mounts all ntfs partitions automatically with ntfsprogs, adding a line similar to the following to fstab:
UUID=8466268666267956 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,gid=46 0 1
Change this line to:
UUID=8466268666267956 /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,nls=utf8,locale=zh_CN.UTF-8,rw,gid=46 0 1
In this example, I have a Chinese-language Windows installation on my first partition, so I set the locale parameter (locale=zh_CN.UTF-8) so that my Chinese documents can display correctly. Setting rw (same as umask=0 or umask=000) lets me read/write the partition without sudo. gid=46 specifies that the drive will belong to the group of hot-pluggable devices (plugdev) and is not necessary unless your ntfs drive is a hot-pluggable one (such as an external USB drive). nls=utf8 is the default and is optional for most ntfs users, but there are other options for Chinese (and other specialized character-set users).
Mounting FAT32 Partitions
Follow the above instructions, but use vfat instead of ntfs-3g.
In other words, if you have made a mount point directory /mnt/WindowsFAT32 and your FAT32 drive is /dev/sda3, then edit the /etc/fstab file to include the line:
/dev/sda3 /mnt/WindowsFAT32 vfat quiet,defaults,rw 0 0
Synchronize clock to network time server
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) allows time synchronization of your computer to time servers on the Internet.To enable it:
- Applications menu -> System Settings -> Date & Time
- Check the "Set date and time automatically" option
- Choose an ntp time server near you.


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soilwork, lamb of god, divine heresy, All that remains, symphony x, insomnium, kreator ect...........
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soilwork, lamb of god, divine heresy, All that remains, symphony x, insomnium, kreator ect...........
Tuvan throat singing
Butthole surfers anyone?:rolleyes:
When I know it's going to be a gnarly paddle out, I listen to Get on Top by the Chili Peppers.
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i listen to a mixture of rap, indie, metal/deathmetal/hardcore/punk, dubstep, some elctro retro indie stuff(best description) here's some examples of the stuff i like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY - Kavinsky "nightcall"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spfNbKcv7yw - I declare war "misery cloud"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJsZPaxlONA - glass candy "digital versicolor" (music video is based off the movie Bronson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-bpurikn14 - Liferuiner - "you look better when you're drunk"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7VA9CpMifE - Lissie - "pursuit of happiness" cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx0cJdnLz-Y - Little Hurricane - "haunted hearts"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTGoFnEMSUM - Wiz Khalifa - "on my level"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpugK0RpEaU - Kendrick Lamar - "the recipe"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQZMaG1eO74 - 2 chainz - "no lie"
and last but not least, a funny version of dubstep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7k1tJtrj88 - Dodge & Fuski Feat. The Highbury Whores - "pornstep"
Old Crow is good too, I saw them in a bar, and from what I can remember it was GREAT
I'm glad you reminded me of Grisman... the first one by his quintet is sooo good...
Right now on my ipod I have Pretty lights and an old mixtape, Scott Henry VS Deiselboy... East Coast Science
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The federal government's new regulator for the $43 billion not for profit sector has defended claims that it will increase costs and add to the bureaucracy already burdening the more than 56,000 charities.
The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission, headed by commissioner Susan Pascoe, started on December 3.
A key policy aim of creating an independent regulator for the sector was to reduce red tape by creating a "one-stop shop".
But the federal opposition and other critics said that because it was established without an agreement from the states and territories to harmonise their laws governing charities and non-profits, the move would have the opposite effect, creating an extra layer of reporting.
So far, South Australia is the only state to have agreed to refer its regulatory powers to the commission.
Given that the majority of states have Coalition governments and the opposition has said it would repeal the changes, it is not expected that the referral of powers by the states will be achieved.
But the inaugural chairman of the ACNC advisory board, Robert Fitzgerald, said the aims of the reforms could still be achieved.
"There is no proposal before COAG for a wholesale referral of powers, and there never has been," he said.
If the states could reach agreements on financial reporting, fundraising and governance, that would mean for all practical purposes the goal of a one-stop shop was achieved, he said.
Treasury is chairing a COAG working group on not for profit tax reform with a view to harmonisation.
Ms Pascoe hopes a workable result can be achieved in the next six months.
Transitional reporting arrangements will be in place until June 30, 2014. Until then, charities will only need to provide an annual statement of activities. The sector wants certainty on the new financial reporting obligations and accounting standards which will apply.
Australia currently has no statutory definition of a charity.
The most contentious issue being debated is the make-up of a test that is expected to be introduced requiring religious and educational organisations to demonstrate the public benefit they provide. "There has long been a tension between regarding all religions as charitable and then groups some people consider cults getting charitable status," the chief executive of the Community Council for Australia, David Crosbie, said.
Many non-profit organisations want provisions protecting their right to engage in advocacy.
Consistent national fundraising rules would ease the compliance burden on charities. "The RSPCA in Australia raises around 97 per cent of its income directly from the community and like other charities working nationally, it must hold and maintain eight licences," says the animal welfare organisation's national president Lynne Bradshaw, who is also managing director of medical devices company Medevco.
