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Quick Center to feature exhibitions and artist's talk by acclaimed fine arts photographer Barbara Luisi
Sep 13, 2013 |
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University is featuring retrospective exhibitions by internationally acclaimed fine arts photographer Barbara Luisi.
Luisi will give an Artist's Talk at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, in The Loft at the Quick Center, to launch the exhibitions, which will be open from Sept. 27 through Nov. 24.
Two contrasting exhibitions will be on view: "Pearls, Tears of the Sea," which features underwater photography, will be on display in the Marianne Letro Laine Gallery, and "Glowing Nights," featuring artificial light photography, will be on display in the Paul and Toni Branch Gallery.
"Pearls, Tears of the Sea" has been shown in Vienna, Geneva, Hamburg and New York City. As a special feature to the exhibition, the Quick Center will show a display of pearls by Mastoloni Pearls of New York City.
Luisi was born in Munich and now lives and works in New York City and Camogli, Italy.
She first began studying the violin and obtained the Concert Diploma from the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater in Munich. She performed for many years in several leading European orchestras: the Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre du Capitol de Toulouse, and the Bavarian State Opera. She has also served as the first violinist in the Pocci String Quartet.
These years of music stimulated and reinforced her artistic sensitivities and her eye for the irretrievable moment. The visual images she experienced in music were soon applied to her interest in photography. At the age of 17, she began experimenting with photography with a Leica M6 and developed her work in her own darkroom. During the last decade, she has dedicated her attention fully to photography.
Luisi has engaged in portraiture often relating to theater and music, still life, night light and the human body. Exhibitions of her work have been held in galleries in Europe, the United States and Japan. She has published three photo books of her work.
Luisi is married to Maestro Fabio Luisi, the principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and the music director of the Zurich Opera in Switzerland.
"When I first saw Barbara Luisi's photographs in New York City, I was immediately fascinated by her use of light," said Ludwig Brunner, executive director of the Quick Center. "I find most of her photographs in the exhibition 'Glowing Nights' to be like abstract paintings. Her very contrasting work with underwater photography establishes Barbara Luisi as a true master of the art form. We are very proud and grateful that Ms. Luisi has agreed to visit St. Bonaventure University. Her Artist's Talk about the different aspects of photography and her first career as an accomplished musician should be very interesting not only for the students, but also for the general public."
In addition to the afternoon public talk, the Quick Center is presenting a fundraising event — "Opening Night at the Quick Center" — in honor of Luisi. The evening begins with cocktails at 6:30 p.m., followed by a special musical performance by artists from the Metropolitan Opera and then dinner on the stage at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the Visiting Master's Fund to enable similar programs in the future. A few single tickets at $75 are still available for the event. For reservations, please call Juliana Bordonaro at (716) 375-2464.
Regular gallery hours at the Quick Center are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Museum admission is free and open to the public year-round. For more information, visit www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.
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Lot 50: Rare Sutherland Richmond VA. Marked Percussion Pepperbox Pistol
Day 1 - Premiere Collector's Firearms Auction
by Rock Island Auction Company
November 30, 2012
Rock Island, IL, USA
Live Auction
Estimate: $950 - 1600
This is a rare example of a 6-shot percussion pepperbox with the Samuel Sutherland of Richmond, Virginia, marking on the hammer. According to Albaugh, Benet and Simmons in the book "CONFEDERATE HANDGUNS", Sutherland was a Virginian gunsmith who repaired arms for the Confederate government. Southern gunsmiths who participated in the Confederate war effort such as Samuel Sutherland were known in their communities as "The Armorer of the South". Lacking the resources for large government armories, the Confederate government relied heavily on local gunsmiths. The left side of the hammer is marked "SUTHERLAND/RICHMOND, VA." (faint). Although there are no maker markings, it is of similar design to an Allen & Thurber pepperbox. The authors of "CONFEDERATE HANDGUNS" have noted Allen & Thurber pepperboxes with the Sutherland marking.
BBL: 3 3/4 inch ribbed
Gauge: 31 percussion
Finish: blue
Grips: walnut
Serial Number: nsn
Condition: Fair. The pepperbox has a smooth gray patina with some minor pitting. The grips are fair as refinished with some chipping around the screw, a minor missing chip and some minor handling marks. Cracked, repaired hammer and action needs work.


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The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible tells the story of a boy who becomes shipwrecked on an unfamiliar island after being swept out to sea in a storm. Having previously lived in a relatively free society, in this new strange land he experiences culture shock as he learns of bewildering laws and traditions of the island's inhabitants. The story highlights the absurdities of the laws, the controls imposed on people's lives, and the economic drawbacks of these laws.
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The third, greatly expanded, 2003 edition of her book, Healing Our World, was tied with Harry Potter as FreeMarket.net's Best Book of Year 2003. Healing was the 2008 Freedom Book Club of the Year, edging out Dr. Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto. Healing was also given the Lysander Spooner Book of the Year Award in 2012.


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Giffarine Skyline Unity, the Thai direct-sales company, has teamed up with the global fragrance maker Firmenich Group to create its own signature perfume, challenging international brands available in Thai retail channels.
Peter Wooldridge's two sons enjoy the benefits of their father's job, but baulk at the idea of one day following in his footsteps.
The event is being held 06-08 May at BITEC Convention and Exhibition Centre and is expected to attract 25,000 Herbalife executives and distributors from throughout the Asia Pacific, including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Direct sales, also known as multi-level marketing, is a $3-billion business in Russia and growing fast, with companies like Amway, Avon, and Herbalife showing record sales results in 2010 and solid growth potential this year.
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Sweet lets generalize an entire group of people in a negative way because you're not one of them! I guess I can say that the casual raiders are all garbage scrubs that just suck at the game and that's why they want the nerfs and no challenging content. See that's me doing the exact same thing you did.
I know it's flipping crazy for you to believe some people want a challenge, but that's what video games were originally created for. To give folks a fun challenge. It's insane for me to think that it's now become a stigma for people to wish for hard content. 5 years ago it was the opposite, but that's what happens when those who do want a challenge don't get it often enough and leave. Not saying there was no challenge in Cata by the way. There was with a lot of BWD/BoT/Al'Akir Heroics and then Rag heroic, but yeah.
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Luck with guild? What? Do you just randomly roll 100 to decide what guild you want to join? I've always picked my guilds based on which one suited me best personally.
Oh look Blizzard figured out how to stretch their subs out for 3 months instead of a month for new content.
That intro makes no sense. "There's a warlock behind those barricades! Don't you dare fly over them!"
Then you get there. "Damn it, he was a warlock!"
Way to misread a comment.
It's not a stigma to wish for hard content. Blizzard have provided hard content, that's good. If you look at comments from the launch of Cata there were a TON of posts of people complaining the game was too easy before even setting foot in a raid because the world first clear was soon after launch.
In no way did I say that I wanted nerfs and no challenging content. I said the reason that they've had to add ANOTHER difficulty is because there are people who are half way between casual and hardcore. The ones who have the drive to clear of a hardcore but the relative skill and time of a more casual raider. You won't see players from the world first complaining about the content, you see the ones who will clear it post nerf or who clear it months after launch after being carried by BiS geared players whining about LFR or nerfs post patch because now they feel like less special snowflakes.
All I know is for the first time in memory the Alliance intro to expansion is way cooler than the Hordes.
Hell the Hordie's might like that they appear to be full on bad guys (at least some them) now.
As a Horde member, I approve of the Alliance starter quests : P
Really, it's awesome to see them starting to go forth and kick some ass.
Before when Horde was pretty much taking everything, I kind of felt meh about it - I mean, I didn't really have a reason to WANT to go into war (other than for fun!)...but now with Alliance attacking, I'm more pumped about the whole thing. I think it'll breathe new life into battlegrounds as well for me : ).
Someone needs to convince these blockheaded devs that there data is telling them lies...ive never talked to one person who LIKES when they progressively nerf raids. THATS WHAT LFR IS FOR!....raids naturally get easier as raiders get more gear...the poster pitched an idea about increasing loot from raid bosses to give slower raid groups a boost and the blue poster just brushed it off as if blizzards way is the best.
I know that myself and other guildies quit the game in the 3 weeks leading up to the dragon soul nerf (back in january) because we don't raid that much and we felt cheated not getting the opportunity to complete the raid on it's original difficulty. (And don't give me that shit about turning off the buff, nobody is gonna turn off the buff when you get the same loot whether you have it on or not).
Who are the thick headed morons in the dev team who keep persisting on nerfing end game content??? It sickens me!


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text: Researchers Identify Genetic Defect in Beef Cattle August 9, 2010 06:33 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Drovers Editors Email Source: University of Illinois University of Illinois researchers identified the mutation causing Contractural Arachnodactyly (CA; formerly Fawn Calf Syndrome), a genetic abnormality affecting Angus and Angus-derived cattle. Jonathan Beever, U of I associate professor in the department of animal sciences and lead researcher, said his team completed the correct assembly of the DNA sequence responsible for CA on June 8. Since then, they have developed DNA tests based on this mutation. "CA is a genetic abnormality inherited as a simple recessive," Beever said. "Some debate exists about its classification as a genetic defect because many CA-affected calves survive and can reach reproductive age. However, at the population level, CA behaves as a lethal genetic defect and should be classified as such." A random sampling of AI sires provided from members of the National Association of Animal Breeders allowed researchers to accurately estimate the allele frequency while providing information on animals that have significant influence on the total population. A list of affected animals is available at /files/CA_Summary.pdf. To date, researchers have screened 1,256 AI sires and identified 39 bulls that are CA carriers. Emerging technology and the successful mapping of the cow genome have allowed Beever's team to find solutions to genetic defects within months that previously took 10 years to solve. While the same research process is being followed today that was followed 20 years ago, they now have tools such as DNA chips that allow them to look at more than 50,000 DNA markers at once. "In the beef cattle industry, one bad gene can cause a death loss," Beever said." As a cattle producer myself, I understand how devastating these losses can be to an operation and to the industry as a whole." This type of research results in technologies that can almost immediately stop the spread of a genetic abnormality in a time of perceived crisis, he added. These tools also help breeders identify high genetic merit individuals within a particular line that may be associated with a defect, but are negative for the defect. Beever said this allows maintenance of the good genetics in the population, but limits the spread of the defect. Research is under way to develop a commercially available CA test by September. In the past six years, Beever's team has identified genetic markers for several genetic defects including tibial hemimelia (TH) in Shorthorn cattle; idiopathic epilepsy (IE) and hypotrichosis (hairlessness) in Hereford cattle; arthrogryposis multiplex (curly calf syndrome), neuropathic hydrocephalus in Angus cattle and pulmonary hypoplasia with anasarca (PHA) in Maine-Anjou cattle. For more information on the phenotype associated with CA, go to http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/livestock/health/specific/cattle/ca-angus. Back to news