A sticking point is whether there should be any concession in the directors' liabilities of volunteers. The Australian Institute of Company Directors is still developing its position. "It's a matter of balancing governance standards with ability of non-profits to attract good volunteers," the peak body's non-profits manager, Phil Butler, said.
The managing director of animal protection institute Voiceless, Brian Sherman, argues there should be no difference. "Why should charities and their supporters be any less protected by the actions of their directors than any other type of business?" said Mr Sherman, who is chairman of Aberdeen Leaders and a former director of Network Ten.
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As the First-Year Class Dean, I am the person who can help you navigate your first year at college. During the summer, I will help you put together a preliminary academic program for your first semester, and I will pair you with the academic adviser who will guide you through your first year at Barnard. During the school year, I will provide you with information and advice about your first-year experience, and I will connect you with the other people on campus who will help make your years at Barnard even more fulfilling and satisfying.
Your first year here is going to be both exciting and challenging. I hope that you'll feel comfortable dropping by my office to ask me questions about policies and procedures, to talk to me about problems and concerns, or just to fill me in on how your classes and activities are going. Every week during the academic year, I will have walk-in hours, when you can ask quick questions, and I will also have appointment times, when you can discuss issues in more detail. These walk-in hours and appointment times will be posted each week on the First-Year Class Blog.
The First-Year Class Blog will be an important resource of important information for the entire first-year class throughout the year. Sometimes the blog postings will remind you of important deadlines coming up, and sometimes the postings will inform you of special events and opportunities. The blog is also the site where you can find links to other offices on campus who can provide both guidance and advice about specific questions. So be sure to bookmark the blog site and check it at least once or twice a week.
I look forward to getting to know you—come by and see me!
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It was standing room only at William Woods University in Fulton for the screening of "Deadline In Disaster," the acclaimed documentary film about how The Joplin Globe staff covered the devastating 2011 tornado while dealing with their own storm losses. The screening was arranged for the audience of several hundred by Mary Anne Beahon, director of University Relations at William Woods and an associate of the Missouri Press Association, which sponsored the film's production. "Deadline In Disaster" will receive another public screening this week evening as part of the documentary series during the St. Louis International Film Festival. The screening is set for 6:30 p.m., Thursday at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema. Film producers Beth Pike, Scott Charton and Stephen Hudnell spent months interviewing Joplin Globe staffers and following them on assignments and in their personal lives. One-third of the newsroom staff lost their homes, and a news page designer was among more than 160 people killed in the EF-5 tornado, the deadliest in America since 1947. After the screening, Pike, Charton and Hudnell will be joined for audience q&a by MPA executive director Doug Crews and Globe reporter Emily Younker, who is among those profiled in the film. Screenings on public television are also in the works.
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I was lucky enough to attend the Columbia, Missouri, premiere of this documentary. As a recent Mizzou journalism graduate, it renewed my faith and motivation to be a newspaper reporter. May I commend this film particularly to journalism aficionados and students.


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When her 29-year-old husband, Harvey, died from cancer, leaving her with two infants and a broken heart, Susan Silberstein was filled with the burning desire to make a difference.
When her 29-year-old husband, Harvey, died from cancer, leaving her with two infants and a broken heart, Susan Silberstein was filled with the burning desire to make a difference.
That was 36 years ago and came after her husband had been diagnosed with cancer and given just 12 months to live.
His life sentence led her to switch fields from linguistics to cancer prevention and nutrition.
She says that while her husband was enduring seven neurosurgeries and the maximum amount of chemo and radiation his body could tolerate, she spent that year immersing herself in all aspects of his cancer.
"There was no Internet at the time," says Silberstein. "I was on the phone researching doctors, clinics and therapies all over the world, desperate to find anything that could change his prognosis. But," she adds, "unfortunately, it was too late for my husband."
She was determined not to bury with him all that she had gleaned from that long, painful year. In the fall of 1977, Silberstein founded BeatCancer.org, a not-for-profit charitable organization that will celebrate its 35th anniversary with a gala on Sept. 21 at World Cafe Live in West Philadelphia.
"I wanted to help at least one family avoid the terrible tragedy that mine had to endure so I became determined to make lemonade out of lemons," says Silberstein.
Today, BeatCancer.org has counseled 30,000 cancer patients one-on-one; trained 50-60,000 prevention seekers; and provided continuing education for thousands of health care professionals — all on a shoestring budget, often with those involved volunteering their services.
Their mission is to provide research-based education on how to prevent, cope with and beat cancer through diet, lifestyle and other immune-boosting approaches.
"If a patient does an online search, which many do today, they are going to get more than 11 million records. And, of course, that is totally overwhelming to them, and that is why an organization like ours is such a good resource," Silberstein says.
From all those years of relaying recipes to cancer patients, Silberstein compiled 157 recipes and published them in a cookbook, Hungry for Health.
"After a while, I figured out that I can eat this way. Heck, you don't have to have cancer to eat this way," she says.
"That's the way to prevent disease. And so I wanted people to realize you can eat really healthfully, yet not be a slave in the kitchen all day long, and at the end of the day, have it taste awful, and have no one in the family eat it," says Silberstein.
The recipes contain no red meat, cow's milk or refined sugar, but do contain some fish, chicken and turkey. Recipes run the gamut from appetizers and main courses to salads and soups, juices and smoothies to desserts, mostly plant-based and gluten-free.
All the recipes are based upon four nutrition concepts that could save people's lives, claims the author.
Here are the guidelines:
• Eat primitive: a paleolithic diet, mainly plant-based, containing no chemical pesticides, hormones or additives;
• Eat colorful: fruits and vegetables that boost the immune system and are high in fiber, which aids with digestion and reduces the risk of colon, breast and prostate cancer;
• Eat alkaline: balance out the meat, fish, dairy, eggs, poultry, fats, grains, pastas and sugars, which are acidic, by eating more fruits and vegetables; and
• Eat organic: such products contain three times the amount of nutrients compared to those raised by conventional farming.
Today, chronic diseases are much more prevalent than in years past, says Silberstein. Furthermore, according to the author, the three most common chronic occurring diseases — cancer, heart disease and diabetes — could be prevented by eating a healthy diet, exercising and making lifestyle changes.
Silberstein says prevention is the cure.
She is grateful for the unique way that she fulfills "tikkun olam b'malchut shaddai," to "repair the world in God's Kingdom," a line from the Aleinu long remembered from her days at Camp Ramah now applied every day.
For info on the BeatCancer 35 Live Anniversary Gala, go to: BeatCancer.org or call 610-642-4810.


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The game got underway in dismal weather conditions, with Ponty making the initial advances, a scramble over the home line resulting in a try claimed by winger Dan Dearden and converted by Matt Hutchings. Beddau were rewarded for a spell of pressure with a successfully converted penalty, but the game in general a dogfight for possession in the driving rain.
Ponty were able to break the gain line, with no 8 Dacey and centre Mike Davies to the fore, but then conceding a breakaway try which put Beddau into a 8pts to 7 lead. Kristian Dacey scored a try from a pickup and drive from the base of a scrum, with Hutchings once more converting. An exchange of penalties leading up to the interval registered a score-line of 11pts to 17 in what had so far been a close fought encounter.
Ponty made numerous changes amongst their back line, and came out in determined mood for the second period, lock Grant Harrington going over for an early try, converted by Baller. There was a physical edge to the game, with two Beddau players sin-binned, allowing Ponty to take control, camped out in the home half. Tries for flanker Andy Bridgemond and winger Garan Pearce further extended the visitors' lead.
Ponty were now getting the better of their opponents and of the poor conditions, tries from lock Grant Harrington and centre Lawrence Price, converted by McCarthy and Baller respectively, underlining their dominance. There was much activity off the Ponty bench, with the home side enjoying a period of pressure which nearly brought a score. Having defended resolutely on their own line, Ponty once more broke free to end the game strongly, tries for winger Curtis Cunningham and centre Price notching up a final score-line of 11pts to 58.
15.Garan Pearce (Kristian Baller). 14.Curtis Cunningham (Chris Clayton). 13.Owen Williams (Lawrence Price). 12.Mike Davies (Adam Thomas). 11.Dan Dearden (Owen Williams / Curtis Cunningham). 10.Matt Hutchings (Gareth McCarthy). 9.Andrew Jenkins (Gavin Morris).
1.Owen Cotton (Stuart Williams). 2.Leighton Davies (Huw Dowden). 3.Ian Poley (Josh Powell). 4.Grant Harrington. 5.Chris Martenko (Mark Palmer). 6.Rhys Lloyd. 7.Mark Palmer (Andy Bridgemond). 8.Kristian Dacey.
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The scope of the project involves County Road (CR) 220 from State Highway (SH) 288 to Farm-to-Market Road (FM ) 523 in Angleton.
Proposed Improvements
The proposed improvements would consist of the following:
These improvements require approximately 86 acres of additional right-of-way along the north side of the existing facility. The total length of the CR 220 improvement project is approximately 3.8 miles.
This study is a partnership between TxDOT and Brazoria County.
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Houston, TX 77251-1386
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Does anyone know of a freely available pcap "attack library" which could be run through TCPreplay? Specifically, I'd like the ability to select either specific individual or multiple-simultaneous attacks and send those attacks down the wire.
I've run some searches but haven't come up with anything yet---thought I would post here before I start building it out myself.


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'The Sabres were 0 for 5 on the power play, while New York was 0 for 2 with the man advantage. Miller made 13 saves on 16 shots before being pulled midway through the game. Lalime came in relief and stopped 12 of New York's 14 shots in the second half of the game. Biron was a perfect 38 for 38 in saves for his first win of the season.'
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Advance Excerpt: Ailes Coordinated Smear Campaign Targeting Media Matters
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Fox News president Roger Ailes coordinated a smear campaign targeting Media Matters for America and its founder, David Brock, in response to Media Matters' book critical of Fox News, according to a biography of Ailes scheduled to be released March 19.