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Ashgrove House is a spacious and homely B&B. Also has a separate self service kitchen. We are located in the City of Limerick, just a short 2 min walk to Thomand Park Rugby grounds and Limerick Institute of Technology. Also just a 15 min drive to and from Shannon Airport. Our rooms are very comfortable and all en-suite, incl TV's. Tours can be arranged to the Cliffs of Moher For 30, picked up at 10.00am and returned at the BnB at 7pm, their are also tours to Bunratty Castle and Adare. Their are tours of Galway Bay, Killarney and the Ring of Kerry also available from Limerick. We are just 5 mins to downtown Limerick City Centre. Within a easy walk of great shops, bars and restaurants etc. Limerick is a great base from which to tour Ireland. Many people stay 3 or 4 nights or more because it is so convenient. Killarney is 90 minutes drive, Cork city is 90 minutes drive. The Cliffs of Moher and Doolin are also 90 minutes drive, Galway 2 hours drive etc etc There is a Lidl supermarket down the street, a Shopping Centre (with Dunnes stores supermarket), a bank with ATM machine an off license for beer and wine) and currency exchange and the Woodfield Hotel within 2 minutes walk . Thomond Park Rugby: We are conveniently located within just 2 minutes walk of Thomond Park Rugby grounds. Golf: Top golf courses within 20 minutes drive, including Dromoland, Limerick golf course and Castletroy. Limerick's cultural scene was significantly enhanced in March 2003 when the magnificent new 350-seat Millennium Theatre at Limerick Institute of Technology, Moylish Park opened. The Hunt Museum is also worth a visit, exhibiting one of Ireland's greatest private collections of art and antiquities, dating from the Neolithic to the 20th Century, including works by Renoir, Picasso and Yeats. For the fishing enthusiast we have several prime fishing locations nearby for salmon, game and deep sea fishing. The Shannon River at O'Briens Bridge is a wide slow moving and offers excellent fishing. Bookings that are cut short after arrival will be subject to charge of first night of stay. We operate a 3 day cancellation policy. |
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Ashgrove House B&B is situated 5 minutes from Limerick city centre with Bus 302 outside our door 15 minutes from Shannon Airport . This is very comfortable accommodation.
We are located just 2 mins off The Ennis Road heading towards Thomond Rugby Stadium. There is a SHOPPING CENTRE (Jetland Dunnes Stores) within 5 mins walk A BANK WITH ATM MACHINE , Off Licence, Pharmacy. Woodfield House Hotel and Greenhills Hotel a few mins . I can arrange Tours with PADDYWAGON TOURS to Cliffs of Moher, The Burren,
Ring of Kerry , Blarney also Bunratty Castle, you can be collected and dropped off at B&B. These Tours are excellent and I can highly recomment them. I have plenty of Parking.
Approaching City from the Airport if taking Bus get off at the Topaz Garage on the Ennis Road take a left at the Traffic Lights at( Ivans Store) or Jetland Dunnes Store
(Road opposite side Ivans Store and Dunnes Store) Road to Thomond Park Rugby Grounds. If driving take Exit 4 R445 from Shannon Airport. If travelling from City Centre on Ennis Road , turn right after Jetland Dunnes Stores at traffic lights, B&B first turning left and left on the corner.
Take bus number 302 from the city centre and get off at bus stop after the last stop on the new link road.
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We are situated beside Thomond Park Rugby Grounds also near Jetland Dunnes Stores, Ennis Road ,and also
Greenhills Hotel, Woodfield House Hotel , Clarion Hotel ,Ennis Road Limerick.
Near University of Limerick (UL)
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Not too long ago, I was taking all my blog photos with my phone (I even wrote a post with tips for food photography with an iPhone). While my iPhone worked at the time, I knew that I needed to improve my photos in order to grow my blog. When I was researching DSLR cameras, I spent a lot of time asking food bloggers I knew about the equipment they used in their photography–what cameras did they recommend? Did they use natural lighting or studio? And now I get asked those same questions myself!
So these are the things I use in my photography. If I had to recommend one single item from this list for all food bloggers, it wouldn't be the camera or the umbrella light–it would be Plate to Pixel. I've never taken a photography class or had any formal training at all. Everything I know about food photography is from that book. If you don't already have it, it will be the best $16 you ever spent!
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Nvidia is working hard to introduce its 40nm mobile GPU lineup and since this didn't happen at Computex as we originally expected, now we are hearing that the launch has been pushed back for later this month. Some of the notebooks were simply not ready to launch in the first days of June.
The new chips are not G92 based like the previous Geforce 200M and 100M series, due to this new architecture being based on the G200 version, modified to add DirectX 10.1 support manufactured in the 40nm process.
The 40nm process will allow Nvidia to be very power efficient, much more than with the previous generation, and notebooks are all about that. DirectX 10.1 is definitely the most interesting decision but this gives you an idea that it will probably be at least three quarters if not a year before Nvidia releases any DirectX 11 mobile hardware.
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The Washington County Chamber of Commerce will hold its breakfast briefing from 7:45 to 9 a.m. May 31 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Southpointe.
This month's meeting will feature the Consumer Energy Alliance, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that supports the thoughtful use of energy resources to ensure imporved domestic and global energy security and stable prices for consumers. The CEA presentation will feature a panel discussion on energy and manufacturing.
Registration, which is required by May 29, can be made online at www.washcochamber.com, or by calling 724-225-3010.


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International Colombian pop star Shakira is allegedly being blackmailed over a sex tape she made with current boyfriend and FC Barcelona player Gerard Pique.
According to two of her former employees, they are in posession of the sex tape and are currently shopping it around the highest bidder. The unidentified former employees are also a couple and supposed worked for Shakira for over 11 years. There asking price is reportedly over six figures.
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7/13/2007 12:25pm, #1--
TKD: Proper Front-kick/Snap-kick question
Something has been bothering me about the new school I've just recently joined, and it has to do with their variation on the front-kick, something I'm used to calling a snap-kick.
Their front-kick is a pushing motion, similar to a side-kick, but with more emphasis on pushing with the ball of you foot (no heel at all). There is no snapping motion (which I believe is bad for you knee anyway, isn't it?) with the leg, but an extending push. Almost not even a strike.
Another strange practice (as far as I am concerned) is that their grounded foot is supposed to pivot outwards 90 degrees. If you're not supposed to have your knee perpendicular for a side-kick push, why the hell would you for a front-kick push?
Does the rotation of the hips provide that much more power to this relatively weak kick, or does is this just a stylistic thing that the teacher has been taught?
I know proper hip rotation can provide the majority of your power with many kicks, but is this the case with a front-kick/snap-kick?
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--OK dude, I'm not an expert on this, by any stretch, but pivoting your knee out while pushing forward with your foot just strikes me as anatomically weird. Maybe someone more familiar with this sort of kicks can correct me, but putting sideways strain on the knee just seems dumb; it's not built for it and you could probably hurt yourself. Again, I'm not all that familiar with push-kicks, and if I'm wrong, by all means, correct me. You DO however, seem to get more power out of it with the turned foot, but why would you do a forwards push-kick anyway, especially without the heel for impact? I mean, you'll be seriously off-balance if the opp doesn't just give and back off like you're banking on when throwing a kick like that. Cue: *BAM!* punch to wherever the hell they want, and you're probably keeling over at that point because you've got one foot at their chest and the other pivoted away on the ground... awkward.
BTW, I've not had knee trouble with snapping kicks, but we don't use front snaps for anything but warmup, really. Round kicks all the way, and even in that, the snap isn't the major source of power. I've found that snapping at air, however, is quite bad, and wouldn't suggest doing it. You need something to hit if you want to snap with power, or you'll hyperextend and it'll suck for you. Furthermore, kicking air does diddly **** for your kicks, so why bother? Get a partner and some kicking pads or Thai pads or w/e, and belt a few good ones out. Heavy kicking bags work too, but I don't like them as much.
On your last point, hips are STILL very much the major source of power in snap kicks! That much I know for certain. If you don't put your hip into it, it won't be too much more than a slap with your foot. Don't be lazy and kick like you mean it! Then again... I wouldn't use the front snap in sparring anyway, but to each their own.
7/14/2007 12:18pm, #3--Originally Posted by cyril
Snap is the technique, and truthfully, it's not that great of one as it can seriously screw up your knee.
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In a side kick, your base foot should rotate so your heel is pointing at the opponent.
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7/14/2007 6:01pm, #4--Originally Posted by cyril
In TSD MDK as well as MDK TKD, I was always taught that the power in your kicks comes from the hip. When you rotate that foot on the front kick, it gets the hips behind it. The chamber would bring the foot up and prepare the hips, and then the rotation of the foot and thrusting of the hips would extend the leg.
I think they are doing Chil Sung Ee Ro Hyung here - looking at the guy in the front, he's got his bottom foot totally 90 degrees rotated, which gives him the hip power to thrust his kick out. And it doesn't necessarily end up as a push kick - the faster you drive your hips, the faster your leg goes out.
Does the rotation of the hips provide that much more power to this relatively weak kick, or does is this just a stylistic thing that the teacher has been taught?Last edited by EternalRage; 7/14/2007 6:08pm at .
7/14/2007 6:09pm, #5--
What you are describing is called a thrust kick.
It is different from a snap kick and is commonly taught in ITF Schools.
Its actually more of a stomp than a kick. You are supposed to thrust your hips forward while extending the leg. The striking surface is the ball of the foot (below the toes)
The reason the foot is turned out is to give stability for the posting (support leg). You also get power from the rotation. It isnt very good for the knee though.
However, it will knock someone for a loop. The target area is usually the solar plexus or upper groin area.
I use the frequently during sparring to stop a charging opponent.
7/14/2007 6:20pm, #6--Originally Posted by Errant108
7/14/2007 6:24pm, #7--Originally Posted by oldman34
The target area is usually the solar plexus or upper groin area.
7/16/2007 1:00pm, #8--
It's still terrible for the knee, but the power you can get out of it is much more impressive. Thank you everyone for the answers so far.
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--If you don't pivot your bottom foot, even on a regular snappy front kick you're either going to end up going onto your toes on your supporting leg (bad) or crunching up your body (bad) to compensate for the fact that humans don't normally bend that way.
And the thrust/push kick isn't bad for your knee at all if you do it right.