Media Matters obtained an exclusive copy of Zev Chafets' upcoming Roger Ailes: Off Camera, in which Chafets wrote:
In February 2012, Media Matters put out a book of Ailes's horribles, The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine. The book itself didn't concern Ailes much, although he saw to it that friendly websites and some Fox commentators reminded America that the coauthor, David Brock, the head of Media Matters, does not exactly have a sterling reputation for honesty, and that the organization, which was founded with the "help and support" of the obviously partisan Hillary Clinton, is a political group that enjoys a charitable tax status.
During the weeks surrounding publication of The Fox Effect, Fox News aired dozens of segments attacking Media Matters and Brock, attacks that it is now clear were directed from Ailes in retaliation for a critical analysis of the network. Many of those attacks were in coordination with The Daily Caller.
While the campaign to smear Media Matters was underway, Zaid Jilani at Salon wrote:
Ultimately, Media Matters is being targeted for what it has accomplished. In just the eight short years of its existence, the organization has created a powerful watchdog hub for countering right-wing misinformation and pushing the progressive message to the press and policymakers. The group is ultimately being attacked for doing the very things that it publicly set out to do, and that is likely making the right wing much angrier than David Brock's eccentricities.
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Several celebrity chefs will be in Park City this weekend, preparing private dinners for the actors, directors and producers attending the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Award-winning Los Angeles chef Susan Feniger, the owner of STREET and Border Grills, will be in town for a filmmakers dinner. Feniger, who competed on Season 2 of "Top Chef Masters," is one half of the popular female cooking team known as the "Too Hot Tamales" with longtime business partner Mary Sue Milliken.
Whitney Miller, winner of the first season of "Masterchef," and Chef Marcel Vigneron, the runner-up on the second season of "Top Chef," will be cooking at this year's edition of ChefDance. Miller will kick off the five-night event Friday in the basement of the old Harry O's by preparing dinner for the cast and crew of "Sound City with David Grohl," "We Are What We Are" and "Touchy Feely."
Other chefs, on the ChefDance roster include: Jarvier Placencia, considered the best chef in Tijuana; Shawn McClain, a James Beard Chef from Chicago; and Shawn Armstrong, chef at the Montage Deer Valley.
Finally, Bill Reilly, chef de cuisine of the Hearth restaurant at Park City's Promontory resort, is not a celebrity chef. But he is paying tribute to "Big Night," the award-winning film featured at the Festival in 1996. On Monday, Reilly will re-create the "timpano," a drum-shaped, layered baked pasta marvel that was prepared by Chef Primo (Tony Shalhoub's character) in the popular food film.


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The Milky Way Galaxy, home to our solar system. It’s believed our solar system formed at least 4.5 billion years ago, when a huge cloud of dust and gas collapsed into a dense mass. That mass began to spin and flatten into a disk. That disk grew hotter and hotter until finally a new star, our sun, was born. Leftover dust and gases continued to whirl around the sun and over millions of years formed the planets and moons that make up our solar system.
The sun is at the center, it’s gravity binds the solar system together. It accounts for 99% of the solar system’s mass.
The closest planet to the sun is Mercury, a relatively small planet known for it’s extremes of temperatures. Above 800ºF during the day and minus 300ºF at night.
Next is Venus, the near twin of the Earth in size, mass and density. It’s atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps the sun’s heat and raises the surface temperature to nearly 900ºF. Clouds of sulfuric acid swirl above Venus’ rocky surface.
The third planet is Earth, an active planet that’s constantly changing. More than 70% of its surface is covered by water. Earth teems with life - something that, so far, has been found nowhere else.
Just beyond Earth lies Mars, a barren planet with striking geographic features, including red soil, canyons four times deeper than the Grand Canyon, and polar ice.
Between Mars and the next planet is the Asteroid Belt -millions of rocky fragments, most no more than a mile across.
The fifth planet from the sun is far and away the largest: Jupiter - a gaseous giant big enough to hold more than 1,300 Earths. It’s great red spot alone, a huge hurricane-like storm, is twice as wide as Earth.
Saturn, the second largest planet, is next. Famous for its massive rings of ice and ice-covered particles.
Seventh from the sun is Uranus, which is unique because it rotates on its side. It too has rings, and at least 27 moons.
Neptune, the eight planet, is perhaps the windiest planet in the solar system. With gusts over 12,000 miles per hour. Neptune marks the end of the planets, but not the end of the solar system.
Farther on is Pluto, a dwarf planet. At its greatest distance, Pluto orbits more than 4.5 billion miles from the sun.
As vast and diverse as our solar system is, its but one in a galaxy of billions of stars, in a universe comprised of billions of galaxies.


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San Rafael home includes deep-water dock, putting green
Updated 4:03 pm, Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Twice a week, The Chronicle features a local home on the market that caught our eye for its architecture, history or character. More photos: www.sfgate.com/columns/walkthrough.
Address: 90 Sea Way, San Rafael.
Asking price: $2.45 million.