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--We do something similar in my hapkido school, we call it a push front kick. We don't actually "snap" the leg but we throw it relaxed and let our hip generate the force. Turning the back leg allows you to release it and vastly increases your range. I find this kick has very little stress on the knee as long as its released forward, not upward.
Generally we don't throw this above waist height and it's very practical in sparring if you target your opponent's front hip, because landing it and pushing causes them to fold at the waist presenting their head for a following punch, kick, knee etc. You can also use it to collapse a front knee backwards, but that could really limit your choice of sparring partners.
I've seen Muay Thai guys throw a similar kick, but usually to the chin or face, I think it's considered a major insult if you throw it at someone, probably because it's an instant takedown if you are slow or miss. Tony Jaa does it in Ong Bak here (00:59):
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Bochy said Tuesday he is more likely to rest Posey completely, which might save wear and tear on the 2012 National League Most Valuable Player even as it upsets fans who want to see Posey play.
Posey has not been immune to the team's long offensive dry spell. His drought reached 11-for-66 (.167) in his past 20 games with a 1-for-4 in Tuesday night's 4-2 loss. His recent failures with runners in scoring position, 1-for-12 and 5-for-24, have mirrored his teammates'.
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There is definitely a growing trend of people trying out Linux operating systems. The motivation might be the fact that they are free and generally considered superior to Windows when it comes to security and stability. People who want to give Linux a fair shot generally go with Debian-based forks like, Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.
Although installing some of the most common software like, Skype, Web browsers, Music players are pretty easy using the software repositories, it could be quite intimidating for a newbie to configure VPN or install a new printer if it doesn't work out-of-box.
A VPN comes very handy to protect one's personal information, gain access to geo-restricted content -- for instance, one can use a US VPN to gain access to services like Spotify and Netflix, to secure their internet connection when using unprotected public networks. However, if one looks for the right tutorial or ask for help in discussion boards, one would realize the fact that setting up things on the popular Debian-based distributions is quite easy. There are 2 types of VPN solutions, OpenVPN and PPTP VPN. Today we are going to see how to setup VPN with PPTP on Ubuntu and its derivatives.
If you know a thing or two about Linux, it would only a few minutes to setup VPN. If you are beginner, stop bitting your nails, you are going to do just fine if you are a good at following instructions.
Server side setup
The server will be responsible to assign IP addresses to all the client machines in the network, be it Linux, Windows or Mac clients.
- 1. The very first thing is to install the PPTP package on your server. One can simply use the standard "apt-get" command to install. It is advisable to update the repositories first. Use the following commands. It will only take a few seconds for the installation to complete.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pptpd
- 2. Now you will have to edit the pptd.conf file. The file resides in the following path, "/etc/pptpd.conf"
If you have GUI you can do it with your favorite text editor (e.g. Gedit).
sudo gedit /etc/pptpd.conf
Or you could use "nano" to edit the file right from the terminal.
sudo nano /etc/pptpd.conf
If you have not used nano before, you might as well check out this discussion on Ask Ubuntu [http://askubuntu.com/questions/54221/how-to-edit-files-in-a-terminal-with-nano] for help.
- 3. You need to add the following two lines to "pptpd.conf."
localip 172.20.0.1
remoteip 172.20.0.100-300
What does these lines do? The VPN server will use the localip inside the VPN and an IP with in the range 172.20.0.100 to 300 (e.g., 172.20.0.120, 172.20.0.124, etc.,) will be assinged to the clients that connect to the server.
- 4. The next step is to add new users. You will have to use "nano" or a text editor or Gedit like you did with editing the pptpd.config file above. The file will have all the information about users and is stored in the following file, "/etc/ppp/chap-secrets"
Edit this file to add new users. You will have the enter certain details in the right order for this to work. First you will have to enter the client's name, followed by the server, the password and IP address.
So a couple of new client added to the VPN might look like this.
computer1 pptpd password *
computer2 pptpd password *
You can either use a specific IP address, but it is better to use asterisk, which means that any IP address in the range assigned could be used to login.
- 5. This step is optional, but is advised to assign a DNS server. There are several free DNSs out there, the 2 most popular are, OpenDNS and Google's DNS.
If you want to use OpenDNS, you should use these IP addresses 126.96.36.199 & 126.96.36.199. If you would like to use Google's DNS, you will have to use the IPs 18.104.22.168 and 18.104.22.168. To use OpenDNS you can add these lines to the file.
ms-dns 188.8.131.52
ms-dns 188.8.131.52
- 6. Almost everything on the server side is done. Now it is time to wake the daemon. To start PPTPD, you will have to use the following terminal command.
service pptpd start
- 7. Now you need to setup proper forwarding. This time you will have to edit the file "/etc/systl.conf"
There should be the following line in this file.
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
If it doesn't exist, copy paste this into the file and save the file and update it using the command,
"sysctl -p"
- 8. Finally if you wish the clients to communicate with one another, you will have to add the following rules.
# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE && iptables-save
In the above rule, you will have to replace "eth0" with the internet connection that is used by the server. You can use the commands, iwconfig and ifconfig to figure this out.
# iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface ppp0 -j
# iptables -I INPUT -s 172.20.0.0/20 -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT
# iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface eth0 -j ACCEPT
The above rule also requires you to use the correct internet connection like for the first rule. That's it everything on the server side has been configured and clients could now handshake with the server now.
Client side setup
It really doesn't matter what operating system the clients run. You can find tutorials to configure Windows and Mac OSX on the internet. There are even services like Switch VPN, that can help you connect you Android device to the VPN server quite easily. However, here we are going to see how one can easily setup a Debian-based client for VPN.
- 1. The client should have pptp installed. We have already done this step on the server. You will just have to do this again on your clients with the following terminal commands on Debian-based distros.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pptp-linux
- 2. Now you will have to load the ppp_mppe module, which could be triggered with the following command.
modprobe ppp_mppe
- 3. Create client configuration file in the following directory (/etc/ppp/peers/). You can name this file whatever you want. But you will have to remember this file name to connect to the VPN server.
pty "pptp --nolaunchpppd"
name computer1
password password
remotename PPTP
If you had named this file "vpncomputer1", you should use the following command to connect to the server.
pppd call vpncomputer1
- 4. Finally for proper routing, you will have to execute the following line.
ip route add 172.20.0.0/20 dev ppp0
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As a full-time, old-hand, distinguished, world-class, professional champion when it comes to worrying, I like to believe my fretwork in some way has value. I try to cling to a hope that my worry not only bears sweet fruit, but is even a bit profound and ennobling. Otherwise my whole life and the way I live it is – how to put it? – complete nonsense. But can this be true?
Is anxiety preparatory, like baking blind the pastry shell of your life in order that it better holds the liquid contents? Is it a form of mental packing, a layering of doubts, fears and past experience, with dreams and injuries stuffed into the side pockets so that you are equipped for any challenge that comes?
Deep down, I think (I think) that worry can strengthen and illuminate. It is preventive, for it sees off disasters by anticipating them. I sometimes nurse the idea that it paves the way for sensitive decision-making and high-calibre relationships.
Is anxiety good? Might it even be great? I do hope so.
I once read a book about drug addiction that claimed that the addict in the family often finds himself carrying all the family's pain. He suffers loudly and emphatically by making his family's dark secrets his life and his job. I sometimes think that simply by worrying, I am allowing all the other people in my house to live a carefree existence, with their happy-go-lucky hearts. But what would it be like not to worry?
Don't ask me. In the castle of anxiety there are many, many rooms, and I wander them all.
On the ground floor, at entry level, there are Tasty Dilemmas. You have, for example, been able to persuade your favourite female novelist to be guest of honour at a dinner you're having. Would it be unbelievably gauche to create one of the meals from her books? Do you dare?
Next door are Wry Musings. Imagine recalling an article you read years ago (you might have even written it) saying that often in long-running soap operas and drama series the actors, in real life, strike up romances with onscreen family members. And sometimes, as I believe happened in the Brady Bunch, a son will fall in love with his onscreen mother. Could this ever be the basis for a stable relationship? Or maybe you are thinking about the current philosophy on mother-daughter relations, which is that women should never express any dissatisfaction concerning their appearance to their daughters. Yet what if you were an internationally acclaimed famous beauty queen; might it be nice for your daughter to see that even you weren't quite as confident as she feared? In that instance, would it be right to let your tiara slip a little? Or not?
Up you go. On a higher floor are Light Historic Regrets. These must be at least 10 years old, and none too ruinous. In this room you will dangle a missed opportunity in front of yourself with a little rolling of the eyes and a featherweight ticking-off: When you went to that Moguls and Starlets party 24 years ago dressed as Veronica Lake, you were talking so obsessively to the psychoanalyst sitting next to you that a massive dessert buffet, the like of which you have not seen since, came and went before you'd even had a chance to approach it. You great turnip!
Through the side door are Mild Concerns. These might be, oh, say: "Am I a bad person?" Or, when you had tea with your best Catholic priest and asked him if he thought there was a crisis in the church and he said, "On the contrary, it's such an exciting time", should you have said that you thought that a little glib?
Nearby are Permanent Ponderings. For example: how to instil ambition in your children without them feeling pressure? Teach them compassion but not that which comes from suffering? Independence without undue risk?
Higher in this house of ill repute you'll find things go from bad to worse. Causes for Alarm is the face of your daughter's perfect 13-year-old friend telling you in passing that she believes herself to be ugly. A severe Cause for Alarm is the fact that the news is so crammed with sexual assaults every day that it sometimes feels that sex itself has caught a terrible disease.
And then, at the very top, there are The Bad Guys. What Larkin called "And age, and then the only end of age". Or, as Rodgers and Hammerstein have it in Carousel, "Common sense may tell you that the ending will be sad".
Where am I going with all this ... ? Oh yes, worrying. There's nothing quite like it.


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I have a funny story. I grew up in France and I was 20 when I arrived in Ireland. I became friendly with a very attractive young man from County Tyrone , where people have a very strong Irish country accent. I found it hard to understand what he would say - but then he had beautiful blue eyes... Anyway, one afternoon he suggested we could go out that evening for a drink. I said "great, what time are you gonna arrive at my place?" He replied: "What about six?" But, with his accent, to me, it sounded more like: "what about sex?" I was quite pleased... until he added: "or what about six thirty or seven?"
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US children's author Patrick Ness has followed up his prize-winning Chaos Walking Trilogy with A Monster Calls, begun by the late author Siobhan Dowd.
Author Patrick Ness' father was a drill sergeant in the US Army, and Ness's cropped hair and fondness for marathons (he has run three) suggests that something of the Army life has rubbed off on him, despite his chosen career as a writer.