Description: Set next to 11 acres of protected marshland, this three-bedroom home offers a deep-water dock and 280 feet of San Francisco Bay access, as well as unobstructed views of San Pablo Bay, San Rafael marina and Mount Tamalpais. The level backyard includes a saltwater infinity pool and spa, patios for entertaining, gardening patios and putting green. Inside, hand-crafted stone and tile work complements the hardwood floors and large, energy-efficient windows. A gas fireplace warms the great room, which includes built-in speakers and opens up to the entertainment patio and pool area.
Don't miss: The master suite, which includes a private patio and fireplace, as well as a soaking tub and walk-in shower in the master bathroom.
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Built: 1947.
Square feet: 3,022.
For more information: Robert Craig, Sotheby's International Real Estate, (415) 720-1053.
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In her current photo, I see a slender, attractive woman. Look at the close-up from 2002, at which time Ms. Thomas expressed an anabolic androgen in her urine. The photo looks like an androgenized female. Rugged looks. Male pattern baldness.
Federal prosecutors said Thursday they have "overwhelming" proof that former Olympic cyclist Tammy Thomas lied when she told a grand jury that she never used steroids, including a high-end bicycle they allege she traded for performance-enhancing drugs when she was low on cash.
The prosecutors quote a doctor's report in August 2000 suggesting that Thomas had to shave a full beard, a steroids side effect for women.
According to the government's filing, Dr. Margaret Wierman wrote Thomas that she feared the cyclist was exposing herself to long-term health problems if she continued to ingest steroids.
Also testifying will be Kelcey Dalton, the chemist's live-in girlfriend at the time who said she had several phone conversations with Thomas during a three-month period several years ago. Dalton and Thomas' conversations "consisted of talk about weightlifting and steroids, in particular about steroids side-effects," the government's court filing stated.
According to the filing, Thomas offered Dalton a LeMond racing bicycle in exchange for some of Arnold's designer steroids.
"The deal was made and Dalton still has the bicycle," the filing stated.
"Every day is the same day," she said in her gravelly voice. "I used to be well respected. I made my parents proud. Now I've embarrassed my family. For the rest of my life, wherever I go and whatever I do, I'm going to be known as a cheater."Tammy Thomas photo by Casey Gibson.
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Commitments in Switzerland Volunteering
Each year, several thousand Credit Suisse employees volunteer to participate in projects and initiatives supported by the bank, giving their time for a good cause.
Under Credit Suisse's Volunteering Program, staff in Switzerland can devote up to four working days a year to voluntary work. In 2015, staff spent almost 70,000 hours on charitable work as part of Corporate Volunteering. Credit Suisse has partnerships with 10 charitable organizations at national level. In addition, we work with around 70 regional non-profit organizations.
The Background
Our aim of being a responsible partner extends beyond our core business, which is why we have been involved in social matters for many years. As part of Corporate Volunteering, we encourage all employees to make a contribution through a personal commitment and get involved in our partner organizations' initiatives and projects. Not least, our employees grow personally and professionally in these assignments.
The Program
In the field of education, the emphasis is on projects where our employees can share their expertise, for example by passing their knowledge of finance and economics on to children and young people, or in mentoring programs at universities. Other possible assignments include making an active contribution to environmental projects or supporting the integration of persons with disabilities and those who are socially disadvantaged.
Our Partners
Credit Suisse has entered into partnership agreements with 10 carefully chosen non-profit organizations, and offers its employees the opportunity to carry out voluntary assignments for these partner organizations.
The Swiss Red Cross (SRK) is Switzerland's largest and oldest humanitarian organization. Founded in 1866, it has been working in Switzerland and abroad to help people in need for 150 years. The organization tirelessly supports health care, rescue operations, and integration programs on behalf of the most vulnerable members of society including the elderly, the disabled and those in need, families, and migrants. The SRK is Credit Suisse's most important charitable partner. In addition to financial support, employees help by volunteering for activities including blood drives, the "2 x Christmas" gift collection campaign, the SRK car pool, exercises with the Redog rescue dog group, and the "mitten unter uns" ("In our midst") integration project.
For more information, go to: www.redcross.ch
The Ernst Schmidheiny Foundation focuses on promoting the interest in and understanding of economic relationships among young people. Every year, some 180 classes are held as part of one of the Business Week events organized by the Foundation in cooperation with chambers of commerce and industrial associations. To date, more than 100,000 Swiss high-school students have taken part in a seminar week and gained first-hand insight into the relationships of the free social market economy. Credit Suisse employees take part in the program as instructors. Across Switzerland, the business weeks are considered a prime example of active and efficient cooperation between schools and business.
For more information, go to: www.wirtschaftswochen.ch
The University Children's Hospital Zurich is the largest children's hospital in Switzerland and one of Europe's leading centers for pediatric and adolescent medicine. In addition to treating sick children, the hospital trains doctors in their areas of specialization. It is also home to the only research center in Switzerland dedicated entirely to children and adolescents.
Every year, more around 100,000 children and adolescents come to the Children's Hospital for outpatient or inpatient treatment. The young patients receive everything important to a quick recovery: the best possible therapy, but also the care and assistance focused on their needs.
Credit Suisse Employees support the Children's Hospital on special occasions much to the delight of patients and their siblings.