After beginning his working life as a corporate writer at a cable company, Ness started to write his first adult novel in 1999, but it was nearly a decade later in 2008, and with a young adult novel, that he came to prominence. The Knife of Never Letting Go , the first in the Chaos Walking trilogy, won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize.
The idea for The Knife of Never Letting Go, a novel set on another planet where humans can hear each other think, seemed ideal for a younger audience as the loss of privacy would be "horrifying if you were still trying to figure out who you were," says Ness. He adds: "I love writing for young adult readers because they are much less snobby about wanting a good story and are willing to relax and go with you. But they are also demanding - it has to be good, or they will be the first to tell you."
Soon after finishing the Chaos Walking trilogy, Ness was approached by his editor to complete another young adult novel begun by the late children's author Siobhan Dowd, who wrote A Swift Pure Cry and The London Eye Mystery. His initial reaction was to refuse, because "to tell a story, you have to be yourself and if you're writing a story for any other reason, you're risking mediocrity."
However, as he studied the fragments Dowd had left behind, a new story began to take root. A Monster Calls (Walker Books), which will be published in May, is the result of Ness' work on the story that Dowd began, but never had the time to finish. She died of cancer in 2007, aged 47.
Ness's earlier hard-hitting sci-fi trilogy seems a long way removed from Dowd's focus on the passions and mystery of everyday life, and he admits that he might seem like a counter-intuitive choice to complete a Dowd novel.
However, Ness disagrees: "While our writing may seem stylistically different, we are both reaching for the same thing. It's not about the externals; we are both reaching for the emotion of the story. Dowd wrote about real people with real problems and I felt the same kind of emotional connectedness and a particular wariness of cheap sentiment."
He also liked the spark of the idea she had left. "I think all books that succeed do so because they capture a sense of yearning and this was a story that was yearning to be told. It had a real emotional appeal."
A Monster Calls follows 13-year-old Conor, whose mother is dying of cancer. One night, he wakes up to the sound of something calling him from the garden and discovers that the yew tree on the hill that overlooks his house has come to life. The tree challenges Conor to tell his story.
Ness says: "The Yew Tree and Conor were present in Dowd's original draft and I have no doubt that Dowd knew that yew is used in medicinal treatments for cancer, and that these deeper meanings and connections involving the yew tree would have been there for her at the beginning."
Dowd had told her editor that the Yew Tree would tell Conor three stories, but not what they were. Thus, responsibility fell to Ness to make them up. He says: "I love English mythology and, for me, the yew tree is a kind of Green Man figure in this story. Myths come about because we call them, we need them to make sense of the world, and by telling his stories, the Green Man gradually draws Conor into telling his own story, which is exactly what he is most afraid of."
The book is illustrated dramatically by Jim Kay, and Ness says he was "blown away" by his work. "The first illustration I saw was of the Green Man leaning against Conor's house at the beginning of the story and I thought he had just nailed everything about it. The Green Man is big and mythic and scary but more in the way of Ted Hughes' Iron Man than a monster."
In writing A Monster Calls, Ness says that his aim was to write a story that Siobhan Dowd would have liked. He adds: "I hope I have done so. I wouldn't have taken on the challenge unless I felt I could write a real, breathing story. That is the best thing I could give to her."
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Rick Perry raised a paltry $389,000 — and spent nearly ten times that — during his failed presidential campaign's final three weeks.
The Texas governor took in just $388,531 in donations from Jan. 1 until he dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination 18 days later.
Perry's Federal Election Commission report for January shows he spent almost $3.3 million over the same period. He had a bit more than $860,000 in cash-on-hand at month's end.
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It's ok to be angry and upset when tragedy strikes, especially upon the innocent. It's not ok for ANYONE to become violent and commit illegal acts to ease their pain. These actions can not be excused or tolerated just because someone is unhappy with results or findings. Violence begets violence. In the end individuals may lose their own right to freedom and not for just a night. Would it actually be worth it in the end? Messages need to be delivered in a respectful way so that it's heard. When individuals respond with violence, that is all that anyone will see, hear or remember and everyone stops listening after a certain point.
Recently, in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Michael Brown the prosecutors chose not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for fatally wounding Brown. This I'm sure is upsetting to many. I was quite upset myself. I'm know I would have had stronger feelings if it had happened to one of my own children. I can certainly see both sides of the situation. Officer Wilson felt threatened because he too had been hurt and he was in fear of Brown due to his size. Wilson most likely feared not knowing what might be coming his way. Michael Brown probably felt so powerless knowing that the officer did in fact have a gun and he was a black man fighting off a white police officer. Things could have ended so differently.
What needs to come from this tragedy, is a way for officers to feel safer so that they don't continue to shoot unarmed victims. Maybe a handheld scanner than can quickly recognize a concealed weapon needs to be considered and carried by officers. This would of course cost money, but the value of human life should be worth it in the end!
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How much time do you spend on FIRST?
This is something that has been interesting me. How much time do you spend on your robot (or animation, website, whatever)? I noticed that some teams seem to only meet a few days a week, whereas others seem to meet every day. So my question could actually be broken down into
a. How often and for how long does your team meet? b. How much time do you spend outside of actual meetings working on material related to your robot? I know that my team met every single day from the day of the kickoff to ship date. On school days we met from 2 until six or six thirty (and later near the end of the season) and on weekends and holidays (and inservice days and such) we met from 10 or 12 until 6 or seven (though it was more like 11 the last few days). I went to every meeting, though I had to leave early one day but altogether I totaled more than 220 hours in our shop. But then again we only had six people and only three of us really worked, and of those only two of us had done FIRST last year. So I got stuck designing and building the superstructure of our bot, the arm of our bot, and doing everything related to the camera and programming of our bot. Did we just not make very efficient use of our time (Actually I know we didnt), or do other teams spend this much time working also? |
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our team meets every day duing the week from 2 to about 4 or 4:30 and on saturdays from 8am to 4pm during the build season. pre build season we usually meet once a week as well as in the post build season.