For more information, go to: www.kispi.uzh.ch
The Love Ride Switzerland is a charity event in aid of children and young people with muscular dystrophy. Since 1993 it has been held on the first Sunday in May each year on the Dübendorf airfield (near Zurich). The aim is to stage a ride for disabled people – and raise funds – to give them the opportunity to experience some of the mobility and freedom that bikers in particular so enjoy. With around 20,000 participants, the Love Ride Switzerland is the largest charity event of its kind in Europe, and the most important gathering of the Swiss Harley-Davidson fraternity. The climax of the day is the ride of 60 kilometres itself, when all the bikes ride out together. Up to 300 children and young people with muscular dystrophy accompany them in sidecars or on trikes. Credit Suisse volunteers support the ride in the directing of traffic.
For more information, go to: www.loveride.ch
People with a physical or mental disability can find tremendous fulfillment through sport. It is a way of enhancing their quality of life and independence, and helping them to integrate. For nearly 50 years, PluSport, the umbrella organization for Swiss disabled sports, has coordinated and supported the sports-related activities of almost 12,000 people. The highlight of the year is the annual PluSport Day held in Magglingen in early July, which is a major event in the sporting calendar for recreational athletes with disabilities. Credit Suisse volunteers support PluSport in the staging of this major event.
For more information, go to: www.plusport.ch
Schweizer Tafel was founded in 2000. Its goal is to pick up fresh food that has not been sold and distribute it to the needy. With its tagline "Waste Not, Want Not," Schweizer Tafel currently supplies more than 17 tons of food per day to around 500 social institutions in 11 regions throughout Switzerland. Credit Suisse has supported the organization since 2011. Employees from the bank work as volunteers at the national fundraising event, on Soup Day, and on delivery runs.
For more information, go to: www.schweizertafel.ch
The St. Jakob Foundation provides a safe, structured workplace for over 500 people with special needs. A friendly, motivating atmosphere enables program participants to maximize their potential. Employees learn from experienced professionals and gain self-esteem and the recognition that comes from participating in society. The foundation's wide range of internal positions and comprehensive training and continuing education programs promote a sense of community and inclusion while teaching skills. The result: high-quality work, wonderful products at market rates, and especially, happy people.
Together with employees from the Foundation, volunteers from Credit Suisse work under the expert guidance of bakers and pastry chefs at the St. Jakob bakery to produce baked goods.
For more information, go to: www.st-jakob.ch
The Stöckenweid Foundation in Feldmeilen provides support, care and assistance to people with disabilities. It operates according to the idea in social therapy of integrating people with severe disabilities into work processes. The overall experience, backed up by the affection, respect, and assistance they encounter, both serves as encouragement and contributes to happiness in their lives. Training, education, and therapy are not only a means of providing the disabled employees with a stable basis, they also represent opportunities for personal development.
Together with the residents of the Stöckenweid Foundation, Credit Suisse volunteers help with seasonal work in the garden.
For more information, go to: www.stoeckenweid.ch
WWF's ultimate goal is to protect natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species.
The exquisitely colorful dry grasslands in Valais and the Engadine are among Switzerland's most species-rich habitats. Credit Suisse staff's deployment in such areas helps maintain these valuable dry grasslands and the habitat for countless animals and plants.
For more information, go to: www.wwf.ch
Young Enterprise Switzerland (YES) inspires young people and raises their awareness of subjects ranging from entrepreneurship, money, consumer spending, and personal professional development to community involvement. Hands-on educational programs prepare them for finding their own path to success within the global economy. In Switzerland, almost 6,000 students take part in the program every year. Through its partnership with YES, Credit Suisse is able to offer targeted support to children and young people. Thanks to Credit Suisse, single classes or entire schools can participate free of charge in the attractive programs offered by YES and benefit from the professional experience of the bank's employees, amongst other things.
For more information, go to: www.youngenterprise.ch


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Despite Complete Game by Lambert, Liberty Edged by West Virginia, 2-1
Flames right-hander Trey Lambert pitched his second complete game of the season, only to see Liberty come out on the short end of a 2-1 contest against West Virginia at Liberty Baseball Stadium, Sunday afternoon.
After giving up two runs in the first, Lambert settled in and held the Mountaineers scoreless the rest of the way. He gave up two runs on five hits, striking out two and walking two batters over nine innings. Despite the strong outing, the right-hander falls to 5-3 on the year. At one point in the contest, Lambert retired 13 consecutive batters.
Meanwhile, West Virginia starter Dan Dierdorff matched Lambert, holding Liberty to one run on five hits over nine innings. He struck out five and walked two batters. The Mountaineer right-hander pitched out of two, two-out bases loaded jams and retired the final eight Liberty batters in the contest. He moves to 2-4 on the season.
Liberty falls to 19-17 on the season and concludes a stretch of eight games in nine days. West Virginia moves to 20-17 on the year.
The Mountaineers scored their only runs of the contests in their opening at bat. Shortstop Taylor Munden led off the game with a single and moved to third on a single by center fielder Bryan Boyd. Right fielder Brady Wilson followed with a RBI groundout to plate Munden with the first run of the game. Third baseman Ryan Tuntland followed with another run-scoring groundout to give visiting West Virginia a 2-0 advantage.