I how ever spend countless hours and days working on stuff. most of the time i am teaching my self how to do stuff for fun but also helps during the build season. from web development to inventor to machining. I like to be well versed. Last edited by Babyhueyhnx : 02-25-2005 at 12:42 AM. |
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The X-CATS has mandatory meetings for only Wed 4-7 pm and Sat 9-5. All other times are based on the individual subteam leaders to define as needed. We believe to give the team some breathing room since we do not want to tax our mentors times with their work and families and the students times from getting their homework done.
Students are full-time students FIRST and doing well in school is a priority and Mentors at Xerox we tell them that their work and families come first and it's up to them to balance that and their deliverables to the team. I personally work on FIRST stuff all year long but that's just me since I have the FIRST disease. Ellery |
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During the build season team 1208 met from 2 to 5 pm every week day and from 9 am to 5 pm on Saturdays and holidays.
I kept track this year and determined that our team logged approximately 3500 person hours during these times. During the pre and post season we probably spent another 500 person hours fund-raising and preparing. |
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During build season we meet from on weekdays from 5-9 and Saturdays from 9-5. Occasionally, we have held meetings on Sundays and extended them from 9-9. Mentors usually arrive at 6 or 7 on weekdays.
How much time the team does work is debatable, usually we have a "working minority" of the team that acually has a job to do. These people are self-motivated and are the most dedicated. |
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Hmmm... lets see...
Ok so we meet every school day from 2-5 (sometimes a bit later) and then usually a 12-5 meeting on Saturday and Sundays are days off. BUT during the last week. We must stay till about 6 or 7 on school days and we're usually in school from 9-5 on Saturday AND Sunday. Then lets count all the time at home I'm on AutoCAD or CD. IT NEVER ENDS !!!! |
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We generally stayed from 2:30 till 9 or 11 after school every day and on the past 4 weeks we stayed after 2 AM on friday and saturday then went for 31 hours (2 PM sat - 9PM sun) straight on the final weekend . After all that I still don't like our arm...mohsin.... *angry fist shake*
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Since we werent exactly sure what we were doing, but had a lot of interested and motivated kids, we met nearly every day:
Tuesday-Friday 6pm-10/11pm Saturday & Sunday 11am-7pm Mondays were our rest day. Not everyone met on every day, tuesday/thursday/saturday were our main days, but I and the teacher at the least were usually at the school all other days to help build. The students couldnt always stay late, but it was hard for our mentors to get out of work early, so we had to do later meetings. Personally, I had to do an estimate for my company of how much time the Harris engineers were putting into it. I found there were 3 tiers: Me: 45+ hr/wk (ugh, on top of my job!) Our dedicated mentors: 25-30 hr/wk Our supporting mentors: >10hr/wk It totalled something insane like 2400 hours in the 6 weeks. Now can you imagine what that would cost our company if they actually paid us for it?!? lol. Luckily we had some very dedicated folks, and some very GREAT parents who fed us almost nightly!! |
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During Build season, SPAM meats ( ha ha) from Monday-Thursday 6:30 to 8:30 and on Saturday from 10-4. Special sessions did arise at the end of build season. I was there till 130 the night before ship
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and i work at home with things like the chairman's award, 5 year plan and various other projects for the team and then i have the southern Florida chapter of RCU to work on. so my life never stops dealing with first..even in school I'm working on things. are we counting cd hrs...lol... FIRST is simply well an addiction and so many of caught it |
Re: How much time do you spend on FIRST?
I am only posting this because the thread title, contradicts the question.
If you want to know how much time we (team 237) spend on building the robot, and when we do it.. See the other thread. But, if you want to know how much time I spend on FIRST all year, then I will answer that. Pretty much almost every waking thought, that doesn't not involve other (mildly compared) hobbies is spent thinking about FIRST. When I go somewhere, I wear a FIRST shirt, in hopes of someone asking me about it. When I have a break at work, I am addicted to CD, and the thoughts and discussions it brings (whether good or bad - it's all relative). While I am working on other tasks, such as work, or tearing apart my truck, my mind tends to wander to how I learned something similar to what I am doing at that point on my FIRST team. When I look for something to do on a weekend, I tend to lean toward FIRST related things, or activities with people from FIRST, either my team, or others. When I watch TV, I see things that remind me of FIRST. Such as a GE commercial a few years ago during the Olympics, in which I immediately pointed out a FIRST robot in. Some may call it an obsession and they may be right, but I call it a huge learning experience. It's all about inspiration after all. And being inspired is just as important as inspiring others. |
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Vintage – Austrian Crystal Earrings – Made by MUSI for Pierced Ears
I would say they were in perfect condition, but with the age of the earrings that would be impossible. They were made in the early 60s with a post. The Austrian crystal rhinestones are clear. The shape is a circle. The earrings are light, each one only weighs 6.5 grams.
New, never worn.
26 mm or 1" diameter
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