In the bottom of the inning, Liberty loaded the bases, but came away empty. With one out, catcher Trey Wimmer was hit by a pitch and center fielder Ryan Cordell reached on a fielder's choice. Designated hitter Danny Grauer then drew a two-out walk to fill the bases with Flames. But, Dierdorff got the next batter to ground into a fielder's choice out to end the frame.
Liberty again loaded the bases in the third. With one out, second baseman Bryan Aanderud singled. Two batters later, Cordell lined a double into the gap to move both runners into scoring position. Grauer then walked with two outs, packing the bases with Flames. However, Dierdorff retired the next batter to hold Liberty scoreless.
The Flames cut their deficit in half with a run in the fifth. Aanderud lined a double to the warning track in center field and advanced to third base on a passed ball. Wimmer followed with groundout to plate Aanderud and trim the Mountaineers lead to what proved to be the final score of 2-1.
Aanderud had three of Liberty's five hits in the game. Boyd had two of West Virginia's five hits.
Liberty will next host the Old Dominion Monarchs at Liberty Baseball Stadium, Tuesday. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.


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Patellar Tendonitis
Patellar tendonitis (jumper's knee) is inflammation of the patellar tendon due to microtearing at the attachment site of this tendon. Patellar tendonitis is a common overuse injury and is seen frequently in individuals who participate in sports involving jumping, running and cycling.
Signs and Symptoms
Initially the athlete will have pain just below the kneecap (over the tendon) after activity. In the second stage, the pain will be present at the beginning of an activity, disappear during and return after the activity. The third stage is characterized by pain during and after activity, as well as pain with normal daily activity such as walking.
- Sudden increases in exercise intensity or duration
- Poor warm-up prior to activities
- Overuse or over-training
Treatment Strategy
- Stage 1: Treatment in this early stage normally consists of sufficient warm-up, anti-inflammatory medication as prescribed by a physician and ice after activity.
- Stage 2: If symptoms persist, moist heat may be needed prior to exercise. Continue treatments from stage 1.
- Stage 3: If symptoms are left untreated or if they don't respond to stages 1 and 2, rest from the activity that causes patellar tendonitis. Therapeutic exercise treatments provided by a physical therapist or licensed athletic trainer may also be necessary.
- Avoid sudden changes in training or sudden changes in activity
- Begin treatment at first sign of consistent patellar tendon pain
- Modify activities by decreasing or avoiding impact loading (running, jumping and aerobics) until symptoms have subsided.
"Patellar Tendonitis/Tendonopathy." UWHealth.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. .


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You know, this might just be one of the easiest reviews I've ever had to do. Why? Because JVC's DLA-HD750 is designed to be even better than the already extraordinarily good HD350 we tested a few weeks ago. So if it lives up to its billing, really the only area that might require any sort of debate is whether it really justifies its £5,295 cost - a hike of more than £2,000 over the HD350.
Regular readers will be familiar by now with the groundbreaking Wire Grid optical technology that helps JVC achieve class-leading black levels from its proprietary D-ILA projection system, so I won't go into it again here. (If you're not a regular reader, I refer you to earlier reviews of the DLA-HD1, DLA-HD100 and HD350).
Instead, the best place to start would seem to be by looking at how the HD750 supposedly improves on the HD350.
The single most significant development is that the HD750's claimed contrast ratio is 50,000:1 versus the HD350's 30,000:1 - a potentially awe-inspiring difference considering that the HD350's black level performance was more or less immaculate.
Don't forget, after all, that the contrast ratio numbers described by JVC are, unusually, native figures, meaning that they're not dependent on the dynamic contrast systems employed by lesser projectors to produce a convincing black level. In other words, the JVC projectors can deliver their deepest blacks without having to reduce the output of their lamps and thus limit the brightness of any light elements a predominantly dark scene might contain.
Another potentially huge enhancement offered by the HD750 is a genuine colour management system. This allows you to tweak the hue, saturation, and brightness of the six main colour components of the image, and provides three memory slots for storing preferred colour arrangements for a variety of source types or, more likely, room light conditions.
While this is a decent enough system - and one that's long overdue on JVC projectors - it's perhaps still not quite as sophisticated as I would ideally have liked. It's certainly not in the same ballpark as the astonishingly flexible and accurate system supported by SIM2's C3X 1080, for instance - though that projector now costs £23,000! But more tellingly, I also felt like I had marginally more control over colour with both Panasonic's PT-AE3000 and Sony's recent VW80 - thanks in part to their more sophisticated user interfaces.
Having had a side by side demo of this, the HD-350 and Sony's offerings I can only say that I was very impressed by this projector and for me, the differences are worth the extra premium.
The picture from the 2 Sony's that I saw (VPL-VW40 & 200) which fall below and above the JVC's offering (HD-350 & 750) in terms of price point were too harsh for my eyes but it does not follow that what what suits, or does not suit me will be the same for others.
If you can I would always recommend, as I am sure the Trusted Review Team would that you view all prospective purchases at the same time, with the same software and under the same condition ergo sum use a good local independant dealer and trust your own eyes and not just what you read on the net.
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What's open, what's closed for Veterans Day
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 5:18 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 5:18 p.m.
Residential curbside collection for solid waste, recycling and yard trash will operate as normally scheduled on Monday.
The Leveda Brown Environmental Park's Transfer Station
and the five Alachua County Rural Collection Centers will be open on Monday.
The Hazardous Waste Collection Center and the Office of Waste Collection at the Leveda Brown Environmental Park will be closed on Monday and will reopen on Tuesday.
Alachua County public schools will be open on Monday.
Santa Fe College and the University of Florida will be closed on Monday. Classes will resume on Tuesday.
All Regional Transit System offices will be closed on Monday, and there will be no RTS bus service. ADA paratransit service will be running on Monday for Medicaid dialysis appointments only. Regular services will resume on Tuesday.
Most banks and credit unions will be closed on Monday.
The U.S. Postal Service offices will be closed Monday.
County and city administrative offices will be closed on Monday.
The Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Office will be closed on Monday.
The Alachua County Tax Collector's Office will be closed on Monday.
The Alachua County Courthouse's administrative offices will be closed on Monday.
Alachua County Library District headquarters and district branches will be closed Monday. All book drops and online services through the Library District's eBranch will be available. All branches and the two bookmobiles will resume their regular service hours on Tuesday.
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'The Sabres stand to lose only two players to free agency, veteran defensemen Alexei Zhitnik and James Patrick. Despite offers from the Sabres to re-sign him, Zhitnik had previously expressed an interest to test free agency. Patrick completed his 21st season and sixth in Buffalo, and hopes to re-sign with the Sabres. His future, however, is uncertain because of a potential labor dispute that could disrupt the start or all of next season.'
Archives for June 2004
Sabres extend offers to 12 players, including Connolly
Bulking up for Buffalo
'And in the long run he's doing it for the right team. The Sabres have struggled the past few years and their depth on the back end has dwindled, particularly after trading veteran Rhett Warrener and former first-round pick Keith Ballard in a deal to acquire forward Chris Drury last summer. Couple that with the fact that the youngest prospect in the Sabres' system is a 20-year-old and things look good for Funk.'
The Sabres Qualify 12 More Players, Pick Up Kotalik's Option
'Connolly gets a ten percent raise from the 1.24-million dollars he made last season. Since he played less than 60 games last season, it's a two way deal. If he's sent to Rochester, the centerman would have to clear NHL waivers.'
Sabres Extend Qualifying Offers to 20 Players
Players that were extended qualifying offers and do not have arbitration rights have until July 15th to accept the offer extended to them by the Sabres. If a player rejects the qualifying offer and doesn't have arbitration rights, the Sabres retain that player's rights and the player and team can negotiate a new contract.
Draft Recap
"(Michael) Funk, he's a big kid. He's a raw-boned kid. He has the ability to put on a lot of weight," stated Regier. "I think he's around 200 right now and he can easily play at 220. He has very good mobility for his age. For his lack of experience, he skates well."
The Sabres End The Draft With A Local Kid
'Kaleta is a RW who scored 14 goals and 14 assists with Peterborough in the OHL. He patterns his game just like Peca, never turns down the hit.'
Draft Party a Success
HSBC Arena was buzzing with excitement on Saturday but not only for the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. Hundreds of fans from the Western New York and Southern Ontario areas flocked to downtown Buffalo for the Sabres first-ever Draft Party and the largest sale in the Sabres' store history.
Too Good to Pass Up
General Manager Darcy Regier stated earlier in the week that the team was looking to acquire a young defenseman with their first overall selection. When it was the Sabres' pick, the organization could not pass up University of North Dakota right wing Drew Stafford.
Sabre fan becomes a Sabre
'"It's a dream come true," Kaleta said. "I grew up my whole life idolizing the Sabres and watching them."'
Vanek may be open to an offer, now
'"He's on the fence," said Steve Bartlett, the Rochester-based player representative who is assisting the Vaneks. "I think he would certainly look at the next challenge."'
Recapping Day 1 Of The NHL Entry Draft (and Party)
'Stafford won a gold medal with the US at the World Junior Championships, playing on the fourth line. He's a very good skater, and at #13 the Sabres went away from that plan to take defense and took the best player on the board.'
Buffalo-area native Kaleta among Sabres draft picks
'''I don't think it's sunk in yet,'' said Kaleta, a native of Angola, N.Y. ''I'm still in awe.'''
Oilers groan as Sabres pick Stafford
When everybody started sliding, we thought that we might get him at 14th pick, GM Kevin Lowe said. As soon as Minny took Thelen …
Versatile Stafford catches Sabres' eyes
'"Ideally, all things being equal, the preference might have been to have a defenseman, but nobody thought Stafford would be there," Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier said. "It was too good to pass up."'
'Neither Funk nor Sekera will play professionally for at least one year, probably more. Both are expected to play junior hockey next season. Funk won't reach voting age until August. Sekera turned 18 this month.'